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A spooky rehearsal today, gave way to these 2 performance of the song, "The Headless Horseman," originally sung by Bing Crosby back in 1948! (Thanks Suz!) I knew the song from an old record I used to play as a kid. The chorus seemed to enjoy the tune quite a bit today as they learned then performed it... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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All anyone ever wants to talk about on Yom Kippur is fasting. Teshuva is iffy. Going without something to eat? That's a whole other story! So here's the best that the net has to offer on the subject…at least, that's what I think.
Why Jews Fast – TheTorah.org
Yom Kippur is about fasting. Or is it? Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber and Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich dispel the myth that Yom Kippur is "the fasting day" by showcasing the interesting diversity of fasting practices in the Biblical and post-biblical periods.
I Didn't Fast On Yom Kippur – Hevria.com
There are a lot of blog posts about not fasting on Yom Kippur. This is the only one worth reading. You'll see why after you read it.
Yom Kippur Customs and Rituals – ReformJudaism.org
The lowdown on fasting, yes, but also a good overview of what to expect on the big day.
Written by Rabbi Patrick


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Residue Studies - Conduct of Trials |
John Unsworth 7th April 2010 Residues remaining in or on plants are often unavoidable even when the pesticide has been applied according to Good Agriculture Practice (GAP). Residue trials are necessary to determine the level of residue and thus any potential harm to humans and animals. Supervised residue trials should be designed so that the highest likely residues are present e.g. by using the highest application rate and shortest pre-harvest interval (PHI) consistent with the GAP to mimic possible worst case scenarios. Trials also need to be conducted in different locations and in more than one season to take account of environmental and climatic variations.
The EU has published a comprehensive guideline1 on "General Recommendations for the Design, Preparation and Realisation of Residue Trials". Further information can be found in an FAO document2 "Guidelines on Pesticide Residue Trials to Provide Data for the Registration of Pesticides and the Establishment of Maximum Residue Limits". Further information can be found for Australia3 and the USA4.
The topics covered are: · Design of residue trials
· Application of the plant protection product
· Records of plant growth and development data
· Records of weather data
· Records of soil data
· Samples
The main aim of residue trials is to quantify the highest likely residue level in treated crops at harvest or on removal from store following the proposed good agricultural practice (GAP). The trials must be designed and implemented to take into account even the worst case residue levels which might be encountered when applying the product according to the critical GAP.
Design of Residue trials
The design of residue trials should take into account the proposed mode of application, the sampling procedure
and the analysis. In order to set Maximum Residue Levels and pre-harvest intervals, results based on several trials carried out in different localities and under different geo-climatic conditions are required. Trials should be carried out in major areas of cultivation or production and should be sited to cover the range of relevant representative conditions (climatic, seasonal, soil, cropping system, farming, etc.) likely to be met for the intended use of the pesticide. These residue trials, performed using proposed commercial formulations, should be carried out in accordance with the proposed Good Agricultural Practice (GAP). When a product is applied to a crop near maturity, studies on residue disappearance with time, decline studies, are usually needed to determine acceptable pre-harvest intervals.
In general, for a comparable set of conditions, trials should be carried out over a minimum of two growing
seasons. The precise number of trials necessary is difficult to determine in advance of a preliminary evaluation of the trial results. Minimum data requirements only apply where comparability can be established between
production areas, e.g. concerning climate, methods and growing seasons of production etc. In the EU assuming all other variables (climate etc) are comparable, a minimum of eight trials representative of the proposed growing area is required for major crops. For minor crops normally four trials representative of the proposed growing area are required.
Application of the Plant Protection Product
Residue trials should be based on the highest approved or proposed rate of application consistent with Good
Agricultural Practice in the region concerned. A treatment at twice or three times the recommended rate may be included. Data from such a treatment would indicate what might happen if users deliberately or accidentally apply quantities greater than those recommended.
Whenever possible the application equipment used should correspond to that specified by Good Agricultural Practice. Only the formulated product which is the subject of the authorization procedure, or at least, a very similar formulation, should be used. In the course of a single growing season of a crop, many plant protection products may need to be used several times against one or more harmful organisms. Residue trials should therefore reflect the proposed critical GAP (number of applications, interval between applications). To cover the worst case residue situation the application of the same active substance present in different products against other harmful organisms which may attack the same crop has to be considered; where relevant, the design of the trial should also take this into account.
Data Recording
For reliable appraisal of residue behaviour of plant protection products in and on plants, knowledge of the
vegetative stage is often indispensable. In certain instances the timing of application of the plant protection
product will depend on the vegetative stage to be treated. Sowing time, or alternatively, planting time may indicate whether a given variety may be harvested early or late. The differential growth rates involved may affect residue behaviour to a different extent. Access to data defining the start and end of flowering is important for deciding whether, and, if so, to what extent fruit and other harvest products are likely to have been affected by the spray solution. These considerations also bear upon the comparability of crops. At all times, the date of the harvest is indispensable since it may significantly affect the residue situation. For crops with extended harvest periods records on harvest should include beginning and end of harvest. Records should also be kept of the soil types and the daily weather conditions. Proposed forms for reporting this information are given in the FAO document2.
It is not usually practical to collect the entire crop from a trials plot and it is generally necessary to devise a means of taking a representative field sample. It is, however, extremely difficult to obtain uniform application of a pesticide in the field, thus in taking a sample for residue analysis, it is necessary to approach the task in an intelligent, realistic manner if the results of analysis are to be valid or useful for estimating maximum residue levels. Generally, the selection of the portions that make up the field sample is done randomly, systematically, or selectively from pre-determined "stations", depending upon the circumstances. In order to determine in-plot variation, replicate samples may be taken and analysed separately. The units of the field sample should be identical with the normal harvested product as regards any trimming or cleaning. Separate guidance is available on the recommended portion of the field sample to be prepared for the determination of pesticide residues5,6.
Control (untreated) samples must always be taken. These are as important as samples from test plots. Control
samples should be of similar quality to that of the test samples and may be from plots treated with another pesticide providing these are specified in the trial details and do not interfere with the analytical method. Control samples should be taken before the treated samples, so as to avoid the possibility of contamination from handling.
