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Steamboat Springs Retired water commissioner Elvis Iacovetto, who managed irrigation ditches on the upper Yampa River for 24 years, told an audience Friday afternoon at Library Hall at Bud Werner Memorial Library that he never has seen spring stream conditions as bad as they are now.
“The worst drought year was 2002,” Iacovetto said.
This year is definitely going to be worse than that. “The (Yampa) river in Phippsburg right now, you could probably walk across it and not get your feet wet. It might have 10 (cubic feet per second) in it. It’s the worst I’ve seen.”
Iacovetto was among four speakers during the Northwest Colorado Water Forum hosted by the Community Agriculture Alliance, the Yampa-White-Green River Basins Roundtable, the Upper Yampa Stakeholders Group and the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District.
The half dozen kayakers who were playing in Charlie’s Hole in the Yampa outside the library during Friday’s conference might not have understood Iacovetto’s comments about the condition of the Yampa about 25 miles upstream. The Yampa was flowing at a healthy 1,200 cubic feet per second in town at 6 p.m. Friday. But the dwindling snowpack in the surrounding mountains suggests the river soon will drop dramatically.
Iacovetto explained to his audience that along the course of his former territory as a water commissioner from Yamcolo Reservoir on the Bear River all the way to Fish Creek in Steamboat Springs, tributaries typically increase the flow of the Yampa by tenfold by the time the river gets to Steamboat.
It’s the geography of the upper Yampa Valley that has helped its water users avoid the pain of a formal call on the river when a senior rights holder could cause junior rights holders to be forced to turn off their irrigation ditches, Iacovetto said.
“If it wasn’t for our irrigated land being so close to the river, the Yampa would probably have been under administration a long time ago,” Iacovetto said.
He explained that irrigators and municipalities down the course of the river to Steamboat benefit from return flows as each successive ditch pours back into the river rejuvenating the flow for the next user.
“Everybody keeps using the water over and over and over,” Iacovetto said.
This year, he’s not so certain the return flows will be sufficient to replenish the river.
“It’s really hard to plan a strategy on how to use your water every year when it’s a crapshoot,” Iacovetto said.
Fellow speaker Nicole Seltzer, executive director of the Colorado Foundation for Water Education, said that as of Tuesday, Colorado’s snowpack stood at 9 percent of average, and Coloradans may have to adapt to increasing uncertainty in future years. At the same time, they’ll be confronted with making difficult decision about how to share water among a growing population, she predicted.
“It’s not good news this year,” Seltzer said. “Really, we never know how much water is going to be available from year to year. Just as last year was an exceptional year, this, too, is an exceptional year. Thank goodness the reservoirs are already full this year.”
Seltzer said some people on Colorado’s Front Range do not understand that 80 percent of the water available to this semiarid state comes in the form of snowpack or that the water that arises from streams in Colorado flows to 19 other states and Mexico.
“We have some pressing issues as a state that are important to think about,” Seltzer said. “Probably most important is population. A lot of people are going to want to come here. Growth is the engine behind our economy, and there’s not much you can do about that. So we have to talk about managing our resources.”
With the state’s population expected to double between 2008 and 2050, or by about 8.6 million to 10 million people, growing urban areas will consider the Yampa River a potential source for desperately needed water.
“That definitely affects you,” Seltzer said. “You have people looking at the Yampa as a possible source of water supply.”
The other speakers included Kevin McBride, district manager of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, and veteran water attorney Peter Ampe, of Hill & Robbins P.C.
Ampe talked about the origins of the West’s prior appropriation doctrine, which assigns priority to water rights holders who have the most seniority. But Ampe also painted a vivid picture of farmers and ranchers who have learned to gauge how much time they have left to irrigate their fields every season.
He described how, in time, irrigators grow familiar with the snowbanks that hold out the longest in the shade of a north-facing slope and how those snowbanks often take on the same recognizable shape year after year as they dwindle.
“They might know of a snow bank that takes the shape of a figure eight and know that, ‘When the eight breaks, I have a week left,’” to irrigate, Ampe said. Or, ‘When the tail falls off the horse, I have a week left.’”
Water users in the upper Yampa Valley will be keeping a close eye on those historic snowbanks in early summer 2012.
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Manitoba Liberal Party Policy Incubator (~77min) – April 16, 2013
The Manitoba Liberal Party Policy Committee organized a Policy Incubator on the topic of education which was held in Winnipeg on April 7, 2013. It involved a panel discussion where 2 experts presented 3 priorities the Manitoba Liberal Party should address on the education file. The panelists included Michael Zwaagstra, Frontier research fellow on education and Estelle Lamoureux, retired Principal from River East Transcona School Division. (1 hour, 17 minutes)
Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? (Rodney Clifton) (~39min) – March 4, 2013
Attending university is a significant financial investment for Canadian students and their parents. Since 1992, tuition fees for undergraduate students have increased by a whopping 215% while the Consumer Price Index has increased by only 43%. Between 2001 and 2007, total university expenditure in Canada increased by almost 95%, from $19 billion to $37 billion.
Common Sense Education - Speech by Michael Zwaagstra (~59min) – October 8, 2012
Frontier Research Fellow Michael Zwaagstra discusses Common Sense Education in a speech to Curtis-Homes Schools 80th anniversary in Regina, August 2012.
Math Wars in Manitoba (Craigen) (~52min) – May 28, 2012
Math Professor Robert Craigen speaks about the problems with the math curriculum that has ignited a national controversy. From Breakfast on the Frontier speech in Winnipeg, March 29, 2012. (~52 min.)
Canadian Universities: A Threat to Free Speech (Carpay) (~53min) – October 31, 2011
Barrister/Solicitor and President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms John Carpay discusses how today’s universities empower their administrators and student union politicians with numerous policies, regulations and by-laws to censor expression on campus and to restrict speech and introduces preliminary research that the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is preparing, its “Campus Freedom Index,” to evaluate and rank the state of free speech at Canadian universities. John Carpay spoke at a Breakfast on the Frontier in Calgary October 28, 2011. (~54 mins)
The Trouble with Canada . . . Still (Bill Gairdner) (~62min) – February 24, 2011
Author Bill Gairdner addresses Lunch on the Frontier in Winnipeg on February 23, 2011. (62 minutes)
What's Wrong With Our Schools (Zwaagstra - Winnipeg) (~34min) – October 27, 2010
Michael Zwaagstra, Manitoba High School Teacher and Co-Author of What's Wrong With Our Schools and How to Fix Them, spoke at Breakfast on the Frontier in Winnipeg October 22, 2010.
What’s Wrong With Our Schools (Michael Zwaagstra - Regina) (~27min) – August 25, 2010
Audio of speech given to Lunch on the Frontier, Regina, August 23, 2010. Research Associate Michael Zwaagstra asks, whatever happened to common sense in education? Whether it is the lack of content in some school curricula, the anti-testing ideology promoted by many educators, the no-fail policies that have been enacted by some school boards, or the pervasiveness of what might be described as "edu-babble," there is growing concern with some of the more recent policies and practices in many Canadian public schools.
Standardised Testing, Transparency, Local Autonomy (~31min) – June 7, 2010
David Seymour’s address to the Public Section of the Saskatchewan School Boards’ Association arguing that public systems should always make all the information they have transparent, but greater local autonomy could and should make parents more interested in local activity and the results of standardised tests. (31 mins)
Cracking Egg-Heads at the U of M (Rod Clifton Speech - MP3) (~10min) – October 3, 2007
Professor Rodney Clifton explores staff spending patterns at the University of Manitoba, September 12, 2007 in Winnipeg. Includes questions and answers (one hour). | <urn:uuid:b3c9f9a8-9285-4751-9e37-4f3343e10b1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fcpp.org/atypes.php?pagenum=&type_id=65&topic=;3; | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936596 | 834 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Do you want to know why men are fools? They all want the same things. They have all grown up listening to the same stories, and he each thinks that he is the hero. Give him war, and starving peasants, and he will think that you have given him something he can fix. That’s not it, though. It’s just war, and starving peasants.
All men are like this. I know. I have married them. Confident, and full of conviction, and certain that something needs repair, and dead, both of them, before their times. I went to the funerals, and I cried at them, not because I was sad, but because it was expected of me. One of them might have been a good man, and I was sorry for him, but that is not why I wept. Show me my husband’s funeral pyre, and I will not think of the future I have lost, or the heirs I will not have. It’s just a funeral pyre. I know that, because I am a woman, and the stories I grew up with taught me that the things waiting for me were not worth waiting for.
They say that love is a game. I wouldn’t know; I have never been in love. There is only one game that matters, anyway, and the rules of that are simple. Winning is stepping over thousands of bodies— maybe some I could have been in love with, were there not so much more that I wanted —and in and out of a thousand different lives, until I find one that’s more than what the stories promised. | <urn:uuid:5f27aa2d-2901-42bd-b7f8-7359768e7ef6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kiu22.tumblr.com/tagged/game-of-thrones | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992002 | 340 | 1.554688 | 2 |
State-imposed spending limits on the South Florida Water Management District…
Financial handcuffs that the Florida Legislature this year slapped on the South Florida Water Management District could actually end up costing taxpayers more money on future construction projects due to the district’s recently downgraded credit rating.
Just as the U.S. credit rating recently took a hit after the debt-ceiling standoff, Standard & Poor’s this month announced the downgrading of the South Florida Water Management District’s credit rating from "AAA" to "AA+."
That could end up costing South Florida taxpayers millions more in future debt payments if the district borrows more money to pay for long-planned construction projects. Those projects could include anything from Everglades restoration to fixing flood control structures.
Fed up with past district spending, the Legislature this year put new limits on the district’s ability to spend and borrow money. That has forced the West Palm Beach-based district to cut its budget about 30 percent, which triggered dozens of layoffs and likely delays some already overdue Everglades restoration projects.
Those new financial limits imposed by Senate Bill 2142 were cited in Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the district’s credit rating.
The state diminishing the district’s financial flexibility by capping the amount of property tax revenue it can generate and giving the state a greater role in shaping the district’s budget prompted the reduced credit rating, according to the credit rating firm.
Environmental groups have opposed the state slashing the district’s budget, warning that it will hamper the district’s ability to help protect and restore the Everglades.
Thursday evening, the district started a round of layoffs that is expected to claim about 100 jobs. The district employees more than 1,700 people ranging from scientists to people who help operate flood-control gates.
The district layoffs and downgraded credit rating shows state spending cuts went too far, according to Jane Graham of Audubon of Florida.
"You are losing human capital and now you are losing real capital," said Jane Graham of Audubon of Florida.
The South Florida Water Management District oversees water supplies, guards against flooding and leads Everglades restoration in a 16-county region stretching from Orlando to the Keys.
New district Board Member James Moran last week proposed that the agency limit its future spending even further.
Moran, one of Gov. Rick Scott’s appointees to the district’s nine-member board, proposed rescinding unused bond financing the district approved for water storage facilities and other construction projects planned for Everglades restoration.
The district has used just under $600 million of the $1.8 billion from previously approved certificates of participation that finance district construction projects. Moran’s proposal would have to be approved by the entire board.
District officials have said they have no immediate plans to take on any additional debt. The district released a statement Monday saying the agency’s downgraded credit rating was "not unexpected given current fiscal conditions." | <urn:uuid:98d69278-ab0f-4f71-b7a7-ddb457b57016> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-08-15/news/sfl-south-florida-credit-rating-everglades-20110815_1_credit-rating-everglades-restoration-standard-poor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94072 | 624 | 1.84375 | 2 |
In addition to the requirements below for the BS in Computer Science, students need to satisfy the general requirements for a bachelor’s degree.
To graduate with a BS in Computer Science, students must complete 80 credits of required courses as follows:
Plus additional credits of computer science courses 300 or above
Plus 8 credits of course work in management to equal 80 credits
The above information is subject to change any time. Students already enrolled at the University should contact the graduation director for their degree requirements. The content of this page was reviewed in December 2009. | <urn:uuid:90d1fcf0-b721-4d60-84b9-f251f34d081d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mum.edu/com-bs/DegreeRequirements | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94483 | 111 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Completely recyclable, the Toldeo Chair (1986) by Jorge Pensi brings rugged strength and streamlined aesthetics to outdoor furnishings. This contract-quality chair is crafted out of thermo-treated polished aluminum, a material that stays cool to the touch even in hot climates. The comfortable seat echoes the scale more typically found in dining chairs for indoor use and is made out of durable cast aluminum. Stackable up to four high for compact storage, the Toledo Chair is designed to coordinate with the Pensi Table, also by Jorge Pensi. This collection has been honored with the 1990 Design Center Stuttgard Award; 1988 "Delta Plate" award of ADI FAD; and Sidi Selection, first place, in 1988. The underside of the seat is stamped with the names Jorge Pensi and Knoll. Manufactured by Amat-3 for Knoll® according to the exacting specifications of the designer.
Until the 1970's Spain did not play a large role in the narrative of 20th century design. However, a renewed sense of vitality and freedom blossomed in Spain following the death of Franco, and in the city of Barcelona a new Spanish design movement emerged that would soon be recognized internationally. Many of Barcelona's regional designers made reference to the style of Antoni Gaudi, as well as to the avant garde heritage of painter Joan Miro. Others developed a more individual, modern and universally appealing style. Two of the most prominent of these architects and designers were Javier Mariscal and Jorge Pensi.
Jorge Pensi studied architecture in Buenos Aires. In 1977, he joined Alberto Lievore, Oriol Pibernat and Noberto Chaves in founding the design consultancy Grupo Berenguer. That same year, Pensi acquired Spanish citizenship and established a second design office with Lievore in Barcelona. The Barcelona studio designed exhibition stands for Perobell and the SIDI group in 1984. Read more > | <urn:uuid:3007d878-bb8a-4274-8f0c-55522353783b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dwr.com/product/toledo-chair.do?sortby=priceDescend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935582 | 397 | 1.617188 | 2 |
State Capitol News
Thu October 18, 2012
Mining Company Takes Local Law to Court
The operators of a proposed copper mine in Florence want a federal judge to void a new town law that would effectively thwart the project.
The fight surrounds efforts by Curis Resources for what's called in-situ mining, pumping sulfuric acid into the ground where it dissolves the copper, then pumping it back out to reclaim the metal. The move has been opposed by Florence town officials among others, at least in part because of the proximity to the drinking water supply. But state environmental officials have given the preliminary go-ahead to a pilot project. So the town council did what deputy manager Jess Knudson says was within their power: They declared it a crime to have or use more than 50 gallons of sulfuric acid a month.
"State statutes identify a means for cities and towns to identify noxious or otherwise harmful material within our respective town boundaries and being able to limit or minimize the use of said materials," Knudson said.
Curis attorneys are telling the judge the fears are overblown, saying the acid will be no stronger than vinegar. But Knudson said that tells only part of the story.
"Curis Resources through the proposal has identified over the life of the full mining operation which they have proposed, they're looking at billions of gallons of sulfuric acid injected into the ground in the immediate proximity to the town's water supply," Knudson said.
State environmental officials say final approval of any permit will hinge on assurances there will be no effect on the water. | <urn:uuid:5d8f1059-a124-4089-91c4-36ec3c9178b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.knau.org/post/mining-company-takes-local-law-court | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958412 | 324 | 1.617188 | 2 |
SANTA ANA An Orange County jury has awarded $10 million to the family of a 3-year-old boy who died on a bus ride home from school, the family's attorneys said.
Kevin Cisler, a child with special needs, was found unresponsive on a bus parked in Aliso Viejo on March 25, 2011. Kevin was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Attorneys for Melissa and Daniel Cisler, Kevin's parents, blame the boy's death on Capistrano Unified School District employee negligence, alleging in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the district that the boy was not properly latched into the bus.
District officials did not immediately respond to a message late Friday.
Kevin was diagnosed as a baby with Angelman syndrome, a “neurogenetic disorder characterized by developmental delays, lack of speech, seizures, and walking and balance disorders,” his family's attorneys said.
“He couldn't walk or talk and couldn't operate his body like a normal child,” said Kevin Boyle, a partner with Panish Shea & Boyle, which represented the family.
Kevin was enrolled in a special-education preschool, part of a program that also provided him with transportation to and from preschool.
During a nearly hourlong bus ride, the family's attorneys alleged, Kevin slid down in the wheelchair until his chest harness was pressed around his neck, suffocating him. | <urn:uuid:8b2146e4-a298-4c76-918c-a78d3a514093> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ocregister.com/news/kevin-198663-ocprint-bus-family.html | 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 | 0.988044 | 299 | 1.570313 | 2 |
|by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
It isn't just that most people are lousy at sales... far more shocking is the fact that most SALES PEOPLE are lousy at sales.
If you're one of them, this article is for YOU!
The plain fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of sales people rely on their charm, gift of gab, and ability to "wing it" to make sales... instead of being prepared to make sale after sale. STOP IT! Following these sensible steps means more money:
1) Closing sales is not a matter of motivation or pressure. Instead, it's a question of having the right information readily at hand, so you can answer customer questions quickly, easily, thoroughly.
Thus, consider what you have readily available when you are talking to a customer.
2) Do you have (readily available, mind) a sheet of "you gets", that is a list of PRECISELY what your customer gets when using your product/service?
Dollars to doughnuts, neither you nor any member of your business has sat down and written out the features of what you're selling; then converted each and every feature into a benefit that the customer gets. Treat each and every benefit like scoops on an ice-cream cone; the higher you stack 'em, the more enticing to the customer!
3) Do you have a sheet of offers?
Products do not sell themselves; a sales person bragging "Our product sells itself" is wrong, naive or both. What sells products is offers; the better the offer the faster the sale.
Thus, have you got a sheet of offers; "add-ons" you can use to motivate immediate customer action? This list should make it very clear just what the customer gets for fast action. AND when the customer must act, for ALL offers must be limited by time, quantity, etc.
4) Do you have a sheet of results testimonials?
People what to be assured and re-assured about what they will get when using your product. Here's where "results" testimonials come in. These not only provide a happy customer's experience in using your product ("I loved it"), but the specific results that customer achieved. The greater the specificity and the benefits, the better and more effective the testimonial.
Note: whenever possible ALL testimonials must include full customer and such relevant details as title, location, etc. In short, testimonials must be detailed and complete to be completely credible.
5) A page of objection responses and rebuttals
Face it, not every customer will leap for joy upon hearing of what you are selling. That's why you must be prepared for the nay-sayers, the procrastinators, the cautious, and the merely foolish. For these folks, a list of every possible objection and your strongest response is required.
Commmon objections include:
"I must ask my spouse."
"I'm on vacation for the next 2 weeks."
"I have to check you out."
"I don't have the money."
Now hear this: there isn't an objection under the sun which cannot be effectively answered, only not by "winging it." EVERY successful sales person knows that preparation here is mandatory; the rebuttals may seem spontaneous... but they must ALWAYS be rehearsed. Brainstorm all objections; then work on the responses. As new objections surface, add them to your list... and, again, perfect the perfect, objection- demolishing response.
The key to sales success is NEVER a "wing and a prayer." It is ALWAYS a matter of total, complete, deliberate effort. Such effort can turn a mediocre sales person into a stellar performer. That, of course, is precisely what your goal must be, and now you know how to achieve it! | <urn:uuid:8f6a1ed5-5406-429b-a6fb-6290e5c74f10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.homeprofitschoice.com/articles1/article_view.cfm?ArticleID=345 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943849 | 790 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Therapeutic Recreation (B.S.)We're proud to be one of a handful of institutions in the country to offer a major in therapeutic recreation. Our program prepares you for the national certification exam, which 100 percent of our graduates have passed.
A recreational therapist uses both client-focused intervention techniques and evidence based on practice to enhance people's physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being through leisure activities.
In our program you'll develop professional, interpersonal, and leadership skills and apply them in a variety of settings. At a long-term-care facility you may involve a person in recreational activities to reduce depression and increase socialization. At a mental health or substance abuse treatment facility you may help a person in recovery discover healthy leisure alternatives that promote wellness and self-esteem. At a community recreation center you may help involve a person with a disability in programs that build leisure skills, develop friendships, and enhance quality of life. At a hospital or rehabilitation center you may help a person with a traumatic injury develop functional skills necessary for successful community reintegration.
A variety of experiential activities accompany your in-class learning. Your early coursework combines disability studies with hands-on activities: For an entire semester you'll be paired with a child with a developmental disability, participating in a swim program. Next you'll build on this real-life experience by engaging in two 120-hour, service-learning experiences that emphasize programming and administration. You'll conclude your studies with a semester-long internship at places such as the National Institutes of Health or Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, where you'll learn to develop treatment plans and intervention strategies.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a special feature of our program, offering opportunities to partner with other allied health departments such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology. | <urn:uuid:f1400176-8cf0-47b1-8a99-e53ab9759924> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ithaca.edu/hshp/depts/rls/programs/tr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936302 | 367 | 1.8125 | 2 |
“Catholic scholars say those who thwart labor unions commit mortal sin,” says the headline from Catholic News Service.
It’s an accurate characterization of a statement released by a group called Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice. (You can read the statement in full at the organization’s web site.) It’s certainly attention-grabbing, but is it sound moral analysis?
The answer is no. I’m not trained as a moral theologian, but I do know something about Catholic social teaching and I can apply elementary rules of logic, which is all I need to poke some holes in the statement in question.
Now the statement should not be dismissed as nonsense. It builds on material gleaned from genuine sources of CST such as the Compendium of the Social Doctrine and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It rightly notes that the social teaching declares that unions are “a positive influence for social order and solidarity, and are therefore an indispensible element of social life.” It rightly notes that CST insists on the right of workers to organize, as a corollary of the right of voluntary association.
But the statement engages in some slippery reasoning and ambiguous language to get from there to its conclusions. “Union busting is a mortal sin,” it declares; and union busting “refers to the action of any person who seeks to prevent employees from forming a labor union, or who attempts to undermine or destroy an existing union.”
So, any person, anywhere, at anytime, who, for any reason, seeks to prevent the formation of a union or seeks to “undermine” an existing union is committing sin? (I’m leaving aside the issue of mortal vs. venial sin for the sake of simplicity.)
This is a pretty sloppy application of Catholic social teaching.
The documents of CST do not simply endorse unions, without qualification. Indeed, CST condemns unions under certain conditions: such as those that serve private interest rather than the common good or those that by their stated or implicit aims attack the Church or Church teaching. For a time, CST even discouraged Catholics from joining unions that did not have an explicitly Catholic character. The point is that CST leaves it as a matter of conscience as to whether any one, specific union ought to be joined/supported/endorsed. Blanket prohibitions and obligations are out of place on this issue.
Not only is it theoretically possible that individuals–whether employers, employees, or other parties–might have an obligation to oppose (or “undermine”) union activity, one might easily cite cases. During the Cold War era, many labor priests and Catholic trade unionists–who were stridently “pro-labor” as a general rule–in some instances worked actively to destroy unions that were under the control of Communists. In a more contemporary example, Catholics have joined with other people of good will to “undermine” various unions by withholding dues that would otherwise fund activity to which the individual workers are in conscience opposed (such as supporting pro-abortion political candidates).
I suspect–though I don’t know–that the CSWJ folks would want to permit these sorts of exceptions, but their statement as written does not. To push the point a little further, I would argue that a Catholic employer may well be permitted to oppose the formation of a union in his or her company, if the formation of that union is deemed to be detrimental to the common good (meaning the good of the workers, the company, and society). The employer must in all cases respect the right of the workers to organize, and must never use immoral or illegal means to oppose a union, but an absolute moral prohibition on employers engaging in information-provision or non-coercive forms of persuasion seems unjustified.
The CSWJ statement could have been a helpful document by thoughtfully addressing the question of what criteria should be used to determine when or when not to support labor organizing. Instead, it engages in simplistic moral analysis that will be useful primarily as a stick to beat anyone who might challenge the practices, utility, or character of any given union. | <urn:uuid:4ad8a179-d71c-496b-9286-f85b1634d0d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catholicexchange.com/sinning-against-a-union/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960786 | 857 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The MacArthur Foundation has just announced the 2007crop of MacArthur Fellows, commonly known as recipients of the Genius Grant. These are people who have been nominated for showing exceptional creativity in any field. **updated** Recent geniuses have been a poet, a forensic anthropologist, a blues musician, a medieval historian, or a clinical psychiatrist.** The fellowships are awarded to people whose work could most benefit from being released from financial restraints. Someone who already receives a few million in grants is probably not going to receive the fellowship and neither are Larry Page or Sergei Brin.
Aside from everyone calling you a genius, what's the perk in being a MacArthur Fellow? A cool $500,000 awarded over five years. Yet another reason to get into a field that you love and do what you believe.
Someday a librarian will be on that list.
A note on the update (if you're really, really curious). The original sentence read: A genius may be a poet, a forensic anthropologist, a blues musician, a medieval historian, or a clinical psychiatrist.
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Jason Olson, Deseret News
Transportation planners along the Wasatch Front are burdened by two simple facts of life. Their territory is a confining strip wedged between mountain ranges and the Great Salt Lake. It also happens to be a place of continuing population growth, which shows no sign of abating in coming decades.
These present two contravening forces, putting planners involved in a proposed extension of the Legacy Parkway in Davis County between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Residents of Farmington City and surrounding areas recently staged a protest over plans to add 24 miles to the highway, along sensitive wetlands and through the town's western neighborhoods known for their bucolic appeal. They argue an extended parkway will be disruptive to both community life and sensitive environmental areas, and they would like the Utah Department of Transportation to rethink pans and seek alternatives.
From UDOT's perch, the issue takes on a different light. The agency is charged with creating and maintaining adequate transportation arteries, and there is a documented need for an expanded infrastructure in that area to serve future commuters.
This is not an either/or proposition. There is no real alternative to additional mileage along the Legacy, unless accepting a state of chronic congestion on I-15 and the existing parkway is on the table. Opponents of the extension argue in favor of additional mass transit options, carpooling and other ways to reduce traffic.
But mass transit systems cannot realistically keep up with the growing number of daily commuters, or the growth in service vehicle traffic needed to support the thriving bedroom communities of Davis and Weber counties. Carpooling can be effective, but only up to a point. If traffic loads increase by 25 percent, 1-in-4 cars would need to become a pool vehicle just to maintain the status quo.
If this discussion elicits a moment of deja vu, it's because we have been down this road before, so to speak. Nearly two decades ago, construction of the existing Legacy Parkway was held up in court as a result of concerns from local residents and environmentalists over the highway's impact on wetlands and adjacent communities. What resulted was a detailed settlement that significantly changed the nature of the project.
In short, the traditional highway that was contemplated became the current "parkway," built with an eye toward mitigating its obtrusiveness. The state agreed to hold the speed limit to 55 mph, to prohibit truck traffic, ban billboards and to use noise-limiting asphalt. It was a hard-fought process of compromise that left neither interest completely satisfied. Residents got a less obnoxious highway; UDOT had to spend more money to build it.
The birth of the original Legacy may offer a template for its proposed extension, one that requires both sides to commit to a fair process of discussion with open minds. The forces that conspire to require new transportation routes are considerable. It is therefore not wise to frame the discussion in terms of whether or not an extension is necessary, but rather exactly where and what kind.
These are the most difficult kinds of public policy decisions, with implications that go beyond any individual's backyard. Everyone along the Wasatch Front has a stake in maintaining adequate transportation options, as well as in preserving the quality of neighborhoods and the environment.
As the discussion moves forward, it's good to know that a process of balance and compromise is a significant part of this highway's recent legacy.
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Nemesis -The avenger crime and hubris
Manila Yacht Club, January 5, 2013 - Inside a roomful of people, media and concerned citizens, the press conference to Save Manila Bay was on going. Speakers talked about different reason why the reclamation project of Manila Bay should not push through. Historical, ecological, economical, political, and resource management reasons were given against the reclamation project.
All of them very valid reasons.
Standing and listening to the different resource persons speak. One could observe an earnest fervor in their voice. A concern much validated it seems by man-made and natural disasters that have peppered human and natural history. Did we not get a preview of it every time a typhoon visits the Philippine or when seismic movement cross the land.
I am sure proponents of the reclamation project, and others similar to it. Will voice their case as well. Maybe even look as strong as those opposing. But what is the reason for the reclamation?
Progress? Business? Money?
Whatever position one has on the issue. One has to weigh in what has happened before; What plans were made; What opportunities were missed; What problems we have caused; What disasters we have endured; What have we learned from the past; What we want for the future.
Before you decide take a look at the Manila Bay. It could be any beach front in any town, in the world. Take a long look. If this were a film it could be the Last Full Show.
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It is often referred to as OTF switchblade, and as such it falls into the large category of automatic knives that all come with some kind or another of firing-button on the handle, whether with a clearly defined predominant appearance or concealed. The firing-button, that one presses on in order to deploy the blade; it is always located somewhere on the handle. That’s basically how the legislator sees it and distinguishes it from the spring-assisted knife and all other folding knives.
There two main types of OTF knives. The most popular is the Pop-Out Pop-In type, also called SA-OTF or “Single Action”; one push of a button fires the blade, a second push retracts it. The less popular is the “Double Action” DA-OTF knife. It means that one pushes a button to fire that blade but needs to pull back the blade manually in order to retract it back into its handle. The latter, the DA OTF switchblade is much more powerful and sturdy than the popular Pop-In Pop-Out which is ‘more fun’, maybe.
Some automatic knives are designed for tactical purposes, mainly, other switchblades make excellent hunting and all-purpose knives that help a lot hand-handicapped persons. On the other hand, it can be easily said that all OTF knives are weapons.
The purpose of any OTF automatic knife is combat, fight, call-it any name you want. It is not of big use in slicing and dicing. It is not a pocket-knife, and it was not built to cure nails.
It is very common for the blade of an OTF knife to wobble as it is affixed to a moving rail. Some manufacturers: S&W, Sharde and maybe others, are adding a special lock that holds the blade, more or less fixed, when deployed.
The tactical advantage of an OTF switchblade resides in its ability to penetrate a mass by the sheer power of its deployment spring. It is especially true with the DA type that has an additional firing force due to its manual armament.
Any knife can be dangerous to handle; the OTF automatic knife is the most dangerous of-all. Most do not have a safety lock, whatsoever. OTF knives are very easy to fire, and they do not look like knives at all, when folded. A child, even a toddler will, and quite rapidly, find the way to fire it open. One should never leave an OTF knife lying around anywhere at anytime; it should be in your pocket, on your belt or locked up, same as any other weapon.
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Quote reveals a pro-choice Sotomayor?
In the recent New Yorker story on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Lauren Collins slips in an un-reported quote from the newest justice, which minority senators might be kicking themselves for missing:
In 2000, at the graduation ceremony of the Bronx Leadership Academy, Sotomayor had said, “It is so exciting to be at the door of a major change in one’s life. That’s why brides and bridegrooms smile so much at weddings and why so many tears of joy are shed when a wanted child arrives”—her unprompted use of the phrase “wanted child” acknowledging the possibility that an expectant parent could feel otherwise
Whether the phrase “wanted child” necessarily implies its opposite is certainly a matter of debate — and one that very well might have taken place during this summer’s Senate confirmation hearings. It lends itself to a near judicial question of interpretation: Does “wanted” imply that there are “unwanted” children, as Collins suggests? Or is “wanted” merely a superfluous adjective meant to imply the hopes and dreams of a couple in having children?
There’s really no way of knowing, but rest assured that all of these interpretations and more would have likely been trotted out. With very little, if any, information on Sotomayor’s position on abortion, it’s hard to believe the minority would have let something like this slip away had they known about it.
Indeed, conservative Senators, pundits and talk-show hosts grasped at flimsier straws this July — attacking Sotomayor for her “wise Latina” remarks, and ironically heralding her as an activist judge for her part in the 2nd Circuit’s precedent following Ricci decision.
“Unless you have a complete meltdown, you’re going to be confirmed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) memorably said to Sotomayor during her hearings. That “meltdown” was very much what the minority was hunting for this summer — and the fact that a quote like this, or rather an adjective like this, could have been Sotomayor’s undoing says a lot about the adversarial heights the Supreme Court confirmation process has reached. | <urn:uuid:125f2cf1-6886-4f11-88ae-4a3e33904e59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trueslant.com/kateklonick/2010/01/08/quote-reveals-a-pro-choice-sotomayor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965143 | 499 | 1.75 | 2 |
Better parenting... By Raza
08 February, 2013
Poor behavior in students seems to be the norm and is becoming an increasingly widespread problem. I think that our modern lifestyle is probably responsible for this issue. People are more conscious and have small families; with lesser children and more resources they often spoil the child, not in terms of love, affection and attention but in more material ways. Their children are allowed to have whatever they want, regardless of price and to behave as they please. There seems to be no discipline anymore or morality practiced in families. This means that the children grow up without consideration for others and without any understanding of where their standard of living comes from.
The dishonest earnings give them the chance to avail all luxuries in life, giving them the misconception that the world belongs to them. When they get to school age they have not learnt any self-control or discipline and have virtually no moral values. They have less respect for their teachers and refuse to obey school rules in the way that their parents did.
