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Portland State University supports the use of social media by employees to connect with students, fellow faculty and staff, alumni, fans, colleagues and more. Social media tools enable the university to share what is happening on campus with the world and hear directly and immediately from our core audience about what is important to them. This "conversation" is what makes social media different from traditional forms of one-way institutional communication. Before creating a social media site for a school/college, group, or unit, please take time to identify your marketing goals and audience. If you don’t have the time or resources to engage regularly, we do not recommend that you create one. These principles provide guidance on how to run a social media site effectively, safely and within university guidelines. Here are our guiding principles: Own your content As a representative of PSU, what you write is ultimately your responsibility. Exercise common sense and don't forget that what you publish will be public for a long time – treat it with care and respect. Anything you post in your role as a PSU employee reflects on the institution. Before posting, make sure you have all the facts by first verifying with a credible source. Cite and link to your sources whenever possible – doing this will build credibility. Seek advice from those authorized for messages that might be perceived as the "voice" of the university or a school/college/unit. Be human. Be real. Build trust with your audience by communicating to them in an authentic voice. Your audience will more likely connect and relate to you if you engage with them genuinely. When promoting an event or a program, be careful about tone. Instead, state your real intent and goals and let your personality shine. One of the great benefits of social media is that the individuals running the sites personalize large and complex institutions like PSU. Use your own "voice" and be real. Know your audience Who is following you? What do they tweet about? What are their interests? Use this knowledge when you are building an online persona for yourself or your unit. Engage your audience by asking questions and inviting them to participate. Extend a warm welcome even to those who may not be affiliated with PSU. Refrain from comments that can be interpreted as offensive, demeaning, inflammatory, etc. Keep an open mind and remember that your audience is comprised of varied opinions. Always pause and think before posting. Do not engage in arguments or debates with naysayers on your site. That said, reply to comments in a timely manner when a response is appropriate. If you are posting with a university username, other users do not know you personally. They view what you post as coming from the university. Be careful and be respectful. What you say directly reflects on the university. Check with your supervisor before making posts on sensitive subjects. Success in social media requires diligent time and energy. Reconsider jumping into social media if you do not make time to check in on social media sites at least a few minutes each day and post fresh content several times a week. Help build a community The essence of community is the idea that it exists so you can support others and they, in turn, can support you. Balance talking at your audience with listening and responding. Respect proprietary information and content, and confidentiality. While it is important to welcome comments on your social media site, remember to always keep a vigilant eye open to filter spam posts, commercial products or services, and offensive comments in a timely manner. Remember to maintain a warm, open, and safe online community. Social media will pay dividends for you if you add value to your followers, readers, fans and users' experiences. What is it about your site that distinguishes it from others? What makes your site uniquely yours?

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NY Mills School Board updated on finances According to recently compiled financial reports, the New York Mills School District is pretty typical of other schools in the state, fiscally speaking. The reports, written by two different companies, emphasize the fact that declining enrollment, changes in state aid and a low fund balance remain challenges for most districts, including NY Mills. Jodie Zesbaugh from Ehlers and Brian Stavanger from Eide Bailly updated the school board on the financial status of the district at a meeting Monday. Zesbaugh presented the completed Aid Anticipation Certificate report. The school sold $1,975,000 of certificates to the lowest bidder, Piper Jaffray and Company out of Minneapolis. The interest rate is .45 percent, which is right around the interest rate of last year. The total interest cost, which must be paid back by fall 2013, is $9,605. The district has been selling Aid Anticipation Certificates to meet cash flow needs since Minnesota switched its policy on school paybacks. According to the executive summary by Eide Bailly, if the school did not receive aid anticipation funds, its cash flow would be in the negative. This is directly linked to when the state pays schools. The interest rate on the certificates was not affected by the school's recent rating downgrade from Moody's Investors Service (from a rating of A2 to A3). This would affect long-term debt interest, but has no affect on short-term loans. Stavanger also presented draft information from the school district's yearly audit. The audit shows the fund balance at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, was $459,460. This figure is approximately 5 percent of monthly operating expenditures. The district's goal is to have a minimum of six weeks' worth of operating expenses as unassigned funds, which is 13 percent. The district has been building the fund over the last five years. Rachel Grieger said having a large fund balance may make some decisions easier, however the district has chosen to spend money on upkeep at the school instead of saving it. Expenditures have stayed steady the last couple of years in that three-quarters of the budget has been spent on salaries and budgets. The rest of the budget is spent on services, supplies and capital expenditures. In other news, Alli Slieter was introduced to the board as the school district's new Minnesota Reading Corp member. She will receive a living stipend from the Reading Corp program to work full-time with elementary age students on specific skills of reading. The shared gifted and talented program with the Perham-Dent School District will continue for another year. This program offers special classes for kids doing well in certain subjects.

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2. The Dodonaean Zeus ) possessed the most ancient oracle in Greece, at Dodona in Epeirus, near mount Tomarus (Tmarus or Tomurus), from which he derived his name. (Hom. Il. 2.750 ; Hdt. 2.52 ; Paus. 1.17.5 ; Strab. v. p.338 , vi. p. 504; Verg. Ecl. 8.44 .) At Dodona Zeus was mainly a prophetic god, and the oaktree was sacred to him ; but there too he was said to have been reared by if the Dodonaean nymphs (Hyades; Schol. ad Hom. Il. 18.486; Hygin. Fab. 182 ; Ov. Fast. 6.711 3.314). Respecting the Dodonaean oracle of Zeus, see Dict. of Ant. s. v. Oraculnm.

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Sea of ‘Bloodied’ Bare Bodies Inundates Pamplona If our protest in the middle of New York City’s Times Square wasn’t enough anti-bullfighting action for ya, just wait until you see the pictures from this mother-of-all-protests in Pamplona, Spain, yesterday. Two hundred “bloodied” and bare bodies from all over the world (I’m not exaggerating—we’re talking U.K., Australia, America, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, Belgium, Norway … you get the idea) gathered outside the Pamplona mayor’s office in protest of the horrible abuses that bulls suffer during Pamplona’s nine-day festival of San Fermín. Before the Running of the Bulls, workers use electric prods and sharp sticks to rile the bulls into a frenzy. Then, the bulls are often debilitated with tranquilizers and beaten before being taken into the bullfighting ring—where they are repeatedly speared with banderillas (barb-tipped wooden daggers) before being stabbed to death. Written by Shawna Flavell

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7 Easy Steps to Purchasing a Home by Lisa Getson A home is one of the largest, if not the largest, purchases that a person will make and therefore a very important decision. The home buying process can be very overwhelming, especially for a first time homebuyer. However, it is really not so frustrating when broken down into 7 easy steps. Step 1: Determining a Price Range: The first key element in purchasing a home is to establish a price range in which you feel comfortable spending. Many people take a mortgage when purchasing a home. I recommend speaking with a Mortgage Consultant who will help in setting a price in which to search. Step 2: Choosing a Neighborhood: Picking the “perfect” neighborhood is extremely important when buying a home. After all, where someone lives greatly impacts their life. Start your search by driving through various neighborhoods in your price range to help get a sense of what neighborhood is a good fit. Review with your realtor all of the positives and negatives of each neighborhood, while taking into account house specific requirements that homes in certain areas may or may not have. Also when searching, it is important to remember that any house can be upgraded in terms of renovations and/or decorating, but the location of a house can never be moved. Once you have identified a neighborhood(s) in which you want to live, simply zero in on a home. Step 3: Zeroing in on that “Perfect” Home in that “Perfect” Neighborhood: Most homes for sale are listed in the Multiple Listing Service. When and if that “perfect” home comes up for sale, your realtor should communicate it to you immediately. It is still true that no matter what type of real estate market, any home could be sold at any time. Therefore, if a home comes up for sale that meets your criteria and is in the neighborhood of your choice, it is imperative that you know about it and go to see it before it is too late. Step 4: Purchasing the Home: Writing an Agreement of Sale can be very overwhelming with all of the legalese involved. Of course, it is the buyers prerogative to hire an attorney to review all of the paperwork, but really not necessary as most realtors use the standard Agreement of Sale. A knowledgeable realtor will be able to review and explain the Agreement of Sale and any and all accompanying documentation. Furthermore, they will be able to aid the buyer in making informed decisions as to mortgage and home inspection contingencies. Step 5: Negotiating: As your buyer’s agent, your realtor will negotiate with the seller’s realtor on your behalf. The more knowledgeable your realtor, the easier time they will have understanding and negotiating any issues that may arise. In addition a more friendly and popular realtor will maintain amicable relations with the other realtor involved in the transaction, thus making for much smoother negotiations. Step 6: Settlement: The day of settlement on your new home should be a joyous one. After all, finding and purchasing the home of your dreams is a wonderful occasion to celebrate. A good realtor will have worked out any and all nuances ahead of time so that the settlement runs smoothly. Step 7: Moving into your New Home: This step is the best part. Nothing left to do but move-in and unpack. Moving into the home of your dreams is one of the most exciting experiences.

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I fly a lot – way too much for normal people. As a result, I get to see the extremes of human behavior. I joke that I’m a magnet for crazy people on airplanes. Usually, if there’s a wacky passenger on board, they’ll set next to me. As a result I’ve seen every weird habit, OCD trait, and activity you can imagine. On my last flight I sat next to a guy who had to wipe down his knife and fork for 2 minutes before he could use them. But the thing I see most often are people watching movies or playing games on their iPad or smartphone. That’s fine, but I’m amazed at the number of hours people spend “consuming” rather than “creating.” I spend most of my time on planes preparing for client meetings, writing blog posts and scripts, or working on a book or presentation. I’m trying to create. But so many people stopped creating years ago, and now simply consume the work of other people. There’s nothing inherently wrong with watching a movie or playing video games. The question is – when it comes to creating versus consuming, how much balance do you have in your life? You don’t have to be a professional writer, filmmaker, or artist to create. Everyone needs time to daydream, make notes, and jot down ideas. Leaders, employees, housewives, students and more should spend more time thinking, and less time consuming. In my experience, one of the biggest reasons people don’t advance in their careers is because they’re not developing original ideas and approaches to their job. They’re not being a good source of ideas for their boss. Think about the balance. And next time you’re waiting at the doctor’s office, standing in line, or sitting on a plane – think twice about Angry Birds, and consider using that time to think about an idea that could change your world.

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If in the previous posts I wrote about the influence of art history on modern design and I posted about the Gothic Style – Medieval Period, the Baroque Style – Western Art and the Art Nouveau Style – Modern Art, today’s article is about one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century’s modern art: Cubism. If you want to read more about Modern Art, click here. When and where appeared the Cubism movement? Because of the emerging of new technologies like photography, the motor car, cinematography and the airplane, artists felt the need to a more radical approach, a new way of seeing that will expand the possibilities of art like the new technologies were extending the limits of communication and travel. This new way of seeing was called Cubism, also known as the first abstract style of modern art. Dynamism of a Soccer Player (1913) – Umberto Boccioni (1882 – 1916) There seems to be different opinions regarding the moment when cubism began. Some say that the year 1907 is its starting point. This was also the year in which Picasso was introduced by the poet Apollinaire to Braque. These two great painters developed their ideas on Cubism around the year 1907 in Paris and it’s widely known that their starting point was a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cezanne. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) In the same year, before meeting Braque, Picasso completed the painting Les Demoiselles d’Aviginion in his Monmartre apartment house which was called the “Bateau Lavoir”. This work is very important because it’s considered to be the painting which foretold the future development of Cubism, and along with Cezanne’s influence appeared a new search due to the suggestions from African black sculpture. Le Portugais/The Emigrant (1911 – 1912) – Georges Braque (1882 – 1963) The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. They wanted instead to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. So they reduced and fractured objects into geometric forms, and then realigned these within a shallow, relief like space. They also used multiple or contrasting vantage points. Violin and Glass (1915) – Juan Gris (1887 – 1927) Which were the phases of Cubism? In the development of Cubism there were three phases: Facet or Pre-Cubism, Analytic Cubism, and Synthetic Cubism, although some divided this movement only in Analytic and Synthetic Cubism. 1. The first phase of Cubism – Pre-Cubism The first phase, which was also known as pre-cubism lasted until the year 1910 and it is under the strong influence of Cezanne and his famous characteristic of reproducing nature in paintings by using cylinders, spheres and cones. Picasso and Braque, which were painting in this period characters, landscapes and still life, were not satisfied with the attempts of renouncing on perspectives and aim at reducing the motifs to fundamental geometric forms. Still Life with Chair Caning (oil on canvas, 1912) – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 2. The second phase of Cubism – Analytical Cubism Analytical Cubism is considered to be one of the major branches of the Cubism and it was developed in the 1910 – 1913 period. In comparison to Synthetic cubism, in this phase, the cubists “analyzed” natural forms and they reduced forms to basic geometric parts to create a two-dimensional picture plane. In this phase, color was almost non-existent except for the cases when the artists used monochromatic schemes that included blue, gray and ochre. Analytic cubists focused more on forms like spheres, the cylinder and the cone to represent the natural world. Because of these features, the works created by Picasso and Braque had stylistic similarities. Violin and Jug (1910) – Georges Braque (1882 – 1963) 3. The third phase of Cubism – Synthetic Cubism The last movement of Cubism and the second as importance, Synthetic Cubism was developed by Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris and others in the 1913 – 1919 period. This cubism movement was characterized by the introduction of different surfaces, textures, papier colle, collage elements and a great variety of merged subject matter. This was the beginning of collage materials introduced as an important ingredient of fine art works. Still Life with Mandolin and Guitar (1924) – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) In comparison to Analytic Cubism, which was an analysis of the subjects (pulling them apart into planes), Synthetic Cubism is actually pushing several objects together. Less pure than Analytic Cubism, this movement has fewer planar schematism and less shading, creating flatter space. The Influence of African Art on Cubism The artists of the cubist movement considered that the traditions of the Western art were overrated and the remedy they applied to revitalize their work was to draw on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, especially from the African art. The inspiration to cross-reference art that came from other cultures it’s believed to come from Paul Gauguin, a French post-impressionist artist, whose prints and paintings were inspired by the native cultures of Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, places where he spent his final years. Head of a Woman (1907) – Pablo Picasso and right: Dan Mask A controversial element of early Cubism was the grotesque face that evoked African masks. The exaggerated features of these masks represented a hallmark of Cubism. The artists tried to interplay elements in their works and to create a sort of detachment in technique, resulting in grotesque, exaggerated forms. Which are the most important characteristics of Cubism? In Cubism, proportions, organic integrity and continuity of life samples and materials objects are abandoned. The artist’s canvas resembled more like a field of broken glass, some critics said. The shattering of objects in focus into geometrical sharp-edged angular pieces and the geometrically analytical approach to color and form baptized the movement into “Cubism”. Actually, despite what some vicious critics might have said at that time, a closer look to cubism art works reveals a very methodical deconstruction into three dimensional shaded facets and some of them are caving others convex. The Bargeman (1919) – Fernand Leger (1881 – 1955) Cubism considers the “whole” images perceived by the retina artificial and conventional, based on the influence of the past art. This movement rejects these images and recognizes that perspective space is an illusory, a rational invention or a sign system that comes from art since the Renaissance. Factory, Horta de Ebbo (1909) – Pablo Picasso In cubism works, instead of an image of an external world we are given a world of its own, analogous to nature but built with different principles. Cubists seek to reproduce different perspectives simultaneously, like they might be seen by the mind’s eye. It tries to mimic the mind’s power to abstract and synthesize its different impressions of the world into new wholes. Which are the main domains where Cubism emerged? 1. Cubism in painting Picasso and Braque are credited with creating this new visual language, but this movement was adopted and further developed by many painters like Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Roger de la Fresnaye and Jean Metzinger. Nude Descending Starecase No. 2 (1912) – Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) The Cubist painters did not embrace the concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of modeling, perspective and foreshortening. The artists wanted to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas so they fractured and reduced the objects into geometric forms and then realigned them within a shallow, relief like space. A specific feature also was the use of multiple or contrasting vantage points. 2. Cubism in sculpture Although it was primarily associated with painting, Cubism also exerted a great influence on the 20th century sculpture. The most important Cubist sculptors were Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alexander Archipenko and Jacques Lipchitz, identified as the first Cubist sculptor. Walking Woman (1912) – Alexander Archipenko (1887 – 1964) It’s believed that cubist sculpture developed in parallel to Cubist painting, having many of the same artists. For example, some sources name the first cubist sculpture Picasso’s 1909 Head of a Woman or Otto Gutfreund’s Anxiety, which were showed in Prague in 1912. Head of a Woman (1908) – Pablo Picasso Just like in Cubism painting, the style has its origins in Cezanne’s reduction of painted objects into component planes and geometric solids (spheres, cubes, cylinders and cones). Like in painting, cubism sculpture had its course by 1925, and it became an influence and contributed fundamentally to Constructivism and Futurism. 3. Cubism in architecture Some people might say that the relationship between Cubism and architecture was at best a tentative and it involved the application of Cubist decorations to stripped Neoclassical buildings. However, in Prague, the Czech Cubist group (Chochol, Gocar, Capek, Hofman, Janak and Novotny) managed to do more than treat the facades with prismatic ornaments. The basic features of Cubism, however, which included asymmetrical compositions, transparency, interpenetration of volumes and simultaneous perception from different points of view were enshrined in the Modern Movement and played an important part in its evolution. House of the Black Madonna, Museum of Cubism in Old Town Prague The most representative feature of cubist architecture was the multi-faceted facade of a building, which was also a way of articulating a vision of space, especially the relation between inside and outside. In other words, the cubist design should not celebrate the solid tectonic qualities of the material but to call those into question, establishing an ambiguous relationship between the space on the inside and on the outside of the structure. Is contemporary art work still influenced by Cubism? Although Cubism was born in France it emigrated across Europe and integrated with the artistic consciousness of several countries. This movement emerged as futurism in Italy, vorticism in England, Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia and Expressionism in Germany and it also influenced several of the major design and architectural styles of the 20th century and it still prevails to this day as mode of expression in the language of art. Cubism is far from being an art movement confined to art history, its legacy continues to inspire the work of many contemporary artists. Cubist imagery is regularly used commercially but also a significant number of contemporary artists keep drawing upon it stylistically and, more importantly, theoretically. Some said that the latter contains the clue as to the reason for cubism’s continuous fascination for artists. When it came to image making, photography was an increasingly viable method and Cubism attempts to take representational imagery beyond the mechanically photography and to go beyond the limits of traditional single point perspective perceived as though by a totally immobile viewer. As an example of the contemporary feature of Cubism, the questions and the theories which arose during the initial appearance of the movement are, for many representative artists, as current today as when first proposed. Some artists believe that Cubism will have durable consequences because it influenced all the important movements in modern European and American art. Without Cubism we couldn’t imagine the collages of Max Ernst, the surreal work of arts of Joan Miro, the art of Roy Lichtenstein and, seeing the subject in ensemble, pop art, the “ready made” art work of Duchamp and finally, the whole abstract art. The influence of Cubism in contemporary designs, especially from the features of Synthetic Cubism, seems to come from a structural design of the picture plane, the grid. We can also notice the use of reducing the pictorial space and figures to hard-edged geometric forms. Cubism in Contemporary Designs A representative characteristic that Cubists proposed was that your sight of an object is the sum of many different views and our memory of an object is not created from one angle, as in perspective, but from many angles selected by our sight and by movement. Keeping that in mind, contemporary artists create paradoxically abstract in form graphic designs and not only with an attempt at a more realistic way of seeing. As in the art works of the representatives of famous Cubists, contemporary artists create designs with people, objects, places, but not from a fixed point of view. Their art works often show you many parts of the subject at the same time but viewed from different angles and reconstructed into a composition of planes, colors and forms. The purpose of this feature specific to Cubism is to reconfigure the space: the front, the back and the sides of the subject will become interchangeable elements in the design of the work. Cubism in Modern House Designs This modern movement was also influential in contemporary architecture. The Cubist houses are being recognized by having many geometric lines, sharp edges and many facades with fantastic perspectives from different angles. Even the colors used in the house designs are monochrome or very limited. Cubism appeared around 1907 in Paris and its parents were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism was the first abstract style of modern art. A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows you many views of a subject at one time. The Cubists introduced collage into painting. The Cubists were influenced by art from other cultures, particularly African masks. There are two main distinct phases of the Cubist Style: Analytical Cubism (pre 1913) and Synthetic Cubism (post 1913) - Cubism influenced many other styles of modern art including Orphism, Futurism, Vorticism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Expressionism. - Cubism continues to inspire the work of many contemporary artists, which still use the stylistic and theoretical features of this style.

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John Knight Poems The Art Of True Love The Art of Love is not to be confused with the Act of Making Love. The latter can sometimes be merely physical (especially for men) the former is Spiritual and involves the Heart the Mind and the Spirit. To write about the Art of Love within The compass of a poem short as this We must define the boundaries of the theme To rein it in within the 'Realms of Bliss' The Art of Love is not the Act of Love But attitude before the act takes place The way in which relationships proceed Sustained by love and joy and peace and grace. The act of love is ... My Brother In Heaven I can't recover. The occasion after it's experienced, The time after it's moved on, The presence after the demise. I can remember. The occasions we shared, The times we spent together, The presence of a very special person.

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Siblings teasing can be a huge source of annoyance and conflict for the whole family. If you find yourself wishing the teasing would just go away here are some tried and true ideas for reducing teasing between siblings: 1. Be wary of choosing sides: Even if you know which sibling started the teasing, pointing it out, taking sides and making accusations doesn’t make the teasing go away, in fact it can make it worse. 2. Skip the criticism: It’s hard to hear two people we love being mean to each other and not getting along but critical words like “You are being so horrible to your sister, stop it!” tend to just fuel up the fire. 3. Stop insisting on love: When siblings are in “teasing mode” the last thing they want to hear is that they have to love their sibling. Try to avoid words like “Stop that teasing, you LOVE your brother, you are hurting his feelings!” 4. Avoid the bigger/smaller trap: Children of all ages might tease so don’t blame or excuse based on age: For example saying “You should know better. You are so much older than your little brother.” and ” Don’t be bothered, he’s just so little, he is calling you a “poo-poo head” because it makes him giggle.” is not helpful. 5. Don’t walk away: Advice on sibling teasing and fighting often suggests parents simply walk away and let sibling figure things out. The issue with this is that if you have witnessed the teasing and then walk and don’t address it at all, it can lead the teased child feeling quite unsupported and the teaser doesn’t receive any positive guidance in how to make a better choice. So what are some positive ways to tackle teasing? 1. Use calm words and keep your tone neutral: “I hear teasing, I’d like for this to stop.” 2. Address everyone equally: “Let’s ALL pause for a moment.” “Do you need help talking things out?” “Can we all choose respectful ways to talk to one another?” 3. Help everyone move along: “Shall we take a break from one another? Great, please find separate places to play for now.” Or “Let’s all cool off and give each other space.” “They way you are playing right now doesn’t seem to be working, can we move along or do you want some help to figure it out?” 4. Talk it out: If teasing has become a persistent issue, it’s time to tackle it for good. Put teasing on the family meeting agenda, or meet with each child individually to listen and discuss teasing. When meeting one on one, it helps to focus on understanding and problem and not on blaming and criticizing. Here is an example: My oldest and youngest were going through a teasing phase. The more my oldest son teased my youngest daughter, the more frazzled and annoyed I felt and the more she teased back. Despite intervening calmly, I noticed this was going on too often. It was time to address it not just in the moment but for the long term. I did some one on one connecting with each child. This is how the meeting with my 7 year old son went: After a relaxed and fun one on one ice cream outing, sensing we were connected and in a good mood to talk about the teasing I said something like: “You know, I hear you making fun of bella sometimes. I need your help here, tell me what your ideas are for this to stop because I don’t like it and I’m guessing neither do you or Bella.” He replied: “It really bothers you both right mom?” Me: “well yeah, do you like it when we both get bothered?” Him: “not really. I just want to make you guys laugh” Me (reflecting) “Uhm..you like to make us laugh.” Me (problem solving) “what other ways do you think you could get us to laugh? You know, without the teasing?” Him: “I could tell you some jokes? Like the one about the fish that bumps his head, or the firefly race one, that one always make you laugh right?” Me: “uhm…yes it does…a lot!” Him: “I know the teasing is mean. I’m sorry. I will hug Bella when we get home.” Setting a firm and kind limit in the moment is a great way to help siblings move along. Addressing it for the long term however is the key to making it go away, alright at least reduce it a great deal. Peace & Be Well, Latest posts by Ariadne Brill (see all) - Step Into Your Child’s Shoes - August 31, 2015 - Positive Parenting For Demanding and Entitled Behaviors - August 10, 2015 - Positive Parenting: Understanding Sibling Rivalry - July 23, 2015

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Fear of public speaking is extremely common, especially if it is something you are not doing on a regular basis. You may be filled with dread, waking several times the night before an event and you may even have nightmares about arriving late at the venue! Here are three steps to help reduce your level of performance anxiety and overcome your public speaking fear: We live and work within our Comfort Zone, and when we are asked to do something unfamiliar or difficult, we often shy away from it. But if you look for opportunities to stretch your Comfort Zone, you will find it grows. And a whole range of tasks and situations that you once found intimidating no longer create the same level of fear. To help overcome your stage fright, look for opportunities to present, initially to small groups of people you know will support you. Book presentation dates and invite people - then you are less likely to walk away from the opportunity. Start by delivering short sessions to small groups of people you know. The more you present, the easier it becomes. If you do not have opportunities at work to present, join your local Toastmasters. They are a supportive group that meet regularly to help you overcome your fear of public speaking. A couple of days before you are due to present, it is extremely important to get into the right mindset. Banish any negative thoughts from your brain as soon as they arrive. Your brain is like a computer; tell yourself that you are going to fail and it will do its best to help you. So close the gates to that negative thinking! Say to yourself "I can do it" and "I am a great presenter". Visualise yourself in front of the group delivering a great presentation with passion and pzazz. Presenting in front of others can have a number of spin off benefits. So, take the plunge. Plan and prepare well, and speak with passion. Your audience want you to succeed. You CAN overcome your fear of public speaking and banish that performance anxiety. As Susan Jeffers said; "Feel the fear and do it anyway"! Return to Home Page Read our latest newsletter - Avoid the Pain of Employee Turnover - 3 Steps to Maintaining Business Performance or view our back issues for more concise tips on practical management skills.

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Considering In Vitro Fertilization? There's An App To Tell You Whether It Will Work Considering In Vitro Fertilization? There's an app to tell you whether it will work It's 2011, and that means there's pretty much an app for anything and everything. Want to know how long the wait is for the Matterhorn at Disenyland? No worries. There's an app for that. Want to know how many calories you're burning on your evening run? There's an app for that, too. Want to know the odds of your In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) succeeding? Yeah, you guessed it. There's an app for that. Researchers from the University of Glasgow and Bristol say that they have created a formula that allows a couple considering IVF to make an educated decision as to whether they should pursue it based on its likely success. Currently, people can use a "simple online computer calculator," but in the very near future, it will be an app available for the iPhone and other smart phones. Scientists from the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol analyzed the details of more than 144,000 IVF cycles to produce a statistical model that can give a prediction of live birth which is up to 99 percent accurate. "Treatment-specific factors can be used to provide infertile couples with a very accurate assessment of their chance of a successful outcome following IVF," said Scott Nelson of the University of Glasgow, who led the research... ...The formula takes into account the woman's age, number of years trying to get pregnant, whether she is using her own eggs, the cause of infertility, the number of previous IVF cycles and whether she has previously been pregnant or had a baby. (Source: Reuters)If you're interested in the calculator and don't want to wait for the iPhone app, you can try it out at IVF Predict. ]]>

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LONDON, Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Tucan Travel is thrilled to announce that in the two years since it introduced its carbon offset scheme, it has raised 34,000 GBP through clients and its own donations for the World Land Trust and its work restoring and protecting rainforests. Tucan Travel also saw the percentage of clients contributing to the carbon offset scheme nearly double from 14% in the first year to 27% this year. As a result, total contributions rose 28% to a total of over 18,000 GBP for the year. Tucan Travel CEO Matt Gannan said he was genuinely delighted adventure travellers were showing an increased awareness about carbon omissions and contributing to the optional scheme. "Tucan Travel is committed to a policy of responsibility on its adventure tours, and we're very happy that this message is being picked up by more and more of our clients. We're aware there will always be some impact from our tours, but with this scheme we can mitigate the negative effects of our tours, while maintaining the positive impact we have on both our clients and the communities we visit," Gannan said. As part of Tucan Travel's policy of responsible adventure travel and to encourage clients to be aware also, it is policy at the company to donate at least 10% in addition to what clients raise for the World Land Trust. In the two years Tucan Travel has operated the carbon offset scheme, the company has donated an additional 16% to the amount raised by clients. Carbon offsetting is the process of balancing carbon emissions by making an equivalent. The World Land Trust generates carbon offsets by restoring tropical rainforests and protecting imminently threatened forests from further destruction. Tropical rainforests act as carbon sinks, absorbing atmospheric carbon in to their woody tissue as they grow and locking that carbon in mature forests. Deforestation releases this carbon back into the atmosphere, and is the source of 20% of all man-made carbon emissions. Restoring and protecting rainforests can help balance our harmful emissions and mitigate dangerous climate change. "It's great that nearly a third of all our clients are contributing to offset emissions from their adventure holidays with us, and we hope to see that figure rise as we encourage clients that they can help make a real difference through the important work of the World Land Trust," Gannan added. Tucan Travel is a specialist adventure tour operator with hundreds of high-quality, affordable and exciting adventures to worldwide destinations. Choose from over 470 group tours, Independent Travel packages and Expedition Cruises to Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, Asia & Russia, East & Southern Africa, Latin America and Antarctica. Ben McIntosh, Communications Coordinator SOURCE Tucan Travel

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Denver, CO (PRWEB) December 25, 2008 LegalView.com, the number one legal resource available on the Internet, recently used its Baxter heparin information portal to report on additional controversy plaguing patients of the blood thinner. According to news reports, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas has claimed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conflicting reports on the blood thinner, which is often given to prevent blood clots during surgical procedures including heart failure and kidney transplants, saying the drug was both responsible and not responsible for deaths of Americans. Rep. Barton has called for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into the FDA's remarks on the blood thinner. Baxter Heparin has been at the center of a controversy this year as it was discovered that a tainted batch of heparin was given to hundreds of Americans causing allergic reactions and deaths among dozens of patients, according to news reports. The tainted heparin was eventually found to have been contaminated with a chemical known as over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate in a Chinese manufacturing plant. Not only was a heparin recall implemented, but an investigation spanning international borders was developed. A New England Journal of Medicine article from Dec. 3 claimed that the blood thinner could not have caused the deaths of several individuals, however this contradicted the FDA's previous remarks in May, which claimed that the drug was responsible for the deaths of patients, according to Dow Jones news reports. Patients who have previously been administered the blood thinner are advised to locate an experienced Baxter heparin attorney who can offer a free legal consultation as to the development of a potential heparin class action lawsuit. Developing such litigation may offer monetary assistance to victims of the Heparin side effects and may help in paying for medical bills associated with the drug. LegalView also offers several additional pharmaceutical practice areas on an array of topics ranging from Avandia and Byetta to the recent Chantix controversy. Both Avandia and Byetta are type 2 diabetes prescription medications, however, each drug has been in the news for different, yet severe side effects. Avandia, from GlaxoSmithKline, uses an individual's natural insulin and regulates it in order to keep glucose on a normal and healthy level. However, the drug has been linked to severe risks including bone fractures among women, early onset osteoporosis and heart failure/damage among patients. Individuals who have suffered from the Avandia side effects are advised to contact a pharmaceutical attorney in addition to their regular medical physician. Byetta, similar to Avandia, is a type 2 diabetes prescription medication that was released in mid-2005. In 2007, the FDA began receiving reports from Byetta patients who were suffering from pancreatitis as an unintended side effect associated with consumption of the drug. Patients who suffered from these dangers should seek legal counsel from an experienced Byetta law firm to learn more about the dangers associated with consumption of the medication. An additional pharmaceutical prescription drug, which has sparked FDA investigations is that of Chantix, a smoking cessation drug that has been used by nearly 3 million Americans since its release in May 2006. At the end of 2007, however, hundreds of reports regarding dangerous side effects caused by the drug flooded the FDA offices. Chantix patients were allegedly developing conditions such as depression, mood disorders as well as suicidal tendencies and actions. There have allegedly been approximately 40 suicides linked to the use of Chantix, which is why it is imperative that smokers using the drug as an aid to quit smoking talk with their physician about alternative cessation methods. Additionally, it may be necessary for those individuals affected by the Chantix dangers to locate a pharmaceutical attorney for the potential development of a Chantix lawsuit. LegalView.com is a public service brought to you by Legal WebTV Network, LLC, a Limited Liability Corporation created by a group of the nation's most highly respected law firms: Anapol Schwartz; Brent Coon and Associates; Burg Simpson; Cohen, Placitella and Roth; James F. Humphreys and Associates; Lopez McHugh; and Thornton and Naumes. For more information on the accomplishments and track records of LegalView.com's superior sponsoring law firms and to get in touch with LegalView attorneys, visit LegalView at http://www.LegalView.com.

