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Perhaps the greatest misunderstanding about allergies is the assumption that the allergen (the cat dander, the pollen, the housedust mite, or whatever) is the problem. Actually, the allergen is simply the trigger, while the allergic person's body is the loaded gun. Rather than just treating symptoms or avoiding the allergen, the best course is to take action to strengthen the body's own immune and defense system. Natural therapies which do this help empty the loaded gun or simply make it shoot blanks.
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In the near future when homeopathic medicines are widely accepted by the majority of orthodox physicians, doctors will pretend that they have always been supporters of homeopathy and homeopathic principles. They will point to conventional allergy treatment as an example of this.
While it is partially true that conventional medical treatment of allergy uses small doses of a substance to which the person is actually allergic and even though this principle is the basis of homeopathy, homeopaths use considerably smaller doses than conventional allergy shots. Also, homeopaths find that using the same substance to which the person is allergic may relieve a person's symptoms, but it will not truly or deeply cure the person's allergy.
Homeopaths instead prescribe a "constitutional medicine," a remedy that is individually chosen to the totality of symptoms that the person is experiencing, not just the allergy symptoms. Finding a person's constitutional medicine requires the care of professional homeopath.
People can, however, use homeopathic medicines to treat the acute phase of their allergy. Although these natural medicines will not "cure" one's allergy, they will often provide effective relief and will do so without side effects.
Solid research have proven the effectiveness of homeopathic medicines in hayfever. Dr. David Taylor-Reilly, a professor and homeopath at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, published an important study in the Lancet (October 18, 1986) which showed that homeopathically prepared doses of 12 common flowers were very effective in reducing hayfever symptoms when compared with patients given a placebo.


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"They went by this point, going down the river in canoes, on Oct. 21-22, 1805," said museum volunteer Fred Henchell, pointing over the bluff in front of the museum. The students gathered around Henchell on the grassy bluff to learn about geography, mapmaking, and methods of transportation on the expedition.
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Remington 870 Mag tube Malfunction
I recently acquired an older Remington 870 from my brother-in-law, he told me that there was an issue, but I thought I would take a look at it anyway. Everything works great, except that the shells will not stay in the magazine tube. I have read a lot of posts about poor loading techniques, not the case, that is the first thing I checked... The shells seem to stay were they are supposed to if the action bars are not there, but once it is all put together, they come out of the tube as soon as the first shell is chambered, if not before. Anyone ever had this happen? why would it do this? How can it be fixed? Thanks for your help!
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What is suppose to happen is that the first cartridge in the magazine is suppose to rest against the primary cartridge stop on the left side of the gun. As you pump the gun, the secondary cartridge stop on the right moves in and the primary stop releases the first cartridge onto the carrier. The second cartridge is caught by the secondary stop. As you close the action, the carrier pushes the first cartridge up and into the chamber as the primary stop is activated and the secondary cartridge stop releases the second cartridge onto the primary cartridge stop.
Given that information, see if you can determine whether the primary or secondary isn't working.
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This is usually related to the shell stops, which are in the lower inside walls of the receiver.
If the stops are badly worn, bent, broken, impacted with old fouling, or not staked in place, you may have this problem.
Note that the stops are supposed to be tightly staked in place, and not removed unless they're being replaced.
Note also that staking requires a special staking tool.
Here's an exploded view of the 870. The shell stops are parts 33 and 34.
Press the stops against the receiver walls to test for free movement and plenty of spring tension.
If they're sticky, use a gun scrubber spray to clean the back side by spraying the cleaner behind the stops, dry then spray in a lubricant. (Keep the cleaner off the wood).
If this doesn't correct the problem, either take it to a gunsmith or send it in to Remington for repair.
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Is it clean or is their foreign material or gunk behind the shell stops.
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Wheel has got it, most likely
The shell stops are the Achilles Heel of an 870 in my opinion and can fail if the gun is stored loaded for prolonged periods (as in a duty gun), shot regularly with high recoil ammo (slugs and buck), is stripped regularly (trigger group) or was built on Friday.
Typically the darn things will fall out if loose when the trigger group is pulled.
A common failure at our academy when I was there on temp duty. Guns were shot 5 days a week, buck and slugs by trainees.
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The shell latches have plenty of spring in them, and hold the shells in the mag tube as long as the action is open or the entire forend assembly has been removed. Once I close the action(slide the forend all the way forward) the shell latches dont even touch the shells. If I load them with the action open, then close the action, once it gets just over half way, the shells come out. I think that something on the forend assembly is messing up the shell latches.
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Check the action bars to insure they're not bent in or out, or up or down, or are kinked.
You can use a straight edge to check the bars on the top or bottom side and on the outside or inside for bends. In order to cause your problem the bars would have to be in really bad shape.
Check the activating bevels on the bars for burrs, damage, or excess wear.
The bevels are the small "ramps" on the action bars that activate the shell stops.
The 870 action bars and shell stops are not a complicated system.
When the forearm is slid to the rear, the left action bar ramp presses the left shell stop out and allows a shell to be pushed back into the receiver.
As the forearm is pushed forward, the right action bar ramp presses the right shell stop out to allow the next shell to slide back and be caught against the left shell stop in the next to feed position.
Remove the entire trigger unit and take the gun out to a safe place.
Load a single shell into the magazine pushing it all the way in past both shell stops, and slowly operate the forearm, watching the interaction of the shell stops as the shell is fed.
Then load two shells and operate the action again.
You should be able to see how the system works and any problems with the shell stops failing to retain the shells properly.
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Dfariswheel, I apologize for my ignorance, but I have never owned an 870 so this may seem like a dumb question. Everything I have read, and from what you said, both shell latches work together to hold shells in the mag tube? If that is the case, the left shell latch is bent. The right shell latch seems to work just fine with the action arms, but the left shell latch is not over far enough to engage the shells.
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Like almost all shotguns, the 870 shells latches each serve a separate part of the feed cycle.
As above, when the pump handle is pulled to the rear, the left action bar presses the left shell stop out toward the inner receiver wall and releases a shell into the action.
When the pump handle is pushed forward, the right action bar presses the right shell stop outward against that receiver wall and allows the next shell in the magazine to move a short distance to the rear until it's caught by the left stop.
Each shell stop has a slightly different bend on the front that contacts the shell head.
It sounds like one of the shell stops is defective.
Again, either find a local gunsmith who knows how to replace the 870 shell stops AND who has the special staking tool needed to do the job, or send the stripped action in to Remington for repair.
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Or on an older gun they could just be worn down. These are $20 items for parts (replacing both). About the same to have a gunsmith replace them. So you are looking at about $80 to fix it, assuming this is the only issue. Just FYI. These guns are very common and any local gunsmith worth his salt should be able to fix it for you. Good luck.
