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It's being taken in some quarters as revelatory of inexperience that Sarah Palin sought clarification when ABC's Charlie Gibson asked her about the Bush Doctrine. To review, here is the passage from the transcript.
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His world view.
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
Gibson should of course have said in the first place what he understood the Bush Doctrine to be--and specified that he was asking a question about preemption. Palin was well within bounds to have asked him to be more specific. Because, as it happens, the doctrine has no universally acknowledged single meaning. Gibson himself in the past has defined the Bush Doctrine to mean "a promise that all terrorist organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated"--which is remarkably close to Palin's own answer.
Consider what a diversity of views on the meaning of the Bush Doctrine can be found simply within the archives of ABC News itself: September 20, 2001
PETER JENNINGS: . . . Claire, the president said at one point, 'From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.' Should we be taking that as the Bush doctrine? CLAIRE SHIPMAN reporting: I think so, Peter,
September 21, 2001
CHARLIE GIBSON: The president in his speech last night, very forceful. Four out of five Americans watched it. Everybody gathered around the television set last night. The president issued a series of demands to the Taliban, already rejected. We'll get to that in a moment. He also outlined what is being called the Bush Doctrine, a promise that all terrorists organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated.
September 21, 2001
CHARLIE GIBSON: Senator Daschle, let me start with you. People were looking for a Bush Doctrine. They may have found it when he said the war on terror will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped or defeated. That's pretty broad. Broader than you expected?
December 9, 2001
GEORGE WILL: The Bush doctrine holds that anyone who governs a territory is complicit in any terrorism that issues from that territory. That covers the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Second, the war on terrorism is indivisible, it's part of the Bush doctrine.
December 11, 2001
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Two years ago, September 1999, Bush gave his first speech when he was running about terrorism. And his first--had the first explanation of the Bush doctrine, that if you harbor a terrorist, you're going to be attacked. The Bush White House is putting this out, saying it shows that Bush was very prescient, but that was only one speech given in the campaign.
January 28, 2002
BOB WOODWARD: This is now the Bush Doctrine . . . , namely that if we're attacked by terrorists, we will not just go after those terrorists but the countries or the people who harbor them.
January 29, 2002
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It was striking and significant that the president really expanded the Bush doctrine. If a nation builds a weapon of mass destruction--Iraq, Iran or North Korea--we will reserve the right to take out those weapons even if we're not attacked or even if there's not a threat.
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This stunning display piece would grace any collection. Fossils of this rarity and quality are extremely rare from a locality which is no longer accessible to the collector. The detail throughout the gastropod is very good. The two belemnite rostrums really make the aesthetics complete. Many hours of preparation has gone into this magnificent and unique fossil. The gastropod and belemnites are solid calcite. Approximately 167 million years old. Prepared by Andy Cowap.
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John Craig was “fresh out of college” when he and his group went out on the flight line for troubleshooting of the engine ignition system in the 747-400. They pulled out a drawing, “and it was all relays and diodes,” he recalled.
“I said, ‘why don’t we put this in a little circuit board with some logic gates, etc.,’ because that’s all the relays and diodes did—act as relay logic.”
It was a fine example of new thinking, but the Designated Engineering Representative (the person who functions as a company’s representative to the FAA) said it couldn’t be certified.
Fast-forward 25 years, “and you see that that function, engine ignition, is part of a software routine inside the engine controller,” noted Craig, currently Chief Engineer of Network Systems for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
It’s just that kind of forward and out-of-the-box thinking from a young engineer that the avionics industry is in great need of today, said Craig. And he believes young engineers are up to the challenge, especially as it relates to connectivity.
“I do a lot of recruiting,” he said. “The kids I’m hiring now are phenomenal. They look at things differently. They’re energetic and they’re sharp.”
On the other hand, the expectations of young engineers are different. “When I hired in, I understood that to get to where I am now it would take a while. I think some of the young folks on the floor right now who work for me think they could walk in here and do my job. You just have to understand that mentality.”
Another way in which young engineers are different from veterans (Craig acknowledges exceptions to these stereotypes) is that the former think in one- or two-year time frames, reflecting their experience with (and expectations of) new cell phone and other communications technologies.
“They really understand this stuff,” he said.
Overall, he believes young engineers’ plusses outweigh their minuses. Their kind of thinking means more emphasis on designing “products [airplanes] that are good forever” in a way to accommodate new technologies.
Craig said young engineers are well suited to what he calls the new “avionics paradigm.” Under the old paradigm, “we build it once; we show that it meets the functional hazard, and we’re kind of done with it until we find we have failures, etc. When it comes to the connected airplane, and you have to deal with the cyber aspects, it’s a different mind-set.”
The old mind-set involved developing “proprietary systems, stand-alone solutions, and functional stovepipes,” according to Craig. The result was connectivity separated by function: one system for flight operations, one for airline operations, and one for passenger use.
“If we have an offboard link, we ought to figure out how we can leverage it for all of the services on the airplane,” he said.
For this more integrated approach, greater reliance on commercial technologies is now needed, Craig added. “We really cannot go out and invent this stuff anymore. We have to leverage what’s being done in the commercial world.”
Progress is being made, said Craig: “We’ve seen a transition from functionality being hosted in specialized hardware to functionality being hosted in more generic hardware with a software perspective.”
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Beaufort has a total population of 12,950 and a student population of 2,565. Of these students, 2,565 are enrolled in schools that offer forensic nursing programs.
Technical College of the Lowcountry is the largest forensic nursing school in Beaufort, based on student population. In 2010, approximately 34 students graduated from the Forensic Nursing program at Technical College of the Lowcountry.
In 2010, 34 students graduated with a forensic nursing degree in Beaufort. In 2009 tuition at forensic nursing schools in Beaufort was $3,382 per year, on average.
You should also anticipate spending about $1,250 for forensic nursing related books and supplies every year.
Many forensic nursing graduates choose to work as forensic nurses after graduation. If you choose to follow that path and remain in Beaufort, your job prospects are good. In 2010, of the 4,130 forensic nurses in South Carolina, 290 were working in the greater Beaufort area. The government projects that the number of forensic nurses in Beaufort will increase by 16% by the year 2018. This projected change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for forensic nurses.
The average salary you can expect to earn as a forensic nurse in Beaufort is $80,690 per year, which is higher than the average for forensic nurses state-wide.
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From John MacDonald, travelling tinker.
THERE was an old soldier once, and he left the army. He went to the top of a hill that was at the upper end of the town land, and he said--
"Well, may it be that the mischief may come and take me with him on his back, the next time that I come again in sight of this town."
Then he was walking till he came to the house of a gentleman that was there, John asked the gentleman if he would get leave to stay in his house that night. "Well, then," said the gentleman, "since thou art an old soldier, and hast the look of a man of courage, without dread or fear in thy face, there is a castle at the side of yonder wood, and thou mayest stay in it till day. Thou shalt have a pipe and baccy, a cogie full of whisky, and a bible to read."
When John got his supper, he took himself to the castle: he set on a great fire, and when a while of the night had come, there came two tawny women in, and a dead man's kist between them. They threw it at the fireside, and they sprang out. John arose, and with the heel of his foot he drove out its end, and he dragged out an old hoary bodach, and he set him sitting in the great chair; he gave him a pipe and baccy, and a cogie of whisky, but the bodach lot them fall on
the floor. "Poor man," said John, "the cold is on thee." John laid himself stretched in the bed, and he left the bodach to toast himself at the fireside; but about the crowing of the cock he went away.
The gentleman came well early in the morning.
"What rest didst thou find John?"
"Good rest," said John "thy father was not the man that would frighten me."
"Right, good John, thou shalt have two hundred 'pund,' and lie to-night in the castle."
"I am the man that will do that," said John; and that night it was the very like. There came three tawny women, and a dead man's kist with them amongst them. They threw it up to the side of the fireplace, and they took their soles out (of that).
John arose, and with the heel of his foot he broke the head of the kist, and he dragged out of it the old hoary man; and as he did the night before he set him sitting in the big chair, and gave him pipe and baccy, and he let them fall. "Oh! poor man," said John, "cold is on thee." Then he gave him a cogie of drink, and he let that fall also. "Oh! poor man, thou art cold."
The bodach went as he did the night before; "but," said John to himself, "if I stay here this night, and that thou shouldst come, thou shalt pay my pipe and baccy, and my cogie of drink."
The gentleman came early enough in the morning, and he asked, "What rest didst thou find last night, John?" "Good rest," said John, "it was not the hoary bodach, thy father, that would put fear on me."
"Och!" said the gentleman, "if thou stayest to-night -thou shalt have three hundred 'pund.'"
"It's a bargain," said John.
When it was a while of the night there came four
tawny women, and a dead man's kist with them amongst them; and they let that down at the side of John.
John arose, and he drew his foot and he drove the head out of the kist, and he dragged out the old hoary man and he set him in the big chair. He reached him the pipe and the baccy, the cup and the drink, but the old man let them fall, and they were broken.
"Och," said John, before thou goest this night thou shalt pay me all thou hast broken;" but word there came not from the head of the bodach. Then John took the belt of his "abersgaic," 1 and he tied the bodach to his side, and he took him with him to bed. When the heath-cock crowed, the bodach asked him to let him go.
"Pay what thou hast broken first," said John. "I will tell thee, then," said the old man," there is a cellar of drink under, below me, in which there is plenty of drink, tobacco, and pipes; there is another little chamber beside the cellar, in which there is a caldron full of gold; and under the threshold of the big door there is a crocky full of silver. Thou sawest the women that came with me to-night?"
"I saw," said John.
"Well, there thou hast four women from whom I took the cows, and they in extremity; they are going with me every night thus, punishing me; but go thou and tell my son how I am being wearied out. Let him go and pay the cows, and let him not be heavy on the poor. Thou thyself and he may divide the gold and silver between you, and marry thyself my old girl; but mind, give plenty of gold of what is left to the poor, on
whom I was too hard, and I will find rest in the world of worlds."
The gentleman came, and John told him as I have told thee, but John would not marry the old girl of the hoary bodach.
At the end of a day or two John would not stay longer; he filled his pockets full of the gold, and he asked the gentleman to give plenty of gold to the poor. He reached the house (went home), but he was wearying at home, and he had rather be back with the regiment. He took himself off on a day of days, and he reached the hill above the town from which he went away; but who should come to him but the Mischief.
"Hoth! hoth! John, thou hast come back?"
"Hoth! on thyself," quoth John, "I came; who art thou?"
"I am the Mischief; the man to whom thou gavest thyself when thou was here last."
"Ai! ai!" said John, "it's long since I heard tell of thee, but I never saw thee before. There is glamour on my eyes, I will not believe that it is thou at all; but make a snake of thyself, and I will believe thee."
The Mischief did this.
"Make now a lion of roaring."
The Mischief did this.
"Spit fire now seven miles behind thee, and seven miles before thee."
The Mischief did this.
Well," said John, "since I am to be a servant with thee, come into my 'abersgaic,' and I will carry thee; but thou must not come out till I ask thee, or else the bargain's broke."
The Mischief promised, and he did this.
"Now," said John, "I am going to see a brother of mine that is in the regiment, but keep thou quiet."
So now, John went into the town; and one yonder and one here, would cry, "There is John the 'desairtair.'"
There was gripping of John, and a court held on him; and so it was that he was to be hanged about mid-day on the morrow, and John asked no favour but to be floored with a bullet.
The "Coirneal" said, "Since he was an old soldier, and in the army so long, that he should have his asking."
On the morrow when John was to be shot, and the soldiers foursome round all about him, "What is that they are saying?" said the Mischief. "Let me amongst them and I wont be long scattering them."
"Cuist! cuist!" said John.
"What's that speaking to thee?" said the Coirneal.
"Oh! it's but a white mouse," said John.
"Black or white," said the Coirneal, "don't thou let her out of the 'abersgaic' and thou shalt have a letter of loosing, and let's see thee no more."
John went away, and in the mouth of night be went into a barn where there were twelve men threshing.
"Oh! lads," said John, "here's for you my old abersgaic, and take a while threshing it, it is so hard that it is taking the skin off my back."
They took as much as two hours of the watch at the abersgaic with the twelve flails; and at last every blow they gave it, it would leap to the top of the barn, and it was casting one of the threshers now and again on his back. When they saw that, they asked him to be out
of that, himself and his agersgaic; they would not believe but that the Mischief was in it.
Then he went on his journey, and he went into a smithy where there were twelve smiths striking their great hammers.
"Here's for you, lads, an old abersgaic, and I will give you half-a-crown, and take a while at it with the twelve great hammers; it is so hard that it is taking the skin off my back."
But that was fun for the smiths; it was good sport for them the abersgaic of the soldier; but every "sgailc" it got, it was bounding to the top of the smithy. "Go out of this, thyself and it," said they; "we will not believe but that the 'Bramman' 1 is in it."
So then John went on and the Mischief on his back, and he reached a great furnace that was there.
"Where art thou going now, John?" said the Mischief.
"Patience a little, and thou'lt see that," said John.
"Let me out," said the Mischief, "and I will never put trouble on thee in this world."
"Nor in the next?" said John.
"That's it," said the Mischief.
"Stop then," said John, "till thou get a smoke;" and so saying, John cast the abersgaic and the Donas into the middle of the furnace, and himself and the furnace went as a green flame of fire to the skies.
This was written by Hector Urquhart, from the dictation of John MacDonald, and sent January 1860.
It is clearly the same story as that of the man who travelled to learn what shivering meant (Grimm), though it has only a very few of the incidents which are in the German version.
Another version of the same story was told me in English by a man whom I met in London, and have never been able to find again. (See Introduction.)
It is a story very widely spread in Europe; and I believe this to be a genuine tradition, though I have but one Gaelic version of it.
John MacDonald, travelling tinker, has but a small stock of lore; and the tinker whom I met in London could not read the card which I gave him, with a promise of payment if he would come and repeat his stock of stories. His female companion, indeed, could both read the card and speak French. The whole lot seemed to suspect some evil design on my part; and I have never seen the one who told the story, or the woman since, though I met their comrade afterwards.
For the pedigree of Grimm's version, see vol. iii., p. 15, edition 1856.
295:1 This word I have never met before.
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Dr. Boyd on Abortion Reporting in Texas
April 18, 2012
In an interview with the Texas Independent, William K. Rashbaum, MD, Abortion Provider Award recipient Curtis Boyd, MD, lambasted proposed regulations that would require physicians to report more information about abortion patients and their care to the Texas state government.
"Why aren’t they asking for additional reporting in other specialties?” asked Dr. Boyd. “Like the sonogram law we’ve been dealing with as physicians, these rules are another way to shame and guilt women and their doctors." Read the rest of the article here.
Help us recognize Eve Espey, MD, MPH, and Willie Parker, MD, MPH, MSc, at the 2013 Rashbaum-Tiller Abortion Provider Awards.
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The documentary Voices of Choice features physicians and advocates who witnessed women's suffering before Roe v. Wade. They helped as many women as they could obtain safe abortions.
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“Abortion services are the essence of public health in this country. We are charged with the task of offering kind, compassionate care so that women can have babies they want.”
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Ato Yohannes Shoba’a, an eighty-nine year old man was abducted in Addis Ababa by unknown gunmen in October 2011; he is still missing.
The abducted man is the father of a Lt. Colonel Gebrihiwet, a security officer of the Eritrean regime, who allegedly operates in the Southern part of Eritrea bordering Ethiopia.
Ato Yohannes had arrived earlier in Addis Ababa from Eritrea via Khartoum, Sudan to visit his relatives. He was preparing to go to the airport in Addis Ababa to return to Eritrea via Khartoum when he was abducted by the armed gunmen who drove him away in a four-wheel drive vehicle.
The abductors claimed to belong to the Eritrean opposition forces when they took him away from the residence of his relatives; but it seems unlikely that an Eritrean organized opposition organization would carry such an act of kidnapping inside Ethiopia.
During the first two weeks after the abduction, his abductors called his family home in Asmara and asked to talk with his son Lt. Colonel Gebrihiwet, a condition they said would make them release the old man who they said was “in a safe place.”
The caller ID of the phone that the abductors used was 249-998-544-750. They have not called again since November 2011.
A relative of Aboy Yohannes contacted by Gedab News said, “so far this seems like a kidnapping case, and we hope whoever is holding him would let him go to his home and live his final years in peace.”
Gedab News has been investigating the case since November to no avail. Repeated e-mail and telephone communication with the Ethiopian authorities in an attempt to find information on the whereabouts of Ato Yohannes were fruitless. Opposition leaders contacted By Gedab News said they have no knowledge of the incident.
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Nathan Burd is the director of Americans for Mitt, a group supporting the candidacy of Mitt Romney for President.
Burd answered these questions for the Conservative President 2008.
1. Why should Mitt Romney become President?
As voters become familiar with Governor Romney, they’ll see that he’s far and away the most accomplished candidate in the field. In fact, he may just be the best candidate from either party in a long, long time.
As governor, Romney has erased a $3 billion budget deficit by reducing waste and cutting taxes. Massachusetts can no longer be called “Taxachusetts” due to Romney’s bold leadership. The principles of fiscal discipline that he has shown in Massachusetts are sorely needed in Washington, D.C.
Romney has also earned praise for applying conservative principles to his landmark plan to provide universal health care coverage to every citizen in Massachusetts.
On education, Romney created the John and Abigail Adams scholarship program that allows high-achieving students to attend state colleges tuition-free for four years. The result of this incentive? Students in Massachusetts rank at the top of nearly academic category.
And on the vital social issues of the day, Romney has been a champion for traditional marriage and for protecting the unborn. By vetoing efforts to expand embryonic stem-cell research and emergency contraception, Romney has made defending human life a top priority. No leader has been as outspoken as Romney on the need to protect traditional marriage. By openly criticizing the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage and by vocally supporting the Federal Marriage Amendment, Romney has been the strongest voice for the traditional values movement in America.
Prior to becoming governor, Romney ran the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. These games were held just months after 9/11 and Romney oversaw the massive security effort to keep the games safe. He has also recently traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan to encourage our troops and to get a first-hand look at the challenges we face. He has spoken clearly on the need to defeat the radical Jihadists who aim to destroy our way of life.
Mitt Romney should be our next president because he’s taken action on all of the major issues of our time and he has the leadership ability to ensure that America remains the world’s economic and military superpower.
2. What makes Romney a better candidate over other possible candidates?
Many of the likely candidates are Senators. History has shown that Senators have a hard time becoming presidents. Sadly, the current leadership in D.C. has failed to take action on the major issues facing the country. Governors (Carter, Reagan, Clinton, G.W. Bush) have the executive experience that voters appreciate and expect in presidential candidates.
Mitt Romney is the most accomplished candidate in the field. In fact, it’s not even close. If you stack Romney’s record of accomplishment up against the other likely candidates, there is no question that he’s the best candidate in the Republican field. He’s the complete package; a candidate who appeals to fiscal and social conservatives, but who has also proven capable of working with members of the other party for the common good. This country desperately needs Mitt Romney.
3. Do you think that Romney can win the Republican and if so could he win the general election?
Yes. Romney has already solidified himself as a top-tier candidate in the Republican field. Most polls show the race shaping up to be a Romney/Rudy/McCain contest. While Rudy and McCain still enjoy a considerable advantage in terms of name identification, each has significant weaknesses in the eyes of prominent factions of the Republican Party. Mitt Romney has no weaknesses. His message will appeal to a broad-range of Republican voters and once they get to know him, they’ll like him.
In March, Romney finished in second place in the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Straw Poll. The event was held in Tennessee and Bill Frist won the poll simply for that reason. However, Romney was the real winner by finishing well ahead of the rest of the field.
After winning the Republican nomination, independent voters and sensible Democrats will flock to his campaign. The Democrats in the race are all beatable by the right Republican candidate. Mitt Romney is that candidate.
4. Do you think that Romney being a Mormon will effect his chances at winning the Republican nomination?
The media will bring up “the Mormon issue” continually, but Republican voters will not reject Mitt Romney because of his religion. Republicans are looking for a candidate who shares their values. Mitt Romney has been proven that he shares the moral and political values that Republican voters appreciate.
Prominent religious leaders, including Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell, Richard Land, Marvin Olasky, Chuck Colson, and more, have already said that they could vote for a Mormon who shares their values. The media will insist on making this an issue, but among Republicans and various religious leaders, it’s just not relevant.
The website I run, Americans for Mitt, has members from a wide variety of faith backgrounds. I’m an evangelical Christian and this issue poses no problem for me. As Cal Thomas recently said, “it troubles me not that a Mormon might become president.”
There is also a great website for “Evangelicals for Mitt” (http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/). As we’ve said from the beginning, the election is for president, not pastor.
5. If Romney loses the Republican nomination, would you like to see him run as a third party candidate?
No. Mitt Romney is a Republican. He’ll get to the White House by winning the Republican nomination and the general election.
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For the second time in history, federal regulators accused a U.S. state of securities fraud Monday, ordering Illinois to stop misleading investors about the condition of its public pension system.
In announcing a settlement with the state, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Illinois had passed a law in 1994 allowing itself to put less than the required amount into its pension system each year. For the next 15 years, the state issued annual reports showing that it was on track with its lawful schedule, even as it fell further behind the real-world amount needed to pay all public retirees their benefits. In 2005, the state passed another law giving itself a holiday from even the inadequate amounts on the schedule.
From 2005 to 2009, Illinois issued $2.2 billion worth of municipal bonds, which the SEC said were marketed under false pretenses. There was a growing hole in the pension system, putting increasing pressure on the state’s finances every year. That raised the risk that at some point retirees and bond buyers would be competing for the same limited money. The risk grew greater every year, the SEC said, but investors could not see it by looking at Illinois’ disclosures.
In effect, that meant investors overpaid for bonds of a lower quality than they were made out to have, although the SEC did not measure any loss.
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Showing posts tagged as "splash zone"
How big can the giant clam grow? Anyone know? You can see this one now in our Splash Zone!
Have any of you divers seen this fish in the wild? What’s its name, and where’s it found?
You can also see it in our Splash Zone!
Ready for the answer? It’s the tropical lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis).
Need a reason to visit in the New Year? We have thousands, like this gold ring tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus) in the Coral Cave in Splash Zone. We also have extended hours Jan. 1: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm (9 am opening for members)!
Here’s looking at you!
Here’s someone who knows how to have fun at the Aquarium! Noah Jackson may have been born with some physical challenges, but that doesn’t slow him down when he visits.
Did you know that our penguins get regular health checks? This one looks pretty happy about it! They even know their names and respond to simple commands such as stepping on a scale or getting into a crate for transport.
Have you seen them? We have some beautiful (and large!) giant clams in the Splash Zone!
These guys look like they don’t mess around! We have 15 dwarf cuttlefish (Sepia bandensis) on exhibit in the Splash Zone. This species is known to frequent the waters off Indonesia, Phillipines and Papua New Guinea. Ours are about six months old, and 2 1/2 inches long.
Love cuttlefish? We have four juvenile pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) in the Splash Zone! But you’ll need to look carefully for these masters of camouflage. Let us know if you find them when you visit!
You asked for it: a video of the leaping blenny for Leap Day!
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The UK's economic recovery was always likely to evolve in fits and starts and, even though it is a year since we turned a corner, feelings of uncertainty are only slightly diminished. We need only look across the Irish Sea to be reminded that there are still reasons for caution.
No one, not least a government with significant spending cuts in it sights, should assume that a private sector revival will continue to gather momentum. And, while any growth is to be welcomed, we need to learn the lessons of the past decade by striking a balance. This means the right type of more balanced growth from innovation, investment and exports to secure the UK's prosperity.
On this count at least the mood of caution is tinged with optimism. The UK has been making some progress towards building the foundations of sustainable growth, for which manufacturers can take significant credit. The past four quarters have seen a strong and positive contribution from the UK's industrial sector, where output has been expanding at its fastest pace since the end of the last economy-wide recession in 1994.
A major component of this has been manufacturers' ability to capitalise on export markets. Exports of British manufactured goods have been tracking the recovery in world trade much better than those from other parts of the economy. EEF's latest research looking at the shape of British industry shows that while plans for growth were inevitably derailed during the recession, the focus for the next three years is to make further gains in global markets, underpinned with investment in new machinery and innovation in the UK.
This activity by manufacturers, if realised, will go a long way towards filling the gap left as the public sector retreats. Over the past decade manufacturing has demonstrated its diversity, strength and ability to deliver significant productivity and competitiveness gains. As the responsibility for creating jobs and wealth now falls increasingly on the shoulders of the private sector, manufacturing will have to translate the gains of recent years into a step-change in growth.
To do this requires manufacturers of all shapes and sizes. We need start-ups that bring creative innovation and ideas to market as well as large companies that anchor supply chains and make crucial investments that benefit entire industries.
Herein lies the challenge. With internal and external hurdles to overcome at both ends of the spectrum, young companies cannot finance their initial growth with internal resources alone, yet struggle to access external finance. Mid-size companies planning for transformational growth that could make them global players can get caught up in a thicket of red tape, especially employment regulation, and a still unpredictable tax system.
Growing a generation of larger manufacturers that will expand year on year is vital for the wider economy and the nation's growth potential. As the Government fleshes out its Growth Paper and Manufacturing Framework in the weeks ahead it must provide a broad agenda for growth that works for all sectors and types of companies.
It must also recognise where the blockages to the right type of growth lie. This begins with government becoming a more strategic partner with the private sector.
Partnership with industry can help make the UK the investment location of choice, with an internationally competitive business environment and a strong, highly visible, industrial base. It will also require government to be open-minded in its approach to the future shape of manufacturing and not limit its vision solely to a narrow one of R&D in so-called "high tech" industries. It must also create a tax system that encourages innovation and capital investment. Finally, to maximise the impact of public resources, government should target its strategy at high growth industries where the UK has a competitive advantage, as well as leveraging the multiplier effect of large companies who cascade their benefits down the supply chain and across the economy into wider areas such as skills.
The Prime Minister was right when he said in a recent speech that government must do more than simply get out of the way. A shift in emphasis from the public to the private sector is central to long-term growth. Overall, there are reasons to be confident about manufacturing generating the sustainable economic growth the UK needs, but we cannot take this for granted. It will require ambition, certainty and the most competitive environment government can provide for companies to realise those ambitions here in the UK. If this is delivered we, as a nation, can justifiably expect our business leaders to step up to the mark.
Terry Scuoler is chief executive of EEF, the manufacturers' organisation
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Federal high risk pool will not burden states
Several states are opting out of running a temporary high risk insurance pool, instead allowing the feds to operate it for them.
North Carolina, on the other hand, will run its own federal high risk pool that will operate beside the state high risk pool. Some politicians expressed concern that if the high risk pool is more expensive than projected the funding burden will shift to the state.
But North Carolina has recieved a written guarantee that the federal government will pay for patients in the federal high risk pool. The state will continue paying for the state pool, although the cost of that program is mostly covered by premiums.
Health reform set aside $5 billion to pay for the temporary high risk pools that will operate until 2014.
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Meet Homer, Yogi and Boo Boo -- three 9 year old Shih Tzus who spent their entire life in a loving home.
When the Nutley pet owner passed away, she had made no provisions for her beloved animals. And so her daughter had the heartbreaking task of dealing with all of the difficult decisions and the necessary arrangements which needed to be addressed.
If you have pets, don't leave the heartbreaking decisions to someone else. Make your wishes known so that the future of your pets will be assured. It has been the Society's long-standing policy to keep animal families together as they journey to a new life. To see Homer, Yogi and Boo Boo walking in tandem, there is no doubt that they stand shoulder-to-shoulder as they must encounter broken hearts, strange surroundings, search for a new path to happiness. File N-71712-NM, File N-71713-NM & File N-71714-NM (Newark).
If interested in adopting Homer, Yogi and Boo Boo together, please contact us. The three boys are neutered.
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There are 65 million NIKKOR lenses in the world. Nikon announced that it reached the 65 million mark at the beginning of October 2011. It hit the 60 million mark in March of this year, just a couple of months after Canon did the same. It’s pretty amazing that the two companies are so close in total lens production given the amount of time they’ve been at it.
See the full press release for a little Nikon nostalgia and fun facts below.
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that total production of NIKKOR interchangeable lenses for Nikon SLR cameras reached sixty-five million at the beginning of October 2011.
In 1959, Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku K.K.) released its first SLR camera, the Nikon F. At the same time, Nikon also released its first NIKKOR interchangeable lenses for Nikon SLR cameras, among them the Nikkor-S Auto 5cm f/2. In the half century since, NIKKOR lenses have become the favorite lenses of a wide variety of users, and have been extremely well received by a great number of photo enthusiasts and professional photographers.
In March 2011, total production of NIKKOR lenses reached sixty million. Since then, Nikon has continued to expand the product lineup by releasing two new NIKKOR lenses for FX- and DX-format SLR cameras. The fact that NIKKOR continues to satisfy a wide variety of photographers is evidenced by production of an additional five million lenses in just half a year, bringing total production to sixty-five million.
NIKKOR lenses released since March 2011
- AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G (released June 2011)
A fast, standard fixed focal length (prime) lens that produces bright images and offers beautiful blur characteristics and superior rendering performance with a focal length of 50 mm and fast maximum aperture of f/1.8. This lens is compatible with the FX format.
- AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G (released August 2011)
A standard Micro-NIKKOR lens with a focal length of 40 mm and a maximum aperture of f/2.8. This lens enables extremely close-up shooting with a minimum focus distance of just 0.163 m and offers beautiful blur characteristics. It also offers a unique style when shooting portraits, landscapes and more. This lens is compatible with the DX format.
Announced worldwide on September 21, the Nikon 1 J1 and the Nikon 1 V1 are the first and second cameras in the Nikon 1, Advanced Camera with Interchangeable Lenses, that utilize the new Nikon 1 lens mount system. The F-Mount NIKKOR lenses, with over half a century of history, can also be attached to the Nikon 1 J1 and the Nikon 1 V1 using the dedicated Mount Adapter FT1*. This enables users to enjoy tremendous variety in their imaging expression with the ability to select a lens best suited to the scene, subject, or their own creative intent from a broad lineup of standard and special-purpose NIKKOR lenses. Nikon will continue to expand its lineup of NIKKOR lenses utilizing optical technologies accumulated over its long history to offer increased convenience to users of Nikon cameras.
- *Autofocus may not perform as expected in some situations or with some lenses. Restrictions apply to mounting and functionality with some lenses.
The NIKKOR brand
As the brand name for Nikon lenses, NIKKOR has become synonymous with high-performance, high-quality SLR lenses. The NIKKOR name comes from adding “R”—a common practice in the naming of photographic lenses at the time the name was established—to “Nikko”, the Romanized abbreviation for Nippon Kogaku K.K. In 1933, the large-format lens for aerial photography was released with the name Aero-Nikkor.
NIKKOR has always been ahead of the times. The OP Fisheye-Nikkor 10mm f/5.6 fisheye lens for SLR cameras, released in 1968, was the world’s first lens to incorporate aspherical lens elements. What’s more, NIKKOR lenses for the latest SLR cameras utilize a number of Nikon’s own cutting-edge technologies, including Nano Crystal Coat, which virtually eliminates internal lens element reflections across a wide range of wavelengths.
The current lineup of more than sixty NIKKOR lenses for Nikon SLR cameras offers a rich variety of lenses, including fisheye lenses, super wide-angle to super telephoto lenses, micro lenses and PC-E lenses.
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Credit card acts like a smartphone
A new MasterCard debuting in Singapore next year will have touch-sensitive buttons and an LCD screen.
This post comes from Geoff Williams at partner site CardRatings.com.
Well, perhaps that's overstating it a bit, but MasterCard just announced that next year, starting in January, it will put on the market in Singapore a credit card that looks a little like a phone.
In other words, MasterCard's new credit card, called the Display Card, has touch-sensitive buttons and an LCD screen on it. Basically, this is for affluent Singapore cardholders, allowing them to type in a one-time password to authenticate that the credit card really is theirs, before they conduct expensive or complicated transactions.
It helps prevent identity theft, since if you're a crook with the card, you'd presumably have to know the password to be able to use it before buying, say, a 55-inch widescreen TV.
Still, given that we now have a credit card that has buttons and uses wireless technology to transmit information from consumer to credit card issuer and retailer, you could imagine credit cards one day featuring add-on technology that would allow a consumer to make a call -- if not to a friend or family, perhaps to the credit card issuer itself, or maybe to a customer service line for a product.
