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After a year of anticipation, Apple's consumer portable, the iBook, was officially announced in the summer of 1999 at the MacWorld Expo in New York City. A 300 MHz G3 based portable designed for durability rather than portability was a somewhat surprising choice for a consumer portable computer, but it made sense for a machine designed to survive the rigors of life in a backpack.
The months between the announcement of the product and when consumers finally got their hands on these blue and orange computers were filled with questions. How fast is it in real world use? Is the design of this computer as innovative as past Macs? And perhaps the most important question of all — could the iBook play games? Now that the iBook has been on the market for a few months, these questions can finally be answered. The following analysis is the result of an exhaustive three-month road test of the iBook by perhaps the most demanding of computer users — the gamer.
A Real World PerformerFor a consumer-grade machine, the speed of the iBook is very good. Typical productivity applications such as Microsoft Word, Netscape Communicator and Intuit Quicken perform well. Screen redraws are snappy on the sharp 12.1 inch LCD display, even running at millions of colors in the machine's maximum resolution of 800x600 pixels. While the screen is capable of being scaled down to 640x480 pixels for certain applications (like games) that require it, the screen really shines when being used at its 800x600 mode.In addition to the obligatory 56k modem, 10/100 Ethernet, stereo audio out connector, and USB port, the iBook has two innovations: improved battery life and wireless networking. Apple claims that the iBook is capable of running on battery power for up to six hours. While this might be true in the lab, real world usage seems to be about four hours. This is still quite impressive and makes it reasonable to take your iBook out for an impromptu net gaming event while leaving the stylish but unwieldy AC adapter at home.
AirPort is the second innovation that was introduced alongside the iBook. The optional add-in card delivers 10 megabit Ethernet performance without wires. This speed delivers more than adequate performance for any gaming or file sharing chores. Keep in mind that in order to get the most out of AirPort technology, it is necessary to purchase an AirPort base station that will connect your AirPort-equipped iBook to the Internet. Macs with AirPort cards installed can communicate with one another without the base station. Apple currently does not provide software to allow an AirPort-enabled computer to act as a software base station to connect multiple computers to a single Internet connection.
The two biggest drawbacks to the shipping configuration of the iBook are its RAM and hard drive space. The 32 MB of RAM that ships by default with the machine ends up being a hidden cost to iBook users. The machine really needs to be upgraded to a minimum of 96 MB of RAM to avoid virtual memory related slow downs. Users hoping to use the iBook for any serious game-playing should consider maxing out the iBook to 160 MB of RAM.
The other drawback to the iBook is its hard drive. The built in ATA drive is fast for day-to-day operation, but the 3.2-GB drive is too small for even a casual user. In tests for this article, 2.5 GB of disk space were used up for applications alone. This did not include the documents and cache files generated by a typical user. Unlike the iBook's RAM, which is user-upgradeable, the hard drive is not easily removed by the user. While adventurous iBook owners have reported success in the installation of larger hard drives, this kind of upgrade voids the machine's warranty and can easily lead to damaged internal components if the upgrade is not performed by a professional.
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All athletes have different ways of preparing for competition, especially those who compete in the Olympics. In certain ways, Olympic athletes are their own breed. They are some of the fiercest competitors in the world and have some of the strictest training regimens. Some take long naps before races while others stay awake and listen to music for hours. Some eat light meals and others load up on calories. Some use sex to relieve stress, whereas others refrain from it throughout the entire Olympic Games. Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini prefers celibacy.
“There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” Magnini told “A” Magazine according to the Herald Sun. “During the events I try to keep calm.”
The 30-year-old is the double 100-meter freestyle world champion and won the world 100-meter freestyle in 2005 and 2007, so his resume is impressive enough that his training methods need not be questioned. Pictured above on the right is Magnini’s girlfriend, Federica Pellegrini. We are hoping Pellegrini — an Olympic swimmer and the 2008 gold medalist in the 200-meter freestyle — also prefers to swear off sex during the Olympic Games. Otherwise, the 23-year-old could be one frustrated customer in London this summer.Google+
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Updated: 2012-05-05 07:57
By Wang Hui (China Daily)
China and the US should take long-term view and endeavor to build greater mutual trust and expand common ground
With the eyes of the world on them, China and the United States held the fourth round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing on Thursday and Friday. There have been positive messages from both sides indicating their joint commitment to better managing their relations to the benefit of themselves and the rest of the world.
"Whatever changes may take place in the world, and no matter how the domestic situations in our two countries may evolve, China and the United States should be firmly committed to advancing their cooperative partnership and build a new type of relationship between major countries that is reassuring to the peoples of China and the United States and people across the world," said President Hu Jintao addressing the opening session on Thursday morning.
Hu's remarks underline the importance of Sino-US ties on the world stage. No one can deny interactions between Beijing and Washington now have implications far beyond their bilateral scope, as any move taken by the world's two largest economies will have an impact on the world economy and any efforts to address issues of global concern are unlikely to bear fruit if the world's largest developed and developing countries refuse to cooperate.
It is in this context that Hu put forward the proposal on Thursday that China and the US should break with tradition and avoid the conflict that has historically arisen between big powers and instead explore ways to develop friendly relations. Hu's remarks are particularly relevant as many US politicians and scholars insist on viewing China-US ties as a zero-sum game. If such thinking prevails there is no guarantee that the two big powers will not be pushed into a major conflict some day.
As such, the sagacity of Hu's proposal is self-evident, as it takes a long-term view and accommodates the basic interests of both countries. It should guide decision-makers on both sides when they chart the future course for bilateral ties or seek concrete solutions to disagreements between them.
At the heart of the proposal is the need to build political and strategic mutual trust.
It is a worrying fact that mutual distrust remains, despite the commitment and dedicated efforts of both leaderships and the bond between our two economies and our two peoples growing increasingly strong. In March, Wang Jisi, director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies, and Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institute, pointed out the underlying concerns each leadership harbors about the other in their paper "Addressing US-China Mutual Distrust".
Chinese leaders have reiterated their resolve to deepen mutual understanding and build mutual trust with their American counterparts. The official visit by Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to the US on Friday, signifies Beijing's continuing efforts to build strategic mutual trust with Washington. It marks the first high-level exchange between the two militaries since relations were soured by the US plan to sell arms to Taiwan last year.
Past experience indicates that each time the White House gives the green light to arms sales to the Chinese island province, bilateral cooperation suffers a heavy blow. And although the US has said it will not take sides in the South China Sea issue, its military exercises, one after another, with the countries involved in maritime territorial disputes with China, are interfering in regional attempts to find peaceful solutions. The US is also strengthening its military ties with its allies in the region and even beefing up its military presence in Australia. It is unrealistic to interpret such a show of force on China's doorstep as a promise of peace.
The US leadership should seize the opportunities available to help China better understand its intentions both regionally and globally in order to avoid misjudgments. Political wisdom from both sides is needed to control the risks arising from any disputes. To deepen mutual trust both politically and strategically, the two nations need to face their differences squarely and comprehensively discuss them.
The author is a senior writer with China Daily. E-mail: [email protected]
(China Daily 05/05/2012 page5)
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The first, Emilie du Chatelet, was a woman cut to a superhuman scale. “A genius in virtually every realm of mathematics,” she outsmarted the leading male scholars of her day. In addition, she looked like a celebrity model, loved like a Lotharia, and lived like a sultana. “The wench,” said a Romeo of the age, “is formidable.” “The most brilliant member of her sex in Europe,” she was also a “passionate,” magisterial siren who captured and held the two beaux du jour of Paris, the duc de Richelieu and Voltaire.
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
This woman is my hero.
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Karl Hoidal, 17, endured almost a year of chemotherapy and radiation treatments remembering the finest times of his life were spent enjoying the great outdoors.
"I wanted to hunt, fish and cut wood again," he said. "I couldn't do those things that I missed so much."
The Potlatch, Idaho teenager was diagnosed April 16, 2004 with Hodgkin's Lymphoma -- a cancer of the immune system that primarily attacks the lymph glands.
Hodgkin's is treated with radiation and chemotherapy, but most doctors agree that keeping the patient's spirits up is a key to overcoming the disease.
That's where Karl's love of the outdoors became his best ally.
"I've always been an avid hunter, and so when I was (undergoing treatments) I would think about those things rather than the cancer," he said.
Television also played a role in his recovery.
"He and his dad (Brian) would watch the Outdoor Channel and all those hunting and fishing shows together," Hoidal's mom, Juli, said. "Karl couldn't get out, so the TV programs were good for him."
Karl's inability to spend time outdoors was particularly tough in that he was raised to live life to the fullest in one of the most pristine areas of the country.
Potlatch, located 65 miles south of Spokane, Wash., is a land of deep pine forests, grassy meadows, clear rivers and babbling mountain streams.
A Potlatch Web site says the community "provides excellent accommodations for hunting, fishing, camping and other recreational activities."
As Karl's arduous cancer treatments wore on, he anxiously waited for the time when he could return to the outdoors.
Then, a unique opportunity presented itself to the family.
"While he was being treated, some friends told us about ‘Hunt of a Lifetime,' which takes kids with cancer hunting and fishing," Juli said. "So, we began trying to find out more about it."
The Hoidals learned that Hunt of a Lifetime was begun by Tina Pattison after her 19-year-old son, Matthew, realized his dream of going on a moose hunt in Canada before he died of Hodgkin's Disease in 1998.
The mission of Hunt of a Lifetime, a nonprofit organization, is to grant hunting and fishing adventures and dreams to those ages 21 and under who have been diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses.
Tina Pattison said the foundation was dedicated "to my son Matt and the life he lived loving the outdoors to the fullest, and passing on to others what hunting and fishing meant to him."
The thought of Karl returning to the outdoors after months of cancer treatment sent Juli and Brian scrambling to fill out Hunt of a Lifetime applications.
It wasn't long before the Hoidals received a reply from the foundation that said Karl had been selected to participate in an Arizona hunt.
However, the first one scheduled conflicted with a commitment he had made to show farm animals he raised in the state fair.
Finally, Terry Petco of Phoenix, the Arizona Ambassador for Hunt of a Lifetime, arranged for Karl to receive a Unit 22 bull elk tag transfer from Matt Rundo of Phoenix.
It was Petco who had earlier helped push a bill through the Arizona legislature that allowed tag holders to transfer hunt privileges to charitable organizations such as Hunt of a Lifetime.
"The governor signed it on April 1 (2004)," Petco said. "It took us two years to get it (into law)."
With the tag transfer from Rundo to Karl complete, Petco set about scheduling a hunt.
Among his first Rim Country contacts was Bob DePugh of Payson who was going to transfer a deer tag he had drawn to Hunt of a Lifetime.
What Petco didn't realize is that DePugh would become invaluable in helping Karl realize his dream.
"Bob was great. He did so much up there (in Payson)," Petco said. "He was able to get a lot of people to pitch in and help out."
For DePugh, the task was a labor of love.
"Karl is such a great kid and we are all happy for him," he said. "To do something for a good young man like that was unbelievable."
With Petco, DePugh and a host of others working hand in hand, Karl arrived in Payson Dec. 9 primed and ready for his first bull elk hunt.
The adventure began at a camp, north of Payson set up by Rim Rock Outfitters' Randy and Josh Epperson.
On the very first day, just after breakfast, the Eppersons stalked and glassed a 6-by-4 bull elk a few miles off Control Road.
It wasn't long before the teen downed the animal with his 30-06-caliber rifle.
"The hunt was everything I dreamed of when I was sick," Karl said. "It was exciting."
With the elk down, preparations began to process the meat and prepare it for a return trip to the Hoidal home in Potlach.
Pat Fogarty of Hot Shot meat cutters was among those DePugh had asked to pitch in and help with the benefit hunt.
It wasn't long before Fogarty had the meat processed and ready for shipment.
In addition to Karl enjoying many meals of lip-smacking elk roasts, the teen says he is looking forward to the arrival of a head mount that will proudly be displayed in the family home.
Following the hunt, the family spent the remainder of their time in Payson enjoying sites they might never have been able to visit -- including the Grand Canyon -- had it not been for Hunt of a Lifetime and the Rim Country volunteers.
"Hunt of a Lifetime and all the wonderful people in Payson did it all for us," Juli said. "It was awesome.
"To think that so many people did so much to help Karl is unbelievable."
Following the family's seven-day stay in the Rim Country, the three left Payson Dec. 13 to catch a flight out of Phoenix Sky Harbor that would return them to their Idaho home. Once there, Karl will continue his senior year at Potlach High School.
During those late night homework sessions, the teen might be excused if his mind sometimes wanders from algebra and American history.
He might be reliving a Rim Country adventure that was once only a dream.
"That dream kept me going through it all and then everyone did so much to help make it come true," he said.
Before leaving, the Hoidals said they wanted to issue a heartfelt thank-you to all those in Payson who contributed to Karl's adventure.
They include Bob DePugh, Rim Rock Outfitters, Sharon Owens, Jeff Vaughn, Scott Crabdree, Pat Fogarty, Kyle and Lynette Parker, Roy and Marie Haught, Mark Kile and the Tonto Apache Tribe.
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I spent 25% of my time driving the 70 miles to London and 75% of my time driving the 5 miles in London. I became aware of how multi-culturally segregated the city was. I wondered who’s city it was in the first place. It’s like the city has been hi-jacked by foreign nationals who have uprooted and settled there. I read that 80% of people living in London are not British. It seems that London, whilst expensive, attracts many of the globe’s entrepreneurial business folk. That was the case in Kensington with its Classically whitewashed buildings and Gothic Puginistic Churches. But travelling there, through the suburbs I saw what some would call, the ‘real’ London; boroughs and communities of multi ethnic groups each clinging to each other in their xenophobic states. It seemed a bit of covalent bonding wouldn’t go amiss here.
Much of London’s residential area within Kensington is empty I noticed. I even walked past Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s old home. There's a placard declaring 'Sir Alfred Hitchcock lived here' and below it are signs in Arabic, perhaps advertising rooms to let. It seems that the world moves on and there are new movements and colours that daub over the old world. You can see the old world underneath these new culturally rich colourings in their old, flaked skin and rotten, wormwood eaten skin. It’s here I like to look and contrast the old with the somewhat ‘out of place’ other culture.
The organism that is London culture is a mixed, melting pot that will soon turn into a soup of race, culture, language, indistinguishable and ordinary sharing the same history. I think this will take a while to happen, but when it does everyone will wear the same shade of skin, but fiscally we will be grouped and there’ll probably be an expanding rift rather than a divergent movement to a singularity.
I walked by several drunks and without looking at them, noted how people, nonchalantly walked by. These people weren’t born drunk, nor were they drunk in their 20s I suspect. Some catastrophic event must have placed them in this predicament. Mental health is something that is endemic in this city and it’s in the eyes of a few people who mutter to themselves, to those who count the pavement steps and those who wander aimlessly. Some of these were very successful people with happy families. Now they are trapped in a city that accepts them as part of the make up of London.
Just a few thoughts on London. You don’t have to agree with what I’ve said, but it’s awakened a muse that must have awoken in Neil Gaiman when he wrote ‘Neverwhere’.
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SINCE THE PUBLISHER USES the word "definitive" to describe Tough Without a Gun in its catalog copy, perhaps it might be useful to provide a working definition of "definitive." At the minimum it would have to include some survey of primary sources — papers, interviews, etc. — as well as an attempt to provide fresh critical insight into the life and work of a particular subject, in this case Humphrey Bogart.
Nothing remotely resembling that sort of effort occurs in Stefan Kanfer's deeply useless biography, which draws exclusively on secondary sources for its basic information and on a banal sensibility for its critical ideas. Even by the vulgar standards of the "star bio" this is a tired and inept performance. And that says nothing about its errors of fact — I noted about fifty of them before I stopped counting — which render the book as untrustworthy as it is tiresome to read. Most of these mistakes, it might be mentioned, could easily have been avoided by keeping a couple of standard reference volumes on the desk when the author — or someone — read its proofs. There is, indeed, a kind of unearned arrogance, a sort of willed ignorance, in this performance that is particularly alarming in that the author frequently bemoans the decline of standards, literary and cultural, elsewhere in contemporary culture.
Mostly, the book offers a view of Bogart's life that has become standard over the years: the well-to-do kid whose family lost its money after he wandered into acting, became a Broadway juvenile, achieved something like stardom in the really bad stage and movie versions of The Petrified Forest, wandered rather aimlessly through four wilderness years at Warner Brothers, before getting the roles that suited him, the while drinking heavily and enduring a truly awful marriage, before finding professional satisfaction and, a little later, domestic bliss with Lauren Bacall. Kanfer, who was my colleague at Time magazine for a number of years, adds nothing you have not previously read to this record, the basic facts of which have been spread through countless biographies over the past half century. Nor does he offer anything but standard readings of Bogart's films.
What he gives us in the way of added value is what his subtitle refers to as the "extraordinary afterlife" of the Bogart image. He's talking about Jean-Paul Belmondo's wistful sighs when he encounters a poster — "Ah, Bogie" — in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 Breathless, and the college-kid nostalgia that began a little later at Cambridge's Brattle Theater and spread, briefly, beyond Harvard to other campuses around the country in the 1960s. This is really old news, and it is pure desperation (or cynicism) for Kanfer to pretend that it has any current relevance.
This is not to say that Bogart is without historical resonance. We're not talking John Payne or William Lundigan here. He used to say that the only valid definition of stardom was the ability to pull your weight at the box office, which after a somewhat belated start, he began to do with High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and, of course, Casablanca. That he followed that great run of pictures with the likes of To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and that agreeable populist fancy The African Queen speaks well of his instincts and his limited, but authentic, skills as an actor. He even had, to his great credit, a cult classic that has made its way to the mainstream in recent decades, In a Lonely Place — in which he offers us Dixon Steele, a psychopathic screenwriter one never tires of chewing on.
It seems to me that this list of films is longer and more memorable than those compiled by the great contemporaries to whom he must logically be compared — James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, and though it grieves me to say it, Cary Grant. They all made two or three terrific films, and they were always agreeable to encounter even in routine movies. But none of them had quite the consistent good luck Bogart enjoyed from 1941's High Sierra through his last interesting, if flawed, film, The Barefoot Contessa in 1954. That's a relatively short time at the top-all of his peers had longer periods at the center of our attention-and some, like Stewart, with Vertigo and Anatomy of a Murder, did some of their best work quite late in their acting lives.
But, since Kanfer insists on bringing the matter up, if we are talking "extraordinary afterlives" — star careers that extend beyond the cultists to the general public — there is really only one that matters. That belongs, of course, to John Wayne, whose career was in some way similar to Bogart's in that he passed a long period in unworthy films (something like a hundred B Westerns) before emerging in 1939's Stagecoach. Like his fellow chess player, he, too, needed maturity to assert his full power. But unlike Bogart, or the others I've mentioned, Wayne remains something like a living presence in our popular culture, someone who requires no explanation when his name comes up. That's largely because his image was so clearly outlined, because he seemed to harbor no secrets, even when it came to his nutsy politics. Never prone to the odd, ambitious project (as Bogart and the rest sometimes were), Wayne clung closely to the genres and saved his subtlety for performance (particularly in the way he moved) where his average fans never noticed what a fine, instinctive screen actor he was.
This is not meant to detract from Bogart's instincts, which admitted of more range and nuance in his choice of vehicles and were marked by a very different range of life experiences. We can stipulate that dark romanticism was his manifest destiny in the majority of his best roles. But not in all of them. Yes, he was often the guy who claimed, as he did in Casablanca, never to stick his neck out for anyone and then eventually went ahead and did just that. These roles suited him admirably, in that he was essentially a loner. It has always seemed to me that Bogart enjoyed playing the role of a declassed gentleman in Hollywood, a broody chess player and a happy yachtsman, who had little to do with the more frenzied social life of the town. As an actor he was a solid professional, a man who showed up on time, knowing his lines while sardonically battling the studio for better roles.
I am not at all certain that he fully understood what his basic screen character offered America during the wartime and the postwar years. But I do think it was something more than romantic rue. Symbolically, he was, like much of the country in those days, an instinctive isolationist, only very reluctantly drawn into causes and crusades. When he was not playing, as he often did, quite a straightforward hero (see Action in the North Atlantic or Sahara) or a man who narrowly defined himself by whatever rituals his movie professions imposed on him, the fictional movement of his characters tended to be toward reluctant engagements with something larger than themselves. In this, he mirrored the nation's hesitant movement toward a similar commitment. In the quieter postwar years this tendency, somewhat subliminally, reminded people of their better — or anyway more activist — selves, while, on the whole, they pursued prosperity and ignored more strenuous political activities.
In that context, Bogart more than once — and always effectively — experimented with a much darker version of his usual screen identity. Alone of the great stars of his era, he was willing to explore the psychotic side of his fictional nature. We can begin where he began, with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, wherein his Fred C. Dobbs goes blitheringly nuts as he grows increasingly certain that his fellow prospectors are intent on stealing his share of the gold they are digging out of a Mexican mountain. It is a great, brave, and often hilarious performance by an actor determined not to succumb to stardom's besetting impulse, which is to hint at some undisclosed likability lying beneath his antisocial behavior. To that masterpiece, we are obliged to add such scarcely less scary work as the terminally outraged screenwriter of In a Lonely Place and the pathetically sniveling Captain Queeg of The Cain Mutiny.
These performances raise a question: do they tacitly acknowledge the darkest side of the American character? Or are they merely manifestations of Bogart's own dark side? I don't believe that any actor can consciously represent large social or psychological themes. But there are moments when a player can accidentally achieve congruence with a something more or less inchoate in — all right, I'll use the dreaded word — the zeitgeist. Something like that occurred when Bogart belatedly achieved true stardom — he was in his early forties when he made his first string of hits. He was always quite a controlled actor, but almost amateurish when called upon to play cowardice (see him begging for his life in The Roaring Twenties) or trying to laugh off Peter Lorre's goofy menace in The Maltese Falcon.
Having said that, however, I think that, for whatever reasons, Bogart was able to tap into the largely hidden but dangerous and hysterical side of the Era of Good Feelings. This skill was hinted at as early as the one very good movie he made at Warner's when they didn't yet know what to do with him, 1937's Black Legion. In it, he plays a sullen factory worker, who, passed over for promotion, joins a Ku Klux Klan-like organization and commits murder on its behalf. There's a lot of power in this understated performance. But more to the point, the film is one of the few of its era that hints at the raw, if hidden, irrationality underlying America's ostensible good nature. Movies in that era — in any era, to tell the truth-like to present evil as a finite, containable problem. Eradicate the villain and all will be well. They do not like to imagine evil as a permanent existential condition. But when you play crazy, as Bogart did in these late pictures, you suggest that there is, in certain individuals, perhaps in society at large, an element of incurable madness. Usually in movies this aspect of life is represented by second leads, character actors, people who impinge on the leading players but can be dispensed with, without regret, when it is time for normalcy to reassert itself in the narrative. It is rare indeed for the star to embody the fully irrational in a movie. It takes an uncommon courage for him to bet that the sympathy he has engendered in other roles will be carried over into very different contexts. For Bogart to move from the reserved and the sardonic to full out psychopathy was brave, a huge test of his relationship with the audience and an equally large test of his skills as an actor. At the end of the day, it seems to me that Treasure, Place and Caine are the best measures of the man and his gifts that his career offers.
At the very least, the rather perfunctory treatment Kanfer offers of these roles provides yet another measure of this biography's ineptitude. As someone who has devoted much of my life to film history, I sometimes wonder, when I confront a book of this sort, at once smug and clueless, if the publishing world does not apply different standards to works in this field than it does to, say, literary history. When I started writing about movies it was clear that most publishing houses did not have editors knowledgeable and passionate about a subject that they regarded as second class. Over the years, that condition has changed for the better. There has been an acknowledgment that film, and popular culture in general, has an aesthetic and a history that is complex and worthy of inspired analysis and nuanced writing. And yet there are still too many books like Tough Without a Gun — cheap, careless and mouth-breathing, titles that would not be published if their subjects were literary or political figures whose stature in their fields were comparable to Humphrey Bogart's in his.
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Backblaze is a cloud backup service that needs cheap storage. Lots of it. They say a petabyte worth of raw drives runs under $100,000, but buying that much storage in products from major vendors easily costs over $1,000,000. So they built their own.
The result is a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867, the bulk of which goes to purchase the drives themselves.
And best of all, they open sourced their hardware:
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From $16 now to $6.50 by end of year: That's for 802.11b; g chips should drop from $18 down to $10; b should wind up around $4 next year.
Since the cost of chips is one of the fundamental multipliers for any Wi-Fi equipment, a drop in price by nearly half to two-thirds could shave 10 to 30 percent off the cost at street. A $100 access point could drop to $70, for instance. PC Cards are already as low as $50 and there are some basic costs. I would expect the bottom of the market is $35 for PC Cards, $30 to $35 for USB, and $50 for PCI. Access points could wind up as cheap as $50.
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01:10:21 Various shots of the assembly line Men move Mini chassis in place, wheels are added to a Mini as it moves along. The Morris emblem is attached to the bonnet and seats are fitted. High angle shot of the production line. Man climbs into white Mini and drives it off the production...
A heavy train is used to test a bridge and an enormous locomotive is demonstrated.
Quality of seeds tested at station in Cambridge.
A look at methods of testing things from engineering parts to beer.
Goods containers are tested for strength and durability at Leatherhead, Surrey.
Kids test the strength of toys in Erith, Kent.
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Testing army cars.
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Ice Breaker Games - a Perfect Way to Get Your Party Started!
Ice Breaker Games can help you get your party off to the best of starts, especially, if all or some of your guests have never met one another.
Ever arrived at the party, only to have your hostess show you in and "waltz" out of the room to greet other guests or to finish up other things, leaving you in a room with other people you've never met?
Remember those awkward glances and the silence?
Of course, you're a sociable person and you found something to say.
But you made a mental note for yourself, next time you're throwing a party to think of something to help your guests avoid feeling this uncomfortable.
The easiest way to achieve that (unless you can be in two or three places at the same time) is to find a couple of fun icebreakers for your guests to play, while you're putting some finishing touches on your party.
Those who've arrived early (or simply on time) can start an icebreaker game that won't take too long and, as new guests arrive, they can join a second or a third round of the game.
You, on the other hand, will have the prefect choice of joining the game with your guests or finishing up some things in the kitchen.
These party icebreakers are a great way to get the party started and provide your guests with a comfortable and fun way of getting acquainted.
LIST OF GAMES :
Adam and Eve - The Ultimate Ice-Breaker: A great fun party game which will ensure that everyone mixes and mingles.
Autographs - Figure out who everyone on the guest list is and get their autographs!
Checking Out The Competition - This ice breaker game will give your guests the opportunity to show off their powers of observation while enabling them to fill in the gaps in their knowledge about the other guests.
Feelies - Guess what's in the basket by feeling the objects.
Four-Letter Words - This game is the perfect way to make your guests meet and mingle.
Get Rid of It! - In this game players need to choose a piece of their property that they would like to get rid of and list the reasons why. Ideal for early evening entertainment.
Odd Bean - Win the game by collecting the most beans.
Who Am I? - This is one of those fun get acquainted games where players need to find out who they ARE by asking other people questions.
Who's Next? - This game will help everyone remember other people's names.
More games coming soon ..............
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There is everything from Kids Birthday parties, to Valentines Day, and also Bridal Showers, Wedding Reception Games, and that naturally leads to Baby Showers, not to forget Fancy Dress and Halloween, and of course Thanksgiving & Christmas, then you need to plan for your New Years Eve party. And all the other occasions in-between are covered as well!
