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The Student Groups feature in Canvas divides students into small groups within the course. Upon creation, student groups will have their own discussion boards, collaboration tools and calendar, making them ideal for working on group projects or other assignments.
To get to your groups, click on People in the left sidebar menu and then click on the
View User Groups button found on the top-right portion of the page.
The tutorial on this page will review how to create groups and separate students into them. If you would like to learn more about the group tools that are included in groups, please view our page on Group Tools.
To create a new set of groups, select the People tab from the course menu.
From the People page, you will be able to see all users in your course. Click the button in the upper right corner of the page reading View User Groups.
From this page, you can see all of the user groups in the course. To make a new set of groups, click the button in the upper right corner of the page reading "+ Group Set".
A window will pop up, prompting you to fill out some information about your new group set:
When you are finished, click the Save button and your new group set will be created and located as a tab at the top.
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To access the student group pages:
Within the group homepage, students are able to collaborate and work on projects, assignments, and other course-related work with the tools found in a normal Canvas course.
To create self-assigned groups, create a group set and check the box saying Allow self sign-up. This will make it so that individuals can choose their own groups. If this box is checked, you can then decide how many groups you want to create and the maximum number of students in each group. Click Save when you have finished filling out the required fields.
The groups will be created, and you will be able to see which students have signed up for a group and which students have not.
To create groups that you will manually assign, create a group set and skip over the Self Sign-Up section. Instead, under Group Structure select betwee between Split students into __ equal groups or I'll create groups manually. The first option will split students into the specified number of groups for you, while the other will allow you to choose who goes in which group.
When you have chosen, click the Save button.
Randomly generated groups will create the groups for you. Manually assigned groups require you to create groups within the set that you then add students to. To do this, go into the group set you just created and click on the "+ Group" button right underneath the blue group set button.
A window will appear where you can enter the group's name.
The group will be updated with its new name. Create all of your groups first, then add students to them. Students can be added into groups using the drag-and-drop feature. Simply select a student from the Unassigned Students column on the left and drag them into the Groups column on the right.
The student will then be listed as a member of that group. To remove students from groups, simply drag-and-drop them back into the Unassigned Students column.
If you change your mind and need to change anything about the groups, simply click the gear icon next to the "+ Group" button in the top-right portion of the page and select Edit.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Singing students Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Singing students Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject: Singing students Some of my students singing. Ah, I taught them so well, hic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFhZbX3XnE&feature=related Back to top ancient_dwellerJoined: 12 Aug 2010Posts: 415Location: Woodland Bench Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:58 am Post subject: Back to top NexusJoined: 08 Mar 2004Posts: 189Location: Moscow Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: Here's one of my students.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmkvByrDFU&list=FLVLHQTxDorrQf5KgiIuJnew&index=10&feature=plpp_video Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject: Cracking track! Back to top teacup05Joined: 14 Aug 2011Posts: 15Location: International Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject: The girls chorus singing the piece from Prince Igor was charming. It refreshes my sense of possibilities. Thanks for posting. I'm teaching at KSU in KSA right now, and we can't sing in class here. : ( On the other hand, the Smart Boards are fun. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China

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A rumbling, wind-whipping afternoon storm that passed directly over downtown Chicago brought the day's brutal 103-degree temperature plummeting down into the 80s, though the cool down didn't last long and Friday is still poised to break heat records.
About a half-hour after the fast-moving thunderstorm, the temperature at O'Hare International Airport had rebounded to 90 degrees.
"The Chicago area's temperatures are going to be much, much cooler this afternoon," said National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Castro. "It'll just be really warm and humid this afternoon. The lakefront actually cooled down to the upper 70s as the storm went over downtown Chicago."
Castro said the storm doesn't change the forecast for Friday when temperatures are expected to reach 103 degrees, possibly flirting with the city's longstanding record high of 105.
Despite the cool down, Chicagoans battled most of today with temperatures in the 100s.
Cynthia Vaughn, 39, started her day in a park in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, but decided to leave after an hour in the scorching heat.
"I noticed it was getting hotter and hotter really fast," said Vaughn, who later made her way to a Garfield Park cooling center.
More than a dozen people were in the Garfield Community Service Center looking for a break from the heat. Chairs lined the walls as people rested their heads and dozed off to the blare of a flat-screen TV.
Mark Brown, 59, said he'd likely stay at the cooling center all day because his Garfield Park home doesn't have air-conditioning.
"I've got the fan on (at home), but it don't do no good. It's still hot," he said. "I just want to get out of the heat."
The city's record 105-degree mark was set on July 24, 1934. Forecasts show the area could at least match that Friday before temperatures settle down into the 80s over the weekend.
As of 2 p.m., it was 103 at the official recording station at O'Hare International Airport, with a heat index of 105. Shortly after that, the storm hit and rain doused the bone-dry area. Some steamed tourists in downtown Chicago seemed to relish the sudden cool burst of rain, leisurely walking through it without umbrellas.
The high temperatures caused a roughly 50 percent jump in electricity usage on the Fourth of July, according to ComEd spokesman John Schoen. Today came close to breaking a peak electricity draw set on July 20, 2011.
"Our system is working just fine," Schoen said. "We've had no significant issues related to the heat. We've not had any heat related outages. We still have a few outages related to the July 1 storm. It's just about 400 in the western suburbs."
For a second time in two weeks, the heat today led to the cancellation of summer classes at 18 Chicago Public Schools buildings that do not have air conditioning.
Metra is warning riders that they may experience delays of 10 to 15 minutes because of the heat. "It is necessary to operate our trains at reduced speeds to compensate for heat-related stresses on our track, switches and signals," Metra said in a statement.
The heat has also led to road closings because pavement has buckled. Columbus Drive was closed between Balbo Drive and Roosevelt Road when a crack opened up across all lanes, apparently from the heat, Chicago police said.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has reported roads buckling and lane closures in Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Oak Brook, Hillside and Harvey. All have been fixed, but an IDOT official expects it to happen more before the extreme heat wave is over.
IDOT spokesman Guy Tridgell said extreme heat by itself can cause the buckling, but it is more common when there has been moisture, which is believed to be the case in the recent incidents.
Tridgell said no accidents directly related to the buckling have been reported.
Near Madison Street and California Avenue today, Brenda Scott, 53, tended to a steady stream of customers looking to buy snow cones.
"I just like to eat the ice," said Cynthia Williams, 44, as she picked up the cold treat.
Across the street, a group of men sat in the shade of an empty building. Sitting on a bucket, Earl Hunt, 53, said his home doesn't have air-conditioning and he worried about getting a heat stroke.
At least outside, there's a breeze, he said.
"You've got to play it safe," he said.
While the weather is rough, not even triple-digit heat could keep John Mendoza and his colleagues from tailgating this afternoon on the steamy asphalt outside U.S. Cellular Field.
Still, they took some precautions.
"We put it all the way out there," Mendoza said, pointing to a black grill about 10 feet away from his car. "It's hot enough."
At 12:30 p.m., just about 40 minutes before the first pitch, Mendoza was cleaning up his bratwursts and chips and getting ready to head into the stadium.
"We're just coping with it," he said, adding that the game against the Rangers was the hottest he'd ever been to.