In order to have a sample suitable for analysis the sample collected from the field must be sub-sampled and should be equal to 500 to 1000g. This laboratory sample is further sub-sampled to provide the analytical sample.
The analytical sample is taken from the laboratory sample, which is to be submitted to analytical procedures. It
is obtained by removing a representative sub-sample from the laboratory sample. For plants or plant products with inedible skin (such as citrus, banana, kiwi, pineapple) a separate analysis of flesh and skin should be performed on some samples in order to provide data on the distribution of residues between flesh and skin.
Recommended weights for samples from various crops are given in the FAO document2.
All samples should be stored deep frozen. Storage stability studies should be carried out to confirm that any residues present at harvest do not decline due to storage.
1. Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General for Agriculture, 7029/VI/95 rev.5, VI B II-1 Appendix B, General Recommendations for the Design, Preparation and Realization of Residue Trials
2. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations,
3. Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), Residue Trials to Obtain Permanent MRLS for Crops, Residue Guideline No. 24, December 2000
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Residue Chemistry Test Guidelines, OPPTS 860.1500, Crop Field Trials, EPA 712–C–96–183, August 1996
5. Codex Alimentarius - 27 - Section 2.1 Volume 2A, Part 1 – 2000, Analysis of Pesticide Residues. Portion of Commodities to which CODEX MRLS Apply and which is Analysed.
http:// www.codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/43/CXG_041e.pdf
6. Council Directive of 27 November 1990 on the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables, 90/642/EEChttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1990L0642:19930712:EN:PDF
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No, this is not about the contempt for others, or contempt for the law, that seem inherent in the personality of certain public figures. At least not directly. Rather, it is about Contempt of Congress and how it plays out.
As you may be aware, the House Judiciary Committee is in the process of finding Attorney General Barr in contempt. The cogent question is: What happens next?
Normally, when someone is found in contempt of Congress, the United States Attorney takes them before a grand jury. But there is some reason to doubt that this will happen in this case. Which is unusual, but not unheard of the past few years. In which case, Congress usually moves to Plan B:
Alternatively, the Congress can launch a civil suit to compel compliance. This can result in a court order – something even the more recalcitrant individuals are generally unwilling to blow off. The down side is, if the defendant stalls and launches appeals, it can take months before the matter is resolved. And if the delay extends past the next election, the case gets dropped.
But, it develops, there is a third alternative. It hasn't been used in decades, but there is solid case law, including Supreme Court decisions, upholding it. It's called "inherent contempt". In this, the House (or Senate) Sergeant-At-Arms (or his deputy) acts as a police officer to arrest and detain the individual in contempt. I'm not sure exactly where the Congress would detain him, but presumably they can find some place suitable.
But the question that leaps to my mind is this. Suppose the issue is the refusal of an individual to produce records in response to a subpoena. Does inherent contempt extend to having the Sergeant-At-Arms physically seize the subpoenaed records?
I can see where this would be straightforward, at least in principle, in the case of Congress wanting an unredacted copy of the Mueller Report. Finding a copy at the Justice Department shouldn't be that difficult, and even at a few hundred pages it should be easy enough for one person to pick up and carry out. Getting Mr. Trump's tax returns could be more of a challenge. But it should still be possible to find out where the IRS has them, rent a truck, and send a couple of guys to load them up. Wouldn't that be fun?
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Third statement of the FSFE to WIPO SCP/13
Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, Thirteenth session, Geneva, March 23, 2009 to March 27, 2009
Mr Chairman,
We have followed the debates of this week with great interest. Our thanks go to you for your able chairmanship, and the Secretariat for their hard work to facilitate the dialogue. Regarding the future actions resulting from the work of the SCP/13, we have a few concrete proposals and comments.
As a cross-cutting issue between exceptions and limitations and patents and standards, we think that WIPO should have a working group on interoperability issues with a focus on Information Technologies (IT). Standards are the dominant tool to achieve interoperability, which then drives competition, innovation and economies of scale. Yet in our experience, the existence of standards alone can be insufficient to achieve interoperability if there are no surrounding activities, such as interoperability testing and engineering. There are also other ways to achieve interoperability outside formal standardisation, such as shared code bases, often on the grounds of the Free Software model.
Interoperability is an essential requirement for future trends in IT, which are based on modularity, re-combination, and re-use. Only through interoperability will the IT industry be able to sustain its high level of innovation, and only through interoperability will other sectors of economy be able to reap the benefits of ICT-enabled innovation and economies of scale.
FSFE sees a strong public need for interoperability which in all likelihood outweighs the potential innovative effects of patents. In our view this public interest justifies an exception on the ability to enforce patents against interoperability. This exception would provide legal safety for the entire IT sector against abusive patenting strategies that threaten to take entire markets hostage today.
Secondly we think that it would be to the benefit of WIPO Member States to make use of the criteria highlighted in document SCP/12/3 for the economic rationale of patenting. The first step would be an assessment of how different areas meet the "three step test for inclusion in the patent system" of demonstrated market failure to provide innovation, demonstrated positive disclosure from patenting, and effectiveness of the patent system in the area to disseminate knowledge.
Further fine-tuning of the patent system may be necessary in line with this facts-based application of the economic rationale for patenting, such as an area-specific adjustment of parameters like cost, time and scope of patents in order to best meet the requirements of each area. A study by the secretariat might be a good start in order to understand the differences between the areas.
Lastly we would like to reflect upon the various remarks that have been made by different Member States throughout the week on the necessity to harness an encompassing set of tools for innovation to address pressing challenging for humankind, such as health, climate change or food security.
The ability to meet these challenges will depend on WIPO's ability to bring all innovative instruments to bear, including Open Innovation Models, Free Software, and Open Standards. Two examples can help to highlight the pervasiveness of these tools.