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Slicing the Economic Pie Thursday, March 20, 2008 By Wray Herbert I grew up with a brother who was very close to me in age, and we were both hyper vigilant about getting our fair share. No matter what was at stake. That meant no more than our fair share of chores and responsibilities, and certainly no less than our fair share of privileges and rewards. My mother had all sorts of clever tricks for dealing with this constant competitiveness.If we were bickering over a last piece of pie, for example, she would randomly pick one of us to cut the slice of pie in half. But before the cutting started she would add: “And your brother gets to choose the slice he wants.” Damn. With those few words, she took all the fun out of holding the knife, and indeed she probably shifted the competitive advantage. In any case, she made a muddle of self-interest and fairness in our young minds. Well, it turns out my mother didn’t invent the pie-slicing gambit. But she was buying into a fairly cynical view of life, assuming that we all act like rational calculating machines, governed entirely by utilitarian self interest. But is this true? Is fairness simply a ruse, something we adopt only when we secretly see an advantage in it for ourselves? And do we expect no more than self-interest of others? Or is there such a thing as fairness for fairness’ sake? Many psychologists have in recent years moved away from the purely utilitarian view, dismissing it as too simplistic. But the trick is in actually demonstrating genuine fairness in action, uncontaminated by self-serving motives like greed and need. Recent advances in both cognitive science and neuroscience now allow psychologists to approach this question in some different ways, and they are getting some intriguing results. UCLA psychologist Golnaz Tabibnia and colleagues used a classic psychological test called the “ultimatum game" to explore fairness and self-interest in the laboratory. In this particular version of the test, Person A has a pot of money, say $23, which he can divide in any way he wants with Person B. All Person B can do is look at the offer and accept or reject it; there is no negotiation. If he walks away from the deal, there is no deal. In the actual experiment, there is no real Person A: It’s secretly the experimenter, making a range of offers, from generous to fair to stingy. The experimental subjects get to weigh the offers and respond. Whatever Person A offers to Person B is an unearned windfall, even if it’s a miserly $5 out of $23, so a strict utilitarian would take the money and run. But that’s not exactly what happens in the laboratory. The UCLA scientists ran the experiment so sometimes $5 was stingy and other times fair, say $5 out of a total stake of $10. The idea was to make sure the subjects were responding to the fairness of the offer, not to the amount of the windfall. When they did this, and asked the subjects to rate themselves on a scale from happy to contemptuous, they had some interesting findings: Even when they stood to gain exactly the same dollar amount of free money, the subjects were much happier with the fair offers and much more disdainful of deals that were lopsided and self-centered. Indeed, many people actually reject very unfair deals, even though they are losing cash out of pocket, suggesting that their sense of decency is trumping their rational, calculating mind. They are responding emotionally to the idea that someone would hoodwink them. That’s interesting in itself. But it could simply mean that we don’t like being treated shabbily, which wouldn’t be all that surprising. The psychologists want to know if, beyond that, there is something inherently rewarding about being treated decently. They decided to look inside the brains of these people to find out. They scanned several parts of their brains involved in aversion and reward while the subjects were in the act of weighing both fair and miserly offers, and they found that, yes, both parts of the brain light up during the ultimatum game. As reported in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science, the brain finds self-serving behavior emotionally unpleasant, but a different bundle of neurons also finds genuine fairness uplifting. What’s more, these emotional firings occur in brain structures that are fast and automatic, so it appears that the emotional brain is overruling the more deliberate, rational mind. Faced with a conflict, the brain’s default position is to demand a fair deal. So unfairness is fundamentally jarring to the brain, and fairness is fundamentally rewarding. Yet people do accept offers every day in real life that are less than equitable, and indeed they did so in this experiment. When the scientists scanned the brains of those who were “swallowing their pride” for the sake of cash, the brain showed a distinctive pattern of neuronal firing. It appears that the unconscious mind can temporarily damp down the brain’s contempt center, in effect allowing the rational, utilitarian brain to rule, at least momentarily. So it seems contempt does not go away when the economic pie is sliced unfairly, it just goes underground. For more insights into the quirks of human nature, visit “We’re Only Human . . .” at www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman. posted by Wray Herbert @ 1:35 PM

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Our Vision: Caring for all God’s children and following Jesus’ example by welcoming everyone, regardless of race, national origin, social or financial status, gender, age, sexual orientation or anything else. Our Theology: We believe God’s love is big enough for all people and no one group “owns” God. We believe Jesus was a rebel in his time and died because of how he lived and what he taught. We believe Christ lives in each of us and calls us to follow his example of radical love. We believe the Bible is story and should be read as such and never used to condemn. We believe in peace and justice for all. Our Values: Pine Valley values diversity at many levels – spiritual, theological, social, economical, generational. We are open and affirming: a place to heal and grow. We live in respectful presence of those who are different than ourselves. Our History and Future: Founded in 1968, Pine Valley Christian Church has a rich history of social activism and progressive theology. We acknowledge that many people today have a problem with religion and “traditional” church. Pine Valley Christian Church offers forward-thinking Christianity for the 21st century. Thinking: Pine Valley encourages diversity of thought. It is a safe place to question traditional church teaching. Our Philosophy: The past is forgiven, the present is accepted, the future is open. Caring: Pine Valley is a small, intimate church. We laugh, hug, sing, and share life together. Services are informal, participation is encouraged and you are welcomed as you are! Children: Pine Valley is a place for children of traditional and non-traditional families to grow spiritually. Children and youth participate in all aspects of worship, including Family Moment, communion, prayer and more.

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Defibrillator $ Saves Lives Last month, three students collapsed and died at New York City public high schools. Our hearts go out to their grieving families,whose ordeal is especially poignant when one considers that these deaths need not have happened at all. State law mandated that electronic defibrillators--devices that administer electric shocks to restore normal heart rhythm--be placed in all schools by December of last year. None of the schools where the three students died had the defibrillators. As of last Friday, only 300 of the devices had been purchased, and none were in use. Anthony Shorris, deputy chancellor for operations and planning, told the city council that the 300 defibrillators gathering dust in a warehouse have not been installed because the training required to use the devices is not scheduled to begin until April. Shorris declared that 3,000 defibrillators will be installed and functioning by September, well past the state deadline for having at least one defibrillator and an operator trained to use it in every school in the city. In addition, the manufacturer of the only model of the device suitable for treating children, rather than adults, can supply only 100 a week The devices alone will cost a total of $6.6 million, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg reduced the budget for the defibrillators from $2 million to $500,000. .Adding to the cost of the defibrillators, according to Shorris, is the fact that tens of millions of dollars a year will need to be spent on training people to use the devices and keep persons trained in defibrillator use on duty during open hours at all city schools. Last week, the city was hit with the first blizzard of the new century. The storm dumped as much as 25 inches of snow on some parts of Queens. Most of the Sanitation Department’s $19.7 million snow removal budget had already been exhausted when the storm blew into town last Sunday night. "But the bottom line is, you spend the money and then you have to find a way later on to cut something else or raise revenues elsewhere," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in explaining how the city would manage to pay for clearing away the piles of snow left in the storm’s wake. The mayor is correct when he says that somehow the money to pay the bills for crews and equipment on 24-hour duty must be found. No one has suggested paying the Sanitation Department workers who cleared the city streets on a per-street-cleaned basis. They were paid to be ready to do their jobs when the need arose. The same principle applies to the defibrillators and the people trained to use them. We would do well to ask ourselves what is the value we place on the lives of our children. True, the defibrillators will not be needed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. True, they will not be installed in every school in the system. The 3,000 devices Shorris expects to have in place by September will go to high schools with the most active Public School Athletic League (PSAL) programs. While we would like to see a device in every school, we concede that this is the best use of a scarce and expensive resource. The city is currently in violation of a state law that was enacted to protect the lives of our most precious resource--our children. While it would be nice if the state had backed up its mandate with some monetary support, the cold fact is, New York City must find the funds to install these lifesaving devices on its own initiative. It was true of the snow removal budget and it is true of the defibrillator debate--the money to provide lifesaving equipment and train people to operate it must be found, even if something else has to be cut or scaled back. More children should not have to die from cost-benefit analysis.

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Graduate student works in progress colloquium. “Imperial Games: Towards a Historical Ethnography of Early Canada’s Card Money, 1685-1719.” Whether as a “commonplace of monetary economics, second only to the stone money of the island of Yap, ” or as footnote to the often orientalist historiography of New France, the playing-card money of early Canada has figured mainly as an exotic, near-primitive moment in teleological accounts of monetary modernity. But just as rich ethnographies continue to de-colonize our understanding of so-called “primitive monies”, so attention to the practices and meanings surrounding the playing-card money of early Canada opens up new possibilities for exploring the political economy of early modern empires. "The Mystery of the Vietnam War" In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson expressed misgivings about his country's deepening involvement in the struggle for Vietnam. "I don't think it's worth fighting for and I don't think we can get out," he remarked to a top aide in May. "What in the hell is Vietnam worth to me?. . . . What is it worth to this country?" Yet the following year--precisely half a century ago--Johnson took the United States into a large-scale war, one that would ultimately claim the lives of more than 58,000 Americans and some three million Vietnamese, and end in defeat for the U.S. In this talk Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University examines this monumental decision anew and offers his explanation for why LBJ did what he did.

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When James Cameron’s record breaking “Avatar” burst onto our screens in 2009, “3D” immediately became THE buzz word for the film industry. Although the notion of 3D films in cinema was nothing new, (anyone remember “Spy Kids 3D: Game Over”?) this was supposed to be a game changer. James Cameron seemingly spent his 12 year hiatus from film making inventing this brand new technology to really make 3D something worthwhile. So before getting down to the nitty gritty, let me first discuss my own experience with the medium. I first experienced a 3D film years before Avatar was released when I visited Universal Studios, Orlando at the tender age of 9. One of the most exciting attractions was “Terminator 2: 3D: Battle Across Time”. A mini sequel to “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”, it used the classic gimmick of 3D filmmaking where objects are thrusted out in front of the audience. Clip - T2-3D When “Avatar” was eventually released, I was impressed by the depth it offered. It didn’t play to the gimmick very often and when it did, it made sense i.e. that shot early on of the mini golf set (the camera pans as the ball is putted directly towards the audience). What was really mesmerizing about these experiences was they made me feel like apart of the film even more, as everything was playing out around me. It seemed that 3D or stereoscopic filmmaking had finally been brought out into the mainstream. Clip - Avatar Trailer The 3D market has since taken over the industry with film after film being released in the new medium. The number of worldwide 3D digital screens has increased from 9,000 in 2009 to 43,000 in 2012. Studios are making tons of money from new films and re-releases so you would think it is here to stay. But is it really? In this relatively short space of time, mainstream 3D has become a bit like Marmite: you either love it, or you hate it. Filmmakers have expressed their opinions about it in years gone by; Big names such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg have expressed their liking of it. “It’s like seeing a moving sculpture of the actor and it’s almost like a combination of theatre and film … it immerses you in the story more” - Martin Scorsese at CinemaCon 2012 Not all filmmakers like it though. Christopher Nolan is known to have a disdain for 3D, having refused to shoot or convert both “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises” in 3D. More on this later on. So here is my opinion of it, I am not much of a fan. After “Avatar”, films just didn’t live up to the promise anymore. For example, during “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” the picture would go really fuzzy whenever I tilted my head, meaning that I had to keep it perfectly still in order to enjoy the film. I just couldn’t relax at all! The good point about this particular experience was that it was in IMAX whose 3D glasses are quite big and were able to fit neatly over my normal glasses. This brings me onto my next point, I have to wear two pairs of glasses to watch these films! It wouldn’t bother me if the technology was impressive i.e. “Avatar” but paying over the odds for tickets to poorer quality ones such as “Pirates..” and “Clash of the Titans”, I am just no longer to prepared to do. So if the opinion is so divided, what future does it have? Filmmakers have been experimenting with various different techniques to incorporate 3D in a variety of ways. For instance, Robert Zemeckis preferred to use the technology to enhance the story for his film “Beowulf”. A recurring theme in “Beowulf” involved characters losing power so while this happened, the characters would start to lose their dimension. Subsequently, those who were gaining power were enhanced in their dimension. It was a very clever and unique way to further incorporate 3D into mainstream filmmaking. What if filmmakers choose not to shoot or post convert their film into 3D? Would they even have a choice since it makes so much money? This was the problem faced by Christopher Nolan during the productions of “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises”. In both cases, the use of 3D would have gone against his vision for the two films. In terms of “The Dark Knight Rises”, he wanted to keep a focus on improving image quality using IMAX cameras, a mainstay of the previous two films. “This is not starting over, this is not rebooting. We’re finishing something, and keeping a consistency with what’s come before has real value.” - Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises. The choice to screen “The Dark Knight Rises” in 2D certainly didn’t impact the success of the film as it grossed an estimated $448,130,642. But the argument of 2D films vs 3D films gets more interesting when talking about “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”. The 3D version of the film grossed £32.5 million at the box office whereas the 2D version grossed £34.6 million, almost half. So this is evidence that while 3D is still hugely popular with audiences; there are still people out there (like me) who are not willing to pay over the odds for a 3D movie. 3D has been very consistent over the last 4 years, so at the moment it seems that it is going to stick around for a few years at least. Studios just make too much money from new releases and re-releases to stop it simply because of some peoples opinions. For me, 3D can continue to be shown in cinemas just as long as the option for a 2D alternative still exists.

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With almost 4 million copies sold over 50 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic that Philip Pullman says “comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams! " I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'" --Anna Quindlen, The New York Times "A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention." --The New Yorker WINNER 1963 - Kansas William White Master List WINNER 2012 - Scholastic Parent & Child 100 Greatest Books for Kids WINNER 2012 - TimeOutNewYorkKids.com 50 Best Books for Kids Norton Juster is an architect and the author of other highly acclaimed children’s books, including The Dot and the Line, The Hello, Goodbye Window, illustrated by Chris Raschka, which received the Caldecott Medal, and The Odious Ogre, also illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Jules Feiffer is the author and illustrator of two novels for young readers, as well as several acclaimed picture books, including Bark, George and Meanwhile . . . He has won numerous prizes for his cartoons, plays, and screenplays. Click Here for The Phantom Tollbooth BookTalk

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Analyzing the global flood from a perspective of math I figured that I would take a purely objective and mathematical look at the statement of the Noacian Delugue (the Great Flood). Not starting from any supposition of right or wrong on the story, I simply wished to check the forces at work in our flood story. I'm not even concerned with the feasability of collecting animals or fiting them in a boat, just the natural forces described. So here's the process. 1) Given: The stated flood covered all land on earth. 2) Given: the duration of the flood is stated at 40 24-hour periods. 3) To determine the amount of water needed for this flood... radius of Earth = 6,367,443 M Highest Point: Mount Everest = 8,850 M Volume of the earth = 1,081,393,630,274,105,660,580.262 m^3 = 1.081*10^21 m^3 = 1.081*10^24 L Volume of the earth+Mount Everest = 1,085,908,931,675,316,662,626.475 = 1.085*10^21 m^3 = 1.085*10^24 L Volume of water to cover all land on earth approx. = 4,515,301,401,211,002,046.213 m^3 = 4.515*10^18 m^3 = 4.515*10^21 L Well, that's a really big number, but the earth is pretty big as well, so lets get some more data. 4)To determine the force of the rain, I must first discover the rate of the rainfall. Given duration of rainfall = 40d = 960 h = 57,600 min = 3,456,000 s Rate of rainfall needed to fill volume of water to peak of Everest = 4,515,301,401,211,002,046,213 L / 3,456,000s = 1,306,510,822,109,664.944 L/s = 1.307*10^15 L/s Once again, large large numbers, but this is still planetary scale. 5)Averaging for an even rainfall... Surface area of earth = 510,065,600 Km^2 Rainfall rate per km^2 = 2,561,456.452 L/s per Km^2 = 2.561 L/s per m^2 Now that we have the amount of rain falling at a given rate at a workable area on human scale we can get the force of the rain. 6)Force of the rainfall per square meter 1L water = 1kg Mass hitting the ground for every m^2 = 2.561 kg/s Average raindrop velocity between 2m/s and 9m/s = 5.5 m/s (source http://www.wonderquest.com/falling-raindrops.htm) Kinetic energy (E=.5mv^2) of rain hitting the earth every second = .5*2.56kg1*5.5m/s^2 = 38.753 N = 8.712lbs A continuous 38.753 Newtons on every square meter of earth for 40 days is not rain, it is the equivalence of hydrological stripmining. With this much water, you would not end up with canyons and rifts, you would end up with everything not made of bedrock being eroded into the lowest basin zones on the earth. No topsoil would remain, no sandstone or limestone, granite formations would break apart at stress seams. You are also looking at a rise in water level by around 2.56 cm per second (1 inch per second). Any thing floating on top of this water would be pushed up into the rain, effectively increasing the force with which the rain hits the object by around a factor of 2. Given that I'm no geologist or mechanical engineer, I'm not sure of the effects on surface tension from this much rain, or currents and water turbulance. However, by my findings here I conclude that we should have none of the land masses we now know given a global flood of this magnitude. If anyone wishes to check my math, please do so. Also if there are any engineers that can give a better understanding of what 38.753 N per second for 40 days would imply mechanically, I'd love to know. The Regular Expressions of Humanistic Jones: Where one software Engineer will show the world that God is nothing more than an undefined pointer.

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|Photo Credit-Google Images| Retraining for a second career with online training are allowing individuals to reclaim their version of the American dream. The phenomenon of middle class suburban families struggling just to keep body and soul together would have been unimaginable in any post World War II American scenario. As the middle class continues to erode, middle aged workers looking to stay competitive will need to consider expanding their education. For many, online training may be a strategy which could prove effective. Many job sectors have slowed due to the economic downturn, but many are gone for good. Manufacturing, once the bulwark of the middle class, is a segment of the economy not likely to ever regain its former glory. Many families—for whom manufacturing once represented a dependable path to middle class comfort—will need to look elsewhere in the future. This has happened before. Millworkers in the Northeast had to deal with the same problem. Families who had worked in textile mills for generations found layoffs and plant closures becoming increasingly common. Textile workers did what many job seekers today are going to have to do. They had to re-train in other job categories for which there was significant demand. And for the most part, it worked. There are still areas in the Northeast which are slowly recovering from being devastated by the closure of textile mills. But slowly and surely, as workers re-train and change their expectations as well, many of these areas continue to rebound. For workers who are considering re-training for a second career there are a few considerations which may keep them relevant in the workforce. Career fields to consider could include more cutting edge jobs which are less likely to be outsourced to China, India and Brazil. The current focus on green energy will likely continue to create demand for highly skilled workers in several different industries. Wind turbine production continues to ramp up and this requires not only initial manufacturing labor, but also maintenance labor throughout the life cycle of the wind turbines. Bio-diesel production is moving from a niche industry to a much more mainstream business. Especially as petroleum prices continue to rise, biodiesel is much more competitive than just a year ago.

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Think for Yourself; Question Authority The famous magician and occult writer Donald Michael Kraig commences his teachings by writing down the following characters on a blackboard: TFYQA, which means Think For Yourself; Question Authority. It is a sign of his greatness of mind and openness towards the spiritual path of others. In fact he says: "This is what I have come to know and these are my experiences. Consider my words and try out for yourself if what is truth for me also is truth for you. Absorb the wisdom of the outer teacher, turn inwards to hear the soft voice of the inner intuitive teacher, and let the child of both forces be born as your own wisdom. No matter how educated, experienced, famous or spiritually evolved the teacher may be, your own judgements and decisions count even more." Yesterday I asked the tarot after the subject of my latest article and I drew the card of the Hierophant, not yet knowing what the issue would be about. Right now I understand that the process described above is beautifully depicted by that same Hierophant in Crowley's Thoth Tarot. The card pictures a spiritual influential figure, an authority in his field. He wears a mysterious smile, resembling an early bronze statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun and the rational mind. The hierophant has great knowledge of the spoken and written word. In front of him stands the much smaller figure of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of the moon and intuition. In one hand she carries a moon, and with her left hand she holds a large sword in front of her, pointing downwards. This sword of justice and truth is planted in the earth, as if to say: "knowledge has to feel good, before it can become part of my world." The heart of the hierophant is an upward pentagram, symbol of Man, with a young naked child inside. It represents the pure core of your being, which needs both rational and intuitive, masculine and feminine input to express itself to the fullest. The trinity of father, mother and child is the key that opens the door to your individual way to heaven. The card of the Hierophant shows that spiritual knowledge goes through the heart. Therefore tantra states: 'the kingdom of God is within your heart.' And A Course in Miracles says: 'Teach only love for that is what you are.' Great spiritual teachers will be a natural authority, but they won't feel the need for you to do and believe exactly as they do. They will not behave like someone special or chosen, but help you to claim and find self-mastery. They do not need your adoration. Evolved spirits will encourage you to move beyond feelings of guilt and fear and act out of love for the Self and the world. And they will teach for affordable prices or even for free. Therefore think twice if a guru requests that you'll meditate on a large image of him/her. Beware if a teacher claims to be the only one with the ultimate solution for mankind. Look out if someone states that only his or her method will bring you to heaven, especially if you have to keep your wallet wide open. Don't believe you'll get great value just because you paid a lot of money for it. Pay attention if a person uses impressive language or even invents his own language to make his/her ideas clear. I know of a worldwide, very expensive cult, who's leader claimed to be the only saviour on earth for humanity. His words have to be taken literally, you are not allowed critical thoughts about this organization, it is highly based on fear, they use incomprehensible words for outsiders, have their own secret agency to attack 'suppressive' people, and when you have climbed the ladder of 'spiritual' degrees fairly well they will reveal you the following story. About 75 million years ago a part of the universe, outside this universe, of which a certain Xenu was the leader, became overcrowded. So these beings were sent to 'prison-planet' Earth, only to be destroyed there by hydrogen bombs. The souls of these poor alien millions are implanted with electronic devices on Mars and Venus to forget who they were, and next sent to Earth where they were frozen in icecubes and slowly melted at the bottom of the ocean. After de-icing these souls cling onto inhabitants of earth, become 'body thetans' and because of their negative experiences these alien thetans are the true cause of our unhappiness, negative feelings and disease… So somebody outside did it, you'll have to fight unknown evil-minded and distorted alien souls trying to keep you from making spiritual progress…and you'll only get rid of it by joining this group and their teachings. Please don't ask me how you would freeze a non-physical soul into an ice-cube, or how and why you'd implant soul-energy with electronic devices. Don't ask why only this special leader knows what happened 75 million years ago, and what made him the chosen one to find out this crucial knowledge. Don't inform why after the remarkable period of 75 million years frustrated souls still influence us in a negative way. To me it seems that we have to do with real bad, bad science fiction made up by someone who's mental and emotional health is at stake. The story both is hilarious and deeply sad. But please draw your own conclusions. This is a smart organization; they will get you off the ground and removed from daily reality bit by bit, and tell you this crap after you have paid far too much, so you will feel you'll have to believe it. They call themselves the church of Love has nothing to do with control and fear. Love will let you know that you are your own leader, for you are part of the God-force. Love will teach you to be your own authority. Therefore feel this enormous warm, infinite and passionate power running through you when someone tries to impose his or her 'truth' upon you. Know that you are guiltless, shameless love yourself and a child of the receptive, compassionate Goddess. Accept that many ways lead to Rome, but even more to the God and Goddess. We are all special and chosen - or none of us is. Fear is a very bad teacher. Suggested Pdf Resources - An Open Letter to US citizens - Mar 24, 2011 artificial barriers that have been set up to separate us! "Think For Yourself, Question Authority" - Timothy Leary. Inform. - The State of Satanism: 2011 Satanism, as a philosophy, religion, or - “think for yourself”... “question authority”... “be your own man”... - Wiemker - Cyberpunks - A Sociological Analysis With Special - As Leary sees it, most. Cyberpunks live in accord with the code ' Think for Yourself, Question Authority (TFYQA) '. - A Student's Guide to Research - Always question authority and think for yourself as much as possible. 23. Filter the noise. - C45 April 2001 - "Think for yourself. & question authority". Dr. Suggested News Resources - Good News, It's Found In Jesus - If you're anything like me you think to yourself, what's going on? How much worse can it get? Sometimes I just think it would be easier not to read the newspapers or watch the news because it is filled with negativity about the bad things that happen. - Joichi Ito - Timothy Leary, who had an amazing ability to come up with bumper-sticker-sized thoughts, used to say, "Question authority and think for yourself." I've found those words to be incredibly important in innovation and how to live life. - Ridgefielder of the Week: Dre Dretzin - It felt more like a year and it was wonderful. The most rewarding thing about the experience is that I was able to think outside of the box. I gave myself the chance to question authority and that is very important for people to do. - Criticizing "Decision Theory" – The Underlying Principle of Most Business Best - As I described in Part 2 of this series, best practices are the solutions for yesterday's problems, and you have to think for yourself. The behavioralists would argue the opposite – you can't think things through. - Dolly Parton talks about her gay following - Maybe it was because when you talked negative about people, you were usually referring to yourself, and if that's how you want to think about yourself, that is your business... Suggested Web Resources - Think For Yourself (Salival, Third Eye Intro) lyrics by Tool - Send "Think For Yourself (Salival, Third Eye Intro)" Ringtone to your Cell. Ringtones. 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Annexation Of Texas A selection of articles related to annexation of texas. Original articles from our library related to the Annexation Of Texas. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Annexation Of Texas. - Beth Moore - Beth Moore, founder and pastor of internationally known Living Proof Ministries, was born Wanda Elizabeth Green on June 16, 1957 in an army base at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Beth is the fourth of five children and was raised in Arkadelphia. >> Modern Science - Morrison, Dorothy - Dorothy is a Wiccan High Priestess of the Georgian tradition and an avid practitioner of the ancient arts for over 20 years. She teaches the Craft to students throughout the US and in Australia. Her interests include archery and bowhunting, magical herbalism,... Real Interviews >> Authors - Survivalists' Guide for the New Millennium: Chapter 5 - WHERE I LAY MY HEAD IS HOME A foot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, and the world before me, The long brown path before me leading Wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not for good fortune, I myself am good fortune, Henceforth I... Philosophy >> Survivalists Guide for the New Millennium - Serious Cleansing Ritual - This cleansing ritual has been modified from one that I performed for a dear friend who was having trouble dispelling negativity possibly sent from a former romantic acquaintance. This is not a ritual to perform for just anybody - the performer actually... Paganism & Wicca >> Spells Annexation Of Texas is described in multiple online sources, as addition to our editors' articles, see section below for printable documents, Annexation Of Texas books and related discussion. Suggested Pdf Resources - MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION IN TEXAS - Nov 19, 2004 ANNEXATION. IN TEXAS. “IS IT REALLY THAT COMPLICATED? - HOME RULE Unilateral Annexation of Area Exempt from Annexation - approval of all annexations in Texas, including voluntary annexations. - Texas Annexation - University of North Texas - Source. Adventures: Texas. Annexation: United We. - John O'Sullivan Coins the Phrase “Manifest Destiny” 1845 John L. O - Jul 18, 2004 It is time now for opposition to the Annexation of Texas to cease . . . Suggested News Resources - Soldiers Remains Could Return Home More Than Century Later - The Mexican-American War came at a time of the annexation of Texas into American territory. "525000 square miles were transferred from Mexico to the United States," Johnson said. - Lincoln: The trajectory of a politician - At this point in time, while Lincoln stood against Polk and his policy of annexation of Texas, Lincoln still held to a view of leaving slavery be in the South. - Sam Houston's son, Temple Lea Houston, was born in Governor's Mansion - In March 1846, after the annexation of Texas, the state legislature established Guadalupe County from Gonzales and Bexar counties. A post office was opened in Seguin in 1846. The first county judge was Michael H. - Does Lone Ranger's Cancellation Mean Hollywood Has Finally Gone Sane? - To put that in perspective, the entire cost of the annexation of Texas — the location of the Ranger's mythical deeds of derring-do — was $10 million. Suggested Web Resources - Texas Annexation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Texas Annexation of 1845 was the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States of America as the 28th state. - Annexation of Texas - You Found It! The Detailed History of the Republic of Texas and the Annexation of Texas. - Narrative History of Texas Annexation - Texas State Library and - (Neither this joint resolution or the ordinance passed by the Republic of Texas' Annexation Convention gave Texas the right to secede. - Avalon Project - Annexation of Texas. Joint Resolution of the - Joint Resolution for annexing Texas to the United States. - Annexation of Texas - The question of Texas annexation to the Union was complicated by concerns regarding slavery and the perceived interest of Great Britain. Great care has been taken to prepare the information on this page. Elements of the content come from factual and lexical knowledge databases, realmagick.com library and third-party sources. We appreciate your suggestions and comments on further improvements of the site.

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|Home||Founder||What's New||In The News||Contact Us| |Paradigm Shift Intervention Monitoring||Commentary Marburg Transmission in Cacuaco - Slum Adjacent to Luanda April 6, 2005 >> Angolan health workers in a slum outside Luanda were treating a new suspected case of the Marburg virus as a senior United Nations official warned that the outbreak of the Ebola-like epidemic was not yet under control. Nurses at a clinic in the township of Cacuaco, some 18 kilometres north of the capital, were scrambling to help the 22-year-old woman who they feared may be the latest casualty of the haemorrhagic fever ....... "We have a suspected case of Marburg - she arrived here an hour ago complaining of a fever and anal bleeding," clinic administrator Analdina Chivukuvuku said. "She is bleeding quite badly," she told AFP at the clinic - one of three that serve the township with a population of some 613,000 residents on the Atlantic coast's Baia do Bengo. Nurses were putting a drip into the young woman whose legs and feet were covered in blood. …. They wore only face masks and rubber gloves and said they feared the virus because of a lack of proper protection. << The description of the patient in Cacuaco, a slum adjacent to Luanda, strongly suggests transmission of Marburg near Luanda. Over a week ago, a 12 year-old girl was admitted to the Cacuaco Health Centre and she too started to bleed badly and was transferred to the larger Americo Boa Verde hospital in Luanda. Her case was described in a media report on some of the earlier cases in Luanda. Uige was mentioned in connection with all of the cases except the 12 year-old who was said to be from Luanda. Since the transfer was precipitated by the bleeding, there was not an obvious connection to Uige. Similarly, the newly admitted 22 year-old is described above without reference to Uige, and although not confirmed, clearly sounds like a hemorrhagic fever case. One of the major fears of Luanda residents is that Marburg would make its way into the slums of Luanda, where it would easily spread and where contract tracing would be difficult. Cacuaco, with a population of over 600,000 would appear to be a fertile breeding ground from spreading Marburg virus. The fears of Luanda residents appear to have been realized.

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LAKE COUNTY -- Students have an opportunity to explore advanced topics in science, technology, engineering and math through a four-week residential program. The California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program allows students to reside at one-of-four University of California (U.C.) campuses. The program features a hands-on and lab-intensive curriculum and is open to students who are completing grades eight through 12. Each of the four U.C. campuses can accommodate approximately 160 participants. A typical student has a least a 3.5 GPA and will need the recommendation of a math and/or science teacher. Applications are due by today. For more information, visit the U.C. COSMOS website at http://cosmos-ucop.ucdavis.edu/main/overview?or contact Tammy Serpa at the Lake County Office of Education College-Going Initiative Department email@example.com, 995-9523, ext. 405.

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Century-old Cauvery dispute remains in limbo The efforts to resolve the century-old dispute over sharing of Cauvery waters between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu across the table appear to be jinxed with the failure of talks between the chief ministers of the two states at Madras on Sunday, January 5. The issue is back to square one with Tamil Nadu deciding to seek a remedy through the tribunal and Karnataka having already decided to boycott the tribunal. This is the third abortive attempt to find a negotiated settlement for the vexatious issue at a political level in the post Independence Earlier attempts in 1974 and 1989 also failed to break the deadlock. Hopes that Karnataka Chief Minister J H Patel and his Tamil Nadu counterpart M Karunanidhi would strike an agreement in the context of changed political scenario were belied as they could not find any meeting ground despite five rounds of intense negotiations initiated at the instance of a Supreme Court directive. The issue came close to solution during the five rounds of talks though it broke down on Sunday reportedly over differences on the percentage of sharing. A solution to the dispute was in sight way back in 1974 when a draft agreement was almost ready when the late Jagjeevan Ram was the federal irrigation minister. The agreement, which also provided for setting up of a Cauvery Valley Authority, fell through for want of ratification as the subsequent government in Tamil Nadu rejected it on the ground that it was evolved during the president rule in the state. The 802-km-long river, which takes birth at Talacauvery in Kodagu district in Karnataka and traverse mainly through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has been the bone of contention between the two states for well over a century now. The issue reached a crucial phase in 1990 when a three-member tribunal was set up by the federal government headed by V P Singh after Tamil Nadu reported failure of talks. The tribunal gave its interim award after Tamil Nadu approached it but the same was questioned by Karnataka. Both the Congress government and the subsequent Janata Dal government headed by H D Deve Gowda in Karnataka, however, released water on "humanitarian With the change of the federal government after the Lok Sabha elections, Justice Chittatosh Mukkherjee resigned as chairman of the tribunal. Earlier the Supreme Court, while dealing with a petition filed by Tamil Nadu directed the two states to settle the issue through talks exhibiting a sense of statesmanship. The Cauvery dispute was first referred to an arbitrator in 1910. The then Madras government had objected to the Kannambadi reservoir being built to its envisaged capacity of 41.5 TMCFT. Sir H D Griffins was appointed as arbitrator and he began his proceedings in July 1913 and gave his award the next year. The Madras government had then raised objections under 1892 agreement on the ground that under the agreement no irrigation project could be taken up without its consent. Though the objection was overruled, it was later suspended following an appeal by Madras to the secretary of state for India. Then negotiations began between the two parties and the now contentious agreement was signed in February 1924. A dispute again arose within five years over interpretation of a clause and the issue again went for arbitration. However both the parties settled the dispute outside the court. The 1924 agreement has been the bone of contention still between the two states. While Tamil Nadu contended that the 50-year agreement provided only for extension in 1974 and was still valid, Karantaka wanted a Denovo approach on the ground that the agreement was between two unequal partners as it involved the then princely state of Mysore and the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The dispute was again taken to the Supreme Court when Karnataka began construction of dams across Hemavati and Harangi. It was then Tamil Nadu demanded a tribunal for the first time and suspension of work on these reservoirs. Following Tamil Nadu's protests, Karnataka had to fund the projects under the non-plan head and this caused a heavy strain on its Several meetings between the two states in the Eighties to find an amicable solution to the problem proved futile as there was no meeting ground between the two. In February 1990, the Supreme Court, while hearing a petition on the issue, directed the two states to complete negotiations before April 24. As subsequent meetings between chief ministers of the two states did not yield any result, the federal government told the Supreme Court to decide on the dispute. The Supreme Court told the federal government to constitute a tribunal and it was done in June 1990.

