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We close out Terminator Month with Week Four, where we jump into our homemade time displacement machine with Sam Mulvey of Ask an Atheist to break our brains trying to sort out the continuity of the sequel…prequel…soft reboot(?) that recreates the franchise for a new generation: Terminator: Genisys.
When John Connor sends soldier Kyle Reese back to 1984 Los Angeles to protect his mother and safeguard the future, Reese finds himself in a different 1984 with a different Sarah Connor. The war across time between humans and machines has fractured the timeline. Now the only thing standing between the human race and utter destruction are Kyle, Sarah and an older, obsolete T-800 Terminator acting as their protector. Bring plenty of aspirin and a flow chart.
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Pianists Vassily Primakov and Natalia Lavrova are very much their own acts. But they became close partners when they debuted their Arensky CD and, in the process, founded their own record label, LP Classics, Inc. Since then, they've performed as a duo, as they will on May 6 at Get Classical's inaugural concert series event at New York's Rose Bar.But their friendship began much earlier, back in 1999, when the two pianists were freshmen at Julliard.
They instantly connected over their shared Russian heritage, but on top of that, their personalities just clicked. "Of course, we have had our share of fights, regular stuff that happens when two egos are involved…and we have our own lives," volunteers Lavrova, during our animated interview over dinner with Primakov. "But we love each other."
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Married to photographer Alex Fedorov, Lavrova often brings her husband on board withher projects.Fedorov is responsible for all of the photographic work featured on the Arensky CD, which Lavrova and Primakov recorded to great reviews. James Harrington of the American Record Guide wrote that the two "capture the essence of each suite, and through their considerable talents, share with us some of the most enjoyable almost unknown music I have heard in quite a while." Artistic collaboration was a natural extension of Lavrova and Primakov's friendship, says Primakov. "We do think alike; there is a spiritual connection and a feeling for the music that just got more serious over the last two years, when we decided to get involved with recording the Arensky's suites," he says, reminiscent of their past years spent under teacher Jerome Lowenthal at Juilliard's chamber music program (where they spend more time partying then practicing, they admit). "We were both excited, when we heard this music and started to perform it in concert to great reviews and decided we needed to record this interesting, yet virtually unknown program," says Primakov. "We had two options—either pitch it to an established label or try to do it on our own. As we were thinking about this music, we both realized we wanted to have more control of the process, and it became a project that started so many things for the both of us. It also brought us even closer." While Primakov has already catalogued a number of recordings with Bridge Records, the Arensky CD was a first for Lavrova, who spends most of her time, when not performing, managing her own music school program. As the director of Music School of New York City, she teaches pianists of all levels and ages, applying her passion for music education that she inherited from her own teacher, Zalina Gurevich, who, many years ago, recognized their shared enthusiasm for teaching and kids in a young Lavrova. "She allowed me to sit in her lessons and gradually take over teaching some of her kids," says Lavrova. "At first she would monitor the lessons and then give me feedback. It made all the difference in my learning how to become a good teacher." A very important factor in Lavrova's teacher selections is a teacher's performance experience. "That inspires students in a way nothing else can," she says. One of her favorite teachers at her school, no wonder then, is Primakov, even though, between his busy performance and recording schedules, he can only take on a limited number of students. But despite both of the artists' busy daily routines, they are committed to and infatuated with their newest project, LP Classics. From the initial excitement over finding the pianos and dealing with tuners and sound engineers, they are both planning on fully integrating the record label into their careers. "We had turned to our friend Sarah Faust of Faust-Harrison Pianos to obtain two matching pianos for the recording.
She had a new Yamaha CFX in her vast studio, which we loved, and then put us in touch with Bonnie Barrett, the director of Yamaha Artist Services, to find another. We tried it, and it sounded great, and this developed our future relationship with Yamaha." Primakov and Lavrova are now Yamaha artists. Their Arensky CD was the first ever recording on two Yamaha CFX model pianos, and their CD release performance was live-streamed from the Yamaha showroom. Right now, the two are working on a lot of four-hand, one-instrument repertoire—an easier and more economical setup exploring less-played pieces such as the Czerny Sonatas and works by Milhaud and John Corigliano, which they plan to perform at Get Classical at the Rose Bar. In the future, Primakov says, they want to open up their record label to young artists looking to produce resume-building and career-launching first CDs. They also want to unbury historical, undiscovered past recordings of great, established performers, introducing old, forgotten gems to the public, as they did with Vera Gornostaeva Vol. 1 Chopin, a historical recording found through archived tapes in a Moscow library. "We obtained the rights and re-mastered the tapes of this amazing recording," explains Primakov. "Another hidden secret we are now releasing is our teacher Jerry Lowenthal's playing, which we both grew up on, and there are so many more to come." Very important to their mission is their ability to rely on efficient and passionate
music professionals involved in the recording process. "You are so exposed as a performer, you have to be able to trust the people you work with to make you look your best," says Primakov. "We have built a wonderful little family that includes Charlie Post, who became sound engineer, editor and producer in one, and technician Terry Flynn, who can achieve the most amazing results in the short in-betweens of the recording process. As soon as he hears just a slight irregularity in tone voicing, he informs the sound engineer and matches up everything in the matter of minutes while we step out for a glass of water."
Also important to Primakov and Lavrova's goals is the opportunity to constantly engage with new audiences, which they will have the opportunity to do this May 6, when the two perform excerpts of their four-hand program as well as some solo repertoire at Get Classical's music series launch at the trendy Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar in New York. Primakov and Lavrova will be two of four pianists presenting a program geared to new and old classical fans, including GetClassical.org readers, by bringing 19th-century salon-type performances to the 21st-century lounge.
Hosted by the Gramercy Park Hotel, Get Classical at the Rose Bar hopes to bring classical music to audiences that might prefer listening in the comfort of an armchair, aperitif in hand, to the formality of the concert hall. The series will give listeners the chance to meet artists in the intimacy of the cool Rose Bar and hear them talk about their music and lives as concert artists. And it is exactly this exchange that performers like Primakov and Lavrova, as well as David Aladashvili and Marika Bournaki, the two pianists, featured alongside two violinists, are looking forward to—to play and relate to both staying fans and interested spectators in a personal way. "We always want to test drive our program with new audiences. It's one of the most exciting things one can do as a performer," Primakov says.