Teachers continually complain about this problem and now the time has come when serious measures should be taken to combat the situation, but I think the solution to this problem lies with the families, who could raise them to be considerate and responsible individuals, with solid moral values set by the parents and practiced by them. This would benefit the family as well as make them into better human beings. | <urn:uuid:7f581360-2831-4ef0-b420-063c886bfa70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paktribune.com/news/Better-parenting-By-Raza-257258.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977546 | 284 | 1.695313 | 2 |
BUSHRA REHMAN (1974– ) is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Queens. She was educated at the College of New Rochelle, New York; Dominican University of California; and she earned her MFA from Brooklyn College. Her family is originally from the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan but her father and his relatives lost their land and livelihood when the huge Tarbela Dam was built. Her family moved to the United States, returning briefly and unsuccessfully to Pakistan when Rehman was in her teens.
Rehman is a coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002), and her poetry has been collected in the chapbook Marianna's Beauty Salon (Vagabond Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in ColorLines, Mizna, Curve, SAMAR, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Seal Press, 2006), and Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent State University Press, 2007). She has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and in the New York Times and NY Newsday. | <urn:uuid:b793c04d-58ca-46e1-92ad-7bc5f1c1f4d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.feministpress.org/books/bushra-rehman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973669 | 252 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Wounded Veterans Find New Challenges at USOC Paralympic Military Sports Camp
CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- Over the summer, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joe James watched a lot of the Beijing Olympics on television. How awesome it would be, he thought to himself, to represent your country that way.
How awesome it would be, for that matter, to take part again in sports. He lost parts of both legs in April in a bomb attack in Iraq.
Given the opportunity, James, 26, of South Bend, Wash., would simply have to make adjustments. Instead of running around the 400-meter track here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's training center, for instance, he could navigate it in a racing wheelchair.
James settled Wednesday into such a chair as the stumps of his legs -- the left gone at the knee, the right a few inches below -- sort of waved around. The sergeant is not the sort to feel humiliation at such a display. It is what it is. Nor is he interested in the least in anyone's pity. Pity for what?
Different doesn't mean worse. It simply calls sometimes for an extra measure of determination. And that proved much in evidence as James worked around the track, an able-bodied U.S. Navy medical corps staffer forced to race across the infield to catch up to him at the finish line.
"It was," James said afterward, "pretty neat."
The Olympic and Paralympic Games appear on our television or computer screens every two years and, at their best, produce heroes and moments of victory and inspiration. The years in between are filled with quieter moments of personal accomplishment. Such moments are, in their own way, just as fantastic.
Here Wednesday at the USOC center, south of San Diego, was U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Schar, 26, of Crystal Lake, Ill. He, too, lost parts of both legs in Iraq, in a bomb explosion last September.
The torque of throwing the shot a few feet forward onto a grass field nearly rocked Schar off a specially designed throwing chair planted in a concrete throwing pit. For a few seconds, Schar was left danging by the side of the chair, clinging to it with just one hand.
Schar -- who earlier this month finished the Chicago Marathon, in 2:06.38 -- waved off any help. He muscled himself back up onto the chair. Then he held out his right hand, ready for another throw.
"Pretty cool," he said afterward of his first puts.
Here, too, was Derek Derenalagi, 34, a private in a British army infantry battalion. He lost his lower legs in the explosion of an anti-tank mine in July, 2007, in Afghanistan. He worked himself Wednesday into a racing chair and rolled around the track, caught his breath and set off again.
"There's more to life," he said, "than sitting in a wheelchair."
In all, 52 wounded veterans -- 46 American, six British -- took part in Wednesday's activities, the first day of a several-day camp at the USOC center aimed at identifying potential 2012 Paralympic athletes and, more broadly, at helping those wounded find both comfort and challenge in sports as part of the adjustment to life still filled with opportunity yet obviously different than before a serious injury.
"Our character is revealed in our time of testing," the USOC's associate director of community and military programs, John Register, likes to say, and that goes both for those who are disabled and those coming to terms with a disability.
Imagine, said Charlie Huebner, chief executive of U.S. Paralympics, that you're a 22-year-old soldier. You played high school football or basketball. You come home missing your legs. Your friends aren't sure what to say. For that soldier to hear something as simple and familiar as, "Let's go shoot some hoops" -- that, Huebner said, "opens a window that everything can be ok."
The USOC has been running such camps, along with smaller regional clinics, since 2005. It ran two such camps in 2005 and 2006, then only one last year because of the autumn wildfires that ravaged parts of San Diego County. The one that started Wednesday on the track -- the focus shifted Thursday to the pool and other venues -- marked the sole such camp for 2008 amid the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics.
Of the 213 members of the U.S. Paralympic team in Beijing, 16 had ties to the U.S. military, or 7.5 percent. In Athens in 2004, three of the 235 members of the American team, just over 1 percent, had military ties.
Because of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials estimate that wounded veterans will make up 10 to 15 percent of the U.S. team that competes at the 2012 Paralympics in London.
The odds of any of the 52 who made their way Wednesday to the track in Chula Vista appearing in 2012 in a Paralympic uniform, American or British, are -- to be blunt -- long. But not impossible.
"This is Day One of a four-year journey," said British Army Maj. Martin Colclough, commander of the "Battle Back" delegation. "Some of these guys may drop out. But if even one of these guys gets there, this will be a job well done."
Scott Winkler, for instance, his legs paralyzed in an accident in Iraq in 2003, was identified at the October, 2006, USOC camp as a talent. He finished fifth at the Beijing Paralympics in the shot put.
Winkler showed up here Wednesday in his size 4-XL red USA team Paralympic Games shirt. Under a broiling afternoon sun, he helped coach Sgt. Schar and others, and said, "If you believe, you can achieve."
Also on hand: Cheri Blauwet, the 2004 Paralympic Games gold medalist in the 800 meters and winner of the Boston, New York City and Los Angeles marathons.
"It's all about increasing awareness and opening eyes and minds to the fact that people with disabilities can be active," she said. "It's the much bigger picture of what we're trying to do here."
She explained: "When we lower expectations because of a disability, we develop a sort of pity around the person." A better perspective: "A disability is just another way of being a minority."
Sgt. James, for instance, has a wife of three years, Jarin. They have a 14-month-old daughter, Rachel. Most likely, they have a lot of life yet to live.
His trips around the track Wednesday were his first-ever in a racing chair. He didn't tip over backwards -- didn't, as it's called, "turtle" the chair. He finished a lap in a little over 80 seconds.
Perhaps the start of an Paralympic journey. Perhaps a figurative step on the road to a fuller recovery.
It's all good. "For a first event," the sergeant said, "it's pretty neat."
To see photos from the camp, visit Universal Sports photo gallery.
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When Eagles Attack
Beware of attacking eagles in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. As long as you don't wave your grub around, you probably won't get dive-bombed. But the eagles might join your football game...
In August 2001, locals and tourists in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire had a lot more to worry about than getting sunburns. A bald eagle was harassing people along the beach and even attacked a girl and two adults. Three year-old Kayla Finn was running down the beach, playing football when the eagle swooped down and clawed her back. With a wingspan of two meters, the bird couldn't be swatted like a fly. Her dad managed to brush it away and Kayla was fine.
It didn't help that people on the beach were feeding the eagle. The 14 month-old eagle figured out most people had food, so it's no wonder the bird took a closer look. When animal control officers tried to catch the animal, it dodged them every time.
Since the bird seemed to like footballs, officials tried to bait it into heading to the beach by tossing around a small green football. The eagle stayed on the sidelines because, as some people thought, the lure was too obvious. The bald eagle was eventually caught and sent to the Coastal Animal Clinic.
Have you ever been attacked by an animal?
This one time I was walking down the street and a seagull attacked my head. It was really scary cuz I've got super big curly hair. I was really scared cuz I thought it was going to get tangled in my hair. And it was screeching and scratching at me. And everyone at a restaurant across the street was laughing at me. Oh yeah, I was limping too cuz I had blisters on my feet so I looked like a total gimp.
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Well, my friend was about to walk me home when this dog jumped out and attacked us. We saw on the news the night before to stand perfectly still. It took about thirty min. for that dog to finally back off. Ever since then I'm very frightened of dogs.
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“You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.” (Haggai 1:6, NET Bible)
If that is not an indictment of many our faith-walks, I don’t know what is. Look and listen to the Lord’s words. “You have planted…..You eat…You drink….You put on clothes….Those who earn wages….”Isn’t that what many of us still doing today? We plant seeds and expect them to just grow. Do we even try to harvest the little that does grow so that we may obtain more seeds for future harvests? This applies to the Church at least as much as anywhere else. We do things “for the Lord” and then leave it to the Lord to deal with. That’s like preaching the Gospel and drawing people into the fold of Christ but never discipling them so that the Truth that has been planted might blossom into well-rooted faith.
We eat the fruits of our own labors but because we have compartmentalized the sundry facets of our lives, we forget that it is God who has given us our jobs and our paychecks that bought the food. We arrogantly take the credit and expect to be satisfied. Without God, who truly sustains us all the days of our lives, there is no real satisfaction.
We are the proverbial “woman at the well.” We expect to be refreshed by the lives we live on our own terms. But we don’t welcome Christ’s Spirit into the heart of everything we do. We might as well be saying that He is not risen; that He does not, in truth, live for us and live in us! If we can but hear and listen to the Words of Christ Jesus, we will be well nourished and our thirsts will be satisfied in a manner that is totally foreign to us. Hearing His Words and following His Will are our true food and drink. It’s when we rely on our own works and depend upon earthly “wages” that we become spiritually starved and dehydrated and completely unsatisfied. It is then that there is no life in us and an emptiness that can never be filled.
So, my brothers and sisters, let us no longer rely upon ourselves for our wants and desires. Let us want what God wants, let us desire to be good and faithful servants of our Father. Let us turn things around by letting God plant the seeds in our lives and then go to work tending His fields. Surely the Owner of the field will not let His workers go hungry or lack whatever it is they need in order to continue working! Our Master is a good and loving Lord. We all need to remember that, and place our faith firmly in His outstretched arms.
"Lord we believe! Help our Unbelief! AMEN."
Today, ask God what He wants for you and then set to work for the Master. His is the Way to an eternal life that is out of this world.
Christopher Randolph holds a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. He currently lives with his family in Colorado.
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NPR series explores role of I-95
(Timothy Bell for NPR)
For Washington area drivers, Interstate 95 is often a frustrating way to get from Point A to Point B, whether you're doing the daily drive from home to work or darting up the Eastern Seaboard for a visit to Philly or to see the leaves change in Maine.
NPR is exploring how Interstate 95 has shaped life along the East Coast in a six-part series that begins this weekend and is scheduled to run through Labor Day. The series, "I-95: The Road Most Traveled," "looks at how the nearly 2,000-mile-long stretch of pavement has reshaped entire regions along the East Coast in the past half-century." The series began today on "Weekend Edition."
The first installment explores why the final 12 miles of I-95 are just now being completed. The missing link is a stretch near the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
NPR has also compiled a list of 95 road songs for driving on the stretch where Washingtonians spend so much of their time.
Other topics in the series include the role of I-95 as part of a global transportation network that delivers goods to the United States; how the interstate shaped growth in South Florida; how the highway's traffic has benefited Maine; I-95's role in the migrant economy; and what I-95 may look like in the future. You can listen to the series on the NPR Web site.
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Every daycare should have an insurance. Before your daycare becomes operational, make sure that your business and its services is covered by insurance. This insurance will be very beneficial in protecting you, your employees and the business in case of fortuitous events, accidents and liabilities.
There are different insurance policies that you can choose from. Each one is different from another depending on the coverage that it provides. You might need to get an insurance that would protect you and your business from unforeseen eventuality. During the admission process, the parents should be required to fill out daycare forms and submit medical records for the child to make sure that any medical needs are met and to prepare for the medicines that can counter allergic reactions. These forms should be accomplished and duly signed by the parents to make sure that they understand and agree to the terms and services that you will be providing in the daycare. In addition, you can also request a copy of immunization records of the child with the physician’s signature. Doing this can protect you from possible lawsuit in the future. As you already know, children are naughty and rough, and accidents are sometimes unavoidable. In this case, liability insurance can be extremely helpful.
Each state can impose different rules and guidelines on child care. This is the reason why you need to procure necessary licenses and permits from your local government before your daycare center can start to operate. Insurance is one of the requirements that you need to have. Insurance gives you medical coverage. It’s a big relief covering medical expenses of the children in cases of accidents. However, you also have to consider the limitations of the coverage. The accident should be covered by your insurance policy. Usually if the accident happened within your daycare premises, it can be automatically covered. Liability insurances do not cover child abuse but it pays the damages in case you lose in court.
The amount that you are willing to pay for the insurance determines what liabilities are covered. The more money you pay for the insurance, the wider the scope of the coverage becomes. If in the event that you need to pay for medical expenses of a child that has been hospitalized, the insurance will cover the payment to the extent of the insurance’s coverage. If the bill is more that what is covered by the insurance, you need to pay it by your own. It is always wise to have a high premium on your insurance since medical expenses can be very expensive.
If you feel that you are ignorant on the different coverage of the insurance, feel free to seek advice from lawyers or from your insurance company. They can discuss to you the details as to the differences of these insurances and be able to suggest the type of coverage that is suited for your business. You don’t have to be thrifty when it comes to your daycare insurance. The insurance can give you a peace of mind as you know that your business and the children are in good hands.
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Web site owners must be on constant guard with copyrighted and trademarked materials, both to make sure competitors don't "borrow" content and to avoid provoking search engines in legal gray areas.
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 8-11, 2005, San Jose, CA.
A panel of experts debated a number of hot legal issues during the Copyrights & Trademarks panel at SES. How can web site owners get links to material infringing their copyrighted materials out of search engine results? What recourse do web site owners have if their sites were removed unfairly from search engine results due to an unfair or unfounded accusation of copyright infringement?
Do web site owners have trademark protection rights and responsibilities in search engine advertisements? This session explored these and many other issues, in particular looking at some recent rulings and existing search engine policies.
Search engines & meta tags
Even though few search engines use meta-tag content to determine relevancy, using another entity's copyrighted or trademarked material is still problematic. "Some search engines, especially second-tier search engines, are still using the description information to publish what's in those web sites," said Eric Goldman, Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University's School of Law. "Taking the metadata from another site with trademarked terms is not only a problem from a legal perspective, but also from a search engine marketer's perspective."
"It could be problematic if a trademarked term shows up in the actual search results, and the site is also similar in its domain name to the trademarked web site to create confusion," Goldman continued. "It still has to be a concern from what is being published in the search results."
"Using someone else's trademark in the metadata, even if it didn't affect the ranking in the search engines, could still be considered infringement," added Matt Naeger, Vice President and General Counsel at IMPAQT. "We have a lot of companies who would still treat this as significant, even if it is not from an operational standpoint."
Web site owners should be careful about using other company names in their meta tags because some commonly used words are actually legally protected. "Terms which are made-up words are very strong trademarks, like a Xerox," said Debbie Wilcox an intellectual property attorney at Baker & Hostetler LLP.
Paid site content
Sometimes web site owners use content from other web sites. "Friendly" sites might contain a link back to the URL with the original content and believe that alleviates their burden of possible copyright infringement. "Unfriendly" sites are ones that use other content that's not their own to improve their own search engine optimization (SEO) rankings or to generate revenue from Google's AdSense, usually without proper authorship attribution.
"Friendly" sites are no less liable than unfriendly sites. "Attribution to the original content source has no impact on potential liability," said Naeger. "If this were copyright infringement, then the attribution would be irrelevant." Before reproducing an author's material, make sure you have permission to reproduce it from the person (or company) who owns the copyright.
RSS feed content is no exception. "People use my RSS feeds to pull in the full content to their own pages for their own AdSense [revenue”," explained Jennifer Slegg of JenSense.com, who is experienced with enforcing legal copyrights. "I run AdSense up on my own site. So my AdSense is up on their sites with their AdSense ads, which puts me in violation of AdSense terms. These are people that want freebie content and try to get away with stealing it."
"You can set up an RSS feed that only puts out summarized content. But we don't have resolution yet on what are those rights—are they broad or are they individual?" said Goldman. "There are those who will say that by having your content posted in an RSS feed, you are giving others the right to go and grab that content for their own sites."
"Until we get resolution, there is a lot of room for ambiguity," he said. "Until we get clarity, there's a lot of room for that to happen."
Protecting graphic images
Text content is not the only content that can be copyright or trademark protected under the law. Graphic images used on web sites can also be protected. "You have to register the same way and its protected under copyright law," said Wilcox.
Web site owners can instruct the search engines to not index their site's graphic images by using the Robots Exclusion Protocol. For example, if all of a site's graphic images are contained in a folder or directory called "images" or "graphics," the robots.txt file can instruct the search engine spiders to not index the files/images in that directory.
However, even though web site owners can remove their own graphic images from a search engine index, the search engine's robot isn't smart enough to remove the same images from other sites.
"That is one of the things going through litigation," said Goldman. "Search engine robots many honor your request, but they are just not smart enough to recognize your copyrighted images. The search engines are in a difficult situation for which they could be liable."
Trademarks in paid search advertising
While a judge's opinion had originally ruled that the sale of trademarked terms as keywords was lawful (in the GEICO case), the lingering issue was the usage of trademark terms in ad text by the search engines. This issue might be going through appeals and cases in other courts dealing with the different aspects of trademark law. Search advertisers should not think that they won't be suspect to a suit themselves just because only the search engines have been the only ones targeted.
"Advertisers themselves could always be challenged by the trademark owner with purchasing trademarked keywords," said Naeger.
"Despite what Google or Yahoo's own policy or actions, that doesn't stop you from taking action against the advertiser with a cease and desist," added Goldman.
"I just go right to the cease-and-desist letter every time," said Slegg. "If you try sending a friendly email, they don't always take it seriously. My objective when sending a cease-and-desist letter is not to get monetary damages. It is just to have the infringers remove my content. I am quite happy to have it end there."
"Cease-and-desist letters look pretty good on their face," said Wilcox, "but when you send a letter you have to decide if you really want to get involved in litigation."
"When you send a letter citing infringement, depending on how it is worded, it can open the door for a lawsuit against you," she added. "So you have to be careful about who you send it to and what you are accusing them of. In a very clear-cut case, all you may need to do is send a letter and just carefully refine a couple of terms."
Tips to protect your intellectual property
The panel offered several tips for dealing with copyright infringers and ensuring that your intellectual property is safeguarded.
Research online. The easiest way is by typing queries into the search engines based on snippets of your content. Don't grab something in the beginning or the end of your copy. Grab a whole paragraph in the middle. Another way is to use tools such as AdGooRoo, which does automated trademark monitoring.
Notify vendors and authorities. When you find infringing content, contact the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) agent, contact the web host and contact the search engine(s) in order to take care of it. "Hosting companies typically have their own rules spelled out with site owners are to comply with all copyright laws and that infringing materials will be removed," said Slegg. "A hosting company that finds a site in non-compliance can either remove the offending pages or shut down the entire site."
Notify the infringer. Tell them that their actions will not be tolerated and what they are doing is illegal. Give them a cease-and-desist order, get them to remove the offending material and make them agree in writing to never do it again.
Register your site. Put a copyright notice on each page of your web site. Register your site as a copyright for online works with the U.S. Copyright office for only $30. It gives you special protections and advantages should you ever have to file suit including putting the burden of proof on the defendant and allowing for statutory damages and attorney's fees should you win.
Be proactive. Don't wait around or your right to file suit may expire. Deb Wilcox said, "You do have to register before the actual infringement occurs, or within three months of the first publication (three-month grace period), to receive statutory damages. After that, you could only be entitled to actual damages, which you would need to show and prove. Plus you would have to pay your lawyer."
Grant Crowell is the CEO and Creative Director of Grantastic Designs, Inc., a full-service search engine marketing, web site design, and usability firm.
Introducing SES Online
Want to view one of the sessions you missed or listen to an especially informative presenter a second time? SES New York sessions are available for purchase on ClickZ Academy's new e-Learning site. SES is now Online! | <urn:uuid:2fa9e40a-9be6-4934-8c83-add6eea7bd1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048006/Copyrights-Trademarks-and-Search-Engines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955198 | 1,941 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The ups and downs of a mixed bunch
IN A diversified portfolio it shouldn't really matter how any single investment fares because there's always another going the other way. Still, it would be nice to know whether more of them are likely to go up or down. So here goes.
Take cash first, since it's the easiest. We know interest rates will fall because the Reserve Bank said so. In which case, sticking money into a term deposit will leave you like a shag on a rock. For a start, when it matures you'll get less but, potentially worse, it means you will have missed any upturn in the sharemarket. After all, there is nothing sharemarkets like more than falling interest rates.
Which brings me to fixed interest, a sector that has come under a cloud thanks to the credit crisis. Normally you can rely on it through thick and thin, though its performance in the year to June 30 was pretty lacklustre. Still, in the past 20 years fixed interest has gone backwards only once (in 1993-94 it slipped just 1.1percent) and, were it not for fears of rising inflation, bonds would have to be the investment most likely to succeed this financial year.
It may yet be. Rising inflation will put a floor under bond yields, which will fall to some extent, so producing some capital gains. But it's worth bearing in mind that what is termed fixed interest has become fuzzy. A fixed interest fund, for example, is likely to contain assorted hybrids such as converting preference shares and floating rate securities. These have higher yields than boring old bonds but only because they're a halfway house to shares.
Their prices can be volatile and are just as likely to move on a change in market sentiment as a change in interest rates. "You're loading equity risk into a defensive part of asset allocation," says Andrew Pease, investment strategist at Russell Investment Group. As for the sharemarket, it's impossible to tell whether it has bottomed yet but we sure must be near it. Positives are falling interest rates, the comparative strength of Australia's banking sector and record profits. The negatives: a cooling off of commodity prices; the slump in the dollar that puts the hedge funds off investing here; and a slowing economy.
Then there is a skittish Wall Street - which in this age of globalisation has a disproportionate influence on the market - that could go either way. Judging by past bear markets, we appear to be about halfway. In which case a strong upturn next year is more likely than not.
The asset class that has been trashed the most since the credit crisis came to town has been listed property trusts (LPTs). There's no disputing the reasons: they became overloaded with debt (considering they're supposed to be defensive and have been a staple of super funds) and the market had pushed their prices up too far in the first place. As is the way of markets, though, the fact that LPTs have fallen so out of favour makes them more attractive because they are cheaper. In any case, there's not much evidence that the values of shopping malls, office blocks and industrial estates have been sliding precipitously. "The time will come again when we look at LPTs as defensive," says MLC investment strategist Brian Parker. He predicts they'll have no choice but to get their act together "by selling assets and going back to basics". So no quick recovery there, then.
The other main asset class is international shares - the most volatile investment because as well as the normal market shenanigans there are the even more bizarre currency fluctuations to be reckoned with.
"Self-managed funds are usually 90percent Australian shares but they should allocate more to international shares with growing emerging markets and the dollar coming off, or they'll miss out on growth opportunities," says Michael Hutton of HLB Mann Judd.Source: The Sun-Herald
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Preservation Conference 2008
The 2008 Utah Preservation Conference featured rehab workshops for homeowners, educational and training sessions for planners, architects, and preservationists of all levels. We also offered tours of Fort Douglas as well as many other historic buildings throughout Salt Lake City.
The free marketplace featured many of UHF’s partners in preservation including architects, contractors, and green builders. Visitors enjoy hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and live entertainment while browsing through books, antiques, and historic reproductions from local vendors.
Utah Heritage Foundation hosted Architecture's Tradition: The Avenues Homes Tour, our Annual Historic Building Tour on Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Visitors saw how the styles of Utah’s architecture evolved from 1850 to 1950 in the historic Avenues neighborhood. The tour featured some of the finest homes designed by Utah architects and constructed in different periods of Utah’s history.
Tickets for the Tour cost $15 for Utah Heritage Foundation members and $20 for the public. On the day of the tour, tickets were available at tour headquarters, the Ensign Stake Center building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 135 A Street, Salt Lake City.
Friday, April 18 started at 7:45 AM, at our Breakfast to Sustain You, held in the Officer’s Club on Historic Fort Douglas. If you have not heard it already, the breakfast emphasized the saying that the "greenest building is the one that’s already built." We learned how historic preservation and new green building practices are breaking ground across Utah and setting national trends and why preservationists should be leading this cause. | <urn:uuid:49e1e97b-6f38-4469-9935-10e95bc951f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://utahheritagefoundation.org/tours-and-events/preservation-conference/2008pc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9446 | 347 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Institute for Artist Management’s blog just published a full view of Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen’s new book “Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land”. It is the second annual publication from their amazing Sochi Project and concerns itself with the tiny and absurd nation of Abkhazia. Hornstra of course is a favorite of ours and we’ve written about his work many times in the past (and recently posted a great video interview). But this is one of the first times I’ve gotten to really dig in to one of his books (other than briefly flipping through a copy of 101 Billionaires earlier this year) and see how it all comes together in the form that he clearly prefers. This book is a thick 272 pages with lots of interesting text and maps. It is great that there is a complete preview online, you can see and read it all, but the real book would be of course much superior to absorb their words and pictures (e.g. the recent discussion “Seeing work on a computer is not seeing it at all”)
‘Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land’ (ELPLFL) is an account of four years spent travelling through Abkhazia. Abkhazia broke away from Georgia after a short, violent civil war in ’92-’93 and was recognised as independent in 2008 by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and the atoll of Nauru. Over the past four years we have seen how the country has slowly attempted to claw its way out of isolation. We visited the refugees in Georgia and described the attempts made by the Abkhazian government to repopulate the empty, war-ravaged country with new immigrants.
In ‘Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land’, we sketch a picture of Abkhazia from the perspective of many different Abkhazians, from pupil to president, in cities and in the countryside. It is the first time that the young country has been so extensively portrayed in words and images.
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By Ken Favaro
FORTUNE -- Plenty of well-known CEOs have been brought in to run large companies based in countries outside their native lands. Carlos Ghosn at Nissan and Renault, Muhtar Kent at Coca-Cola (KO), Indra Nooyi at PepsiCo (PEP), and Howard Stringer at Sony (SNE) come to mind.
Meanwhile, globalization continues to gain momentum following a slowdown after the 2008-09 worldwide economic downturn. The globetrotting corporate leader jetting from continent to continent to oversee vast business empires has become the expectation.
The idea of the "global CEO" -- usually understood as chief executives who either come from a country other than where their company is headquartered, or have spent a considerable amount of their careers working "overseas" -- makes sense. Companies require a level of expertise outside their home territories that goes beyond what they have needed in the past.
But if you look at the people who have become CEOs at the world's largest 2,500 public companies in 2012, the conventional notion of the global CEO is a myth. Among the incoming class of 300 new CEOs in 2012, just 19% were nationals of a country outside their company's headquarters. Even at the 250 largest companies in our study -- those most likely to be truly global -- only 25% of incoming CEOs came from another country.
Last year's numbers on new-CEO nationality closely resemble the average over the past four years, suggesting that the overall percentage of "global chief executives" isn't on the rise. And these new, native CEOs are not necessarily globetrotters. Last year, just 45% of incoming CEOs had experience working in a region other than their companies' own; at the largest 250 companies in our study, the figure rose only to 52%.
U.S. companies hire foreign CEOs far less often than European companies. Over the past four years, for instance, 14% of U.S.-based companies hired a foreigner, while fully 30% of Western European companies have done so. (Granted, European companies hired "foreigners" most often from other European countries.) In Japan, just 1% of new CEOs were foreign.
CEO nationality differs among individual industries. Over the past four years, more than a quarter of new CEOs brought into companies in the telecom and consumer staples sectors globally were foreign-born, compared to just 12% of utilities CEOs and 9% of those in the IT industry. Most utilities are regionally focused, so the industry's low rate is understandable. As for IT companies, employees at these firms tend to be younger, and have had fewer opportunities for international experience.
Most CEOs are natives of their companies' home countries, and they have not spent, for the most part, considerable lengths of time abroad. With all the talk about globalization and the worldly CEO, this may come as a surprise. But should it? I don't think so -- for several reasons.
For starters, boards at most large corporations are not especially global, despite the likely presence of a few token foreigners. At its most extreme, this can lead to what might be called "familiarity corruption," a kind of cronyism where directors turn to people like themselves to fill critical positions. Today, companies are more global than their boardrooms, and this may explain why they are more global than their CEOs.
The length of time it takes to create a CEO also plays a part. The median age of the incoming CEO in 2012 was 53. These executives probably began their careers in the mid-1980s, when the business world was considerably less global than it is today. Many companies simply didn't feel the need to give promising young executives the wide range of geographical experience their counterparts would likely get today.
It's possible that future chief executives will have gained considerable international experience, but will it matter? Already, a common business language has taken hold throughout the world. Market share, customer segmentation, new-product development, return on invested capital, risk management -- doing business at the largest companies has become an extremely sophisticated endeavor, and the issues are understood in every geography. Corporate leaders may no longer need to spend significant portions of their careers living in different markets around the world to learn this language and be an effective CEO of a global company.
Living abroad is a great way to gain a deep understanding of a particular market. I know this from personal experience, having spent 13 years working and raising a family outside my home country, the U.S. This proved invaluable experience when I became CEO of the firm I worked for. Yet executives now spend so much time traveling the world in the ordinary course of business that the career value of the expat experience is simply not as great as it used to be.
Perhaps in the future, what makes a "global CEO" will not have anything to do with an executive's place of birth or time spent outside home markets, but rather by his or her understanding of how business is now conducted around the world, no matter where one lives.
Ken Favaro is a senior partner with Booz & Company. He is one of the authors of the firm's annual Chief Executive Study.
New research has revealed a sizable gap between what the business world needs and what business schools provide to their students. What's standing in the way and what can business schools do to step up their game?
By Robert F. Bruner, contributor
(poetsandquants.com) -- We face a yawning gap between the aspirations and the achievements of business schools when it comes to globalization. The bane of most business school deans MOREFeb 25, 2011 6:27 PM ET
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AXA Business Insurance reports a rise of 162 per cent from 2009-2012 with British businesses ultimately having to foot the bill.
In 2012 alone, AXA saw a year on year rise of 75 per cent in the number of deafness claims and had more claims for deafness than any other type of workplace injury or illness. The company attributes the rise as a primary reason for an overall increase of over 30 per cent in Employer Liability claims.
The insurer is concerned that the rise in claims is being fuelled by compensation lawyers and claims management companies targeting potential claimants. And while there are obviously many genuine claims, the company has also seen evidence of a growing number of fraudulent claims. It believes the trend in these claims has many similarities to the massive rise in personal injury claims among drivers over the last few years.
David Williams, managing director, Underwriting, AXA Insurance, said: “The issue for British industry is that, as we have seen with other areas of insurance in the UK, lots of claims inevitably lead to higher premiums in order to cover the cost of payouts. As British business struggles through a prolonged period of recession, the last thing they need is the added expense that this will bring.
“We are very keen to work with British businesses, the rest of the insurance industry and government to put in place effective measures to stop this becoming the next whiplash.”
According to HSE statistics, around one million people in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise that could affect their hearing. Current Control of Noise regulations require all employers to provide protection in any working environment where decibel levels exceed 85.
David Williams concluded: “We would urge employers to be really thorough in ensuring employees are provided with proper protection and that using it correctly is robustly enforced. By doing this they can help us nip this growing problem in the bud before it starts impacting on their bottom line.”
The Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) hub provides comprehensive and up-to-date guidance on the Sale of Goods Act for retailers and business support organisations.
All the training and promotional materials provided are available to access online or to download in a variety of formats. Business can print and save, add their own branding, copy and paste into existing documents or link to them via the business website or intranet, or share the information directly with members of staff.
The Distance Selling (DS) hub provides guidance for retailers and business support organisation on regulations affecting buying and selling goods and services via the internet, phone, mail order, email, interactive TV or text.
Businesses can use the information and materials on the hub by copying and pasting into existing documents, downloading and printing or by linking directly to their website/intranet.
Both the SOGA and DS hubs offer the facility to register to receive regular relevant regulation updates.
With Christmas approaching, and all expectations pointing to another bumper season for ecommerce and credit card transactions, fears are rising that most UK businesses are taking inadequate steps to safeguard customers’ credit card details.
Analysis by Ground Labs, the identity protection specialists, has found that the vast majority of UK businesses hold consumer credit card data unwittingly. Holding credit card details in this way is a breach of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance obligations and can attract up to a £500,000 fine by the Information Commissioner Officer (ICO) in a case of a data breach.
Latest figures show that £341 million was stolen in the UK in 2011 through credit card fraud. There is a global black market for credit card data and hacking incidents have risen by 19 per cent in the past six months. The UK is consistently among the top three most targeted countries and in August 2012 suffered 69 per cent of worldwide phishing attacks.
