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Trucking company's '100 percent healed' policy causes controversy
Powers v. USF Holland, Inc., No. 3:07-CV-246 JVB (N.D. Ind. 02/09/10).
Ruling: The U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana denied summary judgment to a freight transportation company in an employee's Americans with Disabilities Act suit regarding a companywide "100 percent healed" policy. The District Court granted summary judgment to the company in the employee's individual disability discrimination and failure to accommodate claims.
What it means: Employers that implement 100 percent healed policies precluding any individuals with injuries or illness from working may be committing a per se violation of the ADA. Employers should instead conduct an individualized assessment of the individual's ability to perform the essential functions of his job with reasonable accommodations.
Summary: A truck driver injured his back while working. He took five months workers' compensation leave before an independent medical evaluator determined he was ready to return to work. The more demanding work hurt his back, and his supervisor counseled him about working too slowly. The driver took leave a second time. His doctor cleared him to return to work with medical restrictions. However, the company's policy would not allow him to return unless he was cleared without restrictions. The driver sued under the ADA for per se discrimination based on the 100 percent healed policy, for failure to accommodate his disability, and for disability discrimination. The District Court denied summary judgment on the per se discrimination claim. The court held that a genuine factual issue existed about whether the company enforced such a policy.
The driver produced a memo from his supervisor stating that he could not return unless he was completely healed. The company's representatives also acknowledged that its policies prevented injured workers from returning unless they had no restrictions. However, across-the-board policies that prevent injured workers from returning without conducting an individualized assessment of whether they are qualified for their jobs violate the ADA, the court stated.
The court granted summary judgment on the driver's discrimination and failure to accommodate claims. The court ruled that the driver was not a qualified individual with a disability under the statute. Although the driver claimed to be substantially limited in the major life activity of working, the court pointed out that he took a more physically demanding job after he was removed from work. The driver was able to perform other activities, such as sitting for two hours, bathing, household chores, and dressing himself, the court said. Additionally, the driver did not present any evidence showing how he was unable to work a range of jobs. Because he was not disabled, the company was not obligated to accommodate him, the court added.
Read more at the WORKERSCOMP ForumTM homepage.
May 6, 2010
Copyright 2010© LRP Publications
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Letter: Growing Value of Seed-Saving
To the Editor:
I was very happy to see the recent column by Henry Homeyer listing some seed growers who provide seeds for us that are adapted to our region. As the consequences of climate change become more apparent, we will find that these local growers and seed-savers are heroes whose work is of inestimable value.
However, I was disappointed that Homeyer didn’t mention a terrific seed provider right here in the Upper Valley: Solstice Seeds in Hartland, owned and run by Sylvia Davatz. She has been saving seeds and developing vegetables and grains suited to the Upper Valley climate for many years, and finally, a few years ago, began to make the best varieties available to gardeners and farmers in our area. I have used her seeds now for three years, and have found them to have remarkably good germination and to produce wonderful, healthy plants. She sends her catalog to folks by email, and she can be reached at: [email protected].
And if you are interested in learning seed-saving and knowing other seed-savers in the Upper Valley, please consider joining the new Upper Valley Seed Savers group, led by Davatz. It meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month — at the Upper Valley Food Co-op in White River Junction during the winter; at various gardeners’ homes during the growing season.
Upper Valley Food Co-op
White River Junction
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Could be or could not be an anomaly, that is the question of which I'd need at least half a day to ponder.
Anyhoo, this Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans "the size of Texas." Texas!?! I've been to Texas. It's huge-er than huge and that's not just the hair on the women. (On a side note, I read the other day that you might be a redneck if your stock portfolio consists of two sheep and a goat.) Get this: Imagine Texas-size trash heap floating aimlessly amid all those adorable human-eating sea critters....
Oh. My. Satellite Dishes. Poor SpongeBob and Patrick.
My mind is swimming . . . I mean, spinning. But what's even more dreadful is the fact no one has pictures of this ginormous garbage. In this crazy day and electronic age when everyone but me has a mobile phone, surely someone with the time could mosey on out to that plastic-filled gyre and take a pic. I want a pic. While in labor with child #5, I suffered through six hours of the Anna Nicole burial trial. I freakin' deserve a pic!
Sadly, it's impossible to take a picture of this watery trash. Why? Experts say, "Since plastics break down to ever smaller polymers, concentrations of submerged particles are not visible from space, nor do they appear as a continuous debris field. Instead, the patch is defined as an area in which the mass of plastic debris in the upper water column is significantly higher than average."
Huh? You lost me at polymer. Is that a cousin to polyester? Machine washable or dry clean only?
So, in other less scientificky words, the reason for no pictures is because "[the garbage patch] is [a] huge pile of trash collectively, but trash so small individually that the patch doesn’t show up."
If I understand correctly it's like air: unseeable, untouchable, untasteable, made up of bajillions of oxygen atoms that are so utterly small that we can see them even though we can breathe them. Obviously since I need oxygen to survive and since I'm still breathing, then, ergo, air does exist. Ergo, the Garbage Patch of the Great Pacific and other oceans exists.
Can you hear me sighing?
Call me Doubting Gina if you wish, but for me to believe this votex of swirling semisynthetic organic amorphous solid exists, I want proof. I want a picture! I want evidence! I want thousands of people who believe the Garbage Patch exist to suffer torture, imprisonment, and even death in the name of their faith in the existence of this littery waterworld!!!!!
Oh dear. I just typed five exclamation points. Perhaps I'm being a tad dramatic.
For many people, the problem with faith is the fact that faith doesn't prove God exists. You know, faith doesn't prove that "in the beginning," God created anything. The age-old faith issue. Does He or doesn't He. In my less-thn-forty-years-lifetime, I've learned that anyone who doesn't believe in God says those who do are narrow-minded. Well, to me, narrow-minded signals an unwillingness to consider other possibilities than what we believe.
I believe God exists and that He created the heavens, the earth, and all things in and around them in six literal 24-hour days. I'd go to my death for that belief. However, I'm also willing to honestly listen to someone explain to me why He doesn't and He didn't.
Does God exist? Click here for some answers or here or take a trip to an Ohio museum.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” ~Hebrews 11:6
Serious question of the Day: Ever learned anything cool/interesting/weird about creation or the existance of God? If so, what was it?
Non-serious question of the Day: What summer movie are you most looking forward to?
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On the corporate level, ethical purity is mandatory if we are to experience the full blessing of God. George Mueller of Bristol, England, a man known for his prayers of faith and his mighty influence on others, set forth seven statements of ethical commitment. How would modern Christian organizations fare under the light of these guidelines, as quoted by Catherine Marshall in Beyond Our Selves'
1. No funds would ever be solicited. No facts and figures concerning needs were to be revealed by the workers in the orphanage to anyone, except to God in prayer.
2. No debts would ever be incurred.
3. No money contributed for a specific purpose would ever be used for another purpose.
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6. No “names” of prominent or titled persons would be sought for the board or to advertise the institution.
7. The success of the institution would be measured not by the numbers served or by the amounts of money taken in, but by Gods blessing on the work, which Mueller expected to be in proportion to the time spent in prayer.
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This was a banal industrial corner under Williamsburg Bridge. Many would be disencouraged to walk the lesser-seen parts of Brooklyn’s hippest hood to reach the place from the nearest subway station. Particularly on a wet, gray afternoon like that of the last Saturday of March.*
© Pedro Gadanho, Untitled (Williamsburg), 2012.
We carried through, though. My friend’s iPhone GPS device eventually designated a low and anonymous building as our destiny. Across the stained translucent glass, one could already sense a bustle. A muffled, yet promising clamor leaked to the quiet, empty streets.
After we negotiated our entrance with the guardian of the door, we finally crossed the threshold onto a sweaty, noisy, vibrant atmosphere. And we faced it: an excerpt of Rio de Janeiro had made its way to New York. Complete with the samba band, the dancing crowd, and the hyperrealist slum-like ambiance.
By crossing that thin treshold, we had jumped through a loophole and were instantly teleported to a place that stands resolutely 8000km away. Which means that we were thrust farer than Scotty ever beamed up Captain Kirk…
Beam me Up, Scotty! Image hacked via Of Woods and Words.
Contrary to the huge efforts of scientists intent on achieving our teenage dreams – and only managing to teleport miniscule quantities of atoms across their lab – the fact is cosmopolitan cities like New York are already full of highly efficient, low-tech loophole teleporters.
What Michel Foucault called heterotopias – a concept I recently enjoyed revisiting in a text I’ve just added to this blog’s archive – is no longer only about top-down institutions and somber architectural typologies.
Bottom-up, pop-up space-time machines such as Williamsburg’s Miss Favela botequim – with their exquisitely shabby architectural interiors, their thriving imported props and their own immigrant micropopulations – are now much livelier and exhilarating heterotopias.
In New York, I’ve also found small Mexican groceries that may transport you to Oaxaca frozen in the mid-eighties, Chinese kitchens that set you in ever-present Shanghai, or even that Synagogue where on the very same Sabbath I attended my first Bat Mitzvah – one which, as I read familiar names in the walls, and listened to a choir that somehow reminded me of Ivan, the Terrible, inevitably teleported me to New Amsterdam in 1654.
Perhaps this is indeed what makes an exciting and desirable city – as indeed a good piece of architecture: its capacity to project us outside of itself by making us dive deep into its most hidden layers.
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Do you ever marvel at how small the world is?
Yesterday I was wondering about Ralph Skarr, Hans Peder Rasmussen Skarr's second child. For a few days I'd been collecting records, perusing data and searching for THE story I would want to write about his life.
Problem is I don't have much to work with. Just bits and pieces and a lot of questions.
Want to know what lit me up about Ralph? I'll tell you in a minute. You'll probably think it's crazy. But it's the little synchronicities of life that make the hairs on my neck stand up and excite me.
Most people wouldn't get a rush out of what I find the way that I do....
So, I'm following Ralph from Hawaii in 1884, the year he was born and over to the States just a year later. The family ended up in Port Orchard, Washington, a coastal town. Something I've learned from experience is that if you're born near the water you're drawn to it forever. There's a freedom in the endless horizon of the ocean.
By 1917, according to his World War I Draft Registration card, he was living in San Pedro, California, at the Alexandria Hotel. A hotel? Who lives in a hotel? All I cloud think of was poverty. But as I studied the hotel's history I realized that I had new questions about Ralph. Questions aside, it seems he just used the hotel as his home base.
Was he lured away from home by the intrigue that Hollywood had in that day? He was 32-yrs.-old by then and I can't find him between 1900 and 1917, so I don't know how long he'd been there. But that hotel has some fun history with guests ranging from Charlie Chaplin and Valentino to President Theodore Roosevelt. Interesting.
The registration card gave me more information than I'd thought I'd find. It gave me the correct spelling of his last name (two R's). It is so thrilling to see an ancestor's signature that's almost 100years old! I laughed when the boxes "tall" and "medium build" were checked. I thought to myself, "All depends on the point of view of the person filling out the form." Maybe Ralph had. That's even more amusing. Was he really tall? Or was he a "wanna-be"?
I'm easily amused...
Lastly, almost, he had light brown hair, blue eyes and was a US citizen.
Yes, I'm a bit bored, too. Sorry Ralph.
One fun fact from the registration card was that he was employed by the US government at Ft. MacArthur as a carpenter. I thought my brother would get a kick out of that because he's a skilled carpenter amongst other things. Again, I'm left wondering how much of our skills and passions are passed down through the generations, sometimes skipping a few, landing serendipitously on the soul of a like-minded descendant? Read more about Fort MacArthur here. It was fun imagining which buildings Ralph might have built.
Ralph died in 1936 of pancreatic cancer. He never married nor had children as far as I can tell. I hope he stayed with Tillie or Agnes, his sisters. It's not good to die alone. He was only 52.
I looked at the one last fact on that card and the fun began. I know! Finally.
Let's see if you enjoy it as much as I did...
Ralph listed his "nearest living relative" as Mrs. Howard Campbell, of Beacon Hill, Seattle Washington, Ward 7. Mrs. Howard Campbell is Ralph's sister, Tillie, 23-yrs.old. Guess where Tillie lives?
16th Ave., Seattle, Washington.
Want to know who lives a block away
on 15th Ave.?
Bridget Earles and her children. Her eldest daughter is Margaret, 23-yrs.-old as well.
Isn't that the best?!! Maybe you need more information to see what I see.
Ralph's cousin's son, Carl Kenneth Carlson, would marry Bridget's husband John's cousin's child, Evelyn Michaelle Earles in 1935, 18 years in the future. So Tillie and Margaret may have crossed each other's paths as they shopped, went to church or took a walk. You never know.
I love picturing my Grandpa Ken explaining his relationship to his first wife, Evelyn to his son (my dad), or his friends.
"My dad's (1) wife's (2) sister (3) lived a block away from my wife's(4) dad's (5) brother's wife (6) in 1910.
Six degrees of separation.
And EVERYONE he was talking to would do the same thing that EVERYONE in my house did as I excitedly told them what I'd found.
They'd say, "So? And...."
And they'd wait for the punchline.
(I told you I'm easily amused.)
That was it...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- When most people think about Slow Food, they probably imagine wealthy epicureans sipping organic wine and nibbling on farmstead cheeses. That the organization decided to have its first U.S. national conference here only furthered the stereotype: Slow Food is for Prius-driving, Whole Foods-shopping, latte-loving liberals with plenty of time and cash on hand.
Slow Food Nation, as the conference was dubbed, aimed to create a very different impression. At formal lectures, impromptu outdoor speeches and even in the tasting pavilions, where those very wines and cheeses were being served, the talk was mainly about how to transform the food system -- and Slow Food's reputation. Chefs, authors, activists and CEOs focused not on gastronomic indulgence but on new political relevance at a time when food is poised to take center stage.
"I don't care if the tomato was heirloom or organic if it was harvested by slave labor. A commitment to social justice needs to be at the core of this movement," Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," said at one panel.
"We need to get small farmers into the distribution system," Rick Schnieders, chief executive of food distributor Sysco, told an audience of activists at another.
"This is our time," Larry Yee, founder of the Association of Family Farms, announced at the unveiling of the group's food bill declaration, which aims to set the agenda for future farm legislation.
The four-day event, which ran through Monday, took place on a sparkling San Francisco weekend. The lectures, tastings, rock concert and film series attracted 50,000 people, organizers estimated. This despite the fact that Slow Food had to compete for attention with the two national political conventions -- and, equally important here in the Bay Area, the annual Burning Man festival...
Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090200604.html
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Aussie Explorer To Recreate Shackleton Expedition With Outdated Equipment, Probably More Avoidable, Tragic DeathsHere's a new one for our ever growing file of stories labelled "idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots" -- an Australian professional adventurer is hoping to recreate the last leg of polar explorer and mind-blowing badass Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to cross Antarctica by land. That's not the crossing of Antarctica that the expedition was meant to be, but the grueling fight for survival against all odds it turned into. After all, we assume the way you get to be an Australian professional adventurer is by accepting dumb bets in bars and then endangering people's lives needlessly carrying them out.Read on...
Norwegian Skiier Overjoyed to Find Junk Food During 90 Day Solo Trip to South PoleAs a sterling reminder that it's the little things in life that matter comes this recent video from Norwegian outdoor sports enthusiast and freelance journalist Aleksander Gamme. For three months through 2011 and 2012, Gamme embarked on a solo cross-country ski trip to the South Pole and back. After 86 days of travel, a few days from the end of his return trip, he came across a cache of supplies he'd left while heading inland. What he'd forgotten was the chocolate and cheese doodles inside.Read on...
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Emily Gail Lyles
Summerville, South Carolina Award of Excellence: $2,000 Age: 24 "I use art as a way to find a sense of closure about having to cope with unresolved heath problems… instead of feeling powerless while everything was happening around and to me, I am the one with the paintbrush, and therefore, I have the control. " Emily Gail Lyles uses art as a way to revisit traumatic events of the past and replace the anxiety, fear, and depression of each experience with power, control, and closure. Art has played a major role in formulating who Lyles is on her path to becoming a profesisonal artist, as well as being a form of self-therapy while living with the complications of Achondroplasia. Lyles' current oil paintings are snapshots of memories from the hospital experiences of her teenage years. Using exaggerated perspective, an upward viewpoint, and large scale panels, Lyles wants to place the viewer actively in the scene as she is going under anesthesia.
A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, Ages 16-25. September 7, 2011 - January 22, 2012
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioScience, Inc. (OTCQB: AMBS), a biotechnology company discovering and developing treatments and diagnostics for diseases associated with neurodegeneration and apoptosis centered around its patented therapeutic protein MANF, today reported that upon further analysis of the data reported on January 9th, 2013, the striatal reinnervation (densitometry) data produced in the 6 hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) neurorestoration rat model of Parkinson's disease for MANF at 36ug achieved a statistically significant improvement over the data produced for GDNF, with a P value of 0.047.
"The statistical significance uncovered from our in-depth analysis underscores the challenges of evaluating dosing regimens for MANF in standard unilateral rodent models of Parkinson's disease due to MANF's unique ability to reinnervate the striatum," said Dr. John W. Commissiong, Chief Scientist at Amarantus. "We have been cautious in reporting this first of its kind data thus far, and intend to update the marketplace regarding certain aspects of our further analysis as we move forward. The Company is now preparing to initiate IND-enabling studies."
The Company has retained a Swiss neuroscience-focused consulting firm to conduct a full audit of the data derived from these experiments and assist the Company in planning for its IND package. The Company will be reporting additional rodent data in the first quarter on a 6-OHDA neuroprotection rat model of Parkinson's disease where both MANF and GDNF were delivered to the substantia nigra. The final report for all rodent experiments will be made public in the second quarter following completion of the data audit.
About Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor (MANF)
MANF (Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor) is a protein that corrects protein misfolding, one of the major causes of apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death). Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor (MANF) is believed to have broad potential because it is a naturally-occurring protein produced by the body for the purpose of reducing and preventing apoptosis (in response to injury or disease), via the unfolded protein response. By manufacturing MANF and administering it to the body, Amarantus is seeking to use a regenerative medicine approach to assist the body with higher quantities of MANF when needed. Amarantus is the front-runner and primary holder of intellectual property (IP) around MANF, and is initially focusing on the development of MANF-based protein therapeutics. MANF's current lead indication is Parkinson's disease with additional focus on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Future indications may include myocardial infarction and certain rare and ultra-rare orphan diseases where MANF is currently being evaluated.
The Company also owns an inventory of 88 cell lines referred to as "PhenoGuard Cell Lines." MANF was the first therapeutic protein discovered from a PhenoGuard Cell Line, and it is anticipated that additional therapeutic proteins useful for various therapeutic approaches to the Central Nervous System will be identified from the Company's inventory of PhenoGuard Cell Lines.
About Amarantus BioScience, Inc.
Amarantus BioScience, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company founded in January 2008. The Company has a focus on developing certain biologics surrounding the intellectual property and proprietary technologies it owns to treat and/or diagnose Parkinson's disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and other human diseases. The Company owns the intellectual property rights to a therapeutic protein known as Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor ("MANF") and is developing MANF-based products as treatments for brain disorders. The Company also is a Founding Member of the Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT), a movement initiated in collaboration with Brewer Sports International seeking to raise awareness of new treatments in development for concussions and nervous-system disorders. For further information please visit www.Amarantus.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the possible benefits of MANF therapeutic applications and/or advantages presented by Amarantus' PhenoGuard technology, as well as statements about expectations, plans and prospects of the development of Amarantus' new product candidates. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks that the anticipated benefits of the therapeutic drug candidates or discovery platforms, as well as the risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the development of Amarantus' new product candidates, including those identified under "Risk Factors" in Amarantus' most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in other filings Amarantus periodically makes with the SEC. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements Amarantus does not undertake to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect a change in its views or events or circumstances that occur after the date of this presentation.
Amarantus Bioscience, Inc.
IR Sense, LLC
(408) 737-2734 x109
SOURCE Amarantus BioScience, Inc.
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The federal Direct PLUS program is a popular financing option for graduate students, and parents of undergraduate students.
Borrow any loan amount up to the total student budget determined by Stanford, less any other resources.
7.9% fixed interest rate
An origination fee of 4.0% will be deducted from each disbursement. NOTE: Due to federal sequestration, the origination fee has increased to 4.204% for loans first disbursed after 3/1/2013. The U.S. Department of Education will contact affected borrowers directly with information about paying the increased origination fee.
A credit check is conducted when you begin the loan application process. For more information about the credit check please visit the FAQ section of Studentloans.gov.
Undergraduate students are required to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order for their parents to use the Direct PLUS loan program.
Undergraduates whose parents do not qualify for a Direct PLUS loan can borrow additional federal Direct loan funds.
For graduate students, repayment begins 60 days after the loan is fully disbursed and lasts ten years. You can postpone payments of your Direct PLUS Loan while you are in school with an in-school deferment.
For parents of undergraduate students repayment begins within 60 days after your loan is fully disbursed and lasts ten years. Parent borrowers may contact the Direct Loan Servicing Center to request deferment of monthly payments while the student is in school.
April 2, 2013 3:28 PM
Loan processing for academic year 2013-2014 will begin by August 1, 2013. Please check our website at that time as loan information and processing instructions are subject to change.
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Western History & Genealogy Blog
WHG Volunteers feted
Nearly one third of the volunteers who help support the Denver Public Library work on projects in the Western History/Genealogy Department.
Thousands of hours every year are devoted to archived collection processing, creating new finding aids for genealogists, searching newspapers for obituaries and news articles, identifying photos and dozens of other tasks which the paid staff do not have time to attend to.
Each year as a thank you the staff hosts a breakfast pot luck for the volunteers. This year a cowboy singer, Roger Stone, adding a western flair to the occassion singing while the volunteers were eating.
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A power of appointment can be an effective estate planning technique, facilitating how your property may ultimately pass to your heirs. There are two types of powers of appointment: general & limited. Both of these powers are the same with one exception: The general power allows the power holder to appoint the property to themself, their estate, their creditors, or the creditors of their estate. If you grant a general power of appointment, allowing the power holder to appoint to themself, the property will be included in the powerholder's estate for estate tax purposes.
Greatest Benefit of Creating a Power of Appointment
There is one great benefit to granting a power of appointment to the beneficiary of a trust you create: Flexibility!!!
It is very difficult to know what the future will hold. What are the needs and wants of the beneficiary in the future. Who is better able to manage the trust assets as they pass to third and fourth generations? A Power of Appointment can create that flexibility to allow each beneficiary to make the best appropriate decision based on the information they have available rather than mandating a distribution scheme that may be inappropriate in the future.
Reasons to Choose a Limited Power of Appointment
Most of the time, the attorney will recommend a limited power of appointment. This will create flexibility in your estate plan by allowing the beneficiary of the trust to determine who gets the trust property next (after they die) without having to worry about estate tax inclusion. This also allows you to preserve the generation skipping transfer tax exemption so all of the assets in that trust that are exempt will not be included in the beneficiary's estate, no matter how large they have grown into.
Reasons to Choose a General Power of Appointment
You should not create a general power of appointment without the recommendation of your attorney. The power of the beneficiary to appoint the property to him or her self, their estate, their creditors or the creditors of his or her estate will cause the enitire trust amount to be included in the estate of the beneficiary for estate tax purposes. The whole trust estate could also be subject to the payment of the claims from creditors of the beneficiary. Finally, the beneficiary may be able to subvert the original intent of the trustmaker (or power grantor) by appointing the property to his or her estate and then leaving the property to someone else in their Will.
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Originally Posted by CBW1999
Looking at the pictures as I read through the thread, I noticed that pretty much every thermometer shown, that had been used- has a build up of contaminants (seasoned). This will cause the thermometer to give false readings to some extent.
The heavier the contamination, the more fluctuation. As the contamination is uneven and acting as an insulator initially and then possibly a heat sink, I can see why it takes time for adjustments to be noticeable.
I think this normal build up you speak of is pretty negligible. IMO it would take several millimeters this gunk to cause concern as to whether it will cause any effect.
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Steve Jobs will be remembered for revolutionizing personal computing, the music industry, consumer mobile products, film animation and even fonts, the other side of his legacy is one of hyper-control: Apple's proprietary software, the iPhone's closed-off ecology, App Store censorship and the company's labor law violations. If there was ever a company that capitalized on American consumers languishing in late-stage capitalism, it was Apple. And they did it by inventing "cool" products that we didn't even know we needed - till we needed them.The death of Steve Jobs has rocked people the world over, affecting everyone from the most hardcore Apple fanboy to Barack Obama to all those gathered outside the new Apple store in Shanghai. While
Apple's Highly Objectionable App Store Censorship
When Jobs introduced the App Store in June 2008, porn was at the top of the not-allowed-here list of content. Some apps containing nudity snuck into the App Store, and were later pulled. Now only partial nudity seems to show up (e.g. Beautiful Boobs, Asian Boobs), especially if it only focuses on boobs.
Speaking of boobs, in June 2010 Apple once again censored "Ulysses Seen," a web comic version of the classic James Joyce novel. Apple forced the creators to remove images that contained nudity before they would approve it as an iPad app. History seems to have repeated itself here: Ulysses had been put on trial in 1933. Apple ended up changing its mind after all, so the boob-filled web comic is available for download.
A few months after the App Store opened in June 2008, a great controversy erupted over an app called Podcaster that Apple decided to reject. It would have permitted people to listen to podcasts without downloading them first to iTunes; Apple worried that the app "duplicated the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes," and thus saw it as a threat. Here is a longer list of types of apps that Apple rejected from its Mac App Store.
In September 2010, Apple's iTunes social network Ping omitted Lady Gaga's Tweets in which she protests anti-gay marriage legislation Prop8. But don't worry, Apple still released an It Gets Better video, so they must be pro-gay folks, right?
Not long after that, in October 2010, Apple was awarded a patent that could stop people from sending "objectionable" text messages. It was filed in January 2008, and approved on October 12, 2010, and would allow certain content to be filtered based on parental controls. While it might seem like Apple is trying to keep its devices safe from porn, and therefore more workplace and school-friendly, this was still one step closer toward authoritarian control over the iPhone.
Additional apps were banned from the App store: In July 2011, Apple removed the ThirdIntifada app from its store because it "glorified violence against Israel." Apple also banned the violent comic book "Murderdrome" from its App Store, based on the Apple SDK which states that "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple's reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users." There were a few beheadings and ripped out limbs - but those aren't unusual in the world of comic books.
Here's perhaps the most telling App store ban of all: On September 13, 2011, an app called Phone Story, a game that also serves as social commentary, was banned from the Apple App Store only a few hours after its release. The answer as to why this happened was actually quite simple, and can be found in this elegantly written description of the game:
"Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface, hides the product of a troubling supply chain that stretches across the globe. Phone Story represents this process with four educational games that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West."
Oh wait, that sounds a whole lot like exactly what Apple does! Yet Apple would never come out and say that. Instead, they said that the app was banned because it "depicted violence or abuse of children," and "presented excessively objectionable or crude content." This highly questionable act raises serious concerns over the freedom of information in a democratic society, playing into Apple's "walled garden" approach to both its products, and the Web at large.
In 2008, the Advertising Standards Authority responded to two British TV viewers who claimed that a TV ad featuring a voiceover that said "all parts of the Internet are on the iPhone" was misleading because the iPhone didn't support Flash or Java. The ad was found to breach CAP (Broadcast) TV Advertising Standards Code rules 5.1 (Misleading advertising), 5.2.1 (Evidence) and 5.2.2 (Implications), and could not be broadcast again.
Also back in 2008, a gaping security hole in Apple's firmware posed serious problems for anyone who wanted to lock their phone. Instead of being able to lock the phone with a security code, anyone could bypass that by tapping the 'Emergency Call' button and then double tapping the homepage (if it was set to the default favorites).
