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Sebastopol, CA--Microsoft Access has its share of fans. Author Ken Bluttman is one of them. "Access really is an amazing product," he says, enumerating some of its strengths: "Its power is vast, and yet its maintenance is low. It's flexible enough to be used by one person or to run an entire company. It's a rapid application development (RAD) tool that outshines other such tools, such as Visual Basic, in time to development and ease of use." As one who has been hacking Access for many years, Bluttman knows how to make Access jump through hoops. In his new book, Access Hacks, (O'Reilly, US $24.95), he shares his secrets with Access users of all levels, from those sitting down to Access for the first time to gurus like himself. "I've been working with Access for more than a decade," says Bluttman. "In that time, I've developed some interesting approaches to technical problems, and have seen how peers have mastered certain techniques. It's great being able to assemble many of these mini-solutions and make them available for the Access user and developer communities." Access Hacks takes users beyond the familiar tables, forms, and reports, providing them with new insights into making their database applications more valuable and exciting. There are hacks to tickle every fancy, whether it's running Union queries, playing video files in Access, viewing web sites within Access, or even controlling Access from another product. Each chapter in the book explores a different facet of Access, beginning with the basics in the first chapter, and then delving into tables, users' needs, and presentation. Later chapters deal with more advanced topics such as running queries, multi-user issues, external programs and data, programming, and third-party applications. The book is not meant to be a sequential read, says Bluttman, "Although I won't complain if you read it straight through, from cover to cover! The book contains one hundred hacks, and each stands on its own merit." Some have a common theme with other hacks, in which case the flow is noted. "Other than that, just dig in and see what interests you," advises Bluttman. "One group of hacks might be what you need for today's project, and another group might be what you need tomorrow." Access Hacks shows users how to: "Microsoft Office is available on nearly every computer," Bluttman reminds his readers. "Knowing how to make good use of Access, including being able to integrate Access with other Office products, makes for some powerful technical solutions." Everyone who uses Access, from casual office users to high-powered Access developers, will discover tips and tools to boost their productivity and more in Access Hacks. ISBN: 0-596-00924-0, 333 pages, $24.95 US, $34.95 CA O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. PRESS QUERIES ONLY

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Sebastopol, CA--"The more an administrator knows about IP, the more effective they will be," says Eric A. Hall, author of the just-released book Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide. If you've ever been responsible for a network, chances are you agree. You know that sinking feeling: your pager has gone off at 2 a.m., the network is broken, and you can't figure out why, using a dial-in connection from home. You drive into the office, dig out your protocol analyzer, and spend the next four hours trying to put things back together before the staff shows up for work. Until now, the only real guide to the protocols has been the Internet RFCs--and they're hardly what you want to be reading late at night when your network is down. There just hasn't been a good book on the fundamentals of IP networking aimed at network administrators. "I'm sure that whoever reads this book will be as impressed as I was, not just at the insights, but at the level of depth and usefulness. Among the glut of technology books, this is one that truly stands out. Every network manager needs this book," says Fritz Nelson, Editor-In-Chief of Network Computing Magazine. "The original concept behind this book came from a series of technology primers that I was writing for a magazine, which generated a significant amount of mail from the readers," says Hall. "The existing material in the market was geared more towards programmers and developers than for users (my readership), so I decided to pursue it. O'Reilly's brand name recognition made them a natural choice, and thankfully they agreed to publish the book." Protocols: The Definitive Guide provides thorough coverage of the fundamental protocols in the TCP/IP suite: IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP (in its many variations), and IGMP. It includes many packet captures, showing you what to look for and how to interpret all the fields. It has been brought up-to-date with the latest developments in real-world IP networking. The CD-ROM included with the book contains Shomiti's "Surveyor Lite," a packet analyzer that runs on Win32 systems, plus the original RFCs, should you need them for reference. Shomiti Systems President and CEO Bill Shaw: "We have always prided ourselves on being able to provide today's network administrators with the high performance analysis tools they need to solve their network problems. We were very happy that Eric Hall and O'Reilly chose our software for this purpose." "Shomiti's software was chosen because it offered an extremely powerful and highly mobile analysis platform," adds Hall. "The quality and quantity of the protocol decodes, the powerful alarms and triggers, the ability to edit and generate packets and the availability of a variety of hardware options were all key factors in my decision. Shomiti's software plus the original RFCs, should you need them for reference, give you everything you need to troubleshoot your network." Protocols: The Definitive Guide Help for Network Administrators By Eric A. Hall 1st Edition February 2000 1-56592-572-6, 472 pages, $39.95, Includes CD-ROM

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Kristensen, Hanne L. and Thorup-Kristensen, Kristian (2006) Roots below one meters depth are important for nitrate uptake by annual crops. [Rødder under 1 meters dybde er vigtige for et-årige afgrøders optagelse af nitrat.] In: CD-rom "The American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meetings, November 12-16, 2006, Indianapolis, USA. No. 205-9., CD-rom "The American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meetings, November 12-16, 2006, Indianapolis, USA., no. Abstract No. 205-9.. The root depths of annual crops vary from 0.2 m to more than 2 m depending on root growth rate and length of growing season. However, studies of root growth and N uptake are often restricted to a depth of 1 m or less, as root biomass is assumed to be negligible below this depth. We have studied the importance of root growth and N uptake to a depth of 2.5 m in fully grown field vegetables and cover crops by use of minirhizotrons and deep point placement of 15N. Deep rooted crucifereous crops were found to have high root densities to a depth of 1.5-2 m and high 15N uptake to this depth. The work shows that knowledge of the interactions between root growth and soil N below a depth of 1 m are important to understand crop N uptake and nitrate leaching from agro-ecosystems. |EPrint Type:||Conference paper, poster, etc.| |Type of presentation:||Paper| |Subjects:|| Soil > Nutrient turnover| Crop husbandry > Crop combinations and interactions Crop husbandry > Production systems > Vegetables |Research affiliation:|| Denmark > DARCOF III (2005-2010) > VEGQURE - Organic cropping Systems for Vegetable production| Denmark > AU - Aarhus University > AU, DJF - Faculty of Agricultural Sciences |Deposited By:||Kristensen, Ph.D. Hanne L.| |Deposited On:||28 Nov 2007| |Last Modified:||12 Apr 2010 07:35| |Refereed:||Peer-reviewed and accepted| Repository Staff Only: item control page

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Holland, Janet and Gillies, Val Multiple perspectives on the 'family' lives of young people: methodological and theoretical issues in case study research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6(1), The use of interviews from related individuals has become increasingly common in social research. This is particularly apparent in the area of family sociology, which has previously been criticized for relying on research of family lives based solely on interviews with mothers. Obtaining such accounts can raise postmodern ontological and epistemological themes of multiple perspectives and multiple realities, but there has been little explicit discussion of how to tackle the analysis of such related interviews. This paper explores approaches to the analysis of interviews with nine individuals drawn from three case study 'families'. An ideal typical categorization of possible approaches is developed, based on the cross-cutting themes of (1) degree of similarity/divergence, and (2) an objectivist/ interpretationist ontology. The powerful role of the researcher's 'bird's eye view' is highlighted, involving the active interpretation of both disagreements and agreements between related interviews. A major feature of these approaches is the complexity of the data generated and the time involved in the analysis. Such analytic choices yield different forms of knowledge and lead us to 'see' varying patterns and themes according to the focus we take, whether we reveal the possibility of 'family cultures', the relevance of standpoint differences around gender and generation, or wider structural issues of class and ethnicity. Within individual accounts we can see how these different aspects are interwoven in particular histories. How we represent such complexities and tensions between related accounts is a further choice, which may depend upon the audience and purposes involved. Even where we choose to weave the threads into one apparently coherent overall story, we argue for openess and reflexivity concerning the difficult analytic choices that underlie such a production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Actions (login may be required)

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Fresh air. Not the conditioned stuff we breathe in every day within these concrete walls. The real deal, mixed with the aroma of dried leaves, faint perfumes of wildflowers, smoke from someone clearing land, nature’s composting of soil, leaf mold, decaying plants and rain about to fall. We only had a short time to spend but it was worth it. We drove a bit south of Bartow, the Polk County (FL) seat. Just off U.S. Highway 98 at Homeland, there is a nice park on either side of the road on the banks of the Peace River. One of the areas has a nice, long boardwalk which takes you through hardwood swamp down to the edge of the river. We didn’t have time to walk its length today and instead visited the area on the south side of the county road called Peace River Landing. The Peace River has its beginnings in the springs within the Green Swamp, northeast of Lakeland. It’s a “blackwater” river, so called because of its dark color from leaf and plant decay. It flows from Lake Hancock, southeast of Lakeland all the way to Punta Gorda and the Gulf of Mexico. It was named by a Spanish cartographer in the early 1500′s as he wrote on his map: “Rio de la Paz”. The Seminoles called it: “Tallackchopo”, the river of long peas, due to the large number of wild peas along the banks. We’ll be back to report more on this area in the future. For now, we were happy to have a few moments of “peace” along the dark, slow moving stream where we enjoyed the company of a few feathered friends. A juvenile Little Blue Heron hunts patiently at the base of a large Bald Cypress tree. A Northern Mockingbird perched nearby on the lookout for an insect snack. This Snowy Egret caught a nice bream! In the background, how many young alligators can you count? The egret decided he didn’t want to share his catch. As we prepared to leave, a Bald Eagle assured us he would keep the “peace” over the river until we return. A short trip but it sure felt good to have actual “fresh” air in our lungs! Enjoy your search for a natural place and come back for a visit!

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We had a running joke in science ed that kids get so overexposed to discrepant events involving density and air pressure that they tend to try to explain anything and everything they don't understand with respect to science in terms of those two concepts. Why do we have seasons? Ummm... air pressure? Why did Dr. Smith use that particular research design? Ummm... density? I think we need another catch-all explanation. I suggest index of refraction. To simplify greatly, index of refraction describes the amount of bending a light ray will undergo as it passes from one medium to another (it's also related to the velocity of light in both media, but I do want to keep this simple). If the two media have significantly different indices, light passing from one to the other at an angle (not perpendicularly, in which case there is no bending) will be bent more than if indices of the two are similar. The first four data points are from Hyperphysics, the final one from Wikipedia... glass has a wide range of compositions and thus indices of refraction. Water at 20 C: 1.33 Typical soda-lime glass: close to 1.5 Since glycerine and glass have similar IoR, light passing from one to the other isn't bent; as long as both are transparent and similarly colored, each will be effectively "invisible" against the other. So, why does it rain? Umm... index of refraction? A Bright Moon Impact 12 hours ago

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Ojai Valley School is an extraordinary place where children like yours come to learn and grow, a place that nurtures and challenges children, and awakens a thirst for knowledge and wisdom. The school’s philosophy is to challenge students’ minds and bodies while fostering self-respect, respect for others, and value for the community in which they live. Our goal is not only to promote scholarship, but to give children the kind of life-learning experiences that will forever shape their world views. This is accomplished in a warm and caring community where children feel safe to grow and explore. Everyone at OVS knows that a sense of community is an important part of what makes this place special, and everyone is proud to be part of it. Students have numerous opportunities to show leadership, teamwork, and caring. Each student receives a high level of individual attention through small classes taught by knowledgeable, experienced, and caring teachers, facilitating success for children inside and outside of the classroom.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO: CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH CONVERSATION: Diversity Book Discussion Our first selection is “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. This book raises questions around ethics in research, ownership of scientific discoveries and patient rights. Join us as we create a dialogue about diversity that will explore the convergence and divergence of the complex elements around diversity including race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, language, environmental factors, education, and ability. ***Please come prepared to share a passage from the book that means something to you in an emotional, scientific, ethical or other way that is truly striking. You can purchase a copy of the book in the University Bookstore located in Thwing Center Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. The author takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. "These cells became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in-vitro fertilization, and more. “ –Rebecca Skloot All sessions will be held in Adelbert Hall’s Toepfer Room from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Feel free to bring your lunch. |Part I: Life||5/25/2011||To Register: Click Here| |Part II: Death||6/29/2011||To Register: Click Here| |Part III: Immortality||7/27/2011||To Register: Click Here|

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It's Only Natural! Making Your Own Luck Outfitting for Discovery By Tamia Nelson April 23, 2002 If you paddle to get closer to nature, you know how important good luck can be. Chance encountersa bear crossing a river, say, or a moose foraging in the shallow margin of a pondare often the ones you'll treasure most and remember longest. But Luck doesn't love everyone equally. She has to be wooed. How? By being prepared, of course! Louis Pasteur probably said it best. Dans les champs de l'observations le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. My rather free translation: "Luck's a lady only if you're ready for her." Seems obvious enough, doesn't it? But how many folks do you know who've missed chances because they weren't prepared? A lot, I'm betting. OK. As a paddler with an interest in the natural world, you'll want to be ready to welcome Lady Luck anytime she shows up. And being ready means always having the proper gear, because you never know when Luck will come calling. It makes no difference if you're going out for a few hours or a few daysor a few months, come to that. There are some things you always ought to have with you. Period. After all, you wouldn't leave your paddles behind, or your boat, would you? Well there's more to a voyage of discovery than transport. You need tools, too. A naturalist's field kit doesn't have to be expensive, heavy, or high-tech. In fact, the basic list is short and simple. Here it is: - Small rucksack or knapsack - First-aid kit - Drinking water - Field journal, pencils and pens - Hand lens - Pocket ruler See what I mean? Simple and short. It's common sense, really. You won't discover much if you're wet or thirsty, and you'll be hard-pressed to make good notes on credit-card receipts. Now let's take a look at each item in turn. Rucksack or Knapsack Whatever bag you choose to haul your kit, make sure it's sturdy and easy to carry. With so much gear being produced for the recreational market today, you shouldn't have any trouble finding just what you need. Can't make up your mind? Then carry both. I do. My favorite rucksack is an old Cold Warrior, and so is my field knapsacka handy canvas satchel that's perfect for my "discovery kit." The satchel's a naturalist's dream come true. Just big enough to accommodate a standard-sized clipboard, it holds all my basic field kit, including the folded poncho. It also has a flap-protected full-width outer pocket, while a webbing sling and handle make it a snap to carry. But it still slips easily into the main compartment of my rucksack. You'll probably have your own favorite, of course. But whatever you use to carry your stuff, be sure that you can close it up tight. If not, you'll find out just how easy it is to lose small items when you're on the move. And once you've made your choice, put all your kit in the bag and keep it there, ready to go. That way, you'll always be ready to make the most of Lady Luck's surprise visits. (Be sure to dry everything after each trip, though.) This shouldn't require any explanation. A single blister can spoil your day, after all. So learn basic first aid and carry what you need. Your kit doesn't have to be elaborate. Band-aids, alcohol swabs, gauze squares, an Ace bandage, a few aspirin tablets . You know the particular weaknesses your flesh is heir to. So carry what you need. (CAUTION This is a first-aid kit. On long trips, or on any trip to a truly remote area, you should have a comprehensive medical-surgical kit in every boatand you should know how to use it. You can't dial 911 "north of fifty" and expect an ambulance to pull up at your door five minutes later.) I carry a surplus poncho. It's cheap and sturdy, and it doubles as a shelter of sorts for note-taking in the rain. It can even be used to make a serviceable blind. But it's not a good choice on the water. If you've ever tried to paddle into the teeth of stiff blow while wearing a poncho, you'll know what I mean. (A poncho makes a pretty good sail in a following wind, however.) As for swimming with oneforget it! So wear your paddling jacket and pants when you're in your boat, but take a poncho, too. The rivers and lakes you paddle won't always be safe to drink, and you can't drink sea water. But paddling's sweaty work, and you'll need to quench your thirst regularly. I always take at least one one-quart bottle with me, even in cool, wet weather. In hot weather I carry more, often a whole lot more. Field Journal, Pencils and Pens If the First Law of Discovery is Be Prepared, the second is Write it Down. But you can't do that if you don't have something to write in (and It doesn't have to be fancy. I've used pads of lined paper from the shelves of the local supermarket, spiral-bound stenographer's notebooks, and hard-backed surveyor's field books. The field books are the sturdiestand the most expensivebut any of these will serve you well. Just keep it dry. (Ziplock bags work fine.) And then use it! Pencil or pen? Use whichever you prefer. But beware: most ink runs when it gets damp, so pencil's best in wet or humid weather. Use a relatively soft lead, too. It's hard to make fine lines with a soft pencilthough a chisel point on the working end helpsbut you're much less likely to tear damp paper. You'll need them to stay found. You also need them when you're making notes. Where is just as important as What and When, after all. Topographic maps are best. Protect them from water. (You might even want to make multiple photocopies. Then you can take notes directly on your map.) Another must-have. And be sure you know how to use it. (We'll be doing a series on navigator's tools later in the year.) A map without a compass is like an ax without a helve. I know. You go paddling to escape the demands of the workaday world. But it's often as important to know the time of day in the backcountry as it is in the office. So get a waterproof watch with a one-piece, pass-through strap and wear it. Cover the dial if you like. Then you'll only see it when you want to. These little magnifiers are cheap, light, and easy to use. And they'll open new windows on even the most familiar landscapes. William Blake was right. There's "a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower." Isn't it time you got your passport to this hidden world? Read Small is Beautiful and see for yourself. I think you'll agree. No angler would leave home without a tape to measure the size of a lunker, and every paddler should have a ruler, too, particularly if she's interested in the natural world. Science begins with measurement, and the paddling naturalist is a scientist. You can never tell when you might want to take the measure of a track in the sandor even a scat on the shore. (You can learn a lot about animals from their scats. They're almost always worth examining, if only to confirm exactly what bears do in the woods. Never handle them, however. Some may You'll find a wide selection of plastic rulers in any stationery store or supermarket. Keep the one you choose with your field journal. And if it happens to be transparent, as many are, stick a bit of brightly-colored tape on one end. You'll see just why this is a good idea the first time you drop it. A more exotic alternative is set of engineer's scales. I have one. It looks a little like the small fans flourished by Victorian ladies in their drawing rooms. Instead of a fan, however, the case conceals a selection of plastic rulers. In addition to both centimeter and inch rules, it has a number of map-scales, ranging from 1:12,000 to 1:250,000. It also has a photographic scale printed on the case, with boldly-drawn inch and centimeter graduations. This is perfect for showing the scale in photos of tracks, scats, or flowers. Another no-brainer. I always carry a sheath knife when paddling, but I also keep a well-sharpened pocket knife with my field kit. It's been used for everything from removing splinters to sectioning buds. I wouldn't leave home * * * That's the basic kit. Now here are a few other items to consider: - Binocular (or monocular) - Field guide(s) - Camera or camcorder - Sketchpad and pencils or paints Binocular or Monocular I really should list these with the basic kit, I suppose, but since there are times when I don't carry them, they ended up here. Good binoculars are expensive and more or less heavy, but there's no better tool for enlarging your world. To learn more about them, read The Far-Seeing Eye, Part 1 and You can't tell the players without a score card, can you? Still, our library of field guides takes up more than 15 feet of shelf space, so it's impossible to carry every guide we might want. Instead, we often take "theme" trips, concentrating on a single aspect of the natural world and carrying only one or two of the most useful guides. Too much trouble? Then leave the guides on the bookshelf and make careful notes about anything you can't identify. Once you get back home, take out your journal and start "keying out" your finds. There's probably no better way to learn to seeand to take good notes, into the bargain! Camera or Camcorder Not very long ago, naturalists did most of their work with a shotgun. Their motto? "What's hit is history. What's missed is mystery." Now the Age of the Collector is over. Today, almost all collecting is done with a camera. And a very good thing that is, too. The choice of cameras is extraordinarily wide. Use whatever meets your needs and fits your budget. Don't forget a really waterproof bag, though! Sketchpad and Pencils or Paints What the canoe is to the jet-ski, the sketchpad is to the camera. Drawing and painting aren't for everyone, but anyone can learn to do either if he wants to. I think it's worth the effortand the rewards can extend far beyond the finished picture. * * * Is that all? Of course not! It would be easy to add even more items to this list. Too easy, in fact. We've carried everything from pH paper to Secchi disks with us when we've ventured out on the water. If you begin by assembling the kit I've just described, however, you're already outfitted for discovery. And that's what really matters, isn't it? See you on the water! Copyright © 2002 by Verloren Hoop Productions. All rights

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Exactly one month has passed since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. As a complete newbie in Africa, I had no idea what to expect when I first landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Before my arrival, I had done some research about the country that was going to be my home for the coming months. A quick google search on Nairobi informed me that Kenya’s capital is the 12th largest one in Africa, the name Nairobi is a Maasai phrase that translates to “cold water” and it’s located 1,800 meters above sea level. My internet search also informed me that the capital is commonly known as Nairobbery, due to the high level of crime, particularly armed robbery in the city. When I asked around amongst friends and acquaintances who had visited Nairobi, they described it as a dirty and boring city that should be avoided. For tourists, it is mostly used as a transit point for safaris in Maasai Mara, or beach holidays along the Indian Ocean coast. With this in mind, I did not have particularly high expectations of Nairobi when I first arrived on the African continent. After four weeks in this city, I have now formed my own opinion. Nairobi has more to offer than I could ever have imagined. It is definitely a city of contrasts. Within a 15 minute drive you get from the modern city center, to the beautiful leafy suburbs to East Africa’s largest slum. Nairobi City Center The colorful Maasai Market in down town Nairobi The leafy suburb of Kilimani Rooftops in Kibera There is only a well trafficked road that separates the two neighborhoods Kilimani and Kibera. Kilimani is one of the wealthiest areas in the country and is home to Mwai Kibaki, the president of Kenya. On the other side of the road you’ll find Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, where people live in unbearable conditions. Kibera is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Exactly how many people live here is impossible to say, but estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million. Only 20% of residents have electricity, and even fewer have access to clean water. Education is scarce, which traps the vast majority of people in a spiral of poverty. One in five children will not live to experience their fifth birthday. Walking the streets of Kibera, Photo: Katarina Shakarian During my visit to Kibera, I visited the organization “Shining Hope for communities”. Shining Hope founded “The Kibera School for girls”, where they give young, at-risk girls a brighter future through education. It’s an amazing organization that works to create a better life for the people of Kibera. Read more about them here. Kids playing at “The Kibera School for Girls” Pascalia from Kiva giving a presentation in Kibera about Kiva Zip As I already stated, Nairobi is a city of contrasts. Just outside of the city center, not far from modern skyscrapers or Kilimani and Kibera, you will find Nairobi National Park. Here you can see giraffes, elephants, black rhinos, zebras and other wildlife attractions with the capital’s skyline in the background. Nairobi National Park Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi National Park Nairobi has definitely given me a new perspective on life, and I would recommend anyone that has the possibility to visit this city. After spending a few weeks here I have learned that the city is not only know as Nairobbery, but also as “The green city in the sun”, which I think is a better description. My new friends Lend money to a low-income entrepreneur in Kenya here

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Kulasekara Alwar (Tamil :குலசேகர ஆழ்வார்)(800- 820 AD) also known as Kulashekhara Alwar was an Tamil King who from his hyms is Kongar Kon or king of Kongu Nadu and his mountains were the Kolli Hills He is also one of the famous Hindu Alvar saints of the Vaishnavite movement of South India who composed the Perumal thirumozhi , one of the most celebrated devotional works of the Tamil Bhakti cult. In this work he calls himself ruler of kolli (a mountain in Namakkal dt.), the master of Kudal (Madurai), the ruler of Kozhi (Uraiyur near Trichy) and the overlord of Kongu (Salem- Coimbatore region). He is also considered the author of the beautiful devotional lyric in Sanskrit, the Mukundamala . His poems are devotional in nature, being dedicated to the most prominent Avatars ). The great Advaita philosopher Sankaracharya is a younger contemporary of Kulshekhara Alwar. Kulasekhara Alwar is said to have married a Pandya Kings' daughter. Kulasekhara was supported by the Tamil Clans Villavar, Malayar, Vanavar and Pazhuvettaraiyar. It is believed that he renounced the crown to become a sanyasi and lived in Srirangam to serve the deity of Ranganatha . He is revered as the 9th of the alvars (one of 12 mendicant saints venerated by South Indian Sri Vaishnavism ) and composed bhakti songs filled with yearning towards God called......

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Samuel David Dealey (September 13, 1906 – August 24, 1944) was a United States Navy submarine commanding officer during World War II . He was among the most decorated naval officers of the war, receiving six awards for valor including the Medal of Honor for his actions aboard the during her fifth war patrol. Early Life and Career Samuel David Dealey was born on 13 September 1906 in Dallas, Texas. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that same state and graduated in June 1930. Dealey was commissioned an Ensign and reported for sea duty on board , where he was promoted in June 1933 to Lieutenant Junior Grade. In March 1934, he briefly transferred to , then reported that summer for submarine training at the Submarine School, New London, Connecticut. After graduating, he served on board the submarines and . Remaining on sea duty, he reported on board then . In May 1937, he was assigned as Aide to the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. While at the Naval Air Station, he was promoted in June 1938 to Lieutenant. In the Summer of 1939, he was assigned as the Executive Officer on board , transferring to be the Executive Officer on board . In April 1941, he reported to Experimental Division One for duty as the Prospective Commanding Officer of to support at-sea experiments off New London. He commanded for two years, serving onbpard upon during the United States' entry into World War... Read More

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Doofus vs. idiot Although my husband, who is French, has spent more than twenty years in the U.S., he still sometimes asks for clarification of obscure linguistic issues. One that I have found to be especially elusive is “doofus.” What is the exact difference, my husband wondered, between a doofus and an idiot? It seems to me that “idiot” can be used to describe any old bonehead, but that a doofus is always male, white, fat, AND stupid. I would be interested in others’ points of view on this topic.

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English translation is given at the end. Following ‘azad’ poem is by one of my favourite writers, Shafiq-ur-Rehman and it comes from his book ‘lehreN’. The poem is actually a satire on modern day poets who write ‘azad’ Urdu poem by using all the ‘azadi’ they can get. The poem describes a situation of fighting cats in a garden. I hope it brings a smile to you just like it has been bringing smiles to me for the past 20 years. Here is my attempt at an approximate translation for our English readers: Cats are fighting May be cats are fighting in garden now There is the haze of dusk It is time to rest And cats are fighting May be they are 4 in number or may be 3 But this little doubt has made house in my heart that the cats are 5 in number and definitely they cannot be 6 and the night is glowing in moonlight and the moon is shining bright and the moonlight is ubiquitous and this moonlight will only last for a little while and then there is a pitch dark night ahead What was i saying? Aah, it just slipped out of my mind What happened to my memory? Only God can fix it Oh Yes, I just remembered! the cats are fighting Cats are probably finghting in the garden now! Photo Credits: Flickr.com

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Alexandra D. Lahav University of Connecticut - School of Law George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming At the core of the controversy over mass torts lies a fundamental question: what justifies collective litigation? Scholars considering this question make one of two arguments. They either argue that collective justice must be limited by a process-based right to participation based on autonomy values, or they argue that collective justice is justified by utilitarian values and dismiss participation altogether. This Article presents a third alternative: that the democratic nature of the jury trial validates "group typical" justice, a subset of collective justice. The Article re-envisions the trial as a democratic enterprise, rather than solely an atomistic one. An innovative procedure that illustrates this democratic justification is the bellwether trial. In a bellwether trial procedure a random sample of cases from a mass tort is tried to a jury and the results extrapolated to the remainder of the cases. The practice of bellwether trials prompts us to think more deeply about the political economy of modern adjudication and the possibility of adapting our eighteenth-century common law institutions to the needs of twenty-first century society. Number of Pages in PDF File: 58 Keywords: Jury, Trials, Complex Litigation, Mass TortsAccepted Paper Series Date posted: October 3, 2007 © 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This page was processed by apollo1 in 0.890 seconds

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The new WeeZee play complex in Westchester has a cute name, but a serious mission: Louise Weadock, a psychiatric nurse and parent, founded the facility, based on her own and others’ research, to provide play and developmental activities for children with (and without) sensory disorders, and to continue the research into the effectiveness of sensory play as therapy. WeeZee’s goal, and the goal of centers like it, is twofold: to provide the therapeutic activities that help children with sensory processing disorders to adapt and function in an environment that’s fun for all children, and to provide many of the services children with the developmental disorders that often accompany sensory disorders need in a single location. Limiting the travel and scheduling struggles that can surround the effort to get a child who needs a variety of therapies the help she needs benefits the child — and her parents and siblings. But “integrating” the services only works if the other pieces of the puzzle come together as well — if the therapies are the right ones, if the insurance coverage (for those lucky enough to have it) works, or the state supports the program, and if the services fit with the child’s needs. WeeZee is new, but similar facilities have been opening around the country. Has a sensory learning center worked for you and your family? Would you encourage a parent beginning to structure a plan for a recently diagnosed child to try to work with a center? What, in a therapy center, works — and what doesn’t? In Wednesday’s earlier Motherlode post, it was mentioned how the writer Beth Arky described what it takes to do something as simple as attend a Broadway show when your child has autism. Now Lorraine Duffy Merkl, author of the novel “Fat Chick,” writes about deciding when “what it takes” is just to much, and learning to make it take less. WHEN NOTHING CAN MEAN EVERYTHING By Lorraine Duffy Merkl “I would do anything to help my child.” Who hasn’t said that and followed up their words with actions? But the parents of special needs children get to prove it on what seems to be a daily basis, since there is always a new therapy, medication, school or tutoring option being presented to us. And we often leap before we look. Even when a program doesn’t sound quite right, hey, like the lottery, you never know. What if this one thing you choose not to try is “it”? Aside from fearing that, we get afraid of being branded as the mother who doesn’t care enough to go through the wringer as well as her life savings. I learned the hard way that doing “anything” may not always be the best thing. Read more… Illustration by Barry Falls Stress Lori Gottlieb is training to be a therapist. All the books she read in graduate school taught her that behind every patient, there is a problem parent — one who is not supportive or loving or empathetic enough. Then, as she puts it in a piece in The Atlantic hitting newsstands next week, “I started seeing patients.” And one after the next they came to say they were depressed, and unmoored, and anxious, and that “they had little to quibble with about Mom or Dad.” To the contrary, she writes, these patients, all in their late 20s and early 30s: Read more… Samantha Contis for The New York Times Brian Dennis working on binocular coordination in a vision-therapy session. In The New York Times Magazine article “Concocting a Cure for Kids With Issues,” Judith Warner writes about a controversial practice called vision therapy, in which some optometrists say they can treat learning disabilities. She reports: According to Visionandlearning.org, a behavioral-optometry Web site, vision therapy can be used to treat reading problems, learning problems, spelling problems, attention problems, hyperactivity, coordination problems; it can also treat a child who experiences “trouble in sports,” who “frustrates easily,” displays “poor motivation,” and “does not work well on his own” — virtually anything that presents as an “impaired potential for achievement,” to borrow a phrase from the prominent late optometrist Martin H. Birnbaum. Read the full article here, then post a comment.

