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Mechanizing the Famous Mounties (Oct, 1933)
Mechanizing the Famous Mounties
By James Montagnes
ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police are now riding motor cycles, 250 of these machines having been sold recently to the famous force. The last report, also shows nearly 200 motor cars in use. The operation and care of gasoline engines is now part of the course of training taken by every recruit joining the Royal Mounted. Mariners and radio operators are today included in the membership of the force.
Fast transportation and faster communication are speeding up the work of the Mounties throughout the Dominion. The force can still claim the distinction of being mounted, but now the horses are being replaced by mechanical mounts. In ten years the number of horses in the force has dropped from 655 for a membership of 1,227 to 263 for a membership of 2,348. Why this change? Why is the horse being forced into the background?
Crime moves fast today, and guardians of the law must not lag behind. To catch the present swift-traveling criminal, the horse is too slow. So police now use not only motor cycles and fast automobiles, but also speedboats, cruisers, outboard motors for canoes, skiffs, and other small craft, airplanes, and, naturally, the radio. New duties constitute another reason for the mechanization of the Mounted Police. The force now patrols the border waterways to catch smugglers of contraband and aliens. The customs preventive service was recently taken over by the police. Today Mounted Police keep tab on speeders in federal parks and on the provincial highways of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. To check up the traders, trappers, prospectors, and natives in the vast northern region, motor launches give quicker transportation in summer than the canoe.
NOT long ago a constable on winter patrol in the Coronation Gulf district of the Arctic coast heard of a native murder. Within a few days, he had found the murderer. Within a few weeks, he had taken the prisoner to the post at Cambridge Bay and had used the radio station on a schooner frozen in there to give his report to Ottawa. Three days from his arrival at the post with his prisoner full instructions had been given the constable as to the disposal of the case. More than 2,200 miles of unsettled territory had been covered by radio, many months of weary travel had been eliminated by the use of fast communication. Compare this with the fact that in same region in 1912, five years of travelling back and forth between the Arctic and civilization were ' necessary in the capture and trial of another murderer.
A CONSTABLE in a motor car on patrol duty along the New Brunswick coast saw a schooner off shore, which he took for a smuggler. That night the police patrol boat started out. With only two short flashes of light from the schooner to guide them, the police seized a motorboat laden with contraband. Leaving a constable in charge of the seized motor boat, the police patrol boat started out after a second motorboat which had a muffler and exhaust under water and could only be followed by listening. So well have the police adapted themselves to their new duties that before the operator of the silent boat knew what had happened the police craft bumped into him, a constable jumped aboard, ordered the boat stopped and found a second load of contraband concealed under fishing nets.
At a northern Ontario trading post, a big Indian was causing a lot of trouble. He was thought to be slightly insane. Over forestry services's radio a message was sent to Ottawa. Two days later a plane brought a mounted policeman to the post, and the Indian was flown to a mental hospital.
Along the Arctic coast, the police still carry the mail in winter time. Once this meant untold hardship in fighting Arctic storms. It took many weeks before the east and west bound mail was exchanged between Aklavik and Bernard Harbour. Now the two men leave with their mail after making arrangements by radio, cutting down on the time on the trail.
THE last annual report of the force shows that four men of the western Arctic division had gained their governmental short-wave radio licenses, which means they had demonstrated their ability to operate their stations by means of the dot and dash, and could repair the equipment in case of breakdown.
One of those four men is the radio operator on the floating detachment of the • force, another factor in the task of speeding up police activity. The St. Roch is a permanent post of the organization, and its motors carry it along the Arctic coast on the duties of the force which include licensing fur trappers, seeing that the natives are not exploited, keeping up to date information for the Vital Statistics Act, licensing radio receivers, and collecting customs duty. A floating detachment was unthought of when the Mounties first hit the trail in 1874—on horseback.
The airplane has also come into wide use. The force does not yet have its own planes and pilots, but even that day is not distant. For the range of professions embraced by members of the force has grown from cobblers, tailors, and carpenters to include the mechanical and engineering vocations, electrical workers and able and experienced seamen.
The airplane played a prominent role in the western Arctic a few winters ago when Albert Johnson, a trapper, accused of lifting traps, defied the police and started a man hunt that lasted nearly two months. A plane, following his tracks, shortened the hunt and also carried supplies and men between Aklavik and the scene of action, and rushed those killed and wounded in the hunt to the northern metropolis.
Today inspectors and superintendents of the force no longer rely exclusively on dog teams and water transportation for their numerous inspection trips. There are too many posts, spread too far apart to allow this slow method of travel. Airplanes are used to a large extent.
There is another angle to this use of airplanes and motorboats by officers as well as men. It saves time and lessens hardships. In addition it is cheaper. It costs money to feed the dogs and the men and food runs high in the northern parts of the region policed by the Mounties. An airplane cuts days to hours and weeks to days.
Economy in operating the force results. Flying Mounties keep an eye on the vessels along the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The air patrols in that region have proven so effective they are to be enlarged. One officer in the Maritime provinces has asked for an even more mechanized force to cope with the smugglers. He would have motor cars and airplanes keep in close contact by use of radio.
The force now has 101 motor boats and the constables no longer paddle canoes. Outboard motors speed them to their destinations, leave them fresher for their duties, and terrorize crooks.
MOTOR boats are helping out where supply ships cannot go because of ice conditions. On several occasions posts that otherwise would have had to make a long haul overland for their annual supplies because of the inability of the steamer to make the isolated post, have had their supplies delivered by the police motor boat.
