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Jefferson, Thomas
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
American statesman, philosopher, and essayist.
The following entry presents criticism on Jefferson from 1910 through 2000.
The third president of the United States, Jefferson is most famous as the author of the Declaration of Independence, a document that served as a profound expression of his own beliefs on equality and natural rights, as well as a concise articulation of the revolutionary impulses of an emerging nation. Long revered as one of America's founding fathers, Jefferson remains the subject of intense scholarly debate in the twenty-first century. Of particular interest to current critics and historians are his views on the separation of church and state, and the inconsistency between his well-documented belief in individual liberty and his status as a slave owner. His views on Native Americans, African-Americans, and women are considered at odds with the principle of universal equality he claimed in the Declaration to be "self-evident."
Biographical Information
Jefferson was born at Shadwell, in Goochland (now Albemarle) County, Virginia. His father was a self-made man and an early settler of the Virginia wilderness, and his mother was a member of a prominent Colonial family, the Randolphs. Jefferson attended private schools and the College of William and Mary, where he studied law, science, literature, and philosophy. He was admitted to the bar in 1767 and practiced law for two years. In 1769 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. During that same year he designed and began building Monticello, his famous family home, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
While a member of the House of Burgesses, Jefferson penned A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), the philosophical antecedent to the Declaration of Independence. A year later he joined the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and in June, 1776, he wrote the original draft of the Declaration. From 1776 to 1779, Jefferson served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was elected to the governorship in 1779. As governor, he attempted to reform the penal code, to abolish the inheritance policies of primogeniture and entail, and to establish a complete system of public education. In 1782, Jefferson briefly retired from politics following the death of his wife of ten years, Martha Wayles Skelton. He returned to politics two years later and Congress appointed him envoy to France to assist Benjamin Franklin; in 1785 he succeeded Franklin as minister to France, an office he held until the beginning of the French Revolution four years later.
During the 1790s Jefferson served as secretary of state in George Washington's administration, and as vice president under John Adams, while at the same time leading the Republican opposition to the Federalist programs of both men. The Federalists advocated a strong, centralized government that favored industrialism, commercialism, and banking, while Jefferson's vision of government was founded on states' rights, individual liberties, and self-reliant agrarianism. In 1800, Jefferson was elected president and he attempted to reconcile the differences between the two factions. In 1803, he presided over the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the territory of the United States and gaining complete control of the Mississippi River. After serving a second term as president, Jefferson retired to Monticello in 1809 after 40 years of public service.
During his last years, Jefferson received visitors at Monticello, composed his autobiography, and carried on an extensive correspondence. He continued to pursue philosophical, educational, and architectural interests. His efforts to establish a state-supported university eventually resulted in the creation of the University of Virginia, and he was involved in every aspect of its development from the architectural plans to the recruitment of faculty. He considered it one of his greatest achievements. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Major Works
Jefferson's first important political treatise, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, presented his concept of natural rights—that people have certain inalienable rights superior to civil law. Jefferson denied that the British Parliament held any political authority over the colonists, and demanded free trade and an end to British taxation. The essay's considerable influence during pre-revolutionary debates brought Jefferson wide attention and contributed to his selection by the Second Continental Congress to write the Declaration of Independence. Although he was one of five committee members so chosen, most historians agree that it was Jefferson who wrote the original draft, and that he submitted it to John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who suggested minor changes before sending it to Congress. The delegates debated its text line by line for two and a half days and adopted it July 4, 1776. Despite changes made by members of Congress, Jefferson is generally credited with authorship of the Declaration. He intended it to be less an original statement than an expression of beliefs held in common by most Americans: that all men are created equal and that they possess certain inalienable rights. The Declaration is considered the foremost literary work of the American Revolution and the single most important political document in American history.
During his tenure as governor of Virginia, Jefferson wrote An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, Passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the Beginning of the Year 1786. Like the Declaration of Independence, this bill is based on the concept of natural rights, the assumption that each individual's conscience, rather than any secular institution, should dictate religious matters, and the contention that civil liberties should be independent from religious beliefs. While Jefferson's bill was originally intended only for Virginia, it is now considered the central document of the American experiment in the separation of church and state.
While governor he also produced his only full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). The work covers the geography, flora, and fauna of Virginia, as well as a description of its social, economic, and political structure. Using statistics to support his patriotic intent, Jefferson disputed the beliefs of Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, a French naturalist and philosopher who contended that America's intellectual standards and animal life were inferior to those of Europe. Although Notes on the State of Virginia established Jefferson's reputation as a scholar and a scientist, the work also engendered controversy because it contains Jefferson's disparaging views regarding Native Americans and African-Americans.
Critical Reception
Jefferson has long been revered as a statesman, a hero of the American struggle for independence, and a renaissance man whose varied interests included philosophy, architecture, and science as well as political and social theory. Such scholars as James H. Hutson and Robert M. O'Neil continue to study Jefferson's views on the "wall of separation" between church and state in an effort to shed light on modern controversies surrounding the issue. However, on the whole, Jefferson's reputation has suffered a series of setbacks in the past thirty years. Discrepancies between his idealistic rhetoric and his less-exalted practices, which hardly went unnoticed in his own time, have come to dominate the critical discourse surrounding Jefferson today. His phrase "all men are created equal" is seen as inconsistent with his beliefs about specific groups. According to Charles A. Miller, while Jefferson felt all humans were morally equal, he believed that blacks, Native Americans, and women were not culturally, physically, or intellectually equal to white males. The fact that he owned slaves himself while professing a deep abhorrence of the institution is equally troubling to modern day scholars. As Peter Onuf puts it: "For many present-day commentators, Jefferson's failure to address the problem of slavery generally and the situation of his own human chattel in particular is in itself the most damning possible commentary on his iconic standing as 'apostle of freedom.'" And finally, the controversy over Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, rumored in his own time, resurfaced in the 1970s with the publication of Fawn Brodie's Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. Brodie took seriously the claims by Hemings' descendents that Jefferson carried on a long affair with Hemings, fathered several of her children, and then held those children as his slaves. Jefferson admirers, such as John Chester Miller, acknowledged the allegations, but dismissed them as inconsistent with Jefferson's nature and character. Miller, writing in 1977, a few years after Brodie's book was published, claimed that if the story were true, it would be "in utter defiance of the testimony he bore over the course of a long lifetime of the primacy of the moral sense and his loathing of racial mixture." Miller also believed that Jefferson's record as a loving father would have precluded his failure to acknowledge his slave children—if, in fact, they were his. For Miller, if the charges are true, Jefferson "deserves to be regarded as one of the most profligate liars and consummate hypocrites ever to occupy the presidency." Miller believed that Hemings' children resembled Jefferson physically because they were fathered by one of Jefferson's two nephews who were frequent guests at Monticello.
In the late 1990s DNA tests revealed a high probability that Jefferson fathered six of Hemings's children. Onuf acknowledges that the new evidence has been fatal to Jefferson's reputation: "If further evidence was needed to banish Jefferson from the national pantheon, the recent confirmation of his relationship with his slave Sally Hemings provides it: the master of Monticello could not even live up to his own infamous strictures against race mixing in his Notes on the State of Virginia." Robert Booth Fowler goes so far as to suggest that Jefferson's reputation has been so thoroughly tarnished that the Jefferson Memorial would most likely not be built today. As he puts it, "the values celebrated by the Jefferson Memorial have not lost their cultural credibility. What has changed is the confidence that Jefferson is a fitting representative of them."
