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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." ~ Carl Sandburg, poet
Have you noticed how fast the years go by? Do you accomplish what you set out to do by the end of each year? If not, why?
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One-third of consumer data to be transferred to cloud
Jun 27 2012, 13:17 PM
One-third of consumer data will be transferred to the cloud by 2016, findings show.
It is expected that businesses in the future will aim to improve their data management operations by using the technology, though just seven per cent of such information is stored on the systems today, according to research by Gartner.
This figure is expected to jump to 36 per cent by 2016, equating to 4.1 zettabytes.
Gartner Principal Research Analyst Shalini Verma said: "Cloud storage will grow with the emergence of the personal cloud, which in turn will simplify the direct-to-cloud model, allowing users to directly store user-generated content in the cloud."
Ms Verma added that data storage will become more commoditised as it becomes more integrated into the cloud.
The topic of cloud computing was recently put under the spotlight by Apple's former Chief Executive John Sculley, who told V3.co.uk at the Cloud Computing World Forum that the technology is facilitating several innovations.
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But let’s leave all that aside for a moment, and concentrate on the ingredient that gives this product its name; chili pepper.
Can chili peppers really help with weight loss?
It seems that they can. Let me explain…
Chili peppers contain naturally occurring substances called capsinoids, and two of those—capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin—are the ones of greatest interest to the folks who put weight loss products like this together. In the case of Chili Burn, capsaicin is the active component the chili pepper component of the formula is standardized for, although just how much is not revealed in any of the product literature I reviewed.
Dihydrocapsaicin also has “clinically demonstrated” weight loss effects, although its effects can hardly be described as dramatic.
“In the short term, both oral and gastrointestinal exposure to capsaicin increased satiety and reduced energy and fat intake; the stronger reduction with oral exposure suggests a sensory effect of capsaicin.”
Or in other words, a properly standardized red pepper supplement (this one used in the referenced study contained 900 mg of red pepper standardized for .25% capsaicin) may help you feel full for longer, and actually reduce the amount of food you consume at a meal.
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Office Of Public Affairs
Utah Selected as One of 15 Sites to Engage Nurses in U.S. Health Care Transformation
Apr 5, 2011 4:26 PM
Salt Lake City—The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a collaboration created by the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJF) Foundation and the AARP Foundation to implement solutions to the challenges facing the nursing profession, and to build upon nurse-based approaches to improving quality and transforming the way Americans receive health care, has selected Utah as one of 15 sites nationwide to help improve the nation’s rapidly changing health care system through nursing.
The Utah Regional Action Coalition for Health (URACH) is a partnership between HealthInsight and the Utah Organization of Nurse Leaders (UONL). The group will look at ways nurses can play an even greater role in health care quality, access, and affordability for everyone.
“It was an honor to be chosen as a site,” says Maureen Keefe, RN, PhD, FAAN, dean and professor of the University of Utah College of Nursing and member of the UONL. “Utah has excellent nurses and nationally recognized education programs. I’m confident our nurses will rise to meet the challenges of health care reform and provide both Utah and the country with recommendations that will benefit all patients.”
Currently, nurses make up the largest segment of the nation’s health care work force, but a number of systemic barriers – organizational, educational, and others – prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to a rapidly changing health care system. Compounding these barriers are the challenges of a population that is increasingly older and sicker, health care disparities, and spiraling medical costs.
To address these issues, RWJF and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) joined forces to create a blueprint on the role of nurses at the national, state, and local levels. This blueprint is detailed in The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report issued by IOM in October 2010.
RWJF and the AARP Foundation have partnered to advance the recommendations, which include:
- Encouraging all health care professionals to practice to the full extent of their education and training
- Improving nursing education
- Preparing and enabling nurses to lead change
- Improving workforce data collection and analysis
Following the successful implementation of five pilot Regional Action Coalitions, RWJF and AARP have selected 10 additional states to participate, including Utah. These sites around the country will implement the IOM recommendations and work to advance them. URACH will evaluate and adapt the recommendations to Utah, and make further recommendations for the country. The Utah Department of Health and the Colleges of Nursing at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University are URACH supporting organizations.
By 2012, RWJF and AARP hope that Regional Action Coalitions will be active in all 50 states, which will emulate the most successful strategies proven to work best; states will share information on best practices and where appropriate, employ similar approaches that worked in other areas. Additionally, RWJF and AARP are enlisting campaign support across the health care spectrum and engaging prominent leaders and organizations from the public and private sectors.
“I am delighted that the great state of Utah is demonstrating its commitment to improving health by advancing the work of nurses through its Regional Action Coalition,” said Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior advisor for Nursing at RWJF. “The Campaign for Action was developed to realize a vision of improved health care for all Americans. The groundswell of support demonstrated by the creation of Regional Action Coalitions all across the country shows the vigor and dedication that is driving this effort.”
For more information about the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, visit www.thefutureofnursing.org.
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Sylvia started her work in India by buying a van and operating it as a mobile clinic. She opened her first hospital in 1985 and this was replaced by a new hospital in 2002.
Outpatient clinics are held daily and over 80,000 patients attend each year. Sylvia also provides a 24 hour medical service 7 days a week.
Particular areas of interest include preventative medicine, ante natal, cardiology, diabetes, kidney problems, rheumatology, physiotherapy and paediatrics. The hospital is also the government supported centre for HIV/AIDS diagnosis, counselling and treatment covering a population of 1.3 million people. 1500 Government nurses and 100 doctors have been trained by Sylvia's staff in this field. The centre has been awarded a Grade A rating by the Tamil Nadu government.
The hospital has 220 beds on a 12 acre site and has extensive facilities. These include 2 operating theatres, 19 dialysis machines, a CT scanner, X Ray and endoscopy machines, together with a pharmacy and a blood storage unit.
The Cardiac clinic has an Echo machine, ECG, and a treadmill;
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By BEN LEFEBVRE, CASSANDRA SWEET and ALISON SIDER
Valero Energy said late Thursday it temporarily stopped selling gasoline in California's wholesale market as a string of refinery outages resulted in a regional gasoline shortage.
Analysts fear the scramble for the motor fuel will send prices in the state close to $5/gal and force some gas stations to close.
The lack of gasoline pushed California's wholesale, or spot, prices of $4.10/gal Thursday, a 39% increase from Aug. 6, the day an explosion shut down Chevrons 245,000 bpd refinery in Richmond.
Those prices don't include taxes, transportation and other fees, which typically add another 70 cents or more before the gas reaches the pump.
Valero said it will meet its current contracts to supply gasoline, but won't sell into the spot market. But spokesman Bill Day said resumption of spot saleswill depend on markets and inventories.
The company also will continue to supply gasoline to its branded and licensed retail stations in the state, Mr. Day said.
Valero, the largest refiner in the US, took the unusual step after a series of shutdowns at Richmond and other refineries.
Supplies have been further limited by a weeklong shutdown of a refining unit in late September at ExxonMobils 149,500 bpd refinery in Torrance. Meanwhile, Chevron's Richmond facility is only operating at reduced rates.
Adding to supply tensions, Phillips 66 on Thursday announced its 120,000 bpd refinery in San Francisco was going to reduce production for an unspecified amount of time due to planned maintenance.
Gasoline supplies were further crimped by a shortage of crude, the feedstock of gasoline, in one part of California.
Chevron shut down of an 85,000 bpd pipeline that ships crude oil from the San Joaquin Valley to refineries in the San Francisco Bay area on Sept. 19 after organic chloride was found in some of the oil put in the pipeline.
A Chevron spokesman said the company was investigating and was working to clean out the pipeline, called KLM, and return it to service.
While a single outage - the fear of shortages - can move prices, the cascade of problems has produced dramatic swings in prices at the pump.
Service stations in the Los Angeles area were selling gasoline Thursday afternoon for $4.45/gal, on average, up 11 cents from the start of the day at midnight, according to GasBuddy.com, on Internet firm that tracks retail gasoline prices nationwide.
San Francisco service stations were charging $4.57/gal, on average, up more than 12 cents a gallon, or 2.8% since midnight, according to GasBuddy.
Thursday's price jumps in California are the largest single-day gasoline price increases that GasBuddy has recorded anywhere in the US since the company started tracking gasoline prices in 2000, said Patrick DeHaan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.
Valeros withdrawal from the broader spot market signifies that the states fuel market is becoming illiquid, causing refiners to keep fuel out of the spot market to ensure they have supply for contracted customers.
West Coast gasoline stocks stood at about 26.6 million bbl during the last week of September, the lowest amount for that time of year since 2008, according to the latest data from the US Energy Information Administration.
Valero operates two refineries in California with a combined capacity of 213,000 bpd. These refineries haven't suffered outages.
This is a serious problem, said Richard Hastings, macroeconomy strategist at Global Hunter Securities. Five dollars a gallon is a plausible concept at this point, and it won't be $5 at the airport filling station - it will be all over the place.
As Valero and possibly other refiners leaving the spot market, independent gas stations not holding supply contracts will start shutting down after their fuel runs out, said Avery Ash, manager of regulatory affairs at motorist trade group American Automobile Association.
The stations that don't have contracts from the major retailers - the mom-and-pop station and Costcos - may decide not to sell gasoline at this point, Mr. Ash said. With spot prices that are well north of $4 a gallon, you're needing to sell retail gasoline near that $5 mark, and they may not see the point of doing that.
The situation could last for weeks until West Coast refineries return to normal production rates, Mr. Ash said.
For Jafar Rashid, the crunch has already come. Mr. Rashid said he closed one of his Los Angeles filling stations Wednesday because it became too expensive to buy more fuel for the pumps.
My street price is $4.69, Mr. Rashid said of his per-gallon retail price.
But if I was going to buy the gas [wholesale and] it was going to cost more than $5. I cant pay that, its too expensive. Id rather close the gas station, he said.
Mr. Rashid also owns four Chevron stations but said he has been able to keep those open. The station he shut down Wednesday will also be converted to a Chevron station soon, he said.
I don't want to buy independent gas anymore.
Rose Marton and Ken Clark contributed to this story.
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Five Lifelong Friends Take the Same Photo Every Five Years
In 1982, John Wardlaw was joined by four of his high school buddies at his family’s cabin in Copco Lake, California. During their retreat the five friends, who were all about 19, shot a group photo using a self-timing camera.
They didn’t think much of it at the time, but when they all found themselves at the cabin again five years later they decided to recreate the photo. Thus began a tradition that has been repeated every five years since.
The pictures not only provide insight into the fashion and hairstyles of the various time periods, but it is interesting to track the friends’ physical appearances over the years. Hairlines recede. Wrinkles form. Weight is gained and lost. (And, if you look closely, so is a wedding ring.)
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is an interesting conversion of a simple pen & paper game. It could best be described as a "strategic turn based racing simulation" -- not bad for such a simple game!
The game is played on a race track divided into small squares. Gameplay is simple: At each turn, you are moved by an amount of squares depending on your last move (your velocity or speed), which you can modify by selecting one of the neighboring squares of the position where you'd land by not doing anything.
This may sound complicated, but it is actually quite simple and is a quite realistic physical modelling of braking, accelerating and steering. The difficulty is to find the right speed to take the curves. If you're too fast, you won't be able to brake in time -- either you'll crash of you'll have to brake until your not moving anymore, which costs time, so you should think in advance about when to accelerate.
There are also other difficulties like oil slicks which make you unable to modify the speed of your vehicle, or pit stops where you will have to stop before continuing the race.
The game offers three predefined race tracks and an editor to create your own tracks. There are also different playing modes, you can race the clock, trying to beat the "champion" of the track (the player who used the least number of turns), or you can race the champion himself (you see his traces and try to beat him), or you can race against a friend in a two-player mode.
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The pen & paper game was described in Martin Gardner's book Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Experiments
, where it is presented as a "truly remarkable simulation of auto racing".
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Since 1991, MCN has recognized healthcare workers dedicated to those most in need. Nominees are distinguished by their demonstrated dedication to migrant health. Qualifications may include innovation to service delivery or prevention strategies. Other attributes may include their leadership skills or contributions to quality healthcare.
Unsung Hero 2010
MCN is the nation's oldest and largest network dedicated to the mobile underserved. Honoring clinicians in the field of Migrant Health is a part of our commitment. In 2009, we honored James "Curtis" Edwards, Community Health Care. Inc., Bridgeton, New Jersey. As a community leader, Curtis demonstrates the power of asking others to take a stake, and collaborate in reaching farmworkers and other underserved individuals. This year we honor Eugene (Gene) Majka, a champion for quality healthcare for the migrant population in South Florida.
Eugene (Gene) Majka
Champions the health of our migrant population in South Florida.
Majka joined the nursing faculty at Barry University's College of Health Sciences eight years ago and immediately set forth to support the migrant community. He has collaborated with community organizations such as; We Care, Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA), American Lung Association, and Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) in order to address the most pressing healthcare need of migrant served at all six RCMA centers.
- Mr Majka supervises the Community Health clinical experience of Registered Nurses (RNs) who are returning for their baccalaureate degree. Under his direction and supervision these RNs have completed health care assessments on over 600 children, making sure their immunizations, weights and medications are recorded. These assessments continue as needed at local day care centers. Adults are also served, as health screenings are offered at scheduled times throughout the year.
- During the flu outbreak in Fall 2009, Mr Majka worked with the Florida Department of Health to provide over 600 H1N1 immunizations to migrant farm workers and their families.
- His students have provided over 100 health education topics in English, Spanish and Creole to staff members of community agencies, as well as parents. Students leave their educational materials, allowing the staff to continue educating parents on key topics.
Mr. Majka is committed to providing comprehensive care and in making sure the healthcare providers in the Homestead community have the knowledge and resources they need to join the effort.
In the Community
- He and his students discovered rashes on the faces of the children in one of their health screenings and determined they were being hugged by their parents who were wearing their field clothes. Tainted with pesticides, these clothes were producing skin rashes and triggering asthma attacks. Mr Majka used his contacts with the American Lung Association to screen the children for asthma and provide peak flow meters for the children.
- "Project Wash" was instituted to raise funds so that parents could afford laundry detergent to wash their children's clothes separately from their own field clothes.
- Identified resource for selected dental services for migrant children and arranged for Walgreen's to provide pharmacy interns to educate community staff on the use of Epi-pens so they can respond to allergic reactions when RNs are not in the community.
"Mr. Majka could have chosen any community in South Florida and he chose the most disenfranchised- the migrant community in Homestad. He is tireless in his efforts to improve thier lives and make sure they have what they need now as well as in the future."
Pegge L. Bell, PhD, RN, APN
Dean & Professor
College of Health Sciences.
The 2010 unsung hero will receive an all expenses paid trip to the National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice in Washington, DC, September 23-25, 2010. MCN will present the award in front of a professional audience of clinical peers.
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A hacker group calling itself Team GhostShell claims to have breached the databases of 100 universities around the world, including the University of Florida.
The group leaked about 120,000 records from those universities, ZDNet reported. An analysis found that the records included student, faculty and staff information such as dates of birth, but no credit card information or Social Security numbers.
UF reported that the hackers bypassed at least one level of security to breach two university systems, one in the College of Medicine and one in Contracts and Grants. UF immediately blocked access to the affected systems and began an investigation to determine what information may have been accessed, according to a university spokeswoman.
A member of Team GhostShell said in a statement that the release was aimed at bringing attention to education issues such as rising tuition and debt.
“We have set out to raise awareness towards the changes made in today’s education, how new laws imposed by politicians affect us, our economy and overall, our way of life,” the statement said.
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Between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, and girls were not allowed to attend school. Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, many teenage girls, having missed five years of school, resumed their studies at the elementary school level.
Afghans4Tomorrow is a non-political humanitarian organization dedicated to the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan...
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Don't risk your term deposit investment
RateCity looks at the effects of not switching accounts with your term deposit.
Sometimes days can roll together and before you know it months have passed and a new year is upon you. If you are not careful, the same thing can happen to your savings and your investments.
In Australia, Datamonitor recorded that less than one in 20 out of 2100 people surveyed changed their bank in the past year. This means that the 19 out of 20 that don't switch accounts could be missing out on better interest rates. And those who have money tied up in term deposits could be putting their money at risk.
Avoid the trap
If you don't switch your term deposit account then you could be losing out. Unlike savings accounts, for example, term deposits are a fixed investment where you lock your money away with a set interest rate for a specified time. The trick with these types of accounts is that if you don't notify your financial institution of what to do when it reaches maturity, the account will automatically rollover to a new fixed term.
When it rolls over it basically starts again for the original length of time, so if you opened a six-month term deposit account for example, it will automatically roll over into a new six-month term if you don't move it yourself. However it may not earn the interest rate that you originally agreed to, it will earn whatever the current interest rate is for that term. This may not be the best deal at the time and your investment could suffer severely.
Then if you realise at some point - whether it is two days or two months after your account has automatically rolled over - unfortunately you can't do anything about it. You will be lumped with fees for breaking the contract, which are dependent on how much you invested, how long you have left in the contract and the institution.
Make the call
But don't sweat it, this will only happen if you fail to contact your financial institution to make arrangements before it is due to mature. So the solution to avoid this happening is to call the bank and give them instructions of what to do - withdraw or reinvest the money.
But before you do make the call or pay them a visit, you will need to work out which selection best suits you. Here are some tips to help you with your choice:
- Do your homework and shop around by comparing term deposit providers online. This way you can gauge the going interest rates and work out if you can get a better rate elsewhere. For example, the current average rate for a three-year term deposit is 6.42 percent, however on RateCity one of the best rates for a three-year term deposit is at 6.67 percent with Investec (as at August 30, 2010). That is 25 basis points higher.
- Determine whether you will be better off with a short-term or a long-term investment. This will depend on how much time you can afford to tuck your money away before it is needed and which terms are offering the better rates.
If you currently have a term deposit or are thinking of starting a term deposit, make a note in your diary to shop around and compare term deposits to see if you can earn more by switching before it reaches maturity.
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Snowstorm May Produce 4 Inches on Saturday
Northern New Jersey to see all snow and no ice or rain from fast-moving storm, expert says.
A low-pressure system originating from the Gulf of Mexico headed for the Northeast will make for a snowy Saturday in northern New Jersey, according to the National Weather Service.
The fast-moving storm that has deposited precipitation in other parts of the country will likely produce 2 to 4 inches of snow in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Union and Essex counties Saturday, with areas to the north and west—Morris, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties—likely seeing less, meteorologist Lauren Nash said.
“We’re still somewhat uncertain about the absolute track of the storm,” Nash said, “but it seems very likely northern New Jersey will get just snow and no rain or ice.”
The snowfall is expected to begin around 7 a.m. Saturday, Nash said, and should subside about 12 hours later. A chance of flurries and light snowfall is possible through midnight, Nash said.
Travelers heading east Saturday could see hazardous conditions as well, Nash said, as New York City and Long Island are expected to see more of a rain and ice mix from the storm.
The storm is expected to pick up steam as it reaches the coast around the Virginia and North Carolina border, Nash said. Wind gusts during and after the storm could reach 30 miles per hour.
If forecasts hold true, this would be the second measurable snowfall this week in northern New Jersey as snow, rain and ice coated on the region Wednesday.
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Bonnie Shehan, a nurse who has worked in health facilities in the Bartholomew and Johnson County areas for more than 20 years, is being honored for creating a kit that helps families who care for relatives with Alzheimer’s disease.
The Edinburgh resident put together a collection of safety devices, including door alarms, drawer locks, motion sensors and room monitors.
The kit also includes a packet of information with some of the most frequently asked questions about the disease, plus answers caregivers sometimes are hesitant to ask their doctors about intimacy and violent behavior.
“Being a nurse was wonderful, but I wanted to do more,” said Shehan, who through her job often came into contact with families struggling with the challenges of dementia care.
BACKGROUND: Nurse who has worked in nursing homes, doctors’ offices and Columbus Regional Hospital.
BUSINESS VENTURE: Launched Alzheimer’s Home Safety Network in 2012 to sell safety kits for those caring for Alzheimer’s patients at home.
AWARD: Sam’s Club Giving Program Award, in cooperation with SCORE, to recognize two small businesses in each state to encourage their growth and success. Also recognized in Indiana was Anthony’s Heavenly Cheesecakes in Evansville.
Shehan was recognized this week in Dallas as part of a national effort by Sam’s Club and SCORE, a nonprofit business resource, to support the growth and success of U.S. small businesses.
Shehan’s startup business, Alzheimer’s Home Safety Network, was one of two from Indiana, and two from each state, selected to attend the expenses-paid, two-day seminar, where they received training on attracting customers, branding, online marketing and developing sales plans. Each winner also received a $1,000 gift card to Sam’s Club to purchase business items.
Shehan’s goal was to help families keep loved ones at home as long as possible.
With such rapid growth in the number of people with Alzheimer’s, Shehan saw an important need. She said she’s not trying to replace services offered by the Alzheimer’s Association or other agencies, just offering help in a different way.
Shehan, who has worked at Columbus Regional Hospital, Columbus Health and Rehabilitation Center and for Drs. Charles Rau and David Rau in Columbus, wanted to use her nursing experience in a new way.
She believed by gathering a collection of important safety items, plus basic information on Alzheimer’s, that she could offer easy access to what families needed in one place. Shehan sells her AlzSafe Home Safety Kits for $279.95.
The responsibility of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease can be physically and emotionally draining, and two-thirds of caregivers die before their loved ones, Shehan said.
“They fail to take time to care for themselves,” she said.
Many families also cannot afford the cost of nursing home care, which can average about $86,000 a year, she added.
Shehan took her original business idea to the Raus to gather their input, and she sought advice from SCORE mentors.
David Rau said Shehan was on target from the beginning to address the needs of patients and families.
“It was right on for being patient-centered and focused on safety and right on for providing emotional support for caregivers,” Rau said.
SCORE, with the support of the U.S. Small Business Administration, has chapters across the U.S. with retired business executives who volunteer their time to offer free advice to people looking to start or grow a business.
Shehan worked with SCORE volunteers Bob Nelson and Fred Nerz from the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce office.
Nelson said he and Nerz met with Shehan many times in the past year as they listened to her initial business idea and helped her refine the plan.
“At first we suggested she do some more research to see if anyone else had done this before and helped put her business plan in order and down on paper,” said Nelson, retired president of the Indiana Bankers Association.
“She had a lot of good experience working with Alzheimer’s patients, and she had good ideas. Her main thing was she wanted to be helpful to caregivers.”
Although Shehan’s background led her to focus on helping families with Alzheimer’s patients, she believes the home safety products also could be useful for those dealing with other illnesses, such as autism or Parkinson’s disease.
She also hopes to work with manufacturers to repackage safety products without photos of babies on them. Even though Alzheimer’s patients are regressing to their youth, Shehan said, caregivers don’t want to treat them like children; they want to show them love and respect.
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On Friday, April 19 Texas A&M International University will hold the seventh annual College of Science and Technology Research Conference. A&M International students and faculty, participants from area high schools, and colleges and universities from Texas and Mexico will present their research findings. The conference will be held from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Bob Bullock Hall, rooms 103, 104, 113 and 118.
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"Last year, six persons from Nuevo Laredo were able to participate. This year we expect many more because our liaison from the Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo Laredo has invited all of the city institutions to make presentations. Currently, at least five institutions are planning on presenting," González said.
Current topics to be presented come from the areas of biology, chemistry, health science, earth and planetary sciences, environmental science, nursing, mathematics, physics, technology and engineering. Although most presentations will be about academic research, González welcomed submissions from the community.
"If anyone from the community would like to make a presentation about the types of research capabilities they have, that would be fine. In general, if it's a science or a technology, we invite you to make a presentation," said González.
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Motorcycle Glove Gauntlets
The Case of the Missing Gauntlet!
Whereby We Discover the Case of the Shrinking Gauntlets,
With a Digression Regarding the Innies and Outties of Gauntlet
by Rick K. for webBikeWorld.com
Motorcycle Glove Reviews |
I've noticed something very strange in
the last three or four pairs of gloves that we've
reviewed recently on webBikeWorld.com. Apparently,
glove designers are in a conspiracy to shrink the
Now maybe four pairs of gloves from as many different
manufacturers may not be statistically significant, but I'm starting
to wonder if we're starting to see a trend here.
I first noticed it with the
Icon Merc gloves,
which have a double gauntlet, but the inside layer is so narrow that it
barely fits over any jacket sleeve, no matter how thin. The
Joe Rocket GPX 2.0
gloves also have a narrow gauntlet, although the unique elastic adjusters
are somewhat of a compensation. The
gloves are only slightly better. And the REV'IT!
Solar mesh gloves we recently reviewed also have a
very narrow cuff, but apparently it is by design (see below for more
Some gloves, like the OSI Coolguard and FirstGear Burnout
gloves, do not have gauntlets at all, but they are designed for specific uses
and are not the subject of this article.
A gauntlet has been defined as "An
armored or padded glove intended to protect the hand and
wrist from attack". For our purposes, the gauntlet
on a motorcycle glove is that portion of the glove that
extends above the wrist. It is, or was, intended
to cover the cuff, or the lower portion of the
motorcycle jacket sleeve and to offer added protection
to the rider in this sensitive area.
Photo 1 (below) shows my old pair of Teknic
Violator gloves (one of my all-time favorites).
You can see the nice, big, comfy gauntlet on these
gloves, which fits over every motorcycle jacket I've
tried, and is fully adjustable!
Is this type of gauntlet disappearing? Apparently so.
I stopped by a local motorcycle shop who has a large display of many
different brands of gloves and tried on a few. Olympia, Alpinestars,
Held and Spidi -- all of the gloves I tried have very narrow and/or short gauntlets.
Photo 1: Nice, big gauntlet on the original
Teknic Violator gloves.
In my opinion, a motorcycle glove
gauntlet should have plenty of room to fit over just
about any size jacket cuff, whether the jacket is thin
or thick, with or without a lining.
should have some type of fastener, usually "hook and
loop", to secure it tightly to the rider's arm.
And the glove should have a secondary wrist fastener
that will make sure the glove stays put. The most
secure motorcycle glove attachment system we've seen so
far is the design on the
The gauntlet should be designed in such
a way that it does not prevent the glove from being
pulled fully on to the rider's hand. The recent
trend towards shorter or narrower gauntlets is causing a
number of problems; a short or narrow (or both) gauntlet
can prevent the glove from being pulled securely on to
the rider's hand. An ill-fitting glove may not
offer protection in a crash when the glove is supposed
to be doing its job.
So please, motorcycle glove designers: give us back our
Innie or Outtie?
Whilst pondering this situation, we discovered that some
motorcycle gloves are designed to be worn under the
jacket cuff, which may partly resolve the problem of
short or narrow gauntlets. During our recent
review of the REV'IT!
Solar mesh gloves, we learned that gloves
manufactured by REV'IT! are designed to be worn under
the specially designed jacket cuffs on REV'IT! jackets.
REV'IT! says that this both gives the
jacket a cleaner look and also prevents water from
running down the rider's arm and into the glove.
The waterproof liners on most REV'IT! jackets are
specially designed with elastic at the cuff so that it
will fit inside the gauntlet (see Photo 4 below).
Wearing gloves under, rather than over,
the sleeve is something new to us, although I now
motorcycle riders in Europe wearing their gloves under
their jacket sleeves.
Photos 2 and 3 (below) show a REV'IT!
Solar glove worn under and over a REV'IT!
Airforce mesh jacket. You can see that the
cuff looks much smoother in Photos 2 and 3 and avoids the
bunching evident in Photo 4.
Photo 2 - Top View: REV'IT! Solar glove worn under
Photo 3 - Bottom View: REV'IT! Solar glove worn under
Photo 4: REV'IT! Solar glove worn over jacket sleeve
causes bunching and
prevents the glove from fitting
Photo 5: Waterproof liner with elastic cuff on REV'IT! Airforce jacket.
One interesting thing I've discovered
that it actually seems easier to wear the gloves with
the gauntlet under the jacket than over and it also
takes me less time to get the gloves on and adjusted
correctly prior to a ride.
However, it may take some time to get
used to wearing my gloves this way and some jackets just
don't seem to be compatible with wearing the gloves
underneath the cuff. Which leaves me puzzled as to
why some of the recent motorcycle gloves designed for
track days or racing, which are obviously meant to wear
over the sleeve, seem to be coming with ever-narrower
End of diatribe #456.7! What do
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From " e' " (11/08): "I have pretty much always worn
gloves with a gauntlet underneath a jackets sleeve, every time I would gear
up with a group they would say, hey a gauntlet needs to be outside the
jacket. I then casually explain that no, it should be placed
underneath the jackets cuff and explain that unless you're on a chopper with
your wrist north of your elbows that in the rain water will slide right down
into your waterproof gloves...which will suck for you.
I have overturned many to this concept and all of them come back and tell
me how much better they're able to flex their wrists without having anything
pinch while working the throttle.
The few times I prefer a gauntlet over a sleeve is when its <10 F out and
DRY, in those temps, with an unfaired bike no matter how tight you manage to
get the gauntlet or cuff some cold air may seep through, however I am rarely
traveling faster than 50-60 in those temps, I'm just not riding far enough
away in that cold a weather to really need to make up time by riding
From "R.": "I agree, it seems nowadays finding a MC
glove with a decent gauntlet is becoming harder. If I have a choice
I'll buy a new glove just because it has a decent gauntlet. Why,
because I expect 4 things from my MC gloves, sun, rain, cold weather
protection, and comfort, besides road rash protection.
Tell you something else, I have a pair of cheap($35) leather winter
gloves that have served their purpose for 15 years now, even after crashes.
Because they're not better insulated, they work great with heated grips."
From "P.F.": "I saw you wrote a article
about the shrinking gauntlets. I'm fairly new to motorcycling (in fact
I'm just starting). But did some sailing before (not much but enough to
answer some questions).
With sailing gear most jackets have what is called a storm cuff.
It's basically 2 cuffs on a sleeve. One inner cuff and a outer cuff.
You tighten the inner cuff. Then put on the glove and strap the glove
over the inner cuff, then pull the outer cuff over the glove. It's a
water sealing, and I might add it works pretty well.
Why am I telling you this? Well, because I'm seeing more and more
motorcycling jackets in the higher end getting outfitted with these storm
cuffs. But of course there is a catch, the glove you need to wear
should be shorter and less wide then the outer cuff of the sleeve of such a
jacket. It could be the reason why gauntlet type gloves are getting
smaller. To accommodate for these storm cuffs."
From "R.T.": "I'm a big fan of long
gauntlets. My normal riding gloves are Held Profi gloves: they've got
to have some of the longest gauntlets I've ever seen. I always have
the fear that as I slide forwards that the pavement will push back on my
jacket's sleeve and expose bare skin to be chewed by the asphalt. I'm
also much more comfortable with the gloves overtop. It's more
aerodynamic: I don't need to worry about air filling my sleeve if it's not
tight enough nor do I have to worry about a wayward insect finding itself
forced into the cuff (like that wasp that made its way into my helmet one
sunny summer day).
On the track I wear MotoGP Nitrous gloves. The gauntlet isn't as
impressive but is worn overtop of the sleeve. I feel that the long
gauntlet offers far more protection.
I have rain gloves and they serve only a single purpose: to be worn in
the rain; those I wear underneath my jacket. They're much like my rain
pants: meant for rain (or, in the case of the rain pants, cold weather
From "E.S.": "Whether the glove “should”
be worn under the sleeve or over depends on the jacket, glove, and
conditions. I have a First Gear “Scout” jacket. It has these
little “scoops” that open on the lower forearms for ventilation in hot
weather. Large gauntlets would interfere with that. It also has
zippers over a gusset at the end of the sleeve to loosen or snug up the fit.
