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Migration of the actual thing to virtual in the subject "Introduction to Computers" in Nursing Program at UCLA
The dean of health sciences at Lisandro Alvarado Centroccidental University is currently developing a system in which the traditional onsite programs for medicine and nursing are being migrated to the virtual system. Professors from the course "An introduction to Computing" are also working on making curricular changes to adapt to the new system. This is being done in four stages: 1) teacher training- to manage online subjects; 2) course design changes; 3) the selection of technological tools and materials and 4) the uploading of the course to the Moodle platform, which is the virtual learning environment. The first three phases have already been completed, but the fourth stage is currently being implemented. As a result, the training received positive feedback by professors, i.e. those who took on the challenge of migrating to e-learning. However, the burden of academic work impeded the smooth transition to making this change. The technological equipment that was being used by the university governors was therefore not not fully modernized to satisfy the needs of profesors or to effectively deliver online courses.
Technological migration; Professors; online courses; the Moodle platform.

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Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Wax, wick, and will
She went back to school on Monday after almost two glorious weeks of winter vacation. Knowing she had loads of work to hand in, plus the cold, and the pains that had been increasing lately, all week she felt like she was walking in a fog.
Work is doing her in. She's a teacher. She works with fourth graders. After 18 years at this, she expected things to get easier. The total opposite has happened.
It's not the kids. They're a pleasure. She still believes in this profession. Teaching fills her, it satisfies, it's her mark on tomorrow.
But give her a break, please!
This teacher is no good to anyone when they take advantage of her, when they overload her day with so many wasteful, silly, insignificant things to do, when they don't give her a chance to use the ladies' room, when she can't eat a sorry piece of sandwich on her lunch break, when they expect her to write lesson plans and correct papers and fill out reports until 11 at night and during the entire weekend.
This teacher has stopped sleeping for all of the thousands of things she thinks about in the dark.
This week she accepted that the flame is flickering, barely holding on.
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- The Fearless Blog said...
Cassy, I must admit I too have had my moments, the flame flickering moment.
However, I have learned to adapt, tune off from that which creates such unrest even unhappiness in me. I began teaching as an adjunct in 1988, twenty years ago, but I did not fully understand the joys or troubles until I became faculty. Meetings, projects, workshops, and senseless bureaucracy can easily dismay even the most dedicated of teachers. I must constantly remind myself to focus on the students and my interest in their well being. I place my energy and attention on them and all else...well..."all else' is just fluff.
I promised myself if teaching ever became painful and unpleasant, I would move on to something else. Honestly, after 20 years I still feel great joy every time I walk into a classroom. I am where I was always meant to be. However, we must all chase our bliss, that which brings us satisfaction and joy, makes us feel useful and alive. Without these feelings, what then do we become?
BTW It's always difficult returning after a long and pleasant vacation. I am still having trouble waking up in the morning. LOL
- January 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- This Brazen Teacher said...
You know Ron Clark- the white-bred Tennessee native who taught in Harlem NY and won Oprah acclaim and whatnot?
I saw him speak in Ohio last year. He told stories about the "real" side of teaching. He talked about just throwing 75 papers to grade in the trash and going out for a beer because he was just too exhausted.
I think you you need to do that. For real. Feed the flame lady. You deserve it.
- January 13, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Cassy said...
Fearless and Brazen - Thanks for "being there"... it's been rough for a spell, this happens every year (a couple of times). I struggle with doing things "their" way; my kids end up paying the price and I won't have it.
I'm good. And una buena cerveza (o un vino) will certainly do the trick!
- January 13, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Jennifer said...
Cassy -- You have really opened my eyes up to the amount of work that teachers have to do, in addition to dealing with bureaucracy and other pains.
I have a college friend who teaches middle schoolers. She has become totally cynical about kids and schools, which is sad. I am glad that you aren't at that point. Maybe you have more happy moments on the job than she does.
- January 14, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Linda S. Socha said...
I can relate to this one. I have a daughter who is an ESL teacher in Tennessee. I taught remedial reading in Tennessee to long ago to name and I thought it was tought THEN.
Now as a Consultant and Psychologist I see more clearly how every year professionals must do more just to stay on tager. Of coure w3 get tired and dream of running away....And yet most of those of us committed to kids and families. continue on.
Please take a moment and stop by Psyche Connections for a visit. I think we may have some connections and philosophy in common. I would enjoying exchanging links for following blogs if you have an interest. I see you have one of my favorite people as a follower...Lorenzo....Good taste
- January 15, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- Ali said...
Sounds like you hit the January slump hard! Hang in there, Cassy.
- January 16, 2009 at 3:04 AM
- Nardeeisms said...
This post is near and dear to my heart. I am the mother of a fourth grader, and let me say this: In behalf of us mothers everywhere: Your sacrifice has not gone unnoticed by us. Despite your having to wade through all of the crappy bureaucracy that swirls about you, thank you for your undying efforts. You hold our childrens' futures in your loving hands, and for this, we thank you. This is what makes it all worth it. - ~Love, Nards
(P.S. I have an Excite mail account. And guess what the day's fortune says? "Take a moment to remember fourth grade" (Smile) (I kid you not)
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|Leokadia, Celina, Aleksander, and Feliks in 1924 (Warsaw, Poland)
Feliks Szerejko
My grandfather's older brother Feliks lived his life in Warsaw. He is pictured above with his second wife, Leokadia (Szymanska), his daughter Celina (Gzell), and his son Aleksander. My grandmother's sister Helen Bulak stayed with Feliks and his family during the summer of 1937 on her trip to Poland. Celina and Aleksander survived World War II. Feliks and Leokadia did not.
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Clearly then, it all can lead directly to his door. It is totally due to him that Christie McNally acquired the title "Lama", when he revealed he was in his own supposedly solitary retreat along with her for three years, at which point he started referring to her as Vajrayogini herself. He treated her as his own Lama, and they revealed their own bizarre neo-tantra "spiritual partnership" teachings to the world. He ignored the warnings of his own Gurus, and what seems appalling here is that supposedly he was Christie's Guru, yet it seems evident she stopped treating him as such absolutely in her reaction to the advice to leave the retreat grounds (and probably long before, as how could she have left him for Ian in the first place if she had pure perception of him as the perfect Guru / spiritual partner?). The totally weird perspective that he had to try to appeal to other "precious teachers" of hers to reach out to her after she went off the grid, rather than her listening to him, who she used to refer to as her perfect Guru.. just shatters all pretension that there was ever anything even remotely real in their whole act. (Likewise, when did she stop being "vajrayogini in person" to GMR? Clearly, he no longer maintains that view. He condemns weapons and violence here and now on DM campus but don't we all remember the accounts of him starting to slice his finger off with a phurba saying he thought it was his Guru, Christie's request-- as a teaching example on the same campus? Isn't this all just a natural extension of those days?) I don't see how their students can keep believing in the charade and especially their misguided view of emptiness amidst all the glaring evidence that nobody at the top is even remotely acting according to their own self-imposed "logic" anymore. This is a terrible tragedy, --but if someone died in the midst of an authentic retreat guided by a true master and according to true tantric principles-- this should be considered an optimal context to die in. A blessing. But this seems far from it, for so many reasons.Knotty Veneer wrote: Well, having read Michael Roach's statement linked to from the buddhism.about.com site I am not sure how much can be led directly at his door for this tragedy. *snip* Christie McNally does not appear to me to be the kind of person who could lead a 3 year retreat (or be indeed called "Lama").
That is what is tragic. That there are still over 30 people in the desert, trying to continue their retreats, in the midst of this total chaos and incompetent guidance? Let us all pray that these people, along with their entire mandala, find authentic teachers with authentic lineage, and develop the great fortune to embark on proper retreats in this very lifetime.


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Climate Change and Developing Countries
By Ed Reid on August 9, 2012 at 9:23 am
"It is one thing to imagine that developing countries could rely on renewable energy to develop without increasing their use of fossil fuels, but the reality is that the developed regions have not shown that it can be done."