Principal Works
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (essay) 1774
In Congress, July 4, 1776: A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled (state paper) 1776
Notes on the State of Virginia (essay) 1785
An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, Passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the Beginning of the Year 1786 (statute) 1786
The Address of Thomas Jefferson, to the Senate, the Members of the House of Representatives, the Public Officers, and a Large Concourse of Citizens (inaugural address) 1801
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice (manual)...
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C. Alphonso Smith (essay date 1910-11)
SOURCE: "Thomas Jefferson," in Southern Literary Studies: a Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other Sketches, Kennikat Press, 1967, pp. 94-119.
[In the following essay, originally delivered in lecture form at the University of Berlin in the fall and winter of 1910-11, Smith begins with a brief biographical sketch that focuses on influences in Jefferson's writing. Smith then provides a broad overview of Jefferson's publications, including a discussion on some obscure works that have escaped critical attention.]
Had Thomas Jefferson not written the Declaration of Independence or had he written nothing...
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Fawn M. Brodie (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Sally Hemings," in Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, W. W. Norton and Company, 1974, pp. 228-45.
[In the following essay, Brodie examines Jefferson's writings and records from 1778-1779, concluding that they imply a close relationship between Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.]
The earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead.
Jefferson to Madison, September 6, 17891
Sally Hemings' third son, Madison, born at Monticello in 1805, wrote explicitly of the beginnings of his mother's relationship with Jefferson:
Their stay (my...
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James M. Cox (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Jefferson's Autobiography: Recovering Literature's Lost Ground," in The Southern Review, Vol. XIV, No. 4, October, 1978, pp. 633-52.
[In the following essay, Cox assesses the literary value of Jefferson's Autobiography, claiming that it represents an early American example of the under-examined memoir genre. Cox also delves into the influence and interplay between Jefferson's work and the more famous Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.]
My text is the Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson. It is hardly fair to contend that devoting attention to it is to recover lost ground for literature since there is scarcely any evidence that...
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Robert A. Ferguson (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Mysterious Obligation": Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, in American Literature, Vol. 52, No. 3, November, 1980, pp. 381-406.
[In the following essay, Ferguson discusses the origins and structure of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Ferguson dismisses the common claim that Notes is a disjointed, non-literary work, insisting that once the reader understands the influences and processes behind the formatting of the work, the text is much more cohesive and coherent than previously thought.]
Thomas Jefferson, by any standard, is a major writer of the early Republic, and his one book, Notes...
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Charles A. Miller (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Human Nature: Variations on Equality," in Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, pp. 56-87.
[In the following essay, Miller discusses Jefferson's views on human nature and equality. While Jefferson believed in the moral equality of all humankind, he felt that certain groups—blacks, Indians, and women—were not culturally, physically, or intellectually equal to white males.]
As a natural historian, Jefferson distinguished one species from another by grouping individuals according to their "prominent and invariable" similarities. On this basis, the basis of comparative anatomy, the distinguishing nature of the...
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Harold Hellenbrand (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "The Language of Improvement and the Practices of Power," in The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson, University of Delaware Press, 1990, pp. 119-40.
[In the following essay, Hellenbrand explores the way Jefferson's thoughts on education informed his political and social philosophies.]
Between the publication of Notes on the State of Virginia and the end of his presidency, Jefferson devoted little time to philosophizing about education and planning free schools. In Virginia he reached an impasse. His legal project to reconceive patrimonial...
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Garrett Ward Sheldon (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Liberalism and Classicism in Jefferson's Political Philosophy," in The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 1-18.
[In the following essay, Sheldon examines Jefferson's political philosophy within the context of Western political thought and concludes that Jefferson drew from several theoretical traditions in formulating his own philosophy.]
Great men are obliged to suffer many indignities, not the least of which is the tendency of lesser men continually to write books about them. Thomas Jefferson has suffered in this regard perhaps more than any other famous American. Volumes have been written on Jefferson as...
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Kenneth A. Lockridge (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Commonplaces II: Thomas Jefferson," in On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage: The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century, New York University Press, 1992, pp. 47-73.
[In the following essay, Lockridge examines Jefferson's Commonplace Book, written in his youth, noting that the selection of quotations and the writings that accompany them exhibit both rebellion and misogyny.]
William Byrd was not alone in the intensely misogynistic vision rendered in his commonplace. That view of women evidently persisted in private male discourse for some time, as at least one further case testifies....
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George Alan Davy (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Argumentation and Unified Structure in Notes on the State of Virginia," in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer, 1993, pp. 581-93.
[In the following essay, Davy examines the rhetorical strategies employed by Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia and suggests that the work's detailed descriptive passages add credibility to the portions devoted to argument.]
Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia has been called "in form primarily a handbook"1; and indeed, Jefferson's own statements about the book's origins suggest that it was intended as a reference work. In his autobiography, he writes...
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David Haven Blake, Jr. (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "'Posterity Must Judge': Private and Public Discourse in the Adams-Jefferson Letters," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 1-30.
[In the following essay, Blake discusses the correspondence between John Adams and Jefferson and situates their letters within the larger public political discourse of the time.]
I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country. Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction. … In its general principles and great outlines, it was conformable to such a system of government as I had...
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Robert A. Williams, Jr. (essay date 1997)
"Thomas Jefferson: Indigenous American Storyteller," in Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West: From Conquest to Conservation, edited by James P. Ronda, University of New Mexico Press, 1997, pp. 43-74.
[In the following essay, Williams, a Native American scholar, explores Jefferson's ideas of Native American inferiority that contributed to the Indians' removal in the nineteenth century, but suggests that today Jefferson's writings on natural rights could be used as arguments to decolonize Native American populations living on reservations.]
Writing as a Native American scholar, I wish to ask in this essay what use Indian...
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James H. Hutson (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: "Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists: A Controversy Rejoined," in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, October, 1999, pp. 775-90.
[In the following essay, Hutson discusses the newly-restored manuscript of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, and its effect on current controversies over the separation of church and state.]
Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, January 1, 1802, contains a phrase that has become almost a household expression in the present-day United States: "a wall of separation between church and state." In his letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson linked this phrase...
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Robert M. O'Neil (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: "The 'Wall of Separation' and Thomas Jefferson's Views on Religious Liberty," in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, October, 1999, pp. 791-94.
[In the following essay, O'Neil discusses the importance of Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists and his consistent view on the separation of church and state throughout his career.]
In the first Supreme Court case that dealt with the clause of the First Amendment that declares that Congress shall pass "no law respecting an establishment of religion," the justices recognized the central importance of the framers' views in defining the proper relationship between church and state. Those views...
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Anthony F. C. Wallace (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: "Notes on the Vanishing Aborigines," in Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans, Belknap Press, 1999, pp. 75-107.
[In the following essay, Wallace discusses the sections of Notes on the State of Virginia that deal with Native Americans and claims that many of Jefferson's facts were inaccurate.]
After Jefferson left the Virginia governor's office in 1781, his letters to George Rogers Clark shifted from matters of war—which continued unabated in both the east and the west—to matters of science. In December 1781 he asked Clark to send to Monticello "some teeth of the great animal whose remains are found on the Ohio" and...
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Douglas Anderson (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: "Subterraneous Virginia: The Ethical Poetics of Thomas Jefferson," in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter, 2000, pp. 233-49.
