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The gun control debate in the United States went into overdrive today, as the President, surrounded by children who had written letters to the White House about gun violence, called on Congress “to renew a prohibition on assault weapons sales that expired in 2004, require criminal background checks on all gun purchases, including closing a loophole for gun show sales, and pass a new federal gun trafficking law – long sought by big-city mayors to keep out-of-state guns off their streets.” In addition, he referenced 23 executive actions which he intends to take immediately, which would not require the approval of Congress. These, we were told, would address a number of related issues, ranging from the improvement of the current system used for background checks, to the funding of more counselors and “resource officers” in schools. Most interestingly, at least to me, Obama promised, through executive action, to lift the ban on federal research into gun violence… Yes, apparently, several years ago, at the behest of the NRA, Congress had acted to prevent the federal government from funding research on gun violence. Here, with more on that, is a clip from the fact sheet distributed by the White House this morning.
Conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence, including links between video games, media images, and violence: The President is issuing a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control and scientific agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence. It is based on legal analysis that concludes such research is not prohibited by any appropriations language. The CDC will start immediately by assessing existing strategies for preventing gun violence and identifying the most pressing research questions, with the greatest potential public health impact. And the Administration is calling on Congress to provide $10 million for the CDC to conduct further research, including investigating the relationship between video games, media images, and violence.
Better understand how and when firearms are used in violent death: To research gun violence prevention, we also need better data. When firearms are used in homicides or suicides, the National Violent Death Reporting System collects anonymous data, including the type of firearm used, whether the firearm was stored loaded or locked, and details on youth gun access. Congress should invest an additional $20 million to expand this system from the 18 states currently participating to all 50 states, helping Americans better understand how and when firearms are used in a violent death and informing future research and prevention strategies.
Now, here’s the background, from NBC News.
…From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the CDC conducted original, peer-reviewed research into gun violence, including questions such as whether people who had guns in their homes gained protection from the weapons. (The answer, researchers found, was no. Homes with guns had a nearly three times greater risk of homicide and a nearly five times greater risk of suicide than those without, according to a 1993 study in the New England Journal of Medicine.)
But in 1996, the NRA, with the help of Congressional leaders, moved to suppress such information and to block future federal research into gun violence, (Dr. Mark Rosenberg, president of the Task Force for Global Health and director of the CDC’s Center for Injury Prevention and Control from 1994 to 1999) said…
One of the main researchers that the NRA was seeking to shut down was Emory’s Art Kellermann, whose research had shown, among other things, that “a gun kept in the home was 43 times more likely to be involved in the death of a member of the household than to be used in self-defense.”
The following is from NPR:
…Kellermann says the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment advocates leaned on his then-employer, Emory University, to stop the research. That didn’t work.
So, he says, “they turned to a softer target, which was the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the organization that was funding much of this work. And although gun injury prevention research was never more than a tiny percentage of the CDC’s research budget, it was enough to bring them under the fire of the NRA.”
Lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — held back some money from the CDC and made clear that no federal funds should be used to promote gun control.
Many researchers interpreted that message to mean no public health studies about injuries from weapons.
Then, a few years later, Congress weighed in again, in a slightly different way.
In 2003, Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Republican from Kansas, added language to the Justice Department’s annual spending bill. It says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives can’t release information used to trace guns involved in crime to researchers and members of the public. It also requires the FBI to destroy records on people approved to buy guns within 24 hours…
How fucking insidious is that?
It’s one thing, in my opinion, to lobby on behalf of gun owners – it’s another to actively restrict data which you know would not only undermine your claims, but show then to be pure fiction. I don’t like it, but I can accept that the NRA is attempting to put armed volunteers in our nations’s schools. I can even accept that they’re willing to appeal to the basest reptilian instincts of their supporters in the hopes of keeping the (highly profitable) status quo, as they did this morning, when they released an utterly offensive ad about Obama’s daughters. It was tasteless and disgusting, but I guess I’ve come to expect that from an organization that would put out a kids’s shooting game just days after blaming the Sandy Hook shootings on video games. What I can’t accept, though, is that these people would try to hide information, in an attempt to keep us from making informed decisions. That, to me, is beyond the pale… and I can’t believe that I hadn’t heard about it until just now.
If you’d rather we not have the information, though, you may be in luck. Word is that Rand Paul has a plan for stopping Obama from implementing these executive actions.
Speaking of this new NRA ad, which accuses Obama of being an “elitist hypocrite” for not trying to get Secret Service protection for every child in America, here it is, followed by the reaction of the panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Sadly, I think that this is just the start. Things are going to get a lot uglier, a lot more volatile, and a lot crazier.
Speaking of crazy, I have two more gun-related things to share tonight. First, Glenn Beck’s favorite historian, David Barton, whom I wrote about just yesterday, has come out advocating for the arming of school children. And, second, the Sandy Hook “truther” movement is apparently picking up steam, with more and more people ascribing to the belief that the events were orchestrated by the federal government, and that no one was actually killed. (The people we saw on television apparently weren’t really grieving parents, but “crisis actors” hired by FEMA. The whole thing, it would seem, was nothing more than a morbid government-orchestrated flash mob.) My intention was to write a post about it, but I just stumbled upon an incredible Metafilter piece which pulls together all the pieces, so I don’t have to… You should really check it out… It’s terrifying stuff.
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JAMAICA'S HIGHLY lucrative funeral industry will soon be forced to operate under stricter government guidelines.
The Ministry of Health is moving to bridge gaps in service, environmental and public-health standards that have widened while the funeral industry has operated freely, with little regulation.
Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson made the commitment to create a regulatory framework for the industry during his tenure, while addressing some of the island's funeral directors at the Meadowrest Memorial Gardens annual appreciation function on Tuesday.
"It is not enough for you to just register as a business," the health minister said.
"There's going to be need for public-health certification as well. Our own standards and regulation division, environmental health unit and pesticide control authority, will ensure there is a greater level of scrutiny and improved compliance in order to safeguard public health and the environment."
Dr Ferguson said regulation would make the funeral industry a more sophisticated player in the business community and a legitimate contributor to the economy, enjoying greater public confidence and a higher level of business activity.
Many unregulated players
He noted that there are too many unregulated operators in the industry, adding that the Government has an obligation to ensure that those who operate in the industry are observing proper public-health standards in respect of the different aspects of the business.
"While the Government has an indispensable role to safeguard public health, the players in this industry must be vigilant to ensure that the operators are observing good public-health practices and that their workers are properly protected on a daily basis. Proper attention must be given in the storage, use and disposal of protective gears and chemicals that are essential to your operation."
The health minister's announcement has already received much support from key players in the funeral business, with many saying the move towards tighter regulation has been a long time coming.
"We all concur with the minister that whatever regulation comes will offer well for the industry," said Joseph Cornwall, director of House of Tranquility Funeral Home which operates in Kingston and Portmore.
"It's not a matter of hope; we have to, because the bereaved families are the ones who suffer. If you have more trained people in the industry it uplifts the standards, because there are more people that know what they're doing. You are dealing with chemicals, their usage and proper storage and you cannot entrust this to a layman. It has to be somebody who is so trained to handle hazardous chemicals"
Cornwall also pointed to the absence of a training facility in Jamaica, where morticians can be certified, as the cause of many of the industry's problems.
Calvin Lyn of Lyn's Funeral Home in Manchester said the Government's commitment is a decade late.
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In today’s Herald, Andres Viglucci provides grim analysis of what will happen to South Florida if — when — Governor Rick Scott signs measures that would mortally wound the department in charge of keeping suburban sprawl from gobbling up the Everglades. An excerpt:
Measures approved by the Florida Legislature with little scrutiny or debate in the waning moments of this year’s session would dismantle the state oversight that has acted as the principal brake on repeated efforts by the county commission to breach the line for new development.
The measures, almost sure to be signed by business-friendly Gov. Rick Scott, would significantly water down the state’s 25-year-old growth-management system, giving counties and municipalities far greater freedom to amend the local comprehensive development plans that are meant to control suburban sprawl.
“In time,” Viglucci continues, opponents of the measure fear “Miami-Dade will look like Broward County — fully paved from the Atlantic Ocean to the Everglades dike, with no remaining agricultural land.”
In blatant disregard of Florida’s millions of vacant dwellings and hundreds of millions of unused commercial square footage, Gov. Scott will likely approve the measures in the name of jobs, jobs, jobs. The ramifications are ominous for the fragile Everglades, itself the unsung and underutilized economic engine of the Sunshine State. (A recent study suggests restoring the national park could net Florida more than $100 billion.)
Indeed, there is a lot at stake in a battle that already seems to be lost. As Viglucci writes at the end of the article, “Former Democratic Florida governor and U.S. senator Bob Graham, in a joint letter with Nathaniel Pryor Reed, a Republican who served as assistant Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Nixon and Ford, called on Scott to veto the measures, calling them a ‘massive assault’ on 30 years of mostly effective growth management, and a potentially pivotal moment in state history.”
Pivotal, yes, but turning the wrong way.
Read Viglucci’s article in full on miamiherald.com.
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North Carolina cannot issue anti-abortion "Choose Life" license plates without offering drivers plates with other viewpoints, a federal has judged ruled.
U.S. District Court Judge James Fox ruled Friday that the "Choose Life" tag violated the First Amendment, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. In issuing a permanent injunction, he called it "viewpoint discrimination" because the state did not offer a plate supporting reproductive choice.
The Republican-controlled Legislature authorized the plate in June 2011, rejecting six efforts to include additional plates that declared "Respect Choice," or "Trust Women. Respect Choice." Gov. Bev Purdue, a Democrat, signed the measure that November.
The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union then sued on behalf of four auto owners, and Fox issued a temporary injunction blocking the sale of "Choose Life," a national organization lobbying to get the plate in all 50 states.
The state attorney general has not decided whether he will appeal, the Associated Press reported Monday.
"This is a great victory for the free speech rights of all North Carolinians, regardless of their point of view on reproductive freedom," Chris Brook, legal director of the state ACLU, said in a statement. "The government cannot create an avenue of expression for one side of a contentious political issue while denying an equal opportunity to citizens with the opposite view."
Brook added, "We would have made the exact same argument if the situation was reversed, and the state planned on issuing a pro-choice plate while not offering one expressing the opposite point of view."
Fox's ruling points out that "funds to be collected from the 'Choose Life' plate are expressly prohibited from 'be[ing] distributed to any agency, organization, business , or other entity that provides, promotes, counsels, or refers to abortion.'"
The Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship would have received $15 of the $25 fee for the special plate.
"North Carolina is the only state in the southeast that refuses to let its citizens purchase the 'Choose Life' license plate," Bobbie Meyer, state director of the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, told LifeNews on Monday. She said the plates have raised more than $12 million for sponsors in the states where they are sold, "thereby helping mothers and their families."
North Carolina offers almost 150 special tags for a variety of causes, interests, organizations, military veterans or colleges. Among them: the Buddy Pelletier Surfing Foundation, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 27 different NASCAR drivers, animal lovers, duck hunters, God, Masons, Shriners, Lions, shag dancers, square dancers, hikers, bicyclists, police, firefighters, forests, tobacco -- and watermelons.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: U.S. judge bans N.C. 'Choose Life' license plate
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Jewish World Review Sept. 25, 2000 / 24 Elul, 5760
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- RECENTLY, the Yale Political Union invited me to give a speech on a topic of my choosing. Last night, I finally showed up. My speech was titled, "Resolved: The Left has become the enemy of liberalism."
This was something of a trick title, as I wasn't referring to the liberalism of Alec Baldwin or the nightly news. I meant classical liberalism, the liberalism born of the Enlightenment and referred to in the phrase "the liberal arts." This liberalism reveres the rights of the individual, believes in universal truths and is skeptical of governmental power.
Today the Left, once a defender of classical liberalism, is its chief betrayer - or at least that was my argument last night. This New Left has replaced the conservatives who once opposed notions of equality and truth.
Take race. Conservatives largely championed the notion that race, or gender, spoke volumes about you. In Europe during the French and American revolutions, old guard conservatives thought phrases such as "all men are created equal" were absurd. The leading European monarchist intellectual of the time, Joseph DeMaistre, railed against the idea of a "universal man."
"There is no such thing as 'man' in this world," he wrote. "I have seen in my life French, Italians, Russians É . But as for 'man' I declare that I have never met one in my life."
He meant we are all born into our station, which can't be transcended. Some men - and some races - are born high; others are born low. The liberalism of the Enlightenment rejected this idea - that we are all just Jews or Africans or Asians. Classical liberalism holds that we are first and foremost human beings.
The Left has abandoned that worldview, arguing instead that racial and ethnic identity comes first. For example, in a 1995 Vanderbilt Law Review article, an African-American civil rights attorney argued that because race was rightly being used to dispense benefits, the government needed to start policing "racial fraud." Punishing those who "falsified their racial identity" is the only way to recognize what he called the "permanent importance" of racial divisions.
We've had laws like this before, when it used to be illegal for black people to claim they were white. In 1920s Virginia, you could have spent a year in jail if you "falsely" told the government you were white. In so many ways, the Left seems to have adopted the policies and attitudes it once considered racist: "Colored people" was racist thirty years ago, but today "people of color" is the preferred term.
Or take the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a moral triumph for classical liberalism and American liberals. The Left has walked away from the ideas embodied in that legislation. A few years ago, California passed Proposition 209, a measure touted by conservatives to get the government out of the race business. Prop 209 said, "the state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting." That language is almost verbatim from the 1964 Civil Rights Act; yet Leftists denounced it as racist and evil.
Thurgood Marshall insisted that "classifications and distinctions based upon race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society," and Martin Luther King dreamed of a day when blacks and whites could be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin. But today these are conservatives' arguments.
And it's not just on matters of race that the Left has surrendered the high ground.
For centuries science was the Left's obvious partner. From the "scientific socialism" of Karl Marx to the optimistic promises of the Kennedy administration's New Frontier, science was considered a valuable tool for alleviating hunger and poverty and improving the human condition. Today the Left distrusts science.
Most consequential is the fight against scientific progress, such as biotechnology. Though the scientific evidence against genetically engineered foods is almost nonexistent, environmental groups have managed to block, ban and boycott the field. Consider so-called golden rice, created after decades of researching ways to feed the Third World. Golden rice is genetically engineered to contain beta-carotene, which makes vitamin A. If the Third World were allowed access to it, one million children would be saved, and it would prevent another 350,000 from going blind - every year.
But, the Left stands in the way, sounding like old conservatives who used to say things like, "If G-d meant men to fly, He'd have given them wings." Conservatives have entered the breach, making arguments that only a generation ago altruistic liberals would have made.
Today conservatives are the champions of science. We are the ones in favor of being colorblind. We are the ones who believe in universal truths and values. Yes, we conservatives are the true liberals
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Opting out of ACREImplementation of farm bill will give farmers a choice.
By: Jerry Hagstrom, Agweek
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In implementing the farm bill extension that Congress passed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow farmers to opt in or opt out of the Average Crop Revenue Election program known as ACRE, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Jan. 14.
The 2008 farm bill allowed farmers to sign up for the ACRE program, but stipulated that if they did, they had to stay in the program for five years.
The extension bill extended ACRE for another year, but apparently did not say whether farmers had to stay in the program, which has not been as popular as hoped.
“We’re going to do what we have to do,” Vilsack said, and USDA will allow farmers to either join the program or leave it.
The extension also provides for an additional round of the $4.9 billion in direct payments that crop farmers have been getting whether prices are high or low.
Vilsack said USDA will also make those payments next fall, but stressed that he is uncertain whether that program will still be in place by that time. Congress, he noted, could use the direct payment budget authority as a tool to cut the deficit.
Congress seems less likely to cut crop insurance, Vilsack said, because there is an understanding that this was already cut in the 2008 farm bill and through USDA negotiations on the Standard Reinsurance Agreement. He said “the deeper issue is direct payments.”
Under what’s known as a sequestration program to reduce the budget deficit, most of the government programs except entitlements are supposed to be cut on a percentage basis in March, and if that happens, USDA’s discretionary programs will have to be cut by 8 percent.
But Congress is expected to pass legislation that would change the sequestration law to avoid a big cut to defense spending, and Vilsack said that if Congress changes sequestration, it is likely to cut domestic agencies like agriculture even more than planned.
Another possibility is that Congress would write a new farm bill and use the direct payments budget authority, which was eliminated in both the Senate and House Agriculture Committee-passed bills last year, to write a new farm program before the payments are made.
Vilsack said he hopes the agriculture committees act to keep the direct payments budget authority within the farm bill.
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New Zealand's Communications Minister Amy Adams has said that her country is rolling out a fibre-to-home network similar to Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), because it is "comprehensive and future-proof".
Adams joined her Australian counterpart Stephen Conroy in Canberra on Thursday, to launch a report on mobile roaming and suggest ways to combat excessive trans-Tasman mobile roaming charges.
At the media conference, the NZ minister was asked to explain why her government was to go down the path of a fibre network to deliver high-speed broadband.
"The most comprehensive and future-proof network we could build was a fibre-to-the-home package," Adams said.
"Effectively, it made far better fiscal sense ... and all the feedback we've had is it's been the right way to go."
"It made better sense to do it now, rather than have to come back in the future and retrofit a fibre-to-the-node to a fibre-to-the-home connection."
Although the urban areas of New Zealand are being serviced by fibre-to-the-home and a total of about NZ$3.5 billion of the project, which includes about NZ$2 billion from the private sector, has been set aside, rural areas will be covered using fibre-to-the-node. From the node, these areas will be serviced by a combination of enhanced copper, fixed wireless or a satellite service, and will cost about NZ$600 million, about half of which is privately funded.
"We've made a commitment that every school in New Zealand will receive speeds of 100 megabits, initially, and to get that in some of our most remote areas, it just made no sense to do it on a fibre basis," Adams said.
"In the roll-out to the densely populated areas, fibre-to-the-home is our clear preference, and we've very satisfied that that's the way to go. When you're rolling out connectivity into rural and remote areas, you have to take a slightly different view."
Adams said that the aim was to lift broadband access across the nation from 20 per cent to 86 per cent, for households, schools and health services.
Michael Lee contributed to this report.
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Talk about posts going viral. I had lunch with Stan Beardy today. Chief Beardy is the elected grand chief of 133 chiefs of the First Nations in Ontario. This post had come to his attention, and since he was in town (to meet Kathleen Wynne, actually), we got together on Queen Street.
One thing you don't hear much about treaties, he told me, is there are two sides.
We talked about the 250th anniversary, next October, of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, in which the Crown committed itself to treaty relations with the First Nations of British North America. The government of Canada does not seem to have commemoration of that in its schedule. But it needs to be observed.
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January 22, 2013
Bethlehem Central Superintendent Thomas Douglas and Bethlehem Town Supervisor John Clarkson discuss the town’s receipt of a $50,000 from the state DOT to install sidewalks in needed areas to provide safe routes to school for students.
Stories this photo appears in:
DOT program meant to provide safe routes to walk to school
The Town of Bethlehem has received a federal grant to fund the installation of sidewalks throughout portions of the town where students lack a safe place to walk to and from school.
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Woodchip deal fuels concern
There is concern a woodchip deal announced by the Tasmanian Government this week may jeopardise future price negotiations with overseas buyers.
The deal to sell 800,000 tonnes of woodchips to a Chinese company looks positive.
It will move woodchips from the wharf, preventing a two-month shutdown of Gunns Longreach and Triabunna mills and saving jobs.
But industry analyst Robert Eastment said the short-term gain may result in long-term pain.
He believes the government's reluctance to reveal details of the deal has fuelled speculation it has been a "fire sale".
Mr Eastment said that could compromise future negotiations.
"If the prices are lower than what would normally be expected for woodchip sale then it will set the bar low for expectations and it will be certainly hard to then talk prices up in the future," he said.
The State Government will not reveal whether royalties have been waived or reduced in the deal because of commercial in-confidence considerations.
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A once-burgeoning Pakistani community in the Parkville section of Brooklyn saw its numbers dwindle after the September 11th attacks, but is starting to rebuild in recent years. NY1's Shazia Khan filed the following Asian-American Week report.
It was 1999 when NY1 first visited a stretch of Coney Island avenue in the Parkville section of Brooklyn.
At that time, a Pakistani community was starting to emerge.
"This community is growing like crazy here," said Asghar Choudhri of the Pakistani-American Federation at the time. "All the people are coming here with the families, with the children. We have more than about 100 stores and offices here."
That, however, changed when we returned in 2003, as the mostly Muslim community reeled in the aftermath of 9/11. Community leaders found that as many as 20,000 people moved out of the area and out of the country . Some feared a backlash and others deportation, as immigration polices and enforcement became more stringent.
"We've seen the raids that happened over here," said Mohammad Razvi of the Council of Pakistan Organization at the time. "We've seen families who are lost, families who don't know where their families or their sons are."
Razvi founded the Council of Pakistani Organization (COPO) after September 11, 2001 to help members of his community understand their rights. He later changed the name to the Council of Peoples Organization and expanded services to include bridge building with law enforcement agencies as well as youth programs and citizenship classes.
NY1's 2006 visit to a community center saw a community slowing starting to come back. The trend was again observed when NY1 stopped by last year and just this past week, as the immigration process continues to add numbers.
"Many of the community members that were living here, they had their immigration papers for their family and loved ones," Razvi said. "All of a sudden we're seeing all these cases that were 15 to 20 years old were becoming current. We started seeing those families first come in."
Recently, COPO opened the first halal senior center in the city. Next, the organization is working to create senior housing in the area.
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(1) The agreement is not knowing or voluntary; or
(2) The plan would be harmful to the child.
(b) The court, at its discretion and on any basis it deems sufficient, may conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether there is a factual basis for a finding under subdivision (1) or (2), subsection (a) of this section. When there is credible information that child abuse as defined by section 49-1-3 of this code or domestic violence as defined by section 27-202 of this code has occurred, a hearing is mandatory and if the court determines that abuse has occurred, appropriate protective measures shall be ordered.
(c) If an agreement, in whole or in part, is not accepted by the court under the standards set forth in subsection (a) of this section, the court shall allow the parents the opportunity to negotiate another agreement.
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Published June 21, 2012
I was so angry my whole body was shaking. I stared at Günther* with hate, my left hand in a fist and my right hand gripping a tennis racket as a weapon. I was ready to kill him.
Was this really me?
I had returned to Ann Bradney's extraordinary workshop, The Radically Alive Leader, which I wrote about last year. This time there were 23 of us from around the world — many from countries experiencing tremendous violence — and the topic had turned to war.
One by one people stood up — people from the U.S., Colombia, Somalia, Mexico, Israel — and spoke about the cruelty they had experienced in their countries. As I heard about family members being kidnapped, raped, or killed, people being bombed and forced to live in refugee camps, my empathy for the victims and my anger at the perpetrators intensified.
Then a quiet woman named Nancy spoke. "We all participate in one way or the other," she said, "We are all guilty."
I could no longer restrain myself. "We're all guilty?" I burst at Nancy. "Really? How about the babies who are dying or the women who have been raped? Are they guilty too? Guilty just like the rapists? That's ridiculous!"
The room went silent.
Nancy shrank, and I didn't care. Actually, that's not true — I did care. I loved it. It felt great to lash out. I felt powerful. Safe from the violence. Righteous. And relieved, as the tension that was building inside me began to subside.
Then Ian, who hadn't yet said a word, spoke into the silence. He asked me if I could see myself killing, if I were in, say, Somalia. I was quick to respond no.
"You scare me." Ian said
I scared him? I was the one showing outrage at evil! He shouldn't be scared of me; he should be scared of people who could see themselves killing.
But Ian was on to something deep and important. Something all leaders need to understand: When empathy plays favorites, we should all be scared.
It makes us feel better to separate ourselves from people whose behavior we don't like. It makes us feel moral, safe, and beyond reproach. But separating the other people as evil means we are more likely to lash out at them and, before we know it, become cruel ourselves.
I am not saying that we should excuse violence or poor behavior. There must be consequences to people who act destructively. But psychologically separating ourselves from them makes us dangerous.
It didn't take long for me to learn that lesson firsthand.
I was still filled with emotion from the last conversation when Günther, a German man, started yelling in German, and slamming a tennis racket onto a large foam block, one of the tools that Ann uses in her workshop to get energy moving.
Every time the racket slammed down, I flinched. His accent, the yelling, and the slamming brought me back to my family's memories of the Holocaust. My mother and her family were in hiding in France during the war, and her newborn sister, Ariel, was killed by a doctor who gave her milk that was too thick. He said he did it because she was Jewish.
I imagined Günther in a Nazi uniform, cold eyes peering out behind a low-hanging army cap, emblazoned with a swastika. I was flooded with rage, sadness, and fear. My whole body was shaking. I pictured baby Ariel, dead, wrapped in a blanket, as I picked up the racket.
I slammed the racket on the cube with all my strength. "Stop it," I screamed, completely swept up in the moment. "Stop screaming. Stop the hatred. Stop the violence."
In that moment, I could have killed Günther.
But Günther isn't a Nazi. He's a software developer with a German accent.
In other words, I didn't want to kill Günther for something he had done. I wanted to kill him for something he represented. For his accent.
In that moment — and I feel chills down my spine as I write this — Günther wasn't the Nazi. I was.
In different circumstances — perhaps raised by a parent who taught us differently — who's to say what choices we might make? Any one of us is capable of just about anything. And unless we acknowledge that, we are at greater risk of becoming the person we fear the most. We're more likely to lash out against others to defend our view of ourselves.
This is not just about world leadership and violence; it's about mundane leadership and everyday relationships, as well. Any time we think or say, in disbelief, "Can you believe what that person did? What kind of person does that? I just can't understand her!" we are separating ourselves from other people, making them essentially bad and us essentially good.
When we do that, we are, at worst, dangerous, and, at best, weak leaders.
Holding the racket, angry enough to want to kill — was that really me? Yes. At times it may be you, too. Though disturbing, this is a good thing to admit. It's only when we are willing to feel the racket in our own hands — to look at that dark part of ourselves with our eyes open and realize that we are not so different from those around us — that we can be trusted to act responsibly.
*Some names and some details changed.
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Richard Barber, Producer and Director of "The Whole Gritty City," agreed to a brief email interview. Jazz, one of the kids profiled in the film, plays Jennifer on Treme. Here is a link to the Kickstarter campaign to raise finishing funds. They're about halfway there.
What's the most difficult thing for "outsiders" to understand about New Orleans?
There are dozens of ways to approach this question. One way to answer it, according to my own experience and preoccupations, is to talk about a sense of pride and ownership and belonging that African American New Orleanians have about their city that feels different from anywhere else I've been. It's exemplified by all the amazing musical streams that New Orleans has given birth to and sent to every corner of the world. It's exemplified in the generous spirit and genius of Louis Armstrong, who learned to play a horn in a marching band a century ago and went on to change music forever. It's a sense of "this is ours" that along with all its other qualities, is ultimately welcoming. "This is ours - you like it? You want to join in? Sure, come on." Every outsider is bound to see it differently, is bound to miss a whole lot, misinterpret a whole lot. But as long as you approach with respect and appreciation - and how can you not, really? - you're given every opportunity to learn a little more.
What's so tough about being a kid in New Orleans?
Many African American kids growing up in New Orleans face a profoundly daunting obstacle course. It's not that different from what kids face in a lot of other US cities, although it has its own flavor. You hear over and over again "a lot of these kids are raising themselves". For a number of different reasons, many don't have any adults in their lives who consistently pay attention to them, keep track of them, care about them, guide them - no one even to give them regular meals and decent clothes that allow them to walk into school with self respect. Their friends, even family and teachers will tell them what they can't do, that they'll never succeed, that they have nothing to offer. Too often the person who's there for them is the drug dealer on the corner - that may be the most obvious option for protection, for something to do, for a way to make some money, for some friendly advice and on-the-job training. And when you're out among your peers, you often have to act hard to get respect, to be accepted. For all these reasons and more there's a fatalism - likely as not you'll end up dead or in jail.
What are the pros and cons of "monetizing" culture, or in other words, where do you come down on the "Disneyfication" issue? How do the kids coming up through the bands fit into that picture?
Maybe part of my answer to this is in my answer to the first question. The city's vibrant musical culture is a tourist draw, and that's a major part of the city's economy. There's a whole continuum of music on display every day and night. One on end is the part that's deeply embedded in tradition and community and people's daily lives. On the other end are the old-timey brass bands playing for tourists in the Quarter. But they're not mutually exclusive, and I think a lot of New Orleans musicians live and work at many points along that continuum. The marching bands are there for the Mardi Gras tourists, but I think they're even more emphatically there for the kids' families and friends and neighbors, and the people who went to their school 20 years ago, and the people who say Walker is going to leave St. Aug in the dust this year, and for the cousin who's a cop, and yeah, even for the drug dealer on the corner, why not?....
...and of course anything else you'd like the readers to know.
I hope this film conveys why New Orleans' band directors are truly heroes. They are passing on more than a musical tradition. Some of them will tell you how their own band directors literally saved their lives when they were kids in a band. They know they have a chance to do that for some of the kids in their bands. That's why Dinerral Shavers defied all the people who told him it was impossible to start a new marching band from scratch at Rabouin High School when it reopened after Katrina. (By the way Katey Red was the coach for the majorettes that first season!) That's why Derrick Tabb plays gigs with Rebirth until 3 am, then gets up at 6 to go to meetings for The Roots of Music, then teaches the kids every afternoon, and just basically does without sleep. That's why Wilbert Rawlins Jr. is on the job or on call at all times, why he takes money out of his own teacher's salary if he has to, to make sure his students get everything it's in his power to give them, be it discipline, inspiration, a clean shirt, guiding them through a challenging arpeggio, or advice about life. I don't think any expert from the outside could design a program that comes close to having the impact they do.
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Proving that once a document appears on the Internet, it will always be on the Internet, at least a half-dozen web sites have posted copies of the Web pages with which hackers replaced the CIA and Department of Justice home pages last year.
In August, hackers tapped into the Department of Justice web server and replaced its home page with a pornographic and racist page called the "US Department of Injustice." Though the Justice Department quickly shut down their site, several web surfers copied the document before the department could get to it and have mirrored, or posted, the hackers' pages on their own web sites, "for posterity's sake," as one site owner put it.
A month later, when the CIA's home page was replaced with a page called "The Central Stupidity Agency" by a hacker or group of hackers claiming to be a Swedish group called "Power Through Resistance," intrepid web surfers again copied the page and mirrored it.
One site owner who mirrored the CIA page on his site said in an e-mail message that his copy was looked at 50,000 times the first day it was up, including by the CIA, who "looked at it every 10-15 minutes," he said.