Building a renewable energy future is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle with several key pieces missing. In the case of renewables, the key missing piece is storage. Other missing pieces include competitive economics and perceived need on the part of consumers. Jigsaw puzzles are most often assembled beginning with the corners, followed by the edges; the center pieces are then placed to complete the picture. The US government and other developed nation governments have attempted to use mandates, subsidies and incentives to "make the corner pieces of the puzzle" (solar, wind, biomass and geothermal) larger, perhaps in the hope that they would "grow together" and form the complete perimeter of the picture. In the process, they have demonstrated to the developing countries that the renewables puzzle is "not ready for prime time".
China, in particular, appears to be willing to produce as much solar and wind hardware as the developed countries are willing to mandate, subsidize and incentivize. China is also building new coal generation as quickly as possible. Perhaps China understands something the developed nations would rather ignore.
By Matt Z on August 10, 2012 at 9:19 am
"competitive economics"
that's a tough one because every form of energy has been subsidized in some way. There are many studies that have shown that the level of direct subsidies to fossil fuels far exceeds those of renewable energy.
Worse, the indirect subsidies of externalities make it difficult for other low-carbon technologies to compete. Perhaps once we start internalizing these costs (ie carbon price) then we can start evening the playing field.
By Ed Reid on August 10, 2012 at 3:45 pm
The consumer sees the price in the market, which is not competitive.
What is the correct carbon price?
Excellent realistic analysis.
Population and demand are rising in undeveloped and emerging countries. Population and demand are stagnant or shrinking in developed and advanced countries.
This is in agreement with many other serious analysts who understand that what Europe and North America can realistically do about their own carbon emissions is essentially irrelevant to the global carbon dynamic.
A new generation of nuclear power, safer, cheaper, cleaner, expedited by a new breed of government leaders, is the only way that North America and Europe are likely to cut their carbon consumption significantly.
Big grid wind energy and big grid solar energy cannot be trusted with more than 20% of grid load, and that only with more than ample (and expensive) backup by more reliable and consistent forms of power.
By Matt Z on August 10, 2012 at 9:22 am
if you Google "base load fallacy" you will find a whole bunch of smart people disagree with you.
By Base Load on August 10, 2012 at 11:06 am
…I clicked a few links. If those people are so smart, where are the graphs showing how they plan to match the additive output of the generation resources to the demand curves?
Spare us all the agony.
By MattZ on August 10, 2012 at 12:20 pm
food for thought:
Energy consulting firm Ecofys produced a report detailing how we can meet nearly 100% of global energy needs with renewable sources by 2050 – http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/energy_solutions/renewable_energy/sustainable_energy_report/
Stanford's Mark Jacobson and UC Davis' Mark Delucchi published a study in 2010 in the journal Energy Policy examining the possibility of meeting all global energy needs with wind, water, and solar (WWS) power. They found it would be plausible to produce all new energy from WWS in 2030, and replace all pre-existing energy with WWS by 2050. – http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnPolicyPt1.pdf and http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/DJEnPolicyPt2.pdf
Another 2010 study by the German Renewable Energies Agency turned conventional baseload logic on its head, finding that due to their relatively inflexible ability to adjust to changing demand, "nuclear power plants are incompatible with renewable energies." To meet forecasted wind production in Germany, conventional baseload operation would be cut in half by 2020, assuming renewable generation continues to enjoy priority dispatch. As renewables gradually replace conventional baseload capacity, only more flexible gas generators that can operate at under 50 percent of their capacity will still have a role to play. – http://www.unendlich-viel-energie.de/uploads/media/35_Renews_Spezial_Renewable_Energies_and_Baseload_Power_Plants-1.pdf
A comprehensive report on renewables integration by European consultancy eclareon GmbH surveyed the policies and grid functions of the 27 member states of the European Union, and found that "large quantities [of renewable generation] can be effectively managed on the grid." Countries that planned for adequate grid capacity generally didn't have a problem with accommodating renewables, and unsurprisingly, those are the same countries that have pushed for more renewable generation. – http://www.eclareon.eu/sites/default/files/res_integration_final_report.pdf
A report published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures), is an initial investigation of the extent to which renewable energy supply can meet the electricity demands of the continental United States over the next several decades. This study explores the implications and challenges of very high renewable electricity generation levels—from 30% up to 90%, focusing on 80%, of all U.S. electricity generation from renewable technologies—in 2050. – http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re_futures/
HI Robert,
(Sorry for the re-post – I posted this by accident in your previous column, but meant to post here)
What troubles me about this analysis is that it doesn't account for lifecycle CO2. I'd be interested to see how much of the of the Asia's CO2 is actually a result of North America's demand for products. Isn't it not quite fair to blame developing countries for their emissions if they are really due to our consumption and the offshoring of manufacturing? However I don't know how much of their rising emissions are from our demand versus theirs – have you seen any analysis on this?
However I don't know how much of their rising emissions are from our demand versus theirs – have you seen any analysis on this?
That question comes up a lot, and until recently I had never seen an answer to that question. But recently I read somewhere that I believe it was about a quarter of their emissions were from manufacturing goods. So one would have to suppose that they have greatly expanded their manufacturing base over the past 10 years for exported goods in order for that to be the primary driver. Given the economic slowdown in the West, I think that's pretty unlikely. It may be a factor, but I don't believe it is the driving factor.
By MattZ on August 10, 2012 at 10:54 am
Thanks Robert.
The other conclusion that I have problems with is that this analysis seems to lead people to the conclusion that this a developing world problem, which I'm not sure I agree with. Putting aside that most of the warming in the pipeline thus far is from our (developed world) emissions, how much of the developing world's rising emissions is really from oil use? Aren't the two largest culprits of rising emissions from electricity generation (coal) and meat consumption (which drives land use changes, deforestation, and increased methane)? I know that this is an energy blog, but to really look at emissions, and the ability to control them, it would seem to me that we could allow the emissions of developing countries to rise on oil consumption in order to increase their quality of life, but we could still take a major dent out of global emissions if we increased energy efficiency overall (both in transport and stationary sources), got off coal (which we can do, but will cost) and simply ate less meat. Again I would want to see an analysis of these various driving factors of emissions. Sure oil consumption will be difficult to reduce, but these other three technically are not.
Putting aside that most of the warming in the pipeline thus far is from our (developed world) emissions, how much of the developing world's rising emissions is really from oil use?
It is true that the bulk of the inventory of CO2 in the atmosphere right now is presently from the developed world, but my point — and I have taken a number of columns to show this — is that it will increasingly be driven by developing countries in the future. They hold the key to reining in future emissions. The U.S. unilaterally making large cuts would have symbolic impact, but will do very little to actually impact upon the bottom line.
Yes, a large component of emissions in general is coal consumption, and that is where the most effort should be placed in my opinion. I am not suggesting that we limit the developing world's oil consumption. We lack both the ability to do that and the moral authority to argue for it.
By MattZ on August 10, 2012 at 1:08 pm
"The U.S. unilaterally making large cuts would have symbolic impact, but will do very little to actually impact upon the bottom line."
While I do agree the future of emission reductions is in the developing world, I'm not so sure about your above conclusion. I have been reading your articles to back this up, but all of them have been focused on the energy component, which is an insufficient analysis to draw the above conclusion.
What I'd like to know is how much of the developing world's emissions are tied to our (developed countries) consumption choices? We discussed that we don't know on the manufacturing side, but that its not likely more than 25% (which is still pretty significant), but what about other consumption/production like food, and meat especially. For example, meat production and consumption accounts for more GHGs than transport or industry and the average American consumes significantly more meat than anyone in the developing world… It's not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I would need to see a more complete analysis of lifecycle GHGs from our consumption/production choices in ALL sectors, not just energy, in order to come to the conclusion that unilateral emissions cuts wouldn't really matter.
The article seems resigned to the fact not much can be done about global warming because we are so fossil fuel dependent and developing countries will also need to participate. I think most people know that, but what's the alternative? A 4C degree rise in average temperature by 2100 is scary, and it gets even worse after that. We need to act! If you have cancer, you have surgery and chemotherapy even though they may hurt and make you temporarily sick.
"A 4C degree rise in average temperature by 2100 is scary,"; and, speculative.
By Jeff Bloom on August 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm
4C is on the high end what many models are predicting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/05/ipcc-rising-temperature-targets-greenland-ice-sheet . There is going to be uncertainty in any prediction, especially the further out that you go, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. It's sort of like standing out in the middle of a road and saying I don't know if a car is going to come down at 25 or 75 mph so I am going to just stand here. No, you do something, and get off the road.