That said, as noted, the technology has less to do with competing with smartphones than trying to prevent identity theft, and clearly, MasterCard is thinking ahead and imagining new possibilities for card technology in the coming years. According to MasterCard's press release about the Display Card, "In future, this card could incorporate additional functionalities and be able to indicate other real-time information such as available credit balance, loyalty or reward points, recent transactions, and other interactive information."
So instead of looking up your information on your PC, tablet or smartphone, you could look it up on your credit card.
This may be just the beginning. If these credit cards are a hit in Singapore, they could evolve to the point where they have a lot of useful bells and whistles. And especially if smartphones don't ultimately replace the credit card as the optimum method of paying for things, we may someday start seeing these "display cards" in the United States and throughout the world.
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What next, a mandatory 2 year contract to use this "smart-card" along with an early termination fee?
Interesting that their are people for and against.
How about making it Illegal to be on the damn cell phone while driving w/o it being hands free. and therefore, a speaker. so instead of only a few states making it illegal w/o hands free, the whole national making it illegal.
My point is. People's cell Phone was a garget when it first came out., well so is this new Credit Card gadget. furthermore, this article has to so with it being in Singapore. this article picture is no where in the USA, and the USA Technology had not gotten this fair yet.
Giver NV 1234 get a life already. Credit Cards have already been hacked, same goes for cell phones. your voice can be herd from anywhere giving out confidential information, such at a stop light, w/o hands free.
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Siblings and Autism – film coming soon!
Coming soon! Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder share their personal stories. We will learn what ASD means to them, what it is like to be a sibling to someone with ASD, what their experience has taught them, what has helped, how it has affected their friendships, and much more. We are excited to bring this groundbreaking video to you.
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Updated 19 May, 2013, 2:07 pm IST
No mobiles for girls: MP makes controversial statement
| by Anuradha Shetty |
Rajya Sabha MP Rajpal Singh Saini now finds himself grabbing national headlines for not the best of reasons. Addressing workers yesterday, Saini said that children, especially girls should not be given mobile phones. “Don't give mobile phones to children, especially girls. I say this at all the places where I make my speeches. And if any of these kids have a mobile, take them away. What are they missing anyway? What are the girls missing without mobile,” he said. He went on to add that mobile phones were distracting and useless. Saini is known to clarify later that he meant students of a certain age should not be given mobile phones. "What I am saying is that students should not be given mobile phones... It is the age to study, and mobile phones are a distraction," he said.
Earlier, however, Saini shared his view with a man distraught after his daughter eloped. He said that the mobile phone was responsible for his daughter’s move. Saini went on to add, “Our mothers, sisters... did they die if there were no mobiles during their time.”
Right to education, employment, and now mobile phones? (Image Credit: Getty Images
The mobile phone is emerging as the preferred device for communication today, and at such a time, Saini’s comments are controversial. Changing lifestyles, modern outlook, education among other factors have led to women becoming self-reliant and owning a mobile phone today is not a status barometer, anymore - it is a necessity now.
By condemning its use altogether, the MP is clearly not earning himself any brownie points with the masses and while Saini will have to do some tough explaining on his views, Twitter is abuzz with reactions from everyone. @smritiirani tweeted, "BSP MP thinks girls should not be given mobile phones. Does he know his party president is a woman???", @ishaanspeaks tweeted, "BSP MP Rajpal Singh:"Don't give mobile phones to girls". So, an MP calls for curtailing basic civil liberties of women - isn't that a crime?", @puneetsays tweeted, "BSP MP says - Women don't need mobile phones as they get distracted. Am wondering if Mayawati owns a Mobile."
This clearly isn't the first time that women have been condemned from using phones. In July, this year a village panchayat in Bagpat district of Uttar Pradesh not only banned love marriages, but also disallowed women below 40 years of age from going out for shopping and girls from using mobile phones.
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«That all may be one» (Jn. 17,21)
We were born for these words, for unity, to give a contribution to its realization in the world. Chiara Lubich
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|On the Road to Budapest|
|Written by Midwest Youth for a United World|
|Sunday, April 15, 2012|
The Youth for a United World and Gen Movement of the Midwest are gearing up for Genfest 2012! This Labor Day weekend, about twenty teens and young adults from Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Columbus will journey to Budapest, Hungary.
There, they will meet over 12,000 other young people from different countries, ethnic groups, cultures, and religions, all motivated by the same ideal—to live every day and every situation for universal brotherhood, to build a more caring and united world. They meet to share projects, experiences, and their daily impact in their own environments. By the way they live they witness to the possibility of positive change. They begin simply, striving to practice the Golden Rule, always putting their neighbor first.
Genfest 2012 begins Friday, August 31st and concludes September 1st. The jam-packed program features interactive workshops, music, dances, witness talks, and all those present sharing a lot of experiences. They will also stage a march for peace and brotherhood from the main arena in Budapest to the different bridges scattered throughout the city. The metaphor of building bridges will symbolize constructing genuine relationships. At the end of the program the youth, who have already collected thousands of signatures on a petition, will call for the establishment at the UN of a permanent observer for universal brotherhood.
The Genfest 2012 program will feature a representative from the Midwest! Ann, a young Catholic from Ohio, will demonstrate how she has drawn inspiration from the life of Blessed Chiara Luce Badano. Ann will perform an original song that captures this inspiration at as a call to all young people in the world to live for something more.
Genfest is unique in that it is put on by the youth for the youth. This worldwide expression of unity comes to fruition when a community comes together as one band, one sound, one family. Such an event requires much planning, execution, and funding. Many have already made their contribution, even those who cannot themselves make the trip to Budapest. Although their physical journey begins this summer, for the Midwest youth the spiritual journey is already in full swing. Fundraising projects and experiences that have transformed lives have provided many opportunities to share talents and ideas with their neighbors.
Here in the Midwest, the youth have experienced a wealth of concrete support in the form of a donated Apple IPad for a region-wide raffle, a generous wave of monetary pledges towards 'Sponsor-a-Gen'- a fund that supports youth-in-need wishing to participate in Genfest 2012, and prayers from the community at large. Most recently, the late Focolare Volunteer, Betty Bendiola, fought a brave battle against cancer. In her last months, she repeatedly expressed how she was also living for the youth, offering her suffering and discomfort for the many fruits that Genfest 2012 would bring. While she is now watching from above, the youth continue to live for her, finding a renewed strength, faith, and commitment to move forward so that the Genfest will create the positive change of which Betty was a catalyst in her own beautiful life.
Please support our future fundraiser events!
To learn more about Genfest, check out:
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Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Parliament and Facebook June 15, 2012Posted by bdoza in BANGLADESH, PERSONALITY.
Tags: Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Speaker of the parliament Abdul Hamid Siddique decided to expunge the unacceptable words uttered in the parliament few days back. Quoting a newspaper, an independent member of the parliament raised the issue and two other members of the parliament brushed Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed in a language not usually heard of against a teacher of his rank. On the day House even demanded to bring Abdullah Abu Sayeed to the parliament to seek apology. Neither the Speaker nor the Deputy Speaker was present on the day of occurance.
It was the Deputy Speaker who first said that Parliament did wrong in dishonoring a respected man like Professor Abu Sayeed. TIB protested the incident in the parliament and submitted a record of the address that Abdullah Abu Sayeed gave in its meeting. Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed also denied the allegation.
It was found that some papers distorted his speech and the some members not following the parliamentary proceedings made casual comments.
What he actually said is reported in the Daily Star as ‘The Daily Star has learned what the noted litterateur had actually said at the event of Transparency International Bangladesh. It is not corruption when a thief steals, but when a man who has undertaken to follow ethics, rule and the law indulges in stealing then it becomes corruption, Prof Sayeed said.’ He didn’t remark MPs as thieves.
The comments of the MPs on one of the greatest teachers of our time sparks through the Facebook and drew angry reactions.
Only the prudence of the speakers save the government from further embarrassment.
An ordinary citizen
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|The Corporeal Group|
|These were the folks: the gang of academics, outcasts and misfits that saw their way to playing concerts without compensation, energized by the creative vision of Harry Partch. Or am I resorting to hyperbole and romance? In any event, we spent a lot of time together, rehearsing, travelling, playing the works. Here's a little of what it was like.|
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In his earliest creative years, Harry Partch developed a body of compositions that relied on very few participants; indeed, many were for solo performer, a requirement fulfilled by Partch himself. During the late 1940's, however, Partch began to compose for larger groupings of instruments and performers. There were several reasons: he was starting to design and building new instruments to support his harmonic and melodic theories, he was interested in a wider 'orchestrational' palette, and he was beginning to develop his sense of the corporeal performance, which included instruments that had both an aural and a physical presence.
One of the most arduous challenges that Partch faced during the ensuing years was the assembling of ensembles to perform his music, and the larger the ensemble, the more difficult the task. Due to the nomadic lifestyle Partch led (for many, and varied, reasons), he was never in any one place long enough for an ensemble to last for more than one, or possibly two, major productions. With each new group of players Partch had to give instructions on how to play and tune the instruments. Most of the groups he assembled were either amateur or student musicians, causing him to exclaim at one point "We literally had to accept almost anyone who was willing -- I use the words advisedly -- to take part". The most notable exception to this was the group used in the mid-60's for "Delusion of the Fury" and surrounding concerts and recordings (Columbia's "The World of Harry Partch"), which included many fine professional players.
Exceptions aside, Partch coped with volunteers that would be willing to work for the interest and excitement of the moment, as he could rarely pay a salary. At one point Partch even composed with lesser demands in mind; the composition was "Water! Water!". Later, he withdrew the work, and then went back to small group writing with "And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma". "I've also been discouraged", Partch said, "by the quality of musicians available to me, and in Illinois I found that I was writing progressively easier music because I lost confidence that difficult music would be played well. ... Due to these experiences I determined, in the summer of '62, to concentrate on a series of duets, in which I would have complete control. ... And I determined not to record until I had the right musicians."
Now, with the renewed interest in Partch's work, we are seeing performers venture into the early repertoire, but the obvious stumbling block of just one set of those canons, marimbas and assorted other sound-sculptures means that large productions will probably be few in number. I was fortunate to be among a group of musicians in San Diego, California, that devoted the better portion of 15 years to performing some of those larger works. The experience has had profound influence on even my non-Partch musical activities, and this time-frame constitutes the longest stretch of ensemble activity devoted to performing his compositions -- too bad Harry passed away not long after we had started.
I first met Partch while I was attending San Diego State College (now University) in 1971. Danlee Mitchell, assistant to Partch and curator of the instruments at that time, asked if I would like to be involved in an upcoming project, and to meet Partch. Not long after we met, the rehearsals began for the documentary film "The Dreamer That Remains", which contains the last piece that Partch composed. The ensemble consisted of people from in and around the academic community at the time: people in the new music fields, percussionists, vocalists, friends. Upon learning I would be playing the Bamboo Marimba, Danlee gave me the basics of the notation and playing technique, and then left me to work on the part. As with all but his simplest instruments, the Boo is not designed for sight-reading or much dependence on the printed page. When properly playing the lowest notes, you are knee-bent down near the ground, and the music is above you by a good distance. It is necessary, at least in the more athletic sections, to memorize the part.
This type of preparation was common among the players, most of whom would come into the room where the instruments were kept, and practice during their spare time; each player committed whatever time was necessary to become proficient. This was done without compensation - very few of our tours did more than pay for expenses. Even at this early stage the ensemble drew people who were genuinely moved by the honesty of the music, and most likely felt as I did - that being part of this group was sufficient remuneration. Over the years I performed parts on most of the instruments, and though it might at first seem a hindrance, that most of the instruments used slightly different notations or tablatures was not a negative experience. In fact, it reinforced the unique personality of each instrument, and allowed the player to approach each in a different and appropriate manner.
Once full rehearsals started, the piece (The Dreamer That Remains) was worked on very much as in any other ensemble: starts and stops, balance corrections, all under the watchful eyes/ears of both the conductor, Jack Logan, and Partch himself. These rehearsals are documented as well in the film. Particularly instructive was when Partch saw us play, because he was at least as concerned about how we looked as how we sounded. Even in the more rarefied setting of film, the symbiotic relationship of performer/instrument was of paramount importance to Harry. We also committed a number of rehearsals to the vocal parts, of which there were a few 'chorus'-like sections. For most of us, it was the first time attempting to sing microtonally. I can still remember a descending passage in very small intervals: there was a marvelous moment when, after many repetitions, each of those small intervals seemed to grow wider and wider, until it became as natural to sing that scale as anything I had ever sung before.
With a core of performers now having been established, the next big hurdle came with a production of "The Bewitched" in 1974. The tour included 17 instrumentalists, 1 singer (the Witch), 10 dancers and a supporting crew of 5. This tour would also include the moving of the instruments and the set that had been built. Rehearsals followed the same procedure, and as I recall performers worked for a number of weeks before the first rehearsal. Though a fully staged production, this one was not as corporeal as the later 1980 production; the main corpus of the action was committed by the dancers and the Witch. This production was the first to diminish the use of a conductor -- though Danlee Mitchell was the music director, his on-stage duties were primarily to play the Surrogate Kithara and only secondarily give downbeats, tempos and visual cues.
It was after a tour of California with this production that Danlee guided the ensemble toward realizing Partch's most fervent intent: that specialization in the performance world be abandoned, and that his musicians would also dance, sing, act - whatever the moment deemed necessary. The first production that embodied these aspects was "U. S. Highball", in 1976. The instruments were the set, along with various railroad props, and all of the performers were in costume, as an integral part of the stage action. Most vocal parts were taken by instrumentalists, some leaving their instruments (while someone else would play them) to perform the characterization of the person. This was the first production to essentially do away with the function of the conductor, treating the whole as one large chamber group. As before, many months of preparation were necessary to accomplish this.
As the years went by, the corporeal approach was extended to as many pieces as possible. Much to our consternation, but not to our surprise, was when Danlee announced to the group that in a new tour including "Castor & Pollux", the instrumentalists would be choreographed! The piece consists of two sections, each with the form of duet-duet-duet-tutti. The idea was that anyone not playing during the duets would be away from their instruments, dancing; the soloist (dancer-choreographer Marta Keeney-Jiacoletti) would dance during the tutti sections. Therefore, in addition to practicing the music, it was necessary to attend regular dance classes a couple of times a week. While the quality or effectiveness of our movement(s) can be debated (as it certainly was among us!), the consensus was that it was a worthwhile effort if it opened up the performance boundaries. Even with my rather clumsy attempts at "poetry in motion", it was wonderfully energetic to dart back to the instrument just in time to play as the others moved out onto the stage! One unfortunate side effect is that every 'normal' performance I do now seems static and dry.
Another composition that excels in a corporeal setting is "Barstow". The last revision Partch prepared, in 1968, is for 4 instrumentalists and intoning voice. By using 5 performers who are versatile on the instruments, the vocal parts can be rotated amongst the players, and dramatic settings can be aided by lighting and stage action. This lifts the piece to another level of involvement, both for performer and audience, and serves to highlight the individual tales of those lonely souls waiting for a lift on the side of a distant highway.
The 1980 production of "The Bewitched", produced for the Berlin New Music Festival, involved a greater depth of preparation for the performers. Director Kenneth Gaburo, along with choreographer Lou Blankenburg and musical director Danlee Mitchell, envisioned a completely enveloping evening, with performers intertwined in all aspects of the dramatic activity. Preparations began seven months in advance, and classes in movement and even meditative techniques were employed to aid musicians and dancers in going beyond their traditional performance modes. This was one of the group's musical high points, where 70+ minutes of music could be done with subtlety and power. It is unfortunate that this kind of production is simply not possible without the tireless efforts of a willing band of enthusiasts, and the elements that existed during that time may not exist again.
The following years saw productions and tours of some of the smaller-scale works, including "Daphne of the Dunes" and "Petals". The last production that I was involved with was "Revelation In The Courthouse Park", produced by the American Music Theater Festival in 1987. This was a situation where musicians, as well as the cast, were hired from the local area. Danlee, Randy Hoffman and myself were in charge of assisting with the instruments and helping train players, with Danlee doing the bulk of the work on transcontinental weekend flights. The production was probably successful in a number of areas, but it was a step backwards in terms of a corporeal effort (it could be argued that this approach would be difficult with "Revelation"). Certainly, from a performers perspective, it lacked a depth of involvement that I had come to expect; what was missing was the dedication of individuals that understood the philosophical ground on which they stood, and could act upon that philosophy accordingly. Following these performances, the instruments were relocated to New York.
Partch is being approached in numerous ways today: in addition to the work being done by Newband in New York, there are new performers tackling the solo and small group pieces, and there is a great deal of material and recordings surfacing, much of it new or heard/seen for the first time. I am on record as being opposed to transcriptions for non-Partch instruments; setting that aside for the moment, I would pose some questions:
If, instead of focusing only on the ratios and the lyrics but on the broader contexts of Partch's aesthetic, a new generation of corporeal performers could create fresh works to enlighten us all, and Partch could be serve as a touchstone of inspiration rather than a millstone around the neck. Surely an apt legacy for a man who said "... that if anyone calls himself a pupil of mine, I will happily strangle him. But this is simply the expression of an attitude, and -- amazingly -- in its deeper meaning it is an expression of hope."
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Dramatic audio has emerged of an irate Italian Coast Guard officer ordering the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia to "get back on board!" as the stricken vessel lay crippled off the coast of Tuscany on Friday night.
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Internet sales drive 300 per cent surge in fakes sent by post02-Aug-2012
Our visualisation of EU customs seizures shows cases of counterfeits sent by post have grown almost 300 per cent since 2009 on the back of increased internet sales.
The impact of online retail, which has made fake goods available to everyone from the privacy of their own home, is shown by the changing patterns of European Union (EU) customs seizures.
As shown in our visualisation below, a sharp rise in seizures of post containing counterfeits has pushed up the number of cases handled by EU officers over the past two years. In 2009 there were 15,000 postal seizures. By last year the figure had grown 280 per cent to 57,000 cases.
Over this time period counterfeits sent by post have gone from accounting for one-third of all fake goods cases to almost two-thirds. The jump relates directly to the rise of online sales.
The big leap came in 2010 but cases continued to increase last year. A rise in seizures of fake shoes, electrical goods, clothing and personal accessories sent by post drove the 17 per cent year-on-year increase in 2011.
Despite growth in these areas, counterfeit medicines are still the most commonly seized item in post. Last year fake drugs accounted for more than one-third of postal articles detained by the EU.
In terms of items seized post still lags behind other forms of transport though. In 2009 fakes sent by post accounted for less than one per cent of all items seized by EU customs. By last year this figure had increased but still fell short of two per cent.
The discrepancy between the proportion of cases and items involving counterfeits sent by post reflects the low-volume nature of internet sales. Someone ordering Viagra from a fake online pharmacy is likely ordering a packet or two. Those shipping by sea do so on wholesale scales.
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“I always assumed that was something that you did at the vet’s office.”
Kroger this year began marketing to pet owners and offering them discounted prices. Target is doing the same with its Pet Rx program.
And Walgreens will now let you include your pet as a family member on its prescription drug plan. We compared prices on three common drugs.
The over the counter heartworm prevention, Heartgard, was available at Target for $31.99. A local vet, meanwhile, quoted it at $50.50. The anti-inflammatory, Rimadyl, was selling for $22.40 at Kroger, less than half what it cost at the vet’s office.
Both pharmacies offered the antibiotic Amoxicillin as a generic for only four dollars, ninety percent off what the vet was charging. “I honestly think patients don’t know they can get their pet medications at the pharmacy,” said Johnna Dees, a pharmacist for Kroger in Dallas.
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The American Veterinary Association has lobbied against it, claiming the law would create bureaucracy and paperwork. At the Bent Tree Animal Hospital in north Dallas, Dr. Nancy Turner warns there are risks to getting prescriptions filled from pharmacists, not trained specifically in veterinary medicine. “For some medications, I wouldn’t recommend it,” she said.
Turner said, among other things, pharmacists can easily make dosage mistakes. “Just because they’re like oh, that decimal point needs to be here, not here. It actually makes a really big difference,” she said.
The one thing both pharmacists and veterinarians agree on is that pet owners should feel free to ask about their options. Open communication, they say, can cut down on costs and mistakes.
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Mary Frances Berry Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn. :
The most important question is not what Congress will do after the recess but how much compromising they must do to overcome the divide in the Democratic Party.
Congress will have to spend a great deal of time working on the appropriations for most departments and agencies which must be renewed before October 1. The most likely result given the flurry of major legislation is a continuing resolution, just maintaining last years’ funding.
By the end of the session, they will have enacted some form of health care legislation, with limited cost controls and a narrow provision that will be called a public option. The Senate will also pass climate change legislation much like the House already passed bill and, after much wrangling, a financial services regulation bill that will mostly leave the present structure in place. All of this legislation will be much weaker than has been proposed originally because of concessions made not just to Republicans but to centrist and conservative Democrats in the House and the Senate. More domestic oil drilling, for example, will be one result. .
An estate tax fix, required since the federal estate tax will disappear for a single year on January 1, 2010, but will return at a much higher rate on January 1, 2011, will have to wait. Labor will also have to wait to see if card check, the Employee Free Choice Act, can gain passage. Immigration is off the table until the administration and key Congressional players believe there is enough evidence of strong enforcement at the border.
There will be no less partisanship and politically motivated behavior in the Congress than before the encomiums to Senator Kennedy. After all, the same political considerations are at stake.
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KidTunes: Beethoven’s Wig (Pssst…Adults…)
Forget the kids…Beethoven’s Wig: Sing Along Piano Classics is for anyone with a sense of humor , whether a lover of classical music or a victim who has been forced to listen to those dusty old tunes that won’t go away. Whichever you are probably depends on how you first experienced classical music and at what age. Do you remember the first time you heard classical music? You probably don’t—it was likely a little pastel stuffed animal with a wind-up key that played "Brahms Lullaby." A lamb, maybe? A baby blue dog?
My earliest recollection of classical music comes from Warner Brothers—Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd were often accompanied by a classical soundtrack. My favorite cartoons predisposed me to an appreciation of Beethoven, Strauss, Verdi, and the many others who comprise the classical library. …And then there was my father’s Spike Jones collection (remember those red 45’s from RCA?). In 1963, when Allan Sherman paired Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” with the infamous lines “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining. And they say we’ll have some fun if it stops raining,” humor again introduced a generation of rock ‘n rollers to classical music (Sherman, like Spike Jones, also did a number on a number of popular numbers). I still listen to Spike Jones and Allan Sherman, but now I’ve got a new favorite—Richard Perlmutter, Beethoven’s wig-maker since 2002. Beethoven’s Wig: Sing Along Piano Classics is a collection of classics teamed with silly lyrics. While intended for children, it’s entertaining for adults as well. The first time I played the album, my adult daughter was in the car with me and the first cut, “La De Da Sonata” (Mozart’s “Sonata in C Major”) cracked us up. We were both unfamiliar with the Beethoven’s Wig series of CDs (there were four), much to our shame, and had no idea what to expect. The second song, “Poor Uncle Joe” (Chopin, “Funeral March”) had us laughing and singing along.Continued on the next page
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Robert Hof, Contributor
I cover the collision of advertising and the Internet.
Facebook has just responded to a New York Times article Mar. 3 that suggested the company might be suppressing posts from appearing in followers’ news feeds as a way to force them to pay to have them distributed widely. Facebook’s answer: No, we aren’t!
In a detailed blog post today pointedly labeled “Fact Check” (full text below), the social network refuted Times reporter Nick Bilton’s implication that distribution of his and others’ posts has been limited so Facebook can charge more people to get their posts seen by more people. Said Bilton:
I paid Facebook $7 to promote my column to my friends using the company’s sponsored advertising tool.
To my surprise, I saw a 1,000 percent increase in the interaction on a link I posted, which had 130 likes and 30 reshares in just a few hours. It seems as if Facebook is not only promoting my links on news feeds when I pay for them, but also possibly suppressing the ones I do not pay for.
Facebook proudly informed me in a message that 5.2 times as many people had seen my post because I had paid the company to show it to them. Gee whiz. Thanks, Facebook.
This may be great news for advertisers, but I felt slightly duped.
Facebook says you can’t really compare response to different posts made more than a year apart, and that any lower engagement is due to entirely different factors, such as less press coverage of the Follow feature and, to put it bluntly, less engaging posts that didn’t interest people as much and therefore were shown to fewer people over time.
In other words, Facebook’s saying, there’s no pay-to-play going on here. As AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka points out, though, Facebook isn’t making it entirely clear why a number of people especially in the press are seeing declining comments and other interaction.
Here’s the full post:
Our goal with News Feed is always to show each individual the most relevant blend of stories that maximizes engagement and interest.
There have been recent claims suggesting that our News Feed algorithm suppresses organic distribution of posts in favor of paid posts in order to increase our revenue. This is not true. We want to clear up any misconceptions by explaining how the News Feed algorithm works.
First, in aggregate, engagement – likes, comments, shares – has gone up for most people who have turned the Follow feature on. In fact, overall engagement on posts from people with followers has gone up 34% year over year.
Second, a few data points should not be taken as representative of what actually is happening overall. There are numerous factors that may affect distribution, including quality and number of posts.
News Feed shows the most relevant stories from your friends, people you follow and Pages you are connected to. In fact, the News Feed algorithm is separate from the advertising algorithm in that we don’t replace the most engaging posts in News Feed with sponsored ones.
Some other background points for context:
The argument here is based on a few anecdotes of one post from one year to a totally different post from another year.
- This is an apples-to-oranges comparison; you can’t compare engagement rates on two different posts year over year.
These anecdotes are taken as representative of what is happening overall.
- In fact, the opposite is happening overall – engagement has gone up 34% on posts from people who have more than 10,000 followers.
For early adopters of Follow, we do see instances where their follower numbers have gone up but their engagement has gone down from a year ago.
- When we first launched Follow, the press coverage combined with our marketing efforts drove large adoption. A lot of users started following public figures who had turned on Follow.
- Over time, some of those users engaged less with those figures, and so we started showing fewer stories from those figures to users who didn’t engage as much with their stories.
- The News Feed changes we made in the fall to focus on higher quality stories may have also decreased the distribution for less engaging stories from public figures.
In the past six months, however, we have introduced changes to solve the above instance – the goal being to promote more content from public figures. These include organic units in NF such as “most shared on <publisher>,” “most shared about <topic>,” and redesigned feed stories for link shares that feature larger images and longer descriptions. Our index of partners has already seen a significant increase in traffic (35%) due to the introduction of these units.
We are constantly working to improve people’s experience with News Feed, and changes like the above we think will surface more of the right posts to the right people.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
6342.0 - Working Arrangements, Australia, Nov 2000
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 24/08/2001
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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
DAYS OF THE WEEK USUALLY WORKS IN MAIN JOB
WHETHER CAN WORK EXTRA HOURS TO GET TIME OFF
ROSTERED DAYS OFF
In November 2000, there were 1,573,100 employees who were entitled to an RDO. Of these, 857,100 (54%) were entitled every month, 276,100 (18%) were entitled every fortnight, and 150,500 (10%) were entitled every week. The proportion of employees who were entitled to an RDO decreased between August 1997 and November 2000, from 1,572,600 (23%) to 1,573,100 (20%).
The number of full-time employees who were entitled to an RDO fell from 1,491,100 (29%) in 1997 to 1,474,700 (26%) in 2000. The number of part-time employees entitled to an RDO increased from 81,500 to 98,400, however, the proportion remained steady at 5%. Males in full-time work were more likely to be entitled to an RDO than females in full-time work (27% compared to 25%).
OVERTIME & SHIFT WORK
In November 2000 there were 2,543,800 employees (33%) who usually worked overtime in their main job. Male employees were more likely to work overtime than female employees (39% compared to 25%). A higher proportion of full-time employees (41%) worked overtime on a regular basis compared to part-time employees (12%). Occupations that had the highest proportions of employees working overtime were Managers and administrators (55%) and Professionals (48%), while those with the lowest were Elementary clerical, sales and service workers (15%) and Labourers and related workers (18%).
Of those employees who usually worked overtime, 1,528,900 (60%) worked between one and nine hours of overtime per week, with 3% working 25 hours or more of overtime per week. For the most recent period of overtime, 977,000 (38%) employees received overtime pay, 851,200 (33%) employees were unpaid, and 540,300 (21%) employees had overtime included in their salary package.
In November 2000, 1,076,100 employees (14%) had worked shift work in the previous four weeks. A higher proportion of part-time employees worked shift work compared to full-time employees (16% compared to 13%). Male employees were more likely to have worked shift work than female employees, in both full-time work (14% compared to 11%) and part-time work (17% compared to 16%).
Industries with the highest proportions of shift workers were Mining (37%), Health and community services (32%) and Accommodation, cafes and restaurants (31%). The occupation with the highest proportion of shift workers was Intermediate production and transport workers (24%).
The proportion of employees who had an absence from work of at least three hours in the two weeks prior to the survey remained constant at 19% between August 1997 and November 2000.
Of those employees who had an absence in the two weeks prior to the survey 1,050,900 (73%) were paid for their most recent absence. The most common reasons for absences were 'Own ill health, physical disability' (35%) and 'Recreational purposes' (34%). Of those who had an absence in the two weeks prior to the survey, 37% used sick leave to cover their most recent absence and 32% used holiday leave.
In the two weeks prior to the survey:
Of the 7,715,600 employees at November 2000, 1,900,400 (25%) had children under the age of 12 years. Of those employees with children under 12 years, 538,600 (28%) had used formal childcare in the last two weeks.
Of those employees with children under 12 years of age who had flexible start and finish times, 30% used formal childcare. In comparison, of those employees with children aged under 12 years of age who did not have flexible start and finish times, 26% used formal childcare.
1 The statistics in this publication were compiled from data collected in the Working Arrangements Survey conducted throughout Australia in November 2000 as a supplement to the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Respondents to the LFS who were in scope of the supplementary survey were asked further questions.
2 The publication Labour Force, Australia (Cat. no. 6203.0) contains information about survey design, sample redesign, scope, coverage and population benchmarks relevant to the monthly LFS, which also apply to supplementary surveys. It also contains definitions of demographic and labour force characteristics, and information about telephone interviewing which are relevant to both the monthly LFS and supplementary surveys.
3 The scope of this supplementary survey was restricted to employees aged 15 years or more. The survey also excluded the following persons:
4 In addition to those already excluded from the monthly LFS, there were approximately 80,000 persons living in remote and sparsely settled parts of Australia who were out of scope of this survey. The exclusion of these persons has only a minor impact on any aggregate estimates produced for individual States and Territories, except for the Northern Territory. Please contact the person listed on the front cover of this publication if you require more information.
5 The estimates in this publication relate to persons within scope of the survey in November 2000. In the LFS, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection in the survey. See Labour Force Australia (Cat. no. 6203.0).
RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES
6 Estimates in this publication are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors.
7 The estimates are based on information collected in the survey month and, due to seasonal factors, may not be representative of other months of the year.
CHANGES IN CLASSIFICATION
8 From August 1996, occupation data are classified according to the second edition of the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO). For more detailed information, see ASCO - Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, Second Edition (Cat. no. 1220.0) and Information Paper - Census of Population and Housing: Link Between First and Second Editions of Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) (Cat. no. 1232.0).
9 From August 1994, industry data are classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), a detailed description of which appears in Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 1993 (Cat. no. 1292.0). Like the previous Australian Standard Industrial Classification, ANZSIC classifies businesses according to their economic activities, in a structure consisting of four levels (Division, Subdivision, Group and Class). Supplementary survey data are coded at the Group level, as was the practice under the previous Australian Standard Industrial Classification.
CHANGES IN THIS SURVEY
10 The following data items were collected in the 1997 survey, but not in the 2000 survey:
11 The following new data items were collected in the 2000 survey:
NOTES ON ESTIMATES
12 In November 2000 there were 35,400 persons for whom sector of main job could not be determined. These persons were included in the private sector for the purpose of this publication.
13 In November 2000 there were 13,600 persons who had children aged under 12 years for whom use of both formal and informal childcare could not be determined. These persons have been classified to a ‘could not be determined’ category in this publication.
CHANGES TO TERMINOLOGY
14 In the August 2000 survey, the terms 'Permanent' and 'Casual' were replaced to more accurately reflect what is collected in the survey. The term 'Permanent' has been replaced with 'With leave entitlements', and 'Casual' has been replaced with the term 'Without leave entitlements'. Definitions of 'With leave entitlements' and 'Without leave entitlements' are included in the Glossary.