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OPENING OF THE CANALS.--Our State Canals are to be opened, according to the official announcement, on Monday next. Considerable doubt is expressed whether the Eric canal, west of Rochester, can be ready by that day. Lake Eric is open from Dankirk west, and Buffalo harbor will doubtless be unlooked in a few days. At the latest dates the Straits at Mackinaw were closed, so as to prevent the passage of vessels into Lake Michigan.
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Several leading companies shared the lessons they've learned for controlling costs while improving employee health, at the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress held April 14-16 in Washington, D.C.
Safeway's Better Way
Between 2005 and 2009, supermarket giant Safeway Inc. has kept its health care cost trend "essentially flat," according to firm President and CEO Steven A. Burd. He noted that "70 percent of health care costs are driven by behavior." Moreover, just a handful of chronic conditions are responsible for 74 percent of all health care costs, "and obesity is a driving factor in all of them," Burd said, alluding to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. Yet "insurance policies generally lack incentives to change behavior."
At Safeway, which self insures, health coverage has been designed to encourage prevention and wellness by linking health behaviors to financial incentives. Safeway employees and their spouses earn reimbursement for part of their health care premiums by passing a nonsmoking screening (using a cotton swab inside the mouth, which Burd and other executives also undergo), meeting body-mass index goals, and keeping their cholesterol under control—with medication if necessary. If they do so, "at the end of the year we will write you a check" reimbursing premium expenses tied to the estimated savings for avoidable health conditions, to the extent allowed under federal regulations.
Nonsmokers, for example, receive a check for $300. Those who fail their screenings or choose not to participate go without the rebate -- and can end up, in effect, with health care premiums that are 50 percent higher.
Nonsmokers receive a $300 premium rebate check.
Burd compared this with "two neighbors with the same cars but very different driving records. Bill has no tickets or accidents; John has a reckless driving citation and an accident. John's car insurance premium is twice as high as Bill's -- and we all accept this as fair."
Safeway also offers fitness center discounts, care management counseling, a 24-hour nurseline, and health food discounts at company cafeterias. Their prescription plan provides incentives for generic medications.
"Don't wait for government," Burd advised. "You can do what we did to lower costs and improve health outcomes."
(To learn more, see How Safeway Is Cutting Helath Care Costs, by Steven A. Burd, Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2009.)
Dow Chemical's Formula for Health
Cathy Baase, M.D., The Dow Chemical Co’s global director of health services and a board-certified family practice physician, explained that Dow provides comprehensive health education programs to its employees (as well as retirees and dependents). Policies and initiatives include consultations and screenings, health and disease risk-focused campaigns, on-site wellness centers, and an electronic personal health record. Site and community prevention programs worldwide focus on nutrition, fitness, lifestyle improvements, smoking cessation and stress reduction.
"Since the inception of its health strategy in 1999, Dow has saved a cumulative $93 million on health care costs for U.S. employees, as compared to the average performing Fortune 1000 employer," Baase explained. That's a significant cost savings, given that Dow spends nearly $300 million per year on direct health care costs in the U.S. alone.
Specifically, Baase noted that:
• In 2008, the company’s health advocacy case management saved the company more than 7,000 absenteeism days.
• Since 1999, Dow has also been able to reduce personal safety and health incidents by 84 percent, which equates to nearly 13,000 Dow employees and contractors avoiding injury.
• About 75 percent of global Dow employees and 90 percent of U.S. employees participate in one or more Dow health services programs each year.
Black & Decker Drills Down Costs
"Far too many benefit managers make decisions and try to evaluate outcomes of their initiatives without all of the data necessary to prove whether their programs succeeded or not," said Raymond J. Brusca, vice president of benefits at The Black & Decker Corp.
A decade ago, the company examined two full years of data to determine what was driving its health care costs and identified that "Adult Type-2 diabetes, diagnosed and potentially undiagnosed, was behind the majority of our chronic costs," Brusca said.
The company's health plan provided coverage for insulin syringes and test strips, "but data showed most diabetics were not utilizing these benefits," he recounted. "We concluded that it was hard for diabetics to get these items filled, and that the multiple co-pays for each item created a significant financial barrier."
In response, Black & Decker conceived a program that would customize a "60-day kit" for each diabetic based on their own insulin and testing regimen. The kit would be sent to them cost free. A vendor would monitor refills and "if not reordered 45 days into the current 60-day kit, they would outreach to the diabetic to ensure compliance and reorder."
The company found a vendor whose sole business was providing mail insulin and supplies via mail to diabetics. "Under our health plan, the only source for these supplies would be the new vendor—we excluded coverage from all other components of the medical plan" to better ensure compliance and control costs.
Using a data warehouse, the company completed an initial two-year study and a subsequent study using four years of data. The results: "In both studies the [health care cost] trend rate for the diabetic population was lowered to match the trend rate for the nondiabetic population." The company has seen flat to low single digit cost increases over the past nine years, with only minor plan design cost shifts.
Brusca stressed that, along with plan design, communication is a key component of effecting change. "Our message is clear," he noted, conveying to each employee that "they have the power to impact their own health profile, their own finances, and the finances of Black & Decker."
Stephen Miller is an online editor/manager for SHRM.
How Safeway Is Cutting Helath Care Costs, Wall Street Journal, June 2009
Wellness: Financial Incentives--Tips for an Effective Program, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, May 2007
The ROI of Wellness Programs: From Perk to Priority Investment, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, January 2007
Designing an Effective Wellness Program, Step by Step, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, January 2007
Containing Health Care Costs through Wellness Incentives, SHRM Multimedia, September 2007
Quick Link:SHRM Online Benefits Discipline
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I'm not an expert in neuroimaging, so I had to search a little bit to learn about how carry-over designs apply to fMRI (I found Aguirre, 2007). Thus, feel free to correct me if there is something specific about this problem domain that influences the correct answer to this question.
However, based on general principles of experimental design of repeated measures experiments, you always have to choose
- how many factors you want,
- how many levels you want for each factor,
- what levels you have for each factor, and
- what factors you hold constant.
The particular levels you choose are directly tied to your research question. There are often trade-offs between the cost of resources required to have more experimentally manipulated levels and the benefit of additional questions that can be answered. Thus, I don't think a black and white answer can be given. You need to weigh up the pros and cons.
And presumably you have already made many experimental design decisions to get to this point. There's nothing magical about 3 levels to a factor. If anything, in experimental psychology two levels seems more common. And you could have four or five or more.
- Aguirre, G.K. (2007). Continuous carry-over designs for fMRI. Neuroimage, 35, 1480-1494. HTML
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Whether close to home or far away, many people sought out news about Monday's tornado and its tragic aftermath in Moore, Okla. The response adds proof to the need for journalism. Many government or nonprofit officials said during interviews on Monday afternoon that they were getting their information and perspective from news reports, same as everyone else.
The Missourian covers Columbia City Council meetings regularly, but with DocumentCloud reporters can include more information and notes with their stories.
Journalism will help preserve the memory of Arvarh Strickland, a man who is known for being the first African-American professor at MU but who was also much more.
In a time where plagiarism is easier than ever, Missourian Executive Editor Tom Warhover says the principles are easy: Don't cheat. Don't lie.
Peter Sokolowski, an editor at large with Merriam-Webster Dictionary, was the keynote speaker at the 17th annual American Copy Editors Society national conference. And, he added a bonus of playing a couple of tunes on his trumpet.
The Associated Press Stylebook now bans the term as a label. It's actions that count. Not everyone is pleased with the change.
Old stories have value. That’s why the Missourian launched a system in which everything on the website is free for the first 24 hours but anything older requires a paid membership.
The Columbia Missourian Stylebook and Guide to Mid-Missouri will be undergoing its annual revisions in the coming weeks. If you have suggestions, feel free to send them along.
The Missourian will take part in celebrating Missouri's open record law as part of Sunshine Week.
Copy editors can draw on techniques used by Sherlock Holmes and Perry Mason to solve editing mysteries in their daily profession.
The Missourian sports department was recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors for 11 awards, its most since 2001. The formula: the story less traveled.
The Missourian's From Readers section will have its first birthday this weekend. To help celebrate, the Missourian will randomly pick people who have contributed to the section to win prizes next week.
Two separate incidents regarding open records this week showed that journalists are not the only citizens using the Missouri Sunshine Law.
The Missourian expects to hold chats around town and invites the public to attend. Editors want to hear your ideas and complaints about the Missourian, and you might want to air them.
If it were easy, everyone would be writing headlines. Unfortunately, even the pros get caught up in mayhem and mishaps that show up in print or online.
An email from a retired MU professor prompted the first article written by the Missourian, and that article will be followed up on.
On behalf of city officials, the editor of The Newtown Bee asks that the donations of physical goods be directed to local agencies in memory of those lost at Sandy Hook Elementary. A fund is set up for monetary donations.
The most important thing I can do is continue to ask good questions of my reporters and editors to help cover the search for solutions.
A poorly written sentence, an illogical sequence of cause and effect, missing facts and incorrectly spelled names make Missourian's copy editors to go "dooziewhopper."
MU journalism students compile inspirational stories about people who have somehow overcome the odds.
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Latest cheese champion puts small Wis. town on map
THORP, Wis. (AP) -- The Clark County town of Colby is where Colby cheese was created in 1885. But now cheese lovers have another Wisconsin destination to visit -- the nearby town of Thorp, the hometown of the nation's top cheesemaker.
Marieke Penterman won the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest in Green Bay this week. Her Marieke Mature Gouda cheese took top honors out of a field of 1,700 cheese entrants.
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report says her family already had plans to build a 100-acre farm and creamery, with viewing windows where tourists could watch the 300 cows being milked. They hope to have the new facility up and running in early October.
Thorp has a population of 1,600, and is about 40 miles east of Eau Claire.
Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com
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Scholarships provide funding to university students to help them through their studies.
Scholarships offered to help those with financial or other difficulties commencing or continuing study are known as equity-based scholarships.
No. Scholarships are 'gifts' of money, not loans, and generally there is no requirement to pay anything back.
Most scholarships have a formal application process. This usually involves completing an online information or application form, or downloading the form and completing it offline.
Make sure you give yourself enough time to prepare your application.
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It was as a young teenager that he started writing about rock and roll music. His first zines were Tolkien related, but among them was also a mimeographed sheet called Mojo Navigator (full title, "Mojo-Navigator Rock and Roll News") started in 1966 by David Harris with Greg's help, and is said to have been an early inspiration for Rolling Stone magazine. In the 1970s he moved to Los Angeles with wife and partner Suzy Shaw and started another fanzine, called Who Put the Bomp, popularly known as simply Bomp!, or Bomp magazine. Greg's writing appeared in Bomp!, of which he was editor and publisher, as well as Creem, Phonograph Record Magazine, and occasionally, Rolling Stone. He also wrote a book about Elton John while on staff as a writer for United Artists records. Bomp featured many writers who would later become prominent, including Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Richard Meltzer, and Ken Barnes.
During the 1970s, Greg worked for Sire Records, and was instrumental in the signing of The Flamin' Groovies, a band that he also managed for a couple of years. In 1974 Bomp! became a record label, and Greg released records by Devo, The Weirdos, Iggy Pop and worked with several artists including Stiv Bators and the Dead Boys. He signed, and distributed, power pop and new wave acts such as Shoes, The Nerves, The Plimsouls and The Romantics. Bomp! Records was a LA record store for a couple of years, as well as one of the first independent distributors in the U.S.
In the 1980s, Greg Shaw helped launch the garage revival scene with bands such as The Miracle Workers and The Pandoras. He also released music by Spacemen 3 and The Brian Jonestown Massacre in the mid to late-1990s, and appears in the Sundance award-winning documentary Dig!. In 1994, he associated with Patrick Boissel's Alive Records, a label with music by The Black Keys, Two Gallants (band), Soledad Brothers, Black Diamond Heavies, Brian Olive, Thomas Function, and many other artists.
Greg Shaw died of heart failure in Los Angeles at the age of 55.
- Bomp: Saving The World One Record At A Time (by Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren)
- Tributes to Greg Shaw by Greil Marcus, Ken Barnes, and other rock critics
- Bomp! Records website
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|The Ramadhan of our Ramallah|
"...O People, listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadhan, and give your wealth in Zakat. Perform Hajj if you can afford to. You know that every Muslim is the brother of another Muslim. You are all equal. Nobody has superiority over the other, except by piety and good action."
- from the last sermon of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
How do Muslims in this country greet the holy month of Ramadhan?
The incident in Batu Burok is one – preview of the pattern of violence that is going to grow bigger. Just like the preview of the coming general elections as we saw in Ijok.
Ramadhan is also welcomed by the report on mis-management of funds - of prices ridiculously bloated up, as in the findings of the absurdity of what America's Pentagon paid (screws, screw-drivers, etc.) in the mid-1980s at the height of the Iran Contragate scandal. We have not even been able to keep up to date with the story of the hideous murder of Altanthunya, or the controversies over issues versus non-issues, of flag burning, deconstructed Malaysian national anthem, and all that jazz that colour and characterise the coming of the postmodern age in Malaysia.
Ramadhan is also welcomed by the news-story of the imminent invasion of Iran by the United States Empire that is losing its battle in Iraq after spending more than a billion dollars a month and after more than half a million Iraqi civilians have died and almost four million Iraqis displaced by both the invasion and sectarian violence. The illegal war has become one the American people cannot stop; worse than their Vietnam.
But our Ramallah is here, a place wherein forces of radical change are fighting against a machine that is seemingly unstoppable – one running on 50 years of hegemony, control, power, ideology, and construction of selective history passed as truth.
How do Muslims here and in this world "ramadhanise" itself entirely? How do the Malays, predominantly Muslims, spread the message of peace and non-violence in an age wherein violence and brute force via the use of modern anti-riot technology can easily be rationalised in the name of "national security"?
In Batu Burok, why would a gathering of protesters - against massive corruption and growing arrogance and power abuse - be met with such chaos and unnecessary force? Are we seeing the beginning of more violence, or is this an early evolution of our own satyagraha (non-violent protest movement) that is going to be a norm of our own Civil Rights movement in Malaysian politics?
We have greeted Ramadhan with so much violence – of forms visible and structural. Visibly we have seen the destruction of Kampong Berembang, houses of worship, a human demolition using the C-4 explosive, ill-treatment of our foreign workers, rising crime rate, rampant corruption, conspicuous consumption, etc. Structurally, we have seen and felt violence since our 50 years of independence – discriminatory policies that culminate in a more sophisticated form of racism, neglect of the plight of the poor of all races, the deterioration of the morale of our youth, the cultivation of a wayward and even rude generation as in the Mat Rempits, the systematic suppression of ethical-critical voices in our public universities under the pretext of "disciplining students and academics", the countless high profile corruption cases not attended to and the list goes on and on.
This Ramadhan, we must collectively meditate upon the issues plaguing us and find solutions based on what is being taught to us. If Ramadhan is to be an antidote to the "ramallahi-sation" of the Malaysian society, Malays and Muslims and those in power by virtue of being a hybrid of both, must do reflect upon these:
- That we must hold on fast to the conviction that the hungry and the dispossessed of this nation are not only Malays and Muslims but also men, women and children of all faiths and ethnicity. An economic policy that is blessed with the spirit of Ramadhan must meet the needs of all races. The New Economic Policy not only has run its course but is tribalistic in nature.
- That we must refrain ourselves from using our power and the trust given to us to rob the nation and to use our position to enrich our political parties and to continue to accumulate wealth to acquire power absolutely. A political system consisting of political parties that feed themselves with money derived from questionable means will be one tsunamied by the anger of the people.
- That we must come out of the Ramadhan experience with the conviction that Islam and all religious belief systems that practice "fasting", self-control, and self-reflections will conspire with fate to design a better system of governance – one that is based not on the race to meet the needs of our material greed but one that brings dignity to the poor. If, for Muslims, Ramadhan is not only to "feel what the poor and hungry" feel, then a responsive politics must be the outcome of it. If the message of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is to have us evolve beyond caste, class, race, color, creed, national origin, then the post-Ramadhan experience must teach policy-makers to do just that in the way the political-economic system is designed.
Before this nation becomes a Ramallah in which its leader is prisoner to his/her own struggle, we must ramadhanise ourselves and collectively struggle for peaceful changes, via peaceful means; via means that even the police and the civilians and power abusers and protesters can respect each others' need to change governments that no longer respect the coming of Ramadhan.
Let our Ramadhans stop us from becoming a Ramallah.
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If you are like most people who crave the outdoors in the summer, you are probably indoors during this time of year and counting down the days till the snow melts away and flowers start to bloom. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE summer but the winter season offers many great opportunities if you just plan ahead and are well prepared.
One thing I love to do in the snowy season is pack up my camera and search out wildlife. You may be asking yourself “Is there much wildlife around in the winter”, well the short answer to that is simply “YES”. Although some of the larger Canadian mammals seek shelter and hibernate for the cooler months, many species are out searching for food during day light hours and are quite easy to spot because there are no leaves on the trees and fresh tracks can be found throughout the snow.
During one of my afternoon outings I noticed some fresh rabbit tracks. I quietly followed the tracks and behold, there was the rabbit off in the distance at the edge of an open field. As I sat and watched him for roughly 5 minutes I was greeted by another animal. On the other side of the field was an alpha male coyote, who was of course watching the same rabbit as I, but he had other intentions for this rabbit other than taking photos of him. Although I was a far distance away from the coyote, I was able to get some great portraits of him with my 300mm telephoto lens. For all you rabbit lovers, the rabbit got away and I was able to get some great photos of this magical moment.
If you are lucky and you live near the coast then you should take the next chance you get and head out to enjoy the ocean scenery for the last couple months of winter. Of course there is no shortage of coastline here in Nova Scotia, Canada and I know first hand how many wildlife opportunities present themselves this time of year. We all know that many birds fly south to warmer destinations during this time of year, much like we do when we are feeling the “Winter Blues”, but many actually come and stay for the cool weather. Some of the seabirds that can be found along the coastline of Nova Scotia during the winter are Dovekies, Mergansers, Surf Scoters and King Eiders to name a few. Many of these birds are visually striking with their winter coats and make for some great photo opportunities. Because the winter light is not nearly as harsh as is the case when shooting during the summer months, photos tend to come out clearer and better exposed even for photographers just starting out and getting familiarized with the settings and capabilities of their cameras.
Soft winter light provides the perfect opportunity for sunsets. Try to include foreground interest such as this tree and include reflections in the frozen ice if at all possible to make your photos pop and WOW your friends with your new photo skills.
So next time you find yourself clicking endlessly through the channels, do yourself a favor and pack up your camera gear, dress in your warmest clothes and heat up your favorite hot drink and get outside to capture some of the nature in your neighborhood that will only be here for the last half of our Canadian winter.
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The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have beefed up their Transition Assistance Program for troops leaving the armed services. They have set up a one-stop website with the Labor Department replete with resources to ease the way from military to civilian life and careers.
These include online career transition courses, an employment hub with tips on how to craft a resume and handle job interviews, a national resource directory for ill or wounded troops and a guide on how to file disability claims early.
Transition planning also has backing from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, who vowed support for the project at a joint press conference last Thursday.
I had none of these resources available to me when I left the Marine Corps in 1967. My transition amounted to heading back to New York City on my lonesome. The development of this website is a sign that bureaucracies can change for the better.
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Banksy artwork taken in north London withdrawn from sale
A Banksy artwork which was taken from a London street and had been listed for auction in the US has been withdrawn from sale, the BBC has learned.
The Banksy mural, depicting a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, disappeared from Whymark Avenue earlier this month.
It had been expected to be auctioned in Miami later but the auction house told the BBC the sale was halted.
A new mural had appeared on the street wall where the image was removed.
Slave Labour - the mural that was removed - appeared on the wall in Wood Green, north London, last May, shortly before the celebrations to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
It disappeared from the side of the Poundland store last weekend and had been expected to fetch up to £450,000 at auction in Miami.
Fine Art Auctions Miami (FAAM) confirmed to the BBC that the Banksy mural had been withdrawn from sale.
However, a spokesman gave no reason for its withdrawal.
"Although there are no legal issues whatsoever regarding the sale of lots six and seven by Banksy, FAAM convinced its consignors to withdraw these lots from the auction and take back the power of authority of these works," he said.'Affection' and 'disappointment'
Earlier, Haringey Council said it had learned that the sale was stopped at the last minute.
Haringey Council Leader Claire Kober said it was "a true credit to the community" that their campaigning seemed to have "helped to stop the sale of this artwork from going ahead".
"We will continue to explore all options to bring back Banksy to the community where it belongs," she said.
It appeared that a starting bid of $400,000 (£262,450) had been made before the auction of the artwork was halted.
The new mural that appeared on the north London wall depicts a woman in a nun's habit, but it is not known if it is by Banksy.
BBC Oxford producer Andy Gordon was visiting relatives on Saturday when he snapped the newest addition to Whymark Avenue in Haringey.
"We thought we were just going along to see the gap in the wall and were surprised to see something else had appeared.
"There was obviously a lot of affection for it in Wood Green and a lot of people were very disappointed when their Banksy disappeared."
He said the new mural had appeared in exactly the same spot as the Banksy artwork.
Local councillor Alan Strickland said residents had been left "really shocked and really astonished" at the disappearance of the mural of the boy.
"Banksy gave that piece of art to our community, and people came from all over London to see it," he said.
Banksy's work has been at the centre of a number of thefts over the years.
In May 2010, two pieces were stolen from a gallery in London, after a man used a road sign to smash a glass window at the front of the building.
A year later, a piece known as Sperm Alarm was ripped off the wall of a hotel in Central London, and appeared on eBay for £17,000. It was never recovered.
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Marketing a Dental Practice
Dentistry, as a health care profession, is actually a vocation or “calling” to provide needed dental services to society. As such, it is common for both the practitioner who has just graduated, as well as the seasoned, well-established dentist, hygienist, or office manager to have little focus or training on the dental practice business aspects.
Historically, there were times when the dentist just handled the “procedures” for the patient. In our increasingly complex society, the business aspects of dentistry have become more important for even the “survival” of certain dental practice styles. In other words, the dental practice must be managed as a business in order to even have the ability to provide dental services to your community.
We cannot possibly provide all the answers or serve to meet all the needs of a dynamic business such as a dental practice, but dentalcare.com can provide some small aids and resources that may help in day-to-day operations as well as help one to achieve the best possible dentistry for patients. This Practice Management section will continue to evolve and grow just as a new dental practice does, and we hope the tools will be helpful to all who are interested in dental practice management.
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Life lessons with a camera
Last Thursday several members of the Sun Advocate and Emery County Progress participated in a photography workshop. Because camera and equipment technology have changed so dramatically over the past few years the newspapers felt their reporters and photographers needed an update. Photography has been an important part of my life for the past 30 plus years. As I sat in the class learning some of the new gadgets and features on the most recent digital camera we are using I was amazed at the progress technology is making.
My career as a journalist actually began in the darkroom and doing free-lance photography features back in the mid 70's. I was teaching elementary school in a little community in Phillips county, Mont. and my wife was creating grocery ads in the composition department at the county newspaper. She would work late into the evenings designing the large grocery sale ads and since I was off work in the early afternoon I began hanging out at the newspaper office killing time.
One thing about a newspaper office is nobody stands still very long before they are put to work so from almost the beginning I found myself developing photos in the darkroom. From there I remember the publisher asking me to take pictures at a football game and later I was a regular feature contributor. Little did I know that early work, mostly as a volunteer would lead to a newspaper career that has spanned over 25 years and seven newspapers.
I take thousands of pictures annually and have had some excellent journalism photographers give me tips over the years on how to improve my work. But sitting in the meeting last week, once again learning new techniques with new equipment reminded me how similar this was with life in general.
Just when we feel comfortable with where we are and what we know, life changes. It almost seems like the more we think we know the more we realize how little we know.
I am sure its the same with everyone who actually takes the time to look at their lives and is willing to play an active role in their future.
I was very lucky in some of the early, informative years at the beginning of my career to have mentors who helped me set goals and strive for improvement. One of the saddest things I see is people who simply go through life with no real ambition and no real direction.
Like photography, life is most interesting through angles that most people never see. The good pictures are those that are properly framed and usually taken from an angle that the normal eye would never see.
Life is very similar. If we just wake up each morning, get dressed and show up with no real effort or plan, the outcome will be pretty predictable. But if we try new ideas, look at life through a new angle, take a class, read a book, set some new goals, and strive to change, the whole world opens up and we are amazed at the results.
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If you're in your 20s or 30s, you've probably experienced stubborn breakouts on your chin. And no matter how much you exfoliate or get facials, a few stubborn lumps won't go away. Welcome to the wonderful world of cystic acne!
Cystic acne differs from your everyday, run-of-the-mill pimple farm. This kind of spot is buried under the skin, so it won't come to a head no matter the amount of poking and prodding you do. Worse yet, the cysts can be red, tender and sore. And lucky for us women, hormones make them more common for us than for men—which is why these devils pop up around that time of the month. To find out what you can do about cystic acne, just read more
Unfortunately, there's no magic treatment to clear up cystic acne. Don't even think about trying to squeeze the cysts, as you'll just wind up with a lot of pain and potential scarring. (Really, don't do it!) In a few weeks or even months, most of these zits clear up on their own. In more extreme cases, a few treatment options can improve the situation:
- It won't eliminate cystic acne, but gently applying a warm-to-hot wet washcloth on the pimple seems to help it disappear a little more quickly. It could just be the placebo effect, but at the very least, it's soothing and calming.
- Birth control pills regulate hormones, which minimizes the breakout factor; but, as is the case with any other medication, you might experience side effects. I use YAZ, a low-dose pill approved by the FDA to keep women minimally zitty (and minimally pregnant). I still break out a little bit each month, but nowhere near as badly as I used to.
- Topical retinoids such as Retin-A Micro can help clear up cystic acne, but things might get worse before they get better—be prepared for peeling, redness and photosensitivity. I tried Retin-A Micro a few years ago and decided the side effects weren't for me, but your experience could be different.
- Accutane is considered the last-resort option for severe, recurring cystic acne. While it's largely effective, most dermatologists I've talked to say they won't prescribe it unless it's the sole remaining option due to the side effects (which can include birth defects).
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Sine Mora Gets Crafty With Lego Ships
Author: Ryan Winslett
published: 2012-11-17 11:45:48
Sometimes fans like to take their love of a game to the next level, adding their own artistic flair to a creative project in honor of their beloved title, usually in the form of a painting, homemade action figure, or even a recreation of something from the game in Legos. Luckily for Sine Mora fans, Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture have already taken care of the leg work on that last option, offering full instructions for creating your favorite in-game crafts using all of those Lego blocks you have lying around the house.
We announced yesterday that, after releasing on the Xbox 360 earlier this year and the PC earlier this month, Sine Mora will be bringing its sidescrolling bullet hell antics to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita next Tuesday. If you're looking for something to do in the meantime, might we suggest making some badass Lego sculptures inspired by the game's various ships?
The tricky part is that these instructions for creating your Lego crafts are exactly that: Instructions. You're going to have to track down all of the various pieces on your onesies if you plan on actually building the things. But knowing how dedicated some fans can be, I don't doubt that at least a few of you out there will make this brick-building dream a reality. Be sure to send us pics if you actually go that far.
With the provided instruction, crafty gamers can build a 3D representation of Sine Mora's Merenstein VI and BS4-VR Soprano. If you're hungry for more details on the game, be sure to visit Sine Mora official website. To download the Lego instructions and get to building your own ships, simply download the instructions.
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One of the most common questions I am asked is when is the best time to visit Tibet? Well, that is a bit difficult to answer because there are pro’s and con’s to each season. What I will do is take each season and list the pro’s and con’s about them to help you decide when the best time is for you to visit the Land of Snows.
The summer season is the warmest time of year across the Tibetan Plateau. While it is still common for snow to fall on the northern Tibetan Plateau during the summer, especially in areas above 4000m, most places where travelers go to are mild and comfortable. Because of the mild temperatures across Tibet during the summer, this is the most popular time of year for travelers to come. Since the start of the train to Tibet in 2006, tourists numbers have increased nearly every year (exception was in 2008 when widespread riots took place across Tibet) with over 8.4 million people visiting the region in 2011. Because of this, getting train tickets to Lhasa are difficult to get during the summer season. Also, tour and hotel prices are higher in Lhasa during the summer compared to the low season.
While the weather during the summer months is mild for the most part, the summer does bring rain and clouds. The rain is not nearly as much as what the south side of the Himalaya’s get, but it does rain in Tibet during the summer. It won’t rain everyday, but it will rain a few days each week in most regions. Even though it does rain, it is still possible to trek in Tibet during the summer. Also, the cloud cover is often thick so getting clear views of Everest and the Himalaya’s are not as common as they are during the rest of the year.
If you are interested in seeing nomad Tibetan culture, the summer is the best time of year. The grasslands are an amazing color of green and thousands of Tibetans living in their yak wool tents can be found. In my opinion, if you hate cold weather, then the summer is the season for you to visit Tibet. However, if you don’t mind a bit of cold weather, the skies are much clearer the rest of the year and will reward you with amazing views of the mountains.
The fall season is a great time of year to visit Tibet. The rainy season normally ends in mid to late September. The skies from then through early December are generally clear and the mountains are usually snow-capped. The temperatures are not as mild as the summer, but are still comfortable for most people. There will be freezing temperatures in most areas of Tibet, but with appropriate clothing, you will be fine. The tourists crowds have usually departed from Lhasa by mid-October making the Tibetan quarter much quieter. Also, nomad Tibetans can still be found living in tents across the grasslands. Overall, the fall is probably my favorite time of year for traveling across Tibet.
Some people may think I am crazy for saying this, but winter is a great time of year to visit Tibet. Here is why I think this….the weather is clear almost everyday giving amazing views of the mountains, hotels and travel agencies offer discounts during this time, there are almost no tourists around, the weather is probably not as cold as you think it will be and most importantly, Lhasa is filled with Tibetan pilgrims from all corners of Tibet. During Losar (Tibetan New Year), which takes place in the winter, thousands of Tibetan pilgrims pour into Lhasa on pilgrimage. It is an excellent time for photographers to visit Tibet to capture images of Tibetan nomads from the most remote regions of Tibet.
Over the last 7 or 8 years, Lhasa has an average high temperature of 9.5C (49F) during the winter months and an average low of -4C (24F). While I agree that these are not Southeast Asia or Caribbean-like temperatures, they also are not nearly as bad as most people think (most Chinese tourists are convinced that Lhasa is -40C in the winter). With the intense sun, the temperature during the day feels much warmer than what it actually is. The guesthouses in the Everest region and in western Tibet do get cold at night so bringing good quality winter clothing is important. Now the nomadic regions in northern Tibet in the Amdo and Kham regions do get cold….really cold! These areas can be visited in the winter, but if you don’t like the cold, it is best to visit these when the weather is warmer. Winter temperatures across the Amdo region and across large portions of Kham can easily reach -25C or colder.