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December 7, 2012 Nobody Is Perfect: Study Shows People Have 400 Genetic Flaws In DNA Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Perfection is something that all humans strive for at one time or another, be it scoring a perfect 100 on a test, making the perfect soufflé, having the perfect play in basketball, or even landing the perfect job. For others, perfection is a state of well-being–as in being perfectly healthy. While achieving perfect health may be plausible in sense of how one feels, new research shows that, at the genetic level, nobody will ever be perfect. Researchers from the UK have found that, on average, a normal healthy person has no less than 400 potentially damaging DNA variants known to be associated with disease traits. In a study, these researchers also showed that one in 10 people is expected to develop a genetic disease as a result of carrying these variant genes. Scientists have long known that all people carry some harmful genetic variants, but this is the first time researchers have been able to quantify how many variants each person has on average, and also list them. The study authors said this figure is likely to increase as more powerful genetic studies discover rare genetic variants more efficiently. While most of these genetic variants are considered “silent” mutations and do not affect health, the team said they can cause problems as they pass down through generations. Some of the more harmful genetic variants found were linked to cancer and heart disease. Dr. Yali Xue, lead author of the research from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute at Cambridge, said: “For over half a century, medical geneticists have wanted to establish the magnitude of the damage caused by harmful variants in our genomes. Our study finally brings us closer to understanding the extent of these damaging mutations.” The evidence comes from the 1,000 Genomes Pilot Project, which has been mapping normal human genetic differences, from tiny changes in DNA to major mutations. The researchers also gleaned data “from the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), a detailed catalogue of human disease-causing mutations that have been reported in scientific literature,” said Xue. Xue and his colleagues compared the genomes of 179 participants, who were healthy at the time their DNA was sampled, with a database of human mutations compiled at Cardiff University. The research found that along with the 400 average variations, most people also have two DNA changes known to be associated with disease. “Ordinary people carry disease-causing mutations without them having any obvious effect,” said Dr. Chris Tyler-Smith, a lead researcher on the study from Wellcome. “In a population there will be variants that have consequences for their own health.” This research gives insight into the “flaws that make us all different, sometimes with different expertise and different abilities, but also different predispositions in diseases,” study coauthor Prof. David Cooper of Cardiff, said in an interview with the BBC´s Helen Briggs. “Not all human genomes have perfect sequences,” he said in the interview. “The human genome is packed with pervasive, architectural flaws.” "In the majority of people we found to have a potential disease-causing mutation, the genetic condition is actually quite mild, or would only become apparent in the later decades of life," Cooper said in a separate statement. "We now know that normal healthy people can possess many damaged or even completely inactivated proteins without any noticeable impact on their health. It is extremely difficult to predict the clinical consequences of a given genetic variant, but databases such as HGMD promise to come into their own as we enter the new era of personalized medicine." The work to catalog disease-causing variants has been ongoing for more than two decades, yet the work is still far from complete. Disease variants are extremely rare for the most part and comprehensive searches for such mutations have so far only scratched the surface. But as DNA sequencing becomes more common in humans, geneticists must determine ethical ways to go about handling sensitive data. For this latest study, researchers anonymized the samples so as not to offer participants any information as to whether or not they may be at risk for a particular genetic disorder. Tyler-Smith said currently there is no clear answer for what is ethical and what is not when it comes to sharing genetic variation data and potential incidental findings with volunteers in their study. "All of our genomes contain flaws; some of us will carry deleterious variants but will not be at risk of acquiring the associated disease for one reason or another. For others, there will be health consequences, and early warning could be useful, but might still come as an unwelcome surprise to the participant," he concluded. This study is published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

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Safety & Wellness People, Innovation through Collaboration, Vision, Outstanding Results, Team |“The City of Richmond offers a positive work environment, where individuals are encouraged and supported in reaching their true potential; there are many opportunities for advancement and personal growth.” Occupational Health and Safety Employee health and safety is vital to the combined well-being of our staff, our citizens, and our business. We closely observe all Occupational Health and Safety legislation in order to prevent injury and maintain a healthy environment throughout our worksites. Managers, unions and employees work together to ensure that health and safety are top priorities in day-to-day operations. We value the effort put forward by our employees and recognize that each of their contributions enables us to achieve our goals and meet the high standards of service our community expects and deserves. Recognizing this, the City is dedicated to providing employees with the resources and conditions necessary to assist in maintaining regular attendance. The City's Attendance Awareness Program uses a conversation-led approach to manage attendance positively, proactively and consistently, by promoting awareness and effectively communicating standards and expectations. Corporate Wellness Program The City of Richmond’s award-winning Wellness Program is designed to capture the spirit of our organization and inspire our workforce by working to protect and enhance employee health. Through a supportive partnership between management and staff, employees are encouraged to participate in a myriad of wellness opportunities. Our mission: To promote and provide wellness programs that are accessible to all staff members in a supportive and enjoyable manner through encouragement, education, and social opportunities. Some Wellness Program offerings include: - Comprehensive, fully-equipped Fitness Centre at City Hall - Social opportunities such as the Warm Up to 2010 Staff Challenge and the Christmas Lights Tour - Outdoor adventures including kayaking, hiking, and bike tours - Annual Flu Clinic (costs covered by the City) - Health Education Workshops and Health Fairs “The whole philosophy of the Wellness Program is to provide employees with opportunities to develop a wellness tool kit and connect them with information to improve their quality of life on and off the job in a fun and supportive environment. We provide team building, lunch workshops, and fun activities to support the fun side of wellness.”

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Phyllis Schlafly Claims Title IX Damaged US Performance at the Olympics One of the main stories to come out of the 2012 London Olympics was the outright dominance of American female athletes, another sign of the success of the Title IX, which barred discrimination between men’s and women’s educational programs and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. But Title IX has always provoked the ire of Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum. In a radio alert today, Schlafly claims Title IX in fact “weakened our competitiveness” at the Olympics. The US won 104 medals in London (58 for women and 45 for men), which Schlafly believes shows that male athletes suffered a severe injustice. “Feminist-imposed gender quotas hurt us at the Olympics in events which our Nation once dominated,” Schlafly claims, “While our Nation won the most medals for the fifth consecutive Summer Olympics, many of our medals were in contests of dubious value like beach volleyball. Title IX quotas have hurt our competitiveness in sports that are most helpful to the development of our young men.” Schlafly points to the US failure to win medals in wrestling as a sign of Title IX’s allegedly disastrous impact; however, throughout Olympic history the US has never dominated wrestling in the Olympics” And while Schlafly believes that the policy wreaked havoc on male collegiate sports, female athletes and women’s teams still receive significantly less financial support compared to their male peers. Feminist-imposed gender quotas hurt us at the Olympics in events which our Nation once dominated. The systematic elimination of certain men’s sports from colleges has weakened our competitiveness. We won only four medals in all of men’s wrestling, less than half the total won by Iran, and only a fraction of the medals won by Russia in this masculine sport. Wrestling is an immensely popular and valuable sport; it’s inexpensive and safer than other sports. Wrestling develops discipline in boys. Many high-achievers, such as Donald Rumsfeld and pro-life attorney Phill Kline, developed their toughness as wrestlers. But although tens of thousands of high schools have thriving wrestling programs for boys, at the college level Title IX gender quotas have cancelled wrestling at all but a fraction of colleges. Many hundreds of successful college men’s wrestling programs have been eliminated, not for financial reasons, but due to Title IX gender quotas. These quotas typically require that the percentage of men and women in intercollegiate sports at a college equal the percentage of men and women enrolled as students, even though many colleges have become 60% women and only 40% men. Other men’s sports have also been hurt by this feminist quota, such as swimming and track. Private swimming clubs and a few aging stars like Michael Phelps filled that gap this time, but we nearly struck out in men’s track in the marquee events of 100, 200, 400 and 800 meters, events the Americans historically dominated. While our Nation won the most medals for the fifth consecutive Summer Olympics, many of our medals were in contests of dubious value like beach volleyball. Title IX quotas have hurt our competitiveness in sports that are most helpful to the development of our young men. Share this post Kim Davis' Lawyer Says She's Just Like A Jew Living In Nazi Germany 9/3/15 @ 1:55pm Anti-Gay Kentucky Clerk Defies Court For Third Time, Appeals To SCOTUS 8/27/15 @ 11:00am Kentucky Clerk Says He May Die Fighting Gay Marriage 8/26/15 @ 1:00pm Kentucky Clerk: It's My Job To Tell Gays They're Going To Hell 8/26/15 @ 1:20pm Liberty Law School Dean: Government Doesn't Have Authority To Impose Unbiblical Laws 8/26/15 @ 12:40pm

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Two local bankers have made a deposit of their own to the University of Rochester's Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!). Local representatives from JP Morgan Chase presented Office of Special Programs Director Gayle Jagel and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering Richard Feldman with a $5,000 donation on behalf of the company's local branches. Chase Bank also supports the YEA! program by providing its students with fee-free accounts and checking. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy is a yearlong academic program that teaches students how to launch and run their own businesses. Through YEA, students are taught to transform their ideas into enterprises that create economic and social value for a better world. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) guides students in grades 6-12 through the process of starting a real business: developing business plans, pitching an investor panel, obtaining funding, launching the venture, managing media campaigns, developing websites, planning sales events, and sttending trade shows. The end result of the YEA! program, unlike other simulation models, is a fully formed and functioning business, which is carried on by students after graduation. The program is offered in New York State at the University of Rochester with the support of a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at the State University of New York at Geneseo with support from the Finger Lakes WIRED initiative. For more information about the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, please call 585.275.6902 or visit www.rochester.edu/osp.

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Ever wondered what happens when you drink alcohol? Having a glass of wine is good for your health; alcohol is toxic to the body and is a serious health risk. We hear these conflicting messages all the time. Which is true? Is the alcohol in wine different from the alcohol that is toxic to the body? The answer to the latter is no. The alcohol found in alcoholic beverages is ethyl alcohol. It is different from rubbing alcohol (isopropyl), methanol — an ingredient in many glass cleaners — and ethylene glycol, found in antifreeze used in vehicles, all of which are highly poisonous. Ethyl alcohol is the result of fermenting food — most commonly grains or grapes. While it is derived from food, you wont find it on a nutrition food chart because it is not deemed essential for our diet. There is no disease or unhealthy state that results if alcohol is not consumed. In fact, technically it is a drug. It is a depressant and a diuretic. So what happens to the body when you have a drink? First of all its important to understand how quickly the body absorbs alcohol. Food and other non-alcoholic beverages require time to digest, but alcohol can be absorbed directly across the walls of an empty stomach and reach the brain within one minute. About 20 percent of it is absorbed into the blood directly from your stomach; a further 80 percent is absorbed from the small intestine. It inhibits a neurotransmitter in the brain, which affects the central nervous system. Normally the CNS receives sensory information from your bodys organs. It analyses the information and gives an appropriate response. This may be, for example, to contract or relax a muscle. Alcohol interrupts the flow of this information slowing it down and, if sufficient is consumed, a complete breakdown in communication between the brain and some of its organs can take place. This is what is happening when someone is intoxicated. The CNS cannot properly analyse sensory information. Messages telling the brain information like the distance of an object, how to form a word, the surrounding temperature etcetera are distorted. This results in the hallmark symptoms of drunkenness — blurred vision, slurred speech, loss of balance, heavy sweating and dulling of pain. Alcohol also stops the production of the hormone that controls fluid loss. This is why you urinate so much when you drink alcohol. But this causes you to become dehydrated. In fact its the dehydration that is the main reason you get a hangover. The dizziness, throbbing headache, excessive thirst, pale pallor and tremors are a result of lack of fluid in the body. Alcohol also affects the frontal cortex of the brain. This area of the brain is responsible for conscious thought and is the reason those intoxicated with alcohol often lose their inhibitions. Loss of balance often occurs because alcohol affects the cerebellum. This part of the brain not only controls balance but also coordination and eye movements. For this reason, high alcohol consumption can interfere with the perception of distance and height and cause dizziness. Only five percent of the alcohol consumed is excreted in urine. Another five percent is lost in the breath (the reason breathalysers work). The vast majority has to be broken down by the liver. But the liver can only break down very small amounts of alcohol at a time. A shot of rum, for example, will take the liver about an hour to metabolise. If youve got more than this in your body the excess will circulate in the blood until the liver can process it. At the same time that the alcohol is having its depressive effect on the CNS, the body also responds to its high sugar content. The pancreas produces more insulin to metabolise the sugar. This process continues until all the sugar is gone, leaving the body glucose-deficient. This is the reason heavy sweating, shakiness, dizziness, blurred vision and tiredness often occur when someone has been drinking alcohol. Its also the reason many feel hungry after theyve been drinking. The body, in an effort to get some energy, often craves carbohydrates. Many intoxicated by alcohol tend to crash, that is they fall into a deep sleep where they snore. But research has shown that this type of sleep is not as deep and relaxing as it looks. Alcohol interferes with natural sleeping rhythms, so that the person is not getting a good quality sleep. Often the person awakes not feeling rested. Alcohol relaxes muscles in the back of the mouth which causes snoring. This snoring often contributes to a lack of restful sleep. The Day After Depending on the amount of alcohol consumed, the liver may still be hard at work the next day — breaking down alcohol thats still in the system. Ethyl alcohol, while not as poisonous as antifreeze, glass cleaners and rubbing alcohol, is toxic and can irritate the lining of the stomach causing retching and vomiting. Alcohol can also irritate the lining of the oesophagus causing inflammation and heartburn. Alcohol consumption causes more frequent urination and the loss of fluids causes the amount of minerals in the body to become unbalanced. In particular potassium, sodium and calcium move from their norm resulting in thirst, muscle cramps, feeling faint and dizziness. The dehydration also impacts the livers ability to rinse out toxins, forcing it to divert water from other organs including the brain. This is often the reason for the throbbing headaches the day after. And the situation gets worse. In breaking down alcohol, the liver produces acetaldehyde, a substance toxic to the liver, the brain and stomach lining. Its production often causes severe headache, heartburn, nausea and vomiting. The good news is that the body does produce enzymes that attack acetaldehyde. The amount of alcohol consumed will impact the speed at which these enzymes can annihilate the toxin, and return the body to feeling okay again. So if you overdo it, expect to feel unwell for a good portion of the day after. Next month well look at the health benefits of a glass of wine. Former missionaries launch jet carwash Genuine concern at cost of childcare Fahy: OBA will fulfil 2,000 jobs promise Tributes paid to Gombey ‘giant’ Darrell Man jailed for attempted drug smuggling I never meant to kill teen — murder accused Let’s fix hole under road leading to dock I am what you’re looking for, says Epps Take Our Poll

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Cushing's Syndrome (cont.) In this Article - Cushing's syndrome facts* - What is Cushing's syndrome? - What are the symptoms of Cushing's syndrome? - What causes Cushing's syndrome? - How is Cushing's syndrome diagnosed? - How is Cushing's syndrome treated? - What research is being done on Cushing's syndrome? - For more information - Find a local Endocrinologist in your town What research is being done on Cushing's syndrome? The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the biomedical research component of the Federal Government. It is one of the health agencies of the Public Health Service, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Several components of the NIH conduct and support research on Cushing's syndrome and other disorders of the endocrine system, including the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). NIH-supported scientists are conducting intensive research into the normal and abnormal function of the major endocrine glands and the many hormones of the endocrine system. Identification of the corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), which instructs the pituitary gland to release ACTH, enabled researchers to develop the CRH stimulation test, which is increasingly being used to identify the cause of Cushing's syndrome. Improved techniques for measuring ACTH permit distinction of ACTH-dependent forms of Cushing's syndrome from adrenal tumors. NIH studies have shown that petrosal sinus sampling is a very accurate test to diagnose the cause of Cushing's syndrome in those who have excess ACTH production. The recently described dexamethasone suppression-CRH test is able to differentiate most cases of Cushing's from Pseudo Cushing's. As a result of this research, doctors are much better able to diagnose Cushing's syndrome and distinguish among the causes of this disorder. Since accurate diagnosis is still a problem for some patients, new tests are under study to further refine the diagnostic process. Many studies are underway to understand the causes of formation of benign endocrine tumors, such as those which cause most cases of Cushing's syndrome. In a few pituitary adenomas, specific gene defects have been identified and may provide important clues to understanding tumor formation. Endocrine factors may also play a role. There is increasing evidence that tumor formation is a multi-step process. Understanding the basis of Cushing's syndrome will yield new approaches to therapy. NIH supports research related to Cushing's syndrome at medical centers throughout the United States. Scientists are also treating patients with Cushing's syndrome at the NIH Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Physicians who are interested in referring a patient may contact Dr. George P. Chrousos, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, Building 10, Room 10N262, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, telephone 301-496-4686. Next: For more information Find out what women really need.

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Spain: Cuba erred in expelling politician MADRID Spain's foreign minister criticized Cuba on Tuesday for denying entry to a Spanish politician who has promoted ties with opposition figures on the Caribbean island. But Miguel Angel Moratinos said such snags were to be expected as Madrid and the rest of Europe nudge Havana's government toward reform. Moratinos said Spain wants to use its turn as EU president, which began on Jan. 1, to improve relations with Cuba and encourage dialogue to move the country toward improved respect for human rights and democracy. The politician who was not allowed to enter Cuba, European Parliament member Luis Yanez, is known to be critical of the Cuban government, but this does not justify Havana's decision, Moratinos said. Cuban authorities held him and his wife at the airport upon arriving in Havana and sent them on the first plane back to Spain on Monday. "This is not good news. I think the Cubans made a mistake with this expulsion," Moratinos told reporters. "But a relationship with Cuba is not a thing of just a day or two. It is a relationship that needs strategic depth and time to advance," the minister said. The Cuban ambassador to Madrid was summoned to the Foreign Ministry Tuesday to explain the expulsion. Cuban ambassador Alejandro Gonzalez Galiano explained that the decision stemmed from "application of Cuban domestic laws," the foreign ministry said in a three-paragraph statement after the meeting. It did not elaborate. Spain told him it condemned the expulsion and expressed hope such incidents do not happen again, saying "they do not help the development of relations between the two countries," the statement said. Yanez has promoted contacts between European socialists and democratic Cuban dissidents as president of a group called Cuba-Europe in Progress. Spanish news reports said Yanez was denied a visa to enter Cuba in 2008 when he was invited to attend a meeting of the Progressive Arc dissident group. Yanez served as the Spanish government's top official for Latin America when Felipe Gonzalez was prime minister in the 1980s and 90s. Cuba-Europe in Progress's Web site has posted a column Yanez wrote in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2007 decrying "the disappearance of the most minimal freedom of expression and of artistic creation" in Cuba, as well as the jailing of dissidents. Yanez told a news conference in Seville on Tuesday that he and his wife had traveled to Cuba as private citizens, but that he had in fact planned to meet with pro-democracy figures during his stay. Moratinos said that during its EU presidency, Spain will urge the bloc to move away from its "common position" on Cuba. That dates from 1996 and makes improved ties contingent on better respect for human rights and democratic reforms. The policy has not yielded much, and instead the EU should now take a more active approach that might open up a process of dialogue and elicit firm commitments from Cuba, Moratinos said. The EU imposed diplomatic sanctions, including a ban on political and other consultations, against Cuba in 2003 after the arrests of dozens of dissidents. The sanctions were suspended in 2005, but not lifted, and relations between the EU and Cuba have remained touchy. The Associated Press

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By Jeanne Sager NEVERSINK December 3, 2002 Everybody knows the story of Linus and his blanket. The loveable Peanuts character carried his blue blankey everywhere, and if it were in the wash or lost, Linus acted as though it was the end of the world. As far as Ann Bivins is concerned, theres a little bit of Linus in every kid. Whether they call it their binky, their blankey or some other pet name, most young children have a blanket that gives them comfort when theyre sick or scared. Its a familiar object in an unfamiliar place, the Neversink resident explained. Its a soft, squishy hug when they have nothing else. But some kids dont have their trusty blanket at their sides at all times. Some children are in hospital beds alone, struggling against a phantom disease with only nurses and doctors as company. Some children are the victims of abuse or involved in accidents that leave them scared and alone. Thats where Bivins comes in. She just got her charter from Project Linus, a national program which puts handmade quilts and security blankets in the arms of the children who need them. The non-profit group has chapters across the country, and as of last month, theres even one in Sullivan County. Bivins began work with Project Linus in Orange County last year. A former 4-H leader, Bivins was beginning to feel out of touch with community projects since her children and the kids she watched grow up in the program had moved away, married, and had children of their own. I missed the involvement, she explained. As your life changes, your way of giving back changes. With my own children, I remember if they were sick or scared, there was always one thing I could give them that would make them feel better their blanket. And everybody knows about Linus and his security blanket and how he carried it everywhere. After talking with Julia Sullivan, head of Project Linus in Orange County, Bivins learned she could start her own project at home, pulling volunteers from the Sullivan County community to help make blankets. Shes already gotten donations of yarn and some offers to join the project, but Bivins is still looking for a place to hold regular meetings somewhere centrally located so folks from across the county can attend. And shes working with different area agencies to find ways to hand out the blankets. Bivins hopes the NYS Police and the Sullivan County Sheriffs Department can put a few blankets in their trunks to offer to children at accident scenes. And as the wife of a volunteer firefighter (her husband Ken is a member of the Grahamsville department), Bivins hopes to set up a working relationship with local departments to offer blankets to children who are fire victims. Bivins is also looking for other interested agencies to take blankets for distribution, including the local hospitals and the Red Cross. Theres just a million places for these blankets to go, she noted. Her first memory of working with Project Linus in Orange County was a visit to the pediatric ward at Horton Memorial Hospital. When they stepped out of the elevators, arms full of quilts, the nurses all gathered around to see what the blanket ladies had to offer. The staff quickly grabbed the best of the lot to give to their special children, and Bivins snuck off to take a peek in the patients rooms. The kids were so excited, she recalled. The kids who had no visitors or no stuffed animal had something of their own. Theres no price on that, Bivins added. Theres a lot of really worthy causes, but this is different. It has a more personal touch. The children are each told that this new blanket is theirs to keep Project Linus does not recall any of their quilts. To get involved in the project, call Ann Bivins at 985-7972. Currently Project Linus of Sullivan County is seeking a meeting place and any donations that people can muster up. Volunteers are welcome.

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How George Washington Saved the Day Author Jim Murphy brings the American Revolution to life - Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Until a 7th grade history teacher sparked his interest, author Jim Murphy says he was a terrible student. "Because of her, I became instantly fascinated by the many secrets that history holds," says the author of The Crossing, a fascinating retelling of how George Washington saved the American Revolution. Now a two-time winner of the prestigious Newbery Award Honor Book and Sibert Award, Murphy has written books about yellow fever in Philadelphia (The American Plague), the fire that leveled Chicago (The Great Fire), and a blizzard that reshaped the east coast (Blizzard!) To choose a subject, Murphy first reads. While reading a book, he makes it a point to take notes. "I am a big reader," he said, "Whichever timeframe catches my attention I will write it down until eventually I have about 10 to 15 ideas that fit that era." It is much harder to write nonfiction, he says, but he enjoys the challenge. "For nonfiction, you have to make sure each fact is exactly what happened," he said. "For example, if I say it was a cloudy and rainy day in my nonfiction book, it has to actually have been a cloudy and rainy day. In fiction, I can make up things like the weather." Murphy prefers writing fiction because he likes to create the story. "When I'm writing fiction," explained Murphy, "I can create more of a theme than in nonfiction." As for his inspiration for The Crossing, Murphy says that he found that textbooks always depicted George Washington as being a perfect guy and a hero. "I wanted to show him as a real human being that learned from his mistakes," said Murphy, "[He was] someone who wasn't waited on hand and foot." His main goal as an author is to make each book a little bit better than the one before. He says he is always looking for ways he could improve his stories. He also offered some good advice for budding young writers who want to follow in his footsteps. "Kids who want to become authors should read as much as they can," he said. "And they should always get information about things they don't know. The next thing to do is sit down and WRITE! Practice writing every day and eventually it will work. The mission should always be to get better." Check out Kid Reporter Viveca Riley's review of The Crossing! Do you need help picking out what book to read next? Find out what Kid Reporters are saying about all the latest books by reading their book reviews in this special report. NEWS FOR KIDS, BY KIDS Get the latest on national and international events, movies, television, music, sports, and more from the Scholastic Kids Press Corps.

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Services on Demand On-line version ISSN 1678-8052 YAMAMOTO, Pedro T. et al. Population fluctuation of sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in young citrus groves. Neotrop. Entomol. [online]. 2001, vol.30, n.1, pp. 175-177. ISSN 1678-8052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-566X2001000100027. The purpose of this research was to study the population fluctuation of sharpshooters in young citrus groves. The sharpshooters population was monitored using yellow stick traps. The most abundant species was Bucephalogonia xanthophis (Berg). Low populations of Acrogonia sp., Dilobopterus costalimai Young and Oncometopia facialis (Signoret) were detected throughout the trial. Keywords : Insecta; Citrus sinensis; yellow stick trap.

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versión impresa ISSN 0716-0720 Parasitol. día v.22 n.1-2 Santiago ene. 1998 TRABAJO DE INVESTIGACION PREVALENCE OF Rhipicephalus sanguineus INFESTATION IN DOGS IN CUERNAVACA, MORELOS, MEXICO CARLOS CRUZ VAZQUEZ * ZEFERINO GARCIA VAZQUEZ ** y MANUEL MORALES SOTO ** The study was conducted in the urban municipality of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. From two private veterinary clinics a sample of 1742 dogs during a three year period (1993-1995) were examined to detect the presence of Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks in any parasitic stage, collecting and identifying the ticks found. The prevalence rates were calculated by month and year and their distribution by age and gender. Chi square tests were used to compare proportions of positive and negative dogs to tick infestation. The prevalence of dog infestation with R. sanguineus was 20% in the period studied and there was no significant difference (P 0.05) between years. Tick specimens were collected throughout the years of the study. The climatic conditions in the study area and the continuous presence of the host favoured the parasite life cycle and 2.5 generations were estimated for each year. There were no significant differences (P 0.05) in the presence of R. sanguineus infestation in dogs by dog age, gender or by year. The main factors influencing the dog tick infestation in this study were probably due to the domestic life habits and the environment of the dogs studied. Key words: Tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, prevalence, dogs. * Instituto Tecnológico Agropecuario N° 20. (D.G.E.T.A. S.E.P.).Apdo. Postal 1439, C. Camionera. CP. 20270. Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México. ** Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Av. Universidad 1001. CP. 62210. Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus , is the most cosmopolitan tick species and is found in all continents between 50° N and 35° S; in the Americas it is present from Canada to Argentina. Its specific-host is the dog, but it can also infest other domestic and wild species and even the human beings.1, 2 R. sanguineus is an efficient vector of Ehrlichia canis and Babesia canis, the causative agents of canine ehrlichiosis and canine babesiosis respectively.3, 4 In humans it is the confirmed vector of many diseases, such as Rocky Mountain Spotted fever.1 In Mexico, R. sanguineus is present, widely distributed and in some places the dogs have heavy infestations of this tick and are a constant nuisance to the owner; Despite its frequency, little is known about its epidemiology in the dog in Mexico. The objective of the present study was to describe the prevalence of the infestation with R. sanguineus in dogs in the urban municipality of Cuernavaca, in Morelos State, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study site: The municipality of Cuernavaca is the urban capital of the State of Morelos, located in the central part of Mexico; an altitude of 1560 m above sea level, annual mean precipitation of 1200 mm with rainfall in summer and a subtropical climate. Dogs: From two private small animal veterinary clinics sample of 1742 dogs during a three year period were examined by the senior author, from january 1993 to december 1995, for a six hours period once a week, all dogs were examined thoroughly to detect the presence of ticks. Dogs were presented to the clinics for a variety of reasons, including various infectious as well as non infectious diseases, traumatic injuries, grooming and health certification. The dogs in the study were of different ages and gender from the urban area and all were pets with owners that could be identified. Information of each examined dog on age (determined by questioning the owner and examining the dentition) and gender was recorded; Three categories were made regarding age, £ 2 year-old, 2 to 4 year-old and more than 4 year-old respectively. Specimen collection: Tick specimens were obtained from each positive dog. The dog was examined beginning from the head, followed by the neck, dorsum, trunk, limbs and tail and all ticks stages were collected in a glass vial containing alcohol (70%) for later identification. The tick specimens were taken to the laboratory and taxonomic identification was carried out by the senior author.5 Statistical analysis: The Chi-square test was used to compare proportions of positive and negative tick infested dogs according to age and gender and between years in these variables. A P value of £ 0.05 was considered significant. From the 1,742 dogs examined the overall prevalence of dog infestation with R. sanguineus was 20 %. The annual prevalence is shown in Table 1. There was no statistical significant difference (P 0.05) in the prevalences among years. The higher prevalence rates were found from march to august and in october and november, 20% or more. The lower prevalence rates were recorded from december to february and in september, 17% or less (Table 2). Dogs 2-4 years old, showed the highest prevalence of tick infestation with R. sanguineus, 29% and dogs <2 years old the lowest 17% (Table 3). There was no statistical significant difference (P 0.05) between years and age groups, or years and gender variable (Table 4). Tick specimens were collected throughout the year during the study.: adult stage from december to february and from may to september, nymph stage from march to july and november, and larvae stage in march, june and october. The three stages were found in june, larvae and nymph stages in march and adult and nymph stages in july. R. sanguineus is widely distributed in the world, and it is very important the presence of the specific-host, the dog, for understanding its distribution Thus tick can be peri or intra-household because of the dog's domestic life habits.1, 6 In the study, R. sanguineus ticks were found along the year during the three years. The differents ticks stages were present in strategical times, perpetuating its life cycle. The prevalence rates were high throughout the year and the peaks were found in april, july and november, the lower prevalence were 12.76% in january (winter season). The climatic conditions in the study area and the continuous presence of the host favoured the parasite development along the year, calculating 2.5 tick generations per year. In general our observations in prevalence study are similars with other studies carried out by other authors in different climatic conditions. In those studies the peak population of ticks were always related with climatic conditions in the area studied.7-10 The different variables considered in this study such as age and gender were not associated with the presence of R. sanguineus infestation in dogs. The main factors influence the dog tick infestation in this study were probably due to the domestic life habits of the dogs studied, since most of them visit public gardens or live they in private or common houses with gardens, which increases the possibility of contact with the ectoparasite 6. Adults dogs, more than 2 years old, showed higher tick infestations than young dogs (<2 years old) which have less opportunity of visiting public gardens and the owners probably give them more attention to them than to adult dogs. The high prevalence observed in all ages confirms previous report that dogs do not develop resistance to tick infestation by R. sanguineus even if they have continuous reinfestation.11 This study showed the general characteristics of the tick infestation in dogs by R. sanguineus, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. However, it is necessary to analize the tick seasonal fluctuations in the dogs and its relation with the dog enviroment with the object of designing an integrated control program of this important ectoparasite in veterinary and human health. El presente estudio se realizó en el área urbana de la Cd. de Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. Durante un periodo de 3 años (1992-1995), una muestra de 1742 perros de dos clínicas veterinarias, fueron examinados para detectar la presencia de garrapatas Rhipicephalus sanguineus en cualquier estado parásito, éstas fueron colectadas e identificadas. Las tasas de prevalencia fueron calculadas por mes y año y se distribuyeron por edad y sexo. La prueba de Chi cuadrada (p < 0.05) se utilizó para comparar las proporciones de perros positivos y negativos a la infestación. En el periodo, la prevalencia a la infestación fue del 20%, no existiendo diferencias entre años (P 0.05); se colectaron especímenes durante todo el periodo de estudio. Las condiciones climáticas del área y la presencia continua del huesped favoreció el ciclo de vida del parásito, calculando 2.5 generaciones por año. No existieron diferencias (p 0.05) entre edad y sexo o año. En este estudio, los factores que probablemente mas influenciaron la prevalencia fueron los hábitos de vida doméstica y el medio ambiente en que viven los perros. 1.- HARWOOD R F, JAMES M T. Entomology in Human and Animal Health, p. 429-448. 7th. ed. McMillan Publ. Co. USA, 1979. [ Links ]2.- PERGRAM R G, CLIFFORD C M, WALKER J B, KEIRANS J E. Clarification of the Rhipicephalus sanguineus group (Acari, Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). II. R. sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) and related species. Syst. Parasitol. 10:27-44, 1987. 3.- EWING S A. Canine ehrlichiosis. Adv. Vet. Sci. Comp. Med. 13:331-353, 1969. [ Links ]4.- SHORTT H E. Babesia canis: The life cycle and laboratory maintenance in its arthropod and mammalian hosts. Int. J. Parasitol. 3:119-148, 1973. 5.- KRANTZ G W. A Manual of Acarology. P. 218-223. 2th. ed. Oregon State University Book Store, Inc. USA. p. 218-223, 1978. [ Links ]6.- GILOT B, LAFORGE M L, CABASSU J P, ROMANI M. Elements pour la cartographie écologique des populations de Rhipicephalus du groupe sanguineus (Acariens,Ixodoidea) dans l'agglomération Marseillaise, en relation avec les diverses formes d'urbanisation. Acarologia 33:17-33, 1992. 7.- RIVOSECCHI L, KHOURY C, LEZZERINI C, DELL'UOMO G. Osservazioni su Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Ixodidae) nella periferia di Roma. Riv. Parasitol. 41:273-276, 1980. [ Links ]8.- KOCH H G. Oviposition of the brown dog tick (Acari:Ixodidae) in the laboratory. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 75:583-586. 1982. 9.- GILOT B. Biologie et écologie de Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) (Acariens,Ixodoidea) dans le sud-est de la France. Intéret dans l'épidémiologie de la fievre boutonneuse (premiere partie). Sci. Vet. Med. Comp. 86:25-33, 1984. [ Links ]10.- PRINCIPATO M, DI-GIUSEPPE S, CAMERLENGO L, LIOTTIER B. Etude préliminaire sur la distribution saisonniere de certains ixodidae (Acarina, Ixodoidea) d'intéret sanitaire dans la province de Perouse (Italie Centrale). Bull. Soc. Franc. Parasitol. 7:269-276, 1989. 11.- BECHARA G H, SZABO M P J, MUKAI L S, ROSA P C S. Immunisation of dogs, hamster and guinea pigs against Rhipicephalus sanguineus using crude adult tick extracts. Vet. Parasitol. 52:79-90. 1994. [ Links ] Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thanks D.V.M's Magdalena Parada and Eduardo Castro for allowing acces to their patients.