Inside the park, workers were preparing to keep fans cool. White Sox employees deployed throughout the park with giant trays of ice. Fans needing a break from the heat could visit one of several cooling stations.
Theo Powell, the team's coordinator of guest services, said hot fans could ask any employee to be taken to one of those stations. The Sox also relaxed their policy of allowing only one outside drink per fan, instead letting people bring in as many sealed water bottles as they needed to stay hydrated.
Tim Knafl and his family took advantage of the looser beverage policies, carrying one grocery bag full of frozen water bottles and another full of frozen washcloths.
Doctors and emergency officials encouraged all Chicagoans to be diligent about keeping cool and hydrated.
Dr. Mark Cichon, chairman of emergency medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, said consecutive days of "oppressive" heat and humidity gradually stymies a person's ability to regulate body temperature, increasing the risk for heat-related illnesses.
"It's a cumulative problem, and if you don't address it, it will get worse," Cichon said. "People do underestimate it. They don't realize how dehydrated they become."
In addition to headaches, confusion, blurred vision and cramps, Cichon said a telltale symptom of an overheating body is a lack of sweating.
"Perspiring is the body's natural way of trying to cool off," he said. "If you're not sweating, you're in the danger zone."
Loyola officials said that as of noon on Thursday, seven people were treated at the emergency room with heat-related ailments within 24 hours, including sunburn, heat exhaustion and breathing problems.
To keep everyone healthy and safe, Cichon encouraged people to check on their neighbors and relatives.
"Let's pretend that instead of being 103 degrees outside, that there's 40 inches of snow on the ground," Cichon said. "Help your neighbors, make sure they have air conditioning, check on the elderly. Be the Chicagoan that your mother would want you to be."


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Grand County Council chairman Lynn Jackson says he has the sense that a majority of council members would now call on Congress to designate up to 390,000 acres of wilderness within the county's boundaries.
That's a step up from May 16, when five of the council's seven members suggested they would not back any recommendations that go beyond a 1999 plan for 251,000 acres of wilderness.
Although the council hasn't voted to formalize any recommendations at this point, Jackson hailed its willingness to consider more acreage as "a big move."
"We're getting closer here, guys," he said during a discussion-only July 15 workshop on Rep. Rob Bishop's public lands initiative.
Jackson previously worked alongside council members Rory Paxman and Jim Nyland on various recommendations for Bishop's consideration. But the full council only began to discuss their ideas in May, and it hasn't reached a consensus on several key issues, including a proposal to create a national recreation area near Moab.
Bishop's office is now hoping to finish a draft version of the bill later this summer, but does not plan to formalize any legislation until early winter, according to Bishop's communications director Melissa Subbotin.
The public lands initiative aims to balance conservation and development on federally managed lands across much of eastern Utah, and Bishop has said that wilderness can be used as a negotiating tool to promote development in less-sensitive areas.
The 390,000-acre figure that Jackson mentioned is still less than half as much wilderness as the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is seeking in Grand County. But Sue Bellagamba, a regional director with The Nature Conservancy, suggested that the council could "horse trade" its support for permanent protections of some areas if it wants to keep the Big Flat area near Dead Horse Point State Park open to development.
"If we give something up, we get something someplace else, and so if it's critically important that we have mineral development in that area, maybe look elsewhere to expand some conservation boundaries or something like that," Bellagamba said.
Jackson said he believes that Bellagamba is "absolutely dead-on."
"If we want a little more leeway and flexibility in the Big Flat area, we've got to consider giving up a little bit more in other areas, and that would be one area where we could give a little bit more," he said.
Paxman also voiced support for Bellagamba's idea.
"That's what I've been telling you all along," he told Jackson. "We need to do some horse trading."
Much of that "horse trading" could focus on efforts to carve out the proposed boundaries of a new national recreation area in Grand County.
On May 16, a majority of council members said they opposed the idea.
Since then, however, Grand County Council member Gene Ciarus has taken the lead on efforts to map out key recreation focus areas.
Potential designations around Big Flat remain one sticking point between Ciarus and representatives from Moab's outdoor recreation industry. But Ciarus said he sees broad support for protecting other recreation areas, including Fisher Towers, Amasa Back, Bar M and Klondike.
"I think we're pretty much in agreement except for those two little areas [around Big Flat]," Ciarus said.
Jackson said that those who pay close attention to local public lands issues have always known that the Big Flat and Gemini Bridges areas were a "problem child," given the potential for conflicting uses there.
"It's where we have high recreation; it's also where we have mineral resources left in this county to be developed," he said.
However, he suggested that ongoing efforts to resolve those challenges shouldn't stand in the council's way if it's ready to submit recommendations to Bishop's office.
"I want to plant that seed that we could move some of this forward with the message that we still have work to do in this particular area," Jackson said.
Other potential recommendations could still undergo major changes before they reach Congress.
In particular, Jackson anticipates that Bishop's bill will not include a controversial proposal to set aside land for an "enhanced transportation corridor" through Sego Canyon.
For the time being, Jackson wants to leave the proposal in place. But he predicts that a planned feasibility study of the corridor and an alternate route through Hay Canyon will find that the Sego route is not viable.
The study is not expected to be finished until Dec. 31 at the earliest, and if the results match his prediction, Jackson said that any references to the Sego Canyon corridor could be removed at that time.
Jackson is also suggesting that the council should modify an equally controversial proposal that would prevent presidents from using the federal Antiquities Act of 1906 to create new national monuments in Grand County.
As an alternative, he's recommending that Congress should instead place timing and size limitations on those powers.
"If we go back and request a complete Antiquities Act exclusion, all of this other good work could fall apart on us," Jackson said. "But I'm really concerned, too, that if we go back and do all of this hard work with no mention or no type of limitation, that we could get another big old chunk of monument, and to me, on principle, that's not the right way to do things."
Grand County Council vice chairwoman Elizabeth Tubbs said she has concerns that Antiquities Act designations would leave the community without a voice in the process.
But she believes that any decision to move forward with Jackson's recommendations would be a big one for seven council members to make.
"I feel like that's something that should go back to the community to decide," Tubbs said. "If that's what they want, then that's fine; if that's what they don't want, then that's fine."


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Forestry Lawsuit Hearing, Milk Sales Questioned
- The House Agriculture Conservation, Energy and Forestry Subcommittee held a public hearing on the impact of the Endangered Species Act and related legislation on the U.S. Forest Service.
A recent study in the Journal of Forestry examined 1,125 management cases filed against the Forest service in federal court between 1989 and 2008.
The subcommittee members examined the direct and indirect costs associated with the lawsuits and how those lawsuits have diverted budgetary resources away from healthy forest management and interfered with the underlying mission of preserving, protecting and recovering threatened and endangered species.
- The nation's dairy farmers and dairy companies have expressed their opposition to new legislation in Congress that would allow the interstate sales of raw milk, saying that any additional availability of the product will increase the number of sicknesses and deaths of people who consume it.
The International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation said that since raw milk skips the pasteurization safety process, it would be like playing Russian roulette with the health of Americans, including children.