Thus, in nice weather I wear an unlined leather glove that fits easily under
the sleeve. Closing the zippers makes for a snug, but not tight fit.
In cooler weather, I put the liner in the jacket. Gloves definitely do
not fit under the sleeve when the liner is in place. Then I close the
“scoops” and zippers and wear Gerbing electric gloves (which plug into the
“gloves circuit” of the liner, which I had Gerbing wire up).
Fortunately, the Gerbing glove still has an adequate gauntlet and fits
nicely over the sleeve."
From "D.M.": "Hi all - first thing must
say great great site! Just finished reading the article about the
gauntlets getting smaller and to start I have to admit that in the 13 years
that I (have been riding motorcycles) I didn't (own so) many pair to be an
expert (plus the first were very budget aware, shall we say).
Anyway, my current two pairs are for the summer; a pair of
Joe Rocket Phoenix I think and for the winter a pair of Alpinestar Gortex.
The summer gloves -- I do wear them on top of the sleeve as my summer jacket
is of a short cut, but as for the winter gloves I do wear them under the
The main reason for that is because I myself at least believe
that the water proofing will be better that way, meaning the water could get
down and onto the glove instead of into it. What I wanted to ask was
do you think there is a difference in protection between wide (over the
cuff) gauntlet design and a narrow (inside cuff) style ? I am not
talking about short/non-gauntlet type."
Thanks for your comments, D.M.: My opinion is that a
longer gauntlet has the potential of offering more protection to the wrist
and forearm. But without scientific testing, who knows?
From "K.W.": "Must say I agree with
you...as far as I'm concerned, gloves should be worn*/ over/* the jacket
cuffs. My all-time favorites have been Tourmaster Roadrace II's, which
have been discontinued for quite awhile now. I've owned at least (4)
pairs since the mid-80's. 1st pair was stolen, 2nd & 3rd pairs got me
into the late 90's, and my current pair is still in great condition.
Best of all, there's NO hook & loop / Velcro anywhere on them! The
clever zipper design allows them to be cinched down & close off virtually
all air movement.
My biggest pet peeve with riding garments today is the
over-reliance on hook & loop fasteners...give me a good quality zipper */anyday/*!
The leather in some of the fingertips of my Roadrace II's wore thru but the
zippers were still in good working condition."
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POMEROY — Since taking office in January, Meigs County Sheriff Keith Wood has undertaken several renovation projects in the more than 100-year-old jail and sheriff’s office.
The brick building located next to the Meigs County Courthouse on Second Street in Pomeroy was constructed in the late 1800s following destruction by fire in 1894 according to previous reports.
The facility was home to the jail until it was closed in October 2002 by then-Sheriff Ralph Trussell. The jail was reopened in May 2006 following 16-months of renovations completed after then-Sheriff Robert Beegle took office.
When the facility re-opened in 2006, it was able to serve as a minimum-risk facility which could hold up to 10 prisoners overnight. The facility does not house female prisoners.
The jail was closed to inmates earlier this year for about six weeks beginning in mid-March following the suicide of an inmate.
During that time — as prisoners were housed in the Middleport Jail and Washington County Jail — work was completed to fix the plumbing in the jail and other items which needed to be corrected.
Wood said that through limited funds and donations, the jail now has a new camera system, fresh paint, a working shower, toilet and sink, and changes in the cells.
The cells previously had two bunks in each of the five cells to house 10 inmates. Now, the upper bunks have been removed, leaving the lower bunks. The jail can hold five prisoners overnight in the facility.
Unlike before the renovations, there is a restroom facility located in one corner of the jail. Before there had been toilets in each cell, with many plumbing issues related to it.
The remainder of the building, which includes offices for the sheriff, deputies and office personnel, has also received a face lift in the past few months.
Painting was completed in the offices and is now being done on some of the outside areas. The floors in the office were also replaced, and electrical repairs have been completed.
Wood stated that the renovation work has served as a morale booster for everyone at the office.
Plans for the near future include landscape work at the front of the building where two trees have been removed and painting around the exterior of the building.
Wood also noted that, at some point, the sheriff’s office must look at the infrastructure of the building and its stability for the future.
He added that the cost of housing prisoners outside of the county may outweigh the cost of a new jail facility for the county in the future. It is estimated that the county spends up $20,000 to $30,000 each month to house prisoners in other facilities including the Middleport Jail and Washington County Jail. | <urn:uuid:7eadfe4b-f4a5-447d-8d7a-ff4f564fd674> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mydailytribune.com/pages/home/push?per_page=5&x_page=7&class=prev_page&rel=prev | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986183 | 561 | 1.648438 | 2 |
University officials love to talk about what they contribute to local economies, no matter how inflated those claims may be. They are more reticent about discussing some of their other activities. “Students for Life released a new study on University Abortion Health Care Plans, announcing that out of the 200 largest universities in the United States,” Kristan Hawkins reported on lifenews.com recently, “44% covered elective abortions and almost half of those universities automatically charge students for their abortion healthcare.”
“And, as mentioned by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, on Tuesday night on the floor of the House of Representatives, we also found that federal taxpayer dollars could be used to fund these abortions through federal education grants.
“Now, new information from students at University of Virginia reveals that the University of Virginia (UVA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have been performing secret abortions on campus for over twenty years! Because both schools are state institutions, both state and federal tax dollars are going towards these on campus abortions.
“From 1988-2009, UVA facilities aborted 2,480 and VCU aborted 9,120 preborn lives.” Hawkins serves as executive director of Students for Life.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
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My dear brethren and sisters, I humbly ask that the Spirit of God attend me in what I may say today.
At the present time, the Church has ninety-eight missions, which cover most of the world. There are over 15,400 missionaries devoting their full time to proselyting activities. In addition to these, there are several thousand mature men and women from all professions serving on a part-time basis in the stake missions. These missionaries are either paying their own expenses or they are receiving financial support from their friends, relatives, or Melchizedek Priesthood quorums.
The vast majority of the full-time missionaries are young men nineteen to twenty-one years of age, a time of life in which young people, as a general rule, would not devote themselves to full-time church service.
It should be pointed out that these young men interrupt their education, put off marriage, and adjust their missions to their military obligations, so they can do missionary work for their church and their Savior.
Thus the miracle of missionary service is repeated over and over with every missionary who gives of his time and in the sacrifices made by those who supply the financial help.
Why this modern miracle of missionary work?
First, this extensive missionary work is carried forward because those people who serve as missionaries and those who give them their financial support have strong testimonies in their hearts that they belong to Christ’s true church, which he restored on earth in 1830. They are positive that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only church in the world which possesses God’s holy priesthood, his true doctrines and ordinances, and the power to bring people into celestial glory to dwell with their Creator. And so they go on missions in order that other people may receive the gospel and share the same joy and blessings that they have.
Second, the modern miracle of extensive missionary work occurs because in several revelations Jesus Christ commanded that it be done. For example, he commanded Church members as follows:
“And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned.” (D&C 68:8–9.)
As I have toured missions, many missionaries, as well as converts, have reported to me unusual missionary experiences or miracles. A stake president in California told me the following missionary experience.
A young man in his stake from a well-to-do family had been taught the gospel by missionaries. His interest in the Church was very displeasing to his parents. They endeavored to persuade him not to join, but he still declared that he had a strong testimony that this was the true church of Jesus Christ and that he must join. Then, in desperation, the parents took the drastic step of telling him that if he became a member of the Mormon Church, he would be disinherited. In spite of this warning, the young man joined the Church and his parents literally turned him out of his home.
He was invited to live with a Mormon family. While he was there, the bishop and stake president asked him to go on a mission. He accepted the call. Before he left, however, his parents heard through a mutual friend that their son was going on a mission. They sent word to him that if he did, they would never write him a word, nor send him money, and that he was not to contact them.
About a year later, when the young man was in the mission field, the stake president was called on the telephone about one o’clock in the morning. The gentle voice of a woman on the other end of the line asked if he would please give her that missionary’s address because she wanted to send him some money. Thus, it appears that the love of a mother had risen above her religious prejudice.
While touring a mission, I ran across a missionary who had been an all-American basketball star in college. Upon graduation from the university, he had turned down a high-paying contract to play professional ball so he could go on a mission.
Another missionary told me that when he graduated from high school he was offered $30,000 a year to play professional baseball. He refused the offer so he could go on a mission.
When a young man is faced with the choice of a mission or of playing professional ball at a high salary, it takes great faith and devotion to choose the mission; but many young Latter-day Saint men have made this choice.
Recently in South America, a lady missionary, who impressed me greatly, told me the story of her conversion to the LDS Church and her missionary call. Before coming on her mission she was a nurse. Her roommate was a Mormon girl. The nurse liked the girl’s habits, was very pleased with her character and personality, and so she decided to study the LDS religion. The Mormon girl got two missionaries to teach the nurse the gospel.
When the nurse’s parents heard that she was favorably inclined toward the Mormon religion, they thoroughly opposed her actions. They forbade her to join the Church, telling her that if she did she would be disinherited.
The Holy Ghost had borne witness to her so strongly that the Church of Jesus Christ was the true church that she asked the missionaries to baptize her even against the wishes of her parents, whom she loved dearly. It grieved her when her father and mother told her not to return home.
After joining the Church, she had a very strong desire to go on a mission and so she decided to work and save the money. It took her three or four years’ time to save approximately $3,000. She was called to labor in South America, where she is doing an outstanding job in taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of that land. When she returns home, she hopes to regain the love and favor of her parents.
Several years ago, after returning from touring a mission, I said to one of my friends, “Did you make any converts when you were on your mission in a certain town?” And I told him the name of the town.
He replied, “No, I didn’t make a single convert there. My companion and I had very poor missionary success in that town.”
I informed him that recently I had held a meeting in that town. Following the meeting, a woman approached the mission president and me and said, “When I was a girl two Mormon missionaries came to our home a number of times and talked with my mother. Each time the missionaries came to our home, I ran into the kitchen and peeked through the door and listened while they conversed with mother, who wasn’t very interested. As soon as they had left, I would run into the living room, pick up the literature that they had left on the table, and go to my room and study it. I was very thrilled with what I was learning.
“Finally I obtained a copy of the Book of Mormon and read it. I became thoroughly converted to the Church of Jesus Christ, having a firm conviction that it was the true church. When I grew to maturity, two more Mormon missionaries came to town and I asked them to baptize me. After I had become a Church member, I taught the gospel to my friends and relatives. There are over fifty members in this branch who belong to the Church as a result of my conversion and baptism.”
I then said to my friend, “You see, you and your missionary companion indirectly have over fifty converts in that town in which you thought you got none.”
A missionary related an experience that illustrates one method that God has used to bring the searchers after truth into his true church. He stated that he and his companion had knocked on a door. A woman opened the door immediately, enthusiastically invited them in, and said to them, “You young men have come to my home today in answer to my prayers.
“For a long time I have been dissatisfied with the church to which I belong, feeling that it does not contain many of the doctrines that Christ taught while here upon the earth. I felt that it was not the true church that was founded originally by our Savior. I prayed earnestly and asked our Father in heaven to send somebody to me who would bring me the true gospel plan of salvation and make it possible for me to find the true church.
“After doing so, I had a dream that two young men knocked on my door and when I let them in they said to me, ‘We have come to bring you the true gospel of Jesus Christ.’ I recognize that you two young men are the same two young men I saw in my dream, and as in my dream, you announced yourselves by saying, ‘We have come to bring you the gospel of Jesus Christ.’ I know that you are the servants of our Master and that you will teach me his gospel.”
The two missionaries were surprised at the reception but happy to have the privilege of teaching this good woman the gospel. She eagerly received it and soon thereafter was a baptized member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thus, another modern miracle in missionary work had occurred.
The faith and devotion of mission presidents and their wives and families present marvelous stories of sacrifice and service to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and build up his kingdom.
When the First Presidency, serving as God’s holy prophets, call a man and his wife to preside over a mission, regardless of their business situation or economic conditions, the answer is yes. All personal interests are pushed aside and they faithfully accept the call from the Lord through the First Presidency to preside over a mission for three years’ time.
Each mission president’s individual call, his experiences and faithfulness in accepting that call, adjusting his economic affairs, and completely readjusting the social life for himself and family, is a modern missionary miracle.
For example, in a casual conversation I had recently with the president of one of the full-time missions of the Church, he told me that when he received his mission call from the First Presidency, he asked his employers for a leave of absence. Within three years his financial interest in the company in which he was employed would be large enough to support him and his family for the remainder of their lives.
His employers, being non-church members and unfavorable toward his going on a mission, refused to give him a leave of absence. Also, they informed him that he would lose all of his financial benefits in the company if he accepted the mission call. In spite of this terrific financial sacrifice and the loss of his job, he accepted the mission call and is now faithfully serving his church and his God.
I asked the mission president, “Why didn’t you tell the First Presidency of the financial loss you would suffer if you went on a mission at that time and ask them to postpone your call for three years?”
He replied, “The Lord didn’t call me on a mission for three years from now. He called me to serve now. My wife and I decided to obey the call of the Lord and trust that our financial affairs would be taken care of later.”
Such a sacrifice to render Christian service is certainly astounding. It is a modern missionary miracle.
In closing, I bear my testimony that the true church of Jesus Christ has been restored to earth by the Savior and other heavenly beings to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Membership in this church and living in accordance with the revealed teachings therein is the only way back to God. This church marks out the pathway that mankind must follow to attain eternal life in the presence of the Father and the Son.
In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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The Wazari Team is a famous Polish Expedition Group. The team members Grzegorz Gontarz, Szymon Gontarz and Piotr Zasko have been traveling professionally for over 12 years. They have gone tens of thousands kilometers by bikes in Europe and Australia & Oceania. Recently they reached the peaks of the Tatra Mountains, the Pyrenees, theAlps and the New Zealand Alps (second Polish winter attempt to reach Mt. Cook). They also reached many of the largest glaciers in the world.
Iceland – a volcanic island in the North Atlantic – is often referred to as moonlike due to its landscape. Because of extreme weather conditions and topography many parts of the county are inaccessible.
Iceland‘s Vatnajökull glacier has an area of 8420 sqm which is 1/12 of the island’s territory and is also the biggest glacier in Europe. It is also one of only 3 continental glaciers worldwide. The Hvannadalshnúkur - Iceland’s highest peak – is also situated on this glacier.
Hofsjökull – the third biggest glacier in Iceland (925 sqm) is the most active one. It is located in the central part of the island. Its volcanic crater is situated below the ice sheet and has a radius of 11 km. The highest summit of this glacier has a height of 1765 m a.s.l.
Langjökull is a glacier with a relatively large sheet of ice and the second biggest glacier in Iceland (1021 sqm). Its landscape is very moderate compared to other glaciers. The highest peak of the Langjökull is 1360 meters high.
The expedition of the Wazari Team began in the mid of July 2010 in Keflavik. In the beginning the sportsmen were riding their bikes. In the meantime a car carried the climbing gear, the sleds and the rest of the equipment. Up to the Vatnajökul glacier the route was mainly asphalt. At this point the actual part of the glacier crossing began. Firstly 140 km through the Vatnajökull and from then via an off-road route to the Hofsjökull glacier. There the team had to cross 40 km of glacier ice, afterwards another 50 km off-road toward the Langjökull. The last glacier was crossed on a length of 60 km. Altogether the Wazari Team had to travel 340 km through the heart of Iceland far away from any civilization. The way back to the airport was ridden by bike.
LYL FOOD was official partner of the Wazari Team. During the expedition the team used freeze-dried meals prepared by LYO FOOD.
More details on the expedition: www.iceland.wazari.pl
Shishapangma 2005 - On January 14th, 2005 Piotr Morawski and Simone Moro reached the peak of the Shishapangma and became the first people in the world to climb this mountain in winter
Greenland 2008 - within 30 days the expedition team traveled 700 km and climbed the highest mountain in southeast Greenland
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Here’s a programming challenge / interview question that I like to think about, and gives me that tingly feeling of “I think there’s a really clever, efficient algorithm for this” but I haven’t been able to come up with a really clever answer yet. Here’s the problem:
Given a file containing N random positive integers less than N, write a program that runs on O(n) time and produces a collection of sorted files containing the input data, but where each file is itself in strictly sorted order.
Give it a try and send me the code and we can compare algorithms. I’ve been working with N=10000 and have a solution that produces about 200 unique sorted files, and can get as good as about 160 unique sorted files if I allow a fixed constant sized space usage (i.e. a small internal buffer).
I like to think of this operation as “semi-sorting”. The output is a collection of sorted files, which can be merged together by a traditional merge operation. | <urn:uuid:3e6549a9-dcf2-443f-aa79-8d6d6cfad99c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://slacy.com/blog/2012/10/programming-challenge-semi-sort-a-list-of-random-numbers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936265 | 222 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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Most of my coaching has been with 12-14 year old girls who desperately want to hit overhead serves, but at first, they can barely get the ball to the attack line, sometimes in an adjoining court. That can be terribly discouraging, so after much observation, research and experimentation, I have found something that works, and it’s a simple one-step addition - literally.
Since the VB weighs only about 10 ounces, it doesn’t take a lot of power to make it go, but the bio-mechanics of a serve involves certain momentum to insure that the ball carries successfully over the net. The laws of physics dictate that the more forward moving force is applied to the ball, the greater the likelihood that its flight into the far court will be accomplished.
With that in mind, consider the standard serve technique taught in most VB coaching books: a right hand server is to plant her left foot forward just behind the endline, toss the ball and swing away. What usually happens? The ball dies after 20 feet. Sideout and point lost in rally scoring.
May I suggest the unconventional and move the server back behind the endline at least 6 feet (2 meters or so). How can this help? Well, this not only eliminates the dreaded curse of foot fouling, but it also removes the mental barrier which unconsciously lingers in a young server’s mind, which is to stop when the serve reaches the endline to keep from foot-fouls. But coaches don’t want servers to stop: we want them to swing through and dash to their position on the court. Instead of thinking "Stop", they must be thinking "GO", so backing them up will give plenty of room to swing and go.
Now that the server is positioned sufficiently behind the endline, try something else unconventional and have the right handed server plant her RIGHT foot forward. Then, as she tosses, she steps at the same time with her LEFT foot. Now, her entire body is moving with forward momentum toward the far court. Guess what? Without any great refinement on the toss and contact of the ball, the server will see an immediate increase in distance, because the laws of physics demand that greater force makes the object go further.
I can hear the loudest objection to this, that "we must eliminate any excess motion where errors may happen." True enough, but what’s better: a serve which dies at the attack line, or one that clears the net? Furthermore, I have found that the step helps to direct the ball in the desired direction, as the arm swing tends to follow the path of the lead foot. Starting with a planted lead foot may limit the intended aim, as the server would have to swing across the body in a rather unnatural motion. A step with the left foot does not immediately give away the desired placement of the serve to the opposition, since they are usually watching the ball (which is why coaches ought to train their receivers to watch the server’s foot!) .
Another objection is that the one-step will mess up the toss. Well, let’s consider the toss: most beginning servers toss too low and too far, so I have found that beginners gain more control on the toss using both hands and releasing the ball at about eye level. Furthermore, the conventional wisdom of a low toss may work with experienced servers, but beginners need to make a good 8-10 foot upward toss. It’s much easier to adjust to an errant high toss than even a good low one, and besides, we teach servers to contact the ball with a high swing, which is mighty hard to do with a low toss.
But if they take an extra step, will they not tend to toss the ball out too far? Perhaps at first, but I have devised a little poem which helps to insure an up and in toss. It’s called, "Nose to Toes", and that’s the entire poem. The idea is to toss the ball in a straight line in front of the nose so that the ball would drop to the floor just in front to the lead toes; thus, "Nose to Toes". Coaches actually know we want the toss to be more on a line between the hitting shoulder and hitting-side knee, but Shoulder to Knee doesn’t rhyme, whereas, "Nose to Toes" has the same desired effect. See if that helps.
So in summary, here are the steps to a beginner’s serve:
Position (6-8 feet off the endline);
Posture, left foot pulled back (for a right handed server; right foot for a lefty);
Aim for a target; while holding the ball with both hands at chest level;
Breath deeply; and
Step with the left foot in the direction of the intended target, with hips swiveled bit to the right; (opposite for a left-hander) and
Toss in one fluid motion, thinking "Nose to Toes;" and keeping your eyes on the ball; then
Cock the hitting arm back with elbow high and thumb down (in an archery position), then,
Contact the ball high with the palm shaped around the ball (middle of palm to middle to ball), following through the swing toward the intended target and finally,
Go to your position, ready to play.
Yes, this is a lot to remember, but like any acquired technique, it can be learned and it will become second nature. Then the coach can start calling serving zones, which adds to the Discipline of the server, but that’s a matter for another article.
I previously submitted an article on a simplified Serve Technique, which has received good feed back from coaches and players around the country. It encourages coaches to train younger players to start the serve by setting up with left foot pulled back (for right handed hitters) and then stepping with that left foot at the same time as the toss. That gets the whole body moving forward into the serve, greatly increasing chances of the ball actually getting over the net.
But even with the intentional step, many players struggle with the serve - even those who have played for several years; in fact, I was watching a Division I college player recently (a setter, no less, so the coach couldn’t sub her out on serves) who consistently drove her serves into the net. A diagnosis of her serving form indicated her arm swing was counterproductive.- and easily correctable.
This incorrect arm swing is a common problem which plagues even experienced players who did not learn good serving techniques when they starting playing. I describe this improper arm swing as "up, stop and forward," as that’s what the arm does. Such a swing is terribly counterproductive to a good serve, because the arm is moving the wrong direction- away from the net- then it must stop, and start forward. By consequence, contact with the ball is weak, and it often flutters like a wounded duck and falls helplessly short of the net.
The reason why this action is wrong for serving is easily demonstrated to your player. Have her hold her hitting arm straight out, with palm down, and then raise her arm straight up and back. Not much beyond 90 degrees, the arm stops. It simply won’t go any further unless the shoulder is rotated: God designed it that way.
Now have your player hold her hitting arm straight out with palm down and swing her arm downward and around, like a wind mill. Guess what? The arm very naturally makes a nice big arch: the elbow can be pulled up and back, and the swing accelerates as the open palm makes solid contact with the ball. Your player will be pleasantly amazed as she watches the ball travel over the net (assuming she makes good contact, but that’s another training session! )
Like any habit, this method will take repetition to become second nature, especially if your player has taught herself to struggle with an "up, stop, and forward" motion. To help them, I give my players a key phrase when they set up to serve, such as "swing down," or "under and over." I’ve seen the change improve the serve of several of my players this season, who’ve gone from less than 40% efficiency to more than 80%, with little more than changing the arm swing.- and with rally scoring giving a point for every missed serve, your team must have high serving effectiveness!
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Digital Dark Ages?
As we move into the electronic era of digital objects it is important to know that there are new barbarians at the gate and that we are moving into an era where much of what we know today, much of what is coded and written electronically, will be lost forever. . . . much as monks of times past, it falls to librarians and archivists to hold to the tradition which reveres history and the published heritage of our times. (Kuny, 1998) | <urn:uuid:f084875d-f773-4f90-a6c3-c193e9f423f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/events/metadata/MetadataWorkshopJantz/tsld002.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973522 | 103 | 1.679688 | 2 |
How to get buses moving
- Last Updated: 11:43 PM, January 20, 2013
- Posted: 10:48 PM, January 20, 2013
How long should New Yorkers put up with the school-bus strike? Last week, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 was in charge of the schedule. Mayor Bloomberg should make clear that the city will get kids to school on time and safely — by making it clear that striking workers are risking their jobs.
As temperatures fell below freezing late last week, barely a third of the private yellow school buses that take 152,000 New York kids to school were on duty. That was a drop from Wednesday, the first strike day. Picketers intimidated replacement drivers and blocked buses.
The last time the union went out on strike, in 1979, it stayed out 13 weeks.
And the city caved in, giving the workers the civil-servant-style job protections that they want to keep now, no matter which private company employs them. (The city’s drive to do away with those protections after 34 years has pushed the union out this time.)
So without decisive action from Bloomberg, New York parents could be looking at chaos till summer — or longer. Your kid may not get to school until the bus drivers run out of money.
But the mayor can take action — by moving to terminate the bus companies’ contracts for nonperformance.
Whatever the city does, it’ll end up in court. Its contracts with bus companies are not well written. Unlike solid contracts that outline who does what in the event of everything from war to earthquakes, the contracts are vague on who — the company or the city — is responsible in a strike. The contracts require that bus companies make “good faith” efforts — and the mayor hasn’t said what he thinks that means.
But the contracts do define what is a violation of the contract. “Failure to conform to and maintain the route,” “exclusion of any rider from a run,” “failure to provide service to a school,” “failure to dispatch the kind of bus specified” and “failure to have the minimum number of spare vehicles” are among violations, with no excuses.
The city can issue fines of $2,800 a day, in some cases per bus route or per child, which could add up to tens of thousands of dollars (or more) a day.
Since contractors aren’t getting paid by the city while their buses are idle, such fines could put them out of business.
In the meanwhile, the city could move up its call for bids for new contractors to now, instead of next fall, signing emergency short-term deals with new bus fleets.
New drivers and matrons, like the old, would have to meet safety qualifications and criminal-background checks, just as the city plans for next year’s contracts.
Killing existing contracts means killing the drivers’ jobs — a threat Bloomberg hasn’t wielded yet.
It works. In 1994, Legal Aid lawyers who worked for a private firm under a city contract, similar to the bus drivers today, went out on strike for a raise. Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani immediately moved to terminate the contract. Just as immediately, the lawyers went back to work — on the city’s terms.
The mayor should be clear that striking workers are risking their jobs. Union leaders don’t necessarily have workers’ interests at heart — just as they didn’t in the recent past. When bus companies must make extortion payoffs to the union’s leader, as they did under former chief Sal “Hotdogs” Battaglia, now a felon, that means less money for drivers.
And new bidders are not going to hire minimum-wage workers. All companies need experienced drivers and matrons who won’t walk off the job in a few months’ time for a better opportunity.
Commercial drivers’ licenses and clean records are worth something. If that weren’t true, the bus companies would’ve ditched the union years ago.
The mayor’s duty is to taxpayers, parents and kids. There’s a lot at stake.
The members of a different union, the Transport Workers Union, who staff the subway and bus system, struck in 2005 (illegally, because they, unlike the school-bus workers, are public workers).
The TWU has been without a contract for a year now — and it’s been gingerly testing its power again in recent weeks.
Union members have given out fliers to riders suggesting that the MTA makes subway motormen enter stations too fast for safety — and is reminding the drivers and conductors to “use caution.”
Since work slowdowns are illegal, the TWU has been careful to not tell drivers to slow down.
But TWU leaders not only support the striking school-bus drivers; they’re watching closely.
Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.
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Few stories have captured popular imagination like the recounting of Anna Leonowen's experiences as governess to the King of Siam's children. First written as a personal account, her time with the royal family has been the subject of novels, a Broadway play and several movies besides this one, such as Anna and the King (1999), The King and I (the 1956 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical), and an animated The King and I (1999).
In this 1946 telling, the widow (Irene Dunne) sets sail for Siam in the 1860s, arriving in the "still half barbaric" country with her son Louis (Richard Lyon) and superior attitude in tow. Initial introductions with Prime Minister Kralahome (Lee J. Cobb) come off badly, leaving both parties feeling snubbed by the rudeness of the other. Cultural ignorance continues to plague the new employee's interactions with the court, in everything from accommodations to student discipline.
Still, that doesn't stop the stubborn educator from matching wills with the revered monarch (Rex Harrison). Her persistent tactics include subtle nagging about having a house of her own, pleading against the ill-treatment of slaves, chiding over uncivilized behaviors, passionate outbursts regarding the miscarriage of justice-- etc, etc, etc.
Meanwhile, the equally headstrong ruler does his best to ignore or resist her suggestions. His purpose for hiring the British teacher may have been to improve his household's understanding of the English language and his country's status among the European nations, but he isn't prepared to abandon one thousand years of tradition - or take counsel from a woman! Surprisingly, their frequent power struggles result in the two opponents developing a mutual respect.
When released in 1946, Anna and the King of Siam was banned in Thailand (the modern name for the ancient country.) And no wonder. Even though Hollywood audiences found little objectionable (with the possible exceptions of a burning at the stake, a bare back wounded by a whip lashing, the depiction of a polygamous family, and some slightly-revealing native costumes), the portrayal of a motherly Anna arrogantly advising a childlike King Mongkut was offensive to many Thai citizens.
There is no question the script takes the opportunity to champion western ideals like democracy and freedom, with a feminist sense of equality. The bias is even quietly underscored by the casting choices -leading man Rex Harrison is English, while the actors playing the parts of Kralahome (Lee J. Cobb), Lady Thiang (Gail Sondergaard) and Tuptim (Linda Darnell) are Americans with no Asian heritage.
So why have so many people been enthralled by this tale? Perhaps because they have seen it as just that: a more-fiction-than-fact version of Anna Leonowen's life. With such a perspective, the movie can be enjoyed for what it really is - entertainment.
Anna and the King of Siam is rated Not Rated:
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In recent years, there has been an heigtened demand for organic products, particularly for organic baby products. Parents of course want the best for their babies and organic baby stores in White City stock everything they require to keep their little ones happy and healthy.
White City organic baby stores sell products that have no toxins and chemicals. So the primary benefit of organic baby products is that they're healthier and have a reduced risk of producing side effects like allergic reactions.
Eco-friendly parents also like the fact that organic baby products are also better for the environment. Cotton utilized to make cloth for organic baby clothes, for example, are not treated with chemicals and insecticides that affect far more than the cotton crop.
Products in White City Organic Baby Stores
As a greater number of parents realize the importance of choosing organic, more and more organic baby products are being made available in stores across the U.S.. These days, parents can find an organic option for almost anything.
In-demand organic baby products include:
- Baby clothes
- Baby food
- Bath products
- Lotions and Creams
Providers can only label their baby products organic once they have gained organic certification. One thing to keep in mind is that unlike organic products, 'all natural' products aren't regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Parents that are considering an 'all natural' product should carefully look over the ingredients and/or label to determine whether an organic option is the right choice.
Well Known Organic Baby Stores in White City
Burt's Bees is a famous line of personal organic products, including organic baby products. Their products can be bought in well established stores across the U.S. such as Target.
Baby Earth is an online organic baby store that sells all natural and organic baby products from numerous companies.
Whole Foods Market has been a leading provider of organic products since 1980, and there isn't a shortage of organic baby products in their stores.
The Organic Consumers Association and the Organic Information Center are also wonderful resources for researching various organic products and services, including organic baby stores.
Investing in organic products, particularly food and hygiene products, when children are in the initial stages of development is an investment worth making. As organic baby products grow in popularity parents can expect to find more local and online organic baby stores in White City to shop at and more economical prices as well. | <urn:uuid:9bd2489b-b35c-49f7-b20b-8bf3c9703faf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.organicaginfo.org/oregon/organic-baby-stores-white-city | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950689 | 485 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Cannabis is the world’s favourite drug, but also one of the least understood. Can cannabis cause schizophrenia? Is it addictive? Can it lead you on to harder drugs? Or is it simply a herb, an undervalued medicine?
Addiction specialist Dr John Marsden discovers that modern science is finally beginning to find answers to these questions. John traces the cannabis plants’ birthplace in Kazakhstan; finds the origins of our sensitivity to cannabis in the simple sea squirt; and finds out just what it does to our brains.
