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LOOKING BACK: Amanullah Khan, Afghanistan
When challenging the notion that the oppression of girls is embedded in their culture, Afghans need but say three words: King Amanullah Khan.
Khan, who won Afghanistan independence from the British in 1919, pushed for reforms to benefit girls and women throughout the 1920s. He raised the minimum age for marriage to 18, resisted polygamy and took aim at forced marriage. During his decade-long rule, education became compulsory for every Afghan citizen — including girls.
In leading Afghanistan, Khan treated his wife, Queen Soraya, as a true partner. Together they established the country's first school for girls in 1924. "Do you think … that our nation … needs only men to serve it?" the queen asked at the 7th anniversary of Afghanistan independence. "Women should also take their part as women did in the early years of our nation and Islam. From their examples we must learn that we must all contribute toward the development of our nation and that this cannot be done without being equipped with knowledge."
In that spirit, Khan started sending Afghan girls to Turkey for higher learning, without requiring them to wear a hijab or have a male relative serve as chaperone. Soon hundreds of Afghan girls were pursuing education in Germany, France and other parts of Europe.
But Khan's push to end forced marriage enraged many fathers, who saw the end of bride prices as a loss of financial security and social standing. By 1928, Khan faced revolt from rural tribal leaders. They fanned their agenda by distributing international photos of Queen Soraya unveiled and dining with foreign men. This led to charges that Khan was violating Islamic law.
Khan was forced to abdicate in 1929 and, later, died in exile in Switzerland. Afghanistan returned to tribal law and largely shut down education for girls.
Today, even in the face of stubborn forces trying to deny girls an education, many Afghan communities are building and expanding classrooms for them. They gain inspiration not just from their mothers and daughters but their founding father, too.
Tribal custom must not impose itself on the free will of the individual.
- Amanullah Khan
SOURCES: 1 Joya, Malalai, "A Woman Among Warlords," Simon and Schuster, 2009. 2 European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU), "Women in Afghanistan: Lack of Educational Opportunities," 2008. 3 Afghanistan online. 4 "How to End Child Marriage," International Center for Research on Women, 2007. Photo Credit: © 1928 The Associated Press.

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The ESRB continues to work with retailers to provide consumers with information about the
ratings and to support their store policy regarding the sale and/or rental of M (Mature) and
AO (Adults Only) rated games. In order to accomplish this, ESRB works with retailers in the
United States and Canada in the following ways:
In November 2005, the ESRB
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regular communication and input for consideration on matters of
common interest to U.S. computer and video game retailers and the
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Associate in Applied Science Degree, Career Program
The A.A.S. degree program in Automotive Technology is a four-semester sequence designed to prepare students for a career in the automotive field or for transfer to a vocational-technical program. Career opportunities include positions as automotive technicians, service managers, shop supervisors, specialty technicians, as well as other support functions associated with automotive and industrial manufacturers. In addition, the general education courses may qualify graduates for supervisory positions dealing directly with customer relations, sales, or factory representatives. Students who transfer for a bachelor's degree can become qualified to teach in a variety of vocational-technical programs.
Graduates will be able to service the following automotive systems: cooling, air conditioning, electrical, suspension, brake, exhaust, fuel, and emission control; diagnose microprocessor controls, major engine/drive train systems; demonstrate the use of industry safety standards; understand project management techniques; and understand basic automotive history and language.
The automotive facilities are located on campus and at CCC's Airport Corporate Park facility in Big Flats.
After evaluation by CCC's faculty, students with BOCES training may receive advanced standing. Students who have graduated from the Certificate program and elect to enter the A.O.S. degree program can complete the additional requirements in one academic year. Those selecting the A.A.S. degree program will usually need three additional semesters of academic work.
In order to participate in any automotive lab, a student must maintain a valid automobile driver's license. For program assistance, students should consult their adviser.
Students will be required to purchase a prescribed list of hand tools at the beginning of the program. Students should see their adviser for a detailed tool list.
High school or equivalent preparation required: Two years of mathematics including algebra and either geometry or intermediate algebra. Students who don't have this preparation will be able to get it here, but it will take longer to complete the program.


text: Loading. Please wait. What are you inhaling at home?In the early summer, my neighborhood experiences what we call the "yellow wind." This onslaught is caused by thousands of acres of local pine forest releasing their pollen load in a few weeks' time. It is not uncommon to see the edges of lakes yellow with accumulation. This accumulation also covers decks, cars and every horizontal surface in the house. We try to limit the deposits inside by closing the windows, but after 9 months of winter, it is difficult to keep them closed when it's finally nice outside.In my previous career I worked as an engineer/scientist for a biotechnology company. The facility I worked in was state-of-the-art and was used to manufacture pharmaceutical products. We had multiple levels of "clean rooms" in the plant and the air quality in many of these areas was typically 10 times cleaner than in a hospital operating room. Going to work in this extremely controlled environment during pollen season had my allergy-impacted eyes cleared well before lunch, and it was nice to have a few hours' respite in my day.These days, the clean rooms are just a memory and I work my way through the summer's pollen with the aid of antihistamines. Pollen is just one contaminate that I now see regularly. As a carpenter, sawdust and other airborne particles are now more common. Most homeowners can add dust, mold and combustion byproducts to the list. Each of these items may have impacts on health and wellbeing for most people.The Clean Air ActIn 1970, the Clean Air Act established the first set of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The original goal was to monitor and provide regulations for a number of things that impact air quality: PM (particulate matter), ozone, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and lead were items that saw initial controls. All of these items being monitored and regulated are considered outdoor contaminates; indoor air, by comparison, is virtually unregulated. Granted, it would be more difficult to have good indoor air if the outdoor air were extremely bad. But indoor air quality is often far worse than outdoor air.John Spengler, a professor from Harvard's School of Public Health, has done a lot of research on air quality. He states: "Our studies, as well as others, reveal that people spend 65% of their time in their residences, 25% in some other indoor environment, 5-7% in transit, and usually less than 5% of their time is actually spent outdoors. The contaminant levels encountered in these indoor environments are important contributors to exposure, discomfort, irritation and health effects. Although we assess the effects of pollutants of outdoor origin (ozone, acidic particles, PCBs), we are particularly interested in pollutants of indoor origin (fungi, dust mites, nitrogen dioxide, tobacco smoke, lead, asbestos, volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, radon and others). Concentrations of these pollutants can reach levels many times greater than outdoor levels. NO2 levels in hockey rinks can exceed 1 ppm, while homes with unvented gas cooking might vary between 20 and 100 ppb. In homes across North America, the presence of molds and mildew has been associated with substantial increases in upper and lower respiratory symptoms. Volatile components in gasoline can be 6 to 10 times higher inside a passenger car during rush hour traffic than values measured at standard urban monitoring sites."Modern Homes are Air TrapsHeating and cooling a home in an economical way has led to homes being built more airtight than ever before. While this is great from an energy use standpoint, the downside is poor ventilation and poor indoor air quality."It has long been known that airborne particles can contribute to lung and heart disease," says