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WITH independence we can continue our already proud tradition in education and adapt to help create a fairer society, writes Mike Danson Pursuing freedom from Beveridge’s “five great evils of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, disease” was at the core of the post-war consensus across the UK. The welfare state was introduced to fight these evils and, though not without its faults, the progressive dismantling of the protection it presented is now a critical element in the independence debate. Scottish control over education – the specific counter to “Ignorance” – was protected by the Act of Union but independence offers us the opportunity to uphold both traditional values and to ensure that massive budget cuts threatened by the Treasury in Westminster do not undermine our capacity to invest in our children, young people and lifelong learning. With the objective of raising achievement while preserving an egalitarian ideal, what should a progressive education system look like? First it should be supporting people and families in education and learning throughout life. Following the practice in the best-performing societies and economies, comprehensive and affordable childcare and nursery provision are essential in laying the basis for all to progress and for wider equalities to be pursued. Scotland will be a more successful and fulfilled nation only if all are allowed to be all they can be, regardless of gender, ethnicity, class, caring responsibility or disability, and investment in these early years are absolutely vital. Based on his lifetime experience, Brian Boyd, Emeritus professor of education at the University of Strathclyde, has praised the progress made by the Scottish education system over the last century, while recognising its faults. He has argued for a comprehensive system with the highest expectations of all children, taught by the best teachers with a mission to educate the whole child in a system not dominated by formal exams. That contrasts with the approach south of the Border and suggests a reappraisal of the strengths, aims and players of our schools and education and training. That does not imply further changes at all levels but rather a period of allowing the Curriculum for Excellence to develop, for Scotland’s good industrial relations and high skill levels of its teaching staff and university expertise to be applied, and for facilities and other resources to be used to best effect. Where there are issues to address, these must focus on closing the gaps that exist in the aspirations and environments in some areas. That will require a real step change in performance: learning from past mistakes and successes, learning from elsewhere. Wider and deeper changes in the Scottish economy and society will be integral to, dependent on and generating these progressive improvements: these are complementary policies and strategies and need addressed holistically. YES POSITION AT-A-GLANCE • Budgets for schools, colleges and universities protected from Osborne’s cuts • Savings from Trident and not paying for Westminster invested in a transformational expansion of free childcare • New powers to tackle inequalities and poverty – the most significant cause of educational inequalities • Free university tuition shows making our own decisions works – and will be protected with a Yes vote Underpinning structural improvements will be the long-established partnership principles that underpin much of what is good in Scotland and which is recognised beyond this country, this contrasts with the competition and conflict that characterises the neo-liberal approach. In this context, it is often the case that the aspects of the Scottish educational infrastructure and institutions that are appreciated around the world are criticised or ignored at home. The OECD, UN, European Commission and others have singled out our leading role and superiority in many dimensions of framing and delivering education, while the problems and weaknesses receive all the attention here. Building on the strengths and addressing the issues should guide future developments. A key objective in the ongoing evolution of the education and training system will be in raising the status and significance of the vocational routes through later years of secondary school and beyond. We already have a further education and modern apprenticeship system that works well but there are still questions over gender and disability obstacles and some skill shortages. Again, developments in post-school need to be undertaken cognisant of and consistent with wider changes in the economy. Promoting enterprise development through the employment of innovative workforces is standard in the Nordic countries, Netherlands and Germany, and modern apprenticeship systems underpin such successes along with more participative practices. Building an economy that offers the prospects of skilled jobs for all school-leavers in a secure and inclusive national strategy has reduced inequalities, directly addressed aspirational and social scepticism, and led to long-term stable prosperity. An industrial strategy that suits the educational and training demands of its citizens has been the foundation of the better performance of our nearest competitors for almost two centuries, and vice versa, and an independent Scotland can pursue our own paths in these areas with promise. Finally, Scotland is a world-leader in higher education in terms of having more top universities and outputs per academic staff than anywhere else on the planet. As a sector it is an outstanding success in preserving Scotland’s distinctive culture, values and attainment. Free university education, very high exam and job market performances, and out-performing neighbours in winning grants from national and international bodies can be enhanced further under independence by protecting Scottish institutions from the deep cuts being introduced in England, by diverting funds from such extravagances as Trident, and by a more welcoming immigration policy for international students. Having such facilities in Scotland offers students, families and returners the opportunity to learn with the best and, with a restructured and vibrant economy, the prospect of graduate-level employment here rather than the exit road to a congested, unfulfilling future. At all levels, independence can change education and training for all for the better, within the UK we are constrained by inequality, an unbalanced economy and uncertainty. • Mike Danson is professor of enterprise policy and director of doctoral programmes SML at Heriot-Watt University

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Hong Kong’s unpopular Beijing-backed leader said he will make it a priority to solve the city’s housing crisis, trying to soothe widespread discontent in his first major policy address since taking office. Leung Chun-ying pledged yesterday to tackle soaring property prices that have left many in the Asian financial centre unable to afford a decent place to live. He also said improving the city’s air quality would be a priority. Those looking to see what Mr Leung would say about plans to introduce full democracy were disappointed by a brief, vague mention about consultations near the end of his speech. Beijing has pledged to allow Hong Kongers to choose their own leader by 2017 at the earliest and all seats in the legislature by 2020. However, no plan has been laid out. Since taking office last July after being handpicked by a committee packed with pro-Beijing tycoons, Mr Leung’s popularity has slid amid personal scandals involving illegal renovations to his luxury home. Protests involving thousands of people calling for Mr Leung to stop down have become common, most recently on New Year’s Day. He also survived an impeachment attempt by assembly members last week.

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Flippin' to a Cure In 2010, Dr. Regina Flippin was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer, an aggressive cancer with little research and one that is three times more likely to affect African American women, and young white and Hispanic women before the age of 40. To raise awareness in the underserved and under represented communities about Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Dr. Flippin founded Flippin to a Cure. On October 20 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Flippin to a Cure will host its first "Rock the Runway event." The organization partnered up with NBC's TV fashion star, Barbara Bates who will design a special collection of clothes in which Breast Cancer survivors will get to "rock the runway." The proceeds from this event will benefit The Breast Cancer Center at Froedtert and The Medical College of Wisconsin. For more information about Flippin to a Cure and the "Rock the Runway" event, visit their website and Facebook page.

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When we're talking about coffee beans, we're actually referring to the little seeds inside coffee berries or cherries. These seeds, eventually roasted into the beans we use for brewing, derive their flavor from an amalgamation of many little factors. It gets a little overwhelming to try and wrap my mind around it. The type of plant, the chemistry of the soil, the altitude of the plantation, the amount of rainfall or sunshine, and the processing of the beans all play into the final little scoop of beans I use on a daily basis. It's complex enough where sometimes even single-origin coffee may vary in terms of flavor. What I've found fascinating are the methods when it comes to processing the cherries. The three primary methods — washed, semi-washed and sun-dried — overlap each other in terms of the regions that use them, but each method has a distinctly different yield at the end of the day. The washed process involves removing the coffee bean from the pulp by slicing it open and popping the bean out. This leaves the coffee bean with a thin, slimy layer called the mucilage (made of natural sugars and alcohols) as its outermost layer. This layer plays a significant role in developing the profile of the coffee. Following that, the mucilage is slowly "washed" away through a fermentation process that could take days or through a specialized demucilaging machine that brushes or strips it away through friction. Generally speaking, washed coffee beans tend to have a cleaner, brighter and milder profile. The semi-washed process, sometimes called pulped natural, removes the beans from the cherry but dries the coffee beans with the mucilage still attached to it. The pulp of the cherry can be removed either through a depulper or through a demucilaging machine, but it has to be sun dried (hence "pulp natural") on a flat surface. If mechanically dried, the mucilage could stick to the wall and damage the equipment, which is why sun drying is used instead. Due to the mucilage being attached to the bean, this gummy state makes the bean very vulnerable to bacteria and mold, making the drying process a tedious one involving constant attention and care. Pulp natural beans primarily result in earthier, slightly more bodied mouthfeel with fruity flavors. The sun-dried method skips all of the previously mentioned work and simply, and I use the word very loosely, dries the entire coffee cherry with the beans intact in it. The berry then becomes its little own closed environment, drying and fermenting into its flavor profile. Expectedly, it takes a great deal of attention as well to constantly rake and turn the beans for it to dry evenly and avoid rot. Sun-dried coffee beans tend to be heavy or syrupy in terms of mouthfeel, full-bodied, with strong exotic flavors and low acidity to round it off. I grew up in Malaysia, which primarily sources Indonesian coffee beans processed using a semi-washed "wet hulling" method, which explains why I gravitate toward coffee with slightly more mouthfeel. In fact, I grew up drinking Penang coffee, which is an entirely different bag of beans when it comes to its flavor profile due to its roasting methods. But I'll save my thoughts on that for a subsequent week. What type of coffee profile do you prefer? Share them with me through Twitter @jkteoh or through email at firstname.lastname@example.org. This is the opinion of Jun-Kai Teoh, digital content producer at the St. Cloud Times.

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Proposals to make worship optional in schools rejected by Peers Peers in the House of Lords have rejected moves to make collective worship in schools optional, rather than compulsory. One of the amendments would have given community schools the freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to hold acts of religious worship. A second amendment would have given pupils the right to withdraw themselves from worship, where it is conducted by the school. A further amendment would have allowed 15 year old or older pupils to withdraw themselves, building on the NSS success in 2006 in introducing sixth form pupils’ self-withdrawal. The amendments were moved by NSS Honorary Associate Lord Avebury during Report Stage of the Education Bill. Moving the amendments, Lord Avebury said: “It is time for the long-standing tradition which no longer reflects the beliefs of more than a tiny fraction of the people to be jettisoned”. Speaking in the Chamber, Lord Avebury set out a formidable list of reasons why requiring schools to conduct a daily act of religious worship is no longer appropriate. Not least of these were numerous references to the high rate of schools’ non-compliance with the law, showing it to be unenforceable and unpopular. Ahead of the debate, copious evidence of this was sent to the Education Minister by the NSS, at the request of the Department for Education. England and Wales are alone among Western democracies in requiring such enforced worship in community schools. The Joint (Parliamentary) Human Rights Committee endorses the proposal to bring down the age of self withdrawal. Lord Avebury said: “By all means continue the valuable tradition that assembly is a time for considering the moral and ethical values of our civilisation. [...] Let us do that in a way that is itself inclusive and not one that requires children and teachers to participate in behaviour that excludes many of them at the beginning of the school day.” Speaking in support of the amendments, Baroness Turner (another NSS honorary associate) said: “The law as it stands is the legacy of a society unrecognisable from the pluralistic Britain today where citizens hold a wide variety of religious beliefs—including no religious belief. This Bill presents an opportunity to reform an outdated and overly prescriptive law. The amendments, which I think are reasonable and moderate, are intended to offer greater freedom and choice in regard to worship in schools.” Opposing the amendments, Baroness Trumpington suggested “it did not matter if pupils were bored, did not like going to chapel or were not interested in religious matters at the age of 15, 16 or perhaps even 17. That daily event gave each pupil a background to which they could return in later life. It was very important to have.” Also opposing the amendments was The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds. He said “We do not want to marginalise worship or spirituality within the life of our schools. [...] When the nation faces a time of crisis or indeed of joy and delight, it tends to do so in terms of prayer. Children need to know what prayer is about, and one of the best ways for that to happen is through the worship that takes place in both church schools and community schools.” In a reminder of why disestablishment remains a key NSS objective, Baroness Butler-Sloss said “It is important that we all remember that the Church of England is the established church of this country. That is why we have the Prayers that we have every day [in Parliament]. It is appropriate that that should be recognised in schools.” The Lord Bishop of Chester suggested the amendments were “tarred with secularist intent.” He did however concede that there is a case for a “cool, considered look at the provisions of collective worship.” He said: “The amendments push too quickly in a particular direction. There is a case for a proper review and full consultation in due course. However, let us not be misled. Collective worship is exactly that: worship appropriate to the collection of people who are present.” Speaking on behalf of the Government, Lord Hill of Oareford made it clear that the Government did not support the amendments. He said “Our starting point is that the requirement is long-standing. It is difficult to dissociate that from the history of the country and the role that the church has played over a long period in individual schools and also collectively in society. “The Government believe that the experience of collective worship makes a contribution to the spiritual and moral development of young people, not just for those who attend religious schools.” Lord Hill made reference to the British Household Survey of 2010 and said “more than 70 per cent of people said that their religion was Christian, and we think it right, therefore, that these values should underpin the ethos of our schools.” Lord Avebury suggested that the Minister, who had completely ignored the evidence, was simply doing as he was told. He urged the Minister to “seek the views of teachers, parents and pupils” and to come back with amendments of his own at Third Reading if he found arguments to reform worship were endorsed by those who are being forced to take part in rituals they do not agree with. Stephen Evans, Campaigns Manager at the National Secular Society said “It is disappointing to hear the Government repeat the same old tired justifications for insisting on a daily act of Christian worship” The amendments were pragmatically drafted not to argue for an end to all worship in schools, simply to allow schools that wish not to hold worship the freedom to choose for themselves. It is perhaps an indication of the influence wielded by the Church of England that the Government weren’t willing or able to make even the smallest concession, in the face of such reasonable amendments.” “The law requiring worship will eventually change; it is just a question of when. It is important that people make their views know to their MPs as it will clearly take a massive groundswell of public opinion to give the Government the backbone to stand up to the Church on this issue” Precise numbers for the vote are not available as the division was voided after three minutes because of a procedural error, but while those supporting Lord Avebury would not have won, there was a gratifying number of supporters in his lobby. Using the arguments in the briefing, please contact your MP to express your objections to compulsory worship in schools.

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, SecurityFocus 2004-02-26 FBI agents arrested a Louisiana man last week for allegedly tricking a handful of MSN TV users into running a malicious e-mail attachment that reprogrammed their set-top boxes to dial 9-1-1 emergency response.According to prosecutors, David Jeansonne, 43, was targeting 18 specific MSN TV users in an online squabble when he crafted the script in July 2002, and sent it out disguised as a tool to change the colors on MSN TV's user interface. Though the code didn't mass-mail itself to others, some of the recipients were sufficiently fooled that they forwarded it to friends, for a total of 21 victims. Known as WebTV before it was acquired by Microsoft, MSN TV works with television set-top boxes to allow users to surf the Web and send and receive e-mail without using a PC. The boxes connect to the Internet through a local dial-up number. The malicious script changed the dial-up to 9-1-1. If a victim didn't go online again after being infected, the box would summon help anyway when it tried to make an automatic daily call to the network at midnight. The code also crossmailed itself to the 18 targeted users, so it would appear in some cases to have come from someone the victim knew. Additionally, it posted victims' browser histories to a particular website, and e-mailed their hardware serial number to the free webmail account "email@example.com." According to an Playing it safe, prosecutors included a second count in the indictment charging Jeansonne with causing over $5,000 in damage. According to court records, the hack resulted in police responding 10 times to false alarms at subscribers' homes, either in person, or by phoning them back. It's unclear what happened to the other 11 calls to 9-1-1. In 2000, the FBI issued a public warning about a Windows virus circulating in the Houston area that similarly phoned for help though victims' modems. Jeansonne appeared in federal court in New Orleans last week and was released on $25,000 bail. Another court appearance is scheduled for Friday. The case is being prosecuted in the San Francisco Bay area, where Microsoft's MSN TV unit is based. A company spokesperson said nobody was available for comment Thursday. Jeansonne could not be reached for comment. Correction: The original version of this story reported that Jeansonne was charged under the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act. In fact, the "threat to public health or safety" language was added to the computer crime law by the 1996 National Information Infrastructure Protection Act. The "cyberterrorism" provisions of USA PATRIOT reorganized that section of the statute without changing its substance. SecurityFocus regrets the error.

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The HTML5 standard being developed for the Web introduces a new set of HTML elements. These include elements such as section, header, footer, article, aside, header, and nav. Mark Pilgrim’s online book, Dive into HTML5 gives us a look at the newest version of HTML5, and shows us how these New Semantic Elements might change around the way that we create web pages in ways that might make it easier for automatic programs like search engines to understand what different sections of pages might mean. Interestingly, the search engines have been working hard trying to do this themselves for a number of years, and a new patent granted to Google today describes how it might work to understand different parts of web pages, and use that understanding to help it rank web pages in search results, caption images, construct snippets for search result pages, and weigh links differently when they appear in different semantic parts of Web pages. Microsoft has published a number of patents and whitepapers on how they might perform some of activities while breaking pages down into smaller blocks. My most recent blog post describing the Microsoft efforts was about a patent filing that gave us some insights into how they determined the Functions of different Blocks in web pages. That post has some links in it to other posts here involving papers and patent filings from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google. But we’ve never seen a full blown description from Google before on how they might segment pages into different parts with different purposes. The Google patent granted today does give us much more information on how the search engine interprets parts of pages and uses that information in multiple ways: Determining semantically distinct regions of a document Invented by Yonatan Zunger Assigned to Google Inc. US Patent 7,913,163 Granted March 22, 2011 Filed September 22, 2004 A structured document is translated into an initial hierarchical data structure in accordance with syntactic elements defined in the structured document. The initial hierarchical data structure includes a plurality of nodes, and each node corresponds to one of the syntactic elements. The method then annotates a node with a set of attributes including geometric parameters of semantic elements in the structured document that are associated with the node in accordance with a pseudo-rendering of the structured document. Finally, the method merges the nodes in the initial hierarchical data structure into a tree of merged nodes in accordance with their respective attributes and a set of predefined rules such that each merged node is associated with a semantically distinct region of the pseudo-rendered document. The predefined rules include rules for merging nodes associated with semantic elements that have nearby positions and/or compatible attributes in the pseudo-rendered document. Back in 2006, a Google patent application was published which described how Google might take a page filled with reviews of restaurants, and break the page apart so that it could associate each review with the restaurant that it reviewed. Near the bottom of that patent was inserted a paragraph telling us that Google could use that segmentation process for much more than reviews: Although the segmentation process described with reference to FIGS. 4-7 was described as segmenting a document based on geographic signals that correspond to business listings, the general hierarchical segmentation technique could more generally be applied to any type of signal in a document. For example, instead of using geographic signals that correspond to business listings, images in a document may be used (image signals). The segmentation process may then be applied to help determine what text is relevant to what image. Alternatively, the segmentation process described with reference to acts 403 and 404 may be performed on a document without partitioning the document based on a signal. The identified hierarchical segments may then be used to guide classifiers that identify portions of documents which are more or less relevant to the document (e.g., navigational boilerplate is usually less relevant than the central content of a page). Google’s Reasonable Surfer patent described how Google might pass along different amounts of PageRank to different links based upon a number of features associated with those links. Some of those features involved the location of those links on the pages where they were found. But that patent, like the review segmentation patent really didn’t go into much detail on how Google might break a page into different parts. This new patent does. It looks at the HTML of a page, and also looks at how the page might be displayed in a simulated browser to understand the different parts of a page, what their purpose might be, and where they are located on a page. Examples of some of the processes driven by understanding these different parts of a page might include: Link analysis – links found in “different semantically distinct regions may be assigned different weights.” So, a link to another page that’s found in the footer of a page might be given less weight (or PageRank) than a link found in a more important section of the page. Text analysis Text found in some parts of a page might be given more weight than in others. So, a page that has a certain keyword phrase in its footer might not rank as highly for a query matching that term than if the keyword phrase was in a more important segment of the page, like the main content area. One page where a query term appears in an important segment of a page might also rank higher than another page where the query term appears in a much less important part of the page. Image captioning Text found near an image is usually more relevant to the image than text further away from it. This segmentation process can help identify what text is nearer an image, and could be used to help caption the image and help it rank in image search. Snippet construction When a search engine returns a page in search results for a particular query, it generates a snippet of text to describe what it has found on that page. Sometimes when the query terms appear in the meta description for a page, the search engine show the meta description. But a search engine will also use text it finds on the page itself, and it might create a snippet based upon text in a section that’s most relevant for the query term. 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|| || || || || | An alien property custodian system was established today by the U.S. Treasury to protect interests of 120,000 Japanese aliens and citizens and German and Italian aliens who will be evacuated by the Army from the vital Pacific Coast defense area. Rep. John Tolan, heading the congressional committee investigating economic aspects of the evacuations, announced the treasury program. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco was placed in charge of protecting alien property. Branch offices were planned for all major centers of population in the evacuation belt. Aliens were advised to contact the Reserve Bank for information, instructions and protection. In the case of agricultural properties, on which crops may be growing, the Treasury said attempts would be made to arrange for leasing or selling the property or for continuing attention to the growing crops with a view of preventing their loss. Secretary [Henry] Morgenthau said particular attention would be given to protection of the property of such persons against fraud, forced sales and unscrupulous creditors. Obviously, the emergency will cause financial loss to the group involved, Secretary Morgenthau stated. However, the program is intended to accord this group reasonable protection of their property interests consistent with the war effort. The Federal Reserve Bank was given full authority to act without reference to Washington, although it was pointed out over- Mr. Morgenthau predicted that the established integrity and ability of the Federal Reserve Bank will enlist the confidence of all the affected groups and discourage gouging by creditors or other self- The bank was directed to work in close liaison with the Federal Security Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture and other Federal, state and local agencies in dealing with the property during liquidation. These agencies, Secretary Morgenthau went on, will undoubtedly be called upon by the military authorities to handle other aspects of the evacuation problem, such as transportation and resettlement of the evacuees, and their re-employment in new areas. The Treasury Department, it was stated, will furnish the Federal Reserve Bank by airplane with the requisite number of trained experts to assist in working out the details of the program in the field and to participate in its execution. It was revealed that John W. Pehle, assistant to Secretary Morgenthau, already is in San Francisco to help the Reserve Bank put the program into effect. Although some details are yet to be worked out, an outline of the program follows: A. Properly staffed offices under the direction of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank will be opened at once in the local communities from which evacuees will be moved.Additional announcements of evacuation plans, as well as the setting up of new military areas in interior states, was expected to be made soon by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army commander, and Tom C. Clark, Western alien co-ordinator. A committee from the Japanese American Citizens League, which represents American- First stopping place outside the military areas for Japanese who do not make their own removal plans (under Government supervision) will be in the Owens Valley, where the Army is establishing a reception center. There the Japanese will be classified as to occupation, and sent to resettlement colonies. Mr. Clark outlined the plan to the league yesterday. He said the communities would have their own Japanese doctors and merchants and would be given protection by military authorities or whatever authorities are established. Asked by a delegate if Japanese would have unrestricted movement within the communities Mr. Clark said such problems must be settled individually. He explained the amount of protection necessary in each community would determine the freedom of movement. Mr. Clark added that the control policy would not seek to divide families and would not attempt to undermine prevailing wage rates by conscripting Japanese- He praised the Japanese for self reliance and reported that only 140 families required Federal aid in evacuating areas under previous orders which forced 3000 aliens to find new homes. Colonel W.F. McGill, provost marshal of the Western Defense Command, told the league that an Army proclamation also will be issued very soon designating new military areas in which evacuees will not be permitted to settle. Nobumitsu Takahashi, agricultural co-ordinator for the league, submitted a report to the conference asserting that removal of the Japanese would disrupt the California vegetable industry. He reported that Japanese truck farmers produced crops valued at 40 million dollars annually and that the stand to lose approximately 100 million dollars in investments. Meanwhile General DeWitt announced that farmers who destroyed crops would be arrested as saboteurs. He said aliens guilty of such action would be subject to internment and citizens to prosecution. San Francisco News Go to the Japanese Internment page.

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Do you suffer from back pain, or neck pain, shoulder pain? After 8,9,10 hours of sitting in a chair at your desk working your body is a little stiff. To correct your posture you should do some simple posture exercises. A correct body posture is linked to your balance. At every movement you are helped by your muscles to balance your body. Your muscles are the ones that sustain your body. Without muscles we would be like worms, even worst than that. Even when you sit on a chair your body tries to keep itself in a correct posture. Your muscles and joints tell your brain how much pressure your body is feeling and it compares the pressure from on foot to another. Where you feel more pressure or even pain you have to correct your posture. There is an imbalance in the way you keep your body and you need to correct it fast. If you stay hunched you will become more and more hunched in time. If you maintain a straight body posture with a straight back you will keep a good body posture for longer. By keeping a good posture you train your muscles, strengthening them. As time passes the slimmer the chance of using bad body postures become if you improve your body posture every day. If you don’t strengthen your muscles they become weaker in time making it possible for bad postures to be adopted. Before doing any posture improving exercises do a light short warm up. Don’t take your muscles by surprise. Get your muscles warmed up and ready.

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The necklace is a chain jewelry which is worn around the neck. Necklaces are frequently formed from a metal jewellery chain. Others are woven or manufactured from cloth using string or twine. Usually use the gold and silver and other precious metals or jewelry made of, but sometimes use different materials such as wood, stone, shells. If a necklace includes a primary hanging feature, it is called a pendant or amulet, if the hanging feature is itself a small container, that is called a locket. Necklace has a wide range of uniquely shaped, so it has strong decorative. Please Note: Items in this category are not able to be returned or exchanged, please understand. You can get 30 Points by writing a review at your "My Orders" after the purchase. Wow, this is so cute! Se ve igual que en la foto. Buena compra que fofinho gostava de poder ter Such a beautiful statement necklace |Your account needs an email binding| |The email you entered is invalid|

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Apple is working on a system that automatically unlocks iPhones when they are in safe locations like home or work, but locks them again when they leave the area. The system works by identifying where the iPhone is and allows users to set “safe” locations, where settings including security can be automatically changed removing the need for a passcode or Touch ID, for example. “Based on the detected current location, the mobile device can modify settings and configurations. Security settings are one example of device behaviour that can be modified in accordance with embodiments of the present invention,” said Apple in the patent filing. Security requirements help ensure that a mobile device is in the hands of the appropriate party. Often the security level remains the same regardless of the location of the mobile device.

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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men Drugs and Alcohol Quotes How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph) [Jack Burden:] "According to the old folks […], the best way is to put two shots of absinthe on a little cracked ice and float on a shot of rye. But we can't be fancy. Not with Prohibition." (2.403) We almost forget that Prohibition is on for much of novel. This ceremony also marks another stage of Willie's induction into the drinking life. "Hair, hell," [Sadie] said, "he must have swallowed the whole dog." (2.432) Sadie can see just how drunk Willie is. She isn't at all convinced that Jack's "cure" will work. She still thinks Willie is a complete "sap." She'll sure change her tune in a few minutes. They drank because they didn't have the slightest interest in what they were doing now, and didn't have the slightest hope for the future. (4.10) That's a pretty harsh assessment of his old college roommates. Jack knew them well, though, and we'll have to take his word for it. What we find interesting is that they use alcohol for a very different reason than Willie does. While they use it to forget their lives, Willie uses it to, in a sense, save his.

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by Gustave Flaubert Tools of Characterization This is a book about the middle class: none of its characters are either poverty-stricken or fantastically hoity-toity. Even Rodolphe, the richest character, is not exactly an aristocrat. Instead, he is simply a well-to-do guy, who still has bourgeois sensibilities. Flaubert is careful to show us all elements of the middle-class condition; we have Homais, who strives to rise above his class; Charles, who’s content with what he has; Emma, who longs to be a great lady; and Léon, who’s discontented but inactive. In showing us the troubles of the bourgeoisie, Flaubert paints a portrait of a very specific class at a very specific time in history. Thoughts and Opinions Flaubert takes us straight into the minds of our characters, revealing everything they think and feel to us. This is our best resource for getting to know them; he’s unflinching and direct in showing us their deepest desires. We also hear a lot of opinions from characters like Homais and Father Bournisien. Rather than learning anything from the words spewing from Homais’s mouth (most of which are kind of nonsense anyway), we learn a lot about his personality from the arrogant way in which he holds forth. Actions do indeed speak louder than words here. We see characters say one thing and do another over and over again, thus betraying their real personalities. The first example that springs to mind is Homais’s abandonment of Emma’s deathbed; he chooses to take the doctors to lunch at his house to try and curry favor with them, instead of staying with his supposed friend, Charles, in his moment of need. We might also look to Rodolphe, who keeps reassuring Emma that he will run away with her, but actually balks at the last minute, and instead runs away by himself. We can only judge the characters by what they do, rather than what they say. Many of the names in Madame Bovary comment aptly upon the nature of the characters. "Bovary," for example, is a play on "bovine," or cow-like. That is indeed what Charles is – he’s a placid herd animal, who’s always willing to go along with the status quo. Notably, Rodolphe comments on how everyone calls Emma by that name, but it’s not hers. Monsieur Homais’s name also offers some commentary upon him; it sounds unmistakably like the French words "homme, mais," which translate to "a man, but…" Homais is exactly that; he’s certainly a real guy, but he also has some startlingly inhuman traits. Finally, Lheureux, or "l’heureux," means "happy man" in French, which is just what the money-lending merchant is – his gazillions of francs give him joy, despite the sorrow he causes.

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An economical choice for small scale indoor farming, this light can support up to 4 average size plants. It only draws 45 watts of power, but the 128 High Powered LED's can easily replace a 400W HPS or MH setup. Once operational, plant health will improve as your energy costs go down, and you will quickly realize that no fans or cooling systems are necessary because each little light will remain cool to the touch. Typical lighting systems will require you to switch lights when it's time to flower, but the full spectrum diodes on the MAX 200 more closely simulate the natural light of the sun, so you can grow or flower without changing anything. The bright white light offers an improvement over other LED lights, and they promote healthy growth without bathing your fruits and vegetables in a blue or red glow. For fast growth in a short amount of time, this advanced grow light is tough to beat. It uses very little power, and it will create conditions that closely mimic an outdoor environment. No complicated set up is needed, so just hang it up, and plug it in to start growing today. Why It's Good - Compact. For small scale growing, starting seedlings, or rooting clones, this is the perfect option, and it's highly affordable when compared for ability. Support up to four full size plants, or more smaller ones. - Full Spectrum. Other systems require you to change bulbs or switch out ballasts in order to flower your plants. The powerful diodes on this unit emit a bright white light that's more similar to natural light so plants will be healthier, and you don't have to change anything but the timing when it's time to flower. - Professional Quality. Built to last, and designed for maximum yield, the MAX line was created with professional growers in mind. 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Sarah Brightman Come You Not From Newcastle? Lyrics Last updated: 09/20/2000 09:53:26 PM Sponsored LinksCome you not from Newcastle? Come you not there away? O met you not my true love, Riding on a bonny bay? Why should not I love my love? Why should not my love love me? Why should not I speed after him, Since love to all is free? And all lines are repeated once more Click here to submit the Corrections of Come You Not From Newcastle? Lyrics

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More than half of U.S. small businesses do not use accounting software. AMI Partners, Inc., a research firm that specializes in global small business market research, notes this in a recently-published study, entitled “Small Business Accounting is Big…and Getting Bigger”: “U.S. small businesses (SBs; companies with 1 to 99 employees) spent approximately US$410 million on purchasing accounting software solutions in the last 12 months, and this figure is expected to cross the half-billion-dollar mark by 2008. The nearly 6% annual increase in accounting-software-related dollars augurs well for industry-leader Intuit (with their QuickBooks portfolio) and Microsoft, which recently jumped on the small business bandwagon with its release of Small Business Accounting 2006.