COMPARABILITY OF TIME SERIES
15 Revisions are made to population benchmarks for the LFS after each five-yearly Census of Population and Housing. The last such revision was made in February 1999 to take account of the results of the 1996 Census of Population and Housing. Estimates from supplementary surveys conducted from and including February 1999 are therefore based on revised population benchmarks.
16 Supplementary surveys are not always conducted on the full LFS sample. Apart from scope exclusions, such as those listed in paragraphs 3 and 4, since August 1994, the sample available for supplementary surveys has been restricted to no more than seven-eighths of the LFS sample. Since it was introduced, this survey has been conducted on various proportional samples. Therefore, sampling errors associated with previous surveys may vary from the sampling errors for this survey.
17 In August 1993, employees attending school were included in the tabulations of total employees. From August 1995 those attending school have been excluded.
COMPARABILITY WITH LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS
18 Due to differences in the scope and sample size of this supplementary survey and that of the monthly LFS, the estimation procedure may lead to variations between labour force estimates from this survey and those from the LFS.
19 Results of similar surveys, conducted in August 1993, August 1995, and August 1997 were published in Working Arrangements, Australia (Cat no. 6342.0), and in the standard data service Working Arrangements, Australia (Cat no. 6342.0.40.001) respectively.
20 The ABS plans to conduct this survey again in November 2003.
21 ABS publications draw extensively on information provided freely by individuals, businesses, governments and other organisations. Their continued cooperation is very much appreciated: without it, the wide range of statistics published by the ABS would not be available. Information received by the ABS is treated in strict confidence as required by the Census and Statistics Act 1905.
22 Other publications which may be of interest include:
23 Current publications produced by the ABS are listed in the Catalogue of Publications and Products (Cat. no. 1101.0). The ABS also issues, on Tuesdays and Fridays, a Release Advice (Cat. no. 1105.0) which lists publications to be released in the next few days. The Catalogue and Release Advice are available from any ABS office or from the ABS Information Service on the Internet, <http://www.abs.gov.au>.
Absence from work
An absence from the workplace during normal working hours of at least three hours. Absences due to the following have been excluded:
A short period of leave granted upon the death of a close family relative.
All family members under 15 years of age; all sons or daughters aged 15–19 attending school or aged 15–24 attending a tertiary educational institution full time, except those classified as husbands, wives or lone parents.
Employed persons aged 15 years and over who worked in their main job for an employer for wages or salary or in their own incorporated enterprise with or without hiring employees.
Refer to Study leave.
Two or more related persons (relationship includes relationships by blood, marriage or adoption) usually resident in the same household at the time of the survey. A family comprises a married couple, or a family head, together with any persons having any of the following relationships with them:
Further details on the determination of family relationships are given in Labour Force, Australia (Cat no. 6203.0).
Time off that must be made up in another work period or that is granted for time that has already been made up by working extra hours. See also Time off in lieu.
Flexible start and finish times
Flexible start and finish times are start and finish times that are not fixed and are variable daily, or start and finish times that are fixed but negotiated with employer.
Includes any arrangements made for the care of children under 12 years of age by one or more of the following:
Full-time employees in main job
All employees for whom ‘full-time’ was the response to the question ‘Is your main job full-time or part-time?’.
Employees who usually worked a total of 35 hours or more a week in all jobs and others who usually work less than 35 hours a week but worked 35 hours or more during the reference week.
Provision by employers of paid holiday leave, which normally accrues during a set period and can be taken at an approved time. This is collected by responses to the question ‘Does your employer provide you with paid holiday leave?’.
The number of hours actually worked during the reference week.
Classified using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 1993 (Cat. no. 1292.0). In this publication industry relates to the main job and is shown at the ANZSIC Division level.
Includes any arrangements made for the care of children under 12 years of age by one or more of the following:
Describes shifts that do not follow a set pattern.
A formal arrangement where two or more people share one full-time job. Each person sharing the job works part-time.
The entitlement of employees to either paid holiday leave or paid sick leave in their main job.
Provision by employers or industries of long-service leave to an employee, as collected by responses to the question ‘Does your employer or industry provide long-service leave?’. Persons who ‘did not know’ whether they were provided with long-service leave were considered to be not in receipt of this benefit.
Main English-speaking countries
Comprises Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The job in which most hours were usually worked.
Leave for women, covering the period preceding and following the birth of a child.
Classified according to ASCO - Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, Second Edition (Cat. no. 1220.0). In this publication, occupation relates to the main job and is shown at the Major Group level.
Work undertaken which is outside, or in addition to, ordinary working hours of the respondent in their main job, whether paid or unpaid.
Part-time employees in main job
All employees for whom ‘part-time’ was a response to the question ‘Is your main job full-time or part-time?’
Employees who usually worked a total of less than 35 hours a week in all jobs and who did so during the reference week.
Leave taken by either parent to care for children.
Leave for men to attend the birth of their child or to care for the child after birth.
The week before the survey.
Shifts worked to a set pattern of times. Regular shift times are presented as follows:
If an employee started a shift in one time period, but finished in another, the shift was recorded according to which time period the respondent worked the majority of their hours.
Rostered Day Off
Scheme where employees accumulate time off by working extra hours on a number of other work days. The allocation of work time is rostered over a prescribed period.
Sector of main job
Is used to classify a respondent’s employer as a public or private enterprise. Public sector includes local government authorities, government departments, agencies and authorities created by, or reporting to, the Commonwealth and State Parliaments.
Split shift - Occurs when the workday period is broken by an extended unpaid ‘free’ period, thereby constituting an extended working day consisting of two (or more) shifts.
Rotating shift - A shift arrangement, in which the shift worked changes periodically from one time period to another, for example from mornings or afternoons to evenings or nights.
On call - A shift arrangement, for being available, when not at work, to be contacted to resume work. An allowance may be paid to the employee for being on call.
A system of working whereby the daily hours of operation at the place of employment are split into at least two set work periods (shifts), for different groups of workers.
Provision by employers of paid sick leave, as collected by responses to the question ‘Does your employer provide you with paid sick leave?’
Leave to attend classes, examinations, or to study for a qualification from an educational institution.
Time off in lieu
Time off that must be made up in another work period or that has already been made up by working extra hours.
An organisation consisting predominantly of employees, the principal activities of which include the negotiation of rates of pay and conditions of employment for its members.
Trade union member
Employees with membership in a trade union in conjunction with their main job.
Unofficial or informal leave that has not been granted by the employer.
With leave entitlements in main job
Employees who were entitled to either paid holiday leave or paid sick leave in their main job.
Without leave entitlements in main job
Employees who were entitled to neither paid holiday leave nor paid sick leave in their main job.
Workers' compensation leave
Leave taken due to illness or injury sustained while at work or on a journey to or from work, or an aggravation of a pre-existing condition where employment was a contributory factor, and which is covered by workers' compensation.
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Jill Filipovic wrote an opinion column for The Guardian yesterday, arguing against the practice of women taking their husbands' names when they get married. It ended up linked on Jezebel and found its way to my Facebook feed where one particular statistic caught my eye. Filipovic claimed that 50% of Americans think a women should be legally required to take her husband's name.
First, some quick clarification of my biases here. Although I write under a hyphenate, I never have legally changed my name. I've never had a desire to do so. In my private life, I'm just Maggie Koerth and always will be. That said, I personally take issue with the implication at the center of Filipovic's article — that women shouldn't change their names and that to do so makes you a bad feminist. For me, this is one of those personal decisions where I'm like, whatever. Make your own choice. Just because I don't get it doesn't mean you're wrong.
But just like I take objection to being all judgey about personal choices, I also take objection to legally mandating personal choices, and I was kind of blown away by the idea that 50% of my fellow Americans think my last name should be illegal.
So I looked into that statistic. And then I got really annoyed.
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"Let there be an end to this epidemic of violence, this culture where if we can’t kill off our girls before they are born, we ensure that they live these lives of constant fear. Like many women in India, I rely on a layer of privilege, a network of friends, paranoid security measures and a huge dose of amnesia just to get around the city, just to travel in this country. So many more women have neither the privilege, nor the luxury of amnesia, and this week, perhaps we all stood up to say, 'Enough,' no matter how incoherently or angrily we said it." For Anonymous, by Nilanjana Roy
. — Xeni
The Italian neurologist and "senator for life" Rita Levi Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, died in Rome. She was 103. Rome's mayor says the biologist, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in the city. More at the Associated Press
. (HT: @csanz) — Xeni
Why are women first to pay for every crisis? In every society, capitalist, socialist, or transition? It's because the bodies of women are expendable.
I always noticed how women over eighty in Turin looked incredibly well, beautiful and loved and taken care of: desirable, because old and valuable. I connected this to Italy's long-established and sophisticated health care system. Italian hospitals were famous for methods which preserved the dignity of the patients, in tumor cures, especially breast cancer: the "invisible mastectomy" was invented in Milan. Rather than simply intervening in crisis, they were good at illness prevention and attentive follow-ups.
The economic crisis and financial harassment of Italy has reached this safe haven of health and dignity. In Turin, one of the best clinics for cure and prevention of breast cancer is about to be closed. The patients are on the streets, their appointments cannot be scheduled, they are paying for their urgent operations because their doctors cannot help them. The doctors are on the streets too.
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A wonderful article by Liz Szabo in USA Today on "I heart boobies," "save the ta-tas," and all those other horrible sexualized breast cancer campaigns that raise dubious funds for dubious goals and leave those of us who have the disease feeling demeaned. There is nothing sexy about breast cancer, and Szabo does a fantastic job in this piece explaining why. Above, one of the worst such campaigns I have ever seen.
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At left, the new Honda Fit She's, a car available in predictable pink or what the maker calls "eyeliner brown." The vehicle is designed for the female market in Japan, and costs around $17.5K USD at current exchange rates. Official website here, in Japanese.
The Honda Fit She's features a “Plasmacluster” climate control system the maker claims can improve skin quality, a windshield that prevents wrinkles, a pink interior stitching, "tutti-frutti-hued chrome bezels," and an adorable heart instead of an apostrophe in “She’s.”
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Fantasy author Cassandra Clare, writing about
her experience at the receiving end of some fairly serious and organized internet bullying.
These sort of attacks are so shocking/upsetting because they break the social contract we have come to expect decent people to adhere to: that people don’t attack your personal relationships, that they don’t sneer not just at your friends but at the idea that you might have friends, that they don’t attack the way you look or your family or your ethnicity/religion. The thing is, to the hate bloggers, and to the kind of people who send anonymous hateful messages, the object of their hate isn’t a person. To them, I am not a human being. My family are not real people.
Been there. It sucks. (via Maureen Johnson)
An Australian Department of Trade document listing the reasons women should not be hired to be trade commissioners
. "A spinster lady can, and often does, turn into something of a battleaxe with the passing years. A man usually mellows." (HT: @christinelhenry)
"One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape
," according to a Justice Department statistic cited in the NYT
. The rate of sexual assault among indigenous American women "is more than twice the national average," and it's particular grim in "Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service." — Xeni
Really fascinating talk coming up at the Royal Society in London. Sharon Ruston, a professor of 19th century literature and culture, will be talking about the scientific texts that influenced Mary Wollstonecraft—the pioneering feminist who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women
in 1792. Wollstonecraft isn't known for a connection to science, but during the time she was writing Vindication, she was also reading and reviewing books on natural history for a journal called Analytical Review
. Ruston says those books played a role in shaping Wollstonecraft's philosophy. Sounds cool! Event is September 28 at 1:00 pm. Recorded audio will be available online a few days later
. (Via Alice Bell) — Maggie
Here's an hour-long lecture and Q&A with Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The lecture recounts the long, honorable history of women in atheism, and explicitly connects feminism and freethought. It's a great tour through the history -- the often secret history -- of women who fought and gave all, risking persecution for speaking out against religion and for women's rights to control their destinies. The lecture was recorded at the Center for Inquiry's 2012 Women in Secularism Conference, and FFRF was founded by Gaylor and her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor.
CFI's Women in Secularism Conf. | Annie Laurie Gaylor: "The History of Women in Freethought"
Photo: Ranoush (cc) Illo: Rob Beschizza
Recent trends in Hijab fashion modernize a form of modest dress once defined by local traditions. In seeking self-expression, however, Muslim women find themselves targeted by a media industry with its own taste for female objectification.
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From Gina Trapani, a project to address the fact that in 2012, women still get paid less than men for the same work: Narrow the Gap. Happy International Women's Day.
Charles Tan sez, "Ekaterina Sedia translates a Russian fictional Table of Contents for Encyclopedia of Feminism According to Harry Potter."
The Practice of Female Separatism in Daily Life of Luna Lovegood
Hermione Granger on Liberal Feminism
Female Empowerment in Academia Through the Eyes of Minerva McGonagall
Women in Politics: The Dilemma of Dolores Umbridge
Women in the Military and Psychological Violence: The Case of Bellatrix Lestrange
Consequences of Limiting Abortion Rights: The Tragedy of Lily Potter
The Death Toll of Unpaid Labor: The Duel of Molly Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange
Replication of Violent Family Practices: Family Strategies of Nymphadora Tonks
The Duality of Economic Strategies for Women: Narcissa Malfoy
Russian Language Harry Potter Fandom is Awesome
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Power Assure Optimizes Data Center Power
September 27, 2010
Power Assure has introduced Dynamic Power Optimization, software that allows IT administrators to reduce data center power consumption by more than half without reducing service levels. This is achieved through balancing server capacity, performance and availability. Dynamic Power Optimization includes a virtualization manager for VMware, Citrix, Xen and PowerVM. In addition, the company announced Dynamic Power Management 3.5, which provides predictive analysis and includes product details for more than 10,000 items from more than 500 vendors. The software collects information in real time on both physical and virtual appliances, while a Power Assure analytic engine calculates energy demand.
The Office of Management and Budget and the White House have challenged all federal agencies to reduce power consumption by 30 percent in their data centers. NASA has about 100 in ten facilities. "You can't manage what you can't measure," says Chris Kemp, NASA's chief technology officer for IT. "I want to be on the list of agencies that can quantifiably demonstrate they've done that." But NASA needs to find out how much power it's using in the first place. "NASA operates every piece of infrastructure ever sold," he says. "If it exists, it's in one of our data centers. How do we collect all that data and do anything meaningful?"
The Power Assure products collect data feeds from his hardware--including writing an interface if there isn't one--and aggregate it on one dashboard. The agency will implement metering and monitoring in its data centers in the first half of 2011, and when that's complete, he will have visibility across all data centers on an agency level.
The software lets IT administrators dynamically adjust capacity through run books, which include automated adjustments as well as processes performed manually or via approval. After adjustments are made, the software verifies the new power levels and the whole process begins again.
This sort of power-aware workload orchestration is an essential step in producing an infrastructure that makes best use of resources and minimizes power consumption, says Nik Simpson, senior research analyst at The Burton Group. The Power Assure product could help users decrease their energy bill while simultaneously decreasing the likelihood of downtime, agrees Katie Broderick, senior research analyst for servers and data centers at IDC. It's smart of Power Assure not to reinvent the wheel in terms of monitoring data center equipment, instead using what data center managers already have in place, Broderick adds.
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- Group 24:
- Samuel Nalbone
How does this thing work anyway, what’s the big picture?
How was it supposed to work theoretically?
That’s nice. What’s cool about it?
So what does the thing look like?
But did it work?
We flew through our first two design revisions lifting the weight great heights, but we were neglecting some of the rules. Our machine and its high lift potential were flattened with the necessity of a recyclable lift. We were able to lift the weight and bring it down all according to the rules, but we could not accomplish this twice without manually resetting our machine. This caveat proved deadly in the third design review. In order to abide by that particular rule, an entirely new system needed to be developed. That system fell short, and our innovations were Steifled. Given one more round, and some more creativity, the use of the four-bar linkage would have proved to be a winning design choice.
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What would it be like to have a video system of the quality you want, that could retain recorded video for as long as you needed to? A “hybrid” video system — one that supports both analog and digital video — is often the best way to get there; however, many security practitioners start off on the wrong foot when considering a hybrid system, by delving into the technology aspects first. The right way to start out is to have two things in hand: a clear picture of the risks that you need to address, and a good assessment of the functional value of your existing video system and its components.
How well does your existing system help you recognize a situation, identify its threat elements, make a coordinated and effective response and document the events through recordings of sufficient quality? That’s the functional value of your system. Does the system fail to capture every incident? Are faces recognizable when needed in live and recorded video? Are the camera frame rates sufficient to catch all the action that should be captured? Does the system have any other shortcomings?
Scope of Improvements
Fixing the aspects where existing systems falls short often requires more than a technology upgrade. Strategic repositioning of cameras and improvements to lighting are also usually needed — these affect the functional value of the system.
A camera’s field of view, lighting intensity levels, maximum light-to-dark ratio, scene reflectance, daylight-to-darkness transitions and the camera’s spectral response should all be taken into account. While it is true that advanced camera technology can overcome lighting limitations, remember that security officers and other responders depend on plain eyesight when on patrol or responding to an incident.
Another element that is often out-of-date is the monitoring center or security operations center (SOC). New video display technology generally warrants modifying and sometimes completely redesigning the SOC, as well as upgrading policies and procedures to take advantage of new technology capabilities.
Beyond Security ROI
Many organizations, especially retail and manufacturing companies, are using network video for non-security purposes, such as training, supervising, marketing research and quality control. Networked video systems provide a means to share video data, and the ROI from such new applications can go a long way to justifying and even funding video upgrades. All such application avenues should be explored first, prior to selecting technology.
Examine New Technology Last
Examining new technology is not likely to reveal all of the shortcomings of a current video system, and it certainly will not provide a list of risks that need to be addressed. These things should already be in mind when reviewing technology capabilities. New video technology should also enable improvements in security operations; however, practitioners who haven’t fully thought out the risk and existing system elements ahead of time are caught up with those considerations, and don’t usually realize all of the operational improvements that can be gained.
Migration vs. Full Replacement
Video systems older than 10 years usually warrant full replacement for the cameras, display monitors and recording equipment. Newer systems are likely to have components that are not at their end-of-life and that do provide the needed functional value. The most commonly asked question when designing a hybrid system is: “What equipment stays and what goes?” This should be expanded to consider a step-by-step approach: “What equipment stays and what goes, on what schedule?”
Migrating one step at a time to the desired end-state for a hybrid system can reduce operational risk, synchronize purchases with budgetary cycles, and synchronize deployment of IP-based video technology with IT projects and schedules. Additionally, new situation management applications (formerly called command and control) offer ways to significantly improve security operations. Thus, security planning and related personnel training are often part of the overall picture as well. These are reasons why migration planning is a key element of implementing a hybrid system.
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Date of birth: 9 Jan 1876 Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 26 Dec 1938 Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana
Source: Columbus Evening Republican, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, December 28, 1938
RITES HELD FOR MRS. RICHESON Edinburg, Dec. 28 Ð Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Richeson, of Nineveh, who died Monday night following an extended illness, were to have been held this afternoon in the Nineveh Christian Church in charge of the Rev. G. F. Powers, pastor of the church. Burial was to be made in the nearby cemetery. Mrs. Richeson was born Sarah Coffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Young Coffman, residents of the Nineveh community. She was married to Marion Richeson, who died 37 years ago. At his death she was left with 4 small sons, whom she reared and who survive, all living in this community.
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Crass comedy about culture shock and family ties. Cranky Cleveland cartoonist Joey Wellman (Green) agrees to attend an exhibition of his work in Paris in an effort to reunite with his estranged daughter Elsie (Benson), who's studying at the Sorbonne. Elsie is ashamed of her dad but the scholar she's trying to impress, Christian Gauthier (Depardieu), is a big fan of American comic books and is thrilled to befriend Joey, who can't adjust to French culture. Joey's cartoon cat characters pop up in animated thought balloons to offer their own comments. English and French with subtitles.
Cartoon Patriotism actingoutpolitics at 2010-08-05 20:40:26
We, Americans, from our childhood are encouraged to identify with endless cartoon characters that as our internal objects (sitting in our unconscious, defining our reactions and having become a part of who we are) influences our behavior even when we have grown up. Resnais? film shows us ourselves when we as adults are in a permanent (direct or silent) dialogue with cartoon personages and how this fact cripples our adulthood by making us unable to handle the challenges of the real world.
Resnais analyzes how relations between US and Europe today has become an exchange of American cartoon world view with attempts by some French scholars to assimilate it through finding its fake intellectual elaboration.
We see how American globalism in cartoon boots is fusing with the French intellectual sophistication to the cultural detriment of both sides.
The film is funny, but our desire to have fun is defined by film?s images as phony, and our laughter debunks itself ? becomes impregnated by shame and pain.
?I want to go home? is an impressive intellectual and artistic achievement. I am not sure that we deserve it.
Nobody expected from Adolph Green, a famous Hollywood composer, such an impressive performance as an actor, which suddenly made him an equal partner to Gerard Depardieu.
Read the article ?Cultural Apocalypse by Means of Comedy? with the analysis of shots from the film (posted on Dec. 28, 2009) at:
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Unfamiliar Magic Book Review
When Desi's mother mysterious disappears, she and her cat-turned-human must fend for themselves. Check out Kidzworld's review of Unfamiliar Magic by R.C. Alexander.
Title: Unfamiliar Magic
Authors: R.C. Alexander
Desi was born a witch. The only trouble is that her mother won’t teach her how to use magic. She always says that she’ll teach her when she gets older. But now she is older! She’s 12 and she is still denied her birth right—to learn and practice magic. If only Desi’s father were still around. Then he could teach her. But he isn’t around. In fact, Desi has never met her father.
Courtesy of Random House
The Human Cat
One day, Desi’s mother mysteriously disappears, leaving their cat (which her mother has turned into a human) in charge. Unfortunately, their cat, who conveniently goes by the name Cat, doesn’t know how to act like a human. Now that they’re hanging out with the two neighbor boys, Cat needs to learn human tendencies fast.
The Magic Shop
While at the mall with Cat and the boys, Desi discovers a magic shop. And when she sees the magician perform, she knows his tricks are more than just illusions. They’re real magic. Desi decides to confide in him, and hopefully he will mentor her in the art of magic.
The Bottom Line
Unfamiliar Magic is a hard book to get into. The prologue is fast-paced and exciting. But it slows down after that, leaving you unsure of whether or not to continue. The storyline and writing style are a little too young for the audience, and at first the cat’s character seems way too over the top. But as the story progresses, the characters become more believable, and you start to see how perfect the cat-turned-human really is. The author uses a cat’s personality traits and thought processes to look at and deal with the human world. And it blends very well. By the climax, you’ll be hooked. So Unfamiliar Magic is definitely worth reading.
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"Really fine characters and a good plot"
Edgar Allan Poe is unable to feed his family on the
wages he makes as a journalist/editor in Philadelphia. He
relocates, with his family, to New York City where writing
opportunities are much better. When he sees a handbill for
the P.T. Barnum's American Circus, Edgar turns irate
because he knows that at least one falsehood exists on the
handbill he was given. He confronts Barnum, but obtains
nothing but blarney from the glib talker.
Barnum is very impressed with Poe and visits the writer
in his home when the media blames Barnum's American circus
for causing a murder to happen. Poe who has solved murders
before (SEE NEVERMORE) agrees to investigate. When the
victim's missing arm is mailed to Poe's home, he concludes
he is on the correct path and if he can stay alive long
enough he will solve the case.
Poe is clearly the star of this book as he uses his
belief in his superior brain power to slice and dice
everyone using self-deprecation so nobody will be
offended. THE HUMBUG is a serious historical mystery
though Barnum lightens up the atmosphere with his unique
brand of showmanship. Though a nineteenth century who-done-
it, mystery lovers of all sub-genre persuasions will enjoy
Harold Schecter's tale.
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted September 27, 2001
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Question: "Should Christians of different denominations date or marry?"
Answer: Can a Baptist date a Pentecostal? Can a Lutheran date a Presbyterian? The most important issue is whether both individuals know Jesus Christ as Savior. The Bible speaks of being "unequally yoked" (2 Corinthians 6:14), but this only refers to believers and unbelievers. It does not refer to two believers who happen to have some beliefs that are different. If both individuals know Jesus Christ as Savior, there is no reason, biblically, that they could not date and/or marry.
However, that is not to say there will not be potential problems and issues. When / if the relationship becomes serious and is potentially leading toward marriage, the couple must sit down and come to an agreement on what church to attend. If there are major disagreements in doctrinal beliefs, the couple must agree to disagree, and at the same time agree on how to raise children and agree on how to live out the Christian faith. It is best for a couple to agree doctrinally, but the most important issue is faith in Christ, love for one another, and a desire to have a God-honoring relationship.
It goes without saying that this applies only to different denominations of the Christian faith. True believers in Christ should not marry members of cults and/or false religions that claim to be Christian. Knowing and agreeing on the basic doctrines of the Christian faith is crucial for a couple who hope to have a successful, God-honoring relationship or marriage.
© Copyright 2002-2013 Got Questions Ministries.
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HONOLULU – Compassion & Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life, and the Hawai’i Death With Dignity Society (HDWDS), a local organization with similar goals, today announced the findings of a panel discussion on aid in dying. Experts on Hawaii law, medicine, elder care, legislative and end-of-life issues concluded Hawaii physicians may already provide aid in dying subject to professional best-practice standards.
“Hawaii law, through a number of statutory enactments, already empowers terminally ill patients with significant freedom to determine their course of medical care at the end of life and affords protection to physicians who provide care,” said panelist and Compassion & Choices Director of Legal Affairs Kathryn Tucker. “And a provision in a 1909 law unique to Hawaii gives terminally ill patients significant freedom of choice to determine their course of medical care at the end of life, and protection to physicians who provide care.”
“Most medical care is governed by professional standards of care.” said panelist Robert “Nate” Nathanson, MD, a founder of Hospice Hawaii. “These include many practices that may advance the time of death, such as withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED), and palliative (terminal) sedation.”
“The Hawaii Public Health Association along with the American Public Health Association believes that people in Hawaii deserve a full range of options for palliative care and end-of-life.” Said panelist Deborah Zysman, MPH, President of the Hawaii Public Health Association. “This includes aid in dying. With proper safeguards in place, we believe that aid in dying poses no public health risk and that a mentally competent, terminally ill adult should be allowed to control the time, place, and manner of his or her impending death.”
Representative Blake Oshiro, Hawaii House Majority Leader, chaired the panel, which also included former State Representative Ernest “Juggie” Heen; Dante Carpenter, Chair, Democratic Party of Hawaii; former State Representative Eve Anderson; Mitch Burns, an attorney of elder law; Hawaii community volunteer Laura Thompson; Pam Lichty, MPH, member of the board of the ACLU of Hawaii; Scott Foster, co-founder of HDWDS; and Robert Orfali, author of Death with Dignity.
Orfali wrote his book to help give others the choice his wife, Jeri, wished she’d had. In her 50s, she faced ovarian cancer. “When she became terminally ill, Jeri wanted some form of insurance at the end,” Orfali said. “She did not want to die in pain. She believed in aid in dying and wanted to have medication just in case.”
“The people of Hawaii support the availability of aid in dying as an option for terminally ill, mentally competent adults,” said Representative Oshiro. “And it is good public policy. The experience in Oregon demonstrates that when aid in dying is available, hospice utilization increases dramatically, physicians seek more continuing medical education in treatment of pain and other distressing symptoms, and are more open to discussing end-of-life options with their patients.”
The lawyers and legislators on the panel concurred nothing in Hawaii law currently prohibits aid in dying. Patients and their doctors may make decisions governed by best medical practice, allowing them the opportunity to explore a wider variety of patient-directed end-of-life choices. Tucker, Compassion & Choices’ director of legal affairs, said, “We expect Hawaii residents will soon have the same broad range of end-of-life choices enjoyed by the people in Montana, Oregon and Washington.”
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Tribute begins Cash home restoration project
Published: Monday, February 27, 2012
Updated: Monday, February 27, 2012 14:02
Johnny Cash's friends and family returned to his birthplace, Dyess, on Sunday to take part in a celebration of what would be his 80th birthday and share their memories of the "The Man in Black."
Johnny Cash's daughter, Rosanne, opened the celebration by thanking Ruth Hawkins, director of the ASU Arkansas Heritage Sites, for the organization's work to honor her father.
Rosanne Cash explained how the family moved to the Dyess Colony in 1935 as part of the New Deal program under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purpose of the New Deal was to give 500 families each 40 acres of land, one mule and a house.
Cash said she could remember her grandmother telling that when they walked into the house there were five empty paint buckets sitting on the floor and that the house smelled of fresh paint.
Cash recalled her grandmother said it was wonderful to have this new home and that it was more than her grandparents could have imagined.
Johnny Cash's brother and sister, Tommy and Joanne, spoke to the crowd about their many memories of growing up in Dyess. They thanked ASU for restoring the family home and said that soon the old adage "you can't go back home" will be dispelled.
When the restoration is complete, the Cashes noted that they will get to go back to their home just as they knew it, where Cash's mother's piano will sit in the same room where she played for them.
Joanne Cash grew very emotional as she said she could not wait to go back home.
John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash, expressed his gratitude to ASU for the work that had been done and the work yet to come to finish the restoration process. He said it would be an exciting year as they watched the progress.
Dyess Mayor Larry Sims said he was proud of all the hard work that had gone into this special day and it could not have been done without ASU and Hawkins.
Dan Howard, ASU-J interim chancellor, explained how important it is to restore this home and the community buildings to preserve the history of the Dyess Colony.
Hawkins described the restoration plan, which includes the Cash home and the surrounding buildings.
ASU has also purchased the original Dyess Colony Theater built in 1947. The project is scheduled for completion in 2013 at which time the home and theater will be restored to their original form with the addition of a visitor's center, restrooms and parking.
Hawkins noted that Johnny Cash's films with documents from the 1930's collection will be on display in the visitor center. Last year the "Johnny Cash Music Festival" was held as a fundraiser to help with the restoration of the home. Hawkins said donations for the project are welcome.
Mike Gibson, Arkansas Steering Committee co-chair, thanked the board members as well as the Cash Family. Gibson invited the Cash Family members to come to the stage where they unveiled a corner stone from the Cash house, which ASU had engraved: Restoration Established 2012.
In closing, the Cash family sang one of Johnny and June Cash's favorite songs, "Will the Circle be Unbroken."
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The road to recovery: Plano resident documents life after severe burns
Kelsey Kruzich / Staff photo -- Scott Garrett suffered second- and third-degree burns on 41 percent of his face and body in May 1988. His journey is chronicled in his book, "Forever Different: A True Story of a Burn Victim's Survival and Perseverance," published at the end of last year.
On May 11, 1988, Plano resident Scott Garrett's life changed forever.
The then-Allen resident had been working at a Richardson chemical and solder manufacturing plant for five years. He was married and enjoyed a fulfilling second career as a personal trainer at a nearby gym.
After returning from a lunch break, Garrett encountered a large chemical fire. While he was initially able to extinguish the flames, a secondary explosion spilled rapidly-igniting liquid chemicals in his path.
While trying to escape, Garrett bumped into a co-worker, falling to the ground before becoming engulfed in the flames.
Garrett was then transferred to Parkland Hospital, one of the premier burn centers in the United States, where his long road to recovery began. Doctors discovered 41 percent of his face and body, including his face, right ear, neck, arms, torso back and legs, sustained second- and third-degree burns.
Miraculously, Garrett survived, and after multiple skin graft surgeries and an intensive two-year rehabilitation period, he made a brief return to his job and bodybuilding efforts.
"Even after the accident, it was really important to me to prove to myself," he said. "I didn't go back to bodybuilding and doing the job that I was doing before for my appearance. I did it more to prove to myself that I could go back and do the exact same two things I was doing before I got hurt. Once I proved to myself I could do that, it was no longer important."
For a year-and-a-half, Garrett worked on chronicling his journey in the form of a book, "Forever Different," which was released at the end of last year by PublishAmerica.
"Twenty-four years ago, I never heard of anybody being burned," he said. "I never saw anybody, and my parents never mentioned anything about those kind of things. It wasn't really talked about on TV very much, and it isn't publicized as much as it is today ... So that motivated me a little bit more to do this."
In the 54-page account, Garrett explores not only the healing and recovery process but the psychological implications of the injury. Garrett said he became interested in bodybuilding due to low self-esteem as a result of having dyslexia. At the time of his accident, however, he had to come to grips with the fact that his appearance would no longer be a source of confidence.
"I had a lot of love and support from family and friends," he said. "I was young, so I felt like I had my whole life ahead of me, so I wasn't just going to lie down and give up. I felt like I just needed to pull up boot strings and move forward and try to make the best of my life that I could."