Each March, most of the Tibetan Plateau closes to foreign tourists for 5 or 6 weeks. This is an annual closing that takes place each year. The reason is that March is a sensitive month to Tibetans, as it is the anniversary of the Dalai Lama fleeing to India in 1959 as well as many uprisings and protests in the past (most recently in 2008). Travel permits normally stopped being issued in late February or very early March and the region normally reopens in early April. The Amdo and Kham regions, which do not require travel permits or organized tours, usually also close to foreign travelers during this time.
Besides the annual closing of the Tibetan Plateau, the spring season is a good time to visit Tibet. The weather is generally clear until around mid to late May, the temperatures are crisp, but not frigid and there are not too many tourists around Lhasa.
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Federal job cuts could be higher than projected
National Defence hit first with 1,100 civilian job losses; Health Canada to lose at least 840
Posted: Apr 4, 2012 7:46 AM ET
Last Updated: Apr 4, 2012 11:36 AM ET
Canadians should expect more federal job cuts than the 19,200 the government forecast in last week's budget, the union that represents most federal public-sector employees said Wednesday.
Patty Ducharme, national executive vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says there are temporary employees whose jobs will be eliminated, and there are still cuts from previous budget freezes to take into account.
There are still 6,300 jobs to be cut from the strategic and operating reviews from 2007 to 2010, plus "thousands and thousands of term employees who will not see their terms renewed," Ducharme said.
Ducharme says the union is asking the government to tell Canadians which services will be affected by the cuts.
"The government has this information and we’re asking the government to provide this information to Canadians," she said.
Those cuts could affect services like food safety inspection, she said, pointing to smaller budgets at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Public Safety Canada and Transport Canada.
"All of those departments and agencies do work for Canadians that is regulatory in nature and with significant decreases in their agency and departmental budgets, there will be less inspections done on behalf of Canadians in their day-to-day lives," Ducharme said."
The union also says small and medium-sized businesses that depend on public servants as customers will also lose out.
About 19,200 civil servants are expected to lose their jobs in the aftermath of the federal budget, which seeks to save Ottawa $5.2 billion.
Some workers will be given the option of leaving on their own, while others could be reassigned to different posts.
National Defence to lose 1,100 civilian jobs
The axe has already started to fall, with the Union of National Defence Employees (UNDE) reporting around 1,100 civilian positions are being eliminated. The losses will be felt across the country, from military bases to reserve sites.
Union president John MacLennan said everything from research and development to food services is on the chopping block.
The Defence Department took a big hit in last week's federal budget, and was told it will need to slash over $1.1 billion in spending over the next three years.
But the government has also committed to keeping the size of Canada's regular and reserve fighting force intact.
So MacLennan said if the military isn't going to shrink and no bases are going to close, the cuts raise the question of who is going to do all the work still needed to support soldiers.
He added soldiers would fill that void.
The cuts at defence come a day after an auditor general's report accused the department of misleading Parliament on the true multi-billion-dollar cost of new fighter jets.
Half of cuts to army
Of the cuts hitting UNDE members, 175 are from bases across Ontario, with an additional 153 in the National Capital Region of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que.
Another 345 come from Quebec, outside of Gatineau. British Columbia will lose 41 jobs, Alberta another 191, and 10 in Manitoba, including two in Thunder Bay, Ont., which reports to Manitoba.
Nova Scotia will lose 62 people and New Brunswick 115. St. John's, N.L., will lose one job.
About a fifth of the cuts, or 234 out of 1,093, hit Defence Research and Development Canada, an agency of National Defence. The army is losing 585 jobs and the Royal Canadian Navy 12.
The Royal Canadian Air Force is untouched in this round, although some jobs with the navy and air force have already been eliminated through attrition.
Special forces are losing seven support personnel, public affairs is losing 38 people and human resources 217.
Health Canada to lose 840 or more positions
At least 840 positions will be eliminated at Health Canada, sources have told CBC News following a department meeting Wednesday.
Employees may get more details about the cuts as soon as next week.
There are few details on which areas will be affected at Health Canada.
As well, the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said Tuesday that 400 of its members had received notices that they could be cut.
The letters went to some staff at National Defence and the Public Service Commission of Canada, as well as to the economic development agencies for the Atlantic, the West, Quebec and southern Ontario.With files from the Canadian Press
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In Philadelphia, Amtrak envisions bullet trains traveling in tunnels beneath the city, with stops at a new airport station and an expanded Market East station. The plan calls for 30th Street Station, now the city's main intercity rail hub, to be used for slower regional train service.
The current corridor between Washington and Boston is old and crowded, with highways, airports, and railroads that are unable to handle growing population and demand, Amtrak president Joseph Boardman said. Without ambitious rail expansion, the region's economy will be stifled, he said.
"I think what's at stake here is the global economic engine of the Northeast," Boardman said in an interview. "The business community in the Northeast has to wake up - they're at risk."
Amtrak says the costs of building the new rail system would be offset by 40,000 construction jobs a year for 25 years, 22,000 new permanent jobs, and increased revenue and productivity for East Coast employers.
Amtrak's new report comes as 1,000 international high-speed rail operators and manufacturers convene this week in Philadelphia for the eighth World Congress on High-Speed Rail. It's the first time the biennial session has been held in the United States, which lags Europe and Asia in rail development.
"We are inheriting the lessons learned from nearly 50 years of development of this technology," said Stephen Gardner, Amtrak's vice president of Northeast Corridor infrastructure and investment development. "Everything is on our side. I know it has looked bleak at times, with the constrained economic period we're in, but time is on our side."
The new Amtrak report proposes a series of steps on the way to true high-speed rail service with 220 m.p.h. trains by 2030:
By 2015, Amtrak will acquire 40 more Acela Express passenger cars to increase capacity by 40 percent on the fastest trains now operated by Amtrak. (Acela trains can reach 150 m.p.h. on a stretch of track between Boston and New York, but the trains average just 84 m.p.h.)
By 2020, Amtrak plans to double Acela service between New York and Washington, with upgraded tracks and signals allowing train speeds of 160 m.p.h. and reducing Acela travel time between New York and Philadelphia to 62 minutes, from the current 70 minutes.
By 2025, Amtrak proposes to complete the $14.7 billion "Gateway" project to improve access to New York, with two new tunnels under the Hudson River, an expanded Penn Station, and two new high-level bridges to replace the 100-year-old movable Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River.
By 2030, Amtrak says, the high-speed corridor would be complete between New York and Washington, with trains making the trip from Philadelphia to Washington in 54 minutes. (By comparison, the fastest Acela trip now takes 93 minutes.)
By 2040, Amtrak proposes to have the full high-speed corridor complete, with trains running between New York and Boston or Washington in 94 minutes. A trip from Philadelphia to New York would take 37 minutes, about half the time of the fastest train today.
Money remains a problem for Amtrak as it looks to a faster future.
Congress has rejected the Obama administration's request for $50 billion for high-speed rail over six years, and Amtrak is dependent on annual appropriations from Congress for its survival.
Amtrak reduced cost estimates in its new plan by combining proposals for upgrading the existing corridor and building the high-speed line.
Now, Amtrak calls for spending $3 billion to $4 billion a year during peak construction years and delaying some spending beyond 2040, when ticket revenues of $4.86 billion a year are anticipated to be rolling in from 43.5 million passengers.
If federal, state, and local governments pay to build the new high-speed rail system, Amtrak says, the revenues from the trains will more than pay for the costs of operating and maintaining them. Amtrak projects a $928 million operating surplus by 2040, which could be used to pay back money borrowed for construction.
"It's clear to me that it will take every level of the public sector and new involvement by the private sector to do this," Gardner said. "The federal piece is the linchpin."
He predicted the federal government would need to pay about half of the $151 billion cost of building the system, with state and local funds, tax credits, and long-term borrowing making up much of the remainder.
"There is no mechanism at the federal level to support this today," Gardner acknowledged.
Amtrak is waiting for the Federal Railroad Administration to complete a required environmental-impact assessment of the corridor to come up with a "preferred alternative" for development. That assessment is expected to take until June 2015.
In the meantime, Amtrak is moving to build political and popular support for funding and building its proposed high-speed corridor.
With incremental projects now under way, like a $450 million effort to increase train speeds between Trenton and New Brunswick, Amtrak hopes to demonstrate its ability to get bigger and faster.
"We want to build a railroad that can significantly increase its service levels and do much more for the region," Gardner said. "We think rail needs to move a lot more people in this corridor, and we need to build capacity to do that."
Contact Paul Nussbaum at 215-854-4587 or [email protected].
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A great man once made the following keen observation - "Losing is just the opposite of winning." Okay, I jest. I made that statement in response to a loss I had just been handed at something that I now don't remember. After all, who remembers losses? Actually, some of life's greatest lessons are learned from defeat. To all of the parents out there, I pose this question, "What have we learned from the loss of our youth?" For the most part, we've learned how to make excuses for our losses, and to pass the blame to others. Sometimes a loss is unavoidable. For example, in my senior year of high school our basketball team was invited to play in a regional tournament to replace another local team that "couldn't make it." (That should have been the first red flag.) To make a somewhat long, but more so painful story short, we were extremely outclassed and out manned and were sent back home very humbly. So what happened? We had the same rules, played with the same equipment, knew the same basic facts of the game, yet we got thumped( forgive my slang). The difference, looking back now with a bit more understanding, was that they put to better use the skills that they had and to refer to a principle we find in Hebrews 4:14, they exercised their abilities more than did we. Now that was an unimportant sporting event that really had no bearing on the ultimate outcome of our lives. Our youth, on the other hand, are very important and how we rear them does have a very strong impact on their future. How can we guarantee a successful future? God tells us in II Peter 1:3 that He has given us all that we need to live a life of godliness. What sets apart a successful Christian from a not-so-successful Christian, is that one uses the tools God has given and the other makes excuses. Parents, do you know who your children's friends are? Proverbs 13:20 says, "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." Do you know the kind of influences that are affecting your child? Be it books, t.v., movies, computers, games, friends, etc., we must be aware of what is going on with our young people. Parents, more than any other person, have the God-given position to influence their young people. Sadly, many have forfeited that role due to other responsibilities, popular opinion, or some other "excusable" reason. In reality, what we're saying is, "Losing is just the opposite of winning."
C. Lee Carr
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 17 of the acts of 2002 is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The commission shall have all the powers and duties conferred by the General Laws and by any other applicable laws governing the establishment and operation of water and sewer commissions under sections 63 and 69A of chapter 41 of the General Laws including, without limitation, those powers and duties conferred by sections 65 and 69B of said chapter 41, chapter 83 and sections 38 to 42K, inclusive, of chapter 40 of the General Laws. Upon election and qualification, the commission shall succeed to all the responsibilities and powers of the present Charlton water and sewer commission under applicable laws.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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Not created equal
High-end luxury looks exposed as China slows
The cancellation of Graff Diamonds’ $1 billion Hong Kong initial public offering is the latest sign that high-end luxury goods companies are losing their shine. Hong Kong’s formerly bubbling art and property markets are cooling as mainland Chinese money ebbs. Tightening credit at home has played a role, and China’s political cycle may be another cause.
Companies at the top end haven’t been spared. Baoxin, a Chinese luxury car dealer, and Hengdeli Holdings, a premier brand watch seller, have seen their shares plummet 30 percent since May 1. Jewellers have done a little better. Tiffany’s and Chow Tai Fook fell 20 percent during the same period. Despite the theory that the super-rich are recession proof, it’s the more mass “soft” luxury that is holding up. LVMH and Coach have fallen only around 6 percent in the past two months.
Things are worse for supposed luxury investments. A bottle of 2008 Lafite now sells for $1,100 in Shanghai, down about 50 percent from its peak. Christie’s Hong Kong sales during first half of 2012 fell more than 30 percent from last spring. Sotheby’s has reported mainland buyers making up a falling share of its sales. Chinese buyers tend to be investors rather than connoisseurs. They are often momentum driven, so a small price correction can turn into a full retreat.
Hong Kong’s high-end property market is another victim. Mainland purchasers have helped push up the territory’s home prices by 80 percent since early 2009. But their share of new purchases fell slightly in the first quarter, as bank lending became tighter in China.
But don’t underestimate the effect of politics. Some 30 percent of mainland China’s luxury goods purchases are bought as gifts, according to Bain & Co - often by favour-seekers. As China’s leadership transition looms, wealthy buyers may be wary of greasing the wrong wheels. Swatch Group recently warned that very highly priced products had started to decelerate in China. Softer Chinese demand may hit the top end of the market hardest.
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Here’s what happened at the public meeting earlier this week. The Town and engineering consultants made a presentation about the goals of the project, the original and current designs, and the process and timeline. Then they opened the floor for public comment.
The most troubling changes to the design from the original concept is that lane widths have crept back up to 12-13 feet, the flush islands have been removed, and some sidewalks are not being widened as much (and in one case narrowed). The design still includes 5-foot bike lanes on both sides for the length of the project except the very end approaching Alewife Brook Parkway. The Alewife Brook intersection itself remains outside the scope of the project. So, at present it is pedestrian space that is being chipped away. As problematic as that is, I am concerned that if the “chipping” continues bicyclists will be the next group to sacrifice space to cars.
I’ll be blunt: the comments were divided between those who fear change, and those who embrace change. And there were many people there on both sides.
Project opponents focused on concern about traffic backups on Mass Ave and cut-through traffic on side streets. These concerns are certainly legitimate, but the Town has addressed them already. The engineering consultants responded to the traffic questions with an analysis that showed the redesigned road would have enough capacity for projected traffic volumes out to 2028. Because capacity is high enough on Mass Ave, there should be no incentive for people to cut through on side streets. The general response from opponents: “I don’t care what the analysis says – common sense says removing lanes will make traffic worse.”
One particularly angry man reported that he had hired his own engineering consultants and lawyers to fight the project. Then his lawyer presented a legal argument questioning the authority of the Board of Selectmen to “narrow” a state highway. The Town’s response: “MassDOT says this isn’t a problem.” Even if you accept this far-fetched argument based on an archaic statute, one response is the the Town is not narrowing the road, merely reallocating the space among various legally-recognized modes of travel. This argument overlooks that the road consists of the entire right-of-way from the buildings on one side of the street to the buildings on the other side of the street. The space is currently allocated among sidewalks, parking lanes, and travel lanes. The project is merely reallocating the same space, not reducing it at all.
Many project opponents laughed at a somewhat fanciful rendering of happy people and families strolling along a tree-lined sidewalk lined with busy shops and restaurants, but others said “what are you laughing at – that’s what we want!” The implication was that the opponents think East Arlington’s business district is just fine as it is and needs no improvements other than simply repaving the road.
One man actually stood up and said he moved to Arlington because it was more “car-friendly” and he didn’t want all the bicyclists slowing him down like they do in Boston and Cambridge.
Project supporters (including me) emphasized the need to make Mass Ave safe and welcoming for all modes of travel, and reminded everyone that state law and state and federal policy all require bicyclists and pedestrians to be accommodated. Some expressed a preference for fully separated lanes (like cycletracks), but the consensus among bicyclists was that bikes lanes of some sort were needed. Various speakers refuted opponents’ claims that bicyclists shouldn’t be riding on Mass Ave when the Minuteman Bikeway is nearby; that bicyclists riding now on Mass Ave was proof that bike lanes were not needed; and that education of bicyclists and motorists could address the safety problems without infrastructure changes. Several parents talked about fearing for the safety of their children when crossing Mass Ave or biking together.
The meeting simply concluded when the comments were done. The next steps will be re-submission of the 25% design to MassDOT, then a public hearing on the design after it is approved by MassDOT. At that point it will be very difficult to make any significant changes to the project, so it is critically important to get any remaining comments in now. Click here for official project information and contacts.
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The stockmarket in Madrid (EFE).
The Spanish government will not only benefit from the new bond purchase program, announced by the European Central Bank on Thursday – known as the outright monetary transactions, OMT. It will also benefit from the decision by ECB President Mario Draghi to eliminate the minimum ratings for assets that are accepted as guarantees to provide liquidity to banks.
This way, Spanish banks can continue to use public debt as collateral even if it drops to ‘junk bond’ levels, and thus, it can continue to participate in the treasury auctions with capital from the ECB.
As is well known, the Spanish banking sector is the major financial backer of the state, since a large number of foreign investors have left the country because of fear over possible outstanding debt or, even, an exit from the euro.
In particular, it is the state-controlled entities that are most actively acquiring public debt and the majority of the purchases are done with financing from the ECB and precisely with public debt as collateral.
Net debt hiked
With this mechanism, the net debt of Spanish entities to the ECB hiked to about €376bn in July, which is 11.4 percent more than the €337bn in June; a historic record, according to Bank of Spain statistics.
This equals half of the financing awarded by the eurosystem in total to the whole Eurozone – €744bn – and the Spanish banks use it primarily to meet maturing debt payments and to continue buying public debt while foreign investors have fled.
Thus, the Spanish banks increased their sovereign debt positions by €84bn during the first six months, while foreign institutes reduced their positions by €78bn during the same period, according to the Treasury. This way, the decision to eliminate the requirement on minimum ratings on behalf of the ECB allows for this race to continue even if the rating will fall to ‘junk bond’ levels.
Such a fall is more than likely, given that Moody’s has announced that it will finalize its revision of Spain this month, which it downgraded three notches to Baa3 in June a gave a negative forecast.
If, as expected, this new revision will mean another downgrading, Spain will receive a Ba1 rating, which is below the investment grade, that it, it enters the ‘junk bond’ level.
A favor to the banks
More than that, Draghi has done a favor to the actual banks. If Spain’s sovereign debt falls to these levels, the levels of the banks will also decrease to ´junk bond´and, thus, would no longer be deducted if the ECB would not change this requirement.
The major part of the guarantees held by the Spanish banks and savings banks towards Frankfurt is constituted by its own mortgage loans and business sector loans, which are impossible to place on the markets but are accepted by the monetary authority.
The problem of the Spanish banking sector is precisely that they have no more credits to secure because they have already used all that was available. This, together with the constant outflow of deposits, which has reached record levels since the euro was introduced, provides a new cash problem in the financial sector.
This is true even to the extent that the Bank of Spain has awarded an emergency loan of €400m to one or several entities in August, which is a trivial amount, but it can be the prelude to what is about to come.
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In an ideal world, every company has a dedicated design team. There’s at least one expert in each of the many design disciplines that Braden previously outlined and the team works together to create a consistently excellent product.
Whoops, sorry! Daydreaming again.
The reality for most startups is quite different. Fewer people take on multiple roles to make the company work. The business-development person organizes marketing events; the engineer draws the illustration for the funny 404 page; the office manager runs the mailing list. This is why startups are full of T-shaped people with an area of deep expertise, but also a broad range of other skills to fill in the gaps.
So what’s a startup to do? Must they wait until they’re big enough to hire a full design team before they can practice good design? Or will good design naturally arise from a sufficiently talented hodgepodge of T-shaped folks? Neither, I say! Good design doesn’t happen automatically, but with the right people taking on a full set of design roles, a startup can build the skeleton of a solid design process today and flesh it out with the meat of a dedicated team later on.
Assign design roles to people with compatible skills
A startup doesn’t need to hire a dedicated expert in each design discipline right away. As long as important design roles are covered by people who have the skills to get the job done, you’ve created an environment where good design can happen.
Here are some design hats I consider important for a successful design process. Try one on for size:
The team member wearing this hat is ultimately responsible for product design decisions. While everyone on the design team contributes to the process, it helps when the buck stops with a single person. Otherwise, the dreaded design-by-committee monster can rear its ugly head and wreak havoc.
This person should understand the big picture of where the product is going and how the pieces fit together, and they should be able to communicate that to the rest of the team. Someone with other big-picture responsibilities, like a CEO or product manager, is often a good fit for this role. It can be a difficult role for someone with detail-oriented responsibilities (like an engineer).
Visual design leader
The team member wearing this hat defines the overall visual language for the product. They’re responsible for creating a consistent visual system that they and others can apply to the product. They also solve difficult visual design problems that arise during the implementation of new features.
This person should have bad-ass visual design chops and be able to think creatively about solving problems visually. As with the design decision-maker, a team member with other big-picture responsibilities can be a good fit, while someone who’s down in the weeds may find this role challenging.
Owner of the product’s voice
The team member wearing this hat designs how the product will communicate with users, and ensures that it happens consistently. A well-designed product has a personality and particular way of speaking, just like a person. This team member might be responsible for writing copy and/or creating tools (like style guides) that allow the rest of the team to use the product’s voice.
Wearing this hat requires both writing and content strategy skills. Experience managing or editing other writers is useful too, especially when the entire team will be writing copy. This hat can fit well with other roles that involve outward communication, like support or marketing.
Detail-oriented design implementer
The team member wearing this hat synthesizes high-level design decisions and uses tools provided by the rest of the team to flesh out the low-level design details of the product. Wearing this hat requires many skills, but solid interaction design skills and sweating the details are at the core. Good communication skills help when working closely with the other design roles. Patience and humility make the copious iteration and frequent failures of the process easier.
This person might create detailed specs and wireframes for engineers to build, but it’s even more effective if they can help to build the product directly. For that reason, front-end developers are often best suited to this role, but they must be able to separate implementation details from design decisions. Depending on the size of your product, you’ll probably need more than one person that can wear this hat.
Qualitative data advocate
The team member wearing this hat is responsible for staying in touch with the product’s users and advocating for them in the design process. They collect and synthesize both the problems and successes that users encounter. Good design is informed by qualitative information from users, but not controlled by it. This person needs to filter the noise and direct the signal back to the rest of the team.
This role benefits from qualitative user research skills when gathering information and good communication skills when reporting actionable results. Good data can come from organized user studies or surveys, but it can also come from support tickets. For that reason, someone whose primary responsibility is customer support can be a good fit.
Quantitative data advocate
The team member wearing this hat answers questions about the product using statistical analysis. They’re an advocate for hard numbers and aggregate data in the design process. They work with the rest of the team to design questions to ask and collect data that can be used to answer those questions. As before, good design is informed by quantitative data, but not controlled by it, so creating insight from raw data is the goal.
Obviously, this role requires statistics and qualitative data analysis skills. Good data visualization skills are also necessary to effectively communicate actionable information back to the team. A back-end or database engineer who’s in touch with the product vision and loves statistics and data visualization can wear this hat well.
Distribute design roles thoughtfully and deliberately
Do any of these hats fit someone on your team? If you haven’t thought about design roles in your startup before, you can start now. Find people on your team that can take on each of these roles, and talk openly about who’s doing what. When the roles are clear it streamlines the entire process.
What about the hats that nobody on your team is well-suited to wear? To fill the gaps, you need to orient your hiring plan around what’s missing. Maybe the next engineer or community manager you hire will also have the skills to put on that unworn design hat. Think about how each person you hire can contribute to your design process.
These ideas are based largely on my experience working with a small team of T-shaped people at Typekit. Even though we’re not all designers, we all care deeply about design and our product. Being thoughtful and deliberate about design roles has helped us to be successful.
A startup doesn’t always have the resources to hire a dedicated group of design professionals. But with the right people, a small team can cover a complete set of design roles. We can achieve good design today while also building the framework for a dedicated design team as the company grows.
Do you think about design roles in your startup? Which ones am I missing that you’ve found to be valuable? Let us know in the comments!
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"The Numbers Mason! What do they mean?!"
--Jason Hudson; Call of Duty Black Ops
This is far from the first post I’ve devoted to speculating on the future of Nintendo’s performance in the console arena, and definitely not the first I’ve devoted to speculating on the Wii U’s future in particular. Now that we know probably almost as much as we’ll ever know about the new console’s raw hardware numbers, I think it’s time to focus on what will really decide its fate.
We know that he Wii U has more but slower RAM than the Xbox 360. We know that its graphics card is about as fast as the 360′s but probably has more and newer features. We also now know that the Wii U’s CPU clocks in far slower than the 360′s… at least on paper. The original source of the Wii U’s CPU numbers has already tried to explain how differences in architecture partly negate the meaning of raw numbers, and several articles out there havecorroborated the claims.
If you ask me, I think it’s pretty dumb to buy or not buy a console purely based on hardware and spec numbers. It make sense when buying a computer or other appliance that plays universal media. All PCs rum most of the same software that runs at a quality determined by the hardware. Video game consoles on the other hand only run the software and media specifically built for it, and that content runs at a quality determined as much by the developer as by the hardware. Basically, with consoles the hardware has mattered much less than the games actually available on that hardware. In every console generation it’s always been the platform with the best game library that has won the market share, not the most powerful one. Just look at the PS2 compared to the original Xbox and Gamecube.
I understand where many pixel counters and tech heads might be worried though: how the developers will treat the Wii U. After all, third parties left the original Wii behind largely due to its hardware which was a generation behind the PS3 and 360. People are worried things will play out the same way during the next console cycle because of the Wii U’s specs. It’s even struggling to run ports of current generation games.
Generally speaking, the theories on next generation console hardware suggest that the Wii U’s architecture is built in a way probably very similar to what Microsoft and Sony will likely do with their next machines, just with a major difference in raw power. This is a huge difference from the current generation. The Wii couldn’t run most PS3 and 360 games no matter how much you downgraded the graphics because its hardware lacked basic features like the shaders which define current generation game development. It’s looking like the Wii U’s architecture and feature set may be much more similar to that of PS4 and next Xbox, but probably with smaller raw numbers. Basically, ports between all three of those consoles will be much more feasible. The reason so many multiplatform games are having problems on the Wii U right now is because, well it’s new hardware that developers haven’t had any real time with, but also because all those games are designed for older architecture and not around the Wii U’s unique bottlenecks.
Still, all of this ignores the main factor that will decide whether or not developers actually make games for the Wii U: the consumer market.
Third party publishers didn’t ignore Nintendo consoles in the past because they were weak (they weren’t before the Wii), but because they didn’t think they could make money on the systems. Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox recently laid this out pretty clearly. “It’s one of those problems of the Wii: the only people who have ever made a lot of money on the Wii is Nintendo,” said Brian Martel, adding that they were releasing Aliens: Colonial Marines as a test subject (personally I think Borderlands 2 should’ve been that test subject).
All Nintendo really has to do is convince third parties like 2K that there is an audience for games like Borderlands 2 on the Wii U. Nintendo’s problem is that right now, none of their first party Intellectual Properties really do that. They invested a lot into first party with the Wii and put out some excellent games. They even invested in new IPs that sold 40 million copies like Wii Fit. They introduced Mario and Mario Kart to new (or returning) mass market consumers who bought them in unprecedented numbers, but none of it really did enough for the core audience — the audience Nintendo wants to get back with the Wii U. This logic leads me to believe that Nintendo needs to try to do the same thing but with more core-focused IPs. I don’t know how they would do that but there’s more than one possibility.
Nintendo kind of already demonstrated one way by subsidizing the development of Bayonetta 2, making it exclusive to the Wii U which caused many fans to begrudgingly accept that they’ll eventually need to get one. Technically they could do that again but perhaps with an IP from a western developer (those who read Wednesday’s blog are probably thinking TimeSplittersright now), similar to how Microsoft has continually published Epic’s Gears of War series. As I’ve said previously on this site, Nintendo kind of already demonstrated their ability and willingness to do this when they got Capcom to develop the next couple Monster Huntergames on the 3DS, pretty much putting the Japanese market on lock and possibly dooming the PlayStation Vita in that region.
The other way is for Nintendo to develop their own new IP like they developed Wii Sports andWii Fit, but to attract the core segment. Again, as I’ve mentioned before, we still don’t know what Retro Studios is working on.
Whatever Nintendo does though, that core gamer killer app(s) would definitely have to be a surefire hit — a 5-10 million-seller. It would have to get millions of people to buy a Wii U for a core game, showing the publishers that the market does exist. I think that in order to do that it would have to be seen as new and innovative. I think that’s part of the reason games like Gearsand Halo took off (even if they weren’t really innovative, they seemed so to the mass market at the time). Nintendo does probably have the ability, with some of the most talented game designers in the industry. It’s just a question of whether they’re willing to risk it.
Nintendo has made and still makes some of the best games around, but at face value they don’t attract the audience to which today’s dominant publishers sell their games. You can talk about hardware and spec numbers all you want, but what really counts is the games, and those games come from publishers who go where the market is. I think Nintendo seems to have the rest of their baseline ducks in a row: an online infrastructure that’s good enough for modern console gaming (but could still improve a lot), an interface that feels new but isn’t alienating, and possibly hardware architecture in-line with what the competition will be doing in the coming year (about which we know nothing). All they really need to do is show publishers that the install base and market for games is there. I think the average Joe isn’t gonna look at the Wii and complain that the CPU and RAM are too slow, he’s only gonna care if the game he wants is on that system.
- Yasumi Matsuno’s little game Crimson Shroud is coming out in English on December 13th: http://t.co/65pLT5k7
- Grand Theft Auto IV is $10 on Xbox Live Games on Demand for Gold members as of this writing.
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Spain's energy reform will not cut solar subsidies
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will not cut subsidies for solar energy as part of its overhaul of the country's energy sector, Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria said on Wednesday.
"The government has not considered it," he said, when asked whether Spain would reduce solar energy incentives as part of its plan to control an energy tariff deficit of over 24 billion euros.
At the end of 2012, the Spanish government removed a legal cap meant to limit the amount it will owe utilities in 2012 and 2013 for selling power at a loss.
By November of last year, the so-called tariff deficit had grown by 4 billion euros, more than double the amount targeted in 2012 and adding to the cumulative total of 24 billion reached in 2011.
(Reporting by Andres Gonzalez; Writing by Clare Kane; Editing by Tracy Rucinski and David Holmes)
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Jerusalem — Israel’s cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists late on Friday, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in decades.
Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial centre, also came under rocket attack for the second straight day, in defiance of an Israeli air offensive that began on Wednesday with the declared aim of deterring Hamas from launching cross-border attacks that have plagued southern Israel for years.
Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for firing at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israel said the rocket launched toward Jerusalem landed in the occupied West Bank, and the one fired at Tel Aviv did not hit the city. There were no reports of casualties.
The siren that sounded in Jerusalem stunned many Israelis. The city, holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, was last struck by a Palestinian rocket in 1970, and it was not a target when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq fired missiles at Israel in the 1991 Gulf War.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a four-hour strategy session with a clutch of senior ministers in Tel Aviv on widening the military campaign, while other cabinet members were polled by telephone on raising the mobilisation level.
Political sources said they decided to more than double the current reserve troop quota set for the Gaza offensive to 75,000. The move did not necessarily mean all would be called into service.
Hours earlier, Egypt’s prime minister, denouncing what he described as Israeli aggression, visited Gaza and said Cairo was prepared to mediate a truce.