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From 1968 until 1988 Professor Murray Groves was the Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Groves studied for his Ph.D in anthropology at Oxford under the supervision of one of British Social Anthropology's most interesting researchers, Godfrey Lienhardt. Professor Groves himself did path-breaking fieldwork on the Motu in Papua in the early 1960s. The department in its early days was very small and therefore Professor Groves decided that it would be pointless to call it a department of Sociology and Anthropology. And, although anthropology remained a stream in the department under him, and the appointment of other anthropologists were made, the name of the department has never changed. Indeed, the department follows the European tradition where sharp institutional boundaries are not drawn between sociology and social anthropology, as they are in the United States. In 1989 Dr Grant Evans was appointed as a Senior Lecturer after the retirement of Professor Groves, and was soon promoted to the position of Reader. His fieldwork had concentrated on Laos and he has written several books on the country, while his Asia's Cultural Mosaic: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Asia (1993) is used as a textbook not only in Hong Kong but also Singapore, the United States, Australia and elsewhere. In the early 1990s, Dr Kuah-Pearce Khun-eng, who works on southern China, joined the department. Besides these two full-time staff members the department at present has one visiting lecturer in anthropology, Dr Cheng Sea-Ling whose fieldwork was in south Korea on Filipina sexworkers there. Both Dr Evans and Dr Kuah-Pearce supervise Masters and Doctoral students. Anthropological courses available from the sociology department are: Most of the above are also supervising Masters and Doctoral students. They also have personal homepages. In Japanese Studies, anthropological courses include:

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Irene has weakened further and is now a tropical storm as it makes its way through New England. As a Category 1 hurricane, Irene made landfall around Little Egg Inlet, N.J., around 5:35 a.m., with winds near 75 miles per hour. Hurricane Irene made its first landfall near Cape Lookout, N.C., just before 8 a.m. Saturday. After lumbering through the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Irene left a wake of boats strewn about the shore and in wooded areas, according to Capt. Lee Sykes, franchise owner of TowBoatUS Oregon Inlet (N.C.). "That's what everyone is telling us – we are in no hurry [for salvage]. We're in the woods, so we ain't going anywhere." Sykes said a representative from an insurance company told him she had received 3,000 claims already from boat owners. As Sykes had predicted (see the Aug. 27 Dispatches report), the backside of the storm caused the most damage to the Beaufort, N.C., area. "A lot of the docks are gone – the floating docks didn't make it. The marinas were cleared out – boaters had to haul or move their boats." Click play to watch a video of a boat in North Carolina being ripped off its mooring by Irene. Up the coast in New Jersey, the boats and marinas in Cape May faired very well, Sea Tow franchise (Sea Isle/Cape May) owner Capt. Jack Moran says. Send in your storm shots and personal accounts "I've been out since first light," he said at about 8 a.m. "We have very little damage – almost none at the marinas. All the marinas in town look good. There are some trees down, but we still have power. It doesn't look like any work for us has come in yet, but it's still early. We'll have sinkers." Moran said the storm surge was not a problem. Winds were about 35 to 40 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, he said. "I don't think we hit 70 mph winds," says Moran. The boating community did a good job preparing for the storm, says Moran. Some boaters who chose to outrun the storm or ride it out ran into trouble. A couple attempting to outrun Hurricane Irene were rescued Saturday in Chesapeake Bay as their sailboat was battered by 6- to 8-foot seas and winds gusting to 45 mph, according a Virginian-Pilot article posted online. Unable to launch rescue craft, two rescue crewmembers swam to the sailboat, pulled the sailors off and hauled them back to shore in the Willoughby section of Norfolk near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, the article said. The sailboat had served as their home, Capt. Mike Marsala of Norfolk Fire and Rescue said. The storm at 9 a.m. was still moving through the Mid-Atlantic and is predicted to pass through New York and New England today. Meteorologist say it continues to pose a serious threat to the eastern Mid-Atlantic, eastern New York and all New England with flooding rains, coastal flooding, and strong winds. Hurricane warnings were in effect from Chincoteague, Virginia, north to Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts: this includes Delaware Bay, New York City, Philadelphia, Long Island, Long Island Sound, coastal parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket.

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Northern Route stage 03: Zarautz - Deba Deze etappe gaat door... Zarautz, Getaria, Askizu, Zumaia, Elorriaga, Itziar, Deba - Route behoort tot: - The Way of Saint James - Northern Route - 21,30 Km - Belangrijkste moeilijkheden - Due to the extreme differences in level, pilgrims following the Way on bicycles are advised to take the N-634 coastal road to Zumaia. The second half of this stage is easy, except for the stretch leading up to the Itziar heights, which is also best done on the N-634. - Flora, fauna en landbouw - The stretch between Deba and Zumaia, declared an "Area of Natural Interest", has some spectacular "Flysch" formations. This phenomenon occurs due to the erosive action of the sea on hard and soft strata of rocks, so they penetrate hundreds of metres into the waters like giant ribs. At low tide it is a spectacular sight. - Ambachtelijke producten - The work of craftsmen is closely linked to the peoples and culture of Euskadi. It honours the ancestral customs and ways of life and opens channels to welcome new ideas. www.ereintza.com www.gabiltza.org - Gastronomische en banketbakkersproducten - Txakoli (Basque wine) is the local speciality in the Getaria area, and served together with baby squid Pelayo, (a recipe exported everywhere in the Basque Country), they form one of the gastronomic delights of this coast.

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AFM, which is recognized for high resolution imaging of polymer surfaces and nanostructures, can also provide compositional maps of heterogeneous polymer systems. Polymer blends, block copolymers and polymer composites are typical heterogeneous systems, in which the components are combined in such a way as to create materials with desired properties. The components of these materials (plastics, rubbers, inorganic fillers, various kinds of additives, etc) have different properties (mechanical, electromagnetic, thermal, etc) that can be used for their recognition in these multicomponent systems. In some instances, fillers have specific shapes that also help in their identification. FOr the last 10 years AFM has been broadly applied for compositional imaging by industrial and academic researchers. There are several factors which should be taken into account for effective compositional imaging of heterogeneous materials. First of all, sample preparation can be crucial for getting reliable images describing polymer morphology. The morphology of thin films and coatings can be imaged from samples prepared by spin-casting, dipping or by other relatively simple procedures. The preparation of samples for the characterization of morphology of bulk samples can be more difficult. In this case, ultramicrotomy with diamond knifes is practically the only choice. Its application for rubbery materials is typically confined to temperatures below the glass transition of the softest rubber component. Surfaces prepared with an ultramicrotome are relatively smooth (roughness is below 100-150 nm) and they are suitable for morphology studies. It should be also taken into account that AFM studies of these samples should be performed soon after their preparation. This will avoid not only air-borne contamination of the sample surfaces, but also any surface coverage by low-molecular weight components exuding from the bulk material. The second issue is choosing the imaging protocol that result in successful compositional imaging. It is important to realize that for topographic imaging of soft materials with high resolution the goal is to minimize the tip-sample force interaction, whereas for compositional mapping it is to image at various (and, especially, elevated) forces. This is true for imaging both in contact and oscillatory modes. In contact mode, the cantilever deflection setpoint is directly related to the force applied to the sample. An increase of the deflection setpoint leads to higher force imaging. The probe stiffness is also an important factor influencing the level and range of the tip-forces. For example, contact mode measurements with soft probes such as HQ:CSC17 (k ~ 0.1 N/m) might be not effective for compositional imaging of rigid heterogeneous systems. In this case, a researcher should try imaging with stiffer probes with k in the 0.5 - 5 N/m range. In oscillatory modes, the tip-force control is more complicated, because the effective tip-force depends on several parameters, including drive frequency, free oscillation amplitude (A0), set-point amplitude (Asp) and cantilever stiffness. For many samples, compositional imaging is based on the difference in mechanical properties of the components, the elastic modulus of which could vary in the range of a few kPa to tens of GPa. Therefore, depending on the composition of the sample, AFM probes with cantilever stiffness in the 0.5 N/m - 400 N/m can be applied for such imaging. While using a particular probe the force level can be further adjusted by varying Asp and A0. A low-force operation can be achieved at low A0 and Asp close to A0; whereas a lowering of Asp and increase of A0 leads to elevated tip-forces. Practically, it can be beneficial to examine the same location on the sample, first at low tip-force, then at higher forces in order to find out if image contrast changed to reflect mechanically-different components. Finally, it might be essential to get a low-force image at a large scan size, which includes the initially chosen location. The latter experiment is necessary to insure that high-force imaging did not induce sample damage. Analysis of the height, phase or force modulation images is important for meaningful compositional imaging. Quantitative estimates of the image areas with different contrast can help define the composition of a particular heterogeneous sample. The more crucial problem is the correct assignment of the areas with different contrast to a particular component of the sample. In compositional imaging of polymers where the phase images are most commonly used to detect and most sensitive to heterogeneities, there is no universal approach for their interpretation. In such a situation it makes sense to use a model system that has the same components in ratios that allow them to be easily identified. In addition, some generalizations can be made between the phase contrast and polymers of similar stiffness or composition. For example, in phase images obtained at high tip-sample forces with a 40 N/m cantilever, inorganic fillers and rigid plastic components typically show up brighter than softer synthetic and natural rubbers. The latter are brighter than oil and other liquid components. Keep in mind that without sufficient force and/or sufficient difference in properties, different components will show no contrast in the phase. That is why it is important to try a wide range of forces, and if necessary several different cantilevers. A couple of examples of compositional imaging of multicomponent samples are given in Fig. 1 and 2. Fig. 1a-b show height and phase images of a flat surface of the impact modified plastics, which was prepared with an ultramicrotome. These images were recorded at high-force conditions, and the composition of the blend is seen only in the phase image. The latter reveals at least three components of the sample. Several domains of hundreds of nanometers in size are visible due the darker contrast than surrounding matrix. A number of bright spots of ca. 30-50 nm in size are also seen in this area. These spots correlate in size with rubber particles present in this material. High-force AFM images of technical rubber are presented in Fig. 2a-b. Numerous nanoparticles, which are scattered over the examined area, are seen in both images. The particles exhibit very bright contrast compared to the other materials and can be assigned to rigid carbon black inclusions. These black species assigned to conducting carbon can be additionally checked by electric force microscopy. In addition, the pronounced contrast variations of the phase image indicate a presence of a larger number of components. In the higher-resolution phase image in Fig. 2c one can distinguish a part of a flat domain, which is slightly brighter than the matrix. This domain can be tentatively assigned to an inorganic crystalline filler. In another location shown in Fig. 2d there are also contrast variations inside the darker matrix. These locations might be related to rubber regions with different cross-linking density. Despite the fact that individual components of the polymer blends are distinguished in the phase images additional knowledge about sample composition and phase behavior during imaging at different conditions are essential for rational image interpretation. ORDERING OPTIONSClick on a product type below to order online. 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[Stackless] Why can't I use nanosleep() to suspend the execution of a stackless tasklet? bin.arthur at gmail.com Wed Sep 18 17:51:02 CEST 2013 I am working on a project that is based on stackless Python. I tried to suspend the execution of a stackless tasklet from a Python C module extension by calling nanosleep(). The Python C module that calls nanosleep() is embedded inside the tasklet handler. However, my approach does not work as I expected. It seems that the entire stackless interpreter is suspended. And all tasklets had to delay (instead of sleeping) for the interval time I assigned to nanosleep(). (I tried up to 10 second interval so I could clearly see it). I also tried using sleep() in the Python C module extension and I observed the same phenomenon. I know I could use stackless.schedule() to suspend a tasklet. But I am still interested in why nanosleep() did not work in my experiment. Is it because nanosleep() suspend the execution of the stackless scheduler? I can post my source code if needed. Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the Stackless

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POSTED: 10:12 a.m. HST, Aug 31, 2011 LAST UPDATED: 1:42 p.m. HST, Aug 31, 2011 Honolulu’s unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent in July from 5.7 percent in June, tying the city for the 15th lowest jobless rate out of 372 metropolitan areas surveyed, according to a federal report released today. Honolulu was one of 193 metro areas where the unemployment rate dropped in July from June. The jobless rate rose in 118 metro areas and was unchanged in 61. Metro unemployment rates are not adjusted for seasonal changes, such as an influx of people into the workforce at the end of the school year. Honolulu’s July unadjusted jobless rate compared to rates of 9.5 percent for Hawaii County, 8.5 percent for Kauai County, and 7.5 percent for Maui County. The statewide unadjusted rate was 6.4 percent in July. When adjusted for seasonal factors it was 6.1 percent. Honolulu was in a small group of states mostly in the Plains and the Northeast with unemployment rates below 6 percent in July. Bismark, N.D., has the nation’s lowest unemployment rate at 3 percent in July. El Centro, Calif., topped the list with an unemployment rate of 30.8 percent in July. According to the BLS cities in California accounted for 13 of the nation’s 15 highest unemployment rates in July.

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This is the basic text view. SWITCH NOW to the new, more interactive format. Under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), the Department of State is tasked with training Foreign Service Officers in both human rights broadly and religious freedom specifically. The Department of State's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) works closely with the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF), in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), to integrate religious freedom issues into the curriculum at FSI. During the reporting period, DRL worked with FSI to create a new three-day course on promoting human rights and democracy, which includes modules highlighting religious freedom and related issues. This course, which has run twice, is being expanded to five days. FSI has also developed a new, three-day course on Religion and Foreign Policy which will be piloted in June. Also during the reporting period, members of the FSI training staff took part in conferences dealing with religious freedom, persecution, conflict, and reconciliation hosted by academic institutions, think tanks, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In addition, FSI's Leadership and Management School organized a two-day Interagency Policy Seminar March 15-16 with DRL, S/GPI, USAID, and USIP for foreign affairs professionals at the GS-15, FS-01, and 06 military level from across agencies aimed at broadening dialogue, dispelling misconceptions, and thinking innovatively about engagement with communities of faith to help accomplish broad foreign policy goals. DRL and IRF officers regularly participate in FSI courses to brief students in area and professional studies courses and provide individual briefings with FSI students on specific portfolios. DRL and IRF officers routinely cover topics such as the international basis and standards for the right to freedom of religion, theological beliefs of different religious groups, state actions against religious groups and other manifestations of violations of religious freedom, involvement of religious groups in politics, diplomatic tools used by the United States to promote respect for religious freedom, venues for protection of those who have fled religious persecution, and the relationships between religious freedom, democracy, and national security. FSI periodically consults with the staff of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to ensure the currency of its offerings in this area. II. Courses Offered The Schools of Professional and Area Studies (SPAS) and Leadership and Management Studies (LMS) at FSI both offer training relevant to the IRFA in a variety of courses. The following are brief descriptions of courses offered by the divisions of Political Training, Orientation, Consular Training, and Area Studies in SPAS, and the Ambassadorial Seminar in LMS . FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER ORIENTATION (A-100) During the Foreign Service Officer Orientation (A-100) course, a State Department official from DRL presents a session on human rights, including international religious freedom. Students receive key background materials on human rights and religious freedom on FSI's LearnCenter and links to Web sites containing related materials. POLITICAL/ECONOMIC TRADECRAFT (PG-140) This is a three-week course for students who have been assigned for the first time to work in an embassy's or consulate's political, economic, or combined political/economic section. Officers are required to take the Political/Economic Tradecraft PG-140 prior to their first assignment in political and economic sections abroad, and exceptions are rare. The State Department expects that a large proportion of these officers will be directly responsible for preparing their post's human rights and religious freedom reports and for promoting democracy and human rights in the field as part of the embassy's country team. The Political/Economic Tradecraft course regularly includes sessions devoted to developing human rights reporting skills and promoting democracy and human rights values, including religious freedom, overseas. Engagement with NGOs, including human rights activists and religious figures, is also stressed in sessions dealing with contact management and cable drafting. PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY (PP-530) This three-day course was offered for the first time in October 2010 and again in January 2011. Given the success of the course, it is being expanded from three days to five. It will be offered three times a year to provide mid-level officers tools and best practices for promoting human rights and democracy, including religious freedom, in the field. FSI and DRL jointly developed the curriculum which includes a session specifically devoted to religious freedom. Other sessions address issues relevant to religious freedom – human rights law, working with NGOs, monitoring and reporting human rights abuses, and combating anti-Semitism. This course replaces the one-day module on human rights formerly offered as part of FSI's course GLOBAL ISSUES (PP-510). RELIGION AND FOREIGN POLICY (PP225) FSI, working closely with IRF, created a new course titled Religion and Foreign Policy (PP225). The course will expose U.S. officials to common themes in dealing with religious and faith-based communities in the field to advance U.S. policy objectives, while giving them the opportunity to practice the tradecraft skills necessary to build productive relationships with religiously motivated actors. The course will also train U.S. officials to use the annual "International Religious Freedom Report" and other tools to enhance their mission's ongoing interactions with religious communities and will teach best practices for incorporating religious community outreach into broader Mission objectives. Topics in the course focus on identifying tools for interfaith outreach, the relationship between religion and foreign policy, the promotion of religious freedom, religion and national security, the "2011 Hours Against Hate Campaign," engaging religious actors at post, addressing anti-Semitism, and outreach to the Muslim community. The three-day course will be piloted in early June, with the schedule of future sessions yet to be determined (most likely it will run 2-3 times a year). INTERAGENCY POLICY SEMINAR FSI's Leadership and Management School organized a two-day Interagency Policy Seminar March 15-16 for GS-15, FS-01, and 06 military professionals from the Department and other agencies aimed at broadening dialogue, dispelling misconceptions, and thinking innovatively on "mainstreaming" engagement with communities of faith to help accomplish broad foreign policy goals. The seminar "Engaging Communities of Faith" was organized in partnership with DRL, S/GPI, USAID, and USIP and drew participants from seven agencies and 11 bureaus of the State Department. Under Secretary Maria Otero and Special Assistant to the President Joshua DuBois opened the program, and other notable speakers included Chris Seiple, President of the Institute for Global Engagement; Imam Mohamed Magid, President of the Islamic Society of North America; Richard Cizik of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good; Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel Diaz, who also was a participant in the seminar; Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator, Ari Alexander; and FSI Deputy Director, Ambassador Tracey Jacobson. Dr. Peter Weinberger of the U.S. Institute of Peace prepared a scenario-based exercise for the seminar and assisted in facilitating the course. Feedback from participants indicated high interest in this training area, not only in the "how to" of engaging communities of faith for broad foreign policy objectives, but also for advancing international religious freedom. The seminar provided ideas for this new course that FSI launched in June. BASIC CONSULAR COURSE (PC-530) PC-530 is a prerequisite for serving as a consular officer in the Foreign Service. It is designed primarily for Foreign Service Officers preparing to go overseas to fill consular positions, dependents of U.S. government employees who will work as consular associates overseas, and domestic employees of the Bureau of Consular Affairs. The Immigrant Visa module of PC-530 addresses refugee and asylum issues as they pertain to consular officers, while the Non-Immigrant Visa module addresses the interviewing for and processing of "R" visas for religious workers. Training in the Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Visa modules, as well as in the American Citizen Services module of the course, include interviewing exercises involving fictitious clients who represent religious minorities to sensitize consular officers to concerns and potential adjudication requirements relating to those affiliations. FSI and the Appeal of Conscience Foundation annually sponsor a major symposium focused on religious freedom and the role of U.S. diplomats overseas. Students from throughout the Institute participate in this symposium. The symposium brings together leading experts on religious issues and foreign affairs practitioners who can speak to the job-related aspects of religious freedom issues to provide our officers with a clear understanding of the importance of these issues and the challenges and responsibilities they will face. ISLAM: FORMATION, INSTITUTIONS, MODERNITY AND REFORM (AR-194) This is a week-long course for those who work or will work on issues related to Islam, Islamism, or relations with Muslim communities. Starting with the formation of Islam and the Muslim community, the course provides a background to the major historical developments of Islam, with a special focus on Islam in the modern era. In introducing the variety of forms of Islam, the course discusses movements such as the Druze and Alawites. Each iteration of the course also takes on the question of inter-religious dialogue and ways of inter-sectarian and religious cooperation. The course addresses issues relating to the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. IRAQ: SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND POLITICS (AR-193) This is a three-day course for those posted to Iraq or who deal with Iraqi issues from other locales. The course seeks to explain, in brief, general aspects of Islam and Islamic history, as well as to focus on the contemporary religious landscape of Iraq in particular. The following questions are addressed: How is that landscape configured? Literally, what are the holy sites of Iraq, and how do Iraqis relate to them? Which religious events are important in Iraq, and how are they marked? Metaphorically, how does religion interact with regionalism, sectarian loyalty, religious networks, political affiliations, and class? There are segments that deal with Iraqi Jews, as well as some discussion of the role of various Christian communities and Mandaeans. In addition, the Islamicate sects of Iraq such as the Shabak and the Yezidis are discussed. ISLAM: THE RISE OF RELIGION IN EURASIA (AR-285) This is a one-day embedded module within the Russia and Eurasia Intensive Regional Area Studies course (AR-281). Throughout the year, the course chairs in the Area Studies Division, in cooperation with DRL, ensure that their courses address both regional and country-specific issues of religion, religious freedom, and human rights. Participants receive substantial information encompassing the full range of issues affecting particular regions, including religious freedom and human rights, religious history, and religious traditions. Students also receive reading lists (and Internet guidance) that direct them to even more detailed material. AMBASSADORIAL SEMINAR (PT-120) The Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs regularly speaks to the Ambassadorial Seminar on the importance of religious freedom and other topics within his or her purview. Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, Deputy Director of FSI, briefs the Ambassadors-designate on the importance of engaging religious communities abroad and shares best practices. III. Background Material on Religious Freedom The following background materials related to religious freedom are made available (as hard copy or through Web site addresses) to FSI students. Background Materials provided to students at FSI Highlights from Key International Documents:

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Scholarship For Service (SFS) is a unique program designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of federal information assurance professionals that protect the government's critical information infrastructure. This program provides scholarships that fully fund the typical costs that students pay for books, tuition, and room and board while attending an approved institution of higher learning. The scholarships are funded through grants awarded by the National Science Foundation. The program is currently accepting applications for a start in Fall 2014. More details can be found at the SFS Scholarship Site. DoD IASP Scholarships Information assurance (security) is considered so important to our national defense that a formal DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program (DoD IASP) was established by the National Defense Authorization Act for 2001 (Public Law 106-398). The purpose is to promote the education, recruitment, and retention of rising junior and senior undergraduate and graduate/doctoral students in information assurance, information technology, and cybersecurity (IA/IT/cybersecurity) studies and of students seeking graduate certificates in information assurance disciplines. Typically, applications are accepted in late Fall/early Spring for the upcoming academic year. Unfortunately, there will be no new scholarships for AY14/15.

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More than 50 since years after Italian dining came to British shores, top chef Gennaro Contaldo reveals how our knowledge and approach to his country's cuisine has changed dramatically. By Diana Pilkington. Half a century since a wave of Italian immigrants set up the first trattorias across the UK, Britain's love affair with this cuisine shows no sign of stopping. But our understanding and appreciation of Italian food has changed dramatically over the years. Celebrity chef Gennaro Contaldo, who first came to Britain in the late Sixties, says: "At the beginning, a lot of immigrants came to England but there were very few chefs. But because almost every Italian can sing and can cook, they used to open a little restaurant. "They wouldn't necessarily cook something very Italian. They would cook what we call 'Britalian' food, something between British and Italian." In fact, many of the dishes that we consider typically Italian today are actually an adaptation and not entirely authentic. "The spaghetti bolognese in England nearly gave me a heart attack!" says Contaldo. "It was full of mushrooms, peppers, some different vegetables and perhaps bits and pieces of meat. "But the original dish, ragu bolognese, is made with tagliatelle and is so simple. You just use carrots and onion, and then pork and beef in equal parts." Though 'Britalian' cuisine can still be found in thousands of restaurants, more authentic Italian food is far easier to find these days. Contaldo is an ambassador for the Bertolli Spread Olive D'Oro Awards, which have been searching for the UK's top Italian delis and trattorias. The winners were announced on June 20, and include eateries across Britain, from Cardiff to Cambridge (for the full list visit www.bertolli.co.uk). With traditional delis now a common sight on many British high streets, it is easier than ever to source the right ingredients to make simple, authentic Italian food at home. "I remember when you wanted olive oil, the only place you could buy it was in a chemist. It was rubbish," Contaldo says. "Today all these ingredients, you can usually find somewhere local." Contaldo has created some recipes to reflect modern Italian dining in Britain today. Try these for size... (For all of these recipes, Bertolli Spread can be substituted with any quality olive oil-based spread) Risotto alle fragole (strawberry risotto) (Serves 4) 70g Bertolli Spread 2 small shallots, finely chopped 250g arborio rice 500g strawberries, hulled (half quantity quartered and the rest roughly chopped) ½ glass white wine 1-litre vegetable stock, kept hot 50g parmesan cheese, freshly grated, and extra to serve Salt to taste Heat 30g of the Bertolli Spread in a saucepan, add the shallots and sweat on a medium heat. Stir in the rice, coating each grain. Stir in the white wine and simmer until evaporated. Add a ladleful of stock, stir and simmer for a minute, then stir in the roughly chopped strawberries. Gradually add the remaining stock, stirring all the time between additions. When the rice becomes al dente, remove from the heat and stir in the remaining 40g of Bertolli Spread and grated parmesan. Add salt to taste if desired. Leave to rest for a minute, then top with the quartered strawberries and some more grated parmesan, if desired, and serve. Porri con pancetta (leeks with bacon) (Serves 4) 60g Bertolli Spread 100g pancetta or bacon, finely chopped 1.2kg leeks, finely sliced 120ml hot vegetable stock Salt & pepper to taste Melt the Bertolli spread in a frying pan, add the pancetta or bacon and stir-fry on a medium heat until crispy. Stir in the leeks, season with salt and pepper and stir fry for a couple of minutes. Add the vegetable stock, lower the heat, cover with a lid and simmer gently for 10 minutes until the leeks are soft. Remove from the heat and serve immediately. Pollo arrosto con burro bertolli all'aglio ed erbe (roast chicken with a bertolli spread, garlic and herb paste) (Serves 4) Small head of unpeeled garlic 5 large sage leaves, finely chopped 2 sprigs of rosemary needles, finely chopped Handful of mint, finely chopped Handful of marjoram leaves, finely chopped Juice of 1 lemon (keep the lemon halves) 1 large lemon, cut in half 100g Bertolli Spread Salt & pepper 1 chicken, weighing approx. 1.5kg ½ glass of white wine 1 glass of vegetable stock 4 carrots, cut lengthways in half Place the unpeeled garlic cloves in a hot oven for about 15 minutes until soft. With the help of a tea towel, remove the skins while still warm. Place the Bertolli Spread and garlic in a small bowl together with the chopped herbs, lemon juice, butter, salt and pepper. Mix together well until you obtain a smooth paste. Take the chicken and carefully ease the skin away from the breasts, taking care not to tear it, but don't remove completely. With your fingers, spread the paste evenly all over the breast under the skin. Fill the cavity of the chicken with the lemon halves. Line the bottom of the roasting tin with the carrots, arranging them in two lines like a railway track. Place the chicken on top of the carrots - this is done to prevent the bird from sticking to the tin. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil, rubbing well all over. Pour in the wine and stock. Cover with aluminium foil and roast in the hot oven for about 1 hour and 30 minutes until the chicken has thoroughly cooked through. Remove the foil 20 minutes before the end of cooking time. Remove from the oven, leave to rest for 10 minutes before carving. Torta paradiso (italian sponge cake with creamy filling) (Serves 6 - 8) To make the sponge: 4 eggs, separated 200g Bertolli Spread, extra for greasing 200g sugar 150g plain flour 50g cornflour 1tspn baking powder 1 sachet of vanilla powder Pinch of salt Zest of 1 lemon Sifted icing sugar 1 round cake tin 22cm in diameter - lightly greased and lined with baking parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and set aside. In another bowl, whisk the yolks until well amalgamated. In a larger bowl, cream together the Bertolli Spread and sugar, then gradually add the yolks. Gradually fold in the flour, cornflour, baking powder, vanilla powder, salt and lemon zest. Gently fold the stiff egg whites into the mixture with a metal spoon until well combined. Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes until golden and springy to the touch. You can check if it is cooked by inserting a wooden skewer in the centre; if it comes out dry the cake is ready. Remove, tip out onto a wire rack to cool, then with a sharp knife carefully cut horizontally into two layers. To make the creamy filling (makes approximately 300g): 50ml water 150g sugar 6 organic free-range egg yolks (make sure they are very fresh!) 175g Bertolli Spread Seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 1 sachet of vanilla powder Combine the water and sugar in a small pan and place on a low heat, stirring from time to time until the sugar has dissolved and you obtain a syrupy consistency. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks and gradually add the syrup. Leave the mixture to cool. Then add the Bertolli Spread and vanilla seeds or powder, and continue to whisk until you obtain a creamy consistency. Place in the fridge to use when required. Spread the creamy filling over the cooled cake layers and sandwich together. Sprinkle with lots of sifted icing sugar and serve. Tip: For a really tasty filling, mix some strawberry or raspberry jam into the creamy mix. For a lighter cake, the sponge can be eaten without the filling.

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Nearly 1,500 doctors from across the world are expected to attend a five-day medical conference here, starting November 18, where latest medical gadgets will be put on display, organisers said. Doctors from the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Singapore have confirmed their participation in the 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), Organising Secretary VG Mohanprasad told the media. He said that latest gadgets like disposable gastroscope and electronic endomicroscope would be demonstrated for the first time in India during the conference which would focus on the recent advance in the field of endoscopy and liver. The meet is being jointly organised by ISG, Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopic of India and Indian National Association of Study of Liver. A live endoscopy workshop would also be telecast from VGM Hospital in the city to the venue, featuring endoscopic surgeries, Mohanprasad added.

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OPINION: Farmers, landowners and the wider agriculture industry, beware. The proposed Southland District Plan 2012 was released for public comment on November 30, 2012. Submissions close on February 25, 2013. Submissions on the proposed Subdivision, Land Use & Development Bylaw close on February 15, 2013. Coincidentally (or not) the timing of these submission periods coincides with the busiest period in the farming calendar. If you don't submit you have no chance to appeal the changes later. Many of the proposed rules, requirements and the extension of the "Visual Amenity Areas" will have severe negative impacts on farming and future land development. If adopted, the number of typical farming and other land-use activities requiring resource consent (and which may not be granted permission) will increase dramatically. Farmers and other landowners will be directly affected. The impacts will be felt by the wider agricultural sector. Negative economic impacts on the local, regional and national economy have not been considered. Jobs, revenue and export earnings are at risk. However, as a key stakeholder I have not been consulted. To establish any credibility and goodwill between the council and landowners, we appeal to the council to extend the deadline for submissions on the plan and bylaw. The council have been working on the plan changes for five years. Affected parties (the ratepayers) need a more reasonable timeframe to make submissions. PETER CHARTRES AND FRAUKE MUNSTER Te Anau Downs Station - The Southland Times What do you want in a five star hotel?Related story: (See story)

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Temples. Ruins. Archaeological sites. Ancient statues. One could be forgiven for thinking that Greece lives permanently in its past, but nothing could be further from the truth. Greece as a holiday destination is a vibrant, colourful country with a zest for life that is akin to riding a rollercoaster to infinity. Nowhere else in modern Europe does the past meld so well with the present and the future than in this very special country. Situated in the south of Europe, it is bordered on three sides by the seas of the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean. These seas are dotted with nearly 6,000 islands, not all inhabited, with the largest being Crete and the smallest, Tinos, in the Cyclades. There are 8 distinct groups of islands from the Sporades in the north to the Cretan islands in the south, all unique in their customs and cuisine and offering a variety of high quality accommodation. Mainland Greece offers a delicious menu of treats from Macedonia in the north to the beautiful Peloponnese in the south and the people are very friendly and welcoming to visitors. Much of Greece is mountainous with the legendary Mount Olympus, at 9,750ft, the highest mountain, a fitting site for the throne of the Gods. Indeed to come to Greece is to step back in time, and, through the dust on your sandals, feel the past come alive, and once you have visited the many historical sites, there is time to relax and refresh oneself in the startlingly blue waters surrounding this spectacular coast, and dine on freshly caught fish and local produce. Truly a destination with its feet in two worlds.