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Parents Across America is proud to have a new affiliate in Chicago; 19th Ward Parents. Their website is www.19thwardparents.com and their email is email@example.com . Becky Malone wrote the below post, about their fight to preserve and improve Chicago’s public education system – for all students, and their campaign for an elected school board. 19th Ward Parents is a grassroots organization of Chicago public school parents. We stand together with parents, teachers and community groups across Chicago in support of quality public education for all. Our organization initially came together in early 2011 in opposition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to extend our public school day to make it the longest in the nation — 7.5 hours — with no additional funding. We investigated the research behind the plan, found it seriously wanting, and organized petition signings, community forums and rallys; we wrote relentlessly to media and spoke at every school board meeting for 5 months straight. [An excellent fact sheet they helped produce is 90 percent of its 26,500 members vote to authorize a strike if summer contract negotiations fail. This essentially negated a law that was passed just last year, designed specifically so teachers wouldn’t have the ability to strike even though the right was maintained, by deeming that they needed 75% of their membership to vote in favor! Our teachers met and far surpassed what they needed, sending a strong message to CPS that they are done being demonized and bullied! Our most recent effort has us working with community and parent groups from nearly every neighborhood in our city, a cooperative effort that has never before happened in Chicago. This coalition, called Communities Organized for Democracy in Education (CODE), is initiating a city-wide petition drive to move CPS to a representative elected school board. Currently the Mayor controls the public schools and he appoints the school board. Nationwide, 96% of school boards are elected and Chicago has the only appointed school board in Illinois. As long as we have an appointed board accountable only to the Mayor, we will never see real change in our public schools. Moving forward 19th Ward Parents will serve as a resource of information for parents and teachers through hot topic discussion panels about subjects like standardized testing, charter schools and the impact of a possible teachers strike on our children. Finally, we will continue to demand that our school board provides for the quality education all our children deserve.

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About the Village The centre of the village is a Conservation Area with many old stone properties from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Vicar's Wood, adjacent to All Saints parish church is a haven for wildlife and in spring is carpeted with snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells. On the village green a colourful village sign, which was based on designs by local children, depicts scenes of Nettleham's past. The Beck, which runs through the centre of the village, has beautiful waterside walks which attract many a photographer and artist. Mallard ducks are always to be found here and also on the small lake in the attractively landscaped grounds of the Lincolnshire Police Headquarters, located on the west side of the village. Present day amenities include several shops and a café located in the village centre; a Church and a Methodist Chapel; Health Centre; Post Office; 4 Public Houses; Village Hall; a beautifully restored old stone village school (used by numerous organisations and the location of the Parish Council offices); library; many sports and social clubs; primary and junior schools and playgroups. The village is officially twinned with Mulsanne in France, exchanges taking place each year. A quarterly magazine, Nettleham News, keeps everyone up to date with village news and annually publishes a directory of the numerous organisations and services in the village. The Gardeners Association has a large and active membership and visitors frequently comment not only on the obvious charm of the village, but of the care taken with attractive gardens and properties in the community. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that Nettleham has achieved a number of awards in the annual 'Best Kept Village Competition', sponsored by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. The village is well served by public transport with a number of different bus companies providing regular services, both into the city of Lincoln and further afield. Despite its relatively large size, the village deservedly has a reputation for being a very friendly place in which to live, with a strong community spirit. History of the Village Situated approximately four miles north of the City of Lincoln, Nettleham is an attractive village with a current population about 3,500. Although its history may be traced back to the Iron Age, its early development may be attributed to the Romans, who, after establishing their garrison at Lincoln in 43AD, discovered a spring on the outskirts of the village, from which they supplemented their supply of fresh water from the wells in the upper city. Following the departure of the Romans in the 5th century, the invading Anglo Saxons settled in Lincoln and the surrounding area. Although initially they claimed the manorial rights in Nettleham, the manor eventually became the property of Queen Editha, wife of Edward I, also known as Longshanks, and finally Queen Maud, wife of Henry I. The manor was then passed on to the Bishops of Lincoln. It was then that the early Saxon manor house was enlarged to create a 'palace' more suitable as a country retreat for the Bishop to entertain visiting nobility. Participants in the Lincolnshire Rebellion in 1536, protesting against Henry VIII and his reformation of the monasteries, passed Nettleham on their way to the City of Lincoln and caused much damage to property, particularly to the Palace, and it was from this time that the building began to fall into disrepair. However a number of grass mounds, marking the outlines of the original buildings and gardens are still visible in the Bishop's Palace field today. The parish church of All Saints, whilst of Saxon origin, has modifications and decoration from the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, with beautiful stained glass windows and an attractive modern east window in the chancel which replaced the original damaged by a devastating fire in 1969. An unusual feature in the old churchyard is a gravestone dated 1732, recording the murder of a postboy, Thomas Gardiner, aged 19, on the outskirts of the village. Want to know more about our village? Then read one or more of the following books:- - Life in Nettleham and other Places by Tom Lane - All Saints Church Nettleham by Rev Gordon Sleight - A Sign of the Times - The Story of Nettleham a Lincolnshire Village by Barbara Taylor - Nettleham Yesteryears - by Pearl Vose

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You are hereHome › The newdemocracy Foundation The newdemocracy Foundation is an independent, non-partisan research organisation aiming to identify improvements to our democratic process. We aim to replace the adversarial with the deliberative, and move out of the “continuous campaign” cycle. http://www.newdemocracy.com.au/ In 2012, newDemocracy Foundation is involved in two signifacnt projects using citizens' participation in Governement decision making. In May 2012, with the assistance of newDemocracy Foundation, the City of Canada Bay began a process to devolve decision making to a panel of 36 randomly selected citizens. The Panel was asked the question "What services should we deliver in the City of Canada Bay, and how should we pay for them?" The Council has agreed that the Panel will set the level of service to be provided for their 2014-18 Delivery plan, subject to final approval by Council. InJuly, as part of the Inquiry into the Economics of Energy Generation the Public Accounts Committee [PAC]of the NSW Governement commissioned the newDemocracy Foundation to operate two policy juries - one in metropolitan Sydney and the other in the regional centre of Tamworth.Particpants are randomly selcted to represent community demographics. These juries are asked to provide a communtiy view on the "The order of preference, barriers to adoption (including financial aspects and public perception issues) and recommended course of action with regard to alternative forms of energy generation (eg:tidal, geothermal) in NSW". The PAC has undertaken that the juries' recommendations will be provided to the NSW Government as part of its final report.

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That he ne halp a quantite holynesse to wexe: Some by bedes biddynge and some by pilgrymage And other pryve penaunce, and somme thorugh penyes delynge. ...Clennesse of the comune and clerkes clene lyvynge Made Unitee Holy Chirche in holynesse stonde. -- from The Vision of Piers Plowman, ca. 1375 The book is out! Bedes Byddyng: Medieval Rosaries and Paternoster Beads (81 pages, $4.50) is my short introduction to the history and social history of rosary beads before 1600 in Western Europe. Contents include: the origin and spread of Christian prayer beads, the words used to describe them (bead, paternoster, rosary), a short history of the prayers, how to identify prayer beads as distinct from other beads, and how the beads were made, worn, and used. An appendix has complete instructions for making your own medieval-style rosary. Bedes Byddyng is issue #135 of the journal The Compleat Anachronist. Copies can be ordered here, and media-mail postage is free. (Click on the link to page 14 on that site, and it's issue #135, down at the bottom of the page. Bulk discounts are also available.) Writing it was definitely an interesting experience. It took me nearly three months to produce about 22,000 words, and at times I thought it would never be done! It's by far the biggest writing project I've ever undertaken, even though it's only about a third as long as a "real" book. (How do all those authors do it?) It's generally been getting good reviews, some of which have made me giggle. Some of the material will look familiar to those of you who read this blog, but I also discovered some new things and happily included them. (And eventually will probably blog about most of them as well.) It has diagrams and illustrations, but alas, no photos -- the illustrations are "fake" woodcuts I created by cutting and pasting bits of real woodcuts published as "clip art," which was great fun (and neatly avoided any copyright hassles). I hadn't seen the manuscript since I turned it in six months ago, and I am now grimacing over the usual quota of typos, formatting mistakes and bits of authorial disorganization that made it into the printed version. I'll do better next time: but I'm happy to have it to offer. I'd be interested in anyone's comments once you've read it. Critiques, too. (And P.S. I do have a few review copies available; if you write for publication and would like to publish a review, please e-mail me.)

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動詞時態(3)-過去簡單式 & 過去進行式 ＊~ ago (~以前) ＊this morning (今天早上 ) ＊ the other day (幾天前) ＊last week (night, Sunday) (上星期、昨晚、上週日) ＊the day before yesterday (前天……) ＊the night before last (前天晚上) ＊in the past (在過去 ) ＊just now (剛才) ＊used to 原形V → 以前常常...(現在不了) (3)字尾為【母音+y】者→ + ed。例:stay→stayed .....加ed..例:shop→shopped / drop→dropped ＊ S + 過去式動詞 +… ＊ S + did not + 原形V +… (否定句) ＊ Did + S + 原形V +…? (一般問句) ＊ 疑問詞 + did + S + 原形V…… ? (特殊問句) 一般動詞: like/ love/ run... 助動詞: will, should, can...... ...........has, have, had / do, does, did BeV : am/is/are/was/were 1. I did math problems yesterday afternoon. 2.We didn’t visit the National Palace Museum last 3. Did she take a trip to Australia last summer ....Yes, she did. She took a trip there last summer 4.Did you read my letter? (你看了我的信嗎?) ....No, I didn’t. I didn’t read your letter. 5.Who did you invite to your dinner party? ....I invited some good friends of mine. 1. Who told you the news? Gina did. 2. Which team won the All-Star game? ＊ S + was/were +Ving... ＊ S + was/were not + Ving.. ＊ Was/Were + S + Ving...? ＊ 疑問詞+ was/were + S + Ving...? → 疑問詞為who/what當主詞時, 動詞要用單數 ＊ at + 時刻+過去時間 (如:at 8:20 last night) ＊ then (=at that time) 在那時 ＊ when + S +過去式動詞..... ＊ while+ S + was/were + Ving... 1.When I got home, Dad was reading the newspaper. (此句應該用 when 因為「到家」是短暫的動作。) (when 帶出一個確切時間, 所以主要子句用進行式) 2.While I was washing the dishes, Jason was ...studying. 我正在洗碗時, Jason正在讀書 (while 帶出一個確切時間, 所以主要子句用進行式) 1.I was talking on the phone at 7:00 last night. ...(昨晚7:00 時我正在講電話→ 7:00是個確切的時間) 2.Many people were sleeping when the earthquake 3.When I got home, Mom was cooking dinner. 4.A:What were you doing when I rang the door bell? ...B:I was taking a shower then. 5.While Jane was mopping the floor, Mike was ...packing the books. → 動作做了 / 只交代做過, 所以不會指出確切的時間 → 例如: yesterday / this morning / last night → 過去某個確切的時間, 正在做的動作, 所以句子 → at seven last night / when I got home Yesterday we _____(have) a farewell party (送別會) for John because he______(move) to the USA with his parents next week. Since John is kind, considerate and polite, everyone at the party_____(feel) sad and some girls even _____(cry). We _____(give) him some gifts and _____(ask) for his e-mail address. We hope he _____(stay) in touch with us after he goes to the USA. Tomorrow____(be) the last day when he comes to school. I’ll tell him that I ____ (miss) him forever. 1.He learned his lesson this time, and I believe he ...(is/will/will be) more careful next time. 2.Are you going swimming with us? Of course,I ...(will / am / won’t). 3.Mike just (sprains/sprained/will sprain) his ankle ....It really wasn’t his day.(今天他真衰) 4.A:Will May be “Snow white” in the play? ...B: Yes, she (will/is/is going to ). 5.There will (have/has/be) a talent show tomorrow. had / will move / felt / cried / gave / asked / will stay will be / will miss 1.will be (learn one's lesson 學到教訓) 3.sprained (sprain his ankle扭傷他的腳踝) 5.be (there be 在...有... / have 擁有)現在式 & 過去式 & 過去進行式 Earth Day (地球日)____ (be) on April 22. An American man, Gaylord Nelson, _____ (start) it. Nelson was very worried when he _____ (find) many fish _____ (die) because of water pollution. He _____ (write) a story and ____ (tell) people how ____ (save) the earth. About 20 million Americans ____ (celebrate) the first Earth Day in 1970. Now more and more people ____ (understand) the importance of protecting our environment. Let’s____ (do) our best to make the earth cleaner, greener, and prettier. 1.John_____a novel at 7:30 last night. (read) 2.He _____math before, but he ____it now. 3.Mrs.Lee_____dinner when her husband came 4.Mr.White___at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon.(shop) 5.David ____for Guam in a few days.(leave) 6.Mrs.Lin ____ on the phone when her daughter fell ...off the chair.(talk) 7.We____our Christmas tree last Sunday.(decorate) 8.When I woke up this morning, it ____ heavily 9.While we were playing in the water, Jane __ a sand 10.What were you doing then? I ___ the faucet水龍頭 11.I ___ to A-Mei’s new album when the light went out. is / started / found / died / wrote / told / to save celebrated / understand / do 2.hated / likes 5.will leave / is leaving

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By Justin Moyer The Washington Post — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order Thursday allowing women the same opportunities as men to serve in combat, including formerly off-limits assignments on attack submarines and in the Navy SEALs. Just two weeks before the announcement, researchers from San Diego's Naval Health Research Center published a study suggesting that some recent mothers deployed on the battlefield may be more prone to depression after seeing action. "Women who deploy and report combat-associated exposures after childbirth are significantly more likely to screen positive for maternal depression than are women who did not deploy after childbirth," concluded the study, titled "Is Military Deployment a Risk Factor for Maternal Depression?" and appearing in the Journal of Women's Health. "It is also possible," the report noted, "that giving birth and leaving a young child, in addition to the experience of combat, contribute to postdeployment depression." The study included eight co-authors, five of them associated with the Naval Health Research Center, a research and development laboratory within the Department of Defense. It was based on surveys of more than 1,600 women who "gave birth during active duty service." Not all branches of the armed forces showed the same results. "Participants who served in the Army had an increased risk of maternal depression; Army service members tend to be deployed longer and more frequently than personnel serving in the Navy and Air Force," the study found. Of course, you don't have to be a mom to experience depression on the front line. The report points out that "the increased rate of depression is primarily attributed to experiencing combat while deployed," not just to whether a solider is also a parent.

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NOT PJ: Avian Swine Flew This week Bernard Darnton has a headache and feels nauseous. . . Load up the Land Rover with the 12-gauge and three months worth of baked beans. Bird flu is here. No – mad pig disease. Wait – the Y2K09 bug. One thing there has been a serious outbreak of is word games. The U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is upset that this week’s fashionable worry has been called “swine flu” because of the possible effect on pork sales. Israeli Deputy Health Minister has suggested “Mexican flu” because he finds the reference to pigs offensive. The Mexican ambassador to Israeli got all huffy because he found the reference to Mexicans offensive. If this really is a serious health threat it’s good to see that world’s governments are suitably focused. Here in New Zealand, all those people who’ve toiled away for years on pandemic preparedness plans are suddenly feeling important and putting on reflective jackets and hanging out in command centres with giant plasma screens, presumably watching CNN on the big plasmas to find out what happens next. The death toll in Mexico, the “epicenter” of the “pandemic” is claimed to be 160. The population of Mexico City is 28 million. If a disease of the same virulence swept through a city the size of Christchurch the death toll would be two. Surely sad for the families of those two but I wouldn’t go as far as crossing live to a rain-soaked reporter for an exclusive update. I’m no virologist, or biologist, or anything-else-ologist for that matter. I don’t even have a beard. I’ll leave it to the lab-coated ones to work out what’s actually going on. But my biggest worry isn’t that some previously unknown disease is coming to wipe us out; it’s that a previously well-known parasite will grow and spread because of this. In its most virulent form this parasite strikes millions of people dead in short periods. In its modern form in the first world it suffocates and strangles. And there’s nothing it likes more than a crisis. In his thriller State of Fear author Michael Crichton suggested that it wasn’t the emergence of a military-industrial complex that we should worry about but the emergence of a media-political complex. His story was far-fetched but the point is valid. At no time in history have we been richer or healthier than we are now but we still worry just as much. We worry about aircraft – noise from aircraft, exhaust gases from aircraft, people with stubble and olive skin on aircraft, people sneezing on aircraft – and there’s a whole lot of other stuff starting the letters B through Z to worry about as well. The media dishes out fear because it captivates audiences. Those audiences then demand that the government “does something” to address the fear. The government has sweeping emergency powers that might not be out of place during a Black Death outbreak. The real problem is that the law is so vaguely worded that those same powers could be used during an outbreak of obesity, or anything else that some Sue Kedgley-type dreams up as a health risk. I don’t feel the need to run out and buy a face mask but if anyone has the antidote to big government I’ll take it. If governments around the world don’t take advantage of avian/swine flu to increase their powers, pigs will fly. * * Bernard Darnton writes every Thursday here at NOT PC * * PS: Bernard Darnton, otherwise known as NOT PJ, will be in Auckland tonight seeing the guy who really is PJ, i.e., PJ O’Rourke’s gig at Sky City. If you’d like to catch up with us, Bernard and I and Annie Fox will be in the London Bar beforehand from about 5:30 on – and before that in the garden at The Castle. Maybe we’ll catch up with you? PPS: And thanks to Crusader Rabbit for the cartoon.

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Adventures in Tandem Nursing: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy and Beyond by Hilary Flower Gulliver Joi His Three Voyages Being an Account of His Marvellous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario Plan and enjoy your adventures in Kenya Safari, Okavango Delta and African Safari Fethiye Kekova Cruises - Some of the Finest Adventures in Turkey Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Motion Picture Merchandise Sky-high adventures in Cebu thanks to MetroDeal Planet Green Adventures, Lonavala Everest Base Camp Trek The Way of The Demon Series Book 2 Tips to make the most of your Whale watching holiday Adventures in Odyssey Life Lessons Adventures In Odyssey Life Lessons Mark Prescott's not your typical 10-year-old kid. He has a best friend who's a girl, a mind that has to have answers, and a need to have things the way they used to be. Before it's all over, he ... ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY VIDEO #6: ONCE UPON AN AVALANCHE ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY DVD #3: FLIGHT TO THE FINISH & ONCE UPON AN AVALANCHE ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY CLASSICS #5: COMIC BELIEF Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city’s food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes on her blog, www ... Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing that stimulates a student’s creativity and imagination. Filled with mini-lessons, reading ... Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author ...

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An Introduction To 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 is an IP address utilized for a looplock network connection. What does this mean? If a user tries to connect to this IP address, they will be sent back to their computer. The address is also known as a localhost. The localhost is the computer. How the Localhost Works If the command is relayed to the localhost, you would be hooked up to the system where the commands were sent out. For instance, suppose the computer is called "Joker". If you telnet from the Joker computer to the localhost, a message will appear. It will attempt to hook up to The localhost is employed in lieu of the computer hostname to be linked to. This IP address is the most wisely used localhost address. However, you can actually use any IP address provided it starts with 127. This means 127.*.*.* can be used as a localhost. Establishing a connection with the loopback address is similar to creating a connection with remote network computers. The only difference is you don't have to deal with network For this reason it is widely utilized by software developers. It is also used by system administrators. It is often used for testing programs and apps. If the connection is IPv4, the computer's loopback address will be the 127.*.*.*. The subnet mask is typically 255.0.0.0. This IP addresses 127.*.*.*. are defined in RFC 330 as Special-Use IPv4 Addresses. The 127.0.0.0/8 block is defined as the Net host loopback address. If a higher level protocol sends a datagram anywhere in the block, it will be looped in the host. This is typically implemented with the 127.0.0.1 / 32 for looplock. However, addresses in the block must not be visible anywhere else in the network. There is also a localhost IPv6 version. In RFC 3513, it is defined as Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture::1/128. More Information about the Localhost In simple terms, the localhost means the computer. It is the hostname allocated loopback network interface address. The name is likewise a domain name. This will help prevent confusion with the hostname definition. In IPv6, the loopback IP address is ::1. The localhost is stated when one would usually use the computer hostname. For instance, a browser using an HTTP server to http://localhost will show the local website home page. This will be possible if the server is set up properly to work the loopback interface. The loopback address can also be used for linking up to a game server. It can also be used for the various inter-process communications. This facts about 127.0.0.1 indicate how fundamental and basic the localhost is to a system. That's why it is so crucial for network

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Municipal incorporation occurs when such municipalities become self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located. Often, this event is marked by the award or declaration of a municipal charter. With the notable exception of the City of London Corporation, the term has fallen out of favour in the United Kingdom, but the concept remains central to local government in the United Kingdom, as well as former British colonies such as India and Canada. Municipal charters A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the middle ages and is considered to be a municipal version of a constitution. Traditionally the granting of a charter gave a settlement and its inhabitants the right to town privileges under the feudal system. Townspeople who lived in chartered towns were burghers, as opposed to serfs who lived in villages. Towns were often "free", in the sense that they were directly protected by the king or emperor, and were not part of a feudal fief. Today the process for granting charters is determined by the type of government of the state in question. In monarchies, charters are still often a royal charter given by the Crown or the state authorities acting on behalf of the Crown. In federations, the granting of charters may be within the jurisdiction of the lower level of government such as a state or province. By country In Brazil, municipal corporations are called municípios and are created by means of local legislation at state level, or after passing a referendum vote of the affected population. All municipal corporations must also abide by an Organic Municipal Law which is passed and amended (when needed) at municipal level. In Canada charters are granted by provincial authorities. In Germany, municipal corporations existed since antiquity and through medieval times, until they became out of favour during the absolutism. In order to strengthen the public spirit the city law of Prussia dated 19 November 1808 picked up this concept. It is the basis of today's municipal law. In India a Municipal Corporation is a local government body that administers a city of population 10,00,000 or more. Under the panchayati raj system, it interacts directly with the state government, though it is administratively part of the district it is located in. The largest Municipal Corporations in India currently are Mumbai, followed by Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat and Pune. The Corporation of Chennai is the oldest Municipal Corporation in the world outside UK. The Municipal Corporation consists of members elected from the wards of the city. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected by the public. A Municipal Commissioner, who is from the Indian Administrative Service is appointed to head the administrative staff of the Municipal Corporation, implement the decisions of the Corporation and prepare its annual budget. The Municipal Corporation is responsible for roads, public transportation, water supply, records of births and deaths (delegated from central government Births and Deaths Registration Act), sanitation that includes waste management, sewage, drainage and flood control, public safety services like fire and ambulance services, gardens and maintenance of buildings. The sources of income of the Corporation are property tax, entertainment tax, octroi (now abolished from many cities) and usage fees for utilities. Republic of Ireland In Ireland, municipal corporations existed in boroughs since medieval times. The Corporation of Dublin, officially styled the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Dublin had existed since the 13th century. Corporations were established under the royal charter establishing the city or borough. The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 abolished all but ten of the boroughs and their corporations. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 created two different types of borough, county boroughs had essentially equal status to counties - these comprised Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Waterford (as well as Belfast and Derry, which are now in Northern Ireland). The other boroughs were non-county boroughs. The Local Government Act 2001 abolished the title of municipal corporation. Corporations of county boroughs (renamed cities) were renamed City Councils. Non county boroughs were abolished, but those towns which were previously non-county boroughs were allowed to use the title of Borough Council. Royal charters remain in force for ceremonial and civic purposes only. South Africa From the beginning of American colonial rule, Philippines cities were formally established through laws enacted by the various national legislatures in the country. The Philippine Commission gave the city of Manila its charter in 1901, while the city of Baguio was established by the Philippine Assembly which was composed by elected members instead of appointed ones. During the Commonwealth era, the National Assembly established an additional ten cities. Since achieving independence from the United States in 1946 the Philippine Congress has established 124 more cities (as of September 2007), the majority of which required the holding of a plebiscite within the proposed city's jurisdiction to ratify the city's charter. United Kingdom United States In the United States, such municipal corporations are established by charters that are granted either directly by a state legislature by means of local legislation, or indirectly under a general municipal corporation law, usually after the proposed charter has passed a referendum vote of the affected population.

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|Gallium metal is silver-white and melts at approximately body temperature (Wikipedia image).| |Atomic Number:||31||Atomic Radius:||187 pm (Van der Waals)| |Atomic Symbol:||Ga||Melting Point:||29.76 °C| |Atomic Weight:||69.72||Boiling Point:||2204 °C| |Electron Configuration:||[Ar]4s23d104p1||Oxidation States:||3| From the Latin word Gallia, France; also from Latin, gallus, a translation of "Lecoq," a cock. Predicted and described by Mendeleev as ekaaluminum, and discovered spectroscopically by Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875, who in the same year obtained the free metal by electrolysis of a solution of the hydroxide in KOH. Gallium is often found as a trace element in diaspore, sphalerite, germanite, bauxite, and coal. Some flue dusts from burning coal have been shown to contain as much 1.5 percent gallium. It is one of four metals -- mercury, cesium, and rubidium -- which can be liquid near room temperature and, thus, can be used in high-temperature thermometers. It has one of the longest liquid ranges of any metal and has a low vapor pressure even at high temperatures. There is a strong tendency for gallium to supercool below its freezing point. Therefore, seeding may be necessary to initiate solidification. Ultra-pure gallium has a beautiful, silvery appearance, and the solid metal exhibits a conchoidal fracture similar to glass. The metal expands 3.1 percent on solidifying; therefore, it should not be stored in glass or metal containers, because they may break as the metal solidifies. High-purity gallium is attacked only slowly by mineral acids. Gallium wets glass or porcelain and forms a brilliant mirror when it is painted on glass. It is widely used in doping semiconductors and producing solid-state devices such as transistors. Magnesium gallate containing divalent impurities, such as Mn+2, is finding use in commercial ultraviolet-activated powder phosphors. Gallium arsenide is capable of converting electricity directly into coherent light. Gallium readily alloys with most metals, and has been used as a component in low-melting alloys. Its toxicity appears to be of a low order, but should be handled with care until more data is available.