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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Plensa's acclaim doesn't mean sculpture is right for Shorewood park
When it comes to public art, there are a few rules of thumb that should seem glaringly obvious.
Unmistakable, clear-as-the-nose-on-your-face rule number one: If the place where you put your art looked better before you put art the art there, you’ve screwed up. Patently evident rule number two: If a work of art is less interesting after you’ve placed it in the public environment, you’ve likewise made a misstep.
And let me throw in a third, for good measure: There is no real point to mediocrity in public art.
If there’s an edge to my voice, do forgive me. It just seems that we’re determined to repeat these mistakes again and again when it comes to public art here.
The latest misadventure is “Spillover II,” recently unveiled with great fanfare in Atwater Park. The sculpture of a human form made of steel letters, by internationally known artist Jaume Plensa, was described as the opening salvo for a new and ambitious public art program in the Village of Shorewood.
It is important to note that the artist is exceptional. In fact, Plensa’s acclaim is at the heart of what went wrong here.
It’s not an overstatement to say that the Spanish artist is probably best known for what is one of the most successful public art projects on the planet, the daring and bold Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve likely heard about this work – two tall towers featuring videos of faces of Chicagoans who sometimes pucker their lips as a stream of water shoots out and into a reflecting pool below.
Before that, Plensa was also known for his light works, unique, site-specific sculptures that could be walked on and touched but also seen from across a city at given times. That kind of layered experience, where scale and distance are critical qualities, is an essential part of his work.
The crouching human form of “Spillover II” is one that Plensa has worked with extensively in a variety of contexts. He transforms the familiar and usually organic human form into a shiny, industrial curtain of letters. It is the raw material of humanity that he’s dealing with – the body and the letters that become words and language.
The lattice of letters is visually transparent and delicate, and the form of the faceless figures becomes more or less distinct depending on where you stand in relation to it.
A far larger, 26-foot version that viewers can walk into and around called “Nomad” has, fittingly, traveled around the world. Smaller versions, like the 8-foot-tall version in Shorewood, are often seen in groupings of two or three, facing each other in parks or galleries.
What works about nearly all of the other installations I’ve seen, albeit through photographs, is that there are so many ways to experience and interpret the works. They are in a constantly changing conversation with the viewers, the natural world and, when in a group, one another. Viewers can walk up to and even into the works, and the sculptures that are in public or natural settings are usually set onto natural stone and precisely situated so viewers can see them from multiple perspectives.
In Shorewood, the single sculpture is plunked on a clumsy concrete slab, surrounded with mulch and shrubbery and pointed squarely at the lake. With that, our ability to get close to the sculpture is frustrated and Plensa’s poetic, visual epistle is turned trite and literal. The visually airy piece is also in a frenetic spot, surrounded by telephone wires, traffic and stop lights, and its subtlety is overpowered.
And let’s not forget what existed there before – a rather gorgeous view of the lake. It would have been better left alone.
In the end, Shorewood’s public art committee, though well intentioned certainly, was more interested in getting a brand-name artist than a great art experience.
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How to Find Birth Records On and Offline
Since the United States has always been a country filled with people who came from other places, interest in genealogy has always been high, but thanks to the Internet, people from all corners of the globe are connecting like never before and almost everyone has taken an interest in tracing their past. Perhaps the single most useful document for tracing your genealogy is the birth certificate. Not only does a birth certificate officially mark the point where a distant relative came into the world, but we all need an official copy of our birth certificate to get things like a passport or other official government identification. Of all of the vital records searched for every year, birth certificates are the most common. Let's take a look at how you can get an official copy of your birth certificate online and the old fashioned way.
In most US states, you need to contact the city clerk's office in the county in which you were born. Many people falsely believe that you contact the hospital in which you were born in. They may have a copy of your birth certificate on file, but in most cases, they can't issue you an official copy. If you check the phone book for the county office in which you were born, you can easily find the vital records office or you can simply call a general number and you can be redirected to the proper office. Vital record requests often cost anywhere between $15 and $50 depending on the state or county and take 4-8 weeks depending on the backlog. Some areas have rush processing available if you are in need of a passport immediately.
The Internet has made much of the guesswork regarding obtaining birth certificates obsolete. Websites like RecordsProject.com can give you the right phone numbers for every county clerk's office in the United States with just a few clicks. These websites are even more useful if you live in one state but you need a phone number for a clerk's office on the other side of the country. It is hard enough finding the right phone numbers in our own phone book, but if we don't even have the right phone book, we can be out of luck. Finding our own birth certificates or those of our ancestors has never been easier thanks to the Internet and the hard work of county clerks from coast to coast.
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A leading cleric tipped to be one of the first women bishops has warned that the Church of England’s governing body is too deeply divided to vote through a new law to consecrate them.
The Ven Rachel Treweek, Archdeacon of Hackney, called for a simple, single-clause measure to consecrate women to be voted on when the General Synod meets in July. But she fears that the synod will not be able to “square the circle” on women bishops with its current make-up.
The synod is elected by members of deanery synods. Because of strong traditionalist and evangelical representation, the measure
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Posani Krishna Murali has penned scripts for several successful films, highlighting the social problems of the day. He turned a director with Sravana Masam. His latest venture Mental Krishna places the audience in an embarrassing situation by portraying how a husband harrases his wife and later justifies everything in the climax as an act to unite lovers.
Muddu Krishna (Posani Krishnamurali), the only son of a big industrialist (Ranganath) is dressed up as a girl, as his parents are fond of girl children. He develops a set mentality and wants to marry a girl who refuses him and not one who likes him. The obvious reason is that they do so only for his property. Satya (Satyakrishnan), the daughter of an industrialist (Giribabu) falls in love with a milk supplier, who earns a seat at an International School of Business. But does not stop his milk supplying job. At this juncture, Muddu Krishna proposes to Satya who refuses him. Satya's family agree to her alliance with the milk boy. However the alliance is broken due to some family problems from the boy's side.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]Muddu Krishna's mother convinces Satya and her family and gets her married to her son. Right from the day one, Muddu Krishna harasses Satya. He declares that he is impotent and accuses Satya for cheating him. It goes to an extent of making her take a virgin test. One day, Muddu Krishna asks Satya to bed his friend (Brahmaji) so that he would get a child. This forces Satya to return to her father. In the climax, Muddu Krishna calls the media and accuses Satya of her extra-marital relation with the milk vendor. At this juncture, Satya's father and brother admit that they had separated Satya and her lover. Now they get Satya separated from Muddu Krishna and marry her off to her lover. Muddu Krishna's father then reveals that it was a drama enacted by Muddu Krishna to unite the lovers. He reveals that all this was done to convince the boy of Satya's virginity as Muddu Krishna is impotent. The film ends on a happy note with Muddu Krishna blessing the couple.
Krishnamurali has given a nice performance, so as Satyakrishnan. The entire movie revolves around these two characters. With Krishnamurali himself directing the movie, he had a clear vision on how the character should behave and he has done complete justice to his role. Satyakrishnan, who has not got an opportunity to play heroine has got the chance to play solo heroine and has utilized it well. The writer-turned-director has prepared a nice storyline but while expanding the story, he has chosen to spend more time on unnecessary things. The only notable point as far as technical features are concerned is the use of steady cam to shoot the entire film without going for any other cameras.
The director has miserably ignored the entertainment part in the film. While using histrionics in harassing his wife, it appears embarrassing to the audiences. The purpose of keeping comedians like MS Narayana, Brahmanandam and others is not known. Likewise, Nagababu's police commissioner appears unnecessary. The director has gone a little overboard in a bid to unite lovers. There is absolutely no need to harass a woman mentally and torture her to such an extent. Moreover, the director did not establish the love between the heroine and her lover properly as well
Directing a film is like a penance. Everyone cannot direct films. Being a writer is not a qualification to become a director. A director should have a grip on all the 24 crafts in the film industry. Mere capability to pen a story and screenplay won't serve the purpose all the time. It would be better that writers like Krishnamurali just write scripts and not test their hands in direction.
Cast: Posani Krishnamurali, Satyakrishnan, Nagababu, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, MS Narayana, Giribabu, Ranganath, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Raghubabu, Sivaji Raja, Brahmaji, Prabhakar, Pragati, Delhi Rajeswari, Surekha Vani, and others.
Music – Vandemataram Srinivas
Camera – Gadiraju Srinivas
Editing – Mohan-Rama Rao
Art – Babji
Producer – Mohan Vadlapatla
Story, screenplay, dialogues and direction – Posani Krishnamurali.
Banner: Mohan Media Creations
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Digital clock changing numbers: photo by Beyond silence, 2007
The clock at the bedside, mutilated like all things today, in these times, had no hands, only bright red numbers, which went on displaying themselves all night, one after another, 3:48, 3:49 and so on, as long as there was electric power. Usually there was. Often he wondered what it would be like to be blind. Life would go on in the dark just the same except for the numbers, they would cease to exist.
Leap second (drawing showing what a digital watch should show during a leap second): image by Twid/Stannered, 2005
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With budget surplus, state could remit payment to schoolsby Tim Post, Minnesota Public Radio
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A glimmer of good news came this week for Minnesota schools: More than $300 million from a state budget surplus will be used to pay back some of the money borrowed from schools last year to balance the budget.
The problem is the state still owes schools $2.4 billion in deferred payments.
With IOUs in hand, many districts have had to dip into their reserve funds. And more are starting to borrow money just to make it through the year.
Last year, in an effort to balance the state budget, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers agreed to defer a portion of state payments that go out to school districts.
The deal means schools get 60 percent of their state funding during the year, the other 40 percent will come in payments over several months beginning this summer.
The delayed payment has forced many schools to dip into their reserve funds to make ends meet.
Two years ago, the Northfield Public Schools district held a reserve fund of $10 million. Today, the district, located about 45 miles south of the Twin Cities, holds half that amount.
Superintendent Chris Richardson hopes his district, and others in the same situation, can make it through the fiscal year on their remaining reserves.
"If for any reason there would be any loss in anticipated revenue, or any unforeseen additional costs, we're all one step away from having to look at short-term borrowing as an approach to maintain our budget," Richardson said.
Southeastern Minnesota's Zumbrota-Mazeppa School District did have to take that step earlier this week.
Superintendent Tony Simons said the payment shift, combined with rising expenses, has nearly depleted the school's reserve funds.
"We're down to the point where we're critically in need of revenue to make our payroll. That forced us to borrow $1.38 million," Simons said.
In Moorhead, school district officials took out a loan in February to be able to pay bills through the end of the fiscal year.
Superintendent Lynne Kovash couldn't turn to a "rainy day" fund, because it's all dried up. The district had to borrow $8 million.
"In order to be able to meet the responsibilities we have as a school district we need to borrow money. It's a cash flow problem," Kovash said.
Minnesota schools have borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars to cover their bills because of delays in funding this year and last year.
Public schools get favorable interest rates by joining together in a borrowing pool, said Greg Abbott of the Minnesota School Boards Association. But in the end, he said, schools are on the hook to pay off the interest, not the state.
"Even though the interest is low, at about 0.35 percent, it's still money that they have to pay in interest they wouldn't have paid if the state hadn't shifted the money," Abbott said.
Lawmakers did have the cost of financing in mind when they passed legislation that shifted K-12 payments. They boosted per-pupil funding by $50 this year, and another $50 next year.
School administrators are bracing for more accounting challenges ahead. Next year, school districts face another shift in payments similar to this year's 60/40 plan.
No one knows what's coming in the year after that, but Moorhead Superintendent Kovash worries lawmakers may try to delay half of school district's payments.
"Could it be 50/50? What could it be? That's the part that we struggle with over the long haul," Kovash said.
There are two measures at the State Capitol right now that aim to pay off the money owed to schools: A DFL effort would eliminate a tax advantage for foreign operating corporations, and use the money to pay off the shift. And a Republican measure proposes using some of the revenue from racinos to do the same.
- Morning Edition, 03/02/2012, 5:25 a.m.
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What to do about Teen's Behavior on MySpace
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Dear Dr. David:
Recently a friend of mine told me that my daughter had a listing on My Space. When I went to find the listing, I was shocked to discover that my daughter, who is thirteen years old, had listed her age as sixteen. To add to my anger, my daughter not only lied about her age, but had vulgar language and pictures of friends that were disgusting. When I confronted my daughter about this, she lied to me, trying to justify her actions. We got into a major argument, and my daughter never did see my point of view.
How can My Space exist with bad language and no controls over the input? How can I protect my daughter, or should children be allowed to participate in these unsupervised activities? What are parents supposed to do when their kids lie and sneak around behind our backs? Is there anything we can do to encourage our children to be honest, and to stay away from places that are dangerous to them? ~ Anxious Parent
First, there is no justification on your daughter’s part for lying about her age, or presenting herself in a false way on My Space. There is also no excuse for lying to you about it and doing this behind your back. It is important that your daughter understand, and respect your boundaries, one of which is absolute honesty.
Why might she have lied? Our children often lie to us when they feel threatened. Have you done everything in your power to promote an open and honest relationship with your daughter? Communication is something practiced everyday, not just in times of crisis.
In regards to My Space, I’m not convinced that it is the incredibly dangerous place some make it out to be. Are there dangers to be considered? Of course. These dangers, however, and the risks of My Space, can be minimized by talking to your daughter about the site, and her activities on it. Let her know that you’ll be monitoring her activities occasionally. As her parent, you do have the right and responsibility to know what she's up to on the web.
Does your daughter’s lying about her age suggest a problem? Yes. What is critical is that you talk openly with your daughter about her motivations for doing what she did. It is imperative that you develop a relationship where your daughter can be candid with you about her desires, and that you and she discuss appropriate avenues for her to pursue friendships.
Most adolescents are desperately seeking peer approval, and these web sites, along with other outlets, are ways they have chosen to gather. Teens will always find a way to meet one another, and the Internet is not going away. What parents can do is understand these drives, maintain an open relationship with our kids so they can talk about what they’re doing, and not be shocked when they, at times, do things to circumvent the rules.
One way to curb time spent online is through developing healthy, local friendships in the community. I’ve been impressed in recent years with churches and community groups that provide healthy opportunities for our teens. Churches that create spaces that are relevant to our youth will help in averting the trend for them to seek alternative places to gather.
Finally, there is no shortcut for inoculating our youth with The Truth. Many parents can take refuge in the scripture, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” (Proverbs 22: 6) There is comfort in knowing that at times parents must simply fasten their seatbelt, and trust the Lord to bring our children through these tumultuous times. Believe that He will do that for you and your children.
Dear Dr. David:
I once heard a message about husbands complaining about there wives gaining weight. His answer was to buy your wife a membership to the gym and watch the kids so she can go! As a wife and mother of several children, yes I do have a hard time with males telling us to just “lose weight!” Men have never experienced having a baby attached to them for nine months that causes you to crave everything but the kitchen sink while taking sixteen hours of pain equivalent to being ran over by a “Mac” truck to “deliver” them into the world and then having to attach them to your breast for another year or two. All of these activities including having a monthly cycle, causes us to “crave” to replenish our bodies. Not to mention that we start out with more fat cells than you guys do in the first place! Give us a break guys! ~ Also Disappointed
You are not alone in your sentiments. Many women believe men are too shallow in their concerns about their wives’ weight. Many women believe, as you do, that men don’t fully appreciate what they’ve been through, with child-bearing, raising children, and often working a job, to try to stay fit. Many believe men should not be so visually oriented, and should not place so much emphasis on how their wives look, especially when it comes to weight.
I would love to hear from others on this topic, but let’s be fair. Let’s sound off from both men, and women’s standpoint. The question is this: Should we, as husbands or wives, be concerned about how our mate looks, or should our love be unconditional? I’ll share the responses with our Crosswalk readers.
Do you need sound, Biblically-based advice on an issue in your marriage or family? Dr. David will address two questions from Crosswalk readers in each weekly column. Submit your question to him at [email protected]
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The following is the sermon preached by the Very Rev. Jep Streit, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal), Boston on June 7, 2009. Courtesy ** Naomi **.
George Tiller and God’s Love A Sermon Preached by the Very Rev. Jep Streit June 7, 2009 It is easy to feel outraged. A man was murdered in his church. In his church. George Tiller was in church not simply worshipping God, but on this Sunday, serving as a greeter, an usher. He was welcoming people as they entered the church, coming into the house of God. And one of the people he welcomed into God’s house shot and killed him. I feel outrage at the murderer, but I also feel like Isaiah, who had a vision of God while he was serving in the temple in Jerusalem and whose initial reaction is, “Woe is my, I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips.” What is happening in our nation, to our people? How did we get to this place, this escalation of hateful rhetoric and disrespect so that words are not enough, but people feel compelled to acts of violence and murder? But while outrage may be justified, I don’t want to talk from a place of anger and self- righteousness. That only increases the sense of otherness, of us and them. Instead I want to tell a story that I heard this week, I can’t say how or why, I can only tell you that it is true. I promise you that it is true. Please listen.
It is a story about George Tiller, about his work, what he did and how he did it. You may have wondered, as I did, why someone would make it a part of his work to perform late term abortions. Why would a doctor feel compelled to do this? Even as we sensed how wrong his murder was, in all honesty, didn’t you wonder about his work? We sometimes feel compelled to support something that seems important to support but inside we may have some misgivings, some quiet ambivalence or questions, and perhaps this was one of those instances for you. It was for me. So listen to this story. It helped me learn about George Tiller, what he does, perhaps why he does it. A woman became pregnant after much difficulty, after much fertility counseling and intervention. Her pregnancy was without incident, happily so. The baby seemed fine, she had no difficulty, things were proceeding completely normally. And then, in the 25th week, she slipped on some stairs and fell. Not badly, nothing dramatic, but she was advised by her doctor to come in to be sure her baby was all right, that nothing had happened, and so she did. She said, looking back, that the fall felt like a kind of divine intervention, because when she went in to make sure the baby was all right it was discovered the baby was not all right. Not because of the fall, but because it had some serious medical problems that had been missed in the previous routine examinations, somehow they simply hadn’t shown up. It was something in the baby’s heart, a genetic condition that appeared by chance, neither the mother nor father had it in their background. The woman was told that this problem was so severe that the baby would not survive, certainly not survive once it was born, and with a strong possibility that it would not even survive until she came to full term. She was faced with the prospect of continuing her pregnancy and either giving birth to a baby that was still born, or would likely not live long after birth. The doctors said there was a very small, virtually miniscule chance of correcting the problem through intrauterine surgery, but this would be immensely costly, not easy, and with a very small chance of success. Very small, virtually no chance of success. “I felt it would be wrong to use money that could or should go to help babies or children that had a real chance of improvement, not for something that almost certainly wouldn’t work, so I didn’t feel I wanted to pursue that,” the mother told me. This was a heartbreaking choice. This baby had been conceived with such difficulty, it was the literal embodiment of so much hope, and now that hope seemed gone. The parents decided not to pursue extraordinary medical intervention, not to pull out all the high tech medical stops, but to accept what seemed true, that this child she had been carrying with so much gratitude and love would not live, and so rather than wait until it died in her womb or died shortly after birth she made the decision to end her pregnancy. They were helped in this decision by talking with their priest, who spoke about God’s desire for us to have abundant and fruitful lives, which did not seem possible for their child, at least as far as the doctors were telling them. They made this decision also knowing that they might not be able to have any more children, that this pregnancy could be the mother’s only pregnancy. “People think that women use late term abortions as a form of birth control,” she told me, “irresponsible decisions made lightly, when they suddenly decide they don’t want to be parents.” She was crying when she said this. “This was not a decision that was easy for me.” Of course not. I couldn’t imagine what it was like for her to decide this, I only felt how deeply she agonized, but how it felt faithful in the midst of all this pain and loss. There are not many places that do abortions after the 21st week, at the end of the second trimester. According to the report in the Boston Globe George Tiller’s facility is one of three places in America that will do this, but according to the mother, George Tiller’s facility in Wichita was the only place in America that would do this when she was looking for help. Whatever the case, this woman went to Wichita, but only after sending her medical records and having serious consultations with the staff about what the medical issues were and why she was choosing to have an abortion. They had a rigorous screening process, they don’t just accept whoever shows up. At George Tiller’s facility in Wichita she experienced immense support and compassion. She said she was treated with the utmost respect, given care and attention. She said George Tiller spent time with her, helped her far beyond the medical procedure he was able to do. “My son was baptized,” she told me. Tearfully. George Tiller has been characterized as a monster, a murderer by some. His actions do not seem monstrous to me, and certainly the family he helped whose story I heard and just shared did not experience him in this way. The gospel lesson today, from John, contains the very familiar verse, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, . . .” Sadly, it is not unusual for people to imagine that God’s love extends primarily or exclusively to people who think as they do, who share similar values and beliefs. Thereis often not room in this equation for the complexities of life, like babies with undetected genetic abnormalities in their hearts who may not live to be born, or if that should happen, not live very long thereafter. In the woman’s st ory I heard, clearly, God’s mercy for her in the midst of a heartbreaking situation. Her baby was baptized. In the face of this deep, sad, loss, she was able to affirm her connection with God, and God’s connection with her, her husband and their child. The mystery of their loss remains, but there was nothing mysterious about her experience of God’s love, which came to her through the help of many people, friends, family, clergy, and George Tiller. Amen.
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School district's obsessed with race
As part of its well-meaning quest to rid itself of racism, the Seattle School District has found a program it considers racially biased...
Seattle Times staff columnist
As part of its well-meaning quest to rid itself of racism, the Seattle School District has found a program it considers racially biased.
Summer break. The 10-week hiatus from school is institutionally racist, said the district's Equity and Race Relations director. That means it's something that "results in less access to services and opportunities of a society based on race."
The premise is that summer break disrupts the school year, thereby deterring students of color from catching up academically.
Now, you can see from my photo that I'm about as white as it gets. So maybe this goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: I don't get it.
Wouldn't struggling white students benefit from more time in school, too? Can't students who need to catch up go to summer school now?
If we want to extend the school year, then let's talk about that. What's skin color got to do with it? More importantly, how will declaring that summer break is racist actually lead to any better education for kids?
This obsessive focus on race in Seattle schools has gone too far. It's killing us.
You may have seen a story in this newspaper last week titled, "Race, class splinter a school."
It was about how white people started enrolling their kids in a black school, but then left in a case of white flight.
I am one of those white people. After four years of fundraising and volunteering at our local school, Madrona K-8, we transferred our kid to a school a mile away, McGilvra Elementary.
We did it because there were 31 kids crammed into our first-grade class. They got little to no recess. And the administration seemed to be resistant to the arts, music and foreign-language study. And was ambivalent, sometimes hostile, to our efforts.
We were sad to leave. There are many great things at that school, such as dedicated teachers and outstanding families.
But the degree to which race has come to dominate the story is eye-opening. Especially since much of the race-baiting comes from school-district employees.
First, there was an e-mail, sent from the vice principal's computer to a departing white parent. It said the school wanted to get rid of her.
"I hope you enjoy your wonderful educational experience aboard the Mayflower," it read.
At a community meeting last week to talk about the issues facing the school, it seemed everything was about race.
A former Madrona principal, now a principal at another Seattle school, said white people in and around the school make her uncomfortable.
A Madrona school official talked of his suspicion of "white charity." He dismissed the concerns of parents who had left as "BS" and said he wouldn't attend another meeting about it.
And a Seattle high-school teacher and coach declared that the real problem with white people is they don't want to go to school with blacks.
Now, it'd be one thing if these were the visceral feelings of the public. But these are school-district employees, some of them administrators. They're our leaders, the very people we're counting on to help bring disparate groups together.
It makes me wonder: Does the Seattle School District even want whites and blacks to go to school together?
They said they did last fall, in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. There, the district said integration is crucial to education and society.
But out in the trenches? Not so much, apparently.
There's no question race matters. We don't live in a colorblind society. But this school district is so focused on race it's fueling an atmosphere of division. It's blinding the district to what matters even more than race — its job to educate any kid who walks in the door.
Take Madrona. It is trying valiantly to get itself off the federal failing-schools list. Yet the enrollment there has dropped by 40 kids since October.
About 10 of those who left were white.
So while everyone was busy arguing about white charity and the district was off blathering about the racial unfairness of summer break, a whole host of families of all races at Madrona were voting with their feet.
That's not white flight. That's just flight. Shouldn't we be having meetings about that?
Danny Westneat's column appears Wednesday and Sunday. Reach him at 206-464-2086 or [email protected].
About Danny Westneat
Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics. Send tips or comments to [email protected]. His column runs Wednesday and Sunday.
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Sam and Sara Lucchese create handmade pasta out of their kitchen-garage adjacent to their Ballard home. Here, they illustrate the final steps in making pappardelle pasta.
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Kevin BakerMann navigates adroitly through the controversies. He approaches each in the best scientific tradition, carefully sifting the evidence, never jumping to hasty conclusions, giving everyone a fair hearing—the experts and the amateurs; the accounts of the Indians and their conquerors. And rarely is he less than enthralling. A remarkably engaging writer, he lucidly explains the significance of everything from haplogroups to glottochronology to landraces. He offers amusing asides to some of his adventures across the hemisphere during the course of his research, but unlike so many contemporary journalists, he never lets his personal experiences overwhelm his subject.
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The beginning of the 2014 college football season will still be the projected opening of Baylor Stadium after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering signed off on regulatory permits, J.B. Smith of the Waco Tribune reports.
Smith writes that the permits were applied for by Baylor officials in June and were expecting to have them approved by early 2013. The earlier than expected approved permits allow for ‘environmental and hydrological changes the stadium project would make to the Brazos River floodway, including filling part of a lagoon for the foundation and building a pedestrian bridge.’
He also reports that work on the foundation can now begin in December and the physical structure will begin to take shape in early spring.
To read more on the subject, click here.
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Originally published in Body Sense magazine, Spring/Summer 2004.
Copyright 2004. Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. All rights reserved.
You already know the pleasures and benefits of massage. Wouldn't it be nice to experience this therapeutic touch more often to combat the rigors of daily stress? Quick (an average session lasts 15 to 30 minutes), inexpensive (usually costing $1 a minute), and found in a variety of locations, chair massage can do just that, and can easily turn a stressful morning into a calm, productive day. In Charge of Our Bodies
David Palmer, dubbed the "father of chair massage" and director of the TouchPro Institute in San Francisco, Calif., notes that chair massage will often be found in airports, county fairs, concert venues, malls, and "just about any place where people are standing in long lines." It has also become a prominent feature in many corporate offices, where chair massage practitioners are brought in on a regular basis to relax personnel. And, it can be a welcome relief when travelling or simply away from your primary massage therapist.
Despite modern equipment, like the chair Palmer helped create in the mid-80s, chair massage actually has very ancient origins. Old Japanese block prints, for example, show people being massaged while seated on stools. It also has basic domestic qualities to it. For example, maybe you've gone up to someone you love as they sat and started rubbing their shoulders. The reality, though, is that receiving a chair massage from a professional is far more complex -- and satisfying. Chair massage's seeming simplicity should not be mistaken as being less effective than more exotic techniques. It involves the use of acupressure based on a Japanese technique known as anma, and practitioners usually have too much education for the process to just be called a "shoulder rub."
Because it is readily available in many different locations and non-threatening nature, chair massage is often the public's first exposure to professional massage techniques. But chair massage should not be confused with massage therapy. It is not a program designed for heavy muscular-skeletal realignment, and those who practice chair massage often carefully refer to themselves as practitioners rather than therapists.
Chair massage is designed specifically to relax the muscles and improve circulation and movement within the body. But chair massage also has several psychological functions as well. The philosophy of chair massage is to help you take control over your own health. Palmer says when clients finish getting their chair massage, they are often overwhelmed by their sense of well-being. "What's most important is we make clear to people that they are in charge of how they feel. Our society often promotes an unhealthy expectation that as you age, you naturally become uncomfortable. One of the most powerful messages basic relaxation massage can give to the world is you don't have to feel bad." What to Expect
According to Palmer, one of the most crucial aspects of chair massage is establishing and defining one's expectations. As a result, expect a strong emphasis on communication when you seek out a practitioner. Chair massage is not a strenuous process, but you will be screened for any aspects that could complicate the procedure, such as having recent heart surgery or uncontrolled diabetes. Pregnant women will also want to avoid getting a chair massage.
As the massage begins, the practitioner will do several things to ascertain your level of comfort. After you are settled into the chair, which is purposefully designed to evoke a nurturing fetal position, practitioners will perform a pressure test with their fingers on different parts of your back. This is your first chance to control the direction of the massage.
The practitioner will continue to solicit such information from you throughout the session, allowing you to answer by voice or simple hand gestures. After all, different parts of your back will likely respond better or worse to different levels of pressure. This feedback, Palmer says, is a crucial aspect to the overall goals of chair massage. "Our culture trains its citizens to look to specialists for the answer, even if that specialist is a doctor, a lawyer, a realtor, or a massage practitioner. We're constantly being trained to think that someone else knows better than we do about what we want and what we're feeling. But only you know how you're really feeling."
By talking to you during the session, the practitioner is turning your attention toward an awareness of your body. "We live in a culture that numbs us from the neck down," Palmer says. "We say, 'Don't listen to your stomach growling, take a pill'; we say 'don't listen to the anxiety you feel, take a pill.' We numb ourselves to the sensations and wisdom that every cell in our body contains and is trying to communicate to our brains. Chair massage is not creating a dependent relationship, but allowing recipients to take control of their own sensations inside their body." Sean Eads is a reference librarian and freelance writer living in Colorado.
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Political Correctness and the Military
Why, even when we're fighting a war, do we allow many things in the military to be run by political correctness? Why? Maybe I'm just a knuckle-dragging spear chucker, but I really don't get it.
Case #1: HIV policy. Soldiers who contract HIV while in the Army cannot be kicked out because of it. This despite the fact that HIV positive troops cannot be deployed or stationed outside the United States. I'm sorry, but what good is a soldier that you can't send to war? And then, when they hang around, you end up with problems like this. And now we've got at least one more, maybe as many as five more soldiers who can't go to war. Just ducky.
Case #2: Co-ed basic training. The argument in favor of this is that men and women are together in all of the military, except ground combat branches and submarines, so they should train together from the beginning. The counterargument is that basic training is where you build soldiers. Discpline is a big part of that. And having male and female soldiers together, living in the same barracks (separate areas, but same building) detracts from discipline. Even DACOWITS (the Defense Advisory Committe on Women in the Services) has come out in favor of gender segregated basic training. But the nitwits at the Pentagon and in Congress are scared of the NOW crowd and won't do it. Only the Marines had the common sense and the balls to stand up and tell them to zark off. How long will it take the Army, navy, and Air Force to figure it out?
A Spade is a Spade
Listening to the radio last night, and the host, Tammy Bruce, made what I think is an excellent point on how the PC Thought Police are influencing even what we call the war we're involved in.
