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As a student, you know how much of your time is spent studying. No one wants to spend more time than they need to on school work, especially when you are young and trying to enjoy what you feel are the best years of your life. If you could apply effective study strategies, you could reduce the time spent in your books, while raising your grades at the same time.
Unfortunately, most teachers are only trained in imparting the knowledge concerning their own particular field of study, which is fine. Not too many teachers are going to take the time to help individual students develop study skills necessary to absorb the information during hours spent in private study at home. The reason for this is because study skills are a separate subject altogether which can be applied to Math, English, Social Studies, or whatever. So the student's lack of study skills is not the fault of the teacher, but rather on the system itself which has failed to provide the tools necessary for success.
The schools, teachers, and even parents usually expect the student to simply "do whatever it takes" to pass their courses. This is because if they were to share in the responsibility, they themselves would have to become teachers of how to improve study skills. For teachers, this is not really a part of their job description. It is extra work for them. Likewise, parents have jobs and busy schedules, and most of them have never been properly trained in good study skills themselves either.
What's Missing From Our Primary Education?
Study Skills and Strategies, Among Many Other Things
Our school systems have failed us in many ways. We should have mandated certain subjects in the lower grades so that our students could excel when they finally arrived to the higher grades. Among some of the "missing" fundamentals in our elementary education are:
- Personal finance
- Cooking
- Personal hygiene
- Nutrition and health
- Study skills and strategies
- Choosing a career
- Gardening and planting
- Elementary economic principles
Many of these things are taught in school, but very rarely or never at the elementary level where they would be mandatory rather than elective. So we end up with college graduates who cannot balance a checkbook or cook for themselves when they go out on their own. Most do not even understand the importance of practicing basic health principles which would save them and others from diseases and numerous miseries later in life. These are basic life skills which can be considered elementary "survival skills" in a world where you are expected to fend for yourself.
Effective study skills and strategies are among the most important of these "missing" academia subjects, because they are the hub by which other skills and talents are developed. Like the spokes of a wheel, differing fields of knowledge project in a radial manner from the hub of effective study habits producing a strong and well supported wheel of life skills.

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|Anne Arundel County, Maryland
First Settled During the Winter of 1649/1650
|There is a lot of data on this web site. To help you find names of interest, this site has been indexed with Free Find. So you can entry surnames of interest in the box to the left. But there will be hundreds of hits on promient family names like Dorsey, Warfield, and Howard. Also please also use the search engine for the US Genweb Baltimore County site as some records such as wills for Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties., are located at that site and the index engine does not include these records in its search of the Anne Arundel County website.
Quick Links
Welcome to Anne Arundel County USGenWeb/MdGenWeb site. The purpose of this site is to help you find ancestors who lived in Anne Arundel Co. Here is very general introduction into the origin of Anne Arundel County and a definition of the early Hundreds and Parish boundaries Note that Howard County was formed from the Howard District of Anne Arundel County in 1851, therefore early Howard County records were part of Anne Arundel Co. Also note that the boundary between Anne Arundel County and Baltimore County has changed over the years. Originally the south shore of the Patapsco River was in Baltimore Co., but in the 1720s the boundary was changed to the river iteself. In the 20th century part of Anne Arundel County, such as Brooklyn, was annexed into Baltimore City.
Information on How To Research In Anne Arundel CountyTo help find your roots in Anne Arundel County, check our Bibliography of books and publications with Anne Arundel Co genealogical information. To help you find materials we have prepared a list of vendors and publishers who carry books and other genealogical material. Also on this list is a periodical that contains Anne Arundel County genealogical material.
One good research publication is John Powell's compilation of the 1850 Census Anne Arundel County., MD published by the Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society..This is NOT an index, it is a transcript of the entire 1850 census for Anne Arundel County (including the Howard District).
A recent release from the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society is a book describing the locations of all known cemetery sites in Anne Arundel Co. check the Anne Arundel County Genealogical Web site for details.
One recent series of books that provide data on family genealogies is Mr. Robert McIntire's Annapolis Families Volume 1 and Volume 2. He was working on a third Volume. If you are interested in Mr. McIntire's volumes, which were privately published, please check our special notice on Annapolis Families.
Here are a few tips for searching for your ancestors in Anne Arundel County.
The address of the Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society is:
The Anne Arundel County Historical Society address is PO Box 385, Linthicum, MD 21090. There is a historical and genealogical research center at the Kuethe Library, 5 Crain Highway S.E., Glen Burnie, MD 21061.
The Maryland Genealogical Society
The Maryland Historical Society now has a web page. They have published a quarterly magazine Maryland Historical Magazinefor over 90 years The mail address for the Society is
Many records including death and birth certificates before 1988, copies of wills, land records, court documents are archived at the Maryland State Archives located in Annapolis. MSA has on-line an Index to the Anne Arundel County 1880 Census. And fairly new An on-line index to the 1870 Census of Anne Arundel Co.. Another good collection of genealogical data at MSA is a Church Records for Maryland
The Maryland State Archives is making information available on the web, current offerings include a search engine for the supplemental listings of Maryland Settlers recently published by Dr. Carson Gibb and alphabetically indexed HTML pages of marriages that have been inferred from records. Also available for viewing is a listing of the Anne Arundel County Records held at MSA. Check out their research offerings at http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/homepage/html/refserv.html The Maryland state archives is also the best source for obtaining old birth, death, and marriage certificates for genealogical research. They now have forms for requesting this data on-line. Birth and Death certificates generally started in 1898 for Anne Arundel Co. Marriage licenses exist from 1777. A new feature from the Maryland State Archives is on-line searchable death indexes for Baltimore City and Maryland Cos. (including Howard County). These searchable indexes are by the year groups and last name. This MSA site provides instructions for order copies of vital records from the MSA and department of vital records.Another on-line data resource for researchers at MSA provides on-line assess to a search engine for the original 72 volumes of the Archives of Maryland plus additional volumes. This Includes acts of the general assembly, some court records, listing of Revolutionary war musters and other data. In all there are about 103 volumes on line with some of them being more contemporary government papers.
On-Line Data Available from this Site and Linked Sites
Cemetery Inscriptions of Anne Arundel County are being collected and contributed to the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb project. You can download some of them as ASCII files from the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb archives or view them On-Line. There is also the MD Tombstone Transcription Project cemetery project for the USGenWeb Project with its collection of cemetery records on line to help with your research. This collection has inscriptions from 17 Anne Arundel County Cemeteries on-line.
The latest addtion to the site is the start of a collection of death notices and obituaries from Anne Arundel County Newspapers , primarily the Capital in Annapolis.
The First Families of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Countiesis a collection of linked family group sheets of early settlers of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties (for now we are working on families who were in the area by 1720) and links to other sites with linage data Contributions of GEDCOMS or text files are welcomed to add to these pages.
We have been adding On-line transcripts of Wills of Anne Arundel and Baltimore County from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
Another data item is a collection of Family Bible Records for Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties.
On-line Transcripts of other old documents for Baltimore and Anne Arundel County or Anne Arundel Co. , such as deeds, grants, court orders are also being collected to help researchers.
The Catalogue for Saint John's College (Department of Arts and Sciences of the University of Maryland) for the year 1917 was donated recently. A web page listing the alumni and graduates of St John's College from 1793 to 1916 is being prepared.
Another site with Anne Arundel County genealogy data is Diana Muir's site at http://www.motherhubbardscupboard.net/annearundelcomd.html that includes mostly data from St James Parish including transcripts of the St James Parish vestry minutes and other information, with some emphasis on the Weems family.
Genealogical Research Aids from Rootsweb and the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb Project
SURNAME REGISTRY Register with an on-line list of the Surnames you are researching and would like to exchange information on with other researchers.