Retention of credit card data is an issue for businesses of all sizes. A random survey of security experts who use Ground Labs software across more than 100 consumer-facing businesses found that every one of them had credit card details unwittingly stored on IT equipment. On average more than 1,000 credit card records were found by Ground Labs’ software within each business sampled.
Even businesses that claim to be compliant with agreed global standards for credit card data security hold rogue details, the Ground Labs survey has found. There are various possible reasons for this, all linked to standard computer processes such as browser caches or email duplications.
Amongst the worst examples uncovered was a company that firmly believed it had no records. It was found that the business actually held more than 20 million credit card numbers on servers throughout its network.
“We have more than 1,000 businesses across the UK and Europe that have used our software and every single business found erroneous card records in its IT systems”, said European director for Ground Labs, Mohamed Zouine. “What we have found is that even those businesses that believe that their systems are clean are carrying records that could be easily acquired by hackers.”
Many UK businesses have adopted an open mind, accepting there may be hidden data, and have already taken steps to identify and resolve any possible problems. Ground Labs is advocating the use of a simple software programme called Card Recon as part of the standard systems maintenance routine to detect and remove credit card details.
Mohamed Zouine added: “We believe a routine check should be as frequent as anti-virus checks. There are many ways in which card details can remain on business’s IT infrastructure unwittingly. Transaction logs sent back from banks, browser caches, email duplications and more can hold sensitive data that has a black market value in the wrong hands and can be used to defraud consumers.”
Zouine added: “The issue for small businesses is that they are far less protected than large corporations. It is relatively easy for an entrepreneurial thief to steal IT equipment or hack in to a business and retrieve valuable credit card data.”
The software is also beneficial for consumers. A similar routine test of 50 PCs and laptops found that all but one of them held credit card details without the owner’s knowledge. “It is surprising to learn that many businesses continue prompting customers to email their credit card information as part of completing a transaction such as a hotel reservation for example,” Zouine commented.
Slade was speaking in the wake of the public criticism of several high-profile figures – including G4S’s chief executive Nick Buckles, Barclays Bank’s Bob Diamond and the Border Force’s Brodie Clarke.
Slade explained: “While these high profile cases hit the nation’s headlines for millions to see, open criticism of employees in much smaller businesses can also pose a real risk. If there are performance or conduct issues, you clearly need to deal with it professionally and properly. But that certainly must not include communications to colleagues who don’t ‘need to know’.”
He said that the people who spoke out in the G4S, Barclays and Border Force cases might have had good intention – and reports do suggest that there have been some fundamental mistakes and issues, for which someone must be accountable. But if employers in small businesses start to speak about problems with colleagues, this can easily be seen to undermine the individual, to the extent of making their position untenable. This in turn can lead to grievances and potential tribunal claims.
“If somebody says something in the public arena which is likely to break the relationship of trust and confidence between employee and employer, then that could be deemed as grounds for constructive dismissal by an employment tribunal,” Slade said. “Managers should always be vigilant in terms of what they say to whom about whom. We can all become frustrated with performance or conduct issues, and there is often a temptation to share those frustrations with others. But if you really don’t want to spend the time and effort in dealing with grievance and worse, then it is a temptation best avoided!”
Slade concluded: “It’s simply a matter of confidentiality and applying a sensible amount of discretion to avoid this happening. When addressing negative performance or conduct issues, make sure that it is always done in private. And never relay confidential information or personal opinions to that employee’s peers or direct reports.
“While in these high profile cases the companies may be in a position to afford a commercial compromise settlement when the employee in question exits the business, I doubt very much that most SMEs would welcome such a pay-out.”
British SME: Could you start by giving me an overview of Axa’s offering to SMEs
Darrell Sansom: Axa has been providing solutions to small businesses for a number of years. What we see, particularly in the micro sector – up to nine employees – and particularly trades and professionals is a month on month increase in searches through Google for business insurance policies. And combined with the feedback we were getting led us to believe there was a very strong appetite for an online experience.
There remained issues over the flexibility of the product and confidence in buying online. If you take home insurance, for example, there’s a belief that one policy is very much like another, therefore people feel competent enough to buy it. That’s different when it comes to commercial insurance. It’s about what do I need, how much do I need, when do I need it. And there’s less understanding of what different products do. So there was a belief that buying business insurance is complex.
So we’ve tried to remove those inhibitors to allow our customers to fulfil their requirements, and that’s what we’ve done with the investment in our new website.
BSME: What’s your involvement with StartUp Britain?
Sansom: The current economic climate means there are fewer options available for people. So people coming out of school or university are finding there are fewer jobs available, so starting a business becomes a real option. Then the larger companies are contracting, so you have people who come out with a bit of a redundancy payment and are looking for other options. So what we’re seeing is a community looking for a solution and we’re trying to support them in starting up a business and making it successful.
These people are experts in what they do, but they are not experts in being a business – a builder may be a great builder but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to be great at running a builder’s business. You may not have the first idea of the need for employers’ liability insurance because you’ve never had to worry about it. And if you can get a new business through their first year, there’s a significant chance they will continue to flourish. We’re the insurance experts within this field but the role is wider than that – it’s about how we can support small firms get up and running.
BSME: From the research you’ve done, are there particular areas where start ups are failing?
Sansom: The biggest issue is cashflow – it can stop a business functioning. The business may be successful but if you can’t get the money in, money out stream correct, the business will grind to a halt. In terms of what people worry about, insurance actually comes quite far down the list – you’ve got regulation, employment law, tax – all the usual issues if you’re running a business.
BSME: And because the focus of a business is running that business, responsibilities like doing the accounts and so on tend to be done outside office hours – which makes having the option of buying products online more important
Sansom: From our point of view, we have all this online education, but if people still want to talk to us they can pick up the phone. So we have an advice team based in Glasgow who if at any part during the journey can be contacted by clients.
BSME: When it comes to the online offering, you have a very difficult balance to strike – the requirements of, say, a plumber, will be very different from those of someone who offers secretarial services?
Sansom: For the last 20 years or so, we’ve allowed businesses to pick from menu of the type of business that fits closest to what they do. So if you’re a plumber, you pick plumber. But our customers have been calling and saying, well I am a plumber, but my business also does a bit of this, and I don’t have any dealings in that. And that makes it more difficult to put people in a box. So to give people a better experience, we now allow people to describe their business much more fully, they can explain what they offer, whether they have assets, employees, where they work and so on. And that means your policy is a much better fit for you.
BSME: Do you feel that people broadly understand what they need before they come to you?
Sansom: Our online journey means we now have a significant amount of people who are confident about buying online. Those that do pick up the phone are usually looking for some comfort that they’ve got it right. There is a spectrum but what we have seen is that significantly more people are comfortable buying online. | <urn:uuid:7de703c5-d1e9-4f4f-a18d-c211b845e788> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britishsme.co.uk/tag/liability-insurance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9627 | 2,757 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Wolf Creek District Deploys NAC To Support BYOD
- By Dian Schaffhauser
An Alberta school district has gone public with its use of a network access control system from Alcatel-Lucent and InfoExpress to support a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. Wolf Creek Public Schools, which has about 7,200 K-12 students, implemented Safe Access Network Access Control (Safe NAC) as part of its development of the BYOD policy, which was introduced in September 2010.
Safe NAC checks to see that user devices have the required security software and updates before they're allowed access to the school's network and the Internet. It also enforces the district's policies for student devices, blocking access to services such as Skype.
"The vision was to have authenticated access, be able to identify who was using our network, and be able to check the integrity of student systems, so we could trust those systems to access network servers and other resources," said Mark McWhinnie, director of technology integration. "This is precisely what we've been able to achieve with Safe NAC."
Added district Assistant Superintendent Gary Spence, "We wanted more than a simple ISP service available to our staff and students. We wanted the experience to be as similar as possible to district device use. We wanted personally-owned devices to be full network citizens with access to all internal resources, and we wanted the experience to be seamless for the end user." The challenge, he noted, was that those non-district devices can introduce new security dangers to the district's network.
The school district began preparing for its BYOD project in 2005 at the same time it was piloting a 1-to-1 initiative. By 2008 it had started to assess various vendors for handling the NAC aspects of BYOD implementation.
"After considering various products we looked specifically at three vendors by having them provide an on-site demo," McWhinnie said. "After the demo and quote process was completed, we selected Alcatel-Lucent's Safe NAC during the late fall of 2008. In January 2009 our technology services team started working with engineers from Alcatel-Lucent and InfoExpress for several months with one particular school pilot site with a lead team. In fall 2009 we started to work with an entire department of teachers and students, and in September 2010 Safe NAC started to be deployed to be accessed by additional schools in the jurisdiction."
Safe NAC is an integrated system that provides guest access, device integrity checking, and role-based access control. It includes a number of components from Alcatel-Lucent and InfoExpress:
- OmniVista Access Guardian, which performs authentication, device compliance, and access control operations;
- Quarantine Manager, for securing the wired and wireless network by isolating devices that are "misbehaving";
- VitalQIP, for automating DNS and DHCP IP address management;
- InfoExpress' CyberGatekeeper Server, a NAC appliance for managing network access; and
- CyberGatekeeper Remote, a NAC appliance for managing remote access virtual private networks.
The system also comes with multi-vendor professional services.
McWhinnie said the decision to proceed with the use of personally owned devices has been up to each school administrator "as they feel their students, staff, and parents are ready to proceed." Currently, the district has 19 of 24 schools using BYOD to varying degrees.
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Being "green" and recycling to save the planet is a big thing right now, and only getting bigger. Most households across the country participate in some sort of recycling program, but sometimes you just don't know if you can recycle certain things such as makeup containers. Well, several of the major cosmetic and beauty lines have wonderful recycling programs. The kicker is that sometimes you're rewarded with a nice freebie of thanks from the company, all while doing your part in saving the planet.
Origins Recycling Program
In April 2009, Origins kicked-off their Return to Origins Recycling Program. They installed dedicated recycling receptacles in each of their stores so consumers can drop off cosmetic and toiletry bottles, compacts, tubes, caps, and jars. Origins also doesn't discriminate on what brand is being recycled, so they accept all cosmetic brand containers no matter who made it.
As a way of saying "thank you" for recycling and helping the planet, Origins will give consumers a Free sample of their choice of one of Origins high-performance skincare products. During the month of April in 2009, they were offering samples from their A Perfect World Collection, but samples may change and very by location. In the end you can feel good on the inside by doing your part to save the planet, and Origins can help you look great on the outside.
M.A.C Recycling Program
M.A.C Cosmetics is doing their part to promote recycling through their Back to M.A.C program. This program is pretty cut and dry where if you return six M.A.C primary packaging containers to either a M.A.C counter or online, then you will score a Free M.A.C lipstick of your choice. This is their way of thanking you for helping them keep our planet "green".
Kiehl's Recycling Program
Kiehl's always accepts their bottles and containers for recycling, and sometimes they also offer a "thank you" freebie as an incentive. In 2006 they had a great program in order to get consumers interested in recycling. At that time they offered a Free product of any size in return for three Kiehl's containers for recycling. That program ended, but they do have various promotions from time to time. For Earth Day 2008 they gave away a Kiehl's canvas tote bag as a way of saying "thanks" for keeping the earth green. Check your local Kiehl's location for new recycling promos.
Aveda Recycling Program
Aveda's Recycle Caps with Aveda program helps to eliminate the accumulation of plastic bottle caps in landfills, oceans, rivers, and elsewhere. Most of the time when you think the plastic caps are being recycled they are actually being thrown into landfills or bodies of water, where they are polluting our planet as well as being harmful to birds and wildlife. The program collects rigid polypropylene plastic caps that show a "5" on the plastic or in the recycling arrows. These caps can be found on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.
Aveda has set up collection sites at their salons and stores, as well as having partnered with various schools and communities across the country. Once the caps are collected, Aveda gives them to a recycler who then turns them into new caps and containers for various items. They kicked off the program officially at the Spring/Summer 2009 New York Fashion Week. Currently they don't offer an incentive for helping collect the caps, but you can contribute and feel great in doing so. Plus, when you drop off the caps feel free to ask if they have a promotional incentive for the program or if they are planning something soon. It's great to get something in return, but the fact that you have done your part to help wildlife and keep the planet clean should be enough. | <urn:uuid:49553b4f-b283-400d-8314-32a8cbaf4aa7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://makeup.about.com/od/companyprofiles/a/Recycling.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959625 | 832 | 1.554688 | 2 |
I invite you to check out this short science video produced by a group of teenagers during a program that I co-facilitated at the California Academy of Sciences called the "Science in Action Summer Intensive." Entitled "Fading Jewels of the Sea," this is the first of three science videos our team of 10 students produced during the two-week intensive at the Academy.
Our teens did everything from choosing the subjects of the videos, researching the topics, writing the scripts, recording the voiceovers, interviewing our scientists, assembling b-roll and other footage, and editing the video in Adobe Premiere. You can see from this video the quality of work that they produced in a record amount of time. I could not be prouder. | <urn:uuid:33fbd1f2-00a3-49e1-a2d4-4e54df617fa1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2012/09/watch-this-youth-produced-video-on-coral-reef-bleaching-from-the-cal-academy-video.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960759 | 151 | 1.625 | 2 |
Photographic portrait of Andrew Snyder, ca.1870-1889. He can be seen from the chest up facing straight ahead with his shoulders turned slightly to the right. He has a long thick goatee and moustache with no sideburns. His dark hair is combed back from his forehead and is trimmed above his ears. He is wearing a three-piece suit with a long tie.; Snyder's store at Tres Pinos, San Benito County was robbed by the bandito Tiburcio Vasquez. George Reaferu from Gilroy, a French shepherd, and Leland Davidson, hotel keeper at Paicames were killed during the incident. A collaborator, Chases, wanted to kill Snyder and his wife but Vasquez stopped him because Snyder had turned over all of his money and had not tried to hide anything. Snyder's evidence helped convict and, eventually hang (in San Jose, 1875), Vasquez, after his capture in 1874. -- according to G.G. Johnson. | <urn:uuid:89e417ea-e3d1-4fbd-9888-60e901308c7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/14869/rec/16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990138 | 209 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Tips for Traveling Dads
Being a dad is one tough job
If you are a working dad, travel often comes with the job. While it is difficult to miss first words, school plays, or even bedtime, your job is important in allowing you to provide for your family and keep them healthy and happy. Even though traveling may take a toll on you and your family, there are ways to stay connected while you are on the road.
How to be there when you're not
Communication is key. These days, it’s easy to stay in touch from almost anywhere. When you’re away, make sure you call home at least once a day. In fact, you can try to set a regular time that works for both you and your family, like before breakfast, after dinner, or before bed when everyone has time to be present and to listen and talk. Tell your kids details about your day and ask questions about theirs. Sending daily emails or emailing pictures of where you are and having your child do the same is another way to stay connected. Some computers and phones are even equipped with video capabilities so you can see the person you are speaking to. If you will be missing a school performance, sports game, or other event, see if another parent might be taping it and watch it with your child when you return.
Support your family. Supporting your family means more that providing for them. In many families where dads travel, they often become the good guy – the one who is around on the weekend or brings presents. Make sure you also take on the role of disciplinarian when you’re in town, and even when you’re away, as much as you can. Support your partner/spouse (or caregiver of your children if you’re a single dad) by speaking with them daily, as well, and letting them know that they can reach you if and when needed. If you do have a partner or spouse, give them a break when you return by taking over childcare, but also make sure you and that person gets to spend some quality alone time together.
Ready, set, go! Before you head out of town, make sure you have taken care of anything that might need your attention while you are gone. For example, sign and camp or school forms, know what events or activities your child will be attending, and help your partner, spouse, or children’s caregiver in planning meals, childcare, or rides. Show your children where you will be on the map and mark on a calendar how long you will be gone. Talk to them about helping out around the house and listening to whomever is in charge while you are gone. You can even leave notes under their pillows or on near the cereal box for them to find, so that they be reminded of your presence.
Talk to your boss. Being a working parent is far from unusual at most workplaces. Have a talk with your boss about flexibility in general, not just for when you are traveling. Having children means things will come up during the workday. Be ready to give and take and put in some time from home or some overtime when needed in exchange for being able to coach a soccer team or staying home when a child is sick. When it comes to travel, try to keep trips short or work out coming home for the weekend if it is an extended trip.
Reprinted with the permission of the One Tough Job campaign. © Children's Trust Fund of Massachusetts 2007. All rights reserved.
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"For more than a decade, I and my colleagues in the Assembly Majority have fought to protect tenants and make New York's rent laws stronger. When Governor Pataki and his colleagues in the old Senate Majority wanted to end New York's rent laws completely, we said no and we stopped them. Because of that one act we were able to protect more than a million rent-regulated apartments and we ensured the security of more than two-and-a-half million tenants living in New York City and its surrounding suburbs."
"Still, New York's broken rent laws have led to the loss of more than 300,000 rent- stabilized and rent-controlled apartments and fueled a rush to raise rents which has led to the widespread intimidation and harassment of tenants. Over the past decade we have watched as the rent laws fed rampant speculation in multi-family housing by investors bent on evicting residents and families from their apartments. Today we say that we cannot sit back as the lifeblood of our communities-teachers, firefighters, police and everyday working people-are priced out of where they live. Today the Assembly acted to finally fix New York's rent laws and make them stronger," said Silver (D-Manhattan).
"New York cannot continue to bleed affordable housing as it has in the past decade," said Lopez (D-Brooklyn). "The Assembly has heard the call of hardworking housing advocates and today we passed the important laws tenants need to keep them from being priced out of their apartments. Our legislation stands to preserve potentially thousands of tenants in rent-regulated apartments in the New York metropolitan area from excessive rent increases, harassment and intimidation from landlords. Today's legislative package protects working families and seniors. We will continue to listen to the voices of tenants, who are already facing tough economic times to ensure that housing remains available and affordable."
The Assembly housing package included ten bills that would strengthen rent regulation and protect working families.
In order to the halt the trend of runaway rents, the Assembly passed legislation sponsored by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) that repeals vacancy decontrol laws that permit landlords to remove apartments from regulation by charging rents at or above $2000 per month (A.2005). The bill would also re-regulate thousands of New York City apartments that rent for less than $5000 per month.
"Passing vacancy decontrol legislation will restore much-needed units of affordable housing to the city and make it possible for middle class families to remain in New York," said Rosenthal. "In the midst of the worst economic downturn in decades, it is the responsibility of every elected official to protect affordable housing and remove incentives for landlords to evict regulated tenants from their apartments. The end of vacancy decontrol is a major win for preserving New York's diversity, which is its greatest strength."
The Assembly package included a bill to limit the amount a landlord could increase rent on a vacated apartment from 20 percent to 10 percent, preserving thousands of affordable units (A.1686/Lopez).
To correct a flawed rent regulation statute that has allowed thousands of apartments to become unregulated, Assemblymember Jonathan L. Bing (D-Manhattan) sponsored legislation adjusting the income decontrol thresholds to more accurately reflect economic realities and tie future increases to the rate of inflation in the New York metropolitan area, where housing costs have skyrocketed in recent years (A.860).
To preserve affordable housing in New York City, the Assembly housing package included a bill that would require that former federal Section 8 properties in New York City automatically be subject to rent regulation (A.1687/Lopez).
The Assembly passed legislation that would limit a landlord's ability to recover an apartment for personal use to one unit per property (A.1685/Lopez). The legislation also included stringent guidelines preventing a landlord from recovering an apartment rented by a long-term tenant or senior.
New York City would be empowered to preserve affordable housing units with the Assembly's passage of a bill to revoke the Urstadt Law (A.1688/Lopez). This legislation would help secure the nation's largest supply of rent-regulated apartments by permitting New York City to enact stronger regulations than those provided under state law. By revoking the Urstadt Law, New York City would gain tremendous local control to protect its affordable housing stock.
In order to safeguard tenants in Mitchell-Lama housing from paying exorbitant rents when the owners of these properties withdraw from the program, the Assembly passed legislation requiring rents to stay the same when these apartments are subjected to rent-stabilization guidelines (A.857/Bing).
"If we implement this policy as actual state law, we can ensure it stays in effect to protect Mitchell-Lama residents in buildings that are leaving the program. We must assure them that they will not face sudden and exorbitant rent increases," said Bing. "Additionally, we would not have to be concerned that a future governor could change the policy."
The Assembly approved a bill sponsored by Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell (D-Manhattan) to extend the length of time over which major capital improvement (MCI) expenses may be recovered by landlords (A.1928). Additionally, the legislation would prohibit rent surcharges authorized for MCIs after the cost of the improvement has been recovered.
"Tenants should not continue to pay for capital improvements years after building owners recover the cost of necessary renovations," said O'Donnell. "With this legislation, we have a middle ground that gives landlords an incentive to make improvements on their property, while not excessively charging tenants in an already perilous housing market."
In order to protect tenants from the type of harassment that leads many to vacate their apartments, the Assembly passed a bill to increase civil penalties that the Division of Housing and Community Renewal could impose on landlords (A.2002/Silver). The bill would also stiffen penalties for landlords who violate DHCR rent-regulated housing codes.
The Assembly approved legislation by Assemblymember Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) to protect tenants with preferential rental agreements from exorbitant rent increases upon the renewal of a lease (A.465).
"For more than a decade, rent-regulated tenants have been under assault, victimized by rising rents, abusive landlords and a housing market that skyrocketed out of control," said Jeffries "This assault includes landlords who lure tenants into renting an apartment by offering a lower, preferential rent, only to dramatically raise the rent a short time later upon lease renewal. The preferential rent reform bill will halt this practice, and make it easier for working families to keep their homes."
The legislative package will be referred to the Senate.
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On the website of the Village Royal, a private, pedestrianised street near the Place de la Madeleine, the location is described as 'prestigeux village au coeur de Paris'. Walking along its polished stone slabs one question comes to mind - how many villages have Dior and Chanel outlets?
Its current aspect stems back to 1992 when the street was completely renovated, with the architect - Jean-Jacques Ory - seeking to recreate the 'esprit d'une rue de village'. Everything was therefore rebuilt 'à l'ancienne', but of course nothing in the Village Royal is authentic, starting with the name. Originally built as a market known as the Marché d'Aguesseau at the end of the 18th century, it was for a long time home to bakers, fishmongers and numerous butchers. It's real name today is the Cité Berryer, an identity it adopted in the 19th century after the market was shut down.
With its potted palms, the 'village' has seemingly been dressed up as some kind of miniature Saint Tropez, but its principal goal is clearly to promote the exclusive brands that occupy the shop units. There is though - temporarily - one exception to this rule. The single tree in the street is currently providing a home to birdhouses designed by 30 different artists, architects and designers.
The installation, called 'Commissariat pour un arbre #1', was put together by French artist Mathieu Mercier. Although more likely to frighten any birds that accidently find themselves in the village than offer them a comfortable home, the creations do at least offer a touch of colour and humour in this most pretentious of environments. | <urn:uuid:ff27f87d-0d83-49fd-9acb-2e3e63870dc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com/2012/05/birdhouses-for-soul-in-village-without.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962469 | 354 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Today, the Orlando Science Center held the Inspire Science Breakfast. The event is an opportunity to celebrate the Science Center's role as a vital community resource that ignites the spark for tomorrow's leaders in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The 2013 edition featured special guests that truly exemplify the Science Center's mission to inspire science learning for life. Dr. Morgan Cable, the first-ever winner of the Dr. Ying Competition, was present to speak to the power the Science Center has in inspiring future scientists, doctors and teachers.
The Orlando Science Center also paid tribute to a man that has given so much via knowledge, scientific discovery and philanthropy as Dr. Nelson Ying became the first-ever recipient of the President's Star Maker Award.
Guests had an opportunity to get involved by making a donation, pledging to volunteer and sharing the vision of the Science Center in our community. You, too, can make a difference just as they did. To start, explore the "Support' section of our website. | <urn:uuid:f3eb1bfd-a617-4a71-b9d7-bdf2feb4c6a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://osc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933122 | 437 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Lundin Petroleum AB (LUPE), which has interests in eight licenses in the Barents Sea off northern Norway, said gas discoveries in the area may stay undeveloped until a south-bound export pipeline is built.
Discoveries that aren’t profitable to develop because of lacking infrastructure could be left in the ground, Chief Executive Officer Ashley Heppenstall said yesterday in an interview in Stavanger, on Norway’s western cost. “I’d be lying if I said we didn’t wish for a pipeline to be built.”
Statoil ASA (STL), Norway’s biggest oil and gas producer, has said it favors an expansion of its liquefied natural gas plant which processes output from the Snohvit field, the first to be developed in the Barents Sea, over a pipeline. Companies such as Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (DETNOR) have also said that failing to build pipes could strangle new gas finds in the Barents Sea.
Norway is moving into the waters off its northern tip to boost output after oil production fell by half in the past decade amid dwindling North Sea output. Companies including Statoil and Total SA (FP) of France have over the past year made commercial discoveries of oil and gas in the Barents Sea such as Skrugard, the first in more than a decade.
Lundin and Det Norske share interests in the Skalle gas find in the Barents Sea, and are drilling the Salina prospect in the area. Det Norske CEO Erik Haugane said Aug. 15 he hoped it would be an oil find so it could be developed profitably.
While Lundin might be “less aggressive” in the Barents Sea if it knew it only had a chance of finding gas and not oil, it believes further discoveries will force a solution for exports, Heppenstall said.
“I’m a firm believer in market forces. If the resources are there, there will be an export solution,” he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mikael Holter in Oslo at [email protected]
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Source: GEA Process Engineering
GEA Process Engineering has received an order for building the world’s largest dairy spray dryer from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order is one of the largest ever for GEA Process Engineering amounting to about $92 million.
When this dairy spray dryer is completed, by August 2013, everything about it will be massive. The plant will have a capacity of 30 tons per hour of whole milk powder equivalent to more nearly 10 million lb/day of milk. This means that approx. 260,000 cows must be milked each day on average and that around 200 milk tankers are required to carry the milk to the plant.
"GEA Process Engineering has been in the business of developing and supplying dairy spray dryers for nearly 80 years now and we see dairy as one of our most important markets. We have, therefore, a continued focus on innovation and see this milestone order as proof of our leading technological position," says Niels Erik Olsen, Executive Vice President and Segment Board member at GEA Process Engineering.
Fonterra is a world leading exporter of dairy products, processing around 90% of New Zealand’s milk. Fonterra is also a major player in the international dairy industry where Fonterra produces and trades approximately 40% of all traded whole milk powder.
The new project will be named Darfield D2 and is the second of two plants on the Darfield green-field site which GEA Process Engineering has undertaken for Fonterra. The scope of the project which only utilises GEA process technology covers milk reception, standardization, evaporation, drying, powder transport and packing. The plant will be the seventh green-field plant supplied by GEA Process Engineering in New Zealand over the past five years. GEA Process Engineering is currently working on the first stage of the Darfield dairy, called Darfield D1.
"Both parties are working well together on the Darfield D1 project, which is well under way, and naturally we are happy that we have also been awarded this second project at the Darfield site. Now that we have signed the deal with Fonterra, our employees and I are thrilled, and we cannot wait to start this new major project," says David Bower, Managing Director of GEA Process Engineering New Zealand.
The end products of the new plant will service the growing markets in the Middle East, South East Asia and China, where the demand for milk powder products is rising. | <urn:uuid:f7bf0233-4b45-4135-8ae6-6f6ebfc56333> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.agweb.com/mymachinery/article/fonterra_to_build_worlds_largest_dairy_spray_dryer_/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962475 | 517 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Seminar 30 June
GSQ's Annual Seminar will be held on Sunday 30 June 2013 at the Queen Alexandra Community Centre.
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Researching family history has become one of the world’s most popular pastimes. The Genealogical Society of Queensland has been helping people find their heritage for over 30 years.
We have Queensland’s largest family history reference library and our experienced volunteers can provide advice and assistance on all aspects of genealogy. Our program of classes, workshops and seminars has something for everyone. And our secure online shop allows you to purchase a range of society services and products as well as family history publications and software.
If you are an experienced researcher, or are only starting out on your genealogical journey, GSQ can help you explore your family’s heritage. | <urn:uuid:85bc5638-4891-4882-8041-6fd41bd49814> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gsq.org.au/index.php/events/coursespresentations/venueevents/1-gsq-resource-centre?fontstyle=f-smaller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941594 | 177 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Corporate lobbyists for a few oil, gas and mining companies are fighting hard to water down European transparency laws that could help millions of people escape poverty. If their efforts are successful billions of dollars of payments they make to African governments will remain secret, fuelling corruption and starving vital services like hospitals and schools of funding. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Today we are stepping up our campaign on this issue. As key decision makers across Europe prepare to meet and discuss the laws, we are launching a powerful new advert in the Financial Times and other major newspapers across Europe. We’re showing people how the law risks being watered down.
Dear European Leaders, Please stand up to corporate lobbying against proposed EU laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publish payments to foreign governments. Pass strong laws that will help citizens spot corruption and ensure the money is used to lift millions of people out of poverty.
The new laws are a once in a generation opportunity to lift the lid on these secret payments that allow unscrupulous leaders to siphon off some of the profits. We can’t afford to miss this opportunity to get it right.
Please help intensify this pressure by signing our petition calling on leaders to stand up to this fierce corporate lobbying.
We’ve seen the damage the resource curse can do in countries like Equatorial Guinea which has vast wealth from oil but huge inequality. Seven in ten people live in poverty despite the country having a greater average wealth per person than some European countries. The proposed new laws provide a once in a lifetime opportunity to turn the resource curse into a blessing. Let’s not waste this. Call on European leaders to show their mettle and stand up to corporate lobbying.
If enough of us join together we can help millions of people lift themselves out of poverty.
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§ On the resumption of the Adjourned Debate on the Motion for leave to bring in a Bill, it was proposed to postpone the Order to Monday, the 22nd instant.
§ MR. T. R. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)
protested against the way this Bill was being put off. Scotch Members had been kept waiting on the chance of the Order being reached that night, and now they were to be hurried back on the Monday that the House reassembled on the same chance. He 1367 moved that the Bill be put down for the Thursday.
§ MR. ASQUITH
said, he hoped the Amendment would not be persisted in. The Government strongly desired to bring in the Bill. As a Scotch Member he was himself interested in it. They were pledged to bring on the Factories Bill immediately after the Recess, and would put this Bill down next.
§ MR. T. H. COCHRANE (Ayrshire, N.)
said, that it would be an inconvenience to him as a Scotch Member to return on the Monday.
§ MR. W. E. M. TOMLINSON
said, it had been usual to take Estimates on the first day after a Recess.
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I made a tough decision not too long ago. I decided to give up my credit card habit. Think about it, I don’t need to buy four pairs of shoes at one time, nor do I need to buy three more purses. Bye, bye retail therapy.
Statistics show that in March 2010 revolving credit in the United States totaled $852.6 Billion dollars, 98% of that is debt. There were days when I felt that most of that debt was mine. It was just time to go back to the old way of doing things.
When my Colombian mother-in-law died ten years ago, she left a house that was paid off, fifteen thousand dollars in a safe deposit box and various other liquid accounts. This was a woman who never earned more than minimum wage, as a seamstress, and sometimes spent months unemployed while the coat factory went on seasonal hiatus. What was she doing right?
On September 15th, Being Latino posted a blog by Carlos Macias, The Battle Against Racism Starts from Within. It was a great blog, but what got me right in the financial gut was the link to a photo essay. As I flipped through those pictures, the captions showed how much money they were sending back home. A fast food delivery worker was sending five hundred dollars a week while a waiter was sending home three hundred and fifty dollars. What are they doing right?
They are all paying cash for their purchases and living a simpler life. We all pay for things that are a convenience but not a necessity. Do we really need to pay twenty-six dollars a month for a cable network when we only watch two series on the network? A recent article indicates that the use of credit cards in the United States is down and the trend may continue when financial stability improves.
I’m going to start improving my financial stability now. My healthy credit rating may take a hit, but when I show up to buy a new car with half of the purchase price in cash, I don’t think they’re going to turn me down. If you see me in the Coach store, be assured that I’m checking out the purse that I’m going to buy at the outlet next year. | <urn:uuid:aaf5d2be-e5bc-4a73-b3bf-d1f945e2fdab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beinglatino.us/mas/business-2/cash-or-credit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979052 | 460 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Ray Reynolds, 82, book collector and author who also wrote about California history, died Sunday in Santee near San Diego of complications from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Born in Small Point, Newfoundland, and raised near Hartford, Conn., Reynolds earned a bachelor's degree at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in English literature at Los Angeles' Occidental College. During World War II, he served in Italy and North Africa as a journalist with Stars and Stripes.
He worked for a succession of newspapers until 1961, when he became a founding teacher of journalism at Grossmont Community College in San Diego. Over the years, Reynolds developed an expertise in collecting, dealing in and writing about rare books.