Even the caribou have been partly saved from faster extinction by motor boats. Some of the posts in the Hudson Bay area, short of dog feed, were contemplating hunting for the fast dwindling herds of caribou to feed their dogs. Word of their intention reached the post at Chesterfield. There ample supplies of dog feed and dog biscuits were on hand. A motor boat brought these to the short-rationed posts. A few caribou were able to go on grazing.
All this does not mean that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have forsaken the horse. By no means. Every recruit is still required to be able to ride, to have some knowledge of the care and management of horses. Riding still has a place on the daily schedule of the training course. There is still stable duty to perform. There are still musical rides on occasion, still sports to play on horseback.
Nor has the picturesque mounted member of the force entirely disappeared. Horses are now few in number, but where the vacationist goes, where tourists come in thousands, there the Mountie is still to be met riding a superb steed, and wearing the famous scarlet tunic, dark breeches with wide gold stripe, and high, spurred, glossy riding boots.
MECHANICAL transports have even resulted in a change of uniforms. The wide brimmed stetson has gone by the board —for the motorized Mounties. A flat cap, as worn by the army, the municipal, and provincial police force, telegraph and bank messengers, has been adopted. It adds speed to the uniform, while it retains some of the color associated with the Mounties. It is blue with a gold band.
Other changes have come about in the uniform. The motorized members now wear dark blue uniforms with gold stripe. Khaki has become a more worn colour by the members of the force, often with slacks instead of breeches and shining high boots, and minus the jingling spurs, the riding crop of the mounted divisions.
The mechanization process, the demand for a better and faster moving force has also invaded another field of duty. Typewriting is now a requirement for a successful candidate. A good stenographer, capable of using and repairing a typewriter, comes out of the training class. Six months of typewriting instruction is now included in the course for recruits.
That same demand for a better force has gone into acquiring better transport for those members who patrol the very far north, who in winter time cannot use motor boats, airplanes or other fast methods of transportation. Faster and sturdier dogs are being bred by the force at various points throughout Canada. Imported dogs, the famous Borzoi wolf hounds, are being bred with the husky dogs which are the beasts of burden in the northland. A sturdier, better coated and faster dog has resulted.
Will the machine age in the Mounted Police mean the end of romance, glamor, and adventure? It is hardly likely that the mechanization will spoil the reputation built up in the sixty years that the force has been in existence, that the annual reports will be less replete with tales of courage, daring, and adventure, just because motorized mounts replace horses for most of Canada's Mounties.


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Cheyenne Frontier Days Named Best Summer Festival 2013
Every summer thousands of visitors flock to Wyoming to enjoy the Worlds Largest Outdoor Rodeo and concerts at Cheyenne Frontier Days.
The great work done by the volunteers at CFD has not gone unnoticed as Livabliity.com has ranked CFD as the nations best summer festival for 2013.
The "Daddy of 'em All" grabs the top spot due to the great herritage surrounding CFD including the rodeo events which first started back in 1897. Mix in a star studded concert line up each night, carnival rides, vendors and tons of other events at the park and lots of cowboys and cowgirls. But there is more to CFD than just the events at the park itself. The Cheyenne community also gets kudos for their support of Cheyenne Frontier Days with the pancake breakfasts, western culture exhibits parades, tours of downtown and more.
Frontier Days brings in about $25 million annually to Laramie county and the Cheyenne community.
Livability ranked the top 10 summer festivals by looking for the ones that are most connected to their host cities in terms of theme, the experiences to be had and community participation.
According to their website - Livability.com, the best community festivals benefit their host city in six major ways: create or reinforce branding efforts, increase tourism, educate, enhance community price, encourage exercise and raise money.
The Top 10 Summer Festivals for 2013
#1 - Cheyenne, WY - Cheyenne Frontier Days
#2 - Portland, OR - Portland Rose Festival
#3 - Abingdon, VA - Virginia Highlands Festival
#4 - Athens, GA - AthFest
#5 - State College, PA - Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Rest of the top 10 - #6 - Nashville, TN - CMA Music Festival, #7 - Shreveport, LA - Mudbug Madness, #8 - Brattleboro, VT - Strolling of the Heifers Festival, #9 - Papillion, NE - Papillion Days, #10 - Bozeman, MT - Sweet Pea festival.


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Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno practiced on Thursday, all but ensuring his availability for Denver's showdown with the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII.
Coach John Fox told reporters that Moreno was a limited participant after missing the final handful of possessions against the Patriots in Sunday's AFC Championship Game with a rib injury.
The Broncos use more than one runner, but Moreno is the closest thing Denver has to a foundation back after leading the team with 241 carries for 1,038 yards this season. Rookie Montee Ball has seen an increased workload of late, with double-digit carries in five of his last seven games and 22 rushes for 95 yards in two playoff wins.
Denver's ground game played a key role against New England, converting third downs and helping to chew the clock. That might be more important than ever against Seattle's historically nasty pass defense.
Also for the Broncos, kicker Matt Prater was dismissed Thursday because of illness and defensive tackle Mitch Unrein missed the session with a knee injury.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" looked at weaknesses for the two Super Bowl teams.


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Docomomo International Conferences
Every two years, Docomomo holds an International Conference for the Working Parties and their members. The conference serves as an opportunity to inquire into a theme that touches upon an important aspect of the Modern Movement. The conference is also a platform where specialists from all over the world can meet, exchange knowledge and make contacts.
Docomomo Suomi/Finland will host the 12th Docomomo International Conference in Espoo, Finland in 2012.