By Ed Reid on August 11, 2012 at 8:15 am
The link above discusses the 1988 forecast by Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS.
Prediction is very hard, especially about the future – Yogi Berra
By Jeff Bloom on August 13, 2012 at 9:31 am
By tennie davis on August 13, 2012 at 12:40 pm
That link was entertaining;)
It's a classic example of why a catastrophic warmist can never be wrong, thay just move the goal post after the fact. They claim that you're not using the correct input, of course that's the inherent flaw in computer mods, garbage in garbage out.
If Hanson saw an ice sheet bearing down on latitude 44, he would call up Mike Mann and say "we better go with scenario G or maybe S;)
Sounds like a profitable religion to me.
Carry on ye faithful followers.
By Jeff Bloom on August 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Hansen predicted temperatures would increase and they did; just not to the extent, thank goodness, he predicted. The models are now more refined than they were 25 years ago.
It would be wonderful if the models were wrong and there was no warming over the next 100 years. However the fundamentals of 1) CO2 increasing and 2) CO2 being a greenhouse gas (reflects infrared light more than visible light), cannot be rationally denied.
By Ed Reid on August 13, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Shoulda, coulda, woulda!
By Ed Reid on August 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Please note that the current, lower sensitivity estimates are the result of curve fitting the temperature record, rather than new science. The sensitivity estimates can be expected to continue to decrease as the curves remain relatively flat.
Matt Z said:
"There are many studies that have shown that the level of direct subsidies to fossil fuels far exceeds those of renewable energy."
Not to defend fossil fuel subsidies, but because their subsidies tend to be so small per unit energy produced (the metric that is meaningful) removing them would not be nearly enough to make renewables competitive (adding a few cents per gallon of oil or some other small amount to a ton of coal does not make a game changing difference). I'm a big fan of solar but the truth is that the dollar value of the subsidy per unit of energy produced tends to be higher for renewable energy. I am eligible for up to $30 thousand dollars of subsidies if I put solar on my house. I recieved a $3,500 tax credit four my Prius, and $7,500 for my Leaf.
Source: http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/05/20/plug-in-solar-panels-do-they-make-cents/
That may or may not be a good thing, only time will tell. Subsidies are meant to be a short term investment to flush out technical and/or economic viability. Some subsidies are a bust, some pay off very well. Big hydro-power dams and nuclear are two examples of subsidies that have provided significant net economic benefit over time. Read Do Government Subsidies Ever Pay Off?
Source: http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/02/29/do-government-subsidies-ever-pay-off/
"…if you Google "base load fallacy" you will find a whole bunch of smart people disagree with you."
There are also a lot of smart people who would tend to agree with her. To have a meaningful discussion on the topic of baseload you have to first understand what it is and agree to a definition. Most sources of renewable energy are baseload (hydro, biomass incineration, geothermal). Read A Base Load Free Power System and Dirty, Baseload, Centralized, Renewable Energy.
Renewables are highly dependent on location. Hydro makes good sense in the Pacific Northwest, Solar makes sense in Tucson. Many of the hits I got with your search term contain a link to a study done for Australia by an Australian researcher.
You can read a critique of that study here and here
We all know that we can find a study to support anything we want to believe on the internet. But let me focus on the most recent study in your list, from the National Renewable Energy Lab. Read The Exaggerated Promise of Renewable Energy.
In their 80% renewable by 2050 scenario, combined, photovoltaic and concentrated solar make up about 13% of the mix. The study assumed no new nuclear, yet by 2050, old nuclear power plants are still estimated to produce more energy than photovoltaic.
By Tom G. on August 11, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Hi Russ:
I am not saying your proposed or installed system is over priced, but in Arizona we are much closer to $5.00/watt installed. Here are a couple of typical sites for comparisons.
Many people in Arizona just buy the components, go get a city permit and install the systems themselves all except for the final connection to the grid. That connection is made by a licensed electrician and done after a utility inspection.
Well let's see, our host RR said he would be back on August 11. Well today is August 11th – where is he? He must be surfing, recovering from jet lag or doing the accumulated laundry from his trip. In any case it is really good to have you back Robert.
As far as global warming is concerned, I am still sitting on the fence. Not because I don't believe it is getting warmer, but rather I don't think we really know what all of the contributing factors really are. I believe there are far more factors that we are not tracking instead of our old friend CO2 that makes stuff grow. When someone can come up with a model and data that makes sense to me that takes into consideration ALL of the contributing factors; then I will read it. But ignoring the 10′s of thousands of tons of refrigerants we use which are 1700 times more harmful than CO2 and the coal ash and the pollutants from our cars and trucks and even the dust we raise during farming – when we have a model that considers all of these factors; then I will jump on the band wagon and do what I can to implement change.
But from my perspective we are currently FAILING big time as a country. We COULD be sending solar panels manufactured in the U.S. to other countries instead of sending F18 fighter jets. Wouldn't it be better to help other countries reduce their carbon footprint from the beginning instead of after the fact like we are trying to do? We could be sending people in Africa electric bicycles with batteries manufactured in the U.S. by companies like A123 instead of tanks, M16′s or armored vehicles. Or does anyone even care that China is offering to BUY A123, an MIT technology creation, and take control of this U.S. battery manufacturer that we have invested millions and millions of taxpayer dollars in creating. Does anyone care?
O.K. getting down off my soap box. Welcome back Robert.
By Robert Rapier on August 11, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Well let's see, our host RR said he would be back on August 11. Well today is August 11th – where is he?
Just got home about 20 minutes ago. Slogging through emails now.
Cheers, RR
By Russ Finley on August 12, 2012 at 12:19 am
That estimate doesn't account for my East-West slope, not to mention my roof isn't big enough! And there is no way I'm installing panels my own panels on a three story house with a steep pitch : (
By Ed Reid on August 12, 2012 at 8:51 am
Sounds like you need to move to a more solar-friendly house.
By tennie davis on August 13, 2012 at 12:51 am
"Sounds like you need to move to a more solar-friendly house"
I suspect the wife might have somthing to say about that;)
I once made a methane digester with three 55 gal. drums. Had it on the front porch and fed it foods scraps, among other things. My (ex) girl friend was not impressed with my "eccentricities".
After she moved on, the south facing porch became a green house, and provides most of my heating (I live in arizona).
I must say, not having the girl friend saved a lot of $ for so many reasons;)
By Tom G. on August 13, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Now that is truly funny Tennie. Thank you for the good chuckle.
By Tom G. on August 12, 2012 at 11:09 am
Chicken – its only 3 stories – get a rope, LOL
I can certainly understand under those conditions. Is there any room on the property for a ground mounted system? Sometimes that can be a good alternative.
Welcome back to the blog's scribe-in-chief. Though one kinda bristles at his reminder that the developed nations may be facing a Faustian bargain in promoting a future with far less in the way of fossil fuels and economic growth or continuation of the status quo and prospects of a much warmer climate for consumption. The choices appear neither easy nor pleasant.
I think it fair to suggest that China and India and ……. will pay lip-service to concerns about global warming even as their near-term agenda remains intently one of promoting growth as the only viable option for achieving socioeconomic objectives. We can mount the high horse all we want and speak in the spirit of swords-to-plowshares, but the cold, hard reality is that our example is too easy to follow. So the question at hand is a very old one, and it necessarily speaks to leadership and in that vein to the very essence of the word.
I'm not sure ideology will do an awful lot of good in keeping the crops from wilting or ensuring the delivery of medicine to the sick. But one thing remains dependably true; Washington politicians will keep on fiddling while the countryside yearns.
Welcome back, indeed:)
CO2 does make stuff grow faster. some crops like wheat and soy 30% faster than they would normally. There is a catch, the seeds do not mature as fast as the plants grow. You also have to understand that rising temps. can also effect the plants negatively. Plants have optimum temps. for growth. to hot to cold, their range changes. the warmer temps and higher CO2 levels also encourages new pests, and fungi to enter the picture. Agriculture spends 11 billion dollars/year just on weeds. adding new pests, like the shield bug (just for illustration) means even more money developing solutions to these as of yet unknown problems. the models you're talking about exist. they are largely ignored because they are not convenient. too much data will make a politician swoon, and not enough makes them dismiss it altogether, frustrating.