Garrett said he hopes the book will not only reach those dealing with severe burns, but low also those suffering from low self-esteem and dyslexia, the latter of which -- combined with the pain of documenting his past difficulties -- Garrett said made the writing of the book somewhat challenging.
"It's not that I don't want to think about it or I can't think about it. I do. It's hard not to when I look at myself every day," he said of his accident. "I'm very fortunate because I could be a lot worse. It was very therapeutic for me [to write the book] and it helped me work through a lot of different things; not just being burned, but dyslexia, too."
Garrett underwent his last surgery in February 1992. His surgeon, Dr. Rod Rohrich, contributed a forward to "Forever Different."
"[The book] tells a great, heartfelt story of how one can survive these life-altering things and yet still be a functioning member of society and ... go and help others," Rohrich said. "There's nothing better than moving forward and giving back."
Today, Garrett is an elevator technician for Texas Instruments in Dallas. He also works for his brother-in-law's elevator company, located in Plano.
Garrett said he hopes to distribute the book to military hospitals and burn units throughout the country to use his life as a model for the hope that exists in horrific accidents such as severe burns.
"If I only reach one person, then it made it all worth it to me," he said.
"Forever Different: A True Story of a Burn Victim's Survival and Perseverance," is available through www.amazon.com.
Copyright © 2013 - Star Local News
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Part-time cops don't mean big-time savings
To avoid the costly insurance and pension benefits that full-time police officers receive, many suburban departments are turning to part-time officers as a way to cut costs.
But the savings may not always pan out.
Among 80 suburban police departments throughout six collar counties, nearly a third employ part-time officers in some capacity. That amounts to almost 150 officers used to fill service and funding gaps. Yet, while the practice enables some towns to realize savings by reducing the number of full-time officers, collective bargaining agreements and the cost of staffing part-time posts prevent many from seeing significant savings overall.
Village leaders in West Dundee authorized three part-time officers last year at a cost of $18,942. But Police Chief Andrew Wieteska's budget this year calls for $74,100 to be spent on part-timers, while overtime is slated to be unchanged at roughly $150,000. Wieteska says he hopes to shave about 30 percent off that amount by the end of the fiscal year, but the village would still pay more for part-time labor than it will realize in overtime savings.
Wieteska believes there are other advantages than big cost savings.
"Part-time police fill a niche," he said. "While our ranks declined in recent years due to budget cuts, our call volume did not see an equivalent reduction."
Other departments also are moving away from identifying savings as the chief motivating factor for hiring part-timers.
Rolling Meadows officials say their plan to hire part-time police officers is more about operational efficiency than dollars.
"They wouldn't be for street use," said Police Chief Dave Scanlan. "They would be engaged in administrative tasks and potentially doing other specialty things in the department to take full-time officers currently performing those duties and putting them back on the street."
Mayor Tom Rooney said he hopes the move will cut down on overtime costs for the department. The city's current budget calls for about $100,000 less in police overtime compared to last year. Rooney said the department has six fewer sworn positions than it did five years ago, but that led to increased overtime costs.
"If you're going to cut back full-time positions, you're going to see an increase in overtime," Rooney said.
One reason adding part-time officers might not curb a police department's overtime costs to the extent most expect is that most collective bargaining agreements require that many additional assignments be offered to full-time officers as overtime before a part-timer can be used.
Of the 22 suburban departments analyzed that use part-time police, 10 budgeted higher overtime costs this year than they had last year, though in some cases they still will see savings. That's the case, for instance, in Lakemoor, where officials anticipate about $6,000 more in police overtime this year even as they are planning to cut part-time costs by about $40,000.
"We've become leaner by necessity to obviously try and cut the budget," said Police Chief William Kushner. "We did some scheduling changes with the full-time officers to make up for that."
Pay varies widely for part-time police officers in the suburbs that use them. On the low end, Villa Park pays some of their part-timers at $13.50 an hour, according to village records. In Grayslake, some of the part-timers can make more than $38 an hour. The average rate is about $20 an hour.
Some part-timers are full-time officers in other departments in the area. Sometimes they are firefighters or paramedics also. In other cases, they are retired from other departments but have experience and expertise in areas that a department might otherwise lack.
"In a department like Warrenville, we have a fairly young corps of police officers," said Warrenville Police Chief Ray Turano. "One of our part-time officers is retired from another department, but he brings a tremendous amount of real-world police experience and acts as a mentor."
None of the police chiefs who employ part-time police said the practice solves all their problems. Scheduling can often be a headache because many of the part-time officers have full-time jobs elsewhere.
"The benefits are that you don't have medical (insurance costs), no vacation or sick time, they'd be covered by workers' comp and there's no pension liabilities either," Turano said.
"But their commitment and availability is not the same as a full-time officer," Wieteska added.
The chiefs suggested municipalities thinking of making the move weigh all the pros and cons, and be conservative in the cost-saving estimates.
"It's not a substitute for a full-time police officer," said Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenko. "If you look at part-time policing as simply augmenting to boost manpower during peak times and special events, that's where you'll see the difference in buy-in from the community."
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A majority of Australians believe the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not receive a fair trial should he ever be extradited to the United States.
The nationwide poll, conducted by UMR Research, also finds more than half do not believe he should be prosecuted for releasing thousands of leaked diplomatic cables.
Meanwhile, public opinion is split over whether the Gillard government is doing enough to help the Australian national.
After unsuccessfully challenging moves to extradite him to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sexual offences, Mr Assange remains holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
He is seeking asylum in Ecuador but if unsuccessful could find himself sent to Sweden. Officially, the US government says it has no plans to then extradite him to the US - but a grand jury has been convened to probe the release by WikiLeaks of about 250,000 allegedly stolen diplomatic cables, raising suspicions to the contrary.
UMR Research, the company Labor uses for its internal research, sampled the views of 1000 people at the end of July, when Mr Assange was ensconced inside the embassy.
It finds 58 per cent believe he will not receive a fair trial in the US while 22 per cent believe he will be afforded proper justice. Another 20 per cent are unsure.
The poll also finds 52 per cent believe Mr Assange should not be prosecuted for releasing the leaked cables, while only 26 per cent believe he should be prosecuted. Another 21 per cent are unsure.
The poll finds opinion is evenly split over assistance given to Mr Assange so far by the Australian government. It finds 38 per cent believe the government should do more, 36 per cent believe it is doing enough and 25 per cent are unsure.
Mr Assange is not a particularly popular person in Australia either, with 40 per cent having a favourable view of him, 30 per cent having a negative view and 30 per cent unsure.
The managing director of UMR, John Utting, said if Mr Assange was extradited, his popularity would most likely increase "due to an underdog effect, more prominent in Australia than other countries".
“The lack of confidence in the ability of the US judicial system to deliver a fair result has resonated with the Australian public and its sense of fair play,” he said.
In May, a UMR poll showed Mr Assange stood a good chance of securing a seat in the Australian Senate, a career path he has mooted.
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One aspect of the college student experience is partying with friends and fellow students at the local bars and clubs. Often times, these college students have no means of transportation and find themselves walking to bars, clubs and to their dorm rooms on campus, sometimes while under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
In California there is a statute that prohibits being "Drunk in Public." To be in violation of Penal Code section 647(f), the "Drunk in Public" statute, you must meet the following criteria:
1. Your level of intoxication makes you unable to exercise care for your safety or for the safety of others, or
2. Your level of intoxication interferes with, obstructs, or prevents others from using streets, sidewalks, or other "public ways".
For the District Attorney to prove that someone was drunk in public they must prove that the individual was so intoxicated and impaired that they could not safely care for themselves or for the safety of others.
Most of the time people are not impaired enough to care for their own safety. Often times they have done something to antagonize the police officer that has come in contact with them. Unlike a DUI arrest, there is usually no chemical test that is performed to test the level of alcohol or drugs in a person's system for a drunk in public charge. We generally challenge these types of arrests on your behalf.
Any arrest that results in a conviction on your record is something to be very concerned about. If you are a college student and applying for your first job out of school or applying for financial aid, and if you were arrested and charged, this conviction will show up on a background check. Prospective employers may be hesitant to offer you a position and could very likely assume that you have an alcohol or drug problem.
In addition, under California Vehicle Code section 13202.5, if you are under 21 years of age and you are convicted of public intoxication, you may lose your driver's license for up to one year, even if you were not driving a vehicle. Also, if you do not yet have the privilege to drive, the court could order the department to delay issuing the driver's license for one year subsequent to the time you become legally eligible to drive.
It is imperative that you contact an experienced criminal defense attorney to advocate on your behalf if you are facing a drunk in public charge. Contact our office today for a free consultation.
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Description: Black and white negative of Mr. And Mrs. Fletcher Morgan. Mrs. Morgan, who wears eyeglasses, is wearing a short sleeved dress with a floral corsage on her left shoulder. She is wearing earrings, in her ears and a bracelet on her left wrist. Mr. Morgan, who also wears eyeglasses, is wearing a suit and tie. He has a carnation on his left lapel. He is wearing a watch on his left wrist and a ring on the index finger of his left hand. The couple is facing the camera; bodies turned to the right. "Kodak Safety Film" is printed on the left top and bottom edge of the negative. "1" is written in the top right corner of the negative.
Contributing Partner: George Ranch Historical Park
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Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated area located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. and AOL are located in Dulles. Dulles covers roughly the southwestern third of Sterling, Virginia (another unincorporated community). The usage of Dulles as a community name began in the mid-1980s when Loudoun County economic development officer Pam Treadwell successfully lobbied the United States Postal Service to allow Sterling businesses and residents to use Dulles as an alternate address. The USPS defines Dulles as an "acceptable" city name for the 20166 zip code, whose "actual" city name is Sterling. The addresses for shipping parcels to United States embassies and consulates, as well as their employees worldwide, are located in Dulles, Virginia 20189. The USPS city name for zipcode 20189 is Dulles. Washington Dulles International Airport is located partially in Dulles (although its postal address uses the Sterling name instead) and partially in Fairfax County. The community derives its name from the airport; the airport in turn takes its name from former United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1888–1959).
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The objectives of this Association shall be to uphold and defend the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions, to uphold and improve the adversary system; to uphold trial by jury; to promote prompt and efficient administration of justice; to protect and enhance the rights of consumers, workers, family members, the accused, and other individuals; to improve the competency of the trial bar; to protect and promote the independence of the bench and bar; to foster public awareness and understanding of the role of the trial lawyer in the administration of justice; and to provide resources, services, and group benefits for members.
Over Forty Years of Commitment. In 1968, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (then called the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association) was created to uphold and defend the Pennsylvania legal system, including trial by jury. The Association assists trial attorneys throughout the state by:
- Providing online and offline platforms where members can share information on legal and practice developments;
- Organizing online and live Continuing Legal Educational seminars on all aspects of trial practice;
- Publishing legal manuals and texts on critical areas of law of interest to PAJ Members, and
- Advocating for the integrity of a robust civil justice system in our state.
The aim of these activities is to help trial attorneys better represent their wronged clients. The Association has resisted measures that, in other states, have closed courthouse doors to those who rely on courtrooms as the last resort to obtain justice. The Association also fosters public awareness of the role of the trial attorney in the administration of justice and to protect every citizen’s Constitutional rights to trial by jury.
Below are some of the ways PAJ promotes justice and serves its Members:
- Campaigning for Justice in Harrisburg: PAJ’s Harrisburg office fights to ensure the interests of Pennsylvania’s injured patients and wronged consumers are preserved. Through the #1 law-rated political action committee in Pennsylvania, LAWPAC, PAJ supports individuals who understand the important role civil justice plays in upholding the rights of Pennsylvania’s citizens. PAJ also educates the legislature and the public about issues that affect them and mobilizes support for laws that uphold their access to the courts through a Legislative Advocacy Program.
- Continuing Legal Education Seminars (CLEs): PAJ has one of the nation’s finest legal curricula for attorneys seeking to gain knowledge in their field and gain credits needed to maintain their practice. By providing the state’s attorneys with up-to-date knowledge given by practice leaders, PAJ enables the plaintiff's bar in its effort to obtain justice for clients. PAJ presents several CLE courses every year, live and online.
- Legal Publications: PAJ is among the select trial lawyer associations in the country that publishes a suite of legal texts on which members and nonmembers rely for the most current and useful legal analyses and sample forms. Topics of these texts range from automobile law to workers’ compensation to medical malpractice, and all are written by Pennsylvania's foremost plaintiff attorneys.
- Justice Communications Campaign: PAJ has worked to develop an open dialogue with the public and press about the importance of civil justice. Through op-eds, letters-to-the-editor, press releases and blogs, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice argues on the behalf of justice and the consumer to ensure every wronged citizen’s right to a fair trial remains paramount. The Association also prepares fact papers and other materials for members who wish to communicate with the public and news media about civil justice in Pennsylvania.
- List Servers: A list server is a group message board where PAJ members can instantly exchange messages via email with other members across the state on all issues pertaining to their practice and the law. Five primary list servers are available to members: Automobile Law, Koken, Medical Malpractice, Insurance Bad Faith, and Workers’ Compensation. Attorneys who exchange information with each other are better equipped to stay up-to-date on legal developments and better able to serve their clients in the pursuit of civil justice. In speaking about using PAJ's list servers, one attorney said: “I've saved countless hours of research, avoided mistakes, and most importantly obtained great case results for my wronged clients.”
- Member Services: While the list servers are among PAJ's most popular member benefits, PAJ is committed to providing tools to help trial attorneys in their practices as well as their associates. They include: TrialSmith’s deposition bank; a weekly News Brief that highlights current events and cases of interest; a directory of "Justice Business Partners" who offer essential services and products to plaintiff attorneys; and the PAJustice News, a six times a year printed newspaper, which contains in-depth articles and casenotes.
- Amicus Curiae Committee: Amicus Curiae literally means “friend of the court.” In countless cases, this very active PAJ committee writes “friends of the court” briefs supporting the rights of citizens and consumers. It is one of the most important contributions of the Association.
While only attorneys and their paralegals are eligible for membership in PAJ, the benefits of their membership contribute to the betterment of patients and consumers throughout the state. Attorneys interested in joining PAJ can click here for more details, including levels and rates of membership. Much of this website is open to nonmembers and visitors, so please feel free to explore.
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Youth Minister» search for more Jobs
Youth ministers require formal education either through a tertiary institution or through private denomination training institutions. They need to have a basic knowledge of the Bible and experience working with children and be willing to work outside of nine-to-five work hours. Youth ministers often work with youth and young adults who have problems with abuse, drug use, homelessness, and other welfare related issues. Relevant experience can be gained from volunteering within your church or in not-for-profit organisations. Often criminal record checks are required by people wanting to work in this profession.
Youth ministers need to have excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, management and teamwork skills. They need to be committed to their path and exhibit attributes such as empathy, personal flexibility and adaptability to change.
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Dogen writes: Do not suppose that what you realize becomes your knowledge and is grasped by your consciousness. Although actualized immediately, the inconceivable may not be apparent. Its appearance is beyond your knowledge. Zen master Baoche of Mt. Mayu was fanning himself. A monk approached and said, "Master, the nature of wind is permanent and there is no place it does not reach. When, then, do you fan yourself?"
"Although you understand that the nature of the wind is permanent," Baoche replied, "you do not understand the meaning of its reaching everywhere."
"What is the meaning of its reaching everywhere?" asked the monk again. The master just kept fanning himself. The monk bowed deeply.
Taigu comments ...
In this video, we look at Dogen's take on practice (fanning) as the only way to manifest awakening (air). Even this little corner of the big Universe is reached and touched by reality itself. No need to take this too far, to travel far, the simple actions of our life, the daily moves we make, the ten thousand activities we display are unfolding this awakening. The simple and bare practice is the Dharma gate. It also shows that tradition matters, we are not asked to get rid of the fan but to pick it up.
Today’s Sit-A-Long video follows at this link. Remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended.
To view other recent talks by Taigu and Jundo, head over to Shambhala Sunspace:
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MIAMI: Early voting was extended on Sunday at a central Florida polling site that was disrupted a day earlier by a bomb scare, and voters were allowed to cast absentee ballots in person in several other counties that had been plagued by long lines.
Saturday was the last day for early voting in Florida, where polls showed Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney running neck-and-neck.
But Orange County Elections Supervisor Bill Cowles reopened the polls at one site, a library in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The library was evacuated and voting there was suspended for four hours on Saturday because suspicious items were found on the grounds. A bomb squad safely detonated both - a cooler containing small electronics and what investigators described as a bag of miscellaneous garbage.
Ballots cast at the library on Sunday will be held as provisional ballots in case of a successful challenge to the judge's ruling that allowed the voting to resume on Sunday.
Florida, where 537 votes decided the 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favor, is again a hotly contested state crucial to both presidential candidates.
In Miami, the Florida Democratic Party filed suit in U.S. District Court on Sunday asking for an extension of early voting opportunities in densely populated Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, where some voters waited six and seven hours to cast ballots on Saturday.
The lawsuit said the lines in the Democratic-leaning region were longer than in other areas, deterring or preventing people from voting.
The three southeastern counties are home to about 1.6 million registered Democrats - about a third of Florida's total, the Miami Herald said.
The lawsuit did not ask the judge to reopen early voting sites and appeared to be largely moot. In Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, voters were allowed to obtain and cast absentee ballots in person at the election supervisors' offices on Sunday.
"While state law does not permit early voting today, we are permitted to provide and accept absentee ballots," the Miami-Dade elections office said on its website.
Voting at the Miami-Dade site was briefly halted and the office doors were locked when an unexpectedly large crowd showed up. Those who were lined up outside began chanting, "Let us vote, let us vote."
Balloting resumed after additional staff and another printer were brought in.
Election supervisors' offices were also opened in several other densely populated counties on Sunday for in-person absentee balloting.
Republican Governor Rick Scott refused on Thursday to extend early voting statewide despite the long lines.
Early voting ended a day earlier than in previous years. The Republican-controlled legislature cut maximum early voting days from 14 to eight, although total voting hours remained at 96 because the polls were allowed to remain open longer. Most urban counties offered the full 96 hours.
Deirdre Mcnab, president of Florida's League of Women Voters, said the longest reported lines were at polling sites in urban areas and locations most convenient to college students, senior citizens and minority voters.
However, she said there appeared to be a backlash under way with many voters enduring difficult conditions to cast ballots.
"Florida voters are very aware of two things: No. 1, the importance of their vote in this national election and, No. 2, they are very aware of voter suppression laws. And we are so heartened to see they are voting in what so far appears to be record numbers," Mcnab said.
Nearly 4 million Florida voters, or about 44 percent of the total, had already voted by absentee ballot or in person at early voting sites through Friday. (Reuters)
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Shanghai real estate market has experienced a robust growth since 1990s except a few downturns including the 1999 and 2005 dips. Shanghai is generally considered to be a better performer in keeping its pricing during downtime, but Shanghai property sales had also experienced a significant decline during the second half of 2008. Shanghai, however, begins to show signs of improvement and seems to lead this sector to stabilization. Although with declining prices from the peak, it has shown an impressive rebound in new and exiting home sales. The government’s 4 trillion yuan, or $585 billion, stimulus plan will help mobilize private-sector investment in sectors such as real estate, although it relies mostly on government-led infrastructure investment. Given the high housing inventory level in most cities, a rebound in trading volume by no means means an instant price catch up. Time will be needed for adjustment for the real estate industry. Investors and home buyers are never too far away. After a period of waiting and observing, some start to see opportunities and dive in this market. Real estate is key to revival of the world’s third largest economy. Shanghai, China’s largest city and the eighth largest city in the world with several thousands of skyscrapers and its distinguished architecture, is in particular, the source of consumer confidence. A decline in Shanghai represents major instability in the national and global markets, and tends to create negative ripple effects.
Regardless of the current economic slowdown, the Shanghai banking regulator reinforced the second home requirement rule, reiterating that buyers must put at least a 40% down payment for purchasing a second home. This shows government’s disciplined approach in stimulating the real estate market. In general, the government makes lands available for sale primarily through auctions. The companies that purchase the lands will be responsible for building properties and selling the properties to the public. The residents will hold seventy year long property ownership.
Under the current policies, foreigners are entitled to one property if they have worked and lived in Shanghai for at least a year. Besides the residency requirement, they must purchase property only for their own use and can not lease it to others. Shanghai property transaction centers can make up own rules on trading on the basis of these policies, according to Shanghai Municipal Housing, Land and Resource Administration Bureau, and rules and implementation time could vary by district. Restrictions that were imposed on foreign investors from investing in the first tier cities like Shanghai have not been released, but real estate opportunities in the second and third tier cities or Shanghai nearby cities such as Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, are either open, or not as restricted. One thing to note is that overseas institutions and individuals that have set up a company in China may purchase property for purposes other than their own use. Regardless of economic and market conditions, Shanghai, with its unique historical background, rich cultures and vibrant growth, continues to attract people from all over the country and all over the world.
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
Sci-Tech #5: Batman Edition
"Fishing in the backwaters of popular culture, it [TV] has achieved its first indigenous artistic triumph - it has upgraded the comics. Historians of culture in the future may well say that television's early attempts at art were smaller-than-life dramas of Chayefsky, Nash, Mosel and Foote, but that the medium attained full stature as an art form with the larger-than-life comic, Batman."
- Robert Lewis Shayon. Saturday Review: "All the Way to the Bank." Saturday Review, February 12, 1966, page 46.
Today, many comic-book and Batman fans casually dismiss the 1966 - 1968 TV series starring Adam West as a "camp" atrocity, but the quotation above from Saturday Review reminds us that the series wasn't always considered in such a negative light.
On the contrary, many critics and audiences of the mid-1960s considered the series a legitimate and even audacious form of avant-garde "pop art."
No one had ever seen anything like it.
For better or worse, Batman might even be considered television's first legitimately post-modern effort: a reversal and rejection of well-established modernism in terms of narrative point of view and attack.
True, our cultural taste in terms of superheroes has changed radically in 2012, as proven by Christopher Nolan's opposite -- but immensely popular -- smaller-than-life approach to the Caped Crusader and his universe. Before someone gets angry with me for writing that Nolan's approach is smaller than life, consider for a moment his meticulous aesthetic. Everything in Nolan's universe could be real, whether it is the "Nomex" Bat Suit or the experimental military vehicle that becomes the Batmobile.
In short, Nolan makes the Batman universe intrinsically believable by skewing all the superhero tech to contemporary reality as we understand and perceive it. This is Nolan's modus operandi.
The 1960s series adopted precisely the opposite approach, exaggerating Batman's world -- in terms of color, scope and believability -- to such a degree that humor became inevitable (and desirable).
Whether subjectively you prefer the Nolan approach or the Dozier TV approach, it's nonetheless difficult to deny that the Batman TV series boasted its own...unique vision. We might not like or approve of that vision (just as we might not like or approve of Nolan's or Tim Burton's vision), but it's there for the appreciation...or denigration. As with all works of art, it's incumbent on us to at least consider it on its own terms.
Regarding Bat-Tech, the Batman series deliberately developed two running gags of the visual variety.
In the first instance, the creators of the series made certain that every single item in the Batcave was assiduously labeled. Of course, on the surface, this labeling fetish doesn't make a whole lot of sense. We don't label our computers, laptops, microwave ovens, TV sets or other every day tools. Yet every item in Batman, no matter how obscure, gets (obsessively-compulsively) labeled.
Thus, in the Batcave, one may find a "Lighted Lucite Map" of Gotham City, a "Bat Analyzer," "Bat Poles," a "Bat Tape Reader" or other strange devices. Again, surely Batman and Robin would know and remember which device is which inside their own headquarters and even we, as viewers, quickly come to recognize the Bat Poles and other tech.
But the gag makes us laugh. The ubiquitous labels grab the attention, and reveal to us something important about this hero. He's not just square-jawed, he's a very straight-forward thinker. Everything goes in its proper place, and is obsessively organized. He's a "rules" guy after all, as we see in his constant lessons to Robin. In "Ring of Wax," he told Robin he "never gambles" and in The Riddler's False Notion," Batman opined that Robin owed his life to "good dental hygiene." The labels thus fit into Batman's "character" and represent an example of form reflecting content.
Even funnier, every device in Batman's arsenal gets a "Bat" prefix. Why not just call Batman's computer a computer, instead of a Bat Computer? On and on, this joke grows funnier on Batman as the writers really pushed the envelope in terms of Bat-centric imagery.
Bat Tweezers? Bat Fly Swatters? Anti-Thermal Bat T-Shirts? Anti-Mesmerizing Bat Reflectors? Bat Springs in Bat Shoes? These items are mentioned and played absolutely straight, and yet we giggle at them.
The second visual joke featured on the series involves a logo, if you will: the bat. Every tool, it seems, is shaped like one. Bat Binoculars. The Batphone in the Batmobile. The Batarang.
Again, the audience brushes up against this idea of a hero who is, perhaps unhealthily, obsessed with one image. Is it really necessary to use a boomerang or telephone shaped like a flying rodent?
Is this "branding" or self-marketing run amok?
I realize the purists absolutely can't stand these humorous touches, but in a very real sense, Batman the TV series mirrors the Batman comic as it existed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It's not fair to say that the series isn't faithful to that period in the franchise, only to say that the producers and writers detected a source of humor in how the Caped Crusader was portrayed in the comics, and ruthlessly and effectively capitalized upon it.
The beauty of the TV approach, as I have always maintained is that children see the program one way (as a straight-forward adventure with great gadgets and colorful heroes, villains and sets) while adults view it on another level all together (as a post-modern, tongue-in-cheek commentary on the superhero/comic-book milieu.) There's an artistry and maturity to this successful two-track approach, and it accounts for the continued appeal of the series. But some people will never approve of it because they see the series as making fun of Batman, and thus, by extension, making fun of their affection for the character and his universe.
Whether labeled or unlabeled, I continue to find the Bat-tech of Batman fascinating as an example of 1960s era "retro future" design. Computers were huge, colossal things, and visual read-outs never included text you could read...only blinking, winking, gaudy lights that characters could somehow magically interpret.
Once upon a time, we indeed thought this was indeed how the future might look, and Batman shares this "retro" futuristic approach in common with Lost in Space and certainly Star Trek. The revolution in miniaturization had not yet occurred, and so these programs evidenced the belief that bigger was always better and more high tech.
It's a shame that Batman is not yet available on DVD or Blu Ray, so we can get a much better and longer look at the (Not) Dark Knight's array of (carefully labeled...) technical gadgetry.
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By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Tom Aspell covered almost every war fought in the past 40 years. He was the type of journalist we need to see more of. Unfortunately, we are seeing fewer.
YORBA LINDA, CALIF.
In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.
In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing, "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.
Many reading this probably don't know it, but at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon, the Pentagon will host a "Welcome home" ceremony for Vietnam War veterans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall. If it comes off, it will be a good thing.
"Darkroom" (Howard Books), by Joshua Graham: Memories of the Vietnam War and terrible secrets buried over 35 years ago propel "Darkroom," a haunting tale from Joshua Graham.
Richard Threlkeld, a far-ranging and award-winning correspondent who worked for both CBS and ABC News during a long career, has been killed in a car crash on New York's Long Island.
On April 28, 1967, Gen. William C. Westmoreland was accorded a rare honor, that of addressing a joint session of Congress. As he ticked off indicators of progress in the war in Vietnam, the general seemed the embodiment of the military professional: trim and erect, with prominent eyebrows and a jutting chin that did not encourage contradiction.
Nguyen Cao Ky died last week at 80, a forgotten purple footnote to the distant war in Vietnam that nearly everyone wants to forget. Those who do remember it usually remember it for the wrong reasons.
If journalism is the first draft of history, the current phase of journalism with blogs, tweets and miscellaneous bells and whistles is once-over-lightly history that bears little relation to reality. Mercifully, there are exceptions. Some journalists still spend five or more years researching a subject they already know well and that has already generated scores of books - but the brass ring on history's carousel is infuriatingly elusive.
President Obama has just finished explaining to the world that he is ordering 10,000 troops home from Afghanistan this year and another 23,000 by September 2012, which will still leave some 70,000 until 2014, when his secretary walks in, notepad at the ready, and says, "The Taliban called. They said, 'Take your time.' "
Bob Dylan, whose anti-war anthems made him the face of protest against a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, finally got his chance to see Vietnam _ at peace.
After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan finally got his chance to see Vietnam at peace.
After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace.
What does one call an impoverished nuclear-weapons power where 80 percent of its 180 million people say things are moving in the wrong direction; 64 percent claim the United States is their enemy; 18 percent view al Qaeda favorably; almost 40 percent say they approve of al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Twin Towers; and 56 percent say there is "no hope" for the future?
he argued that while in appearance the "imperialists" were indeed very fierce, in reality it was the "people" who were powerful.
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Last week was a tough week for Texas Governor Rick Perry, who had surged to the front of the GOP presidential line when he announced his bid on August 13. His Orlando debate performance was panned by critics, making it the third straight debate where Perry underwhelmed on a national stage. In that Orlando debate’s aftermath, Perry’s “all-in” strategy at the Presidency 5 straw poll failed. Observers were stunned when Herman Cain, heretofore considered a second-tier candidate, instead walked off with the Florida prize, beating Perry by a better than 2 to 1 margin.
But there was another damning piece on Perry last week which has mostly escaped notice. While it’s beyond question that Rick Perry’s immigration stance wouldn’t win him any friends at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group which favors stricter limits on who and how many are allowed into the country, the numbers they ran state a case that most of the thousands of jobs created in Texas in spite of the national recession are going to the immigrant population (legal and illegal) rather than native-born Americans.
The CIS study had a relatively simple methodology: compare the commonly available employment numbers in the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey at two points in time (2007 and 2011) based on whether respondents are working and whether they are newly arrived in the country or not. It’s also interesting to note the CIS survey only asked about immigrants arriving in 2007 or later, a time period where the much-criticized Texas policy of in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants had been in place for several years.
Their probe found that while the unemployment rate in Texas for native workers had doubled from 4.0% to 8.1% over the four-year study period, the total number of immigrants working in the state had jumped by nearly 7 percent. They concluded that over 80 percent of the new jobs taken in Texas had gone to newly-arrived immigrant workers, whether legal or illegal. Using accepted methodology, they presumed about 40% of the new jobs had been taken by illegal immigrants.
One can argue with the process the CIS used to arrive at their conclusions, and I had a hard time working through their fuzzy math, too. Yet the same figures the CIS used yield interesting results for other states in the region. In Oklahoma, where the unemployment rate among native-born workers only increased from 4.7 percent to 5.5 percent, the number of immigrants working jumped by almost 26 percent – yet the state adopted a get-tough policy on illegal immigration in late 2007, shortly after the study’s time period began.
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Plano Star-courier > News
Median left turn meets its fate: Controversial intersection design nixed by council
The city of Plano prides itself on being innovative and a leader among Texas cities. However, that forward-thinking philosophy has not always been met with positive responses.
Such was the case in August 2010 when the city modified the intersection of Preston Road and Legacy Boulevard. The median left-turn model requires drivers turn right onto Preston and then perform a U-turn, rather than simply turning left off of Legacy.
The intersection debut was met with great fanfare and claims that it would increase traffic flow and make the intersection safer for motorists. While the numbers appear to back up these claims, members of the City Council are now singing a different tune and have put the brakes on plans to convert two more intersections.
"There is no more unifying cause in Plano than the disdain for that intersection," said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Ben Harris.
Gerald Cosgrove, public works director, said the intersection operates smoother than it did prior to the conversion and there are fewer accidents. However, he admitted that many drivers have not accepted the changes and have changed their travel patterns to avoid the area.
Cosgrove did say, however, that it is not possible to attribute the smoother flow of traffic solely to the new left turn design.
"The one thing we have to remember about Legacy and Preston is that originally we had only two lanes in each direction," Cosgrove said. "With this project we added a third lane, and that is probably what you see as much as the other improvements. I think as traffic increases in the future it will provide more and more benefit."
One of the most outspoken critics of the plan is Mayor Phil Dyer, whose office is located at the southwest corner of the intersection. He said his biggest criticism is the additional lanes were not given a chance to improve traffic flow before the left-turn configuration was changed.
"We ask people who have never seen this before in their lives to not turn left where they think they should so they go through [the intersection] and then we have illegal U-turn signs at the next couple of places," Dyer said. "It is like they are in a maze that they can't escape.
"I think it is very citizen-unfriendly thing if you live here, and if you are a visitor to our community it is really insulting because we are going to give you a ticket if you do what you have done your whole life."
