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A competitively priced comprehensive overview of the key categories in the soft drinks market.
Snack bars are generally found on the same aisle as breakfast cereals in supermarkets and hypermarkets. However, Indonesian consumers generally visit the chocolate confectionery or biscuit aisles when looking for snacks. This situation represents a major challenge to snack bars producers as supermarkets and hypermarkets are predicted to account for 91% share of retail value sales of snack bars in 2012. However, placement alongside breakfast cereals is also beneficial as it helps to give snack...
Earth For Energy is one of the DIY green energy guides which have gained vast popularity in the past year year. It is an easy to understand textbook that anyone can use to make their own solar or wind electric power, help out the environment plus save tons of money every month on their energy bill.
Solar Stirling Plant is harnesses the power of the sun’s rays, thus it produces free and clean renewable energy and delay pills work fully from the grid. This is a new method of generating free energy. The idea of the Solar Stirling plant may be researched for a long time, and now when they perfected the design and simplified it to some extent that everybody can design it, they chose to ensure it is available to the public.
Google Sniper is a brand new course by George Brown that has been created to take people by the hand and show then exactly how to make money with Internet marketing. George Brown is a very young, very successful Internet Marketer who developed a system to rank simple, niche websites to the top of the search engines with little or no backlinks at all. He is a four-time Clickbank #1 bestseller and one of the youngest self made millionaires online. With Google Sniper 2.0 , Brown says he created a system that will allow seasoned and beginning marketers to drive free traffic by using his techniques to improve organic search results.
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Scientific Management Techniques (SMT) is the global leader in performance-based skill assessments for industry. The assessment capabilities, together with demand-driven skills training program, are used in manufacturing and education organizations in thirty-one countries to solve the skills shortage and drive industrial productivity.
"Innovative Diagnostic Imaging Technologies and Emerging Markets" report provides diagnostic imaging industry executives with strategically significant competitor information, analysis and insight crucial to the development and implementation of effective business, marketing and R&D programs. The study's major objectives include:
In 2011, the World Economic Forum ranked India as the 12th most attractive tourist destination in the Asia-Pacific. Travel and tourism is the largest service sector in India according to Timetric analysis. In 2011, the tourism sector accounted for 7.3% of the country’s GDP and employed 7.25% of India’s total workforce. During the review period, total tourist visits to India increased from 541.4 million in 2007 to 831.5 million in 2011, registering a CAGR of 11.32%. This growth is attributed to a variety of factors including government initiatives, such as the granting of export house status to the Indian tourism sector, incentives for promoting private investment in the form of income tax exemptions, and the provision of interest subsidies.
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“Drug Discovery and Development Market in Asia – Partnerships Between MNCs and Asian Academic Institutions and Healthcare Research Organizations are Driving R&D Innovation”. The report provides key data, information and analysis of the major trends and issues affecting the drug discovery and development market in seven major countries in Asia, namely China, India, Russia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. The report provides a comprehensive insight into market segmentation, covering drug discovery and development market sizes, the strategic context for deciding a location in Asia to conduct clinical research, strategies adopted by global pharmaceutical companies in outsourcing R&D processes to Asian countries, and the regulatory landscapes there. The report provides a detailed analysis of the regulatory authorities, clinical trial approval processes and recent regulatory changes in the clinical trial environment. The report analyzes the competitive landscape of the market, profiling key Contract Research Organizations (CRO) market players, along with a brief description of the business, major services and major M&A and partnership deals. The report also provides detailed analysis of major partnership and M&A deals that have taken place in the Asian drug discovery and development market along with segmentation by year, deal type, geography and phase of development.
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Most people who are in debt do not have the wherewithal to get back out of it easily. It is difficult to try to pay off debt when one has no extra money to do it with, but it isn’t impossible. The following information will offer some thoughts about how to pay off debt with no extra money.
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Real Translator Jobs is an online site that offers people the opportunity to find companies looking for translators to hire. People just have to know two languages to be able to qualify. They will be paid to translate simple emails, simple documents, films subtitles and short books. The good part is that people can perform this job from the comfort of their home, either part time or full time. They offer the chance to pay members in US dollars or in the currency of their country.
Zygor Guides is being touted as a gift to all World of Warcraft enthusiasts, both beginners and top players, who wish to up their level in the WoW field. But what is Zygors Guide really made of? How is it different from other Warcraft strategy guide models? In here, we'll take a look at Zygor Guide features and capabilities.
Green DIY Energy is increasing in popularity among consumers. Green energy is considered to be natural, renewable and non-polluting. The main types of green energy are solar and wind-powered. These power sources save money and help to fight global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
The mobile revolution is here to stay and businesses who’ve yet to take advantage of this highly critical marketing avenue are missing out on a ton of leads and customers. As of right now, at least 25% of internet users use their mobile devices for all their internet browsing. Businesses that do not have mobile optimized sites are not effectively making themselves visible to this growing target audience and risk loss of a valuable revenue stream. Vinci-Designs and Publishing has recently begun offering customized mobile websites. The sites are easy to read and navigate via any mobile device.
At the tender age of 8, young Shanaya Fastje wrote the first volume of her book series entitled: “Mystery School”. Drawing from her own experiences with humor and creativity, Shanaya's storytelling began drawing in children from all across the United States. After winning multiple national awards, two more volumes followed and Shanaya solidified her place as a children’s book author with a popular and extremely relevant message.
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If someone asked you what your dream job would be, what would you answer? Perhaps, traveling the world, meet fascinating people and hear their stories, and eat mouth-watering food along the way? That is exactly what Sandro and Aman, the founders of Gourmet Spotting, have done. They have hiked in the Himalayas while sipping on Darjeeling tea, eating black squid ink spaghetti in Sevilla, Spain with a glass of sangria, or obsessively searching for amazing Lomo Saltado in Peru before climbing the infamous Machu Picchu. The company’s witty tag, “modern day food hunting”, is a perfect description of what they do. Those passions have led them to this delicous start-up, Gourmet Spotting.
The 24/7 Fat Loss plan is nutrition and fitness plan which combines advanced workouts with a nutrient timed meal plan which was designed to produce an accelerated fat loss. The idea of this program is to give men and women a system through which they can increase their metabolic rate and keep it elevated around the clock. The system contains bulk of information on your fitness concerns. It points out the reasons of failure to burn the fats. According to them hormonal imbalance and low metabolic rate are the primary hurdles in fat loss efforts.
The rising electricity bills have lead to an increased number of people looking for means of reducing their bills using various products and methods to reduce their energy consumption. In a bid to help these people reduce their electricity bills, various products like Ben Ford's Home Made Energy have been released in the market. Ben Ford is a researcher, inventor and energy consultant who decided it was time to teach the masses how it was possible to cut down their electricity bills creating solar panels and wind turbines in the comfort of their homes. | <urn:uuid:77e1aef0-3476-4a01-b2dc-6dec57ace11d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/industry/?page=2583 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953476 | 2,632 | 1.71875 | 2 |
RIO Tinto has warned it may cut more jobs from its aluminium and coal businesses as it seeks to rein in "unsustainable" cost increases.
In an investor update, the mining giant also says it expects growth in China's steel demand to peak at around one billion tonnes by 2030.
While prospects for the US and European economies remain uncertain, Rio Tinto is "cautiously optimistic" about China.
Rio Tinto has refused to confirm how many jobs will go as it plans to slash costs further at its global mining operations.
The company is targeting more than $US5 billion in cost savings from reducing operating and support expenses over the next two years.
Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese said the company was trying to rein in the "unsustainable" cost rises of the past few years.
He says the cost cuts are most likely to come at its Australian coal operations, and its aluminium business.
"Any business that's been in ups and downs of cycles recognises that difficult decisions need to be made," Mr Albanese said.
"We will treat those difficult decisions with the necessary respect both to the individuals and to the communities that they may operate in.
"We will engage at the individual community level. We will not provide a number (of job losses)."
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Enterprise mobility is not new. With rise of app stores and tablet computing, however, the mobile application landscape has changed dramatically from the days of yore. And that spells opportunity for enterprise mobility.
“While enterprises have for some time applied this knowledge in their design of customer-facing content or services, they haven’t explored the power of mobile to engage internal audiences as much,” noted Wesley Lynch in a blog post earlier today. “Mobile can help drive consumption of corporate content and increase participation in organizational processes among all audiences – external as well as internal.”
Thoughtful enterprise mobile apps can increase enterprise workforce participation, suggested Lynch. “Enterprise mobility has had a long history, but it has never been as compelling as with apps.”
Leveraging enterprise apps, enterprises can extend existing applications or create new bespoke applications to further automate enterprise processes.
Apps also can present new opportunities for automating core processes such as insurance assessment.
“Another example of an industry that could make innovative internal use of mobile apps is the car rental sector,” wrote Lynch. “An app for processing vehicle returns could combine damage diagrams and pictures with a picture and digital signature of the person returning the vehicle, with huge potential for fast-tracking contract finalization.”
Tablets with barcode scanners can be used by staff in any number of industry applications, such as fleet management or retail applications, also to further current applications.
“Sometimes mobile comes into play where the working environment precludes easy deployment of computing infrastructure,” he noted, and enterprise apps can fill the void. Airline ground crews can be outfitted with tablets that make their jobs easier, for instance, even though they are in an environment not managed by the employer.
Less cutting edge but perhaps even more useful, apps also can be used as an internal content delivery mechanism. Training videos can be disseminated via a private channel on a public app, for instance, reducing the need for the corporate intranet.
“Earlier incarnations of mobile enterprise applications were merely repurposed desktop applications. Clumsy and unappealing, their low uptake was predictable,” noted Lynch.
“Mobile apps, by contrast, are written from the ground up with lavish, dynamic graphical interfaces featuring whole new levels of user interaction,” he added. “Consequently public mobile apps stand out for their pleasurable experience –ease of use and visual appeal – as much as for their rich functionality.”
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MySQL supports two different algorithms for views: the MERGE algorithm and the TEMPTABLE algorithm. These two algorithms differ greatly. A view which uses the MERGE algorithm can merge filter conditions into the view query itself. This has significant performance advantages over TEMPTABLE views. A view which uses the TEMPTABLE algorithm will have to compute the [...]
I start to see applications being built utilizing VIEWs functionality which appeared in MySQL 5.0 and quite frequently VIEWs are used to help in writing the queries – to keep queries simple without really thinking how it affects server performance. Even worse than that – looking at the short table which just gets single row [...]
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As others have said, I imagine this is a hangover from the days with classic Macs back in the 80s and early 90s, when the hardware and software was very different, and it did have better support for 2D graphics.
3D graphics were more the speciality of the Amiga platform. Amigas had all the same advantages of Macs over Windows then (and more - don't ask a Mac to multitask back then!) But that shows you how silly the argument is really - just because the Amiga was more suited in the 80s, doesn't mean I should be using one now
Software like Lightwave is long available on Windows.
"Macs" today aren't even the same computers, either in terms of hardware or software, so it's just the company and trademark in common. The hardware is now the same as any other PC (so even the early 2000s claims that Photoshop was supposedly better optimised for PPCs is irrelevant). That just leaves the software, and all the high end graphical software is available for Windows too anyway. As Bregma says, it's more probably that the artists who grew up using Macs years ago now continue sticking with the brandname, even though there's nothing in common with the original machines from a technical point of view.
A super-high resolution might be useful for artists. Though bad for most users - you have problems of not having the GPU power to drive such a large resolution, and things like HD video still have to be upscaled. The reason why most hardware has settled on 1920x1080 is that it matches HD video perfectly, and it's fine for most people. "Retina" is really just a marketing buzzword - you can tell that by the way that they advertise it to mainstream users rather than graphics artists, and don't explain what it is, to pretend that it simply means "better" display somehow.
I also find it interesting that Macs all seem to be glossy displays, when matte is recommended for graphical work (no reflections, and IIRC matte gives better colour reproduction, or something like that). Of course, glossy looks "shinier", which is what seems more important these days, sadly.
Im a windows guy but if you want the bes or near to it, hardware wise buy a mac
But you quote the one single stat of resolution, when there are far more important factors.
I'm not sure if Apple offer something with the spec and customisation choices I got with my Clevo... or maybe they do?
As for the other points:
2 - can't see why. On Windows, I get far more market share, and means most people I know can try out something I write. Even if you consider competition (i.e., that smaller platforms might do better, due to less competition), OS X is well supported enough by software that there isn't that much less competition. And it doesn't have Linux's advantage where users might be more interested to try out less-mainstream games. (On my cross-platform game, the Mac version gets the least downloads, after Symbian, Windows, Linux and Android.) For development itself, that's personal opinion - some people like one platform better, others like other platforms.
3 - no evidence of that. The specs that Macs come with make the idea that Windows is bloated rather laughable - again likely a throwback to decades ago when the Mac platform did have lower requirements than Windows.
4 - Probably safer, but more due to being a smaller platform. I see no evidence of greater security compared with Windows Vista or later. And not really an important issue - MS Security Essentials runs in the background, never bothers me, and I've never had virus problems.
Use whatever platform you like. It's a matter of personal preference. I get annoyed by fanatics who constantly try to ram their choice down my throat, or claim that their choice is so much better, or did everything first, without using any evidence or logic in their arguments. And I'm not saying which, but these days one company gets more of those fanatics than any other company or platform...
in contrast to most PC laptops that either feel very plastic, or very clunky or both, even when they are physically small.
Remember that the same can be said of many PC companies with high end hardware. When we're talking about hardware, we shouldn't polarise it as "Mac vs PC", as Macs are just another make of PC. I could say how in my opinion, Clevo offers wonderful quality, better than most PCs, or so does Samsung (e.g., my Samsung netbook has a much better keyboard that the poor quality ones I've seen on any of the Apple ultraportables, and other makes).
Indeed, this is the fallacy I hear most often with Apple PC users. If someone bought a good expensive PC from any other company, they'd just say it's a good PC. But if it's Apple, then it then gets compared against the worst excesses of the poorest other PCs, and then this gets generalised into "Macs are better than PCs!" Saying that one make of PC is better than average isn't really that strong a claim when you think about it - and a very different claim to saying that Apple are a better PC manufacturer that *all other* PC manufacturers.
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Picks and Pans Review: The Mind-Stretching World of Children's Radio
Radio for children is like Dr. Johnson's dog that walks on his hind legs: The wonder is not that it is done well, but that it is done at all. National Public Radio is beaming 13 half-hour segments of Children's Radio Theatre to most of its outlets across the country this winter. Even if the quality is spotty, some of it is charming, and the idea of radio drama for children bears supporting. Several of the plays are written by kids themselves, all are performed by professional grown-ups and some, predictably, come off better than others. The Sky Is Falling Revue, based on the feathered alarmist Henny Penny's search for rock stardom, is raucous and harum-scarum; the kids will need a double dose of Mister Rogers afterward. But some of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories are rendered with gentleness and sophistication, and the Tiger Tales deal with some ethical problems in a 5-year-old's way, though with a more adult vocabulary. Perhaps the most endearing of the series is The Witch's Tale, the story of Hansel and Gretel retold from the witch's point of view. Hansel and Gretel are as nasty as a street gang, the much-maligned narrator tells us, and she herself is no real witch. "If I were," she pleads, "I'd make myself look like Farrah Fawcett-Majors." The argument teaches children circumspection, but it also induces them to use that nearly forgotten faculty, the mind's eye. Children's Radio Theatre, which has won five awards for this series, could use a little help coordinating vocabulary and interests for children of different ages. Still, it's wonderful to have a way of entertaining children indoors in winter without parking them in front of the television set. Filling in the visual void is a real mind-stretching exercise for kids, which is what being a kid is all about. See local public radio listings for specific dates.
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1 a the b was the Word, and the c was with God, and the d was e.
2 The same was in the a with God.
3 All things were a by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was a; and the life was the b of men.
5 And the a shineth in b; and the darkness c it not.
6 ¶There was a man sent from God, whose name was a.
7 The same came for a a, to bear b of the Light, that all men through him might c.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true a, which b c that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the a, and the b was c by him, and the world d him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own a him not.
12 But as many as a him, to them gave he b to become the c of God, even to them that believe on his d:
13 Which were a, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made a, and b among us, (and we c his d, the glory as of the e f of the Father,) full of g and truth.
15 ¶John bare a of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his a have all we received, and b for grace.
17 a the b was given by Moses, but c and d came by Jesus Christ.
18 No a hath b God c; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath d him.
19 ¶And this is the record of a, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou a? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
23 He said, I am the a of one crying in the wilderness, Make b the c of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with a: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
27 a it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose b I am not worthy to unloose.
28 These things were done in a beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 ¶The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the a of God, which taketh away the b of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32 And John a record, saying, I saw the b descending from heaven like a c, and it abode upon him.
33 a I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the b.
34 And I saw, and bare a that this is the Son of God.
35 ¶Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the a of God!
37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
40 One of the two which heard John speak, and a him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the a, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called a, which is by interpretation, A stone.
43 ¶The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom a in the law, and the prophets, did b, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
47 Jesus saw a coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no b!
48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the a; thou art the b of Israel.
50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
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Arthur Pemberton wrote:
-1.---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org> Date: Oct 10, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: yum-updatesd in F8? To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:55 +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:46 +0100, José Matos wrote:On Wednesday 10 October 2007 15:28:26 Arthur Pemberton wrote:And you don't consider that to be blocking?Cann't you wait less than 10 seconds (the worst wait time I had)? You are really a busy person. ;-)Now do a reasonable F-7 desktop installation, and then see if it would be less than 10 seconds even if you have a moderately fast internet connection. And imaging that you are a newbie and have no idea what blocks what and how long would it take, and whether it will ever unblock.If the transaction is being performed what alternative do you have? reading from the rpmdb while a transaction is occurring is possible you just won't be able to rely on the results as 'correct' Now, if you're talking about grabbing a new copy of the metadata then what we've put on the 'future' todo list is downloading he metadata to a tmpdir, checking it out and putting it in place once its correct, however, that's a bit racy b/c you end up with the potential for 2 or more processes to want to write to the same location with, potentially different data. -sv Here's my somewhat similar proposal. 1) have yum-updatesd copy all the data it needs, put a watch on the working dataset for changes 2) have yum-updates first download all the data it needs to do the update 3) check the working dataset for changes, if there have been changes (more than simply updating the local copy of the meta data) end the process here 4) otherwise put the working dataset into a readonly mode (other UIs would be able to read this, and provide the user with feedback accordingly without simply blocking) 5) do updates with the updated dataset copy 6) then copyover/sync the working dataset with the updated one and release the readonly mode (any UIs would be obligated to refresh themselves once the readonly mode has been removed worse case scenario is that user opens a UI seconds after yum-updatesd begins downloading packages, and does a full update themselves... in which case the data would be downloaded twice - I believe that problem too could be mitigated
I don't see the benefit of this, why make it so complex, it will just introduce a lot of issues, where things can go wrong.
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Remember my post about Jesus' testicles? It was based on this verse from Revelation.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Revelation 19:16
From that verse alone, we know for sure that Jesus has "King of Kings" and "Lord of Lords" written on his thigh. And since thigh is a biblical euphemism for male genitals, well, you get the idea.
But Steven L. Anderson doesn't like the idea. Jesus doesn't have a tattoo on his thigh or his scrotum. It is written on his pants.
Obviously John was not referring to a tattoo he was seeing on Jesus’ naked thigh since Jesus was clothed from head to foot according to Revelation 1:13. He had his name written upon the clothing on his thigh, just as he had his name written upon his coat. When wearing a dress or a “tunic” the thigh is not delineated. Clothing that is worn on each “thigh” is referred to as a pair of pants. Therefore it is apparent that Jesus was wearing pants as he rode in on a white horse to defeat the antichrist. Apparently “scholars” would have us believe that Jesus was riding to battle on a horse in a dress.
And here's his proof:
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Several years ago, my daughter Tiffany, entered a cookie contest in our state fair with "Beehive State Cookies" and won first place. These are the cookies that she entered.
The ingredients for these soft butter cookies are butter (don't even think about margarine or shortening), sugar, eggs, vanilla, sour cream, salt, baking soda, baking powder and flour.
In a large mixing bowl add the butter that has been softened.
Add the sugar.
Mix for about 3 minutes until creamy.
Add the two eggs.
Beat for another 3 minutes or so until fluffy.
Blend in the vanilla
Measure the three cups of flour into a medium sized bowl.
Add the salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Give it a whisk. This will sift the ingredients together.
Now we are going to add this flour mixture into the batter in thirds. Add 1/3 of the flour into the butter mixture and blend well.
Don't forget to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl every now and then.
We are now going to add the sour cream alternately with the flour mixture. Add 1/2 of the sour cream into the butter mixture and blend well.
Add another 1/3 of the flour and blend well.
Now mix in the remaining amount of the sour cream.
Add the final 1/3 of flour and blend completely. Take the time to scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again to make sure all the ingredients are will incorporated.
The batter will be stiff but sticky. This is why the dough needs to be refrigerated overnight. The refrigeration will stiffen the batter so that it will be easy to roll and cut out. If you don't refrigerate the dough, it will be very difficult to work with and you will end up adding a lot of flour so that it doesn't stick while you roll it out. You will end up with a tough cookies that tastes like flour.
Take the time to refrigerate the dough. Just think ahead!
Put the cookie batter into a clean bowl.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap.
REFRIGERATE THE DOUGH OVERNIGHT!
So you have refrigerated your cookie dough overnight and you're ready to roll out the dough. You can cut the dough into any shape you would like. I have decided to use a "Beehive" cookie cutter in honor of Utah "The Beehive State". July 24th is a state holiday here in Utah. It marks the anniversary of the pioneers coming into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
Tiffany made a bee on her beehive cookie with almonds. I'll show you how. Let's get rollin' the dough.
You will need a rolling pin and cookie cutter. I like using my pastry cloth. You can just flour your counter top, if you don't have a pastry cloth. Think about getting one OR you can just go to the fabric store and buy a piece of canvas. That works.
I like to work with half of the dough at a time. The dough has hardened enough to roll. Try not to add too much flour or it will make the cookie tough.
This is half of the cookie dough. Sprinkle the top of the dough with a bit of flour and flour your rolling pin as well. Roll the cookie dough out to 1/4-inch thickness.
I like to take a clean pastry brush and brush off any excess flour. I keep a clean pastry brush that is only used for brushing flour off of dough. I don't use it for oiling, basting or greasing pans. This pastry brush is hidden from anyone who might destroy it (family).
Take your favorite cookie cutter and begin cutting out the dough. You may need to flour your cookie cutter as well so that the dough doesn't stick to it.
**NOTE** This cookie dough is a soft dough and it will spread. It does not hold it's shape well. So if you are wanting a cookie that has a defined shape like a hand or something more intricate, you will need to use a different cookie recipe. These cookies puff and spread a bit.
Place the cut out cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment. No you don't need parchment, I just love using it for the clean up. If you don't have parchment, you do not have to grease the cookie sheets. The cookies will remove from the pan just fine.
Place the cookies in a preheated 375 degree oven. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Do not over bake. This is a soft cookie. Bake until the edges are just beginning to brown.
Can you see how they puffed up? They are a thick, soft, buttery sugar cookie.
Remove the baked cookies from the cookie sheet to a cooling rack.
Here are the ingredients you will need for the "Beehive State" icing. You will need 1/2 cup butter and 4 oz cream cheese,that have been softened to room temperature, creamed honey, vanilla and powdered sugar.
In a large mixing bowl, add softened butter and cream cheese.
This is creamed honey. DON'T use regular honey. It will make the icing too runny. If you don't have creamed honey and you don't want to buy creamed honey, just omit it. Tiffany used the honey to give the "beehive" a honey flavor. It's gooood.
Add the creamed honey to the butter and cream cheese.
Beat the three ingredients together until smooth and fluffy.
Add the vanilla and blend.
Add the powdered sugar.
Beat until the icing is smooth.
I want the icing to have just a hint of yellow food coloring. Now is the time to add any colors that you might want your icing to be. This food color just happens to be powdered. I rather like it. I generally use the gel food color, but I am out of yellow. What the heck is up with that? "Heck" it's a Utah word.
See how creamy that icing is! Oh man, I got yellow powder on my finger, which means I will probably find it smeared across my face or on my shirt at some point during the day.
Now you are going to need a pastry bag and a decorating tip. I like to use plastic disposable bags. This is a number 2 tip (in case you were wondering).
If you are using a disposable bag, you will need to cut the end off and insert the tip into the bag.
Add 1/2 of the icing.
Twist the end so the icing doesn't squirt out the back while you are decorating your cookies.
This is where I should insert a video of me acutally piping out the icing onto the cookie. I'm a one woman show so I have to take the pictures while doing the demo. I just can't take a picture and pipe at the same time. You get the picture. See how I'm just running a piping row to fill in the cookie and make it look like a beehive?
I want to have just a bit of pale yellow sanding sugar over the icing. Now is a good time to do that. If you wait for the icing to set a bit, the sugar won't stick.
Repeat on all of the cookies.
I like to put the cookies back on the cookie sheet while the icing sets. I can even slide this into the freezer to help the set faster.
Time to make the "Bee". You will need some whole raw almonds and some slice almonds.
Put a dab of icing on one side of the almond.
Put it on the icing.
Now find two almond slices that are pretty close to the same size. Wow! I didn't realize how large these sliced almonds are. I think I would have preferred smaller ones. Oh well they'll be great for everything else Right?
Take one of the almond slices and put a dab of icing on it.
Put it on top of the whole almond.
Repeat with the other almond slice. There you have it! A little bee on your beehive.
Repeat this "bee" process on the rest of the cookies.
Cute! Tiffany's Beehive State cookies. They're a winner.
To all of you "Utahn's", I wish you a fabulous 24th of July celebration. To everyone else... you have to work!
I will spend my holiday moving Tiffany back home from college for what is left of summer. That means all three of the college kids will be home...at once...in my house...for 6 weeks...with their laundry...#%@&!!!
1 cups butter, softened
1 cups sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup sour cream
3 cups flour
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat for about 3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat for another 3 minutes. Sift together baking soda, salt, baking powder and flour. Add alternately with sour cream in three additions. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
When ready to use, remove dough from refrigerator and divide into fourths. Roll dough to ¼-inch thickness. Using a cookie cutter, cut into desired shapes. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes or until just barely beginning to brown around the edges. Makes about 2 dozen cookies
Beehive State Icing
1/2 cup butter, softened
4 oz. cream cheese
¼ cup creamed honey
3 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, cream cheese and creamed honey. Add vanilla and powdered sugar until well blended.
Remember this sugar cookie recipe can become any shape or color you would like. They freeze great for a couple of weeks.
I just need to note that this recipe was given to me by my mother-in-law, Carole. Thank you, Carole, for sharing a family favorite. I'm sure this will be passed down for many generations to come. | <urn:uuid:2702cdc3-251a-4567-bf1e-aeb95245e50d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.simplysogood.com/2010/07/sugar-cookies.html?showComment=1279942290885 | 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 | 0.941917 | 2,104 | 1.507813 | 2 |
One of the biggest responsibilities I feel I have as a parent is to keep my children safe. That said, I am bewildered by the school superintendent’s decision-making when it comes to canceling school.
By 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, the day before the big storm, School Supt. Jim Agostine made the choice to cancel school for Friday because of the impending storm. From what I observed, that was six hours before any of the other local school systems made a decision about Friday. Why was that decision made so quickly?
I understand the need to be safe, but was any consideration given to having school, and then to call an early dismissal if the roads were to get bad?
One thing hasn’t changed in the years since I went to school — buses are heavy, and they can easily drive through a few inches of snow.
The reality is, there was no real accumulation on Friday morning, and the roads were fine. Those on the roads simply drove slower.
Safety issues occur every day
Just now (Sunday afternoon), I received an email from Supt. Agostine saying that school is closed Monday. Why?
He points out in his communication that some roads are narrow, due to the plowing? Yes, with all the snow, some are. Sight lines challenged? Indeed, and we will all need to take our time making turns.
Possible freezing rain on Monday morning? Perhaps a delayed school opening could have been considered.
As safety conscious as I am, I think it’s ridiculous to be frittering away another school day for these reasons. When buses and commuters take things a little slower, and use discretion — which is a reasonable expectation in challenging weather conditions — the issue of safety is virtually no different than any other day.
Just the threat of bad weather…
Before you dismiss me as a misinformed or derelict parent, I am highly educated, a safety conscious parent of four, and I run a successful business. I care about the safety of all children, not just my own.
But we can’t keep canceling school at the threat of bad weather, or because of an inch or two of snow. It sends a terrible message to children that they can forgo responsibilities when the weather is bad.
What lesson are we teaching youngsters?
