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It gives me immense pleasure that Department of Science & Technology is updating
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I hope that this website serves its very purpose as the medium of information, dissemination
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Though our state has been mostly agrarian, the returns from this sector have been
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The Department of Science & Technology aims to spread and improve technical education. It envisages a two pronged strategy of having an Engineering College in every Division, a Polytechnic in every District as well as sustained focus on quality of instruction. Popularizing Science in society is the other major objective of this Department.
Major strides have been made in establishing new technical institutions with several new Engineering Colleges & Polytechnics being set up in the State. Equipping them with high quality laboratory and workshop infrastructure as well as ...
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I'm trying to draw on the computer a curve that keeps always the same distance(given as parameter) from a given curve. I know the formula for the given curve. I tried moving perpendicular to the first derivative but in some cases when the curve is sharp there are a lot of points creating some problems. This problem happens when the moving the curve with a distance greater that the radius of the curve.
Is there a simple/standard way of drawing this kind of drawing?
To be more precise I'm using these ("Parallel Curves") formulas when obtaining the above result. It works fine as long as the curve has no "sharp turns". This is the case that bothers me.
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My mom is not actually helpless and is, in fact, a great cook (where do you think I learned how to cook and bake?), but she has a broken shoulder. She can't lift pots and pans, or carry groceries. I have been helping out and cooking her and her boyfriend dinner every night, which has been a ton of fun. I do want to leave her with some food when I leave, and biscotti are a good thing to leave her with.
This recipe makes a thin, nutty, sweet, crunchy cookie. These were my favorites when I was growing up, I think - I'll let you know as I try out other recipes in the book my mom got her biscotti recipes from. Once again, its the great Maida Heatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies. This recipe makes two small loaves of cookies, which are then frozen and sliced and baked again. You can totally keep one loaf in the freezer for a while, either slicing off what you want to eat or saving them for a rainy day, or a day when company arrives and you have nothing to serve with your tea.
Skinny Pecan Biscotti
Skinny Pecan Biscotti
From Maida Heatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies
1 1/4 c rice flour mix
1/2 c almond flour (you can skip this, and just use 1 3/4 c rice flour mix if you'd like)
1/2 t xanthan gum
1/2 t salt
3/4 t baking powder
1 stick butter, softened
1 t vanilla
1 1/2 c sugar
4 eggs
2-3 cups of pecans (my mom likes them best with a lot of nuts, which is how I made them, but I will use less next time)
Preheat oven to 350. Line two loaf pans with parchment paper so that there is an overhang on the sides. Mix together the rice flour mix, almond flour, xanthan gum, salt, and baking powder. Set aside. Beat the butter until soft and creamy, then beat in the vanilla and the sugar. Beat the eggs in one at a time, scraping down the sides. Add the dry ingredients, and mix on low speed until just combined. Fold in the pecans by hand. Divide the batter between the pans, and bake 50 minutes, turning once.
Wet and wring out two paper towels, fold them in half and place one on top of each loaf. Cover with foil, place on a cooling rack, and let cool.
Once cooled, remove the foil, paper towel, and turn the loaves out and peel off the parchment paper. Wrap each loaf in plastic wrap, and stick them in the freezer for an hour or two or a week. When you're ready, preheat the oven to 325, and slice each loaf into slices as thin as you can. Mine are too thick. Lay them out on a cookie sheet (lying down), and bake for 15-25 minutes, depending on how thick they are. Take the cookies out of the oven as soon as they start to turn brown, even if they aren't totally crisp. They'll crisp up as they cool (on a cooling rack). You will get about 60 thin biscotti, or more, from both loaves.


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I don't suggest flying without slides as a stunt, by any means--and slides do have their place in some presentations. But if you're a slide-bound presenter who uses them without thinking about why you do, flying without slides is worth trying. Here are four tactics to make the flight smoother:
- Skip the announcement slides that make an outline: You can drop the section headers right away, along with the thank you, about you, and intro slides--most of which are just there to push you along, rather than your audience. We can just listen to you thank the organizers and tell us about you--we don't need a slide to help. And you should know your transitions without help from the slides.
- Plan a message you can remember without slides: Too many presenters use slides as electronic cue cards. Plan a three-part message that gives you an outline easy to recall. The bonus: If you can remember it, so can your audience. If you're telling a story, make sure it has an arc you can recall. One effective speaker I've seen recently tied his story to his own life--"something I knew I could recall," he told me. Start out by making it memorable, and you may find you don't need the slides.
- Plan sections of your talk for which no slides are needed: If you need to ease your way into slidelessness, plan sections of your talk more dependent on audience interaction, and step away from the slides for those activities. In my own workshops on speaking and presenting, we use more slides in the morning, when I'm teaching principles, followed by almost none in the afternoon, which is devoted to hands-on learning. This is one step toward thinking about why and when you use slides, and making them purposeful, rather than an assumption.
- Use the invisible visual, my term for word pictures and images that your audience can "see" in their minds' eyes. That means using precise, vivid words and "drawing" a picture as you talk, verbally sketching something they can readily imagine. Such a visual is always going to be more memorable for your audience than any slide could be.


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A great reflection from Simon Barrow at Ekklesia on the way the Christmas story challenges the false idol many have instead of God, the 'god' who is "a person like us, only much bigger and able to do anything at all".
As each year passes, I am struck more and more by the strangeness of the Christmas story in our culture. Not by the romantic Victorian accretions which have become, for some, either indistinguishable from its celebration or a barrier to receiving it, but by the core Gospel message in all its gratifying inhospitality towards our 'natural religious sensibilities'.
The God who is portrayed in the Gospel stories about the birth of Jesus is indeed a stranger to dominant ideas about divinity—including those which, according to recent research, may be hardwired into our infancy. (I doubt it, but biology as destiny is popular at the moment, with pontiffs as well as scientists it seems.)
When human beings go about making gods to worship, they are able to do so only as projections of their own image. This is particularly true of the infantilising cosmic tyrant who haunts the imagination of those who would use faith as a self-asserting weapon, and those (like Richard Dawkins) who see this kind of false deity as the be-all and end-all of God-talk.
The god of human imagining is, as someone once put it in my hearing, "a person like us, only much bigger and able to do anything at all". In contrast to such fantasy, the God whose nature and purpose is disclosed in the flesh of Jesus is neither a metaphysical proposition, nor a cosmic being nor an unassailable entity. God is, rather, unconditioned and unconditional love—beyond definition and specification, but disclosed in the truth of self-giving.
As recent tragic events in Britain have confirmed, a small child is dependent and defenceless. The story of Jesus is of a birth into obscurity at the edge of Empire in debatable circumstances and of dubious parentage.