He meets people who have been changed by this drug in drastically different ways – from those whose lives have been shattered to those who lives have been revived. | <urn:uuid:18bef27e-4c49-497c-935e-25f5fa3f889b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://documentaryheaven.com/cannabis-the-evil-weed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954497 | 140 | 1.820313 | 2 |
My first problem was that I had little idea what a sustainable teaching practitioner would look like.. even after thinking about it for over a year now. Using less paper and turning off the lights, and teaching sustainability to students seemed too easy and patronising. So without a good idea of what a sustainable teaching practitioner was, I can't clearly think of things I might change in the courses, and other things I do that influence teaching practices as such...
This problem spiraled in me, and is what lead me to questioning the organisational structure and power dynamics that a teacher works in. My first visioning of a sustainable teacher therefore was one who is self determined - out from under the umbrellas, and directly answerable to their "market" - what would it be like to be the rain?
But more importantly, given that I/we are not yet sure what a sustainable practitioner really looks like, I think our teacher training needs to keep the question open, to not try to make a prescribed picture with specific learning outcomes, but to set up processes and practices in which the sustainable practitioner (what ever it may be in the future) has every opportunity to develop.
That said, I'm wondering about 2 tangible practices a teacher might develop that may lead to sustainability in the profession:
1. What if teachers documented their work in such a way that other practitioners can access, interpret and sometimes use or adapt the practices of others more? Think of the valuable teacher observation.. you've been 2 years in teacher training, but nothing taught you more about teaching than those few days you had observing the practice of experienced teachers. In a way, that opportunity to observe is a form of documentation on the part of the experienced teacher, in that at least one person can access and interpret the methods and adapt what they see in their own practice. Trouble is, simple observation doesn't scale very well.
Active documentation of our work such as what we in the edublogosphere have been doing, can lead to new self consciousness, and connectivity with other practitioners, that in turn lead to professional development such as sustainability. But reflective 'blogging' your work isn't for everyone and so it too doesn't scale very well. Publishing lesson plans could be another way, in the open educational resources vein. We can observe teachers rating and using each others materials, and in some instances this openness and sharing can lead to another sort of self consciousness, and connectivity with other practitioners, that leads to professional development. So what I mean by documentation of our work is any form of record making so that large numbers of other practitioners have the opportunity to observe and interact with your work, and critique or develop further your efforts towards more sustainable practice. I think having documentation as a core practice in teaching will improve opportunities for professional networks to connect and more sustainable practices to develop, so long as sustainability is on the agenda - just as edtech has been on the agenda in the edublog arena for the past 5 years or more.
2. The second thought I had so far is for teaching practitioners to become more accountable to the micro economics around their practice. Like the documentation practice, this could easily be used against them, so a very supportive atmosphere would need to be established first for this to work properly, and it would need to be trialed first - in the private performance appraisal process perhaps.
The idea is for the teacher to become aware of all the financial considerations that surround their practice - including triple bottom line accounting. Much the same as a small business or a consultant would manage their own books, a teacher does theirs. They obviously know their income, but I doubt they know the cost of their work station, the rooms they need to teach in, the teaching resources, the support services.. all these are financial costs or outgoings that I think a sustainable practitioner needs to know about - including ecological and social costs. Equally, that practitioner needs to know what income their practice brings. What is the per student government subsidy for each of the courses the teacher teaches on? I am amazed how many people in our organisation don't even know that much? How much do I save (or cost) by working from home a little more? What about my software choices and abilities? What about how little I print, and how little I use the IT infrastructure and support services here? How much funding do I bring in for my research? How much funding do I bring in for projects? How much is my voluntary community work worth? How much income do I generate if I plant and maintain a food garden in the living campus?
So envisioning what a sustainable teaching practitioner might look like, I'm wondering about 2 things:
1. What can a teacher do to improve collaboration and communication with their colleagues, that might lead to better professional development for them and/or others, that might lead to better sustainable practices emerging and rapidly scaling across the sector? (in the absence of a clear idea of sustainable practice at the moment).
2. How self determined and accountable could each individual in the organisation become, and how could we account for all bottom lines in such a way to be able to determine each person's sustainability, and address short falls in a constructive and inclusive way - not by firing, but through self redirection of efforts, professional development or new responsibilities, and welfare nets for those who fail first times round.
Applying this model to myself...
- Clearly I document my work and that has lead to tangible progress in my own and other's professional development.
- Regarding the accountability, I did some quick numbers and found that I am $20 000 short in my financial sustainability. I did not apply triple bottom line accounting to that, so I don't know the unit of income I might be bringing in through developing new courses for other teachers, or by volunteering to help with Living Campus and other things outside my core responsibility.
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Just thought i would give everyone a heads up. Over the past 2 weeks there has been a dramatic rise in the number of flu cases we are seeing locally and what the CDC has been reporting across the country. Its early yet and I can not remember a year as bad as this. We are seeing a half dozen cases of culture positive ( documented) influenza daily when we usually see 1-2 cases a week this time of the year. The good news is that I have yet to see a case in anyone who was vaccinated so this years vaccine seems to be working well.
If you haven’t already gotten your vaccine you may want to do so quickly. It takes about 2 weeks to develop peak immunity. In the mean time wash your hands frequently. | <urn:uuid:94226962-40ad-49af-88b0-3d18d0999421> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/15389/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984167 | 153 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The bottom line is in: Taxpayers spent more than three times the projected cost to redraw the state's political districts.
Voters gave the commission $3 million to draw legislative and Board of Equalization district boundaries by passing Proposition 11 in 2008.
Money ran out quickly.
The final tab was $10.4 million, roughly one-third of which was Bureau of State Audit funds used to solicit and screen applicants for the 14-member citizens panel that replaced the Legislature in drawing political districts.
Executive Director Dan Claypool said it is not surprising that the commission's initial $3 million fell short. The state never before had attempted independent redistricting, and the authors of Proposition 11 took their best shot at estimating cost, he said.
"In fairness, when you're working in a void and just attaching a number, one number is as good as the next," he said. "But we believe this (bottom line) will provide a more realistic basis for next time around."
The commission pegged its own costs at $6.9 million and the Bureau of State Audit's tab at $3.5 million. The figures do not include $3.3 million spent by the Irvine Foundation to educate community groups and encourage public comment as initial maps were drawn and released.
Commissioners were not paid a salary, but received $300 for each day they worked. Other expenses included the cost of holding public hearings throughout the state, travel, a roughly 10-person administrative staff, public relations, line-drawing services, computer software, and legal counsel to defend against lawsuits challenging the new districts.
Funded only through June 30, the redistricting commission is preparing to shut down. Its cost estimates Thursday covered a three-year process that began with recruiting thousands of potential panelists and climaxed with the drawing of new political districts that were used in this week's primary election.
Days before selection of the panel's first eight members in November 2010, Californians approved Proposition 20 to expand the panel's duties to include congressional boundaries. The voters' action increased costs, by an unspecified amount, but did not add more funding. | <urn:uuid:7b3717a5-206f-4e1b-81cb-4c20ae133fb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976675 | 433 | 1.8125 | 2 |
(Note that this article is, as with the majority of my articles, only meant for advanced users & programmers. It may be completely useless for beginners. You've been warned.)
Today, I've started investigating the CPU usage of the software decoders of the iOS multimedia players I'm reviewing for my forthcoming iOS Multimedia bible. (Of which the work-in-progress feature & benchmark measurements chart, in OpenOffice format, is already public. It's quite a bit messed up (again, it's a chart I'm actively working on) but you may already find answers to even your most unique questions.) For this, I've reviewed all the CPU measurement techniques available on iOS – a very important parameter of the players if you want to have as good battery life and low device temperature as possible. (There may be huge differences in the efficiency between even custom audio – for example, OGG or WMA – decoders, let alone video ones.)
Old methods: deriving CPU usage from charge level drops & AppStore-based “Benchmark” app
Simply tracking battery usage by running each test for at least an hour(!) to gain already somewhat reliable results and checking out the before/after battery charge levels is far too time-consuming. The “Benchmark” app I, back in 2008-early 2009 (see for example my Internet Radio roundup), used for CPU usage tracking is pretty much useless when benchmarking video decoding. (Nevertheless, the app still works pretty reliably on the latest iOS versions. It has long been removed from the AppStore, it seems, so don't even try looking for it.)
All in all, these approaches are not recommended – there are much better ones.
First and foremost, if you have a Mac and also have a paid developer account, which means you can deploy apps from Xcode on your iDevice(s), your best friend will be the built-in Instruments. Start it and select “Activity Monitor” from the default “iOS” group:
Then, select “All Processes” from the “Target” drop-down list in the upper right (by default, it reads “Choose Target”). Now, you can click the now-enabled “Record” button and start investigating CPU usage in the lower right pane. (I recommend sorting it by CPU.) An example showing GoodPlayer (my favourite media player) playing back the standardized test demo “Suzumiya”:
The above method is by far the best:
- it doesn't require jailbreaking and, therefore, works with the iPad 3, all iOS versions of iPad 2 and iPhone 4S etc.
- it can sample an application running in the foreground (an absolute must if you benchmark video players)
Of course, if you don't have a Mac and/or don't have a paid dev account, you're pretty much shot. Then, you might want to examine the alternatives described below.
MobileTerminal / SSH / ps / top
If your device is jailbroken, you may already installed either OpenSSH or MobileTerminal (or both). (Note: if you go for the latter, you'll need to follow the steps I've outlined in THIS article.) To set up the former (the recommended approach, as it doesn't need to be run in the foreground), just follow the steps explained in the front page of Cydia, under “OpenSSH Access How-To”, annotated in the following screenshot:
As soon as you gain access to the command prompt, either local (MobileTerminal) or remote (OpenSSH), you'll notice the standard jailbroken distros lack the “ps” command, which, at least on “full” OS'es like Mac OS X, is needed to quickly check out CPU usage. It needs to be installed separately from Sections > Administration > adv-cmds. However, there's no “CPU” or “STIME” column in the iOS build of PS (check out THIS for more info on handling them) so it's completely useless for our purposes.
“Top” for the rescue! While it's pretty much useless under Mac OS X (as opposed to the just-discussed PS), it delivers the same (very good) constantly-updated CPU usage results on iOS as Instruments. A screenshot of this (again, showing the CPU usage during Suzumiya decoding):
“Top” is in the “top” package under Sections > Administration in Cydia. As with adv-cmds, it's only available if you've declared yourself to be a Developer at initially starting Cydia. If you haven't, you can always change it by going to Sources > Settings.
I've also purchased the Cydia app “BatteryDetective” ($2) only to find out that it's either totally incompatible with my iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 or is plain useless, at least for monitoring the CPU usage of individual processes. At least I've got wildly different and contradicting values when, for example, benchmarking the battery drain caused by the built-in, always-running Mail and FaceTime processes. The battery measurement value I got after sampling GoodPlayer was also useless and orders of magnitude below the real power usage of the app.
However, there are certain advantages of the app: for example, it shows the cycle count of the battery (closely correlated to the remaining, maximal capacity), which is indeed unique:
But, for this, unless you absolutely hate ads, you can also use the free(!) BatteryInfo Lite, also available n Cydia. I heartily recommend the latter (unlike with the former, which I couldn't really use for anything)!
This app is (still) available in the AppStore (unlike “Benchmark”) and, to some degree, it's also capable of displaying (total) system CPU load - see the annotated area in the following screenshot:
This shows the app's display when playing back the audio track of the standard test video “Monsters”.
With both CPU cores used at 100% (for example, GoodPlayer crashing after returning from playing a 1080p MKV's audio track in the bacground and, then, tapping Done), the first value is around 2.5.
The disadvantage of this app compared to all the other ones is that it's VERY slow to decrease to around 0.5-0.7 (the first number in the “Load” section) after the real load is gone, that is, the CPU-intensive app is closed. Also, by its nature, it can't run in background and, therefore, can't be used to benchmark for example video stream decoding (as opposed to audio). However, if you absolutely don't have access to a Mac with Instruments or can't / don't want to jailbreak, it might still become handy. | <urn:uuid:58e8721d-8086-4c8f-a918-0b61f3b3453d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/87/reliable-cpu-usage-measurements-idevices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944238 | 1,452 | 1.78125 | 2 |
And that's just how he would want it, say scholars who have studied his writings, speeches and sermons.
Rather, Benedict, who stepped down Thursday as bishop of Rome and pope of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, saw his role as recovering the 2,000-year tradition of the church and suggesting the modern world take a look.
That meant a return to biblical roots and an emphasis on liturgy, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, a Jesuit theologian at Fordham University in New York.
"His theology was meant as a course correction," Lienhard says. "He wanted to see the Catholic Church renew its way of interpreting the Bible, to return to a richer tradition."
Joseph Ratzinger, the German priest and professor who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, was the first academic theologian to lead the church in 200 years.
Ratzinger often expressed regret he wasn't able to fully develop his theological impulses because service in the church demanded most of his time. Before his fellow cardinals elected him pope, Ratzinger was prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 24 years - the church office charged with ensuring correct doctrine is taught.
Nonetheless, he published in the neighborhood of 90 books as well as scores of speeches, sermons, essays and letters. Much of his work dealt with trends he found troubling, such as the rise of
Once he became pope, Ratzinger's focus turned in the direction he had suggested in a 2000 speech: "The church must not speak primarily of herself but of God."
His first encyclical, or letter to the church, eight months after becoming pope, was titled "God Is Love."
"Everything has its origin in God's love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God's greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope," he wrote in his third encyclical, "Charity in Truth," in 2009.
His weekly Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's Square became an occasion to catechize the faithful, including a reintroduction to the thinking of the earliest Christians.
Significantly, the last books he wrote as pope were in the Jesus of Nazareth three-part series, the last of which, The Infancy Narratives, was published last fall.
The Rev. D. Vincent Twomey, an Irish priest who studied under Ratzinger in Germany in the 1970s and later wrote a book on him, says the Jesus of Nazareth books help address one of the church's core problems: "the false answer to the question 'Who is Jesus Christ?' "
While the historical-critical method popular among theologians in recent decades shed light on Jesus as a historical figure, it often undermined his divinity. The pope reconciles the two in the three Jesus of Nazareth series, Twomey says.
"That will be one of his main contributions. It's all very profound," says Twomey, author of the 2007 book Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age.
Liturgy, the way the church worships, was the pope's second great concern, Lienhard says. "He accepted the reforms [of Vatican II] but thought they were being misinterpreted. He saw that after the council, the liturgy was too noisy and chatty and lacked a sense of reverence and awe of worship."
The pope was gentle every time he celebrated Mass - as if to say, "Isn't this better and a more devout way?" Lienhard explains. He also pressed for Gregorian chant and other traditional music and allowed priests to say public Masses in Latin again.
"Much of the goofiness is gone," Lienhard says.
Monsignor Francis Mannion, a theologian in Salt Lake City, says that if Benedict has a theological legacy, it might be in the liturgy.
"He has emphasized that as a basis of his theology in a way that no other theologians have," Mannion says.
Much of the pope's work was a critique, both of those who saw Vatican II as an opportunity to modernize a church they regarded as anachronistic and, even more so, of an increasingly secular world that rejects the notion of truth.
"He was disappointed that the council was not taken seriously but what was taken seriously was 'Let's keep changing,' " Lienhard said.
In 1985, as divides grew in the church over Vatican II's meaning, Ratzinger told an Italian journalist that real reform comes only by obedience to Christ.
"Saints, in fact, reformed the church in depth, not by working up plans for new structures, but by reforming themselves. What the church needs in order to respond to the needs of man in every age is holiness, not management."
Benedict often evaluated modern ideologies and fashionable intellectual currents from the perspective of Christian doctrine, says Tracey Rowland, an Australian theologian who wrote the 2008 book Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI.
He had much to say, for instance, "about the relationship between faith and reason and truth and love," Rowland writes in an email.
Regarded as a liberal before Vatican II, where he was a young theologian, Ratzinger later was considered a conservative.
"What looked liberal in 1963," Rowland says, "began to look conservative in 1968."
The truth was that he was never liberal nor conservative, she says. "If one label best sums him up, it is Christocentric."
Ode to tradition
The Rev. Allan Fitzgerald, director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University near Philadelphia, says he's not so sure that Benedict will leave a theological legacy.
Not only is the new pope emeritus one of many theologians trying to make tradition accessible, Fitzgerald says, but also many Catholics are unaware of his teachings beyond the few hot-button issues such as women's ordination or priestly celibacy.
"I don't think people on this side of the Atlantic have ever been given much of a chance to know what he has said or written," says Fitzgerald, who taught for 12 years at the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome, including when Benedict was elected.
Theologians and the media tend toward the polemic, and that leaves little attention for what the pope says. "He tried, but I don't think his personality helped a lot," says Fitzgerald, who saw Benedict as a warm scholar, but lacking the charisma of his predecessor, John Paul II.
Fitzgerald does see the "new evangelization" promoted by Benedict and John Paul II as holding great potential. That's the term given the church's project to introduce an old faith to a modern culture, tapping new technology and social media when appropriate.
For his part, Fitzgerald is preparing an app for Augustine's fourth-century autobiography, Confessions.
"It's a way," Fitzgerald says, "of trying to say. 'We've got something good. Let's find a way to put it out there.' "
In his last hours as pope, the 85-year-old Benedict showed how to speak about the old in a new way, tweeting his last 140-character-or-less message @Pontifex:
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by Gary North
One of my strongest recollections is my 25th birthday. My grandmother told me, "You'll be 30 before you know it." I knew this already. What I didn't know was that I would be 50 before I knew it. Think of the words of the patriarch, Jacob.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage (Genesis 47:9).
Or, as Ben Franklin put it as Poor Richard, "A child thinks that twenty pounds or twenty years can never be spent."
We always run out of time before we know it. We always feel short-changed when it comes to time. "Where did the time go?" We spent it: that's where it went.
Retrospection in Advance
It is time for you to conduct a retrospective survey at the time of your 80th birthday party. What will you tell the attendees? What words of wisdom will you impart?
The answer will depend on what you will have accomplished. If what you have accomplished is equal to or greater than what you set out to do, your words of wisdom will be worth listening to. Someone may actually listen. Possibly. (Probably not.)
There are three crucial questions in planning for anything, long-run or short-run:
What do I want to accomplish?
How soon do I want to accomplish it?
What am I willing to pay?
To attain your goals, one by one, you must gain the voluntary cooperation of others. To gain their cooperation repeatedly, you need to do only three things.
Do what you promised to do.
Complete the job on time or early.
Do it at the price agreed to or less.
These are the six keys to personal success in life. Establish your answers to the first three questions, and then conduct your business by the second three.
Your only irreplaceable resource is time. You cannot make up for lost time. People say you can, but you can't. As the ancient poem says, "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." The past is economically irrelevant except as a tool of education. As my father says, "Don't stand around looking down a dead horse's throat." (Or words to that effect.)
The value of work is established by its output, not by its input. The labor theory of value is wrong. Activity is no substitute for production. You must internalize this principle of economics. Don't waste resources, but, above all, don't waste time. Don't invest time that you don't need to invest to achieve your goals. Franklin said that time is money. That is the least of it. You can always make more money. You must design your plans of action more by their cost in time than their cost in money. Time is irreplaceable. If you can save time, do so. If you must sacrifice money to save time, do so. Above all, save time. You don't know when it will run out. If you run out of money, you can always figure out a way to replace it, or come close.
You should not count on living to 90 with your mental faculties intact. You might make it to your late eighties. F. A. Hayek did. Ludwig von Mises did. Milton Friedman has. But this is rare.
Calling vs. Occupation
When you begin to make plans for your life's output — not its input — you must ask yourself: "Who will pay me, and why?" Will someone pay you to do what you want to do? Probably not. If not, then you must pay. You must sell buyers what they want, so that you can achieve what you want. This was Adam Smith's great observation.
Before you begin planning, you should clarify you thinking on this issue: calling vs. occupation. Your life's calling is that which you should want to do: "the most important thing that you can do in which you would be most difficult to replace."
Your vocation is selling buyers whatever they want that you have a competitive advantage in selling. Only rarely are calling and occupation the same in a man's life. Until women entered the labor market, their calling was usually their vocation. Today, men and women must balance vocation and calling. They must find someone else who will pay them to do their calling, or else choose a vocation, and then self-fund their calling.
Never spend more money on formal education than you have to in order to achieve either your calling or your vocation. Formal education costs too much in forfeited time and forfeited income. Find a shortcut.
Formal education is mainly for vocations: earning a "union card." But because so many people have earned their union cards, the market vale of the card is low. Forewarned is forearmed.
Self-discipline is a far less expensive substitute for formal education in the case of most callings. People with mediocre self-discipline substitute formal education for complete self-education or education under a master craftsman or professional, the way most education used to be. They need the routine of regular exams: intermediate formal sanctions. But they are rarely among the best and the brightest 30 years after graduation. Their lack of self-discipline undermines them.
Estimate what you will need to begin to earn your income. Pay the minimal price, in both time and money, in order to gain entry. But don't pay for formal education that is not designed to overcome a barrier to entry.
If you want a formal reading list, write to the best academic men in a field and ask for a list. Or ask a university department for its list of recommended readings for an M.A. or Ph.D. Departments publish these. Write to the best departments. Then read as much as you think is benefiting you. Bibliographies at the end of really good books are of far greater value than assigned reading lists in a college or a seminary. Find out what the best men in any field have read and recommend reading, not what worn-out time-servers assign to lowest-common denominator beginners.
It is better to select a vocation that will throw off enough passive income after 20 years of work to enable you to do whatever you want. Build capital. Let your capital support you. Income-producing real estate is usually the most predictable way to do this. Your only other option is to get third parties to fund your calling. But how many third parties will do this? How many vocations persuade third parties to fund one service, allowing you enough free time to do your calling? Would-be professors in colleges hope to gain this advantage when they make their life's plans, but only a handful of them ever gain full-time academic employment, and of those who do, only a few ever use the system to produce significant work. Surely, most of their students neither recognize nor appreciate significant academic performance within a discipline. Self-discipline is still the key to success.
So, I strongly suggest that you make your educational plans in terms of gaining entry into a vocation that will free you up after 20 years to do your calling full-time. Don't invest in formal education for your calling. Invest in your vocation, but only on the assumption that you will retire by age 45 or 50. Then you will work on your calling full-time. The sooner you locate a vocation that will free you up at age 45 or 50, the better off you will be. It is better to amass capital early and skip all formal education that is not explicitly designed to break an entry barrier.
Take a look at this compound interest chart: Investor A vs. Investor B. It reveals just how important early entry is. I wish I had seen it at age 18. I wish every young person could see it. But, unfortunately, seeing isn't believing, any more than hearing is believing. On how to put this chart to work for you, read Richard Russell's comments.
In your case, it's already too late to take full advantage of this chart. But at least you can get started.
I suggest that you speed up your formal education. Don't dawdle. Don't spend one hour in any classroom that isn't directly contributing to your ability to break through a vocational barrier to entry. Keep reading. Keep building your file of notes. You are in a marathon, not a sprint.
January 7 , 2002
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Sat November 3, 2012
Gas Rationing Ordered In New Jersey
Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 5:50 pm
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he is unsure how long restrictions on the sale of gasoline that began at noon on Saturday will last. The gas rationing in 12 New Jersey counties was enacted after Christie signed an executive order Friday night.
The New York Times reports that the biggest hindrance for the state's gas stations was power, not supply, at this point. Outages have hamstringed the distribution system and closed many individual gas stations, resulting in long lines of customers desperate for fuel.
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New Yorkers that the city would get through the disaster, the AP reports, but he was quick to add that he didn't "want anyone to think we're out of the woods yet."
Update at 7:25 p.m. ET. Bloomberg Criticizes Long Island Power Authority:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg updated the city on recovery efforts from Superstorm Sandy on Saturday afternoon. He assured New Yorkers that the city would recover, but that they weren't "out of the woods" just yet.
Bloomberg also criticized the Long Island Power Authority, which provides power to the Rockaways in Queens. He said the utility had not worked hard enough to restore power in the hard-hit neighborhood and that the authority could not give him a timetable for when it would be restored.
"In our view, L.I.P.A. has not acted aggressively enough," Mr. Bloomberg said. "When it comes to prioritizing resources, we think they should be first in line."
Update at 2:30 p.m. ET. FEMA Activates Program For Storm Survivors:
After long lines formed at mobile gas stations in New York City, the AP reports, the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs issued an advisory asking the public to stay away until more fuel is released in order to let first responders get their gas first.
FEMA also activated its Transitional Assistance Program in New York and New Jersey. The program is designed to allow eligible survivors who are in shelters but can't return home due to storm damage to stay in participating hotels until housing is available.
Those who need assistance can call FEMA at 1-800-621-FEMA or register online.
Update at 2 p.m. ET. Free Gas In New York City:
Five emergency mobile gas stations were being deployed around New York City by the military on Saturday, offering 10 free gallons per person. The stations will also supply emergency service vehicles with fuel.
Initial reports from the AP describe "chaos" at an emergency station in Brooklyn and a line of cars 20 blocks long at a station in Queens.
As we reported earlier (below), widespread power outages in the wake of Hurricane Sandy have knocked out fuel distribution networks and forced officials in New Jersey to ration gas in parts of their state.
On Friday, officials canceled the New York City Marathon for the first time in its history as it became apparent that, in Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson's words, "the people who were suffering the most were looking upon this as a source of unhappiness."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had news of progress on Saturday, however, reporting that power was reaching about 60 percent of the New York City metro area. Still, as many as 900,000 people were without power, including 550,000 on Long Island.
Gov. Cuomo also said that as much as 80 percent of the New York City subway system was in service Saturday.
Customers in Manhattan were nearly all back on the grid, with The New York Times reporting only about 5,800 customers lacking power.
NJ.com says power had been restored to 1 million customers in that state since the storm hit, reducing the number without power from 2.4 million last Tuesday to 1.4 million on Saturday.
Our original post:
Restrictions on the sale of gasoline begin at noon Saturday in 12 New Jersey counties after Gov. Chris Christie signed an executive order Friday night.
Power outages have crippled the distribution system and closed many individual gas stations, resulting in long lines of stressed-out customers. NJ.com reports that the situation has echoes of the fuel crises of the 1970s:
"The frustrating focus on finding fuel after the storm has been aggravated by the lack of electricity that helps station employees to keep pumping gas. It has also led to lines that meander on down major Monmouth streets and highways, mirroring the remembered fuel crisis of the 1970s. Ultimately, the grim search for gas has pushed the limits of civilians and law enforcement personnel alike, testing people's politeness in the face of a serious situation."
The rationing ordered by Gov. Christie mandates odd-even fuel sales in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex Union and Warren counties. The last number on a car's license plate determines which day it can by fuel: odd numbers buy on odd days, even on even days.
NJ.com also reports there are no restrictions on filling up gas cans. The director of a trade group representing gas retailers predicts in the same story that gas distribution will be nearly back to normal by the end of the weekend.
Meanwhile, the federal government is stepping in to help stem fuel shortages with the purchase and shipment of up to 12 million gallons of gas and 10 million gallons of diesel. The AP reports:
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday that President Barack Obama has directed the Defense Logistics Agency to handle the purchase of the fuel. It will be transported by tanker trucks and distributed throughout New York, New Jersey and other communities impacted by the storm."
With nerves also fraying over the search for fuel in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed his own executive order Friday intended to get gas flowing again. Silive.com reports:
"On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he signed an executive order waiving New York's requirement that fuel tankers register and pay a tax before unloading. The move will speed up deliver[y] of gas to customers, said Cuomo, adding that tankers are making 'great progress' delivering fuel to distribution centers.
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With a grinning grill, the Peapod "car" awaits customer orders, starting April 22. The Peapod is a member of the growing class of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs), handy for packed city traffic, college campus jaunts, or for short neighborhood treks. The quirky ride tops out at 25 mph -- the official speed limit for NEVs.
The car is a product of a Peapod Mobility, a spun-off division of Chrysler subsidiary GEM, which has been producing small electric vehicles for 10 years. GEM has had strong sales in retirement communities and college campuses.
Peter E. Arnell, who designed the new Pepsi logo (which purportedly is supposed to represent a grinning face), is the company's director and brand guru, which perhaps explains the weirdness attached to the vehicle. Not only bulbous, the car is a real eye catcher with a clear smile complete with headlights on the vehicle's bumper. The smiling theme is repeated inside the car.
The car, according to Mr. Arnell was inspired by "Japanese bullet trains, storm troopers from the film Star Wars, space helmets and turtles."
The car retails for $12,500. It comes with some cool computerized perks -- it reports the carbon and gas money savings from each trip, once you arrive home.
Interestingly, Mr. Arnell defiantly refuses to have his vehicle referred to as a NEV, despite that being what the National Highway Transportation Safety board calls it. He calls it a "Mobi", a new brand name he dreamed up. He imagines the brand replacing the term NEV, much as "SUVs" replaced the term 4x4.
Interestingly, the WIRED story reported that the Peapod will “require” an iPod to start up. This, understandably, caused some confusion and prompted angry retorts in the comments below. However, this post from Engadget makes it clear that you certainly have the option of just using a plain old key.
The vehicle will be heavily marketed to urban green commuters and to college students. Pod pickers will see their little Peapods arrive in October… just in time for Halloween.
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Relative care can be a wonderful option for parents and children with extended family members living nearby. As with regular family daycare, the child benefits from the comfort of being in a home atmosphere. Parents have the peace of mind that comes with knowing the caregiver's past. The main area of caution in relative care is maintaining perspective on emotional and financial issues. Fees are definitely a very personal decision, and parents mustn't assume the relative will wish to forego being paid, simply for the sake of love. Caregiving incurs expenses beyond the relative's time. Food, gas and car maintenance, and utility expenses are increased when caring for even a single child. As far as the emotional aspects, some parents have difficulty accepting a relative's opinion with grace, regarding it as a criticism rather than observation. On the other hand, some relatives refuse to accept the parents' final say on issues involving children. Relative caregiving can add richly to a child's life, if you remember to discuss guidelines for financial and emotional behavior ahead of time. | <urn:uuid:2f637094-cb7c-4a60-adb3-102677bf81a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foxkansas.com/guides/parenting/childcaretypes/story/Relative-care/qaiRYRZVWUy7zsfJuGrlIQ.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956057 | 210 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Role of Patients: Becoming Proactive
When diabetes patients learn more about their condition, explore healthier ways to eat, incorporate exercise into their routine, and take an active role in maintaining their health, one possible benefit is a reduction in the amount of ongoing medical care they will require. It only makes sense, then, for health plan administrators like you to make participants with diabetes aware of every resource available to them. Many plans already communicate regularly with their members—to remind them to receive important tests, for example. Now there’s something you can recommend that doesn’t involve sending patients to a testing facility.
Tell patients where to find helpful information
When patients in your plan are first diagnosed with diabetes, it’s easy for them to feel overwhelmed. Pamphlets, brochures, instructions from their doctors—no wonder some of them simply decide that it’s too much information. What they need is a comprehensive resource that addresses many of their concerns in an approachable, friendly manner. And when you can guide them to exactly that, it may even help enhance their plan loyalty.
JourneyForControl.com, the online home of the Journey for Control program, contains a section devoted exclusively to the needs of patients. There they’ll find a world of resources for managing their diabetes: recipes, exercise suggestions, quizzes, dining out tips, success stories, Q & As, and more.