[In the following essay, Anderson discusses Notes on the State of Virginia as Jefferson's exploration of the intersections between the individual self and the collective self, between psychology and history.]
Whatever turns the soul inward on itself, tends to concenter its forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science.
—Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry
In defending the vigor of colonial culture against the...
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Peter S. Onuf (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: "Jefferson's Empire," in Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 1-17.
[In the following essay, Onuf explores Jefferson's visions of America as a nation and as an empire, taking into account the more regressive tendencies of Jefferson's political thought.]
Thomas Jefferson cherished an imperial vision for the new American nation. Future generations of Americans would establish republican governments in the expanding hinterland of settlement. This rising empire would be sustained by affectionate union, a community of interests, and dedication to the principles of self-government Jefferson set forth in...
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Robert Booth Fowler (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: "Mythologies of a Founder," in Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature, edited by Thomas S. Engeman, University of Notre Dame Press, 2000, pp. 123-41.
[In the following essay, Fowler assesses Jefferson's declining reputation in recent years and discusses, in particular, Jefferson's ideas concerning natural rights.]
In his fine book The Natural Rights Republic, based on his Frank M. Covey, Jr., lectures at Loyola University Chicago, Michael Zuckert leads his readers to an appreciation of the intellectual dimensions of the founding of the United States. As Zuckert observes, the founders combined multiple sides of American political thought,...
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Further Reading
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, 414 p.
A comprehensive biography assessing Jefferson's life from his formative years to his final legacy.
Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, 365 p.
Examines some of the contradictions in Jefferson's life and character, including his status as an aristocratic slaveowner at the same time he was drafting his famous statement on human rights and equality.
Lehmann, Karl. Thomas...
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Cardiac rehab patients at WCA Hospital may soon be looking for an alternative.
According to letters that were sent out to patients taking part in Cardiac Rehab Phase III services, due to a lack of recognition and support for the program through Medicare, Medicaid and the Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company, the program will be coming to an end. Phase I and Phase II services, however, will be maintained at WCA. If there's a special condition that would require patients to continue with closely supervised rehabilitation, they can continue in Phase II of the program. There are, however, strict medical necessity regulations that determine who qualifies.
"In review of our program by our insurance carrier, there seemed to be more patients in cardiac rehab than would traditionally be in a rehab program," said Larry Senns, vice president of administration. "We started looking at it and looking at who really is using our facility more as a fitness facility or a gym that could be exercising elsewhere."
According to Senns, at any given time, there are between 67 and 74 people who come and go from the program. Many of those patients have been in the rehab program for a length of time, and those are the ones who will be most likely to transition to a different phase.
"When a person has a cardiac event, they're often in the hospital, and the rehab program begins there," Senns said. "After they're discharged, it continues as outpatient rehab, which we call Phase II. Insurance generally covers 36 rehab sessions for a patient in Phase II, but the program has a beginning and an end."
As part of the requirements for Phase II rehab, there are physicians on-site, as well as trained cardiac nurses, and patients are monitored closely. One of the primary goals of the program is to explain to patients how they can keep from having another cardiac event through maintaining their diet, proper communication with their physician on symptoms and understanding the issues that they face.
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Romantic Things to Do in Acapulco
By Paige, Nicaragua, August 2012
Since the 1950s, a glittering golden age of Hollywood stars and starlets who flocked to this perfect bay, Acapulco has been synonymous with glamorous hotels and gorgeous beaches. With the ... Read more
Acapulco Cliff Divers
By Bandit, USA, December 2010
Enjoying a nice dinner and an ice cold beer at La Quebrada while watching the cliff divers is a must-do when in Acapulco. Just looking at pictures doesn't do justice to the actual experience. It ... Read more


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silhouetted figures on rock at sunset palolemby serenityphotography
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- The silhouettes of two figures, one standing one sitting, on the rocks at the southern end of Palolem Bay at sunset. Taken on the beautiful beach at Palolem, in the south of the favourite holiday state of Goa in southern India. Palolem attracts a good mix of domestic, Indian, tourists; holidaymakers from Europe; and backpackers and other long-term stayers. Palolem is renowned for its mile-long crescent-shaped beach. See more at www.SerenityPhotography.co.uk
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- kent, england
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- Born in Dover, England, I became disillusioned with the rat race and began travelling in 1997. On my first round the world trip I discovered a passion for travel, photography and scuba diving. Since then I have spent a total of five years on the road, become a diving instructor and semi-prof ...


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"Flying is like good music. It elevates the spirit and it's an exhilarating freedom. I love the machines, I love the aviation community. I used to own airplanes and have pilots flying them for me, but I finally realized they were having more fun than I was. "
Botswana's Okavango
While Africa brims with unspoiled landscapes written in big, bold strokes, Botswana's Okavango Delta proves especially dazzling. The 6,000-square-mile Delta is formed by the mighty Okavango, "the river that never finds the sea," which roars down from neighboring Angola and spills out into the sands of the perpetually barren Kalahari Desert. The Delta is a Connecticut-sized oasis teeming with elephants, predators and an astonishing variety of bird life-a Mecca for game watchers and birders.
To protect the wildlife by minimizing tourism's impact, Botswana was the first African nation to adopt a selective environmental policy of restricting the number of visitors it allows. According to Colin Bell, founder of Wilderness Safaris, "The results have been dramatically successful. Botswana's initiative has become the model for governments all over southern Africa, from Namibia to Mozambique. By doing away with those crowds of visitors, the footprint of tourism on the Okavango's delicate ecosystem has become much lighter and infinitely more protective of the animals."
That's good news for the discriminating traveler as well. Botswana's environmental plan limits the number of the Okavango's lodges and camps, and many are high-end enclaves that accommodate fewer than 20 visitors at a time and have their own wildlife concessions. That means your game drives will be private and personalized, without the flocks of safari vehicles that plague wildlife viewing at many African camps.
Because the Okavango is essentially unreachable by road, your visit will begin in Maun, a sleepy outback village with a busy airport, where a single-engine bush plane will take you to your lodge's airstrip. As soon as you're aloft, these flights become the first leg of your safari. Your pilot becomes your tracker by swooping low over a maze of crystal-clear lagoons, waterways and grassy islands teeming with elephant, antelope and giraffe before landing on a dirt strip where warthogs graze on the runway.
At your camp, you'll find that ecotourism, Okavango style, is a far cry from Spartan. I stayed at two newly opened lodges, Xudum and its sister camp Xaranna (the Xs are pronounced like Ks), located on the same 62,000-acre private reserve and also run by the safari company AndBeyond (formerly known as CC Africa). Both camps are stylishly decorated with contemporary flair.
Open-sided dining and viewing areas overlook a lagoon where you'll likely witness a floorshow when herds of elephants lumber through the savanna while noisy hippos frolic in the reeds. And you'll stay in ultra-chic, air-conditioned digs of canvas and timber with a private plunge pool, an outdoor terrace perfect for watching the Okavango's wildlife pageant and an immense bed looking out over the lagoon. There, after sunset, you'll hear the volume rising on the night sounds of Africa, many of them originating just a few yards away. Both Xaranna and Xudum, like many Okavango lodges, are "open camps," meaning that everything from hyenas to elephants roam through freely at night. That's why it's verboten to walk in the camp after dark without an escort.