Moreover, this child grows up to become someone who defies the attempts of religious and political authorities to capture God for their own purposes. For them, unbounded grace and healing for the 'impure' is too much to bear. He is subjected to a criminal's death and his vindication is not by might but by the gift of life beyond captivity.
There is no way that this picture of God can ever 'fit' in with our conventional expectations, religious or otherwise. The god of human construction operates through inviolable fiats, inerrant texts, incomprehensible commands and unquestionable manipulations. This is a god who says, "in order for me to be more you must become less".
The God of Jesus is nothing like this. Here is God beyond all our concepts of 'god-ness', being found not as an alien intruder, a competitor or a member of a class of things called 'gods', but as unfathomable life encountered in and through our vulnerability—not over and against it.
When we get to the heart of the Christmas story we find ourselves challenged to become more, not less human. We are asked to stop treating each other, and God, as 'objects' to be contemplated, traded, argued about and disposed… but instead as "mysteries to be loved", as T. S Eliot beautifully put it.
The Word becomes Flesh not in order to be turned into words once more, or to encourage us to speculate about the essence of divinity beyond the only world we can see with the only eyes we have, but precisely to tell us that this is neither necessary nor desirable.
It is in welcoming a poor child into the world and into our hearts that we begin to meet a love that cannot be contained or used as a pawn in any war of position. Yet the paradox is this: only God's love is like that, because only God has no need to compete.
This repays careful reading many times.


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Jason Parkhill
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Office: Miller Library 106A [ campus map ]
Box 4200
Phone: 207-859-4213
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M.A. Leadership Studies, University of Southern Maine
B.A. History, The College of Wooster
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L. Jason Parkhill joined Colby in June 2007 as Director of Academic Information Technology Services. With the Academic ITS staff, he is responsible for managing the support and development infrastructure for the curricular and scholarly application of information technology, assisting faculty members in the evaluation and assessment of applications of information technology and their effectiveness in meeting educational objectives, identifying new and innovative technology applications, and exploring opportunities for collaboration with other institutions. He actively participates in the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), is a representative to EDUCAUSE and ELI, is a steering committee member of the Partnership for Liberal Arts Collaboration and Exploration (PLACE), and was a 2006 Frye Leadership Institute Fellow (now the Leading Change Institute). He has worked at private liberal arts colleges since 1997. Prior to Colby, he was the Senior Associate Director of ITS at Washington & Jefferson College where he oversaw establishment of an instructional technology center for faculty development, was involved in formation of the Pittsburgh Blackboard User's Group, and was co-creator of the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon.
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
16 March 2011, London, United Kingdom
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here in London to share the OECD's latest assessment on the UK. This is in fact the first time that we launch the UK Economic Survey in the United Kingdom.
These are challenging times, especially for the United Kingdom. The economy came into the global recession off-balance, and was therefore more severely hit than other major OECD economies. The recovery remains subdued and is likely to stay so for a while as the economy regains balance. But the UK economy has many fundamental strengths and the pursuit of fiscal, financial and structural reforms is key to harness these strengths and to secure sustainable long-term growth, welfare and prosperity. The question is how?
In today's "report card" on the UK economy we recommend the fiscal consolidation program, while essential, could be fine tuned; call for further financial sector reforms; and for measures to enhance the supply side performance and sustainability of the economy, notably by improving the functioning of housing markets; educational reforms targeting disadvantaged children and effective climate change policy measures that are consistent with a growth strategy.
I shall now elaborate on each of these points.
The consolidation programme is essential, but could be fine-tuned
In 2009, the United Kingdom's fiscal deficit was 11 per cent of GDP, among the highest in the OECD area. The fiscal position was clearly unsustainable. The consolidation measures and plans that the Chancellor and his colleagues have put in place were therefore vital.
In the short run, fiscal consolidation is generating headwinds for the recovery. However, inaction would have been worse. Policy makers could then have been at the mercy of financial markets. Early and resolute action ensures that debt will stop growing and help contain upward pressure on interest rates. A fair sharing of the social costs of the crisis within the current generation is also crucial; protecting the weakest should be a priority.
The composition of fiscal consolidation could be adjusted to enhance growth and efficiency. To do this, our report identifies several concrete measures. Public investment could be cut less severely to support growth. Structural reforms could make the health care system leaner and provide better services at lower costs. Limiting the use of reduced rates and exemptions in the VAT system would increase tax-efficiency and costs of CO2-emissions. Accompanying such a VAT-harmonization by measures targeted at poorer households would protect their incomes.
Solid fiscal frameworks and institutions are also conducive to a stability oriented fiscal policy. The creation of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility and the Government's fiscal mandate (until 2015/16) are welcome initiatives. In due time, the fiscal mandate should be supplemented by a stringent and permanent fiscal framework.
A combination of domestic and international developments has driven inflation above 4 per cent. This is twice as high as the Bank of England's target. The Bank is therefore torn between a more subdued recovery and the danger of higher inflation. As high inflation mainly reflects an unfortunate combination of one-off factors (tax hikes and commodity price spikes), interest rates should be kept low. However, further increases in inflation expectations and wage increases may nevertheless force the Bank to raise rates earlier.
Financial sector reforms need to be implemented in a coordinated way
The recent financial crisis and the following recession has made it clear to all of us that wide ranging reforms of the financial sector are needed. Significant progress has been made globally, within the G20 process, within the European Union and within the United Kingdom. Well coordinated implementation of agreed reforms will be important to avoid regulatory arbitrage and to ensure they succeed in building not just a better UK financial system, but a better functioning global financial system.
Financial institutions and markets need to be more resilient in the face of capital losses. Increasing capital requirements in Basel III is therefore useful. Risk-based weights may be vulnerable to capital arbitrage however. A leverage ratio covering all relevant assets, including off-balance sheet exposures, should therefore also be used.
The financial crisis put strains on public finances as banks and building societies became reliant on public support. This reliance on taxpayer support needs to end. The problem that some banks are "too big to fail" should be dealt with. Instruments for doing this include taxes, capital requirements and limiting the size of financial institutions.
Improving the productive performance of the UK economy
I now turn to the issue of how to improve the productive performance of the UK economy. The crisis has left its scars here in terms of lower potential output. Specific measures that improve the functioning of housing markets and education reforms could help strengthen potential growth. Our report explains how.
House prices affect us all, whether as home owners, renters or prospective buyers. Despite recent falls during the recession, prices are high and affordability is low. Low affordability makes it difficult to enter the housing market. This makes it difficult for younger people to find their own accommodation and leads to lower labour mobility. It also puts strains on social housing.