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Universal Orlando raised ticket prices once again over the weekend, becoming the first of Orlando's big theme-park operators to lift base prices above $90.
The price of a one-day, one-park Universal ticket is now $92, before tax. That's a 3.4 percent increase from the previous price of $89.
Single-day tickets that cover admission to both of Universal's theme parks — Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure — rose 3.2 percent, from $124 to $128.
Some other ticket options rose by slightly larger margins. The price for a two-day, two-park ticket jumped 4.4 percent, from $159.99 to $166.99.
This is the second consecutive year that Universal has jumped out in front of its larger rival, Walt Disney World, with a round of price increases. Universal has been able to take advantage of strong pricing power afforded by the popularity of its Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Universal will also open a major new ride next month based on the Transformers toy and film franchise.
One-day, one-park prices remain $89 at both Disney and SeaWorld Orlando. But if history is any guide, the other parks will follow soon with price hikes. Neither Disney nor SeaWorld would say Monday whether they intend to raise prices in the near future.
"We set our prices to reflect the value of the entertainment experience we offer," Universal spokesman Tom Schroder said. "Our guests continue to tell us we offer great entertainment at great value. Our new pricing has options as low as about $42 per day. And we will continue to offer a variety of value-driven, multi-day vacation packages for guests and their families."
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As aboriginal as 2009, 3 years afore Fox Lake adopted the 230 ILCS 40 (code for the new video gaming laws), Ed Bender, the again Fox Lake Ambassador had apparent both abandon of the bread apropos the video gaming act. If enacted, he said it ability accompany the boondocks a bad acceptability but at the aforementioned time, conceivably it would aswell allure video gaming enthusiasts from adjoining towns and states area video bank was illegal. Today, seven years later, video bank has done added acceptable than abuse for Fox Lake and its community. And accurate to his words, abounding businesses accept sprung up aback to their feet. Business abstracts shows that the achievement of this legislation has been acceptable for the accomplished of Illinois and added bounded governments are adopting this new law.
By 2012, Fox Lake was cat-and-mouse for the Illinois Gaming Lath to agree its regulations for the state-run video gaming arrangement so that condoning business humans in the apple could administer for their video gaming licenses. Thus, Fox Lake is one of the towns in Illinois that adopted the new video gaming regulations as anon as the law was enacted. How has this afflicted business in Fox Lake? Abounding proprietors say they accept benefited abundantly as we will see afterwards in this article.
At the time, abounding humans anticipation it was acceptable account – they were appropriate
In 2008, the Illinois smoker ban had gone into aftereffect and it had afflicted abounding businesses, with some alehouse owners advertisement up to 30% beneath business. However, there was a argent lining in the billow with the achievement of the 230 ILCS 40 because it would accompany aback business and atone the owners for the business they had absent back the smoker ban went into effect.
In a lath affair involving business humans and Fox Lake leaders, 10 business humans asked the leaders to vote in favor of adopting the new video gaming laws.
But the laws were not accustomed from the chat go afterwards opposition. Mike Behan, the again Badge Chief for Fox Lake had accounting to the lath assuming his apropos about the brash acceptance of the law. Among his apropos was that legalized video bank would could cause added alcoholism, banking problems in the bounded families and bashed driving. He was aswell fearing an access in abstraction and artifice cases but he did say that the badge would accord to whatever the lath voted for.
So, afterwards the acceptance of the new video gaming law of Illinois in 2012, has Chief Mike Behan been accepted appropriate or has the above ambassador been vindicated by an access in business? All of the affirmation accessible credibility to the latter. You can confidently achieve that the Fox Lake acceptance of the new Illinois video bank laws was able-bodied brash and that it has brought added banking allowances than abuse to the locals.
October 2012 to October 2013
The accessory of Illinois anesthetized the law legalizing video bank in 2009. Under the new law, congenial organizations, barter stops, bars, veterans groups and restaurants could set up to 5 terminals in their establishments. They would about accept to get a authorization for anniversary terminal from the Illinois Gaming Board. From 2009, it took a added three years to accumulate the adjustment but if aggregate fell into place, Fox Lake was one of the aboriginal places to get on the state-run video gaming network, in 2012.
In the aboriginal year of acknowledging video bank licenses in the suburb, the city-limits admiral had alone approaching for $12,000 but to their affable surprise, the bulk of money that video gaming raked in for them was abounding times added than that, at a handsome $93,338. This acquirement was acclimated for allotment the Pace Bus affairs and back then, video gaming acquirement has been directed to huge improvements in the village. For a baby abode like Fox Lake to acquire added than $90K in the aboriginal year of operation, it shows that there is a lot of abeyant in video bank and that is what prompted the licensing authorities to authorization added establishments to host video gaming terminals.
Fox Lake establishments that accept video gaming terminals
Many businesses accept enjoyed the allowances of legalized video gambling. One of these businesses is Stella's Abode that offers restaurant casework as able-bodied as video gaming services. But it is the gaming acquaintance that you will get there that is so outstanding, with added than 40 of video poker amateur and slots. The admirable ambient and the acceptable aliment add to the amore of the place, alluring added diners and gamers.
It is accessible every day from 8.00Am to 2.00AM and while it has abounding items on the menu, gaming is the capital course. It is the ideal ball abode for grownups who wish to accept a video poker acquaintance to try their luck.
J's Sports Bar and Grill in Fox Lake has aswell been a big almsman from the gain raked in from video gaming. The buyer of this enactment already said that video gaming adored the business from closing. Video gaming with agenda payments is now one of the bigger attractions on the J's Sports Bar menu.
Fox Lake Country Club has 5 gaming terminals, the best bulk that is accustomed by the law. The absolute bulk won actuality is $8,421,675.44 so far. This enactment offers an 18-hole golf advance and because it is accessible to the public, it is a actual accepted area for summer vacations and video gaming.
Hidden Point Bar & Grill offers video poker from its three video bank terminals. This is in accessory to some of the tastiest Mexican pork tacos that you will anytime aftertaste in the world. The absolute bulk of money won at these three terminals comes up to added than $1.5 million.
There is no agnosticism that the 2012 accommodation to acquiesce Fox Lake to get on the state-run video gaming arrangement was a acceptable accommodation for all parties involved. Business has developed exponentially with some proprietors adage that accepting video gaming terminals in their establishments adored them from closing down. The bounded and accessory governments accept aswell benefitted by accepting added acquirement to run association programs for the account of their citizens. With legalized video bank in the accessory of Illinois, added assets and bigger business opportunities accept been generated.
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Cosmetic Dentist Gulfport – What Do You Need to Know?
Cosmetic dentistry is a field of dentistry which aims to improve the overall appearance of the face by making corrections to the teeth. Cosmetic dentists in Gulfport is not a distinct branch of dentistry. Rather, it is a combination of various techniques with the sole motive of improving the appearance. Cosmetic dental procedures are somewhat costly when compared to normal dental procedures. It also takes a lot of training and expertise to become a cosmetic dentist.
Gulfport Cosmetic dentistry differs from normal dentistry in a number of ways. General dentistry places more emphasis on restoring the functionality of teeth that have been damaged by various diseases and conditions. On the other hand, cosmetic dentistry is mainly about the aesthetic appearance. However, it should be noted that the domains of normal dentistry and cosmetic dentistry overlap in a number of places.
There are a number of procedures available today that can improve the appearance of the person. Some of the common dental procedures include teeth whitening, shaping, false teeth, dental veneers and dental implants. In some cases, cosmetic dental procedures may be used in combination with other cosmetic procedures that are aimed at improving the appearance of other parts of the face.
Not all procedures offered by Gulfport cosmetic dentists are costly. For example, teeth whitening is easily affordable for everyone. However, it is not a specialized procedure and doesn't require a lot of skill on the part of the dentist. It is also performed at most dental clinics. It can also be performed at home by using teeth whitening kits that are readily available in the market today.