The opposition to the median left turn was unanimous among the eight-member council, with Andre Davidson saying the intersection was so odd it felt like she was driving in a foreign land.
With no council support for the proposed median left turns at Preston and Plano Parkway, and Spring Creek Parkway and Coit Road, the city will instead install additional lanes to increase traffic flow. Cosgrove said the intersection improvements should begin in 2015 and take less than a year, although both projects may not occur at the same time.
There are no plans to return the median left turn at Preston and Legacy to a normal left-turn configuration.
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The Vampire Dracula of Transylvania and the vampiresque Republican Party - Drinking the Blood of Youth - Immigration Reform
The Vampire Dracula has a zombie life, he gets out of his tomb in the dungeons of the castle in order to drink blood and get some life out of it.
Dracula can not drink the blood of old people, those that are sick and in Geriatric Homes or Gerontological Asylums. Those crippled and sick of old age in wheelchairs have a blood that is useless for the purposes of Dracula.
Dracula needs the Hematocites and Leucocites of Young People, those in elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities.
And the Republican Party is having a zombie life in its tomb, half death, half alive, and needs a "Common Enemy" and an "Enemy of America" in order to resurrect and have a "revival", a word that charms its very conservative and religious extremist base.
America has millions of Decent, Noble and Kind People, Hearts of Gold, and they are the big majority, but there are many other losers that need hate as revenge for their failed lives.
And what "Common Enemy" and "Enemy of America" can be the best for those racists, haters, losers and failed lives in the streets of America ??
The Republican Party needs the Hate against Latinos in order to revive, revitalize and reinvigorate, for a "Republican Revival". That is the Blood of Youth, because Latinos are mostly in Elementary Schools, in High Schools, and now want Higher Education in Colleges and Universities.
Latinos are "Youth Blood" and a big part of a Great Future for America. But Republicans want to drink that blood with their Racism and Hatred. Even if they expulse and evict those Youngsters out of America.
So, Mr Obama should be careful not to paralyze Government and his Administration Legislative Agenda with a "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" because that is what these Merchants of Hatred in Racist TV want in order to agitate the masses of ignorants, of fools, idiots and losers, the boxes of Inferiority Complexes.
The "Immigration Reform" would increase the profits of the Merchants of Hate, the Peddlers of Fear, in Racist TV.
When you are a failure in life, filled with inferiority complexes, a loser, nothing is better than to choose a defenseless victim and become a bully, then you are the Superior Race, and suddenly you got a lot value and self respect, even if you are trash.
"Immigration Reform" is a "Pandora's Box" for Mr Obama, because there is too much Racism and Hatred. This needs a much more mature country, and a more mature Republican Party in times of Economic Prosperity and not of Economic Suffering.
When the Republican Party has adults in it, when it is not led by the Media Racists of Histrionic Radio, and Histrionic TV, with ridiculous gestures and grimaces and tears, while crying "God !!!, God !!!, God !!"
These TV Racists are like Hysterics and Possessed, the most Hypocrite People in the World, the masters of Hypocrisy and the owners of "God".....
Let these Hypocrites TV anchors claim in the desert while there is no "Immigration Reform" until the day that there is more resposibility in Congress and the Economy is recovered, stable and strong.
"Immigration Reform is Kryptonite for Mr Obama and the Democratic Party.
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Blending the most up-to-date theories and practices of communication with an examination of leadership concepts and actions, the master’s in Communication and Leadership Studies provides students with the tools for tackling the task of external and internal communication in modern organizations and social systems. Graduates gain the ability to:
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of communication theory and how to use it effectively for different settings
Exhibit top skills in public speaking, small group dynamics, writing and multimedia
Understand and analyze the influence of communication and communication technologies in the U.S. and around the world
Appreciate the role of ethics in the field and develop a coherent ethical philosophy for communicating and leading others
This degree has career applications in any field or industry where information needs to be disseminated strategically and thoughtfully, including broadcasting, public relations, politics, media management, marketing, human resources and public administration.
Emphasis in International Media and Intercultural Communication
This optional 12-credit international project-based program brings MA in Communication and Leadership Studies students to Italy to study communication in another culture. Students will use the town of Cagli, a small town in the Marche region of Italy, as a classroom and lab where they will create a multimedia project that explores life and culture there. By taking part in interviewing, storytelling, writing, photography and web design, students will build a comprehensive and integrated set of communication skills that are in great demand in today’s workplace.
For this emphasis, students take two classes in Italy over a two-and-a-half week period, followed by two online classes.
**The Emphasis in International Media and International Communication is a unique opportunity for students in the Master of Arts in Communication and Leadership Program to study and earn a respected credential in a growing and increasingly vital aspect of their field.
I was not really expecting to get the degree of interaction and connection that you actually get online. I really felt that I established a relationship with the faculty as well as my fellow students. And that was quite a surprise, but definitely a pleasant surprise.
The communication aspect of the program was spot on to what I do every day. And the leadership component, I feel, really helped me become a more well-rounded leader.
Sophie Harbert, MA – Communication & Leadership Studies, Gonzaga
The faculty that taught my courses, they were fantastic. It was really nice to be able to talk to them. And I still go back to them and ask them questions. Or I'll be writing a case study for work, and I'll talk to them and interact with them, even now that I'm done with the program. So it's great.
Jesse Miller, MA – Communication & Leadership Studies, Gonzaga
All of the faculty I've had have been fantastic and all very I wouldn't say accommodating as far as-- they hold you to the standards just like every other teacher in regular classes and I like that. They're all very helpful and available.
Ashlee Tate, MA – Communication & Leadership Studies, Gonzaga
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The United States Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security rather than the Department of Defense. This distinction probably wasn’t what a U.S. Airways employee had in mind when refusing to waive Jennifer’s baggage fees, though. Jennifer was returning to her station from a trip to visit family, but the employee insisted that she had to pay a baggage fee like civilians do, because the Coast Guard isn’t part of the military. A manager agreed, but they were both wrong. Jennifer didn’t need to pay to check her bags, and members of the Coast Guard have served in just about every war in American history. They certainly are part of the military.
I had a flight booked home today through US Airways. I am a member of the US Coast Guard and was returning to my station from visiting family. While doing the self check in at the kiosk, I got to baggage and clicked the button for military. It said to see an attendant so that the baggage fee could be waived. So I found an attendant. She took my military ID and then told me I was not military. She said “You’re Coast Guard. If you were military, you’re ID would say
‘Military.’ Yours says ‘Uniformed Services.’”
I explained to her that was inaccurate and that the CG is a branch of the military (all IDs say Uniformed Services). She insisted it is not and told me “the services are Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines”. She then went to speak to a manager. She said the manager also said it’s not and she then picked up the phone to call someone about it. I told her I had the baggage fee waived on my flight at the beginning of the trip and she said “Well whoever did that for you was wrong and you should have paid for your checked baggage.”
I started to feel offended that she’s telling me I’m not in the military and explained this to her, she continued to be rude and insist the CG was not military. I said “I can’t tell you what your policy says for baggage fees, but I can tell you the CG is a branch of the military and if CG is not included, you need to change what your policy says to reflect that the free checked bag is not for ALL military.”
In the end, whoever she called on the phone told her she was “not sure” and she would have to look it up, but to go ahead and waive my baggage fee for now. The woman did so with obvious resentment towards it. I cannot believe how rude she was.
It is the first time I have ever felt offended by how I was treated. I proudly serve my country as an active duty member of the Coast Guard.
Well, we thank you for your service, Jennifer, and will pass along this link that you sent to any airline personnel who happen to be reading this site.
Not all of the Uniformed Services are part of the Armed Forces, but the opposite is true.
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We don't like to throw around words like "racist" in the same sentence as the NYT's name, but there's no other word we can think of to describe this page in the NYT's annual Holiday Gift Guide -- called "Of Color/Stylish Gifts" and aimed exclusively at the paper's non-white readers.
Or, as the NYT describes it, "gifts created for and by people of color."
Found in the "Style & Travel" section of the Gift Guide, it stands alongside sections called "Frugal Travel," "Chic and Cheerful," and "Cosmetic Enhancements."
But this page is the only one aimed squarely at readers whose skin isn't white in color -- and it's the first time we can remember a gift guide, anywhere, openly defining its offerings by their appeal to a specific racial group.
Can you imagine the NYT designating a section of its Holiday Gift Guide to presents made "for and by white people"? Or Jews? Or Chinese? Of course you can't.
We welcome NYTPicker readers of any color to click here and see the page for themselves.
The gift suggestions include:
-- "The Mocha Guide To Military Life," a book for black women whose husbands or boyfriends serve in the armed forces.
--"Hair Rules," a hair-care product for a hair-stylist "hero to Michelle Obama and Alicia Keys" that includes a travel kit for kinky hair.
"Ash Kumar's Bollywood Henna Kit," to "emulate your favorite Bollywood star."
-- "The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships," a book aimed exclusively at black couples.
--"Carol's Daugher: A Mgical Beauty Collection," described this way: "Tiana, Disney’s first animated African-American princess and the protagonist of “The Princess and the Frog,” which arrives in theaters in December, is the inspiration for Carol’s Daughter’s new bath and hair collection, the Magical Beauty Collection."
-- "M2M damoreJon Nail Polish" which brags that buyers "don't have to go for broke to look like a million."
-- A "Wise Latina" t-shirt, presumably to be worn by wise Latinas.
--"Boxing Kitten Clothing," designed by Maya Lake, "draws her design influence from tastemakers like Josephine Baker and W.E.B. Du Bois." Huh? Last we checked, DuBois was a civil-rights activist. We're told these designs have been worn by Beyoncé and Erykah Badu.
We're a bit flabbergasted to see NYT's holiday gift ideas arranged according to the skin color of its readers. We're contacting the NYT to see if someone there can explain the paper's thinking -- or lack thereof.
UPDATE: Several commenters have mentioned Hanukah gift guides, articles on menorah buying, etc., as examples of the same thing. They're not. Hanukah is a holiday celebrated only by a single religious denomination. This gift guide takes a holiday season celebrated by both Caucasians and people of color, and sets apart a page for gifts meant "by and for" a group of people defined only by the color of their skin.
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KILLEEN, Texas — Ultimately, it was the keen eye of a Texas gun shop clerk that helped authorities find an AWOL soldier who'd stashed bomb-making material in his nearby motel room for a planned attack on Fort Hood soldiers.
The tip that led Killeen police to Pfc. Naser Abdo on Wednesday prevented what could have been the second terrorist attack on the Army post, following a 2009 shooting rampage in which an Army psychiatrist is charged with killing 13 people. Earlier this year in Texas, a shipping company that told the FBI about a suspicious order for a chemical explosive foiled an alleged plot to blow up former President George W. Bush's Dallas home.
The enduring lesson for a post-9/11 world: America's work force plays a crucial role in preventing potential terror attacks.
"A vigilant public and informed local law enforcement make it much more complicated for people wishing to carry out attacks to do so," said John Cohen, principal deputy counterterrorism adviser at the Homeland Security Department.
Federal and local law enforcement agencies have established programs over the past decade that encourage the public to report suspicious activity, and tips from businesses have led to multiple high-profile arrests.
Abdo, 21, who went absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Ky., early this month, was arrested Wednesday at a motel outside Fort Hood and charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device. Police say he was perhaps only a day away from unleashing bombs in a restaurant frequented by soldiers and attacking the Army post.
Abdo's alleged plan was cut short when Guns Galore employee Greg Ebert became suspicious after the soldier acted oddly while purchasing smokeless gunpowder, shotgun ammunition and a semi-automatic pistol magazine. Ebert's call to police and the soldier's subsequent arrest was a proud moment for employees of the store — the same place Maj. Nidal Hasan bought a pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting spree two years ago.
Store clerk Dave Newby said Hasan's purchase, while legal, devastated store workers and put everyone on higher alert.
"I think we all changed," he said. "It was terrible. We thought about coulda, shoulda, woulda."
Ebert noted this week that although there was "nothing extraordinary" about Abdo, he saw just enough to make him suspicious.
The retired police officer said Abdo arrived at the Killeen gun shop in a taxi — unusual for the Central Texas town — and proceeded to buy 6 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, while asking what it was. Abdo didn't say much as he paid in cash, and he didn't bother to collect his change or a receipt before returning to the waiting taxi.
"Now, he hasn't done anything unlawful — it doesn't prevent me from being curious," said Ebert, who retired from the police force last year.
Federal authorities say actions like Ebert's can keep America safe.
"The willingness of an individual to contact law enforcement about an event or incident that may be indicative of a possible threat is vital to our mission," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. "It may turn out not to be a threat but at least we have the opportunity to check it out."
Other business tips have been credited with preventing disaster.
A clerk at a Circuit City store in New Jersey told police in 2006 that customers had asked him to make a DVD out of video footage of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad. The FBI later tracked six men, now known as the Fort Dix Six, who plotted to kill soldiers in a raid at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey.
Earlier this year, two companies — Carolina Biological Supply Co. in North Carolina and Con-way Freight in Lubbock — contacted federal and local authorities about suspicions each had surrounding a purchase by Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who has been charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and schedule for trial later this year.
Federal authorities said Aldawsari bought explosive materials online and planned to hide them inside dolls and baby carriages to blow up dams, nuclear plants and Bush's home. A former Texas Tech University chemical engineering student from Saudia Arabia, Aldawsari was arrested after the North Carolina company reported $435 in suspicious purchases to the FBI.
The freight company notified Lubbock police and the FBI with similar suspicions because it appeared the order wasn't intended for commercial use. Con-way Freight spokesman Gary Frantz said since Sept. 11, 2001, the company has worked with local, state and federal authorities to develop training programs employees participate in at least once a year.
"I think we can be a force multiplied, which is a term often used by law enforcement, where private industry serves as additional eyes and ears to help authorities to uncover these activities to protect the public," Frantz said.
Carolina Biological Supply spokesman Keith Barker said his company has procedures to closely monitor orders involving "chemicals of a high degree of hazard."
"We've taken it upon ourselves to be vigilant," Barker said.
Meanwhile, "Operation Tripwire" is an FBI effort that asks certain businesses and industries — such as airlines and cruise ships — to look for and report suspicious behavior. The Department of Homeland Security has a national "If You See Something, Say Something" public awareness campaign that works with businesses and groups, such as the National Basketball Association, to promote public vigilance.
Some local law enforcement agencies also have partnered with businesses. New York Police Department detectives have asked thousands of companies to be on the lookout as part of "Operation Nexus."
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"In a sense we don't know what we deter," because people don't commit crimes and get arrested, said Paul Browne, spokesman for the nation's largest police department. "But by making these things harder, and by educating people who may become unwitting players in terrorist plots, we hope to have that deterrent impact."
The Los Angeles Police Department created "iWatch," which uses brochures, public service announcements and meetings with community groups to provide advice on how to detect and report suspicious behavior.
LAPD Cmdr. Blake Chow said the program is augmented by a web-based system that lets private businesses and security firms exchange information about suspicious activities. The intelligence gleaned with these systems, along with phone tips, has helped disrupt the financing of suspected overseas terrorist organizations, he said.
"The general public is the ones that go to the same place every day to work, they know their neighbors," Chow said. "We rely on them to tell us if they see something or an individual's activities that seem out of place."
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Norway fully associates itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the European Union. This statement raises a number of issues that are of vital concern if the Afghan Government and the international community are to succeed in their joint efforts towards peace, stability, and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
We have asked for the floor in order to deliver a separate statement, because we believe that the need for Afghan ownership in the development and reconstruction process, and the need for the UN to be strengthened with a particular view to coordinate efforts towards this goal ought to be emphasized even stronger.
We cannot succeed in Afghanistan unless the Afghan people perceive the path that we have taken ever since late 2001 as the path towards substantive and sustainable improvements of their lives, and we cannot succeed unless Afghan governmental institutions, nationally as well as locally, enjoy increased legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan people.
Therefore, an overarching concern of all our efforts towards development and reconstruction must be to ensure that they are in coherence with Afghan priorities and plans, again nationally as well as locally. We must all be willing to coordinate, and let ourselves be coordinated, with this concern in mind.
I must underline the urgency of this issue. Some of us raised the need for better coordination here in New York a year ago, and it is indeed worrying that we are still concerned about inadequate coordination. That means that we still risk wasting our resources, and are still losing time, time that we will not be able to make up for later. This is serious because it undermines our efficiency and our credibility and our ability to reach our objectives.
Coordination takes leadership, and we must bestow the mandate of such leadership upon the United Nations. The United Nations must assume the role of leader and coordinator in making sure that we all contribute to the maximum extent towards strengthening Afghan legitimacy and ownership of the country’s own development process. This must be accompanied by a continued endeavour towards Afghan capacity building, so that the Afghan authorities enhance their expertise in formulating goals, plans, and priorities. This must apply on national, province, and district levels alike and the Afghan people must be able to see the measures of government at various levels as unified and coherent towards consistent goals.
If the United Nations should take on the task to strengthen its leadership role and coordination, it must be given the wherewithal to do so. The dedicated men and women who work for the UNAMA under the excellent leadership of Mr. Tom Koenigs must be given the authority and additional resources that they need.
Our preference would be both to strengthen the UN Mission and to appoint a Special Envoy to ensure coordination in Kabul and between our capitals. Differing views on the question of a Special Envoy, should not block our efforts to provide the UN Mission with increased funding and manpower, both in Kabul, and in the provinces throughout Afghanistan.
Thank you, Mr. President
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Many opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement who wish to protect the outsized power and wealth of the 1% complain that the protesters in New York and around the globe are against capitalism. Sure, some are. But for the vast majority, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, most of the Americans — left, right and middle — protesting corporate greed believe passionately in capitalism, so much so that they’re willing to fight to make it work as it’s intended.
I realized the same is true of evolving, progressive attitudes about gender.
Most of us who support marriage equality, who believe that women are equal to men, not inferior or submissive, who favor the increasing dissolution of borders between male and female, masculinity and femininity, are not against gender. Sure, some are. But for the vast majority, especially among the younger generation, the desire to see gender boundaries and hierarchies matter less and less in our personal and public lives does not equate with a desire to overthrow or abandon gender.
Have you been to a gay bar lately filled with 20-somethings? The crowd most likely includes flamboyant boys in pink, beard-and-plaid-wearing hipster dudes, some lesbians in suit jackets and skinny ties and others in frilly skirts with their hair done up. They aren’t rejecting gender, they’re diving into, wrapping themselves in, playing with and reimagining gender — like a valuable jewel in modern art piece, incorporated into the present not tossed aside.
When I teach my three-year-old about gender, I don’t tell her gender doesn’t exist or is evil. At this point, I mostly tell her that girls can do anything boys can and the differences between boys and girls really don’t matter. I want her to command and mold her gender to her goals and dreams, not be bound by it (as she would have been two generations ago). But that also means raising her to be conscious of and proud that she’s a girl — in other words, helping her see gender not reject it.
By the same token, when I took my daughter to the Occupy Wall Street protests, I told her that the people out on Zuccatti Park are proud Americans who want to fix our economy so it works better for ordinary people. They don’t want to tear down the system. In fact, the very fact of their protest is a sign that they believe in our economic system so much they’re confident it can be reformed and are staking their bodies on that faith.
Adam Smith wrote, “The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.” Even the man who arguably founded capitalism argued it wasn’t perfect and should be balanced with government and a social safety net. And Simone de Beauvoir wore dresses. In other words, even the most ardent capitalists appreciate the flaws of capitalism, just as the most ardent gender deconstructionists hew to some norms themselves now and then. The result is neither communism nor a gender-free society.
Capitalism can take the form of a socially-conscious free market economy that creates opportunity for all. Our understanding of gender can stretch to appreciate the full spectrum of human self-expression. Those who accuse reformers of wanting to abolish capitalism and gender are, for the most part, merely afraid that the positive evolution of these notions is not only unavoidable but may leave them and their ways behind.
Sally Kohn is a political commentator and grassroots strategist. You can find her writing at http://movementvision.org. This post originally appeared at Role/Reboot and is cross-posted with permission.
Photo credit _PaulS_/Flickr
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Mitt Romney and the Republicans have been working overtime to make fealty to Israel a wedge issue in the campaign and to grossly misrepresent President Obama as insufficiently loyal to the Jewish state. So why did the Democrats give the Republicans an opening to pounce?
In 2008, the Democratic platform stated that “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel.” The 2012 drafters struck the line.
Once Republicans and pro-Israel groups started to make a ruckus about the missing language, the Democrats were forced on Wednesday to reverse themselves, provoking a messy divided floor vote. Aides said Mr. Obama personally directed that the language be reinstated. (By the way, Mr. Romney did not personally intervene to fine-tune the G.O.P. platform, which calls for a ban on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest–arguably a far more egregious omission.) The final version of the Democratic platform reads: “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.”
Aides have yet to explain why the party left out the Jerusalem reference in the original version; from a political standpoint a rookie error. Yet the hypocrisy of the Republican attack is stunning.
Comparing final versions, the Republican platform is actually less definitive on Jerusalem. It states: “We support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state with secure, defensible borders; and we envision two democratic states—Israel with Jerusalem as its capital and Palestine—living in peace and security.” (Italics mine) Envisioning Jerusalem as the capital and stating Jerusalem is the capital are two different concepts.
Further, as the National Jewish Democratic Council pointed out, the 2012 Republican language is weaker than in 2008 when the party stated that “we support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and moving the American embassy to that undivided capital of Israel.”
Setting aside election-year politics, The Times believes that the correct position for both the Democrats and the Republicans is “Jerusalem’s future is a matter for final status negotiations.” Presidents and would-be presidents limit their ability to be seen as honest brokers in Middle East peacemaking when they side so obviously with the Israelis over the Palestinians.
Israel and the Palestinians have long acknowledged that Jerusalem’s future should be decided in peace negotiations. Since Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, neither the United States not the international community has recognized Israeli sovereignty over that territory. Every credible discussion of a two-state solution assumes that the capital of a Palestinian state will be East Jerusalem and Israel will have its capital in the west.
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This story was updated at 4:22 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for the region throughout most of the day Thursday, and officials are urging residents to take the necessary precautions.
Temperatures are expected to be in the mid- to lower-30s, while snowfall may accumulate in excess of five inches at times, according to the National Weather Service.
The watch will remain in effect from late Thursday morning until 10 p.m. Thursday night, and meteorologists and state highway officials said drivers should be particularly mindful of the evening rush hour, when roads may see the most accumulation.
“That snowfall could melt, but there’s potential that at times during the late afternoon that snow could come down pretty moderately and accumulate kind of quickly,” said NWS meteorologist Steve Zubrick. “If you don’t have to be out late tomorrow or early afternoon and can adjust your schedule, it’s always good to be off the roads.”
Maryland State Highway Administration officials said they are prepared to deploy salt trucks Thursday morning and afternoon.
David Buck, a Maryland SHA spokesman, said they have the ability to move resources where there is the most accumulation, which he said may be needed since it appears the storm pattern may produce substantial snowfall in some areas and none in other areas.
“The main point I would make is to think long-term tomorrow,” he said. “It’s the cry wolf mentality. We just don’t want anybody to be that person who says I didn’t take it seriously and didn’t come up with an alternative plan.”
The Prince George’s Fire/EMS Department released safety tips for residents that include monitoring news reports for weather updates, staying indoors and having flashlights nearby in case of power outages.
Mark Brady, chief spokesman for the county fire/EMS department, said they have not mobilized any additional apparatus but are keeping a close eye on weather reports.
“Right now, we’re monitoring the weather situations and the command staff has been contacted to make sure they’re aware of the pending winter storm,” he said.
Other safety tips from the fire/EMS department include clearing snow from fire hydrants, keeping space heaters away from combustibles and wearing warm clothing if traveling outdoors.
Montgomery County’s storm operations center is set to activate at 8 a.m. Thursday to monitor weather conditions and forecasts, said Esther Bowring, a Montgomery County spokesperson.
“If the storm operations center is activated, normally then staff are put on 24/7 service,” Bowring said.
Montgomery County’s Department of Transportation’s Division of Highway Services will activate all crews and appropriate support contractors at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, she added in an email. The staff will report to the seven depots around the county stocked with the equipment best suited to help their surrounding areas, as well as items such as cots, food and clothes, Bowring said.
County mechanics who can take care of the equipment will also report to the depots at 6:30 a.m.
The highway services division is prepped for storms at all times, she said.
Montgomery County owns about 200 pieces of snow removal equipment, Bowring said, and can also call on contracted private operators. The county has about 40,000 tons of salt stocked up as well.
Staff Writer Lindsay Powers contributed to this report.
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December 2009 / Volume 61 / Issue 12|
By Bill Kennedy
R&M Manufacturing Inc. provides machining, assembly and custom fabrication services. An ISO 9001:2008-certified company, R&M focuses on continually exceeding customer requirements.
In the course of developing a machining process for a 3¾ "-OD, ¾ "-thick 316-L stainless steel retainer used in food processing equipment, R&M engineered an efficient workholding system and changed the casting method for the workpiece material. As a result, the Milton, Wis., shop was able to reduce scrap and cycle time while fulfilling the customer’s strict surface finish requirements.
The machining process involved two operations on a CNC lathe and one on a vertical machining center. Working from a customer-provided part print, the shop created machining programs in GibbsCAM software for a Warner & Swasey WSC-6 lathe and a Fadal 2216 VMC.
Courtesy of R&M Manufacturing
For machining on the lathe, the rough casting was clamped in stepped soft jaws. The first operation involved turning the retainer’s OD for approximately half of its length, machining the contour of the part’s face and drilling a 0.374 "-dia. axial hole in the part’s center with a carbide drill. The hole was then reamed to a diameter of 0.377 ".
For the second operation, the part was flipped in the chuck and the remaining section of the OD was turned. Then, a 0.250 "-wide × 0.158 "-deep O-ring groove was machined on the OD. In the same operation, the end of the part was faced and counterbored.
For the turning operations, R&M employed Mitsubishi grade-US735 inserts, run at approximately 700 sfm. Manufacturing Engineer Jim Cagle said the operations on the lathe required tolerances of 0.000 "/- 0.001 " for the OD and 0.0005 "/-0.0000 " for the center hole.
On the VMC, Mitsubishi endmills applied at 350 sfm and 25 ipm milled the inside profile of the retainer and cut two 0.375 "-wide × 0.125 "-deep slots in the face of each part. To hold the retainers for this operation, R&M designed a fixture that handles nine parts simultaneously. Cagle noted that secure workholding was essential to maintain the 32µin. Ra surface finish the part required. To assure consistent part location, the fixture plate’s base was fitted with pins that matched the central axial hole in each part.
Radial cutting forces were another concern. “Doing that contour, we were pushing the part, and it did have a tendency to rotate,” Cagle said. That tendency was overcome by a series of 15 clamps. Every retainer was secured by a minimum of three clamps; some of the clamps contacted two or three parts, engaging the top sides or O-ring grooves of the retainers. “The more contact points, the more stable it was,” Cagle said.
After initial part runs, changing the casting process for the retainer blanks helped R&M achieve significant productivity improvements. The opportunity to try a new process arrived following a change in R&M’s role in the production of the retainers. R&M originally began machining the parts as a subcontractor for the OEM. Initially, the OEM provided sand-cast blanks of the 316-L stainless steel and paid R&M to rough and finish machine them. However, the blanks often exhibited unacceptable amounts of porosity. As a result, the scrap rate was about 15 percent. In addition, the rough castings featured about 3⁄32 " of excess stock per side, requiring both roughing and finishing passes to achieve the desired final dimensions and surface finish.
R&M eventually gained total responsibility for producing the retainers, including sourcing the castings. It was decided to have the blanks produced via the investment casting process, a version of the loss-wax method that employs a wax or foam master to create a refractory (ceramic) mold of the part. After the wax is removed, the part is cast in the mold.
For the retainers, the as-cast surface finish produced by the smooth ceramic was much finer than that produced by sand casting, and the casting’s higher precision minimized the amount of excess stock that needed to be removed. The new casting method yielded a porosity-free part and less material to remove. “We were only taking off about 0.015 " per side,” Cagle said. “We were able to eliminate roughing completely.”
Following the change to investment casting, Cagle said, the scrap rate became negligible and the elimination of roughing passes reduced cycle time by about 30 percent. R&M typically produced the strainer in lots of 100 parts, with a lead time of 2 weeks. CTEFor more information about R&M Manufacturing Inc., call (608) 868-5081 or visit www.rmmfginc.com.
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Leaving a rural wayside station near the Hershey end of the line.
Double headed cane train on the Mal Tiempo 3 foot gauge line. The locos are 1903 and 1909 Baldwin products.
Two variants of the Russian TEM 3 Road Switcher rest at the Havana engine terminal. The highly successful TEM models trace their linage to Alco RSD-1s supplied to the Soviets during World War 2. T... (more)
A RDC-1 loads school children on an outing leaving from the Santa Clara, Cuba station.
Two RDCs await their next call at the Moron roundhouse. Budd RDC railcars were delivered new to the Cuban Railways before the Revolution. These units came second hand from Canada and are ex-CP or ... (more)
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Minaz #1320 is a Baldwin from 1909.
Minaz ten wheeler #1732 is returning to the mill in the late afternoon with a loaded cane train. This locomotive is an Alco from 1916.
In the loco shed at PTB sugar mill. Minaz#1401 (Alco 2-6-0 from 1908) and Minaz#1103 (Baldwin 2-6-0 from 1920).
2 feet 6 inch gauge Baldwin 2-8-0 No 1388 (number 6 on front of loco) is hard at work near Altuna with a load of sugar cane for the mill at Rafael Freyre. The loco was built in 1907.
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Mon, May 9 2011
LeTourneau University Associate Professor of Mathematics Dr. Judy Taylor was presented the Robert H. Selby Teaching Scholar Award for exemplifying the highest standards of teaching excellence. Recipients are nominated and selected by faculty vote.
The Selby Award is the highest recognition the university offers for effectiveness in teaching, dedication to LeTourneau University and Christian education. Those who receive it are known for their helpfulness to students, spiritual leadership, scholarship and professional development.
The award is named after the late Dr. Robert H. Selby, a beloved LeTourneau faculty member from the 1970s who taught history, having written his doctoral dissertation on how World War II was won using R.G. LeTourneau’s earth-moving equipment. Selby died at an early age of pancreatic cancer.
Taylor is known for encouraging her students to work harder and reach higher by sharing her love for learning. Her teaching style has been described as fun yet focused. She has conducted research in the past few years into the use of Mozart music during math tests to help students stay calm during tests is one of her passions.
Taylor recently co-authored a paper that was published in the Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics Education. The research suggested that attitudes of prospective teachers toward statistics had impact on student academic achievement in a senior level education course and that student perceptions of teaching methods and explanations related to teacher attitudes toward statistics.
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New York - Intel has finished work on a new Pentium 4 mobile processor that greatly reduces notebook computer battery usage and should be found in new notebooks starting this fall.
The 855GME chipset works through the notebooks graphics card to automatically lower the devices display quality when in power saving mode, said Karen Regis, Intel's mobile progams and promotions manager. Intel's pervious battery life extension efforts focused on lowering the processor's power consumption when not needed and quickly getting the notebook into sleep mode when not used for a set period of time.
By lowering the display quality the chipset knocks down the amount of power being used about 1.5 watts on the average, according to a test run by Intel. About 30 percent of all battery power is used to run the display.
The next area Intel will attack is adding more built in networking capability to its processors, Regis said. In 2004 processors will have the ability to run Bluetooth, WiFi and GPRS so a user can seamlessly travel from place to place and not lose their connection to the network on Internet.
The processor news was revealed at an event Intel held on June 24 in New York. In addition the company hyped some upcoming products that will be powered by its XScale processors.
These included a portable media player, a computer media adapter, a networed DVD player and several products based on what is called the Personal Mobile Gateway platform.
The portable media player, now being developed by companies like Creative Labs and Samsung, said Intel product manager Michael Lane. The product is based around a 20GB hard drive and can dowload TV programming, music, video and photos via USB 2.0 from a PC and Lane said the ability to download and store programming directly from a TV or PVR at a later time. Expected pricing is between $400 and $600 and these should ship next year.
A network enabled DVD player will ship in the very near future, said Intel's David Vogel, media development manager, from a top tier PC vendors, which he declined to name. The player can be networked into a compute and A/V network through an Ethernet or wireless connection. Pricing was not available.