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Calceolaria crenatiflora 'King Mix' Common Calceolaria, Slipper, Pocketbook Flower |Stroll into any florist shop and you are likely to see pots of cheerful, polka-dotted, yellow and red pocketbook flowers. They are the best-known members of a huge group that ranges from dainty 8-inch miniatures to 6-foot shrubs. Tropical natives, most will not tolerate either frost, strong sun, or dry heat. To bloom well, they need fairly cool summers with good rainfall or attentive watering. During winter, bring them indoors, or in frost-free winters, shelter outdoors against a south-southwest-facing wall. Excellent as creeping ground covers for frost-free rock gardens. Needs moisture-retentive, well-drained, acid soil. Grow annuals and biennials from seed in spring, perennial herbs and shrubs from seed, by division, or from cuttings of new shoots in late summer and early autumn. Give seedlings and young plants good ventilation and extra protection from hot sun. In hot dry climates, sow seeds in late summer to ensure blooming before next summer's heat. Taller plants may need support. Avoid root rot and mildew by using sterilized seed and potting mix and by watering carefully at the plant's base. Water splashed on the blossoms can also cause permanent, unsightly spotting. Watch for aphids and whitefly. Grown in greenhouses for the florist trade, it bears delightful clusters of 1-inch-long flowers. Attributes - Calceolaria crenatiflora 'King Mix' Plant Type: Perennial Bloom Season: Late Spring through Early Summer Flower Color: Red Height: 1 ft. 4 in. to 2 ft. 8 in. Width: 2 ft. 8 in. Sunlight: Full Sun, Partial Sun, Shade Climate: Zones 8, 9, 10, 11 Notes: Container Plants, Showy Flowers. Susceptible to Aphids.

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday it was “virtually impossible” for Australia’s economy to grow in the current climate, all but conceding a recession is looming. The economy shrank for the first time since 2001 in the final quarter of last year and a similar outcome in the first three months of this year would put Australia in recession — defined as two straight quarters of contraction. Rudd said he did not see how Australia’s economy could grow amid a global recession that “is getting worse before it gets better.” “It’s clear that the impact of a worsening economic global recession will make it virtually impossible for Australia to sustain a positive economic growth for the period ahead,” Rudd told Channel Nine television. Australia enjoyed eight years of strong growth, largely due to a China-driven resource boom, but demand for Australian commodities has collapsed as waning demand means exporting countries need less raw materials. Unemployment in Australia recently hit a four-year high of 5.2 percent and Rudd said the global downturn would hurt the labor market “just as night follows day,” although he refused to say how high he believed it would climb. “If the global economy is shrinking and global trade is shrinking for the first time in a quarter or a century, then it’s going to have roll-on consequences for our growth, our jobs and our budget,” he said. Rudd’s center-left Labor government has implemented two stimulus packages worth more than A$50 billion (US$33 billion) to try to cushion the economy and the prime minister refused to rule out further packages. “We reserve the right to take whatever further action is necessary to continue to support the economy and jobs,” he said. Most economists believe Australia is already in recession and only needs to await the release of official first quarter growth figures in a few months to confirm the fact.

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Welcome To Our Site Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in ‘Taj Lok Kaliyan Sanstha Shajapur ’ and its activities. Taj Lok Kaliyan Sanstha aims at Rural Welfare Reforms for the Indian Woman and Girl Child, Social welfare and Health Welfare. It is an Indian NGO for Social Services, Indian Child Welfare Services, Welfare for the Rural Indian Woman, Rural Education and Self Employment. Beginning with a small group of committed people, Taj Lok Kaliyan Sanstha was formed in the year 2002 attempting to transform its beliefs into reality. It is an organization based in Shajapur district of Madhiya Pradesh. It got formally registered in 2004. We started our activities with one nonformal education and vocational training center for women in the village Shajapur. In last six years our activities have broadened in the fields of female literacy,formal education for children,nonformal education, rural employment, income generating skills, awareness programmes on various social issues. The activities reach out to poor and marginalized women, adolescents and disadvantaged and marginalized children from rural and urban areas of Shajapur. we are Providing Job Oriented Training Course to Backwards Class and Minority Class of the society, Under the Scheme of “Backwards and Minority Finance Development Department Bhopal”Read More

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This Memorial weekend market was a slow one. There were still 13 vendors there with plenty to sell. Some of the items available were bakery, eggs, jams, jellies, herbs fresh and dried, popcorn, onions, radishes, spinach, garlic, turnips, rhubarb, lettuce, homemade angel food cakes(Darold is now selling whole, halves or quarters of the angel food cakes), and plants. During this market we had a much needed rain shower. It is very dry at my house. I drug out the garden hoses (notice I said hoses), the water bill is going to be high. Hot and dry, summer is here. Saturday night I saw my sure sign of summer evenings. The Lightning Bugs were out. They are an amazing bug, flying around flashing all night long. Some call them Fireflies. Seeing them brings back memories as a child, making diamond rings and bracelets out of them. In my garden I see those bugs throughout the day. But nightfall comes and they are flying around flashing. By flashing Lightning Bugs are trying to attract their mates. It is the males that fly around flashing. The females stay perched on vegetation, usually near the ground. If the female sees a male flasher and she is ready to mate she will flash right after the male's last flash. So that a flasher doesn't attract a firefly of a different species, each Lightning Bug species has its own special flash pattern. Lightning Bugs are a member of the beetle family. Have you wondered what a lightning bus eats? The Lightning Bug larvae live on the ground usually under bark and in moist places. They eat earthworms, snails, and slugs. The Lightning Bug larva injects a kind of a chemical that paralyzes their prey and helps digest it. The adult Lightning Bus can live for several months and feed on plant nectar. Nectar is nothing more than sugar water produced naturally by all kinds of flowers. So to make sure you have enough nectar for Lightning Bugs, Hummingbirds, bees, or any other bugs you want to feed make sure you have some flowering plants in your garden or yard. See you at market. Toledo Market Master Homemade Nectar Recipe Boil 4 cups water, add 1 cup sugar, and stir until dissolved. Let cool. Pour into feeders. Store any unused nectar in the refrigerator. No need to add food coloring. Do not use honey. Honey will quickly ferment becoming poisonous to the birds.

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Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, the first openly lesbian or gay person to be so elected. Maryland passed Question Six and Maine Question One, both affirming marriage equality by popular vote, the first times states have done this. Minnesota voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have banned marriage equality for same-gender couples, the first time such a state measure has failed. Washington Referendum 74, which will also provide marriage equality, is projected to have passed. (Rainbow Heart via Photobucket)

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This Episode we discuss on the most common and not effective habits of organizing files and folders. This messy habit not only leads to confusion when you need to search your files but a big issue when you have to reinstall your OS. I have emphasized on Keeping folders into a separate drive instead of keeping in my folders. The problem with these folders is they get either deleted or lost when you go for new installation. You can even create folders like images, documents where subsections can be according ot your colege, family or whichever suits your need.

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E-world 2013: TÜV Rheinland and Telekom cut energy consumption for buildings and IT infrastructures Jan 25, 2013 - Savings of up to 15 percent for buildings and up to 60 percent in IT - Energy management system conforms to ISO 50001 - Telekom supplies the data, TÜV Rheinland provides evaluation and support services A new partnership between Deutsche Telekom and technical inspection service TÜV Rheinland now helps companies to save energy. Telekom's role is to collect the consumption data, while TÜV Rheinland uses it to develop efficiency measures and establish an energy management system. "The rising cost of energy and the increasing role of sustainability in a company's enterprise value is shifting the aspect of resource management more and more into the spotlight of corporate management," said Gabriele Riedmann de Trinidad, responsible for the Energy business area at Deutsche Telekom. "The combination of TÜV Rheinland as a partner and our energy efficiency solutions for buildings and IT means we can offer companies a way of gaining transparency over their energy consumption and thus reducing it." Dieter Kaufmann, authorized officer at TÜV Rheinland added: "The all-in package we are offering in combination with Telekom helps customers to identify and switch off wasteful appliances and cut the operating costs of their IT landscape and building systems long term." The experts have plenty of experience in this area: "Data centers can save between 20 and 40 percent with no deterioration in performance," said Kaufmann. The energy efficiency solution for buildings can save companies up to 15 percent on power used in warehouses, offices, branches, and production sites. It uses the data lines already in place to access existing power meters, sensors, and building system management programs. A central management system gives companies a clearer picture of their consumption, information in case thresholds are exceeded, and the status of their systems and alarms. Additionally, the energy efficiency solution from Telekom allows users to manage heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, heat pumps, cooling systems, and much more. The solution itself has been independently tested and certified to ISO 50001 and delivers the figures used for the energy management system in accordance with ISO 50001. STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH already uses the energy efficiency solution for 700,000 data and meter points at 8,500 Deutsche Telekom properties. Strabag is a service partner to Deutsche Telekom, and its energy management system is ISO 50001 certified. Part of the service it provides is to take energy consumption, function, and status readings from the technical systems installed at the properties. The information points the real estate service provider to illogical scenarios, such as when the ventilation and heating systems are on at the same time, so it can manage the building systems and thus save energy costs for Deutsche Telekom. It is not only buildings that use energy, however. A large portion of the energy bill is generated by PCs, printers, and servers. Telekom's energy efficiency management solution for IT continually monitors the loads and energy consumption of such equipment. There is no need to install software agents or expensive measuring equipment. By automatically switching equipment on and off, IT infrastructure savings of up to 60 percent can be made. Find out more at E-world 2013 from February 5 to 7 by visiting Deutsche Telekom at stand 102 in hall 7, and TÜV Rheinland at stand 370 in hall 3. About Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with more than 131 million mobile customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in some 50 countries and has over 230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year - over half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011). About TÜV Rheinland Established 140 years ago, TÜV Rheinland is a world-leading independent technical inspection service. The group employs some 16,000 people at 500 sites in 65 countries and generates annual revenue of EUR 1.4 billion. Its independent experts represent quality and safety for people, the environment, and technology, in virtually all areas of life. TÜV Rheinland inspects technical systems, products and services, offers project support, and defines corporate processes. Experts provide training for people in a host of professions and industries using TÜV Rheinland's global network of accredited labs, testing, and training centers. In 2006, TÜV Rheinland joined the United Nations Global Compact, which promotes increased sustainability and works against corruption. Visit www.tuv.com. About STRABAG Property and Facility Services STRABAG Property and Facility Services is an end-to-end real estate service provider. Its portfolio covers real estate management (services include property management and corporate solutions, facility management, and leasing and rental), technical facility management (in particular fail-safe power supply and maximum availability), the extension of existing structures, and infrastructure facility management. With 240 sites in six regions of Germany plus two fault management centers, STRABAG Property and Facility Services guarantees a nationwide presence. In 2012, STRABAG PFS was one of the first companies in the facility management industry to achieve DIN EN ISO 50001 certification for its energy management system. Disclaimer media information Find more media information here not for publication inside the United States, Canada or Japan.

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You think it’s a coincidence that most grocery stores have their flower displays right when you walk in? Nope. It’s all strategy to get you to buy more. Here’s why most grocery stores are laid out in a certain pattern. This comes from Real Simple: - So you walk in and see fresh flowers. Why are they by the entrance? To enhance the image of the store. That’s according to Wendy Liebmann, founder of WSL Strategic Retail – a firm that analyzes consumer behavior. Liebmann says if a customer walks in and sees something fresh, smells something good, sees something beautiful – it builds the notion that everything in the store is fresh. Here’s a shopping tip: Go ahead and buy the flowers because they’re convenient – but know that you’ll get fresher flowers that’ll last longer at a local florist. - So after you pass the flowers, you hit produce. Why? A similar reason. It creates a tempting sensory experience. Stores need to communicate that their produce is fresh – or shoppers won’t buy anything. Here’s a shopping tip: Reach to the back and the bottom. Smart stores always have the oldest merchandise in front or on top because they’re trying to get rid of it. - Then, typically, on the other side of the store, at the opposite entrance, you’ll find the bakery. It’s by the door to get your salivary glands going. If your mouth is watering from bakery smells – even if you don’t buy anything – you’ll get hungry and buy more food in general. - You’ll also usually find a bank or an ATM by the door. They want you to have easy access to money – because the more money that’s in your hands, the more you’re likely to spend. - In the middle of the market, that’s where you’ll get the free samples. Why there? The store wants to stop you in your tracks because the more slowly shoppers move through the store, the more they buy. - At the back of the market – that’s where you’ll find essentials – milk, butter, eggs, meat. Why? Because the store wants you to have to traipse through the entire place to get there. They’re not stupid! They know, if you have to go to the back of the store – you’re getting the maximum amount of product exposure. When you pick up those essentials – take the milk and eggs from the back of the case. Older merchandise tends to be pushed forward.

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Ashe Juniper (Juniperus asheii Buchh.) Red Berry Juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) Cupressaceae (Cypress Family) Juniper is a medium-sized tree and several species grow widely in the region. Its wood and bark was used as fuel and for toolmaking. Its small fruits were eaten and its leaves were used for medicine and ritual. Juniper was a truly useful and important plant for native groups in the Plains and Southwest. Both Ashe juniper and red berry juniper have overlapping distributions in the western Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos regions. The distribution of Ashe juniper is centered on the Edwards Plateau, but its westward limits include the eastern edge of the Trans-Pecos. Junipers are usually dioecious, that is some trees have all male flowers and some trees have all female flowers. Red berry juniper is the most common juniper of the Trans-Pecos (Powell 1998:27). Both species are evergreen trees that grow 18 to 20 feet tall with short trunks and scale-like leaves. The most distinctive difference between the two is the fruit, copper-colored in red berry juniper and blue-green in Ashe juniper. Widely scattered solitary juniper trees or small stands are present throughout the Amistad Reservoir region. Near the Rio Grande juniper grows mostly near canyon heads, in canyons, or along north-facing slopes of low hills, but within 15-20 miles north of the river juniper is widespread across the uplands. A specimen of Ashe juniper was collected at the Pecos River Gauging station on a rocky slope above the Pecos River (AMIS 41524). A stand of red berry juniper is located in a wide canyon on Zuberbueler Bend within two miles of the Rio Grande. Because most ethnography was recorded outside of the distributional limits of Ashe juniper, this author has not yet found mention of this plant the ethnobotanical literature. There are a few notes regarding the use of red berry juniper. These plants have much in common with Juniperus monosperma, or one seeded juniper, for which there is much information. Most importantly, the fruit of Ashe and red berry juniper is quite edible, the red berry juniper is especially tasty. Archeological occurrence. Juniper wood is very workable and useful and provides excellent fuel, and wherever juniper grows the charcoal is recovered from pre-contact period hearths and roasting pits of the Native Americans. Juniper wood was recovered from Early Archaic earth oven at Hinds Cave, and juniper seed was recovered from more recent midden deposits directly above the oven in Block A (Dering 1979). Juniper wood was also noted in burned rock midden deposits at four sites in northern Val Verde County (Dering 2003). It is clear that juniper was utilized by the Native Americans in the region both for its fruit and wood. Food. As previously noted, there are not many ethnographic references to either red berry or ashe juniper. However, some of the identification in the ethnography is obviously a little sloppy. For example, in the binomial key to the genus, one of the dividing characteristics is whether the cones are fleshy and juicy or dry and fibrous (eg. Correll and Johnston 1970; Powell 1998). Both Ashe juniper and red berry juniper have juicy pulps. Red berry juniper has a very excellent fruit; it is relatively pulpy and sweet, with just a hint of resin. Most ethnographic references discuss red berry juniper only as a medicinal plant, but it actually produces one of the best-tasting juniper "berries" in North America. Carlson and Jones (1942:522) note that the Comanche ate the cones of the eastern red cedar, but this species has a fibrous cone that is not particularly flavorful. Both Ashe juniper and red berry juniper have a juicier and sweeter fruit, and grow in an overlapping distribution with eastern red cedar, at least in western Oklahoma. They would have been known to the Comanche and would have been readily consumed along with the less edible eastern red cedar in that part of Comanche territory. One-seeded juniper, Juniperus monosperma, for which many ethnographic references are available, grows in an overlapping distribution with red berry juniper, and both have a juicy cone. Unfortunately, in the area of northern New Mexico and Arizona where most of the ethnographic observations were recorded, red berry juniper does not grow. However, the fruit has a similar taste and texture to one-seeded juniper. The primary difference is that one-seeded juniper cones are blue-green and red-berry juniper cones are copper-colored. For this reason, some of the uses of one-seeded juniper are mentioned. One-seeded juniper berries were consumed by the Keresan (White 1945:561; Elmore 1944:19) Ramah Navajo (Vestal 1952:11), Tewa, Tewa at Hano, and at San Idelfonso (Robbins et al 1916:40). The Chiricahua/Mescalero and the White Mountain Apache cooked the fruit into a soup or gravy (Castetter and Opler 1936:45; Reagan 1929:158). Many groups cooked meat with the juniper berries, including the Keres, the Hopi, and the Acoma, who chopped meat with the fruits and placed the combination in a deer stomach before roasting it (Castetter 1935:31). Medicine and ritual. In the Southwest the most cited juniper in ethnography is the one-seeded juniper. White Mountain Apache used an Infusion of leaves taken for colds and coughs (Reagan 1929:158). Decoctions or infusions of the leaves were taken by the Ramah Navajo and Tewa for a variety of illnesses, including postpartum pains, burns, coughs, or stomach aches (Robbins et al. 1916:39-40; Vestal 1952:11-12). The Tewa heated boughs and applied them to sprained or arthritic limbs (Robbins et al. 1916:39). The Zuni used juniper boughs or leaves during childbirth, applying infusions or decoctions to promote relaxation of muscles during birth or to stop flow of blood after birth (Stevenson 1915: 55). Many groups in the Southwest and the Plains used juniper for ceremonial purposes. Plains Indians used juniper leaves (primarily eastern red cedar) were widely used for ceremonial purposes. The Comanche placed juniper leaves on a fire and inhaled the smoke for purification (Carlson and Jones 1942:522). The Omaha linked cedar (juniper) to thunder, lightning, and wars, and used juniper boughs for incense, placing it on hot stones in a vapor bath in purification rites (Gilmore 1913:323). The Osage used the twigs and incense and considered juniper a tree of life --- "it is always green, is durable, pleasing to the eye, the gift of God (Gilmore 1913:321)." Cane tubes filled with juniper leaves were recovered from Shumla Caves. It is clear from this discovery that juniper played a similar part in healing and ceremonial practices that it did in the adjacent Great Plains and desert Southwest of North America. Castetter, Edward F. 1935 Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food. Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest. Vol. I. The University of New Mexico Bulletin, Biological Series 4(1). Albuquerque, New Mexico. Correll, Donovan S. and Marshall C. Johnston 1970 Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas. Contributions from the Texas Research Foundation, Volume 6. Renner, Texas. Dering, J. Philip 1979 Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Vegetation Record Recovered from Hinds Cave, Val Verde County, Texas. Masters Thesis, published by the Department of Anthropology. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 2003 Plant Remainsfrom U.S. Highway 277 Project, Val Verde County, Texas. In Archeological Data Recovery Investigations of Four Burned Rock Midden sites (41VV1892, 41VV1893, 41VV1895, 41VV1897), Val Verde County, Texas, by Cliff, Maynard, pp. A1-A13. PBS&J. Doc. 10102, Texas Department of Transportation Archeological Studies Program Report No. 51. Austin, Texas. Elmore, Francis H. 1944 Ethnobotany of the Navajo. University of New Mexico Bulletin. Monograph Series 1(7). University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1913 A study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians. Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society 17:314-357. Robbins, Wilfred Wiliam, John Peabody Harrington and Barbara Freire-Marreco 1916 Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. In Thirtieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, [1908-1909], pp. 35-103. Washington, D.C. 1952 Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40 (4). Harvard University. Boston, Massachusetts. White, Leslie A. 1945 Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568.

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India joins the race to clean up Gulf War oil spillsApril 8th, 2009 - 2:32 pm ICT by IANS By Manish Chand Kuwait, April 8 (IANS) Eighteen years after the first Gulf War, India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has joined the race for a $3-billion contract to clean up oil spills caused by the Iraq’s invasion of the Gulf emirate in 1991. ONGC has formed a joint venture company with the New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to bid for this UN-backed project. Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari’s three-day visit to Kuwait, that ended Wednesday, has given a big boost to ONGC’s plan to make a foray into this area. The issue figured in discussions between Ansari and Amir Of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Tuesday, Indian officials privy to the meeting told IANS. It was also discussed separately in a meeting between Ansari and Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Petroleum Secretary R.S. Pandey also took up the proposed project with his Kuwaiti counterpart. The project has got a big political push with the vice-president’s visit, officials said. The Kuwait government has floated a global tender for this project that will cleanse Iraqi soil from toxic spillovers from the 1991 war. Kuwaiti oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi invaders and oil-related installations were damaged. Some American companies are also eyeing this lucrative UN-backed project. But India’s top selling point is its environment-friendly technology. ONGC-Teri Biotech Ltd (OTBL), as the Indian joint venture is called, plans to use Oilzapper technology, which uses a bacteria to clean the soil corroded by oil spills. OTBL has pioneered cleaning technologies - bioremediation and anti-paraffin degrading bacterial (PDB) consortium. Bio-remediation is widely seen as a technological breakthrough in hazardous waste management to protect the environment from the adverse impact of toxic and hazardous contaminants. Besides attracting Kuwaiti investment in India’s burgeoning infrastructure sector, enhancing cooperation in petrochemical sector between India and Kuwait topped discussions between the two countries during the vice-president’s visit. In an address to Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tuesday, Ansari held out fertiliser production as a promising opportunity for Kuwaiti businessmen and investors to make handsome profits in these “troubled” recessionary times. Kuwait, home to 580,000 Indians, accounts for 12 percent of India’s crude oil imports which mostly come from the Gulf region. The two sides also signed three agreements to encourage exchange of scholars, scientists, researchers and cultural figures and discussed a range of issues to take their multi-faceted relationship forward. - Kuwait keen on investing in India's petrochemical industry - Sep 29, 2010 - Kuwait's ruler appoints new prime minister - Dec 01, 2011 - Kuwait emir accepts premier's resignation - Jul 01, 2012 - Kuwaiti minister to inaugurate new Jamia library - Sep 24, 2010 - Kuwait's deputy PM quits - Oct 19, 2011 - Krishna leaves for Kuwait - Feb 25, 2011 - With economy on mind, Ansari to visit Kuwait - Apr 05, 2009 - Krishna calls on Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister - Feb 26, 2011 - Half of Kuwait cabinet turns up to receive vice president Ansari - Apr 06, 2009 - India seeks Kuwaiti funds in infrastructure, signs three pacts (Lead) - Apr 07, 2009 - Krishna heads to Kuwait Friday - Feb 24, 2011 - India seeks Kuwaiti funds, signs three pacts - Apr 07, 2009 - Recession-hit India to tap Kuwait for investment - Apr 02, 2009 - India for more anti-terror cooperation with Gulf - Apr 06, 2009 - First session of Gulf Cooperation Council summit ends - Dec 07, 2010 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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World’s smallest insulin injection needle launchedMay 25th, 2011 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The world’s smallest pen needle insulin injection for diabetics promising relief from pain was launched here Wednesday, said a statement from its manufacturer Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). “The BD nano pen needle is proven to be as effective as the longer needles in patients of all body types and proven to offer a less painful injection experience for people with diabetes who inject insulin. This is the world’s first four mm long pen needle,” said Diwakar Mittal, business manager, BD Medical-Diabetes Care, India. The needle is four mm in length and of 32 gauge thickness making it the shortest and the thinnest in the market. Currently, insulin injection needles are available in variable sizes of which the five mm long needles are the most common among diabetics. “We are confident that this tiny needle can have a big impact by easing diabetes patients’ transition and ongoing adherence to injectable drug therapy regimens,” Mittal added. “The pen needle provides equivalent glucose control as compared to longer insulin pen needles. It effectively delivers an insulin dose to the layer of fat below the skin which is the recommended site for insulin injections,” the statement said. - Here come smart insulin pumps for diabetic kids - Apr 12, 2012 - Apex hospital panel seeks better care standards - Aug 24, 2011 - Device to free diabetics from pinpricks? - Sep 09, 2012 - Taking the needle out of diabetes - Nov 07, 2011 - NGO to provide free insulin to poor diabetics - Mar 30, 2012 - Injectable, oral contraceptives 'don't affect glucose, insulin levels' - Dec 21, 2010 - Insulin may protect patients from fatal bacterial infections - Sep 09, 2010 - Study to find whether leptin helps type 1 diabetic patients - Oct 11, 2010 - Ginger could help control diabetes - Aug 07, 2012 - Potential new non-insulin treatment for type 1 diabetes found - Mar 25, 2011 - Nasal spray helps stop diabetes - Jun 15, 2011 - Cure for insulin-dependent diabetes could be developed within 3yrs - Dec 19, 2010 - Insulin pills for diabetics may make painful jabs history - Jun 03, 2010 - Intense diabetes treatment could make sugar levels go 'too low' - Jan 27, 2010 - Lighting up blood sugar levels boon for diabetics - Oct 26, 2010 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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U.S. Aid Targets Rwanda's AIDS Orphans May 29, 2003 The plight of AIDS orphans is one target of new US legislation allocating $15 billion for Rwanda and 13 other African and Caribbean countries to support the fight against the disease. The program is intended to provide care for 10 million AIDS orphans and HIV-infected individuals, prevent 7 million new infections -- or 60 percent of the projected 12 million new infections in the target countries -- and pay for AIDS drugs for about 2 million people infected with HIV.Adapted from: Pascazia Mukamana, 16-year-old acting as a parent to two siblings, is among an estimated 1 million children -- or more than 12 percent of Rwanda's population of 8.2 million -- orphaned by AIDS and a 1994 genocide, said Felicite Mukantambara, an official with UNICEF. The small central African nation "has the highest percentage of orphans per population in the world," said Anne Morris, country director of CARE International. Some 325,000 of the orphans live in homes headed by children, mainly girls. "It puts children in very vulnerable positions when they don't have adults in the household -- there's no protection, no guidance and no role models," Morris said. However, AIDS orphans are finding creative ways of coping. Orphaned households identify adults in their neighborhood who take on the role of mentor for several of them. A mentor, traditionally known as a "rundabana," monitors the welfare of the orphans and keeps track of their health and progress in school. "This is like being a mother to multiple households," said Florence Mukangameje, 38, a mother of two and a rundabana for eight households. "It's voluntary work that requires plenty of sacrifices." The rundabana organize orphans into self-help groups to repair homes, prepare fields for planting and pool funds for moneymaking projects. The self-help groups also play a key role in reforming unruly orphans and giving moral support to new orphans who despair, Mukamana said. "It is quite remarkable because there is no group of children who have been as traumatized en masse in modern history as these," Morris said. "They witnessed a genocide, saw their parents dying slowly of AIDS and now must fend for themselves." 05.28.03; Rodrique Ngowi This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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Dimensions of Sexual Orientation and HIV-Related Risk Among Adolescent Females: Evidence From a Statewide Survey September 5, 2008 In order to identify factors that may place adolescent females at risk of HIV/AIDS, the researchers assessed the relationship of two dimensions of sexual orientation -- sexual identity, and sex of partners -- with self-reported behaviors and experiences. The researchers concluded, "Programs to prevent HIV infection among adolescent females should take into account the complexity of sexual orientation and should address the needs and behaviors of sexual-minority youths." Am Journal of Public Health 06.2008; Vol. 98; No. 6: P. 1051-1058; Carol Goodenow, Ph.D.; Laura A. Szalacha, Ed.D.; Leah E. Robin, Ph.D.; Kim Westheimer, M.A. This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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The ads typically display the friend’s name, photo, and a caption asserting that the person likes a certain advertiser. The ads are generated when a Facebook member clicks on the “Like” button for a particular page, product, or company. The plaintiffs claimed that sponsored stories violate California’s Right of Publicity Statute, which prevents the use of a person’s name or photo in a paid advertisement without that person’s consent. They also allege that they were unaware that the act of clicking on a “Like” button would be considered an endorsement or an “expression of consumer opinion.” Facebook claimed the like button was a newsworthy event rather than advertising since the plaintiffs are considered public figures to their friends. The judge rejected the argument finding that “newsworthy actions may be subjects of liability when published for commercial rather than journalistic purposes.” Here are some of the facts and findings of the Court: “”At issue here is one of Facebook’s advertising practices in particular, “Sponsored Stories,” which appear on a member’s Facebook page, and which typicallyconsist of another member’s name, profile picture, and an assertion that the person “likes” theadvertiser, coupled with the advertiser’s logo. Sponsored Stories are generated when a member interacts with the Facebook website or affiliated sites in certain ways, such as by clicking on the“Like” button on a company’s Facebook page “”In this putative class action, Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated, allege that Facebook’s Sponsored Stories violate California’s Right of PublicityStatute, Civil Code § 3344; California’s Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code §17200, and the common law doctrine of unjust enrichment. “Plaintiffs allege thatFacebook unlawfully misappropriated Plaintiffs’ names, photographs, likenesses, and identities for use in paid advertisements without obtaining Plaintiffs’ consent” “The Ninth Circuit has squarely held thatthe commercial use of a person’s newsworthy acts may nonetheless still result in liability under §3344.

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With the completion of three Iowa wind power projects in 2012, Iowa's largest utility now gets about 30 percent of its total power generation from wind. MidAmerican Energy added 407 megawatts of wind power in 2012, including the 106-megawatt Vienna wind project the company acquired in Marshall and Tama counties, the 200-megawatt Eclipse wind farm in Guthrie and Audubon counties, and the 101-megawatt Morning Light wind project in Adair County. "MidAmerican Energy had approval from the Iowa Utilities Board to add up to 1,001 megawatts of wind-powered generation before 2013, and I'm proud to say that we fulfilled that commitment," said Bill Fehrman, CEO of Des Moines-based MidAmerican, in a statement released Monday. The 176 wind turbines added by MidAmerican were supplied by Siemens AG, which manufactured the blades in Fort Madison. The Vienna wind development was constructed by Mortenson Construction. The Eclipse and Morning Light wind projects were built by Wanzek Construction. A key federal tax credit used to help finance many wind developments, the Production Tax Credit, was due to expire at the end of 2012. MidAmerican Energy has invested some $3.9 billion in wind generation projects in Iowa since its first project in 2004. The utility now owns 2,285 megawatts of wind-generation capacity. Because of variable wind speeds and other factors, the output of wind turbines is substantially less than their rated capacity.MidAmerican provides electric service to 732,000 customers and natural gas to 714,000 customers in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota.