Think about it. We call it the "War on Terrorism." But terrorism is a tactic, not an entity of any sort. We're really not at war with terrorism in general. The IRA is a terrorist organization, but are we worrying about them? Not really. Calling this war the "War on Terrorism" is akin to FDR going to Congress on December 8, 1941 and asking them to declare war on surprise attacks.
Political correctness keeps us from calling this war what it is: A war against radical Islam. That's right CAIR, I said war against radical Islam. Maybe if people like you would spend less time worrying about Americans saying mean thing about Islam and more time worrying about the murderous mad mullahs calling for death to America, we wouldn't have to have this war. But until I hear you condemning the hatemongers of the Middle East as much as you do increased scrutiny of Arabs on American airplanes, you all can just go fuck yourselves.
The role of government
An excellent post on the role of government and personal responsibility. Via Smallest Minority.
"The belief that it is the duty of government to lift people out of holes they have dug for themselves, holes that they insist on digging for themselves, and that it is proper to pull downward on those who build upward in order to do this lifting, is utterly foreign to my view of how the world ought to work."
More Libertarian than Conservative...
...but not all the way there.
Brain from RadioBS.net asked why I identify myself as Heartless Libertarian, when I admit to be somewhere in between the conservatives and the libertarians. I do so because on most issues, I find my positions to be closer to the Libertarian Party than anyone else, primarily the GOP. I'll go through some of the major issue areas here:
1. Crime-criminals should pay for the damage they do, whether it be to persons or property, and sentences should be what they say (i.e. 10 years = 10 years). Actually, if you ask Joe Sixpack, that's probably what he'd say, as well, but somehow the ruling elites (of both parties) get other ideas in their heads. Point-libertarian.
2. Drugs-Everyone knows that drugs are bad for you. Then again, so are tobacco, alcohol, driving fast, and listening to loud music-all things can (mostly) enjoy legally. The majority of the damage to society caused by drugs is caused by crime related to their prohibition. I think that if people want to poison themselves with drugs, that's their problem. Just don't try sticking me with the bill for the mess they make of their lives. Libertarian again.
3. Environment-the best way to protect the environment is to make it privately owned. Most people, and even the super evil corporations, at least try to take good care of things they own. Sell off all the BLM and NFS land. If the greenie weenies want to buy it all and run around naked in the trees, let them. If Weyerhauser wants to buy it and cut down all the trees, let them. But I'll bet that in 50 years, Weyerhauser's forest will be in better shape than Earth First!'s. Libertarian
4. Free speech-no more hate speech laws. No corralling protestors into "free speech zones." No keeping moonbat hippies a quarter mile from the President. Let people say what they want. If it's slanderous or libelous, there's laws to deal with that. I'll be generous and call this a draw.
5. Gun rights-repeal the 1934 NFA, the 1986 full auto ban, and 1989 import ban, and the AWB. The RKBA means the right to own the tools necessary to militarily resist a tyrannical government. Libertarian
6. Welfare-end it. Completely. Now. This includes AFDC, unemployment insurance, worker's comp, the whole nine yards. This nation did just fine for 150 years without a social safety net.
7. Social Security/Medicare-End it. Completely. Now. Take a one time charge to pay back to every American what they paid in, adjusted into current dollars. Then let people invest for their own retirement, and save for their own medical needs. Libertarian
8. Taxes-repeal the 16th Amendment. Replace the income tax with an excise/sales tax (yes, the Constitution allows that). Simple to administer, and doesn't require Americans to prove their innocence of tax avoidance charges every April 15th. Libertarian.
9. Immigration-we need to control immigration. Beef up the Border Patrol as much as necessary to stop the border jumpers, and give whatever they call the former INS the resources to hunt down folks who overstay or otherwise violoate the conditions of their visas. Once we get rid of the welfare state, we can eliminate the need for people to prove they have a job waiting before they can enter on a resident visa, but people still need to be screened for security reasons. This is best done at U.S. consulates and embassies, before said people set foot here. Conservative on this one.
10. Foreign policy/War Against Islamo-fascism-the number one goal of our foreign policy should be promoting and maintaining our national security. To this end, we should promote free trade with friendly nations, promote democracy, the rule of law, and individual rights where they don't exist. And we should agressively seek, locate, and destroy those who have attacked us, and those who plan to do us harm, by all means necessary. Conservative.
By my count, on the issues listed, that's 7-2-1 for the libertarianism.
Now that I've made my stump speech, who's voting for me? (not that I can run for Pres until 2012, but what the heck.)
AWB Round Up
Say Uncle! has posted an excellent round up of some recent articles on the AWB.
Libertarian Foreign Policy & the GWOT
Matt over at TriggerFinger has an excellent post on restoring sanity to the Libertarian Party's foreign policy positions. The LP has, in the foreign policy, it's own brand of moonbattery that is every bit as out to lunch as that of the extreme Left, and Matt correctly calls them on it.
Matt is far more educated in Libertarian theory and Libertarianism than I am (despite the name, I'm probably somewhere in the no-man's land between conservatism and libertarianism), but I think that he, and the LP in general, are largely missing the boat with regard to the whole war against the Islamist terrorists. And that point is this: we didn't start this war. They did. Whatever you think of our activities around the world, the truth remains that they attacked us first.
The stated goal of Al-Qaeda is the establishment (or re-establishment, in their eyes) of the pan-Islamic Caliphate, extending from Malaysia in the east to Morocco in the west. In 1998, they issued a fatwa stating that "to kill Americans and their allies, civilians and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able."
This war isn't going to go away, even if we pulled every American soldier, and every other American, back to the U.S. We can't negotiate with the Islamist terrorists. Our worldviews and interests are fundamentally incompatible. The only way to end the war is with our destruction, or theirs.
Personally, I'm in favor of killing them so we can survive. It'd be nice if the LP could catch on to that.
Saw this article on FoxNews.com on an attempt by two Los Angelinos to force LA County to bill the sponsors of immigrants who use the public health system, as required by law.
The first part of the article discusses efforts (or attempted efforts) by the Border Patrol and whatever they're calling the former INS these days at what is called "interior enforcement," basically, tracking down and arresting illegal immigrants who have moved beyond the border region. The Border Patrol staged several raids in Southern California, and at least one in San Francisco. These raids drew howls of protest from the Usual Suspects, including Rep Joe Baca, a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Mexican President Vincente Fox.
Now, can someone please tell me why any agency of the U.S. government, with the possible exception of the State Department, should give a flying fuck about the opinion of the president of Meixco? The Border Patrol works for me, the American taxpayer, not Vincente Fox. Personally, I say that we take every citizen of his country who is deported for illegally entering this country and drop them off in front of his presidential mansion. His country is a craphole, and his primary solution seems to be exporting his citizens.
At a Chicago rally for Mexicans living in the United States — now about 10 percent of his nation’s entire population — Fox promised that his government would not permit violations of the human and labor rights of Mexicans living in the United States. "We will stand beside every Mexican woman and man in this country,” Fox told the crowd. “We will defend them against the raids being carried out in the state of California."
Ten percent of Mexico's population lives in the U.S.. Doesn't that tell Senor Fox that his country is doing something very, very wrong, economically? Protect the labor rights of Meixcans in this country? If they're here legally, fine, I've got no problem with that. But given that seven million of them are here in violation of our laws-those people have no 'labor rights' in this country. The only right they have is the right to be kicked out, back to the 'don't drink the water' shithole that Mr. Fox presides over. And "defend against the raids?" Did it ever occur to him that these people are felons? That's right, illegally entering this country is a felony. So why is he so worried about defending his felonious countrymen?
For that matter, why is Rep Baca so worried about protecting these felonious non-citizens, when large numbers of southern Californians supported the sweeps? Non-citizens can't vote; neither can criminals. Or do these people somehow manage to do that in violation of the law as well? And stop claiming some touchy-feely 'higher motives' Congressman-politics is about getting elected, period.
Baca, a member of the Hispanic caucus, said in a press release, "I am doing everything I can to make sure that sweeps like the ones last week do not happen again. I will not stop until this situation has been resolved."
During a June 25 meeting with Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson (search), Baca and other members of the Hispanic caucus accused the Border Patrol agents of racial profiling.
Congressman Baca, the best way to stop the sweeps is to get all the illegal aliens to go back to where they came from. Can I get you on record as saying you support that? The Federales won't give these people any trouble once they're safely back in Mexico.
And Mr Hutchinson is apparently confused as to who his boss is. Let me give you a hint, Asa-Congressman Baca is one member of the House, one of 435. You work for Tom Ridge, who runs Homeland Security, and for me, the American taxpayer. You do not work for a bunch of illegal aliens or for anyone who tries to represent them. Next time Rep Baca and his friends want to try to push you around, tell them to go talk to Secretary Ridge, or to the President, or, hell, they can even come down here to South Cakalaky and talk to me. And then go order some more sweeps, in Rep. Baca's district.
The American people have nothing against immigrants. All of our ancestors were immigrants (even the so-called Native Americans-they just got here a little earlier). But we want immigrants to do it the legal way. Play by the rules, that's all we ask. When will the nitwits in DC realize that?
Real American Heroes
From today's Tacoma News Tribune.
An interesting aspect of sending the National Guard to war that I hadn't considered. In the regular Army, the remaining Vietnam vets are all general officers or high level sergeants major, with 30+ years of service. I never even thought about the Vietnam vets still soldiering on in the National Guard.
BALAD, Iraq - They were barely older than boys when they saw their first combat 35 years ago in the jungles of southeast Asia.
Today they are grizzled veterans. Their hair is gray. Some of them are watching their children go off to fight their first war.
And these men - some called "Grandpa" by buddies half their age - find themselves in Iraq, under fire again.
These older soldiers bring valuable military and civilian experience to the brigade, said Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Barr. "They've seen everything," said Barr, the highest-ranking enlisted soldier in the brigade.
Perhaps more importantly, he said, they bring a sense of sacrifice and fortitude to their work that is sometimes lacking in younger soldiers.
"You've got 18- to 25-year-olds here that are a part of the 'me' generation," Barr said. "These older guys
have made, in some cases, a 35-year commitment to their country. They bring the younger guys back to the perspective that this is about something more than the individual. They provide stability and a bridge between generations of the Army."
They could have bailed on the military long ago, having done their duty. But they continue to serve, they said, because they believe they still have things to contribute.
Serving in the regular Army, I've often joked about the age of some of the Guardsmen I've seen. I'll definitely have to stop that. Guys with CIBs and combat patches from units that don't exist anymore who are going back into combat deserve a hell of a lot of respect.
The sense of duty these old soldiers are displaying is incredible. They didn't carp and whine when they got activation orders and got sent to Iraq. They packed their bags, picked up their rifles, and got down to business. From what the article said, they're doing a bang up job of keeping up the morale of their younger comrades.
Among the Army Values that we now teach our new recriuts are Loyalty, Duty, and Selfless Service. These guys didn't have to be taught, but they've got them in spades.
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(Reuters / Osservatore Romano)The Catholic Church may have found just another way to win converts. The Pope has urged believers to use Facebook, Twitter and other digital networks as “new spaces for evangelization” and has launched a smartphone app following his events.“Unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important,” Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday.His Holiness was quick to support his words with deeds as he launched his own application containing all official papal-related content: news and official speeches, galleries with the latest images and videos, access to Pope`s calendar and more. The app also let users to see streaming video from the webcams placed in key places of Vatican.Although very recent, the five-star application has already received extremely positive reviews from those who downloaded it.“This app has everything you`d ever want to follow the day to day events and ‘catch up’ with His Holiness, one word for this app, ‘Wow’,” one of the reviews read. In his official message given for World Communications Day 2013, Pope Benedict XVI admitted that social networks are “increasingly becoming part of the very fabric of society” and encouraged Catholic believers to engage in web activity. “The challenge facing social networks is how to be truly inclusive: thus they will benefit from the full participation of believers who desire to share the message of Jesus and the values of human dignity which His teaching promotes.”The Pope explained that due to the rapidly changing environment the church needs to adapt in order to reach broader audiences.This is not the first time the head of the Catholic Church has targeted online audiences. In December 2012, Pope Benedict first tweeted from his official account, which now has almost 1.5 million followers.The web stunts of the Catholic Church come as it experiences an apparent decline. In the US the number of Catholic priests has dropped over the last three decades, as has the number of Catholic marriages.
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Arlene Violet May Be a Sister of Mercy, but in the Courtroom She's Known as 'attila the Nun'
Today, at 36, Sister Arlene exercises her social conscience in a different arena. She is the first nun ever to practice law in the state of Rhode Island. "She's comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable," says one observer. Adds a Providence attorney: "She's one of the toughest and most respected lawyers in the Northeast." Others, less complimentary, call her "Attila the Nun" or "Sister Violent." True to her concept, Sister Arlene couldn't care less. "I take on the kinds of cases other attorneys don't want," she says. "I'm not out to make tons of dough. What I'm trying to do is fill in those areas of law where there's an unmet need. My clients have little money and big problems."
The daughter of a Providence alderman, Arlene was a gregarious teenager who startled family and friends alike when she elected to join the Sisters of Mercy. "People—even the nuns—were taking bets I wouldn't last a year," she laughs. "They figured I wasn't the type." Though she had little interest in a legal education ("It's a big bore"), she decided the degree was essential to achieve the reforms she sought. After graduating from Boston College Law School, she was admitted to the bar in 1974, and later served for a year as an assistant attorney-general for consumer affairs. In 1975, as president of a Fall River, Mass. daycare center, she boldly sued the local Catholic bishop for locking the organization out of a church-owned building. Though excommunication was a distinct possibility—"It was a no-no to sue the bishop back then," she says—Sister Arlene accepted the risk, and triumphed in an out-of-court settlement. The cases closest to her heart have always been those involving the rights of the poor and oppressed, especially the physically and mentally disabled. "I find these cases very emotional," she says. "If you mess up, you know these people are going to be in some back ward for years, perhaps for the rest of their lives."
Through every controversy, says Sister Arlene, she has had the enthusiastic support of her order, which by tradition is socially active. Her fellow lawyers, however, especially in heavily Catholic Rhode Island, often seem disconcerted by a nun in the courtroom. "These guys are talking to someone who represents all the teachers who taught them as kids," she says. "It makes them a little nervous." Some of them, too, are upset that Sister Arlene doesn't play by the rules of the club. "I love these guys," she says. "They're darling. But once I'm in a professional situation with them, I'm not going to compromise for the sake of the buddy system. They have to come through with a just settlement for my client, or I don't want to hear it."
Though she shares a Providence office with two other women lawyers, Sister Arlene totes her papers to court in a shopping bag. Away from her practice, she lives in a house in Warwick with several other Sisters of Mercy, doing household chores on weekends and participating in community meetings at night. Despite her heavy schedule, Sister Arlene teaches environmental law part-time at both Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. And sometimes, in keeping with her notion of public service, Sister Arlene stops on her way home from the office to help an arthritic neighbor scrub her floors. "I think you have to stand with the people, be one of them, live the way they do and try to help," she explains. "The only thing I really want to do is keep alive a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood in this society."
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December 14, 2012
i first got inspired to order some miniature bottle brush trees after seeing this pretty project from jeni baker over at in color order. with full intentions of bleaching them, then dying them pink and green. however, i had to stop half way through the process!
you see, my theme for christmas this year is white, white, white. actually, it’s the theme for the whole house! i love how sweet, simple and clean it looks. after i finished bleaching these little trees white, i fell in love with them and the winter wonderland they created. just look:
i think they’re so pretty and just darling as a center piece. here’s how i did it:
second, all you have to do is let them soak in a bath of warm water and a little bleach (i used 3 capfulls in my sink). the color begins to fade almost instantly. i let mine soak for a few hours until they were completely white, then i simply rinsed them and set them upright on a paper towel to dry overnight.
if you’re only making white trees, then you’re done!
HOWEVER, if you’d like to dye your trees into a dreamy color combo like these beauties from jeni baker, then you’re half way there! my mom ended up making some pink ones of her own, and the process is really simple. all you need is some rit dye! here’s the how to:
to dye your bottle brush trees:
step one: bleach your trees, following the instructions above.
step two: combine your desired amount of rit dye and warm water in a glass bowl (follow package instructions), and let your tree soak. just keep an eye on the color and remove the tree when you’re happy with it. leaving it in longer will make the color darker or richer.
step three: remove the tree from the dye and rinse with cold water. set on a paper towel to dry.
step four: if you want to add a little bit of extra sparkle (like jeni did), add some glitter using a glitter pen, or glue and loose glitter.
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|Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
All agreed this is a fast read with many rich themes. Many of us wished those themes had been developed more thoroughly. We did find writing to admire: descriptions of Susan and Jin-Ho as they grew (apart); the exaggerated behaviors of the two families from different cultures, and Maryam’s heartbreaking aloofness. Yet most of us wanted more depth.
That the friendship between the two families endured at all was not believable to some. The question of Connie’s sudden disappearance came up more than once. We all tired of Arrival Day, but read on, hoping for some compelling dramatic conflict to appear and be resolved.
One of our most soft-spoken members apologetically declared Digging to America “a dud,” but highly recommends Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Sept. 24.-The Bulgarian Govern- ment's execution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the
main Opposition party, has shocked the western
An official United States statement on the execution says that it is part of the Communist-dominated Bulgarian
Government's march toward totalitarianism.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, is now discussing what action Britain can take to show her
revulsion at the execution.
REICHSTAG FIRE RECALLED
Petkov, leader of the Agrarian National Union, a peasant party, was condemned to death last month "for having tried to over- throw the legal authority and re- store Fascism by conspiring with army organisations."
After his trial, .Britain and America officially asked that the sentence be reviewed. The Rus- sian chairman of the Control Council in Bulgaria rejected the requests. Petkov was hanged in Sofia at midnight on Monday.
The' United States Government statement on the execution says:
"In the court of world opinion, the Bulgarian Government . has shown itself wanting with respect to the elementary principles of justice and the rights of man..
"Petkov's trial on charges of plot- ting against the Government was a travesty of justice. The timing and conduct of the trial make it abundantly clear that the trial con- stituted but one of a series of measures undertaken by the Com- munist-dominated Fatherland Front Government to move from the Bul- garian scene all save a purely nomi- nal opposition and lo consolidate, in spite of its professions to the contrary, a totalitarian form of
"The trial of Petkov recalls to
memory another trial which occurred in Leipzig 14 years ago."
(This refers to the Reichstag fire trial, at which the Bulgarian Com- munist Georgi Dimitrov was the principal figure in the dock. Tho chief Nazi protagonist was Goering. Dimitrov is now Premier of Bulgaria,]
"In that earlier trial, a Bulgarian defendant evoked world-wide admiration for his courageous de- fiance of the Nazi bully who par- ticipated in his prosecution. To-day, that defendant has assumed another role, and it is now the courage of another Bulgarian whose steadfast opposition to the forces of oppress- ion has evoked world-wide admira- tion.
Mr. Clement Davies (Liberal), Lord Vansittart (Conservative), and Mr. A. R. Blackburn (Labour) yes-, terday issued a statement in London that "the judicial murder of Petkov shows a clear resemblance in general between Communist dictators like Dimitrov and Fascist dictators like Hitler."
"Let us learn the lesson that there must be no appeasement of Com- munism," says the statement. "We must never again invite aggression by being weak. We must be reso- lute in our defence of freedom and the rule of law."
"TREATY ALREADY VIOLATED"
"The Times," London, com- ments that with the ink scarcely dry on the peace treaty ratifica- tion, Bulgaria has violated the second article of the treaty by murdering Petkov. '
This article reads: "Bulgaria shall take all measures necessary to secure to all persons under Bulgarian jurisdiction the enjoy- ment ^of human rights and of fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of expression, of the Press and publication, of religious worship, and of political opinion and public meeting."
"MORE ARE SCHEDULED"
The "New York Times" com- ments: "When a nation drapes itself in the robes of justice to murder its foremost patriot it not only com- mits a shameful crime, it makes a mistake. In the free world out- side it breeds horror and revulsion.
Among its own people it' sows the seeds of resentment which some day will yield a crop of bloodshed to drench the savage band that rules I the land to-day.
"Petkov was convicted long be- fore he was tried. Several more of these murders are scheduled in Sofia. They will surely be com-
"Bulgana has moved faster1 into the Russian darkness than Hungary, a more politically conscious and ,resistant country, but look for the
next senes of purge murders to start there "
Sofia Radio, commenting on the execution last night, quoted a reso- lution passed by the central com- mittee of Bulgarian trade unions "To a dog a dog's death "
FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS
[Petkov spent several years beforo the war in Bulgarian prisons and concentration camps because he was opposed lo Bulgaria's increasingly pro-Nazi policy
In 1944 he escaped from a Nazi internment camp and with four others founded the Fatherland Front resistance movement pledged to fight the Germans The Fatherland Front supported the Russian armies, and welcomed the Bulgarian Com- munist leader, Georai Dimitrov, when he returned after long exile spent mostly m Russia
But the Communists quicklv took over the Fatherland Front, and Pet- kov, who had been deputy Prime Minister, went over lo the Opposi- tion with his Peasant Party mem- bers In last year's elections, in spite of strong Communist pressure, the Peasant Party won nearly a
third of the votes
In June of this year the Com- munist-dominated police arrested Petkov and 23 other leading mem- bers of the Opposition Petkov was tried by three Judges-all members of the Communist Party-and found
guilty of supporting a secret mill- - tary organisation through which he and army officers had, it was alleged, hoped to seize power ]
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
When did the pain start?
What made it worse?
Did it move around or stay in one place?
I agree that inquiries like these are not intrinsically joyful, but this is not my meaning here. I refer to history here in the conventional sense. I am interested in who the patients are as people, what they did and what they saw.
It is amazing how many seemingly ordinary folks have extraordinary tales and vignettes that they are quite willing to share, if they are asked. I have a sense that they are a reservoir of wisdom that we must actively draw from, as they may not volunteer their advice.
I recall a science teacher whose prior occupation was serving as a commander of a nuclear submarine. Even years later, his secrets remained tightly held, despite my gentle entreaties. He was, to borrow a phrase, a tomb of confidentiality. Perhaps, the sedation I would be administering prior to a future colonic violation might loosen his tongue. Oh, the secrets I've extracted in the endoscopy suite! Relax, patients. What's uttered in the endoscopy suite, stays in the endoscopy suite, our own version of the Vegas Rules.
Another patient, now elderly participated in a historical event that changed the world. He took a leisurely boat ride across the English Channel on June 6, 1944 reaching the shores of Normandy. I've been to beaches many times in my life, but his experience was quite different. I was mesmerized as he recalled the fear that he and his men suffered as their craft approached the French shoreline. He told me of a chilling order that he never had to carry out. If any soldier refused to leave the craft, he was to shoot him. When I was an 18-year-old, I was a comfortable pre-med student. When he was the same age, he walked through the valley of the shadow of death and, unlike the psalmist, he did fear evil.
Another patient, now a nonagenarian, was a scrawny 17-year-old kid who awoke up one morning to hear bombs bursting in air. This quiet and modest man, several decades ago, was stationed in Pearl Harbor on the date that lived in infamy. I was tingling.
Just a few weeks back, an old man came to see me wearing one of the veteran baseball- style caps that many aging vets wear. For me, these caps are a reliable sign that there will be more to talk about than just heartburn and hemorrhoids. "Where we're you stationed," I asked. "Iwo Jima," he answered. You know what's coming now, readers. This man witnessed the marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi in, perhaps, the most iconic image ever captured in American military history.
Over the years, I have related these treasured vignettes to the kids, who rightly wondered if I actually performed any medical work in the office. For the years that we home schooled the 2 boys, my patients' experiences became part of their curriculum whenever possible. On more than one occasion, these gracious individuals met with us so that we could hear history directly from the folks who made it happen.
Seasoned physicians may not know the answers. But, they know what questions to ask. When your doctor is taking your history, is he asking the right questions? Am I?
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The Oklahoma legislature is considering a bill to dictate where Oklahoma prioritizes state and federal funds, which one lawmaker says is designed to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics. Rep. Doug Cox (R), an emergency room physician, said that if Planned Parenthood was not available, many women and children would not be able to receive counseling, cancer screenings, and children’s services.
The bill, HB 2324, would re-prioritize the state’s family planning grants and public funding so that the money went to public entities first then nonpublic and federally qualified health centers. Essentially, the prioritization would put Planned Parenthood at the end of the line for grants and cut off its funding. Cox called the bill a “knee-jerk reaction” to the national debate about Planned Parenthood and abortion that would hurt the women of Oklahoma:
About 70 percent of the women going to Planned Parenthood clinics in Oklahoma receive Medicaid, and the others are low income, he said. They would be unable to receive counseling, cancer tests and children’s services if Planned Parenthood clinics weren’t available. [...]
“I don’t know why we’re confusing abortion with family planning,” Cox said. “I suspect that if it wasn’t for family planning the amount of women contributing to society and the Legislature and the workforce that makes this country great would be far different.
“A lot of them would be home barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen,” Cox said.
“I don’t want to revert to those times. I don’t want to punish Oklahoma women for getting healthier.”
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jason Murphey (R), would not say if his bill would prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving state or federal money for family planning or counseling services. But last year, Murphey tried to take $460,000 from a federal nutrition program administered by Planned Parenthood, which serves 9,300 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His bill would have redirected the funds to other groups that do not offer abortion referral services.
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MOSCOW — World powers on Monday sought to wring concessions out of Iran to defuse the decade-long crisis over its nuclear drive at talks in Moscow billed as a last chance to find a diplomatic solution.
Western diplomats were looking for signs that Iran could show willingness to scale down the intensity of its sensitive uranium enrichment activities as the Islamic Republic made a customary show of public defiance.
Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili sat down with representatives from six world powers including Tehran's arch foe the United States as well as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for two days of talks which will show if there is any hope of progress.
"These negotiations are a big test to see if the West is in favour of Iran's progress or against," Jalili, apparently in uncompromising mood, told Iranian state television as he went into the talks.
But the spokesman of the EU delegation told reporters that world powers were sticking by a previous demand for Iran to halt enriching uranium to 20 percent -- a level approaching that needed to make an atomic bomb.
"Our priority is for the Iranians to address the 20 percent," said the spokesman, adding that Iran should also shut down its Fordo enrichment plant outside the holy city of Qom.
Failure in the talks could have a heavy toll with the United States and its ally Israel refusing to rule out the option of airstrikes against the Iranian nuclear programme and Tehran facing sanctions that could cripple the economy.
But Iran made clear ahead of the negotiations it has no intention of abandoning its right to enrich uranium, a process which can be used to make nuclear fuel but also the explosive core of an atomic bomb.
"If this demand isn't recognised, the negotiations are certainly headed for failure," an unidentified Iranian official at the talks said, according to state news agency IRNA.
Russia's Kommersant daily said Iran would be offered a compromise plan under which it would scale down the degree to which uranium is enriched at its main enrichment facility in Natanz from 20 percent to 3.5 or 5 percent.
The West accuses Iran of seeking an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy programme, a charge vehemently denied by Tehran. Host Russia has long taken a more cautious line, saying Iran must restore confidence but not explicitly accusing it of military intentions.
The urgency for Iran is compounded by the July 1 deadline the European Union has slapped on a full oil embargo against Tehran and the June 28 rollout of tough US sanctions against a host of countries that buy Iranian oil.
"This meeting is going to be decisive. (If the talks fail) a toughening of sanctions against Tehran will be unavoidable and the use of military force very real," said Kommersant.
In a hint of compromise, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to suspend its controversial enrichment of uranium to 20 percent if Europe guarantees delivery of nuclear fuel for its reactors, according to his website.
An Iranian diplomat at the talks promised that Iran "will discuss seriously the topics raised" by the P5+1 world powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Germany -- in Moscow.
The talks follow a bruising session in Baghdad in May that failed to make any noticeable progress beyond agreeing a date for more talks, an outcome that may not be acceptable again for the West.
A Western diplomatic source, who asked not to be named, warned that "Iran should come prepared to negotiate seriously" at the talks and consider the proposals put forward by world powers.
"If Iran remains unwilling to take the opportunities these talks present, it will face continuing and intensified pressure and isolation," added the source.
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California must address its overcrowding crisis by releasing over 1/4 of its prison imnate population, according to the Los Angeles' Times Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates. In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, the SCOTUS has upheld a federal court order that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. It was one of the largest prison release orders in the nation's history.
The conditions in California prisons are abysmal (and the losing "war on drugs" has only compounded this problem). Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote that California's prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" because of overcrowding, resulting in conditions in which as many as 200 prisoners may live in gymnasium and as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet. This overcrowding has caused inmate suffering and death. California responded to the federal court ruling by moving some prison inmates to county facilties but are still over the allowed numbers.
The dissent criticized the opinion and claimed the federal court did not have the power to order the states to release the inmates. The dissent also claimed that, basically, bad things will happen with felons on the streets. Scary picture, right?
Actually, not right. As most criminal defense attorneys knows and according to DrugWarFacts.Org, sentencing and release policies, not crime rates, determine the numbers of persons in prison. In the period from 1991-1998, California had a 44% rise in its incarceration rate with a 36% drop in crime rates. This is a result of the failed war on drugs.
Let's stop wasting taxpayer money on a useless war on drugs and in funding the prison industrial complex. Sorry, prison guard unions, the SCOTUS has spoken.
Lauren K Johnson is a criminal defense attorney in Orange County, California and advocates for prison reform, drug law reform, and three-strikes law reform.
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Above: Students Dan Cleary and Mike Barthelmes after spending five hours collecting stalagmite samples in Western Australia while conducting NSF-funded research with Professor Rhawn Denniston during the summer of 2011.
Below: Nic Slater conducted NSF-funded volcanology field work with University of New Mexico professor Yemane Asmerom in the southern Cascades during the summer of 2011.
The geology faculty at Cornell College believes that involving students in independent research is an essential component of an undergraduate’s education. All geology faculty members maintain active, externally-funded research programs that provide numerous opportunities for student involvement. The research areas of our faculty are summarized on our faculty page, and explored in more depth on our individual Websites.
In addition to in-depth study of a particular geologic topic, research experiences allow students to develop critical skills essential to any career. A “capstone” research experience is required for students majoring in geology.
Student symposium & conference presentations
Our students regularly present the results of their research at regional and national professional meetings, at which they may begin to network with professional geologists and environmental scientists. The annual Cornell Student Symposium provides another venue for research presentations, and recent examples of student projects are outlined on our symposium page. You will find further project descriptions in the most recent edition of Sparks From the Rockpile, our department newsletter.
Student Research Fund
The geology department administers the Hendriks Student Research Fund that supports students who travel to conduct research or attend professional meetings to present their results. The fund also provides stipends to students who work on their projects over the summer. Recent research projects have been conducted in Greece, Norway, Western Australia, New Mexico, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Missouri and Iowa.