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Nokia Maps has been bumped to version 184.108.40.206, which introduces improvements to stability and performance. When firing up the app on a Lumia Windows Phone it no longer takes noticeably longer than Bing Maps--in fact we're only seeing about a one-second speed advantage now with Bing Maps for load time.
As well as the optimizations applied, the team has reported that Microsoft also addressed the Windows Phone Store issue. Those who were hit by the "Problem with app" dialogue that persisted showed when attempting to load the application will be pleased to hear that this update addresses that very issue.
It's good to see Nokia continuing to develop and expand its services for its Lumia family of Windows Phones. The company recently announced a branding change for its mapping and location services, which will be marketed under the HERE umbrella.
You can download Nokia Maps from the Windows Phone Store (using a Lumia device).


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SOURCE: BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
December 19, 2011 11:24 ET
CENTENNIAL, CO--(Marketwire - Dec 19, 2011) - BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. ("BMTS") (OTCBB: BMTL) is pleased to announce that it has executed a national distribution agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical, Inc. McKesson has more than 300,000 customers and hundreds of sales representatives who will now be selling the BMTS Demolizer II medical waste processing systems. McKesson immediately upon execution sold multiple units and presented purchase orders to BMTS.
Company President and Chairman Gex "Jay" F. Richardson states, "We are pleased to add such a great company to our distribution network. We are already realizing orders from McKesson customers and expect the orders to grow exponentially."
About BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., located in Centennial, Colorado, sells and rents the Demolizer® II through its wholly-owned subsidiary BioMedical Technology Solutions, Inc. BMTS' patented Demolizer® Technology converts infectious biomedical waste into non-infectious material. BMTS' products provide biomedical waste treatment solutions for the over 1,000,000 low to medium volume medical waste generators in the US and a global market five times larger than the US. For more information, visit http://www.bmtscorp.com/ or call 866-525-2687.
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The Demolizer® II is the GREEN alternative to biomedical waste disposal. The device is the only patented, portable, and self-contained system able to process both sharps and typical red bag biomedical waste onsite. The processed waste is rendered sterile and discarded as common trash eliminating up to 100% of the cost associated with its disposal. The Demolizer® II meets or exceeds all EPA and CDC guidelines and is approved or meets treatment requirements in 48 states after review by 80 governmental agencies. The device uses no chemicals or liquids, plugs into a normal outlet through a surge protector, and automatically records and prints state required documentation. The Demolizer® II provides a safer, more environmentally GREEN method for biomedical waste disposal.
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The statements contained in this press release may include certain projections and forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. No assurances can be given however, that these events will occur or that such expectations will be achieved and that actual results could differ materially from those described. Actual results of future operations of BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. may differ materially from those indicated by these forward looking statements as a result of various important factors.
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For a real 'hit' of cocoa you can't go far wrong with this one! The chocolate mousse is rich, creamy and almost on its way to being chocolate truffle-like. It was one of the nicest chocolate mousses I've made – a perfect balance of cocoa and richness but without being bitter.
I was less convinced by the millefeuille aspect of this dish, as you cook the puff pastry weighed down by a baking sheet so it can't rise. I thought the whole point of millefeuille was that you got a thousand leaves! Next time I make this mousse I'd be tempted to put it on a cheesecake-style crushed biscuit base.
Here's the cooked sheet of puff pastry:
The chocolate mousse contains uncooked egg so be aware of this and serve it to an appropriate audience only. The chocolate mousse also contains lots of whipped cream...which should please most people!
375g all butter ready-made puff pastry
250g chocolate 50% cocoa content (I couldn't find any 50% so used half 70% and half 34% and this roughly came out at 50%)
6 eggs, separated
2 tablespoons black coffee or rum (I omitted this)
150ml whipping cream
30g icing sugar
To decorate: cocoa powder and any decorations of your choice
Preheat the oven to 200˚C/fan oven 180˚C/400˚F/Gas mark 6.
Roll out the puff pastry so that you can cut two 30cm squares.
Place a square of puff pastry on a baking sheet (lined with baking paper) and sit another baking sheet on top of the pastry; this is to stop it puffing up too much when it cooks.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes until crisp and golden.
Repeat the process with the other sheet (if you have enough baking sheets you can cook both at the same time)
Leave to cool.
When the puff pastry squares are cool use a 20cm round loose bottomed cake tin or a pastry ring to cut out 2 discs.
Take the plate you intend to serve the dish off and place the pastry ring or the ring (not the base) of the cake tin in the centre of it. Sit one disc of pastry in the bottom.
Now make the chocolate mousse: break the chocolate into chunks and melt, either using the bain marie method (i.e. in a bowl over a pan of simmering water) or microwaving. I've really come around to microwaving chocolate as I feel I have more control over it.
Leave the melted chocolate to cool, then stir in the egg yolks.
Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks then fold into the chocolate mixture.
Whisk the cream and icing sugar to stiff peaks and then fold this into the chocolate mixture.
Pour the mousse onto the pastry disc sitting at the bottom of your mould.
Top with the other pastry disc, trimming with scissors if it won't fit easily.
Sieve a tablespoon of cocoa powder over the top, then cover and refrigerate until you wish to serve.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have made.


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Senior Steeplechaser Runs Against Nation's Best
PHILADELPHIA -- Senior Nathan Richards, the lone Eli to compete on the first day of the Penn Relays, did not race to his full potential by a long shot, but still managed to finish 16th in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the historic meet. The stacked field drew athletes from across the nation, including winner Andrew Poore from Indiana, who currently holds the fastest time in the NCAA.
Richards' time of 9:25.31 was significantly slower than his season-best of 9:05.08, which he ran at the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton. At that race, he beat out Princeton's Connor Martin by more than six seconds, but this time Martin got the better of Richards and finished seventh. Richards' personal-record time of 8:54.15 would have earned him third place in the race.
The Relays continue today, with ten more Bulldogs set to compete. Junior Mike Levine (discus) and sophomore Paul Chandler (pole vault) will compete individually, along with Yale's 4x200-meter, 4x400-meter and distance medley relay teams. The discus will be the first of those events, beginning at 1:30 p.m., and the 4x400-meter relay will be the last, starting at 5:15 p.m. Results will be available at www.thepennrelays.com and on www.yalebulldogs.com immediately afterward.
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Soft contact lenses are the most popular type of contact lens both in the United States and worldwide. Soft contact lenses can be used to correct various vision problems, including:
Soft contact lenses are comfortable and easier to adapt to than rigid lenses. Soft contact lenses come in various types, such as:
Rigid, gas-permeable lenses, or hard contact lenses, provide clear, crisp vision for most vision problems. Hard contact lenses might be especially appealing if you've tried soft contact lenses and been unsatisfied with the results or if you have "dry eyes."
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4 April 2014, Rome - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) unveiled today the results of their joint work to develop targets and indicators for a new global development paradigm for sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition. This is a critical piece in the three agencies' contribution to the ongoing intergovernmental discussions on the post-2015 development agenda, the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The targets and indicators were presented at a high-level meeting at WFP headquarters, where the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was guest of honour. The Italian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lapo Pistelli also attended the meeting.