Has anyone thought about what these actions are teaching kids? I see it too often with young people we hire at my business — at the threat of poor weather, they become paralyzed with fear.
The precedent was set when they were going to school, when they were indirectly taught that everything stops when there is snow, or the threat of it.
Not too long ago, snow days were a rare special occasion — when there was a lot of snow on the ground, school was canceled. Today, canceling school is commonplace, at least in Monroe.
The consequences? Aside from the poor message being ingrained in our children about how to handle inclement weather, the school year extends until nearly July, which is ridiculous.
Finding a reason to have school
While there are times when it is prudent to declare a snow day, greater effort should be made, without turning a blind eye to safety, to find a reason to have school.
The vision for the Monroe school system, as written on the website, is to “set the standard for excellence in public education for the state of Connecticut and beyond.” To me, excellence includes leadership that exercises sound judgment, and uses common sense when making important decisions.
Canceling school would qualify as an important decision — and while there are times when it is prudent to declare a snow day, greater effort should be made, without turning a blind eye to safety, to find a reason to have school.
Is it too much to expect a little common sense around how to handle school closures and the weather?
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|YOGALife - Spring 1998|
|Table of Contents|
|·||Memories of Swami Vishnu-devananda|
|·||Yoga Behind Bars|
It has been very difficult for me to keep my corresponcence up to date. So many prisoners have been writing to me that I usually run about a month behind. When asked what they can do to help humanity while in jail, I tell them to do likhita (written) japa of Om Namo Narayanaya and send it here. One of them sent me a letter aimost every other day for weeks together with his japa sheets! They ask a lot of questions, from basic body problems to kundalini to deities. Some are in agonizing conditions, such as being locked up in isolation, sensory deprived 23 hours/day for 7 days. Some prisoners are living in a great pain. One guy wrote how he has recurring nightmares of killing a storekeeper while burgling his shop (the action that actually put him into jail in the first place). He requested that he be sent a copy of the Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga IMMEDIATELY.
While some prisoners are in for life, others are being released after a few years and express their wish to visit us here. So far none has shown up, but it still is too early. Several invited me to come and visit them (which I would like to do some day). Some letters are very funny. One guy signed his name as 'Wallbanger,' because he didn't know what to do with his empty time. A few of the prisoners are women, very few though. Many prisoners convey a feeling of being under much stress. Some are ill, physically or mentally. One prisoner wrote that he would be there until 2017. I suggested that if he practiced the Yoga techiques in the book, he would probably be released long before than. He replied that no, he would be happy to stay till the end because jail life offered him time to do his yoga practice.
There are a few true sadhakas, with years of experience in the spiritual life. In fact some of the prisoners write about their expriences in jail in glowing terms, the pressure being a challenge. There is a searching there and it is good for them to be exposed to yoga. I always remember how our teacher, Swami Vishnu-devananda spoke about being detained in Cairo jail while on his round-the-world peace mission.
One man offered me a whole list of recipes for delicious health sweet "treats". When I asked him how he manages to cook such delicacies while in a jail, his answer was characteristic of many prisoners: where there's a will, there's a way. At present we have about 150 - 200 people waiting for their copies of "The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga." A minimum of $2600 US is needed. Any one out there wanting to contribute?
Swami Padmapadananda, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch Colony, P.O. Box 195, Woodbourne, New York 12788, USA
Yoga in Prison
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Welcome to LeTourneau University’s School of Engineering and Engineering Technology, where students prepare for more than just exceptional careers — They prepare to impact the world for Christ.
Founded by world-renowned engineer and inventor R.G. LeTourneau, LETU has a tremendous heritage of preparing engineers to excel in their careers and design the world's future. Here, you'll find the difference made by unparalleled hands-on labs, student design projects, interdisciplinary learning, expert faculty, and global research.
Engineering graduates are known to have solid job opportunities, and our rigorous academic program prepares you for excellence. We offer three undergraduate degrees with a total of 11 concentrations and two master's degrees with five specializations. So whether you want to pursue a career in civil, biomedical, electrical, materials joining, or mechanical engineering — and much more — we offer the degree option it takes to build your career.
LETU Engineering stretches far beyond Texas as we fuse learning with life-changing. From designing small-plot irrigation systems in Kenya to off-road wheelchairs in Guatemala, our engineering research takes your skills to the neediest and provides the experience that transforms your resume — and lives. | <urn:uuid:ea471cca-a76f-4f04-9425-4c255c0e0b98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.letu.edu/opencms/opencms/_Academics/Engineering/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946045 | 243 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Enric Huguet's posters
Enric Huguet (1928) is responsible for creating some of the most interesting posters during the 50's and 60's. It was during this time that Catalonia began to follow the graphic directions of countries like France, or Switzerland, incorporating the latest forms of communication with illustration and poster design.
Thanks to a donation of 33 pieces to the Gabinet de les Arts Gràfiquest made by Huguet himself, we can enjoy the conceptual simplicity and clarity of his work, devoted primarily to advertising cultural events such as the Fira del Llibre or the Saló Nàutic; which features, as stated by Daniel Giralt-Miracle stated, "his mastery of watercolor and geometric rationalization.
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National Community Church in Washington, D.C., led by Pastor Mark Batterson, continues moving closer to constructing a community center designed to help an impoverished area of the city with both tangible and spiritual needs. Batterson said he believes the DC Dream Center will be the most significant thing his church has ever done.
"One of our core convictions is this: God will bless us in proportion to how we care for the poor in our city. There is a third-world country in our nation's capital," he wrote in a recent blog post. "The Dream Center is our way of saying: not in our backyard and not on our watch!"
Already breaking relatively new ground in the D.C. area by using coffee shops and movie theaters as places of worship for Sunday church services in some of its six locations, Batterson hopes the Dream Center will be a collaboration with other churches and ministries.
"The last thing we want to do is reinvent the wheel. And we're not coming in as saviors. We're coming in as servants. That is the example the Savior Himself set," he stated.
The $3.8 million vision for the DC Dream Center was announced at the end of last October. By the end of December, the church was just 2 percent or $76,000 away from hitting its goal.
Situated in one of the "forgotten parts" of D.C., plans are for the center to serve a community where up to 43 percent of people use food stamps, unemployment rate is as high as 20.8 percent, and as high as 49 percent of children are in poverty. "Wards 7 and 8 have the highest DC rate of teen pregnancy, unemployment, and poverty," church officials said.
The property includes a vacant and vandalized building "waiting to be transformed into a Dream Center," say project leaders.
"We understand that the DC|DC will not be an NCC thing," Executive Pastor and project leader Joel Schmidgall told The Christian Post via email. "We're not trying to build our church as much as we're trying to be a part of the kingdom of God blessing DC. To be a part of The Church we can't just push our idea or our agenda, but we've got to run in circles with other influencers, we've got to listen and learn before we speak and teach.
"This effort will be effective if we can collaborate and team with other churches and like-minded organizations to reach out to the community," he added.
Ministry work in the community that will be a part of the center is already being done, Schmidgall said.
"From adopt-a-block, to mentoring kids, to building relationship, we're already engaging local community. We understand that Jesus is the cornerstone, that ministry is the building block, and that any physical renovation to a building will only be worthwhile if there's already a spiritual renovation occurring," he said. "It's not about bricks and mortar. We believe the Dream Center can be a physical representation of what God desires to do to spiritually restore the hearts of those that will come through these doors."
Within the building, the plans are to have offices for ministry and counseling purposes, a floor dedicated to arts (dance studio, recording studio, arts area), a recreation area for kids, and potentially an area for short-term teams to come in and stay so that they can invest in the community, Schmidgall said.
"We hope to transform some of the overgrown weeded areas into vegetable garden in the future. Our mentored kids can learn gardening skills and we can use this food in our reconciliation lunches that we have for community neighbors and leaders," he added.
Schmidgall said he prays that the center will be a place "where hope becomes habit and all people are welcome to experience the life changing power of Jesus."
"We also are praying that reconciliation would be at the center of what we do. That we would see reconciliation between kids and parents, leaders, different socio-economic classes, races, but ultimately reconciliation happens through spirit of Jesus. So that's where we rest. We are called to be a presence for Jesus. To do that, we care for the needs of our neighbors," he explained.
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Senior Staff Writer
Half a dozen Marshall County High School art students are painting a mural of county icons on a wall at the reception room for County Mayor Joe Boyd Leggett's office.
The mural was to have been completed this week, but the students are perfectionists and decided to repaint images of trees and water. Their teacher is Karen Cherry.
Liggett started making arrangements for the mural months ago. The work started Jan. 30. Liggett says he's proud of what he's seen so far. Nevertheless, the students are feeling some pressure to do an exceptionally good job.
"Art work is stressful, especially for someone this important," said Kristen Dendy, 17, the daughter of Mike Dendy and Amy Carsello. "I like doing art work, but this is for someone important."
All of the students recognize that their mural will be seen by anyone who walks into that room on the ground floor of the Marshall County Courthouse Annex on the corner of Commerce Street and First Avenue.
All six collaborated on the research, design and painting, and they seem to be aware that as some are about to graduate, they face a difficult job market so they're not too fussy about what their next painting job might be.
"We're available for paint jobs," said Allie Earle, 18.
Her parents are Michele and Todd Earle.
"If I had to choose," Dendy said, "I'd rather do house painting."
That's less stressful, she said.
"I want to be a veterinarian, Dendy said, explaining, "Most artists are old or dead by the time they get recognized."
Luna reflects on the tight job market.
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LexiBoost Du Jour:
diversification (n.): the practice of investing in a variety of products/activities, to limit loss in the event of market failure
There was once a time when your job consisted of doing one specialty well. You were one cog in the wheel helping to create progressive movement. But in this aggressive, sparse market in all levels of operations, the average job is changing more and more to resemble the hodgepodge to which small business owners and freelancers have always been accustomed–Multitasking!
It is no longer acceptable to just push one kind of paper or to be just a paper-pusher. All jobs are demanding that workers diversify their skill sets and have more to offer than just one talent or knowledge base. Continuing Education is no longer an option but mandatory to stay relevant in this constantly changing arena. Technology, relationships, communication–for decades the telephone was the most complicated tool needed to negotiate these interrelated entities. No longer!
But never fear, there are many low cost, highly efficient ways to stay on top of your game. Here are four great ways to gather information about what you need to know:
- “Attend” free online Webinars
- Engage with free online tutorials
- Take a one day refresher or introductory workshop
- Actively and regularly browse relevant blogs and posts
Once you have figured out what trends are happening and in what direction you want to go, then delve deeper. Take an online course, enroll for a certification program, or get that advanced degree. Sometimes its the small steps that make all the difference. And it may be easier than you think.
Diversification is essential to career growth! Some practical tips to staying one step ahead: SimplyHired
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Doctorate Degree Programs in New Zealand
The main doctorate degree programs that are offered by the universities of the New Zealand are actually the PhD or a Doctorate of Philosophy. This type of degree can be taken in any variety of the subjects that are offered by the universities. Actually students are required to prepare thesis under the supervision of their teachers so that it should represent original research into any approved topic. This type of research can easily be carried out in over three full time year’s program. The thesis of the PhD is usually marked by panel of examiners that include at least two of the externals towards the university. In most of the cases it is usually followed by oral type of examination of thesis and also by the knowledge of the candidate in the specific area of field before awarding degree to student.
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Sand Tufa at Mono Lake. Each year we take 35 students to Mono Lake for a week of camping, environmental education and adventure. This year's trip will take place May 16-20, and will be open to sixth and eighth graders who complete a community service project selected from the three offered this spring.
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You’ve waited your entire life for this and now it is here. You are moving out on your own. Well sort of. You are moving into a college dorm. You’ve decided that your mental health can withstand it and you have to get out of the house. You will likely be living in a small space with a complete stranger. So how do you survive happily? Issues and problems will arise. How you handle them can make all of the difference. Most troubles are due to topics such as messiness, food, privacy, space, guests, parties, and work schedules. Try a few of these tips when things get tough.
· Prior to moving day, find out who your roommate is and contact him/her. Find out what furniture you will need and what you can share.
· Use common courtesy. Let your roommate know if you plan to have guests over to visit. Try setting up a small dry erase board so the two of you can relay notes to each other on upcoming events and plans.
· Be flexible. Your roommate is paying the same as you. He/She has the rights to have friends over to visit. However, do not compromise at the expense of your health or your academics.
· Be upfront about all issues. Holding untold grudges will only make things worse. Confront your roommate and discuss issues when you are not pleased with the living arrangements.
· Set rules about borrowing items from each other. Will you share clothing or other personal belongings? Is it okay for you or your roommate to borrow items when the other is not at home to ask for permission?
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This letter is intended to inform residents of Camp Conley and Point Pleasant about issues concerning their sewer systems.
The Mason County Public Service District (PSD) has a problem with the Lakin Sewer System, and the state is mandating that it be corrected. In response to the demands of the state, the PSD used a $70,000 grant from the governor’s office for a study to define the sewer problem and suggest methods for correction.
The study was completed and returned different solutions. One was to pump all the sewage from Lakin, Camp Conley and the areas in between to Point Pleasant. In that scenario, the plan also includes shutting down the Lakin and Camp Conley plants.
One of the big questions that should concern Camp Conley people is that the PSD still owes money on the treatment plant. It looks as if they will have to continue to pay for that plant and the added cost of bringing their sewage to Point Pleasant.
The PSD, in its application to the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council, indicates that if the sewage comes to Point Pleasant, rates could increase to more than $10 per 1,000 gallons. I would like to add here that in March 2007, representatives of the PSD attended a council meeting in Point Pleasant, which was the last time they were before the city council. Since then, all communication from the PSD has been second-hand information, yet they submitted their application to WVIJDC to bring the sewage to Point Pleasant and this committee approved it at a cost of around $6 million. Needless to say, all of this comes down to increased costs for the consumer.
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Read Refractive Surgery Outlook
Three new paradigms in surgical vision correction
By Linda Roach
Clinical trial results for three new technologies suggest that each shows potential for addressing the visual problems of patients who largely have been left out of the refractive surgery revolution -- low myopes, low hyperopes and emmetropes in their early forties with presbyopia.
People with up to 2 D of refractive error generally do not seek out LASIK or PRK treatment because the risks of surgery outweigh the potential benefits. Although excimer laser techniques are available to reduce symptoms of presbyopia, they require visual compromises that emmetropes are reluctant to make.
Keraflex may treat keratoconus, post-LASIK ectasia
Developed as a form of thermal keratoplasty to correct myopia, Keraflex is now under investigation as a treatment for keratoconus and post-LASIK ectasia. The treatment flattens the cornea, changing its refractive power, but does not remove any tissue.
Two electrodes deliver a pulse of microwave energy in annular patterns in the midperipheral cornea. The amount of refractive correction is controlled by varying ring diameters and other parameters.
One brief microwave pulse
The microwave pulse lasts less than a second. A proprietary system of evaporative cooling during the pulse prevents thermal damage to Bowman’s membrane. The result is two rings of shrunken collagen in the midperipheral stroma. Biomechanical force from the stiffened tissue pulls on the central cornea, flattening it.
This incisionless procedure improves distance visual acuity without weakening the cornea’s structural integrity and without triggering a wound healing response, said David Muller, PhD, president and CEO of Avedro, Inc. (Waltham, Mass.), the makers of Keraflex. He adds that in trials and clinical use, there have been no reports of complications.
Cooling the surface is key
“We cool the corneal surface during the procedure, so you don’t end up with any residual scarring. The keratocytes are not activated,” Muller said. “There is a temporary epithelial defect a couple hundred microns wide, and that heals up by that evening.”
But, as with previous unsuccessful attempts at heating the cornea to change refractive power, the company’s initial trials showed that the effect disappeared within a few months. More recent trials addressed this problem with collagen cross-linking, but only in the annular areas affected by the thermokeratoplasty.
“Looking at low myopes, we’re seeing good stability at six months postop,” Muller said. “We feel very confident with the procedure in its predictability and stability.”
The cross-linking can be performed separately from the microwave treatment, which patients who are leery of refractive surgery will find reassuring, Muller said.
“The cross-linking does not have to be done at the same time as the cornea flattening. This takes a little bit of the pressure off the surgeon, as well as the patient, because if the patient doesn’t like their refractive results, you can let them drift into emmetropia,” he said.
But even with cross-linking, the refractive effect is not permanent. “We tell patients that their improved vision will last about 18 months, and they can expect to come in to have the procedure repeated,” Muller said. “We feel and I think the patients feel that if the effect lasts for a year or two and you have to do it again — well, it’s just a 30-second procedure,” he said.
Already in use internationally
Avedro's microwave-emitting device used for Keraflex, the Vedera KXS, already has the European CE mark for therapeutic cross-linking treatments. It is being used by corneal surgeons in many countries outside the United States, including Turkey, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia, Muller said.
Avedro hopes to become the first company to make corneal collagen cross-linking available to U.S. patients. Its Phase III FDA trial, in which keratoconus and ectasia patients were treated, reached the required one year of follow-up in May.
Refractive regression expected after Opti-K
At NTK Enterprises, Inc., of Plano, Texas, refractive regression after thermal keratoplasty is part of the company’s business plan for treating presbyopia. The company is banking on the hope that middle-aged presbyopes will find its Optimal Keratoplasty (Opti-K) device and procedure so simple and effective for improving their near and distance vision that they will return every two years, indefinitely, for another “vision rejuvenation.”
Opti-K is a noninvasive form of laser thermal keratoplasty (LTK) performed with a continuous-wave thulium fiber laser with a sapphire applanation window for corneal epithelium protection. Sixteen laser spots are placed within the stroma in two concentric circles 6.0 mm and 7.2 mm in diameter.
Unlike with conductive keratoplasty, Opti-K leaves the corneal epithelium intact. Discomfort is minimal, and patients have clear vision immediately afterward.
Presbyopia isn’t stable
The refractive effect regresses over about two years, but retreatments can be done at any time, said Michael Berry, PhD, director of research for NTK.
“Thermal keratoplasty has flopped time and again partly because of the permanence question. But presbyopia isn’t stable. It is progressive, and it changes as we age,” Berry said.
Furthermore, after 40 years of age, there also is a natural progressive hyperopic shift, he said. He estimates that a 40-year-old emmetrope would require seven Opti-K treatments by age 70 to have functional near and distance vision.
Topography of treated eyes shows alternating sectors of steeper and flatter sections extending from the center of the cornea all the way out to the periphery, Berry said. However, the histology suggests that the laser spots neither destroy tissue nor shrink the collagen.
Hydration may be the mechanism
“We think we’re changing the hydrational state of the cornea. You see a kind of compaction of the anterior stroma, with more vacuoles, which is probably free water that has been squeezed out of the stroma,” he said.
In this model, stromal rehydration over time would explain regression.
Initially, NTK investigated keratoplasty with the thulium laser as a noninvasive, unilateral treatment to deliver monovision treatment, with perhaps a small element of multifocality to give presbyopic patients better near vision, Berry said. They expected patients to lose a slight amount of distance acuity.
“We were pleasantly surprised. We found that patients were not losing distance vision in the eye that had been corrected for near,” Dr. Berry said.
Later, studies of bilateral treatment of emmetropic presbyopes and hyperopic presbyopes were conducted in the Bahamas by K. Jonathan Rodgers, FRCS(C), DABO. He summarized the results of these studies at this year’s ASCRS meeting.
Near and distance UCVA improved significantly (P < 0.01 for all follow-up times) in both emmetropes and hyperopes (397 eyes, 199 patients), he said. There were no serious adverse events and no cases of clinically significant induced astigmatism (? 2 D).
In one group of emmetropic presbyopes (n = 63), the subjects gained up to 4.2 ± 2.0 lines of uncorrected near visual acuity one day after a staged secondary treatment. The final geometric mean was 2.0 ± 1.9 lines at 26 months.
A US FDA trial of Opti-K to correct hyperopia of 1.0 to 2.5 D is underway, with completion of one-year follow-up data expected in November 2012.
LaserACE may restore accommodative biomechanism
The LaserACE procedure ablates 600-micron laser spots in the sclera with the aim of restoring the accommodative biomechanism. The excisions are presumed to decompress stiff scleral tissue of the ciliary muscle, freeing the muscle to contract normally.
The company behind LaserACE, Ace Vision Group, reported this spring that their laser procedure restored approximately 1.5 to 2.0 D of accommodation in a group of presbyopes in a multicenter international preliminary study.
More studies planned
The company plans to move quickly this year and next to launch follow-up corroborative studies at several international sites. The first is planned as an efficacy study conducted in Canada and is expected to begin in about three months. This is scheduled to be followed in early 2012 by concurrent international trials with similar protocols.
Rick Potvin, the company's chief scientific officer and director of clinical research, will manage the studies. Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, is Ace Vision's global medical director.
The goal of the studies is the objective measurement of accommodation and comparison with an age-matched control group. Additional studies will be conducted in Taiwan, where the company's VisioLite laser recently was approved by the Taiwan FDA, and in two to three European and South American countries that have not been chosen yet, said AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, founder and president of Ace Vision.
She said that results from these studies will form the foundation for initial discussions with the FDA about the LaserACE procedure, which has not been approved for use in the United States.
At the 2011 ASCRS meeting in San Diego, Hipsley and colleagues reported results from their multicenter retrospective, observational analysis of 67 consecutive patients (134 eyes) ranging in age from 37 to 68 who underwent bilateral LaserACE .
“We see some pretty compelling findings,” Hipsley said in an interview. “We see an improvement in vision in all ranges, with acuity levels stable for 18 months.”
“There is 1.25 D to 1.5 D of accommodation restored by the surgery and this remains stable through the 18-month time period. Significantly, there was no loss of distance vision and no reported increase in visual disturbances. And we see no greater variance in the distance VA than 0.5 D from preoperative levels,” she added.
There was an associated 3.1 mm average decrease in IOP, also stable at 18 months, but it is unclear whether this was a true IOP drop or an effect due to the increased plasticity of the sclera. She said the company planned to investigate this further.
The visual acuity data reported at ASCRS included these figures:
- At near, 89 percent of patients had UCVA of J3 or better postoperatively compared with 0.04 percent J3 to J4 before surgery.
- At intermediate distance, 89 percent were J3 or better postoperatively compared with 19 percent J3 to J4 preoperatively.
- No statistically significant loss in distance visual acuity was demonstrated, while there was evidence of improved distance visual acuity in some patients.
Patients were assessed with the i-Trace aberrometer (Tracey Technologies) and a custom-designed COAS-HD (AMO-Wavefront Sciences) with Dynamic Stimulation Aberrometry (Optana-Zeiss).
The subjects showed 2.0 to 5.5 D of accommodation on these objective tests, Hipsley reported. A separate analysis of accommodation data from 111 LaserACE patients found the postoperative improvements statistically significant (P < 0.001).
“Most procedures that address presbyopia compromise a portion of the dynamic vision range, mostly distance vision,” Hipsley said. “The LaserACE is the only current presbyopic procedure to restore natural dynamic accommodation without implants and without altering the existing geometry and optics of the eye.”
Diamond matrix pattern ablation
To perform LaserACE, the surgeon uses the patented curved 600-micron sapphire tip of an erbium-YAG laser hand piece to ablate a diamond matrix pattern of nine laser spots into each oblique quadrant. At the end of the procedure, the micro-excisions are covered with a doughnut-shaped layer of collagen to preserve patency of the ablations.
The erbium-YAG laser used in the procedure, Ace Vision's VisioLite, already has the CE mark and FDA approval for treating soft tissue around the eyes, although this is without specific claims. It recently was approved by Taiwan FDA, with China FDA approval pending. However, Ace Vision is not making the laser available for sale while the presbyopia trials continue, Hipsley said.
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December 22, 2004
The finance minister told Parliament that the government was fully committed to implementing the recommendations of the twelfth Finance Commission. The report will be tabled in Parliament soon, Mr Chidambaram said. The commission is understood to have recommended a hefty hike in grants and raising the states' share of taxes in the divisible pool from 29.5% to 30.5%. "Our desire is to build co-operative federalism. I appeal to all state governments, whichever party they are headed by, to cooperate with the Centre in making India a vibrant economy", the minister said.
January 6, 2010 |
MUMBAI: IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has expanded its board with the appointment of Vijay Kelkar, former finance secretary, and Ishaat Hussain, finance director of Tata Sons. With this, the total TCS board strength has gone up to 12, of which six are independent directors. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata is the non-executive chairman of TCS. Mr Kelkar has held several key positions in the government. He has been an advisor to the finance minister, secretary of ministry of petroleum and natural gas, and more recently the chairman of the finance commission.
February 12, 2008 |
Over the past nine years that I have been in charge of the finance portfolio in Maharashtra, I have been stressing on the connection between the condition of a state's finances and its economic growth. There is a direct co-relation: a slowdown in economic growth almost certainly affects our finances. However, while global uncertainties are expected to last a year (calendar year 2008), it is almost unanimously accepted that the Indian economy is relatively insulated and to an extent de-coupled from these turbulances.
July 31, 2004 |
PATNA: Expressing serious concern over the mounting debt burden, Finance Commission chairman C Rangarajan has told the Bihar government to take a close look so as to keep the overall debt within sustainable limits besides increasing its levels of revenue generation. He said Bihar could even emulate other states which had pushed through a legislation for putting a cap on the growing debt level. On its part, he said, the Finance Commission would do its best to evolve a scheme of fiscal transfers through tax devolution and grants which will give due weightage to the available resources of the Centre and states and the demands on these resources by the Centre as well as the states.
May 15, 2008 |
MUMBAI: How long should developed states like Maharashtra, Karantaka, Gujarat wait for backward states like UP and Bihar to catch up? This question has not come from the Thackerays but from Maharashtra finance minister and NCP veteran Jayant Patil. In a politically loaded move, he has questioned the logic of disbursing more Central funds to backward states without any realistic assessment of their performance. Mr Patil wants a performance-linked system to determine the share of Central funds each state should get. Speaking informally to media persons here on Wednesday, he went on to question the economic merit in making leading states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala pay for their "progress and performance".
October 23, 2008 |
MUMBAI: The Finance Commission will assess the impact of burgeoning off-budget subsidies and suggest remedial measures to the finance ministry, according to the comptroller and auditor general Vinod Rai. The off-budget issuance of bonds do not impact the fiscal deficit over the bond tenure, but could lead to an asset-liability mismatch in the redemption year. "We have brought this to the notice of the finance ministry and the matter has been referred to the finance commission.
July 30, 2010 |
NEW DELHI: Underpressure from the states, the central government has agreed to bear a higher burden of the cost of implementing the Right to Education . The Centre's share of the financial burden will be at 68%, a sharp rise from the sharing pattern of 55:45 in the current year and the proposed 50:50 from 2011-12 . The new sharing pattern has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee on Wednesday. The ministry of human resource development had been pushing for a higher share, 75%, for the Centre as state after state expressed their inability to set aside higher level of funding required to meet the stringent norms of the RTE. States argued that the RTE made state and local bodies accountable for the implementation, even though neither has the financial capacity.
March 19, 2010 |
MUMBAI: Financial services provider JM Financial on Friday announced the appointment of former finance secretary of the Central government Vijay Kelkar as an independent director. The board of directors approved the appointment at its meeting held on Friday, JM Financial said in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange. The appointment of Kelkar, who held many senior government positions, including that of the chairman of the Finance Commission, comes into immediate effect, it said.
January 20, 2002 |
shimla: an additional 2226 mw of hydro power would be generated with the commissioning of four ongoing projects in himachal pradesh by the end of 2003, chief minister p k dhumal announced on saturday. himachal pradesh would get 250 mw free power as royalty from these projects, dhumal said at patlander in hamirpur district. addressing a public meeting, the chief minister said the project -- nathpa jhakhari (1500 mw), baspa (300 mw), chamera stage-ii (300 mw) and larji (126 mw) -- are slated for completion during the next 18 months.
March 1, 2013
The Union Budget is not the only instrument available with the Centre to guide the economy. It has other options also, including transfer and tax-relief measures through the Finance Commission. Of course, the latest Economic Survey and the 2013-14 Budget speech of the finance minister have recognised the importance of policy instruments and have also indicated the Centre's willingness to reconsider the criteria for determining states that deserve a special category status. | <urn:uuid:ea87fdbc-b049-4e1c-aca9-18b96156f014> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/keyword/finance-commission/featured/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955819 | 1,246 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Royal Olive Oil from Spain. Just to be clear in the copy since there's no way you'd know from just reading it, "Royal" here should be said in Spanish, not in English. As in, "Roy-al" with the "Al" like it would be someone's name. And it refers not any kind of imperial court, but rather to a very old olive varietal from Southern Spain. That said, now that I think about it, the oil is so good it would well warrant getting a Royal Seal of some sort so you could just use the word here as something of a edible double entendre.