Guests in the Okavango lodges find the daily four-hour safari drives to be the high points of their stay. The first excursion begins just after dawn, when your guide and tracker will take you out searching for lion, leopard and other predators. After a whopping breakfast back at the lodge, and after the animals (and probably you) take a noontime snooze, a late-afternoon drive seeks the predators as they prepare for another night on the prowl. You're likely to get that Jurassic Park feeling as your 4x4 wheels through dinosaur-ready grasslands dotted with towering, volcano-shaped termite mounds, millennia-old baobab trees and forests of wild palms.
The game drives aren't the Okavango's only can't-miss experiences. Another is a trip in a mokoro, a dugout canoe carved from a large tree, to explore the Okavango's labyrinth of waterways and lakes. Your boatman will guide you through dense stands of papyrus and a myriad of lily pads for up-close views of antelope, elephant and floating "logs" that turn out to be giant crocs.
Another option is picking up your tent and going out to search for the animals instead of letting them come to you. Savute under Canvas, a tented camp, changes its location every few days to track the wildlife as they move through one of Africa's most remote and game-rich grasslands. And if you go in January or February you'll watch the annual migration of thousands of zebra and wildebeest across the plains and the large concentrations of lion that follow them with fine dining in mind. And don't let the "tented" part fool you-Savute is downright luxurious, with candlelit dinners served on crystal and china and six well-appointed tents, each with its own butler.
Traveler Report Card
ACCOMMODATIONS (A): Accommodations range from the Sandibe Lodge (www.sandibe.com), where the atmosphere harkens back to Hemingway days, to stylish, contemporary camps like Xaranna and Xudum. And for a taste of early 20th century "roughing it," try the luxurious Nxabega Camp (www.nxabega.com), an Edwardian world of burnished teak and brass.
FOOD (A): Okavango lodges and their chefs don't disappoint. Meals tend toward "Pan African" dishes featuring grilled meats, shrimp and chicken, which are often Asian-inflected. Fresh salads and vegetables are other high points on the menu, along with rich desserts.
ACTIVITIES (A+): Beyond traditional game drives, your lodge manager can organize expeditions to view the Okavango's spectacular bird life, and helicopter rides for a panoramic overview of the delta. Or try game viewing on horseback through Okavango Horse Safaris (www.okavangohorse.com). And for a real thrill, consider Abu's Camp (www.abucamp.com) to search for game on elephant back.
Traveler Fast Facts
WHAT IT IS: An inland delta in northern Botswana, just south of the country's border with Namibia. Located where the Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert to form a 6,000-square-mile oasis of streams, lakes and islands.
CLIMATE: Expect hot, wet summers from October to April, when temperatures often exceed 100 degrees F. Winters (May-September) are dry and cool with chilly evenings. The best time for game viewing is the April-to-October dry season, when the animals gather at watering holes. For the best bird watching, go during the December-to-March rainy season.
HEALTH AND INOCULATIONS: This is a malaria area, so talk to your doctor before going. Also, bring insect repellent and plenty of sunscreen. Vaccinations aren't required, but the Centers for Disease Control suggests immunizations against yellow fever, tetanus, hepatitis A, polio and typhoid.
FLYING IN: Maun Airport (MUB) has a 6,500-foot asphalt runway and jet-A fuel. Botswana's Civil Aviation Department (267-365-5100, fax 267-390-3348) requires that a flight plan be filed 48 hours before arrival.
BOOKINGS AND PLANNING: Many travelers arrange their safaris by dealing directly with AndBeyond (www.andbeyondafrica.com), which operates luxury-adventure lodges in Botswana, including Xaranna, Xudum and Savute under Canvas. Recommended travel agents include Adventure Travel Desk (www.african-safari.com, 800-552-0300) and outfitter-tour operator Micato Safaris (www.micato.com, 212-545-711). Botswana doesn't require visas for U.S. citizens.
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Topic: Rspec redirect issues - (on Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.5)
I'm developing in Rails 2.3.5 on Ruby 1.9.1 and using Cucumber 0.4.4, Rspec 1.2.9 and Webrat 0.6.0 to steer the way. I'm also using restful_authentication and am having issues getting the preconfigured features to work. There were some scenarios that were failing that have been easily fixed, but I'm now getting to a point where I'm starting to think something must be broken in Rspec for these latest versions of Rails and Ruby.
The first issue is that there are instances where redirects will work just fine in the browser but show up as not working in the tests. Other times, the steps defined will pass the redirects without issues.
Controller Code:
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
# render new.rhtml
def new
def create
user = User.authenticate(params[:login], params[:password])
if user
self.current_user = user
new_cookie_flag = (params[:remember_me] == "1")
handle_remember_cookie! new_cookie_flag
flash[:notice] = "Logged in successfully"
@login = params[:login]
@remember_me = params[:remember_me]
render :action => 'new'
def destroy
flash[:notice] = "You have been logged out."
# Track failed login attempts
def note_failed_signin
flash[:error] = "Couldn't log you in as '#{params[:login]}'"
logger.warn "Failed login for '#{params[:login]}' from #{request.remote_ip} at #{Time.now.utc}"
Cucumber Scenarios:
# This one fails at the should be redirected
Scenario: Anonymous user can log in
Given an anonymous user
And an activated user named 'reggie'
When she creates a singular sessions with login: 'reggie', password: 'monkey', remember me: ''
Then she should be redirected to the home page
# This one does get through the redirect
Scenario: Anonymous (logged out) user can log out.
Given an anonymous user
When she goes to /logout
Then she should be redirected to the home page
Given "an anonymous user" do
Given "$an $user_type user named '$login'" do |_, user_type, login|
create_user! user_type, named_user(login)
When /^(\w+) creates an? ([\w ]+) with ([\w: \',]+)$/ do |actor, resource, attributes|
attributes = attributes.to_hash_from_story
if resource =~ %r{singular ([\w/]+)}
resource = $1.downcase.singularize
post "/#{resource}", attributes
post "/#{resource.downcase.pluralize}", { resource.downcase.singularize => attributes }
Then "$actor should be redirected to $path" do |_, path|
response.should redirect_to(grok_path(path))
def log_out
get '/sessions/destroy'
def log_out!
response.should redirect_to('/')
def create_user!(user_type, user_params)
user_params['password_confirmation'] ||= user_params['password'] ||= user_params['password']
create_user user_params
response.should redirect_to('/')
def create_user(user_params={})
@user_params ||= user_params
post "/users", :user => user_params
@user = User.find_by_login(user_params['login'])
Can anyone make sense of why this should be failing in some cases and not others? It seems totally bizarre - even within the first scenario mentioned (which failed at should redirect) it goes through a should redirect call in the 'Given an anonymous user' step.
The other bit is even stranger. Somehow, flash[:notice] seems to be broken in rspec (possibly just cucumber+..). When I put a flash[:notice] in my code that shows up fine on my browser, the step
Then I should see "You are now logged in"
fails. The weirdest part is that if I test for a flash[:error] message, it works fine! This one is SO bizarre I have a hard time believing that I didn't muddle something up somewhere, but I've have checked and checked again and rechecked everything that would seems obvious to check (to see if there are any assignments of flash[:notice] in the cucumber code, making sure things are spelled correctly and so on). I'm happy to put code up relating to that, but I'll leave it at this for now.
I should mention that I have been getting these strange deprecation messages every time I run rspec or cucumber and I decided to check into these as a possible source but as of yet have found nothing related to them. I started a separate post on this as I can't say for sure that it is related - http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=114577#p114577.