Lynn Hildemann, PhD, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Clayman Institute faculty research fellow.Hildemann says, "Vacuuming the carpet, making the bed, cooking dinner or using room freshener may be hazardous to one's health. These activities all release potentially harmful allergens and pollutants. However, household air pollution is not regulated, putting respiratory health at risk. Indoor air pollution can be up to 10 times worse than outdoor air pollution because enclosed areas allow pollutants to accumulate. Regulation of pollutants has focused on outdoor air, even though people in developed countries spend most of their time indoors."Hildemann continues by saying: "In our daily life we are exposed to a variety of air pollutants. We have a lot to learn about what they are, how much there are, to what extent they are harmful, and what we can do about it. Airborne pollutants fall into two categories: gases and particles. Outdoors, the kinds of gases we're breathing (in addition to air) include carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides (called NOx), and ozone. Particle pollutants not only include natural sources like wind-blown dust, but also result from human activities, especially combustion emissions from car engines, furnaces, fireplaces, barbecues and cigarettes. The good news for our health is that regulation of car, power plant and industrial emissions over the last few decades have helped keep outdoor air much cleaner than it would be without those laws. But as population continues to increase, we have more cars, houses and energy demands than ever before. That means that even as we make everything cleaner, we could still see rises in overall pollution. The bigger issue, however, is the air you breathe indoors, because that's where people, on average, spend about 90 percent of their time. Indoor spaces have unique kinds of air pollution, but there are virtually no regulations to limit them at all. The stuff we breathe indoors can be worse than outdoors for some pollutants, like vaporized chemicals, which come from paint and furniture (these are called "volatile organic compounds″ or VOCs), and biological particles, such as pet dander and molds. In some places, if you measure carefully, you can even find small amounts of other nasty things in the indoor dust, such as lead. We used to have lead in our gasoline and particles containing it settled next to roadways. People still track that in on their shoes, leave it on the floor and then kick it back up into the air later. Recently, my students and I have been studying indoor mold levels to determine how much of it comes in from outdoors versus how much gets kicked up indoors when people walk over carpets. By taking measurements in carpeted public spaces and homes, we've found a strong correlation between foot traffic and mold levels. We've shown the carpet to be a major source by comparing walking on carpeting with walking on a clean tarp. By having volunteers dressed in Tyvek suits walk around under the same conditions, we've been able to determine that people and their clothes are not a major source. One of the places we took measurements was in a hospital, where there are likely to be patients with poor immune systems and greater susceptibility to lung infections. If indeed further tests confirm that walking on carpets really kicks up molds into the indoor air, hospitals may want to rethink having carpets."Indoor Air Quality is a Worldwide IssueHildemann recently took part in a study that looked at the effects of indoor air pollution on women in villages in southern Bangladesh. The women cook by burning debris and leaves indoors in crude, unvented clay stoves, creating dense buildups of smoke for several hours a day. Hildemann found that on a daily basis, the women breathed concentrations of airborne particles that were 15 times greater than the village men, who spend their time outdoors fishing. She also noted that respiratory illnesses among the very young were prevalent. "More young children die from respiratory illness there than from diarrheal diseases," she says. "But parents do not associate these deaths with smoke exposure, even though the mothers keep their youngest children close by while they cook."Beyond the Third WorldIn the western world, we typically do not cook over open fires in small spaces, so most people are not exposed to this type of contamination. However, we have seen increases in asthma rates due to other issues, especially in urban children. A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found an association between increasing levels of indoor particulate matter pollution and the severity of asthma symptoms among children. The study, which followed a group of asthmatic children in Baltimore, Maryland, is among the first to examine the effects of indoor particulate matter pollution.The study found: "Particulate matter is an airborne mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets. The solid particles come in numerous shapes and sizes and may be composed of different chemical components. Fine particles measure 2.5 microns or less in size (approximately 1/30th the diameter of a human hair) and can penetrate deep into the body's respiratory system. Coarse particles fall between 2.5 and 10 microns in diameter. These larger particles can also enter the respiratory system and can be produced indoors through activities such as cooking and dusting. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates outdoor levels of fine particle pollution, but does not have a standard for coarse particle pollution. There are no regulations for indoor pollution.""We found that substantial increases in asthma symptoms were associated both with higher indoor concentrations of fine particles and with higher indoor concentrations of coarse particles," said Meredith C. McCormack, MD, MHS, lead author of the study and an instructor with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.In many cases, the level of indoor fine particle pollution measured was twice as high as the accepted standard for outdoor pollution established by the EPA."Children spend nearly 80 percent of their time indoors, which makes understanding the effects of indoor air very important," said coauthor Gregory B. Diette, MD, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment.Education is KeyI often laugh at some TV commercials that are attempting to brainwash the populace with ads selling air fresheners. They claim that by spraying their product about in your home you can actually "clean the air." Never, in over a decade working as an engineer/scientist, have I seen the addition of an aerosol into a confined environment make the air cleaner or better. These scented products merely mask the smells that people assume are indicators of "dirty air." In the pharmaceutical plant I worked in, we had very large air handlers that used banks of HEPA filters to remove particles and air contaminates. These were costly to install and maintain and far exceed anything that could or would be installed in a typical home. But only by removing contaminates can the air become "cleaner." Home Filters and Ionic systemsMany homes have forced air heating and cooling systems; the installation of better filters may reduce the concentrations of particles and other airborne contaminates that reside in everyone's home. But these can never reach the efficiency of real clean rooms. The air exchange rates needed for true room-sized HEPA filtration would dwarf the capacity of most household furnace or AC components. Many have managed limited reductions through the installation of filters or secondary systems, so their use has benefit. Just do not expect them to be the end-all solution. Ionic filters or particle collectors have limited scope as well, but also can generate ozone, which ironically is an outdoor contaminate that is regulated. These devices may reduce particle counts at the cost of added ozone in the home.Integrated Approach to Better Indoor Air QualityPerhaps the best way to control indoor air is with a combined strategy. Limiting activities that produce particles and the removal of particle-harboring materials are great places to start. Limiting the use of aerosols and venting appliances that produce contaminates to the outdoors are also some great ideas for improving indoor air quality. Using low-VOC finishes and cleaners can reduce another category of contaminates commonly found in the home.I have completed some remodel work over the years for clients with chemical sensitivities; replacing carpet with tile and using no-VOC paints were key areas to limit some types of exposure. These strategies reduced allergen and particulate levels. When cleaning is required, the use of vacuums that have high-efficiency filters is another way to ensure that particles are indeed collected and not just redistributed in the home. Behavioral changes can also provide for a cleaner home. I have noticed that when I close the windows in the early summer, at least on windy days, the pollen piles in my house are much smaller. The world is a dusty place, as are our homes. Some simple tips can keep most of it under control.