It’s all information that’s designed to help people with diabetes live healthier, more fulfilling lives. No products or devices are mentioned—the goal of the site is simply to provide the most in-depth information available. There are separate sections for patients, physicians, diabetes educators, and health plan administrators like you—the whole circle of diabetes management. | <urn:uuid:7d42c60c-eb96-4708-8d35-0bc20f59ebe2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.journeyforcontrol.com/journey_for_control/journeyforcontrol/for_healthplan/type_2_diabetes_control/diagnosed_with_diabetes.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931294 | 364 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Kitsap County Sheriff's Department teams up with Target Zero
September 19, 2012 · 3:20 PM
Eliminating all alcohol-related roadway fatalities might seem like an impossible goal, but that doesn't stop officers from various agencies across Kitsap County from trying to make a reality out of the idea with DUI emphasis patrols.
The recent "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed" campaign to discourage intoxicated driving took place between Aug. 17 and Sept. 3. The campaign resulted in 66 DUI, by one for the same program in 2011.
Participating agencies included the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, Washington State Patrol, and the Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, Port Orchard and Poulsbo police departments.
Kitsap County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Wilson said that August and September are particularly deadly months on the road for motorists in the state and that sober drivers should be aware of fellow travelers whose alcohol consumption levels are not always safe for the public roadways.
“People are traveling more and with the favorable weather, it's daylight longer, and people are out longer, so if they drink, there is a greater likelihood they will drive,” Wilson said. "During this time of year people are attending various events."
This year's Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign included a special emphasis night at the Kitsap County Fair from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Aug. 24. That was sponsored by Kitsap County Target Zero Task Force and coordinated with various Kitsap County law enforcement agencies.
The task force is funded through the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office with an $85,000 grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
According to data gathered from this emphasis patrol, of the 322 motorists officers pulled over on Aug. 24, approximately 12 resulted in DUI arrests.
Marsha Masters, Kitsap County's Target Zero Task Force manager, oversees Kitsap County's Drive Hammered, Get Nailed, "Click It or Ticket" and "Slow Down or Pay Up" campaigns. She said that the special emphasis, conducted at the fair, where officers knew there was a high volume of motorists driving on the roadways to and from the event, was an effective way to disseminate the message to the population on a mass scale that there are severe consequences for not obeying the state laws regulating drinking and driving.
"Officers and deputies waited around the fair and looked for people who were speeding or for people with their headlights out,” Masters said. “Officers will often saturate an area on a certain day when it is a party night, maybe during a Christmas party and this helps to educate the public. During the winter months, we have the Night of 1,000 Stars Campaign."
Masters said that the goal of the Kitsap County Target Zero program is to ultimately eliminate all roadway fatalities by the year 2030, though she acknowledges that this might be a difficult goal.
"I just want people to play by the rules," she said. "One life lost to drunk driving is too many."
Deputy Wilson added that while the mass effect of the Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign on the public does reduce the level of drunk driving on the county's roadways, this doesn't mean the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office is going to shift more of their manpower resources from traffic deputies to patrol deputies anytime soon.
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Don’t be fooled by Facebook’s ever-expanding empire of mobile apps. Today’s release of Snapchat-ripoff Poke is not only retrograde in the way it revives a dying remnant of the early Facebook vernacular, or in that it harks back to good old days of cloning. It also intensifies app-clutter on our smartphones at a time when real mobile innovation is pushing in the other direction.
The answer to the problem of app overload, as I have argued in recent posts about Google Now and Google Maps, is less not more. There are more than 1 million apps in the App Store, and 700,000 in Google Play. The average iPhone user has 41 apps on his device. Our mobile experience, still only five years old, is already fragmented, fiddly, and difficult to keep up-to-date. So far, the smartest solution we’ve been offered for fighting this unnavigable clutter is the old-fashioned folder.
That’s why we should give “uber-apps” a chance. These are apps that serve multiple functions. When it comes to communications and social networking, these mishmash apps are already a hit in Asia, despite having been around for less than two years. Collectively, Weixin (China), Nimbuzz (India), KakaoTalk (South Korea), and LINE (Japan) serve more than 400 million users, a number that stacks up pretty nicely compared to Facebook’s 600 million mobile users, especially given the latter’s head-start.
These messaging apps not only have chat functions, but they have in-built social graphs, media-sharing features, and timelines, which means they threaten pre-mobile era social networks, smaller messaging services, and even SMS.
Given our already-crowded mobile screens, Facebook’s incremental addition of yet another messaging app is an unwelcome development. As well as Poke, we already have Facebook Messenger, Kik, Voxer, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. When is the Facebook fragmentation going to end? As well as its photos app (Camera), might we soon see a check-ins app to take on Foursquare? An offers app to take on Groupon? A video-calling app that leverages its partnership with Skype? Would it make sense for the Newsfeed to have its own app to better compete with Twitter?
Given the logic of Poke, Camera, and Messenger, Facebook could make a strong argument for each of those apps. Perhaps its goal is to own the homescreen of every mobile device on the planet, and it plans to get there by mass colonization. But it could just as easily go the other way by learning from what Asian messaging apps are doing and rolling everything into one simple but powerful product. Not only would that provide a centralized Facebook experience that improves on its existing offering and opens up fresh monetization opportunities, but it would also go a long way to addressing app overload.
What the multifunctional Google Maps proves is that an “uber-app” can be useful without doing just one thing and suffering from mission creep. Through its local search, transit information, and traffic data, Google Maps provides strong competition to a variety of big-deal apps, including Yelp, Waze, and Foursquare. Similarly, in China Dianping matches Yelp-like local listings and reviews with Groupon-like group-buying discounts. It seems to be working out – Dianping has nearly 50 million active monthly users. But conventional Silicon Valley wisdom suggests these broad-strokes approaches aren’t supposed to work for mobile.
Thanks to the Lean Startup model and its insistence on a “minimum viable product,” as well as the idea that an app should do one thing and one thing well, the early days of the smartphone era have inundated us with products that focus very intently on unique verticals. That approach has served many startups well, especially when it comes to addressing complicated real life issues, such as ridesharing and personal transportation (Lyft, Uber, Zimride), work forces (Exec, Cherry, TaskRabbit, Zaarly), and productivity (Evernote, Dropbox, Expensify). But for some areas, such as media sharing, social networking, communications, it might not make as much sense.
In Asia, those chat services that double as social networks are utterly dominating the mobile experience. China’s Weixin has grown to 200 million users. KakaoTalk and LINE have more than 50 million users each in South Korea and Japan respectively. India’s Nimbuzz has more than 100 million users. They have grown huge userbases by combining instant voice and text messaging with video calls, photosharing, timelines, gaming platforms, and payments and ecommerce platforms. Not only are they killing SMS, but they are threatening other social networks. Weixin, for instance, is eroding the popularity of the Facebook-like Sina Weibo, even though it too has a mobile app.
Skeptics might doubt that such a broad-brush approach would work in the US, given the assumption that most mobile users here prefer minimalism with in their apps. After all, that’s one of the factors that helped Instagram grow so fast and sell to Facebook for what was at the time a $1 billion price.
But if that’s the case, how do you explain Facebook? The social network has more than 100 million mobile users in the US but a cacophony of features – photosharing, newsfeed, messaging, groups, check-ins, events, and an app platform – all crammed into its flagship mobile app. The only problem is that that app is an awkward mobile replica of the Facebook desktop experience. On the other hand, Weixin, KakaoTalk, and the likes were built for smartphones with mobile behaviors in mind.
If something like Weixin took off in the US, or if Facebook was able to effectively craft its own equivalent, then it could spell trouble for niche communications and networking apps such as Path, Pair, Voxer, Kik, WhatsApp, and even media-sharing apps such as Instagram and Viddy.
We’ve been through this before. There are more than 600 million websites on the World Wide Web, yet the average person visits only 89 over the course of a month. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and YouTube, and Wikipedia, among a few others, dominate our Internet use habits. As we have seen in the era of the desktop-mediated Web, consolidation happens. To some extent, all-in-one apps are a logical extension of what already exists on the Web. As the tenets of creative destruction suggest, a boom-and-bust cycle starts with many different companies and inevitably moves towards a realignment, as products fail and the big guys start to assert their dominance.
This consolidation will happen on mobile too, and it will be hurried along by the rise of Google Now-like services, and killer “uber-apps” like Google Maps and the Asian chat services. That could be bad news for startups hoping to get a foothold in the still-new computing paradigm, but it could also help alleviate the ongoing stress of app overload.
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JPMorgan Chase suffered a mammoth trading loss last year as a result of a huge position in credit derivatives that was put on by a trader in its chief investment office. But the bank’s report on the $6 billion loss last month laid a portion of the blame on a very common problem: an error in a spreadsheet.
A spreadsheet that calculated the Value at Risk of the chief investment office’s portfolio contained an error in a formula that had the effect of lowering the Value at Risk, according to the report.
The risks involved in employing Excel spreadsheets are well-known. Users can make mistakes as they key in data, enter formulas or combine multiple spreadsheets. As spreadsheets circulate through the company, other users can add errors as they make changes. There’s also the possibility a user could deliberately introduce inaccuracies.
A recent survey of 3,000 spreadsheet users by Ventana Research shows that about half acknowledge finding errors in spreadsheet data at least occasionally, while a third cite errors in spreadsheet formulas.
Robert Kugel, senior vice president and research director at San Ramon, Calif.-based Ventana, said that is no surprise: “There’s more than 30 years of academic research that demonstrates that spreadsheets are error-prone.”
And finance departments are among the heaviest users of spreadsheets. The Ventana survey shows 59% of finance employees spend more than half their time working with spreadsheets, versus just 35% of front-office employees.
Michael Juergens, a principal at Deloitte & Touche and leader of its information technology internal audit practice, said that a company’s income statement and balance sheet may contain items that are generated in spreadsheets. “It’s an enormous issue for external auditors. It circumvents all the process controls, the things we would rely upon as auditors,” he said.
In fact, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has notified all audit firms that they need to do more to validate information from spreadsheets, Juergens said. “So everybody has really stepped up their games.”
Companies are working to improve the accuracy of their spreadsheets and the controls over those spreadsheets, encouraged by Sarbanes-Oxley and “the regulatory environment,” Juergens said. Adopting software tools that can inventory a company’s spreadsheets, spot errors or enforce controls is an evolving best practice, he said, adding that for a company with fewer than 200 spreadsheets, oftentimes the cost of the software is prohibitive.
“But we have companies that have 10,000, 50,000 spreadsheets they’re trying to manage. There’s no way they can do that without software to help,” Juergens said.
But businesses still have quite a ways to go. “Nobody I have seen or talked to yet is at that optimal place,” Juergens said. “Even the folks that are at the leading practices level, with software in place, they are still going through the process of going through all the spreadsheets in the enterprise and enrolling them. There are so many spreadsheets, they do so many different things, they have been built and constructed with so many methods, they’re stored all over the place–there isn’t a magic button you can push to control and manage all the spreadsheets. That’s why companies aren’t done yet,” he said.
According to Juergens, progress varies by industry, with financial services firms the farthest along because of pressure from their regulators.
Effectively managing spreadsheets requires “a solid program that looks at a lot of different criteria–things like software, the regulatory environment, standards and templates, a regulatory model,” he said.
“I see a lot of companies falling into the trap of thinking they’re just going to buy a software package and it’s going to solve all the problems. So they don’t do any of the training, they don’t build any of the standards, they don’t help find templates. Inevitably that fails,” Juergens said. “You need a program, you need people focused on this problem, and you can’t just throw software at it.”
The Ventana research shows that respondents have more confidence in spreadsheets than in a previous survey in 2007. Almost half (49%) said spreadsheets are accurately and timely, up from 35% in 2007.
Kugel said the improved perception may reflect companies’ adoption of software solutions that improve spreadsheet accuracy and control. “There are an awful lot of finance-related applications now that have got something that looks like a spreadsheet and acts like Excel, but it’s got data storage in a real database, where you’ve got all kinds of process controls and process management,” he said.
Companies could benefit by training employees in how to use spreadsheets. But according to the survey, just 8% of companies offer regular training sessions and 45% offer no training at all, according to Kugel, pictured at left.
“People tend to build on what they know how to do rather than figure out the best way to do things,” he said. “The result is it takes longer typically to get something done. If you knew how to do something intelligently in Excel, you could do it in minutes rather than dozens of minutes, and you could do it with more reliable results.” | <urn:uuid:a7327659-c518-4d42-bf61-e2c893df3262> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.treasuryandrisk.com/2013/02/19/spreadsheet-snags?t=tools-technology&ref=hp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956215 | 1,163 | 1.78125 | 2 |
PERU EXPERIENCE - Discover it
Few countries have so many exotic and natural wonders to explore.
The amazing landscapes of Peru, with breathtaking views, rich habitats and incredible wildlife, is also home of impressive cultural, historic and archaeological heritage.Peru is a magical spot with one of the richest biodiversities on Earth, 84 of the 104 life zones that exist on our planet, makes Peru a privileged destination for nature and adventure lovers.
- Friendly people
- Moderate weather
- Diversity of experiences in one country
- Its gastronomy is internationally appreciated
- Ancestral and archeological treasures
- Peru features a total of 74 protected natural areas
Enrique // Owner
Peruvian, born in 1981
His adventurous spirit made him backpacking all around Peru, and then started to explore South America. He spent some months working in the US and has experience guiding USIL Ecotourism Club. Graduated in Tourism Management at the San Ignacio de Loyola University and worked with the government in the promotion of Peru until he made his own travel agency. Now he runs Casa Wayra B&B…the best hostel in Lima.
Has interest in photography and a passion for wildlife.
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Respect local people, their culture and environment. Our aim is to achieve balance between nature, local culture and the economy of each region visited. Travel with responsibility, is an exceptional way to help the destination preserve their areas and bring positive benefits to local communities. | <urn:uuid:5f63a4e9-e44f-4ba4-a48e-038178cf9598> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://casawayra.com/peru-experience.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933878 | 306 | 1.75 | 2 |
The Department of Geography & Geosciences offers both Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees. Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree must complete all general education, major (and minor courses) for a letter grade and fulfill all elective course requirements within the Department. Students seeking the Bachelor of Science degree, must complete all general education, major, (and minor courses) for a letter grade and fulfill all elective course requirements within the Department. Additionally, two units of course credit must be completed within the Mathematics Department. Specific courses are determined by the department of the student's major.
The Department of Geography & Geosciences actively participates in the interdisciplinary majors of Urban Studies, Logistics and Transportation Management, and in the January Term field experience program.
The mission of the Department of Geography & Geosciences is to provide students, majors and non-majors alike, with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the earth’s physical and human environments and the interrelationships among them. By offering a wide variety of courses and concentrations within the geosciences, the department is able to address the specific needs and interests of students while insuring that they become acquainted with the diversity that is found within the geosciences. Through experiencing the breadth and depth of course work within the geosciences, students will be prepared for a range of activities including a varied set of professional careers within both the private and public sectors as well as graduate school.
Goals of the Department
- To enable students to recognize and apply the fundamental themes, concepts, and methodologies of the geosciences while thinking critically, analytically, spatially, and creatively about geographic and geospatial issues and problems.
- To enable students to interpret and analyze the interrelationships between physical and human systems and environments.
- To provide students with research and professional experience through original and collaborative research initiatives with faculty and fellow students as well as professional internships, mentoring, and shadowing opportunities in connection with the College's mission regarding professional preparation.
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By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies that own a key patent, such as those that ensure mobile and other electronic devices work together, should be allowed to win sales bans as a punishment for infringement only in rare, very specific cases, the Justice Department and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said in a joint policy statement on Tuesday.
The Federal Trade Commission, which with the Justice Department enforces U.S. antitrust law, has also argued that infringement of "standard essential patents" should be punished with monetary damages, not bans, except in a handful of specific cases.
Standard essential patents have been a central element in the patent wars that smartphone companies have waged around the globe since 2010, as Apple has sought to fend off a challenge by Google's Android phones.
The fight has also embroiled Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp and others who use Android technology.
The usual expectation among corporations has been that standard essential patents will be inexpensively licensed to anyone.
Tuesday's statement appealed to the U.S. International Trade Commission to make the public interest paramount in deciding whether to order an injunction against an imported good that uses an essential patent.
"The USITC, may conclude, after applying its public interest factors, that exclusion orders (sales injunctions) are inappropriate," the Justice Department and patent department said.
Their statement is an expression of the administration's view and may carry weight with judges but is not binding.
GLOBAL PATENT FIGHT
It has been harder recently for companies to win injunctions for infringement in U.S. district courts.
The Federal Trade Commission, in a December filing, argued that Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was not entitled to ask a court to stop the sale of Apple iPhones and iPads that it said infringe on a patent that is essential to wireless technology.
In June 2012 Judge Richard Posner in Chicago threw out cases that Motorola and Apple had filed against each other claiming patent infringement. Both companies appealed.
In rejecting the Google case, Posner barred the company from seeking to stop iPhone sales because the patent in question was a standard essential patent.
The ITC, meanwhile, is considering accusations that Apple infringed patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Essential patents are part of that mix as well.
An administrative law judge at the ITC said in a preliminary ruling in September that Apple was innocent of violating the patents. A final decision is expected this month.
The two standard essential patents in the complaint are related to 3G wireless technology and the format of data packets for high-speed transmission.
Apple won a huge victory in August when a U.S. jury found the South Korean firm had copied key features of the iPhone. Apple was awarded $1.05 billion in damages. That ruling is under appeal.
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With the New Year still fresh, we thought it a good time to talk about goal setting for 2013. As we assess the state of our business, and decide that we need to take action in order to grow our business, the first step is to establish well defined goals. Having quantifiable goals can be compared to having a target.
In less sophisticated times, if a hunter was burdened with seeking out the right flint for the arrowhead, straight and true hickory for the shaft, and just the right feathers for the vanes, and then spend time and energy to hand craft arrows, they’d want to be very careful not to waste any of them, lest they go hungry. That applies in many ways to the idea that if we’re going to invest our resources, money and labor on our “arrows”, we should be very clear on what our target is.
Goals are the targets that our teams can rally around. If the team is able to work together to determine the goals of the organization, they will be vested in them. Any new strategy, policy, process, or goal is far more achievable if the key stakeholders play a part in determining what those goals should be, and then fashion their personal goals so that the work they do each day drives results toward those overarching goals.
It is important to understand that all goals need to be in writing and remain visible to all team members throughout the year. They should be published and then provided to each team member, and be posted in conspicuous sight throughout the organization. Individual performance reviews would then start with articulating the performance goals of each team member that will drive the intended results. Team members must be partners with managers in determining their personal goals to assure buy-in, and any performance bonuses or raises should be tied to their personal goals. Finally, individual performance should be assessed against individual goals on a quarterly or bi-annual review in a one on one review. The key here is that each team member understands the importance of the role they play, are properly coached for success, and sees that their diligence will ultimately impact the organizations most important objectives.
Reviewing and measuring goals are a key part of achieving those goals. Once the year is completed, it will be a pretty straight forward process to determine whether the goals have been achieved as long as if you have been using a method to track them throughout the year. It should also be easy to determine if any performance bonuses or raises have been earned. Acknowledge individual and team successes publicly and celebrate success!
The process will enable you and your team leaders to assess the performance of each team member and rank personnel as to their overall effectiveness.
If an organization desires continual improvement, it is a good idea to consider a process of evaluating and rewarding the teams in each functional discipline so that the best personnel are retained and the poorest performers are either coached up or replaced. If this kind of evaluation is done each year, it stands to reason that, over time, the organization will build teams of high performers who are all working together for extraordinary results!
Consider these ten steps to success in setting goals and executing for success:
- Brainstorm goal setting with your team to promote buy-in.
- Identify three to five specific and measurable organizational goals.
- Have functional teams identify team goals in alignment with organizational goals. Encourage buy-in through participation.
- Align personal goals with team and organizational goals.
- Publish organizational goals, post them conspicuously in work areas, and measure results.
- Tie performance compensation to individual goals.
- Reinforce goals regularly in team meetings. Demonstrate progress graphically and on a “dashboard.”
- Conduct Individual Performance Reviews at least bi-annually. Coach individuals and teams for success!
- Reward success and hold individuals and teams accountable.
- Publicly and enthusiastically acknowledge exceptional performance and extraordinary results. Celebrate success!
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"We're going to places all over Virginia, and he's having it on film and it's great to have you here," the senator said, singling out S.R. Sidarth, a Fairfax native of Asian-Indian ancestry, who was assigned by Democrat Jim Webb to record Allen's speech.
"And you show it to your opponent [sic]," urged Allen, referring to the video, "because he's never been there and probably will never come."
How's that? Say again?
Not only has Jim Webb, to whom Allen was apparently referring, been to the state's far southwest, Webb's ancestral roots run so deep there that he wrote the book on the region. I happened to be reading it, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," at the time of Allen's speech.
Either the good senator was astonishingly ill-informed about his opponent, or he'd fallen into a trap that's become all too common in today's political world saying whatever's handy about a rival, whether or not it bears any particular resemblance to the truth.
If Allen hasn't corrected the omission already by sitting down with a copy of "Born Fighting," he should. He'll find within those 343 pages real insight to an opponent who is more than a caricature. The adjectives that come to mind after reading Webb's words are authentic, original and a little bit odd.
This is a complex man, a thinker whose thought processes take him down many roads, some straight, some as crooked as old Route 58 between Duffield and Jonesville, some dead ends. I'd wager most any reader would find something to delight and something to offend.
For starters, "Born Fighting" is the most sympathetic rendering of "redneck" whites the kind with stickers of Confederate flags on their car bumpers and gun racks attached to their pickup cabs I've seen on a campaign trail since Oliver North ran for the Senate in Virginia a decade ago.
Webb argues that intolerance for outside authority and personal honor in defending one's homeland traits carried across the ocean from Berwick and Ulster not a defense of slavery, motivated the huge contingent of Scots-Irish soldiers in the Confederate force.
He proudly describes picking out a Confederate headstone for his great-great-grandfather, David G. Webb, who is buried on a mountaintop in Scott County. (The marker was never installed because the terrain is so rough.)
At the same time, Webb views Martin Luther King Jr. as a man whose "equanimity was Lincolnesque in its breadth of vision," decries "the mind-boggling rate of incarceration in American prisons" and appeals for a politics that avoids "grand, useless speeches" on such topics as flag-waving, homosexual marriage and abortion.
Canonizing the hardscrabble independence of his Scots-Irish ancestors, Webb delivers a rhetorical punch at American elites that could have slipped from Allen's own mouth. "Even today, an individual and an issue at a time, it [the Scots-Irish culture] refuses to accept the politics of group privilege that have been foisted on America by its paternalistic, Ivy League-centered, media-connected, politically correct power centers," he writes.
Allen, who also boasts Scottish and Irish as well as French Tunisian blood, and who's had something of a romance with Confederate memorabilia, might detect further kinship with Webb. Both men practice a populist-tinged politics, symbolized by cowboy boots in Allen's case, combat boots in Webb's. Both cite Ronald Reagan as the former president they most admire.
But each man's choice of his second-favorite president reveals a deeper divide. Allen, a coach's son who grew up in California and honed his combative skills on a football field, prefers the Virginia patrician, Thomas Jefferson.
Webb, a military man's son who perfected his fighting skills on the battlefields of Vietnam, reveres Tennessee's Andrew Jackson. The seventh president shocked sophisticates by opening the White House to buckskins and boots, opposed a centralized bank and brought "a coarse but refreshing openness to the country's governing process," the candidate writes.
It's easy to see why Webb, a proud man whose campaign bank account seriously trails Allen's, might disdain courting wealthy donors. His book argues that the country-club whites who ran the South through much of the 20th century perpetuated class conflict between blacks and poor whites because it helped keep them in control.
Heading into the fall campaign, the chief rap on George Allen is that he supported the Bush administration on 97 percent of key votes. Reading "Born Fighting," it's hard to imagine Jim Webb agreeing with anyone, anywhere, 97 percent of the time. Skeptics might legitimately wonder how such independence would fit into the renowned (at least until recently) collegiality of the U.S. Senate.
Allen invited S.R. Sidarth to glimpse the "real Virginia." Virginians who take time to seek out the "real Jim Webb" have a novel experience in store. SMargaret Edds is an editorial writer for The Virginian-Pilot.
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April retail sales numbers from Commerce and NRF show mostly modest growth
While the economy continues its slow-paced recovery, April retail sales data released by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation were somewhat sluggish.
Commerce reported that April retail sales at $408.0 billion were up 0.1 percent over March and 6.4 percent higher than April 2011. This sequential increase was well short of February’s 1.1 percent hike over January, which represents the highest monthly increase in retail sales in the last six months, as dictated by Commerce data.
Total sales for the February through April period were up 6.6 percent annually. And when excluding autos, retail and food services sales in April were $334.5 billion, up 0.1 percent from March and up 5.9 percent from April 2011, said Commerce.
The NRF reported that April retail sales, which exclude autos, gas stations, and restaurants, were down 0.1 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis from March and up 2.8 percent on an unadjusted basis annually.
“The expected shortfall in April retail sales reflects the seasonal shift in consumer spending at this time each year,” NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said in a statement. “With Easter a full twenty days earlier this year and unseasonably warm weather, consumers started spending as early as February and March on everything from spring apparel to newly-released electronic items.”
Even though retail sales continue to show slow and incremental growth, continued growth is needed over a longer period, as consumer spending accounts for roughly 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. And while retail growth is relatively slow still, signals remain intact that the economy is showing some signs of recovery, with consumer confidence on the upswing to a large degree and recent monthly gains in employment, too, in recent months.
IHS Global Insight Senior Analyst Leslie Levesque wrote in a research note that retailers saw little gains in April as weather turned more seasonable after record warmth in the month prior. Levesque noted that building materials and clothing stores took the brunt of it as payback for earlier strength was ultimately realized in April.
“Our outlook on the American consumer remains relatively upbeat despite this lackluster report,” wrote Levesque. “All told, IHS Global Insight expects consumer spending adjusted for inflation growth to come in around 2.5 percent in the second quarter, slower than the 2.9 percent pace in the first, but still a decent stride.”
Unlike this time in 2010 and to an extent in 2011, retail sales are not getting an added boost from inventory re-building, which was especially prevalent during the first half of 2010.
As previously reported, the trend of slight or flat sequential retail sales increases remains largely intact due to fairly even retail spending at a time when retailers remain cautious on the inventory planning side and postponing commitments until the until the economic outlook becomes clearer, while they are risking stock outages by having very lean inventories.
“What are driving these gains are a confidence issue and a lack of fear due to the lack of negative change in the most recent employment data,” said Ben Hackett, president of Hackett Associates, in a recent interview. “The overall feeling from that is that it creates confidence, with consumers willing to draw down some of their savings and use it for expenditures. We are also seeing that in e-commerce sales, which can be harder to measure. In big retail stores, you are seeing an increase in sales, which can also be partially due to price increases, too. But you never know if it is pure volume or price or a mixture of the two. The strong [trade] flows suggest that there was an increase in volume as well as sales.”
Shippers have told MMH that while sales are doing fairly well, they are optimistic that the second half of the year will bring about a more traditional Peak Season. Should this occur, there could be a more meaningful uptick in retail sales numbers on both a sequential and annual basis. | <urn:uuid:979e14d4-b12a-462f-82a5-39d81a1eecb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mmh.com/article/april_retail_sales_numbers_from_commerce_and_nrf_show_mostly_modest_growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976446 | 838 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Know the Scoresby Steve Cypher on Monday, June 25th, 2012
Applicants with credit issues sometimes don’t know what their credit scores are or even what they mean before applying for no credit auto loans.
We know this happens because at Auto Credit Express we’ve been helping buyers with car credit problems for over twenty years. Our website even goes so far as to explain how bankruptcy and repossession affect auto loan approvals as well as today’s subject: the need to know and understand credit scores.
Before applying for a car loan, everyone should order their credit reports and credit scores (one of each from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). One report per year per bureau is free and they’re ordered at www.annualcreditreport.com. You’ll need to pay for each of your credit scores.
This can be simplified by visiting sites such as www.FreeScore360.com where, for a fee, you can receive all three reports and all three credit scores at the same time.
All three bureaus use a version of the FICO score. Equifax calls theirs a BEACON score, at Experian it’s called the Experian/Fair Isaac Risk Model while at TransUnion it’s known as an EMPIRICA score.
The bureaus also use a new score they jointly developed called VantageScore.
In a perfect world, all three VantageScore or Fico scores would be the same. But, in fact, they aren’t.
Unless your credit file is fairly new, there are usually differences in each of your credit reports because:
1. Some creditors might report to only one or two of the bureaus.
2. It may take one bureau longer to report a new creditor
3. It may take one bureau longer to remove an old credit file
4. One, two, or even all three may be reporting inaccurate or incomplete information
These reasons and more can result in credit score differences. Additionally, car dealers typically use an “auto enhanced” score that emphasizes car loan performance – meaning the score they receive might also be different.
Credit score ranges
Now knowing your credit scores, it’s time to see where they fit in and what kind of car loan you might qualify for.
Here is Experian’s classification for both types of credit scores:
FICO Score: 740 plus
FICO Score: 680-739
FICO Score: 620-679
FICO Score: 550-619
FICO Score: less than 550
Typically, super prime is the best of the best, prime is excellent and near prime is fair credit. Falling into either the subprime or deep subprime category means you’ll probably need to apply for a problem credit auto loan.
As we see it
If you know your credit scores you’ll typically know which type of car loan you’ll need to apply for.
If you have problems with your car credit, a good thing to know is that Auto Credit Express specializes in placing credit-challenged applicants with dealers that can give them their best chance at getting approved auto loans.
So if you’re ready to take that first step in improving your auto credit, you can begin now by filling out our online auto loans application. | <urn:uuid:24b06b32-3ef9-45b5-a0e0-3c310375b4ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autocreditexpress.com/blog/2012/06/25/know-the-scores/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94343 | 697 | 1.625 | 2 |
I had a miscarriage 3 weeks ago, I bleed for only a few days. My husband and I decided to start trying as soon as possible again. My Ob advised this was fine from 2 weeks as this is when I am likely to ovulate. I did ovulation tests from day 11 of my cycle and we started trying from then.
I started spotting again at approx 14days. It is now 21 days and I did a pregnancy test expecting it to be negative, but it was positive, I am assuming this is the hormone left over from my miscarried pregnancy - is this right, and if so how long is this likely to be there and how can I tell if it is a new pregnancy.
Also I still have a very small amount of spotting - hardly any and very faint in colour. Is it possible to be pregnant and still get this from the miscarriage.
Thanks for your help.
You have just described why I disagree with your doctor.
I tell women to wait until they have a period that is normal in length and strength, then come in for a pregnancy test. If it is negative, then we know that it is ok to start another pregnancy.
As it is, I wouldn't know what to tell you except that in time, all will be revealed!
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer. | <urn:uuid:5f98e04d-9acd-4dc7-ad74-5b9400d33dfe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pregnancy.org/question/post-miscarriage-pregnancy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979598 | 455 | 1.59375 | 2 |
History and Lore
The History of Bar's Leaks
1947 - Bar’s Leaks founded in California by Fred Barton (1907-1975), who discovers a unique ingredient called RHIZEX to stop radiator leaks. RHIZEX is later awarded a patent by the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office.
1950 - Bar’s Leaks enters the traditional automotive aftermarket: jobbers, warehouses and repair garages. The products debut in glass bottles.
1951 - Bar’s Leaks moves its headquarters from California to Holly, Michigan.
1952 - Bar’s Leaks products used in regular and heavy duty assembly lines as OEM treatments by major US automakers. This practice continues today on a global scale.