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Sharyn alfonsi, thank you. The holiday comes, then the shopping, but we cannot forget it was just two weeks ago that hurricane sandy hit. And with so many americans visiting new york during the... See More
Sharyn alfonsi, thank you. The holiday comes, then the shopping, but we cannot forget it was just two weeks ago that hurricane sandy hit. And with so many americans visiting new york during the holidays, we learned the statue of liberty will be closed for the rest of the year because of damage from the storm. And there are the families that live here, still puttiheir lives back together after the hurricane. Tonight, abc's ron claiborne along for the ride with volunteers determined to let those families know, they haven't been forgotten. Reporter: On a street corner on staten island, volunteers put out a thanksgiving day spread. Nothing elaborate. Turkey burgers, pumpkin pie, some cookies. For the people here, it was a feast. You want to eat some burgers? Reporter: Most people on this storm-battered street still have no power in their homes. No heat, no gas. So, a group of volunteers from a church in new jersey brought the holiday to them. This is a privilege. It's like putting the giving back in thanksgiving. Reporter: Slater boulevard was slammed by what people call a tsunami. House is gone. Reporter: A 15-foot high wall of water that left the first floors of every home uninhabitable. This family lived in this house for the past 32 years. They spent today combing through debris, looking for the cherished art facts of their lives. This was your wedding china? Used to be. Reporter: I'm thankful that we're still here. I'm thankful for so many people that came here to show us love and support. Reporter: For the many people still reeling from sandy's assault, like this family, there were gestures of support today, often from complete strangers. Like courtney wood of new jersey, who opened her home to a family with nowhere else to go. She found them through a special facebook page called "a place at the table. Kws ". I would love to be able to offer a hot meal, a house filled with love and I can't imagine not doing this. Reporter: You know, talking to people here on slater boulevard, even among the awfulness and the haunting memories of what happened here. On this day, they said they were grateful for the food, which was welcome, but more than that, that people who they had never met in their entire lives cared enough to come.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The American-News welcomes letters of opinion from our readers. Letters regarding current local and national news items are encouraged. All letters are subject to editing for length and style. Letters containing potentially libelous or obscene statements will not be published. Letters must contain name, address and phone numb...
Montevideo American-News - Montevideo, MN
Posted Jan. 31, 2013 @ 8:00 am
Posted Jan. 31, 2013 @ 8:00 am
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History teaches us to not disarm
"Guarded with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but down right force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined," said Patrick Henry.
Gun control is certainly a topic which provides ample opportunity for debate from both sides of the issue. However, the framers' original intention for the Second Amendment is often overlooked or deliberately bypassed in the debate for a reason difficult to talk about.
No one wishes to contemplate that the chief reason for the Second Amendment is the possibility that the people may have to defend themselves against a government that may become brutal, repressive and murderous. We find it hard to contemplate such a scenario, but the framers did not, because they lived it.
Gun control advocates state that no one needs a high capacity semiautomatic rifle to go hunting. This is true; a high capacity semiautomatic rifle is not needed for hunting, but may well be needed for defending our communities against government forces which wish to visit severe repression on its own citizens in the future. Weapons like that would then be needed to achieve any kind of parity between citizens and those governmental forces who would wish to do them harm.
Now there are many who would look at our government and our way of life and would state that such a need could never arise. The framers did not look at it in that fashion and included the amendment because they realized the nature of man and that such a horrible predicament could arise.
History certainly has its precedents. It is a snap of the fingers in time that the wind blew the ashes of whole groups of people across the fields of Europe because they had no means to defend themselves from an evil government. I do not have the time here to discuss the more recent historical manifestations of the actions of evil governments against their own people, which is even going on as you read this.
You many very well counter that such a thing could never occur here in our day or in the future with our enlightened government. Perhaps you are right, but someone wiser than you or I once said, "There is nothing new under the sun."
We should deal with shootings in our society with proactive imagination, but it is never a good idea to disarm a free people because history has taught us it is a short, quick drop into servitude.
Sorry about wreaths shortage
American Legion Post 59 would like to extend our apology for not getting the wreaths out for the "Wreaths Across America" project this past Dec. 12.
They shorted us on wreaths that we ordered and that prevented us from getting wreaths at all the crosses at Sunset Cemetery and at the other rural cemeteries that were purchased. This December we will make sure that a sufficient number of wreaths are received and placed as stated and American Legion Post 59 will bear the cost. We will also insure that all donor names are placed in the newspaper.
Although we had nothing to do with the wrong veterans group being noted in the paper, we will also follow-up that it is correct this December. This was our first year to do this and we have learned from it.
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Los Angeles-based Invested.in, a startup focused on helping people to manage fundraising efforts for individuals, non-profits, and businesses, has launched a new site for The BizWorld Foundation, a group which teaches business basics to children. According to The BizWorld Foundation and Invested.in, their new site will help educators to raise the fund they need to purchase BizWorld's educational programs for their classrooms. The two had announced the site development deal in July. Invested.in operates a site which helps anyone raise funds for projects and other efforts. Invested.in is headed by Alon Goren. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Top NewsMonday, September 20, 2010
Invested.in Launches Site for BizWorld
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PLAYER SAFETY: "I remember having to pry out of the players. . .that there were health and safety issues on the field and in the locker rooms. 'Tell me about the conditions of such-and-such a dressing room. I picked up rumors that the visitors' room in Detroit is atrocious. Tell me what it is.' And I would have to pry it out of the players. There'd be an accident of a player running into a fence in the outfield. I'd have to say, 'What kind of a fence was that?' Even when the reporters wrote about it the next day, you'd never get any details. You'd find out--that's a concrete fence and it didn't have any padding."
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Most Impressive Man I've Ever Met
In the early 1990s I started working on a book about the early years of Marvin Miller’s tenure as the director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. My focus was on how Miller convinced a generation of ballplayers that: (A) owners weren’t the benign sportsmen they were believed to be; (B) although players were a franchise’s essential element and most important commodity, owners treated them poorly; and (C) a strong union was the best way to improve salaries, benefits, and working conditions. I criss-crossed the country twice, interviewing ex-players who had been the union’s player representation on their respective teams, including three league representatives.
But I started the whole project by interviewing Marvin Miller, who was gracious enough to invite me to his apartment in Manhattan even though I had no journalistic credentials or track record as a baseball historian. I wanted to understand more about those early years, from his starting the job in 1966 to the tumultuous 1969 spring training boycott, a key but long-forgotten milestone in the MLBPA’s early history. When the major leagues expanded in 1969 and initiated a playoff system, the television deal multiplied. Since MLB funded the players’ pension program, Miller was eager to see that the players got their fair share.
The owners stonewalled him so he urged players not to sign their 1969 contracts, reasoning that, as he told me, “It defied logic for anybody to put their signature to a contract committing themselves for the following year with this thing unresolved.” The players overwhelmingly embraced the contract boycott, with only a handful of players signing contracts that winter. Three well-attended meetings were held which solidified the union’s resolve; even Mickey Mantle, who had announced his retirement, made a public statement in support of the boycott.
When spring training time arrived in February 1969, hardly any players showed up, though they held workouts on their own. There had been a trickle of signees, but the owners were concerned enough to discuss the possibility of using replacement players, and by mid-March a showdown seemed inevitable. That’s when Bowie Kuhn stepped in. Elected as the new commissioner in February, he didn’t want his watch to begin with baseball’s first work stoppage, so he prevailed upon the owners to pony up some more money for the pension fund, come to some kind of agreement on the future of the pension fund, and play ball.
For the owners, the expenditure was still small change, but it was a huge step for the players. They had taken a stand and, with Miller as their advocate and their public voice, they had gotten what they wanted. The owners had backed down. This lesson was fresh in their minds when 1972 rolled around and Miller persuaded them to engage in their first strike. Would they have had the nerve to strike in 1972 if they hadn’t stared down the owners in 1969? That was just one of the questions I asked Miller in a conversation which lasted nearly two hours. Here are some of the things I learned from him:
PLAYERS IN 1966: “The understanding of the players as to what unionism was and why it was necessary and what it could do, was close to ground zero. . . .Sure they would like to make more money, but they had been told that baseball owners don’t make money, the industry doesn’t make money. They had all kinds of beliefs which were, I was going to say amazing, but not really given their backgrounds. . . .They had no union experience outside of baseball. What they did know about unions was furnished by the press, a good anti-union press.”
1968-1969 WINTER PLAYERS MEETINGS: "We invited five or six players from each team. . .Everybody who was invited came. It was dead winter in New York, so that was the first surprise. The second was the meeting itself. While this was not like the meeting three years later when the players took over and everybody talked and kind of whipped themselves into a strike frenzy. This was a different kind of meeting . .at which they first listened to a long, long report that I gave and which was supplemented by the two league player reps and the Pension Committee reps who had been attending all the meetings. . .They were detailed as all hell, purposely so, because I sensed we were moving into a crisis situation and I wanted them to be able to retain as much as possible to report back to the players. So the meeting was a surprise, secondly, in the way they listened; and then, the forceful manner in which each one got up who did talk. . .I keep remembering Dick Allen. He was so magnificent. . .God he was eloquent and forceful and strong. There was no question that nobody could sign a contract with this kind of situation."
THE BOWIE KUHN FACTOR: "Kuhn became commissioner, and the same day or the next day he was in my office. It was his first official duty, he made no commitments at the time, but I remember the conversation in which he made it clear to me that the last thing the new commissioner wanted was to start the season with a shutdown of the whole industry. . .Within a couple of days after that, things began to move. [John] Gaherin would come into a meeting--Gaherin was a good negotiator and a professional, but he had a couple of weaknesses. His facial expressions--he was not a good poker player--and I knew him well enough to know that things were changing and he was no longer being told to 'tell them to go screw themselves, let 'em strike.' I could tell when that had changed, and it changed almost immediately."
THE ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTION: "One thing that they [the owners] had always used as an argument. . .long before I came on the scene, was that baseball is a self-regulated industry, that this is why we don't need to be worried about anti-trust implications, we handle our own affairs. This dates back to the Black Sox scandal, it dates back to Holmes, this is how they fended off federal regulation of baseball after that scandal. 'We're a self-regulating group, we hired a judge from the United States Federal District Court, and he's going to be the all-high commissioner, and he's going to have all kinds of authority the way we lay this out, and we regulate these things internally, so you don't have to worry about abuses like you have to worry about G.E. using people with its power, etc. We're going to have this self-regulating system.' Except that they had to worry that this time [Curt Flood's lawsuit], unlike prior cases, we were going to testify in court that this self-regulation was a sham. That the commissioner was no neutral person despite that title, that the commissioner was the chairman of the board. What kind of self-regulation do you call this?"
GAINING IMPARTIAL ARBITRATION IN 1972:."I had said it a thousand times in the negotiations: 'You can't have a bona fide labor-management situation where a grievance dealing with a contract that you think you've negotiated in good faith, where a decision about a dispute as to whether the contract is being followed will be rendered by an employee of one of the sides in the dispute.' So they agreed to this impartial arbitration."
MY MAGIC QUESTION: “That’s a guess, obviously. I think it was a very important precedent. For those players in ’72 who had been there in ’69, which represented a clear majority, I think the memory of the success of ’69 had to have been a factor in the ’72 strike. Absolutely. All they had to do was recall what the bargaining position of the owners had been prior to the boycott being obvious and coming down to the deadline, and they taking a look at that agreement which came out of it—which was a tremendously good agreement.”
Twenty years later, I vividly remember my two hours with Marvin Miller. I could see why he had led the players out of the Dark Ages and into the Promised Land—and why the owners thought he had mesmerized the players. He was calm, reasoned, methodical, and insistent. Strengthened by the moral certitude that he was righting decades of wrongs—most notably the reserve clause, which took him a decade to overturn—he exuded the patience needed to wear down the owners’ intransigence time after time. He was the most impressive man I’ve ever met.
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We've seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we've always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary -- we wouldn't want to store our encryption-worthy data on a disk that can't be read at all in a few years, after all. That's happily about to change, though -- the Trusted Computing Group has just announced that virtually every drive maker has agreed on a set of 128-bit encryption standards covering SSDs and HDDs. That's Fujitsu, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Western Digital, IBM, Wave Systems, LSI, and ULink Technology, if you're keeping score at home (and we know you are). Ideally this means that we'll see easy cheap disk encryption filter onto mainstream consumer storage, which would basically invalidate all those "I'm stealing this hard drive out of your laptop and using it to log into your Facebook account" crimes of passion we know the kids are into these days. Best part? Fujitsu, Seagate and Hitachi are all already shipping drives that support the TCG standards.
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Despite chief minister Sheila Dikshit's recent orders to power distribution companies to ensure the city doesn't suffer from power cuts, on Tuesday many areas in south and east Delhi went without electricity for hours.
Some of the worst affected areas were Greater Kailash I, Kailash Colony, Amar Colony, Mayur Vihar phase I, New Ashok Nagar and Karkardooma. The situation was especially bad in some parts of south Delhi which went without electricity for at least four hours.
According to power department officials, the supply of coal to many electricity stations that supply power to Delhi has been hit by cancellation and rescheduling of goods trains due to dense fog across north India.
"Coal shortage at NTPC Limited is a problem. Though the Dadri plant has increased production, it continues to generate up to 400 MW less compared to its normal output. A number of other coal-based power stations have also curtailed supply to Delhi," said a senior government official.
"The entire country has been affected due to this. Technical glitches in a number of thermal power generating stations have compounded the problem," the official added.
"The issue was slightly compounded on Tuesday due to the sudden increase in power demand. While on Monday, the maximum load was 3,800 MW am, it increased on Tuesday by over 8% to touch 4,122 MW - the highest ever at this time of the year. The highest demand last year in winter months was 3,934 MW on January 29," added the official.
Sources said the Nathpa Jhakri plant in Himachal Pradesh, which supplies 350 MW power to Delhi, was also shut for some time on Monday due to heavy snowfall.
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One of the best ways to learn more about your ancestors is to network with others researching your surnames. But finding those genealogists and family history researchers isn’t always easy.
Now, the new GenealogyWise Social Network is making it possible for you to find people interested in your family surnames, your family locations, your Y or mtDNA Haplogroup, and much more. And membership is free.
In keeping with the spirit of this blog — Finding Family for Free — we encourage you to visit the GenealogyWise Web site. If you like what you see, and we think you will, please join and get into the conversations underway.
The site has not yet been officially launched, but as of July 10, 2009, it had more 1,600 registered members who had created more than 450 special interest groups.
GenealogyWise reported that among the most active groups at that time were such groups as:
– Germany and German Ancestry
– and Irish Ancestry
– Genealogy Tips and Links
– The Genealogy Guys Podcast
– and Scottish Ancestry
Of course you’ll want to join groups. And, if you are researching a surname or location, you’ll want to create a group if one doesn’t exist. I’ve created these groups:
You can post your queries, invite and make friends, help other members, find out about upcoming genealogy events and much more. You’ll enjoy genealogy networking as never before.
And if you join, please invite me to be a Friend. You’ll find me at:
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research articles to help you find your family and ancestors, often for modest or no cost.
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MOSCOW: The sight of the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director is improving after an operation in Germany to save his vision following an acid attack, Russia's chief ophthalmologist said on Wednesday.
The Jan. 17 assault put the spotlight on the bitter rivalries at the Bolshoi, one of the world's leading theatres, and in the fiercely competitive world of ballet.
Sergei Filin, 42, underwent several operations in Moscow before flying to Germany last week for more treatment after sulphuric acid was thrown in his face by a masked attacker.
"His left eye no longer causes so much concern. The right eye is still in a rather complex condition. But in any case, everything seems positive and optimistic now," Interfax news agency quoted eye specialist Vladimir Neroyev as saying.
The agency said a Russian eye doctor had been present during the surgery in Germany but gave no further details.
The Bolshoi has said German doctors now treating Filin have requested that information on his health and medical procedures are kept to a minimum to protect his privacy.
Such a move might also, however, help reduce the intense media attention on a saga that has damaged the Bolshoi's image.
Neroyev said last month that he expected Filin's sight to recover enough for him to be able to work again after a long period of rehabilitation.
Police have not arrested anyone over the attack. Filin says he believes he knows who was behind it and has made clear that he thinks it was connected to his work, in which he has the power to make or break careers.
Filin has not revealed any names in public but police are treating some within the troupe as suspects.
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“Behold, I have told you.” He had come all the way from heaven. His arrival had ushered in a great earthquake. He was on a mission. He was to roll back the stone from the door of the tomb in which the crucified Christ was laid. He sat upon it like General Douglas MacArthur walked the beaches of the Philippines making good on his promise: “I shall return!” As the angel sat upon the conquered stone, his mission remained yet unaccomplished.
Death and Hades had been conquered and Jesus had risen from the dead but there remained the message. The Greek word “angel” means “messenger.” He had been commissioned from the Throne of God, the epicenter of all that is. He arrived with that power and glory and the earth greatly quaked. These messengers are real beings from a real place and they are super charged with the power that emanates from the ultimate reactor. “His countenance was like lightening and his clothing white as snow.”(Matthew 28:3) The Designer sends out and sustains all creatures great and small, all things created, be they confined to this terrestrial ball or magnetized to yet another sphere catapulting in some other solar system. This messenger had been sent.
He was not nonchalantly received. “And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.”(Matthew 28:4) He had been sent to women. He had not been sent to those deemed important by the world’s standards at the time. These two women were the ones who would be the first to bear witness of the risen Messiah.
“But the angel answered and said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. [He didn’t tell the guards to not be afraid] He is not here for He is risen as He said. Come see the place where the Lord lay.’”(Matthew 28:5-6)
The mission of the angel was to give the message to the next anointed messengers who would then be commissioned to give the message to the next anointed messengers. “And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him.”(Matthew 28:7a) The angel took his mission with utmost sincerity. He had, as it were, the King’s message. It was put in his hands. I get the image of a relay race where the baton is handed from one runner to the next until the race is completed. The heavenly host had received the baton. He had passed the baton to the ladies. With a sense of accomplishment he asserts to them, “Behold, I have told you.”(v.7b) The ladies knew it was theirs to pass. “So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.”
Are you looking in the tomb today? Jesus conquered death. He is risen! He paid for our sins on the cross by His shed blood, rose again and now offers to all forgiveness of sin and eternal life with Him in heaven! “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”(John 1:12-13) Believe it! Call on Him! Behold, I have told you.
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Dr. Mart Laar, a two term prime minister of Estonia (92-95, 99-02), will give the keynote address at Acton’s annual dinner on October 24 at the JW Marriot International Ballroom in Grand Rapids. Before becoming prime minister, Estonia was in a state of economic ruin. Inflation hovered around 1,000 percent; there was a drop in the economy of more than 30 percent. Estonia was also completely tied to the then disastrous Russian economy. While not considering himself an economist, Laar fostered a climate where private property and free markets flourished.
In fact, Laar had little economic training, but had read the book Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. The title of the book attracted him to Friedman, “because there were two words: free and choose; this was two things the communists hated, freedom and choice. The name was so excellent and I was interested in reading the book.” He claimed it was the only publication on economics he had read at that time. He also noted, “I was so ignorant at the time that I thought that what Friedman wrote about the benefits of privatization, the flat tax, and the abolition of all customs rights, were the result of economic reforms that had been put into practice in the West. It seemed common sense to me and, as I thought it had already been done everywhere.” Laar introduced a flat tax in 1994, which simplified the tax code and did away with economic penalties for hard work. In the past, Laar has referred to the role played by his Christian faith in providing him with a moral compass and giving him the courage to make hard, but necessary economic decisions.
Estonia is now ranked twelfth out of 165 countries in the Economic Freedom of the World index, published by the Heritage Foundation. The Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedom also named Estonia as one of the top nations for religious freedom. Laar also speaks with enormous credibility on proclaiming the horrors of Marxist tyranny. Laar notes, “One reason we see these kinds of dictatorships coming from Latin America is we have not yet declared the communist to be such an evil ideology as the Nazis or other evil ideologies.”
Dr. Yuri N. Maltsev will deliver a lecture titled, “The Crimes of Communism” on September 27 for the Acton Lecture Series. Before Maltsev came to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on President Mikhail Gorbachev’s famed perestroika reforms. In Moscow, he also held various prestigious teaching and research positions. Currently he is a professor of economics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Maltsev will discuss the reversal of liberalized reforms in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In addition, Maltsev will talk about the variety of ways in which communism oppresses people, especially religion. Another issue the lecture delves into is Russia’s own war with radical Islam, coupled with Putin and Russia’s dealings with rogue Islamic states.
Maltsev was also a Senator William Jennings Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a research institution sponsored by the United States Congress. There he analyzed problems of the post-communist transition to a market economy, with special emphasis on issues related to privatization and deregulation. In addition to contributing to ten books and publishing over a hundred articles, he has given lectures at leading universities in the United States, corporations, banks, colleges, churches, schools, and community centers. Likewise, he has appeared on various television and radio programs, including PBS NewsHour, C-Span, CNN, Financial Network News, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, and Wisconsin Public Radio.
Acton’s media director, Jay Richards, has been hitting the airwaves to help educate the public on environmental issues in a responsible manner. Richards has been weighing in on the global warming debate as well as discussing former Vice President Al Gore’s summer Live Earth concert, which attempted to raise concerns and awareness over climate change issues. He also noted the similarities in language and method that has caused the environmental movement to morph into a religious movement of sorts. Richards noted on a Tampa Bay station, “Al Gore said this was the single most important issue of our time. The language is more and more heated and [activists] essentially say we have ten years to deal with this or all is lost.” Richards urged caution adding, “Christian organizations believe we should be stewards of our environment and all Christians believe that. The question is whether global warming is being caused and whether it’s catastrophic. Before we develop this into a deep religious significance we need to examine the science more closely.” Richards also pointed out the economic devastation the United States would suffer if we implemented the Kyoto treaty saying, “It would cost a trillion dollars a year to implement.” Richards also expressed frustration with the difficulty of meaningful dialogue on this issue with some parties noting, “If we are really destroying the planet and destroying its habitability that would be a significant moral concern. What’s troubling is this taking on such an intense moral pitch it’s difficult to have a rational conversation, such as trade offs in the Kyoto protocol, where the debate ought to be taking place.”
The summer interns contributed forcefully to the mission, programs, and goals of the Acton Institute. Whether it was working on the Samaritan Awards, writing commentary, or assisting with office duties, this group embodied professionalism and a hard work ethic. Michael Wagner, a student at American University in Washington, D.C., declared, “The Acton experience, as an intern, allowed me to look closely at what is being done today to promote liberty and freedom not just here in America, but around the world. There is a real sense that Acton has a universal appeal.” Wagner also added, “I think that people of all faiths can find something to like in Acton’s unique blend of economics and faith. The work is very ecumenical, and I think appeals to a universal desire for freedom.”
Kelly Hogan, a student at Marquette University, added one of her favorite aspects of the summer was “working amongst individuals who strive diligently to improve mankind each day.” Specifically she also noted, “The value of acquiring additional knowledge of pertinent issues in our world today such as poverty and disease, and how to help improve upon those problems.” Intern Brooke Levitske, a student at Calvin College, noted her favorite part of the summer was “the chance to write, and spending time and getting to know the other interns.” Brooke wrote a notable piece titled “Illegal Immigration and the Church: Philanthropic Lawlessness.” Fortunately, some of the interns will continue in active roles assisting Acton Institute this fall.
Also included in this class of summer interns were two Blackstone legal fellows, Sean Martin and Paul Southwick. Blackstone legal fellowship is a rigorous program for exceptionally capable and highly motivated Christian law students from law schools across the country. The stated goal is to “train a new generation of lawyers who will rise to positions of influence and leadership as legal scholars, litigators, judges, and perhaps even Supreme Court justices, and who will work to ensure that justice is carried out in America’s courtrooms.”
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Give me profit over rent-seeking any day
It is New Zealand culture and politics that keeps us poor.
We despise profit seeking as selfish and destructive.
We admire rent seeking as noble and just.
We run down what prospers us. We whoop up what keeps us poor.
We have it back to front. That’s why we don’t prosper.
What could possibly be nobler than profit seeking? It means applying what we have to the best use possible to satisfy what other people want and are prepared to pay for. In everyday life it doesn’t get better than that.
Profit seeking is done without force. No one is compelled to buy. It’s your choice what to buy, or not buy, or whether to buy at all.
It’s your buying decisions that determine what business is up; and what business is down. It doesn’t get more democratic (“rule by the ‘simple” people”) than the free market.
Profit seeking enriches us all. The constant search for better and better ways to use resources increases productivity and boosts wages. It’s that increased productivity that boosts wages across the board, not unions nor labour laws.
Successful profit seekers make money by the truckload. But the money they make is but a sad fraction of the wealth they create.
Bill Gates’ billions pale in comparison to the wealth generated by his Microsoft software: software that’s in nearly every business, home and workplace in the prosperous world.
Or Google. Our eyes water at Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s mega billions but again their wealth is a very small fraction of the total wealth they created for us all. Just think how many times we use Google each day at work, at home, on the smart phone, and try to imagine your life without it.
Wealth doesn’t trickle down from profit seeking; it pours down in buckets.
To prosper, we need a culture and a politics that both admire and respect profit seeking, whether it be in property, farming, finance, retail or whatever.
Rent seeking is the opposite of profit seeking. It’s the seeking of favours, not from the “simple” people, but from government.
Rent seeking doesn’t create wealth, it just shuffles it around. One person’s gain is always another’s loss. Any gain that government handouts must first be taken from someone else.
Worse, resources get chewed up rent seeking. People spend time and money lobbying both to seek rent – and to defend it. Rent seeking doesn’t just redistribute wealth; it destroys it.
It’s rational to rent seek wherever government has valuable resources up for grabs.
The Maori Council water claim at the Waitangi Tribunal is classic rent seeking. This is politics, not law. The claim would have no chance at common law. It relies on the Treaty of Waitangi Act passed in 1975 and the many amendments since. It’s entirely political.
So a great deal of energy, time and resources will be soaked up in a fight about who owns water. Some political deal will be hatched. And then the claims will flare up all over again over another valuable resource, and on and on it goes.
It’s entirely negative sum: no wealth is created but much is consumed in the process. What’s astonishing is that we allow such rent seeking to get dressed up as a noble fight for historical justice. Bollocks. It’s a greedy political fight for money without having to produce anything for it.
That’s the behaviour that keeps us all poor. It comes from government failing in its job of ensuring secure property rights. Property rights that had been secure for years are tossed up for grabs through legislation like the Treaty of Waitangi Act and the Resource Management Act.
To prosper our culture must respect profit seeking as the engine of prosperity and our politics must secure property rights, not forever toss them up in the air for political grabs.
Pictured top of article: Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples with National leader John Key at the signing of the parties' confidence and supply accord.
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Members of St. John’s growing Indonesian community gathered on the deck of an Indonesian tall ship Friday to celebrate diplomatic relations between Canada and their home country.
But they were really there for the food.
The KRI Dewaruci visited St. John’s harbour during the weekend as part of its 10-month world tour and the party Friday marked 60 years of diplomacy between Canada and Indonesia.
On board the ship, local Indonesians mingled with crew from their home country, as well as the Indonesian ambassador, Dienne Hardianti Moehario, and Lt.-Gov. John Crosbie.
“Did you ever think you’d be here staring at Signal Hill on an Indonesian boat?” Indra Sarwinata, a fourth-year engineering student at MUN asked his friend, classmate and countrywoman, Intan Permata Sari.
The city’s Indonesian population is small — only about 30 people — and many of them are students such as Sarwinta and Sari.
Sarwinta said they came to St. John’s because they heard the people were friendly and the university was good.
“Once I’m here I see for myself. It’s very true,” Sarwinta said.