Finding a good cosmetic dentist in Gulfport. There are a number of reasons why cosmetic dental procedures are costly. First and foremost, it takes years of training to become specialized as a cosmetic dental surgeon. Cosmetic dental surgeons acquire their skills over a long period of time by working at various clinics as interns. For this reason, they charge exuberant fees. Additionally, the materials involved in the surgery are also very costly. Diagnostic and screening equipment can also be very costly to operate. All of these overhead costs add up and make cosmetic dental procedures very costly.
What to Expect When Visiting a Cosmetic Dentist
There are many things that could motivate you to consider seeking the services of a cosmetic-dentist. It could be something to do with the color of your teeth, the alignment of your teeth or even the number of your teeth (like where you have some conspicuous teeth missing, hence messing up with your look). A visit to the cosmetic dentist could be something you have always wanted to do, but which, due to lack of resources - either time resources or financial resources - you could have kept on postponing, until now that you can make it. Now as you make final arrangements for your visit to the cosmetic-dentist, you would find yourself a little bit anxious as to what you are to expect once there, which is the focus of this discussion.
Now there are several things that you can expect when visiting a cosmetic-dentist. Their exact nature will depend to a large extent on the type of cosmetic dentistry procedure you are looking at, which is in turn dependent on the nature of problem at hand.
Before letting you go, the cosmetic dentist will most probably do a brief dental check up on you, to see whether there might be any major undetected problems in your mouth.
The cosmetic dentist is also likely to give you follow-up appointments, and it is in your best interests to keep up with them, to ensure that keep them, to get the best possible care.
What is for sure is that a visit to the cosmetic dentist is nothing to be particularly anxious about; as most procedures that take place there are not particularly painful or otherwise uncomfortable.


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Investing in Ceramics: SCHOTT Launches Apprenticeship Program
SCHOTT North America, Inc. has begun a pilot U.S. apprenticeship program at its Duryea, Pa., production facility. For two to three years, an inaugural class of nine apprentices will work full time in the plant, receive full benefits, and take classes both in person and online through partnerships with local schools. With its apprenticeship program, SCHOTT is reportedly working to rejuvenate American manufacturing and create jobs by offering young people a combination of practical experience and classroom training to instill specialized skills that will serve its apprentices as they pursue their careers.
The nine apprentices, culled from 250 applications, can learn one of three tracks of trades (glass operator generalist, mason-metalsmith and maintenance-machinist) as they work toward journeyman certification. In selecting candidates, SCHOTT continued its tradition of supporting the troops by selecting four veterans for the program. In addition, two of the apprentices continue a family tradition—their fathers currently work for SCHOTT.
"Many high school and college graduates are struggling to find a good job with a living wage," said Anne Marie Martin, Human Resources specialist. "Too many are caught in the catch-22 that is often the hiring process: to find work, they need experience, but they can only gain experience from working. SCHOTT's apprenticeship program slices through this contradiction and offers nine trainees an opportunity to learn a valuable trade while working full time with benefits. At the same time, SCHOTT gains a new generation of skilled workers to build on our 125 years of producing the world's top glasses and materials, and advanced technologies."
The SCHOTT apprenticeship program is based on the German model of apprenticeship, in which young people learn technical skills on the job while spending additional time in classrooms to supplement their experiential learning. SCHOTT's German facilities welcome new apprentices each year.
"...to find work, they need experience, but they can only gain experience from working. SCHOTT's apprenticeship program slices through this contradiction and offers nine trainees an opportunity to learn a valuable trade while working full time with benefits."
As manufacturing technology evolves, younger generations bring a natural adaptability to such equipment that serves as a valuable base on which to build specialized technical skills. This natural talent makes the next generation of workers essential to revitalizing American manufacturing. The SCHOTT apprenticeship program is expected to combine this adaptability with time-honored glass and high-tech manufacturing processes to create new opportunities for its apprentices to pursue successful careers.
SCHOTT plans to establish apprenticeship programs at its other manufacturing facilities throughout the U.S.
About SCHOTT
SCHOTT is an international technology group with more than 125 years of experience in the areas of specialty glasses and materials and advanced technologies. It reportedly ranks number one in the world with many of its products, with core markets include the household appliance, pharmaceuticals, electronics, optics, solar power, transportation and architecture industries. The SCHOTT Group maintains close proximity to its customers with manufacturing and sales units in all major markets. Its workforce of around 17,000 employees generated worldwide sales of $4 billion for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
For further information, visit www.us.schott.com.


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Most runners that I talk to would like to run faster. I don't blame them. It's fun to run fast. To some it's a burning desire...to others it simply falls somewhere on their general wish list.
But in order to get faster, we have traditionally been told by running experts that we need to train hard to build stronger muscles, improve our cardiovascular fitness and increase our aerobic capacity. Believe me, if I got up in the morning to go for a run and had these thoughts rolling around in my head, I'd go back to bed. Why would I want to put myself through quad-busting hill repeats and endless long miles to get faster? That doesn't sound like fun to me.
How can I learn to run faster and enjoy it at the same time? By learning how to run more efficiently, and by doing everything in my power to let the pull of gravity do most of the work so that my legs don't have to. I want to run faster because my technique allows me to, not because I have stronger legs than the guy running next to me.
Many people who begin practicing the ChiRunning method experience a natural increase in their speed right away and are shocked because running faster feels easier now than it did before.
Running faster comes up often as a question in our workshops and forums. "I want to achieve a personal best time at my next marathon." or "I want to qualify for Boston; how can I get faster?"
Even runners without high aspirations want to see some continual improvement; we want to move past the inevitable plateaus in our development and see incremental gains. Speed is a measure of improvement that almost everyone can relate to, but we all know that as we try to get faster we run the risk of overworking our legs and getting injured instead.
In ChiRunning classes we de-emphasize speed as a goal. We believe that true mastery lies in the ability to set up the conditions for speed. That means leaning and relaxing more, which means letting gravity do more of the work by holding your alignment even better while increasing the level of relaxation in your hips, legs, shoulders and arms.
If you want to run faster, you need to get good at cooperating with the pull of gravity. In the ChiRunning method, success is measured in your ability to offer less and less resistance to the force pulling you forward.
Form First...Then Distance...Then Speed
The first and most important element of a well-thought-out running program is form. Form is the foundation of your ChiRunning program and is not only a means to attain speed, it is also an end unto itself. To run effortlessly with good form, whether fast, slow or in between is a goal we all share.
As you apply your form focuses (posture, lean, mid-foot strike, cadence and stride length, etc.) over gradually increasing periods of time, you will develop greater core engagement while becoming looser and more relaxed.
These components will allow you to run greater distances. As you become able to hold your form together for longer periods of time over greater distances, you will develop increased speed at a lower exertion rate as a by product of combining biomechanically efficient form with a gradually increasing distance base.
Speed is a product not only of good form over distance; it's the product of alignment and relaxation. Having a stronger core will allow you to maintain good alignment while maintaining an increased forward lean. The more you lean, the more you need to level your pelvis and relax your hips and legs. Whatever amount of forward lean you run with must be balanced by the amount of relaxation in your hips and legs.
This is what the principle of Cotton and Steel is all about: maintaining a forward leaning posture line (to engage the pull of gravity), a mid-foot strike (for a solid support base) and relaxed arms and legs (for fluidity of movement). If you do all the focuses it takes to run faster, you cannot help but run faster.
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Combustible Dusts
Combustible dusts are finely-ground organic or metal particles found in a variety of industries and workplaces. Potentially dangerous accumulations of combustible dust can build up inside process equipment or escape from process equipment and settle on surfaces in the general work area. These accumulations are extremely explosive when dispersed into the air in the presence of commonplace ignition sources, such as standard electrical switches.
Dust explosions can be catastrophic and cause death, injury, and destruction of entire buildings. In many combustible dust accidents, employers and employees were unaware that a hazard existed.
Fortunately, you can take steps to protect employees and others from this possible danger. This page provides a variety of information that can help you learn more about the risk for combustible dust hazards in your workplace and what you can do to keep individuals safe.
Workplace safety and health rules that address combustible dust hazards have been established to prevent hazardous dust accumulations, control possible ignition sources, and minimize the danger to individuals and damage in an explosion.
This page lists safety & health rules that apply to combustible dust hazards in Washington State.