On display from Linksys was a media adapter that will transfer music and photos from a PC to a TV or stereo system. An Intel spokesman said the Linksys product uses an 802.11b network to transfer the data. Pricing and shipping dates were not available.
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By LEE MIELKE
For the Capital Press
National Milk Producers Federation has joined more than 230 other farm, agriculture and food groups in urging Congress to pass a new, five-year farm bill in the upcoming lame duck session. A letter was directed to Republican and Democratic leaders of the House, noting that there is still ample time for the House to complete its work on a new farm bill, and reconcile any differences with the already-adopted farm bill approved last summer by the Senate.
Failure to pass a new bill before Dec. 31 "will create significant budget uncertainty for the entire agricultural sector, including the rural businesses and lenders whose livelihoods are dependent upon farmers' and livestock producers' economic viability," the letter said.
While some have suggested Congress pass an extension of current programs, "any temporary extension would be a short-sighted, inadequate solution that would leave our constituencies crippled by uncertainty."
"Both the Senate and the House Committee on Agriculture passed versions of a five-year farm bill with strong bipartisan support. We urge you to lead your colleagues in passing a new 2012 Farm Bill this year," the coalition letter said.
The Daily Dairy Report's Sarina Sharp, talked about the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report in the November 9 Daily Dairy Discussion. She pointed out that USDA reduced its estimate of U.S. dairy exports, reasoning that U.S. prices are not competitive with New Zealand and September exports were therefore down from a year ago. She warned that will contribute to an increase of U.S. dairy product stocks and weigh on U.S. markets.
The report also showed a notable increase in soybean production, according to Sharp, now put at 39.3 bushels per acre, up from 37.8 forecast a month ago. She credited late season rains and a resilient crop to this summer's draught.
Soybean output was put at nearly 3 billion bushels, but doesn't leave much for ending stocks, according to Sharp, as most of the increase output went to increased demand. She said this was good news for dairy producers however export estimates were also raised, good news for global end users because the South American crop is just now going into the ground.
There's not a lot of room in the balance sheet for corn, according to Sharp. Prices have proven pretty resilient despite a collapsing financial market, a very strong dollar, and lots of concern over global demand. Corn has held in the $7.40 per bushel area. USDA estimates the corn yield at 122.3 bushel per acre, up just .3 bushels from their October estimate. They added little to the demand projection as exports have been slow and ethanol has been on a pace to meet USDA's forecasted demand.
"Everyone wants to use more corn than they have," Sharp said. "And I think that the food and industrial industries are much stronger financially than the livestock industry, so they're going to be able to take any increase in production, they will buy that up and use it and livestock producers will be left facing high corn prices and trying to get their hands on enough supplies to feed all the animals." Listen to the Daily Dairy Discussion each week at www.dailydairyreport.com
Checking the latest salvo in the war out west, Dairy Profit Weekly reports that things "remain cloudy." In a faxed letter on Nov. 13, the California Department of Food and Agriculture informed three dairy producer organization their petition for an emergency hearing to consider changes to the state's Class 4b milk pricing formula apparently can't be considered due to "language technicalities."
In the letter, Kevin Masuhara, director of CDFA's Division of Marketing Services, told leaders of petitioning organizations, California Dairies Inc., Dairy Farmers of America Western Area and Land O'Lakes Inc., "as submitted, the petition fails to set forth the Secretary's authority to take the action requested. In the absence of such a statement, it cannot determine if the petitioners are proceeding under the discretionary hearing procedure or the mandatory one set forth" (in the California Code of regulations).
"The department will evaluate any future resubmissions of the petition in accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulatory procedures."
CDI, DFA and LOL submitted the petition on Nov. 2, requesting a temporary modification to the sliding scale for dry whey prices used to determine California's Class 4b price.
Supporting the call for a hearing were Western United Dairymen, Alfred Soares Dairy, California Dairy Women, Lorinda Dairy, and the California Dairy Campaign. The state's largest processor organization, Dairy Institute of California, Hilmar Cheese Co. and Los Altos Food Products, Incorporated called on CDFA to deny the hearing request. Details are posted at www.cdfa.ca.gov/dairy/uploader/postings/petitions
The market was not unprepared for the price change the week of Nov. 5, according to USDA's Dairy Market News, but buyers were hesitant to purchase above immediate needs. Weather issues on the East Coast from Hurricane Sandy and the nor'easter snow storm complicated deliveries and orders from that region.
Retail sales across the rest of the country remain good, DMN says, while manufacturing sales had slowed at the existing price levels. Cheese production is uneven to mostly steady with plants watching inventory levels to remain current. Export demand is light as domestic prices are above international prices.
Cash block cheese, while posting a short-lived rally Wednesday, saw more slippage the second week of November. They inched up a half-cent Friday to close at $1.8250 per pound, but that's down 9 1/2-cents on the week, follows the previous week's 19-cent plunge, and are three-quarter-cents below a year ago when they tumbled almost 12 cents to $1.8325.
The barrels rolled 11 1/4-cents lower, following the previous week's 24 1/2-cent loss, and are now trading at $1.7225, 14 3/4-cents below a year ago and 10 1/4 below the blocks. Twenty one cars of block traded hands on the week before Thanksgiving and just one of barrel. The AMS-surveyed U.S. average block price hit $2.0783, up 1.4 cents, while the barrels averaged $2.0614,up 1.6 cents.
Spot butter closed Friday at $1.7950, down 9 1/2-cents on the week but 14 3/4- cents above a year ago when it melted 9 1/4 cents, to $1.6475. Five cars found new homes on the week. AMS butter averaged $1.8923, down a penny.
Churning schedules are quite active across the country, according to DMN, as cream is available for butter production. In many instances, butter producers report that cream volumes are often heavier than they are willing to take on. Butter demand was very good going into Thanksgiving and buyers are looking beyond Thanksgiving as good orders are on the books. Producers and handlers are speculating that orders will continue for the foreseeable future.
Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk lost a penny on the week and slipped to $1.5650. Extra Grade remained at $1.56. AMS powder averaged $1.5057, up 1.2 cents, and dry whey averaged 64.15 cents, up 0.3 cent.
Feed prices are expected to moderate next year, easing profit pressure on producers, but not enough to engender an expansion in cow numbers according to USDA's Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook issued Friday morning. The moderate contraction in herd size is expected to continue in 2013. Export demand for powders remains strong but weaker for butterfat. Prices for Class III, Class IV and all milk will trail 2011 prices both this year and next.
Feed price forecasts continue to decline. The forecast corn price for 2012-13 was lowered to $6.95-$8.25 a bushel in November from October. Slightly higher expected production and an increase in imports support the lower price forecast.
Soybean meal was lowered to $455-$485 a ton. Soybean production forecasts were raised in October based on higher yield expectations. Late-season rains helped to boost yields. On balance, corn and soybean meal prices will be higher in 2013 than in 2012 despite the small downward revisions in November forecasts from October.
The October Agricultural Prices report pegs the preliminary October price for alfalfa at $212 a ton, up slightly from September's estimate and the October 2011 price. Assuming more normal weather in 2013, alfalfa prices could reflect improved yields. Dairy feed ration prices will likely be lower in 2013 than this year, but will remain high by historic standards, according to the Outlook.
Herd size projections were unchanged this month from October. The U.S. dairy herd is expected to average 9.225 million head in 2012 and slip to 9.125 million next year as a result of the profit squeeze experienced by producers this year.
"Profitability could improve next year," USDA concludes. "But is unlikely to support herd expansion during the year." Current-year yield per cow was increased to 21,640 pounds based on a higher than forecast third-quarter yield reported in the October Milk Production report.
The milk production season is holding at high seasonal levels in both New Zealand and Australia, according to DMN. New Zealand milk producers and handlers indicate that the peak probably occurred two weeks ago. Weather on both the North and South Islands are conducive to positive milk output trends, but many producers continue to be concerned about a potential El Nino weather pattern later this season which could greatly impact current positive trends. Milk handlers anticipate a 3 to 4 percent growth pattern over 2 years ago.
The Australian production season is basically at peak levels with some Victoria regions recording very positive growth while others continue to struggle with excessive moisture. Milk volumes are running 2 percent stronger than last year.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 12 requests for export assistance this week to sell 2.1 million pounds of cheese and 5.5 million pounds of butter to customers in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The product will be delivered through May 2013 and put CWT's 2012 cheese exports at 108.4 million pounds plus 66.7 million of butter, 127,868 pounds of anhydrous milk fat, and 85,980 pounds of whole milk powder.
USDA estimates that 4.3 billion pounds of packaged fluid milk products was sold in September in the U.S., down 5.2 percent from September 2011. After adjusting for calendar composition, sales were off 1.5 percent. Conventional fluid products were down 5.2 percent while organic fluid milk products were down 4.5 percent from a year earlier.
Region by region
California's December Class I milk prices have slipped but are still above December 2011. The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced the Northern price at $23.08 per hundredweight and the Southern price at $23.35. Both are down 9 cents from November but are $2.41 above a year ago.
The 2012 Class I average for the North is $19.06, down from $20.68 in 2011 and compares to $16.97 in 2010. The Southern average is $19.33, down from $20.95 a year ago and compares to $17.24 in 2010. The Federal order Class I base price is announced by USDA on November 21.
Back to the futures
The last half 2012 federal order Class III milk prices were averaging $17.49 on July 6 and $18.80 on Aug. 3. Looking at the announced Class IIIs plus the remaining months of 2012, it averaged $19.15 on Sept. 28, $19.31 on Oct. 26, $19.34 on Nov. 2, $19.12 on Nov. 9, and was trading around $19.07 late morning Nov. 16.
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(Source: Dark Horse)
From the deepest depths of punk rock’s 1970s primordial wastelands, through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into the bloodstained arenas of 1990s heavy metal, Eerie Von witnessed it all.
Beginning as the unofficial photographer for punk legends the Misfits and later taking charge of the bass guitar as a founding member of underground pioneers Samhain and metal gods Danzig, the evil eye of Eerie’s camera captured the dark heart of rock’s most vital and bleeding-edge period, a time when rock and roll was not only dangerous, but downright menacing. Eerie Von’s Misery Obscura offers firsthand insight into everything from the Misfits’ humble beginnings in Lodi, New Jersey, to the heights of Danzig’s stadium-rock glory alongside metal superstars Metallica.
“I’ve been planning this book for twenty years,” Eerie Von stated. “The fans have been begging for it almost as long. It’s been a great ride, and I’m glad to be able to share some of it with those who were there, and those who wish they were.”
Misery Obscura is not only an essential visual document of music history; but Eerie’s scrapbook-style stories of triumph and damnation bring to life an era the likes of which will never again be seen. Featuring layout and design by Tom Bejgrowicz, who conceived and executed the release of the infamous Misfits “Coffin Box,” Eerie Von’s Misery Obscura: The Photography of Eerie Von (1981-2009) arrives on shelves this October, just in time for Halloween!
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ARE THEY BETTER?
IS THERE ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE NEWER TYPES OF BIRTH CONTROL PILLS? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS
Women who take birth control pills run an increased risk of developing blood clots, but now new research shows that the newer generation of birth control pills such as Yaz are associated with about twice the risk of clots as older formulations. Anne Burke, an obstetrician gynecologist at Johns Hopkins, says she isnít convinced that the popularity of Yaz and other newer pills is because theyíre better.
BURKE: I think some of that quite frankly is due to advertising and the way that certain pills are marketed. I think one of the things that people pretty much agree on is that the drospirenone pills are probably not any better than other pills for things like PMS or controlling periods or things like that, so they may not have a clear advantage in that regard. For most women most pills are going to help with PMS, most pills are going to help with painful periods and with heavy periods and Iím not sure that drospirenone is going to make a huge difference. :31
So if you have a family history of blood clots, perhaps consider an older formulation if you choose to take the pill. At Johns Hopkins, Iím Elizabeth Tracey.
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Did you ever consider your success only pertains to what you’ve done, not to what you are doing? I mean at some point your skills take over and whatever it is you are doing becomes second nature. Like a reflex. Is that success or the benefit of repetition?
If you’re no longer learning about what you strive to be successful at, isn’t that falling short of true success? Surely, innovation and adaptation occur, but if you do not innovate or adapt to innovation, are you successful or simply existing in a window between must change game and game over?
When you’re learning, discovering, and changing, you are actively affecting your success. Success needs to be nurtured. If not, success becomes merely a talking point.
Your company’s culture. Do you ever think about it? Do others in your organization ever discuss it? I don’t mean when you have to attend a mandatory meeting about sexual harassment featuring 1970′s pseudo porn stars. Nor am I referring to the impromptu Wednesday Doughnut Day for everyone to be vaguely thanked for doing a swell job.
I’m referring to discussions about how individuals can best connect to and deliver successful objectives. Email exchanges about problem solving. Meetings, called by anyone for anyone, to pitch innovative approaches to help the business and each other. One on one conversations on a regular basis to ensure people are well-informed, well-resourced, and are feeling empowered.
Culture happens as a result of the people in the company. You can choose to ignore the importance of culture, and yet culture will still evolve – broken, disconnected, and full of animosity. Or you can proactively get involved to influence the culture to be supportive, empowering, and successful.
Sit Down Sunday is a series meant for you to take a break from the hustle and bustle of your life and sit down to have your soul touched, your mind expanded, and your heart warmed. I hope you enjoy and are inspired by these stories, videos, images, and thoughts…
“Curiosity, creativity, and conformity in education.”
If you were given the freedom to set up your work routine so it best suited you for success, what would you change? Would you change anything?
I ask those questions a lot. The most common answers include: “That would never happen.” and “I just want to punch in and punch out without anyone bothering me.” and “More money.” and “More time off.” It is rare someone will ponder for a moment and then respond with creative ideas, non-traditional approaches, result-focused plans, or even hint at a more balanced life.
In my experience, employers have been fearful and even voiced their strong reservations about the concepts I suggest about how people work. That is expected. When people confuse freedom with chaos, it takes some time to understand the true culture shift – from control to support. However, when it is the employees who show a lack of interest in creating change, that is when it is most challenging. Without employees belief in the possibility of change, the culture will stagnate.
So, though your manager may be uber strict and your company culture stuck in the 1950′s, if given the opportunity to make changes….would you?
For those who believe owning a business is the accomplishment, I’ve got a question to ask you. Why are you in business?
If you’re in business to simply be in business, the days must seem empty and feel draining. I say that respectfully. If, at the end of the day, your only concern is that you have survived to “do business” another day, how fulfilling is that? How motivating is that?
Your business needs to be about something greater than a transaction. It needs to be about making a difference. Connecting people to something greater (product, service, experience). Having a sense of purpose is far more valuable than having business plan. In essence, it’s more about the why than the what.
If you and the employees of your business can’t attach to the why, the what will suffer.
Work should be the driver, the motivation, the inspiration, and yes, the reward. Between employees who take jobs for every reason but the work and employers who focus on everything but the work, realizing this can be difficult. Hell, it can be soul crushing.
This is why I believe education must be the first step in the hiring process. During one’s education, students should be challenged to think about the world. They should be encouraged to discover what their talents and gifts are and how such things can affect the world. Students need to be given time, resources, and inspiration to realize their authenticity rather than be conformed to fit some hiring standard.
How organizations establish its culture (rules, policies, processes, structure, etc) needs to become more fluid and adaptable. To continue believing one-size-fits-all is not only inaccurate, but also may be limiting the potential of hiring some truly special people. Orgs should be recruiting people to “do great work” not “work at a great place.” Giving people freedom to discover how their talents can deliver organizational objectives can be transformative.
Organizations invest so much time, effort, and money into trying to make the workplace fun and happy. Please stop. It’s usually quite embarrassing. Adult sing-a-longs, funny shirt Tuesdays, and bring your pet to work Fridays are lame and often times, awkward.
I mean really, who doesn’t enjoy a dog crapping under their desk while the owner is cluelessly singing a horrible rendition of Celebration in a hideous Hawaiian shirt?
What organizations need to focus on is making work fun and happy. Give employees the freedom to get creative with customer service. Ask them to make fun, informative videos for customers. Ask them to create blog content about the company or industry and allow their personalities to shine through.
The workplace is the stage. The employees are the players. The work is the play. Have fun. Be awesome.
Sit Down Sundayis a series meant for you to take a break from the hustle and bustle of your life and sit down to have your soul touched, your mind expanded, and your heart warmed. I hope you enjoy and are inspired by these stories, videos, images, and thoughts…
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Car Charging Stations Come to Rosslyn Office Building
"Juice Bars" are now in two parking garages at 1000 and 1100 Wilson Boulevard.
A Rosslyn office building recently installed the area’s first workplace electric car charging stations.
The stations, called “Juice Bars," were installed at the MPARK parking garage at 1000 and 1100 Wilson Boulevard. Two cars can be charged at a time, and motorists who park in the “Tower” buildings can park there for free. The Connecticut-based Juice Bar company installs the stations.
Tim Helmig, executive vice president and chief development officer of the building’s property manager, Monday Properties, said in a prepared statement the stations were installed to support “sustainability and property operations.”
In the near future, the management company will install a second Juice Bar at 1101 Wilson Boulevard, the largest parking garage in Rosslyn, according to a press release from the company.
The company will also add as many as 15 charging stations at 1812 North Moore Street, which is set to open in 2013.
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Cooking the decline [update 5]
In Wagner’s opera ‘Twilight of the Gods,’ Hagen is the character who turns fact into fantasy, poisons everything with lies and finally, inevitably, stabs the hero in the back – all in an attempt to grab the gold and gain power over the whole world.
Appropriate then that Hagen’s name appears in name of the city that will almost certainly represent the twilight of either the climate scam or the industry of the free-ish world.
The stakes are that big. Even Al Gore and the scientists exposed by ClimateGate say so – albeit in different words. This could either be the last big push for the warmist con job, or its last hurrah.
The stakes are being upped at the very time that the “science is settled” mob are being shown up as the scamsters many of us have always suspected them of being – because with the release of the “ClimateGate” emails and data, it’s now apparent that “the science” has been “settled” largely by unscientific means.
In simple words, by hiding the decline, cooking the figures, and then deleting the raw data – or in NIWA’s case by massaging it –deleting it rather than releasing it, and finally by barring those who do disagree with the warmist consensus from publishing their work.
Talk about manufacturing consensus out of botched cloth. As even guests on the pro-warmist BBC are now allowed to say, “CRU's programming is 'below commercial standards'.” And not just the programming.
The models on which all the climate projections are based are bosh.
The programming itself is botched.
The raw temperature data is either lost, or deleted.
The collection of the raw temperature data itself is seriously flawed.
The collectors for the word’s CO2 data, used to make the link between temperature and AGW, are discovered to be sited near either volcanoes or exhaust stacks.
It is an Emperor’s New Clothes moment, people. When all that is not gold is washed away from the alleged science, what is left is not truth but only the cyanide used to remove gold from its ore: Not truth, only poison.
Just imagine if climate “researchers” became doctors!
Effectively conceding that his colleagues have been hurt by the recent revelations, Engineer Pachauri --that non-scientist who heads up the alleged scientists of the IPPC -- told BBC Radio just before the Copenhagen that there must be a full investigation of the revelations contained in e-mails and documents leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). And the UK’s Met Office announced it would fully reexamine its temperature records to ensure the records are accurate and reliable, even though the re-examination could take three years, is opposed by the British government, and is now being used by the word’s governments to bring down genuine calamity on the world’s producers and taxpayers..
Fact is, their data are so diseased they're all but useless for anything but government work.
If this wasn’t just politics, the gathering at Copenhagen and the Climategate revelation would between them be the Emperor’s New Clothes moment for warmists we all knew was coming.
Nonetheless, even as the basis of their religio-mongering is challenged on the conference floor at Copenhagen, the Climate Change circus cruises along midst the snow and ice of a Scandinavian winter – propelled by 1200 limousines, 140 private jets, free sex, faked figures, massaged projections and phony assumptions used to justify the biggest worldwide tax grab in history on industry, progress and human development.
UPDATE 1: Kevin Green at AEI reckons that when it comes to reacting to a changing climate, adaptation beats strangulation in any case:
The Earth's climate is prone to sharp changes over fairly short periods of time. Plans that focus simply on stopping climate change are unlikely to succeed; fluctuations in the Earth's climate predate humanity. Rather than try to make the climate static, policymakers should focus on implementing resilience strategies to enable adaptation to a dynamic, changing climate. Resilience strategies can be successful if we eliminate current risk subsidies and privatize infrastructure.
In other words, whatever the failing science says, the best approach is to leave people free to adapt, not so smothered in red tape and taxes that any adaptation is impossible. As my colleague Bernard Darnton says,
UPDATE 2: I can’t resist taking a couple of excerpts out of Mark Steyn’s column, to which I made only a passing link above:
The science is so settled it’s now perfectly routine for leaders of the developed world to go around sounding like apocalyptic madmen of the kind that used to wander the streets wearing sandwich boards and handing out homemade pamphlets. Governments that are incapable of—to pluck at random—enforcing their southern border, reducing waiting times for routine operations to below two years, or doing something about the nightly ritual of car-torching “youths,” are nevertheless taken seriously when they claim to be able to change the very heavens—if only they can tax and regulate us enough. As they will if they reach ‘consensus’ at Copenhagen. . .
“How did we reach this point? Ah, well. Like the proverbial sausage factory, you never want to look too closely at how the science gets settled. The other day, a whole bunch of electronic documents most probably leaked by a disaffected insider from the prestigious Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia were posted online . . .
“[P]erhaps the most important revelation is not the collusion, the bullying, the politicization and the evidence-planting, but the fact that, even if you wanted to do honest ‘climate research’ at the Climatic Research Unit, the data and the models are now so diseased by the above that they’re all but useless.
“Let Ian ‘Harry’ Harris, who works in ‘climate scenario development and data manipulation’ at the CRU, sum it up. Mr. Harris was attempting to duplicate previous results—i.e., to duplicate all that science that’s supposedly settled, and the questioning of which consigns you to the Climate Branch of the Flat Earth Society. How hard should it be to confirm settled science? After much cyber-gnashing of teeth, Harry throws in the towel:
“ ‘ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently—I have no memory of this at all—we’re not doing observed rain days! It’s all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I’m going to need conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF happens to station counts?
“ ‘OH F–K THIS. It’s Sunday evening, I’ve worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I’m hitting yet another problem that’s based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found.’
“Thus spake the Settled Scientist: ‘OH F–K THIS.’ And on the basis of ‘OH F–K THIS’ the world’s enlightened progressives will assemble at Copenhagen for the single greatest advance in punitive liberalism ever perpetrated on the developed world. . .
“Some in the political class go along because it’s too much effort to resist. A few are presumably true believers. But what a lot of the rest like about ‘global warming’ is the ‘global’ bit: you can’t do anything about it at town or county or even national level. No, sir, we need a ‘global’ response. Fortunately, as Herman Van Rompuy, ‘president’ of ‘Europe,’ puts it: 2009 is the first year of global governance.’
“That’s great news, isn’t it? I would urge the delegates at Copenhagen to listen to the experts and issue a comprehensive statement fully reflecting the rigorous scientific evidence. Here’s my draft:
“' ‘OH F–K THIS.’ ”
UPDATE 3: ClimateGate makes the NZ mainstream media--well, the Otago Daily Times—in a thorough and very readable piece outlining some of the more notable warmist scams used in recent years to “hide the decline.”
Read The case for global warming is in serious doubt – OTAGO DAILY TIMES.
UPDATE 4: Owen McShane:
First the CRU. Then the NIWA ‘adjustments’.
Now the Darwin Smoking Gun.
“Suggest you wait an hour or so and then go to Watts Up With That, and read ‘The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero.‘
These guys are great adjusters.
There is an incredibly cheap way to address global warming.
Just go back to the original data and get rid of all these ‘adjustments.’
“There can be little doubt that the IPCC global warming is man made – just man made with an Excel spreadsheet.
“Throw the sheets into the bin, and all will be cool.”
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Sarah Entine is an award-winning documentary film director and producer. Originally diagnosed with dyslexia in 1978, she only fully comprehended her disability 23 years later, at age 29. Her film, Read Me Differently, focuses on her experience growing up with misunderstood learning disabilities that spanned three generations in her family.
Sarah has spoken to countless students, teachers, parents and service providers about her experience. Her message addresses the need to increase awareness on how learning disabilities impact family relationships. In 2010, Read Me Differently was selected for the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. Past recipients include Steven Spielberg, Ken Burns, Spike Lee, and
Watch the trailer to learn more about the movie and don’t forget to register for Conference to see Sarah!
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Starting today (Tuesday, February 23), some of my work will be on display here in Tokushima, Japan. It’s a very small, informal group show for Shikoku University’s Calligraphy Department research students (all three of us).
My contributions amount to two pieces of mediocre calligraphy, and about ninety pieces of original art from Tonoharu: Part Two. Here are the deets:
Dates: Tuesday, February 23, 2010—-Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Location: The second floor of Shikoku University Kouryuu Plaza, Tokushima, Japan
See you all there!
What’s that you say? You live on the wrong side of the planet and I haven’t given you enough notice to book a ticket to Japan? In that case, here’s a few images of what you’re “missing”… Continue reading
Sometimes I run across things that most people understand instantly & intuitively that I just can’t keep straight.
You know those faucets that just have one big handle in the middle? The left half is red to indicate hot, and the right half is blue to indicate cold. I’m guessing most people intuitively “get” which way to turn the handle to get the desired temperature. But not me. I always just turn it at random, and if I get the wrong temperature, turn it the other way.
If I took a second I could figure it out without resorting to trial and error. I get the design theory behind single handle faucets. Since the left side is red/hot, turning towards the left side means you’ll get hot water.
I think the reason it doesn’t click for me on an intuitive level is because by turning the handle towards the left, you move the red side out of your line of vision, and the blue side in. So to get hot water, you need to position the faucet so all you see is blue. It just doesn’t feel right to me, dammit!
Another simple concept I can’t intuitively get relates to blogs. Most blogs show the newest 10-20 entries on the front page, and you can click a link to see older ones. When you get to the bottom of the second page, you can either continue on and read even older entries, or return to the front page.
Now: when the links say “newer entries” and “older entries” or something like that, I’m fine. But oftentimes, it just says “Next” and “Previous”, and I can never keep them straight. “Next” takes you to a new page (which has older entries), and the “Previous” takes you to the page you were on before (which has newer entries). So if you want to see previously written stuff, you don’t click “Previous”, you click “Next”. I always click the wrong one, and end up on the wrong page. I’m dumb.
Whenever we meet someone from, say, Thailand, we do our best to simulate the native pronunciation of their name. The Thai way of saying it is considered to be “correct”, and when our English-speaking tongues are unable to faithfully recreate the sounds, we sheepishly apologize for our substandard approximation.
I was surprised to learn recently that this idea, that people’s names have an absolute “correct” pronunciation, isn’t universal. I was talking to a Japanese grad student named Ms. Kawai, who had recently returned from a year abroad in China. During the course of our conversation, she mentioned that her Chinese friends and colleagues called her Chuan-He. When I asked why, she told me that Chuan-He is the way the characters that make up her name are pronounced in Chinese.
Apparently, “translating” Japanese names into the Chinese pronunciation is not at all uncommon. This speaks to underlying differences between English and Chinese.
The English written language is tied to sounds. The letter “M” doesn’t mean anything, it simply represents an “mmm” sound. Only by stringing letters together do we get words that have meaning.
The Chinese written language, on the other hand, is tied to meaning. Each Chinese character intrinsically represents a concept.
Pronunciation in Chinese can vary wildly depending on what dialect you’re speaking. Someone who grew up speaking Mandarin Chinese wouldn’t understand a word of Cantonese Chinese. In fact Mandarin and Cantonese are different enough that they would probably be called different languages (rather than just dialects of the same language) if it weren’t for the common writing system. Pronunciation isn’t absolute in written Chinese, meaning is. So rather than struggle with the Japanese pronunciation of a Japanese name, they just say it the Chinese way.
Isn’t that interesting?
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NEWS BRIEF: "Bringing a very good thing to light", by Cal Thomas, TownHall.com, 5/27/2002, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20020527.shtml
"General Electric, which traces its history to 1878 when Thomas Edison established the Edison Electric Light Company, has been responsible for enhancing the quality of human life in many ways. It adds to that tradition with a new ultrasound device that allows doctors and parents to look inside the womb of a pregnant woman and see the image of a baby in 'real-time 4D' rather than the more difficult to read traditional '2D' image.
"GE is running a TV commercial that's more exciting to watch than most programs. It shows the face of a woman as she reacts to seeing her baby for the first time. We also see her husband, an unusual twist on TV. If this scene doesn't touch you in the deepest recesses of your heart, the device could determine whether you have a heart. There's also a Web site where the commercial can be viewed (www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/4d/index.html). Over the song, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," an announcer says, "When you see your baby for the first time on the new GE 4D Ultrasound system, it really is a miracle." [NOTE: "4-D" refers to the fact that this new machine shows the baby moving in real time, giving the fourth dimension.]
We encourage you to stop reading this article now and go to: http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/4d/index.html
You will find yourself weeping as you witness the little life within the mother's womb; tears will flow as you see the commercial G.E. has produced showing a very happy Mom and Dad as they first examine the "4-D" Ultrasound picture of their baby moving, with lips moving as if talking; your heart will gladden as the commercial depicts the baby born and in Mother's arms.
You will find yourself weeping when you realize we are murdering 1,500,000 of these pre-born babies per year in this "Christian" country today. You will further sorrow when you realize America has murdered over 40,000,000 [40 million] such precious infants within the womb since Roe vs Wade became the law of the land in 1963. You will truly understand that America has rejected her Christian national foundation [Seminar 1] and has become a post-Christian, neo-Pagan country.
Now, let us return to this feature article for some more exciting news about this new 4-D machine.
"... this device may have some unintended consequences in the cultural battle over the meaning and value of human life. The clarity of the image resembles a high quality photograph. Everyone who sees such a picture will find it extremely difficult to regard the image as anything but that of a baby; not a 'fetus,' not a 'product of conception,' not disembodied tissue. The hands move. So does the head. Does the baby's status change because the parents love him or her and want their child to be delivered safely so they can hold in their arms what the mother now holds in her womb? Or does the child inherit an intrinsic right to life separate from what politicians, lawyers, judges and even the woman herself might think?
"In more than 30 years of speaking to pregnancy help centers, I've met hundreds of women who've had abortions. Virtually all have told me that if they'd seen a picture of their baby, they would have made a different choice. They've also told me that many abortion clinics turn sonogram machines in such a way that the mother is prevented from seeing her baby's image on the screen."
I find it highly incredible that abortion clinics desire the abortion so badly that they will actually turn their sonogram machine away from the Mother so she cannot see the picture of her pre-born child! Planned Parenthood has always told us that they are carrying out the abortion because they want only the best for the pregnant mother. Yet, here we see them taking actions purposefully designed to prevent the Mother from killing her child!
We have already addressed that issue. In NEWS1068, we demonstrate that abortionists want to kill babies! We report an article written by journalist Charles Krauthammer in which he asked abortion doctors why they continue to do "partial birth" abortions when they know the procedure is highly damaging to a woman's reproductive system, making a high percentage of the women sterile who have had this type of abortion. The doctor's bold and clear answer reveals the true nature of the abortion industry.
" 'Why do any partial-birth abortions, then?' " [Krauthammer]
Krauthammer then answers the question. "'The only possible 'advantage'
of partial-birth abortion, if you can call it that, is that it guarantees a
dead baby at the time of delivery.' " [Dr. Curtis Cook, a specialist in
If you do not believe that the abortion industry exists only to maximize the number of dead babies per year, listen to the next statement, from yet another abortionist.
""Dr. Martin Haskell, the country's leading partial-birth abortion practitioner, was asked (by the American Medical News) why he didn't just dilate the woman's uterus a little bit more and allow a live baby to come out. Answer: 'The point is here, you're attempting to do an abortion ... not to see how do I manipulate the situation so that I get a live birth instead.' " ["Truth or Consequences In Abortion Issue", by Charles Krauthammer Editorial Column, The Buffalo News, March 14, 1997, p. RC-3.]
The point is, in other words, to deliberately kill as many babies as possible, to kill as many babies as you can persuade expectant mothers to allow you to kill them! And, to get filthy rich by charging the Federal Government lots and lots of money to do the killing!
Remember, Satan views human sacrifices as being very precious to him; further, the younger the victim, the more precious he finds it, and the more power he pours forth upon the earth. Therefore, killing pre-born victims within the mother's womb is the most precious of all human sacrifices.