The Survival of Modern - From Coffee Cup to Plan
August 7-10, 2012
For more information on the conference visit: www.docomomo-fi.com/conference2012
July 25, 2011: call for papers
October 31, 2011: deadline for abstracts
December 15, 2011: notification of acceptance
March 1st, 2012: deadline first version full paper
April 10, 2012: deadline final version full paper
May 31, 2012: early registration ends
August 2-7, 2012: workshop
August 7-10, 2012: conference
August 11-12, 2012: post-conference tours
Past Events: 11th International Conference
XI International Docomomo Conference and Student Workshop
Mexico City, August 19-27, 2010
During the first part of the 20th Century the city became the favored environment for Modern Architecture. The advancement of technology and the introduction of new materials that brought about a new form of expression were not the only triggers for transformation. Concerns of wellbeing such as hygiene, education, health and the right to work and recreation were also fundamental in shaping the new architectural design. As a response to these novel conditions, new architectural genres emerged within the framework of a diverse urban structure. The analysis of the elements that transformed the city and its architecture, evolve from this starting point, and the proposed program will include several sessions:
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The Dutch chapter of Docomomo is honoured to host the 10th International Docomomo Conference with the general theme 'The Challenge of Change'. The 2008 edition will mark the 20th anniversary of DOCOMOMO. The venue will be the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This renowned Modern Movement icon will accommodate the conference programme of Parallel Paper and Case Study Presentations, Round-table Sessions, the 2nd edition of the International Docomomo Student Workshop and public evening lectures by distinguished invited speakers. Docomomo NL is pleased to announce that Herman Hertzberger and Barry Bergdoll have confirmed as keynote speakers. Pre- and postconference tours to Dutch MoMo buildings and other landmarks of Dutch architecture will also be part of the conference programme.
The Challenge of Change, Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement: Theme Introduction
The legacy of the Modern Movement has gained legendary status, largely as a result of the appreciation of the masterworks and the visionary architectural concepts. In the reality of everyday life, however, it has been difficult to maintain the architectural creations of the Modern Movement in such a way that they still reflect the original intentions of their designers. Many buildings and ensembles of the Modern Movement have already been saved; the icons amongst these have even become so precious that they are treated like pieces of art rather than as buildings in everyday use. but despite the successes that have been achieved, many buildings and ensembles are still at risk of demoltion or maltreatment. The bi-annual international conference is one means by which it is possible to continue furthering the aims of Docomomo. Knowing that many modern architects aimed at functionality and changeability, the challenge for today is how to deal with the modern heritage in relation to its continuously changing context, including physical, econonmic and functional changes, as well as socio-cultural, political and scientific ones. It is with this in mind that conservation in general, and the conservation of modern architecture in particular, has become a new challenge. Rather than attempting to return a modern building to its presumed original state, our challenge is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of modern architecture and redefine its meanings in our changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness.
13-20 September 2008 2nd International Docomomo Student Workshop
17-19 September 2008 10th International Docomomo Conference
The first student workshop was held during the 9th International Docomomo Conference in 2006 (Istanbul). The 2nd International Docomomo Student Workshop will be a design workshop. The chosen topic will be associated with the theme of the conference and will preferably be a threatened building or ensemble in Rotterdam or its environs. The total number of workshop participants is limited to 45 and will include students from a number of different countries.
Individuals enrolled as full time students in a historic preservation program at a US university are encouraged to apply. Please submit a personal letter of interest (750 words), a CV, and three references to:
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New York, NY 10023
Applications were due no later than June 1, 2008. The deadline has passed.
For further information or any questions, please send an e-mail to email@example.com.
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2004 Conference: "International Postwar Modernism and the Conjunction of Preservation and Design"
DOCOMOMO US hosted the VIIIth International Conference, held in 2004 in New York City at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The theme focused not only on the preservation of modern architecture that became an international phenomenon after World War II, but also sought to explain and enhance its meaning for contemporary architects during that period.


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Loop11 Marketing needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 83 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Loop11 is a completely self-service and online website usability testing tool. It's essentially a website where people can create user tasks for their website (eg: Find the FAQ). They can invite participants to complete the task, and they then get a comprehensive set of quantitative usability metrics and analysis.
One user test costs $350 USD, however we will be running a 1-day campaign on February 2nd where we will be selling usability tests for just $1!
We require 2 banner ads to put on our website to promote this special offer.
Our members consist of the following:
- Web developers, designers and managers.
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- Small to medium companies with a website.
We require 2 banners to put on our website.
1. First banner is to promote the campaign 2 weeks in advance.
• The banner will link through to a dedicated landing page describing the promotion. There will be no call to action on this page.
2. The second banner will replace the first on the actual day of the campaign.
• This banner will link through to the same dedicated landing page, but with a call to action to make a purchase.
This "$1 Usability Test" promotion will run on Tuesday the 2nd of February, for one day only. We are open to creative designs.
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Because these photos are synced to my Facebook account, an annoying limitation that Facebook put on their photo albums is pretty obvious here: On albums with long titles (for weddings and stuff) the album title becomes truncated. Annoying, but I'm willing to sacrifice a few characters for the benefit of having Facebook update my website automatically with photos as opposed to me doing it the old fashioned way.
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Dining Out for Life: Fight HIV/AIDS by Going Out for Dinner
April 26, 2011
On Thursday, April 28, you can enjoy a great meal while, at the same time, supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Dining Out for Life is an annual dining fundraising event that raises money for HIV/AIDS service organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The concept is simple: On April 28, you eat breakfast, lunch or dinner at any of the more than 3,500 participating restaurants in 56 cities across North America. The restaurant then donates a portion of the proceeds to a particular HIV/AIDS organization in that area. (The portion donated varies by location. The local HIV/AIDS organization that receives the money signed up for the event by paying a $1,000 licensing fee.)
Last year, the event raised $4 million total. This year, the organizers aim to surpass that amount.
The campaign's spokesperson, Ted Allen, host of Food Network's hit series Chopped, said he was eager to get involved. "It is more important than ever to keep HIV/AIDS on the front burner," he said. "Too many people think it's a minor problem solved by swallowing a few pills. It isn't."