WRD 12.85 Enforcement and Consultation Guidance for Combustible Dust Hazards, December 30, 2008. (142 KB PDF)
WRD 89-3b Grain Handling Facilities-Inspection Guidance and Standards Clarification, September 1, 1994. (37 KB PDF)
The following resources are available to inform you about the hazards of combustible dusts and what you can do to keep workplaces safe from combustible dust hazards:
- Fire and explosion hazards posed by dust collectors located indoors (WorkSafeBC Hazard Alert)
- "Firefighting Precautions at Facilities with Combustible Dust" (2.3 MB PDF / 8 min.). OSHA booklet that outlines safe procedures for emergency responders who may face fires and explosions caused by combustible dust.
- "Hazard Alert: Combustible Dust Explosions (790 KB PDF)". This 2-page document from OSHA provides a basic awareness level of information about combustible dust explosions.
- OSHA's Safety and Health Information Bulletin(SHIB) titled, Combustible Dust in Industry: Prevention and Mitigating the Effects of Fire and Explosion. This 10-page document provides information about past incidents, guidelines for employers to help identify and reduce risk for combustible dust explosions, and information about what to do to lessen danger to employees if an explosion occurs.
- OSHA's Poster, Combustible Dust (35 KB PDF). This poster shows examples of combustible dusts and summarizes protective measures for workplaces.
- A press release about citations and penalties issued by OSHA following its investigation into a recent dust explosion.
- NFPA 654(2006), "The Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosion from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids". This NFPA document covers recognition and control of combustible dust hazards. You can access it at www.nfpa.org or inquire at your local library.
- OSHA Combustible dust webpage
Videos under the subject of "Combustible Dust" can be found here.
Video from CSB Video Archives (Take More Action to Prevent Dust Explosions, 2-4-2009)
Video from CSB Video Archives (Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard, 7-28-09)
Video from CSB Video Archives (Iron In The Fire, 1-5-2012)
Consultation Assistance
L & I provides consultations, training, and technical assistance at no cost to employers. If you would like help with identifying and addressing combustible dust hazards please visit www.SafetyConsultants.LNI.wa.gov.


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My last save game now has a blank image.
All my save games have no title and I can't run them.
G2NOTR with the Heights of Power mod. ( GOG edition, V2.6 )
Windows 7 32b.
Does anyone know how can I get them back?
*They are nowhere to be found in the Gothic folder.


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Several artists by this name, including: 1. English progressive rock group that evolved out of an earlier group called Chapel Hill. Occupying a style somewhere between the pensive sounds of Camel and the song-oriented musings of Cressida, they released one album for Polydor, the acclaimed Paint A Picture, in 1973. A second album, Beyond The Beyond, was recorded a year later, but was not released until 1992, resurrected from obscurity by the Audio Archives label. Audio Archives released a third album, Vivariatum, culled from a 1970 acetate of Chapel Hill recordings, 1976 demo recordings and one B-side (I Was Once Aware) from the band's only single Politely Insane, dating from the Paint A Picture era. 2. American psychedelic rock obscurity, fronted by young female vocalist Lydia Janene Miller. One album released on Liberty Records in 1970. 3. American funk/dance vocal group assembled by producer Tony Valor in 1980. Initially a quartet of two women and two men, their single You're Too Late hit the dance charts in the early 80's. Valor revived the Fantasy name in the early 00's, now comprised of four young women, for two more albums (thus far). 4. Country group that released one album, Steel Toe Cowboy, in 2000. 5. Japanese visual kei band (FANTASY) 6. Germany Schlager-Duo (Members: Martin Marcell and Freddy März) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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Does Willy Need Protecting?
Simon Stone, the resident director of Belvoir St. Theatre, an Australian company, jumped head first into a pail of boiling oil when he took it upon himself to rewrite "Death of a Salesman." Not only did he cut the play's epilogue, but he altered the manner in which Willy Loman, Arthur Miller 's protagonist, meets his death. In the original play, Willy dies in a car crash that may or may not have been intentional; in Mr. Stone's staging, he commits suicide by gassing himself. On top of that, Belvoir neglected to inform ICM Partners, the agency that represents Mr. Miller's estate and licenses his plays for production around the world, that Mr. Stone was altering the script.
No sooner did ICM get wind of the changes than Belvoir was informed that if the company didn't perform "Death of a Salesman" in its entirety—complete with epilogue—the production would be shut down. (Nothing was said about Willy's suicide.) Mr. Stone agreed to cooperate, though not before waving the Australian flag to spectacularly irrelevant effect: "Until recently we accepted the Broadway or West End way of treating their classics, now we are bringing to them an Australian sensibility and technique. The world is responding."
Theater is about what works onstage, and not having seen Belvoir's production, I can't tell you whether it works better to drop the curtain after Willy takes the gas pipe. What I do know is that there's nothing even slightly surprising about ICM's absolute refusal to let Mr. Stone scrap the final scene of "Death of a Salesman." Few playwrights take kindly to such directorial monkeyshines. Edward Albee is famous (or notorious, whichever you prefer) for pulling the plug on productions that don't suit him. Likewise Samuel Beckett, whose estate still requires theaters to perform his work exactly as written, not excluding the stage directions. And Bruce Norris, the author of "Clybourne Park," was so angry when he learned that Berlin's Deutsches Theater planned to do the play with a white actor wearing blackface that he "retracted" the company's performance rights, forcing it to scrap the production.
Theater Review
Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder 's literary executor, is far more willing to give directors creative leeway to experiment with his uncle's work. Among other things, he allowed one troupe, Two River Theater Company of Red Bank, N.J., to use bunraku-style puppets to play several of the supporting characters in "Our Town." But he, too, draws the line at out-and-out rewriting—and because "Our Town," like "Godot" and "Death of a Salesman," is still protected by copyright, his word is law.
Should it be? It is, after all, perfectly commonplace for directors to "rewrite" Shakespeare, both by cutting his plays (many of which are, like "Hamlet," too long to be comfortably performed in their entirety) and by updating their settings, at times almost beyond recognition. The same is true in the world of opera. When Francesca Zambello staged "Billy Budd," Benjamin Britten's operatic version of Herman Melville's novel about life aboard the battleship HMS Indomitable, for Houston Grand Opera in 1998, she described the production to me in four crisp words: "No boat, no uniforms." It worked, too.
Such productions, when done well, can offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on overfamiliar masterpieces—so long as their creators believe in the underlying validity of the original text. But whenever you deviate from that text, you run the risk of twisting, even perverting its meaning. Look at what happened to "Our Town" when Sam Wood adapted it for the screen in 1940. With the author's presumably grudging approval, Mr. Wood grafted a Hollywood ending (Emily doesn't die) onto the wrenching graveyard scene. Any modern-day director who tried such a thing would surely be greeted at the stage door with well-aged tomatoes.
At the same time, I also think that Messrs. Albee, Beckett and Miller would be better served if they and their posthumous representatives would lighten up and let directors, Mr. Stone included, do their damnedest. No, I don't want to see "Willy Loman, Killer of Zombies" on Broadway any time this millennium, but I do believe that great works of art can profit from radical reinterpretations that fling conventional wisdom out the window. A classic, after all, is tough enough to stand up to the hardest possible use. In the long run, the only thing that can do lasting damage to the reputation of a masterpiece is to let contemporary audiences take its excellence for granted. The trick is to make it new.
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Hundreds flocked to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia to buy gold coins commemorating the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy half dollar.
Five-hundred of the coins were to go on sale at noon Tuesday.
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May 4-7, 2009
The concept that life might exist elsewhere besides the Earth has intrigued humankind for centuries. Technology has now enabled this fundamental question to be pursued with substantial international scientific vigor. Within the Solar System several Mars probes, as well probes to the moons of Jupiter (Europa) and Saturn (Titan), are being developed with specific emphasis on the development of in-situ instrumentation to detect the presence of life. Beyond the Solar System, the search for life signs has gained momentum with the rapid growth in the number of known exoplanets. While the detection of exoplanets is challenging conventional views of planet formation, it has also created opportunities for new observational methods to detect and characterize habitability and bio-signatures. And the study of life on Earth has revealed surprising constraints on the limits of life with the discovery of extremophiles capable of surviving in sub-freezing, super-boiling, or high radiation environments.