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TE nest is a software package for annotation and display of nested transposable element (TE) insertions. TE nest uses a pre-built repeat database for identification of TEs. TE nest displays the nested TE structure based on an estimated age since insertion calculated from the divergence of the paired long terminal repeats (LTRs) of LTR retrotransposons.
TE nest: Transposable Element Annotation:
TE nest (TE nest) searches your input sequence against the chosen repeat database to identify nested TE insertions. TE nest will output coordinates of the TE annotations, and input these annotations to to provide a display showing the chronological order of the nested insertions.
svg_ltr: Transposable Element Insertion Display:
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LTR Retrotransposon Insertion Age:
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Sequence Input:
Input a DNA sequence into the submission box, or upload a sequence. Your input sequence can be in fasta form at (with a '>header') or simply a plain DNA sequence. This sequence should be in a flatfile format, with no trailing tabs or spaces after each line.
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Pick a repeat database from the pull down menu. Alternatively you can choose to build a custom repeat databa se.To use a custom repeat database:
- Select 'custom' from the repeat database pull down menu.
- Upload the three repeat database files. In each case, a multi-sequence fasta file is required. This database needs to be 'unique' in that a consensus sequence for each repeat family type, or a representitive of each re peat type is to be entered. In rare cases using 2-3 entries for a very divergent TE family is acceptable. The header of each sequence will become the name of the repeat. This repeat name must not contain spac es and case must be the same for each time it is entered. For example, an LTR retrotransposon will have three sequence entries and one TE list entry; the LTR file, the retrotransposon file, the TE file, and the TE list. In each entry th e name (header) must be the same.
- LTR retrotransposon sequence file: One sequence entry for each type of LTR retrotrasnposon.
- LTR sequence file: A single LTR of each LTR retrotransposon entered into the LTR retrotransposon file.
- TE sequence file: All TE sequences to be identified. This includes LTR retrotransposons, non-LTR retrotransposons, DNA transposons, etc.
- Enter or upload a te_list file
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TE nest uses the TE list to find TE annotations in the input sequence. Customization of the TE list can be u sed to optimize TE annotations by selecting or de-selecting certain elements from a provided repeat database. To make a custom TE list, paste in one of the following organism TE lists, and change to fit your TE nest run. First column is name of TE, second column is TE type; 0 for LTR retrotransposon, 1 for any other type. LTR retrotransposons (0) must be at the top of the list.
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TE nest allows customization with the following options:
Alignment options are found three times, once for solo LTRs (SOLOs), once for LTR retrotransposon midd le regions (MIDs), and once for fragmented or whole non-LTR transposons (FRAG/NLTR). Each of these sections has the sa me alignment options, although with different default values. Gap open penalty and gap extension penalty allow for ope ning and extending gaps in the alignment. Alignments reported is how many alignment pieces TE nest will evalulate, rai sing this value may find small missing segments, but will greatly increase the runtime of TE nest. Alignment minimum s core is the cutoff value for alignments to use.
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Output Options and Formats:
Select from the three TE nest output formats:
The annotation table is the main output of TE nest, giving coordinates for each identified nested TE. The four annotation types; SOLO (solo LTRs), PAIR (full LTR retrotransposons), FRAG (fragmented TEs of all types), NLTR (Full length non-LTR containing TEs). Each the SOLO, FRAG, and NLTR annotation types follow the same format, one head er line and one coordinate line (shown below) per TE annotation. The PAIR annotation type contains four lines per TE; one header line, one left LTR coordinate line, one right LTR coordinate line, one middle region LTR line (shown below).
- Annotation table (*.LTR file).
Example TE nest *.LTR annotation file: Explanation: 33610 Sequence length input.fasta input sequence name SOLO s0 milt 1 0 20 0 Solo entry, solo number, type, direction, nest group, nest order, nest level s0 100 276 1 176 662 1140 177 656 Solo number, Sequence start, seq end, TE start, TE end, -gap- etc. SOLO s1 gyma 0 0 32 0 s1 1620 5918 1 4198 PAIR p0 danelle 0 0.030 41 41 0 Pair entry, pair number, type, direction, BSR, nest group, nest order, nest level p0 L 8710 13312 1 4602 Pair number, Left LTR, seq start, seq end, TE start, TE end p0 R 19507 24778 1 4601 Pair number, Right LTR, seq start, seq end, TE start, TE end p0 M 13313 19506 4603 10796 Pair number, Middle region, seq start, seq end, TE start, TE end PAIR p1 opie 0 0.023 39 39 0 p1 L 6152 6280 1 128 8391 8709 260 577 24107 24778 580 1251 p1 R 31184 32427 1 1243 p1 M 24779 31183 1266 7670 FRAG f0 dagaf 0 1 1 0 Frag entry, frag number, type, direction, nest group, nest order, nest level f0 6281 8390 3256 5366 Frag number, Sequence start, seq end, TE start, TE end, -gap- etc. FRAG f1 grande 0 5 5 0 f1 25203 26653 1 1450 27748 33610 1444 7306 NLTR n0 cacta 0 27 21 1 Non-LTR entry, NLTR number, type, direction, nest group, nest order, nest level n0 26654 27747 1 1094 NLTR number, Sequence start, seq end, TE start, TE end, -gap- etc. NLTR n1 isb 0 27 17 1 n1 277 661 1 384
The SVG output gives the graphical nesting display. svg_ltr is a separate program that uses the annota tion coordinates file to produce the picture of nested TEs. This file is scalable vector graphic (SVG) format, viewabl e in the latest firefox version. A vector graphic format is used to give resizing abilities without losing quality. The SVG display is automatically made with a TE nest sequence input, and can also be re-run by inputting the *.LTR annot ation file (svg_ltr Display)
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TE nest can also output the original sequence file with all annotated TEs masked out with Ns. This gives the user the ability to input the masked sequence into gene prediction programs.
- Repeat masked fasta sequence (*.mask file).
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Input or upload the *.LTR annotation file, the output of TE nest. You can use this separate svg_ltr input to rebuild the insertion nesting display, or alter coordinates on the annotation output and make a new display. You can also use this function to display TE insertions not identified with TE nest, arrange your coordinates in the *.LTR annotation format (TE nest output formats).
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A subset of the input sequence can be displayed with svg_ltr. Input the whole annotation file and enter the start and stop coordinates of interest. The coordinate window may intersect TE annotations, you can select to either show these cut insertions as fragments (check the split coordinates box) or to not display the cut off TEs (deselect the box).
