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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Feinstein is a danger to society. Just look at her (pic).
12 comments:
- Old NFO said...
But...but... she's part of the 'elite', so she must be right! Ummm, yeah, right!
- January 6, 2013 at 5:16 AM
- Adrienne said...
I am no gun expert, but even I would never handle a gun like she's doing.
- January 6, 2013 at 6:23 AM
- WoFat said...
If that political female would put a little grease on that weapon, she could find a use for it.
- January 6, 2013 at 7:19 AM
- Woodsterman (Odie) said...
She has her bodyguards and to hell with us.
- January 6, 2013 at 7:46 AM
- Teresa said...
What an ignorant hag! She don't know jack about gun safety.
- January 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM
- Fredd said...
Most 6 year olds have more common sense than Diane F.
When asked if they should share all their Halloween candy with kids that didn't bother to go trick or treating, almost ALL six year olds will resist that notion, but Ms. Feinstein ardently supports redistribution of any kind. It's only fair, she says.
No way, Jose, says your run of the mill 6 year old.
- January 6, 2013 at 11:27 AM
- Proof said...
Hey! At least Al Capone loaned her one of his old suits!
- January 6, 2013 at 12:09 PM
- For Your Eyes Only said...
Yes, Virginia the bankrupting of America does continue!
And herés the deal and this is just the tip of the iceberg. O'Bamboozer want us to give more and more money to the, should i put it nicely and say the "Have Not's" Well just read on my good friends and look at where our hard earned money is going. More proof that Bamboozler really hates Americans, ans is determined to bring us to our knees. Once again that poor excuse for a man sets forth more regulations and rules are implemented there needs to be more enforcement entities to catch the perps who have learned how to game the systems already in place. The enforcement folks will see the futility in busting only a couple of crooks while the rest run wild and they will eventually give up trying to catch them. See Detroit. See Chicago. The cops have surrendered. The crooks won. And it only gets worse.
A investigation just exposed a database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by the New York Post, through a Freedom of Information request, that showed welfare recipients using their electronic benefit transfer cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs, souds pretty reasonable so far doesn't it.\/ But wait, these "Poor" Welfare recipients have been spending cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, in hookers, and strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than food, and diapers, and other necessities. Yeah, spending our money on sex, lottery tickets, and booze,, Those are the Obama voters folks! The liberal way...we work....they play!
I ask you, Is anyone actually surprised? These parasites and thugs have been using the system for decades. This what Democrats and liberals have done to this country. But you know what? This of us without a political agenda have warned for years, that once Democrats got enough people on the dole and receiving financial assistance from the governmental agencies, such as a welfare. Guaranteeing a Democrat election win, we as a country were done! Did you listen? NOPE! You voted ideology and entitlements, you wanted to "share the wealth" you wanted to stick it ti the rich! and you've got exactly what you wanted and what you deserve. Put a fork in us! We're done!
- January 6, 2013 at 2:01 PM
- LL said...
If she pulled the trigger, America would suddenly become a lot less progressive...
- January 6, 2013 at 3:44 PM
- Kid said...
I like and 100% agree with the letter this Marine wrote to the fascist hag
Down near the bottom if you want to skip the other stuff and yet another picture of her.
In fact, I'd add no one has a 'right' to tell me I don't have a right to defend my life or anyone else life I choose to protect.
- January 6, 2013 at 4:56 PM
- The Conservative Lady said...
These politicians make me sick.
- January 6, 2013 at 10:35 PM
- el chupacabra said...
I'm not shocked- I've thought for years she is demonstrably mentally ill.
- January 6, 2013 at 10:53 PM


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Which Three Do You Want To See? Below are the top session pitches that are now out for public vote. The top three vote getters will be presented at the AgChat Cultivate & Connect conference in Austin, Tx, August 21-22, 2014.
Voting ends 5pm ET April 23 [vote link].
Meeting Consumers Where They Already Are
Jennifer Barnett Fox and Bethany Asbell
At BestFoodFacts.org, the consumer-facing website for the Center for Food Integrity, our commerce is information about food. As consumers ourselves, we have an incredible opportunity to meet other consumers in digital spaces. We're already in these areas and meet consumers there, but we know in order to create a lasting connection, we need to zero in on what consumers already find interesting about food and meet them on these topics before we try to tackle "big" issues and misperceptions.
In response to this situation, the online community managers (OCMs) at Best Food Facts created a strategy that focuses on consumer friendly conversation to engage key food influencers. Two examples of tactics that support this strategy are as follows.
The Eating Well series focuses on the beauty and fun of food: the recipes, photography and nutrition. The platform features foodie friendly, sharable images and educational blog posts on trending food topics consumers and food influencers are already discussing such as cauliflower.
The Bloggers We Love series spotlights popular food blogs by foodie influencers. Highlighting food influencers provides the opportunity to either begin or continue building relationships with those influencers as well as encourage them to share Best Food Facts with their audience.
These approaches allow the OCMs to "meet" consumers in the very places and on the very topics they are already having conversations about. Each tactic enables a touch point that builds trust and presents a future opportunity to connect on bigger issues. This strategy has increased Twitter followers and Facebook likes, influencer engagement and website visits as well as constructive conversation around food.
In the Ag Chat session, the OCMs will elaborate on this strategy and show attendees how they might use a similar strategy to accomplish their goals.
Two Tongues: Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide Through Social Media
Alison Kosakowski Conant
Ag has an image problem, and a lot of it has to do with demographics and cultural differences. Today, less than 2% of Americans make a living farming or ranching. Worse still, most don't see agriculture firsthand in their communities, as 81% of Americans live in areas that are defined as urban or suburban. The cultural norms of city verse country life are vastly different, and create challenges in our industry's attempts to break through to mainstream consumers.