Anyways, aside from all those fairly irrelevant etymological exercises, I think I first tasted this oil from the Vaño family at the Alimentaria show in Barcelona a few years back. Their Castillo de Canena Picual oil, which we've been carrying for a few years now, was really already one of my favorites. To my taste one of a handful of Picual oils that I think (not everyone will agree, I know) avoid some of the less than desirable (again, my opinion, not everyone's) flavors that can come from that varietal. To me their Picual oil is very tasty, big, pretty bold flavor, long lasting very clean and pleasant finish. The Royal oil is right there with it--very different set of flavors but all the good work that goes into the agronomy, the picking and the pressing are making for a second, different but equally excellent oil.
Our dry goods manager says it's a very sexy oil, and I think she's right.
The Vano's farm and press in the town of Canena, in the district of Jaen, in Southern Spain. The land is in the Guadalquiver Valley, running along the Guadiana Menor River so the trees are drawing water naturally in that way. Written documentation of the family's ownership of the land dates to 1780 (what Russian village my ancestors were working in back then I have no idea. I know they didn't own any land.). The castle itself was built in the first half of the 16th century, designed by Francisco de los Cobos, who was the secretary of emperor Charles V.
When I first met Francesco and Rosa Vano they mentioned that they were working on this oil--they hadn't yet sold any, but they were starting to give tastes to good customers to let them know it was coming. The Royal's history is even older than the Vano link to their land--Rosa told me it predates the Picual in the Jaen area. It's little known outside the area and it seems that hardly anyone grows it any more.
To my (limited, of course) knowledge no one other the Castillo de Canena is bottling it as a straight varietal. Like so many of the old olive types, the yields on the Royal are low--it's harder to grow and harder to harvest, so, not shockingly, there are fewer and fewer of the trees left. The Vanos found some up in the mountains and replanted them on their land at Canena a number of years ago. Today they have about 45 acres of Royal planted. (For context, there are about 6,000,000 total acres of olives planted in the country.)
There are about 3,600 Royal trees on that acreage, which combined to produce about 4000 bottles of oil total last year. The olives are handpicked early in the season so that the flavors and polyphenols are high. Last year's harvest took place on Nov 19th and 20th. The Vanos manage the whole process on the farm--growing, harvesting, and pressing is all done on site and they use only their own olives. The olives are pressed within three hours of picking. They're very into sustainable growing (they use IPM methods) and have done a lot of work with solar power on the farm--not a bad idea in the very hot and very sunny Andalucia.
Having tasted and re-tasted the Royal oil about 15 times in the last few weeks, I can say with high confidence that I really like it. It's already won a few awards for whatever that's worth. It's got that rare combination of both buttery and peppery that I really love. Our dry goods manager says it's a very sexy oil, and I think she's right. I've been using it a lot--the fact that I keep going back to it when I could be using any of the other ten oils I've got at my house on all the good tomatoes from the market is probably telling. And putting it on toasted Paesano bread. And on salads.
It would be very good on what I think is a really great September bruschetta--grilled or toasted Bakehouse bread, plenty of oil, and then really ripe fresh peaches, pears, apples, or plums. The combination might sound odd if you haven't had it, but it really is a great way to end a meal without eating any processed sugar. If you want to skip the bread (I wouldn't) the oil would be good right on the fruit as well.
PS: I should mention that the Canena Royal oil comes in a really great bottle. It really doesn't look like any other offering I've seen so I'm not sure where the Vanos got it. "Original black bottle with white xerography," is how they describe it. Cylindrically shaped black glass with a lot of right angles in its "shoulders," it reminds me a bit of those padded shoulder '60s suits the stylin' sales guy in Mad Men. None of which, of course, makes the oil taste any better but does make it nice to look at on the counter, and also a really good gift. | <urn:uuid:7174e827-321b-4f4a-9766-3bd256bfb252> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/09/spains-sexy-stylish-olive-oil/26404/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97967 | 1,213 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Yesterday, the New York Times reported on new census data which showed, for the first time, that non-white births made up over 50 percent of all births in the United States last year.
It marked an important milestone, indicative of a changing United States that has long been considered the world’s melting pot. Or, if you’re the conservative, Phyllis Schlafly-backed Eagle Forum, it’s a clarion call that America is in grave danger of being overrun by uneducated, un-American brown people:
It is not a good thing. The immigrants do not share American values, so it is a good bet that they will not be voting Republican when they start voting in large numbers.
Instead, the USA is being transformed by immigrants who do not share those values, and who have high rates of illiteracy, illegitimacy, and gang crime, and they will vote Democrat when the Democrats promise them more food stamps.
Setting aside for a minute the offensive way in which the Eagle Forum dismisses all of “the immigrants” as thoughtless criminals, it’s telling that The Eagle Forum views this as simply a political problem. The Eagle Forum’s political allies have long insisted on treating immigrants as second-class citizens, and rather than pivot their policy proposals to better accommodate the nation’s shifting demographics, the group seems instead to want to curb minorities’ procreation.
The Eagle Forum doesn’t dwell on the fringes of the conservative movement either. The group still wields considerable influence in conservative circles, and has achieved more than a few legislative victories, like derailing the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and staunchly opposing bills aimed at protecting a women’s right to choose.
The post goes on to accuse immigrants — and, for reasons passing understanding, The New York Times for reporting on this — of seeking to “destroy the American family,” arguing that immigrants do not share American values. Of course, this is hardly the first time The Eagle Foundation has pushed xenophobia. | <urn:uuid:7e43a48a-d9a4-4866-8df2-fd2dff2d9deb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/18/486574/top-conservative-group-minority-births-are-not-a-good-thing-because-immigrants-dont-share-american-values/?mobile=nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937168 | 428 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Care Management and the Future of Health Care
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Sadly, the most strained relationship is often between a mother and child. Whether your mother has a mental illness or you are the mother of someone with a mental illness, you understand the heartache that exists when the relationship is damaged or lost. Fortunately, even the most difficult situations can be improved, and working towards reconciliation and restoration with your loved one well worth it.
So, this Mother’s Day I encourage you to seek reconciliation with your mother or with your son or daughter. Hurtful words or regrettable actions can be forgiven; do not allow them to rob you of this relationship. Forgiveness is a gift to give and to receive. In many cases, it is the best Mother’s Day gift.
Restoring a relationship that has been damaged by mental illness begins with the acceptance that the relationship will be different. Making adjustments that can restore and sustain the relationship, include:
- Realizing that you are not the cause nor do you have the cure for mental illness. Also, realize that you cannot provide all the care needed. Locate resources in your community. Day programs/club houses, NAMI Connection Recovery Support Groups, social services and case management provide social opportunities, support, and professional care that can greatly enrich lives, as well as, lighten the load.
- Education brings understanding, and understanding brings compassion. Contact your NAMI Affiliate for information about NAMI Family-to-Family and NAMI Peer-to-Peer education programs in your community.
- Remember to set and respect boundaries. Keep communication clear and concise. Revise your expectations. You should not expect everything or nothing from another individual, be realistic in your expectations.
- Renegotiate your emotional relationship. Mutual respect will provide equilibrium.
- Taking care of oneself is essential to having a strong and loving relationship. If you are ill, be willing to receive treatment and manage your illness by cooperating with your medical team and taking prescribed medication. If you are a caregiver, do not ignore your own needs. Providing ongoing, long term support requires you to be at your best.
Dawn Brown is a NAMI HelpLine Information and Referral Specialist and mother of six. Her son Matthew is living with schizophrenia. | <urn:uuid:13390882-be68-48d5-b52b-8e190889af4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.nami.org/2012/05/mothers-day-message-of-reconciliation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944387 | 455 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as the largest supplier of gold to Nepal as of the last fiscal year 2010-11.
According to the Trade and Export Promotion Centre (TEPC), 87.6 percent of Nepal’s gold imports in fiscal 2010-11 came from the UAE. Nepal imported Rs 9.95 billion worth of gold from the UAE out of the total imports of Rs 11.35 billion.
In fiscal 2009-10, the UAE accounted for 68.4 percent of Nepal’s gold imports, or Rs 28.5 billion out of the total imports of Rs 40 billion. Gold imports dropped in fiscal 2010-11 following the government’s policy of discouraging imports amid an acute balance of payments deficit. Sashin Joshi, chief executive officer of NIC Bank, attributed the rise in gold imports from the UAE to an increased number of trading companies there. “Gold suppliers have moved to the region of late,” he said. Joshi added that expanded air service between Nepal and the UAE was also among the reasons for the rise in gold imports.
Traders said that the UAE has been emerging as one of the major wholesale markets of gold in the international arena. “Many gold dealers have been shifting their business mainly to the UAE from Hong Kong, which used to be one of the major trading hubs for gold,” said Tej Ratna Shakya, president of the Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers Association.
Traders also consider importing gold from the UAE to be cost effective. “Gold of 99.5 percent purity is relatively cheaper here compared to gold of 99.90 and 99.99 purity.” (Source:ekantipur) | <urn:uuid:f4f64ef2-9a84-4dba-b998-ac6fed0bf88e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ktm2day.com/2011/11/17/uae-largest-gold-supplier-to-nepal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948833 | 351 | 1.84375 | 2 |
|Founded||1929; Declo, Idaho|
|Key people||J. R. Simplot, Founder
Bill Whitacre, President and CEO
Scott R. Simplot, Chairman
|Products||frozen food processing, fertilizer manufacturing, cattle feeding, and other businesses related to agriculture|
The J. R. Simplot Company, commonly referred to as Simplot, was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old J. R. Simplot near the small agricultural community of Declo in south central Idaho. The business expanded due to high war profits serving the military dehydrated onions and potatoes during World War II. The firm was legally incorporated as the J. R. Simplot Company in 1955.
Simplot made billions from the invention of frozen french fries by one of its scientists, chemist Ray L. Dunlap. By the early 1970s it was the primary supplier of french fries to McDonald's; by 2005 it supplied more than half of all french fries for the fast food chain. Simplot also produces fertilizers for agriculture the mining of which has been a cause of recent environmental concerns.
Simplot is now one of the largest privately owned companies in the world (ranked 59th in Private Companies by Forbes magazine in 2004) and has branches in Australia, Canada, Mexico, China, and several other regions. One of the major plants is in Caldwell, Idaho.
The Simplot company is one of the largest in Idaho and has a large presence in that state, including the sponsoring of Simplot Stadium, and Simplot Sports Complex in Boise. The Simplot company is active in Idaho politics; Butch Otter, current governor of Idaho, was employed by the company for 30 years and at one time served as head of its international division.
J. R. Simplot retired as president of his company in 1973, but remained involved for many years. He stepped down as chair of the board in 1994, and held the title of Chairman Emeritus until his death in 2008. In 2001, Simplot received an honorary degree from Utah State University, honoring him for his many contributions to the agricultural industry of America and, particularly, the mountain west.
Since its founding, J. R. Simplot Company has contributed to numerous local organizations and causes, including Ronald McDonald House, Boys & Girls Clubs, Future Farmers of America, St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital and the Special Olympics. Much of the company’s philanthropic efforts are directed by employees serving on the company’s volunteer service committee. Additionally, the Simplot Company has donated thousands of pounds of potatoes to the Idaho Foodbank and the Boise Rescue Mission. They have also provided monetary support for the arts throughout Idaho including Ballet Idaho, Opera Idaho, and the Boise Philharmonic.
In 2009, Simplot Company was awarded the Spirit of Treasure Valley award by the United Way of Treasure Valley.
Environmental record
In February 2002, Simplot agreed to buy equipment and pay penalties related to an unreported release of 80,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide from a facility in Pocatello, Idaho. The company violated the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act by failing to immediately notify the Power and Bannock Counties' Local Emergency Planning Committees or the State Emergency response Commission of the release.
In February 2004, J.R. Simplot Company agreed to pay the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $525,000 and install $2 million in air pollution control equipment to resolve violations of the federal Clean Air Act at its silica sand mining facility in Overton, Nevada. The violation occurred in 1988 when the company removed equipment required by the federal Clean Air Act to control emissions of air pollutants.
In June 2005, J.R. Simplot agreed to pay a $4550 fine for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in a settlement with the EPA. The company was investigated for misbranded pesticide containers.
In early 2012, Simplot submitted a report to the Environmental Protection Agency to explain its view regarding how and why pollution limits could be eased in phosphate mine areas. Research shows that pollution caused by phosphate mining may cause deformities in trout such as having two heads. It has also been linked to livestock die-offs of sheep and cattle in other areas. The report issued by Simplot included images of deformed fish both from hatcheries (where the fish never swam in Idaho water) as well as from streams in the mining area.
Simplot is one of six major companies to join the Obama Administration in an effort to significantly reduce energy use over the next 10 years. Simplot plans to improve energy efficiency by over 25% in 16 manufacturing facilities across the country. They have already improved energy efficiency by 25% in four facilities over the last three years.
In June 2012, Simplot partnered with two conservation groups in an effort to improve the water quality of the Blackfoot River in Eastern Idaho. The trio include J.R. Simplot Company, Monsanto and Agrium/Nu-West Industries, the Idaho Conservation League and Trout Unlimited.
In May of 2012, Simplot Phosphates received a state Earth Day award for the environmental work they have done in Nevada. The award is given to companies who go above and beyond to in an effort to improve the environment.
Early in 2012, Simplot’s Conda Pump Station was awarded the star award for their outstanding safety and health results over the last 5 years. The pump station operated for 5 years without registering a single lost time or recordable injury. That is over 79,000 hours over more than 1,800 days. The Conda Pump Station has maintained “star” status since 1996.
In December of 2012, Simplot opened a new eco-friendly plant in Ulverstone, which is in the Northwest region of Australia. The new plant will decrease Simplot's carbon emissions by 39,000 tonnes a year and is beneficial for both the environment and business, says Simplot Director Terry O'Brien.
Simplot brands
- Edgell (frozen vegetables)
- Leggo's (Italian dishes)
- Ally (salmon)
- Seakist (tuna)
- John West Foods (tuna)
- Harvest (heat and eat)
- Chiko Rolls
- I&J (frozen meats)
- Best Products (Fertilizer)
- Apex Polyon Products (Fertilizer)
- Jacklin Seed (Grass Seed)
- Brandt, Richard (1990-09-03). "J.R. Simplot: Still Hustling, after all these years". Business Week (3176): 60–65. ISSN 0007-7135.
- "Honorary Degrees and Commencement Speaker - Previous Recipients". Utah State University.
- "Simplot Make Mark With Impactful Philanthropy".
- "Simplot Make Mark With Impactful Philanthropy".
- Bill Dunbar (2002-02-20). "Simplot Settles Emergency Notification Case". United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- Laura Gentile (2004-02-12). "J.R. Simplot agrees to pay EPA $525,000 to resolve Clean Air Act violations". United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- Chris Gebhardt (2005-06-06). "EPA Reaches $4,550 Settlement with J.R. Simplot for Misbranding Pesticide". United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- "Understanding Simplots Mutant Fish".
- "Obama Administration Announces New Partners Join the Better Buildings Challenge]".
- "Miners, conservationists join to save river, trout]".
- "Five companies receive state Earth Day awards]".
- Caribou County Sun Newspaper
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Hey, Mom and Dad. How Much Homework is Too Much?
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking. This week we're wondering: When is enough enough when it comes to grade-school homework?
Welcome to "Hey, Mom and Dad"—a weekly feature in which we ask our Facebook fans to share their views on parenting. We're starting off with a question we posed last week on the Patch Facebook pages:
Class is well under way for students all over the area. What once seemed like a few minutes of simple spelling and math has turned into a couple of hours of complex equations and formulas. So, we want to know:
How much homework is too much for a grade-schooler?
Take a look at what people had to say and join the conversation in the Comments section.
Rachel A. Children need time to be children, do be social, to have fun. They will be working the rest of their lives. If homework is meaningful, then I am all about it within reason, but work sheets and rote memorization of facts is not going to get them anywhere, but wasting their time with busy work. We need our children to have a love of learning. We do not need them to destest learning because they think education and learning is equatable to boring busy work. — via Oswego Patch Facebook
Gloria E. Seems that my 1st and 2nd graders bring more homework than my middle schooler....and PLEASE spare me from the "parent-student" homework projects! I have enough homework thank-you! via Plainfield Patch Facebook
Robyn D. I draw the line at two hours. Last year, my fifth grader was doing homework from 4:30-8:30 when I made her stop to shower and get to bed. Once I talked to her teacher, she agreed that anything over two hours is too much, and that she should stop. via Joliet Patch Facebook
Janet C. Today time with parents is such a commodity... Not all parents are x-teachers or remember all the math facts etc... Once parents return home from work and fix a home cooked meal and clean up the mess homework is there and everyone is tired... It can become a source of anxiety - school work should be done at school, time at home should be spent as family...... via Yorkville Patch Facebook | <urn:uuid:57a4eaa2-ce52-431c-91a4-a2d9fba31b3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oswego.patch.com/articles/hey-mom-and-dad-how-much-homework-is-too-much | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975299 | 491 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Sep '09 - Aug '10
I was trying to explain to an acquaintance one morning over breakfast what it was that I was studying at the DRL. He was erroneously trying to sell it as Architecture and I was arguing that it had nothing to do with buildings and all to do with systems. Generative, networked and manipulatable systems to be exact. “Like a computer network?” he asked. “Sure, if that is where the research leads” I answered. (At this point I do not realize he is an x-computer science professional) “Like a Star System?” he asks. “Sure, if that is what was needed.” “How long would it take you?” “I don’t know, give me a week and I am sure we would have something working.” His reply: “YOU ARE ENCREDIBLY POMPUS!” That is when the fireworks broke out. The next few minuets were full of detailed and emphatic descriptions of why it was ridiculous of me to have the opinion that a DRL team could begin to sort out the complexities of a Star Computer network in a week (whatever a Star Computer Network is). We both left angry but for different reasons.
He was absolutely right to call me pompous. To boast that a week was enough for a few people to understand and build a computer network with no prior experience is naively ridiculous. That being said, he was also completely wrong because pompous is exactly what I have seen the DRL excel at over the last two months. Teams have tackled problems, built machines and written code without any thought to whether or not they were qualified to attempt such a task. Of course, no one is claiming to be a professional in computer science, robotics or any other discipline that they may be tinkering with but the notion of what is outside our capabilities has somehow completely vanished. There seems to be a general assumption that there is someone in the program who knows something about the task at hand and if not, then there is a manual or a hack or an online tutorial or a book out there that can be easily found. This type of attitude might well explain some of the frustration associated with developing projects here but the fact that the attitude exists and is operated on daily by DRL students struck me as amazing. The mental barrier of what one can’t do has largely evaporated and stands in stark contrast to my friend who has been schooled to respect the boundaries of his discipline. I think that without this fearlessly naive attitude and all of its associated problems, the DRL would be a much less interesting place to be in. | <urn:uuid:168527a4-2e59-4ff4-9460-5bd8efac7ad6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archinect.com/blog/article/21453346/pompous-survival | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98705 | 557 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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"I believe in the resurrection of the body," with these words countless faithful Christians regularly affirm their hope in the general resurrection of all believers at the return of Christ. But for many the notion of resurrection is fuzzy and foreign. What does it mean to be resurrected? What does a resurrected body look like? Will I have my 60 year old body or my 25 year old body? Will I have to deal with bodily matters that I deal with now? Do I really want a resurrected body? Where will all these new bodies live?
These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35, Paul addresses those who ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" He resists any temptation to involve himself in speculating about particulars preferring instead to acknowledge different species of bodies and declaring that God gives bodies as he chooses (38). The apostle does not leave us altogether without help, though. Later in the chapter come at least two concepts that inform our understanding of our future resurrection, even if we don't hear all the particulars.
First is immortality. The resurrection body will no longer be subject to mortality. It will be unable to die. Paul says straightforwardly in 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 that our current mortal bodies will put on immortality. The same idea shows up in Romans 6:9 speaking of Christ, "We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him." And those who have died with Christ will likewise share his resurrection life (Romans 6:8). So, whatever the specifics of the resurrection body, this much is certain: it will not be able to die. This is difficult for us to take on board if only because none of us have ever encountered a body that is actually immortal. But this is where our Holy Spirit enlivened imaginations might be of some help. What would it be like to enjoy life without the fear of death? No need to worry about decrepit bodies or damageable goods. To experience the resurrection is to be free from mortality, free to enjoy the fullness of eternal life with the God who gives it.
Second is incorruptibility. This idea shows up in 1 Corinthians 15:53 also: "this corruptible body must put on incorruptibility." A number of translations render this with perishable/imperishability, but the Greek word carries the sense of corruptibility also, which I prefer in part because it gives us a translation with more nuance. (There is too much overlap between the English words mortal and perishable.) Once again, use your imagination. Try to envision a body that is perfectly free from corruption, a body that no longer feels so firmly the damaging effects of sin and transgression. No surprise that this idea is also in Romans 6 where Paul tells his readers that they are no longer slaves to sin if they have union with the resurrected Christ (5-14), and this present freedom is an anticipation of the freedom that will come at the resurrection. What an incredible hope! Bodily life free from the devastating effects of corruption that is the common experience of all. This is what resurrection will be like.
So, as we endeavor to wrap our minds around the glorious mystery of resurrection and eternal life, I think the scriptures give us room for some guided imagining. We don't know the particulars and we are not free to imagine whatever we want, but we are given these twin concepts of immortality and incorruptibility. And within that framework we have some freedom to imagine the life to come. One task before us then is to use the imaginations that God has given us as we live in anticipation of the glory of the coming resurrection. | <urn:uuid:a1313122-9a1b-46a4-9f79-f5bbcb1ad5ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mattoreilly.net/2012/05/imagining-resurrection.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952458 | 768 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Embracing Life Beyond Breast Cancer
Susan Grillo Vitale, 48, is a five-year breast cancer survivor. “I’m a powerhouse now. I’m closer with my family and am a stronger person mentally and physically,” beamed Vitale. “I love the person I’ve become.” The past six years have been tough for the Salem resident. In 2002, after giving birth to her only son, she noticed a lump in her breast while nursing. “At first I wasn’t concerned. I figured it was just a milk duct that I didn’t notice before.” said Grillo Vitale. “However, being a new mother, I decided to be on the safe side and have it checked out.”
Grillo Vitale visited the Salem Family Center, who referred her to David Martini, M.D., a breast surgeon at North Shore Medical Center. Dr. Martini conducted an ultrasound and decided to biopsy the lump. The results changed her life—she had stage three breast cancer. “I was my holding 18 month-old son when I got the news. For a moment I was scared, but I vowed to fight it—I was going to put it behind me. I was not ready to say goodbye to my son,” she said.
Grillo Vitale, who lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer when she was in her 20s, began her cancer treatment at the NSMC Cancer Center, with oncologist Karen Krag, M.D. She immediately began a round of chemotherapy, but when her tumor failed to respond to the treatment, she returned to Dr.Martini for a mastectomy and then underwent radiation and another round of chemotherapy as a preventive measure to stop any cancer from coming back. “Previously, breast cancer patients with Susan’s type of cancer had about an 80 percent chance of the cancer recurring,” explained Dr. Krag. “With a new drug called Herceptin and chemotherapy, the chance of recurrence dropped to about 10 percent.” Grillo Vitale stayed strong throughout her treatment by eating healthy, exercising at the Salem YMCA at least two hours a day and playing with her son. “The Salem Y community embraced me, and along with my family and the staff at the NSMC Cancer Center, I got the support I needed to get through this,” said Grillo Vitale.
Two years after her battle with cancer, Susan Grillo Vitale turned to NSMC plastic surgeon David Wages, M.D., to reconstruct her breast. “In Susan’s case, we took muscle from her stomach and used that to reconstruct a new breast,” says Dr. Wages. Vitale was “amazed with the result. I could barely even tell it was not my original breast.” After the reconstruction surgery, she finally felt healed and was ready to see life through a new perspective. | <urn:uuid:9e588ca5-4d80-4353-bc01-23dab4b089db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nsmc.partners.org/press/embracing_life_beyond_breast_cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979706 | 629 | 1.648438 | 2 |
of the United States
in the name of
takes pleasure in presenting the
Medal of Honor
Rank and Organization: Second Class Fireman, U.S. Navy. Birth: Ireland. Accredited
To: Ireland. G.O. No.: 11, 3 April 1863.
Served as second-class fireman on board the U.S.S. Ceres in the fight near Hamilton,
Roanoke River, 9 July 1862. When his ship was fired on by the enemy with small arms,
Kelley returned the raking fire, courageously carrying out his duties through the
engagement and was spoken of for "good conduct and cool bravery under enemy
fires," by the commanding officer.
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Two half-Korean professional basketball players in Korea were granted citizenship today, making them eligible to play for the Korean national team. Moon Tae-jong, 35, and Moon Tae-young, 33, are brothers who were born between a Korean mother and an African American father in Seoul, and had only carried U.S. citizenships until now.
The South Korean Justice Ministry explained that the brothers were able to receive Korean citizenship because of the country’s revised immigration law, under which “foreigners with outstanding talents” can be offered dual citizenship, the Korea Herald reports.
Tae-young was recruited by the LG Sakers in 2009 and finished the year with an average of 21.9 points, while Tae-jong was recruited by the ET Land Elephants the following year and ended the season with a 17.4 point average.
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Great tutorial! Thank you very much for this.I've always hated the way that I draw trees but never could quite figure out where I had gone wrong. Study the structure: yes, it all seems obvious now that you've told me.Again, thank you.
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The Superdome can accommodate up to 64 processors and runs HP's HP-UX flavour of the Unix operating system. HP will push the PA-RISC 8700+ chips farther down its Unix server line "in the near future", according to a spokeswoman.
The faster chips should help HP keep up with the likes of Sun Microsystems and IBM in the lucrative Unix server market. Both Sun and IBM have revamped their rival high-end systems in recent months, but HP claims the new chips in the Superdome stack up well, particularly when it comes to churning through Java-based applications.
Over the next few years, HP hopes to move away from the PA-RISC chips and adopt Intel's Itanium chip across most of its server line. HP co-developed Itanium with Intel, and the company believes Intel's widespread distribution channel will help make large, powerful servers less expensive for businesses. Sun and IBM, however, have said they plan to continue making their own chips for Unix servers.
A 16 processor Superdome with 64Gbytes of memory starts at $400,000 (£265,850). A top-of-the-line 64 processor system with 256Gbytes of memory starts at $1m. Superdome servers do not have internal hard disks; they use external storage instead. | <urn:uuid:b69a283a-2fb5-4ce3-bd17-7dff7ee3f18d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240046245/HP-speeds-up-Superdome-server | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933241 | 270 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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As the title indicates, this study refers to writing by career diplomats of the Republic of Italy. We have therefore included all those who have been on diplomatic duty since the proclamation of the Republic ,June 2, 1946.
For diplomats in service after 1946 we have also considered books published earlier to give a clearer picture of their writing activity.
We have explored different ways to find out all the titles herein included. One of the most important sources was the Rivista Affari Esteri published every three months since 1969 by the Associazione Italiana per la Politica Estera. This publication has regularly reviewed books written by diplomats. In addition, we have conducted research in several libraries, particularly, in the library of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
Senior colleagues have made a remarkable contribution to our work. Whether through their personal experience or hearsay they were able to provide a great deal of useful information regarding the location of several publications.
Despite the great efforts to conduct as through a search as possible, in any way this study does not claim to be exhaustive. In some instances it was impossible to find books that had been written under a pen name, that had been published exclusively abroad or in limited editions or, that were unrelated to diplomatic activities. Based on the interest raised by this first edition, we hope to include many other titles in the next edition.
Articles published in various magazines and newspapers were not included. It would have been a very difficult task, since their sheer number and range.
As for the description of the content of the books, in many cases we utilized the introduction or the summary found on the back covers, which explains why some comments might seem outdated.
We also decided to include anthologies and collections edited by diplomats.
Specific records have been set up for the non-Italian editions even when they are translations of previously published books.
To determine which diplomats to include, we used the Annuario Diplomatico (Diplomatic Yearbook), published periodically by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This magazine has had many illustrious editors-in-chief: Pietro Quaroni (1969-1971), Gastone Guidotti (1972-1978), Roberto Gaja (1978-1992) and Carlo Russo (since 1992). For reviews, we should mention Mr. Fausto Borrelli. In addition to writing articles he is the chief of the book reviews section, and has always shown a particular attention to works published by diplomats, Italian or foreign.