Several Member States have suggested that the dissemination of patent information be based on the Open Innovation Model associated with the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. A quoted reason for this request was the understanding that the complexity of the subject matter makes it unlikely that any individual party could provide all the information. Without undervaluing the task of disseminating patent information, areas like health, climate change or food security are likely of even greater complexity, increasing the need for application of Open Innovation Models.
Secondly, considering the power consumption of computational centres around the world and the increasing use of software in all areas it will for instance be harder to meet the challenges of climate change under exclusion of Free Software innovation. Free Software is defined by a unique level and granularity of user control for all layers of the software, allowing to enable or disable components as needed, and providing more effective power consumption control and allowing for optimisations that are not possible with proprietary systems. These advantages of Free Software for Green IT should be embraced on all levels, WIPO included.
Over the past years, various Member States have repeatedly requested that WIPO become inclusive of all methodologies to foster innovation, including Copyright, Patents, Free Software and Open Innovation Models. Many Member States successfully employ a wider mix of methodologies on a national level already, such as Germany, which as part of its response to the financial crisis decided to invest 500m EUR into the focus areas Green IT, IT-Security and Free Software. Other examples exist from various Member States around the world, spanning all regional groups.
We therefore humbly submit to the Secretariat that now would be the time to begin thinking about concrete ways of ensuring these tools for innovation are fully integrated into the knowledge and capacity building initiatives of WIPO. Furthe information from the Secretariat on these areas, case studies illustrating their practical application "in the wild" in varying contexts, relevant to both the developed and developing world, can only serve to inform the debates of all of WIPOs activities and committees.


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Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favorable spot for surviving the next Martian winter.
The puzzle is what produced a patch of nearly pure silica — the main ingredient of window glass — that Spirit found last May. It could have come from either a hot-spring environment or an environment called a fumarole, in which acidic steam rises through cracks. On Earth, both of these types of settings teem with microbial life.
"Whichever of those conditions produced it, this concentration of silica is probably the most significant discovery by Spirit for revealing a habitable niche that existed on Mars in the past," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the rovers' science payload. "The evidence is pointing most strongly toward fumarolic conditions, like you might see in Hawaii and in Iceland. Compared with deposits formed at hot springs, we know less about how well fumarolic deposits can preserve microbial fossils. That's something needing more study here on Earth."
Halfway around Mars from Spirit, Opportunity continues adding information about types of wet environments on ancient Mars other than hot springs or fumaroles. It is examining layers exposed inside a crater, but still near the top of a stack of sulfate-rich layers hundreds of meters (yards) thick. Scientists read a history of conditions that evolved from wetter to drier, based on findings by Opportunity and observations of the region by Mars orbiters.
The solar-powered rovers have been active on Mars since January 2004, more than 15 times longer than originally planned. Their third Martian winter will not reach minimum sunshine until June, but Spirit already needs two days of power output to drive for an hour.
"Spirit is going into the winter with much more dust on its solar panels than in previous years," said John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for the rovers. "The last Martian winter, we didn't move Spirit for about seven months. This time, the rover is likely to be stationary longer and with significantly lower available energy each Martian day."
Dust storms that darkened Martian skies this past June dropped dust onto both rovers. However, gusts cleaned Opportunity's panels, and Opportunity is closer to the equator than Spirit is, so concerns for winter survival focus on Spirit. The team has selected a sun-facing slope of about 25 degrees on the northern edge of a low plateau, "Home Plate," as a safe winter haven for Spirit.
Both rovers resumed productive field work after the June dust storms. Spirit explored the top of Home Plate, in the vicinity of silica-rich soil it discovered before the dust storms hit.
"This stuff is more than 90 percent silica," Squyres said. "There aren't many ways to explain a concentration so high." One way is to selectively remove silica from the native volcanic rocks and concentrate it in the deposits Spirit found. Hot springs can do that, dissolving silica at high heat and then dropping it out of solution as the water cools. Another way is to selectively remove almost everything else and leave the silica behind. Acidic steam at fumaroles can do that. Scientists are still assessing both possible origins. One reason Squyres favors the fumarole story is that the silica-rich soil on Mars has an enhanced level of titanium. On Earth, titanium levels are relatively high in some fumarolic deposits.
Mineral mapping and high-resolution imagery from Mars orbiters are helping scientists put the findings of Spirit and Opportunity into broader geological context. Opportunity's exploration of the Meridiani region has taken advantage of the natural excavations at impact craters to inspect layers extending several meters below the surface of the regional plain. These sulfate-rich layers bear extensive evidence for a wet, acidic past environment. They are a small upper fraction of the sulfate-rich layering exposed elsewhere in Meridiani and examined from orbit.
"We see evidence from orbit for clay minerals under the layered sulfate materials," said Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis, deputy principal investigator for the rovers' science payload. "They indicate less acidic conditions. The big picture appears to be a change from a more open hydrological system, with rainfall, to more arid conditions with groundwater rising to the surface and evaporating, leaving sulfate salts behind."
From http://www.nasa.gov


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Hayden Panettiere Pictures: Hayden Panettiere arrives on the red carpet at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 18, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Produced by Larry Klein and executive producers Orly Adelson and Barry Adelman of Dick Clark Productions, Inc., the American Music Awards once again featured a star-studded line-up of the music industry's top artists and performances, while celebrating 40 years of AMA history and memorable moments. The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards honored artists in the categories of Pop/Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Alternative, Adult Contemporary, Latin and Contemporary Inspirational. For the sixth year, fans determined the winners by online voting.
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There are a lot of foreign language posts. Let's auto-translate them.
There are also a lot of private foreign language posts and auto-translation services would require us to transmit these private messages to the translation service; and we don't know what they will do with them on their servers. Actually we do know thanks to Edward Snowden. Our best bet is a project called Apertium which is an open source translator we can install locally. It is currently missing German translations - which are the most requested translation in the matrix. Once again, this will be implemented when we find somebody who really wants to make it happen.


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Self Portrait by Eric Armusik
Eric Armusik and his beautiful wife Rebekah Armusik have been one of my greatest inspirations that made me pick up art and writing once again. Now I am asking you to pick up your phone and/or mouse and vote for his dark and fabulous artwork in an online self-portrait contest.