Representatives from the three agencies stressed the need to finish the job of the MDGs that expire in 2015, but also to broaden their scope to address deeper issues of universal relevance like malnutrition, sustainable and inclusive food systems, and their inter-linkages. The three agencies identified a list of five targets:
The UN Rome-based agencies emphasized that progress in these areas would have to come through innovative partnerships - among governments, with the private sector, with development institutions, and with all members of society, from producers to consumers. New governance mechanisms would also be needed to monitor impact, ensure accountability, and give different stakeholders a voice in decision-making. Attention was drawn to the important role in global food security of small-scale food producers, who need to be at the centre of new investments and new partnerships for a hunger-free world."The overarching priority of the post-2015 development agenda is the eradication of poverty in all its forms," said President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Co-Chair of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the post-2015 development agenda. "The Common African Position drawing from the African Union's 2063 long-term agenda is a resolve to deliver on our various declarations and commitments on the social and economic integration, poverty eradication, and employment generation for our people. It aims to reorient the development paradigm away from externally-driven initiatives toward domestically-inspired and funded initiatives."
Zero HungerThe new targets are in line with the UN Secretary-General's Zero Hunger Challenge, which envisions a world where, within our lifetime, no-one experiences chronic hunger and malnutrition. The work of the three Rome-based agencies has been consistently inspired by this shared vision.
FAO Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, stated that the targets would inform UN Member States currently negotiating a set of sustainable development goals. "There can be no sustainable development without eradicating hunger," she said. "We believe that incorporating these five targets in the post-2015 development agenda will ensure a more comprehensive approach to tackling hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition - to nourishing people while nurturing the planet," she noted.Highlighting the collaboration of the UN agencies IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze said: "A future of 'zero hunger' will not be built by any one organization in isolation. We know that we are stronger and more effective when we work in partnership, including with the billions of rural women and men who work hard each day to ensure our food security.""Food security and nutrition play a critical role in shaping a brighter tomorrow for today's most vulnerable families particularly the children. Eliminating hunger unlocks the potential of individuals, communities and nations," said WFP Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin. "Achieving these goals will require hardwiring equity into economic growth assuring no one is left behind."
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This is the final installment in a series inspired by exchanges with Jerry Coyne. Readers might want to read the first in the series for orientation.
The final straw man I want to torch in this series is the claim that science uses evidence and religion uses faith, with evidence being defined as "good reasons to think something is true," and faith being defined as "the willingness to accept truth claims with nothing to support them."
Let me start by noting that evidence is not available in the same way to all investigations. There is good evidence available to the geologists that the earth is old, to the chemists that molecules are made of atoms and nothing more, to the astronomer that the universe is expanding, to the economist that endless printing of money will lead to inflation, to the historian that Winston Churchill did indeed exist. But there is little to no evidence available to the cosmologists that there are many universes, to the psychologists that free will is real, to the economists that "trickle –down" stimulus works, to the historian that John Adams liked to sing in Latin while he was taking a bath.
The idea of an evidentiary spectrum is helpful here. At one end we have hard sciences like physics and chemistry where evidence is readily available and we should have very high expectations that truth claims will have a firm foundation. Things get a little murkier when we get to biology and a lot murkier when we consider the social sciences. Consider history as an example. Historians deal with events from the past but the available "facts" are often so incomplete that deep mysteries remain about such basic things as the population of North America when Columbus arrived in 1492.
Faith plays different roles in different disciplines. The physicist needs no faith to accept the law of the conservation of energy. There is no need for the chemist to have faith in the periodic table. The factual evidence is so great that faith is simply not needed. But evolutionary biology needs some faith. The reconstructions of the history of life on this planet require the postulation of species for which there is no direct evidence. Most of the "common ancestors" are hypothetical in the sense that they have to be constructed indirectly with methods that are far from flawless. I think the evolutionary biologists are doing a great job with this—read Coyne's excellent Why Evolution is True, if you are skeptical—but the enterprise requires inferences that look very much like little leaps of faith.
But what about fields like sociology or economics? I think we can all agree that these are legitimate sciences, but their conclusions require an understanding of how vast populations will behave under conditions that cannot be specified with much precision. Some economists think that tax credits motivate people to buy houses, or trade in their cars. Others think such credits are a waste of money and simply subsidize purchases that were going to occur anyway.
Smart people in the Bush administration thought that temporary tax cuts were a good idea to get the economy growing. Equally smart people today think it was a terrible idea. Every night on CNBC you can hear economist Larry Kudlow extolling the power of supply side economics while economist Robert Reich says just the opposite. Obviously such disagreements cannot be based on simple "facts" for everyone has the same facts. There are some different things going on with economics than with the periodic table of the elements.
So how do we understand this? I want to suggest that the physicist, the chemist, the evolutionary biologist, the psychologist, the sociologist, the historian, the economist can all approach the problems of their fields in exactly the same way. They can make observations, formulate hypotheses and measure the explanatory power of their hypotheses against additional observations. They could do this in ways that would be recognizable to a philosopher who studied such things. But, despite the uniformity of method, the results would be different. The chemist would get things exactly right many times, while the poor economist would be all over the map and often unable to even tell if he was right or wrong.
The difference between chemistry and economics is not primarily in their methods. The difference is in the complexity of their subject matter. What chemists study is pretty trivial—LEGO® -like arrangements of atoms. What economists study is pretty complex—the collective behavior of millions of people with conflicting and uncertain motivations responding to complex stimuli. Nevertheless, both chemistry and economics can make meaningful use of evidence. This is the key point I have been trying to motivate.
A mean-spirited university chemist could certainly heap ridicule on his hapless colleagues in the economics department. "Ha. Ha. You guys have no clue. You just put blind faith in this or that half-baked idea and then hope for the best. Look at my atoms! So neat, so geometrically arranged, so clearly matching the real world. But look at your ideas! So vague, so contradictory, so disconnected from reality." I think we would all agree that our mean spirited chemist was being unreasonable. His economics colleagues could legitimately respond: "Yes. Of course. Playing with LEGOs® is easy. How fortunate for you that real world chemistry is so much like LEGO®! Now, smash all your LEGO® into powder and build something. Then you will know what economics is like."
Religious reflection is more like economics than it is like chemistry. There is evidence for the claims of the economist and for the chemist and there is evidence for religious truth claims. This is a simple fact. The New Testament contains several documents written about Jesus by smart people in the first century. These documents are evidence.
One can disagree with the documents and reject the evidence as weak or inadequate in some way. Or one can accept the evidence and be a Christian. But what one cannot do is claim that there is no evidence or dismiss the evidence because it fails to meet the standards of the chemist. If the central claim of Christianity is true—that God became incarnate in Jesus Christ—that is the most complicated and mysterious event in history and the people who tried to articulate what it was like certainly cannot be critiqued because their analyses would not meet the standards of the chemist.
The far more significant difference, of course, relates to the dynamic character of religious investigation. When Isaac Newton "leaped to the conclusion" that gravity ruled the universe, gravity did not respond by embracing Newton and healing his brokenness. When believers make their leap of faith to embrace God, God responds by entering into relationship with believers, often with transformative consequences. There is no counterpart to this response in scientific or historical investigation.