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DAYTON -- Hundreds gathered in Courthouse Square to sing the praises of medicinal marijuana...
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 16:04.
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Dozens gathered at the courthouse steps in downtown Dayton on Saturday, to push for laws to legalize medical marijuana.
There was an important public health and social justice activist gathering in Ohio, this past weekend - groups supportive of legalizing medical marijuana in Ohio gathered at Courthouse Square, located at the corner of Third and Main Streets in the heart of downtown Dayton in support of H.B. 478, Ohio’s Medical Compassion Act that will allow for the medicinal use of cannabis.
DAYTON -- Hundreds gathered in Courthouse Square to sing the praises of medicinal marijuana...including Niki Wilkerson who says it's done wonders for her health condition.
"I don't feel like popping 10 or 15 pills a day and the fibromyalgia is unbearable at times, it brings me to tears," she says. "So I'm here to support herbal medicine and the only thing that helps that pain."
The crowd is championing House Bill 478 which was introduced earlier this year.
It would make Ohio the 15th state in the country to legalize cannibus to help treat things from cancer to Crohn's Disease.
"We're here to show our frustration to our legislators for treating us like criminals when we're not," says advocate and medical marijuana patient Tonya Davis.
She feels lawmakers should do more research.
"Ohio...especially Dayton, has a big addiction rate with methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, crack," she said. "They should be worried about that and make marijuana offenses the lowest priority."
Some Ohio legislators do support the concept of medical pot but say this bill has missing parts that can't be ignored.
But Davis says those who need the drug's benefits can't wait.
"You know, there's a lot of people that are dying for making a choice that, literally, is safer than alcohol."
Others believe the plant is toxic and has more adverse effects than benefits...as the crowd that filled downtown Dayton Saturday sings a different tune...
The rally was hosted by the Ohio Patients Network and the Miami Valley chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Rally to Legalize Medicinal Marijuana
Saturday, Nov 13, from 12:00pm- 4:20 PM groups will gather at Courthouse Square,located at the corner of Third and Main Streets in the heart of downtown Dayton in support of H.B. 478, Ohio’s Medical Compassion Act that will allow for the medicinal use of cannabis.
Tonya Davis one of the organizers of the event is inviting cannabis community leaders from all over the state to be heard, “with 73% of Ohioans supporting the compa...ssionate use of marijuana, it is time we force our legislators to do what the majority of Ohioans want.
We are urging everyone who can make it to attend a “informational event for Ohioans to learn about the Ohio Medical Compassion Act, what it means for Ohio’s patients, and what medical cannabis can do for those with chronic and debilitating medical conditions."
live music Will be amazing: We have booked
Organic Bandits a hip hop group from Wilmington Ohio
Ulrich Van Cru Acoustic.
Zebulon of Babylon acoustic
Bluegrass performed by Blue Moon Soup from Yellow Springs, Ohio
Key Note Speakers confirmed:
Update: Representative Bob Hagan co sponsor of HB478 will be doing his best to make a appearance to speak to us unless he has to work on the railroad.
♥ Tonya Davis Medical marijuana Director Ohio NORML, Miami Valley NORML, and the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis
VP of Ohio Patient Network which is involved with creation of HB478 Tonya is also a patient.
♥ Criminal Defense Attorney Charles Rowland who is a former Ohio Prosecutor and a Law Enforcement against Prohibition Member
♥ Criminal Defense Attorney Mark Babb who specializes in marijuana criminal defense
♥ Jenna VanHouten A drug war victim and a new activist. You dont want to miss her story
♥ Dawn Dunlap President of Central Ohio NORML , a Patient and a wonderful passionate Activist. Dawn was also involved with HB478
♥ Cindy Wimer A patient, Activist and State Director with the WV American Alliance for Medical Cannabis.
♥ Television show host Niki Wilkerson from the Niki Wilkerson Show
♥ Libertarian Party of Ohio's Central Committee Chair, Luke McKellar, and candidate for Beavercreek City Council in 2007
♥ Kurtis Nelson Army Veteran, co host 420 buzz TV show in Lake co ca. Activist from Akron Oh
♥ Doc Miller radio host and long time Activist and a medical cannabis patient
♥ Hospice Patient Rodney Peters- Medical cannabis patient
Please join Leaders from all over the state:
as we stand up for our rights.
as we stand up to be heard.
as we stand up for those who can not stand up for themselves.
as we stand up for our medicine.
For those of you thinking you might stay home.. Think about it this way...The way I look at it... this is no different than when the gay community came out into the light and said Hello we exist...!!! Would things have changed if you had stayed in the closet?Or what about the African american community? If Rosa Parks had not sat at the front of that bus and had just remained quiet and done as she was told and went to the back of the bus.. Where would we be today?
This event is hosted by Miami Valley NORML
Sponsors so far Ohio NORML - Hemprock Productions- Ohio Libertarian Party
How can you help? Well the following is what we still need so far.
We also can vend because we are a non profit .
WE still need one or two more musical talents
volunteers to make signs. example would be Honk if you support medical marijuana
Volunteers to help set up - Would have to be there around 11:30
Volunteers to clean up after the event after 3 PM
We would like to have more folks vending or sponsors for this event.
We need our friends/ members to tell everyone you know about this event.
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Some 2,000 young kibbutz members sailed the waters of the Kinneret Thursday afternoon on homemade rafts in a bid to raise awareness on the status of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The kibbutz youth worked throughout the past few days to build some 75 rafts out of rope, planks, and barrels. They painted colorful slogans in support of Gilad Shalit on the rafts' sails, such as: "Give us information about Gilad, if he is alive or dead" and "No one knows his fate and if he needs medication." They pushed their homemade rafts into the water Thursday and sailed across the Kinneret for about four hours.
Sailing for Gilad Shalit. (Photo: Gil Eliyahu)
"We call upon the government of Israel,
and the Red Cross – Bring us information on Gilad. Only then address the question of price," said Yoel Marshak from the Kibbutz Movement.
"We think that even before the question of price is raised, it is critical to receive information on Gilad Shalit as soon as possible. Three years have passed during which no one knows his status, where he is being held, in what conditions, and if he is alive or dead," said Marshak.
"The kibbutz youth proved today that only teamwork can overcome the power of nature," Marshak said. He added that each raft required the work of about 25 youngsters.
100 settler youth joined the effort (Photo: Gil Eliyahu)
Some 100 settler youths from Alon Moreh, Yitzhar, and Itamar joined in the building effort Wednesday night. The two groups also held an open discussion on the topic: "Where is the country headed?"
"We explained to them that we seek a solid Jewish majority in the State of Israel without controlling a foreign nation. They explained that they seek to live on the greater Land of Israel," Marshek said.
Gilad Shalit was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip 1,117 days ago.
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November 27, 2012
The two faces of Morsi: Power-hungry peace broker?
Is Morsi morphing into Mubarak?
Last week Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi earned U.S. kudos that were quickly followed by expressions of concern -- the former for brokering the truce that ended the Israel-Hamas mini-war, the latter for then decreeing himself absolute powers.
It’s a sequence of events that has some in Washington wondering whether Morsi aims for the kind of relationship that helped prop up his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, for decades until the 2011 revolution: regional stability in exchange for unfettered rule by Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that brought him to power.
“It is unclear whether this represents a mistake or an overreach,” said Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, referring to Morsi’s declaration over the weekend removing judicial oversight of his decisions until a constitution is in place.
Alterman leaned toward “mistake,” noting that Morsi and his aides have scrambled to reassure opponents that the decree is temporary. But Alterman added that such a move inevitably reminded Egyptians of Mubarak’s excesses.
“From what he said and how he talked about it, it seems he was principally motivated by the threat to continuing the process” posed by deep disagreements over the constitution “rather by a desire to have unchecked power," Alterman said. "The problem is that in doing so, he raised the worst fears of the return of Mubarak-style governance.”
Others were less sanguine. Eric Trager, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argued that the Obama administration's hopes for a Muslim Brotherhood leadership that would respect democracy were naive.
“Washington ought to have known by now that ‘democratic dialogue’ is virtually impossible with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now mobilizing throughout Egypt to defend Morsi’s edict,” Trager wrote in The New Republic. “The reason is that it is not a ‘democratic party’ at all. Rather, it is a cultish organization that was never likely to moderate once it had grasped power.”
On Nov. 21, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was lavishing praise on Morsi for his role in ending the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
“I want to thank President Morsi for his personal leadership to de-escalate the situation in Gaza and end the violence,” Clinton said in Cairo. “This is a critical moment for the region. Egypt’s new government is assuming the responsibility and leadership that has long made this country a cornerstone of regional stability and peace.”
Israeli leaders also praised the Egyptian president's role in securing the cease-fire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “appreciation," and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Morsi deserves “a word of thanks.”
The expressions of gratitude were striking given the Israeli leadership's strong suspicion of the Morsi government in light of the Muslim Brotherhood's traditional animosity toward Israel and affinity for Hamas, an offshoot of the Egyptian Islamist movement.
Such concerns were heightened after the Brotherhood's top leader called in October for a "jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem" and the surfacing of video of Morsi nodding along to an imam's anti-Jewish sermon. And in his speech at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, Morsi omitted an affirmation of the Arab League's initiative for a comprehensive peace with Israel that had been present in an advance copy of his remarks distributed by Egypt's U.N. mission -- a fact later discovered by JTA.
During the Gaza conflict itself, Morsi's government expressed strong public support for Hamas and condemned Israel. Egypt's prime minister traveled to Gaza in a show of solidarity during the early days of the fighting. But Morsi's assistance in brokering the cease-fire offered a measure of reassurance that his government would take a pragmatic approach toward dealing with Israel.
The day after the cease-fire deal was reached, however, international gratitude morphed into expressions of concern about Morsi's path at home.
On Nov. 22, Morsi issued his decree removing judicial review, sparking massive protests in Egypt and causing Clinton to voice concerns the next day about the move's implications for Egyptian democracy.
“The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community,” she said in a statement. “One of the aspirations of the revolution was to ensure that power would not be overly concentrated in the hands of any one person or institution.”
Jason Isaacson, the international affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, said that Morsi posed a dilemma for Israel and its American allies who want to maintain the 33 years of peace between Egypt and Israel and fear imposition of a Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship.
“The attempt to change the power structure appears to have been in the works for some time,” Isaacson said Monday, speaking from Cairo, where he had just met with Egyptian government officials, diplomats and members of the country’s tiny Jewish community.
“It did not disrupt the achievement of the cease-fire, for which you just give them credit. But obviously, [the decree] raises concerns about human rights and the rule of law. Those who have a stake in protecting the principles of democracy and in human rights, and in preserving the Egyptian role in the Middle East peace treaty should stay engaged with Egypt and express concerns when concerns are felt.”
U.S. lawmakers already were threatening to redirect assistance from Egypt’s military to democracy promotion.
“This is not what the United States of America and taxpayers expect, and our dollars will be directly related to the progress towards democracy which you promised to the people of Egypt when your party and you were elected president," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told "Fox News Sunday."
Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now, the American affiliate of the dovish Israeli movement established in the wake of the Israel-Egypt peace agreement, said that cutting U.S. aid would be counterproductive.
“Our focus in terms of aid to Egypt has to do with fulfilling the terms of the peace agreement Egypt signed with Israel,” he said, adding that outside actors would likely not be able to influence Morsi’s domestic policies in any case.
“The extent to which he will be another dictator has to do with the dynamic between him and the Egyptian public and less so his foreign relations,” Nir said. “One has to hope that the Egyptian public, which has shown incredible fortitude and courage, will reapply that and will demand democracy and leadership that is accountable to the public.”
That, Alterman of CSIS said, is already playing out, noting the persistent protests against Morsi’s decree.
“The fact that this became contentious is a good thing and reflects a broader trend in Egypt that people are much more willing to protest than was ever the case before,” he said.
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Research by McKinsey & Company and IBM Global Business Services says that 50% to 60% of companies fail to achieve some to all of their goals and objectives, with as many as 20% failing completely.
Why is this and what can human resources do to improve the situation?
There are a number of factors contributing to failure but none more than these two:
Employees who are expected to contribute to the achievement of the company goals and objectives:
1) Don’t understand how to do that and/or
2) Are unable to focus on company objectives because they are focused on their own self-interests.
If either or both are true, which they are to varying degrees in every company, failure is highly probable.
While the ultimate responsibility for goal/objective achievement rests with the CEO, that individual must rely on the efforts of multiple layers of staff to insure the company’s employees can do what is expected of them.
This, in turn, requires a coordinated company-wide effort overseen by one entity to the benefit of all. Who better to do that than Human Resources? Unfortunately, deservedly or not, when it comes to discussion regarding goal/objective achievement, HR is often excluded from the most senior levels of decision-making.
This presentation discusses the problem as well as what HR professionals can do to gain the trust of senior management regarding the value of their contribution helping to achieve the company’s goals and objectives.
While the specific course of action will vary company-to-company, circumstance-to-circumstance, the outline presented will serve as a framework for increasing the visibility and trust in Human Resources for this critical role.
According to Cutting Edge Information (Web site: http://www.cuttingedgeinfo.com/) 67% of the organizations today do not have a succession plan in place. HSC – Human Capital News Update (http://dreamlearndobecome.blogspot.ca/2010/12/most-companies-have-no-ceo-succession.html) reports that 49% have not put a plan in place in the last three years. We see that some organizations may have a plan written but have not executed on it and likely have not done any development work on the successors that are identified in the succession plan. On an annual basis they blow the dust off the plan, make sure the names have not changed and then put the plan back on the shelf.
Organizations today are facing a number of people challenges. We have an aging workforce, a talent shortage, a leadership talent shortage, lack of succession planning – succession development, a mobile work force, and a work force that has a high level of disengagement.
This webinar will look at the definition of succession planning and its history. We will look at the business challenges that are facing most organizations today and how the lack of succession planning will have a huge impact on their success moving into the future. We will break down each business challenge or opportunity as we like to call them and see how succession planning can address the challenge. The webinar will provide a snapshot of some of the steps that are required in the development of a succession plan and the development strategy that is part of an effective implementation strategy.
We will examine the impact of not developing the successor. We will outline through the webinar the value add that mentoring can play in the succession planning and more importantly the succession development process. We will look at the knowledge transfer that must take place and the ongoing soft skills development all of which can be facilitated through a mentoring process.
This webinar will outline the Business value of developing a succession plan and a development strategy for the successors. We will speak to the success factors that will provide participants with a means to measure the success of their planning process.
Organizations must begin the succession planning process and must ensure that they have a succession development strategy as well. Don’t end your legacy on a bad note. Take the time to plan and implement properly. “Can you afford not to?”
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SHANGHAI China might soon double the minimum capacity required for companies to start secondary aluminum production.
New secondary aluminum producers must have a capacity of at least 100,000 tonnes per year, according to draft rules issued Jan. 28 by the countrys Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The earlier requirement, issued in 2007, was for a 50,000-tonne-per-year capacity.
Chinas scrap aluminum industry is dominated by thousands of small-scale, family-owned operations, with Ye Chiu Group and Shanghai Sigma Metals Inc. the only big players.
The new draft rules further stipulate that the ratio of equity capital in such investment projects must be a minimum of 35 percent. This wasnt a requirement under the earlier rule.
New plants also must be equipped with facilities to treat hot ashes left over from production in order to raise metal recovery rates and protect the environment.
MIITs new draft rules were issued after the ministry and 11 other government bodies set out guidelines on Jan. 22 for consolidation and restructuring of nine industries, including aluminum, rare earths and steel.
A version of this article was first published by AMM sister publication Metal Bulletin.
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Think of TED as a marathon for your mind. Over the course of a week, roughly 100 presenters from around the world deliver power-packed presentations lasting 18 minutes or less. Topics range from quadrotor flying robots to the abundant future of humanity; basic human rights to next-generation liquid metal batteries. And that’s just the first session.
TED is a brain spa. The main TED Conference hosts 1,500 attendees in Long Beach, California. 600 additional TEDsters gather for a simulcast event known as TEDActive in Palm Springs. So maybe it’s a brain rave. Heavenly perspective with the world’s big thinkers. A little known sentiment among attendees is that meeting other people at TED is the best part of attending – even better than the talks is interacting with the audience.
‘TEDTalks set the atmosphere for you to jump in and engage with people you’ve just met. You can feel like you’ve known for someone for years when really it’s been only a few minutes,” says one attendee.
This is one of many reasons thousands of people shell out thousands of dollars on an annual basis to immerse themselves in the hybrid reality that is TED. Innovation comes alive.
What is it like to walk into TED? Look up and you see a rainbow made of thread. To the right, custom prosthetics printed in 3D via additive manufacturing. There’s a Google Garage; AutoDesk’s history of the universe; Target Idea/Paper Airplane Factory; Music Genomic Sequencing; TEDBookshop, Coffee Commons’ endless espresso and numerous lounges stacked cushily with the latest Steelcase designs. These spaces are designed to germinate ideas. A single conversation, for example, may include Peter Diamandis of XPRIZE, Jesse Dylan of Wondros Films and Jay Walker of Priceline and TEDMED.
Finally, a quick rundown of my favorite presenters from TED2012:
- Peter Diamandis: Our world is fueled with abundance. Rather than lamenting potential future catastrophies, how can we empower the billions of new minds coming online with the priceless treasure that is the internet? A passionate case for optimistic possiblism.
- Ed Glaeser, Harvard: Globalization has increased the value of being intelligent. Cities boast benefits ranging from higher incomes to lower infant mortality rates. Most importantly, cities are a place to evolve culture. As humans, we need to be immersed in innovation – cities allow us to experience and learn from the mistakes, failures, and successes of others.
- Andrew Stanton, Pixar: When you’re telling a story, invoke wonder. Elegance is the ability to tell a story without dialogue and is a central tenet to Pixar’s success in making animated features mainstream. Pixar abides by the Unifying Theory of 2+2, meaning that the audience should put things together. Don’t give people 4, give them 2 + 2. Make people think; make the story worth your audience’s time.
- Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor: Music is a new language and it has something powerful to say about what it means to be alive. Factoids: The earliest recorded music in history is from around 200 BC and was inscribed on a Greek tombstone. Music “notes” were first seen in the 13th century as lines on a page. Recording technology emerged in the 1880′s and forever revolutionized music such that suddenly songs could exist even when there were no musicians in the room.
- Regina Dugan, Director of DARPA: Believe in impossible things. Failure is key to success. Case in point: 6 out of the first 8 rockets blew up on the pad. ”There is only time to iron your cape..and it’s back to the sky for you.” Regina shared amazing technology inspired by biological systems such asadhesives akin to gecko feet and hummingbird spy drones.
- Tali Sharot, Cognitive Neuroscientist: Optimism changes subjective reality. It is a motivation to action. If we expect to do well, stress and anxiety are reduced, resulting in positive health benefits. Quoting Henry Ford, “Whether you believe you can or cannot, you’re probably right.”
- Taylor Wilson, 17 year old scientist: At 14 years old, he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his garage. Enough said.
- David Kelley, Founder of IDEO: ‘We’re focused on human-centered design: designing behaviors and personality into products.” Everyone is innately creative. Unlock it and let your ideas fly. Case study of creative success: an fMRI machine at a children’s hospital had to sedate children 80% of the time for them to be still enough for successful scans. The team reimagined design into a pirate cave. Operators were trained by museum guides to bring kids into a game where they had to lay very still so pirates didn’t find them. Results? After the fMRI turned playful, only 10% of kids had to be sedated.
- Joshua Foer, Memory Champion: Remember better by taking information lacking context and creating a framework so that it becomes meaningful. Josh brings to the table important considerations about what we miss by not deeply processing interactions with others. What do we lose when we constantly tweet, text, check facebook etc. in stead of engaging with the person across the table?
- Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Prize Winner: Leymah shares heart wrenching stories of women in Liberia. We sometimes lose focus on the world outside our sphere, a world where, for example, a girl may get a scholarship only to find out that she must repeatedly have sex with the department chair if she wishes to keep it. We have the power to change this world by giving a voice to the silenced and providing education scholarships to girls worldwide.
- Brene Brown, Vulnerability Researcher: Final speaker at TED. Outstanding presentation met by thunderous applause. Rene speaks toward the importance of being vulnerable. She asks “How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness?” In the spirit of TED, failure is necessary. We will fail repeatedly in the process of success. Those who take failure and cultivate courage, compassion and connection are the ones who are able to derive true meaning and joy from life.
And that’s a wrap. Or is it. The notorious “TED Hangover” has come and gone (#firstworldproblem: TED’s wonder seemingly surpasses reality and generally leaves attendees with a sinking feeling – the hangover – of returning home to the real world). The question now is “what’s next?” How do I turn these great ideas and phenomenal interactions into meaningful outputs? How will this year’s TED shape the way I perceive future challenges? I am inspired, invigorated, motivated by the abundance of great minds in today’s world.
As we learned from Ed Glaeser, urbanization increases both the true and perceived value of intelligence. With this in mind, I challenge you to TEDify your life by participating in the 2012 TEDPrize: The City 2.0. Lead your community to the future you imagine.
Now I venture again out into the real world of thought and action, perhaps most inspired by a conversation starter which I humbly acquired at TED. A stranger walked up to me, looked at my name badge and said “Hi, Amy. So tell me, what inspires you?”
This is how I learned it is possible to have a deeply meaningful conversation with a stranger. It is also possible to reconnect with the person you’ve known for years in a completely new way. Today, this week, this year, try something new. Dive straight into who you’re speaking with. Strive to make every conversation worthy of TED. Enbrace with daring courage the potential that someone will shut down your curiosity. Embrace also that that person may tilt her head, be silent for a moment, then share something amazing that changes the way you think for the rest of your life.
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Posted on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
International aid pledges for Haiti quake relief
A glance at some of the international aid pledges for victims of the earthquake in Haiti:
The United Nations is releasing $10 million from its emergency funds.
The United States is sending ships, helicopters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit.
Canada is sending an immediate $5 million Canadian (US$4.8 million) to the Haitian government and has put transport planes, helicopters, a hospital ship and a disaster response team on standby.
The Irish telecommunications company Digicel said it would donate $5 million to aid agencies and help repair the damaged phone network.
The European Commission has approved euro3 million ($4.37 million), with more funds likely.
Spain has pledged euro3 million ($4.37 million), and sent three planes with rescue teams and 100 tons of emergency relief equipment.
The Netherlands has donated euro2 million ($2.91 million) and will send a 60-person search-and-rescue team.
Germany gave euro1.5 million ($2.17 million) and sent an immediate response team. Another team with 20 rescue dogs is on standby.
Denmark has donated 10 million kroner ($1.9 million).
Italy is pledging euro1 million ($1.46 million).
China will donate $1 million, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Sweden has offered 6 million kronor ($850,000), along with tents, water purification equipment and medical aid.
Venezuela has sent doctors, firefighters and rescue workers.
Mexico will send doctors, search-and-rescue dogs and infrastructure damage experts.
France is sending two planes with doctors, food and medical equipment.
Britain has sent 64 firefighters with search-and-rescue dogs and 10 tons of equipment.
Iceland is sending 37 search-and-rescue specialists.
Taiwan is flying in 23 rescue personnel and 2 tons of aid and equipment.
Israel is sending an elite army rescue unit, including engineers, rescue workers, doctors and medics.
Cuba already had field hospitals on the ground when the quake struck.
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Christian Heritage Route
Dublin. to Dublin
Distance – 823km
Recommended duration – 7-10 days
- By car
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Day One – Dublin.
- Arrive in Dublin.
- Enjoy a half-day sightseeing tour of the capital with a visit to St Patrick’s Cathedral, which was founded in 1190 and restored in the 19th century, and is the burial place of Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan Swift.
- Make your way to Trinity College, Ireland’s oldest and most famous college. Here you can also find the Book of Kells, which is considered to be the most impressive manuscript ever produced in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Day Two – Meath-Louth-Belfast
- Take the N3 from Dublin and travel to the Hill of Tara, County Meath, site of the religious and cultural capital of pre-Christian Ireland. Dating from 2000BC, the hill was the seat of the high kings of Ireland until 1022AD.
- Stop off in Kells heritage town and have a look around before driving on to Slane Hill, where St Patrick lit the aschal fire on the eve of Easter, 433AD.
- Continue to Drogheda (N51) for lunch and a possible visit to see the head of St Oliver Plunkett in St Peter’s Catholic Church.
- After lunch, visit Monasterboice and Old Mellifont Abbey (M1) with their Celtic crosses and ruined abbey before traveling on to Belfast, (M1) capital of Northern Ireland. It was here in the famous shipyards of Belfast that the ill-fated liner, Titanic was built.
Day Three – Down-Armagh
- Drive the short distance to Downpatrick, County Down (A20) and visit the Cathedral, which is closely associated with St Patrick. A stone in the grounds marks the spot where St Patrick is thought to be buried. The newly opened St Patrick’s Centre is also well worth a visit.
- Continue on to the small but important city of Armagh, which is the ancient ecclesiastical centre of Ireland. There are two cathedrals in Armagh dedicated to Ireland’s patron saint, both of them are worth a visit, as is St Patrick’s Trian.
Day Four – Armagh-Beleek-Sligo
- Drive from Armagh or Enniskillen to Belleek, border town between Donegal and Fermanagh, home of Ireland’s oldest pottery. The fragile, lustrous china is sold worldwide and you can have a look at the craftsmen and women at work.
- Continue on to Sligo (N16) where the poet William Butler Yeats spent many years. Visit Drumcliff where Yeats is buried, before traveling to Croagh Patrick, (N17) the 2,540ft mountain, which dominates the town of Westport. St Patrick is reputed to have spent 40 days fasting on the summit of the mountain in AD 441.
Day Five – Sligo-Galway
- Drive on to Galway and the Galway Crystal Centre (N84).
- Travel over to Kylemore in Connemara and visit Kylemore Abbey, restored Gothic church and gardens. Home of the Benedictine nuns in Ireland, Kylemore was originally built as a castle in 1868 and is one of the best examples of neo-Gothic architecture.
Day Six – Galway-Offaly
- From Galway drive to Clonmacnoise in County Offaly. Its central location contributed to its development as a major centre of religion, learning, trade, craftsmanship and political influence. Clonmacnoise has a large collection of grave-slabs dating from the 8th to the 12th century, as well as one of Ireland's finest surviving High Crosses. In addition, the monastery contains many religious buildings.
Day Seven – Offaly-Dublin
- Continue on to Dublin and the loop is completed.
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Eight writers offer praising prose for underdog foods
The dour Calvinists who colonized New England considered gluttony and lust the most dangerous of the seven deadly sins, no doubt because they offered intense and immediate pleasure in this life.
In addition to those dour Calvinists, some tools and the Bible, the Mayflower brought parsnips to the New World. A passenger on that ship, Reverend Josiah Brigham, called the parsnip God's greatest manifestation of love on Earth, or something to that effect, and penned a monograph, The Roote of Goodeness, praising its virtues in 1621.
Three hundred and seventy years later, my oldest brother succumbed to one of those deadly sins, killing himself with a knife and a fork. Among gourmands, he was known as "The Terminator" and ate five all-you-can-eat establishments into bankruptcy before getting his own just desserts. Swedish meatballs, all manner of fried things, cheese-laden concoctions, greasy slabs of beef and pork, ladles of artery-clogging sauces, deviled eggs and seafood Newburgs were no match for his voracious depravity.
My brother, however, never ate a parsnip. I have, and therein lies my salvation. I share his shameful proclivities, but periodically I transcend them, finding absolution not in the sweaty breathiness of the confessional or in the balancing of my aura. Instead, I seek the modest sanctuary of the parsnip. Some spark of decency must remain in my otherwise polluted soul that enables me to find a righteous joy in the sweet, gentle rootiness of this vegetable. While my baser nature drags me back to the gluttony of the groaning board, the parsnip waits patiently, calling me to a higher plane -- perhaps a prefiguring of Heaven's Table.
A proverb tells us, "Fine words butter no parsnips." True enough: The buttering is best left to us. I parboil them, slice thinly and saute in a little butter until each morsel is golden brown. They are divine.
A stupid, lazy camper often gets her comeuppance in the form of a bear. This stupid, lazy camper huddled in her tent at 3 a.m. last summer while an adolescent male bear tore apart a zippered canvas cooler that certain stupid, lazy people had left out in the open air. When a weary dawn finally broke, apricot pits gooed over with the rich thickness of bear spit lay everywhere; the grapes had been trod and actually shat upon; the carrots had vanished; the apples were eaten; and the melon had been broken and brutally slurped.
All that remained -- untouched, inviolate and wholly intact -- was one perfect green globe of damned cabbage.
When even a rampaging bear won't eat that which seems destined to find its highest expression in cole slaw -- a dish the children humorously refer to as "cold slop" -- how can we expect others to embrace its cruciferous goodness? I admit that I came to this vegetable late in life, having read enough Irish novels describing the sickly smell of the stuff overboiling in water to have snubbed it at the store. But an Irishman who has never written a novel showed me that epiphany awaited -- a culinary "aha!" moment.
Despite its limp annual surrender when paired with its good buddy the corned beef, cabbage has a stand-alone gorgeousness when washed, cored, quartered and slow-cooked in generous amounts of butter. Shake the water from its leaves, place it over low heat, and with a wooden spoon gently caress until its firm quarters yield to your ministrations. The result is unconscionably sexy, but also warming and freshly simple.
Best of all, any stupid, lazy person with opposable thumbs who's mastered fire can do it. Take that, you bear!
If you can't grow enough tomatillos (to-ma-tee-yos) to keep you in green salsa and pepian till at least Christmas, you must be planting them in blacktop. The small, green, tomato-like berries are native to the tropics, but for some reason they grow like goldenrod around here. Sue and I planted a few seedlings when we moved to the Champlain Valley from Saranac Lake six years ago. We haven't bothered with them since. And yet they keep popping up on their own every year, like lupine -- long green canes that overproduce two golf-ball-sized varieties, one with a purple skin but the same tart lemony flavor and waxy green husk as the more common, green-skinned kind.
I always knew they provided the main ingredient of the delicious green salsa at the Casa del Sol in Saranac Lake, but I only learned their loftier culinary purpose when driving down the Pan-Am Highway in Guatemala in 1992. My Guatemalan companion knew a roadhouse outside Huehuetenango, where we pulled in for lunch. Immediately he recommended the pepian verde: chicken in a local green mole (sauce), made with pumpkin seeds, chiles and tomatillos. My first bite produced one of those rare light-up-your-mouth moments, and I wheedled the recipe out of the owner.