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svg_ltr allows customization of the TE nest display by selecting the following options:
You can select to display different types of TE nest annotations. Select or deselect paired LTR Retrot ransposons (PAIRs), solo LTRs (SOLOs), whole non-LTR TEs (NLTRs), or fragmented TEs (FRAGs). At least one check box mus t be selected.
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TE nest displays unidentified 'unique' regions found within TE annotations as white triangles to show the regions does not match the TE sequence. Display of the white region is usefull for identification of unkno wn TEs, incomplete TE annotations in the database, or areas of rearrangements. This option can be turned on or off.
- White Out Options:
The legend at the bottom of the svg_ltr display can be customized in the following manner. The default width of TE names in the legend is 5, this can be shortened or lengthened for different sized TE displays. The scale bar length can be changed, helpful for longer input sequences. The number of tic marks within the scale bar can be alt ered.
- Legend Options:
Coordinates of TE annotations can be displayed on the insertion display. Two types of coordinates are available TE based coordinates show coordinates of the TE insertions relative to the consensus sequence database TE. Input sequence based coordinates show the TE insertions relative to the coordinates of the DNA sequence. Furthermore, each data type can be turned on or off. Select from PAIRs, SOLOs, FRAGs, or NLTRs to show any of these TE coordinates.
- Coordinate Options:
Either age since insertion in million years ago (MYA) or the substitution rate between the left and rig ht LTR can be shown in the box within paired LTR retrotransposons.Input or upload the *.LTR annotation file, the output of TE nest. You can use this separate svg_ltr input to rebuild the insertion nesting display, or alter coordinates on the annotation output and make a new display. You can also use this function to display TE insertions not identified with TE nest, arrange your coordinates in the *.LTR annotation format (TE nest output formats).
- Insertion Age Options:
Gene and Psudo-gene Display:
svg_ltr can also be used to display gene and psudo-gene annotations with or without TEnest annotations. Gene s will be displayed as rectangles on their annotated level, psudo-genes will be displayed as rectangles with hashed col or fill. To use this function you will need to set up a input file in the same format as the TEnest output table. For example:
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UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice objected today to the Palestinians' latest bid to capitalize on their upgraded U.N. status when their foreign minister spoke at the Security Council while seated behind a nameplate that read "State of Palestine."
It was the first Palestinian address to the Security Council since the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Nov. 29 to upgrade the Palestinians from U.N. observer to non-voting member state.
Rice said that the United States does not recognize the General Assembly vote in November "as bestowing Palestinian 'statehood' or recognition."
"Only direct negotiations to settle final status issues will lead to this outcome," Rice said.
"Therefore, in our view, any reference to the 'State of Palestine' in the United Nations, including the use of the term 'State of Palestine' on the placard in the Security Council or the use of the term 'State of Palestine' in the invitation to this meeting or other arrangements for participation in this meeting, do not reflect acquiescence that 'Palestine' is a state," she added.
Canadian Ambassador Guillermo E. Rishchynski also complained later that allowing the Palestinians to sit behind the "State of Palestine" nameplate "creates a misleading impression" and said Canada would oppose the Palestinians' attempts to upgrade their status in symbolic ways.
The U.N. General Assembly vote to upgrade the Palestinians' status was important because it gave sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty over lands Israel occupied in 1967, including east Jerusalem. But it did not actually grant independence to the 4.3 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
In his speech to the Security Council, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki reiterated the Palestinian position that a two-state solution be based on the pre-1967 borders.
He also said that if Israel proceeds with plans to build settlements on a contentious tract of land east of Jerusalem, the Palestinians will file a case in the International Criminal Court.
Israel's envisaged construction of 3,500 apartments in the area known as E-1 would hinder Palestinian access to east Jerusalem from the West Bank. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
"If Israel would like to go further by implementing the E-1 plan and the other related plans around Jerusalem, then yes, we would be going to the International Criminal Court," he said. "We would have no other choice. It depends on the Israeli decision. Israel knows very well our position."
Since winning recognition as a nonmember U.N. observer state, the Palestinians believe they now qualify for membership in the ICC, although that remains unclear.
In opposing the Palestinian bid for upgraded U.N. status, Israel cited Palestinian threats to turn to the ICC to prosecute Israeli officials for a variety of alleged crimes. Israel does not recognize the court's jurisdiction and believes its own actions do not violate international law, but officials are concerned legal action could embarrass the country.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took another symbolic step to capitalize on the U.N. status two weeks ago, proclaiming that letterhead and signs would bear the name "State of Palestine."
Robert Serry, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told reporters that the nameplate read "state of Palestine" because the U.N. Secretariat "is guided by the membership, which has pronounced itself on this issue" in the November General Assembly vote.
"At the same time, member-states have their rights to reserve their opinion" on U.N. decisions, he said. "That resolution does not diminish the need for negotiations to actually arrive at a two-state solution."
Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor told the council that "the major obstacle to the two-state solution is the Palestinian leadership's refusal to speak to their own people about the true parameters of a two-state solution."


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A desk can provide almost everything you need in an entryway: surface space to drop your keys and bag, hidden storage for things you don't want on display, and it can double as your home office. Even those with limited square footage can try this strategy.
Wall-mounted laptop desks (like the IKEA PS Workstation shown in photo #3) can solve the small footprint problem for people with narrow entryways.
For those who have more room to spread out, a desk can make an interesting design statement. Drawer knobs can double as hooks (photo #1), or a vintage secretary (photo #5) can hide messy mail in an instant. A pinboard (photo #4) displays reminders alongside inspirational clippings.
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New School Report Card Produces 'Apples-to-Apples' Comparison of Michigan Public High School Performance by Adjusting for Student Family Poverty Levels
Study finds town and rural high schools outperforming city and suburban ones on average
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
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MIDLAND — Every standard public high school in Michigan is evaluated and graded in the "Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card" published today by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The CAP Report Card examines public high school performance while taking into account family income, producing an "apples-to-apples" comparison for parents and policymakers.
"Education research consistently shows that socioeconomic factors have a significant impact on standardized test results," said Michael Van Beek, the Center's director of education policy and a coauthor of the report card. "This is the first-of-its-kind attempt in Michigan to take this reality into account, and it helps us identify outstanding schools that by most measures would appear mediocre."
A prime example is the Star International Academy, a public charter school in Dearborn Heights. Although its raw test scores hover around the state average, about 90 percent of the school's students are from low-income households. Adjusting for this makes clear that the academy is exceeding its projected performance better than any other school in the state, and it accordingly received the highest mark on the CAP Report Card.
Four years' worth of Michigan Merit Exam and ACT® test scores were adjusted based on the percentage of students in a high school who qualified for a free or reduced-price lunch. A high school's "CAP Score" indicates how far above or below projections a high school performed given its student population's socioeconomic status, with 100 set as the standard.