It is no accident that, as America began to destroy and remove its original Christian Values Foundation that Roe Vs Wade was declared by the Supreme Court. As God was about to allow Satan to move upon America, one of Satan's first acts was to provide a steady flow of precious human sacrifices. Thus, you can see the accuracy of this Illuminist Satanic symbol, above. In order to achieve the New World Order, Satan planned for huge numbers of human sacrifices, from abortion, to infanticide, to euthanasia, and to war.
In this feature article, above, Cal Thomas concludes his expose' on this new ultrasound technology by stating that Congress and state legislatures ought to pass laws requiring mothers to see their babies prior to giving final consent to an abortion. He believes that if a mother with normal maternal instincts were to see her tiny baby within her, moving and pursuing his/her lips, America would have a lot less abortions.
We absolutely concur. This goal is worthy of every Christian's active support. Pro-Abortion groups have gone to great lengths to disguise the fact that a woman is carrying a baby! Instead of calling it a "baby", they call it a "fetus", "tissue mass", and a number of other terms that disguise the reality from the mother.
A Cutting Edge subscriber, Dr. Mark Lowney, is an obstetrician with offices in East Providence, Rhode Island. He has actively jumped on this new technology, which he explains on his Home Page, http://www.babys1stimpressions.com/f5.html
You can see the pictures of a live baby within a mother's womb by clicking on "The Viewing Womb" on his Home Page. Dr. Lowney has purchased a state-of-the-art 3D Ultrasound machine and does charge reasonable fees for a mother to use it. However, Dr. Lowney will waive his fee for any woman who is currently contemplating an abortion! He rightly believes, as a Born Again Christian, that most mothers will refuse an abortion once they see that the "fetus" they are carrying is a genuine baby! Some mothers have already made just that decision.
You may call his office at 401-486-7741.
END OF THE AGE PROPHECIES
We wish to allow God the final word on this matter. Once you read these prophecies, you can see how very close we are to the End of the Age.
What does the Bible say about this whole "Culture of Death" we have allowed to creep into American society?
1) Proverbs 8:36b, "all they that hate me love death."
From this verse, we can only conclude that the reason American society today is so caught up in a love affair with death, and its blackness, is that we hate God.
2) Romans 6:23a, "For the wages of sin is death;"
3) Jeremiah 12:17, "But if they [any nation] will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD." God underscores the gravity of the repeated sin situation in a nation, by swearing by His Holy Name that He will utterly, completely, pluck up a rebellious sinful nation and destroy it, just as a gardener would pluck up a plant and tear it out of the ground, with the root system still intact. God must destroy America now, as I fervently believe we have crossed the line of inevitable judgment with Him, with our sorceries [witchcrafts], our murders of the innocent and helpless, and our entire litany of national sins. Certainly, America has reached the point where "For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double." (Revelation 18:5-6) Since we believe this warning, given to the Economic Babylon of Revelation 18, may be the United States [Read Radio Transcript CE1038], we urge you to fully comprehend the serious, urgent nature of our national condition before God!!
4) Matthew 18:10, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." While some scholars may argue that this term, "little ones" refers to the spiritually immature born again Christians, we cannot dispute this Scripture where Jesus lovingly stated, "Suffer [allow] the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." (Mark 10:14)
God loves and protects the little children, and will dispense unlimited judgment and eternal punishment for child abusers and child killers at the day of judgment. Satan, on the other hand, hates little children, and calls them to be sacrificed to him. Thus, we can justifiably call these abortionists -- especially partial-birth abortionists -- practitioners of Satanism. They will welcome the coming of Antichrist, for their type of trade will be in great demand in his shortly lived kingdom!
This type of unnatural sin is part and parcel of the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies about the End of the Age. In 2 Timothy 3:1-4, the Apostle Paul lists the personal characteristics of those unsaved people who will be living in the "Last Days". Read carefully portions of this Scripture:
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, ... unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, ... fierce, despisers of those that are good ... lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;"
Doesn't this Scripture adequately describe the people of today, of American
society, of Western society? Do not be deceived. This "Culture of Death",
where we are murdering our babies, our elderly, our sick, and others who are
deemed "unworthy of life" is a very, very strong indicator of the
approaching footsteps of Antichrist.
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but have come to realize His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to accept His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can also do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you accept Him as Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually.
If you would like to become Born Again, turn to our Salvation Page now.
We hope you have been blessed by this ministry, which seeks to educate and warn people, so that they can see the coming New World Order -- Kingdom of Antichrist -- in their daily news.
Finally, we would love to hear from you.
You can contact us by mail or email.
God bless you.
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The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley was a nursery staple in England long after it was first published in 1863. This copy, which turned up for me at the flea market this week, is inscribed "1923." Almost an antique at ninety years old! This fairy tale novel with a moral message has been through a great number of printings with various illustrators since then. W. H. Lister illustrated this copy, but I found that all but two of the illustrations have been removed. I bought it for two dollars, very close to its actual current value I imagine. But I see that it was once priced at thirty five.
Seeing that it has no publishing date, I gave a look online to see if it was possibly a first edition. Almost four hundred entries later, and under hypnosis, I had to take a nap after all that scrolling! But I still didn't find my edition. No matter. I got it just for it's old book charm.
Loretta Gardner was gifted this little gem for Christmas by her Mother in 1923. I love the dreamy bird and cloud sketches of the end papers. It seems to have been both very well read and cared for.
Very well worn after nearly a hundred years!
I also found it amusing to find water marks on the pages of a book with the title, The Water Babies.
I never owned this book, but I have seen it in the collections of others. Tons of folks of a certain generation grew up with some edition of it on their shelf, and there are still tons in existence.
Old children's books are so adorable! And the samples of other illustrations of this story that I saw on line are so fanciful. Did you have a copy as a child? The books we owned as a children can leave such a lasting impression. My Mother is long gone, but I can still hear her "reading voice" as she read to me as a child. I wonder if my own children will remember mine. . . .
We had a windy day here in the land of enchantment. A sure sign of spring coming on! Cheers to you!
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Written by PETA
Update: Michael Jackson has announced that he will not be using any live animals in his concert series at London's O2 arena. Click here for more info.
The King of Pop has a sordid past when it comes to the way he treats animals, but we were still shocked by Michael Jackson's reported plans to ride an African elephant and use other exotic animals during his upcoming 30-day stint at The O2 arena in London.
PETA Europe wrote a letter to The O2 to let officials there know about Michael's sketchy track record of animal neglect. The letter included some basic information about how exotic animals actually don't want to perform stupid tricks on a stage surrounded by screaming people, bright lights, and stage explosions.
So come on, Michael, pull a "Britney" and leave exotic animals out of your performances.
Written by Shawna Flavell
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Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.
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There’s rarely a chance these days to witness musicians who represent both the roots and evolution of a genre.
In the ’60s, for instance, you could see music history being written in Jazz clubs all over the country, featuring artists who were not just masterful players but creating and expanding an entire musical tradition. Their names are still meaningful today; even those unfamiliar with Jazz music have heard about Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie and know their vital contributions to Jazz.
On Sunday, Cincinnatians will have the opportunity to experience musicians of this stature in the genre of Cuban music: the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Anyone unfamiliar with Afro-Cuban music need only think of the documentary film Buena Vista Social Club, which helped rocket Cuban music into the modern mainstream. The link between both of these ensembles, which are essentially made up of the same members but have slightly different sounds and separate identities, is Juan de Marcos González, who plays tres (a Cuban guitar) and writes the band’s compositions.
González, the son of famous Cuban singer Marcos González Mauriz, founded a traditional Son ensemble called Sierra Maestra, which recorded a very successful album in London called Dundumbanza in 1994 on the World Circuit label. In 1995, he received backing to put together a tribute album honoring the golden period of Cuban music from the ’50s, the type of music his father played.
The result was two albums. The first, A Toda Cuba le Gusta, incorporated a big band playing Cuban music from the ’50s—featured more than 60 musicians and received a Grammy nomination. The second utilized the same lineup of musicians, but a much smaller brass section and focused on the sophisticated Cuban music of the ’30s and ’40s — this album is what came to be known as the Buena Vista Social Club.
In 1997, these musicians began to tour under the name Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Cuban music is exciting and infectious; González refers to it as “a kind of cultural cocaine.” Characterized by highly syncopated rhythms and catchy melodies, the music is meant for dancing.
González says the 15-piece band will play a repertoire representing various periods in Cuban music history, from old favorites to contemporary tunes. They’ll also play some of the songs that garnered them six Grammy nominations and one win, as well as new songs from an album they plan to record in late summer.
The new album will be titled Breaking the Rules, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the embargo, which was extended in 2003 to include touring Cuban musicians. González says that from 1994 to 2003 Cuban musicians could perform in the U.S. and were successful. According to him, certain lobbyists blocked Cuban bands from performing here for fear that money they made might be directed into Fidel Castro’s coffers.
Members of the Afro-Cuban All Stars live all over the world, from Mexico, Sweden and Denmark to Canada and the Netherlands, and were able to get third- party visas to come for this U.S. tour — the first time a Cuban band has toured this country in six years.
“We are going to break the rules imposed by politicians,” González says. “It’s going to be a beautiful thing that says, ‘Cuba is only one.’ We have only one flag, one sprit and one culture.”
Besides creating high quality and popular recordings, González’s efforts are also preserving a musical culture that otherwise might be lost. Several of the original Buena Vista Social Club members have died; six of the original members will be on this U.S. tour.
Like the Jazz greats of the ’50s and ’60s, many Cuban musical giants are either advanced in age or have passed away. In order to help continue the tradition, González makes a point of including promising young players in his groups to help create the next generation of musicians.
He also looks to create new generations of listeners, by exposing people all over the world to Cuban music and educating them in understanding what it really is.
“We try to cover a very huge period of the history of Cuban music,” González says. “We play from the very traditional styles such as Danzon or Cha Cha Cha up to the very contemporary styles of Cuban music, what we call the Timba.
“Salsa is a commercial term to describe Cuban music of the ’50s with contemporary arrangements. What you call Latin Jazz is an improper name of what we call Afro-Cuban Jazz, because there is nothing from Columbia or Panama or Chile or Argentina in the Jazz. The basis of the music is Cuban.”
González and the Afro-Cuban All Stars are eminent entertainers, but they also take their job seriously.
“Our goal is to bring a piece of happiness, so that people will leave the concert feeling a little stronger in order to fight with the problems (they) have,” he says. “My music is plainly Cuban music. But we (see) ourselves as Cuban ambassadors.”
THE AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS perform Sunday at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Buy tickets, check out performance times and find nearby bars and restaurants here.
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The transportation requires several road closures and adjustments to be made to bridges, but Dean said it is "well thought out and its very well planned.""It takes a comprehensive effort by all of the ...
Note that the transformer on this pole was only stored there: no were there leads connected. As I understand it, power utilities cut off poles that have been weakened, move their salvaged components to a lower point while safely disconnected, and set new poles.
Note that this pole has been red-flagged to alert utility crews that it is to be replaced and has been rendered safe for the moment.
High-tension leads running along poles must come within no less than 37 feet from the ground, transformers must be mounted no less than 31 feet from the ground, lights and other fixtures must come no closer than 28 feet from the ground, and other lines must come no closer than 19 feet from the ground.
Apparently this pole rotted out at the top and had been cut off preparatory to replacement.
If you still have power, then you are feeding from another transformer. The utility will keep all their customers advised. In any case transformers are not designed to be stored on the bottom of the cans once they have been installed. It is not an uncommon practice.
Rocmike you do know how to google but you do not have the intelligence to understand or apply it.
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Local Rotary clubs hope to offer comfort to families of preemies
By Bonnie Adams, Managing Editor
Region – When a baby is born prematurely, parents often experience a host of emotions including anxiety, fear and depression. While they of course want to be by their little one’s side, that is not always possible, especially when the hospitalization is, as is often in cases of preemies, quite lengthy. But now parents whose babies are patients in the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Worcester have another way to stay in touch when they can’t be there in person –a special web camera that allows them to see their child via real-time video.
According to Dr. Alan Picarillo, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UMass Memorial, there are on average 49 babies at any given time in the NICU, with the average stay just over three weeks. But because of the expense – $1,200 each – there are only six cameras. So the cameras are placed on IV poles so they can be rolled around the unit so they can be shared.
Ideally, Picarillo said, there will someday be a camera permanently located at each incubator so every family could partake of the service dubbed NICview.”
That’s where local Rotary clubs have stepped in. Led by the Rotary Club of Worcester, clubs from Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Uxbridge, Westborough, Marlborough, Montachusett, Sturbridge and Wachusett have come together to raise monies for additional cameras.
Roy Balfour, who is a member of the Shrewsbury Rotary Club as well as a District 7910 assistant governor, is helping to facilitate the Rotary’s involvement in the project.
The Rotarians “overwhelmingly” agreed to support the project when they first heard about it, he said.
“As Rotarians viewed it, it’s time to step up now to help our neighbors to 24/7 monitor their critical care newborns. To wait would only mean there will be a family that will lose this once-in-a-lifetime valuable bonding period with their child,” Balfour explained. “The impact affects families all over central Mass. served by the 49 unit UMass Memorial NICU.”
Rotarians have raised funds to purchase 14 cameras thus far and are hoping to be able to purchase an additional 23.
Picarillo said he is thrilled with the efforts of the Rotarians.
“They really just came out of the blue with an offer to help,” he said. “They have been tremendous.”
Families are also enthusiastic about using the cameras, he noted.
“We thought it would be a fad and die out, but it’s been just the opposite,” he said. “The response has been incredible.”
Sometimes the mother goes back to work so she can save her maternity time for when the baby comes home, Picarillo said. Utilizing the NICview system allows her to check in on the baby from her work. Some families have logged in through their home gaming systems so the baby can be viewed on a television screen while they dine or go about their nighttime rituals.
“We’ve had people log onto the system from 70 different Mass. towns, 39 states, 10 or 11 different countries and every continent except Australia,” he said. “We’ve had military personnel log from Afghanistan and a U.S. Naval ship in the Persian Gulf.”
“Of course the parents want to be with their babies 24/7,” he added. “This helps to cushion the blow of them leaving a bit.”
There is no charge for this service, he said.
“We emphasize family-centered care here,” he said. “We see this as a natural extension of that. It’s another way of allowing families to be involved in their baby’s care at every step.”
Funds have also been donated from the Rotary Foundation District Matching Grant Foundation, Balfour said. Local businesses Southbridge Savings Bank and United Lens have also donated funds through their local Rotary clubs.
“Rotary is a long way from finishing the job and looking to involve other Central Mass. Rotary clubs, individual donors and businesses to source the remaining 23 cameras,” he added.
For more information or to donate to the project, contact Balfour at [email protected].
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Signs stand in front of the General Motors world headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The U.S. Treasury will sell its remaining stake in the company over the next year or so.
The day has finally arrived. The U.S. Treasury will sell off its stake in General Motors, the automaker that, along with Chrysler, was bailed out in 2009 before it declared bankruptcy and returned to the public markets via a massive $20 billion IPO in 2010.
The government put $50 million into GM and has gotten back about $30 billion. That figure includes a pre-loaded GM buyback of 200 million of its own shares from the Treasury at $27.50 a pop, a modest premium on Tuesday's closing price that amounts to $5.5 billion.
The remaining $2o billion (more or less) and the government's 300 remaining shares will be dealt with in slow motion fashion over the next 15 months, to avert a big dump of shares on the market. To make back the $20 billion, GM's stock price would have to rise to $72, a highly unlikely event. So the Treasury is admitting that it will "lose" money on the deal.
GM, for its part, has agitated for a share buyback for some time. It wants to shed the "Government Motors" tag and go after higher-priced executives (the Treasury's capped compensation as a condition of the bailout). GM execs also want their private jets back.
The decision to allow GM to do the buyback and the Treasury's engagement in an orderly equity liqudation isn't a surprise. The Treasury wasn't going to hold on to its stake forever, and now that the election's over, nobody can use the taxpayer loss on the bailout as a campaign issue.
Now the debate can move on to a critical question:
Q: Was the bailout worth it?
A: It was, for various reasons, but one critical reasons that rarely gets highlighted (Except by certain auto journalists...). Here's Matt Yglesias at Slate, in the context of arguing that the GM bailout was worthwhile for policy purposes, totally unrelated to making money:
The total collapse of the Michigan-centered auto industry would, for better or for worse, have opened up new market opportunities for other automaker with production facilities located elsewhere.
Maybe. But it would have taken a long time, and remember that in 2010 the U.S. auto market cratered. Then, in 2011, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami decimated Toyota's and Honda's saw their supply chains. If GM hadn't been bailed out, it wouldn't have been able to enter a restructuring bankruptcy, despite allegations to the contrary by Mitt Romney, because the credit markets were locked up and there wasn't enough private financing available for a massive corporate Chapter 11.
Liquidation would have followed. Chrysler was also headed for bankruptcy and in position to fill the massive hole in production that GM's demise would have left. Ford avoided the bailout but saw its business nearly collapse in 2009 (its stock price fell below $2 a share a one point). At the time, GM held about a fifth of the U.S. market. The Japanese and the Germans couldn't have filled that void. Neither would they have wanted to in the upper Midwest — they build their plants in southern right to work states, where the United Auto Workers holds no sway.
The upshot of all this is that when the auto industry did begin to bounce back strongly last year — a highlight in an otherwise weak recovery — there would have been a car shortage. A shortage! At a time when the average age of a vehicle on the U.S. road was 11 years, an all-time record, and when pent-up demand was pushing annual new vehicle sales toward what will likely be more than 15 million this year.
Q: What about Midwestern auto workers?
A: The Center for Automotive Research [via CNN] estimated earlier this year than no bailout would have ultimately cost the government upwards of $100 billion or more in social welfare payouts to GM's army of unemployed workers and in lost tax revenues. So, no bailout would have meant double the cost. Spend $50 billion to avoid spending $100 billion. If you think that through, you can turn the Treasury's "loss" into a double-its-money gain.
Q: Did the United Auto Workers pull off an incredible deal with the bailout?
A: You hear this all time from bailout critics: That the UAW and its benefits fund were moved to the front of the bankruptcy line, a political move designed by the Obama Administration to secure labor support. GM's debtholders got elbowed aside and the UAW wound up owning the company. Mitt Romney called this "crony capitalism," but PolitFact dismantled that argument. What really happened was that the UAW's benefits trust received GM equity in exchange for abandoning claims against the company, said Steve Rattner, the former investment banker and New York Times journalist who served as the "Car Czar." There was pain to be shared all around in the bailout and bankruptcy. And it didn't spare the UAW.
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By Richard Reeves
LOS ANGELES -- Let me ask you a question: If you were running Iran, would you try to develop nuclear weapons?
Apparently the editors of the Los Angeles Times would also answer Yes.
The lead editorial in Fridays Times was comment on the release of the U.S. governments latest National Security Strategy. Thats the one in which President Bushs introduction begins, America is at war, and then goes on to specifically name Iran as an enemy of the United States. The document also reiterates the U.S. commitment to pre-emptive or preventive war.
The Times puts it this way:
In invading Iraq, Bush has created his own nightmare. Iraq is now a magnet for jihadists. And Iran is even more determined to develop nuclear weapons to forestall a fate similar to Iraqs. ... A document that names as enemies Iran and North Korea ... provides all the justification those regimes need for a nuclear deterrent of their own. And it virtually guarantees a continuation of the very proliferation that Bush has identified as the greatest threat of all.
In plainer language, the bomb is the symbol of maturity in the world today. Nations that have the bomb are treated as grown-ups. Nations without the bomb get no respect. To many Iranians, not all of them fanatic clerics who dress funny, building a bomb is the only protection against Americans trying to take over their world. Non-proliferation would make more sense if you are not afraid of the Americans.
Again, what would you do? The United States says it is at war, you are the enemy, and it will strike first if it decides that is in its national interest. But that is not likely to happen if you have nuclear weapons.
That is a lesson learned for many bad guys -- including Saddam Hussein. It seems that the reason the Iraqi tyrant was pretending to have weapons of mass destruction was not to scare the Americans, but to deter the Iranians. According to the new book by Michael Gordon and retired general Bernard Trainor, Cobra II, Saddam was afraid that if Iran knew that Iraq no longer had stocks of poison gas -- both sides used gas in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988 -- then Iran might not be deterred if it had visions of moving into southern Iraq.
President Bush, judging from the 49-page National Security Strategy, seems to have learned no lesson, including the fact that America is not really at war. The government and its volunteer military and the new brand of privatized paramilitary corporations are at war. But the whole thing is just television to most of the citizenry -- at least, those who do not have servicemen and women in the family, or do not have a financial stake in keeping this thing going.
Besides, this adventure is not going to be paid for by us, but by our children and grandchildren, who will be the ones paying the bills. In case you do not follow such things, the national debt has increased by 50 percent during this administration.
War, to me, is not the most disturbing word in the strategy document. What scares me is the word our. As in: It is the policy of the United States to seek and support democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
It is not our world. It is the world, still a planet of nations wallowing in their own history, ambition, fantasies -- and self-interests. The American fantasy these days is that we are better than other people and they all want to be just like us.
What other people want is what we have, things. Things like cars and iPods, clean water and good health. And they want us to leave them alone or treat them as grown-ups.
We are drowning in our own hype. If God really made us so much better than other people, we would have been able to beat the South Koreans and Mexicans in the opening rounds of the World Baseball Classic last week.
2006 Universal Press Syndicate
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Forgiving someone isn’t easy. Believe me, I know from personal experience! But I also know that it is possible. With promises found in scriptures like Philippians 4:13 (AMP), we can do whatever we need to do with God’s power:
Many of you know that my father sexually abused me from the time I was about three years old until I was eighteen. I left home as soon as I could and carried bitterness and unforgiveness in my heart for years.
But over time, as I studied God’s Word, He began to reveal how harmful it is to live with unforgiveness and the benefits of forgiveness. I think sometimes people believe forgiveness is more about doing a favor for the person who hurt them, when actually, you are doing yourself a big favor. But the truth is, it’s because as you release the bitterness and anger in your heart, you are able to live with real peace and joy.
You may be thinking, “Ok, Joyce, I want to forgive, but it’s so hard. I don’t know if I can do it!” Well, I want to encourage you to know that in Christ, you can forgive–no matter what has been done to you.
Here are four steps you can take to genuinely forgive:
Forgiveness is about more than saying a prayer, like, “Lord, I forgive so-and-so.” Forgiveness is a serious decision you make. It’s not easy and it will probably be uncomfortable or even painful, but the reward of going through it will be worth any pain you’ve experienced.
Fortunately, we can depend on God to gain the strength needed to forgive. This means we live with a prayerful mindset and attitude: “Lord, help me not to be offended today. Keep me from unnecessary anger. If I am mad at someone, show me who it is. Give me the grace to forgive them.” (See Ephesians 4:32.)
If you’re easily offended or there’s a person in your life who just annoys you, not only do you have to decide to forgive and live in peace, but you are going to have to depend on God for the grace to do it and make it a matter of prayer.
The dictionary says that emotion means to move out and that emotions provoke psychological changes that prepare a person for action. So feelings create a desire to do something. When somebody hurts you and you feel pain, the first thing you may want to do is tell them off. You may want to get them back or you want to get away from them.
You need to know that your feelings will probably need time to catch up with your decision to forgive. Your feelings are not the real you. They’re fickle. You can feel a thousand and one different ways about the same thing. You can love somebody one minute and then you can’t stand them the next. But remember, your will gives you the ability to live beyond your feelings.
In Matthew 5:44 (AMP), Jesus instructs us to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. This has got to be the hardest thing in the whole world to do. But we don’t get out of something just because it’s hard. Whatever God asks us to do, it’s always for our benefit.
Let’s get real practical about this: If you have a coworker who gets the promotion you wanted, the minute you feel jealousy and envy, don’t just pray for them—go buy them a gift. Trust me, it will work, because when you do that, it breaks the power of the devil! (See Romans 12:21.)
One time I found out somebody who did business with our ministry was saying unkind things about me. I was mad and wanted to tell the guy off, but God told me to buy him a gift instead and thank him for all his years of service. At first it wasn’t easy. But when I put action behind it, I became filled with so much joy I actually laughed out loud.
Today, you have the choice to overcome evil with good and find a new level of joy you didn’t know was possible by choosing to forgive. I want to encourage you to do yourself a favor and make the right choice. Forgive.
This article is taken from Joyce's four-CD series, Do Yourself a Favor…Forgive.
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Members of the Rotary Club of Columbia County met a few times in the past two weeks firming up the final details of what they hope will be the biggest and best Fire Fest so far.
The free fire prevention and education festival is slated for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Doctors Hospital field behind the Evans Kroger shopping center on Washington Road.
One of last year's most popular attractions, the firefighters' muster competition, will return. At least six firefighting teams will compete in several fire-related events such as hose relays, a water-barrel shoot and a tug-of-war.
"That is the first draw of this festival," said Larry Lynn, Rotary club member and event organizer. "This is a great venue for firefighters to put on the muster events. (The teams) are good, and what they do is amazing."
The festival also will feature hot-air balloon rides and pony rides, and displays from the Gold Cross and Georgia Forestry Commission helicopters.
Blue Ridge Elementary School pupil Jessie Arnold, 8, waits as Christopher Punch, 8, runs out of the Martinez Fire Department fire safety house Thursday.
Photo by Valerie Rowell
The festival was designed to educate children about fire safety and offers activities for them, including a giant sandbox with hidden prizes, a playground, a petting zoo, carnival games, service-dog demonstrations, fire safety houses from the Grovetown Department of Public Safety and Martinez Fire Department, and the "kiddie squirt," in which children can shoot a real fire hose.
"If we can get one smiling face, it will be worth it," said Lee Clark, an event organizer and club member.
October is Fire Safety Month, and the Martinez Fire Department takes educating children seriously. They spend much of the month at elementary schools teaching children about fire safety with fire truck tours and a specially designed house for pupils to practice escape techniques.
"Well, if we can teach kids, we can make a difference," Chief Doug Cooper said. "The parents actually learn from the kids. Sometimes the kids go home and point out something that is not quite right."
Battalion Chief Danny Kuhlmann recently led Blue Ridge Elementary School second-graders through the fire-safety house, stopping in each room of the house to point out specific areas of danger.
"Hot water will burn you just like a fire will," Kuhlmann told the children while discussing bathroom and kitchen dangers.
To bring information to a second-grade level, he compared a smoke detector to a dog that will bark when a stranger approaches his house in the middle of the night.
"His job is to smell the air," Kuhlmann said. "If he smells smoke, he will bark and chirp and make noise."
Basic Household Fire Safety Tips:
* When cooking keep pot handle facing in.
* Leave at least three-feet around space heaters.
* Never burn unattended candles.
* Always use a fireplace screen to keep hot logs and sparks in.
* Use oven mitts when handling hot pots or dishes.
* Keep pot lids handy when cooking to place on if a fire starts.
* Keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.
* When opening a hot oven, open and look in from the side to avoid steam or heat burns.
* Never get appliances like hair dryers or radios close to a bathtub.
* Keep the bedroom door closed while sleeping.
What to do before a fire starts:
* Place smoke detectors near sleeping areas of the home and on all levels. Replace the batteries and test it twice a year.
* Develop an escape plan and practice it often. Know two routes out of every room.
What to do in case of fire:
* If smoke is in the room, crawl on the floor and check the door for heat. If it is hot, keep it closed and try the secondary escape route.
* If the detector goes off, but no or little smoke is in the room, check the door for heat. If no heat, open it and watch for smoke. If smoke comes into the room through the door, close it, roll up a towel or piece of clothing at the base and try the secondary exit. If little or no smoke is outside the door, try to leave.
* Leave immediately according to the escape plan. When out, stay out and go straight to the designated meeting place, usually a mailbox.
What to do if you get burned:
* Run cool water over the burn for five to 10 minutes.
* Never put ice on a burn.
* Never put oils, sprays or ointments on a serious burn unless your doctor tells you it's OK.
Source: Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine's office.
The Columbia County News-Times ©2013. All Rights Reserved.
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The decade-long war is over: EADS North America has conceded defeat to Boeing in the campaign to capture a multibillion-dollar deal to build a new aerial tanker for the U.S. Air Force.
Last week, the Pentagon announced that it had selected Boeing to build the next-generation KC-46A tanker in a long-term arrangement that could eventually be worth $30 billion. For starters, the Chicago-based aerospace titan is getting $3.5 billion to build the first four of a projected 179 of the new tankers. It has to deliver 18 by 2017.
"Boeing was a clear winner," Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said last week.
The new aircraft will be based on the Boeing 767, and it will replace the Air Force's venerable KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-10 Extender--both built by Boeing. The design, which Boeing has been calling the NewGen Tanker, "delivers significantly more fuel, cargo, passengers and patients than the current KC-135 tanker."
Boeing has already delivered a handful of 767-based tanker aircraft to U.S. allies--the Japan Air Self-Defense Force has four, and the Italian Air Force took delivery of its first in December.
The EADS entry that had been under consideration shared key design elements with the company's existing A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport.
EADS took the high road today in its public statements--though offered a velvety promise that it will be there for the Air Force, should the actual building of all those tankers prove to be too much for rival Boeing.
"While we are obviously disappointed that our men and women in uniform are not getting the most capable tanker available, we will not take any action that could further delay the already overdue replacement of the Air Force's aging tanker fleet," said EADS North America Chairman Ralph D. Crosby Jr. in a statement today.
"Much is promised by our competitor, whom we congratulate," Crosby continued. "However, should they fail to deliver, we stand ready to step in with a proven and operating tanker."
But the Pentagon's decision had to be especially galling for EADS, considering that it had actually won the contract in February 2008. That decision was voided when the U.S. Government Accountability Office ruled that Boeing had been treated unfairly in the procurement process. The contest dates back even further. In 2003, Boeing had been the original recipient of the tanker contract, but that deal fell through "due to illegal acts that had involved some Boeing and Pentagon officials," the Defense Department acknowledged last week.
In recent months, the renewed competition saw a relentless PR effort by Boeing that hammered on the theme of supporting jobs in the U.S.--a total of 50,000 in 40 states, the company proclaims--while playing up the "European" aspect of EADS' full name, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company. For its part, EADS and its North American unit had pledged to assemble its tanker in Alabama, to the tune of 48,000 American jobs.
Boeing also outspent EADS in the lobbying game by a significant margin, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2010, it shelled out $17.8 million overall (the figures don't get broken down to specific defense projects), compared with just $3.2 million for EADS.
Among the selling points of the winning aircraft itself, Boeing cites a "modern, digital flight deck" that's based on the electronic displays in its new 787 Dreamliner--a commercial aircraft that has endured a long skein of delays and won't reach its first customer until the third quarter of this year, under the latest schedule. It also incorporates a fly-by-wire (that is, electronic) control system, though Boeing qualifies that by saying it's based on "a flight control design philosophy that places aircrews in command rather than allowing computer software to limit combat maneuverability."
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This post appears in Wednesday’s paper. It is a revised version of a post that was published online Monday. The full version is here.
Even a fairly calm spell in the polling, like the last couple of days, can give people opportunities to see what they want in the data.
The most egregious form of this is cherry-picking the three or four polling results that you like best for your candidate. A vast majority of the time, you can find a couple that are favorable for your side.
If you looked at only the three best national polls for President Obama on Monday, you would conclude that he was three points ahead in the national race. If you looked at only Mitt Romney’s three best polls, you would say that he was ahead by two points instead.
Most people avoid this sort of mistake. It is just too flagrant a case of cherry-picking when 20 polls are published in a day and somebody discusses only two or three of them.
There is a more subtle form of bias, however, that a lot more of us are prone to. That bias is to look at all the data — except for the two or three data points that you like least, which you dismiss as being “outliers.”
If you are a Democrat, for example, and throw out Mr. Romney’s three most favorable polls from the 10 national surveys published on Monday, you can claim that Mr. Obama is ahead in the race by 1.3 percentage points. If you are a Republican and do the same thing, dropping Mr. Obama’s three best polls, you will have Mr. Romney ahead by one point instead.
That is not quite as biased as cherry-picking the best results — but it gets you halfway there, and it is much easier to rationalize. There is something that can be criticized about almost every poll: the methodology, the demographics, the sample size, the pollster’s history or something else.
Often, these critiques have some truth in them. Not all polls are as methodologically sound as others. But frequently people come up with reasons, valid or otherwise, to avoid looking at the polls they don’t like — while giving a pass to those they do.