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European agriculture and the Common Agricultural policy – Facts and figures
Presents data and facts through graphs, tables and maps on: farms, agriculture and rural areas in the EU, including European farmers' incomes; the role of subsidies in farm income; the evolution of prices for agricultural products; the main agricultural trade flows; and how to quantify interactions between agriculture and the environment.
Agriculture in the European Union and the Member States - Statistical factsheets
Presents the main economic and agricultural data for each country and the European Union.
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The Farm economy focus by sector presents the income level, financial situation, production and structural characteristics of farms for various agricultural sectors in Europe based on data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN).
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CAP monitoring and evaluation indicators 2014-2020
Presents data and analysis for the set of indicators established for the monitoring and evaluation of the CAP 2014-2020.
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Rural development in the European Union - Statistical and Economic Information (2007-2013)
Provides, at national and regional levels, statistical and economic information covering the three objectives of Rural Development policy 2007-2013. An overview of the Rural Development budget over the 2007-2013 period is included together with the first information on the financial monitoring of RD programs in EU-27 and in Candidate Countries.
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Rural development indicators (2007-2013)
The indicators are extracted from the 2012 report "Rural Development in the EU – Statistical and Economic Information" and derived from the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF), which provides a single framework for monitoring and evaluation of all rural development interventions for the programming period 2007-2013.
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Agricultural trade statistics
Provides tables and graphics describing the European Union's agricultural trade position in the world as well as detailed trade information - per chapter and/or at aggregated product level and by region - in values and quantities over a 10-year-period, based on Eurostat data.
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Agri-environmental indicators (AEIs)
A set of 28 indicators developed to monitor the integration of environmental concerns into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at EU, national and regional levels. The project is developed by the Commission in close collaboration with Member States following the last Commission Communication on Agri-environmental indicators of 2006. A database on AEIs together with indicators factsheets is published on the Eurostat website.
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Agriculture in the European Union - Statistical and economic information
Covers a wide range of subjects: the economic situation in agriculture, structures, trade, markets, financial aspects and rural development. An introductory chapter gives an overview of the agricultural year.
As from 2014 this report has been replaced by stand-alone data sets published in the relevant sections of this website.
Example: For annual updates of key data on agricultural markets go to "Statistics on agricultural markets"
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The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) in Richmond, Virginia, has mounted an ambitious, highly original, and innovative exhibition on the history of the Civil War, "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia." The exhibit was organized with the partnership of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission and supported with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and numerous private foundations. The VHS consulted with a roster of well-known historians.1 Informed and enriched by the latest scholarship on the Civil War, this exhibition brings together the soldiers' and the civilians' experiences and interconnects the battlefield and the home front, with one section on "Waging War (The Battlefront)" and another on "Surviving War (The Home Front)."
The result is sometimes refreshingly blunt, sometimes opaque, but deeply moving, reinterpretation of the experience of the war in Virginia. The highlight for any visitor is likely to be the first-person, three-dimensional visual simulation of a runaway slave, called "The Journey to Freedom." Taken as a whole, the exhibition succeeds in introducing important new themes in Civil War scholarship to the public. Perhaps nowhere has this been more necessary during the Civil War sesquicentennial than in Richmond, where the monuments to the past loom large.
|William G. Thomas III, Statue of Robert E. Lee, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011.
|William G. Thomas III, Statue of Stonewall Jackson, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011.
Indeed, one hundred and fifty years ago in 1861, Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy. This was a city whose white residents were supremely confident in the future of slavery and in the prospects for the new nation they were forming. Generations after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive monument to Robert E. Lee unveiled in 1890 and sculpted by Jean Antonin Mercié. Monuments to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and other Confederates followed. Decades later in the 1920s and 1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his histories of the Civil War and indeed at the core of Virginia identity: "Their stock had produced Lee; they had seen him, had known him, had obeyed his orders and at his behest, had challenged Cemetery Ridge and had starved in the Petersburg trenches. Association with him was the glory of their generation."2
|Ellen Glasgow, c. 1890. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Writer Ellen Glasgow, born in Richmond in 1873, tried in her own way to break this spell, attempting to expose "all the harsher realities beneath manners, beneath social customs, beneath the poetry of the past, and the romantic nostalgia of the present." In 1921 she told the Richmond Women's Club: "Here in Virginia, we need liberation not from the past, but from our old moorings which have held the past and ourselves anchored in stagnant waters." Despite her privileged upbringing, Glasgow urged Virginians to embrace the "dynamic past" and to move beyond "discarded theories," reject tradition, and look to the future. "We are most like Jefferson," she explained, "not when we repeat parrot-like the principles he enunciated, but when we apply these great principles to ever changing conditions." The implications of Glasgow's comments should not be underestimated, because Jefferson's idea of state's rights, expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, had such outsized prominence among lost cause writers. Glasgow was recovering a different legacy of Jefferson, one distinctly out of favor among her peers in Richmond. Glasgow went so far as to claim that Jefferson "has been used as an anchor to keep us moored for generations in the backwaters of history." Still, even Glasgow made a place for Lee in her pantheon of Virginia's forward-looking heroes, claiming that Lee "marched onward, not backward." Glasgow's Lee was quickly forgotten, as was her larger quest to see the past as a dynamic force, not for holding back, but enabling change.3
The past looms especially large in Richmond in part because Douglas Southall Freeman's voluminous histories mesmerized his and later generations with the idea "that there was historical logic in the right of secession . . . that the South fought its fight gallantly . . . with fairness and decency." To say the least, these sentiments glossed over the war's complicated history, especially the centrality of slavery but also the war's unremitting violence, ruthless guerrilla conflict, poor medical care, and dismal prisoner-of-war treatment.4
Today, Richmond appears to be revising these views and heading toward a more realistic, and complete, history of the Civil War. Indeed, Richmond is finally embracing its dynamic past. The Tredegar Civil War Center opened an exhibit ten years ago featuring the experience of the war from Northern, Southern, and African American perspectives, marking one of the city's first efforts at a more inclusive history of the war. More recently, Edward L. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, has led a citywide re-examination of the war and its legacies by sponsoring a series of community conversations about "The Future of Richmond's Past."