High house prices mainly reflect too low housing supply, especially in the South East. An incentive to local communities to allow development, like the recently announced "New Homes Bonus", is one significant step towards higher supply. More is needed, however. "Green Belt" planning restrictions should be reformed to free more land for construction, while continuing to protect the environment. Providing sufficient funding for local and regional infrastructure is also key for convincing locals to accept development.
If housing supply becomes more flexible, housing demand needs to be kept in check. If not, volatile demand may manifest itself in a large stock of unsellable properties. This is what we've seen in the United States, Spain and Ireland. Taxation of housing should therefore be reformed to better reflect the value of property. This would support efficiency and curb price swings.
Educational reforms need to target disadvantaged children
Providing high quality education to all children creates a strong foundation for economic growth. It also supports equality and social mobility. Educational spending has increased rapidly in England. Improvements in education have been elusive, however, at least when looking at international indicators, such as the OECD's PISA. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds underperform more in the United Kingdom than in most OECD countries. Resources in pre-schooling and schooling should therefore be more focused on disadvantaged children and families.
The expanded "academies" programme and the setting up of "Free Schools" increase choice for parents. As many of these new schools will cater to better-off families, further reforms are needed so that all children can benefit. One way would be to give other schools similar freedoms.
The OECD has for a long time said that the quality of vocational training in the United Kingdom is too low. This was echoed two weeks ago in the Wolf Report (Review of Vocational Education). If you want teenagers to attend training you'd better make sure that they deliver benefits to the individuals and to potential employers.
The fiscal consolidation effort has necessitated painful increases in university tuition fees. Graduates (on average) gain a lot from a degree and pay a fraction of the costs. Costs for taxpayers still remain large, and there is no fiscal room to expand higher education even though demand and social returns are high. The increase in tuition fees could provide extra resources to universities and some of these resources should be used to expand the number of study places to allow more young people to attain higher education.
Ambitious climate change policies are consistent with a growth strategy
The United Kingdom is serious about climate change policies. Ambitious long term targets are in place and additional resources are put forward, despite the fiscal challenge. The UK is a role model for other countries to follow suit.
A cornerstone of climate change policies in the United Kingdom is the European Union emissions trading system. The United Kingdom's long term emission targets are however more ambitious than current quotas. As a forerunner in climate change policies, the United Kingdom needs to work with its European partners to tighten the trading system further.
There is an impressive array of domestic climate change policies. In fact, there are so many of them that their number needs to be slimmed down. Fewer and better coordinated instruments would be more efficient, less costly and fairer.
Finally, whatever climate policies governments across the globe agree on, some climate change is bound to happen. Whether it is harsher winters (as you've recently experienced), heavier rains, warmer summers or stronger storms remains unclear. Still, climate change adaptation needs to start now. Planning should go forward and immediate action should be taken on well-understood risks.
Ladies and gentlemen. I started this speech by talking about the challenges that the United Kingdom faces. The challenges are certainly significant. But challenges also mean opportunities. Opportunities to do things in a different and better way. Working together with our member countries to achieve better policies for better lives is, after all, the OECD's job. I hope that this Survey will serve that purpose too.
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We have to write a historical fiction short story, and the era I chose was the 60's. I don't know what year to write on, though. I asked my dad about the pinnacle of the hippies, and he said 1969, thought I was thinking that might be too late. I was thinking about 1967, since I want to include the San Francisco song by Scott McKenzie, but I'm not sure.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Stupid LA
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Yesterday was the last time I have to take the MSA's ever! Last week was the math MSA's on Tuesday and Wednesday. My GTT teacher wasn't there to supervise the test, so we had the two art teachers, one of whom seemed like pure evil for some reason. We had to take the test in the Home Ec room, which was pretty cool. When we started the test I saw Mme. Jerow walk in. It turns out she was also supervising the test! During the breaks she would freak me out by telling me about some upcoming quiz. We later found out that my GTT teacher had pneumonia. We asked her if it was contagious. She said that viral pneumonia was, but bacterial pneumonia wasn't. We asked if she had bacterial pneumonia. She said she hoped.
This Tuesday and Wednesday was the reading test. Even with my GTT teacher back, we still had Mme. Jerow, which I thought was creepy and unnescessary. The good part about the MSA's was that the desks would be moved into rows, which I liked. Also the classes were shorter. It was fun because in social studies all the time he had we used watching our teacher google himself.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
I'm So Tired
I just came home from April's wedding (which was fun by the way), and I feel sooooo tired! I was hoping I could just put on a record and fall asleep on the couch, but no. Dad's record player has been acting stupid lately. The other day it wasn't plugged in, and once we fixed that, it wasn't plugged in to the speakers. Today it's working, but it's not making a sound, even though it's plugged. Too bad that Dad's too lazy to come downstairs and help me fix it! Later he did come down, and it was really strange because everything was plugged in. Normally I'd blame Torry, but he's currently not here, which makes it physically impossible to blame him. Then again, with him not here, there was nothing that was blame-worthy. The record player is working fine now.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Something's fishy...
In gym I can't bear to think of leaving my ring in my locker and losing it, so I tie it on to my right shoelace. Today I decided to go different for once and I tied it on to my left shoelace. Sure enough, when I go to change my clothes, my ring is squished and beyond repair. I found that rather strange.
My choir did get into state, which is awesome! But the day after Fesival I got a sore throat and now it's working its way into a cold. Thank goodness I have my awesome vanilla hazelnut tea.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Today my chorus went to Festival, a thing where middle and high school choirs get together at North Point to sing and sight read in front of judges. It's sort of an assessment for the choirs. I've heard rumors that we got into state, but so far the teacher hasn't told us.
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Steve Fulton, Chairperson of the Niagara Peninsula Branch of the OGS, writes that the Morse & Sons Funeral Home Records Index is now online.
He would like to thanks the volunteers who have spent countless hours working on this project. You can visit their website http://ogs.on.ca/niagara. Please click on the Index Button to do a search.
Finally, he would like to reintroduce the Surname Index on our website as well, and he says you will find it under the Index Button also. Over the next month, the Surname Index will be changed over to work and appear like the Morse & Sons Funeral Home Records Index.
So please visit their website often, as many things will be changing over the next couple of months relating to various indexes.


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Vote Pro-Contraception
We're already gearing up for the 2008 election and some candidates have some rather antiquated views on birth control. That's right, the pill and other routine methods of contraception considered controversial -- at least if you're trying to gain the Republican nomination for president. Take a look at what some of the candidates are saying:
Unannounced candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson at first denied he had been a lobbyist for the contraception advocacy group the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. Until billing records materialized proving he worked for the group, he somehow had "no recollection of it."
Presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, beefed up his anti-contraception resume by co-sponsoring a bill to de-fund the nation's largest contraception provider, Planned Parenthood, by excluding it from Title X family planning for the poor. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign officials boast he has "consistently voted against taxpayer-funded contraception programs." And Mr. McCain reports that his adviser on sexual-health matters is Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who leads campaigns claiming condoms are unsafe and opposing emergency contraception.
Another presidential candidate, Rep. Tom Tancredo, like Mr. Romney, has ventured far into the "contraception-is-abortion" territory. According to Mr. Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, emergency contraception "cheapens human life and simply uses a woman's body to dispose of the child instead of a doctor." By the same logic, so do the birth control pill, the contraceptive patch, the IUD, the NuvaRing, and the Depo-Provera shot - which, it's worth noting, together account for 40 percent of the birth control American women use.
These men want to eliminate your access to abortion; they don't believe women under the age of 18 are smart enough to take emergency contraception without a prescription; they tout abstinence-only sex ed, despite study after study after study proving it ineffective; and now they want to make it even more difficult to obtain effective, affordable birth control. Fortunately, there are some things we can do to prevent this nonsense:
1. Register to vote. 2. Keep yourself informed. As it gets closer to the actual election we're going to hear more and more from presidential hopefuls, not to mention candidates for other state and federal positions. Research anyone asking for your vote and use your vote to back the people who are committed to the things that matter to you.
3. Share your information. Encourage your friends and family to vote. Tell them who you like, what issues are important to you and why. This is something you can do even if you're not yet old enough to vote for yourself.
4. Actually vote. But don't let it stop on election day. Continue to keep tabs on your representatives and keep in touch with them, giving your input as they're asked to actually represent you.
We might have to listen gibberish like the above but we certainly don't have to put those people in positions of power.


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In inner cities and poor rural areas across the country, public health advocates have been working hard to turn around food deserts — neighborhoods where fresh produce is scarce, and greasy fast food abounds. In many cases, they're converting dingy, cramped corner markets into lighter, brighter venues that offer fresh fruits and vegetables. In some cases, they're building brand new stores.
"The presumption is, if you build a store, people are going to come," says Stephen Matthews, professor in the departments of sociology, anthropology and demography at Penn State University. To check that notion, he and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently surveyed residents of one low-income community in Philadelphia before and after the opening of a glistening new supermarket brimming with fresh produce.
What they're finding, Matthews says, is a bit surprising: "We don't find any difference at all. ... We see no effect of the store on fruit and vegetable consumption."
Now, to be fair, the time was short. The store was only open for six months before residents were surveyed. Matthews says most residents knew that the store was there and that it offered healthy food. But only 26 percent said it was their regular "go to" market. And, as might be expected, those who lived close to the store shopped there most regularly.
Matthews says the findings dovetail with other work, and simply point to the obvious: Lots more intervention is needed to change behavior. For one thing, we're all used to routine, and many of us will just keep shopping where we've been shopping, even if a newer, more convenient and bountiful store moves in.
But more than that, he says, many people, particularly in low-income food deserts, just aren't used to buying or preparing healthy meals — they haven't had the opportunity, until now.
Alex Ortega, a public health researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, agrees that providing access to nutritious food is only the first step.
"The next part of the intervention is to create demand," he says, "so the community wants to come to the store and buy healthy fruits and vegetables and go home and prepare those foods in a healthy way, without lots of fat, salt or sugar."
Ortega directs a UCLA project that converts corner stores into hubs of healthy fare in low-income neighborhoods of East Los Angeles. He and colleagues work with community leaders and local high school students to help create that demand for nutritious food. Posters and signs promoting fresh fruits and vegetables hang in corner stores, such as the Euclid Market in Boyle Heights, and at bus stops. There are nutrition education classes in local schools, and cooking classes in the stores themselves.
"We've prepared smoothies, healthy snacks, fruit salads, vegetables, green salads [and] quesadillas loaded with vegetables," says Ortega.
"I had a mother who approached me to tell me she had learned a lot from prior cooking demonstrations about healthy eating," he says, "and, because of what she learned about nutrition and about reducing saturated fats and sodium, and increasing fiber intake in her diet, she lost over 20 pounds. And her daughter lost 10 pounds." This is a really important achievement, he notes, in an area struggling with obesity and all its related health problems, including diabetes.
The jury's still out on whether these conversions of corner stores are actually changing people's diets and health. The evidence is still being collected. But the hope, of course, Ortega says, is that creating demand for healthy food, as well as improving access, will make a difference in what residents eat — and, ultimately, in their weight and health.
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In Your Health on this Monday, we'll talk about treating severe asthma without medication. First: How to increase access to healthy food in low income neighborhoods. You may have heard of food deserts, those areas where nutritious food can be hard to find but fast food may be plentiful. In recent years, there's been an effort to build better stores in those neighborhoods.
But as NPR's Patti Neighmond report, a new study suggests that just building stores may not be enough.
PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: There's a glistening new supermarket in a low income neighborhood in Philadelphia. It's in a community that used to be a food desert. But today, with over 45,000 square feet, the new store brims with healthy choices including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
But researchers wanted to know if people actually shopped there.
STEPHEN MATTHEWS: The presumption is that if you build a store that people are going to come.
NEIGHMOND: Stephen Matthews is a professor at Penn State University. He surveyed residents of the community before and after the store opened, and what he found was something of a surprise.
MATTHEWS: We don't find any difference at all. The fruit and vegetable consumption patterns both before and after the store opened were similar. We see no effect of the store on fruit and vegetable consumption.
NEIGHMOND: Now, to be fair, the time was short. The store was only open six months before residents were surveyed. Matthews says most knew the store was there and that it offered healthy food. But only 26 percent said it was their regular go-to market.
MATTHEWS: There's many other things have to accompany that. It can't just be: We build it they're going to come. It has to be paralleled with other kinds of interventions that perhaps are more targeted both at the store or the community or individuals.
NEIGHMOND: Matthews says building the store is just the first step. What needs to happen next is something that's actually happening in many states across the country. Take this corner store in East Los Angeles.
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NEIGHMOND: The Euclid Market is part of a public health research project at UCLA that converts corner stores into hubs of healthy food. And here, UCLA public health researcher Alex Ortega says they're doing a lot more than just converting the store.
ALEX ORTEGA: We've had cooking demonstrations where we've prepared smoothies, healthy snacks, fruit salads, vegetables and green salads, quesadillas that are loaded with vegetables.
NEIGHMOND: Cooking classes are actually inside or just outside in front of the stores. Cooking class is only part of the project's reach. High school students learn about nutrition. Posters, touting the benefits of fresh healthy food, hang in the stores on billboards and at bus stops.
Ortega says nutrition education is critical because without healthy options, many residents never really learned how to prepare healthy meals.