Allen added, "Dining Out for Life is an easy and fun way to support a great cause. Gather a group of friends and have a good meal amongst others in your community that are there for the same reason. The generous contributions by participating restaurants go a long way to help AIDS service providers in a time of major funding cutbacks."
This is the 20-year anniversary of Dining Out for Life, which was started in 1991 by a volunteer for ActionAIDS in Philadelphia, Pa.
At a time when U.S. AIDS Drug Assistance Program cutbacks keep growing and many HIV/AIDS assistance budgets are shrinking, why not help out and have a good time in the process? See if your city is participating and find a restaurant by visiting Dining Out for Life.
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The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration's crazy new HHS appointment.
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Originally Posted Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at 4:50 PM ET in Slate
On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation's family-planning program got a new boss who doesn't believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms "offer virtually no protection" against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage.
Keroack's appointment, as deputy assistant secretary of population affairs within the Department of Health and Human Services, did not require congressional approval. The Bush administration picked him on its own. And women's health advocates, editorial pages, and bloggers, along with Democratic members of Congress, are right to think he's a crazy choice for this job.
The Title X family-planning program, which Keroack will now oversee, has a federal mandateto provide information and access to birth control, as well as pregnancy tests and counseling. (Patients may receive referrals for abortion, but Title X funds may not be used to pay for the procedure.)The program also offers information and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and screening for breast and cervical cancer.Title X has been financially squeezed in recent years, but it still funds approximately 4,500 clinics that serve about 5 million patients across the country.
Keroack's professional history suggests a mismatch, to put it mildly, with Title X's goal of educating women about contraception and helping them get it. He has lectured widelyfor groups like the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, which disparages the use of birth control and disseminates medical misinformation. The policy statement of the pregnancy-counseling organization he served as medical director for, A Woman's Concern, says:
a woman's Concern does not distribute, or encourage the use of,contraceptive drugs and devices. … A Woman's Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and adverse to human health and happiness.
The statement further claims that widespread availability of birth control, especially for young people, "actually increases (rather than decreases) out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion"—a view that flies in the face of persuasive evidence (see here, here, and here).
Misleading or factually false information about sexual health abounds in the group's educational materials and on its Web site. To disparage the notion of "safe sex" and make the case that abstinence is the only healthy choice, A Woman's Concern teachesthat condoms "only protect against HIV/AIDS 85% of the time, which means you have a 15% chance of contracting it while using a condom."And, lest a patient consider having an abortion, it claims that teens who undergo the procedure "may face an eight times greater risk of contracting breast cancer by age 45."
These claims have been resoundingly discredited. Recent studies show that condom use can substantially reduce the transmission of HPV, herpes, and numerous other STDs.Condoms also dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection. The research on condoms and HIV transmission that Keroack's group seems to allude to is a report by the National Institutes of Health that found "an 85 percent decreasein risk of HIV transmission" for condom users compared with nonusers(my italics). The twisted version of this statistic touted by A Woman's Concern implies that if 100 kids have sex while using condoms, 15 will become infected with HIV—an absurd suggestion.
As for the purported link between abortion and breast cancer, that old favorite of the pro-life movement was refuted by research published in the New England Journal of Medicinein 1997. After pro-lifers snuck an ambiguous statement on the topic onto a government Web site in 2002, a scientific panel appointed by the director of the National Cancer Institute knocked it down in 2003. That panel examined all of the available population-based, clinical, and animal data and found no linkbetween induced abortion and breast cancer. Nor is there a plausible,biological mechanism that would connect abortion to breast cancer. As medical director, Keroack should have known better than to promote this information. That he didn't suggests a willingness to manipulate science to interfere with patients' ability to make informed choices—a willingness to breach the ethics of his profession.
In Keroack's own lecturesand writing, he also makes claims designed to scare the bejesus out of kids to convince them to remain abstinent. One pet theory involves the neuropeptide oxytocin, which plays a role in mother-child bonding and social affiliation. Keroack claims that that people who engage in premarital sex experience chronic emotional pain, which lowers their oxytocin levels. This in turn impairs their ability to form healthy relationships down the road. "People who have misused their sexual faculty and become bonded to multiple persons will diminish the power of oxytocin to maintain a permanent bond with an individual," he writes.
Keroack's cites research on oxytocin levels in animals like prairie voles. There are obvious problems in extrapolating from voles to humans, whose brains are much more complex. A handful of human studies show a role for oxytocin in promoting sociability. But there are inconsistencies.One study found that lactating women who had higher plasma levels of oxytocin reported being more sociable. But two others found that women with higher oxytocin levels reported higher relationship distress—precisely the opposite of Keroack's claim. More crucially,there are no data to suggest a causal link between oxytocin levels and marital happiness—or between any of this and premarital sex. Keroack's claim is simply "not borne out by the current evidence," says Jennifer Bartz of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, author of an excellent review article. To be less polite, this is a guy who takes a neuropeptide and a prairie vole and spins from them science fiction.
In his new role, Keroack will have extensive power to shape the kinds of information disseminated to millions of women. He will be able to develop new guidelines for clinics, set priorities, and determine how scarce dollars get spent, says Marilyn Keefe of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. "We've seen that people in these political slots have a tremendous influence over how programs get implemented," she said. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services defended the appointment in an e-mail, stating that "Dr. Keroack is highly qualified and a well-respected physician."