Apple's Inhumane Working Conditions
Apple outsources its labor to China's most horrible factories, and abuses at one in particular stand out: The Foxconn Factor in Shenzhen, China. Here, some workers as young as 12 years old were forced to work for extended periods of time to meet increased demand for iPhones and iPads from all over the world. As popularity increased for Apple devices, workers were pushed to work longer. Workers ages 18-20 were being forced to work 60-80 hours of extended overtime every month in cramped, low-quality conditions. They were being treated like the very machines they were being forced to produce.
Inhumane treatment of workers first came to light when seven workers at the Foxconn plant committed suicide in May 2010. They were working on the iPad production sector. After these suicides, workers were required to sign a statement that says they are not allowed to commit suicide.
Image via Flickr user mailox.
Will you continue to buy Apple products? Tell us why or why not in the comments below.
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As he stood there holding his breath, bending to look at her, that slurring swish of the plane-tree branch, flung against and against the window by the autumn wind, seemed filling the whole world. Then her lips moved in one of those little, soft hurrying whispers that unhappy dreamers utter, the words all blurred with their wistful rushing.
And he thought: I, who believe in bravery and kindness; I, who hate cruelty—if I do this cruel thing, what shall I have to live for; how shall I work; how bear myself? If I do it, I am lost—an outcast from my own faith—a renegade from all that I believe in.
And, kneeling there close to that face so sad and lonely, that heart so beaten even in its sleep, he knew that he could not do it— knew it with sudden certainty, and a curious sense of peace. Over!—the long struggle—over at last! Youth with youth, summer to summer, falling leaf with falling leaf! And behind him the fire flickered, and the plane-tree leaves tap-tapped.
He rose, and crept away stealthily downstairs into the drawing-room, and through the window at the far end out into the courtyard, where he had sat that day by the hydrangea, listening to the piano-organ. Very dark and cold and eerie it was there, and he hurried across to his studio. There, too, it was cold, and dark, and eerie, with its ghostly plaster presences, stale scent of cigarettes, and just one glowing ember of the fire he had left when he rushed out after Nell—those seven hours ago.
He went first to the bureau, turned up its lamp, and taking out some sheets of paper, marked on them directions for his various works; for the statuette of Nell, he noted that it should be taken with his compliments to Mr. Dromore. He wrote a letter to his banker directing money to be sent to Rome, and to his solicitor telling him to let the house. He wrote quickly. If Sylvia woke, and found him still away, what might she not think? He took a last sheet. Did it matter what he wrote, what deliberate lie, if it helped Nell over the first shock?
“I write this hastily in the early hours, to say that we are called out to Italy to my only sister, who is very ill. We leave by the first morning boat, and may be away some time. I will write again. Don’t fret, and God bless you.
He could not see very well as he wrote. Poor, loving, desperate child! Well, she had youth and strength, and would soon have— Oliver! And he took yet another sheet.
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This request comes from Jim Daly of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, though the award is being co-sponsored by Yahoo! Teachers:
The 2007 Mashup “Totally Wired Teacher Award” will honor a trailblazing teacher who has successfully pioneered the innovative and educational use of social media (blogs, wikis, social networking, photo/video sharing) in the classroom. The award-winner likely had to overcome challenges from parents and administrators in order to use the technology, but because they understand how students use social media outside of school, they persevered with their initiative and worked collaboratively with students, ultimately sharing their insight and knowledge with the larger teaching community.
If you have anyone in mind, send their names, titles, etc. and a paragraph or two as to why they are deserving to [email protected]. The sooner the better. Thanks!
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Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart School Foundation "Where educating our future comes first!"
The BLHS School Foundation was organized in April of 2006 to provide additional Educational Resources for Educational Excellence within our BLHS Community.
Financial support of our school is challenging as state and federal funding is declining. Population in rural BLHS is decreasing with fewer resources available for a quality education for our children. You can help by investing in either the Project Fund or Endowment Fund with the BLHS School Foundation. Endowment Funds are invested and never spent. The earnings from the Endowment fund can be used.
Project Funds are used for immediate resources to maintain educational excellence.
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Redfield Parkway Celebrates 100 Years
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BATAVIA, N.Y. -- It's not the oldest street in Batavia, but you might call Redfield Parkway a slice of the bygone suburbs. There are no fences between the houses, and no two homes are quite alike.
"I guess we use the term, a melting pot of people, that make up the street," said Jim Owen, a resident of Redfield Parkway.
An urban byway which will celebrate its centennial this year.
"This happens to be the picture right here. There's no houses, this is 1912," explained Owen.
Owen is lovingly known as the "Mayor" of Redfield Parkway. He is also one of its most seasoned residents, first living there as a child in 1943.
"I'm trying to inspire other people to take over the reins," said Owen.
Searching through history, Owens discovered that 2012 would be the 100th year since Redfield's inception. Now, an official celebration is planned for Saturday.
"We're going to have some speakers come Saturday. There's going to be city officials from the county, from the state, and then from the United States Congress, we'll have a proclamation from our Congresswoman Kathy Hochul," explained Owen.
As part of the celebration, Redfield Parkway residents will take part in the time-honored tradition of burying a time capsule. It will carry major historical artifacts from Redfield Parkway in the year 2012, including articles from the local museum and the local newspaper, and even a piece of YNN.
"We take pride," said Brenda Pierce, resident.
Up and down the street, residents share their pride.
"We all, you know, do our flowers, and try to keep the median picked up, the street picked up," explained Pierce.
"Not much has changed in 20 years. There still aren't very many fences on Redfield Parkway, and I think that's a tribute to the type of neighbors we have here and the friendly nature of our neighborhood," noted Teresa Lewandowski, resident.
Even Redfield's landmark stone pillar gateway is still the same stone and mortar from 1912, though that may change soon.
Owen said, "You can see a little movement on that, and I don't want to touch it because I don't want it to fall down. It's got to stay up there a few more years."
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About the STEM Learning Community
The purpose of the STEM learning community at EMU is to provide a place of interaction, connection, encouragement, and support for first-year students enrolled in a STEM major or program. Through the STEM learning community, which is organized as smaller subgroups called organic cells, students will find connections, identity, and purpose within their chosen discipline.
Ultimately, these organic cells will vitalize the learning environment and increase the number of STEM graduates from EMU.
Registration and participation
First-year STEM students that did not participate in the Summer Bridge Program will be invited to apply to participate in the EMU STEM LC. Applications will be available at the STEM first year orientation session prior to the start of fall classes. All students participating in the EMU STEM LC will automatically be assigned to a cell and a Cell Leader/Bridges Mentor. Students that participated in the Summer Bridge Program are required to participate in EMU’s STEM LC.
STEM First Year Experience monetary stipend
Summer Bridge students
The fall portion of your stipend is $600. The spring portion is $200. In the fall, you must attend two-thirds of the scheduled lunch series, two of four designated Suter Science Seminars and discussions, and one mentor-planned event.
In the spring, you must attend one of two planned spring events and two of four Suter Science Seminars. You must also remain a STEM-related major at the end of each semester to be eligible for the stipend as well as a responsive mentee with mentor correspondence.
Non-Summer Bridge students
For participating in the CLC program, you will receive $150 in the fall and $100 in the spring. You must attend two of three scheduled lunch series, two of four Bridges designated Suter Science Seminars and discussions, and one mentor-planned event for the fall. In the spring, you must attend one of two planned spring events and two of four Bridges Suter Science Seminars. You must also remain a STEM-related major at the end of each semester to be eligible for the stipend as well as a responsive mentee with mentor correspondence.
Jennifer Sowers, Bridges project internship coordinator, will oversee the student mentors and provide advice, training and input to maintain cell function. Reach her at or 540-820-0514.
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Prompt 13 – Action. When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?
Oooh! Oooh! I know this one:
Sorry, bloke, but it IS all about ideas. It's about having an idea and not smothering it with "OMG too hard" or "I'm too busy/old/fat to ever do that". It's about letting your dear little idea out from under "can't do it right now so there's no point thinking about it" or "even though I'd love it I wouldn't be good at it and I'm scared people might laugh"and giving it space and light to grow.
Once you've done that
Oh, I almost forgot the most important part. Make excuses, whine, give up, say it's too hard and you hate it and you don't know who ever had such a stupid idea.....THEN DO SOMETHING.
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my interest in the Society of Friends probably comes from a different direction than most. Three days after I graduated high school I was off to Marine Recruit Depot Sand Diego, CA. My parents where career military and really I never even thought of another job. So off to the infantry i went to prove my "manhood". Looking back I am thankfully that I never had to go to war, but even without having to experience that horror my time weighed heavy on me after I got out.
I've spent a lot of time getting over my disillusionment and rediscovering myself in the last decade. And it was during this time that I rediscovered Smedley Butler. Smedley is one of only two Marines to even win the Medal of Honor twice. His name is memorized by every recruit that joins the Corps. And so imagine my surprise when I discovered he was a Quaker and a man who was extremely disillusioned with actions over his long career. Ultimately feeling he had been nothing, but a pawn for big business and the industry of war. Honestly his history after the service is fascinating.
Which brings me to this post. First I am curious if modern Quakers even know who the man is? Is he acknowledged and known as a Quaker by current generations? And next I am curious if anyone could give me a little more understanding about Quakers going against the peace testimony in times of war.
I had hoped to get a little more in detail about this disparity reading his biography, but Smedley's biographer seems to just skip over this sort of yin and yang duality that existed within the man and religion. Outside of that the only thing I have really found that even discusses the subject of Friends and war was Robert Lawrence Smith's, A Quaker Book of Wisdom.
Anyway I appreciate any help you folks can give and hope that I am not offending anyone with my questions. Thank you, Jeremy
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On average, 40% of shareholders supported resolutions about natural gas fracturing, up from 30% last year. Investors withdrew resolutions at Anadarko Petroleum, Cabot Oil & Gas, El Paso Corporation and Southwestern Energy when the companies agreed on more disclosure.
“Hydraulic fracturing can potentially poison local water supplies, pollute the air and leave us with a waste management nightmare,” said Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, who filed resolutions with Carrizo and Cabot as trustee of the $140.6 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. “Natural gas is a
crucial part of the nation’s energy supply, but it has to be extracted the right way.”
Fracking was just one of the core environmental concerns this proxy season.
Investors also withdrew 45 resolutions after companies agreed to take steps to address climate change and problems with natural gas, scarce water, coal ash disposal and oil refining.
“The strength of this year’s proxy season shows unwavering investor concern about how companies are managing the environmental risks of fossil fuel sourcing and the ongoing shift to a clean, low-carbon global economy,” said Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres, which coordinates the shareholder resolutions along with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). “Investors want stronger assurances companies are effectively navigating these key market trends.”
The Pew Charitable Trust reports that clean energy investment and finance worldwide has grown six-fold since 2004, but Americans are far behind with an investment of $34 billion, compared to $94 billion in Europe and $54 billion in China.
Investors filed a record 28 resolutions with 18 electric power providers, who face pending EPA regulations that will require that they pollute less. The resolutions sought information about coal-based power production.
After a positive response, investors withdrew resolutions at Dominion and Southern Company, Entergy, Xcel, and FirstEnergy. Resolutions at Ameren and First Energy received significant support. “The strong votes on coal ash disposal demonstrate that a significant portion of shareholders require increased transparency on the companies’ efforts to reduce the environmental and health hazards associated with coal combustion waste,” said Larisa Ruoff, Director of Shareholder Advocacy for Green Century Capital Management and lead filer on the resolutions with FirstEnergy and Southern.
Dominion, Southern Company and PPL Corporation agreed to significantly expand disclosure on the availability of water. Scarce water is a growing challenge.
Southern Company agreed to prepare a comprehensive "water action report," in response to a resolution filed by the Connecticut Treasurer’s Office, as fiduciary of the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds. The report will describe the company’s water management philosophy, water use and consumption by generation type, water discharges, and emerging risks, including water risks in its fuel supply chain. One of the nation’s largest electric generators, Southern is based in water-strapped Atlanta, Georgia, where a federal judicial order may reduce the city’s water withdrawals by as early as 2012, and credit rating agency Fitch has said it may have to downgrade the city’s bond ratings because of the water problem.
Investors persuaded Virginia-based Dominion to commit to respond to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s water survey, which asks companies to report their water use and risks associated with changing water availability. Pennsylvania-based PPL agreed to report on the water intensity of its generation, its water resources and cooling system types and water rights of major facilities.
Oil Refinery Safety
After a string of mishaps in the refinery industry during the past year that led to 19 deaths and 25 serious injuries, the AFL-CIO Reserve Fund filed resolutions calling for action, winning support from 54.3% of Tesoro shareholders and 43.3% at Valero Energy. An identical resolution at Sunoco was withdrawn after the company agreed to more disclosure and safety measures.
Walden Asset Management re-filed a resolution with Layne Christensen this year after the company resisted producing a sustainability report, even after a record-breaking 60.3% vote on the resolution last year. This year, the company took the unusual step of recommending a vote “FOR” Walden’s resolution, leading to the remarkably high 92.8% vote. The company also published its first sustainability report.
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Activists Hope to Reverse Anti-Gay Ruling
July 30, 2001
615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226
By Deb Price
For the first decade after the U.S. Supreme Courts devastatingly
anti-gay Bowers v. Hardwick ruling in 1986, gay-rights attorneys pretty much
felt like they were tiptoeing around in the legal equivalent of a house of
Every time they dared open a door whether in trying to help a lesbian
mom regain custody or a gay applicant rejected as a police officer they
feared the ferocious monster thats come to be known simply as Hardwick
would pop out, as state and federal judges frequently cited that anti-sodomy
ruling as an excuse for a wide range of anti-gay decisions.
This summer marks the 15th anniversary of the Hardwick ruling, in which
Justice Byron White contemptuously branded as "facetious" the
argument that gay Americans have a constitutional right to privacy. While the
Hardwick legal precedent is hardly dead, its a shadow of its former self,
not too far from being taken off the homophobic respirator that enables it to
live on to be used for occasional outbursts by mean-spirited judges.
And thankfully, as is often true of monsters victims, the gay community
has transformed much of the searing pain felt in the years immediately after
the ruling into powerful, self-protective weapons.
"While on the one hand, it would have been great to have gotten all
the sodomy laws in the country struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, this has
forced us to get more organized, to go into state courts to educate a lot of
judges," observes Arthur Leonard, author of the superlative Sexuality and
"It forced us to become experts on state constitutional law with
excellent results in that we knocked down a lot of sodomy laws in state courts
in the years since Hardwick," says Leonard, praising several state
legislatures as well for dumping sodomy laws.
When Hardwick was handed down, 24 states, the District of Columbia and the
military still had anti-sodomy laws, most of them targeting any couple
engaging in oral or anal sex. Now only 17 states and the military still
criminalize sodomy; in five states, those laws apply only to gay sex. And that
overall number is dwindling fast: In Minnesota, a 30-day appeal period of a
favorable ruling ends soon, and an earlier victory in Arkansas is likely to be
affirmed. Legal experts debate the viability of sodomy laws in Michigan,
Montana and Missouri.
That leaves a dozen backward states, mostly in the South. Challenges are
pending in Texas and Arkansas. A few states will likely cling to sodomy laws
for years. Ultimately, gay-rights lawyers hope to persuade the Supreme Court
to reverse Hardwick. Until then, the existence of sodomy laws anywhere
stigmatizes gay Americans everywhere.
This summer is also a time to celebrate the fifth birthday of Romer v.
Evans. In that landmark decision, the Supreme Court wrapped gay Americans in
the Constitutions protective embrace. While the remarkable rulings reach
is still unclear, it helped deaden Hardwicks sting.
"The main value of Romer has been atmospheric. It shifted the judicial
climate," notes attorney Shannon Minter of the National Center for
Lesbian Rights. "In Romer, you had the Supreme Court without blanching
referring to gay people as part of the citizenry entitled to equal treatment
Romer opened a promising path of gay-rights litigation, one relying on the
Constitutions equal protection promises. The rulings pricelessness was
underscored when the Vermont Supreme Court mentioned Romer when prodding the
state legislature to give coupled gay Vermonters all the state rights and
responsibilities of marriage.
"Hardwick and Romer are emblematic of the schizophrenia in this
country right now," observes attorney Steve Scarborough of the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund. "...Something is going to have to give.
I predict Hardwick is going to fall."
Tiptoeing far less these days, gay-rights attorneys are rightly filled with
hope about the years ahead.
- Deb Prices column is published on Monday. She be contacted at (202)
662-7370 or [email protected]. Write letters to [email protected]
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WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — A drug under late-stage clinical development by Eisai reduced the frequency of seizures in patients with epilepsy, according to trial results the drug maker presented Tuesday at the 2011 International Epilepsy Congress.
In a 389-patient phase-3 study of the drug perampanel, patients with partial-onset seizures who took the drug in 8-mg and 12-mg doses showed statistically significant reductions in median seizure frequency compared with those who took the placebo while receiving treatment with one to three other epilepsy drugs. The study, dubbed "Study 305," was the third in a phase-3 trial program that enrolled a total of 1,480 patients worldwide.
In the study, 14.7% of patients taking the placebo showed a reduction in seizure frequency by 50% or more, compared with 33.3% of patients taking perampanel in the 8-mg strength and 33.9% of those taking the 12-mg strength. Also, while patients in the placebo group showed a reduction in median seizure frequency of 9.7%, those taking perampanel in the 8-mg strength once per day showed a reduction of 30.5%, while those taking it the 12-mg strength once daily showed a 17.6% reduction.
"This third phase-3 study demonstrated the statistical significance and clinical efficacy of perampanel for reducing partial-onset seizures among epilepsy patients," Eisai Neuroscience Product Creation Unit president Lynn Kramer said. "Eisai is committed to developing new therapies that can offer seizure control and address unmet medical needs, as part of our [human healthcare] corporate mission."
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In May of this year, we shared an article with our email subscribers titled "The Value of Music Degree." The article argued that a music degree, while it may not lead directly to a job, is still worth earning because of how much it can enrich one's life. The response was overwhelming: many musicians disagreed with the article and felt that their degree sent them out into a tough economy with few practical skills; others could not imagine their lives without their music degree, or without music at the center of their lives, no matter how hard it is to make a living as a musician. Sarah Decker is the third reader who has responded with an engaging and generous guest blog. Sarah believes that the "dollars and cents" of her life as a musician don't matter; what matters is that by playing music – doing what she loves – she's staying true to herself and her talents.
I’ve been a musician my whole life. There was really no option otherwise; music was always such an integral part of growing up that it’d be a miracle if I didn’t end up being a musician. My mom taught piano lessons until I was too big to stay out of trouble and directed church choirs my whole life. She made sure that I had access to wonderful music, whether it was Peter and the Wolf narrated by the great Leonard Bernstein (of course, I had no idea who he was until I was much older), The Nutcracker, The Beatles, or The Fiddler on the Roof.
Growing up, I was always involved in band, choir, dance, theater, and the Black Hills Symphony. When it came time to go to college, I debated my major briefly but it seemed only natural that I major in music. There was nothing else that I had such a passion for. In time I learned that I didn’t have the passion to teach, but to perform and compose music, so I changed from majoring in Music Education to double majors in French Horn Performance and Music Composition & Theory. Before long, I realized that I’ve always had a love affair with movie scores and decided that I should compose them, so I found a new Master’s program in just that. I’m extremely proud of my accomplishments there and I’m slowly working on getting a small composition career going on my own while I perform with the Black Hills Symphony and Powder River Symphony.
Economically, I sort of shot myself in the foot there. Just as I was finishing my masters degree the economy tanked. The end of that degree included a 5-week internship that was supposed to turn into a job, but most of us had no such luck, and I couldn’t find any other jobs either because I was “overqualified but under-experienced” for anything I could realistically do, so I had to firmly tuck my tail and move home from LA to live with my parents again. I ran into that same line at home too. Being highly educated is definitely a double-edged sword; I posses skills and talents that many people can only dream of, but instead of using that as a testament to my abilities in new situations potential employers seemed intimidated and found reasons not to hire me. Well-meaning friends and family continue to ask whether I should “just teach,” but having been in the educational system as long as I was I knew it wasn’t something you do for the money. You have to have the passion for it and the willingness to sacrifice your evenings and weekends for minimal compensation, not to mention deal with administrators that continue to slash arts budgets left and right. That’s not me.
Would I have done things differently if I had known what would happen? Maybe. My studentloans are gigantic and there’s no way I can afford the monthly payments. But then, who can say they’ve pursued their dreams, even if they got slapped down a little? How many people can say that music they’ve composed has been recorded by Disney musicians at Capitol Records and attached to a real film? It was truly a surreal experience and I wouldn’t change it for the world. So what if I’m not in Los Angeles anymore? Composers are a dime a dozen there. Being back at home means I can play with the BHS again like I did in high school, spend time with my aging parents and give my newborn daughter the chance I didn’t have to get close to her grandparents, help my fiancee record and master an album of his songs, and work on local film and TV projects. I’m the only person around here with the training and skills I have, so as soon as I find the right niche I can make a career out of this after all. As for my loan payments... I’m still working on how to bring in enough money to cover them, but for now we’re surviving. Right now, that’s all I can ask.
The value of my music can’t be quantified in dollars and cents. It is part of my core and my soul. I will always dance. I will always sing. Without Symphony, life is bland. It doesn’t pay enough to reimburse me for the gas it takes to get there, but I don’t care. What I do for a “day job” doesn’t matter, but I am trying to use my passions productively to help with that and maybe in time that will be all I need.
Above all, my mother surrounded me with mentors where the public school couldn’t provide them. Starting with ballet and gymnastics at age 3, private cello lessons starting in middle school and continuing through high school, private voice lessons in high school, and sending me to music camp for cello, voice, and French Horn all through middle and high school, I collected a team of teacher-mentor-friends that continue to help me to this day. This support net is truly invaluable, no matter what happens.
Now, at 30 years old and a new mother, I’m determined to do the same for my daughter. My teachers helped me become the person I am today and the vast majority of them are still a very present part of my life, or should I say, my constantly changing, insane, wonderful, musical life.
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28 February, 2013
And Now, From I.B.M., Chef Watson
I.B.M.’s Watson beat “Jeopardy” champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty in the kitchen? That is just one of the questions that I.B.M. is asking as it tries to expand its artificial intelligence technology and turn Watson into something that actually makes commercial sense.
Advances in several computing technologies have opened this opportunity and market, now called Big Data, and a key one is the software techniques of artificial intelligence like machine learning.
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The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. Edward Glover posed the question in an informal survey in 1940, but little came of his efforts. Now, more than half a century later, Judy Kantrowitz rigorously explores this issue on the basis of a unique research project that obtained data from 399 fully trained analysts. These survey responses included 194 reported clinical examples and 26 extended case commentaries on analyst change.
Kantrowitz begins The Patient's Impact on the Analyst by documenting how the process of analysis fosters an interactional process out of which patient and analyst alike experience therapeutic effects. Then, drawing on the clinical examples provided by her survey respondents, she offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which clinically triggered self-reflection represents a continuation of the analyst's own personal understanding and growth. Finally, she incorporates these research findings into theoretical reflections on how analysts obtain and integrate self-knowledge in the course of their ongoing clinical work.
This book is a pioneering effort to understand the therapeutic process from the perspective of its impact on the analyst. It provides an enlarged framework of comprehension for recent discussions of self-analysis, countertransference, interaction, and mutuality in the analytic process. Combining a wealth of experiential insight with thoughtful commentary and synthesis, it will sharpen analysts' awareness of how they work and how they are affected by their work.
If You Enjoy "The Patient's Impact on the Analyst (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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Posted on Feb 12, 2010 | Comments 1
Photography has progressed over the years in tremendous leaps and bounds. Going from the old tintype pictures of yore to black and white pictures to Polaroid and 35mm and then to digital photography you can see that the technology has progressed at an incredible pace.
What could they possibly come up with next for the casual picture taker? We have probably all seen a 3D movie, but now you can take your own 3D pictures with a digital camera.
Ikonoskop, a Swedish camera manufacturer has come up with a 3D digital camera for the casual user. Lightweight and easy to use, it will bring pleasure and fun to even the most tech challenged user.
With the technology made simple, can we expect the digital art to become three-dimensional?
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At his sous vide demo in Aspen, chef David Chang talked about his affinity for cooking with gojuchang. Gojuchang (pronounced "go-joo-chong") is a Korean red pepper paste. Usually fermented, it contains dried chile peppers and an emulsifying sweetener such as molasses. The paste is used sparingly for marinating, cooking, and as a condiment for marinated beef, mixed vegetables over rice, noodles, and other dishes. It can be purchased at most Asian markets.
Have you ever tried gojuchang?
Source: Flickr User joyosity
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Women abandoned Newt Gingrich in droves Tuesday and helped fuel former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's triumph in Florida's Republican presidential primary, according to data from an exit poll of voters.
Romney also drew strength from Florida's legion of older voters, Hispanics and two staples among GOP voters in presidential contests so far ? those looking for someone to defeat President Barack Obama and people focused on the still flagging economy.
While Romney bested the former House speaker narrowly among men, he strongly outdistanced him among women, winning 52 percent to 28 percent. In the three states in which Republicans had already voted for their presidential nominee ? Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ? there was relatively little difference in how the sexes divided their votes between the two rivals.
Romney's Florida triumph came after a campaign in which he and his supporters outspent Gingrich on television commercials by nearly 5-1, with many of the ads attacking the former speaker's character. None mentioned Gingrich's three marriages or the charges by his second wife, Marianne, that he asked permission for an open marriage before they were divorced, an allegation Gingrich has denied.
Romney prevailed over Gingrich among women across every category of education and income, underscoring the sweep with which they preferred Romney.
Some of the data from Tuesday's exit poll suggested that many women's votes were influenced more by a personal distaste for Gingrich than by liking Romney. Asked their views of Gingrich as a person, men said they generally viewed him favorably by 62 percent to 34 percent, but women were about evenly divided. In contrast, women expressed stronger positive feelings about Romney as a person than men did, but the difference between them was minor.
Among all voters on Tuesday, 55 percent expressed favorable views of Gingrich personally, compared to 77 percent who said the same about Romney.
Men divided about evenly between Gingrich and Romney over which candidate best understood average Americans' problems, but women leaned toward Romney, 38 percent to 26 percent. Men said strongly that they would be satisfied if Gingrich won the nomination, while women said yes by just a slight 51 percent to 46 percent.
About 1 in 7 GOP primary voters Tuesday was Hispanic, and that group preferred Romney, 54 percent to 29 percent. About a third of Tuesday's voters were age 65 or up ? reflecting the state's status as a retirement haven ? and they gave Romney an edge, 51 percent to 34 percent.
The exit poll also showed that Romney did better with less conservative than more conservative people.
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I, too, work in the healthcare industry. You …
Comment posted President Obama And Kerry Washington Speak At The DNC by Linda.
I, too, work in the healthcare industry. You need to educate yourself on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The policy will allow people who don’t have insurance to buy into a policy determined by their income as @circ1984 explained. By having everyone enrolled, the insurance premium rates will be lower and we will no longer be absorbing the cost of someone who doesn’t have insurance who goes to the ER and can’t pay the bill, for example.
In addition, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has other benefits.
1. Ending discrimination for per-existing conditions
2. A parent can keep their child on their insurance until they turn 26.
3. No more lifetime limits
4. Seniors save more on prescription drugs
5. No copay or deductibles for preventive care
6. Since Aug 1st, insurance companies are required to fully cover birth control without co-pays or deductibles and women will have family planning services without extra cost.
There’s more that you can Google to get a better understanding of the full law.
Linda also commented
- Everyone needs to find out about EARLY VOTING in their states. You don’t have to wait until November 6th to vote. Early voting in my state starts 3 weeks before the election date.
- The DNC did an amazing job highlighting the difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Michelle Obama’s speech on Monday night was inspiring and political without being divisive. She’s an amazing FLOTUS. There were so many wonderful speeches [Cory Booker, Sister Simone Campbell, Sandra Fluke, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Cecile Richards, Jennifer Granholm, and Joe Biden to name a few. ] and moments at the DNC. So positive, so enthusiastic and uplifting but also truthful. I love that the camera shots of the diverse crowd. It looked like my America.