The CAP Report Card categorizes scores by locale, enabling easy comparisons among and within city, suburban, town and rural areas. High schools located in towns had an average CAP Score of 101.5, the highest of the four locale groups, followed by rural high schools with a score of 101. Suburban high schools were next at 100, and city high schools were last at 98.9. However, high schools in midsize and small cities averaged higher CAP Scores than any suburban locale subgroup. Rural remote high schools averaged the highest overall CAP Scores among locale subgroups at 103.9.
The top-scoring individual high schools in each major locale group were:
- City: Cesar Chavez High School (Charter-Detroit), 135.4 CAP Score
- Suburb: Star International Academy (Charter-Dearborn Heights), 140.8 CAP Score
- Town: Calumet High School (Calumet), 114.2 CAP Score
- Rural: North Huron School (Kinde), 123.3 CAP Score
"The CAP Report Card has useful information for everyone," said Van Beek. "It will enable parents to make informed school choice decisions, provide school officials with a better assessment of their school's performance, and help policymakers identify high-performing schools and practices in an area that makes up the largest single state expenditure."
Jonathan Mills and Daniel Bowen of the University of Arkansas coauthored the study with Van Beek. The full report card is available online here: www.mackinac.org/CAP.


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Remember Jack and Jill magazine? I used to flip through it at the doctor's office as a kid in the early 70's.I say "flip through it" because I never actually bothered to stop and read anything in Jack and Jill. Nothing of interest there to this 10-year-old Marvel Comics fanatic.
But to this 42-year-old classic illustration fanatic, Jack and Jill magazine is suddenly very interesting - mainly because this Hallowe'en issue from 1962 contains a story illustrated by "H. Tom Hall". Could this Tom Hall be that Tom Hall?Certainly the style is similar ( dare I say "generic"?) enough to have been done by the same artist - but let's face it, there could have been several artists named "Tom" and "Hall" working in the commercial art industry at any given point in time.Still, I've noticed that quite a few mainstream magazine illustrators who had more than enough ad industry work in the 50's started producing children's book and textbook art in the 60's, when their traditional markets were in decline.
Want to take a closer look so you can draw your own conclusions? Go to my Tom Hall Flickr set and click the "All Sizes" tab above each image.


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Domain may also fuel adoption in the National Information Exchange Model
The health care domain featured one of the earliest uses of semantic technology in the public sector -- and it could also fuel adoption in the National Information Exchange Model.
Back in 2004, the Situational Awareness and Preparedness for Public Health Incidents Using Reasoning Engines (SAPPHIRE) system rolled out with infrastructure based on semantic Web technologies. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston spearheaded the effort. Although SAPPHIRE is no longer funded, the center applies what it learned to other interoperability problems. In one project example, SAPPHIRE-based technology enables distributed data collection for disaster preparedness, noted Dr. Parsa Mirhaji, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at the center.
Related coverage:
Is government ready for the semantic Web?
It's all semantics: A glossary of machine-to-machine communications
As for NIEM, the health care community may end up being among the first groups that require greater use of semantics. Michael Daconta, CTO at Accelerated Information Management, said the federal government's "meaningful use" directive, which focuses on the adoption of electronic health records, calls for decision support. That thrust will likely spark interest in semantic technologies.
"By its nature, decision support starts pushing you toward these technologies," he said.
But some data integration efforts in health care don't immediately plan to tap semantic technology. The National Institutes of Health's National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative are working to link autism research datasets using global unique identifiers (GUIDs). The project was described last year in the biomedical and health informatics journal Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Matthew McAuliffe, chief of the Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section and NDAR project science manager at NIH, said semantic technology isn't featuring in its GUID approach. McAuliffe, one of the authors of the JAMIA article, said he may consider NIEM, however.
NIEM, he said, "does look interesting and I plan on looking into it to see if there [is] any use for the model in NDAR."
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I suspect that prior to employing electronic health records for decision support purposes we might consider the fact that there don't seem to be too many defined standards for persisting and then sharing the "structured data" insisted upon by the objectives. I have more to say about this in a longer note at http://bit.ly/gpeqvq - check it out there.
I suggest the National Cancer Institute's Data Standards registry and repository along with its governance framework is the best example of "semantics by design". NCI's DSR responds to the needs of a broadly based global community to facilitate the sharing of critical data.This is a working example of what it takes to create a semantically rich environment for data. It's not evident that this rigor has been applied to other data domains and until such time, the use of semantics will be limited to searches as provided by algorithms such as Google.
Federal funding may be encouraging a move toward EHR, but there's more to it than just installing systems. How can healthcare data pooling lead to a better system? More at http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=2193
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- Overall Length:7.50"
- Blade Length:3.25"
- Cutting Edge:3.00"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:AUS-8
- Blade Style:Drop Point
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- Finish:Satin
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- Country of Origin:Taiwan
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This Kalashnikov knife has a satin finished AUS-8 stainless steel blade and blue coated aluminum handle with molded finger grips and jimping where the handle and blade meet. The design is thin, elegant and comfortable. The action of this knife is first rate and comparable to that of the Boker Magnum series. As with other Kalashnikov knives, this one comes with a pocket clip for easy tip-up carry.
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Eld's Deer
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Facts about this animal
The Eld's deer is a long-legged, long-bodied, medium-sized deer with a lyre-shaped pair of large antlers, and large, spreadable hooves. The head-body length is about 180 cm, the height is 105-115 cm. The antlers grow up to a length of about 100 cm (along the beam). Males weight about 70-100 kg, females about 40-70 kg. Females are smaller and more lightly built than males.
The ears are medium sized, wide but not pointed, and well-haired on the inner surface. The coat hair is smooth and thin with hardly any underfur. The uneven length of hairs produces a somewhat shaggy appearance. The colour of the summer coat is fawnish red on the upper parts with some pale spots near the middle line of the back. The under parts are pale brown. There is some white on the chin, around the eyes and margins of the ears. The Winter coat is uniformly dark brown above and whitish underneath. Females are slightly paler at all seasons. The antlers were shed from end of June to early September, and are free of velvet by December of early January.
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that the Keibul Lamjao National Park, covering a total of 40.5 sq.km with a core zone area of 15 sq.km. is the last natural habitat of the Eld's deer in India? This National Park is mostly made up of biomass floating on the Greater Loktak Lake. It is for this reason that the park has often been termed as the 'only floating national park in the world'.
|Name (Scientific)
|Cervus eldii
|Name (English)
|Eld's Deer
|Name (French)
|Cerf d'Eld
|Name (German)
|Leierhirsch, Thamin
|Name (Spanish)
|Ciervo de Eld
|Local names
|India (Manipur): Sangai
Burmese: Tamin
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|Open grassy plains, swamps and deciduous forests in the vicinity of water
|Wild population
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|377 reported to ISIS (2005)
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Pope Sparks Anger among Muslims
Muslim leaders from various quarters have called for an apology and a clarification of the remarks the pontiff made that implicitly link jihad, or holy war, with terrorism.