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From Oxford University Press: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law. - Forces us to fundamentally rethink the origins of human rights activism - Filled with fascinating stories of captured slave ship crews brought to trial across the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century - Shows how the prosecution of the international slave trade was crucial to the development of modern international law

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France and Italy sought on Tuesday to boost confidence that Europe can tackle its debt crisis, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti saying he sees "light at the end of the tunnel" for the eurozone. With European leaders keen to maintain momentum following a series of well received statements, Monti and French President Francois Hollande hailed progress in addressing the eurozone's debt woes after talks in Paris. But new data provided a stark reminder of the devastating effects of the crisis, with the European Union saying unemployment across the eurozone hit a record 11.2 percent in June. France and Italy "are determined to do everything to protect" the euro, Hollande and Monti said in a joint statement, praising recent remarks by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi suggesting ECB intervention. "Member states, like European institutions... must meet their obligations in order to maintain the stability and proper functioning of the eurozone," they said, calling for the rapid implementation of eurozone reforms. Speaking to journalists, Hollande said the eurozone must be "defended, preserved and consolidated" and hailed "very significant progress in recent weeks." Ahead of the talks Monti expressed confidence the eurozone was finally preparing to take the necessary steps. "We and the rest of Europe are getting closer to the end of the tunnel. There's light at the end of the tunnel," Monti said in an interview with Rai Radio. Monti said he could sense "greater willingness on the part of European institutions and governments" to implement reforms agreed at an EU summit in June and to take action to help debt-ridden countries. After Paris, Monti will travel to Helsinki and Madrid as part of a tour he said would help "secure the euro and give a decisive boost to European growth." Hopes for a concerted effort to address the two-and-a-half-year debt crisis were raised last week when Draghi vowed to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro. The markets are now waiting for direct intervention to help bring down dangerously high borrowing costs for Italy and Spain and so prevent them needing what would be hugely costly bailouts. Such hopes were bolstered by a verbal offensive from top European policymakers, including Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker who said the eurozone had reached a "crucial point" and vowed action with the ECB. In telephone calls with Monti and Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also agreed to do "everything possible" to save the euro. The statements had an immediate effect, with stock markets soaring, Spain's 10-year borrowing costs falling on the bond markets and Italy selling benchmark 10-year bonds on Monday at 5.96 percent -- below the key 6.0-percent danger threshold. In the United States, President Barack Obama also urged Europe to take action. "I don't think ultimately that the Europeans will let the euro unravel. But they're going to have to take some decisive steps," Obama said. As well as record European unemployment, both economic powerhouse Germany and struggling Italy reported rises in joblessness in Tuesday. German unemployment rose to 6.8 percent in July from 6.6 percent in June while Italy's jobless total hit a record 10.8 percent in June, up from 10.6 percent in May, with youth unemployment at 34.3 percent. Asian stock markets were generally higher on Tuesday meanwhile, their third consecutive positive session, as traders looked for new stimulus measures from both the European and US central banks, while European stocks mostly declined.

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Phantom Phone Calls ospri.net- Alleged contact with the dead has occurred universally throughout history, taking various forms; as dreams, waking visions and auditory hallucinations, either spontaneous or induced through trance. In many cultures, the spirits of the dead have been sought for their wisdom, advice and knowledge of the future. The dead also seem to initiate their own communication, using whatever means seem to be most effective. With the advent of electromagnetic technology, mysterious messages have been communicated by telegraph, wireless, phonographs and radio. A curious phenomenon of modern times is the communication via the telephone. Phone calls from the dead seem to be random and occasional occurrences that happen without explanation. The great majority are exchanges between persons who shared a close emotional tie while both were living: spouses, parents and children, siblings, and occasionally friends and other relatives. Most communications are "intention" calls, initiated by the deceased to impart a message, such as farewell upon death, a warning of impending danger, or information the living needs to carry out a task. For example, actress Ida Lupino's father, Stanley, who died intestate in London during World War II, called Lupino six months after his death to relate information concerning his estate, the location of some unknown but important papers. Some calls appear to have no other purpose than to make contact with the living; many of these occur on emotionally charged "anniversary" days, such as Mothers day or Fathers day, a birthday or holiday. In a typical” anniversary” call, the dead may do nothing more than repeat a phrase over and over, such as "Hello, Mom, is that you?" Persons who have received phone calls from the dead report that the voices are exactly the same as when the deceased was living, furthermore, the voice often uses pet names and words. The telephone usually rings normally, although some recipients say that the ring sounded flat and abnormal. In many cases, the connection is bad, with a great deal of static and line noise, and occasionally the faint voices of the other persons are heard, as though lines have been crossed. In many cases, the voice of the dead one is difficult to hear and grows fainter as the call goes on. Sometimes, the voice just fades away but the line remains open, and the recipient hangs up after giving up on further communication. Sometimes the call is terminated by the dead and the recipient hers the click of disengagement, other times, the line simply goes dead. The phantom phone calls typically occur when the recipient is in a passive state of mind. If the recipient knows the caller is dead, the shock is great and the phone call very brief, invariably, the caller terminates the call after a few seconds or minutes, or the line goes dead. If the recipient does not know the caller is dead, a lengthy conversation of up to 30 minutes or so may take place, during which the recipient is not aware of anything amiss. In a minority of cases, the call is placed person-to-person, long-distance with the assistance of a mysterious operator. Checks with the telephone company later turn up no evidence of a call being places. Similar phone calls from the dead are "intention" phone calls occurring between two living persons. Such calls are much rarer than calls from the dead. In a typical "intention" call, the caller thinks about making the call but never does, the recipient nevertheless receives a call. In some cases, emergencies precipitate phantom calls, a surgeon is summoned by a nurse to the hospital to perform an emergency operation, a priest is called by a "relative" to give last rites to a dying man and so forth. Some persons who claim to have had UFO encounters report receiving harassing phantom phone calls. The calls are received soon after the witness returns home, or within a day or two of the encounter, in many cases, the calls come before the witness has shared the experience with anyone, stranger still, they are often placed to unlisted phone numbers. The unidentified caller warns the witness not to talk and to "forget" what he or she saw. Phone calls allegedly may be placed to the dead as well. The caller does not find out until sometime after the call that the person on the other end has been dead. In one such case, a woman dreamed of a female friend she had not seen for several years. In the disturbing dream, she witnessed the friend sliding down into a pool of blood. Upon awakening, she worried that the dream was a portent of trouble, and called the friend. She was relieved when the friend answered. The friend explained that she had been in the hospital, had been released and was due to be readmitted in a few days. She demurred when the woman offered to visit, saying she would call later. The return call never came. The woman called her friend again, to be told by a relative that the friend has been dead for six months at the time the conversation took place. In several cases studied by researchers, the deceased callers make reference to an anonymous” they” and caution that there is little time to talk. The remarks imply that communication between the living and the dead is not only difficult, but not necessarily desirable. Most phone calls from the dead occur within 24 hours of the death of the caller. Most short calls come from those who have been dead seven days or less: most lengthy calls come from those who have been dead several months. One of the longest death-intervals on record is two years. In a small number of cases, the callers are strangers who say they are calling on behalf of a third party, whom the recipient later discovered is dead. Several theories exist as to the origin of phantom phone calls. (1) They are indeed placed by the dead, who somehow manipulate the telephone mechanisms and circuitry: (2) they are deceptions of elemental-type spirits who enjoy playing tricks on the living: (3) they are psychokinetic acts caused subconsciously by the recipient, whose intense desire to communicate with the dead creates a type of hallucinatory experience: (4) they are entirely fantasy created by the recipient. For the most part, phantom phone calls are not seriously regarded by parapsychologists. In the early 20th century, numerous devices were built by investigators in hopes of capturing ghostly voices: many of them were modifications of the telegraph and wireless. Thomas Alva Edison, whose parents were Spiritualists, believed that a telephone could be invented that would connect the living to the dead. He verified that he was working on such a device, but apparently it never was completed before his death. "Psychic telephone" experiments were conducted in the 1940's in England and America. Interest in the phenomenon waned until the 1960’s, following the findings of Konstantin Raudive that ghostly voices could be captured on electromagnetic tape.

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US Aircraft Carrier Ups Pressure On N. Korea A massive nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier readied Saturday for maneuvers with ally South Korea in a potent show of force that North Korea has threatened could lead to "sacred war." The military drills, code-named "Invincible Spirit," are to run Sunday through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft. The Nimitz-class USS George Washington, with several thousand sailors and dozens of fighters aboard, was deployed from Japan. The North routinely threatens attacks whenever South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an invasion. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea and another 50,000 in Japan, but says it has no intention of invading the North. Still, the North's latest rhetoric threatening "nuclear deterrence" and "sacred war" carries extra weight following the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors. Seoul and Washington say a North Korean torpedo was responsible for the March sinking of the Cheonan, considered the worst military attack on the South since the 1950-53 Korean War. The American and South Korean defense chiefs announced earlier in the week they would stage the military drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its "aggressive" behavior. I am writing this post from onboard USS George Washington and will be present at those exercises. The Wandering Gaijin will have the tourist version on his blog in a few weeks when he returns to his home. UPDATE: See also; North Korea Warns of Nuclear Response to Naval Exercises USS George Washington The U.S. said this week it will intensify sanctions against North Korea and conduct military exercises with South Korea in waters surrounding the peninsula. The USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered carrier, and three destroyers called into South Korean ports this week in a show of force. “North Korea may very well go ahead with missile launches or even a third nuclear test to show it won’t bend to U.S. pressure,” said Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. “North Korea must have sensed that the U.S. and South Korea are after its regime’s collapse.” Ri said the George Washington’s presence threatened security on the peninsula, which has been divided for more than half a century. Pak maintained the need for a peace treaty to replace a cease-fire, signed in 1953, to guarantee the peninsula’s security, Ri said. “It’s no longer the 19th century with gunboat diplomacy,” Ri said. “It is a new century and the Asian countries are in need of peace and development.”

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that controls metabolism, sleep and other bodily functions. A light-sensitive portion of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) remains the body's "master clock" that coordinates the daily cycle, but it does so indirectly, according to a study published by UT Southwestern researchers in the Oct. 15 issue of Science. The SCN responds to light entering the eye, and so is sensitive to cycles of day and night. While light may be the trigger, the UT Southwestern researchers determined that the SCN transforms that information into neural signals that set the body's temperature. These cyclic fluctuations in temperature then set the timing of cells, and ultimately tissues and organs, to be active or inactive, the study showed. Scientists have long known that body temperature fluctuates in warm-blooded animals throughout the day on a 24-hour, or circadian, rhythm, but the new study shows that temperature actually controls body cycles, said Dr. Joseph Takahashi, chairman of neuroscience at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study. "Small changes in body temperature can send a powerful signal to the clocks in our bodies," said Dr. Takahashi, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "It takes only a small change in internal body temperature to synchronize cellular 'clocks' throughout the body." Daily changes in temperature span only a few degrees and stay within normal healthy ranges. This mechanism has nothing to do with fever or environmental temperature, Dr. Takahashi said. This system might be a modification of an ancient circadian control system that first developed in other organisms, including cold-blooded animals, whose daily biological cycles are affected by external temperature changes, Dr. Takahashi said. "Circadian rhythms in plants, simple organisms and cold-blooded animals are very sensitive to temperature, so it makes sense that over the course of evolution, this primordial mechanism could have been modified in warm-blooded animals," he said. In the current study, the researchers focused on cultured mouse cells and tissues, and found that genes related to circadian functions were controlled by temperature fluctuations. SCN cells were not temperature-sensitive, however. This finding makes sense, Dr. Takahashi said, because if the SCN, as the master control mechanism, responded to temperature cues, a disruptive feedback loop could result, he said. Explore further: Now we know why old scizophrenia medicine works on antibiotics-resistant bacteria

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(Phys.org) -- After recently topping 24 miles per gallon for the first time ever, fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States slipped back below that mark last month, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, minivans and SUVs purchased in April was 23.9 mpg, down from 24.1 in March, but the same as in February. Despite the drop, fuel economy is up 3.8 mpg (or 19 percent) from October 2007, the first month of monitoring by UMTRI researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle. "The decline likely reflects the slight reduction in the price of gasoline during the second half of April," Sivak said. In addition to average fuel economy, Sivak and Schoettle issued their monthly update of their national Eco-Driving Index, which estimates the average monthly emissions generated by an individual U.S. driver. The EDI takes into account both vehicle fuel economy and distance driventhe latter relying on data that are published with a two-month lag. During February, the EDI stood at 0.81, an improvement from 0.83 in January and 0.86 in December (the lower the value, the better). The index currently shows that emissions of greenhouse gases per driver of newly purchased vehicles are down 19 percent, overall, since October 2007. Finally, Sivak and Schoettle report the unadjusted Corporate Average Fuel Economy performance. This index is based on a different set of EPA ratings than window-sticker values. For April, unadjusted CAFE performance was 29.3 mpg, down from 29.6 mpg in March, but an increase of 19 percent (4.6 mpg) since October 2007. Explore further: Energy-positive with natural ventilation More information: Fuel economy calculations, along with a graph and table of current and recent mpg: www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/EDI_sales-weighted-mpg.html Eco-Driving Index calculations, along with a graph and table of current and recent values: www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/EDI_values.html Unadjusted CAFE performance, along with a graph and table of current and recent mpg: www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/EDI_sales-weighted-CAFE.html

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This question came up as an exercise in a first year undergraduate course I was a TA for. It turned out to be a lot more difficult (impossible?) than anticipated... Two platforms of mass $M_1$ and $M_2$ ($M_1\neq M_2$) are connected by a spring of constant $k$, and are initially at rest with the spring unstretched, sitting on a frictionless surface. A man of mass $m$ stands on one platform and begins to run, always with a constant speed $v$ measured relative to the platform he is running on. What is the maximum speed reached by the other platform, relative to the ground? My intuition is telling me that I need to know something about how the man gets from rest to his constant speed (instantaneously? very slowly? with some smooth acceleration?) to solve this, but I haven't been able to prove to myself that this is required. If this is a requirement, I think the most reasonable assumption would be that he reaches his full speed instantaneously. What I'm most interested in is whether this problem can be tackled with a typical freshman's toolbox - simple arguments around conservation of energy/momentum, no/very limited differential equations, basic calculus. I can see an easy way to get an upper bound on the maximum speed from energy/momentum considerations, but I don't see a way to check if this speed is ever reached.

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If superparticles were to exist the decay would happen far more often. This test is one of the "golden" tests for supersymmetry and it is one that on the face of it this hugely popular theory among physicists has failed. Prof Val Gibson, leader of the Cambridge LHCb team, said that the new result was "putting our supersymmetry theory colleagues in a spin". The results are in fact completely in line with what one would expect from the Standard Model. There is already concern that the LHCb's sister detectors might have expected to have detected superparticles by now, yet none have been found so far.This certainly does not rule out SUSY, but it is getting to the same level as cold fusion if positive experimental result does not come soon.

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BETHEL PARK (KDKA) — A mouse doesn’t need a big hole to get into your house. “What you have to realize on a mouse — they get through holes the size of a pencil,” Andy Amrhein with Evey True Value Hardware said. “A mouse, the skeleton on it, they can contract so that a mouse that is maybe the size of a silver dollar, it’s going to contract to the size of a pencil less than your finger.” There are many ways to deal with the problem. “With the glue traps, it’s not a very humane way of doing it,” Amrhein said. “The mouse will get stuck into the glue trap itself, but then it could take days of the mouse being in the trap for the mouse to die of starvation or dehydration.” The old wives’ tale says mice like cheese, but frankly peanut butter is the most common bait to use on the old fashioned mouse trap. One of the things about using a mouse trap is getting it set. There are a couple of different ones that you don’t really have to touch, but the old standby that has been around for hundreds of years — the Victor. If you aren’t careful, it will really leave a mark, which may be another reason more people are trying live traps. “They realize there is a mouse in there, but they don’t have to touch it and they don’t have to see it and that’s where these live traps are — they are becoming more and more popular,” Amrhein said. Mouse or rat poison is an option, but fear of having poison around your kids and pets led Bonide Corporation to develop a repellent called Mouse Magic. Within 10 seconds of dropping a packet in a bucket, the mouse tries repeatedly to jump out. “It’s totally organic so it can’t hurt you, can’t hurt your kids, can’t hurt your pets, can’t hurt your little kitty cat or dog so there’s no chance of the poison getting in the wrong hands,” Amrhein said.

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When the world was still young, some 3 500 million years ago, molten rock forced its way through the earth's crust and solidified to form the spectacular granite outcrops where Pretoriuskop Rest Camp is now nestled. The impressive granite dome known as "Shabeni Hill" is not far from the camp, which is found in the south-western corner of the Kruger National Park. It is immediately apparent to any visitor that Pretoriuskop is unique as brilliant red trees adorn the camp, pre-dating the decision to make exclusive use of indigenous plants in laying out rest camp gardens. Nostalgia prompted an exception to the rule for Pretoriuskop, the Kruger National Park's oldest rest camp, and exotic flowering plants were allowed to stay, enhancing the strong sense of the past that is so pervasive. Giving geographical context to places of interest in South Africa

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Question: “When I use procedure analyse() on my schema it suggests TINYINT for the columns which have the data type VARCHAR. Based on the performance and data requirements, which one is better?” Answer: TINYTEXT and TINYINT and VARCHAR are quite different. For reference I would refer you to the mysql manual page about data types. However, procedure analyse() will read the values you have in your columns and if they consistently fit a pattern that would be better suited to another data type then it will suggest the correct one. As in, if your column is VARCHAR(1) and your data is similar to “1,4,7,5,2″ etc then TINYINT would be a better suited data type since you are dealing with numbers and not variable characters. Similarly, if you have the same varchar column, but your data is “a,b,t,h,o”[Read more...]

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Major Section: BREAK-REWRITE Example: (brr@ :target) ; the term being rewritten (brr@ :unify-subst) ; the unifying substitutionwhere General Form: (brr@ :symbol) :symbolis one of the following keywords. Those marked with *probably require an implementor's knowledge of the system to use effectively. They are supported but not well documented. More is said on this topic following the table. :symbol (brr@ :symbol) ------- ---------------------In general :target the term to be rewritten. This term is an instantiation of the left-hand side of the conclusion of the rewrite-rule being broken. This term is in translated form! Thus, if you are expecting (equal x nil) -- and your expectation is almost right -- you will see (equal x 'nil); similarly, instead of (cadr a) you will see (car (cdr a)). In translated forms, all constants are quoted (even nil, t, strings and numbers) and all macros are expanded. :unify-subst the substitution that, when applied to :target, produces the left-hand side of the rule being broken. This substitution is an alist pairing variable symbols to translated (!) terms. :wonp t or nil indicating whether the rune was successfully applied. (brr@ :wonp) returns nil if evaluated before :EVALing the rule. :rewritten-rhs the result of successfully applying the rule or else nil if (brr@ :wonp) is nil. The result of successfully applying the rule is always a translated (!) term and is never nil. :failure-reason some non-nil lisp object indicating why the rule was not applied or else nil. Before the rule is :EVALed, (brr@ :failure-reason) is nil. After :EVALing the rule, (brr@ :failure-reason) is nil if (brr@ :wonp) is t. Rather than document the various non-nil objects returned as the failure reason, we encourage you simply to evaluate (brr@ :failure-reason) in the contexts of interest. Alternatively, study the ACL2 function tilde-@- failure-reason-phrase. :lemma * the rewrite rule being broken. For example, (access rewrite-rule (brr@ :lemma) :lhs) will return the left-hand side of the conclusion of the rule. :type-alist * a display of the type-alist governing :target. Elements on the displayed list are of the form (term type), where term is a term and type describes information about term assumed to hold in the current context. The type-alist may be used to determine the current assumptions, e.g., whether A is a CONSP. :ancestors * a stack of frames indicating the backchain history of the current context. The theorem prover is in the process of trying to establish each hypothesis in this stack. Thus, the negation of each hypothesis can be assumed false. Each frame also records the rules on behalf of which this backchaining is being done and the weight (function symbol count) of the hypothesis. All three items are involved in the heuristic for preventing infinite backchaining. Exception: Some frames are ``binding hypotheses'' (equal var term) or (equiv var (double-rewrite term)) that bind variable var to the result of rewriting term. :gstack * the current goal stack. The gstack is maintained by rewrite and is the data structure printed as the current ``path.'' Thus, any information derivable from the :path brr command is derivable from gstack. For example, from gstack one might determine that the current term is the second hypothesis of a certain rewrite rule. brr@-expressionsare used in break conditions, the expressions that determine whether interactive breaks occur when monitored runes are applied. See monitor. For example, you might want to break only those attempts in which one particular term is being rewritten or only those attempts in which the binding for the variable ais known to be a consp. Such conditions can be expressed using ACL2 system functions and the information provided by brr@. Unfortunately, digging some of this information out of the internal data structures may be awkward or may, at least, require intimate knowledge of the system functions. But since conditional expressions may employ arbitrary functions and macros, we anticipate that a set of convenient primitives will gradually evolve within the ACL2 community. It is to encourage this evolution that brr@provides access to the

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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'The Path' Chinese Hibiscus, Tropical Hibiscus Among the showiest flowering plants. Plants typically bear funnel-shaped blossoms, often with prominent stamens. The many species offer a wide range of flower colors. Probably from tropical Asia; tropical hibiscus has been in cultivation for centuries, and is among the most flamboyant flowering shrubs. It reaches 30 ft. tall and 15 to 20 ft. wide in Hawaii, but more typical size on mainland is 8 to 15 ft. tall, 5 to 8 ft. wide. Glossy leaves vary somewhat in size and texture depending on variety. Growth habit may be dense and dwarfish or loose and open. Summer flowers are single or double, 4 to 8 in. wide. Colors range from white through pink to red, from yellow and apricot to orange. Individual flowers last only a day, but the plant blooms continuously. Provide overhead protection where winter lows frequently drop below 30°F/-1°C. Where temperatures go much lower, grow in containers and shelter indoors over winter; or treat as annual, setting out fresh plants each spring. Hibiscus also makes a good houseplant. This shrub requires excellent drainage; if necessary, improve soil for best drainage or set plants in raised beds or containers. Can be used as screen, espalier, or specimen. To develop good branch structure, prune poorly shaped young plants when you set them out in spring. To keep a mature plant growing vigorously, prune out about a third of old wood in early spring. Pinching out tips of stems in spring and summer increases flower production.All varieties susceptible to aphids. There are thousands of selections.'The Path' Gorgeous, ruffled, single, buttercup yellow flowers with a bright pink center on a bushy, upright shrub that grows 6–8 ft. tall, 4–5 ft. wide. Large, frilly, single, bright orange flowers with white central eye edged in red. Strong-growing, erec... Double golden flowers with petals that shade to carmine orange toward base. Plant is bushy and upright... This 6–8 ft.-tall variety has big, single, soft pink flowers.

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CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE plch_ovld_pkg IS PROCEDURE my_program (d_in IN DATE, n_in IN NUMBER); [OTHER_SUBPROGRAMS] END plch_ovld_pkg; /and asked: Which of the choices can I put in place of [OTHER_SUBPROGRAMS] that will allow me to compile the package specification without any errors? Several players raised the same objection: In other words, they felt that the following choice should have been marked as incorrect: PROCEDURE my_program (date_in IN DATE, n_in IN NUMBER);Sadly, this is one of those cases in which the Oracle documentation is incorrect. It is certainly possible to compile a package specification without errors even if two subprograms differ only by the names of one or more of their formal parameters. The verification code shows this. When, however, you overload in this manner (differences only in formal parameter names), you will either (a) have to use named notation to distinguish between the overloadings or (b) you may not be able to actually call the overloaded subprogram. In the case of the plch_ovld_pkg code, it turns out that there is no way to call successfully the original subprogram: PROCEDURE my_program (d_in IN DATE, n_in IN NUMBER);I can call the overloading that uses the date_in argument, but when I try to call the my_program procedure above, every form that I use raises the "PLS-00307: too many declarations of 'MY_PROGRAM' match this call" error - even when I use named notation. The reason is that if I use named notation to distinguish this from the "date_in" version, as in: BEGIN plch_ovld_pkg.my_program (d_in => SYSDATE, n_in => 1); plch_ovld_pkg.my_program (date_in => SYSDATE, n_in => 1); END; /the PL/SQL compiler cannot distinguish the first invocation from this other overloading: PROCEDURE my_program (n_in IN NUMBER, d_in IN DATE);and the block fails to execute. I will add more of this explanation to the answer for this quiz. But there is no doubt about it: Oracle will let you compile the package specification without error. You just won't be able to call all of the subprograms you defined.

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We're looking for beautiful mathematical images. Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces on a Tabletop by Richard Palais won the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualisation Challenge. We're looking for inspiring images that illustrate your favourite mathematical ideas. Illustrations, photographs, computer simulations or even clever doodles — anything that's colourful and inspirational. The best fifty images will be used as part of a book fifty to be published by Oxford University Press to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). The book will contain fifty examples of the best writing on mathematics, both popular and technical, aimed at a general audience. We also plan to reuse the best images (fully credited to you) in publicity for the IMA, especially its 50th Anniversary.The idea is that these images should be able to stand alone, like pictures in an art gallery, with minimal explanation. They should ideally be approximately square or portrait style and sufficiently striking to be readable when reproduced at a size of approximately 10cm2. You need to hold the copyright for the image. Please submit images, in low resolution at this stage, to firstname.lastname@example.org by or before 12th May 2013, along with any appropriate explanation or attribution text. Please using the word IMAGE in the header. We encourage you to be creative!

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Designed by Beckmann-N’Thepe Architects, this is a three-storey private house with basement, facing east/north-east on the rue de Nice and west/sout-west across its courtyard. It is clad in puttycoloured concrete from top to bottom, which makes it look as if it is cut from a single block. Its colour, echoing that of the stone or rendered façades of the neighbouring buildings, makes it blend in with its surroundings. Two wings at the rear frame a small courtyard. The building shares a courtyard with the neighbouring building on 10, rue de la Petite-Pierre, and planning regulations restricted its height to 15 metres.As neighbouring buildings are on average 21 metres tall and the plot quite small, the new building is very hemmedin. Most of the design solutions arise from this constraint. To offset the hemmed-in effect and make the most of the available light, we gave the courtyard side a funnel shape that captures maximum sunlight.The raked terracing and oblique planes of the east façade have a deconstructing effect. This façade also has striking stairways that form a key feature of the house. They are designed to look like crossed arms, facing towards the interior of the building. They largely determine the design of the rear façade, following the concrete wall that runs along them. Now comes the final key element of the façade: a glazed strip running from the ground floor to the roof. With its oblique folds, it brings south-west light into the house without affecting the privacy of the main living areas. On the street side, the façade’s main feature is a double-height terrace leading off the living room and bringing more light into the first and second levels. The terrace windows, like the others, have opening panels 75 centimetres wide and fixed panels of different lengths. Bronze-coloured reflective glass punctuates the northfacing windows and echoes the dark brown brass fittings. Brass has been widely used throughout: 10 centimetre thick brass frames, standing slightly proud of the façade, surround the windows; the frame of the terrace with its sloping front juts out over the pavement. The use of a double front door means that it has been possible to build it seamlessly into the concrete façade. The rest of the ground level is designed in a completely different way, reflecting its intended use. A long window, reminiscent of early twentieth century Parisian workshops, is set back from the façade. The roof terrace has an oblique triangular ‘fin’ that offsets the rectangular outline of the streetside façade and gives the building a tapered effect.

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Gardenia's Turtwig first appeared while Ash and his friends were heading towards Eterna City. When Gardenia challenged Ash, she used her Turtwig who displayed awesome speed, being about twice as fast as Ash's Turtwig, which was also quite agile for its species. Gardenia's Turtwig defeated Ash's Turtwig and Staravia without taking any damage, even managing to avoid Staravia's Aerial Ace. Turtwig was later used to help protect the Adamant Orb. During Gardenia's Gym battle with Ash, Turtwig once again displayed incredible speed, and managed to defeat Staravia a second time. She then battled Ash's Turtwig again but this time she lost. Later, when Gardenia and James challenged Ash and Dawn to a double battle, Turtwig fought alongside James' Cacnea. However Gardenia lost focus during the battle, resulting in Turtwig's defeat at the hands of Dawn's Pachirisu. |Leaf Storm||The Grass Type Is Always Greener| |Tackle||The Grass Type Is Always Greener| |Leech Seed||The Grass Type Is Always Greener| |Bite||The Grass Type Is Always Greener| |+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*| - indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.