President Obama hit it out the park with his speech. He showed the leader that he is and what kind of leader Mitt Romney will be. It was his best speech to date. I hope every one is registered to vote. Don’t think your vote doesn’t matter. It MATTERS!
Go to www.gottavote.org to register to vote. Do it today! It’s very easy.
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Just another week in the world of regulation:
- 84 new final rules were published last week, up from 77 the previous week. That’s the equivalent of a new regulation precisely every 2 hours — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All in all, 1,114 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year. If this keeps up, the total tally for 2012 will be 3,674 new rules.
- 1,675 new pages were added to the 2012 Federal Register last week, for a total of 24,097 pages. At this pace, the 2012 Federal Register will run 78,238 pages.
- Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. The 17 such rules published so far in 2012 cost at least $15.2 billion. Two of the rules do not have cost estimates, and a third cost estimate does not give a total annual cost. We assume that rules lacking this basic transparency measure cost the bare minimum of $100 million per year. The true cost is almost certainly higher.
- No economically significant rules were published last week. There were a total of 16 significant actions last week, as defined by Executive Order 12866. So far, 131 significant final rules have been published in 2012.
- 21 of last week’s final rules affect small business. So far this year, 216 final rules affect small businesses. 33 of them are significant rules.
Highlights from final rules published last week:
- Federal regulations require commercial drivers to undergo medical examinations to make sure they comply with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s physical qualification requirements. A new rule from the FMCSA “establishes a training, testing, and registration program that would certify medical professionals as qualified to conduct medical certification examinations of commercial drivers.”
- If you were thinking of importing pomegranates from Chile, there are some new regulations you should be aware of. From the summary, “the fruit would have to be grown in a place of production that is registered with the national plant protection organization of Chile and certified as having a low prevalence of Brevipalpus chilensis [aka the Chilean red false mite – ed.]. The fruit would have to undergo pre-harvest sampling at the registered production site. Following post-harvest processing, the fruit would have to be inspected in Chile at an approved inspection site. Each consignment of fruit would have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the fruit had been found free of Brevipalpus chilensis based on field and packinghouse inspections.” If you don’t want to through all that, you may use pesticide.
- According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Three Forks springsnail is now an endangered species, and the San Bernadino springsnail is now a threatened species. The Three Forks springsnail is about a fifth of an inch long and is only found in part of a national forest in Apache County, Arizona. 17.2 acres of critical habitat have been designated for it. The San Bernadino springsnail is a tenth of an inch long. Its only known habitat is on a privately owned ranch in Cochise County, Arizona. It gets two acres of critical habitat; this may constitute a regulatory taking if it adversely affects the ranch owner.
For more data, updated daily, go to TenThousandCommandments.com.
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Amusement parks are one of the options preferred by children and youngsters to spend their leisure time, particularly weekends. It might be thrilling to come hurtling down a roller-coaster ride at a rate of 100 km per hour or ride the waves on a jet-ski at breakneck speed, which makes amusement park rides exhilarating. The city houses many such theme parks and each one is unique in its own way.
VGP Golden Beach Resort
Located on the East Coast Road, VGP Golden Beach Resort offers a serene and relaxing atmosphere. A trailblazer in the field of entertainment, it has a charm of its own with cool breeze and beautiful pathways flanked by shady trees amidst green lawns. Some of the rides are super trooper, giant wheel, aero-ship, jumping frog, children’s merry-go-round, super jet, break-dance, dragons belly, etc. The spectacular ko-kart, dashing car and water chute comprise the premium rides. Jurassic park and aquarium are some of the other features which are educative and fun-filled.
Queens Land –The Great Amusement Park on Chennai Bangalore Highway near Poonamallee offers rides such as free fall tower (for adults), which goes up to 150-ft. Other rides, such as alpen blitz, roller coaster and cable car, are meant for children and youth.
‘Centrox’ is sure to provide a thrilling experience while rotating at the height of 30-ft and at 83-degree angle.
It has a safety lock that protects passengers in case of eventuality. Hanging coaster, pirata ship, crazy horses and oval station are the other attractions.
Learning through entertainment is possible at EVP World, on Chennai-Bangalore National Highway in Chembarambakkam.
The entrance of the theme park is based on the work of Italian artist Michael Angelo.
Tora tora, bungee jump, monkey jump, Columbus, capsule, merry-go-down, helicopter, parachute and China train are some of the rides and games that would go well with children.
Giant wheel, another major attraction, is sure to attract all.
A water-based laser and multimedia show is also on cards. At a time, about three thousand people can watch the magic of visuals on a water screen developed by fountains in an open auditorium.
This laser show begins by 6 p.m. The park is open from 10.30 a.m.
Kishkinta Theme Park, set up in 120 acres of specially landscaped hills and lakes near Tambaram, is another fun destination.
The sensational gravity defying show, ‘Mandira Arai’ (rooms of mystery), allows the visitors to experience the impossible spider-act which leaves them spellbound.
Other rides such as dragon coaster, space shuttle, trooper, Arabian Nights, thrillairium, and road train are specially designed to offer the visitors a sense of happiness and enthrallment.
Director of Kishkinta, P.K. Thothadri says that Kishkinta do not want to compromise on the safety of its customers.
The foundation of safety lies in the design, manufacture and maintenance of the rides.
On any given day at Kishkinta, every ride starts with unmanned trials. Once the operator is satisfied with the trials, the operations department is informed that they can let in the visitors.
“We also caution them with safety messages enroute inside the park and keep them away from any dangers during the rides,” he says.
Most of these theme parks in and around Chennai city ensure safety to its visitors by the presence of well-trained lifeguards and by taking other precautionary measures.
However, visitors are suggested to abide by specific rules and regulations for complete safety.
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Visitors traveling along the Blue Ridge Parkway must visit the Puckett Cabin at Milepose 189.9 in Carroll County. The site is a preserved log home, with rail fencing, that was the last home of Orlean Hawks Puckett (1844-1939). Puckett was a mid-wife who helped assist with the delivery of over 1,000 babies from 1890-1939. The site helps to interpret and preserve the folklife and folklore of the region. The site is located 9.6 miles from the parkway access point at Fancy Gap(near Interstate 77).
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A deadly attack Friday on the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, which killed one guard and wounded several people, is renewing debate over diplomatic security that came under scrutiny last year after the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya.
The embassy that was targeted Friday by a suicide bomber in the Turkish capital of Ankara dates to the 1950s and was recommended for replacement, though it had undergone security upgrades that prevented mass casualties in the blast, the State Department said.
The bomb dislodged masonry from a front wall and blasted an entry door off its hinges, photos from the site show. Flying debris injured several embassy staffers, who were treated at the scene.
Among the injured was Turkish television
Photos: Embassy Bombing
The White House labeled the incident in Ankara as a terrorist attack, and U.S. officials praised Turkish authorities for their quick response.
The embassy is on a heavily secured street in the center of the Turkish capital, close to the German and French embassies. U.S. embassies generally have a much higher degree of protection than small American missions like the ill-fated installations in Benghazi. After the Ankara attack, U.S. authorities warned Americans in Turkey not to visit the embassy or U.S. consulates and to avoid demonstrations and large gatherings.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Ankara is among the capitals due a new embassy compound but stressed that budget constraints mean that the government can schedule the rebuilding of only three embassies a year instead of the desired 10.
A partisan budget argument was central to the furor surrounding the Benghazi attacks, too, with Republicans lambasting the State Department for failing to boost security at U.S. posts in Libya and other high-risk sites, and Democrats responding that House Republicans had slashed the administration's request for embassy security funds by $128 million in 2011 and more than $330 million last year.
The funding goes not only for construction but also for guards and other diplomatic security measures.
"If we are fully funded, as we are requesting going forward, that would allow us to put 10 a year on the rebuilding list, and Ankara would be one that would benefit quickly," Nuland said at a news conference.
After the Benghazi attacks in September, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, an independent review board found "grossly inadequate" security at the compound. The State Department conducted a review of all its 275 diplomatic posts around the world and created a senior position to supervise security conditions at posts in high-risk areas.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement Friday that the committee "stands ready to assist the State Department in protecting our diplomats," perhaps signaling that the annual tug-of-war over embassy security funding might be eased this year.
Other Republicans, however, have complained that the State Department budget is bloated, with little oversight as to how the funds are allocated.
"The suicide bombing at our embassy in Turkey is yet another stark reminder of the constant terrorist threat against U.S. facilities, personnel and interests abroad," Royce's statement said. "Coming after Benghazi, it underscores the need for a comprehensive review of security at our diplomatic posts."
The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.
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Just a follow-up to my own question;
I've spent a little more time using the JDK in conjunction with TextPad and it does show some promise. The code is actually color-coded allowing for easier reading. When run through a compiler, errors come up allowing for quicker trouble-shooting...but I've found myself a mislead on a couple of occasions.
All in all, I did find it to be a useful tool, though a little awkward to get used to. I'd still like to hear from someone who does this for a living. Is this the norm or are JAVA programmers using something else as the standard?
Either way it was an educating expiriance and would recommend it for someone wanting to try something new.
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Tree Hopper Blocks
We came across these fabulous blocks at a local street fair here in Evanston last summer. We met the owner of Tree Hopper Toys, Eric, and talked with him about how he makes his toys and the safe materials he uses. Tree Hopper Blocks, along with their other wooden toys are made in USA with sustainably harvested Midwestern hardwood, every piece is all natural and sanded smooth, making them a friend of Earth and 100% safe for kids.
Eric and his wife Molly started Tree Hopper Toys early in 2010 after a road trip along America’s Pacific coastline. They came home to Chicago inspired by the endless natural beauty and the culture of independence they experienced during those travels. Also, while on the trip they discovered that they had a baby on the way!
When they first started telling people about their plan, so many people insisted that they couldn’t make a profit if they manufactured toys right here in Chicago, and that they just couldn’t compete with the big guys that make everything across the ocean. Eric and Molly say, "Maybe they’re right, but we just have to give it a try."
Our kids love playing with these blocks. We have them sitting on a wood tray on our coffee table and they also get plenty of attention from older guests who just can't resist doing some building too. And, If the child in your life likes to create things with their hands, they will love Tree Hopper Blocks!
Now for the best part... We are giving away a 38- piece set!
With Hopper Blocks kids will have a blast putting their creativity to work. They can build cities, robots, forests, castles, abstract sculptures and anything else they can imagine!
Blocks come packaged in reusable cloth sack for storage. The set contains 38 pieces in total. There are five block sizes, which start at 1.5"x1.5"x1.5" and go up to 1.5"x3"x6". There are 1.5", 3", and 6" dowels.
*Due to small parts, this product is not meant for children under 3 years old.
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED. Congratulations to our winner: Michelle!
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Sometimes, you just have to let the story speak for itself.
“You’re going to have to bear with me,” the judge said. “I know you’re anxious.”
For a man wrongly convicted of rape almost 30 years ago, Raymond Towler did not look anxious.
Perhaps it was because a few more minutes in custody made little difference after so long. Perhaps it was because he had a reasonable idea of what Judge Eileen Gallagher was about to say.
In an extraordinary scene, barely noticed in America this week amid coverage of the enormous oil spill and the New York bomb plot, Mr Towler, a 52-year-old musician, walked free from a Cleveland court after spending more than half his life in prison for a crime of which he always maintained his innocence and which DNA analysis proved he did not commit.
His case is not unique, but the way it ended was uniquely moving. It may serve to galvanise a national movement of lawyers and activists who have used DNA evidence to free more than 250 inmates since 1992, almost all of them black men, but who have so far lacked the resources to tackle thousands of other cases in which experts’ fear of “junk science” and racial bias have produced unsafe convictions.
The moment of truth came just after 9am on Wednesday. After a brief recap of his arrest, trial and conviction for the rape of an 11-year-old girl in 1981, Judge Gallagher turned to the results of DNA analysis of skin and semen samples that she ordered two years ago from a lab in Texas. Both samples came from the victim’s underwear. They did not match the girl’s DNA, but they did match each other.
“They are consistent with deriving from the same individual, the assailant of the victim,” Judge Gallagher said. “And that individual was clearly not Raymond Towler.”
Mr Towler, in a white shirt and black V-neck sweater, blinked and briefly lowered his head. “It’s been a long time coming,” Judge Gallagher noted. Her voice breaking, she then read to the court an Irish blessing more commonly heard at weddings: “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face, may the rain fall softly upon your fields. May God hold you in the palm of his hand, now and forever.”
Wiping tears from her face, the judge stepped forward to shake the hand of a man known to the state of Ohio for more than quarter of a century as Inmate A16468. “Good luck to you, Mr Towler,” she said. “You’re free.”
Mr Towler shook hands with his lawyers, a team of three from the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati, then hugged his brother and sister. Asked how he had been able to get up each morning knowing he had been wrongly convicted, he said: “You’ve got to get up, you know what I mean? Get up with God in your spirit and God will lead the way forward.”
Under state law, Mr Towler is entitled to $40,330 (£27,350) for every year of his wrongful imprisonment, not including lost wages and any damages he may win by suing the Ohio Department of Corrections. A previous inmate wrongfully jailed for a shorter period was awarded $1.4 million.
Mr Towler appeared to bear no grudge. “Evidently a crime was committed and I’ve got to respect that they tried the best that they could,” he said. “They had the wrong person. It took them a while to straighten it out but all I care about right now is that they did straighten it out.”
The authorities still have no idea who the culprit is, but the prosecutor, Bill Mason, said that the case was open and there would be a new examination of crime scene evidence.
Outside the court Mr Towler began taking in his new surroundings en route to a pizza restaurant. “Even though I was raised here I’ve still got to do a lot of sightseeing,” he said.
Despite pleading not guilty and offering a solid alibi, Mr Towler was sentenced to life without parole on the basis of a Cleveland police officer’s suspicion during a routine traffic stop that he resembled the man sought in a rape that had occurred two weeks earlier. He was later picked out by the victim from an identity parade.
“One of the leading causes of these wrongful convictions is witness misidentification, especially with crossracial identification,” Carrie Wood, one of Mr Towler’s lawyers, said. “There is still racial prejudice in our society. Anyone who tells you different just doesn’t have those interactions.”
Hat tip to AfOR
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I recently had the opportunity to review a copy of Dr. Fritz Allhoff's book "Wine & Philosophy". A compilation of a series of essays, it is a very good read that has lots of interesting ways of looking at wine. A historical look that spans various time periods and civilizations, this book lets the reader see how wine has been viewed over the many years it has been enjoyed by mankind. With chapters including "The Art & Culture of Wine", "Tasting & Talking about Wine" and "The Politics & Economics of Wine" to name a few, you can see that this isn't just any old book on wine. My favorite essay is entitled "Talk about Wine?" by Kent Bach. He points out that being able to talk about wine requires experience at drinking wine as well as learning a special vocabulary. This sums up my experience with wine and probably everyone who learns to appreciate the different varietals of wine available. That is also my excuse, I guess, for my continued quest to find different, affordable wines which I think with time, and trial and error, you start to develop a knack for. Check out Dr. Allhoff's book if you get a chance. It's an interesting read and would also make a nice gift for that someone special who enjoys wine. I noticed that it is also on sale at Amazon.com right now. Sit Long, Talk Much, Laugh Often, Drink Wine!
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Sheremetyevo International Airport
The Sheremetyevo International Airport is one of the biggest international airports serving Moscow. The other is the Domodedovo International Airport. The Sheremetyevo acts as a hub for the international Russian airline Aeroflot and it enjoys serves mainly as a passenger airport. It was opened in 1959 and has several terminals which all cater to the various facets of air transportation in which the airport is involved. The first terminal, Shermetyevo-1 is used for domestic flights while Sheremetyevo-2 caters more for international flights. If you are an international visitor, Sheremetyevo-2 is most likely the terminal that you will arrive and leave from.
Sheremetyevo-2 is the largest terminal at the Sheremetyevo International Airport and you will find that it is often filled with the hustle and bustle of international passengers as they make their way to and from the country. There is no physical connection between Sheremetyevo-1 and 2 and most people find it somewhat odd that these two terminals are located in separate buildings. The two are, in fact, essentially separate airports which make use of the same runways. There are other instances of this sort of airport layout in the world but it is quite rare. It does, however, minimize road traffic and make contact between parties easier since there is less congestion at each building.
In the year 2005 the Sheremetyevo International Airport saw more than 12 000 000 passengers enter through its doors. Though this figure has just been overshot by the Domodedovo International Airport, the Sheremetyevo continues to compete for the position of top airport in Russia. The Sheremetyevo Airport has one main runway which features a concrete surface and measures 12 739 ft (3 700 m) in length. The airport is only about 20 minutes from the Moscow city centre by road but this time can be greatly increased depending on traffic. Despite efforts to improve the service and standards at Sheremetyevo, more and more travelers are choosing to go to the Domodedovo International Airport. Current reconstruction efforts include the opening of a new terminal building – Sheremetyevo-3 – which will hopefully go a long way to improving the service and standards of the Sheremetyevo Airport.
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Apple's education announcement last month seems to have stoked the fire under those who want to see the move to digital textbooks -- a move that is seen as inevitable, if only because that seems to be the general direction of the rest of the publishing industry. And if Apple's iTextbooks didn't make the future of digital textbooks clear, then the unveiling this week by the FCC and the Department of Education of a Digital Textbook Playbook" should have. The latter is an effort (or, it's a 67-page PDF) designed to help schools make the transition away from print. But is the move to digital textbooks really a done deal?
Of course, both these major announcements dealt with textbooks at the K-12 level, and no doubt textbook procurement there is quite different than at the college level. College students buy their own books, if nothing else.
And they remain incredibly resistant to digital textbooks, as two recent stories in college newspapers attest. In the University Daily Kansan, Kelsea Eckenroth writes:
Many students can’t give up loyalty to the printed book. Lottie Likens, the manager of University Book Shop, says customers have told her that buying e-books makes them feel like they are spending money on nothing. It’s like paying a decent amount of money for a non-tangible object. “You can’t beat having the book in your possession,” Likens says.
Shannon Thompson, a junior from Overland Park, likes having a tangible book to write and take notes in. “There’s something therapeutic about having the book in your hand and turning pages,” she says. “You feel like you are going somewhere when you turn the pages and know how much you have read.”
Alyson Lippert, a senior from Stilwell, usually reads one book every week. She prefers printed books, although she has a Kindle application on her iPad that allows her to download and read e-books. “Reading books on my iPad is convenient when I travel and when I go to class, but I like to have an actual book in my hand,” she says. Lippert has her books displayed on a bookshelf so she can go back and look at her accomplishments.
A recent story in the University of Rochester Campus Times focuses on the continuing problem of price, noting that students are failing to save money buying or renting digital textbooks.
Of course, these reactions aren't new or news.
But nor is it new to assume that those who are exposed to computers and digital content at a young age will be (or become) techno savvy or technophiliacs. (And assume incorrectly, I might add.) For those of us that have been tracking education technology for decades and have been using computers for decades, well, we are old. Also, we're probably guilty of shrugging and saying that "things will be different" once kids who've grown up with computers hit college or hit the workforce (and in the case of higher ed, become professors). But here we are. And that still hasn't happened.
Students aren't going to "suddenly" want digital textbooks because they grew up reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar on an iPad. There'll need to be more than a Digital Playbook for schools -- both at the K-12 and higher ed level -- in convincing students to "give up loyalty to the printed book." They're loyal for a reason, and it isn't necessarily luddism.
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The Adventurer (the Seven)
Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute
to the world.
How to Get Along with Me
- Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.
- Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.
- Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.
- Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.
- Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.
- Don't tell me what to do.
What I Like About Being a Seven
- being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down
- being spontaneous and free-spirited
- being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.
- being generous and trying to make the world a better place
- having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures
- having such varied interests and abilities
What's Hard About Being a Seven
- not having enough time to do all the things I want
- not completing things I start
- not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing;
not making a commitment to a career
- having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies
- feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship
Sevens as Children Often
- are action oriented and adventuresome
- drum up excitement
- prefer being with other children to being alone
- finesse their way around adults
- dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up
Sevens as Parents
- are often enthusiastic and generous
- want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life
- may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele
The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages
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WORLD TRADE CENTER
Although the World Trade Center bombings have been scrutinised in unsparing and forensic media detail, Hollywood has been conspicuously slow off the mark to get involved. Five years on from 9/11 itself, Oliver Stone's drama - drawn from the real life testimonies of two New York Port Authority cops extracted from the rubble of Ground Zero - is only the second film, after United 93 earlier this year, to directly address the 21st century's inaugural act of man-made terror. Hollywood studios are often slow and cautious when responding to hot button events like 9/11. For sure, there are already a handful of films that have been informed, to varying degrees, by the attack on the Twin Towers - Fahrenheit 9/11, 25th Hour, War Of The Worlds, even Munich. Yet the fear of alienating great swathes of audience demographics and incurring political censure for tackling this explicitly sensitive issue sends studios scurrying back to their comfort zone of rom-coms, costume dramas and comic book adaptations. Matters presumably are further complicated by daily news broadcasts detailing the latest dispatches from President Bush's vituperative and ill-conceived response to the tragedy - the rollercoaster-to-Armageddon commonly referred to as the War on Terror.
Which perhaps explains how United 93 came to be: although bankrolled by Universal, the director, Paul Greengrass, is Irish and the project was developed by Working Title - the English production company best known for Four Weddings And A Funeral. What makes World Trade Center so interesting as the first, full-blooded American take on 9/11 is that Oliver Stone isn't the obvious candidate to helm a film like this. Although Stone has a lengthy history of on-screen political engagement - Salvador, the Vietnam trilogy, JFK, Nixon, his Castro and Arafat documentaries - his film-making style is traditionally too bombastic to handle a subject that's still so raw and painful for many Americans. But Stone has made what might be, if the critical reception to World Trade Center in America can be believed, the most successful film of his career. Ironic, perhaps, as it appears to share little in common with any other movie on his CV. There's no trademark Stone masonry, no great sound and fury (unless you count the breath-taking sequence around the 40 minute mark where the Towers come down), none of the dizzying, sensory overload you expect from the man who made Natural Born Killers. Stone opts for a straightforward approach to this story, which has led some to churlishly suggest World Trade Center is little better than a made-for-TV movie. Arguably, this demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of Stone - a great liberal humanist - and is also extraordinarily ungenerous to a movie that's both commemorative and elegiac in its handling of an event which led to the deaths of 2,749 people, approximately 400 of whom were from the emergency services, there simply to do their job and save lives. Cage is perfect here. He does a great Jimmy Stewart: his John McLoughlin is an Everyman, just doing what he's got to do, whatever it takes, no heroics, no showboating.
Stone - like Greengrass - elects to focus solely on the specific events as they unfold. He doesn't acknowledge the wider context of what drove a group of religious fundamentalists to hijack four aeroplanes with the intention of flying them into high-profile targets on American soil. At its heart, World Trade Center is solely about two men struggling to survive in extraordinary, hellish circumstances. And, to Stone's infinite credit, it never descends into schmaltz. The first third of the movie finds McLoughlin and Jimeno gearing up for a day's work - it's rather prosaic, matter-of-fact, following a similar trajectory to Greengrass' film which showed the doomed crew and passengers of United 93 as they went through the equally mundane routines of their own lives prior to embarkation. Once the Towers come down, Stone explores the effects of the disaster on their families. His shrewd casting of Gyllenhaal and Bello means we never once get hysteria, no wailing and gnashing of teeth, just a genuine, impactful sense of the uncertainty, the dreadful not-knowing, as they wait for news.
The most contentious character in all this is David Karnes (Michael J Shannon). A former Marine whose response to the catastrophe is to dust off his uniform and go to the site where, with an almost pathological single-mindedness, he yomps across the blasted, nightmare landscape on a one-man mission to find survivors. His two-dimensional, gung-ho fervour is decidedly out-of-synch with the rest of the movie's more rounded characters, and you could argue he's emblematic of the director's most sledge-hammer tendencies. But he reflects a part of the American mindset, and his decision to re-enlist at the end of the film (in a postscript, we learn he's served in the Philippines and Iraq) is based on a very real, clear-cut notion of patriotism.
World Trade Center is part of America's healing process after 9/11. And at the risk of sounding trite, it's also part of Stone's own personal healing after the astonishing critical demolition of his last film, Alexander. Here, he's made a humbling and moving movie about enduring against the odds. And for a director who's frequently been misunderstood and misrepresented, this is a particular triumph he should savour.
Rating: 4 / 10
Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Pina, Maggie Gyllenhaal
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"You know Fatty Schultz the butcher. What do you suppose he weighs?"
"I don't know, what does he weigh?"
TEACHER: Thomas, can you tell me which battle Nelson was killed in?
TOMMY (after a moment's reflection): I think it was his last.
COURTNEY: When you proposed to Miss Dexter, did you get down on your knees?
BARCLAY: No, I couldn't; she was sitting on them.
He used to send her roses;
At a West End hotel one of the party asked:
"Have you got any celery, waiter?"
"No, sir," was the significant answer; "I relies on me tips."
From another source
"I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me." [Australian]
Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
The one who invented the door knocker got a No-bell prize.
The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
Alcohol and calculus don't mix so don't drink and derive.
Pun - what it is
Pun is a form of word play. Two or more meanings may be into it, or words that sound similarly. Puns are a source of humour.
Puns were found in ancient Egypt: they were much used there, even to interpret dreams.
Source: Brown, Thomas A., and T. J. Carey. The New Pun Book. New York: Carey-Stafford, 1906.
The three last puns are from "Funniest Puns and Jokes (Pun of the Day)" (passim). PunoftheDay.com. Accessed 8 Oct 2011. - Recommended.
USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK]|
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Be a smart shopper
Despite its boons, shopping the bulk bins does have a few downsides. It can make shopping a bit more time-consuming, you have to remember to bring the right containers with you to the store, and you won’t have a convenient recipe to follow off the side of the package once you get home. Also, some people with allergies fear bin contamination or mislabeling. These fears are largely unfounded, says Jordan. Scoops are generally attached to their bins (so there isn’t any cross-contamination from bin to bin) and stores are very careful about stocking. “I’ve been working here since 1996,” says Jordan, “and no one has ever [reported] an allergic reaction from a bulk item.”
It’s also worth noting that a few bulk products actually aren’t cheaper—they may even cost more. You need to do your homework to know if you’re getting a good deal. For example, at Whole Foods, organic white basmati rice costs the same in bulk or packaged—9 cents per ounce; organic whole-wheat spaghetti costs 12 cents per ounce in the bins and only 7 cents packaged; and pecan halves are 44 cents per ounce in the bins versus 36 cents packaged.
However, in the long run, shopping bulk will almost always be best for your pocketbook, and it’s certainly best for the already-burdened environment. So go ahead and give your bulk aisle a try. Before long you’ll be a bulk-bin geek, too.
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Recently, in the course of a branding project, a client made what I believe to be a very profound comment:
“We judge ourselves by our intentions. We judge others by their actions.”
Read it again.
It’s so true and yet so easy to miss.
Many years ago, my father-in-law was in Italy. At a popular tourist site, a Japanese couple approaches him and using hand gestures, points to their camera, to my father-in-law and then to themselves. My father-in-law points to the camera, points to himself and then back to them. The Japanese couple nods enthusiastically. My father-in-law nods enthusiastically. He even bows to them. They bow back.
The Japanese couple then step over to be in front of the monument they want in their picture. But when they turn around, they are horrified to see my father-in-law casually walking away with their camera around his neck, acting as if he’s just received a wonderful new gift.