ORTEGA: I had a mother who approached me to tell me that she had learned a lot from the cooking demonstration about healthy eating and that because of what she learned about nutrition and about reducing saturated fats, sodium, increasing fiber intake in her diets, she lost 20 pounds and her daughter lost over 10 pounds.
NEIGHMOND: An important achievement in an area rife with obesity and all of its related health problems including diabetes. Data is still being collected at the UCLA Corner Store Project. But the hope, says Ortega, is that creating demand for healthy food, along with access, will make the difference in what residents eat and ultimately in their weight and health.
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The man I'm dating is smart, charming, charismatic, handsome … and almost twice my age. Everyone around me keeps saying that our relationship is destined to fail. Do you have suggestions for reading that will give me hope for a happy ending?
Oh, dear. As a wise relative once said to me, "It's easy to love in a vacuum—it's other people who are the difficulty." While it's true that literature does have its share of unhappy May-December relationships (Laughter in the Dark, anyone? A Gentle Creature? Keep these titles far from smug naysayers!), there's no shortage of success stories, either. Off the top of my head: Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Little Women, Gigi, Little Dorrit, Daddy Long-Legs … and I'm sure readers can name others. I'd even add Rebecca to that list—the DeWinters may have their issues, but I wouldn't say the age gap is one of them. I can't pretend any of these is guaranteed to make your friends keep their views to themselves, but I hope they provide a little comfort.
I need help putting together my first-ever apartment. Can you share the decorative tastes of any writers you know? Or literary passages about especially inspiring interior spaces?
My decorating training began and ended with a childhood love of a 1928 book called The Young Decrorators, in which a bunch of kids learn the basics of interior decoration.
That said, I do have a few ideas. If you're looking for literary inspiration, I feel bound to invoke Joris-Karl Huysman's paean to hedonism, A Rebours (variously translated as Against the Grain and Against Nature):
He had long been a connoisseur in the sincerities and evasions of color-tones. In the days when he had entertained women at his home, he had created a boudoir where, amid daintily carved furniture of pale, Japanese camphor-wood, under a sort of pavillion of Indian rose-tinted satin, the flesh would color delicately in the borrowed lights of the silken hangings.
This room, each of whose sides was lined with mirrors that echoed each other all along the walls, reflecting, as far as the eye could reach, whole series of rose boudoirs, had been celebrated among the women who loved to immerse their nudity in this bath of warm carnation, made fragrant with the odor of mint emanating from the exotic wood of the furniture.
So there's that. On the other end of the spectrum, I am also a major fan of Dorothy Draper's Decorating is Fun which, while not technically "literature," is colorful enough to double as entertaining reading. And Serious Pleasures, the biography of bright young aesthete Stephen Tennant, contains jaw-dropping descriptions of his home, Wilsford Manor (inspired by Huysmans). As to authorial décor, you might get a kick out of this slideshow of writers' homes.
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Sacred Tooth Relic in Senkadagala (Kandy) Literary sources indicate that the sacred Tooth Relic was received by king Vimaladharmasuriya I with great veneration and placed in the new three – storied shrine built by him near the royal palace. The Dutch Plan of 1765 shows the ground plans of two shrines. The one at the back should be the original one built by the king. His successor was Senarat (1603 – 1634), a brother of the deceased king had to face severe opposition from the contenders. He had to live in such distant places as Mahiyangana. He was able take the Tooth Relic to a safe location at Madamahanuvara in the hills enveloped with thick forest cover. Even under these difficult conditions, king Senarat was able to give due honor to the sacred Tooth Relic by placing it in a suitable shrine. Rajasimha II (1634 – 1686) succeeded king Senarat.
As the Portuguese interference in local political affairs was intensified, Rajasimha sought the aid of the Dutch to circumvent the situation. This action did not meet the approval of the people and a chaotic situation arose again, even to the extent of ceasing the holding of the annual Tooth Relic festival and the king leaving the palace. However he was able to rebuild the sacred Tooth Relic shrine into a two-storied structure and place the Tooth Relic therein. After Rajasimha II, Vimaladharmasuriya II (1686 – 1706) occupied the throne. He was a peace-loving ruler and was able to maintain harmonious relations with the Dutch and attend to many religious activities. The higher ordination of monks was re-established with the help of Burmese monks. He built a new three-storied Relic House for the sacred Tooth Relic. This probably constitutes the structure shown in front in the Dutch Plan of 1765. The king is also credited with the preparation of a grand golden casket for the sacred Tooth Relic and he held great festivities and rituals in honor of the sacred Tooth of the Buddha.
Next in line of the ruling house was King Viraparakrama Narendrasimha (1707 – 1739). He was the last Sinhalese king of a long line of rulers and is credited with the protection of the sacred Tooth Relic and ritual honors accorded to the Relic. He rebuilt the Tooth Relic shrine making it two-storied. The chronicle provides a graphic description of the decoration of the shrine with murals of jatakas, etc. At the recent bomb blast of the Tamil Tigers, amidst destruction and devastation of the Dalada Maligava premises, the structure of this shrine known as Vadahitina Maligava was miraculously saved. The falling off of the top plaster of some parts of the walls of the inner shrine has revealed some of the original murals that would belong to the re-builder of the shrine, Narendrasimha. The next ruler was Sri Vijaya Rajasimha (1738 – 1746) of South Indian Nayakkar origin, who became converted to Buddhism under the influence of Venerable Valvita Saranankara. He was recorded in the Chronicle, Mahavamsa, as having opened the relic casket and seen the sacred Tooth Relic with his own eyes.
With this incident, the king went into raptures and held a ceremony for the sacred Tooth Relic, surpassing all other festivities held in the past. The second Nayakkar ruler was King Kirti Sri Rajasimha (1746 – 1779). He was able to get down monks from Siam (Thailand) under the leadership of Venrable Upali, to hold the Higher Ordination ceremony of the novices including Venerable Welivita Saranankara, who later was declared the Chief Sanghanayaka (Sangharaja) of the Malvatta Chapter. King Kirti Sri remains the greatest benefactor of the sacred Tooth Relic. Many festivities and rituals were instituted by him, including the addition of the Dalada Procession to the end of Esala festival, which was at the time confined only to the four Devales of Natha, Visnu, Kataragma and Pattini.
The external interference in local politics resulted in the invasion of Kandy by the Dutch and the Sinhalese seeking the aid of the British, who had already engaged themselves in the maritime trade. For about an year, the Tooth Relic was hidden away in the hills in safter sites. The king too fled to Hanguranketa. Finally, the Tooth Relic was brought back to Kandy and placed in the shrine with much veneration and ritual worship was commenced. Thereafter, the third Nayakkar, Rajadhi Rajasimha (1779 – 1787) became king. Being a devoted Buddhist, he too continued the ritual worship connected with the sacred Tooth Relic.