Likewise, people sometimes make too much of demographic or geographic subsamples within a poll that make their preferred candidate look good. The most recent Washington Post/ABC poll had Mr. Obama performing better in what it termed swing states than in the country as a whole; a recent Gallup poll showed just the opposite.
These subsamples of swing-state voters from national polls are largely useless. A typical national poll may interview 1,000 people, of which perhaps 250 or 300 will live in swing states.
The margin of error on a 250- or 300-person subsample is enormous: about plus or minus six percentage points. (The swing-state sample from the Gallup poll was somewhat larger, but still small compared with the 3,000 or so voters that it interviews for each instance of its national tracking poll.)
In contrast, the state polls that are released on a given day include, combined, thousands of interviews. There is just no reason to focus on what 250 or 300 people say when you can look at what 2,500 or 3,000 do instead.
Heading into the second presidential debate, the FiveThirtyEight forecast still showed Mr. Obama as a modest favorite, with about a 2-in-3 chance of winning the election and just over a 1 percent lead in the popular vote.
But historically, the second presidential debate has moved the numbers by about 2.5 percentage points in one direction or another.
If that gain were in Mr. Obama’s favor, he would re-establish enough of a lead that there would be little doubt about who was ahead.
Another shift toward Mr. Romney, however, and he would probably lead in most national and enough swing-state polls to show him on a path to 270 electoral votes.
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SC36 - First aid
Management and provision of first aid
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The STFC has a duty to ensure staff receive immediate First Aid attention if they are injured or taken ill at work irrespective of whether the injury or illness is caused by the work they undertake.
First Aid can save lives, for example in the event of heart attack, and can prevent minor injuries becoming major ones.
STFC will undertake to ensure compliance with the relevant legislation with regard to provision of First Aid to all employees and to ensure best practice by extending the arrangements as far as is reasonably practicable to others who may also be affected by our activities while on STFC sites.
The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations, 1981, sets out the responsibilities of the STFC to:
- Carry out an assessment of first aid needs appropriate to the circumstances of each workplace;
- Provide adequate numbers of qualified first aiders throughout the organisation;
- Maintain levels of competence of first aiders;
- Provide adequate equipment for First Aid treatment;
- Provide adequate First Aid rooms or other suitable areas for first aid treatment; and
- Record first aid treatment.
This code outlines the STFC policy with respect to first aid management and the provision of first aiders to deal with injuries and ill health occurring at work
This code applies to STFC sites and STFC staff, visitors, and facility users working at STFC sites and where STFC staff work at non STFC sites.
The code applies in instances where the STFC takes responsibility for organising events, conferences, open days on STFC sites or elsewhere involving the public, schools etc.
Tenants at STFC sites are responsible for appointing their own first aiders and following the requirements of this code. The STFC will not indemnify the first aid activities of tenants' employees.
This code addresses the need to ensure that contractors working at STFC sites provide suitable access for their staff to first aid unless a documented contractual agreement is established for the STFC to provide this facility.
3.1 Occupational health teams
Occupational Health (OH) service provision is available to all STFC staff but may vary in the manner it is delivered, depending on location, from full time on site provision through to contracted off site services made available to staff through local HR teams.
Where on site OH teams are not present refer to local HR teams for responsibilities assigned to OH in this code.
3.2 First aid
Is the immediate assistance or treatment given to someone injured or suddenly taken ill before the arrival of an ambulance, doctor or other appropriately qualified person.
3.3 First aider
Is a trained person who holds a valid full certificate of competence in "first aid at work", issued by an organisation whose training and qualifications are approved by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).
4.1 Directors shall:
4.1.1 Ensure sufficient first aiders are sourced from their departments, as advised by local Occupational Health teams, informing HR.
4.1.2 Ensure that once selected first aiders are given sufficient time to undertake mandatory training in respect of maintaining their competence and the duties detailed in this code.
4.2 HR shall:
4.2.1 Review the suitability of applicants for the post of first aider with Occupational Health teams, notifying Occupational Health teams of selected first aiders.
4.2.2 Manage and administer the payment of the first aid allowance following their satisfactory completion of first aid training issuing a letter of appointment enclosing the 'STFC first aider responsibilities', see Appendix 4.
4.3 Occupational health teams shall:
4.3.1 Provide advice with respect to the number of first aiders appropriate to areas, departments, sites etc based upon to the number of staff, hazards encountered, geographic distribution, holidays, the impact working practices such as shift systems, and the existence of restricted locations such as radiation classified areas.
4.3.2 Administer an initial and refresher training programmes for all first aiders ensuring that first aiders have valid "First Aid at Work Certificates of Competence" at all times, see Appendix 5. Training shall be conducted by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) approved first aid at work training organisations (link opens in a new window), and records of the training maintained.
4.3.3 Where automated external defibrillators are employed ensure that they are located at strategic points on sites and as appropriate assigned to a defined first aider for their maintenance to ensure they are maintained appropriately in full working order.
4.3.4 Ensure that sufficient first aid boxes are located and suitably signed at strategic points on STFC sites and assigned to a defined first aider for their maintenance.
4.3.5 Where appropriate establish specified first aid treatment room(s) for the delivery of first aid treatment. Ensuring their location is indicated by suitable signage and that they are regularly inspected to ensure they are suitably stocked, see Appendix 1.
4.3.6 Where dedicated vehicles are established for the transport of injured parties ensure that the first aid equipment within them is maintained by a named first aider, see Appendix 1.
4.3.7 Ensure an adequate supply of first aid consumables is available to first aiders to replenish first aid bags and boxes etc.
4.3.8 Provide advice and information to first aiders, including lessons learned from relevant first aid incidents, ensuring that a programme of regular exercises of the medical emergency response systems involving first aiders is undertaken, and as appropriate provide counseling to those involved in traumatic first aid incidents.
4.3.9 Undertake regular and routine reviews of the first aid management system reporting as required, including to site safety committees.
4.4 First aiders shall:
4.4.1 Attend all first aid training courses and appropriate refresher training administered by their Occupational Health team, and ensure they understand their responsibilities detailed in this code.
4.4.2 Ensure their first aid Bag is regularly checked and that contents are replenished as required following use. Appendix 1 details the recommended contents of such bags.
4.4.3 Regularly check first aid boxes assigned to them in their work area ensuring they are replenished and do not contain out of date materials. Appendix 1 details the recommended contents of such boxes.
4.4.4 Familiarise themselves with:
- The location of automated external defibrillators;
- The location of local first aid treatment rooms and first aid boxes;
- The hazards local to their areas and therein the likely injuries that will require treatment; and
- The emergency response systems operated on the site.
4.4.5 Immediately attend and deliver first aid when notified, safe guarding their health and safety (see Reference 5.2) and as appropriate advise the attendance of local ambulance services or transport to hospital, see Appendix 3.
4.4.6 Following the application of first aid, request the injured party reports the incident to SHE Group, see STFC SHE Code 5 Reporting and Investigation of SHE incidents, and complete a first aid treatment record pro forma, see Appendix 2 (PDF - 17kB - link opens in a new window), and return to local Occupational Health team.
4.4.7 Where issued with mobile phones, pagers or other devices to aid their attendance to First Aid requests ensure that the device is switched on, working appropriately and charged during working hours.
4.5 Contract supervising officers shall:
4.6 Managers shall:
4.6.1 Ensure that:
- the names (if possible photos), contacts details and locations of first aiders;
- the location of First Aid boxes/equipment local to their department; and
- the first aid arrangements,
- are communicated to their staff, visitors, and facility users on arrival.
4.6.2 Ensure that staff working at non-STFC sites have access to suitable First Aid in the event of an incident, at least equivalent to that provided at STFC sites.
© 2013 Science and Technology Facilities Council - All Rights
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NEW YORK – Morgan Stanley's own internal stress test left the bank with higher capital and leverage ratios than a test conducted by the Federal Reserve, according to a document posted on its website on Thursday evening.
Under severe economic stress over a nine-month period, Morgan Stanley's Tier 1 common capital ratio would drop to 7.5 percent from 13.9 percent, the bank said. Its minimum Tier 1 common ratio under the stress scenario outlined by the Federal Reserve would be 6.7 percent, compared with a 5.7 percent minimum projected by the regulator.
Morgan Stanley also said its Tier 1 capital ratio, total risk-based capital ratio and Tier 1 leverage ratio would all be higher under its own stress test than under the test conducted by the Fed.
(Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Gary Hill)
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Do Women Engage in Gambling Events?
There are people who believe that gambling games are for males only. Because of this perception, they think that women cannot suffer from the medical condition known as compulsive gambling. Compulsive gambling is the condition wherein a person cannot control the urge to place bets despite one's knowledge of the risks associated with gambling.
Studies showed that nowadays, there are an increasing number of women engaging in gambling events. Experts found that one of the common traits among women gamblers is that they are capable of standing on their own financially. In addition, women gamblers are also capable of making decisions for their own good.
In addition, social analysts agreed that men and women gamblers have varying beliefs and attitudes on gambling. They have proven that the perceptions of female gamblers on gambling are subjective, while male gamblers' views on gambling focuses on the details of different gambling games such as betting and the rules of the games.
According to researches, females who lived in the past decades have not engaged in recreational events that are commonly associated with males. Social analysts found that these women visit casinos just to accompany their male partners and not to engage in any gambling game. Through time, the changes in the perception of different countries on gambling have increased the interest of women in gambling games, thus, improving the rate of women gamblers at the present time.
In several studies, social analysts explain the various reasons behind the increasing attraction of women to gambling. The analysts found that women are hooked with gambling to unwind and escape the problems that they are facing. Most of them also go to casinos to interact with other female gamblers because this type of establishment does not tolerate negative perception about women.
The studies showed that casinos are attractive to women because they cater people who need places to relax and at the same time be entertained. In addition, the increasing population of female gamblers also proved that women visit casinos to improve their income.
Just like any other form of relaxation and entertainment, gambling should not be associated with males only. The improving accessibility to gambling events opens new opportunities to women to try their luck in online casinos. In this regard, social analysts believe that it is necessary that public officials observed the number of women who engage in any gambling activity.
Regular monitoring of the gender-specific trend in gambling will prevent females from being addicted to gambling. Suffering from compulsive gambling is not exclusive for male gamblers. Even female gamblers are at risk to this medical condition. It is necessary that female gamblers who experience the disorder received the same treatment as male gamblers who are victims of addiction to gambling.
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Affordable Tennis Lessons in Cobb County
online coaching from William Vazquez CoachV
All rights reserved.
Please help me promote by re-tweeting
. I love my Friends and Family that play tennis like AJ getting me going/thinking.
My Foundation/Basics Started before I started playing tennis. I play Baseball, Football & Soccer at Williams Bridge Oval park in the Bronx. I played Manhunt in the Streets, I scaled Buildings like in ninja warrior. Ran from Bullies & had fights in the streets. I also was lucky enough to have players with talent to play against once I started to play tennis. Without knowing Technique I would still be able to play tennis on a good level. Because I have the Basics.
the REAL Basics / Foundations of tennis are.
- Instant Visualization & understanding of visual information: of myself, my opponent/s, environment/surroundings, trajectory/speed of objects/people, Depth perception, Ability to see patterns in anything, ability to Read things and know what they will do next most of the Time, Learning from watching other do/Mimicking,
- Bio Mechanics - Hand feet Eye Balance and control of the body. (aka im fat and light on my toes) They guys I trained with at Harlem were having a six pack abs challenge. when I lifted my shirt and showed them I had a fat round belly, they asked how it happened? how did I get fat? I told them I was always fat nothing had changed. I had more control over my body I moved better than they did.
- I don't know what will be the right word but I'm Using "Feel" for now. If things were uncomfortable I learned to make it comfortable. Even if it was wrong I found a way/situation to make it work. I experimented and then tested what I was doing. like When I first hit the ball Hard like a pro I could feel the Ball staying longer on my strings and racquet, I was experimenting with it so much that it got to a point where I could pull and change direction within the swing.
- Instant Thinking/intelligence/thought. Like in Speed chess, not only do you have to have several strategies ready but also be creative and understand how your opponent might think. I can teach Tennis strategy with only using Chess, but you have to have experience with chess for it to work right.
- Here comes the easy ones now.... Athletic ability, Talent, Endurance
- Fight, Arrogance, a sense of entitlement. Being Mean.
- Health & Genetics
- Family Structure, AJ you and I had it Bad, I think we all did, in our junior Tennis generation
- Economics, Show me the money
I am second guessing myself several times with 8,9 & 10.
They are kinda interchangeable.
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“There is seldom a period in which we do not know what to do, and we move through life in such a distracted way that we do not even take the time and rest to wonder if any of the things we think, say or do are worth thinking, saying, or doing. We simply go along with the many “musts” and “oughts” that have been handed on to us, and we live with them as if they were authentic translations of the Gospel of our Lord.” (Nouwen, Henri, The Way of the Heart, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1981, p. 21)
I have spent the last few years trying to discern which parts of me and my life are truly from the Lord and not just things I have picked up along the way and labeled “Christian.” I think it is critical to stop every so often and ask the hard questions. I may be working really hard to climb up the ladder of life, but am I sure it is leaning against the right wall?
I just love this picture. I “borrowed” it from the website of my friend, Paul Kiler (see his link to the right “Artis-Divina”).
For some reason it really strikes me. I see that girl as me…wearing my sweats…doing the day-to-day stuff…and trying be in the sanctuary at the same time. I don’t know what she is reading, probably the bible, searching for the Word of God. The sacrifice of Christ is clearly displayed above her head.
The picture just resonated down inside me somewhere. Do you see yourself here too?
This is the February 11 entry in Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Hightest.
IS YOUR HOPE IN GOD FAINT AND DYING?
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee.” Isaiah 26:3 (R. V. marg.)
Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in a worker’s life.
If you have never used your imagination to put yourself before God, begin to do it now. It is no use waiting for God to come; you must put your imagination away from the face of idols and look unto Him and be saved.
Imagination is the greatest gift God has given us and it ought to be devoted entirely to Him. If you have been bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, it will be one of the greatest assets to faith when the time of trial comes, because your faith and the Spirit of God will work together.
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature – the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.
Today I went to a memorial service for a 15-year-old. A group of teenagers, with a chaperone, were driving to Mammoth for ski week. One of the cars rolled and the 15- year-old was thrown out.
The dad who was driving the lead car turned around, got out of the car and made his way to the teenager just before he passed away. He had a chance to hold his hand as he died.
From the moment I stepped my foot out of the car and onto the church parking lot, tears welled up in my eyes. For the next two hours my tears would ebb and flow. But my grief was nothing compared to that of his parents and siblings.
At the start of the Memorial Service, the family walked in together. One of the most moving sights I have ever seen was the mother walking down the aisle to get to her seat. There were two men, one of them her husband, on either side of her. She was weeping and almost couldn’t make her way down the aisle. She looked as though she wanted to crumble into a heap onto the floor.
The grief of a mother. What other anguish is worse than losing your child? I am hard pressed to come up with a worse nightmare.
I find myself drawing a parallel to God the Father. Since we are in His image, I wonder if this mother’s grief is a glimpse into the grief of God as He watched His own Son suffer and die. I think that I have pictured God as grieving over His Son, but in a stoic, controlled manner. What does pure, holy grief look like? I’m not exactly sure, but I think I saw a glimpse of it today on the face of a mother.
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Finally I have turned the paper!
Because of a mistake on my part, I didn’t get to turn it in at the last deadline. Instead I was lucky enough to get an extension of the deadline to turn it in today.
If anyone should be interested, here it is.
The Times just recently published an article by Bill Gates, based on a talk he gave in January about what he termed “Creative Capitalism”.
I find it very interesting and a worthwhile listen.
You can also take a look at this article in the Wall Street Journal from January in which some of the sources that Bill Gates was influenced by are mentioned.
First of all he starts out by saying that he thinks the world needs system innovation, not just technological innovation.
Next he says that he thinks that the world has become a better place and that it is continually improving.
According to him there are a billion people who live for less that a dollar a day, who don’t have clean drinking water, electricity and other things that we take for granted.
He then points to something peculiar, namely that people benefit i inverse proportion to their need. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, because the way the system works, in a capitalist society, the incentive is to serve those those who are richest is higher than to serve those who are the poorest.
Now the first statement that really made me think, was when he said that he thinks that capitalism actually has a potential to also serve the poor, as long as we change the system.
If this is to work, businesses need to realize that serving the poor isn’t always going to yield profits. Instead, he says, it can yield recognition.
He goes on with a number of examples of initiatives which might fall under his categorization of “Creative Capitalism”.
Then he starts talking about how he hopes that corporations will set aside a percentage of time from their top innovators to try and figure out new solutions that might help those in need in the world. This, he says, is more effective than simply donating money or allowing people in the company to do volunteer work, because it allows the company’s specialists to do what they are best at.
Examples given by Bill Gates of Creative Capitalism falls into four categories:
1. Adjusted pricing
This means that corporations adjust their prices so that consumers in poor countries can afford them. The example which is mentioned is a meningitis vaccination that is offered at a much lower price than other vaccines.
2. Governmental support
Governments can help by legislating in favor of initiatives that help the poorest and those in need.
3. Allow access to markets in developed countries
To support the livelihood of people in third world countries, initiatives can be taken which ease the access of products from these countries to western markets.
4. Consumption-based philanthropy
Giving aid can be tied together with consumption of goods. The Product (RED) campaign is mentioned as an example of such an initiative.
There is a great blog post here which is much more elaborate: http://creativecapitalism.typepad.com/creative_capitalism/2008/08/the-gates-found.html
I agree in many ways with the views presented, but I don’t have any illusions about creative capitalism or social entrepreneurship being easy.
I am pleased to announce that we will be hosting a BarCamp-style event on August 29th in Copenhagen. It is sort of an offspring of BarCampCopenhagen which I also definitely think you should attend (I know I will).
As with WineCamp focus will be on technology, pr and nonprofits, but instead of wine we will be drinking beer (since I’m from Denmark and we drink more beer than wine).
If you’re totally new to the concept you can look at it as a evening/afternoon where people from nonprofits and technologists meet to talk about how technology might help nonprofits perform better or learn new ways of organizing their work while technologists can get to work for organisations who work for a greater humanitarian good.
I’m working on a small project for a client, in which I need a simple CRM/mail-management program.
The requirements are:
1. Must to be able to handle customized form-submission
2. Needs to be extremely simple!
3. Assignment of mail to groups of people
4. Ticket/case management
We’re using fogbugz internally at beaconware, which works great for software projects. But I’m not so sure that it’ll be as good in a more sales-oriented scenario.
Right now I’m looking at:
- Sproutit Mailroom (I like that they have made some steps towards integration with basecamp)
- Cerberus Helpdesk (Looks a bit cluttered)
- Highrise (of course!)
- Zoho CRM (might be too complicated for this scenario)
I’m basically working my way through this list:
But since it’s a year old, a lot might have changed since. Anyone out there got any other suggestions?
I’m going old school on the report now. Writing it in a wiki wasn’t all that I had hoped for, or rather while i did free me from thinking about things in a particular order that’s excactly what I need now and I need to be able to see the whole thing together now.
Maybe I should have picked MediaWiki instead because it makes certain things easier (such as citing sources) and there might have been some cool third party tools that could have helped me visualize the stuff I had gathered, but I didn’t have time to find hosting and such.
If I’m allowed, I will of course post it here. Not that I think that it will necessarily be the next best thing to sliced bread, but in the spirit of what I’ve been doing it only seems logical.
This will also be my last post for now, if anyone should by accident stumble upon this blog and wonder what’s goin’ on…
I have now invited Leif Bloch Rasmussen, who is the lektor that’s going to read the paper, to have a look at the wiki.
Things are progressing although not as fast as I might have hoped…
Tomorrow I’m going to interview a company which I’ll be using as a case study in the report. That should be quite interesting.
My strategy is still the same, and I’m scrambling to include enough material in order to be able to make some useful abductions. Well, actually it’s quite difficult to NOT make lots of conclusions and reasonings all the time while I’m reading and writing. So what’s challenging is, probably to no surprise, the (un)selection process. The process of selecting and deselecting things to include and exclude. And because it’s not just supposed to be my own personal ramblings, but of some academic value I have to make sure that sources are correct and that the sources hold at least a minimum of credibility. On the other hand there is a built in conflict of choosing sources that are too established when trying to write something that is supposed to be just a little bit innovative and different, so that’s turning out to be a challenge as well. But this mixture is the whole point of the thing! Actually the thing itself (the report) is the point of the thing (the report).
Storytelling is at the heart of it all. I’m consciously trying to limit my personal views and comments on the things I’ve written and just stick with the facts of what others have said. So I’m not trying to say whether I agree with a certain view or not or what I think that something might mean (yet). Those points will be added in later (saturday or sunday perhaps?). Although of course I already have a good idea of where I’m going.
Right now I can’t decide whether to include some more stuff about the traditional economy. Traditional concepts such as scarcity, supply and demand, etc. are important for the understanding of alternate concepts, but might be so well know to most that it’s not necessary. Heureka! Writing this made me realize that I could include them in the definitions section.
Well not to worry (too much). I will make it, and my hope is to be done by Sunday with the bulk of the thing. What remains after that will hopefully be a very short long tail…
Speaking of long tails, after this is over I’m definitely going to read “The Long Tail” and “The tipping point”.
Well, back to writing the other thing, writing this just flow too easily!
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As a member of the family of nations, the State of Israel is committed to upholding the provisions of international law.
Following the operation carried out by the State of Israel on May 31, 2010, to enforce the naval blockade imposed on the coast of the Gaza Strip, claims were raised as to whether the actions taken complied with international law. It was therefore proposed that an independent public commission of inquiry should be established to examine the international law aspects of the operation.
The State of Israel has an orderly and structured mechanism for examining claims regarding violations of the laws of armed conflict.
In view of claims that were raised as to whether the aforesaid mechanism complies with the provisions of international law, it was proposed that the commission should examine the question whether this mechanism upholds the State of Israel's obligations pursuant to the rules of international law.
(From the explanatory notes to the Government's resolution establishing the Commission).
In view of the special international aspects of the questions examined by the Commission, two foreign experts were appointed to serve as observers and to take an active role in all of the Commission's work.
The Public Commission To Examine the Maritime Incident of 31 May 2010
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Family Visitation Letter
Dear Family of God,
We turn on the news and the bombardment begins. A mass shooting, a weak jobs report, a shrinking economy, unrest in various places around the world, political bickering here at home, and on and on it goes. Unfortunately, the turmoil and unrest aren’t limited to the world around us, we have cause for anxiety in our very homes as well. Broken relationships, economic hardship, spiritual struggles and health difficulties; these affect us all. In our family visits this year we will focus on the subject of anxiety and how the Lord would have us deal with it in our lives. To help bring this into focus and prepare for our visit, please consider the following questions:
- What are some things (Financial? Spiritual? Physical?) that you and your family are anxious about?
- How are you dealing with this anxiety?
- What do you think God is teaching you through your anxiety?
- How has God used you to minister to those who have faced anxiety-producing challenges?
In the book of Phillipians we are enjoined to:
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4:4-6
- Does this verse characterize your life? If so, in what way? If not, why not?
- How has Phoenix URC assisted you in living a joyous Christian life?
- What can we do better?
Our Savior is no stranger to suffering so He is fully able to empathize with us.. Again and again throughout the Bible we are reminded by His words and actions that he cares about each of us and will provide all we need. If He be for us, who can be against us?
Do Not Be Anxious
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?g And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matt 6:25-34
We look forward to our visit and may the Lord abundantly bless us as we seek to serve Him together.
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Psychologist Abraham Maslow is famous for formulating a personal “hierarchy of needs” that stretches from breathing and eating at one end to conspicuous commitments to Save Africa at the other. He is also credited with the insight that if you are a hammer, the world looks like a nail. Regulators are perhaps more like another implement: a shovel. When they find themselves in a hole, they are inclined to keep digging (intriguingly, just like proponents of using aid to save Africa).
A recent paper by the University of Kiev’s Slavisa Tasic, Are Regulators Rational?, analyzes this mental peculiarity of regulators via the burgeoning field of cognitive science. He suggests that if regulators appear congenitally incapable of grasping that regulation creates more problems than it solves, it’s because they are congenitally incapable.
... we — and they — are (among many other cognitive shortcomings) as dumb as doorknobs when it comes to comprehending how economies work. Worse, regulators, by definition, have no idea how dumb they are. They suffer from “illusions of competence.”
... Their fundamental problem is not that they are trying to use a shovel to craft a chronometer. What they are attempting is even more impossible. The economy isn’t a machine built by humans, even though it builds lots of machines. It is an organic “natural order” that we mess with at our peril. In fact, Mr. Tasic’s paper barely skims the surface of that vast ocean of what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of interventionists.
... Regulators may look to cognitive science to make “smarter regulation,” but don’t expect them to express too much interest in being told they are on a fool’s errand. They aren’t fools. They’re shovels.Alongside Peter's excellent column is a fascinating tale of escape from Canuckistan's hyper-regulated dairy industry:
... Money and freedom were the reasons for our decision. We moved our dairy cattle and machinery south of the border, but sold all Canadian immovable assets. The land, quota and farm buildings came to $45,000 per cow, while 20 miles away we purchased a more modern state-of-the-art operation for $5,200 a cow.
... If one simply Googles Census Canada and the Canadian Dairy Commission they will find that Canada’s population has more than doubled since supply management started in 1967 and that — shockingly — the Canadian actual total milk production per year has not changed, other than slightly dipping, over those four and a half decades.
... Diversity, because of freedom, is prevalent in New York’s Franklin county’s dairy sector. Farmers range from a 2,100-cow producer to the Old Order Amish man who milks 17 and is raising nine children. Or the legal, small raw-milk producer and retailer making incredible profits, who would be arrested if living two miles to the north.
Knowing your farming operation is in a nation where, unlike Ontario, some semblance of property rights is installed in law, gives one the freedom to invest for the future. ...
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The Ronald Reagan Library has commissioned a statue of the former president riding his favorite horse, El Alamein.
The life-size bronze statue will be located next to the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.
"One of our favorite memories of President Reagan is him astride his favorite horse, riding," said Lisa Hartsock, director of foundation and corporate relations. "He loved to ride."
Under the current design, Reagan won't be wearing a cowboy hat, Hartsock said. The library did not release a rendering of the work, which will be at ground level, so people can get close to it and take photos.
Bob Huber, mayor of Simi Valley, said the statue will be a fitting addition to the library.
"To have him there in a western setting, on a horse — that will be a real nice touch for the library," Huber said. "And very appropriate."
Donald L. Reed, a sculptor with River's Edge Foundry in Wisconsin, will create the statue. Reed, who could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon, also has done a statue of Reagan as a young man, before he became president, Hartsock said. That statue is in Dixon, Ill., where Reagan grew up.
"He has some experience and also the passion to represent President Reagan," Hartsock said.
The statue, which is expected to cost $1.75 million, will be paid for with a fundraising campaign, Hartsock said. The campaign started two weeks ago and has contacted some potential donors but hasn't raised any money yet, she said.
Mike Sedell, Simi Valley's city manager, said the statue will be a fitting addition to the library.
"It helps tie things together," he said.
The statue is expected to be unveiled in early 2013.
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The forecast for Utah? Smoggy and cold, followed by polluted and frigid.
If you want to breathe deeply without swooning on hydrocarbons trapped by the inversion shrouding the state’s urban valleys, head to the mountains. Otherwise, realize that air quality along the Wasatch Front Tuesday through Wednesday earned "Red," or hazardous-to-your-health grades in Salt Lake, Davis, Cache, Weber, Tooele and Utah counties.
The poor air quality and its accompanying "No Burn" orders forced the Salt Lake City Fire Department to cancel — for the second time in as many weeks — a firefighters’ training exercise that had been rescheduled for Tuesday.
Eastern Utah’s high plateaus, in Duchesne and Uintah counties, were not a whole lot better at "Yellow," or compromised air quality.
And it is cold. Salt Lake City dipped to 5 degrees as morning dawned Tuesday with highs not expected to top 20 degrees. Wednesday’s overnight lows for the Wasatch Front were to be in the 5-10 degree range with highs later in day hovering in the upper-teens.
Light snow flurries were possible Wednesday night, but not enough to alleviate air quality that had Salt Lake City and Provo rated the worst for air pollution in the nation.
Southern Utahns had it better, though. The National Weather Service pegged highs Tuesday in the 45-60 degree range, a forecast expected to make an encore on Wednesday. Overnight lows were to be in the mid-20s.
At least the Utah Avalanche Center had some good news: the risk for dangerous backcountry snowslides was rated at "low" for the entire state with the exception of the Uintas, which remained at "moderate."
Salt Lake City’s high Tuesday was pegged at 20 degrees, followed by an overnight low of 5 and a high Wednesday of 20 degrees; Ogden expected 19, 4 and 19 degrees; Provo 23, 6 and 26; Wendover 9, -1, 11; Duchesne 19, -8 and 20; Cedar City 37, 8 and 48; St. George 60, 26 and 60; and Moab 30, 8 and 31 degrees.
Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Geir Magnusson, a founder of the Apache Harmony project to create an open-source version of Java, formally requested on Tuesday that Java creator Sun Microsystems change licensing terms for its Java compatibility-checking software so open-source projects can use it.
Sun is making its own version of Java open-source software, but its Java Compatibility Kit remains closed. "Since August 2006, the ASF (Apache Software Foundation) has been attempting to secure an acceptable license from Sun for the test kit for Java SE," referring to Java Standard Edition, the core of the software, Magnusson said in an open letter to Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz. "Sun's JCK license protects portions of Sun's commercial Java business at the expense of ASF's open software."
Magnusson argued that Sun's JCK licensing terms violate the rules of the Java Community Process, the formal mechanism by which interested parties develop new features for Java. Specifically, he said, Sun's terms are "contrary to the Java Specification Participation Agreement (JSPA)" that governs JCP membership.
"The JCP was clearly designed to prevent any single actor from being able to exhibit this sort of market control. Additionally, (Sun's license) is contrary to both the spirit and letter of open source, the respect of which is a key element in Sun's stated business strategy," Magnusson said.
"We expect you to offer an acceptable, JSPA-compliant license to us within 30 days, or provide a public explanation of why you cannot do so," Magnusson said.
Magnusson just left Intel for video-streaming start-up Joost, but he is staying involved in Harmony, he said.
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Open canoes and open boats in the London region
Open canoes are generally paddled by one or two people, although you can comfortably fit a small family in most open boats. Open canoes are propelled using a single ended paddle and are suitable for flat water touring as well as moderate white water. Experienced canoeists can also take open canoes down white water rapids.
Many London clubs will have open canoes available to their members. Open canoes can also be hired on the river Thames and the river Lee. In the west of London, canoe hire is available from Canoe and Kayak the Thames and Thames Canoes.
To the north of London, Lee Valley Canoe Cycle is based in Broxbourne and also provides kayaks for hire, as well as providing guided canoe trips on the River Lee.
The canals and rivers around London are perfect for open boating. An excellent resource is the book Pub Paddles, The best short canoe trips in the south of England, which describes 27 trips around London and includes maps, pages of details and information about local canoe hire shops.
For more information see the following links.
Useful open canoe links
Canoe and Kayak the Thames (River Thames canoe hire)
Lee Valley Canoe Cycle hire (River Lee canoe hire)
Thames Canoes (River Thames canoe hire)
Image courtesy of British Canoe Union
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Let us introduce you to Aileen’s Wave, which scientists at the National University of Ireland Galway, have decreed is the nearest thing to the “perfect wave”. Local surfer John McCarthy is credited with naming it after the nearby headland Aill na Searrach (the cliff of foals). Filmmaker Peter Clyne, whose video above captured it in all its majesty, explains: "Aileen's is the most spectacular place to spend time capturing film. Everything about the place is of giant proportions. The mammoth waves that Aileen produces are dwarfed by the majestic, unspoilt Cliffs of Moher."
Recent years have seen pretty much all of the rising stars of the surf world challenging their skills at Aileen’s, including five-time National Champion and first lady of Irish surf, Easkey Britton. Even they have to time their journey right, though, as it’s rare enough.
It needs a precise combination of stormy conditions and easterly winds to create it, so if you don’t manage to catch a glimpse while in the area, don’t worry. Head inside into the warmer and less windy Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre, and there’s a photographic exhibition of surfers riding the wave.
Peter Clyne is always eager to share another unique vantage point; “sitting in the channel at the foot of the cliffs pointing your lens in at the giant waves is an experience like none other.”
Time it right, and you won't just have to take his word for it.
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