The Japanese couple chases him down and apologetically tries to explain in Japanese that they weren’t giving him the camera but simply asking him to take their picture. My father-in-law cannot understand their words, but after allowing for a moment of extreme awkwardness, he laughs and, in words they cannot understand but in a tone they do, explains that he was merely joking. He then takes their picture, returns their camera and both parties leave smiling because of the encounter.
That’s a fun example of how one party knew their own intentions and assumed the other party did as well. And in reality, the other party, my father-in-law, did understand the other’s intentions. He just wanted to point out playfully how we all make certain assumptions.
His example illustrates how in foreign cultures, people have even less of an ability to understand our internal intentions. All they can go on is our actions.
The same applies even at home. The difference is that once others get to know us well, they have a better sense of our values and intentions. Still, it’s a great quote and principle to remember anywhere since it explains why people respond to us differently than we think they will.
But let’s take it one step further: What if we turned it around?
What if we judged ourselves by our actions, not just on what we thought about doing? What if I said those encouraging words rather than just thinking them? Thanked the person with a small note or gift rather than assuming they knew my appreciation? Smiled and nodded in a conversation to let the other person know I was paying attention?
What if we judged others by what they intended? Can’t do that because you can’t read their minds? True. But maybe, it might cause us to go deeper with others, listen more closely to better understand them…and their intentions.
You don’t have to wait for a trip to try it. Just be aware of what you actually do. Take a week – or even one day – to really pay attention to your actions. See if what you do matches what you deep down believe.
Try it. I’ll do the same. Then let me know what happens. Not what you think might happen or what you’d like to have happen. What actually occurs when your actions match your deeper intentions.
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In the spirit of giving this holiday season I challenge you to find a gift in which you don't receive anything in return (except maybe a warm fuzzy feeling inside). Think of a way you can volunteer your time at a soup kitchen, wrap presents for homeless kids, donate your old towels to an animal shelter. It can be easy to give BIG to an organization with little effort from you.
This year one of my big gives was 10 inches of my hair (See the main picture, that's me after the big cut!). It may seem like a lot (and believe me, it took me years to build up the courage to do it), but really, it's just hair and it grows back.
There is an organization called Locks of Love. They are "a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis." By taking donated hair, they create hair prosthetics which helps to restore the kid's "self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers." As if battling a life threatening disease isn't hard enough, kids have to still face their peers and explain why they look different. Locks of Love gives them an opportunity to feel better inside and out.
Here are some facts that I didn't realize until I was cutting the 10 inches off:
You can get your hair cut at ANY salon, you just mail the (dry and rubber-banded) pony tail to their Florida address
The minimum donation of hair is 10 inches, but the good news is that your longest layer counts!
They accept grey hair, colored hair and even permed hair, just not bleached or dreadlocks
It takes 6-10 ponytails to make ONE head piece
The retail cost of the hairpieces is between $3,500 and $6,000
It makes giving 10 inches a lot easier when you realize how fortunate you are to continue growing your own hair, as you're not battling a deadly disease. Join the other donors, it is a BIG give to the kids and the cut only take a minute! Plus, you might inspire someone else to do it, too!
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The following op-ed by United States Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) was published in The Washington Times January 12, 2005.
In the last year, a political earthquake has struck the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution and the ongoing Orange Revolution in Ukraine are a direct challenge to ruling elites in Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. They also threaten to derail Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy of retaining as much control as possible over the former Soviet empire.
Throughout this region, ex-communist rulers allied with oligarchic groups have, to varying degrees, seized control of their countries' economies and political arenas. While claiming to observe the democracy commitments voluntarily accepted when their countries joined the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1992, these leaders have remained in power by rigging elections and excluding potential rivals, sometimes using any means necessary. Executive control of the legislative and judicial branches of power, as well as the state's coercive apparatus, has made it possible to largely intimidate the public out of politics, which has remained an "insider's-only" game.
This arrangement has served the Kremlin well. Building alliances with leaders of dubious legitimacy seemed an ideal way to stem the "invasion of Western influence" and its annoying imperative of free and fair elections. Since the late 1990s, Russian-led observer delegations from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) routinely approved of elections in CIS countries which OSCE monitors criticized or damned with faint praise. In this way and others, Moscow showed other CIS capitals that, unlike the United States, Russia would not question their right to rule by hook or by crook and was a reliable bulwark, unlike the preachy West.
Consequently, the democratic revolution which swept Georgia last year horrified the leaders of other former Soviet republics. For the first time in ex-Soviet space, opposition leaders united to mobilize a broad-based protest movement that overturned the results of a rigged election. The emergence of Mikheil Saakashvili, who led Georgia's Rose Revolution and was subsequently elected president in a landslide, signaled more than the end of Eduard Shevardnadze's corrupt, moribund regime: Mr. Saakashvili symbolized the first popular revolt against the system of pseudo-democracy prevalent on post-Soviet soil. What is now transpiring in Ukraine is the logical continuation of what began last year in the Caucasus. And every successful precedent emboldens opposition movements in other CIS countries and gives hope to impoverished, frustrated and seemingly apathetic publics, proving that real change is possible.
The picture of a victorious Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili ushering in a New Year in Kiev's Independence Square no doubt causes angst in other CIS leaders, even as it inspires those living under repressive regimes elsewhere in the region. In a telling twist, CIS election observers for the first time criticized an election held in the former Soviet Union, decrying the conduct of Ukraine's Dec. 26 repeat runoff and questioning the legitimacy of the poll.
For the Kremlin, Georgia's Rose Revolution was bad enough; the Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a nightmare. Apart from the stunning loss of face suffered by Mr. Putin, who openly campaigned for pro-Russian candidateViktor Yanukovich, "People power" can no longer be dismissed as an anomaly or a deviation possible only in small, unstable, atypical Georgia in the wild Caucasus. Now, "fraternal" Slavs in large, European Ukraine also insisted that elections be fair and reflect the voters' will. The handwriting on the Kremlin wall is clear: Peaceful popular protests backed by OSCE standards on elections can bring down entrenched corrupt regimes that rely on vote fraud to remain in power.
Where will this contagion stop? A worried Moscow has responded by attacking the OSCE. Russia, the other former Soviet states and all OSCE countries have formally agreed that democracy, based on the will of the people expressed regularly through free and fair elections, is the only acceptable form of government for our nations. But with its alliance system in jeopardy, Russia last July orchestrated a CIS assault on OSCE's "imbalanced" stress on democracy and human rights, followed by a broadside in September against, among other things, allegedly skewed OSCE standards on elections. (In response, 106 human-rights advocates, mostly from CIS countries, issued a sharp rebuttal to these attacks at the OSCE's main human- rights meeting of the year held in October.) Moscow is now threatening to paralyze the consensus-based OSCE if the organization does not effectively revisit and dilute longstanding election commitments, under the pretext of setting "minimum standards" by which to judge whether elections are indeed free and fair. The Russians are also pushing to de-emphasize human rights and democracy in the work of OSCE's field missions in CIS states. Recognizing the power of the ideals behind OSCE commitments that it signed up to, Russia appears determined to dilute the democracy commitments that are at the very heart of the OSCE.
It is essential that the United States respond resolutely to this challenge, insisting that there be no retreat from OSCE commitments and principles to placate Mr. Putin, the patron saint of post-Soviet "managed" democracy. Moscow may be intent on precipitating a crisis in the OSCE, or even threatening its very existence. Nevertheless, having stood firm against rigged elections in Ukraine, the United States and its democratic OSCE partners should not be bullied into concessions. Watering down the democracy content of the OSCE would not only undermine the organization's raison d'etre, but undercut the very people struggling to be free.
Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican is chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
The United States Helsinki Commission, an independent federal agency, by law monitors and encourages progress in implementing provisions of the Helsinki Accords. The Commission, created in 1976, is composed of nine Senators, nine Representatives and one official each from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.
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The Risk of Stagnation
As we have seen in the previous post, conflicts and discomforts begin to make our existing level of consciousness unsatisfactory. This drives us to look for ways beyond that dissonance. This can move us to a higher level of understanding, a more effective model of reality. However, if our level of understanding is one that our culture values discomfort with it may be harder to come by and we can get stuck.
Both Achievement and Affiliative levels of consciousness have a significant value for our societies (pages 145 & 153):
… Prestige-seeking self-oriented traits are admired and rewarded in capitalistic cultures.… a number of studies have shown that many highly narcissistic individuals are successful and valued members of capitalistic societies… They are especially rewarded in business organisations…
Despite the . . . cultural biases against intuition and right-hemispheric processing, a strong bias for aspects of Affiliative consciousness exists as well. The desire to help others, sustain intimate relationships, and be uncritical of others’ differences has historically commanded great respect in western cultures.
All Is Not Lost
At the end of their road also lies an inadequacy in the paradigm that creates discontent (page 158):
Authentic consciousness resolves both the Achievement and Affiliation dilemmas using a synergistic blend of both solutions this is greater than the sum of its parts. If love will not conquer all and power does not obtain the more important things in life, the Authentic resolution is fulfilling one’s own personal mission and supporting the personal growth of others along the way.
According to Wade (page 159) ‘Authentic consciousness represents the height of most conventional developmental theory.’ I think we would need to include Dabrowski’s TPD in that list, as his thinking about development appears to stop at the level of authenticity.
For Wade, and, I must admit for me also, this is where it all begins to get really interesting. Wade nails the core of that interest when she writes (page 162):
The most significant shift in this arena is disappearance of the fear of death . . . ., closely associated with the marked drop in neurotic behaviour. The ego is at last secure. This is a paradox of ego maturity: just as the person reaches the peak of self-expression, he also becomes receptive to letting the self go.
The Shift from Dissonance to Autonomy
At this level much of the earlier dissonance fades away: motivation is far more an autonomous choice than a flight from conflict. People at this level tend, as Dabrowski also describes it, to identify with higher values conducive to compassion (page 163-164):
Authentic people identify not with a particular group or society, but with the human race. . . . . The authentic person pursues what he desires, but never at the expense of others, and in such a manner that serves the greater good, not his alone.
There is a beautiful first person description of how this feels (page 165):
This is how life will be. I must be wholehearted while tentative, fight for my values, yet respect others, believe my deepest values right yet be ready to learn. I see that I shall be retracing this whole journey over and over – but, I hope, more wisely.
As well as being value-driven, people at this level are more flexible and less phased by dissonance (page 168):
Authentic subjects are more likely to change their behaviour to conform to their beliefs once they are aware of the inconsistency. People functioning at the Authentic level adapt more easily than others because they are more open to, and less defended against, dystonic information.
And so autonomous choice, not compulsion by dissonance, is the driver at this level (page 171-172):
At earlier levels, change comes about through exterior events’ impinging painfully on the individual and creating a sort of tension. But from the Authentic stage onward, change appears to be driven internally, as a matter of will and a result of tensions caused by increasing internal activity.
Glimmerings of Transcendence
Whether there is a ‘sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused’ is an interesting question. Wade addresses this (page 172):
Conviction of an uncertain but presumably meaningful existence is often initially linked to an agnostic or completely nontheistic stance, but it incorporates a belief – often quite vague – in some existence beyond the physical plane . . . . Exactly what this may be, or whether it exists at all, is unknown to the Authentic person and unimportant as a motivator, though death is tentatively construed as a transition to some other kind of existence.
In the end, a person at this level comes to realise that their ego is simply a construct. Anxiety sets in. The Ground of Being may even break through ‘in the form of transcendent events.’ When it does (page 174):
. . . The ego is caught in another dilemma: it is irresistibly drawn to the Dynamic Ground at the same time that it is afraid of being engulfed and destroyed.
We are on the cusp of Transcendent consciousness.
That would need another series of posts altogether to deal with adequately. It is probably best to end this consideration of the dissonance that has driven transitions from one level of consciousness to the next with a sense of what her conclusions on this matter are at the end of the book. On page 265 she summarises it:
Below the Authentic level, change seems to be driven exclusively by external events causing sufficient suffering for movement [to take place]. Transition is much easier by the time the individual has arrived at the level of Authentic consciousness, because egoic survival is not threatened in the least. . . . Authentic people are open to critical input and, if faced with the fact that their behaviour is not in accord with their beliefs, will tend to change their behaviour. Thus from the Authentic level on, change is driven by the will, not by environmental events, though it may be assisted by others (e.g. a spirit guide or grace).
With this I think Dabrowski would be in complete agreement, except for the mention of ‘grace.’ It is interesting to find such close correspondence on key points between such otherwise diverse viewpoints. It has made this process of revisiting Jenny Wade’s book after all these years a most worthwhile exercise for me, at least. Heaven knows whether anyone else will feel the same.
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In a bid to cut the state's healthcare bills, the Brown administration will begin shuttering the Healthy Families insurance program for low-income children on Jan. 1. More than 850,000 kids will be shifted over the course of the year into HMOs that participate in Medi-Cal, California's version of the federally subsidized Medicaid program. It may be too late now for the Legislature to rescue Healthy Families from its untimely and potentially disruptive end, even though lawmakers are heading to Sacramento on Monday to begin a special session devoted to healthcare issues. But state lawmakers and federal Medicaid officials should do as much as they can to ensure that these children's parents won't be left scrambling desperately to find a doctor or a dentist when their kids need one.
Healthy Families provides insurance to children in families too poor to afford private coverage but not quite poor enough to qualify for Medi-Cal, which is available to those whose earnings don't exceed the federal poverty line ($19,000 for a family of three in 2012). The program receives more generous federal subsidies than Medi-Cal, yet it's more expensive for the state because it offers doctors, dentists and hospitals higher rates than Medi-Cal pays. Those higher payments lead more providers to participate in Healthy Families, making it easier for the children it covers to obtain care.
Despite the success of Healthy Families, Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded the Legislature earlier this year to end it and cover its beneficiaries through Medi-Cal's managed-care program instead. The goal was to save an estimated $13 million in the first half of 2013 and potentially even more in the future, narrowing the state's budget gap. The change also promised two potential benefits for low-income families: Medi-Cal covers some healthcare costs that Healthy Families doesn't, and its premiums and co-pays are lower.
Many children's advocates in the state, however, say that the easier access to doctors in Healthy Families trumps Medi-Cal's superior coverage and lower out-of-pocket costs. In some rural areas, new Medi-Cal patients may have to leave the county to find certain types of providers. That's too much to ask of families who are barely scraping by, particularly if their children have chronic diseases or mental health issues. Imagine being a single mother with a full-time job, no car and a 10-year-old daughter who needs dialysis, but the only provider willing to treat her is 30 miles away.
With the 2010 federal healthcare law about to force tumultuous changes in the industry, now is an especially bad time to eliminate Healthy Families. In little more than a year, millions more low-income Californians will become eligible for Medi-Cal if the state extends it to those earning up to 133% of the poverty line, as provided by the new law. That expansion would put even more strain on an overburdened program. At the same time, new subsidies for private health insurance will become available for low- and moderate-income families. Besides, the cancellation of the program will not improve the state's finances any time soon. Upset about the program's demise, Republicans blocked the renewal of a tax on managed-care plans that had helped pay for it, costing the state nearly $200 million annually.
Ideally, lawmakers would move swiftly to preserve Healthy Families and the corresponding tax for at least one more year. That would allow low-income children and their parents to move together into new insurance coverage in 2014, whether it be through Medi-Cal or heavily subsidized private plans. The prospects of such an 11th-hour rescue are slim, however; the state has already sent notices to many Healthy Families beneficiaries telling them that their coverage is changing Jan. 1.
If Healthy Families can't be saved, it's imperative that federal officials withhold approval of the state's plan until the state shows that the program's beneficiaries will continue to have the same access to care as before. Although some Healthy Families participants are covered by insurers that also offer Medi-Cal HMOs, many others will have to be placed with new insurers. And just because an insurer offers a Medi-Cal HMO, that doesn't mean its network of providers can handle an influx of new patients.
The state plans to shift Healthy Families recipients into Medi-Cal in four phases, starting in January with those who can move to Medi-Cal HMOs run by the same insurers and served by the same networks of doctors that serve them today. Soon after, though, the state will have to deal with children whose current doctors, dentists or therapists don't participate in Medi-Cal. Meanwhile, children newly eligible for coverage will go straight into Medi-Cal HMOs, even in areas where access to care is in doubt.
State officials say kids whose HMOs can't meet their needs will be allowed to seek care from out-of-network providers. That's predicated on the risky assumption, however, that these families will be able to find any providers in their communities willing to treat patients at Medi-Cal's low rates.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services and state lawmakers shouldn't hesitate to slam the brakes on the transition if the state cannot preserve kids' access to care. And as Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has suggested, the administration needs a way to monitor the performance of Medi-Cal HMOs after they've started adding former Healthy Families beneficiaries to see if problems emerge. That monitoring capability should be in place in a county before Healthy Families is terminated there.
The Brown administration seems determined to phase out Healthy Families as rapidly as it can. Making sure low-income kids have access to the healthcare they need, however, is more important than maximizing the potential savings to state government. If the state must bring Healthy Families to a premature end, lawmakers in Sacramento and regulators in Washington should keep a close eye on the process to make sure no children are pushed into a coverage abyss.
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We became intrigued with alpacas, ironically, at a sheep show. That’s where we saw our first alpacas and learned about the beautiful fiber they produce.
We were inspired to learn more and eventually decided to start an alpaca business. We envisioned a farm that ultimately would offer the full spectrum of alpaca products from the animals to fleece, roving, yarn and finished products. Several years – and a lot of soul searching – later we bought our animals and then our farm, Wisdom of the Fox Alpacas.
Neither of us had a background in farming. What we did have was a fascination with the animals, a willingness to learn, and a desire to produce quality breeding stock and fiber.
Today, we have almost 100 suri and huacaya alpaca on our beautiful 160-acre farm in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois. While we do participate in halter and fleece shows, we breed our animals for sound conformation and quality fiber, not the whims of the show ring. We focus on traits important in all livestock industries including:
In our fleeces we look for:
Every day at Wisdom of the Fox Alpacas we work on quietly creating quality. We’re proud of our animals’ champion bloodlines and our own show results. But the progress we are making in our breeding program is a source of continuing satisfaction. We’d be happy to share the fruits of our labors with you. Just give us a call or stop by if you find yourself in our neighborhood.
Eric and Nina Morti
We’re thrilled to have received tangible recognition of our effort to raise animals with excellent conformation. Our most recent winner is WFAM Inca Sun:
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Good News Must be Both Good and News
The good news is there, if you look for it, but so often it's hidden, underground and obscured. It's more sensational for news organizations to report about churches abusing children, pastors doing drugs and congregations spewing hate. The obvious and glaring dichotomy between the teaching of Jesus and the publicized activity of the church is anything but good news. It's news though, it gets passed around and repeated to the point where Christians have a reputation for being hypocrites. It's definitely news, but it's not good.
Good news is undeniable, no matter the religious convictions of the person hearing it. Good news is the man I met in Kenya who had a reputation for being the town drunk. Through the church, he got sober and started a farm and is now a leader in the community. Good news is the racist white man embracing a black man because they are brother's in Christ. Good news is a woman off drugs, off the streets and out of an abusive relationship. Good news is a marriage that was falling apart finding restoration. Good news is a mourning couple being surrounded and supported by strangers. Good news is there, if you look for it.*
Then why do we have such a hard time sharing good news with non-Christians? One reason, I think, is that we don't experience the good news. All the stories of good news happen when Jesus-followers let their lives be changed by what Jesus has to say. The drunk doesn't sober up unless Jesus has a claim on his life, the racist doesn't give up hate and the addict doesn't stop doing drugs. But for some reason Christians have stopped changing in response to the teachings of Jesus. It seems like there's a point at which the change is deemed no longer necessary. Christians work to achieve a certain level of goodness and then stop, or, at the very least, slow way down.
What if we continued to let the words of Jesus make claims on our lives? What if change was a mark of a Jesus-follower? The Disciple Cycle culminates in change. Questions lead us to do thing differently. If we stay the same, there's no point. There's no cycle and there's no good news. But, if we continue to let Jesus answer our questions with a challenge to change, then we won't run out of news that is too good to keep to ourselves.
*Note, all of these are real things that I personally witnessed.
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By: ISU Communications and Marketing Staff
May 14, 2009
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - One person can have an impact on the lives of others. Just ask a group of girls at Ryves Youth Center at Etling Hall.
Samantha Arrasmith, a senior philosophy major and creative writing minor at Indiana State University, volunteers at the center through AmeriCorps Sycamore Service Corps, working with a special group of at-risk girls called the Sweeties. The Cayuga student fills a variety of roles - big sister, role model and camp counselor.
"Many of these girls come from single parent families who live in poverty," said Jim Edwards, executive director of Ryves Youth Center. "Often times our girls grow up with no direction and feel that they are trapped in the culture in which they live."
In 2005, Indiana State student Crystal Thomas Brown started the Sweeties at Ryves, a program for girls between the ages of 9 and 16 while serving at the center through the Sycamore Service Corps. Since then, Indiana State AmeriCorps members have continued the program.
"The Sweeties program motivates our girls and provides opportunities that they would not be able to participate in," Edwards added.
Arrasmith, who has worked with the group for two years, says she uses her own childhood to plan events for the Sweeties.
"I think about what I liked to do growing up," she said. "But I also like to think and dream up other educational and fun activities for them."
She also gets them out in the community to showcase their talent and interest in performing. While working with the Sweeties, she utilized her theater background to organize a dance team that includes several of the teenage boys who come to Ryves.
Edwards was surprised by the popularity of the dance team among the boys.
"If you had told me that I could get teenage boys to participate in a dance team I would have to argue with you," he said. "It amazes me to see boys who love to play basketball eager to join in with the dance team. Samantha is definitely the driving force that has made this change."
The senior Sweeties, ages 12-16, performed in Indiana State's Homecoming Parade and hosted a Valentine's Day Dance, where they also performed.
"Our girls have improved their self esteem while participating in numerous activities which are both educational as well as entertaining," Edwards said.
Last May, Arrasmith and fellow AmeriCorps volunteer Lindsey Zehren organized a prom for the girls.
"The Sweeties helped plan it," she said. "I brought in prom books and they selected the theme and decorations."
Prom dresses were donated for the girls, who were able to get their hair done by a stylist. Arrasmith took care of applying makeup for the special occasion.
"It was a really awesome experience," Arrasmith concluded. "And it meant so much to the girls."
The two volunteers planned a summer camp for the Sweeties.
"Things that normal children take for granted, these girls haven't had the opportunity to experience," Arrasmith added.
During the week-long adventure, the Sweeties experienced a mix of education and fun activities, ranging from making friendship bracelets and playing putt-putt to going to the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice and C.A.N.D.L.E.S. museum.
"It was a nice mix of activities," Arrasmith said. "I learned as much as they did at White Violet and C.A.N.D.L.E.S."
With the help of an $800 grant from an organization and under the watchful eye of Arrasmith, the Sweeties refurbished the lounge at Ryves.
With a little paint, elbow grease and some new decor, the girls took a dark, mis-matched room and made it into a welcoming living room.
"It's a bright, happy room now," Arrasmith said. "It's a nice place to hang out."
Utilizing her love for poetry and creative writing, she organized a poetry contest.
"I read to them a couple of days and then we went into the Sweeties' room, put on some music and the girls began to write," Arrasmith said.
She brought in a friend and one of her professors at Indiana State, Mark Lewendowski, to judge the submitted works and celebrated the end of the activity with a reception, where three prizes were awarded.
"It was a great experience," she concluded. "Some of the poems were really great. I have some real talented Sweeties."
The poetry-writing activity enabled Arrasmith to gain valuable experience for the future.
"I want to continue my education," she said. "I'd like to teach creative writing at the college level. Anytime you are leading a group of students that is going to help me be a better teacher."
While being able to gain experience as a teacher, she's opened doors for her students.
"Samantha shows our children that studying the fine arts is a good thing," Edwards said. "Our children have shown an interest in writing, dancing, poetry, and much more. This is all because of her encouragement."
Together with fellow AmeriCorps volunteer, Kasey Black, Arrasmith has a summer tour planned for the girls to check out local colleges.
"We want them to think about going to college," Arrasmith said, adding the two students would like to showcase the diverse areas of study and activities that can be found at higher education institutions close to home.
"Their interest in college might be higher if they were allowed to explore more," she explained.
Arrasmith obviously enjoys her time at Ryves. She's all smiles when you ask her about the experience.
"Every day, there's something great that happens," she said. "You can do something you enjoy and make a difference. I can't say enough good things about the AmeriCorps program and what it has meant to me."
According to Edwards, the Sweeties truly love spending time with the Indiana State student and are grateful for her commitment to them.
"When I asked a few of our girls about Samantha they have used such words as 'playful, caring, loving, marvelous, fantastic, exciting, and amazing,'" Edwards said. "They say that she always makes things fun and that they always learn a lot. For many of our children, Samantha is the big sister that they never had."
Members of AmeriCorps work with non-profit organizations who work with children, youth, adults and elderly people in the community.
There are 61 members of Sycamore Service Corps, who work at 25 non-profits in a five-county region in Indiana. While Indiana State students making up a large majority of the membership, the program is open to residents of the Wabash Valley.
AmeriCorps members must be U.S. Citizens or lawful permanent residents of the U.S. and at least 18 years of age. Volunteers accepted into the AmeriCorps Program become members. In addition to the satisfaction of giving back to their community, most members receive a living allowance in exchange for their services and free professional development training. Members also receive an education award upon completion of service, ranging from $1,000-$2,300.
Debbie Miller, director of Sycamore Service Corps, sees first-hand the importance of AmeriCorp's living allowance and education award.
"It's a nice benefit for our members, especially the college students," she said. "It's not a lot of money, but it frees them up to serve the community without having to juggle a part-time job. Both benefits together enable students to stay in school while indulging in their passion for volunteerism."
Edwards said AmeriCorps volunteers working at Ryves make all the difference in the world to the programs they offer to at-risk youth in Terre Haute.
"Sycamore Service Corps has made a great impact in both our long term and daily operations," he said. "We can rely on our AmeriCorps volunteers to work directly with our children and be committed to make a change. Without the Sycamore Service Corps programs such as the Sweeties would not exist. This means the difference between providing programming and providing quality programming."
For more information on Sycamore Service Corps or to download the application, go to http://www.indstate.edu/publicservice/americorps . For more information, call Debbie Miller at (812) 237-7900.
Contact: Debbie Miller, Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, (812) 237-7900
Writer: Paula Meyer, ISU Communications & Marketing, (812) 237-3783 or [email protected]
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I really don't know why no one was talking about this area , 93L, last night (except for Margie).
Yesterday evening, practically the entire Yucatan Peninsula was covered by a bloom of intense convection with the coldest cloud tops the IR registers (all dark grey). I don't know what temperature that correlates to, but it was dwarfing any convection areas associated with Tammy or Stan's remains. If anyone can bring up yesterdays IR images for the area, I've never seen that massive an explosion of super cold clouds, even in say Rita or Katrina. I'm sure some people were getting pounded under that rain.
Here's a question about Stan. Has a storm ever crossed from the Atlantic basin to the Pacific Basin and then crossed back into the Atlantic? I know a few storms have made the trip but have any made a roundtrip?
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Business News of Saturday, 26 January 2013
Clement Kofi Humado, Minister designate for the Agric Ministry on Friday advocated the utilization of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) in commercial farming to boost the country’s food security.
He however indicated that because of the exacting nature of some GMO seed varieties, especially maize, on fertilizers for substantial yields, it was important that peasant and rural farmers were insulated from the expensive nature of cultivating GMOs by concentrating on the use of local and hybrid seeds that demanded fewer inputs for desired yields
Mr Humado who gave the suggestion when appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament said the system should be liberalized so that those who can afford to cultivate GMO seed varieties could do so.
He was among the second batch of nominee ministers to be vetted by the legislative committee.
Mr Humado said that his intention was to review the Youth in Agriculture Programme to slant the plan towards processes that would help build the country’s capacity for self sufficiency in livestock, poultry and the rice industry.