Have other people been having experiences like these? Any ideas on what might be malfunctioning - things to check?


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Topic: how do you organize javascript code in your rails project?
how do you organize javascript code in your rails project?
Here is how I organize javascript code in my current project: I include common javascript files on the bottom of a layout file and yield :javascript content. It looks like this:
= include_javascripts :common
= yield :javascript
Then in every page rendered, I put the related javascript code at the bottom of the page, it looks like this:
-content_for :javascript :javascript //code goes here…
The question is should I put the code in to a separate javascript file or it is okay to put javascript with the html content it manipulates? Any advantages and disadvantages?
In addition, there could be some javascript code that manipulate html content in partials, how do you organize them?
In summary, what is your best practice for organizing javascript code in your rails project(especially there are a lot of javascript code)?


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Yes! Koongo supports Webgains!
Rock! This channel is already supported by Koongo and is immediately available to you disposal! Currently Koongo supports various forms of integration with given channel, see the list below. To begin using Koongo, you need to install a Koongo Connector onto your e-commerce platform. This allows Koongo server to communicate with your online store in a secure and scalable manner. Koongo comes with various connectors for various e-commerce platforms. For every platform we offer slightly different pricing model, based on the nature of the given e-commerce platform. For details please see Pricing page. Don't forget that Koongo offers also 30 days Trial version for FREE!
Instructions below are intended only for users of Koongo as a Service (i.e. Service). If you are an user of Connector for Magento (i.e. Connector) skip the first part of those instructions and follow only the steps specific for given channel or feed. Note that API integrations are available only to Service users. You may review in detail the differences between Connector and Service.
Koongo provides you Channel Files (or Channel Feeds) specific for all supported channels and marketplaces. Channel Files are XML, CSV or TXT files containing all your product data. That means, once you set up given channel in Koongo interface you need to upload the generated Channel File using FTP or to instruct given channel authority to download the Channel File generated by Koongo over HTTP protocol.
Usually, channel authorities provide two ways how to upload product data:
In addition, for Channel File submissions you need to have a merchant accounts for all channels you intend to use. This is something you need to do on your own at given channel website.
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The Webwinkel Vakdagen 2017 is taking place in January 18th and 19th in Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. The event is again fully dedicated to the e-commerce. The Koongo will be there. You can find us at business table B02!
Coolshop and Koongo are announcing the availability of the integration between these two environments to streamline the process of the product selling in the Coolshop Marketplace. Any of Koongo supported shopping platform is now possible to connect very easily to the Coolshop.com.


text: Kenya Airways Operating Performance: 3rd QTR – Oct to Dec 2009 Kenya Airways releases its operating results for the third quarter ended 31st Dec 2009. The airline put into the market place capacity of 3,179m seat kilometres representing a year on year growth of 5%. This increase, though largely attributable to the successful launches of operations into seven new destinations within Africa in 2009, was adversely impacted by the delayed replacement of one B767 whose lease expired within the first quarter of the year. The reduction of global traffic also necessitated tactical capacity cut-backs in Europe and Asia. Capacity offered in Europe only declined by 3% over prior year despite significant reductions in London and Amsterdam driven by the global economic crisis. The capacity reduction was partly mitigated by additional frequencies mounted to Charles de Gaulle in order to take advantage of our expanded network into the Francophone Africa. The Mid East, Far East and Asia regions also registered a capacity decline of 3% over prior year mainly due to change in operations into Guangzhou now connecting through Bangkok instead of Dubai, as well as operational constraints occasioned by fewer wide body aircraft Download the press announcement here


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GestDB is a client to access relational databases. It can be used to access a large array of databases including CUBRID.
GestDB can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gestdb/files/gestdb.
In order to run it, you need to install the Java JRE or JDK 1.6 or above. You can find the downloads page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
The tutorial on how to install and configure CUBRID is found at http://www.cubrid.org/wiki_tutorials/entry/cubrid-installation-instructions.
You have to unzip the ZIP file to a directory, eg "/ home / myuser / gestdb /" or "c: \ Users \ myuser \ Desktop \ gestdb".
You need the JDBC driver to connect to the database. A version of the program that includes the driver for CUBRID.
If you have a version without the driver, we downloaded the driver from the manufacturer and copy it in the subdirectory "lib", to start the application will load automátimanete.
There is another way to put the JDBC driver. Using the configuration window by clicking the Add button driver.
The application allows you to have all the drivers needed.
We are ready to use the application. The run with the command "run.cmd" or "run.sh" if you're on Windows or UNIX respectively.
Press the first button we have in the top left to create a new connection.
Press "Create" button.
Fill in the fields with your data connection. In this example we will connect to the database that brings Cubrid demodb.
Press the "Test connection" to test the connection.
If you have errors appears a window similar to the following.
If all goes well, appears it a window like the one below.
Click on the "Create connection".
Select your connection and press "Connect" or double click.
We already have a good connection to our database, the next step is to test it.
We can launch a query to pull data from an existing table using the syntax "select * from {table}" and pressing the "run" that have as gears, or selecting a table in the combobox and pressing the button with a "gear".
Below I will show a way to try creating a table, inserting a record and then launching a consultation on table.
GestDB allows multiple querys in the editor and launch only the selected query, this is method we to use it.


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About this itemNintendo DSi XL is a high-powered, handheld video-game system with extra large dual screens.
The Nintendo DSi XL is a high-powered, handheld video-game system with extra large, wide viewing angle screens and a full-size, easy to hold stylus. It comes loaded with features like a touch-screen control for a unique gaming experience. Snap photos with the built-in camera, edit and send them to friends, play back your music with Nintendo DSi Sound, or browse the Internet with the Nintendo DSi Browser. From playing games to just playing around, the Nintendo DSi XL does it all.
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Issue Brief #3837 on United States Government
January 18, 2013
January 18, 2013 | Issue Brief on United States Government
In the coming weeks, the United States Senate will begin the confirmation process for three key Administration positions: Senator John Kerry (D–MA) for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) for Secretary of Defense, and White House chief counterterrorism advisor John Brennan for director of the CIA. All three have been prominent backers of President Obama's foreign and defense policy.
The Senate confirmation process allows the American public an opportunity to learn more about what these candidates believe and how they see America's role in a dangerous world. The American people deserve clear answers from President Obama's nominees and a clear-cut commitment from them that they will advance U.S. interests on the world stage and defend America's national security needs.
Asia Matters
U.S. leadership in Asia should be an especially important issue in the confirmation hearings. Excluding Canada and Mexico, five of America's top 10 trading partners are in Asia. It is also an international economic engine critical to general American prosperity. It boasts the world's two largest economies after the U.S. and much of the world's holdings of U.S. dollars and dollar assets, such as Treasury bonds. Instability in the region would undermine global economic activity and adversely impact the U.S. Moreover, like Europe, conflict and instability in Asia have a historical tendency to draw in the U.S.
For these reasons, it has been in the American interest to preserve regional stability since the end of the Second World War. The U.S. has established a network of formal alliances (Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, and Australia), and security relationships (e.g., Taiwan and Singapore) to help maintain the regional status quo. This builds upon a long-standing American interest in preventing regional dominance by any hostile powers that predates the Cold War, extending back to the "Open Door" policy toward China in the 19th century and the efforts to limit Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 1940s.
There are four main issues that underpin U.S.–Asia relations on foreign affairs and defense.