Among his own books are "Cat'spaw Utopia," about Albert Kimsey Owen's 19th century attempt to establish a utopian colony on the west coast of Mexico; "The Insider's Guide to Old Books, Magazines, Newspapers and Trade Catalogs" (coauthored with Ron Barlow); and "California the Curious." Historian Kevin Starr wrote the forward to that 1989 compendium of unusual California tidbits, noting, "Reynolds has arranged for his readers a Zen garden. Each fact is exquisitely emplaced." | <urn:uuid:55aa3f27-56d0-445e-90c4-4f8bfe435dd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/25/local/me-26390 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969227 | 259 | 1.75 | 2 |
Befall fond of is the mind why broadcast get on to into relationships in the at the start place. However, with estimate, love in relationships fades and, the link continues. Without mutual love from both partners, relationships take aim up being suffocated or being starved to death. Keeping physically looking skilled and remembering to deposit your partner initially are two valuable steps to lasting romance. But this is solely a start. A long-term link requires a stanchness to making it bring in this area and a shared joie de vivre that doesn’t dissipate the following your partner upsets you. In the article below I will give you more tips.
First, you need to keep in mind that be fond of in relationships are furthermore kaput by very serious problems. For model, as trust is kaput through infidelity, love linking a link will solidly occur under attack. Make guaranteed that you look back to approximately of the factors that affect your love and it is at this time that you will discover solutions on how to revive it and keep up it. Many couples will realize that forgiveness is an effectual way of maintaining love in relationships. When you love a bigwig, all could appear to be exact but, probability are that you will discover fault with your partner by lone top or the other.
Second, you furthermore need to remember that skilled masculinity is answer to lone link. Even the Pope would probably tell you that. If you thumbs down longer ask your partner, you very well may possibly thumbs down longer love him. When ask fades, so too does love and sub- versa.
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Most broadcast sort made known not discover it tiresome to discover love but what starts to fit hurdles things is that it is more tiresome to make on to it take up again. Yet it is not impracticable to keep your love pro all other. Keeping your love pro all other strong is not impracticable if you understand why relationships fall apart and are able to figure step these pitfalls. But this is solely a start. A long-term link requires a stanchness to making it bring about and a shared joie de vivre that doesn’t dissipate the second your partner upsets you. Below are more tips for you.
First, you should know that at the start we all look after to believe that our extra love can sort out thumbs down ill-treat. Equally our link unhurriedly changes from falling in love to being in love and all the day after day problems that have to be faced up to, it is so straightforward to lose approximately of the ahead of schedule glamour. At this top many couples conclude that they are thumbs down longer in love with all other and split up. The actuality is that you are vacant to waste much more calculate in this ‘normal’ mode than you will in the ahead of schedule ‘glamour’ mode. You should recognize this is a impeccably habitual advance in an adult link.
Second, you also need to know that good masculinity is answer to one link. Even the Pope would probably tell you that. If you thumbs down longer ask your partner, you very well could thumbs down longer love him.
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Why is it that so many relationships, which start off with such energy and eagerness, seem to lose their glitter just one or two weeks down the road? Studies have shown that there are five general principles, which rule the quality of a relationship in the long run:
Principle 1: Understanding of the other person’s preferences
How does your husband or wife love to be told that you like him or her? How would you like to be told that your lover or partner loves you. Would you like to touched in a certain way, or would you like to be embraced in a certain way, or would you like like to be voiced in words, or would you like to be looked in the eyes in a certain way? Love is an especially delicate affair, and the most certain way of sabotaging your relationship is to be detached of the others person’s preferences.
Over the months and years, most individuals realize, what is it which makes their lover express love. some don’t and this is often lethal for the relationship. If you believe that you still have not discovered your partner’s preferences, this is the first thing you should do. Frequently called the “Love Strategy,” you should make a conscious effort to discover it, and meet it on a consistent basis.
Principle 2: Relationship is a place to give, not take
Regularly folks approach a relationship as a place to unravel their Problems. While a relationship could definitely answer Problems, this approach has a tendency to disempower both the people involved in it. If you haven't been cuddled or pampered as a child, and employ a relationship as a place to get such treatment, you are disempowering yourself of your capability to take any drive, as you are consistently looking for your partner to treat you in a certain way.
Instead , what one should do in that kind of case is, focus on giving something into the relationship. Such contribution of love and affection will immediately elicit the kind of treatment you need.
Principle 3: Learn to communicate your issues with your other half
Doctor. Barbara De Angelis, in her best selling book, “How to Make Love All of the Time,” identifies four stages in a relationship that can kill it. And, by identifying it, one can immediately interrupt and lose the issues before they become unmanageably enormous.
Phase 1: ResistanceThis is the first segment of challenges in a relationship. It happens when you take exception of something your better half recounted or did which you did not like. Maybe, it was a joke, which you didn't find extraordinarily classy, or a statement that sickened you, or something else, which you wished had not happened. Naturally, resistance is bound to occur in a relationship between two humans, but the secret is to talk it over, and settle it before it reaches the second phase.
Phase 2: ResentmentResistance, if not handled properly, can lead to resentment. Now, your irritation with your partner grows into angriness, and a communication obstacle is erected between you and him/her. In this phase, you start to avoid your partner, and the intimacy that you both enjoyed is almost over.
Phase 3: RejectionIf resistance isn't eased, or if you and your better half do not talk the matter over, you may move into the third phase: refusal. This is the start of the physical separation from your partner. Joined with emotional separation, in this phase, you start to find everything about your better half upsetting and aggravating.
Phase 4: RepressionThis is the most hazardous phase of the passing of your relationship. In this phase, you stop communicating with your better half altogether. There's an emotional numbness between the two of you. Slowly, you become a room-mate of your companion, not worried of what he or she is doing or feeling.
Hence what is the simplest way to avoid this dangerous trap? Dr. De Angelis asserts, it’s simple: Talk. Speaking one’s issues, one’s concerns and one’s likes is the only real way to ensure smooth sailing. Sufficient and significant communication is an essential component of any relationship.
Principle 4: Never threaten your relationship
Plenty of couples have the habit of saying stuff such as, “You do that, and I'm leaving you.” This can be disastrous, because, though most of the time such a statement is not meant to be taken very seriously , but what if one day, your other half related, “Go ahead and leave. I'm going to do things my way.” If that type of case arises, one’s ego may often force him to chase up on their threat (of leaving), and that's the end of the relationship. See, the point is that regardless of what situation turns up, there is no reason for threatening your relationship if you want it to last a. Lifetime.
Principle 5: Strive to continually add glitter to your relationship
Just like any other emotion, a relationship also has to be constantly held up. You want to constantly excite your other half, and ignite their want for you. A technique to reinforce your feelings of connection and replenish your sentiments of close contact and attraction, is to consistently raise questions that would make your partner express love; something similar to, “How did I get so lucky to have you in my life?” Attempt to surprise each other. Do horrendous things, like preparing an outing at a spot where your other half would have not even imagined. Express love in an out-of-the-way manner, and have fun doing it. | <urn:uuid:a3597938-ea46-4908-823e-b76825666d7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://top-personals.net/category/love | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967694 | 1,931 | 1.710938 | 2 |
A review of this book must begin by noting its outrageous price, $88.60, for a standard-sized volume with no color plates or other expensive features to explain the almost obscene cost. This fact will—and should—restrict the sale of Tropical Pathology. This is regrettable since nine authoritative workers in tropical medicine have contributed 25 readable chapters dealing with tropical diseases.
The text necessarily duplicates much to be found in other publications, many of recent date. The title orients us to pathology, but we find much that is not normally found in that specialty, and I wonder at the purpose of the book. Is it intended as a general tropical disease text, or is it intended for the physician interested in pathology who treats patients from the tropics? There seem to be elements of both approaches in this book.
The writing is generally concise and clear with an overall high quality throughout. | <urn:uuid:2b8e5a10-eaab-4dcd-af98-1ba3570e804d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=355795 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952867 | 181 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Today’s reports on the U.S. economy were seen as relative positives mainly because retail sales reported up for July. Econoday had this take on retail sales:
Major gains sweep the retail sales report for July, a month that benefited from an easy comparison with a very weak June. Total retail sales rose 0.8 percent for [...]
Despite recent polls that show confidence is at a seven-month high, I get the feeling that many Americans are actually worried about their future. When I say most Americans I am talking about solid middle-class folks who are earning median or above-median incomes. Gallup showed in a recent poll that the people’s top concerns were still, [...]
Black Friday sales and spending were up a very robust 6.6% over last year. But it doesn’t represent an economic recovery or a sustainable trend.
With consumer sentiment about the economy mostly negative1, with employee wages and earnings falling, one would expect a mediocre, if not negative, shopping report. But regardless of the gloom sales [...]
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index for the week reflects an America depressed about the future of the country:
U.S. Consumers Are Most Pessimistic on Economy Since Recession
Consumer confidence declined last week to its lowest level since the depths of the recession in the first quarter of 2009.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index fell to minus 53.2 in the [...]
The Gallup/Wells Fargo surveys of small business reveals that they are unsure of the future and that government regulations weigh heavily on them.
According to the report:
There were two negative consumer confidence reports today.
The Conference Board’s June report shows that their Index dropped almost 3 points this month, and since April, almost 7 points. People can watch and hear the news, monitor their own situation and their neighbors’ and friend’s, and conclude that things aren’t getting better. Who knows, they [...]
This is the time of the month when the consumer surveys come out measuring confidence in the economy’s future. There are three large surveys: Conference Board, Gallup, and the University of Michigan. They all try to measure our belief as to the future, and specifically whether or not we feel like spending our money. Today Gallup and [...]
Is manufacturing leading us to a recovery?
The requirements usually associated with a recovery stemming from a rise in manufacturing are lacking in the present situation.
The classic analysis of a business cycle says that lower interest rates as a result of increased savings will stimulate borrowing by manufacturers of capital goods to produce goods [...]
The Christmas holiday shopping reports through December 25 were up for the season as compared to last year. So what. Does that mean economic recovery? I think not.
The Spending Data
Here is what Christmas spending looked like:
Bank credit and liquidity is something I follow closely because it is a key to economic revival.
Presently banks have been more aggressive in cleaning up their loan books which has required them to recognize troubled loans and reserve more for loan losses. Part of the trend is that bank regulators have been stricter with [...] | <urn:uuid:9aead9f1-1408-4b7f-b4a3-87b90baef26e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailycapitalist.com/tag/consumer-confidence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965915 | 636 | 1.632813 | 2 |
This discussion paper focuses on the food economy of Russia, to see what effect reforms are likely to have on Russia’s ability to produce food and feed its people in the next decade (the forecasts extend only to 2005 because longer-term projections are difficult in this volatile economic environment). Scenarios for consumption and production of important food groups are presented. .
Current policy issues and the long-term outlook
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Wired: Bike Messengers Pedal Past Bandwidth in Data Race
Bike-centric website Prolly Is Not Probably puts us onto an article from Wired which discusses the relationship of technology and bike messengers. However, as much as data grows, the ability to quickly transfer terabytes of data have yet to catch up, enabling bike messengers to maintain relevancy. The onslaught of technology has also lent a helping hand to messengers as coordination via programs and smart phones has boosted efficiency. The whole article along with imagery can be seen here. | <urn:uuid:cb88c464-929e-4aae-b167-9b17a8023a20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hypebeast.com/2011/4/wired-bike-messengers-pedal-past-bandwidth-in-data-race | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961502 | 111 | 1.554688 | 2 |
About Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is dedicated to bringing world class research and cancer care to Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.
Not just a floor, or a building, or even confined to a single college, Holden Cancer Center coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care by faculty from 36 departments and six colleges, as well as UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children's Hospital.
About Our New Cancer Clinic
Holden Cancer Center is Iowa's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center and has held that designation since 2000. The NCI designation recognizes our cancer center, and its research scientists, physicians and other health care professionals, for their roles in advancing cancer research that impacts on our ability to prevent, detect and treat our patients with cancer.
Founded in 1980, Holden Cancer Center:
- promotes interactive, high-quality cancer research
- provides high-quality health care related to the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer
- educates cancer professionals and the citizens of Iowa about cancer
Important pieces of Holden Cancer Center patient care areas include:
- Cancer Clinic, located on the first and second levels of the Pomerantz Pavilion, houses the adult patient care area. Children are treated in the Pediatric Specialty Clinic, located on the second level of the Colloton Pavilion.
- Breast Imaging, located on the third level of the Pappajohn Pavilion.
- Adult Blood and Marrow Transplantation, located on the seventh level of the Carver Pavilion.
- Patients are also seen in various department clinics including, Dermatology, Center for Digestive Diseases, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, and Urology.
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Sen. Rand Paul Proposes $500 Billion in Federal Cuts as Budget Passes $3.5 Trillion and National Debt Passes $14 Trillion
(CNSNews.com) – With the federal budget at $3.5 trillion, the deficit at $1.4 trillion, and the national debt more than $14 trillion, lawmakers are busy talking about how to trim spending.
No plan has garnered more attention than one sponsored by freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a Tea Party Republican, who introduced legislation Jan. 25 to cut spending across-the-board by $500 billion in one year to help get America out of its economic red.
Other Republican plans propose cuts of $79 billion and $100 billion over a multi-year period.
“I am proud to introduce my own solution to the mounting debt our spendthrift, oversized government has accrued,” Paul said in a January statement introducing the plan. “By rolling back to 2008 levels and eliminating the most wasteful programs, we can still keep 85 percent of our government funding in place.”
Rand would entirely scrap the departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, saving $104.7 billion dollars.
“By removing programs that are beyond the constitutional role of the federal government, such as Education and Housing, we are cutting nearly 40 percent of our projected deficit and removing the big government bureaucrats who stand in the way of efficiency in our federal government,” Paul said.
The proposal would slash other budgets, with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) bearing the brunt of the proposed cuts.
Overall funding for HHS would be reduced from the current budgeted $900.853 billion in FY 2011 to just $26.5 billion – a 29.4 percent reduction. The National Institutes of Health would absorb 22 percent of the proposed cuts, with its budget reduced to $5.825 billion.
The budgets of other departments would be substantially reduced.
The Defense Department’s budget – which stands at $719 billion in Fiscal Year 2011 -- would be reduced by $73.7 billion.
Transportation would be cut from $75.3 billion to $42.8 billion; Agriculture would go from $132.3 billion down to $42.5 billion; Homeland Security would go from $51.6 down to $23.8 billion; the State Department budget would go from $56.8 billion down to $20.321 billion and Interior would go from $12.4 down to $10.9 billion
The Paul proposal would leave the Treasury Department, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration budgets untouched.The Defense Department would gain the functions of the Department of Energy and the Coast Guard, according to this proposal.
At the State Department, “all international organizations and conferences and international commissions will be defunded,” according to the plan.
All federal subsidies to Amtrak would be eliminated, according to this legislation.
The plan would also defund most independent agencies, including: the Affordable Housing Program, the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, State Justice Institute, as well as the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior and all accounts and programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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"Remember! Only 30 more shopping days left!"
The last week of November was a magical time back in the "Old Country." I never endangered my life shopping at Filenes which, in those far off times, was only in Boston. Macy's was still the site of many near-death experiences for those of us who like the adrenalin rush of hunting for bargains. The nonstop hype was delivered breathlessly and repetitively. "Just today, ladies and gentleman. Yes! Just today!" was a typical opening for a 10% reduction on socks. It all ended with New Years, leaving precious little behind in its wake, other than the disheartening return to facing the juggernaut of routine soul-numbing life as usual.
Everything is different when the Jewish month of Elul arrives. It, too, is 30 days before the Big Day, which in this case is Rosh Hashana. It is not a time in which we strive to find some sort of balance between shopping and dropping. It is a time of love, yearning, reconciliation, forgiveness, and return.
No one can return to a place they have never been to.
What does "return" really mean? What are we trying to get back to? Jeremiah proclaimed, "Return, virgin of Israel, return to these, your cities" (Jeremiah 31:20). We are compared to a virgin, who can at last return to her betrothed groom, and to an exile who is able to return to the land now rebuilt, that was last seen empty and desolate.
No one can return to a place they have never been to. Have we ever really felt close to God and yearned for Him the way a bride yearns for her beloved? Have we ever really identified so closely with the fate of the Jewish people that our personal achievements fail to provide us with enough satisfaction to dull the ache of national estrangement from what we were meant to be as a people?
For many of us the answer is silence. And for many there are moments of beauty and connection that we wish would last forever. There are times when we feel totally connected to the Jewish nation as a whole, glued to the news. How many Katyushas? Do I know anyone in Haifa? What can I do to help?
BODY AND SOUL MICROCOSM
The difference between the way we relate to Elul and how we relate to the end of November is a microcosm of the way we relate to our bodies and our souls. The body wants to own, to buy more and more. The soul wants connection, deeper and deeper.
The great illusion of life is that the body (which we all intellectually recognize as only mortal) feels real and permanent. The soul (which we all know is infinite since it part of God Himself), feels vaguely unreal because it is intangible.
Our self-esteem is built, brick by brick, by choosing to conquer our impulsivity and cravings.
The sages tell us, "One moment of return and good deeds in this world is worth more than the whole life in the World to Come" (Ethics of the Fathers, 4:17). This is the world of enormous spiritual opportunity. It is the setting of "trial by fire," as our passions, jealousies, petty hatreds, burn within us. Every victory has profound impact on our connection to God and to man. In the deepest sense, our self-esteem is built, brick by brick, by choosing to conquer our impulsivity and cravings. The problem is that we are too myopic to see the panoramic vista that this sort of battle opens up within us. We are too busy fighting. We fail, again and again. We let our failures define us and erode our belief in the fact that we are fighting a winnable battle. We all too often submit to the dictates of our bodies and silence the yearnings of the soul. We give up the struggle.
One of my recurring nightmares is one in which I see myself as a patient in an old age home. I am sitting near a Formica table in a large room with a T.V. blasting away at no one in particular. Lunch, served in cheery orange melmac, is in front of me. My last words as I leave the planet are, "I asked for white meat."
That's it. No Shema. No bedside farewell accompanied by blessings and moral instruction. The winner and all time champ is the body, soon to be interred in the earth from which it was formed. In my worst nightmare the soul is the undisputed runner up in the most significant race that any one of us will ever run.
What makes it even worse is that daylight doesn't relegate the nightmare to the cobwebs of subconscious thought; the fearful vision is completely plausible. In fact, the Talmud tells us that there is no way that the soul can possibly win the battle without help from its Creator.
GOD IS NEAR
This time of year is the time when God's closeness to us is most easily grasped. It is as though an invisible curtain that we ourselves designed through bad choices, fear and pain can now be drawn aside. Elul is compared to the time of year that God, by way of parable, is likened to a human king who resides in his palace and is virtually inaccessible to the average person. Once a year, the king tours his kingdom with the goal of getting to know his subjects. Anyone can go to the royal personage and tell him whatever is on his mind and in his heart know that the king is there to hear him.
How do we find the King? There are various practices for Elul that attunes us to its power.
1. Recite Psalm 27.
King David, the Talmud tells us, was given some of Adam's lifespan. Thus, like Adam, his soul is a composite of every soul that will ever be placed in a body. The book of Psalms gives us words that touch the essence of every possible human experience from the deepest possible angle. Psalm 27 is the one that helps us resolve the conflict between our bodies and our souls. The first verse says it all, "God is my light." This means that He not only created the physical world, but He guides us through it with His light. Just as turning on a light in a dark room helps a child to recognize that lions and tigers are really just coat racks and blankets, we can similarly let God's light remove our fears, sins, and limitations..
2. Reciting Selichot.
The Selichot prayers begin in Elul (Sefardic Jews begin on the first of Elul, while Ashkenazi Jews begin the last Motzei Shabbat) and continue until Yom Kippur. The main theme in selichot is the 13 Attributes of Divine Mercy. God revealed His true nature to Moses when he begged to know God as much as a mortal can.
Ultimately God is unknowable. Our ability to know is limited by the fact that we live in time which distorts our sense of reality. We are physical and have short lives, and have enormous emotional subjectivity. Because God is unknowable and transcendental, we try to make Him smaller, so to speak, so that He seems more approachable. The worst manifestation of this was the building of the golden calf. Moses wanted words that would give the Jewish people access to God as much as humanly possible.
Each of the 13 attributes exist within us as well. When we join together as a group and proclaim these attributes aloud as we do during the Selichot prayers, we affirm who God is and who we are. This has such force that the Talmud tells us that the attributes always generate change.
Here is a brief rendition of the attributes and their meaning.
1-2: "God," "God" (the four-letter Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh):
The Almighty is telling us that He is unchanging. He has infinite compassion for us before we sin, knowing that we are only human, and when we fail to live up to our humanity He is open to our changing and returning. Because of this, His name, which means "Being," is invoked twice, once for before and once for after our fall and return.
3. "The Force": Unlike human compassion that is limited by our patience and fragility, God's compassion is comparable to an unstoppable force.
4. "Who is Merciful": He gives to the "poor"; those of us who are impoverished spiritually
5. "And full of Grace": He gives freely and in abundance
6. "He is Patient": God gives us time to change, and when we must endure suffering in order to change our direction, He gives it only to the degree that the person's individual situation demands.
7. "and has much kindness": God chooses to judge us favorably when our motivations are mixed
8. "and true": Even if someone has made many mistakes and done terrible things, God will still reward him for whatever good he has done.
9. "creates kindness for thousands of generations": He empowers the forces of good to endure forever. An example of this would be that literally everyone who is alive today is affected by the goodness that Abraham, our forefather, did in his lifetime
10. "Carries sins of desire": God will allow sins to act as a springboard to bring a person to a higher level than they ever could have achieved without repentance. An example would be the case of someone who takes on himself to keep kosher, and is tempted every time he passes a non-kosher eatery.
11. "and sins of rebellion": Even when a person is so full of self that he feels a need to control or attack every human or God-given law, if he opens himself God will broaden him enough to see beyond the limits of his ego.
12. "and sins of negligence": When the source of sin is a passive, uncaring and alienated relationship to life, the source is invariably despair that comes from thinking, "Nothing I do makes much difference anyway." God will give the greatest gift of all – hope -- when there is willingness to take responsibility. This is true even if the underlying attitude has been there for years.
13. "and cleanses." Even the callousness that is the seemingly inescapable result of developing bad patterns of responding to life and to other people can literally disappear through tshuvah, repentance.
When we mirror these traits to all of the imperfect people in our lives (meaning everyone including ourselves), we find the Godliness that is latent in all of us, and strengthen its voice.
When we do our best to change, we must make an honest appraisal of who we are, and the choices we made to emerge as we are now. When we do this honestly, we will notice that we have made mistakes.
The first step to change is confessing what went wrong within us to God. No person should be involved. No one can give spiritual clarity; no one can erase spiritual and emotional damage. The second step is to recognize that all bad choices are ultimately damaging, and to give yourself permission to feel regret. The third step is to make practical down to earth changes in behavior.
If the sins affect other people, then there are two additional steps. The first one is to make material restitution where that is a relevant possibility (for instance returning money that you know is not yours if you use the Torah's standards), and the second is to achieve reconciliation by asking forgiveness.
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How To Doubt Yourself
Simultaneously notice the best in other people and the worst in yourself. Ardently point out people in your life, people you know in passing, and people you pass on the street who seem to be doing a better job at life than you are to yourself and whoever you’re with. Compare yourself on every single point, the more vague and irrelevant, the better. Make an exhaustive and objectively impossible self-improvement list. Tape it to your bathroom mirror.
Look at all the things that already exist in the world. Think about the one thing you want to do, the one thing you really think you could make an impact with, and think about all the other people who have done it better before you or are already doing it better than you ever can. Have a meltdown, pick yourself up from it, then do nothing.
Workshop your work fiercely. Take the thing you’ve put the most energy into and that you’re most sensitive about and expose it to everyone’s opinions, then take the opinions seriously, all of them, even if they’re full of shit and your five year-old cousin could pass more sensible judgment. Get your sensitive creative ass handed to you in the most brutal way, except neglect to take your criticism with a grain of salt and go into creative hibernation for the next six years, learning nothing.
Date someone who constantly makes you feel like you’re not good enough, someone whose #1 strength is making you feel like no matter what you’re succeeding at, you’re always failing at something. Think this is the best you can do because they love you sooo much and only want you to be a better person, right? Keep them in the background as a reminder of how inadequate you are.
Self-handicap to the highest degree. Think about all the possible roadblocks before you even start a project. Think about how you don’t have enough money or time or motivation or coffee or talent, and now that you think about it, what makes you think what you have to offer is so great anyway? Nah. Better to just step aside right now before you put yourself out there and only hurt yourself.
Think of everything as one huge insignificant whole. Stop taking care of yourself because you can’t see the point. Eat poorly because who cares. Picture your body disintegrating slowly. Think about how nothing really matters and feel extremely tired and useless and give yourself a headache. Picture yourself spinning in your own little cocoon, all soupy and helpless like a brain-damaged tadpole.
Never reward yourself. If you accomplish something, make sure to remind yourself that it’s really no big deal and it could have been done better and actually, was it that good anyway? Who’s the judge of what’s “good”? Oh my god, no one knows. Everything is so arbitrary, no one knows what’s going on. There are humans who think 50 Shades Of Grey is good writing, for Christ’s sake. Oh my god, I suck. Everything sucks. Now what. Help.
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I screw up with relationships and I mess up at work. I get angry and say things I don’t mean to my friends or people I love.
Understand that it’s not easy to hear how someone you love very much is dissatisfied with you.
You know we are in the thick of summer when you leave your apartment and on the 10 minute walk to the subway you are basically DRENCHED.
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Have you walked through our local Ikea store and wondered how to make their pieces work for you? Check out Ikea Hacker, a site devoted to repurposing Ikea products to suit your own specific needs. Perhaps you'd like to create custom built-in shelving from a basic bookshelf, or organize your home computer table to minimize clutter.
This is the week I am assigned to blog about the database "Culture Grams". Culture Grams helps you take each country and culture on its own terms and appreciate it for the gifts it brings to the world table. There are reports on 175 countries and 50 states. One can find out about the religions, arts, traditions, peoples and languages of different countries and cultures. Major features also include information about famous people, photo gallery and also a recipe collection. It is a really neat database which would be of interest to a wide range of patrons - from the high school student who has to do a country report to the family going on a trip to a remote island off the coast of Africa. So do check it out.
Today's Detroit Free Press has an interesting article about how Plymouth-Canton schools are making changes in the way boys are taught to help them succeed in school. Boys Can Make the Grade, If They're Not Bored. The article cites the book Helping Boys Succeed in School by Richard Weinfeld for some tips to get your son interested in reading. You can also ask a librarian here at the Canton Public Library to suggest some titles that are popular with boys or visit the Children's Reading Page on the library's Internet Branch to get ideas.
Spring has arrived which means many of the best TV shows will be gone till fall. Many people will be looking for new stories to keep from dwelling on the cliff hanger endings of their favorite shows. So to help my fellow tv addicts cope with their summer withdrawls here's a list of some graphic novels that you may enjoy. Fan of Lost? Try some of the works of Brian K Vaughan. Brian K Vaughan is a comic book writer who has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards (the highest honors in comic book world) and he recently joined the writing staff of Lost. One of Vaughan's most celebrated works is "Y the Last Man" a series that follows the exploits of Yorrick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand.
Relay for Life is this weekend at Heritage Park so expect a lot of traffic around the Canton Public Library. Parking spots will be at a premium, especially on Saturday. For more information about the weekend's events, click here. The Friends of the Canton Public Library will be hosting a paperback sale with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society during Relay for Life. Look for their tent shared with the Canton Chamber of Commerce and stock up on summer reading.
The reference here is to an especially good New Age music label, whose performers and performances go well beyond the Doonesbury-initiated tag of "air pudding" to describe the overall genre. Many of the SP recordings are sweeping, almost symphonic in nature. You'll find a few in the library's collection. Try author searches for Greg Klamt, David Helpling, Deborah Martin, John Flomer and Mark Rownd. Visit the Spotted Peccary website (http://www.spottedpeccary.com/) for information about its performers and their latest releases. (BTW, a Peccary is a pig-like mammal found in the southwestern U.S., plus Central and South America.)
Have you used Flickr yet? It's a free site that lets you upload your photos and share them with your friends. CPL now has its own Flickr account where you can see photos of many aspects of the library. Did you know that we have a robin nesting outside? Have you ever looked at the Teen Place ceiling? Check out those photos - more are being added every week.
The Canton Public Library collects books in 21 languages in the Adult Department and now every one of those languages has at least one magazine and/or newspaper. If you read (or would like to learn) a language other than english, take a look!
Jungle Java Express, the newest addition to the well-known children's play centers, is now open in a restaurant-only version at the library. JJX, as we like to call it, features a fresh menu of sandwiches, salads, soups and a daily special, plus the famous Jungle Java coffee drinks, espresso, mochas, smoothies and yummy baked goods. You can even get a Jungle Java card that can be used at all 4 locations--great for students. Stop in and check it out.
Want to take the kids on an easy bike ride? You can map one out for yourself at Bikely.com. Search for routes by city name or type and see what other people have recommended. Here's a 3.5 mile route that starts and ends at the library. Library Bike Route. Give it a try.
MiGAL is the acronym for Michigan Grants Available List. This website provides the ability to search for federal, state, private, and other grant funding opportunities for schools, teachers and students. Grants are organized in a table by title, name of foundation, who can apply, and deadline for submission. Almost all the grant opportunities are competitve. The detail link will connect you to a brief description of the grant, the amount awarded, and the web address for the foundation. To browse what grants are available for students, just select Students from the Eligibility field and click Search. Links to other grant funding resources are provided as well.
A real interesting story in Friday's Free Press ("Music's Beat or Beating Heart?"), linked above. Research presented in Denver on Thursday reported that portable music players like iPods can cause heart pacemakers to malfunction. The study involved doctors from MSU and U-of-M, and was led by a 17-year-old high school student from Okemos, MI, who is the son of a doctor specializing in heart care.
If you're like me and you love to read, you probably have a stack of books, magazines and audio books piled so high they are in danger of falling over. You probably also have a reading wish list as long as your arm. So how will we ever get all of those books read? I love to listen to audio books and often crank up the CD player while I batch cook on weekends. I would love to hear how you squeeze reading time into your busy life. Do tell!
Is your next door neighbor an author? What about the guy you went to high school with? Or that mom down the street? Canton is home to a surprising number of authors. Come meet some of them as the library hosts Celebrate Canton's Authors on Wednesday, May 16 at 7 p.m. Eight local authors will speak about their work and be available for book purchases and signings and one-on-one conversations. Scheduled to appear are Kim Crouch, Cheryl A. Martin, Gerald Van Dusen, Virginia Bailey Parker, Rob Guttersohn, Tawny Taylor, Sabrina Adams and Catherine Marek. The program is free, just call 734-397-0999 to sign up.
The zombies of "28 Weeks Later" aren't exactly dead but they behave like a classic movie zombie who's drank about 20 cans of Red Bull. "28 Weeks later," which opens today is the follow up to Danny Boyle's film "28 Days Later," which explored how an outbreak of a virus called the Rage turned much of England's populace into violent, hyperfast,cannibals and the country into a post apocalyptic wasteland. In "28 Weeks" the U.S. army has moved in and helped clear things out. Things are going so well that the people who originally fled London are returning home. But then the worst possible thing that could happen, happens. The Rage virus resurfaces.
Tired of the high price of gas? On May 15, DON'T PUMP GAS as a national protest.
Teens-- Mother's Day is Sunday and if you're short on cash for mom's gift this year, stop by the Canton Public Library on Saturday, May 12 at 10 a.m. and make mom a unique duct tape gift. It's free and it's fun and mom will love it because you made it yourself. For inspiration, visit The Duct Tape Club or check out Got Tape? by Ellie Schiedermayer and get some really cool ideas.
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Setbacks To Democracy In Fiji: Women’s Experiences
An interview with Sharon Bhagwan Rolls of femLINKPACIFIC, a feminist communications organisation in Fiji.
By Kathambi Kinoti
AWID: Last month, there was a military coup in Fiji, the fourth in 22 years. What is the situation at the moment?
SHARON BHAGWAN ROLLS: First of all I would just like to extend my sincere appreciation to the networks, women's groups and individuals who have been extending support and solidarity to us since the events of Easter Weekend this year, when the President of Fiji purportedly abrogated the constitution, and the citizens of Fiji have been living under a Public Emergency Decree which now extends into its second month.
There has been a decision to devalue the Fijian dollar by 20 per cent which is having an impact on prices of basic goods. This is further exacerbating what was already a very unfortunate economic reality for us. The economic impact of the series of coups is bringing home the reality that conflict is not good business.
There is an uncanny calmness because people have to continue to work and children have to continue to go to school, so I guess there is also a sense of "life must go on." However there is also uncertainty especially with the control of information through the mainstream media and this is most apparent in rural communities who were already living within the reality of an information and communication gap.
Talking to rural women also, especially those who have suffered due to the devastating floods in January this year, there is still a sense of reliance on the government to provide, but at another level we are not sure just how much available financial resources the administration has to support the social welfare and rural development needs of these communities. It will be very interesting to see what the outcomes of the national budget for 2010 will look like.