In his speech at the University of Regensburg on Tuesday (13 September), Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who allegedly said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
The speech explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between violence and faith.
Benedict, who used the terms "jihad" and "holy war," repeatedly quoted Manuel's argument that spreading the faith through violence is unreasonable, adding: "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul."
Benedict said "I quote" twice to clarify the phrase was not his own.
Vatican apology
The Vatican issued a statement on Thursday evening to say the Pope had never meant to offend Islam.
"It was certainly not the intention of the Holy Father to carry out an in-depth study of jihad and Muslim thinking about it, even less so to offend the sensitivity of the Muslim faithful," the Vatican press office said in a statement.
Muslim anger
Pakistan's parliament on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Pope for what it called "derogatory" comments. They have asked him to apologize for hurting the sentiments of Muslims.
Kuwaiti official Haken al-Mutairi, secretary general of the emirate's Umma (Islamic Nation) party, also urged the Pope to apologize immediately "to the Muslim world for his calumnies against the Prophet Mohammed and Islam."
Turkey's top Islamic cleric, Religious Affairs Directorate head Ali Bardakoglu, asked the Pope to take back the remarks, while several of Turkey's top Muslim leaders now oppose the pontiff's planned visit to Turkey in November, his first to a Muslim country.
Bardakoglu, who sets the religious agenda for 99 percent Muslim but secular Turkey, said he was deeply offended by the Pope's remarks on Islamic holy war, telling the AP news agency he found them "extraordinarily worrying, saddening and unfortunate."
Bardakoglu said that "if the Pope was reflecting the spite, hatred and enmity" of others in the Christian church, then the situation was even worse.
Repercussions for Vatican
The head of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) has also demanded a "clarification" from the Vatican.
"We hope that the Church will very quickly give us its opinion and clarify its position so that it does not confuse Islam, which is a revealed religion, with Islamism, which is not a religion but a political ideology," Dalil Boubakeur told AFP new agency.
Independent Moroccan newspaper Aujourd'hui said the Pope had "pointlessly" upset the world's Muslim population of one billion.
Meanwhile, the head of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood called on Islamic countries to break off relations with the Vatican unless the Pope retracted his remarks.
"Pope Benedict poured oil on the fire, aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world and strengthened the argument of those who say that the West is hostile to everything Muslim," said Mohamed Mahdi Akef, whose organization is one of the most influential in the Arab world.
Closer ties with Muslims and Jews
The reaction from the Muslim world to the pontiff's comments has tarnished what had been a successful visit to Germany, where a more relaxed Benedict was on display to the world.
During his public appearances he pressed the flesh with a politician's verve, kissed babies and, for this week at least, mothballed his image as a dour defender of the faith, honed by 24 years as the Vatican's doctrinal enforcer.
The Pope largely avoided other "church political" issues, such as women's ordination, an end to priestly celibacy and joint communion for Catholics and Protestants.
Last year, within days of his election as Pope in April, Pope Benedict XVI highlighted closer ties between Christians and Muslims as well as between Christians and Jews as priorities of his pontificate.
During his visit to World Youth Day in Cologne in August 2005, he met with both Muslim and Jewish leaders.
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Analysis Mohammed Cartoon Conflict
Arab Protests Are Calculated Political Response
Mass protests, threats of violence and boycotts in the Arab world are exaggerated reactions to the Mohammed cartoon and an example of how governments instrumentalize hatred against the West for political purposes. Ibrahim Mohamad reports
Escalating Conflict about Prophet Caricatures
Bomb in Turban
After the publication of the provocative Mohammed caricatures in a Danish newspaper the question has been raised about whether certain rights such as the freedom of speech and the press should really remain unrestricted or whether they – like every other freedom – should find their limits where the freedom of the other is affected. By Peter Philipp
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Plea for Blasphemy Clauses
The right wing in France is using the cartoon controversy as a pretense to take up arms against the republic's secular mindset. Details from Bernhard Schmid in Paris


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Ron Guth: The 1872 Half Dime is a fairly common date. While not as common as the 1872-S Half Dime, the 1872 is on par with dates such as the 1858, 1860, and 1871. Mint State versions are plentiful, covering a wide swath from MS-62 to MS-64. Gems become scarce and superb examples are simply rare. The finest example certified by PCGS (as of February 2012) is a single MS-66+ (pictured above).
Most examples seen have weakness on the upper left side of the wreath. This weakness ranges from slightly soft to virtually flat. An 1872 Half Dime with a fully struck wreath would be quite a prize, if it exists at all.
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spiritual communities that owed their unity to a common religion. The civilization of India
was the creation of Brahman ism, and that of China had been formed andjrf^ moulded by the Confucian tradition; Islam was essentially the society of the True Believers, who accepted the Law
of the Prophet, and finally Europe was identified with Christendom. Thus political citizenship and racial origins were secondary to religious belief and practice. The Indian who
ceased to observe the laws of caste and the worship of the Gods and accepted the teaching of
Mohammed, ceased to be a Hindu and became a Moslem. And in the same way, the western Moslem
who became a Christian, did not merely change his religion, he passed over from one civilization to another and4cquired rights of citizenship in a new society.
During the last two centuries this situation has gradually changed. Nationality has taken the place of religion as the ultimate principle of social organization, and ideology has
taken the place of theology as the creator of social ideals and the guide of public opinion.
All over the world, beginning in Western Europe and extending gradually to the most remote
regions of Asia and .Africa, a change has taken place in the conditions of human existence and
in the ways of social thought. The world has been made one, first by European trade and conquest and colonization, and secondly by Western science and technology. And behind the railway and the motor lorry and the aeroplane, there has spread a wave of secular ideas which had
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and tended to become embodied in political parties and regimes. Thus Liberalism and Nationalism, 'democracy and Socialism, Communism and Fascism all acquired this ideological form,
though they were rarely found in a pure state. For example, we find National Liberalism and
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You finish your child's puzzles. You solve his spats. Heck, you'd cut his applesauce if he asked. It's time to stop being a micromanaging mom. Help has arrived…It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait… it's you, the Helicopter Parent. That shadow over your kid? It's yours—as you nervously bend over him in his bed, making sure his chest is still rising and falling. That droning noise? It isn't chopper blades, it's you again, on the phone to his preschool teacher, complaining that he said some kid cut him in line. Before that, you were busy wiping his butt, even though he does it on his own at Grandma's house.
