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Did you ever wonder how it is possible that your phone allows you to take and exchange pictures or videos, find your way in unknown cities, read and write emails everywhere, listen to your favourite music and much more? And how your car tells you its fuel consumption, indicates the tyre pressure and will soon be able to call emergency services automatically in case of a severe accident? Many of these applications are possible due to the progress of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and in particular in electronics, advanced computing, processes and communications.
The latest developments in the area of organic electronics have made it possible to print electronic circuits on flexible foils, just like photos are printed; progress in photonics helps us be more energy efficient; the development of efficient embedded systems manage increased functionality and intelligence.
Europe is at the forefront of these disciplines and intends to maintain its leadership through the huge research efforts spent in the domain. Some of the activities the EU is supporting:


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 150, September 4, 1998
Sesquicentennial T3D/T3E Newsletter
Sometimes you have to blow your own horn. This is the 150th issue of this newsletter!
We currently have 330 subscribers; about 260 are non-ARSC, about 230 are outside of Alaska, and about 50 are outside of the U.S. (primarily Europe, the U.K., Scandinavia, and Japan).
Here are some highlights from previous issues:
#1 (Aug. 25, 1994) Mike Ess sends T3D Newsletter #1 : Lead article: "...the latest release of the T3D software (MAX 188.8.131.52) was installed on the T3D at ARSC..." #17 (Jan. 6, 1995) From an article in The Wall Street Journal: "... a 256-processor CRAY T3D massively parallel processing system and an interim four-processor CRAY Y-MP supercomputer system are scheduled to be installed this month at Los Alamos. In 1995, Los Alamos expects to upgrade the CRAY T3D system to 512 processors..." #27 (Mar 17, 1995) Report on the Denver CUG: "It was a tremendous meeting for T3D users as there was a T3D conference running concurrently with the CUG meeting. ...there were over 27 hours of presentations about the T3D." #53 (Sept 22, 1995) Anticipating the Alaska CUG: "There will be a real air cooled T3E machine with a 4 processor module installed, on display at the CUG meeting in Alaska." #68 (Jan 5, 1996) Accessing 128 PEs at ARSC: "It is not always possible to access 128 PEs in a predictable way now that the ARSC T3D is more active... " #83 (Apr 19, 1996) T3E! Eagan, Minn. -- The first CRAY T3E scalable parallel system has been installed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and is already running parallel applications, Cray Research announced earlier this week. #89 (May 31, 1996) Farewell to Mike Ess... ARSC seeks MPP specialist... Tom Baring's first issue. #101 (Aug 23, 1996) The first "Quick-Tip Q&A": Q: How can you delete a file named "-i" ??? #115 (Mar 7, 1996) ARSC welcomes Guy Robinson. Newsletter returns after 3-month vacation, it becomes bi-weekly (thank goodness!), Guy and Tom co-editors, and the big news: "ARSC's 88PE, liquid cooled, 128Mb/PE, 300Mhz CRAY T3E has been plumbed, electrified, and named. It is: yukon.arsc.edu. UNICOS/mk 1.4.1 will be installed next week, and user test codes will start running soon after that."
CS Students Study Parallel Programming
Last spring semester, 13 students in the University of Alaska's computer architecture course, CS341/541, were assigned semester projects (worth 30% of their grade) on ARSC's T3E. The class was taught by Professor Peter Knoke, with guest lectures by Guy Robinson of ARSC. Such courses are of benefit to both the students and the entire University research community, as they help train future programmers to make good use of local resources.
The project was to:
- develop a parallel program for the T3E using MPI
- measure speedup for that program, and
- explain the speedup results in computer and software architecture terms.
Most of the programs were developed by students with no prior experience with either the T3E or MPI.
Here are quick descriptions of the projects:
A parallel implementation of a ray-tracing program.
Dart board technique used to estimate PI. Speedup about 45 with 50 processors
Exploration of factoring algorithm (Lenstra) using the T3E. Speedup of about 12 with 24 PE's, but scaling problems.
Estimating PI by integral approximations. Speedup 7.5 while using 8 PEs.
Integration with the Riemann sum approximation. Speedup of about 11 with 11 PEs. Very good discussion of results.
Pythagorean Cubic problem (x^3 + y^3 = z^3, search for x,y and Z integers). Speedup 82 with 90 processors.
Port to CRAY T3E of a basic ray tracer for spheres, with modifications. Speedup of about 8 with 8 PEs.
Parallel programming used to test whether or not the distribution of numbers produced by a typical random number generator was uniform. The absolute speedup was 13 with 30 PE's used. Incremental speedup was also defined and measured.
This project was related to parallelization of a large scale computational model of the ionosphere. The model is called "The UAF Eulerian Polar Ionosphere Model", or EPIM for short. Dr. Maurits of ARSC is the author of this model. The project program led to a speedup of 11 with 41 PE's.
The program developed calculates one of three different integrals. It uses trapezoidal approximation. A speedup of 20 with 20 PE's was achieved.
The project was to code a parallel prime number sieve using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. This program showed almost no speedup with 8 PE's.
The project was to estimate PI using a simulation. A speedup of 49 using 50 PE's was obtained.
A large weather simulation model called "Large Eddy Simulation" was modified to permit parallel processing. A speedup of 36 using 64 PE's was obtained.
Fortran... Fortran... Fortran...
Great sources of information about the latest developments in Fortran are the comp-fortran-90 mailing list for fortran 90 and the Rice University mailing list for high performance Fortran.