Slavery's relationship to the Civil War has been the most contested terrain of the war's history, and the VHS presents visitors with a clear, unvarnished explanation right away: "Slavery caused the war, but the war was not begun to free the slaves." Not much elaboration follows this forthright assessment. Instead, visitors can turn to two multimedia installations on the subject: the first-person "Journey to Freedom," and, second, a sequence of voice-over quotes about the secession crisis and slavery. I found the latter confusing and difficult to follow. Against a background of crowd noises and political banter, we hear quotes from a Southerner then a Northerner, i.e. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Toombs, Abraham Lincoln, Lydia Maria Child, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, Frederick Douglass, and various competing editors, ministers, and public figures. The multimedia display includes animated images, newspaper graphics, lithographs, and photographs, each swirling on the screen as the quotes are performed. All of the animation makes it difficult to keep track of who is who and what "perspective" they represent. This somewhat disorienting effect left me uncertain, at first, if the editor of The Charleston Mercury was speaking for or against of all things, emancipation.
The "Journey to Freedom," on the other hand, is one of the most evocative and effective museum installations I have seen recently. The first-person viewing stage is nearly fifteen square feet and includes three seven foot high screens. The immersive visual effect comes from standing in a rotating 360 degree panoramic perspective. The visitor chooses a persona—either a thirty-five year old male shoemaker or a twenty-six year old female field hand. You are given instructions by an older enslaved character before choosing a direction and setting out to escape. The landscapes through which you navigate are beautifully rendered films, accompanied by sounds from the Virginia fields, forests, swamps, and woods. You feel like a runaway and you are surrounded by the 360 degree landscape. At key points you have to make decisions about whether to stop to gather food, tools, or information. For example, when you reach a railroad track or a river, several enslaved (or possibly free black) characters are on scene and you can choose to ask them questions or to slip past them unnoticed. All of your decisions lead ultimately either to recapture by Confederates or to freedom by reaching the Union army lines. At the end of your "journey" the narrator summarizes your decisions and explains the consequences, risks, and odds of escape. This historical simulation was so captivating that I had to play it four times and each sequence was slightly different. In addition, I watched as several high school students played the game. They spent more time on this interactive simulation than any other part of the exhibition. One cannot "play" this game without understanding slavery's terrifying choices more fully and realistically.5
|Virginia Historical Society, Who Freed the Slaves? display, Richmond, Virginia, March 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society.
|Virginia Historical Society, Group in An American Turning Point exhibit, Richmond, Virginia, April 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society.
Unfortunately, the VHS chose to include a section in this exhibition titled "How did Slaves Support the Confederacy?" The question itself suggests that slaves actually supported the Confederacy, and we will learn how they did so. One wonders if this section was meant to appease the foaming "black Confederate" myth-makers who wish to rewrite history textbooks to depict the Confederacy as racially egalitarian. Upon closer examination, however, the VHS clearly indicates in this section that slave labor was forced to work in settings that aided the Confederacy, including, for example, at Tredegar Iron Works, on railroads, in mines, and on plantations. But the distinction could easily be lost on a visitor who could not be blamed for leaving with the idea that blacks supported the Confederacy.6
|Detail of Siah Carter on the USS Monitor, James River, Virginia, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
On the other hand, the VHS exhibit includes some surprising and powerfully rendered stories. There is a full section on Dr. Alexander T. Augusta, the highest ranking black officer in the war, a surgeon born into slavery in Norfolk, Virginia, who became a leading figure advocating for black civil rights in the war and after. The story of Siah Carter, a twenty-two year old enslaved African American, who rowed out to the U.S.S. Monitor to freedom in 1862. A series of interactive maps describe in rich, horrifying detail the guerrilla warfare that engulfed parts of western Virginia, and the formation of West Virginia is carefully explained.
To its credit, the VHS invested considerable effort in the quality and quantity of its multimedia interactive exhibits. Some succeed in conveying the vast sweep of the conflict in ways impossible otherwise. "A Landscape Turned Red" charts the major battles in Virginia (thirty six in all) and allows visitors to choose a battle and see all of the highlighted counties whose men fought there. In a battle such as Fredericksburg, with over 72,000 Confederate and over 100,000 Union men engaged, the map highlights nearly all of the counties in the North and South except those in southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Tennessee. At first, this deluge of information does not seem very useful, and the map takes a long time to load the data. When one begins to compare battles, however, a broader and deeper sense of the conflict begins to be revealed. The composition of the battles changes—who fought at each place and from where they originated. No single print map could show this dynamic flow of the war, as soldiers are pulled into conflicts far from home to meet adversaries from equally distant places. The Civil War is so often considered a local war of brothers versus brothers but this map indicates is vast and impersonal scale and scope. In this way and others, the modern nature of the conflict is laid bare for visitors.
Anyone who goes to this exhibition should be prepared for the nearly constant, and occasionally distracting, soundscape. Select the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain on May 9, 1864 on the interactive map and you will see miniature regimental units charge across the screen and turn red as they suffer casualties. Much screaming of men and neighing of horses accompany the gory display; however, the effect on visitors may be less troubling than dissonant. The game seems to reduce the death and dying that took place on Civil War battlefields to something like Pac-Man. On the other hand, in "The Face of Battle" exhibit, visitors can walk into a 360 degree virtual battlefield, in this case Kernstown, and stand in a panoramic mural of its reenactment. Overhead, the sound of battle rages with shots, screams, and whinnies. The effect is sobering and depressing, a melancholy reminder that war is indeed hell and murder and suffering.
No review of this exhibition is complete without mentioning the medical "sick call" interactive game, a feature enormously popular with younger audiences. The visitor plays doctor and is presented with a series of symptoms and complaints. Rheumatic fever? Choose Dover's Powder. Sores? It's syphilis, so prescribe mercury rub.
At the entrance to the VHS's exhibition, visitors can record their reactions to the exhibit in a comment book, and dozens of school children took the opportunity to write enthusiastic compliments. A few comments, unsurprisingly, complain that the exhibition is "pro Union" and unbefitting of the "Virginia" Historical Society. One mocks Martin Luther King, asking "when will the white boys be free at last." More than a few criticize the staff of the VHS as condescending and unfriendly.
|Jim Belfield, Arthur Ashe monument, Richmond, Virginia, 2006.