Mainstream information and communication is seriously controlled. Our organisation runs a community radio and is also subjected to censorship by the military. We have to send our broadcast log and community news collation to the Ministry of Information prior to each broadcast. We are also intently monitored when we are on air, and on our monthly “Enews bulletin” and “Community Radio Times.” This very much reminds me of the media control following the first military coup on May 14, 1987.
However, we are hoping that we can continue with our work, despite there being restrictions on public meetings. We have been able to produce a new “Women, Peace and Human Security” radio series from our visits, as I have been able to conduct rural consultations during the last three weeks and hope that we will also be able to stage the rural broadcasts with our community radio station.
Community or alternative media is a critical space right now.Even if we are only communicating within an 8 – 10 kilometre radius it is an important space that we will work hard to retain. Ultimately though, with information and communication channels being tightly controlled rural women will continue to be further marginalised and isolated.
femlinkPACIFIC has been advocating the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which mandates the meaningful participation of women in peace-building processes and this has now been stalled because processes of engagement such as the Political Dialogue Forum do not seem to be an immediate priority of the new order. However, I feel that as the women's movement we need to find ways in which we can continue our work safely.
AWID: What in particular are women's experiences not only after this most recent coup, but also of living under military rule?
SBR: I will address this from the micro or grassroots level first. Going back to military coup of December 2006, when I travelled out to meet women in rural communities, there was a sense of isolation from what was happening in the capital city as well as a reality that they just needed to get their children back to school and provide for their families. You need to appreciate that these are women from informal settlements, women who sell at the local markets, who live in squatter settlements or traditional settings, so for them the information and news was very confusing. If we are to make a difference as a women's movement, this is where we need to strengthen our work and efforts. Right now the feeling is the same, especially since many of the women whom we work with experienced the brunt of the devastating floods in January 2009 and are still trying to put their lives back together, so their immediate priority is their families. On our recent visits the key insecurities identified were economic, health, environmental, as well as human security issues relating to infrastructure like improved roads and water supply.
There is also a sense of fear and uncertainty as with any political crisis. I feel that the military has demonstrated its might very early on and the ongoing detention of anyone who is considered to be a risk in light of the Public Emergency Decree is a way to silence any possible opportunity to publicly denounce the actions - and if you did, with the media control in place, it would be very unlikely that your message would be heard. So we do need to consider alternatives. What is critical right now is to ensure women's realities are not lost in the political maze and that the status, particularly of rural women, can provide critical development benchmarks to demonstrate that we need democratic governance so that women can have a place in decision making for their peace and human security.
There is also a need to link the growing violence, especially sexual and domestic violence to the political realities and how these impact very clearly on the status of women.
AWID: How have women's organisations responded to these challenges?
SBR: Dating back to 1987, following each military or civilian coup, women have responded actively calling for respect for the rule of law and human rights, and these have been acts of peace and non violence. Women have been detained in 1987 and again in 2006 for their work. Women human rights activists in particular were detained and suffered at the hands of the military following the takeover in 2006.
Women have rallied together, through silent peace vigils which demonstrate our commitment to peace and make the point that we will not be silenced by the acts of the overthrow of any democratic government. We have negotiated at the policy level, as well as by using our women's networks to communicate with other key political players.
Women have documented events, they have spoken out on human rights abuses and they have also been involved in ongoing lobbying and advocacy especially for a formal and mediated dialogue process which would have the support of the UN and the Commonwealth Secretariat. But this is not easy especially as these are new concepts which need to be discussed and understood by the broader movement, by more women. A challenge has been the diverse viewpoints and perspectives within civil society on the styles of engagement with those who now have political power, and also on the process of the development of a People's Charter which now is the mandate of the current political administration, and so we have to better understand each other in order to be able to move forward collectively.
AWID: What do you see as a viable way to get Fiji back to democratic governance, and what will women's roles be in achieving this?
SBR: There is a critical need to continue to strengthen women's capacity as leaders and negotiators during this current period. It is critical for women to understand how to negotiate and proceed through some very new waters, as well as how not to lose sight of the need to attain parliamentary democracy while we address some critical development issues, such as the feminization of poverty, which is a stark reality right now. Also, how do we analytically respond to developments at the macro-economic level? Especially when women continue to face the brunt of their poverty situation - poverty of opportunity, information as well as the reality of struggling to pay school fees, rent and other expenses. This is the situation faced by rural women, older women and women with disabilities and other marginalized groups.
So any process must ensure that women are empowered to speak and be heard, especially since we can, as women, also perpetuate the traditional barriers of decision making.
We need to be assisted in this dialogue process. We cannot simply focus on the process of elections. We also need to be able to analytically address poverty which is extremely disempowering to women and affects their engagement in any political process. We need to be able to address issues of security sector governance and we also need to prepare women who are willing to participate in future elections.
I have been discussing a possible process, which is something I feel has been needed in Fiji since the May 2000 coup, which as you can appreciate, impacted the women's movement and exacerbated barriers between racial and socio-economic groups. Apart from my work with femLINKPACIFIC, I wear other hats. I am the second vice president of the National Council of Women of Fiji (NCWF) and a member of other affiliate organisations of the NCWF, such as the YWCA and the Poor Relief Society in Fiji. It is in all these capacities that I have been working towards putting in place a process that would address these issues.
There needs to be critical mobilization of technical and financial resources to support a Women's Dialogue Forum. femLINKPACIFIC has developed a "Peace Talks" project model to advance UNSCR 1325 and we will continue to work with our Fiji and regional partners to enhance the development of a core group of women who can enhance their knowledge and capacity to be at the formal peace process.
The NCWF with a core group of affiliates like the YWCA and femLINKPACIFIC would have a key role in coordinating the Women’s Dialogue Forum. This will help us collectively negotiate and prepare the women's agenda for the formal process. Here we will need technical support. We would be interested in hearing from women who have worked through a process of mediated dialogue and engagement in a formal peace process. Financial resources are also critical. Too often it is expected that women will just continue to work without resources and many of our women's groups are still volunteer based.
I see the steps of a mediated or facilitated process being as follows:
1. NCWF undertakes a series of consultative meetings with women who belong to the networks of affiliates in rural communities. These are meetings that bring women from all ethnic and faith backgrounds together for 2 – 3 days of scene setting. The context of women's human rights, peace and security form the framework for discussion and the consultation will work towards clear outcomes and recommendations.
2. The outcomes are fed into a comprehensive 3 - 5 day women leaders’ consultation, with two days for young women's representatives bringing together three representatives from each affiliate, including one young woman, to finalise and adopt the final collective women's agenda. The meeting also confirms who the core representatives of any formal process will be.
3. The outcomes are presented to all key stakeholders in and outside of Fiji and form the basis of the women's negotiations.
4. The outcomes are also presented to other women's networks who are not members of the NCWF in particular the indigenous women's network the Soqosoqo Vakamarama, Fiji Women's Rights Movement and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre.
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A Grandmother’s Story
September is National Grandparents Month, and Autism Speaks is Celebrating Grandparents! Below is a blog post by Kay Richardson, the grandmother of a young boy with autism.
I would like to tell my story. My grandson, Hunter, is 9 years old and was diagnosed at 2-1/2 with mild-to-moderate autism. He is the joy of my life.
Even though the initial diagnosis was shocking and somewhat heartbreaking, if I had known then what I know now, it would have made such a difference. This is what I would like other grandparents of newly-diagnosed kids to know. It does get better, especially if your family takes advantage of all the great information and resources available.
I have been so fortunate to be involved with Hunter’s life from the beginning. He has always loved to spend the night at Granny’s house because he gets one-on-one attention. I have the luxury of time to spend with him and we do all kinds of fun and different things his parents don’t have time to do with him.
Early on, when he was 5 or 6, I would take him along to the botanical gardens I volunteered for and he helped me weed, or he played in the dirt, watched bugs and birds. I got him a local, regional bird identification book eventually and he actually memorized it! He has grown to be very respectful and protective of nature and creatures.
Examples of other things we do (besides just hanging out at home):
- We went for a ride on a rural excursion train. (He has been in love with trains since he was a toddler and has about 150 Thomas train cars!)
- Our city sponsored a “Get Out and Play Day” where he experienced rock wall climbing, archery and fishing!
- We go to the library every other Wednesday evening. He now has his own card. His favorite books are non-fiction ones about trains, weather (hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters), animals and reptiles.
- We go on bike rides, and bird watching hikes.
- In a couple weeks I am taking him to a Heritage Festival where he can see old farming equipment at work, shuck corn and watch a pie-eating contest (I can’t wait for his reaction to that).
The possibilities are really endless. You just need to plan and anticipate any circumstances which might upset or confuse, but that becomes second nature as time goes by.
I feel very blessed to have been given the gift of grandmothering Hunter. His perspective is unique and pure and this is the important thing I think grandparents of newly-diagnosed kids need to know. As grandparents, we have the patience we didn’t have the first time around. Mercifully, we get a second chance! Our reward? A relationship like no other. Take it from Hunter who, when asked by a teacher or principal who I am, says, “Oh, that’s my friend Granny!”
I do blog on occasion about our escapades and my thoughts about grandmothering Hunter. Check it out here!
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versão On-line ISSN 1657-9534
NIETO, Anibal et al. Relationship between selected hormonal and metabolic parameters at birth and blood pressure during pre-adolescence. Colomb. Med. [online]. 2009, vol.40, n.1, pp. 09-15. ISSN 1657-9534.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between selected hormonal parameters (at birth and at age 8 years) and blood pressure levels at pre-adolescence in a cohort of intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR) and normal birth weight infants (NBW). Methods: A cohort study from early pregnancy to childhood was performed. Seventy-six fetuses/children were evaluated between 1995 and 2004. Cord blood samples were taken at birth and several hormonal and metabolic parameters evaluated. Sixty-four children of the original cohort were available for blood sampling, blood pressure and anthropometric measures at a mean age of 8 years. 27 (42.2%) were IUGR and 37 (57.8%) were NBW. Multiple regression analyses were conducted with cord blood levels of hormonal and metabolic parameters at birth and at 8 years as independent variables and children's blood pressure as dependent variable adjusted by IUGR status, gender, Body Mass Index and age of the child at the time of blood pressure evaluation. Results: The maternal age (26.6±5.8 vs 26.9±5.8 years old) and the gestational age at birth (39.1±1.4 vs 39.6±1.3 weeks) were similar between the groups. IUGR children were shorter (1.28± 0.09 m vs 1.33± 0.09 m, p=0.04). Growth hormone levels (GH) at birth were negatively associated with systolic blood pressure at 8 years of age (regression coefficients for umbilical cord blood levels: -0.9, 95% CI -2.03 to 0.04 mg/ml, p= 0.04). Conclusion: The alterations on blood pressure can begin in fetal life were levels of GH could have an important role.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama is set to claim final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill.
The signing ceremony at a community college in northern Virginia will culminate almost a year of fiercely partisan debate and a tortuous legislative journey on the proposals generated by Democrats and unanimously opposed by Republicans.
Due to a shifting political landscape, Democrats eventually needed the separate bill being signed Tuesday to make changes in the original legislation in order to get the overall package passed by Congress.
Among other things, the so-called "fixes" bill significantly expands health insurance subsidies for lower- and middle-income families while watering down a tax on expensive health policies.
The bill also increases the overall cost of the health care reform legislation to $940 billion over the next 10 years, $65 billion more than the original health care bill Obama signed into law last week.
In addition, it overhauls the national college student loan system by shifting government funding for loans away from commercial banks to new education initiatives. Until now, commercial banks have received federal subsidies to provide student loans.
The "fixes" bill received final legislative approval last Thursday in a 220-207 vote in the House of Representatives. No Republicans backed the measure, which GOP leaders insist will lead to cuts in critical Medicare services while doing little to slow spiraling medical costs. Earlier in the day, the Senate approved the plan on a 56-43 vote, also without any Republican support.
The congressional wrangling, which included late night votes and acerbic floor debate, reflected the political split throughout the country over health care reform. Polls show the American public remains sharply divided over the issue, and conservative activists cheered on by Republicans continue to hold rallies against the legislation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, recently told CNN that Republicans would use the slogan "repeal and replace" with regard to the health care legislation in their congressional campaigns later this year.
While a repeal of the legislation is considered unlikely, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, questioned the strategy by her opponents, noting it would require GOP candidates to favor ending popular benefits in the legislation - such as preventing insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing medical conditions.
"They want to reverse and repeal a prohibition on denying care on the basis of a pre-existing condition," Pelosi said Monday. "Can you imagine making that case?"
Democrats argue the health care reform plan, estimated to extend coverage to 32 million Americans, will reduce future federal budget deficits while giving consumers greater leverage with private insurance companies.
"It's about protecting the middle class so that they can continue to afford the insurance they may like," or purchase desired coverage at a lower cost due to increased competition, Pelosi said.
Throughout the congressional debate, Republicans used every parliamentary tool available to try to undermine both the overall health care bill and the "fixes" measure.
Last week, they forced the Senate to begin deliberations on a series of proposed amendments and motions on the "fixes" bill. All were defeated, but they were intended to force Democrats to cast unpopular votes in the run-up to November's midterm elections.
Initially, it appeared that Congress would pass a compromise health care bill when both the House and Senate approved their own versions last year.
However, the political landscape shifted in February when Republican Scott Brown won a special election in Massachusetts to fill the Senate seat formerly held by Democrat Edward Kennedy, the longtime champion of health care reform who died last year.
Brown's victory cost Senate Democrats the 60-seat majority they needed to overcome a Republican filibuster against a compromise health care bill. In response, Democrats devised a two-bill process in which the House passed the Senate version unchanged, making it law when signed last week by Obama, and also passed the accompanying "fixes" bill to change provisions in the Senate legislation that some House members found unpalatable.
The "fixes" bill was then proposed under reconciliation rules in the Senate that apply to bills involving the budget. Such bills need only a simple majority of 51 votes to pass.
Specific provisions in the "fixes" bill include:
– Closing the Medicare prescription drug "doughnut hole" by 2020. Under current law, Medicare stops covering drug costs after a plan and beneficiary have spent more than $2,830 on prescription drugs. It starts paying again after an individual's out-of-pocket expenses exceed $4,550. Senior citizens stuck in the doughnut hole this year will receive a $250 rebate.
– Raising the threshold for imposing the so-called "Cadillac" tax on expensive health insurance plans to coverage valued at more than $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. The tax won't kick in until 2018.
– Imposing an additional 3.8 percent Medicare payroll tax on investment income for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000 a year.
– Eliminating a special exemption for the state of Nebraska from all new Medicaid expenses - known as the "Cornhusker Kickback." The federal government will instead assist every state by picking up 100 percent of the costs of expanded Medicaid coverage between 2014 and 2016, and 90 percent starting in 2020.
– Reducing the fine for individuals who fail to purchase coverage from $750 to $695.
– Increasing the fine on large companies failing to provide health coverage for workers from $750 to $2,000 per employee.
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Record number of trips on Sydney’s cycleways8 May 2012
It’s official – thousands more Sydneysiders are riding than ever before.
Independent bike counts show an 82 per cent increase in bike trips over the past two years. The challenge is now on the State Government to support the growth.
The study shows an increase of 83 per cent in the morning peak (6am-9am) and 82 per cent in the afternoon peak (4pm-7pm) during the period March 2010 to March 2012 (numbers counted over the six hours, from 6am-9am and 4pm-7pm).
These figures show our work to make bike riding safer and more practical is paying off. The old saying – ‘if you build it, they will come’ is true. Sydneysiders are desperate for practical transport options and, for many people, bike riding makes sense.
The State Government now needs to support this enormous growth by working with the City and other Councils to expand the network, which will encourage even more people to take up riding – a key target in their own draft Transport Masterplan.
The NSW Government wants to more than double the bicycle mode share of all trips shorter than 10 kilometres by 2016 … Cycling and walking have become increasingly popular… There are opportunities to maintain this trend by improving, connecting and expanding cycling and walking networks, making them easier to use, safer and more accessible.
The City is developing a safe and convenient bike network, made up of different types of bike paths, including 55 kilometres of separated cycleway. So far 10 kilometres of separated cycleways (including three kilometres in the CBD) have been built with a further 2.5 kilometres in design or consultation phases.
Nearly half of all car trips in metropolitan Sydney are less than five kilometres – just a short bike ride – so riding a bike is a real transport option if the right conditions are created.
Since the counts began in 2010, there has been a 120 per cent average increase in bike trips on Bourke Road cycleway and an 89 per cent average increase on the Bourke Street cycleway. Other bike count figures at key intersections include:
- Pyrmont Bridge, where counts have risen from 1,272 to 2,308 in the past two years, an 81 per cent increase
- Kent Street/Clarence Street intersection, where counts have risen from 894 to 1,962, a 119 per cent increase
- College Street/Oxford Street intersection, where counts have risen from 641 to 1,795 a 180 per cent increase
- Sydney Harbour Bridge cycle ramp, where counts have risen from 1,351 to 1,730, a 28 per cent increase
- Taylor Square, where counts have risen from 1,046 to 1,728, a 65 per cent increase in the past two years.
Bikes are counted at 100 intersections around the City during the morning and evening travel times on weekdays. The counts carried out by an independent survey company SkyHigh Traffic.
We recently installed 12 permanent in-ground counters around the City so counts can be taken year-round and throughout the day.
I hope this new data is compelling enough for the Premier to look beyond the headlines and to start investing in smart, efficient and sustainable infrastructure.
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U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate in 2012, has been met with a challenging controversy regarding his impending speech to be given at the Republican National Convention next month in Tampa, Florida.
As far as Paul’s right to speak, the rules are quite clear from the RNC. To be automatically given a 15- minute slot to speak at the podium, a candidate must have won a plurality of delegates in five states. As difficult as the facts are for staunch Paul supporters to accept, Paul has only won four such states which are Iowa, Minnesota, Maine, and Louisiana. Remember, the key word is “plurality”. A plurality is the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate – and not a majority.
Paul’s last chance to win a fifth state was in Nebraska, and that didn’t happen as Paul only won 2 of the 15 delegates available. This was an expected outcome, even by Paul and his supporters.
With the rules and the current explanation complete, it is now up to the RNC to schedule speakers for the Convention. The buzz yesterday was that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will most likely give the keynote speech. This is of major interest because, quite logically, Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate choice would not be assigned the keynote speech honor. Therefore, if Christie is, in fact, given the honor of being the keynote speaker, he is no longer on the short list of politicians to be chosen as Romney’s vice presidential running mate. Many have thought he would be chosen to be the vice presidential choice, and many have also wanted him to be the choice.
Ron Paul has stated in the recent past that he believes Mitt Romney doesn’t want him to speak at the Republican Convention because Romney fears that Paul will promote his own agenda rather than exemplify unity for Romney on the Republican ticket. Paul told Fox Business: “I think the Romney campaign organization is very insecure.”
Dr. Ron Paul is absolutely right. Anyone who doesn’t believe Ron Paul humbles the strongest politicians around isn’t paying attention to the power of this man. He has an extremely huge following of devoted followers, and much of what he envisions for a better America makes very good sense. His desire for a smaller government – which has been his major issue and likely the most popular distinction between himself and any other candidate – is an issue to be reckoned with by any candidate. His unique foreign affairs’ proposals are worth strong consideration by the Republican Party as well.
Anyone in the RNC – including the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney – who believes Ron Paul should not speak to the Republican Party at the Convention, is wrong.
Ron Paul’s beliefs must be heard, contemplated, and accepted for sincere consideration in the Republican Party’s platform of 2012. Paul not only speaks to many people but also for many people. Regardless of what one thinks of him and his politics within the Republican Party, he is a force to be reckoned with in 2012 as he has been in the past.
Disallowing Paul to have his say at the Convention will lose many more Republicans who are trying to get President Obama out of the White House than it would gain. But again, politics aside, Dr. Ron Paul has earned his right to speak – regardless of the rules.
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On his return from Middle East trip that was seen by many as escaping the pressure of the Kuala Terengganu by-election loss and planning an insidious political move, Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi finally acknowledged the existence of the two Malaysian imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) since 2006 and under CIA detention since 2003.
Today Abdullah expressed happiness to Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. He said Government is seeking more information and offer the two Malaysians for imprisonment here. In actual fact, he is merely pretending.
The two Malaysian had been on the radar of Malaysian blogosphere since September 2006. No officials words have come out from Wisma Putra or Putrajaya since then. Abdullah was reprted to have met former President George W Bush in New York and Washington but reliable sources informed that he never raised their plight in the meetings.
The reason was Abdullah had long been under threat from the American for his son, Kamaluddin's involvement in the Scomi nuclear centrifuge scandal in 2004. His administration is held under ransom and had been at the whims and fancy of the Western powers and their regional stooge. He may have abandoned the plight of these two Malaysians out of his fear for his family.
A leader who abandoned his people has no business to continue in office and do not deserve any grain of respect. And yet, rumours are getting louder that he is trying a manouveour to stay in power.
Bernama reported Abdullah requesting information on the two Malaysians.
January 24, 2009 10:41 AM-----------------------------
Malaysia Seeks Info On Two Guantanamo Detainees
By Muin Abdul Majid
DUBAI, Jan 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is seeking permission from the United States government to allow its police officers to meet two Malaysians being held at the controversial Guantanamo military prison whose closure was ordered by President Barack Obama, said Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
He said Malaysia would like to know what would happen to its two nationals who were among about 250 inmates of Guantanamo, many of whom have been held for years without trial.
"If possible, we'd like to bring both of them home so that they could continue to serve their sentences in Malaysia," he told Malaysian journalists covering his visit to the United Arab Emirates here yesterday.
Abdullah lauded the decision by the new American president to close down the facility in Guantanamo, Cuba, within a year.
"President Obama's decision must have gone down well with many countries and Malaysia too is happy because he has fulfilled his promise," he said.
Besides closing the Guantanamo prison, Obama also ordered a halt to harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects as he sought to restore the US image abroad.
AFP reported the two Malaysians as Mohammed Nazir Lep and Mohammad Farik Amin. Both are described by the US authorities as members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). The report below:
25/01/2009 at 03:06 AM-----------------------------
Malaysia to accept Gitmo detainees
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Saturday the country wants to bring home two Malaysians held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility which US President Barack Obama has ordered shut within a year.
"We'd like to bring both of them home so that they could continue to serve their sentences in Malaysia," Abdullah told state news agency Bernama Saturday.
"President Obama's decision must have gone down well with many countries and Malaysia too is happy because he has fulfilled his promise," he added.
Mohammed Nazir Lep and Mohammad Farik Amin are described by US authorities as members of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the group behind a series of attacks in Southeast Asia including the 2002 bombings in Bali.
Both of the Malaysians were arrested in the joint Thai-US raid in Ayutthaya that also captured their boss Hambali in August, 2003.
Hambali himself, described as the operations officer for Jemaah Islamiyah, is an Indonesian and also in detention at Guantanamo. Indonesian officials have requested access to him for questioning several times but never have said they will accept him back in Indonesia.
The two aides were held for interrogation for several years, and then transferred to Guantanamo with several other "high value detainees" in September, 2006.
The two Malaysians also were allegedly deeply involved in an al-Qaeda plot to replicate the 9/11 attacks on the US west coast. That plot failed when the only pilot in the cell opted out of the operation.
Mohammed Nazir, better known as Lillie, is said to have transferred Al-Qaeda funds for use in the 2003 bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta which killed 12 people.
Mohammad Farik, also known as Zubair, allegedly served directly under JI operational planner Hambali.
Obama, who took office this week, ordered the closure of the prison at the US naval base in Cuba, with its remaining 250 detainees to be dealt with constitutionally.
Of the remaining Guantanamo inmates, only about 20 have been charged, including five men accused of helping organise the September 11 attacks of 2001. - AFP
The two Malaysian had been on the radar of Malaysian blogosphere as far back since Rocky Bru's September 13th, 2006 posting that referred to Bernama Salmy Hashim's report here.
In her report on the same date, both the Malaysian names were already reported. The two Malaysians had just been transfered then from an unknown CIA detention centre. They were beleived to be captured in 2003 together with Al Qaeda's Hambali for allegedly planning a 'second wave' on Los Angelas after the 9-11 on New York in 2001.
The Gitmo detention camp have been known in existence since 2001. It was established primarily for detaining suspected Islamist terrorist.
On September 19th, 2006, Abdullah met President George W Bush in New York but there was no news of him raising the issue of the two Malaysians detained. Bernama merely reported the meeting initiated by Bush with the then OIC Chairman to discuss matters of "global importance" and "how to keep the peace".
In other word, he did not raised the matter of the two Malaysians. He did nothing but kept it under lid from the Malaysian public.
Abdullah did not express any displeasure or disagreement when a Torture Bill was passed in Congress on Sepetember 29th, 2006 to legalise torture and it's indefinate detention. Nor did Abdullah raised any complain or ruckus when it was reported that the US were doing secret trials of detainees behind closed door without legal representation and away from media in places.
Why is Abdullah pretending to show concern and compassion to seek for further information on them and seeking to bring them back, when for more than five years, he never bothered?
This blogger hold a strong suspicion that it all links together with the 2004 nuclear centrifuge scandal, in a recent development few weeks ago, Scomi CEO, Shah Hakam, was sanctioned by the US. Shah Hakam, son Kamaluddin and former ISA detainee, BSA Tahir are the original shareholders of Kaspadu, which in turn controlled Scomi. Now only Kamaluddin is still scot free. For now, that is.
Abdullah is believed to be leading the country under ransom. He had been making series of decisions to kow-tow to Western powers and also commercial and security decisions in favour their stooge, particularly Singapore.
This Scomi incident have built an ingrained perception on Abdullah as a selfish leader who has no national agenda, then for himself, his family, and cronies at the expense of national interest and security. The plight of the two Malaysian Gitmo detainees may have been abandoned and their fate left to chance.
A leader who abandon his people have no right to stay on and earn any respect. Thus, what can be expected from our leader who is a puppet of the West after the recent development on Scomi? Is it a threat to go easy on Anwar when his trial begin on February 5th, 2009? Or is it a US response to strong language on Israel?
Or maybe, the growing rumour that Abdullah will stay on after the UMNO March election is linked to this development? Uncle Sam wants him to stay on.
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There are tons of writing adages out there along the lines of “Show don’t tell” that you’ve no doubt heard your old creative writing schoolmarm repeat hundreds of times. Unless you know what they’re really saying and what they really mean, though, these cheerful mottoes can’t help you. Today, I want to fire off a quick explanation for why writers generally should stay away from the word “suddenly.”
“Suddenly” is a crutch. It’s cheap. It’s easy. Lots and lots of writers pepper their manuscripts with it because then they don’t have to worry about writing transitions, describing actions or giving the reader any context. They just slap a “suddenly” on to an event or feeling and voila! It fits!
Except it really doesn’t. A reader’s job is to react and infer and analyze what is going on in a manuscript or book. When we’re faced with “suddenly,” it’s like a power surge. Our system is scrambled. Something suddenly comes on the scene that takes us by surprise, whether it is a plot twist, an action, a feeling or a thought. And that’s fine. We react. We try to understand what the new development means. If it is an emotion, we try to fit that into the character and situation. We do our job.
The problem is, though, that a writer who leans heavily on the “suddenly” crutch usually thinks that “suddenly” is enough. They whallop the character and the reader with something and then move on. We don’t get a reaction from the character, we don’t get the feeling explained, we don’t see a lot of context. The “suddenly” has been used to shoehorn something into the narrative without much regard for how well it fits.
Suddenly, a big slimy alien burst out from behind the wall.
Reader’s reaction: Jarring, but okay. Hopefully there are aliens elsewhere in this book and this isn’t the first one we see.
A rage overtook her and she suddenly punched him square on the nose.
Reader’s reaction: Whoa! Wait. They were just kissing. Where did that come from? Why?
As you can see, “suddenly” is usually a treasure map of lazy writing. When you come across “suddenly” in your own work, you’ve likely found a section of the narrative where you could’ve given more context, more reasoning, more explanation. Let’s rework one of our examples:
She pulled away from him and looked deeply into his eyes, only to catch him staring blankly at the TV over her shoulder. The rage that overtook her was so intense that she sent a fist flying straight for his nose.
At least now we understand her rage (even if we think she might be overreacting just a liiiiittle bit). So take a look at your manuscript. Are there any places where “suddenly” is standing in for something that could be expanded, deepened? That could be given some more meaning and context? It’s not the word itself that’s bad, it’s what it does with the reader’s understanding of your work.
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Essay - Tamsin Blanchard
I am on my way back from a couple of days at the Paris shows. In the past 48 hours, I have seen collections that made me want to shop. I have also seen collections that made me think, and one that made my blood heat up to a rolling boil. But I am leaving Paris feeling quite satisfied that the worlds of fashion and politics, and the ability to make a statement with your clothes, are as strong as ever. It is simply up to us to be as engaged with the issues or as blissfully ignorant as we like.
For Viktor & Rolf, the issues are quite black and white. Their walking slogan clothes shouted ‘No!’ as emphatically as a contrary teenager. ‘What are we supposed to be saying no to?’ asked the editor next to me. Well, it seemed you could take your pick, but Viktor & Rolf were apparently saying no to fast fashion, even though their seams were hurriedly stapled together (with gold staples, no less) instead of painstakingly stitched. Now, I seem to recall a recent collaboration between V&R and the high street chain, H&M, which they didn’t seem too concerned about at the time, but they are right to raise the issue. The speed at which fashion is being produced and the rate we are throwing it away is simply unsustainable and irresponsible – contributing to the pollution of the planet, the exploitation of garment workers in the developing world, and feeding our feckless desire to consume, consume, consume.
For Vivienne Westwood, it might be too late to say no. On a roll after the publication of her manifesto, (how long before she forms her own political party? I can’t wait) her collection was called Chaos Point. ‘Scientists have warned that ecological crisis has reached tipping point and the destruction is now irreversible,’ she writes in her show notes. ‘Others believe the response of human beings to the crisis is one factor that can save us – provided enough of us wake up to the emergency but calls for new thinking (my manifesto recommends practice which will effect a change in thinking: we need a new ethic.)’ She used the naïve and primitive drawings of a class of seven and eight year olds to express her chaos theory. Her brief to the children included this sound advice: ‘Look up ecology in the dictionary …good management of the earth. Now you know something more than you did a minute ago – this is what life is about.’ There is hope for the future generations at least.
Another fashion house that is always looking for new ways forward is Issey Miyake. For one exciting moment, while reading the Miyake news sheet waiting for the show to begin, I thought Dai Fujiwara had come up with a solution to the world’s nappy landfill problem. He is experimenting with the idea of disposable clothing – the ultimate in fast fashion and something Viktor and Rolf would not approve of. But Fujiwara believes there is a need for clothes that can be thrown away – with as little impact as possible on the planet, of course – after a single use. He compares it to the convenience of disposable nappy. His biodegradeable dresses are an interesting idea, but I’m not sure if this is the way forward. Surely we don’t want to encourage society to become any more throwaway than it already is. If he can come up with a way to turn disposable nappies into clothing, however, he really would be onto something.
And finally, if I may, a short rant. The show that made my blood boil was Jean Paul Gaultier. I felt ashamed to sit so passively, watching a splayed zebra stitched to the back of a coat, a crocodile’s head worn as a hood, its once mighty tail trailing pathetically behind, and a seemingly endless parade of exotic skins and furs that followed. Why are we looking back to the Stone Age and the most primitive form of clothing known to man? After the show, nobody else seems concerned. But that is what makes the power of fashion as a political tool so subtle and subversive. The medium is the message, but more often than not, the message is studiously ignored. These are only clothes, after all. | <urn:uuid:60c53008-60f5-415d-9718-df6f1563b4ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://showstudio.com/project/political_fashion/essay_tamsin_blanchard | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972211 | 898 | 1.625 | 2 |
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In issue #144, October/November 2009, we published a story on how to make "books" from wood. Here are some close-up photos of some of the books we made for that article. For a larger view of each book, just double-click on the photo.
If you catch the bug and make some books of your own, please add your photos to this forum.
Editor, American Woodworker
Here is a jewelry box that I made using the books as an inspiration.
Jewelry “Books” by Russ Amos Owner of
“Wood by Design”
Walnut- Box, books, and drawer dividers
White oak- Books
Curly white oak- Drawer fronts
Red oak- Books
Purple heart- Drawer pulls
Baltic birch plywood- Lid and drawer bottoms
plywood- Back of box
Spray Sherwin-Williams lacquer on the books
Minwax wipe on Polyurethane on everything else
Most pieces were individually finished before assembly
All pieces given a rub down with Johnson’s paste wax and
0000 steel wool
Soft close mechanism on the lid. Lid opens 105deg
Sliding dovetail joints on the box
Book ends have hidden compartments in them and are held on
with dowels and rare earth magnets
Drawer fronts were cut from one piece of curly white oak.Grain matches up and down and
from right to left
Drawers have removable dividers to keep items apart
End books are each made from one piece of wood
Overall size is 29 ¾” wide x 7 5/8” high x 9” deep
Total weight is twenty seven pounds
Construction took over 50 hours. Design time was an
additional 12 hours
Clever ! This is quite imaginative and well built. Congrats.
