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Uses for Industrial HEPA Vacuums Industrial uses for hepa vacuums can vary greatly but one standard that is significant in all applications is the use of EPA rated HEPA filters that will be certified to specific applications. Delivery methods of vacuum sources can vary greatly determinate upon job application and having the correct unit as well as proper rated hepa filters will improve safety standards, work performance and save in overhead operating costs. Industrial use can be classified as in or outdoor operations in production, manufacturing and contracting references. Concrete jobs to automotive manufacturing will have several useful applications for hepa vacuums. Concrete jobs can involve pouring and installation of concrete slabs and fixtures. In both options, a hepa vacuum can be an important piece of equipment in job performance and enables one to adhere to safety guidelines. A hepa vacuum can be used to remove excess slurry and are industrially rated for small and large applications. Attaching the units to truck bed frames and using long hoses are essential in removing debris in a timely option creating better job performance and ability to move from job to job quickly. Wet/dry hepa vacuums have various options available for this application and the longer hoses and variations of powerful cyclonic vacuum power can enable clean up to be easy with out having to move the truck and vacuum repeatedly. For cutting dry concrete hepa vacuums are used to control dust particulates created by cutting operations and clean up to remove residual concrete dust that can be harmful to workers if exposed to large quantities. Attachments of industrial hepa vacuums can be used with cutting tools that will enable the vacuum to remove debris and dust materials at the point of initiation to limit air born pollutants. Many industrial and factory safety applications which are state rated will necessitate that hepa vacuums are necessary in dust removal and must be rated specifically to their job uses as well provide safety monitoring and reports of systems even when used by sub contractors in repair and modification applications. Other wet/dry hepa vacuums are used in flooring applications of hardwoods. They can be used in residential and commercial applications and are as well mandated by applicable safety standards. A hepa vacuum used for wood flooring installation will have attachments that will directly attach to the equipment used. Equipment most common in a wood floor application will be polishers, routers and sanders that create a lot of dust very quickly. The safest results of using hepa vacuums in the situations are not only safe for cleaning air pollutants but enables better visibility. Performance of the operating equipment as well is improved as excess dust and debris is removed from the operating areas of the equipment directly. Factory and applications of hepa vacuums in shop and industrial facilities will also have several variable uses for a safety regulated vacuum system. Several industrial factories operate machinery and equipment with compressed air power and industrial vacuums are available in variations of air and electrical powered units. Construction sites of larger capacities may operate also on either air or electrical. The unit can be made in effect to run on several variations of both power sources. Electrical variations may combine power sources and use application in which both can be operated in one specific hepa vacuum model. Electrical hepa vacuums will operate in a larger volt capacity in most industrial situations. 240 volts will be required to run larger units that are worked for longer duration and these units can be adapted to use two 120-volt outlets or direct connect. Using the adaptable 120 double outlet is applicable also when on job sites using generators as well. Electrical units will have more cases of overheating and component failure and need to monitored and maintained under model manufacturer guidelines of the specific vacuum. Compressed air vacuum units are reportedly cheaper and easier to maintain in industrial applications. They reportedly have less moving parts and are subsequent to looped power supplies that enable them to run continuously for longer periods. In comparison to electrical, they can seem more efficient with greater vacuum and cfm capability. Hepa filters used in both variations will also have specific ratings and preferred applications dependant upon power sources used in vacuum operation. Comparatively in industrial hepa vacuum use, the variables of available applications for operations are considerable. Operating efficiently in the varied circumstances from job sites at construction builds to manufacturing and production, vacuums are an important step in the production and building processes.

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Trees or shrubs; petiole eglandular; lamina mostly bearing several–many glands on abaxial surface. Inflorescence terminal, unbranched or branched near base, each axis a raceme of short 1–7-flowered cincinni; lowest bracteole and alternate subsequent bracteoles bearing 1 large eccentric abaxial gland. Sepals all biglandular, leaving outermost petal exposed in bud; petals glabrous or bearing a tuft of hairs abaxially at base of claw; posterior petal strongly differentiated from the lateral 4, with a thick erect claw and large marginal glands on proximal half of limb or at apex of claw; receptacle glabrous on both sides of stamens; stamens all fertile or the posterior (1–) 3 bearing rudimentary anthers; pollen radially symmetrical, colporate; carpels completely connate in ovary; styles 3, slender and subulate with the stigmas very small, apical or slightly internal. Fruit dry, indehiscent, a nut without a bony endocarp, containing only 1 seed. Distribution: South America. The Mcvaughia clade is strongly supported by both molecular and morphological evidence. The phylogenetic tree shown above, from Davis & Anderson (2010 [pdf]), shows bootstrap values above the branches. Especially noteworthy among the morphological characteristics shared by these three genera are the shrubby or arborescent habit, the abaxial leaf glands, the flowers often in several-flowered cincinni, the large abaxial gland on alternate bracteoles, and the dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit.

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Contemporary full brown calf. Small paper spine label. Boards triple ruled in blind. edges speckled red. Boards and joints rubbed and bumped. Head and tale of the spine chipped. Some toning and browning throughout, but mainly to preliminary and final leaves. Leaves A2 and A3 with some chipping along fore-edge, not affecting text. A bit of marginal worming, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page and some instances of marginalia and text corrections in the same hand. Overall a very good copy. “Bacon’s major contribution to the development of science lies in his natural philosophy, his philosophy of scientific method, and in his projects for the practical organization of science. During the last years of his life, he expounded these ideas in a series of works, of which the Twoo bookes was the first. The only work Bacon ever published in English, it was later expanded and latinized into De augmentis scientiarum (1623). In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology. While preserving the traditional distinction between knowledge obtained by divine revelation and knowledge acquired through the senses, Bacon saw both theoretical and applied science as religious duties, the first for a greater knowledge of God through his creation, and the second for the practice of charity to one’s fellows by improving their condition. This view of science as a religious function maintained its authority throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and was an important factor in the public success of the scientific movement” (Norman Library). Gibson 82. STC 1165. HBS # 65822 $850

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The promise* The Fermi and GTX 285 numbers were provided by NVIDIA, in NVIDIA-controlled conditions, at an event in Las Vegas* NVIDIA divulged further details on its upcoming DX11 'Fermi' GF100 GPU architecture during an event held just after the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Providing the meat on the bones that were laid out back in October 2009, NVIDIA is set to deliver Fermi at the start of March 2010, according to senior representatives present. What NVIDIA kept close to its chest were the finer details that would, once released, define performance. There was no mention of clock-speed, frame-buffer sizes, heat, power, or, well, any real performance metric that could be inferred by looking at the architecture. Towards the end of the day-long presentations, however, the graphics goliath took time out to compare a Fermi GF100 card against the fastest single-GPU card that's currently available from the green stable, the GeForce GTX 285. Again, we repeat that no mention was made of Fermi clock-speeds, but it would be sensible to imagine that NVIDIA wanted to create a good impression and therefore had a well-screened, high-frequency card in the box. As an update, an NVIDIA spokesperson contacted us and said that 'Well, all I can say is that it was not final and not running final clocks. Final perf will be higher'. Anyway, here's the Far Cry 2 result from a GeForce GTX 285. What you see here is that the built-in DX10 benchmark was run at 1,920x1,200 at the ultra-high-quality preset and with 4x AA. The GeForce GTX 285 returns an average frame-rate of 50.32fps with a maximum of 73.13fps and minimum of 38.4fps. In short, it provides playable settings with lots of eye candy. NVIDIA wanted to demonstrate that it had made significant performance improvements from one generation to another. The GF100 card was concurrently run through the same test and produced the following result's page: Take a closer look at the picture and you will be able to confirm that the settings are the same as the GTX 285's. Here, though, the Fermi card returns an average frame-rate of 84.05fps with a maximum of 126.20fps and a minimum of 64.6fps. The minimum frame-rate is higher than the GTX 285's average, and the 67 per cent increase in average frame-rate is significant. So Fermi is faster than GTX 285, that's of no surprise, right? How about quickly comparing it to the fastest single-GPU card from the competition, the Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB, and the current best of 'em all, Radeon HD 5970?

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Henry Robinson has created an excellent series of articles on consensus protocols. Henry starts with a very useful discussion of what all this talk about consensus really means: The consensus problem is the problem of getting a set of nodes in a distributed system to agree on something - it might be a value, a course of action or a decision. Achieving consensus allows a distributed system to act as a single entity, with every individual node aware of and in agreement with the actions of the whole of the network. In this article Henry tackles Two-Phase Commit, the protocol most databases use to arrive at a consensus for database writes. The article is very well written with lots of pretty and informative pictures. He did a really good job. In conclusion we learn 2PC is very efficient, a minimal number of messages are exchanged and latency is low. The problem is when a co-ordinator fails availability is dramatically reduced. This is why 2PC isn't generally used on highly distributed systems. To solve that problem we have to move on to different algorithms and that is the subject of other articles. References allow you to track sources for this article, as well as articles that were written in response to this article.

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Garbhagriham and Mukhamandapam Stones for Courses 1 to 15 The Garbhagruham(sanctum sanctorum) and Mukhamandapam(sanctum) has 15 courses. A total of 453 stones amounting to 3121.10 cubic feet of white granite is needed. While some require ornamentation work, most of these stones are completed and ready to be shipped to Kauai, just as sculpted granite from South India sailed to the island of Java for Saivite temples in the 11th century. These carved stones will be assembled orderly, in its course one above the other, to house the Swambhu Crystal Sivalinga of Iraivan Temple.

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Dáil Éireann - Volume 259 - 24 February, 1972 Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Multi-Channel Reception. Mr. Desmond Mr. Desmond 166. Mr. Desmond asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the estimated number of television sets and viewers in the Republic who have multi-channel reception; the total estimated number of sets and viewers in the Republic; and the estimated number of persons in Northern Ireland who have effective RTE reception. Mr. G. Collins Mr. G. Collins Mr. G. Collins: It is estimated that there are approximately 550,000 television sets in the State covering a population of about 2.4 million and that about one-third of these are equipped to receive external programmes. It is understood that about 200,000 persons in Northern Ireland live in areas where RTE television transmissions can be satisfactorily received with a relatively simple outdoor aerial, but no estimate is available of the number of sets in Northern Ireland which are equipped to receive such transmissions. Dáil Éireann 259 Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. Multi-Channel Reception.

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In the early 1900s, a dispute arose over who controlled Greenland—Norway or Denmark. The case was submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933. The court ruled in Denmark’s favor. After WWII, the United States developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland. In 1946, they offered to buy the country from Denmark for $100 million dollars. Denmark refused to sell though. They did, however, allow the US to reopen Thule Air Base in 1950. From 1951 and 1953, the base was greatly expanded as a part of a NATO Cold War defense strategy. It is still the US Air Forces’ northernmost base, located inside the Arctic Circle. Though Xerxes did not found the Achaemenid Persian Empire, he ruled it at its greatest size, and made it the global force that it was at the time. His failed invasion of Greece has secured him a legendary place in not just Asian, but also Western culture. If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. —Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) Tritones is a musical interval that spans three whole tones. This interval, the gap between two notes played in succession or simultaneously, was branded Diabolus in Musica or the Devil’s Interval by medieval musicians. One historian said, on the tritone: “It apparently was the sound used to call up the beast. There is something very sexual about the tritone.In the Middle Ages when people were ignorant and scared, when they heard something like that and felt that reaction in their body they thought ‘uh oh, here come the Devil’.” The Devil’s Interval came back into vogue under Wagner, of all people, who used it in his operas. Since then, the tritone has been used for everything from ACDC to The Simpson’s theme song. The first light portrait and first human portrait every taken. From October or November, 1839. It is a self-portrait by Robert Cornelius. A caricature of Europe right before WWI. For a full explanation of the imagery for each country, click on the image. Around 300 BCE, the Maya began adopting a hierarchical system of government with rule by nobles and kings. This civilization developed into highly structured kingdoms during the Classic Period, around 200-900 CE. Their society consisted of many independent states, each with a rural farming community and large urban sites built around ceremonial centers. It started to decline around 900 CE when - for reasons which are still debated - the southern Maya abandoned their cities. When the northern Maya were integrated into the Toltec society by 1200 CE, the Maya civilization finally came to a close, although some peripheral centers continued to thrive until the Spanish Conquest in the early sixteenth century. Even today, many in Guatemala and Mexico identify first as Maya and second as their nationality. Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of the American Civil War. In 98 AD, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote a detailed description about the Fenni, a people to the north. This is probably the earliest written reference to the Finnish people. According to him, these poor, savage Fennis lived somewhere in the northeast Baltic region — at the time inhabited by many other peoples, and the description also fits the Sami, another group still living near the Arctic Circle today. Given the name’s closeness to the modern Finns, they think it was probably them. Historians can never be certain exactly who Tacitus was referring to, however. Welcome to history class, guys! In the mid-1950s, Sammy Davis Jr was involved with Kim Novak, who was a valuable star under contract to Columbia Studios. The head of the studio, Harry Cohn, called one of the mob bosses. He paid the mob to threaten Sammy into ending the affair. Great Britain finished repaying the United States’ lend-lead aid from World War II in 2006. August 12, 1944: a band of battle-hardened nurses take a break to get their picture taken in a field close to the front lines in France. Successor of the unfortunate Pope Formosus, Pope Boniface VI joins the league of forgotten Popes. Very little is known about him, and what is known, he probably wishes we’d forget. Pope for just 15 days, Boniface died from gout. This nasty disease comes from eating too much red meat and other rich foods. This causes a build-up of uric acid (gross) leading to swelled joints and purplish skin. Two years after his death, John IX declared Boniface Vi’s election null and void but he is still included in the official list of Popes. This is the remarkable Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton. In 1940 she was Natalie Latham, a former debutante and fixture at New York society balls, now 30, twice divorced with two children and still so beautiful that Vogue printed items about her. All this changed when German U-boats began their devastating attacks on the North Atlantic convoys supplying Britain. Although America had not entered the war, Natalie Latham decided to do something to help, and established Bundles for Britain, which began as little more than a “knitting bee” — albeit one convened by Natalie Latham and some of the grandest dames of the New York social scene. The group quickly expanded to over 1.5 million volunteers, with branches all over the country. Bundles for Britain started shipping over not just clothing but also blankets, children’s cots, ambulances, X-ray machines, hospital beds, oxygen tents, surgical instruments, blood transfusion kits, tinned food and children’s cots. Every item was labelled “From your American friends.” In Britain, she secured the support of Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine, and of Janet Murrow, wife of the CBS reporter Ed Murrow, whose live radio broadcasts to America during the Blitz began with the words: “This is London.” When Bundles for Britain held a raffle, Queen Elizabeth donated items, including a piece of shrapnel that had hit Buckingham Palace. King George VI later appointed Natalie Latham an honorary CBE; she was the first non-British woman thus honored. After her fourth husband’s death in 1951, she arrived in London to promote Common Cause, an anti-communist organization she had founded, and met the third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, MP for Inverness-shire and an ardent anti-communist. They eventually moved to the US, and she died on January 14, 2013.

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Many senior living communities across the country have been battered by recent economic conditions, dealing with factors such as an extended recession, a struggling real estate market, and fluctuating reimbursements, reports U.S. News: Money. Some communities have turned to developing new business models, including expanding services to care for seniors in their own homes. Necessity is clearly the mother of invention for senior housing operators. The numbers of new living units at high-end CCRCs have been very small for several years. The normal funding mechanism for six-figure CCRC entrance fees has come from people selling their primary residence. With housing values on a five-year skid, older homeowners have either been unable to sell their homes or unwilling to sell at depressed prices. At the same time, aging seniors are showing less interest in moving into a CCRC so long as they can maintain active lifestyles in their own homes. Meanwhile, government spending curbs have reduced profits at many nursing homes, and threaten its basic business model. As financial pressures rise on senior living institutions, it’s also clear that tomorrow’s market includes big increases in seniors aging in place in their homes. Surveys show that seniors overwhelmingly prefer to stay in their homes and adjacent communities. And private and government care programs increasingly prefer home-based care as more affordable. The article lists a couple examples of senior housing and care providers who are developing models to export care services into seniors’ homes. Read the full story here. Written by Alyssa Gerace

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History of Homopathy ELCHER, GEORGE E., M. D., of New York city, was born in Greenwich, Conn., on February 7th, 1818. His father and grandfather were both eminent physicians of the old school ; the former died in 1859, after thirty years of extensive practice in New York city. His grandfather, after serving as Surgeon in the revolutionary army during the war, settled in Greenwich, Conn., where he had a very large practice until the time of his death, which occurred in 1824. After a preparatory course of study at the New York University, Dr. Belcher commenced the study of medicine under Prof. J. M. Smith, M. D., and afterward graduated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1839. After graduating, he was for several years associated with his father, and acquired a favorable reputation. Hearing occasionally and incidentally of good results from homopathic treatment, he procured a copy of Hahnemann's "Organon," and of Hering's "Jahr," which he read, and then experimented with homopathic remedies. The first few trials were so strikingly successful, as to fix his attention, and settle the course of his future professional life. In 1844, he married the second daughter of John Harper, Esq., of New York city. Dr. Belcher is a member of the New York Medical Society, of the County, and of the State Homopathic Medical Societies, also of the American Institute of Homopathy. He has made a few contributions to theNorth American Homopathic Medical Journal. He has devoted his life to his profession. Source : Cleave's Biographical Cyclopędia of Homopathic Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave Copyright © Sylvain Cazalet 2002

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Future foods – Robert Hickson: Will farm livestock become endangered species? Social, economic and environmental drivers are converging to not only look at producing food more efficiently and sustainably, but are also stimulating new ways to produce meat or remove the need for it altogether. Such changes, if successful, could have substantial effects on New Zealand’s agricultural and economic landscapes. Lab-grown meat has been worked on for a while, and convergence with other technologies is starting. Modern Meadow is aiming to print meat. In vitro production of meat still has a long way to go, technically, economically and socially. There is scepticism that it will become economically viable and sufficiently scaleable. Or even appeal to consumers. But would it really be that different from currently available mechanically extracted meat products , insects or some of the delights whipped up by molecular gastronomists? . . . A $54,000 grant to St John from Federated Farmers will help the organisation continue its important community work. Federated Farmers made several grants from their Adverse Events Trust in September 2012, and St John was one of the recipients. The money came from individual farmers, meat company workers and meant and wool companies. Federated Farmers’ representatives Katie Milne (National Board Member) and John Hartnell (Chairman of the Bee Industry Group) visited the St John Regional Operations Centre to see the work of the ambulance communications centre, as well as have a look at a new ambulance. . . Contacting Fonterra has been on the to-do list for many New Zealand primary schools since the 2013 school year kicked off – and more than half of the country’s eligible schools have now expressed interest in Fonterra Milk for Schools. More than 1100 schools, representing about 191,000 kids, have registered their interest in the nationwide programme which will provide free milk to primary-aged children every school day. This is on top of the more than 110 schools already participating in Northland. Fonterra Group General Manager Global Co-operative Social Responsibility Carly Robinson says the number of schools getting in contact has been growing by the day. . . Dairy expo braodens view of the industry - Sally Rae: Question – what’s black and white and red all over? Not necessarily a newspaper. It could be a cow hide tanned by Southland man Adam Cowie, who established his own business about three years ago after working in a tannery for many years. Mr Cowie, from Animal Skin Tanning Services Ltd, had skins for sale at the Southern Region Dairy Expo at Clydevale last week. The event, organised by the Clutha Valley Lions Club, attracted a wide variety of exhibitors, selling everything from tractors and trailers to fertiliser and milking systems, pumps and stockfeed. . . DairyNZ is encouraging farmers to use the latest Forage Value Index lists to help make decisions on perennial ryegrass cultivars. The DairyNZ Forage Value Index (FVI) was launched last May as an initiative between DairyNZ and the New Zealand Plant Breeding and Research Association (NZPBRA). The region-specific FVIs utilise seasonal dry matter yields from NZPBRA’s National Forage Variety Trials. DairyNZ’s Dr Jeremy Bryant says the latest set of FVI lists were released in December. . . Kirsten Bryant has been returned as the Western North Island Farmer Director on the Board of Beef + Lamb New Zealand. The Beef + Lamb New Zealand Returning Officer, Warwick Lampp has reported that Kirsten Bryant received 11,503 votes and John McCarthy received 6,149 votes. . . In less than a week the first regional winners in the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be announced, opening new opportunities and career prospects. National convenor Chris Keeping says it is an exciting time when the winners of the 12 regional competitions become known and a new group of passionate and enthusiastic dairy farmers step forward. “We had more than 550 entries this year, so our judges are working extremely hard to identify those sharemilkers, equity farmers, farm managers, contract milkers and trainees doing the best with the resources and farm they have available to them. The awards are not about being perfect, they are about making progress.” . . . With high demand in dry areas edging up the price of supplementary feed, dairy farmers wanting to maintain production into late autumn have got an increasingly cost effective “friend in N”, says Ballance Science Extension Manager Aaron Stafford. “As a feed source home grown pasture remains your best bang for buck and with supplementary feed prices now averaging $50 a tonne more, farms that are not battling the dry conditions will find N an even more competitive tool for extending autumn lactation and maintaining herd condition.” Aaron says products like SustaiN Green, which reduces ammonia volatilisation, offer farmers more flexibility to apply nitrogen when it’s needed most or when it suits them better, even if the weather or soil conditions often experienced during autumn are not optimal. . .

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Following the advice of one fellow here in the forum, I think that I should try to explain how a freaking compressor works with a simple language. Hope you find it interesting. I'm not a pro but I think this will give more light on this tricky subject. Let's start... Let me explain it with my own words. Compressor is a signal processor. You can find it in most recording software as well as rack units. A compressor reduces dynamic range. What does it do? The compressor tames the highest peaks of your sound wave and allows the signal to be louder. Given that the sound waves are more even, your wave sounds more punchy and tight. overuse of compressor kill dynamics and that's the reason you must be careful and not over compress you tracks. In these example you can see the track after and before being compressed. What you might notice first is that the weird peaks you fin in the original wave are less pronounced in the compressed track. Also notice that the overall gain (volume) of the new track is almost the same. How does it happen? Well, let's analyze my compressor setting. That's the point where you signal processor start to work. When the signal surpasses -18.0 dB it starts reducing the volume. How much? That's the reduction you're applying to the portion for the signal that past your threshold. I'm using a 3 to 1 reduction. It means that if I have 3db going past the threshold I'm gonna end with 1db. Any compression stronger than 20:1 is considered limiting. Attack & release To put in easy words that's thow fast or slow your compressor active and deactivate. In this example I've used a fast attack and faster release. You can experiment with these knobs. Depending on the kind of source your compressing, these setting could vary (metal kicks benefit from high attack and some cymbals sound better with slow releases) It's called hard knee compression when the processor kicks in quickly and soft knee compression when it comes gradually as the signal rises. I've used a soft-knee compression to make it sound more natural. So you reduced the overall level of your track. Now what? Well, you can apply some Gain to increase the volume until the compressed track matches the uncompressed track. You can hear both examples in here: It would be nice of the experts to comment on this subject .

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CUAHSI would like to invite you to join us for the first cyberseminar of the Spring 2013 Series on Friday, March 8, 2013 at 3:00pm ET with a presentation by Jessica Lundquist from the University of Washington. Dr. Lundquist's talk is entitled, "Mountain hydrology as revealed by large networks of inexpensive sensors." The theme for the spring series is "Complementary Methods and Models," with a complete schedule of speakers available on CUAHSI's website. To join the cyberseminar: 1. Use the following link, http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/lundquist/, to join the web-portion of the presentation. Please sign in as a "Guest." 2. Once logged in, you will receive a prompt to enter your telephone number (it is not necessary to enter "+1"), whereup the system will call you back automatically to connect you to the audio portion of the meeting. *This does not work if you have a phone extension or are calling outside the US or Canada* 3. OR to call in directly to the meeting -> use Audio Conference details: Conference Number: (888) 850-4523 (toll free) Participant Code: 449161 Lundquist cyberseminar abstract: Mountains are spatially complex, with variations in microclimate (on the scale of tens of meters) as great as variations in mesoclimate (the scale of tens of kilometers). Snowy mountains are the water towers of the world, providing a source of drinking water for 40% of the population, and their snow is highly sensitive to changes in climate. However, mountains are poorly sampled, and a measurement in any given point is likely not representative of the surrounding terrain. Fortunately, recent advances in sensor technology have made it easier to measure temperature, pressure, and relative humidity at many locations at relatively little cost. Here we discuss how these networks of sensors, combined with modeling and remote sensing, are changing how we think about heterogeneity in weather, snow, and streamflow in mountains and how understanding this spatial variability helps resource management decisions. Thank you and we look forward to your participation in Friday's cyberseminar! Communications and Outreach Specialist 2013 Spring Cyberseminar Schedule

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Business Language Learning From APEC HRDWG Wiki As part of International Education Week 2010, APEC has expanded on several themes of the seminar on "Language Education: An Essential for a Global Economy," to provide a guide for students and instructors interested in the critical importance of business language for strengthening business relations in a global context. These themes include Business in the 21st Century; Cross Cultural Awareness for 21st Century Business; Language for 21st Century Business; Business Language Learning; and Business Language Policy. In Business Language Instruction, we learn that different economies use different methodologies by which to teach and learn the subject of business. We find that conflict may arise when these differing methodologies come together in a single classroom. Another application of advanced communications technologies may be found in the classroom, where traditional textbooks may be supplemented with electronic media such as video clips, as well as live information from Internet newsfeeds, essentially making textbook materials come alive. Students today may not learn history, geography, and science as it was taught a few years ago. They may actually view and experience events via the Internet as if they were present during the moment in which they took place. Video conferencing in the classroom may have other applications, such as providing students access to language teachers in foreign countries and to subject matter experts thousands of miles away, who can appear in the classroom and guest lecture as if they were actually there. These powerful new communications technologies have enhanced business language instruction in schools and universities, as evidenced from the scenario presented below. - Technology provides web-based content to expand, complement, and supplement textbooks and teacher instruction. - Online educational materials blend face-to-face learning with digital teaching and curricula. - Technology such as virtual classroom fosters peer-to-peer and instructor-peer relationship building, collaboration, and social networking. - When designing lesson plans for international students, educators must consider how cultural values affect the way students respond to specific assignments. - Technology contributes to a green environment by saving paper and reducing travel. In the fictional scenario below, teaching and learning methodologies from different economies clash as they are brought together into a single classroom, made possible only by advancements in telecommunications technologies. A prestigious university located in collectivist Economy A invited a Marketing professor from a renowned university in individualistic Economy B teach a year-long course on the Fundamentals of Marketing to first-year business students. The professor had recently published a book on McBurger, the hamburger chain, and its success in Economy A. The students in Economy A viewed his book as a premier marketing book in the field of international business. Conducted virtually over Internet video stream, the course was the first [Ed Note: for which economy? Using a mix of traditional and technology-mediated instruction is not that new. It may be a stretch to say it was the first time for such a mix.] to integrate traditional methods of teaching with new technologies. The professor would present a traditional lecture from the university's video conferencing room in Economy B and the students in Economy A would view the lecture and participate in discussion as if the professor were in their classroom. Students would submit all assignments and exams to the professor through a "digital drop box," and the professor would return graded materials back to students via this medium. Using advanced technology in the classroom allowed students to learn from a renowned professor while enrolling in a "green course," one in which the professor did not need to travel to the economy and no paper would be used for assignments. To prepare for the course, the professor chose various marketing, advertising, and strategy cases from around the world. On the first day of class, he presented a case study on Boca Rola, and its advent into Economy C. He gave the students 30 minutes to read the case study, and then encouraged the students to share their views about: (1) Boca Rola’s strategy to enter the market in Economy C, (2) the barriers Boca Rola faced in entering the market, (3) perceptions of foreign products previously unavailable in a particular economy, and (4) consumers' reaction to the new product. He found the students reluctant to share their individual views in the class. Thus, he presented his own views from the perspective of an outsider to Economy C, and shared his views about how Boca Rola’s business culture may be different than the culture of Economy C in which it was operating. At the end of class, the professor gave the students a list of questions about the case study. He asked the students to form small groups of 3-4 students and discuss the answers to the questions. After they discussed the questions, he asked each team to submit a 5-6 page summary of the responses in three days. Additionally, he assigned another case study for the students to read – one that focused on a large multinational company’s entry into the beauty care segment in Economy D for future discussion. When the professor reviewed the students’ responses to the Boca Rola case study, he discovered that the 20 students had submitted 5 separate sets of case study responses, as required. However, each group provided the same responses to the same questions, with no variation. He knew that this could not be a blatant incidence of cheating. When the next class reconvened, he asked the students why they turned in identical sets of answers. The students looked surprised, believing that they had followed his instructions, but had perhaps misinterpreted them. Finally, one student raised his hand and stated that the class had formed groups of 3-4 students, but that each group tackled one question, and then shared the answers with the other groups. The students believed that it was not time efficient to discuss each question. Rather, they decided that each group would respond to just one question, and then share the response with the other groups, who would do the same. The professor smiled in exasperation, and, frustrated by his inability to engage the students in an open discussion, began discussing the beauty company’s entry into Economy D. Points to Consider - How has technology enhanced international educational opportunities for both students and instructors? Other than the examples cited, what other ways can technology facilitate international educational opportunities? - To what extent did the professor understand the students’ motivation to learn, the context in which they learn, and their willingness to experiment and use different approaches to demonstrate what they can do and what they know? - Why was the strategy of open classroom discussion widely popular in Economy B and a widely used strategy to introduce opposing views, and to encourage critical thinking? - To what extent can strategies such as lesson study encourage students in Economy A to demonstrate problem solving skills, critical thinking, and creativity? - What could the professor do to model how each group could engage in separate discussions to understand the various perceptions about Boca Rola’s strategy to enter the market in Economy C? - Individualistic cultures are those cultures in which the opinion of the individual is greatly sought after and deeply valued, even though it may differ from the views of the group. These cultures believe that it is a variety of individual opinions that produce the best solutions to problems and that promote success, whether in social relationships or in the workplace. - Collectivist cultures, on the other hand, value group consensus and harmony. These cultures believe that an environment conducive for business and personal success can only be created when members of the group align in sync with one another. Members of groups will first debate the merits of a question among themselves, and then choose the opinion that they deem most valuable before presenting it to a higher authority. - The Professor from Economy B was used to receiving individual responses to his case discussion questions, responses that varied greatly from one another. Although not all responses he received were correct, he enjoyed reading the individual opinions present in them before discussing the correct answers with the class during the following lecture. Economy A students were, however, from a collectivist culture and valued sharing their responses with their group first before reaching a consensus on a particular answer choice. - The professor noticed that, although he had received only one response per question, it was more or less correct, although there was not a way for him to ascertain which of his students had provided the response, how the learning had occurred, and what the viewpoints of those who disagreed might be. - Teaching Tips for IEW 2010 provided by TESOL - Teaching Tips for IEW 2009 submitted by teachers throughout the Asia-Pacific region - Videos from the APEC-RELC International Language Seminar presentation "Creating Prosperity: Using the Internet to Revolutionize Language Learning" - New paths of communication through: - Technology providing access to content beyond books - Video from the APEC-RELC International Language Seminar presentation "Changes in Our Field: Where are We Going?" - E-Language Learning for Students - a collection of online language learning resources from various APEC members - Related Tips for Teaching 21st Century Workplace Skills More content from International Education Week 2010

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Office of Analysis - Computerized Accident/Incident Reporting System (CAIRS): A database used to collect and analyze DOE and DOE contractor reports of injuries, illnesses, and other accidents that occur during DOE operations. Contact: Janet Macon - Daily Occurrence (DO) Reports A daily summary and listing of occurrence reports submitted to DOE. Contact: Glenn Searfoss - Electrical Safety The Department has undertaken recent and ongoing efforts to improve electrical safety. Contact: Glenn Searfoss - Operating Experience Summaries HSS publishes the OE Summary to promote safety throughout the DOE complex by exchanging lessons-learned information between DOE facilities. Contact: Ashley Ruocco - Lessons Learned and Best Practices The DOE Corporate Operating Experience Program facilitates the sharing of performance information, lessons learned, and good practices across the DOE Complex to prevent the recurrence of adverse events. Contact: Sharon Brown - Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS): The Department of Energy's Occurrence Reporting Program provides timely notification to the DOE complex of events that could adversely affect public or DOE worker health and safety, the environment, national security, DOE's safeguards and security interests, functioning of DOE facilities, or the Department's reputation. Contact: Ashley Ruocco - The DOE Radiation Exposure Monitoring System (REMS) database is used to report occupational radiation exposures for all monitored DOE employees, contractors, subcontractors, and members of the public. Contact: Nimi Rao - Safety and Health Alerts, Safety Bulletins Actionable information that has a high potential to impact safety and health at DOE facilities. Contact: Glenn Searfoss - Safety Basis Information System (SBIS), Contact: Glenn Searfoss - Suspect/Counterfeit Items and Defective Items (SCI/DI) DOE is committed to ensuring that items and components installed in safety-related or mission-critical applications meet their intended function and operability requirements. The Office of Health, Safety and Security has established a process to identify SCIs or DIs that are deemed safety-significant and broadly applicable to DOE facilities. Contact: Sharon Brown - Corporate Analysis of DOE Safety Performance: The Office of Health, Safety and Security Office of Analysis develops analysis tools and performance dashboards, and conducts analysis of DOE safety performance corporately and on a variety of specific environment, safety and health topics. Contacts: Phil Wilhelm and Glenn Searfoss. For additional information regarding this page or feedback on its content, please contact: Stephen Domotor, Director, Office of Analysis.