1. The Growing China Challenge
Over the past several years, amidst its two-decades-long massive military modernization, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become increasingly intransigent in its dealings with its neighbors. Whether it is in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, or the Yellow Sea, Beijing has been steadily expanding its claims while displaying little interest in compromise or equitable negotiations. While it has thus far chosen not to employ military force, Beijing has also demonstrated a willingness to apply other means, such as extensive use of civilian law enforcement ships to establish a presence in disputed waters, curtailing rare earths exports, and restricting imports in order to get its way.
All of this is backed by a People's Liberation Army (PLA) that has enjoyed over two decades of double-digit budgetary growth. For American allies and partners such as Singapore, India, and Taiwan, the need for a consistent American diplomatic stance and military presence is greater than ever.
For each of the nominees, it is essential to determine what steps they would recommend to reassure America's friends and allies that the U.S. prepared to stand by them. While the solution has an obvious military component—including arms sales to key partners such as Taiwan—it also involves diplomatic measures, such as relevant interpretations of treaty commitments. It also applies to standing firm on fundamental American principles, such as support for human liberty and America's traditional legal understandings of freedom of navigation.
2. The Ongoing North Korea Threat
Another chronic issue is that of North Korea. The recent North Korean missile test and space launch demonstrates both North Korean willingness to defy the international community (the test was specifically prohibited by various U.N. resolutions) and the unwillingness of the PRC to rein in the North Koreans. North Korea's nuclear program, meanwhile, proceeds unabated, with the high likelihood of another North Korean nuclear test in the next few months.
Given the threat to North Korea's neighbors and the U.S., it is incumbent upon each of the nominees to specify how they see North Korea and what steps they would take to deter Pyongyang from pursuing policies that both undermine international law and potentially jeopardize regional peace and security. This includes not only concerns about bolstering the missile defense capabilities of South Korea and Japan but also measures that could persuade China to more stringently apply pressure on North Korea to abide by its commitments.
3. Pressures on Alliances
As China's economy continues to dominate East Asia, it raises the possibility that Beijing may be able to prevent America's Asian allies from coalescing in the event of a crisis. The economic stick that Beijing displayed against Japan in the 2010 Senkaku crisis—limiting exports of rare earths—is one method, but it may be joined by economic carrots, such as aid grants, investments, and special market access.
This is exacerbated by historical animosities and territorial disputes among the allies themselves, such as the Dok-do controversy between South Korea and Japan. These limit mutual cooperation, as evidenced by the failure of a proposed intelligence-sharing agreement between Seoul and Tokyo.[1]
Preserving and strengthening American security relationships and promoting comity and cooperation will require a carefully thought out strategy so that the U.S. makes clear its ongoing security commitments. What course of action each nominee is likely to pursue in order to prevent the drifting apart of allies and the U.S., or from each other, is an important factor in assessing their qualifications.
4. Potential Instability in China and North Korea
Both Beijing and Pyongyang saw new leaders take office in 2012, which limits the ability to predict future behavior. Moreover, there is some evidence that both North Korea and the PRC are experiencing more internal unrest.
For the nominees, this means not only questioning the extent to which they have considered the ramifications of these developments but assessing how each is likely to interact with American allies in coordinating responses. Given its strength and patronage of the North Korean regime, PRC reticence about any discussions regarding a crisis on the peninsula is particularly disturbing.
Commitments Needed
Given the importance of East Asia to the U.S., the Senate should seek the following commitments from the nominees and make clear the following red lines.
Senators should ask Senator Kerry to:
Senators should ask Senator Hagel:
Senators should ask Brennan to:
Growing Challenges
President Obama will be confronted by a growing set of challenges in East Asia in his second term. The forthcoming confirmation hearings are a vital opportunity for the Senate to pose key questions about how the Administration, and especially key advisors, see those problems and potential solutions.
Given both the importance of the region to the U.S., as well as American capabilities to regional stability, there is a clear need for strong leadership from Washington to help the region weather this period of potential instability. Congress should strive to ensure that the Administration will advance ties with its key allies and friends in Asia while supporting economic freedom and national sovereignty across the Pacific.
—Dean Cheng is Research Fellow in Chinese Political and Security Affairs, Bruce Klingner is Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, and Walter Lohman is Director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]See K. J. Kwon, "South Korea and Japan Put Military Intelligence Pact on Hold After Outcry," CNN.com, June 29, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/29/world/asia/south-korea-japan-pact/index.html (accessed January 18, 2013).
[2]Senator John Kerry (D–MA), "Opening Statement for 'Breaking the Cycle of North Korean Provocations,'" March 1, 2011, http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Kerry_Statement.pdf (accessed January 18, 2013).


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The Wisdom of Hippie Dan - Page 2
Meanwhile, I was staying with the Obrechts, the family that had re-formed the Proctor High School boys' ski team. To see my mom and little brother and sister, I had to sneak back to the house when I knew my dad was working. Dusty and his housemates lived day-to-day. I couldn't stop thinking about the future. I knew my skiing career was coming to an end; I didn't have Dusty's talent, and while I could hone my technique until a casual observer would think I was born in Norway, I also had figured out that guys like Dusty—and there were a lot of them at the upper levels of cross-country skiing—could almost always sprint faster than I could. No matter how hard I worked, I could never attain the pure speed that others could. I think whoever—or whatever—gave me determination and a good work ethic forgot to throw in fast twitch muscles. Then Dusty called and told me he had won a 50-mile race called the Minnesota Voyageur. He said he was going to run it next year, too, and asked whether I wanted to train with him. Of course I said yes. (I always said yes to Dusty.) I told myself it was to get in shape for the next ski season. But in reality Dusty was living the life I envied: free, fun, and fast. He was a dirtbag, and I wanted to be a dirtbag, too.
So we dirtbags trained. We would run for 2, 2½ hours, Dusty giving me shit the whole way. Jurker this and Jurker that, telling me I studied too hard, that I thought too much, I needed to loosen up, who cared if I was a fucking valedictorian. We picked up mud along the way and flung it at each other with various insults. Then one day, just when I was getting used to running distance, Dusty said we should mix up the training, and he threw bike riding into the equation. My experience riding was on the hunk of metal my dad had welded for me. Dusty promised it would be fun. He persuaded a friend of his to sell me his old bike—a Celeste green steel Bianchi. It was too small for me, so Dusty helped me put on an oversized mountain bike seat post. We'd go 70, 100 miles. Dusty knew how to ride, knew all the mechanics. He had raced against George Hincapie a few years earlier; Hincapie would eventually compete in the Tour de France. There I was, my giant seat post jabbing the seat into my nuts every time I hit a rock, ready to quit every 5 minutes. Except I didn't. Maybe because it was such a relief to be away from studying and the sadness of my family, from watching my mom deteriorate and sensing my dad get sadder and more angry. I didn't have the skills, and I didn't have the bike, but I discovered something important during those rides with Dusty. I learned that even though I was a hack, even though I didn't know anything about riding—I hadn't read a single book on it, hadn't studied a single essay on spinning or gear ratios—I could gut out those long rides. I wondered what else I could gut out.
I moved into the dorms my sophomore year. I signed up for a class with a Sister Mary Richard Boo, who was a notorious hardass, even among St. Scholastica's hardass nuns. The first day of class she told us to get Crime and Punishment. We had five days to read it. It was a struggle between my other classes, my 30-hour-a-week Nordic-Track job, sneaking home to help my mom, and training for what I was sure would be my last season of cross-country skiing.