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|Can you find two deer in this picture?|
I have no objection to hunting though. I have some friends who are pagans AND hunters, and their approach to taking a deer is beautiful, sound and respectful.
|Right deer. You can tell she is laughing at the dogs wigging out by my feet.|
I have found that I can be both proud and saddened when an animal gives its life for my use.
Here in PA, a lot of jobs depend on the hunting activities. Deer is good food and oh, a bunch of other things... I'm not meaning to sell you on hunting- if it is not for you I respect your choice to steward the earth in a different way very much.
What I AM meaning to do is represent deer as a path to appreciating the natural world around us.
Deer represent so many good things- they are not my totem animal (so far...) but they are wonderful herbalists- said to lead Native Americans to healing plants and as we can see, they are creative and frugal and good at blending in when needed. Deer are swift, fertile and live efficiently- all qualities I admire and don't mind being reminded of! Spiritually, they are harmonious and balanced and interact well with others. They represent the rut in the Midsummer fertility festivals- that is where we get the term Stag Party! A deer-like man adorned with an antler crown and possessing some of these qualities would be a good choice to end your chase and mate with at Beltane!
I don't live in the middle of nowhere, my area is solid suburbs. These deer live in 20 foot wide by 600 foot long strips between backyards, occasional empty acres in our town and the wooded areas along the highway. PEOPLE have crowded them until they have been squiched into that space. A lot of them don't make it under these circumstances, but I am grateful for the ones who show up and share themselves with us.
I will need to fortify our garden beds around my circle garden with a fence if I want to grown anything other than herbs, because These Gals used my garden as a salad bar last summer. They even ate the hot peppers!
Garden raiders or not, I look forward to them every morning.
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You'll have maybe seen on my blog in the past that we're Orchard Toys fans in this house. Our first purchase was the Shopping List game and we've never looked back since! We're lucky enough that we get to try out the odd new game from Orchard Toys and to this end were recently sent one of their new products, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, to try out.
All Orchard Toy games are bright and eye-catching with an attractive design that appeals to children. Most of the games are simple enough for even young children to grasp, with the rules not being overly complicated. Most of the games are also non-gender specific which means by son and daughter play them quite happily together.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a game aged at children aged 4+ and is for 2-4 players. The game is designed to develop turn taking and communication skills (very important!), develop concentration and interaction skills, promote number recognition and counting and links into the National Curriculum Maths Key Stage 1. I know that these games are highly rated as our school, which is full of maths stalwarts, regularly use them in the reception classes to gently encourage children into learning the basics.
What's in the box? The contents include 1 playing board, 1 Goldilocks character card, 4 Three Bears character cards, 5 plastic character card stands, 1 dice, 1 spinner (which is needed for the 2 player game), 8 honey pot discs, 1 door card and 3 room cards.
The aim of the game is to be the first player to race home to the Three Bears House to stop Goldilocks from eating Baby Bear's porridge, breaking his chair and of course, sleeping in his bed. There are two ways to play the game depending on how many players are taking part.
My children loved playing the game and I liked that the maths skills required during the game were able to help reinforce my sons basic knowledge of the subject but simple enough not to undermine or damage his confidence. My daughter who is far more confident and advanced with her maths still enjoyed the game even though the educational part was basic for her (she's 7).
As with all of the Orchard Toys products we've bought and reviewed in the past - this product is well made and I know it will stand the test of time. The games are Made in England using recycled board so you can be proud that you are a) buying British and b) helping the environment!
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Most executives view insurance with disdain, because it makes no immediate contribution to production, research and development or marketing. Ordinarily, insurance has no tangible results and does not improve the balance sheet. It does not increase stock value. Generally, insurance represents a pure expense detracting from the bottom line. Few officers and directors truly appreciate insurance and even fewer actually understand it. Properly assessed insurance, however, can be one of the best investments the corporation will hopefully never use.
Insurance protects directors’ and officers’ personal assets if the corporation runs into problems. Officers and directors wear many hats today, and their actions are scrutinized more than ever before. Serving as trustee for an employee health or welfare plan, or on the board of a subsidiary or other corporation can present personal liabilities. Litigation arising from employee workforce decisions may come home to roost with directors and officers. If the company’s financial projections founder, or unforeseen economic circumstances such as the subprime mortgage crisis affect the corporation, directors and officers may be targeted in class action investor lawsuits. Proper directors and officers insurance can protect against personal economic effects from these risks, as well as protect the company.
And what about protecting the company assets, both financial and physical? Physical plants and equipment, whether bricks and mortar production facilities or technological, can be wiped out by catastrophes. The wide-spread effects of the World Trade Center attacks and Hurricane Katrina illustrate the potential devastation. Proper property insurance, including different types of business interruption coverage, is an absolute necessity. Separate flood or earthquake policies may be required. Fidelity insurance protecting against theft and other dishonesty can be critical.
Liability insurance, in its myriad forms, is necessary. Insurers have trimmed the scope of formerly standard general liability insurance, so they can sell additional specialized coverage for increased premiums. Negotiated enhancements to today’s standard policies must be explored. Product liability, professional liability, media liability, personal injury liability, and product recall coverages are just a few of the additional types of liability insurance that must be considered. Your corporation’s needs may require tailored manuscript policies. In day-to-day operations, these coverages may make no difference. But nothing teaches their value better than an uncovered liability, once it happens. Worry about insurance then comes too late; survival of the company may, instead, be the issue.
If a cataclysmic event –whether natural disaster, economic downturn, or potential liability –shakes the company’s financial foundations because proper insurance was not in place, shareholders and others will look to the officers and directors for an explanation. Assuring there is proper insurance means more than just buying standard insurance offerings in the marketplace. Assuring proper insurance health requires a check-up in the form of an insurance coverage legal audit. These audits require engaging lawyers working for policyholders and schooled in the arcane and nuanced law of insurance coverage. Policyholder insurance coverage lawyers are independent of the insurance industry and, through a coverage audit, can assess the quality of your coverages, gaps in your coverages, potential enhancements to your insurance program, and wording in your phone-book-thick policies ripe with the potential for denied claims or litigation by your insurers.
An insurance coverage legal audit assesses your needs and identifies potential problems with your coverage before a loss or claim happens. This allows you to negotiate around the pitfalls or buy additional needed coverages. The time to do an audit is now. Once a loss or claim happens, it is too late to ask the insurer to clarify or broaden the coverage terms. For better or worse, the battle lines are then already drawn.
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Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 26, 2013
Suffolk University Law School Dean and Professor of Law Camille A. Nelson is listed among the most influential black lawyers and diversity advocates in the nation for the second straight year. She is on the Power 100 list published by On Being A Black Lawyer.
Nelson, who joined Suffolk Law in 2010, also has been named the co-chair elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law School Deans.
Under Nelson’s direction, Suffolk University Law School has seen its percentage of students of color grow from 20 percent in 2010 to 30 percent in 2012, a notable advance during a time period when applications to law schools were declining.
The Power 100 listing cited Nelson’s writings and lectures, which have focused on the intersection of critical race theory and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on criminal law and procedure. She is widely published internationally and domestically, and she has appeared in the media, lectured and presented in many countries, most recently in Jamaica, Lebanon, Sweden and France.
Nelson has been a Professor of Law at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and Saint Louis University School of Law and served as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law.
On Being A Black Lawyer, publisher of Power 100, is an organization that aims to promote the causes and contributions of African American attorneys.
Suffolk University Law School, located in the heart of Boston, is dedicated to welcoming students from all backgrounds and circumstances and educating them to become highly skilled and ethical lawyers who are well-prepared to serve in their local communities, across the nation, and around the world. Suffolk Law has strong day and evening divisions. Its curriculum includes specialty concentrations, joint-degree programs and LLM offerings. A wide range of nationally ranked clinical and legal practice skills programs complement internships and moot court competitions that provide students with experiential opportunities. See http://www.law.suffolk.edu. Suffolk University is comprised of the Law School, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School. Learn more at http://www.suffolk.edu. | <urn:uuid:cad41c9d-a5ac-4852-96ef-95568d9c45ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10467130.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96773 | 448 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Barnes & Noble is sounding the alarm on Wednesday about a security breach. The book seller said it had detected tampering with PIN pad devices used in 63 of its stores.
After Barnes & Noble detected that one PIN pad was compromised in each of the 63 stores, it stopped using all PIN pads at nearly 700 stories across the country. The bricks-and-mortar chain also contacted federal law enforcement authorities and is working with authorities to investigate the breach.
"The tampering, which affected fewer than 1 percent of PIN pads in Barnes & Noble stores, was a sophisticated criminal effort to steal credit card information, debit card information, and debit card PIN numbers from customers who swiped their cards through PIN pads when they made purchases," the company said in a statement. "This situation involved only purchases in which a customer swiped a credit or debit card in a store using one of the compromised PIN pads."
Bugs Planted in PIN Pads
Barnes & Noble made clear that its customer database is secure . Purchases on Barnes & Noble.com, NOOK and NOOK mobile apps were not affected by the breach. The member database was also not affected, and none of the affected PIN pads was discovered at Barnes & Noble College Bookstores.
"The criminals planted bugs in the tampered PIN pad devices, allowing for the capture of credit card and PIN numbers," the company said after its internal investigation. "Barnes & Noble disconnected all PIN pads from its stores nationwide by close of business Sept. 14, and customers can securely shop with credit cards through the company's cash registers."
Tampered PIN pads were discovered in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Barnes & Noble said customers who swiped cards at stores in any of those states should change their PIN numbers, review accounts for unauthorized transactions and notify their banks immediately if they discover any unauthorized purchases or withdrawals.
Evidence of Inside Job
Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at Damballa, said his initial investigation leads him to believe an insider was responsible. Specifically, he told us the breach appears to be a physical manipulation of the card readers in order to steal both debit card details and their accompanying personal identification numbers.
"This kind of fraud and their related tamper-resistance bypassing techniques would likely have been combated through the use of the chip and PIN technology commonly used in Europe and the Asia-Pacific," Ollman told us. "However, even these more advanced technologies have a number of flaws, but they make it considerably more difficult for criminals where it comes to cloning the victims cards and making fraudulent charges."
Based upon what Barnes & Noble has disclosed, Ollman believes the breach is an insider threat perpetrated by criminals who had physical access to the card readers. The evidence does not suggest that a batch of card readers were compromised at the manufacturer or distribution center.
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Responding to Chief Justice Roberts' insistence that federal judges need a big pay increase, the Washington Post opines,
Still, Congress is right to reconsider how judicial pay works, since it's far from a flawless system. Judicial pay should be unlinked to congressional pay, for one. It should also be adjusted for cost of living annually (so real income doesn't fluctuate greatly from year to year) and regionally (so a judge in New York isn't earning the same pay as a judge in Little Rock). A real pay raise -- though not 50 percent -- is called for.Hey - how about tying judicial salaries to increases in the minimum wage? | <urn:uuid:c0995d2b-bbcc-460c-855e-ad7c467fcdc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thestoppedclock.blogspot.com/2007/07/turning-justice-roberts-into-advocate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964201 | 133 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Rist was an artist who did a great job at altering viewers perception in order to portray an idea. Her work was very strait forward, which I loved. The first piece evoked a lot of emotion and was almost painful to watch. I feel like the key to the piece was her make up, it emphasized her point of how women are forced to put on a figurative mask in our society. The plexi glass added emotion to the piece adding a mask like staple to the piece. It seemed as if she was trying to push her face through the mask that society.
The piece that was the most aw inspiring was the piece in the museum projected on the walls. She took very stagnant clips of different natural settings and added movement to the pieces, giving the projections very human like qualities. I felt she did this to show how nature and the human body are more similar than we often think.
I felt that the last piece viewed was attempting to show the discomfort that societal pressure causes women. I felt like the child like voice was supposed to mimic the high pitch 'nice' voice that we like to picture the perfect woman having. Her actual movements and actions in the video represented the rawness and bottled up feelings that women get from molding themselves because of societal pressures. | <urn:uuid:6297584d-14ab-4825-a24f-a84c028db05c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/hael0002/emahael/2011/04/ | 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 | 0.988012 | 260 | 1.6875 | 2 |
by Jillián Robb
What the @$#% is Sight/Sound?
Well, that’s the same question we all asked when the posters first went up around Grand Valley’s campus back in April of 2010. You probably would, too, if you saw student recital posters that looked like the one on the right. All we knew was that this recital would probably be the answer to the question, “what the hell have Adam and Dan been up to, and why did the composition studio get to commandeer a practice room indefinitely?”On the surface, Sight/Sound is a recital series. Adam and Daniel get their pieces performed, their friends and colleagues get to perform new music, and everyone else is reminded that music continued after the Romantics. The progenitors of /S, however, cannot be satisfied by surface depth, which actually brings us to how and why /S began.
Much as we’d like to believe in “art for art’s sake,” the collegiate music experience prepares students for the business of orchestral music. That means setting up shop in a practice room and playing orchestral excerpts until face and/or fingers are numb, and playing said excerpts the “official” way that will win an audition. Sure, there’s artistry involved, especially on solos, but they still have a pretty set repertoire. Does that system work for some? Sure. Does it mean they get to live the dream of making a living playing incredible, timeless music? Certainly. Does it even hint at what’s happening in the world of new music? Not a chance. | <urn:uuid:20c1b2dd-6c61-41b5-be8a-b33c9d913e09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sightsoundmusic.com/category/introductions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969364 | 345 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Just a few days before Diwali, the five-day Hindu, Sikh, and Jain festival that begins on Oct. 17, Rajlaxmi Pandit knew it was time to buy some gifts for family and friends. So she hopped on the Delhi Metro for a 45-minute ride across town to the closest Big Bazaar, a big-box wannabe offering everything from saris and neckties to corn flakes and frozen chapatis. The 34-year-old homemaker spent nearly an hour sifting through piles of children's clothes, admiring watches, and trying out cell phones.
Then, without making a purchase, she hopped right back on the Metro and headed for the noisy street market in Bhogal, the working-class neighborhood where she lives with her husband and three children. There, shopkeepers called out to her by name as she made her way in and out of mom-and-pop stores clutching a list of prices from the Big Bazaar. She picked out a $120 phone for her sister; the price was about $5 less than at the Big Bazaar, and the shopkeeper had it delivered to her house three hours later, where her husband paid cash. "Big Bazaar was nice," says Pandit. "But I just wanted to see all the prices. I don't buy at those big shops."
As Diwali fireworks light up the Indian skies, millions of people across the country buy new appliances, clothes, and gifts for the entire family. In the days leading up to the festival, markets in Delhi have been packed with shoppers weighing gold bangles on tiny scales they brought from home, dragging annoyed children from store to store, stuffing them into sweaters too hot for the October balminess, and spending cash squirreled away for months.
Tricky Laws for Foreign Retailers But like Pandit, most Indians find big retailers more interesting as cultural phenomena than as places where they would actually buy anything. Indian regulations for foreign retailers are complicated; big-box stores such as Wal-Mart (WMT) or Carrefour are only allowed to partner with Indian companies in the wholesale sector, rather than selling directly to customers like Pandit. Meanwhile, single-brand retailers like Levi Strauss that primarily sell one manufacturer's products are allowed to sell directly to customers, but they must also have a joint-venture partner.
That means that for foreign-owned retailers, much of India remains out of reach. Marks & Spencer, for instance, has just 15 stores through an alliance with Reliance Industries, although the British retailer on Oct. 13 said it plans to add another 50 outlets in India. Through a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, Wal-Mart in May opened its first Indian store—called Best Price Modern Wholesale—in the Punjabi city of Amritsar, but it's allowed only to sell to people who register by showing tax documents that prove they own a retail outlet, often called a kirana store. The joint venture hopes to open another 15 outlets.
With the Westerners limited to such modest plans, local aspirants dominate the country's $450 billion retail industry. Companies such as the Future Group (which owns Big Bazaar), the Reliance ADA Group (which runs the smaller Reliance Fresh grocery stores), and Vishal Retail rented millions of square feet of expensive space nationwide.
Mom and Pop Still Rule The market remains almost completely dominated by small corner stores, though, with chains of air-conditioned supermarkets and big-box outlets now holding less than 5% of the market, according to brokerage house Edelweiss Securities. Because they don't have much of a foothold in the country, most of these companies haven't had a chance to build up the sort of efficient supply chains that allow Western retailers to discount their wares deeply. Meanwhile, the nimble mom-and-pop stores exploit personal connections to shoppers, home delivery, easy credit, and gifts and discounts for loyal customers. "Some things are cheaper at the big stores, but if I tell my corner guy that I saw cooking oil for $7 a kilo at Big Bazaar, he gives it to me for the same price," says Pandit.
The success of the small players—and the larger economic slowdown—have contributed to a shakeout in Indian retail. Nearly 2,000 shops have closed in the past 18 months. Subhiksha, a 1,600-store discount chain, ran out of money to pay employees or rent early this year and shut down. Spencer's Retail (no connection to Marks & Spencer) has closed down 150 of its 400 shops. Pantaloon Retail, owned by the same company that runs Big Bazaar, closed 103 of its shops countrywide. As India's largest retailer, it still has more than 1,000 shops. The Future Group is restructuring the entire company and considering selling equity to raise funds. Vishal Retail, which runs 170 discount stores, is restructuring its debt.
Winning over customers may not be as easy as winning over the government. Reliance Industries' retail chain, Reliance Fresh, had to close stores all around the country—including 12 in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state—in 2007 and 2008 as politically connected traders led protests against it, alleging that it ripped off farmers. That distrust continues even today, in spite of Reliance's plans to open wholesale stores for traders. "They buy commodities like spinach, potatoes, or fruit at dirt-cheap rates from the poor farmers, sell it at their Reliance Fresh stores, and mint money," Gopal Bhargava, a state minister for rural development in India's largest state, Madhya Pradesh, said on Sept. 19, according to media reports.
Indian companies have to tiptoe around state governments trying to avoid a repeat of what Reliance Fresh went through. They need to figure things out in a hurry. "Eventually, once modern retailers can get their supply chain infrastructure in place, there's a lot more in terms of price competitiveness that they can offer," says Mohan Singh, Hong Kong-based analyst for Macquarie Securities. As Indians grow richer, he adds, consumer spending will skyrocket in the next 10 years, creating an opportunity that Indian retailers must figure out how to exploit. | <urn:uuid:793c5abf-382d-42c2-a35f-65e04d303854> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2009/gb20091016_385819.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967592 | 1,288 | 1.742188 | 2 |
03 August 2005
by Kate Wright
William Gollan has travelled the world, but he wouldn't consider his adventures much of a pleasure cruise.
From China to Russia and a number of stops in between, Gollan is part of the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO), a not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization that provides economic development expertise to Canadians and clients in nine countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and six emerging market economies in Central and Eastern Europe.
"These aren't pleasure trips," he said, with a laugh. "You're working 12 hours a day, days and nights."
Roughly 4,000 members across Canada volunteer their time and expertise to poor countries, to assist in business and other areas identified by the country.
To be accepted into CESO, volunteers must submit a resumé and then be interviewed for the positions.
"It's like a job interview, but more intensive," said Gollan. "After you're accepted, when a requirement comes up for your area of expertise, your name pops up and you can be sent out."
Gollan, who spent 21 years in the Army and who's expertise lies in logistics following a 24 year career as distribution manager for Co-op Atlantic, recently returned from a mission to the Philippines.
"I worked in Tagar City with a distribution company that delivered bakery products for a huge bakery with 250 stores," he said. "The working language was English, but there was a regional dialect I just didn't understand. They were wonderful people I had never worked for a nicer group."
Gollan spent two full weeks studying the company's distribution system in order to make the proper recommendations for improvement.
"I now know the island very well," he said.
Gollan also organized six seminars offered to employees to further their understanding of the new systems Gollan was crucial in putting together.
"The attitude of the people there is that long hours and hard work are good things," he said. "It's not just hard work they expect, but results."
Gollan has also spent time in China, where he worked to set up a distribution centre for a retail giant boasting 400 retail stores, to Russia, where he taught selling techniques to the staff of a large retail plant store.
He has also been sent to month long mission trips in Poland and Serbia.
Gollan insists he wasn't put up in five star hotels during his trips abroad.
"When I was in Poland, I lived in an old military factory and the only rooms were the detention cells, so I lived behind bars, which was very tough," he said. "In Russia, it was worse. There was a lot of crime outside my hotel and after dark, I wasn't allowed to go out. It was very lonely."
While learning about the customs of other cultures and sharing his expertise with people across the globe, Gollan said he's come to appreciate what he has at home.
"I wasn't a tourist - I learned that we Canadians are the luckiest people in the world," he said. "I also learned there are some wonderful, smart people out there. There are some great entrepreneurs out there who are doing it and with a little help, are going to do well."
Gollan said the work of CESO often goes undetected because of the nature of the job, but he feels the group should be recognized for their efforts.
"There are people in CESO all over the world and we provide services from plumbing to medical," he said.
Gollan hopes to make a trek to Honduras this fall, where he will work with a gas company that delivers petroleum looking for help in scheduling and delivering their product.
"My wife thinks it's great, but she worries a bit," he said. "But this is important - we are helping people."
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I was saddened to hear of the passing of Cy Twombly, as my readers may know, my interests generally do not include much of the 20th century (excluding the first decade perhaps); Twombly was the exception.
My appreciation of Twombly’s work began with the 10-painting cycle Fifty Days at Illiam at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I had been ignorant of Cy Twombly, but the work instantly struck a nerve. Cool, chaste, decidedly classical, the desperate doodlings seemed to suggest long forgotten frantic pleas from the ancient past. I was only to learn later that Twombly was referencing Alexander Pope and his translation of The Illiad.
I was hooked.
Only a few days ago the New York Times had ran an article concerning an exhibition in which Twombly’s classical paintings would be paired with the equally restrained paintings of Nicholas Poussin.
Cy Twombly was a great admirer of Poussin, having stated that “I would have liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice , in another time”.
As a fellow Poussiniste, I was delighted.
Apollo and the Artist
oil paint, wax crayon, pencil and collage on paper
Et in Arcadia Ego
It is difficult not to fall for the lush beauty of the School of Athens.
It may be heretical, but I may prefer Twombly’s to Rapheal, difficult to admit …
The School of Athens
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace
well, perhaps not more.
Thank you Mr. Twombly for such lyrical work.
b. 25th April 1925
d. 5th July 2011
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s transmissions from space
1) The idea to go behind the scenes with social media was hatched 3 years ago at the Hadfield family dinner table — the Hadfields were trying to figure out how to generate interest for the Canadian Space Agency, which is facing major budget cuts. Hadfield wanted is “to help people connect the real side of what an astronaut’s life is – not just the glamour and science, but also the day-to-day activities.”
2) Hadfield does the posting and responding himself, but Hadfield’s son, Evan, is his unpaid assistant, doing most of the maintenance work: “I make it so that he can simply float up to the computer and post without wasting any of his valuable time.” (I love his Twitter bio: “Internet janitor”) Evan also fed his dad tips about what was going on down on Earth, so he could snap photos.
3) When he gets back: “He’s gonna land on Earth, he’s probably gonna vomit on himself, and then he’s going to pass out. That’s what happens when you come back from space.”
I love this quote from Canada’s first man in space, Marc Garneau, who said he wished he’d had social media during his flights:
“You need that feeling that you haven’t been abandoned up there. You need to feel that there are a whole bunch of people on the ground that are watching over you,” he said. “I think the connection is much stronger now because [Hadfield] has all these people who are tweeting to him and he’s tweeting to them.”
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Purpose and Mission:
The purpose of ASUM is to:
- Educate students about the political process
- Increase political awareness, concern and participation among students.
- Provide the public with information concerning student interests.
- Channel student energy and interest in the governmental process.
ASUM´s mission is to advocate and lobby for student interests while educating students on the importance of involvement in government. ASUM lobbies of behalf of UM student interests and provides meaningful student leadership and hands-on learning experiences in the area of policy development, higher education concerns and processes, and day to day operations of state and federal government.
ASUM was founded in 1975 by the Missouri Students Association (MSA). MSA felt that students needed a specific legislative arm and requested that a fee be administered to support the program which came to be known as ASUM. ASUM has now functioned for more than 30 years.
In a national survey conducted in 2004 (Building the Student Voice, Student Empowerment Training Project, March 2004), forty-one state student associations in thirty-four states were identified. ASUM, when compared to similar student associations across the country:
- Is one of four system organized associations
- Is one of seven state student associations that has an internship program
- Of the seven internship programs, ASUM has the second highest number of interns annually
ASUM has a student Board of Directors, representative of each UM system campus. Students are elected/selected by their campus Student Government Association. Each campus is represented by three Board members, comprising a total of twelve members. ASUM also hires central organization staff and campus-specific staff.
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It’s a lot easier to experience information overload than it is to study up on it. For one thing, so much has been written in the past few years that it’s almost become its own form of overload.
So if you’re looking to understand the state of the challenge—what we know, what’s being done, what sorts of solutions are working—I’d like to suggest a few places to begin.
The Information Overload Research Group got its start on the campus of Microsoft Research in 2007, and will produce its second conference on February 25 in San Francisco (to which you’re invited). The organization’s web site: iorgforum.org
Jonathan Spira (a fellow director of IORG) is the author of Overload! How Too Much Information is Hazardous to Your Organization, one of the best overviews of the scope and cost of information overload—approaching $1 trillion a year in the U.S. (Read my earlier summary.) Spira also runs a web site as a companion to the book (overloadstories.com) and contributes to the Basex blog.
When he’s not curating TED conferences, Chris Anderson works to change our thinking about email. He’s blogged on the topic and written an “Email Charter” intended as a pledge to reform bad habits. (Read more in Fast Company.)
About a year ago, Derek Dean and Caroline Webb wrote a piece for the McKinsey Quarterly called “Recovering from Information Overload.” In it, they debunk multitasking as damaging to productivity and creativity—and even relationships and health. They outline a coping strategy that involves focusing, filtering and forgetting. And they say that resetting the culture to healthier norms is a critical new responsibility for 21st-century executives.
In a piece called “Are we on information overload?,” Salon interviews David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and author of a new book called Too Big to Know. Weinberger talks about “networked facts,” the evolution of filters, and his optimistic view of the future: “In the sciences and humanities, it’s hard to find somebody who claims the Internet is making him or her stupid, even among those who claim the Internet is making us stupid. And I believe this is the greatest time in human history.”
Clay Johnson is co-founder of Blue State Digital (the firm that managed Barack Obama’s online candidacy). He’s out with a new book called The Information Diet—his prescription for consciously controlling our information intake. An interview with Johnson (“Don’t blame the information for your bad habits”) was published this month in O’Reilly Radar: “Information overload is the wrong term because it blames the information. . . . We never say someone suffering from obesity is suffering from food overload. . . . Information overload’s message is, ‘put these tools on your computer, and you’ll better manage the information.’ This kind of practice would be like trying to go on a food diet by buying a different kind of refrigerator, or trying to become a professional athlete by relying solely on the purchase of running shoes. The problem is, we don’t need to manage the information. We need to manage our consumption of it.” (Watch the video. Johnson was also interviewed on NPR.)
Seattle health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt (Brain Fitness for Women), says women especially are under “insane stress”—from both information overload and expectation overload (which includes consuming all that information). In an essay in the Huffington Post, Kornblatt says the antidotes include drinking a glass of water when you first wake up, moving more, and—you may like this—eating chocolate.
But wait—there’s more. Actually, you’ll have to wait. That’s enough to consume at one sitting. Next week, I’ll post another half dozen articles that will help further your understanding of information overload. | <urn:uuid:a1cb1355-324a-4e7b-a171-712cd61a1ea7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boydio.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/information-overload-101-for-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936478 | 882 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Today, as I await the arrival of Aleksander & Chase, I was reading some Polish / Latin microfilm from the parish of Swiniary (south eastern Poland of today). I was searching for a marriage record for Tomasz Leszczynski & Julianna Kordos. No success in that hunt.
But I did find Julianna’s parent’s marriage record (in 1832) ! So that was exciting. Previously, I had found Julianna’s birth record in the year after her parents were married. But I found a bonus piece of data in an index and again in the Latin Box format of an ancestor of mine. This excited me, because this was the earliest Eliasz found in the parish of Pacanow. His name was Jakob Eliasz, yes, that is E-L-I-A-S-Z (not ELIJASZ as is the Russian form). Jakob was a 40 year old widower from Pacanow who married Katarzyna Paszenska of Oblekon, who was only 23 years old. House #1! That is usually the first house in a village and was most likely the house nearest the church. I am uncertain whether this was house number one in Pacanow or Oblekon ( I am, leaning to Oblekon since this is the Swiniary parish). But that is a bit surprising that a man from Pacanow ventured a bit up stream along the Vistula river to Oblekon to marry a woman. This was marriage on 4th-October-1797, so Jakob must have been born about 1757. So this the only record of I have of an Eliasz in Pacanow in the 18th century. The LDS microfilm for Pacanow spans only the years 1875-1884.