Sarwinta was the only Indonesian when he first came to MUN, but now there are 10 undergraduates.
Indonesia has thousands of islands, and the party included traditional dances, music and food from many of the country’s distinct regions.
Piles of chicken satay (marinated meat on a stick), steaming bakso (meatball soup) and Bintang (a popular brand of beer) entice not only the native Indonesians, but Canadians, too.
Ivi Hermanto came to St. John’s 30 years ago to study engineering at MUN but he said he stayed because he made friends here and found good work.
“I’m so used to this place now, I don’t think too much of Indonesia anymore,” Hermanto said.
Still, he said it’s hard to not be able to find the ingredients to his favourite dishes. He tries to cook Indonesian food for himself sometimes, but he said it just isn’t the same as back home.
Sarwinta eyed up a plate of spring rolls, called risol. His mom makes it for him every time he goes home, but he hasn’t had it in ages.
“I can’t really cook,” he laughed.
After gorging at the buffet, everybody danced the Poco Poco, an Indonesian line-dance.
The evening seemed to wind down after dancing, but then a giant platter of steaming tumpeng came out.
A mountain of yellow rice surrounded by barbecued whole chickens, peanuts and fried tempeh, tumpeng is served at parties and festivals as a communal meal.
It was the captain’s birthday and the delicious dish was cooked by his crew to celebrate.
Aldila Nurausuma, who studies earth science at MUN, said he’d rather have tumpeng instead of birthday cake any day.
“No question,” he said.
A bonus was that the night’s event introduced members of the city’s Indonesian community to one another.
One man came to St. John’s seven months ago to work for an oil company. He studied and worked for years in Texas, where he said there was a much larger Indonesian community.
“There are a lot of people that I have never met in the past seven months, that I met yesterday when the ship comes,” he said.
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If at first you don’t succeed, advertise again.
That seems to be the policy of the abortion-rights group, NARAL Pro-Choice America.
The organization landed itself in hot water early last month with a television ad condemning John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The 30-second spot accused Mr. Roberts of filing court briefs “supporting violent fringe groups” and of holding ideas that led him “to excuse violence against other Americans.”
The claims, based on a very harsh interpretation of arguments made by Mr. Roberts in a Supreme Court case heard in the early 1990’s, were a bit shrill even for some liberal tastes. Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, told The New York Times that the ad was “far too intemperate and far too personal.”
As the controversy intensified, NARAL decided to withdraw the offending advertisement. Within the past two weeks, however, the group has begun running a new anti-Roberts spot, albeit one that is couched in more moderate terms. This time, the voiceover suggests that Mr. Roberts doesn’t believe in the right to privacy and adds, “There is just too much at stake to let John Roberts become a decisive vote on the Supreme Court.” This ad ran before Mr. Bush announced that he wants Mr. Roberts to become Chief Justice.
The group must hope that assertions like these will help to ensure that Mr. Roberts gets a rough ride in his Senate confirmation hearings.
The NARAL saga is unusual in one way: It offers a rare example of an activist organization softening its approach in the face of criticism. But, in a broader sense, it’s typical: It exemplifies how interest groups of all ideological complexions—especially those whose troops man the trenches in the culture wars—coarsen and distort important debates.
Few voices dissent from the view that American politics has become increasingly polarized in recent years. But interest groups have gotten off lightly when it comes to apportioning blame for this state of affairs. In fact, they have played a massive role in driving public discourse toward the extremes and keeping it there.
Conservative organizations like James Dobson’s Focus on the Family have proven especially adept at building—and using—political muscle. Their tactics are clear: They devote enormous energy to sharpening a sense of outrage among potential supporters. In their world, American Christians are besieged by the forces of godlessness.
Last week, for instance, a Focus on the Family Web site carried an article lamenting how “Air Force Religious Regulations Could Silence Christians.” The Web site of another hard-line conservative group, Concerned Women for America, drew its readers’ attention to a forthcoming Girl Scouts national convention that, it was alleged, would “feature pro-abortion, pro-lesbian speakers.” When such “scandals” are highlighted, what self-respecting Christian fundamentalist wouldn’t rally to the flag?
Liberals are no shrinking violets when it comes to making extravagant claims that suit their own purposes. Shortly after the second anti-Roberts ad was released, for example, NARAL president Nancy Keenan told The Times that “freedom is at stake” in the battle over his confirmation. The claim seemed hopelessly melodramatic at best.
These groups are not dangerous merely because they use overblown rhetoric. It is self-evident that they have a vested interest in prolonging and intensifying enmity. Implacable confrontation is their lifeblood.
If their leaders were to acknowledge complexity, or to suggest that the other side may be composed of people who have valid reasons for holding different opinions, or to imply that compromise may be desirable, the effects would be profoundly detrimental to their organizational health.
“From the perspective of groups like these, one needs to establish a raison d’être, and therefore one constantly seeks problems,” said Professor Doug Muzzio of Baruch College’s Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government. “They also need to make those problems seem urgent and big and dramatic.”
Most of these groups are so enraptured by their own dogmatism that they do no more than pay lip service to the need to accommodate different viewpoints. They disdain the careful balancing of competing rights that lies at the heart of real political decision-making.
Thus, the New York branch of the ACLU mouths sentiments about the need for the police to “be aggressive in maintaining security” but launches a lawsuit aimed at stopping relatively innocuous bag searches on the subway system; James Dobson talks about the importance of civility but calls the Senate compromise arrived at by the so-called Gang of 14 “a complete bailout and betrayal.”
These groups, on both sides of the partisan divide, like to portray themselves as being composed of concerned “ordinary” Americans. Many observers regard them as a healthy and rambunctious element in the democratic process.
It’s time to question whether that’s really true. Sometimes it seems as if those who most loudly profess concern about American society are stretching its fabric to breaking point.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Israeli shells hit a United Nations UNIFIL compound in the village of Qana, Lebanon killing 230.
Roughly 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge in the compound to escape the fighting between the Israeli Defense Force and Hezbollah. 106 of them were killed and roughly the same numbers of them were injured.
Journalist Robert Fisk wrote:
It was a massacre… The Lebanese refugee women and children and men lay in heaps, their hands or arms or legs missing, beheaded or disemboweled. There were well over a hundred of them. A baby lay without a head. The Israeli shells had scythed through them as they lay in the United Nations shelter, believing that they were safe under the world's protection.
In front of a burning building of the UN's Fijian battalion headquarters, a girl held a corpse in her arms, the body of a grey-haired man whose eyes were staring at her, and she rocked the corpse back and forth in her arms, keening and weeping and crying the same words over and over: "My father, my father." A Fijian UN soldier stood amid a sea of bodies and, without saying a word, held aloft the body of a headless child.
Israel's slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive…has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive this massacre.
Israel immediately expressed regret for the incident, saying that Hezbollah rocket positions were the intended target, not the UN compound. Israel's Prime Minister said, "We did not know that several hundred people were concentrated in that camp. It came to us as a bitter surprise."
The IDF's chief of staff said, "I don't see any mistake in judgment… We fought Hezbollah there [in Qana], and when they fire on us, we will fire at them to defend ourselves… I don't know any other rules of the game, either for the army or for civilians…"
A U.S. State Department spokesman said, "Hezbollah [is] using civilians as cover. That's a despicable thing to do, an evil thing."
Amnesty International later conducted an on-site investigation of the incident and concluded that, "the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound, although the motives for doing so remain unclear. The IDF have failed to substantiate their claim that the attack was a mistake. Even if they were to do so they would still bear responsibility for killing so many civilians by taking the risk to launch an attack so close to the UN compound."
Human Rights Watch concurred. "The decision of those who planned the attack to choose a mix of high-explosive artillery shells that included deadly anti-personnel shells designed to maximize injuries on the ground — and the sustained firing of such shells, without warning, in close proximity to a large concentration of civilians — violated a key principle of international humanitarian law."
Osama bin Laden, head of al Qaeda, cited the Qana incident as a justification for his policy against the United States.
This should all sound familiar to you, but not because it's something that happened last week. What I've just described happened back in the spring of 1996.
And you should find it incredulous that Olmert, Bush, Cheney, Bolton and the rest of the neocons think the results of a prolonged Israeli assault on Lebanon will turn out any better this time than they did a decade ago.
Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (Retired) writes from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read his commentaries at ePluribus Media and Pen and Sword.
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--- Making a Permanent Impression Since 1994 ---
By JOE WILBUR The Tattoo A group of Bristol Eastern High School's top students are setting their sights on disarming the school's new pistol-packing police officer. Though most teachers and administrators seems supportive of Officer Gary Vincent -- and his Glock 17 9-mm gun -- some students say the weapon isn't welcome. "The fact that there's a police officer walking the halls with a gun makes me feel unsafe," said Jessica Zarrella, a senior at Eastern. In the wake of a heated meeting with administrators over the gun recently, some students from Zarrella's advanced placement U.S. government class say they may survey students about the matter. Senior Jessica Mikes, who is working on the survey, said she thinks having a cop at Eastern with a gun is "a bad idea." "It's not as though our school is violent enough to require a gun," said Mikes. "It's unnecessary. He doesn't need it. It's a bad message, the gun." Vincent, a former DARE officer, regards his firearm as part of his uniform. "Studies have shown that without the full uniform, you don't command the same authority," said Vincent. "The gun is part of my uniform and without it I don't have the same authority. You have to keep that. When you lose that authority, that respect, that's when things go wrong." Zarrella disagreed. "It's the image that he projects by carrying the gun," Zarrella said. "It's very negative. He's establishing authority through fear, rather than through respect." Early this year, Vincent began spending his Fridays at Eastern, doing what he calls "community policing." "My goal is to prevent juvenile crime before it happens," said Vincent, "by being a friend, role model, problem solver, mediator and informational resource." Some students think Vincent is entitled to his gun. "It's not like he's here for target practice," said Mike Santoro, senior class president. "It's not really a threat to anyone. If a situation arose, he may need his gun." Senior Nick Sibly said the gun "shouldn't be an issue." "It's part of his uniform, like his belt or badge," said Sibly. "It's good to know that, if a cop is needed for some reason, he is there." Others fear that an officer with a gun could signal stricter security measures. "It may be good for the school to have a police officer here, keeping an eye out," said Heather St. Onge, a sophomore, "but the next step could be a metal detector." Staff and administration insist that it's not Vincent's position to patrol or to draw his weapon, and that he won't unless his life -- or someone else's -- is threatened. "We've had fully uniformed officers in and out of the schools all through my career," said Principal V. Everett Lyons, "and it's never been a problem. I don't have any real problem with it, or see it as a threat. I do, however, see where [students] would be uncomfortable, and I can respect that." Beryl Josephson, social studies department head for the city's two high schools, suggested a possible solution. "I feel it would be nice if he could conceal the weapon," Josephson said. "Some people are afraid, or their anxiety level has been risen. It could be a nice compromise to conceal it." It was in Josephson's government class that students first objected to the gun. A recent meeting between Lyons, Carolyn Cistulli, Vincent and protesting students failed to satisfy the group. Cistulli is the district's $90,983-a-year director of instruction and professional development. Zarrella said she thought Cistulli "patronized" the students. "She accused us of being childish and said that we were 'wasting her time.' I don't think she took us seriously," Zarrella said. "We just feel that he could do his job in a blazer and tie, or without the gun." Cistulli declined comment on the meeting's specifics, saying only that the students are "good kids who were concerned." During the meeting, Zarrell said, Vincent contended that the gun is essential to his position, saying that without it he wouldn't want the job." "I don't think that we resolved anything," said Lyons, "and it's really an issue on which there's very little middle ground. We do want to keep the dialogue open, though." A second meeting was cancelled without explanation. Vincent keeps office hours at Eastern from 10:45 a.m. to about 2 p.m. on Fridays. He said a big part of his job is speaking to students about the law, careers in police work and the dangers of drugs and alcohol. "I enjoy working with young adults and I was given a gift for communicating with young people. I really feel like I'm accomplishing more doing this than handling complaints or something." According to Vincent, Police Chief John DiVenere picked him from a handful of volunteers for the position. Lyons and Superintendent Ann Clark also had to approve the post, Vincent said. "It's really a sort of community service project," said Lyons. "Essentially, he's here to provide students with a positive view of law enforcement." Across town, Officer Tim Ustanowski works at Central High School in a similar capacity. He and Vincent also spend time at the city's middle schools. "I think it's a great idea," said Larry Hochman, head of Eastern's guidance department. "Some kids feel more comfortable, in certain situations, talking to an authority figure. He's a resource for the students, by choice, and it's worked terrifically so far." Vincent said the aim is to bridge the gap between students and the police. "Students have to understand that I want to be their friend first," stressed Vincent, "but I'm also an authority figure that can help them should they need it. I am a policeman and I do have the full power of arrest. The gun is for their protection."
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July 12, 1999
This week, we have a true story by Pat Peterson , from Arnes, Manitoba. He took part recently in literacy classes with the Interlake Adult Learning Association (IALA).
I first started to get pain in my knee about two or three months ago. I thought it was just a sprain so I did not go to the doctor right away.
But the pain did not go away so I went to my doctor at the beginning of August. I told him what I had and he sent me to Dr. Froese who is a knee "specialist". He looked at my knee, heard what I had to say, and believed it was a torn cartilage. So he booked a knee scope and possible surgery for November first. That gave me a couple of months to make arrangements to get to the Seven Oaks Hospital.
At first I was scared of the upcoming surgery because one mistake would have me suffer with it for the rest of my life. Another worry was the lack of wages during the recuperating time after the surgery.
The day of the surgery I was driven to the hospital by my cousin. The nurse sent me to the locker room to change into a gown, slippers and a robe. They had me seated in a lazy boy chair and given a warm blanket. Then they took me to physiotherapy where they gave me crutches and showed me how to use them properly. They showed me my exercises to strengthen my knee so it will go back to normal after surgery is all over.
Then I was sent back to pre-op for an hour's wait. During that wait I was asked about allergies and previous illnesses. They put an I.V. into my left arm. A few minutes went by. Then it was my turn for surgery. I walked into the surgery room where I was derobed and put on the surgery table. And given a needle in my spine which froze me from the chest down. It gave me a very weird feeling not being able to feel my whole lower half.
They had the knee monitored through the whole surgery so I could watch. Also the doctor could tell me what he was doing and what was wrong with my knee. He found that I had a torn cartilage. I also had a piece of cartilage the size of a quarter missing from my thigh. They ground off all the loose pieces and took out the debris.
Then I was taken to recovery. It took me about an hour to get my feeling back in the lower half of my body. Then I was sent back to pre-op. for another half hour. They gave me toast and coffee then let me dress. Then the nurse took me to my cousin's car by wheelchair.
For me the surgery was not as bad as I had feared. It's like they say; "Fear is what makes things look worse than they really are."
[This story was taken with permission from a collection of learners' writings from the Interlake area of Manitoba, entitled Interlake Insights, published by the Interlake Adult Learning Association (IALA).]
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Diversity is good.
We should strive for diversity.
But only for so much diversity.
We should be ourselves.
But only if our selves are within an acceptable range of difference.
And even within that range,
Even within acceptable difference,
We still push, sometimes for sameness.
Why do we say one thing and do another?
Are we not always told that actions speak louder than words?
Are we not always told that we should treat others the way we want to be treated?
Are we not always told that it’s OK to be different?
Why do our actions always belie our supposed values?
I think we are afraid of what we do not know.
I think we are afraid of those who are not like us.
I think we don’t REALLY want diversity.
We just want to THINK we want diversity because we’ve been told we should.
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The House of Representatives passed the $700 billion emergency economic stabilization bill and sent it to President George W. Bush who quickly signed it.
The bill is equipped with improvements added by the Senate in hopes of sweetening the deal for the wary congress. Many of their constituents had called for them to vote against the bill, but on the floor today representatives changed their minds about rejecting the bill on Monday saying that a yes vote was the “right thing to do.” Analysts worried that if the bill did not pass, credit markets would freeze up and inhibit banks from giving credit to small businesses and individuals.
While lawmakers voted, investor confidence improved and midday trading rose 1.47% to 153.80 despite reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stating that employment fell by 159,000 in September; the worse the country has experienced in five years. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.1% but rose for blacks to 11.4% in September from 10.6% in August.
Earlier today, Sen. Barack Obama told an audience in Abington, Pa., that the policies Sen. John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin are promoting “are killing jobs in America every single day.”
“Obviously this is a very disappointing report. We’re dealing with a number of shocks to our economy and have been for some time — still elevated energy prices, the housing correction, and obviously the credit crisis that we’re dealing with now,” Tony Fratto, the White House deputy press secretary, said early this morning. “We think that one of the most important things we can do right now…is to pass this emergency legislation to deal with the problem in our credit markets.”
Added to the bill since Monday is an Alternative Minimum Tax patch, which will prevent the AMT from causing an increase in taxes for millions of middle class Americans.
Two other provisions also not included in Monday’s bill is a temporary increase in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limit to $250,000 until Dec. 31, 2009, and mark-to-market provisions which give the Security and Exchange Commission authority to suspend potentially abusive “naked” short selling in all equity securities.
Wednesday the SEC approved a 30-day extension to a temporary ban on short selling which was set to expire that day. Lawmakers and banks accuse the mark-to-market rule, which is instituted by the Financial Accounting Standard’s Board and the International Accounting Standards Board, of worsening the credit market crunch. The American Bankers Association had been putting pressure on the SEC and Congress to change the rule.
Banks say that mark-to-market evaluations do not allow brokers to give a fair value measurement of a company’s assets in a less liquid market, forcing them to sell below the value they believe the assets should be worth.
Also today, Wells Fargo Co. agreed to buy Wachovia Corp. in a $15.1 billion deal despite a prior FDIC-facilitated deal with Citigroup for $2.16 billion. Citigroup is demanding that Wachovia honor the original agreement. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said today her agency would stand behind the agreement it made with Citigroup.
“The FDIC will be reviewing all proposals and working with the primary regulators of all three institutions to pursue a resolution that serves the public interest,” said Bair.
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Harris Teeter raisins, apricots recalled
Whole Alternatives, LLC of Louisville, Ky., has recalled Harris Teeter brand six ounce packages of dried apricots and Harris Teeter brand eight ounce packages of dried golden raisins because the products contain undeclared sulfur dioxide.
Sulfur dioxide is one of several types of sulfites used to preserve foods, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires that the presence of sulfur dioxide in foods be declared on the product label. Consumers who have a severe sensitivity to sulfur dioxide may run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume these products.
The recalled dried apricots and recalled dried golden raisins were distributed in Harris Teeter stores starting May 1, 2012. The dried apricot product is packaged in a six ounce, clear plastic bag and the dried golden raisin product is packaged in an eight ounce, clear plastic bag. All lot numbers and code dates are affected.
The recall was initiated after Whole Alternatives, LLC discovered the products were distributed in packages which did not declare sulfur dioxide as an ingredient on the label.
Consumers who have purchased either of these products and who may be sensitive to sulfur dioxide should not consume the products and are urged to return them to Harris Teeter for a refund. Consumers with questions may contact Whole Alternatives at 502-561-5530, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4 pm
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« Not a moment too soon |
| Mac Lethal »
Some examples from Flusser's Dressing the Man to show that there are some precedents for wearing one's watch on the outside of the sleeve. I think we could do worse than to emulate the Rake of the Riviera in our quest to achieve sartorial sprezzatura.
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Haha well played sir! I had to go back to GQ style manual circa 2010 for a lesson of "Now you know everything, throw it away" from Mr. Agnelli. But I did find this jem to help my case. http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/supreme-italian-style-omega-coolness.html?m=1 By the way I don't read that persons blog. Just found the pic. I do think only a select few could pull off the look. I will concede this round to you.
Cheers dc happy new year
01/03/2013 at 09:13
I don't think I have the panache to try it myself. I do, however, admire the daring with which some folks put their looks together.
You've always been high on my list for people that were able to make a distinctive statement without looking foppish.
01/03/2013 at 17:25
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The Best American Essays of the Century
Eldridge Cleaver: Soul on Ice
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
Bill McKibben: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
David Foster Wallace: Both Flesh And Not
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End Government Licensing
Sept. 14, 2007
Irvine, CA--According to a recent “Wall Street Journal” story, the range of professions now requiring a government license in certain states includes taxidermy, massage therapy, interior decorating, selling mobile homes--even fortune-telling! While many would laugh about these particular fields having government licensing requirements, nearly everyone concedes that government licensing is, in general, a necessary and beneficial practice--especially for complex fields like medicine.
“In fact,” said Alex Epstein, an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute, ”if we want a market with ample information, high-quality products, and freedom of competition, government licensing is an impediment that must be abolished across the board.
“Contrary to advocates of government licensing, it is not true that without it, we would be taken in by unqualified charlatans in every endeavor, whether getting a haircut, a taxicab ride, or a triple bypass. Since there is great value for consumers and producers to have independent, expert verification of quality products and services, they would gladly pay for it. This is especially true for businesses whose most valuable asset is their reputation. The only difference between free-market licensing and government licensing is that private licensing organizations cannot force people to follow their advice, but must instead persuade them to follow their counsel. This is a life-and-death difference because it leaves experts, producers, and consumers free to acquire and act on the best possible information. Under government licensing, by contrast, individual judgment is rendered irrelevant, what the government says, goes.
“The more complex the field, the more destructive coercive licensing is, because the more urgent it is that there be freedom of thought and action. In a vast, continually evolving field like medicine, in which a huge and growing range of medical procedures exists, each requiring different skill sets, it is absurd and incredibly costly to have the government reserving jobs for full-fledged MDs that could be done by other medical professionals, while giving an official stamp of approval to MDs who do jobs that they lack necessary specialized knowledge to do (such as general practitioners who prescribe complex psychiatric medications).
“It may be funny when governments takes charge of licensing fortune tellers, but it is deadly when it is in charge of licensing doctors. We should abolish the government’s coercive licensing power and unleash a free market of objective-standards bodies who function by persuasion, not compulsion.”
Alex Epstein was a writer and a fellow on staff
at ARI between 2004 and 2011.
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Asia Martin, a student at St. Augustine School in Hartford, sews the hem of a handkerchief at a recent gathering of the school’s Hope for Haiti after-school club.
Sixteen students in grades 5-8 at St. Augustine School in Hartford have worked all year to create more than 1,300 diapers and beddings for Haitian families.
The club is headed by Paula deSilva, who sends the finished items to the Haitian Health Foundation.
About 100 adult volunteers also help with sewing, cutting and donating fabric.
Diapers are cut from a pattern sent from Haiti, where no pins are used because they would rust, and no hook-and-loop fasteners are used because of the humidity.
The children also cut and hem handker-chiefs, which are given to Haitian women as an incentive for them to seek prenatal care at clinics. (Photo by Jack Sheedy)
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I just returned from a lively convention of a couple thousand high school broadcast journalists, video producers and filmmakers. The students descended on Disneyland, site of the convention, with cameras rolling and mics recording. Lots of creative energy in a place borne of creativity. It was great fun to watch.
Sadly, amidst all the youthful buzz and excitement, sat I. The lawyer.
The lawyer who answered over and over and over pretty much the same question: As long as I use just 30 seconds of music in my piece I’m good, right?
The question came up in every one of my various sessions at the convention. It came up in the hallways between sessions. It came up at lunch and even in an elevator, where I had about 20 seconds to respond before I had to get off at my floor. The last thing I saw, as the elevator door closed, was that, “You are kidding, right?” look.
Because as they took their raw footage back to their temporary production facilities to produce and polish into finished packages, most had one big question on their mind: how do I get some music into this thing?
Fortunately — and for the most part — most of the students I spoke to did understand that the law somehow limited their ability to just plop in the latest Lady Gaga or Jay Z song as background music. They weren’t exactly sure what those limits were, but they knew there were some. (That has not always been the case. Indeed, when the Internet first burst on the scene, many viewed it as a giant, electronic “candy store” where — with just the click of a mouse button — virtually the entire musical library of the 20th century could be had.)
The limit that most of them had somehow got in into their head was the “30-second rule.” That is, the rule that says as long as you use less than 30 seconds of a copyrighted work — audio or video — everything’s cool.
The problem is: There is no 30-second rule.
Or a 60-second or 15-second rule. I wish there was. My job would be a piece of cake. But there’s not. It’s one of those legal myths that was probably created from wishful thinking. Copyright law can be a bit daunting — particularly the part known as “Fair Use,” which — unless you get Ms. Gaga’s (and/or her record company’s and a few others’) permission — is likely the only way you’re going to legally get her stuff in a student project. Because the (nonexistent) 30-second rule was so easy to remember and so simple to follow, it took on a life of its own.
“Fair Use” is, indeed, an extremely important exception to the general rule that requires one to obtain consent before using a copyrighted work they don’t own or didn’t create themselves. It would, for example, allow you to use a short clip from “Bad Romance” in a review of Gaga’s music (but probably not simply as background music.) (Unfortunately, a detailed discussion of Fair Use is too much to cover here, but the Student Press Law Center’s Web site has much more.) But while “[T]he “amount and substantiality of the portion used” is one of the statutory factors to be weighed in making a Fair Use determination, 17 U.S.C. § 107(c), it is just one of four to be weighed by courts in determining whether Fair Use exists. So even when you use 30 seconds or less of a song, the other factors could come down against Fair Use. Also, the Supreme Court has said that a copyright infringement can take place even where the use is minimal if the use takes the “heart” of the work. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539, 565. In fact, the group charged with umbrella licensing for the digital performance of sound recordings — SoundExchange — says on its Web site, “Generally speaking, one is not allowed to take the ‘value’ of a song without permission, and sometimes that value is found even in a three-second clip.” And a Recording Industry Association of America spokesman told the Student Press Law Center in December 2003 that any unlicensed use of music on a high school television broadcast—however minimal—would be pursued as an infringement if brought to the group’s attention.
Next time, I’ll just have to remember to wear my “There is no 30-second rule!” T-shirt.
Mike Hiestand is an attorney, based in the far, upper left corner of the “Lower 48,” and works as a legal consultant to the Student Press Law Center.
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Daily News Wire Services
05/03/2010 08:22:02 AM PDT -- North Hollywood High School placed third today in the National Science Bowl competition in Washington, D.C., marking the 10th national trophy won by a Los Angeles Unified School District campus.
Since the first Science Bowl in 1993, LAUSD schools have taken home four first-place national titles and 10 times have placed in the top five, according to Walter Zeisl, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Science Bowl coordinator.
A first-time entrant, the North Carolina School for Math and Science, took top honors, followed by Sacramento-area Mira Loma High School in second place, Zeisl said.
Arcadia High School came in fourth out of the 68 teams that competed, Zeisl said.
First lady Michelle Obama addressed the group as did Energy Secretary Steven Chu. At the middle school competition held concurrent with the high school contest, the first lady asked the students questions and Chu served as a science judge.
As a third-place winner, NoHo receives $1,000, special calculators and a lab-based computer system, Zeisl said.
The National Science Bowl is sponsored by the Department of Energy, and two teams, representing the city of Los Angeles and other schools in Los Angeles County, are sponsored by the Department of Water and Power.
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Retirement Income Planning
Course # 184
Where will your income in retirement come from? This program discusses common retirement vehicles and how to take income from them. We will also review tax consequences of taking income from various investments, including social security and pension income and how people in retirement typically allocate their portfolios to generate income.
- Discuss common investment vehicles people use for retirement income and how they take income from them.
- Discuss tax consequences of various income options.
- Discuss typical allocations for those in the early stages of retirement.
Participants (audience course is aimed at):
Those planning to retire soon and wanting to learn how to take income from their investments.