As most of us in this culture know, many artists and authors who delve into Gothic works are not Gothic themselves. This dynamic duo are indeed the genuine thing. So please show your support and help his dark light shine.
Artist Bio:
Born in 1973, fine artist Eric Armusik grew up in the northeastern coal region of Pennsylvania. Once one of the largest coal mining operations in the county, his hometown was a landscape riddled with the depressions of post-industry. In contrast to the blight was a diverse ethnic community strong in faith. What the community lacked in public art and museums it made up for it with churches on each city block. It was there that Eric had his first experiences with art, staring at the walls and ceilings at church on Sunday. The traditions and academic realism of Catholic religious paintings and artwork made a permanent impression that continues to influence his work today.
From an early age it was evident that Eric had artistic talents and at the age of 10 he won an art competition "Why I love living in the Wyoming Valley" that included students from all of the surrounding schools and his drawing of the Swetland Homestead was exhibited in the Franklin First Federal Building in downtown Wilkes Barre. His talents continued to win him numerous competitions and in 1990 he was awarded for his Contribution to the Arts by Wilkes University where he attended their Upward Bound program. In 1991, Eric attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a B. F. A. in painting, with and a minor in an art history focusing on Baroque art. In 1995 he received the Margaret Giffen Shoenfelder Memorial Scholarship for the Arts and finished his art history minor abroad for a semester in Todi, Italy. During his art classes there he drew from original paintings, architecture and sculptures by the old masters such as Michaelangelo, Bernini, Caravaggio, Rubens and Donatello. The rare opportunity to study masterworks by Baroque painters Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi had a profound effect on the quality of his work and focused the inspiration he experienced as a child. After years of learning the techniques of the old masters Eric honed his skills at the Philadelphia studio of renowned international realism artist and portrait painter Nelson Shanks, Studio Incamminati. Today Eric's paintings have established him as one of today's strongest purveyors of traditional figurative painting. In 2010 he won the Chairman's Award for the Sixth International Art Renewal Center competition out of 1700 submissions from over 30 countries worldwide. Eric conducts several workshops in traditional painting each year and has attracted students from around the world that come to study with him.
Eric's work has been featured in such galleries and museums as the Salmagundi Art Club and the National Arts Club in New York; Allentown Art Museum; Philip and Muriel Berman Art Museum, Ursinus College; Monsoon Galleries; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts; State Museum of Pennsylvania; and Reading Public Museum to name a few. In 2003, Eric was selected to represent the United States in Florence, Italy at the Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea where he exhibited several of his paintings. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Howard Tullman, The Trenton City Museum, Lehigh Valley Hospital and several churches private collections worldwide. His artwork has been prominently featured in publications like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, American Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, Victorian Homes, Old House Journal, and ArtMATTERS.
Eric is married to his soulmate, Gothic novelist Rebekah Armusik , and they have three beautiful children.
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For those who are struggling this thanksgiving
November 26, 2015
In the United States today is Thanksgiving, a day for cultivating gratitude and giving thanks. I'm a big fan of both of those things. And I also know that there are times when I haven't been able to access gratitude -- and that feeling cut-off from gratitude can be especially painful on special days like holidays. If you are in that place, or if you think you know someone who might be, don't miss this post from Rabbi David Evan Markus at the Rabbis Without Borders blog at My Jewish Learning. He begins:
Happy Thanksgiving.
Now, let's get real: some don't feel thankful today. We might feel like the turkeys got us down. We might feel burdened by hosting, harried by travel, lonely for having nowhere to go, bothered for having to go somewhere we don't want to go, or pre-triggered by a secular holiday season happier in advertising than anticipation or reality. It's well to act grateful even if we don't feel it (a practice worth trying), or imagine Plymouth Rock as the House of God (my post last Thanksgiving), but what if we (or people we love) don't feel "thanks" on Thanksgiving?
Turns out, we have a turkey for that, too.
Rabbi David tells the parable of the Turkey Prince, which comes to us from Reb Nachman of Breslov, and offers some deep wisdom for those who are struggling today and those who love someone who is struggling today. Worth reading -- today and every day: It's Thanksgiving, But What If One Doesn't Feel Thankful?


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Dismissal of lawsuit prompts appeal by Antioch faculty
- Published: January 8, 2009
The former faculty of Antioch College recently appealed a November decision from the Greene County Common Pleas Court to dismiss the faculty lawsuit against Antioch University. The appeal, filed several weeks ago, will take about eight or nine months to work its way through the court system, according to Attorney Evan Price of Columbus, who represents the faculty.
On Nov. 26 Judge Stephen Wolaver of the Common Pleas Court dismissed the faculty lawsuit, which alleges that the university trustees breached their contractural responsibilities to faculty by declaring a state of financial exigency and suspending operations when less drastic measures were available, and also by making this decision without consulting faculty. These actions violated contractual obligations as stated in the Faculty Personnel Policies and Procedures, the lawsuit said.
The suit had originally been filed in August, 2007, two months after Antioch University leaders announced that the college would close due to financial exigency. Faculty dropped the lawsuit for several months in November 2007 after the college alumni group and university trustees reached an agreement to keep the college open; however, that agreement later fell apart, and the lawsuit was re-filed in March 2008 after the breakdown of talks between the trustees and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or AC3.
The Nov. 26 dismissal of the faculty lawsuit is based on procedural considerations rather than the facts of the case, Price said in a recent interview. Specifically, Judge Wolaver stated the court lacks the authority to intervene in the operations of the college, and should not second-guess the business decisions of the university trustees. The dismissal also states it is not appropriate for the court to intervene in contracts for personal services.
According to former Antioch College faculty member Bob Devine, the faculty legal committee unanimously voted to appeal the dismissal because they believe that Wolaver's decision reflects a misreading of the suit.
For instance, he said, the faculty lawsuit did not request that the court intervene in individual contracts. Rather, the lawsuit asserts the university violated the collective bargaining agreement between the entire faculty and the university administration as set out in the Faculty Personnel Policies.