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What do these numbers tell you?
The projected growth in the U.S. population — 303 million today — will be driven primarily by immigration among all groups except the elderly.
"We're assuming that the rate of immigration will stay roughly constant," says Jeffrey Passel, co-author of the report.
Even if immigration is limited, Hispanics' share of the population will increase because they have higher birth rates than the overall population. That's largely because Hispanic immigrants are younger than the nation's aging baby boom population. By 2030, all 79 million boomers will be at least 65 and the elderly will grow faster than any other age group.
The projections show that by 2050:
•Nearly one in five Americans will have been born outside the USA vs. one in eight in 2005. Sometime between 2020 and 2025, the percentage of foreign-born will surpass the historic peak reached a century ago during the last big immigration wave. New immigrants and their children and grandchildren born in the USA will account for 82% of the population increase from 2005 to 2050.
•Whites who are not Hispanic, now two-thirds of the population, will become a minority when their share drops to 47%. They made up 85% of the population in 1960.
•Hispanics, already the largest minority group, will more than double their share of the population to 29%.


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Welcoming German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House, President Barack Obama has hailed the strength of the U.S.-German partnership.
On a sunny, hot morning the South Lawn was filled with military honor guards and a fife and drum corps, as the two leaders stood during a 19-gun salute for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
President Barack Obama called Germany one of America's strongest allies, and Ms. Merkel - who grew up in what was communist East Germany - one of his closest global partners.
"At a time when some have asked whether the rise of new global powers means the decline of others, this visit reaffirms an enduring truth," said Obama. "Our alliances with nations like Germany are more important than ever. Indeed, they are indispensable to global security and prosperity."
Obama, the first African-American U.S. president, said he and Merkel, the first woman to be chancellor of Germany, are also symbols of change.
"Madame Chancellor, the arc of our lives speaks to this spirit," added Obama. "It is obvious that neither of us looks exactly like the leaders who preceded us. But the fact that we can stand here today as President of the United States and as Chancellor of a united Germany is a testament to the progress, the freedom, that is possible in our world."
Obama said that as two of the largest and most dynamic economies, Germany and the United States can show that prosperity is "best achieved by investing in their greatest resource, their people, and ability to compete and innovate in the 21st century."
Both leaders pointed to cooperation in Afghanistan, where Germany has about 7,000 troops, the third-largest contingent after the U.S. and Britain.
Chancellor Merkel, in translated remarks, reiterated determination to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and spoke about popular uprisings in North Africa.
"Germany and the United States are partners, sharing responsibility for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan," said Merkel. "We are pulling in the same direction, trying to keep Iran from following its course of developing a nuclear forces capability. In North Africa, we support the struggle for freedom. And in the Middle East, we support efforts to fill the peace process with new life."
In a joint news conference, both leaders were asked about bilateral differences on the NATO-led military operation in Libya.
Each predicted that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi must and will step down. Obama discussed the role he expects Germany to play as events move forward.
"There is going to be a lot of work to do when Gadhafi does step down, in terms of getting the Libyan people back on their feet, economic, political work that is going to have to be done, and my expectation is going to be that there will be full and robust German support, as there has been in the past, on a wide range of issues," said Obama.
Asked whether Germany felt NATO was mistaken in becoming militarily involved in Libya, Chancellor Merkel said Germany's position should be seen in its support for the international "stance" there, and remains committed to the objectives of the mission.
"It is our joint will that this NATO mission is successful," added Merkel. "This is important for the people in Libya, but it is also important for NATO for the alliance at large and here we have one heart of an ally that beats with the heart of the other allies."
President Obama said U.S. economic growth depends on a "sensible" solution to Europe's financial problems. He said Greece will require a combination of private investment, structural reforms and greater transparency, with help from Eurozone countries.
"We think it would be disastrous for us to see an uncontrolled spiral and default in Europe because that could trigger a whole range of other events, and I think Angela shares that view," said Obama.
Whether the warm reception for Chancellor Merkel, including the presentation of the Medal of Freedom to her by President Obama, helps smooth some of the tensions in the U.S-German relationship, over global economic and other issues, remains to be seen.
Chancellor Merkel said that despite what she called some differences of opinion, the partnership rests on "a very broad basis." She invited President Obama to visit Berlin and the president said he looks forward to that, provided he wins another term as president.


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Paula Broadwell, whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation from the post of CIA director, will not face federal charges related to the alleged cyberstalking of another woman, according to a letter sent by the Justice Department to Broadwell's attorney.
Robert Muse, Broadwell's lawyer, has released the letter from Assistant U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow that says, in part:
"As the target of our investigation, we believe it is appropriate to advise your client that our office has determined that no federal charges will be brought in the Middle District of Florida relating to alleged acts of cyber-stalking."
As you likely recall, Petraeus stunned Washington last month when he announced he was resigning because he had "showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair."
It emerged that FBI investigators had been investigating allegedly harassing emails sent to a Florida woman, Jill Kelley. The emails, it turned out, were from Broadwell. The investigation led to the uncovering of her affair with Petraeus.
Though investigators concluded that national security had not been compromised by Petraeus' relationship with Broadwell, he resigned nonetheless. A replacement has not yet been nominated.
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Somewhere in the debate about prohibiting proprietary trading in certain banks we will need a decent understanding of what proprietary trading is. So I thought I would illustrate the difficulties.
Imagine a suburban bank which takes deposits and makes mortgages.
The deposits are primarily at-call and pay a floating interest rate. Legally they bank has overnight money – and if interest rates rose then the next day the customers could (in theory) all withdraw their money and/or ask for a higher interest rate. The bank does not really know what interest rates it will be paying next week let alone in three years.
In reality the customers of the bank are sticky. There is no way that everyone will pull their money in response to a short term rate rise. The funding of the bank is of uncertain duration.
On the asset side the bank lends on fixed rate but refinanceable mortgages. The bank really has no idea how long the mortgages will last. If rates go down they might all be refinanced tomorrow. People might just sell all their houses and repay their mortgages. In reality however the customer are likely to be somewhat sticky. On the asset side the bank has uncertain duration.