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Let's consider for a moment the effect on boys. It can't possibly be good. As if boys in elementary and middle school didn't already have enough ways to compare themselves unfavorably to girls — scholastic achievement, verbal skills and social prowess, not to mention handwriting and knowledge about horses — this trend toward precocious sexual development just may be the final nail in the coffin of male domination.Yes, I absolutely agree. While addressing girls' precocious sexual development—and the inextricably linked sexualization and objectification that comes with the developing female body in this culture, not to mention the potential medical issues that are associated with early onset puberty and the psychological trauma of bullying to which many girls who develop early are subjected by siblings and peers—let us take a moment to centralize boys' self-esteem.
Or so it may seem to an ordinary 8-year-old boy, who may view these girls not only in the way boys traditionally have — as bossy, slightly alien carriers of cooties — but as something even more terrifying: women.
...[A]s we go about the essential business of dealing with this situation for girls, and how to stop it, perhaps it's worth extending some sympathy toward boys. In a world in which it's already so easy to feel diminished by the achievements of girls, this widening gulf in physical maturity just might have the effect of kicking them while they're down.
Call me zany, but I don't think eight-year-old boys are owed the right to feel secure about maintaining "male domination," anyway.
Bonus points to Ms. Daum for OH NOES OBESITY CRISIS! fearmongering, too.
[H/T to Shaker trishka.]
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International Business Major
The face of business is always changing. Not only are conditions changing within our own nation’s borders, but also in other countries. For young professionals entering the workplace, a growing knowledge of foreign affairs is becoming more and more crucial. For marketers, what is popular in the U.S. is quite different from that of Spain or Japan. For financiers, working with conversions from dollars to Euros is necessary in many instances.
The International Business Department at Saint Joseph’s offers both major and minor courses in international marketing, finance and management, as well as a capstone course in global strategic planning. The design of the international business (IB) program at SJU is interdisciplinary in nature. Students enroll in a variety of courses exploring the international dimensions of business, as well as other courses in the College of Arts and Sciences that enhance knowledge about other countries and cultures. In addition, students are encouraged to study abroad or participate in a study tour to gain direct exposure to an international experience. This versatile major can be paired with minors in foreign languages, international relations, economics or any other disciplines that will provide a well-rounded experience.
Graduates of the international business major find employment opportunities with multinational corporations, international financial institutions or with other organizations exposed to the international environment. Students may have the opportunity to participate in overseas assignments after a few years with a company, assuming they have acquired the more specialized skills needed by the company in its foreign operations. After completing the IB major students may also pursue a graduate degree, including the master of international marketing program at SJU or other graduate programs in a wide range of fields.
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Sulfites, The Essential Enemy?
Look at the back label of most American-made wines and you’ll most certainly see the phrase *CONTAINS SULFITES*. Oh no! Not sulfites! Why, out of all the compounds found in wine, does this little punk get his own shout-out on the bottle? Well, some people see red wine as an open door to a morning full of horrendous headaches and directly blame sulfites. Seeing the “warning label” only fortifies this belief. It seems odd, though, that these same people can drink sweet white wines (which scientists have declared often times contain more sulfites than red wine) without missing a beat the next day? It’s because although sulfites certainly affect a select few, they don’t affect most. Back in the 1980’s, the FDA did a study and found that “one in 100 people is sulfite sensitive to a degree, but for the 10% of the population who are asthmatic, only 5% of that group are at risk of having an adverse reaction to the substance.” (Sorry for the numbers, I know my readership goes down when I have too many numbers!) Long story short, sulfites are not the bad guy and the 1% that are affected don’t even list headaches as a symptom.
But Mr. Ben, why are sulfites added to wine at all? Let me preface this with a story. A few weeks back, some friends of mine in a wine production facility gave me a bottle of organic, NO ADDED SULFITE white wine called Siegerrebe. They did this not out of pure kindness, but because they couldn’t stand the stuff and wanted it out of their sight! I have a fairly decent cellar and many wines to choose from while I started to write this blog, but considering my subject, I popped open the “gift” that claims to possess fewer sulfites. Needless to say, I took two sips, poured the bottle down the drain and am now sipping on some robust Malbec to rid me of the awful taste.
Sulfites occur naturally in all wines regardless, but, continuing a tradition since the 17th century, are still often added to cease fermentation to the winemaker’s liking. As a bonus, they can also act as a preservative to prevent spoilage and hindering the introduction of oxygen to the juice while being transferred from a holding tank to the bottle. Bottle Shock, however, is often a side effect when adding SO2 to wine during bottling, but often dissipates with time (the longest being a few months). All in all, I wish I had an answer to the age-old question of “why does red wine give me a headache?”, but even science still can’t explain this phenomenon. Is it the tannins? Histamines (I’ve heard taking Sudafed helps)? A separate unknown naturally-occurring compound created during fermentation? Who knows, but sulfites are essential to the flavor and life of the wines you love so let the myth die!
For more information on Sulfite Sensitivity, check out these websites:
Ben Hilzinger is a wine slinger at Nectar Tasting Room and at the Arbor Crest Winery. During the day he masquerades as an aspiring drum teacher seeking to instill a sense of rhythm in wanna be rockers. In the evening Ben dons his rock star cape as a drummer for a local band. Ben hopes to share the love of wine with his generation and has aspirations to be a wine maker.
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HPPR hosts & contributors
Prairie Ramblings Episode
Thu February 21, 2013
Ribbons of Birds
One of my favorite parts of wrapping presents is creating pretty designs with all kinds of ribbon. The paper corners may not be so sharp as one might wish, but I love using scissors to stretch skinny little green or red Christmas trim into dangling sausage curls. Somehow sparkly spools of foil, scissors, and tape bring out the creative in me, and I find myself making loop de loops and fleur de lis on my loved one’s gifts. I’m not sure skill matches imagination, but I love playing with strands of fabric and paper.
Shiny, curly, and grosgrain concoctions delight me, but my very favorite décor of all are nature’s bird ribbons. Anyone who travels over the prairie on late summer or autumn days has seen scores of birds taking flight in shape-shifting threads. If you haven’t seen the way Mother Nature ties up a perfect day, take a hike or a drive and start looking for a filament of flying birds.
Sometimes you’ll see a tree or a telephone line filled with perching birds. Watch long enough and they launch themselves into the wild blue yonder. Keep your eye on them as they stretch into the distance, bobbing up and down in peaks and valleys as well as Mobius strips. I spend hours watching the infinite shapes these feathered forms create.
On November 14th, I saw a sight I’d never seen in all the years I’ ve enjoyed watching birds perform their version of Cirque de Soleil. Driving from Ellis to Hill City in late afternoon, I saw a airborne phalanx that was at least a mile if not two miles wide and tens of feet in depth. I don’t know if this was a migration or not, but wherever these birds ultimately landed, they emptied the larder in no time and dropped enough bird plops to tie up local car washes for days.
The size of this formation so astounded me I first thought it was a dark cloud. However, it moved-- up and down, squeezing in and out like an accordion, which made me reconsider my initial assumption. Driving closer to this dancing mirage, I realized it was a super-bird ribbon the size of which I’d never before seen. I couldn’t count the creatures flying in unison.
As I wrapped my mind around this, I noted another dark, moving throng in the distance and another behind that one. These were bigger masses than the first that had so astonished me. Perhaps three miles wide. About the time I drove across the South Solomon into Hill City, the birds and I crossed paths. I pulled over to see if I could identify numbers and species. The closest I got was a projection of tens of thousands of light-bellied birds covering Hill City west to east.
The third formation passed over me between Hill City and Highway 9. This time, I couldn’t stop. Even without a slow motion view, I knew there weren’t enough trees or power lines in Northwest Kansas to provide perches for the swooping, swirling creatures wrapping that day’s sunset into an astonishing ending. Who knows how far these guys traveled before they found resting places.
Making pretty gifts delights me, but seeing nature tie her gifts with moving ribbons thrills me even more. Wishing you ethereal filaments of flying birds to wrap up your days.
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STATE OF THE ART; Pay by Voice? So Long, Wallet
By DAVID POGUE
Published: July 19, 2012
A lot of the things we do today will make our grandchildren burst out laughing. Yes, we used to drive to a store to rent a movie. Yes, there were huge patches of America where you couldn't get a cellphone signal. Yes, we used to pay for things with pieces of green paper and plastic rectangles.
And if those squealing rugrats don't believe us, we can crack open the history book to 2012, the dawn of the twilight of cash and credit cards. That was the year when, for the first time, paying for things in stores required nothing more than saying your name to the cashier.
But first, some history. In 2010, a company called Square invented a credit card reader in the shape of a tiny white plastic square. It pops into the headphone jack of your iPhone, Android phone or tablet. Together with a beautiful, simple app, it lets you swipe people's credit cards (meaning scan them, not steal them).
Suddenly anyone can accept cards: baby sitters, cabdrivers, farmer's market vendors, piano teachers, personal trainers, bake salers, carpenters and lawn-mowing teenagers.
Square takes 2.75 percent of each transaction. Unlike traditional credit card arrangements, there are no monthly fees or minimums, setup costs or variable percentages. There aren't even equipment costs; the headphone-jack reader is free. There truly are no other costs or catches. (My column online has a link to my full review.)
The Square went viral. Today, the company says that two million Americans are happily swiping away.
Where there's a hit, there's a copycat, or a whole litter of them. It's the same idea each time -- you get a free plastic attachment for your phone's headphone jack -- with differences only in rates and target markets.
Intuit offers something called GoPayment, with a rather huge phone attachment and a complicated rate structure. (It advertises a 2.7 percent rate, but the fine print reveals that you'll pay 3.7 percent for reward cards, American Express and corporate cards.)
A company called mPower is aimed at big companies that want the money to flow directly into their own accounts -- not be deposited first into a holding account, as Square, Intuit and others do. PayAnywhere's notable feature is that it takes the lowest cut of all: 2.69 percent.
And then there's the elephant that's just barged into the room: PayPal. Its rate is a hair lower than Square's (2.7 percent), and its reader is a triangle instead of a square. The reader is more stable than the Square when you swipe the card, but it's relatively giant. (I'll review some of these services in more depth on my blog, Pogue's Posts.)
All right, we get it: The little-guy-accepting-cards racket is heating up. But to Square, that's all been just a warm-up act. The main event is even more disruptive. It's a little something -- a big something -- called Pay With Square.
You walk into a shop or cafe. The cashier knows that you're on the premises, because your name and thumbnail photo appear on his iPad screen. He rings up your items by tapping them on the iPad.
And now the magic moment: To pay, you just say your name. The cashier compares your actual face with the photo on the iPad's screen, taps O.K., and the transaction is complete. No cash, no cards, no signatures -- you don't even have to take the phone out of your pocket.
It's glorious for you, because it's so much faster and less fussy than the old ways of paying. It's fantastic for the merchant, because lower friction (hassle) means more sales. The merchant's iPad Register app also offers a clear, useful ''analytics'' screen, showing how much of what was sold when. All of this is free for both you and (except for the usual 2.7 percent Square fee) the merchant.
You set up the phone app by choosing your photo and linking your credit card. Using GPS, the app automatically lists shops and cafes near you that offer the Pay With Square system. If you turn the phone 90 degrees, you see them as pushpins on a map. Square says that 75,000 merchants already accept Pay With Square.
I tried out Pay With Square in a San Francisco coffee shop. I tapped its name and then tapped Open a Tab (a one-time operation).
At the counter, I asked for a mocha and a muffin. While the employee went to get the muffin, I peeked around at his iPad, which was on a countertop mount. To my surprise, it showed photos of two other customers -- all of us had the Square app on our phones. The register app uses GPS and other location services to know when these people are in the shop.
When the cashier returned, I said, ''I'm David.'' He said, ''I know,'' tapped the screen, and that was it. I'd paid just by saying my name.
Last month, Square upgraded the system to make it even juicier for you, the customer. Now merchants can offer first-visit discounts, 10th-visit rewards and other bonuses; these offers show up on your phone app in the list of nearby merchants.
There are a few hitches and catches. For example, only merchants of a certain size will benefit -- too big for the Square reader in a phone, but too small for a full-blown corporate point-of-sale system. It requires that they use the iPad as a register. It lists everything they sell -- they have to input each item -- so stores with thousands of items might find it unwieldy.
After my muffin adventure, I chatted with the cashier. He said that his cafe was very happy with Pay With Square. But he also said that people sometimes use pictures of cats or SpongeBob instead of their own photos. That, of course, neatly destroys Pay With Square's chief security mechanism: the cashier's ability to see if you match your photo. (Square says that if you or the merchant ever get ripped off, it will make things right.)
Now, 75,000 shops is not a lot; in any given city, only a handful of stores may have Pay With Square. Still, I wouldn't bet against it. The system is joyously simple for both the buyer and the seller. Square says that its merchants report greater traffic and loyalty from its app-equipped customers.
PayPal's copycat version of this system is called PayPal Local, which works with the company's card reader as well as with existing commercial electronic registers, made by companies like Leapset, ShopKeep, Vend and Erply. PayPal says 50,000 stores have registers that can be upgraded with the PayPal Local software, if the shop owners so decide.
It's probably no surprise that using one of these systems means handing over whatever shred of privacy you used to think you had. Now the merchants can track how often you come in, what sorts of things you buy, your size and color preferences. Of course, they've probably been doing that for years -- but now it's being advertised as an advantage.
But if you're not worried about that sort of thing, a great new world of convenience and savings awaits you. The loyalty-program features of Pay With Square and its rivals mean that more stores will be working harder to please you. The analytics features of the iPad Register app mean that stores and cafes are no longer condemned to using tally marks on a legal pad as their inventory and sales-tracking system.
Above all, Pay With Square and its imitators offer a glimpse of a future when you won't need to carry a wallet at all -- only your phone. Your purse or pants pockets will have to hold one lump, not two.
You heard it right, grandchildren. We're not as quaint as we seem.
PHOTOS: Pay With Square merchants use an iPad as a register, above. Swiping a credit card brings a customer's name and photo up on the screen. The app also offers a directory of merchants using the payment method, below right. (B8)
DRAWING (DRAWING BY STUART GOLDENBERG)
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Part of a Boeing 737 fuselage recently arrived in Greenville and will soon be part of a community aviation park.
The fuselage made its trip from Greenwood, Miss. aboard a lowboy truck.
“It is incredible that so many have joined in to make this dream come true,” stated Joe Frasher, airport director of the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU).
Frasher said in August the downtown Greenville airport sheriff, Chris Hines, mentioned to his friend at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that they were looking for a fuselage for our new community aviation themed park.
His friend contacted Steve Hunter with GE Capital Aviation Services who located a fuselage and got permission to donate it to our project.
He then handed the project over to Cyndi Long, GE Capital Aviation Services Greenwood, MS site operations manager where the fuselage was located.
She found some of her co-workers who were willing to volunteer their time and labor to help with the project.
They recruited Aircraft Demolition, Inc. to volunteer to cut the 737 and mechanics with GE Capital Aviation Services used a fork lift to lift the plane’s hull onto a truck.
“Mark Randolph with J. Grady Randolph, Inc., a South Carolina trucking company, offered to transport it for half the cost of what was initially quoted. With wide load accompanying vehicles being needed, state permits that had to be obtained and current fuel prices, I suspect they are doing it at cost,” added Frasher.
Now that the fuselage is in Greenville, Ed Vinson of Paragon Building Systems, has donated his time and their crane to take the plane off the truck and place it in a Greenville Jet Center aircraft hangar where instructors and students with Greenville Technical College's Aircraft Maintenance Technology program have offered to provide the man hours needed to modify the fuselage into a handicapped accessible park entrance,” stated Hank Brown, owner of Greenville Jet Center.
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ACRO blasts new rules that reveal docs' drug research payments
The Association of Clinical Research Organizations is taking another stab at derailing new rules that would require drug companies to outline the payments they make to physicians and teaching hospitals for the clinical trial work they do.
The new rules are part of a broad effort by the feds to bring some transparency to the industry's practice of paying physicians for various things--a controversial practice critics maintain has influenced the way doctors prescribe medicines. But ACRO insists that applying the rules to payments for trial efforts should be exempt, claiming there's no proof that such payments ever influence prescribing habits and warning that one in four doctors could be persuaded to drop their research work if they become subject to the reporting regulations. The rules are also burdensome and ripe for misinterpretation by the public, ACRO insists.
ACRO cited a survey dating back to 2010 showing that one in four physicians would consider washing their hands of R&D work if they're subjected to the sunshine rules. "Stated differently," the association writes in its letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "the survey findings suggest that the U.S. is in danger of losing one-quarter of its clinical investigators, which will slow innovation and delay the delivery of needed treatments for patients."
"While ACRO has maintained, and will continue to argue, that bona fide research activities should be exempt from so-called sunshine reporting, we believe, at a minimum, that CMS should define 'research' to exclude any research payments related to drugs that have not yet been approved for sale by the FDA," said ACRO executive Doug Peddicord. "As proposed, the reporting requirements for 'research' would be so burdensome, and yield such confusing information, that the costs incurred would far exceed any public benefit that we can see."
ACRO is likely going to find it tough trying to sell a change in the rules at this point, however.
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During the US Presidential election, Barack Obama used a variety of new media outlets to outfox his rival, including building a massive a network of Obama supporters on Facebook.
But don't expect state politicians in Maryland to follow in Obama's footsteps. The IT department of the Maryland General Assembly has blocked access to Facebook and Myspace (NWS).
The memo, which leaked. (Memos always leak.)
Date: February 5, 2009
To: DLS Staff and Members
From: Mike Gaudiello
Subject: Computer Viruses and Malware
With the beginning of the 2009 Legislative Session, we have observed a significant increase in viruses and malware affecting the Maryland General Assembly computers. After several weeks of analysis, we have determined that many of the infecting programs are originating from pages hosted on www.facebook.com and www.myspace.com. In an attempt to reduce the number of viruses and malware entering the Maryland General Assembly facilities, we have blocked access to both of these sites. As our analysis continues and additional websites are identified as problematic, we will be blocking these as well.
We realize that this may be an inconvenience and we apologize. But it is essential that the integrity of the Maryland General Assembly computer systems and facilities are protected.
We appreciate the need to get a handle on viruses and malware, but might installing a security suite instead be a better solution? Or is this an effort to keep politicians and their staff from goofing all day?
Maryland reps wouldn't be the first to prefer Facebook to the drudgery of politics: In October, CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin got caught checking his Facebook page live on air in the middle of an Obama-McCain debate.
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The Institute for Justice Center for Judicial Engagement is hosting a law student essay contest! Entries are due no later than February 6, 2012.
Here’s some background info from IJ:
For too long, the public debate over the role of the judiciary in American society has been consumed by a battle between two empty slogans: “judicial activism” and “judicial restraint.”
The Institute for Justice’s Center for Judicial Engagement seeks to change that debate: Judges should not be “activist” (which is too often simply a code word for “a judge whose decision the speaker does not like”), nor should they be “restrained” (which is too often simply code for complete judicial abdication). Instead, judges should be engaged—engaged in the process of applying the law to the actual facts of the case before them, including constitutional cases.
The Center’s law student essay contest seeks to reward the best law student writing designed to persuade the general public of the virtues of judicial engagement.
Entrants should write an essay of no more than 2,000 words.
In an essay aimed at a popular audience, discuss the role of the courts in American government and the differences among judicial engagement, judicial activism, and judicial abdication.
Recent debates over the role of the courts in reviewing legislative enactments have focused heavily on terminology: specifically, whether we should be most concerned with courts that engage in “judicial activism” or whether, as the Eleventh Circuit wrote in striking down portions of the Affordable Care Act, in cases of legislative overreach, “the Constitution requires judicial engagement, not judicial abdication.”
Winners will be those who most clearly and persuasively articulate the principles and importance of judicial engagement. Further explanation of those principles and their application can be found at www.ij.org/cje<http://www.ij.org/cje>.
First prize will be a $3,000 award, along with a free trip to Washington, D.C. to receive your prize at IJ’s headquarters; second prize will net a $1,000 award; and third prize $500.
How to Enter & Deadline
Students should email a Word version of their essay (no PDFs) to [email protected] no later than February 6, 2012. Late entries will not be considered. The Institute for Justice will announce winners by mid-April of 2012.
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Women's Enterprise Day08.12.2011
On Friday 25 November, a group of Year 9 girls spent the day taking part in a Women's Enterprise Day at the academy.
It is a nationally recognised day as part of Enterprise Week, and is all about inspiring successful women. The girls spent the day looking at famous (as well as local!) female entrepreneurs and figures from history, before researching and choosing their own female role model. They ended the day with a project to design and make their own mug to take home as a reminder of the day and all the amazing women they had learned about!
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Mozila Browser: Browse Super Fast Every Time You Use it
The Mozila web browser is amongst the most used browsers around the planet because it is easy to use and has a great interface.
Another wonderful aspect of Mozila is that it supports almost all software types which is not the case with most other browsers. Also you will get loads of plug-ins as well as extensions developed for Mozila that could be customized for almost everything you want. These Mozila prugins are updated independently by their owners and is one of the top reasons why people download Mozila Firefox by the thousands every day.
You Could Increase The Performance of Mozila Firefox
However, there will be times when you might find that the browser is not responding with the agility you are habituated to. You may find this inadecuate as it brings down the experience of browsing on the internet or even irritating when things get too slow. There are many reasons why this may happen, but doing simple things you could assure that you get the Mozila browser to an optimal state.
You could start making sure that your system has the latest version of the Mozila browser. One interesting feature about Mozila is that the browser is constantly being updated and the updates are automatic, so you will not have to do anything special to have the latest version of Mozila. With this, you can make sure that every newly available technology or software is available to you and also common online malware that are added through browsers are kept away. A similar thing is applicable for all add ons that your computers use, ascertain that they too are up to date so that you will experience a great surfing time with Mozila.
If Mozila is working slower than normal after installing the requirements, you must clean the registry of your PC. The registry is the actual control library of your system and is loaded every time you startup your system. After installing new software, the registry becomes cluttered with a lot of new programs or may have a lot of unwanted stuff at times, slowing down all your system and this could be a reason why your Mozila browser is running slow. At times, because of the increasing number of files and undesired patterns of alignment on the disk drive, the usage of Mozila becomes slow.
Cleaning The Registry Could Help a Lot
A great solution here is running a worthy registry cleaning program. You shall get quite a few worthy free options on the internet by using just a common search. A good fact about them is that they not only delete the majority of junk folders that could be present in the registry, but even help ensure the maintenance of the registry, that is quite important also and Mozila will speed up in the process.
Lastly, also inspect the status of the computer memory. There may be instances when your RAM is completely filled with programs and a lot of these are fragmented. This could also cause slow surfing. To keep away such things, you might as well defragment your system to be sure that the processes work smoother as well as your computer works fast. In case you find programs that you seldom use, you will better uninstalling them as well, increasing the available disk space while reducing the total stress of the system. This will also help your Mozila browser run faster than normal.
With the procedure explained and put into place the right way, you can be sure that your Mozila browser will run in the best possible condition thus giving you a good response time while using Mozila.
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You've read right, I meant a suffix that "detransitivizes" the verb if that has any sense at all. Bear with me, what I mean is that all Kareyku verbs are naturally transitive or ditransitive, but what if you need an intransitive verb? Well, you would use this crafty suffix to reduce the arguments to zero. The suffix, of course, takes all evidentials (and it will) and transitions, its form is an -l- inserted before the corresponding transition and we can see some examples:
We have our always useful verb qappa- "eat", normally we would use a transition;
qappata, he eats
But this actually means literally "he eats (something)", it implies that he's eating something, like a fish, meat, vegetables (yeah, right!) or something. When we use this suffix, though, we get;
qappalta, he eats
In this other case I'm just stating that he eats. It can mean "he eats (everyday)" or "he eats" (i.e. "he can eat"), it means all the other uses that are intransitive. So for example;
kolto marilta, he comes here
Of course we can inflect it for time, so one would treat the -ta as a normal transition, thus;
kolto marilten, he didn't come here
pokolto marilteyos, he shall come home
We can even further inflect it for the desiderative form:
taro mariltaltech, "father doesn't want to come"
Let's leave the entry with a final weird sentence:
pole nakem lau lopalkas, "I live on top of a great tree"
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EGSL is a small interpreter which can execute Lua scripts. It includes some functions for fast and easy game development. These are image manipulation functions, functions for 2D drawing, sound and music, input via mouse, keyboard, and joypad, and some helper functions. The engine is based on SDL, SDL_gfx, and SDL_mixer, and additionally on SDL_image on Haiku-OS.
U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development suite focused on programmers' productivity without sacrificing runtime performance. Based on strictly deterministic design, it provides a viable alternative to garbage-collected platforms, even for business logic oriented problems.
The CFD General Notation System (CGNS) provides a general, portable, and extensible standard for the storage and retrieval of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis data. CGNS is designed to facilitate the exchange of data between sites and applications, and to help stabilize the archiving of aerodynamic data.
Humm and Strumm is a 3D adventure game in which two players must collaboratively solve puzzles and fight enemies in order to stop the evil Dr. Geoff from taking over the world. Humm and Strumm is set in a psychedelic fairytale world, with lands such as a giant cupcake and a musical forest. The main characters, Humm and Strumm, are armed with yo-yos for weapons. Humm and Strumm has two modes of play: Adventure Mode, in which two players fight Dr. Geoff, and Tag Mode, in which up to eight players play a game of tag using their characters' weapons.
Xye is a puzzle game in which the objective is to get all the gems in each level. The mission is not as easy as it sounds: there are traps, monsters, and very hard puzzles everywhere. The player can interact with objects in the game in a lot of ways, and some of the objects can also interact with other objects.
AntTweakBar is a small and easy-to-use C/C++ library that allows programmers to quickly add a light and intuitive GUI into OpenGL or DirectX based graphic programs to interactively tweak them. Program variables can be linked to a graphical control that allows users to modify them. Programmers are not required to design the graphical interface by providing coordinates or by using a visual UI editor. Controls are automatically organized following an optional given hierarchy.
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My only excuse: I was young. I never saw it coming. "Tell me about yourself," she said.
I froze. I stuttered. I stumbled. I said something about my major and a couple of my favorite classes. I told her about the things I liked to do in my free time. I talked about pretty much everything but the information the interviewer was actually looking for.
It's no surprise that I didn't get the job.
Grammatically, "Tell me about yourself," is not even a question. It's an open invitation to offer up anything you want to impress the interviewer and land the job. But all too often, interviewees find themselves frozen in the moment, unable to articulate more than a couple of irrelevant points.
There are numerous ways to approach this "question," however. You might have heard the popular method of preparing your own 30-second commercial. Or you can practice separate answers for the different individuals you might interview with, e.g., the person you'll be working for and the human resources manager.
The key is preparation. And that was what I was sorely lacking during my doomed interview.
No matter who you talk to about this sticky interview issueno matter how many articles you read, or how many Web sites you researchone word continues to stand out: Prepare.
The question could come in many forms, either very broad like my "Tell me about yourself," or something more focused like "Why should we hire you for this job?" Either way, the interviewer's goal is to hear how your skills and experience are applicable to the job you want.
Since you're new to the work world, your experience is limited. But think about what skills and experiences in your background separate you from your peers. Those unique qualities are what you should focus on when preparing for these types of interview situations.
"So, Tell Me About Yourself."
"I want very much to make my first professional step a successful one. I've been interested in chemical engineering since high school. I have a great desire to learn, and during my internship with XYZ Corporation, I was able to successfully take what I learned in the classroom and apply it to my work assignments. I enjoy team projects and have successfully led some of these projects. I'm very proud of the honors our team earned during Engineering Week on campus. Everything I've read about your company and what I've learned about this position during my interview has only reinforced my desire to work here. I'm very focused and I believe I have what it takes to be successful in this position."