1958 - During the legendary trip of the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus, Bar’s Leaks is used to stop a hidden leak in one of the vessel’s nuclear reactor steam condensers. The treatment was successful, and allowed the submarine to complete its historic mission as the first submarine to travel under the North Pole. See here to learn more about the USS Nautilus.
1963 - Bar’s Leaks switches packaging from its original glass bottle to advanced metal cans to enhance product durability and longevity
1965 - Bar’s Leaks enters the retail auto aftermarket. Its products are found in major US auto parts retailers to this day.
1968 - Bar’s Leaks introduces tablet-based stop leak product. Since then, over 1 billion tablets have been sold.
1972 - Bar’s Leaks introduces the pouch pack to the automotive aftermarket, a packaging concept that’s at least 10 years ahead of its time.
1974 - Fred Barton invents NO’VERHEAT, a kit that converts cars’ open cooling systems to closed. NO’VERHEAT sells in three sizes to accommodate all vehicle types.
1982 - Bar’s Leaks sells one-hundred-millionth bottle of cooling system stop leak.
1983 - Taking advantage of modern plastics technology, Bar’s Leaks migrates all products to a plastic bottle, reducing weight while keeping product durability high.
1995 - Bar’s Leaks sponsors five-time NHRA National Champion Top Alcohol Driver Bill Reichert and the URC Sprint Series.
1996 - Bar’s Leaks introduces three revolutionary products: Engine, Transmission and Power Steering stop leak solutions.
1997 - Bar’s Leaks becomes a major sponsor of 1997’s Monday Night Football radio broadcasts.
1999 - Bar’s Leaks Jack Oil with Stop Leak developed and introduced to the market. It’s the first and still the only product of its kind known in the world.
2001 - Bar’s Leaks introduces Liquid Aluminum Cooling System Radiator & Heater Core Stop Leak, which becomes an instant success with customers everywhere.
2003 - Bar’s Leaks introduces the world’s first clear, dual-cavity bottle.
2004 - Bar’s Leaks revolutionizes the block seal stop leak category with the introduction of its head gasket repair product line, known and respected by mechanics everywhere.
2006 - Bar’s Products, Inc, the parent company of Bar’s Leaks, acquires Rislone, Inc. and adds its technology and products to its catalog.
2008 - Bar’s Leaks introduces Liquid Copper Block Seal (p/n 1109), which uses a suspended formula while being completely antifreeze compatible.
2009 - Due to rising growth and demand for its products, Bar’s Leaks and Rislone operations expand to a second location in Holly, Michigan.
2010 - Bar’s Leaks launches its strongest, pro-grade head gasket sealant: Carbon Fiber Block Seal, p/n HG-1. The product rapidly becomes the industry benchmark for chemical-based, professional-quality head gasket repair products.
2012 - Bar’s Leaks unveils its dual cavity fuel treatment, which includes an innovative patent-pending spout.
The Deeper Story of the USS Nautilus: Bar's Leaks was more than just a stop leak, it was history in the making!
THE TRUE STORY OF HOW BAR’S LEAKS SAVED THE USS NAUTILUS.
Bar's Leaks Yesterday:
In an automotive radiator a tiny leak might not mean disaster: But on a U.S. nuclear submarine during a top-secret mission under the Arctic ice cap, a tiny salt-water leak would have proven deadly for the sailors aboard the USS Nautilus were it not for the amazing stop leak capability of Bar’s Leaks.
Here is their true story:
En route to the polar ice cap, the engineering crew discovered that a small salt-water leak had developed on one of the nuclear reactor steam condensers. The leak was spilling sea water onto a critical piece of machinery, causing noxious fumes to fill the Engine and Maneuvering Rooms. A submarine is a labyrinth of tubes and pipes, so pinpointing the leak while at sea would have been impossible. Something had to be done.
In Seattle, the sub’s last port before embarking north, the commander had an idea to save the mission: He sent his men out to buy as much Bar’s Leaks as they could find. Dressed in civilian clothes, the crew covertly spread out over Seattle to purchase the legendary stop-leak solution.
With the Bar’s Leaks safely on board, sailors poured 70 quarts of it into the submarine’s condenser system.
With the leak stopped, the USS Nautilus was able to complete its top-secret mission, becoming the first submarine to cross the North Pole underneath the Arctic ice cap.
Founded in 1921 by the Shaler Company, Rislone was one of the original automotive chemical additives.
The machining tolerances for early automobiles were not what they are today. Subsequently, one of the major problems was improper piston ring seating. Engines often had to be torn down every 2,000 to 3,000 miles and re-ringed.
Rislone was originally sold in glass bottles through service stations along with Shaler Hot Patches, a vulcanizing system for tire repair. In the 1930s, Shaler built product awareness by combining showmanship and salesmanship with the Shaler Traveling Circus.
Along with the engine performance benefits, Rislone was instrumental in coining one of the most common phrases in automotive vernacular: the Tune-up. In the late 1930s, Shaler developed a training system for mechanics called the Shaler Rislone Tune-Up System. The benefits of a Tune-Up to both customer and service provider were numerous. By enhancing a regular oil change with the addition of Rislone and Karbout, a Shaler product for cleaning carburetors, the mechanic was able to guarantee the customer "Feelable Improvement" in the car’s performance. Locations that followed the system were designated as "Authorized Tune-Up Service Stations."
During the 1940s and 50s, Rislone was offering a "Money-Back Guarantee of Smooth-Driving Satisfaction." Advertisements in publications such as Life and The Saturday Evening Post challenged drivers to add Rislone during an oil change, and then drive 10 miles. If the beneficial effects of the additive were not felt within 10 miles, they could return to the dealer for a full refund. Of the more than 20 million guarantee cards issued with the purchase of Rislone, fewer than one half of one percent were returned for a refund.
Famous Users of Rislone
Throughout its impressive history, Rislone has provided enhanced engine performance in a wide variety of applications.
Nationally known users of Rislone throughout the years include: The U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps. And other branches of the United States Government; Allis-Chalmers; the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co.; International Harvester; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.; DeHaviland Aircraft; Ford Motor Co.; the Oshkosh Motor Truck Company; and numerous Checker Cab fleets.
Perhaps the most famous user of Rislone was Admiral Richard Byrd during his expedition to the South Pole. A letter sent from the expedition’s supply officer to the Rislone distributor, along with an unused can from the trip, states that,"… as our expedition was the first in the history of Antarctic exploration to use, successfully, completely mechanized transport - which consisted of three Citroen tractors, a Cletrac 30-40 and two Ford snowmobiles - Shaler should be proud to be an undoubted factor in making for this success."
Rislone’s Racing Record
Over the years, Rislone has been part of numerous successful auto racing teams, as both a sponsor and as a component in the high-performance racing engines.
Bobby Unser won the 1968 Indianapolis 500 with Rislone in the engine.
Rislone has also had a long involvement with drag racing. The legendary Chicago-based Chi/Town Hustler was sponsored by Rislone from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, including the 1982 season when driver Frank Hawley won the National Funny Car Championship.
Tommy Ivo used Rislone in his impressive four-engine, one engine for each wheel on his Buick station wagon show car. The Buick could smoke all four tires for the entire quarter-mile.
Bill Reichert driver of the Rislone Top Alcohol Dragster currently holds the titles of U.S. National Indy Champion and World Champion overall for 2006, 2007 & 2008.
As well as the Top Alcohol Dragsters, Rislone also sponsors many other motorsports such as Jr. Dragsters, Monster Trucks and Sprint Cars.
Rislone - A New Beginning
Bar's Products, Inc. announced it's purchase of the Shaler Company and Rislone name brand in May of 2006. The goal was to maintain the integrity of the original Rislone formula while updating the overall look of the products you see in stores today.
Rislone Engine Treatment still provides penetrating lubrication and contains a proprietary additive package to remove sludge and prevent harmful engine deposits from forming. Additionally, wear protection and improved engine cleanliness can be expected. The inclusion of SJ additive package helps ensure compatibility with manufactures new vehicle warranty. Rislone is fully compatible with all petroleum-based and synthetic motor oils.
As the Rislone name brand enters its 92nd year of business, the product line includes Rislone Ring Seal, Rislone Premium Quality 2-Cycle Engine Oil, Rislone Compression Repair with Ring Seal, and our newest product for 2009 is the Rislone Fuel Injection Cleaner a fuel additive that is specially designed to lubricate the upper cylinder of an engine and offers full time lubrication of your fuel system that reduces friction, wear and excess heat.
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A Bush administration official promises that "we are not going to attack, assail, or wage war on" the International Criminal Court. That may just depend on the meaning of the word "attack." Liquid Papering-out this week the ICC treaty's American signature, affixed by the Clinton administration, may not amount to warfare, but it ranks up there with sensible decisions in behalf of the national interest.
The Hague-based ICC, having won the necessary ratifications, can't be stopped from starting business on July 1, nor possibly can it be prevented from staging kangaroo proceedings in which a vacant chair represents the absence of some American malefactor or other, such as the president. But if the court lacks both credibility and a real live American defendant, it is unlikely to reap serious attention. Just because kangaroos seek to cavort in judicial robes doesn't mean a serious nation -- there are a few left -- has to encourage them.
The Clinton administration signed onto this misbegotten document -- formally intended for the punishment of war crimes, genocide, and so forth -- on Dec. 31, 2000. Happy New Year, American soldiers, sailors and public officials! Get ready to become the object of international legal charges, the most fetching and open-ended of which would be "aggression."
Aggression as defined by whom? Well, in the end, by the prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, who enjoy nominal authority to try and jail war crimes perpetrators from all over the world.
Americans, by virtue of America's international reach, would certainly in due course become the foremost targets.
Why not charges, say, against Gen. Tommy Franks for the destruction of Al Qaeda-owned properties in Kabul? Or of Don Rumsfeld if/when the United States attacks Iraq? Would these gentlemen really stand trial? Of course not. We wouldn't let anything dumb and insulting like that happen. Much else could happen, though, as with an embassy guard or consular official or visiting businessman, arrested on some jumped-up charge then extradited to ICC authority and a highly publicized trial with the object of humiliating the United States and even spreading a new kind of terror -- the terror of being nabbed while traveling abroad.
And who imagines that an ex-Israeli prime minister like Ariel Sharon would not become a fine, plump target for some Palestinian-sympathizing prosecutor in Asia, Africa or even Europe? It was a Spanish prosecutor, after all, whose machinations, if ultimately futile, resulted in the months-long house arrest in England of former Chilean President
The Bush administration, according to the Wall Street Journal, plans on working vigorously to sabotage the ICC and its potential for mischief. If this is so -- present protestations to the contrary -- well and good.
The ICC is a lovely subterfuge. Fifty-seven years experience with the United Nations has no more than confirmed that justice -- in practical terms, if not necessarily in spirit -- is a function best left to independent states. We don't need it defined by national or ethnic rivalries and wielded as a blunt instrument for foreign policy purposes.
Least of all, is it wise to leave monkey wrenches lying around for America's enemies to use in disabling the machinery meant to grind down terrorism? Not every stratagem you have to employ against secretive and elusive plotters is right for review by jurists of a potentially hostile turn.
The International Criminal Court is one of those feverish notions that died, it would appear, on Sept. 11, 2001. It walks, it talks, but it's dead; nor can its fervent fans in the human rights lobby likely coax it back to life. The sovereignty of the United States is a less quaint notion that it seemed to many on Sept. 10: a tool not for relieving others of their undoubted human; rather for protecting Americans in the exercise of their own undoubted rights. In this matter, the administration's realism is refreshing -- a lovely change of pace in a distinctly unlovely time. | <urn:uuid:bfebe273-bd64-4b02-b1d3-5d17dda265ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://townhall.com/columnists/billmurchison/2002/05/07/striking_a_blow_for_realism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949076 | 824 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Raizen Sees Brazilian Millers Favoring Ethanol at Harvest Start
Millers in Brazil, the world’s largest sugar producer, will favor ethanol output at the beginning of this year’s cane harvest because sugar prices are low, according to a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Cosan Industria & Commercia SA.
Measures taken by Brazil’s government to increase fuel prices and raise the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline will help boost biofuel demand, said Ivan Melo, a commercial director at the joint venture known as Raizen. Sugar fell 16 percent last year and 27 percent in 2011, the biggest two-year drop since 1999. Raizen produces sugar and ethanol.
“With gasoline prices rising 6.6 percent, hydrous ethanol is now more competitive,” Melo said in an interview at the Kingsman sugar conference in Dubai yesterday, referring to the 100 percent ethanol fuel used in flex fuel cars. “If the harvest starts with sugar prices at current levels, we will begin the season with more incentive to make ethanol.”
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4), Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, increased gasoline prices at refineries by 6.6 percent last week. The government also said it will raise the amount of anhydrous ethanol blended into gasoline to 25 percent in May from 20 percent now. Brazil’s control over gasoline prices in a bid to limit inflation had made ethanol uncompetitive.
Millers in Brazil directed 49.59 percent of all their sugar cane in the 2012-13 season to make sugar, as prices for the sweetener were still more favorable, data from industry group Unica showed. That was up from 48.44 percent a year earlier. The allocation of raw material to ethanol is likely to change this year, as the increase in the blend will generate additional ethanol demand of 1.2 billion liters (3.2 billion gallons), Melo estimates.
Brazil will harvest a record 585 million metric tons of sugar cane in the 2013-14 season that starts in April there, according to Raizen. That’s up from 531.9 million tons in 2012-13, Unica data show. Sugar output is currently estimated at 36.3 million tons, Melo said. That could still change depending on how the government’s measures affect ethanol consumption, he said.
Millers in the South American nation have been holding back sales of this year’s crop in the futures market due to uncertainty over what will happen to ethanol demand, Melo said. Sales are currently estimated at 30 percent to 40 percent of output, he said. At this time of year, millers would usually have sold about 50 percent, according to Armajaro Trading Group Ltd., a London-based supplier of sugar, cocoa and coffee.
With the outlook for sugar’s crop “good,” Brazil probably hasn’t sold enough sugar in the futures market, Melo said. If the harvest is disrupted, and sugar supplies are lower than last year, then Brazil was “just about right” to hold back on sales, he said.
Sugar, the third worse performing commodity in the Standard & Poors GSCI gauge of 24 raw materials last year, will trade at 17 cents and 20 cents a pound during this year’s harvest in Brazil, which runs from April to December, Melo said. Sugar is down 3.2 percent this year, with speculators boosting bets on lower prices by 28 percent, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed. Net-short positions were 75,108 lots as of Jan. 29, up from 58,621 contracts at the end of last year.
“Who said the current measures are the only ones the government will take?” Melo said. “If the government takes more steps that give the incentive for hydrous ethanol consumption, the shorts will need to start getting worried, though any measure taken by the government will not be enough to erase the world’s sugar surplus.”
Sugar supplies will be about 8 million tons higher than demand in the 12 months starting in April, Raizen estimates. Raw sugar for March delivery rose 0.6 percent to 18.89 cents a pound on Feb. 1 on ICE Futures U.S. in New York.
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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at [email protected]
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Shawn Alladio of K38 Rescue, has composed something beautiful for our warriors, and it also applies to those of you who seek to implement change. Shawn trains these men. She understands cost and expense, better than anybody I have met. She has told me repeatedly over the years, that for every valid action, every effort, you must be willing to give something up. Having seen her live this, I get it.
Not many people I know enjoy being the one standing there, fist raised to an adversary, drawing the line and shouting : You will not do this. I know that I certainly do not. It takes a lot to bring me to the point of action. It is why I will engage in Art and literature forever before I raise my fist. This gives time for consideration, and communication.
But the plain fact is, that the world in which we live, being filled with all manner of motivations and ethos, inhabiting every person and  organization which those people populate, sometimes creates a situation that requires a champion. Someone to go forth and do battle.
So in our world, we have powers that do so. On the higher end it is done at the behest of Nations, which send forth armies to do the bidding of that entity. But where genesis for this really is located, is in the heart and will of the individual.
In American society we have established layers of Governance to champion our will and desires. Federal laws, are mediated in turn by the individual States, which in turn are interpreted at the County, and then at the far end of the thread, at a Municipal level. All of that exists to do your will as an American Citizen. Pretty amazing the freedom that gives you as a lone person in a sea of millions.
As most of us learned in our High School Civics class, this creates a level of responsibility for us all as well.
Look closer, down through the layers of Governance, back though the years, and change, generally came down to one person’s decision to point the finger and say: ” That is wrong. Stop.”
Remember this saying: “Don’t Tread On Me” ?¬† It was on the very first American flag. It was in direct response and a warning to oppressors. This tenet has historic legs in American law and mind set. You see it all over the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Evan Wright is a journalist whose work I enjoyed in his covering of Marine culture and warfare. His original Rolling Stone three part series was turned into an HBO mini series called Generation Kill. Here is an interesting look at Evan’s perspective. Consider his cost.
Keep in mind that the US Govt. employs these men. So by proxy we do as well. They go because it is their job and what they believe in.
We have a debt that goes beyond  monetary for this. It is to engage in a rule by law, and we do that by standing up for those laws when any organization, entity or person decides to subvert those. That is the moral imperative of civic responsibility.
This is now. This is here. This is Uprising, by Muse. The lyrics in this piece describe much of the changes going on within culture today.
So stand up. If you don’t, no one will. And everyone loses.
This piece was sent along by Tony Luna. Special.
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This is basically what New York lawmakers Dean Murray (R-East Patchogue) and Thomas O'Mara (R-Big Flats) are calling for with the ironically named "Internet Protection Act."
That sounds fair enough. But the U.S. Constitution — which our presidents are sworn to uphold — explicitly defends the right to free speech. That is one "protection" that this proposed New York bill conveniently ignores.
A person shouldn't need to give their name, address or social security number in order to rant, rave or remark online. Though the value and credibility of anonymous public posting is at best questionable, it is still essential for laws to respect our right to free speech.
At best, the state would be overstepping its bounds by imposing this regulation on privately operated websites. At worst, it would be imposing invasive measures on an already overly censored society.
Disagree? Wait just one moment — let's see some ID first.
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These days, the computing devices fully support so we can complete our difficult tasks within minutes. These gadgets are become a fashion as well as a trend because these have many marvelous and fascinating features included. You can fully enjoy your life with their help. We are really helpless and feel very boring as these devices are now becomes a part of our life. These devices also require software for working or running. Just like we need our soul to live or working and our body is worthless without soul in it. You can consider the human body is hardware and the soul is its software.
Now you can feel the importance of software and hardware. They both are considered to be necessary for working well. There are many fascinating and inspiring software programs available for DVDs. As the Cyber Link Power DVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. It also has several editions sold including Ultra, Deluxe and Standard. All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content. You can use it as you desire.
As you know the DVD Video Soft is an independent developer of multimedia software programs for video, audio, photo and image processing. The company offers 40+ safe, reliable and functional applications to download videos from YouTube and convert to mp3. It also allows you uploading to YouTube and Facebook.
You can also edit and convert audio and video files between different formats such as burn CD, DVD discs, create DVDs, convert DVDs to video files, convert and resize images. It has the ability to record screen activities and make screenshots, convert video to playback on different devices, make 3D pictures and videos. You also can take a trial for different software programs. This facility is available over the Internet for free for some days. Then you will be able to take right decision about which one is the best or answer your requirements.
Free DVD player also lets you enjoy the most amazing movie for its various screen displays like Normal display, Letterbox pan & scan, widescreen. This is also another positivity of different programs you can view with a lot of fun. These applications are very easy to install, easy to use with fool-style interface that is friendly even for beginners. Free DVD player also provides the audio effect by adjusting various preferences, such as Equalizer, to let you enjoy a wonderful audio-visual experience! This is really a great fun for you.
You will find the easy-to-use dvd copy software that simplifies the copying process, and provides you with direct access to all functions. Users simply select the content source, the destination, and click Copy now. You can think how it's simple just in your hand.
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"They only understand one thing — that's blood. If that's what they want, then we communicate in blood."
Movie audiences are no doubt familiar with Don Vito Corleone, the mafia patriarch played by Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, but may not be as aware of the Bonanno Family, one of "Five Families" of organized crime in New York, which served as the inspiration by the book on which the movie was based. Don Corleone is an amalgam of influences, but his origins are not too far from Joseph Bonanno, aka Joe Bananas, the boss of the Bonanno Family until he retired to Arizona in 1968. Bonanno was born in Sicily before permanently immigrating to America, where he joined the mafia and eventually took over for mob boss Salvatore Maranzano, making him one of the youngest bosses ever in the mafia. Bonanno's son, Bill Bonanno, later joined the "family business" despite Joseph's protestations — not unlike Corleone's son Michael, played by Al Pacino.
Bonanno's life is chronicled in Bonanno: The Youngest Godfather, based on Bonanno's autobiography A Man of Honor and his son Bill's autobiography Bound By Honor. The cast includes Martin Landau as an elder Joseph Bonanno, Edward James Olmos as Maranzano, and Robert Loggia as Don Ciccio. watch the trailer >> Posted 12.16.12 by Ryan | <urn:uuid:45c8fb11-aed0-46af-ad96-387014d8ea19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reelz.com/movie/222395/bonanno-youngest-godfather/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965838 | 317 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Many moons ago, my sister lived in Morocco to learn Arabic and teach music in a school for the blind. Traveling to a foreign country with a native is perhaps the best way to see a country and avoid the tourist traps and scams. Traveling with my sister at the end of her year was a close second. She spoke (and read) the language fluently, which allowed us to navigate the country and menus quite easily.
When we’d go out to eat, I’d let her order. I recall one café... We placed the typical order, “jusz jasz”: two chickens. The waiter quoted us a price: 80 dirham. What?? My sister pointed to the Arabic menu and with a flawless accent and perfect grammar, she questioned, “But the menu says it’s only 20.”
Another favorite was the vegetable salad. Beets, potatoes and carrots were sautéed in fruity olive oil, seasoned with cumin, coriander and black pepper.
This year, I grew beets for the first time. As the British name, "beetroot," would suggest, they grow underground so it's not obvious when they're ready to harvest. One farmer advised to inspect the shoulders of the root which protrudes from the soil. When they are several inches in diameter, the beets are ready. Also, the leaves should be broad and long. I began harvesting the beets last week, and every time I dug one up, it seemed too small. Alas, once you harvest, you can’t put them back.
With my baby beets, I sautéed them with olive oil, cumin and coriander, and tossed them with mint: the perfume took me back to the summer with my sister, wandering the country together.
Moroccan Style Beet Salad with Mint
5 baby beets or 2 medium beets
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon coriander
Salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste
8 large mint leaves, cut into chiffonade
1. Put beets in a pot of cold water. Bring to a boil over high flame. Cover pot and let simmer for 20 minutes, or until beets are tender – a butter knife will insert easily.
2. Remove beets from heat and let cool. The skins should peel off easily.
3. Cut beets into 8th.
4. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium flame. Add cumin, coriander, salt and pepper. Cook until spices become aromatic. Add the beets, and warm through, tossing to coat in scented oil.
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Early in Beatrice and Virgil, Henry is excited about the book he's just finished writing. It's a book that's two books in a sense, a flip-book about the Holocaust; one part fiction and one part nonfiction. Henry believes that there's a lack of fiction about the Holocaust and that more stories about it will contribute to its preservation and meaning. Much to his dismay, though, his latest unpublished work is not well-received by his editors nor others, as he learns over a dinner of flavorless, over-refined foods in London.
Henry sets aside his book about the Holocaust and his writing career, and starts a new life in an unnamed city with his wife (who later becomes pregnant with their first child).
"During this time in the city, Henry's earlier existence as a writer was not entirely forgotten. Reminders gently knocked on the door of his consciousness in the form of letters. By the most roundabout routes, often months after their writers had posted them, he continued to receive letters from readers."
~Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
Before too long, he receives a mysterious envelope that contains a short story by Gustave Flaubert, The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator, along with a request for help. The request is from a taxidermist, also named Henry, who is writing a play called Beatrice and Virgil. Henry is soon drawn into a relationship with the taxidermist, and a new adventure begins.
Henry's visits to Okapi Taxidermy discomfited him, and at times this book perplexed me as well. I know Life of Pi also contains animals, but I don't understand why the author used animals in this story to tackle such a difficult subject. The Holocaust was a human event. Although Beatrice and Virgil kept my attention, I did not "get" the book at times; it was hard for me to comprehend the connection between the Holocaust or the "Horrors" and two talking animals, the characters in the taxidermist's play.
Maybe this ambitious author was trying to do too much in his latest novel: discuss literature and the writing world, create Holocaust fiction, talk about taxidermy, present a play in the process of being penned, and anthropomorphize personable animals who philosophize. If you ask me, that's a lot to tackle in a single novella! The Holocaust in and of itself is a major theme. I felt confused at times during my reading because there was so much going on, on multiple levels, and I was left with a sensation that I was missing something.
Despite my issues with the book, though, Beatrice and Virgil grabbed my attention from the first page, and I read it eagerly and quickly. The author has written a creative and highly original story that refers to works of literature, and features the writing of a play and a final chapter that could never be described as run-of-the-mill. Yann Martel believes, like Henry-the-writer in the book, that the Holocaust deserves more attention and that fiction is a way to give it a fresh and memorable voice, and this is exactly what the author attempts to do.
Random House is generously offering one copy of the book as a giveaway to a reader (U.S. only this time--sorry!).
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept 14 — Heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali was honoured yesterday for his humanitarian efforts and civil rights work at an awards ceremony in Philadelphia.
The US$100,000 (RM304,000) award called the Liberty Medal, sponsored by the non-profit National Constitution Centre, was presented to Ali by his daughter, Laila, a former boxer herself.
Ali, 70, who has been silenced by a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, was honoured as an icon of constitutional ideals and the American dream, the centre said.
He “has been an outspoken fighter for religious and civil rights; a conscientious objector who took his battle to the Supreme Court and won; an ambassador for peace and justice worldwide, and a tireless humanitarian and philanthropist”, the centre said in a statement.
“Muhammad Ali continues to this day to inspire young people throughout the world,” said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
Since he retired from boxing in 1981, Ali has worked on philanthropic and social causes around the world.
He has made goodwill missions to Afghanistan and North Korea, delivered medical aid to Cuba, travelled to Iraq to secure release of 15 US hostages during the first Gulf War, and most recently, worked for the eventual release of the three American hikers held captive in Iran, the centre said in its statement.
“We are here today to honour a true champion of freedom,” David Eisner, the centre’s president and chief executive, told the audience.
Ali did not speak at the ceremony, held in the hometown of his bitter former rival Joe Frazier, who died of liver cancer last November.
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Readers skirmish over women in battle
CNN.com readers snapped to attention at Wednesday afternoon's announcement that the Pentagon was planning to open combat roles to women.
Commenters who identified themselves as male and as veterans overwhelmingly -- but certainly not unanimously -- opposed the change.
The story's very first comment raised the question of pregnancy's effect on battle readiness (some comments may be edited for brevity, clarity and style:
Common Sense: What happens with maternity leave when (you're) in a combat zone?
A presumably female reader replied:
Laura Flowers: They get reassigned duties and sent back to a more appropriate post if they're pregnant obviously. Use your common sense. Besides, women will be on the front lines typically only in an MOS (military occupation specialty) that qualifies for that. The exceptions might be mechanics, commo, medics and supply.
The back-and-forth continued through more than 1,700 comments in the first few hours.
Bakari: This is good. Everyone should be able to fight for their country no matter the gender.
Jon: Warfare is NOT a gender neutral playing field. This is going to get a lot of people killed.
Many expressed concern that enemy forces would rape female service members captured in battle.
Aezel: I have mixed feelings about this. I have no doubt about women's ability to fight, kill and be effective soldiers. I do however shudder to think what would happen to them in a POW camp in the Middle East. Many of the enemies of the United States they will be asked to face are utter barbarians. Men can be tortured, but the sexual violence that can be additionally be visited upon a captured woman takes it to the next level of inhumane. I wish our female soldiers good luck.
Finn: Obviously you think male POWs are never raped because they don't talk about it. Guess again.
But others pointed out that many women already in the military are raped by their own comrades.
101TestUser: Women in the military are being raped every day ... by other US soldiers. Including gang rape. Other Americans are the greatest threat to female U.S. soldiers. The solution is to get these rapists out of the military. Go see "The Invisible War" if you are actually concerned about this issue.
But the most discussed issue was whether women are physically and emotionally capable of meeting the same training standards as men and of operating under battlefield conditions.
Jeff: Being a former Army man ... lets' make sure that if it's open, the physical requirements are not lessened. I would not want to have to move / carry a 300-pound Pioneer box with a woman that can only carry 75 pounds worth of weight. If women get into the infantry or any field that is physically exerting, I will expect them to be a very buff looking woman. You want the rights, then you better carry your weight, no excuses, no exceptions otherwise stay out of my MOS.
Unknown: Some of us can do it, some of us can't. I agree with the policy at least allowing for the opportunity for the most elite female soldiers to be included in combat units; however, the standards should not be lowered. Lowered standards means more people killed.
WheresmySandwich: To lower standards would be an insult to both genders, especially women who want to prove they're just as tough as their male counterparts.
Ralph M: My father landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was a combat medic. Treating wounded and dying men was difficult, but treating women casualties would go against OUR values in this country relating to our mothers, sisters and aunts, etc. Other countries do not value women as much as we do in this country. I am the father of six daughters. I do not want them in combat. How much political correctness do we need? We allowed gays to openly march in the San Diego Gay Pride parade last year in military uniform. There is nothing sacred in this liberal society we have created. Be a woman and all that goes with it. You do not want to get shot and bleed to death on some foreign land that really does not care that you are there. If our country is attacked -- sure fight and die, but equal opportunity can and probably will get you killed.
Some comments drew a connection between allowing women in combat and last year's decision to allow gay personnel to serve openly.
Lazicus: Retired soldier and not a huge fan of the gay lifestyle. That said, I'd take a gay man at my side over a female of any stripe if we were under heavy attack. Men are men and women are women, and they are not the same.
Many commenters, not all of them women, pointed out that women already serve in the military and have performed admirably under hostile fire.
sallymae: I hate to tell you guys, but as a WOMAN VETERAN, we serve and do the same jobs as MEN and get the same pay OR HIGHER than men. Women outrank men, and there are more women officers than men. If you're too insecure to handle that, then prove it. Put on a pair of combat boots and grow a some!
I can bet the trolls sitting at home with beer bellies and no jobs are the ones disrespecting the women who will be saving your butts! Enlist -- serve our country -- and then come talk to me! BTW -- I can kick you ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Another common thread was concern over service interruptions brought about by menstrual cycles. That brought this sharp reply:
Kathy0715: Anytime someone states "I'm all for, but.....", you're not really all for anything. I remember when people said women couldn't be firefighters and EMT because they had menstrual cycles and would cry. I remember when people said women couldn't be pilots because they had menstrual cycles and would cry, etc. Do you think John Boehner has menstrual cycles? .
Vincent: Now let's make it really fair and make women between the ages of 18 and 26 sign up for selective service just like the men have had to do.
Been there, didn't like the food, bugs & blood: Real equality will not be achieved until the draft is reinstated.
tardis_blue: I generally oppose war, but I oppose gender inequality more. And I agree with the others saying it's time to sign women up for selective service. I'm not thrilled with the whole idea of selective service, but it should be equal. It is just as traumatizing to lose a father or brother as it is to lose a mother or sister. And as the mother of an only son, I'd love to see my son's chances of getting drafted reduced. Some were looking at the possible distraction of sexual tension in the barracks and at outposts.