An Index to Daily Capital Death Notices for July and August 2002 and July 2005 through June 2006 provided by Mr. George Jones.
We have an on-line forum for posting, reviewing and searching Queries about persons in Anne Arundel County
Rootsweb sponsors a web-wide database to identify researchers of a given surname. Lookup others researching the same surnames you are and/or add the surnames you are researching to this database
ROOTSWEB has added the JUNE 1999 SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI). Now you can search the most recent version of the SSDI at sites.rootsweb.com.
As part of the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb Project we are building a collection of files for each state and county. This is the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb archives with genealogical information for Anne Arundel County These are text files that can be transferred (FTP'ed) to your computer. Included in the archives for Anne Arundel County are a number of Cemetery entries. We are also trying to place records on-line as HTML files that can be viewed with your browser. If you have a file to contribute and share (such as extracts of old records you have compiled, family histories) and have archived on our system please contact the Anne Arundel County Page coordinator
We Need Your Help
The USGenWeb Project is Trying to put the US Census on-line..We need volunteers willing to spend time enter data from the census into a computer program. The software will be provided, but you will need to get a copy of the census (microfilm, fiche) for the entry. If interested please check the Project's Home page
We welcome contributions of material to add to this sites collection. This ranges from GEDCOMS, lists of descendants, transcripts of wills, deeds, Family Bible Records and other documents, or if you have a site with substantial information on Anne Arundel County Genealogy (such as lineages) or History we would like to provide a link to your site. Please Contact the Coordinator for this Page If you would like to contribute.
Internet Resources and Mailing Lists
A list of links that may be helpful in researching ancestors in Anne Arundel County.
There is a mail list for Anne Arundel, Baltimore and surrounding counties Genealogical Research. To Subscribe to the Baltimore Genealogy mailing List:send a E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. In the text of the message just say Subscribe,& please disable your signature. To subscribe in a digest mode send the request to email@example.com To post messages to this list send your E-mail to the Baltimore Genealogy list at email@example.com
There is also a statewide Genealogy mailing list. To Subscribe to the Maryland Genealogy mailing List: send a E-mail to email@example.com. In the text of the message just say Subscribe, please disable your signature. To subscribe in a digest mode send the request to email@example.com To post a message on the Maryland mailing list send your E-mail to the Maryland Genealogy list at firstname.lastname@example.com
There are many surname mailing lists for researchers, some of those of interest for Anne Arundel County include: DORSEY and CLARY. Check at the mailing lists at Rootsweb
An on-line listing of the addresses and phone number for Maryland cemeteries is being maintained by Lynn Smith
Pam the "list lady" has prepared a listing from the 1895 Atlas of the localities in Maryland. So to find locations of places in Maryland check her index of Maryland localities
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It may seem like an odd thing to do, but at the end of a project I often suggest specific resources for clients to study, on the (perhaps misguided) belief that an educated client is a happy client. This homework, so to speak, often takes the form of reading material, especially research articles that highlight a problem similar to the one the client is trying to solve or that cover families in the same geographic area.
These suggestions are drawn from material that I've found particularly helpful, and I'm constantly looking for new articles or studying ones with which I'm already familiar in the hopes of refining my own understanding of research techniques and strategies.
My reading material for this holiday season, when I'm supposed to be on vacation (ha ha), is drawn from the latest issues of genealogical journals to which I subscribe (such as The American Genealogist or TAG and The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, aka The Register, as well as state and regional quarterlies), but also includes a review of older published material.
For instance, one of my favorite periodicals is the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, which is one benefit of membership in the National Genealogical Society. The NGS' web site contains back issues of the NGSQ dating from the late 1970s to the present. These back issues are a treasure trove for researchers, and I mine them frequently looking for articles that might help me solve a particular research problem.
I'm also in the habit of reading all articles by a particular author, or as many as I can get my hands on. One of my favorites is GeLee (sometimes Ge Lee) Corley Hendrix, who is now deceased. Fortunately, Mrs. Hendrix was a somewhat prolific writer, and because of this her work is still available for other researchers to use.1 I particularly like her articles because they deal with problem areas for Southern researchers, like "burned" counties and South Carolina, which is in a category all on its own. If you're interested in reading these yourself, here are the articles she wrote to which I have ready access:
- "John Simmons of Orangeburg Township, South Carolina, 1735 – 1759," NGSQ 73 (September 1985): 172 – 178.
- "The First Settlers on the North Fork of the Edisto River, S.C.," NGSQ 73 (September 1985): 179 – 206.
- "Genealogical Research in South Carolina," NGSQ 75 (December 1987): 249 – 270.
- "Backtracking through Burned Counties: Bonds of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and the Carolinas," NGSQ 78 (June 1990): 98 – 114.
- "John Bond vs. John Bond: Sorting Identities via Neighborhood Reconstruction," NGSQ 79 (December 1991): 268 – 282.
- "Going Beyond the Database–Interpretation, Amplication, and Development of Evidence: South Carolina's COM Index and Several James Kelleys," NGSQ 86 (June 1998): 116 – 133.
- "Benjamin Hendrick (1730 – 1818) of Virginia and Carolina and Some of His Descendants: Research in Burned Counties," TAG 65 (January 1990): 44 – 53.
Notice the third article in the list "Genealogical Research in South Carolina," required reading for anyone with South Carolina ancestors.
What reading are y'all doing over the holidays?
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1. If you're looking for a reason to publish, here's reason number one: Some day, you will be gone, but your hard work can be preserved through publication.


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Hip-Hop savant Swizz Beatz, 34, born Kasseem Dean, was still a teenager when he sold his first beat. The South Bronx native — who lives downtown with his wife, R&B star Alicia Keys — has since added producer, rapper, label founder, artist, designer, husband and father to his credit. Oh, and he was recently named Global Ambassador to the city's public hospital system for his work in raising healthcare awareness. In fact, this Wednesday he'll be feted for his efforts at the Children's Rights benefit at the Plaza Hotel. Of the party, he'd only tease, "Expect the unexpected." This is his hip-hop New York.
1. West Side Highway
"The whole stretch is amazing for kids. There are great parks. You can bike ride all the way to and from Harlem, which is a nice workout and really good bonding time."
2. La Esquina, 114 Kenmare St., at Lafayette Street
"I'm not giving up my secret romance spot, but I do love La Esquina, for sure. It's very cool. How [are] you going to choose a favorite [dish] there? You can't. I love everything. I love the music as well. They handle their business there."
3. Cipriani, 376 West Broadway, between Broome and Spring streets
"If I'm in a relaxed mood on a Saturday afternoon I go to Cipriani. I have a Bellini, the branzino and then some amazing sorbet or ice cream. From there I'd go to Martin Lawrence Gallery to see new pieces I haven't seen and then head to my studio in Williamsburg to see if I can catch a vibe, listen to music, get motivated and stay all night."
4. Chelsea Galleries, West 20s between 10th and 11th avenues
"We usually head out on 26th Street and go into all the galleries: Pace, Tony Shafrazi, you name it. We walk past them all, look in the windows and, if something looks cool, go in to check it out. I let the kids pick. Galleries don't have to be kid-specific. Picasso just makes an impact."
5. Handball courts, Harlem River Drive and East 128th Street
"I used to go to the courts and see Keith Haring's 'Crack Is Wack' mural. I didn't know it was Keith Haring. It was just a park for me. The message to stay focused, on point, drug-free was there every day, but I just loved the colors. When I first saw an entire subway done I thought, 'Did they pay someone to paint the train?' I started tagging notebooks and playing with colors."