He said more youth would be encouraged to go into soybean and yellow maize cultivation, which would be used for feed for the local poultry industry to enable the country wean itself of imports, adding that he would ensure that more educated youth took up employment in the value chain segment to aid in the rapid modernisation of Ghana’s agricultural sector.
Mr Humado said he would pursue reforms aimed at improving subsidy regimes, the efficiency of distributing agricultural inputs and the assessing of needed credit to farmers to increase yields for food security.
He said he would use his experience as a agricultural administrator to leverage funds to improve irrigation and small dams for small to medium scale farmers who constituted the regular food producers in the country.
On livestock improvement, Mr Humado said he initiate a review of the ministry’s plan to develop fodder pastures for livestock farmers in order to confine their rearing to specially demarcated arrears and zone to protect crop producing arrears from the conflicts that arise from the damages to crops through grazing.
He also stressed the need to critically examine the ECOWAS protocol on movement to limit the damage done by the migration of large herds of cattle across the sub-region.
Mr Humado said he collaborate with stakeholders to fast-track the implementation of the Accra Plains irrigation project to that would enable the cultivation of more than 150,000 hectares to improve food security.
He said other segments of the agricultural sector including rice and cotton produce would be given the necessary attention to inure to the country’s capacity to ensure self-sufficiency.
The Minister designate pointed out that there was the need to re-examine the subsidization and the opening up of the fertiliser import market for competition.
He said there was the need for an appraisal of the pricing regime to become favourable to local farmers and discourage smuggling of the commodity to neighbouring counties.
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A Star Trek Night is a general term often used to describe evenings of continuous television programming or events devoted exclusively to the Star Trek franchise.
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The BBC has produced many special evenings of programmes devoted to certain subjects including ones with science fiction themes. Such efforts have included Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and Star Trek. Two Star Trek Nights have been produced by the BBC:
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The history of this case shows that Thomas Crowel appealed the Drainage Board assessment for his portion of the drainage reconstruction project on the 7th arm of the Myers Drain in Walnut Township. The assessment on Crowel’s 26 acres of farmland was set at $7,055.41. Estimated cost for the complete project was $114,474.
In March of 2010 the County Drainage Board determined the reconstruction would be beneficial to all involved and ordered the project to commence. At the end of that month Mr. Crowel filed a petition for judicial review in Marshall Circuit Court contending the decision of the Drainage Board was arbitrary, capricious, unlawful, and not supported by substantial evidence. The trial court heard counsels’ arguments and considered the matter solely on the record of the Board’s proceedings. At the end of September 2010 the local court ruled affirming the Drainage Board’s decision.
Crowel took his case on to the Court of Appeals who reversed the local decision in a 2 – 1 decision. Writing for himself and Judge Kirsch, Judge Mathais held “that, as a matter of law, relieving the lower-lying parcels from flooding occasioned by the natural flow of surface water from Crowel’s property does not benefit his land and, therefore, cannot form the basis of the reconstruction assessment levied against him.”
Because of the seriousness of dealing with the State of Indiana Drainage Laws the decision was made by the Marshall County Drainage Board with assistance from the Indiana Association of Counties to move the case on to the Indiana Supreme Court.
On Monday, July 30th the Indiana Supreme Court released their decision showing that they affirm the trial court’s decision upholding the Marshall County Drainage Board’s order and assessment schedule.
County Attorney Jim Clevenger said the opinion from the Court was rather long but upholds the assessment. He said the opinion will probably be reviewed by Drainage Board attorneys and surveyors all over the State of Indiana.
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Imaginary weapon gets 7-year-old a real school suspension
Posted Feb 6, 2013 4:31 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Concerned about student violence in the wake of multiple classroom shootings, many school districts have adopted zero-tolerance policies in recent years under which children have been disciplined for displaying so-called weapons that obviously weren't likely to inflict injury.
But the concept is being extended even further, as a recent incident at a Colorado school district demonstrates. Second-grader Alex Evans, 7, has been suspended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade on the playground during recess, KDVR reports.
The boy says he was pretending to be a hero saving the world and tossed the nonexistent weapon at imaginary evil forces in a box in order to save the world.
A written list of "absolute" rules for Mary Blair Elementary School in Loveland that is linked to the article prohibits "play fighting” and "play" weapons.
The list does not expressly prohibit imaginary weapons, and Superintendent Stan Scheer of the Thompson School District said district policy doesn't either. However, he also said individual schools have the power to supplement the general student code of conduct, the Loveland Reporter-Herald explains.
“It fell under that set of local policy they have in the building, and it was shared with all parents in the community at the beginning of the year,” Scheer told the newspaper.
Alex's mother, Mandie Watkins, said her son was "very confused" by the suspension. And, she added, “I'm confused as well, so it makes it hard for me to enforce these rules when I don't even understand them.”
Last month, a 6-year-old girl in South Carolina was expelled after bringing to school "an Airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellets" that was not operational. WLTX reported. Last week, the superintendent reversed the decision and allowed her to return to school.
Hat tip: The Mommy Files.
CNN: "Pennsylvania girl, 5, suspended for talk of 'shooting' a Hello Kitty 'bubble gun'"
WBRC: "Lego gun gets boy suspension threat"
Updated at 4:08 p.m. to note the South Carolina incident.
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By Edward Nawotka
Today’s lead article by Emily Williams looks at the question of why so few foreign writers make it into print in the US. It’s by know become well known that approximately 3% of books published in the US are translations (and I would guess that number would be significantly smaller as soon as you factor in self-published books). Williams asserts that the problem rests as much with the limited number of editors who can read a foreign language, as well as with the complicated dance that is involved with selling books to the US.
Williams view opposes the unflattering stereotype that depicts America — and by extension, its readers and publishers — as ignorant of foreign cultures and lacking in curiosity about the outside world.
My personal experience also goes counter to the cliché of the insulated American. Having lived all over the United States, I’ve encountered people from several dozen, if not hundreds of cultures — in my own hometown of Houston, there are large populations of Mexicans, Central and South Americans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian and Pakistanis and people from the Middle East; in contrast, when I lived overseas, in any given country I would typically meet people from a handful of cultures — either from neighboring countries or a former colony or colonizer. America is, if anything, a nation of immigrants; perhaps the perception that we’re not interested in other cultures is because our culture already contains or has assimilated said cultures.
In addition, the most often cited statistic that very few Americans have passports is taken as further indication of American disinterest. I would argue that there’s a relatively simple explanation for this and it comes down to a key difference between the US and many other counties. First, America is itself geographically large and diverse, meaning there is lots of room to explore and roam. But, of more importance, is the fact that we limit our vacation to just two weeks per year (and if you have any family obligations — say to visit your parents once a year — that eats up half your holidays). With less time off, there’s less time to travel and even less time to travel abroad.
What do you think? Is the cliché about the cultural ignorant and isolated American a myth? Or is it a sad fact? And if so, what can and should be done to remedy the situation?
Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter using hashtag #ppdiscuss.
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kfong wrote:Update, looking for a suitable inductor. The one I found, I wasn't happy with the wire gauge, so I looked around and found a ferrite toroid, and started wrapping wire around it. I ran out of wire, but felt it would be good enough for the test. Worked better than I expected. It just goes in between the battery and the speed controller. No bms shutting down from the capacitive discharge coming back from the controller.
Like some other people in this thread I had problems that the DeWalt BMS would cut when connecting to my controller. The current peak to charge the controller input caps was too high. I started winding an inductor (had bought the toroid from Kin just in case). Then it occurred to me why not use an NTC resistor as inrush current limiter of the type used on many switched power supplies. I had used these on the input side of my own controller project (http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19993&start=15#p292906
) just for this purpose (They are the two black discs in the bottom left corner of the PCB from the previous link), but commercial controller manufacturers seem to not be so careful.
Here how it looks on a kfong board. Note the much smaller footprint of the NTC resistor compared to the inductor.
The NTC I used is rated for 15A. Gets warm (as it is supposed to do) running near the rated current. Tried it both with the controller from the cellman 350W geared kit and a crystallyte 20A. Works great to prevent startup BMS tripping (and sparks on connecting the wires) for both.
I was looking to try this on some higher amp controllers, but had a hard time finding a suitable part number on digikey. Instead I was thinking of using higher ohm, but low current NTC for startup only, like this one:http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/1521264-cur-limiter-inrush-50-ohm-1-6a-sl10-50002.html
Then when caps are charged just short the NTC out of the circuit. I'm curious if you think this would work on the Castle HV160? The HV160 does some "motor twiddles" on bootup that are probably pretty high current. Can those be turned off in the programming somewhere? Or the NTC has to survive that?
Mike B wrote:
Question, will the interface allow regenerative charging? Lots of hill here, up and down. The 4011 motor on a previous bike would hit 20 amps of regen going downhill (had two Watts Up meters wired head to head to read this once I figured out why the one meter's voltage was going high on downhills). But your board has a diode. So I think not....
I run w/o the diode. I haven't purposively used regen, but my 9C often puts 100-200W backwards when backing off the throttle, and the DeWalts seem to survive that.
Another "feature" (not sure if accidental or not) is that on a 2s pack, when the BMS triggers at the end of capacity of one it seems to allow current though, so I can keep riding on half the voltage on the remaining pack without any reconfiguration. B.t.w. I get about 2Ah of the rated 2.3Ah from my 2007 toolking 24V packs.
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The jump to version x.1 of a program may not seem like particularly big news, but with the release of Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 10.1 there is a surprising amount to take in. For anyone who has taken the security step of installing more than one antivirus tool, you should now find that – which Norton and AVG at least – Ad-Aware no longer produces a BSOD, but there have also been more important changes to the engine of this antivirus and firewall tool.
A major concern with any antivirus tool is the impact it has on your system and in the latest release there have been tweak made to the scanning engine that mean that schedule scans are performed faster than in the past. The program has already undergone something of a makeover but there have now been additional improvements made so the app as a whole feels generally snappier – this is in addition to faster scan completion.
On the firewall front, programs that have been deemed as trustworthy are now added to the white-list and there is now better support for 64-bit versions of Windows for both the firewall and antivirus side of the application. Users of Windows 2000 will be disappointed to find that their operating system is no longer supported, and this comes as results of changes that have been made to improve the reliability of system drivers.
A problem that meant multi-user systems were plagued with requests for a license key when switching between accounts has been addressed and the program is now able to detect a wider range of tracking cookies. This minor version increase is a great move forward for Lavasoft, as their famous security software makes increasing steps towards catching up with the competition that overtook it in recent years.
You can find out more and download a free copy of the program by paying a visit to the Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 10.1 review page.
This article originally appeared at softwarecrew.co.uk
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Stories like Patricia Adams-Mauldin's are among the reasons Donna Dukes founded her Maranathan Academy in Birmingham more than 20 years ago.
When Adams-Mauldin attended a friend's graduation she had no idea that the day would also become the first toward her own path to success. She was in the audience when the words from the private school's principal resonated long after the ceremony had ended.
"I went to the graduation twice, and during the last one she encouraged the adults there that if they didn't have their high school diploma it was not too late," she recalled Dukes saying from the stage.
At 43, Adams-Mauldin had spent her time as a wife, mother and grandmother, working to support her family, but not giving much thought to the task she left unfinished decades earlier.
But this month it was Adams-Mauldin who walked across the stage to cheering friends and family, a diploma finally clutched in her hand.
Reaching more students like Adams-Mauldin are part of new efforts by Dukes to reach adults well past school age who lack a diploma.
While the school has always had a mix of school-aged and nontraditional students, Dukes said she sees a growing need for outreach to older students who have already begun their lives but are stymied without a high school diploma.
"She seemed to relish and enjoy the whole idea of going back to school. Mrs. Adams-Mauldin is just the epitome of the adults we love to work with," Dukes said. "The enthusiasm she has shown is just inspirational."
The school is located in a small white house in the Kingston neighborhood where only a tiny white sign tacked on the porch gives a hint of what goes on inside.
The alternative private school specializes in giving at-risk children a second chance as well as nontraditional students, including adults. Students who can pay tuition pay, while private donations and fundraisers cover those who need assistance.
Adams-Mauldin's high school path to graduation took a detour in 1986 when her mother died. She was in 11th grade at Carver High School.
"When she died, I basically gave up," Adams-Mauldin recalled during a visit to the school. "When I was taking the tests, it just wasn't there."
Adams-Mauldin married, had a family and worked in fast food. She knew something was missing, a void that was highlighted at that graduation ceremony.
"I knew I could do better," she said. "I want to own my own business. I want to be a chef."
Adams-Mauldin balanced family, work and studying with her family support. Just as she had cheered for others nearing graduation, this was her turn.
At Maranathan Academy, Adams-Mauldin could keep working full time, while completing most of her school assignments at home.
"I just asked God to give me the strength where I was able to do my work and take care of my family," she said.
Adams-Mauldin now plans to begin culinary school.
"Everything happens for a reason. If there's anybody out there who hasn't gotten their education, they need to do like I did," Adams-Mauldin said. "The young folks and the younger people -- if I can do it I know they can, too."Join the conversation by clicking to comment or email Bryant at [email protected].
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Sound bites, political speak, media spin, tabloid sensationalism, propaganda and misinformation are the media's language. How do you see through the lies and discover the truth? Be discerning; critically analyse what you are being told. The media does not have a responsibility to report the news honestly; profit is the purpose of the media corporation. They answer to their shareholders. News and advertising is their product. The viewing public are their consumer. No Conspiracy theories here.
High tech wizardry and mediaeval squalor live side by side in the world's largest democracy.
Numbers are a blessing for newspaper correspondents in India. Thanks to the subcontinent's vast population there is invariably an enormous total to spice up any story.
The electorate alone is a marvel - there were 714 million eligible voters at the last national poll, nearly twice the number of electors for the European Parliament. India's biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, is home to 200 million people - more than Brazil - and would be the world's fifth most populous country if it were a separate nation. Even the road toll holds a gruesome fascination because of its sheer magnitude. More than 120,000 die on Indian roads each year, the equivalent to obliterating the population of Darwin or Toowoomba.
Numbers can also paint a vivid picture of the sweeping changes taking place in India. An example is the astounding growth in mobile phone subscriptions. When I arrived in New Delhi in late 2007 to take up my post as the correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, there were 234 million Indian mobile phone subscribers. Just two years later India had reached the landmark of 500 million subscribers. Now the total has soared to 770 million. Last November, 23 million new subscribers were added - more than the population of Australia in 30 days.
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The growth in mobiles is one episode in what economists and investment bankers call the ''India story''. It's a rollicking economic tale of a country's journey from the stifling regulation, or "licence raj", of the 1960s and 1970s to a fast growing, tech-savvy economic tiger.
India is the fourth largest economy in the world (on the basis of purchasing power parity) and accounts for nearly 5 per cent of global gross domestic product. Its share of world trade has trebled in the past 20 years and it is now Australia's third biggest export market. The Reserve Bank says the Indian economy is ''likely to continue to expand at a relatively rapid pace in coming decades and to become an increasingly important part of the world economy''.
Growth is forecast to accelerate above 9 per cent this year and pundits believe it is only a matter of time before India overtakes China as the fastest growing major economy.
As India's economic importance grows, so does its political clout. The procession of world leaders calling on New Delhi is one tangible indicator of India's strategic significance. In the space of a few months last year the heads of state from each permanent member of the United Nations Security Council - the United States, China, Britain, France and Russia - all paid a visit. The US President, Barack Obama, won hearts in Delhi in November when he said India ''is not simply an emerging power but now is a world power''.
India's euphoric victory in this month's cricket world cup final fits with a mood that its time has come. "The World at Our Feet," screamed a headline in The Times of India the morning after triumph.
And yet the numbers show India is a very poor world power. Its per capita income is $US1265 ($1207) according the International Monetary Fund's latest estimate. That's less than one third of China's and just 2.7 per cent of America's. The 2010 United Nations Human Development Index, a measure that combines income, education and life expectancy, ranked India at 119th out of 169 countries. That's only one place above East Timor. China was 30 places higher than India and Russia was 54 places up the list.
In India, more than 700 million people survive on less than $US2 a day and about 42 per cent of children aged five or less are under-weight. A UN report found there are 421 million Indians living in ''multi-dimensional'' poverty, a greater number than in Africa's 26 poorest countries combined.
Rapid economic change in India has created confronting anomalies. High-tech wizardry and medieval squalor live side by side. It is possible to access fast wireless broadband in villages where children are dying of starvation and thanks to the explosive growth of mobiles, more Indians probably have access to phone calls than toilets.
There is mounting evidence that the spoils of economic growth have become disproportionately concentrated among a small group of super-rich industrialists. Research by the former World Bank economist Michael Walton shows the combined worth of India's US dollar billionaires rose from the equivalent of 1.7 per cent of India's gross domestic product in 1999 to a peak of 23 per cent in 2008.
India's economic miracle, so often lauded abroad, is contested at home. Three of India's 28 states have communist governments. Leftist political parties, critical of India's economic trajectory, are an influential force in politics. India's dynamic volunteer sector, which includes tens of thousands of non-government organisations, has produced an army of activists who decry the social and environmental damage being done amid India's rapid development.
The sense of alienation and anger among India's poor has helped stoke a bloody Maoist rebellion in its most destitute regions. These insurgents - called Naxals after the eastern Indian village of Naxalbari where the movement began - are active in more than one-third of India's 626 districts. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has branded them ''the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country''.
But they are not alone. Security forces are also battling rebellions in the Kashmir Valley and in the restless north-east. India's insurrections have complex roots but poverty is almost always a major contributor.
Compounding the political complexities created by India's poverty is its cultural diversity. Twenty-two different languages are recognised by India's constitution and scores of other dialects are commonly spoken. Hundreds of millions of people identify deeply with cultural and religious traditions that are thousands of years old. The British historian Michael Wood says Indian children "will grow up in a global superpower and yet still know what it means to belong to an ancient civilisation''.
Dr Singh talks about the importance of ''inclusive growth'' across India but it has been difficult to achieve. With half of India's population - about 600 million people - aged 25 or less, India will be hard pressed to find meaningful employment for its increasingly aspirational population. About one million Indians are expected to enter the workforce every month for the next 20 years. But jobs growth is not nearly matching this flood of supply.
The World Bank estimates the proportion of Indians living on less than $US1 per day (in 2005 purchasing power parity) fell from 42 per cent in 1981 to 24 per cent in 2005 but population growth meant the actual number of people living below that poverty benchmark was only reduced from 296 million to 266 million in that period.
In a new book, the British writer and historian Patrick French criticises journalists who "make a living by reporting ceaseless tales of woe" from the subcontinent. He is right to challenge the outdated stereotype of India as a poverty-stricken basket case but the media obsession with India's growth rate, urban middle-class and super-rich entrepreneurs can also be misleading.
Despite rapid economic and social change in India, poverty still has a profound influence, especially on politics. No political party in India can succeed without the support of the country's poor rural masses.
Some analysts have attributed an apparent middle-class disengagement from mainstream politics to the power exerted by poorer ''vote blocks''. Very low voter turnouts in wealthy neighbourhoods of Mumbai and Delhi are cited as evidence of this apathy. But if the middle class cannot hold sway at the ballot box, it exerts influence in other ways.
This booming cohort, estimated to number between 100 million to 300 million, has been labelled the ''most economically dynamic group on the planet'' by Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, an India specialist at Lancaster University. Its members staff the IT firms and call centres that have given India its reputation as a global technology leader. It is also one of the world's most lucrative and fastest-growing consumer markets.
The author Nalin Mehta says there is a strong perception among the urban middle class that India is finally taking its rightful place near the top of the international order and that neither it, nor its citizens, should be pushed around.
Elements of the giant media industry, including dozens of news channels pumping out stories 24 hours a day, pander to this sentiment.
Australia experienced this raw nationalism after a spate of violent attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney in 2009 and 2010. The attacks received blanket coverage in the Indian media and Australia's image was damaged.
''It had an element of middle-class students being victimised,'' said Mehta. ''It also had elements of racial and national pride. That's what made the story so sexy for channels targeting India's primary viewing audience.''
The reaction in India to the attacks underscored the power of its electronic media. But the crisis also exposed a lack of understanding about India in Australia. Several ill-informed attempts by Australian politicians and officials to hose down anger over the attacks caused even deeper offence. As I watched the media frenzy from Delhi it was clear that widespread ignorance of Indian culture and society in Australia had only made matters worse.
In the heat of the crisis, the government acknowledged the need for Australia to do more to understand the world's biggest democracy.
The then deputy prime minister, Julia Gillard, announced funding for a new Australia-India Institute at the University of Melbourne to ''promote specialised knowledge'' about India. She said the government was committed to building Australian understanding of India, its culture, its history and its place in the world.
It was a good initiative but Australia needs to do much more. India's scale, diversity and poverty make it a rising power like no other. We must get to know it better.
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Liberia's Taylor Guilty of War Crimes in S. Leone, Faces Jail in Britainإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor, found guilty by an international court Thursday of war crimes in Sierra Leone, will serve his prison sentence in Britain, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
The location and category of the prison will depend on the details of the verdict. "How strong the verdict is will determine the category of prison he is held in," the spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.
She added that Britain's offer in 2007 to host Taylor if he was found guilty was part of the deal to put him on trial in the Netherlands-based Special Court for Sierra Leone.
"It is also part of the role that Britain played in bringing peace to Sierra Leone and to developing those bilateral relations," the spokeswoman said.
The then British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent troops to Sierra Leone at the height of its brutal 1991-2001 civil war, in which 120,000 people were killed as rival factions fought over the country's diamonds.
Taylor was convicted Thursday of war crimes for arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for blood diamonds during the war.
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For Immediate Release, May 15, 2012
Contact: Miyoko Sakashita, (415) 632-5308 or [email protected]
More Than 1 Million People Urge White House to Stop Shell's Arctic Drilling
WASHINGTON— More than 1 million people called on President Barack Obama today to save the Arctic from oil drilling. Petitions with more than a million signatures were delivered to the White House, where citizens are gathering to ask the president to stop Shell Oil from drilling this summer.
“Shell’s ships are already on the way to drill in the icy Arctic waters, putting human life, polar bears and whales at risk in harsh, stormy conditions,” said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which has worked for many years to keep offshore drilling out of the Arctic Ocean. “President Obama has a small window to stop Shell from spoiling the Arctic, and that’s exactly what people across the country are asking him to do.”
Citizens, Alaska residents and environmental leaders are gathering at noon at Lafayette Park to voice their opposition to Arctic drilling.
The Obama administration is now considering Shell’s application for permits to drill exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska — the final permits needed before drilling begins this summer. A coalition of groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and Alaska Wilderness League, will be participating in Wednesday’s event to deliver letters and petitions opposed to the drilling to the White House. More than 58,000 of the 1.1 million people standing together against Arctic drilling are Center supporters; dozens more have submitted video testimonials asking President Obama to say no to Arctic drilling.
“We should not be gambling with the future of the Arctic Ocean. Oil drilling in this pristine wilderness means risking oil spills that can’t be cleaned up, and it means more dirty fuels adding to climate change — both of which threaten to destroy the Arctic forever,” said Sakashita.
The Center and allies have lawsuits pending challenging the government’s approval of Shell’s exploration plans and lease sales for Arctic drilling. Shell has also filed two lawsuits against these groups in an aggressive move seemingly designed to quash further challenges to its oil-spill response plan and marine mammal permits.
For more information visit here, and see more video testimonials here.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 350,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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Thousands in Northern California told to flee Ponderosa Fire
Thousands of residents in three rural communities in Northern California have been told to leave their homes as a wildfire that has already destroyed four homes and scorched nearly 19 square miles now threatens their property, a fire official said Sunday.
About 3,000 homes in a rural area along the border of Tehama and Shasta counties were being threatened by the Ponderosa Fire, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.
The fire was about 150 miles north of Sacramento and was near the towns of Manton, Shingletown and Viola, Berlant said.
The Ponderosa Fire, one of 14 major wildfires burning in California, was among a rash of Western wildfires scorching parts of that state, Washington, Idaho and Utah.
•In Idaho, residents around the town of Featherville, remained under a mandatory evacuation order as the Trinity Ridge Fire in the Boise National Forest continued to threaten their community.
About 100 permanent residents of the small mountain resort town had left their homes, said Chris Brun, a dispatcher with the Elmore County sheriff's office. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Mallory Eils said, "The fire will make it to Featherville. It's just a matter of when."
About 1,100 firefighters were battling the blaze, which has charred some 82,000 acres and has been burning for two weeks.
•In Washington, better weather conditions over the weekend helped firefighters gain ground on a fire that has scorched dozens of homes east of the Cascades.
That fire has burned across more than 23,000 acres in rural areas about 75 miles east of Seattle.
•Evacuation orders were being lifted Sunday in Utah, where three wildfires had burned a total of 400 acres.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection provides fire protection for about one-third of the state, and this year, firefighters have battled about 4,000 wildfires, 1,300 more than at this time last year, Berlant said. "That's all due to the fact that this winter we had so very little rain. Much of the ground, brush and timber is tinder-dry and all it takes is a spark or an ember for the fire to catch and burn very quickly and very aggressively."
Contributing: The Associated Press
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What can your Atari 800 do for you? Well, according to this You Tube video of an Atari 800 in-store demo (see below), mostly business and professional applications (yeah, right). It's almost sad to see Atari working so hard in this demo to impress the very people who dismissed Atari as nothing more than a maker of game consoles. Both Atari and Commodore shunned the "game machine" label, even though the most loyal fans of both systems probably played more games than any other type of software (though I'm sure any of these fans would be quick to defend these machines as "real computers.") Although the demo mentions the popular hit Star Raiders, it's obviously designed to minimize the game-playing potential of the system. Interestingly, companies like Alien Ware (and increasingly Dell) seem willing to offer "gaming rigs" without bothering to play up the business/professional potential of these systems.
Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer, authored by--you guessed it, Stan Veit--is a roughly edited collection of memoirs and editorials Veit wrote during his tenure as editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper. Veit's personal experience with personal computer history is tremendous. He was the first personal computer dealer in New York City, and got to know almost every early luminary in the industry on a first-name basis. He's one part technician (he can talk chips and boards with the best of them), one part salesman, and one part patron. In short, it's hard to find an author better qualified to take us on the journey from the Altair to the IBM PC. However, the book is not without its flaws--it's poorly organized, and the typos make your head hurt.
What's the #1 thing slowing down your modern PC? According to Tom's Hardware, it may be your hard drive. According to authors Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos, hard drive technology has greatly expanded in capacity, yet lagged seriously behind in terms of performance. The authors take a look back at the past 15 years of hard drive technology, going into plenty of detail about compression technology. However, all is not bleak:
FTL's Dungeon Master, released in 1987 for the Atari ST and a year later for the Amiga, represents a defining moment in the evolution of the computer role-playing game. Although it is certainly not the first 3D real-time computer role playing game (see Dungeons of Daggorath), it's probably the first such game to really hit the mainstream. It was the #1 best selling product on the Atari ST platform, and remains one of the best-known and playable of the early CRPGs. Indeed, I've recently become addicted to the game and will probably not be happy until I've completed it! What I intend to do here is discuss some of the game's more innovative features and try to get at what makes this game so endearing and important.
While it's not actually a game, I thought our readers might enjoy taking Jake Mandell's hearing test. It's a free FLASH application that takes about 6 minutes to go through. I'd suggest wearing headphones and turning off the iTunes before starting, though. It's more fun than you think! Hopefully you folks haven't been blasting your eardrums with to many SID files cranked to 11...Link via Gizmodo.
Why are so many people these days, surrounded as they are by some of the most sophisticated gaming technology ever designed, still captivated by so-called "obsolete" games like Pac-Man, Joust, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and Frogger? Why are so many thousands (if not tens of thousands) of people running MAME or any number of other computer/console emulation programs on their modern PCs? Indeed, why would someone with a "decked out" PC capable of running the latest FPS in near-cinematic quality want to run programs intended for the humble Commodore 64 or the outright meek Atari 2600? The reasons, I think, are not as obvious as we might think.