The STScI 2009 May Symposium divided discussion of the motivations and expectations for the search for life in the universe into three distance domains that each require markedly different observational approaches and speakers from multiple disciplines: detecting Life within 50 AU of Earth, detecting life within 100 pc of Earth,and detecting life beyond 100 pc from Earth.
Organizing Committee
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Toro 22" Personal Pace® Mower (20372)
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The mower that automatically senses your walking speed, just walk and mow. Toro's innovative Personal Pace® self propel system will change the way you feel about mowing. Accompanied with a 7.25 ft-lb Gross Torque Toro® TXP 159cc OHV w/AutoChoke engine with Auto Choke, Bag on Demand, 3 year Guaranteed-to-Start warranty and 2 year Full Coverage Warranty, this is one of the highest rated mowers that Toro offers.
- Personal Pace® Self Propel system automatically adjusts to your walking speed
- Bag on Demand allows you to switch from mulching to bagging in seconds while leaving the bag on the mower
- 7.25 ft-lb Gross Torque Toro® TXP 159cc OHV w/AutoChoke, no need to prime or choke
- 2 Year Full Warranty
- Personal Pace Self Propel: Toro's innovative Personal Pace® self propel system automatically senses and adapts to your walking speed. Walk faster and the mower self propels faster to match your pace.(Available on select models.)
- Toro TXP 159cc OHV Engine w/AutoChoke: Toro's premium overhead valve engine is powerful and efficient.
- 22" Recycler® Cutting Deck: Cut more grass in less time and improve the health of your lawn with larger 22" cutting width. Toro's innovative Recycler mulching system minces grass clippings into fine particles and puts them back into your lawn giving you a healthy, lush looking yard.
- Bag on Demand: Quickly switch from mulching to bagging in seconds by flipping the quick-change lever. Available on select models.
- Washout Port: The deck washout port is a convenient way to clean the bottom of the deck - maintaining optimum airflow for high performance.
- One Piece Adjustable Height Handle: The single piece handle can be easily adjusted to 2 different handle heights without the use of tools.
- 3 Year Guaranteed-to-Start: Starts on one or two pulls up to three years or we'll fix it for free! See retailer for warranty details.
- 2 Year Full Coverage Warranty: If anything goes wrong, under normal use and maintenance, Toro will fix it free!
- Engine: 7.25 ft-lb Gross Torque* Toro® TXP 159cc OHV w/AutoChoke
- Cutting Width: 22" / 56 cm
- Height of Cut: 1.0" - 4.0" / 2.5 - 10 cm
- Guaranteed-to-Start Promise: 3-Year GTS Full**
- Starter: Recoil
- Drive System: Personal Pace Rear-Wheel Drive
- Deck Material: Steel
- Mulch, Bag, Side Discharge: Standard
- Washout Port: Standard
- Warranty: 2-Year Full**
- Ground Speed: Up to 4.5 mph / 7.25 km/h
- Handle Type: 1 Piece, Adjustable Height
- Wheel Height: 8" / 20.3 cm
- Weight: 81 lbs. / 36.7 kg
NOTES:**The gross torque of this engine was laboratory rated at 2600 RPM per SAE J1940 by the engine manufacturer. As configured to meet safety, emission and operating requirements, the actual engine torque on these mowers will be significantly lower. **See dealer for warranty details.
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Our latest news analysis for EBONY is on the front page: "Supreme Court to Take on Same Sex Marriage." University of California - Los Angeles Professor Mignon Moore (left) and her wife Elaine Harley were married in New York last March. They want their marriage to be recognized in California and nationwide. What will the court decide?
"[I'm] concerned given the conservative nature of the court," says University of California – Los Angeles Associate Professor of Sociology Mignon Moore. "But now we have nine states that mandate same-sex marriage and hopefully the court will want to be on the right side of history."
Moore and her wife Elaine Harley have been together almost 11 years and were married last March in New York. "We want our marriage to be recognized like any other marriage," says Harley. "Voters should not have that power over someone else's civil rights."
Dr. Moore has extensively researched Black same-sex couples and is the author of Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women. "We are in our communities and have always been in our communities. That's also what these court cases are about—the visibility of families," she says.
Also interviewed are Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Darryl Moore, a member of the Berkeley City Council and chairman of the National Black Justice Coalition.
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Heritage Action Issues New Call to Arms
Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, spent last year's August recess banging the drum for Congress to defund the 2010 health law, barnstorming the country to fuel conservatives' discontent with GOP leaders in Washington. The resulting standoff briefly shuttered the government.
This year, the group is issuing a broader call-to-arms, challenging conservatives to renew their commitment to an agenda that champions a more-robust foreign policy and elevates marriage and religious liberty, as well as the same free-market economic populism that characterized its earlier initiatives.
A memo to be released Thursday and distributed to members of Congress before they leave town for the five-week August recess, serves as a wake-up call to conservatives that voters still need to hear a positive governing agenda from the GOP before they will be willing to elect a new Republican majority.
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"There are a lot of people sitting back right now and expecting a wave to materialize and carry them across the finish line," said Mike Needham, chief executive of Heritage Action, referring to congressional Republicans. "That is terrifying as a conservative. We have to be the ones who still have to make that case."
Heritage Action outlined some of its top legislative priorities in the treatise, including familiar items like the elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and tax reform that scraps loopholes, lowers rates and taxes consumption over saving.
The group also devotes a large chunk of its messaging memo to the defense of marriage and religious freedom. The group applauds the recent Supreme Court decision allowing certain small, privately owned businesses to limit health coverage for drugs or procedures that contradict their personal religious beliefs.
It goes a step further by calling for additional protections, citing businesses that "have been hauled into court because they declined to provide their services for a same-sex ceremony in violation of their religious beliefs."
That emphasis on the family and religion is meant as a stern rebuke to Republicans who want to focus solely on fiscal issues and the economy, Mr. Needham said. "There are some people who think the future of the Republican Party is to stop talking about the family and stop talking about civil society," he said. "That is the wrong way to go."
Despite polls that show a growing reluctance by Americans of every political stripe to engage in foreign conflicts, Heritage Action advocates an "unashamed projection of American strength aimed at deterring threats before they materialize." It cites continued hostilities in the Middle East, Russia's increasingly aggressive posture in Eastern Europe, and China's efforts to test maritime boundaries. In the document, the group calls for increased troop levels, upgraded weapons systems and more transparency in the procurement process.
"American leadership is necessary to keep the world safe," Mr. Needham said, arguing for a balance "between having a strong foreign policy" that "also recognizes that we can't be the world's policeman." He added, "This is a country that, at its core, is not an isolationist country."
The sharply worded document, from a group accustomed to criticizing GOP leaders, serves as much as a challenge to Republicans to define what the party is about as it as a criticism of President Barack Obama. Mr. Needham argues Republicans must do a better job connecting with Americans of all political perspectives who are frustrated with Washington and feel the political and economic system is stacked against them.
"The only way to win an argument is to have one," the Heritage Action document reads. "And while many people think Washington, D.C., is broken, the truth is that it's broken only for the American people. For the wealthy and the powerful, Washington is a finely tuned machine aimed at avoiding principled arguments and keeping the gravy train rolling for well-connected interests."
Many Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), blamed the group for leading the GOP into the government shutdown without a workable exit strategy. The strife that defined the GOP at the time has since subsided, and a string of competitive primaries in which most of the incumbents and leadership-backed candidates survived conservative challenges.
Heritage Action's latest treatise is meant to serve as a rallying cry for conservatives to starting beating the drums again.
"Washington has retreated into its tortoise shell," Mr. Needham said. "It's time to get back on offense."


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MANY COMMENTATORS HAVE WONDERED WHAT CONCESSIONS BARACK OBAMA WRUNG out of the Russian leadership in exchange for canceling a major missile defense initiative in Eastern Europe this week. Some have speculated he attained, or at least sought, cooperation in stifling Iran's nuclear program. Unfortunately, it appears the president sold out two close allies, rewarded Moscow's belligerence, and sidetracked technology that could safeguard the free world from Islamic nuclear blackmail in order to curtail, not Iran's nuclear ambitions, but our own. Obama, a passionate believer in universal disarmament, may have made this concession to draw Russia into negotiations that will further weaken the United States.