6. The Mural Pavilion at Harlem Hospital, Lenox Avenue at 135th Street
"Harlem Hospital was the first place to commission black artists to do paintings in a hospital. All those old paintings from the '30s have been restored and put back up in the pavilion. I curated all the art for the hospital and it's going to blow people's minds. When a lot of people think of Harlem they think of an underprivileged neighborhood, but this is like changing a library into the MoMA. It's that much of a drastic change."
7. David Choate street art, various spots in SoHo
"His work is amazing, totally inspiring. He likes to paint sports characters. I commissioned him to paint me a Grace Jones piece. And another of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Basquiat called 'Conversation.' It's one artist thinking of what the other is doing. Haring is thinking, 'Where are they partying tonight?' "
8. Golden Krust, 1381 East Gunhill Road
"I love Jamaican food and Golden Krust is my favorite. They've opened more locations. There's a lot in Brooklyn and throughout the city. I love the spicy patties and coco bread. To me, it is the real, real New York food, besides pizza."
9. St. Mary's Park, 143rd through 149th streets, between St. Ann's and Jackson avenues
"I loved music as a kid. There were always jam sessions on the block and in this park. I didn't even know I wanted to be a DJ, rapper, producer yet. It just felt cool."
Three songs on Swizz Beatz's playlist for Wednesday's Children's Rights benefit at the Plaza Hotel:
* "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
* "Jump Around" by House of Pain
* "Beware" by Panjabi MC featuring Jay-Z


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Can I make you French toast this morning?
My son's eager eyes convey pleasure at the thought of
a real mom-made breakfast,
not frozen, not shaken out from a box,
nor spread between two pieces of wheat bread.
Do I have the ingredients? Let's see…
here's eggs, white bread,
in the cupboard the cinnamon, and near the coffee-maker
a container holding hundreds of pink packets, and lucky for us
several white Domino packets of the real stuff.
But there's no milk in the fridge.
No problem – I'll use half & half!
It's the same thing, pretty much.
In fact, it'll probably taste better.
I gather everything and get to work.
Crack open three eggs, pour in the "milk",
shake in a bunch of cinnamon, and pour in a few sugar packets.
I do that thing that the chefs do with a fork, really fast
making sure he sees me.
He'll have a memory of me making him French toast.
I drop a glob of butter in the pan,
and while it melts, I place the bread in to the stuff I've mixed,
letting it soak.
With my fork, I stab the bread and transport it across
several inches of countertop
dripping cinnamon-egg slop along the way,
and lay it in the sizzling pan.
He walks by, and I'm humming, poking at the bread with the fork,
peaking underneath to see if it's time to turn it over.
Is that what it's supposed to look like? we both wonder.
After a while, both sides look ready, I place the toast on a plate and
take it to the table where my son waits, smiling.
This is awesome! he says, while I watch him eat.
I'll have a memory of him eating French toast,
that I made for him.
Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
That thing that moms do
Labels: family, food, kids, motherhood, poems
1 comment:
- Mr. Magoo... said...
What is it in the "mom or dad" cooking that sparks that magic smile on the kids' faces?
Every time I'm home alone with the kids, they practically beg me to cook something for them, and I do it with all my heart because I know they will keep these moments in their hearts, even if the dish is not perfect.
Let's keep on doing this more often, and spread the love, with butter and maple syrup....
- November 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM
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text: The Lego Universe MMO is shaping up nicely, with what the developers told us would be "really core LEGO play" - building stuff, in other words. In an interview with Massively, though, NetDevil's Mark Hansen did not entirely dismiss the suggestion that some of the licensed properties from the Traveller's Tales games might make an appearance in the future. When asked if this was the case, Hansen said, "No, not at all. I think you will ... yeah. (laughs)" It might be a nice extra but you have to hope that this doesn't distract from the basic Legoiness that the game seems to offer. It is always more fun if you make it yourself, after all. Lego IPs interview pt. 2 [Massively, via Joystiq]


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Liberating the Rivers
All the Wild Rivers
In 1966, Floyd Dominy, the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, gave a speech lambasting environmentalists for their opposition to damming up the Grand Canyon national park. If the dams were not built, he told the audience, the Colorado River would be "useless to anyone." Dominy, head of the agency that led the charge in the United States' rush to dam up its rivers, concluded: "I've seen all the wild rivers I ever want to see."
Thirty years later, in 1998, Bruce Babbitt, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, traveled across the country to several rivers on a "Sledgehammer tour"-not to break ground on new construction, but to tear four dams down. "America overshot the mark in our dam building frenzy," he said in a speech to the Ecological Society of America. "For most of this century, politicians have eagerly rushed in, amidst cheering crowds, to claim credit for the construction of 75,000 dams all across America. Think about that number. That means we have been building, on average, one large dam a day, every single day, since the Declaration of Independence. Many of these dams have become monuments, expected to last forever. You could say forever just got a lot shorter."
One of the world leaders in building new dams, the United States, is now leading the world in tearing them down. The country is now decommissioning more large dams than it builds each year, and has removed at least 465 of them, according to a study by American Rivers, Friends of the Earth, and Trout Unlimited. France and other countries are following suit. "It's striking how, in just two or three decades, the U.S. has gone from building dams to not building dams to taking some of them down," wrote Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, in the Earth Day 2000 edition of Time magazine. "What we're just beginning to understand is how water development has, like nuclear energy, amounted to a Faustian bargain between civilization and the natural world."
Ecologically, rivers are under siege. They are being drained, diverted, polluted, and blocked at a rate that has degraded freshwater ecosystems worldwide. With more than half of the world's rivers stopped up by at least one large dam (over 15 meters high), dams have played a significant role in destabilizing riverine ecology. For example, at least one fifth of the world's freshwater fish are now endangered or extinct. In addition, reservoirs behind dams have flooded vast amounts of the world's most fertile agricultural and forest land. Reservoirs also trap the sediment loads of rivers, reduce the supply of nutrients flowing downstream, release water at cooler temperatures, and disrupt healthy river ecosystems.
The ill-effects of dams are not confined to river valleys. Half of the world's dams were built to irrigate the farmland that now provides about 12 to 16 percent of the human food supply. However, channeling water to irrigate basins without good drainage has led to extensive salinization and waterlogging of soils. Bad drainage and poorly planned irrigation-including groundwater pumping-have reduced or ended the productivity of nearly one-fifth of the world's irrigated land.
The impact of dam building on communities has also been substantial. An estimated 40 to 80 million people have been physically displaced by the construction of dams. They have been flooded out, forced to move. One of the world's most massive engineering projects, the Three Gorges Dam in China, if completed could force the relocation of nearly 2 million people. Most frequently, the people affected are not those who receive the irrigation, electricity, or other benefits provided by dams. In fact, those who are resettled have rarely ever seen their livelihoods restored. "The poor, other vulnerable groups, and future generations are likely to bear a disproportionate share the social and environmental costs of large dam projects without gaining a commensurate share of the economic benefits," finds the World Commission on Dams (WCD), an independent, collaborative body consisting of dam construction industry representatives, anti-dam activists, and government officials, among others. The commission released its landmark report in November 2000, providing one of the first global surveys of dams with input from both supporters and critics.
The U.S. effort to consider dam removal or breaching is only part of a worldwide shift in thinking about dams. (See Patrick McCully's article, page 36.) In almost every country in the world, the number of new dams being built is plummeting. Ninety-one large dams were built in the 1970s in Brazil, for instance. The number built dropped to 60 in the 1980s, and to 28 in the first six years of the 1990s (see graph below). Even where dams continue to be built, public acceptance is waning, says Owen Lammers of the Glen Canyon Action Network, an ambitious U.S. activist group pushing to tear down the massive Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. "The number of dams being constructed is going down," says Lammers, "while the number facing resistance and severe criticism is going up."