It was at this time the two European powers, the Dutch and the British, were enhancing their struggle for supremacy over the island. At this moment, the last king of the Sri Lankan ruling house, Sri Vikrama Rajasimha, (1797 – 1815) also a South Indian Nayakkar, occupied the throne. His short period ended with the occupation of the island by the British in 1815. Under the prevailing calamitous situations, the Buddhist monks were able to take away the Tooth Relic to many safer locations. The British Governor at the time was Robert Brownrig who showed some keenness to safeguard the religious activities of the Buddhists, particularly those connected with the sacred Tooth Relic. The Britishers had realized the importance of the Tooth Relic to the natives, and therefore, did their best to please the Buddhists by showing much munificence to the worship of the sacred Tooth Relic. They too seemed to have realized the value of the Tooth Relic as the palladium of kingship. John D'Oyly, who was in charge of Kandy at the time, was originally averse to Buddhists under the Governor Maitland, but subsequently under the influence of Governor Brownrig, played a friendly role towards the Buddhist religion.
Elaborate preparations in the form of festive celebrations and even processions were performed with a view to receiving the sacred Tooth Relic back in the Dalada shrine in Kandy. During this period, the Tooth Relic had been moved to several locations such as Bamabaratala, Talagune and Madivaka viharas and the jungles of Bintanna, the country of the Vaddahs, and after the cessation of hostilities to some extent, the Tooth Relic was brought to a location closer to Kandy. Finally, with the help of the Chief Adigar, Ahalepola and chief prelates of both Malvatta and Asgiriya Chapters, the Tooth Relic was taken to its final resting place at Hindagala to Kandy with ceremonial processions arranged with the collaboration of British regiments who themselves marched in the Dalada procession. The Britishers faced yet another uprising of the Sinhalese led by Kapptipola in 1818 in the Uva Province. The Kandyans were again plunged into a bloody war situation. In these circumastances, the sacred Tooth Relic was taken away secretly to Hanguranketha by the monk engaged in the daily service (Tevava) of the Relic.
The uprising was finally quelled and the sacred Tooth Relic was redeposited in the present Dalada shrine and all religious services reinstated, including the holding of daily service and the annual procession. The British Government, having realized the importance of the Tooth Relic to be left in charge of the Sinhalses Buddhists, made all necessary arrangements to form a strong committee to overlook the affairs of the Tooth Relic. This committee comprised (1). Diva Nilame (Diyawadana Nilame), (2) Six important prelates from the Malwatta and the Asgiriya monasteries with 3 from each temple, (3) The Chieftains of Udunuwara, Yatinuwara, Dumbara and Harispattuva, and (4) The Basnayakes (Custodinas) of the four Devales(Natha, Vishnu, Kataragama and Pattini) and the Maha Saman Devale. The Committee was to be chaired by the Diyawadana Nilame (Lay Custodian of the sacred Tooth Relic). Although the responsibility of the Tooth Relic was handed over to this committee on 2nd October 1847, yet, the three important personages who acted as the custodians constituted the Maha Nayaka Theros of the Malwatta and Asgiriya Chapters and the Diyawadana Nilame.


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Like most people, when I visited Appomattox Court House I was mainly interested in seeing the McLean House. The tiny parlor looked much as it did on that day in April 1865, or at least the way it looked in the painting I recall from my fourth-grade textbook.
But the appearance is a little deceptive. That photo doesn't show the actual table where Lee sat, and its oval counterpart on the other side of the room isn't the table used by Grant. In fact, the entire room is something of a replica. The McLean House had quite an eventful career after the two generals left. Purchased by speculators intent on turning it into a museum, it was dismantled in 1893 and then rebuilt after World War II. What you see is basically a reconstruction using original materials.
I knew this when I walked inside, and presumably most other visitors do too, since NPS signage explains the structure's complicated history. But I still wanted to go inside and be in that room, and once I was in there I forgot all about the fact that it's sort of like an illusion. All historic house museums collaborate with their visitors in this game of make-believe. The museums use furnishings and paint to mask the building's post-historical afterlife, and visitors suspend their disbelief and take the restoration for the way it actually was.
Or at least we hope they're suspending their disbelief. Some visitors, no doubt, assume when they visit historic buildings that the people who lived or worked there just walked off and left it intact, right down to the candlesticks, and there it sat like a hermetically sealed time capsule down through the decades until the tour guides came in and laid down carpet runners and velvet ropes. Interpreters must walk a fine line between two opposing responsibilities, maintaining the illusion while explaining its boundaries at the same time.


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{July 2019, updated link}
The patch is a comprehensive patch, meaning it can be applied directly over your initial game installation setup version.
This Patch also includes all content from all 1.17 QwikFixes
- Game Engine continues as version 121010
- Python script checks run [thank you LaFrite!]
- Duplicate Aliases resolved in Colors, Fonts, Move Types, Sounds, Units
- Aliases corrected in:
- Factions
- Settings file AI.opt
- All Setups that include Brown-water blockade ports
- Events
- 1862 East Campaign
- Scenario Setups [All]
- Recompiled to correct
- Development levels in regions
- Brown-water blockade aliases
[both affect only new games]
- Events
- Corrected CSA Generals in April 1861 to appear in Richmond.
- Corrected USA Balloon event to find largest group by Command Points in the Mid Atlanic area
- Corrected several USA and CSA 'free' Generals to ensure arrival on land.
- Text
- Added latest Spanish translations [thank you picaron]
- Latest LocalStrings_AGE included
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Moral Quandary III: The Barry Zito Story
Poor Barry Zito. People are really tearing him apart — as is expected because he has been awful — but sometimes the human in me can't help but empathize. Despite my sympathies, Bochy's plan is to yank him from the rotation and send him to the bullpen so he can 'work things out'.
If I'm Barry Zito, I'm loving this.
How great would it be if I went to work tomorrow and my boss said: "Jeff, you're doing a lousy job, so we're going to allow you to not work so hard, lighten your stress, workload, etc. so you only have to work every couple of days or so in non-pressure situations. Oh, and don't worry, we'll still pay you the salary you get paid now."
Eureka! Sign me up, Boss! I'll show up and sit on my ^ss for the first two thirds of the work day, practice making shaving cream pies and chew on sunflower seeds. Just holler when you need me and make sure that the money is still in the bank.
Yes, I'm being silly. I know that Zito probably hates Zito's performance more than anyone else ever could. But honestly, I wish things were so "awful" in my life that I got a guaranteed 100 million dollars coming my way whether I do good work ever again or not.