This plain vanilla bank has interest rate risk. If rates rise their funding costs will rise relative to their asset yield. If rates fall their assets will refinance. Their funding cost might also fall – but at the moment the funding cost seems pinned by the zero-bound.
Some hedging of interest rate risk here seems entirely sensible. Banks (and more often S&Ls) have failed in the past because they failed to hedge this sort of interest rate risk. However as both the assets and liabilities are of uncertain duration there is no way of knowing just how much hedging is required. There is a choice here – it is a proprietary choice (in that the bank will trade off hedging costs against profits). And there is no easy way to legislate that choice away.
I have even seen a bank swap its fixed rate subordinate funding (fixed rate preferred shares) into floating rate and call it a hedge. That looked like proprietary trading to me as it earned a profit (the yield curve was steep) and the bank was playing the yield curve very heavily in advance of that hedge. The so called hedge increased the risks the banks faced if short rates rose. The auditor signed it off as a hedge.
If the auditor, the bank and I disagree as to what is a hedge in the simplest of examples then I have no idea how we are going to find a legislative solution in complex examples.
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WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the United States, thanks to the new health care law.
That could start a shift toward more reliable — and expensive —forms of birth control that are gaining acceptance in other developed countries.
But first, look for a fight over social mores.
A panel of experts advising the government meets in November to begin considering what kind of preventive care for women should be covered at no cost to the patient, as required under President Barack Obama's overhaul.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the Democrat who is author of the women's health amendment, says the clear intent was to include family planning.
But is birth control preventive medicine?
Conflicting answers frame what could be the next clash over moral values and a health law that passed only after a difficult compromise restricting the use of public money for abortions.
For many medical and public health experts, there's no debate.
"There is clear and incontrovertible evidence that family planning saves lives and improves health," said obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. David Grimes, an international family planning expert who teaches medicine at the University of North Carolina. "Contraception rivals immunization in dollars saved for every dollar invested. Spacing out children allows for optimal pregnancies and optimal child rearing. Contraception is a prototype of preventive medicine."
But U.S. Catholic bishops say pregnancy is a healthy condition, not an illness. In comments filed with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the bishops say they oppose any requirement to cover contraceptives or sterilization as preventive care.
"We don't consider it to be health care, but a lifestyle choice," said John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, a Philadelphia think tank whose work reflects church teachings. "We think there are other ways to avoid having children than by ingesting chemicals paid for by health insurance."
So far, most other religious conservatives have stayed out of the debate, though that could change. Some say they are concerned about any requirement that might include the morning-after pill. The Food and Drug Administration classifies it as birth control; some religious conservatives see it as an abortion drug.
Jeanne Monahan, a health policy expert at the conservative Family Research Council, said her group would oppose any mandate that lacks a conscience exemption for moral and religious reasons. She said there's "great suspicion" that a major abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, is leading the push for free birth control.
As recently as the 1990s, many health insurance plans didn't even cover birth control. Protests, court cases, and new state laws led to dramatic changes. Today, almost all plans now cover prescription contraceptives. So does Medicaid, the health care program for low-income people.
The use of birth control is "virtually universal" in the United States, according to a government report this summer from the National Center for Health Statistics. Nearly 93 million prescriptions for contraceptives were dispensed in 2009, according to IMS Health, a market analysis firm. Generic versions of the pill are available at Walmart stores, for example, for $9 a month.
Still, about half of all pregnancies are unplanned, and many occur among women using some form of contraception. The government says the problem is rarely the birth control method, but "inconsistent or incorrect use," such as forgetting to take a pill.
Advocates say free birth control would begin to address the problem.
"We can look at other countries where birth control is available for no cost, and what we see are lower pregnancy rates, lower abortion rates and lower teen pregnancy," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood.
It would remove a cost barrier that may be keeping women away from more reliable long-acting birth control, and also affects those who don't do well on inexpensive generics.
A major research study now taking place in St. Louis provides a glimpse of how things might change.
The Contraceptive CHOICE Project is providing free birth control to as many as 10,000 women, tracking their decisions and the results. About 70 percent have chosen long-acting contraceptives such as IUDs (intrauterine devices) or implants, which are reversible and have a much lower failure rate than pills or condoms. The proportion of U.S. women using such methods remains low; part of the reason seems to be higher upfront cost.
"The shift we need to see in the United States is a shift away from methods like the pill and condoms to the most effective methods, like implants and IUDs," said Dr. Jeffrey Peipert, a principal investigator on the study. "And we'll only see that shift if somebody is willing to pay for it."
How the Obama administration will apply the law remains to be seen. It could allow insurance plans wide discretion on meeting the coverage requirement. A panel convened by the Institute of Medicine will hold its first meeting Nov. 16 to begin work on recommendations to HHS. The department has until next August to make its decision.
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George Phillips has his death planned out. His wife Betty has planned hers. They have filled out an advance directive, outlining how they want to die.
Their neighbors across the street have filled out the same paperwork, as has the family next door. In fact, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, you're unusual if you don't have a plan for your death. Some 96 percent of people who die in La Crosse have an advance directive or similar documentation. Nationally, only about 30 percent of adults have a document like that.
In this community, talking about death is a comfortable conversation — neighbors gossip about who on the block hasn't filled out their advance directive.
It's become such a comfortable conversation basically because of one guy in town. Bud Hammes works as a medical ethicist at a local hospital called Gundersen Health System. For years, he was called when someone's dad had a stroke, was in a coma, on machines. Bud would sit down with the family and try to help them figure out what to do next. And every time, he says, the discussion was excruciating.
"The moral distress that these families were suffering was palpable," he says. "You could feel it in the room."
Most of the time, Bud says, they'd be talking about a patient who had been sick for years. Why not have that conversation earlier?
So Bud started training nurses to ask people ahead of time, would you like to fill out an advanced directive. It took a while but the idea caught on.
Nurses started asking patients questions like: If you reach a point where treatments will extend your life by a few months and side effects are pretty serious, would you want doctors to stop, or continue to do all that could be done? And a lot of patients said: Stop.
And stopping, of course, is less expensive than continuing treatment.
"It turns out that if you allow patients to choose and direct their care, then often they choose a course that is much less expensive," says Jeff Thompson, CEO of Gundersen.