There. You've shown drive and shown past success in the classroom and in a professional setting. You've revealed that you've done your homework by researching the company. And you've made it know that you work well with others and that you're comfortable in a leadership role. You want the job and offered evidence that you're qualified.
Not only that, but you've also led the interviewer to follow-up questions that will be in your favor, e.g., "What honors did you earn?" "Tell me more about your internship."
That's another important element to your answer: Always stay positive. Don't open the door to any shortcomings. Avoid statements like, "I've learned from my mistakes...," or "After I struggled with my previous major..." That only leads to follow-up questions that will put you on the defensive.
Practice Makes Perfect, But...
Although preparation is extremely important, you should avoid sounding like you have a rehearsed statement. Instead, get comfortable with certain talking points, like:
- What you know about the industry, the company, and how it relates to your education and experience.
- The aspects of the new job that you're excited about.
- How your skills will fit the position.
- Your ambitions and accomplishments in a relevant manner.
- And anything about your personality that is applicable to the job (leader, team player, enjoy research, etc.)
Don't be afraid to practice these interview question and answers with a friend. Have them ask you different variation of the question, and even propose different interview situations. You want to be able to speak naturally to your talking points, and make them fit each specific interview situation.
The interview is a dialogue, so make sure you listen carefully to the interviewer. Don't just come with a prepared statement that doesn't quite fit with the question or with the flow of the conversation. If you just repeat the same "commercial" over and over at each interview, you will probably be met with a blank stare and seriously damage your chances of landing the job.
Keep in mind that what you say is only part of what is being evaluated. The other part is how you say it. Throughout the interview you're displaying your interpersonal skills.
Most interviewees report being intimidated by these types of broad questions when they arise in an interview. Don't be. Think of it as a golden opportunity to sell yourself to the person with the power to hire you. The interviewer is giving you an open forum to sell yourself. Take it!
And all your preparation and hard work will pay off. Remember, if you can effectively and confidently explain how your past fits with your future, you've successfully cleared one hurdle on your way to a job offer.
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Global Agenda 3:46 AM 6/19/2013
The Israel Beat blog is a place for poetry submission, concert announcemnets, upcoming shows and musings on Jewish music. The Israel Beat Jewish Music Podcast brings you live in-studio performances with up and coming Israeli musicians as well as interviews with the stars of the Jewish music world. Plus your music requests and the free CD give-away air live on the show. Past interviews have included Matisyahu, Avraham Fried, and Miri Ben-Ari. The Beat with Ben Bresky broadcasts live every Sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Israel time on Arutz Sheva - Israel National Radio. For more info email [email protected].
Iyar 27, 5769, 5/21/2009
Now a mother and housewife, I caught up with Mrs. Nathan by phone in between her picking up her children from summer camp. For more information visit her web site at shuly-nathan.co.il. Her name is alternatively spelled Shuli Natan or various other combinations. Also check out JerusalemOfGold.co.il.
Israel Beat: Why don't you just tell us a little about who you are and what you do.
Shuly Nathan: I am the singer who first sang the original version of Yerushalayim Shel Zahav on Independence Day, 1967 at a song festival. And the song has become like a prophesy and the hymn of the Six Day War and one of the most beloved songs in Israel until this day.
Israel Beat:Did you know that was going to happen that day?
Shuly Nathan: No, no. I felt that I had a treasure in my hand, as a song, but I could never imagine that it could take such root. That it would become almost like a hymn.
Israel Beat: And they just found you and put you up on stage?
Shuly Nathan: Well, Nomi [Naomi] Shemer chose me to sing this song. Teddy Kollek [the mayor of Jerusalem] asked for songs for Jerusalem for the festival. Outside of the contest, Nomi had been asked to write a song and she wrote Jersualem of Gold. And then when they asked who would like to perform this song, she said, "I heard a young girl singing not long ago in an amateur program and I would like her to sing the song." So first they objected and said this girl, her name is Shuly Nathan, she is a soldier and she is an amateur singer and they don't use amateur on that festival. And Nomi said, "If you don't let her sing that song, I am not going to submit the song." That is how my fate went.
Israel Beat: So you've worked with her this entire time?
Shuly Nathan: Yes. I worked with her in the winter that was before January and February, before the festival. The festival was in April. And I got to know her. We worked plenty on the song. Although she gave me quite a lot of freedom, she insisted on the harmonies and the general frame of the song but she gave me quite a lot of freedom to make my own interpretation.
Israel Beat: So that performance was actually before the war?
Shuly Nathan: It was before the war. It was two and a half weeks before the war. The next day they started to call the Miluim [reserve duty soldiers]. Two and a half weeks later, the city was free. General Motta Gur said "Har Habayit is in our hands", and all the paratroopers that were there were yelling and shouting "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav!" It became like a hymn.
Israel Beat: What are you doing now? You're now releasing new albums, right?
Shuly Nathan: I made about six albums in the first part of my career, long-plays, between '67 and '75. Then I got married and had five children and I stopped for ten years. My second career started when my youngest son was two, and it lasts 'til now. I released four CDs. Amongst them, one of Shlomo Carlebach which I released about two years ago. And I'm going on and I'm very, very busy. Singing in Israel and around the world as well.
Israel Beat: Do people recognize your name? Do they know you?
Shuly Nathan: Most people do. They young people, they know, if you tell them, I'm the original singer of Jerusalem of Gold. So everybody knows Jerusalem of Gold.
Israel Beat: Did you work with Naomi Shemer this entire time?
Shuly Nathan: I worked with her later. We released another LP. Shuly Nathan Sings Naomi Shemer Songs. That was in 1974. We were always in touch with her and with her family -- her husband and her children. We were very found of each other.
Israel Beat: Have you been all over the world touring?
Shuly Nathan: I've been, yes. All through the years, yes.
Israel Beat: What have the reactions been?
Shuly Nathan: It's always very exciting. When they hear Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, people cry. They get very excited.
Israel Beat: How did you learn how to sing?
Shuly Nathan: I started to play the guitar and that made me start singing when I was sixteen.
Israel Beat: Do you have any CDs coming out now?
Shuly Nathan: I am working. I am starting one now that will be more ethnic music. Ladino songs, Italian, Moroccan, Jewish. Maybe some songs from around the world.
Israel Beat: Are there any Jerusalem of Gold type songs now?
Shuly Nathan: Not that I know. There isn't anything like it. Because it's not a normal song. So it's really something once in a decade.
Israel Beat: Do you have any advice for people for people who want to write a great song such as that?
Shuly Nathan: It's not something that you can do with intention. I don't think she did it with intention in her mind. She just went to Jerusalem, walked in the streets of Jerusalem, wrote about the sadness of us not being able to reach The Wall and the holy places and she was inspired. She certainly was inspired.
Ben Bresky interviews Shuly Nathan
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Lure for Trout-There is a small spring brook near here that is stocked with large German brown trout, weighing from two to seven pounds, and I have tried all ways to catch then and failed. What bait should I use? Are spinning baits any good? What time of day is best to fish for them?
I am sure that you will find the spinning baits very successful, especially the smaller and simpler kinds, such as the nickel plated casting spoon, or a small or medium sized trolling spoon, with the spoon either of nickel plated metal or of a mother of pearl. Fish in the evening and morning and on cloudy days, or at almost any time during the summer. Fish in the pools; keep out of sight, and cast the bait well out, drawing it in by spasmodic movements, about a yard of four feet at a pull. Let the bait get well down in the water. You may also be successful by using live shiner, a rather small one, hooked through the lips, or a lager one with the hook down through the mouth and out at the gill, then hooked into the side of the body well back, and the fish curved on the hook to make to spin when you draw it through the water. Use a small swivel above the snell.
Harding, A.R.. 3001 Questions and Answers. Columbus, Oh: A.R. Harding, 1913.
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Environmental Factor, July 2008, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Draft BPA Report Gets Public Comment and Board Review
By Eddy Ball
Less than two months after the eagerly anticipatedwas made publicly available, the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) considered the draft brief as part of its semi-annual public meeting on June 11 - 12 at the Research Triangle Park Radisson Hotel. The draft brief represents NTP's assessment of the risks of BPA exposure for affecting reproduction and development in humans. The draft brief is based on review of an Expert Panel Report issued in August 2007, public comments and new relevant scientific literature.
Chaired by birth defects specialist Gail McCarver, M.D., the meeting gave scientific staff of the NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR), who prepared the draft brief, a forum for explaining their conclusions to the BSC. The group also had an opportunity to hear comments on the draft brief from the public as well as receive input from the BSC and several scientists who were designated ad hoc discussants.
The meeting opened with welcome remarks by Acting NIEHS/NTP Director Sam Wilson, M.D., who expressly reinforced "the NTP's position toward full peer review and toward full public input into the peer review process - and at the same time the commitment toward full transparency. Our aim is to sort through the science and come to the best solution possible based on the scientific information."
Wilson's remarks were followed by a review of NTP activities since the BSC's December 2007 meeting, presented by NTP Associate Director John Bucher, Ph.D. CERHR Director Mike Shelby, Ph.D., then explained the process for preparing the draft brief, presented an overview of the draft brief and explained the NTP's rationale for reaching its conclusions.
Shelby emphasized several times in his presentation that CERHR reports are assessments of potential effects on human health and should not be confused with regulatory documents. He also articulated the charge to the BSC to evaluate whether the draft is technically correct, clearly stated and supportive of the conclusions. Shelby was followed by Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) toxicologist Richard Wang, M.D., who presented the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)(http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm) study data that support the exposure of more that 90 percent of the population to BPA.
With a few exceptions, the draft conclusions of the NTP were in general agreement with those of the expert panel. The NTP conclusions reflected a higher level of concern(http://niehs.nih.gov/news/media/questions/sya-bpa.cfm#3) than those expressed by the expert panel for possible effects of BPA on prostate gland, mammary gland and early onset of puberty in exposed fetuses, infants and children. The CERHR staff considered the Expert Panel report and all public comments on the final expert panel report, and reviewed relevant scientific papers that were published subsequent to completion of the expert panel evaluation.
Members of the BSC and ad hoc reviewers engaged in some lively discussion about specific details of the draft brief, but they generally agreed that NTP had done a commendable job of integrating a large amount of sometimes conflicting data into a cohesive draft. The detailed four-hour review was characterized by extensive reference to specific papers on the long list of citations reviewed during preparation of the draft brief. The BSC agreed with most of the conclusions presented in the draft brief, but recommended a lower level of concern for possible effects on the mammary gland and puberty in females. Publication of the final NTP Brief on BPA is expected in late summer of this year.
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Is It Civil To Suggest Bush Is a Killer?
- In 1988 (and 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992), the media slammed George H. W. Bush for suggesting (or gaining from independent ads declaring) that Michael Dukakis released a convicted murderer on a furlough program who traveled to Maryland and raped a woman. Willie Horton became famous not for his crimes, but as a symbol of Republican nastiness and race-baiting.
- But the media silence so far is deafening over the new ad campaign by the NAACP (see box). Over black and white video of a truck dragging a chain, James Byrd's daughter suggests George W. Bush killed her father all over again. Floyd Brown's media-pulverized 1988 ad never found the family of Horton's murder victim and said when Dukakis released him for the weekend, it was like Dukakis was stabbing him all over again.
- Fox News Channel has reported and shown the ad. CNN substitute Crossfire co-host Tucker Carlson asked Sen. Bob Kerrey last night if Gore should denounce the ad or ask it to be discontinued. Kerrey said: "I'll say it's racially divisive and offensive and take it off the air...it's apt to actually be counterproductive. I can't imagine it's going to persuade very many people."
- But the media's civility referees and race-card cops let liberal black leaders say whatever they want without fear of controversy. On Tuesday night, BET talk show host Tavis Smiley talked about the death penalty on CNBC's Rivera Live: "As far as I'm concerned, Bush in Texas is nothing more than a serial killer."
- Over the years, The Washington Times has spotlighted the intemperate remarks of NAACP leader Julian Bond: In 1997, he told CNN he "wholeheartedly believes" Camille Cosby's charge that "America taught our son's [Ukrainian] killer to hate African-Americans." Bond said in the Reagan years, Republicans were "a crazed swarm of right-wing locusts" waging an "assault on the rule of law."
- The NAACP's candidate, Al Gore, tells black audiences about Republicans: "They use colorblind the way duck hunters use their duck blind. They hide behind it and hope the ducks won't figure out what they're up to." (On today's Good Morning America, ABC's Charles Gibson didn't ask Gore about the NAACP.)
- Two years ago, the Missouri Democratic Party ran this radio ad: "When you don't vote, you let another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn. When you don't vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister. When you don't vote, you let the Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start." Only Fox reported on that ad.
- But on September 20, 2000, CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer warned a Missouri commercial "has led to charges tonight that racist tactics are being used in an effort to sway voters to vote Republican." The ad featured a woman worrying about her son running with the wrong crowd: "That was a bit more diversity than he could handle." Reporter Bill Whitaker relayed: "A disparaging remark about diversity. Democrats call it 'race-baiting.'" He concluded with 1988: "And ugly or not, they can work. The controversial Willie Horton ad by an outside group helped George W. Bush's father win the presidency by painting Michael Dukakis as soft on crime." If the media were fair, they'd show the NAACP ad for the next 12 years for balance.
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It has been a long road for this New Zealand family. In 2012, its company, which built many New Zealand motorways, celebrates its centenary.
The Stevenson Group consists of five separate operating companies with the Stevenson name linked to engineering, construction materials (including the recently-named Stevenson concrete), agriculture, resources, mining and properties.
The company employs 500 in New Zealand, with a small office in Australia.
It recently launched literacy and numeracy programmes for them, finding this boosts their communication skills, productivity and lowers staff turnover.
Quarrying forms a major part of operations, with it having three quarries, including New Zealand’s largest at Drury, which supplies around one quarter of Auckland’s aggregate needs with an estimated economic benefit of about $40-$50 million a year.
It also owns the 14,000ha Lochinver Station southeast of Taupo which runs 1000 Angus breeding cows as well as 25,000 Perendales, which produce more than 165,000kg of wool a year.
Stevenson Group has a history of road-building, such as constructing Auckland’s Southern motorway, and recently widening some of it to dual-four lanes, and building the SH1 ALPURT motorways extension to Orewa.
It has other major development plans at hand, with it pushing for development of 360ha, sited between its Drury Quarry and the Southern Motorway. Facing some local opposition, the Drury South project is working its way through the consents process.
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Mon December 17, 2012
Lansing city leaders concerned about apparent problems with Ingham County's 911 system
The Lansing City Council received a report last night looking at serious problems with Ingham County’s 911 system.
The new 911 center opened last summer. It dispatches fire and EMS crews for Lansing and East Lansing, as well as Ingham County.
But the system has trouble pinpointing mobile phone calls, and that’s led to dispatching mistakes and slow response times. A new report suggests three deaths may be connected to problems with the 911 system.
“First responders have to have a system that they can rely on,” says Carol Wood, who chairs the Lansing city council’s public safety committee. She adds, “Taxpayers, that are making those payments, need to know that system is working.”
A task force is expected to make recommendations for fixing the system by the end of the month.
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On the “soft and gentle flavors of the past”
I don’t eat Chinese food all that much anymore. There are times I think the observation a family member made — Thai is the new Chinese — is right on.
But my affection for Chinese food has not waned – and this Christmas Day, this American, NY-raised Jew will be headed off for Chinese food (in Bangor, Maine yet).
Ok, it’s true that, as one who doesn’t celebrate the Christian holiday that I have to find something else to do.
And something else to eat.
But eating Chinese food is a Jewish American tradition.
Thinking about it this year brings back memories. In that, I am not alone. In the classic piece, Safe Treyf, Gaye Tuchman and Harry Levine write:
For immigrants and most first-generation Jews, Chinese restaurants were new experiences. However, our middle-aged and third-generation informants viewed them differently. When these Jews talked about Chinese restaurants they usually told us about their parents and family outings. They added that as adults eating Chinese food, they found that their present experiences resonated with a fondly remembered past. For them, Chinese food had become fused with their family experiences and their own social life — part of what it meant to be a New York Jew. As Mimi Sheraton put it, describing Cantonese cooking, “These dishes, with their meltingly tender vegetables and soothing garlic overtones, are for me what Federico Fellini once described as ‘the soft and gentle flavors of the past’”.
Some of my memories of Chinese food are tied to my bubbe Sadie, a warm and wonderful woman who was born in Minsk in 1900. She and Aunt Thelma and Uncle Max (the latter a refugee from Hitler’s Germany) would meet my parents and sisters some Sundays to partake.
And then there’s my dad, who, amazingly and joyously could locate a parking spot in NY’s Chinatown — that was a miracle! — where sometimes we could stop at the arcade that had the tic-tac-toe playing chicken.
For my children, maybe it will that same, silly joke from who-knows-where I make when I read the fortune in my fortune cookie and report it says, “Help, I’m being held hostage in a Chinese fortune cookie factory.”
Do you have Chinese food memories?
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BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Officials in Brunswick County are preparing hundreds of pages of information to send to large companies looking to set up shop in our area.
We're not even a month into 2013, but economic development is looking good in the county.
In less than a week, economic development officials have heard from five companies looking at properties in Brunswick County.
It's something that executive director Jim Bradshaw has never seen in his more than five years with the commission.
"It's very unusual to have five new projects in a week," he said.
Bradshaw said it's too early to say which companies have showed interest.
Bradshaw credited this increase in interest to the county's private sector foundation.
The foundation is made up of 13 private groups in the county. It's only been official for about a year, but they've done a lot of work.
The foundation donated about $70,000 to the commission, which has allowed Bradshaw and others to travel the country in hopes of gaining interest in Brunswick County properties. It's also helped save taxpayer money.
Looking ahead into 2013, Bradshaw said the commission is focused on recruiting new industries and working with existing ones.
Some of the companies looking to come to our area are metal fabricators, plastic injection molding and logistic distributions.
Bradshaw said the commission will send the paperwork to the five companies in the next few days. It could then take months to hear back if our area is in the running as a possible location for the company.
Copyright 2013 WECT. All rights reserved.
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That didn't take long: Section 203 of S. 349, a bill that purports to provide tax relief to business, claims it is going to fund itself with additional taxes on business by ending deductions for punitive damages. As Martin Grace notes in the insurance context, most of this tax increase from the random imposition of punitive damages is simply going to get passed on directly to American consumers as a cost of doing business.
What Grace doesn't note is that it's also a wealth transfer directly to trial lawyers. With punitive damages 50% or so more expensive to a defendant (but the same value to the trial lawyer), the law creates additional settlement pressure on defendants to settle a case before punitive damages are assessed rather than defend itself in court against unfair attacks. One can expect an increase in lottery litigation.
I disagree with Grace that none of this cost will fall on workers or investors. While many wealthier investors can shift investments away from litigation targets to friendlier environments, others have less fungible portfolios. There will be a decline in total economic activity at the margin, and this will hurt employment and investors at the margin as well. (Update: Grace has since modified his position to reflect the fact that the bill affects more than insurers, and has a good cite to the CBO study showing that 70% of the effect of corporate taxation falls on workers.)
Meanwhile, the total amount of punitive damages awarded in trial can be expected to go down as more defendants cave into extortion before verdict, and dishonest or foolish academics will point to this incomplete data as evidence that punitive damage law needs no reform while ignoring the ex ante effects of the law. The net effect is going to cost business and consumers more money; the net effect on government revenues is likely negative depending on whether the decline in jury verdicts more than offsets the increase in government take. In California, where a law was passed to directly tax punitive damages, the government take dropped to zero as plaintiffs' and defense attorneys simply negotiated around the new rule in settlements.
It's lose-lose for everybody—except, of course, the trial lawyers. Where's the outrage?
(AP/CNN reports that the bill also applies to court settlements paid by companies that have been sued, but Section 204 of the bill is limited solely to consent decrees in actions brought by the government, and has no effect on private causes of action.)
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2012 USA Olympic Team Trials Marathon -
photo: Victah Sailer/PhotoRun
Meb looks to add to his Olympic resume
By Sharon Ekstrom
The USA is the only country that uses a single race to select its Marathon team for the Olympics and for the first time in history the USA chose to use a single venue and single day - Houston, TX on Saturday, January 14, 2012 - to stage two races to select both the men's and women's teams for the Olympics. According to varying criteria for the men and women, any athlete who had run faster than the "qualifying standards" is qualified to participate in the Olympic Trials Marathon and by the deadline 161 men and 226 women had qualified. Of course not everyone who can run a certain time at a distance is really planning to run the marathon - especially as fast 10,000m specialists would be "qualified" - so after the dust had settled; more than 300 athletes, 112 men and 194 women, had declared their intent to participate in the Olympic Trials Marathon, a record number.
For 2012, the races would be held on a one-time use course designed to simulate what the athletes might find in London: a flat course consisting of a short lap and three longer laps with a couple of u-turns thrown in for good measure. The idea being that those who would do well on this course would do well on the similar London Olympics course. In attendance would be many past Olympians as well as a whole slew of new and upcoming talent. For most of the more than 300 athletes, just getting to the Olympic Trials Marathon was the goal, but for a couple of dozen their heads were filled with the possibility of getting a trip to the Olympics from a top three finish.
And while a foot race normally has one winner, there will be six (three men, three women) to emerge from the Houston Trials as "winners," having won the right to represent the USA at the premier running and marathon event held every four years, the Olympic Games to be held in London in August 2012. Some runners will be thinking about winning the race, but really any will be happy with a top 3 finish and trip to the Olympics; that is the goal.
In the history of the Olympics, the USA has brought home 12 medals in the marathon: Thomas Hicks (St. Louis 1904 - gold), Albert Corey (St. Louis 1904 - silver), Arthur Newton (St. Louis 1904 - bronze), Johnny Hayes (London 1908 - gold), Joseph Forshaw (London 1908- bronze), Gaston Strobino (Stockholm 1912 - bronze), Clarence DeMar (Paris 1924 - bronze), Frank Shorter (Munich 1972 - gold), Frank Shorter (Montreal 1976 - silver) and Meb Keflezighi (Athens 2004 - silver) For the women's event - Joan Benoit who won the first women's marathon event and set world record while doing it (Los Angeles 1984 - gold) and Deena Kastor (Athens 2004 - bronze). If the USA hopes to improve on that count in 2012, it will have to happen from one of the men or women who will be competing at the 2012 Olympic Trials Marathon in Houston.
We will be continually updating this page to add content and commentary. Please come back often as we will try to provide the most intelligent coverage of the Olympic Marathon Trials available...
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The stimulus package has a long way to go toward fulfilling President Obama's goal of creating 3.5 million jobs, but it's put a meaningful dent in Chicago for 268 former Republic Windows and Doors workers who were unceremoniously laid off in December and could be back to work as early as next month.
The plant's new owner, Serious Materials, says it expects demand for its energy efficient windows will rise because of provisions in the stimulus package. Because of that, the company is ramping up production.
"We're thrilled that this is going to mean green, union, living-wage jobs for the city of Chicago," says Leah Fried, an organizer for the United Electrical Workers Local 1110.
The union's workers staged a sit-in after they were locked out of the Goose Island plant late last year. The announcement means workers will have to end their Resistance and Recovery Tour because they will be going back to work.
"We always felt this product had a future," says Fried, who believed Republic Windows and Doors never should have closed.
The union's new contract with Serious calls for hiring all of the former workers who had seniority rights. It will also reinstate their previous wages.
"It's a good contract," Fried says. "The most important thing is that people are going back to their correct pay and no one has a loss in wages. There are slight differences in the benefits but we know that this is a good agreement and it will provide living wage jobs with benefits."
The move by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Serious drew praise from Vice President Joe Biden and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin yesterday as a sign that the provisions for weatherization and green initiatives in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have already started paying dividends.
“These workers will not only earn a paycheck again; they will go back to work creating products that will benefit America’s long-term economic future," Biden said in a White House statement released yesterday afternoon.
Durbin said the stimulus package has "recreated a market for energy efficient materials that virtually disappeared as our economic crisis deepened."
Serious Materials produces windows that exceed the minimum requirements established by Energy Star, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The program identifies environmentally friendly products and practices.
Homeowners who buy Energy Star-certified products may qualify for up to $1,500 in tax credits under the stimulus act.
Serious Materials spokeswoman Sandra Vaughan says the company still has finalize a leasing agreement with Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the property owner. Serious is also repairing equipment to produce the company's high-end window line.
The Chicago purchase was an integral part of their strategy to establish a national network of manufacturing sites and have a presence in the Midwest, Vaughan says.
Staff Writer Fernando Diaz covers labor and unions for the Daily News. He can be reached at 773.362.5002, ext. 14.
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A lightweight white-metal relative of platinum with similar durability and strength. Unlike white gold, which can yellow over time, palladium retains its brightness.
A dense and durable precious metal that is difficult to scratch and chip. With no yellow hue or alloys, this rare metal has a natural white luster and comes at a premium price.
A silver alloy made up of 92.5 percent pure silver and another metal (often copper) that increases its durability, as pure silver is soft and easily damaged.
An extremely lightweight yet strong metal in a burnished gunmetal gray hue that is popular in men’s wedding bands. Its strength makes it difficult for jewelers to carve and resize.
Gold that is often plated with rhodium, a shiny, durable white metal that gives it a white luster. Yearly replating is recommended.
A dense, soft, shiny and malleable metal. Yellow gold is usually alloyed with copper, silver or other metals.
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There was a long silence as the young man thought about his answer. Demetri, one of Jerusalem’s leading scribes and expert interpreter of the Torah found the silence irritating, why wasn’t the boy answering? He acted as if he had been brought into a court of law.
Since he was Demetri’s own son, Demetri had carefully explained that this was merely an informal meeting of the synagogue’s leaders as they sought firsthand accounts of the recent events.
“Yes.” Yerik didn’t look at his father as he answered, but his chin jutted out slightly and jaw set firmly.
No one except Demetri noticed. Inwardly Demetri groaned—that was the boy’s stubborn look. According to Demetri’s wife, the boy had inherited the look from Demetri’s side of the family. Why then did this son, out of all his sons, irritate and chafe Demetri the most?
Demetri wished the rest of the group had settled for discussion of their own witnesses of the execution. After all, many of them had been there. In fact, he would have been willing to share his own testimony even though it would not be pretty in the retelling. But no, they had to insist on someone outside of the synagogues telling the story, and Demetri’s son was of age.
“What did you see?”
Yerik looked at the group, and Demetri knew what he was thinking. Thinking that many of these men had been there—and they wanted him to tell them what they had seen? Now that Demetri thought about it…it was a bit on the illogical side, perhaps Yerik had had a point when he asked what the men were trying to achieve by their ‘inquisition’. At the time, Demetri had thought the statement was a gross exaggeration and had told Yerik so.
“I saw…what many of you saw…”
Silently, Demetri groaned again…the boy just couldn’t resist the jibe at their religious superiors. ’Stick with the facts’ that is what Demetri had told him. Yerik was good at the facts. He never forgot a face, a word—written or spoken, and had always been too honest. Their worst disagreements had been goaded to new lows when, even as a child, Yerik threw his parent’s own words back at them.
Yerik continued, “I saw the Romans give him thirty-nine lashes, place the ‘crown’ upon his head…”
As Yerik spoke, images were running through Demetri’s head. The crack of the whip, the onlookers’ gasps; then the thorns long and sharp, piercing the skin on the skull with every blow, the cursed tree laid upon a bloodied back, the trembling legs as they began death’s journey.
“Stop!” It was a fellow scribe—one who had stood beside Demetri as they had observed the actions that were being accounted.