I looked at my classmates (the student body was 70 percent female), laughing on their way to class. I didn't think many of them were on scholarship. They always seemed to have plenty of time. It seemed to me their life was school and intramural sports and parties. I felt out of place. It wasn't the first time.
It didn't help when Dusty would come over from the House of Gravity reeking of marijuana, hair down to his shoulders, making googly eyes at the coeds. He'd say, "Hey, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan," and they'd blush. They all asked me, "Who's your stoner friend?" Dusty was always a hit with the ladies. One day he slapped a sticker on my door that read: thank you for pot smoking. I left it up, and the visiting students would laugh as they passed by, but I'm sure their parents didn't.


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RE/MAX Files for $100 Million IPO
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- RE/MAX, a top franchisor of real estate brokerage services, is putting up its own "for sale" sign, saying on Monday it has publicly filed a registration statement for a proposed initial public offering of $100 million in common stock.
RE/MAX's prospective IPO comes amid a strong post-IPO performance from competitor Realogy
RE/MAX opened in 1973 from a single office in Denver, Colo, and has grown to represent more than 92,000 real-estate agents globally. The RE/MAX brand name has held the number one market share in the U.S. and Canada since 1999.
Realogy, the franchisor of of Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and Sotheby's International agents is the world's largest player with about 241,700 sales associates as of 2012. In July, the Realogy's former private equity owner Apollo Global Management sold its remaining shares in a stock offering.
RE/MAX said in an S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it intends to apply to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
The company reported unaudited revenue of $143.7 million in 2012, up from $138.3 million the year before. Including pro-forma earnings from the firm's recent acquisition of assets of RE/MAX of Texas, the company said it it would have earned $33.6 million during 2012.
RE/MAX is listing as an "emerging growth company," as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, allowing the firm to take advantage of exemptions from some financial reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies. The company said in its S-1 filing it has irrevocably elected to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards of the JOBS Act.
RE/MAX currently is majority owned by its co-founders Dave Liniger and Gail Liniger, who serve as Chairman and Vice Chair respectively. RE/MAX executives own minority interests in the firm's shares and its S-1 only lists Weston Presidio as a general partner.
Morgan Stanley
-- Written by Antoine Gara in New York


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Helsinki/Mexico City/Nairobi/London/Washington DC, 23 November 2010 - Nations have the chance to deliver almost 60 per cent of the emissions reductions needed to keep global temperatures under a 2 degrees Celsius rise.
But only if the pledges made last year in Copenhagen are fully met.
These are among the findings of a new report compiled by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and jointly authored by over 30 leading scientists from numerous international research institutes.
The report was convened in conjunction with the European Climate Foundation and the Institute of National Ecology, Mexico.
The findings, launched in advance of the UN climate convention meeting in Cancun, Mexico, spotlight the size of the 'emissions gap' between where nations might be in 2020 versus where the science indicates they need to be.
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, said, "I encourage all Parties to make good on their national mitigation pledges, and to further progress within the negotiations as well as through strengthened efforts on the ground to curb emissions. There is no time to waste. By closing the gap between the science and current ambition levels, we can seize the opportunity to usher in a new era of low-carbon prosperity and sustainable development for all."
It is estimated that, in order to have a 'likely' and cost-effective chance of pegging temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius or below over the 21st Century, global emissions will need to have peaked within the next 10 years and be around 44 gigatonnes[1] of CO2 equivalent in 2020.
The report, whose compilation was led by the UNEP Chief Scientist, finds that:
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: "The results indicate that the UN meeting in Copenhagen could prove to have been more of a success than a failure if all the commitments, intentions and funding, including fully supporting the pledges of developing economies, are met."
"There is a gap between the science and current ambition levels. But, what this report shows is that the options on the table right now in the negotiations, can get us almost 60 per cent of the way there. This is a good first step."
In addition, the report shows that the way in which the pledges are implemented—in other words how, for example, the accounting rules are set through the negotiations—can be almost as important as the big headline figures of the pledges themselves. In other words, the rules underpinning the emissions reduction matter as much as the pledges.
"This still leaves a gap of perhaps 5 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent—a gap that could be bridged by higher ambition on CO2 by developed and developing countries perhaps complimented by action on a range of so-called bon-CO2 pollutants such as methane from waste tips to black carbon from the inefficient burning of biomass and animal wastes," said Mr. Steiner.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said: "The report underlines both the feasibility of emission reductions and the importance of international cooperation to raise the current inadequate level of ambition. Governments meeting at the UN Climate Conference in Cancún will need to both anchor the pledges they made in Copenhagen in the UN context and to work swiftly to agree ways to reduce emissions so that the world has a chance of staying below a 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise."
Background to the Gap Analysis
The assessment, entitled The Emissions Gap Report: Are the Copenhagen Accord pledges sufficient to limit global warming to 2 or 1.5°C?, is the work of over 30 researchers from 25 centres in countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
It builds on work carried out in the wake of the UN climate change convention meeting in Copenhagen while also assessing the prospects and pathways for the even tougher target of keeping a global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius or under over the century.
The report also assesses in an annex the individual pledges of more than a dozen key countries ranging from India to Russia and the United States.
The various scenarios include estimated emissions in 2020 if nations were to fully implement their most ambitious pledges versus the emissions in 2020 if nations meet only their minimum targets.
Many developing countries before, during and after Copenhagen and including South Africa, Indonesia and Mexico, have made pledges which are conditional on the action of others – in particular the provision of international climate finance.
Meanwhile, the European Union has a target of a 20 per cent emissions reduction but has stated it is prepared to go to a 30 per cent cut if others follow. Canada has stated that it will follow the United States whose 17 per cent emissions reduction pledge is dependent on legislation being passed.
In addition, the report underlines the importance of ensuring 'strict' rules regarding the accounting for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and the use of surplus emissions units[2] are addressed. It finds that the rules governing these issues can have almost as big an impact as the headline pledges. If the rules are not set right, the pledges can be undermined.
Key Findings from the Report
Studies show that emissions levels of approximately 44 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent (range of 39 to 45*) in 2020 would be consistent with a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
"This unprecedented partnership of climate modelers makes one clear and unequivocal point—keeping climate change within manageable limits is do-able. But the window for cost effective action is narrowing with every year of delay. Cancun represents the next opportunity to close the gaps and keep that window open as the world works towards a new international treaty," said Mr. Steiner.
Notes to Editors
A Summary of the Emissions Gap report will be available on www.unep.org
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would like to thank the Steering Committee, all the lead and contributing authors, and the Secretariat for their contribution to the development of this report. Organisations are given below for identification purposes only.
Steering Committee Members: Joseph Alcamo, Chair (UNEP), Kilaparti Ramakrishna (UNEP), Bert Metz (European Climate Foundation), Suzana Kahn Ribeiro (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Anand Patwardhan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Adrian Fernandez (Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Mexico) and Julia Martinez (Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Mexico).
Lead Authors: Michel den Elzen (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), William Hare (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Niklas Höhne (Ecofys), Kelly Levin (World Resources Institute), Jason Lowe (Met Office, Hadley Center), Keywan Riahi (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Joeri Rogelj (ETH Zurich), Elizabeth Sawin (Climate Interactive), Chris Taylor (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), Detlef van Vuuren (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), Murray Ward (Global Climate Change Consultants).