For instance, a recent mailing by Michael Metcalf to both lists presents a useful summary of the status of the Fortran world. Here are some highlights:
WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A FORTRAN 90 COMPILER? 23 compilers were described, and instruction provided on obtaining them. OTHER USEFUL PRODUCTS 16 similarly described. WHAT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE? 59 Titles, some with a paragraph description were listed. The language breakdown was: English: 32 Chinese: 1 Dutch: 1 Finnish: 1 French: 10 German: 10 Japanese: 1 Russian: 2 Swedish: 1 WHERE CAN I OBTAIN COURSES, COURSE MATERIAL OR CONSULTANCY? 19 References total 13 U.S. 5 Europe 1 Japan WHERE CAN I FIND THE FORTRAN AND HPF STANDARDS? 6 Locations
To join any mailbase list see: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
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CUG Origin2000 Workshop
> MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT - CUG Origin2000 Workshop > > October 11-13, 1998, Denver, Colorado > (check www.cug.org) > > Where and When > -------------------- > The second Cray User Group Origin2000 Workshop will be held in Denver, > Colorado beginning on Sunday, October 11 and ending at noon on Tuesday, > October 13, 1998. If you went to the meeting last Fall, you will not want > to miss this one. If you have any interest in the Origin2000 at all, you > need to attend this meeting. > > Registration > -------------- > The registration form will be available on line at www.cug.org > > Conference Program > ------------------------ > The meeting will be one-track, for two and one half days high in > technical content, with much more customer content than our last > Origin2000 workshop and will include tutorials each morning. > > For Assistance, Contact > --------------------------- > Gary Jensen, > Local Arrangements Chair > National Center for Supercomputing Applications > 5598 Colt Dr. > Longmont, Colorado 80503 USA > (1-503) 530-0354<BR> > firstname.lastname@example.com > > OR > > Bob Winget, Office Manager > Cray User Group Office > 2911 Knoll Road > Shepherdstown, WV 25443 USA > (1-304) 263-1756 > firstname.lastname@example.com >
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ ARSC permits of the "chaining" of NQS jobs, as long as the new job goes to the end of the queues. This can increase system utilization. Put another way, at the end of your qsub script, you may include a qsub call which submits your next job--provided that jobs in all other queues, including lower priority queues, get a chance to run first. What is a safe method to implement such chaining which is fair to other users? }} First off, we strongly recommend against self-resubmitting, or recursive, qsub scripts. In the past we've seen these get into infinite recursive loops, where the job resubmitted itself over and over, filled the system logs and bogged things down until someone noticed and killed the job. A safe approach is to chain a small number of discrete jobs together. For instance, job_A.script does its normal work, then calls job_B.script job_B.script " " " " " " job_C.script job_C.script " " " " " " job_D.script job_D.script " " " " and terminates. Although this is safe, it can be unfair to other users. If the jobs all ran in a high-priority queue, for instance, no other queues would have a chance. One solution is shown below. The "qalter -l mpp_p=0" command releases the job's PEs. But, unfortunately, "qalter" doesn't trigger NQS to reevaluate the queues and attempt to use the released PEs. Thus, the script itself submits a null job, which does trigger a rescan. The job then sleeps for 20 seconds, plenty of time for NQS to notice that PEs are available and start any waiting job that might fit. It's then okay for the job to submit the next "real" job in the chain. job_A.script ------------------ [... normal qsub options and script for job_A...] # This appears at the very end of the script qalter -l mpp_p=0 # Release this job's PEs qsub do_nothing.script # A new submission forces NQS rescan sleep 20 # Let waiting jobs start qsub job_B.script # Submit next job in chain Here's the null job. do_nothing.script ------------------ #QSUB -q mpp # This will run in the single queue echo "This script did nothing, and ran at: " date Q: The Portland Group high-performance fortran compiler, pghpf, exists on this T3E... but when I run "man pghpf" I get this: yukon$ man pghpf cmd-2494 man: No manual entry for pghpf. Isn't there a man page? What's the story?
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Looming federal cuts would affect Meals on Wheels
Beloit Meals on Wheels served 23,203 meals in 2011
BELOIT, Wis. - With a deadline looming for $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts, thousands of seniors are at risk of losing the daily meal from programs like Meals on Wheels.
Unlike the federal breakfast and lunch programs provided to school children, the programs that provide meals for seniors are not protected from the automatic cuts scheduled to go into effect on Friday.
That has a lot of people concerned.
"I just don't think we need to be pitting children's programs against seniors' programs. The seniors deserve the same protection the children's programs are receiving," said Marcy Berner-Reedy, executive director of Beloit Meals on Wheels.
In 2011, Beloit Meals on Wheels served 23,203 meals compared to 20,980 in 2010.
Kathy Gove, of Beloit, uses a wheelchair and said a lack of strength in her arms prevents her from cooking.
"To reach the stove or anything is almost impossible anymore, so the Meals on Wheels are very helpful and they're very good," Gove said.
Ross Thomas is one of more than 500 volunteers who help keep the program rolling. He takes time away from his job as general manager at the Culver's in Beloit to deliver meals. He doesn't get paid or reimbursed for miles.19115992
"Having some of the funding taken away just puts a bigger strain on the community," Thomas said.
Berner-Reedy said the federal funding for Beloit Meals on Wheels last year remained the same despite there being a 10 percent increase in folks needing help.
"We're serving between 77 and 80 people a day, and some of our clients also receive the evening meal, so that translates to about 100 meals a day," she said.
About 20 percent of the group's funding comes from the federal government. The rest is from donations.
"We'll be doing more with less. We'll be working harder," Berner-Reedy said. "We'll be asking our community to step in, step up to the plate and working as hard as we can to ensure there aren't any waiting lists."
She said funding cuts could hurt the group's ability to provide meals seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Janice Woerth is also a client of Meals on Wheels. She said her daughter-in-law brings her food from time to time, but she primarily relies on the program.
"I wouldn't starve to death if I didn't have you people, but this is so much easier," Woerth said.
Without Meals on Wheels, seniors such as Gove would have to rely on what she can make with her microwave or simple things like sandwiches.
"You wouldn't be getting the nutritional meals that you get now," Gove said.
According to the director for Beloit's program, Wisconsin received more than $14 million in federal funds through the Older Americans Act nutrition funds. Just a 5 percent cut could mean a loss of more than 560,000 meals for programs across the state.
To raise money for Beloit's program, the group is hosting its annual March for Meals fundraiser. It kicks off at 10 a.m. Friday at Culver's, 2676 Cranston Rd. in Beloit. A percentage of the day's proceeds will benefit the program. For details, go to beloitmealsonwheels.org.
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You are most welcome to come and stay in an enjoyable atmosphere with excellent facilities, in a fabulous location with an accommodating host, who is willing to show travellers' all the best that Brighton has to offer!.The house which is in the Upper Lewes Road area of Brighton is excellently located for all the shops and buses of both Lewes Road and London Road, which are both 5 minutes walk away. It is also extremely convenient for the train station and town centre. Both Lewes Road and London Road are flat areas of Brighton, and Upper Lewes Road is up a gentle slope, so you don't have to worry about having to climb a hill to get to the house. Brighton city centre and the Lanes and Seafront are almost on the doorstep, 10-15min walk away, where a vast array of bars, restaurants and shops can be found. One can dine out at some of the best restaurants Brighton has to offer or simply grab a bite to eat in one of the many pubs or cosy cafe bars. There you will find an extensive range of high street shops, designer boutiques, bars, cafes, the famous Lanes, Brighton Pavilion and many other tourist attractions. Brighton station is also around 10-15 minutes' walk away, which makes it a great base for sightseeing in London, which is only 50 minutes away by train. Staying in Upper Lewes Road, everything is on your doorstep. There are cafes and eateries/restaurants to suit every taste in Lewes Road and the local general stores stay open until 10pm every night.
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Comings and Goings is a blog written by Theology, Formation, and Evangelism Director Charles B. "Chip" Hardwick as he travels throughout the church. God is on the move out and about in the world, working to redeem all things in Jesus Christ. As we join this mission, by the power of the Spirit we see God on the move. This blog contains glimpses of how Chip finds this to be true in his comings and goings.