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When the megagroup calling itself USA for Africa recorded “We Are the World” in 1985, no one put out an opposition message. But a new international effort called “Freedom for Palestine” is having a little more trouble getting its message out. Kickstarted by the British Palestine solidarity movement with the support of the band Coldplay, the “Freedom for Palestine” video by artists calling themselves One World is on YouTube (at www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28HnPTYz-I). Along with clips of the “Freedom for Palestine” performers, it shows the terraced hillsides of the West Bank and the faces of Palestinians young and old; it shows the refugee camps that dot the land, and the 26-foot high “separation” wall that snakes through it; and it shows the graffiti that cover miles of the wall and that constitute a continuing act of nonviolent resistance to the Occupation and the Wall. But when Coldplay listed the video’s URL on its Facebook page, Facebook received complaints that the song was “abusive”—and deleted the URL. YouTube, on the other hand, is blithely showing both “Freedom for Palestine” and an anti-Freedom for Palestine video that was put up two weeks after the original appeared on YouTube. Same song, different video: Viciously pro-Israel, it juxtaposes clips of children being educated as terrorists with shots of huge convoys of aid allegedly being sent from Israel to Gaza and images of a “prosperous marketplace in Gaza.” It’s at www.youtube.com/watch?v=mphlU96qIyg, and its existence and placement on YouTube is a blatant act of intellectual property theft that violates YouTube’s most basic rules. Presumably when the theft is brought to YouTube’s attention, they’ll remove the counter video; meanwhile, we can help bring it to their attention—and support the real “Freedom for Palestine” video, including demanding that Facebook restore the URL. Thursday, June 2, 2011 Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Some landscapes are more political than others, like the village of Budrus, in Palestine (that is, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory called the West Bank). Like many other such villages, Budrus is dependent on its centuries-old olive trees for its economic survival and for the villagers’ connection with their past and their land. But in 2004, the village’s survival was threatened when the State of Israel announced that its 26-foot high barrier wall would pass through Budrus, requiring the uprooting and destruction of 3,000 of the village’s olive trees. (In flagrant violation of international law, the wall would pass well within the “Green Line,” the border between Israel and the Palestinian Territory.) At that moment, Budrus was like many other villages in the path of the wall in one other respect: It was threatened with slow death as a viable community. Budrus, however, was not without resources. It had Ayed Morrar, a five-times imprisoned Fatah activist for Palestinian self-determination. It had his 15-year-old daughter Iltezam. It had Hamas activist Ahmed Awwad. And, in the end, it had friends—friends from the international community and from within Israel itself. Morrar called a meeting. He and Awwad agreed to work together to unite the village. They called on the whole community to resist—and Morrar persuaded the village that nonviolence was “in the best interests of the Palestinian people.” The morning that the bulldozers were scheduled to arrive, the men of Budrus marched en masse to the site of the proposed uprooting and put their bodies in the path of the earth-moving equipment. The bulldozers—and their military escort—backed off, but, of course, returned the next day. That was when Morrar’s daughter Iltezam observed that the resistance had to that point been all male and told her father that the women of Budrus had to join the protests (pictured above). When he conceded the point and asked the women to join in, Iltezam led the way by leaping into the hole a bulldozer had dug. Soon after that, international supporters came to Budrus to join the villagers; so did Jewish Israeli peace activists. After ten months of blustering insistence by Israel that no protests could make it back down, it did exactly that, moving the route of the wall away from Budrus and its olive trees and closer to the Green Line. (Depending on your definitions, the defense of Budrus was almost entirely but perhaps not 100 percent nonviolent. There were moments when the youth of Budrus were provoked to the point of throwing stones at the armed intruders, who responded by firing guns. But Morrar and Awwad begged for absolute nonviolence, and in the end, the villagers complied.) After their victory in Budrus, Morrar and his comrades organized nonviolent resistance to the wall in other Palestinian communities. Now the map of the West Bank is dotted with such pockets of resistance—and the struggle for Budrus itself is available in Budrus, a documentary by filmmaker Julia Bacha and the Just Vision production company. Using footage of the events filmed at the time, plus interviews with Ayed and Iltezam Morrar, Ahmed Awwad, one of the Jewish defenders of the village, and two members of the Israeli military who attacked it, they answer the often-asked question, “Where are the Palestinian Gandhis?” They make it abundantly clear that Palestine does have its Gandhis—and that, as happened in India, Gandhian resistance can sometimes defeat armed aggression. Budrus will inspire all nonviolent activists, although it may also make you wonder why you’re here and not in Palestine, putting your own body on the line for justice. Budrus, a Just Vision production directed by Julia Bacha, is in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, with English subtitles and at this writing is playing at Manhattan’s Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village. For more information, see www.justvision.org. ©2010 Judith Mahoney Pasternak Tuesday, October 12, 2010 October 12, 2010—For 80-plus miles, from just north of New York City to the upstate city of Poughkeepsie, the Metro North railroad tracks run along the eastern shore of the Hudson River, only yards away from the water. In my childhood and youth, that ride along the Hudson was merely “home” to me—I was raised in Croton, which sits more or less halfway between the two cities. It was only later, after I had seen the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Ohio, the Nile and the Rio de la Plata, the Rhine from beginning to end, and the Danube, the Thames, the Avon, and most of the rivers of France–only then did I grasp how extraordinary that stretch of the Hudson shore is. Across the river, which widens at the Tappan Zee and then narrows again, are the cliffs of the Palisades; in every direction, hills rise out of the water, somehow rising out of mist even on the sunniest day. Its beauty never fails to thrill me, nor have I ever seen anything to match it. Only a few score miles away is its opposite number in every sense, the ravaged country along the Amtrak railroad between New York City and Washington, DC. The first time I rode that train was on August 28, 1963, from New York to Washington. (That was the day Martin Luther King told the world he had a dream.) Between family visits—my oldest son and his family have lived in Maryland for decades—and protest marches, I’ve taken it scores of times since. For mile upon mile, the tracks pass a nightmare spectrum of blight: dying trees and poisoned waters give way to long-abandoned factories, windows broken, walls graffiti’d, which yield in turn to piles of garbage and old tires dotting tract after tract of decaying homes and broken neighborhoods. Yesterday I traveled from New York to Washington and back on Amtrak (headed, as it happens, for a family wedding). As I looked out the window, I was struck by a curious thought. Inspired, no doubt, by the fact that it was Indigenous People’s Day, I wondered, what if a Lenni Lenape Indian of 500 years ago—one of the First People of New Jersey—were to time travel along this very route today, as Amtrak skirts the toxic land along the water we call the Hackensack River? What would she think? What would she think of the deadly marshes? What would she think of the now-useless buildings? What questions would she ask in the face of this endless blight, the bitter fruit of “development” and greed? Only two, I should imagine, one of which we know the answer to, the second of which is as agonizing for us as it would be for the time traveler: “Who has done this to our Earth, and how can we heal Her?” Saturday, October 2, 2010 There are dozens of lovely, tree-filled squares in London, but only one—Tavistock Square, in northern Bloomsbury—is dedicated as a peace park. Surrounding a statue of Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s Mahatma (“Great Soul”), are benches with plaques asserting the commitment of one Londoner after another to Gandhi’s vision of peace and the “soul force” of nonviolence. One of the plaques, however, carries the name of someone who would have loved to be an honorary Englishwoman, but was in fact a New Yorker, born and bred. It says, “From Beatrice Kelvin of New York City, who works for world peace and loves London.” Bea Kelvin was my mother, and thanks to her determination and that of her daughters, the plaque was placed there in her lifetime, as she wanted it, on a bench facing the back of Gandhi’s statue (why the back of his statue is a different story, equally typical of my mom). Today being Gandhi’s birthday and the World Day of Nonviolence, I put this out in my mother’s memory and his. The Hotel Tavistock, across the street from Tavistock Square, is a little the worse for wear since its construction in the Art Deco-mad Thirties. But it’s still a handsome example of that then-modern school of architecture, and the slight wear-and-tear has brought the price down to my family’s preferred range. So it was that my peripatetic mother discovered the Tavistock in her world-traveling heyday, learned that the square across the street was a peace park, and began to conceive a desire to have her own plaque there, talking about it from time to time as another might talk about where she wanted to be buried. So it was, too, that she and her two daughters continued to stay there even after Bea could no longer travel alone and I had to accompany her when she left the country. And so it was that in 2005 my sister Joan and I found ourselves at the Tavistock without Bea, who had had a stroke the year before and couldn’t go anywhere at all anymore. We had stepped across the street to look at the square for her, so to speak, and were talking wistfully about her desire to have her name represented there. Then it occurred to us that there probably was a sign somewhere in the park that could tell us how one went about acquiring a plaque on a bench, and faster than you could say “Mohandas K. Gandhi,” Joan was speaking to the very parks department representative on her international mobile phone … Back in the States, I told Bea about our research, thinking it was another installment in our increasingly frequent conversation about her post-mortem arrangements. “So you see,” I said, “we can get you a bench there after you, um—after—well, you know—” “I don’t want it when I’m dead!” she said. “I want it now, when I can see it.” She got it. She never did see the real thing, but she saw pictures. She was very proud of it. For the last years of her life, she kept a photo of the bench—taken by one of her sons—in a prominent spot on her piano, along with her pictures of her grandchildren. (She was convinced that the park had put her plaque on the wrong bench and that she had requested it facing the front of Gandhi’s statue, but in fact she had misread the diagram they sent and insisted that the spot she chose—the one where the plaque is—was eye-to-eye with him.) When she died, four years after the plaque was installed, we displayed a large photo of it at her memorial service and noted in her death notice in The New York Times that a “bench in London's Tavistock Square is dedicated to peace in her name.” On this International Day of Nonviolence, “The Political Landscape” salutes Mohandas Gandhi and everyone else—including my mother—who has ever dreamed of a world without slaughter or cruelty and put their lives to the service of bringing that world to birth. May we finally make it so. Sunday, September 12, 2010 By Sarkis Pogossian I visited Kaifeng recently in search of traces of China's one indigenous Jewish community, which flourished in the city from the ninth century. By official histories, the last of the Kaifeng Jews disappeared in the 1860s, when the dwindling community sold their synagogue—or, by some accounts, 1841, when the Yellow River burst its banks and the temple was removed to strengthen the city walls. The claim that the Kaifeng Jews do not survive was recently contested by reporter Matthew Fishbane of the New York Times, who visited living self-identified Jews in the city this spring—despite the fact that Jews are not one of China's official nationalities. The Jews of Kaifeng, who also arrived on the Silk Road from the west, were known to their Han neighbors as the "blue-turbaned Muslims"—the exotic faith of Judaism apparently considered to the Han a mere variant of Islam. Having not yet seen the New York Times article, I arrived in Kaifeng cold—and the responses to my inquiries indicated that the confusion persists to this day. Kaifeng, China's capital in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), is today a chaotic modern city, with much more of a "third world" feel than Beijing. Like all Chinese cities, it is rife with KFCs and crass commercialism—until the main drag ends in a traditional arch guarded by carved lions. Beyond this lies Old Kaifeng. Crossing over is like going back centuries in time. Asking locals through my interpreter where the old Jewish district could be found, I was directed to Zhuxian, a peasant village a 20-kilometer bus ride south of Kaifeng—which turned out to be inhabited almost entirely by Hui Muslims. Not a trace of Judaism was in evidence, but a beautiful mosque, probably dating to the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty—in classical Chinese style, but with Arabic calligraphy in the intricate wood-carvings and relief work. I finally figured out that the city's most precious Jewish artifacts are sequestered in the Kaifeng Municipal Museum—literally kept under lock and key in a secret room on the building's top floor. With special permission from the museum management, I was allowed entry. No photos were permitted. When the lights were turned on, the dusty "Exhibition on the History & Culture of the Ancient Kaifeng Jews" was revealed. The principal artifacts are three stelae which stood outside the synagogue, telling the history of the Kaifeng Jews—dating to 1489, 1512 and 1679. The interpretive material in English refers to the synagogue as a "mosque." The caption for the 1489 stele, which was erected after the demolition of the original synagogue dating to the 12th century, reads: "Stele of Rebuilding the Mosque." The badly worn writing is all in Chinese. On a China tourism website, I had read that relics from the last synagogue—particularly blue tiles from its roof—were still guarded by the Muslims at Kaifeng's Dongda Si, or Eastern Grand Mosque. So the following morning, I took a bicycle-taxi to the Dongda Si, another magnificent centuries-old mosque, which lies hidden amid a warren of alleys invisible to the eyes of Kaifeng's few foreign tourists. My interpreter's questions about the Jewish relics were met with incomprehension, but we were welcomed to look around the mosque and take photos. Amid the exquisite wood-carvings with both Arabic and Chinese calligraphic work were two cross-beams which were a special historical prize—carved with lines in an ancient and esoteric script, which I was unable to certainly identify, despite my queries. This was possibly Kufic, the archaic form of Arabic in which the early Korans were written. Or possibly it was the ancient Uighur script, which was loosely based on Kufic through the intermediaries of the Persians—speaking to the ancient roots of the Hui culture. The New York Times article indicated that a couple of small tourism companies are offering trips to Kaifeng for those seeking the city's Jewish heritage, and perhaps I would have seen more of what I was looking for if I had known about them—for instance, the site of the old synagogue on Teaching Torah Lane. But my blind probings led me to an unexpected look at Kaifeng's unique syncretism and fortuitous confusion. My friend Sarkis Pogossian wrote this as part of a longer piece on "The Mosque Controversy--in China" for Bill Weinberg’s excellent web journal, World War 4 Report. On Friday, September 10, while New York was thinking about 9-11, I went to the opening day of la Fête de l'Humanité at the Parc de Corneuve, just outside Paris. The Fête de l'Huma is the annual three-day festival held by l'Humanité, once the paper of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français), now independent but still close to the PCF. The fête occupies a 173-acre site (that's about one-fifth the size of Central Park) and has, like any fair, a midway, vendors, panels, forums, rock concerts, and booths serving food and drinks. The primary difference between the fête and your local county fair is that the booths represent Communist parties from all over France and from around the world. For someone who grew up in a country (I mean, of course, the United States) where "communist" was a word for scaring children in the culture at large--a word that has since, simply, disappeared from that same culture--that difference is mind-boggling. (More photos at Picasa.) Monday, March 8, 2010 Yesterday, “Contested Terrain” blogger (and my former Guardian Newsweekly colleague) Dan Cohen suggested that awarding the Best Picture Oscar to Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker “would be a great way for Hollywood to celebrate … International Women’s Day.” He was referring to the fact that none of the previous Best Pictures was directed by a woman, nor had any woman ever been recognized as Best Director. Last night, in accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Precious, Mo’nique said, “I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all she had to so that I would not have to.” She was referring to the first Academy Award given to an African-American, which McDaniel received in 1940 for playing Mammy in Gone With the Wind. My own predictions, based on all that history, were thrillingly off the mark. Handicapping the Oscars in the Indypendent a couple of weeks ago, I said it would be “Avatar all the way,” and added, “Prove me wrong, Academy, Please.” And just in time for International Women’s Day, the Academy did. I had failed to take into account certain subtleties of Academy Award demographics, to wit, that people in groups that have historically gone unrecognized and un-awarded are more likely to get awards for work that subordinates members of that group. I've written about this extensively. For example, the first eight Oscars presented to Black actors—from McDaniel’s in 1940 to the historic first presentation of both top acting awards to African-Americans in 2002—were given for performances in movies that were predominantly about white people. In other words, from 1940 through 2002, when Black actors won Academy Awards, it was for playing roles secondary to white people in the cast. Not until 2005, fifty-five years after McDaniel’s Oscar, did a Black actor get an Academy Award for a movie that was actually about African-American life. (The actor was Janie Foxx, playing singer Ray Charles in the biopic Ray.) No movie about Black people has ever gotten the Best Picture Oscar, nor has any by a Black director; indeed, no film by Spike Lee, arguably the country’s most prolific and creative filmmaker, has ever been nominated as Best Picture. Thus, when I declared that history made Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker an unlikely prospect for the top Oscar, I wasn’t thinking about the fact that it had become one of the most acclaimed films ever made by a woman yet was in no way a “chick flick.” That’s an understatement, of course. The Hurt Locker is a war movie, in which there are almost no women at all—and as such it was, let us say, a little more likely to become the groundbreaking first woman-directed Best Picture. I mean a lot more likely, certainly more than was, say, Danish director Lone Scherfig’s An Education, which is very much a “chick flick.” None of this is can or should diminish Bigelow’s achievement, which stands on its own, as did McDaniel’s performance in Gone With the Wind. The Hurt Locker is a powerful film (if not, alas, an antiwar film), and Bigelow’s victory brings us closer to the day when a movie by and about a woman may actually be declared the Best Picture of its year. (And she beat out her own ex-husband—James Cameron, director of Avatar, in case you don’t read Hollywood gossip—which may give a little extra frisson of triumph to all the ex-wives out there.) Happy International Women’s Day, sisters and comrades. ©Judith Mahoney Pasternak 2010

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Outside of the academic environment, a harsh and seemingly ever-growing debate has appeared, concerning how mass media distorts the political agenda. Few would argue with the notion that the institutions of the mass media are important to contemporary politics. In the transition to liberal democratic politics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the media was a key battleground. In the West, elections increasingly focus around television, with the emphasis on spin and marketing. Democratic politics places emphasis on the mass media as a site for democratic demand and the formation of “public opinion”. The media are seen to empower citizens, and subject government to restraint and redress. Yet the media are not just neutral observers but are political actors themselves. The interaction of mass communication and political actors — politicians, interest groups, strategists, and others who play important roles — in the political process is apparent. Under this framework, the American political arena can be characterized as a dynamic environment in which communication, particularly journalism in all its forms, substantially influences and is influenced by it. According to the theory of democracy, people rule. The pluralism of different political parties provides the people with “alternatives,” and if and when one party loses their confidence, they can support another. The democratic principle of “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” would be nice if it were all so simple. But in a medium-to-large modern state things are not quite like that. Today, several elements contribute to the shaping of the public’s political discourse, including the goals and success of public relations and advertising strategies used by politically engaged individuals and the rising influence of new media technologies such as the Internet. A naive assumption of liberal democracy is that citizens have adequate knowledge of political events. But how do citizens acquire the information and knowledge necessary for them to use their votes other than by blind guesswork? They cannot possibly witness everything that is happening on the national scene, still less at the level of world events. The vast majority are not students of politics. They don’t really know what is happening, and even if they did they would need guidance as to how to interpret what they knew. Since the early twentieth century this has been fulfilled through the mass media. Few today in United States can say that they do not have access to at least one form of the mass media, yet political knowledge is remarkably low. Although political information is available through the proliferation of mass media, different critics support that events are shaped and packaged, frames are constructed by politicians and news casters, and ownership influences between political actors and the media provide important short hand cues to how to interpret and understand the news. One must not forget another interesting fact about the media. Their political influence extends far beyond newspaper reports and articles of a direct political nature, or television programs connected with current affairs that bear upon politics. In a much more subtle way, they can influence people’s thought patterns by other means, like “goodwill” stories, pages dealing with entertainment and popular culture, movies, TV “soaps”, “educational” programs. All these types of information form human values, concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, sense and nonsense, what is “fashionable” and “unfashionable,” and what is “acceptable” and “unacceptable”. These human value systems, in turn, shape people’s attitude to political issues, influence how they vote and therefore determine who holds political power.

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Despite his electoral promises, President Barack Obama has yet to face the disastrous policies of George W. Bush. Americans were desperate for an alternative to wars and financial meltdown. Obama said he would reverse Americas decline: end the wars, teach Wall Street a lesson and restore the crumbling middle class. Not only did Bush start the disastrous and ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that made America a pariah country in the world, but also his advisors stoked the greed of Wall Street with the result vast wealth lined the pockets of the very rich and poverty encircled millions. One percent of very rich Americans owns as much as the 95% of the population. Such gross inequities annihilate the mythic middle class and make mockery of democracy. In addition, and no less important, for 8 years Bush dismantled whatever environmental protection Americans enjoyed. The presidents men and women managed this corporate counterrevolution within the federal government, rewriting, weakening and deleting regulations controlling pollution. A huge number of toxic chemicals, including some 200 cancer-causing farm sprays, have been assaulting Americans, contaminating the countrys water, air, and food. With Bush in the White House, hurting people and the environment became routine. The US Environmental Protection Agency even refused to protect children from the carcinogens and nerve poisons of farmers. EPA also shut down its labs, libraries, and destroyed thousands of key documents. Without these labs, libraries, and documents EPA is laboring in the dark. Former Vice President Dick Cheney planned the countrys energy policy in secret in order to satisfy the profits of the oil, car, nuclear, coal, and manufacturing companies. A petroleum man worked out of the White House editing the documents of government scientists reporting that global warming was a result of human activities, particularly industrialized animal farms and the burning of oil, coal and natural gas. President Bush, who rejected the Kyoto Protocol for slowing down the warming of the earth, sided with the petroleum companies spreading doubt and misinformation about climate change. So it was with this Bush legacy of almost criminal neglect about the protection of human health and the environment that Obama has had to wrestle with. Unfortunately, Obama has flunked this first test of leadership. His appointees at the critical federal departments protecting human health and the natural world, Agriculture, Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration, came with corporate biases. First, Lisa Jackson, administrator of EPA: She used to be the Commissioner of Environmental Protection in New Jersey. According to Professional Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a Washington, D.C., non-profit organization defending federal employees who blow the whistle on corruption, she punished scientists for speaking out. On the other hand, the Sierra Club likes Jackson. Environmentalists of Texas also like her regional administrator, Al Armendariz. So, perhaps, it is too early to judge her, though preparing regulations for coal ash while the agency promotes coal-mining waste for sale mirror confusion and corporate influence. The partnership between EPA and the coal industry legitimizes the peddling of hazardous coal ash for consumer uses that bring the industry more than $ 11 billion each year. The Battlefield Golf Club of Chesapeake, Virginia, learned to its detriment that using 1.5 million tons of coal fly ash in its land made that land toxic, leaching poisons into the groundwater and residential wells. Last December, the Kingston coal ash pond of the Tennessee Valley Authority spilled a billion gallons of toxic sludge that covered 300 acres of land. There are some 1,300 such ponds all over the country. All of them remain unregulated. Jackson probably knows that the coal waste, something like 131 million tons in 2007, is full of toxic chemicals and metals: lead, arsenic, barium and boron in particular. The right thing to do would be to classify coal waste as hazardous waste. Second, Michael Taylor, a Monsanto vice president and fat-cat lobbyist, is advising the Commissioner of FDA. Third, Joseph Coal Ash Joe Pizarchik, a mining bureaucrat from Pennsylvania, has the blessings of Obama and Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, to direct the Office of Surface Mining of the Department of the Interior. But this man has had a bad reputation for supporting destructive mining in Pennsylvania. Under the Bush administration the Interiors Office of Surface Mining used to approve the repulsive and catastrophic mining practices in West Virginia and Kentucky where entire mountains are blown up to extract coal. Fortunately, EPA promised to prohibit any more removals of mountaintops. Also, Ken Salazar cancelled the Bush oil leases in the public land of Utah. So, like in the case of EPA, the record in the Interior is one of danger and promise. Fourth, the experts Obama appointed to represent America in the December 2009 negotiations about climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark, act like they are the first cousins of the petroleum lobbyists that worked for Bush. Brent Blackwelder, president of the Friends of the Earth, which, like the Sierra Club, is a large environmental organization in the US, called the Obama officials weak-kneed and not leading. Theres still time for Obama to return to his public promise. He needs to discard the Bush legacy, particularly in matters affecting public health and the natural world. First, use the power of the federal government, including anti-trust laws, to regulate or abolish industrialized animal farms. Demand that they clean up their massive wastes before spaying them over land or directing the poisoned liquid towards rivers. Or, better yet, break up animal factories into thousands of small family farms. Give the annual agricultural subsidies of about $20 billion to family farms of 320 or less acres in size. Order all federal departments, including the Pentagon, to buy organic food. This measure alone would dramatically increase the number of organic farms and food production for the benefit of all Americans. The other beneficial effect of organic farming is in the carbon emissions organic soil absorbs. According to a 2009 Rodale Institute study, if all of the 3.5 billion farm acres in the world produced food in an organic way, organic land would sequester 40 percent of all carbon emissions. Second, EPA ought to ban all cancer-causing and nerve-damaging pesticides. EPA talent could then join the great scientific talent of the Department of Agriculture in helping farmers to end their dependence on toxic sprays and genetic engineering. Good farming practices and ecological knowledge, already helping organic farming, can also help the remaining farmers to return to a healthy and prosperous agriculture. Third, take global warming for the calamity it is becoming. Select Americas best climate scientists with instructions to craft a strategy to move this country into the solar age, cutting its carbon dioxide emissions fast and in substantial amounts. Join the international community this December in Copenhagen to bring the world together to slow down and reverse global warming. Finally, Obama and Americans must understand that environmental protection is not a luxury at all. It is a matter of life and death. According to EPA data, DDT-like poisons in the 1970s contaminated mothers milk. In the 1980s, more than half of the population had pentachlorophenol, a cancer-causing toxin, in their blood. Pentachlorophenol was also contaminated by dioxin, the most acutely toxic chemical in the industrialized world. Hispanics had a tremendous variety of toxins in their bodies. Blacks and poor whites had also greater amounts of toxins in their bodies than middle class whites. Pollution follows class. Protecting the natural world is protecting us. We need a new EPA independent of industry influence and political interference. Perhaps, a Supreme Court-like EPA might just be the right model for environmental protection in the United States. EPA will be the final test whether Obama is weak-kneed and not leading. Now that he won the 2009 Peace Prize, Obama might wish to win the environmental and public health prize. Evaggelos Vallianatos, former analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency, is the author of This Land is Their Land and The Passion of the Greeks. From The Progressive Populist, December 15, 2009 News | Current Issue | Back Issues | Essays | Links About the Progressive Populist | How to Subscribe | How to Contact Us

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For many years, UNESCO and China have collaborated closely in the field of world heritage. Among the 35 Chinese properties on the World Heritage List, there are 25 cultural, 6 natural and 4 mixed sites. China is working with the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) on a Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads. Like the country itself, China’s intangible cultural heritage is of extremely vast. The Kun Qu Opera was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001, and the Guqin and its Music in 2003. The Uyghur Muqam of Xinjiang and the Urtiin Duu – Traditional Folk Long Song (the latter was submitted together with Mongolia) were awarded this distinction in 2005. A number of field projects have been devoted to endangered languages. With regard to cultural diversity, the cultural approach to the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS is being studied by officials. Crafts that make it possible to maintain traditional techniques - frequently the preserve of women - as well as community economic development are being promoted in some regions. China also collaborates with UNESCO in the area of dialogue through the programme on Intercultural Dialogue in Central Asia. In the framework of this programme, China is a member of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies, which was created to encourage intellectual cooperation among the Member States of the region.

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Engine Diagnostic Pulse Sensor Pico Technology announce the immediate availability of, and support for, the FirstLook automotive engine diagnostic sensor - FirstLook engine diagnostic sensor kit - Senses pulses in air pressure - Technical support - Automotive waveforms Cambridge, UK - 29 September 2003 - Pico Technology, specialists in PC-oscilloscopes, has announced the immediate availability of, and support for, the FirstLook automotive diagnostic sensor kit. The kit provides a fast and accurate means of diagnosing automotive engine problems - such as burnt valves and faulty injectors - without having to dismantle the engine. FirstLook inserts into a vehicle's exhaust pipe or attaches (via adaptor) to its inlet manifold or fuel pressure regulator vacuum port and converts air pressure pulses into electrical signals - which can be viewed and captured on an oscilloscope. The waveforms displayed provide the earliest indications that there are, for example, problems with specific cylinders and/or the injectors. Alan Tong, Pico Technology's Technical Director, comments: "As the name suggests, FirstLook provides the first look into why an engine may be failing to turn over or why it may not be running smoothly. Combined with the power and versatility of PC-based diagnostics hardware and software, the FirstLook sensor can save technicians a lot of time - and therefore save garages money." The FirstLook sensor, a piezoelectric device, requires no external power source and is particularly suitable for use with the ADC-212/3 - the PC-oscilloscope at the heart of Pico's Automotive Diagnostics Kits. Engine Cranking (sensor used on exhaust and inlet sides) and Fuel Pressure Regulator Waveforms, captured using FirstLook, have already been added to Pico's growing online library of automotive waveforms - and more are set to follow. The FirstLook Engine Diagnostic Sensor kit comprises: FirstLook Diagnostic Sensor; BNC to BNC cable (8m); BNC to banana jack plugs (1.3m); BNC to BNC adaptor; and Vacuum line adaptor. The kit is available immediately and retails for £259.00 + VAT. Tong concludes: "FirstLook, combined with our PC-based test and measurement solutions, simplifies automotive diagnostics and, even before lifting the bonnet, can provide a valuable first insight into why a vehicle may not be running properly." About Pico Technology Established in 1991, Pico Technology designs and manufactures PC-based test and measurement solutions. The company's three flagship PC-based instruments are PicoScope (software that turns a PC into an oscilloscope, spectrum analyser and meter at the same time), and PicoLog and EnviroMon (software for the collection, analysis and display of data). All three Windows-based tools can be downloaded for free.