"The Creature of Kapu Cave," the 15th episode in the popular Nancy Drew graphical adventure game series, scores big in some areas and misses in others. In some ways, this is the strongest entry in the series, scoring particularly high marks in graphics and interface. The problems are a bit trickier to isolate. Essentially, the problem is making a long story short. I've been covering Her Interactive's Nancy Drew games for some time now, and this one felt the briefest. Of course, that's not always a problem, and I prefer a game that leaves me wanting more rather than one I can't wait to be over. Unfortunately, what's abridged here are some of the most charming qualities of the series--fun, well-developed characters, intrigue, and plot twists. The focus here is mostly on a series of simple mini-games, all held together with the Hawaiian theme.
Well, it's finally over: Check out the results of the 12th annual IF competition. As you can see, there were plenty of entries and plenty of judges. The winner (no big surprise) was Emily Short, a very notable IF author whose game "Floatpoint" scored 113 points. Runners up include "The Primrose Path" by Nolan Bonvouloir and "The Elysium Enigma" by Eric Eve. Even my own humble entry "The Initial State" didn't fare as poorly as I feared, but came in at #28 with 63 points. Download them all and revisit the days when Infocom was king.
"Roll up, roll up, see the amazing Tyrannosaurus Rex, king of the dinosaurs, in his lair." Of all the things you might expect to find running on a ZX81 in 1981, a real time, first-person, 3D maze game would probably be somewhere near "impossible" on your list. Yet, that's exactly what Malcolm Evans was able to pull off--basically in his spare time, as little more than a diversion for himself. Nevertheless, Evans' tinkering became one of the most celebrated games for the ZX81 and a forerunner of the modern first-person game.
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Committee Membership Information
Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta
Dr. Robert J. Huggett
College of William and Mary
ROBERT J. HUGGETT, Chair, is an independent consultant and professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences at the College of William and Mary, where he was on the faculty for over 20 years. He also served as Professor of Zoology and Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University from 1997 to 2004. Dr. Huggett is an expert in aquatic biogeochemistry and ecosystem management whose research involved the fate and effects of hazardous substances in aquatic systems. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where his responsibilities included planning and directing the agency?s research program. During his time at the EPA, he served as Vice Chair of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and Chair of the Subcommittee on toxic substances and solid wastes, both of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Huggett founded the EPA Star Competitive Research Grants program and the EPA Star Graduate Fellowship program. He has served on the National Research Council?s (NRC) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, the Water Science and Technology Board, and numerous study committees on wide ranging topics. Dr. Huggett earned an M.S. in Marine Chemistry from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego and completed his Ph.D. in Marine Science at the College of William and Mary.
Dr. Desiree D. Tullos
Oregon State University
DESIREE D. TULLOS is assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Dr. Tullos also consulted with Blue Land Water Infrastructure and with Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Cannon before joining the faculty at Oregon State University. Her research areas include ecohydraulics, river morphology and restoration, bioassessment, and habitat and hydraulic modeling. She has done work on investigations of biological responses to restoration and engineered applications in riverine ecosystems; development and evaluation of targeted and appropriate bioindicators for the assessment of engineered designs in riverine systems; assessing effects of urban and agricultural activities and management practices on aquatic ecosystem stability in developing countries. She received her B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her MC.E. in civil engineering and Ph.D. in biological engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Dr. Samuel N. Luoma
U.S. Geological Survey
SAMUEL N. LUOMA is an emeritus senior scientist in the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, where he worked for 34 years. He also teaches at the John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis. Dr. Luoma?s research centers on sediment processes, both natural and human-induced, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area. He served as the first lead on the CALFED Bay-delta program and is the Editor-in-Chief of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science. Since 1992, he has published extensively on the bioavailability and ecological effects of metals in aquatic environments. He has helped refine approaches to determine the toxicity of marine and estuarine sediments. In 1999, he was invited to discuss how chemical speciation influences metal bioavailability in sediments for the European Science Foundation. He has served multiple times on the EPA?s Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Sediment Quality Criteria and on several NRC committees. Dr. Luoma received his B.S. and M.S. in Zoology from Montana State University, Bozeman, and his Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Dr. Thomas Miller
University of Maryland, Solomons
THOMAS MILLER is professor of fisheries and bioenergetics and population dynamics at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science where he has been teaching since 1994. Prior to UMCES-CBL, he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and research specialist with the Center for Great Lakes Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research focuses on population dynamics of aquatic animals, particularly in understanding recruitment, feeding and bio-physical interactions and early life history of fish and crustaceans. He has been involved in the development of a Chesapeake Bay fishery ecosystem plan, which includes detailed background information on fisheries, foodwebs, habitats and monitoring required to develop multispecies stock assessments. Most recently, he has developed an interest in the sub-lethal effects of contamination on Chesapeake Bay living resources using population dynamic approaches. He received his B.Sc. (hons) in human and environmental biology from the University of York, UK; his M.S. in ecology and Ph.D. in zoology and oceanography from North Carolina State University.
Dr. Max J. Pfeffer
MAX J. PFEFFER is International Professor of Development Sociology and Chair of the Department at Cornell University. His teaching concentrates on environmental sociology and sociological theory. His research spans several areas including farm labor, rural labor markets, international migration, land use, and environmental planning. The empirical work covers a variety of rural and urban communities, including rural/urban fringe areas. Research sites include rural New York and Central America. He has been awarded competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s National Research Initiative and its Fund for Rural America, and the Social Science Research Council. Dr. Pfeffer has published a wide range of scholarly articles and has written or co-edited four books. He recently published (with John Schelhas) Saving Forests, Protecting People? Environmental Conservation in Central America. He also previously served as the Associate Director of both the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cornell University Center for the Environment. He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Albert E. Giorgi
ALBERT E. GIORGI is president and senior fisheries scientist at BioAnalysts, Inc in Redmond, WA. He has been conducting research on Pacific Northwest salmonid resources since 1982. Prior to 1982, he was a research scientist with NOAA in Seattle, WA. He specializes in fish passage migratory behavior, juvenile salmon survival studies, biological effects of hydroelectric facilities and operation. His research includes the use of radio telemetry, acoustic tags, and PIT-tag technologies. In addition to his research, he acts as a technical analyst and advisor to public agencies and private parties. He regularly teams with structural and hydraulic engineers in the design and evaluation of fishways and fish bypass systems. He also has served on the NRC Committee on Water Resources Management, Instream Flows, and Salmon Survival in the Columbia River. He received his B.A. and M.A. in biology from Humboldt State University and his Ph.D. in fisheries from the University of Washington.
Dr. Denise Janet Reed
University of New Orleans
DENISE JANET REED is a University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans and is currently Interim Director of the Ponchartrain Institute for Environmental sciences. Her research interests include coastal marsh response to sea-level rise and how this is affected by human activities. She has worked on coastal issues on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States, as well as other parts of the world, and has published the results in numerous papers and reports. She is involved in ecosystem restoration planning both in Louisiana and in California. Dr. Reed has served on numerous boards and panels concerning the effects of human alterations on coastal environments and the role of science in guiding ecosystem restoration, including the Chief of Engineers Advisory Board, a number of NRC committees, and the Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group of the NOAA Science Advisory Board. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Dr. Hans W. Paerl
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
HANS W. PAERL is Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, at the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City. His research includes microbially-mediated nutrient cycling and primary production dynamics of aquatic ecosystems, environmental controls of harmful algal blooms, and assessing the causes and consequences of man-made and climatic (storms, floods) nutrient enrichment and hydrologic alterations of inland, estuarine and coastal waters. His studies have identified the importance and ecological impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition as a new nitrogen source supporting estuarine and coastal eutrophication. He is involved in the development and application of microbial and biogeochemical indicators of aquatic ecosystem condition and change in response to human and climatic perturbations. He heads up the Neuse River Estuary Modeling and Monitoring Program, and ferry-based water quality monitoring program, FerryMon, which employs environmental sensors and a various microbial indicators to assess near real-time ecological condition of the Pamlico Sound System, the nation?s second largest estuarine complex. In 2003 he was awarded the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography for his work in these fields and their application to interdisciplinary research, teaching and management of aquatic ecosystems. He received his PhD from the University of California-Davis.
Ms. Christine A. Klein
University of Florida
CHRISTINE A. KLEIN the Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she also served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2006-2009. She teaches natural resources law, water law, and property. Prior to joining the Florida faculty, she chaired the Environmental Law program at Michigan State University College of Law; served in the Colorado Office of the Attorney General, Natural Resources Section, as an Assistant Attorney General specializing in water rights litigation; and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard P. Matsch, United States District Court, District of Colorado. Her scholarship focuses on topics at the intersection of natural resources law and other legal disciplines including constitutional law, property law, and land use law. She is the lead author of one of the most prominent casebooks in Natural Resources Law. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia University Law School, a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, and a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Dr. Thomas Dunne
University of California, Santa Barbara
THOMAS DUNNE (NAS) is a professor in the School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a hydrologist and a geomorphologist, with research interests that include alluvial processes; field and theoretical studies of drainage basin and hill-slope evolution; sediment transport and floodplain sedimentation; debris flows and sediment budgets of drainage basins. He served as a member of the WSTB Committee on Water Resources Research and Committee on Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988. He has acted as a scientific advisor to the United Nations, the governments of Brazil, Taiwan, Kenya, Spain, the Philippines, Washington, Oregon, several U.S. federal agencies, and The Environmental Defense Fund. He is a recipient of the American Geophysical Union Horton Award. Dr. Dunne holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in geography from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Kenneth A. Rose
Louisiana State University
KENNETH A. ROSE is a professor at the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Prior to joining the faculty at LSU in 1998 he was a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1987 to 1998. He also consulted with Martin Marietta Environmental Systems from 1983 to 1987. His research interests include mathematical and simulation models to better understand and forecast the effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on aquatic populations, community food webs, and ecosystems; and use of models in resource management and risk assessment. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and editor of the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Marine and Coastal Fisheries, and San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. He received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and his M.S. and Ph.D. in fisheries from the University of Washington.
Dr. Stephen G. Monismith
STEPHEN G. MONISMITH is a professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and directs the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford, he spent three years in Perth (Australia) as a research fellow at the University of Western Australia. Dr. Monismith?s research in environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics involves the application of fluid mechanics principles to the analysis of flow processes operating in rivers, lakes, estuaries and the oceans. Making use of laboratory experimentation, numerical modelling, and field measurements, his current research includes studies of estuarine hydrodynamics and mixing processes, flows over coral reefs, wind wave-turbulent flow interactions in the upper ocean, turbulence in density stratified fluids, and physical-biological interactions in phytoplankton and benthic systems. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. John P. Connolly
Anchor QEA, LLC
JOHN P. CONNOLLY (NAE) is senior technical advisor for Anchor QEA. Prior to that, he worked as consultant and later principal engineer at HydroQual, Inc from 1980-1998. He was also a professor at Manhattan College from 1980-1994 and worked as environmental scientist for U.S. EPA from 1978-1980. His research interests include surface water and groundwater contamination problems for the purposes of allocation among potential sources, evaluation of remedial options, remedy design or wasteload allocation (TMDLs); and water quality modeling. Currently he is a member of the USEPA Science Advisory Board. He has worked throughout the U.S., in Latin America, and in Europe as consultant or an expert witness for industry and government agencies and has provided testimony before the U.S. Congress and the New York State Assembly. He is also a member of the Manhattan College Council of Engineering Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin School of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering External Advisory Committee. He was elected to the NAE in 2010 for his work in the development of integrated water-quality models used for remediation and management planning for large, contaminated bodies of water. He received his BS and MS degrees in civil engineering and environmental engineering from Manhattan College and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Michael E. Campana
Oregon State University
MICHAEL E. CAMPANA is Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University and former Director of its Institute for Water and Watersheds. Prior to joining OSU in 2006 he held the Albert J. and Mary Jane Black Chair of Hydrogeology and directed the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico and was a research hydrologist at the Desert Research Institute and taught in the University of Nevada-Reno?s Hydrologic Sciences Program. He has supervised 68 graduate students. His research and interests include hydrophilanthropy, water resources management and policy, communications, transboundary water resources, regional hydrogeology, and surface water-groundwater interactions. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Belize and a Visiting Scientist at Research Institute for Groundwater (Egypt) and the IAEA in Vienna. Central America and the South Caucasus are the current foci of his international work. He has served on six NRC-NAS committees. Dr. Campana is founder, president, and treasurer of the Ann Campana Judge Foundation (www.acjfoundation.org), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that funds and undertakes projects related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) in Central America. He operates the WaterWired blog and Twitter. He earned a BS in geology from the College of William and Mary and MS and PhD degrees in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera
South Florida Water Management District
JAYANTHA OBEYSEKERA directs the Hydrologic & Environmental Systems Modeling Department at the South Florida Water Management District, where he is a lead member of a modeling team dealing with development and applications of computer simulation models for Kissimmee River restoration and the restoration of the Everglades Ecosystem. Prior to joining the South Florida Water Management District, he taught courses in hydrology and water resources at Colorado State University, Fort Collins; George Washington University, Washington, DC; and at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Obeysekera has published numerous research articles in refereed journals in the field of water resources. Dr. Obeysekera has over 20 years of experience practicing water resources engineering with an emphasis on both stochastic and deterministic modeling. He has taught short courses on modeling in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the U.S. He was a member of the Surface Runoff Committee of the American Geophysical Union and is currently serving as a member of a Federal Task Group on Hydrologic Modeling. He served as member of NRC?s Committee on Further Studies of Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River. Dr. Obeysekera has a B.S. degree in civil engineering from University of Sri Lanka; M.E. in hydrology from University of Roorkee, India; and Ph.D. in civil engineering with specialization in water resources from Colorado State University.
Dr. James J. Anderson
University of Washington
JAMES J. ANDERSON is a research professor the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington, where he has been teaching since 1983, and Co-Director of Columbia Basin Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, he did research work at the University of Kyoto in Japan, the National Institute of Oceanography in Indonesia, and Institute of Oceanographic Sciences in Wormley, UK. Dr. Anderson's research focuses on models of ecological and biological processes from a mechanistic perspective, specifically: (1) migration of organisms, (2) decision processes, and (3) mortality processes. For three decades he has studied the effects of hydrosystems and water resource allocations on salmon and other fish species. He has developed computer models of the migration of juvenile and adult salmon through hydrosystems and heads the DART website, an internet database serving real-time environmental and fisheries data on the Columbia River. His other research interests include mathematical studies in ecosystems, biodemography, toxicology and animal behavior. He has served on a number of regional and national panels and has testified numerous times before Congress on the impacts of hydrosystems on fisheries resources. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington.
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- Facebook - France - privacy - technology
France calls for answers in Facebook privacy uproar
France's government called for answers Monday after French Facebook users reported seeing private messages displayed on their "Timeline" profiles, accessible to all Facebook friends. Facebook says these were wall posts, which have always been public.
Facebook users across France rushed to check their accounts Monday, after a newspaper reported private messages from 2007 to 2009 were appearing in public timelines.
Exchanges meant to be between individuals or small groups were allegedly visible to all friends linked to an account, as well as anyone the user’s settings permitted to see their public “journal”.
The bug was reportedly “not systematic”, meaning only certain users were affected.
The report spurned a flurry of activity on Twitter, making the hashtag #bugfacebook a trending topic, but the outcry appears to have been limited to France.
Facebook said it investigated the complaints but denied there was a breach of privacy.
“A small number of users raised concerns after what they mistakenly believed to be private messages appeared on their Timeline,” the California-based social network said in an email response to an inquiry by Agence France-Presse.
“Our engineers investigated these reports and found that the messages were older wall posts that had always been visible on the users’ profile pages.”
Facebook remained adamant that messages at issue were “wall” posts that have always been open to viewing by others, which were not made with private messaging tools subsequently added to the service.
But French government officials sought more answers.
Arnaud Montebourg and Fleur Pellerin, two ministers in France’s Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, said they had made “several exchanges with Facebook France concerning a possible technical failure” in the system.
In a statement published overnight, Montebourg and Pellerin demanded “clear and transparent explanations be given as soon as possible” to clarify “the exact nature of the problem”.
For the ministers, the incident “underlines yet again the importance of the protection of private information in the digital age and the lack of transparency in the manner which certain players, including Facebook, treat such information.
“The ministers therefore call on Facebook to account for the incident with the National Commission on Information and Freedom, which protects the personal information of our citizens.”
(FRANCE 24 with wires)
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People look at a wreckage of the car in which was killed Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (Reuters)
The United Nations called a Security Council meeting concerning Israel’s attacks on Hamas terror leaders in Gaza.
The UN Security Council will hold a closed emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip, France said, as Israel threatened a wider offensive in the Palestinian enclave to stem rocket salvoes by Hamas militants. The French UN mission announced on its Twitter feed that the meeting would be a “closed private debate” beginning at 9:00 P.M. EST (0200 GMT Thursday). Council diplomats said Israeli and Palestinian envoys would speak at the meeting. (Reuters)
The U.N. chief on Wednesday called on Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to prevent an escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
Related: The IDF released these facts today:
Facts: Attacks on southern Israel
Attacks on Israeli towns and communities continue as you read this message:
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The bulk of the donated amount — $1 million — came from the GCSC Foundation.
Steve Dunnivant, interim dean for the center, said the facility is not finished, but is past the midpoint for construction and the last beam has been placed for the roof.
“It’s quite a building, including everything from culinary to robotics,” Dunnivant said. “The focus is moving to the interior now. There was a wow factor as the building was going up and now it won’t look like as much is happening. It’s a really complicated project, especially considering all of the wiring requirements for a building like this.”
Jim Kerley, president of GCSC, led the ceremony Tuesday and after reflection on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and a moment of silence, explained the purpose behind the ATC.
“In a nutshell, it creates that global workforce that we need to be competitive to bring in high tech, high paying jobs,” Kerley said. “That’s really what it’s about. This building is to help create jobs.”
The ATC will house several programs and departments such as the culinary academy, computer integrated technology, green building construction technology and logistics and transportation specialist.
Dunnivant said the center will house cutting edge technology and will enable design and creation. Some of the equipment will include 3D printers that can print on more than 200 materials and a milling machine that can mill anything out of metal.
“It could be anything from the new design of a sole of a shoe to a personalized cellphone holder,” Dunnivant said. “We can prototype it and build it in the facility.”
During the ceremony Tuesday, five checks were presented in support of the ATC. In addition to the foundation’s million-dollar donation, Jimmy and Katie Patronis donated $5,000; the Alumni Council, $5,000 to sponsor the community meeting room; Leah and Neal Dunn, $25,000 to sponsor the green roof terrace; and Floyd and Gloria Skinner, $89,000 to sponsor the dining room for the culinary arts program.
Jimmy Patronis said this project will show the community and future students that to make a difference, they must push forward. He said the facility will give future students every chance possible to pursue their dreams.
“People come and go, but communities and institutions are here forever,” Patronis said.
The ATC construction is scheduled for completion June 17, 2013, and classes are on schedule for next fall.
“When completed, it will change the high tech education training in our region,” Kerley said. “It’s a jewel for the community, it’s a jewel for the region, it’s a jewel for the South, and it’s a jewel for the whole country to have this facility to be set up and build a global workforce.”
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Anyone familiar with Pinole’s history of course knows the prominent role Bernardo Fernandez played in the town’s early days. His successful shipping business from the 1850’s would soon form the nucleus that would become the City of Pinole. Fernandez Avenue and Fernandez Park are of course named after him.
The following obituary appeared in the San Francisco Call on May 14, 1912, the day after his death. It appears here with original spelling and grammar.
Bernardo Fernandez Who Joins Pioneers Beyond the Divide
Reaper Calls Another Maker of Early History in California
MARTINEZ. May 13. —Bernardo Fernandez, who died at his home in Pinole yesterday after an illness of several weeks, was one of the oldest pioneer residents of Contra Costa county, having come to California in 1853 and settled in Pinole soon afterward. He was born in Portugal on November 15, 1828, and remained in his native land until 13 years old, when he went to Brazil, where he lived until 1850.
Fernandez on going to Pinole engaged in the mercantile business, later becoming interested in real estate. At the time of his death he was a large holder of Contra Costa realty.
He married Charlotte Cuarda, daughter of a pioneer family of Marin county, in 1859. Six children, Miss Mary Fernandez, Mrs. C W. Sinclair, Dr. M. L. Fernandez and Thomas B. Fernandez of Pinole, Mrs. W. K. Cole of San Francisco and Bernardo Fernandez Jr., who died in 1888, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fernandez.
Fernandez was one of the oldest members of Martinez lodge, F. & A. M., having belonged to the order for 47 years. It is under its auspices that the funeral will be held on Wednesday. A special train on the Southern Pacific will leave Pinole at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning for Martinez, where the services will be held at 11 o'clock. Interment will be at Martinez.
Article courtesy of the California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside. All newspapers published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain and therefore have no restrictions on use.
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Posted 2 years ago
A hand carved horse, I'm sure it was made in the trenches as it has a signature and date 1916 written in pensil on the bottom.
The bottles are also from the WWI era and were often broken by the soldiers to collect the glass ball that's inside, a present for their kids to be used as marbels. An interesting side about toys made by disabled soldiers during WWI . It's French but you can use the translater.
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Pinot, Pork Loin and Consumers: The Grocery Store and Wine Debate
The question this brings to mind is this: Is this policy of prohibiting consumers from purchasing a Pinot when they purchase their pork loin justifiable?
I’ve been pondering this as at least four states gear up to look at their wine-in-grocery store policy in 2013: Kansas, Kentucky, New York, and Tennessee.
What’s fascinating is that this debate never happens over the issue of “is the current policy justifiable”. Do have that discussion one would first need to go back some decades and determine the rationale for prohibiting wine sales alongside food in the first place. invariably, that exercise leads to the discovery that the original rationale is either hard to discover or the circumstance underlying the original rationale (usually market conditions and economic structures) are no longer in place.
No, today, the issue of wine in grocery stores is debated along two lines:
1. Allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores would be a huge convenience to consumers
2. Allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores would economically harm liquor stores where wine is currently only allowed to be sold
It’s notable that nobody disputes the former argument, made regulatory by the proponents of wine sales in grocery stores, including grocery stores and consumers. Nobody disputes it. A grocery store owner in Kansas who supports the idea of selling wine in his store puts it this way in a recent article on the subject:
“Very often people come in and ask, ‘Where’s the wine? I want that with my supper tonight.’ I have to inform them that we aren’t allowed to sell wine in the grocery store because it’s Kansas,” Hy-Vee Store Director Kevin Osterhage said.
I took considerable time recently to try to effectively argue the contrary, that consumers would not be benefited by being able to buy Pinot and Pork Loin in under the same roof. The only thing I could come up with is that it is much more likely for a consumer to get more personal and informed service in a store that is dedicated to selling wine than in a store dedicated to selling everything we put down our gullet. But this isn’t an issue of convenience. It’s an issue of communications. There simply is no way to counter the argument that consumers are better served via wine being sold in grocery stores.
This is why opponents of wine in grocery stores (most often liquor stores and wholesalers) prefer to argue the issue over the issue of the harm it would cause liquor store owners if consumers no longer were forced to enter a second store to get a bottle of wine with dinner. In a recent article about the effort to change the law in Tennessee, Josh Hammond, owner of Busters’ Liquors & Wines in Memphis and president of the Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association, made the case like this:
“Wine and spirits retailers will have to lay employees off and many will have to close. Where will the jobs come from? Certainly not the grocers. They’re not adding square footage or shelf space. They won’t need to hire one extra person.”
Here is what’s unquestionable: If a state changes its law to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores, consumers not only support the law, but they also benefit from the law. On the other hand, it is unquestionable that some people currently buying wine in liquor stores will, under a new law, choose to take their wine business to grocery stores.
What’s a law-maker to do?
This is the crux of the issue for a lawmaker in Kansas, Tennessee, New York or Kentucky faced with a bill that opens wine sales in grocery stores. Support liquor stores or support consumers. There are ways for bills to be written that mitigate the harm that may come to liquor stores. For example, allow them to now sell a variety of goods they are not allowed to. Or, in some states the law says a liquor store owner may only own one store in the state. That too could be expanded to allow liquor store owners to expand their store holdings. Yet these two ways to mitigate potential harm to liquor store owners, despite giving cover to lawmakers voting with consumers, is almost always dismissed by liquor store owners as no real help.
What’s a law-maker in one of these states to do?
This is where the consumer must come in. A vocal, loud and ongoing call by consumers to allow wine in grocery stores is the key to passing wine in grocery store measures. The interests of the consumer and the desire of the consumer need to be harnessed and communicated in order for law makers forced to decided how to vote on a bill to be convinced that the overriding concern here, the most important concern, the concern higher on the pecking order is the consumer.
I can count the instances on one hand in which an organized consumer movement made the difference in the passage of pro-consumer legislation related to access to wine. Almost always, any pro-consumer measures that pass and help the wine consumer are done legal decision force the issue or because a combination of media pressure and the potential that not passing pro-consumer laws would actually hurt some businesses.
The issue of direct shipping is most relevant here. In the wake of the 2005 Granholm v. Heald Supreme Court decision, states were told they either had to allow wineries everywhere ship to their citizens in-state, or allow no wineries anywhere (including in-state) ship to their citizens in-state. In most states, the local wineries already had the right to ship while out-of-state wineries had to right. In order to continue to keep out-of-state wineries from shipping in, lawmakers would have to take the privilege away from in-state wineries. That amounted to setting the boot down upon what were almost always a collection of family farmers and family run businesses. Lawmakers decided they were safer standing up for family farmers than for big wholesalers who wanted out-of-state wineries prevented from shipping. But it was not really a matter of what consumers wanted that led to opening up direct shipping for out-of-state wineries.
Maryland was a good example, on the other hand, of consumers getting the job done. it took more than three years for consumers, under the banner of Marylanders for Better Beer and Wine Laws, to get their message across and overcome opposition to allow direct shipping from wineries. But they did it with consumer pressure.
If wine lovers and consumers who like a glass of wine in Tennessee, Kansas, New York, and Kentucky want to see Pinot near their Pork Loin, they better speak up. They better speak up loudly. If they do, they’ll get what they want. If they don’t, lawmakers will see little reason to protect and stand up for the interests of the most important constituent: The Consumer.
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Eric Schmidt, while speaking at the special Google keynote series at Mobile World Congress 2011 began by showing a video editing app called Movie Studio. The overarching theme here seems to be control of the technology rather than the technology controlling the user. Using apps to bring you where you want to go rather than just finding results on what time it is in the place you wish you were. He mentioned monetization of provisional software (like lots and lots of money from Google Adsense via Android,) and moved on into disruption. Disruption here is essentially the switch from non-internet commerce to an internet-based economy where supply is essentially infinite.
Schmidt noted that he believes that computer science can turn fundamental transparency can help fix all the world’s problems (Wikileaks? Nah.) Memory, referring back to every bit of information we’ve got to remember, never getting lost in the world or on the map. You will never get lost, says Schmidt, and with your permission, all your friends know where you are too.
Human problems will be fixed by humans with machines, here is an age where technology is based on being good. Very warm and loving.
During the Q and A, an Australian man asks about more service and advertising – he wonders when the rest of the world will pick this market for advertising up.
Schmidt responds by saying that Australia is leading the world as far as Fiber goes. The tools and technology that’s required to create TV-level ads to a mobile audience, this is the goal that will lead to the next big frontier as far as advertising goes. Schmidt notes that this is commerce, and that these advertising business people are aiming for revenue.
Another man asks about Android, notes how Schmidt mentioned that Google wanted more developers, but that fragmentation is a giant problem for developers and that he sees this as a monster of a situation.
Schmidt notes that the App store is the center. With this central station, the Android Marketplace, everyone has an even platform. He notes that Gingerbread will be another even platform in a sense, and that the man should not worry.