In fact, La Crosse, Wisconsin spends less on health care for patients at the end of life than any other place in the country, according to the Dartmouth Health Atlas.
Reducing costs wasn't the reason La Crosse has its advance directive program. Bud Hammes was trying to help their patients, and the reduction in spending was an accident. But now, lots of other communities want to copy the La Crosse program.
Bud Hammes thinks this is the moment his big idea in La Crosse might actually go national. The Affordable Care Act encourages providers to figure out how to reduce spending. Bud is getting calls from hospitals and doctors, and he's putting off retirement to help them make the rest of America look more like La Crosse.
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When I wrote about Funny/Girls a couple weeks ago, Duana asked me about Aisha Tyler. Why, as Tyler is talented, funny and beautiful, she never quite took in the mainstream. My answer was that Aisha Tyler is six feet tall. She smokes cigars and drinks Scotch (and brews her own beer). She tells jokes about scratching her vagina in public—she tells jokes "like a man". And she did it before the Funny/Girl was recognized as distinct from Funny Girls. She didn't fit into the small, limited box the industry kept trying to put her in.
But Aisha Tyler is a comic's comic, which is a cop out way of saying "the general public won't get it, but this is hilarious". And Aisha Tyler is hilarious. She's a hero to female comedians today and we wouldn't have Funny/Girls like Lizzy Caplan, Aubrey Plaza and Jessi Williams without her. We wouldn't have Funny/Girls at all, because it took someone like Tyler to break down that wall and make the Funny/Girl a viable entertainment commodity for the next generation. Yet she's always existed outside the mainstream, even outside the social club that is stand-up comedy. Maybe that's because she was never "just a stand-up", but hop-scotched between live performances and her acting career and so never rooted deeply in either place, or maybe it's just that, like Joan Jett in the 1980's, being a woman in an industry so heavily dominated by men in a time when she was fighting to justify getting to be there at all is a naturally isolating state. (Aisha Tyler = Joan Jett, yes.).
In retrospect, what Tyler really needed was a stint on SNL, but at the same time, I can't see her playing by those rules. And by the time the renaissance of women on SNL happened in the early 2000's, she was hosting Talk Soup. She was already established without that platform. And that's always kind of been Tyler's groove—doing her own thing, slightly to the left of everyone else. But what she did do was lay the tracks comedians like Lizzy Caplan, Rebel Wilson and Aubrey Plaza are on now. She took a giant step away from the Funny Girl box and made a space for Funny/Girls (along with Margaret Cho and Maria Bamford).
This is in no way meant to say that Tyler doesn't have a pretty awesome career these days. She does. She co-hosts The Talk, she stars on one of television's funniest shows, Archer, and if I had my way, she would be Nora Charles in the Thin Man remake. Her podcast, Girl on Guy is popular (deservedly so), and she still tours with her live act. Aisha Tyler is writing her own script. She always has.


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"Book of Hours II, 16"
"How surely gravity's law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the strongest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing-
each stone, blossom, child-
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God's heart;
they have never left him.
This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
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On the Horizon for Ed Tech The 2011 Horizon Report concluded there were five critical challenges for ed tech in K-12 education, as well as five emerging "key" trends.
5 Critical Challenges 1. Digital media illiteracy among teachers; 2. Economic pressures and new education models; 3. Lack of support for personalized learning; 4. Institutional resistance to change; and 5. Inability to tie students' extracurricular learning activities to their classroom learning.
5 Emerging Trends 1. Abundance of online resources; 2. Decentralization of IT; 3. The digital divide as a function of education, not wealth; 4. Easy and timely access to technology; and 5. Embracing innovation.
A new report has identified key challenges facing education technology in the coming years, ranging from changing economics to instructional practices that have failed to adapt to the evolving technology landscape. But the No. 1 challenge in ed tech, according to the report, is with teachers themselves and the inadequacy of their preparation and ongoing training.
The report, released Tuesday, is the latest in an annual analysis of the outlook for education technology. Conducted by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the Horizon Report focused primarily on emerging technologies that will impact education in the near term, as we reported Tuesday. But it also addressed opportunities and challenges facing technology's adoption in America's K-12 schools.
For the 2011 Horizon Report K-12 Edition, researchers identified five "key" trends and five "critical" challenges.
5 Critical Challenges All of the critical challenges facing education were determined by the report's advisory board, consisting of education experts and practitioners in K-12 and higher education, as well as non-profits and industry players.
Challenge 1: Digital Media Illiteracy In the top slot in the list of challenges is digital literacy among teachers--in their training and in their ongoing professional development.
"The challenge is due to the fact that despite the widespread agreement on its importance, training in digital literacy skills and techniques is rare in teacher education and school district professional development programs," the report said.
What's more, when teachers do have access to technology-focused professional development, that development has focused largely on the ephemera of digital literacy--specific, transient technologies rather than technology concepts.
Challenge 2: Economic Pressures Economic pressures and new education models are putting some strain on traditional schools.
"Across the board, institutions are looking for ways to control costs while still providing a high quality of service," according to the report. "Schools are challenged by the need to support a steady--or growing--number of students with fewer resources and staff than before. As a result, creative institutions are developing new models to serve students, such as providing open content over the network."
Challenge 3: Lack of Support for Personalized Learning The third critical challenge cited by the authors was the failure of both technology and teaching practices to meet demands for differentiated, personalized learning.
"It has become clear that one-size-fits-all teaching methods are neither effective nor acceptable for today's diverse students," according to the report. "Technology can and should support individual choices about access to materials and expertise, amount and type of educational content, and methods of teaching."
Challenge 4: Institutional Resistance to Change In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."
The authors said that as long as the thrust of education support is on maintaining the existing system's "basic elements," meaningful change will face resistance.
The report concluded: "If the system is to remain relevant, it must adapt, but major change comes hard in education."
Challenge 5: Disconnects Between Home and School The lack of congruence between what students are learning outside of school and what they're being taught in the classroom is causing a disconnect in educational practices.
"Many activities related to learning and education take place outside the walls of the classroom and thus are not part of our learning metrics."
5 Emerging Trends The report also identified five key trends--some of them opportunities, some merely observations--that are presenting themselves now or are expected to have an impact on schools and teachers over the next five years.