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God goes, belonging to every riven thing he’s made sing his being simply by being the thing it is: stone and tree and sky, man who sees and sings and wonders why God goes. Belonging, to every riven thing he’s made, means a storm of peace. Think of the atoms inside the stone. Think of the man who sits alone trying to will himself into a stillness where God goes belonging. To every riven thing he’s made there is given one shade shaped exactly to the thing itself: under the tree a darker tree; under the man the only man to see God goes belonging to every riven thing. He’s made the things that bring him near, made the mind that makes him go. A part of what man knows, apart from what man knows, God goes belonging to every riven thing he’s made." Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

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Anonymity is important! There is good information about P2P at www.planetpeer.de/ , however it's mostly in German. But there is a discussion forum and a wiki which are mostly in English. I have some German pages on P2P I experiment with anonymity protocols because they are important. They are not important because I fear others are watching me. You can always ask me, I will tell you the truth. I must do this, as I am a very bad liar. However I am mathematican. Because of that, I know, that all those ideas of "surveillance, protection and control" are very harmfull. There is a mathematical proof, that, if you ever each the goal, that you can control everything and have every bad move under surveillance, the Internet becomes unusable for ordinary people. Anonymity protocols hinder that. They not only make it impossible to do surveillance, they also make it impossible for others to control what you say, what you see and what you think. And more over, it is a known fact, that authenticity can only be reached through anonymity. Else votes for elections would not be held in anonymity. So taking away the anonymity from the Internet would mean to take authenticity from it. Without anonymity, all sources of authentic news on the Net will die out. This must not happen. Anonymity tools are important for our future! - I donated money to JAP - I run a freenet node. - I now run an I2P node, too.

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Series 102 and 121 ICP pressure sensors are certified under ATEX and CSA for use in hazardous environments. They measure dynamic pressure events suchas surges, pulsations, and spikes. They are available in pressure ranges from 50 to 5000 psi and sensitivities from 1to 100 mV/psi. They can be used with ICP signal conditioning and permit the use of two-wire cable systems. Low-impedance signal can be transmitted over long cable distances in dirty environments without signal degradation. PCB Piezotronics Inc., (800) 828-8840, www.pcb.com

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“WASHINGTON — In case you thought there was no risk of your taxes going up again, think again. Washington isn’t done with you yet. Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, want lawmakers to consider a fresh set of tax increases in the next several weeks when they discuss whether to cut spending. Republicans oppose raising tax rates, especially after they just raised some of them for the first time in two decades in the New Year’s deal that extended most – but not all – of the expiring Bush tax cuts. But much of what Obama is talking about is raising tax revenue without actually raising tax rates. In Washington-speak, lawmakers will try to collect more tax money by closing tax loopholes, perhaps limiting popular tax deductions and to some degree changing the way citizens pay into the popular Medicare and Social Security programs. The New Year’s deal raised income tax rates for individuals’ taxable income above $400,000 and family income above $450,000. That’s less than 1 percent of all U.S. taxpayers. The deal is projected to raise about $600 billion over 10 years, not enough to significantly chip away at deficits that still will total more than $6.8 trillion over the same period. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will be looking to trim $2 trillion over 10 years from projected future deficits as part of any deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by the end of February and prevent $109 billion in deep spending cuts from occurring in March. Democrats say Obama will continue to push for an equal split between revenues and cuts – $1 trillion in new tax revenues and $1 trillion in spending cuts….” Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Wildlife of Austria We return to the lakes, forests and mountains of wonderful Eastern Austria in spring, at a time when the breeding season is in full swing, and the mountains are in flower, and again in early autumn, with the excitement of passage migrants. National Parks of Austria Six of the ecologically most valuable regions of Austria have been declared national parks. They cover 2,350 km² or about 3% of the national territory. From Wild Wonders of Europe:

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IBON Foundation pays tribute to the achievements, revolutionary spirit and humility of Joan Hinton who passed away on June 8 at age 89. Ms. Hinton was immensely intelligent, becoming one of the few women physicists involved in the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb. She was immensely principled, turning to activism after the United States (US) bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Ms. Hinton was among scores of scientists who actively opposed such use by the military of nuclear weapons. By 1948 she was in China actively participating in the struggle to build Socialism. She made this country her home for the decades to come– witnessing the founding of the People’s Republic, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. “I did not want to spend my life figuring out how to kill people,” she had said in 2002. “I wanted to figure out how to let people have a better life, not a worse life.” She met and married Sid Engst in China, and they were a part of the Chinese people’s great revolutionary undertaking as translators, editors and agriculturalists on collective farms. Ms. Hinton was a true scientist of the people; among others, she designed and built farm machinery including windmills, milk pasteurizers, silage choppers and combine harvesters. Their commitment to Socialism was firm even upon the tumultuous changes in China since the mid-1970s and strived against what she called “betrayals of the Socialist cause”. Ms. Hinton died in Beijing, like her husband Sid in 2003. Ms. Hinton’s life is an inspiring story and IBON Foundation is proud to have published a book about the courageous Joan and Sid in 2009, Silage Choppers and Snake Spirits, as told by Dao-yuan Chou. We are very deeply saddened by her passing and send our sincerest condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.

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Flipping the North Koreans off Not many people visit North korea these days but if you are one of the lucky few, more likely than not you will be led through an official guided tour of USS Pueblo – an American Intelligence vessel captured in 1968 – which remains the only American vessel currently in captivity. The seizure of USS Pueblo is now one of the forgotten episodes of the Cold War. The U.S. claimed it was in the international waters, while the D.P.R.K. insisted that it was in the North Korean waters. Diplomatic and military stand-off that followed was punctuated by a series of photos, films, and letters depicting the crew of the Pueblo enjoying their comfortable captivity. In reality, however, the crew was being subjected to psychical and psychological abuse. From behind the bars in one of the most isolated places on the planet, the crew nonetheless delivered a master class in political subversion. To undermine the credibility of the letters written home to suggest that they had willingly defected, the crew wrote about the events that never happened. In their press conferences, they used archaic words the Koreans didn’t perfectly understand. Since none of the Koreans knew English well enough to write the confession, the vessel’s commander wrote it himself. They checked the meaning of his words with a dictionary, but failed to catch the pun: “We paean the DPRK. We paean the Korean people. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”. (“Paean” is homophonic with “pee on”.) And almost by accident, they came across the idea behind their greatest coup: in two propaganda movies, the crew noticed people giving the finger were not censored. The crew deduced that the North Koreans didn’t know what the finger meant. In the subsequent propaganda photos of the crew, their middle fingers were firmly extended to the cameraman. When the North Koreans questioned, the crew described it as the “Hawaiian good luck sign.” The ruse went on unnoticed until October 1968, when Time magazine explained the mysterious gesture appearing in many photos as one of “obscene derisiveness and contempt.” This revelation infuriated the North Korean captors, bringing about a period of severe beatings and torture, and the propaganda letters, photos and videos stopped after this. Yet, it would take two more months for the U.S. to offer a perfunctory apology (retracted afterwards) to ensure the release of 82 crewmen. Diplomatic and morale victory hid the bitter reality that the loss of USS Pueblo was a significant blow to the intelligence services. It is now believed that the Soviets urged the North Koreans to seize the ship so that they can reverse engineer US equipment and codebooks. Time Magazine never responded to the repercussions that followed its very public explanation, which in its entirely is reproduced below. For more photos, check the link here.

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|Sunday, Sep 23, 2012 - 3:00 AM "That Would Never Work Here, Either!" Involving students in assessment is often the key to engaging them in learning. This workshop will continue to follow Barbara and Scott as they use assessment to encourage their students to improve their performance. Providing opportunities for students to assess their own work and that of their peers will be the focus of this workshop. D |More on LEARN/CREATE (PT)| |No upcoming shows in database|

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Sustainability of current account for Latin America and Caribbean countries AbstractThis article examines sustainability of current account for Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Using the usual intertemporal borrowing constraint, we have tested for a long-run relationship between exports and imports plus net transfer payments and net interest payments. In our empirical analysis of the sustainability of current account, cointegration approaches have been used. Empirical results suggest that in the case of Peru, there exists a unique long run or equilibrium relationship among real exports and imports. In the case of Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, cointegration results suggest that these countries' current accounts are not sustainable in the long run. Download InfoIf you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large. As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version under "Related research" (further below) or search for a different version of it. Bibliographic InfoArticle provided by Taylor and Francis Journals in its journal Applied Economics Letters. Volume (Year): 17 (2010) Issue (Month): 8 () Contact details of provider: Web page: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/13504851.html You can help add them by filling out this form. CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item. - Ayla Oğuş Binatli & Niloufer Sohrabji, 2012. "Intertemporal Solvency of Turkey’s Current Account," Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 59(1), pages 89-104, March. - Ayla Ogus & Niloufer Sohrabji, 2008. "Intertemporal solvency of Turkey’s current account," Working Papers 0805, Izmir University of Economics. For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Michael McNulty). If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about. If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form. If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form. If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation. Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

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Education and health outcomes for social minorities in India: An analysis using SUR model AbstractThe current study analyzes the health and education outcomes of fifteen year old children in India and investigates the question of inequality of such outcomes for socio-religious categories. To study the effect of health on education, SUR estimation has been undertaken. The comparison of SUR and OLS results shows that SUR estimates have smaller standard errors than the OLS estimates. Of the three categories analyzed in the data, STs have worst outcomes for both education and health and SCs lag behind in the health field. The results have important implications for policy regarding education and health of the socio-religious minorities. Download InfoIf you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large. Bibliographic InfoPaper provided by Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in its series 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington with number 124840. Date of creation: 2012 Date of revision: Contact details of provider: Postal: 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Phone: (414) 918-3190 Fax: (414) 276-3349 Web page: http://www.aaea.org More information through EDIRC Health Economics and Policy; This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports: Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.: - Sonalde Desai & Veena Kulkarni, 2008. "Changing educational inequalities in india in the context of affirmative action," Demography, Springer, vol. 45(2), pages 245-270, May. - Vani Borooah & Sriya Iyer, 2005. "Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The influence of religion and caste on education in rural India," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 41(8), pages 1369-1404. - Vani K. Borooah & Sriya Iyer, 2002. "Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India," ICER Working Papers 32-2002, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research. - Behrman, Jere R, 1996. "The Impact of Health and Nutrition on Education," World Bank Research Observer, World Bank Group, vol. 11(1), pages 23-37, February. - Dreze, Jean & Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi, 2001. "School Participation in Rural India," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(1), pages 1-24, February. - Jean Drèze & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, 1999. "School Participation in Rural India," STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers 18, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE. - Jean Dreze & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, 1999. "School Participation in Rural India," Working papers 69, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics. - Ashwini Deshpande, 2000. "Recasting Economic Inequality," Review of Social Economy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 58(3), pages 381-399. - Case, Anne & Fertig, Angela & Paxson, Christina, 2005. "The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 365-389, March. For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (AgEcon Search). If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about. If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form. If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form. If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation. Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

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Skip to Main Content Machine learning methods are known to be inefficient when faced with many features that are unnecessary for rule discovery. In coping with this issue, many methods have been proposed for selecting important features. Among them is feature selection that selects a subset of discriminative features or attribute for model building due to its ability to avoid overfitting issue, improve model performance, provide faster and producing reliable model. This paper proposes a new method based on rough set algorithms, which is a rule-based data mining method to select the important features in bioinformatics datasets. Amino acid compositions are used as conditional features for the classification task. However, our results indicate that all amino acid composition features are equally important thus selecting the features are unnecessary. We do confirm the need of having a balance classes in classifying the protein function by demonstrating an increase of more than 15% in accuracy. Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2009. ICEEI '09. International Conference on (Volume:01 ) Date of Conference: 5-7 Aug. 2009

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Yesterday I was chatting to a really experienced high school teacher. I asked for his opinion on what makes an excellent student or learner. This is what he said: "It's not really about what students do inside the classroom. The best students are always the ones that do the most outside the classroom: for example, the ones that go online after a lesson to search for more information, or to look for different ways to understand a topic or solve a problem." The good news is that if you're reading this blog post, you're already one of these students. You're on the right track!

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I wanted to make a strong mother character. The portrayal women in epic fantasy have been problematical for a long time. These books are largely written by men but women also read them in great, great numbers. And the women in fantasy tend to be very atypical women… They tend to be the woman warrior or the spunky princess who wouldn’t accept what her father lays down, and I have those archetypes in my books as well. However, with Catelyn there is something reset for the Eleanor of Aquitaine, the figure of the woman who accepted her role and functions with a narrow society and, nonetheless, achieves considerable influence and power and authority despite accepting the risks and limitations of this society. She is also a mother… Then, a tendency you can see in a lot of other fantasies is to kill the mother or to get her off the stage. She’s usually dead before the story opens… Nobody wants to hear about King Arthur’s mother and what she thought or what she was doing, so they get her off the stage and I wanted it too. And that’s Catelyn. - George RR Martin on Catelyn Stark (via jaimelannister) Indeed, the idea of ‘winning the girl’ – of overcoming female objections or resistance through repeated and frequently escalating efforts – is central to most of our modern romantic narratives. (Female persistence, by contrast, is viewed as pathetic.) And the more I think about instances of creepiness, harassment and stalking that culminate in either the threat or actuality of sexual assault, the more I’m convinced that a massive part of the problem is this socially sanctioned idea that men are fundamentally entitled to persist. Because if men are meant to persist, then women who say no must only be rejecting the attempt, not the man himself, so that every separate attempt becomes one of a potentially infinite number of keys which might just fit the lock of the woman’s approval. She’s not the one who’s allowed to say no, not really; she should be silent and passive as a locked door, waiting patiently while the man runs through however many keys he can be bothered trying. And if he gets sick of this lengthy process and just breaks in? Well, frustration under those circumstances is only natural. Either the door shouldn’t have been there to impede him, or it shouldn’t have been locked.The Creepiness Question (via alchemy) Sorry this isn’t a read more cause my laptop isn’t here but wow nothing ever feels like home and that’s cause I’ve moved 7 times no joke with both parents and their houses so damn do I hate leaving places that are comfortable Men and women are misogynistic for different reasons: men to marginalize women, and women to ingratiate themselves with the men trying to marginalize them. Neither one is justifiable, but one is oppressive and the other is a (bad) strategy to deal with that oppression. One thus sees that if the men who are misogynists weren’t, the women who are misogynists wouldn’t have any reason to be. Ergo, exhorting women to stop being misogynists so that men will stop gets it precisely backwards.http://www.shakesville.com/2010/01/feminism-101.html (via pomegranateblood)

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Washington, DC. Public libraries have become essential points of access to the Internet and computers in local communities, with nearly every library in the country offering public internet access. Yet, individual library practices can have significant affect on the quality and character of this public service. Opportunity for All: How Library Policies and Practices Impact Public Internet Access, offers an analysis of the service in four public library systems and makes recommendations for strategies that help to sustain and improve public access service. The report was funded through a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services and was produced by the University of Washington Information School. [Read more] Access to the Internet has become a central part of American society, helping all of us in many areas of our daily lives. Over the past twenty years, libraries and community technology centers have taken on the role of public access centers for those who are unable to reach the Internet at home or work, for reasons ranging from lack of financial resources to personal preference. The U.S. Impact Study is examining the users and use of these public services to better understand the impact of free access to computers and the Internet on the individuals, families and communities served by these public and private resources.

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Godrej Nature’s Basket launched a new health section, ‘Healthy Alternatives’ earlier this week at their flagship store in Bandra. Offering a range of health foods that are heart-healthy, diabetic-friendly and immunity-boosting, Nature’s Basket teamed up with renowned nutritionist, Dr. Anjali Mukerjee for the launch. Speaking on the theme of ‘You are what you eat,’ Dr. Mukherjee shared her insights into maintaining a healthy lifestyle in today’s zippy daily routines. We seized the opportunity to chat with her and share some of her earthy good sense and wisdom with our readers. “We at Health Total, in partnership with GNB, are very proud of the people who make concerted efforts to be healthy in a degenerating urban environment. GNB is bringing them a range of health foods that help fight disease, foods to detox, plan weight management, and much more. This range of functional foods (that is, foods with healthy properties) will be available at the Healthy Alternatives section at Nature’s Basket.” The Heart Healthy range includes silken tofu, wheatgrass powder and red salmon. Dr. Mukherjee recommends the wheatgrass for its cleansing properties that help detox the system. Its high mineral content has healing properties that are used to treat patients fighting cancer, to boost their immunity levels. Salmon, with its high Omega 3 content, provides essential healthy fats to the body, and is an anti-inflammatory that helps control BP and cholesterol. The Diabetic Friendly range offers fenugreek powder and instant oatmeal, among others. Fenugreek (or methi) is beneficial for diabetics in that it helps lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Its high fibre content helps stabilize the blood sugar levels of diabetic patients, as does oatmeal. She recommends a bowl of oatmeal porridge for breakfast, or consumed in roti form. Aren’t diabetic diets rather boring and dry? How can we spice it up for them? Dr Mukherjee clarifies that diabetics just have to watch their grain intake. While maida is a strict no-no, rotis made from jawar, bajra or raagi are ideal. Meanwhile, sabzis and dals can offer the same masalas as served to the rest of the family. Her advice is no more than 3 teaspoons of oil per day, per person – in every household. “Switch over to healthier oils like rice bran oil, til oil or olive oil which have high MUFA (mono-unsaturated fatty-acids) content and a high smoke point.” And her personal health mantras for 2013? “That would be to eat right for my body type. If you eat according to your constitution, match the food you consume to your body type, it’s the one critical step to staying healthy.” Also present at the launch was Bollywood celebrity Karishma Kapoor, who chatted with the guests about her fitness regime, diet mantra and the need to practice healthy living with children. “Being healthy is an aspect of life that almost everyone has realized requires most importance. With the availability of a wide range of health foods now at Godrej Nature’s Basket it becomes much easier for us to keep ourselves fit and practice the same with our kids as well. I am sure to drop in here more often now” Mr. Mohit Khattar, MD of Godrej Nature’s Basket added, “The launch of this section is part of our continuous focus on renovation and Innovation for the brand. We believe in providing our customers the best the gournmet industry has on offer and the ‘Healthy Alternatives’ section is a perfect way to ensure that our customers are not just happier but healthier.”

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From the Wires Rob Macpherson Rutland VT: Microchipping Is a Great Holiday Gift for Pets and Owners As Many Americans Prepare for the Holiday Season by Rushing to the Stores to Find Presents for Others, Many Are Wondering About Great Gift Ideas for Pets; Rob Macpherson, Rutland, VT Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Explains That Microchipping Is a Practica By: Marketwire . Dec. 24, 2012 06:00 AM RUTLAND, VT -- (Marketwire) -- 12/24/12 -- As most Americans are making their last efforts to seek out great holiday presents for their friends and family members, others are concerned about what gifts to get for the beloved animals in their lives. Just as holiday gifts are becoming more technologically complex for the human population, gifts for pets -- and pet owners -- are also following this trend. A recent article from Yahoo! highlights how many of these tech-related pet gifts are not only fun for animals, but sometimes beneficial to their health. Although some of the article's listed items -- such as the electric dog treat maker -- are fun, Rob Macpherson, Rutland VT veterinarian, notes that those searching for holiday pet gifts should focus on ones that can improve an animal's health. While some holiday shoppers may prove quick to pick up a bone or a squeeze toy for a pet's stocking stuffers, the article highlights that there are a vast array of products available for animals. For instance, it notes that pet-loving consumers could purchase goods such as dog barking controls, electronic self-cleaning cat litter boxes, exercise equipment, air conditioners for doghouses, and even pet air purifiers for human houses. Although Rob Macpherson, Rutland, VT dog owner and resident, believes that it is always fun to have presents for pets to "unwrap" under the tree, there are some health-oriented gifts that may prove more considerate. For instance, those who have yet to have their pet microchipped may find that this easy procedure is a great gift to both the animal and the owner. Rob Macpherson of Rutland, VT explains, "What better gift to give than one that can help ensure the safe return of a loved one, should the animal become lost. Microchips are safe with no long-term health consequences to the pet. Once they are implanted, these devices last a lifetime. In addition, all humane societies, animal control organizations and veterinary clinics have the ability to scan for a chip. This allows lost cats and dogs to be returned to their homes as quickly as possible. Microchips are simply a great gift idea for our awesome companions." Rob Macpherson, Rutland VT Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, owns and practices veterinary medicine at Rutland Veterinary Clinic and Surgical Center. For two decades, he has thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to heal animals and support pet owners. Before taking ownership of the clinic in Rutland, he worked there as a staff veterinarian for 10 years. As a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Rob Macpherson, Rutland, VT resident, has a great deal of experience under his belt and has become a very active member of his community, especially in regards to animal protection rights and health. SOA World Latest Stories Subscribe to the World's Most Powerful Newsletters Subscribe to Our Rss Feeds & Get Your SYS-CON News Live! SYS-CON Featured Whitepapers Most Read This Week

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This week, The Choice published our monthly Counselor’s Calendar, intended to keep students on track during the college admissions process. What follows are excerpts that are most relevant for international students. — Tanya Abrams Juniors: College Checklist for March This is the part of your college search that does not have a lot of specific deadlines. It does, however, have a lot of things you need to do to stay on track and set yourself up for the best experience. Set the Tone It is in your power to foster a positive dynamic with your parents early in this process. This is a bittersweet time for them, trust me. You grew up much faster than they were expecting. Establishing expectations now will help when things (inevitably) get a little touchy between you and your parents. I am a big fan of the once-a-week policy, in which you and your parents set a weekly time to talk about your college search and application process. During this time, your parents are allowed to bring up anything that is on their minds and ask as many questions as they want. The rest of the week, college talk is off limits, unless you raise the subject. This is particularly helpful if your parents — armed with college questions galore — already seem to pounce the second you walk through the front door. Your parents want to help and they deserve to be included in your thinking. Still, you are the one who is getting ready to go off to college, so you need to take the lead. Think Ahead About Letters of Recommendation It may seem early but now is a good time to start thinking about which teachers you might ask for a letter of recommendation. Don’t worry. You do not need to ask anyone for a letter just yet but planning ahead can make asking a little easier. Many colleges will ask for two letters from faculty members who have had you in their classrooms in 11th or 12th grade. Who should you ask? One recommendation letter should come from a class that requires you to do a fair amount of writing. The other should showcase another aspect of your learning — like science, math or a foreign language. Ask the teachers who saw you perform at your best. Which teachers have sparked your curiosity? Which ones make you reconsider your own opinions? Those are the people you want writing for you. Keep an Open Mind Allow yourself to change your mind, even if you already have a set idea of where you plan to apply next fall. If, in the course of researching colleges, you stumble upon a school that seems pretty much perfect but you have never heard of it, that’s O.K. It hasn’t heard of you, either. You may find schools that resonate with who you are but do not match your plan. It is O.K. to change the plan. In this phase, changing your mind and adjusting your criteria are not signs that you do not know what you want. Actually, they are indications that you are a flexible thinker with the confidence to trust your judgment. Remember what Emerson said: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Don’t Rush This Part I think the anxiety and pressure students feel about college makes them want to skip ahead to the concrete stuff, to be done with all the reflection and research. Here’s the thing: Visiting schools, thinking about what kind of undergraduate experience you want, and starting to create a list? That is the really fun part of applying to college. I am sorry to tell you that there are very few times in your life when you get to choose where you want to live, the kind of people you want to spend time with, and the way you want to learn. You might as well make the most of the opportunity. With all the hype and uncertainty surrounding applying to college, it is easy to approach the process from a place of fear. Fight that impulse. This process is about possibility. Enjoy this time and try to savor what a gift it is to be able to make choices like these. Have fun! — Heather Keddie Seniors: College Checklist for March This is the month you’ve been waiting for. Most admission decisions will be released by the end of March, leaving all of April for you to make your choice. Take a few deep breaths and contemplate what it will be like to receive your decision notices. Make a plan for how, when and where you want to get and share the news, and think about how you will evaluate your offers. Check Your Online Decisions Off Campus If you are able to check your decisions online, consider getting the news outside of school, even though it’s hard to wait. At school you’re surrounded by other people who could be inadvertently just as affected by your admission decisions as you are. This is especially true if many of your classmates applied to the same colleges. Choose to be in a private space with family or friends who will show you their support, no matter what the decision turns out to be. Share Your Decisions (but Not With Everyone) Your decisions are your own business. How much you want to share and with whom is up to you. Just be prepared with a snappy comeback to the inevitable question. Do share your decisions with your counselor and all of those nice people who wrote recommendation letters for you. Feel free to remind them that you would like to keep the information private, if that’s the case. If you are open with your decisions, please keep in mind that a little modesty goes a long way. Take a Close Look at Your Financial Aid Letter Not sure how to read your financial aid award? Call the financial aid office at each college and ask a few questions. The goal is to determine just how much you are being offered in grants and loans, and how much more you will have to cover as a family — not just for next year, but for the next four years. Ask if the grants are guaranteed for all four years. Calculate how much of a loan burden you will have to carry, how much your parents will be responsible for, and when you must start paying it off. Compare these awards very carefully and talk openly about your findings as a family. If you have any questions after speaking to the financial aid offices, talk to your counselor. Remember that if your financial situation has changed significantly since you filed your paperwork, you may request a re-evaluation. There is a lot to gain from ending the year with good grades, as you’ll be well prepared for final exams. Now is not the time to cheat, plagiarize or break the rules. Remember that colleges have the right to pull their admission letters, and they do this regularly. Use your best judgment at all times. Don’t Take It Personally When I was an admissions officer at the University of Pennsylvania, we had to make the very tough decision to deny the child of an alumnus. The decision so angered the alumnus that he sent my boss, the dean of admissions, a well-worn Penn cap he had owned since he was an undergraduate. He also enclosed a note instructing the dean to “stick it” in a very inconvenient place. Don’t be this guy. And I’m not just discouraging sending special packages to deans. Try not to take admissions decisions too personally. My students sometimes receive disappointing news from colleges, and once in a while they come to me and ask, “What else could I have done? Why didn’t they like me? Wasn’t I good enough?” My heart breaks when I hear these words. Allow me to speak for all admissions officers when I say: Of course you’re good enough. You are unique and talented and tremendously deserving. We just have to make really tough decisions, knowing all the time that very accomplished, worthy, likable students like you will not get in. Please don’t take our decisions personally. Enjoy exploring the colleges that accepted you. They are so lucky to have you. Focus on your next steps and don’t look back. And with that, I wish all of you a lot of great news in the coming months. Don’t forget to stay focused, follow your plan, and ask for help along the way. Good luck! — Christine L. Pluta This post was prepared in consultation with the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, a membership organization.

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The Javan rhinoceros is one of the most rare animals in the world and it was just spotted on video tape. Seamen have long reported miraculous sightings of luminous, glowing seawater. You know how animals are supposed to be able sense disasters before they happen? Well some believe it’s a myth, though there are lots of reports of animals behaving strangely days before the tsunamis hit in Indonesia. Hundreds of thousands of ants were seen scurrying away from the beach. Elephants, dogs, and zoo animals were all reported to have been acting strangely. What can explain it? Learn more on this Moment of Science.

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Since the first century AD, the Banda islands have been the sole producers of the fragrant nutmeg and mace for which Chinese, Indian, and Arab ships traveled across the seas. These precious spices could be sold at enormous profit in foreign markets. The people of Banda thrived on their natural resources, but in later years suffered at the hands of Dutch colonizers who wanted to dominate the world’s spice trade. Despite such a big reputation, the fabled Banda islands are only a tiny cluster of islands, composed of three large islands and seven smaller ones. The islands are perched on the rim of Indonesia's deepest underwater gorge, the Banda Sea, where waters can reach depths of over 6,500 meters. Two of the biggest islands, Banda Besar and Naira, are covered with nutmeg trees. The third island, Gunung Api or ‘peak of fire’, is an active volcano that emerges from the deep in a perfect cone, and is entirely rugged and highly volcanic. In the waters surrounding these islands you’ll find some of the world’s most spectacular marine gardens, with bright corals and colorful fish, bustling through the crystal-clear waters, making it suitable for diving, snorkeling or even simply sightseeing. Lying about 132 kilometers southeast of Ambon, the islands are a remote and exquisitely beautiful part of Indonesia. With multi-colored reefs, warm seas and exotic marine life, the Banda’s are a haven for divers who come from around the world to explore some of the most remote and unspoiled dive sites in the world. Today, Banda attracts divers, sailors and cruise ships from around the world by its sheer natural beauty, both above as below the sea, which can only be matched by Raja Ampat, Papua; another location for ultimate underwater adventures. The Banda Islands are one of the Indonesia’s most popular destinations for divers. Both experts and beginner divers will enjoy themselves here, as the diving spots vary from the shallow lagoon between Bandaneira and Gunung Api, to the vertical walls of Hatta Island. Wherever you go here, you’ll discover stunning tropical scenery, a remarkable history, friendly locals, and some of the globe's most pristine, biologically diverse coral reefs. Scuba diving is still relatively new here, but pioneering divers didn't have to work hard to find a thrill. The undersea world around Ambon and the nearby island of Saparua have top-rate dive sites. As you explore beneath the surface you’ll see everything from sharks, enormous turtles, schools of Napoleon Wrasse, giant groupers, dogtooth tuna, mobula rays, redtooth triggerfish, various species of whales, spinner dolphins, and huge lobsters - neighbors to generous schools of reef fish and endemic Ambon scorpionfish. Come to Banda islands and visit the best kept secret in Eastern Indonesia. While flights here are not frequent, it’s worth the wait. For this ideal tropical paradise won’t remain deserted for long.