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About 120 Lutheran Indonesians in Denver, Seattle, New York and Los Angeles face possible deportation. They are members of four ELCA "affiliate" congregations that are part of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (Protestant Christian Batak Church). James Hytjan, the Division for Outreach's mission director in the Rocky Mountain Synod, said most of the parishioners came to the United States seeking economic opportunity, fleeing religious persecution or as students. Some overstayed their visas and have been in the United States for up to 10 years. Since implementation earlier this year of the Homeland Security Act, males over age 16 from predominantly Muslim countries must complete a special registration process. Indonesian Lutherans are no exception. They must register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, one of the agencies replacing the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The rest of this article is only available to subscribers. © 2015 Augsburg Fortress, Publishers

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General Train Information for South Korea Trains (기차 gi-cha) are a comfortable way to travel around Korea. Although slightly more expensive, less frequent, sometimes less punctual and slower to reach destinations than the buses; trains are well equipped, easier to navigate for English speakers, and a safe way to travel. Korail is the national train operator, and has been working in recent years to expand its routes and services. However, routes are still pretty limited and don’t cover all areas of Korea – especially in the countryside. The Korail website allows you to view routes and book tickets in English , however it can be difficult to get specific details from the site, and the routes can be explained quite vaguely. As with bus travel in Korea, it is usually not necessary to book train tickets in advance, unless you are travelling on a big national holiday or a route that is extremely popular for some reason. Korea is most proud of its high-speed KTX (Korea Train eXpress) trains which connect major cities like Seoul, Busan, Daejeon and Daegu, travelling at 300km per hour, and making the journey from Seoul to Busan take less than 3 hours. Fares for that journey are around 50,000 won. KTX trains usually have 18 cars, so are longer than regular trains, have a 3 car First Class section, and a trolley service serving drinks and refreshments. Regular trains are categorised into the following: Express – Saemaeul (새마을) Semi-Express – Mugunghwa (무궁화) Local – Tonggeun (통근)(not particularly common anymore) Most trains, especially those travelling long distances, are fitted with a ‘bar’ and entertainment carriage, which sells alcohol, soft drinks and hot and cold food. There are also computers with internet which cost around 500 won for 15 minutes, as well as noraebangs (singing rooms), where you can karaoke the journey away! Unlike trains in some Western countries, the food and drink prices are very reasonable, and purchases don’t cost any more than in regular shops. In the seating carriages themselves, there is a lever underneath the seats, which you can press to rotate the chairs to face a different direction. This is great if you’re travelling in group and want to face each other and socialise throughout the journey. The seats also recline if you fancy a snooze. Announcements on the trains are often made in both Korean and English, so it’s usually easy to know when you’re approaching your stop. Tickets are also printed with information in both languages, and unlike the bus tickets, they tell you what time you are expected to arrive at your destination. As well as buying tickets from the attendant at the ticket office, you can also usually find self-service machines at the station, which have an English option, and allow you to pay by cash or card. All trains in Korea are non-smoking, as are the platforms. As in Western trains, you can find toilets at the end of the carriages, which are usually pretty clean and well maintained. It is also usually possible to take bicycles on board, and store them at the end of the carriage. The word for ‘Train Station’ in Korean is 기차역 (gi-cha yok) We are constantly adding new train schedules onto our site. However, if you have any information regarding train schedule changes that we have not listed here, then please get in touch with us at

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In England, the goalkeeper is treated as a necessary evil. It’s a thankless position. One mistake and you’ve gone from being a hero to being a bum. – Esther Howard THOSE WORDS RING true. No kid ever wants to go in goal. No kid ever dreams of making a save in the World Cup final. To be put in goal is to be punished. The position of goalkeeper is reserved for the fat, the lazy, and the talentless. Nobody wants a goalkeeper, they just want a body between the posts. What does that say about the mentality of those children who choose to take that position? And what does it say about Esther Howard, who encouraged her son Tim, to take up the least popular position in the least popular sport in America? At school in New Brunswick, NJ Tim Howard wasn’t like the other kids. In the Sixth Grade Howard was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. Contrary to the popular image of Tourette’s as “the swearing disease,” sufferers are more likely to experience facial jerks, spasms, and involuntary tics. Goalkeepers are always different. They tend to be natural outsiders. On the pitch this difference is further highlighted by the wearing of a different jersey – usually a jersey in garish neon colors. Kids aren’t different because they play in goal, they play in goal because they are different. When I was at school I read a series of football-themed books by Rob Childs. The only story I recall was All Goalies Are Crazy. The plot follows the goalkeeping obsessed, and mildly eccentric, Sanjay, who finds himself dropped after a string of errors, and his attempts to win back his place in the team. I know that I read the entire series, but the fact that that is the only title I remember is probably a lot to do with the fact that I identified with Sanjay, as I was the only kid at school who wanted to play in goal. I was also different from most of my classmates – quieter, shier, but prone to telling outlandish lies. I once spent several weeks trying to convince my friend Saad that I was literally from a different planet. It almost worked. Of course, I would likely have ended up in goal anyway, as one of the physically weakest, least talented players at school. As a timid child I had the requisite absence of ego required to play in a position that affords you almost no glory whatsoever. You also need thick skin to absorb the blame you will receive for each and every goal conceded (although at amateur level, ambivalence is an acceptable substitute). There are very few, if any, good reasons to be a goalkeeper. Even those who play in the position find it hard to explain why we do it. Tim Howard does not enjoy it at all, as he explained to The New Yorker a few years ago, “To tell you the truth, I don’t enjoy the game – I’ve never actually had fun within the course of those ninety minutes… When the whistle blows, I’m completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.” Between the end of junior school and my final year of university, I hardly ever played. It was only then that I was called upon to replace my friend Liam as goalkeeper of the Itchen Minnows – a six-a-side team formed by my fellow students in Creative Writing and named after an incredibly small fish. It was not an inappropriate moniker. Interestingly the twelve weeks of that football season coincided with my most productive and prolific period as a writer. In four months I completed eight university assignments, published two essays, wrote one film script, a novel, and conceded just under fifty goals. And it would seem that there is, in fact, a link between these two factors – between being a writer, and being a goalkeeper. Football has often been the subject of literature, with Nick Hornby’s excellent Fever Pitch perhaps the best known. Then, of course, there’s Rob Childs’ All Goalies are Crazy, and in literary fiction Austrian novelist Peter Handke’s even darker take on goalkeepers’ mental instability The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, a novel which takes the outsider status of the goalkeeper to existential extremes as, after being sent off and conceding a penalty, he commits a murder in the same mindless vain of Albert Camus’s Meursault in L’Etranger. Also turned into a movie by Wim Wenders, Handke’s seemingly straightforward title, in this instance, refers to the psychological nightmare of the penalty as a metaphor for his goalkeeper’s ambiguous position as an as-yet unsuspected murderer. Occasionally, football players themselves take to writing. Recently England midfielder Frank Lampard launched his own series of football-themed children’s books and nearly every ex-pro has an autobiography. These vary in quality, and are usually ghostwritten. The only example worth recommending is I Am Zlatan, from Sweden’s eccentric striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. However, there are only a handful of well-known writers who’ve played competitive football. And every one of them played as a goalkeeper. The best known footballing goalkeeper is arguably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who not only created the most famous fictional character of all time but also started in goal for Portsmouth F.C. Very little is known about Conan Doyle’s career. He played under the pseudonym A.C. Smith, and the club disbanded in 1896. It is very difficult – particularly with such scant information – to make any connection between Doyle’s writing career and his football career. In fact ACD was something of an all-round sportsman, a keen golfer and a talented cricketer who played First-class cricket, the sport’s highest professional level, for Marylebone Cricket Club. Albert Camus, author of the aforementioned L’Etranger, is another author whose appreciation of, and involvement in football is well known and well documented. A French-Algerian, like the legendary Zinedine Zidane, Camus was a two-time winner of the North African Cup, and the North African Champions cup with his side RUA (Racing Universitaire d’Algers). There are also unconfirmed reports that he represented the Algerian national side in the 1930s. Sadly for Camus, his career ended at the age of just seventeen, when he contracted tuberculosis. Interviewed by the alumni sports magazine of the RUA where he’d been a student, he says about soccer: “After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA.” It is worth noting that amongst the many things Camus had seen, active participation in the French Resistance was one of them. Aside from Vladimir Nabokov’s keen interests in butterfly collecting and chess, there was also at one time soccer. As a young man the future Lolita author studied at the Tenishev School in St. Petersburg, and played as goalkeeper for the university team. He described goalkeepers as ”the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.” He later went on to play for Trinity College, Cambridge described in his memoir Speak, Memory: Mercifully the game would swing to the opposite end of the sodden field. A weak, weary drizzle would start, hesitate, and go on again…The far, blurred sounds, a cry, a whistle, the thud of a kick, all that was perfectly unimportant and had no connection with me. I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret. As with folded arms I lent my back against the left goalpost, I enjoyed the luxury of closing my eyes, and thus I would listen to my heart knocking and feel the blind drizzle on my face and hear, in the distance, the broken sounds of the game, and think of myself as of a fabulous exotic being in an English footballer’s disguise, composing verse in a tongue nobody understood about a remote country nobody knew. Small wonder I was not very popular with my team-mates. Nabokov seems to view himself as simultaneously part of the team, but separate from it. Goalkeepers are rarely the hero, yet ‘Nabbsy’ seems to be picturing himself as some sort of mythic, mysterious lone cowboy type. I also find it hard to believe that he would be in a position to lean against either goalpost, or have the time to compose verse although he does seem to imply that he may not have been the most reliable goalkeeper. Nabokov’s thoughts on goalkeeping also go against one of my own theories about why the position is so appealing to writers, which is to do with the almost Zen-like concentration required. The mind of a creative type is usually busy with ideas in a way which isn’t always helpful and hard to switch off. In my own experience, I found that once the gloves are on you are completely focused on the game, and the subconscious is finally quiet. It’s a kind of meditation, and an obvious benefit for a writer for whom constantly obsessing over their work is unhealthy and unconstructive. In his 2010 New Yorker profile Tim Howard revealed that he refuses to take medication for his Tourette’s, for fear of losing his mental clarity and becoming “zombielike.” He also revealed that the intensity of his concentration moderates his symptoms and often temporarily rids himself of them entirely. Perhaps there is something to Nabokov’s poetic philosophy towards goalkeeping. It is a very individual position – the loneliest, most isolated role on the pitch. It is not unprecedented for goalkeepers to endure long periods of inaction during a game. In the semi-final against Brazil, Germany’s Manuel Neuer rarely got a look at the ball. It is the only position in which much of the game is spent as an observer, rather than a participant. The psychological toil comes in not knowing when you will be called to participate and so must spend the entirety of the game in constant readiness. A goalkeeper must have a good imagination to picture the unexpected occurring at any given moment. Linked to imagination is superstition. Goalkeepers tend to be the most superstitious players. At the 1998 World Cup the French ‘keeper Fabien Barthez insisted that his teammate Laurent Blanc kiss him on the head for good luck. Spain and Real Madrid No.1 Ilker Casillas would wear his socks inside out for each game, as well as touching the crossbar before kick-off (the latter being a practice shared by many other goalkeepers, including myself). Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given keeps a bottle of Holy Water in his goal, whilst Pepe Reina begins his superstitions six hours before kick-off, with a visit to the petrol station. The strangest goalkeeper superstition goes to Argentina’s Sergio Goyochea, who urinated on the pitch before facing a penalty. Of course, the tortured psychology of goalkeeping probably offers the greatest reason for the link between goalkeeping and writers. Writing is an intensely psychological and philosophical pursuit, requiring heightened senses, understanding, and imagination. It also requires a paradoxical combination of vulnerability and mental resilience. Like the goalkeeper, the writer’s efforts rarely win plaudits, are barely even noticed and can all too often be for naught. To Tim Howard, his record-breaking performance meant nothing; his team still lost the game. His post-match comments echoed those he made in the New Yorker : “They’re trying to get the ball past you; you’re trying to stop it. Anything else is meaningless.” Both roles share the psychological resilience required to get back up after every setback, and keep on going as though nothing has happened. Confidence is everything, and losing it can cost your place in the team, or even your career. In 2006 England’s Paul Robinson failed to clear a back pass that bobbled over his foot and went in. It effectively ended his international career, and it took several seasons for his club career to recover. The goalie is also the most interesting position from a human point of view. It is also, arguably, where the most action, drama and comedy is found. Every goal features a beaten ‘keeper, whether the ball goes in as a result of genius, or a gentle tap in. Whether it’s a late winner, or a tragicomic deflection off a teammate into his own goal. The goalkeeper is always there, in the middle of it all – the heights of joy and the depths of despair. To the writer, the penalty box is the most exciting part of the pitch. It is a sensory overload, an eighteen-yard box brimming with tension, frayed nerves, high hopes, and fallen dreams. It is a microcosm of the human experience. Where else are we really going to be?

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) exists to find the cure for type 1 diabetes and is the world’s leading charitable provider of funds for type 1 diabetes research. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic, life-threatening condition and people living with type 1 diabetes rely on multiple daily insulin injections or pump infusions just to stay alive, until we find the cure. Type 1 diabetes currently affects about 350,000 people in the UK, over 25,000 of whom are children. Incidences are increasing by 4% each year, particularly in children under five, with a five-fold increase in this age group in the last 20 years. JDRF raises money to drive world-class research to prevent, treat and cure type 1 diabetes. For 30 years it has been fundamentally involved in the delivery of advances in this field; seeking out, assessing and monitoring the best science to drive the breakthroughs that improve management of type 1 and will ultimately cure the condition. The charity also recognises the challenges of living with type 1 diabetes and advocates to ensure the condition is fully understood. It also provides information for families affected by the condition, schools and young people encouraging them to become directly involved in supporting research for the cure. “It’s upsetting, to say the least, when your child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, as Yvette was aged just four. All you want is for someone to come up with a cure – and fast. I support JDRF because of its upbeat and positive approach to the condition. They tirelessly work to aid research, raising funds in new and imaginative ways, even challenging the Government to move things forward. Best of all, JDRF is wholly committed to ‘being in it for the kids’. They speak their language, help them understand the issues involved, and make them feel special – which they undoubtedly are.” Daughter Yvette diagnosed aged four

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In a too-familiar scenario, Vancouver stands in for City by the Bay, whose film workers miss out on benefits In the blockbuster film “Godzilla,” the rampaging reptile spectacularly lays waste to large portions of San Francisco. It makes for a great monster movie mayhem, but for the City by the Bay, it’s adding insult to injury. “Godzilla,” a co-production of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., filmed just four days in San Francisco – with Vancouver standing in for the majority of the scenes. “While we’re always proud to see San Francisco featured in any film, knowing how few days they filmed here and how many jobs our local crews and actors missed out on makes it frustrating,” Susannah Greason Robbins, executive director of the San Francisco Film Commission, told TheWrap. “Too many productions shoot elsewhere, lured by stronger monetary incentives, and then just do a few days of establishing shots here,” she said. “While the general public may not realize the film wasn’t actually shot here, we know, and it’s a huge loss.” The snub might be easier to handle for the city’s film industry, if the scenario weren’t such a familiar one. Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is similarly San Francisco-set, but filmed primarily in British Columbia and New Orleans. Ditto with Warner Bros.’ “San Andreas,” the Dwayne Johnson action film that deals with the aftermath of a devastating California earthquake — but is filming primarily in Australia. In Disney’s upcoming “Ant Man,” it’s Georgia that will stand in for San Francisco. And in the upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger action epic “Terminator: Genesis,” it will be New Orleans that subs in. Seeing a trend here? It made it easy for Robbins to speak from the heart when she spoke last week at a hearing of the California Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation, which was considering legislation that would extend and expand California’s TV and movie tax credit program, which currently lags well behind those offered by other states. New York, for example, offers more than $400 million in credits annually, compared to California’s $100 million. “Films with budgets over $75 million can’t even apply for our current state tax credit,” Robbins said. “That’s why they all shoot in states or countries with tax credits and other incentives that help defray their costs.” The bill, AB 1839, would expand eligibility to include blockbuster-budgeted films. It’s currently wending its way through the state Legislature, and its backers hope to clear the Assembly and Senate and get it on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by fall. One facet of the measure is designed to specifically aid cities like San Francisco and San Diego. It provides an extra 5 percent credit to films that shoot in cities outside Los Angeles, where the film industry is based. The bill’s authors, Assemblymen Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) and Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) included that provision so that the bill would provide benefits — and win support — statewide. “We’re counting on that,” said Robbins.

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The modern skeptic needs to be well armed to deal with the array of woo being spewed these days. Biblical criticism is pretty much a solved game but the new-agers can toss out faux-facts faster than you can say, “Bullshit!” One flavour making the rounds here recently has been the junk science of Terrence McKenna. An incredibly articulate ethnobotanist of the late 20th century, he was able to public several books that garnered the attention of aging hippies and which seem to have renewed their popularity with contemporary new agers. As a self-described psychonaut, his writing mostly revolved around his ever more desperate attempts to instill perceived empirical value to the observations he made of his own consciousness while higher than a kite. His timewave zero and novelty theories tied into eschatological prognostications for 2012 – a prophecy failure that his devotees overlook as quickly as the adherents of Benny Hinn overlook his. Perhaps the most entertaining of his drug-addled ramblings was his ‘Stoned Ape’ conjecture. In his Stoned Ape conjecture, McKenna tried to convince himself that use of magic mushrooms was the catalyst that sprung homo-sapiens into existence from homo-erectus. He starts by assuming that the magnificent shrooms appeared on the African savanna 100,000 years ago and made their way into the homo-erectus diet – both assumptions being supported by zero evidence. He then misrepresents a scientific study about visual perception to suggest that use of these mushrooms increased visual acuity in our early ancestors – thereby making them better hunters. Based on his first two unfounded assumptions and an outright fabrication he then jumps to the conclusion that the results performed a miraculous one-time instance of Lamarckian inheritance, altering the offspring of psilocybin-gobbling hominids enough to speciate them from surrounding populations of homo-erectus. It just goes on and on, and he actually managed get published for it in 1992 - Food of the Gods. I feel this load of malarkey is worth our attention, as skeptics, so we can be better prepared to counter the ridiculous claims of McKennites that we may encounter. I know there is one with us lately and felt he might like to put his thoughts on display here for all of us to observe the workings of such a mind. Terence McKenna really does sound like a cult leader - like Jim Jones. : ) 5 dried grams would be to much for me. I'm petite so I would probably need three for that effect. The most I've had at a time is about 6 fresh ones. You dont always need to take it for the heavy effect, It can be used differently. I like to keep active and go for walks. Especially at night. You feel like you can keep walking for years ... Doing ordinary things like shopping becomes a very interesting experience and you do tend to smoke and smile a lot. : )) All this mushie talk is whetting my appetite and its making me want some.. I'm already making plans to go hunting for some after our next rainy weekend. Jim Jones was just... insane, at least Terence McKenna possesses... ratiocination, and he's not telling people to drink cyanide, but N,N-DMT... so you won't undergo literal death, but ego death. I'm finding Terence McKennas video's very informative. I know he's nothing like Jim Jones. If only Jim Jones used his intelligence for good instead of evil. I certainly never had the set or the setting, and the motives were recreational or peer pressure. Having a drug addict family member, and having grown up in a heavy drug area and seeing the consequences certainly sealed my opinion. It almost seems like...well I have lost control of my life, why not just kick the last nail in. Now you are saying, if you do it right you may experience this "spiritual" revelation and ego death. And apparently some of these people end up as conspiracy theory advocates like Hicks. To me It seems like the result is paranoia and delusions about god. I am never gonna believe that our government "staged a fake moon landing, "orchestrated 9-11", or even come close to pulling off an Oliver Stone movie; that early primates evolved by tripping; or that I am spiritual (Unless we get the junk out of this "science"). Can hallucinating make you happier, give you new ideas, and perhaps have you believe you are spiritual? Sure, I'll buy that some people can do that. I have come up with viable electronics ideas (patent still pending) in my dreams !! Well, it's the contention of Strassman, McKenna and others that the "heroic dose" does elicit this kind of "spiritual experience," and I've often said that if you don't like the word "spiritual" then this colossal transformation of consciousness, and by the way, this is not something one can addict to. The experience is far too powerful and unbearable, even. It's not something that you're going to rush to try again once you've done it. You may never return to it, and if you do, it may take years before you decide to do it again. But this is definitely NOT a recreational dose that these people are referring to. I'll leave a link below of Terence McKenna describing a typical psychedelic experience, typical meaning that if you were to take up this endeavor, you, too, would have this experience. Are they still going on about "visual acuity"? Its like that God of the Gaps thing that the religious do isnt it. The LSD experience IS something they can try for themselves. They could do that and then come back with some experience to talk about. But nahh - thats not what they really want - what they really want is a reason to discharge aggression. Thats the whole agenda behind this post from the beginning. A nasty set-up. (They think we didnt notice that.) These are the apes that didnt use mushies. Thats why they're still dragging the club around. This thread is reminding me more and more of that Dawkins and Wendy Wright interview. That no matter what Dawkins was saying to Wright - she had some kind of hidden agenda going on about her and she just would not listen. Then she tried to use scientific mistakes made in the Victorian era as proof that she was right. Even when Dawkins said to Wright - "you can go to the Museum in Kenya to see for yourself - Wright immediantly turns deaf and changes the subject because the truth doesnt suit her. Well - what are you going to do - youve got to ignore the belligerent types. Thank you Kris Your a fast typer. Although I still claim that the question was not raised from a point of genuine enquiry rather as an excuse for an argument. I'll take some of that on. I like those little whispers of wisdom. Just to be clear, do you consider me belligerent? I consider myself "wide open" on this. Please, someone, convince me that this drug experience, while very different from other drugs, is any more than an "Oh-Wow-Man" drug experience. No Mike - not you - your good : ) Mike - remind me again - what was it that you took - I know a lot of people who got nothing from their first few pot experiences too - Not sure why that happens. "what was it that you took" On which day? I had virtually every drug available - some more than others (in the 60s and early 70s - none of the more recent drugs) . I've had all the addictive ones but managed to stay away from addictive frequencies. I've had LOTS of hallucinogenics and have had experiences which sounded very similar to McKenna's talk (the most recent link). I feel that I learned from the hallucinogenics, the ego loss - the understanding of the part I play in the universe, but I haven't seen anything put forward in this thread convincing me that there is more than that to be gained from hallucinogenicst. The idea that hallucinogenics altered human evolution SEEMS far-fetched, but I'm perfectly happy to be taught. (No I haven't completed the 8-hour talk. I think I might need to be motivated by something a bit more concrete before making that investment.) Citations please - oh, I forgot - that offends you and constitutes stalking.

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The injection system on the CRFL is designed using automotive type technology. It is a basic open/closed loop speed density system. Excellent information about the system and diagnostics are available at RamZ's incredible site http://www.rickramsey.net/CRF250L.htm Let me try to explain how the system operates so everyone can hopefully understand. Here's an abbreviation table taken directly from the Helm service manual, thanks to "Bob80". I'm used to using automotive abbreviations from when I was a tech so I added those to the list. So keep that in mind... MAP = Manifold Absolute Pressure Sensor(can also read barometric pressure) TPS or TP sensor = throttle position sensor CTS = Coolant Temperature Sensor O2 = Oxygen Sensor IAC = Idle Air Control valve/stepper motor CKP = Crankshaft Position Sensor IAT sensor = Intake Air Temperature sensor EVAP = Evaporative Emmission system AI/02 = Air Injection Oxygen system valve/sensor PAIR = Pulse Secondary Air Injection ECM/PCM = Engine/Powertrain Control Module EEPROM = Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory MIL = Malfunction Indicator Lamp DLC = Data Link Connector DTC = Diagnostic Trouble Code SCS service connector = Service Check Short connector VS sensor or VSS = Vehicle Speed sensor A/F ratio = Air Fuel ratio PGM-FI =Programmed Fuel Injection. OBD is On Board Diagnostics. There are different versions like OBDI or OBDII. Open loop is when the engine is running on base programing. Closed loop is when the engine is monitoring the sensors and adjusting as needed to maintain the "desired" air/fuel ratio to achieve complete combustion. Adaptive memory is the computers ability to adapt to and remember what is needed to achieve the desired air/fuel ratio in closed loop mode. It has the ability to add or subtract fuel as needed. There are two types of adaptive memory, long term and short term. Long term memory is stored memory about what was needed and short term memory is what is needed at that moment. The computer uses short term memory to establish it's long term memory. The MAP sensor is used to read Barometric pressure at key on. This would be how the PCM checks altitude. It monitors engine vacuum which it used to determine engine load by comparing it to the TPS reading. It can also sense alititude change at WOT if programed to... The TPS sensor tells the computor what position the throttle is in. It's as simple as that. The CTS is just as simple, it monitors the coolant temperature for the PCM. The O2 sensor monitors the oxygen level(air/fuel ratio) in the exhaust so the computer can adjust as need when in closed loop mode. The CKP sensor identifies the crankshaft position, RPM and can be used to sense when the engine fires (or even misfires). The ECT sensor provide the engine coolant temperature. The IAC is a air bypass valve that is used to control the engine speed at idle. The throttle body allows a predetermined amount of air past the throttle blade and the IAC controls the extra air flow needed to reach the correct idle speed and prevent stalling. I'll add more details about this later since stalling it is a problem. The IAT monitors the air temperature going into the engine. Cold air is denser and has more oxygen in it. It is used in combination with the other sensor values to help determine the correct air/fuel ratio. The lack of the cam sensor and 1 wire narrow band O2 sensor shows me it is basically an early type automotive system. It uses a EEPROM controller. EEPROM is electronically erasable programable read only memory type controller. This means can be reprogramed/flash programed. This system doesn't do too much OBD so it is easier to trick it as needed. This also makes diagnoising and testing easier for the average backyard tech. The IAC is a stepper motor that allows extra air into the engine to control the idle speed. The throttle closes sightly further which decrease emissions on decel. When the RPM drops low enough the IAC takes over to control the idle speed. There is a minimum air flow specification that the throttle stop screw is adjustment determines. It is preset by the factory and painted so tampering can be determined(more about this later ). 2013 models have different emission standards they need to meet. That is why the stock muffler contains a catalytic converter for example. In open loop it monitors the TPS, MAP, CKS, IAT and the ECT sensors mainly. It uses these values to determine what base programing cells in the computer to use. In closed loop it monitors the O2 sensor also, using it to provide the information the computer needs to achieve the desired air fuel/ratio results. The adjustments to fuel control are done by the short term and long term adaptive memory. The long term adaptive memory monitors the trends and adjustments the short term memory makes and then adjusts it's values so the short term memory value stays near the center of its adjustment range. The long term memory stores its memory so it's ready for the next time it goes into closed loop operation. The short and long term memory has the ability to add or remove the amount fuel the engine sees by adjusting fuel injector pulse width as needed. I think closed loop operation has been increased for 2013. It probably handles hot idle and 0% to about 50% throttle openings. It won't go into closed loop until the O2 sensor reaches the proper temperature. There are some other perimeters involved also. Cold operation and 50%+ throttle operation is probably done in open loop on base programing. The computer has multiple memory cells it uses for closed and open loop operation. These cells store the base programing for open loop and the adjusted base programing for closed loop operation. There is also a limp in mode if a sensor the open loop needs to monitor fails. Sometimes limp in mode equals tennis shoe mode because of a lost crank sensor signal or a meltdown of some type. Tennis shoe mode means your walking home. Limp in mode means it will get you to home, but thats about it. Extended riding in limp-in mode could cause damage to the catalytic convertor in the stock muffler. Edited by TNTsXR, February 06, 2013 - 09:44 AM.

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Distance from Idar-Oberstein to Hameln Distance is 302 kilometers or 188 miles or 163 nautical miles The distance is the theoretical air distance (great circle distance). Flying between the two locations' airports can be a different distance, depending on airport location and actual route chosen. Map – Shortest path between Idar-Oberstein and Hameln - Location for Idar-Oberstein - Location for Hameln The map is using a projection that makes land and oceans much wider near the south and north poles. The heading/course/bearing during a flight varies in most cases. Map based on image from NASA. Find distance between other locations Local time comparison |Idar-Oberstein (Germany - Rhineland-Palatinate)||Friday, September 4, 2015 at 11:10:35 PM| |Hameln (Germany - Lower Saxony)||Friday, September 4, 2015 at 11:10:35 PM| Other time conversions

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Distance from Duisburg to Hammerfest Distance is 2310 kilometers or 1435 miles or 1247 nautical miles The distance is the theoretical air distance (great circle distance). Flying between the two locations' airports can be a different distance, depending on airport location and actual route chosen. Map – Shortest path between Duisburg and Hammerfest - Location for Duisburg - Location for Hammerfest The map is using a projection that makes land and oceans much wider near the south and north poles. The heading/course/bearing during a flight varies in most cases. Map based on image from NASA. Find distance between other locations Local time comparison |Duisburg (Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia)||Friday, September 4, 2015 at 11:28:08 PM| |Hammerfest (Norway)||Friday, September 4, 2015 at 11:28:08 PM| Other time conversions

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Nathan Welker is a giant of a man, in more ways than one. Nate - hardly anyone knows him as Nathan -is an environmental activist. But, unlike some environmental activists, he doesn't brow beat politicians or walk picket lines in protest of some real or imagined crime against Mother Nature. Nate walks the walk, whether it is fashioning stream structure to improve trout habitat or organizing disparate groups with a single mission in mind: preserving and improving the natural environment. Welker's official job description with the U.S. Forest Service is "aquatic ecologist and fisheries biologist." That's his job, but it's also his passion. Recently, Welker received the Karl Mason Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals. It is dedicated to the mission of a strong, well-managed environmental program. To give you some idea of the prestige of the annual award, other recipients have included two Pennsylvania governors, a state senator, an executive director of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and a state Department of Environmental Resources secretary. Nate's a bit different than the folks in that list, however. We doubt any of them have spent a day in hip boots cleaning ancient oilfield equipment from a stream that other members of a work detail couldn't manage to move. Did we mention he is a big guy? It takes more than just Saturdays slogging through stream improvement projects. Welker is an organizer and an activist in the best sense of the words. He started and continues to coordinate the Allegheny Watershed Improvement Needs Coalition (WINS) regional task force, which over the last seven years has completed 50 watershed restoration projects, and taken the message of environmental responsibility to more than 10,000 students. He has also been instrumental in bringing more than $5 million in outside funding to projects on the Allegheny National Forest. We can't think of anyone more deserving of the Karl Mason Award.

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Mary Pender Greene Chief, Social Work Services • Jewish Board of Family and Children Services Inc. • New York, N.Y. Close ties to her husband, children, large extended family and hand-picked friends make up the fibers that sustain Mary Pender Greene’s tapestry of sustenance. “A person should develop a personal board of directors, a virtual board where people are chosen [and are assigned] roles as mentors in different subject areas to make sure that their personal and professional life runs as effectively as a company and where your issues are taken care of. The price of this board is to give back,” she says. Pender Greene has been giving back to the community since 8th grade when she realized that she wanted to be a social worker. She is chief of social work services for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, the nations largest, non-sectarian mental health and social service agency serving close to 70,000 clients, and former president of the National Association of Social Workers, N.Y.C. “I have a passion about my work and I believe in excellence and in doing my very best, no matter what the task,” she says. She solidified her commitment to social work more than three decades ago, when she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in that subject from New York University and subsequently obtained certifications in family and group therapy. More recently, upon tracing her heritage to slaves in North Carolina, she focused her studies on institutional racism and multiculturalism in the workplace. Pender Greene maintains a private psychotherapy practice for adults and is often referred to as therapist to some of New York’s “movers and shakers.” She co-edited the book Racism and Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services, and received her training on Institutional Racism from The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Institutional Racism is not about individual acts of meanness, that’s bigotry, she says, it is about prejudice plus power which leads to institutional policies and procedures that empower some people and put road blocks and hurdles in the path of others.