Sandra R.: All this is going to do is make wives/girlfriends uneasy when their men get deployed because you are going to have women around who tempt them, and we all know women will do whatever it takes to get promoted. This is a bad idea! So many people will come back pregnant, and relationships will be ruined. It's still so unfair the females PT tests are way easier than the men's. They should have to cut off their hair, too. Fair is fair!
Kristina replied: Sandra, women are already involved in the military in numerous aspects and thus already around men on deployments. The decision to allow them into combat roles does not change that. If you do not trust your husband to deploy without cheating on you, the problem is either you, him, both, and/or your relationship, not the fact that women are in the military.
OCsurfer: I'm a bit torn on this entire issue. On one hand, I'm all for equal gender rights. But on the other hand, there's a reason we've gone several millennia without women serving as soldiers. It may be distracting to the troops, it's more expensive to administer (male and female restrooms is only one example), and there's been no testing to see how a male soldier will react to a female soldier's presence or if she gets injured in the battlefield. I just don't think this has been thought out well enough yet.
Some commenters were more focused on the decision's effect on Washington than on the battlefield.
boyamidumb: As a Vietnam-era war resister, I was ALWAYS for a draft. I was drafted and I said NO. But I had to think about it and make very hard choices. The people around me had to think about it. My friends and relatives had to think about it. When everyone is involved, we will think harder about the choices we make and how we sacrifice our youth. I love my country, and I understand that we must have a military, but I also know how politicians have misused our troops over and over again. Bring back the draft and end the wars.
ttom: If it makes our leaders think twice about putting troops in harm's way for ill-conceived wars, I'm all for it.
There were more than a few attempts at humor that do not merit highlighting here. However, a couple of comments that were not terribly misogynistic and even kind of funny managed to find their way into the conversation:
Shari: I think as long as they can pass the exact same physical requirements, then why not? Might even be a benefit there, has anyone ever seen how crazy women can get when provoked? As a female, I would know. There be some crazy beeches out there. :)
Jackson: And they can end the war in seconds with the following line ...
"Oh, this is so typical of you, enemy soldiers. ... This is JUST like that war we had three years ago, when you said this would never happen again, and like a fool, I believed you....well, trust me enemy soldiers, there are going to be some changes in THIS relationship, that's for sure."
The enemy will surrender before that speech is done.
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May 10, 2012 : Nation-wide protests outside BofA, Introducing OccuCopy
This space mentioned yesterday that Occupy's working groups get stiffed by establishment media that favor more sensationalistic stories involving vandalism and alleged violence. However, no sooner do we say it, the New York Daily News profiles a democratic, worker-owned co-op formed from Occupy members that has started a t-shirt print shop on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn.
The group, OccuCopy says it reserves up to 25% of operating revenues for the purpose of supporting and starting other Occupy-owned businesses (there are several, including a tech venture). By and large, the clients are OWS itself, as well as local non-profits.
“There are certain criteria,” said OccuCopy cofounder Sergio Jimenez, 25, explaining that OWS businesses are picky about which clients to choose, snubbing corporations.
Beck-backed blog theblaze.com is always good for digs at Occupy, today lauding the Tea Party's electoral success while putting down the “rag-tag” protesters of Occupy. Still, the right-tilting blog tips its cap to yesterday's Occupy rally in North Carolina outside of Bank of America, saying the movement “may be finding it's stride again.”
Salon takes on two “jobs groups,” recently termed Occupy Wall Street's “siblings” by the New York Times. While Occupy-owned businesses exist (above) and Salon says it recognizes the value of innovation, it claims the groups, named Campaign for Young America and Fix Young America, are nothing more than centrist Beltway organizations.
Speaking of the former newspaper of record, Charles Delafuente reports that being a “millionaire” is no longer the dividing line it once was. According to many financial planners, a million in various assets – not including home equity – is barely enough to carry American couples through their retirement years. Which kind of makes the Occupy point. NY Times
One of the allegations continually tossed at Occupy is that sexual assault took place at encampments. While Occupies nation-wide no doubt faced security issues, a story by Alexander Cockburn in UK-based The Week asks if the NYPD themselves are guilty of such transgressions. Cockburn cites a report by anthropologist David Graeber who claims, based on evidence submitted by protesters, that the NYPD has grabbed the breasts of, beaten, broken bones and otherwise demeaned arrested female protesters.
Cockburn wonders whom these acts serve, tracing a line of command beginning with Captain Edward J. Winski, to Ray Kelly to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, noting that both Bloomberg and Kelly have heavy ties to the financial industry (Kelly was apparently Bear Stearns' Director of Global Security), as well as describing the role US city police departments play in assisting with “security” in states like Bahrain, far more brutal on their occupiers.
Elsewhere, as Chicago gears up for Occupy protests at the NATO conference (May 20-21), redeyechicago.com has a nice piece on the different paths that various Occupiers took to becoming involved in the movement.
Occupy's big push yesterday at BofA's shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC was echoed by similar protests nation-wide outside BofA branches, including two dozen who stood outside the Morristown branch, who said they were there to educate the public on BofA's "socially and environmentally destructive politics...that include foreclosures, dirty coal financing, federal income tax exclusion and political lobbying." morristown.patch.com
Police are saying they did not “raid” Occupy the Farm on Gill Tract yesterday as “no order to disperse was given.” A statement released by UC-Berkeley mentions that the parties still seek “a peaceful end to the illegal occupation.”
Still, the barricades are up. The Occupiers published their own statement, citing the University’s actions as repressive and blocking a noted Berkeley professor's attempt to plant his plot with his students. According to the Occupy the Farm site takebackthetract.com Dr. Miguel Altieri was told he lacked the "authorization" to conduct his research. Nbcbayarea.com
Finally, encampments are mostly gone from the US, but a new one has sprung up in Moscow on Chistye Prudy boulevard under the statue of Abai Kunanbaev, where huffpost says about 500-1000 activists have joined efforts to set up in the capital. On the heels of the Putin re-election, Police are said to be in no mood to tolerate the protesters. | <urn:uuid:6cc1e572-7e21-4a29-af39-ef41bb40db2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unionwebservices.com/all_news/uws_digital_news_content/occupy_news/1407 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963996 | 970 | 1.570313 | 2 |
MSW Degree: Clinical Concentration
The clinical concentration is for M.S.W. students who want to directly provide social work services and treatment to individuals, families and groups.
An M.S.W. graduate with this concentration is qualified to practice in a variety of clinical settings, such as hospitals, outpatient mental health programs, foster care and adoption services, schools, family therapy centers and hospice programs.
Your concentration determines which courses you take in the Advanced Phase of your degree and which fieldwork choices you get.
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The required courses introduce students to multiple behavioral theories and in-depth intervention skills. Students also receive advanced training in clinical assessment and diagnosis.
In addition to required courses, students choose two electives that enhance their knowledge of clinical practice.
Students complete field instruction in an agency setting, where they can use and refine their clinical skills. They are supervised by experienced M.S.W. clinical practitioners and get valuable feedback throughout the fieldwork assignment. | <urn:uuid:d0bdb082-46c7-4baa-a778-4ecb9d40937a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__profession/social_service/master_of_social_wor/online_msw_program/clinical_concentrati_89081.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936739 | 204 | 1.789063 | 2 |
James J. Coleman
James J. Coleman is an expert in laser design and leader in the field of optoelectronics. He is currently the Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His study of strain-layered lasers led to the development of the 980 nm pump laser used throughout fiber-optic telecommunications systems. Prior to his current position, Dr. Coleman worked at Rockwell International, where he helped develop the metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) process used to grow III-V semiconductor lasers and photonic devices, which are used for optical storage and medical applications. An IEEE Fellow and co-author of 375 journal publications and 7 patents, Dr. Coleman has received several awards and honors, including the IEEE William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award and was an IEEE LEOS distinguished lecturer. He holds a bachelor’s, masters and doctorate, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. | <urn:uuid:23b8a890-beaf-49ba-85f0-4e427c926810> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki6/index.php/James_J._Coleman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941082 | 210 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A compelling new documentary which opened March 1 shines fresh light on why hunger in America is a solvable problem. As such it underscores our moral obligation to act now.
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The ironies abound in this lean 84-minute documentary. Obesity in this country is shown to be often a sign of hunger and poverty, unlike in very poor, developing countries, where hunger and poverty leave people all skin and bones.
A Place At the Table, with talking heads ranging from Jeff Bridges to Tom Colicchio, all of them articulate and impassioned, is a film that should make you furious.
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Murillo and Justino de Neve. The Art of Friendship
Murillo and Justino de Neve. The Art of Friendship brings together a group of seventeen late works by Murillo - loaned from London, Paris, Houston, Madrid and Seville, among other cities – that were created within the context of the artist’s friendship with Justino de Neve, canon of Seville cathedral and an important patron and friend of Murillo’s. Focusing on this period within the artist’s career, the exhibition constitutes an important contribution to research on Murillo, which in recent years has concentrated on an analysis of his relationship with his patrons, the evolution of his technique, collectors of his work and the compilation of his catalogued oeuvre. The exhibition will subsequently be shown at the Hospital de los Venerables in Seville between October 2012 and January 2013, after which it will travel to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (February to May next year).
Friday 22 June 2012
The exhibition, on display at the Museo del Prado from 26 June, comprises seventeen paintings, five of which have been specially restored for this event. They range from religious and devotional works to portraits, allegories and the only known miniature attributed to Murillo.
Following the major exhibition on the artist held in London and Madrid in 1982, there have been further ones focusing on specific aspects of his output. None, however, has looked at the creative dynamic generated by the relationship between Murillo and Justino de Neve, which gave rise to an important group of paintings. The fruitful results of their friendship are now the subject of the present exhibition, organised by the Museo del Prado, the Hospital de los Venerables Sacerdotes, Seville, founded in 1670 on the initiative of Justino de Neve and now the headquarters of Fundación Focus-Abengoa, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, which houses an important group of works by the artist.
The paintings in the present exhibition are an outstanding testimony to some of the most significant artistic projects undertaken in Seville during the period in question, introducing the visitor into the heart of its distinctive manifestation of the Baroque style and its fusion of art, spirituality and culture.
In addition to the works originally painted for Justino de Neve’s private collection, others were commissioned by him for the church of Santa María la Blanca (the reconstruction of which he supervised), the city’s cathedral and the Hospital de los Venerables Sacerdotes, an institution for the care of elderly priests of which Neve was a founder.
The present exhibition reveals how Justino de Neve was one of Murillo’s most important and original patrons. Among the works that he commissioned from him were the four large lunettes of The Founding of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, three now restored for this exhibition; The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables (also known as The “Soult” Immaculate Conception) from the Museo del Prado’s own collection, which will be exhibited in its original frame still in the church of the Venerables Sacerdotes, headquarters of Fundación Focus-Abengoa; the allegories of Spring (Girl with Flowers), also restored for the exhibition, and Summer (Young Man with a Basket of Fruit) loaned from the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland, respectively; and some exceptionally refined religious scenes painted on obsidian, loaned by the Museo del Louvre and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (Rienzi). | <urn:uuid:92558cf9-cf9a-490f-923c-743906bb1f8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.museodelprado.es/en/press/news/news/browse/1/volver/72/actualidad/murillo-y-justino-de-neve-el-arte-de-la-amistad-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958914 | 749 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Festive music and carols fill the air in almost every shop, restaurant and Shopping Centre. Christmas songs with no spiritual meaning or message are piped through the most shopping malls. According to a recent survey, only one in a 100 cards with any vague reference to the true Christmas message to be found on their shelves in major High Street stores.
Just recently a very dear friend of mine felt the Lord leading her to make a personalized Christian Christmas care. It stated: “Gifts are for unwrapping” on the front cover. Inside the card: “For God so loved the world (that includes you and me) that He gave His one and only Son”(John 3:16a). It followed on with the question: “Have you unwrapped that gift? ...”
Many recipients of that card responded by saying “this reminds us what the real meaning of Christmas is”. Praise God for those who responded and may His Holy Spirit work in the hearts of all those who received that card – Christians and non-Christians alike.
The world is shouting “Away with the manger!” Christians should be challenging the world to “put Christ back into Christmas”. Yes, many of the practices at Christmas stem from heathen and pagan festivals and practices, but, despite that, the Christian church uses this time each year to remember the first coming of Jesus to this earth. He was born as a human baby. He was born, as that famous carol states so beautifully: “born that man no more may die; ... Born to give them second birth”.
This Christmas, let us meditate on the fact that Jesus came with a purpose – to save people (you and I) from our sins and to give us hope and eternal life.
As we remember His first coming, be ever mindful of the fact that He is coming back again. Having given us time (more than enough) to repent, to turn away from our sins and to live for Him, He will come as Judge for all those who have rejected Him, His gift of salvation and eternal life.
Let us also, this Christmas, ensure we are ready for His return. “Be ye also ready, for the Son of Man cometh at a time when ye think not!” (Luke 12:40)
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Tackling Hypertension -- Joe Montana & Nancy Valone, RN -- 09/18/2003
By Joe Montana
Joe Montana seemed nearly invincible during his professional quarterback days, but his recent hypertension diagnosis proves that even gridiron greats can have high blood pressure. He joined us, along with WebMD's hypertension expert, Nancy Valone, RN, to tackle your questions.
The opinions expressed herein are the guest's alone and have not been reviewed by a WebMD physician. If you have questions about your health, you should consult your personal physician. This event is meant for informational purposes only.
Moderator: Joe, how did you discover that you had hypertension?
Montana: Actually I went in for a normal checkup, and this time, unlike others, my doctor sent me to a cardiologist and informed me that my blood pressure was high. So it was shocking to say the least to find out. Obviously I thought I was doing the right things to take care of myself, but obviously I wasn't.
Moderator: Do you have a family history of heart disease?
Montana: Yes, I do. My mother has high blood pressure and my mother's father passed away at age 54 from heart disease.
Member question: How did your family react to the news of your blood pressure problem, Joe?
Montana: Actually, it's become a team effort at home. When I sit down to dinner my daughters remove the saltshaker from in front of me. Because my business requires a lot of travel, even locally, I spend a lot of time in my car, my wife has found a place by my office where I can leave a little earlier and make sure I get my workout in.
They may have taken it more seriously than I did. As an athlete, it's almost treated as an injury. We always feel we're pretty good recovering from injury. I may look at it differently than they do. But they're probably right.
Moderator: This is a lifetime commitment to recovering, so to speak.
Montana: That's true. It is a lifetime commitment.
Moderator: Nancy, what role does genetics play in hypertension?
Valone: We suspect it's rather a setup for hypertension, so family history does play a part. Even though people may do everything right as far as lifestyle habits are concerned, they may still develop hypertension.
Moderator: Joe, did you find that you were doing things that were harmful?
Montana: I think I was doing things that had the possibility of being harmful, probably more so in my eating habits. I love, for example, potato chips and salt and things of that nature. So one of the things in the program I'm involved with, "Take the Pressure Off with Better Blood Control, with Dr. James Rippe," is a three-pillar approach: Proper diet, increased physical activity, and finding the right medication, which starts with beginning that dialogue with your physician. For me, obviously cutting out chips was a key.
On our web site, takethepressureoff.com, there are some great tips and tools on how to begin to do things better on the diet and the physical activity side, along with questions you might think of asking your doctor during your visits.
Member question: Hi Joe. How hard has it been to change your diet? I guess when you were playing football you were encouraged to eat a lot of food and the healthiness of it wasn't so important. Or is that just the linemen?
Montana: Players' diets years ago, in athletics, prior to even when I was playing, were completely different. It was eat as much as you could eat, but over the years they've really refined that to eating as much as you want but the proper foods. We had a guy who, if any player wanted to, could sit with him and talk about proper nutrition. I don't think that was the case a few years before I started in the NFL.
Moderator: Nancy, what kind of diet recommendations do you make to people who want to avoid hypertension?
Valone: The general recommendations are to decrease sodium in the diet and to increase fruits and vegetables, and of course we always recommend a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, as well. We know there is protection in fruits and vegetables. I'm not sure what has exactly been isolated, but they do make a difference in reducing the heart and hypertension risk.
Member question: I've been taking blood pressure medication for several years. How do I know if I still need it or not?
Valone: This would be a good question to raise with your physician. Generally it is the medication that is keeping your blood pressure under control. In some cases blood pressure will drop very low, and that's also a time to talk to your physician about medication changes. A person should never go off their hypertension medicine without consulting with their physician.
Member question: Joe, my husband says he doesn't have to worry about eating right because he is taking medication and his pressure is under control. Should I stop worrying about putting salt in my cooking?
Montana: I'll tell you my approach has been. We believe it's a combination of all the things you do, not just the medication and then once you get it under control it's a free for all; it's maintaining to keep it under control and going forward with that in your life.
Valone: Exactly right. Over time it's not uncommon for blood pressure to rise, and by following good healthy lifestyle habits it often will decrease the need for increased doses of medication or more medication over time.
Member question: It seems like everybody has high blood pressure -- it's not really such a big deal is it?
Valone: Yes, it is a big deal. High blood pressure damages the organs (kidneys and heart) over a period of time. It can lead to kidney or heart disease.
Montana: Undetected high blood pressure is a major concern, because this is referred to many times as the silent killer, so there are no symptoms, and it may be too late by the time you figure it out.
Member question: Joe, do you feel any different now that you're controlling your blood pressure? I've heard people can't tell if it's high or not. Seems like that makes it hard to stick with the changes if you can't tell the difference.
Montana: I can't tell the difference, but I know there is because I monitor my blood pressure on a constant basis. Knowing that is a comfort, rather than knowing it's high and doing nothing about it. I also had the start of a clogging of an artery, so that really made me want to make sure I'm controlling my blood pressure.
Moderator: Joe, you mentioned diet and exercise as lifestyle changes that can help control hypertension. We've talked about your dietary changes. What did you do regarding exercise?
Montana: I thought I was getting enough in the simple things I was doing, but one of the points I need to stress is that I believe it's a combination of all the things, it wasn't just the diet or increasing my physical activity. When we talk about physical activity it can even be small changes that make a big difference, but also finding the right medication. What works for me doesn't mean it will work for everyone.
Getting to your physician and finding out what medication is right for you is key. I happen to be taking a medication that is a combination of two medications in one pill and it's called Lotrel. I was, prior to Lotrel on another medication that was not working for me.
Valone: I often have questions on the board about medications and people having problems with medications. I encourage people to talk with their physician and to explore other medications if needed. There are now over 40 medications to treat hypertension, so there are many options for treatment now.
Moderator: And again, you both recommend a comprehensive program that stresses lifestyle change to manage your hypertension.
Member question: Joe, thanks for the advice. Frankly, I don't really understand what a good blood pressure is. What is normal?
Valone: The range for normal, for most people is 140/90. However, lower is better. Treatment, as in medication and so forth, generally begins when the blood pressure rises about 140/90. However, lifestyle change is highly recommended for everyone, but particularly those people with 130 to 140 systolic.
Montana: In our program, there was a recent study that says now the normal they would like to see 120/80, and that's what I push for on my side. I am now under that, which I'm very happy about.
Valone: The recent guidelines do say that normal is 120/80. We are pushing for people to keep their blood pressure under that. Then that area between 120/80 and 140/90 is a gray area where we are increasing out watchfulness with these patients and increasing our encouragement towards healthy lifestyle change.
Member question: How often should someone who has no blood pressure problems get a reading? Can it just pop up out of the blue, or will it slowly rise over time, alerting you to the potential danger?
Valone: It generally creeps up over time, and a blood pressure check every six months would be reasonable. If it seems to be creeping up and you talk to your doctor about it, check it every week for three weeks.
Member question: Joe, I want more info about what you're doing about blood pressure, because my husband LOVES YOU. Where can I get it?
Montana: Two places. One is our web site, takethepressureoff.com, and the other is our toll free number, 877-GETBP-DOWN
Moderator: We are out of time. Thanks to Joe Montana for sharing his experience with us. And thanks to Nancy Valone for sharing her expertise with us today. For more information, you can visit takethepressureoff.com, sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Nancy Valone answers your questions on the hypertension message board. And please explore our many articles and archived Live Events on the subject of hypertension.
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ST. PAUL, MN — Minnesota recently became the first state to turn a core requirement of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) into a law for all companies — including fitness clubs — that handle credit and debit card data.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the Plastic Card Security Act into law in May. The law says that any company in Minnesota that suffers a data breach and is shown to have stored prohibited card data is liable and will have to reimburse banks for the cost of blocking the exposed cards and issuing new ones. Such companies are prohibited from retaining the full contents of a track of magnetic stripe data, the three- to four-digit security code on the back of the card by the signature block and any PIN verification code number. If a debit card with a PIN is used, a company is prohibited from retaining the data more than 48 hours after authorization of the transaction.
The security requirements go into effect Aug. 1. The liability provision of the Minnesota law applies to data breaches occurring after Aug. 1, 2008. The provision requires companies to reimburse the card-issuing financial institution for the “costs of reasonable actions” to both protect its cardholders' information and to continue to provide services to its cardholders after a breach.
Minnesota companies — including fitness clubs — that handle fewer than 20,000 payment card transactions yearly are exempted.
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As the winter and holiday travel seasons approach, PennDOT Secretary Barry J. Schoch announced on Monday that the department has 5,400 operators and more than 2,250 trucks ready for winter weather, and encouraged motorists to join in preparations for the season.
"PennDOT’s primary goal during winter weather is keeping our nearly 40,000 miles of roadway passable, which means they won’t necessarily be free of ice and snow during storms," Schoch said. "Getting through winter safely is a shared responsibility between us and our customers, so I encourage motorists to be sure they’re ready for whatever conditions we’ll face this winter."
During storms, interstates and expressways are PennDOT’s primary focus and equipment may be redirected to these routes during significant winter events. During heavier storms, motorists may find deeper accumulations on less-traveled routes and should adjust their driving for those conditions.
If drivers encounter snow or ice-covered roadways, they should slow down, increase their following distance and avoid distractions. Last winter, there were 176 crashes resulting in five fatalities and 113 injuries on snowy, slushy or ice-covered roadways where aggressive-driving behaviors such as speeding or making careless lane changes were factors in the crash.
Motorists should carry an emergency kit including items such as non-perishable food, water, first-aid supplies, warm clothes, a blanket and small snow shovel. However, motorists should tailor their kits to any specific need they or their families may have. Consider adding such items as baby supplies, extra medication, pet supplies, or even children’s games.
Last winter, PennDOT used more than 450,000 tons of salt on state roads. Currently, PennDOT has approximately 777,000 tons of salt stockpiled and will continue to take salt deliveries throughout the winter.
PennDOT has agreements with more than 680 municipalities for them to clear state roads within their jurisdictions. The department also rents approximately 270 trucks and operators to assist with snow removal, as needed.
Motorists can check road conditions on more than 2,900 miles of state roads by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, average traffic speeds on urban interstates and access to more than 670 traffic cameras. 511PA also provides easy-to-use, color-coded winter road conditions for all interstates and other routes covered in the 511 reporting network. Access to 511PA is also available by calling 511.
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Case Study: US Census surpasses goals using targeted campaigns
The Census Bureau wanted to achieve high participation from US citizens for the 2010 Census
Tapped by the US Census Bureau, Draftfcb New York led a massive marketing campaign aimed at making sure the increasingly diverse US population sent in its 2010 Census forms, while keeping labor costs for door-to-door staff to a minimum.
Strategy: The marketing was tailored to a number of nationalities and marketing channels. While Draftfcb coordinated the overall effort and was responsible for marketing to the approximately 84% of the population that consumes media in English, it also worked alongside 13 other partners, developing 210 separate media plans targeting specific population segments.
Jeff Tarakajian, EVP and group management director at Draftfcb, says this campaign differed from the millennium Census program.
“Versus 2000, the point of view of all the communications shifted from the government telling you to fill out your form, to people in effect saying, ‘This is our Census,' it's in our hands,” he says.
The team focused on getting mail-in responses back from hard-to-reach communities, who may distrust the government or be difficult to reach by traditional advertising.
“The web was a big component of our success,” said Steven Jost, associate director of communications, US Census Bureau. Besides digital advertising on non-English language sites, the Census Bureau website was translated into 59 different languages, and offered information to help educate those who had reservations about participating.
Now that the data is gathered, Jost expects to continue the effort to make the Census relevant to average Americans. “We have to make an investment in that year-round,” he says. “There's a lot more that we can do to make the data more fun and accessible.”
Results: The Census tallied a 72% mail-back response rate from US residents. This responsiveness came early in the campaign, beating the Census Bureau's expectations. It also came in $1.6 billion under budget, with those dollars flowing back to the federal treasury because of saved labor costs from the fast responses. | <urn:uuid:9f1e8b83-5184-4533-b1a0-d140936e8bdf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dmnews.com/case-study-us-census-surpasses-goals-using-targeted-campaigns/article/179793/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952307 | 444 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Like most professional people of my generation, I have a pension plan. It will safeguard my future, provide enough for extensive foreign travel by budget airline, stretch to a finca in the hills of Andalucía and maybe even cover my winter fuel bills.
What’s my plan, you say? Well, I don’t want to broadcast it, for obvious reasons. But because it’s you, and if you promise not to copy me – I plan to win the Euro Lottery. How fabulous is that?
Before you say a thing, I buy my tickets online, so I’m immediately informed by email if I win something. See, I’m not stupid.
But let’s suppose that by some unlikely twist, through a wormhole in a far-fetched parallel universe, my five numbers and two lucky stars don’t come up. What then?
I shall be sleepwalking into old age like the majority of the British population, falling down the proverbial stairs and lying there with a metaphorically broken hip.
According to a disturbing report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the National Association of Pension Funds, six in 10 workers over the age of 50 haven’t yet thought about how many retirement years they will need to finance, and a third of those aged between 52 and 64 have no idea what their workplace pension income will be.
Given that the average life expectancy for a woman is now 88 and a man 85, pensions are something we urgently need to apply ourselves to rather than Micawberishly insisting that “something will turn up”. It won’t.
As I’m not contributing to a personal pension at the moment (listen, those Lottery tickets don’t come cheap), what little provision I have is best described as “portfolio”.
Nothing wrong with that; why just last month I received an update telling me I have a pension of £875.
A month? Hurrah! Oh not a month. A year? Better than a poke in the – oh, I see: it’s my entire pension pot after working at one company for four years. Time to stick my head in the sand again, I think.
The trouble is that for most people in the Sandwich Generation, the here and now – children, mortgage, muddling through with elderly parents – is so pressing that it’s hard to set aside head space, much less savings, for 30 years’ hence.
Thinking about being old when you’re not old is a bit like attempting to order from a menu when you’re not hungry. Try as you might, it’s strangely impossible to imagine yourself feeling ravenous – or cold and frail and anxious about the next utility bill. But imagine we must.
Here in Britain, the middle classes pride themselves on their self- sufficiency. Independence is a totem of our identity, we instil it in our children when they are young, so, unsurprisingly, we cavil at the notion that we might have to rely on them – indeed, impose ourselves on them – when we are old.
Yet the unpalatable truth is that very few of us can afford to send our offspring to university, support them when they return (with a degree but without a job) and help them on to the housing ladder without making a financial sacrifice. And that sacrifice, more often than not, is our pension.
We might do it freely, but we are doing it blindly. I have an Italian friend who makes no bones about the fact that her children will be obliged to take care of her when she can no longer work. It seems oddly shocking – selfish even – to make such a demand.
But at least it’s realistic, as is the prospect of having to sell our houses to pay for decent care. And we need to start facing the future head on.
This week came a slightly bizarre clarion call for housewives to re-classify themselves as domestic CEOs, although I’m not sure why; to misquote Burns, a skivvy by any other name will still be up at midnight, washing school socks.
However, maybe there’s something to be said for taking a more businesslike, objective approach to family life. As any managing director worth their gold-plated pension knows, long-term succession planning is crucial. Just until the Lottery win comes through.
LIZ HURLEY AS YOU'VE NOT SEEN HER LATELY?
Well, I had a pretty darn Panzerlicious time at the German tank museum with my husband last weekend, thanks for asking.
He had a blissed-out look on his face that I haven’t seen for 200 years, and I swear there was a manly tear of gratitude in his eye when I took him for a birthday high tea and he ordered a metre-long Bockwurst.
But, ladies, as you will be keenly aware, the female ego is on a permanent slow puncture and by yesterday I was getting anxious that despite my efforts to please, I wasn’t the most perfect-and-exquisite creature he’d ever clapped eyes on, after all.
So I did what any woman would do. I waved a newspaper photo of Liz Hurley, her ex Arun Nayar and his new, fresher, 20-years younger Liz-alike squeeze at him, and attempted to pick a fight.
“I think that’s creepy!” I cried. “He’s upgraded to a practically identical version, except firmer. Men who do that are weird. And possibly evil.”
“Mmrgh,” he muttered through a mouthful of toast.
“Would you?” I demand, thrusting the photo of the lissome 26-year-old at him.
“Of course, I would,” he responded – clearly misunderstanding the emotional complexity of the question.
“No, I mean would you ever divorce me and then go off and date a woman who looks like me only better? Turn into a sad-sack middle-aged cliché with a pert lovely, two decades younger, on your arm?”
“Good grief no,” he replied, as I embraced him, heady with affirmation. “Liz Hurley would do me just fine.”
THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE
Whoever said girls are short of role models in business? Why, one of the Duchess of Cambridge’s old school chums has set up a company that organises orgies (if that’s not an oxymoron) for the beau monde.
Posh blonde Emma “bunga-bunga” Sayle, who runs the Killing Kittens club, describes herself as a “sextrepreneur”, which reminds me of a joke doing the rounds when I was at my Irish convent school.
Sister Immaculata is having a careers talk with her girls. She asks each one what they want to be when they grow up, nodding as they dutifully list “nurse”, “teacher” and “missionary”.
Finally, she quizzes the last girl: “And tell me, Bernadette, what would you like to be when you grow up?
“Well, Sister, I want to be a prostitute.”
At this, the nun slaps her in the face and faints.
Later, Sister Immaculata is brought round and comes to apologise: “I’m so sorry,” she says, giving the girl a hug. “Sure, I thought you said Protestant.”
I certainly know which I’d rather my daughter grew up to be. My feelings about sextrepreneurship are similar.
MEMORABLY FORGETTABLE FEAST
How magnifico to learn that Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts), has been named Waterstones’s Book of the Year.
Having holidayed in the Veneto last summer, I can say, hand on heart, that I had possibly the best meal of my life in La Serenissima.
We dined outside in the warmth, with friends, drinking Bellinis by way of an aperitif and watching the lights twinkling off the water as dusk fell.
The children played in the piazza as we eavesdropped a serenading gondolier with a tenor voice worthy of La Scala.
It was utterly magical, a moment of pure bliss. And what did we eat? I honestly can’t remember.
THE CALL THAT'S ALL TOO FAMILIAR
OK, here’s just enough blue-sky thinking to make a sailor’s suit, as my mother would have said and I’m saying now, because I’ve reached that age when the Latin names for plants mysteriously trip off my tongue and I really do want new oven gloves for Christmas.
Anyway, now that everybody on the entire planet has opted to have an absolutely identical mobile ringtone – makes me downright nostalgic for those Crazy Frog days – we are all to be found scrabbling in handbags and coat pockets at the first peal of an old-fashioned brrrrring!
It surely can’t be beyond the realms of i-technology for the ringing to be just a little more specific? What about a voice calling: “Oi, Dan, it’s for you!” or “Stand down Judith, stop frisking yourself, we’re not at the airport.”