Trend 1: Abundance of Online Resources The existence of a wealth of online tools and communications tools is allowing teachers to "to revisit our roles as educators."
Trend 2: Decentralization of IT Also a significant opportunity, according to researchers, is the move away from centralized support from the IT department.
"As IT support becomes more and more decentralized, the technologies we use are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud," according to the report. "The continuing acceptance and adoption of cloud-based applications and services is changing not only the ways we configure and use software and file storage, but even how we conceptualize those functions."
Trend 3: Shift in the Digital Divide Among the major trends is a change in the root of the digital divide, away from access to technology and toward an understanding of it--or, in other words, away from economics and toward education.
"The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and make use of technology than those who do not," the report said.
Digital literacy will also play an increasing role in career advancement, according to the report.
Trend 4: 'Just-in-Time Learning' Making a return from the 2010 Horizon Report is the ongoing trend toward immediate and easy access to technology and technology for learning.
According to the researchers: "Life in an increasingly busy world where learners must balance demands from home, work, school, and family poses a host of logistical challenges with which mobile students must cope. A faster approach is often perceived as a better approach, and as such people want easy and timely access not only to the information on the network, but to their social networks that can help them to interpret it and maximize its value. The implications for informal learning are profound, as are the notions of 'just-in-time' learning and 'found' learning, both ways of maximizing the impact of learning by ensuring it is timely and efficient."
Trend 5: Embracing 'Innovation' Finally, the researchers noted that the perceived value of both "innovation" and creativity is increasing. Learning experiences, the researchers argued, must reflect their growing importance.
"Innovation is valued at the highest levels of business and must be embraced in schools if students are to succeed beyond their formal education," the authors wrote. "The ways we design learning experiences must reflect the growing importance of innovation and creativity as professional skills."
The full 2011 report is available today. A toolkit will also be available in June, along with a printed version of the report, to help facilitate conversations among education leaders on the issues discussed in the report. A complete copy of the new 2011 Horizon Report K-12 Edition is freely available now via a Creative Commons Attribution License and can be downloaded in PDF form here.
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Glaciers are retreating due to climate change. What does that mean for water flow in the streams and rivers downhill?
The effect is very varied, says Arthur Lutz of the Netherlands-based think tank Future Water. To start with, the importance of glacier meltwater to the rivers below is not the same everywhere, he said at a session on glaciers and hydropower at the ongoing World Water Week in Stockholm. It is far more important for rivers in the Indus basin than for those in the Ganga and Brahmaputra basins.
Then, the effect of this glacier retreat also varies from catchment to catchment, he added.
At the session organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Lutz presented the results of two studies, one in Nepal and the other in Chile.
At the Upper Langtang catchment in the Nepal Himalayas, the rain, ice melt and snow melt change in a medium-level warming scenario (RCP 4.5) forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but the overall water runoff does not change very significantly from the present situation. However, in a much-warmed world (RCP 8.5 scenario of the IPCC), the study forecasts much higher runoff by 2050 and very much higher by 2100. This will increase the danger of flash floods manifold.
But the situation is forecast to be quite different in the Juncal catchment of the Chilean Andes. There a medium warming scenario leads to more water runoff than a high warming scenario.
It all points to the urgent need for more studies at both micro and macro levels, said David Molden, Director General of ICIMOD.
What is far more certain is that most glaciers in the high mountain regions of the world are in retreat. The exceptions are glaciers in the Karakoram range of the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Lutz said the reason for this well-known "Karakoram Anomaly" was still "very poorly understood". At present, most scientists think it is largely due to winds from the Caspian Sea bringing more snow and rain to this region.
Leaving the one exception aside, it is clear that glaciers are retreating very quickly because mountain areas are far more sensitive to climate change – a four degrees Celsius temperature rise in at the sea level becomes 5-6 degrees at an elevation above 5,000 metres, Lutz said, adding that this trend was likely to continue.
What this will mean for water flow downhill of the glaciers will depend on contribution of meltwater to total discharge; seasonal differences in a future characterised by climate change; future precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) amounts and future precipitation intensity, the researcher concluded.
Effect on hydropower plans
What will all this mean for the many hydropower projects planned in the Himalayas? That is still not known with any degree of certainty, according to Martin Honsberg of the Norwegian hydropower firm Statkraft.
As a result, Honsberg said hydropower developers were still planning and building their projects without taking into account the possibility of changing water flow. With Statkraft running hydropower projects in India and Nepal, he felt that such uncertainties would be reduced if developers were allowed to build water reservoirs instead of run of the river projects.
Water reservoirs behind dams are a controversial subject in the Himalayas, with considerable popular opposition to such projects.
But whatever the form of the project, if it was to be built it should have a better way to share benefits with local residents, said Aditi Mukherji of ICIMOD.
Pointing out that hydropower potential in the countries that shared the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the rivers that flowed down from this range totalled 500 GW, Mukherji focussed on one problem – that the electricity flows from the mountains to plains without providing commensurate benefits to the people who live in the mountains.
"These benefits have to go beyond compensation (for displacement) and mitigation," she said. In a study done in the state of Uttarakhand in India and in Nepal, Mukherji and her colleagues have found that though there are laws that compel hydropower developers to pay compensation for any damage this money usually ends up in the Government treasury rather than benefitting the affected population. The situation is better in Nepal, she said, because village development committees negotiated most of the benefits with the project developers, and the central government did not enter the picture.
"Our experience is that in Nepal communities feel far more empowered; in India communities feel powerless," Mukherji said. Part of the study carried out by her and her colleagues is now in the report Benefit sharing and sustainable hydropower: Lessons from Nepal. Mukherji welcomed the new Uttarakhand law that says the compensation paid by hydropower developers should go directly to Panchayats.
Between "wrong use of technology, changing social patterns, outmigration, the situation is already very complicated," said Dipak Gyawali of Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. "Climate change will make it ten times worse."
Eklabya Sharma, Director of Programmes at ICIMOD, concluded the session by reiterating that it all pointed to the need for more research and more monitoring stations all over the Hindu Kush Himalayas.