Despite its sometimes stuffy reputation, the VHS deserves recognition for bringing this exhibition forward. The path to a more complete and inclusive history in Richmond has not been easy. In the 1990s the battles over history in Richmond became loud, public, and heated. First, in 1994 some Richmonders wanted a monument to native son and tennis great Arthur Ashe. Controversy erupted over where to place the Ashe monument. In a city with almost no statues to commemorate leading black figures, such as John Mitchell, editor of the Richmond Planet, or Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney, the Ashe monument seemed long overdue. Yet, The Richmond Times Dispatch argued that putting Ashe on Monument Avenue, with Lee, Jackson, Stuart, and Maury, "would strip Ashe's memory of context and deprive it of meaning." The city newspaper took a traditionalist stance, arguing further that Ashe's proponents were out to "settle a racial score." When some who opposed the Ashe monument began advocating, disingenuously, for a monument to blacks who supported the Confederacy, The Richmond Times Dispatch gave the idea serious consideration, even suggesting that a monument commemorate blacks who fought "for both sides."7
In 1995 the city council of Richmond decided to place Ashe's monument on Monument Avenue. Protests by so-called heritage associations followed, and for years afterward KKK fliers opposing the monument could be found on car windshields nearby. Controversy erupted yet again in 1999 surrounding the city's plan to decorate the downtown Canal Walk with murals of important Virginians, including Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform and Nat Turner, who led one of the largest slave revolts in American history.8
In the last decade, however, Richmond's city leaders and institutions have begun taking a fresh approach to their histories. In 2007 the Richmond Slavery Reconciliation Statue, prominently placed in Shockoe Bottom, recognized the city's role in the transatlantic and interstate slave trades, and the city opened a "slave trail" series of historical markers.9
The VHS exhibition marks a turning point for the Society. Long associated with the history of its collections, including for example the papers of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders, the Society has patiently worked to broaden its interpretations and present the public with exhibitions deeply informed by current scholarship. They are succeeding. This first-rate exhibition on the war in Virginia offers visitors to the Virginia Historical Society a new dynamic look at the past, one that will be sure to leave them more deeply engaged with their history.
About the Author
William G. Thomas III is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (Yale University Press, 2011) and Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU Press, 1999). Dr. Thomas was the founding director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia and is the co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project at UVA.
- 1. The consulting historians include Stephen V. Ash, Charles F. Bryan, Jr., Catherine Clinton, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., James C. Kelly, and Chandra Manning.
- 2. Douglas Southall Freeman, The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939, reprinted 1998), 59.
- 3. Ellen Glasgow, "The Dynamic Past," in Emily Clark and Paul Green, eds., The Reviewer 1:3 (March 15, 1921), 73-80. In a remarkable statement Glasgow explained Jefferson as a "progressive statesman" who "almost one hundred years ahead of his time, proclaimed the principle upon which Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Presidency." Mary Johnston in the inaugural edition of The Reviewer wrote evocatively of the rise of a Richmond literary scene: "And all around Richmond move the ghosts of battles long ago. . . Action and reaction are here, aromatic, pungent, old and new, and the old and new blended into one what is both old and new. This is not a city of one aspect." See also Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 359. And Daniel Singal, The War Within: from Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983), 90-114.
- 4. Freeman, The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History, 204. The recent Civil War histories stress the complexity, ambiguity, fluidity, and contingency of the war by focusing on broader themes. A useful overview is Drew Gilpin Faust, "We Should Grow Too Fond of It: Why We Love the Civil War," Civil War History 50:4 (2004): 368-383; along similar lines see Edward L. Ayers, "Worry About the Civil War," in What Caused the Civil War: Reflections on the South and Southern History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 103-130. In 2011 alone dozens of new Civil War histories appeared and to provide an exhaustive list here would not be possible. The following recent works are especially indicative of the new Civil War history: Daniel Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009); Gary Gallagher, The Union War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011); Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York: Knopf, 2008); Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010); Stephen Ash, A Year in the South 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History (New York: Perennial, 2004); and Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
- 5. For a useful account of this exhibit's development, see Lauranett Lee's excellent post "Field Notes: Journey to Freedom," December 10, 2010 (https://vahistorical.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/field-notes-journey-to-freedom/). The VHS opened the blog to public comment but it has drawn few outside contributions.
- 6. Washington Post, October 20, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907974.html) and October 24, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102203429.html). Various Sons of Confederate Veterans sites have suggested that tens of thousands of African Americans fought for the Confederacy—as an example, see the "Black Confederate" site at http://www.scvcamp469-nbf.com/theblackconfederatesoldier.htm. See also Kevin Levin's excellent blog: Civil War Memory on "Black Confederates in Virginia Textbooks" (http://cwmemory.com/2010/10/20/black-confederates-in-virginia-textbooks/). See also Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Understanding Virginia's Textbook Lie," The Atlantic, October 20, 2010 (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/understanding-virginias-history-textbook-lie/64859/)
- 7. Richmond Times Dispatch, December 15, 1994 and October 10, 1995.
- 8. For a brief account, see Richmond Times Dispatch, July 27, 1999.
- 9. See "Slave Trail Seeks to Free City History," VCUInSight, May 10, 2009, (https://vcuinsight.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/slave-trail-seeks-to-free-citys-history/) and "Is $22,000 too much to pay for 17 slave trail markers?" April 14, 2011, (http://wtvr.com/wtvr-slave-trail-bought-by-city-of-richmond-20110413,0,3094068.story)


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Miss Medicina's Circle of Healers questionnaire holds a special place in my heart since it was the thing that convinced me to start this blog (18 months ago!) and made up my first real blog post. Saunder at Non-Squishy Heals decided to resurrect the questionnaire and I was tagged by both Beru and Kurn to fill it out myself.
I wonder how my answers have changed in a year and a half?
What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?
Jasyla, resto druid
What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
25-man raids, the occasional 5-man dungeon.
What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why?
This is hard. I love all my healing spells. I'm going to go with Regrowth. It's fast, it almost always crits, it heals for a good amount, it procs Living Seed, it's Swiftmendable, it triggers Harmony… Regrowth doesn't make up nearly as much of my healing as spells like Rejuv and Wild Growth, but I feel like it can be the difference between someone living and dying when used at the right time. It is my most used direct heal.
What healing spell do you use least for your class and why?
Healing Touch. I'm assigned to raid healing 98.7% of the time, so HT is too slow, and generally too big to cast very often. Besides the occasional cast on a tank, or combined with Nature's Swiftness it doesn't get a lot of use.
What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why?
Two things – mobility and output. We can heal very well while on the move and we can put out lots of healing on lots of people at once. We excel at any fight with high raid damage (which is…all of them).
What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why?
It's been a while since I've felt weak in any way as a druid. I guess I have to go with the old standby of not having a mitigation ability. It would be nice to have something to add to the raid to help reduce damage taken, even just a little bit. Mostly I'd just like another spell to manage – compared to most other healing classes druids have less healing abilities to use.
In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you?
Raid healing. Druids are perfectly capable of tank healing, but I think we're the strongest raid healers so it's best to leave the tank healing assignments to other classes. One of my favorite things about being a druid is that even though I consider myself a raid healer I still put a large amount of healing on the tank through Lifebloom ticks and refreshing LB with direct heals.
What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why?
I love me some Disc bubbles. I think Disc Priests and Druids have great synergy. Shields absorb damage while HoTs have a chance to fill up the health bars at their own pace. Beautiful.
What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why?
Other druids. I love druids (obviously) but I'd rather play with a class with different strengths and weaknesses that compliment my own better.
What is your worst habit as a healer?