"We were never about the personal damages. We were about keeping the institution open," he said. "It was a breach of contract with the entire faculty regarding the lack of consultation."
The dismissal also indicates a misunderstanding in that the judge interpreted the suit as an invitation for the court to step in and intervene in the running of the college, which he deemed inappropriate. However, faculty had not made that request, Devine said.
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- Indexing of certain pages or the entire set of documents.
- Optical Charter Recognition (OCR).
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Mid October Bloom Day
A few typical October flowers opened just in time for bloom day today so without further ado, here are the Chrysanthemums or are they Dendranthema? Whatever their name is, the 'Sheffield Pink' (left) never fails to make me want to stop and memorize that color and I love these mystery deep pinks in the North Garden (right) so much that I'm thinking of dividing them and spreading the love through the beds. None of us remembers planting them so we've blamed/thanked a wedding planner from a few years back who must have thought the North Garden needed a little hit of a late deep color. I think he/she was quite right.
Here is a late bloomer that I think is less common perhaps because, alas, for us it is a tender perennial. But I think Plectranthus fruticosa, if you can find it, is well worth making room for. All season long it garnered compliments for its striking two-toned leaves and now that it's blooming it looks positively lit from within and everyone wants one or twenty.
Salvia uliginosa has been blooming since, oh I don't know – July, maybe? But I think it is worthy of October Bloom Day because its color has recently changed dramatically from a cerulean sky to closer to cobalt. And to overhear the discussions in the garden, it's as if everyone is noticing it for the very first time. We will try to keep the Display Garden bed with these late beauties going for as long as possibly possible…
And what would an October Bloom Day post be without some fall color shots? No matter how gorgeous the bloomers might be, blazing trees and shrubs are the true attractions and distractions of October (I think my car keys should be taken from me – I am too apt to pay attention to any orange tree rather than the road). Bristol color is still up and coming but it looks like the stars may have aligned for a spizztacular year.
What are your garden's October attractions and distractions?
Many thanks, as always, to Carol from May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers Bloom Day every month. Click on the link and on all of the links in her comments to see what's in bloom right now all over the country and the world.


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With brands increasingly using short-form video ads to deliver impact, we set out to find some of the top six-second ads on YouTube. We speak to the creators of Duracell's hit "Slamtone" campaign, which was one of the top 20 bumper ads in our inaugural YouTube Ads Leaderboard: Bumper Ads edition.
What goes into building one of the top YouTube bumper ads? We sat down with the team behind one of the winners — Duracell's "Slamtone"— to dig into the video advertising strategy behind their success.
We'll get the brand perspective from Ramon Velutini, VP of marketing at Duracell; the creative perspective from Eric Helin, creative director at Wieden+Kennedy; and the media perspective from Erin Breen, director of connections at Spark Foundry. Here they share how the ad came to life and their top piece of advice for others.
Use creative elements that are unique to your brand
Ramon Velutini, VP of marketing, Duracell
"'Slamtone' was conceived as part of our media mix for a brand campaign, 'Trust is Power,' which is built on the insight that trust is in short supply these days. While people have plenty of things to be skeptical about, Duracell batteries remain something they can trust. We wanted to build a story around that, with the goal of driving top-of-mind awareness for a No. 1 trusted brand.
To tell that story in a meaningful way, we had to account for how people consume media—in shorter bursts and often on mobile. Using six-second ads to complement our longer hero ads solved for that.
The challenge was how to champion the product and convey a message of trust in a short amount of time; nailing it required testing and learning. 'Slamtone' performed the best because it paired iconic features—our copper-top imagery and audible 'slamtone'—with a clear brand message. It is unquestionably Duracell."
Make your product the focus—and celebrate it
Eric Helin, creative director, Wieden+Kennedy
"When it comes to video length, there's a tendency to equate shorter with worse, because the industry isn't accustomed to shorter just yet. It's a different creative approach that requires different thinking. For 'Slamtone,' it wasn't a matter of cutting an existing 30-second story down—it was telling a different story altogether.
The succinctness of six seconds makes the Duracell battery feel larger than life.
The succinctness of six seconds makes the Duracell battery feel larger than life.
The time constraint gives you freedom to do things you wouldn't necessarily do in a longer spot.
A key tenet of the 'Trust is Power' campaign was to 'hero' the product. So the creative idea for 'Slamtone' and the other bumper ads was to do that in almost absurdly bold ways. The succinctness of six seconds makes the Duracell battery feel larger than life."
Test and learn to optimize for your campaign goals
Erin Breen, director of connections, Spark Foundry
"We built 'Slamtone' and several other bumper ads, and remarketed them to viewers of our equity-building 30-second ads. Our media strategy was to reach viewers with these longer stories, then reinforce them with quick, hard-hitting six-second ads to keep Duracell top of mind.
Increasing purchase intent was key to proving our return on ad spend. From the outset, we ran Brand Lift studies to gauge which version of six-second creative drove the highest lift in purchase intent.
'Slamtone' was the clear winner, so we used it in our media mix to optimize for purchase intent lift."
Brands are trying out various models for mixing short-form ads into a campaign. While the rulebook for making great bumper ads is still being written as brands experiment more and more, check out these short-form ad best practices to get the creative juices flowing.