Contributing Authors: Valentina Bossetti (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), Claudine Chen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Rob Dellink (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development),, Jørgen Fenhann (UNEP Risø), Claudio Gesteira (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Tatsuya Hanaoka (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Mikiko Kainuma (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Jiang Kejun (Energy Research Institute), Emanuele Massetti (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), Ben Matthews (UCLouvain, Centre for Earth and Climate Research), Caspar Olausson (Danish Energy Agency), Brian O'Neill (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Nicola Ranger (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), Fabian Wagner (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Zhao Xiusheng (Tsinghua University).
Secretariat: Ramzi Elias, Project Manager (European Climate Foundation), Maria Blazogiannaki (European Climate Foundation), Harsha Dave (UNEP), Ernest Imbamba (UNEP),
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Fishing spots now open to public
Fishing opportunities on stretches of shoreline along four Adirondack trout waters and one pond are now open to anglers state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner announced recently.
"The fishing rights provide previously unavailable public access for anglers on nearly ten miles of shoreline on some of the best trout waters in the Adirondacks," DEC Commissioner Joe Martens said in a prepared statement. "Conservation easements protect natural resources and provide public recreational opportunities while providing the economic benefits of tourism and timber harvest to local communities."
Governor Cuomo's New York Open for Hunting and Fishing Initiative is an effort to improve recreational activities for in-state and out-of-state sportsmen and sportswomen and to boost tourism opportunities throughout the state. This initiative includes improved access for fishing at various sites across the state, stocking as much as 900,000 pounds of fish, expanding fishing clinics and increasing hunting opportunities in various regions.
The fishing rights on these waters are part of the conservation easements purchased on the lands formerly owned by the Finch Paper Company. The fishing rights allow the public to walk along the stream banks for the sole purpose of fishing.
Cedar River
The shorelines of three sections, with a total length of 3.1 miles, of the Cedar River in the Town of Indian Lake, Hamilton County, are open to the public for fishing. This stretch of the river is located south of the Cedar River Road near the community of Indian Lake.
The largest section is 2.3 miles long and adjoins a section of forest preserve lands providing more than four continuous miles of public fishing. The two other smaller sections are connected by forest preserve lands which together provide another continuous mile of public fishing. The Cedar River contains brook trout, brown trout and smallmouth bass. DEC stocks brook trout in the river.
DEC plans to construct parking areas and access trails in the near future. Once completed two other sections of this stretch of the river will be open for public fishing.
Fishing Brook
Four miles of shoreline along Fishing Brook in the Town of Long Lake in Hamilton County north of Route 28N are open to fishing. Fishing Brook is located between the communities of Long Lake in Hamilton County and Newcomb in Essex County. It contains brook trout.
DEC plans to construct parking areas and a boat launch for small trailered-boats on 60-acre County Line Flow and a parking area and boat launch for car top boats on 47-acre Fishing Brook Bog. The two waters, which are located at each end of this stretch of Fishing Brook, will be open for the public to fish by boat.
The Branch and Palmer Pond
A 1.6-mile stretch of The Branch immediately upstream of Palmer Pond and 0.7 miles of the pond's shore are open for fishing. These two waters are located in the Town of North Hudson, Essex County south of the Blue Ridge Road (aka Boreas Road). Both waters contain brook trout which DEC stocks annually. Additionally, brown trout are present and stocked in Palmer Pond.
Anglers can now fish the entire 1.4 miles of Palmer Pond's shoreline, except on the dam itself, as the public fishing rights on the pond's shore adjoin to forest preserve lands that abut the remainder of the pond. A small parking area is located near the dam at the eastern end of Palmer Pond. Pull off sites along the Blue Ridge Road are located at the western end of the pond and along The Branch.
DEC plans to improve the parking area near the dam, construct an access site for launching small car-top boats and install a fishing pier on Palmer Pond. Once completed, the public will be able to fish the 28-acre pond by boat.
English Brook
English Brook is located along Somerville Road the Town of Warrensburg, Warren County. A 0.4 mile section of the brook which contains brook trout is open to public fishing. DEC stocks this water which is west of Route 9 between the communities of Warrensburg and Lake George.
More information can be found on the DEC website at: www.dec.ny.gov/lands/71954.html.


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Monday, August 19, 2013
Jack Scott, scholar in residence in Claremont Graduate University (CGU's) School of Educational Studies, has received the University of California's Presidential Medal for his lifelong commitment to public education.
The Presidential Medal, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the University of California or the community of learning, is the highest honor the UC's president can bestow. Scott received the medal from UC President Mark G. Yudof during a ceremony on Aug. 15.
"Your remarkable efforts and achievements as a lawmaker, educator, and chancellor expanded opportunities for countless Californians to enhance their lives and pursue their dreams," Yudof told Scott.
Scott served in the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2000 and in the State Senate from 2000 to 2008. He led the 112 schools of the California Community Colleges as chancellor from 2009 until his retirement in 2012. He also served as president of Pasadena City College (1987-95) and Cypress College (1978-87).
His Presidential Medal citation, reads, in part: "you have been an ardent and powerful voice for California's historic Master Plan for Higher Education, fully dedicated to the idea that, by working in partnership, California's higher education segments have given this state a model for the world to follow."
Scott holds a PhD in history from Claremont Graduate University and a master's of divinity from Yale University. He is in his second year as scholar in residence at CGU.
"We are immensely proud of Jack's receiving the UC Presidential Medal," said Scott Thomas, dean of CGU's School of Educational Studies. "His wisdom and wealth of experience continue to importantly enrich the relevance of the work of the school and the university. Jack is an invaluable resource to CGU and we are honored to have him on our faculty."
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The Butte County Health Department has given us a limited quantity of flu shots. Please call or stop by for your FREE vaccination.
Butte College Student Health Clinic handles a wide range of health-related situations including emergency medical treatment, specialized medical services, health counseling, crisis and personal therapy, and appropriate referrals to community resources. In addition we also provide educational information to our students and health related events throughout the year.
The Student Health Clinic's purpose is to work together with our students giving them the tools to lead a long, healthy, active life. We take good health very seriously, so let us be your first stop to staying well.
All students currently registered in classes are eligible for services. During the summer, you are eligible for service if you are enrolled in the following Fall semester.
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Any student under the age of 18 is required to have a parental consent form signed and on file at the clinc before receiving treatment (except in emergencies or cases exempted by law). This form can be picked up at the Student Health Clinic or click here to print and complete at home.
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The Butte-Glenn College District covers students for injuries that occur on campus, in college-sponsored activities and classes, and while traveling under college supervision to and from such activities. This insurance is subsidized in part by your Health fee. The injured student must file an insurance claim at SHC within 90 days of the injury. Please make sure a Student Accident/Injury Report is completed prior to to filing claim.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra: 2.0Posted by Jonathan Lakeland in Classical Music, Concerts, Music Events, Orchestral, Orchestras, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, tags: flemming, joseph kim, kimmel center, orchestra, philadelphia, renee, yannick nezet seguin
Last Thursday evening, just before the lights dimmed at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, the audience purred in anticipation of the evening's forthcoming concert. Tonight was to be a momentous occasion – the official inaugural concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin being installed as Music Director.
I expected a concert full of classical music royalty highlighting the event as one of the most important in the Philadelphia Orchestra's history. What was delivered was an all-around humble performance delivered by, as Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia introduced them, the "greatest orchestra in the world" – the Philadelphia Orchestra.