Evoking the almost religious fervor with which dams have been built in the past, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru called the massive concrete and earthen structures being put up around his country "the temples of modern India." But after a half-century of being regarded as technological marvels, many of these structures are being re-inspected and rejected as boondoggles.
Still, the number of dams and dam projects that have been stopped or removed is only a tiny fraction of those that have been built in the past half century. And projects that face strong opposition may also be getting strong support from urban residents, large-scale farmers, or other groups that stand to benefit from a dam's construction. The Sardar Sarovar Dam on India's Narmada River, for example, is at the center of the country's debate over how development should occur. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), the local movement opposed to the damming, has rallied international attention against the project, which includes plans to construct 3,200 dams on the river. But despite the opposition, in February 1999 the Indian Supreme Court lifted its four-year stay on the project.
When the global rush to build dams reached its peak in the 1970s, on average two or three large dams were commissioned around the world every day. International lenders, governments, development agencies all felt they had found in dams a solution to many of the world's development dilemmas. Dams have played an important role in addressing hunger, drought, and lack of access to clean water and electricity. They generate 19 percent of the world's electricity supply, provide water for 30 to 40 percent of the world's irrigated land, and in some places help to reduce floods. But the benefits of controlling unruly waterways-building dams and creating reservoirs with the aim of halting floods, expanding irrigation, providing drinking water, and supplying hydroelectric energy-have always been assumed to overwhelmingly outweigh the costs, even though little was known about what these costs were. However, as researchers conduct more studies on the effects of dams and as more of the local people who are affected are consulted, the assumption that the benefits outweigh the costs has become less certain.
Now that more than 45,000 large dams (over 15 meters high) have been built around the world, a growing body of research indicates that their costs may be higher than many ever imagined. The World Commission on Dams report finds that "In too many cases an unacceptable and often unnecessary price has been paid [to secure the benefits of dams], especially in social and environmental terms, by people displaced, by communities downstream, by taxpayers, and by the natural environment." Irrigation schemes haven't supplied projected revenues, hydropower dams have not met electricity-generation projections, drinking water supplies have been costly and often unreliable, and reservoirs have lost their usefulness as they fill with sediment. Recent studies have shown that the organic debris washed into reservoirs releases large amounts of greenhouse gases, raising questions as to whether hydroelectric dams produce really do clean, renewable energy. "Considering the enormous capital invested in large dams, it is surprising that substantive evaluations of project performance are few in number, narrow in scope, and poorly integrated," finds the report.
Even the World Bank, the world's largest international funder of dam projects (the Bank has invested $75 billion on 538 dams), has begun to have second thoughts. "Our involvement in large dams has been decreasing and is focusing more on financing dam rehabilitation and safety and much less on financing new dams," said World Bank President James Wolfensohn in November 2000. To put the Bank's shift fully in perspective, however, it might be noted that while opposition to dams has been increasingly effective, the most common reason for the dramatic drop in the growth of dams is simply that many countries are already at capacity-there are fewer and fewer safe or unprotected places left to build the structures.
But the jury is still out on how the World Bank, which helped instigate the dam commission, will respond to the findings of the WDC report. Wolfensohn recently told an audience of Indian business leaders that "It is unfortunate that the World Bank could not understand the depth of the water crisis in Gujarat and had to pull out of the Narmada project," which is fiercely opposed by the NBA.
"We note and appreciate that the World Commission on Dams report vindicates many concerns raised by NGO campaigns," announced an international coalition of more than 100 nongovernmental anti-dam activist groups in November 2000. In many ways, the World Commission on Dams report provides an up-front review of adverse impacts that most dam projects are never subjected to. The activists contend that if the planning process proposed by the WCD had been followed in the past, many dams would never have been built. The report concludes that dam projects should require the consent of affected communities, participatory decision-making, examination of alternatives to dams, requirements to "sustain aquatic ecosystems," and mechanisms to ensure proper reimbursement to affected communities. The coalition of activists has called for suspension of all large dam projects until countries follow the report's recommendations for equitable, accountable, and participatory decision-making.
The debate over dams has come a long way since Dominy's call 30 years ago to silence all the rivers. And while the thinking about dams has expanded since then, so has the number of dams that choke the world's rivers. It is time to take the lessons learned from constructing more than 45,000 large dams around the world, and to incorporate them into our thinking about future planning for our rivers. For more information see: The World Commission on Dams, www.dams.org
Curtis Runyan is associate editor of World Watch.


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There's been a lot of talk on Jalopnik during the past few months about setting the cross-country record. You know, driving a vehicle from New York City to Los Angeles in the least amount of time possible. It sounds like the greatest record you could possibly set in the world, until you realize that someone set a record for balancing a car on his head and that Guinness doesn't publish cross-country records.
Author's Note: Before you (and law enforcement personnel) read any further, I DON'T speak from experience on this. I may have written this though. Nor do I condone any attempts to set the record. The point of this piece is discouragement, especially to think about the consequences if you don't break the record.
What isn't discussed, however, are the people who don't succeed and what occurs when they decide to give up their cross-country run vehicles for good. I ended up contemplating such a situation since such a car would be practically unsellable. Though before I discuss that, let's first focus on what got you to the point of abandoning future attempts to set the cross-country record.
It was initially great. Finally, you had the funds (or more likely, the right credit score and perfect pay stubs) to get the perfect cross-country record car! You looked at cars from the E320 Bluetec to an E39 M5 until the point where you saw an F430 coupe and thought "Maybe I could mount an external fuel tank on the roof and get some diplomatic plates..."
A while later, after answering salespeople's probing inquiries with "I'm planning on setting the cross-country record" which promptly led to a look of bemusement, you bought the right car. It was a sedan, had a large trunk to accommodate fuel cells, and had a dashboard which you could easily run wires through and integrate radio equipment in. The engine easily made over 500 horsepower, three people could fit inside,
The car was sent to a customization shop. You had them weld in a fuel cell and put a better intercooler in. Not to mention the anti-LIDAR paint, the radar detectors and jammers, the radios, and the numerous antennas that had to be embedded in the dashboard and the center console. All of this had a five-figure price tag. Never in your life would you think you'd put so much money into your car.
Then you started planning. You hired a GPS company to track your car so you could stick to the outlined route, important when you're making decisions on a public road at 120 mph. Google Earth is used to find all the gas stations and the possible roads. The Weather Channel is watched like never before. Waze and Trapster become your best friends, never mind all the data they record. You pray that there's no road construction at night on your route.
During the planning stage, you somehow managed to find people insane enough to put their life in your hands at triple-digit speeds. Everyone who was your "first-choice" dropped out because they couldn't get vacation time or saw how many cones you knocked down on the autocross course, at which point they came up with excuses like "I have to get Regina Spektor concert tickets that weekend." When all your friends dropped out, you resorted to random Facebook messages and tweets like "@thesmokingtire @matthardigree Want to do a cross-country record attempt with me? E-mail me at iwannabeatedbolian AT gmail.com."
Within three months, you've attempted about three or four runs across the country. But you've been unable to break the record, so you've developed no emotional attachment to the car. Meanwhile, the payments are becoming more and more unbearable, and there's no forthcoming book deal because you didn't come under 28 hours and 50 minutes, so you decide to sell the car.
There's a perfect customer for the car you're selling. It's for someone just as crazy as you who wants to set the cross-country record, but doesn't want to go through the money, time, and effort needed to prep the car for the run when one is available and ready to go. What you find out is such buyers are few and far between, and the ones who would be interested don't have the cash to buy it in a heartbeat.