Sound familiar? You've got tons of company. Like, for instance, Joy Schoffler of Austin, TX. "My three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Isabella, will ask to be carried down the stairs," she admits. "She sees me holding her brother and wants to be picked up, too. Of course, Tyler is ten months and can't walk, and Isabella can. But if I'm running out the door late, picking her up is easier than stopping and saying no." Schoffler needs to start an online support group with Robin Parker of Atlanta, mother of 2 ½-year-old Thomas: "He's learned to bring his dad or me any challenging task because we'll do it for him," she says.
Why do so many of us wait on our kids hand and foot, or micromanage their lives to jaw-dropping extremes? Are we trying to elevate troubleshooting to an Olympic sport (or land our own reality show)? There's plenty of evidence that this coddling is as unhealthy for them as it is exhausting for us. So you've gotta stop. But how? Read on for some insights, plus advice that'll help you land your crazy copter.
What the Heli Is Going on?
Think back to your own childhood: Your folks probably didn't hover nearly as much as you do. Chances are, you got to play in the yard unattended, or even made your own snacks. Turns out some pretty powerful technological, economic, and social factors have turned us into a generation of over-zealous moms and dads, experts say.
For starters, there's the explosion of cyberspace, and media in general: "Parenting information is available twenty-four-seven," observes Christie Barnes, author of The Paranoid Parents Guide: Worry Less, Parent Better, and Raise a Resilient Child. "You can go online and find out every scary thing that could happen to your child. You can also investigate every illness. So there's endless opportunity for fear." At the same time, the rules for setting your little one on the path to lifelong success have become murkier than ever, adds Margaret Nelson, a professor of sociology at Middlebury College, in Vermont, and author of Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times. "Even if you've managed to be financially comfortable and happy, you're aware your child may not be able to duplicate what you've accomplished, even if he does exactly what you did," she explains. "So you ask yourself 'What should I provide him with?' Without an answer, you start trying to provide absolutely everything you possibly can, including too much help."Kids with overbearing moms may have more anxiety and depression.
Time to Back Off
Once you've gotten used to being The Parent from Heli, it's hard to give up your pilot's license. There's even a social element to it, notes Barnes: "So many times, our worries about our kids are what we talk about with other moms," she says. "There's almost a feeling that if you're not worrying enough, there must be something wrong with you. Worrying feels like love." But a growing body of evidence indicates that being a (s)mother or a super-protective dad can backfire, badly. Among the latest studies is one from North Carolina State University, in which researchers studied kids and their parents in 20 parks over a two-month period. They found that children whose folks hovered and fretted were far less apt to engage in spontaneous play and missed out on some much-needed exercise.
It's not just kids' little bodies that suffer when you hover; their psyches can pay the price, too. Psychologists at the University of Washington studied more than 200 kids and their moms for three years, and found that when a child already had pretty good judgment and self-control, having a heli-mom who provided too much guidance and not enough independence raised his risk of becoming anxious or depressed. The kids in the study were mostly a little older (9 on average at the study's start), but it's easy to see how a micromanaging mom could frustrate a child of any age.
And what's all this doing to you? Probably nothing good either. One study showed that parents who judge their own self-worth by their children's accomplishments report sadness and diminished contentment with life in general. They appear to have less happy marriages, too, says Nelson, who interviewed approximately 100 parents and found that as the amount of time they spend on childcare rises, "personal relationships seem to be the first thing to go." So don't go there! Keep reading for great ways to let go of your helicopter parenting ways.
Get a Grip
OK, so now we've (hopefully!) convinced you that quality parenting doesn't mean constant hovering. But how do you start to ease up? Sounds tough, but it can be done. Here, advice from the trenches—including both pros and real parents!
Be a submarine mom or dad instead, says Silvana Clark, author of Fun-Filled Parenting: A Guide to Laughing More and Yelling Less. "Instead of hovering around your child, stay close by—in case of real danger—but mostly out of sight, so he gets out of the habit of running to you for every problem."
Ask your child's other care-givers what tasks he does when you're not around, then hold him to that standard at home, says Natalie Caine of Empty Nest Support Services, in Los Angeles, who frequently leads parenting groups that include helicopter moms. Does he put on his own rainboots at preschool but whine for you to do it on weekends? Insist you cut the crusts on his sandwiches, even though he'll eat crusts at your sister-in-law's house? Don't give in.
Make your kid a résumé, says Clark. "Take a piece of paper and write 'Sally is three. Here are some cool things Sally can do by herself.' Then list some of her abilities, like clearing her plate and putting her stuffed animals on her bed, and put a star next to each. Every time your child masters a new task, add it to the list, with the star. She'll be much less apt to ask you to wait on her, since she'll be so proud." And as you look at the growing list, you'll have evidence that you don't need to provide concierge service after all. "There's almost a feeling that if you don't worry enough, something's wrong with you," says Barnes.
Practice some basic playground skills with your child, says Paranoid Parents author Christie Barnes. "Show him how to kick a ball, climb on the mini-monkey bars, or even just go down the slide. If you see he can do these things safely, you'll feel more comfortable sitting back on the bench during his next park playdate," she says.
Sit down and have a cup of coffee. Make a brief time every day when your butt's in a chair and your metaphorical copter is on the landing pad, too. "If your child calls for you and it isn't an emergency, say 'I am drinking coffee right now,'" advises Caine. "If he really needs you, he'll come to you, and if you do this enough, he may stop asking for help with every little thing so often."
Help your child get the picture. "I found myself being a helicopter mom and knew I needed to change," says Dawn Arnold of Mazon, IL, mother of a 5-year-old. "I filled a small photo album with pictures of my daughter doing all the things she needs to do in the morning before school, after school, and before bed. Now she follows along every day. It lets her be independent, but the things that I think are important are still getting done."
Count to ten before liftoff. "You know how people always say that you should count to ten before you lose your temper?" says Clark. "I tell parents, as long as their child's not in danger, to count to ten before answering his cry of 'Help me! or 'I can't!' In that time, you may realize it's not necessary to rush in after all…or your child may decide he can actually do whatever it is that needs to be done all by himself."
The Way We Whirrr
For the helicopter parent, these things really get their choppers going…
Trifling toy traumas
Little Thomas Parker has a train set, and sometimes the tracks jiggle apart. "I'll stand there and watch him trying to fix it for a minute, but I don't like to see him struggle. Before he reaches the breaking point, we step in," his mom, Robin, confesses.
School snafus
Paranoid Parents author Christie Barnes heard of one mom who called school to complain that a kid had stared at her son. It turned out he'd stared because her son had drawn a flower on his nose.