But at a moment when the need for subsidized birth control is rising,and clinics are struggling to pay for basic services—not to mention advances in screening and prevention like the HPV vaccine—a new hire hostile to family planning and accurate medical information is the last thing women need. Keroack has also won props from the Christian right for using ultrasounds in pregnancy counseling. He argues that the images dissuade women from having abortions and that at A Woman's Concern, the number of patients choosing abortions dropped dramatically when the ultrasounds were introduced. So, stay tuned. This innovation too may be coming to a publicly funded clinic near you.
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CraftWorks has leased a 10,000-square-foot space on the fifth floor of the Arista Place office building in the Arista development off U.S. 36 in Broomfield, said officials for Wiens Capital Management, developer of the Arista project. CraftWorks is relocating from 248 Centennial Parkway in Louisville.
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African-American patients are more likely than other patients to use disposable syringes (86 percent vs. 78 percent). Correspondingly, the usage of insulin pens is lower among this population, at 19 percent compared with 25 percent of other patients. African-Americans and other patients test for their blood sugar with nearly 87 percent of each group having tested in the past month. Notably, 9 percent of African-Americans have never self-tested compared with 4 percent of other patients.
"In the African-American patient segment, the need to educate is critical especially with regard to the relatively widespread prevalence of conditions such as obesity and high blood pressure, as is the importance of regular blood glucose monitoring," said David Jacobson, senior vice president of GfK Market Measures' Roper Global Diabetes Group. "Like Latinos, this is a fast-growing segment and less affluent than other U.S. patients, and the relative youth of these groups may be a factor in their greater reliance on the Internet as well as on TV, family, friends and other patients for diabetes information. Overall, our research suggests African-American patients may require special marketing and communications approaches to reach them effectively."
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Those evil, apartheid-imposing Israelis were at it again last month, providing free emergency medical treatment that saved the life of a 12-year-old Palestinian Arab girl from Gaza who had a serious heart defect.
In a press release publihshed this week, Rambam Medical Center in Haifa revealed that young Aya Almasal actually died while en route from Gaza to the northern Israel port city.
Having suffered from unexplained and sudden bouts of unconsciousness her entire life, "Aya set out for Rambam to treat this problem... [but] upon leaving Gaza, she felt ill and her situation steadily deteriorated," read the release. "As the girl neared Rambam, her heart stopped working and she was, in effect, dead."
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Aya is but an example of the overwhelming compassion Israel often demonstrates toward its Arab neighbors, even those from territories that are violently hostile toward the Jewish state.
Rambam Medical Center alone treats hundreds of Arab children and youth from across the Middle East on an humanitarian basis ever year. The hospital's public relations department noted that "a number of Palestinian patients are currently at the [Pediatric Cardiology] department, among them a three-week old infant scheduled for heart surgery, and a 40-day old baby who needs a stent procedure."
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At the end of every day, when Judi Richardson goes to bed, she said she thinks of her daughter who is dead. She thinks of the fear and emotional trauma her daughter, Darien, experienced when she was awoken in the early morning of Jan. 8, 2010, in what should have been a safe place — her bedroom — by a masked man with a gun.
The point, Judi, 53, of South Portland, said, is not that Darien was a kind, intelligent, loving person who graduated from Bowdoin College with a major in sociology and a minor in education. The point is not, Judi said, that her daughter was "beautiful inside and out," wanted to be a teacher, was taking graduate classes at the University of New England or that she loved to dance or participate in sports.
She did all those things. But the point is that she should have been safe, and she's far from the only victim of gun violence. "No one should ever have to live through that, to wake up in the middle of the night with some person in your room, shooting. It's like the Dark Ages," Judi said. "I could fill a book about how wonderful she is, but the point is that this shouldn't happen to anybody."
Police said Darien was shot in the leg and hand in her Portland duplex and initially survived. She was scheduled for several surgeries. But she died the following month, on Feb. 28, from a pulmonary embolism resulting from the gunshot wound. She was 25. The gunman has not been found.
Something might have helped police identify the shooter. In fact, it's already in place for most, but not all, gun sales. It's even something most people support when they're polled: universal background checks. Police were unable to trace the .45 semiautomatic pistol used to kill Darien because it had been sold privately by someone at a gun show who did not run a background check and did not keep records of the transaction.
Congress should approve universal background checks. It's abhorrent that a criminal or someone who had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution can simply avoid the gun store and purchase a firearm at a gun show. Background checks are not an imposition on those permitted to own guns; they prevent people for whom it's already illegal to buy guns from making the purchase.
Some people who run gun shows already require that sellers conduct background checks. And for everyday-type sales, it would not be inconvenient for a seller to go to a licensed gun dealer and pay a small fee for a background check on a prospective buyer. More than 450 licensed gun dealers operate in Maine. In comparison, there are about 430 post offices and about 60 McDonald's locations.
If the gun-show loophole didn't exist, it's possible Darien's killer would have been caught.
"It might have helped if there was a trail that would lead us to who did this. The person who shot my daughter is still out there," Judi said.
Wayne Richardson, 58, Darien's father, added, "Some people think [a background check is] an inconvenience, but what's a small inconvenience if it's going to save someone's life?"
The Richardsons have taken their plea from Maine, where they have teamed with Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, to the federal level. In February, they joined 120 gun-violence survivors and family members of victims in Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress to enact background checks.
There, they met first lady Michelle Obama, who listened to their story and saw photos of Darien. "They are parents, like us, with two daughters, and we talked about that and the pain of having one taken by violence," Judi said.
Police did find the gun used to ultimately kill Darien. It was used in another killing in Portland about a month after she was shot. The two cases are not connected, police said, except for the gun used. They just don't know where it came from.
It may be too late to find Darien's killer, but it should not be too late to prevent more tragedies. The Senate is planning a bill that would expand background checks. There is an opening for a positive change.