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|Advertising|Jobs 転職|Shukan ST|JT Weekly|Book Club|JT Women|Study in Japan|Times Coupon|Subscribe 新聞購読申込| |Home > Life in Japan > Features| Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 HAVE YOUR SAY World needs lessons in dealing with difference; Japan needs an education in attracting students Following are three more readers' mails in response to both Gerry McLellan's May 24 Hotline to Nagatacho column "Japanese adults need an education in dealing with difference" and other letters published on the subject on June 28. Education also needed elsewhere In response to Gerry McLellan's letter, I would concur that yes, Japanese people do need more education in dealing with foreigners. But so do Americans, British, Australians and just about everyone else. How many waiters, hairdressers and store clerks in your country can carry on a perfectly politically correct conversation with a foreigner without ever asking about their country of origin or what foods they like? I know a lot of "regular Joe"-type people in my country who unapologetically confuse Japan, China and Korea, not to mention South American countries, Middle Eastern countries, European countries and pretty much everywhere else. In my university days, I would take Japanese exchange students to the local shopping mall; despite their earnest attempts to speak English with store employees, they would be told to their face, "Sorry, I can't understand anything you are saying." My Japanese friends who travel abroad tell me they regularly get jeers from people on the street. One friend even had raw eggs thrown at her, in a developed European country no less. Even my American friends who studied abroad throughout Europe told me they were surprised at how openly racist people were in those countries. So in actuality, Mr. McLellan is demanding of Japan a standard that simply does not exist in other countries. I presume he had just never been on the receiving end of any cultural insensitivity until he came to Japan. When studying abroad in Osaka, I had an American teacher who told us, "I love seeing these rich white kids coming to Japan and getting flabbergasted at the things Japanese people say to them. I think it's a great experience for them to be a minority for once." He had a good point. Growing up as a half-Filipino in America, I was called "Chinese" by classmates, and even my teachers would jokingly call me a "dog eater." I have never had such rude things said to me here in Japan. While I do agree that Japanese — and people everywhere else — need lessons on cultural differences, I have a feeling that Mr. McLellan and his son will somehow find a way to endure the horrible burden of being told they are good at Japanese. Ignorance is widespread If you have traveled extensively, Mr. McLellan, you might have noticed that Japan is not the only country where adults say such things. If fact, you're likely to encounter the same in other ethnically homogenous countries in the rest of Asia. And even in Western countries like Australia — where I was born and currently live — as an Asian person I constantly get, "Your English is very good!" or "You seem kind of Australian, not like the other foreigners" from probably well-meaning people of all demographics. After telling them I was born and bred and educated in a private school, they seem to be able to find a justification for my out-of-place, unexpected English proficiency. Then they will pursue some other questioning of Asian stereotypes, e.g. why we like to gamble so much. I am not the only Asian person who experiences this. It's as widespread as our cane toad plague. So if you think Japan is culturally challenged, look again and you'll find that so is the rest of the world — that is, if you cared to look. It can't be helped, for now I, of course, like any non-Japanese person in Japan, have felt discriminated against. A recent example was when I was on a business trip to Tokyo with a Japanese co-worker, and our hotel staff asked him to ask me for my passport. My co-worker doesn't speak English, so I answered by saying that I didn't have my passport with me as I did not come from overseas. Then they asked for my foreign registration card for them to copy. I complied, but of course my Japanese co-worker did not have to show any identification. I got pretty upset that apparently a non-Japanese person is more of a risk than a Japanese person even though they are paying with the same credit card and work for the same company. Totally unnecessary if you ask me, but then again, there are those non-Japanese people that take this discrimination and lash out. When that happens, hotels might be happy that they took these steps. But did they take steps to help a problem, or did they create the problem? In either case, these types of situations — and even just saying that someone's Japanese is good — are cultural. Reading the other comments, it looks like most people who have not experienced racism are the most upset. Racism is everywhere. I almost guarantee that the people writing upset comments have also said racist comments about Japanese people themselves. I have, even though I am married to one. Living in another culture is frustrating, especially one as unique as Japan's. This education will not come quickly, but as the number of foreigners and interracial kids increases in Japan, Japanese people will learn from experience. As there is still racism in all countries, though perhaps not as much as before, discrimination will not go away in my lifetime. I choose to feel shōganai about this problem, as that will bring the least amount of frustration. World should learn Japanese? Re: " 'English interface' could be key to Japan's revival" by Glenn Newman (Zeit Gist, July 5): It would seem that the writer has failed to recognize that the English-speaking countries were the primary facilitators of the recent global financial collapse. Maybe if the Japanese had a better command of English, the criminal activities of those Western bankers would have been more easily noticed; but numbers are numbers in any language, and one can be lied to in many languages. The world seems unable to grasp the concept that Japan would like to remain Japanese. The Western ideal of cultureless societies that only embrace consumerism continues to destroy all cultures in its path. The wheel of time changes many things, and the overreaction to the Japanese way of doing things is based on the "I want it now" attitude that prevails in the West. Corruption in Japan is a major issue, but it is also an issue in many other countries. The financial crisis was a result of political corruption in the U.S. and the U.K. I hardly think that learning English will be the healer of all that is wrong in the economic system. Culture maintains things of importance to a society and binds people when problems arise. Consumerism divides people by objects owned and is based on acquisitions and greed. Maybe the English-speaking world would do better to understand Japanese? What's anime got to do with it? Re: " 'English interface' could be key to Japan's revival" by Glenn Newman (Zeit Gist, July 5): The proposal at the end of the column to send companies to set up recruitment booths at anime events is a terrible idea. Those who attend such expos are all otaku-like fanatics who probably wouldn't fit very well into a Japanese company. The last thing we want is more "weeabos" (wannabe Japanese) morons to come to Japan and make Westerners look even more idiotic. It's people like this that end up giving foreigners a bad name. I am so tired of hearing Westerners, scholars and others like you talk about anime as if it's the only thing Japan has to offer. Going to Japan or being interested in Japan just because of video games, manga and/or anime is incredibly shallow. Make colleges more accessible Re: " 'Foreign students back but numbers look likely to fall" by James McCrostie (Zeit Gist, July 12): I read the article with great interest as it concerns me personally. It seems I am one of the few who applied in May for a one-year precollege visa via a language school. If successful, this would be my second time in Japan, which I visited first as an MBA exchange student in 2006. I truly believe that while the tsunami, Fukushima disaster and the obvious ineptitude and arrogance of TEPCO and the government won't help to restore trust, there are also structural problems Japan faces that were only partly addressed in the article. I for one found the application procedure highly inflexible and strict. I was particularly worried that I had to send the original, not the certified copies, of my last diploma. Also, I was told (perhaps wrongly) that people who graduated more than five years ago weren't eligible at all. Language schools are missing out again on a big target group. Why not accept the 50-year-old Japanophile on a sabbatical? Visa regulations need to become more flexible and less of an administrative burden. I know from personal experience that the quality of university courses is often so-so ("difficult to get in but a ride in the park afterwards," to quote a Japanese friend). If I were a parent paying for something extremely expensive like sending my kids to university abroad, I would want to make sure they are safe and would end up with an internationally appreciated degree. So some reforms are definitely needed as well as a rational PR effort directed at the parents as the paying party. A big eye-opener for me was when I started to check out the possibilities of studying Korean in Seoul or Mandarin in Taiwan a few weeks ago as a backup plan; I got the feeling that these countries actually want me to come and study their language. The application procedures seem faster (two months versus five), less old-fashioned (Fax? Really, Japan?) and easier (two forms versus I-lost-count-of-the-number). The cost of living seems a little lower, and these countries have good universities and pretty funky entertainment, too. If I were to do it all over again, I'd perhaps select Taiwan or South Korea over Japan. Don't misunderstand me. I loved living in Japan, and am looking forward to coming back for a year, but Japan still has a long way to go if it wants to reach ambitious goals, Fukushima or not. For some people like myself, anime, Arashi and tea ceremonies alone don't do the trick, and there are more dynamic countries out there that come to mind when investing in one's future, such as Australia, the U.S. and Singapore.

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In a countless number of movies and novels set in the British Regency and Victorian Era women are plagued by headaches; oftentimes as a way to show them as fragile, or as a joke. It is not a trope used with male characters, but if it were would they be taken seriously? Probably not. What if it was all viewed from a different angle and headaches were considered as something that legitimately affected their well-being? Maybe they were getting out of a carriage earlier in the week and bumped their head on the door frame causing a very mild head injury. What if in present day your head bumped against the driver’s side window in a small accident with no other injury? Could that genuinely affect anyone’s overall health? A new study by Dr. Sylvia Lucas, coming out of the American Headache Society‘s Annual Meeting, states that those who experience milder head injuries tend to have more post-traumatic headaches as time progresses than those with severe injuries. Out of the 598 participants in the study “about 70% [were] more likely than … their counterparts with moderate or severe injury to develop new headache or have a worsening of preexisting headache over the next year,” Dr Lucas was quoted as saying. The majority of headaches were classified as migraines, though a large chunk was unclassifiable using the International Classification of Headache Disorders, second edition. They do not know why this occurs, but Dr. Lucas thinks it is related to the specific mechanics of the accident that caused the head injury. Breaking down the participants: 220 had mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and began the study the same week of their accident; the other 378 had moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and were admitted to rehabilitation facilities. They found that migraines and tension headaches were most common, and that cervicogenic headaches were less common. This was unexpected considering most of the incidents that led to the TBI stemmed from motor vehicle accidents. “Study results showed that the mild TBI group and the moderate or severe TBI group had an identical prevalence of headache before injury (17%). But the former had a higher incidence of new or worsened headache at baseline (56% vs. 40%), at 3 months (63% vs. 37%), at 6 months (69% vs. 33%), and at 12 months (58% vs. 34%).” If you are wondering how this might severely affect somebody’s life, about a year ago a story came out that soldiers were sidelined more from headaches than from other types of wounds. Headaches. For the study Dr. Steven P. Cohen and his colleagues “reviewed the records of 985 soldiers who had been evacuated from the wars during 2004-2009 with a primary diagnosis of headache.” The causes of the headaches ranged from physical trauma, psychological or emotional, to environmental. Only about a third of the patients in the study were able to return to duty. So maybe headaches can cause a bigger imposition in life than originally thought. And the next time someone tells you “it’s just a headache” this will give them something to think about. Check back again next week when we see what else is new on MD Consult.blog comments powered by Disqus

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Hospitals across the country are diligently working to reduce infection rates. According to the World Health Organization, hospital-acquired infections affect as many as 1.7 million patients in the United States each year. These infections come at an annual cost of $6.5 billion and contribute to more than 90,000 deaths. Proper hand hygiene is essential in helping to prevent hospital-acquired infections. A recent study performed by French researchers examined three types of healthcare workers. The first type spent a large amount of time with a discreet group of patients like a nurse would. The second group saw more patients but spent less time with each one - similar to doctors. Group three consisted of healthcare workers who interacted with every patient every day like therapists. The study found that if a healthcare worker in group three failed to wash their hands, the spread of disease was three times worse than if someone from group one or two didn't. The study was published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To read more about the study, continue here. To read another take on hand hygiene and about the Joint Commission's national hand hygiene project, click here. Photo Credit: Jessica Flavin Almost two million patients hospitalized in the U.S. each year develop an infection. These infections occur in as many as one in every 10 patients, result in close to 100,000 deaths and cost upwards of $6 billion. The Wall Street Journal created a top 10 list of infection prevention strategies based on interviews with medical professionals, administrators a non profit company and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. - Undercover Operations - Dr. Philip Carling, an epidemiologist at Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass. developed a solution to uncover how well patient rooms are cleaned. His invisible solution contains fluorescent markers which glow in black light. After spraying patient rooms with the solution, cleaning crews were brought in to perform their normal routine. Later, rooms were examined with a black light and areas missed by the cleaners glowed fluorescent. Sharing results with cleaners helped boost compliance with proper cleaning techniques. - High-Tech Cleaning Systems - When hospital equipment is disinfected by hand, bacteria often remains. For more thorough disinfecting hospitals are utilizing machines such as Bioquell which sprays a disinfecting hydrogen-peroxide vapor. - Data Mining - Many hospitals are tracking data to determine how to prevent infections. Lee Memorial Health System in Florida tracks infection rates by surgeon and reports on the results. Low ranking surgeons can then make adjustments to lower their infection rates and improve their ranking. - Patient Hygiene - Research suggests a daily wash with mild antibacterial soap can dramatically reduce the rate of bloodstream infections. The recommended cleanser is chlorohexidine glutonate. - Reporting Crackdown - Numerous states have passed laws which require hospitals to report on infection rates. In many cases the reports are publicly available. In addition, Medicare is limiting reimbursement for treatment of hospital-acquired infections. - Clean hands - Hospitals that utilize strategically-placed dispensers of hand sanitizer have noticed an increase in hand hygiene compliance from less than 50% to more than 80%. - Embracing the Checklist - Incorporating checklists into bedside medical charts can help reduce rates of infection by requiring shift nurses to answer questions such as: Does this patient have a catheter? If so, is it still necessary? - Portable Kits - Utilizing all-inclusive kits for common procedures such as intravenous line insertions or dressing changes can limit the possibility for infection. Kits contain all the items needed for procedures and prevent the nurse from running in and out of the patient room during a procedure to find a forgotten item. - Mouth Maintenance - Regularly cleaning patients' mouths, gums and teeth can help prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, a common infection found in intensive care units. - Infection ID - Quick diagnostic tests can identify infected patients in a matter of hours rather than days. This allows for a quick response when patients show symptoms, are tested and found to be infected. To read the complete article with expanded descriptions of the top 10, click here. Photo Credit: Presta Hospitals in Michigan lowered the rate of bloodstream infections in their patients by following a five-step checklist. The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that implementing the checklist reduced the rate of bloodstream infections related to catheter use by 66%. Despite this success, utilization of the checklist remains limited. The checklist itself isn't complicated: - Wash hands - Clean patient's skin with chlorohexidine - Wear protective cap and gown and use a surgical drape during the procedure - Avoid catheter insertion through the groin if possible - Remove unnecessary catheters Peter Pronovost, the patient-safety expert who led the study, spoke with The Wall Street Journal to share insights on why more hospitals haven't benefited from using the checklist. To read excerpts from his interview, click here. Photo Credit: Adesigna A recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined the levels of bacteria on healthcare workers' lab coats. The study involved a cross section of medical and surgical grand rounds attendees at a large teaching hospital. Participants completed a survey and cultured their lab coat using a moistened swab on the lapels, pocket and cuffs. Of the 149 white coats in the study, 34 (23%) were contaminated with S aureus, of which 6 (18%) were methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA). Providers working with patients had higher contamination levels and the study suggests that white coats may contribute to patient-to-patient transmission of S aureus. Read the entire study in the March 2009 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Photo Credit: Estherase Central venous catheters (CVC) are essential for treating children with cancer. They reduce the need for multiple needlesticks and the associated pain and anxiety. In addition, they can be used to deliver chemotherapy, parenteral fluids, blood products and analgesics. Despite the positives, children with CVCs are at increased risk for bloodstream infections. Complications associated with CVCs include pneumothorax, air embolism, nerve injury, catheter malposition, infection and occlusion. A recent study had four objectives: 1. To decrease CVC-related bloodstream infection rates in children with cancer through a comprehensive educational intervention. 2. To determine if the frequency of catheter hub colonization of CVCs in children with cancer would decrease following the educational intervention. 3. To evaluate nurses' knowledge of CVC care. 4. To determine risk factors influencing CVC-related bloodstream infections in children with cancer. The study was conducted in the cancer center of a large children's hospital and included patients ranging in age from infancy to 18 years. A 45 minute educational program on CDC guidelines, most frequent guideline violations and information on catheter-related infections was presented to all caregivers. Following the educational presentation, catheter-related bloodstream infections were tracked for six months in order to determine the rate of infection. Study findings showed that the educational program increased nurses' knowledge and instances of catheter-related bloodstream infections decreased. You can read the full article in the March 2009 issue of Oncology Nursing Forum or purchase it online here. Photo Credit: Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center According to a 2009 study, approximately 5 million central venous catheters are placed each year. Implantable ports provide reliable venous, arterial, epidural and peritoneal access and can be used to administer IV fluids, medications and to obtain blood samples. However complications including occlusion, infection, catheter migration and catheter separation from portal body can frequently occur. A recent study conducted in a rural hematology-oncology clinic focused on infection. A port infection can present as local tenderness, pain, erythema, induration or edema at the insertion or exit site or over the port pocket. Patients may also have purulent or serous drainage, fever and chills. To prevent infection, aseptic technique should be utilized for dressing changes. In addition, clinicians should follow accessing and deaccessing procedures and keep the exit clear of potential sources of infection. The 62 patients included in the study were receiving a minimum of two complete cycles of chemotherapy after port insertion. Ports were accessed and deaccessed following outlined protocol. *Steps for Accessing Ports: - Wash hands. Assess the port site for erythema, warmth or drainage. - Palpate the outline of the portal body. - Wash hands. - Apply nonsterile gloves. Cleanse port site with chlorohexidine swab in a circular motion for 30 seconds. Allow to dry for 30 seconds. - Spray ethyl chloride. - Stabilize portal body with one hand. Insert Huber needle (link to EZ Huber product page) into septum with other hand. Ensure patency by blood return. If no blood return, use interventions to assess port's patency. - Stabilize port with gauze and tape or apply transparent dressing. *Steps for Deaccessing Ports: - Wash hands. Apply nonsterile gloves. - Inspect exit site. - Flush device with 20 ml normal saline followed by 5 ml heparin flush (100 units/ml). During final flush, clamp tubing to port. - Stabilize port and remove needle. - Apply bandage. Six of the 62 patients in the study experienced a port infection, with four of the six ports requiring removal. The total number of catheter days for the implanted ports was 7,277. Patient catheter days ranged from 32-288. The study concluded that consistent, routine care is the best preventative measure against port complications. The entire study can be found in the October 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. *The port access and de-access protocols are those that were used by the authors for this study. Please follow institutional policies and procedures regarding port access and de-access. Although many infection headlines are related to hospitals, individual doctor's offices are facing similar challenges. Almost 30 cases of hepatitis B were recently tied to one doctor's office in New Jersey. When health inspectors visited the office they found blood on the floor of a room where chemotherapy was administered, blood in a bin where blood vials were stored, unsterile saline and gauze as well as open medication vials. Inspectors also noticed cross-contamination of pens, refrigerators and countertops, use of contaminated gloves and misuse of antiseptics. Patients were sent a letter from state epidemiologist Dr. Christina Chan urging testing for hepatitis B. "Evidence gathered at this time suggests that since 2002, some clinic staff provided care in a manner that puts patients at risk for infection caused by bloodborne viruses, including hepatitis B," the letter told patients. "The investigation to date suggests that hepatitis B infections identified may be associated with the method by which medications were administered and procedures performed at the practice." Numerous checklists and recommendations have been published around infection control. The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine offers these infection control musts: - Hand washing - Barrier precautions to prevent skin and mucous membrane exposure - Proper handling of sharps and contaminated waste - Appropriate cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces and equipment - Aseptic technique for invasive procedures For the full recommendation on infection control in physician's offices, click here. To read more about the hepatitis B outbreak in New Jersey, continue reading here. Photo Credit: Hollywood Pimp The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is working on its first improvement venture: The Hand Hygiene Project. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 2 million patients get a hospital-related infection every year and 90,000 die from their infection. Causes of Failure to Clean Hands - Ineffective placement of dispensers or sinks - Hand hygiene compliance data are not collected or reported accurately or frequently - Lack of accountability and just-in-time coaching - Safety culture does not stress hand hygiene at all levels - Ineffective or insufficient education - Hands full - Wearing gloves interferes with process - Perception that hand hygiene is not needed if wearing gloves - Healthcare workers forget Early results of the program found on average that caregivers washed their hands less than 50 percent of the time. "Demanding that healthcare workers try harder is not the answer. These healthcare organizations have the courage to step forward to tackle the problem of hand washing by digging deep to find out where the breakdowns take place so we can create targeted solutions that will work now and keep working in the future," said Mark R. Chassin, M.D., M.P.P, M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission. By January, 2010, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare plans to have data to demonstrate whether the proposed hand hygiene solutions can be sustained to achieve a 90+ percent compliance rate. Eight hospitals are participating in this project: - Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, California - Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, Colorado - Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, Baltimore, Maryland - Memorial Hermann Health Care System, Houston, Texas - Trinity Health, Novi, Michigan - Virtua, Marlton, New Jersey - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina To read the full release from the Joint Commission for Transforming Healthcare, click here. Photo Credit: Mag3737 Healthcare providers are on alert due to an increase in a new strain of hospital-acquired infections. A recent study released by Arlington Medical Resources (AMR) and Decision Resources, found that recurrent Clostridium difficile is difficult to treat in a hospital setting. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can cause symptoms as minor as diarrhea and as life threatening as severe inflammation of the colon. The elderly are most at risk and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services is considering adding Clostridium difficile to its list of "never events" or preventable hospital-acquired infections. Hospitals will receive reduced or no Medicare payments for infections on the "never events" list. Read more about how the study was conducted as well as more information on Clostridium difficile here. Photo Credit: Big Grey Mare Jeanne Hahne was working as a nurse in a burn ward when inspiration struck. Because the patients were so vulnerable to infection, Hahne and other healthcare providers had to wear full protective gear including a cap to cover her hair and a mask that covered the majority of her face. Even though she worked with many of the burn patients every day, most couldn't recognize her. Flash forward almost 30 years and Hahne has designed a face mask made of clear plastic so patients can see her smile. Hahne believes she can reassure patients with a smile and help decrease their anxiety. The masks also have utility for patients and healthcare providers with hearing loss since they allow for lip reading. In addition, the masks have helped improve communication between healthcare workers which can help decrease the chance for mistakes or misunderstanding. To read more and see pictures of the face mask, click here. Photo Credit: Christiana Care

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There are many aspects to learning the creation of interactive fiction. Here we mostly undertake to explain approaches to using Inform, and leave the larger questions of craft and design for elsewhere. The two manuals There are two interlinked manuals built into every copy of the Inform application: if you've downloaded Inform, you already have them. But they are also available to read or download separately from this website. Writing with Inform is an overview of the language, beginning with the simplest kinds of construction (such as building a map of rooms, objects, and doors) and working its way up to more advanced tasks. It is meant to be read more or less sequentially, since later chapters build on the ideas in earlier ones; though some of the late chapters (such as those covering numbers, activities, or advanced text) might reasonably be read out of order. The Recipe Book approaches the problem of authorship from a different perspective. Instead of trying to teach the language from start to finish, it is organized for the author who wants to accomplish something specific, such as asking the player's name at the start of play or implementing a system of measured liquids. It shares the same set of examples that are keyed to Writing with Inform, but organizes them into a new order and accompanies them with text about design problems in creating interactive fiction, rather than explanation of language features. Following requests from partially sighted Inform users, we've also made two plain vanilla versions of the manual available - they have as little decoration or web design as possible, which means less clutter for screen-reading software to cope with. We offer a choice of: Minimally tagged HTML provides an archive containing the pages of the manuals and examples as vanilla-flavoured HTML files. Writing with Inform in plain text format is just what it claims to be - one single file containing only text, with no marking-up of any kind. This contains all of the examples, following the text in numerical order, but not the Recipe Book. (The whole idea of two interleaved manuals can't really be achieved in one flat text file.) We receive occasional questions about publishing a printed form of the manuals. The answer is that we intend to do exactly that, in due course, but that we expect the current text will be revised wholesale once the system is more mature. (The same thing happened with Inform 6, with the appearance of the printed Designer's Manual in 2001 essentially marking the end of its design cycle.)

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Flickr as a Paintbrush [cartogrammar.com] reveals the recorded colors of our surrounding landscape, both in a physical and cultural sense. In short, Andy Woodruff created a set of geographic heatmaps that represent the average colors of images taken on locations surrounding a specific landmark. In other words, the resulting maps reveal the colors that people on the ground should be looking at. Technically, these maps are based on the most recent 2,000 photos uploaded to Flickr that were geotagged within a specified bounding box. These were then averaged by hue. As an emergent result, the color red reveals the dominance of brick, while green/yellow colors naturally denote grass and trees. However, some unexpected patterns appear as well, such as blue/purple in the map of Boston.

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What difference does proper punctuation make? If you want your work published more often, then it does matter. This is no guarantee of publication but using correct punctuation is a big step in the right direction. I've been taking a course called Punctuation Review from Creative Writing Institute since the end of September. For the first time in my life, I'm grasping rules which remained impenetrable throughout my junior high and high school years. Additionally, I'm now beginning to understand all those English terms that my Language Arts teacher fired at me forty-plus years ago. Why? My adult perspective, my desire to master these writing tools, the fact that I'm able to learn at my own speed - these factors are what assist me in understanding the details of writing well. I cringe whenever I re-read articles that I submitted in the past, even as recently as last spring. This is because I used to base my understanding of punctuation rules on conjecture and half-remembered lessons. No wonder most of my articles were rejected. Editors may seem like cruel ogres when they reject our labours of love but these folks usually have good reasons for their decisions. Because of the steady avalanche of submissions, they need a literary smelting method to divide the gold from the slag. Proper punctuation, especially if it conforms to the publication's style manual, shows that the writer is serious about easing the editor's workload. This also shows that considerable effort went into the piece. Though this course is tough enough to make my brain whimper, I persist in beating these punctuation and sentence structure concepts through my skull. The glamour of story or poetry writing is missing from this course but I know it will improve whatever work I tackle in the future. In addition to being a member of InScribe, I've self-published When a Man Loves a Rabbit (Learning and Living With Bunnies) and Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind School). I hope to have How I Was Razed: A Journey from Cultism to Christianity in print some time in 2012. Read more about them here. You're also welcome to contact me directly for more information.

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Bison Grass a unique grass with powerful actions There's nothing bison like more than this little grass known for its hardiness, which is found on the vast plains of eastern Poland. The Polish use « bison grass » in their vodka to give it a delicious flavour. Its other virtues? Bison grass stimulates the blood circulation and has a powerful fortifying effect on the body.

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This is an old lecture by linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (professor at MIT) given at UC Berkeley in 2003. For that evening in the Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture series, Chomsky examined biolinguistics - the study of relations between physiology and speech. A second video of Chomsky is featured below, which is the second half of this talk. Fair warning - this is not easy material - Chomsky is speaking to people who are well-versed in this field. Chomsky has been one the most influential scholars over the last three or four decades - between 1980 and 1992, he was cited as a source more than any other living scholar, and ranked eighth overall. As background for this lecture, Wikipedia offers a good summary of his influence in linguistics (below the video). Chomskyan LinguisticsChomskyan linguistics, beginning with his Syntactic Structures, a distillation of his Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1955, 75), challenges structural linguistics and introduces transformational grammar. This approach takes utterances (sequences of words) to have a syntax characterized by a formal grammar; in particular, a context-free grammar extended with transformational rules. Perhaps his most influential and time-tested contribution to the field, is the claim that modeling knowledge of language using a formal grammar accounts for the "productivity" or "creativity" of language. In other words, a formal grammar of a language can explain the ability of a hearer-speaker to produce and interpret an infinite number of utterances, including novel ones, with a limited set of grammatical rules and a finite set of terms. He has always acknowledged his debt to Pāṇini for his modern notion of an explicit generative grammar although it is also related to rationalist ideas of a priori knowledge. It is a popular misconception that Chomsky proved that language is entirely innate and discovered a "universal grammar" (UG). In fact, Chomsky simply observed that while a human baby and a kitten are both capable of inductive reasoning, if they are exposed to exactly the same linguistic data, the human child will always acquire the ability to understand and produce language, while the kitten will never acquire either ability. Chomsky labeled whatever the relevant capacity the human has which the cat lacks the "language acquisition device" (LAD) and suggested that one of the tasks for linguistics should be to figure out what the LAD is and what constraints it puts on the range of possible human languages. The universal features that would result from these constraints are often termed "universal grammar" or UG. The Principles and Parameters approach (P&P)—developed in his Pisa 1979 Lectures, later published as Lectures on Government and Binding (LGB)—makes strong claims regarding universal grammar: that the grammatical principles underlying languages are innate and fixed, and the differences among the world's languages can be characterized in terms of parameter settings in the brain (such as the pro-drop parameter, which indicates whether an explicit subject is always required, as in English, or can be optionally dropped, as in Spanish), which are often likened to switches. (Hence the term principles and parameters, often given to this approach.) In this view, a child learning a language need only acquire the necessary lexical items (words, grammatical morphemes, and idioms), and determine the appropriate parameter settings, which can be done based on a few key examples. Proponents of this view argue that the pace at which children learn languages is inexplicably rapid, unless children have an innate ability to learn languages. The similar steps followed by children all across the world when learning languages, and the fact that children make certain characteristic errors as they learn their first language, whereas other seemingly logical kinds of errors never occur (and, according to Chomsky, should be attested if a purely general, rather than language-specific, learning mechanism were being employed), are also pointed to as motivation for innateness. More recently, in his Minimalist Program (1995), while retaining the core concept of "principles and parameters," Chomsky attempts a major overhaul of the linguistic machinery involved in the LGB model, stripping from it all but the barest necessary elements, while advocating a general approach to the architecture of the human language faculty that emphasizes principles of economy and optimal design, reverting to a derivational approach to generation, in contrast with the largely representational approach of classic P&P. Chomsky's ideas have had a strong influence on researchers of the language acquisition in children, though many researchers in this area such as Elizabeth Bates and Michael Tomasello argue very strongly against Chomsky's theories, and instead advocate emergentist or connectionist theories, explaining language with a number of general processing mechanisms in the brain that interact with the extensive and complex social environment in which language is used and learned. His best-known work in phonology is The Sound Pattern of English (1968), written with Morris Halle (and often known as simply SPE). This work has had a great significance for the development in the field. While phonological theory has since moved beyond "SPE phonology" in many important respects, the SPE system is considered the precursor of some of the most influential phonological theories today, including autosegmental phonology, lexical phonology and optimality theory. Chomsky no longer publishes on phonology.

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During the excavation, everyday life is quite tough. We get up early in the morning and ascend Psiloritis; a bit sleepy, to be honest, but ready to conquer the world for one more day. We are all eager to start working on our trenches, which are going to reveal more traces of the past—a past that, without a shadow of a doubt, was glorious 3,600 years before present, as indicated by the number and wealth of finds already unearthed at this site. Cameraman Giorgos Christodoulou documents every single step of the Zominthos excavations. Here he films area 2, while the archaeologists take detailed field notes and the architects produce ground plans of the excavated areas. Left to right: Giorgos Charitos, Ioanna Konsolaki, Leuteris Kavousanakis, and Babis Markomichelakis Excavating, however, is far more than digging for artifacts. It is a carefully planned destruction of a site—because once the site is dug, it no longer exists. We record as many details as possible, preserving not only the artifacts but many, many other types of information, by using our knowledge of various disciplines, along with sophisticated technologies. In this way, the site is not lost forever, but can be reexamined through the notes, maps, samples, drawings, photographs, videos, and other data collected during the excavation. Meanwhile, we impart our knowledge to the hundreds of visitors that are guided through the site each summer. Archaeology offers the opportunity to learn new things every single day, whether in the field or the lab, by analyzing the results of investigations. We are a combination of Indiana Jones and Agatha Christie’s detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. With lots of luck and archaeological instinct, we reveal the mysteries of the Cretan mountains, travel back in time, and transport ourselves to some unusual and enchanting places. Zominthos is a charming place where all the features of Minoan archaeology are amalgamated, which is why we need to be careful as we excavate, not to miss any piece that could be added to the puzzle of the archaeology of the mountains. Using toothbrushes, paintbrushes, knives, pickaxes, and scoops, depending on the way we want to excavate, we try to gradually discover traces of highlanders’ real life and merge the elements that lead to a better understanding of the Minoan tranquillity.

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It seems like many of our vices are turning out to have healthy side effects. We already know that chocolate is helpful for circulation, reduces the risk of heart disease, is a cough suppressant, and can keep your brain working as you age (and may be a treatment for HPV). Red wine is one of the most potent antioxidants available, beating out many commercial drugs, and may even prevent blindness. Now, new research has shown that coffee may join chocolate and wine to form a perfect trinity of healthy deliciousness. In a Swedish study published in Breast Cancer Research, heavy coffee drinkers were found to have statistically significant lower rates of breast cancer. The study included 6,000 women, comparing non-coffee drinkers to those who downed more than five cups a day. Once they adjusted for other influencing factors (like age at menopause, exercise, weight, education, and a family history of breast cancer) there was a statistically significant drop in breast cancer rates for the coffee swillers. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for all forms of breast cancer. The results showed that the women who downed five or more cups were 57% less likely get estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer and 33% the progesterone-receptor-negative variant type — types which generally have a worse prognosis than the positive versions. Chocolate, wine and coffee. Could be worse. Illustration via Shutterstock

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Chinese researchers have turned to the light absorbing properties of butterfly wings to significantly increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen cells, using biomimetics to copy the nanostructure that allows for incredible light and heat absorption. Butterflies are known to use heat from the sun to warm themselves beyond what their bodies can provide, and this new research takes a page from their evolution to improve hydrogen fuel generation. Analyzing the wings of Papilio helenus, the researchers found scales that are described as having: [...] Ridges running the length of the scale with very small holes on either side that opened up onto an underlying layer. The steep walls of the ridges help funnel light into the holes. The walls absorb longer wavelengths of light while allowing shorter wavelengths to reach a membrane below the scales. Using the images of the scales, the researchers created computer models to confirm this filtering effect. The nano-hole arrays change from wave guides for short wavelengths to barriers and absorbers for longer wavelengths, which act just like a high-pass filtering layer. So, what does this have to do with fuel cells? Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen takes energy, and is a drain on the amount you can get out of a cell. To split the water, the process uses a catalyst, and certain catalysts — say, titanium dioxide — function by exposure to light. The researchers synthesized a titanium dioxide catalyst using the pattern from the butterfly's wings, and paired it with platinum nanoparticles to make it more efficient at splitting water. The result? A 230% uptick in the amount of hydrogen produced. The structure of the butterfly's wing means that it's better at absorbing light — so who knows, you might also see the same technique on solar panels, too.