Another question arises about payment.
Schmidt responds with a note about “Google Bucks” and how that’s unrealistic, but notes that NFC chips are next. This chip, in a couple of phones already, will be used for payment in the future. He notes that the UK is already implementing legal business as far as NFC goes, and that NFC is going to blow everything else away. This model, instant payment via NFC, or something like it, is the way of the future.
A lady asks a question about Twitter, how Schmidt likes it (if he wants to buy it,) and about business via mobile.
Schmidt first notes that he loves Twitter and that he likes to Tweet, basically brushing off that question. Schmidt notes that wireless capacity is not big enough to work with business and government already today.
A man asks a question about Android versions, and says there’s some confusion amongst everyday users.
Schmidt eventually gets to a rather important point: Chrome is keyboard, Honeycomb is touch. It’s also important to note that earlier in the presentation he said the following on versions of Android: “We have OS called gingerbread for phones, we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb. The two of them… you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two.”
A man asks some harsh questions about Larry and Eric, if Larry should have been here instead, to which Schmidt immediately replied that his new job is essentially doing the traveling, and that Larry likes this arrangement. The man continues with a question (actually first, but answered second) about HTML5, Schmidt replying by saying that HTML5 will work on both platforms (mobile and desktop) will be a good way for further integration and flattening of the playing ground for developers.
The man asks a third question about monetization in Apps.
Schmidt notes that they’ve purchased an App developers group heavily invested in both OS and Android [what is this?]
A government man from Belgium asks a question about addresses for internet.
IPV4 addresses will soon be gone, notes Schmidt, and we’ve got to work on network address translation boxes, more items like this that only work now with IPV4 technology. We need, Schmidt says, IPV6 to move forward.
There is a question on Health Care and how Mobile will help in this problem around the world.
Schmidt notes that he feels that all of your medical info should be with you at all times – 3 and 4% of all questions on Google are medically related, thus he’d like it to be more automated (YOU ARE HAVING A HEART ATTACK.)
There’s a question on Facebook and if they’re Google’s main competitor (because of “likes” and advertising via Facebook.
Schmidt notes that Microsoft is Google’s main competitor, that their search engine Bing might be “a little too good” and we know what he means, but that Facebook isn’t quite on the same road as them.
A man asks a question on Egypt, and Schmidt immediately notes that they’re very proud of the ways Google and Facebook and other sites were used to create a positive move in the country. Schmidt notes though that devices in countries like Egypt are too expensive, their networks are too small, and that today’s smartphones are tomorrow’s feature phones, and that the future is giving devices away for essentially free to connect everyone.
There is a question on SDKs and releases to which Schmidt notes that they try to release one single phone that shows the best that can be done, and that this happens within each big release (XOOM for Honeycomb, Nexus S for Gingerbread, etc.)
A man asks a question about education and Android, how it’s not accepted in the classroom yet.
Schmidt notes that there have been moves to get mobile into classrooms for the greater good but that there is always resistance to change in education, especially where technology is concerned.
The Q and A ended with applause, and everyone went to go get a bite to eat and were all left satisfied and smiling.
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Posts Tagged ‘midriff’
… and that goes for cinema and anime alike.
For some reason, though, Japan thinks it’s getting a little chubby around the waist, so they’ve enacted some reforms. By law, Japanese citizens must now stay at a healthy weight.
Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.
Those exceeding government limits — 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health risks — and having a weight-related ailment will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose weight. If necessary, those people will be steered toward further re-education after six more months.
To reach its goals of shrinking the overweight population by 10 percent over the next four years and 25 percent over the next seven years, the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets. The country’s Ministry of Health argues that the campaign will keep the spread of diseases like diabetes and strokes in check.
Not that it’s easy to litigate rules on health.
Summoned by the city of Amagasaki one recent morning, Minoru Nogiri, 45, a flower shop owner, found himself lining up to have his waistline measured. With no visible paunch, he seemed to run little risk of being classified as overweight, or metabo, the preferred word in Japan these days.
But because the new state-prescribed limit for male waistlines is a strict 33.5 inches, he had anxiously measured himself at home a couple of days earlier. “I’m on the border,” he said. …
When his turn came, Mr. Nogiri, the flower shop owner, entered a booth where he bared his midriff, exposing a flat stomach with barely discernible love handles. A nurse wrapped a tape measure around his waist across his belly button: 33.6 inches, or 0.1 inch over the limit.
“Strikeout,” he said, defeat spreading across his face.
Given the consistently high concern over childhood obesity here in the United States, I can’t help but wonder whether or not this would work over here, even on a smaller scale.
Not that it would ever pass, or should, but as they say in the movies, “It’s just crazy enough to make half of the population hate the government.”
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Above are photos from the “Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” show that took place on January 30, 2009 at Project Lodge in Madison, Wisconsin. The exhibition was organized by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (a project of Rainbow Bookstore) and over 70 works of art were on display (including the Justseeds portfolio project, other prison related images from Justseeds artists, art by prisoners, and art by local Madison artists. As well, spoken word artists from the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, including Sophia Snow and Alida Carlos Whaley performed and inspired us with their words.
The opening was packed with people from Madison, Milwaukee, and beyond and the organizers did an incredible job in bringing everyone together and using culture as a tool to combat the prison crisis.
The organizers from Wisconsin Books to Prisoners kept the focus of the evening on activism and reminded us that the State Government in Wisconsin bans used books from being mailed to Wisconsin prisoners and urged people to phone the Governor’s office at 608-266-1212; the WI DOC Administrator at 608-240-5104; and the WI DOC secretary at 608-240-5055 to voice their objections.
To learn more:
To contact one of organizers of the show:
Camy Matthay: [email protected]
Also check out Community Connections -- a volunteer organization that does a myriad of programming and prison/family support work with inmates at the Oakhill Correctional Institution (OCI) in Oregon, WI.
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Web Standards and Web Accessibility aren’t that important. There I said it.
When normal people (non technical, non web industry) use a website, app or online service, they only consider their experience, they don’t for one minute consider how the site was constructed, if it follows standards, if it is responsive, if it is accessible to all people.
People are very self centred, you have to remember that. They don’t care if the site is going to work for anyone else, just them, and them alone.
They just consider, “does this work for me!”
They just want to have a seamless good experience with no issues. A site that works as they expected and from which they can find the information they want. If they get this then they will be reasonably happy.
We are not the Customer
It is only us, the technical community that considers web standards and accessibility to be important.
For the customer on the website, as long as it works, they don’t care. This is especially important to remember when developing web sites. The technical aspects aren’t as important as the overall customer experience.
If any customer can use and get access to the content and functionality of a website then what is left to improve. What aspect can customer engage with that can be improved. You will find all that is left is just the experience. The experience is the differentiator.
It is this quality of the experience that is for the most part considered important. Even if there are error messages, it doesn’t matter as long as the issues are quick and easy to resolve without time wasting or frustration.
Now the experience doesn’t have to be perfect. Yeah that’s a kicker, it can even be bad.
The Low Experience Bar
Sadly, people using websites have become very tolerate of bad design and bad experiences. The classic examples of this are often sites that have something that you covent. Like concert tickets. These sites often get way with a good deal of dark patterns and bad UX.
People will put up with a complex registration process, ticket selection, booking process and then ticket ecommerce systems, designed by the Data Base Administrator; just to get those tickets.
Customers grit their teeth and just get on with it. In some cases even they have come to expect this level of bad design, as the norm, and just the way it is.
The only reason they put up with this bad experience is for the end goal of the process.
People will even tell you after a bad experience, that it “wasn’t that bad, I’m used it it.” or they may even declare it to be a “good experience overall” – mainly because they achieved the end goal.
This degree of cognitive bias on the outcome must be remembered when surveying or interviewing people.
For the most part people are just glad the service is online and available.
Yes the bar is still set that low for exclusive items. The experiences people expect is little more than a site being functional or just usable.
Sure great visual design is important, and this helps hold a person, but the functionality still needs to work. If it doesn’t they just consider the site broken, and as you know people then move on.
Raising the Bar
So next time you are designing for your customers, let’s try and raise that bar a little.
Get the website functional, visually appealing, designed for a good experience (that includes good content), not an average one. And then you can consider web standards and accessibility.
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1990’s -- Improving the Experience:
The decade of the 1990s was a time of expansion and embracing new ways of doing things that made the skiing experience better for visitors.
Wachusett’s embracing of new technologies and advancements in snowmaking thwarted the variable weather and virtually guaranteed that there would be a skiable surface on the mountain every day and night. The mountain crew made a commitment to groom the slopes every six hours – one of the only ski areas in the country to offer twice-a-day grooming.
Wachusett strengthened its reputation as a learning mountain for families with a new beginner’s area and a children’s terrain garden, the Polar Playground, for the winter of 1992-93. The Mountainside Ski & Sports Shop opened in the Lodge and featured brand names, a specially trained staff of outfitters and technicians, equipment demos and in-store clinics.
By the 1993-94 season, Wachusett had grown to five lifts, 18 trails and the largest single-building base lodge in America – at over 25,000 square feet. The Black Diamond Retaurant was upgraded with increased seating and kitchen capacity and served pub style dining. Wachusett’s racing program took a leap forward when the mountain staged the Wachusett Women’s Pro Cup.
A four-person chairlift, the Polar Express, was strung to the summit in time for the 1995-96 season as part of a $10 million development making Wachusett the only ski area in Massachusetts with a high-speed quad chairlift.
In 1998, Wachusett Mountain Associates bought a country inn off of busy Route 2 and renamed it the Wachusett Village Inn & Conference Center. The Village Inn gave Wachusett winter and summer visitors a close-by lodging alternative. The Inn features 74 guest rooms and suites in 11 buildings and cottages and sits on 100 wooded acres.
Decades in Review | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 2000's
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Having Fun at the Museum
Zdeněk Němeček. Sputnik play sculpture (1959). All images from the exhibition's must-follow Tumblr, 100 Objects from Century of the Child.
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a longish essay I wrote on the Museum of Modern Art's enornous, fascinating exhibition "Century of the Child: Growing By Design, 1900-2000," curated by Juliet Kinchin and Aidan O'Connor. The exhibition, which includes over 500 objects from all fields of design, and is accompanied by a film series, runs through November 5. I had a rare struggle with the essay, torn between trying to discuss the themes of the exhibition, which are legion, and the trouble I had with its mode of presentation, which made those themes hard to surface. In the end, since most of the readers of LARB will not make it to MoMA, I decided to make a path through those 500 objects, highlighting about 20 that I thought told a story. That story was a melencholy one.
Laura Kriesch. Child’s embroidered bodice (1903).
Despite the utopian bent of the exhibition’s opening galleries, where building blocks and linen smocks rule, as one moves through Century of the Child, there is a certain melancholic undertow. Toys, schools, books, films, and playgrounds reveal themselves in turn as vehicles of adult propaganda or coping mechanisms to paper over trauma. The show makes clear that design responds to needs, but it also fills different kinds of voids. Many of the artifacts on display seem to have been designed as much to save adults from the workaday, violent, consumerist realities of the twentieth century as they were for child’s play...
One sees a great continuity in these first decades of the 20th century between design for children and design for adults, and the creative work done by children and by adults. The exhibition presents the sense that early modernists even looked enviously on children’s ability to create without preconception, and their potential to live their whole lives as modern beings (it is with that same wistfulness that adult tech writers look today on their “digital native” children). This romantic vision, however, is countered by Kinchin’s bleaker observation about the early 1900s that “children were both the targets of an expanding consumer culture and exploited as a source of cheap industrial labor.” Future children would be free-thinking, but first they would have to be liberated from the factories. In this vein, block sets like Josef Hoffmann’s Factory (c.1920) or Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar’s Factory Town (1926) have a double edge: they acknowledge that the contemporary built environment is industrial rather than rural, while simultaneously offering a sense of agency in it.
Figli della Lupa (Sons of the Wolf) tableware set (1930s). Children’s plates, cups, and saucers that celebrated Italy’s conquests in North and East Africa.
You can read the rest of that essay here. The rest of this post is in the form of outtakes from the essay, focusing on curatorial and exhibition design choices.
The exhibition is organized loosely chronologically, so from the kindergartens and playrooms of the early 1900s and 1910, we move to the more recognizably modernist names and forms of the 1920s. Who designs for children? And how seriously is that work taken? Around the second gallery we see more men whose interest in children has been previously under-remarked: a suite of furniture (1918) by Futurist painter Giacomo Balla, German architect Bruno Taut’s stunning Fairy Palace glass bricks (1907), his ever-unclassifiable contemporary Hermann Finsterlin’s colorful play shapes (1919). Kinchin and O’Connor also reveal what we always suspected, that many pioneering female architects and designers were shunted, willingly or not, toward design for the home, for schools, and for children. Austrian architect Grete Lihotsky, best known for the 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen, went on to design standardized children’s clubs, kindergartens and nursery schools for the Soviet Union and Turkey in the 1930s, and Bulgaria in the 1940s. A history of design for children could read as an alternate modernism, with heroes and heroines focused on the little things rather than the large gesture.
Aldo van Eyck. Drawing of sandpits, somersault frames, climbing frames, play tables, and climbing mountains (1960).
“Century of the Child” could stop right there, theme-wise. The cyclical nature of creativity, taking children seriously, modernism in the nursery and classroom. But it doesn’t. We are on the threshold of the third gallery, which will introduce health, war, consumerism, reconstruction. The fourth contains the space race, Disney, Pop-inspired toys, video games. The fifth, design for the disabled, humanitarian design, therapeutic design. The artifacts are fascinating, and the profusion of ideas is exhilarating, but the exhibition as a whole is too much to take in comfortably. One loses track of the common ground across the century, and across cultures, in the atomized nature of the material.
Underlining, highlighting, editing: “Century of the Child” needs all three. The exhibit feels as if the curators were so seduced by the richness of their material that they couldn’t bear to leave anything out. Embedded in the section on “Light, Air, Health” is terrific little survey of modernist school design, with work by Richard Neutra, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Erno Goldfinger and Mary Crowley and Kaj Gottlob. These American, British and Danish architects were all working to pair the educational ideals of the early 20th century with appropriate spaces, adding fresh air, natural light, and open plans to the blocks and blackboards. But each school in the line is represented by just one object and a photograph: a drawing, a chair, sometimes a plan and sometimes not.
Frankie Faruzza. Cover of the book Children and the City, by Olga Adams (1952).
In the catalog, O’Connor calls the Saarinens’ Crow Island School (1940) “perhaps the most important modern school of this period in the United States.” Why not show Crow Island in all its glory: the L-shaped classrooms, each with their own outdoor courtyard; the scaled down details, including the displayed Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen-design bentwood chair, Lily Swann Saarinen’s textiles and animal tiles? It would have provided a focal point and a center for the century-long discussion of education spaces, started in the first gallery and continued, in fits and starts, with Aldo Van Eyck’s Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam (1955-60) and UNICEF’s School-in-a-Box (1994). Even more basically, why not write “Education” in big letters on the wall above the schools, “Playrooms” on the one opposite, just to let the visitor know what to expect. The wall text is so graphically unemphatic as to make it difficult to know which cases go together, and where to go next.
The curators’ fear of simplification feels connected to their fear that the toys might take over. Consider: if you heard the Museum of Modern Art was doing an exhibition of design for children, what are the first likely inclusions that come to mind? (Because I am an architecture nerd, I actually thought of Aldo Van Eyck.) But a normal person might think of LEGO (1954-58), or the wonderful Eames film “Toccata for Toy Trains” (1957). They are both in the exhibition but oddly obscured. Why play “Toccata” on a tiny screen? There is wall space enough for the Eameses, and the terrific “Story of the Asterisk” too. The exhibition does not differentiate between the popular-at-MoMA and the popular-in-the-marketplace. Iit offers up an oversize Andreas Gursky photograph of a bleak big-box Toys R Us on an anonymous American strip as a sort of killjoy commentary: it gives us the toys, but it takes away our pleasure in them. I felt guilty about how much I wanted to buy Fredun Shapur’s 1967 Play Sacks.
Ladislav Sutnar. Prototype for Build the Town Building Blocks (1940–43).
As I moved forward through the exhibition, I came to question even the loose chronology. It is very MoMA to periodize, and that first gallery, with its Froebel blocks and dark blue walls, is a model of the type. But a better use of the timeline would have been to break out a few key types for their own three-dimensional march through time. What about building toys, for example? Froebel blocks, Josef Hoffmann’s 1920 wooden factory, Ladislav Sutnar’s 1940-43 Build the Town, forward to LEGO, and on to Tetris and SimCity. That would have been a more organic way to include digital play, about which the curators obviously have mixed feelings, in the ongoing narrative, rather than inserting a few games in isolation.
It is a testament to how much wonderful stuff is on display (and how many mini-histories are told in the catalog) that I have quite so many curatorial suggestions. Ultimately I felt, as I wrote for LARB,
Century of the Child is inspiring in its willingness to upend old value systems and take play seriously, to engage with the paradoxes of a design century that, in so many ways, has not succeeded in protecting children from terror, but as an exhibition it fails to take some of its own advice.
Freehand drawing exercise (1899).
The exhibition closes on a high note, with one of my favorite pieces of interactive art ever: Philip Worthington’s Shadow Monsters (2004). What looks at first like an illuminated wall quickly reveals itself as a blank canvas for shadow play. Wave a hand, make a mouth, and your gesture is over-written with animated spines, teeth, eyes and growls. It's catchy, engaging, and were it not for the very adult "No photos" sign on the wall next door, would surely have gone viral.
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MEGA would require companies to spend thousands of dollars in the application process with no guarantee that they will be selected for an incentive. In addition, MEGA would actually require a company to evaluate the advantages of locating in competing states.
The process of applying for a MEGA credit would be expensive. Without knowing whether or not it will receive a credit, the company must
1) solicit the participation of local units of government and receive a commitment of financial or economic participation;
2) delay construction and public announcement of the facility location;
3) calculate average wages for the county of location and make sure the proposed wages exceed them;
4) certify that the tax credit is the deciding factor in its location decision;
5) commit to retain all other employees, whether or not they are performing needed functions;
6) provide proof that it has a sound financial record;
7) convince the MEGA board that the credit is needed due to a significant cost disparity between Michigan and a competing state;
8) convince the MEGA board that the relocation will "benefit the people of this state";
9) have its lawyers draft and/or review the written agreement; and
10) provide proof of its continuing compliance.
It should be clear that this process would be extremely time consuming, and a complete waste if the credit is not approved. A general tax rate reduction, on the other hand, requires no time or expense on the part of the businesses.
A perverse result of the MEGA proposal is that companies seeking the tax credit will be required to evaluate locating in, and perhaps even solicit bids from, competing states. Encouraging Michigan businesses to explore expansion opportunities in other states weakens the state's ability to retain jobs. What these businesses seek, they may very well find .
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The medium is the message, as Marshall McLuhan taught us.
With that in mind, what should we make of the fact that President Obama has requested a joint session of Congress on the evening of Sept. 7 to lay out his jobs program?
The high-profile setting, with live coverage by the networks and news channels almost guaranteed, would suggest that Obama intends to be ambitious in his proposal. A more cynical mind would also note that Obama might be treating this as the kickoff to his 2012 election campaign, using the speech to lay out a series of proposals and publicly challenge a highly unpopular Congress to adopt them.
If Obama has decided to model his campaign on Harry Truman’s 1948 successful campaign, in which “Give ‘em Hell” Harry ran hard against a do-nothing Congress, this would seem to be a great opportunity to drive that message home.
Of course, that’s not how the White House put it in the letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:
“It is my intention to lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small business, helping Americans get back to work and putting more money in the paychecks of the middle class and working Americans, while still reducing the deficit and getting our fiscal house in order. It is our responsibility to find bipartisan solutions to help grow our economy, and if we are willing to put country before party, I am confident we can do just that.”
The timing of the speech is also interesting. As it happens, the first in a series of debates among the GOP presidential candidates, this one to be broadcast on MSNBC and held at the Reagan Library in California, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday, the exact time requested by Obama.
Imagine that. One would almost think that Obama was using his power as president to steal the spotlight from his would-be challengers and remind them that he has no intention of being upstaged.
In a press briefing this afternoon, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked whether that was the intended message. You can guess his answer.
“No, of course not. There were a lot of considerations. Once you want to do a speech to Congress and you have to deal with congressional schedules and there are many other factors here … one debate of many that is on one channel of many was not enough reason not to have this speech at the time that we decided to have it.”
“There are many opportunities for the American people. There’s a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate,” Carney said. “A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”
Or, in the immortal words of Hank Williams, “move over little dog, because the big dog’s movin’ in.”
– Jay Bookman
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- FHA’s FY2012 Actuarial Study for its main single-family program shows that its capital position has turned negative.
- If FHA were a private company, it would be shut down writes @AEIecon’s Edward J. Pinto.
- FHA’s mounting fiscal problems portend deep trouble for the housing market and the US economy as a whole.
- Pushing families into homes they can't afford is a terrible way to expand the American Dream. #FHA
There's a growing consensus in America that the long-suffering housing market has reached bottom and is now mounting a recovery. Housing starts surged 15 percent in September to their highest level in four years. New home sales in the same month rose 5.7 percent to their highest level in two years. And the Zillow Home Price Index shows that home prices are up 3.4 percent from a year ago.
While these are welcome trends, figures released today from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) throw a sobering splash of cold water. FHA's FY 2012 Actuarial Study for its main single family program shows that its capital position has turned negative, by $13.5 billion. That's a shift of $23 billion in economic value in a single year, and it puts the 78-year-old agency $34.5 billion short of its legal capital requirement.
If it were a private company, it would be shut down.
It's bad enough that FHA may be forced to seek a taxpayer bailout, just months after acting FHA Commissioner Carol Galante told Congress that "FHA is not broke." What's worse is that the agency's mounting fiscal problems portend deep trouble for the housing market and the American economy as a whole.
4 WAYS TO FIX THE FHA
The implosion of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 did not end the government's massive -- and distorting -- role in the housing market. Instead, in the wake of their bailouts (taxpayers have forked over $180 billion and counting), much of the risk was simply shifted to the FHA. Indeed, FHA's insurance portfolio quadrupled in the past 5 years to $1.1 trillion today. The result is that FHA now guarantees 16 percent of all US mortgages, and 30 percent of all new home purchase mortgages. This is not an accidental trend: the FHA deliberately tried to "grow" its way out trouble, essentially betting the house on housing's recovery. Friday's numbers confirm that like Fannie and Freddie, it's easy to gamble when the taxpayer covers your losses.
This wasn't a surprise. Research published last fall by the American Enterprise Institute showed that the agency had become as overleveraged as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns before their fall. Barring a dramatic economic recovery, the report noted that the increasingly poor-quality loans the FHA absorbed to grow its portfolio would compel the agency to seek a multibillion dollar bailout. Since then, AEI's monthly "FHA Watch" has chronicled the agency's slide into insolvency.
In the short term, Congress has little choice but to recapitalize FHA to make sure it can fulfill its obligations. But fixing the FHA requires far more than plugging a fiscal hole. It requires four fundamental reforms.
First, end the practice of knowingly lending to people who cannot afford to repay their loans. Second, help homeowners establish meaningful equity in their homes. Third, return to the agency's historical roots: concentrate on those who truly need help purchasing their first home. Finally, step back from markets that can be better served by private lenders and insurers.
Together, these changes will transform the FHA from an agency that sets people up to fail to one that actually helps them live the American Dream.
A BETTER AMERICAN DREAM
So far, though, Congress has shown little appetite to rein in the FHA. In fact, lawmakers last year approved a higher loan limit of $729,750 to FHA-insured loans, accelerating the agency's monopoly.
This monopoly goes deeper than the FHA to the underlying government mortgage complex of big lending that's leading to a bad ending. Fannie, Freddie, FHA, Ginnie Mae, and even the USDA act as the five faces of Uncle Sam's home loan shop; they account for 90 percent of all new mortgages. Together with HUD, the complex backed - at taxpayer expense - the toxic mix of low down payments, poor credit scores, and lax oversight that precipitated the sub-prime housing crisis. In concert with the realtors, builders, and other members of the housing lobby, this complex got rich handing people keys with no skin in the game. No matter that the political push for an ownership society resulted in a debtor society, because taxpayers and hapless home buyers covered the bill.
The housing crisis supposedly chastened the complex, but a close look at the FHA's figures show that it's still following this tragic playbook. Over 1 in 6 FHA loans are delinquent 30 days or more. Most of these were originated in 2008, 2009 and 2010, well after the bubble had burst. Today, the agency is still targeting low-income borrowers, pushing them into mortgages with ruinous consequences.
For example, in the first quarter of FY 2012, an estimated 40 percent of FHA's business consists of loans with either one or two subprime attributes -- a FICO score below 660 or a debt ratio greater than or equal to 50 percent. These subprime loans are overwhelmingly risk layered with a loan to value ratio (excluding financed mortgage insurance premium) of equal to or greater than 95 percent and a loan term of 30 years.
As these delinquencies from 2008-2010 turn into foreclosures -- a kind of post-bubble second wave -- they'll put downward price pressure on already-battered neighborhoods, and the nascent housing recovery could quickly reverse course, dragging the economy.
If Friday's report does nothing else, it should underscore the commonsense notion that pushing families into homes they can't afford is a terrible way to expand the American Dream.
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On November 18, 1995, at 1100 eastern standard time, a Waco ASO, N950E, was substantially damaged following a collision with the terrain, while maneuvering for an emergency landing at the Ridgeland Municipal Airport in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Neither the commercial pilot nor his passenger were injured in the accident. The flight was being conducted under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 by the pilot. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan had been filed for the local, personal flight. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
According to the pilot, shortly after liftoff the engine lost power. The pilot attempted a course reversal to the airport. As he maneuvered the airplane for the emergency landing, it collided with runway 3, skidded down a 30 foot embankment, and nosed over.
Post crash engine examination verified that the engine would not run. It was discovered that the spark being produced by the ignition system was weak.
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About This Wine
Genetic studies have identified Chardonnay as a cross between Pinot Noir and Gouais Blanc.
Historical references note California plantings of Chardonnay dating back to the late 1800s, but production remained limited because of its low yields. Back then, quantity was considered more important than quality. Most Chardonnay vineyards were uprooted during Prohibition when growers replaced them with thick-skinned varieties that could be shipped cross-country.
Fortunately, small plantings in the Livermore Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains survived Prohibition. However, it was not until the 1970s and thereafter that Chardonnay plantings boomed as the wine became increasingly popular. Today, it’s America’s favorite white wine.
It's easy to understand why when you taste the 2011 Chardonnay from Cross Creek Winery. While fermented completely dry, it projects a touch of sweetness because of its bright fruit flavors. As a tasting panel member noted, it’s the kind of wine one wants to share with friends — but only very good ones.
Relatively easy to grow in a variety of locations. Consistently produces some of the world's great white wines. Complex, full, rich and fruity with soft edges and moderate acidity. Offers rich and intense fruit flavors of apple, fig, melon, pear, peach, pineapple, along with creamy yeast spice, honey, butter and hazelnut flavors.
- Grape Composition:Chardonnay and Other White Varieties
- Grape Source:Select Vineyards in Various California Growing Regions
- Aromas & Flavors:Apple, Pear, Tropical Fruit, Melon and Citrus
- When to Drink:Now Through 2014
- Food Pairing Suggestiongarlic-infused dishes, or lemon chicken.