Learn from yesterday - Work today - Enjoy success tomorrow
Can someone give me tips on making the pages look realistic? I'm using 3/4 stock for a start and have made lots of blanks. All that is left to do is cut the pages, chamfer and glue the spine on. I'll be making different sizes but had lots of this old pine around the shop. Any help would be appreciated. I'm making them as Christmas gifts and need to finish and ship them cross country. Thanks, Dan
I used a Forrest WWI blade that is 3/32" wide and has a nice deep "V" cutters. If you look at the saw kerf for your blade you want that "V" look to it. You do NOT want a blade that cuts a flat bottomed kerf. 1.Set the blade at 3/16" high. 2.Set fence 1/8" from inside of the blade. 3.Make the first 3 cuts on one side of the book. 4.Turn the book 180deg around and cut the other 3 cuts. 5.Now raise the blade about 1/16" and move the fence about 1/16" more AWAY from the blade. 6.Repeat steps 3 and 4. 7.Repeat step 5 only lower the blade about 1/8". 8.Repeat steps 3 through 7 until you meet in the middle. The middle cut may only require you to cut from one side only. It depends on how thick the book is. You do not have to be exact in your measurements. This ain't rocket science. Also if you have lots of books to do, do all the same cuts at the same time regardless how thick your books are. Just stop at the middle of each book. Russ
Oops, I forgot. You will probably end up with a bunch of "fuzz" in the cuts. Carefully sand the pages with a foam sponge sanding pad. You will NOT get them all the first time. Put a coat of your finish on and when it is dry hit it with the foam sponge sanding pad again. The finish will harden the "fuzz" and make them easier to remove. Russ
Those are quite impressive Tom. I especially like the Curly(?) Maple one that is the 10th down. I've never seen anything like this before. I think they would make great bookends. Where did you get the inspiration/ creativity to come up with this?
Nice added touch w/ the metal trimmed front cover pic. I'll bet similar spine reference accessories/engravings could be added as well.
John C Freeman
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Today, I’d like to share with you one of the patterns available in Church Patterns for Hand Embroidery, Appliqué, Paper Crafts, Painting, & More. It’s a cross interwoven with a crown of thorns. The design is from Thomas Brown & Son’s catalogue of church embroidery designs from the early 1900′s, where it appears as a “square” cross (or a cross with equal length arms on all four sides). Here’s the design, with a PDF at the end of the article:
Incidentally, Thomas Brown & Son’s original book of church designs, in case you are familiar with it, was actually a catalog. Back in the day, you could peruse such catalogs and find the design you liked and order it by number. You’d receive the full-sized pattern, ready to transfer and embroider.
Today, we only have the old catalog available (and reprints of the same catalog), and the precision of the designs in these early catalogs is not necessarily exact – in fact, is rarely exact! Often, you’ll find designs that should be squared and balanced, but are actually a bit off kilter. If you don’t straighten these up before transferring the design, you can end up with a finished piece of exquisite embroidery that looks just… slightly… off.
Years ago, I began collecting original copies of books, catalogs, pamphlets, and periodicals that include church patterns. Mostly, these would be patterns for embroidery, but I also found some excellent old catalogs for church stencils and other art mediums that translate well into embroidery patterns, too. I’ve spent a small fortune on these books over the years! Some, I’ve come across accidentally at old library sales and similar events, while others have cost me upwards to $400 a copy through rare booksellers.
In recent years, to preserve the images electronically, I’ve begun scanning these patterns and cleaning them up, balancing them and straightening the patterns, and turning them into vector files that can be enlarged or reduced without losing clarity. And that’s how my Church Patterns e-book came about. In the book, you’ll find a collection of 120+ designs from these various sources, and a smattering of my designs, too.
Today’s design would make a particularly nice cover for a prayer book or Bible. And really, it can be worked in many techniques. You could, for example, appliqué the cross and embroider the crown of thorns. Or you could work both in outline stitches. Or you could fill them with long and short stitch shading and outline them with gold. You could work them in whitework… or even in blackwork. It’s up to you how to approach the design!
Here’s the PDF for easy printing. The design prints at 5″ tall, if you select “no scaling” on your print options:
You can find more free hand embroidery patterns on the Patterns page here on Needle ‘n Thread. There are all kinds of designs there suitable for hand embroidery, from secular to religious, to monograms, to Hungarian! So if you’re looking for something to stitch, feel free to check them out! | <urn:uuid:ac81abca-e90a-4aad-843f-941727523efc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/04/free-hand-embroidery-pattern-cross-crown-of-thorns.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936785 | 709 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Tran Trong Duyet was the head of the Hanoi Hilton, the Vietcong prison in which John McCain was held captive for almost six years. He has stated that if he were American he would vote for McCain. Read about it below and see a photo.
Politics and war make strange bedfellows at times … often. This may be one of the strangest I’ve seen in a while. Tran Trong Duyet was the head of the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi during the Vietnam war. We know it as the Hanoi Hilton. He was in charge of the prison during the captivity of presidential candidate, John McCain. Duyet is 75-years-old now and retired, He is, of all things, an amateur ballroom dancer and keeps caged birds. Interesting symbolic hobby.
He talked with the BBC recently and spoke affectionately of John McCain. He said he was his friend and that if he was an American, he would vote for him.
Duyet talked about having McCain into his office for private chats. They argued about the war, he said. He called McCain a ‘frank man’, he said he was ‘loyal to his country and the American ideal’. In other words, he respected McCain’s behavior while in captivity. He confirms that McCain was not disloyal to his country during the years he was a prisoner of war.
What is interesting that the part the liberal press and the liberal blogs pick up on is that Duyet states that he never tortured McCain or any prisoners who were in the Hanoi Hilton. These liberal blogs ignore the obvious contradictions in Duyet’s statements. That he found McCain to be frank and loyal, yet lying about torture. That he has followed McCain’s career with interest, appreciates the work McCain has done to mend ties with Vietnam, but doesn’t know how McCain might react to seeing him again.
In an incident like this, one has to ask oneself what is the more believable scenario. Are all the men who were ever in the Hanoi Hilton lying about what went on there? Would they have motivation to lie about a prison of war camp run by the communist Vietcong – a group that were not known for their kinder-gentler methods of warfare? Or would the torturers have motivation to make a quick denial that they tortured and then move on to another subject? Would a man who had lived under communist rule most, if not all, of his life, have a motivation to minimize that aspect of the job he had as a young man. He had run one of the most notorious prisoner of war camps in the world and is still living in a communist country in which freedom of speech is a foreign concept and censorship routine. If McCain, and the other men who were prisoners there, were not tortured, then why would Duyet be concerned about how they might react if they saw him again?
The fact that Duyet would support McCain for president doesn’t come as a big surprise either. If for no other reason than the fact that he might want to mend a fence or two between himself and someone who was once his prisoner and now will likely be the most power man in the world, the President of the United States. Scary thought, that.
But really, its more than that. For anyone who knows anything about warriors, you know that even though men might fight on opposing sides, a good soldier understands and respects the qualities of his enemies. World War II vets admired the discipline and tenaciousness of the Japanese and German warriors. The Japanese and Germans admired the shear naked courage of the Americans.
My husband is a Vietnam vet. I’ve heard him say many times that the Vietcong were a fierce and deadly enemy. Respecting their ability in battle doesn’t diminish their danger or make them any less of an enemy. So it seems, that Duyet saw in McCain, his enemy and prisoner, a man he could respect as a warrior on the other side of the battle.
No, the liberals are looking for anything they can to discredit McCain. Their problem is that they just can’t find anything that has enough substance to really cause McCain problems. Attacking him on his war record and trying to make a big deal out of Duyet saying the Vietcong never tortured any prisoners is just not the right tact to take. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
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As ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer" has focused on the struggles of America's middle class this week, we've heard from thousands of viewers across the country. They are people who are struggling to make mortgage payments, find jobs, and care for their families.
They've weighed in on subjects ranging from banks to unemployment to the very existence of the middle class itself. We've gathered some of those comments below.
Many commentators questioned whether or not America still has a middle class to save.
User SammieB12 wrote on our site, "Pretty soon, there will only be two classes: the rich and the rest of us."
"The middle class should now be called the struggling to survive," wrote 11jeanne.
Others thought that the American dream has already disappeared.
"I don't believe there is a middle class anymore," one user wrote. "It used to be about single homes, 2.5 kids, white picket fences and a mom and dad. That dream is gone... only the rich can afford that now."
Phillip9150 wrote, "There is no middle class anymore, I have been laid off for 8 months now [...] I have no idea what we are going to do when my unemployment runs out."
Others wrote about the shame that comes with the fall from the middle class.
"Back home with mom, at 50 years old I feel like such a failure," broke10 said.
Another viewer wrote in after seeing the soup kitchen they worked at featured on our broadcast.
"The face of hunger is your neighbor," they said. "I can't tell you how many people who are coming into my soup kitchen that once belonged to the middle class. I have actually served food to people I worked with at a previous employer, they were laid off and so was their spouse."
Many middle class Americans wrote us about their struggles to find work.
"Here in Tucson, a restaurant had 8 openings and 200 applicants," wrote wandering41645 on the site.
"We are baby boomers and I think most of the people hurting are baby boomers," said bulldogzig. "We are close to retiring and who wants to hire us?"
"I've put in about 300 applications, I've had about 25 interviews," Scott said. "I've been talking to a company in Australia that is looking at me. I may have to do what a friend of mine is doing. He's working in Dubai, and he comes home every 30 to 60 days to see his family. I may have to do something as crazy as that to try and find a way to get a job."
To Scott, part of the problem is corporate values.
"One thing that is different today than in the days of our grandparents is the sense of no corporate conscience, or a people before profit kind of thing," Scott said. "I understand the business need to make a profit. I want them to make a profit. At what point is there enough?"
That comment was echoed on ABCNews.com by another user.
"It's all about making money... it's not about people anymore," scrappin.mel wrote on the site.
Others used our comment boards to express intense frustration with the Wall Street banks who many say helped to send the country into an economic downward spiral.
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Assemblyman Ed Ra presents Assembly Citations to Valley Stream students Sophia Marinez, Anthony Baires, Caryn Martin, Joline Viau, Nithin Seelan and Alena Moreira for their award-winning art and writing as part of the first annual Black History Month Essay and Art Contest.
- Sophia Marinez, Willow Road School
- Anthony Baires , Willow Road School
- Caryn Martin, Howell Road School
- Joline Viau, Howell Road School
- Nithin Seelan, James A. Dever School
- Alena Moreira, James A. Dever School
“African-Americans have contributed mightily to the fabric of national life,” said Ra. “In politics, business, the arts and sports, Black History Month reminds us of the indispensable role played by these Americans. Long Island also has produced its share of African-American success stories, with more certain to follow in the future. I was honored to have so many local students participate in our first annual Black History Month Essay and Art Contest. It was inspirational to see how each student commemorated past achievements and future opportunity.”
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31st 2012 at 2:02pm
GHS club installs library at Wilshire Trails Park
By Ken Stanford Staff
GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville High School FCCLA (Family Career and Community Leaders of America) Club recently erected a library at the playground at Wilshire Trails Park.
It contains more than 400 books and was constructed to resemble a miniature house. Not all the books will be in there at once, however. Check-out procedure is by the honor system. The books are donations from the public.
"The books are free and can be taken home," according to Whittney McPherson, the FCCLA Faculty Advisor. "We will be refilling the library as needed and donations of books would be very helpful."
McPherson said they can use children's books from "storybooks to young adult" and donations can be made to GHS or can be placed directly into the library.
"We began the project in September and completed it last Thursday," she added.
Darrell Lucas provided the "legs" on which the structure sits and some of the tools used to construct it, Steve Lawhorne made the plaque, and Donna Miller provided additional tools.
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Is there truth on the fatloss4idiots scam? or does it really work and give you fast results.
In the book Fat Loss 4 Idiots, the author cited the following as the main causes on one’s excess weight:
- You are eating the wrong foods
- You are eating the wrong types of calories per meal
- You are eating in wrong patterns every day
These reasons are very simple, yet they are all true. If you can observe, the bottom line here is: your weight depends on the food you eat. Because the food you take can either make you THIN or FAT. Having no exercise is just a myth. You are getting fat because you are eating the wrong foods at wrong intervals each day. More of these on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet Review.
It also important that you check you pattern of eating. Our body is like an engine that only needs to be ‘fed’ at certain times of the day to ‘work’. This is why when you eat the wrong food at the wrong time, your body will not burn those calories - and it will end up stored as a fat tissue.
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Wrestling Groups Petition IOC
A global coalition of wrestling groups has launched a website and several petitions which urge the International Olympic Committee to reconsider their decision to drop the sport starting with the 2020 Games. The coalition has vowed to make changes in order to remain an Olympic sport.
FILA President Nenad LalovicFILA takes its responsibly very seriously on behalf of all the 180 affiliated National Federations and all the wrestlers in the world. We understand the IOC recommendation and respect the process. As a sport, we are willing to undertake all the necessary steps for our sport to remain on the core program of the Olympic Games. The world of wrestling is understandably disappointed by the IOC Executive Board’s recommendation to remove wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Games program. We see this as an opportunity which could be a positive turning point for our sport. One thing is for certain : it is our responsibility alone to address the issues that led to this situation. We are listening to the IOC’s concerns and learning from their guidance. We must strive to improve our sport’s Olympic offering in order to retain our position on the Olympic program and evolve with the times. | <urn:uuid:51be18e8-b55c-496b-b95d-838f386509b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/02/wrestling-groups-petition-ioc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949389 | 233 | 1.546875 | 2 |
People in Rowan County, Kentucky
Cost of Living,
The 2012 Rowan County, KY, population is 23,333. There are 83 people per square mile (population density).
Family in Rowan County, KY
The median age is 31.7. The US median is 37.3. 41.45% of people in Rowan County, KY, are married. 11.50% are divorced.
The average household size is 2.36 people. 27.50% of people are married, with children. 14.38% have children, but are single.
Race in Rowan County, KY
96.09% of people are white, 1.50% are black, 0.77% are asian, 0.15% are native american, and 1.50% claim 'Other'.
1.26% of the people in Rowan County, KY, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 98.74% are non-hispanic).
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As you know, I have three kids. More specifically I have three boys. Three active boys. That often means that dinner time can be utter chaos with everyone talking at once, Vegan Mom and me trying to keep kids in their seats, spilled drinks, etc. So, Vegan Mom came up with a great idea to help focus the dinner conversation. She signed some books about various artists out of the library, and every night each one of us tells the rest of the family what our favourite painting is by the artist of the week, and why. We then all say what we like about the painting, and discuss the elements and principles of art evident in the piece, as well as techniques that define the artist. On the weekend, we all make our own picture in the style of the artist.
It is a lot of fun to see what pieces of art the kids choose as their favourite because they have no preconceptions and don't go for the obvious. And, I have to admit, doing the original artwork is really hard! I loved art in high school and did a few pieces that weren't half bad, but art employs a part of the brain I have not used in a looooong time. I could almost feel my brain creaking and clunking away trying to get my hand to do what I wanted it to. Above is Son #1's interpretation of Van Gogh's self portrait. Below is my attempt at doing this picture a la Van Gogh. Next up: Picasso! | <urn:uuid:ae04d4f4-75b8-46fe-9338-7feee48994de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://vegandad.blogspot.com/2009/01/dinner-with-van-gogh.html?showComment=1233531240000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981216 | 305 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Appropriately enough for a park in the blustery Columbia River Gorge, the park's name, pronounced vee-EN-toe, is Spanish for wind. Just an odd coincidence, actually. In this case, the Viento comes from the first letters of three railroad tycoons - Villard, Endicott, and Tollman -who put the first railroad in the area.
Where a railroad station once stood is now the home of one of the Gorge's best kept secrets: Viento is a great place to camp! With modern campsites, Viento almost always has a spot available when other campgrounds in the area are full. No reservations are accepted; camping is first-come, first-served. On weekends in the summer, rangers provide interpretive programs. A fully-accessible restroom is located here.
Viento is next to a working railroad line and crossing. Visitors and campers can expect to hear train horns throughout the day and night. Interstate 84 also borders the park. Please call the park office at (541) 374-8811, for more information.
Viento has a day-use area with easy access to the Columbia River and some of the best windsurfing in the Gorge. There's a great picnic area right next to a wonderful, babbling creek - just right for skimming stones and soaking sore feet.
A one-mile trail from Viento to Starvation Creek takes you along a section of the Historic Columbia River Highway. Now a hiking trail, there hasn't been auto traffic here in more than 50 years. If you get a chance to visit, imagine an old Ford Model T twisting around the corners!
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Up to 30% or more of US wells test positive for Crypto, Giardia, or E.Coli.
Giardia and E.Coli cause 85% of child sickness and 65% of adult diseases.
Estimated 6,000 children die each day from preventable water-related diseases.
No such thing as 'pure water' - it always contains salts, nutrients, and/or particulates.
Water contaminents: radio-activation, microorganisms, pesticides, herbicides, and more.
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I think about 14 NCAA schools athletic programs had excess of revenues over expenditures last year. In the world of profit accounting, their athletic department made a profit. So, let’s see…if about 1,000 schools belong to the NCAA and 14 schools made a profit then…98.6% of schools had to rely on at least some institutional support last year to survive.
Without ever studying the numbers (but relying on my 20 years in college athletics experience) I will venture a guess that most schools provide at least 90% plus of the funds an athletic department needs to function. Those of us with small arenas (arena is a funny haha word – more like gymnasiums) have a limited ticket revenue stream. And then there is that silly thing called winning which contributes to the equation. Let’s face it, those of us who have to budget need to assume the team will have a losing season without much walk-up game-day business. When there is success then the “extra” revenue can be used for “extra” things rather than for the business of running the department.
Have you noticed that no expense is going down? Funny thing! While we experience flat line budgets things like transportation, equipment and the biggest money sucker of all, officials, are going up like a skier on a tow rope. I call officiating an unfunded mandate. While it’s tempting not to pay them…well…you know…
Here is another thing about institutional support. The ability (and willingness) to fundraise can change the amount and percentage of institutional support. This was something I worked hard to educate folks about during our current self-study. For our example our fictional school has a general student ratio of 45% men and 55% women. Let’s say the Men’s Table Tennis team has a coach who is a prolific fundraiser. He is a world champion and has an international following. He receives donations which he uses for team travel and recruiting and the players are decked out in the newest clothing and have state of the art equipment. The Women’s Table Tennis team has the exact budget as the men at the beginning of the year, $250,000. The men spend $300,000 and women spend $275,000 but the men’s deficit is covered by their booster money. In spending dollars the men outspent their female counterparts by $25,000 bringing the balance to 52% male and 48% female. OH NO! But wait, there’s more! In reality the actual institutional support is $250,000 for the men and $275,000 for the women now showing the actual balance at 48% male and 52% female. Ahhh…much better…
Here is another question: should the men’s program be limited to how much they can spend even though they work hard to raise it? Is that really what we mean when we say “gender equity?”
As we embark on a complete organizational review at our school, part of the new initiative begun by our new president, I have to remind the committee that if they are looking at athletics as a profit making venture they are going to have to move to one of those rare 14 schools that flipped their program last year.
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The Chicago home where the late President Ronald Reagan grew up is slated to be demolished and potentially turned into a parking lot for President Obama’s Library, it was revealed today.
The home, at 832 E. 57th Street, was where Reagan survived a near-fatal bout of pneumonia in 1915 and he has written fondly of playing in the Hyde Park neighborhood with his brother and others.
But the University of Chicago has recently purchased the apartment building and they have announced plans to raze it and make it a parking lot.
Some have said that the liberal Chicago establishment does not want a reminder that Reagan, a conservative icon, once lived in the city.
Its current mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, was the White House Chief of Staff during Obama’s first term.
Hyde Park Historical Society board member Jack Spicer said, ‘Whatever you think of Reagan — once the building’s gone, it’s gone forever.’
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Revisiting and Expanding the Laffer Curve
Tibor R. Machan
The Laffer curve is about how much imposition or other types of trouble people are willing to tolerate from their fellows. Arthur Laffer, a professor at the University of Southern California, is supposed to have drawn a bell shaped graph on a napkin once to show that up to the peak point of it people are likely to put up with the burden of taxation. The peak isn’t the same for everyone, but everyone does have such a peak.
In particular, then, the Laffer Curve concerns taxation, a form of extortion, which government uses to obtain funds to operate its undertakings. Reminiscent of how organized crime groups, such as the Mafia, operate, the government threatens heavy fines and jail so those being threatened hand over funds. Since, however, many governments, unlike the Mafia, can be voted out of office, the severity of the extortion has to be gauged with the possibility of eventual electoral resistance in mind. This is no easy task and can often go awry. Yet in most countries tax revolts are relatively rare since few people wish to risk losing their forms of life just so as to retaliate against the powerful forces of the state. This, again, is similar to Mafia type extortions in which the victim is given some benefits in order to be placated—e.g., protection from vandalism (the bulk of it initiated by the gangsters themselves).
Now the Laffer Curve is extendable into much more than the sphere of taxation-extortion. Any sort of government intrusion is subject to its insight. Censorship comes to mind—a certain amount of it will not be widely resisted. Government regulation, all of it a violation of the prohibition of prior restraint—is also subject to it since it is taken to be more trouble at times to resist than to comply with it. Indeed, statism as such is subject to the Laffer Curve analysis—in most societies it is not significantly enough resisted for it to subside, let alone disappear. People subjected to statist measures of any sort simply will not mount effective resistance because to do so may involve greater losses than gains and they are, after all, often able to circumvent it reasonably successfully by using their own intelligence or hiring expert help in the form of specialist in various branches of intrusive law.
Finally, the Laffer Curve is useful, also, to explain why there is not enough political resistance to statism and why only a small percentage of the population bothers to mount any, especially in advanced, developed countries where people live quite well, and where mounting resistance is quite costly, relatively speaking—that is, the possibility of success is small while the cost of the revolt is considerable. In undeveloped countries the situation is different, which helps explain why so often it is in such countries that we see rebellion and revolt against prevailing authorities and why there is frequent regime change in many of them. Put bluntly, the bulk of the population has little to lose from rising up against the state. That is not so in most developed countries.
The small percentage of citizens who will insist on making an issue out of nearly any measure of statism in developed countries will not manage to achieve regime change, of course, but it will keep the idea of it alive. Yet this itself can contribute to the ineffectuality of such marginal efforts, since the rest of the population may perceive the small resistance as sufficient and proceed without given it any aid or even much attention.
Is there a remedy or is this normal? In a sense it is normal—most people will put up with some trouble from others. They will accept a certain amount of intrusive noise from neighbors, being bumped on the sidewalk as they hurry to some destination, even some fender bender type auto accidents, let alone insults and humiliation. Minor thefts or assaults are rarely reported to the authorities.
However, what is not normal is becoming habituated to such tolerance for invasiveness from others. Most of us fear the consequences of such habituation—just as we fear being habituated to anything that harms us in the long run.
If it becomes evident enough, via education or the example from other regions of the world, that statism even in small increments has bad overall consequences, that things could turn out measurably better without it, the peak of the Laffer Curve may become more easily reached for the bulk of the people and the level of tolerance of statism could diminish considerably. | <urn:uuid:fe7c1694-ce8a-454c-8804-394a303c9fe6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tibormachan.rationalreview.com/tag/arthur-laffer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971085 | 923 | 1.523438 | 2 |
There are so many reasons why you shouldn't use a POP3 connector on an Exchange server that it is difficult to know where to start.
I don't simply mean the POP3 Connector supplied with Small Business Server, but any third party POP3 Connector. They all have the same issues.
With the correct choice of services and configuration, there is almost no reason why a POP3 connector should be used as part of the deployment of Exchange.
POP3 is a client to server protocol. Designed for pulling email from the server for storage in the client. Exchange is not a POP3 client. All that the POP3 connector does is pull the email down, then place it in to the SMTP queue for delivery to the end users.
With the SBS POP3 Connector, that is done at 15 minute intervals.
I have outlined the most common arguments for using the POP3 connector below and why they don't make a very good case.
Then I have outlined the major benefits of using SMTP delivery.
I may well update this article in the future, so if you are using the RSS feed and it comes up again, then that is why.
Common Arguments for using the POP3 Connector.
I don't have a static IP address.
Not having a static IP address is not a hurdle for hosting your own email.
Simply use one of the dynamic DNS services to map a dynamic DNS to your MX record host, or just use the dynamic DNS address host in your MX records.
You will need to put a tool on to the server to keep the dynamic DNS address active, but there are lots around.
My ISP blocks port 25.
If you are running Exchange on a "residential" connection, or the ISP wants you to upgrade to a business class connection that costs many times the normal amount for basically the same service, then you may find that port 25 is blocked.
For outbound email you can use an SMTP Connector.
For inbound email, simply subscribe to one of the mail hop services. These services provide you with hosts that you put in to your MX records and will receive email for you. They then forward the email to you on an alternative port that is not being blocked.
Furthermore, in the event of a failure of your server or internet connection, these services will queue the email for you, which also deals with the "protection" reason (see below).
It provides "protection" in case the server goes down.
One of the most common reasons that people want to use the POP3 connector is because of the protection that is provides for them in case the server goes down.
This is often the reason given by people who don't understand the way that email and SMTP delivery works on the internet.
You should have complete control over your email at all times.
In fact, you should have control over all aspects of your internet service.
What happens if your ISP goes bust? It happens. Not as often as it once did, but it does happen.
If you are using a dedicated web hosting company, then they are more likely to go bust than regular ISPs, because the hosting market is so competitive. (I can rent a dedicated server for UK£45 a month - on that I could get 100 web sites very easily).
You have an disagreement over a bill with your ISP. They cut off access to your email until you pay the bill - holding you to ransom.
You should have the email delivered to your server at all times, using SMTP. That is what Exchange is designed to do.
However, many people will see that the Exchange server is a single point of failure for email delivery. Unless you pay out for additional services and applications, that will be a factor for most companies.
You also have the internet connection - that is often a single point of failure as well.
SMTP email has some protection built in. Most servers are configured to attempt to deliver email for 48 hours before giving up. If email is that critical to your business, then you will not wait 48 hours before getting some kind of email service. Where hardware is available, I can have a server back running in around four to six hours. It may not have the old information available to the users, but what most companies want is new email, the old content can wait a bit longer.
If hardware isn't available, then you can use an alternative email service, collect the email with POP3 and then import it back in to Outlook. That can be fixed up in around 30 minutes, with just clients to configure.
If you are in a larger site with multiple servers, then it probably doesn't apply as you will be able to make internal arrangements.
My mention of POP3 in the previous paragraphs doesn't mean using the ISPs POP3 service, or supports the use of the POP3 connector.
How can you protect yourself?
The biggest problem with making alternative arrangements is the DNS propagation time. It takes 48 hours for DNS changes to fully propagate round the Internet. Therefore if you were to rely on replacement DNS changes, you would loose email.
The trick that I like to use is to use a second MX record and a dynamic DNS service provider.
The dynamic DNS entry is pointed at your existing IP address - so you have two MX records pointing at the same location:
MX value: 10 mail.domain.com
MX value: 50 companyname.dyndns.org
mail.domain.com Type: A Value: 220.127.116.11
companyname.dyndns.org Type A: Value 18.104.22.168
Note that two hosts have been used, not a alias to the original host.
While this does break the official best practises for MX records in having two records pointing at the same host (which will be flagged if you use dnsreport.com for example), in operation it has no effect.
In the event of a failure, the original lowest value MX record is no longer responding. The sending servers will try the higher value MX record - which at the point of failure also isn't responding.
Simply change the IP ADDRESS on the dynamic DNS record to point to your alternative server or internet connection. No other changes are required, and email will begin to flow very shortly afterwards.
You haven't got to wait for DNS changes to propagate, because they are already there. The dynamic DNS services have setup their service so that host changes are reflected around the internet very quickly.
Once the original server has been fixed, change the entry back again and email to the alternative server or IP address will very quickly dry up.
Why not use a Backup MX Service?
You may have seen advertised backup MX services. This is where another server is configured in your MX records to accept email for your domain - using similar values to my example above.
The reason not to use backup MX services is quite simple.
In most cases it is only spammers who will use the second (higher value) MX record to send email. The theory being that the backup record is not so heavily protected against spam.
One of the most effective ways to deal with bandwidth use by spam and virus carrying messages is to simply refuse delivery for users who are unknown on your server. http://www.amset.info/exchange/filter-unknown.asp
This feature works by rejecting the message at the SMTP stage, before the message has been delivered. In a small site it is very effective.
If you are using a backup MX server, then you will probably be unable to use that feature, because the backup server has already accepted the message. Attempting to refuse delivery of the message will cause the messages to queue on the ISPs server as they are trying to bounce the message back to the "sender". In most cases the sender of the spam is spoofed and doesn't exist.
My ISP / Web Host doesn't provide an SMTP feed.
That excuse is one that is regularly heard. You don't need an SMTP feed to host your own email. That excuse often comes from the ISP / host, who just want control over everything. They recognise that you could be using your own email server, and want to ensure that you have a level of reliance on their service. They may even be charging you on a per mailbox basis, and don't want to see their revenue stream removed.
To have email delivered to your email server, all you need to do is get your MX records configured to point at your server instead of theirs. If they will not change the MX records, then transfer the domain to a domain name registrar where you have complete control. You can continue to use the ISP/host for hosting the web site (despite what they may say).
I have users who need to collect email from outside by POP3.
If you have any kind of permanent connection to the Internet, then they should be collecting email from the Exchange server. Configuring a domain and Exchange server to share a domain with another email server is problematic and an administrative overhead you could probably do without. It can be done, and is documented on the MS KB but I wouldn't advise it.
If you are on Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 or SBS 2003 then remote users should be configured to use RPC over HTTPS. This gives the user the Exchange feature set, without requiring a VPN. It just needs an Internet connection.
I don't have a permanent internet connection.
Of the main reasons for using a POP3 connector, this one is probably the only reason for using it for some sites. It is probably the ONLY reason I would deploy the POP3 connector, and that would be only after all other alternatives have been investigated an found not to be available.
However you still don't have to use the POP3 connector.
Use an ISP that supports ETRN collection. This is effectively "SMTP on Demand". The Exchange server connects to the Internet and then sends the ETRN server a command to say that it is ready to receive email, and the ETRN server then delivers it. You get most of the benefits of the SMTP type delivery, but without the hassles of POP3 collection.
The CEO wants to import his personal email in to his Exchange mailbox.
This reason has started to become more frequent with the increasing amount of space available in web mail services. There is no technical reason why this is a bad idea. Depending on the relationship you have with the staff member who requests it, you may not have any other choice.
However the best counter-argument for this reason is the loss of privacy. It is personal email. Once it has been imported in to Exchange, it becomes business content. It will be backed up and could be read by anyone else once the staff member has left the company.
Does that email have a place going through company systems?
I am also very suspicious of someone using personal email for business purposes. Why would they want to mix personal and business email up. The main reason is so that they can remain in touch once the business email is no longer available. Or perhaps they don't trust business email or are hiding something.
Benefits of SMTP Email Delivery
If you are currently on a POP3 connector, then why should you switch to SMTP delivery?
It is How Exchange is designed to work.
Exchange was built around the SMTP protocol, and is designed to work with SMTP.
Almost Instant Email Delivery
Most POP3 connectors will only collect email at most every minute, and the SBS POP3 Connector at 15 minute intervals.
As a consultant, one of the easiest ways for me to look good is to ditch the POP3 connector and switch the client to SMTP. The users see an immediate benefit as email is delivered shortly after it is sent - not when the server decides to collect it.
Add and Remove Users easily
You can simply add and remove users, email accounts, distribution lists to the server without having to worry about the configuration of the POP3 account. If you have named mailboxes with the ISP, then you don't need to configure those either.
If you are using a "Catch All" type mailbox, then you have bigger problems which can be solved by using SMTP delivery
The most effective anti spam measures are based on SMTP delivery
If you want to effectively deal with spam, then you need to block it at the point of delivery. With a POP3 connector you cannot do that, as it has already been "delivered" - to your ISPs server. If you attempt to block the message after that point your ISP will probably make you stop and insist that you download all the email that is waiting for you.
If you are using a "catch all" email account, which POP3 connectors, do, you will be bringing down spam messages with your legitimate email. As the sender of the spam messages is more often than not spoofed, your server will be unable to bounce the message and the messages will either queue or have to be dropped. This is a waste of bandwidth.
The two most effective methods of dealing with the major of spam messages are filtering unknown users (http://www.amset.info/exchange/filter-unknown.asp) and grey listing (http://blog.sembee.co.uk/archive/2006/09/18/27.aspx) .
Both of those require the email to be delivered directly so that the messages can be blocked.