Demetri swallowed hard, could it be that the scenes were replaying in his mind as they were in Demetri’s? Demetri couldn’t have spoken even if he wanted too, his mouth was dry and despite the fact that Yerik had stopped when commanded, the pictures in Demetri’s mind went on…he could see each pain-laden step, the man who stepped in to carry the tree, the journey through the streets, the climb up the hill…
“We want you to recount what happened at the end.” A Pharisee glared at Yerik. Though Demetri had told Yerik to start with that, he was a bit proud of Yerik’s shrug and the nonchalant way he continued.
“The Romans hung a sign that said…”
“Stop!” the command came again, “the end…”
“Around the sixth hour…”
The pictures in Demetri’s mind didn’t jump the sixth hour, instead they flew through every moment until they caught up with the story...he saw the nails, the dripping blood, heard the words to and by the three men twisting in agony, the drenched sponge offered to unwilling lips.
Demetri tried to escape the replay by looking around the group. They looked frozen, speechless. He wondered…what were they remembering…perhaps their little ‘pretrial’ before Pontius’s judgment? Or were they too, recalling those final words “it is finished”.
“…He was dead…The spear went deep, missed the rib cage, straight into the heart. The sky went black…there was a mighty shake…”
Blood mixed with water poured out of the wound. Some of Demetri’s acquaintances were of the medical profession and loved to query the mysteries of life. It had annoyed him, their push to explain the healings that had occurred recently. He’d been avoiding their discussions in the square; but had heard one theory of a old Greek doctor—a theory that blood and water around the heart in that quantity signified pain, not of physical origin, but pain of the mind or the soul—like sorrow. Demetri shook off the thought and returned his attention to Yerik’s account.
“They say he was seen by quite a few witnesses in Jerusalem…”
The head of the Sadducees interrupted Yerik.
“We are not interested in secondhand accounts…”
Yerik interrupted the man, and Demetri felt it was a sign of how shaken the group was that they let him do so without protest.
“I understand,” Yerik paused and for the first time he looked at Demetri. Demetri could tell Yerik was trying to tell him something.
Yerik squared his shoulder and looked at the group.
“I saw the man two weeks ago, and can testify that it was him. The Nazarene they call Jesus.” A collective gasp ran through the group. Demetri was stunned. That was why Yerik had been reluctant to tell the group the story; he knew what a precarious position he was putting his father in.
“That is a lie!” burst from one man’s lips.
“My son does not lie!” Demetri glared at the man. Long silent seconds passed, and Demetri knew what was coming. They were preparing to turn their attack from son to father. Demetri’s eyes found Yerik’s. Yerik’s eyes were filled with respect for the decision Demetri had made—to support his son knowing the cost of that decision.
Mentally Demetri prepared himself and turned to face the group. It was a lynch mob if he’d ever seen one.
Suddenly a young boy pushed into the circle of men, breathing hard like he had been running.
“They are in the street! Those men…”
“What men? You are interrupting an important meeting!” one of the men grabbed the boy’s arm.
The boy didn’t even have the sense to look scared, he was too excited.
“The men that were his followers! They are in the streets, and telling everyone about the man, Jesus!”
Dignity was laid aside as the group quickly disbanded so that each could investigate this new situation on his own. Demetri appreciated the fact that Yerik slowed his steps to walk beside his father. Demetri looked at his son. He could see that Yerik was controlling his eagerness to run in order to stay with Demetri.
“You met him.” Demetri said quietly.
“Yes.” There was a wealth of meaning in that one word.
“You are different.” Demetri stared down the road. His mind’s eye could still see the labored walk; his ears hear the scrape of that cursed tree.
“I have made a decision…”
Demetri knew what was coming but was surprised at his own heart’s leap of desire to embrace his son’s next words.
“I have decided to be a follower…I believe…He is the promised One, the Christ.”
Yerik pulled Demetri to a stop and waited until his father’s eyes met his.
Then Yerik pleaded,
“Father, believe! I know. I saw him…He is the Messiah!”
Read more articles by Joanna Stricker or search for articles on the same topic or others.
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The New York Times article "Thinking Like a Student" takes a look at the thrifty, creative home-design moves college students, particularly architecture students, are making during these difficult economic times to make their homes a better place, aesthetically and functionally.
Along with the article is a wonderful slideshow showcasing many of these "on the cheap" tricks. One of my favorites was a set of candle holders fashioned from recycled light bulbs by Lauren Chapman, a student at Yale School of Architecture. By now we've hopefully all made the switch to CFLs, but that doesn't mean we should just toss those standard old bulbs in the trash.
To find out more about this project, read more.
Why not turn them into candle sticks? I've actually shown you lamps made from light bulbs before, but those were much too pricey. My only concern is how Chapman got the bulbs to stand up. I'm thinking that by using a glue gun on the candle holders' bottom, you could create a flat base. Or, you could set a magnet inside the bulb, and then one underneath your table cloth, like those DIY magnetic vases. What do you think? Do you like it, or is it too thrifty-looking for you?
Photo by Phil Mansfield for The New York Times
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War on Christmas 2011: Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop's fable of "The Dog in the Manger."
The tale is about a dog who decides to take a nap in the manger. When the ox, who has worked all day, comes back to eat some straw, the dog barks loudly, threatens to bite him and drives him from his manger.
The lesson the fable teaches is that it is malicious and wicked to deny a fellow creature what you yourself do not want and cannot even enjoy.
The problem with these folks is not simply that they detest Christmas and what it represents, but that they must do their best, or worst, to ensure Christians do not enjoy the season and holy day they love.
As a Washington Times editorial relates, the number of anti-Christian bigots is growing, and their malevolence is out of the closet:
"In Leesburg, Va., a Santa-suit-clad skeleton was nailed to a cross. ... In Santa Monica, atheists were granted 18 of 21 plots in a public park allotted for holiday displays and ... erected signs mocking religion. In the Wisconsin statehouse, a sign informs visitors, 'Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.' A video that has gone viral on YouTube shows denizens of Occupy D.C. spewing gratuitous hatred of a couple who dared to appropriate a small patch of McPherson Square to set up a living Nativity scene."
People who indulge in such conduct invariably claim to be champions of the First Amendment, exercising their right of free speech to maintain a separation of church and state.
They are partly right. The First Amendment does protect what they are doing. But what they are doing is engaging in hate speech and anti-Christian bigotry. For what is the purpose of what they are about, if not to wound, offend, insult and mock fellow Americans celebrating the happiest day of their calendar year?
Consider what this day means to a believing Christian.
It is a time and a day set aside to celebrate the nativity, the birth of Christ, whom Christians believe to be the Son of God and their Savior who gave his life on the cross to redeem mankind and open the gates of heaven.
Even if a man disbelieves this, why would he interfere with or deny his fellow countrymen, three in four of whom still profess to be Christians, their right to celebrate in public this joyous occasion?
This mockery and hatred of Christmas testifies not only to the character of those who engage in it, it says something as well about who is winning the culture war for the soul of America.
Not long ago, the Supreme Court (1892) and three U.S. presidents—Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter—all declared America to be a "Christian nation."
They did not mean that any particular denomination had been declared America's national religion—indeed, that was ruled out in the Constitution—but that we were predominantly a Christian people.
And so we were born.
Around 1790, America was 99 percent Protestant, 1 percent Catholic, with a few thousands Jews. The Irish immigration from 1845 to 1850 brought hundreds of thousands more Catholics to America. The Great Wave of immigration from 1890 to 1920 brought millions of Southern and Eastern Europeans, mostly Catholic and Jews. As late as 1990, 85 percent of all Americans described themselves as Christians.
And here one must pose a question.
How did America's Christians allow themselves to be dispossessed of a country their fathers had built for them?
How did America come to be a nation where not only have all Christian prayers, pageants, holidays and holy days been purged from all government schools and public institutions, but secularism has taken over those schools, while Christians are mocked at Christmas in ways that would be declared hate crimes were it done to other religious faiths or ethnic minorities?
Was it a manifestation of tolerance and maturity, or pusillanimity, that Christians allowed themselves to be robbed of their inheritance to a point where Barack Obama could assert without contradiction that we Americans "do not consider ourselves to be a Christian nation"?
What are these Christmas-bashers, though still a nominal minority, saying to Christians with their mockery and ridicule of the celebration of the birth of Christ?
"This isn't your country anymore. It is our country now."
The question for Christians is a simple one: Do they have what it takes to take America back?
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His most recent published book is Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, reviewed here by Paul Craig Roberts. His new book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? was released October 18, and is rocketing up the charts.
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Newsweek Names Tzipi Livni One of World’s 150 ‘Fearless’ Women
Newsweek’s third annual list of 150 “fearless women” who “shake the world” includes Opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
The magazine said its list notes “remarkable women leaders and activists from around the globe,” including “brave dissidents who fueled the Arab Spring to outspoken advocates fighting domestic slavery [and] from CEOs to artists to political influencers.”
Livni will appear at Newsweek’s three-day event “to showcase women who are battling the status quo, picking up the pieces in the aftermath of war and shattering glass ceilings.” She will talk to historian Simon Schama about “Israel on the brink.”
The magazine explained it selected Livni, the only Israeli on the list, because she is “the first female opposition leader in Israel’s history” and is “a former lawyer known for her honesty and integrity.”
She also was cited for being a “steadfast proponent of the peace process.”
Livni is chairman of Kadima party and inherited the position of interim Prime Minister after Ehud Olmert was forced to resign following a long list of scandals, some of which now are hanging over his head in court.
She led the party to one-seat-margin victory over the Likud in the ensuing general elections but failed to put together a majority coalition, leaving the task for now Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud.
Kadima’s popularity has sunk under her leadership, and polls indicate that it will be one of the smallest parties in the next Knesset. However, her position of Opposition leader has gained her a favorable spot in mainstream media, most of which consider Prime Minister Netanyahu a “right winger” and an obstacle to the “peace process.”
Livni told Army Radio Tuesday that her inclusion is a “personal compliment” and added, “It is good that the list features an Israeli woman.”
Other women on the list include U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, singer Lady Gaga, Mexican Attorney General Marisa Morales, Yemeni Nobel peace prize laureate Tawakkol Karman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Marie Colvin, the American journalist who was killed by Syrian forces last week while covering the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The list includes five women from Egypt and six from Iran.
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Virginia Procurement Overview
If you are interested in doing business with the Commonwealth, the Crater Procurement Assistance Center can assist you with the following:
Sell to the Commonwealth
Each year, the Commonwealth of Virginia purchases more than $5 billion in materials, equipment, supplies, printing, and professional and non-professional services. As such, anyone who sells goods or services is a potential vendor.
Virginia Business Opportunities lists all major products and services that state agencies and localities are purchasing on the Virginia Business Opportunities (VBO) website. At this site you can see major goods and services that state agencies and localities are purchasing. In a typical week, 125 to 200 solicitations are displayed - and solicitations are added daily. The site provides the buyer's name and contact information for each item listed, and you can sort the opportunities by category, agency, buyer, or locality.
Awards are made using one of the following six methods of procurement:
Agencies will purchase non-technology goods and printing up to $50,000.
The Division of Purchases and Supply (DPS), the Commonwealth's central office for buying non-technology materials, equipment, supplies, and printing, normally will purchase these items for state agencies when the estimated cost exceeds $50,000. It also establishes statewide contracts for frequently used goods and some services which are also available for use by localities and other public bodies.
DPS as well as state agencies and some localities use its electronic procurement solution, eVA, to identify vendors and advertise solicitations. Vendors who register in eVA will receive automatic notification of solicitations, if they prefer. In addition, they will receive any changes to the solicitations and most of all, be able to respond to solicitations online, saving mailing and delivery costs at the same time. Registration with eVA is a prerequisite to being awarded a contract.
Agencies have unlimited delegation for non-technology nonprofessional services. Nonprofessional services include all services not defined as professional services (see Professional Services below).
Vendors should work with agencies as they would with any other client; that is, letting the purchasing people know who you are and what you have to offer. This will help ensure you will be contacted when bids and proposals are solicited.
In purchasing non-technology goods and printing or nonprofessional services, the Division follows these guidelines:
Purchasing Professional Services
Usually, each state agency contracts directly for professional services. So any firm that wants to submit proposals in these areas should contact the appropriate agency.
The Commonwealth normally purchases professional services through competitive negotiation. By law, only the following are defined as professional services:
If you want to learn more about e-VA and how to use e-VA go to e-VA training.
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By connecting buyers, suppliers, and service providers across multiple systems and processes, the Ariba Supplier Network helps organizations eliminate the complexity and expense of interacting through manual or point-to-point solutions and drives effective business collaboration for both buyers and suppliers.
Crater Procurement Assistance Center
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Originally Posted by jragosta
If anyone ever needed proof that the Mac bashers around here have no idea what they're talking about, this is it in a nutshell.
For Apple, User Experience IS about money.
Simple Marketing 101 lesson. Pay attention.
What does Apple have to sell?
-They certainly don't have network effects.
- They don't have unique hardware (note: their hardware is far, far better than MOST of the PCs being sold out there which is part of the reason why Apple has such high satisfaction scores, but there is other high quality hardware if you want to pay for it).
- They don't have a cost advantage
What they have is a vastly superior, consistent UI. That is the driving force which has created customer loyalty and which make the iPhone the fastest selling (at launch) electronic device EVER. When you have that kind of market advantage in such a competitive market, you don't let go of it. EVER. You fiercely defend your turf and do not allow anyone to interfere with it. That is essentially why the developer rules say you can't replace Apple's UI.
Arguing that 'it's only UI' indicates nothing more than your complete and utter lack of understanding of how the market works.
You must be new to the Mac community. Apple has a great UI, but it has often been inconsistent. Not to point out an utter lack of understanding, but this post is full of them...where to start...
1) Apples rules say you can't replace Apple's UI. Now, do you mean you think they say you cannot replace, as in remove and substitute your own? Or that may not offer an alternative? Or both? To help you, there are many approved apps that provide UIs to functions that Apple offers. Dialers, SMS apps, calendars, contacts..you name it. A GV App would have 'replaced' the Apple UI in the sense that it would offer an alternative. Obviously, if it replaced actual UI elements (i.e. parts of the OS) then it would have been rejected. Apple says it was not yet rejected. Go figure. Also, Apple's own description of the 'replacing' of Apple's interface by GV makes it clear that all it does is offer an alternative. I think the chose the word 'replace' to intentionally confuse the simple.
2)The OS is very important, but the UI is only a part of that and not the most important part. Just look at how often the tweak and change the Mac OSX UI. Sometimes aesthetics are just aesthetics. Their OS is robust, scalable, secure and fully buzzword compliant, but the OS and certainly not the UI are alone in being responsible for their success, though that are a part (just a part)
Their success has mainly been due to implementation and delivery. Whether it is the OS, their apps, their acessories, the iPhone, etc, it is their tight control and obsession with perfection that has made them a success...oh and Jobs ability to sell anything. On could also argue a large factor has been their integration of hardware and software, but they are hardly unique in the aspect. On the desktop side, everyone was selling integrated units when Apple was young. Apple's was just better. On the phone side, obviously there are competitors selling integrated units. Again, Apple just does it better.
3) Apple would strongly argue, and have for years, that they do have a cost advantage. TCO, ROI, whatever, they like to project a competitive level. Btu you know better than Apple?
4) Up until a few years ago, they sold very unique hardware (PPC). Even now, with the PA Semi acquisition they have openly discussed developing custom chips, potentially for the iPhone. But again, you know better?
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Gifts for everyone, even people you haven’t met
The presents are all unwrapped, and yards of wrapping paper were crunched up and thrown away. The party’s over. This year’s Christmas proceeded almost without incident. Though, a game of Apples to Apples was destroyed by a red wine spill. I won a game of Dumb Ass, and lost a game of Scrabble. And I talked everyone out of playing that memory game I don’t like. I don’t remember the name of it.
On Christmas Eve, there was a lively discussion about presents. My sister-in-law told me she had to buy gifts for the assistant dance coach, the hockey coaches and others. I think the whole thing is getting out of hand. You may ask, “Why do we have to buy gifts for people already snatching money from our wallet?”
The answer is pretty simple: to avoid being labeled a cheapskate. We give because all the other mothers are getting them something. It’s a social obligation.
The question really is, “Where do we draw the line?”
Suddenly, everyone is getting a gift. It doesn’t end at Christmas, either.
In October, a co-worker came up to me and said, “It’s Linda’s baby shower. We’re all pitching in five dollars.”
I inquired, “Who’s Linda?”
My co-worker replied, “She works on the second floor.”
I never met Linda. I had never been to the second floor. But I opened my wallet anyway. It was only five bucks. I don’t want to be The-Guy-Who-Doesn’t-Give.
Every office has one of those guys. We all know him, and no one likes him.
He’s the guy who never chips in. He’s the guy who brings a Ziploc bag to a buffet. He’s the guy who never joins the gang for lunch, unless the company is picking up the tab. Sometimes he’s even a she, but most of the cheapskates I have met are the male variety.
He’s the guy I sometimes envy. He doesn’t buy gifts for people he’s never met. There’s no debate about how much to tip the mail carrier at Christmas at his house. There’s no argument about buying gifts for the assistant hockey coach over there, either. His daughter’s piano teacher doesn’t get a “little extra something” at the holidays.
That wallet might never open, but I bet there’s money in there.
Pittsburgh had several productions of “The Christmas Carol” this year, two different musical ones with different songs even. The lesson was wasted on the ones who have the money to go to the show. The real Scrooges are at home, counting their money.
Charles Dickens and Dr. Seuss both wrote morality tales about misers. French playwright Moliere beat them to it, but Dickens and rhyming boy get all the credit. Even way back in 1668, people were making fun of the skinflints. Sometimes you have to pay the piper before you pay the piper.
I plan on having a well-attended funeral. Maybe Linda from the second floor will come to the church and say, “He was always so generous.”
Corbett: Plant decision probably next year (14098)
Roman Catholic bishop of Harrisburg dies suddenly (14087)
IG: Pittsburgh VA didn’t abide Legionnaires’ rules (14067)
Former Miss Rain Day adjusts to life with lupus (2194)
Washington woman embraces community commitment (1924)
Incumbent-less race lets ’Burgh hit reset button (332)
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Washington woman embraces community commitment (187)
Batch addresses W&J grads; Cal U. holds commencement (176)
Route 40 festival marked with nostalgia (146)
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Many “experts” still tout security as the biggest hurdle to cloud computing—specifically, public cloud computing. But, this is only partly true. While security is still a major impediment to cloud adoption, many organizations have not addressed another substantial barrier to adopting the public cloud model: compliance.
Proving Compliance in the Cloud Can Be Tough
Not only do customers need to keep their systems and information secure, they need to prove that it’s secure. That’s the essence of compliance.
When discussing compliance, your customers invariably run into some common questions:
- What information is being stored?
- Where is the information stored?
- Who can access the systems that the information is stored on?
- What level of access do these people have?
- Is this level of access appropriate?
When using the public cloud model, answering the first question is easy enough. It’s the next four that are a bit more difficult, if not impossible, to answer. That’s because, by its very definition, cloud computing obscures the underlying hardware, its location, and who actually has access to it and the information it contains. This situation leaves many cloud providers not able to meet customer compliance requirements.
Partner Opportunities with Identity
Identity is the key to solving the challenges associated with meeting compliance today—and is a huge opportunity for IT solution providers. Identity helps control the risks and challenges of computing across multiple environments because identity powers intelligent workload management (IWM). Through IWM, workloads can be infused with enough intelligence to control who has access to what information and for what purposes as well as adhere to any location restrictions your customers may require.
The opportunity is plain to see: partners can grow their businesses by helping customers adopt IWM and overcome virtually all of their compliance challenges.
The Bright Future of Public Clouds
In the near future, public cloud computing will become as common as wireless networking is today. The appeal of inexpensive, flexible computing that can be dynamically reconfigured at will is simply too great to ignore. Identity and IWM will enable your customers to maximize those benefits by creating workloads that are secure, compliant and portable across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
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Glenn Reynolds has a link to an extraordinarily thorough and convincing blog post about the “gun issue” in the aftermath of Sandy Hook that is the most impressive I’ve seen anywhere. It’s by a fellow named Larry Correia, a novelist and obvious gun expert; his blog is called Monster Hunter Nation. It is clear from the opening paragraphs that Mr. Correia knows what he is talking about. I’d love to see him up against that nitwit Piers Morgan on CNN.
Normally I’d post this up in the “Links” section above, but some of this (the whole post is 10,000 words long, but well worth reading the whole thing) is so good that I’m compelled to share a few highlights:
So now that there is a new tragedy the president wants to have a “national conversation on guns”. Here’s the thing. Until this national conversation is willing to entertain allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons, then it isn’t a conversation at all, it is a lecture.
Now when I say teachers carrying concealed weapons on Facebook I immediately get a bunch of emotional freak out responses. You can’t mandate teachers be armed! Guns in every classroom! Emotional response! Blood in the streets!
No. Hear me out. The single best way to respond to a mass shooter is with an immediate, violent response. The vast majority of the time, as soon as a mass shooter meets serious resistance, it bursts their fantasy world bubble. Then they kill themselves or surrender. This has happened over and over again. . .
The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by law enforcement: 14. The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by civilians: 2.5. The reason is simple. The armed civilians are there when it started.
The teachers are there already. The school staff is there already. Their reaction time is measured in seconds, not minutes. They can serve as your immediate violent response. Best case scenario, they engage and stop the attacker, or it bursts his fantasy bubble and he commits suicide. Worst case scenario, the armed staff provides a distraction, and while he’s concentrating on killing them, he’s not killing more children.
But teachers aren’t as trained as police officers! True, yet totally irrelevant. The teacher doesn’t need to be a SWAT cop or Navy SEAL. They need to be speed bumps. . .
Then they’ll say that this is impossible, and give me all sorts of terrible worst case scenarios about all of the horrors that will happen with a gun in the classroom… No problem, because this has happened before. In fact, my state laws allow for somebody with a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun in a school right now. Yes. Utah has armed teachers. We have for several years now.
When I was a CCW instructor, I decided that I wanted more teachers with skin in the game, so I started a program where I would teach anybody who worked at a school for free. No charge. Zip. They still had to pay the state for their background check and fingerprints, but all the instruction was free. I wanted more armed teachers in my state.
I personally taught several hundred teachers. I quickly discovered that pretty much every single school in my state had at least one competent, capable, smart, willing individual. Some schools had more. I had one high school where the principal, three teachers, and a janitor showed up for class. They had just had an event where there had been a threat against the school and their resource officer had turned up AWOL. This had been a wake up call for this principal that they were on their own, and he had taken it upon himself to talk to his teachers to find the willing and capable. Good for them. . .
But in a long post, this is the key sentence:
Gun Free Zones are hunting preserves for innocent people. Period.
If you have time, read the whole thing.
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Our series, “Integrating Social Media into Public Relations,” continues with this discussion of using Facebook for PR.
Building Facebook into PR strategies can either be an obvious win, or a terrible idea. With an audience of more than 750 millon who log 700 billion minutes on the social network monthly, the potential this platform presents to communicators is undeniable. However, as is the case with any social outlet, Facebook is first and foremost a very personal space for many users. Communications – even (and maybe especially?) between brands and individuals – have an intimate, one-on-one aspect. Respecting individual preferences and boundaries is important.
I’m in the camp that agrees Facebook has a place in public relations strategies. However, the charge to “get it out on Facebook” isn’t a tactic I’d recommend. Before one starts communicating via Facebook, it’s important to think first your audience. Chances are pretty good a large chunk of them are on Facebook. But why are they there, and how do they use Facebook? Do they tend to be eager and rampant networkers? Or are they more focused on friends and family? Are they active in groups? Enthusiastic game players? A little research into how your audience will help you develop more messages and strategies.
“For our clients, we first determine if Facebook is the appropriate outlet and customize our approach based on our client’s goals,” says Mike Nierengarten, an internet marketing consultant at Obility Consulting. “For example, our client Animation Mentor, an online animation school, is perfect for Facebook because it has tons of great content (video, events, pictures), a strong (current) student presence on the site, and our target customers (potential students) use the site regularly.”
But exactly how does one research an audience on Facebook? You can start by simply purchasing an ad on Facebook. As you go through the process, you’ll learn more about your audience in terms of size and demographics. That said, I prefer the gumshoe method – meaning you log in and start looking. Demographics won’t give you the insight into where people gather, what sort of messages they share, and the overall “vibe” of the community on Facebook interested in causes related to your organization’s objectives. Any social media strategist worth his or her salt will tell you the first step in planning a strategy on social networks is to listen, and you’ll find the same advice here. Find active groups focused on relevant topics, and join them. Spend most of your time listening and observing.
Secondly, consider the desired outcomes. Do you want to use Facebook to develop relationships with media people and bloggers? Or are you more interested in finding and engaging your enthusiasts within your marketplace, and building awareness among them? Do you have calls to action you’ll measure, such as lead-gen (e.g. filling out a form), building web site traffic, or generating conversation and buzz? Deliberate planning with your outcomes in mind is always a good idea.
How Facebook can fit into your PR plans
As I mentioned earlier, there are many ways you can weave Facebook into your communications plans. Let’s look at a few specific ways a PR pro can use Facebook.
Media & blogger relations
Virtual environments lend themselves well to building real relationships with media and bloggers.
Andrea Samacicia, founder and president of Victory Public Relations, a New York PR firm, told me that in her former life, several years ago when she was employed by another PR firm, she communicated with editors all day long, but didn’t really start building real relationships with them until she started using social media. “I’m much closer to the people I interact with now,” she says. “I have much closer relationships with the editors, producers and journalists I’m linked to on Facebook and Twitter. It makes keeping in touch much simpler. You can “like” something they’ve done on Facebook and they get a little reminder about you.”
In addition to building relationships and establishing another line of communication with key journalists and bloggers, by paying attention to what they share and post, you can learn more about what interests them, and what they’ve written lately. You may even find a story opportunity amongst the interactions.
You can even pitch media via Facebook – with some conditions.
“For the reporters in the Web 2.0 space, I have begun pitching them via Facebook. I have found they often respond quicker to my Facebook messages as opposed to the emails I send to their corporate accounts,” says Andrew Miller, vice president, external communications at Integral Systems, in a discussion on LinkedIn. “Please note that I have relationships with these reporters and have linked to them on Facebook. For PR people interested in using Facebook as a means to pitch reporters, I suggest doing the same.”
Finding and connecting with enthusiasts and influencers
There’s something for everyone on the web, and on Facebook, or so it seems. For most organizations,
Facebook represents a great opportunity to find and connect with “your people.” Developing a presence people will want to connect and interact with requires the ability to produce, curate and share interesting information and the willingness (and resources) to interact with your audiences one on one. Yes, you want to encourage people to “like” your page. But building interactions with your content – getting people to like, share and comment on the things your organization posts – is where the Facebook magic happens. Those liking and sharing interactions can trigger viral distribution of your message. People won’t like or share boring things, however, so sharing good stuff is an imperative.
Good old fashioned promotion
Facebook is a great place to generate publicity – that’s obvious. And once you’ve done your research, identified what your audience likes, developed the content plan attract and keep your audience’s attention and have been rewarded with a growing following, then you can actually start to promote your company. Please note – promoting the company comes after you do all the heavy lifting described above. Building context – and communicating within that context – is important on social channels. It would be jarring – and uninviting – if a friendly, funny brand presence suddenly switched to the hard-sell.