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4 Dice Helps Students Learn to Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Fractions 4 Dice is an iPad app designed to help students learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. The app was developed by the same people that built the popular 5 Dice app that helps students learn the order of operations. In 4 Dice students are shown a fraction and they have to drag four dice into position to complete the arithmetic that will result in the fraction that they were shown. It’s kind of like the Jeopardy concept applied to fractions mathematics. There are five modes in 4 Dice. There are the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division modes as well as a challenge mode that randomized the problems. At any point in a series of problems students can pause and use the whiteboard to work out possible solutions to a problem. 4 Dice does ask for an email address, but doesn’t ask users to confirm that email address. If your students don’t have email addresses you can use the Gmail+1 trick to create dummy addresses for them that you can monitor. 4 Dice costs $0.99. This app is appropriate for elementary and middle school students.

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"Is the EPO changing Its stance on personalised medicine inventions? Case law is an important means by which we know what is patentable at the European Patent Office (EPO). However, sometimes the EPO’s view of what is patentable in an area changes before the case law does. This can sometimes be detected when Examiners start raising objections they would not have previously done. Clearly, applicants need to know about such changes as soon as possible so that they can revise their filing strategies and re-evaluate their expectations of the claims they are likely obtain. Meetings between the EPO and the epi (the professional institute for EPO attorneys) are very useful forums for obtaining ‘inside information’ about the EPO’s thinking which is not yet apparent from the case law. The June 2012 issue of epi Information provides a report of such a meeting held on 10 November 2011 between the EPO and the biotech committee of the epi. Discussion item 8 is reported as follows: ‘8. Inventions in the area of pharmacogenomics Thanks, Suleman, for this most instructive piece, says the IPKat. Merpel is fascinated by this for quite another reason, though. It reflects a growing trend towards what might be termed "mass personalisation". We have it in branding and marketing, where the use of sophisticated software in reading your emails and online purchases enables a personalised dose of advertising to be specifically targeted at the individual. It also exists in the design and fashion sector, where a combination of interactive software and manufacturing improvements produces the result that a purchaser of, say, sports shoes, can determine the style, size, colour and bolt-on features that characterise it, rather than going into some random shop and putting a tentative foot into a sample shoe that might previously have been tried by someone with sweaty socks and fungal growths between the toes ...This concerns cases which are based on a genetic marker to treat a disease, for example methylation profiles. It can involve a new patient group defined by an SNP. The EPO said that often the claims can lack novelty, as one patient will have inevitably been treated with the SNP, even if the art does not explicitly say so.’The EPO’s comments seem to indicate that it is about to change the way it assesses novelty when looking at medical use claims that refer to treatment of a specific patient group. To give a little technical background to the EPO’s comments, an SNP is a form of genetic marker which varies between individuals. The idea behind the relatively new field of pharmacogenomics is that, if you know which SNP variants a patient possesses, you can personalise the drugs given to a patient in accordance with his genetic makeup. It is now recognised that the genetic makeup of an individual can be very influential as to whether he responds to a drug, and so one application of pharmacogenomics is to only give those drugs to patients who will respond to them. Personalised medicines can also be based on non-genetic biomarkers, such as the level of virus the individual has. Personalised medicines offer the potential to use drugs much more effectively. That is clearly of benefit to patients, but should also help to reduce costs in times when many governments feel increasingly dismayed at the yearly increases needed to health budgets. The sector most likely to benefit in the short time is cancer therapy where most of the work in identifying biomarkers is focussed. However, biomarkers are increasingly being sought for many other diseases. Presently, suitable biomarkers for personalised medicine are proving difficult to find. So it seems that the sector is going to require a lot of investment -- but in investors in biotech do like to see that strong patent protection is available in the relevant sector. Personalised medicines, and in fact diagnostics in general, has been thrown into uncertainty in the US after the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo v Prometheus [on which see earlier Katposts here and here] which found that a claim referring to steps that determined the level of a drug in a patient was directed to a law of nature and was thus not patentable. It would be unfortunate for personalised medicines to be dealt a further blow by the EPO, making the test for novelty stricter in this area. Claims for personalised medicine inventions can have many different forms, but typically they are along the following lines: Substance X for use in a method of treating condition Y in an individual with biomarker Z’.There is an argument here that perhaps applicants only deserve claims to the method of selecting the individual (by detection of the biomarker), and not to treatment of the individual. However there is a lot more money in therapy, with figures being quoted of 6% versus 94% for the money to be made in selection versus therapy. Since personalised medicine results in therapy being more effective, there is an argument that the applicant deserves claims to the therapy step. The crux of the present issue is whether limiting a medical use claim by specifying that the individual has biomarker Z will confer novelty where the prior art is silent about patients having biomarker Z, but where patients with biomarker Z will inevitably have been treated, i.e. does limiting a medical use claim to a patient group that overlaps with, or is within, the prior art patient group, make the claim novel? The earliest case to tackle the issue seems to have been T233/96 which gave a strict two-part test for novelty requiring the patient groups to be non-overlapping and for there to be a functional relationship between the biomarker and the therapy, i.e. the patient group could not be an arbitrary group. However, subsequent case law has not followed the test. In T1399/04 the Board cited T233/96, but took a different view, generously allowing claims which covered more than 50% of a prior art patient group. Decisions T836/01 and T1642/06 also allowed claims where patient groups overlapped with the prior art. Based on the comments at the EPO/epi meeting and from the experiences of attorneys I know who are handling European patent applications in this area, it seems that EPO is taking a stricter view of the issue, and is probably looking for a test case to change the case law. If the EPO decides on a test which is based on the concept of a patient with the relevant biomarker ‘inevitably’ having been treated, presumably this is a prior use test, in which case it would be burdensome for applicants to locate evidence on what actually happened. However if the test is similar to that used in T233/96, i.e. requiring that patient groups do not overlap, then it will have the effect of severely curtailing patent protection for personalised medicines because most drugs are initially given to everyone with the condition. I hope that the EPO will be wise enough to recognise that making the test for novelty stricter for medical use claims limited by patient group will have a substantial impact on the patent protection that can be obtained in the area of personalised medicines, at a time when this very promising sector needs all the support it can get". Your own personalised medicine here and here [not for the squeamish]

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Ajinomoto is the manufacturer of the artificial sweetener, aspartame. The supermarket, Asda, commenced a campaign which was designed to ensure that, by the end of 2007, none of its 9,000 own-label food and soft-drinks products would contain any artificial colours or flavours or any hydrogenated fat or flavour enhancers. The catch-phrase used was 'NO HIDDEN NASTIES'. One of the statements used in conjunction with the catch-phrase was "No artificial colours or flavours and no aspartame" and "We promise that all good for you products are always low or lower in fat and won't ever contain any hydrogenated fat, artificial flavours, artificial colours or aspartame." Ajinomoto alleged that the natural and ordinary meaning of the words on the packaging is that aspartame is an especially harmful or unhealthy, or potentially harmful or unhealthy, sweetener and is one which consumers concerned for their own health and that of their families would do well to avoid, either altogether or in the quantities likely to be found in soft drinks and other food products. In the recent decision, Sir Charles Gray had to decide whether to grant Ajimoto's request for a trial of the preliminary issue "as to the statement(s) of fact contained in or conveyed by the words complained of in paragraphs 4 and 8 of the Particulars of Claim". The alternative would be to hold a single trial incorporating (i) the meaning of the statement; (ii) whether the statement was false and (iii) whether the statement was malicious. The judge held that in the interests of saving costs, it was right for the preliminary issue to be tried first. If Ajimoto's contention that the meaning of Asda's statements were that aspartame was harmful was rejected then there would be no issue as to falsity, and malice would not be relevant. The judge accepted that the issue of meaning was essentially a "slam dunk" point. Separating the issue of meaning out into a preliminary trial was commonly used in defamation actions and would work here. However, the judge did suggest that the approach might be considered an abuse if it was used as a tactic to 'slice up' the action into three separate trials of meaning, falsity and malice.

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Utility for making a doctest file out of Python or IPython input. %prog [options] input_file [output_file] This script is a convenient generator of doctest files that uses IPython’s irunner script to execute valid Python or IPython input in a separate process, capture all of the output, and write it to an output file. It can be used in one of two ways: With a plain Python or IPython input file (denoted by extensions ‘.py’ or ‘.ipy’. In this case, the output is an auto-generated reST file with a basic header, and the captured Python input and output contained in an indented code block. If no output filename is given, the input name is used, with the extension replaced by ‘.txt’. With an input template file. Template files are simply plain text files with special directives of the form to include the named file at that point. If no output filename is given and the input filename is of the form ‘base.tpl.txt’, the output will be automatically named ‘base.txt’. A simple output stream that indents all output by a fixed amount. Instances of this class trap output to a given stream and first reformat it to indent every input line. Create an indented writer. Write a string to the output stream. Code runner factory. This class provides an IPython code runner, but enforces that only one runner is every instantiated. The runner is created based on the extension of the first file to run, and it raises an exception if a runner is later requested for a different extension type. This ensures that we don’t generate example files for doctest with a mix of python and ipython syntax. Instantiate a code runner.

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Salivary Cortisol Responsivity to an Intravenous Catheter Insertion in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Journal of pediatric psychology NLM Title Abbreviation J Pediatr Psychol OBJECTIVE: To compare salivary cortisol baseline levels and responsivity as well as behavioral distress to intravenous (IV) catheter insertions in 4- to 10-year-old children with (n = 29) and without (n = 339) attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS: This is a secondary data analysis from a sample of 542 children who participated in a multisite study on distraction. Data included were demographic variables, Pediatric Behavior Scale-30, Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress-Revised, and four salivary cortisol samples. RESULTS: Home samples from the ADHD group revealed nonsignificant but higher cortisol levels than the non-ADHD group. However, on the clinic day, the ADHD group had significantly lower cortisol levels before (0.184 vs. 0.261, p = .040) and 20-30 min after IV insertion (0.186 vs. 0.299, p = .014) compared with the non-ADHD group. CONCLUSIONS: Cortisol levels in children with and without ADHD differ in response to the stress of an IV insertion. This document is currently not available here.

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- Posted March 22, 2013 by Village of Lombard, Illinois HOW I BECAME A COMMUNITY INTERPRETER? In September 1977, when I was a freshman at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, Illinois, I used to work as a student aide at the Financial Aid Office, for the Veterans Administration Scholarship department and the UNI Scholarship department, when I was not in class, and I also helped the front desk accepting student financial aid forms and advising students about registration procedures. Since Northeastern Illinois is an urban university, the majority of the students enrolled and attending were urban minorities who commuted to school and work to get a college education in Chicago. Many of the students were Spanish-speaking people who had just arrived from Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean or Spain and needed to enroll in college courses to learn English and get a college degree or validate their college transcripts from their former countries in the United States. Since these students spoke Spanish only at the beginning at UNI, whenever they went to the Financial Aid Office, they required an explanation in Spanish of all the financial aid requirements to apply for the Pell Basic Grant, the Illinois State Scholarship and/or student loans. When I was not completing Veterans’ Scholarship forms, totaling veterans’ points for scholarship after military service, typing award letters and post cards for the veterans, filing, and/or managing awards letters or denials for other scholarship funds, I would be asked to work at the front desk informing students and answering the telephone in English and Spanish. If a Spanish-speaking student was interviewed by a financial aid counselor who only spoke English, sometimes I would be called to interpret from English into Spanish. In so doing, I enjoyed the rapport and the language interaction with my fellow students and fulfilled my responsibility to the community by helping Spanish speakers become mainstreamed into the English-speaking community at Northeastern Illinois University and in Chicago, as I had been during my high school years where I only spoke English and French, in a Catholic parochial school, Madonna High School on the Northwest side of Chicago. After completing my core curriculum for my Bachelor’s Degree, I decided to focus on double majors in Education to teach languages like English, French, and Spanish, Writing, and minor in Linguistics and Athletics. Having had four years of English and French in high school, I was accelerated into more advanced courses in these two disciplines, so I completed my major requirements early enough that I could regain my usage of the Spanish language through specialized coursework for bilingual Spanish speakers. As I became more proficient in my colloquial use of the Spanish language for bilingual speakers in the Chicago area of the Midwest, I interacted between English and French easily, thus I became multilingual. I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University after five years of study with a B.A. in Secondary Education, Type (09) Illinois State Teaching Certificate, English, French, Spanish, and minors in Linguistics, Writing, and Athletics. It was through one of my friends, Maureen, that I started doing translation work and language instruction at Translingual International. I also taught at Berlitz Language Schools in Downtown Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Later on, I began to interpret at the Illinois Industrial Commission and through Accurate Translations for workers’ compensation arbitration hearings for Spanish-speaking employees who had been injured by work-related accidents. The last two years of college, I was referred and recommended by my French teacher and her physician friend, for a summer job working for an European travel insurance company, GESA Assistance, S.A., based in Barcelona, Spain, with branches in the U.S., Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Japan, Australia, Mexico, the Caribbean.

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Early Childhood Education - The American Academy of Pediatrics is dedicated to the health of all children and committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and - The Center for Early Childhood Leadership is dedicated to enhancing the management skills, professional orientation and leadership capacity of early - The Child & Family WebGuide describes and evaluates web sites that contain research-based information about child development. - An organization of regional Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies serving communities throughout the state of Illinois. - The Children's Book Council is dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of children's books. - Children's Literature offers information on authors and illustrators, recommended books by theme, book award winners, etc. - The Circle of Inclusion web site is for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight. - Civitas is a national not-for-profit communication group that works to provide educational tools to all adults who live and work with young children. - The CLAS Early Childhood Research Institute collects and describes early childhood/early intervention resources that have been developed across the United States for children with disabilities and their families and the service providers who work with them. The materials and resources available on this site reflect the intersection of culture and language, disabilities and child development. - The Division of Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is a nonprofit organization advocating for individuals who work with or on behalf of children with special needs, birth through age eight, and their families. There is also an Illinois Subdivision for the Division of Early Childhood (IDEC). - The Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner contains articles, teacher pages, family pages, etc. - EdWorld.Resources covers a variety of areas of Early Childhood. - ERIC provides research-based information and articles in the field of early childhood. - I Am Your Child is a national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood development a top priority of our nation. - The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services web site for information on day care licensing, etc. - The Illinois Department of Human Services Early Intervention site contains information for parents and service providers, including Child and Family Connections contacts. . - The Illinois Early Learning Web site provides evidence-based, reliable information for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in the State of Illinois. - Illinois Head Start Association information. - Lists of recommended children's books for birth to five and Early Childhood Block Grant professional development opportunities are available on the Early Childhood portion of the Illinois Resource Center's web site. - The Illinois Secretary of State's literacy program site includes grant applications and literacy resources. - Meld offers education and support for parents, trains family service providers to apply best practices in their work with families and publishes a broad range of resource materials for parents and the people who work with them. - The National Association for the Education of Young Children has for its purpose, “leading and consolidating the efforts of individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and constructive education for all young children.” - The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect is a resource for professionals and others seeking information on abuse and neglect and child welfare. - The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center supports the implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Their mission is to strengthen service systems to ensure that children with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive and benefit from high quality, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services. - The National Head Start Association is a private not-for-profit membership organization that provides a national forum for the continued enhancement of Head Start services for children ages 0 to 5 and their families. - The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research. - Ongoing update about the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHID) study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. - The Ounce of Prevention was established to promote the well-being of children and adolescents by working with families, communities, and policy-makers. - The Parents as Teachers National Center is committed to seeing that “all children will learn, grow, and develop to realize their full potential." The information is geared to parents but helpful to all programs in early childhood. - The Partnership for Reading continually creates resources and shares information about how scientifically based research can inform the acquisition of reading skills across the lifespan, from birth to adulthood. Visit the Early - Prevent Child Abuse America provides leadership to promote the prevention of child abuse and neglect at both the national and local levels. Information is also available in Spanish. - Reading Rockets, "launching young readers", contains resources, book lists, and tips on early reading. - The Society for Research in Child Development at the University of Michigan is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association of approximately 5,000 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals. - The U.S. Department of Education's Early Reading First site contains information on the status of Early Reading First grants. - The U.S. Department of Education main site includes information on No Child - Voices for Illinois Children works with families, communities, and policy-makers to ensure that all children grow up healthy, nurtured, safe, and well educated. - Zero to Three is a leading resource on the first three years of life. Its goal is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies

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Tuesday, 8 June 2010 Glory be to Allah and all praise be to Allah, and there is no deity (worthy of worship) save Allah, and Allah is Great. Al Hasan Al Basri (ra) said," You always see the believer reproaching himself and saying things like: Did I want this? Why did I do that? Was this a better thing to do or should I have behaved otherwise? Hazrat Umar Al Farooq (ra) Said: "The Wisest Of Men is he who can account for his own actions." Start With the Self. A man was on his death bed, Someone asked him to give some wise counsel before he departed, the world he Said. " When I was young I wanted to change the world and solve its problems, As I got older I realized that perhaps I should lower my sights, I thought I would be better served in changing my country as time went on I realized that people of country could not be changed. I decided to change the people of my town , but they also did not wish to change, When I reached my old age I thought I would try changing my Family, here also I found my endeavors go to waste, try as I might my family members would not change. " Now that I am on my death bed, I have realized that if I had sought to improve myself, and removed my own defects, then perhaps my family members would have been influenced. Then seeing the behavior of my family people of my town would have been influenced. By seeing the spiritual change and improvement of the people of my town, the people of my country would have been influenced. And perhaps through the people of my country the world may have been influenced." * Source Unknown. Is it not the case that we spend very little time reflecting on ourselves, but seek out the faults and defects of others. I joined this forum last week, to help improve my knowledge, instead what I have found myself doing is getting engaged, in fruitless debates be it sectarian issues, political issues or otherwise. I wish to change the world but I find it near impossible, to change myself. MaY Allah give us all the Tawfiq to improve our own behavior and conduct and a sinner like me in particular, ameen. Shaqeeq Bin Ibraheem (ra) says: " In four things a person conforms with me by way of his tongue but opposes me by way of his deeds. 1.) He says that we are the servants (and slaves) of Allah subhanahu wa tala, Yet does the deeds of free people. 2.) He says that Allah subhanahu wa tala is responsible, for our sustenance, yet his heart is not at ease upon this responsibility until at such time that he is not in possession of any worldly material; 3). He says that the hereafter holds virtue over the world, yet he always worries about hoarding wealth for this world (he has no worry for the hereafter); 4.) He says that death is inevitable, it will definitely come, yet his deeds are like those who do not want to die." In short we spend our whole lives in the pursuit of wealth, material things and violating the rights of others, It fails to register with us that one day we shall die, only our deeds will accompany us to the grave: Often we find people who fall out with their loved ones over something petty, they spend the rest of their lives in enmity, neither willing to apologise, or compromise.If one of them passes away then the one who remains alive is filled with remorse of course by then it is too late to make ammends. Enhance your good deeds, settle your debts, Make ammends with those whom you have fallen out with, does it really matter whose right ,or whose in the wrong, Will our status be lowered if we are the ones who compromise and offer an apology. The Third Kalimah The third kalimah has a unique and very interesting story behind it. It all started before Allah Ta'alah created Adam A.S. The Angels were trying to move the Arsh (Throne) of Allah Ta'alah but it was too heavy and wouldn't budge. So they asked Almighty Allah for help. Allah told them to recite "Subhanallah." The Angels did as they were told and found that it gave them power and strength and they were able to move the Arsh. They liked this so much that they began constantly hymning "Subhanallah."- (Glory be to Allah) Then Allah created Adam A.S. When Allah blew life into Adam, the first thing he did was sneeze and say "Alhamdulillah" (All parise be to Allah)The angels liked this act so much that they added this to their parise and glorification of Allah. Thus the kalimah became "Subhanallah Walhamdulillah" Hundreds of years passed and the Prophet Nooh A.S. was now on earth. For nine hundred years he proclaimed the oneness of Allah with the words "La illaha illalah." (There is none worthy of worhip The Angels loved this act so much that they added this to the kalimah. Thus, the kalimah now became "Subhanallah Walhamdulillah Wa La illaha illalah." The Angels kept repeating this kalimah day and night. Many centuries passed and the Prophet Ebrahim A.S. (Abraham) was asked by Almighty Allah to sacrifice his beloved son Ismaeel A.S. He was about to slaughter his son and He needed something to give him the courage he needed to do this difficult deed. So he recited "Allahu Akbar." (Allah is Great) The Angels loved this act so much that they added "Allahu Akbar" to the kalimah. Thus the kalimah became "Subhanallah Walhamdulillah Wa La illaha illalah Allahu Akbar." More centuries passed. It was the night of Meraj, when our Beloved Prophet Muhammed S.A.W. ascended to the Heavens with Gibraeel A.S. There Gibraeel A.S. told Nabee S.A.W. the story and Nabee S.A.W. added the final part of the Kalmiah "Wala Howla Wa La Quwata Illah Billah Hil Aleyeel Azeem." Thus the kalimah now became Subhanallah Walhamdulillah Wa La illaha illalah Allahu Akbar Wala Howla Wa La Quwata Illah Billah Hil Aleyeel Azeem" (There is no Power and Might except from Allah, The Most High, The Great) And up to this day, this kalimah (or declaration of faith) buzzes around the Arsh of Almighy Allah. Third Kalima is Tumjeed, this is the Kalima(the first part) that is recited 33 times after each Farz Namaaz, and is called tasbih Fatima. urah Fatiha protects one from the anger of Allah. Surah Yaseen from the thirst of the Day of Judgement. Sura Waaqiah from poverty and starvation Surah Mulk from the punishment of the grave Surah Kausar from the enemity of the enemy Surah Kaafiroon from kufr at the time of death Surah Ikhlaas from hypocrisy Surah ! Falaq fr om calamities. Surah Naas from evil thoughts Should someone become aware of the above from your message and read any of these surahs, u will also receive the sawaab for passing on the knowledge. So keep forwarding……. Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W.W (PBUH) says that “If a person recites ” Ayatal Kursi” after every Farz Namaz then there will be nothing between him and Heaven except Death” 2) There is a Hadith that says “3rd kalima” is such a great medicine that it cures every disease and the most minor disease it cures is “Sorrow” (Gham). Third kalima being: ” Subhaan Allah, WalHamdo Lillah, Wa La Illaha IlAllah, Wa Aallah o Abar. Wa Lahoalwalla quwatta illa billah hilm Ali al Azeem.” 3) Another Hadith says “if a person recites surah ikhlaas 10 times in a day then Allah build a palace for him in the Heaven.(Subhaan Allah)” and the last but not the least ALLAH says ” spread the knowledge whatever u have …Its duty of each n every Muslim” May ALLAH accepts our good deeds…Aamin (InshahALLAH) ..........The Third Kalima........... Relates Hazarat Sumara bin Jundub that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) once said that of all the spoken words and the Kalimas the most excellent were these four: Narrates Abu Haraira that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, "The Kalima of is dearer to me than the entire world on which the sun shines. This Kalima is most complete and comprehensive and all the aspects of Divine Praise are covered by it. In some Traditions the phrase is also included in it. It occurs after . A revered spiritual mentor used to explain the import of the Kalima to the present writer in following manner: Subhaa nallah, 'Glory be to Allah, Free from all faults and blemishes and other things that are not worthy of His Glory . Alhamdu lillah, 'Praise be to Allah, He is the embodiment of perfection and the center of every kind of virtue, (therefore) all praise is for Him, and when such is His Glory that He is absolutely blemishless and all the wonderful virtues are assembled in Him, He alone is our Lord and the sole object of our heart's desire . Laa ilaaha illalaah, 'There is no Allah save Him, We are His own helpless slaves and of no one else. Allahu Akbar, 'Allah is Great, He is Most Powerful, Almighty. We can never acquit ourselves of our duties to Him as His slaves nor can we ever gain nearness onto Him except that he himself blesses us with His grace. Laa howla walaa quwwata illa billaah, 'There is no power or virtue but in Allah." A well-known Tradition of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) has it that the Prophet's beloved daughter (and Hazrat Ali's wife), Hazrat Fatima, used to perform all the domestic duties with her own hands. She had even to draw water from the well and to carry it home and to grind the corn in the millstone. One day she begged the holy Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) to provide her with a domestic servant upon which the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) observed, "I will tell you of something that will serve you better than a domestic servant. Recite Subhaa-nallaah 33 times, Alhamdu lillaah 33 times, and Allahu Akbar 34 times after each Salaah and on retiring to bed. This will be of greater value to you than a servant." Another Tradition says, "Whoever will recite after each Salaah 33 times Subhaa-nallaah, 33 times Alhamdu lillaah, and 34 times Allahu Akbar, and, at the end of it, the Kalima of ‘Laa ilaaha illal laahu wahdahu laa sharika lahu lahul mulku wa-lahul hamdu wa huwa alaa kulli shay-in qadiir’. (There is no Allah but one Allah. He is alone. No partner hath. He Him belongs sovereignty and unto Him belongs Praise and He is all-Powerful) all his sins will be forgiven even if they be as profuse as the foam of the sea." May Allah give us all the Tawfiq to examine our own faults and rectify them ameen. May Allah give us all the tawfiq to reform ourselves, and a hypocrite like myself in particular ameen. P.s I humbly request that you please, remember me in your duas.

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Praise be to Allaah. We ask Allaah to set the affairs of the Muslims straight, and keep us and you away from places of turmoil and trials, and to unite them on the truth, and grant them victory against their enemies, for He is able to Praying in congregation in the mosque is obligatory for men who are able to do that, and there is a great deal of evidence for that which has been explained in the answers to questions no. The obligation of performing prayers in congregation and Jumu’ah prayers is dependent upon there being no danger to a person’s life or wealth or family, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “and [Allaah] has not laid upon you in religion any “Allaah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you” Ibn Qudaamah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Mughni (1/366): The one who is afraid is excused for not praying in congregation or praying Jumu’ah, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Valid excuses are fear and Fear is of three types: fear for oneself, fear for one’s wealth or property, and fear for one’s family. End quote. If a person fears that he may be killed or arrested and imprisoned unlawfully, then this is regarded as a valid excuse for his not praying in congregation or praying Jumu’ah, and he may offer these prayers in his house in order to protect himself. But if he prays Jumu’ah in his house, then he should pray it as Zuhr with four rak’ahs, not like Jumu’ah prayer. And Allaah knows best.

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iSmarty is here... Announcing the Exciting New Child's Game "iSmarty" iSmarty is going to bring loads of fun to kids and teach them about love and fun as well. iSmarty is a brand new interactive HD game that unites education and fun for young children using the iPad or iPhone or Android. It features 15 beautifully animated and friendly animals with professional voices. The challenge of these educational games is for the child to find the Mother's pup and bring it home to her. The child can choose from three different animals and is rewarded when they find and help the little one get back to its Mother. The child receives praise and a sticker of the little creature they saved. These games for kids stands out from the rest of the games for toddlers in that it can give hours of fun for a young child and can also provide a much needed rest for parents. This is because a child can play these, iPad games or iPhone games on their own. They are so simple with their intuitive interface that a child could play the game without assistance and really master the touchscreen. Also, the game has a special menu for parents, which can be accessed on the page with stickers (just press menu buttons together). There are five different scenes all beautifully animated. The child will have so much fun on each stage that they will eagerly anticipate going to the next one. There are flying birds and butterflies that create a cartoon atmosphere and make the child feel that they are in a dreamland. The game teaches young children all about caring for others and helping somebody when they are in trouble. It also lets them empathize with the lost young animal and share the joy of its return to its Mother. The touch screen and learning how to use it improves co-ordination and fine movement. And the mostly loved by kids feature - the short cartoon at the end of 15th scene. The game is the first mobile app of its kind that brings love and fun to a child's world. A Company officer was heard to say "iSmarty is going to bring loads of fun to kids and teach them about love and fun as well". Word in the office is "If your kid has not tried iSmarty they have missed out on a great experience." Stay tuned, we continue work for new characters. Thank you for your feedback and opinions, it help the game to become better.

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One great benefit of using Linux, Apache, and other open source software is that you can modify the code to make it perfect for your business. But open source licensing restricts how you distribute the modifications. Here’s what a CIO needs to know about open source licenses. Most open source software licenses have two provisions in common: No limits on personal use, unmodified redistribution, or internal re-use. You can use the software as-is on your own, redistribute it, or modify it from source for your own use. This makes most every open source application immediately useful as an in-house productivity booster: you don’t pay anything to use it, no matter how many seats you deploy it on. And as long as you restrict the software to in-house use, you can modify it freely and keep the modifications confidential. READ MORE

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World’s poorest on front line in climate change fight 24 July 2008 | News story Climate change is already happening – and it hits poor people most. The effect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and droughts on developing countries is devastating, as this year’s cyclone Nagris proved again in southern Myanmar, leaving over 130,000 people dead or missing. To protect the world’s poor against today’s more frequent extreme weather events, some US$ 2 billion is required according to the Internacional relief agency Oxfam. However, commitments so far only total US$173. The need for innovative means to mitigate climate change impacts and help poor countries adapt is high on the agenda of the World Conservation Congress, held by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 5-14 October in Barcelona. - In 2007, there were 950 natural catastrophes in 2007 compared with 850 in 2006, according to Munich Re, one of the world’s largest insurance companies. This is the highest number recorded since the company started compiling annual disaster reports in 1974. - The burden of the disasters fall on the poor who are least to blame for climate change. Benin, and Bangladesh, for example, are at particularly high risk from rising sea-levels and storm surges, yet their per capita contribution to greenhouse gas output is one eightieth that of the United States, according to the British Institute of Development Studies. - “What worries us the most is the impact on the poorest countries which have the least capacity to respond to the challenge,” said Yvo de Boer, secretary of the Convention on Climate Change. - A healthy environment can help people survive. Healthy mangrove forests and coral reefs, for example, can serve as barriers and prevent coastal erosion; a solid forest cover prevents flooding in times of heavy rainfall. - “There are positive examples of local level adaptation to the impacts of climate change, such as replanting mangrove forests that can serve as buffers against more frequent storms. But to implement these solutions on a larger scale, substantial financial support is required,” says Ninni Ikkala, Climate Change Officer at IUCN. Upcoming media products: 6 August – International Press Release – Primates Red List update 12 August – International Press Release – Cetacean Red List update Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN’s Director General. Ninni Ikkala, IUCN Climate Change Programme Brian Thomson, IUCN Global Communications, m +417972182326, e email@example.com. Carolin Wahnbaeck, IUCN Global Communications, m +41 79 85 87 593, e firstname.lastname@example.org World Conservation Congress, Barcelona (5-14 October) The World Conservation Congress (WCC) brings together 8,000 leaders from the public sector, government, business and non-governmental organizations for what is the premier summit on sustainable development in 2008. Over ten days they debate the best ways to tackle environmental and development challenges. They share pragmatic solutions to pressing issues. And they commit to collaborative action.