Believe it or not, at first, there is a right way to go about getting rid of the car. You can create a thread on cross-country record forums (if such things actually exist, I've never checked) or on model-specific forums, where you can list a good amount of the modifications. Unfortunately, many of the members are made up of middle-aged men who are beyond setting a cross-country record, or teenage fanboys. And all of them want that welded-in fuel cell gone.
Also, the car is unfortunately wanted in at least five states for speeding, tailgating, road rage, obstruction of the windshield, passing on the median, and so on. So you can't just sell the car to anyone, especially since it may be difficult to simply drive it on the road. Some people may know that. But any highway patrolman or state trooper who comes across the car will throw the book at whoever's driving.
Dealers won't take the car on trade-in, and if they do, they'll send it directly to auction. ("Sir, you can directly swap this for an A4 and maintain the same payments. That's the best I can do.") This is because the interior smells like "guy" despite having less than 10,000 miles on the odometer. There might be more than a few holes in the dashboard due to integrating all that equipment. You also welded in a fuel cell.
And you can't simply advertise the car on Autotrader or Craigslist like normal people do. The Autotrader listing will get interested people, but they'll have more than a few questions about the holes in the dashboard or why you didn't upload any photos of the trunk. The Craigslist listing will get perpetual lowballers, e-mails detailing despair asking for my willingness to set up a payment plan, or penis enlargement ads.
Subsequently, after a month of dealing with all the inquiries, you seriously begin to consider consignment shops. ("Brother, I can sell this car in two months. No problem.") However, leaving the car with them ends up with some new records being set. Things such as highest commission ever given to a car salesperson or most number of times "test-driven" without being bought. And one night you'll be surprised to see your car parked in front of a club with perpetually long lines.
Eventually, you come to the realization that there is a very specific perfect customer for the car, one you never thought you'd have to consider, and he (or she) will have the money. And that person is: the drug trafficker.
Yes, it has come to this. You're actually doing business with a drug cartel member. ("You got a f***in' legit ride here, holmes.") You've been forced to advertise how the modifications you put on the car can help them make a cocaine delivery from Miami to Chicago. The car is perfect for it. The necessary radios to check police movement have been installed. The extra fuel cells minimize fuel stops. The fact the car can still seat at least three people means plenty of room for product. And since the vehicle can do triple-digit speeds with ease, it's perfect for running away from DEA agents on the highway.
But the consequences are high. Your cell phone is probably tapped by now. You might be questioned by the DEA. There will be a suitcase full of cash somewhere in the house which you can't deposit at any bank. (It was either that or an HSBC wire transfer, and those funds would've clearly be flagged.)
All things considered, even thinking of setting a cross-country record is a seriously terrible idea. You'll burn through more cash than you ever thought possible, law enforcement may come after you, and meet the shadiest people in the world. Not to mention, it's a very difficult record to beat at this point.
Let's face it. We all (even including me) are still going to try anyway. Even if I have to watch The Weather Channel for 24 hours straight.
Satish Kondapavulur runs Clunkerture, named because "Clunker.com" was $82 at auction and would've taken 30% out of the balance of his Eagle Vision for LeMons fund. In between contemplating cross-country runs, he spends much of his time attempting to convince others that his MkV Jetta 2.0T Wolfsburg is indeed a sports sedan.
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California reaches deep into special funds to pay for schools, prisons, social services
California drivers pay fees for smog checks, vehicle registrations and new tires, all supposedly for programs that benefit roadway use.
Consumers pay fees to recycle beverage containers, televisions and computers. Doctors and accountants pay license fees to regulate their industries.
But for more than a decade, the special funds collecting these dollars have served a second purpose: helping California pay for schools, social services and prisons that are supposed to be funded by general taxes.
California has 560 funds deemed "special" because in theory they're walled off from general state expenditures. In the face of two recessions, however, California reached deeper into those funds for purposes that fee payers never intended. The state now owes $4.3 billion to special funds, more than five times the amount owed in 2008.
State leaders argue that special funds have enough extra money to pay for more critical state needs. Some special fund reserves grew after the state imposed furloughs on all state workers starting in 2009.
But program advocates say the borrowed money should have gone toward intended uses like reducing pollution or better enforcement of health care fields. Or, they suggest, it should have gone back to consumers and professionals through lower fees.
"Any of these funds set up by ratepayer money needs to be spent on its intended purpose," said Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, a consumer advocacy group that has watched the state borrow $296 million in telephone-related surcharges. "The purpose is not to serve as a (state) piggy bank."
Gov. Jerry Brown says the state will eventually repay $4.3 billion in outstanding special fund loans with interest, a promise that assumes voters will pass tax hikes in November. But state officials never retired $448 million in special fund loans from 2002 and 2003 even during good times. And $1.3 billion in loans have no repayment date in state law.
Watchdogs say lawmakers consider repayment a low priority, especially compared to demands by education and social service allies seeking to reverse past cuts. The Department of Finance says it must repay money whenever a program says it needs the funds to operate.
Edward Howard, senior counsel with the Center for Public Interest Law, said that promise is hollow. He said the Department of Finance crafts general fund budgets, yet also has say over special-fund expenditures.
"If you know you're going to be using the special funds as a piggy bank every year, then you don't allow the special funds to spend their money on things special funds are supposed to pay for, like staff and enforcement, like consumer protection," Howard said. "You have an incentive not to approve expenditures."
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, emphasized that special fund loans are a small part of solutions that leaders relied upon – $1.1 billion in the current $91.3 billion general fund budget. He said Democrats resorted to them in part because they cannot persuade Republicans to pass taxes.
"One person's gimmick or unpopular budgeting strategy is another person's genuine effort to avoid deeper and deeper cuts to education, higher education, health care and public safety," he said.
Brown and lawmakers are examining all special fund accounts after the Department of Parks and Recreation acknowledged it shielded nearly $54 million in two special funds. Finance will release an audit today showing whether similar surpluses exist elsewhere, possibly furnishing a future budget solution.
"Every year at Finance, we had gone through a drill scouring all of the special funds to see if there was money we could get," recalled Mike Genest, who served as finance director under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger when the last recession struck.
In the last two budgets, Brown and lawmakers relied on $3.9 billion in new special fund borrowing and extending loan repayment dates.
"If we don't borrow from the special funds, we cut four or five billion out of basic stuff," Brown said Thursday in Oakland. "It's a good source."
Special funds survived the recession better than the general fund, another reason state leaders have little concern about tapping them. The Department of Finance estimates that special fund spending will reach $39.4 billion this fiscal year – 48 percent higher than in 2007-08. Special funds now make up nearly 28 percent of $142.4 billion in state spending.
Some funds have managed fine. Though the state borrowed $107 million in electronic waste fees, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery has enough left to lower fees in January on computers and televisions.
But general fund borrowing has exacerbated problems with the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, said Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste.
When the recycling fund was flush, state officials borrowed three times since 2002, with $173 million still owed. But recycling rates skyrocketed from 58 percent of containers a decade ago to 85 percent in 2010-11, draining funds. The Legislative Analyst's Office said in April the fund was headed for insolvency by 2014-15 before changes came in June.
"It's a little bit of the Wild West out there in terms of borrowing from these special funds," Murray said. "The Legislature and governor can set their own rules, and sometimes those end up being shortsighted."
In the past five years, the state hiked fees and traffic penalties on motorists to raise money for court construction, clean energy technology and departments like the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol.
The state then borrowed against the same special fund accounts to balance its general fund budget. In one case, the state borrowed $24.6 million in 2009 from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, which lawmakers created in 2007 with new fees on car and boat owners.
"Borrowing is a euphemism for the government taking money," said Senate Republican leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, whose caucus has long criticized the practice as a backdoor tax hike. "They're not surplus funds. In some cases, they have raised fees, then turned around and depleted the funds. Consumers aren't getting what they're paying for."