That said, I believe that people do understand that brands need to promote themselves, and their products and services. And, let’s face it – if you’re in the market for a particular item, you’re probably going to be interested in information related to that item. So it’s perfectly OK to promote your business, brand and products on Facebook. However, if you want to do so effectively, most of your commnications should be focused on building relationships and credibility with your audience. If 80% of your communications are consistently focused on educating and entertaining your audience, they’ll tolerate 20% promotional content – as long as you maintain the context you’ve already built. So go ahead and promote your blog posts, white papers and other promotional content, invite your audience to special events and offer them special deals and discounts for being loyal fans.
Simply put, Facebook can be a terrific medium for public relations, as long as communicators respect the personal nature of interactions and care is taken to connect the right audience with a carefully crafted message.
Author Sarah Skerik is PR Newswire’s vice president of social media.
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1. A daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, was beloved by Apollo. When her father discovered that she was with child, he put her in a chest, and exposed her to the waves of the sea.
The chest floated to the coast of Euboea (or Delos), where Rhoeo gave birth to Anius (Diod. 5.62
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While privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA) do not apply directly to property/casualty insurers, the industry is expecting a significant impact due to health care providers’ misunderstanding about the requirements and because insurers’ requests for medical information from providers must comply with the regulations. HIPAA’s privacy regulations became April 14.
The HIPAA privacy rule covers health plans, health care clearing houses and health care providers. Insurers who cover medical benefits under auto and other liability policies and for workers’ compensation claims are not required to be in compliance, but requests for the information from covered persons must comply. The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) is concerned that confusion about the rules could delay claims processing.
“For property/casualty insurance companies, obtaining a comprehensive health information history is critical to the timely and fair settlement of claims. We have already seen problems emerge and the regulations are not even effective yet. One example that illustrates our concerns involves a medical provider that requested that the insurer sign a business associate agreement before the provider would release the information,” said Nancy Schroeder, NAII assistant vice president, workers’ compensation. “This type of response from a provider highlights the confusion and gray areas that still exist regarding this rule.”
According to the NAII, insurers are not “business associates” in this case, but cautious medical providers may mistakenly assume that they can only release information if the insurance company becomes a business associate.
In the auto insurance claims’ area, NAII highlighted where confusion could occur, such as:
·the fact that insurers may request the entire record as long as the request is clear and the authorization complies with HIPAA; and
·a requirement that covered entities provide only the “minimum” information necessary to accomplish the purpose of a disclosure, (applies to some requests under a workers’ compensation policy, but does not apply to requests that are authorized by the individual).
“NAII still has concerns about the ‘minimum necessary’ provisions which will allow health care providers the discretion to offer only bare bones information to insurance company claims representatives in some workers’ compensation claims,” Schroeder said. “We are also concerned that providers may not be aware that the ‘minimum necessary’ does not apply if the requests for more information are authorized by the individual.”
In the workers’ compensation area, Schroeder said other issues raise concerns, including:
·the fact that the workers’ compensation exemption is based on the assumption that state laws contain specific language that authorizes the release of information. Many states do no not have specific language and this may create confusion regarding what information can be released; and
·whether there is a good understanding that individuals do not have the right to request restrictions on disclosure of information under the workers’ compensation exemption.
“The NAII is actively monitoring how the regulations are impacting property/casualty insurance coverage,” Schroeder said. “We hope to work with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to clarify some of the gray areas so that insurers are able to obtain records in a timely manner and providers are able to understand what is required of them in supplying the information.”
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Kenya and Nearby
Pamela'a links with Kenya, and the neighbouring countries of Uganda and Tanzania, came partly through David Mutua and partly through Minciu Sodas especially the Pyramid of Peace during post election violence in Kenya in 2008.
Most of the connections with "Kenya and nearby" that have happened online have been outside the dadamac.net space (in personal emails, via posterous, or in various online groups). At time of writing, April 2012, we are exploring appropriate ways to start including more of our "Kenya and Nearby" contacts and initiatives here at Dadamac.net.
It will take time before they start to show up, but some glimpses can be found in the archives of First Thursdays (especially when Ramdhan Chatta, Samwel Kongere, or Ken Owino have joined the conversation) or by checking through the posterous archives collected up each month for the Dadamac Digest.
Initiatives filed under Kenya and Nearby
Julliet Makhapila's project - visibility
Updated January 2013 Julliet is a Kenyan living in London. She set up a small feeding programme for children in her home village, from her own pocket,...
Another Pyramid of Peace?
Kenyan elections are scheduled for March 2013. Various people in Dadamac and Minciu Sodas remember both the violence and the conflict resolution work from last...
Nafsi Acrobats - visibility
The Nafsi Acrobats are based in Nairobi. As well as performing they do great work with deprived children. It might help them to use www.dadamac,net to tell...
Teachers Talking (TT) is an introduction to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for teachers in rural Africa. It is an inservice training course...
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The prospect of landing that first firefighting job can be daunting. The tests are tough and the competition more so; and more departments seem to be laying off more than hiring. Yet firefighters do get hired. With that in mind, we asked our Facebook community, "What's the best advice you got when you were looking for your first firefighter job?"
Here are the top 10 answers we got. Have some more wisdom to pass on? Leave your tips in the comment area below.
"The day you think you know all there is to know, is the day you better start planning your funeral." - Richard Griffin
"Make your face known. Phone calls help, but everywhere I've worked I met with the chief/management to make myself better known. Do a ride along if they offer it." - Brendon Edwards
"Get your education and make yourself marketable! You have to be able to show why you should get the job over all the other applicants. Get physically fit if you aren't already. You don't want to be the guy or girl in the academy that makes everyone work harder because you can't keep up." - Ed Anderson
"'Don't give up' was the best advice for me. After four years of applying and testing, learning and learning more, I have finally landed the job. Officially three weeks in. Don't give up!" - Trey Ford
"Ask an old firefighter, how to become an "'old firefighter.'" - Marty Martinez
"If you don't get hired you probably wouldn't fit in well with that department anyways. Keep your head up." - Nathan Walker
"Test wherever you can. And try to find a volunteer position at a department. It's a great way to get your foot in the door." - Harold Spriggs
"Always wear a suit and fresh shave to the interview. Dress like what the jobs means to you." - Justin Bright
"Dress in red. Not literally but figuratively. Make your information and yourself stand out above the crowd." - Jeanette Dunn
"I got told I couldn't do it. That was the best advice needed. Guess I proved them wrong, huh?" - Thomas Brown
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SCORING 10 OR MORE IN A LEAGUE MATCH......
The highest score in a Football
League match is 13 and that has been achieved three times.
The first was on Saturday
6th January 1934 when Stockport County beat Halifax Town 13-0 in a
Third Division (North) fixture. It proved to be a disastrous League debut
for the Halifax goalkeeper Stanley Milton, although he did keep the score
down to 2-0 at half-time!
On Christmas Day 1935
Oldham Athletic beat Tranmere Rovers 4-1 in a Third Division (North)
fixture. On Boxing Day the two met again in the return fixture at Prenton
Park and this time Tranmere got the better of their rivals - they won
13-4! The 17 goals is still a record aggregate score for a League match
and the 9 goals Robert 'Bunny' Bell scored for the home side - and he
missed a penalty - was also a new record although that one only lasted a
On Saturday 5th October
1946 Newcastle United became the third and last side to score 13 in a
League match when defeating Newport County 13-0 in a Second Division
fixture. It proved a perfect debut for Len Shackleton, the 'Clown
Prince of Soccer', following his £13,000 move from Bradford Park
Avenue to St James' Park. He scored six of the goals, including a
hat-trick in just two and a half minutes.
'Bunny' Bell's record of
scoring 9 League goals in a match lasted only until Monday April 13th 1936
when Luton Town's Joe Payne scored 10 in the Hatters' 12-0 victory over
Bristol Rovers in a Third Division (South) match.
played Ipswich Town twice over the Christmas period in 1963 - at Craven
Cottage on Boxing Day with the return at Portman Road on Saturday 28th
December. The programme notes in the second match at Ipswich stated - 'I
can only hope that Ipswich kept up the good work against Fulham at Craven
Cottage on Boxing Day. I am afraid that these notes had to be completed
long before the result of that match was known so I can only keep my
fingers crossed.' Nope, that didn't work, Fulham had won that first match 10-1
which was the last time that a club had scored double figures in the top
Burslem Port Vale became the
first - and still only - club to concede 10 goals at home in a League match when they lost
0-10 to Sheffield United in a Second Division ficture on Saturday December 3rd 1892. They must have had
nightmares about playing their next match a week later - this time away to
Sheffield United - but they only lost that one 0-4.
The record books show that
Bournemouth's record League victory was 7-0 v Swindon Town on Saturday
September 22nd 1956. However on Saturday September 2nd 1939 they did beat
Northampton Town 10-0 in a Football League Third Division (South) fixture.
However the next day war was declared on Germany and the few League
matches that had been played in 1939/40 were declared void and expunged
from the record books. Various reasons were offered for Northampton's
heavy defeat. Unusually alcohol had been permitted on the rail journey,
that 'ringers' had been fielded and simply that the Cobblers had not
bothered because war was inevitable. The facts were though that on a
quagmire of a pitch every Bournemouth shot seemed to result in a goal with
the sixth goal being such a powerful shot not only did it burst through
the net but injured a spectator behind the goal.
Another club to lose what would still be a record score is Manchester
United. Back in the days when they were Newton Heath their Bank Street
pitch was far from the bowling-green surface they now enjoy at the Theatre
of Dreams. In fact is was usually no more than mud and sand with the
occasional tuft of grass! When Walsall Town Swifts arrived for a Second
Division fixture on Saturday March 9th 1895 they immediately objected to
the state of the pitch. Another layer of sand was added before kick off
and the match was played under protest - with Newton Heath winning 14-0.
However Walsall's protest was upheld by the Football League and the match
was declared void and ordered to be replayed so the 14-0 scoreline ended
up in the history books rather than the record books. The re-arranged
match was played on Wednesday April 3rd 1895...with the Heathens only
managing a 9-0 win that time!
A Football League
investigation into the reasons behind Leicester Fosse's (now Leicester
City) poor showing in their 12-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest in April 1909
found that the Leicester players had been celebrating the marriage of a
team-mate for 2 days prior to the match! Full
When Chesterfield visited
Gillingham for a Division 3 fixture on Saturday 5th September 1987 they
were hoping to maintain their excellent start to the season which had seen
them not conceding a League goal in their first four matches. Gillingham,
on the other hand, had recorded their second highest League score in their
previous League match at the Priestfield Stadium, an 8-1 victory over
Southend United. In the Gills Chat programme notes for the
Chesterfield match they wrote....'you begin to wonder if the club has
exhausted its quota of thrills for the season.' No, Gillingham beat
last time that a club scored double figures in the League was on Saturday
7th November 1987 when Manchester City defeated Huddersfield Town 10-1 in
a Second Division match. Paul Stewart, Tony Adcock and David White each
scored hat-tricks for the home side. Former England international Malcolm
Macdonald had only been appointed manager of Huddersfield the previous
month. Things didn't get much better for him with Huddersfield finishing
the season in a distant bottom place and Macdonald ending his managerial
career at the same time.
North of the border Dundee
only played two Scottish League matches in March 1947 - winning 10-0 away
to Alloa Athletic on Saturday March 8th 1947 and in their next match they
beat Dunfermline Athletic 10-0 at home on Saturday March 22nd.
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A recent poll says that 69 percent of usually cynical, stressed-out, can't-be-bothered New Yorkers have finally come to the same conclusion: Coal, petroleum and other burning stuff is going to literally choke us and drown us in our own stupidity.
And, as we all know, that many New Yorkers can't be wrong.
The tiny, black carbon molecules changing weather patterns and the quality of our air have demonstrated their ability to whip up waves powerful enough to make a hurricane in the boroughs look like an action movie.
So, what better time and place to discuss the coming deluge than the desert city of Doha, Qatar, one the world's largest producers of the little black carbon dots linked to climate change?
Certain world leaders have buried their heads in the sand for years on this issue, seeking to stay competitive with emerging manufacturing markets. But history will not be kind to those who think they can watch and wait. One day they may call this period the second "Black Death."
Dan Morrell is in Doha for the final days of the conference to stir things up a bit. His antidote to the "black death" is the concept of "enchantment."
"We all deserve to live in a more enchanted world," says Dan, and he has a vision of how that might come about.
But, when you're in a hole and you keep digging you want someone to throw you a rope, not a sprinkle of fairy dust. The cynical New Yorker in me says, "Get real." But I can't, because my wife believes both in fairies and in Dan. Born and raised in the South, it's in her DNA to be hopeful. Working on this project, she has become personally and professionally "enchanted."
Dan has had some big ideas before -- that's why he's worth listening to.
He's the guy who traded the first ton of carbon in 1988. Dan's also the man who created (and even trademarked) the term "carbon neutral." It was the New Oxford American Dictionary's "word of the year" in 2006.
The Rolling Stones, Joe Strummer, film director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) all listened to Dan when he told them they could offset their carbon footprint by planting forests. They became pioneers in carbon neutrality.
But Dan doesn't think "neutral" goes far enough. He's looking to push the needle towards "positive" change. He's teamed up with a hot music producer in London known as Youth (Sir Paul McCartney, U2) and Craig Sams, founder of Green & Black's chocolate, the first fair trade product, to come up with the idea of "enchanting" the world through individual and group chants that are uploaded to their website -- www.globalchant.com.
Dan expects to get a billion people chanting into their cell phones and webcams saying things like "I'm Serene, I'm from Indonesia and I chant for the atmosphere." That's followed by Serene holding the note that represents "Atmosphere" in the 7-note CHANT lexicon.
The CHANT Foundation will fund projects and programs in the seven cause areas.
So much hot air in Doha these days. Dan's fresh idea is a cool and gentle breeze, which, we can only hope, will help us all breathe easier in the future.
Follow Don Ringe on Twitter: www.twitter.com/dringe
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How often do you hear someone say, "Oh, at one time unions were a good thing, but not anymore"?
The premise of this argument is that once upon a time there were robber barons stalking the land, and it was a fine thing that workers organized into unions to prevent them from hiring children and paying employees a pittance as they labored in sweatshops working fifteen-hour days.
Now, goes the narrative, in the age of high-tech industrial campuses and "information" workers, unions are "obsolete."
Next time you hear that argument from an otherwise rational person, give them a good shake and insist that they wake up from their dream world.
The central problem facing the American economy -- and our society -- is the collapse of the American middle class. The incomes of the middle class Americans, and those who aspire to be middle class -- 90% of Americans -- have been stagnant for almost three decades. This trend, which was briefly interrupted during the Clinton Administration, is the chief defining characteristic of our recent economic history.
This stagnation of middle class incomes has not happened because our economy has failed to grow over this period. In fact, real (adjusted for inflation) per capita gross domestic product (GDP) increased more than 80% over the period between 1975 and 2005. In the last ten years, before the Great Recession, it increased at an average rate of 1.8% per year. That means that if the benefits of economic growth were equally spread throughout our society, everyone should have been almost 20% better off (with compounding) in 2008 than they were in 1998.
But they weren't better off. In fact, median family income actually dropped in the years before the recession. It went from $52,301 (in 2009 dollars) in 2000 to $50,112 in 2008. And, of course it continued to drop as the recession set in.
How is that possible?
Was it -- as the Right likes to believe -- because of the growth of the Federal Government? Nope. In fact, the percentage of GDP going to federal spending actually dropped during the last four years of the Clinton Administration. When Bush took office it began to increase again as the Republicans increased spending on wars. Over the last 28 years, federal spending has averaged about 20.9% of the GDP and varied within a range of only about 5%, with the high being in 1983 (in the middle of the Reagan years) and the low in 2000 before Bush took office. It has never even come close to the 43.6% of GDP that it consumed during World War II in 1943 and 1944, or the 41.9% it consumed in 1945. The percent of GDP that goes to Federal spending went up in 2009 and 2010 -- but that was mainly because the economy shrunk on the one hand, and a major, temporary stimulus bill was need on the other to prevent another Great Depression.
Was it because taxes have skyrocketed? No again. In fact, according to the Census Bureau, the median household tax burden actually dropped from 24.9% in 2000 to 22.4% in 2009.
Was it that labor became less productive? No. In fact, there has been a major gap between the increase in the productivity of our workforce and the increase in their wages. Even when wages were improving at the end of the Clinton years, productivity went up 2.5% per year and median hourly wages went up only 1.5%.
From 2000 to 2004 worker productivity exploded by an annual rate of 3.8% but hourly wages went up only 1% and median family income actually dropped .9%.
The bottom line is that people who work for a living (most of us) are getting a smaller and smaller share of the nation's economic pie.
In August of 2006, the New York Times reported that Federal Reserve study showed that, "Wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross national product since the government began recording data in 1947; while corporate profits have climbed to their highest shares since the 1960."
So the answer to the question is simple. Virtually all of the increase in our gross domestic product over the ten years before the Great Recession went to the wealthiest 2% of the population.
These changes in income distribution are not the result of "natural laws." They are the result of systems set up by human beings that differentially benefit different groups in the society.
Economist Paul Krugman has summarized the history of income distribution in America.
At the beginning of the Great Depression, income inequality, and inequality in the control of wealth, was very high. Then came the great compression between 1929 and 1947. Real wages for workers in manufacturing rose 67% while real income for the richest 1% of Americans fell 17%. This period marked the birth of the American middle class. Two major forces drove these trends -- unionization of major manufacturing sectors, and the public policies of the New Deal.
Then came the postwar boom, 1947 to 1973. Real wages rose 81% and the income of the richest 1% rose 38%. Growth was widely shared, but income inequality continued to drop.
From 1973 to 1980, everyone lost ground. Real wages fell 3% and income for the richest 1% fell 4%. The oil shocks, and the dramatic slowdown in economic growth in developing nations, took their toll on America and the world economy.
Then came what Krugman calls "the New Gilded Age." Beginning in 1980, there were big gains at the very top. The tax policies of the Reagan administration magnified income redistribution. Between 1980 and 2004, real wages in manufacturing fell 1%, while real income of the richest one percent rose 135%.
The single largest contributor to this stagnation of middle class incomes has been the corporate attack on organized labor. The percentage of private sector workers in unions has shrunk from 35 percent to 7%. The exception has been the public sector, where 35% of teachers, firemen and public service workers now have access to collective bargaining.
The last thirty years shows conclusively that the "competitive market" -- absent collective bargaining -- simply does not assure that everyday employees share in the fruits of increased productivity or economic growth. Left to their own devices, CEO's will pad their own massive incomes and seek higher returns for the stockholders that hire them. That is especially true in an economic world that is globalized -- where CEO's can often hire labor at pennies on the dollar of what they would have to pay in the U.S. -- if it were not for union contracts.
Collective bargaining is the only way to level the playing field -- to assure that increases in American productivity are widely shared throughout the economy.
And when they are not shared, that is not only bad for the everyday family. It is horrible for the economy. Economies are in balance if productivity gains result in commensurately higher salaries for employees that allow them to buy the larger number of products and services that the productivity increases allow corporations to manufacture and sell. If they don't have increased buying power -- if all of the income growth goes to the top 2% -- then a demand deficit will inevitably develop that will lead to a recession -- or depression. That gap in buying power can be filled for a while -- as it was in the early 2000's -- with greater consumer debt. But after while the bubble bursts and the house of cards comes tumbling down.
We saw that movie -- we know the ending. And it was mainly a result of the disparity between increased worker productivity and increased worker income. It was the direct consequence of the corporate attack on the right to join a union.
American workers -- and the American economy -- need unions now more than ever. They are the only means by which we can guarantee widely-shared economic growth. And as it turns out, sustained, long-term economic growth requires widely-shared economic growth. Unions are the only way to prevent the collapse of the American middle class.
That's why the fight in Wisconsin is so fundamental. Governor Scott Walker and his corporate supporters want to destroy labor unions -- to eliminate the right to choose a union. They want a low wage economy. They want the freedom to pay people as little as possible at their companies -- and in the government.
They believe if they can break public employee unions, that they can ultimately eliminate organized labor as a meaningful force in the American economy -- and in American politics.
Walker's action are a case study in right wing philosophy. He cut state taxes on corporations and then demanded that middle class state workers take cuts in wages and benefits in order to pay for the corporate tax cuts.
Luckily regular voters have begun to smell the coffee. Nationally a new poll shows that 61% of voters reject the kind of proposals that Walker is trying to cram down the throats of the people of Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin itself a new poll by Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research found that a majority of Wisconsin voters disapprove of Walker's job performance and give him a negative favorability of 39 percent favorable and 49 percent unfavorable. In contrast 62 percent of voters offer a favorable view of public employees and only 11 percent unfavorable. And 53 percent rate labor unions favorably with only 31 percent unfavorable.
Over half of the voters oppose the agenda offered by Walker and Republicans in the legislature. Only 43 percent favor it. There is a major intensity gap as well, with 39 percent strongly opposing their proposals and only 28 percent strongly supporting them.
In the end, the Republican attack on the right to choose a union completely ignores what is good for everyday Americans -- and for the American economy. It is only concerned with what is good for the narrow economic and political interests of a tiny fraction of our population. That's why they must be defeated. That's why the battle of Wisconsin is really a battle for the survival of the American middle class.
Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of the book: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, available on Amazon.com.
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In this section:
If your child has a baby, they could claim Child Tax Credit for themselves if they're aged 16 or over. But if they do, you won't be able to claim for them as well. Or, if both children live with you, you could claim for both of them instead.
On this page:
As long as your child is 16 or over, and is responsible for the baby, they can make a Child Tax Credit claim for themselves.
Your child's claim can be backdated to the date the baby was born, as long as they make the claim within one month. If they delay they could lose money. For example, if the baby was born on 1 January but your child's claim is only received on 1 June, they'll only be paid from 1 May.
If you're already getting Child Tax Credit for your child and they decide to make their own claim, you can't claim for them as well. So tell the Tax Credit Office about the new baby as soon as possible by calling the Tax Credit Helpline. You need to do this within one month - or you could be paid too much tax credits that you'll have to pay back.
You may still get Child Tax Credit for your child if either of the following applies:
If you look after your child's child as well, you can get Child Tax Credit for both children.
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Architecture students at Arapahoe Community College must propose design ideas for the renovation of a Denver libary as a semester project, reports the Denver Post.
“I thought it was a great opportunity for the students to come into contact with a real-world client and have those kinds of connections,” said Greg Houston, the students’ architecture professor at Arapahoe Community College.
In addition to connections with the Denver Public Library and Denver-based Humphries Poli Architects, the firm in charge of the renovation designs for the Ross-Barnum branch, the students were also helping to forge an important connection with the University of Colorado Denver, which has recently announced its own architecture degree program.
“It is our hope that we develop an alignment between the community college courses and what they’re offering and what we are wanting this bachelor’s of science to be,” associate professor Phillip Gallegos of CU Denver’s architecture and planning school said.
An Arapahoe graduation, Houston struggled when he transferred to University of Colorado. “I want to make sure that students who apply and are accepted are better prepared,” he told the Post.
ACC students presented their design ideas for the branch library on Nov. 14. “I think there are some things that we can incorporate into the modest renovation we will be doing,” said Susan Kotarba, director of public services for Denver Public Library, who was at the presentation as a judge. “There were really some very exceptional ideas.”
North Carolina community colleges have consolidated “green” jobs’ programs, creating stackable credentials that let students move easily between jobs and advanced schooling, reports Inside Higher Ed.
Using employer feedback on core skills and competencies, the 58-college system created 47 new courses, revised 219 and dropped 92.
“Our goal was not to create one-off programs” at individual campuses, said Scott Ralls, the system’s president. “It’s a curriculum that cuts across 58 colleges.”
. . . The program, named the Code Green Super Curriculum Improvement Project, affects academic areas related to building, energy, environment, transportation and engineering technology. More than 80 curriculum standards were consolidated into 32 revised ones, based on “career clusters” like architecture and construction technology (see box).
In many cases, students can earn an industry-recognized certificate with 12 to 18 credits, find a job and return later to any community college in the state to work toward a higher-level certificate or degree.
In addition to technical courses, the new energy credentials include “employability competencies,” such as working in teams.
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Suitable for complete beginners, this fantastic evening course spread over 6 weeks is the perfect way to get you started, giving you the tools you’ll need to begin shooting your own photographic projects. The course will not only teach you vital camera functions such as aperture, shutter speed, and how these affect your images, but also useful skills such as how to shoot in low lighting conditions, working with street lights, shooting in urban environments and working with multi exposure.
Other areas of focus include shooting portraits, working with flash, taking candid shots, and how to approach strangers. Each of these points is taught in easy to understand sections with plenty of opportunity for questions and answers. At the end of each session you’ll be set a practical exercise to practice the skills you’ve learnt, which will then be reviewed in a group setting by your tutor the following week.
You’ll leave the course with a solid foundation of knowledge, feeling confident in your new skills and full of inspiration to go out and start shooting!
All you need to take part in this course is a camera and your enthusiasm. We’ll provide the rest!
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Best known for his music promo shoots, Kenny has shot covers for numerous magazines.
For further info on any of our courses please contact Create Studios on 01273 601 965
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Aron Ralston was trapped. While climbing alone in a narrow canyon in Utah, he became hopelessly stuck when an 800 pound boulder shifted and pinned his right arm. Stuck in a 3 foot wide slot, he tried for days to get free, but nothing worked.
Finally, after three days of being trapped without food or water, he realized he’d die if he didn’t take drastic action. Aron’s only option was to cut off his arm to save his life. Yes, that’s right; he cut off his arm, in the middle of nowhere, by himself, with a dull pocket knife – to live. It took him two days. When he finally free himself, he crawled through a narrow, twisting canyon, rappelled down a 60-foot cliff, and hiked six miles before he finally stumbled across help. All this with his forearm gone, the stump bleeding.
"I’m not sure how I handled it," he said. "I felt pain and I coped with it. I moved on." He knew there was no other way to live.
While most of our choices aren’t nearly that drastic, I couldn’t help wondering what we are willing to sacrifice to live, to achieve our goals, to accomplish our dreams. Because when times get tough and we’re stuck, we have choices. Keep what we’ve got, keep doing what we are doing and die, or take "drastic action" and sever what’s holding us back and live. It could be a destructive relationship, it could be a failing business, it could be unhealthy living or it could be addictions to drugs, alcohol, smoking, food, money, power, etc. that control our life.
Drastic changes? Yes, that is what is needed. There comes a time when that’s the only way out, and we’re the only one who can set ourselves free. Is life worth it? Ask Aron.
Click here to watch and hear as Aron Ralston describes the amputation.
Make it a powerful week, make the necessary changes and live!
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Experience has taught us that viewing a loved person can have great benefits for grieving relatives. Often we find it difficult to believe that somene has died and seeing it for ourselves helps us to accept the reality, so necessary before we can begin to move forward with the changes a death can mean.
Seeing a persons body in an appropriate and attractive well prepared environment can leave us with a sense of peace and dignity, which can be very important.
If the death has involved sickness, pain and struggle, if it has been violent or accidental then this sense of peace, and even beauty can help us to appreciate and celebrate the persons life more easily.
When we have not been present when death occured, especially if it was an unexpected death, we may be tormented by thoughts of that time and seeing the person can help move our thoughts past that painful thinking.
Family members who visit or view have an opportunity to share and comfort one another, to say a personal goodbye, to place personal items in the coffin and to prepare for the more public funeral.
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Let's face it. If Stephen Harper had said anything at all during his visit to Auschwitz, it would have been condemned as too trite.
Instead, he chose to keep his emotion as private as possible and left his thoughts in a book of remembrance.
Oh, but that's not good enough for the Star. Instead of showing a photo of the Prime Minister kneeling in respect and prayer, the Red Star displays an image of Harper ranting in Parliament. The inference is that he has plenty to say there, but his lack of public rhetoric in Auschwitz does what? Portray some kind of lack of feeling?