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Lights once flickered on a small movie screen inside an Arlington building. The warm glow of the Jacksonville film studio's projector dissipated about 70 years ago. For the next 40 years, it was a dance studio where Gloria Norman taught scores of fluttering feet. Later, a plumbing company, telephone answering service and other businesses filled the two-story, wood-sided building. Now, as the blue paint peels and as plywood veils the first-floor windows, some are trying to preserve the vacant building on Arlington Road before it descends into decay. Those trying to save the structure -- residents, city officials, scholars and film historians -- tell of Richard Norman Sr., a white filmmaker who created celluloid heroes of black actors at a time the races were segregated. When Arlington resident Ann Burt learned Norman's silent movie magic sparkled in her neighborhood in the 1920s, she was inspired to cultivate a tourist site of the buildings that made up Norman Film Studios. Thanks to Burt, other residents and City Councilman Lake Ray, the city signed an option in April to buy the primary building on Arlington Road a few blocks east of Cesery Boulevard and three others. The city has about six months to decide on the $260,000 purchase. A 2000 report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed nine recommendations for the greater Jacksonville area, and five suggestions pertained to the Norman Studios as a potential tourist destination and a way to swell community pride. Burt envisions the studios as a place where static exhibits teach about Jacksonville's role in the movie industry, and reflect Norman's life and works. Norman was raised in Springfield in an era before Hollywood became Tinseltown. But he left town and started making films in the Midwest until the film industry lured him back home. The place to be Jacksonville was billed as the place for filmmakers to come during the winter months in the early 1900s, said William E. McRae, a visiting professor at the University of North Texas who is writing a book about Norman. A selling point was the varied landscape of Jacksonville, with its beaches, river, wetlands, woods and hanging Spanish moss, he said. Norman Film Studios' 1926 filmThe Flying Ace film is stored in the Library of Congress in Washington. By the time Norman returned home in the 1920s, the spotlight was dimming on Jacksonville as a film city. He bought five buildings that used to be the Eagle Film Studios. The main building was an old cigar factory built between 1900 and 1914. That building became the film studio and the Norman home, complete with film vault and private screening room. Three other buildings still stand on the site. And a swimming pool is buried under a grassy vacant lot on Arlington Road. Another structure that was part of the studios exists on an adjacent lot, but the city does not have an option to buy that property. The film studio site would attract filmmakers and actors working in the area who want to learn more about Jacksonville's film history, said Todd Roobin, division chief of the Jacksonville Film and Television Commission. A Norman film museum could showcase contributions of both white and black cinema, which is rarely done, Burt said. Merging the history of black films and white films can be done in a museum dedicated to Norman because of what he did in his lifetime. During the 1920s, white silent films often depicted African-American characters as comical or menacing. Yet Norman decided to produce six feature-length films with all-black casts that were not derogatory. "There were white filmmakers making horrific, terrible films with stereotypes of stupid, ignorant African-Americans with watermelons," McRae said. "That's the garbage that was shown." Filling a niche Norman made comedies, action flicks and westerns with positive images of blacks because he saw a niche that was not being filled, McRae said. "He wasn't a civil rights activist by any means," McRae said. "It was a business decision." The city signed an option in April to buy the primary building of the old Norman Film Studios on Arlington Road and three others for $260,000. The city has about six months to decide about the purchase. -- Bob Self/staff It is unknown how many pictures Norman made. All of Norman's full-length movies are lost except for the 1926 film The Flying Ace, which is kept in the Library of Congress. As talking movies became the craze in the 1930s, Norman created a method of synchronizing the sound on a record with images on the silver screen. But his method competed with a new innovation from Western Electric that placed sound onto the film itself. Norman suffered financially because his method was less convenient. To make a living during the Depression, Norman showed his films in communities that could not afford the latest technology. He would show his films in schools, churches and small theaters. Jesse Wright, executive secretary of the Jacksonville University Council, brought an exhibit of Norman's memorabilia and film posters to the university in 1998. The council is a group of business leaders who support JU. "The fact that we were a filmmaking capital at one time should be memorialized somewhere, and one of these film companies did something that for its time was very enlightened," Wright said. Not an easy task But it took years for the city to come this close to preserving the buildings. Anything to share? People who have a memory, photograph or prop from the Norman Films era can call Ann Burt at (904) 721-0708. In 1993, property owner Hugh Smith resisted efforts of Old Arlington Inc. to have the buildings designated historic because he said the organization was telling him what to do with his own property. This time around, Burt urged Smith to sell the property to the city. Grants are easier to obtain when property is publicly owned, Burt said. The signed option is a first step toward full ownership, and Burt is pleased the project has come this far. Once the buildings are purchased with bond funds, a feasibility study can be done to determine how much it would cost to stabilize and restore the buildings, Burt said. Family likes idea Richard Norman Jr., Richard Norman's son, said he is excited about the prospect of the city buying his the studios and creating a museum. "It certainly does mean an awful lot to myself and my family," said Norman Jr., a retired airline pilot who lives in Tallahassee. Norman Jr. was born toward the end of his father's movie-making days, so he doesn't remember much. But he recalled watching early edits of film in a screening room on the second floor of the studio building. Just three or four people would be in the room. His father would run the projector. "As a kid, I'd run back to the projector booth and look at the machine run. Then I'd run back in the room," he said. "I used to like the cowboys because they're riding around with their guns and their horses." Burt hopes someday others can see the screening room the younger Norman remembers. But it could be years from now. "It takes time," Burt said. "These things take time." Staff writer Alliniece T. Andino can be reached at (904) 359-4546 or via e-mail at email@example.com.

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Link back to index.html The Death and Dying Process Death and Dying As caregivers, one either becomes a better person through compassion, patience, and humor, or they become embittered and angry. Wendy Lustbader is an author who has written a moving book entitled " Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency."1991. The Free Press, New York, New York. In the book she describes the importance of receiving gratitude when we help others; because giving help without recognition can embitter us as individuals. We need to be kind, in order to count on kindness as we age. The person who has dementia cannot always provide gratitude for their caregiver. Gratitude must be looked for in gentle ways and unassuming ways. Perhaps it is a smile, or a gesture, or an expression of love such as placing the head on the caregiver's shoulder. If gratitude is not felt even on an occasional basis, it is difficult to cope with death and dying. Death and dying as Dr. Kubler-Ross indicates, is the "final stage of growth". Death and Dying During the final stages of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, an individual may lose his/her ability to ambulate, verbally communicate, swallow, or may become totally incontinent and continue to lose weight despite nutritional supplements. Usually people with Alzheimer's die of another problem---perhaps a stroke, or pneumonia due to aspiration. At this point, the caregiver must be aware that the only way a person can stay alive is by inserting a stomach tube that provides artificial nutritional sustenance. Caregivers may have different feelings about this intervention for religious or personal reasons. At the end stage of Alzheimer's the use of invasive procedures such as a stomach tube, can keep the persons alive from months to years. This important decision must be made by the family member and can create an "ethical dilemma". Families, should in no way feel pressured by a medical professional to insert life sustaining interventions. When family members are prepared with regard to the physical process of death and dying they are more able to accept death as an inevitable and peaceful process. The recent expansion of Hospice Services has done much to promote discussions about death and acceptance of withholding end-of-life medical interventions. Once a person is terminal, as determined by a physician who understands the disease process, a caregiver may decide to engage Hospice Services. The physician must be willing to certify that a person will die within six months. If the person does not die within six months, they are not disqualified from the program. Hospice Services are usually provided by a local Home Health Agency. Hospice services can be provided in the home, assisted living facility as well as a skilled nursing facility. When a family signs up for Hospice Benefits they agree to forgo extreme invasive procedures and agree to support procedures that alleviate pain for the person with dementia. This is known as "palliative care" or comfort measures. At the final stage of death, water and food are withheld as the individual no longer desires this. This is a part of the natural process of dying. Families can anticipate the final stages of death by the various physical stages a person may be going through. Barbara Karne, a Hospice R.N. developed a very comprehensive booklet entitled "Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience" which delineates the various physical stages of death and dying. To obtain a booklet, contact her at the following address: Barbara Karnes, R.N., P.O. Box 335, Stillwell, Kansas, 60085, 1995. In Karnes' booklet she describes what occurs, one-three months prior to death, one to two weeks before death, days or hours before death, and then the final minutes. This information has been extremely helpful to families and can be summarized as follows: One to three months prior to death · Withdrawal from world and people · Decreased food intake · Increased sleep · Going inside self · Less Communication One to Two Weeks Prior to Death · Talking with Unseen · Picking at Clothes · Physical Changes o Decreased blood pressure o Pulse increase or decrease o Color changes; pale, bluish o Increased perspiration o Respiration irregularities o Sleeping but responding o Complaints of body tired and heavy o Not eating, taking little fluids o Body temperature hot/cold Days or Hours · Intensification of 1-2 week signs · Surge of energy · Decrease in blood pressure · Eyes glassy, tearing, half open · Irregular breathing, stop/start · Restlessness or no activity · Purplish knees, feet, hands, blotchy · Pulse weak and hard to fine · Decreased urine output · May wet or stool the bed · Fish out of water breathing · Cannot be awakened It is important that individuals be aware of their wishes and that the wishes be formally documented in a legal document that is known as an "Advance Directive". Each state has different instruments for these directives and the caregiver should contact the local medical facility to determine the appropriate document to be used. The Advance Directive delineates one's wishes regarding medical treatment and appoints a surrogate decision-maker on a person's behalf. Of course, the important aspect of the Advance Directive is to discuss end-of-life care before one becomes diagnosed with dementia or has an another debilitating illness. pp.309-311. Beckerman, Anita G. and Tappen, Ruth. M. 2000. It Takes More Than Love. Health Professions Press: Baltimore, MD. 1. Review the video clip on death and dying narrated by Dixie Merrill. Dixie Merrill is a caregiver who is also taking care of three sets of parents--in laws, step parents, as well as parents. Dixie has been part of a support group and has indicated how information learned in the group has helped her cope with the death and dying. Note how she describes the process of death and dying as peaceful and calming. She indicates talking about death and dying has made it less fearful and she also emphasizes the importance of advance directives. 2. Consider the following questions for reflection when watching the video: · What strategies helped the Merrill family cope with their mother's death and dying process? · How can "Advance Directives" help individuals cope with the dying process? Link back to index.html

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Friday, 11 December 2009 mental ray_Adding glow to the window glass The above image was produced whilst at GMJ Design Ltd In our latest book, we have covered a number of ways of emulating light without the need of creating a physical light. Production companies often adopt similar methods to reduce the rendering times and retain the overall quality. It is worth pointing out that the usage of Ambient Occlusion(i.e. AO) as a separate pass or/and directly from Max is utterly imperative for the final shot. The following exercise will take you through another unique methodology of achieving similar results with reduced rendering times: Another quick way of emulating “glow”/"light" on windows, is to in fact enable the glow function on the glass panes themselves. To do this, simply go to the main material parameters, under the "refraction" group. 1-Reduce the transparency to about 0.9 to prevent the surface from being fully transparent. 2-To add a bit of blur to the transparency, decrease the glossiness to about 0.78. Note that, these values may vary depending on one’s camera angle...and the level of transparency/blurriness intended. 3-Next,change the colour swatch from white to a warm yellow. Also, the "fast (interpolate)" function, can be enabled for quick and fast results, as the glossiness and its samples can often slow down the renders.However,it may create artifacts. 4-Pan down to the "self illumination (glow)" parameters and enable the "self illumination (glow)" function. 5-Under the "luminance" group, change it from "unitless" to "physical units: cd/m2)". Also, pick and choose any relevant bitmap (i.e. photo) that has a prominent light source. Note: The "unitless" function often creates artifacts on glossy reflections, therefore, to be avoided at all costs. Depending on time in hand, one can set the glow to generate light, or not, through the FG, by checking the "illuminates the scene (when using fg)" function. ...and... “...let there be light...”!!! The final rendered image below was achieved using this technique. I hope you like it. I hope you have found this post interesting. Also check this new article in this Blog: 3D Realism:Practical & Easy Workflows

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Every now and then I hear 待ちに待った, as in: 待ちに待ったライブ a long-awaited concert I started wondering if this pattern can apply to other verbs, and it certainly seems to, if Google is any indication. I found instances of 望みに望んだ, 祈りに祈った, and even things like 飲みに飲んだ. Question A: Can I use this pattern with any verb showing intent? Is there a particular nuance behind it, or does it simply mean "to [verb] and then [verb] some more"? Question B: For the linguists in the room (y'all know who you are), how is the に classified in this pattern? Is it the same に as in 買いに行く?

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Our objective was to develop a quality improvement project on diabetes mellitus at our internal medicine residency clinic. Residents developed projects aimed at improving an aspect of diabetic care. Continuity of care, achievement of clinical targets, no-show rates, patient knowledge of diabetes, and preventive care were evaluated. Our data was obtained with a questionnaire and a retrospective review of medical records. A different provider was scheduled about every 1.78 visit. The no-show rate was 25.4%. About half of patients identified goal hgbA1c and BPs, and 35% and 60% achieved their hgbA1c and SBP goals respectively. Nearly all of the charts planned for screening exams. We concluded that our clinic needs to improve diabetes education, reaching clinical targets, continuity of care and no-shows. Incorporating a QI project into the clinic with one disease such as diabetes is an efficient way to include practice based learning into an internal medicine residency’s curriculum. Punzalan, MD, Carmi Santos; Rutherford, MD, Sarah; Lerner, MD, Andrew; Kouvatsos, MD, Tasha; Thakkar, MD, Sneha; Klein, MD, Melissa; Manoff, MD, David; Kelly, MD, Cecilia; Halegoua, MD, Dina; and Kane, MD, Gregory "Quality Improvement of Diabetic Care at a Resident Clinic," The Medicine Forum: Vol. 13, Article 21. Available at: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/tmf/vol13/iss1/21

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Appalachian Senior Programs will hold its 10th annual gift project for senior citizens called “Project Star,” which is a program that offers gifts to anonymous seniors in need. “Most of the seniors served by this project are lonely, isolated, don’t really have any family and wouldn’t get any gifts otherwise,” said Tammy Taylor, Project Star’s coordinator. Groups that work with the elderly in the county submitted a list of names of seniors in need, along with a list of gift ideas for each person. Those groups include the Department of Social Services, Ashe Really Cares, Ashe Outreach Ministries, Spruce Hill Apartments, Mountain Living and Mountain Village. Once the names were submitted to Appalachian Senior Programs, each name was assigned a number so the senior can remain anonymous. Each number, along with an outline of gift ideas, has been printed on a cut-out paper star. Since the list of seniors has been finalized, the cut-out stars were placed in different locations throughout town. As of Thursday, 184 stars had been printed and were on display Monday at Wendy’s, Food Lion, Ingles and Sweet & Savory. Taylor said the project averages about 200 stars per year. “For many of these seniors, these gifts are the only presents they will receive over Christmas,” said Taylor. According to Taylor, most of these gifts are simple, inexpensive items, like blankets, clothing and food. Debbie Wellborn, who also works for Appalachian Senior Programs, said “most of the gifts are simple things that many people take for granted.” She said last year a 95-year-old woman wanted a few modest gifts, which included Pringles potato chips, peppermint candy and a baby doll. In the last nine years of Project Star, every senior wishing to get a gift managed to receive at least one. “No one has been left out so far,” said Wellborn. Anyone wanting to donate gifts to a senior in need can pick a star and purchase the items. Afterwards, the gifts will need to be returned to the Appalachian Senior Programs’ office so they can be distributed to the seniors over the holidays. According to Wellborn, the concept for Project Star was created when workers from Appalachian Senior Programs recognized children draw most of the attention during Christmas, but there were no local programs that attempted to help the elderly. Since Project Star’s first gift drive nine years ago, it has attracted the attention of local businesses that wish to contribute to the cause. Mike Powers has donated trees to Project Star for the past nine years, courtesy of Mountain Memories Tree Farm, and plans to do so again. Employees from Gates donate between 25-30 food boxes every year to Project Star, and Skyline/Skybest’s employees also help by getting gifts for 20-25 stars every year for the past 9 years. “It’s the generosity of the kind people of Ashe County that makes this project possible each year,” said Taylor. Jamie Richardson, from the Department of Social Services, said “I’ve been here for seven years and for most of the seniors, these are the only gifts they receive. They really look forward to getting these gifts for Christmas.” “Ashe County is very lucky to have a Christmas program for the elderly, most places don’t have something like this,” said Richardson. Appalachian Senior Programs also helps seniors with fuel assistance, especially with winter quickly approaching. “Donations are greatly appreciated as the money will be used for fuel assistance and for stars that were not collected and didn’t receive any gifts,” said Taylor. Appalachian Senior Programs is funded by a federal grant and sponsored by Appalachian State University. Anyone interested in participating in the gift drive will need to deliver gift items to the Appalachian Senior Programs’ office before Thursday, Dec. 6, next to Jefferson Drug Store. Only newly-purchased items will be accepted. For more information, call Tammy Taylor at 336-846-4898.

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Rabbi Sharon Brous – a JWI Woman to Watch in 2009 – wrote an “On Faith” essay for the Washington Post this week about the role of inflammatory political language in last weekend’s shooting in Tucson. “For two years we have watched as political leaders and members of the press have made incendiary rhetoric not the exception but the rule in Washington and around the country… Those who have been in politics from the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement and the most contentious years of the Vietnam War have warned us that they have never seen an America as dangerously divided as our country is today.” JWI is an increasingly audible voice on Capitol Hill advocating for federal legislation that addresses domestic abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking, reproductive choice, economic security and gun violence. As leaders in the faith community, we work in coalition with secular and faith organizations, and we are proud to be a powerful force within the Jewish community. Please join our advocacy network and help make the world – and your community – a safer place.

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PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal nutrition policies. Our clinical research programs are breaking new ground in diabetes, cancer, and other serious conditions. PCRM’s Cancer Project has provided vital information to tens of thousands of people. The New Four Food Groups is PCRM’s innovative proposal for a federal nutrition policy that puts a new priority on health. Our public service announcement series features medical experts on prevention and health. Research Advocacy We encourage higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research: We oppose unethical human experiments. While great strides have been made in eliminating such experiments, problems remain. For example, children are still given synthetic growth hormone in experiments to make them taller, and both children and adults are exposed to unnecessary new drugs which have toxic effects. We promote alternatives to animal research and animal testing. We have worked to put a stop to gruesome experiments, such as the military’s cat-shooting studies, DEA narcotics experiments, and monkey self-mutilation projects. We also promote nonanimal methods in medical education. Currently, more than three-quarters of all U.S. medical schools have dropped their animal labs for medical students. Since 1985, PCRM has been influencing advancements in medicine and science. We advocate for preventive medicine, especially good nutrition, conduct clinical research, and advocate for higher ethical standards in research. Our membership includes 150,000 health care professionals and concerned citizens. PCRM is a nonprofit 501c3 organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. PCRM’s advisory board includes 18 health care professionals from a broad range of specialties: Leslie Brown, M.D., Pontchartrain Pediatrics T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Cornell University Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., The Cleveland Clinic Roberta Gray, M.D., F.A.A.P., Pediatric Nephrology Consultant Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Dr.PH., M.S., R.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Henry J. Heimlich, M.D., Sc.D., The Heimlich Institute David Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto Lawrence Kushi, Sc.D., Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente John McDougall, M.D., McDougall Program, St. Helena Hospital Milton Mills, M.D., Gilead Medical Group Baxter Montgomery, M.D., Houston Cardiac Association and HCA Wellness Center Carl Myers, M.D., Sonoran Desert Oncology Ana Negrón, M.D., Community Volunteers in Medicine and family physician Myriam Parham, R.D., L.D., C.D.E., East Pasco Medical Center William Roberts, M.D., Baylor Cardiovascular Institute Joan Sabaté, M.D., Dr.PH., Loma Linda University Nutrition School of Public Health Gordon Saxe, M.D., M.P.H.,Ph.D., Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego Andrew Weil, M.D., University of Arizona

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This week’s children’s literacy and reading news round-up, brought to you by Jen Robinson’s Book Page and Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, a Reading Tub blog, is now available at the Reading Tub. I've been traveling for most of the past week, but Terry Doherty has stepped up to the plate, and has tons of news about literacy & reading-related events; literacy and reading programs and research; 21st century literacies; and grants, sponsorships & donations. Sorry that my blog and Twitter account and Facebook page have been so sparse for the past few days. I find when I'm traveling I can barely even keeep up with email. But I should be back up to speed by the end of this week. Meanwhile, please check out the new literacy news from Terry. I'm looking forward to digging in and reading the whole thing when I have a bit more time. I do have a new post up today at Booklights, the second post in my new series on Tips for Growing Bookworms. This week's tip is about reading the books that your children read. This is a tip that I learned from the first-hand experiences of friends, and have also found to work well with my young friends and nieces. Of course I know that many of my blog readers are avid fans of children's literature anyway, so this will be something that you're already doing. But I hope that you enjoy the post anyway. Or, if you're more interested in author interviews, the Winter Blog Blast Tour starts today. Colleen Mondor has the full WBBT schedule at Chasing Ray. The WBBT is a coordinated series of interviews, across a group of children's and young adult book blogs. Unlike a typical "blog tour", in which one author visits a series of blogs, the WBBT participants work with a carefully selected range of authors, to provide a diverse reading experience with something for everyone.

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No, this isn't another 'Facebook as a disappointment' story. It's about how we best use Facebook or, more broadly, our content marketing. With over 3.5 Billion pieces of content shared each week on Facebook, brands first impulse is to jump in and add another few thousand pieces of clutter to the fray. Many start by thinking about social networks as another platform to publish out news the brand feels is of interest. Some get more sophisticated and actually start thinking about what types of content their customers and advocates would find most interesting and actionable. Some wrestle with brand character issues such as what the “voice” is of the publisher and how a page looks and works. Many evolve to creating complex content calendars that aim to sort through all the potential content that could be published and dole it out in a sensible manner. We look at the data and figure out what drives the most “People Talking About” metrics (engagement). Start Publishing Stories Few think about stories. Each content nugget is just that, an isolated nugget. It likely points to content elsewhere on an owned site. But for the most part each content unit is judged in it’s own. That’s where you see brands discovering some of the simple rules of social media like pictures drive more involvement than simple text blurbs, especially ones with no clear call-to-action. If we are trying to drive behavior, we had best use the most persuasive means to do so. That means story. And likely today in the social age, it means stories that people can get involved in. One of my key takeaways from talking with Thomas Gensemer from Blue State Digital following their successful work on the first “Obama for America” campaign was the idea of “story arcs” in their messaging or content strategy. Actually, they called them “email arcs.” I abstracted it up one level since many of us are now communicating with customers and constituents via many platforms beyond email. Story arcs are simply a series of content postings tied together in a story that drive people to some action or series of actions. Let’s say that your brand is staging a kids DIY event like Carhartt did. Rather than simply inviting people to the store for the event, you might start by soliciting dream DIY projects from the fan base (parents), or what projects did they create when they were kids – the sort of thing that drives comments and even shares. The “story” might all be around those parents giving their kids the gift of self-discovery and creativity. Then, of course, they celebrate what they made at the story by posting online. Carhartt owners (I own one) are ‘makers.’ Lets build stories for makers. Carhartt actually does do that. The emotional value of stories is stronger that orphaned content. If we are trying to drive behavior and even belief. We ought to be anchoring our content strategies in stories. The neurosciencemarketing blog has a great pov in general and this in particular, "Researchers Philip Mazzocco and Melanie Green draw a contrast between rhetorical persuasion, in essence arguing with facts and logic, and the use of narratives to influence decisions. They conclude that stories are more effective at changing emotional beliefs that logical arguments have difficulty reaching." And as you think about what makes for great stories ,tons have been written on this bit I like this little summary from Phil Johnson in Forbes : "Whether you’re working on a brand story, an advertising campaign, or standing up to talk at a conference, here are three suggestions: - If your story does not reveal something personal and unknown about the person or brand, it’s going to be boring. - If your story does not tap into a specific emotion – whether it be fear, desire, anger, or happiness – it will not move people to action. - If your story does not take people on a journey where there is a transformation between the beginning, middle, and the end, it’s not a story. The best stories represent a simplicity of purpose and tap into the audience’s imagination so that they willingly go along for the journey. And the shortest ones can sometimes be the best. Ernest Hemingway famously wrote the six-word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” More great story reference:

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Whether you believe we are in a recession or not, here is a timely article from Forbes that addresses something all of us are interested in during tighter times...how to cut costs while still living well... Plan, Plan, Plan Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar, co-authors of On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Finance, suggest dividing your income into four categories: taxes (about 25% of total income, on average, savings (15%), necessities (45%) and wants (15%). Pay off debts with an interest rate above 7% and pay more than the monthly minimum. Knowing your financial situation makes it easier to see what you're working with and where to make the necessary cuts later. Become A Craftier Consumer Clip coupons, buy in bulk and go with store brands. Finding the best deals at the grocery store can save an average American family of four over $700 annually. Also, get yourself a PayPal account and shop online. With an endless number of merchants hocking their virtual wares, searching based just on price returns some good deals. If you're patient, you could save a bundle in the long run. Get Better Gas Mileage Ease up behind the wheel. Less-aggressive drivers use considerably less gas than their lead-footed counterparts. And experts say faster isn't always better. "In most traffic situations, accelerating isn't going to get you there any faster," says Philip Reed, consumer advice editor for auto site Edmunds.com. Also, take off the roof rack when you're not using it, since this can boost your car's fuel efficiency by as much as six miles per gallon. You can get an additional boost by regularly maintaining your vehicle with tune-ups, oil changes and tire rotation. Squeeze The Most Out Of Your Utilities Putting a half-gallon, sand-filled milk jug in your toilet tank saves that much every flush. For an average American family, that's 20 gallons of water a day. Low-flow fixtures use less than half as much water, but do cost more for the initial investment. Also, replacing standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs in your home can save $30 a month. Get Cheaper Entertainment Most museums have a free or discount day for their general exhibitions. Also check out nearby college campuses for movies and arts performances, such as plays and symphonies. And if you do feel the need to eat out, do it on a weeknight, since many restaurants and bars slash prices during the week to draw in as much business as they can. Look For Luxury On The Cheap Find a massage school in your area, rather than a high-end spa. Some schools offer rates as low as $10 an hour. If you want a luxury car, get a used one: a one- or two-year-old car will have lost much of its resale value by then, but will still be ahead of its class in amenities. When it comes to clothes, look for last year's line in designer wear, which is usually heavily discounted to make way for the new season. Eat Right, Exercise, Drink Lightly And Avoid Smoking All these things help you save money in the long term. A major ailment like cancer or heart disease can take a devastating toll on those who aren't prepared financially. The best method for saving on long-term health care is prevention.

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About the bibliography My bibliography database represents years of work by many people. The core of the database was compiled by Milford Wolpoff, with contributions from many students and coauthors. I have added substantially to the database during the last fifteen years, and since I have been blogging all new entries are linked by Digital Object Identifier numbers to their place of publication. If you find the database useful, please take time to thank the people who worked hard to compile it. I know they will appreciate hearing it. This database began as a flat text file of bibliographic entries, which I have over the years scripted into a computer-readable format. Many errors have slipped in, including typos from the initial data entry, script fragments from my BibTeX database, and some entries that began in a non-standard format and were scrambled by scripts. Please do not write me expecting that I will fix these errors. It would take me weeks of work to do this. Works will be fixed as I cite them or enter updated information for them. There are also errors of omission. Most entries are here because they got cited, in Milford's books, in the many research articles by him or his students, or in my work. I mention this mainly because I know that some of you will look up your own names, and find many important papers missing from the database. If you're disappointed in the representation of your articles here, by all means contact me and I will work with you. This database is mirrored on CiteULike and Mendeley and I can import your bibliographic data from these sites, EndNote, BibTeX or other standard formats. A fuller introduction to the bibliography is in my initial announcement.