text: QandA-Christine Nezu January 28, 2013 Why are personality disorders difficult to characterize and treat? Because individuals with personality disorders typically express their discomfort in the form of anxiety, depressive symptoms, anger or impulse control, there is often a high degree of comorbidity with other mental health diagnoses as well as among two or more of the personality disorders. There are, however, structured diagnostic interviews that can be very helpful in obtaining diagnostic clarity. As such, personality disorders are not very difficult to characterize, but how much to attribute to the various symptoms of distress—such as panic or depression—as separate, co-existing, or caused by personality disorder, can be very difficult. How might redefining diagnostic criteria of personality disorders improve treatment? I believe that redefining the diagnostic criteria may increase the reliability of a diagnosis, improve communication between professionals, and ultimately improve the methods of clinical research studies regarding the development of effective treatments. However, it is my opinion that modifying the diagnostic criteria alone will not improve treatment. The proposed diagnostic system is said to be simpler than the existing one. Instead of the current 10 personality types, the DSM-V (fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) has simplified the system by cutting them down to just five. Also, clinicians will have a paragraph-length description of each type and rate on a 1 to 5 scale how much a patient matches each one (with 4 or 5 being a threshold for diagnosis). There are research studies that have found that clinicians tend to find this the most useful and comprehensive method for personality diagnosis, improving clinical description and treatment planning from the current system. Another element of the newly proposed system involves the clinician determining diagnostic information based upon six personality "trait domains" derived from many years of research concerning a widely used five-factor model of personality. While there is significant personality research on these factors, their greatest limitation is the sense they are too vague for clinical use. To compare, it would be like rating someone's level of usual sadness, as opposed to having a coherent syndrome of depression. You say the proposed diagnostic system is said to be simpler than the existing one. Some experts oppose this move, claiming that it is "premature and reckless" to throw out existing definitions and that the diagnoses can't be simplified so much. Do you agree with this criticism or do you think that it's necessary to start over? Neither. While there is legitimate criticism of the new diagnostic system, if it can improve evaluation, increase reliability of diagnoses, and improve methods of clinical research, then it may be useful. It is my sense that it is unrealistic to expect improved treatment from some increased clarity of diagnoses. As a practicing clinician, it seems important to me to embrace the viewpoint that a diagnosis of personality disorder is a helpful description of the problems that someone is experiencing, and a reliable way for professionals to communicate, not a prescription for treatment. Enduring personality characteristics represent a complex interaction of one's genetics, temperament, early learning experiences, emotional reactivity and psychological coping skills. When that is combined with the importance of understanding an individual's current social, cultural, spiritual and physical environment, it is more useful for a clinician to develop an individualized case formulation or "life story." I believe that this is the most effective way to improve treatment and help a person to change his or her life for the better. For this reason, I place less emphasis on the diagnostic system and greater emphasis on the application of my knowledge to an understanding of the causal mechanisms that contribute to a person's suffering and the scientific evidence base of the psychotherapies that have been developed to improve specific target areas of their lives.


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By: Dr. Joel Kahn
On most days, I go to work, put on my white coat, load my stethoscope in my pocket, and make visits in the hospital and my office as I've done for over 20 years. I am the "master of my domain" and it's very unlikely that anything will disrupt my calm.
This day, however, is different. I am about to walk into court as an expert witness on a billion-dollar medical patent lawsuit. Each table has 15 lawyers from the largest firms in the country. My testimony will go on for hours and will be taken by Mr. S, famous for his loud red ties, his loud mannerisms, and his ability to make witnesses shake. I know my stuff cold but I need to steady my nerves. I lean against the wall, close my eyes, and go through a breathing practice that takes under 90 seconds and has served me well to bring balance back to the moment.
It's the 4-7-8 relaxation breathing sequence. The technique shifts the autonomic nervous system away from the sympathetic predominance (which makes our hearts race and our palms sweaty when we face a stressful situation) and allows the parasympathetic nervous system to shine.
Here's how you do it:
- Sit up straight in a chair.
- Place the tip of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth. Keep it there through the entire breathing process.
- Breathe in silently through your nose to the slow count of 4.
- Hold your breath to the count of 7.
- Exhale through your mouth to the count of 8, making a slight audible sound.
- Repeat the 4-7-8 cycle another three times, for a total of four breathing exercises.
Does breathing really work to train our nervous system to find a calm place from which we can manage life more successfully?
Thousands of years of practice in many religious traditions say that it does. Recent scientific studies also confirm the benefits. For example, subjects taught to breathe slowly and deeply as a mind-body practice show beneficial changes in the autonomic nervous system favoring parasympathetic relaxation, document changes increases in skin temperature from better artery flow, and reveal reductions in blood pressure compared to control subjects. If you have children or teenagers, www.gozen.com has a terrific teaching video on the 4-7-8 breathing exercise that may be useful to share with them.
That day in court went well. After I used the 4-7-8 breathing sequence, I entered court, was sworn in, and performed at my peak testifying calmly for the next 5 hours. I think if you will practice, you can benefit from this important tool also.


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These unique fair trade felt decorative dolls are hand made in Europe by dedicated artisans. Available in different skin tones, there's a perfect fairy for every one.
The decorative figures are made from Pure Wool felt, recycled paper and wire with flexible arms. The fairies are themed by seasonal flower, fruits and traditions so you can create the perfect seasonal table or setting all year round.


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You're reading an older article from ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Some information, such as code-related information, may be outdated. Find the most up-to-date content in our latest issues.
As the Internet progressed from "new" to standard operating procedure, the electrical and VDV construction industry has embraced the Web. Few may be buying online, but many industry people use it. Perhaps you might save time by using the Web to better effect. This column guides you to a few key, hopefully helpful resources--most of them free.
Standard electrical stuff
¥ A busbar-sizing guide from the Copper Development Association is at busbar.copper.org. CDA also offers a power-quality page (powerquality.copper.org).
¥ Electrical Designer's Reference (www.edreference.com). Those who subscribe (it's free) can download software on voltage drop, fault current, conduit fill and motor fusing/circuit design.
¥ From MC Group, demo software for lighting, voltage and electrical calculations can be found at: www.execulink.com.
¥ Many electrical distributors are putting more and more tools and free information on their Web sites. One of them is the gigantic Wesco, which has, among other things, the WesCalc online Code calculator, and Ugly's "Electrical Reference Guide," which includes a heck of a lot of stuff. All online, for free, at www.wescodirect.com.
¥ The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technology offers a variety of software, including MotorMaster+ 3.0, at www.oit.doe.gov/bestpractices/software_tools.shtml.