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Six core HHP courses plus five core courses required of all Dordt students give HHP majors a broad background shaped by a strong Christian worldview. You'll choose from a variety of electives to fit your emphasis.
Some pre-physical therapy students choose to major in HHP.
You'll find many opportunities on campus to be involved in your field. Some students work as student trainers for the department and the athletic teams; others help teach HHP activity classes. Some coordinate the intramural program on campus or work in the recreation center. Many play on intramural teams, and students in one class go into elementary school classrooms to help. Majors serve as assistant coaches for athletic teams and find opportunities to coach in local schools. Our students also help Special Olympic athletes in soccer, basketball, and track.
Master of education: We offer a master of education program, allowing students to earn an advanced degree in sport leadership.


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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Spyder v2.1.14 supports Python 3
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Thank you for the hard work. But I checked out the tag v2.1.14dev3 and it still gives me a lot of error when I try to execute spyder under a python3 environment. I have a Ubuntu 12.10 amd64. Thank you.
Actually, it supports only Python 3.3 for now -- there are still compatibility issues with Python 3.0-3.2ReplyDelete
Hi, will version 2.3 support python 3.0-3.2 ? When can we expect the stable release ?ReplyDelete
Spyder if by far my favorite IDE and I am very much looking forward to Spyder 2.3. It has been a while since the original post and I am wondering if there are any updates on the progress of including python 3.3.ReplyDelete
Spyder v2.3.0dev5 (then dev6) was already pretty stable when it was released this summer.ReplyDelete
Now Spyder v2.3.0beta1 has been released and is also quite stable. So you may already test it (without too much risks).
Is anyone kind to tell me how to change to python3 in spyder? Thanks a lotReplyDelete


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Actress Jena Malone accidentally flashed at a hotel employee while filming a nude scene for "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
The "Donnie Darko" actress stars alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth in the action sequel, which has already proved to be a box office smash, but she had an embarrassing run-in during filming.
Malone was left red-faced when she accidentally showed all to a hotel employee while shooting a nude scene in a hotel elevator.
She tells "Live! with Kelly & Michael," "We were actually shooting in a real hotel, and a real elevator, so they couldn't really shut down the entire hotel. It's like 49 floors, a glass elevator; everybody can see in – it's kind of a crazy thing.
"I think at take two, I'm bare-boned, and I'm about to leave the elevator. And the doors open and there's some guy that works at the hotel carrying a coffee cup holder and this mouth is just agape. And I'm staring at him trying to be in character, and I just fall out of frame laughing. I couldn't take it."


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According to a March 2012 story on CNBC.com, "… thefts of used cooking oil are on the rise across the country—driven by the rising price of oil that makes biofuels more cost competitive with fossil fuels."
Current high prices for used cooking oil, just like copper wire from abandoned or foreclosed homes, can attract opportunistic scofflaws.
Frontline International, one of this year's winners of the National Restaurant Association's 2012 Kitchen Innovations Award, offers a simple solution to foil would-be "oil rustlers" and protect restaurateurs' profits on the sale of used cooking oil.
If waste oil is stored in an unguarded bin outside a restaurant, it can become an easy target for this decade's crime of opportunity.
Even the more sophisticated sealed indoor and outdoor tanks pose a risk if the valve used by legitimate oil collectors to pump waste oil from the restaurant remains unlocked between pick-ups. Thieves can easily access these unlocked valves and draw "liquid gold" from the establishment.
Frontline solves this waste oil crime for its customers before it can happen. Frontline collection ports feature an integrated anti-theft valve that makes it impossible for thieves to drain out the stored oil.
Tanks stored outside a foodservice establishment have the protected valve integral to their assembly and, when tanks are stored inside the facility, the valve on the building's exterior is the same anti-theft valve.
The authorized oil-collection truck simply pulls up to the building and hooks up a drainage hose from the truck to the collection port. The anti-theft valve can then be opened remotely by either logging into Frontline's Web-based M3 Data Management System or by entering a password on a control panel on the tank itself.
When the tank is empty, the valve is relocked. As a measure of comfort that the integrity of the system is supported, store personnel can log in and certify online anytime that the collection port is closed and locked.
Preventing waste oil theft is not just good for the bottom line, but better for the environment by ensuring that oil is in the hands of responsible processors. Frontline's waste oil containment tanks are part of the company's Smart Oil Management system.
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A small agricultural community with modern conveniences for its three constituent neighborhoods, Valley Center encompasses 94 square miles of unincorporated land in North County about nine miles northeast of Escondido. The diverse and family-friendly community has a population of around 10,000. The area is a short drive to larger neighboring towns and attractions such as Bates Nuts Farm, Keys Creek Lavender Farm, Palomar Mountain and Observatory, a few lakes, and Hellhole Canyon Preserve with its miles of hiking and horseback riding trails. Valley Center also has parks and trails closer to home – plenty of open space for families to grow and play.
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Remember cute Breyers commercials where the little boy reads the back of a non-Breyers ice cream container and can't pronounce the artificial ingredients? Then he picks up a container of Breyers and can pronounce all of the ingredients because there are only four well-known natural ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, natural flavors. Well, now there is a fifth: tara gum. No, it's not as scary to pronounce as cargenceen and gaur gum; but it's not the simple ice cream that was formerly advertised. Tara gum is a new ingredient that Breyers has added to their ice creams to make them creamier.
Admittedly, when I first reviewed Breyers Natural Vanilla ice cream it didn't even occur to me to look at the ingredients. A commenter informed me that the Breyers Natural Vanilla recipe was no longer as simple– tara gum had been added. Sure enough, I looked at the ingredients on the package and there it was. Since then, I have spent some time investigating this new addition to Breyers ice cream and will discuss my findings in a 4 part series. Today, in the first story of the series, I will outline the basics about tara gum and detail Breyers response to some questions I asked them. In the upcoming weeks I will post a taste test comparing Breyers All Natural Vanilla with and without tara gum, specify odd ingredients in other brands' ice creams, and conclude with a story about the future of ice cream ingredients.
Tara gum is a natural ingredient from the tara tree, a plant commonly found in South America and Africa. Studies have shown it to be safe for human consumption. New Zealand and Australia Food Standards approved it as did the World Health Organization. However, the results of these studies were not entirely positive, as tara gum is indigestible and causes various problems when consumed in high quantities (>5%) by rats and dogs. Though, most humans will not consume this amount of tara gum and should not have anything to worry about.
Due to my curiosity about tara gum I contacted Unilever (the parent company of Breyers) with a number of questions about the product. These questions included:
When tara gum was first added to Breyers ice cream?
Is tara gum (or a similar substance) added to all of the Breyers ice creams or only
certain flavors? Also, is it added to other Unilever brands, such as Ben and Jerry's?
Is there any plan to add tara gum to other brands of ice creams in the future?
Does the addition have anything to do with the Double Churned ice cream that is now being
Why was it decided that tara gum should be added to the ice cream?
Have you received complaints about the new additive?
A PR representative from GolinHarris got back to me with the following response:
In response to your questions regarding the use of tara gum in its ice cream, Breyers is proud of its all-natural heritage. It's a position we take very seriously and one we work hard to maintain. We value the confidence our customers have in our products and go to great lengths to ensure exceptional quality and great taste.
So when consumers expressed concern over the texture of our products, we responded. By adding a natural gum to Breyers All Natural Vanilla ice cream, we've helped to protect the product's texture while staying true to our all-natural commitment. We use tara gum from natural plant sources to help Breyers ice cream stay creamier and more enjoyable for longer periods of time.