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This past weekend I visited the Presbytery of Palo Duro, which extends from the panhandle down to north central Texas. They invited me to preach and to lead a conversation about the proposed new translation to the Heidelberg Catechism, one of the many statements of faith in the PC(USA)'s Book of Confessions. (This book would be more salacious but a lot less helpful if it were actually a collection of confessions of what Presbyterians have done wrong over the years, rather than this compilations of what we believe.)


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Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a genetic disorder that affects nerves, muscles, other organs, and behavior. It slowly gets worse over time.
MLD; Arylsulfatase A deficiency; Leukodystrophy - metachromatic
MLD is usually caused by the lack of an important enzyme called arylsulfatase A (ARSA). Because this enzyme is missing, chemicals called sulfatides build up in the body and damage the nervous system, kidneys, gallbladder, and other organs. In particular, the chemicals damage the protective sheaths that surround nerve cells.
The disease is passed down through families (inherited). You must get a copy of the defective gene from both your parents to have the disease. Parents can each have the defective gene, but not have MLD. A person with 1 defective gene is called a "carrier."
Children who inherit only 1 defective gene from 1 parent will be a carrier, but usually will not develop MLD. When 2 carriers have a child, there is a 1 in 4 chance that the child will get both genes and have MLD.
MLD occurs in about 1 in 40,000 people. There are 3 forms of the disease. The forms are based on when the symptoms begin:
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There is no cure for MLD. Care focuses on treating the symptoms and preserving the patient's quality of life with physical and occupational therapy.
Research is studying ways to replace the missing enzyme (arylsulfatase A).
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MLD is a severe disease that gets worse over time. Eventually people lose all muscle and mental function. Life span varies depending on what age the condition started, but the disease course usually runs 3 to 20 years or more.
People with this disorder are expected to have a shorter than normal lifespan. The earlier the age at diagnosis, the more quickly the disease progresses.
Genetic counseling is recommended if you have a family history of this disorder.
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Family: Fringillidae, Finches view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has black forecrown and throat, rosy wing coverts, rosy edges to flight feathers, and rosy rump and belly. Interior breeders (ssp. tephrocotis) have gray rear crown and warm brown cheeks, breast, and streaked back. Coastal breeders (ssp. littoralis aka "Hepburn's") are similar, but cheeks, as well as rear crown, are gray. Bering Sea island breeders also have gray cheeks, but back and breast, are blackish brown. ADULT FEMALE Similar to respective subspecies male, but paler overall; pink elements of plumage are less intense. JUVENILE Brown overall, with pale edges to wing feathers.
Dimensions Length: 5 3/4-6 3/4" (15-17 cm)
Habitat Locally common in suitable open ground habitats, particularly tundra. Interior breeders nest above treeline from central Alaska to northern Rockies, while coastal breeders nest from northwestern Alaska to Oregon; both subspecies move south for winter, typically found at high elevations. Bering Sea island birds are resident.
Observation Tips Fairly easy to find in summer at edges of melting snow.
Range Alaska, Plains, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, California, Southwest, Northwest
Voice Song is a descending series of call-like whistles; call is a harsh chew.
Discussion Hardy finch that favors Arctic or alpine habitats. Forms flocks outside breeding season and often searches for seeds at edge of snowfields. In flight, all birds show very pale flight feathers on underwing. All birds have black bills in summer, yellow in winter. Several subspecies exist, separable on plumage differences, range, and habitat. Sexes are separable.


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| It might be tough to believe, but there was a time in American history when so many people were making Jell-O-based salads that the company felt compelled to release a product that was specifically intended to encase vegetables. Ads for celery-flavored Jell-O showed elaborate Bundt-style molds of green Jell-O, with everything from pecans to tomato wedges to olives, cucumber, tuna, and hard-boiled eggs suspended within. But it wasn't just celery; the brand also released mixed vegetable, seasoned tomato, and 'Italian' Jell-Os. Thankfully we've come far enough as a society that savory Jell-O is no longer a thing.
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| Back in those heady 1970s, everything was about convenience. Just look at Reddi-Whip. Why spend the time to whip your own cream when you could just shake a can and deposit it directly into your face? The bold individuals behind the now-ubiquitous can of whipped cream had an arguably just-as-brilliant idea a couple years later — why not do the same thing, but for BACON? If they could figure out a way to speed the process of making bacon, they knew that'd have a winner on their hands, so they decided to invent a process that allowed you to make bacon in your toaster. All you had to do was pop a packet of the foil-wrapped processed meat into your toaster, wait a few minutes, and enjoy piping hot Reddi-Bacon. What could possibly go wrong? A lot of things, apparently: An absorbent pad in the packet intended to soak up the grease tended to leak inside the toaster, creating an obvious fire hazard as well as a greasy toaster. The product was pulled before being released nationally.
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| The reputable E.J. Heinz company stooped to what might be an all-time low in 2000, when they introduced a new ketchup, one that tasted just like the original but was a sickly shade of green. The stuff actually sold well at the time, and purple and blue ketchup soon followed. But the novelty quickly wore off as kids realized that blue ketchup just wasn't super-cool, especially if you were just trying to put a condiment on a burger. By 2006, purple ketchup was all but a memory.
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Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
This episode could be the setup for one of the best Clone Wars story arcs...ever!
I won't be able to see this episode until it goes online tomorrow, but Dave Filoni has said that the rest of the season contains probably the best (or at least his favorite) work they've done on the show. It'll be nice to have some heavy episodes after the D-Squad fluff. And from the looks of the previews, this takes place right after "Revival," which technically was the start of a four-part arc until it was moved to the season premiere.
It was just good to see the show recover from "Jedi Babies" and "Dipsey Droids"...the season had become unwatchable. This episode was a good step back away from that....I'm not a fan of Maul's "resurrection", but this episode jad enough going for it to pique my interest again...


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RALEIGH, N.C. – The Wahl Watch ended Saturday, and so did Binghamton's season.
In what may have been his final appearance at Ole Miss, projected first-round draft pick Bobby Wahl pitched for the first time in two weeks and did so successfully – albeit in a somewhat different manner – as he helped the Rebels stay alive in the Raleigh Regional with an 8-4 win over No. 4 seed Binghamton before 2,069 fans at Doak Field.
No. 2 seed Ole Miss staved off elimination and advances to face William & Mary at noon CST today in another elimination game. The winner will face top seed North Carolina State later today.
Binghamton (30-25) erased a 2-0 deficit with single runs in the third and sixth innings. Ole Miss went back in front in the seventh and took command in the eighth with four runs. Austin Anderson was 4-for-5 to lead the Rebels (38-23).
Wahl had not pitched since the final day of the regular season at LSU when he lasted a season-low 22⁄3 innings.
He went into the Binghamton game with an opponents' batting average of .189, but Binghamton had eight hits and hit .296 against him.