Sticky Social Situations
"We took our three-year-old son, Jackson, to our friends' house for their kids' Halloween party," says Chasity O'Steen. "Jackson didn't really know their kids, let alone their kids' friends. I kept wanting to walk across the room and help him enter the group."
Clothes Calls
Hair and makeup artist Candice Isaac, of Baltimore, still selects her 4-year-old daughter Sierra's clothes. "Sierra would pick five options and stand there trying to choose, and I have to get out of the house to meet clients," she says.
Surprise! Stuff Your Kid Can Do on His Own
So what is your kid capable of? These are all tasks he can start to learn as he moves past toddlerhood:
1. Zip his pants
2. Put on a belt
3. Make an easy sandwich, like cream cheese and jelly, using a dull knife. (Hint: Toast the bread, so it's a little easier to handle.)
4. Sort socks
5. Fold towels
6. Help set the table
7. Put clothes in the laundry basket


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Discover the true nature and the heartbreaking effects of anorexia and bulimia as Cliff Koch recall the story of Pamela, his wife for 25 years in Miracles Happen… Sometimes. Eating disorders, contrary to what most people think, is not a lifestyle choice or a diet gone 'too far'. It does not only result in thin appearance and malnutrition. Eating disorders are serious and are potentially life-threatening mental illnesses. Miracles Happen… Sometimes is a revealing account that relives the trials Cliff and Pam lived through fighting the life-threatening effects of Anorexia.
Pamela's eating disorder led her vascular disease to cause the amputation of both feet all fingers including the thumb. The effects of Pamela's anorexia and bulimia also affected her respiratory condition that leads her to use only 35% capacity of her lungs. She was dialyzed three times a week because of her kidney failure and she would slip into a coma while her doctors could not give an assurance of her survival. They also suffered setbacks where they had to start the recovery process again. During these times Cliff Koch never gave up. He stood by his wife through the whole process. His unwavering love, support, and devotion for his wife inspired Cliff to retell and immortalize their story through Miracles Happen… Sometimes. Because of this, Pam is and will continue to be an inspiration not only to those she met during her illness but also to the readers of Miracles Happen… Sometimes.
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Officers found Zuniga suffering from a gunshot wound in his chest after being called to the 2900 block of Stevenson Street, between Alvarado and Atherton avenues at 9:15 p.m., police said.
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For my application I need to extract both Q and R matrices from a QR decomposition.
It seems that the right routines for doing this in MAGMA are magma_dgeqrf_gpu and magma_dorgqr_gpu.
However, the R matrix computed by magma_dgeqrf_gpu is not the same as returned by magma_dgeqrf2_gpu
and LAPACK. Does magma_dgeqrf_gpu use a different scheme to store R?
Also, which is the purpose of magma_dgeqrf3_gpu? The documentation talks about some parts of R stored
separately, but this is not quite clear to me.
Thanks for your wonderful library, its source code is an excellent way of learning how to use the GPU.


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Hefty Subsidies Prop Up Unsustainable Energy System
New Worldwatch Institute report reviews extent of global energy subsidies
Washington, D.C.—Efforts by a variety of organizations to quantify global support for fossil fuels have generated estimates that range from $523 billion to over $1.9 trillion, depending on the calculation and what measures are included. What is clear is that the level of support has rebounded to 2008 levels following a dip in 2009–10 during the global financial crisis, writes Worldwatch Research Fellow Philipp Tagwerker in the Institute's latest Vital Signs Online trend (www.worldwatch.org).
Traditional calculations account for two kinds of energy subsidies. Production subsidies lower the cost of energy generation through preferential tax treatments and direct financial transfers (grants to producers and preferential loans). Consumption subsidies lower the price for energy users, usually through tax breaks or underpriced government energy services. While production subsidies predominate in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, consumption subsidies are favored in developing countries to reduce the burden on poor households' income, as poor people have to use a greater share of their income to buy fossil fuel products.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that coal, electricity, oil, and natural gas consumption subsidies in 38 developing economies were $523 billion in 2011. Using a price-gap approach, the IEA figure includes subsidies that bring the price of fossil fuels below the international benchmark. Subsidies that lower the price just to the international level or slightly above it are not captured. In a parallel study by the OECD, support measures for the production and consumption of fossil fuels in its 24 member countries were inventoried. Using a broader definition than the price-gap method (including direct budgetary transfers and tax expenditures), support for fossil fuels in OECD countries alone averaged $55–90 billion per year between 2005 and 2011.
The lack of a clear definition of "subsidy" makes it hard to compare the different methods used to value support for fossil fuels, but the varying approaches nevertheless illustrate global trends. Fossil fuel subsidies declined in 2009, increased in 2010, and then in 2011 reached almost the same level as in 2008. The decrease in subsidies was due almost entirely to fluctuations in fuel prices rather than to policy changes.
In developing countries, roughly $285 billion—more than 50 percent of all fossil fuel consumption subsidies—went to oil in 2011. Natural gas consumption there received $104 billion in support. Coal received only $3 billion in direct consumption subsidies in these countries, but another $131 billion went to public underpricing of electricity,much of which is generated from burning coal. In industrial countries, using the broader definition of consumption subsidies, the support for oil was valued at roughly $38 billion in 2011. Natural gas support in these countries totaled around $10 billion. Coal was supported the least in industrial countries, receiving $7 billion in subsidies.
Support for renewables is still small—$88 billion in 2011, compared with the support for fossil fuels estimated by the IEA and OECD. But it expanded by 33 percent in 2011, more than the 28 percent increase for fossil fuel subsidies. Of the $88 billion support for renewables, two-thirds went toward electricity and the remaining third to biofuels.
Externalities have so far not entered into the calculation of subsidies, although the additional costs associated with increased resource scarcity, the environment, and human health are enormous. Without factoring in such considerations, renewable subsidies' cost between 1.7¢ and 15¢ per kilowatt-hour (kWh), higher than the estimated 0.1–0.7¢ per kWh for fossil fuels. If externalities were included, however, estimates indicate fossil fuels would cost 23.8¢ more per kWh, while renewables would cost around 0.5¢ more per kWh.
From an emissions perspective, 15 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions receive $110 per ton in support, while only 8 percent are subject to a carbon price, effectively nullifying carbon market contributions as a measure to reduce emissions. Accelerating the phaseout of fossil fuel subsidies would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 360 million tons in 2020, which is 12 percent of the emission savings that are needed in order to keep the increase in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius.
Subsidy estimation and transparency initiatives need to be scaled up and consolidated. A common methodology and definition can aid in analyzing the distortions that subsidies cause in the economy and allow for a better-informed dialogue to negotiate their phaseout. The same analysis could help alleviate the political resistance toward fuel price increases, as countries can be guided in their decision making and supported in the reallocation of funds.