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A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework called KuU--the Known, the unknown, and the Unknowable--that enables one to conceptualize the different kinds of financial risks and design effective strategies for managing them. Bringing together contributions by leaders in finance and economics, this book pushes toward robustifying policies, portfolios, contracts, and organizations to a wide variety of KuU risks. Along the way, the strengths and limitations of "quantitative" risk management are revealed. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Ashok Bardhan, Dan Borge, Charles N. Bralver, Riccardo Colacito, Robert H. Edelstein, Robert F. Engle, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Clive W. J. Granger, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Donald L. Kohn, Howard Kunreuther, Andrew Kuritzkes, Robert H. Litzenberger, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, David M. Modest, Alex Muermann, Mark V. Pauly, Til Schuermann, Kenneth E. Scott, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. - Introduces a new risk-management paradigm - Features contributions by leaders in finance and economics - Demonstrates how "killer risks" are often more economic than statistical, and crucially linked to incentives - Shows how to invest and design policies amid financial uncertainty "It is a bold book, tackling both theory and practice and spanning the worlds of (among others) banking, insurance, real estate, and investment. It is also utterly engrossing. . . . Although this book is most obviously addressed to risk managers and regulators, I think it should be read by every intellectually curious person with skin in the financial game. If the investor or trader doesn't come away with at least one or two ideas of practical importance to his financial life, he is a 'sleepreader.'"--Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets blog "Peppered with anecdotes and prominent examples, the book never abandons the practical side of its topic. It will be helpful for readers interested in only specific subtopics that each article is a stand-alone piece. I recommend this book to a wide audience: academics and practitioners, of course, but even people who are not directly involved in the financial sector, but are interested in it, will find it definitely worth their time."--Tobias Nigbur, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management "The financial risk management issues discussed under the KuU framework are highly relevant, and this especially in the light of the subprime credit crisis. Bringing them together in this timely volume will encourage further academic research and remind regulators and practitioners alike first to learn to walk before attempting to run."--Paul Embrechts, RiskLab, ETH Zurich Table of Contents Other Princeton books authored or coauthored by Francis X. Diebold:

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A Formal Introduction, 2nd Edition Distributed for Center for the Study of Language and Information The book covers the core areas of English syntax from the last quarter century, including complementation, control, "raising constructions," passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of long distance dependency constructions. Syntactic Theory's step-by-step introduction to a consistent grammar in these core areas is complemented by extensive problem sets drawing from a variety of languages. The book's theoretical perspective is presented in the context of current models of language processing, and the practical value of the constraint-based, lexicalist grammatical architecture proposed has already been demonstrated in computer language processing applications. This thoroughly reworked second edition includes revised and extended problem sets, updated analyses, additional examples, and more detailed exposition throughout. Praise for the first edition: "Syntactic Theory sets a new standard for introductory syntax volumes that all future books should be measured against."—Gert Webelhuth, Journal of Linguistics

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May 16, 2011 If you fuel your truck with biodiesel made from palm oil grown on a patch of cleared rainforest, you could be putting into the atmosphere 10 times more greenhouse gasses than if you’d used conventional fossil fuels. It’s a scenario so ugly that, in its worst case, it makes even diesel created from coal (the “coal to liquids” fuel dreaded by climate campaigners the world over) look “green.” The biggest factor determining whether or not a biofuel ultimately leads to more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional fossil fuels is the type of land used to grow it, says a new study from researchers at MIT. The carbon released when you clear a patch of rainforest is the reason that palm oil grown on that patch of land leads to 55 times the greenhouse-gas emissions of palm oil grown on land that had already been cleared or was not located in a rainforest, said the study’s lead author. The solution to this biofuels dilemma is more research. Unlike solar and wind, it’s truly an area in which the world is desperate for scientific breakthroughs, such as biofuels from algae or salt-tolerant salicornia.

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Look ahead to a new year To the Editor: It's easy at the end of any year to start the process of looking back. I want to encourage you too look ahead instead. In fact, how can you see your future when you're staring at your past? We call our past the past, but the truth is, it is very much the present in many lives today. For some, past issues so rule their thoughts and actions that they decide their future is over before it's begun. They have given up on themselves, and that has brought them to believe that God has given up on them, too. Yet God has always used "broken vessels" to accomplish His purpose on this earth. A number of people in the Bible were broken, yet God raised them Up in a marvelous way. God used Moses, a murderer to deliver the Hebrew children. God used Jacob, a liar and a trickster, to fulfill His promise to Abraham, He even used Rahab, a prostitute, in the Messiah's family line. Just as God redeemed their lives. He can also redeem yours. If you have ever questioned whether a failure, or even multiple failures, have disqualified you from God use, I have a word for you: It's not too late. God can take a mess and make a miracle. So look ahead. God has a plan for You. It is a good plan, filled with both a future and a hope. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. (1 Peter 3:12). And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? (Mark 4:40). We have a race to run, Where the Lord has brought Us from, United we stand, together we can. Wayne Robert Scott

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If our Christianity does not move us beyond our particular Christian group or church or denomination, or our faith system or doctrine, to accept those who believe and practice a different faith than ours, then our faith will most likely be more detrimental than helpful to the work of the kingdom of God on earth. If we cannot embrace others as God’s children without requiring them to adhere to our faith system then we become obstacles, obstructions, barriers to the creation of God’s beloved community. Our Christian faith should be a resource that compels us to hold our beliefs in humility, to work for peace, to listen to and treat others of different faith traditions with respect, and look for common ground on which we can stand together as children of God. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” said Jesus. “Blessed are those who hunger after justice” (the kind that attends to the inequities of the disadvantaged). Isn’t it ironic and sad that so many versions of Christianity today have the opposite impact and effect, causing division and promoting inequity? Instead of breaking down walls, creating mutual trust, and building friendships, some Christians who press others to conform and convert to their faith system condemn and dismiss those who refuse to adopt their Christian interpretations. Until we all put on the mind of Christ and value others as much as we value ourselves, until we stop preaching at those who are different and accept and affirm them as children of God, there will be no peace and we who claim to be in the kingdom of God will prevent its arrival. I received an email once from someone who identified himself or herself as “O1T”—meaning “only one truth.” I’m sure this person not only believed that there was only one truth, but that he or she alone (along with his or her group, church, etc.) possessed the one truth. Everyone else, of course, who differed from their version, would need to align themselves with the one truth. This approach to faith is what makes religion destructive and deadly. There can be no peace, their can be no beloved community, the kingdom of God will not be realized on earth until we are all convinced that every person, whatever one’s faith or religious affiliation, whatever one’s ethnic origin, culture, or social state, whatever one’s mental or physical abilities or disabilities, is a child of God, precious and loved, and that every person—wherever they live, or whatever they believe—has access to God. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was imprisoned by the military dictatorship of Argentina and spent eighteen months in solitary confinement. As we would expect he went through periods of depression and experienced feelings of outrage, but he ultimately decided that if he were set free he would not seek revenge but work to bring in a new order, where people could live in peace and dignity and where life would be deemed sacred. In the months after his release he struggled to live up to this vision. The words of Jesus from the cross kept haunting him, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” These words made no sense to him; surely, he reasoned, they new exactly what they were doing. But then it dawned on him. What did his torturers and oppressors not know? They did not realize that they had imprisoned and were mistreating a brother, not an enemy. There were all children of God and the only way he could communicate this truth would be to forgive them and pursue a course for peace. Until we accept this basic theology that transcends all religion, nationality, and culture and seek constructive ways to embody it, it is not likely that we will make progress creating a world where there is mutual dialogue, trust, friendship, justice, and peace.

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- Policy Resources - News & Analysis - Your State Progressive States Network is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the work of progressive state legislators around the country and to the advancement of state policies that deliver on issues that matter to working families: strong wage standards and workplace freedom, balancing work and family responsibilities, health care for all, smart growth and clean energy, tax and budget reform, clean and fair elections, and technology investments to bridge the digital divide. National Legislative Working Groups Progressive States Network is building and expanding national state legislative working groups to act as a conduit for educating and equipping state legislators with innovative progressive policies, proactive and effective messaging, and providing opportunities for legislators to engage in cross state exploration of “best practices” within their specific policy area. Working groups will support and advance strong state level legislative campaigns as well as serve as the organizing entities for advancing compelling national messaging and action campaigns related to Tax Fairness, Affordable Health Care, Comprehensive Immigration, Protecting Public Education and Building Economic Security. Working Groups hold the potential for state law makers and allies to take multi-state actions to promote a unified message and to effectively advance a common sense policy agenda. Find out more about the Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform. Find out more about the Working Group of State Legislators for Election Reform. Find out more about the Working Group of State Legislators for Tax Fairness. 2013 Blueprint for Economic Security Comprised of over 20 policy options spanning a range of issues, the Blueprint weaves together state policies that have already proven effective, pragmatic, and popular, organizing these proposals under four broad frames that reflect many of the top concerns of American families: building an economy that works, making government work for people, protecting and supporting families, and revitalizing a middle class that continues to be largely left out of the economic recovery. The specific policies highlighted in the Blueprint were selected with a view toward the challenging political realities faced by progressives and moderates in many states. Many proposals have received bipartisan support in state legislatures, are revenue-neutral, and are exceedingly popular among voters. Several policies provide legislators and advocates with golden opportunities to advance a core message and shift the narrative — even if in a given state they are not likely to be enacted despite overwhelming popular support. Other policies will inevitably be front-and-center in multiple states as attacks from the right continue. And all are supported by Progressive States Network as well as a host of state-based and national groups working to build economic security in the states in 2013. View the 2013 Blueprint (PDF)

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|How can we analyze the entire procurement database of the United States Federal Government? Sometimes, even when data is provided, using that data can require some technical intervention.| Not All Data is Easy to Use! The Federal Procurement Data System is record of all contracts awarded by the Federal Government to contractors, and is available online to peruse by the public. The system is accessible at http://www.fpds.gov, and provides a rich source for analysis of how government contracts are awarded, how these contracts have changed over time, and what the spending patterns are within a fiscal year. While much economic data is presented in a format that facilitates analysis, the FPDS only provides limited access to the underlying data via its convenient web portal. How Can I Analyze This Data? When data is presented in an inconvenient format, it can be a challenge to import it into your favorite analysis package. That's where we come in! The research technology consultants at IQSS have the skills to write scripts that can download large amounts of data and reformat it in a way that makes sense, and is convenient for researchers. Furthermore, we can walk you through the entire process and give you the tools that are necessary to perform this processing yourself. From the FPDS, data can be exported several records at a time, and then converted to files that can be loaded into R, Stata and even Excel. By leveraging technology to download and convert data, a script can download not just a small subset of the records, but every possible record!

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When HMOs deny life-saving care to their patients, members of Congress fulminate. Recently, 275 of them, including 29 Republicans, voted for a patients' bill of rights. "Deny American citizens effective, life-saving treatments or palliatives for pain?" I imagine them saying indignantly to the HMOs. "That's our job." In the past few months, Congress and the Justice Department have been busy malpracticing medicine, callously violating patients' rights. The House passed a bill effectively criminalizing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, despite its endorsement in two statewide referenda. The Senate passed an anti-abortion law that prohibits doctors from employing particular surgical techniques, even if they're necessary to preserve the woman's health. The Justice Department proceeded with the prosecution of two men, one stricken with cancer and the other with AIDS, who used marijuana to alleviate nausea and pain. The department relied on congressional declarations of the medical uselessness of marijuana. Playing doctor (without regard for the Hippocratic oath), Congress makes it easy for even liberal social engineers to hate the government. Sometimes it seems dedicated to increasing human suffering. Imagine yourself terminally ill and in unrelenting pain, desirous of ending your now unwanted life. Then imagine Congress threatening your doctor with imprisonment if he or she prescribes a lethal dose of drugs at your request. All you can say is "How dare they," especially if you're a citizen in a state that has twice passed a death-with-dignity referendum. Shouldn't your wish to end your life prevail over Henry Hyde's compulsion to prolong it? There is, after all, no evidence that Oregon's law has been abused by unscrupulous doctors, murderous families, or deranged patients. The Death with Dignity Act has safeguards aimed at ensuring that patients who choose death do so knowingly and willingly, and it applies only to terminally ill patients facing death within six months. In 1998 only 15 people took advantage of the law. Still, Henry Hyde, who sponsored the congressional override of Oregon's right-to-die law, charged that it was turning doctors into "executioners." Not exactly a nuanced thinker, Hyde apparently doesn't understand the difference between murdering people who wish to remain alive and facilitating the suicides of terminally ill people seeking more merciful deaths than their diseases will allow. This heartless bill could also deter doctors from administering effective doses of pain medication, although it is deceptively entitled the Pain Relief Promotion Act. On its face, the bill prohibits the use of federally controlled substances intended to hasten death and includes exceptions for drugs intended only to alleviate pain. (Doctors would face up to 20 years in prison for assisting suicides.) But who determines the intent of a doctor in prescribing pain medication that facilitates the death of a terminally ill patient? As the bill's opponents pointed out, we may not want federal drug agents and prosecutors hovering over our death beds, monitoring our doctors. People who seek physician and patient autonomy from HMO bureaucrats may not welcome the medical interventions of Congressunless they believe that Congress is acting at the behest of God, seeking a higher good. Opposition to right-to-die laws is fueled partly by the religious fervor of anti-abortion activists. In their view, laws prohibiting assisted suicides or abortions aren't violations of individual liberty; they're restrictions on sinful individual license. Laws restricting or prohibiting abortions may even be framed by their supporters as patients' rights bills: To abortion opponents, the fetus is the primary patient; the pregnant woman deserves medical care only when it enhances fetal development or, at least, poses the fetus no harm. During the recent Senate debate on a bill purporting to limit late-term abortions, the bill's supporters cast themselves as patient-advocates intent on protecting the most vulnerable patients from unscrupulous doctors. Doctors who perform abortions are "executioners," Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum charged, echoing Henry Hyde. The apparently demented New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith claimed that abortion clinics house "harvesters" in their back rooms who "take [the] baby, cut it into pieces and sell it." Is this the man you want making medical decisions for you or your family? Late-term abortion laws, which have been adopted in some 30 states, tend to be drafted vaguely so as to prohibit common procedures that may be used any time during a pregnancy. Because of their breadth and their interference with doctor-patient relationships, late-term abortion prohibitions have been enjoined or limited judicially in a majority of states where they've been enacted. There are conflicting federal court opinions on the constitutionality of these laws, which are likely to be reviewed eventually by the Supreme Court. Whether you view abortion prohibitions like this as malicious or benevolent government acts usually depends on whether or not you consider the fetus an equal to a human being who's actually been born. But even some who consider abortion sinful are bound to be troubled when women are killed or maimed by illegal abortions during periods of prohibition. People ambivalent about abortion may worry when women are deprived by legislative fiat of the safest, most appropriate abortion techniques. Whether or not abortions are cruel, congressional controls on abortion procedures, in their disdain for women's health, are hardly kind. Cruelty doesn't always come naturally to people. Federal prosecutors must be selected for their callousness, or perhaps they enter training programs designed to purge them of compassion. How else can we explain the prosecution of Peter McWilliams and Todd McCormick? Both men were among a group of nine defendants charged with growing and distributing marijuana, after a federal raid uncovered more than 4,000 marijuana plants. McCormick explains that he has smoked marijuana to alleviate pain from cancer treatments that fused several of his vertebrae. McWilliams says he has used marijuana to treat nausea caused by the AIDS drugs that have kept him alive. It is not hyperbole to suggest that the federal prosecution is killing him. Prohibited from using marijuana while awaiting trial for the past year, McWilliams has been vomiting frequently and not absorbing his AIDS medication; as a result, The Los Angeles Times has reported, his virus is no longer under control. This is one case in which the defendants' side of the story is compelling, so the prosecutors didn't want jurors to hear it. The government successfully moved to prohibit McCormick and McWilliams from raising a medical-necessity defense and thus from telling their stories. The defendants were also prohibited from citing the federal government's own research into the medical uses of marijuana or explaining that their actions were permitted by state law: In 1996 California passed a referendum, Proposition 215, allowing for medical use of marijuana. Prosecutors were so anxious to exclude testimony explaining the medical reasons for using marijuana that they agreed to limit the case against McWilliams and McCormick to a charge of growing marijuana. (Charging them with distribution would have made their intent, or state of mind, an element of the case.) Deprived of their ability to defend themselves in court, both McWilliams and McCormick pled guilty to conspriracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana and face prison terms of up to five years. According to prosecutors, medical-necessity defenses were simply irrelevant. "It doesn't matter if they say, 'I'm doing this to save my life,'" a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney explained. "It's illegal to manufacture or cultivate marijuana under federal law." In fact, it matters a great deal if a defendant engages in otherwise criminal behavior in order to save his life or the life of another. Haven't federal prosecutors heard of self-defense? The law allows you to kill someone who is poised to kill you. Surely, in defense of your life, it should allow you to grow marijuana plants. But Washington's drug warriors seem to think Americans are better off dead than smoking dope. Federal law classifies marijuana as a class A substance, along with heroin and LSD, and prosecutors argued that Congress has decided it has no acceptable medical uses. District Court Judge George King agreed that Congress knows best: The medical-necessity defense proposed by defendants would "explicitly contradict a Congressional determination," Judge King ruled. He prohibited McCormick and McWilliams from telling their stories by invoking a doctrine of congressional infallibility. Sometimes it's hard to know if the government is playing doctor or God. Armed with faith in its own omniscience and absolute rectitude, and assisted by federal prosecutors, a majority in Congress has assumed the power to deprive people of essential medical care, in order to enforce a particular moral code. In the majority's view, marijuana use, abortion, and suicide are so evil that they must be prohibited at any cost to individuals. Americans, it seems, must be prepared to sacrifice themselves to this congressional vision of the good. That is the logic of terrorists, demagogues, and other absolutists who perceive no moral dilemmas. For them, the right path is always clear. Fearful of falling into the pit of moral relativism, many members of Congress and the Justice Department have cultivated a dangerous sense of self-righteousness, unleavened by self-doubt. They need lessons in moral modesty. It is a great civilizer. People not troubled by uncertainty are not hampered by compassion. You need to be logged in to comment. 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The Bible gives us a clear picture of foolish behavior and its consequences. It’s important for us to recognize these traits in others—and in ourselves. Dealing appropriately with people who behave foolishly requires prayer and wisdom. But remember, that foolish person is not in your life by accident, and you can by God’s grace respond to him or her in a Christ-like manner. Characteristics of Foolish Behavior 1. Denying, disregarding, or rebelling against God. The fool says in his heart “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1). 2. Slandering, lying, deceiving The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool 3. Quick-Tempered A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult (Proverbs 12:16). 4. Acts Impetuously and Without Regard for Consequences In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly. (Proverbs 13:16). One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. 5. Talks endlessly, brags, spouts off frequently. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near. (Proverbs 10:14). A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul. (Proverbs 18:7 ). 6. Refuses Advice, Accountability and/or Discipline A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool 7. Handles Money Recklessly Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has no desire to get wisdom? In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has (Proverbs 21:20). 8. Quarrels frequently, picks fights, is contentious Fools get into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating (Proverbs 18:6 NLT). A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control 9. Lazy, Lacks Focus and Ambition Foolish people refuse to work and almost starve (Ecclesiastes 4:5). A wise person thinks much about death, while the fool thinks only about having a good time now (Ecclesiastes 7:4 ). Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they have no strength for even the simplest tasks (Ecclesiastes 10:15 ). 10. Never Learns from Past Experience As a do returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly (Proverbs 26:11). You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle (Proverbs 27:22 ). How are we to respond to foolish behavior? 1. First and most importantly, we pray for them. 2. Second, watch your attitude and motivation toward these foolish people: Principle #1 – Don’t be surprised if they refuse good advice. Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice (Proverbs 23:9 ). Principle #2 – Don’t give them honor or luxury. It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury – how much worse for a slave to rule over princes! Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool (Proverbs 26:1). Principle #3 – Don’t argue with foolish people. Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful (2 Tim. 2:23-24). Principle #4 – Protect yourself from the resentment and anger caused by foolish people. A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is heavier than both (Proverbs 27:3 ). Stay away from a foolish man, for you will not find knowledge on his lips (Proverbs 14:7). Are you encouraged here? I personally invite you to subscribe and get the latest posts sent to your inbox. Also, connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and get updates that are not posted here on the blog. Linking up with:The Modest Mom, We are now selling Lilla Rose! (30% discount on soon to be retired items) Vision Forum Sale: 20% off everything With discount code: EXTRA20

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Become a tailoring shop owner and keep your customers satisfied! Must use software for all those want to learn French. French Word Puzzles allows you to solve and create puzzles. It is developed for people who are increase French vocabulary. Have FUN learning French with this listening-based interactive program. - Publisher: Buensoft.com - Home page: www.buensoft.com - Last updated: April 1st, 2008 LiP gives you the skill to understand and recognize real expressions in French. - Publisher: SIGNUS - Last updated: April 8th, 2008 Lets you easily find appropriate translation of any word. - Publisher: Paragon Software - Home page: www.penreader.com - Last updated: December 25th, 2008 It helps you to learn French with vocabulary exercises and funny games. FlashCards is a fully configurable audio-based French vocabulary program. Teaching-you French 10.0.0.56 - Publisher: Focus Multimedia - Home page: www.focusmm.co.uk - Last updated: November 14th, 2009 More french vogue about greece This software covers a wide range of aspects of life in Ancient Greece. Get Magic fm Greece Community's content delivered to your browser. Jewel Quest Mysteries: The Seventh Gate is an adventure game, placed in Greece. Embark on an exciting journey and plunge into the myths of Ancient Greece! Come along on a fantastic treasure hunt in ancient Greece! - Publisher: Cerasus Media - Home page: www.cerasus.de - Last updated: August 14th, 2012

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The Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Sections both review applications involving basic, applied, and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging system technologies, their components, software, and mathematical methods for studies at the cellular, organ, small or large animal, and human scale. Emphasis is on technology development but extends to the science of image formation, analysis, evaluation and validation, including image perception, and integration of imaging technologies. In general, applications which focus on the physics and mathematics of medical imaging devices and systems for hardware and software development as well as on the application of methods of applied mathematics using iterative, non-iterative, deterministic and probabilistic approaches, and analysis of complex dynamical systems would be assigned to BMIT A. Those addressing the application of biomedical imaging system technologies, their components, software, and mathematical methods for solving important problems in biology or medicine, would be assigned to BMIT B. - Component technologies used in the design, development, implementation, testing and application of imaging systems, including, transducers, magnets, coils, and other devices to acquire medical image data from various modalities. - New methods and theories for processing and presenting medical images: display, computational resources for reconstruction, registration, segmentation, visualization, and analysis of multi dimensional data sets from various modalities. - Development of image-based methods and strategies (both hardware and software components) to characterize tissue, including computer-aided diagnosis and image-based biomarkers or for the support of image-guided interventions, including robotics, surgery, drug delivery, and minimally invasive therapies. - Methodology for validating medical imaging systems including medical-image-observer performance: vision modeling, metrics, calibration, standards, statistical methods, and simulation of an ideal observer using principles of psychophysical experimentation. - Imaging studies at the cellular, organ, small or large animal and human scale, where the emphasis is on the science of image formation, analysis, evaluation and validation, including image perception, and integration of imaging technologies.

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- PASSENGER-STRAND (1) (remove) - A large-scale chemical modification screen identifies design rules to generate siRNAs with high activity, high stability and low toxicity (2009) - The use of chemically synthesized short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) is currently the method of choice to manipulate gene expression in mammalian cell culture, yet improvements of siRNA design is expectably required for successful application in vivo. Several studies have aimed at improving siRNA performance through the introduction of chemical modifications but a direct comparison of these results is difficult. We have directly compared the effect of 21 types of chemical modifications on siRNA activity and toxicity in a total of 2160 siRNA duplexes. We demonstrate that siRNA activity is primarily enhanced by favouring the incorporation of the intended antisense strand during RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) loading by modulation of siRNA thermodynamic asymmetry and engineering of siRNA 3-overhangs. Collectively, our results provide unique insights into the tolerance for chemical modifications and provide a simple guide to successful chemical modification of siRNAs with improved activity, stability and low toxicity.

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A growing body of epidemiologic evidence links oral health, obesity, and cardiovascular health, though few studies have reported on these relationships in children. While underlying mechanisms are unclear, adult studies have suggested sub-acute systemic inflammation, also implicated in the etiology of both obesity and cardiovascular disease. This study investigated associations between self-reported dental hygiene, obesity, and systemic inflammation in children. 128 children < 19 years of age from rural counties in West Virginia participated in a community-based health screening that included anthropometric assessments, blood collection, and a questionnaire about dental hygiene and self-assessed oral health. Participants ranged from 3.0-18.7 years. Univariate analysis demonstrated an association between parent-reported dental hygiene, including frequency of preventive dental care and parent-assessed overall dental health, and markers of systemic inflammation but not obesity. In multivariable regression, parent-assessed overall dental health and obesity were independent predictors of systemic inflammation, after adjustment for age, gender, and parent education. This is the first known study of the association between dental hygiene, obesity, and systemic inflammation in children. These results highlight the importance of preventive dental care in overall, systemic health in children and are consistent with previous reports in adults.

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This is release 1.0 of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Area-Characterization Toolbox. These tools are designed to be accessed using ArcGIS Desktop software (versions 9.3 and 9.3.1). The toolbox is composed of a collection of custom tools that implement geographic information system (GIS) techniques used by the NAWQA Program to characterize aquifer areas, drainage basins, and sampled wells. These tools are built on top of standard functionality included in ArcGIS Desktop running at the ArcInfo license level. Most of the tools require a license for the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension. ArcGIS is a commercial GIS software system produced by ESRI, Inc. (http://www.esri.com). The NAWQA Area-Characterization Toolbox is not supported by ESRI, Inc. or its technical support staff. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. This distribution consists of an ArcGIS "Toolbox" file ("NACT.tbx") with folders and files containing associated documentation, scripts, and data files. Specific documentation and example usage for each tool is included in the toolbox file and is accessible from within ArcGIS desktop applications (for example, ArcMap and ArcCatalog). Tools in the toolbox include: - Areal Overlay Statistics toolset: - Area Statistics To Table - Feature Statistics To Table - Footprint Statistics To Table - Areal Overlay Weights toolset: - Area Weights To Table - Feature Weights To Table - Footprint Weights To Table - Areal Overlay Weights Analysis toolset: - Calculate Weighted Statistics - Partial Area Weights - Tabulate Weight Table - Point Overlay toolset: - Point Overlay Polygon To Table - Point Overlay Raster To Table - Selection and Area Processing toolset: - Aggregate Raster to Percent Grids - Shrink Polygon Area - Tabulate Features To Percent - Tabulate Footprints To Percent - Weed Points - These tools may be cited as follows: - Price, C. V., Nakagaki, Naomi, and Hitt, K. J., 2010, National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Area-Characterization Toolbox, Release 1.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1268. [online-only] - Download the archive file "NACT.zip" to your computer. - In a selected folder (for example, "C:\Tools"), unzip the downloaded file "NACT.zip." This will create a directory ("NACT") containing a collection of files and folders. - You can now safely delete the zip file. - At this point, you can use the toolbox in any ArcGIS desktop application using standard functionality. - For your convenience, step-by-step instructions are provided below for adding the toolbox to ArcGIS 9.3 or 9.3.1. For more details and information about managing toolboxes within ArcGIS, see the ArcGIS online help article "Adding and Removing Toolboxes." - a. Display the Toolbox window. - From the running application's main menu, select "Window -> ArcToolbox." This should display the ArcToolbox window within the application window. Click the "Favorites" tab at the bottom of the ArcToolbox window to display the catalog tree of active toolboxes. - b. Add "NACT.tbx" to the application. - In the ArcToolbox window, right-click "ArcToolbox" and select "Add Toolbox" from the context menu that appears. Browse in the resulting dialog box to your folder ("C:\Tools\NACT") and select the file "NACT.tbx." Click the "Open" button. Using The NAWQA Area-Characterization Toolbox You can access the tools the same way standard ArcGIS tools are used: by double-clicking on the name of the tool, or right clicking the tool to access its properties or documentation. The tools also are accessible from the ArcGIS command line or from within scripts; examples are included in the documentation for each tool. (Documentation for each tool may be accessed by right-clicking the tool and selecting "Help" from the context menu.) The persistence of the toolbox depends on the ArcGIS desktop application you were running while completing the above steps: - ArcMap, ArcScene, ArcGlobe - If you save the current document, the reference to the toolbox will be saved as well, so the toolbox will still be available when the current document is opened at a later time. - Active toolboxes are saved when you exit ArcCatalog, so the toolbox will be available in future ArcCatalog sessions. The toolbox will also be included by default in new ArcMap, ArcScene, or ArcGlobe documents. First posted November 4, 2010 Part or all of this report is presented in Portable Document Format (PDF); the latest version of Adobe Reader or similar software is required to view it. Download the latest version of Adobe Reader, free of charge.