Jakob pre-dates Stanczyk’s 2nd-great-grandfather Marcin Elijasz, who was born about 1819 and who I know died in 1879 at the age of 60 (oh how Stanczyk hates those ages that end in zeroes). On that basis, I assume that Marcin was born in Pacanow in 1819. So Jakob predates Marcin by about 62 years. That makes Jakob about 2 or 3 generations earlier than Marcin. Perhaps, I will be able to add that many generations to my family tree in my lineal descent line. Does anyone out there have a marriage record for Marcin Eliasz (or Elijasz) married to Anna Zasucha? | <urn:uuid:6ca1aef2-d60b-4c5b-aad5-20ee2fae11d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/1797-marriage-in-swiniary-parish-jakob-eliasz-zuzanna-paszenska/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=eb8d9d939c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970186 | 539 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association (NLMA) appears optimistic a new medical act for the province will benefit physicians and their patients.
The NLMA board of directors met recently with Dr. Robert Young, registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador, to discuss the new legislation, announced by the college and the province last week, as well as the possible ramifications for doctors.
“I think we’re quite happy generally,” said NLMA president Dr. Patrick O’Shea. “The board is supportive of the direction of the new legislation.”
At this stage, he said, it’s still a skeleton or framework on which to build new regulations and bylaws, but the act will keep self-regulation of the profession in the hands of the college, while strengthening continuing education requirements and quality assurance.
O’Shea said the college has assured the regulations and bylaws will be formulated in consultation with the NLMA to make sure “they protect the rights of the physicians as well as do the things they have to do to support the public.”
He said the NLMA recognizes the need for accountability, transparency and protection of the public. At the same time, O’Shea said, some of the changes brought about by this act will also help the profession provide good quality care, mainly through a new quality assurance committee. That committee will be able to assess competency to practise, scope of practice and a need for continuing medical education.
“The fact that they’re going to put in mandatory medical education or continuing education is a good thing as most doctors already do that, but it sort of again shows that we need to be responsive, we need to be up to date, we need to continue our education throughout our practices,” O’Shea said.
Things change so quickly, he said, that doctors can be out of date very quickly if they keep doing things the same way they did things when they graduated from medical school.
The new legislation will also allow physicians to seek help for personal problems without having to face a disciplinary process in cases where patients haven’t been harmed.
The need for an internal, confidential process was stressed recently by a lawyer, representing a family physician at a public disciplinary hearing. The disciplinary process was triggered when the physician sought help and admitted to having alcohol and prescription drug addictions.
The physician voluntarily withdrew his medical licence while participating in a rehabilitation program. The tribunal agreed to reinstate his licence with several conditions attached, including stipulations that he not consume alcohol or narcotics and is not authorized to prescribe narcotics to any of his patients.
O’Shea said the NLMA supports legislative changes so that a physician needing help for personal issues won’t have to face punitive consequences in a public forum.
The new legislation will also give the college the authority to suspend a doctor suspected of malpractice, rather than having to go through a complaints process and disciplinary hearing decision before ordering a suspension.
O’Shea said Young addressed concerns raised about this at the board meeting by assuring the directors that a doctor would only be suspended for something “quite extraordinary” and there would be some investigation first.
“You couldn’t just call up the registrar and register a complaint or concern and have that physician suspended immediately. There would have to be some type of investigation and that physician would have all the rights to explain that,” O’Shea said. “It’s just that they can do the suspension a bit faster than they used to where they would have to investigate the complaint, have a complaints committee meeting, all that stuff. The registrar has a little more power to be able to do it.”
He said the NLMA also plans to arrange another meeting with the college and the Canadian Malpractice Protective Association, the insurance group of which all physicians are members, to make sure the rights of physicians are protected as well as the rights of the public.
“I think we’re moving in the right direction,” O’Shea said. “The devil’s in the details and we’ll have to see what happens when the bylaws and regulations are worded and framed out, but again we intend to be part of that process.”
As he sees it, there are two main aspects to the new legislation: the physicians’ rights and responsibilities and the need to be transparent and accountable to the public.
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May is finally here and it brings the promise of warmer days, we hope! After the fun Mother Nature had at our expense in April, one can only hope May will calm down.
With the 1st of May come planning for all our Summer programs. The first event that you should take note of is our staff training days, which will take place on May 15th and 16th. We close these days to meet with the entire staff, discuss improvements for the coming year, and prepare for all of the other Summer reading programs.
Dana is already busy getting ready for the Children's Summer Reading Program. This is by far our largest program. Last year, we have 607 White County children enrolled, and they read a total of 14,619 books! We're hoping to have even more this year. The Children's Summer Reading Program will kick off on May 30th.
Erin has been very creative in her planning of the teen Summer Reading Program. It will kick off on July 9th and finish on July 30th. There will also be weekly prizes, as well as a grand prize.
Patty is preparing for the Adult Summer Reading Program. There will be weekly drawings, as well as a grand prize drawing on the final week. The program will begin on May 28th and end on July 26th. You can sign up for the program after the middle of May.
As always, there is more information and details in the rest of the newsletter, but feel free to call us at 836-3613!
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High Copayments Delay Rx Initiation
MANAGED CARE May 2009. ©MediMedia USA
Although many studies have established that high drug copayments discourage some patients from taking their medications, a new Rand study is the first to examine the effect of out-of-pocket costs on patients who are beginning drug therapy after being diagnosed with a chronic condition.
Patients diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, or high cholesterol are significantly more likely to delay initiating recommended drug treatment if they face raised copayments for medications. This delay was greatest in patients who had not previously used prescription drugs to treat their chronic condition.
“Our study clearly shows that out-of-pocket costs reduce patients’ willingness to start treatment for their chronic illness,” says lead author Matthew D. Solomon, MD, an adjunct researcher at Rand. He says the findings are pertinent to insurers and policymakers who are interested in creating policies to improve medication compliance and raise the quality of care.
The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, included 272,474 retirees who received health coverage from their former employers from 1997 to 2002 and were covered by 31 different health plans. Researchers focused on a sample of 17,183 people from this group who were newly diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, or high cholesterol, examining their medical records to see when they began to fill prescriptions.
For each condition, patients who had high out-of-pocket costs were less likely to start prescription drug therapy compared to other patients in the study. For example, among those newly diagnosed with hypertension, the number starting drug treatment within a year of diagnosis dropped from 55 percent to 40 percent when the copayment doubled. After five years, the difference was 82 percent to 66 percent. Similar findings were presented for patients diagnosed for the first time with diabetes and high cholesterol.
The study also showed that patients who had no experience with medications were even less likely to begin recommended drug treatment, an indication that “some patients may have a preference against medication use.” | <urn:uuid:b7b12044-c937-4c2e-9a70-94f9b02b08b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0905/0905.news_copayments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975184 | 409 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, will reportedly be joining the Obama administration as head of the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, a post created in 2001 within the White House's Office of Management and Budget. As the federal government's top IT executive, Kundra may have an opportunity to introduce some of the innovations—such as a "stock market" model for IT initiatives and greater use of third-party tools like Google Apps—that have garnered him attention and wide praise as D.C.'s CTO.
Kundra—who we Wednesday named as one of our "people to watch" in tech policy—had previously been considered a top contender for the post of federal CTO, which Barack Obama has pledged to create. His appointment to the OMB position, however, jibes with more recent reports suggesting that the CTO will have a more limited advisory and evangelistic role than previously expected, with operational responsibility residing in Kundra's office.
The site NextGov quotes one administration source as explaining that "once everybody got a sense for where the CTO was going to be [within the administration], and that it was just a bully pulpit rather than a position with clout, [the IT] role was probably more appealing." As a recent Congressional Research Service report observed, the precise scope of the CTO job, which now seems likely to be situated within the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, had always been rather vague, as was its relationship to overlapping positions, such as e-gov administrator. Speculation about the CTO post now appears to center on Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra.
As e-gov administrator, Kundra will oversee the federal government's $70 billion IT budget, as well as e-government initiatives, such as Grants.gov and Export.gov, designed to make government information and services more accessible. He'll also chair the federal Chief Information Officers Council, which works to coordinate IT practices across agencies—a natural fit given Kundra's emphasis in his previous role on improving the interoperability of municipal networks.
Kundra's track record as D.C. CTO may offer some hints for what his tenure at OMB portends. In that role, he introduced a "stock market model" for government IT initiatives. "If you walk into our project management office, you'll see screens, probably 12 in a room, each with a different project on it," Deputy CTO Chris Willey explained at last month's CES Government conference. Taking a page from Wall Street brokers, the model aggregates a variety of metrics to produce a "happiness index" for each project, which in turn produces a "buy," "hold," or "sell" recommendation.
As D.C. CTO, Kundra was also a strong proponent of "using consumer technologies in the public space." Dismayed at the retrograde state of government tech, Kundra pioneered the use of third-party services like Google Earth to coordinate emergency response services. He also sought to invite citizen participation through projects like the Apps for Democracy contest, which awarded prizes for those who suggested new ways to make use of government data.
Kundra will succeed Karen Evans, who retired from the post last month.
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Camosun College is a community college
of some 18000 students, in Victoria
, on Vancouver Island
, British Columbia
. It offers 70 academic, technical and vocational programs. The current average student age is 25, and 53% of the students are female.
The college president is Dr. Elizabeth Ashton.
The mission statement reads: Camosun College is a comprehensive educational institution providing our community with access to the knowledge and skills relevant to the future economic and social development of the region.
Camosun College first came about as part of the Greater Victoria School Board's Institute of Adult Studies in 1967. In 1970, residents of Victoria voted for the establishment of a college, and planned the "Juan de Fuca College". In 1971, "Camosun" was chosen as the name, and it merged with the BC Vocational School, becoming British Columbia's ninth community college. Since then, it has grown, and serves southern Vancouver Island, the Saanich Peninsula and the Gulf Islands.
Camosun College is the eighth largest employer in the city of Victoria.
Camosun has two main campuses; the Lansdowne Campus and the Interurban Campus.
The Lansdowne Campus is in Oak Bay, British Columbia, near to the University of Victoria, and offers university transfer, college preparatory and access programs as well as career, technical and vocational programs in arts, science, business, health and human services.
The Interurban Campus is 15 minutes away from downtown Saanich, British Columbia. It offers courses in trades, technology, business and access programs.
The college radio station is CKMO, at 103.1 on the fm dial.
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STAIR STRINGER DESIGN CALCULATOR - PROFESSIONAL
If you've ever cut a stair stringer you know what a pain it is. There are multiple measurements and dimensions to consider. It's not really all that complicated, it's just a pain. And if you decide you want to change the number of treads in your design you have to calculate everything all over again.
There are hand-held construction calculators for this, but they cost much more, don't show you a picture, don't figure out and correct for upperdeck overhang, and you usually can't print out the final design. For less than the price of a ruined 2x12 you can save yourself several hours of 'head scratching' and drawing on graph paper and get it right the first time with this specialty spreadsheet for stair building and basic wood stairs, such as basement stairs and deck stairs.
I've been using MS Excel every day for the last couple of decades, and so for my last set of stringers I decided it was time to get the computer to do all the work. That way, it would be possible to try out a number of settings and see how the staircase looked before finalizing the design. I spent several days and put it in a spreadsheet. It made the job much easier. I tried a few staircase designs, picked one, and cut my stringers. It worked like a champ.
A friend wanted to use my spreadsheet, and I had to walk him through it, and explain everything. So I spent another 100 hours getting my rough spreadsheet ready for anyone to use, with instructions, help and explanations included.
I simplified and color-coded the main diagram of the staircase, added a scroll bar to allow super-easy changing of the number of treads, color-coded the treads and the stringer, added a diagram of the stringer all by itself with measurements, and made a nice neat list of points to mark on the stringer stock with clear step-by-step instructions. I also cleaned up the printing so you just print out your diagrams and your cut list, and you don't have to take your laptop down to where you are working.
To design your stringers, just type in your measurements:
Upper Floor Thickness
Upper Floor Bullnose Extension (if any)
Upper Floor Bullnose Thickness
Tread Depth (width)
Stringer Stock Width
You will see all your settings make a picture of your staircase. It calculates what the Rise/Run diagonal should be, so you can double-check your measurements, if you want.
Next, click on the number of treads (increase or decrease) and the diagram is instantly redrawn so you can see your results. There is also a list of important calculations (with suggested values) that tell you:
Angle of the Staircase (in degrees)
Rise per Step
Run per Step
Overhang of the Treads
Amount of Stringer Stock Width left uncut (to make sure you have enough strength)
How much Stringer Stock contacts the Upper Deck
How much the staircase has been adjusted out so you don't have to trim the top tread
Stringer Stock Length you need to buy
This spreadsheet even figures out non-90-degree cuts if your treads are smaller than the Run per Step, which eliminates the stringer stock weakening by deep square cuts. You might use this if you want temporary stairs or lightweight stairs, say, to a boat.
You can even put in a zero for the tread thickness and make forms to pour concrete steps.
Even if you build stairs fairly often you will still find it easier to use this spreadsheet than figuring it out manually every time, and the diagrams and graphics will impress your customers. And if you don't want to take your computer with you to the job site, you can just call the measurements into someone with the spreadsheet at the office, and have them read the measurement back to you over your cell phone.
You must have Microsoft Excel to use this spreadsheet. It works in Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel XP. It does not work in Excel 95. One carpenter didn't have Excel, and tried it in OpenOffice 2.0. He said it displayed decimals instead of fractions, and one of the diagrams was missing some lines, but he could still use it. He bought a measuring tape that reads in 1/10ths.
Let your computer do all the figuring for you. You won't have to buy a framing square or buttons, or dig up your trigonometry book. Just enter your measurements, click to adjust the number of treads, print out the instructions, mark your wood, and cut.
As situations and needs vary with every job, this spreadsheet does not give guidance on how to attach the stingers to the upper deck. That is up to you. Jim Self has a discussion of attachment methods at his site: http://jself.com/stair/straight/Stringer.htm as well as other tips on how to build stairs, and information on building a spiral staircase.
This spreadsheet calculates only staircases that use the upper deck as the top step, and does not handle staircases that have the top tread on the same level as the upper deck (they're not too common anyway).
This spreadsheet does not handle or design risers but they can be easily figured in by adding them to the depth of the treads.
This spreadsheet is sold 'protected' with a password so you can't accidentally delete or overwrite anything, and to protect the formulas. All the cells for entering your measurements are unlocked of course, and you can save your settings if you want.
Note: stair building requires a minimum level of skill, if you have never used a circular saw, and don't know what "plumb" and "level" mean, this may be a bit much for you.
This is a digital download. There is no physical shipment and no shipping costs.
You will be able to download it and design your staircase in just a few minutes.
30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
Immediately after payment you will be taken to a download page,
As a backup procedure, you are also immediately emailed a download link.
If your firewall is set to "high" you may have to turn it off to download the program.
The first reaction of most people to the spreadsheet is "WOW! THAT'S COOL",
and here are some comments from happy stair builders (many from eBay) ...
I am very impressed with it's workings. It has figured out things that I hadn't thought of. --JMcCaus
Very easy transaction & nice spreadsheet --chrisrosenb
This is one of the best spreadsheets I have seen. Highly recommended --nhicam
Great Seller-Incredibly well made - Worth the money! --vonwooster
MOST EXCELLENT....EASY TO USE --russellm360
Excellent Seller, One of the Best on Ebay AAAAAAA+++++++++ --730waters
Great program, Simple to use and incredibly accurate - Must have for builders I hope sales of your program go well, it is a very good and easy program to use. I can print out the layout points and have helpers cut the stringers and it saves me alot of my time to do other things on the project. --Follow-up by 730waters
Seamless transaction, excellent product! --hermoso
Very nice and simple little program-very useful A++ --dondo101
Great product, FAST transaction. Worth a lot more than the selling price! --jonesker
Good transaction, communication, product!! Who could ask for more? ++++ Thanks!! --59speedster
How did you get Excel to do that?! Pretty cool! --tonyap
Wow, I bet that took some time ... putting that spreadsheet together!! --ginop
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New Audis are like the animals in Noah's Ark these days: they arrive two-by-two. About the same time as a revitalised TT range goes on sale, significant modifications to the Q7 are also being introduced.
Not subtle – but more efficient to drive
Audi's big SUV has never been the subtlest of cars, but beneath the brash exterior it wasn't the climate criminal some people believed. Now it's even less so. There are three new, more socially acceptable engines, while a fuel-saving eight-speed automatic transmission becomes standard. Unfortunately, there are no external changes to demonstrate this to the ill-informed.
That trio of new engines is led by a 3.0-litre V6 TDI diesel producing the same power and torque as the similar unit it replaces, but with a 23% cut in fuel consumption and a 44g/km reduction in CO2 emissions, helped by an engine stop-start system – a first in the UK for a V-engined car with an auto gearbox.
There's also a 'clean' version that meets 2014 pollution-reduction targets, though at a price both financially and in increased CO2. Audi has boosted the torque and reduced the fuel consumption of the 4.2-litre V8 TDI, too.
Our reviews are based on hard data and thorough testing in the real world.
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The headline is, as Minority Thought points out, 'absurd' but it is just the latest example of the word 'ban' being thrown around completely incorrectly.
It doesn't take much to work out that Royal Mail has little power to actually 'ban religion'. The story doesn't actually say this, claiming instead that religious images have been 'banned' from this year's Christmas stamps:
Church leaders are furious with Royal Mail bosses who ditched Christian images on Christmas stamps in favour of children’s favourites Wallace and Gromit.
Last night, the Archbishop of Canterbury was being asked to take action, just two days before the stamps go on sale.
But as the very next paragraph of David Paul's article makes clear:
The plasticine stars of The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit will appear on seven different stamps but those wanting a religious theme have only one choice, the image of the Madonna and Child that has been on sale for the past three years.
Ah. So religious images haven't been 'banned' or 'ditched' from this year's stamps? No:
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: “We have distributed tens of millions of the Madonna and Child stamps to go on sale alongside the Wallace and Gromit stamps.”
How the Express turns 'distributing tens of millions' of something into a 'ban' is something the PCC may want to look at.
Even the Daily Mail, which has been angry about secular Christmas stamps in the past, weren't complaining when they reported on the Wallace and Gromit stamps in September:
The animated inventor, whose gadgets never quite work according to plan, and his long-suffering dog, will be delivering their brand of humour from the envelopes of millions of Christmas cards...
But stamps featuring the Madonna and child are also on sale.
And what of the Express' claim that 'church leaders are furious'? Well, as usual, they use the word 'fury' when the shouldn't. And the article only quotes one person who isn't happy - a 'team rector' from a small village in Wiltshire (population: 1,213). So not leaders, plural.
The Express also claims:
Critics claim the switch to Wallace and Gromit...is a cynical bid by Royal Mail bosses to boost profits and ignores the true meaning of Christmas.
It doesn't say who these 'critics' are. But the Express knows - because this fuss about stamps seems to come up every year - that the Royal Mail have alternated between themes for several years:
Royal Mail’s policy for Christmas stamps is to alternate non-secular and secular themes. The 2009 stamps showed the nativity as depicted in stained glass windows from the Pre-Raphaelite era and in 2010 a secular theme is featured.
To provide choice for customers, the popular 1st and 2nd Class Madonna and Child stamps, first issued in 2007, will also be available.
Indeed, in 2008 the main stamps carried a pantomime theme but as the Royal Mail explained at the time:
Customers will be able to purchase stamps depicting two classic, iconic paintings - the Madonna of Humility by Lippo di Dalmasio and Madonna and Child by William Dyce. The Madonna of Humility features on the 1st Class stamp and Madonna and Child on the 2nd Class.
So the Express have produced a totally misleading headline and made claims about a 'ban' which is clearly shown to be false later in the article. They also over-state the amount, and the strength, of the criticism.
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Using the Wiki instructions for flashing the APM2 I am unable to connect to USB with the FLIP software.
After connecting to USB port and installing the jumper on JP2 port I use a wire to reset the Atmega. At that point I hear the USB disconnect/connect sound and the board goes to DFU mode. However I get a "new USB device found" message. In the device manager I see "Arduino Mega 2560 DFU" under "Other Devices". It's like there is no driver for this and it will not assign a USB port to it.
When I run the FLIP software and try to connect via USB I get a "Could not open USB device" message.
I have tried this on two different computers with the same results.
Anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
So the computer pretty much told you what's wrong, you need the driver associated with the hardware detection (AKA Plug-n-Pray).
Like every Arduino IDE, there is a folder with the install containing the required driver file (AKA .inf file)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Flip 3.4.5\usb\atmel_usb_dfu.inf"
Your folder may vary slightly.
However I get a "new USB device found" message. In the device manager I see "Arduino Mega 2560 DFU" under "Other Devices".
So, in device manager, right click on that device, update the driver by browsing to the Arduino FLIP install folder (usually in the programs folder, but in win7, there are often 2 of them).
That got me past that hurtle.
Now it seem I am not downloading a valid copy of the hex file from the repository. I am tryimg to fumble my way through with GIT but not having much luck. Is there a tutorial on how to retreive files from the repository?
It might be easier to just grab the file you want from the web interface here:
The newest is 1.68, so if you try this file:
See the link on the right that says "Raw file"? Right-click and save-as, or save-link on your browser to save that hex. Then flash it!
Thanks Andreas. That worked and I was successful in flashing the software.
The Rx LED now flashes quickly when receiving from the RC radio. It flashes slowly when radio signal is lost. The LEDs never came on in the earlier version.
This also makes the failsafe work with my standard 9X radio.
However my XBeePro telementry stopped working. Is this related?
Telemetry might be affected by the automux function if USB is plugged in. In other words, the port the directions tell you to use can either be UART 0 or 2 based on the solder jumpers on the bottom of the APM, but also, that is shared with the USB port. By default they have the traces connected right but again, that is automux. There is a hard wired UART near the 6 pin ICSP connector that is hard wired to UART0 not through the automux. Simply move to those pins and it works for sure-no matter what the PPM is doing.
In other words, the new firmware shouldn't mess with it. In the unlikely event it has a bug, then fine, we ignore it and connect to the hardwired port anyway. I personally have had trouble and so have others with the automux port. In other words, it seems to have a problem with impedance load and some Xbee adapaters don't work (also could be pullup resistors) no matter what on the port shown in telemetry directions. Plugging into the hardwired port solved it. Thus my recommendation was for them to add that info for telemetry, but I got tons of kickback from the moderators, when really that info should be on that wiki page. Here's a thread with pictures. http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/no-signal-on-apm2-0-uart0-and-xbe...
WTH is the "automux"? (H = heck, not the H-word)
IMPORTANT: On APM 2, you cannot use the Xbee while your APM board is connected to the USB port. That's because the Xbee and USB share the same serial port, with some clever multiplexing to detect if the USB cable is plugged in and switching output to the USB if so. Although that has the huge win of freeing up a serial port for some other use (want to connect an Android phone, anyone?), it does mean that you need to disconnect the board from the USB cable and power it some other way when testing wireless telemetry on your bench
AKA MUX as labeled on the bottom of the board.
There are mutliple UART pinouts as screenprinted on the board, some have sharing features (or limitations depending on how you look at that), some are hardwired to the mega 2560 directly. Covered in the linked thread in the other post.
Here is the hardwired-non-muxed port.
I need to add the obvious-neither port can be used when USB is plugged in. On the muxed port (AKA the one they tell you to use) it outputs nothing when USB is plugged in. The port linked above that is hardwired will interfere with the USB when plugged in. So if you use the hardwired port-unplug the 3DR or Xbee radio when you plug in USB-or else you get no USB connection. Personally, I see little difference from a limitation point of view. Neither one works both USB and radio at the same time. It's just how the blocking works where the one they say to use, USB is priority, and the hardwired one is serial priority.
There's no actual multiplexer though right? They've just wired the ports together, essentially forcing you to use one or the other at a time.
That's what I was getting at in the other thread. There IS something active in the circuit because my Xbee will not work, but the 3DR radio will. Also tested with a FTDI cable and that also didn't work from the "mux" port. I believe it's either pullup resistors or some other signal issue, but let's just say it's less robust for sure. Again, the same device (Xbee 900mhz pro) works from direct UART0 but craps out on the mux UART 0/2 and to be clear, obviously not with USB plugged in since Chris must have asked that several times. The board is not defective, I have 2 of them that work identically, it's a design that either impeadance is off or pullup resistors are not strong enough with certain loads. The UART0 direct port obviously works as expected. In other words, there is a mux or buffer in the path of the UART0/2 and for me and a lot of others, it may not work as well as the direct UART0.
Found that the XBee was bricked somehow. I unbricked it and now everything is working together.
There seems to be a lot of information that should be on the Wiki but is not.
The fact that reflashing the PPM encoder will make the failsafe work with a standard 9X radio is huge.
That information on the hardwired port is good to have.
Thanks for your help.
If you ask the administration they may let you edit the "wiki". That's another bit of info that might be good to include there.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks upon his arrival at Incheon International Airport for the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Nov. 10, 2010. The G20 Summit is scheduled from Nov. 11 to 12. (Xinhua/Yonhap)
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday stressed the necessity of cooperation between the United Nations and the Group of 20 (G20).
As the G20's status has risen in terms of decision-making on the global economy and international financial system, he sees increasing need for the cooperation between the two sides, Ban said in a statement upon arrival at the Incheon International Airport early Wednesday for attending the upcoming G20 summit, slated for Nov. 11-12 in Seoul.
"Agenda items that will be dealt with at the Seoul summit are closely related to U.N. activities. When the summit takes up U.N.- related issues, such as development and climate change, I plan to explain the U.N.'s activities and get the G-20 to put a greater push on the existing international efforts," he said.
Ban, who served as South Korean foreign minister before he took office as the U.N. chief, said during his stay in his home country, he is scheduled to meet with Seoul's top government officials, including President Lee Myung-bak, to discuss South Korea's participation in international community affairs, such as the U.N.- led peacekeeping efforts, the Millennium Development Goals and official development assistance projects.
In addition, he will also touch upon issues related to denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), he said.
With "Shared Growth Beyond Crisis" as its official slogan, the G20 Seoul Summit is to be attended by 32 heads of state and leaders of international organizations, who will discuss main issues including reform of the IMF and the finance sector, the establishment of financial safety nets, ways to address global imbalances and international cooperation on the exchange rate issue. | <urn:uuid:5a6156a8-9178-4473-855d-85b76624e266> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-11/10/c_13599967.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946372 | 440 | 1.679688 | 2 |
CHICAGO – In the final weeks of tax season, Governor Blagojevich encourages Illinois taxpayers to Go Green and file their taxes electronically. When taxpayers file their taxes electronically, the Department of Revenue sees a reduction in paper use throughout the tax process; from the printing of fewer tax booklets to receiving fewer forms in the mail from taxpayers. By saving paper, taxpayers help reduce the amount of trash going into landfills, and also reduce energy use and pollution associated with manufacturing, transporting, and recycling new paper products.
To help illustrate this point, if the 2.7 million electronic IL-1040s that the department received last year were paper IL-1040s stacked one on top of each other, they would reach a height of over 369 feet or ¼ of the height of the Empire State Building. Additionally, if these electronic IL-1040s were paper IL-1040s and put end to end they would start at Springfield, Illinois and end up just outside of San Diego, California.
“Most Illinoisans aren’t necessarily thinking about the environment when they file their taxes,” said Governor Blagojevich. “Every year more Illinoisans file electronically because it is faster and easier. But today we encourage Illinoisans, as they consider their deductions, to Go Green and file electronically.”
In Springfield, Department of Revenue Director Hamer took reporters on a tour of the Willard Ice Building to illustrate how much paper was saved when Illinois taxpayers chose e-filing. Director Hamer highlighted the Department’s paper and mail handling operations which takes in millions of tax forms each year. The Department also sent out about 1.9 million tax booklets to Illinoisans this year, down from past years because more and more filers are filing electronically.
The Illinois Department of Revenue projects that for the first time ever, more filers will chose to file electronically than file by paper. In addition to making the filing process faster and more convenient for taxpayers, the E-filing option provides a significant cost savings to the state. Since the beginning of the 2008 tax season, electronic filers have saved the state $2.4 million in paper processing costs and postage.
The Department of Revenue has also made strides in electronic filing methods offered to business, which are on track to increase electronic filing by 55.4 percent or around 550,000 returns. Electronic filing programs offered by the department are on target to receive a combined total of 4.8 million returns and applications this fiscal year. Beginning in fiscal year 2008, electronic filing offerings were expanded to include additional excise tax applications.