Old World Rosemary Chicken With Chardonnay This recipe comes from our friends at Belvedere Vineyards & Winery in the Sonoma County town of Healdsburg. It matches wonderfully with Chardonnay, and we've enjoyed it with Chenin Blanc as well. Use it as the main entree for a special meal, or any meal. Get The Recipe
Portuguese Style Roasted Pork Rare is the recipe that matches equally well with red wines and white wines. This is such a recipe. We came across it while doing research on the wines that will be included in an upcoming club shipment from The World of Wines -featuring the wines of Portugal. The recipe makes 6 servings. And if you'd like to learn more about The World of Wine, click on the Get The RecipeRoasted Garlic Scampi With Minced Prosciutto If you're a white wine drinker, here's another recipe that gets its flavor, in part, from garlic: Roasted Garlic Scampi With Minced Prosciutto. Begin by roasting some garlic in foil with olive oil for about an hour, and set it aside. Dice a quarter-cup of Prosciutto and saute with four tablespoons of olive oil and some minced shallots for about 15... Get The Recipe
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Arnold Beichman, 1913-2010
Mar 1, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 23 • By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
My friend Arnold Beichman, who died last week at the age of 96, was friendly with the British upper-crust novelist Anthony Powell and knew the New York organized-labor radical “Red Mike” Quill. He rode motorbikes, piloted planes, and could quote stanza after stanza of Heine and Musset in the original. At the left-wing newspaper PM in the 1940s, he mostly covered labor and race relations, but he also may have been Wendell Willkie’s closest confidant in the press. He met Babe Ruth. He traveled with the FLN in North Africa years before it took power and feasted with Iraqi Christians in the waning days of the Hashemite monarchy. William Howard Taft had just left the presidency when Arnold was born, and Barack Obama had just been elected when Arnold stopped writing his weekly column for the Washington Times.
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What Arnold was proudest of was his dogged opposition to Communism every place that it raised its head. Arnold was a mainstay of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the early 1950s, a labor activist and an indefatigable writer and organizer. There is a funny paradox about anti-Communism. The misdeeds of Communism are today so obvious and well-documented that it requires a certain amount of patience and historical context to understand why, for instance, mobilizing international opinion against the show trials in Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s required any effort at all. So, although Arnold may have been the most fascinating storyteller I have met, he nonetheless gave the impression of being grateful to any listener willing to follow him through the historical twists and turns. His humility about what he had accomplished was the most shocking thing about him. You would find yourself wondering: What is this guy who is funny enough to be Kingsley Amis’s friend and smart enough to be Raymond Aron’s doing talking to me?
Arnold grew up in the overcrowded, polyglot, heavily Jewish Lower East Side of Manhattan. His family was from near Zhitomir in the Ukraine—something I recall only because of Arnold’s delight at accepting an invitation to Zhitomir to serve as an election observer after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If I remember right, Arnold’s parents wanted him to be a rabbi. He had certainly, by early adulthood, acquired a formidable education in Scripture. One day, after he had explained some religious doctrine or other, he asked me bluntly: “Do you believe in God?” I answered, a bit awkwardly, that I did.
“Why?” Arnold almost shouted. I mumbled something about how it seemed the most reasonable explanation of why there was something instead of nothing.
“Good!” he said, with what looked like surprise, having obviously gone over the question dozens of times with people a lot more learned than me. “That is one of the best reasons to believe. Still …,” he said, nodding his head skeptically. “I dunno. I just can’t.”
That is what conversations with Arnold were like. In 1997 or so, he invited me to address a weekly lunch group he hosted at Stanford. A student asked me a question about political correctness, and I told him it wasn’t too much to worry about, at which point Arnold’s voice bellowed from across the room: “You’re wrong!”
Arnold’s bluntness was of the tough kind, not the rude kind. Maybe from reading Solzhenitsyn, I associate this kind of toughness with Eastern Europe. Arnold might possibly have survived as a zek. He never owned a winter coat. My wife and I remember walking for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue on a February night, heading for a cassoulet restaurant in the 18-degree cold with Arnold and his elegant wife Carroll. We were all bundled up in scarves and hats. Arnold wore a blazer. He would have been about 87 at the time.
Why did those of us who knew Arnold love him so much? He mixed a lot of virtues that seldom go together in the same person: authority and curiosity, ambition and generosity, brilliance and humility. He was a battler who had the happiest of happy marriages, a drawer-of-lines-in-the-sand with a gift for friendship, a complex thinker who enjoyed the company of children. Last August, when my father-in-law died, Arnold sent a buoying note to my wife. I hadn’t heard from Arnold in months, and when you have a 96-year-old friend, a long silence can mean all sorts of things. So I wrote him back to ask how he and Carroll were doing in British Columbia—“Utopiaville,” as Arnold called it, where they lived surrounded by apple orchards.
“We are both well,” he wrote back, “I in particular, since I have staying with us in B.C. at el rancho grande my great-grandson, his mother, and my daughter, the Japanologist professor, and her Japanese husband. As the Man sayeth, my cup runneth over.” And that was the last I ever heard from him.
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The New Spanish Inquisition
Judge Garzón launches a crusade.
The Spanish Inquisition was established in the late 15th century to stamp out heretical deviations from Catholicism. By the time it petered out in the early 19th century, the Inquisition had expanded to cover political deviants. It is this latter tradition that Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón--scourge of dictators, Basque terrorists, and democratic politicians everywhere--has made a career of reviving.
Garzón won fame in 1998 when he issued an arrest warrant for the aging Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, then still holding office as senator-for-life, and on travel in Britain. The British government refused the extradition, but not before the House of Lords decided to sanction it. People wondered how soon it would be before such a prosecution was turned on American officials. The answer came in the summer of 2003, when the Belgian government was embarrassed to discover that one of its courts might indict General Tommy Franks on crimes against humanity for leading the invasion of Iraq. The squirming Belgians quickly repealed the enabling statute, but the genie was out of the bottle, and a rash of sham proceedings followed in the wonderland of Europe.
The latest chapter in this fantastical tale began last week when Judge Garzón decided to forward a complaint against former Bush officials to the prosecutor of Spain's national trial court. The prosecutor is said not to care much for Garzón, and given the diplomatic embarrassment for the Spanish government, the case is not likely to proceed much farther--but a dangerous precedent has already been set.
The complaint alleges that the defendants--six former administration officials, all lawyers, including former attorney general Alberto González and former undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith--were instrumental in creating the "legal framework" used to establish the Guantánamo detention facility as well as the allegedly illegal interrogation practices used there. With all the hyperbole and vagueness of a typical Spanish legal document, the complaint strings together a bunch of familiar myths into a conspiracy theory: The Bush administration's lawyers indispensably facilitated its supposed crimes against humanity.
The complaint, nearly 100 pages long, is a sloppy and systematic distortion of the public record. Among its key misstatements is the following: "On February 7, 2002, the President signed a new memorandum in which it is established that no Taliban or Al Qaeda prisoner can be considered a prisoner of war, and therefore, to them would not be applied the guarantees contained in common article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions."
But the White House memorandum's finding as to prisoner-of-war status was based on the fact that both the Taliban and al Qaeda flagrantly ignore the laws of war, and the Supreme Court has turned down every opportunity to disagree. But in any case the memorandum's finding as to Article 3 had nothing to do with this: By its terms Article 3 applies only to conflicts "not of an international character," which the White House reasonably interpreted as a reference to things like civil war.
The complaint further accuses Douglas Feith of authoring the "juridical analysis" used as a basis for denying all detainees all the protections of the Geneva Conventions. This propagates one of the many false claims advanced by Philippe Sands in his book Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008). These claims have been debunked as fraudulent on the basis of the very documents and interview transcripts that Sands used in his "research." It is a particularly sad charge, because--as the Garzón complaint itself acknowledges elsewhere--Feith in fact had argued in favor of applying the Geneva Conventions to the Taliban generally, a recommendation that Bush accepted.
The complaint, then, is a naked attempt to criminalize the legal advice given within the Bush administration, but the complaint's drafters can't even manage to explain what that advice was without one mistake after another. No matter. That advice is held to be the source of "all errors and crimes," as the bishop of Almería said of the Freemasons in 1815.
There is a comical aspect to Garzón's conceit. The phenomenon of European courts crusading to enforce international norms arose partly to fill the vacuum created in countries where legal systems had been gutted by war, dictatorship, or corruption. It should be enough to point out that the American legal system functions adequately--but to put things in full perspective, it functions much better than the Spanish one. The Spanish system carries long-term case backlogs that would be a political embarrassment in the United States. American legal education is also vastly better than Spain's. And as for rigorous legal reasoning--let's just say that the Inquisition is not what it used to be.
This case portends a ticklish problem for America's Democrats. During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama abetted the impression that torture and other crimes had been committed during the Bush years. But if he thinks that waterboarding is torture, why isn't he launching prosecutions now? Because he wants to look forward and not backward? Is that a sufficient justification for casting aside his constitutional duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed? Is it a sufficient basis for casting aside international norms where crimes against humanity have been committed? Spanish courts are not likely to think so--and their interpretation of "aiding and abetting" is very expansive.
If Spain's recent moves against Bush officials are problematic for Obama, Spain's current proceedings against Israeli officials are even more so. In January of this year, another Spanish judge, Fernando Abreu, accepted a complaint alleging crimes against humanity for the targeted assassination by Israel of a Hamas terrorist leader in his home in Gaza in 2002--an attack in which 14 other Gazans were killed. The implicated Israeli officials have been warned not to travel to Europe.
The problem for Obama is that the United States under his administration has been conducting identical attacks against terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan with no more concern for collateral casualties. Now he has to worry that his own advisers and officials might be unpleasantly surprised by sudden arrest warrants when they travel to Europe.
Democrats have in recent years grown fond of using the legal arguments of foreigners, even foreign enemies, to increase their leverage against domestic political opponents. The Democrats' reflexive use of international law for short-term political gain is resulting in a steady erosion of America's acknowledged sovereign rights. And if Obama does not put his foot down on this new foreign intrusion into our system, a new front in the conflict with terrorists will open--in antagonistic courtroom proceedings around the world. Alas, Obama has decided to appoint as the State Department's new legal adviser Yale law school dean Harold Koh, who champions transnational law-enforcement because, as he puts it, "sovereignty has declined in importance." But that's tantamount to saying that democracy has declined in importance: Only sovereign nations can be self-governing.
In the end what the Garzón case highlights is the need for bipartisan vindication of U.S. sovereignty. The Spanish courts are not trying to punish Bush officials for personal or even partisan misconduct. They are seeking to punish official U.S. government conduct in the course of public duties carried out within the world's most legalistic and transparent system. Worst of all, those officials are being targeted not for decisions they made themselves, but only for what they are alleged to have believed at the time. If Spanish courts start treating heresy as an international crime, Republican officials won't be the only ones facing indictment.
Jeremy Rabkin is a professor of law at George Mason University and the author of Law Without Nations. Mario Loyola, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is a former adviser in the U.S. Senate and at the Pentagon.
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Family Vacations to Bermuda
|Jobston Beach, Bermuda (Corbis)|
Bermuda Family Travel Tips
- Walk along pink-sand beaches.
- Dive wrecks and snorkel with schools of tropical fish.
- Interact with dolphins.
- Take in a panoramic view from the top of the lighthouse.
- Play golf on one of the island's many courses.
Bermuda feels like a designer version of a Caribbean island—scenic, safe, and predictable, with clean streets, beautiful beaches, and a touch of British panache. An island chain separate from the Caribbean, Bermuda lies about 650 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and is fairly easy to travel to from the United States.
Bermuda's sands—long, pink-hued, and sugar-soft—are spectacular. Top spots include the south shore's Warwick Long Bay, a stretch of sand backed by coastal grasses with a coral island just off shore, and Horseshoe Bay, a long crescent of pink sand with a snack shop, umbrella rentals, lifeguards, and lockers. Because this area has so much to offer, more tourists tend to spend time here. Elbow Beach, fronted by Elbow Beach Hotel, offers another spectacular wide stretch of pale pink sand adjacent to turquoise seas and coral reefs. It's also an excellent spot to swim or body surf, as the waters are calm and safe.
With bountiful reefs, 400 shipwrecks, and underwater visibility from 70 to 100 feet, Bermuda attracts scuba and snorkel enthusiasts. Divers can explore shipwrecks like L'Hermanie, a French frigate sunk in 1838 that features canons and a host of sea critters, and the Mary Celestia, a paddle wheeler downed in 1864 that has coral twisted around its 15-foot paddle wheel. The reefs begin close to shore at Church Bay, making access possible from the shore, but be careful of the intermittently rough water. Tobacco Bay's limestone formations and fish population, including parrotfish and sergeant majors, make it a great spot for snorkeling, as is Horseshoe Bay, with its massive expanse of rock which attracts more reclusive creatures. Avoid Royal Naval Dockyard's Snorkel Park—on cruise ship days passengers fill the area, so much that you're as likely to get a flipper in your face as see a fish.
View more fish and animals at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo (441.293.2727; www.bamz.org), where a 140,000-gallon North Rock coral reef tank holds hundreds of brightly hued fish, and the zoo features flocks of pink flamingos. Pet and swim with bottlenose dolphins at Dolphin Quest, part of the Bermuda Maritime Museum located in the Royal Naval Dockyard, built as a fort in the 1800s. The British fleet that burned Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812 sailed from this fort. The complex's clocktower building houses shops and cafes. Hamilton, the capital, has a wide range of shops and restaurants.
In 1609, the English ship Sea Venture left Plymouth, England, with a number of ships, headed for Jamestown, Virginia. The lead ship wrecked near Bermuda and the crew made it to land. They later built two new ships, Deliverance and Patience, and continued on to Jamestown. On Ordnance Island in Saint George, explore a replica of the Deliverance, where you get a feel for the cramped quarters that the men shared on the boat. At the west end of Bermuda climb the 185 stairs to the top of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the second cast iron lighthouse ever built, for a panoramic view from 362 feet above sea level.
With more golf courses per square mile than anywhere else in the world, Bermuda has long been known as a golfing haven. Get into the swing at the Bermuda Golf Academy's driving range, where you can teach your 'tweens and teens the sport. The facility has a 320-yard driving range, an 18-hole putting green, and a practice chipping bunker. Tucker's Point and other courses offer discounts for players age 16 and younger.
Tip: Since there are no rental cars on the island, getting around, while not difficult, takes planning. Taxis are available, but can be expensive. Many tourists rent motor scooters, which are built for two and impractical for families of three or more, plus they aren't safe for young children. The best option: Use the public buses and ferries, and save taxis for the evening.
Details mentioned in this article were accurate at the time of publication
Best Hotels in Bermuda
The Fairmont Southampton
The Fairmont Hamilton Princess
Cambridge Beaches Luxury Resort and Spa - Adults Only
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I wrote on Tuesday about the importance of reviews and word of mouth after a survey came out in support of email to communicate with the younger market out there. Lo and behold today has seen a study by Rubicon Consulting bestowing the virtue of reviews and word of mouth in your marketing campaigns. Some of the key findings of the study were:
- The Web is the #2 resource for customer support information, after user manuals. It ranks ahead of calling the manufacturer or asking a dealer.
- Website categories that get the most daily usage are search, social communities like MySpace and Facebook, general news websites like CNN.com and NYTimes.com, and online banking.
- The websites that Americans value most are (in order), Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook. Although Yahoo’s financial challenges have generated a lot of press attention, it continues to have a very large and loyal following.
- Young people (age 22 and under) are much noisier online than their elders. They account for about half of all the content and comments posted online.
- Facebook appears to be ahead of MySpace in terms of number of users in the US, and perceived value of the site.
- Despite extensive publicity, the community sites SecondLife and Twitter reach only a few percent of US Internet users.
- Democrats are more active online than Republicans. Democrats are more likely to participate in online communities, and say they are more heavily influenced in their voting decisions by information they find online.
Of course to do well in these areas requires both an excellent product and a good deal of time and effort to liase with the communities in your industry. Unfortunately many marketers want a short cut when interacting with communities and cannot resist spamming at the first opportunity. The following steps are a good start for those wishing to use communities as part of their marketing strategy.
1) Lurk, work out how things are done.
2) Respond to posts, share knowledge.
3) Start posts on topics of interest.
4) Discuss with the admin/owner any way that you can help them.
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By Nathan Tucker
Does the protection of the unborn’s unalienable right to life trump federalism? In the wake of Congressman Ron Paul’s vote against the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act of 2012, the pro-life community has questioned whether one could be both pro-life and a constitutionalist who maintains that the federal government is one of limited, enumerated powers. The answer to that question goes to the very heart of not only the purpose of government, but who is government.
Some, pointing to the acknowledgment in the Declaration of Independence that man is endowed by his Creator with an unalienable right to life, argue that, “since it is clearly spelled out in our Founding Document, it is the federal government’s duty to protect that right, even if the states will not.”
The problem, however, is that Congress lacks the enumerated constitutional authority to ban abortions. Again, some have argued that “protecting life falls under several of the purposes of government, spelled out in our Constitution: establish Justice, promote general welfare, secure the blessing of liberty.” But these words, taken from the Constitution’s preamble, have never been held to be a grant of federal power. Indeed, doing so would make the limited grants of power contained in the rest of the Constitution superfluous.
We are left, therefore, with the question of whether an unalienable right trumps constitutional restraints. In the absence of any constitutional authority, can the federal government exercise raw, unchecked power to, as the Declaration states, secure man’s “unalienable rights [to] life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?
The only answer to that question consistent with natural law and human nature is an unflinching and absolute “no.” Though we may desire to create an exception “just this one time” to preserve the life of the unborn, the history of human experience dictates that the exception will soon swallow up the rule.
For instance, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi recently defended Obamacare on the grounds that it is “about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the American people.” Earlier in March, Pelosi declared that “it honored the vows of our founders: of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses.”
Similarly, in defending New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on large soft drinks, Pastor Brian Carter proclaimed that the mayor was “fighting for your right to a longer and healthier life.” Building on this “right,” Bloomberg claimed that, “if government‘s purpose isn’t to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don’t know what its purpose is.”
Secondly, if a right trumps constitutional process, what process remains? For instance, why couldn’t the United Nations’ Security Council pass a resolution making abortions illegal worldwide? In fact, one could argue that “if you believe life is a ‘[national] issue,’ then you also must believe that a [nation] can decide to place into law that abortion is legal. That is not a pro-life stance.”
Or, if rights trump process, why couldn’t the president act without Congress by issuing an executive order banning all abortions? Or why couldn’t the Supreme Court declare such unenumerated rights as a “right to die” grotesquely found in one’s right to life, or a “right to capitalism” located in one’s property rights, or the use of recreational drugs mandated by one’s right to pursue happiness?
Likewise, why couldn’t Congress overturn by simple statute, rather than constitutional amendment, Supreme Court decisions such as Roe v. Wade, which legalized the murder of the unborn, Kelo, which allowed the taking of property from A to give to B, or Dred Scott, which elevated slavery to a constitutional right?
Finally, and more fundamentally, government power—whether local, state, or federal—is illegitimate when used outside of its delegated limits. The defense of unalienable rights falls on We the People as individual sovereigns, and we in turn delegate that authority to civil government to serve as an impartial arbitrator. Government is simply a social compact between We the People for the mutual defense of our unalienable rights from foreign and domestic threats.
Because all power corrupts, written constitutions memorializing this sacred pact between individual sovereigns on the degree and method of legitimate coercion were established. This written “consent of the governed”—the fundamental will of We the People—is only changeable though the amendment process.
All power, therefore, exercised outside of that delegated by We the People is an infringement on our natural right to individual sovereignty. This right to constitutional process cannot be trumped by other unalienable rights.
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I wanted to know if there is a physical theory that considers that the laws of physics undergo an evolutionary process. That see the law of physics or the absence of them, as something dynamic, and ...
I was thinking the other day, What gives the universe laws to follow by? I know there are plenty of laws like the Newton's laws of motion. But, Is there some grand master of all these laws? Like ...
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District Nurses help to care for housebound patients. They assess the nursing needs of housebound patients of all ages, and provide care and support for those patients. They have special expertise in areas such as wound care and care of the dying. Though the District Nurses are not based in the surgery, we have regular contact with them and our doctors work very closely with them. If you think you need the services of a District Nurse, please contact the surgery.
Health Visitors are qualified nurses with further specialised training and are experienced in child health, health promotion and health education
Health Visitors work to promote health in all age groups and give support to people in their homes, particularly mothers with young children. They run well baby clinics and carry out routine developmental checks on children.
Our Health Visitor will arrange to visit you and you baby at home for your convenience.
Your midwife will support you through the continnum of pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care. She will care for the newborn after birth and first few weeks of life.
Short term confidential counseling sessions are provided by our counsellors. If you feel you would benefit from counseling please make an appointment to see your doctor first.
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March 24, 2010
Horace Mann students recognized at capitol for artwork
MARYVILLE, Mo. - The artwork of four Horace Mann students is being displayed this month at the Missouri state capitol building in Jefferson City as part of the Missouri Art Education Association's Youth Art Month.
Additionally, Horace Mann third grader Daniel Nam was awarded the President's Choice Awards for upper elementary students (grades 3-5). The other students whose artwork is displayed are Serena Sundell (1st grade), Felicia Sheil (5th grade), and Amani Kegode (6th grade).
Erin Oehler serves as art instructor at Horace Mann. Any art teacher who is a member of the Missouri Art Education Association can submit up to four entries. The President's Choice Award winners are selected from those entries.
On March 16, the students, along with Oehler and their parents, visited the capitol to see the artwork and meet Sen. Brad Lager. All exhibit participants received a certificate of recognition, and President's Choice Award winners received engraved plaques. The program also included dance, music and theater performances.
For more information about Youth Education Month, go to http://www.maea.net/yam.htm.
Horace Mann Laboratory School and Early Care and Education Laboratory Center, located on the Northwest campus, is an innovative program that provides a clinical experience for pre-service teachers and a diverse and interactive learning environment for children ages 3 through sixth grade. Horace Mann Laboratory School is a kindergarten-sixth grade school with about 130 students. Education majors get hands- on, practical classroom experience within the Laboratory School, giving them an edge on education graduates from other schools.
For more information, please contact:
Mark Hornickel, Media Relations Specialist
[email protected] | 660.562.1704 | Fax: 660.562.1900
Northwest Missouri State University
215 Administration Building | 800 University Drive | Maryville, MO 64468
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Insight is something that OCD sufferers are usually expected to have. The idea is that we are able to recognize that our obsessions and compulsions are irrational, although we may succumb to them anyway. For sufferers who do not appear to have this insight (but not children, I think), diagnosis by the DSM could include the specifier “with poor insight”. This is supposed to be associated with a poorer prognosis. I can understand that, because it is much harder to fight an enemy that you cannot see. Like just about everything, people have come to realize that it is not as simple as either having or not having insight and that, in fact, insight exists on a continuum.
I think my insight might be moving down that continuum. I asked the neuropsychiatrist why I am having more and more trouble determining what is real and what isn’t. He told me not to read into it, but that it is probably a result of my thinking having become more complex. I’m trying not to read into in a bad way, but I’m still reading into it. I wonder if this is one of the disadvantages (not that I’m suggesting there are advantages) of having grown up with OCD: as I have gotten smarter, so has it, and at every step it has been able to learn how to outsmart me. My OCD brain has become adept at hiding the exit in the personal hell it generates for me on a daily basis, and my healthy brain is struggling more and more to find it.
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Watch out, Volkswagen --your ironclad grip on the diesel car market may be about to weaken. Autobloggreen reports that a GM-brand diesel passenger car is coming to the U.S. sometime in the near future.
GM Vice Chairman Tom Stephens delivered the information to the attendee's of this week's Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER) conference in Detroit. According to Stephens, future GM diesels might be based on existing diesel powertrains manufactured by GM in other countries (i.e. under the Europe-based Opel brand). No other details have been revealed.
So why would GM go back to manufacturing diesel cars in the U.S. after a two-decade hiatus? Automakers like Volkswagen and Mercedes have proven that there is a fairly strong market for clean-burning diesel vehicles in the U.S. (20% of all Jettas sold are diesel-powered). And Tim Ellis, VW of America's Vice President of Marketing, recently explained to FastCompany that diesel is an interim technology between gasoline and electric vehicles. Many green-minded consumers might not be ready to shell out for the GM's extended-range hybrid Volt--the technology is too unfamiliar--but they might spring for a car that can run on cheap biofuels. That is, at least, what GM hopes.
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Consider the source, Norway.
Cuban "Ambassador" to Norway reprimanded for the third time, from the Human Rights Foundation:
Norway Tells Cuba to Stop Attacking Human Rights Defender; Foreign Ministry Reprimands Cuban Ambassador
OSLO, Norway (July 30, 2009) -- Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten reported on July 16 that Cuba’s ambassador to Norway, Rogerio Santana, was to be reprimanded by Norway’s Foreign Minister for the third time for attacking a Norwegian government official. Ambassador Santana referred to Jan Tore Sanner, a member of Norway’s parliament, as an “insect” and as a “banana republic politician” with links to “terrorists.” Sanner had written to the Cuban Embassy expressing concern about the conditions of political prisoners and imprisoned journalists.
“We congratulate the government of Norway for informing Ambassador Santana that his behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” said Thor Halvorssen, President of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). “Ambassador Santana has a long history of defaming, harassing, and threatening human rights defenders who express concern about the appalling human rights violations in Cuba,” he added.
In April and May of this year, HRF became a target of Ambassador Santana’s vitriol in Norway when the Oslo Freedom Forum, a gathering of human rights defenders, took place. After physically accosting an HRF staff member in Oslo’s City Hall in April this year, Ambassador Santana sent numerous communiqués to other embassies and to the Norwegian media, repeating accusations similar to those levelled against Mr. Sanner. Cuba’s ambassador described HRF and its staff as “terrorists,” “CIA agent[s],” and “subversives.”
These absurd and baseless allegations were intended to disrupt and besmirch a conference where, among other dictatorships, the crimes of the Cuban regime were exposed and condemned in the strongest terms by celebrated advocates for human rights, including Amnesty International Norway’s Secretary General John Peder Egenæs. Despite Ambassador Santana’s spurious accusations about HRF and conference participant Armando Valladares, Mr. Egenæs recently referred to the latter as "a man, who to me, embodies the term that I believed was invented by Amnesty International's founder Peter Benenson: a prisoner of conscience. Mr. Armando Valladares was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison, not for something he did but for something he refused to do, and that was to become part of Fidel Castro's propaganda machine."
“Throughout history, authoritarian governments have described human rights defenders as subversive elements—dictators and their henchmen are afraid of the power of truth and thus resort to personal attacks in order to disqualify those who expose their crimes,” said Halvorssen.
Cuba’s strategy of dehumanizing critics by making false and unsubstantiated allegations speaks volumes about its utter disregard for human rights in Cuba. As Mr. Sanner expressed to the Norwegian media, Ambassador Santana “represents a regime that unconcealed tries to scare me into silence. That’s well known behavior among representatives from authoritarian regimes.”
HRF has sent copies of the letters exchanged between Mr. Sanner and Ambassador Santana, materials from this case, and translations of the news stories from Norway to Cuban embassies around the world. “Perhaps this will make diplomatic personnel think twice before harassing human rights defenders,” said Halvorssen.
HRF has also been subjected to relentless harassment campaigns by the governments of Bolivia, where human rights defenders have been falsely accused of having links to a separatist group; the Dominican Republic, where HRF’s campaign to expose modern-day slavery plantations owned by the Fanjul and Vicini families has resulted in an embarrassing bribery scandal where Dominican diplomats paid journalists to attack HRF; Ecuador, where the Ministry of Justice repeatedly refused the rights of Ecuadorian citizens to undertake human rights work; and Venezuela, where an HRF researcher was shot in a politically-motivated assault. The governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have also waged a campaign against HRF inside the Organization of American States and the United Nations. “We consider these attacks a demonstration that our work is having an effect and that these bullies are afraid of being exposed,” said Halvorssen.
HRF is an international nonpartisan organization devoted to defending human rights in the Americas. It centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries; HRF’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. HRF does not support nor condone violence. HRF’s International Council includes former prisoners of conscience Vladimir Bukovsky, Palden Gyatso, Ramón J. Velásquez, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu.
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