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Strengthenening library and documentation services within the IGAD Mandate in the Member States Project Planning Seminar 31 July to 6 August 2000 ,IGAD Seccrtariat Djibouti :Status of Sudan library,information system and services|| 4. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION: The growing access to computers and electronic communications worldwide makes it nowadays possible to offer and acquire automated, updated information almost in every field or activity. Specifically, the practice of scientists to consult electronic data banks as an aid for their research, and to produce and consult scientific bibliography in machine readable form, is extending considerably not only in industrialized countries, but in many developing countries as well. In particular, in all African countries - although to varying degrees within the countries and also from one country to another - many academics already use computer facilities for their daily work and scientific interchange. The rapidly developing of information and communications technologies provide thus a useful and powerful tool for the construction a comprehensive information system that includes in principle the whole of the regular, periodic or serial scientific produced in the region, such a system can be used in principle also to catalogue and classify these publications according to previously defined quality criteria, and it can serve also as a basis to provide both editors and scientists with an efficient channel for the rapid production, dissemination and retrieval of research material [Cetto, 1997, p. 243].

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Pulse » Recent Items from 9/20/2009 Pulse has a simple goal: to give you a quick view of what's happening in the SQL Server community. Finding interesting content on Pulse is easy – you can drill down to a specific time period (by clicking on the bars of the chart), toggle different types of content on and off, and sort the results by popularity or recency. Discovered an informative blog post or a hilarious tweet? Tell the rest of the community about it by voting it up or down. Behind the scenes, our popularity algorithm will make sure it rises to the top of the list. When a simple up-or-down vote isn't enough, voice your opinions in a comment. Or check out what others are saying about something you posted or tweeted. Service Broker in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a new technology that provides messaging and queuing functions between instances. The basic functions of sending and receiving messages forms a part of a “conversation.” Each conversation is considered to be a complete channel of communication. Each Service Broker conversation is considered ... Do to the overwhelming amount of data sequencing questions asked on the MSDN forums, I will demonstrate how to implement the most common solutions for sequencing data, using SQL Server 2000 and greater. Before starting I would like to give a disclaimer. I believe that data sequencing should be handled ... Pulse is a section of SQLServerPedia that gives you a quick view of what's happening in the SQL Server community.

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Kitty Vacuum Dodge! Kitty Vacuum Dodge! - 0.2 Space to jump Esc to exit You have 9 lives, each time you are hit, you lose one. This is my first game using pygame, and first upload, which is currently a work in progress. Put together in about a night, I haven't done much polishing because I'm excited to get it up! - Fixed bug that prevented game from shutting down correctly. - Gave Kitty a bit of "airtime" to make jumping feel more natural. - Slightly decreased the size of hit boxes for all objects. - Increased the speed of vacuums slightly. - Updated the hud to have a new, more easily readable font. - In preparation for gamestates, and progessing levels, added a hud element to display the current level at the start. - If Kitty is hit by a vacuum while facing the opposite direction, his directional orientation will be reversed when placed back in starting position. - Life counter will count backwards indefinitely after using your final life. click to view original size Pygame.org account Comments If you wish to leave a comment with your pygame.org account, please sign in first. pygame.org welcomes all python game, art, music, sound, video and multimedia projects. If they use pygame or not. May 17, 2013 May 16, 2013 May 15, 2013 May 11, 2013 May 8, 2013 Apr 26, 2013 Apr 24, 2013 Apr 23, 2013 Apr 19, 2013 Apr 18, 2013

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Rock, Paper, Scissors Rock, Paper, Scissors - 1.0 Joshua Powell (powellj6) A simple "RPS" (rock, paper, scissors) game with a few extra choices available to the player, besides "rock, paper, or scissors". You can either guess or look at the code. Hopefully it will make you laugh. Game also counts your wins and losses and displays them after each round. Ties are not counted but could be easily implemented if you so desired. All problems, criticisms, and questions are welcome. (also, if someone could tell me how to keep the white space in the description. I probably gonna slap myself in the face when I realize how easy it was. Anyway, enjoy) Pygame.org account Comments If you wish to leave a comment with your pygame.org account, please sign in first.

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simpleParticle01 - 1.0 Eric Pavey (akeric) I wrote this in couple afternoons. Hadn’t done any projects like this in a while, but this was a simple task I wanted to tackle: Draw particles with the mouse, when close generate an interaction, and when the interaction occurs trigger an event. In a nutshell, that’s what this does: The app was mainly just written for leisure, it’s not that speedy. But was a nice relaxing thing to do over the weekend. If you grab just the source, you'll also need a fixed-up version of the Pygame vec2d lib, which you can download from my site here: Pygame.org account Comments If you wish to leave a comment with your pygame.org account, please sign in first.

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Ticket #197 (new defect) Non-BMP unicode characters are dumped using surrogate code units if python was not configured with UCS4 |Reported by:||travis.mcleskey@…||Owned by:||xi| If python is built with UCS2 (the default, for example, on OS X), you get: The output should instead be "\U0001D10C", since the surrogate code units are not valid unicode characters. - Summary changed from Dump 32-bit "\U"-style escape sequences, even if python was compiled without UCS4 to Dump 32-bit "\U"-style escape sequences for non-BMP characters, even if python was compiled without UCS4

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Day in history for June 23, 2001 - 1876 -- 125 years ago - A woman named Calbert who had placed herself on the track of the Western Union Railroad at a curve of the road between Rapids City and Hampton and gone to sleep was run over by a passenger train due here at 6 o'clock last evening and instantly killed. - 1901 -- 100 years ago - Miss Paula Harms was home for the summer after spending the winter at the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston. - 1926 -- 75 years ago - Orders to officers of the Rock Island Police Department, regarding their special duties in serving as a guard for the Swedish royal party, were issued by Chief of Police Herman Sehnert. - 1951 -- 50 years ago - Despite threatening weather, more than 700 children proudly paraded in their gaily decorated vehicles at the Rock Island city playgrounds yesterday afternoon. Fifteen boys and 15 girls at each playground marched home with bright silk ribbons, awarded for the best entries. - 1976 -- 25 years ago - Farmers are being warned to ``be careful so you don't fall into manure pits.'' And to ``step up over door sills, otherwise you might fall.'' This startling information is brought to light in a pamphlet from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The contract to develop the material totaled $119,500. The cost of publishing is $347,200. This means $466,700 is being spent by the government to instruct farmers in safety habits, which, for the most part, involves nothing more than common sense. Back: Available days in June 2001

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Each year more than 4 million homeless pets are killed as a result of overpopulation, but families who adopt from animal shelters or rescue groups can help preserve these lives and support the growing trend of socially responsible holiday shopping. Best Friends Animal Society encourages families this holiday season to give the precious gift of life by adopting homeless pets rather than buying from breeders, pet stores or online retailers. Also, resist the urge to surprise a friend or family member with a living gift. Choosing the right pet is an extremely personal decision, one that should be made carefully by the adults who will be caring for the animal for its 15- to 20-year lifetime. Instead, offer an adoption gift certificate paired with a basket of pet care items or stuffed animal for the holiday itself, and then let the person or family choose the actual pet that feels right to them. Once you’ve decided to adopt, keep in mind that welcoming a pet into your life is a big decision and requires important preparation. Best Friends offers tips and advice to help make a smooth transition at home: * Determine roles and responsibilities – Before bringing home a new pet, discuss what roles and responsibilities each family member will take on. Who will be in charge of feeding, walks, changing the litter box and taking your pet for regular visits to the vet? Giving each family member a specific task will help everyone feel involved, especially young children. * Prep the house – Adding a pet to the house means adding new items to your shopping lists. For dogs, the basics are a collar and leash, chew toys, a kennel and dog bed. Cats need a litter box and litter, a scratching post and a carrying crate for transportation. Also don’t forget food and toys. * Have your pet spayed/neutered – Spaying or neutering is one of the greatest gifts you can provide your pet and community. It not only helps control the overabundance of pets, but can also help prevent medical and behavioral problems from developing. Most shelters include this with the adoption package or can recommend a local veterinarian in your area, so check with the staff at the shelter before you leave. * Research community rules and resources – Do a little research on what identification (tags, microchips, etc.) you might need for your pet. Scout out the local dog parks and runs for future outdoor fun, and make sure you know where emergency vet clinics or animal hospitals are located. * Set limits – Having pre-determined rules will create consistency in training and help make the home a pleasant environment for you and your pet. Will your pet be allowed to snuggle with you in bed or curl up with you on your furniture? Will treats be limited to one a day? It’s important to discuss these questions as a family before your new family member arrives. An estimated 17 million people will be adding pets to their families this year, so this season, help bring some holiday cheer to a homeless pet by adopting your newest companion.

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Taking Play Seriously By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Published: February 17, 2008 On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play -- not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times. (All species too; the lecture featured touching photos of a polar bear and a husky engaging playfully at a snowy outpost in northern Canada.) Stuart Brown, president of the National Institute for Play, was speaking at the New York Public Library's main branch on 42nd Street. He created the institute in 1996, after more than 20 years of psychiatric practice and research persuaded him of the dangerous long-term consequences of play deprivation. In a sold-out talk at the library, he and Krista Tippett, host of the public-radio program ''Speaking of Faith,'' discussed the biological and spiritual underpinnings of play. Brown called play part of the ''developmental sequencing of becoming a human primate. If you look at what produces learning and memory and well-being, play is as fundamental as any other aspect of life, including sleep and dreams.'' The message seemed to resonate with audience members, who asked anxious questions about what seemed to be the loss of play in their children's lives. Their concern came, no doubt, from the recent deluge of eulogies to play . Educators fret that school officials are hacking away at recess to make room for an increasingly crammed curriculum. Psychologists complain that overscheduled kids have no time left for the real business of childhood: idle, creative, unstructured free play. Public health officials link insufficient playtime to a rise in childhood obesity. Parents bemoan the fact that kids don't play the way they themselves did -- or think they did. And everyone seems to worry that without the chance to play stickball or hopscotch out on the street, to play with dolls on the kitchen floor or climb trees in the woods, today's children are missing out on something essential. The success of ''The Dangerous Book for Boys'' -- which has been on the best-seller list for the last nine months -- and its step-by-step instructions for activities like folding paper airplanes is testament to the generalized longing for play's good old days. So were the questions after Stuart Brown's library talk; one woman asked how her children will learn trust, empathy and social skills when their most frequent playing is done online. Brown told her that while video games do have some play value, a true sense of ''interpersonal nuance'' can be achieved only by a child who is engaging all five senses by playing in the three-dimensional world. This is part of a larger conversation Americans are having about play. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. Alarming headlines about U.S. students falling behind other countries in science and math, combined with the ever-more-intense competition to get kids into college, make parents rush to sign up their children for piano lessons and test-prep courses instead of just leaving them to improvise on their own; playtime versus r?m?uilding. Discussions about play force us to reckon with our underlying ideas about childhood, sex differences, creativity and success. Do boys play differently than girls? Are children being damaged by staring at computer screens and video games? Are they missing something when fantasy play is populated with characters from Hollywood's imagination and not their own? Most of these issues are too vast to be addressed by a single field of study (let alone a magazine article). But the growing science of play does have much to add to the conversation. Armed with research grounded in evolutionary biology and experimental neuroscience, some scientists have shown themselves eager -- at times perhaps a little too eager -- to promote a scientific argument for play. They have spent the past few decades learning how and why play evolved in animals, generating insights that can inform our understanding of its evolution in humans too. They are studying, from an evolutionary perspective, to what extent play is a luxury that can be dispensed with when there are too many other competing claims on the growing brain, and to what extent it is central to how that brain grows in the first place. Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury. Play, in their view, is a central part of neurological growth and development -- one important way that children build complex, skilled, responsive, socially adept and cognitively flexible brains. Their work still leaves some questions unanswered, including questions about play's darker, more ambiguous side: is there really an evolutionary or developmental need for dangerous games, say, or for the meanness and hurt feelings that seem to attend so much child's play? Answering these and other questions could help us understand what might be lost if children play less.

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January 10, 2013 By Quiet Buck About Quiet Buck We turn to YHWH when our foundations are shaking. only to realize it is YHWH shaking them. A Minister of YHWH View all posts by Quiet Buck This entry was posted on Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 8:21 PM and tagged with bible, Cherokee, Chickamauga, Christian, church, commandments, Devil, doctrine, facebook, full moon, God, Jesus, love, Messiah, minister, Native American, new moon, nwo, prophecy, QuietBuck, sabbath, Satan, savior, scripture, sundown till sundown, torah, tradition, Truth, twitter, Yahowah, Yahuah, Yahushua, Yahuwah, Yahwah, Yeshua, YHWH, YouTube and posted in Lessons. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. 2 Responses to “Sabbath?” - •Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. - •1Timothy 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of the Messiah, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, where unto thou hast attained. ■ Recent Lessons - •James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before YHWH and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Thus saith YHWH the King of Israel, and his redeemer YHWH of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no El. - We turn to YHWH, when our foundations are shaking. Only to realize, it is YHWH shaking them.

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Financial Accounting - CH 1 & 2 |Four Principal Activities of Business Firms:|| 1.Establishing goals and strategies| |What are the 2 sources Financing comes from?|| 1. Owners| |Investments are made in the following:|| 1. Land, buildings, equipment| 2. Patents, licenses, contractual rights 3. Stock and bonds of other organizations 5. Accounts Receivable |What are the 4 areas for conducting operations?|| 1. Purchasing| |What are the 4 commonly used conventions in financial statements?|| 1. The accounting period| 2. The number of reporting periods 3. The monetary amounts 4. The terminology and level of detail in the financial statements |Common Financial Reporting Conventions, Accounting Period||The length of time covered by the financial statements. (The most common interval for external reporting is the fiscal year).| |Common Financial Reporting Conventions, Number of reporting periods||The number of reporting periods included in a given financial statement presentation, Both U.S. GAAP and IFRS require firms to include results for multiple reporting periods in each report.| |Common Financial Reporting Conventions, Monetary amounts||This includes measuring units, like thousands, millions, or billions, and the currency, such as dollars ($), euros (€), or Swedish kronor (SEK)| |Common Financial Reporting Conventions, Terminology and level of detail in the financial statements||U.S. GAAP and IFRS contain broad guidance on what the financial statements must contain, but neither system completely specifies the level of detail or the names of accounts. Therefore, some variation occurs.| |Characteristics of a Balance Sheet||A Balance Sheet:| 1. is also known as a statement of financial position; 2. provides information at a point in time; 3. lists the firm's assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity and provides totals and subtotals; and 4. can be represented as the Basic Accounting Equation. Assets = Liabilities + Shareholders' Equity |Accounting Equation Components|| 1. Assets| 3. Share Holder's Equity |Assets|| Assets are economic resources with the potential to provide future economic benefits to a firm. | Examples: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventories, Buildings, Equipment, intangible assets (like Patents) |Liabilities|| Liabilities are creditors' claims for funds, usually because they have provided funds, or goods and services, to the firm.| Examples: Accounts Payable, Unearned Income, Notes Payable, Buildings, Accrued Salaries |Shareholders' Equity|| Shareholders' Equity shows the amounts of funds owners have provided and, in parallel, their claims on the assets of a firm. | Examples: Common Stock, Contributed Capital, Retained Earnings |What are the separate sections on a Balance Sheet (Balance sheet classification)||1. Current assets represent assets that a firm expects to turn into cash, or sell, or consume within approximately one year from the date of the balance sheet (i.e., accounts receivable and inventory).| 2. Current liabilities represent obligations a firm expects to pay within one year (i.e., accounts payable and salaries payable). 3. Non-current assets are typically held and used for several years (i.e., land, buildings, equipment, patents, long-term security investments). 4. Noncurrent liabilities and shareholders' equity are sources of funds where the supplier of funds does not expect to receive them all back within the next year. |Income Statement||1. Sometimes called the statement of profit and loss by firms applying IFRS| 2. Provides information on profitability 3. May use the terms net income, earnings, and profit interchangeably 4. Reports amounts for a period of time 5. Typically one year 6. Is represented by the Basic Income Equation: Net Income = Revenues - Expenses |Revenues||(also known as sales, sales revenue, or turnover, a term used by some firms reporting under IFRS) measure the inflows of assets (or reductions in liabilities) from selling goods and providing services to customers.| |Expenses||measure the outflow of assets (or increases in liabilities) used in generating revenues.| |Relationship between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement|| 1. The income statement links the balance sheet at the beginning of the period with the balance sheet at the end of the period.| 2. Retained Earnings is increased by net income and decreased by dividends. |Statement of Cash Flows|| The statement of cash flows (also called the| cash flow statement) reports information about cash generated from or used by: 2. investing, and 3. financing activities during specified time periods. The statement of cash flows shows where the firm obtains or generates cash and where it spends or uses cash. |Classification of Cash Flows|| 1. Operations: | cash from customers less cash paid in carrying out the firm's operating activities cash paid to acquire noncurrent assets less amounts from any sale of noncurrent assets cash from issues of long-term debt or new capital less dividends |Inflows and Outflows of Cash| |The Relationship of the Statement of Cash Flows to the Balance Sheet and Income Statement||-The statement of cash flows explains the change in cash between the beginning and the end of the period, and separately displays the changes in cash from operating, investing, and financing activities.| -In addition to sources and uses of cash, the statement of cash flows shows the relationship between net income and cash flow from operations. |Statement of Shareholders' Equity||This statement displays components of shareholders' equity, including common shares and retained earnings, and changes in those components.| |Other Items in Annual Reports||Financial reports provide additional explanatory material in the schedules and notes to the financial statements.| |Who are the 4 main groups of people involved with the Financial Reporting Process|| 1. Managers and governing boards of reporting entities.| 2. Accounting standard setters and regulatory bodies. 3. Independent external auditors. 4. Users of financial statements. |What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?||An agency of the federal government, that has the legal authority to set acceptable accounting standards and enforce securities laws.| |What is the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)?||a private-sector body comprising five voting members, to whom the SEC has delegated most tasks of U.S. financial accounting standard-setting.| |GAAP||1. Common terminology includes the pronouncements of the FASB (and its predecessors) in the compilation of accounting rules, procedures, and practices known as generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).| 2. Recently, the FASB launched its codification project which organizes all of U.S GAAP by topic (for example, revenues), eliminates duplications, and corrects inconsistencies. |FASB board members make standard-setting decisions guided by a conceptual framework that addresses:|| 1. Objectives of financial reporting.| 2. Qualitative characteristics of accounting information including the relevance, reliability, and comparability of data. 3. Elements of the financial statements. 4. Recognition and measurement issues. |Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.|| Concerns over the quality of financial reporting have led, and continue to lead, to government initiatives in the United States.| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which is responsible for monitoring the quality of audits of SEC registrants. |International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)||-The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is an independent accounting standard-setting entity with 14 voting members from a number of countries. Standards set by the IASB are International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).| -The FASB and IASB Boards are working toward converging their standards, based on an agreement reached in 2002 and updated since then. |Auditor's Opinion||Firms whose common stock is publicly traded are required to get an opinion by an independent auditor who:| 1.Assesses the effectiveness of the firm's internal control system for measuring and reporting business transactions 2.Assesses whether the financial statements and notes present fairly a firm's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles |Basic Accounting Conventions and Concepts||1. Materiality is the qualitative concept that financial reports need not include items that are so small as to be meaningless to users of the reports.| 2. The accounting period convention refers to the uniform length of accounting reporting periods. 3. Interim reports are often prepared for periods shorter than a year. However, preparing interim reports does not eliminate the need to prepare an annual report. |Cash vs. Accrual Accounting||Cash basis| A firm measures performance from selling goods and providing services as it receives cash from customers and makes cash expenditures to providers of goods and services. A firm recognizes revenue when it sells goods or renders services and recognizes expenses in the period when the firm recognizes the revenues that the costs helped produce. |What Is an Account? How Do You Name Accounts?||-An account represents an amount on a line of a balance sheet or income statement (i.e., cash, accounts receivable, etc.).| -There is not a master list to define these accounts since they are customized to fit each specific business's needs. -Accountants typically follow a conventional naming system for accounts, which increases communication. |What Accounts Make up the Typical Balance Sheet?| |Current assets and current liabilities (Balance Sheet Classifications)||Receipt or payment of assets that the firm expects will occur within one year or one operating cycle.| |Noncurrent assets and noncurrent liabilities (Balance Sheet Classifications)||Firm expects to collect or pay these more than one year after the balance sheet date.| |Duality Effects of the Balance Sheet Equation (Assets = Liabilites + Shareholders' Equity)||Any single event or transaction will have one of the following four effects or some combination of these effects:| 1.INCREASE an asset and INCREASE either a liability or shareholders' equity. 2.DECREASE an asset and DECREASE either a liability or shareholders' equity. 3.INCREASE one asset and DECREASE another asset. 4.INCREASE one liability or shareholders' equity and DECREASE another liability or shareholders' equity. A T-account is a device or convention for organizing and accumulating the accounting entries of transactions that affect an individual account, such as Cash, Accounts Receivable, Bonds Payable, or Additional Paid-in Capital. |T-Account Conventions: Assets| |T-Account Conventions: Liabilities| |T-Account Conventions: Shareholders' Equity| |Debit vs. Credit| While T-accounts are useful to help analyze how individual transactions flow and accumulate within various accounts, journal entries formalize the reasoning that supports the transaction. The attached standardized format indicates the accounts and amounts, with debits on the first line and credits (indented) on the second line: | Revenue or Sales:| (Common Income Statement Terms) |Assets received in exchange for goods sold and services rendered.| | Cost of Goods Sold:| (Common Income Statement Terms) |The cost of products sold.| | Selling, General, and Administrative (SG&A):| (Common Income Statement Terms) |Costs incurred to sell products/services as well as costs of administration.| | Research and Development (R&D) Expense:| (Common Income Statement Terms) |Costs incurred to create/develop new products, processes, and services.| | Interest Income:| (Common Income Statement Terms) |Income earned on amounts lent to others or from investments in interest-yielding securities.| |Unique Relationships Exist Between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement| |Important Account Differences||1. Balance sheet accounts are permanent accounts in the sense that they remain open, with nonzero balances, at the end of the reporting period.| 2. In contrast, income statement accounts are temporary accounts in the sense that they start a period with a zero balance, accumulate information during the reporting period, and have a zero balance at the end of the reporting period. |The Financial Statement Relationships can be summarized as:| -After preparing the end-of-period income statement, the accountant transfers the balance in each temporary revenue and expense account to the Retained Earnings account. -This procedure is called closing the revenue and expense accounts. After transferring to Retained Earnings, each revenue and expense account is ready to begin the next period with a zero balance. |Expense and Revenue Transactions| |Dividend Declaration and Payment| |Issues of Capital Stock| |Posting||1. After each transaction is recognized by a journal entry, the information is transferred in the accounting system via an activity known as posting.| 2. The balance sheet ledger accounts (or permanent accounts) where these are posted begin each period with a balance equal to the ending balance of the previous period. 3.The income statement ledger accounts (or temporary accounts) have zero beginning balances. |Adjusting Entries|| There are some journal entries that are not triggered by a transaction or exchange.| -Rather, journal entries known as adjusting entries, result from the passage of time at the end of an accounting period or are used to correct errors (more commonly known as correcting entries). |Four Basic Types of Adjusting Entries|| 1.Unearned Revenues| |Closing Process||1. After adjusting and correcting entries are made, the income statement can be prepared.| 2. Once completed, it is time to transfer the balance in each temporary revenue and expense account to the Retained Earnings account. This is known as the closing process. 3. Each revenue account is reduced to zero by debiting it and each expense account is reduced to zero by crediting it. 4. The offset account—Retained Earnings—is credited for the amount of total revenues and debited for the amount of total expenses. 5. Thus, the balance of ending Retained Earnings for a period shows the difference between total revenues and total expenses. |Preparation of the Balance Sheet||1. After the closing process is completed, the accounts with nonzero balances are all balance sheet accounts.| 2. We can use these accounts to prepare the balance sheet as at the end of the period. 3. The Retained Earnings account will appear with all other balance sheet accounts and now reflects the cumulative effect of transactions affecting that account. |Final Step in Preparing Financial Statements: The Cash Flow Statement||1. The statement of cash flows describes the sources and uses of cash during a period and classifies them into operating, investing, and financing activities.| 2. It provides a detailed explanation for the change in the balance of the Cash account during that period. 3. Two approaches can be used to prepare this statement: Direct and Indirect

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Women need some safety applications when they go out. There are Applications available compatible with Smartphones. They can be used in times of Emergency Some of them are. “If you are a college student then this App is especially made for you. This App allows you to alert your friends and family and emergency responders like 911, along with that it also alerts campus police. With this App you can send alerts based on time. Say like, if you didn’t get to home in an hour then this OnWatch App inform your friends and others about your GPS location. You can download this App for iPhone and Android. It enables you a free 90 day trial subscription with .edu mail address and for others it offers 30 day free trial. 2.”Using this CircleOf6 App you can add 6 friends or family members so that they will be informed when you need it. This Application enables you to send a text message to your friends or family members with your current GPS location and a message like ‘Come and Get Me’. If you are low on balance then you can also send out a ‘call me’ message. It can be easily programmed to call selected national hotlines or local emergency numbers. And the good news is that it is Free for iPhone and Android Smartphones. 3.FightBack, the women’s safety application, sends SOS alerts from your phone. FightBack uses GPS, SMS, location maps, GPRS ,email and your Facebook account to inform your loved ones in case you are in danger. Join us and help make our streets safer for women. Write to us on email@example.com 4.By using this Redpanicbutton Application, it allows you to push a central button and generate a security alert, by doing this it will activate immediate contact with emergency services, it will also provide quick details of the current location and along with that it will automatically dials various emergency numbers and sending of panic messages via various communication channels like text message, mails and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But this Android Free version is for only one panic contact so better buy a full version. The general complaint against these applications are the unreliability of 3 G Services in India. People suggest applications not using Internet is needed. One may also use the Speed dial. In some of the Applications the location is not specified to the receiver. Would some one Link it to Google Maps? I also recommend Pepper Spray Gun.