Those measures are also effective against many of the email virus threats.
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In defense of the "free trade is always good" proposition,
In the ring, Dani Rodrik stumbles into a knockout punch from Don Boudreaux:
...If it's true that theory and evidence in favor of protectionism are sufficiently strong to warrant economists abandoning their conclusion that free-trade policy is generally sound, then why shouldn't economists -- led by Dani Rodrik -- also start exploring the potential benefits of intra-national protectionism? Surely a scholar not benighted with the free-trade "faith" ought to take seriously the possibility that, say, Tennesseeans could be made wealthier if their government in Nashville restricts their ability to trade with people in Kentucky, Texas, Rhode Island, and other states?...
I suspect that if someone proposed to Dani Rodrik that he explore the wealth-creating potential of state-level protectionism, he would refuse. He would likely (and correctly) say that it's ridiculous on its face to suppose that such protectionism would make the people of Tennessee as a group wealthier over time...
I score this for Don: a knockout.So in order to defend the hypothesis that mercantilism might be sound policy, I must attempt to smack down Brad DeLong (always a dangerous endeavor). Very clever,
The argument that Boudreaux uses is this: "If mercantilism is good policy at the nation level, why isn't it good policy at the U.S. state level?" DeLong finds this argument convincing. I do not, because I think it conflates two very different notions of what "good policy" means.
Suppose that trade policy is like a Prisoner's Dilemma game between two countries, where "cooperating" represents free trade and "defecting" represents mercantilism. The outcome that maximizes the total payoff - the Pareto optimal outcome - is for both countries to adopt free trade. But mercantilism is a dominant strategy.
Applying this conjecture to the case of U.S. states, there is a federal government that explicitly disallows states from pursuing most mercantilist policies (export subsidies, import taxes, etc.), thus forcing the Pareto-optimal outcome. But there is no world government, so nations should be mercantilist, since it is rational to play dominant strategies. As a result, in this conjectured world, it is perfectly reasonable to disallow mercantilist policy at the state level while pursuing it at the national level. Thus, DeLong and Boudreaux's point does not seem obviously right to me, since there may be strategic aspects to international trade.
Now, you may ask, in what model would trade policy really be a Prisoner's Dilemma? Well, I can think of one off of the top of my head - the New Economic Geography, my favorite development theory. In the international-trade version of this theory, countries undergo development one by one, not all at the same time. Beginning a development explosion requires investment from developed nations. Thus, whichever country with the lowest unit labor costs in the exportable goods sector (net of transport costs) will be the first to develop. In this world, undeveloped countries can compete to be the next country to develop, by subsidizing their exports (even though this subsidy can create a global inefficiency). Trade policy is a Prisoner's Dilemma between undeveloped nations.
I am not claiming that this is the world in which we live (but it might be!). I am simply making a point: Just because a world of free trade is the best possible world doesn't mean that free trade policy is always optimal for a country to adopt. I have not made an airtight case for mercantilism in this post, but I think I've addressed one of the main arguments against it. | <urn:uuid:effb29b1-6fd4-4063-a616-35780d5bdc07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/does-mercantilism-work.html?showComment=1326938096607 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942644 | 803 | 1.5 | 2 |
The following are pre-trip steps and tips to keep you safe and secure on the road:
Don’t put your travel status on Facebook or on your outgoing answering machine if you live alone or the entire family is traveling.
Give your credit card companies and bank that issues your ATM card your travel dates so you will be able to use your cards overseas and so that if charges occurs after you return its easier to prove its fraud so the bank can begin an investigation.
Cancel newspapers/mail delivery for the length of your trip.
If you live in a house, consider getting electronic timers to turn lights on and off and random times.
TSA locks for your luggage – get a couple of extras to take with you. They break, they get cut off, and sometimes they fall behind a 500 lb. dresser where you can’t retrieve them.
Photocopy your passport/ID so that you have a copy to carry around at the destination; not the original. Obviously, drivers should have their real license. It’s also a good idea to scan ID and email it to yourself. Keep it in a file with a bland name, not “passport photocopy” so that you can retrieve it from anywhere in the world.
Luggage tags should have your office address if possible. If you must use your home address, I suggest investing in a tag with a cover, so that every person you pass dragging your bag isn’t aware that the home at 84 Oak Ridge Road is unattended. Your name and address should also be inside the bag. I use a bright blue polka dot luggage tag to differentiate my bag from the others on the carousel.
Plus – in the rare event I check a bag, the name and address of my first hotel will be on a post it note on top of my business card which slides into the luggage tag.
Money belt. I have very mixed feelings about enrolling in the fear of pickpockets lurking around every corner, but I do use it in transit. The more I think about how often my valuables are sitting unattended before/after the metal detector even for a few minutes, the more I realize all my money and credit cards should be more secure. Money belts and “fanny packs” are not the same. The money belt is always worn under the clothing and the object is not to look like you’re carrying a big bulky wad of cash. You never want to access it in public.
Valuables. Don’t carry things that advertise your wealth. The first accessory I bought for my digital SLR was a non-descript strap that doesn’t have CANON DIGITAL EOS in 64 pt type. Yes, the camera is visible, but why have a billboard announcing it’s a new digital camera when the thief could possibly think it’s an older film camera? In the same vein, I wouldn’t carry a laptop bag with a huge Dell or IBM logo – in fact, I’d be more likely to carry it in a bag that doesn’t look like it would have a laptop inside.
Know where you’re staying. Is there a room safe? If not, I would minimize the valuables. If there is no safe, I have a tendency to do 1 of 2 things. Lock my valuables in my suitcase and pray – or carry a Pacsafe. In my experience locking valuables in my bag for years, no one is going to risk their valuable job slashing open your luggage. But, when I’m traveling with my laptop and SLR and there is room in my bag, I will throw in the Pacsafe. This mesh thing wraps around your bag and affixes to a stationary object in the room. Anyone with a small hand can get into the mesh, so it’s a good idea to padlock any compartments containing small valuables. My fear isn’t the hotel staff, but more that other guests in certain types of places can get into the room.
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Few Romans, before December 1999, had any idea what lurked behind the shuttered windows of the building whose gently rounded lines form the backdrop to the Piazza del Quirinale, between Via XXIV Maggio and the Salita di Montecavallo. In just over ten years the Scuderi del Quirinale has become one of the city's glories, a "must see" appointment with great art exhibitions and a mandatory goal for tourists from all over the world.
Owned by the Presidency of the Republic, entrusted by Roma Capitale authority, managed by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and "revisited" as an exhibition space by architect Gae Aulenti, the Scuderie del Quirinale has now offered the public more than thirty exhibitions, many of which won both national and international acclaim. In addition to its exhibition space, the Scuderie del Quirinale hosts educational workshops, a bookstore, a restaurant and a cafeteria.
Since its first exhibition, "Hundred Masterpieces of the Hermitage", it has presented visitors with a rich schedule of events designed to familiarize the general public with classical and modern Italian art. It has hosted major exhibitions devoted to Sandro Botticelli, Alberto Burri, Antonello da Messina, Futurism, the Italian Renaissance, Italian 19th century art, Bellini and Lorenzo Lotto, along with a stupendous exhibition devoted to Caravaggio. It has also explored the mutual ties between Italy and the panorama of international art, hosting exhibitions on the Majesty of Rome, Rembrandt, the Metaphysical School, Masterpieces from the Guggenheim, Velázquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano, From Giotto to Malevič, and Dürer and Italy. And it has devoted projects to some of the leading lights on the contemporary international cultural scene, including exhibitions on Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders and Santiago Calatrava. All of these splendid events have offered visitors the possibility of interpreting them both as extremely enjoyable and clear exhibitions for the layman and as historically and artistically stringent and innovative events for the expert.
Every exhibition has been preceded by a complex investigation into the condition of the works of art on display, leaving both the city and the museums that own the works a lasting testimony to their time in the Piazza del Quirinale once the exhibition is over.
Putting it in a nutshell, the Scuderie del Quirinale is a venue of unsurpassed excellence and beauty given over entirely to the world of culture and located right in the heart of the city.
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We had a high school student visit our department (some time ago). She spent a couple hours with us and other areas of interest as part of her ‘job-shadowing’ project.
I never did this as a high school senior, but it seemed like a great way to get a better ‘idea’ of what direction you’d like to take post-high school.
She got to choose what career’s interested her and then visited those areas. She visited different areas of ‘nursing’ on this particular day. She stopped by the medical-surgical unit, the OR and then with us in the PACU.
I guess this project was to help assist the student in their career choices they may or may not make. A down and dirty version of hearing it from the horses mouth.
It was more of a Q & A type visitation. The student asked questions and we provided the best answers we thought would help them. The only problem I saw was the lack of ’structure’. The student came up with questions that they thought would help them make a better informed or ’sound’ career decision. Unfortunately, most high school seniors don’t have what I would call ‘a firm grip’ on what ANY workplace environment is truly like. Not that that is a bad thing or a good thing. Just reality.
I mean most students who have worked, worked a part-time job as in the fast-food arena, department store retail, or maybe some office work. In all these scenarios I can’t say they get a good ‘taste’ of what ‘career work’ can and could be.
Most of us these days work for a living, and some of us actually get lucky enough to find the career that we both love and provides for us. A career instead of a ‘job’ -perse’.
So she asked the typical questions:
“What do you love about your job (nursing)?”
“What do you hate about your job?”
“What do you get paid?”
Ya’ know the good, the bad and the ugly questions.
Then the student asked my favorite question, “Why go into nursing?” “Why become a nurse?”
Here was my answer:
Nursing is hands down the single best career choice anyone can make. Aside from the oh-so obvious national nursing shortage that is impacting everyone, and the almost guaranteed-job status for the next decade. (Now remember, I said a guaranteed job, not guaranteeing you’ll get the job you prefer or desire) – Nursing is the only career with unlimited opportunity at almost no cost.
It’s a career where after you attain your license as a Registered Nurse(RN), the sky is the limit. The only thing that will stop you from being happy as a nurse is your will to try and your flexibility to change.
As an RN you can change jobs, change environments, change responsibilities, basically change your ‘career’ in a sense without having to go back for additional formal schooling (that you will have to pay for).
Granted, you may have to endure additional on the job training, and even acquire and maintain an additional certification, but you will not have to attain another degree and/or diploma.
This is the key. Most individual feel land-locked once they choose a path. They find out how much they may not like their current job/career, but never change due to the massive amount of time, energy and MONEY it would take to change their job or change their career.
As an RN:
You can work in a physicians’ office – change you mind – and work in the hospital as a staff nurse
You can work as a med-surg nurse – change your mind- and work in the critical care area
Interested in dialysis? All you need to do is apply.
How about surgery? Apply
The list is endless.
Now I am down-sizing the supply and demand shift here just a little. In order to move into another area of nursing, especially a specialty area (critical care, emergency, surgery) you will need to have a certain amount of experience. Some areas of nursing have definitive requirement due to the nature of the work you would be doing.
As an RN you also have room to grow and room to further your education and training. And this means more than just attaining your Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate in the nursing field.
The most awesome part of nursing is this: you get out of it, what you put into it.
Name me another career that affords this amount of opportunity with such minimal personal effort and sacrifice.
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Of course, if a pontiff declares war, then Islam is justified in killing a few dozen/hundred/million to defend itself, right?
Hat tip to Judeopundit.
The Pope’s new crusade
TEHRAN, Sept. 16 (MNA) -- Pope Benedict XVI’s recent irresponsible remarks about Islam and his apparent affront to Prophet Muhammad (S) indicate that the drum of the Crusades against Islam is being beaten again.
The increasing wave of Western offensives against Muslims, which began with U.S. President George W. Bush’s remarks and continued with the publication of disrespectful cartoons in a Danish newspaper, is part of a plot to start a new crusade against Muslims.
Undoubtedly, this propaganda is not accidental and purposeless, but rather within the framework of a comprehensive strategy to implement the theory of clash of civilizations put forward by U.S. theorist Samuel P. Huntington. [Yes, Huntington is the true evil force behind this war on Islam! - EoZ]
Regrettably, following the suspicious 9/11 attacks, the West is increasing the psychological and propagandistic pressure on Muslims to prepare the ground for the expulsion of Muslims from the United States and European countries. [A classic case of projection - because this is how Muslim nations would prepeare the ground for expulsion of infidels. - EoZ]
The Pope’s rude remarks are actually code words for the start of a new crusade, heralding a dark future in relations between Islam and Christianity.
Although the remarks show the Pope’s ignorance of the sublime tenets of Islam, it seems unlikely that the leader of the world’s Catholics would make such sensitive comments without consulting with cardinals at the Vatican who are experts in Islam.
If Islamic countries’ leaders had responded wisely to Bush’s repeated insulting remarks, such statements definitely would not have been repeated by Christian leaders. [I presume "wisely" means "with deadly actions like the cartoon riots, which will ensure that newspapers think twice before doing that again. -EoZ]
Meanwhile, soon after the Pope’s scurrilous remarks, Britain’s Daily Telegraph published outrageous insults directed at Prophet Muhammad (S) and Muslims.
The newspaper claimed that Muslim soldiers in the early days of Islam used to behead prisoners of war.
All this shows that some Christian leaders are still angry about the Christian defeat in the Crusades for Bait-ul-Moqaddas and are seeking to pit Islam against Christianity again. [News flash: Muslims don't control Jerusalem! -EoZ]
These provocations are meant to pave the way for the neocolonial powers to regain dominance over the oil-rich Middle East.
If this situation continues, the world will witness the mass expulsion of Muslims from Western countries under the pretext of the campaign against terrorism.
Another aim of such propaganda is to facilitate the implementation of the new Middle East plan so that the Zionist regime can become the Hong Kong of the Middle East and fill Islamic countries’ markets with Israeli goods.
This is the same new Middle East plan that former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Perez discussed with U.S. leaders after Israel and Palestine signed the Oslo Accords in 1993. Perez published his theories in a book with the same name. [Of course! The connection between the Pope talking about Islam and Israel sellings its Zionist goods to Islamic countries so so obvious in retrospect! Thank Allah that the Muslim nations are vigilant against this nefarious plan! -EoZ]
Although it seems that this plan cannot be implemented easily due to the vigilance of Muslims, the level of such offensives meant to force Muslims out of Western countries will increase, creating the prelude for a clash of civilizations. [It is equally obvious how Israeli goods in Muslim countries force Muslims out of Western countries! -EoZ]
Indeed, in view of the fact that religious wars have always kept nations in a state backwardness over the centuries, such a clash of civilizations would not benefit Christians or Muslims.
At this juncture, initiating a dialogue between the religious leaders of the West and the East is the only way to prevent a religious confrontation.
And as we have seen countless times, "dialogue" means "Muslims teach the world about Islam and don't listen to a word that anyone else has to say."
Also, the peculiarity of today's Muslims means that there would be extreme reluctance for any intelligent Muslim to rebut this absurd editorial or similar ones, because he would invariably be labeled a Zionist and someone who does not defend the honor of Islam and Mohammed adequately.
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State environmental advocates held their annual summit today to discuss their strategy for the upcoming legislative session. WNPR’s Nancy Cohen reports.
Connecticut’s environmental Commissioner told the crowd her agency is doing more with less. For the past several years a top priority for the environmental community has been to increase funding for the Department of Environmental Protection. But this past year the D.E.P. lost 69 employees to early retirement and only has funding to replace 25 of them.
Commissioner Amey Marrella says the agency has figured out how to do certain tasks, such as inspections of some industries, in half as much time:
“This is without changing in any way what the environmental requirements are. The environmental bar is up here. We can just get to that more efficiently.” But Marrella also says the agency is in charge of new programs without having the staff to implement them, such as electronic waste recycling, and the newly expanded bottle bill.
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Music competitions are rarely China vs. US vs. Canada vs. Australia, etc. The top Chopin piano competitions, etc. just choose the BEST pianists, regardless of nationality. Same with ballet, same with many other forms of art.
Yes, I know that sports are very different from art.
I think that team sports should always be based on some sort of nationality or geographical region (e.g. city, like Lakers, Raptors).
For individual sports, such as ping pong, gymnastics, figure skating, (although I guess the latter two do have "teams" but they could form a national team just for that sole TEAM gymnastics or TEAM figure skating) and then have all the other individual events (pommel horse, rings, all around) just go to the best individual.
I think this could be a way for sports in general to get less political. For example, no one ever complains about loyalties etc. when a Chinese musician goes to the US to study with the top music gurus and accomplish great things there. They are still respected as a Chinese individual who was able to excel in music. And vice versa. But with sports, it's sometimes seen as directly opposing your country, etc.
I think there shouldn't be nationality boundaries for many sports. I can already imagine this idea will VASTLY unpopular because most people watch sports to cheer on their city, country, or whatever, and I do too.
But once I got to read more about the athletes themselves, I feel that it isn't important what country they're from. It's more about the athletes themselves.
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If you’re a fan of The Apprentice you’d be forgiven for thinking that a focus group is an opportunity to convince your target audience that they want your product. You may believe that it is simply a mechanism to convince other people in your team that your original idea was the best after all, and the focus group agreed with you (even if they didn’t).
We have a lot to thank The Apprentice for, where else would you get to see a group of egotistical, arrogant, deluded fantasists all backstabbing and lying their way to a high paid salary. It’s great entertainment. But it also has a lot to answer for too. Not only does it promote the idea that to succeed in business you need to be a bit of an arse, but it also gives the concept of customer research a terrible image.
Candidates in The Apprentice run focus groups really badly
Every year I watch The Apprentice I grumble to my partner about the appalling way the candidates grill focus group participants. Their approach is to either present them with an idea and ask if they like it, or they tell them about the concept, ask for thoughts and then argue the participants into submission. When this doesn’t work and the focus group clearly dislikes the concept they just ignore it and carry on regardless.
It’s no surprise that The Apprentice candidates have produced some awful products with their poor approach to customer research. Think of the cardboard camping table (Cardboard + Mud = Ugly Mess), the beach book holder (which was unstable, hard to assemble and you couldn’t turn the page) or the classic environmentally friendly greeting cards (sending cards wasn’t the most environmentally friendly idea). None of these ideas should have passed through a well-designed and correctly facilitated focus group.
4 lessons The Apprentice candidates need to learn
So what should next year’s candidates of The Apprentice do differently to run an effective focus group? Here are 4 lessons we think would make a big difference to give them a much better foundation to create a great product using focus groups.
1) If you don’t ask, you don’t get
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen” Winston Churchill
If you don’t want to hear opinions which may challenge and contradict your ideas, there’s no point in a focus group. You have to be prepared to be guided by the research. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you should blindly follow what participants tell you. But you should be able to use the information you gain in the focus group to stimulate new ideas and refine current ones. If you’re already sold on your idea and are only doing a focus group to prove you’re right, don’t bother. Save your time and effort.
2) Don’t speak, listen
If you want to run a focus group correctly, never argue with, or try to convince a participant that they are wrong. You are there to hear their opinions and understand their perspective. Not the other way around. If participants don’t like an idea, don’t understand the value in something, or are bewildered by the concept, that’s a good finding. It highlights a change in strategy is needed. It also reflects what customers may think when presented with the product in store, where you won’t be able to convince them it’s worth buying.
3) Ask a stupid question…
Asking leading questions is an easy mistake to make when conducting customer research for the first time. Asking them with an enthusiastic smile “What do you think?” communicates the outcome you are hoping for. What you’re really saying is “Tell me you like my new design that I just worked really hard on”. People generally want to please not disappoint. We all have a tendency to tell someone what we think they want to hear. Customer research needs to be designed to get to the truth, to strip away biases, influences and the chance for hurt feelings. At the very least, you should make sure that the person facilitating the group has no vested interest in the outcome of the research. In other words: If it’s your idea, stay well away!
4) Research helps generate ideas
Conduct a focus group before you commit to an idea. The best way to use a focus group is to understand the needs of the group, uncover gaps and exploit new ideas from there. Once those ideas are more concrete you can return to the group to test different variations and refine a concept further.
Feel free to pass these tips on to Lord Sugar for me if you like, oh and Donald Trump and Martha Stewart too.
What do you think? What else do The Apprentice candidates need to learn?
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Canada’s economy is in a fragile state. Just last week, the IMF lowered its forecast for global growth due to ongoing instabilities in the United States and the Euro Zone, as well as the slowdown of the Chinese economy. Meanwhile, TD Bank lowered its estimates for economic growth here in Canada for 2012, and is projecting only modest growth for 2013 and 2014.
You would figure that in times like these, the federal government would be cautious in the legislation that it supports. But sadly, the Conservatives’ partisan instincts have taken precedence.
Take bill C-377 for example. On its surface, it aims to bring transparency to union finances. Yet, to achieve this aim, the Conservatives could be imposing a massive clampdown on our financial markets and costing business — both big and small — millions in lost revenue.
Most private member’s bills live and die in obscurity, as they have no chance of passing. C-377, however, appears to have the blessing of both the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, and could become law by the end of the year.
Essentially, this Conservative bill would require any labour organization, including pension funds and health plans, to publicly disclose all aspects of any expenditure over $5,000. The bill does this by prying open business contracts and causing the confidential details to be posted on the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website. This includes everything from office rental and photocopier leases to consulting, legal and financial services. This would force businesses to either turn down valuable customers or have their entire business model disrupted.
The potential damage of this Conservative bill is even more dangerous when it comes to the financial markets. The reporting requirement applies to all market transactions by union pension funds and any firms managing their assets. These pension plans make up the second largest source of investment capital in Canada, after chartered banks, with assets of over $1-trillion dollars. Amongst these assets are significant amounts of Canadian stocks, bonds and real estate.
Beyond imposing obvious difficulties associated with reporting all transactions on billions of dollars in financial assets, the bill likely will lock pension funds out of engaging in private-equity deals. This will drastically reduce the flow of Canadian dollars into such deals, decrease Canadian ownership, and hurt the bottom line of Canadians’ pensions.
The reporting requirements also will create a massive bureaucracy for all involved. For a mid-sized pension fund covering several thousand workers, C-377 would mean over 11,000 financial transactions would need to be reported a year. For the largest pension funds, this could run into the millions.
Putting aside the economic impact, this bill would represent a massive invasion of privacy, as pension funds that come from union plans will be forced to report the name and address of hundreds of thousands of pensioners to the government every year. That, too, will also be made public.
At a time when the economic recovery in Canada and around the world is still precarious, New Democrats condemn the economic recklessness in this bill. For the sake of our economy and the stability of our markets, C-377 cannot be allowed to pass.
MP Alexandre Boulerice represents Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie as a member of the New Democratic Party.
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Aug. 5--In the six months since 50 people were killed in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, the fear of planes falling from the sky has loomed in the background as neighbors and government flight regulators debate plans to expand Lancaster Airport.
Residents of expanding subdivisions beneath the flight path of the small but increasingly busy airport will talk with representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration at 6:30 p. m. today in the airport's main hangar, 4343 Walden Avenue.
Neighbors have been complaining about low-flying and show-off pilots within easy view of their deck chairs. As the airport, founded in the 1960s, prepares to extend its runway to allow for more gradual takeoffs and bigger corporate jets, some residents are worried about increasing air traffic.
"We don't want to have an airplane fly into us," said Jan Parent, who for the last seven years has lived with her husband, Charlie, beneath the flight path in a pretty brick house with a garden off Nichter Road. "They're flying lower than they ever did."
In 1972, when she was living in Cheektowaga, she said, a plane from the Buffalo airport crashed into houses and killed six people on her street.
A vocal group of airport neighbors has emerged with a list of demands for change: Let Buffalo Niagara International Airport's air traffic control take charge of the small-plane flights at the airport, remove Bob Miller Flight Training from Lancaster Airport and do not extend the runway without further safety review.
"All three are bad ideas, and I wish the group would wait until they receive good information," said Tom Gelef, president of Lancaster Airport. As a federally classified "reliever" airport, he said, Lancaster serves smaller, slower planes so they don't clog up the Buffalo airport for bigger planes.
Extending the runway from 3,200 feet to more than a mile would allow for more small planes, including corporate jets, to come and go, he said.
And, Gelef said, this would give more takeoff space for more gradual, safer ascents. Planes may fly less directly over neighborhoods in the flight path, he said.
Flight and airport rules that regulate what the neighbors complain about are complex. The FAA will send representatives from several divisions to address them tonight: an air traffic manager from the Buffalo airport, a flight standards official and an administrator for the Eastern Region.
"We're there to support the airport and answer questions," said Jim Peters, an FAA spokesman in Queens. "It's all a unified system."
The airport opposition was organized in June by David and Carmen Hangauer, who moved from Clarence to a new house on Nichter in November. They formed the Safe Aviation Coalition of Lancaster, which they say has about 50 members. "Every day the group grows," Carmen Hangauer said. "All kinds of rules are being violated."
Watching the airport traffic from the back porch has been alarming. She saw a plane dip between her house and a neighbor's, she said. The Hangauers said they routinely see low-flying planes that seem dangerously close.
"Most of the pilots out there are hobbyists," David Hangauer said. "They like to do what's fun."
The flight route was designed to keep Lancaster planes from crowding the airspace of the Buffalo airport.
Lancaster is a small private airport owned by five partners in a two-family stock corporation -- Geles' father was one of two founders. They make money selling fuel and from renting space to about 60 planes.
Two years ago, pilot Bob Miller began renting space and opened a flight school. He now has three planes, five pilot-teachers and 50 students.
"There were no houses when I started two years ago," he said.
To make his point that Lancaster is a good, relatively rural spot for an airport, he flew his small, four-seat Cessna plane and pointed out the airport surroundings. The houses on Nichter line a small lake. Big industrial buildings and large swaths of undeveloped green-space were nearby. This, he said, is a better airport neighborhood than a more densely populated place. | <urn:uuid:6c6f3f48-1523-4ed8-922d-4272cc9f2b5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aviationpros.com/news/10381685/lancaster-airport-growth-debate-is-bringing-faa-officials-to-town | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974862 | 861 | 1.523438 | 2 |
By Shobhana Chandra
WASHINGTON - Home prices in 20 U.S. cities dropped more than forecast in December to the lowest level since the housing crisis began in mid-2006, indicating foreclosures are hampering the industry’s recovery.
The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities fell 4 percent from a year earlier, after decreasing 3.9 percent in November, a report from the group showed Tuesday in New York. The median forecast of 31 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for a 3.7 percent decline.
Distressed properties returning to the market mean prices will stay depressed, prompting buyers to wait for cheaper bargains and impeding construction. While sales have begun to stabilize, a rebound in home values may take time, underscoring Federal Reserve policy makers’ concern that weakness in housing is blunting their efforts to spur the economic expansion.
“Prices are going to fall through this year and early next year,” Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York, said before the report. “Things will continue to worsen on the supply front, as there will be an increase in foreclosures. The downward trend in prices is making a lot of buyers postpone purchases.”
Economist’s estimates ranged from declines of 4.1 percent to 3.2 percent, according to the survey. The Case-Shiller index is based on a three-month average, which means the December data was influenced by transactions in October and November.
The November reading was previously reported as a year- over-year drop of 3.7 percent.
Home prices adjusted for seasonal variations fell 0.5 percent in December from the prior month, following a decrease of 0.7 percent in November. Unadjusted prices fell 1.1 percent from the prior month.
The year-over-year gauge, begun in 2001, provides better indications of trends in prices, the group has said. The panel includes Karl Case and Robert Shiller, the economists who created the index.
Nineteen of the 20 cities in the index showed a year-over-year decline, led by a 12.8 percent drop in Atlanta. Detroit showed the only increase, with prices rising 0.5 percent in December.
Nationally, prices decreased 4 percent in the fourth quarter from the same time in 2010 to the lowest level since mid-2006. They fell 3.8 percent from the previous three months before seasonal adjustment, and fell 1.7 percent after taking those changes into account.
“The pickup in the economy has simply not been strong enough to keep home prices stabilized,” David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P index committee, said in a statement. “If anything, it looks like we might have re-entered a period of decline as we begin 2012.”
Recent reports indicate demand is steadying. Existing-home sales rose to a 4.57 million annual rate in January, the National Association of Realtors reported last week. While it was the best showing since May 2010, distressed properties made up the largest portion of all purchases since April.
Toll Brothers Inc. and D.R. Horton Inc. are among builders benefiting from job growth as well as cheaper properties and record-low mortgage rates.
“We’re optimistic,” Doug Yearley, CEO at Horsham, Pa.-based Toll Brothers, said in a Feb. 22 interview with Bloomberg Television. “We have orders that are up significantly. We’re seeing deposits up, we’re seeing traffic up.”
Excess supply of distressed properties is dragging down values for all houses. About 5 million houses have been lost to foreclosure in the U.S. since 2006, according to RealtyTrac Inc. Banks may seize more than 1 million U.S. homes this year after legal scrutiny of their foreclosure practices slowed actions against delinquent homeowners in 2011, it said last month.
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We Can't Let the Pope Decide Who's a Criminal
Bringing priestly offenders and the church's enablers to justice.
In 2002, according to devout Catholic columnist Ross Douthat, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spoke the following words to an audience in Spain:
I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign ... to discredit the church.
On April 10, the New York Times—the apparent center of this "planned campaign"—reprinted a copy of a letter personally signed by Ratzinger in 1985. The letter urged lenience in the case of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle, who had tied up and sexually tormented two small boys on church property in California. Kiesle's superiors had written to Ratzinger's office in Rome, beseeching him to remove the criminal from the priesthood. The man who is now his holiness the pope was full of urgent moral advice in response. "The good of the Universal Church," he wrote, should be uppermost in the mind. It should be understood that "particularly regarding the young age" of Father Kiesle, there might be great "detriment" caused "within the community of Christ's faithful" if he were to be removed. The good father was then aged 38. His victims—not that their tender ages of 11 and 13 seem to have mattered—were children. In the ensuing decades, Kiesle went on to ruin the lives of several more children and was finally jailed by the secular authorities on a felony molestation charge in 2004. All this might have been avoided if he had been handed over to justice right away and if the Oakland diocese had called the police rather than written to the office in Rome where it was Ratzinger's job to muffle and suppress such distressing questions.
Contrast this to the even more appalling case of the school for deaf children in Wisconsin where the Rev. Lawrence Murphy was allowed unhindered access to more than 200 unusually defenseless victims. Again the same pattern: repeated petitions from the local diocese to have the criminal "unfrocked" (an odd term when you think about it) met with stony indifference from Ratzinger's tightly run bureaucracy. Finally a begging letter to Ratzinger from the filthy Father Murphy himself, complaining of the frailty of his health and begging to be buried with full priestly honors, in his frock. Which he was. At last, a human plea not falling on deaf ears! (You should pardon the expression.)
So in one case a child rapist escaped judgment and became an enabled reoffender because he was too young. In the next, a child rapist was sheltered after a career of sex torture of disabled children because he was too old! Such compassion.
It must be noted, also, that all the letters from diocese to Ratzinger and from Ratzinger to diocese were concerned only with one question: Can this hurt Holy Mother Church? It was as if the children were irrelevant or inconvenient (as with the case of the raped boys in Ireland forced to sign confidentiality agreements by the man who is still the country's cardinal). Note, next, that there was a written, enforced, and consistent policy of avoiding contact with the law. And note, finally, that there was a preconceived Ratzinger propaganda program of blaming the press if any of the criminal conduct or obstruction of justice ever became known.
The obscene culmination of this occurred on Good Friday, when the pope sat through a sermon delivered by an underling in which the exposure of his church's crimes was likened to persecution and even—this was a gorgeous detail—to the pogroms against the Jews. I have never before been accused of taking part in a pogrom or lynching, let alone joining a mob that is led by raped deaf children, but I'm proud to take part in this one.
The keyword is Law. Ever since the church gave refuge to Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston to spare him the inconvenience of answering questions under oath, it has invited the metastasis of this horror. And now the tumor has turned up just where you might have expected—moving from the bosom to the very head of the church. And by what power or right is the fugitive cardinal shielded? Only by the original agreement between Benito Mussolini and the papacy that created the pseudo-state of Vatican City in the Lateran Pact of 1929, Europe's last remaining monument to the triumph of Fascism. This would be bad enough, except that Ratzinger himself is now exposed as being personally as well as institutionally responsible for obstructing justice and protecting and enabling pederasts.
One should not blame only the church here. Where was American law enforcement during the decades when children were prey? Where was international law while the Vatican became a place of asylum and a source of protection for those who licensed or carried out the predation? Page through any of the reports of child-rape and torture from Ireland, Australia, the United States, Germany—and be aware that there is much worse to come. Where is it written that the Roman Catholic Church is the judge in its own case? Above or beyond the law? Able to use private courts? Allowed to use funds donated by the faithful to pay hush money to the victims or their families?