You make pepian verde by browning a cut-up chicken and then simmering it in a sauce of toasted unsalted pumpkin seeds, roasted jalapeqo peppers, garlic, onion, cilantro and, of course, tomatillos. The dish works just as well for shrimp and, minus the pumpkin seeds, with all fish and seafood. And you don't even have to grow your own. You can get them dirt-cheap and big as apples in most organic markets and co-ops.
I serve the pepian verde with black beans, corn tortillas and sometimes sweet corn -- too often, apparently. Last year when I asked a guest, Ian Pounds of Ripton, how he liked the strange Mesoamerican dish, he sighed and reminded me that he'd already had it at the house twice before -- though of course he really liked it.
The main thing that turns people off about okra is the slimy inside. And the hairy outside. Oh, and don't forget the taste, my daughter reminds me. But grossing out the non-cognoscenti isn't the only thing I enjoy about ladyfingers, as these semi-tropical green pods are also known.
I first tasted okra at a cafeteria in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, where it was offered as an alternative to fried green tomatoes. Both came coated in crispy cornmeal. Their slippery, slightly sour interiors cut the salty grease on the outside.
I encountered okra again at a friend's house outside Los Angeles. Dinner turned out to be take-out pizza, which our host -- an aspiring screenwriter with a heavy southern drawl -- passed up in favor of his third martini. As we were picking the last fragments of melted cheese from the box, he shambled off to the kitchen and returned, forking up a plate full of food. "Anyone want some okra and tomatoes?" he offered. We didn't.
In this country you most often find okra deep-fried, stewed with tomatoes or melting into the glue that binds Creole gumbo. Slaves brought it here from Africa. But it traveled north to Turkey and Greece as well. There it's called bamya and is either sun-dried and used in soups or soaked in vinegar or lemon juice to mitigate the mucus.
Okra also found its way to India, where my mother-in-law grew up eating it. In my favorite recipe, adapted from one of hers, hexagonal disks of bhindi are softened in clarified butter with slivered onions that have been carefully caramelized to a deep, sweet brown. Aromatic ajowan -- a spice that's related to caraway and tastes like peppery oregano -- gives the velvety okra just enough edge to make it as entertaining to taste as it is to spring on the uninitiated.
In 1957, Constance Spry wrote in The Cookery Book that Brussels sprouts "should be regarded... as minute and delicate little cabbages, mostly heart." The Brussels sprout is perhaps best understood as the most passionate but also most misunderstood branch of Brassica oleracea. Its little verdant heart is full of the helpless rage of a palate pariah.
The sprout is not entirely blameless for its reputation. Raw, it confronts the world with a tight, tough little fist. Brussels sprouts do not have an inviting demeanor. Their external leaves come together in a thin-lipped scowl, and their resemblance to Audrey II's offspring (in Little Shop of Horrors) is uncanny. And a sprout responds violently to overcooking, assuming the texture and taste of a moldy rodent brain -- bitter, soggy and stinky. Presented with an overdone vegetable, you can only wonder, why would anyone eat such a thing?
But Brussels sprouts are worth getting to know. Well done, they roll on the plate like edible emeralds, and they yield to the masticating jowl with a gentle crunch. You just have to remember their basic nature -- seething, full of rage -- and approach them accordingly: with a knife. If you stab your sprouts at their base, knife aimed at the heart, they will cook all the way through quickly -- and you avoid the decaying brain taste and texture. Lightly blanched or sauteed, drenched in butter and sprinkled with freshly ground pepper, the vilified veggies are, as one chef put it, "little green gems."
I can never get enough of the gooey ginger candies many sushi restaurants in New York City leave on top of the bill. The only English on the packaging says "Ginger Candy" and "Made in Indonesia." The ingredients aren't translated, which is probably a good thing, so I can continue to believe that it's just concentrated ginger with vitamins.
The little log-shaped candies are covered in powdered sugar. They're chewy but hard, and require some serious gnawing before they turn to toffee in your mouth and you get a huge, sweet burst of ginger and spice. The spice is intense -- kind of a zesty pepper.
Most people stop at one. Some people spit them out. Then there are those, like me, who acquire a serious ginger-candy habit and eat them until queasy. Yum.
If you want to establish your foodie credentials, you can sing the praises of all sorts of exotic and, to some, disgusting foods: foie gras, blood sausage, sweetbreads, fish eggs. Mention that you ate braised bat in the Far East and you'll get some respect. But utter the words "pork rinds" and, foodie-wise, you're toast.
Not that they wouldn't be good with toast. Yes, as a card-carrying foodie I confess: I also love pork rinds.
During the senior Bush campaign I became aware that a yen for pork rinds is something to be ashamed of. When George H. averred that pork rinds were his favorite snack, my friends guffawed, chalking it up to an attempt to woo the Bubba vote. You can bet, they all said, he doesn't actually eat that stuff.
I was dumbfounded. Hadn't these people ever tasted a pork rind? Crisp, salty, larded with, well, lard, they're a snacker's dream.
According to porkrind.com, which bills itself "the online pork rinds resource guide," Americans are spending more each year on pork rinds, totting up sales of some $840 million on the crispy morsels last year alone.
It turns out that the up-tick in business is not due to Republican loyalty but to the fact that some of those low-carb-diet folks are touting pork rinds the way the low-fat folks used to push pasta. In other words, they are practically health food.
This is not the point of pork rinds. Pork rinds are not good for you. They are a guilty pleasure, a secret indulgence. They are the kind of thing it's best to eat when driving. Alone. You can dump the plastic bag at a rest-stop trashcan. Getting the grease off the steering wheel is a little trickier.
Like any food snob ("Wasn't that Saint-Marcellan we ate in Provence just divine?") I have my own "authentic" pork rind experience. I was driving to Edisto Island, South Carolina, with Matt and Ted Lee, two well-known Southern food purveyors (see: boiledpeanuts.com) and writers, who insisted we pull into a low-slung, roadside butcher shop called Marvin's Meats. There, among myriad hand-lettered signs -- "Small Suckling Pigs," "Shank Bones For Soup" -- and pork shoulders slowly smoking in drum-shaped rigs, I found plastic bags of chunky, rustic pork rinds.
Matt pointed out that Frank Marvin's pork rinds "Never let you forget what they are" -- pig, that is. "In my mind, that's a good thing," he said. The rinds are variously colored according to the shading of the pig's skin. There are little bits of bacony meat clinging to some of them. A huge bag, as I recall, cost us something like $5. We scarfed them while driving further south. I was grateful to be eating pork rinds in company. And, as it was a rental car, I didn't have to de-grease the steering wheel.
A few nights ago I ate prune pudding at my friend Tina's house. I could tell from the expectant but nervous look on her face that she didn't think I'd like it, didn't even think I'd eat it. She almost apologized for serving it. But eyes glistened as the sticky, gummy, dark-brown pudding was put before me, and I confessed that I liked, even loved, prunes. That's when we knew we had a cause in common, a kind of fruity alliance. And we wanted to rescue the prune.
I have loved prunes since childhood and was always happy to see the box of Sunkist in my mother's cupboard. But most people make a face when they hear the word "prune," squeezing their features into a grimace that resembles the dried fruit they despise. Inevitably they make some remark like "Eww, prunes!" or note cynically that you're eating prunes only because of -- dare I say it? -- constipation.
Tina's and my penchant for prunes creates an uncomfortable alliance with people whose systems are, well, slow. The thing that is so unfair about prune prejudice is that raisins -- a smaller, dark, dried fruit -- have an excellent reputation. As do their cousins, currants. Raisins even dance on TV and have their own special following. But no one refers to them as shriveled grapes, whereas the new and, to me, rather desperate marketing ploy of prune packers is to refer to them on the box as "dried plums." Well, of course they are, but they are transformed into something different.
If you stew a prune, and I have on many occasions, it doesn't turn back into a plum; it is still a prune, just chubbier. What a flavor it gives to duck or rabbit, or even chicken, and how happy I am to see any of those dishes on a restaurant menu.
If you would like to join in reviving the prune reputation, start right now. Share a recipe that includes prunes; write a prune poem, short story or anecdote. Become a member of the prune club today!
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There are provisions to safeguard the interest of investors in stocks, including suspension of erring companies, but there is no mechanism for compensating them as the exchange is a private entity and trading involves risk, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.
1,125 companies were suspended from trading between April 2009 to February 2013 mainly due to non-compliance with the listing agreement and also due to non-payment of listing fees, he told the Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
Asked how the loss incurred by an investor who put his money in a company that was later delisted can be recovered, he said, "The suspension comes into effect after 21 days. The shareholder can exit in this time period."
He accepted that in case of suspension of a company the shareholder would be affected but the government cannot do anything if the investment was made in a company that failed to comply with the rules.
"Stock exchange is a market place, it is a private entity. SEBI is the regulator. In a market place, there will be some who will not comply. There is no mechanism by which the government can compensate the shareholder. The market is based on speculation and risk," Chidambaram said.
He, however, insisted that share-holding is a legitimate business and only those who break laws are acted against.
"An investor may not be able to buy or sell the shares through that Stock exchange where the scrip is suspended. However, the investor will be able to encash the value of shares whose trading is suspended if they are able to find a willing buyer for the shares, outside the exchange platform," he said.
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Originally Posted by whoopsie
I have some questions around browser security on Blackberrys. As part of a 135 user base via our own BES we have recently taken the decision to remove the browser option from our Blackberrys. The theory.... A user could download and executable or other virus etc and send this mail to another user on the corporate network spreading a virus. Is there a solution to this risk? what have others done?
You are rightfully concerned. A user could download BlackBerry application OTA (over the air), install it and that can be used to breach security of your environment.
As far as I know, and BES is not my area of expertise, you can restrict corporate devices what applications they can run and, may be, what applications they can install.
This may be a more reliable approach because you can still let people use any browser they want yet not allow them run or install not autorized software on blackberries.
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Congress Approves Increases for NIH but Fails to Protect Peer Review
On Wednesday, September 9th, the House passed its version of the FY 2005 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill (L-HHS), providing a $727 million increase to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and raising its budget to $28.5 billion. Unfortunately, the bill also provided a vehicle for members of Congress to attack two individual research grants funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that were seen as frivolous by some Representatives. According to the amendment sponsor Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), "…Grants to questionable studies like dorm room wall decorations cloud many of the good things that the National Institute of Mental Health does and can do…"
This grant was actually an exploratory research grant on identity and self-expression by psychologist Samuel Gosling at the University of Texas, Austin. The other grant had been made to psychologist Laura King at the University of Missouri, Columbia. King was awarded the 2001 APA Templeton Positive Psychology Prize for her research that focuses on the health benefits of writing about positive life goals. Funding for both grants was completed and neither was due to receive funds in FY05. This fact may have protected them from real harm, as they won't lose any federal research dollars because of this amendment.
However, this fact also gave House members an excuse not to oppose the amendment. Chairman Ralph Regula (R-OH), who so passionately spoke in support of sexual health research and peer review last year during the debate on a similar amendment, declined to oppose this amendment, stating, "I am not going to oppose this in a vote because the grants are over. They have been completed. The amendment does not have any impact, in essence…"
Whether this amendment has any impact is debatable, as attacks on meritorious research for political purposes may send a chilling effect throughout the scientific community. Some members did speak out against the amendment, including Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-MO) who submitted King's c.v. for the Congressional Record and stated that, "I know that is certainly great fodder for an election-year press release, but I would say to the gentleman that the grant itself does have substance."
APA and the Coalition to Protect Research alerted scientists and congressional staff on Tuesday, September 7th to this possible amendment and we thank all those who contacted their Members in Congress to oppose the amendment. As the amendment was passed on a voice vote, when only those few members who were on the floor could vote, there is no record of individual votes. Given the months of education that CPR and others in the community have done to increase support for peer review, advocates were disappointed that a recorded vote was not requested.
The issue is not settled yet, however. The amendment language will still have to survive a conference with the Senate version of the bill and APA and other scientific organizations will be working to ensure that the language is stripped from the final FY05 L-HHS appropriations bills. To learn more about the Neugebauer amendments and more about this issue, visit the APA Science Policy website.
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8/04 in Yankee History
The red-letter days -
2010: With a first-inning 2-run blast off Toronto’s Shaun Marcum at the Stadium, Alex Rodriguez becomes the 7th player in Major League history to hit 600 home runs in his career, and the youngest ever to reach the milestone. The Yankees go on to win 5-1.
2007: Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th career home run, a 3-run shot off Kyle Davies of the Kansas City Royals. This makes A-Rod the youngest player ever to reach 500 homers. He is only the second Yankee to hit number 500 at home; Mickey Mantle (on May 14, 1967 against Stu Miller of the Orioles) was the other. The Bombers roll on to double up the Royals 16-8.
On other 4ths of August…
1998: Darryl Strawberry’s pinch hit grand slam is the big blow in New York’s 9-run 9th inning‚ as the Yankees come from behind to defeat the A’s 10-5 in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. It is Straw’s 2nd pinch grand slam of the season‚ setting a new AL record‚ and tying the NL mark held by his former manager Davey Johnson and Mike Ivie, both set in 1978. New York also win the 1st game of the twinbill‚ 10-4.
1989: Hard-luck hurler Dave Stieb loses a perfect game when the Yankees’ Roberto Kelly doubles with 2 out in the 9th inning‚ and Stieb finishes with a 2-1 two-hitter. It is the 3rd time that Stieb has lost a no-hitter with 2 out in the 9th.
1985: Tom Seaver becomes the 17th 300-game winner in Major League history, pitching the White Sox to a 4-1, six-hit victory over the Yankees on Phil Rizzuto Day at the Stadium, as 54‚032 New Yorkers cheer him on.
1984: The Yankees win their 8th straight‚ 4-0‚ over the Indians on Lou Piniella Day at the Stadium. Sweet Lou played his final game less than two months ago in an 8-3 win over the Orioles. Ray Fontenot allows one hit in 5 2/3 innings for the win‚ and Brian Dayett has a double and 2 RBI. Victor Mata hits his lone career homer
1983: While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees 3-1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium‚ Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game‚ Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.
1978: Baltimore and Mike Flanagan hand Ron Guidry his 2nd loss of the year‚ stopping the Yankees 2-1 at the Stadium. It will also be Guidry’s only loss at home this year. (Editor’s note: I was at this game.)
1973: In a remarkable relief performance‚ Lindy McDaniel comes to the rescue of Fritz Peterson, who exits with a muscle pull in the 2nd inning. McDaniel comes out of the bullpen and goes 13 innings to earn himself and the Yankees a 3-2 victory over the Tigers. Horace Clarke’s home run is the game winner.
1972: Bobby Murcer’s grand slam in the 7th clinches the Yankees 9-4 win over the Brewers. Murcer also trots home twice on bases-loaded walks.
1963: After missing 61 games‚ Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup as a pinch hitter for Steve Hamilton. The Orioles are leading 10-9 in the 7th inning of the second game of a twinbill at the Stadium when the stiff-legged Mantle golfs a line drive into the short porch in right to tie the game at 10. The emotional Yankees win it‚ 11-10‚ after the visitors took the opener 7-2.
1962: Roger Clemens is born. Happy 50th to the Rocket!
1953: Vic Raschi sets the Major League record for RBI by a pitcher with 7‚ as the Yanks roll over Detroit 15-0. Raschi singles in 2 in the 2nd‚ doubles home 3 in the 3rd‚ and singles home the last 2 in the 8th. Four pitchers held the previous mark of 6 RB. His record will stand in the AL‚ but Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger will top Raschi’s mark. Raschi’s teammates fill his locker with bats after the game.
1937: Bill Dickey hits a grand slam for the 2nd consecutive game‚ connecting off the Browns’ Vern Kennedy in the 3rd inning. The Yanks need it all as they edge St. Louis‚ 10-9. Dickey is the second American Leaguer to hit grand slams in consecutive games: Babe Ruth did it twice
1934: Backed by Babe Ruth’s 18th homer with 2 on and a 2-run homer by Jack Saltzgaver (below)‚ the Yankees beat the A’s‚ 5-1. Jimmy DeShong wins his 5th straight. Lou Gehrig is 0-for-2‚ striking out for the first time since July 16. In the same period‚ he has hit 11 homers.
1932: Bill Dickey returns to the Yankee lineup after his month’s suspension with a grand slam and 3 singles‚ as New York beat Chicago 15-3. Dickey will hit another grand slam on the 10th of September.
1929: The Yankees take the opening game of two from the visiting Indians, winning 12-0. Tom Zachary wins his 7th straight. In the nitecap‚ after trailing 6-5 with 2 out in the top of the 9th‚ Cleveland score an AL record-tying 9 runs to win 14-6.
1925: Every player in each team’s lineup has at least one putout in the Indians-Yankees game. New York win 4-1 behind Urban Shocker
1905: The Highlanders field a unique battery: Eustace ‘Doc’ Newton pitching and Mike ‘Doc’ Powers (below) catching‚ but only Powers has a medical degree. The Highlanders beat St. Louis‚ 7-3.
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Ranil calls for unity to safeguard ceasefire
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 08:31 GMT]
"Parties with vested interest would like to go back to war. But the reality is, this country cannot face another war. We will all be destroyed by the fight", leader of the opposition and former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Tuesday said noting that the Ceasefire Agreement, which is entering into the fourth year, "is under threat" and called for unity to safeguard the ceasefire agreement and to achieve a lasting peace in Sri Lanka. Mr. Wickremesinghe has made these observations this morning while making a statement before the electronic media on the third anniversary of entering into ceasefire agreement with the LTTE, which brought to an end the two-decade long war.
Following is his statement in full.
"Three years back in February 2002, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the LTTE and brought the hostilities to an end. Peace talks were initiated as the next step.
"In January 2004, everything was set to recommence peace talks breaking the standstill situation it was experiencing. But unfortunately, the government is yet to resume peace talks from the point we left. Instead, the Ceasefire Agreement and the ceasefire are under threat. Parties with vested interest would like to go back to war. But the reality is, this country cannot face another war. We will all be destroyed by the fight.
"Therefore, let's get together to safeguard the Ceasefire Agreement, and to achieve lasting peace in united Sri Lanka acceptable to all communities. I must thank everyone who in their own way has helped to safeguard the ceasefire and to take forward the idea of political solution acceptable to all. I must specially thank the Norwegian government, the Indian government, the Japanese government, the American government, the European Commission, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Koffi Annan and all other countries and international organizations that have helped us to sustain the ceasefire and are now urging us to find a final solution.
"Let us commit ourselves to a long lasting peace based on a political solution acceptable to all communities where we can all live within a united Sri Lanka," he said.
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Aviators By Design is sponsoring efforts by the teens of Aviation Explorer Post 9868, which resides at Central County Airport near Iola, Wisconsin, in building a Zenith CH 750 kit airplane in the Homebuilders Hangar on the AirVenture grounds.
“The goal of the AirVenture project is not to complete the kit aircraft during the week, but more importantly the goal is to get kids and adults involved in building an airplane,” explained Aviators By Designer Founder Jerry Graf. “It will be a learning educational process that puts emphasis on developing S.T.E.M. (Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Math) skills and exposing flight to many with the aircraft home building process.”
The young people from Aviation Explorer Post 9868 will be joined by teens from Aviation Explorer Post 491. “Those kids built a Kit Fox and did an outstanding job,” Graf said. “Unfortunately, it was destroyed at SUN ’n FUN in the 2011 storm. The lessons learned with that project were incredible and Aviators By Design, along with great supervision especially with the help of experienced light aircraft builder Tracy Buttles, will be working on the STOL CH 750 kit.”
“The Zenith STOL CH 750 aircraft kit was chosen for this project due to the simplicity of the required kit assembly, needing only basic tools and skills and a few hundred kit assembly hours,” Graf said. “The all-metal kit is manufactured using advanced CNC pre-drilling, cutting and forming, with extensive match-hole technology, making it both quick and simple to build, while offering an excellent educational tool.”
Once assembled, the STOL CH 750 is a remarkable “short take-off and landing” (STOL) aircraft with excellent short field off-airport capability. The aircraft features side-by-side seating, standard tricycle gear configuration, and great visibility, making it well-suited for low-time pilots and Sport Pilot flight training, Graf noted.
After AirVenture, the partially completed airplane will be brought back to Central County Airport (68C) to be completed by Aviation Explorer Post 9868. Once the plane is completed, it will be used as a marketing tool to get more kids involved and excited about aviation. It will be flown to airshows, fly-ins and even taken to high schools to promote aviation and all the aspects of math, science and engineering that go with aviation.
For more information: AviatorsByDesign.com or 828-329-3694.
People who read this article also read articles on airparks, airshow, airshows, avgas, aviation fuel, aviation news, aircraft owner, avionics, buy a plane, FAA, fly-in, flying, general aviation, learn to fly, pilots, Light-Sport Aircraft, LSA, and Sport Pilot.
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Flu spreads through disability centres
A fatal influenza outbreak at two Hunter disability centres is continuing to spread, with more people contracting the illness.
Already three deaths have been reported at Newcastle's Stockton Centre and the Kanangra Centre at Morisset over the past week.
Another five people were diagnosed with a respiratory illness yesterday and tests are expected to confirm they have succumbed to H3N2 strain which would make a total of 56 cases at the two centres.
Both centres remain in lockdown with strict infection controls now in place for the 450 residents.
Hunter New England Health is urging people with flu like symptoms not to visit hospitals or aged care facilities.
The Health network says a daily assessment is being made of the residents.
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Intel Unveils Tablet And Smartphone With Upcoming Atom Chip13 Sep 2011
On September 13, at the Intel Developer Conference (IDF) 2011 event held in San Francisco, Intel has for the first time showed prototypes of devices - a tablet and a smartphone, running on Google's Android OS and the chip maker's upcoming Atom low-power chip, code-named Medfield.
At the IDF keynote speech given by CEO Paul Otellini, it was announced that Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, and Google, whose Android OS has become the world's leading operating system for smartphones, will partner together in the mobile space - developing future releases of Android for smartphones and tablets.
Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president of mobile, was quoted in a press release as saying "We're going to collaborate very closely to make sure that Android is optimised to the best it possibly can be for the Intel Architecture (IA). Going forward, all future releases of Android will be optimised… From the kernel taking advantage of memory management and all the great features of these low power IAs, all the way up to multimedia and 3D graphics. Everything that’s part of the system on a chip today."
The tablet reportedly measures about 8.9 millimeters (0.3 inches) thick, has a 10.1-inch screen and runs on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and alpha software developed jointly by Google and Intel. The Intel Medfield smartphone, which was showed off by CEO Paul Otellini at IDF San Francisco, runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
The Intel-Google alliance in the mobile sphere assumes even more importance given Intel's increased competition with ARM, whose low-power processors are found in most smartphones and tablets. Intel is banking on Medfield tablets to prove it is improving on power consumption with its tablet and smartphone chips - currently it's low-power Atom processors are considered to be more power-hungry than ARM processors.
Steve Smith, vice president at Intel, said that the Medfield tablet is a reference design for device makers who want to launch tablets, although he didn't say when Medfield tablets would be released. He also added that Intel is currently optimizing the chips for tablets to balance power and performance.
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As of Jan. 27, retailers may impose a surcharge of up to 4 percent of the purchase price to customers paying by credit card, depending on the amount the merchant pays to the credit card company in processing fees. Merchants may now assess the fee under terms of a court settlement between retailers and the credit card industry.
Assessing the fee is optional, and individual merchants may choose not to pass along the costs. In fact, many retailers have said they will not impose the fee on consumers who pay with a credit card. However, those retailers that do levy additional fees must follow specific disclosure rules.
Therefore, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel issued this consumer alert today to inform consumers about the issue, and also offer advice for shopping with credit cards.
"While most retailers so far have chosen not to pass along more fees to consumers using credit cards, those that do so must make clear to the consumer what the additional cost will be for paying with a credit card," McDaniel said. "In those instances, consumers may prefer to pay with cash, check or debit card, or visit a retailer that does not charge those extra fees."
Banks typically assess processing fees of between 1.5 percent and 3 percent to retailers each time a credit card is swiped. The fee may be higher for "reward" cards, as merchants typically incur higher charges when those cards are used. Under terms of the settlement, retailers may recoup the exact amount of those costs, up to 4 percent. Retailers in 40 states, including Arkansas, are permitted to do so (10 states have laws prohibiting retailers from passing along these fees to consumers).
Retailers who implement the fees must provide clear disclosure to consumers at the store's entrance, at the point of sale and on the sales receipt. The receipt must indicate the amount of the fee and make clear that the fee assessed to the consumer is not greater than the cost to the retailer to accept credit cards.
Online retailers must disclose on their website homepage that they are disclosing such a fee.
The fee cannot be assessed to consumers who pay with debit card. Fees on debit card transactions are limited by federal law. Additionally, American Express customers are not affected by the change.
Regardless of whether a merchant assesses a fee, McDaniel reminded consumers to keep these tips in mind when using a credit card:
*Credit cards are merely pre-approved loans. So, shop for the lowest interest rate on a card and keep in mind that some cards charge additional annual fees.
*Try to pay more than the minimum payment every month. Otherwise, interest will continue to accrue and greatly increase the effective cost of the items purchased with the card.
*Avoid costly penalties associated with late payments by always paying on time.
*Think twice before signing up for "over-the-limit" protections. It may be better to have a transaction rejected so that a less expensive form of payment can be chosen.
For more information about credit card processing fees, credit cards generally, or other consumer issues, visit www.GotYourBackArkansas.org or call the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 482-8982.
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MIAMI (AP) - Schools around the country are reviewing security plans, adding extra law enforcement patrols and readying counselors for the first day of classes since a shooting massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut.
Districts from Alabama to Arizona and Florida to New England were asking local law enforcement to increase patrols today. School officials in some areas sent messages to parents addressing security or stressing that they have safety plans that are regularly tested. While some officials refuse to discuss plans in detail, it was clear that vigilance will be high this week at schools around the country.
Additional police patrols are planned this week in northern Virginia around the Fairfax County Public Schools, which is the largest school system in the Washington area with 181,000 students. Counselors will also be available at all schools.
"This is not in response to any specific threat but rather a police initiative to enhance safety and security around the schools and to help alleviate the understandably high levels of anxiety," Superintendent Jack Dale said Sunday.
Those sentiments were echoed to the South in Florida's Hillsborough Co., where Sheriff's office spokesman Larry McKinnon said unmarked and marked cars will patrol the schools along with deputies in plain clothes. He wouldn't say how many extra officers will be involved.
The additional patrols will supplement deputies already assigned to every high school and junior high school in the area to ease the fears of parents "who may feel uneasy about sending their children to school." The county's public school system in the Tampa area includes around 195,000 students.
Aside from their students' physical safety, administrators were also concerned about the psychological toll of the shootings. In Maryland's suburbs outside Washington, Montgomery County Public Schools will have counselors available at each school Monday to support the system's 149,000 students. Chief of Staff Brian Edwards said officials posted advice online from the National Association of School Psychologists on Friday to help parents talk about acts of violence.
"Obviously, this is a very difficult situation that all school communities are dealing with and the entire nation is dealing with," Edwards said, adding that the system doesn't discuss security procedures. "You can't change what occurred, but you try to do the best you can to help families cope."
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Posted at: 01/22/2013 10:08 PM
Updated at: 01/22/2013 11:01 PM
By: Steve Tellier
Tax Hike on Smokes Could Increase Cigarette Smuggling
Governor Mark Dayton is asking for a 94-cent increase in the state's cigarette tax, which he said would bring in an additional $370 million in new revenue. The request was made as part of Dayton's budget proposal, announced on Tuesday.
But a cigarette tax hike could also increase one kind of crime that's already burning a hole in the state's budget.
"When I first started smoking, they were 65 cents, and I've been telling myself every year, 'I'm going to quit. I'm going to quit," said Samuel Ross, who has been a smoker for 40 years.
Gov. Dayton is hoping the time to quit has finally come, for Ross and thousands of others like him.
Right now, $1.58 of every pack of cigarettes sold in Minnesota goes to the government. Gov. Dayton wants a hike of another 94 cents, for reasons both fiscal and physical.
"In state after state, when the tobacco tax has been raised, we've seen the amount of youth smoking go down markedly," said Bob Moffitt, communications director for the Minnesota chapter of the American Lung Association.
Anti-smoking advocates, and Gov. Dayton, insist the tax increase will decrease smoking rates, while also pumping money into state government.
"This is going to be something that really saves Minnesota a lot of money in the long term," Moffitt said.
But all the revenue the governor expects may not materialize.
Minnesota brought in $296 million in cigarette tax revenue in 2011. But the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative, free-market think tank, estimates that one out of five cigarettes smoked in the state that year was smuggled in from other states with lower tax rates. That translates into about $58 million in tax revenue that should have gone into the state's coffers, but never did.
The ATF says when cigarette taxes jump, the losses from smuggling jump as well.
But advocates say the loss in human lives is a far greater concern.
"If we can reduce the amount, particularly of youth smoking, the saving to Minnesotans, all Minnesotans, is going to be enormous," Moffitt said.
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A time will come when is no need for missions anymore. One day people in every nation, people, tribe and language will worship God because they have experienced saving transformation in Jesus Christ (Revelation 5:9-10; 7:9-17). John Piper is right: “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man” (Piper, John, Let the Nations be Glad – The Supremacy of God in Missions, Baker Books, 1993:11).
Apparently, that time is not now. Until that time comes, it is important for us to think about the ways we describe what the work is that he gave us to do, just as it is important to examine the way we do it. Jesus told his disciples that they should not worry too much about the time. Rather, they were to focus on being His witnesses in Jerusalem, all of Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:7-8).
Over the years, in the MC, we have worked hard at developing an honest critique about how we are doing with the task. We also need to work hard in our critique of how we describe the task.
Right now, some churches–at least in the West–are stuck in old ways of thinking about missions that are paralysing their willingness to send and threatening their fruitfulness. Missional faith is dimmed by discouraging descriptions that Christianity is losing its vitality in some places and is overwhelmed by descriptions multiple thousands of “unreached” groups in others. We run the risk of reducing Christ’s mission into a statistical problem to be solved.
In another example from my own country. We Swedes have worked conscientiously to engage and understand followers of other religions in dialogue and witness. In the process, though, many churches have adopted pluralistic views that “all roads lead to Rome.” That may have been true in the Roman Empire but it misses the point when it comes to understanding the work of Christ as the crucified Messiah, his resurrection and call to gospel faithfulness.
When we think about the mission Christ gave us, we do it with God. And he seems to be working to keep the mission from getting stuck and to keep his people from missing the point. At the moment, his solution seems to be new leaders in new places. The fruit that these new leaders are producing is not only that new missionaries are sent from new places. God is also using them, and the missionaries they send, to talk about what the calling requires, and sometimes they are describing the mission in new ways.
Can we think out loud, together, about new ways in which Christ’s mission is being described? How do you feel about what you see?