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The Great Attraction: The Uplifted Christ by REUBEN ARCHER TORREY—1856-1928 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself — John 12:32. IN A RECENT ADVERTISEMENT OF A Sunday evening service in one of our American cities it was stated that there would be three attractions: a high-class movie show, a popular gospel pianist and his wife, rendered by a well-known prima donna. It is somewhat startling when an unusually gifted and popular preacher, or his advertising committee, thinks of the gospel of the Son of God as having so lost its power to draw, that it must be bolstered up by putting on a selection from a very questionable opera, rendered by a professional opera singer, as an additional attraction to help out our once crucified and now glorified Savior and Lord. This advertisement set me to thinking as to what really was the great attraction to men in this day as well as in former days? At once there came to my mind the words of our text containing God's answer to this question: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." There is nothing else that draws like the uplifted Christ. Movies may get a crowd of empty-headed and empty-hearted young men and maidens, and even middle-aged folks without brains or moral earnestness, for a time, but nothing really draws and holds the men and women who are worthwhile like Jesus Christ lifted up. Nineteen centuries of Christian history prove the drawing power of Jesus when He is properly presented to men. I have seen some wonderful verification of the assertion of our text as to the marvelous drawing power of the uplifted Christ. In London, for two continuous months, six afternoons and evenings each week, I saw the great Royal Albert Hall filled and even jammed, and sometimes as many turned away as got in, though it would seat 10,000 people by actual count and stand 2,000 more in the dome. On the opening night of these meetings a leading reporter of the city of London came to me before the service began and said, "You have taken this building for two consecutive months?" "Yes." "And you expect to fill it every day?" "Yes." "Why," he said, "no one has ever attempted to hold two weeks' consecutive meetings here of any kind. Gladstone himself could not fill it for two weeks. And you really expect to fill it for two months?" I replied, "Come and see." He came and he saw. On the last night, when the place was jammed to its utmost capacity and thousands outside clamored for admission, he came to me again and I said, "Has it been filled?" He smiled and said, "It has." But what filled it? No show on earth could have filled it once a day for many consecutive days. The preacher was no remarkable orator. He had no gift of wit and humor, and would not have exercised it if he had. The newspapers constantly called attention to the fact that he was no orator, but the crowds came and came and came. On both rainy days, and fine days they crowded in or stood outside, oftentimes in a downpour of rain, in the vain hope of getting in. WHAT DREW THEM? The uplifted Christ preached and sung in the power of the Holy Spirit, given in answer to the daily prayers of 40,000 people scattered throughout the earth. In Liverpool, the Tournament Hall, that was said to seat 20,000 people, and that by actual count seated 12,500 comfortably, located in a very out-of-the-way part of the city, several blocks from the nearest street-car line, and perhaps half a, mile from all the regular street-car lines, was filled night after night for three months, and on the last night they crowded 15,000 people into the building at seven o'clock, and then emptied it, and crowded another 15,000 in who had been patiently waiting outside; 30,000 people drawn in a single night! By what? By whom? Not by the preacher, not by the singer, but by Him who had said nearly nineteen hundred years before, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." The Exact Meaning of the Text Let us now look at the exact meaning of the text. First, notice who is the speaker, and what were the circumstances under which He spoke? The Speaker was our Lord Jesus. Not the Christ of men's imaginings, but the Christ of reality, the Christ of actual historic fact. Not the Christ of Mary Baker Eddy's maudlin fancy, or of Madam Besant's mystical imaginings, but the Christ of actuality, who lived here among men and was seen, heard and handled by men, and who was soon to die a real death to save real sinners from a real hell and a real heaven. The circumstances were these. Certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Jewish feast came to one of the apostles, Philip, and said, "We would see Jesus" (John 12:21). And Philip went to Andrew and told Andrew what these Greeks said. Andrew and Philip together came and told Jesus. In the heart-cry of these Greeks, "We would see Jesus," our Lord recognized the yearning of the universal heart, the heart of Greek, as well as Jew, for a satisfying Savior. The Greeks had their philosophers and sages, their would-be satisfiers and saviors, the greatest the world has ever known-Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Epictetus, Epimenides, and many others-but they did not save, and they did not satisfy, and the Greeks cried, "We would see JESUS." In their eager coming Jesus foresaw the millions of all nations who would flock to Him when He had been crucified as the universal Savior, meeting all the needs of all mankind, and so He cried, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." In the second place, notice the words, "If I be lifted up." To what does Jesus refer? The next verse answers the question. "But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die" (John 12:33). Jesus referred to His lifting up on the cross, to die as an atoning Savior for all mankind. This verse is often quoted as if it meant that, if we lifted up Christ in our preaching, He would draw men. That is true, and it is a crying shame that we do not hold just Him up more in our preaching, and we would draw far more people if we did; but that is not our Lord's meaning. The lifting up clearly referred not to His not being lifted up by His enemies on the cross, to expose Him to awful shame and to an agonizing death. It is Christ crucified who draws; it is Christ crucified who meets the deepest needs of the heart of all mankind. It is an atoning Savior, a Savior who atones for the sins of men by His death, and thus saves from the holy wrath of an infinitely holy God, who meets the needs of men, and thus draws all men, for all men are sinners. Preach any Christ but a crucified Christ, and you will not draw men for long. Preach any gospel but a gospel of atoning blood, and it will not draw for long. Unitarianism does not draw men. Unitarian churches are born only to die. Their corpses strew New England today. Many of their ministers have been intellectually among the most brilliant our country has ever known, but their churches even under scholarly and brilliant ministers die, die, die. Why? Because Unitarianism presents a gospel without atoning blood, and Jesus has said and history has proven it true, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself" "Christian Science," strangely so called, for as has been often truly said, "is neither Christian nor scientific," draws crowds of men and women of a certain type, men and women who have or imagine that they have physical ailments, and who will follow anything no matter how absurd, that promises them a little surcease from their real or imagined pains. It also draws crowds who wish to fancy that they have some religion without paying the price of true religion, genuine love, real self-sacrifice, and costly sympathy. But Christian Science does not draw all men, that is, all kinds and conditions and ranks of men. In fact for the most part it does not draw men at all, but women, and the alleged men it draws are for the most part women in trousers, and men who see any easy way to make a living by preying upon the credulity of luckless females. No, a bloodless gospel, a gospel with a Christ but not a Christ lifted up on a cross, does not meet the universal needs of men, and so does not draw all men. Congregationalism of late years has been sadly tinctured with Unitarianism. In spite of the fact that it has been an eye-witness to Unitarianism's steady decay and death, Congregationalism has largely dropped the atoning blood out of its theology, and consequently it is rapidly going to the wall. Its once great Andover Seminary, still great in the size of its endowment that was given for the teaching of Bible orthodoxy, but which the conscienceless teachers of a bloodless theology have deliberately taken for the exploitation of their "damnable heresies" (2 Peter 2:1), and which is still great in the number of its professors, graduated at their annual graduating exercises last spring just three men, one a Japanese, one a Hindu, and one an American. A theology without a crucified Savior, without the atoning blood, won't draw. It does not meet the need. No, no, the words of our Lord are still true, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." Note, in the third place, the words, "Draw all men." Does "all men" mean all individuals or men of all races? Did Jesus mean that every man and woman who lived on this earth would be drawn to Him, or did He mean that men of all races would be drawn to Him? The context answers the question. The Greeks, as we have seen, came to one of the apostles, Philip, and said, "We would see Jesus," and Philip had gone and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip had gone and told Jesus. Our Lord's ministry during His earthly life was to Jews only, and in the coming of these Greeks so soon before His death, our Lord saw the presage of the coming days when by His death on the cross the barrier between Jews and Gentiles would be broken down and all nations would have their opportunity equally with the Jews, when by His atoning death on the cross men of all nations would be drawn to Him. He did not say that He would draw every individual, but that all races of men: Greeks as well as Jews, Romans, Scythians, French, English, Germans, Japanese, Americans, and men of all nations. He is a universal Savior, and true Christianity is a universal religion. Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and all other religions, but Christianity, are religions of a restricted application. Christianity, with a crucified Christ as its center, is a universal religion that meets the needs of all mankind. It meets the needs of the European as well as the needs of the Asiatic, the needs of the Occident as well as the needs of the Orient, the needs of the American Indian and the needs of the African Negro; and so our Lord said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." No race has ever been found anywhere on this earth to which the gospel did not appeal and whose deepest need the crucified Christ did not meet. Many years ago, when Charles Darwin, the eminent English scientist, came in contact with the Terre del Fuegans in their gross degradation, he publicly declared that here was a people to whom it was vain to send missionaries, as the gospel could not do anything for them. But brave men of God went there and took the gospel to them in the power of the Holy Spirit, and demonstrated that it met the need of the Terre del Fuegans, with such grave results that Charles Darwin publicly admitted his mistake and became a regular subscriber to the work. The gospel, with a crucified Christ as its center, meets the needs of all conditions and classes of men as well as of all races. It meets the need of the millionaire and the need of the pauper; it meets the need of great men of science like James D. Dana our Lord Kelvin, and the need of the man or woman who cannot read nor write; it meets the need of the king on the throne and the need of the laborer in the ditch. I myself have seen with my own eyes noblemen and servant girls, university deans and men who could scarcely read, prisoners in penitentiaries and leaders in moral uplift, brilliant lawyers and dull plodding workingmen, come under its attraction, and be saved by its power. But it was only because I made "Christ crucified," His atoning work, the center of my preaching. Notice in the fourth place, the words "Unto me." "I will draw all men unto me." The Revised Version reads "Unto myself," and that was just What Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." It is not to a creed or a system of doctrine that Jesus draws men, but to a Person, to Himself. That is what we need, a Person, Jesus Himself. As He Himself once said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). Creeds and confessions of faith are all right in their place, they are of great value; the organized church is of great value, it is indispensable, and it is the most important institution in the world today; society would soon go to rack and ruin without it. We are all under solemn obligation to God and to our fellow-man to support the church and belong to it, but creeds and confessions of faith cannot save. The church cannot save. A Divine Person can save, Jesus Christ, and He alone. So He says, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself." Why Christ Lifted Up on the Cross Draws All Men Unto Himself But why does Christ lifted up on the cross, the crucified Christ, draw all men unto Himself? There are two reasons why Christ lifted up, and Christ crucified draws all men unto Himself. First, Christ crucified draws all men unto Himself because Christ crucified meets the first, the deepest, the greatest and most fundamental need of man. What is man's first, greatest, deepest, most fundamental need? A Savior? A Savior from what? First of all, and underlying all else, a Savior from the guilt of sin. Every man of every race has sinned. As Paul put it in Romans 3:22, 23, "There is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, at this point, nor is there any difference between English and German at this point, there is no difference between American and Japanese at this point, no difference between the European and Asiatic, no difference between the American and the African. "There is no difference; for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Every man of every race is a sinner, "there is no difference" at this point. And every man shall have to answer for his sin to the infinitely holy God who rules this universe. Therefore, all men need an atoning Savior who can by His atoning death make propitiation for, and so cover up, our sins-thus reconciling us to this holy God, delivering us from His awful wrath, and bringing us out into the glorious sunlight of His favor. And Jesus lifted up is the only atoning Savior in the universe. He who alone was at the same time God and man, He alone can make atonement for sin. He has made it, has made a perfect atonement, and God has accepted His atonement and, testified to His acceptance of His atonement by raising Him from the dead. The Lord Jesus actually meets our need. He actually meets every man's first, greatest, deepest, most fundamental need, and He alone. In all the universe there is no other religion but Christianity that even offers an atoning Savior. Mohammedanism offers Mohammed, "The Prophet," a teacher, but not a Savior. Buddhism offers Buddha, supposedly at least a wonderful teacher, "The Light of Asia," but not an atoning Savior. Confucianism offers Confucius, a marvelous teacher far ahead of his time, but not an atoning Savior. No religion offers an atoning Savior, offers an atonement of any real character, but Christianity. This is the radical point of difference between Christianity and every other religion in the world, yet some fool preachers are trying to eliminate from Christianity this, its very point of radical difference from all other religions. But such an emasculated Christianity will not reach the needs of men and Will not draw men. It never has and it never will. The Bible and history are at one at this point. Jesus Christ offers Himself lifted up on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law, by "becoming a curse in our behalf." "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is, every one that hangeth on a tree" (Galatians 3:13). Men know their need; they may try to forget it, they may try to deny it, they may try to drown their sense of it by drink and dissipation or by wild pleasure-seeking or wild money-getting, or by listening to fake preachers in supposedly orthodox pulpits, like one who in this city declared recently that, "the old sense of sin is fast disappearing," and added, "the change is for the better not for the worse." He spoke also of "imaginary and artificial sins like "the sin of unbelief," and then went on to say, "In this we agree with Christ," apparently not knowing enough about the Bible to know that Jesus Himself was the very one who said in John 16:8, 9, "And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; of sin, because they believe not on me." But in spite of all our attempts to drown or stupefy or silence our sense of sin, our consciousness of guilt before a Holy God, we all have it, and like Banquo's Ghost, it will not down. Nothing gives the guilty conscience abiding peace but the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. And so, Christ lifted up draws all men unto Him, and even wicked ministers of Satan, like the preacher I have just referred to, sometimes come to their senses and flee to the real Christ, Christ crucified, as I hope this one may. Yes, Jesus, Jesus only, Jesus lifted up on the cross, Jesus crucified for our sins, making full atonement for our sins, He and He alone meets the deepest need of us all, and so His cross draws us all unto Himself. Happy the man or the woman who yields to that drawing; woe be to the man or woman who resists that drawing; final gloom, despondency, and despair are their lot. Oh, how many men and women who have gotten their eyes opened to see the facts, to see their awful guilt, and who have been plunged into deepest consequent despair, have come to me, and I have pointed them to Jesus on the cross and have shown them by God's Word all their sins laid upon Him and thus settled. They have come to Him and believed God's testimony about Him, that He, had borne all their sins in His own body on the cross, and they have found perfect peace and boundless joy. And that is the only way to find perfect peace and boundless joy. Will you set out to find peace? If you do not, great gloom and utter despair, await you some day, in this world or in the world to come. In my first pastorate I tried to get a man to come to Christ lifted up to meet his need of pardon. Though this was many years ago, he held to the theology that is preached as "new theology" today. He sought to still the voice of conscience and stupefy his sense of sin by denying his guilt and his need of an atoning Savior. He did not wish to listen to me nor to see me. But the, hour came when death drew nigh. A cancer was eating its way through scalp and skull into his brain; then he cried to those about his dying bed, "Send for Mr. Torrey." I hurried to his side. He was in despair. "Oh!" he said, "Dr. Tidhall tells me that I have but a short time to live, that as soon as this cancer gets a little further and eats through the thin film of skull and touches the brain I am a dead man. Tell me how to be saved." I tried to make as plain as I knew how the way of salvation through the uplifted Christ, Christ uplifted on the cross, and I think I know how to make it plain, but he had waited too long, he could not grasp it. I stayed with him. Night came on. I said to his family, "You have been up night after night with him, I will sit with him tonight." They instructed me what to do, how to minister to him. Time after time during the night I had to go to another room to get some nourishment for him, and as I would come back into the room where he lay, from his bed in the corner there would rise the constant cry, "Oh, I wish I were a Christian. Oh, I wish I were a Christian. Oh, I wish I were a Christian." And thus he died. In the second place, Christ lifted up on the cross, Christ crucified draws all men unto Him, because lifted up there to die for us He reveals His wonderful love, and the wondrous love of the Father for us. "Hereby know we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us" (1 John 3:16), and "God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:6, 8). There is nothing that draws men like love. Love draws all men in every clime. But no other love draws like the love of God. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life," has broken thousands of hard hearts. One night, preaching in my own church in Minneapolis, the whole choir stayed for the after-meeting. The leading soprano was an intelligent young woman, but she was living a worldly life. She remained with the rest. In the after-meeting, her mother arose in the back of the church and said, "I wish you would pray for the conversion of my daughter." I did not look around but knew instinctively that her cheeks were flushing, and her eyes were flashing with anger. As soon as the meeting was dismissed, I hurried down so that I would meet her before she got out of the church. As she came toward me I held out my hand to her. She stamped her foot, and with flashing eyes cried, "Mr. Torrey, my mother knows better than to do that. She knows it will only make me worse." I said, "Sit down, Cora." She sat down, and without any argument I opened my Bible to Isaiah 53:5, and began to read, "But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." She burst into tears, and the next night accepted Jesus Christ. I had to go to Duluth for a few days, and when I returned I found that she was seriously ill. One morning her brother came hurrying up to my home and said that she was apparently dying, that she was unconscious and white from the loss of blood. I hastened down. As I entered the room, she lay there with her eyes closed, with the whitest face I ever saw on one who was not actually dead. She was apparently unconscious, scarcely breathing. I knelt by her side to pray, more for the sake of the mother who stood beside the bed than for her, for I supposed that she was beyond help or hearing. But no sooner had I finished my prayer, than in a clear, full, richly musical tone she began to pray. These were about her words, "Heavenly Father, if it be Thy will, raise me up that as I have used my voice for myself and only to please myself, I may use my voice for Thy glory, but if in Thy wisdom Thou seest that it is best for me not to live, I shall be glad to go to be with Christ," and she went to be with Christ. Oh, I have seen thousands melted as I have repeated to them and shown them the picture of Christ on the cross, as told in Isaiah 53:5, "But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." A few days ago I received a missionary magazine containing a testimony from one who was going to Egypt under the Egypt General Mission. This young missionary said, "When I was twelve years old, during the Torrey-Alexander meetings, in 1904, I gave my heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. Dr. Torrey was speaking on the text, Isaiah 53:5, and he asked us to repeat the words with him, but changing the word "our" into the word "my." While repeating the text in this way I suddenly realized, as if for the first time, that Jesus had really suffered all this for me, and there and then I gave my life to Him." Oh! men and women, look now! See Jesus Christ lifted up on the cross, see Him hanging on that awful cross, see Him wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities, and the chastisement of your peace laid on Him. Oh, men and women living in sin, men and women rejecting Christ for the world, men and women who have looked to the lies of Christian Science, Unitarianism and other systems that deny His atoning blood, Listen! "But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Won't you yield to that love, won't you give up your sin, give up your worldly pleasures, give up your willful errors, and accept the Savior who loves you and died for you, who was "Wounded for your transgressions; bruised for your iniquities" and upon whom the chastisement of your peace was laid? Accept Him right now.

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- The incidence of depression among lawyers is higher than among any other profession. - The reason for this may be that law school and the legal profession attract the kinds of people who are prone to depression. - Lawyers should know the symptoms of depression, to recognize whether they or their colleagues need help. That guest post apparently hit a nerve; it generated nine trackbacks and 25 comments. Prompted by the most recent comment, Evan wrote a follow-up post yesterday that's worth reading. Today, I fear that depression still carries a stigma among lawyers, as if the sufferer should be fitted for a straitjacket. This isn't good. The stigma can discourage a sufferer to acknowledge the problem and get help. A lawyer with untreated depression is going to be impaired, thus prone to committing legal malpractice. Worse, untreated depression creates a greater risk of suicide. Whether or not each of us has this disease, each of us should understand it. It's an illness, not a character defect. We should have the same attitude toward it that we have toward any other illness. We should be aware of its symptoms, and anyone showing the symptoms should be encouraged to get medical help.

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Intel demonstrated a wireless electric power system that could revolutionize modern life by eliminating chargers, wall outlets and eventually batteries all together by 2050. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link at Intel’s 2008 developer’s forum. During the demo electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units. “The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it’s can you do it safely and efficiently,” according to Intel researcher Josh Smith. “It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field.” Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them. The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Mr. Smith. - Duracell, Energizer, Texas Instruments and Motorola Mobility in Attendance at the International Wireless Power Summit (prweb.com) - British Start-Up Working to Bring Wireless Charging to the Racetrack (wheels.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Compton Voters Approve District Elections Paving the Way for More Representation for Latino Voters In the wake of the settlement of a voting rights lawsuit handled by Rosen, Bien & Galvan, the Los Angeles Times reported on June 6, 2012 that voters in Compton, California have resoundingly approved district elections for city council, “a development that could mean more representation for the City’s Latino population. . . A lawsuit filed against the city by three Latinas in late-2010 alleged that the system dilutes the voting power of Latino residents — who are a minority of the city’s adult citizens despite being a majority of the total population — and violates the California Voting Rights Act.” RBG’s Gay Grunfeld, who represented the plaintiffs in the dispute, was quoted in a Daily Journal article, “Compton voters approve election changes” on June 7, characterizing election results as “a very significant victory.” Grunfeld went on to say, “It clears the way to finally bring Compton into compliance with the California Voting Rights Act.” Joaquin Avila, Director of the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University School of Law, and Rosen, Bien & Galvan represented plaintiffs in the dispute with the City of Compton over the City’s election system. The parties issued a joint press release announcing settlement of the case on February 28, 2012, which is set out below. Compton Voting Rights Lawsuit Resolved COMPTON, February 28, 2012 The City of Compton, California and voters Felicitas González, Flora Ruiz and Enelida Alvarez announced today a resolution to a long-standing dispute over the Citys election system. Plaintiffs González and Ruiz sued the City in December 2010, claiming that the Citys at-large method of elections violates the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 because it prevents Latino voters from electing candidates of their choice in this city of almost 100,000. The City denies the plaintiffs allegation and maintains that its electoral system is equally open to all voters, but can be changed only by the voters. Trial had been set for May 7, 2012 in Los Angeles Superior Court. In the settlement announced today, the City has agreed to provide two opportunities for Compton voters to decide whether to establish district-based election for City Council by placing charter amendments on the June 2012 ballot and, if the measure fails to pass in June, on the November 2012 ballot. The City will also provide voter education on the proposed charter amendments. If the charter amendments pass, the City agrees to draw electoral districts according to the 2010 Census. Plaintiffs will have an opportunity to review proposed electoral districts. The next City Council election is slated for April 2013. City Attorney Craig Cornwell announced the settlement, stating that Comptons voters should have an opportunity to consider changing the Citys electoral system and the benefits that district-based elections offer to all City voters, including possibly increasing voter turnout. City Attorney Cornwell also noted that the current electoral system is specified in the City Charter and can be changed only by the voters. Cornwell stated that the settlement would end protracted litigation and allow the City to refocus resources in a more positive direction. We welcome the opportunity for all neighborhoods in Compton to have a stronger voice in City elections, said Gay Grunfeld, attorney for the plaintiffs. This settlement brings positive democratic change to the elections process. The case is González et al. v. City of Compton, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 450494. The plaintiffs are represented by Joaquin Avila, Director of the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University School of Law, and by Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP of San Francisco. The City of Compton is represented by City Attorney Craig Cornwell and his deputy, Jose Paz, and by the Marin County office of Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP. Gay C. Grunfeld (415) 260-5683 firstname.lastname@example.org Craig Cornwell (310) 605-5582 email@example.com February 29th, 2012 June 6th, 2012

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United States law enforcement officials have been utilizing data provided by global positioning satellite systems to track down individual suspects, without having to demonstrate probable cause before a judge first - that much is known. Rights groups such as the ACLU have wondered, just how much of that goes on? In trying to obtain Freedom of Information Act data about the practice, the ACLU found itself blocked by the Justice Dept. The reason: DOJ believed that disclosure of the cases where warrantless GPS tracking was used, would violate the privacy of the suspect, especially if that suspect turned out not being guilty in the first place. In other words, giving the ACLU enough data for it to ascertain the circumstances in which GPS tracking was used by law enforcement against innocent civilians, could harm innocent civilians. Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that essentially re-opens the question, with a partial remand back to the lower court. The ruling essentially upholds the lower court's finding that the Justice Dept. should turn over data regarding instances of GPS tracking of suspects, in cases where suspects eventually pled guilty or were convicted. The judges' logic: Since convictions and guilty pleas are public knowledge anyway, revealing the bits of data that link those results to the investigative methods used would not cause greater than negligible harm. The judges seemed to side with rights groups, ironically by saying the DOJ's concern about protecting the rights of the accused may be overblown. This time it's the rights groups that want to know the identities of the cases involved, if not the parties' names themselves; and this time it's the DOJ that's on the side of protecting that information. The judges cited prior cases that established a clear distinction between the government exposing a suspect's entire rap sheet, and instead disclosing bits of data that a diligent researcher (if he were interested) could compile to produce a whole rap sheet. It's the bits of data versus the whole data. If this is beginning to sound familiar - like the argument over whether disclosing a user's IP address is the same as disclosing his name - it should. Here's a key excerpt from the Appeals Court's ruling yesterday: "In this case, however, disclosure will reveal only the "bits," not the 'whole.' As already discussed, the most that disclosure is likely to lead to is the fact of a single conviction, not a comprehensive scorecard of a person's entire criminal history across multiple jurisdictions. Nor is there a web of statutory or regulatory policies obscuring that information, nor much expense nor logistical difficulty in gathering it. To the contrary, computerized government services like PACER make it possible to access court filings concerning any federal defendant from the comfort of one's home or office, quite unlike the 'diligent search of courthouse files, county archives, and local police stations throughout the country' that a citizen would have had to undertake to replicate the contents of a rap sheet... In addition, newspapers regularly report on federal prosecutions, and their accounts can easily be found on the Internet. Indeed, by routinely issuing press releases that name the individuals that it has indicted, and then naming them again when they plead guilty or are convicted, the Justice Department has itself made the process infinitely easier. If someone wants to know whether his neighbor or potential employee has been indicted for, convicted of, or pled guilty to a federal offense, he may well find out by simply entering a Google search for that person's name." Here, the Appeals Court makes the argument (leaving it at an argument and not really a declaration) that a person's privacy may only be infringed upon if enough neighbors or others were interested enough in that person to do the investigation themselves. "It is little more than speculation to suggest that friends or associates who did not learn of a conviction at the time it occurred (whether through press accounts, press releases, or other means) will hear of it for the first time merely because the Justice Department releases a list of docket numbers, courts, and case names," the judges write. The key to this part of the argument is the judges' presumption that a privacy violation takes place when people are given access to PID. This may go against the contention of rights groups and others that privacy may be violated when a database is populated with PID, before any human beings have even seen it. If the judges' arguments are given weight, then much of the foundation for current legislation mandating that services such as Google and Facebook explicitly ask their users' permission before PID is disclosed to a Web service, may inadvertently corrode. Nonetheless, the ACLU late yesterday trumpeted the judges' decision as a victory, since it gives the group access to at least the "bits" without handing over the "whole." As the ACLU's Jay Stanley wrote last night, "Everyone acknowledges that the government has a right to keep the details of particular investigations secret, but when the government adopts whole new policies that affect our society's privacy rights in very broad ways - that is something that should be decided democratically, and that can't happen if we don't even know what's happening."

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"Alice" was 31 years old and 14 weeks pregnant when she chose to undergo a safe and legal abortion in New York City. She had a history of rheumatic heart disease and two previous live births. After saline was injected into her uterus to kill the fetus, Alice developed acute pulmonary edema (excess fluid in the lungs) and died on July 19, 1970. New York had just legalized abortion on demand, effective July 1, 1970. Alice is the first woman known to have died specifically from a saline abortion under the new law. But she was not the first death: "Judy" has that dubious distinction. She had died on July 12 from complications of an abortion performed six days earlier. For more abortion deaths, visit the Cemetery of Choice: To email this post to a friend, use the icon below.

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What is an estimate? “An 'Estimate' is a computer-generated approximation of a property's market value calculated by means of the Automated Value Model (AVM). As such, an Estimate is calculated on the basis of: - Publicly available tax assessment records for the property - Recent sale prices of comparable properties in the same area There are many additional factors that determine a property's actual market value, including its condition, house style, layout, special features, quality of workmanship, and so on. For this reason, an Estimate should not be viewed as an appraisal, but rather as an approximate basis for making comparisons, and as a starting point for further inquiry. A REALTOR® who specializes in the given area will be able to provide a more accurate valuation based upon current market trends, as well as specific property and neighborhood characteristics.” In some parts of the country, Realtor.com does not have access to public records data or the available estimates are not considered accurate. In these instances, the company does not display an estimated value.

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Defenders of Arizona's harsh new anti-immigration law are going on the offensive: They are fanning out on TV, radio talk shows, and newspaper columns arguing that there is nothing nefarious about this law because all it does is help Uncle Sam enforce its existing laws. Even if this claim were true, it would be as constitutionally presumptuous as Arizona dispatching state troops to help the federal government fight the Iraq war. Brit Hume, a Fox News commentator, who had previously called the law “somewhat draconian,” came out swinging in its favor—declaring that his initial characterization was completely wrong and the law is actually “totally sensible.” Meanwhile, the National Review crowd, which has yet to encounter an anti-immigration law that it doesn't like, put its full weight behind Arizona right from the get-go. In this it seems to be marching in lock step with the ultra-restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) whose founder, Mark Krikorian, is a regular contributor to the magazine. CIS advocates a moratorium on all immigration—illegal and legal, unskilled and skilled. And it pursues its agenda with as much finesse as Detective Clouseau displayed when pursuing criminals in Pink Panther movies. Two years ago, it released a study arguing against relaxing U.S. immigration restrictions on grounds that this would raise global greenhouse gas emissions. (Really! Check out the link.) Even before the ink had dried on the Arizona law, CIS issued talking points insisting that it was nothing more than a mirror image of the federal law—a claim that Byron York, National Review's former White House correspondent, immediately repeated in his column. “Contrary to the talk [of the law's critics],” York declared, “it is a reasonable, limited, carefully crafted measure...that went to great lengths to make sure it is constitutional.” Likewise, National Review editor Rich Lowry maintained: “Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States.” But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved—less than two weeks after the law was passed—to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds. However, even with these changes, the law raises equal protection and federalism issues large enough to drive a Mexican truck through. One of the most controversial aspects of the amended law is that it makes it a state crime for immigrants—legal and illegal—to step out of their house without their papers. Defenders claim that there is nothing Gestapo-like about this provision because immigrants are already required by federal law to carry their papers. What's more, they note, this law won't mean that cops will simply be able to stop anyone on the street and demand proof of legality. Interestingly, they made the same claim about the original law even though it required police officers to make little more than eye contact before launching a full-blown inquiry into someone's immigration status. The amended law limits such inquiries to instances when cops make a lawful stop, detention, or arrest in the course of enforcing some other law or local ordinance. But including local ordinances as grounds for an immigration inquiry opens all kinds of tantalizing harassment possibilities for officials like Joe Arpaio—the notorious but popular Arizona sheriff who has made it his personal mission to root out undocumented aliens from the state by launching crime sweeps in Latino communities on the flimsiest of pretexts. Under the new law, Arpaio could troll Hispanic neighborhoods demanding the papers of anyone breaking, say, a local pooper-scooper law while walking their dogs. If they can't comply on the spot, he could haul them to a police station while their immigration status is checked. If it turns out that they are here illegally, they could be arrested, pending deportation. This means that the same pooper-scooper violation that would produce nothing more than a small fine for unaccented white folks—since they would not raise any “reasonable suspicion” that would justify an inquiry into their immigration status—could well result in a lengthy police encounter for Hispanic citizens or Hispanics with valid visas—and deportation for anyone who had overstayed their visa by even a day. “If this doesn't raise equal protection and Fourth Amendment concerns then what does?” asks Cecillia Wang, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. But the more serious constitutional problem with the Arizona law is that it illegitimately usurps a federal function given that, as with foreign policy matters, Uncle Sam has ultimate jurisdiction in setting national immigration policy. Professor Juliet Stumpf of Portland's Lewis & Clark Law School notes that courts have given states some leeway to set their own laws to deal with immigrant-related crime and other issues so long as their primary purpose is not to regulate immigration flows. But the Arizona law is not exactly subtle about what its true aim is. Its opening sentence reads: “The intent of this act is to make attrition [of the immigrant population] through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.” In short, it is criminalizing immigration-related violations under state law not to deal with immigrant-related crimes—but to give state authorities expanded tools to drive out immigrants. Hence, even if the Arizona law is identical in content with federal law, notes Prof. Stumpf, it might still be overturned by courts on jurisdictional grounds. But that's not the only way this law steps on federal toes. Congress' 1996 immigration reform act expressly forbade local participation in immigration enforcement without federal authorization and supervision. Except for Arizona, notes Muzaffar Chishti, Director of New York University's Migration Policy Center, he can't think of a single state or locality that has taken upon itself to enforce federal immigration law without first entering a memorandum of understanding with Uncle Sam. “Nothing in law is ever black and white,” comments Chishti, “but it is very unlikely that there is a judge out there who would uphold the Arizona law.” The reason is that if states unilaterally start arresting undocumented aliens and dispatching them to the federal government for deportation, they will force the federal government to expend law enforcement resources on immigration when it might have other, more pressing, concerns such as, say, terrorism. Ultra-restrictionists such as the Center for Immigration Studies who care about nothing else except hounding immigrants out of the country might think this is a good idea. But other cheerleaders of the Arizona law who have priorities other than an anti-immigrant jihad ought to rethink their support. They might well be setting Arizona up for an expensive fall in the courts without addressing the root cause of the illegal problem: The lack of avenues for unskilled foreign workers to legally work in this country. That's what they should be focusing on. Shikha Dalmia is a senior analyst at Reason Foundation and a biweekly columnist at Forbes. A version of this column originally appeared at Forbes.