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The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) has unearthed key documents that reveal the deep involvement of four former chief ministers S M Krishna, Dharam Singh, H D Kumaraswamy and B S Yeddyurappa in illegal mining.-Comment
If such investigations are made in to the past records of the former chief ministers i don't think that we find any one cm of the recent past who was not involved in stealing the national property in one way or the other.Otherwise how come they have made such huge properties with humble background if not by illegal means of one or the other type.It seems they have born to make the nature barren.
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All these point to the desirability of administration of a State not for long and continuously by the same party and the persons. West Bengal's ills of today can be traced to this. Even manipulation of poll results is attempted frequently by the selfish administration. In Tamil Nadu more than half a dozen ex-ministers are inside jail, with more sharks waiting to enter.What type of Public service these politicians do is clear now. | <urn:uuid:f5a86f3e-a69d-4388-83d5-49fa9e3e22fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/whart-are-famous-places-to-be-seen-in-ljullunder/21403592/answers/14806930 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972079 | 233 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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Fishing For Pike: "Spinning," "Live-Baiting," And "Paternostering". Continued
24.- Chertsey Bridge.
25.- Live-Bait "Snap" Fishing.
The last, and possibly the best "artificials" I shall mention, are " phantom-baits " ; they are made in various sizes and colours, of silk, also of sole skin, are capital pike slayers, especially the " Blue-phantoms," though rather expensive baits for pike-fishing. The late Mr. Francis Francis had a great opinion of these lures for fishing Scotch rivers and lochs. Once-it's years ago-with the permission of the Earl of Breadalbane, he was spinning for pike in Loch Tay, and captured a fine salmon on his " phantom-bait." The Earl was entertaining some guests; but the keepers, who had tried with rod, failed to catch a salmon, and the net-fishings had closed. They told Francis there would be no " fish " for dinner at Loch Tay Castle; so he sent his salmon as a present to the Earl, who told his guests how thoughtful it was of Francis to have done so. At dinner, the only clergyman present (an Irish priest) was requested to say "grace." He complied thus:-
" God bless Loch Tay, which I've heard say, the region of romance is;
God bless the Earl of Breadalbane, and God bless Francis Francis.
1 Invented by the author of these chapters.
God bless the rod, the reel, and line, also the phantom-spinner,
And bless the fish which left his Tay (iea)' to come to our dinner.
For live-bait fishing with "snap-tackle," it will be found best to use the shortest top-joint. The line may be similar, but a trifle thicker, than that used for spinning, and the reel should be forge enough to contain 100 yards of line, as very large pike are often hooked when live-bait fishing, and require considerable " tether " while playing them. The trace should be about three feet long, of stout salmon-gut, or three strands of trout-gut twisted together and tapered-whichever is preferred should be stained. At the bottom end of the trace is looped the lead to sink the bait, above which the pike-float is placed on the line, to keep the live-bait suspended and swimming at a proper depth below the surface of the water. Live-bait leads and floats can be obtained at any tackle-shop. Of floats, the best are the " Fishing Gazette pike floats " and the " Duplex"; the latter have two interchangeable tops, the red top is for use on bright days, or in the foam-flecked waters of weirs, where white would not be visible; on dull days, or as the evenings close in, the white top would show best. The " Archer-Jardine " detachable leads, and my " perfected barrel-leads," have for years been favourites with pike anglers.
The next consideration is the 14 snap-tackle." Some anglers prefer 44 Pennells," others the " Bicker-dyke" snap-both are excellent. About 1875, I introduced new snap-tackles, with which some of my largest pike were killed. Since then, I have improved them; one alteration is in the small hook being made rather longer, which is to be inserted in the top corner of the bait's gill-cover, and not in the base of its pectoral fin, for just there is the fish's heart; if placed there, baits soon get exhausted and die. These tackles are known as Jardine's 44 Perfected Snaps," and are obtainable at Farlow's, Carter & Company, Peek & Son, and some of the best provincial tackle-shops, but inaccurate imitations of them are sold.
A bait-can will be required, in which to keep the dace and gudgeon alive. Those with an interior can of perforated zinc to lift out are very convenient, and these inner cans may be withdrawn, and placed in the river to freshen up the baits. Cans with an air-pump for aerating the baits, known as "Field's aerating bait-cans," can be obtained at most of the London tackle-shops.
We will suppose ourselves equipped, and eager to commence snap-fishing. We select a bright, lively dace, and carefully placing it on the snap-hooks as described, and the smaller hook of the larger triangle through the base of the bait's back fin, we next adjust the float so that the live bait shall swim just below mid-water, then drawing a dozen yards or so of line off the reel, and the bait up towards the rod-top, with a gentle swing of the rod we cast the bait quietly in the water, at the upper part of a sedge-fringed pool, paying out more line if necessary, but holding the bait for a minute or two here and there, in the likely places to harbour a pike.
Suddenly the float disappears. We gather up the slack line, smartly lift the rod-top, and " drive home the steel"; when, from the swirl in the water and the impetuous plunge of the pike, we know that we have hooked a heavy fish, which must be played on as " tight a rein " as is prudent, of course giving and recovering line, as the pike dashes desperately here and there in its efforts to escape, until it is gaffed, or in the landing-net. Having disturbed the pool, we will go farther down the river, where, near a bed of water-lilies-a capital place for pike-we will fish with " paternoster." For this we use our longest top-joint, and to our line attach 4 feet of salmon-gut, stained to the colour of weeds. At the end of our gut-trace we fix a ¾-oz. pear-shaped plummet, and 16 inches above it tie a loop, to which we attach a single No. 10 square-bend paternoster hook, on 12 inches of platinum-gimp. The bait-a 5-inch dace or large gudgeon-should have the hook carefully passed through the bottom lip first, and then the top lip (the baits live longer when thus hooked), then cast the bait quietly near to lily-pads, weeds, or into deep eddies, lift it gently, then let it sink again, and draw it through all the water likely to hold a pike, the line all the while being gathered on to the left hand, or on the reel, and kept moderately "taut." It will be known when a fish is found by the bait being arrested, perhaps tugged at and shaken; then wait a few seconds, strike smartly, and play your pike to the gaff or landing-net.
Fig. 3.- Farlow Registered Flight. - The Gimp 12 Inches Long.
Fig- 4.- Jardine's Indiaruiwer Convolute Pike Bait.
Fig. 5.- Wagtail Bait (Patent).
Fig. 6- Archer Spinner
Fig. 7.- Archer Spinner, Baited.
Fig. 8.- Abbey Mills Spinner.
Fig. 9.- Allcock's A1 Spinner.
Fig. 10 - A1 Spinner, Baited.
Fig. 11 - Pennell's Live-Bait Snap Tackle.
Fig. 12.- Jardine's Perfected Snap Tackle.
Fig. 13. Pike "Paternoster" Tackle.
Fig. 14.-leger-Tackle Baited With Live Dace Or Roach.
"Paternoster" And Leger Tackle.
" Legering " for pike is only adopted when rivers are very much discoloured after heavy rains. A circumstance which occurred to me in January 1875, when fishing at Sonning-on-Thames, in a high flood and very thick water, may be interesting to my readers who are anglers. I will give " Red Spinner's "1 account of it:- w During the high floods that occurred in the Thames Valley during the week succeeding the New Year (1875), the pike-fishers were completely nonplussed. One well known amongst them went up the river as soon as there seemed to be a prospect of success, and found the water, to his disgust, in colour and consistency not unlike pea-soup. All his efforts were unsuccessful till luncheon-time, then he moored his punt in a position commanding a deep, quiet eddy. He discarded the ordinary method of live-baiting, and by affixing a perforated bullet on the trace, a yard above the hook, he improvised a leger-tackle. The result justified his choice of both place and method. His live-bait, large dace, and the yard of free-trace below the bullet, gave them an opportunity of pirouetting in a pretty wide circle. The angler had, fortunately, 1 struck ile.' The eddy of his choice happened, no doubt, to be the furnished apartments into which a large family of pike had been driven by stress of water, and the baits dropped into their midst like manna in the wilderness. Their pikes hips, one after another, simply opened their jaws and absorbed the treacherous dace, taking things ridiculously easy until they felt the steel'; then running madly, they gave splendid sport. I saw the fish, beautifully shaped and marked. In one lucky hour the angler caught six pike, the largest of them 13 j lbs., 10 lbs., 9 lbs., and 8£ lbs., the total weighing 49lbs."
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Outreach Magazine published an article by Dan King called "Why You Shouldn't Build a House on Your Next Mission Trip":
That might sound like an unusual thing to say to a missions team on their way to a construction project that they’re funding. But why else do you go on a mission trip? You go to work, right? You send your own (and other people’s) hard earned money to buy supplies, add a little extra to cover your plane ticket for a little overseas travel, and you arrive to do something awesome that apparently the poor local people can’t do for themselves.
I know this might sound overly simplistic, but that pretty much nails it on the head for most of our church’s mission trip projects. We are a results-oriented culture that feels like we’re not making a difference unless we have something tangible that we can point to and say, “Look at what we did!”
King's point is so true: our "need" to leave something tangible behind...to have somehow bettered things by our presence...often counters what may be helpful. King writes about the goals of the Mission Trips led by Chris Marlow and his non-profit "Help One Now". Their purpose is to break the cycle of poverty.
The goal of the organization is rescue orphans by meeting the immediate need created by extreme poverty, restore their hope by meeting basic needs through child sponsorship programs, and renewing their communities through long-term, sustainable growth.
When a team goes on a mission trip, each person is responsible for raising an extra $500 over and above their actual cost for the trip. The extra money is used to fund housing and other building projects, but not so that the team can go down there to do the work, too. More importantly, the money is used to hire locals to do the work.
The goal is to create jobs. And quite honestly, if we’re doing the work, then we’re taking jobs away. That only creates a reliance on our help and doesn’t actually break the cycle of poverty. We think we’re doing a good thing, and we get even more excited when the locals come out and volunteer their time to help us on this “charitable” project.
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Our quick yummy buckwheat pancakes recipe provides really healthy heart food and is simple and easy to cook-up for a quick healthy breakfast ...
Yummy Breakfast Pancakes, Really Healthy Heart Food
Buckwheat pancakes can be made in advance and stored, with a slice of greaseproof paper or paper towel in between each pancake to prevent them sticking to each other. Store in the fridge until needed. They can also be served hot as a pudding after a main meal.
Buckwheat is not actually wheat as it comes from the rhubarb family, rather than the wheat-grain family. It is known for its cholesterol-lowering properties and is also a rich source of many minerals, including calcium and magnesium, both are required for healthy circulation and heart function
Olive Oil, Olives are a good source of mono-unsaturated fats and a good source of vitamin E. the nutrients in olives can help to reduce the chances of heart disease.
Organic whole wheat (unbleached, with no chemical washing), stimulates the liver and cleanses toxins.
Sunflower seeds contain essential fatty acids they protect your artery membranes, reduce accumulating cholesterol and are a good source of fibre.
Ingredients ... You will need for Buckwheat Pancakes
- 125gm (4½oz) of buckwheat flour
- 125gm (4½oz) of wholewheat flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 275ml (9½ fl oz) of rice or oat milk
- 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
- Small amount of olive oil
Preparation and Cooking
Sieve both the flours and the baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Beat the eggs and then blend together with the milk and the oil until smooth.
Leave to stand for at least 30 minutes before using. Heat a small pancake pan over a medium flame and brush the surface of the pan with a small amount of olive oil. Using a tablespoon of pancake mixture at a time, swill it around the pan to spread the mixture as thinly as possible. Allow to cook for 1 minute before flipping over and cooking the other side.
Finally, to really enjoy your Buckwheat Pancakes, serve them with fresh fruits of your choice and some organic natural yoghurt for a perfectly balanced breakfast. | <urn:uuid:92f533d4-d988-40d7-9bd6-16c7585c3007> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.true-beauty-tips.com/buckwheat-pancakes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948369 | 483 | 1.5 | 2 |
Last March, Victoria Family Meals was born out the need to create healthy meals around food intolerances and the importance of eating at least 5 dinners a week as a family. It was important that amongst our busy schedules that we sit as a family and connect. This almost daily connection cements our family values and creates a bond of open communication that will extend (hopefully) into teenagehood.
What do we talk about? Almost anything goes. Most often it’s a debrief about our day that morphs into funny French discussions about what we eat. Sometimes it’s the bigger conversations about “what happens to us after we die”, or “what is a vasectomy”. As parents we are open to discuss anything because we need our children to know that no topic is taboo while also preparing us for those big questions that will come in the future.
It’s never too late to start the conversation and try a new recipe. Gather your family tonight and ask “What was your favorite part of today” while enjoying good healthy food.
Crockpot Ground Chicken and Vegetable Soup
2lbs of ground lean chicken
1 cup of chopped carrots
1 cup of chopped celery
½ cup of chopped onion
2 tsp of garlic powder
1 tsp of basil
1 tsp of oregano
1 tsp of thyme
½ tsp of dill
Salt and pepper to taste
6 cups of low sodium chicken or vegetable broth
1. Season chicken with salt and pepper and brown in a medium-high pan
2. Once browned add all ingredients including the chicken into the Crockpot
3. Cook on low for 7-9 hours or on high for 4-6 hours.
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(KTSF by Trista Wang) Today is the graduation ceremony for the Financial Engineering MBA program at UC Berkeley. And the ceremony started with a moment of silence to remember a fallen student- Arthur Qi.
Aurthur Qi died two weeks before his MBA graduation ceremony, and 90 days before his 32nd birthday. However this tragic story also shows the goodness in people.
The director of the Master of Financial Engineering at UC Berkeley, Linda Kreitzman said, Qi’s classmates helped raise $26,000 dollars from the Chinese community. In the mean time, a viewer who watched KTSF’s news coverage decided to make a generous donation.
“There is an anonymous donor, who again a wink to you KTSF, stepped up and wrote a check to take care of the huge loan back in China for Aurthur’s MBA study. We can’t disclose the name of the donor nor the amount but I am personally deeply grateful,” Kreitzman said.
Qi’s family left for China last Saturday with his ashes and had a family funeral this Monday. The director of the program said all of the students and the faculty won’t forget Aurthur and his family. The program also set up a foundation after Qi’s name.
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Google Announces 'Instant Previews' Search Feature
People searching on Google will soon be able to see previews of websites before clicking on them.
The "Instant Previews" feature announced Tuesday is meant to help people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too visually cluttered for their tastes. It works for Google Web searches, as well as searches for news, video and local businesses.
After clicking on an icon of a magnifying glass, people will see a picture of the website in the white space to the right of the search results within a tenth of a second. Although the preview photo will vary in size, just as Google's image results do, Google designed the previews so that they'll never eclipse the search results and clutter the page.
Google will also show a box above the picture zooming in on the section of the website where the search terms appear. The search terms will be highlighted in that box.
While someone looks at a picture of a website, Google will load visual previews for other search results in the background so that people can quickly compare websites by rolling the cursor over the results on the page.
The feature is a follow-up to Instant Search, a feature Google unveiled in September that updates search results as people continue typing. Last week, Google said that people who own an iPhone or a smart phone running Google's Android software can use Instant Search too.
Google said it is introducing visual previews because word-based search results can only tell someone so much about what a website holds in store. People who use Google can already read short snippets from a site before they click on it, as well as, say, the date a news story or article was published.
All told, Google claims that people who use Instant Previews are 5 percent more likely to feel satisfied with the website they chose.
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Time's up for the former Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine Building at East 105th Street and Carnegie Avenue. One of the few prominent examples of Art Deco architecture in Cleveland will soon be demolished.
The Cleveland Clinic, which bought the building more than a year ago, plans to tear it down starting in late May or early June, Brian Smith, the Clinic's director of construction management, said Thursday.
The Clinic plans to replace the building with a 206-space parking lot, which will serve a wellness center and outpatient surgical facility located in newer buildings just east of the OCPM building, as it's known.
Designed by the Austin Co. of Cleveland as the Carnegie Medical Building, the handsome structure conjures up the glamour of Art Deco, which fused severe, decorative geometry with a sense of excitement over modernity.
Above a rather plain first story, the eight-story building sports rows of rectangular windows framed by vertical piers and recessed horizontal panels in a design that emphasizes vertical thrust and makes the building look like something Superman would want to leap over.
It seems like a distant cousin to Art Deco masterpieces such as New York's Chrysler and Empire State buildings.
The loss of the building will be keenly felt, not because it's a towering achievement -- which it isn't -- but because it's a charming and admirable period piece that's been part of the landscape in University Circle for decades.
It's also one of the few notable examples of Art Deco in the city. Others include the 1927 Ohio Bell building downtown and the 1930 Fenn College tower, now part of Cleveland State University.
The style never caught on as firmly in Cleveland as in other cities, including New York and Detroit.
The Clinic received permission for the demolition from the city last year in a process that included an open review by the University Circle Design Review Committee in public meetings covered by this blog.
In March 2008, the committee voted 5-2 to approve the demolition after Smith explained that he viewed the 144,000-square-foot structure as a "money pit" that, if renovated, would be substandard in comparison with other Clinic buildings.
Smith said last year that the building has narrow column bays, low ceilings and would feel dark and cramped if renovated. It would also yield 50 percent less usable space than other Clinic buildings.
Asked Thursday how he now feels about obtaining approval for the demolition, Smith said, "You certainly don't get the feeling that you've won something."
He also said he's had to defend the decision in response to criticism from several friends. There's been no organized community protest.
The Clinic recently removed asbestos from the building and set up a concrete barricade along the north side of Carnegie Avenue in front of the structure. The facade is spray-painted in several places with the ominous word "cut."
Smith said he's considering how to respond to inquiries from people who'd like to salvage some of the building's decorative stonework -- which truly is worth saving.
In the future, the land at East 105th and Carnegie could be used for a new Clinic building, although the organization has no immediate plans to build anything on the site.
Smith said the site could be enormously important in the future because it would flank the northern terminus of Opportunity Corridor, a proposed cross-town thoroughfare that would join University Circle to the stub end of I-490 at East 55th Street.
Opportunity Corridor is intended to link the city's fastest-growing job center to the interstate highway system.
Anything built in the future on the site of the OCPM building would have enormous prominence.
Given the Clinic's financial clout and its rising architectural ambitions, there's a possibility that East 105th and Carnegie could be the site of something truly important in the future.
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Analysis: Bankruptcy filing may be bad option for Detroit
WILMINGTON, Delaware |
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - If the city of Detroit were a company, it would be a prime candidate to file for bankruptcy, using court protection to cut debt, streamline operations and trim retiree benefits.
But what may be good for General Motors may not be good for the home of the U.S. auto industry.
A state-appointed panel of experts on Tuesday declared Detroit in financial crisis, and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is widely expected to soon appoint an emergency financial manager to take over many of the city's functions.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the City Council oppose a state takeover in part because they would lose much of their power to the emergency manager. And bankruptcy is the last thing they want.
While that emergency manager could recommend putting the city into a Chapter 9 bankruptcy, which is reserved for cities, few experts expect that to happen.
"This is too critical and it is too important to the state to be left to the dynamic uncertainty of a Chapter 9 process," said James Spiotto, an attorney with Chapman and Cutler in Chicago and one of the leading experts on municipal bankruptcy. "Chapter 9 is time-consuming, uncertain, expensive and unpredictable."
Not only could it be messy for Detroit, but also for other Michigan cities whose credit worthiness might be questioned, experts said. Instead of stanching the bleeding, it might spread it.
General Motors Corp, which has its headquarters in downtown Detroit, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009. It received a bailout of $49.5 billion from the U.S. government that was converted to an ownership stake once GM emerged from bankruptcy.
Detroit's problems, including $14 billion in long-term liabilities, cry out for a radical fix. But few expect the federal government to come to the city's aid.
Its population has plummeted to 700,000 from 1.8 million and the departing residents took with them the city's tax base. They left behind a glut of foreclosed homes, high crime and a city struggling to provide basic services and meet pension obligations.
Once a new state law takes effect on March 28, Detroit's emergency manager would have sweeping powers to restructure the city. Among those powers would be the ability to replace current union agreements with ones that are more affordable for the city, said Eric Scorsone, who specializes public finance at Michigan State University.
Labor costs account for 49.5 percent of Detroit's operating budget, in the fiscal year ending June 30.
Spiotto said the emergency manager has the ability to focus on problems with precision, while the Chapter 9 process is more scattered.
"Bankruptcy for the most part is a shotgun blast," said Spiotto. That disrupts all of a city's relationships, from its suppliers to lenders to labor, not just those at the center of its crisis.
If it filed, Detroit would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, surpassing Jefferson County, home to Alabama's largest city, Birmingham, which filed for bankruptcy in 2011 with $4.23 billion in debt.
It would also be the first time since at least 1950 that the largest city in a state filed for bankruptcy, said Spiotto. Michigan state officials would have the power to block a bankruptcy filing.
Others have come to the brink of insolvency like New York City in 1975 and Philadelphia in 1991. Both were able to put their finances in order after state governments intervened.
States have been motivated to deal with local governments in distress by the fear that a bankruptcy could taint other struggling municipalities, worsening the problem.
"That's the theory. That if Detroit goes under, then Flint will have to pay more and Lansing is going to have pay more and Grand Rapids and even cities in other states," said Scorsone, referring to a ripple effect of investors demanding higher interest rates on bonds issued other metro areas.
The experience of cities that have gone bankrupt hardly encourages its use. The California city of Vallejo emerged from bankruptcy in 2011 with less burdensome union contracts and debt, but crime has soared, businesses have fled and property values have plunged.
For now, Scorsone said he thought there was a low probability of Detroit filing for bankruptcy, and many experts following the situation generally seemed to agree.
But if progress isn't made in the next six months, that optimism could fade.
There are lingering questions about the legality of the emergency manager and the authority to alter contracts.
"Everything the person does that is controversial will be challenged in court," said Scott Eisenberg at Amherst Partners, and a past president of the Detroit Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association.
If those legal challenges bog down the emergency manager, bankruptcy may become inevitable.
Scorsone said events playing out in Flint, a Michigan city about 70 miles northwest of Detroit, might foreshadow what lies ahead.
An emergency manager was appointed and the city's problems improved from "off-the-charts bad", but some changes have been reversed in court, raising the prospect of bankruptcy, said Scorsone.
"If it doesn't work in Flint, it probably won't work in Detroit," said Scorsone.
(Editing by Greg McCune, Mary Milliken and Leslie Gevirtz)
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Microsoft mitigated 64 vulnerabilities in the latest Patch Tuesday. In all Microsoft released 17 security bulletins. The gigantic security update by the developer also includes patch for four privately disclosed vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet explorer (IE). The company has rated the update as critical on Windows clients for IE6, IE7 and IE8 and moderate for IE6, IE7 and IE8 on Windows servers. The security flaws do not affect IE9. The security flaws could allow remote code execution, if the user views a specially crafted malicious web page on IE. Exploitation of the security flaws could enable the attacker to gain the same rights as those of the user account. The update improves the way IE manages objects in memory, and content and script during some processes.
One of the five vulnerabilities mitigated is a use-after-free bug, which was successfully exploited by security researcher Stephen Fewer in Pwn2own contest at CanSecWest Conference held earlier this year. Fewer, associated with Harmony security used three vulnerabilities to exploit and escape the protected mode of the browser. Microsoft is working to resolve the other two vulnerabilities heap address leak and protected mode bypass, exploited by the Ireland-based security researcher. The use-after-free bug and information leak vulnerabilities do not affect IE9 as the issue was identified through fuzzing and resolved by the company's professionals during the development of version 9.
Security flaws in software are common. IT professionals are required to regularly update their skills by attending security conferences, webinars and undertaking online IT degree programs.
Developers encourage researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities prior to their exploitation by the cybercriminals.
Some of the mitigated vulnerabilities were reported by security researchers affiliated to Google and VeriSign. Proactive approach is crucial to deal with the ever growing cyber threats. Professionals qualified in secured programming, IT degree programs and penetrating testing may help software developers in timely identification and mitigation of security flaws.
Microsoft releases security updates on every second Tuesday of a month. Security experts have advised users to immediately apply the patches provided by the company in the mega security update. Internet users must use genuine software and enable automatic updating to allow automatic download and installation of security updates. Users must resist the tendency to use pirated and cheap software as they adversely affect the functioning of the computer system. Use of counterfeit software also deprives users of the opportunity to benefit from regular security updates and recommendations from software developers. They must also resist from opening e-mail attachments received from suspicious and unknown sources. They must install and update security solutions to safeguard computers against malware and other malicious downloads. Employees could be made aware of the security threats through regular huddle sessions, e-learning programs and encouraging them to undertake online IT courses on cyber security. Organizations must restrict user rights on computer systems to avoid execution of malicious code and compromise of confidential information. Security professionals must keep track of the security updates and threat alerts to identify and apply relevant patches. | <urn:uuid:d062fd74-6f86-4eff-95e8-cd1c5a1f5025> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://security.ezinemark.com/microsoft-s-mega-security-update-resolves-security-flaws-in-internet-explorer-322d56ec1cb.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939357 | 597 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Content is the number one element that website owners strive to make attractive because it is the main drawer of traffic for their businesses. They see to it that it carries the elements that catch the attention of both search engines and humans, like quality, useful information, good grammar and spelling, and profitable keywords that are strategically located within the article.
Most companies and professional content providers are equipped with the knowledge of the rules of the search engines. They make sure that the content they create are enticing to humans and search engines. Humans are interested in content that delivers relevant, up to date, and useful information that helps to educate them about their niche. Search engines on the other hand, love content that contain words or phrases that most people use to find information about that niche.
Content providers who can assemble content that carries these qualities are sure to draw genuine traffic and increase the profitability of a website. It is their main job to provide websites with content that are interesting to humans and friendly to search engines at the same time.
Here are six elements that help content providers to create SEO friendly content:
The page title is the first thing that search engines see when they conduct a search in the World Wide Web. As a content provider, you should keep your titles short and infused with your main keyword.
A good title is one that carries a statement that arouses the curiosity of the target audience. It should also bear keywords that enable search engines to find it easily.
2. Strategic Keywords
Strategic keywords are words or phrases that people use to find information on the web. These words should be relevant to the niche you are writing about as it can help to bring targeted traffic to your site.
Originality refers to the uniqueness of your content. Unique content refers to articles that do not appear anywhere else on the web. Search engines can easily detect duplicate content. It can even penalize your site if it finds out that you are copying content from other sites.
3. Quality and Relevance
Quality refers to the flawlessness of your content in terms of organization, grammar, spelling, and structure. Relevance refers to the topic that you are talking about in your content. It should be of significance and importance to your niche. It should not be stuffed with too many keywords and the keywords used should perfectly go with the flow of your ideas. Search engines can detect if your web page does not carry these attributes, and you can find it out in your rankings.
Content that is easy for readers to skim through for important details are more attractive than free flowing paragraphs. Readers would love to see lists that enumerate important factors or steps.
Another way to make content scannable is to break the article into sub-headings to provide the reader with a good view of the important points. You should also try to infuse your keywords in your sub-headings to make your article more SEO friendly.
5. Meta Tags
Meta tags play a good role in making content search engine friendly. Be sure to use meta tags that are relevant to your niche to enhance the visibility of your web page.
Hyperlinks are words or keywords that help to bring readers to your website or to another page within your website. This is done for the purpose of giving more information or details about the particular word or phrase that you intend to clarify with your reader. Hyperlinks help to improve traffic to your site. They also play some role in the improvement of your SEO.
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§ Mr. David Watkins
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all Acts of Parliament for which his Department is responsible that require companies to disclose information, stating under each Act what information has to be disclosed, how, by when and to whom.
§ Mr. Millan
Section 11 of the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1965 empowers the Highlands and Islands Development Board by notice served on any person carrying on a business or undertaking in the Highlands and Islands to require him to furnish it with such information as may be specified in the notice. There is a right of appeal to the sheriff against the notice. Section 12 of the Act restricts disclosure of information by the board.
In terms of undertakings—which have the force of Statutory Instruments—under the Highlands and Islands Shipping Services Act 1960, Messrs. David MacBrayne Ltd., Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd. and the Orkney Islands Shipping Co. Ltd. are required to provide such information as the Secretary of State for Scotland may reasonably require from time to time about their services.
Under the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 and the Gaming Act 1968, applicants for permits and licences, if a company, are required to give the names, addresses and functions of directors and secretary when publishing their applications in a newspaper.
There are several Acts relating to agriculture which require occupiers of 261W agricultural land, some of whom may be companies, to provide data on cropping, stocking, etc., mainly in connection with agricultural censuses and subsidy schemes; and similar provisions exist in fisheries legislation. Similarly, provisions requiring persons to provide inforimation to assessors and rating authorities apply to companies as well as individuals, but not to companies as such. | <urn:uuid:8deb5d10-abe2-4602-9f47-158b5dd29d49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1977/jul/27/companies-disclosure-of-information-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949818 | 359 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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Mug Shot Time? Wipe That Smile Off Your Face
Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 4:46 pm
In one North Carolina county, mugging too much for a mug shot can get you locked in a cell indefinitely.
First off, though, why would you smile for a mug shot? Thumb through those publications like The Slammer magazine filled with nothing but mug shots and you can find entire sections of people grinning it up.
In Scottie Wingfield's case, she meant to get arrested at an Occupy Charlotte protest — a planned civil disobedience. Cracking a huge grin in her mug shot was a way of extending that protest. But, Wingfield says, the deputy behind the camera said he would put her in lockdown for five hours if she continued to smile.
Yep. Lockdown. Wingfield settled for a smirk. In recent months other Charlotte Occupiers say they got a similar threat, too, but none tested the "no smiling" rule like Jason Dow. A week and a half ago he landed at Mecklenburg County's jail processing center for using a computer to project protest messages on Bank of America's corporate headquarters building.
And he pulled a huge face-stretcher for the deputy on mug shot duty.
"He told me to stop smiling and I told him I couldn't. And he's like 'Well, you're gonna spend some time in isolation if you don't.' And I went ahead and started walking over there. At which point they shut the door," Dow says.
Dow sat in that five-by-eight cell for 12 hours. Not until he agreed to keep a straight face was he even allowed to make a call to friends waiting all night in the parking lot to post his $250 bail. When Dow finally caved and left the jail, he stopped at a gas station. There on the counter sat a copy of The Slammer.
"There's a guy right on the front with a big old grin on his face, all his teeth showing. And I was like, in that instance, I kind of think it's like selective enforcement," Dow says.
A spokesman at the American Jail Association says there are no national standards for mug shots. In Mecklenburg County, it's up to the deputy behind the camera. And Capt. Mark McLaughlin says smiling is not completely prohibited.
"As long as it's not — like some people will really cheese up and these kinds of things and we just can't have that," McLaughlin says.
He says the pictures need to look uniform because police use mug shots from the database when they put together photo lineups of suspects in a crime.
'We Run The Place'
The cinder block cell where Dow was held is about 20 feet away from where the mug shots are taken. Of the 53,000 arrested people processed here each year, McLaughlin estimates fewer than 100 land in lockdown. He points to half a dozen guys lounging on plastic benches as we pass by. The lockdown cell is empty.
"And as you can see, we have people sitting here, quietly watching TV, waiting. Nobody in the holding cells," he says.
"Cooperation breeds cooperation," he quips. Deputies don't have time to negotiate with someone itching for a confrontation — even over something as silly as a grin. Easier — and safer — says McLaughlin, is to wait them out in lockdown.
"The thing is, we're gonna win," McLaughlin says. "We may lose in some civil suit down the road somewhere, but for the moment, we're gonna win, because we run the place," he says. | <urn:uuid:3d724b35-2634-4620-ab89-03c74626e42f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://krwg.org/post/mug-shot-time-wipe-smile-your-face | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971411 | 782 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Banking today, is largely technology driven both due to a combination of regulatory and competitive compulsions.