¥ Finally, there's www.electrician.com--perhaps the oldest electrical Web site--from Alaskan Gerald Newton. It might be a first stop for almost any electrical information need; there's just so much on the site, most of it free. For example, I clicked on "calculators" and came up with a list,cable tray pull, standard OCPD, calculators for NEC Tables 250-66 and 250-122--and more.
¥ The National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professional is all about lighting pros getting certified. See www.ncqlp.org.
¥ The National Lighting Production Information Program presents unbiased information about lighting (www.lrc.rpi.edu/NLPIP). Also, see the main page on that site--the Lighting Research Center (www.lrc.rpi.edu).
¥ For readers of this magazine who buy and install a lot of lighting, the Lighting Controls Association, an organization of companies that make the stuff, has relaunched its site at www.aboutlightingcontrols.com.
¥ Technical Manuals Online (www.tech-man.com) promotes itself as "your one-stop source for security & telecom manuals." It appears to offer access to manuals free, with no agenda.
¥ Not everyone is up to speed on Ethernet. Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web site (www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/ethernet.html) is the solution for those of us who want to move fast. A neat site highlight is on the home page, where you'll find the original drawing of the idea behind Ethernet by its inventor, Bob Metcalfe.
¥ At the Fiber Optic LAN Section (FOLS) of the Telecommunications Industry Association, they've become more aggressive about competing with copper for horizontal network data cabling runs. They've only recently added a "fiber vs. copper" interactive cost model, which can help your customer compare the two options. See www.fols.org/pubs/costmodel.html.
¥ Network World magazine (www.nwfusion.com/topics/lans.html) has recently added a topic Web page on LANs. Most of it goes beyond cabling concerns; however, there are articles that may be of interest, especially since this is what your VDV customer is reading.
¥ A list of anything VDV in 2002 has to include home networking. Perhaps the finest free information comes from HomeToys (www.hometoys.com). It's a broad and deep site; you'll probably profit by clicking on the site map link as soon as you get there.
While a number of the industrial surplus sites from the dot-com "go-go" year are now defunct, two electrical construction-oriented surplus sites have made their debut in recent months: Electrical Advertiser magazine (www.eaauctions.com) and ElectricSmarts (www.electricsmarts.com/exchange/index.aspx).
Note that NECA contractors also have access to the Surplus Material Exchange free listing service. If your company is member, you can access the exchange by going to the NECA members-only site; you'll need your access code and password.
Other sites to highlight
¥ Do you need to explain,to your children, or people new to the electrical industry in your company,how stuff works? Here's a shortcut: www.howstuffworks.com. Go to the science category and you'll find building and engineering as well as electrical power.
¥ How about material from this magazine on all kinds of very relevant subjects? If you don't save ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR magazine on a shelf, you can find articles from back issues--with a variety of different ways to search--at www.ecmag.com/backsearch. EC
SALIMANDO is a Vienna, Va.-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. He can be reached at [email protected].


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The Office of Industry and Competitiveness Analysis answers these questions by providing industry and issue expertise to the President, Congress, and federal agencies. Industry experts and economists offer qualitative and quantitative analysis of some of the most timely and crucial questions involving international trade and its place in the modern economy.
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The divisions' experts address questions and policies surrounding tariff and non-tariff barriers, fiscal incentives, production technologies, cost structures, and business strategies. They also analyze trade-related issues such as intellectual property (IP), sanitary and phytosanitary measures, customs procedures, foreign assembly operations, environmental services, and rules of origin.
Search the analyst directory by commodity or service or by import classification (HTS) number.


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Brugmansia sanguinea Aurea Golden Angel Trumpet
Brugmansia sanguinea Aurea Golden Angel Trumpet
Brugmansia sanguinea Aurea
Golden Angel Trumpet seeds
Brugmansia sanguinea Aurea, the Golden Angel Trumpet, a medium-sized shrub that produces large trumpet-shaped golden yellow flowers.
For sowing, swell in water and place in a plastic pot.
Spread some seeds on the peat pot and cover thinly with the sowing substrate (about 2 mm).
Then put the plastic pot in a zip-lock bag - with a pot size of 6 cm we recommend a zip-lock bag of size 120 x 170 mm. Put enough tap water in the zip-lock bag with a few drops of universal fertilizer so that a few millimeters of water remain after the substrate has been absorbed.
Location: on the windowsill or in a miniature greenhouse partially shaded, during the day the temperatures should be around 24 - 28 C, at night slightly lower at 20 - 24 C.
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Enjoying Naps in the Winter Season
Most mammals are polyphasic sleepers, meaning that they sleep for short periods throughout the day. For humans, days are divided into two distinct periods, one for sleep and one for wakefulness, which is a monophasic sleep pattern. However, this may be a product of living in an industrialized world and not the natural sleep pattern of humans. In many cultures, young children and elderly take naps midday. Our bodies are programmed for two periods of intense sleepiness a day: between 2 and 4 am and 1 and 3 pm. Unfortunately, despite our biological vestige, we are having to consolidate our sleep into one long period.
Several short sleep periods are common among most mammals. There is solid scientific evidence napping lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke, excessive weight gain and diabetes as well as reducing stress.
A short 20-minute midday nap boosts mental alertness, mood, productivity, and sharpens motor skills. Naps up to 45 minutes can sometimes include REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which enhances creative thinking and sensory processing. If you need to spring into action upon waking, keep your nap below 45 minutes.
Naps can be categorized in three ways:
Planned napping: Taking a nap before you actually get sleepy. This is also called preparatory napping. You may use this technique as a mechanism to ward off getting tired earlier or when you know that you will be up later than your normal bedtime.
Emergency napping: Taking a nap when you are suddenly very tired and cannot stay awake to continue with what you were doing. This type of nap can be used to combat fatigue while using heavy and dangerous machinery or drowsy driving.
Habitual napping: Napping at the same time each day. A person might take a short nap after lunch every day or young children may fall asleep at about the same time each afternoon.
Tips for Getting the Perfect Nap
- First off, get over the stigma that you are being lazy for taking a nap. Recognize that napping will make you more productive and more alert after you wake up. Napping isn't for the lazy or depressed. Bill Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison are/were known to be afternoon nappers.