There are two choices. We can swallow the shame, roll up the First Amendment, and just admit that certain heinous crimes against innocent citizens are private business or are not crimes if they are committed by priests and excused by popes. Or perhaps we can shake off the awful complicity that reports this ongoing crime as a "problem" for the church and not as an outrage to the victims and to the judicial system. Isn't there one district attorney or state attorney general in America who can decide to represent the children? Nobody in Eric Holder's vaunted department of no-immunity justice? If not, then other citizens will have to approach the bench. In London, as already reported by the Sunday Times and the Press Association, some experienced human-rights lawyers will be challenging Ratzinger's right to land in Britain with immunity in September. If he gets away with it, then he gets away with it, and the faithful can be proud of their supreme leader. But this we can promise, now that his own signature has been found on Father Kiesle's permission to rape: There will be only one subject of conversation until Ratzinger calls off his visit, and only one subject if he decides to try to go through with it. In either event, he will be remembered for only one thing long after he is dead.
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author, most recently, of Arguably, a collection of essays.
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Peter Burrell FRS (27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775) was a British politician and barrister. Born in London, he was the son of Peter Burrell and his wife Amy Raymond, daughter of Hugh Raymond. His uncle was Sir Merrick Burrell, 1st Baronet and his younger brother Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet. Burrell was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1745 and then with a Master of Arts. In 1749, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn. Burrell sat as Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons for Launceston from 1759 to 1768 and subsequently for Totnes to 1774. In 1752, he was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1769, he was appointed Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown. On 28 February 1748, he married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of John Lewis of Hackney; they lived at Langley Park. They had four daughters and a son, Peter, the later Baron Gwydyr. Their second daughter Isabella (1750–1812) married Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, and was ancestor to the Dukes of Northumberland. | <urn:uuid:b6ad5d78-a86e-45a4-9a6c-2185b63705c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://movies.amctv.com/person/en/peter_burrell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981629 | 280 | 1.65625 | 2 |
It’s a salute to the pigs at this year’s Indiana State Fair. And the timing couldn’t be more perfect as the industry works to recover from the worst slump in history.
From shirts, to hats, to big monster pork burgers- the pig is king at this year’s state fair.
It’s no coincidence the pig is being recognized…. The pork industry is a big deal in Indiana – it employees more than 13,000 people across the state and according to Farm Bureau President Don Villwock it contributes more than $3 and a half billion to state’s economy.
“We’re the fifth largest pork producer in the nation. It’s a key industry in our state. Quite often we say it’s the mortgage lifter because a lot of the farms, the pork paid off the farm,” said Villwock.
But the industry that is so important to the state’s economy took a huge hit over the last two years.
“It was a pretty bad perfect storm the past few years with increases in supply that drove prices down, export markets starting to shrink because of the global recession, and then the whole H1N1 calling it the Swine Flu really took a big hit on the industry,” said Mike Platt, Pork Producers Executive Director.
Jerry Rulon who raises about 7000 pigs on his farm north of Indianapolis says for the past couple of years he’s been losing about 25-to 30 dollars per hog.
“It’ll take a couple three years probably to get it back,” said Rulon. “Even the big boys aren’t gearing up very fast. But after two years of losses, farmers are beginning to make a profit. Grain prices have fallen, H1N1 is gone, and exports are picking up.”
“It’s a welcome sign and a welcome change for a lot of them. It’s good to see a lot of pork farmers with smiles on their faces again,” said Platt.
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fumes of Beyond
leak thick from our pores."
Paul Celan, “Rich Broadcast…” as translated by John Felstiner, (2001), p. 301.
The coincidence of these lines and the title of this magazine caught my attention. But is this a coincidence? Where does your title come from? Celan says that The Beyond is inside us, the immeasurable and imponderable. We are the ones who are burning. We are those who have been burnt, in the identification of, and with disaster. And we are living the aftermath of what we have been compelled to exude (in Celan's terms). We live inside the thing that exudes from us. We know the situation that surrounded Celan, part of every air he breathed. Our situation is more diffuse. I do not want to be misunderstood, in invoking Shoah and all the immeasurable strains that conjures. There is a contemporary politics that claims the shocking rip and wound in the human fabric that Shoah represents as endless justification for its actions, no matter what they are. I reject this position. It is not what I am talking about.
So what I want to say here is: We have not mourned the failure of modernity enough. The failure to-date.
We have not mourned and comprehended (taken the knowledge inside us) because its failures are pocky, pebbled, irregular (unevenly developed). In our world sector or cadre (defined here, in a friendly way, as made up of people who have enough education, equipment, and access to spearhead on-line journals) we have the more developed gains of modernity, although unequally distributed even inside our sector. Class, race, ethnicity, region, gender, religious culture are some of the filters that bar or inflect the dissemination of the benefits of modernity. But we have not mourned because we are dazzled by the baubles modernity has given to us.
“We need, but lack, a new kind of discourse to disturb out collective consciousness and stir it into practical action that moves beyond mere pity.” Lawrence L. Langer, Preempting the Holocaust, New Haven: Yale U. P., 1998, p. 59
We have to become desperate for our values. These values involve liberal tolerance and social justice.
When Celan changed his name from Antschel, he cast out the following letters: H for Hitler and ST for Stalin.
We are not adequately desperate because we were thinking that this unrolling crisis is not about us: globalization, not about us. Possibility of nuclear war, not about us. Our standard of living, not about us. The militant claims to impose fundamentalist religious laws, not about us. Hence our consciousness was pallid and apolitical; this has been going on for years now. We are still living in a form of amnesia and obliviousness. We are not enraged enough about injustice, about the lacks and losses of others, because we don't see these are part of us. This issue is beyond 9/11. One of the striking things for me about the summer of 2001 was the incredible hope of the G8 demonstrations (the no-global) in Genoa, blasted by the anarchist cadres with police collusion, and then shredded by a police crackdown on demonstrators the likes of which has hardly been seen in Europe in recent years. That was July. Then came September. Our attention thereupon had to be split between two competing critiques of Western modernity—one hopeful, filled with possibility—the “no-global” critique, and the other rancid, suppurating, and vicious—not necessarily a critique, either, but a desire to impose one fundamentalist will to supplant the decadence (as they perceived it) of the West.
We live in one world, many pastures and communities. Every speck of matter is vital. This is an interesting dynamic. What are “our” values, I cannot say without more discussion with you. What are my political values? social justice. gender justice. equality of access to reasonable living goods. economic justice, which means an equalization of society and the “middling” or “working” status of everyone. Access to education to health care, to social goods: genuinely and liberally available. No despoiling of the earth, and the living creatures on it (including us) for profit. The call for an end of global crimes: of exploitation of child labor, of capturing people inside prison-model factories, of the destruction of water, animals, plant life; of the poisoning of people at work by their work. Development without despoiling. Justice. justice. justice for all. Legal rights, civil rights, rights of the liberal state (like the US bill of rights, for freedom of speech, religion, assembly, opinion, legal rights) and of the one world standard (UN Charter). All this means post-capitalist, and post-nationalist values. It means a one-world standard for health, literacy, labor, without a one-world culture. One does not want loss of diversity. But, in the words of the anti-globalization struggle: “another world is possible.” We need another wave of a progressive, socialist movement: a revolution of distribution. We even need, but perhaps cannot fully articulate a joyous transformation. In this gender justice, racial justice, justice and economic distribution are goals. Not only goals—they are the litmus test of governments, economic systems, religious movements.
Living in the long “twentieth” century (in modernity whenever that began—let's say with African enslavement), we have also lived with unacceptable brutality and political malfeasance: genocide, rapine. We have gotten used to the tragedies we inflict on each other while invoking peculiar names: science, religion, nation, commerce.
There is a desperate necessity to act against fundamentalist thought wherever it is found. Right now it is found in four of the major world religions. Hindu fundamentalism in a kind of purgative violence. Israeli fundamentalism that wants to capture Judaism for Israel, as if these were synonymous. They are emphatically not. This move must be resisted at all costs. Ribbons of Christian fundamentalist thinking have captured the government of the the United States. This has been achieved through a series of astonishing acts around the severe tainting of the electoral process, acts with unintended consequences of serious import. Christian fundamentalism has not gone unresisted, but it is still powerful, and its moralist millennarial thinking is grotesque and dangerous in a secular society. Militant, military Islamic fundamentalism, already active, has inserted itself abruptly (with 9/11) into this already toxic situation, creating a four-cornered danger. Islamic fundamentalism has captured some of the ideological institutions of Islam, such as small schools, mosques. It is virulent and believable in its desire to destabilize, by acts of terrorism, other national allegiances, and I would take seriously its desire to impose a retrograde moralism and social norms on the secular institutions of the world. The critique from within of this toxic version of Islam, the understanding of Islam as a potential force for good needs to be supported in our regions of the world.
What is to be done? I can speak only from the place I am standing. As a secular, and non-practicing Jew, embarrassed constantly by the opportunities Israel deliberately resisted for a pluralist society, I support in every way possible the processes leading to solutions involving justice—the rejection of imperialist goals in Israel, the seeking of Palestinean statehood. This may indeed be too late, but there are forces speaking for tolerance, justice, and a new relationship inside Israel. The implications of “too late” are appalling.
I also speak out against the weird canards of anti-Semitism, the most powerful recent manifestation being the statement bruited about that no Jews were in the World Trade Center when the towers were hit by hijacked airplanes and collapsed, Sept. 11, 2001. This is an astonishing manifestation of the malicious, mental distortions of conspiracy theory and special secret knowledge attributed to “Others” (none of whom—in the hundreds? knowing what was to come? picked up the phone to call the FBI, apparently). I have heard this thought, and other forms of conspiracy, from people who should know better, whose apparent incapacity to think through the illogic of this claim should alert us to some of the deep dangers of this cultural and political moment. It has evoked the most peculiar residual phantasms.
The place I am also standing is the US. Here I think the leadership vacuum is of a dimension that we have never seen, or have never seen at a moment of such acute danger. Bush's cowardice and ignorance, the fact that he is a puppet of malign forces of the Right, has become serious—a crisis of legitimacy made all the more toxic because the US is in fact really “under attack” in a physical if inchoate way by Islamic fundamentalist cadres. The liberal democratic state of social fairness and rights is being undermined from within as well as under attack from terrorists. It is being undermined by global capitalism whose head is the US, and by the US government which is well on its way to abrogating civil rights, citizens' rights, and guarantees of basic freedoms that have been the hallmark of the US for two centuries and should be a source of intense national pride. The “accounting” scandals of capitalist institutions, unrolling and intensifying even as I have been writing this in June and July 2002, have made the political undermining of profit-grabbing larceny even clearer. We are destroying our own city to save it. In any polarized situation, with a callous, committed, and under-known set of enemies, the danger is that we become like them. This process is on its way, but it must be resisted assiduously.
Individual citizens have to make two claims. One is for their own bravery in the face of unclear danger. It is interesting that in all the appeals made by this illegitimate Bush government, none is to civic virtue and bravery. The mobilization of the population on its own behalf, the sense of having a real stake in our values (rather than in our possessions or our positions) are politicizing claims that an illegitimate government would rather avoid. What I mean by bravery is simply this: there will undoubtedly be more attacks on the interior of the US and plausibly attacks elsewhere. Even if many fizzle (and several have), even if routes (like buying ambulances or getting false truckers' licenses) are blocked, there will be some more losses of US life on US soil. (It is also possible that cadres may attack such other Western countries as Italy, Germany, France, Spain, England; there seems to be another plan, of guerilla action, for Indonesia, Philippines, China.) This fact needs bravery to confront, because people should be construed as dying not for possessions, or because of the malicious skills of perpetrators, but for our values. This will entail an ideological shift: from complacent comfort and flab to alert civic virtue. A change back to the Republic from the “imperium.”
The US thinks (ideologically) that it is the pivot of all things, superior in all its institutions and practices to all other nations. This is beyond inaccurate; it is fairly dangerous as well as naïve, uninformed and unpleasant. As a teacher confronting this delusion, it is my job to help alter the ideological premises on which the “imperium” has rested. The translation and interpretation practices of intellectuals, poets, writers, and others who can move into fair and respectful international exchange comprise crucial sets of skills and choices that need to be seen as real work, individually and institutionally supported.
My commitments therefore are to the secular ideals of liberal values, clarity of mind, analysis of interests, and social justice. This is why my kind of feminism has always resisted the temptation of quasi-religious, quasi-mystical claims about female specialness, and why my writing has often turned on essayistic, faceted examinations, for this skeptical style and form is an ethical stance.
Here is section 25 from a recently-completed poem called Draft 52: Midrash.
In half-wounded syntax, grid, fragment,
My poems are works of investigation, not primarily of self-expression. I would say they are works of cultural examination. The works I do now, long poems called Drafts, are organized on a great grid that is both heuristic and focused (Drafts 1-38, Toll, Wesleyan University Press, 2001; Drafts 39-57, Engagements, unpublished as yet). These works are influenced by objectivist arguments and propositions about reality. The image is encountered, not found (Oppen). The and a are words worth investigating, as suggestive and as staggering in their implications as myth (Zukofsky). I have a debate with modes of transcendence; I live in materiality which is nonetheless filled with sparks of awe (Niedecker). Would I claim, like Reznikoff, to be simply a walker in the historical world who is also a recording “angel”? That is a little much for me, but there is a ferocity in Reznikoff's mildness that is evocative and that I respect.
chunk chord and collage, make
things to say things
by a “Venture into the dark 'flat' side of their harmony”
suspicious intensities and political laceration
with the investment one sees meditation scrupulous remnant
of twentieth century history I know
what I wanted. It was the endlessly overwritten
erosions of the book, specificities
of book, and the voice of the traveller- detail
poem by its edgy sentence
its ontological intransigence to Let
Be austere hermetic readable urgency.
Smoke and billows salient
shifting so that one is caught in
their whorled resonance, their dark bars, even access blocked.
The beyond is in the surface.
Walking through the dead as partly dead
—it must only be
an impossible draft of half-built, half-crumbled
Angel is a word I can use only in a secular sense—and this is a paradox, because like Rilke, like Benjamin, like H.D. and like Oppen, I have used this word. The presences and energies we feel are our best selves projected despite the inhumanity of humanity. The presences and energies are the deaths we walk upon, are the complexity of the universe with its multiple prongs and dimensions, and are the natural world right in front of us where every bug is hardly understandable, and where ecologies are staggering even as we violate some of their premises.
I do not think I tell people what to think in art, I talk about what I think and I create situations that ask for thought. I want art to “provide consciousness with a critical example” (in the words of Brian O'Connor, alluding to the work of Adorno. (The Adorno Reader, ed. Brian O'Connor, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2000, p. 281.) The “transformation of consciousness” (Ibid. p. 54) that is demanded would have a different ethics. But this means something very particular and careful about art. In his essay “Commitment,” Adorno proposes that an artist should not produce straightforward political art, or art of commitment, but understand, rather, that the political has “migrated into” all art (Notes to Literature, vol. 2, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 93) and work with those facts and their implications. This is precisely the way I feel at this world moment, “migrated into” by, suffused by a political that has always been present. The results of this migration are visible in Drafts.
I do not think that poetry is a form of propaganda, but it is part of ideological and discursive practices (I try to speak about this in Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, Cambridge 2001). One learns about a poet's opinions and the cultural forces at play in poems in a variety of ways deep inside the texture of the poem, not only from the statements the poem overtly makes. Poetry and its variety of practices can be an arousal to understanding what we stand for, both affirmation and critique. Indeed, by critique, suspicion, skepticism, and “cura”—significant care for language and choices—it can exemplify what it is we really want. Among other things we want is historical depth, revision of convention, scrupulous and witty language saturated with an understanding of other practitioners, work from the past treated at one and the same time with respect and with effervescent inspection. Poetry can help tell us what we want, and what we know: we want to know our own complexity and our own possibility. It can tell us what we should mourn, and how we need to continue to examine systems and shards. In this situation, as in so many others, I remember with attentiveness the poetry and example of George Oppen, who wanted to look, to see what was out there, evaluate its damage and contradictions, to say scrupulously in a pared and intense language not what was easy or right or neat or consoling, but what he felt when all the platitudes and banalities were stripped away. It is the residue of vision, the residue of hope when all due skepticisms and judgments have occurred. He called it the real, “the real that we confront.” (In “Route” New Collected Poems, ed. Michael Davidson, New York: New Directions, 2002, 202)
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Opinion Number: 2009-01
Ethical Obligations of a Lawyer When His Client Has Committed or Intends to Commit Perjury
ETHICS OPINION RO-2009-01 Ethical Obligations of a Lawyer When His Client Has Committed or Intends to Commit Perjury QUESTION: What are a lawyer’s ethical obligations when his client reveals his intent to commit perjury? What are a lawyer’s ethical obligations when a lawyer learns that a client has committed perjury? ANSWER:
Regardless of whether the lawyer is representing a civil client or a criminal client, the lawyer’s ethical obligations remain the same. Where a client informs counsel of his intent to commit perjury, a lawyer’s first duty is to attempt to dissuade the client from committing perjury. In doing so, the lawyer should advise the client that if the client insists on committing the proposed perjury then the lawyer will be forced to move to withdraw from representation. The lawyer should further explain that he may be required to disclose the specific reason for withdrawal if required to do so by the court. If the client continues to insist that they will provide false testimony, the lawyer should move to withdraw from representation.
When a lawyer has actual knowledge that a client has committed perjury or submitted false evidence, the lawyer’s first duty is to remonstrate with the client in an effort to convince the client to voluntarily correct the perjured testimony or false evidence. If the client refuses to do so, the lawyer has an ethical obligation to disclose the perjured testimony and/or submission of false evidence to the court. DISCUSSION:
Having a client threaten to commit perjury or actually committing perjury is one of the most difficult ethical dilemmas a lawyer can face. The lawyer is torn between his loyalties to the client and his duties as an officer of the court. In the context of the civil client, however, Rule 3.3, Ala. R. Prof. C., and its Comment clearly require the lawyer to place his duties as an officer of the court above his duties of loyalty and confidentiality to the client. Rule 3.3 provides as follows:
RULE 3.3 CANDOR TOWARD THE TRIBUNAL
(a) A lawyer shall not knowingly:
(1) make a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal;
(2) fail to disclose a material fact to a tribunal when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by the client; or
(3) offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. If a lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures.
(b) The duties stated in paragraph (a) continue to the conclusion of the proceeding, and apply even if compliance requires disclosure of information otherwise protected by Rule 1.6.
(c) A lawyer may refuse to offer evidence that the lawyer reasonably believes is false.
(d) In an ex parte proceeding other than a grand jury proceeding, a lawyer shall inform the tribunal of all material facts known to the lawyer which will enable the tribunal to make an informed decision, whether or not the facts are adverse. The Comment to Rule 3.3 provides in pertinent part as follows:
* * * False Evidence
When evidence that a lawyer knows to be false is provided by a person who is not the client, the lawyer must refuse to offer it regardless of the client’s wishes.
When false evidence is offered by the client, however, a conflict may arise between the lawyer’s duty to keep the client’s revelations confidential and the duty of candor to the court. Upon ascertaining that material evidence is false, the lawyer should seek to persuade the client that the evidence should not be offered or, if it has been offered, that its false character should immediately be disclosed. If the persuasion is ineffective, the lawyer must take reasonable remedial measures.
Except in the defense of a criminal accused, the rule generally recognized is that, if necessary to rectify the situation, an advocate must disclose the existence of the client’s deception to the court or to the other party. Such a disclosure can result in grave consequences to the client, including not only a sense of betrayal but also loss of the case and perhaps a prosecution for perjury. But the alternative is that the lawyer cooperate in deceiving the court, thereby subverting the truth-finding process which the adversary system is designed to implement. See Rule 1.2(d). Furthermore, unless it is clearly understood that the lawyer will act upon the duty to disclose the existence of false evidence, the client can simply reject the lawyer’s advice to reveal the false evidence and insist that the lawyer keep silent. Thus the client could in effect coerce the lawyer into being a party to fraud on the court.
* * *
If perjured testimony or false evidence has been offered, the advocate’s proper course ordinarily is to remonstrate with the client confidentially. If that fails, the advocate should seek to withdraw if that will remedy the situation. If withdrawal will not remedy the situation or is impossible, the advocate should make disclosure to the court. It is for the court then to determine what should be done–making a statement about the matter to the trier of fact, ordering a mistrial, or perhaps nothing. If the false testimony was that of the client, the client may controvert the lawyer’s version of their communication when the lawyer discloses the situation to the court. If there is an issue whether the client has committed perjury, the lawyer cannot represent the client in resolution of the issue, and a mistrial may be unavoidable. An unscrupulous client might in this way attempt to produce a series of mistrials and thus escape prosecution. However, a second such encounter could be construed as a deliberate abuse of the right to counsel and as such a waiver of the right to further representation.
* * *
Duration of Obligation
A practical time limit on the obligation to rectify the presentation of false evidence has to be established. The conclusion of the proceeding is a reasonably definite point for the termination of the obligation.
As such, a lawyer may not submit false evidence to a court or assist a client in doing so. When a lawyer learns that a client intends to commit perjury or to offer false testimony, the lawyer should counsel the client not to do so. The lawyer should inform the client that if he does testify falsely, the lawyer will have no choice but to withdraw from the matter and to inform the court of the client’s misconduct. If the client insists on testifying falsely, the lawyer should refuse to offer the perjured testimony or should immediately move to withdraw from the representation. In counseling the client, the lawyer should inform the client that if the client continues to insist on testifying falsely, then the lawyer will be required to withdraw. The lawyer should further explain that he may be required to disclose the client’s intentions to the court, if the court requires the lawyer to disclose a specific reason for the withdrawal.
Some states, such as Florida, in Formal Opinion 04-1, require the lawyer to affirmatively disclose the client’s intent to testify falsely to the court upon withdrawal. According to the opinion, “[i]f the lawyer knows that the client will testify falsely, withdrawal does not fulfill the lawyer’s ethical obligations, because withdrawal alone does not prevent the client from committing perjury.” However, Florida requires a lawyer to reveal any information that is necessary to prevent a client from committing a crime, including the crime of perjury.
Alabama has no such counterpart in the Rules of Professional Conduct. Rather, Rule 1.6, Ala. R. Prof. C., provides as follows:
1.6 CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION
(a) A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to representation of a client unless the client consents after consultation, except for disclosures that are impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation, and except as stated in paragraph (b).
(b) A lawyer may reveal such information to the extent the lawyer reasonably believes necessary:
(1) to prevent the client from committing a criminal act that the lawyer believes is likely to result in imminent death or substantial bodily harm; or
(2) to establish a claim or defense on behalf of the lawyer in a controversy between the lawyer and the client, to establish a defense to a criminal charge or civil claim against the lawyer based upon conduct in which the client was involved, or to respond to allegations in any proceeding concerning the lawyer’s representation of the client.
Under Rule 1.6, a lawyer is permissively allowed to disclose confidential information only when disclosure is required to prevent a client from committing a criminal act that is “likely to result in imminent death or substantial bodily harm . . .” The crime of perjury does not fall within this narrow exception to Rule 1.6. As such, the lawyer is not, upon withdrawal, required to disclose the client’s intent to commit perjury. However, if the court requires the lawyer to disclose the specific reason for his withdrawal, the lawyer may disclose the client’s intent to commit perjury.
When a lawyer learns of the client’s perjury after the fact, Rule 3.3 requires the lawyer to immediately take remedial measures to correct the client’s misconduct. Ordinarily, the lawyer should first remonstrate with the client in an attempt to convince the client to, of his own volition, inform the court and/or the opposing party of his misconduct. In doing so, the lawyer should explain that if the client refuses to do so, the lawyer will have no choice but to inform the court of the client’s actions. If the client refuses to disclose his misconduct, then the lawyer has a duty to inform the court and/or opposing party of the false evidence or testimony.
Obviously, a lawyer's ethical responsibilities do not continue ad infinitum. Rule 3.3(b), Ala. R. Prof. C., provides that the duties under Rule 3.3 only continue to the conclusion of the proceeding. For example, if a lawyer learns that his client testified falsely after the conclusion of the case, the lawyer would not have a duty to disclose the fraud to the court. The Disciplinary Commission has determined that a proceeding is concluded when a certificate of judgment has been issued or the time has expired for all post-trial motions or pleadings.
It is also important to distinguish between a lawyer’s actual knowledge versus a reasonable belief or suspicion that the client has lied or offered false evidence. Where a lawyer has actual knowledge that a client has testified falsely, then the lawyer would be required to comply with Rule 3.3. When a lawyer does not have actual knowledge, but rather only a reasonable belief that the client has lied or offered false evidence, then lawyer would not have any obligation to disclose his suspicions to the court or the opposing party. Rather, “[a] lawyer’s reasonable belief that evidence is false does not preclude its presentation to the trier of fact. . . a lawyer should resolve doubts about the veracity of testimony or other evidence in favor of the client. . .” ABA Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 316-317, 6th Edition. (2007). However, Rule 3.3(c), Ala. R. Prof. C., does allow a lawyer to refuse to offer evidence on behalf of a client that the lawyer reasonably believes to be false.
While the Comment to Rule 3.3 also addresses the ethical obligations of lawyers in their representation of criminal clients, the outcome is less clear. First and foremost, “[t]he level of knowledge sufficient to trigger the prohibition against presenting a client’s false testimony is high for criminal defense counsel.” ABA, Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 317, 6th Edition. (2007). Ordinarily, a lawyer must abide by the client’s decision to testify unless he actually knows that the testimony will be false. In regard to the representation of criminal clients, the Alabama Comment provides, in pertinent part as follows:
* * *
Perjury by a Criminal Defendant
Whether an advocate for a criminally accused has the same duty of disclosure has been intensely debated. While it is agreed that the lawyer should seek to persuade the client to refrain from perjurious testimony, there has been dispute concerning the lawyer’s duty when that persuasion fails. If the confrontation with the client occurs before trial, the lawyer ordinarily can withdraw. Withdrawal before trial may not be possible, however, either because trial is imminent, or because the confrontation with the client does not take place until the trial itself, or because no other counsel is available.
The most difficult situation, therefore, arises in a criminal case where the accused insists on testifying when the lawyer knows that the testimony is perjurious. The lawyer’s effort to rectify the situation can increase the likelihood of the client’s being convicted as well as open the possibility of a prosecution for perjury. On the other hand, if the lawyer does not exercise control over the proof, the lawyer participates, although in a merely passive way, in deception of the court.
Three resolutions of this dilemma have been proposed. One is to permit the accused to testify by a narrative without guidance through the lawyer’s questioning. This compromises both contending principles; it exempts the lawyer from the duty to disclose false evidence but subjects the client to an implicit disclosure of information imparted to counsel. Another suggested resolution, of relatively recent origin, is that the advocate be entirely excused from the duty to reveal perjury if the perjury is that of the client. This is a coherent solution but makes the advocate a knowing instrument of perjury.
The other resolution of the dilemma is that the lawyer must reveal the client’s perjury if necessary to rectify the situation. A criminal accused has a right to the assistance of an advocate, a right to testify and a right of confidential communication with counsel. However, an accused should not have a right to assistance of counsel in committing perjury. Furthermore, an advocate has an obligation, not only in professional ethics but under the law as well, to avoid implication in the commission of perjury or other falsification of evidence. See Rule 1.2(d).
Under the Comment to Rule 3.3, it is clear that a lawyer cannot actively assist a criminal client in presenting false evidence or false testimony to the court. The closer question, however, appears to be whether a criminal defense lawyer may use the narrative approach so as to not infringe upon his client’s Sixth Amendment rights and still be in compliance with his ethical responsibilities under Rule 3.3.
Both the Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and The Law of Lawyering, note that the Supreme Court of the United States disapproved of the narrative approach in dictum in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157 (1986). In Nix, the Court granted certiorari to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right of a criminal defendant to assistance of counsel was violated when a lawyer refused to cooperate with the defendant in presenting perjured testimony. The defendant was on trial for murder. The defendant had stabbed the victim after he believed that the victim was reaching for a gun. Throughout the representation, the defendant repeatedly told his lawyer that he had not actually seen a gun in the victim’s hand. However, just prior to trial, the defendant announced to his lawyer that he would testify that he saw something “metallic” in the victim’s hand.
The lawyer told the defendant that such testimony would be perjury and that he would withdraw from representation if the client insisted on testifying as such. The lawyer also told the defendant that if he did so testify, he would inform the court of the perjury. Id. at 161. After testifying truthfully at trial and being convicted of murder, the defendant moved for a new trial based on the alleged denial of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because his defense counsel would not allow him to testify that he saw a gun or something “metallic”. Id. at 162.
In rejecting the defendant’s claims, the Court noted that “[w]hatever the scope of a constitutional right to testify, it is elementary that such a right does not extend to testifying falsely.” Id. at 173. The Court went on to note that “the right to counsel includes no right to have a lawyer who will cooperate with planned perjury. A lawyer who would so cooperate would be at risk of prosecution for suborning perjury, and disciplinary proceedings, including suspension or disbarment.” Id. As such, a criminal defendant does not have a right to testify falsely on his own behalf or have the assistance of counsel in doing so.
It is the opinion of the Disciplinary Commission that a lawyer’s use of the narrative approach to allow a client to testify falsely would be inconsistent with the requirements of Rule 3.3 and inconsistent with a lawyer’s obligations as an officer of the court. As a result, the Disciplinary Commission has determined that under Rule 3.3, a lawyer’s ethical obligations remain the same, regardless of whether the lawyer is representing a criminal client or a client in a civil matter. The Disciplinary Commission has also determined that these obligations apply equally to prosecutors in a criminal case. Just as a defense attorney would have an obligation to disclose perjury committed by a criminal defendant, a prosecutor would have a duty to disclose perjury committed by a prosecution witness during direct examination. The duty to disclose the false testimony of the witness would apply regardless of whether the prosecutor deems the false testimony as exculpatory or material under the Brady standard. | <urn:uuid:f56be9c3-9f77-4248-b9e0-30fc0bf7ea80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alabar.org/mobile/fopDisplay.cfm?oneId=422 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962381 | 3,681 | 1.515625 | 2 |
I began writing poetry "officially" in 1996, since then, I have multiple published collections of poetry, and some of my work has been attached to a few anthologies and periodicals.
I believe that writing poetry is a beautiful torture. Poetry is where the soul is peeled and stripped of its outer shell, and left fully exposed. It's from that position of vulnerability, that poetry comes alive and is allowed to freely flow.
When asked recently what motivates me to write poetry, my response was simple, "I am inspired by living." In my humble opinion, poetry is an art of both music and meter. It seduces those who enjoy it with hypnotic rhythms. Rhythms that are created by the brilliance that accompanies the many forms of poetic expression. No other art form has transcended the ages like poetry has. Poetry is the foundation of song, it is the balancing equilibrium of liturgy and dance, and it forms and embodies the shapes that compels and inspires visual artists toward their greatest creations.
My earliest exposure to literature came by way of my mother. She was a Journalism major in college and from time to time, she would involve me when she had an assignment to complete. It was those initial experiences with my mom that helped to shape within me, a powerful draw toward poetry. The very first poem that I read was when I was twelve years old, my mother suggested that I read the Langston Hughes classic, 'Mother to Son'. From that moment on, I was hooked. My next impacting influences would come by way of my high school Literature teachers, and my college Literature professors. Through them, I became introduced to the 51 different styles of poetry, and thus, my addiction grew.
My Poetic Examples:
My poetic examples and style influences include some of the greatest poets of all time. I'm speaking of the likes of Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Garcia Lorca, and James Wright. However, I am equally impacted by the styles of the contemporary poet vanguard, which includes great poets such as Black Ice, Asha Bandele, Gina Loring, and Mayda Del Valle. Their styles are varied and are as powerful as are the styles of our poetic forefathers and mothers. | <urn:uuid:345ffe55-e68a-4e19-bd3d-9dab197d70c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorID=111013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981687 | 469 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Frieze, London’s eight-year-old contemporary art fair, is expanding to New York, the fair’s organizers announced on Thursday. The first Frieze New York will take place May 3-6 next year on Randalls Island and is expected to include some 170 galleries from around the world. The exhibitions will be housed in a temporary structure designed by the New York architecture and design firm SO-IL.
Amanda Sharp, one of the directors of Frieze, said that she and her business partner, Matthew Slotover, had begun talking about expanding to New York more than a year ago. After they called a few dealers to gauge interest word quickly got around, and soon she had dozens of galleries around the world calling to express enthusiasm for the idea, she said. The next challenge was finding a site. “When we happened on Randalls Island Park, that was when we got very excited,” she said, because it meant they could “do it on a scale that makes sense.”
Frieze’s arrival could present a challenge to New York’s current major contemporary art fair, the Armory Show, which takes place in March, as some galleries who currently take part in the Armory Show may opt to do Frieze instead.
Frieze also announced that it was starting a new fair, Frieze Masters, featuring art from antiquity to the 20th century, which will run simultaneously with the original Frieze in London in October. It will be in Regent’s Park, within walking distance of the contemporary fair, in a structure designed by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The first Frieze Masters will take place October 11-14, 2012. | <urn:uuid:d50273d3-8806-4026-87c0-7903b7af1805> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/frieze/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97361 | 355 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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