Though I previously alluded to a theory that Zito's poor performance is perhaps rooted in his propensity for courting high-profile, high-maintenance divas, I am beginning to wonder if this isn't just another deserved consequence of dealing with the Devil himself (in this case, the Devil is Scott Boras, not Ann Coulter, though she is still the Devil too). Seven years and $126 million? That's a lot of dough. Yet Major League teams are still willing to take on (and pay for) the inherent risks associated with any Scott Boras deal. The J.D. Drews, Adrian Beltres and Carlos Beltrans of the world have been laughing all the way to the bank while not really living up to expectations, or their contracts. So it seems that Zito may just be another chapter in this ongoing saga of moral quandaries teams face when dealing with the Devil. I wonder if Boras represents Chinese speaking white dudes with an affinity for Asian antiquities?
On a lighter note, to quell the idea that I am a blatant misogynist proposed by a recent nameless commenter on a previous post, let me just say that, for me, it was hard not to notice that Zito's troubles started shortly after his frolic with Lizzie McGuire. I'm a guy. I analyze. That's what I do. And, generally speaking, I'm arrogant, but not rude. I love my mother and enjoy spraying women's perfume in department stores when no one is looking. So sue me.
To prove that I am indeed a fun-filled philogynist at heart, I have included some lovely pictures of Barry's most famously attractive paramours. It's hard to argue with beauty — or attitude.
While it's great fun and all, looking at these pretty ladies forces me to face a moral quandary of my own; therefore, I will say goodbye, for now, so I can come to terms with the situation. In the meantime, please don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Look! A moist, delcious blueberry coffee cake! And I made it! All by myself! In the slow cooker!
Blueberry Coffee Cake Slow Cooker Recipe
Look! A moist, delcious blueberry coffee cake! And I made it! All by myself! In the slow cooker!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
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Jen said...
Can I get the recipe please?
you are amazing
Crickette said...
Me too. I want the recipe, also. Can I please please please have the recipe. I'm new to this cooking thing and I don't know how to make the dough you made or what ingredients you used. Come on, now. Don't leave me hanging here. Help me out and throw me a bone here. I neeeeeeed more infO. :D
Hugs and Kisses,
Your Biggest Fan,
Why use your crockpot to bake? I will tell you why, like it's cousins the toaster oven and counter top oven, you can put them outside during the heat of summer. It really helps to cut down on cooling costs for your home, or keeps it from getting sweltering if you don't have A/C, meanwhile, you enjoy wonderful baked and roasted food. Find a covered location and near an electrical outlet or an area that allows for an extension cord. Usually most people will have an ideal space right outside their front or back door. Voila, you have a summer kitchen!
Colleen said...
Did you ever share this recipe, or are you making us buy the book? ;^)
Stephanie ODea said...
bwhahahaha, Colleen! I used the recipe on the side of the bag. ;-)
xox steph
I always find myself wanting to use my crock pot during the summer but not doing so because of the heat. What a great suggestion to put it outside to cook, I would have never thought of that! Genius Sarah, thank you!
Thank you for your comment! I will try my hardest to answer questions as they come up, but if your question gets buried, you may try me on twitter or facebook.
Happy Slow Cooking!


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Facebook Makes Nasdaq-100 Trading Debut
Facebook Inc. joins the Nasdaq-100 Index at the start of trading Wednesday, a move accelerated by the departure of Infosys Ltd., which is moving to the New York Stock Exchange.
The social network will make up roughly 1 percent of the index, according to data provider Markit, and will be its 23rd-largest component. The Nasdaq-100 collects the 100 biggest nonfinancial companies trading on Nasdaq OMX Group's Nasdaq Stock Market.


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Unfortunately when one buys a brand new knife now a days they come dull, dull, dull ... and unless you are good at using a sharpening stone yourself you need to go searching for someone who does knife sharpening.
At one time the Hardware stores, or so I had thought or could be mistaken, used to sharpen knives and scissors? I was in a dilemma as I have three brand new very dull knives needing sharpening, otherwise they, so I did call our local Hardware Store in Wiarton, Saddler's Home Hardware. They not only directed me to a place in Owen Sound, they even looked up the phone number for me. Now that is service !!!
Since Rob and I had some Cellular phone business to attend to in Owen Sound any way, off we went to stop around at Murray's Sharpening first off ....
Oh yes, I almost forgot the bit of excitement we had before we got into Owen Sound.
Trying to straighten out these "communication" problems are very time consuming, however I do have to admit the Customer Service has improved over the past few years, or I have just been lucky to be getting some pretty awesome people on the other end of the phone. Finally we did get the problem all sorted out between speaking to a Bell Rep on the phone and to one inside the store... phew!
We made it back home, but I am sure it was after 1:00 pm when we did. Rob fired up the BBQ to get the chicken legs I had taken out on and cooked for our Dinner.
Poor Rob barely his Dinner into him and it was time for him to get ready to put on his "Crabby Cabbie" hat for the day and take off for the South of here to Saugeen Shores.
I had one of the worse (again) headaches from the time I went to bed to the time I got up and all through the day today. Nothing was going to budge it regardless what I took or what I tried. I did get a little bit of relief for the pains in my neck with the 1200 mg of Ibuprofen I took later in the day, as 4 Tylenol 2 never did the trick earlier in the day (not all 4 at once). Good thing Rob was driving today, as I sure wouldn't have been able to have.
I am not feeling the piercing behind my eyes at the moment so this is a good thing. I am thinking maybe with the hay baled the other day could have added more to my already extreme allergies ... maybe more nasal spray and an antihistamine before bed would be the thing to do tonight. Needless to say nothing got done around the house inside or out today.
Now to back track on how my day really began, minus the headache ....
Text received from my youngest Son, Paul, at 6:24 am:
Yes Son
Call me
JAM (Just a minute, my kids, family & friends love my JAM when I made it up for shortening purposes, lol)
Me calling Paul:
What's up kiddo
Not much
What's wrong?
Nothing I just called to say, "I love you"
Let me tell the World, I am one very proud Mother to have my 29 year old Son call me at any given time, just to tell me he loves me. My heart soars !!!! This carried me through my day today through any pain and anguish a headache could throw out at me. It does complete a parent when these times come about in our lives, making all the "growing pains" well worth it.
Oh yes, tomorrow is another Friday the 13th, isn't it? Don't forget Bruce County people, we do have our own Friday the 13th Celebrations going on up on the Bruce Peninsula, check it out:


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Jersey Black Foot Soldier William Still is calling thirty nine year old Jamie Gonzalez's assault on four F.A.K.E. Lakewood Police Officers "necessary target practice."
According to local Lakewood city sources, the officers were serving a no-knock narcotics and weapons warrant at around 2:25 a.m. at 1154 Mackenzie Court.