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The president announced Thursday he was abandoning the Third Site promised by the Bush administration: 10 long-range missile interceptor sites in Poland and radar facilities in the Czech Republic. He will instead deploy smaller, naval-based SM-3 missiles. (The Czechs are left empty-handed.) Obama insisted since Tehran's threat is currently believed to be short- or intermediate-range missiles, interceptors for long-range missiles are unnecessary – and, some intimate, untested. In reality, long-range interceptors have been thoroughly tested, and it may be wise not to wait to counter long-range missiles until they exist – or, at least, until they are known to exist.
Obama claims the Iranian nuclear program is not as advanced as once believed. This seems dubious, as Adm. Mike Mullen in March that Iran has enough uranium for a nuclear weapon. Glyn Davis, the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA, added Wednesday that Iran has reached "possible breakout capacity" to build a weapon rapidly. Assuming the best and brightest actually hold this conclusion, we have little means of evaluating it, because we have virtually no human intelligence (HUMINT) penetration of this society. Human intelligence is nearly impossible in a totalitarian state like modern Islamic Iran. We had little ground intelligence in Iraq before Operation Desert Storm, and although "the best intelligence estimates" said Saddam was "at least 5-7 years away from having nuclear weapons," U.S. soldiers found he was perhaps within months of developing a weapon. Iran may be more or less advanced; there is no way to know.
Meanwhile, breaking an agreement with our allies Poland and the Czech Republic, both of whom are close allies with troops on the line in the worsening Afghan theater, damages our relationship and image around the world. The world knows America won't – or can't – keep its allies safe from aggression. The former deputy prime minister of the Czech Republic, Alexandr Vondra, called this "a U-turn in the U.S. policy," a further sign of an erratic administration. "This decision calls into question the security and diplomatic commitments the United States has made to Poland and the Czech Republic, and has the potential to undermine perceived American leadership in Eastern Europe," John McCain rightly observed. But it may have more practical consequences and broader implications. Vondra warned "the United States may have a problem in generating support for out-of-area missions in this region." Already, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk begun rejecting U.S. diplomatic phone calls. South Korea and Japan are undoubtedly watching closely. And anytime an innocent party is screwed over, it frays the relationship, possibly to the breaking point. The New York Times editorialized in a "news" story U.S. backtracking would make Europeans "become more realistic and less idealistic about United States foreign policy in the future, not to mention a lot less likely to fall in line behind the United States." Only in its pages is this considered a positive outcome.
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Why, then, would the administration push forward with this maneuver? In an ideal world, it would have secured guarantees to end all Russian support for the Iranian nuclear program and concrete agreements to impose crippling economic sanctions. That world would not be this one. It appears this was fueled by the president's passion for universal nuclear disarmament. Sources reveal at least part of the consideration is bringing Russia back to negotiate START follow-on talks, which resume next week in New York. Circumstances bear this out.
One of those who delivered the U-turn news to Poland is Undersecretary of State for Arms Control Ellen Tauscher, an implacable foe of Strategic Missile Defense (SDI) and a proponent of universal disarmament. Unfortunately, she has longstanding, naïve view of impending nuclear threats. In March, she excoriated advocates of missile defense for "warning about a long range threat from Iran that does not exist." There is no need to fret, because "Iran has not developed a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States. Yet." Similarly, Tauscher told the Progressive Policy Institute "we miscalculate if we confuse intent with capability. Al-Qaeda may want nuclear weapons but likely does not have them – at least not yet." Phew! She was on board for the Bush administration's premature rehabilitation of North Korea. (See my full profile of Tauscher, "Undersecretary of Naievete.")
Tauscher advocates a quiet disarmament, in which aging and increasingly unstable missiles are not replaced. Obama enshrined this in his first budget, vetoing Reliable Replacement Warhead development against the wishes of Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Obama has been dreaming of disarmament since at least 1983, when he wrote an article profiling far-Left campus groups at Columbia. Obama favorably quoted one spokesperson who wanted to "get rid of the military" and seemed to share the organizer's opposition to the Solomon Amendment. The article showcased the conspiracy-tinged insights that would later endear him to the Democratic Party's antiwar base, as Obama claimed the anti-nuclear movement tactics "suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets."
The Democratic Party has argued for at least 30 years that if the United States would but set a "good example," the rest of the world would respond by beating their warheads into plowshares. Unilateral disarmament and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) became the cornerstone of diminished U.S. power. Then, at least the terror was offset by the knowledge the United States could launch a nuclear counterstrike and decimate the world's population. Iran's messianic fanatic has no qualms meeting the Mahdi.
Yet the Democrats continue to believe U.S. weapons cause others to weaponize. From its perspective, the administration did not "retreat" on producing missile defense systems. For Obama, Tauscher, et. al., destroying missile defense is not a concession; it is a positive good, because it downgrades our "provocative" defense arsenal. In this, they follow a long line of their intellectual forebears.
Three Presidents
The current Iranian nuclear crisis is the fruit of the last three Democratic presidents's foreign policies. As I outline in my book, Party of Defeat, it was Jimmy Carter's decision to withdraw his support from the Shah that paved the way for the repression of the Ayatollah Khomeini and his modern followers. If an Iran run by the Pahlavi dynasty announced it had the nuclear bomb, no world leader would view it as an existential threat. Carter's installation, recognition, and bribery of the Iranian regime renders this current situation perilous.
Our human intelligence deficit in the nation owes in part to Carter. Recruiting HUMINT is virtually impossible in a closed society, but we have no human intel partly because Carter did not recruit any while the Iran was still open and friendly. Instead, he and his CIA chief Adm. Stansfield Turner gutted the CIA, cutting 820 human intelligence positions. Without assets of its own, the Islamic revolution blindsided Carter. Thus, on New Year's Eve 1977, he would toast the Shah's Iran as "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world." Eight months later, the CIA issued the report Iran in the 1980s, in which the broken Carter intelligence apparatus assessed, "Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a 'prerevolutionary' situation." The Islamic revolution broke out the next month in the city of Qom. Carter recognized the government, bargained with it and ultimately paid it a ransom of $8 billion (the mullahs netted $3 billion in seed money for its current status as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism).
Iran is but one part of an axis empowered by leftist ideology. Much of "Iran's" rocketry is imported from North Korea. Pyongyang's nuclear stockpile would have been unthinkable without Bill Clinton's decision (made at Al Gore's behest) to allow Jimmy Carter to negotiate a sweetheart deal for the DPRK. The regime received oil, food, and a "civilian" nuclear reactor in exchange for promises. Kim Jong-il proceeded to quietly build a half-dozen nuclear bombs. President Bush's commitment to the six-party talks did not advance the cause of disarmament, but his movement had been circumscribed by the Left, which had already destroyed his credibility as commander-in-chief, sent groups of pilgrims to tour Potemkin villages, and mobilized protests against any potential U.S. "aggression."
Unlike his predecessor, though, Bush recognized the dangers of the nuclear proliferation. Bill Clinton announced his theoretical support for SDI during the 1996 campaign but withheld critical funding and deployment, kicking the can into the Bush administration. Bush moved forward, and the current limited system is proving effective, but Obama and his House allies under Speaker Pelosi's watch threaten to strangle the program. A government that has money for every endeavor from chunking clunkers to posting roadside PR for its stimulus bill consistently underfunds the one constitutionally mandated function of Congress: national defense.
It is appropriate the missile defense retreat was sounded on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Vladimir Putin and Russian "president" Dmitry Medvedev smile with iron teeth, longing to restore the imperial dignity of the fallen superpower. Medvedev greeted the news by calling it "responsible" and adding, "I am prepared to continue this dialogue." Indeed, few walk away from the blackjack table when they're winning. Medvedev is perfectly content to allow the United States to negotiate away its nuclear stockpiles, especially if it will lead to a multipolar world and its own Eastern European sphere of influence. As negotiations progressively dismantle our existing, disintegrating warheads, a retreat from missile defense leaves our nation vulnerable to the long-range weapons Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will pursue regardless of our "good example." Obama has chosen to believe the doomsday threat will develop according to the most optimistic intelligence assessments.
A prudent statesman does not bet on the most benign outcome of a confluence of madmen.
This article originally appeared as the lead story on Friday, September 18, 2009, on FrontPage Magazine.


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