Trying to do everything and heal everyone. It's not that I don't trust the other healers – they are awesome – but I see damage and automatically want to heal it, even if it's not my job. This is especially bad when learning a new fight. I tend to overreact, overheal and watch my mana bottom out very quickly on the first few attempts of a new boss.
What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing?
This doesn't happen often, but I get very annoyed when people say I can't do something because I'm a druid. Things I've heard: druids can't be tank healers, druids can't be portal healers on Valithria, druids can't be Caustic Slime healers on Chimaeron. Wanna bet?
Do you feel that your class/spec is well-balanced with other healers for PvE healing?
Yes. We can fill any healing role and adapt to the other healers we are playing with.
What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer?
I'm addicted to World of Logs. I dissect every raid. My spell breakdown, how my uptime was on Harmony and Lifebloom, how much I used Barkskin, Tranquility and ToL, how much bad shit I stood in. I try to make all those numbers a little better every time I do a fight.
What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class?
That druid healing is easy. In BC all we did was cast Lifebloom, in Wrath all we did was Rejuv, in Cata all we do is Wild Growth/Rejuv. Untrue. While spamming Rejuv and Wild Growth can put out some half-decent HPS, it doesn't make you a good healer. Being an average druid healer is not hard but it takes a lot of finesse to be a great druid healer.
What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn?
If it's someone who is used to playing a more direct healing class, like a paladin, it can be hard to learn to trust in your HoTs. Know when more healing is needed immediately and when you can just let your HoTs do their own thing, on their own time. I'm sure it's nerve-wracking for those used to health bars filling up immediately to watch them increase slowly. For those healing for the first time, I think it's a challenge to learn the best way to use your cooldowns – ToL, Tranquility, Barkskin, Innervate, Nature's Swiftness all need to be timed well.
If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)?
Very high HPS, I use my output cooldowns as much as I can, love Barkskin and will usually get heals on every single person on any given raid fight. They will also see that I almost never use my healthstone.
Haste or Crit and why?
Haste all the way. I want 2005 at all times.
What healing class do you feel you understand least? Holy Priests. They have so many spells. And Chakra? Stances are for warriors. Very confusing.
What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing?
VuhDo! The ultimate healing mod. I also use Power Auras to track things like Harmony and my Swiftmend cooldown.
Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why?
Int is obviously my number 1 priority. As for secondary stats, Haste is the thing I stack. It goes up to 2005 before I think about any other stats.
Now to tag the healers to do this next:
Lunarsoul of WTS Heals (who seems quite eager)
Alacran of Stand in the Blue Circle (if he hasn't gone completely over to the dark side of warrior dps)
Windsoar of Jaded Alt (I'm not supposed to tag another druid, but I can't be bound by such rules)


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Jonathan Blow is one of the most important figures of the revolution of indie gaming. His Braid (2008) won an Innovation in Game Design award at the Independent Games Festival and the story of its development was told in the insightful documentary Indie Game: The Movie (2012). Six years in development, The Witness debuted in early 2016 and revived the adventure puzzle genre forged in the 1990s by games such as Myst (1993). Its colorful postcard landscapes are rendered in a style distinguished by its emphasis on lighting, shape and color in contrast with an industry that is reliant on traditional texture maps. Without loading screens or cut scenes, the game is wholly manifest in one unbroken immersive experience. The panoply of environs tantalizes the wandering player to discover all of its secrets. Yet its familiar gaming environment tropes of jungle, desert and mountains are imbued with an alien quality by their lack of characters and fauna.
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A Texas State Trooper in a helicopter shot at a Ford F-150 that was running from the police on a gravel road outside of La Joya, just north of the state's border with Mexico. Instead of disabling the truck, the sharpshooter reportedly killed two of the passengers inside.
It was assumed the vehicle was carrying drugs, however, it turns out there were instead ten individuals trying to enter the country illegally. One of the passengers was killed immediately when shot by the shooter and another one died en route to the hospital. No drugs were found.
The eight surviving passengers were arrested after the truck's tires blew out and the driver lost control. Seven of the individuals in the truck were Guatemalan nationals. There's no word yet on what danger the truck posed an immediate threat to public safety, which is typically the protocol for firing on a moving vehicle with people in it.
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NPR 'Grain' Series Investigates Industry, Sparks Response
NPR's Howard Berkes joins host Scott Simon for a look back at his reporting this week on the NPR series Buried In Grain. Berkes reviews the death toll from grain storage bins and the weak laws and enforcement that have failed to prevent these accidents.
All this week NPR and our reporting partner, the Center for Public Integrity, has brought us stories about the dangers of grain bin entrapments for farm workers. The last 40 years, close to 500 people have suffocated in grain bins. 2010 was the worst year on record. We also documented the weak enforcement of worker safety laws that regulate grain storage and handling.
NPR's Howard Berkes reported the stories and joins us now. Howard, thanks so much for being with us.
HOWARD BERKES, BYLINE: Good to be with you.
SIMON: We're going to find out what's happened since the stories aired, but for those of you who might not have heard them, what's happened to these grain workers?
BERKES: What happens is they go into these massive grain bins on farms and commercial grain elevators to break up clogged corn. This is called walking down grain. We focused on a particular incident in Mount Carroll, Illinois in 2010. This was a massive grain bin, four stories high, filled with a quarter-million bushels of corn kernels.
There workers went into that bin; one was just 14 years old, Wyatt Whitebread. He was sucked under first and disappeared in the corn. Nineteen year old Alex Pacas followed along with his best friend Will Piper. He had just turned 20. They sank to their chests and corn was falling and flowing from above as well. Piper told us what happened next.
WILL PIPER: The last chunk of corn came flowing down and went around his face. I still had one arm free and I tried to sweep it away from his face as much as I could and eventually there was just too much and after a little bit his hand was sticking up above the grain and I could just see his scalp and his hand stopped moving.
And the corn was up to my chin at that point.
SIMON: And Howard, it's illegal, isn't it, to send somebody into a grain bin to walk down the grain as you called it?
BERKES: Yeah, it is, and it's also illegal to send somebody into a grain bin without proper training, without safety harnesses and lifelines, without shutting off and locking out the machinery that creates this kind of quicksand flow that caught these boys. All of that happened in the Mount Carroll case. And we also found that employers have done this sort of thing over and over and over again, you know, despite hundreds of deaths and despite extensive safety awareness programs and warnings that have been sent out to the grain industry.
And despite all that, these persistent violations and deaths, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration slashes fines, even in the most egregious cases, and that's exactly what they did in Illinois.
SIMON: How often are there criminal prosecutions in these cases?
BERKES: Almost never, even in the worst cases. And that's because, you know, egregious and willful behavior that results in the death of a worker in this country is only a misdemeanor under federal law and it carries a maximum jail time of six months. So, you know, no federal prosecutor is going to make a career on misdemeanor cases, you know, with little jail time like this.