Wahl went seven innings – 100 pitches – and gave up only two runs, because he minimized his walks, just two, which have sometimes been a problem.
Wahl improved to 10-0, just the third Ole Miss pitcher under Mike Bianco to win 10 games in a season.
"The year that Bobby's had, as inconsistent as we've played throughout the year, he's been about the most consistent thing on this team," Bianco said.
"I felt good. In any big game I like to take the ball and give the team a chance to win," Wahl said. "I didn't have my best stuff today, but everybody on our defensive side played great, and Austin had a huge day."
Pre-regional speculation centered on a possible matchup between Wahl and North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon in Saturday's second round. William & Mary nixed that plan with its 4-2 win over the Rebels in Friday's opener.
Bianco said he never considered anyone but Wahl to throw against Binghamton.
"After him not pitching last week, and the way we played yesterday, I knew the pressure would be on today. The kids would feel it, and you have to win today to move on," Bianco said.
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friendly and spoke English. I woke up to a beautiful sight of colorful
flowers. There was a lot of fruit for breakfast, which I ate with
people from my program. Then we had some orientation with our program
We left in the afternoon for Monteverde, where
we're staying for the week. Total there are around 12 people in the
program. I was surprised because this is MUCH smaller than my group to
Spain, which was like 40 students.
We arrived in Monteverde
around 6pm. I met my host family: the dad is 50 yrs old, the mom is
27, one daughter is 4, and the other daughter is 1 yr old. I thought
it was strange that the dad was 50 and the mom 27, but I've been told
that this is more common in Latin America than in the US. Either way,
they are both very friendly and attentive to their children.
My first night, I ate soup that had chicken, chick peas, and rice. It was very good.
Note: Costa Ricans call themselves "Ticos," so that's how I will refer to them
Day 2 (Tuesday):
-Breakfast was toast and mango
-I walked to the Monteverde Institute with 2 girls from my program, it was a 20 minute walk
-Monteverde is absolutely beautiful, nature there is so untouched and hermosa
-The morning was just a lot of orientation] to the program. We had a break and at fruit and pastries.
-We had lunch and the rest of the afternoon was orientation
----The official religion is Catholicism, but a lot of people are not
religious. And other religions do exist here. Buddhists have their
own organization of Costa Rican Buddhists (a lot of Chinese have
immigrated here). And there is one big Mosque in San Jose. Also, the
city of Monteverde was actually founded by American Quakers in the
1950s.For us as students, having an official religion essentially means
that the professor is not obligated to provide us with information for
classes we missed due to non-Catholic religious absences.
----Homosexuality is not accepted here. But the younger generation is growing up more tolerant
Ricans are more open about being what we call politically incorrect.
If you're black, you'll be referred to (at some point) as negro, if you
look Asian, you'll be referred as "Chino." If you look white, you're
"gringo." And Ticos assume that all Gringos are from the U.S., not
England, Germany, etc. (the same as how many American think all Latinos
are from Mexico or Puerto Rico) Also, they assume that all
Asian-looking people are Chinese (which we do in the US too,
hahaha).Costa Rica has a lot of problems with Nicaraguan immigrants.
-----Due to the continuing political problems in Nicaragua, many immigrate to
their neighbor down south, Costa Rica. Most Nicaraguans come over
uneducated and with their children, who often times don't attend
school. When I asked my host parents about the situation, my madre
said that Nicaraguans come over but do not try to change their culture
to match that of the Ticos. My padre said that it was just a very
complicated situation. Essentially, the problems Costa Rica has with
Nicaraguan immigrants are the same exact problems that the US has with
Mexican immigrants. In fact, during orientation when we were talking
about US stereotypes of Mexicans, and I'm talking a general stereotype that not everyone has, (lazy, drink all the time, uneducated,
can't speak the language, etc.), one of the Costa Rican directors said
that those are the same stereotypes that Ticos have regarding
Nicaraguans (nicknamed "Nicas," which is considered a derogatory term)
-I returned home around 6pm. The walk is easy and straight forward, you just follow one main road.
-Dinner, was something baked, my madre used some type of vegetable that
looked like a potato only longer, a little thinner and more twisted.
It was pretty good, we had salad too.
-I went to bed around 10pm
Day 3:
-Today was exciting because we explored the Rainforest! We went
through a company called "Sky Walk." There was a misunderstanding and
we as a group ended up going by ourselves. We thought we were going
with a professor, but we weren't suppose to. By the time we
understood what was going on and had reached the Sky Walk, the guided
tour was gone. We explored on our own buy got lost along the path and
had to turn around half way through. But we made it the bridges.
-They were hanging bridges, and while secure, still wabbled as you'd
think they would, so it was a little bit scary. But we got to see
monkeys. Overall, the trip was fun and we saw a lot of interesting
things. The rainforest is exactly as I'd thought it would be. Lots
of plants, very wet, and beautiful.
-In the afternoon we started
our "intensive" Spanish classes. I didn't think it was very
intensive, we went over some basic things and then got into groups and
wrote a fairy tale play after listening to Beauty and the Beast in
Spanish. For homework I finished reading some children story. It was
about a little black boy in Africa (he was often referred to as "el
negrito" [that mean "the little black one"] in the story) exploring the
jungle. Then a cruise boat comes to his lands and he is mesmerized by
a little white girl. That's basically what happened in the chapter I
read. Apparently, the author is very famous and this is a well-known
-Very tired, I went to be around 8:30pm (I had gotten up at 6am)
Day 4:
-More Spanish classes. I'm not sure why they are called intensive because I think they're really easy.
-In the afternoon, some people and I went back to the rainforest to do
the Sky Trek, which is zip lining over the rainforest. At first, I was
very nervous because it was very windy. But it was lot of fun.
we were is called the Cloud Forest because you're actually zip lining
in the clouds, which is not as amazing as it sounds. That is to say, you don't even realize you're in a cloud until you really think about it. Hahaha, it's like we all thought it'd be magical and that there'd be like fairies and sparkles flying around saying "You are in a cloud!" But really it's just a thick fog. I didn't realize we were in a cloud until the second time I zip-lined (there were 10 zip lines in all)
-After zip lining, I went on the internet to look up classes.
-At home, we had pasta and meat sauce for dinner.
-Bed at around 9:30pm
Day 5 (Friday)
-Final day of Spanish classes during orientation. We listened to some Spanish songs
-After looking at classes again, I went home to help my host mother
cook for a fiesta the program was going to have at the institute. We
made "pudding de maizana" it looked lik flan with raisins. It was
pretty good.
-The fiesta was fun and I met other students' families.
Day 6:
went on a horseback riding tour of the rainforest. It was fun, but I
spent most of the time paying attention to the horse as opposed to
enjoying the scenery because it was a bumpy ride.
-We were at a dairy farm and some of us made cheese :)
-Then we went to another farm where they showed us sugar canes and coffee plants, explaining how sugar and coffee were made.