Further highlights from the report:
- Producer subsidies other than the support measures captured in the OECD inventory were quoted at $100 billion in the June 2010 report to G-20 leaders from the OECD, the IEA, the World Bank, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
- After removing tax breaks for energy products such as a reduced value-added tax, a recent report by the International Monetary Fund estimated that the total amount of fossil fuel subsidies increased to at least $1.9 trillion, or 2.5 percent of global GDP.
- Russia announced plans to increase regulated natural gas tariffs on the domestic market by 15 percent for all users from July 2013, and China announced that starting in March 2013, oil product prices would be adjusted every 10 working days to better reflect international prices.
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In this last kind of "creative" chapter, I will look at some of the ways you implement common problems in your relational database, and some of the ways you probably shouldn't. The "should" sections will deal with:
This marks an increase of a 4 sections from the last book, when I added this Patterns chapter. I did take away a few bits about sequence and calendar tables, but I do plan to move this to a later chapter on development, where I will discuss the sorts of objects that I find nice to have in each database and why.
For the anti-patterns, I am adding one more in this edition, on undecipherable data.
This is one of my favorite chapters because it really gets to the core of design. Up until now we have stuck mostly to basics and fundamentals, building very basic structures and working with the object types available to us. Here we build practical solutions to solve common problems.
From here, the next chapter we will move along to security, structures, and then putting the finishing touches on things. Hopefully soon I will have some exciting new about a final chapter that will tie it all together once I get final approval and acceptance from the guest writer on this chapter.
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If you are feeling overwhelmed, you're not alone. Ask any person how they are doing and more often than not you will get a response like, "fried," "busy," or "swamped." If you're feeling like overwhelm is your new normal, here are a few practices that can help you reduce stress, stay focused, and have fun again.
We live in a culture of stress and overwhelm. Most people are juggling work, friends, family, health, travel, and that's if all is well.
Here's a pretty typical scene:
"It's just after 10 a.m. on a Tuesday and I am racing down Route 1. The Check Engine light is on. The car tax sticker on my windshield has expired. The cell phone I'd just been using to talk to one of my kids' teachers has disappeared into the seat crack. And I'm late," writes award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte in her book, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time.
Can you relate?
She paints the picture for women in particular.
"You have to keep house like Martha Stewart, parent like Donna Reed, work like Sheryl Sandberg, and look like Jennifer Anniston. That's nuts. We all know it's nuts, and yet it's hard to break away from those cultural expectations," Schulte writes.
But people of all ages have their version of overscheduled and overwhelmed living.
"I think everyone today, if you asked them, 'What's the biggest problem in your life?' They'd say, 'I just don't have time for anything!'" says Omega cofounder Elizabeth Lesser in an interview.
"We are almost afraid to slow down," Lesser continues. "Because, uh, oh—I have built up so much stuff in there, I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going."
These overwhelming feelings of stress are particularly felt in the workplace, as most people manage meetings, emails, PowerPoints, paperwork, and coworkers. In fact, more than 8 in 10 American workers said they are stressed out on the job, according the 2013 Work Stress Survey.
Minutes of Meditation
Time and money are two major issues in most people's lives, according to Marc Allen, author of The Magical Path.
"So many people feel they have to work 40 or 50 or even 60 hours a week—but half the time, they're not being productive anyway," Allen writes in his blog. "Sometimes during the day it would be far better to take a nap, because you wake up with more energy and get more done in the long run."
He recommends the Middle Pillar Meditation to help attract more abundance and to help alleviate stress.
Music Is Powerful
"Far too often, we get bogged down with our busy schedules and to-do lists and forget to put on music and let our minds recalibrate," writes Gabrielle Bernstein in her book, Miracles Now. She recommends using music to help calm down.
"Schedule a few minutes a day to sit in stillness and listen to an inspiring song or two. This ritual will begin a powerful meditative practice of turning inward and releasing worldly concerns," she writes.
Breathe It Out
Health and lifestyle coach Magen Banwart says we need to pay more attention to our breath.
"Most Americans are in this fight or flight response/stress-mode breathing 15 to 20 breaths per minute nearly all the time," she writes on her blog. "A calm, centered person takes about six breaths per minute. If we slow breath down, the body and the mind think everything is alright, even if you're in a highly stressful situation."
She recommends the "Two Bells" style of deep breathing, named for Tibetan bells that chime every 6 seconds to signal changes in inhalation and exhalation. It can be enjoyed with or without bells.
- Close your eyes
- Make a mental checklist of how you are feeling
- Close your mouth and touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth
- Inhale deeply in through the nose 4 to 6 counts
- Exhale out of the nose 4 to 6 counts
- Repeat 3 to 5 times
She says breathing exercises can also help reduce mental and physical fatigue.
Take More Time for Leisure
In contrast to all this overwhelm is leisure, which is defined as "that place in which we realize our humanity," by the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa.
When was the last time you truly allowed for time to do nothing and just enjoy being human?
Sometimes, the best way to handle overwhelm is to ditch the to-do list and enjoy some rest and relaxation.
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Yes. Hiccups are common in babies under a year old.
Babies even hiccup in the womb, which sometimes alarm pregnant moms but is also totally normal. Some mothers wonder how babies can hiccup in utero – after all, they're not really breathing yet. But hiccups have nothing to do with breath: They're sudden contractions of the diaphragm caused by irritation or stimulation of the muscle.
According to Lynnette Mazur, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, infant hiccups are usually caused by feeding (breast milk, formula, or other foods).
"It's a nuisance to parents, but not so much to the baby," says Mazur. "Unless the hiccups interfere with daily activities like sleeping or eating, there's no need to see a healthcare provider."
Babies with gastroesophageal reflux disease may hiccup more frequently, according to Mazur. If your baby hiccups often, mention it to her doctor, especially if she spits up a lot or coughs and seems very cranky.
In addition, if your child's hiccups are uncontrollable, happen very frequently, or occur often after age 1, talk to your child's doctor. Unusual hiccups can – in very rare cases – be a sign of a more serious underlying medical condition.
As for how to stop hiccups, there are a lot of theories, but Mazur pooh-poohs them all. "There's really not much you can do, and they'll go away soon," she says. Some say to let babies suck on something, which Mazur says "won't really hurt and might help, but I wouldn't bet on it."
Don't try to cure hiccups by startling your baby, pressing on her eyeballs, pushing on her fontanel, or pulling her tongue, which are common folk remedies in some cultures. There's no proof that any of these methods work, and you could hurt your baby in the process.
Community: Talk with other BabyCenter parents about baby hiccups.