So let's not disparage the central claims of theology just because they are so much more complicated than the function of penicillin.


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The parents' attorney, Dean Broyles, told the North County Times they're concerned that the Encinitas Union School District is using taxpayer resources to promote yoga and Hinduism. In an Oct. 12 email to district Superintendent Tim Baird, Broyles called the yoga program unconstitutional and said he may take legal action unless the classes stop.
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, launched its third season of "Five Fridays" chamber music recitals Oct. 4 with a performance by harpist Caroline Cole and saxophonist Jonathan Nottingham. Presented in collaboration with Astral Artists, the local organization that promotes young musicians just entering the professional musical world, the recital was given in the beautifully redesigned entrance of the neo-Gothic sanctuary, one of the most stunning and resonant spaces in Greater Philadelphia.
I must admit that I came to Friday night's recital with a good deal of curiosity and more than a little trepidation. How deep or broad is the repertoire for saxophone (in this case both soprano and alto) and harp? And if there weren't that many pieces composed for the specific pairing, would transcriptions form the main body of the program? And how would they sound?
As it turned out, I was not so much "pleasantly surprised" as "blown away," first by the music itself and then by the performances the seven pieces on the roster received. Most of the music was "modern" in the sense that all but one of the composers represented were born in the 20th century, one (Philadelphia's own Michael Djupstrom) as recently as 1980. The only "romantic" was the Russian Alexander Glazunov, and his work was a transcription from the cello repertoire. But none of the modern scores was off-putting in the least.
Cole proved herself an expert harpist. She produced a clearly voiced yet smoothly sustained foundation upon which Wintringham's saxophone could sing effortlessly yet expressively. She varied her dynamics from shimmering pianissimo (very soft) to resonant fortissimo (very loud) in beautifully controlled crescendo (growing louder) and diminuendo (growing softer). And her solo playing in Suite "Galactique" by Caroline Lizotte was memorable for its evocative lyricism.
Together, Cole and Wintringham scored a resounding triumph in three movements from Astor Piazolla's "Histoire du Tango." The next "Five Fridays" concert is scheduled for Nov. 1 and will feature The Laughing Bird Quartet.
Yannick Nezet-Seguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in a trio of concerts Oct. 4 – 6 in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. The evening's major score was Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 4 in G major," but the program's opening work, Benjamin Britten's "Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell," offered the most thrilling playing of the concert.
Among the most arresting of those colors heard Saturday evening was that produced by West Mt. Airy's Daniel Matsukawa, the orchestra's principal bassoonist. Throaty and reedy, his tone nevertheless offered timbral clarity and rhythmic energy. He was effectively joined by contrabassoonist Holly Blake of Wyncote, principal French horn player Jennifer Montone of East Falls and principal contrabassist Harold Robinson, also of Wyncote.
The program's first half was filled out by Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto, which he composed in 1945 at the very end of World War II. The work's composition was suggested by oboist John de Lancie, a young American soldier and graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. He later became principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and director of Curtis, where he was the teacher of Richard Woodhams, his successor as principal and the soloist in these performances.
Mahler's Fourth Symphony, composed in 1899-1900 and revised several times between 1901 and 1910, is more lightly orchestrated than any of his other symphonies, but it still calls on a vast array of orchestral colors and is spread out over four very long movements, including the final with soprano soloist (Christiane Karg). Nezet-Seguin invested Saturday night's rendition with an urgent intensity that did not shortchange the detailed beauties of Mahler's scoring.


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With Shalrie Joseph on an indefinite leave of absence from the club, the Revolution will look to other players for key performances
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – When it was announced on Monday morning that midfielder Shalrie Joseph had been granted a leave of absence from the Revolution to attend to personal matters, the demands placed on every other player on the club's roster were instantly raised.
A 2009 league MVP finalist, Joseph registered career highs in both goals (8) and assists (8) last season while primarily playing out of position as a target forward. The Grenada international's influence could not be overstated, as the Revs went 11-7-7 with 31 goals scored when Joseph played more than 25 minutes, while they were 0-3-1 with just two goals scored when he didn't.
That pattern has continued early in the 2010 campaign, as Joseph's only appearance has come in the Revolution's most decisive victory, an impressive 4-1 win over Toronto FC in the home opener. Joseph was influential throughout his 75-minute stint, controlling possession in the midfield and spearheading New England's attack. He finished the game with one assist, springing Kheli Dube into the right corner to set up the third goal of Zack Schilawski's hat trick.
"I've said previously when Shalrie's been missing that any team is going to miss him," said head coach Steve Nicol after training on Tuesday. "We're not going to kid ourselves that we're not going to miss him. But we have a squad of 24, and we have players who are desperate to play and do well, and we'll move forward that way."
One of those players likely to see increased time in Joseph's absence is rugged central midfielder Pat Phelan. A third-year player out of Wake Forest University, the 25-year-old has appeared in all five games this season, while he's started all four in which Joseph has been unavailable. Drafted in the first round of the 2008 MLS SuperDraft by Toronto FC, Phelan plied his trade in college as both a central defender and central midfielder, so his game relies on breaking up the opposition's attack and circulating the flow of possession.
Phelan is well aware that Joseph's absence heaps extra pressure on himself and the rest of his teammates, although he's also under no illusions that anyone can directly replace Joseph's contributions in the lineup. With that said, the Revolution's focus and resolve must rise to another level to compensate.
"We can't really dwell on the fact that we don't have Shalrie," said Phelan. "Obviously we've struggled without him, but the guys who are playing – myself included – have to look at it as a challenge. We need to step up and we need to put together a good performance. I don't know if [Coach Nicol's] going to change up the lineup and try a different formation. I'm sure we'll try some things, but I think we just have to accept it and move on as best we can."
There's a chance Nicol could explore the possibility of altering his formation in Joseph's absence. The Revs have primarily used a 4-4-2 setup in the early part of the season, but on multiple occasions they've switched to a 3-5-2 formation late in matches to crowd the midfield and push the attack. Another possibility is a 4-5-1 setup, which would also provide an extra body in midfield while still helping the club keep its defensive shape.
Should Nicol stick with the 4-4-2, it's possible that Phelan will continue to partner with Senegalese midfielder Joseph Niouky in central midfield. Niouky was signed during the 2010 preseason and has been a fixture in the Revolution's lineup since joining, playing every minute of the first five games of the season.
"I think they've been solid without being spectacular," said Nicol of the Phelan-Niouky pairing. "They've done a job. Obviously, we want them to try and get us as [far] up the field as possible and try and do things in the [offensive] half of the field. So we just need to keep banging on the drum, keep getting them forward and keep giving them confidence. At the end of the day, they've been thrown together somewhat, and they're not going to click overnight, but they're getting there. They've been solid, and we'll try and build on that."
With the length of Joseph's absence indefinite, it's possible that Phelan and Niouky will have an extended period to figure out each other's tendencies.
"It's a work in progress," said Phelan of his partnership with Niouky. "Obviously, the team's possession overall – and specifically in the midfield – is nowhere near what it is when Shalrie's in there. It's difficult. We're both defensive-minded players and it's tough for us to get up and support the strikers. Maybe [Coach Nicol] will try sliding Marko (Perovic) in front of us or something like that – that's his call."