And, you know, if you took an endangered species into a grain bin and it drowned in the grain, that would be a felony with more jail time.
SIMON: Of course these stories have just aired, but I wonder if there's any sense yet that anybody has paid attention, is beginning to take action?
BERKES: Well, just as our stories were about to run, Senator Patty Murray, Democrat from Washington state, reintroduced a bill called the Protecting America's Workers Act. And that would, among other things, make employer willfulness in a worker's death a felony. It would also raise civil fines and provide for longer jail time.
But that measure has failed in Congress before. We've also been told this week that OSHA has now sent out word in response to our stories internally that the agency is under scrutiny, so officials need to think more about the penalty reductions that they make in these cases that involve worker death. And government sources who are familiar with the Mount Carroll case tell us that the Justice Department is taking another look at possible criminal charges. In that case, they had declined to prosecute before. And finally, Will Piper, who we've heard from, the survivor in the Mount Carroll case who saw his friends die, he told us he was trying to raise money for a headstone at the grave of his friend, Alex Pacas.
PIPER: I felt guilty that I got Alex the job, that I wasn't able to save Wyatt, that I wasn't able to save Alex. I think that I'll be like a living amend.
BERKES: And an anonymous donor has come forward and has pledged to fully fund a headstone so that Alex Pacas can have a proper grave.
SIMON: Howard, thanks so much for being with us.
BERKES: You're welcome, Scott.
SIMON: NPR's Howard Berkes, who reported our series, Buried in Grain. It's posted on our website at npr.org.
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Sandypants necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 342 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
FaceFrame Studio~Hair and Make-up Design
I am a Hairstylist and make-up artist ; looking to open a VERY exciting salon/studio in NJ. We will be styling hair and applying make-up, along with a heavy emphasis on Photography.Throughout the salon and all our advertisement will be photos of our own work; expressing our creativity and providing the client the reality experience of being a modal. A highly creative, professional service oriented and exciting salon is the branding I'm trying to develop. The branding should draw both clients and enthusiastic stylists.
the target audience is anyone between the age of 15 and 50 who are interested in their appearance and receiving creative, quality beauty services in a fun and exciting atmosphere. We are looking to draw young adults who may want fun and funky looks along with a core of patrons seeking more traditional quality styling services. This logo is going to be the foundation for all future advertisement; initially business cards, letter head, website and brochures etc.
The goal is to have an exciting logo developed for a hair salon that styles hair, does make-up and photography. It should be age and gender neutral (as the business name is) I want one of the attached file drawings to be incorporated. It is a FaceFrame representation of my signature hairstyle. I wish to develop it has part of mine and the salons branding. It has been suggested to me that men are drawn to squares in advertising; which makes me question adding some sort of "frame" again playing on the FaceFrame theme and suggestive of the photography. The logo colors need to carry through with my salon decorating; therefor the colors should be muted and NOT super bright oranges and yellows. The desired goal is to be edgy and attractive to young adults; without being alienating to anyone else. In a way I will mimic say KFC with the image of the Kernel, but edgier and modern. An example of a Logo I love is the FireFox Internet icon. The picture describes what it is.
I will need print and web file format also format that can be used to embroider on clothing???
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Russ Blakely Associates
Russ Blakely & Associates has been offering benefit services to clients throughout the region since 1978. They are the largest employee benefits firm in Chattanooga our client list includes some of the largest employers in the area. And as a Charter Member of the United Benefits Advisors, our resources extend throughout the industry. This is a re-design of their website http://www.russblakelyassoc.net/ and they are looking to create a totally new brand image.
Companies who currently use Russ Blakely & Associates and prospective clients of the company. They are the largest employee benefits firm in Chattanooga our client list includes some of the largest employers in the area.
Clean, professional and business like. Color scheme – shades of blue (from blue version of logo http://myrussblakelybenefits.com/ ).
Istock photo #8002627 (people on puzzle pieces) Putting it all together feel/theme.
Company logo – blue format from the following link http://myrussblakelybenefits.com/
Main navigation with drop down menu (code should be provided for this) similar to UBA website http://www.ubabenefits.com/ and Bluewater benefits http://www.bwbenefits.com/
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RSS Newsfeed From Employee Benefit News - http://ebn.benefitnews.com/
HR Elements – a link to view the latest version of HR Elements (PDF)
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Vatican City, Sep 20, 2012 / 10:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict called on a group of newly-consecrated bishops to boldly present the Gospel to everyone, so that they encounter Christ and the faith becomes stronger around the world.
In keeping with Jesus' command to the apostles, Pope Benedict told the bishops that he is asking them to "boldly invite the people from every walk of life to an encounter with Christ and to render more solid the faith."
"Evangelization, in fact, is not the work of some specialists, but of the entire People of God, under the guidance of the Pastors," he added.
His comments were made the morning of Sept. 20, at a conference organized by the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops. Each year, new bishops who were appointed in the past 12 months make a pilgrimage to Rome and attend a conference to learn about their new role as shepherds.
The pilgrimage is meant to help them to experience "communication and communion" with their brothers in the episcopate and to strengthen their ties to the Pope.
Pope Benedict focused on the New Evangelization for much of his talk. In opening his statement he referenced the upcoming Year of Faith and General Synod on the New Evangelization, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.
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Save the bees ! Save the biodiversity now !
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Thanks very much Matthias for your excellent post on problems and solutions. When I grew corn, I used to see swarms of bees when the plants were prod...
Thanks very much Matthias for your excellent post on problems and solutions. When I grew corn, I used to see swarms of bees when the plants were producing pollen. As a trucker, I used to see mile after mile of corn in the US Midwest and have some serious concerns about the now widespread use and effect GE corn, and it's pollen might have on bees, ...as well as the pesticides and fungicides. A nasty soup we're feeding them. Serious thanks for your serious efforts...
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Hey G.C.,
spring is coming...
You are a corn growing trucker? Shit, you manage to surprise me time after time. But I feel so...
Hey G.C.,
spring is coming...
You are a corn growing trucker? Shit, you manage to surprise me time after time. But I feel so happy for the bees that got the chance of having your pollen.
Lots of love
Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III
PS: hex G.C., did you notice? DOCTOR Naidoo is back working on his reputation of being part of global elite. Do you think he believes people already forgot about the Russian fuck-up?
Shit, imagine DOCTOR Naidoo would have played activist again in 2013 like he did in 2012 (and with Cairn Energy in Island before)....Greenpeace not only brainless the only army with its head prison..a scenario missed by glimpse.
But now now DOCTOR Naidoo is no more activist. Nope, recently DOCTOR Naidoo is a busy speaker operating globally...damm it, G.C., I only want to feel important only once in life!