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The most illustrious Czars and mighty Princes, John and Peter Alexewitz, my most gracious Lords, having in their Wise Council of State resolved to send a splendid Embassy, on some important affairs, to the Great Bogdaichan, or Sovereign of the famous Kingdom of Kitai, by us Europeans commonly called China: This obliged me with a welcoming opportunity of traveling through part of the famous, but hitherto unknown, Siberian and Kitaian Countries, (never before visited by any German) and informing my self by credible witnesses of the remainder of those Lands, as well as obtaining a certain knowledge of several things with which the World hath not been hitherto acquainted. Evert Ysbrants Ides was the first educated European to travel in Siberia and gather firsthand information about the collection of fossil ivory. Ides' opportunity to travel across Siberia was the direct result of the satisfactory settlement of a small war on the Chinese border. The speed with which the first wave of Russian fur traders, called promyshleniki, crossed Siberia created serious supply problems for them. Men carrying small loads of goods and supplies could easily cross Siberia using a network of rivers and short portages by boat in the summer and sled in the winter. Bringing large loads of bulky goods, specifically enough grain to feed a small settlement, was a much more difficult and expensive proposition. It could take three or four years for a shipment of grain to reach a remote place like Yakutsk and, by then, the majority of the load would be inedible. Because of this, the promyshleniki were relieved and excited when they began to hear rumors of the Amur, a valley in the south filled with grain, cattle, and silver. The first expedition to reach the Amur was a group of 132 cossacks under Vassily Poiarkov in 1643-46. The Amur natives, whom the Russians called Daurians, greeted Poiarkov with hospitality but the relationship turned sour as the Russians resorted to kidnapping, plunder, and, it is reputed, cannibalism to get what they wanted. This kind of behavior went over with the locals about as well as you might expect. Poiarkov had to fight his way out of the country and lost half of his command to native attacks and starvation. However, because he confirmed that the Amur was a land of cattle and grain (he didn't find any silver), the expedition was proclaimed a success. Several other Russians tried to map out a better route into the Amur valley. In 1651, Yerofey Khabarov fought his way down the river with even more brutality than Poiarkov had and built a fort near the site of the city that now bears his name. This is when things began to go to hell. Khabarov knew, but chose to ignore, that the Amur was within the Chinese sphere of influence. What he might not have known was that it was also part of the homeland of the new Qing dynasty of China. The only reason he was able to occupy as much land as he did was that most of the armed Manchu horsemen were still busy conquering China. A year after Khabarov built Achansk, a Chinese military expedition arrived to drive him out of the valley. This was the beginning of more than thirty years of seesawing occupation of the Amur country. By the early eighties, with most of China finally pacified, the Kangxi emperor was ready to deal with the Russians once and for all. Now it was the turn of Moscow to get alarmed. Moscow, in the 1680s, was infected with a bad case of "who's in charge here?" In April 1682, Tsar Fedor III died at the tender age of twenty one without leaving an heir. The succession fell on his brothers Ivan and Peter. The elder of the two, Ivan, was severely epileptic, nearly blind, and may have suffered from a variety of other problems (diagnosing the physical and mental health of historical figures is more of a parlor game than a science among historians). Peter was strong as an ox, but only ten years old. To further complicate matters, the two boys had different mothers and the two sets of in-laws formed powerful and antagonistic factions at court. Fedor's death was followed by a week of riot and rebellion (not all of which was related to the succession). When the dust cleared, Ivan and Peter had been declared co-tsars and their sister Sophia was the de facto regent ruling in their names. Except for a few years during the reign of Catherine the Great, historians have not been kind to Sophia. She has been reduced to cartoonish stereotype of a scheming woman (which is bad) who was finally put back in her place by a strong male (which is good). In fact, Sophia Alexeevna Romanov was an extraordinary woman. She was intelligent, well informed, and literate in three languages. She was comfortable giving orders and appearing in public at a time when most upper-class Russian women were kept in harem-like seclusion for their entire lives. During the seven years that she served as regent for the two tsars, Sophia had successes and failures no different than any other rulers’. For the advance of mammoth knowledge, her most important achievement was settling the Amur conflict. Since the beginning of the century, the tsars had recognized the potential for Siberia to become a private trade route to China, but every attempt at making official contact with the Chinese court had failed due to cultural misunderstandings. Despite that, the Kangxi emperor wanted to open trade with the Russians and hoped that a show of strength would be enough to drive the promyshleniki and Cossacks out of the Amur valley. In 1684 a large and well supplied Chinese army arrived on the lower Amur and began to move west driving the Russians before them. At Albazin, on the northern bend of the Amur, the Russians attempted to make a stand, but were soon defeated. The Chinese allowed the survivors to retreat, razed their fort, and moved down river to their base of operations. When word of the defeat on the Amur reached Sophia and her advisors, they quickly dispatched an envoy to make peace with the Chinese. This should have been the end of the crisis, but, before the envoy could arrive, the Siberian Russians returned to Albazin and built a new fort provoking the Chinese army to return and start a new siege. They were only saved by the arrival in Beijing of advance messengers from the embassy. The Kangxi emperor ordered his army to lift the siege and prepared his own diplomatic mission to meet the Russians. Further complications--and there are always further complications in diplomacy--delayed the meeting of the two missions until the summer of 1689. The negotiation took place at the Russian outpost of Nerchinsk on a tributary of the Amur almost 300 miles west of Albazin. Amid elaborate ceremonies by the official heads of the missions, the real negotiations were carried out in Latin by a Polish cavalry officer (for the Russians) and a French Jesuit (for the Chinese). The agreement, signed on August 27, the first formal treaty signed between China and a Western power, required the Russians to evacuate the entire Amur valley, but established formal trade through Nerchinsk. Sophia did not get to celebrate the Treaty of Nerchinsk. At the same time that the negotiations were wrapping up in the East, Sophia's regency was coming to an abrupt and unanticipated end in Moscow. Sophia's position had been dramatically weakened by two disastrous campaigns in the Crimea and by her half brother Peter turning seventeen in June. Amid rumors that Sophia was planning to murder Peter and rule in her own name, supporters of the two Romanovs engaged in a month of dramatic maneuvers that resulted in Peter taking control and Sophia retiring to a convent. Peter's half brother Ivan stayed on as co-tsar until his natural death seven years later. When word of the treaty reached Peter, he accepted the terms and began planning a trade mission to Beijing. Russia had a severe shortage of literate agents who were competent to make their way through foreign cultures, which explains the necessity of hiring Latin speaking Polish cavalry officers to conduct delicate diplomatic negotiations. For his first official trade mission to China, Peter hired a German, Dutch, or possibly Danish merchant named Evert Ysbrants Ides*. Ides had been in Russia since 1677, operating his own merchant house, first in Archangel and later in Moscow. In the spring of 1692, Ides left Moscow at the head of a 400 man caravan with instructions to exchange ratifications of the treaty, determine the best items for trade, feel out official attitudes toward the treaty, and request that a Chinese envoy be sent to Moscow. The most direct route from Moscow to China is the same one that the Trans-Siberian Railway follows today, around the southern end of the Ural Mountains, across the steppe lands at the center of Eurasia, across Lake Baikal, and on to the Amur. Unfortunately, the steppe lands were controlled by Kirghiz nomads and unsafe for Russian merchants. For this reason, Ides' caravan had to take a much more roundabout path to Baikal that took them across the Urals on the same path as Ermak a century before, down the Irtysh River to its junction with the Ob, up the Ob and its tributary the Ket, to a portage into the Yenisei basin, and up the Angara River to Baikal. By October, the mission had only reached the way station of Makofskoi on the Ket portage. It was here that Ides had had his encounter with fossil mammoths. Amongst the hills, which are situate North-East of [Makofskoi], and not far from hence, the Mammuts Tongues and Legs are found; as they are also particularly on the Shores of the Rivers Jenize, Trugan [Lower Tunguska], Mongamsea [Taz], Lena, and near Jakutskoi [Yakutsk], even as far as the Frozen Sea. ... I had a Person with me to China, who had annually went out in search of these Bones; he told me, as a certain truth, that he and his Companions found the Head of one of these Animals, which was discovered by the fall of such a frozen piece of Earth. As soon as he opened it, he found the greatest part of the Flesh rotten, but it was not without difficulty that they broke out his Teeth, which were placed before his Mouth, as those of the Elephants are; they also took some Bones out of his head, and afterwards came to his Fore-foot, which they cut off, and, carried part of it to the City of Trugan [Turukhansk], the Circumference of it being as large as that of the wast of an ordinary Man. The Bones of the Head appeared somewhat red, as tho' they were tinctured with Blood. This account by Ides is the first Western description of a frozen mammoth and the beginning of a scientific and popular fascination that hasn't ended over three hundred years later. Locating the mammoth to which Ides' unnamed traveling companion referred is a little tricky. Makofskoi was, and still is, a small town on the western end of the portage between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. Ides gave no indication of how far he meant when he said mammoth remains were found in the hills to the Northeast. My conclusion, based on Ides' phrase "not far from hence," is that the find must have been close to Makofskoi. The explorer Adolf Nordenskiold, who traveled along the Arctic coast in the late nineteenth century, thought, because the hunter took the mammoth's foot to Turukhansk, that the find must have been close to that place. Turukhansk is 450 miles north of Makofskoi, which is not "not far from hence." In Ides' day there were two major towns on the Yenesei where his companion might have sold the ivory, Turukhansk and Yeneseisk, which is only eighty miles from Makofskoi. That argues in Nordenskiold's favor. If the find was closer to Yeneseisk the only reasons the hunter would have had for going all the way to Turukhansk would have been if Turukhansk was offering a better price for ivory or if he had other business there. Without more evidence there's no way to settle the matter. If we split the difference between Makofskoi and Turukhansk we arrive at the Stony Tunguska River. Maybe the site was blown up in 1908 by the Tunguska meteorite. Ides goes on to report what the locals believed about the remains. Concerning this Animal there are very different reports. The Heathens of Jakuti, Tungusi, and Ostiacki, say that they continually, or at least, by reason of the very hard Frosts, mostly live under ground, where they go backwards and forwards; to confirm which they tell us, That they have often seen the Earth heaved up when one of these Beasts was on the March, and after he was past, the place sink in, and thereby make a deep Pit. They further believe, that if this Animal comes so near to the surface of the frozen Earth as to smell, or discern the Air, he immediately dies, which they say is the reason that several of them are found dead, on the high Banks of the River, where they unawares came out of the Ground. This is the opinion of the Infidels concerning these Beasts, which are never seen. But the old Siberian Russians affirm, that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant, with this only difference, that the Teeth of the former are firmer, and not so straight as those of the latter. They also are of Opinion, that there were Elephants in this Country before the Deluge, when this Climate was warmer, and that their drowned bodies floating on the Surface of the Water of that Flood, were at last wash'd and forced into Subterranean Cavities... The description of the mammoth as a subterranean animal that dies on exposure to surface air is almost identical to that given by the Chinese writer Tung-fang So in the second century BC. The three "heathen" tribes that Ides mentions are names given by the Russian conquerors and used to lump together all of the peoples of the Lower Irtysh, Ob, Yenisei, and Lena river basins. That is to say, he was ascribing the belief in the mammoth as a giant mole to most of the people of Western and Central Siberia. Later travelers ascribed different beliefs to many of these peoples. Still other travelers confirmed Ides' observations. When Ides traveled across Siberia, most of these peoples had been under Russian rule for a century, giving them plenty of time to have heard about the ideas of tribes with which they had had very little contact and to have learned the Biblical stories of Noah and Behemoth. Today, it is virtually impossible to sort out which tribes believed what before their contact with the Russians. While Ides was the first educated European to travel in Siberia and report firsthand information on the collection of fossil ivory, he wouldn't be the last. Peter the Great's diplomacy, wars, economic needs, and personal curiosity would send a constant stream of educated Europeans into his Eastern realms. They in turn would send back a constant stream of information that would be eagerly consumed by a Europe that was looking at the world through an increasingly scientific lens. Hmmm. I still seem to be having trouble with that "keep your blog posts under a thousand words" thing. Oh well... * Ides nationality and name have been the source of much confusion over the years. Accounts of his journey describe him variously as Dutch, German, and Danish. In the opening quote he implies that he considers himself to be German, but the first edition of his book was published in Dutch. The confusion comes from the fact that his parents were Dutch immigrants to Holstein, a German-speaking province that is the home of many cows and was then ruled by the King of Denmark. It's likely that Ides was fluent in both German and Dutch. The possible spellings given for his first and middle names are even more varied than his nationality. Because his middle name is sometimes spelled Ysbrand, some writers have assumed that he and the mission's secretary, Adam Brand, were one person. Adding to that confusion was the fact that both of them published memoirs of the journey, which the same writers who thought they were the same person assumed were merely different editions of the same book. They weren't, it wasn't, and that's that.

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The idea of Christian liberty has become skewed in our post-modern culture. Our ideas of liberty make us think of “rights” and “freedoms” we have within a governmental systems. However, we cannot forfeit the true meaning of Christian liberty for the distorted, polluted view of today’s self-absorbed society. I have recently picked up a book that reminded me what Christian liberty is all about. In 1520, Martin Luther published his pamphlet Christian Liberty (The Freedom of a Christian). This is the time of the reformation; a time where the rights of individuals were limited to your money and title; even more so was the religious structure. Luther reminds the people of the time, and still reminds us today what true Christian liberty encompasses. True Christian liberty and freedom comes through faith in Jesus Christ. Works are nothing before there is faith. How does faith alone work in a system that tells us works must accompany faith for salvation? Often times the Bible is looked at as a book of rules and commandments. Yes, there are commandments all throughout scripture, but “the commandments show us what we ought to do, but do(es) not give us the power to do it.” However, when we find the promises of God, faith is ignited within the soul because it is not about our inevitable failures, but rather the faith in the promises of Christ to redeem us and make us new once more. This is true Christian freedom; that our souls are no longer held down by laws, rules, or works but rather are set free by our faith in the power of Christ’s words. “If a touch of Christ healed, how much more will this tender spiritual touch, this absorbing of the Word, communicate to the soul all things that belong to the Word.” Freedom in our faith through Christ always precedes actions and faith. Even as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, it was not the act that was deemed righteous, but rather his faith in the One who spoke to him. It was the trust and faith of Abraham that preceded any action. We can never be fully free without first acknowledging our freedom is found through soulful surrender. Freedom stems from faith, and faith alone. Here is the key difference; Works are birthed from our faith, love, and obedience to Christ, not the other way around. When we think of Christian freedom, let us not limit our thoughts to that of an external world or government system. True freedom rests in the one who created the soul. The only way to set the soul free is to believe that Christian freedom is the inner workings of Christ in our lives. Christian freedom reminds us that the “only thing necessary for Christian life…is the gospel of Christ.”

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a1 Croydon, Surrey Sir Francis Galton writes: “Those who find a difficulty in understanding how a feebly felt mental action can vanquish a strong desire, will find the difficulty vanish if they consent to assume a physiological and not a psychical standpoint. The gain is as great as viewing the planetary system after the fashion of Copernicus, instead of that of Ptolemy. There is nothing contrary to experience in supposing that conflicting physiological actions may be perceived with a distinctness quite disproportionate to their real efficacy. We may compare the conflict between faintly perceived activities of one kind and clearly perceived activities of another kind, to that between troops dressed in a uniform scarcely distinguishable from the background with others clad in staring scarlet. We must be content to admit that our consciousness has a very inexact cognisance of the physiological battles in our brain, and that the mystery why apparently weak motives of one class should invariably get the better of apparently strong motives of another class, lies wholly in the word ‘apparently’. In short, that the appearances of their relative strength are deceptive”.

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Did you know that the only difference between the peach and the nectarine is one gene?!?! And, I bet you can guess one of the traits this gene controls.... that's right... peach fuzz! Really, I've been reading a great book "How to Pick a Peach" and in it, the author gives great information about many of the seasonal produce. Love it. That's where I learned about the peach vs. nectarine gene. So, while this muffin recipe is really a peach muffin recipe, I made ours with a less fuzzy variety... the nectarine. Peach (or Nectarine) Muffins 1 C flour 1/3 C whole wheat flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. baking powder pinch of salt 1/4 C applesauce 1/2 C brown sugar 1/2 C milk ~2 C diced peaches/nectarines 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 C oats 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 T brown sugar In a bowl, combine flours, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Stir well. In another bowl, mix the egg, applesauce, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla together. Add in fruit. Then, mix the wet and dry ingredients together. Pour into muffin cups -- either 6 jumbo or 12 regular muffin cups. Mix together topping and sprinkle over the muffins, lightly press into the muffins so the topping sticks. Bake at 400 until muffins are done, about 20 minutes. Allow muffins to cool, out of the muffin tin for about 10 minutes before eating.

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Of all tunes available in the world, why do we choose a "worker's" song? A song composed by slaves as they served their masters? Why not something more uplifting? This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, see the FAQ. We are thanking Hashem that Haman wanted to kill us. Had he only made us slaves, Esther wouldn't have gone to speak to Achashveirosh and we would have remained slaves. To remind us what could have happened, we sing a slave song.

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The news are out: Pearson and Google together in a new venture called OpenClass, free and cloud-based. Google LMS had released an open source and free “LMS” called CloudCourse (an enterprise solution for training scheduling) back in 2010 – the quotes here serves the purpose of pseud-ism. It was a pseudo-LMS. More precisely, a course scheduling system that let’s you schedule classes and rooms, an activity of any loosely nature, and discussions. But it didn’t take off. According to The Next Web Google Fails 36% of the time. In partnership with Pearson where different universities pitched in during the design of OpenClass, it has already caused some good impressions but the announcement still leaves the audience anxious: where is it? Can we see it? According to Mercury News, Google, Microsoft war over cloud-based software apps escalates. The two giants are fighting over the “cloud” market. This isn’t JUST in the higher ed industry but in cybersecurity, government and other businesses as well. “The intense competition between Google and Microsoft to sign up schools and nonprofit groups (Google recently bagged the University of Connecticut and Yale; Microsoft got the American Red Cross), government agencies (Google got the cities of Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, Penn.; Microsoft got New York City and San Francisco) and businesses (Google netted hotel giant InterContinental Hotels Group; Microsoft got McDonald’s and Starbucks) has even spilled into the courts.” Joshua Kim from Inside Higher Ed wrote this piece last week on Microsoft’s attempt to turn its Live@EDU with a deal with Blackboard, as something like Google Apps and Pearson. Live@EDU, Hosted Blackboard, and the Deal Microsoft Should Announce at EDUCAUSE (But Won’t) I found this G+ post from Gary Ritter (faculty at Central Piedmont Community College) “My experience with open class.” He’s been using Open Class this Fall and shares some of his experiences with the system. (see post below) He points out both pros and cons of OpenClass in his opinion. An interesting remark he makes is “the potential to overcome two of the biggest obstacles of the traditional LMS – the tyranny of the section and the semester. In my Moodle sections, or BB for that matter, students can only communicate with other students who are in that section. Open class provides both the opportunity to create a kind of college-wide social learning and sharing network while also allowing for a closed environment for individual classes.” **This reminds me of the discussions that emerged during the LMS Summit at Montgomery County Community College a couple of weeks ago on integrating features of social networking in LMS.** From a student perspective, Ritter points out why students like OpenClass: “They like having the ability to go straight to gmail or docs from the open class interface. “ “Students have had login issues, the quiz tool does not have all the features I have come to rely on with Moodle, and I would really like to see an overhall of the discussion forum interface.” Lastly, I thought it would be very interesting to highlight from Ritter’s post: “True, I am probably getting stellar service because I was the first teacher to go live with a class through the partnership program, but it has been stellar none-the-less. I must admit that it has been rather cool to give directions to an anxious team of engineers.“ A few thoughts: The challenges of higher education adopting OpenClass are listed by different opinion makers: mfeldstein.com’s “Judge it As Disruption, Not Status Quo“, Inside Higher Ed’s Joshua Kim’ 4 Initial Challenges. OpenClass has potential: its integration with Google Apps (Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and Gtalk) as well as for mobile education. For socialnetworkers it is the possibility to have youtube, tumblr and flickr inside their LMS. This brings about a couple of discussion topics: how much do students separate personal and school life? What are the potential uses? What have other schools been doing So what does the integration with Google Apps really means to Higher Education? Does that mean that the institution would have to move its email system to Google or is it possible to have OpenClass without having to adopt Google Apps? Blackboard, Desire2Learn also have partnerships with content publishers. I remember eCollege had a partnership with Microsoft. Back in 2004 that was also a wow factor, but not enough to take over the bigger piece of the pie. Can the question that never silences be: What makes institutions pick an LMS?

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TOP 5 HEALTH ISSUES FACING AMERICAN PETS TODAY By Ann Hohenhaus, DVM 1. Pets are becoming medically underserved Data shows the pet population in the U.S. is climbing, but visits to veterinarians are declining. On an annual basis in 2007, dogs saw a veterinarian 2.6 times per year and cats only 1.7 times, indicating cats are affected more than dogs. This number has continued to decline in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008. Taking your cat or dog to the veterinarian allows early detection and intervention before medical problems like obesity cause serious disease. 2. Obesity in pets, like in humans, is skyrocketing Veterinarians know pets are getting fatter, but research has shown pet owners are not likely to recognize obesity in their pets, perhaps because they themselves are overweight. In dogs, obesity is linked to an increased body mass index (BMI) in their owners. If you love your pet and want it to live a long, healthy life, keep its weight down. Obese pets have a shorter lifespan and increased risk of cancer, heart disease, respiratory problems, bladder disease, and, like humans, diabetes. 3. Diabetes is increasing in both cats and dogs Banfield State of Pet Health reports a 32% increase in diabetes in dogs and 16% increase in cats, comparing 2006 to 2010. This is likely tied to the obesity epidemic in pets. Diabetes can be treated in dogs and cats, but it involves someone in the family injecting insulin once or twice daily under the skin and monitoring response to treatment. Preventing diabetes by maintaining an ideal body weight is simply easier for everyone. 4. Cancer: a major illness in both cats and dogs According to the Morris Animal Foundation, 1 in 4 dogs dies from cancer and cancer is the leading cause of death in dogs over 2 years of age. In dogs, breed is strongly associated with specific types of cancer. Golden retrievers commonly develop lymphoma, German shepherds a splenic tumor called hemangiosarcoma, and Pugs a skin tumor known as a mast cell tumor. Cats get cancer too, most commonly lymphoma. Annual examinations and blood tests by your family veterinarian will help to detect tumors while they are still easily treatable. 5. Dental disease is on the rise Reluctant is the descriptor for many pet owners when it comes to dental procedures in their pets. I understand their concern for the required general anesthesia, but I am concerned their reluctance is compromising their pet’s health. Periodontal disease is very prevalent in cats and in one study, all cats had evidence of periodontal disease. Over 10% were severely affected and nearly all had bone loss in the jaw as determined by dental x-rays. Having periodontal disease may cause collateral damage in other parts of your pet’s body. In dogs, periodontal disease was associated with increases in markers of systemic inflammation and indicators of failing kidney function, and was also associated with endocarditis and heart muscle problems. For more information on healthcare issues facing American pets today, watch my video interview with Yahoo! Animal Nation.

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Fraser, I. (2005) A Micro-econometric Analysis of Grape Supply Contracts in Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 49 (1). pp. 23-46. ISSN 1364-985X. |The full text of this publication is not available from this repository. (Contact us about this Publication)| This paper examines wine grape supply contracts used in the main grape growing regions of Australia. An empirical analysis provides insight into specific aspects of contract design and implementation. Statistical analyses of sample data reveal differences between regions in contract specifications. Lower quality grape growing regions place a greater reliance on grape quality assessment to determine bonus/penalty payments compared to higher quality regions. Contracts in higher quality regions place greater emphasis on explicit winery involvement and direction in vineyard management. Results indicate that longer duration contracts are more inclusive in terms of the number of clauses included. Evidence of risk shifting (i.e., winery to grower) for high quality grapes is reported, where the price received by growers is determined by the bottle price of the wine produced. |Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory| |Divisions:||Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Agri-Environment Economics| |Depositing User:||Iain Fraser| |Date Deposited:||01 Oct 2008 12:14| |Last Modified:||14 Jan 2010 14:20| |Resource URI:||http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/5510 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)| - Depositors only (login required):

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(Mr. Mohammad Ashraf, 68, was born and raised in Srinagar. He attended the S.P. High School and the S.P College before joining the Regional Engineering College at Naseem Bagh in Civil Engineering. However, he changed his career to adventure sports like mountaineering and skiing, completing his training at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling and Gulmarg. He also completed a diploma in French language from the Alliance Française in New Delhi. He joined the J&K Tourism Department in 1973, rose to become its Director-General in 1996, and retired in 2003 after 30 years of service. He has been associated with the Adventure Sports at the national level and was recently re-elected as the Vice-President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, the apex body of adventure sports in India, for two years. To commend his efforts in introducing rescue measures in Kashmir Mountains, he was awarded “Merite-Alpin” by Swiss in a special function in Les Diablerets in 1993. He continues to be a member of the Governing Council of IMF and is also the President of Jammu & Kashmir Mountaineering & Hiking Club.) The Callous Kashmiri Many foreign authors who have had the chance of staying in Kashmir and working here for substantial period of time have written about the character of Kashmiris. Quite a few have commented upon the weaknesses of our character. Kashmiris have been called timid, cowards, cheats, liars and greedy. Sir Walter Lawrence in the “Valley of Kashmir”, though mentioning the bad traits of Kashmiris states that these weaknesses are not by nature but due to an extremely long period of external suppression. According to him Kashmiris are good at heart and it is the survival instinct which has made them timid and cowardly. According to him after a couple of generations live in an era of freedom, the real characteristics of honesty and bravery of the people will get restored. However, Kashmiris have yet to get that era of freedom where the future generations could grow unmolested and bring out the best of their character. Similarly, Canon Tyndale Biscoe in his book “Kashmir in sunlight and shade” has also remarked about the resilience of the Kashmiris in the face of the adverse conditions. According to him if the British had faced what Kashmiris have gone through, they would have lost their manhood! In spite of all the bad things said by some of these foreign authors about the character of Kashmiris, almost all have highlighted his compassion. Kashmiri is supposed to be very emotional and sentimental. According to one British author, a Kashmiri is always suspicious of outsiders and never reveals his true heart to any foreigner. He further says that a kind word and a joke can get the best out of a Kashmiri. The valley is called in Kashmiri the bowl of saints. One of the reasons for compassion has been the teaching of these mystics and saints. They not only preached compassion and humanity but themselves led a life of simplicity. However, the last two decades have completely changed the scene. The violence all round has made a Kashmiri totally callous. He seems to have apparently lost that feeling of compassion. Killings do not move him. Too much bloodshed everywhere has dehumanised and brutalised him. Material greed has grown so much that all other finer values have taken a back seat. In earlier times, a single killing would shut down the whole city and people would be in mourning all over the place. Not now! People are lying dead or injured in one street and the life is completely normal on the neighbouring one! Corruption has seeped into our blood and it is not frowned upon at all but taken as a normal way of life. Not only material but even moral corruption is at its height. The worst part is the proliferation of ill gotten wealth which has given rise to a class of nouveau riches! These people go to any lengths to display their dubious wealth which has shattered the values of the society and the have-nots feel dejected and helpless. Modernisation and globalisation have shattered the traditional way of life. Joint family system which was a strong pillar of the society is breaking up fast. In the upper middle class it is virtually gone due to nuclear families created by jobs all over the world. One finds children going to every place on this globe for better prospects with parents left behind alone in huge houses spending their last days in virtual solitary confinement. In the west it has been a way of life for quite sometime. Additionally, they have old age homes and citizens’ groups to look after the needs of the old. After some bitter experiences even they in the west are now trying to return to joint family system, while we are breaking it up! Unfortunately, we always pick up the flashy and jazzy things from the west and leave their stronger values. Honesty, truth, respect for normal laws, and the care of the aged taken as routine in the west are missing in our part of the world. For us the material greed is more than the human love and affection. Apart from the break up of joint family, even the normal social interactions have been severely affected. People very rarely visit relations and friends and have become some sort of islands in themselves. Everybody claims to be busy in various chores. However, the reality is that the people have become callous. There are only two occasions these days when people especially friends and relatives meet each other. Marriages or funerals! On many such occasions one gets a shock on seeing a friend after a long gap of time. People change! All are aged, some have grown beards, some have become thinner and some more bulky! Another important trait which has come up starkly among most of us is impatience. We all seem to be in a hurry. Whether on the roads, in a store, or in any other public facility we seem to be in a mad rush. We have no patience to wait for our turn! The worst part is that apart from being impatient, we are arrogant. We never admit our mistakes but try to brow beat others. Unfortunately, the situation of uncertainty has been managed deliberately in such a way so as to bring out the worst in our character. There is encouragement from all sides for bringing out the worst part and the best part of the character is choked by all means. There is no escape by putting blame on others for our own weaknesses. One has to boldly face the reality and take corrective steps lest we perish altogether as a civilised people. Someone has to begin the process. We need leaders who set examples to follow and not deliver sermons which they themselves do not adhere to! Will someone please take the initiative to bring back compassion and civility in our society?