- Avoid consuming large quantities of foods that are heavy in fat and sugar or caffeine, which can interfere with your ability to fall asleep. Instead, choose foods high in calcium and protein, which promote sleep.
- Find a clean, quiet place where passersby and phones won't disturb you, preferably where you can lie down. It takes about 50% longer to fall asleep sitting upright.
- Darkness stimulates melatonin, the sleep-inducing hormone. Try to darken your room, or wear an eyeshade.
- Body temperature drops when you fall asleep. Raise the room temperature or use a blanket.
- Set your alarm for the desired duration to prevent oversleeping.
Notes on the Negative Effects of Napping
Napping isn't always the best option for everyone in spite of its benefits. Naps that last more than 20 minutes can leave people with sleep inertia, a feeling of disorientation, and grogginess that last for half an hour or more. Especially for those who are sleep deprived, post-nap impairment, and disorientation can be more severe.
Another downside of daytime napping is that it may have a negative effect on other sleeping periods. A nap longer than 45 minutes or taken too late in the day may adversely affect the length and quality of nighttime sleep. If you usually have trouble sleeping at night, a nap may only aggravate this problem.


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The Kent town where Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up is to honour its most famous musical sons by naming new streets after Stones songs.
Dartford Council is currently deciding what song titles to give to 13 new streets on the 1,500-home, £400million Bridge estate.
Names reportedly being considered include Satisfaction Street, Stones Avenue, Angie Mews and Ruby Tuesday Drive.
Dartford council leader Jeremy Kite joked: "You can't always get what you want, but in this case I think we can get some satisfaction."
There is already a Mick Jagger Centre for the arts in Dartford. Melbourne in Austrailia has its own AC/DC Lane while there's a Rue De Rory Gallagher in, rather strangely, Paris.
But local police are already warning that die-hard fans could steal the road signs. This has happened in Liverpool's Penny Lane, and the sign of London's Abbey Road is regularly grafitti'd by Beatles fans.


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Presidents and prime ministers, secretaries and kings are in Egypt for the United Nations annual climate change negotiations. And when world leaders talk about climate change, they evoke one group more than any other: children.
The plight of future generations, and the need to protect today's children from a future made unlivable by global warming, is at the moral heart of international climate negotiations. The United Nations estimates about a billion children are at extremely high risk because of climate change, whether that's because of rising seas, heavy rain, drought or deadly heat waves.
But what is life like for children living on the front lines of climate change? How is information about a changing planet passed down to the inheritors of a hotter Earth? And in places where the Internet is not ubiquitous, how do young people understand the changes that they are witnessing?
We visited one school in Nepal's Rolwaling Valley and talked to students and teachers there about their experiences, frustrations and hopes for the future.
A school surrounded by beauty and danger
The Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery School is nestled in a steep valley. At the bottom is the Rolwaling River. Behind the school, the rocky cliffs of the Himalayan mountains climb dramatically to peaks of more than 23,000 feet. It is about a two day walk from the school to the nearest road. The area only had sporadic solar electricity until earlier this year.
The school is home to nearly two dozen boys who live and study there most of the year, except for a brief period in the winter when they return to their hometowns nearby.
It is a life that is intensely, unavoidably, connected to nature. And the students, especially the older ones, have noticed nature changing.
"We can see many mountains here," says Mingma Thamang, an 18-year-old student at the school who has hiked up to a nearby glacial lake multiple times in recent years. He says he has heard rumors that the lake, which is upstream from his school, could cause a big flood in the future.
Indeed, the lake is at critical risk for flooding, according to scientists. And the school is located very close to the river, and would likely be damaged or destroyed in such a disaster.
Bolendra Acharya has taught at the school for 12 years and says there are other obvious changes as well. Snow that used to cover the nearby mountains in thick blankets is now spotty and thin. Now, bare rock shows even on the highest peaks. And rain that used to arrive on a reliable schedule in the summer is now more variable.
The unreliable rain is a problem because most people who live in the area farm, raise livestock or work in the mountain trekking industry. When the rain comes late, or all at once, it hurts crops and makes it difficult to safely cross the river. Domestic yaks and other livestock are unable to access grazing areas.
And as the area gets more popular with local Nepalese tourists, it also becomes more dangerous for hikers who are using narrow riverside paths and suspension bridges because of high water from heavy rain and glacial melt.
Acharya grew up nearby and says, when he was young, life in the valley was very different. "Our life was safe. We would just cross the river," he says. "But now it seems like, at any time, it could just sweep us away. There is a kind of fear among us. Anything could happen."
A desire for to know more about a changing planet
Acharya makes it a point to talk to his students about the environment. "From my point of view, I'm very interested to introduce the students to climate change," he says, "because they live in an area where there is a lot to learn."
Right now, there's no formal climate change curriculum, although they do study general science. The primary goal of the school is to educate students to become lamas – Buddhist religious leaders. Students study math, history, science and other academic subjects for the first five years and those that continue on for the remaining three years focus on religious and language training.
"We learned about the weather, about different types of animals," says Thamang.
Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, who recently graduated from the school, says he learned about plants and animals of the region, and about the larger geography of Nepal.
But students at the school say they know only a little about where their home fits in the larger picture of global climate change, and would like to know more.
"We want to learn more about the environment," says Thamang. "Because then maybe we can do something to make it cleaner and safer."
The teacher, Acharya, says even if most of his students will go on to work in religious roles that don't directly interact with environmental policy, it's still important to bring climate change into the classroom. These future religious leaders will be the ones that local people turn to as they try to make sense of their changing environment. And decisions to protect local forests or adapt to flood risk will likely include consultations with religious authorities in this heavily Buddhist area.
To that end, Acharya says he wants his students to understand that the changes they are witnessing are being caused by people in other parts of the world.
"We are not the people polluting the environment. It's factories in cities, especially out in the bigger world. It's not people like us, living in rural areas, that are contributing to the damage of Earth," he says. "Local students need knowledge about climate change, to be empowered to make their own decisions, and to protect themselves."
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