The Illinois Department of Revenue has enjoyed a consistent increase in electronic filers since the program began in 1991. So far this year, more than 2 million returns have been filed electronically which is a 15 percent increase over this time last year. Over 1.1 million taxpayers have taken advantage of the direct deposit option, an increase of over 19 percent from this time last year. IDOR continues to encourage taxpayers to file electronically on its website tax.illinois.gov
or ask about E-Filing when they visit their tax preparer.
“This year we have identified yet another reason Illinois taxpayers should take advantage of filing their Illinois taxes electronically. It cuts down on a mountain of paper,” said Director Hamer. “For those last-minute filers who have yet to file – we encourage you to go green and file electronically.”
“With only two weeks remaining before the tax filing deadline, we’re encouraging taxpayers to e-file their tax returns,” said Otis Damron, IRS Outreach Manager for Illinois. “E-filing offers many benefits including faster refunds, more accurate returns and paperless return filing. For those with adjusted gross incomes of $54,000 or less, free federal tax return preparation and e-filing is available through the IRS Free File program. Free File is available on the IRS Web site at IRS.gov.”
Nearly all Illinois taxpayers can file for free on the department’s web site at www.tax.illinois.gov, and many can also file their federal taxes online at www.irs.gov. | <urn:uuid:3c2df8f9-e8e0-430f-bbef-bd624cc3ff36> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www3.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=1&RecNum=6718 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955734 | 869 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The Jesuit Mission Office in Dublin has successfully secured funds from the Irish Missionary Resource Service (IMRS) to sponsor a project promoting peace and reconciliation among the people of Kenya. The project, run by the Jesuit Hakimani Centre in Nairobi, aims to rebuild trust and cooperation among the different tribal groups affected by the violence resulting from the elections of last winter. Initially, leaders will be trained in promoting peace and reconciliation, and then these will animate groups in the outlying towns and villages, particularly in the Rift Valley region of Western Kenya.
Conall O’Cuinn SJ has just returned from a three day Jesuit European Vocation Directors Meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. They addressed key questions such as: Is eighteen too young to join the Jesuits? When is too old?; Why are Jesuits reticent to invite people to join? Twenty Jesuit Provinces were represented at the meeting, including Lebanon, Romania, and Malta. Fr. Orlando Torres SJ, assistant to the General for formation, attended all of the sessions. [Conall is pictured here with Paul Nicholson, presenting on the situation in their provinces. For photos of the meeting, click here.] | <urn:uuid:c89d4e39-7c68-4532-ae88-58f31aee3d72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amdg.ie/2008/04/21/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94518 | 237 | 1.625 | 2 |
by KC Carlson
One of the earliest superhero comic books I read featured a scene where Spider-Man was web-swinging down a cavernous NYC street, only to encounter another Marvel hero (Daredevil?), swinging the other way. (I’m shaky on the details because it’s been a loooong time since I’ve looked at that story, and I’m unable to currently research it since my comics are still in complete disarray after my recent move.) Regardless, I thought that random meeting was pretty cool. Mostly because it was the first time this had happened (at least for me). Today, we take such things for granted.
Wow. How easily we were entertained when we were young.
What I was witnessing was one of the very early Marvel examples of what is called a Shared Universe. That’s a fictional universe which more than one creator contributes stories to, building (what one hopes is) a consistent group of stories that share characters, settings, expandable plot ideas, and other storytelling elements. Both the Marvel Universe and what was known as the DC Multiverse (currently “The New 52”) are primary examples of the Shared Universe concept in comics.
Of course, my early (and probably misremembered) example mentioned above wasn’t Marvel’s first stab at a Shared Universe. That was back in the 1940s, when Marvel’s (then Timely Comics) early heroes met and fought (Namor vs. Human Torch) or banded together (the All-Winners Squad, Marvel’s first super-team).
That wasn’t even the first instance of a Shared Universe in comic books. The honor goes to the first appearance of the Justice Society of America in All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940-1941), the first comic book where formerly solo superhero characters teamed to form an official organization of crimebusters. Writer Gardner Fox possibly wasn’t aware that he was introducing the concept to comic books; for him, it was probably just a cool idea. If one hero is good, then more would be better! Increased sales would prove this correct, so many comics publishers would love superteams and team-ups for decades to come.
Despite DC first coming up with the idea, they weren’t always very good at handling it. During much of its early history, DC operated under a system of editorial “fiefdoms” — with each group of books headed up by an editor who wasn’t beholden to what was going on in other books by other editors. That lead to many inconsistencies over the years. By the middle 1960s, when Marvel under Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others were building what we now know as the Marvel Universe brick-by-brick, DC had multiple versions of Atlantis, Mars, and seemingly, Wonder Women in their universe. In fact, several of the characters in Justice League of America seemed completely different in their own features, under different editors, than they did under Julius Schwartz in JLA. (Or they didn’t appear often, like Superman and Batman.)
The consistent (Well… usually. Stan was notably forgetful.) Marvel Universe was often seen as one of the major factors in Marvel’s early success.
CONTINUITY AND TIMELINE
Other than the Shared Universe, what also won over readers during the Silver Age was the establishment of both continuity and timeline. Both terms are frequently interchangeable in comic book discussions, but under the original definition (as it applies to film and similar media), continuity is about the consistency of stories, characters, objects (in comics, largely costumes, powers, weapons, or vehicles), and places or settings. Do the characters have the same personalities from issue to issue? (Sometimes tough to determine in the Silver Age, when some characters didn’t have much of a distinct personality.) Timeline deals more with the chronology (or order) of stories, as well as determining (or “ret-conning” to include) what is known as “canon”.
Canon is a sticky wicket, as it has many definitions (all stemming from some sort of “most important” concept), although the primary one for comics is along the lines of material that is considered to be “genuine” by the fan base. That’s tough, because comic book fans often cannot agree on anything, and canon may be determined by a single person writing a new story that either changes or eliminates previous stories or situations. Occasionally, these new tales take stories that were originally considered to be non-canon and retell them to make them inclusive. (Grant Morrison’s Silver Age Batman concept rewrites are a good example.) More often, stories change (or explain away) something in past comic book stories that (in their opinion) no longer makes sense, hopefully to make the new outcome better.
This does not always work. The classic example is the Mopee version of the Barry Allen Flash’s origin, where a magical imp was inserted to be responsible for the Flash’s origin. He was promptly and conveniently forgotten (except by Keith Giffen). In the modern era, the best example is Joe Quesada’s attempts to rewrite Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson’s relationship and marriage, which you either grudgingly accepted, or you stopped reading Amazing Spider-Man. Or, like me, you just moved on, ignoring the bits you didn’t like.
These Spider-Man stories have been Marvel’s most prominent recent attempts to change their past chronology. In the past, writers like Roy Thomas and Steve Englehart devoted a big chunk of their careers to fixing up Marvel continuity in the late 60s/early 70s. More recently, Kurt Busiek did a couple very enjoyable “fix-ups” of Avengers and Iron Man canon in the modern era.
These days, Marvel is more about evolution than revolution in dealing with their continuity. Many of their big “Event” stories are about Big Changes to the Marvel Universe, but they tend to go forward with a new status quo instead of rewriting the past.
ESTABLISHING CANON THROUGH ELIMINATION
DC, on the other hand, devotes many of their event stories to dealing with continuity and canon issues, beginning with their first major one. Crisis on Infinite Earths attempted to handle their biggest problems — multiple versions of major characters, including villains, and places, with not just multiple Earths, but multiple Atlantises as well. That Crisis could have been huge. Creators were suggesting full-out restarts for most of the major characters, but DC management were frightened by the prospects, slow to commit, and not prepared for a full re-launch at that time. Superman was rebooted (although not completely), Wonder Woman was restarted months later, and Batman got a lame “soft” reboot that left most readers confused. (So they killed Robin instead.) Other DC characters got reboots as well — notably Flash, as Barry Allen died in Crisis on Infinite Earths — and Hawkman (which didn’t work out so well, so DC kept trying).
DC has constantly been tinkering with their timeline and continuity over the years. (I plead guilty with my work on projects like Zero Hour and the infamous Legion of Super-Heroes reboot.) While at DC, I noticed that certain individuals (including myself) would occasionally succumb to the easy approach of “Oh, let’s just blow it all up and start over from scratch” only to be brought back (usually slapped) to reality. Imagine my surprise when they actually did that about a year ago. Unfortunately, instead of feeling excited about it, I kinda felt left behind (as did other older readers).
“COMICS THAT MATTER”
There is a nebulous concept in current fandom of only wanting to buy “comics that matter”. As a way of negating publisher attempts to expand their popular franchises to get more money from customer pockets, fans want to determine what’s canon to them personally instead of having publishers dictate which comics are important.
Obviously, for publishers, everything they publish that’s set in their universe is canon. At DC, this is blatant: There are 52 canon books published every month. If you want to read the DC Universe, you read 52 comics each and every month.
For most readers this is financially impossible, so they have to start making their own rules to figure out which books are important to them. Perhaps they eliminate the former Wildstorm characters. Or don’t bother with the Vertigo-lite comics in the line. Maybe they like the dark books but think kid-gang superheroes are dumb, like the Titans-related or LSH-related books.
Over at Marvel, decisions are tougher. Because of the movie, everybody’s an Avengers fan these days. Marvel has made it pretty hard to decide which is the “core” Avengers book — Avengers or New Avengers — so maybe most folks get both. But there are dozens of additional Avengers-related titles every month. How to choose from those? The risk is that if it’s too hard to choose, a reader might not get any.
The more popular Avengers characters (Cap, Iron Man, Thor) have multiple series and minis. Cap fans probably get Captain America (and maybe Winter Soldier because it’s so good). The recently canceled Captain America and ??? team-up book? Probably not. Those stories don’t seem to matter as much. So they’re probably not canon. (Although everything at Marvel is eventually canon. It’s those crazy Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe guys who make sure of it!)
Remember when Marvel used to publish several different Spider-Man titles a month? Back then, it was easy to spot which ones were less than the best. (Hint: NOT Amazing Spider-Man). Flash forward to today, and all those “lesser” Spidey titles are gone while Amazing is published at least twice a month. Clever Marvel, not giving readers the choice any more.
As sales on individual titles keep dropping, the big publishers find themselves having to publish more and more titles just to maintain the same bottom line. Current readers are frequently rejecting those titles immediately if they sense they don’t matter. Obviously, publishers need more titles that “matter”. But to do that, they need to figure out how to keep their top talent, as well as developing (and promoting) talented newcomers. Which means those creators need incentives to stay rather than going to Hollywood. Fans perceive that long-time established creators (like Geoff Johns or Brian Michael Bendis) are more likely to produce stories that are considered in canon. A story written by first-timer “Joe Baloney” will be much more scrutinized, and more frequently rejected, until “Joe” is writing a franchise book or three.
Our guidelines for how we perceive the importance of continuity and canon are changing even more rapidly than DC changes universes. Perhaps paying attention to continuity and shared universes is already an outdated notion, although the direct market clings to it. Will terms like Shared Universe, Continuity, Timeline, and Canon still matter in 40 years? Will DC and Marvel still be publishing comics? Will comics, as we know them today, still even exist by that time?
Sure! But I bet you won’t be able to fold them in half and put them in your back pocket!
(Thousands of comics fans just screamed in unison, “Then it’s not Mint!!” I love comics.)
KC CARLSON: Worked at DC Comics from 1989 to 1997, where one of his non-resume jobs was walking the continuity. Which took all day, because NYC has fire hydrants about every 100 feet.
WESTFIELD COMICS is not responsible for the stupid things that KC says. Especially that thing that really irritated you.
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High Tech and Healing
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been at the forefront of technological innovation in health care for more than two decades. As such, BIDMC is often recognized in national surveys for its leadership in creating systems that enhance care and service.
We have been called "Most Wired," "Most Wireless," and "A Prestigious Innovator" by the American Hospital Association. Our ongoing efforts to utilize a BIDMC-wide wireless system to support a wide variety of inventory and patient care activities have been praised as cutting edge. BIDMC uses information technology to enhance quality, safety and timeliness in various ways:
- Through early and innovative use of computerized order entry, medication orders at BIDMC are routinely entered by means of special software that alerts caregivers to potential drug interactions.
- In 1999, BIDMC launched PatientSite, the country's first secure interactive web site that gives patients easy access to their medical records - and to their physicians. Today, patients can review their test results, refill prescriptions, schedule appointments and gather health-related information at
- BIDMC recently collaborated with Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault - two web-based health information exchange systems that allow patients to access and share their medical records online, securely email their doctors, make appointments and renew medication and referral requests.
- Advanced bedside monitors in our emergency department help nurses closely follow patients' vital signs - and our virtual translator service makes an interpreter available to any patient through video-conferencing.
- In our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a web and video-conferencing system helps families at home "visit" with their newborns and connect with the NICU staff. | <urn:uuid:e8f3c1f1-21a9-4398-8a74-01207a56f594> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bidmc.org/About-BIDMC/Overview/High-Tech-and-Healing.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932849 | 353 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Brighton Singing Lessons
Brighton Singing tuition offers 1-2-1 private singing lessons for everyone. Maybe you just love to sing and sing in the shower or at friday night karaoke, or maybe you’re studying music at college/ university and need some individual attention, or perhaps you are a professional singer looking to tweak your technique or have someone to guide you through the vocal warm ups. I am here to guide, encourage and help you achieve whatever it is you want to achieve when you come along to the lessons.
It is important to have ambitions and even more important to take them seriously and work hard to reach them. Singing lessons do not just teach you how to sing. My lessons teach you more than that. I have helped students with stage fright, confidence, performance, recording technique, emotional connection with music, understanding of the biology behind the voice, finding individual music styles and putting repertoires together, ear training and tuning, basic theory and sight reading, preparation for auditions and in depth vocal technique across all genres of music! The lessons are tailored to each individual student to guarantee the best possible progress.
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Free Trade and an Emerging Revolutionary Planet
An article by Robin Matthews, from Vive le Canada (thanks, Mike!). Excerpts:
Free Trade stands for almost everything wrong on the planet. As the Free Trade noose tightens, more revolutionary activity will occur until the strangling grip is broken completely or until the despotism of obscenely wealthy and criminal oligarchs feeding off an increasingly destitute and dehumanized world population wins its final triumph.Ross Perot called it a "giant sucking sound," and he was right. The thing is, it sucks for everyone in every country except for those at the very top.
Free Trade is a condition in which dominant industrial power (allied to overwhelming political and military power) arranges the trade of the world to its own advantage while claiming it is participating with equals in an equal exchange of goods and services.
Free Trade has always been advocated and pushed by the wealthiest nations with the highest technological efficiency. Those nations are almost always imperialist powers. An imperialist power is a giant suction pump, pulling the wealth from outside its borders into its own heartland to grow richer and richer.
In order to maintain its dominance and to keep the flow of wealth pouring into its own borders an imperial power builds huge military forces, establishes bases wherever it can, bribes leaders and sets up co-operating dictatorships. Whenever an imperial power needs a war to control markets, it starts a war.
That is why many parts of the planet are moving, now, into revolutionary postures. They know (A) Free Trade is a big swindle, guaranteeing poverty and suffering. (B) Comparative Advantage is a lie. Period. (C) Wealthy capitalists have used the two together as a way of getting a large part of the world’s population into near slavery. (D) The only way out of this destructive entanglement is to fight a way out. | <urn:uuid:493ad580-02cf-4f5e-b687-210b66b12f93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bgoodsel/post911/2005/10/free-trade-and-emerging-revolutionary.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949787 | 390 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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In 2001 the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network joined forces with UEFA. Ten years on, UEFA.com talks to their executive director Piara Powar about the progress that has been made.
"It has been a very productive decade for us," Powar told UEFA.com. "Working with the European governing body, the confederation, has been very, very important for two reasons. One, to allow us to get our message across more efficiently, to get it out in a targeted way, and to work with the football family in a united front.
"Secondly, because unfortunately there remains a problem of racism and other forms of discrimination in the game, so seeing it from a very practical point of view it's a problem that needs to be addressed," Powar added. "I think we have made some good progress in getting some very strong messages out there, mixing them with positive solutions."
The UEFA-FARE partnership will again be on show on UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matchday three, when FARE's Annual Action Weeks receive the endorsement of European football's governing body. Clubs across the continent will once more be encouraged to challenge discrimination.
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This project has been approved for $3,300,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
|Affected Area:||14th Street Pedestrian Bridge and Plaza|
$3,351,386 million from Federal Stimulus
$1,899,059 million MPO L230 Money
$ 5,250,445 million total funds for Bridge
$4,375,000 million MPO L230 Money
$ 4,375,000 million total funds for Plaza
|Start Date:||Spring 2011|
|Completion Date:||Bridge: End of 2012; Plaza: End of 2014|
Columbus' 14th Street Pedestrian Bridge has received enhancements that will improve its overall appearance and provide connection to the community's trail system. The $5.2 million dollar project will provide needed structural improvements for pedestrian traffic within the existing right-of-way on the 14th Street Bridge. The bridge crosses the Chattahoochee River to connect Columbus to Phenix City, Alabama. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic due to extensive structural insufficiencies. The pedestrian bridge now offers connectivity and continuity to the Columbus Riverwalk.
Enhancements such as streetscapes, new sidewalks, and the redevelopment of the surface of the bridge, were constructed under this project. Improvements also include the reconstruction of the bridge footings and scour protection, along with the cleaning and patching of all exterior surfaces. Railings on the bridge were replaced and made to look as similar as possible to the existing structures. The use of Interpretive kiosks emphasizing the historic industrial development along the river were also installed along with benches and period specific lighting.
The bridge is currently closed to public, in order to build a new approach from 14th Street. This work should be completed by summer 2013. Upon its completion, a new plaza will be construciton, offering area for greenspace and passive activities. The plaza will be completed in 2014.
For more information about this project, please contact Lynda Temples, (706) 225-3938.
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The storm that ravaged Beijing nearly a week ago and killed at least 77 people remains a sensitive topic in China, with a newspaper ordered to cut its coverage and online discussions curtailed.
Directed by propaganda officials, mainstream media have been focusing on the positive aspects of the storm, such as rescue efforts, heroic civilian acts and sacrifices by uniformed officials. However, those who want to raise questions on the city’s handling of the disaster and its drainage system have come under pressure.
Southern Weekly — an influential newspaper known for its edgy reporting — canceled four pages of storm coverage this week. In addition, the newspaper itself, together with Beijing’s former and acting mayors, and the deaths in Fangshan — the hardest-hit district in Beijing — were all blocked on China’s most popular microblogging site, Sina Weibo, on Friday.
The censorship comes during a personnel reshuffling in the city government of the capital as China braces for the once-in-a-decade power handover to the next generation of leaders. The transfer will take place when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holds its congress later this year, with banners around the city already calling for the creation of a stable environment for the event.
Chinese officials have kept information tight, mindful that any failure to cope with the flooding could reflect badly on the country’s leadership. The Chinese government has justified its one-party rule in part by delivering economic growth and maintaining stability and acting quickly to manage disasters like the flooding last year on June 21.
Chinese officials usually limit coverage of disasters, but one media analyst said authorities may have expanded that for the floods because the questions about death tolls are happening against the backdrop of an ill-timed power shift in the city, with both Beijing’s mayor and vice mayor resigning on Wednesday.
The city’s outgoing mayor, Guo Jinlong (郭金龍), who was promoted to the city’s most senior post of CCP secretary, is expected to join the central government’s top 25-member politburo at the party’s fall congress.
“It’s kind of a perfect storm in terms of press control,” said David Bandurski, a researcher at Hong Kong-based China Media Project, about the timing of the disaster so close to the party congress.
A journalist close to the Southern Weekly told foreign media that the newspaper killed four pages of storm coverage this week after provincial propaganda officials and corporate management intervened. He requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The unpublished articles include an obituary page for 25 storm victims, an analysis of the flooding on a Beijing highway where at least three people drowned and a story on Beijing’s drainage system, the journalist said.
A photo of the proof of the obituary page circulated online, showing big crosses in red ink over the stories of the dead. Chinese online users noted the page might have offended the authority because it identified the victims when the government had not done so. Southern Weekly hits the newsstand on Thursdays.
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I’m here in Mendoza looking for clues to the future of Argentinean wine and it is pretty interesting work. To Malbec … and Beyond!
Many of the wines we are tasting here are distinctive and delicious. The industry’s future is bright if certain economic problems can be overcome (stay tuned more about these challenges in upcoming posts).
The Real Argentinean Wine Miracle
As I have talked to winemakers and industry experts it has slowly dawned on me what a miracle these fine wines are. Not a miracle of nature — Mendoza has long been known to possess superior terroir – but a bigger social and economic miracle. The fundamental idea of Argentinean wine has been transformed in just a few years.
The excellent wines we take for granted today did not exist in a serious way just twenty or twenty-five years ago. The standard of wine was hopeless low and the industry’s health was no better.
Why were the wines so bad? Well, Argentina has been a boom and bust economy for many decades and quality wine is a long term business. It is difficult to keep a focus on quality when both consumers and producers are riding an economic roller-coaster. This is one reason family-owned wineries are important here as in other parts of the wine world. Families can often think in terms of generations while financial investors focus on quarterly reports.
Industrial organization also leaned away from quality for many years. Growers would sell grapes to producers (who sought low prices) who would make bulk wine and ship it by rail to Buenos Aires, where negociants bottled it under their own labels and sold it to bargain-hunting consumers. This is not a supply chain that favors quality over cost.
Bad Incentives Make Bad Wine
A stubborn grower, and there were a few, who insisted on producing high quality grapes got the same payment per ton as his high-yield low-quality neighbor. No quality premium existed because all the grapes went into the same pink bulk wine.
Even the grape varieties reflected this sad story. Malbec is on everyone’s short list of hot selling wines today. But back in 1968 Malbec made up less than 20% of Argentinean production.
Nearly half (43%) of the wine grapes grown were pink-skinned heavy-yielding Criolla (Mission grapes), which were made into the cheap oxidative wines stored in large wood casks. Not much varietal flavor made it through the aging process, or indeed survived fermentation in the absence of temperature control.
The wines that resulted, given the prevailing cellar practices, had almost nothing in common with the wines of today except alcoholic content. Since Argentina’s present as found here in Mendoza is so delicious, I set out to find examples of the past so that I could better gauge the degree of the transformation.
I didn’t find what I was looking for at the nice shop on the main square in Mendoza (or earlier in Buenos Aires, either). So I went looking at the Central Market in the heart of town, where wine tourists seldom go but typical families shop for fish, meat and vegetables. There I found the dinosaurs — styles of Argentinean wine still made for consumers with a taste for the past.
What I Found at the Market
I suspect that the bottles at the top of the page are Criolla blends and the closest thing to the old wines. They sure looked like they were very oxidized, with brownish sherry like color. Market price = 9.80 pesos, or just under $2.50 per bottle. They were displayed on the top shelf of the wine wall, up close to the florescent lights. Perfect storage conditions!
You can buy wines like this and other inexpensive products in big refillable jugs, too, at an even lower unit price. I saw these jugs back in Buenos Aires, too, and I am sure that they are ubiquitous outside the tourist zone.
The last photo shows cheap wines I found at a tourist shop a few blocks down from the central market. The sign offered six bottles for 42.90 pesos (less than $11).
The Taste of History
So what does history taste like? Well, history is pretty bland if you go by the glass of vino tinto I was given, poured from the big jug, while waiting for my take-away empanada order.
But I hope you will understand that I did not actually taste these wines. I wimped out. My time in Mendoza is too short to drink bad wine with so much great wine available. But even if I had bought them all and pulled the corks, I would not have experienced the true taste of Argentinean wine past.
During our visit to Catena Zapata winemaker Pablo Sanchez advised me that even the most basic wines today (which make up the majority of sales in the domestic market) are far superior to the old pink wines. Better practices in the vineyard and the cellar today have raised the standards here just as they have for basic wine in the United States and almost everyplace else.
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Cub Scout Archives: Tennis Belt Loop and Pin
The Tennis belt loop and pin are part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program. This program gives Cub Scouts the opportunity to receive recognition for exploring different areas of interest.
Webelos who earn the Tennis Belt Loop while a Webelos also complete part of requirement 3 for the Sportsman activity badge.
Tennis Belt Loop for Cub Scouts If you want to introduce your Cub Scouts to a sport which many of them probably don't play, try the Tennis belt loop from the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program.
Tennis Pin for Cub Scouts I haven't played tennis much lately, but I used to play with my brother and sister when I was young. There was a tennis court in a park near our house. We would ride our bikes over and then play a game or two. If your Cub Scout enjoys tennis, he might want to earn the Tennis pin from the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program.
What is Good Sportsmanship? Scouting and sports go together. Many recognitions require that the Scout discuss sportsmanship. So what does good sportsmanship mean?
Helps and Requirements for the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Belt Loops and Pins The Cub Scout Academics and Sports program gives Cub Scouts the opportunity to receive recognition for exploring different areas of interest. Cub Scouts earn belt loops which can be worn on the official Cub Scout belt when they investigate one of these areas. When they explore one of the topics further, they earn a pin. The pins are not worn on the uniform. | <urn:uuid:0a128f18-747c-4b05-9cfc-231d78b5a5a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scoutermom.com/cubscout/tennis-belt-loop-and-pin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95577 | 323 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Benedict has included agnostics in his ecumenical gathering at Assisi, a meeting in the tradition of John Paul II. And his reasoning is powerful:
[Agnostics] are “pilgrims of truth, pilgrims of peace”. They ask questions of both sides. They take away from militant atheists the false certainty by which these claim to know that there is no God and they invite them to leave polemics aside and to become seekers who do not give up hope in the existence of truth and in the possibility and necessity of living by it. But they also challenge the followers of religions not to consider God as their own property, as if he belonged to them, in such a way that they feel vindicated in using force against others …
[Agnostics'] inability to find God is partly the responsibility of believers with a limited or even falsified image of God. So all their struggling and questioning is in part an appeal to believers to purify their faith, so that God, the true God, becomes accessible. Therefore I have consciously invited delegates of this third group to our meeting in Assisi, which does not simply bring together representatives of religious institutions.
Rather it is a case of being together on a journey towards truth, a case of taking a decisive stand for human dignity and a case of common engagement for peace against every form of destructive force.
My italics. The full text is here, and Michael Potemra's moving engagement with it is here at NRO. Many conservative Catholics keep telling me that I am misreading Benedict, that his concerns and theology are really not that far off the concerns and theological discussions we have been having on this blog for years. And there are times when this is clear. Deus Caritas Est, for example. The concern for liturgy, ritual, mystery in faith. The embrace of the church as a counter-cultural force in a depressingly materialistic mass culture. Benedict's conservatism is, we are told, merely a defensive neo-conservatism born of the failure of the Second Council to give the faith a new birth in Europe and the West. It is not pure institutional reactionaryism.
But it is equally clear, is it not, that the project of mere assertion of papal authoritah, the purging of Catholics with doubts and questions, the doubling down on a theory of natural law that simply does not reflect what modernity knows of nature (and therefore refutes itself), the profound corruption that allowed for the rape and abuse of countless innocents across the world, the scandal of the Legion of Christ … these have led to an even steeper collapse of the church in the West where its fate as a living truth still lies.
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The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, has today (February 28th) brokered agreement on an EU-wide Youth Guarantee in Brussels. The initiative represents a key step in response to EU youth unemployment crisis.
Once implemented, the Guarantee will assure young people under the age of 25 a good quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed.
Minister Burton said:
“Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels in Europe and today’s agreement is a crucial step in tackling the crisis.”
The Minister was speaking following a meeting of European Social Affairs and Employment ministers (EPSCO) in Brussels. Minister Burton chaired the morning session at which final agreement on the Youth Guarantee was reached.
The Guarantee stemmed from a European Commission recommendation and it fell to Ireland, in its role as President of the Council, to chair the negotiations on the recommendation.
Minister Burton said:
“At the outset, the key priority I set for this meeting was to get political agreement on the EU Youth Guarantee. I’m delighted that we have reached a successful conclusion and I believe this will make a key difference to the lives of millions of young people across the EU, including in Ireland.”
Minister Burton - I’m delighted that we have reached a successful conclusion and I believe this will make a key difference to the lives of millions of young people across the EU, including in Ireland.
There are currently 7.5 million young people across Europe who are neither in employment, education or training (NEETS), representing 12.9 per cent of young Europeans (aged 15 to 24).
Minister Burton said:
“The EU puts the estimated economic cost of this at 1.2 per cent of GDP, or more than €150 billion. And the social costs are simply devastating, as youth unemployment has been shown to have lifelong effects and leave permanent scars. That is why it is so important that we act in a meaningful and sustained way to tackle the crisis, and the Youth Guarantee is a statement of intent in that regard.”