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Maine's delegation should remember Darien as her parents do. "There are no words that adequately convey the heartache that comes from such a loss. We miss her every hour of every day. … We miss her kind and helpful ways and her carefree, fun-loving energy. Most of all we miss her love," Judi said.
Wayne remembers her as "the type of person who could just walk into a room and light it up with her smile."
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The REXUS / BEXUS programme is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).
EuroLaunch, a cooperation between the Esrange Space Center of SSC and the Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA) of DLR, is responsible for the campaign management and operations of the launch vehicles. Experts from DLR, SSC, ZARM and ESA provide technical and logistic support to the student teams throughout the project.
REXUS is an unguided, spin-stabilised, solid-propellant, single stage rocket. The vehicle has a length of about 5.6 m and a diameter of 35.6 cm and the total available mass for student experiments is about 40 kg. Around two minutes of reduced gravity can be obtained if the rocket is despun.
The BEXUS balloon has a volume of 12,000 m³ and a diameter of 14m when filled. The total mass available for the experiments is between 40 and 100 kg. The maximum altitude is around 25 km and the flight duration is 2-5 hours.
For more information, please visit the REXUS/BEXUS website and the DLR REXUS/BEXUS webpages.
Quick Facts
|Rocket & Balloon Experiments for University Students
|Status REXUS:
REXUS 25/26 teams selected in December 2017, for launch in March 2019
REXUS 27/28 call for proposals is now closed for launch in March 2020
REXUS 29/30 Call for proposals will open in June 2019 for launch in March 2021
|Status BEXUS:
BEXUS 26/27 teams selected in December 2017 for launch in October 2018
BEXUS 28/29 call for proposals is now closed for launch in October 2019
BEXUS 30/31 Call for proposals will open in June 2019 for launch in October 2020
|Alex Kinnaird, rexus-bexus @ esa.int
REXUS video
Sequences extracted from the REXUS 11 and 12 campaign (March 2012) in Kiruna, Sweden.
BEXUS video
Sequences extracted from the BEXUS 14 and 15 campaign (September 2012) in Kiruna, Sweden.


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BSU Catalog Home | Graduate Sociology Program | All-University Courses and Descriptions
5001 SOCIAL STATISTICS (3 credits) Introduces students to descriptive and inferential statistics and bivariate measures of association. Students learn to choose, calculate, and interpret statistics, and learn to use SPSS to help them analyze and interpret data.
5002 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS (3 credits) Examines the basic quantitative methods sociologists and other social scientists use to study diverse social processes and to improve our understanding of social issues. Students gain hands-on experiences developing a quantitative research project and work on various aspects of actual research projects. Prerequisite: SOC 5001 or consent of instructor.
5050 ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY (3 credits) Examines the relationship between society and the environment. Emphasis on political and economic institutions and the consumer lifestyle and values. Considers how the treadmill of production affects ecosystems and discusses possible solutions to environmental problems.


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Economic Development Grant for the Partnership Development Program - 2008 Recipients
The 20 partnerships being recognized for 2008 are:
- Cameron University and Techrizon, LLC
- Carl Albert State College and Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center
- Connors State College and the Town of Warner
- East Central University and Tri-County Indian Nations Community Development Corporation
- Eastern Oklahoma State College and the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center
- Murray State College and Kay Watson, Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance
- Northeastern State University and Reasor's
- Northern Oklahoma College and OGE Energy Corp.
- Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Charles E. "Bill" Johnson Correctional Center
- Oklahoma City Community College and INTEGRIS Health
- Oklahoma Panhandle State University and Murphy-Brown, LLC
- Oklahoma State University and The Boeing Company
- Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and TLC Florist and Greenhouses, Inc.
- Redlands Community College and Kingfisher Kookers
- Rogers State University and ConocoPhillips
- Rose State College and The Boeing Company
- Seminole State College and Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc.
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Southern Workforce Board and Workforce Solutions Texoma
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University and Hudson Technology Solutions, Inc.
- Tulsa Community College and Tulsa Public Schools
Cameron University and Techrizon, LLC
Techrizon has developed nearly 300 major versions and revisions of fire support systems software for the Software Engineering Center, Fire Support Software Engineering, located at Fort Sill in Lawton. With a staff of more than 300 professionals and more than three decades of experience in all aspects of the computer software industry, Techrizon and CU have a long-standing relationship. CU's Department of Multimedia and Instructional Design frequently interacts with Techrizon, which leads to opportunities for faculty members and students to gain hands-on involvement in actual industry projects. In addition, CU has provided Techrizon with student interns and faculty members from other departments who have shared their expertise in the development of a new simulation training product. BACK TO LIST
Carl Albert State College and Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center
EOMC has recognized that southeast Oklahoma experiences difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified radiologic technologists. As a result, the Le Flore County Trust Authority, on behalf of EOMC, and CASC, formally established a partnership to develop a new radiologic technology program to meet area staffing needs. The program graduated its first class of students in 2005, and EOMC immediately employed four graduates. BACK TO LIST
Connors State College and the Town of Warner
Based on a relationship of more than 100 years, the Warner Town Council, city employees, and CSC faculty and staff have served hand-in-hand on committees that focus on development and unity for the town and the college. Recently, CSC applied for certification to provide a business incubator on campus, and the incubator and related training are expected to enhance the workforce objective for the area. The goal of CSC is to offer the incubator space to area entrepreneurs, including the Town of Warner, to enhance economic growth. BACK TO LIST