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Fri February 15, 2013 Kushner's 'Lincoln' Is Strange, But Also Savvy Originally published on Fri February 15, 2013 12:11 pm This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 15, 2012. Tony Kushner spent years writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, but that wasn't the only heavy lifting he had to do. It also took some effort to overcome Daniel Day-Lewis' reluctance to play the title role. "I wanted to write to him and say, 'Daniel, apart from the fact that you're like one of the greatest actors ever, look in the mirror. God is trying to tell you something — you look like Abraham Lincoln!" Kushner tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. Lincoln is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of the 16th president, Team of Rivals — which helped convince the actor to accept the part. Kushner says that reading the book made Day-Lewis "feel that he was playing a character, as opposed to Superman." Kushner, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his play Angels in America, read more than 20 books about Lincoln as he prepared to write the screenplay. "The man was just kind of a miracle worker in terms of finessing almost impossible circumstances and getting a result that he felt that he needed," Kushner says. "It was a combination of cunning [and] ruthlessness — he was sometimes very hard on his friends and asked them to make terrible sacrifices of their own ambitions." On the many interpretations of Lincoln "Although there are no interpretations of Lincoln that say that he was a bad person, or a person who at one point loved slavery and changed his mind — [interpretations] that make any sense to me and that I think are in any way credible — there are certainly various versions of Lincoln and aspects of Lincoln. Like for instance his melancholy (which I don't think he was) that are legitimate readings of him, and everybody has to pick their own. ... Many people who knew him, including most of his closest friends, talk about how isolated and lonely and strange he was. "And I would imagine Shakespeare and Mozart and Albert Einstein were also very strange. I think it must be very hard to have a cognitive process that really only in some ways resembles the cognitive processes of most of your fellow human beings. And the ability to see things that no one else can see, on one level, is a blessing — it's certainly a blessing for the rest of us when something is made of it — but it also must be a kind of curse, because it seals you up in a world that only you can see. "I mean, he was famously a joker, and a person who told stories, and a person who laughed and talked about how he had to laugh. He loved Shakespeare, and he loved Robert Burns, who were both writers who combine real heartbreak and tragedy with incredible humor and wit. And Lincoln said, 'I couldn't survive what I'm going through if I couldn't laugh.' "I don't think he was a depressed person. I think he was a man with an enormous capacity for grief that didn't deprive him of the ability to act. And he felt no need to hide the fact that he was grieving — and in fact saw, as the president of the United States, a duty to talk to the country about its grief during a time when we now think as many as 800,000 men in a country of 30 million died in combat in a four-year period." On getting a sense of 19th-century speech for the screenplay "The syntax in the middle of the 19th century is not all that antiquated. If you read any American authors from that time, it's more ornate, but certainly syntactically, the structures of the sentences are virtually identical to ours. They didn't use incomplete sentences in their writing, but there's some evidence that there was a good deal of that in the speech. "My main concern was to make it playable — that it had to be language that wouldn't get in the way either of what the actors needed to do with it, or the audience hearing it. That it rang true. And for that, 19th-century novels were an enormous help — also newspaper accounts and even transcripts of some conversations that are available. And I used the Oxford dictionary, and I checked every single word through all 10 million pages that I wrote. If any word struck me as possibly post-1865, the OED is great, because it's a word museum. And it will tell you when every word, as far as we know, first appeared in the English language." On Mary Todd Lincoln's contribution to the White House image "She apparently sold Lincoln's annual letter to Congress — which is what the State of the Union Address used to be — to a newspaper to raise money to buy stuff for the White House. And that, of course, was a huge transgression, and the House seriously thought of calling her up and investigating her. Lincoln stopped that. "The thing that I think people don't understand about Mary, or don't give her credit for, is that when they came to the White House, it was in an absolute shambles — as was the country. Obviously, it was falling apart in 1861. And I think because she came from a political family and had a very keen sense of political theater, she knew that the backdrop for the Lincoln administration had to be splendid and suggest power and coherence, since the U.S. at that moment was anything but coherent. It was disintegrating. "And she did it. When you look at the engravings from the time, people were clearly just blown away at how beautiful the place was. And she deserves an enormous amount of credit for doing that with almost no budget." On how Lincoln would have approached Reconstruction had he lived "I think that what Lincoln was doing at the end of war was a very, very smart thing. And it is maybe one of the great tragedies of American history that people didn't take him literally after he was murdered. The inability to forgive and to reconcile with the South in a really decent and humane way, without any question, was one of the causes of the kind of resentment and perpetuation of alienation and bitterness that led to the quote-unquote 'noble cause,' and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. "The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. So had Lincoln not been murdered, and had he really been able to guide Reconstruction, I think there's a good reason to believe that he would have acted on those principles, because he meant them. We know that he meant them literally, because he told [Ulysses S.] Grant to behave accordingly." DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of TV Worth Watching, sitting in Terry Gross. On today's show, two Academy Award nominees for Best Screenplay. We'll hear later from Wes Anderson, whose script for "Moonrise Kingdom," co-written with Roman Coppola, is nominated for Best Original Screenplay. We'll begin with Tony Kushner, who is nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie "Lincoln." Tony Kushner's play about AIDS in the Reagan era, "Angels in America," was a seven-hour epic that won the Pulitzer Prize and became an HBO miniseries. He's written several other plays, as well as the screenplay for the Steven Spielberg film "Munich." Kushner spent years collaborating with Spielberg on the screenplay for "Lincoln," which stars Daniel Day-Lewis as America's 16th president. One of Kushner's primary sources was the book "Team of Rivals" by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The movie is up for 12 Oscars, more than any other film this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. Tony Kushner spoke to FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies in 2012. Here's a scene from the film, in which Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is sitting alone with two telegraph operators, late at night, as he's about to compose a message to General Ulysses S. Grant. The debate about slavery and human equality is on his mind, and as Kushner wrote the scene, Lincoln reflects on Euclid, the ancient Greek mathematician he studied to understand the principles of logic. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "LINCOLN") DANIEL DAY-LEWIS: (As Abraham Lincoln) Euclid's first common notion is this: Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. That's a rule of mathematic reasoning. It's true because it works, has done and always will do. In his book, Euclid says this is self-evident. You see, there it is, even in that 2,000-year-old book of mechanical law, it is a self-evident truth that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: Tony Kushner, welcome back to FRESH AIR. You know, you focus on this film on this period when Lincoln is trying to get the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery passed, near the end of his administration, of his life. It's remarkable to me that it's a fascinating story that's really about a legislative battle, and a lot of friends who have seen it have said that. It's just - and I think it's because the dialogue works so well. You're the guy who wrote the version of Lincoln that we see on the screen, and, you know, I think I read that more words have been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other American. And I know that you read a lot of them. TONY KUSHNER: Doris claims that Abraham Lincoln is the third-most-written-about person in human history. DAVIES: After who, Jesus and... KUSHNER: And Shakespeare - pretty good company. DAVIES: Right, and so you had to take all of those images, and a lot of them are dark and melancholy. I mean, the Lincoln that you see at the Lincoln Memorial, that you often see in portraits, seems like a really somber man. KUSHNER: I mean, the one that we see on screen is, you know, is at times light and playful, tells kind of folksy stories. Can you just talk a little bit about, you know, the Lincoln that you decided to give us? Did you feel you had to, in some respects, reflect people's popular images of him? No, I mean, I thought that the important thing was to make an interpretation, and I was certainly influenced enormously by Doris' interpretation. I read Sandburg, I read Doris and just in terms of pure biographies of Lincoln, I think about 20, and a whole host of other things, as well. And I was fascinated by how available to interpretation this man was, especially given that he didn't live all that long and didn't leave a huge amount of autobiographical stuff behind. But what he did and when he was doing what he did made him a perfect candidate for a fairly wide degree of interpretation. Although there are no interpretations of Lincoln that say that he was a bad person or a person who at one point loved slavery and then changed his mind didn't make any sense to me in that I think are in any way credible. There are certainly various versions of Lincoln that are legitimate readings of him, and everybody has to pick their own. I mean, it's interesting that you say that the statue in the memorial is somber. It's certainly not grinning. I find in the reading about the memorial that I've done, I've found many, many, many people who feel that there's something very warm and inviting about his sort of pensive posture and face, and not closed off. On the other hand, many people who knew him, including most of his closest friends, talk about how isolated, and lonely and strange he was. I don't believe he was a depressed person. I think he was a man with an enormous capacity for grief that didn't deprive him of the ability to act. And he felt no need to hide the fact that he was grieving and, in fact, saw as the president of the United States a duty to talk to the country about its grief during a time when we now think as many as 800,000 men in a country of 30 million died in combat in a four-year period. Death, you know, it was everywhere. DAVIES: You know, as somebody who has covered government and politics for a lot of years, I mean, I find it fascinating because it's both about lofty stuff like policy and principle but also about seedy stuff, you know, backroom deals and patronage and self-interest. And that's very much here in this film here. It's about this - Lincoln's efforts to get this 13th Amendment passed through the U.S. House of Representatives. And I thought we'd listen to a clip here, and this is a scene from the film where Lincoln needs votes in the House of Representatives, however he can get them, for the 13th Amendment. And Secretary of State William Seward, played by David Strathairn, is speaking with three rogues, for lack of a better term, who are going to corner some House members, offer some things and get some votes. They're played by James Spader, John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelsen. And we'll hear David Strathairn as Secretary Seward speaking first. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "LINCOLN") DAVID STRATHAIRN: (As William Seward) The president's never to be mentioned, nor I. You are paid for your discretion. JOHN HAWKES: (As Robert Latham) Well, you can have that for nothing. What we need money for is bribes - to speed things up. STRATHAIRN: (As Seward) No, nothing strictly illegal. JAMES SPADER: (As W.N. Bilbo) It's not illegal to bribe congressmen. They starve otherwise. TIM BLAKE NELSON: (As Richard Schell) I have explained to Mr. Bilbo and Mr. Latham that we're offering patronage jobs to the Dems who vote yes, jobs and nothing more. STRATHAIRN: (As Seward) That's correct. HAWKES: (As Latham) Congressmen come cheap. A few thousand bucks will buy you all you need. STRATHAIRN: (As Seward) The president would be unhappy to hear you did that. HAWKES: (As Latham) Well, will he be unhappy if we lose? STRATHAIRN: (As Seward) The money I managed to raise for this endeavor is only for your fees, your food and lodging. NELSON: (As Schell) If that squirrel-infested attic you quartered us in is any measure, you ain't raised much. DAVIES: How much of a deal-making politician was Abraham Lincoln? KUSHNER: From the beginning of his career as a politician, he was very, very good at strategizing and, sort of, parsing the difference between means and ends. Really it has to be said he did that with a clarity and foresight that's at least, in terms of anything I've read, unparalleled in the history of small-d democratic leadership. The man was just a kind of miracle worker in terms of finessing almost impossible circumstances and getting a result that he felt that he needed. It was a combination of cunning, ruthlessness. He was sometimes very hard on his friends and asked them to make terrible sacrifices. And, you know, I think absolutely marrow-deep ethical character, a great reader of human psychology, a great listener and a great observer of people, a great judge of character. And all these things combined to make him arguably, I would argue, the greatest president we've ever had. DAVIES: And we see in the film he gets votes by offering jobs, and he gets votes by the power of his own persuasion. DAVIES: Tell us about getting a sense of 19th-century speech. I mean, is there a lot of antiquated language and syntax here? I mean, it sounds pretty contemporary. KUSHNER: Yeah, the syntax in the middle of the 19th century is not all that antiquated. I mean, if you read any American authors from that time, it's more ornate, but certainly syntactically, the structures of the sentences are virtually identical to ours. My main concern was to make it playable, that it had to be language that wouldn't get in the way either of what the actors needed to do with it or the audience hearing it, that it rang true. And for that, 19th-century novels were an enormous help, also newspaper accounts and even transcripts of some conversations that are available. And I used the Oxford English Dictionary, and I checked every single word through all 10 million pages that I wrote. I always - if any word struck me as possibly post-1865, you know, the OED is great because it's a word museum, and it'll tell you when every word, as far as we know, first appeared in the English language. So I relied on it very, very heavily. DAVIES: Words like shindy(ph) and flibflub(ph) appear here. What's a shindy? KUSHNER: A shindig, a party. DAVIES: OK, and flibflub? KUSHNER: I know that he used the word flubdub. DAVIES: OK, flubdub. KUSHNER: Because he sort of famously said it. You know, it may be flibdub or whatever in the film. There was some playing around with it. But since these were nonsense words, we kind of felt that they were fair game. But a flubdub was like an ornament, a decoration, and Lincoln at one point said to someone that Mary was spending too much money on flubdubs for the mansion. She was criticized for that, although I think unfairly. DAVIES: Right, there were investigations and even threats of prosecution. KUSHNER: Well, what she was investigated for was actually a genuinely criminal thing. She sold, apparently sold Lincoln's annual letter to Congress, which is what the State of the Union Address used to be, to a newspaper to raise money to buy stuff for the White House. And that of course was a huge transgression, and the House seriously thought of calling her up and investigating her. Lincoln stopped that. You know, the thing that I think people don't understand about Mary or don't give her credit for is that when they came to the White House, it was an absolute shambles, as was the country. Obviously, it was falling apart in 1861. And I think because she came from a political family and had a very keen sense of political theater, she knew that the backdrop for the Lincoln administration had to be splendid and suggest power and coherence, since the United States at that moment was anything but coherent. It was disintegrating. And she did it. She - when you look at the engravings from the time, people were clearly just blown away at how beautiful the place was, and it became an image of federal power, and she deserves an enormous amount of credit for doing that with almost no budget. DAVIES: We're speaking with Tony Kushner. He wrote the screenplay for "Lincoln." We'll talk more after a short break. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) BIANCULLI: If you're just joining us, our guest is playwright Tony Kushner. He wrote the screenplay for "Lincoln," which stars Daniel Day-Lewis. You know, we do see Lincoln and Mary, his wife, in some pretty intense moments here. How did you decide how to portray that marriage in the film? KUSHNER: Well, the month that we're dealing with gave us a great opportunity because Robert, their eldest son, who had been kept out of the war primarily because his parents, especially his mother, were terrified that he would be killed, insisted that he go into the Army before the war ended. He didn't want to be one of the only men his age who wasn't a veteran, and so Lincoln got him a position on Grant's staff but over Mary's violent objections. And that conflict gave us a window into what was unquestionably a very stormy and tumultuous and difficult relationship between two very difficult people. People always think about Mary as being difficult, and she absolutely was, but Lincoln wasn't easy, either. He was remote and complicated and rather interestingly fond of telling her things that would upset her horribly, like these dreams that he kept having. And he would leave her kind of in a state night after night, telling her that he was having these kind of scary dreams. It's an enormously complicated relationship, and the family is a tragic family. It's really - it's marked by death. Their adored middle son, Willie, died in 1862. In a way he was a victim of the war because he died drinking water that was probably corrupted by the sewage of the troops stationed along the banks of the Potomac. They suffered a very personal intimate loss while the country was suffering its losses, and I think that helped connect Lincoln to the grief of the country, if he needed any help. So it was a complicated and interesting aspect of his life, and I feel that it also mattered to him enormously, so we decided to make it a part of the story. DAVIES: I also wanted to hear a bit of debate from Congress from the movie. And this is Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the Pennsylvania radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens. He's making a point, and he is insulting a congressman from Ohio - I believe that's George Pendleton, right... DAVIES: ...who is played by Peter McRobbie. And in this clip he's holding back from his belief that all men are truly created equal because he was advised that you have to be moderate in order to get the votes you need to get the 13th Amendment passed. And so the kind of play on words here is that he's sort of indicating that perhaps not all people are created equal. Let's listen. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "LINCOLN") TOMMY LEE JONES: (as Thaddeus Stevens) How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio, proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold pallid slime in their veins instead of hot red blood? JONES: (as Thaddeus Stevens) You are more reptile than man, George. So low and flat, that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you. PETER MCROBBIE: (as George Pendleton) How dare you? DAVIES: And some lively floor debate from the film "Lincoln," written by our guest Tony Kushner. How much is that's actual floor debate? KUSHNER: The debates were really impassioned and full of invective and racist diatribe and some really glorious moments of oratory. Stevens' speech right there is a combination of stuff that he actually said, stuff that Ben Wade, 'Bluff' Wade, the senator - a radical senator from Massachusetts - who was in some ways his counterpart in the Senate, said, and stuff that I made up. But I feel that it's a reasonably accurate representation of Stevens. When he got angry he could be completely terrifying, and people feared. He was an absolutely astonishing human being, a great legislator, a moral visionary and a moral giant and a real radical in every sense of the word in terms of his thinking about race and economics, really an astonishing guy, who I think has been woefully underappreciated. DAVIES: This is a story of, you know, Lincoln seeing the need for the abolition of slavery as the war is ending as really a transcendent moment in the country's history and him getting this done through, you know, commitment to principle, powers up persuasion, and deals when he had to make them. And you, know, it's hard not to draw a parallel to me, it seems, between the political moment of 1865 and the current one. I mean we're not at war today - at least not in a civil war - but there is a sense of urgency in our political discourse. I mean the nation is deeply divided. I think both sides in the debate in some respects see the country as at a turning point with the, you know, the core principles of the republic being threatened. Did you think about that as you told the story? KUSHNER: Oh absolutely. I mean I consider it a real benefit and even blessing of the assignment of making a movie about Lincoln that I was able to look at the Obama years through a Lincoln lens, which I have found enormously useful. I think Obama is a great president, and I feel that there is immense potential now for building, rebuilding a real progressive democracy in this country after a great deal of damage has been done to it. And I think that it faces many obstacles, and one of its obstacles is an impatience on the part of very good, very progressive people, with the kind of compromising that you were just mentioning, the kind of horse trading that is necessary. I mean when you asked earlier if Lincoln - how long had Lincoln been a dealmaker, and I think, you know, there probably is no politician of any competence whatsoever who isn't good at that because that's, in fact, where politics is. It's not about purity. It's about compromise and strategy and making things actually happen in real time on this Earth, as opposed to a metaphysical realm. DAVIES: And it strikes me that one of the scenes that we see at the end of this film is Lincoln, as the war is ending, talking about reconciliation, saying let these Southern soldiers return to their homes. DAVIES: I don't want to be hounding the Confederacy's political and military leaders. KUSHNER: I think that what Lincoln was doing at the end of the war was a very, very smart thing, and it is maybe one of the great tragedies of American history that people didn't take him literally after he was murdered. The inability to forgive and to reconcile with the South in a really decent and humane way without any question was one of the causes of a kind of resentment and the perpetuation of alienation and bitterness that led to the quote-unquote noble cause and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies and so on. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe and led - helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. So had Lincoln not been murdered and had he really been able to guide Reconstruction, I think there's good reason to believe that he would have acted on those principles because he meant them. We know that he meant them literally because he told Grant to behave accordingly. DAVIES: Well, Tony Kushner, thanks so much for speaking with us. KUSHNER: Sure. My pleasure. BIANCULLI: Tony Kushner, speaking with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies in 2012. Kushner is up for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Lincoln." We'll hear from another screenwriter up for an Oscar, Wes Anderson, next. I'm David Bianculli, and this is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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IDT and Intel Join Forces For Wireless Charging "Intel has selected Integrated Device Technology (IDT) to develop an integrated transmitter and receiver chipset for the company's Wireless Charging Technology (WCT) based on magnetic resonance technology, it was announced [Wednesday]. The technology won't require you to plop your smartphone or other gear on a special charging mat (based on inductive charging), but you will be able to wirelessly charge your devices from an equipped device like a notebook. In addition, magnetic resonance charging is significantly more efficient than previous generation inductive technologies and it produces less heat build up in the process. Intel didn't say when WCT will appear in shipping products, but promised to update plans and timelines at a later date." - Full Article Source DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons This is a wonderful duel DVD set lasting 2 hours and which presents one man's lifelong study of pyramids, crystals and their effects. Several of his original and very creative experiments are explained and diagramed out for experimenters. These experiments include; 1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron, - Two DVDs - More Info and check out this Youtube Clip 2) energy extraction from a pyramid, 3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment, 4) accelerating the growth of food, 5) increasing the abundance of food, 6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy, 7) using crystals to assist natural healing, 8) how the universe uses spirals and vortexes to produce free energy and MORE... 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Buy a copy and learn all about hydrogen generation, its uses and how to produce electrostatic repulsion. - 121 pages - More Info KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries' Finally, I've gotten around to compiling all the files (almost 1,000 - about 20MB and lots of work doing it) from the original KeelyNet BBS into a form you can easily navigate and read using your browser, ideally Firefox but it does work with IE. Most of these files are extremely targeted, interesting and informative, I had forgotten just how much but now you can have the complete organized, categorized set, not just sprinklings from around the web. They will keep you reading for weeks if not longer and give you clues and insights into many subjects and new ideas for investigation and research. 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Such a wealth of original discoveries, many not known or remembered today. / Page 88 - Without the ether there could be neither gravity, nor light, nor electricity, nor heat, nor anything, in a word, of which we have knowledge. The universe would be silent and dead, or would reveal itself in a form which we cannot even foresee. If one could construct a glass chamber from which the ether were to be entirely eliminated, heat and light could not pass through it. It would be absolutely dark, and probably gravitation would no longer act on the bodies within it. They would then have lost their weight. / Page 96-97 - A material vortex may be formed by any fluid, liquid or gaseous, turning round an axis, and by the fact of its rotation it describes spirals. The study of these vortices has been the object of important researches by different scholars, notably by Bjerkness and Weyher. They have shown that by them can be produced all the attractions and repulsions recognized in electricity, the deviations of the magnetic needle by currents, etc. These vortices are produced by the rapid rotation of a central rod furnished with pallets, or, more simply, of a sphere. Round this sphere gaseous currents are established, dissymetrical with regard to its equatorial plane, and the result is the attraction or repulsion of bodies brought near to it, according to the position given to them. It is even possible, as Weyher has proved, to compel these bodies to turn round the sphere as do the satellites of a planet without touching it. / Page 149 - "The problem of sending a pencil of parallel Hertzian waves to a distance possesses more than a theoretical interest. It is allowable to say that its solution would change the course of our civilization by rendering war impossible. The first physicist who realizes this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbour to blow them up in a few minutes, from a distance of several kilometres, simply by directing on them a sheaf of electric radiations. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are nowadays honeycombed, this will excite an atmosphere of sparks which will at once explode the shells and torpedoes stored in their holds. With the same reflector, giving a pencil of parallel radiations, it would not be much more difficult to cause the explosion of the stores of powder and shells contained in a fortress, or in the artillery sparks of an army corps, and finally the metal cartridges of the soldiers. 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Thanks for making it all the way through this series of posts analyzing and discussing the President’s health care remarks at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire town hall. I have converted this entire series into a memo for easy printing and reading. If you’d like the entire series in printed form, here is a PDF of all 2o posts in one document. THE PRESIDENT: I don’t have to explain to you that nearly 46 million Americans don’t have health insurance coverage today. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage. They are just vulnerable. If something happens, they go bankrupt, or they don’t get the care they need. But of those 45.7 million people: - 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP and just gave the Census taker the wrong answer. I’m serious. This is called the Medicaid undercount. - Another 4.3 million are eligible for Medicaid or S-CHIP and have not enrolled. If they need care, the hospital or clinic generally enrolls them. They are protected against risk even though they don’t show up on the rolls as insured. - Another 9.3 million are non-citizens. Different people come to different conclusions about what portion of this group should receive taxpayer-subsidized health insurance. - Another 10.1 million have income more than three times the poverty line. - Leaving about 15.6 million remaining uninsured, of whom about 5 million are childless adults. The 46 million figure is technically correct, but it dramatically overstates the size of the population that many Americans would conclude is deserving of additional taxpayer subsidies. I wrote about this topic in early April: How many uninsured people need additional help from taxpayers? I hope you have found this series of posts to be a positive contribution to a civil, impassioned, informed policy debate. Here are all 20 posts in this series: - The President’s overpromise that everyone can keep their health plan - Putting the government in charge of your health insurance - Waiting in line - Government-mandated benefits - Preventive care does not save money (in the aggregate) - The House bill would increase short-term, 10th year, and long-term budget deficits - The President was incorrect — AARP opposes the bill - The bills would take Medicare savings needed for solvency and spend them on a new entitlement - Medicare is not a good example of government-run health care because Medicare is fiscally unsustainable - Even if the public option drops out of legislation, other parts of these bills would put private insurance under government control - The President says the public option will keep private insurers honest at the same time he proposes cutting payments to private insurers competing with the Medicare public option - The pending bills would move more cost-benefit decisions from insurers to people chosen by the government - Guaranteed renewal and guaranteed issue - The President says “we may be able to get even more than” the $80 B of budgetary savings that the pharmaceutical industry thought was a ceiling promised by the White House. - The President says he’s not “promoting” a single-payer plan, but the only concern he raises is a disruptive transition. - Many examples suggest that the government cannot compete on a level playing field with private firms. - The President trashes the U.S. Postal Service and undermines the case that government can run a complex health system. - The President understates the annual cost of new spending by a factor of two. - The President says that 2/3 of the offsets come from Medicare and Medicaid spending, while the only public estimate (for the House Bill) shows 21% instead. He also advocates a tax proposal that Congressional Democrats killed last Winter. - There are 46 million people who are technically uninsured, but the target population is probably one-third to one-half that size. I agree with the President that America needs to have a vigorous and well-informed debate about the substance of health care reform. I hope this series contributes to that debate.

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Williston Prepares for the Unknown | VideoChris Williams | 3/13/2013 Traffic has increased dramatically in Williston along with the influx of oil field workers. Congestion at stop lights is one of the growing pains the city is addressing. "We`re probably one of the few cities, I think, major cities in North Dakota that does not have a grade-separated crossing with a major federal highway that runs through our adjacent to city,” said Public Works Director Monte Meiers. It`s almost impossible to make a left hand turn at the intersection of 9th Avenue and the bypass. "It`s pretty difficult, it`s too much traffic. The lights, you need an arrow for the light,” said Williston resident Tim Gonzales. More turning lanes are on the way, but they won`t be open until later this year or early next year. Meiers says to get through this intersection some people run the light. "Sometimes it`s quick, other times it might be 3-4 minutes if it`s rush hour,” said Williston resident Nick Withers. Traffic delays are an obvious sign of the oil boom, but problems with water distribution and capacity are other symptoms of rapid growth that are less noticeable. Right now, the city uses a 10 million gallon per day water treatment plant. "We’re in the process of expanding to another four million to 14 million gallons a day. We’re doing that right now. We’re also looking at expanding it to another seven million to have 21 million gallons a day worth of capacity,” Meiers added. Meiers says on any given day around 25,000 people use the services of the waste water treatment plant.

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Our core VALUES are: TRUST, RESPECT, CLEAR COMMUNICATION, EMPATHY, PERSEVERANCE & CO-OPERATION. As a parent or caregiver would you prefer to: 1. Live in a world where kids are taught vital life skills and life changing habits essential for a changing & increasingly challenging 21st century world? 2. Live in a world where kids are only taught skills for standardised tests? Our vision is “To empower innovate lifelong learners, ethical global citizens and skilled young leaders for life in a changing 21st century world” About our mentoring workshops At Kids are Leaders we offer interactive real life learning for 5-12 year old kids in the form of mentoring workshops. Our programs are FUN and kids are provided with opportunities to work in multi-age teams - 5 to 8 year olds or 9 to 12 year olds, solve real life problems using problem based learning and integrate technology (iPads). How are your mentoring workshops delivered? Currently our mentoring workshops are delivered face to face. We also plan to offer online workshops in the near future in order to further meet the needs of our valued clients. Our modules include: 21st Century Life Skills | Leadership Skills | The Environment & Sustainability Education | Vital Habits & Character Development for a Changing 21st Century World | Occupation Based Knowledge | Financial Literacy Skills for life in the real world | Technology | Charities are a Great Way to Give Back to Society | Innovative Kids are Great Inventors | Australia & the World – Let’s Travel | Everyday Literacy for Kids – Print in our Environment How long do each of the Kids are Leaders Modules or the Premium Package take to complete? OPTION 1: A 10 hour commitment over a 10 week period is required to complete individual modules. OPTION 2: The PREMIUM Mentoring Workshops Package consists of ALL 11 modules. A 6 month eg: 2 hours a week or 1 year eg: 1 hour a week commitment is required to complete this package. At Kids are Leaders we are PASSIONATE about INVESTING in your 5 to 12 year old KIDS future. We do this through the implementation of hands on real life learning that is fun, interactive and to which kids can easily and quickly relate! WHAT AREAS IN KIDS LIVES DO OUR MENTORING WORKSHOPS HELP TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? school | family | friendships | personal goals | with social, emotional, cognitive, language and physical development | conflict or bullying | conflict resolution skills | technology skills | healthy lifestyles | taking responsibility for their own behaviour, actions, moods and thinking | personal motivation | positive behaviour | time management | creating independence | building rapport | improved academic achievement | resilience | adaptability to change | personal organisation | building confidence | building high self-esteem | critical thinking skills | problem solving skills | creative thinking | effective communication skills | effective questioning techniques | skills for employment in the future | skills for business opportunities in the future HOW DO WE PLAN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? At Kids are Leaders we believe that every human being can achieve any goal they set their mind to, so long as they’re committed and follow through with action. Therefore, we plan to make a difference by mentoring kids to set specific, measureable, accurate, realistic and timed goals, think with a positive “We Can Do It” mindset, use role plays and authentic as well as flexible mentoring programs which cater for the individualised interests, abilities, talents and learning styles of each participant. With consistent support, encouragement, praise, perseverance, action and weekly follow up, our mentoring workshop participants are held accountable for their own learning and progress each step of the way. This also includes while they are out in the real world between weekly workshop sessions. Do you deliver workshops for parents? YES, we deliver FREE introductory workshops and ticketed events for groups of parents on any of our modules or the PREMIUM Kids are Leaders Mentoring Workshops Package. For further information or to make a booking for our FREE introductory workshops or ticketed events please feel free to forward us your details via: http://kidsareleaders.com/contact-2/ or phone +61 (0) 411 731600. How can parents and teachers keep in touch with us? Parents and teachers can keep in touch with us through: 1. our FREE email subscription option 2. liking us on our Facebook page or 3. by following us on Twitter. Feedback or mentoring workshop enquiries are always welcome and can be made via http://kidsareleaders.com/contact-2/ Kids are Leaders sincerely wishes parents, teachers and the future generations a HAPPY & SAFE NEW YEAR in 2013! Thank you for taking the time to visit!

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There's this kid who gets bullied a lot by everyone. What should I do? Hooray for the person who sent this question in to us! There are a lot more kids who witness bullying than there are victims of bullying. Often, people who see something happen are called bystanders. Wouldn't it be excellent if those bystanders would do something to help someone who's being bullied? But how exactly do you find your courage and do it? First, be sure to let an adult know what's going on. If it's happening at school, have a talk with a teacher or school counselor about it. If it happens at camp, the camp counselor is the one to talk to. Approach the adult and say you need to talk. Explain what's been going on the best you can. Give details. The adult can take steps to stop the bullying. Plus, once they know about bullying, adults can do things to help the kid who's been bullied feel better and stronger. Adults can also help the kid who bullies learn to treat others with respect, friendship, and kindness. After talking to an adult, here are some other things you can do. Be friendly to the kid who gets bullied. For example, say "hi" at the lockers or bus line, include that kid at your lunch table, or invite the kid to play at recess or to be in your group for a project. This helps for two reasons: Any kid who gets bullied is likely to feel left out and alone. Your friendship helps that kid feel included and welcome. Friendship also helps prevent bullying because bullies are less likely to pick on kids when they are with friends. And when you see the bully acting mean, you can say, "Hey, knock it off, that's not cool," and invite the kid who's being picked on to walk away with you. You can just say, "C'mon, let's go." This can work even better if you get a couple of your friends to join you in standing up for the kid. Tell your friends ahead of time: "I'm going to stick up for that kid. Will you do it with me?" Be sure to update the adult about what's going on until the problem is solved. This is also a very good thing to talk to parents about. Your parent will want to know about all this and can give you more advice and support. Plus, your mom or dad will be proud that you're the kind of kid who cares and who stands up for others and for what's right! Bullying makes kids feel terrible — and not just the kid who's being bullied. Just seeing someone else be bullied makes others feel bad. That's because meanness affects everyone in the environment. It's like meanness pollution, so let's all fight it!

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You may associate pneumonia with the melodrama of a soap opera: prolonged hospital stays, oxygen tents, and family members whispering in bedside huddles. It's true that pneumonia can be serious. But more often pneumonia is an infection that can be easily treated at home without a hospital stay. What Is Pneumonia? Pneumonia (pronounced: noo-mow-nyuh) is an infection of the lungs. When someone has pneumonia, lung tissue can fill with pus and other fluid, which makes it difficult for oxygen in the lung's air sacs to reach the bloodstream. With pneumonia, a person may have difficulty breathing and have a cough and fever; occasionally, chest or abdominal pain and vomiting are symptoms, too. Pneumonia is commonly caused by viruses, such as the influenza virus(flu) and adenovirus. Other viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus(RSV), are common causes of pneumonia in young children and infants. Bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae can cause pneumonia, too. People with bacterial pneumonia are usually sicker than those with viral pneumonia, but can be effectively treated with antibiotic medications. You might have heard the terms "double pneumonia" or "walking pneumonia." Double pneumonia simply means that the infection is in both lungs. It's common for pneumonia to affect both lungs, so don't worry if your doctor says this is what you have — it doesn't mean you're twice as sick. Walking pneumonia refers to pneumonia that is mild enough that you may not even know you have it. Walking pneumonia (also called atypical pneumonia because it's different from the typical bacterial pneumonia) is common in teens and is often caused by a tiny microorganism, Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Like the typical bacterial pneumonia, walking pneumonia also can be treated with antibiotics. What Are the Signs and Symptoms? Many symptoms are associated with pneumonia; some of them, like a cough or a sore throat, are also common with other common infections. Often, people get pneumonia after they've had an upper respiratory tract infection like a cold. Symptoms of pneumonia can include: unusually rapid breathing chest or abdominal pain loss of appetite vomiting and dehydration Symptoms vary from person to person, and few people get all of them. When pneumonia is caused by bacteria, a person tends to become sick quickly and develops a high fever and has difficulty breathing. When it's caused by a virus, symptoms generally appear more gradually and might be less severe. Someone's symptoms can help the doctor identify the type of pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae, for example, often causes headaches, sore throats, and rash in addition to the symptoms listed above. The routine vaccinations that most people receive as kids help prevent certain types of pneumonia and other infections. If you have a chronic illness, such as sickle cell disease, you may have received additional vaccinations and disease-preventing antibiotics to help prevent pneumonia and other infections caused by bacteria. People with diseases that affect their immune system (like diabetes, HIV infection, or cancer), are 65 or older, or are in other high-risk groups should receive a pneumococcal vaccination. They also may receive antibiotics to prevent pneumonia that can be caused by organisms they're especially susceptible to. In some cases, antiviral medication might be used to prevent viral pneumonia or to lessen its effects. Doctors recommend that everyone 6 months and older gets a flu vaccine. That's because pneumonia often happens as a complication of the flu. Call your doctor's office to see when these vaccines are available. Because pneumonia is often caused by germs, a good way to prevent it is to keep your distance from anyone you know who has pneumonia or other respiratory infections. Use separate drinking glasses and eating utensils; wash your hands frequently with warm, soapy water; and avoid touching used tissues and paper towels. You also can stay strong and help avoid some of the illnesses that might lead to pneumonia by eating as healthily as possible, getting a minimum of 8 to 10 hours of sleep a night, and not smoking. How Long Does It Last? The length of time between exposure and feeling sick (called the incubation period) depends on many factors, particularly the type of pneumonia involved. With influenza pneumonia, for example, someone may become sick as soon as 12 hours or as long as 3 days after exposure to the flu virus. But with walking pneumonia, a person may not have symptoms until 2 to 3 weeks after becoming infected. Most types of pneumonia resolve within a week or two, although a cough can linger for several weeks more. In severe cases, it may take longer to completely recover. If you think you may have pneumonia, tell a parent or other adult and be sure you see a doctor. Be especially aware of your breathing; if you have chest pain or trouble breathing or if your lips or fingers look blue, you should go to a doctor's office or to a hospital emergency department right away. How Is Pneumonia Treated? If pneumonia is suspected, the doctor will perform a physical exam and might order a chest X-ray and blood tests. People with bacterial or atypical pneumonia will probably be given antibiotics to take at home. The doctor also will recommend getting lots of rest and drinking plenty of fluids. Some people with pneumonia need to be hospitalized to get better — usually babies, young kids, and people older than 65. However, hospital care may be needed for a teen who: already has immune system problems has cystic fibrosis is dangerously dehydrated or is vomiting a lot and can't keep fluids and medicine down has had pneumonia frequently has skin that's blue or pale in color, which reflects a lack of oxygen When pneumonia patients are hospitalized, treatment might include intravenous (IV) antibiotics (delivered through a needle inserted into a vein) and respiratory therapy (breathing treatments). Antiviral medications approved for adults and teens can reduce the severity of flu infections if taken in the first 1 to 2 days after symptoms begin. They're usually prescribed for teens who have certain underlying illnesses such as asthma or who have pneumonia or breathing difficulty. If you have been exposed to influenza and you begin to develop symptoms of pneumonia, call a doctor. If your doctor has prescribed medicine, be sure to follow the directions carefully. 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My Son Is Being Deployed; How Do I Help My Other Kids Cope? How can I help my younger children deal with their older brother's deployment? When your son or daughter in the military is deployed, you probably have many emotions. It's natural to feel proud of his or her service and courage. It's also natural to feel sad or worried about the separation you'll endure, and concerned about your child's safety and well being. When parents are so busy dealing with their own complicated emotions, it's easy to overlook the worries that younger siblings might have. But your other children are affected, too. That's why it's important to include all family members in the process of preparing for separation. Siblings have a need to say goodbye, too, each in their own way. They also need to know that even though they might not see their brother or sister for a while, there are ways to keep in touch and think of each other. Decide how you'll do this. Maybe you'll plan to keep an old-fashioned scrapbook for certain things, use email, texting, online chat, or video calling to communicate, or create a web-based photo album you can share. Encourage your kids to verbalize their concerns and questions so you'll know where answers and reassurance are needed. Talk about how you'll help each other through this difficult time. Remember that kids can sense your stress and anxiety even if you don't talk about it. It's far better to let them know that they're not alone in their worries. By sharing your feelings, you can help them feel comfortable talking about theirs as well. While your son or daughter is away, create some new, enjoyable routines or activities with your other kids. Institute a family game night, story night, movie night, or make-your-own-pizza night. Spending positive relaxing time together keeps you feeling close, and can make it easier to cope with the difficult period of deployment.

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It's normal for parents to disagree and argue from time to time. Parents might disagree about money, home chores, or how to spend time. They might disagree about big things — like important decisions they need to make for the family. They might even disagree about little things that don't seem important at all — like what's for dinner or what time someone gets home. Sometimes parents can disagree with each other and still manage to talk about it in a calm way, where both people get a chance to listen and to talk. But many times when parents disagree, they argue. An argument is a fight using words. Most kids worry when their parents argue. Loud voices and angry words parents might use can make kids feel scared, sad, or upset. Even arguments that use silence — like when parents act angry and don't talk to each other at all — can be upsetting for kids. If the argument has anything to do with the kids, kids might think they have caused their parents to argue and fight. If kids think it's their fault, they might feel guilty or even more upset. But parents' behavior is never the fault of kids. What Does It Mean When Parents Fight? Kids often worry about what it means when parents fight. They might jump to conclusions and think arguments mean their parents don't love each other anymore. They might think it means their parents will get a divorce. But parents' arguments usually don't mean that they don't love each other or that they're getting a divorce. Most of the time the arguments are just a way to let off steam when parents have a bad day or feel stressed out over other things. Most people lose their cool now and then. Just like kids, when parents get upset they might cry, yell, or say things they don't really mean. Sometimes an argument might not mean anything except that one parent or both just lost their temper. Just like kids, parents might argue more if they're not feeling their best or are under a lot of stress from a job or other worries. Kids usually feel upset when they see or hear parents arguing. It's hard to hear the yelling and the unkind words. Seeing parents upset and out of control can make kids feel unprotected and scared. Kids might worry about one parent or the other during an argument. They might worry that one parent may feel especially sad or hurt because of being yelled at by the other parent. They might worry that one parent seems angry enough to lose control. They might worry that their parent might be angry with them, too, or that someone might get hurt. Sometimes parents' arguments make kids cry or give them a stomachache. Worry from arguments can even make it hard for a kid to go to sleep or go to school. What to Do When Parents Fight It's important to remember that the parents are arguing or fighting, not the kids. So the best thing to do is to stay out of the argument and go somewhere else in the house to get away from the fighting or arguing. So go to your room, close the door, find something else to do until it is over. It's not the kid's job to be a referee. When Parents' Fighting Goes Too Far When parents argue, there can be too much yelling and screaming, name calling, and too many unkind things said. Even though many parents may do this, it's never OK to treat people in your family with disrespect, use unkind words, or yell and scream at them. Sometimes parents' fighting may go too far, and include pushing and shoving, throwing things, or hitting. These things are never OK. When parents' fights get physical in these ways, the parents need to learn to get their anger under control. They might need the help of another adult to do this. Kids who live in families where the fighting goes too far can let someone know what's going on. Talking to other relatives, a teacher, a school counselor, or any adult you trust about the fighting can be important. Sometimes parents who fight can get so out of control that they hurt each other, and sometimes kids can get hurt, too. If this happens, kids can let an adult know, so that the family can be helped and protected from fighting in a way that hurts people. If fighting is out of control in a family, if people are getting hurt from fighting, or if people in the family are tired of too much fighting, there is help. Family counselors and therapists know how to help families work on problems, including fighting. They can help by teaching family members to listen to each other and talk about feelings without yelling and screaming. Though it may take some work, time, and practice, people in families can always learn to get along better. Is It OK for Parents to Argue Sometimes? Having arguments once in a while can be healthy if it helps people get feelings out in the open instead of bottling them up inside. It's important for people in a family to be able to tell each other how they feel and what they think, even when they disagree. The good news about disagreeing is that afterward people usually understand each other better and feel closer. Parents fight for different reasons. Maybe they had a bad day at work, or they're not feeling well, or they're really tired. Just like kids, when parents aren't feeling their best, they can get upset and might be more likely to argue. Most of the time, arguments are over quickly, parents apologize and make up, and everyone feels better again. Happy, Healthy Families No family is perfect. Even in the happiest home, problems pop up and people argue from time to time. Usually, the family members involved get what's bothering them out in the open and talk about it. Everyone feels better, and life can get back to normal. Being part of a family means everyone pitches in and tries to make life better for each other. Arguments happen and that's OK, but with love, understanding, and some work, families can solve almost any problem.