“The overall objective of guarantee schemes is to provide Europe's youth with better prospects for their future by ensuring that supports are available to them to enter the labour market. When implemented, the Youth Guarantee will contribute to three out of the five Europe 2020 targets: increasing the employment rate, reducing the extent of early school leaving, and lifting people out of poverty and social exclusion.”
The agreed document recommends that each Member State should move quickly to implement Youth Guarantees in their respective countries, taking into account existing national, regional and local policies and objectives. With regard to the Member States experiencing the most severe budgetary difficulties and higher rates of NEETs or of youth unemployment, gradual implementation can be considered. This will allow these states to deal progressively with their budgetary positions while still acting in a more decisive way to tackle youth unemployment.
In addition to existing funding streams, on February 8th the European Council announced a Youth Employment Initiative amounting to €6 billion for the period 2014-2020 to support measures aimed at addressing youth unemployment and in particular to support the Youth Guarantee.
Minister Burton - When implemented, the Youth Guarantee will contribute to three out of the five Europe 2020 targets: increasing the employment rate, reducing the extent of early school leaving, and lifting people out of poverty and social exclusion.
Further work on how this funding will be allocated and its implementation will now be undertaken during Ireland’s Presidency.
The afternoon session of the EPSCO meeting saw Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, chair a policy debate by Employment Ministers on the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey and Joint Employment Report in the context of the European Semester.
Today's EPSCO meeting also heard a presentation from EU Commissioner László Andor on the "Social Investment Package", which was published by the EU Commission last week. The package contains the Commission’s communication on the concept of social investment as providing a direction towards growth and cohesion for the EU, as well as a recommendation on “Investing in Children: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage”.
Minister Joan Burton looks forward to working with both the Council and the Commission on how best to give effect to the principles and actions outlined in the social investment communication.
“Today’s meeting is only the start of this process,” said Minister Joan Burton. “It is my intention to continue work on this important issue with a view to having formal conclusions at the next EPSCO meeting next June in Luxembourg.
"Social protection systems are vital in protecting EU citizens against the worst effects of the crisis. Through investment in education and training, they also have a lead role to play in ensuring that citizens are job-ready and in a position to avail of labour market opportunities as the recovery comes.
"A fiscal response to the crisis is not enough - there must also be a social response, and I welcome the Package and Commissioner Andor's strong personal commitment on this issue."
Today’s meeting was preceded by a breakfast meeting with Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council.
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Other Countries Recognize their Scientific Rock Stars. Why Don’t Americans?
Science Progress contributing editor Chris Mooney surveys the interactions between science, politics, and culture. He is the author of several books, including The Republican War on Science and the forthcoming Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum. He and Kirshenbaum blog at “The Intersection.” (Photo: flickr.com/sarahfelicity)
They get the name of the “National Institute of Health” wrong. They say cheesy things, like this comment on Alzheimer’s researchers: “These guys will get inside your head.” And it just feels weird to see Francis Collins in sunglasses, slinging a guitar.
Still, you have to admire the “Rock Stars of Science” campaign—Rock S.O.S.; hat tip Mary Spiro—which launched with a four page portfolio in GQ magazine that paired up musicians with scientific “celebrities” (none of whom are household names) for a high-end photo shoot. The idea seems to be that having Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Harold Varmus, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, groove with Sheryl Crow will reflect some of the latter’s rays on the former. The campaign—which advocates for increased funding for biomedical research—is sponsored by Geoffrey Beene Gives Back, the philanthropic arm of the clothing design company. In case it isn’t obvious already, they know how to make anyone, even frumpy scientists, look good.
I am not nearly snooty enough to pooh-pooh this kind of initiative. Rather, I applaud it. For after all, I’ve long felt that when it comes to the cultural standing of science in America, our problem is a lot bigger than a poor educational system, bad test scores, or rampant scientific illiteracy. It is at least as troubling that very few Americans can name Fauci, Varmus, or Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute—and that very few American kids want to be them. A scientific research career, if you can get it, is a pretty good life—one could set one’s sights far, far lower. But it’s not clear that as a culture today, we recognize this.
Rock S.O.S./Geoffrey Beene Gives Back
Other countries do: The crashing down of South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-Suk amid fraud allegations in 2006 was shocking precisely because Woo-Suk had become a nationally known figure, a celebrity, by virtue of his scientific success. The sense today that America may be “falling behind” in science isn’t just about the numbers of researchers we produce: It’s also based on the accurate recognition that in South Korea, or in China, there is a very different perception of science as central to the national future. It’s a perception we ourselves had 50 years ago, inspired in large part by those dreaded Sputnik bleeps. But times have changed, and it’s an open question as to whether we as a nation can ever go back there again—without, I hasten to add, abandoning any of the lessons learned since.
Initiatives like the Rock S.O.S. campaign, or the National Academy of Sciences’ Science & Entertainment Exchange, suggest that maybe we can. Finger to the wind prognostications aren’t worth much, but one gets the sense that with the Obama administration, the place of science in American culture may be changing—improving. Maybe we were at an artificial low under the Bush presidency.
Yet one also wonders whether the GQ spread does enough to combat prevailing stereotypes of scientists as nerdy, as weird and anti-social, or as mean and condescending religion bashers. Some of the researchers featured in GQ get beyond the geek, but mostly, the contrast between them and the rock stars is sharp and heightened.
It is particularly difficult to miss the fact that while the rock stars are far more diverse, the scientists are all older, white, and male. Yes, it catches your eye to see such scientists rocking out. But it would be even more bracing to see female and racially diverse young researchers—with tattoos! Believe me, they’re out there.
Nevertheless the Rock S.O.S. initiative makes several unforgettable points: Billions of dollars of scientific research can remain invisible without a good marketing campaign. And scientists, while undeniably respected, simply do not sit atop the totem pole of American culture—celebrities, musicians, and sports figures do.
Next stop for Geoffrey Beene: In the pages of Sports Illustrated, I want to see young, athletic scientists catching passes from Peyton and Eli Manning.
Chris Mooney is contributing editor to Science Progress and author of several books, including The Republican War on Science and the forthcoming Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum. He and Kirshenbaum blog at “The Intersection.”
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Eyes on the Prize
Director of new orthoptics program says graduates will be in demand
For years, it's been an under-the-radar
profession, but demand is growing for
orthoptists. They're allied health professionals who work with ophthalmologists and focus on diagnosing and treating disorders of vision, eye movements and eye alignment.
This fall, St. Catherine's Henrietta
Schmoll School of Health will offer an orthoptics
major — the only one of its kind in the nation. Heading up the program is Lisa
Rovick, a faculty member of
St. Kate's ophthalmic technician program
and a practicing orthoptist since 1988.
The program, which includes an off-site
residency component, will start small, Rovick
says, and have an enrollment cap of 16 students a year.
Who came up with the idea of
offering an orthoptics major
at St. Catherine?
For many years, I worked at
Park Nicollet Clinic with
Richard Freeman, MD, a
respected local pediatric
ophthalmologist. We used
to sit down at lunchtime
and cook up ideas together.
was one of them. Dr.
Freeman was hugely
supportive of our program
and key in getting it
launched at St. Kate's.
He's now the program's
Why would someone want to become an
It is the best job in the universe.
You never get a chance to be bored — ever.
There's an endless variety of patients and situations.
You get to work with young children
and their families and make a huge difference
in their lives. You also get to help older people
who are suffering with double vision. You get
to make patients' lives so much better. The
rewards are very tangible.
Are jobs readily available in this field?
Not enough orthoptists are being produced nationwide.
We have a chronic undersupply.
This program is going to be nationally presented,
which will be a good source for job
opportunities. Students will enroll here and
take their didactic portion here, but they will
do their training and nine-month residency
in a variety of clinics all over the country.
What is the average salary for an orthoptist?
A survey done a few years ago showed
the average orthoptist earned $55,000
to $65,000 a year.
What sort of personality is best
suited to the job?
A perfect orthoptist
isn't introverted, but they are
thoughtful. The job requires an ability
to work directly with patients to figure
out a puzzle and improve their
vision. An orthoptist is a person who
likes both puzzles and people.
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- Euro 2012
Hodgson prepping players for penalties
England coach Roy Hodgson is readying his players for the eventuality of a penalty shootout in their Euro 2012 quarter-final meeting with Italy.
Given England's history when it comes to penalties Hodgson has said that with the fact "the past [is] always going to weigh heavy" it is essential to prepare his players mentally for the potential pressures of a shootout.
"We have used the time after training sessions to regularly practise, and we'll obviously take it even more seriously now," Hodgson said. "You hope that, one day, it will make a big difference."
He continued: "But you can practise penalty shootouts until the cows come home - it's really your composure, your confidence, your ability to really block everything out and forget the occasion that means you score or don't."
Semi-final penalty shootout exits at the hands of Germany in the 1990 World Cup and 1996 European Championship will always be present in the consciousness, added Hodgson.
"When you are working with the England national team, the past is always going to weigh heavily because everything we do today is being compared with something that went before," he concluded.
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Panasonic's tiny Evolta robot is now fully recovered from its grueling drive in the Le Mans 24 hour race, and will now take on an even tougher challenge, completing a 140-mile-long triathlon.
Evolta the robot was developed to promote Panasonic's rechargeable batteries that go by the same name, so the 140 mile race will be run entirely using just three Evolta AAs. The event will follow Hawaii's legendary Ironman Triathlon course, consisting of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bike ride, followed by a 26.2-mile full marathon length run. While the best human athletes can complete the course in a little over eight hours, Evolta is being given a week to move its tiny little legs that distance.
Developer Tomotaka Takahashi says that the swim presents the biggest challenge, with huge ocean swells and tides that threaten to swallow up the tiny robot at any moment. For the run Evolta will be inside what looks kind of like a rolling hamster wheel, while the bike appears to have training wheels, something I doubt they would allow in the human version.
The race kicks off on October 23, just a couple of weeks after humans race around the same course. That's cool, but if I were in charge, I would give Evolta a one week head start to try and set up a human vs. robot battle to the finish line.
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Steve Jobs and the Chinese Wall | The American Prospect:
We might not know about the Foxconn compound but for the spate of worker suicides there that shook the plant, the province, and China itself last year. When investigators and journalists ventured into the compound, they found a factory complex worthy of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis—300,000 workers, many of them still in their teens, working long hours at piddling wages to turn out the latest in Apple technology, then domiciled together ten in a room. Their story is currently being related by actor-writer Mike Daisey, whose play, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” which premiered in D.C. this spring and is now at the Papp Public Theater in New York, veers between Daisy’s love affair with Jobs’s products and his revulsion at the Foxconn compound, which he visited several years ago.Is Jobs’s indifference to the worker-bees who mass-produced his dream machines the key to Apple’s offshoring? Probably not.
Apple isn’t even the only company that’s contracted with Foxconn to make its products, let alone the only U.S. multinational to go to China for production. Going to China for manufacturing is simply the normal way that American multinationals have done their business for the past decade. Going abroad for cheap labor has been the normal way of American business since General Electric Jack Welch CEO proclaimed that companies should answer only to their shareholders—not their workers or the communities they lived in—a full 30 years ago, and began moving the lion’s share of GE’s production from domestic factories to plants abroad. Shareholder capitalism, it turns out, is every bit as binary, as Manichean, as Steve Jobs’s assessment of humankind. In American business practice, as in Jobs’s psyche, ordinary workers don’t matter a damn. It doesn’t require a special animus to dismiss American workers and outsource their work to substandard factories hidden behind what is both an economic and a psychological Chinese wall. | <urn:uuid:589090e5-4e02-4512-84c9-cb298d0a14bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-chinese-wall-american.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957972 | 442 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Public Input Encouraged on State Education Policy Changes
Posted: June 14, 2005
Charleston, W.Va. – The West Virginia Board of Education is seeking comment on several education policy changes and updates. The following policies were placed on public comment during the monthly Board meeting on June 8, 2005: Policy 5100 - Approval of Education Personnel Preparation Programs; Policy 5202 - Minimum Requirements for the Licensure of Professional/Paraprofessional Personnel and Advance Salary Classifications; Policy 3232 - Establishment of Procedures and Operating Policies for Multi-County Career and Technical Education Centers; Policy 8224 - Projection of Net Enrollment Increases.
Policy 5100 - Approval of Education Personnel Preparation Programs Revisions are necessary in Policy 5100 to reflect changes in both state and federal legislation regarding alternative routes to certification and highly qualified special education teacher. Revisions are also necessary to help ensure that all teacher preparation programs contain the academic rigor necessary for graduates of West Virginia Board of Education approved teacher education programs. Language has been added which clarifies that student teaching must occur in the public schools. The ten Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium principles have been included as standards which all initial teacher preparation programs must meet. Finally, the National Education Technology Standards for Teachers as identified by the International Society for Technology in Education have been included as the technology standards all preparation programs must address. A statewide stakeholder committee has reviewed and has recommended these revisions.
Policy 5202 - Minimum Requirements for the Licensure of Professional/Paraprofessional Personnel and Advance Salary Classifications Revisions are needed in Policy 5202 to reflect changes in both state and federal legislation regarding alternative routes to certification, the out-of-state certificate of eligibility, highly qualified special education teacher and consultative special education teacher. Language has been included in Policy 5202 to allow a curriculum/cultural enrichment authorization certificate that enables counties to employ persons to provide courses in areas/topics that are not covered in the public school curriculum. Language has also been added to allow teachers who are certified in Multi-Subjects K-8 to obtain a renewable temporary authorization to teach reading to students in grades seven and eight, should no fully certified reading teacher be available. Finally, minor revisions are needed throughout the policy in order to make formatting and editing changes. A statewide stakeholder committee has reviewed and has recommended these revisions.
Policy 3232 - Establishment of Procedures and Operating Policies for Multi-County Career and Technical Education Centers Policy 3232 was placed on public comment until May 15, 2005. One comment was received and accepted resulting in the development of two new sections, 5.5.4 (reflects State Code regarding seniority and continuing contract status for employees of multi-county centers) and 5.5.5 (stating that employees of multi-county centers are not eligible to serve on boards of education of participating counties)
Policy 8224 - Projection of Net Enrollment Increases This policy is being issued to comply with the provisions of S.B. 604 which was passed during the recent legislative session related to the allowance under the Public School Support Program (PSSP) for increased enrollment (W. Va. Code §18-9A-15). One of the requirements of the revised statute is that the Board promulgate a rule that establishes an objective method for projecting the increase in net enrollment for each school district by September 1, 2005. This policy was developed to meet that requirement. This policy will repeal and replace Policy 8224, Six Percent Loss Cap Waiver, which is no longer required.
The policies will remain on public comment for 30 days. School administrators and parents are encouraged to review the document and make suggestions on improving the policy. You can find the policies by logging onto http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/ | <urn:uuid:2a0bf917-61ce-44c6-89b4-a7825ea85c5b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wvde.state.wv.us/news/1011/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948226 | 780 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Background on Bag End:
My name is Maddie Chambers/Brindley and this all began when I was a young child and read the Hobbit for the first time. I believe I was about 10 and I was instantly hooked. My Nanan lent me her copy of the Lord of the Rings about 1 year later and I remember thinking that the trilogy leaped into a far more complex world and one that I completely lost myself in. I have read Lord of the Rings about 20+ times now and each time it holds as much magic as the first time. When they announced that they were making a movie, I was really concerned that it would not live up to my imagination and that I would be disappointed. As it happens, a lot of it DID live up to my expectations, and when Gandalf visited Bag End in the Fellowship of the Rings, I could have cried with excitement because it was PERFECT and nearly exactly as I imagined!
Anyway I decide to take on this project as part of a college course I was doing part time when my twins boys were 1 year old. The module was called ‘the importance of play’ and we had to make a toy to hand in at the end of the term. Of course me being me, I took it to the extreme and at first I decided to make a little hill with a front door like Bag End. I used to play Warhammer and make scenery and paint the little models so the idea was to make an A4 type size model hill using my Warhammer scenery stuff (foam, static grass etc) Yes I am a geek lol.
Then I thought, well what if I made the roof removable and had a little room inside? then of course I started drawing up plans and added more rooms and then decided ‘what the hell?’ I might as well make a replica of the one from the movie and make it big enough to fit in dolls house type furniture!
I decided to make everything by hand – the frame, the garden outside, the furniture (as much as I could), the food and it has been a real labour of love and I have found something I truly enjoy doing. I have always been ‘crafty’ and enjoy painting etc, but this captures my imagination even more!
You can follow me on Twitter @maddsrocks https://twitter.com/maddsrocks
Bag End now lives in Australia with the Fortinbras Proudfoot Esq. Foundation, which supports children’s literacy. The model is available to hire and the profits go to a very good cause. http://www.facebook.com/ProudfootEsq
Lots of people have asked me how long it took to create – I have little twin boys who I looked after full time during the day (and sometimes throughout the night!!) so I worked on it a couple of hours a night or during nap times in the day. This was not an every day thing I hasten to add – I have many hobbies including electric and acoustic guitar, kickboxing, walking my 2 dogs, reading watching movies etc etc. I did work out once that if I had worked on it 9-5 with an hour for lunch it would have taken me 2-3 months!
I made this vegetable plot with nails and wire ‘twigs for the fence and I made the veg out of Fimo. The flowers are made from FlowerSoft and wire
Finally got the gate done! Fence still needs to be built and that is next on my list.
an attempt to take photo through the windows – didn’t come out very well but putting it on anyway because the fire looks all ‘homey’ lol
I got this orange top from a free gift of a weird looking doll from dolls house emporium – gave the doll away but kept the jacket so that my poor hobbits have something to wear! Hobbit clothing is on my list of things to start making!
View into living room/study from Hall
I need to hoover!!!!
All the maps and documents you see are real middle-earth maps printed onto ‘aged’ paper. The scrolls all have writing printed onto them in Bilbo’s handwriting or Elvish. I made the tiny quills from feathers and the candles out of Fimo. The rug took me a LONG time to do. I looked everywhere for one similar to the one in the movie but couldn’t find one I was happy with so in the end I used good old Microsoft Paint and drew the design myself from the rug in the movie! then printed it onto cotton and sewed the rest of the rug.
The family tree you see on the wall is the actual Baggins family tree which I made in Paint using a family tree template
I love the little statue of Frodo and Sam – these are Warhammer models given to me in 2001 by my friend Claire (thanks Lu!) I never got round to painting them and so I made them a base out of Fimo and painted them in a bronze effect. I once made Claire watch fellowship of the rings and she sat through all of it, didn’t understand much of it and thought that the hobbits were called ‘gibbons’ I will never forget that haha!!!
Thror’s map – made a frame out of wood, varnished it and put the map in it
The pictures above show the scene from the movie where Gandalf looks at Bilbo’s table and my recreation of it
Kitchen. I bought all the china plates but made all the food and ‘custom made’ the fireplace. The units were white wood unfinished when I bought them and I just varnished and filled them!
Close up of the fireplace. This was a free gift from Dolls House Emporium ( http://www.dollshouse.com/dhe/product-details.aspx?code=2845&ref=search) I re-painted it, hollowed out a hole and added logs and firebulb and then added the bricks round the outside. If I was being pedantic, it should really be curved, but I am happy with it for now till I have time to make another!
I made the table for the sink out of bits I cut off the dressers to make them fit in. My favourite bit of food I made is the string of garlic hung in the corner – well I’m pretty sure hobbits don’t like vampires anyway (it’s just me that does!)
The pantry – I installed shelves and filled full of food – I made all the food in here from Fimo.
Close up of the shelves – many thanks to Angie Scarr for her wonderful books on making food out of Fimo which provided LOADS of inspiration and instruction for me. I hadn’t used Fimo since I was a small child so it was great to learn how to make mini food as an adult!
I made all the stained glass windows from thin perspex, glass paint and glass leading
Thanks to my Mum who sent over trinkets from USA where she lives – the blue and white specked crockery and pans are american. She also sent over cans of fanta, pepsi, 7up and Dr Pepper. They are cunningly camouflaged around the kitchen and pantry as I did not really think that hobbits were into the whole fizzy drink thing!!!
If you look closely there is an ‘anniversary edition’ plate from Dolls House Emporium on this dresser from March 2009 which was the month I started the project
check out the barrel in this pic – I bought a plain wooden barrel, varnished it and added a ‘longbottom leaf’ label – and filled it with hobbit pipe weed!!!! The label is a replica of the barrel of pipe weed merry and pippin (sorry typo put sam before!) find in the extended version of the movie (flotsam and jetsam scene)
PIPE WEED close up (not sure why the papers keep calling it ale lol)
View through to the bathroom
Mum and her partner David sent this rug from USA as a thanks for talking them through formatting their laptop – that was fun over the phone!!!!!
made the fire out of stones from my back garden (and I knocked the light off with the camera which is why it is hanging down – this has now been fixed so I better update photo at some point!)
I made the towels and flannels out of my twin boys babygrows (they had grown out of them!) the soap is fimo and the bottles are beads
view into bedroom
My mum made a lovely patchwork quilt for the bed but I changed the bed and it doesn’t fit on the new bed (hint hint mum I need a new quilt love you x)
I like the painting in here – it is a painting of Rivendell and the frame was a bargain cost 20p because it was smashed into little pieces when I bought it – superglue is my friend
the castle on the shelf I bought from Miniatura show. I undercoated it in black and dry brushed in mithril silver (thankyou Games Workshop and my earlier years spent painting warhammer models)
The axes are from my Gimli doll which I bought in USA in 2000 (yes, again, I know I am a geek)
Ok well that is the end of the photos of the interior for now – please click on the link below to see how I made the hobbit house
Just wanted to explain a few things that a lot of people have commented on. First of all and possibly most importantly – of course I know the walls should be rounded. I sat for ages working out how I would do it, but I could not have had it open at the top if the walls were circular. I would probably have had to make a long thin house and some how bored big holes into the side of the hill to make the rooms and have either the back or front removable rather than the top. I eventually decided against this for 3 reasons,
1. did not have any tools to be able to cut deep holes in wood
2. Do not have the space to create something that long
3. The project had to be finished by the end of term so I only had a few months to get it into a fit state to be handed in so I took the easiest and most sensible option that I could!
I have seen Tolkien’s sketch of bag end lots of times so I know how my bag end differs:
Again, I do not have the room to fit all these rooms in. In fact even this sketch doesn’t match up with the text in the hobbit: “bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining rooms, all were on the same floor”
There should be kitchenS and dining roomS instead of just one each – so I figure if the person who wrote the ‘atlas of middle earth’ can use artistic license, I can too! I did try to match the hall to his sketch though and even put in a circular table like Tolkien’s picture http://bitoflight.luminousbeings.net/keepsakes/BagEnd-final-small.jpg
I based some on the movie, some on the book and some on my imagination. The food in the kitchen and pantry includes everything mentioned in The Hobbit when the dwarves and Gandalf come to visit: beer, cakes, tea, seed cake, coffee, porter, scones, red wine, raspberry jame, apple tart, mince pies, cheese, pork pie salad, eggs, cold chicken, pickles and ham. (anything you can’t see on the shelves is in the little store cupboard behind glass doors or in drawers – couldn’t fit everything on the shelves)
I really believe that I did the very best I could given my time, space and money constraints and that any piece of work based on literature is going to be very debatable because every single person on this planet has a unique imagination and what a rich, varied, beautiful planet it is because of this.
So I am glad a lot of people like my version, and sorry to anyone who thinks it doesn’t match up with the book – believe me I know my own downfalls, but I am only human and maybe one day soon I will make another version that suits you better
Link to my next project: http://madsmousehouse.wordpress.com
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Financial advisers. While the advice won't be specific to your financial situation, you could pick up a few pointers by following financial advisers. You can also learn a little about an adviser's personality and financial philosophy before meeting him or her in person. "Twitter is a very inexpensive way to keep my name out in front of the public and potential clients," says Cathy Curtis, a certified financial planner for Curtis Financial Planning in Oakland, Calif., who currently has more than 3,700 followers. "It's turned into this wonderful way of connecting with great people who will become friends and/or clients."
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors estimates that a "couple hundred" of its members are on Twitter, including Roger Wohlner, a certified financial planner for Asset Strategy Consultants in Arlington Heights, Ill. "I think Twitter is a great place to give and to exchange opinions about retirement planning and investing," he says. "To me it's a great news stream, and it's a great networking tool."
Advocacy. Twitter can be a valuable tool for nonprofits advocating for better retirement benefits and educating workers about existing retirement programs. The Pension Rights Center and the National Academy of Social Insurance both provide a steady stream of retirement-related news reports with the aim of increasing the retirement security of all Americans. AARP has more than 150 Twitter accounts managed by various employees, including accounts dedicated to AARP's advocacy objectives, run by employees at state offices, and even an account managed by David Certner, AARP's legislative policy director. In addition to communicating with its members, AARP is developing a relationship with people who are right on the cusp of AARP membership, says Tammy Gordon, a senior advisor for social communications and networks at AARP. "These people are just a few years away from being AARP members." | <urn:uuid:adb1aa39-e09b-4391-8b58-8932f63c84ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2011/01/31/how-to-tweet-your-way-to-retirement-goals?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967261 | 371 | 1.632813 | 2 |
OK, once, you, you can be specific, what did you, what was up on the bulletin board, what were some of the, the, the posters and the slogans?
Well, we had he--we had pictures of people like Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown who were the heroes of the Black Power movement of that day. We had this large poster of Uncle Sam with the slogan, "Uncle Sam wants you, nigga!" which was a, ah, anti-militaristic poster of the day, talking about the fact that the United States government was recruiting young Black males to go and fight in Vietnam for freedom that they did not in fact have living in the United States. Ah, we had various political slogans and historical slogans that were very popular during that time, "Black Power", other slogans of that type. | <urn:uuid:ee3f4b38-7065-4766-8c06-7d1df9dde885> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eop;cc=eop;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=cam5427.0642.028;node=cam5427.0642.028%3A1.17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992876 | 172 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Warning: Graphic content in video’s last moments
A police investigation has been launched into the suicide of 15-year-old Amanda Todd, who last month posted a gut-wrenching video on YouTube of her treatment at the hands of relentless bullies.
Nobody should be made so desperate by public exposure they find the only answer is suicide. At least physical bullying can be reported to authorities and the victim can physically escape the tormentor. But Internet bullying never stops.
Const. Jamie Phillipson from the British Columbia RCMP said police are in the early stages of the investigation and their primary role is to act on behalf of the victim’s family.
An official with the B.C. coroner’s office confirmed that Todd took her own life at her Port Coquitlam, B.C. home Wednesday, about five weeks after posting a haunting nine-minute black-and-white video on YouTube describing how she plunged into a major depression after being viciously bullied.
Coroner Barb McLintock told the Vancouver Sun that investigators know how Todd died and the probe into her death will be long and complex.
“We have an extra responsibility when it’s a child’s death,” she told the Sun, adding that a provincially run mandatory child death review will look into factors such mental health and cyberbullying.
Simon Fraser University criminologist Brenda Morrison said that it appears no one in the community stood up for Todd when she was being bullied.
In the wake of her death, thousands have taken to social media — the very venue where the bullying started — to express their sympathy and the kindness that Todd felt she did not have in life.
It was painful to see the kids who made fun of her write on her Facebook ’RIP, you will be missed, we loved you’
More than 175,000 people have “liked” a memorial page on Facebook for Todd as of Friday afternoon.
While shock and sadness is expressed on the Facebook page, many have reacted in anger as well.
“This is really sad,” read one post written by someone identified as Taylor Sjostrand.
“It was painful to see the kids who made fun of her write on her Facebook ’RIP, you will be missed, we loved you.’ Why would you say that when YOU’RE the reason she’s gone. They have no remorse, let alone any idea what they did.”
Added Johnalee Witter: “This is so sad….After reading about Amanda’s story & watching the video, it makes me sick knowing that another human being would actually encourage someone to kill themselves! All those who took part in making this girl feel like life wasn’t worth living should be ashamed of what they did!”
B.C. Premier Christy Clark posted a video on YouTube saying she had heard about Todd’s death and wanted to express her condolences.
“No one deserves to be bullied. No one earns it, no one asks for it, it isn’t a right of passage. Bullying has to stop. Every child, everyone needs to be able to feel safe at school,” she said in the grainy video.
“When we send our kids to school we need to know that they’re going to come home safe.”
Todd’s story touched many from well-beyond the Canadian border, including a number of celebrities.
I wish I could go back in time and give this girl a hug. I wish I could have been in that cafeteria and sat with her at lunch.—
Foster The People (@fosterthepeople) October 12, 2012
A cry for help online
Todd posted the video on Sept. 7, in which she doesn’t speak but holds up a series of white pieces of paper with short messages in black marker.