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When he sings of "Babies in the Mill," he sounds utterly convincing. After all, he had to leave school in fourth grade to join his sister at work in a South Carolina mill. Dorsey Murdock Dixon was born in a mill town at the close of the 19th century, the first son in a family of seven. His long career as a textile worker began at the age of 12, but that seemed pretty good compared to his sister Nancy, who had begun work as a spinner at eight, making less than 50 cents a week. His younger brother Howard Dixon went into the mills at ten and worked there until his death in 1961. During the first World War the brothers worked as signalmen on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. But they lost this job in 1919 and had no alternative but the mills. At about 14, Dorsey Dixon began to learn both the guitar and violin. The brothers formed a fiddle and guitar duet a bit more than a year later when Howard Dixon taught himself guitar, pulling the copycat routine that little brothers are known for. The duo began gigging at local functions around Rockingham, NC, where the family had relocated.
But this early musical background is not setting the stage for a tale of a youthful musical overachiever. Actually, both of the Dixon Brothers continued the daily grind of the mills. Dorsey did not write his first song until he was 32, "The School House Fire," Howard set the words to the tune of the standard hymn "Life's Railway to Heaven" and an original vocal duet was completed. Dorsey began to think he had a real talent for composition, especially if it meant creating songs embodied with the deep feelings of an exhausted, frustrated millworker. Indeed, he had a real gift for bringing the world of the mill to life in a song and created classic labor songs, such as "Hard Times in Here," "Weave Room Blues," and "Factory Girl." Of course his most famous song was "Wreck on the Highway," a hit for the pint-sized Roy Acuff and a bona fide country classic. The Dixons first attracted attention with their music through 1934 broadcasts as the Dixon Brothers on Charlotte's WBT radio . The brothers recorded material in Charlotte and Rock Hill in the '30s, and also made more recent recordings under the supervision of folk song collector Gene Earle in the early '60s. Some of the Dixon Brothers titles were originally released as the Rambling Duet. Dorsey Dixon also recorded as a duet with his wife Beatrice Dixon. The Southern Culture Center for Study of the South prepared an autobiographical text on Dorsey's life, appropriately entitled I Don't Want Nothin' 'Bout My Life Wrote Out, Because I Had It Too Rough in Life: Dorsey Dixon's Autobiographical Writings. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi


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Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax (4.26.09)
Speaking of which, there were some very funny and illuminating comments on yesterday's post, not all of them unintentional. One of them was from Mr. Bardo, who expressed the sentiment that my post reflected proof of my "projectile nature" in suggesting that he was in any way angry at me:
"No. The strongest emotion I've felt towards you is annoyance, the kind of irritation one feels when conversing with a fundamentalist, where you know that no true dialogue is possible. Usually you lack a dynamic, open quality of thought, as if the world is exactly how YOU think it is.... So yeah, you annoy me, but you don't anger me. Is that adequate clarification?"
First of all, this suggests that Jonny has a co-dependent relationship with me, and that he is addicted to being my "enabler" -- otherwise, he would simply leave me and find a healthier relationship with a blogger who is not an abusive and genocidal madman.
But leaving that asnide, if what he says is true, then the situation is even worse than I had thought, because Jonny characterized me as a hateful, acid-spewing, demonic, and genocidal egomaniac, and yet, now says he feels no hostility toward me. First of all, let us stipulate that either I am or am not as he describes me. If I am, then it would be appropriate for any normal person to feel anger toward me. Indeed, they would be abnormal if they did not.
But if I am not as he so describes, then he is clearly engaged in projection, because otherwise there is no way to account for all that acid-spewing, genocidal hatred that exists in the space between us. After all, it came from somewhere -- specifically, either from his mind or from mine.
In Bion's terminology, there is clearly an "h link" between Jonny and I, but he denies it, which is something that passive-aggressive leftists and new ageists do, but only habitually. This is rooted in the commonplace observation that anger is converted to paranoia in the unconscious mind. For a child, when they get very angry at the parent, they unconsciously imagine that the parent will retaliate. The parent becomes monstrously frightening in the exact degree to which the child is angry.
Thus, for example, the more angry the deranged left gets at President Bush, the more their fears of him become detached from reality. They imagine that he is spying on them, or that he is constantly questioning their patriotism, or that he invaded Iraq in order to somehow enrich his wealthy friends, or that he is stealing elections, or "raping the planet," or that he is a "Christian fascist" who is going to take over the country, etc., etc.
Similarly, Jonny's grotesque distortion of me can only be the result of an unconscious process of which he is unaware. This is why the repetitious advice of the troll who calls himself Interlocutor is not just silly and misguided but dangerous:
"My basic beef with Bob is his allowance and accomodation of hate into the spiritual life, against the advice of all teachers. He will not desist from this view.... Recant, Bob. State for all of your raccoons: 'Hate is a wrong movement; it has no place in the spiritual life.'"
Here is another person who projects his anger into me, and then insists that I "recant," which, trancelighted, means that he wishes for me to magically "cleanse" him of his hatred. I can do this, but he will have to come to my office and pay me for the service. It's called psychotherapy. Together we will work through his transference reaction to me, until such a time as he can "own" his hostility. Once he does so, he will not be less healthy and spiritually balanced, but more healthy and integrated. It is foolish to think that spiritual development involves denial of basic human emotions.
Rather, as always, it depends upon the use to which the emotion is put (there is also a vertical "subtilization" of emotions that occurs with spiritual growth, but that is the topic of another post). It is good to feel anger toward what is bad or evil. In fact, without such feelings, you would be completely paralyzed in this world, unable to make the simplest decision in life.
For as Bion said, if you cannot suffer pain, you cannot suffer pleasure. In other words, denial is not a subtle defense mechanism, as if you could surgically remove one small part of yourself that you don't like. It is more like a "dumb bomb" that causes a lot of collateral damage, taking out a range of feelings that inform you about the moral dimension of the world. This is why all Coons will have noticed that these peace-and-love new age types always come across as so two-dimensional, phony and sanctimonious, whereas, say, Jesus comes across as a fully three-dimensional person with his unapologetic righteous anger and other emotions fully in tact, to say the least.
Brother, if you are an evil-doer, who, for whatever reason, opposes the Good -- or even if you are just a garden-variety fink -- a Coon will smite you where you stand with a flaming sword that is sharp and true. And, if you are a basically decent person who retains an uncorrupted soul, you will some day say thank you, sir, may I have another?!
Now, the peripathetic vagrabond Sir Te, who must camp out at our blog until he finds employment and gets a blog of his own, says that he has spent a virtual lunchtime studying philosophy, and yet, never stumbled across the idea that a classical liberal believes that knowledge of truth constitutes the mind's freedom. Perhaps it is because this superb wisdom is not to be found in the pages of the Hitchhiker's Guide to My Cousin's Converted Garage, or in the Tao te Schmendrick (we kid -- I am sure you are a harmless nebbish).