Because ice cream is temperature-sensitive, this addition has further allowed us to ensure the ice cream's quality throughout it distribution. As you can imagine, ice cream's taste and texture can be unfavorably affected if exposed to temperature fluctuations during shipping or storage. Our customers describe the problem as ice cream with a "gritty" or "grainy" texture. In fact, growing distribution and increased handling of our ice cream in the marketplace has indeed resulted in greater chances for temperature abuse and heightened potential for texture problems.
Clearly, Unilever's/Breyers response didn't address the majority of my questions, which made me think that they're not completely convinced that tara gum fits into the category of traditionally "natural products." So my curiosity about this mysterious ingredient intensified and I decided more research was necessary. Stay tuned for my findings as I explore and analyze the ingredients of non-Breyers ice creams. Is this tara gum phenomenon is unique to Breyers or is it an industry-wide trend?
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An excerpt from my article in the latest issue of The Chap on Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey:
The Marquess was famously described by Clough Williams-Ellis as "a sort of apparition – a tall, elegant and bejeweled creature, with wavering elegant gestures, reminding one rather of an Aubrey Beardsley illustration come to life." The Omaha Daily Bee described him more bluntly: "He is a thoroughly effeminate looking young fellow and he may be seen when in Paris walking around with a toy terrier under his arm, the pet being heavily scented and bedizened with bangles and bows. The fingers of the marquis fairly blaze with rings. He presents the characteristics of the Gypsy type." His lifestyle was no less lavish; one newspaper reported that his bedroom was "draped in mauve velvet, with hanging figures of solid silver. Its ornaments were of filigree and gold, and its tables crowded with bottles of the most costly perfumes. His 'boudoir' was of green and gold. He had three valets and a 'coiffer,' all of whom earned their high salaries, for it was no unusual thing for this modern Beau Brummel to spend a whole morning 'working out' some special scheme of color by dint of combining the effects of neckties, trousers, waistcoats and 'spats,' discarding, one by one, such as failed to 'harmonize.'"...
...In 1901 he hired a company of professional actors at an inflated salary to go on a European tour with him. They travelled with their own orchestra and needed five trucks to carry their scenery and equipment....Paget travelled in a custom automobile modeled after a Pullman railcar, complete with leather furniture, wooden fixtures, and a baroque carved ceiling. The exhaust pipe was modified to spray scent: sometimes violet, sometimes patchouli, sometimes l'eau d'Espagne........But Paget's most famous act was the "Butterfly Dance," which earned him the nickname "The Dancing Marquess." He would perform this at the intermission of his productions, after which he would hand out picture postcards of himself to the undoubtedly bewildered audiences.
Lord Berners was in the audience at one of the Marquess's "performances" in Munich, and he said that it "came between that of a lady with performing pigeons and a company of acrobats. The theatre was darkened. There was a roll on the drums and the curtain went up on Lord Anglesey clad in a white silk tunic, a huge diamond tiara on his head, glittering with necklaces, brooches, bracelets, and rings. He stood there fore a few minutes motionless, without any mannequin gestures of display. Then the curtain went down again period…The German audience seemed a little disconcerted by the manifestation of British eccentricity."


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Edvard GriegBiography
Encouraged by Liszt (Hungarian nationalist composer), Greig advocated a school of music based on Norwegian folk music. Grieg's deep love of both the beautiful landscape and the colourful folklore of his homeland found beautiful expression in his music. In general, he was happiest writing in the smaller forms of music - piano, pieces, chamber music, and songs, for example - rather than in symphonies or concertos. As a result, he is often referred to as a "miniaturist", which, in Grieg's case, is by no means a criticism.
Greig honoured two of Norway's most famous writers - the 18th century poet and dramatist Ludwig Holberg, in the Holberg Suite; and Grieg's contemporary, playwright Henrik Ibsen, with his haunting incidental music to Peer Gynt.
Grieg died at home on 4 September, 1907.
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If you couldn't tell from my little absence from this blog, I've had a slight case of writer's block. I was annoyed that every post I wrote was about med school and instead of, you know, writing posts about something else, I decided to abandon the blog altogether.
But I'm back. And trying to tap into parts of my life other than riding shotgun (with my hair undone) on this ride we call med school. Don't worry, I will still gag you with tales of abscesses and discharge. Which has a nice ring to it.
Today though, I'm going to play along with a writing prompt link up at Mama's Losing It.
And this week's prompt enables me to channel my inner Suri Cruise: Write a post about a childhood memory as if you're in that moment again…from the perspective of yourself as that child. ----
And this week's prompt enables me to channel my inner Suri Cruise: Write a post about a childhood memory as if you're in that moment again…from the perspective of yourself as that child. ----
The Cliffs of Moher, Liscannor, Ireland
This smile? It's fake. I mean, look at my pants.
At this point in my life, I think I can safely say I hate buses. I've been on more buses than Ms. Frizzle (who I do not think exists yet, but if she did, she would adore my pants) and all of them have led to views like this one in middle of nowhere, Ireland. Which would be great and all if I wasn't FOUR.
You know what would make this view better? If I had a boyfriend - no - a husband to enjoy it with. We could hold hands, maybe sip some hot chocolate and talk about how we're going to remember this moment for the rest of our lives. He'll hold me up as the wind threatens to knock me over.
But for now, I'll take my stuffed Care Bear back- thank you for holding it, Mommy - and retreat back to the bus for another few hundred miles of sightseeing. Or in my case, charming the rest of our tour group with my undeniable cuteness and trying (unsuccessfully) not to barf. At least my pants are comfortable.


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Hey guys! If you want to get this put back on the event list, go ahead... we were in meeting and you weren't here so we edited it away.... love, Consensus
obviously its late in the evening, we will be teaching and talking about topics some people have already expressed being uncomfortable about having in the space, BUT FUCK IT. thats right I said FUCK IT. first week we will be talking metasploit, this is an offensive security tool non security people will be taking away a new reason to keep their systems updated and attendees with an interest in offensive security may learn something.
Dude, there's a totally good reason to have it in the space. Anyone who's using the internet or a website or building a website needs to have a good understanding of how a) attacks are real and b) what they can do to defend against them. This would be awesome. Will
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I dont get BugGirls jokes about academia being a cult. I mean I get it, Ive heard story after story... But I have no personal experience with this stuff myself. (BugGirl-- this is in jest, I like your post!)
1. Authoritarian structure
Well, someone has to be in charge. I wouldnt call my boss authoritarian, though. He makes the calls, but he encourages me to think for myself and to speak my mind. Actually, Im fairly certain he would have fired me long ago if I didnt continually question him. And Ive never been any more frustrated with him than I have been with my best friends. Everyone is frustrating at times, but its not a core feature of his personality and our interactions.
Bleh, and an authoritarian PI is short-sighted-- Sure you will get some publications out if you tell everyone what to do all the time, but youre also known for the quality of PhDs you turn out. Maybe its just my martial arts background thinking, but the students are a reflection of the mentor.
2. Isolation from society and use of mind control techniques
*shrug* Im living in Oklahoma. My job is not the cause of my isolation from 'society' :P
Peer Group Pressure - Suppressing doubt and resistance to new ideas by exploiting the need to belong.I think grad school encourages the opposite of peer pressure! It encourages being contrary (which is why I love it so much)! I love going to journal club, where its like a contest of who can take the nicest little papers and rip them to sheds! LOVE IT! Youve got to learn that in grad school! If you cant critique your own work, someone else will do it for you, and its never pretty. And its better that a friend/classmate critiques your work before your adviser or committee does!
Confusing Doctrine - Encouraging blind acceptance through complex lectures on an incomprehensible doctrine.
Verbal Abuse, Sleep Deprivation and fatigue - Creating disorientation and vulnerability by prolonging mental and physical activity and withholding adequate rest and sleep.