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Why a red ribbon? Is it not the color of the AIDS campaign already? We would have liked to find an original color, but all colors are already taken. White, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, black, even intermediary colors like lime, cherry or fuschia: they have all been taken by some social cause or left-wing campaign, much to the point that certain colors are shared now by more than one institution or fundraiser. Facing such a difficult choice, Red vs White seemed the best solution.
The Red Ribbon campaign makes plain to all that Marc Lepine is in fact a kind of liberator and that December 6 could finally become something positive. Liberator, how so? He liberates women from the unhealthy thoughts of genocide and gendercide that were prevalent in the feminist discourse since the days of Valerie Solanas and Mary Daly, and helps them STOP their planned monstrosities. The message is here: stop hurting men and be good to them, and they will stop hating you. They could even start to like you again some day. This is the Red Ribbon message of Marc that we can oppose to the White Ribbon of shame, guilt and hatred.
Marc Lepine tells women and feminists YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE MONTERS ANYMORE. He tells these thousands of women and feminists who have stolen their partner's house, their car, their money, he tells those who have stolen their ex-husband's children, their jobs and drove them to suicide: STOP TO BE MONSTERS, stop to secretly dream of killing men and planning gendercide, and we will perhaps begin again to love you some day. This is a powerful message, A MESSAGE OF LOVE, worthy of a new Christ.
The Red Ribbon campaign aims at ''unmonster'' women. It gives back their dignity to former feminazis, and allows those who performed atrocities without clearly realizing it, or misguided by their peers and under orders from the feminist war machine, to choose the path to REDEMPTION. To proudly wear this Red Ribbon is to show the world that YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE MONTERS ANYMORE, there is a way to salvation. Marc has given back women their dignity: he says ''be good and men will immediately stop to hate you, even start to like you again''. This is the powerful MESSAGE OF LOVE, and message of hope of Marc Lepine. Stop planning gendercide and stop acting like monsters, and we will start to love you again!
BUT WHY SHOULD WE LOVE YOU?
Why not? The killer saint tells them: ''let's save the planet from genocide. You don't have to read these books of vengeance anymore, like Mary Daly and Valerie Solanas, you don't have to plan massacres of male children in our hospitals anymore''. The iconic killer tells them: ''I'm ready to forgive you my children''. According to him, he would even be willing to forgive them the destruction of the environment which has been caused qui by feminine franctic consumerism for more than a century. Ladies, join this campaign of love of Marc: throw away this white ribbon of hate and replace it with the red color of love. Together, let us ''unmonster'' our society !
PS. an extra kind word from Bob Allen to all of you out there
International Marc Lepine Day, December 6, is almost here again. By now all MEN should have their homes decorated. The lights should be up. The cards sent out, The carbines polished. A day of feasting, drinking, and celebrating.
Happy Saint Marc's Day to you all.
Catch more of The World according to Bob at:
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IRVINE, Calif. — The number of consumers using iPhones to gather medical information has grown by 94% since 2011, according to a new study by online medical publishing company The Patient's Guide.
The study, based on engagement-behavior data on 12 million visitors to the site over two years, also found that the iPhone topped the list of mobile devices used to seek medical information online, accounting for 41% of total mobile traffic this year; the company predicts that the iPhone will surpass the desktop computer as the primary device for health information by 2014.
"Knowing that mobile activity has grown significantly over the past three years, we have paid close attention to the trends and patterns shaping the way consumers behave in this space," The Patient's Guide co-founder and CEO Jasson Gilmore said. "We have seen a sea change in the way consumers use mobile devices to research medical topics online. Physicians are now telling us it's common to see a patient who's reading questions from their iPhones."
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The most annoying thing about stationary bikes is that they're incredibly boring. Spice it up by adding a monitor that moves through Google Street View as you pedal.
Stationary exercise equipment is awful: you pedal and pedal, staring at the same piece of wall, and then when you're done, you're still in the same place you started. If you'd like to keep your exercising a bit less boring, this pretty neat hack will move through Google Street View at the speed you pedal. The setup is pretty clever; containing only a couple of sensors next to the pedals that detect a magnet that passes by every rotation. An Arduino then sends a keystroke to Google Street View to move the location forward. Check out the video for a demonstration, and hit the link for more details on how it was built.
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|Out of Humanity Comes Great Things|
Would you take a drink from the Hudson River?
Neither would I. Neither would anyone. The color alone would repel even the thirstiest person. Maybe if it was triple filtered and someone dared me...
The Hudson is our metaphor for all human enterprise -- all the things people build: businesses, organizations, associations, movements, societies. Once created, we're constantly filtering to keep them pure. But as our enterprises stretch out further and wider and touch more people, the water only seems to get murkier.
Here's the wisdom of the Hudson: the life is in the muddiness. Every bit of brown is nutrient-rich fuel for an entire ecosystem. Take it out, and you'll kill the whole thing. But what if we built enterprises like this sort of ecosystem -- tolerant of the mess and maximizing all the richness of our humanity?
That's what we mean by Out of Humanity Comes Great Things. The successful enterprises of today and tomorrow understand that there is much more to be gained by growing and launching whole people. Since it doesn't work to filter ourselves and others to get only what we want, why not make the most of ALL we are? That's what MuddyHudson does: we help people leverage all that they are for growth, effectiveness, productivity, and advancement.
We're a learning community who practices eduction leadership -- the art of managing process and environment in order to draw out the best and strongest in others. Through eduction, people convert their own strengths into energy and direction to meet their challenges. In other words, we have a passion for helping businesses, organizations, and individuals ask three key questions:
Ultimately, we want to have a hand at building better people, better enterprises, and better communities that together lead to a better world. We believe businesses are in the best position to make this happen, especially when they operate from their own passion and purpose, offering unappologetically exactly who they honestly are and what they uniquely do. We're partners who want to ask with you: What would change if we unleased the richness of our full humanity and directed its productive expression into building something remarkable?
|Where to start:
grow your people and enterprise in 3 ways (click option for more):
Peer-powered business growth groups for motivated owners and leaders.
Capacity-building process for team effectiveness and organizational growth.
Focused paradigm-shifting events for your team, group, organization, or association.
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ASOANEI - Productores Agroecológicos Santa Marta y Perijá
More than 600 indigenous families of four ethnic groups –the Arhuacos, Koguis, Kankuamos and Wilmas – and farmers from the region make up the organization. They share one vision; to protect their forests, mountains, rivers and animals through sustainable programs and projects that conserve natural resources and improve the community’s standard of living and preservation of their ancestral heritage.
The organization claims Ms. Aurora María Izquierda as the founder, committed to the cause since the early 1980’s. At that time, Aurora was one of the first women of her generation to leave her isolated Arhuaca community to attain a higher education. Upon graduating from the university in the capital city, Bogotá, she returned to her community to help create a sustainable agriculture program.
ANEI prides itself on rooting its business values and practices in the traditional teachings of the Mamus, the spiritual leaders of the community. They work to maintain a democratic structure that supports their cultural traditions and upholds the rights of community members and social, economic and cultural partners. Despite some challenges, including the presence of armed groups in their territories and the need for more indigenous leadership, they aim to continue contributing to the world by providing healthy, sustainable products that care for both the environment and human beings. ASONEI was the first in the region to become certified organic and remains the standard-bearer for quality in the mountainous area.
Fair Trade has helped us organize ourselves. After some time being autonomous, it is strengthening us as a community and organization, primarily because it supports our members and the general community in improving their quality of life. ”
Aurora María Izquierdo Torres, ASOANEI
The cooperative has allocated $4,997 in the past year towards a Harvest Fund that will provide loans to cooperative members that bear the costs of harvesting coffee. The loan helps cooperative members pay for temporary worker and other related costs during the harvest season.
Food Security & Crop Diversification
The cooperative used $2,499 in Fair Trade premium funds to co-finance a food security and crop diversification program for cooperative and community members. ASOANEI partnered with the local government health organization to create an indigenous health program that teaches community members how to plant beans, corn and other home garden crops. The program trained members on various agricultural themes like organic agriculture and general food health practices.
ASOANEI has created a microcredit fund for its members with Fair Trade Premium funds. The fund supports members in each cooperative region by allowing them to borrow resources to better their homes and farms.
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WILLMAR -- A multi-faceted plan that would provide $70 million in new money for economic development in rural Minnesota could help counties with high unemployment and low population be better prepared for the future.
The state has invested in education and health care, but hasn't dedicated the same kind of resources to economic development, said Dan McElroy, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
The Strategic Entrepreneurial Economic Development plan, known as SEED, would help balance the investment.
The SEED initiative is one of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's key proposals that will be introduced in the 2008 Legislature. Legislative authors for the proposal are expected to be named in January.
During a presentation Tuesday in Willmar, McElroy outlined the proposal to regional economic development leaders.
Because economic development is a non-partisan issue, McElroy said, he believes the initiative has a "good chance" of being approved by the Legislature. He encouraged community leaders to lobby local legislators.
Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, who sat in on the presentation, said he likes the governor's "innovative" plan and believes it will stimulate the rural economy. Urdahl said some of his ideas for tax credits have been included in the governor's plan.
Rep. Al Juhnke, DFL-Willmar, said in an interview that he also likes some of the ideas Pawlenty has packaged in the SEED proposal and that it "certainly deserves a look by the Legislature."
Juhnke said, however, that Pawlenty's plan to provide loans and grants for cities to fund infrastructure needs is a "backyard way" to borrow money that would otherwise be funded through Local Government Aid. "I think that's the wrong way to go," he said.
The proposal includes:
- $2.1 million in new funding for "developing and growing entrepreneurs" through such things as small business development centers, assistance to entrepreneurs, manufacturing extension grants and rural entrepreneur programs.
- $13.5 million dedicated for new capital for rural businesses, including tax credits, a loan fund, small business product development and the Minnesota investment fund.
- $20 million for a category called "sustained competitive advantage for rural Minnesota" that would include updating the Job Opportunity Building Zone program, community leadership and planning, and Main Street Minnesota revitalization.
- $50 million in bonding revenue for business development infrastructure, redevelopment grant programs and bioscience development infrastructure.
Under Pawlenty's plan for updating the JOBZ program, 64 greater Minnesota counties would be identified as "targeted rural opportunity communities" and would be given some additional economic development tools.
Those communities -- which McElroy called "more challenged counties" that have experienced declining population between 1980 and 2000 and have above average unemployment between 2000 and 2006 -- would be allowed to extend the JOBZ program for 12 years for agreements signed before Dec. 31, 2015.
Another 16 counties, including Kandiyohi County, would be able to extend JOBZ agreements for an additional 10 years.
This second group would be eligible for all other SEED programs except the Main Street Minnesota Revitalization grants and the Community Leadership and Planning program.
McElroy said because Kandiyohi County is a "success story" in terms of population and unemployment, it was not named one of the "targeted" rural counties.
None of the seven metro counties is eligible for the SEED programs Pawlenty is proposing.
JOBZ has not been universally supported by legislators, who suspect the state has subsidized jobs and business growth that would have happened whether or not JOBZ existed.
McElroy said the program has been "very successful" by creating 11,000 jobs with an average wage of $12 an hour in 310 districts.
He said one-third of the new jobs were created in towns with a population of less than 2,500.
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|Welcome to Woodstock CT Green Energy|
This web site is being developed so that the community can be more informed on ways to help conserve energy and to also learn about alternative renewable energy resources.
The Green Energy Team was officially established in 2008 as a town appointed committee whose primary responsibility includes the investigation of renewable energy options and ways the town and community can conserve energy. Woodstock is a member of the CT Clean Energy Program and the seven member team meets the first Tuesday of every month.
Woodstock 'Going Green' is a program of the town of Woodstock, dedicated to supporting, encouraging and assisting Woodstock residents, businesses and town municipalities to reduce our impact on the environment through conservation and increased use of green energy options. No members benefit or receive monetary compensation for our efforts. Our contribution is voluntary and our only rewards are what we can successfully contribute toward a cleaner environment for those future generations that follow.
Being the first town in CT means that ONLY the Municipal Buildings and Public Schools have switched to purchase 100% clean renewable energy. This does not mean that individual homeowners and businesses are included. Every homeowner and business needs to switch on their own and we encourage you to do so right here on our website. This helps Woodstock earn more free PV panels for the middle school and your contribution will benefit you in lowering your energy costs, as well as, helping to provide a cleaner environment. Click here to join.
Channel 3 Coverage of our Middle School Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Woodstock Celebrates Becoming a Green Community
With this recent acceptance, Woodstock has reached it's goal in achieving a 'Green Energy Community' status with the CCEF program... download letter. Our goals continue to increase community memberships in the purchase of clean energy and to also move forward with the installation of PV.
Woodstock, along with many other communities, has passed a resolution to commit to the state mandates for a 20% reduction by 2010, as a result, we will be organizing our information and posting it here for all to read and use in the push for a cleaner environment. Read more about the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program and what you can do to save and conserve energy.
To date, Woodstock has over 211 points from those who are purchasing Renewable Energy through the CT Clean Energy Fund with CL&P participating. This represents over 2.8% of the households here in Woodstock. The town is given FREE solar panels for every 100 points accumulated, to be used toward a cleaner environment. The scoring system for points has changed recently, so a 50% enrollment is now considered 1-point. Woodstock has, as of this post, earned over 180 points and has qualified to receive 4 PV panels. We encourage everyone to participate... click here for more info.
Did you know that the current average electricity production mix for New England CL&P customers is 36% natural gas, 32% nuclear, 11% oil, 8% coal, 3% hydro, 5% imported power and 5% other sources? Seems a better choice is one that provides Wind, Solar and Hydro, without the negative impact on our environment that gas, nuclear, oil and coal produce and whose by-products are released into our atmosphere. Be smart - Be clean!
(90% northeast wind, 5% New England class I and 5% CT hydro at .0089 cent/kWh)
View the list of current Generation Suppliers - CLICK HERE!
WOODSTOCK NOW AN EPA GREEN POWER PARTNER
In a recent letter from the EPA, it reads, "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would like to thank the Town of Woodstock, CT for making a significant green power purchase. Your commitment, and those of other Green Power Partners, helps to reduce the risks associated with climate change by supporting technologies that are more sustainable for businesses and communities."
We look forward to the support and resources, which are now made available to Woodstock, from the EPA. A list of these resources can be view by clicking here.
NEW on our site - ONLINE FORUM
We've just added a FORUM for people to post questions to. This FORUM will address any issue regarding renewable energy (RE) including ways to obtain different types of RE, RE choices, how to get your town involved in RE and where to get funding for RE projects.
Learn How to REVERSE those Electric Meters
Moving Planet September 24th
9/24 MOVING CONNECTICUT
On September 24, 2011 join people from across the state and a fast-growing coalition of civic organizations, faith communities, non-profits and businesses as we converge on New Haven with one common goal: Moving Connecticut past fossil fuels toward a brighter future and a healthier planet. Many towns are hosting events in the morning, and then we’ll all come together on the New Haven Green at 4pm on 9/24 for a rally, critical mass bike ride, music, talkback with local/state political leaders, opportunities to get involved in your community, and a bike-powered outdoor screening of the movie Wall-E!
WOODSTOCK GOES SOLAR - PHOTOVOLTAIC
Our commission has been hard at work during the past year to bring Solar Power to Woodstock. As some of you may have already noticed, the Volunteer Fire Station on Rte 169 is the first of our efforts. Yesterday, DCS Energy finished the 9 kW Solar Photovoltaic installation on the roof and they will be making the final connection to the main converter today. In talking to the installers yesterday, the panels are already generating electricity, so caution in handling the connection is ever so important.
This is one of FOUR locations in Woodstock that has received a 9 kW Solar Photovoltaic installation. The others are:
In addition to these, there is also a 4 kW system installed on the roof of the Middle School from the FREE Solar Installation awarded Woodstock for our participation in the CT Clean Energy Program.
We are excited that Woodstock has become proactive in helping reduce the use of fossil fuels and more importantly that we are setting an example for others to follow in helping to save our environment by supporting clean renewable energy.
Woodstock's solar panels are generating electricity!
Click here to view a website that breaks our productivity at the Town Hall down by the day, quarter, etc. as well as pointing out the resource equivalent of what we're NOT using! Click on "more data" on the upper left side to see other interesting facts. Still curious? Information is also available about the solar panels at the Woodstock Volunteer Fire Association, Highway Garage and the Woodstock Elementary School!
Have a PV Solar or Wind installation already? Email me your photos and I'll post them on our site so others can see what Woodstock residents are doing.
SOLAR BOTTLE LIGHTS in the Philippines
Watch the video - click here.
WHAT IS - BIOENERGY?
Click here to find out... and learn how agriculture impacts this valuable resource.
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Bicycle Helmet with Built-in Lights – Concept
With the massive increase in the number of cyclists in our cities, the issue of safety is high on the agenda of those who work within the industry. Here in the UK there is no legislation governing what a cyclist should or shouldn’t wear but a conscientious rider will always take the best measures to insure they are as safe as possible.
Part of a riders’ ‘safety arsenal’ is making sure other road users as aware of their presence, and with that in mind Italian designer Giovanni Doci has created the Blink Bike Helmet. The helmet has built in indicator signals to the sides, as well as a rear red light. The lights are built into a well designed helmet and feature an intuitive touch system.
My only criticism of the helmet is the necessity for the rider to remove their hands from the handle bars in order to activate the indicator. The helmet is merely a concept at present, and perhaps there is scope for the idea to be further developed if/when it goes into production. If the helmet could be linked up to a handle bar mounted system, the safety factor would be greatly increased.
Never the less, this is a brilliant idea, both visually and conceptually.
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Sketch has worked with car giant ŠKODA's PR team to create and install a unique replica of Wiltshire’s iconic Stonehenge - made entirely from recycled car parts - on London’s Southbank.
The sculpture, which was unveiled in time for the evening of the Summer Solstice (20th June), had been specially positioned to sit on little known ley lines in the capital.
‘Citihenge’ was specially commissioned to celebrate the launch of the ŠKODA Citigo.
Citihenge took Sketch’s design team three months to create. The ambitious piece of art, built using 18 scrap cars, stands at over five metres tall. Each henge is five metres wide and the commanding structure weighs a remarkable 36 tonnes.
The installation is the latest in a series of cultural creative projects undertaken by ŠKODA, which has included giant cakes, a car in a cage and collaborations with musicians Anastacia and DJ Tiësto.
The beacon of economical motoring was installed at Potters Fields for two days before touring the UK, with a move to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and its celebration of car culture, in West Sussex from 28th June – 1st July.
The installation recieved some amazing coverage with ITN News, BBC London, the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Evening Standard, the Metro, the Huffington Post and Sky News all featuring the event.
Pietro Panarisi, ŠKODA spokesperson says: “The Citigo embodies the future of driving and is the smartest option for forward-thinking city drivers. While traditional cars struggle to perform well under the strain of city driving, the Citigo is designed to excel in the urban environment. Citihenge symbolises the beginning of a new era of motoring and we hope drivers across the country will recognise this important turning point.”
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Reading time: 6 – 9 minutes
How-to books are big. How-to videos are even better.
Both are incredible learning tools.
And yet, in my book, iSucceed, I talk about gratitude, time management, language and many other simple, yet practical ideas on how to approach life. But not so much the how-to but rather the mindset.
Why is that?
I most certainly understand the importance of how-to’s but without the right mindset, success, if it does come, leaves quickly.
Having the right mindset is the foundation of everything and yet, most people overlook it.
Many entrepreneurs are too busy looking to make money or busy building their brand that they forget to build the single most important piece of the puzzle – themselves.
That might not what many people want to hear but it’s the truth.
One single person can make, or break, any company.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg started, built and grew their businesses into multi-billion dollar companies.
And at the same time you have Nick Leeson, the trader who single-handedly bankrupted Barings Bank, and Jon Corzine who brought down MF Global just months earlier.
Since you’re on this site then you’re looking for ideas to either help you become more successful.
And I do that in much the same way the Bible does:
Examples to guide you, warnings to help protect you. And sometimes it’s the later that gets us into more trouble.
That’s why nearly every successful person I have studied from is a continual learner.
They know that success can be short-lived and the only way to stay ahead of the game is to keep at it. Continually studying, learning, testing and implementing.
But here’s the catch – we can’t learn everything.
There isn’t enough time in the day for us to get everything done.
That’s why we have to focus on our strengths and find others to help us speed up our own learning process by trusting them and letting them focus on their strengths.
What do I mean?
One of my hobbies is taking photos.
I’ve got two professional cameras, a compact camera and, of course, my trusty iPhone.
But overtime cameras do get old and there will come a time when I’ll want to upgrade.
I could head over to the local store, play around with the cameras there for a while, ask a few questions to the sales people and hopefully, come home with a new camera. Total amount of time – about 2 hours.
Alternatively I could simply ask an expert and then place an order for their recommendation online. Time invested – 5 minutes.
Simple, yet powerful.
Too many people overlook how important their time is and waste it on things they really don’t have much idea about (but like to think they do).
I used to be one of them. These days when it comes to cameras, I head over to Ken Rockwell’s site, click on “recommended cameras” then go with his one of his suggestions.
Why? Because he lives and breathes cameras.
And every camera and lens I’ve bought that he recommended were winners.
Once I started applying this simple concept to other areas of my life, time management became a thing of the past.
I no longer spent hours playing around with ideas that I thought would work.
I would go with tried and try ideas that experts in their field had used and, lo and behold, I got similar results.
When it comes to self-development I listen to Tony Robbins and Bob Proctor.
When it comes to communication I turn to people like Peter Thomson, Earl Nightingale and Dale Carnegie.
Overtime, I started to develop my own ideas based on their own principles but only AFTER I had tried theirs.
Too many I people I know simply overlook other people’s ideas and choose to do it the hard way.
“Don’t try to reinvent the wheel,” is an expression I’ve come to live by and it gives me much more peace of mind.
Sure, experts can be wrong…but they have a much better track record than I do.
Would you rather spend months studying the stock market or simply go with Warren Buffet’s picks? I think the answer is obvious.
But there’s something about people, men especially, that they have to prove to themselves they can do it alone.
How silly is that? Success is a team sport. Gates and Zuckerberg didn’t build their businesses alone, and it’s something that many entrepreneurs have trouble getting over.
Now I choose to focus my time on:
- Marketing (a big thing this year)
- Finance (see my previous posts here and here to know why)
- Success Principles (to ensure my mind is wired correctly)
- Time Management (to get the most out of what I’ve got)
And under each category I defer to experts.
I look for, and invest in, the best material I can find.
I have my team of experts, and yet they don’t even know I exist. I get everything I can from them and then go through each book, audio lecture and DVD set with a fine tooth comb.
Some I go over twice or three times – why? Because they’re that good.
Having the right mindset allows me to make the right choices when working with the right people.
The combination is, as I’m sure you’ll find, the simplest and most powerful time management tip there is.
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Calling the students an inspiration "to me (and) the world," President Barack Obama urged Joplin High School graduates Monday to heed the lessons they've learned and spirit they've shown to rebuild not only their tornado-ravaged Missouri city, but also their nation.
JOPLIN, Missouri (CNN) -- Calling the students an inspiration "to me (and) the world," President Barack Obama urged Joplin High School graduates Monday to heed the lessons they've learned and spirit they've shown to rebuild not only their tornado-ravaged Missouri city, but also their nation.
"America only succeeds when we all pitch in and pull together -- and I'm counting on you to be leaders in that effort," said Obama. "Because you are from Joplin. And you've already defied the odds."
Minutes after 450 seniors from the same Missouri school got their diplomas last May 22, a monster twister tore through the community. More than 161 people were killed -- the worst death toll for such a tornado since modern record-keeping began in 1950 -- while dozens of buildings were torn to shreds by winds as strong as 200 mph.
One of them was Joplin High School itself, with the damage so severe that students ended up attending classes in a vacant section of the city's Northpark Mall.
Monday night's graduation ceremony was personal, with students reflecting with humor and perspective on their tumultuous school days and one administrator leading them in a chant to show their "Eagle pride."
"No matter where you are or what you do, your Joplin family loves you and believes in you," said school district Superintendent C.J. Huff, fighting back tears. "We are so very proud of you."
Obama alluded to students' unique struggles during his own commencement address, which was held on the campus of Missouri Southern State University. He referred, too, to broader challenges facing they their townsfolk to work together, dream big and remain positive in adopting a new slogan of "Remember. Rejoice. And rebuild."
"We can define our own lives not by what happens to us, but by how we respond," said the president, who returned to Joplin for the first time since attending a memorial service a week after the disaster.
"We can choose to carry on, we can choose to make a difference in the world. And in doing so, we can make true what's written in scripture: that 'tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance (produces) character, and character, hope.'"
The story of Joplin also showed there are "so many good people in this world," something that he insisted the students never forget.
While Joplin has worked fast to rebuild, many of the hundreds of businesses destroyed by the tornado have not been able to get back to full speed. Some 332 households still live in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers and are unable to rebuild their homes.
But they've gotten some help. The White House released a statement Monday noting the federal government has approved $21 million for directly affected Missouri residents, not including $97 million to the state of Missouri to support rebuilding projects and $41.3 million in low-interest disaster loans via the U.S. Small Business Administration for individuals, businesses and non-profit groups.
And the city of Joplin -- which is calling Tuesday's anniversary a Day of Unity, with events including a commemorative walk through the city -- estimates that almost 130,000 volunteers have logged hundreds of thousands of hours since the tornado.
It was during his remarks about community and unity that Obama shifted from discussing Joplin more exclusively, to talking about the nation in general.
"We need God. We need each other. We are important to each other. And we're stronger together than we are on our own," he said. "That's the spirit that's allowing all of you to rebuild this city. It's the same spirit we need right now to help rebuild America."
The Joplin High graduates are particularly qualified to do so, according to Obama. They have walked the walk -- by pitching in to assist their neighbors, pursuing their education despite the chaos around them and learning from other city citizens and total strangers about what people can do, against the odds, when they work together.
"Some of life's strongest bonds are the ones we forge when everything around us seems broken," the president said. "And even though I expect some of you will ultimately end up leaving Joplin, I'm convinced that Joplin will never leave you."
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Sue Cobb, who was waiting with her, uses the bus service at least once a week to go shopping or downtown, she said.
Rome Transit Department officials estimate that 675 people use the bus service in Rome each day.
The city has had bus service for more than 50 years. City officials took it over from Georgia Power, and many still rely on the service today, mainly to get to work and school.
The Rome Transit Department oversees the Tripper buses that get children in the Rome school system to and from school; a para-transit service for those with mobility issues; and the main line service, which runs five routes daily from 5:40 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Ted Edwards, an intern with the Rome-Floyd County Planning Department, conducted a survey on the main line service. He questioned 100 people who rode the buses between Nov. 16 and Dec. 21, 2012. Each bus route was surveyed during the morning and afternoon over the course of 10 days.
Of those 100 people surveyed, 42 percent used the bus service for work, and 30 percent used it for school.
And of the 26 who revealed where they went to school, 62 percent of them went to Georgia Northwestern Technical College, 23 percent went to Berry College and 15 percent went to Shorter University.
Out of 97 responses, 35 percent said they rode the bus one to 10 times a month, 35 percent said they rode the bus 11 to 20 times a month, and 30 percent said they rode the bus 21 to 20 times a month.
Out of the Rome Transit Department’s $2.759 million budget, a little more than $1 million goes to operate the main line service, said Kathy Shealy, department director.
Passengers pay just $1.25 to ride the bus, with seniors and students paying just 60 cents.
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Technology is supposed to prevent the sort of catastrophic crash that occurred Monday on Washington’s heralded subway system. As investigators began sifting through the twisted metal wreckage, the alert system designed to warn when Metro trains get too close and the initial call summoning rescue help emerged as two early subjects of inquiry.
Fire officials stated bluntly Monday night that Metro’s original description of the accident understated its magnitude, and it was only when the first rescuers arrived at the scene that the sort of help needed was finally summoned.
“A little after five o’clock we responded to what was believed to be a small incident,” D.C. Fire Chief Dennis L. Rubin said. “The first arriving company recognized the fact that apparently two trains had collided.” Fire officials eventually sounded three alarms, summoning hundreds of rescuers and implementing their mass- casualty operations.
A Metro press release issued shortly after 5:30 p.m. Monday incorrectly said the accident occurred after a train headed out of the city derailed on the Red Line. Officials later said a six-car Red Line train headed into the city stopped to wait for a third train to clear the platform at the Fort Totten station and was slammed into by another train from behind shortly after 5 p.m.
Authorities remained at a loss to explain the origins of the deadliest crash in Metrorail’s 33-year history Monday night. Federal investigators vowed to explore every potential cause of the accident that killed at least nine and injured more than 70: from train and track maintenance to operator training and equipment failures.
Experts focused their immediate attention on a system that is supposed to alert a train if it is approaching another.
Barry M. Sweedler, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator and senior manager who now works for the consulting firm Safety and Policy Analysis International, said the trains should have had a system in place to bring the train to a stop if another is in its path.
“I believe that will be one of the major areas the NTSB will be looking at. Was it defective, was it overridden by the dispatcher or the operator?” Mr. Sweedler said. “The system is supposed to be in place; but if you’re operating in some kind of manual mode, there may be some instances where the system could be disabled.
“Much of this is probably recorded someplace, so they’ll try to piece it together, they’ll try to re-create the crash, just to get an idea of sight distance, what the signals showed, what the operator may have seen,” Mr. Sweedler added.
Jackie Jeter, head of the union that represents most Metro employees, including train operators, said the system to stop the train is called “automatic train protection.”
“What happens is that once you get too close, you lose your speed command, and when you lose your speed command, the train’s going to stop,” said Mrs. Jeter, who would not speculate on an exact cause of the crash. “There are a lot of questions, because there are a lot of relays on a train that are supposed to prohibit this type of thing from happening.”
Metro General Manger John B. Catoe Jr. acknowledged the agency has an alert system and said investigators would be looking into why the train may have run through “whatever signals that might have been coming.”
He said operators also are instructed to run their trains automatically during peak hours, but could not say whether the train involved in Monday’s crash had been running on automatic or manual operation.View Entire Story
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Work on becoming whole in this yoga class, meant to bring balance to the body. Hatha Yoga uses postures and stretches that develop flexibility and relaxation, helping to unite the active and receptive energies in the body. Bring a friend, or make an early Valentine's Day date for this free yoga class, taught by Christine Wright.
Yoga For People non-profit organization 501 (c)(3). It provided its free class to needy and underserved populations. The nonprofit teaches free classes in homeless shelters, prisons, schools, senior housing and local libraries in Utah. Yoga For People believes that yoga in its many forms can help solve society’s major ills such as addiction, crime, anxiety and depression. As yogis, yoga gurus, students and studio owners, we have the capacity to bring healing, peace and happiness in our world.
Location: Main Library Conference Room C
Contact Information: (801) 524-8200
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