East Central University and Tri-County Indian Nations Community Development Corporation
A staunch supporter of both higher education and economic development, the Tri-County has become a true partner of ECU. Tri-County Executive Director Amy Childers Elliott supports and assists ECU with grant applications. Whether the applications are for joint grants or solely for ECU, she helps generate ideas and opportunities, teaches grant writing classes for ECU's continuing education program and supports development in a broad spectrum of areas. BACK TO LIST
Eastern Oklahoma State College and the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center
The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant has been a large part of the economic base of Pittsburg County and the surrounding region since 1942, when the U.S. Navy purchased almost 42,000 acres nine miles south of McAlester. Education has always been a high priority at the plant and in the region. The Defense Ammunition Center became a tenant of MCAAP in 1998, and since 2002, EOSC has been providing training for DAC. A minimum of 60 new DAC interns complete ammunition and computer training courses each year, and EOSC is partnering with DAC to develop two associate degree programs –ammunition management and quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) [QUASAS]. BACK TO LIST
Murray State College and Kay Watson, Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance
Since 2000, MSC and the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance cooperated on numerous economic development projects, but when Kay Watson became the local manufacturer's extension agent in 2004, the collaboration developed into a true partnership. The two have worked jointly on many projects where Watson has identified area businesses with opportunities for assistance and coordinated collaborative meetings. During the past year, MSC's economic development coordinator has worked closely with Watson on 10 different projects, assisting businesses in a variety of ways, from securing financing to counseling on marketing and business strategies. BACK TO LIST
Northeastern State University and Reasor's
Through the financial support of Jeff Reasor, president of Reasor's, NSU's College of Business and Technology has established a Center for Retail Marketing. In addition to sponsoring programs that promote retail careers for students, the center also conducts marketing research for retail firms. Annual student programs have brought in national and regional executives from the retail industry to speak to NSU students in both Tahlequah and Broken Arrow. During the last academic year, both Reasor and a major women's fashion merchandiser made presentations focusing on retail careers. Josh Reasor, Reasor's promotions director, also spoke to several of NSU's marketing and retail classes during the college's annual "teach-in." BACK TO LIST
Northern Oklahoma College and OGE Energy Corp.
For more than nine years, a unique partnership between NOC and OGE, based in Oklahoma City, has perpetuated economic development in northern Oklahoma and has prepared the OGE workforce to compete in a highly competitive economy. Two OGE employees, Kenneth Anderson and Gilbert Hall Sr., have provided significant leadership and expertise in the formation and development of the Oklahoma Partnership of Industry and Education through NOC. This partnership between industry and educational institutions is one of the foremost collaborative partnerships of its kind, allowing additional channels for enhancement of job performance and career opportunities. BACK TO LIST
Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Charles E. "Bill" Johnson Correctional Center
In August 2005, an agreement was developed through the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to allow NWOSU's Community Services Program to provide a cognitive-behavioral drug treatment program for trainees at the Bill Johnson Correctional Center. NWOSU-CSP staff currently includes a program director, five full-time treatment counselors, an administrative assistant and four NWOSU students serving in paid internships. The drug-treatment program is designed to provide six hours of counseling per week, per trainee, per month. Each year, NWOSU's program provides treatment to 440 trainees. BACK TO LIST
Oklahoma City Community College and INTEGRIS Health
INTEGRIS, a progressive, employee-focused organization offering innovative benefit programs, has partnered with OCCC to offer INTEGRIS employees the opportunity to earn an Associate in Science in business management from OCCC without ever leaving the hospital campus. OCCC has a commitment to making higher education accessible, and through this partnership, has opened the possibility of college to many adults. BACK TO LIST
Oklahoma Panhandle State University and Murphy-Brown, LLC
A pledge of $100,000 to OPSU by Murphy-Brown has helped make construction of OPSU's new science and agriculture building a reality. The pledge, to be paid out over a 10-year period, will be used to help purchase and maintain laboratory equipment in Murphy-Brown's new Water Quality Testing Lab. Currently, local officials responsible for municipal water testing must ship the water samples to the Department of Environmental Quality in Oklahoma City. Samples must be less than 30 hours old from the time they are drawn to the time they are set up for testing in a lab that is more than 200 miles away. The new water lab on OPSU's campus will help area Oklahoma municipalities save on freight and time. BACK TO LIST
Oklahoma State University and The Boeing Company
A vision of excellence for aerospace education in Oklahoma has led to a partnership between OSU and Boeing. In 2006, Ben Robinson, Boeing's Oklahoma City site director, initiated a series of collaborative meetings with government and aerospace industry executives, as well as representatives of OSU and Rose State College, to address urgent intellectual needs of the industry and gaps in the Oklahoma aerospace educational pipeline. As a result of that meeting, a two-plus-two partnership between OSU and RSC was developed to offer a new aerospace logistics option in the Bachelor of Science in aerospace administration and operations program from OSU. An additional master's degree and doctorate degree also are being offered. All three degrees are offered on RSC's campus, which is located in close proximity of Oklahoma City-area industry employees. Distance learning options also are available to employees in Stillwater and Tulsa. BACK TO LIST
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and TLC Florist and Greenhouses, Inc.