Perhaps no rabbi or classical liberal ever expressed it thus, but it is simply the B'ob extrapolating what they said in order to demonstrate the common assumption underlying classical liberalism. Yes, that's probably it.
Because the question is, "what is freedom for?" I happen to know what it is for, and I am a classical liberal. Therefore, past classical liberals must agree with me in essence, even if they never explicitly expressed it in the same way. For the eternal Coon Wisdom is One, although the sages call it by many names.
You will notice right off the moonbat that I do not waste a moment -- well, just this one -- debating whether or not free will exists (or where it came from, for that matter) for it self-evidently does. Even -- or, shall we say, especially -- someone who argues that free will does not exist must, in order to be consistent, believe that he is not free to believe what he believes, but is compelled to do so. Therefore we can ignore him, and not even waste the energy it would take to smite him with our rod of iron.
It is no coincidence that the same people who have undermined the concept of free will have carried on a brazen assault on the quintessentially human capacity to know truth (you can call them whatever you want -- I call them "leftists"). For although truth is defined as that which we are compelled to believe, if we do not arrive at it freely, then it cannot be truth.
For this reason, truth cannot be reduced to mere reason, for reason can only operate in a mechanistic way on the materials it is given. And this is precisely why there is such a riot of diverse opinions among the so-called "wise" of our day and age, for they are like children playing with one of the means of truth but unacquainted with -- indeed, even hostile to -- its transcendent Source.
I am currently reading a very good book entitled Light From the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, and it is amazing to me how early this truth was known by Christian men -- but only because they were Christian men who knew the secret equation, A + J = R, or Athens + Jerusalem = Reality. (By the way, I cannot yet unreservedly raccoomend the book, but only because I just started it.)
There are some Christians who deplore the early fathers' mixing of scripture and Greek thought, but this is a very narrow-minded and ultimately dysfunctional view. First of all, it places an unnatural antagonism between religion and science or philosophy, when there can be no such antagonism.
Rather, properly understood, theology easily accommodates -- and will always accommodate -- any partial truth disclosed by science. Since science is simply the exploration and mapping of God's creation, this is something that should go without saying, but unfortunately, it doesn't. But the founders of Christianity were well aware of the fact. They had a great appreciation of science and pagan philosophy ("Athens"), while at the same time recognizing their limitations and the superiority of revelation, or God's Word. They were hardly "anti-intellectuals," but "hyper-" -- or shall we say "trans-" -- intellectuals. These were men of uncommon genius (thank God). At risk of tarring them with a featherweight term, they were the true integralists.
To cite just one example, Nesteruk writes that Clement of Alexandria "is considered the founder of Christian theology as understood in its modern setting as knowledge about God." His fundamental innovation was "the transfer of the language and methods of philosophy to the realm of faith." Among other things, he recognized truth "as something that embraces all, that includes all particular kinds of truth. Truth is one, and it is God's truth."
Truth is something which is "hidden" within philosophy, but philosophy alone can never disclose the full truth of which it is a mere vehicle. There is often a sad longing for truth in Greek philosophy -- even an intimation of its full revelation -- but it simply lacked the means to fully disclose it. That had to await the full embodiment of truth, in such a way that the divine and human worlds recovered their primordial oneness.
As Clement put it, Greek and Hellenic philosophy tore off "a fragment of truth from the theology of the ever-living Word," but a person who brings the fragments together and makes them one "will without peril, be assurred, contemplate the perfect Word, the truth."
Clement articulated plain Coon wisdom when he wrote, (as expressed by Nesteruk) that "the faith that is true knowledge of revelation becomes a more scientific faith when supported by philosophy, and in this way becomes gnosis." One persistent troll has criticized my approach, as if I should be engaged in some explicit political action. But before there can be any righteous and sustainable political action, it must be founded upon truth.
Furthermore, the contemporary Christian must not only be able to confidently and lucidly respond to what passes for the fashionable worldly wisdom of the day, but to confront the enemies of Christianity with superior arguments, something which is eminently possible. What is the alternative, being a clown like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, so people will go on thinking that such bozos are somehow representative of the intellectual depths of Christianity?
Clement pointed out something that would not be logically proven until Godel's theorems in the 20th century, that it requires an act of faith in order to employ first principles of any kind, whether "scientific" or religious. For example, if your first principle is that only empirical knowledge is possible, your first principle cannot be proven empirically. Rather, you take it on faith. Nor can natural selection prove that natural selection is responsible for the human mind, any more than DNA can prove that it holds the secret of life.
Clement concludes that "knowledge is a state of mind that results from demonstration; but faith is a grace which from what is indemonstrable conducts to what is universal and simple, something that is neither with matter, nor matter, nor under matter."
Frankly, it is one cosmos under god, but you knew that already. In any event, you will have to forgive me, not just for having written this unnecessary book, but because I'm just getting warmed up, and now His Majesty is stirring.... and then I have to get ready for my non-dei gig. To be continued, cosmic weather permitting....


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I can attest that the X-factor is indeed very stable. I use it with a poling platform and I flyfish the flats from it. Not everyone can achieve what I do from it, but everyone can easily stand on the lower deck.
A kayak can be very uncomfortable, especially if it is undersized, has a wet ride and is not stable. It is better if you can try one before you buy. As a personal choice, I remove everything I do not need on a yak that could snag my fly line or prevent me to move around easily: this includes the back rest.
Here is a list of kayaks that are very versatile (all SOT). Not the fastest, but speed is not all you need.
Ocean kayak drifter, prowler
Malibu X-factor and X-treme
Wilderness system ride and tarpon 14
Cobra kayaks fish & Dive
Heritage MArquesa.
I prize a lot the MArquesa. It is fast for a boat that wide and short, tracks really well, and is very stable. It is very dry too and the hull is very hard (= very responsive hull and tough).
I like also the WS ride (but it does have some hull slap: nver prevented me to catch bones in shallow water though). The X factor is big and is best to be used with someone heavy (I weigh 155 pounds).
|Greg Pavlov
What I find most uncomfortable sitting in the kayak is having my legs
almost completely straight out in front of me: my joints don't take that
very well any longer, at least not for more than 10-20 minutes at a time.
A kayak I've thought about that potentially helps
overcome that particular problem but that has others of its own is one
called the "X-Factor." You'll find it on the kayak "stuff" site. It appears
to be stable enough that you could put in a seat 4-5 inches off the
bottom. But this kayak is on the heavy side and while not among the
slowest, will not set any speed records.
Re your basement: if the only thing that is rotten is that one board,
I suspect that the repair may be much simpler than you might imagine.