In 2008, the National Black Foot Soldier Network criminalized "no-knock" warrants against blacks and minorities in urban areas or who are from "less affluent backgrounds."
"This war is black and minority poverty verses white affluence, privilege and wealth," Still condemned. "Serve your no-knock narcotics warrants on the boats and planes bringing the drugs into our communities. Hypocrite pigs," he spat. "Until you do your job of protecting us from drugs, we have the right to sell, traffic and use them. We are the ones who have been victimized. Arrest yourselves."
The shooting comes more than two months after Jersey City police Det. Marc DiNardo was shot in the face after attempting an illegal arrest against Reparations Activists Hassan Shakur and Amanda Anderson.
Four other officers were wounded in the gun battle and the suspects were killed. DiNardo was taken off life support and pronounced dead one day before his 38th birthday.
"There's not a Foot Soldier or brother on the street whose involved in the struggle who doesn't want to be the next Hassan Shakur," Still says. "Today, four's the lucky number."


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If all quantum particles have a superpartner, what happens, if this has been able to be speculated based on theory, to the superpartners when the corresponding partners start forming atoms?
Is there an S-hydrogen, S-helium, etc.?
Or are superpartners free particles that cannot form structure?
Are there spatial interactions; folds/intersections in supersymmetric space that form S-matter?
Alright, maybe the idea that when matter forms, s-matter forms is fundamentally incorrect. Perhaps I put that out there first, even though I figured it to be false, to be falsified first.
However, that aside, these particles do exist (given assumption) and there must be some kind of interaction, lack of interaction, as in, these particles must be doing something. They can't just provide mass for these equations to work...even though that's why they were theorized in the first place, is that correct? There must be physical ramifications of these particles existing. Have we had any insights into the behavior of these particles?
Do they always exist, do they decay, what is their state in their hidden dimension of space?
Does supersymmetry breaking have behavioral ramifications other than just having unequal mass? Can we at all determine the composition of this hidden spatial dimension?


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13 tips for new and existing Data Centres that can help reduce cooling costs
Author: Dan Hyman (Custom Mechanical)
Cooling is the number one energy suck in the data centre, and can have an enormous effect on a company's bottom line. It can be overwhelming to find the solution that's right for you, but whether you're in the midst of building a new data centre or retro-fitting an existing one, there are some very simple solutions for reducing cooling-related energy costs. Below are tips to help create a more energy efficient data centre, no matter what stage it's in.
If you're building a new data centre, here are tips to reducing cooling energy:1. Design for the highest temperature and enter racks that you are comfortable with.
Warmer temperatures typically allow you to run the HVAC system at more efficient operating points. It actually takes more energy to make the air 15 degrees Celsius than it does to make it 20 degrees Celsius. Increasing the set point of your data centre can also have a dramatic effect on costs.2. Economisers = free cooling.
Air-side and water-side economisers take advantage of mild outdoor conditions to provide free cooling. Most climates have a significant number of hours where free cooling can be used. Historical weather data is readily available for most locations from sources like ASHRAE or a mechanical consultant. In its simplest form, free cooling works by bringing outside air into the data centre when it is mild enough to provide cooling. For example, when it is 10 degrees Celsius outside – instead of cooling the data centre air that is returned from the hot aisles, the system would simply blow the 10 degrees Celsius air into the cold aisles. This would allow the compressors or chillers to turn off and saves a huge amount of energy. Other forms of free cooling include waterside for buildings with chiller plants that are refrigerant-based. Historical weather data is readily available for most locations.3. Invest in efficiency by looking to alternative HVAC equipment manufacturers.
The traditional Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) unit manufacturers don't build very efficient equipment. What has worked well in traditional computer rooms is no longer an efficient solution in a modern data centre. These legacy products are typically based on inefficient fan and compressor technology that is several generations old. State of the art products are available that use half of the energy or less, and they aren't hard to find. Look for technology specs that showcase innovation.4. Don't waste energy boiling water invest in new humidification systems.
The infrared and steam generating humidifiers that worked well in traditional computer rooms are a poor solution for the modern data centre. These legacy systems essentially boil water in order to absorb it into the airstream. The boiling takes a lot of energy as does the cooling required to remove the heat added to the space by boiling water. Evaporative and atomizing type humidifiers use a fraction of the energy and provide a cooling effect in lieu of adding heat load to the space.5. Invest in a CFD model and increase efficiency.
A 3-D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model can pinpoint problem areas and suggest solutions before construction starts. Most independent mechanical consultants can provide this service, as well as many consultants that specialise in creating these models. A detailed space plan is loaded into the software along with a model of the cooling system. The computer then creates a 3D model showing airflow and temperature gradients throughout the space. Changes can be made to the density, layout and air distribution to find the most effective solutions.6. Design in flexibility to save big.
A properly designed data centre will provide flexibility in layout, rack densities, and temperature control. If you design with flexibility at an early stage, you'll save major hours, energy and money in the long-term. Designing with flexibility includes the ability to locate high density areas throughout the space, as well as providing additional future capacity.7. Do your research – look at different system types.
Traditional CRAC units are now being replaced with close-coupled cooling as well as central air handling systems. This trend began several years ago as densities increased. The increased airflow required for these higher densities put the spotlight on the amount of energy used/wasted by legacy type designs. Both of these systems use substantially less energy than CRAC type units.
Here are tips for making cooling improvements in your existing data centre:1. Go 3D – invest in a CFD model.
A 3-D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model can pinpoint problem areas and suggest solutions. This model is only as good as the data that goes into it, so be prepared to do a detailed survey of your space.2. Make it hot – raise the temperature in the room.
Most servers can handle fairly high entering air temperatures. Increasing the temperature in your space allows the existing equipment to operate more efficiently.3. Even out rack densities.
Determine if densities are concentrated in specific areas. Spreading these out may alleviate the problem. If your problem is concentrated in one area of the data centre, there may be abnormally high density in that area and spreading out that load could solve the problem.4. Look at close-coupled cooling.
Row-based and overhead cooling systems can be retro-fitted into an operating data centre to provide additional cooling.5. Install VFDs and pressure control on CRAC units.
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) are used to modulate the airflow of the CRAC units. Head pressure control reduces the compressor energy significantly. These devices effectively turn down the capacity of the equipment when loads are reduced; this turndown results in saved energy. Both can be installed with minimal disruption, and any capable service contractor can retrofit these devices onto your existing equipment.6. Help control units make peace on a global basis.
Units that have stand-alone controls without any communication capability will often fight each other such that one unit is de-humidifying while the one next to it is humidifying. It is fairly easy to change this so the space conditions dictate how all units behave. Any capable service contractor can rework the control logic to insure that space conditions dictate how the units react and make sure units don't fight each other.