May I fly across the Atlantic to speak at the next meeting of your truckers-association? Would be nice, don't worry, I do have some humor!
By the way, how do you like ships?
PPS: G.C., when your daughter went to Amsterdam the last time, did she hear any news on our beloved African staying CEO of GPI for another five years?
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se muoiono le api inevitabilmente muore tutto
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Hahahaha, ...a corn growing trucker. Well I was a trucker 25 years ago, and I grew some corn in my garden maybe 10 years ago. You can still fly over...
Hahahaha, ...a corn growing trucker. Well I was a trucker 25 years ago, and I grew some corn in my garden maybe 10 years ago. You can still fly over to the truckers association meeting though if you like. I was more concerned about GE corn extensively grown in the US, and the possible effects of it's pollen, ...in combination with pesticides and fungicides. Bees of course have nothing to do with pollination of corn. The wind has to do that, or you can do it by hand. Did you know every individual corn silk is connected to a kernel and must be pollinated for it to develop? That's why corn must be grown in large groups, ...to insure proper pollination. The pollen is extremely plentiful though and the bees go crazy over it. You can walk right into the lot of them and they won't bother you, ...unless you have some crazy or violent notions in your head, ...like Kumi Naidoo is a dictator and everyone there doesn't have a voice in the decisions they make. The bees wouldn't like that very much, and someone with thoughts like that might want to wear some bee protection. It would be advisable.
But no, my daughter didn't hear any news of Kumi staying on for another five years. We all only hope it will be longer. Sorry my friend, but I Love Kumi and think he is a great leader. I have many friends in Africa I Love too, ...many with the same heart as he does. A video I made for children in Nankoma, Uganda recently. When making the video, I couldn't help but notice, ...that no matter how hard their life was, I was astounded by their dignity and character, ...their good will and Love for each other. I see these things in Kumi too, ...it is not so hard to see. I see these things in the eyes of all the Warriors of the Rainbow, ...friends that I know there. My heroes, ...all of them ♥ ♥ ♥
Perhaps if you look at the African people in the video, and then take another look at Kumi, you will see these profound qualities in him as well. They are not so hard to see. They are profound.
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Hey G.C.,
I don't need to watch videos on Africa to see the whatever you see when you see...
I spent 3.5 years in Africa...
Hey G.C.,
I don't need to watch videos on Africa to see the whatever you see when you see...
I spent 3.5 years in Africa. When I say Africa I mean mainly the African Bush of 32 African countries, and let me tell you only one thing: in not a single African country people looked like DOCTOR Naidoo...besides in countries there was Indians.
Grateful Child, have you ever heard of a middle-class township?
Maybe you have to have been in South Africa...I consider this to be funny?
Sorry, I not see any African but an Indian having made a career of this naiv political correctness of multi-cultural touched low profiles needing an Alibi-African to feel so globalized good.
Amazing, this middle-class township boy getting a highschool-diploma while underground and a PH.D. whlle HAVING to go to exil.
Wonderful, I love it...
Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III
PS: after 3.5 years in Africa I got friends in Africa...they are the reason why I call DOCTOR Naidoo a massmurder of Africans rather than being African...and your daughter too.
PPS: when your massmurder daughter flew to Amsterdam the last time...she got any news on Joel El Remanso Stewart?
PPPS: I meant to ask if you like pink ships...there is not too many around so far, at least not in Europe...
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p.s. ...Thanks Sun Wu, ...I've been meaning to say something to Kumi about the Gazprom action. I feel his heart and I know he wants to take respo...
p.s. ...Thanks Sun Wu, ...I've been meaning to say something to Kumi about the Gazprom action. I feel his heart and I know he wants to take responsibility, and may feel hurt inside for this. But it is not his 'fault'. These were actions taken all over the world many times by Greenpeace for very many years, not something Kumi started. It was not something new, and this was not Kumi's decision alone. It was the right action and the right decision to do what they did, and for the right reasons. Russia's action was the wrong decision, the wrong reasons, ...and the wrong illegal action. Now though, Russia/Putin really needs to give Greenpeace their ship back. I hope some publicity and effort will come to bear on that. I'd do what I could to help with that...
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Shit, G.C., look what I found...another video of middle-class township Africans of extraordinary dignity and character!
Shit, G.C., look what I found...another video of middle-class township Africans of extraordinary dignity and character!
G.C., have a look, incredible video of Africans watering their gardens so bees got water to drink and pollen to eat from the plants.
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My daughter a mass murderer? She's actually a Registered Nurse and saves lives. ...and actually, if you do the math, a 747 flying it's maximum distance, and using 50,000 gallons of fuel, is equal to 150 people driving their car that distance, ...at 25 miles per gallon. Any more than 150 people and it's less fuel consumption than if they drove the same distance. So then by your account, everyone that drives is a mass murderer of Africans? Silly and off topic is what all this is, ...I'm otta here.
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Wonderful, math...holding a degree in economics...I love it!
50 000 gallons is equal to how many liters (for Europeans)...
Wonderful, math...holding a degree in economics...I love it!
50 000 gallons is equal to how many liters (for Europeans)...
...is equal to how many carbon produced....
...times 2.7 (for being produced at an altitude where it is said to do 2.7 times the damage compared to emissons on the surface of mother earth)?
Now, on topic, carbon (C) in 50 000gallons of kerosene x 3.7854(ltrs./gallon) x (appr.) 3.15 (co2/ltr) x 2.7 (RFI-factor)...
...is equal to the C how many bees?
Or equal to the ANNUAL carbon emissions of how many AFRICANS (or Indians :) of character and dignity, like all my friends in Lankien / South Sudan and the other 32 African countries I have visited?
And LAST BUT NOT LEAST: how is your daughter planning to meet the urgent necessity of reducing her Carbon-Footprint to something like 2 tons/year NECCESSARY in order to at least get somewhere close to being allowed some hope...
...if your daughter believes to be allowed trans-Atlantic flights as many as her finances allow?
Hope we eventually take the efforts needed to stand up and face the effects on our life-style if we want to be taken serious for fighting global warming?
Talking about hope (spanish: esperanza)... did you say you like pink ships?
Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III
PS: I think I mention I would take over, correct?
PS: sorry, but in abstract thinking your daughter has bloody hands...like my friend El Remanso Joel and my favorite African.
You guys most likely kill more bees than the worst pestizide /insectizide (although I understand you don't want to talk about it)!
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Also worth pointing out is that the 747 carries over 500 passengers, so a load under 150 is pretty rare.
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When you listed the chemical companies using poison for the bees you forgot the biggest on of them all. MONSANTO. They are in Scandinavia and in Engla...
When you listed the chemical companies using poison for the bees you forgot the biggest on of them all. MONSANTO. They are in Scandinavia and in England collecting bees to exchange them for their "own" GMO bees.
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poor bees (save the bees bite us though XD
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