Two or three jacks, some 2X8s or 2X10s for temporary beams, and
some new wood might do the trick. But I'm not an engineer, and I'd
talk to one before doing anything myself, if it were me.
|Weather you get a SOT or Sink it's the seat that causes the discomfort. Most yak shops sell padding that makes sitting in the yak more comfortable. I second the site that was in the pm even thought I own a Sink. Each style of yak has advantages. Try before you buy. I was set on one brand of yak until I tried my Necky Santa Cruz. She's a fast seaworthy craft with a large cockpit but not so large as to be a problem. Handles nasty weather just fine. Just my .02FishHawk
|Dble Haul
I found a Kayak as a great way to get to new spots that you can't access easily by wading. Sometimes just getting accross a channel to the other side can make a big difference. I found it is tough to fish out of one for more than 4-5 hours at a time without getting out and walking around.
I think you'll find a SOT style as a bit safer for fishing, but many fish with no problems in a sit-in style. There are lots of nice kayaks to choose from, best to try some out before buying one.
Heritage makes a "fishing" kayak that seems cheap and light. It won't paddle like the sleeker ones, but it would be a good way to check things out, and it only weighs 45#.
Or maybe rent one from EMS for a weekend.
I would rather fish out of a canoe, but they can get blown around. Best for flatter water and a partner.
Just google "Kayak fishing" and look at the first non-sponsored link that talks about "Stuff".
Not sure if a kayak is in the cards for me this year. I was cleaning the basement and noticed some sawdust looking stuff on the floor. I pulled down some of the ceiling insulation and a bunch of the wood is wet and rotting. There were some ants and beetle looking bugs. The wood is the cap plate on top of the foundation. I'd guess it's going to be expensive to fix.
|Taste plays a role, I much prefer to get out and just use the yak for transportation. If the fish would not cooperate of course I would fish from it where I had to. It' certainly was not as pleasant as standing on two feet for me but hooking up was more fun than standing on the shore looking at the distant blitz. The Nantucket Sleigh ride is very fun, in fact every one I've ever seen including myself can't help but get a little giddy while being towed by a fish
The rest of us would like to see too.
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|I sent you some info in a PM.
How comfortable is fishing in a kayak?
I'm in the market of a boat. I'm considering either a smallish canoe or a kayak. (Something I can throw on the roof of my car by myself.) If I get a canoe I can take the kids out with me. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure they have zero interest in going so I'm also considering a kayak.
Keeping in mind that I'm getting into my mid 40's, and that I have a sedentary job so I'm a little heavier than I'd like, I'm wondering how practical it would be for someone like me to fly fish from a kayak?
I tried sitting in a kayak at a shop and it seems like a pain to get in and out of. It also seems like it would be almost impossible to remain completely dry in a kayak.
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Congress has postponed floor votes for the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills intended to increase protections for copyrighted digital content. This marked a victory for opponents who mounted landmark digital protests (BBC) to call attention to what they believe was a move to give the government sweeping powers (PCWorld) to shut down sites accused of copyright infringement. Since the future of the bills is largely in doubt, industry and lawmakers are left looking for a path forward (Politico). But the debate is not confined to the United States; digital piracy is increasingly being touted as an international trade concern by music and movie industries globally.
Content producers, such as the motion picture and recording industries, say digital piracy hurts their bottom line. On January 25, the international music industry posted a report showing digital sales of more than $5 billion in 2011. While acknowledging positive growth, the report said that digital piracy was "rigging the market for legitimate services, stunting growth and jeopardizing investment in music." But the amount of actual economic harm has been hard to quantify, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office 2010 report. It is unclear, for example, how many people currently consuming content illegally would be customers if they did not have other access.
Opponents of SOPA and PIPA argue that what is really at stake is the future of Internet companies' ability to innovate, freedom of speech, and the unfettered capability of users to share content. The takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload.com, which some analysts say could have "a chilling effect" (WSJ) on the online storage industry, seems emblematic of these concerns. As Investor Place notes, the incident has already "taken the shine off of cloud computing just as IT departments have begun to embrace the concept."
The Debate
Central to the debate is the question of to what degree online protection for digital content needs to be beefed up. Media executive Danny Goldberg says that without new legal reforms, "we will be complicit in accelerating the trend of the last decade" and harming the ability of artists to get paid. (TheNation)
But digital rights advocate Art Brodsky says that SOPA and PIPA are part of a long chain of anti-piracy laws, and that Congress should figure out the magnitude of illegal access and its relationship to economic harm before discussing new remedies. Some analysts argue that the U.S. government's shutdown of Megaupload.com and arrest of its founder, Kim Dotcom, in New Zealand (NationalPost) show that current laws already have teeth.
Policy Options
Some advocates are looking to the Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, a crowd-sourced bill in which the International Trade Commission would enforce copyrights of digital content the way it does physical goods. Meanwhile, SOPA-like measures (Wired) are being considered in countries from Brazil to Canada. Activists are particularly worried about a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement signed by the United States last year and by EU nations on January 26 (BBC). The treaty would create an international enforcement regime for piracy that might put Internet providers in the position of being criminally liable (CNN).
Tech blogger Stephen Chapman writes that "an Internet without at least some amount of piracy is an Internet that lacks some portion of the freedom it currently enjoys: the more piracy is obliterated, the more locked-down the Internet will become." Film executive John Tarnoff says that "the only way to stem piracy is to make more content more widely available at a competitive price point, and include added-value that pirates can't match."
Background Materials
Harvard's James Allworth and Maxwell Wessel argue that rather than being about piracy, the SOPA debate is really about older companies looking to protect the status quo versus startups willing to embrace change.
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Shit, it's been a long time. What was I thinking - last time I posted, I thought Linux was going to make big moves on the desktop, spread like wild fire in the enterprise, blabla.
Now I'd just like to see it in my refridgerator. If anyone knows of someone or if you are writing Linux apps for the fridge, let me know, I'd like to help out in some way. Thanks.


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After Halloween I went to two of Kansas City's famous pro-haunts: Edge of Hell and their newer haunt - Macabre Cinema. Incredible! This blog contains spoilers so if you are planning to ever visit this place...don't read past the history part.
First, some interesting background about the location of these haunts. Edge of Hell and Macabre Cinema is in the West Bottoms in Kansas City. What is the West Bottoms you ask? Here's a picture back in it's hey day:
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An impressive layered brownie mix makes the perfect gift from your kitchen to someone you love!
Tie a package of long, thin sparkler candles to the mix to really celebrate!
You can substitute 1/4 cup flavored syrup for the liqueur. Package in a small jar with screw-on lid.
Pretty jars make great containers for this mix. If you have a jar on hand and need to check its capacity, fill it with water from a 4-cup glass measuring cup.
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IDF Europe values the essential role youth play in raising awareness on diabetes. Their first-hand experience of diabetes makes them powerful advocates not only to raise awareness on this condition, but also to urge stakeholders and the general public to take action on diabetes. In addition, their broad network built through social media gives them a wide reach which can support IDF Europe's outreach.