Dress Codes - Removing individuality by demanding conformity to the group dress code.
Financial Committment - Achieving increased dependence on the group
Controlled Approval - Maintaining vulnerability and confusion by alternately rewarding and punishing similar actions.
Bossman just locked me out of the lab for a week to go on vacation, and came close to calling my parents to force me to go to the doctor during my Spring Adventure. Its not profitable to him for me to be sick, tired, stressed-out, and disoriented.
And my lab... We're the bums of the department. 'Dressing-up' days means wearing jeans without holes in them (relatively clean). Ive recently discovered Old Navy polo shirts, $10 each, that allow me to dress cheaply and not be so bum-ish (normally its tye-dye or free company T-shirts). Im working with radiation and biohazardous materials every day! Spill some P32 on a $200 pair of jeans, and theyre gone forever... not that you dont have other things to worry about if youve spilled P32 on your jeans...
3. Control of the environment
Another reason my boss rocks-- He has always made it perfectly clear that whatever I want to do is what I want to do. Look, we all appreciate a PhD on the other end of the phone when the damn AutoMACS screws up. I dont care if you want to work 9-5 with an R&D company. But I want to rule the world have my own lab and rule the world do research forever, and my boss supports that. I didnt go to med school just because my parents wanted me to*, Im certainly not going to try to get a PI position just because my boss might want me to. Silly.
Geeze with all the stories I hear about sexual harassment and impossible/invisible research mentors and cult research clubs... Im a lucky bastard.
(Hat tip to Ian)
* My parents didnt *want me to go to med school* I wanted to go to med school, and they supported that.


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Though we love a show-stopping New Year's Eve cocktail — the kinda that requires shakers, strainers, garnishes, the works — there's something to be said for a simple recipe that lets you focus on the night's most important task: securing a midnight kiss.
So, we're grateful to local online glossy Rue magazine (ahem, this writer happens to be its executive editor) for this easy twist on the Dark 'n' Stormy, in which the classic combo of rum and ginger beer gets an update with a tang of winter citrus and some warming brown sugar. It's called a Come Hither. (Get it? It has kumquats in it...)
Oh, fine. Let's move on to the recipe — and be sure to read the most recent issue of Rue for more 2012-worthy entertaining ideas, will ya?


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Pianist and singer-songwriter Bruce Hornsby spent quite a few years playing in bars and writing songs — many of them with his brother, John Hornsby. The two moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and spent three years writing for 20th Century Fox. In 1985, Bruce Hornsby and his band The Range signed a recording contract with RCA. The resulting album, The Way It Is, produced three Top 20 hits and helped win the group a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1986.
Hornsby's compositions have traversed an eclectic mix of styles, from pop and jazz fusion to roots music and soul. On this episode of Piano Jazz, the influence of Keith Jarrett and Bud Powell peeks through as he performs "Solar" and "Parisian Thoroughfare."
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Design for Life
This is the eighteenth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
I'm sometimes called an economist because I write and speak about economic issues. The discipline for which I received my academic training, however, is organizational systems design. I view the economy through an institutional design lens.
As a Harvard Business School professor in the early 1970s, I taught the art of structuring human relationships in corporations to maximize profit. Partly, that involves getting the incentives right; it also involves culture, authority, communication flows, and a host of other influences subject to management intervention.
The same intellectual tools can be used to design the institutional structures of societies—either to consolidate the power and privilege of the ruling elites or to share power and facilitate creative, democratic self-organization directed to enhancing a community's well-being. Institutional systems can also be designed to maximize the rate of consumption of real wealth to create phantom wealth, or to meet the needs of all in balanced relationship with the biosphere.
A focus on designing economic systems to maximize private financial return has given us the Wall Street dominated system that drives a violent competition for resources; a global race to the bottom on wages, benefits, environmental standards; flagrant excesses for the few, misery for the many; and insecurity for all.
Worst of all, this system has no built in capacity to self-correct. Its decision makers are insulated from the social and environmental consequences of their decisions. Concerns for unemployment, family and community breakdown, collapsing fisheries, and melting glaciers find no place in their decisions. Indeed, the system rewards the decision makers most generously when their actions inflate financial bubbles and thereby assure eventual system collapse. In A Short History of Financial Euphoria, Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith documents this pattern playing out in finance capitalism's repeated cycles of boom and bust over a period of more then 360 years.
Our design goal for the New Economy is a system that will self-organize toward:
- Earth Balance between aggregate human consumption and the regenerative capacity of Earth's biosphere. Achieving Earth Balance will require restoring our sense of place, reducing aggregate material consumption by eliminating wasteful and destructive resource use, and investing in restoration of healthy ecosystem function.
- Shared Prosperity through the equitable distribution of real wealth and opportunity to secure for everyone access to the essential means for healthy and fulfilling lives. Achieving shared prosperity will require recognition that no individual is born with a natural right to a greater share of the common heritage wealth of society or nature than any other and that more equal societies enjoy greater physical and emotional health, stronger families and communities, less violence, and healthier natural environments.
- Living Democracy through the active and equitable engagement of every person in making the political and economic decisions that bear on their health and happiness. It manifests the ultimate ideal of popular sovereignty—government of the people, by the people, for the people—and is built on the caring relationships of family and community. Its realization depends on acceptance of the moral responsibility of every individual to act with regard to the needs and well-being of others.
As we restructure our human economies to support these conditions, they will increasingly mimic and integrate with the biosphere's natural structures and processes.
Like the biosphere, the living economies we seek will self-organize within a framework of market rules. Rooted locally everywhere and dependent primarily on their own resource base, they will have built in incentives to optimize creative adaptation to local microenvironments. With the decision-making powers of ownership distributed among the community's members in their multiple roles as producers, consumers, and citizens there will be a natural incentive to internalize costs and manage resources responsibly.
What Do the Healthiest, Happiest Societies Have in Common?
It's not more stuff, but more equality, says epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson.
The culture of a living economy recognizes the mutual responsibility of individuals to meet their own needs in ways that contribute to the well-being of the whole and thereby optimize their own well-being. Business enterprises are expected to do the same. Making a profit is recognized as essential to the health of the enterprise, but is not its sole or primary purpose.
These outcomes are wholly beyond the reach of an economic system in which the locus of power resides in global financial institutions that recognize only financial values and seek only individual financial gain.
They depend on complex processes of self-organizing adaptation that are possible only within place-based caring communities built around institutions that nurture and reward adult responsibility and link decisions to consequences. It is fundamentally a question of life-values and shared power, both of which are long standing human ideals that we now have both the imperative and means to put into practice.
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David Korten () is the author of Agenda for a New Economy, TheGreat Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He is board chair of YES! Magazine and co-chair of the . This Agenda for a New Economy blog series is co-sponsored by and based on excerpts from Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd edition.
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More by David Korten:
David Korten: How we humans can redesign our failing systems by turning back to nature—and learning to live by the rules of life.
People often justify greed as simply human nature. Why our economic policies need to reward our caring, cooperative sides instead.
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Google has just dropped word that the Google I/O 2013 developer conference will be May 15-17 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
While the location is the same, the May date shifts the conference back to earlier in the year than we saw in 2012, which moved the event to the end of June. (It also puts it the week before the spring CTIA event, which will be in Las Vegas.)
Highlights of the 2012 conference included the unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the addition of movies, TV shows and magazines to the Google Play Store, the introduction of the Nexus 7 tablet, the first look at the semi-defunct Nexus Q, and a little skydiving with Google's Project Glass.
The 2012 conference sold out in a mere 28 minutes -- ridiculously fast. Gundotra wrote that registration details for the 2013 conference will be announced in February.
Hit the break for a look back at Google I/O 2012.
Source: +Google Developers