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Vivo Considerate Applied Rhetoric Approach Comparison: Living Deliberately Versus Not Getting Involved or Engaged; Benjamin Franklin Versus Henry David Thoreau Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Dr. Jon Borowicz. HU100-006 Contemporary Issues In Humanities – Fall 2005 October 1, 2005 Table of Contents Table of Contents i Franklin Doctrine 1 Thoreau Doctrine 3 This paper will discuss some similarities and differences between Benjamin Franklin’s advice and Henry David Thoreau’s advice concerning how to live deliberately. The idea of living deliberately involves understanding personal doctrine and how applied corporately. The Franklin Doctrine section describes his views in his own words. The Thoreau Doctrine section paraphrases his ideas from the Britannica encyclopedia and his essay titled “Civil Disobedience”. The Analysis section is the author’s comparison of the two intended to point out some of their similarities and differences. The Conclusions section will sum up providing an assessment. The following three selected quotations establish Benjamin Franklin’s doctrine statements using his own words as follow : “Benjamin Franklin wrote his own version of the Lord’s Prayer :” “Heavenly Father, May all revere Thee, And become Thy dutiful children and faithful subjects. May thy Laws be obeyed on earth as perfectly as they are in Heaven. Provide for us this day as Thou hast hitherto daily done. Forgive us our trespasses, and enable us likewise to forgive those that offend us. Keep us out of temptation and deliver us from Evil <464>.” “Benjamin Franklin listed topics and doctrines, which he considered of vital importance, to be shared and preached :” “That there is one God Father of the Universe. That He [is] infinitely good, powerful and wise. That He is omnipresent. That He ought to be worshipped, by adoration, prayer and thanksgiving both in public and private. That He loves such of His creatures as love and do good to others: and will reward them either in this world or hereafter. That men’s minds do not die with their bodies, but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions. That virtuous men ought to league together to strengthen the interest of virtue, in the world: and so strengthen themselves in virtue. That knowledge and learning is to be cultivated, and ignorance dissipated. That none but the virtuous are wise. That man’s perfection is in virtue <465>.” “Benjamin Franklin further stated :” “A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district – all studied and appreciated as they merit – are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty <466>.” The following quotation from the Britannica Encyclopedia establishes an overview of Henry David Thoreau’s doctrine as follow : “Midway in his Walden sojourn Thoreau had spent a night in jail. On an evening in July 1846 he was accosted by Sam Staples, the constable and tax gatherer. Sam asked him amiably to pay his poll tax, which he had omitted paying for several years. He declined and Sam locked him up. The next morning a still-unidentified lady, perhaps his aunt, Maria, paid the tax. Thoreau reluctantly emerged, did an errand, and then went huckleberrying. A single night, he decided, was enough to make his point. His point was that he could not support a government that endorsed slavery and waged an imperialist war against Mexico. His defense of the private, individual conscience against the expediency of the majority found expression in his most famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” which was first published in May 1849 under the title “Resistance to Civil Government.” The essay received little attention until the 20th century, when it found an eager audience. To many, its message still sounds timely: there is a higher law than the civil one, and the higher law must be followed even if a penalty ensues. So does its consequence: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” As demonstrated by their own similar views both men looked toward a higher authority: the justification of higher laws for Thoreau and the guidance of and intervention in our lives in the revelations from the Bible and providential actions for Franklin. The Franklin approach understood as the process of continuous lifetime education, commerce, awareness of current affairs via the newspaper politic and continuous improvement or attempted intended improvement. Granted he did not always expect to succeed, however, he found it important to promote good character and to promote the goal of individual virtuous living. Franklin appears to promote working studiously within the system through participation, education and communication (via improvements due to the printing press) efforts. The goal is for all individual citizens to strive for betterment, sound judgment and cooperation on the foundations of “[…] virtue, morality and civil liberty […]”. Franklin believed that participating in the political process through print media particularly would promote the general improvement of the system for everyone. He also tried not to intentionally throw roadblocks and confusion into situations or take on the responsibility of guilt by omission. In addition, he tried to be calmly respectful or tolerant (endurance) of others views. Thoreau on the other hand not well accepted in his own time, apparently gained favor over the generations from a minority perspective. He held views that government was a problem, because he disagreed with majority rule and considered minority issues of primary importance. The only solution that appeared evident was to work outside the system the bureaucracy by not supporting the perceived bad laws and unjustified force of war against Mexico. He like Franklin promoted communication as an author, however, the focus was to let your personal preference view of the government be publicly known, albeit in the form of promoting non-obedience or guilt by omission. Why bother to pay the poll tax. He held the Navy marines of the day as poor excuses of humanity controlled by worse rulers. This sounds a bit judgmental at best. He promoted taking a stand to abolish slavery and recommended that minority conformity will not improve the situation, but what constructive actions did he take? Thoreau did not consider commerce, the procurement of money, as virtuous. He did not consider government important enough to get involved in the system to effect corrective political actions. This paper has offered some of the author’s thoughts concerning an understanding of the notion of living deliberately as a comparison between Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau obviously considered himself not a just man because he only spent one day in prison as apposed to his claim about “[…] the true place for a just man […]”. He failed to understand that statistically some innocent parties in fact are “jailed” in error under any system. The author wonders if one good man might influence a jailhouse full of bad men and thus justify the good presence in a providential situational sense. One would think that to be disrespectful to a judge or government would force the judge or government to focus on the disrespect instead of the issue under debate. Perhaps Thoreau would have been more successful had he followed the advice of a more Franklin like approach. Like the actions taken by John Quincy Adams as demonstrated by the following quote . “On December 3, 1844, after years of struggle against the powerful slavery interests, John Quincy Adams’ motion succeeded to rescind the infamous Gag Rule, which had forbidden the discussion of slavery in the Congress. After hearing the progress of his long and lonely anti-slavery crusade, John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary: Blessed, forever blessed, be the name of God! <1609>.” What year did the civil war start? (1861). Ah ha, the time of Thoreau (b1817-d1862) was spread between the founding era revolutionary war (1776), the Gag Rule (1844) and the civil war (1861). As an important side note, the author’s own grandfather was born in (1889) shortly after the civil war. We must realize that this country is not ancient and we may be only discussing a six generational span. Perhaps Thoreau could have prevented the civil war with involved participation and authority of applied superior intellect if he had taken Franklins advice and participated in the government decision-making process. Alas Thoreau’s ideas or attitudes may have had unforeseen consequences. The author wonders what happens when individual good people are absent or civilly disobedient (guilty by omission) from the debate and the political decision making process and what is the impact on his-story! Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Franklin, Benjamin. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, October 1, 2005, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Fra2Aut.html> (2005). American Quotations © 1997 by William J. Federer AMERICAN QUOTATIONS Version 1.3 A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Quotations Influencing Early and Modern American History Referenced according to their Sources in Literature, Memoirs, Letters, Governmental Documents, Speeches, Charters, Court Decisions & Constitutions WILLIAM J. FEDERER ©1997 by William J. Federer. All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America. 464. Franklin, Benjamin. William B. Wilcox, ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972), Vol. 15, p. 301. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 124. Norman Cousins, In God We Trust – The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers (NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1955), p. 20. 465. Franklin, Benjamin. Leonard Labaree, ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), Vol. I, p. 213. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 120. 466. Franklin, Benjamin. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts – A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H. Catrevas, Ralph Emerson Browns and Jonathan Edwards [descendent, along with Tryon, of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton], 1891; The Standard Book Company, 1955, 1963), pp. 49, 338. 1609. Adams, John Quincy. December 3, 1844, in a diary entry, after hearing that his efforts to rescind the infamous Gag Rule had finally succeeded. Champ Bennett Clark, John Quincy Adams: “Old Man Eloquent” (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1932), p. 407. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 12.3. 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* Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg: “Given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than anti-Semitism.” * Palestinians killed: If Israel isn’t involved, no accusations of “a massacre” * Rolling Stones, Oprah Winfrey buck trend to boycott Israel This dispatch concerns the increasing calls to single out Israel for boycott, and the double standards of the international media, none more so than in Britain, which seems to have lost its sense of fair play. 1. The Associated Press: A tale of two terror groups called Fatah 2. Several? The BBC continues to distort reality 3. The British press don’t care if there are British victims in Israel 4. Silence by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaigns. 5. What massacre? 6. Nobel laureate cancels visit to London 7. UK architects condemn Israel 8. “I see in the British press and the BBC signs of a very strong anti-Israel bias” 9. Rolling Stones told not to play in Israel 10. Oprah Winfrey to make Israel solidarity visit 11. “Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott” (Guardian, May 24, 2007) 12. “Physicist who refused to lecture in U.K.: I’m not calling for boycott” (Ha’aretz, May 25, 2007) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: A TALE OF TWO TERROR GROUPS CALLED FATAH The Associated Press, which along with Reuters stubbornly refuses to use the word “terror” when Palestinian terror groups (including Fatah) deliberately murder Israeli civilians, has been frequently using the word “terror” in its reports in recent days on the group also named Fatah in Lebanon. This is despite the fact that the Lebanon-based Fatah group has not indiscriminately murdered civilians in a wave of terror attacks on schools, buses, shopping malls, fast food restaurants, and so on, as has been the case by Fatah in Israel. For example, this report by the AP’s Chief of Middle East News, Sally Buzbee, is titled “Lebanon: A haven for terror,” and contains phrases like “terrorists training to attack the west” and “a new front to the war on terror”. The article can be read on many news sites, for example here and in a slightly different version here at the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune. ** Please see this telling photo and caption for how the AP does not use the word terror when writing about the other, more murderous wing, of Fatah. SEVERAL? THE BBC CONTINUES TO DISTORT REALITY The BBC’s twisting of events concerning Israel is relentless. Stephen Pollard (who is a longtime subscriber to this email list), points to the BBC online article of May 19 as typical of the way the BBC distorts events. The BBC says that Israel has carried out air strikes on Gaza after “several rocket attacks on Israel.” “Several rocket attacks” is completely unrepresentative of the real nature of the attacks. On that day, 24 rockets hit Israel and wounded 30 Israelis (all civilians), some seriously. In the three days preceding the Israeli strike the BBC wrote about, the Israeli town of Sderot had been hit more than twenty times daily. As Melanie Phillips, another longtime subscriber to this email list, points out: “Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 1,300 rockets into Israel. No other country would have experienced such sustained rocket attack for so long and do virtually nothing in response. No other country in the world is expected in such circumstances to respond to such acts of war by turning the other cheek. Only the Jewish state.” According to Reuters, since May 15, more than 245 rockets have been launched toward Israel. Following deaths and injuries, several thousand residents of the town of Sderot, with a population of 24,000, have left. Meanwhile the BBC continued to say that Israel “alleges” that rockets are being fired at it from Gaza. For example, the announcer on BBC Radio 4’s prestigious “Today” program said that “Israeli forces were attacking the Palestinians in Gaza in response to alleged rocket attacks.” As another subscriber to this email list points out: “Like the alleged Islamist attack on the USA on 9/11? Or the alleged attacks in London on 7/7? Why do the British continue to allow their money to go to the BBC to put up with this nonsense?” The BBC have also used phrases like “which Israel says is aimed at stopping rocket attacks on its territory by militants,” as though this is only what Israel says when in reality it is a fact. The BBC does not use phrases like this when reporting on what the Palestinians are doing or saying. THE BRITISH PRESS DON’T CARE IF THERE ARE BRITISH VICTIMS IN ISRAEL Meanwhile, as far as I can tell from a thorough check, not a single British news outlet today mentions that Susanna Oz, the wife of Oshri Oz, who was killed yesterday by a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas into Israel, is a British expat. Susanna, who is a mother of a 2-year-old and is six months pregnant with their second child, realized her husband was the unidentified victim while reading a report on the Internet. Oz, 36, was killed after a rocket hit his car. At the same time as not mentioning this, the British media continue to belittle the deadly Palestinian-manufactured devices of the kind that killed him by referring to them as “homemade” rockets. For another example (among many) of the British press not caring if there are British victims in Israel, please see: “The Forgotten Rachels”. A machine gun attack in Jerusalem on Saturday night, claimed by Fatah, which injured Israelis (before the Fatah gunmen were shot dead as they were continuing to fire on Israelis) has also been barely mentioned in the British or international media. SILENCE BY THE PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGNS There are dozens of “Palestinian Solidarity Campaigns” in Britain. Yet with more than 150 Palestinians killed in “internal violence” in Gaza since the beginning of the year, and over 50 others killed in the past week alone in “clashes” at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee camp in Lebanon, there has been complete silence from these pro-Palestinian groups. As the popular blog Harry’s Place notes: * The International Solidarity Movement, * The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, * The Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, * The Exeter Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, * The York Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, * The Brighton Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, * The Stop the War Coalition, * George Galloway’s “Respect” political party, and many other pro-Palestinian groups “have nothing to say about these deaths at all.” All these groups tirelessly protest Palestinian deaths (including those of terrorists) if Israel is to blame. One can only conclude that these so-called Palestinian Solidarity Campaigns are in fact merely groups that wish to single out Israel for attack. Given the fact that Israel’s human rights record is far better than dozens of other states throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, it is hard not to reach the conclusion that anti-Semitism, rather than concern about Palestinian civilians, is a strong motivating factor for these groups. As HonestReporting points out, can anyone imagine the LA Times writing an editorial like this during the height of Jeningrad? (Editorial of May 26, 2007, headlined “Lebanon’s latest war: It’s unacceptable to shell a refugee camp, but terrorist havens have no claim to sovereignty either.”) Just to remind readers, Israel didn’t mount its April 2002 operation in Jenin in a vacuum. It did so after sustaining seven deadly suicide bombings in a two-week period, emanating from Jenin, and culminating in the bombing of a Passover meal, which killed 30 civilians, including two elderly Auschwitz survivors. For more, see Jeningrad. Yet the ongoing assault at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee camp in Lebanon, which has already witnessed more deaths than in Jenin in April 2002, began not after a wave of suicide bombings on civilian targets, but after a bank robbery was carried out by Fatah al-Islam gunmen. However, the accusations by the media, the UN, and human rights organizations that a “massacre” or “genocide” is being carried out by the Lebanese Army are now remarkably absent. So are claims of “disproportionately” of the kind leveled against Israel by just about everyone during last summer’s Hizbullah-Israel war. (In Israel’s case it sustained and was trying to prevent 4000 Katyusha rockets; yet Fatah al-Islam haven’t launched Katyushas at anyone.) NOBEL LAUREATE CANCELS VISIT TO LONDON Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg has cancelled a visit to Imperial College (a part of London university) due to “widespread anti-Israel and anti-Semitic current in British opinion”. Weinberg, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1979, was invited to deliver a talk at a conference on particle physics. In a letter to Michael Duff, his host at Imperial College, Weinberg wrote: “I know that some will say that these boycotts are directed only against Israel, rather than generally against Jews... But given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than anti-Semitism.” In his letter, Weinberg also cited the new boycott on Israeli goods by Britain’s National Union of Journalists. For more on the NUJ boycott, see For first time, British journalists officially vote to boycott Israeli goods (April 14, 2007). “I SEE IN THE BRITISH PRESS AND THE BBC SIGNS OF A VERY STRONG ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS” As noted in the first article below (from The Guardian), Weinberg’s “decision comes a week before members of the University and College Union are to call for an academic boycott of Israel at their inaugural annual conference.” The second article below contains an interview with Steven Weinberg in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. The American physicist says “I don’t want to say I’m cutting ties with the U.K. – I love England. I just feel personally uncomfortable going with the atmosphere there at the moment. It’s increasingly hostile to Israel, especially in the intellectual world.” He adds that “I see in the British press and the BBC signs of a very strong anti-Israel bias – a kind of blind hostility that whatever Israel does, it is always in the wrong – so this is not an isolated action of a small group of anti-Semitic conspirators. This represents a widespread feeling among British journalists.” 120,000 members of the British University and College Union will be asked tomorrow (Tuesday) to vote on a proposed boycott of Israeli universities at its annual congress in Bournemouth. As noted on this email list / website, in March 130 British doctors called for the Israeli Medical Association to be the only country in the world to be expelled form the World Medical Association (this despite the fact that Israeli doctors do more than any other country, per capita, to help patients in the developing world, including Palestinian patients.) UK ARCHITECTS CONDEMN ISRAEL The lies about Israel in the British media (see for example here in The Independent and in The Daily Telegraph) are continuing to have an effect as more and more British “professionals” single out Israel for special treatment. The latest are British architects, who have launched a petition condemning Israeli “oppression of the Palestinians,” and called for a boycott of Israelis. The petition was brought by a group calling itself Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP). “We ask the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) to meet their professional obligations to declare their opposition to this inhuman occupation,” a spokesman for the group told The Guardian. Architect Will Alsop told Building Design magazine that he and his colleagues felt compelled to act. “This is not against Israel, it’s for Palestine,” he said. “I think the Palestinians are living in a prison. I’d like fellow colleagues in Israel to feel some responsibility about this.” Other signatories include the architectural historian Charles Jencks and the president of the Institute of Royal British Architects Jack Pringle. Jon Benjamin, the chief executive the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “What they are saying is that they have a certain view and that Israeli architects must publicly declare that to be their position as well.” ROLLING STONES TOLD NOT TO PLAY IN ISRAEL Anti-Israeli groups in Britain and elsewhere are pressuring the Rolling Stones to cancel their upcoming concert in Israel. In a letter to the band’s managers one group claimed that “performing in Israel at this time is morally equivalent to performing in South Africa during the apartheid era.” So far there has been no reaction from the Rolling Stones who are expected to play in Israel in the fall. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts will launch the Stones “Bigger Band 2007” European tour on June 5 in Belgium. The Israeli media have also reported that Britney Spears is due to appear in Israel some time in the summer. Mother-of-two Spears recently emerged from another stay at a rehab clinic to perform in San Diego’s “House of Blues” – her first appearance in three years – and is shortly to embark on a tour which, according to reports, will include Israel. OPRAH WINFREY TO MAKE ISRAEL SOLIDARITY VISIT Oprah Winfrey has accepted a proposal from Elie Wiesel to come to Israel on a solidarity trip. The American talk show queen is expected to visit in the near future. Wiesel asked Winfrey to visit Israel, where “the major war against terror is currently taking place.” Winfrey was recently honored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity for her contribution to promoting humanitarian issues. In her acceptance speech Oprah said she sympathized with the suffering of the people of Israel, and that she intended to accept Wiesel’s invitation to accompany him to Israel. Last year Oprah visited Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel. For more on that trip, see “War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!” (& Oprah visits Auschwitz) (Feb. 1, 2006). -- Tom Gross “A MORAL BLINDNESS” Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott By Debbie Andalo May 24, 2007 An academic and Nobel laureate has cancelled a planned visit to a London university because of what he perceives to be “a widespread anti-Israel and anti-semitic current in British opinion”. Steven Weinberg, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, had been invited to Imperial College in July to speak in honour of a Pakistani physicist, Abdus Salam, and to deliver a talk at a conference on particle physics. But today in a letter to his host at Imperial, Michael Duff, Prof Weinberg said he was withdrawing from the trip. In the letter, the professor said his decision was triggered by an agreement by the National Union of Journalists at its national conference to boycott Israeli products. He wrote: “I know that some will say that these boycotts are directed only against Israel, rather than generally against Jews. “But given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than anti-semitism.” A spokeswoman for Imperial said it was “very sad” about the professor’s decision. Prof Weinberg said the only other reason he could imagine for the boycott was the NUJ’s “desire to pander to the growing Muslim minority in Britain”. This is the second time Prof Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1979, has cancelled a visit to a UK university because of Israeli boycotts. In 2006 he called off a trip to a conference at the University of Durham following what he saw as a boycott of Israeli academics by the then lecturers’ union Natfhe. His decision comes a week before members of the University and College Union are to call for an academic boycott of Israel at their inaugural annual conference. Academics are also expected to debate whether anti-semitism has become acceptable on UK campuses and whether members should be balloted before any decisions are taken on academic freedom. The motion calling for an Israeli boycott has been laid down jointly by the University of Brighton and the University of East London. It condemns the “complicity of Israeli academia in the [Palestinian] occupation, which has provoked a call from the Palestinian trade unions for a comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli academic institutions”. The union is being urged to agree that “passivity or neutrality is unacceptable and criticism of Israel cannot be construed as anti-semitic”. The motion calls on members to consider the “moral implications of existing proposed links with Israeli academic institutions”. The issue of boycotting Israeli academics and institutions has been a standing feature of the annual conferences of the two former lecturers’ unions – the Association of University Teachers and Natfhe – before they merged to form the UCU last year. An AUT motion was passed in 2005, but it caused such controversy that it had to hold another special meeting at which it was rejected. Natfhe has supported boycotts in the past. Last year members agreed to continue the boycott, but the policy was dissolved when the union merged to form the UCU only hours later. Since Natfhe’s motion was dissolved, UCU has no policy on the Israeli academic boycott. “TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL TODAY WOULD BE LIKE BOYCOTTING CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1938” Physicist who refused to lecture in U.K.: I’m not calling for boycott By Charlotte Halle, May 25, 2007 An American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who withdrew from a speaking engagement at a London university, citing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment in the U.K., says he is not calling for a boycott of Britain. “I’m not calling on anyone else not to go to Britain,” Prof. Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1979, told Haaretz on Thursday night. “I don’t want to say I’m cutting ties with the U.K. – I love England. I just feel personally uncomfortable going with the atmosphere there at the moment. It’s increasingly hostile to Israel, especially in the intellectual world.” Weinberg told the Imperial College in London, where he had been invited to speak in July in honor of Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, that his decision was motivated by a move by Britain’s National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products. “I just felt this was too disgusting and I didn’t want to go there this summer,” Weinberg said. “I see in the British press and the BBC signs of a very strong anti-Israel bias – a kind of blind hostility that whatever Israel does, it is always in the wrong – so this is not an isolated action of a small group of anti-Semitic conspirators. This represents a widespread feeling among British journalists.” Weinberg said he sent the letter before learning that 120,000 members of the University and College Union were asked to vote on a proposed boycott of Israeli universities at its annual congress in Bournemouth on Tuesday and before he knew about the call in March by 130 British doctors to boycott the Israeli Medical Association. Weinberg said he is against boycotts, and specifically boycotts of Israel: “To boycott Israel today would be like boycotting Czechoslovakia in 1938 when Hilter was complaining the Czechs were being unpleasant to the Germans in the Sudetenland.” Weinberg also pulled out of a 2006 conference at Durham University due to a boycott of Israeli academics imposed by the British National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education. The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom at Bar-Ilan University, which coordinates Israeli efforts against boycotts, said it respects but does not endorse Weinberg’s position. “Although we respect Prof. Weinberg’s decision and sympathize with his feelings, we do not believe counter-boycotts are an effective way of dealing with the situation,” the board said in a statement.

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Study in South Korea Having split from North Korea in 1948 into a separately governed country, South Korea has since diverged considerably from its neighbor, developing into an internationally recognized Asian powerhouse in the fields of technology, education and tourism, to name but a few of its strengths. Embracing both tradition and modernity, South Korea is a region of diverse cultures and lifestyles, influenced heavily by the western world, and notably by the US, while firmly holding onto the region’sown rich history and way of life. Seoul, home to approximately 10.5 million people, is South Korea’s chaotic yet vibrant capital city, a must-see destination for many travelers and students alike.However, despite being so full of people, Seoul is still relatively easy to explore, thanks to the excellent transport infrastructures put in place to keep this high-tech industrial nation moving. Find out more about: Universities in South Korea Investment in education and research has been at the heart of the South Korea's growth into the world’s 13th largest economy and the third largest economy within Asia. It’s this investment and growth in innovation and technology that has meant the country is known as one of the four ‘Asian Tiger’ economies, alongside Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. In 2004 the South Korean government set a target of attracting 100,000 foreign students to its universities by 2012 and by 2011 the country had enrolled over 85,000 international students from 171 different countries. Despite not quite reaching the target, this was a huge growth of 70,000 foreign students to study in South Korea in just ten years. Now the initiative has sets its sights even higher, with an aim of 200,000 international students by 2020. As part of this ongoing focus on internationalization, several universities in South Korea, including Yonsei University, are opening new international campuses to meet growing demand, and five US universities are also set to open branches at the new Songdo Global University Campus, including the State University of New York (SUNY). Currently there are more than 370 official South Korean higher education providers, including 179 private universities and 43 national universities.With all this in mind, it’s hardly surprising that plenty of internationals are looking to study in South Korea, which boasts no less than six top-20 entries in the QS University Rankings: Asia 2015 and 24 ranked institutions overall in the QS World University Rankings 2014/15®. Seoul National University The highest ranked of universities in South Korea, Seoul National University is ranked 31st in the QS World University Rankings 2014/15® and eighth in the QS University Rankings: Asia 2015. Founded as late as 1946 as South Korea’s first national university, Seoul National University is one of the three prestigious “SKY” universities and provides research-led liberal education to over 30,000 students from undergraduate to PhD level. According to data collected by the Korean Educational Development Institute, Seoul National University spends more on its students per capita than any other Korean university with more than 10,000 students. The school has two campuses in the city of Seoul, one in Gwanak on the southern side of the city and one within the city center in the district of Jongno, which is also the largest campus in the capital. Seoul National University also has an impressive portfolio of international partnerships; as many as 273 universities in 56 countries collaborate with the school. Seoul National University has a strong performance in the latest QS World University Rankings: by Subject, where it appears within the global top 50 for accounting & finance, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil & structural engineering, computer science, economics, electrical engineering, environmental studies, history & archaeology, linguistics, mechanical engineering, modern languages, medicine, materials sciences, mathematics, law, physics & astronomy and another nine subjects. KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Situated in Daejeon, KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, is the second-highest ranked Korean institution. A public research university with a current student population of just over 10,200, KAIST was established as the nation’s first research-led science and engineering institution. It ranks 51st in the QS World University Rankings 2014/15, third in the QS University Rankings: Asia 2015, and also third in the QS Top 50 Under 50, a ranking of the world’s top 50 universities under 50 years old. The majority of programs at KAIST are within STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, and the university ranks among the world’s top 50 institutions for many of these subjects. Just over a two-hour train ride south of the capital, KAIST boasts the technology smarts of the city of Daejeon, the fifth largest metropolis in South Korea and among the contenders for the title ‘Asia’s Silicon Valley’. Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Another university offering a science and technology focused curriculum, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university ranked 86th in the world, 10th in the Asia ranking, and fourth in the QS Top 50 Under 50 2014. POSTECH’s vast 378 acre ‘smart campus’, located 20 minutes’ drive from downtown Pohang, includes not only all the usual facilities – student accommodation, cafés and so on – but also a digital library, a sports multiplex, beautiful gardens and water features, a sculpture park and a pub called the Log Cabin, which, true to its name, is built entirely from logs. There are also the renowned “78 stairs of horror”, which must be climbed to get from the dormitories to the lecture rooms – rather a daunting prospect if you’re running late for class. POSTECH was also the first South Korean university to be officially labeled a bilingual campus in 2010, with the majority of events and programs at junior, senior and graduate level taught in both Korean and English. The second-highest ranked university in the South Korean capital, Yonsei University is currently ranked 106th in the world. As a private research institution belonging to the prestigious “SKY” trio, Yonsei University is one of the oldest and largest universities in South Korea, with a current student body of over 38,700. Along with the exciting culture of Seoul, Yonsei University students can take part in many on-campus events and activities, including the annual Mooak Festival in the spring and the Yonsei-Korea Games in the fall. Common events include seminars, film festivals, concerts, exhibitions and sports competitions, giving the campus a highly social atmosphere. In 2006, the university established the entirely English-medium Underwood International College, which is said to have contributed to a more globalized student culture within Yonsei University as a whole. The third private research institution included in the “SKY” trio and ranked 116th in the world and 19th in Asia, Korea University has a long-held rivalry with Yonsei University which can be seen in the many competitive sporting events between the two. Korea University currently has a student body of just over 25,100, and, of its faculty of 1,500, over 95% hold a PhD or equivalent within their field. The school’s college of law is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious undergraduate law programs in the country. The university, which boasts an Olympic-sized, on-campus ice rink, also ranks highly in communication and media studies, politics and economics. Again located in Seoul, Korea University is departmentally divided across the city, with its main Anam campus just minutes away from a popularselection of restaurants, bars, shops and cultural attractions, including a famous Buddhist temple. Other universities in South Korea Also placing within the top 400 in the global rankings are Sungkyunkwan University (140th in the world; 17th in Asia), Hanyang University (219th in the world; 30th in Asia), Kyung Hee University (275th in the world; 38th in Asia), Ewha Womans University (355th in the world; 43rd in Asia) and Sogang University (384th in the world; 61st in Asia). All – with the exception of Kyung Hee University – are located within the capital, proving that Seoul really is a higher education hub. Life in South Korea Even outside of the densely packed capital city, those who opt to study in South Korea may well experience some degree of culture shock, as they get to know this unique and multifaceted culture. Especially in the cities, the pace of life is fast and competitive, and the hot temperatures can also be relentless. You’ll even have to cope with finding yourself suddenly a year older – age is counted differently here! But fear not, because peace and relaxation are also to be found, either atop mountain peaks, amidst the dense forests of South Korea’s famous national parks, in a traditional steam-filled Jjimjilbang (sauna), or on a Buddhist temple retreat where the day starts with meditation and pre-dawn chanting.Off the coast, a number of tranquil islands are also well within reach, offering local hospitality, fresh air and fresh fish. You’ll need to seek out as much serenity as you can get in between term times, as education is taken very seriously in South Korea. It’s even been known for flight schedules to be changed and the stock market to be opened late in order to minimize noise for students during school exams. Don’t let this high-pressured environment put you off, however, as universities in South Korea offer some of the best educational facilities in the world, combined with relatively affordable tuition fees. Discover some of South Korea's major student cities... One of the world’s ‘megacities’, with a population of over 10.5 million, the South Korean capital is home to around 40 universities, including the prestigious “SKY” trio – Seoul National University, Korea University and Yonsei University. Having established itself as an economic leader in just 50 years of rapid growth, Seoul is now attracting attention as a site of education, technology, culture, history and design. It was named 2010’s World Design Capital, and a series of restoration and development projects are transforming the city’s historic sites and the public parks along the banks of the Han River. Transport here is brilliant, food is colorful, cheap and varied, and K-pop girl groups are everywhere. As in many Korean cities, Seoulites like to “work hard and play hard”; the working day may finish late, while socializing and partying will often go on into the early hours, with the streets of Gangnam, Hongdae and Dongdaemun offering 24-hour venues for any need, including eating, drinking shopping, partying and internet surfing. Known for its focus on research and innovation, Daejeon is home to several of the leading universities in South Korea, including KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Woosong University, Chungnam National University and Korea University of Science and Technology. As well as more research labs than you can shake a test tube at, Daejeon is home to Expo Park, a science and technology theme park which includes various simulations and exhibitions and an IMAX dome cinema nearly 90 feet high. Nearby are the National Science Museum and Daedeok Science Town – a site devoted to research and development which is known as the ‘brain’ of South Korea. A seaport on the east coast, Pohangdeserves a mention as the home of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea’s third-highest ranked university. The city center itself, although largely industrial, offers a lively atmosphere, with Bukbu Beach on the north side of the town a popular site for locals and tourists. Cultural and recreational attractions include many museums and parks, along with a famous fireworks festival in Bukbu every summer. A busy port city known for its distinctive local dialect and rugged character, Busan is the place to go to get to know a more authentic side of studying in South Korea. Slightly off the well-trodden tourist trail, Busan is the country’s second most populous city after Seoul, and is full of hidden charms: the famously fresh local seafood (live squid is a local delicacy!), a buzzing nightlife, historic temples, an idyllic surrounding coastline and a vibrant student population due to the local Pusan National University and Dong-A University. Applying to universities in South Korea The admissions process differs from school to school but, in general, you can apply directly to your chosen university by post or online. Be aware that the South Korean academic year begins in March, although many schools take on new students twice a year, also in September. Deadlines for March applications are typically set between September and November, while for September entry, deadlines are often set from May to June. Most universities in South Korea have just two terms, with a summer break from July to August and a winter break from December to February. Although proficiency in the Korean language is advantageous, as much as 25% of courses at Korean universities are taught in English. This, along with the fact that English proficiency is growing nationwide, works to break down the perceived language barrier for international students. A desire to learn the basics of the Korean language is a definite bonus however, as it will allow for a much fuller integration into Korean society and culture. In either case, foreign students must prove their proficiency in the language the course will be conducted in. Visas to study in South Korea For entry into South Korea as an international student, you will require a ‘D-2 visa’, to be gained from a local South Korean embassy or consulate in your home country. Typically, as well as proficiency in English or Korean, you will be asked to provide your passport, a certificate of your most recent school record, confirmation of your acceptance at a South Korean university andproof of sufficient finances.For your D-2 visa you will be required to pay a processing fee of about US$30 (for single entry) or US$50 (for multiple entry). Fees and funding One of the good things about studying in South Korea is that tuition fees are the same for domestic and international students, as part of the national plan to bring more international students to the country. However, tuition fees vary depending on the course and university. According to government guidelines for international students, an undergraduate course at a public university costs from US$2,000 to US$4,400 per semester (with humanities subjects at the lower end and medicine at the top). At a South Korean private university, fees are estimated between US$3,000 and US$6,000 per semester.There are two semesters in each school year, and South Korean undergraduate programs typically last four years (or six years for subjects like medicine and dentistry). Scholarships for international students are widely available from individual institutions, covering between 30% and 100% of tuition fees.In addition, a number of governmental scholarships are available, which may also cover air fares and living expenses. One such governmental program is the Global Korea Scholarship (GKS). Recent government deregulations of scholarships, dormitories, part-time jobs and employment after graduation aims to make it easier for foreign students studying in South Korea to afford living costs,and also to stay and seek work in the country after graduation.

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Purple fruit, closely resembling the grape, and having somewhat of a grape-like flavor. Pulp is white, juicy, and sweet. Seeds are not available for the Jaboticaba. Please visit our seed store to view current selections. Seeds were last available in June 2015. A slow growing, small tree, usually only to 10-25ft high, though sometimes up 40ft. Jaboticaba's adapt well to both tropical and subtropical climates, surviving temperatures as low as 22-27F even when young. Plant in full sun or part shade, well drained slightly acidic soil and water around the year. Do not flood. Roots are shallow so even the top layer of soil should be moistened. By seed, which develop relatively true to their parent but grow slowly, taking up to 8-15 years to fruit. Grafting is also successful, and can produce fruit in 3 years. The whole fruit is consumed fresh. The skin is a bit thicker than the grape but can be eaten, although it contains tannin which can be toxic in very large amounts. Native to the Minas Gerais region of Brazil, and spreading into Bolivia, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina.

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Falcon Guides Hiking Colorado's Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Here's what other sites are saying: Guide leads you to hiking trails in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness plus the Hunter-Fryingpan, Mt. Massive and Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. Lace up your boots and sample some of the finest trails in Colorado's backcountry. Explore the flower-splashed meadows and crimson peaks of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, test your map and compass skills in the primitive valleys of the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness, discover pristine alpine lakes in the Mount Massive Wilderness, or follow old mining roads to ghost towns in the Collegiate Peaks. Veteran hiker and outdoor writer Erik Molvar will introduce you to all this and more. Use this guide for: up-to-date trail information; accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trials; difficulty ratings for each hike; detailed trail maps; zero-impact camping tips. (6 x 9, 288 pages, b&w photos, maps, charts)

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Honda Insight Hybrid Wins Hypermiling Competition with 124 Miles per Gallon That's Nice MPG!This year's Tour to the Shore fuel economy competition had the goal of beating the previous record: 75 MPG in a Honda Insight hybrid. That might seem hard to do, unless you are Jack Martin, a member of the Triad Electric Vehicle Association in Burlington and teacher of Sustainable Transportation at Appalachian State University. He squeezed out 124 miles out of one gallon of gasoline in his unmodified Insight hybrid (and he has one passenger). He did it by using hypermiling tricks. More details below. List of Hypermiling Tricks Hypermiling requires some dedication, but the basic principles are easy to learn: - Pumping up your tires to the maximum rating on their sidewalls, which may be higher than levels recommended in car manuals. This reduces rolling resistance. - Use engine oil of a low viscosity. - A useful, but controversial, practice is drafting behind other vehicles on the highway to reduce aerodynamic drag. If the guy in front of you slams on brakes, you will need to see a surgeon to have that tailpipe removed from your head. - Keep speeds down - Accelerate gently - Avoid excessive idling - Remove cargo racks to also cut down on aerodynamic drag. - Avoid unnecessary braking; coast to slow down. King of HypermilersThe unofficial "King of the Hypermilers" according to Jack Martin is Wayne Gerdes from Chicago. He drove "2,254 miles on a single 13.7-gallon tank of gas during the Honda Insight Marathon in Oklahoma last year." That's an average of 164.53 miles per gallon over the whole distance. "Gerdes estimates that hypermiling has saved him $15,000 in fuel since he began the technique after the attacks of September 11, events that convinced him that U.S. national security was being undermined by its dependence on oil from the Middle East, and motivated him to reduce his own fuel consumption." Hypermiling and Fuel EfficiencyHypermiling Becoming More Popular as Gas Prices Rise Hypermiling Couple Gets Two Entries in Guiness World Records Book Team Achieves 110 MPG Average In Prius 66 Ways To Save Money on Gasoline More on Jack Martin's Hypermiling RecordSqueezing that last mile Thanks to Eric Henry for the tip!

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