To strenghthen its relationship with young people with diabetes, IDF Europe organizes a yearly Youth Leadership Camp with the aim of nurturing a new generation of youth advocates in diabetes and create a strong pan-European network of young leaders in diabetes.
The first IDF Europe Youth Leadership Camp was held in July 2011, and has been held every year since.
More about the IDF Europe Youth Leadership Camp
The youth camp is not a standalone event, but rather one that is integrated in IDF Europe's wide-ranging activities – including those specifically aimed at youth. The purpose is to nurture a new generation of youth advocates and to galvanize their support and knowledge for different advocacy initiatives.
As the network of European youth advocates is expanding, IDF Europe will continue to support and facilitate exchange between the young advocates, member organizations and other stakeholders in order to develop new pan-European initiatives aimed at young people living with diabetes.
2017 Youth Leadership Camp Call for Participants!
We are happy to inform you that the 7th edition of the YLC will be held on July 10th-16th in Faget- Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We thank the Federatia Romana de Diabet, Nutritie si Boli Metabolice for hosting it!
Candidates are requested to fill in application form online (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IDFEYLC2017) and to send a letter of support from their Diabetes Association to [email protected] by April 24, 2017.
As in previous years, applications will be carefully reviewed by a Selection Committee and 24 young adults aged 18-30 will be invited to participate in the YLC. Notifications will be sent early May.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by IDF Europe; participants are responsible to be fully insured for healthcare and travel. Candidates should have a good command of the English language (comprehension and speaking), as all sessions and activities will be conducted in English.
A sample programme is available HERE.
If you have any questions, send an email to [email protected].
2016 Youth Leadership Camp
Watch the 2016 Youth Leadership Video here!
From 11 to 17 July 2016 Agros (Cyprus) was the home to the 6th edition of the IDF Europe Youth Leadership Camp, organized in collaboration with the Cyprus Diabetes Association and with the support of Eli Lilly, FEND, Medtronic and Roche. (for more info click here)
2015 Youth Leadership Camp
Watch the 2015 Youth Leadership Video here!
From 13 to 19 July, 23 youth advocates from 23 countries across Europe met in the Netherlands for a week of experience-sharing and peer-to-peer learning.
During the camp, youth advocates learned about different types of advocacy, campaigning activities and strategic planning methods, and will also be introduced to the work of IDF Europe. Combining sports activities and interactive workshops, the camp is also an opportunity for the youth advocates to find out about the differences in diabetes care and daily-life realities across Europe, share their strategies on how to cope with diabetes and learn from their day-to-day triumphs and challenges.
An inevitable result of the camp is peer-to-peer learning. Back in their countries, camp participants are inspired and eager to get more involved in raising awareness of diabetes at national level with concrete projects, from creating their own youth group to developing campaigning activities.
Diabetes Youth Advocates Europe
One of the outcomes of the 2014 IDF Europe Youth Leadership Camp was the creation of the Diabetes Youth Advocates Europe (DYA Europe) community.
The project is led by youth participants from the 2014 camp, who were inspired by all the experiences they shared during the week spent together, and who were also willing to create a platform to continue exchanging information and carry out projects together once the camp was over. To learn more about DYA Europe, click here.
Videos of Past Youth Leadership Camp
Diabetes Camps Resources
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Out here at the grand. the test is going really slow. So many dogs.
Just reading this today! I will add $25 if you will still take it . Lets get him a Pro 100......Send me your email Bon
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While I was at the grand I was able to get some pics with me and my pup which I will get back here in a couple months. An thanks to all of you I will be able to continue training here with help from local club.
Awesome pics! I hope your training goes well and thank you for your service!
Chris, many thanks for your service to our Country. And many thanks to your help this past weekend at Heart of Texas RC HT. Good luck with your pup, and the new junior soldier! ; ) Holler anytime for any reason.
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The Florida Bar
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November 15, 2012
FLORIDA BAR PRESIDENT GWYNNE YOUNG recently spoke to a sold-out crowd of nearly 200 members of the Palm Beach County Bar Association on the topic of Women In the Law. Members who attended the program have a greater understanding of the challenges facing women lawyers who attempt to reach equity partnership while balancing family and personal obligations. Pictured from the left are Sia Baker-Barnes, diversity and inclusion committee co-chair; Adam Rabin, PBCBA president; Young; and Sarah Shullman, diversity and inclusion committee co-chair.
Palm Beach County Bar promotes diversity
The Palm Beach County Bar Association recently hosted its biennial diversity luncheon to raise awareness and discuss strategies for successfully promoting, retaining, and advancing female lawyers.
The luncheon featured a keynote address from Florida Bar President Gwynne Young, and a panel discussion featuring lawyers from the public and private sector, corporate counsel, and managing partners.
"It is important to hear how women attorneys can rise to leadership positions and why law firms should support them," said Sarah Shullman, diversity and inclusion committee co-chair.
Adam Rabin moderated the panel discussion, which included 15th Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg, who discussed how women can profile themselves for appointment or election to the judiciary and how women should be honest about the demands of balancing work and family. Elisa Garcia, general counsel of Office Depot, talked about why clients hire law firms that retain and promote women and other diverse attorneys and why supporting women attorneys makes good business sense.
Tracy Gerber of Greenberg Traurig discussed how women attorneys can rise to leadership positions and the importance of having a mentor and sponsor for support.
Lou Mrachek of Page, Mrachek, Fitzgerald & Rose explained how managing partners can retain women attorneys at their firms. Sia Baker-Barnes, a working mother and attorney with Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, talked about how she successfully juggles being a mother of two young children and life as a trial lawyer. Allison Kahn of Carlton Fields said flex-time attorneys can remain effective, valuable, and profitable to firms.
Young shared ways for firms can retain talented women lawyers by offering alternative work schedules and providing support for those women who seek to become equity partners.
The program was recorded in its entirety and approved for CLE credit by The Florida Bar. Copies are available on the PBCBA website at www.palmbeachbar.org or call (561) 687-2800.
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Kennedy School dean to speak on American power, May 8
Posted May 3, 2002; 02:25 p.m.
Joseph Nye Jr., dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will speak on "The Paradox of American Power" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in 46 McCosh.
Nye, who received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton in 1958, also is the Don Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he joined the faculty in 1964. He became the dean of its Kennedy School in 1995.
Nye has had a distinguished career in government as well as in academia. From 1977 to 1979, he was deputy to the undersecretary of state for security, science and technology and chair of the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In 1993 and 1994, he was chair of the National Intelligence Council and, in 1994 and 1995, served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
Nye is the author of numerous books, including "The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone" (2002). He argues that America must adopt a more cooperative engagement with the rest of the world. In the future, he believes the United States will rely less on military might and more on "soft power" -- power that comes from the appeal of our culture, values and institutions.
Nye's talk is part of a lecture series on "Current Issues in International Relations" sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and the Center of International Studies .
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