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You Baby's Development After many weeks of anticipation and preparation, your baby is here! Or maybe not — only 5% of women deliver on their estimated due dates, and many first-time mothers find themselves waiting up to 2 weeks after their due date for their baby to arrive. A baby born at 40 weeks weighs, on average, about 7 pounds, 4 ounces (3,300 grams) and measures about 20 inches (51 cm). Don't expect your baby to look like the Gerber baby right off the bat — newborns often have heads temporarily misshapen from the birth canal and may be covered with vernix and blood. Your baby's skin may have skin discolorations, dry patches, and rashes — these many variations are completely normal. Because of the presence of your hormones in your baby's system, your baby's genitals (scrotum in boys and labia in girls) may appear enlarged. Your baby, whether a boy or a girl, may even secrete milk from the tiny nipples. This should disappear in a few days and is completely normal. Right after birth, your health care provider will suction mucus out of your baby's mouth and nose, and you'll hear that long-awaited first cry. Your baby may then be placed on your stomach, and the umbilical cord will be cut — often by the baby's dad, if he chooses to do the honors! A series of quick screening tests, such as the Apgar score, will be performed to assess your baby's responsiveness and vital signs, and he or she will be weighed and measured. If your pregnancy was high risk, or if a cesarean section was necessary, a neonatologist (a doctor who specializes in newborn intensive care) will be present at your delivery to take care of your baby right away. If your baby needs any special care to adjust to life outside the womb, it will be given — and then your newborn will be placed in your waiting arms. This week you'll experience the moment you've been anticipating — your introduction to your baby! Before you can meet your baby, though, you have to go through labor and delivery. You may have learned about the three stages of birth in your prenatal classes. The first stage of labor works to thin and stretch your cervix by contracting your uterus at regular intervals. The second stage of labor is when you push your baby into the vaginal canal and out of your body. The third and final stage of labor is when you deliver the placenta. If you don't go into labor within a week of your due date, your health care provider may recommend you receive a nonstress test, which monitors fetal heart rate and movement to be sure that the baby is receiving adequate oxygen and that the nervous system is responding. Talk to your health care provider to find out more about this test. Sometimes mother nature may need a little coaxing. If your labor isn't progressing, or if your health or your baby's health requires it, your health care provider may induce labor by artificially rupturing the membranes or by administering the hormone oxytocin or other medications. If your pregnancy is high risk, or if there are any other potential complications, you may require a cesarean section delivery. Some women know ahead of time that they will be delivering via cesarean section and are able to schedule their baby's "birth day" well in advance. If you're one of them, you've probably been able to prepare yourself emotionally and mentally for the birth — which can help to lessen the feelings of disappointment that many mothers who are unable to deliver vaginally experience. But even if you have to undergo a cesarean section that wasn't planned, rest assured that you'll still be able to bond with your baby. It might not be the birth experience you imagined, but your beautiful newborn has arrived nonetheless. The months of waiting are over! Good luck with your baby!

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What Is It? Fertility awareness is a way to prevent pregnancy by not having sex around the time of ovulation (the release of an egg during a girl's monthly cycle). Couples who do want to have a baby can also use this method to have sex during the time that they are most likely to conceive. Fertility awareness can include methods such as natural family planning, periodic abstinence, and the rhythm method. How Does It Work? If a couple doesn't have sex around the time of ovulation, the girl is less likely to get pregnant. The trick is knowing when ovulation happens. Couples use a calendar, a thermometer to measure body temperature, the thickness of cervical mucus, or a kit that tests for ovulation. The ovulation kits are more useful for couples who are trying to get pregnant. The fertile period around ovulation lasts 6 to 9 days and during this time the couple using only fertility awareness for birth control who does not want to get pregnant should not have sex. How Well Does It Work? Fertility awareness is not a reliable way to prevent pregnancy for most teens. Over the course of 1 year, as many as 25 out of 100 typical couples who rely on fertility awareness to prevent pregnancy will have an accidental pregnancy. Of course, this is an average figure, and the chance of getting pregnant depends on whether a couple uses one or more of the fertility awareness methods correctly and consistently and does not have unprotected sex during the fertile period. In general, how well each type of birth control method works depends on a lot of things. These include whether a person has any health conditions, is taking any medications that might interfere with its use, whether the method chosen is convenient — and whether it is used correctly all the time. In the case of fertility awareness, it also depends on how consistent a woman's ovulatory cycle is, how accurately a couple keeps track of when she could be ovulating, and how reliably unprotected sex is avoided during the fertile period. Protection Against STDs Abstinence (not having sex) is the only method that always prevents pregnancy and STDs. Who Uses It? Fertility awareness is not a reliable way to prevent pregnancy for most teens. It is often very difficult to tell when a girl is fertile. Because teens often have irregular menstrual cycles, it makes predicting ovulation much more difficult. Even people who have previously had regular cycles can have irregular timing of ovulation when factors such as stress or illness are involved. Fertility awareness also requires a commitment to monitoring body changes, keeping daily records, and above all not having sex during the fertile period. How Do You Get It? For couples interested in this method, it is best to talk to a doctor or counselor who is trained in fertility awareness. He or she can then teach the couple the skills they need to know to practice this birth control method accurately. How Much Does It Cost? The tools needed for fertility awareness — such as ovulation detection kits and thermometers, for example — are available in drugstores. But they can be expensive. Again, it's best to talk to a doctor for advice on using this method. Reviewed by: Larissa Hirsch, MD Date reviewed: April 2010 Share this page using: Note: All information on TeensHealth® is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor. © 1995- The Nemours Foundation. All rights reserved.

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You can play killer sudoku online, right here! Tap on a cell to move the cursor to that cell. Tap on the keyboard that pops up to enter a value into the cell. If you are not sure of a value, you can enter multiple values in a cell. If you enter a value in a cell that is already there, it will be removed. If you press the shift key, any values entered overwrite all the others in that cell. Use the >> and << keys to move to other keyboards. If you have cookies enabled, you can save your current solution and come back to it later. Even if you don't explicitly save your solution, your work is autosaved. If you accidentally leave the page (e.g., you press backspace), and return before you exit the browser, you won't lose any work. If you want some help generating the possible ways to create a sum, use the sum calculator button, which will pop up a window to help. If you have suggestions, or iphone usability issues, please email us. Thank you.

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Pros And Cons For Digital Cameras And Digital Photo Many people love digital cameras and digital photos, but sometimes you may have trouble with action photo shots. Are you trying to take use your digital camera to take nice digital photos at a soccer match; there are a few tricks to know It may seem difficult, but in fact it’s not. Panasonic Combination Digital Cameras Digital cameras are starting to become less attractive than all in one digital cameras which can often do many things other than just snapping photos such as record video, and play music. This certainly comes true in the Panasonic digital camera models. In an effort to show this wonderful technology, this article will look at one of the combination digital cameras. DxO Optics Pro Update Marks the 5,000 Module Mark Optics Pro is a tool made for those who demand the best out of their photos. It’s designed to work with your specific camera and your specific lens to correct for issues that crop up with your combination of camera and optics. It doesn’t handle everything out there quite yet, but that’s where DxO wants to be. Sony A390 Digital SLR Camera – Black The Sony A390 is a new 14 megapixel DSLR camera featuring a restyled design to make it easier to use. That’s exactly what we said about the the A390’s predecessor, the A380, which had one of the most uncomfortable handgrips that we’ve ever used on a DSLR. Sony have gone back to the drawing board and released the A390, Nikon D3S 12.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD The D3S is uniquely qualified to meet the changing needs of photographers whose assignments demand 100% from them and their equipment. Leading with uncompromising FX-format multimedia versatility and engineered for demanding professional use at up to 9 fps, the D3S rugged magnesium alloy construction, comprehensively sealed against dust and moisture, Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras Retaining the impressive optical performance and large aperture of the original Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L lens, this revamped medium telephoto lens employs a ring-type Ultra Sonic Motor (USM), high-speed CPU, and optimized algorithms to achieve an autofocus speed that’s approximately 1.8x faster than the original. This high-speed autofocus system combines with the circular aperture to create a shallow depth of field that brings attention to the subject and blurs the background, an ideal effect for portraits and weddings. In addition, the lens’s floating optical system includes an aspherical lens element that suppresses aberrations and produces an excellent imaging performance. PhotoDirector 3 Public Beta Starts Today – Testers Get Free MediaShow 5 If you want to get in on checking out some upcoming software completely free, Beta testing is where it’s at. You get to play with a program that’s not entirely finished yet, submit feedback to influence the final product and it’s completely free. Celestron 127EQ PowerSeeker Telescope CES1071 Features: -Telescope. -PowerSeeker collection. -Color: Black. -Material: Aluminum. -127 mm (5”) Newtonian reflector. -3x Barlow lens triples the magnifying power of each eyepiece. -Quick and easy no-tool setup. -Slow motion controls for smooth tracking. -Erect image optics – ideal for terrestrial and astronomical use. -Fully coated glass optical components with high transmission coatings. -Enhanced image brightness and clarity. -Accessory tray for convenient storage of accessories. -”The Sky” level 1 planetarium software with 10,000 object database. -Dimensions: 11” H x 17” W x 33” D. Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro Zoom Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras - Complicated mechanisms are built in the compact body thanks to new mechanical artifices. The lens is a multi-purpose zoom lens,excellent portability Making Your Digital Camera Battery Last Longer With all the features digital cameras have these days, you may find keeping batteries a problem. This could well be your biggest expense, but there are some things you can do to increase the length of time your batteries stay charged. Let’s start with the three biggest sources of power drain.

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February 4, 2013, 8:04 am It’s not too late to get a flu shot! The flu epidemic is hitting harder and faster this year than in the last decade. So far, Oregon has been spared a severe outbreak, but we’d sure like to keep it that way. OHSU’s Doernbecher Children's Hospital is doing its part to limit the spread of the flu by offering free vaccinations to anyone who is in close contact with a Doernbecher patient. It’s called “cocooning,” or insulating a child from infection by protecting the most vulnerable patients from infection by immunizing adult caregivers. This year, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital has provided more than 1000 immunizations through the Free Vaccine for Parents Cocooning Project. You can help control influenza activity in your community by getting vaccinated. To find out more, visit OHSU’s Healthy Families Blog.

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Sat June 2, 2012 Mubarak Convicted In Charges Of Protesters' Deaths (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in deaths of hundreds of protesters during the revolution that ousted him last year. The former Egyptian president is the first Arab leader to be hauled in for trial by his own people. (SOUNDBITE OF CROWD) SIMON: Lawyers in the courtroom erupted into shouts, blows and shoving after the verdict was announced. But many Egyptians across Cairo said they were satisfied but confused by the verdict. Khaled Fahmy heads the history department at the American University in Cairo. He was outside the court when the verdict was read. KHALED FAHMY: I think this is a confusing verdict. On the one hand, Mubarak and his minister is given a very heavy sentence. But at the same time, the people who ordered the police to shoot to kill were acquitted. So we have to see how people absorb this very confusing sentence. SIMON: NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is in Cairo. Soraya, thanks very much for being with us. SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE: You're welcome, Scott. SIMON: And, of course, Mr. Mubarak was on trial with his two sons, his former interior minister, six security officials. What were the other verdicts? NELSON: Well, it was quite confusing. Mubarak and Habib el-Adly, his former interior minister were convicted and received life sentences. The six security officers who are in the police department were acquitted, even though they gave the orders for shoot to kill. And then in a concurring case on the corruption charges that Mr. Mubarak and his sons faced, they were acquitted as well as a businessman who was being tried in absentia. So they were acquitted on those charges because of time elapse. SIMON: What reaction did you see among the defendants? NELSON: Well, Mubarak's lip was quivering. He was wearing sunglasses. His sons, who were in white prison uniforms, were trying to stand in front of him and protect him from the camera. But you could see him, and he looked somewhat stoic except for that quivering lip. He obviously was very either angry or nervous. But again, he had sunglasses on, so you couldn't really read beyond that. The sons, too, looked sort of pale and quiet. There was no breakdown within the defendant's case, shall we say. Certainly a look of shock in fact on some of the faces of the people who were acquitted. SIMON: Appeals are planned? NELSON: Yes, that is what we're hearing. Certainly, Mr. Mubarak and Mr. Adly's lawyers will be filing an appeal. But it doesn't change the fact that they were immediately sent to Tora Prison. Now, a suite of rooms that are more medically upgraded have been prepared for Mr. Mubarak. He's not going to be in a regular cell from what we understand, but he was transferred immediately from the hospital where he had been staying the past few months. SIMON: And the sons go free now? NELSON: Well, actually they don't, because this week the prosecutor announced charges against Alaa and Gamal Mubarak with regards to insider trading involving a bank that was sold here in Egypt. So they're being held for trial in that case. SIMON: And I know time will tell very quickly, but this occurring just literally in the middle of the election season. Any indication as to how this verdict might affect that? NELSON: Well, certainly emotions are running very high today. We hear that protesters are moving on Tahrir Square. There are some who wanted to see Mubarak receive the death penalty and el-Adly receive the death penalty. However, as time has gone on, because of concerns about deteriorating security, the weakening economy, it seems that people have sort of shifted and they want to move ahead. So many that we've talked to seem content with a life sentence. They feel that Mubarak and his former interior minister should hang around and see how Egypt devolves from here, from behind bars, of course. SIMON: NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Cairo. Thanks so much. NELSON: You're welcome, Scott. SIMON: And we've learned that Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to the hospital at the Tora Prison after suffering what the Egyptian state media reported as a health crisis. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

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Q: What does the raw food consist of? A: The raw meat that we supply is rated human grade and is broken down like this: The raw food never contains grains, salt or anything off the "do not feed" list like tomatoes, grapes, eggplant etc. - 62-65% of the food is made up of raw beef trim and RAW chicken with ground bone. - 25-27% of the food contains primarily veggies and some fruit. This includes broccoli, cauliflower and/or carrots. Occasionally zucchini, cucumbers and/ or green beans are used as well. A leafy vegetable, such as bok choy, suey choy, kale and/ or romaine, is always included in the mix. Apples and/ or melons round out the fruit portion of the food. - 10% of the food contains organs - primarily liver and heart, but occasionally kidneys etc. Please email us your questions about a raw food diet for your dog so we can get started on adding your questions to our FAQs page.

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8 potatoes, peeled 1 large onion, peeled and quartered 2-3 Tablespoons oil 1/4 cup flour 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon pepper 13”x9”x2” baking pan Food processor with a small hole grating disc Large mixing bowl Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the baking pan with parchment paper making sure the paper comes up the sides. Put the oil in the parchment lined pan and place in the oven (so the oil heats). Grate the potatoes and place them in the bowl. Add water and wash the potato shreds between your hands. Drain in the colander. Rinse the potatoes a 2nd and even 3rd time until the water is clear. Drain in the colander and squeeze out any extra moisture. Process the onion with the chopping blade until it is almost pureed. Mix the onions, eggs, flour, salt and pepper in the bowl. Add the grated potatoes and mix thoroughly. (I use my hands.) Carefully remove the pan with oil from the oven. Pour the kugel mixture in it, spreading throughout with caution. (Watch out for the hot oil.) Bake in the oven anywhere from 1 1/2 hours to 3 hours depending on how crispy you like your kugel. Nancy Weisbrod is the Director of Culinary Education, Kashruth Council of Canada In the coming winter months, Nancy will be offering an advanced 3 part series on the art of cooking kosher meat. She will also be organizing a three part seminar given by Rabbi Tsvi Heber called "Mashgicha@Home" which will impart the basic skills taught to a COR mashgiach that can be used in the home. To sign up for either one of these courses or for more information Nancy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Nancy blogs at: www.mykosherkitchen.wordpress.com

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By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday. Earth-based telescopes have been compiling evidence for ice on Mercury for 20 years, but the finding of organics was a surprise, say researchers with NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the first probe to orbit Mercury. Both ice and organic materials, which are similar to tar or coal, were believed to have been delivered millions of years ago by comets and asteroids crashing into the planet. "It's not something we expected to see, but then of course you realize it kind of makes sense because we see this in other places," such as icy bodies in the outer solar system and in the nuclei of comets, planetary scientist David Paige, with the University of California, Los Angeles, told Reuters. Unlike NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which will be sampling rocks and soils to look for organic materials directly, the MESSENGER probe bounces laser beams, counts particles, measures gamma rays and collects other data remotely from orbit. The discoveries of ice and organics, painstakingly pieced together for more than a year, are based on computer models, laboratory experiments and deduction, not direct analysis. "The explanation that seems to fit all the data is that it's organic material," said lead MESSENGER scientist Sean Solomon, with Columbia University in New York. Added Paige, "It's not just a crazy hypothesis. No one has got anything else that seems to fit all the observations better." Scientists believe the organic material, which is about twice as dark as most of Mercury's surface, was mixed in with comet- or asteroid-delivered ice eons ago. The ice vaporized, then re-solidified where it was colder, leaving dark deposits on the surface. Radar imagery shows the dark patches subside at the coldest parts of the crater, where ice can exist on the surface. The areas where the dark patches are seen are not cold enough for surface ice without the overlying layer of what is believed to be organics. So remote was the idea of organics on Mercury that MESSENGER got a relatively easy pass by NASA's planetary protection protocols that were established to minimize the chance of contaminating any indigenous life-potential material with hitchhiking microbes from Earth. Scientists don't believe Mercury is or was suitable for ancient life, but the discovery of organics on an inner planet of the solar system may shed light on how life got started on Earth and how life may evolve on planets beyond the solar system. "Finding a place in the inner solar system where some of these same ingredients that may have led to life on Earth are preserved for us is really exciting," Paige said. MESSENGER, which stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, is due to complete its two-year mission at Mercury in March. Scientists are seeking NASA funding to continue operations for at least part of a third year. The probe will remain in Mercury's orbit until the planet's gravity eventually causes it to crash onto the surface. Whether the discovery of organics now prompts NASA to select a crash zone rather than leave it up to chance remains to be seen. Microbes that may have hitched a ride on MESSENGER likely have been killed off by the harsh radiation environment at Mercury. The research is published in this week's edition of the journal Science. (Editing by Kevin Gray and Vicki Allen)

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Sun March 25, 2012 Some Cuban-Americans Wary As Cuba Welcomes Pope Originally published on Mon March 26, 2012 2:05 am In 1998, when Pope John Paul II made his historic visit to Cuba, few Cuban-Americans made the pilgrimage across the Florida straits. But when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday, hundreds of Cuban-Americans will be on hand in Santiago de Cuba when he celebrates Mass. Carlos Saladrigas is well-known in Miami's Cuban-American community. He's a prominent businessman and co-chairman of the Cuba Study Group, an organization working to make Cuba a free and open society. He'll be in Antonio Maceo Revolution Square for Mass. Fourteen years ago, it was a different story. Saladrigas helped lead a protest that caused Miami's archdiocese to cancel a pilgrimage planned for John Paul's visit. Like many in the Cuban-American community, Saladrigas felt that the papal visit gave legitimacy to a repressive regime. But watching it on TV in Miami, he says, he had a change of heart. "It made me realize that I had made a huge mistake in opposing the visit, that the visit was good," he says. "It did a lot of good for Cuba and for Cubans. It rekindled hope, although a lot things haven't materialized, but hope is nevertheless important. And I think this pope is going to do the same thing; he's going to stress the importance of hope." Pope John Paul II's visit led to improved relations between Cuba's Catholic Church and the Castro regime that allowed the church to grow in Cuba. The improved dialogue between the church and the government also was a factor in winning the release of jailed political dissidents. All of that helped convince Saladrigas and others in South Florida's Cuban-American community that the Catholic Church may present some of the best hope for change in Cuba. After all, says Saladrigas, aside from the government, the church is the only institution Cubans can look to. "The church is an ally of the Cuban people. The more the church strengthens in Cuba, the weaker the government becomes," he says. "And what the church is doing, it is trying very strongly to increase the space and opportunities for other elements of Cuban civil society to fill in." But in Miami, there are still outspoken Cuban-Americans who oppose the visit. "I don't think it's the Church's role to organize pilgrimages where the Cuban regime will decide who gets in and who doesn't," says Ninoska Perez, a radio talk show host in Miami and a director of the hard-line Cuban Liberty Council. She points out that in recent weeks, in advance of the pope's visit, there was a crackdown on dissidents. Cuban authorities arrested more than 50 women, members of the Ladies in White, female relatives of men who are held as political prisoners. Perez says the pope's visit draws attention away from those government activities. "When then, all of a sudden, the pope goes and everything is fine, and you're organizing a pilgrimage from Miami, it's like, 'OK, this is fine.' And I think what the Catholic Church should be addressing both inside and outside Cuba is the fact that there is violence and repression," Perez says. The recent crackdown on dissidents is a concern also to Cuban-Americans who support the pilgrimage — people like Andy Gomez. Gomez is a senior fellow at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He notes that 14 years ago when Pope John Paul II was in Cuba, he raised the issue of human rights. Gomez hopes Benedict will take the cause further. "I think the pope, given the actions that just took place, needs to reach out to the Ladies in White, invite them to one of the Masses if not both," he says. "He needs to recognize, acknowledge the dissident movement in Cuba." At the same time, Gomez is critical of some within Cuba's Catholic Church — particularly Havana Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Ortega. Ortega recently asked the government to clear a group of dissidents from a Havana church they occupied in advance of the pope's visit. Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, who organized this week's pilgrimage, concedes that the Catholic Church is trying to walk a very fine and difficult line in Cuba — between an open dialogue with the government and actions that accommodate a repressive regime. "The church has been an advocate," Wenski says, "but at the same time, it doesn't want to be co-opted into anybody's political agenda. Because if it's co-opted into somebody's political agenda, then it cannot play the role of mediator." Asked whether a papal visit lends legitimacy to a repressive regime, Archbishop Wenski laughed. Pope Leo the Great met with Attila the Hun in 452, he noted, saying, "Popes meet with people of all types."

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Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking (and a few other topics) This psychology site was designed to be fully accessible for people with disabilities (see below) and user-friendly to all visitors. For convenience, any of the major sections -- as well as the 3 other web sites (see "Ken's Other Sites") -- can be accessed immediately by using the menu that runs along the left side of each page. The site provides free access to a variety of articles from journals such as American Psychologist (currently 10 from this source); British Medical Journal; Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology; Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice; Psychology, Public Policy, & Law; Annual Review of Clinical Psychology; American Journal of Psychiatry; International Journal of Law & Psychiatry; and Professional Psychology: Research & Practice -- as well as the complete contents of a book (Children, Ethics, & the Law). 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Published research and other works on the Therapist As Person: Therapists as Patients, as Abuse Survivors, and as People who Experience Fear, Anger, and Hatred Therapists as Patients: A National Survey of Psychologists' Experiences, Problems, and Beliefs [Professional Psychology] The Experience of 'Forgetting' Childhood Abuse: A National Survey of Psychologists [Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology] Discussing Death With Children [U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Child Development, Children's Bureau] Therapist's Guide To Preparing a Professional Will [American Psychological Association] Clinical Practice Strategies Outside The Realm Of Managed Care [annual meeting of the American Psychological Association] Boundary Issues in Psychotherapy and Counseling The Concept of Boundaries in Clinical Practice: Theoretical and Risk-Management Dimensions [American Journal of Psychiatry] Avoiding Exploitive Dual Relationships: A Decision-making Model [Psychotherapy] Ethical Decision-making and Dual Relationships [Jeffrey Younggren] Misuses and Misunderstandings of Boundary Theory in Clinical and Regulatory Settings [American Journal of Psychiatry] Published Research and Other Works on Ethical & Legal (e.g., Malpractice) Dilemmas of Therapists, Counselors, & Professors Contrasting Ethical Policies of Physicians & Psychologists Concerning Detainee Interrogations [British Medical Journal] Psychologists Abandon the Nuremberg Ethic: Concerns for Detainee Interrogations [International Journal of Law & Psychiatry] Developing & Practicing Ethics [chapter in The Portable Mentor: Expert Guide to a Successful Career in Psychology] Ethics of Practice: The Beliefs and Behaviors of Psychologists as Therapists [American Psychologist] Ethics of Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors of Psychologists as Educators [American Psychologist] Ethical Dilemmas Encountered by Members of the American Psychological Association [American Psychologist] When Laws and Values Conflict: A Dilemma for Psychologists [American Psychologist] Malpractice & Licensing Pitfalls for Therapists: A Defense Attorney's List [Innovations in Clinical Practice] Disability, Accessibility, & Ethics in Psychology: 3 Barriers [Ethics & Behavior] HIPAA & Forensic Practice [American Psychology Law Society News, American Psychological Association Division 41] Identifying and Implementing Ethical Standards for Primary Prevention [Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community] On Violating Ethical Standards: 20 Easy Steps [Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling] When The Therapist Doesn't Know What To Do: Some Steps That May Help [American Psychological Association] Ethical and Malpractice Issues in Hospital Practice [American Psychologist] The Ethics of Research Involving Memories of Trauma [General Hospital Psychiatry] AIDS & HIV Infection Update: New Research, Ethical Responsibilities, Evolving Legal Frameworks, and Useful Resources [Innovations in Clinical Practice] Psychologists' Use of E-mail with Clients: Some Ethical Considerations [Ohio Psychologist] Children, Ethics, & the Law [full text of a book originally published by University of Nebraska Press] Published Research and Other Works on Therapists' Sexual Attraction to Patients, Therapist-Patient Sex, Professor-Student Sex, and Sexual Dilemmas in Therapy & Counseling Sexual Intimacy in Psychology Training: Results and Implications of a National Survey [American Psychologist] Sexual Attraction to Clients: The Human Therapist and the (Sometimes) Inhuman Training System [American Psychologist] Sex Between Therapists and Clients [Academic Press] Therapist-Patient Sexual Intimacy Involving Children and Adolescents [American Psychologist] Testing & Assessment Deposition and Cross-examination Questions on Psychological Tests & Psychometrics [American Psychological Association] Responsibilities in Providing Psychological Test Feedback to Clients [Psychological Assessment] HIPAA & Forensic Practice [American Psychology Law Society News, American Psychological Association Division 41] MMPI-A in Forensic Practice [Oxford University Press] Forensic Assessment Checklist [American Psychological Association] Pearson Assessments HIPAA Regulations FAQ [Pearon Assessments] Psychological Assessment of Torture Survivors: Essential Steps, Avoidable Errors, and Helpful Resource [International Journal of Law & Psychiatry] Responding to Victims of Torture: Clinical Issues, Professional Responsibilities, and Useful Resources [Professional Psychology] Torture [Academic Press] Fallacies & Pitfalls in Psychology Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists, & Other Health Care Professionals "Are the American Psychological Association’s Detainee Interrogation Policies Ethical and Effective? 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Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, James N. Butcher, Ph.D., & Joyce Seelen, J.D. [American Psychological Association] Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, (Fourth Edition, 2011) by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP & Melba J. T. Vasquez, Ph.D., ABPP Publisher: Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley). "A stunningly good book.... If there is only one book you buy on ethics, this is the one." --David H. Barlow, Ph.D, ABPP; Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Boston University "Two of psychology's national treasures, Drs. Ken Pope and Melba Vasquez, walk the walk of psychotherapy ethics. Simply the best book in its genre." --John Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology & Distinguished University Fellow, University of Scranton "The fourth edition continues to be the gold standard.... A must read in every counseling/therapy training program. It is that good and valuable." --Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University "I love this book! And so will therapists, supervisors and trainees. In fact, it really should be required reading for every mental professional and aspiring professional.... And it is a fun read to boot!" --Stephen J. Ceci, Ph.D., H.L. Carr Professor of Psychology, Cornell University What Therapists Don't Talk About and Why: Taboos That Hurt Us and Our Clients by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, Janet L. Sonne, Ph.D., and Beverly Greene, PhD., ABPP Publisher: American Psychological Association "It is essentially a superb text about the practice of psychotherapy, with all its unexpected twists, turns, and difficulties for therapists and patients. From its excellent short courses on logical and ethical fallacies, to its astonishing variety of intensely provocative case examples with self-assessment questions, to its steamy discussions of therapists' sexual feelings, the book illuminates, in a non-threatening, conversational tone, the previously-avoided dimensions of the therapeutic endeavor. It belongs on the shelf of any therapist willing to learn or think critically about psychotherapy." Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry How To Survive and Thrive as a Therapist: Information, Ideas, & Resources for Psychologists by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP & Melba J. T. Vasquez, Ph.D., ABPP Publisher: American Psychological Association "This comprehensive practical guidebook is a must for all new and seasoned clinicians. From attorneys to ethics, from billing to possible errors in logic--it is all here. A remarkable compendium. Kudos to Pope and Vasquez!" --Donald Meichenbaum, PhD, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada The MMPI, MMPI-2, and MMPI-A in Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys (3nd Edition) by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, James N. Butcher, Ph.D., and Joyce Seelen, Esq., Publisher: American Psychological Association "A must for every trial lawyer's library." -- Patricia C. Bobb, Esq., Board of Governors, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Sexual Feelings In Psychotherapy:Explorations for Therapists and Therapists-in-Training by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, Janet Sonne, Ph.D. & Jean Holroyd, Ph.D. Publisher: American Psychological Association. "Like a trusted confidant, this reassuring yet challenging book shows how research, theory, and the reader's own feelings can be used to guide clinical practice. It is that rarest of books with which the reader shares an intimate dialogue of personal discovery. Powerful, truthful, and adventurous, it will serve as an essential text to which seasoned therapists will return again and again and should be required reading in all training programs." -- Professor Jesse Geller, Yale University Sexual Involvement With Therapists: Patient Assessment, Subsequent Therapy, Forensics by by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP. Publisher: American Psychological Association "A landmark contribution. The research, forms, and lists of cross-examination questions will be invaluable to subsequent therapists who appear in court. This unique resource is essential reading for expert witnesses and trial attorneys." -- Nancy Adel, Esq., Partner, Law Firm of Adel & Pollack Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients by Kenneth S. Pope & Jacqueline Bouhoutsos "A thoroughly unique, impressively comprehensive, and long-awaited contribution. A storehouse of information. Plaintiff and defense lawyers and expert witnesses would be well advised to be aware of its contents." --Jay Ziskin, Ph.D., LL.B. Past President, American Psychology-Law Society Recovered Memories of Abuse: Assessment, Therapy, Forensics by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP & Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP, Publisher: American Psychological Association "Essential reading for lawyers and expert witnesses, this landmark book is scientifically grounded, carefully researched, and--thankfully!--of great practical use. The consent forms, deposition and cross-examination questions, outlines for reviewing treatment plans, and scrupulously fair examinations of the major controversies are major contributions. Avoiding the polarizing polemics and limited points of view that mar so much of the work in this area, this is the best book on this topic." -- Gary Sampley, Esq. Attorney at Law Law and Mental Health Professionals: California by Brandt Caudill & Kenneth S. Pope, Publisher: American Psychological Association Licensing Disciplinary Actions for Psychologists Who Have Been Sexually Involved with a Client [Professional Psychology] The Ethics of Counseling: A National Survey of Certified Counselors [Journal of Counseling & Development] Therapists' Sexual Feelings and Behaviors: Research, Trends, and Quandaries. 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Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio conservative Republican who recently said he now supports same-sex marriage because he has a gay son, evidently has plenty of company. A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press suggests that many Americans have changed their minds — going from opposing to supporting same-sex marriage — because they personally know someone who is gay. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that she supports same-sex marriage, saying gays and lesbians are "full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship." "That includes marriage," Clinton says in an online video released Monday by the gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. Clinton adds that she backs gay marriage both "personally and as a matter of policy and law."

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