"But at this point, we can't really make excuses," he continued. "We're working each day trying to get better chemistry, so hopefully it comes through pretty quickly."


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But about this time, just after the new year, I start thinking about getting down the canning pot. I'm lucky enough to have family that lives in The Golden State so this year I remembered to ask if they would mind sending some citrus our way. While citrus fruits are more plentiful in our stores this time of year I can never get the variety or freshness that they can at their farmer's market. Shortly after the first box arrived we made a double batch of marmalade. I used a proportion of 2 oranges to 1 lemon. It was a little loose in the jars but hopefully in a few weeks it will have set up nicely.
In the meantime I think I'm going to make some curd with the lemons from the second box and I'm hoping for a third box to make limoncello. I'm also hoping for kumquats, I might just eat them before they get in a jar though. Anybody else making anything citrusy out there?
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Complete requirements are listed on the various Hornaday Award applications, which can be downloaded from BSA's web site by clicking here.
Each project should be equivalent in scope to an Eagle Scout leadership service project. A project planned and carried out as an Eagle Project, which would normally qualify for Hornaday Awards MAY BE USED as one of the Hornaday Projects. One of the other projects can be performed on BSA property.
The Hornaday Awards Program includes a number of levels:
- The Unit Award, which can be earned by Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, Varsity Scout Teams, Venturing Crews, and Sea Scout Ships. The Unit Award is a Certificate awarded on the Council Level.
- The Hornaday Badge, which can be earned by Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers and is also administered on the Council Level.
- The Hornaday Gold Badge, which can be awarded to adult Scouters who have given significant leadership to conservation at a council or district level, and is also administered on the Council Level.
- The Bronze and Silver Medals, which can be earned by Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers and are administered Nationally.
- The Gold Medal, which is awarded to ADULT Scouters. The Gold Medal is administered Nationally. (No more than 6 are awarded annually.)
- Gold Certificates, which are awarded to Corporations, or Organizations unaffiliated with Scouting. The Certificate is also administered Nationally. (No more than 6 are awarded annually.)
For a history of the Hornaday Award program, click here.
The successful attainment of the youth awards will normally take at least 18 months to accomplish. For the adult awards, the Gold Badge and Gold Certificate require 3 years of service, and the Gold Medal, at least 20 years. The following are highlights of the requirements for the Youth awards (Badge, Bronze Medal, and Silver Medal).
- RANK: Earn First Class rank (Boy Scouts/Varsity Scouts only).
- MERIT BADGES (Boy Scouts/Varsity Scouts only):
- For the BADGE:
Earn any THREE merit badges from the primary group above, plus any TWO other merit badges from either group.
- For the BRONZE MEDAL:
Earn the Environmental Science merit badge and THREE others from the primary group plus any TWO other merit badges from either group.
- For the SILVER MEDAL:
Earn ALL of the merit badges from the primary group above, plus any THREE merit badges from theElective group above.
- For the BADGE:
- In place of merit badges, Venturers must
- Complete the ecology and plant and wildlife requirements for the Venturing Ranger Award.
- In addition to the required project documentation, provide specific
information on:
- The research performed in connection with the conservation projects undertaken. The relevant research must be cited at the appropriate location in the conservation project documentation. A bibliography must be provided that lists sources cited. The bibliography must be formatted according to established standards.
- The applicant's entire Hornaday effort. This evaluation, included in the application in a separate section, should contain information on alternatives considered for each project and an explanation of why each specific conservation project was selected, procedures used, processes used, staffing levels used, funding requirements, and so on.
- The lessons learned. Included in the report in a separate section, this details what the applicant, in hindsight, would do differently on each project. The section should include recommended changes in project selection; procedures, processes, and staffing levels used; funding requirements; and evaluations of project effectiveness over time.
- For the BADGE:
Plan, lead, and carry out ONE significant project in natural resource conservation from one of the following categories:
- Energy Conservation
- Soil and Water Conservation
- Fish and Wildlife Management
- Forestry and Range Management
- Air and Water Pollution Control
- Resource Recovery (Recycling)
- Hazardous Material Disposal and Management
- Invasive species control
- For the BRONZE MEDAL:
Plan, lead, and carry out THREE significant projects in natural resource conservation or environmental improvement, one each from three of the eight project categories.
- For the SILVER MEDAL:
Plan, lead, and carry out FOUR significant projects in natural resource conservation or environmental improvement, one each from four of the eight project categories.
- For the BADGE:
The complete program of the applicant, as planned and carried out, will be reviewed and approved by the council for the award of the certificate or badge or both and, further, if deemed qualified, will be recommended to the William T. Hornaday Awards Committee for consideration for the Silver or Bronze medals.


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Honorees Named at Awards Chapelby Karen Handley • April 28, 2006 Share:
Raymond Williams, Dean of the College, has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College. The awards and their recipients are:
• Phi Beta Kappa Prize: Russell D. Harbaugh and William E. Whited
The Phi Beta Kappa Prize was established to encourage original work of high creative and scholarly merit, as distinct from proficiency in normal course work. It is a cash prize given by the Wabash chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to that undergraduate who is judged to have produced the most original and meritorious piece of work, whether artistic and analytical.
• Community Service Award for Outstanding Work: Raul Gonzalez
The Community Service Award is given to the student who has embodied the spirit of selfless community service to Wabash College, Crawfordsville, and Montgomery County.
• Indianapolis Alumni Student Athlete Award: Jared T. Bogan and Christopher W. Ogden
The Indianapolis Alumni Student-Athlete Award is given to a senior who has made a significant contribution to athletes at Wabash and who has achieved a respectable grade point average.
• Pete Vaughan Outstanding Athlete Award: Jared T. Bogan and Russell D. Harbaugh
The Pete Vaughan Award commemorates the 30 years of distinguished service Robert E. "Pete" Vaughan, a 1924 Wabash graduate, dedicated to Wabash as coach and athletic director.
• Malcolm X Institute Merit Award: Nikeland S. Cooper, Curtis J. Eilers, Janathan J. Grandoit, and David M. Herring
The Malcolm X Institute Merit Award is given annually to those seniors who, in the judgment of the director, have made significant contributions to the Malcolm X Institute during their tenure at Wabash College.
• Paul T. Hurt Award for All-Around Freshman Achievement: Sean N. Clerget
The Hurt Award is made by the dean of students from nominations submitted by all living units on campus to a deserving freshman student in recognition of all-around achievement in his first year at Wabash.
• Angus-Scientech Education Award: Garth T. Cheek
The Angus Scientech Award made by the DJ Angus-Scientech Education Foundation goes to a student in recognition of excellence in science, mathematics, or social sciences who has shown exceptional improvement in academic performance over the last year.
• Fred N. Daugherty Award: Nathan D. Mullendore
The Daugherty Award is given to a student from Montgomery County who has shown significant intellectual and social growth and achievement as a result of the Wabash experience.
• Dean Stephens Award: Trent A. Rogers
The Dean Stephens Award is given to a member of the junior class who best reflects the broad intellectual and personal interests, the high moral courage, and the humane concerns of Dean Stephens, a member of the Wabash coaching staff who was killed in an airplane crash in 1958.
• Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship: Donald E. Claxon
The Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship Award was established in memory of Waldo Stephens and Andrew David Hall, and is presented to a senior of demonstrated worth who plans to continue his education.
• Lewis Salter Memorial Award: Steven D. Rhodes
The Salter award is given to a member of the junior class who best exemplifies the characteristics of scholarship, character, leadership, and service Dr. Lewis Salter embodied as a Wabash faculty member and as Wabash's twelfth president.
• Senior Award of Merit: Christopher W. Ogden
The Senior Award of Merit is awarded by the Student Senate in conjunction with the National Association of Wabash Men to the senior who, though out his years at Wabash College, has demonstrated outstanding achievement in scholarship, service, and extracurricular activities.
• McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award: David S. Blix
• McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar: Todd F. McDorman
The Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel is held every year at Wabash to honor students with awards and prizes for their outstanding work they have demonstrated throughout their college years.
Photo: Russ Harbaugh receives the Phi Beta Kappa Prize from Professor of Biology David Krohne.
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The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and the Birth of a Synthetic Economy
Written and Copywritten by KT Botanicals
The date was August 2nd, 1937 whereby a relatively empty 75th congress instituted the "Marihuana Tax Act of 1937," after a mere 30 minutes of debate. While this act did not criminalize cannabis or hemp as it is commonly thought, it did call for heavy taxation, strict regulation, and introduced harsh penalties for those who did not adhere to it. Nonetheless, the key figures that advocated for the passing of this act had strong social, political, and economic motives towards eliminating hemp altogether. This paper will discuss the social, political, and economic motives of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and will demonstrate how the key figures behind this act paved the way for the new synthetic economy of the 1950's which has forever changed the American way of life.
Before the synthetic boom of the 40's, and the pharmaceutical boom of the 50's, much of the world including America, depended upon natural products like hemp for their everyday needs such as foods, medicine, building materials, clothes, paint, and even fuel. Jack Herer, author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," the number one best selling hemp book of all time, writes:
"In fact, eighty percent of our economy depended on hemp for paper, fiber and fuel, 125 years ago. At that time, it took 300 man-hours to harvest an acre of hemp, but with the invention of the brand new hemp decorticator in the 1930s, it only took 1-1/2 to 2 hours. This is equivalent to reducing the labor burden from $6,000 down to $40 per acre, in today's money. Keep in mind that the cotton gin of 1793, reduced the man-hours from 300 hours down to 2 hours to harvest and clean an acre of cotton." [1]
Armed with the invention of the hemp decorticator, America was staring in the face of the 20th century industrial revolution; the great depression was fading, alcohol prohibition was repealed, and now an already billion dollar industry was about to explode on the already good wartime economy.
The hemp-based economy was looking very bright, optimistic, and extremely profitable for Americans. However, in 1937, the largest ammunitions manufacturer in America, DuPont Industries, had announced exciting new developments in the chemical-based synthetic field. These developments included plastics made from coal and oil, a sulfur based paper making processes, as well as the man made textile, Nylon. DuPont Industries had just one problem: Hemp already had a tight grip on the markets for plastics, paper, textiles, fuels, medicines, and with the invention of the hemp decorticator, their relatively expensive synthetic products would not stand a chance in the American marketplace. A law such as the Marihuana Tax Act would eliminate hemp from the competition by heavily taxing all medical and non-medical sales of hemp from the farmers to the end users. As DuPont had predicted in its 1937 annual report, "Radical changes from the revenue raising power of government would be converted into instruments for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganisation."[2] Indeed, America was unknowingly well on its way to being forced to accept a radical new economy, as well as a radical change in their ideas of industrial and social organization. It was as if DuPont Industries had known something that the rest of America did not.
DuPont Industries' primary financial support came from the 6th largest bank in America, Mellon bank, which was owned by the United States Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon.[3] Andrew Mellon invested very heavily into DuPont's patented sulfur –based process of converting wood fiber into usable paper. According to a 1938 article that appeared in both Popular Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering magazines entitled "New Billion Dollar Crop," hemp produces 4 times as much usable pulp per acre than trees.[4] Not only do hemp fields outperform trees in pulp production, hemp is also a renewable resource (unlike trees), as hemp can grow up to 20 feet tall or more in one growing season.[5] The article also states that paper alone was a billion dollar industry in America at the time, and that 80% of American paper was imported.[6] Despite these facts, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, and owner of the 6th largest bank in America, Andrew Mellon continued to invest in DuPont's sulfur-based paper making process. It was as if DuPont Industries and Andrew Mellon had known something that the rest of America did not.
In 1930, Andrew Mellon had appointed his niece's husband, Harry Anslinger, to be the first director of the Federal narcotics Bureau.[7] Anslinger had previously been the Assistant Prohibition Commissioner for the Bureau of Prohibition. However, when Mellon saw that the Alcohol prohibition days were numbered, Mellon used his power to appoint Anslinger to a new office for the sake of his niece's financial security. Anslinger eventually went on to secretly write the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 for two years before he sent a copy to Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, who introduced the Act in Congress on April 14, 1937.[8] Anslinger secretly worked on the act without consulting the American Medical Association or law enforcement agencies for fear of having it shot down by doctors, farmers, law enforcement, and businessmen. At the hearings, congress called upon William C. Woodward of the American Medical Association to be present for the hearings. Woodward opposed the act saying, "We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any initiative, even to the profession, that it was being prepared"[9] Indeed the act would have been shot down, had congress and the American people known that they were about to outlaw the number one cash crop of the American economy, hemp. Woodward goes on to explain, "No medical man would identify this bill with a medicine until he read it through, because marihuana is not a drug, simply a name given to cannabis."[10]
Anslinger, with the help of William Randolph Hearst, had effectively duped the American people as well as the United States congress into outlawing cannabis hemp by simply renaming it 'marihuana'.
William Randolph Hearst is arguably one of the most powerful men in American history. Hearst who owned almost every major newspaper in the country had a heavy investment in the timber industry to support the trillions of pages in his newspapers and did not want to see hemp ruin his investments.[11] Hearst began a new form of political and social influence called 'yellow journalism', which he used against hemp in 1898 when he lost 800,000 acres of timber land to Poncho Villa in the Spanish American War.[12] Hearst then, had a hatred for Mexicans and through the use of his media monopoly, associated marihuana usage with lazy Mexican immigrants which in turn shaped American's negative views on both Mexican immigrants and 'marihuana'. In the 1930's Hearst's campaign shifted from the lazy Mexican who abused marihuana, to the violent Negros that abuse marihuana, rape white women, and create the satanic music that Americans now appreciate as jazz and soul.[13] The Hearst smear campaign was one of the worst and most inaccurate campaigns in history. It was also one of the most effective. By the time Anslinger's bill was sent to congress, even congress believed that marihuana was a powerfully addictive and very dangerous narcotic that should be outlawed for the sake of public safety. Little did they know that they were about to outlaw hemp, the billion dollar cash crop that would have began the 20th century equivalent of the industrial revolution.