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Remembering the 1973 Arab oil embargo
By Paul Driessen This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab oil embargo, a painful episode in American history that had a profound effect on both the economy and psyche of the United States. It began in mid-October 1973, following the US decision to resupply Israel with weaponry after Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. In response to President Nixon's decision, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, the Arab members of OPEC, declared an embargo and cut off oil supplies to the United States and its allies. In the three months after the embargo was announced, oil prices quadrupled, from $3 to $12 per barrel. Yes, twelve bucks would be a monumental bargain in these days of $100-a-barrel crude, but back then it sent shock waves through developed country economies. Meanwhile, the supply disruptions forced American motorists to wait for hours in long lines to get gasoline. The US government response was largely limited to attempts to reduce consumption, by lowering the national speed limit to 55 mph and asking people to refrain from decorating with holiday lights, to reduce the use of oil that then powered many generating plants. During the 1970s, Washington also launched efforts that still continue today. Those efforts would purportedly increase the nation's energy independence by promoting conservation and energy-efficient appliances, nuclear power, and "alternative" energy development via tax breaks, mandates and subsidies for ethanol, wind and solar energy. Our three branches of state and federal government did very little to expand leasing and drilling, onshore or offshore, in the Lower 48 States or in Alaska; much to block such development; and little to encourage these activities. In August 1973, just before the embargo, even enacting a law to end incessant lawsuits over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline passed Congress by a single vote (by Vice President Spiro Agnew, following a 49-49 Senate vote). After the embargo hit, Congress finally authorized building the pipeline. Of course, policies aimed at addressing the nation's long-term energy needs did nothing to alleviate the crisis of late 1973. The United States and most of the developed world desperately needed liquid fuels – to power cars, trucks and tractors, generate power, produce electricity, and safeguard jobs and living standards. Nuclear power could do nothing to feed their transportation network, and wind and solar installations provided barely measurable amounts of electricity. Lack of preparation hurt us badly. Environmentalist opposition to all things nuclear and hydrocarbon continues. So does their refusal to acknowledge the land, raw material and wildlife impacts of wind and solar power, or even require an honest accounting of how many birds and bats wind turbines slaughter each year. Even as (or because) fracking proves the United States still has vast untapped riches of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, they do all they can to delay, block or ban this safe, proven technology. Now, four decades later, America is still vulnerable to a major and prolonged oil supply disruption. While the Strategic Petroleum Reserve stands ready to cushion an oil shock, it contains barely enough oil to replace imported crude for 93 days. Furthermore, since oil prices are determined globally and affected by political instability, the US economy could still suffer severe repercussions from an oil price spike. Why does the threat of oil disruptions still plague us? Because of political bickering, regulatory overkill, anti-hydrocarbon ideologies, courts putting almost any ecological argument (no matter how minor or far-fetched) above our need for hydrocarbons – and our government's systemic inability to focus on the most important issues facing our nation: economic growth, job creation and preservation, and protecting people's overall health and welfare. Even though petroleum still supplies 63% of the energy that powers our economy, our politicians and policy makers remember the embargo, but ignore its lessons. Despite the fact that the United States owns some of the world's largest collective oil resources, about 51% of our oil still comes from other countries. Canada is our largest supplier, but Persian Gulf oil still accounts for almost one-third of total imports. The risk of supply disruptions remains very real. However, that is just a small part of the problem. Over fourteen million working age Americans are still unemployed, are involuntarily working part-time below their potential and preference, for less pay than with their old jobs – or have simply given up looking for a job. Washington is spending some $3.6 trillion a year, while bringing in only $2.6 trillion in annual revenues. The deficits keep skyrocketing. The USA could be producing much more of its own oil and natural gas – creating millions of jobs and generating hundreds of billions of dollars in royalty and tax revenues. But it has lacked the political will to open the vast majority of the Outer Continental Shelf. Even the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the entire East and West Coasts are off limits to leasing and drilling. The vast majority of US onshore lands owned or controlled by the federal government are likewise off limits, including ANWR and even the Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve. The Obama administration has even increased the regulatory burdens and delays on the few areas it has technically left open, onshore and offshore – while expediting permits and waiving endangered species laws for wind and solar projects. Oil and gas projects have been delayed or scrapped, and virtually all have seen their costs skyrocket. As a result, our economy has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in salaries. The US Treasury has lost hundreds of billions in bonus, royalty and tax payments. Meanwhile, we continue to subsidize "green" energy, amass debt, and convert millions of jobs from full-time to part-time or no-time. The adverse impacts on people's lives, livelihoods, living standards and life spans continue to increase. Were it not for drilling and fracking on state and private lands – in spite of the federal government and constant environmentalist attacks – US oil and gas production would have continued the decline that began in 1970. Instead, due to advanced drilling and production technologies, dedicated entrepreneurs have safely extracted billions of dollars worth of oil and natural gas from shale formations, created 1.7 million jobs, ramped petroleum production back up, and sent almost $100 billion to state treasuries. Rather than meet our country's needs for oil and gas, President Obama's Interior and Energy Departments, EPA and other agencies have strangled our economy in red tape and poured billions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet of ill-conceived, crony-corporatist wind, solar, battery, "green" car and "renewable" fuel projects. Many went belly-up without ever producing any jobs, products or revenues. Worse, the "green" jobs (ie, subsidized by greenbacks) kill 2-4 jobs for every "renewable" job created. But they ensure that millions of tax dollars return to "green" politicians via campaign contributions, to keep the schemes alive. Tens of millions more are funneled annually through government agencies to eco-activists who work full time to promote renewable energy, oil depletion and climate change myths. To top it off, five years after the first permit application was submitted, Mr. Obama still refuses to make a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline. That one project would create tens of thousands of high-paying jobs and transport over 800,000 barrels of US and Canadian crude to Texas refineries, which are currently paying $100 for every barrel they refine into gasoline and myriad other products. In 1973, America was rocked by a shocking truth. Our nation was not prepared to control its own energy, economic, employment, trade and revenue destiny. In 2013, even amid deepening crises in the Middle East, Africa and other regions, we could be poised to repeat mistakes and painful lessons of the past. Our energy and economic problems continue today, but not because America lacks the resources. They continue because our "leaders" have put their anti-hydrocarbon attitudes and political alliances ahead of the best interests of the American nation and people. Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death. |


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Memorial Day Parades – 2007
ADDISON COUNTY — The last weekend in May is always a big one for anyone who likes to listen to brass bands play, wonder at the precision driving of Shriners in pint-size vehicles, and watch a procession of friends and neighbors march past holding banners and waving. This year should be no exception.