Some emotion is so intense, it cannot be conveyed by words.
But the Toronto Star Inquirer's level of insight is so superficial, that it's not surprising they would pillory the Prime Minister for the way he handled himself at such a profound occasion.
Hunter points out at CBL's that the Globe originally had posted the photo of Harper kneeling, but then changed it. Why?
She suggests that it may be time for all the 'knuckle draggers' to start fighting back.
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Update: Great advice from Platty regarding how to complain effectively about MSM bias - So, ya wanna dance?
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Papers, papers and still more papers. When can I destroy these documents?
There are no hard and fast rules in this area. The following offers some general guidance to carefully consider when determining any destruction of documents.
Against the urge to purge, remember that maintaining documents and records is often essential if a tax audit by the IRS, state or local taxing authority occurs. Be aware that it is the burden of the taxpayer to provide sufficient proof and support for any tax position taken on a tax return. Prematurely disposing of relevant documentation and proof supporting a tax deduction or tax position could have a disastrous tax impact.
Tax rules offer some guidance as to minimum document retention periods. It is imperative to keep records such as receipts, canceled checks, and other documents that support an item of income or a deduction, or a credit appearing on a return until the statute of limitations expires for that return. Here are some of the key statute of limitation rules for federal tax returns:
- For most returns the statute of limitations is 3 years from the date you filed the return. However, the following are some very important exceptions to this 3 year statute of limitation.
- There is no period of limitations to assess tax when a return is fraudulent or when no return is filed.
- If income that you should have reported is not reported, and it is more than 25% of the gross income shown on the return, the time to assess is 6 years from when the return is filed.
- For filing a claim for credit or refund, the period to make the claim generally is 3 years from the date the original return was filed, or 2 years from the date the tax was paid, whichever is later.
- For filing a claim for a loss from worthless securities the time to make the claim is 7 years from the date the return was due.
- If you are an employer, you must keep all of your employment tax records for at least 4 years after the tax becomes due or is paid, whichever is later.
Additionally, it is often imperative to check state and local statute of limitation rules before destroying files and records.
Keep in mind that documents may need to be retained and preserved for legal reasons other than taxation, such as, insurance claims or facilitating the transfer of assets in the case of deceased family member. Documents like death certificates, estate tax closing letters should be kept indefinitely.
For more detailed guidance on how long to keep specific documents and other document retention considerations and safeguards, please read my article Record Retention For Individuals .
For more detailed guidelines for record retention rules and other protective housekeeping measures for businesses see Record Retention Guidance For Business: A Conservative and Basic Approach.
A discussion with your tax attorney and tax accountant may be a prudent and conservative course of action before destroying any documents or files.
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(Note: Each talk runs approximately 45 minutes.)
Viva La Difference: Men and Women Were Not Created the Same
We’ve all heard that opposites attract, but is it really true? Leslie looks at the differences between men and women in a humorous—and slightly irreverent and offbeat—discussion that will leave you celebrating the unique role that both males and females bring to relationships.
What’s in a Name?
This fun analysis of name trends and the challenges of naming kids in today’s society will make you laugh and scratch your head as you ponder your own name issues . . .
Will Power: Determining God’s Will for Your Life
Description: Most teenagers struggle with finding God’s will for their lives. What classes should they take? What should they do after high school (college, military service, trade school, work)? What about guy-girl relationships? Leslie shares foundational principals for seeking, determining and following God’s will for their lives.
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A timeshare is the name given to piece of real estate where a number of individuals share ownership in the subject property. A timeshare is a right to use or occupy one or more units on a periodic basis usually one or two weeks out of the year. Timeshares can often be found in destinations where people like to vacation.
A timeshare is the worst real estate purchase you can ever make. They're overpriced. The interest rates on these deals are as high as credit cards (17 percent). Unlike most real estate purchases which go up in value, the value on timeshares decreases. There are maintenance fees, property taxes and other hidden fees associated with owning timeshares. To make matters worse, once you figure out you've made a bad purchase, they're extremely difficult to get rid of. Timeshares have gotten such negative press over the years shrewd marketers of timeshares are selling them under different names such as vacation clubs. With industry giants such as Disney, Hilton, and Marriott now in the business of selling timeshares, timeshare ownership is growing rapidly. More than 4 million people around the world own timeshares. Timeshares is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry.
Below is what savvy marketer's pitch to unsuspecting buyers of timeshares and the truth about timeshares:
The Pitch: You can vacation at your home resort or exchange your weeks for time at another resort.
The Truth: Sooner or later, you'll get tired of going to the same destination year after year for vacation. Trading spaces can be a real headache. There are membership fees averaging about $100 per year for the privilege to swap resorts. There's another $150 trading fee per trade. Trying to line up a free week at a resort to match your vacation schedule is often difficult because the more desirable resorts are generally booked.
The Pitch: As opposed to being a hotel room renter, enjoy the status and fine treatment as a condo owner. Condos are spacious, have kitchens and private bedrooms. You can sleep up to 10 persons, which provides a perfect family setting.
The Truth: You don't have to own a timeshare to have access to a condo or a well equipped hotel room while on vacation. There is an abundance of property owners seeking to rent out their properties, particularly in areas where people frequently travel. There are also several plush hotels that you can reserve with space and amenities similar to condos. Expensive? Maybe, but you avoid the high purchase price, high interest rates and other fees and expenses associated with timeshares. If you're traveling with a party of ten, the adults can split the tab.
The Pitch: Owners can sell their timeshare whenever they want. Hotels obviously give none of your rent money back.
The Truth: You may be able to list the timeshare for sell whenever you want but actually selling the timeshare whenever you want is a different story. Timeshares are overpriced to begin with due to the sales prices being inflated to account for marketing cost. They decrease in value similar to that of a car. Lastly, it's difficult for prospective buyers to secure financing. It's extremely difficult to sell timeshares. When and if you do resell a timeshare, you'll be lucky to get 30 to 50 percent of what you paid for it.
The Pitch: Deeded timeshare owners can will their timeshare to their loved ones.
The Truth: Your loved ones would rather have the small fortune you paid for the timeshare.
(Mortgage and Personal Finance Expert Damon Carr is the owner of ACE Financial. Damon can be reached at 412-856-1183.)
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Case proves an ounce of prevention can prevent a serious accident.
“If the police had not been out checking tractor trailers for various infractions of the law, the rig in this story could have seriously injured or killed someone. There are times when an ounce of prevention may avert a disaster. It did in this instance,” said Brooks Schuelke, a personal injury lawyer with Perlmutter & Schuelke, L.L.P in Austin, Texas.
The big rig was pulled over into a traffic safety check point. The inspecting officers discovered 25 safety violations, including defective brakes, a shredded tire, four bald tires and a broken trailer cross member. Eight of the violations were serious enough to pull the truck off the road.
“With four bald tires, a shredded tire and defective brakes, that 18-wheeler was an accident waiting to happen,” said Schuelke.
When big rigs meet smaller vehicles, the results are never good. If someone does make it survive a wreck of such magnitude, they are often severely injured, and their lives are irrevocably changed. Recovery may take years, if at all.
“The trucker was cited by the police for vehicle maintenance violations and for being over his industry regulated hours of service. The trucking company was cited for the brakes and tires and other assorted violations. What is disturbing is the light fines they received. The driver was fined $276, and the trucking company $620. These arehardly punitive and not likely to stop them from trying to patch together their vehicles to keep them running. This is a serious loophole in monitoring trucking safety violations,” said Schuelke.
Without proper safety regulations, stiffer fines and a commitment to compliance, the trucking industry is likely to remain a leader in fatal accidents. “Even with checkpoints set up to monitor drivers and equipment, they can’t catch everyone,” Schuelke said.
Contact Perlmutter & Schuelke LLP at http://www.civtrial.com or (512) 476-4944.
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Q: Hello. I wash my hair daily or every second day and it gets really dry. Iím starting to wonder if washing your hair daily
dries your hair out. That is what I have heard. Please help.
A: Daily shampooing can certainly dry the hair out, particularly if you do not follow the shampooing with conditioner. In fact, I have
long been advising our readers of the fact that most women (and men) actually shampoo their hair too often. The only hair care process I
recommend be performed daily is conditioning the hair.
In fact, in many cases, the average womanís hair can be cleansed of the daily allotment of soil and
grime by using a rinse-through conditioner. This may not be suitable for women who have fine or limp hair, but even these women should be
aware that their hair should only be shampooed when it is dirty or oily.
The best thing to do is to start adjusting your grooming routine to include conditioning the hair
daily. Shampoo the hair every other day at first, and add a day between shampoos until you feel youíve reached a suitable schedule for washing the hair.
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Figures on patient waits tightened up
NHS Borders has denied any wrongdoing after a damning report on waiting times across Scotland.
Audit Scotland’s investigation followed the discovery in 2011 that NHS Lothian had manipulated its waiting times to meet targets by marking patients as socially unavailable for treatment when they turned down an offer to go to England at short notice.
Jillian Matthew, lead author of the report, said they noticed the social unavailability code used by NHS Lothian also increased across the country from 2008 to 2011.
Ms Matthew added: “Then the code use started to reduce in most boards in late 2011. That was around the time concern was raised about NHS Lothian.”
With NHS Borders, the figure jumped from over 20 per cent of all inpatients in 2008 to a peak of just under 35 per cent in 2010, more than the national average.
Socially-unavailable inpatients then fell to under 20 per cent by June 2012.
But health chiefs at Newstead insist the decrease in use of the code is down to a “more robust recording and monitoring structure being introduced for the management of waiting times in NHS Borders”.
An NHS Borders spokeswoman added: “This was further enhanced by the introduction of TrakCare, a new patient-management system, in 2011 and then the introduction of the Treatment Time Guarantee in October 2012.”
The health board added that, before Audit Scotland’s investigation, an internal audit report of its waiting times practice was carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which noted that its procedures were “operating in a controlled manner”.
However, there were also improvements needed, according to the auditors.
Referring to the internal audit publication, Jane Davidson, chief operating officer of NHS Borders, said: “The report found many areas of good practice, but did make some recommendations for improvement, most of which will help us to use our electronic system to more closely monitor our interaction and dialogue with our patients.
“The review process was very thorough and underscores our commitment to providing a safe and efficient service as we strive to improve the quality of our care for patients.”
The Audit Scotland report also showed that nearly 25 per cent of inpatients waiting on eye surgery at Borders General Hospital in 2011 were not available for social reasons, with the figure at almost 30 per cent for trauma and orthopaedic surgery.
While there was no evidence of NHS Borders manipulating its waiting lists, all 14 Scottish health boards were criticised for their handling of the system.
The Auditor-General for Scotland, Caroline Gardner, said: “Waiting times are very important to patients and are a major performance target for the health service.
“The management and scrutiny of the waiting list systems have not been good enough.
“NHS boards and the Scottish Government must improve the monitoring of boards’ use of waiting list codes if they are to retain public trust and assure patients they are being treated fairly.
“During the period we reviewed, the Scottish Government and boards were focused on making sure waiting times targets were being met but not giving enough attention to how this was being done.
“Better scrutiny of the increasing use of social unavailability codes could have highlighted concerns earlier. It also could have identified where waiting-time pressures were building in the system.”
Opposing political sides took differing views of the report’s findings.
Scottish Government health secretary Alex Neil said the report showed no signs of manipulation of waiting lists other than NHS Lothian and said new systems are in place which no longer allow patients to be marked as socially unavailable.
Mr Neil added: “However, one area where we recognise that improvements can still be made is in communicating clearly to patients what their rights are and what they can expect, and work is under way to improve this.
“Let us not forget the most important thing – that waiting times are amongst their lowest ever levels in Scotland and they continue to improve.
“Health boards need to be praised for the work they have done to make sure Scottish patients are getting their treatment quicker than ever.”
But South of Scotland MSP Jim Hume said the Audit Scotland paper showed that waiting list procedures were woefully inadequate.
He said: “People across Scotland will find the report’s findings disappointing and unsettling, given that prior to the waiting times scandal coming to light, as many as 30 per cent of inpatients in Scotland were marked as socially unavailable.
“After the scandal, the number of patients marked as socially unavailable dropped whilst those waiting longer increased.
“As the auditor-general noted, the Scottish Government and NHS boards were focused on meeting waiting-time targets and not enough attention was given to how this was being achieved.
“The SNP are piling pressure on our NHS and patients are paying the price.”
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Sunday 19 May 2013
Temperature: 8 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North east
Temperature: 8 C to 16 C
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Indianapolis DNA testing company Strand Diagnostics LLC has secured $30 million in series A funding to accelerate its growth, scale its operations infrastructure and expand its sales and marketing efforts.
Strand’s Know Error system aims to cut down on diagnostic errors due to mislabeling and biopsy contamination by uses bar coding, forensic principles and DNA matching to confirm that biopsy samples being evaluated for cancer — most often of the breast and prostate – belong to the patient being diagnosed.
Before taking a biopsy, a medical provider using the kit swabs the patient inside the cheek to collect a DNA sample that is sent to an independent lab. Then, the patient’s biopsy tissue in placed in a bar-coded specimen container and sent to a pathology lab. If the biopsy tests positive for cancer, the DNA lab uses the swab to conduct a DNA Specimen Provenance Assignment test to ensure that the DNA from the two samples match.
Michael Harmon, director of marketing and public relations for Know Error, said that more than 1 percent of the 20,000 DNA-matching tests the company has done so far have resulted in a nonmatch report, which means the biopsy was either contaminated or did not contain the intended patient’s DNA.
“This testing is important because it completes the diagnostic testing cycle,” he said. “When you know that the cancer sample belongs to that patient, you can confidently proceed with treatment.”
The $30 million investment comes from NantWorks LLC, a convergence-focused health technology company. This is NantWork’s second investment in Indiana healthcare this year; in January, the Los Angeles company announced it would create more than 230 jobs by locating its new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the former Pfizer facility in Terre Haute.
According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the deal with Strand includes an initial $7.5 million in funding and three warrants with various exercise prices, plus the option to purchase two additional convertible notes in the principal amount of $5 million.
Know Error was launched in 2009 under now-defunct parent company Diagnostic ID.
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Amir is Arabic for prince, ruler or prosperous.
My first question to him is What is your name?
AFTER YOU WATCH:
The SLP growing in me wants to point out that Amir, at 3 years old, did exhibit a little bit of stuttering which is quite common at this age. Since I wrote a whole research paper about stuttering you should know that childhood stuttering is the most common form of stuttering and some children eventually grow out of it, while others don’t (for reasons not quite known, only speculated.) Stuttering is considered a fluency disorder, because it disrupts the “fluency and timing patterns” of speech and is characterized by 3 features: prolongations (draggggging out a sound longer than is necessary), blocks (airflow and movement/sound is completely stopped) and repetitions. You may be most familiar with repetitions, as it’s one of the most obvious signs that someone stutters. Repetitions is when “a sound, syllable or word is repeated several times to the point that it interrupts the flow of speech.” We hear Amir saying ‘and, and, and I‘ when he’s telling me about his family, he’s obviously a big talker who wants to share this information with me so I can say his excitement is probably what is causing him to repeat the word “and.” His repetitions occur in a short moment in time and don’t prevent him from getting his point across so I don’t think his parents have anything to worry about at this point. But I would tell his parents to be mindful about it as he gets older, since the longer-term stuttering occurs more in males than females (the last I read the ratio was about 4:1, male to female). [All quotes in this text are from Justice, 2010]
Not like I have the power to go around diagnosing people anyways (just yet), just observing the world around me with more critical/clinical eyes now. Grad School, go easy on meeeeee!!
Another critique I have about myself is that I’m very controlling around children (and in most relationships, as a matter of fact). The video sounded more like an interview than a conversation; I like to be the director. Sometimes certain therapy techniques require we let the children lead and initiate by allowing them time to show us their interests. I wonder if I will have a hard time with this, since I’m always thinking about what to say/ask next, how to lead the child or focus his attention on a specific task…it’s something I’ve been thinking about.
If you’re an #SLPeep, do you find it hard to not go around making assumptions about speech and language difficulties with kids in your family or complete strangers’ speech? How do you keep yourself from not jumping to conclusions?
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In our region the average wait time for a heart on the national waiting list is 7 months. We will continue to manage your condition until then. Read more in our Frequently Asked Questions.
Heart Transplant in Chicago
The more acute your condition, the more reason you should be at Loyola
Our medical team uses a multidisciplinary approach to your care. Often patients with heart disease face other health challenges, but whatever other conditions you may dealing with, we have a specialist in that field of medicine.
While you have heard that you might need a heart transplant, we will first attempt every possible alternative treatment. We understand what a commitment transplant is, so we will study your condition very carefully and weigh other viable options. One approach we may suggest as a bridge to transplant, or even as the best ultimate treatment for your condition, is a heart pump. In medical circles this is known as an LVAD, or a Left Ventricular Assist Device. You can rest assured that whatever your condition we will work with you to develop the best plan of care.
Evaluation & Treatment
Once patients are identified as potential transplant candidates, they undergo several tests and consultations. Your heart transplant team will then review and discuss the results to determine if you should be listed for a heart transplant or if the LVAD would be a better option. Our goal is to see you live a long, productive life. If you are listed for a transplant, you will meet with your coordinator, who will educate you on the transplant process. As soon as a heart is offered, our staff will call you and make arrangements for your hospital stay.
Find a Doctor
Loyola is the only academic medical center in the Chicago suburbs. Our cardiologists and heart transplant surgeons teach other doctors about the latest in medicine. Here you will have access to leading-edge research and can be the first to hear about clinical trials. Our doctors pride themselves on ensuring seamless communication between patients and their medical teams. In addition, you can also access your medical records online through MyLoyola Select. Your referring physician also will be updated routinely on your treatment through our secure health information portal, LoyolaConnect.
For an appointment or for more information about Heart Transplantation, call (708) 327-2738.
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It appears that later this month the "coast is clear" for those hoping to travel through the Devil's Slide twin tunnels, as a grand opening date for the $440 million, eight-year project has been slated for March 25.
The invitation-only grand opening will bring people who worked hard to push the tunnel project through, according to Charise McHugh, CEO of the Half Moon Bay Chamber of Commerce and chair of the grand opening ceremonies for the tunnels project.
The event will bring together more than 400 attendees, a lot of speakers, the Half Moon Bay High School Band and the Terra Nova High School Band in Pacifica.
Billed as a "win-win" for all, the grand opening of this huge Caltrans project, named the Tom Lantos Tunnels after the late Congressman who lobbied for the project, is a welcomed event for business owners, coastal residents and tourists alike.
Rick Ellis, who has run The Old Thyme Inn on Half Moon Bay's Main Street for 15 years, said that although it will remain to be seen if the tunnels' opening increases business, "it will certainly remove the fear of that access to this portion of the coast side being closed as a result of storm damage, which has happened a great deal in the past." He added, "I think it will be fun and an interesting thing to drive through the tunnels there, and it's certainly going to allow people to come down and maybe take advantage of the many things to do here," Ellis said.
According to San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley, who prior to being elected District 3 supervisor served as the county sheriff for 14 years, the opening of the tunnels is a very welcomed safety addition to the coast side.
"The tunnel is safer and a more direct route, which will make for a much less heart palpitating drive," he said. "It's a beautiful, scenic drive, but you don't dare look over the side."
Horsley said during his time as sheriff, he witnessed many horrific and deadly accidents, leading people to refer to this stretch of roadway as the Devil's Slide.
"The new tunnels make for a much safer and more reliable drive for all drivers," he said, "And now we won't have to worry about a rock in the road or roadway damage leading us to have to close the road for four to six months here and there."
The twin tunnels were the result of a major planning project following a decades-long problem of numerous rockslides and slip outs following large storms. Long and short-term closures resulted in major traffic snarls, increased commute times and in losses to the local business economy, according to Caltrans District 4 spokesman Bob Haus.
"There were times the highway was closed for some time and this had a terrible affect on local economies," Haus said.
According to Caltrans, Highway 1 at Devil's Slide has been closed eight times since its 1937 opening due to storm damage to its unique location.
In May 2005, Caltrans broke ground on the project, which reroutes a portion of state Highway 1 through two 4,200-foot-long tunnels and bypasses a hazardous rock and mudslide region between Pacifica and McNee Ranch State Park in Montara. The project, originally slated to cost an estimated $270 million in 2005 has totaled nearly $440 million.
Opening ceremonies will begin at 11 a.m. on that Monday at the South Portal. Those in attendance must park at the Half Moon Bay Airport and take a shuttle bus to the location of the opening ceremonies, according to Haus.
Aside from Caltrans vehicles, the first vehicles to inaugurate the tunnels will be a series of antique cars representing each era from 1912 to 2013, which will parade through the tunnels and stop at the Pillar Point Harbor after the ceremonies, McHugh said.
The public will not be able to drive through the tunnels until several hours later, when they officially open, weather permitting, Haus said.
McHugh said she feels the perception that the coast will be easier to reach will be enormous.
"This was a big safety issue and it's nice to know that this will not turn into the largest cul-de-sac every six years," she said. "A lot of people don't want to drive Devil's Slide and now can drive from the city very safely."
— Bay City News Service
Copyright © 2012 by Bay City News, Inc. -- Republication, Rebroadcast or any other Reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Corn farmers who chose to pay more to insure their crops at harvest prices have gotten some welcome news from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Farmers who bought the more expensive crop insurance option last spring will earn $7.50 per bushel of corn, a price that should make many of them happy after months of watching their fields wither in this summer's record drought.
The announcement will be particularly welcomed by corn farmers in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska, the nation's three largest corn producers, respectively, which were all hit hard by the drought.
The harvest price payout for soybeans will be $15.39 per bushel, the Des Moines Register also reported (http://dmreg.co/RE6FcB ) in its Saturday edition.
Farmers who elected to be covered by the less expensive non-harvest price coverage will receive the $5.68 per bushel for corn and $12.55 per bushel for soybeans. Those prices were set in March at the time of insurance sign-up.
USDA figures show crop-loss insurance payments through Oct. 29 totaled $3.5 billion nationally, including $1.63 billion for corn and $247.6 million for soybeans.
Federal subsidies for U.S. crop insurance premiums this year total $6.9 billion, which is 62 percent of the $11.03 billion in premiums paid to insure all 2012 crops, the newspaper reported.
Farmers customarily buy coverage for about 75 percent of their crops. Crop insurance will cover much of the loss in yields caused by this year's record drought. Estimates put the losses at 15 percent or more.
The higher harvest price set in recent days by the USDA reflects the increased prices for corn and soybeans since March as the drought this summer cut as much as 4 billion bushels from the U.S. corn crop.
On Friday, corn closed down 12 cents per bushel to $7.39, while soybeans were down 31 cents per bushel to $15.27.
Information from: The Des Moines Register, http://www.desmoinesregister.com
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Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong announced on Tuesday that they have shut down nine rare earth mines operating illegally in Longchuan county over the past six months.
According to a Xinhua news report, police in Heyuan municipality where Longchuan county is located arrested 45 suspects and seized more than 100 tonnes of rare earth.
Illegal exploitation of rare earths has been a on-going problem for Longchuan county of late, with police shutting over 110 illegal mines in the past several years.
The crack down on irregularities in China's rare earth industry is part of a general move by the central government to reform and consolidate the sector, with authorities recently slashing rare earth mining permits in half.
Tensions between China and other leading economies over its control of rare earths intensified earlier this week, with the US, UN and Japan successfully lobbying the World Trade Organization for a probe into China's curbs on rare earth exports.
China currently controls over 90% of the global supply of rare earth minerals, a group of 17 element which are crucial for the defense, renewable energy and communications sectors.
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A young woman killed when she was trapped underneath a substantial rockfall at a coastal beauty spot in Dorset was "10ft from safety", an inquest has heard.
Charlotte Blackman, 22, was strolling along Freshwater Beach with her family when around 400 tonnes of rock from the Jurassic Coastline cliffs crashed down on top of her, killing her almost instantly.
Her boyfriend, Matthew Carnell, was walking alongside Miss Blackman, from Derbyshire, on July 24 when he noticed the start of the landslide.
The inquest at Dorchester County Hall heard that she died accidentally, as the result of an "act of nature".
Coroner Sheriff Payne told the hearing that Miss Blackman's death could not have been predicted.
He said: "Sadly, Charlotte Blackman died as a result of an accident. It was a sudden act of nature that nobody could have predicted at that time."
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State Audit Report
UC Fact Sheet
The University welcomes the findings of the Bureau of State Audits with respect to faculty gender equity at UC and will make every effort to implement the steps recommended. The findings and recommendations of the audit are consistent with the University’s commitment to providing equal employment opportunity for women faculty in all of its hiring and academic personnel practices. Although the report confirms that the University hires women at a percentage close to the national adjusted female applicant pool and awards equitable salaries to men and women at hire, UC recognizes that much more needs to be done to pursue long-term solutions to the under-representation of women in many academic fields.
The University of California concurs with the findings that indicate some academic departments are doing better than others in hiring women in proportions comparable to their availability, with many having exemplary records and others lagging. In response to recent changes in State law that limited the University’s affirmative action programs, some campuses and departments have developed and implemented additional procedures designed to ensure equal opportunity and gender equity in hiring. Part of under-representation of women at UC is due to the fact that UC hires a limited number of professors in some of the academic fields dominated by women, such as education and hires a large number from male dominated fields like engineering. However, UC shares the auditors concern about the decline in the proportion of newly hired women faculty since 1995.
Faculty hiring decisions are perhaps the single most important exercise of academic judgment by our faculty and academic administration. They have helped make the University of California one of the premier institutions of higher education in the world. The University of California is committed to ensuring that our own academic personnel practices do not directly or indirectly discriminate against women faculty. The University of California also will make every effort to minimize societal barriers that may prevent women from pursuing academic careers. In pursuit of these objectives, UC has issued affirmative action guidelines for department chairs and search committees, examined the academic career path to address potential barriers for women faculty, developed programs to encourage women to enter into academic fields where they are under-represented, and engaged campus provosts and deans in the discussion of the benefits of academic diversity.
The University of California is pleased that the audit report concluded that no overall salary inequity exists between male and female new hires at the University and that any apparent differences are caused by factors other than gender. Nevertheless, the campuses will continue monitoring hiring salaries in accordance with the recommendations in order to maintain gender equity. Campuses also will implement academic career review procedures to ensure that salary equity is maintained throughout each faculty member’s career.
The audit report demonstrates that when estimates of available candidates with Ph.D.’s are adjusted to reflect the pool that the University of California actually hires from, the availability of women in this pool (33%) is only slightly higher than the rate at which the University of California hires new women professors (29%). In order to reflect the pool that the University actually hires from, the data on doctoral degree recipients must be adjusted in three ways. First, the data must be adjusted to reflect that the University of California hires from an international pool of doctoral recipients which has fewer women that the national pool. Second, the data must be adjusted to reflect that the University of California hires a significant number of senior level faculty who obtained their doctoral degrees when there were fewer women pursuing doctoral study. Third, the data must be adjusted to reflect that the University of California hires in a particular mix of disciplines which contains a higher proportion of male dominated fields such as math, science and engineering, than is reflected by the total number of doctoral degrees produced annually.
The audit confirms the University’s understanding that when the data are adjusted to reflect the percent of women in the actual pool from which UC hires, the apparent gender disparity noted at the beginning of the report diminishes substantially. However, the University will continue to work towards expanding the number of women in the pool of available faculty members by encouraging women to enter graduate study, creating a database of UC graduate students so UC can better recruit from its own potential faculty pool, promoting family-friendly academic personnel policies, and expanding campus childcare facilities.
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