On the papers, the teen explains that as a Grade 7 student, she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam.
One year later, Todd said she got a message from him on Facebook, though she didn’t know how he knew her name or where to find her.
Todd’s notes said the man ordered her to “put on a show for me,” or he would send around the webcam pictures. Todd said he knew her address, her school, her friends and her family.
She said she was later alerted by police that he had followed through with the threat.
“I then got really sick,” she wrote.
She noted she was plunged into anxiety, major depression, drugs and alcohol. But the bullying didn’t stop. She said the man created a Facebook page with a list of her friends and school.
“My boobs were his profile picture,” she wrote.
“I can never get that photo back. It’s out there forever.”
Todd wrote that she eventually changed schools and things were better for a while. But she said an encounter with another girl’s boyfriend started the bullying again, this time worse. It escalated into a physical attack in which she said she was beaten and left in a ditch until her father found her.
She said she tried to kill herself twice, including once by drinking bleach, and constantly cut herself.
The video ends with her note: “I have nobody. I need someone.”
Beneath the video, though, Todd posted a note saying she produced it not for attention, but “to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong.”
“Everyone’s future will be bright one day, you just gotta pull through. I’m still here, aren’t I?”
Resources if you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts:
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The blood clot for which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized Sunday night is situated in a vein between her brain and her skull behind the right ear, reports CNN, but it has caused no neurological damage and the Associated Press says her doctors expect a full recovery:
BREAKING: Doctors: Hillary Clinton making excellent progress, predict a full recovery from blood clot.— The Associated Press (@AP) December 31, 2012
Clinton did not suffer a stroke before she was hospitalized Sunday night at Manhattan's New York-Presbyterian Hospital following a concussion earlier this month. And the AP's full report says Clinton is being treated with blood thinners and that "she will be released once the medication dose has been established."
Updates: Reuters reports that Clinton has not suffered a stroke:
More: Secretary Clinton did not suffer stroke or neurological damage - doctors— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) December 31, 2012
And that Clinton is "in good spirits":
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April 16, 2008 | 9:56 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States has been getting seemingly wall-to-wall coverage on religion blogs and has supplanted religion coverage at major papers. Here is Reuters’ report on his speech at the White House this morning:
Saying he had come as a friend of the United States, Pope Benedict urged Americans and their leaders on Wednesday to base their political and social decisions on moral principles and create a more just society.
In an address to President George W. Bush at the White House on the first full day of his U.S. visit, the pope also called for “patient efforts of international diplomacy to resolve conflicts” and promote progress around the world.
“I come as a friend, a preacher of the Gospel and one with great respect for this vast pluralistic society,” Benedict said in a speech after Bush welcomed him to the White House at a ceremony that included 21-gun salute.
Bush cited the role of faith in U.S. life, which the pope had praised in remarks to journalists traveling with him as he crossed the Atlantic.
“Here in America, you’ll find a nation that welcomes the role of religion in the public square,” Bush said.
“In a world where some evoke the name of God to justify acts of terror and murder and hate, we need your message that God is love. And embracing this love is the surest way to save man from falling prey to the teaching of fanaticism and terrorism,” he said.
The pope, marking his 81st birthday, was full of praise for American society, sprinkling his speech with references to the founding fathers—citing the Declaration of Independence and the first president, George Washington.
But he made no specific references to issues such as abortion and the war in Iraq, appearing at pains to avoid saying anything that could be seen as taking sides in the presidential campaign apart from saying that freedom called for “reasoned public debate.”
Benedict and Bush both oppose abortion and embryonic stem cell research, but differ on questions such as the Iraq war and capital punishment.
Instead, the pope concentrated on America’s religious roots, which he said were a driving force in a process that “forged the soul of the nation” and won the admiration of the world.
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The sites were reported to have been restored to normal but at last check the main English language site was still hacked.
As well as the English version, those in Azeri, Dari, Pashtun, and Urdu languages, carry, or did carry, the image of a machine gun, an Iranian flag and an anti-American statement.
This is an important proof of concept for the idea that any tool a "dissident" group like Anonymous can use can be also be used by a government with the will and the know-how to do so.
According to Voice of America itself:
"VOA executives said the hackers did not penetrate any of the government-funded agency's computer networks. They did gain entry to an outside computer system that operates a domain name server - a database of Internet addresses available worldwide - and redirected VOA traffic to the hackers' own site."
It was done because of VOA's "anti-Islamic stand," claimed the Fars Agency.
"The move came in response to the false reports released by the VOA and other websites on the spread and progress of seditious moves in Iran. VOA and its affiliates have long been supporting anti-Islamic Republic groups and sought to provoke unrests in Iran."
The attack started Monday evening is lasting into today.
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Materials List: I built the dolly entirely out of 2X4 I had laying around. All the joints are simple joints, no fancy carpentry required. Be sure to pre-drill the holes, especially for the lag bolts, as you don’t want to blow out the sides of the material. If you have to go and purchase all the material, I’d guess you’ll spend $20-$30. I had all the hardware lying around my wood shop including some casters, so it cost me nothing but my time.
2 - 3†swivel casters
2 - 3†fixed casters
12 - 2 ½†X 1/4†lag bolts
Some deck screws, or wood screws, to fasten the 2X4’s together
2X4 MATERIAL LISTING:
4 - 5 ¾†2X4 blocks (These are spacer blocks used between the casters and the frame)
2 - 76†2X4 (Used for the long section of the dolly)
2 - 64†2X4 (These are fastened under the 76†2X4’s in a “T†fashion as additional support)
2 - 38†2X4 (These are for the narrow side of the dolly)
2 – 31†2X4 (These are fastened under the 38†2X4’s in a “T†fashion as additional support)
After you have cut all the material to length, measure down 12†from the end of the long 2X4’s (the ones that are 76â€) and this is where the narrow brace that runs the width of the dolly will be fastened at a right angle. Make a simple butt joint and fasten each joint with 4 deck screws.
You should now have a rectangle/double “H†shaped structure.
Attach the four 5 ¾†blocks and casters using the lag bolts at the ends of each long section of the dolly. One end will have the 2 swivel casters and the other end will have the 2 fixed casters.
Flip over the structure, and you will attach the remaining sections of 2X4’s (31†and 64â€) in a “T†fashion under the other pieces. These sections will “BEEF†up the frame a little, although most of the weight is being carried right over the area where the casters are fastened. I use the dolly to also move a 6’ bush hog, and it supports the weight easily.
The dolly should pretty much look as follows when you are done.
Now, let’s put this thing to work!
My mower deck is a Woods 59C-2, but the dimensions should be just fine for the 42†woods belly mower as well. The dimensions of the dolly may need to differ for some of the decks & tractors. The height works for mine as I use the upper hole in the rear hanger and the height of the dolly is perfect for me to line up the support rod when I am installing it. The height might be a problem when installing a deck on a LowBoy though, especially if you have a fast hitch? You might need to either go to smaller casters or change the width of the spacer blocks between the casters and the dolly frame.
I can install my deck normally in less than 30 minutes by myself.
I place the dolly with the mixed casters going under the tractor first. I had swivel casters on all four corners, but found that it’s easier to maneuver with the fixed casters going under the tractor, and all I have to do is guide the outer section of the dolly.
I turn the front wheels of the tractor as far to the right as possible as this allows the most clearance. Note that both the middle support rod & the outer guide arms are removed. I partially install the center support once I get the deck maneuvered into place, the deck is approximately about 1/3 the way under the tractor at this point. I then loosely tighten the bolt finger tight. The support arm is roughly at a 30-45 degree angle at this point.
The support rod is pretty much aligned with the upper hole in the rear hanger assembly. Once again, I made the dolly so that the support rod lines up with the upper hole. If you are planning on using a lower hole, you can either change the height of the dolly or just simply add some shims under the front of the deck to tilt the front up a little to meet your needs.
I then move around to the rear and simply line of the rod to go into the upper hole. NOTE: Be sure to get the belt around the center guide rod, you don’t want to have to start all over again.
Once I have the support rod lined up, I simply go back and push the dolly & deck under the tractor and center it under the tractor, being careful not to jar the middle support arm out the alignment hole.
I then install the U-Bolt and tighten it and the bolt that secures the middle support bar. I then attach the two guide arms and get the belt in place.
All that’s left now is to attach the lift chains, start up the tractor, lift up the deck and roll the dolly out.
Removing the deck is simply just reversing the process. Some may find that if they are cutting their grass a little lower than I do, you won’t be able to get the dolly out from under the deck. All you need to do is to block up the deck, lower your touch control enough to take up some slack in the chains, re-attach the chains and then lift up the deck.
I have “Marked†my chains for the set length that works for me by taking some nylon wire wrap material and attached them to the links to indicate my length that I normally use. That way I don’t have to figure out how many links I need to count to get mine set to the right height.
Hope this helps some others out. Instead of building the dolly, you could go to Harbor Freight and purchase two of their cheap furniture moving dollies and do the same thing. I chose to build this dolly with one set of the wheels fixed and the other two as swivel casters, as I had to go back and forth to get the deck situated when all four of them swiveled.
The dolly may seem a little “Over Engineered†but I chose to build it a little heavier as I have a 6’ bush hog that I have also sit on the dolly so I can move it around the barn to store out of the way during the winter. It supports the weight of it just fine. The overall weight of the dolly is light enough that you can simply pick it up off the floor, and lean it up against a wall when you don’t need it.
Who knows, you might need it some day to move a couch into your shop for mini cub fests!!!
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I recently had the privilege to be on the presenting faculty of the annual conference for integrative medicine for health care organizations. The theme was "Toward Creating Optimal Healing Environments." This presented a unique opportunity to interface with other medical providers from all other medical professions, as well as the people managing these facilities.
It was wonderful to see that almost every state was represented. Living in California, we sometimes forget that there is life and health care in other parts of the world. We tend to believe the saying, "As California goes, so goes the United States." Former President Bill Clinton rephrased it somewhat in that he said: "As California goes, so goes the world." This statement might be a little broad, but it does remind us that we have an awesome responsibility to think ahead, react with care and dignity and use professional manners at all times and in every situation.
I was invited to speak, along with Acupuncture Today columnist Sam Collins, on the topic of "Practicalities of Employing CAM Providers, Hiring, Licensing, Billing and Reimbursement." It proved to be an interesting session, in that many questions were asked and much interest was exhibited. Both Sam and I advocated for the acupuncturist to be in an integrated setting. The attendees were interested in the education, professionalism and possibility of these settings becoming more available to patients. The consumer and the aging of our population are driving this market. The inclusion of acupuncture into the biomedicine field is here. The question then becomes, is the profession ready?
The Medical Culture
Medicine is an art of medical culture and the professional wants to fit into the context of hospitals and multispecialty clinics where an acupuncturist might want to work. In the beginning, the acupuncturist must learn how to fit into this medical culture and context. Within the hospital, there are two areas to consider: 1) hospital staff privileges and 2) clinical privileges. Staff privileges are acceptably defined as to when a hospital grants or gives you permission to see patients within the hospital setting. Clinical privileges are defined as to what you can or cannot do while working within the hospital setting. Thanks to David C. Kailin, MPH, PhD, for explaining and defining in his book, Quality in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, many of the regulatory issues the profession must know in order to succeed in the world of biomedicine.
One of the biggest concerns regarding the acupuncture profession was that of professionalism, including standards of dress; politeness and manners; social skills; the ability to give and take information; the ability to listen and not think they know it all; possessing and demonstrating the ability to have interactions when consulting and referring patients; keeping accurate and complete records; understanding the ground rules for referrals; knowledge of state and federal laws and regulations; ability to communicate about the world of acupuncture, which is coming into the biomedicine world; and finally, the ability to provide in-services while using good public speaking techniques.
The hospital and integrated medical clinics must examine and ask questions in the following areas:
Will the acupuncturist be accepted as a professional and can both parties establish a mutual working relationship?
What are the risks? This is fairly low in the acupuncture profession. Burns and collapsed lungs are the biggest issues in the field.
Is the acupuncturist HIPAA compliant?
Is there scientific research including indications, contraindications, clinical outcomes and cost/benefits of acupuncture?
What is the legal and regulatory status of acupuncture? This will vary from state to state.
What is the public acceptability for this medicine? This is a consumer-driven medicine and thousands of new patients are trying these procedures every year.
What is the profitability of the business relationship? Approximately 50 percent, (70 percent on the west coast) will cover some amount of reimbursement for acupuncture services.
What are the personal qualifications and attributes of the acupuncturist?
Thanks again to David C. Kailin's input as to what hospitals and clinics should ask.
The medical culture also has a responsibility to help the acupuncturist so the process of working together becomes a win-win situation for them. The hospital must help to educate the acupuncturist, as well as other medical providers in defining the criteria for seeing and referring patients to the acupuncturist.
Important questions to ask are:
What conditions or circumstances would require further consultation or referral?
Is the acupuncturist invited or required to attend meetings or educational sessions with other medical providers form the facility?
Will there be signage letting potential patients know there is an acupuncturist available?
Is the facility willing to work with the acupuncturist to establish a workable set of clinical privileges?
What is the chain of authority and with whom should the acupuncturist work at the beginning of this relationship?
Will the facility help the acupuncturist to meet and know the other medical providers who have an interest in CAM medicine?
Thanks to Mike Clauson, LAc, a provider at Kaiser and Health Concerns, for input as to the responsibility of the hospital, as well as the acupuncturist.
You might be asking yourself, where do I even begin? How do I start the process of working with a hospital? The following list provides you with a guide of what to think about if you want to work in a hospital or integrated medical setting:
Find someone in the context that is willing to help with your cause. You need to find someone who can introduce you to the right people and who believes in what you do.
Be sure to watch for signs of problems or potential problems.
Proceed with caution - this process will take time.
Be a good follower and learn the protocols and rules.
Teach carefully and quietly.
Make suggestions with careful wording and explanations.
Always look and dress professional (clean, white and pressed clinic coats are appropriate).
Remember you are bridging the world of medical cultures.
Respect and professionalism go hand-in-hand with both patients and other medical providers.
The time is now. Patients want what this profession offers and hospitals are looking for your medicine. Acupuncturists have the responsibility to share their knowledge and skills for the betterment of mankind.
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Sirens are sounding as word has spread of a letter written by choreographer Yvonne Rainer to LA MoCA director Jeffrey Deitch. Rainer isn’t happy. Dismayed after hearing details of the performance artwork organized by Marina Abramovic set to take place during a donor gala for the museum, she describes the planned performance as ”degrading” and “grotesque,” denouncing Abramovic’s project as “another example of the Museum's callousness and greed.”
This came after details of the performance were listed by one of the participants in an email to Rainer. As the email recounts, some participants will sit on slowly-rotating benches under the diners’ tables while their faces protrude, expressionless, through holes in the center of the table. Others will be asked to lie, au naturel, on top of tables with fake skeletons laid on top of their bodies. During the three-hour gala meal, participants will be prohibited from moving their bodies or leaving their appointed positions to pee. As compensation, they will receive $150 and a year’s membership to the museum. In her letter to Deitch, Rainer writes that the work of art taking place during the gala is something “reminiscent of ‘Salò.’”
What? You haven’t seen “Salò?” Well, then there’s a chance the severity of Rainer’s comparison might run over your head. For those of you who don’t know, ”Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (1975) is a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on a novel by Marquis de Sade. It is a work of fiction, taking place in northern Italy at the end of World War II. Observing that Mussolini has fallen, that partisan warfare is ravaging the peninsula, and that there is basically no law, a group of wealthy Fascist collaborators round up eighteen teenagers and amuse themselves by subjecting them to increasing levels of torture and sexual humiliation. Boys are sodomized. A girl is made to eat feces. The victims are scalped, branded, and have their eyes and tongue cut out before being killed. It is exceeded only by “Lilja 4-ever” (2002) as the most disturbing film I have ever seen.
I was at my desk when Artinfo’s Julia Halperin read the letter to Abramovic over the phone a few feet away. Julia was blushing. She hadn’t enjoyed being the messenger. Abramovic, hearing about it for the first time, was caught very much off guard. Can you blame her? Viewers familiar with the Serbian artist’s oeuvre might view her plans for the gala as typical Abramovic fare. Endurance and close-up nudity are both common features in her work; the steady eye contact the performers will be asked to make with dining gala guests recalls elements of her exhibition “The Artist is Present” at MoMA. Nor does Abramovic’s piece stand out in the canon of performance art. Participants will have to hold uncomfortable positions for a few hours, for little pay, but no one will be shot, slapped, or cut with a razor. No native cultures will be mimicked. No sentient creature will be starved to death.
In a few keystrokes, Rainer downgrades the project from performance art to “‘entertainment’” [quotes Rainer's], resting the fulcrum of her invective on the difference between the performance art that museum-goers see during the day and the work that is planned for the donor gala. While the former might allow for behavior that unsettles an attentive viewer’s beliefs about social interaction in a varying context, viewers attending the latter are disposed to see it as a decorative joke. They’re philistines, incapable of comprehending the “dignity, serenity, and concentration” Abramovic hopes the performance will bring to the gala environment. If rich people are present, as the logic goes, then a work can’t be taken seriously.
Abramovic was likely puzzled that Rainer (and her co-signers, art historian Douglas Crimp and choreographer Taisha Paggett) decided to express their grievances first and only to Jeffrey Deitch. She might also have wondered how her piece could be targeted with the class-conscious language of “economic exploitation,” or how seriously Rainer took a paid participant’s call for “a revolution” over the work she and her fellow performers had volunteered to do for a charity benefit. Abramovic’s performance piece is hardly the first time visitors to an art museum have been edified by the work or image of someone less fortunate than themselves. It is quite unlike making a girl eat shit.
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The Distributed Management Task Force is organizing a group of members who will create informational specifications aimed at addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing. The group-made up of officials with such vendors as AMD, Intel, Novell, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM and HP-in particular will look at ways to develop standards that create interoperability between private and public clouds.
The Distributed Management Task Force is creating a group that will
look at the need for open management standards for cloud computing.
The group-called the Open Cloud Standards Incubator-will develop a
set of informational specifications for cloud resource management that
should lead to the eventual adoption of standards, according to the
task force, which announced the group April 27.
Of specific interest is creating specifications that can facilitate
interoperability of operations between private and public cloud
Pat Patla, general manager and vice president of Advanced Micro
Devices' Server and Workstation business and a member of the DMTF
board, said open standards that help businesses manage heterogeneous
cloud resources and create interoperability between cloud environments
will help drive the adoption of cloud computing technology.
"IT customers consistently tell us that, while they like to take
advantage of new technologies to benefit their companies, they also
need to contain data center management complexity and IT costs," Patla
said in a statement. "By supporting industry standards for systems
management and interoperability, we can better deliver on this goal of
making critical IT technologies like cloud computing simpler and more
cost-effective to deploy and maintain."
Cloud computing is a popular buzzword in the industry, and analysts
say the technology is more than just hype. In a March 6 statement,
research firm IDC said that global spending on cloud services will grow
to $42 billion by 2012, with a key driver being the need to cut IT
There also is a push among vendors, such as Opalis Software, to offer products that let enterprises move easily between public and private clouds.
However, DMTF members say there are no current standards that enable
easy interoperability between private and public clouds, such as those
operated by Amazon.com and Google. The Open Cloud Standards Incubator
will deal with those issues by creating cloud resource management
protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms, they said.
"Cloud computing will have a major impact on IT management," DMTF President Winston Bumpus said in a statement.
Bumpus said the DMTF group is the best environment in which to create the standards needed in this area.
The Open Cloud Standards Incubator is part of the task force's
Standards Incubation process, which is designed to bring together DMTF
members who then create informational specifications that can
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Cell Phone Policy
Wireless Communications and Unauthorized Devices Policy
The use of wireless communication devices (e.g., cell phones, blackberries or other) and all other unauthorized electronic devices in the test room is strictly prohibited. The use of such a device in the test room will result in the cancellation of your test results, immediate removal from the test room and may result in its confiscation. Therefore, you are strongly encouraged NOT to bring any wireless communication devices into the test room. If you do bring a wireless communications or other device into the test room, it must be completely turned off (it may not be set to ring, vibrate, silent or other) and it must be stored out of public view and may not be accessed during the examination for any reason. Devices are not to be kept on top of the testing station.
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"I didn't think it was going to get this big," said a trench-coat-clad 14-year-old Julia Bluhm as she stood in the drizzle outside the Midtown skyscraper where Seventeen magazine is headquartered. Bluhm was talking about the online petition she started asking Seventeen to produce one photo spread per month without the aid of Photoshop. Spread through social media, Bluhm's petition attracted around 6,000 signatures in ten days, and then — with the help of a press release from a San Francisco PR firm that led to broader coverage on blogs (including this one) — the number swelled to 13,000, then 16,000, then 20,000. As of right now, the petition counts over 26,000 signatories. (Bluhm had printed out just under 25,000 worth before this morning's protest to hand-deliver to Seventeen editor Ann Shoket). "This is really exciting," said Bluhm. "I now know that there are a lot of girls who feel the same way as I do about this."
Bluhm — an 8th grader from Waterville, Maine, who took the day off from school to come to the New York demonstration with her mother — decided to start the petition because, she says, "We know that Photoshop can be very harmful to girls because they think they have to look like these images. But it's not even real, it's Photoshop. So it's kind of impossible to look like that in real life." Bluhm coordinated her petition with SPARK, a group she's active in and which organized today's protest — on the SPARK Web site, you can see posts Bluhm has written about body image and ballet, her chosen extra-curricular, women athletes she admires, and why it bugs her when her classmates call her "ladylike."
"I chose Seventeen to target because I know that Seventeen is already doing a lot to help girls to feel better about their body image," Bluhm said, citing the magazine's Pretty Amazing contest, which offers college scholarships to girls who make outstanding contributions to their communities through volunteer work.
Dana Edell of SPARK told me that the organization is coordinated by three adult part-time staffers, herself included, but tries to give as big a leadership role as possible to the 20 or so girls who are involved nationwide. The nonprofit grew out of a 2010 conference on the issue of the sexualization of children, particularly young girls — its name stands for "Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge" — and has previously tackled issues like Lego's gendered advertising.
"We're excited to share with Seventeen that we're not the only ones that feel that their photo spreads are really dangerous to girls," said Edell, cradling the box of signatures. "Because they're presenting images that are not only unrealistic, but completely fake." Edell said that Seventeen had confirmed to her that Shoket would be available to receive the petition. "We'll see what happens."
Change.org's Shelby Knox, acting as a PR for the demonstration, wrangled the nearly 20 reporters and photographers who had gathered to report on the five teenaged protesters. "You know what would be really fun?" Knox asked as the girls assembled for a photo call outside the Hearst building. "If you guys all hugged. Okay, now one where you hold your signs up! Hold up those magazines!" It was raining, and the demonstration seemed to attract little interest from passersby.
After talking to a few more reporters, Bluhm took the box of signatures from Edell and walked into the lobby of the Hearst building, where she and her supporters were waved upstairs by security. The outcome of the meeting is unclear; the magazine did not respond to Jezebel's request for comment, and I was told that neither Bluhm nor any of the other protesters would have any "press availability" after the event. | <urn:uuid:c04e09c3-209d-415b-8ed5-dc3cdbfea5c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jezebel.com/5907048/awesome-14+year+old-delivers-25000-anti+photoshop-signatures-to-seventeen-magazine?tag=body-image | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979032 | 820 | 1.84375 | 2 |
There was the Port Authority police officer whose voice quivered when he recounted the sight of body after body dropping from the sky, missing him by feet.
There was the Army lieutenant colonel in the Pentagon who suffered burns on 60 percent of his body and told the sobbing, gasping audience how doctors used maggots to eat the dead tissue off his arms.
There was the father of a fallen firefighter, too, who did not get up to speak but simply sat in the audience and hoisted a picture of his son, Christian Regenhard, with the following words in angry boldface: ''He would be safer in Iraq than he was at the WTC on 9/11!''
After a 19-month wait that they said was too long and too painful, the relatives of those who died in the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as some survivors, finally had their chance yesterday to testify as the first witnesses before a government panel investigating the attacks. And as the all-day hearing unfolded at the United States Custom House in Lower Manhattan, not far from where the World Trade Center once towered, it was hard for those on the 10-member commission not to sigh, or wince, or shed a tear.
But if Day 1 of what is expected to be a politically delicate 14-month process was heavy on the emotions, it offered a hint of the frustration and anger among some family members over the investigation's progress.
As witness after witness addressed the commission, several gnawing questions were either articulated or implied: Who, if anyone, would ever be held responsible for failing to stop the attacks? Did the commission have the authority to truly make changes? And would a world focused on the latest war have the stomach, or the attention span, to listen again to the facts surrounding Sept. 11?
''I am convinced that this tragedy did not have to happen,'' said Stephen Push, a spokesman for Families of Sept. 11, which pressed for the establishment of the committee. ''Too many politicians put re-election over national security. There were people who failed us on 9/11.''
The panel, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was created by Congress last year to conduct a broad investigation of the events of Sept. 11 and the intelligence and other government failures before them.
The chairman of the panel, which is split evenly between Democratic and Republican appointees, is Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey governor and a Republican, while the vice chairman is Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic House member from Indiana. Expected to assemble a staff of 50 to 60 to help with its investigation, the panel has said that it plans to draft a report by May 2004.
That the panel even had a meeting at all was the result, largely, of Mr. Push and other family members who put pressure on members of Congress. President Bush initially opposed the creation of such a panel. Then, Mr. Bush's first choice as chairman, Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state, resigned after 9/11 family groups criticized his business ties to corporations and foreign governments that would come under scrutiny in the inquiry.
Still, despite the problems, the turnout yesterday of about 60 or so people was much smaller than organizers had anticipated. Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg began by making statements, then yielded the floor to two groups of people who had either survived the attacks, or were related to people who had died. They were followed by a group of academics who talked about terrorism and counterterrorism. | <urn:uuid:bb7b962e-a276-47bd-bffc-0a93ec00182a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/nyregion/01HEAR.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986342 | 731 | 1.84375 | 2 |
"Our original plan called for skirting the north edge of the Allegheny Mountains, where the peaks are lower and there would be less turbulence, following the gently rolling valleys of central Pennsylvania into Youngstown, Ohio. But that course was now obstructed by clouds and the weather had formed a narrow, irregular chute forcing us to divert south through Harrisburg and the lower Susquehanna Valley. That would mean facing the Alleghenies head-on in rough air, but we would have to worry about that when we got there.
On the map I found a rail line just south of Pottstown that meandered west to the Susquehanna, up through Reading and Hershey. If clouds blocked our way there were several intersecting power lines that we could pick up. Wiggling the stick to signal Kern, I ruddered over for the tracks and pointed them out on the map. Throwing open the side windows, I kept my head out of the slipstream to look for landmarks. The ceiling was dropping again and we didn't have a lot of airports in front of us. I didn't have the luxury of guessing at our position and I focused like a gnome on the land and then back to the map.
That's how we flew the first leg, like a pair of old airmailers. While Kern manned the plane and kept us straight and level from the front seat, I hung out the side from the rear, battered by the rain and slipstream as I concentrated on the terrain."
The plight of Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old sailor who was attempting a solo circumnavigation of the globe, has been a compelling news story. She ran into heavy weather in the Indian Ocean, lost radio contact and had to activate her emergencies two hours later. Fortunately she's been found, her boat de-masted but still afloat and help is steaming towards her and less than a day away.
Her age, coupled with the thought of her trying to sail solo around the World, has drawn considerable criticism. Many people have argued that her parents were irresponsible for allowing her to attempt such voyage.
In following the story I've been reminded of a book I read, Rinker Buck's Flight of Passage.
The book is a memoir of Rinker (age 15) and his brother Kern's (age 17) flight across the continental U.S. At the time they were the youngest pilots to cross the country. They had bought an old Piper Cub for $300 and carefully rebuilt it for the flight.
Aside from being a good travel yarn, the book is a look back by the adult Rinker on his relationship with his brother, and beyond that his relationship with his father. It is an altogether touching book and in the end it reminds one of what it is like to be a teenager with the horizon before you and a nest to leave.
Thinking of the story told in the book, and having watched one too many helicopter moms in amazement, I think I come down on the side of Abby's parents who left her try her luck in that boat. There are certainly worse things a young girl could aspire to achieve. I wish her fair winds and trailing seas in her future.
Anyways, those were simpler days. In digging around for material for this post I bumped across a couple of videos of young Kern and Rinker Buck on the old TV show To Tell the Truth. They're after the jump. Click "read more" to watch and enjoy.
The Question the NSA is Not Answering
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