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 solidified the foundations for the new synthetic economy of the mid 40's to early 60's by eliminating hemp from the marketplace. The heavy taxation and strict fines made it a risky business to cultivate, distribute, prescribe, or manufacture hemp based products forcing many farmers, businesses, and consumers to accept the new wave of a synthetic based economy. The future of the American economy was now in the hands of a select few unscrupulous elitists, DuPont, Mellon, and Hearst. As a result, the synthetic market exploded as synthetics became popular in almost every application imaginable replacing their natural predecessors. In an article that appeared in Popular mechanics, the president of DuPont explains, "Synthetic plastics find application in fabricating a wide variety of articles, many of which in the past were made from natural products… the chemist has aided in conserving natural resources by developing synthetic products to supplement or wholly replace natural products."[14] These were truly the golden years of synthetic science. Scientists were well funded and well paid, synthetics were proving to be reliable and cost effective, and the American people were open and accepting to the synthetic movement.During the 1940's the United States Armed forces were tremendously invested in synthetic markets in an effort to make their war machines cheaper, faster, lighter, and more reliable. After Pearl Harbor, the rubber supply lines from South East Asia were constantly being disrupted and other exporters of natural rubber such as South America could not fulfill the wartime need for rubber.[15] It came to a point where the United States Military was going to have a graveyard of useless and tireless cars, trucks, and planes.[16] As time was dwindling to correct the American rubber shortage, the United States Government met with the industry leaders, including the Goodyear Tire Company, to formulate a cost effective synthetic rubber that could meet the high demands of the military.[17] By 1945, the American government had shelled out more resources developing synthetic rubbers than they had developing the atomic bomb![18] Not only was the Government concerned about their military program, but they were also concerned with the average American family who had come to depend on rubber tires for their automobiles. If Americans could not drive to work due to a shortage in rubber tires and gaskets, the American economy would fail at a very inconvenient time. The American military also relied very heavily on synthetic lubricants for their increasingly complicated highly refined aviation engines. Synthetic lubricants could withstand higher temperatures for longer periods of continuous use without losing viscosity, allowing the air force to evolve from small turbo-props to jet fighters that could travel faster than the speed of sound.
The 1940's and 1950's also saw an immense increase in the usage of synthetic pesticides such as DDT. Prior to the 1940's, pesticides were limited to a few botanicals such as pyrenthium and rotenone, as well as a few inorganic pesticides such as copper, sulfur, and arsenic.[19] All of which proved to be both effective and generally well tolerated with a high safety rating and very few incidents. The 'second generation pesticides' of the 1940's, were mostly synthetic because they were cheap to synthesize, more effective against a wider range of pestilences, and had a perceived low toxicity to mammals. DDT was often called the miracle pesticide due to its ability to increase crop yields.[20] Soon the petrochemical companies found the pesticide market to be a very profitable way to dispose of their toxic byproducts such as hydrocarbons and organophosphates, which became the dominant chemicals for controlling pests over the next several decades.[21] As the market became dominated with synthetic pesticides, the research and development of organic pesticides came to a standstill and organics were unable to compete in the open market with their synthetic counterparts.
Medicine was also rapidly adopting the synthetic approach during the 1940's and 1950's. Up until the early 1950's, several of the leading pharmaceutical companies continued to market and sell botanical medicines, which had been effectively employed for thousands of years by every culture throughout recorded history. However, botanical medicines like hemp were quickly on their way out as their synthetic pharmaceuticals counterparts began to overtake the market. In the early 1950's, pharmaceutical manufacturers shifted their primary focuses from selling botanical medicines to researching, developing, and marketing potent synthetic chemicals. For example, by the end of the 1950's, Smith Kline & French, a large pharmaceutical firm, had cut their line of botanical products down to less than 60, whereas in the 1920's they had stocked over 15,000 botanical products.[22] However Americans were enjoying many of the positive aspects that the new synthetic medicines had to offer.
James Harvey Young, PhD, author of The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, explains the tremendous immediate heath benefits that synthetic medicines had made available to the American people:
"Life expectancy at birth in the United States had been 60 years in 1937, when sulfanilamide appeared. By 1956 it had risen to almost 70 between 1938 and 1950 as between 1921 and 1937. Infants, children, and young adults had benefited most. The death rate from childhood diseases had tumbled 90 per cent. Almost as dramatic were declines in the death rates for influenza-pneumonia and for infectious diseases."[23]
Austin Smith, the scientist that is recognized today as the pioneer of human embryonic stem cells, rhetorically asked in 1959, "How much value can we place on 3.2 million American lives?…These are the lives that can be attributed in large part to the chemical revolution in medicine."[24] The synthetic economy was beginning to change every aspect of the American way of life, it was even saving lives.
Through pharmaceuticals, synthetics were changing the way that Americans looked, lived, felt, thought, and behaved. Synthetics were revolutionizing industries, strengthening the military, increasing agricultural productivity, saving lives, while simultaneously rocketing America's economy to an all-time high. By the early 1960's, natural products were a thing of the past and synthetics now had now absorbed the markets of its natural predecessors. As DuPont Industries had eerily predicted in 1937, "Radical changes from the revenue raising power of government would be converted into instruments for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization." For better or for worse, the economic, political, and social motifs of DuPont, Andrew Mellon, and William Randolph Hearst, resulted in the birth of the synthetic economy had left America forever changed.
[1] Jack Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes Ah Ha Publishing Company; 11th edition (November 2000) pp 23.
[2] Ibid. pp 29.
[3] Colby, Gerard. DuPont Dynasty. (Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984) pp. 238-239
[4] "New Billion-Dollar Crop" Popular Mechanics Feb 23. 1938. pp. 238-239.
[5] Lower, George A., "Flax and Hemp: From the Seed to the Loom", Mechanical Engineering, Feb. 26, 1937. pp. 282-283.
[6] Ibid.
[7] "Harry J. Anslinger" All Experts: About.com < http://experts.about.com/e/h/ha/Harry_J._Anslinger.htm> Last Accessed 10/21/2006.
[8] N.O.R.M.L. "Still Crazy after all These Years, Marijuana Prohibition 1937-1997" August 2, 1997
[9] Ernest L. Abel Marijuana The First 12,000 Years (New York: Plenum 1980) Pp. 244
[10] Ibid.
[11] Ibid. pp 29
[12] Ibid. pp 29
[13] Ibid. pp 28
[14] Lammot DuPont quoted in Popular Mechanics, June 1939. pp. 805.
[15] "The Synthetic Rubber Project" Science Reference Services (linked from library of Congress) <http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/trs/trschemical_rubber.html> Last accessed 10/21/2006.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Robert Hatherill, Ph.D, "Commercial Agriculture: Facts and Figures" Environmental Studies
Program, University of California at Santa Barbara. <http://www.vegsource.com/articles/chemical.farming.htm> Last accessed 10/21/2006.
[20] "DDT Ban Takes Effect" The Environmental Protection Agency Website <http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm> Last accessed 10/21/2006.
[21] Ibid.
[22] R.T. Stormont, "From Alchemy to Antibiotics," FDC Law Jnl., 11 (Feb. 1956), 98-99
[23] James Harvey Young The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967) pp. 356-357.
[24] Ibid.


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