Banks today have no time to give specifications and get tailor-made software. They seek solutions that will get them started immediately. Such an environment therefore calls for better domain knowledge in the IT companies as well.
It has become common practice to employ banking experts; but this cannot fill the knowledge gap as the implementation spans across a large spectrum of financial products, services, processes and locations. Moreover, over time banking has evolved into a highly complex business and the services that a typical bank renders are vast.
The programme attempts to bridge the gaps in domain knowledge of the IT solution providers. The objective of this programme therefore, is to provide the banking knowledge from a system perspective, which will help the designers / developers understand the processes and the information flow better.
The objective of this programme is to cover the basic banking operations and the linkages to various systems, which will enable the participants to appreciate the requirements of the banks and address the implementation issues more effectively.
The workshop are based on power point presentations, case study discussions, tutorials, and group exercises and would be highly interactive.
NOTE: First Workshop was held from 18th to 20th August 2005 at Mumbai. Next programme will be conducted in 2006. For more information, contact us at [email protected]
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Q. I was just wondering what your opinion is on this Gospel of Judas that has mysteriously shown up recently. I know Paul says not to accept any Gospel other than the one he preached. I really don’t believe this Gospel of Judas is true and I’m very suspicious of it since it apparently was written by gnostics. I would love to know your “take” on it.
A. The Gospel of Judas, written in the 2nd century, was condemned as heresy nearly 1800 years ago by early church leaders. It promotes the gnostic error, that salvation is attained through the acquisition of secret knowledge rather than faith in the Lord’s atoning death on the cross. It’s 26 pages long and mentions neither the crucifixion nor the resurrection, but has Jesus promising to convey to Judas the secret knowledge he desired, and thanking him for his act of betrayal.
I think unbelievers tried to make a big deal out of it, like they did about the Gospel of Thomas a few years earlier, but to no avail. It’s discovery was originally promoted by National Geographic, a non-religious group. | <urn:uuid:e7660818-cdb3-48ad-853a-81101d664454> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/the-gospel-of-judas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981858 | 239 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Selected Pages and Projects from: "Gourd Fun for Everyone" By Sammie Crawford, The Fairy Gourdmother
Gourd Fun for Everyone - There is a reason why we wanted to include some of Sammie’s work in our book, Making Gourd Dolls and Sprit Figures. There is something joyful in her work. The eyes of her dolls sparkle and her painting techniques are skillful. We had always enjoyed this book when it was originally published by Northlight and were disappointed when it went out of print. After several unsuccessful tries at self-publishing, Jim introduced Sammie to Peter and Nancy Schiffer and encouraged their reprinting her work.
This is really the only thorough tole-style painting book for gourds in print. And there is much more information here than you’ll find in most pamphlets and booklets that tend to go out of print fairly quickly and are already half the price of this 128 page book with 19 wonderful projects.
Excellent tips on loading your brush with paint. How to apply paint for texture and effect.
Step by step photos of the building up of the face, the body and ornamentation. Learn how to give expression to eyes to bring life to your painting.
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As we ring in a new year, we remain shocked and saddened by the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. Unfortunately, Newtown now adds its name to a list of equally disturbing tragedies at the hands of mentally disturbed people possessing semi-automatic weapons -- the others, of course, in Columbine, Aurora, Tucson, and at Virginia Tech.
The public has responded by sounding a call to action. Vice President Joe Biden has been tasked with finding a better way forward. Amid controversy, and prominent anti-gun voices such as former congresswoman and Tucson shooting victim, Gabrielle Giffords, he has met with the families of the newest victims.
Every tragic incident is subsequently followed by calls for gun control change. The politicians quickly pick up the baton and legislative bills are crafted at local and national levels to address gun control. Newtown has been no different, with the Senate, and President Barack Obama determined to change the laws, ostensibly to protect the public. While this is indeed a noble goal, a closer look at successful and enduring change management is necessary to better predict the likelihood of its success.
Yet state after state has passed laws allowing concealed weapons in public. All of this is in the context of fewer shooting deaths overall. Are we safer now, or more at risk? Do we have a gun control issue or are they isolated incidences of “guns don’t kill people, people kill people?”
In the interest of full-disclosure, a disclaimer: I am not anti-gun. I believe in the sanctity of the 2nd amendment, with its right to bear arms, but I have always strongly questioned the inclusion of weaponry that goes beyond personal protection and/or hunting.
As a change management consultant, I’ve found successful change is predicated on a three-step process: plan, communicate, execute. All three steps are critical to the probability of change success. Assuming we want to implement a successful and enduring gun control change law, let’s apply these three critical steps.
Step 1: Plan
Any plan must include an honest assessment of the situation, the proposed scope of the change, probable and likely risks with implementing the plan, or with failure of the plan, and the team charged with conceiving, implementing and executing the change. This is necessarily predicated on identification of the real issue and catalyst for the proposed change. The planning stage must also address how support will be generated, including providing personal returns for the investments of those affected.
In regards to the gun issue, what is the real problem? Is it access? Is it legality of certain guns and ammunition? Is it screening for mental illness? Is it all of the above?
The problem must be succinctly identified before a plan can be fashioned. For gun control change to be effective, it must first be realistic and enforceable in scope. It must successfully be able to balance the 2nd amendment right to bear arms with restricting access to weaponry that goes well beyond. It must address the reality of special interest groups -- i.e. the National Rifle Association, or NRA, adamantly opposing any new restrictions -- and the realistic threat to politicians that choose to ignore the special interest pressure.
More important, it must find a way to gain majority support across a diverse population. While a law can be rammed through without majority support, it won’t ultimately be successful without it. Finally, it must concede that it is impossible to fully prevent a tragedy from occurring again, but that a new legislation will make its occurrence much less likely.
Sadly, current legislation being proposed is little more than a public relations stunt to make it appear that someone is doing something. If the assumption is that semi-automatic guns are the culprits for the recent tragedies, does exempting a large class of these weapons make this law practically successful? Also, does exempting current ownership of these weapons significantly alter the current situation?
While the thought process is likely one of “better to get something, than nothing,” the argument should be: “Let’s get something that actually makes a significant change.” More practically, this law, even if passed, won’t reduce the likelihood of another Newtown. In fact, sales of semi-automatic weapons were sharply higher following the tragedy. People are anticipating a whiplash reaction and want to protect themselves from this reactive force. If anything, the scepter of this legislation has had an opposite affect and the legislation hasn’t even been debated yet, let alone passed.
The currently proposed legislation is an example of planning failure. While it is limited in scope, it is fatally limited. It doesn’t have majority support, and it doesn’t address how its supporters will respond to both special interest challenges to the current situation. In this case, it is better there be no legislative response than a poor, ineffective legislative response.
A better solution might be to engage the special interest groups -- who also don’t want repeats of Newtown. While there has been historic opposition to restrictions on semi-automatic weaponry, perhaps there can be movement in this direction with guarantees toward protection of overall 2nd amendment rights. After all, hunting or personal protection doesn’t really require the ability to shoot multiple rounds in seconds.
Step 2: Communicate
Any change initiative requires honest, relevant and timely communication between the sponsor, team leaders, team members and those affected. The key is honest communication.
Communication that heralds bad news, setbacks or failures cannot “punish the messenger.” Effective gun change legislation requires clear and honest communication as to intent, scope and reach.
If the legislation is intended to drastically reduce the public’s access to semi-automatic weapons and nothing more, then this must be communicated. If the legislation is intended to also guarantee 2nd amendment rights as far as handguns and concealed weapons, then this too must be clearly communicated.
Unfortunately, the term “honest politician” is now considered an oxymoron. There is a distinct shortage of politician credibility. We have been trained by past communication and action to not really believe anything a politician says. Furthermore, most of us tend to believe that the politician likely has ulterior motives behind the legislation.
In other words, even if politicians were to really, truly communicate on this issue, we most likely wouldn’t believe them. Is there hope, then, of passing effective gun control change?
Yes, but it will take a real and sizeable majority across party, geographical and demographical lines for us to consider believing the communication. Without this, it all might sound good, but we won’t be buying whatever they are selling.
Step 3: Execute
Finally, the change initiative must be executed according to plan. While no initiative ever proceeds exactly as planned, the ability to “roll with the changes” and respond to changing landscapes is key to seeing the change initiative through. Probable and potential changes should be addressed in the planning stage, communicated throughout the initiative, and then executed appropriately.
If the gun control plan (legislation) is intended to drastically reduce the public availability and access to semi-automatic weaponry, then the scope and reach must reflect this in the planning stage, must be communicated to the public prior to and throughout the legislative process, and then must be acted upon by the legislators with their affirmative voting. Finally, it must be signed into law and then enforced with the full resources available to it. Anything less will be an execution failure that directly results in a change failure.
We can only hope the current attention being given to this issue is not just “yesterdays news” and/or an attempt to mollify the public. If successful and enduring change is to take hold, Gabrielle Giffords’ struggles and voice must be heard in the effort to push for the solution. We should also be encouraged by the efforts of the vice president to solicit as many disparate and diverse voices on this issue -- provided the opinions are seriously considered. The real solution must be inclusive and not exclusive of any of the affected constituencies (aka all of us).
While meaningful gun control legislation might not prevent another Newtown, it will dramatically decrease the likelihood of it. And that’s a change we can, and should, believe in, regardless of political, geographic or demographic affiliation.
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With the intense -- some would say obsessive -- scrutiny of Steve Jobs and his health, what is sometimes overlooked is the company he founded and built: Apple.
After taking a six-month medical leave that involved undergoing a liver transplant, Jobs, 54, returned to work this week.
And he comes back to a place that hasn't skipped a beat since he left it.
Although such prominent investors as Warren Buffett fretted about the company's future without its charismatic chief executive, longtime observers say Jobs has built an institutional mirror of himself in Apple with senior executives who share many of his values and outlook.
"When Apple goes to hire somebody, the No. 1 criteria isn't how much experience you have or who you know," said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner, a technology consulting company. "It's whether they think you will fit into the culture."
The cult of Jobs' personality is ingrained in the corporation, more so perhaps than in almost any other public company. From the original operating system through the iMac and iPod to the iPhone, he has put his stamp on the main mission: Make technology seamless to the customer and make it better than anyone else could envision.
"Jobs has driven into the DNA of Apple that they want to make products that are very well-built and very easy to use. Everyone I've met at Apple, from the clerk to the chief financial officer, gets that," said Daniel Ernst, an analyst at Hudson Square Research. "If Jobs were to disappear permanently tomorrow, it wouldn't change this company one iota."
Following Jobs' road map, the Cupertino, Calif., company's stock has surged since he went on medical leave Jan. 14. Despite a tough economy and Apple's pricey products, shares have soared 66 percent. On Friday, they gained $2.58, or 1.8 percent, to $142.44.
But Jobs hardly has been bulletproof, and a strategy to walk in his footsteps also could have drawbacks as his perceived flaws, including his demand for absolute secrecy and insistence on control, are also diffused into the company culture.
The challenges Apple faces include some that Jobs helped to create.
His emphasis on quality over price, for example, is a potential sticking point with consumers who have become less willing to pay for the type of discretionary products the company makes.
And Jobs' intolerance for leaks has bred a culture of secrecy that, although effective in thwarting competitors, also has led some to criticize the company's lack of transparency about who will succeed Jobs and, more recently, the severity of his illness.
His stance against relinquishing control over such things as content pricing in its iTunes store also has bruised many egos in the entertainment business, including those of the very partners he needs to succeed as consumers increasingly look for entertainment in all manner of devices.
"Their extraordinary focus on controlling their own destiny makes them a difficult company to work with," Van Baker said. "It's led to issues with several media companies."
One such power struggle with NBC Universal in 2007 over the pricing of TV shows on iTunes led to a one-year boycott that left Apple without some popular shows, including "The Office," "Heroes" and "30 Rock."
Another challenge is Apple's emphasis on premium pricing, a tradition that comes from Jobs' long-standing belief consumers will pay more for products that are better designed and easier to use. Some analysts are wondering whether that pricing model is out of tune with the current recession.
"The economy remains their No. 1 challenge," Ernst said. "They produce products that are largely discretionary. You can pick up a cell phone now for $9.99. Or you can spend a couple hundred bucks on an iPhone. Both make calls. By no means is the iPhone necessary."
But more than a million people snapped up the company's newest iPhone 3G S within three days after the device hit stores June 19. Like the previous two iPhone releases, the latest was met with long lines of eager buyers.
"Steve lives by the mantra, `Think different,' " said Tim Bajarin, a longtime Apple analyst. "It makes it impossible for us to predict with any level of accuracy what the company will do next."
Apple, which declined to comment for this report, has been characteristically tight-lipped about its upcoming product lineup.
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Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln
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Daniel Day-Lewis leads an impressive cast in "Lincoln."
★★★★ out of four stars
Rating: PG-13 for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language.
Making history with 'Lincoln'
- Article by: COLIN COVERT
- Star Tribune
- November 16, 2012 - 10:58 AM
"Lincoln" is one of those rare projects where a great director, a great actor and a great writer amplify one another's gifts. The team of Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tony Kushner has brought forth a triumphant piece of historical journalism, a profound work of popular art and a rich examination of one of our darkest epochs.
The opening shot sets the tone. Confederate and Union soldiers fight hand-to-hand in a quagmire, uniforms so muddied it's hard to see who is killing who. It's a brutish battle for noble ideals, and the key to the story.
This biographical epic presents the final four months of Lincoln's life as war in Washington's trenches. Lincoln aims to govern a bitterly divided nation despite mutinies in his own ranks and hostile opposition. His goal is passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, and he batters it through with arm-twisting, bribery, misinformation and strategic compromise. This is no fawning portrait of an idealized leader, but a deep study of a pragmatist with an open mind and a searching conscience.
As Lincoln, Day-Lewis delivers a multidimensional performance of great conviction and dignity, aided by direction that sidesteps cliché at every turn.
The camera first discovers Lincoln from the back, as he greets a knot of rain-soaked Union troops. Here he's all Uncle Abe folksiness, dispensing a kind word here and a joke there. Day-Lewis' voice is thin and reedy, which jibes with historical accounts but subverts our expectations. His attitude makes listeners lean in, and so do we, magnetized by his kindly reserve.
That kind of charisma is strong political capital, and Lincoln uses it sagely. He reasons that since his Emancipation Proclamation had no legal force over state laws, Congress must prohibit slavery before the South's imminent surrender and return to the union. That means outmaneuvering the chamber's racist Democrats and wooing radical Republican abolitionists who see their president as a milquetoast compromiser.
These scenes are good drama and surprisingly good comedy. Kushner's screenplay is a bit stagebound, with too many entrances and exits, but his scholarship and candor are impeccable. He showcases Lincoln's wit, but also shows that his Cabinet could get damned tired of the cracker-barrel anecdotes.
Lincoln's adversaries resemble juicy eccentrics from Dickens. Lee Price is a blowhard delight as grandstanding Congressman Fernando Wood, who denounces Lincoln as "Emperor Abrahamus Africanus the First." As Thaddeus Stevens, a fervent anti-slavery Republican, Tommy Lee Jones growls and glowers like an old lion. His strained formal meeting with Sally Field's Mary Todd Lincoln is a little minuet of polite mutual disgust.
Lincoln's other foil is his son Robert, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The college student is determined to prove himself by entering the war that his father detests. Still grieving two sons lost to disease, Lincoln is not about to sacrifice another to the bayonet. Their strained relationship leads to one of the most emotionally devastating scenes in a Spielberg film.
Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski avoid the sort of Norman Rockwell pictorialism that would have sentimentalized the story. They alternate from shots in dark interiors half-lit by gas lamps to hazy panoramas of the wilderness outside, establishing a distinction between civilization and the terrifying, untamed beauty of the American frontier.
The director's work here runs parallel to his restrained, mature best in "Schindler's List." He avoids easy formulas, triumphing through directness and conjuring nerve-racking suspense from long-settled history.
Lincoln loathed slavery but was ambivalent at best on the question of the natural equality of the races. When the freed slave who is his wife's maid asks him what place he hopes America will have for its black citizens, he hedges. For such honesty, we must be grateful. Spielberg doesn't construct a waxworks tableau about social problems. He shows people wrestling with them in the mud and makes us wrestle them, too.
Colin Covert • 612-673-7186
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The Career Development Center at Felician College is happy to serve all alumni free of charge. Our services include:
College Central Network online posting system
College Central Network is the place to go for all of your job and internship needs. Employers have posted several full-time and part-time jobs as well as internship opportunities for you. In addition, CCN has several informational resources to help you make the most of your job and internship search. Please take a moment to set up an account to explore all the possibilities.
Strong Interest Inventory (self-assessment)
Want to find the right career for you? One that aligns with your interests and personality? This self assessment not only helps you learn more about yourself, but will give you an idea of the right career path for you.
Job Search Letters (explanation and samples)
During the job/internship search process, it will be necessary to utilize several different types of professional letters. Employers do actually read the letters so it is extremely important that they are error-free. It is strongly recommended that you have more than one person proofread your materials. Below are explanations and samples of each type of letter.
A cover letter is an introduction to your resume and the first document an employer reads. It is a way to assess your writing skills while you clearly and concisely explain the position in which you are interested and how you’re the right person for the job. To view sample cover letters, click on:
Prospecting letter (also called Letter of Interest of Letter of Inquiry)
A prospecting letter is sent to you an employer to see if they are hiring but have not advertised a specific position. This is done most often when a prospective employee has a significant interest in a certain company. The content of the letter should include the reason(s) why you are so attracted to the organization and how you are the right fit for them.
Offer Rejection letters
If you have been offered a position and choose to not accept it, be sure to let the employer know in a courteous manner. Writing a letter to let them know that you will not be accepting their position is the professional thing to do. Never say anything negative about the employer or the organization. Just be brief and to the point.
Once you verbally accept a job offer, it is a good idea to write a letter of acceptance and send it to the employer. This shows you are professional and have a commitment to the challenge. In the letter you should politely accept the offer and outline the details discussed such as salary, benefits and first day of employment.
Thank you letter
Incorporating thank you letters into the interview process is always a positive thing. The purpose of this type of letter is to thank the interviewer for her/his time, the reiterate your interest in the position, the include anything you forgot to mention in the interview, and to remind the employer about why you are the qualified individual for the position. A great many people don’t take the time to write thank you notes, but those who do usually get the jobs!
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A resume is the first essential component to the job search process. It’s not only a snap shot of your academic and professional experiences, but its also your ticket to an interview. Employers are now inundated with resumes from candidates. Learn how to make your resume standout so it gets noticed.
The interview is arguably the most important part of the job search process. Its not just a reiteration of the information on your resume. Rather, an employer is looking to see if you will be the right fit for their organization. Do you know what to wear? Which questions they will ask? How to research the place of potential employment beforehand? Knowing the answer to these and other questions can ease the anxiety of the interviewing stage. | <urn:uuid:b3375b76-5dca-40a4-b306-adab3730c9bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://[email protected]/school/campus-experience/student-services/career-development/alumni | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933432 | 789 | 1.5625 | 2 |
I took a break outside and enjoyed my beautiful backyard for a moment on a lovely Northcoast day a few hours ago. I can sit out there for hours and enjoy the many fruits of our labors: Overflowing veggie beds, trees we planted with our own hands, a beautiful greenhouse and more. If I had this on my front yard in Oak Park Michigan I could go to jail...seriously.
A few years ago we didn't have all of this to enjoy because we rented and our only real yard was our front yard which was off limits for gardening for the most part. We wanted to plant a garden in the yard, but our landlords forbid us from doing so. Their reason? It wouldn't look good, in their opinion. So we planted things around the entire perimeter of the yard, some things grew in pots, and when we moved we uprooted the entire garden, moved it here, and then re-seeded the yard with grass. Now we have people asking us to give them garden tours, asking us how to make raised beds and grow veggies, and I am the admin for a large growing urban homesteading page that has turned into a powerful grassroots movement. Take that "don't plant a garden on your front lawn" land lords!
A few days ago I heard about a woman named Julie Bass who lives in Oak Park Michigan. She was cited and eventually charged with a misdemeanor for growing vegetables on her front lawn. Her story struck a cord in me because the reason she was given for not being allowed to have a front yard garden was much the same as the reason we were given a few years back. She was told that her vegetation was not "suitable" by the city planner, who went on to say that suitable meant "common" from Webster's Dictionary. I looked up the definitions for myself, and found that his definition is inaccurate. The definition for suitable has 3 meanings: 1.) similar, 2.) proper 3.) satisfying propriety. Now the city planner is claiming he used the legal definition for suitable, which is completely different from the Webster's definition. But he was recorded saying he used Webster's on camera, so there is no way he can back out of that one. Julie's story is all over the internet and was picked up this week by Grist, Washington Post, Treehugger, Huffington Post, and then the big hitter Drudge Report where the story was sandwiched between a picture of the space shuttle launch and Prince William and Kate for much of the day. How's that for press coverage?! The petition for Julie is now up to 4,400 signatures in just a few days, and the urban homesteading activists have only just begun.
As I sat out on my garden bench the famous quote by Thomas Jefferson came to mind, "If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." Is this what it's come to America: The government dictating what foods we eat? Honestly, I doubt that the Bass family of 8 could even afford organic vegetables, I know that my family of 4 certainly can't! So the city of Oak Park is dictating that Julie and her family won't be able to eat organic vegetables ultimately, is it not? Julie asked specifically if the city codes prohibited growing vegetables. The city planner's response? "I don't know." He never gave a definitive answer either way, and now he's attempting to manipulate language and definitions to suit his purposes. What has this country come to if a family isn't allowed to grow their own vegetables, seriously? Just because her yard doesn't look exactly like the other yards in her neighborhood she was given and misdemeanor and could spend 93 days in prison. I've read that the city of Oak Park is having financial issues, and honestly it sounds to me like they're trying to make a buck off of Julie. It's a sorry situation in more ways that one, and I feel at this point they should throw in the trowel, I mean towel and let Julie feed her family in these tough economic times.
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RSPB marks volunteer Jenny's departure with special award
Last modified: 20 September 2012
RSPB Scotland has awarded volunteer Jenny Howie a special “swallow” award after she completed five years volunteering with the conservation charity. Her last weeks were spent working at the Forsinard Flows nature reserve in the heart of Sutherland’s Flow Country.
RSPB operations manager Graham Thompson said, “Jenny has been an absolute star. Nothing has been too much trouble for her. She has been out on the reserve pulling ragwort, making dipwells so that we can measure the water level. And she is a dab hand at making bird boxes!
“Forsinard Flows is the largest RSPB reserve in the country and one of the most important. It would be absolutely impossible for us to do all the work we need to do without the commitment of volunteers like Jenny. It’s also very rewarding to know that Jenny enjoyed her time so much. The Flows have a very special quality about them – best appreciated by spending some time here and taking in the remarkable nature of the place.”
Jenny said, “I'm not one for sitting round on the beach on holiday, so I first started residential volunteering with the RSPB as I fancied doing something active and completely different to what I do in my day job. Now, I have been doing it for five years and have helped out on a variety of reserves across the country doing a diverse range of tasks but always in beautiful environments, such as the very special weeks which I have spent here at Forsinard Flows. I always enjoy residential volunteering - you are treated as being part of the team and it is definitely a different sort of holiday!”
Graham added: “One of the great things about Forsinard is that the reserve office and volunteer accommodation is immediately adjacent to Forsinard railway station. Indeed, the old station building is now the RSPB visitor centre. This means that volunteers can travel to and from what is a relatively remote location by public transport. Just another added bonus of being able to work here!”
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Evaluation of your body:
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Evaluation of your mental state:
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Evaluation of your partner’s mental state:
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Of the preliminaries:
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Of fairly basic sexual acts:
We think that there two ways of having sexual intercourse, of which one is fairly « basic », giving way rapidly to basic urges.
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We think that there two ways of having sexual intercourse, of which one is « gentle », in the tender and romantic sense of the term.
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Posted: May 6, 2009 Filed under: People, Post-Grad Psychosis, Thought Food
Twittering the other day, I received a message about Maine’s Judiciary Committee passing a same-sex marriage bill
. Pithily, I posted, “Gay marriage legislation is the new black,” in a satirical jab at the trite and overdone ‘____ is the new black’ cliche.
Twitterer @sunnykins, able to decipher satire, was taken aback because the statement unwittingly furthered a so-called bastion of equality that, in many ways, acts as a cover to the ugly realities the LGBTQ community faces, especially those individuals of color. Gay marriage is the marker many of us use to feel self-satisfied while young boys, unable to cope with homophobic hostilities, hang themselves.
Gay marriage does not wash away the problems facing the LGBTQ community. In many ways, it acts as a salve so those outside of this community can feel self-satisfied. Those who support it can feel progressive while paying little attention to the other treacheries that threaten LGBTQ individuals
and those who oppose it can defend the sanctity of marriage while doing the same
While we herald the mainstream gay rights movement–a movement that is largely identified as white–LGBTQ people of color and the problems they face are pushed to the margins. The parallels between this trend and the American feminist movement of the 1960s would almost be amusing if they were not so sad.
If the Black community is real, what are we doing to embrace those within this community who have struggles that different in kind but not degree?
Posted: May 6, 2009 Filed under: Pitts Indeed
What an interesting cultural moment we’re in. America’s First Priestess of Post-Black is teaming up with KFC to give out free chicken. Every Black person I know knows about it. My cousin sent me an email about this development this morning at 9AM EST. She’s in Los Angeles.
Yes; the most powerful Black woman in the United States–sorry FLOTUS, but it’s true–is giving out fried chicken and this didn’t read to me as smacking of coonery nor did it seem to for the Blackademics with whom I tend to carouse. Sure, it’s grilled and not fried, thus taking away some of the stereotype, but still.
In the wake of the recent Popeye’s debacle, a Black woman is giving away free chicken and the gesture seems utterly devoid of race in both intent and probable result. Maybe Popeye’s is just the darker brother in the chicken world, but that seems too easy.
Is the non-commentary because she’s Oprah and certain ‘Black’ stigmas just don’t stick to her? Is it because of the Obama Effect and everyone accepting the myth that the issue of race no longer needs to be grappled with? Or is it merely because few people are in a position to turn down free grub, racial connotations or not? | <urn:uuid:f10caf62-e211-49c7-99a4-2df02ab71ff8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pittsindeed.wordpress.com/2009/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950609 | 648 | 1.726563 | 2 |
- No grandfather! You shall not! Do you think that your fate rests within yourself? That I have come all this way to discover a dotard seeking Valhalla through deception? You have called upon the gods of the icy north and they have answered you! Now, your life...is mine!
- -- Thor
Appearing in "The Last Viking"Edit
Synopsis for "The Last Viking"Edit
In Asgard, Odin is considering the arrival of the last Viking. Back on Earth, Sigurd and Jerry are surveying the destruction, when Sigurd is told that the girl he rescued wants to thank him before she is taken to the hospital. She makes it very clear that she is attracted to him and wants to thank him properly, when she gets out. As the ambulance drives off, one man notes that he didn't even get her name. Sigurd again hears someone calling his name in the language of old, and decides to solve the mystery once and for all, he changes to Thor and flies off. Elsewhere, the gigantic figure senses the arrival of Hugin and Munin, and strikes the first blow against the power of Asgard. Back on Earth, Thor has followed the voice to Antarctica. He discovers a valley teeming with life where the volcanic heat has made it cool, yet quite comfortable. It is here that Thor discovers a village not unlike the towns the ancient Vikings lived in. He calls about, but finds several of the huts empty and falling into disrepair. He rounds a corner and finds a Viking graveyard filled with the stone ships. They all point to an entrance into the side of a mountain, and Thor enters to investigate. After entering the cavern, a giant door slams shut and hundreds of spears are launched all right at Thor. In Asgard, Balder sits in the wilderness by a fire and calls to the darkness, telling the stranger to come forth. The cloaked figure comes forth to join him and it is revealed to be Karnilla. Balder tells her that what he has seen in Hel dogs him even in the empty wilderness. She tells him that he cannot carry this weight forever. She gets up to leave, telling him that her men have left provisions for him behind the rocks. And if he tires of the outland, she will offer him the hospitality of her home. Back in Antarctica, Thor smashes the spears, only to encounter other traps within the cave. After going through them all, Thor meets a gigantic warrior, that hurls a spear at Thor. he dodges the spear and swings at the warrior, knocking his helmet loose. In another cavern, beneath NYC, Fafnir nurses his hatred of Thor and realizes that Thor couldn't hurt him. Fafnir emerges near the South Bronx, screaming for Thor. An in a penthouse overlooking Central Park, Lorelei is preparing a special brew of golden mead just for Thor. Back in the cavern, Thor discovers that the warrior is really an old man, that tells Thor not to spare him and to finish the job. Thor tells him that he won't slay an ancient and carries him outside. Thor gets him outside and removes the armor and asks who he is. He tells Thor that his name is Eilif the Lost and that his father's fathers founded the valley long ago, and could not get back out. Eilif tells him that the labyrinth was the way to test themselves and become warriors since they had no enemies. He wanted to trap Thor, whose temper is legendary, and win his way through to Valhalla. But he failed and is content to die the straw death having lived to see the Mighty Thor himself. Thor tells him that his fate no longer rests within himself. That he did not come all this way to discover a dotard seeking Valhalla through deception. The Gods of the icy north have answered Eilif's call and now his life belongs to Thor.
The title of this issue is taken from the next issue blurb from Thor #341
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In R. v. Morelli, 2010 SCC 8 the following statement was made on behalf of the majority (McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, Abella and Fish JJ)
On my view of possession, the automatic caching of a file to the hard drive does not, without more, constitute possession. While the cached file might be in a “place” over which the computer user has control, in order to establish possession, it is necessary to satisfy mens rea or fault requirements as well. Thus, it must be shown that the file was knowingly stored and retained through the cache.
While I have no comment on the specifics of this case around possession or accessing of child pornography, there are many points in this decision that will be of interest to those following technology law. The understanding that the person who "owns" a computer may not be in control of what is in the cache is a good first step to clarifying a number of related issues. This includes copyright infringement claims simply for "downloading" something given a computer can receive a file for many reasons that were not under the control of either the owner or the operator of the computer.
" ... Indeed, clicking on a bookmark may simply disclose that material previously on the Website has been removed; that material previously absent has been added; that the Website address is no longer valid — or that the Website no longer exists at all."
It should be obvious that a bookmark is just like any other digital link, and that the above applies to all links. Providing a link does not constitute authorisation to distribute the material referenced in the link, nor should a user clicking a link infer intent to download any specific information that may then be sent.
This case discussed how " It is difficult to imagine a search more intrusive, extensive, or invasive of one’s privacy than the search and seizure of a personal computer." This should give proponents and providers of DRM some pause, given this is the essence of the dishonesty (at best) or "theft" (at worst) at the heart of non-owner digital locks on our devices.
While this offensive practice is not yet seen in this light, it it only a matter of time for the legal system to catch up. Analysis thus far has focused far too much on physical geography when discussing things such as "seizure" when in fact control should be the core question rather than only a component. A foreign locked device may be physically in front of one person (owner/operator), but through remote control effectively be under the "possession" of someone else.
I believe we are appropriately concerned about search and seizure carried out by the government, but not concerned enough about activities carried out by private actors. Any form of search and seizure carried out by non-government actors such as software vendors should have far more scrutiny than those carried out by authorised government agencies. | <urn:uuid:e1f47572-e59e-4d27-8887-6a47df7395ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954744 | 592 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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