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Was it too good to check? Reporters from the South Bend Tribune to CBS to Sports Illustrated all repeated the story about the heartbreaking death of a young woman and her alleged romantic links to a Notre Dame football hero. One problem: It appears not to be true. As the sports website Deadspin.com reported Wednesday, the woman — identified in TV, print and Web stories for months as Lennay Kekua — never existed. Her reported death and relationship with University of Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o seem to have been an elaborate hoax. Although it's still not clear who created and perpetrated the apparent deception, the media took Te'o's word for it without inquiring further. In a statement released by Notre Dame after the Deadspin report broke Wednesday, Te'o said that he believed that his "girlfriend" existed, at least online. He said he, like the news media, was duped into believing that Kekua died of leukemia in September. "This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online," he said. "We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating." Reporters perpetuated and built upon the questionable story of the doomed relationship, taking for granted that previously reported facts were true, said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, an Arlington, Va.-based organization that studies the news business. He likened the Te'o story to widespread media reports of rampant looting and killings in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, including tales of dead bodies stacked in police freezers. Those stories — which were given especially prominent play in foreign news outlets — seemed to confirm a narrative of a violent underclass unleashed on a city in which authority had broken down. Virtually all of the most lurid stories turned out to be false. Reporters, he said, tend to "push forward" on a story, assuming that what has already been reported is established fact. But errors can result from such assumptions. "It comes from journalists not checking things for themselves," Rosenstiel said. "The lesson here is 'look inside the freezer.' Journalists shouldn't be taking [a source's] word if there is some way to verify it for themselves." ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski said in an interview with the network Wednesday that certain elements of the Te'o-Kekua story troubled him when he interviewed the player in early October. He said that he could not find any record of an obituary for Kekua and that Te'o had told him her family did not want to be contacted when Wojciechowski asked for photographs of her. "In retrospect, you can see where some of those things weren't adding up to make sense," he said. "It's easy to say now, but at the time it never enters your mind that somebody was involved in that kind of hoax. We wanted to believe it so much." Dozens of news outlets reported, often in great detail, about Kekua and Te'o, particularly the coincidental tragedy of her death occurring on the same day that Te'o's grandmother died of cancer. But Deadspin reported that it could not confirm details of her existence, such as her death notice or her alleged graduation from Stanford University. Te'o's role is unclear. At one point in October, he told ESPN that Kekua was "the most beautiful girl I've ever met," though "met" could have referred to an online-only relationship. Among other news outlets, Sports Illustrated described how Te'o would speak on the phone with Kekua as she lay in her hospital bed and how she would perk up at the sound of his voice. The conversations went on for so long, the magazine reported, that Te'o would often wake up in the morning with Kekua asleep on the other end of the line. The author of the Sports Illustrated piece, Pete Thamel, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. But he said in a tweet: "The big question here is whether Te'o was involved or not. Notre Dame is staking a loud claim that he got duped and had no involvement." On the eve of Notre Dame's national championship football game with Alabama this month, CBS picked up the story and reported that Te'o had endured "unimaginable anguish" during the football season over the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend. The network declined Wednesday to discuss its reporting, saying in a statement: "Like many other news outlets, we are now aware of the circumstances." The network said it would address the story later. Unwittingly or not, Te'o fed the media narrative of tragedy and heartbreak, too. He repeatedly referred to Kekua's death in interviews before the championship game, saying at one point, "I appreciate all the love and support that everybody's given my family and my girlfriend's family."

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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge lit up in red for national March is Red Cross Month 2012 (photo: Paul Loftland) Welcome to the new blog of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Chapter of the American Red Cross. The SEPA Red Cross has a unique role in serving as the safety net for people in our region in their hour of greatest need. As a partner of a network of 186 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide, the SEPA Chapter was founded in 1916 as a chartered unit of the American National Red Cross and serves the nearly 4 million people of Montgomery, Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties. The SEPA Chapter of the American Red Cross is marking more than 95 years of service to Philadelphia, Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Bucks Counties. SEPA is one of the largest American Red Cross chapters in the country, and has a long and proud history of providing comfort and relief to those most in need. In addition to providing disaster relief services to thousands of people every year, up until December 2009, SEPA Chapter provided volunteer support to the Penn Jersey Blood Services Region. In April 2003, SEPA Chapter became the only chapter in the country to have a Red Cross House, a temporary housing facility for victims of disaster. SEPA Chapter sent hundreds of volunteers to assist following Hurricane Katrina, played an integral support and fundraising role following the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and is consistently honored by local businesses and organizations for its commitment to helping those in need. As reflected in the Red Cross mission, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter seeks to help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural and human-caused disasters through the immediate mobilization of people and resources and the provision of community, workplace, and school-based training.

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By Roger Fox I doubt the Keystone project is even a real long term goal by TransCanada,. Certainly in the big picture Keystone is only a single chapter in a much larger book. If you read this diary you will risk information overload, you will be offered numerous disparate data points that at first glance may seem unconnected. You will need to digest all the information offered, and then analyze. Crude is is classified by the American Petroleum Institute (API) into light, medium, heavy and extra heavy crudes, by API gravity. If its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks. The Albert Tar Sands contain crudes of API 10 or less that is called Extra heavy or Bitumen. Heavy oil is defined as having an API gravity below 22.3, Medium oil is defined as having an API gravity between 22.3 °API and 31.1 °API, Light crude oil is defined as having an API gravity higher than 31.1. At a production rate of 3 million barells a day the tar sands can last for 170 years. This would also mean a hole in the ground visible from orbit. The Keystone pipeline is only one of a couple of handfuls of pipeline proposals over the last decade in the Western US, Canada and Alaska. Alaskan nat gas is largely unexploited, and is used locally on the North Slope. Its estimated that 70 trillion cubic feet of nat gas can be found in Alaska, a lot of it in the North Slope area. There are at least 3 major proposals for nat gas pipelines from the North Slope area and the adjacent Mackenzie River Delta in Canada. 2 of these projects point right at Alberta. TransCanada and Exxon Mobil are partnered in the Alaska gas pipeline proposal that will directly link nat gas production in the North Slope of ALaska thru Alberta to the US mid west. This project may be the same as the Denali proposal, and was reintroduced to theSenate in Feb, of 2011. There also at least 2 variations. Additionally there is the Dempster Lateral. -> Next page: Follow the routes south

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced the U.S. has entered into two settlements totaling more than $50 million to clean up contamination from the B.F. Goodrich Superfund Site northwest of Rialto Municipal Airport. "Most or all of the Site is located in the Rialto-Colton Groundwater Basin in western San Bernardino County," the EPA's overview for the Goodrich Superfund Site states. "The Basin is an important source of drinking water to residents and businesses in the cities of Rialto, Colton, and Fontana." A 160-acre area that is a focus of the Goodrich Superfund Site is about 15 miles northwest of Loma Linda University Medical Center and 20 miles northwest of downtown Redlands. There are a dozen parties involved in the settlements, including Emhart Industries, Pyro Spectaculars, Inc., the Department of Defense, the cities of Rialto and Colton, and the County of San Bernardino, an EPA news release stated Wednesday. Representatives of those involved in the settlements were not available to comment for this report. The Superfund site has been used to store, test and manufacture fireworks, munitions, rocket motors, and pyrotechnics, and it was added to the EPA's National Priorities List in September 2009, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. "The area's groundwater is contaminated with trichloroethylene and perchlorate, which have resulted in the closure of public drinking water supply wells in the communities of Rialto and Colton," the EPA news release stated. The B.F. Goodrich Site includes a 160-acre area in Rialto, where volatile organic compounds and perchlorate have contaminated soil and groundwater, the EPA's overview for the Goodrich Superfund Site states. The 160 acres are bounded by West Casa Grande Drive on the north, Locust Avenue on the east, Alder Avenue on the west, and an extension of Summit Avenue on the south, according to the EPA. The 160 acres were part of a larger area acquired by the United States Army in 1942, to develop an inspection, consolidation, and storage facility for rail cars transporting ordnance to the Port of Los Angeles, according to the EPA. The United States sold the Rialto property in 1946, and a portion of the property was used by defense contractors, fireworks manufacturers, and other businesses that used perchlorate salts and/or solvents in manufacturing processes or products, according to the EPA. In 1956 and 1957, West Coast Loading Corporation manufactured and tested photoflash flares and ground-burst simulators containing potassium perchlorate, according to the EPA. From about 1957 to 1962, B.F. Goodrich Corporation conducted research, development, testing, and production of solid-fuel rocket propellant containing ammonium perchlorate, and used solvents in the manufacturing process, according to the EPA. Since the 1960s, the 160-acre area has been used by a number of companies that manufactured or sold pyrotechnics, including Pyrotronics, Pyro Spectaculars, and American Promotional Events, according to the EPA. "After decades of harmful groundwater contamination and following protracted and costly litigation, the parties responsible for releases of TCE and perchlorate at the BF Goodrich Superfund Site have agreed to a comprehensive long-term plan to cleanup the contaminated groundwater at the Site," Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the U.S. Department of Justice, said in a prepared statement. "The commitment made under the consent decrees announced today will provide immeasurable benefits to the environment and the communities who live in Rialto and Colton, California," Moreno said. Under one agreement, Emhart will perform the first portion of the cleanup, which is estimated to cost $43 million over the next 30 years to design, build, and operate groundwater wells, treatment systems, and other equipment needed to clean up the contaminated groundwater at the site, according to the EPA. A significant portion of the funds will come from other settling parties, including the Department of Defense, according to the EPA. The cities of Rialto and Colton will receive $8 million. According to the EPA, the Emhart settlement includes the following entities: Emhart Industries, Inc., Black & Decker Inc., American Promotional Events, Inc., the Department of Defense, the Ensign-Bickford Company, Raytheon, Whittaker Corporation, Broco, Inc., and J. S. Brower & Associates, Inc. and related companies, as well as the cities of Rialto and Colton and the County of San Bernardino. As part of a second agreement, six entities, including PSI and its former subsidiary, will pay a combined $4.3 million to the EPA toward cleanup at the site and $1.3 million to the cities of Rialto and Colton and San Bernardino County, according to the EPA. The entities involved in this settlement are Pyro Spectaculars Inc.; Astro Pyrotechnics; Trojan Fireworks; Thomas O. Peters and related trusts; and Stonehurst Site, LLC. "For decades, the defendants have been polluting this critical source of drinking water with both perchlorate and industrial solvents," Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest, said in prepared remarks. "Today's historic settlement ensures that the impacted communities in Southern California will finally have their drinking water sources restored." Scientists with the EPA used government funds to pay for investigation and cleanup work at the site while investigating potentially responsible parties for their role in the contamination, according to the EPA. The United States, on behalf of the EPA, sued Emhart and PSI, as well as the Goodrich Corporation, the estate of Harry Hescox and its representative, Wong Chung Ming, Ken Thompson, Inc., and Rialto Concrete Products, in 2010 and 2011 to require cleanup and recover federal money spent at the site, according to the EPA. Prior to the EPA's lawsuit, the cities of Rialto and Colton initiated litigation against many of the settling parties, including the Department of Defense, in 2004. For more information on the B.F. Goodrich Site visit www.epa.gov/region09/bfgoodrich.

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Incidentally, this is what a nuclear explosion looks like one millisecond after the bomb's detonation: BNP-Paribas is the classic example: $2.5 trillion of asset footings vs. $80 billion of tangible common equity (TCE) or 31X leverage; it has only $730 billion of deposits or just 29% of its asset footings compared to about 50% at big U.S. banks like JPM; is teetering on $500 billion of mostly unsecured long-term debt that will have to be rolled at higher and higher rates; and all the rest of its funding is from the wholesale money market , which is fast drying up, and from repo where it is obviously running out of collateral. Looked at another way, the three big French banks have combined footings of about $6 trillion compared to France’s GDP of $2.2 trillion. So the Big Three french banks are 3X their dirigisme-ridden GDP. Good luck with that! No wonder Sarkozy is retreating on France’s AAA and was trying so hard to get Euro bonds. He already knows he is going to be the French Nixon, and be forced to nationalize the French banks in order to save his re-election. By contrast, the top three U.S. banks which are no paragon of financial virtue—JPM, BAC, and C—have combined footings of $6 trillion or 40% of GDP. The French equivalent of that number would be $45 trillion. Can you say train wreck! It is only a matter of time before these French and other European banks, which are stuffed with sovereign debt backed by no capital due to the zero risk weighting of the Basel lunacy, topple into the abyss of the shadow banking system where they have funded their elephantine balance sheets. And that includes Germany, too. The German banks are as bad or worse than the French. Did you know that Deutsche Bank is levered 60:1 on a TCE/assets basis, and that its Basel “risk-weighted” assets are only $450 billion, but actual balance sheet assets are $3 trillion? In other words, due to the Basel standards, which count sovereign and other AAA assets as risk free, DB has $2.5 trillion of assets with zero capital backing! This is all a product of the deformation of central banking and monetary policy over the last four decades and the destruction of honest capital markets by the monetary central planners who run the printing presses. Furthermore, this has fostered monumental fiscal profligacy among politicians who have been told for years now that the carry cost of public debt is negligible and that there would always be a central bank bid for government paper. Perhaps we are now hearing the sound of some chickens coming home to roost. Also see Europe - Whistling Past the Graveyard.

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|Easton's Bible Dictionary| Baalah of the well, (Joshua 19:8, probably the same as Baal, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:33, a city of Simeon. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ba'-a-lath-be'-er ba`alath be'er "lady (mistress) of the well"; (Joshua 19:8 (in 1 Chronicles 4:33, Baal)): In Jos this place is designated "Ramah of the South," i.e. of the Negeb, while in 1 Samuel 30:27 it is described as Ramoth of the Negeb. It must have been a prominent hill (ramah = "height") in the far south of the Negeb and near a well be'er. The site is unknown though Conder suggests that the shrine Kubbet el Baul may retain the old name. Baalath-beer (2 Occurrences) Joshua 19:8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. (ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS) 1 Chronicles 4:33 And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations. (BBE)

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OBSOLETE UNITS PACKAGE SYMBOL As of version 9.0, unit functionality is built into Mathematica is the fundamental CGS unit of mass. - To use , you first need to load the Units Package using Needs["Units`"]. - is equivalent to Kilogram/1000 (SI units). - Convert[n Gram, newunits] converts n Gram to a form involving units newunits. - is typically abbreviated as g.

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Molly sez, "For the past two years I've been researching activist uses of distributed denial of service actions. I just finished my masters thesis on the subject (for the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT). Guiding this work is the overarching question of how civil disobedience and disruptive activism can be practiced in the current [...] Yesterday afternoon, Ernest Moniz was unanimously confirmed as the nation’s new Energy Secretary, earning praise from green groups and industry. [Greentech Media] Ernest Moniz, a former MIT physicist, is the new secretary of energy. The Senate voted to confirm Moniz this afternoon by a vote of 97 to 0. Moniz now takes over for Steven [...] Just don’t think of it as mere vision prosthetic. Consider the other possibility: super senses. The sensation feels like Pop Rocks, but this 5x5 electrode grid can let your mouth see. Tongueduino, by MIT Media Lab’s Gershon Dublon, is a display that you can’t quite taste but you’ll definitely feel as it painlessly sizzles pixels on your tongue. Show More Summary Research presented by Bengsston's Flowminder Foundation to the recent Netmob 2013 held at MIT’s Media Lab, showed that our movements after conflicts and disasters are highly predictable. Analysis of mobile phone data from the 2011 civil...Show More Summary Here’s an interesting take on using augmented reality alongside hobby electronics. The project, which comes from a group of researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory, starts off by making simple electronic devices like a radio with two knobs using network connected hardware. In other words, build something using an Arduino and include a way to get […] As a parent of three technically savvy kids I find it disturbing that we haven’t even “scratched” the surface of Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media Lab’sLifelong Kindergarten Group. That mayShow More Summary The MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten Group has shipped version 2.0 of Scratch, the justly famed and much-loved programming language for kids. Scratch makes it easy to create powerful simulations and games, even for small kids (basically, if you can read, you're ready for Scratch). The new version of Scratch runs right in a browser [...] Celebrating all things theoretical (and possible), the 2013 IDEAS City conference kicked off at the New Museum in New York this past Wednesday with a keynote address by MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito. Speaking to the unlimited potential ofShow More Summary This year’s Media in Transition (MIT8) conference at MIT addresses question of the shifting nature of the public and the private, kicking off with a panel on oversharing. The panel brings together Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK), David Rosen, author and Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, moderated by Nick Montfort. Show More Summary MIT Media Lab professor Hugh Herr lost both his legs in an accident on Mount Washington; today, he's climbing better than ever. In an essay, Herr explains how the emerging field of bionics can aid the Boston bombing victims. MIT Media Lab has released a video to go along with their recent publications detailing new AR interface technology they claim could put "a user interface on any surface". Instead of planning for an urban renewal, the head of MIT’s Media Lab says cities should just get out of the way make it easier for young and interesting people to do what they do best: innovate. 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Russell Sears, Catharine Van Ingen, and Jim Gray Application designers often face the question of whether to store large objects in a filesystem or in a database. Often this decision is made for application design simplicity. Sometimes, performance measurements are also used. This paper looks at the question of fragmentation – one of the operational issues that can affect the performance and/or manageability of the system as deployed long term. As expected from the common wisdom, objects smaller than 256K are best stored in a database while objects larger than 1M are best stored in the filesystem. Between 256K and 1M, the read:write ratio and rate of object overwrite or replacement are important factors. We used the notion of “storage age” or number of object overwrites as way of normalizing wall clock time. Storage age allows our results or similar such results to be applied across a number of read:write ratios and object replacement rates.

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DryadLINQ is a simple, powerful, and elegant programming environment for writing large-scale data parallel applications running on large PC clusters. The goal of DryadLINQ is to make distributed computing on large compute cluster simple enough for every programmer. DryadLINQ combines two important pieces of Microsoft technology: the Dryad distributed execution engine and the .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Dryad provides reliable, distributed computing on thousands of servers for large-scale data parallel applications. LINQ enables developers to write and debug their applications in a SQL-like query language, relying on the entire .NET library and using Visual Studio. DryadLINQ translates LINQ programs into distributed Dryad computations: - C# and LINQ data objects become distributed partitioned files. - LINQ queries become distributed Dryad jobs. - C# methods become code running on the vertices of a Dryad job. DryadLINQ has the following features: - Declarative programming: computations are expressed in a high-level language containing a superset of the best features of SQL, functional programming and .Net. - Automatic parallelization: from sequential declarative code the DryadLINQ compiler generates highly parallel query plans spanning large computer clusters. DryadLINQ also exploits multi-core parallelism on each machine. - Integration with Visual Studio: programmers in DryadLINQ take advantage of the comprehensive VS set of tools: Intellisense, code refactoring, integrated debugging, build, source code management. - Integration with .Net: all .Net libraries, including Visual Basic, and dynamic languages are available. - Type safety: distributed computations are statically type-checked. - Automatic serialization: data transport mechanisms automatically handle all .Net object types. - Job graph optimizations - static: a rich set of term-rewriting query optimization rules is applied to the query plan, optimizing locality and improving performance. - dynamic: run-time query plan optimizations automatically adapt the plan taking into account the statistics of the data set processed. - Conciseness: the following line of code is a complete implementation of the Map-Reduce computation framework in DryadLINQ: - public static IQueryable<R> MapReduce<S,M,K,R>(this IQueryable<S> source, return source.SelectMany(mapper).GroupBy(keySelector, reducer); A commercial implementation of Dryad and DryadLINQ was released in 2011 in beta form under the name Linq to HPC: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh378101.aspx. - Yuan Yu - Michael Isard - Dennis Fetterly - Mihai Budiu - Frank McSherry - Jon Currey - Qifa Ke - Ulfar Erlingsson (alumnus) - Pradeep Kumar Gunda (alumnus) - Kannan Achan (alumnus) - Optimus: A Dynamic Rewriting Framework for Data-Parallel Execution Plans, Qifa Ke, Michael Isard, and Yuan Yu Eurosys 2013, ACM, April 2013 - Fay: Extensible Distributed Tracing from Kernels to Clusters Úlfar Erlingsson, Marcus Peinado, Simon Peter, and Mihai Budiu ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 23-26, 2011 - Parallelizing the Training of the Kinect Body Parts Labeling Algorithm Mihai Budiu, Jamie Shotton, Derek G. Murray, and Mark Finocchio Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems and Tools for Learning at Scale, Sierra Nevada, Spain, December 16-17, 2011 - Large-Scale Machine Learning using DryadLINQ, chapter in Scaling Up Machine Learning, Frank McSherry, Yuan Yu, Mihai Budiu, Michael Isard, and Dennis Fetterly, Cambridge University Press, December 2011 - TidyFS: A Simple and Small Distributed File System, Dennis Fetterly, Maya Haridasan, Michael Isard, and Swaminathan Sundararaman, in Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'11), USENIX, 15 June 2011 - Monitoring and Debugging DryadLINQ Applications with Daphne Vilas Jagannath, Zuoning Yin, and Mihai Budiu International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS), Anchorage, AK, May 20, 2011 - DryadOpt: Branch-and-Bound on Distributed Data-Parallel Execution Engines Mihai Budiu, Daniel Delling, and Renato Werneck IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Anchorage, AK, May 16-20, 2011 - Steno: automatic optimization of declarative queries, Derek G. Murray, Michael Isard and Yuan Yu, in Proceedings of PLDI 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011 - Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Datacenters, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang, in Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), October 2010 - A Data-Parallel Toolkit for Information Retrieval, Dennis Fetterly and Frank McSherry, in Proceedings of SIGIR, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 19 July 2010 - Quincy: Fair Scheduling for Distributed Computing Clusters, Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Udi Wieder, Kunal Talwar, and Andrew Goldberg, in Proceedings of 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 11 October 2009 - Privacy Integrated Queries, Frank McSherry, in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009 Distributed Aggregation for Data-Parallel Computing: Interfaces and Implementations, Yuan Yu, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Michael Isard, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2009 Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language, Michael Isard, Yuan Yu, International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), July 2009 DryadInc: Reusing work in large-scale computations Lucian Popa, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, and Michael Isard Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), San Diego, CA, June 15, 2009 - Hunting for problems with Artemis Gabriela F. Creţu-Ciocârlie, Mihai Budiu, and Moises Goldszmidt USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL), San Diego, CA, December 7, 2008 - DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu, Ulfar Erlingsson, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, and Jon Currey Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, December 8-10, 2008. - Some sample programs written in DryadLINQ Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu, Ulfar Erlingsson, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Jon Currey, Frank McSherry, and Kannan Achan Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-74, May 2008, 37 pages - Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, and Dennis Fetterly European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Lisbon, Portugal, March 21-23, 2007. - Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language Presentation by Yuan Yu at SIGMOD, July, 2009 - DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Presentation by Yuan Yu at OSDI, December, 2008 - Cluster Computing with DryadLINQ Presentation by Mihai Budiu at Palo Alto Research Center CSL Colloquium, Palo Alto, CA May 8, 2008 - A Machine-Learning toolking in DryadLINQ Presentation slides in PowerPoint by Mihai Budiu and Kannan Achan.

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6 Series with Tags: Recession Indicators Series These time series are an interpretation of US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions data provided by The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) at http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html and Organisation of Economic Development (OECD) Composite Leading Indicators: Reference Turning Points and Component Series data provided by the OECD at http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,3746,en_2649_34349_35726918_1_1_1_1,00.html. Our time series are composed of dummy variables that represent periods of expansion and recession. The NBER identifies months and quarters, while the OECD identifies months, of turning points without designating a date within the period that turning points occurred. The dummy variable adopts an arbitrary convention that the turning point occurred at a specific date within the period. The arbitrary convention does not reflect any judgment on this issue by the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee or the OECD. A value of 1 is a recessionary period, while a value of 0 is an expansionary period.

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Exports of plastic scrap fell in October By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling The volume of plastic scrap exported in September, at 368.86 million pounds, fell by 5.6 percent from its August figure. Also, when matched against its September 2011 position, the volume of exports was down by 11.6 percent. percent from its August 2012 standing. However, when compared to its year-over-year (YOY) level the price was down sharply by 7.9 percent. Through September, at 3.29 billion pounds, the volume of recovered plastics exported was down 7.8 percent through the same period in 2011. At 21.41 cents per pound, the average price through September 2012 was down, as well, by 3.2 percent from its 2011 year-to-date (YTD) standing.

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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition. It is possible to develop melanoma with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing melanoma. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk. Risk factors for melanoma include: The occurrence of melanoma has been linked with exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Therefore, exposing your skin to UV rays from the sun or tanning lamps increases your odds of developing melanoma. People who live in sunny climates are exposed to more sunlight. People who live at high altitudes, where the sunlight is strongest, are exposed to more UV radiation. Blistering sunburns, even as a child, also increase the risk of developing melanoma. Having melanoma once increases your risk of developing it again. Having many moles or large moles increases your risk of melanoma. Also, irregular moles are more likely to turn into melanoma than normal moles. Irregular moles are characterized by: - Being larger than normal moles - Being variable in color - Having irregular borders - Any pigmented spot in the nail beds - Changing in size and/or shape Most melanomas are diagnosed in young adults and older adults. Family members of people with melanoma are at greater risk of developing the disease than people with no family history of the disease. People with a disease called xeroderma pigmentosa (XP) are at a very increased risk of developing melanoma. This rare disease does not allow patients to repair sun-damaged DNA, therefore any sun exposure will result in damage and mutations that become melanomatous. It is not unusual for these people to develop hundreds of melanomas on their skin. Similarly, people with hereditary dysplastic nevus syndrome or familial atypical multiple mole melanoma (FAMMM) syndrome are also at increased risk for developing melanoma. Caucasians are more likely than black, Hispanic and Asian people to develop melanoma. Most people who develop melanoma tend to burn rather than tan when exposed to sunlight. These people tend to have fair skin, freckles, red or blonde hair, or blue-colored eyes. - Reviewer: Brian Randall, MD - Review Date: 04/2013 - - Update Date: 04/08/2013 -

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Fully revised and updated for the 21st century, 365 Manners Kids Should Know tackles one manner a day. It suggests many games, exercises, and activities that parents, teachers, and grandparents can use to teach children and teens essential etiquette and at what age to present them. Some of the manners covered are when and where to text, how to handle an online bully, how to write a thank-you note, and proper behavior and dress for special events such as weddings, birthday parties, and religious services. Customer Reviews for 365 Manners Kids Should Know - revised and updated This product has not yet been reviewed. Click here to continue to the product details page.

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Keep an eye on the sky the next time you're at a concert -- a cold beer might be coming your way. It's been announced that attendees of South Africa's OppiKoppi music festival will be able to order beer that comes delivered on an octocopter drone. Called the OppiKoppi beer drone, the device is an 8-propeller helicopter that can be loaded with beer and flown over the festival, arriving at the GPS location of any person who orders a cold brew from a mobile app. Once the drone arrives at its location, it drops its cargo and a single beer attached to a parachute will make its way down to a designated campsite called District 9. With beer intentionally flying in the air, there's some concern about a cold brew randomly hitting festival goers in the head. Darkwing Aerials, the South African company that's providing the beer drone for the festival, says it is taking safety precautions. … Read more

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