Charles and Linda Shackelford, owners of TLC in Oklahoma City, have been long-time supporters of OSU-OKC's horticulture program. One of the top 100 garden center retailers in the United States for the past 15 years, the Shackelfords and TLC have donated plant materials for lab activities and improvement of OSU-OKC's grounds and gardens, provided funds to help pay for student trips and allowed students and instructors to use the TLC nursery facilities as a teaching site for various class instruction activities. Recently, arrangements were finalized with the Shackelfords to provide a major gift to OSU-OKC to help fund construction of the new Agriculture Resource Center on campus, future home of the Agriculture Technologies Division. BACK TO LIST
Redlands Community College and Kingfisher Kookers
Kingfisher Kookers, the oldest continuously operating grill manufacturer in the United States, established a partnership with RCC in 2006. This partnership began when the management of Kingfisher Kookers started working with Mike Raymond, the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance extension agent housed at RCC, to streamline operations and increase profitability. Through this partnership, Kingfisher Kookers has virtually reinvented themselves as a modern operation by redesigning their plant layout and increasing production flow, implementing lean manufacturing, utilizing the advantage of Oklahoma tax incentives and increasing cash flow. BACK TO LIST
Rogers State University and ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips and RSU have a long-standing relationship to provide higher education opportunities in northeastern Oklahoma to promote economic development. The corporation works to enhance RSU's academic programs and has increased the number of college graduates through scholarships. RSU's School of Business and ConocoPhillips have a particularly strong relationship. During the past year, 15 RSU students have performed their senior internships at ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville. Graduates who have completed internships with the corporation are in high demand, and many have been employed by ConocoPhillips. BACK TO LIST
Rose State College and The Boeing Company
Boeing, the world's largest producer of commercial aircraft and a prime defense and aerospace contractor, is a distinguished partner of RSC and the RSC Foundation. Boeing supports higher education at both RSC and throughout the region. They have provided several education grants to fund the RSC Dare to Dream Project, an innovative science program that promotes aerospace and engineering activities. Boeing works closely with selected Oklahoma colleges and universities to enhance undergraduate curricula, support continuing education of Boeing employees, recruit outstanding candidates for employment and collaborate on research that benefits the long-term needs of the aerospace industry. BACK TO LIST
Seminole State College and Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc.
A partnership between SSC and REI has benefited the economic climate of many communities in central Oklahoma. Through the joint efforts of SSC and REI, a Rural Business and Resources Center was established at SSC in 2005. The center has provided assistance to numerous individuals, businesses, chambers of commerce, economic development groups and city organizations within Seminole, Pottawatomie, Lincoln, Okfuskee and Hughes counties. BACK TO LIST
Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Southern Workforce Board and Workforce Solutions Texoma
With unemployment at an all-time low of 3.4 percent in the Texoma region, business and industry faces a major challenge. To combat the problem, SWB and WST formed a steering committee named the Texoma Regional Consortium. Comprised of economic development professionals, workforce associates and higher education representatives, the TRC began to address the lack of a trained, qualified workforce. The most innovative part of this process has been the collaboration between the two-state regional workforce and economic development coalition. The TRC has been effective in reaching consensus, getting buy-in from all levels of bureaucracy and developing a working plan. SOSU also sees the importance of eliminating boundaries, even state lines, and SOSU and the Center for Regional Competitiveness are now key players with the support provided through the Economic Development Administration University Center Program. BACK TO LIST
Southwestern Oklahoma State University and Hudson Technology Solutions, Inc.
In May 2007, SWOSU's Computer Science Department and HTS developed a partnership to provide workforce development assistance in the area of wireless computer networks. The mission of HTS, established by SWOSU graduate Chris Hudson, is to provide high-quality network infrastructure to small and mid-sized business in Weatherford and western Oklahoma. Through this partnership, HTS has been able to increase the capacity of their Web services business and provide expanded customer service for technical problems of various degrees of difficulty. The business was also able to perform testing and planning of new server upgrades and provide expanded tower sites for a greater network coverage area. SWOSU also provided highly qualified student personnel to HTS. BACK TO LIST
Tulsa Community College and Tulsa Public Schools
One of TCC's important and long-standing community partners is TPS, the largest school district in Oklahoma. Various partnerships throughout the years have provided tutoring, career fairs, training and more. The success of these partnerships led to collaboration on a new program to meet the staffing requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation. The creation of this new academic program met and exceeded the legislative requirements. When the program was developed, care was taken to create a pathway for successful students to complete the basic training and for those who chose to continue toward an associate degree with the potential of culminating in a teacher education certification at a four-year institution. To date, through this training, at least 10 TPS paraprofessionals have received associate degrees from TCC. BACK TO LIST


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Urban planners long have searched for better ways of handling that eyesore of car-based living, the sprawling parking lot. But so far, their most workable ideas have amounted to burying them under or sticking them behind buildings.
Today's dedication of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden may be the most prominent and mainstream example of a long-awaited approach that serves several purposes. Its giant solar canopy shows how a giant parking lot can double as an electric power plant – and look better, too. (Of course, they also put the associated buildings and communities, not to mention the plant, on a clean energy footing that is more likely to work long-term.)
Here you have an expanse of asphalt that typically features lots of unobstructed space and weather exposure. At public locations where parents must juggle baby strollers and picnic baskets under sun or rain, the opportunity is even more obvious.
The Cincinnati project, which will use 15 arrays of SolarWorld panels to offset about 20 percent of the site's electricity use, marks a big milestone in the public awareness of this ingenious solar application. However, solar canopies have gone up in California for years.
About 3,000 panels made at SolarWorld's factory in Camarillo, Calif., composed one of the earliest big U.S. solar canopies. In 2003, California State University at Northridge installed the project in hopes of saving $50,000 annually in energy costs.
The trend continued. Last year, an installation of our panels atop parking canopies in California offered 300 kilowatts-peak for the Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Lancaster (shown in picture at left) while providing shade from the Southern California sun for up to 100 vehicles and their drivers and passengers.
This year, we are installing our own solar canopy system in our visitor parking lot at the U.S. headquarters and factory in Hillsboro, Ore., just in time for the warm summer. The 130 solar panel system will generate 30 kilowatts-peak of electricity.
Not all parking lots are suitable, of course. Shade undermines solar electric generation, so the presence of lots of tall buildings, trees or lampposts can be deal-killers.
Know of any good opportunities where you park? Consider talking with the parking lot's owner.
Read the Cincinnati Zoo press release.