Six Addison County towns will host Memorial Day parades this weekend.
As usual, Orwell will kick-off the festivities with its traditional Sunday afternoon parade, which gets under way at 1:30 p.m. The 34th annual parade will line up on North Orwell Road and proceed through the village to the green. This year's parade marshal, Cindy Watrous, will lead a procession that includes the Fair Haven Union High School band, the Catamount Pipe Band, four American Legion color guard units, at least six Shriners units and a collection of fire department and rescue vehicles from area towns. The Rev. John Tatro of the Orwell Congregational Church will give the invocation as part of the memorial service on the green.
Marchers in the Middlebury parade, whose theme is "Lest We Forget," step off at 9 a.m. on Monday on South Main Street and will proceed northbound and up to the Congregational Church and around the east side of the town green to the soldiers' monument in front of the Town Hall Theater. In a remembrance ceremony expected to begin at approximately 9:45 a.m. at the monument, Gov. James Douglas, a Middlebury resident, will deliver the main address. The Rev. Terence Gleeson of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church will deliver the invocation and benediction.
Two students from the Bridport Central School will deliver recitations in the ceremony. Chelsea Plouffe will read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Joseph Woods will recite "In Flanders Field," the World War I poem by Canadian John McCrae.
Participants in Brandon's Memorial Day parade will gather at the town's post office off Conant Square at 9 a.m. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. and wind its way down Route 7 to the Brandon Town green and Civil War monument. There, in the park, local veterans and town officials will host a ceremony honoring the contributions of our men and women in the military.
The Brandon parade is expected to last around 30 minutes.
Also at 10 a.m. on Monday, Hancock will host its annual parade. The procession will begin at the town clerk's office and continue on to the cemetery.
Bristol American Legion Post 19 has organized a parade for Monday, as well. It will begin at approximately 1 p.m. (as soon as the Mount Abraham Union High School band returns from marching in the Vergennes parade, organizers say) at the American Legion building on Airport Drive and process down West Street to the village green. An officer from the Vermont Army National Guard will deliver the Memorial Day address in a ceremony on the green.
The annual Memorial Day Parade and Observance in Vergennes, which will begin at 11 a.m. at the high school, is expected to be big, with more than 100 units marching and at least 13 bands. Look for a squadron of Vermont Air Guard F-16 fighter jets to fly over as the marching gets started.
The parade, whose theme this year is "Memories Eternal," will follow the same route as in previous years, winding through the city and ending up at the Vergennes City Park where the Maj. Gen. Michael Dubie, Vermont's adjutant general, will deliver the Memorial Day address. Organizers have lined up an array of colorful floats, Civil War re-enactors, antique cars, color guards, scouting groups, marching groups, antique tractors, fire trucks, decorated bicycles and much more. Politicians expected to be on hand include U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Gov. Douglas.
Dennis Steady will be master of ceremonies at the Vergennes City Park. (For a full agenda on Vergennes Memorial Day activities, see Page 5B.)
Following the services at the park, the annual chicken barbeque will be held at the Vergennes American Legion under the tent. The public is welcome.
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As they're being told, we're pointing to some of the stories about the 12 people who died and the 58 who were wounded when a gunman opened fire on July 20 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. Click here to see more. As you see others, please share the links in the comment threads.
Eighteen-year-old Jarell Brooks, reports Denver's KUSA-TV, "could have left the theater and saved himself."
But when he saw that the woman who had been sitting next to him and her two young children were trying to crawl to safety, he did his best to shield them from the gunfire.
And though he got shot in the thigh, Jarell kept himself between the family and the gunman as they made it out of the theater.
"The whole time I was thinking 'if I just leave them there what is my conscience going to think afterwards?' Knowing there was a mother trying to protect her two children and then later I find out they were seriously injured or worse," Jarell tells the station. "I wouldn't be able to deal with that."
Jarell continues his recovery. He was expected to be released from a Denver area hospital later today.
Given his heroics, perhaps Jarell could tweak the spelling of his name to Jor-El. (Superman fans will know who we're referring to.)
The woman Jarell helped, by the way, is Patricia Legarreta — who had come to the movie with her then-boyfriend and their two children; a four-year-old girl and an infant son. She suffered a relatively minor injury. The boyfriend, Jamie Rohrs, got separated from them in the confusion. After they were reunited, he proposed to her and Legarreta said yes.
The Denver Post, which has previously written about Jarell's heroics, reported that:
"In interviews, Jamie Rohrs has described hurdling over a row of seats and running for his life, disoriented and unable to find his family.
" 'I don't blame him for that at all,' said Jarell, who graduated from Overland High School this year and will begin studies at Metropolitan State University in Denver this fall. 'Someone is shooting in a closed space. His life is on the line. You're in a panic situation.' "
KUSA-TV has begun a series called "Colorado Strong" to tell stories like Jarell's.
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My brother Danny and I recently had the pleasure of meeting and training with legendary bodyweight strongman (and fellow Brooklyn native) Jack Arnow.
A training partner of Jasper Benincasa, who's considered by many to be the strongest pull-up bar athlete of all time, Jack is well-known for his accomplishments in the world of one-arm chin-ups.
Jack was actually one of the first people to ever write about the subject; his article on one arm chin-up training predates my book Raising The Bar by several years.
In his prime, Jack was known to perform a one arm chin-up while holding a 35 lb. weight. Now, at age 70, he's still stronger than 99% of guys, regardless of age.


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I posted this picture the other day and got asked about recipes. I recently started eating whole foods and needed to change up my breakfast from high fiber cereal to something with more protein. Now I make up these babies on the weekend and eat them all week.
The egg cups are really easy and would be great for guests. After greasing a muffin tin (I use coconut oil), crack an egg in each cup. Then add whatever ingredients you'd like– I like arugula for it's peppery flavor, tomatoes, and sometimes a little bacon– then bake for 8-12 minutes at 400 F, depending on how firm you like your eggs. My husband likes to whisk his eggs first then add the extras for more a quiche effect (minus the crust), but it's up to you. Plan on 2 cups per person. {adapted from this recipe}
These oatmeal chia seed muffins are really good, but quite a bit healthier tasting, so you might need to feel out your crowd. But if you use rolled oats, a well ripened banana and fresh blueberries, they might not know the difference. I use dried blueberries to help the muffins last through the week, but you could try all kinds of combinations. {adapted from this recipe}


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SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah-based coffee company denies any supposed connection with or sponsorship of Kyle Rittenhouse after a photo of the teen wearing a shirt with the company's logo was shared on social media.
In August, Rittenhouse, 17, traveled with a gun from his home in Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin amid unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting and killing two people at the demonstrations.
Rittenhouse was released from jail after paying a $2 million cash bond on Friday. Over the weekend, Black Rifle Coffee Company was forced to respond after the host of a podcast which the company sponsors tweeted a discount code for the coffee along with the photo.
"Kyle Rittenhouse drinks the best coffee in America," Elijah Schaffer, host of Blaze Media's "Slightly Offens*ve," wrote in the now-deleted tweet.
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A Black Rifle spokesperson initially told The Salt Lake Tribune that the company was ending its sponsorship of the podcast. However, she later clarified her comments, saying she misunderstood.
"We are not fluctuating our ad spend," she told the Tribune in a text message. "We did have a conversation with Schaffer, and he understands that the post was a mistake."
After clarifying the company's continuing sponsorship of Blaze Media, the spokesperson added, "Our concern is that use of the discount code in the post did not reflect our values. That's a concern we've addressed with the journalist and that he understands."
Blaze employees "make decisions about how to allocate ad dollars within the Blaze," she said, but she did not clarify whether Black Rifle would request to end its placement as a podcast sponsor. She said the company and Blaze are discussing "how to move forward with the allocation of ad dollars."
The company did, however, officially state that it does not sponsor and does not have any direct connection with Rittenhouse.
"We do not support legal advocacy efforts," Black Rifle co-founder Evan Hafer said in a statement. "We do not sponsor nor do we have a relationship with the 17-year-old facing charges in Kenosha, WI."
Black Rifle Coffee was founded in Salt Lake City in 2014. The company describes itself as "a veteran-owned coffee company serving premium coffee to people who love America" and often donates to support groups for veterans and first responders. The company has been endorsed by several conservative politicians and talk show hosts.
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"The typical explanation given for retaining original wills at the lawyer's office is that clients might lose them, or executors may be unable to find them at the appropriate time."
An estate planning attorney has 500 wills with no owners. Most came into his office through several law firm acquisitions. Some of the wills are more than 70 years old. However, the New York State Bar Association's ethics opinion was that he must continue to store the wills.
Clients frequently ask estate planning attorneys the same question posed by an article "Could your future will be in the cloud?" from the Daily Local News. Should the attorney keep the original will? How would the attorney know if they had a second will done, or if they died and no longer need the will?
While it's almost always better to return to your original estate planning attorney when revising a will, clients are not required to tell attorneys if they are updating a will with another lawyer. Some estate planning attorneys do keep their clients' wills, as a service to their clients. It may also be a wise thing if the clients are worried about losing the wills or if they are concerned that their executors won't be able to find them when the time comes.
However, some attorneys do not keep client wills in their offices. They believe that the best place for an original will is in a fire and water-proof secure safe or box in the client's home. They also count on their good relationship with clients and their families, who they believe will return to their offices when estate plans need to be updated or estates need to be administered.
The issue of a lost will could be averted, if people are diligent about telling their executors where their wills can be found, and if documents are updated from time to time, as their personal situations and laws change.
However, what about storing documents in a world where so much of our private important information is stored in the "cloud," that is, on a secure platform that is offered to us by a professional or through an online service?
There are several new laws in a number of states that are looking into electronic wills, with new laws, including the Uniform Electronic Wills Act and State Electronic Will statutes. Electronic wills under the Uniform Act must be stored in a tangible or electronic medium that is "retrievable in perceivable form." In other words, you have to be able to read it. Attesting witnesses must be in the physical presence of the testator or the electronic presence.
For most of us, the brave new world is still developing, and storage of our wills in the cloud may be a few years in the future. Speak with your estate planning attorney about their practices and recommendations for storage of your will and other important estate planning documents. Inquire about whether they provide a secure online portal for document storage, and if it is acceptable by law in your state.
Reference: Daily Local News (Feb. 5, 2020) "Could your future will be in the cloud?"


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With elicitation serving as a major component of the requirements process, it is imperative that business analysts maintain high competency levels in elicitation practices and technique use to help organizations overcome the requirements related challenges faced on projects. Regardless whether you are a practitioner just starting off your career in business analysis or whether you have been performing the role for some years, this course will provide insight into the latest thoughts on elicitation and writing effective requirements and present a number of current techniques that are being applied on projects across industries today.
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Here we see it loaded on the launcher, a tube launcher as predicted, on the back of a truck
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Also note among the group men in red berets
Red berets are worn by members of the Syrian Republican Guard, also known as the Presidential Guard, as well as the military police.
Just to clarify, as it's confused some people, the August 21st CW attack was at night, but this video shows the munition being used by the government forces, something it has used several times before (see here), so while it might not be the CW attack, it shows the government using them. I also believe there's a high explosive version of this munition as well, as seen in Homs.
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Update I've just been contacted by the activists who filmed this, who said "This is fired from the areas to the east and north east of Al-Mezzeh Airport around Daraya."
Update Nic Jenzen-Jones highlights on his excellent blog post on these munitions a photograph from November showing a launcher he identifies as an Iranian Falaq-2 loaded with what could be the same munition. The earliest video of this type of munition is from January 2013.
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1 Gather together all letters, journals, documents, photos that I have about the individual.
2 Consult other family members for any information they may have.
3 Consider doing interviews of anyone who may have personal knowledge about this person.
4 Enter the information I have into my available family records management software, showing him or her both as a child and as a parent.
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2 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Thanks for the outline. When you say "Family Management Software" do you mean a genealogy program?
What is typsetting software? Thanks for your comment. Yes, "records management software" is a genealogy program like Ancestral Quest, Ancestry, Family Tree Maker, PAF, etc. Typesetting software would be something like QuarkXpress or InDesign. You could even use MS Word to do the typesetting and produce a PDF for publishing.
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