For us to be truly effective ag communicators, we need to acknowledge that the need urban/rural divide and become "fluent" in both urban/suburban AND rural. This presentation will delve into the real, and sometimes humorous, ways urban and rural life differ (one is not better than the other, they're just different!) and explore the opportunities for social media to bridge this divide and create meaningful engagement. The first rule of effective communication is: put yourself in your listener's shoes.
This presentation will discuss how we can use social media to "listen" and better understand differing points of view, in an effort to meet consumers "where they are at" and create a more positive dialogue.
Cultivating Engagement among Farmers, Ranchers, and Consumers through Social Media Collaborations between Agriculturists and Home Economists
Lindsay Chichester
Wayne Gretzky, noted hockey player, said, "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." With 72% of online adults using social networking sites, social media should be a playing field for us (Brenner & Smith, 2013). Following the food trail from producer to plate, our team of University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Educators is comprised of both agriculturalists and home economists.
Together, youth and adults are engaged through Twitter, blogs, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, LinkedIn, and SlideShare. By offering a more diverse selection of content through collaboration, we have markedly expanded the number of contacts we could have ever made individually. Information shared and provided has included but is not limited to climatic concerns, plant disease identification, youth crop activities and education, meat labeling claims, antibiotic resistance, healthy recipe ideas, food safety, and much more. Cross promoting brings in larger and new audiences since 100% of the population eats!
CASE STUDY ONE: One of the home economists reblogged an article from one of the agriculturists (who specializes in meat) on types of animal feeding practices and their effect on meat the consumer purchases. In turn, this article was shared via blog to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn by both persons.
CASE STUDY TWO: In a study of leading brands on Pinterest, (Unmetric Pindustry Report, 2013) the categories with the most repins were home [2 million], recipes [1.7 million], and food [695,000]. Capitalizing on this interest in food, an agriculturist on our team has included recipes in her blog and initiated a shared Pinterest board on "Food and Agriculture Blogs" with other agriculturalists and home economists. All add to the board, and it by seen by multiple audiences. Together this team reaches over 11,000 persons on all social media sites!
Reaching Out and Thinking Through
Janice Person and Ellen Malloy
Polarization has become far too common in the the discussion of food and farm. How can two seemingly widely different perspectives move closer to each other? It takes real communications, a willingness to listen to different opinions.
Chicago foodie Ellen Malloy & Monsanto's Janice Person had a long way to go to find common ground. What did they learn through the process that can help others in the social media space talking about food & agriculture? That's the topic of discussion in this session.
Personalizing Agriculture in Our Community: Faces, Farms & Food
Meaghan Huffman
Agriculture is thriving on public and private lands in Boulder County, Colorado, despite its location along the increasingly urbanized Front Range. Boulder County Parks and Open Space (BCPOS) owns and manages 25,000 acres of agricultural lands, leased to 80 farmers and ranchers. The juxtaposition of agriculture with an urban environment provides the opportunity to address a lack of consumer knowledge.
During a politically charged Cropland Policy process in 2010, BCPOS saw the first-hand lack of public understanding about local food production by farmers and ranchers on public lands. To start our agriculture education program, we began hosting farm bus tours on our open space agriculture lands, starting with one bus of 50 participants, and expanding up to 200 participants per tour. When people are able to meet the farmers, hear them speak about their family farms and see their passion for what they do and the land they make a living from, we see a change in public perception of agriculture. As our program grows we realize that not everyone is able to attend bus tour, so we decided to reach out through our website and social media.
Our audiences have ranged from school aged children to senior citizens. We have created a YouTube Channel displaying videos that document crop harvests (over 32,000 views), developed an online harvest map (Version 2 going live this summer), shared farmer profiles on our website and created "Local Food Loops" to share the story from field to plate. We also joined Twitter and are continuously finding new ways to engage our audiences. We tweet photos and quotes while on our public farm tours, share information on upcoming agriculture events and, tweet photos and current happenings on the farms. BCPOS continually works to find new and innovative ways to engage our community in agriculture.
Traditional Storytelling in a Digital World
Earl Lundquist and Lindsey Pope
Since the beginning of time, knowledge and history have been passed down through the art of storytelling. Few things in life are as good as listening to a great story, like one you may hear as a compelling life tale from a hard-working Texas farmer or rancher. At the Texas Department of Agriculture, we utilize social media channels to tell great stories, and connect urban and rural Texans. We work hard to engage and empower our followers by making them a part of our story.
Communities are built by cultivating relationships. We've used this approach to create viral videos, double our Facebook community, triple our Twitter following, and greatly increase the number of women and international members within our online ag communities. Take our social media campaign for our most recent Family Land Heritage ceremony as an example. Through our storytelling, we were able to honor the legacies of our farmers and ranchers, while also bringing a larger audience along for the ride, even if they were not physically present. This strategy has proven itself to be a great success in engaging our community. We tell stories to share the amazing work done by TDA and the farmers and ranchers who call Texas home. We also use stories to share how technology and science play a critical role in feeding a growing population.
At TDA, we combine one of the oldest art forms — storytelling — with the latest social media tools to share our mission and the rich tradition of farming and ranching in Texas.
Mirrors, Windshields & Agriculture – (Visual Storytelling)
Jan Hoadley
This looks at telling the story of agriculture from a visual standpoint. Why storytelling, why visual and the how of visual are brought forth, with tips under each section. We're familiar with windshields as a means of looking where we're going – the mirrors are the perspective of what we see, what is behind us and what the consumer sees.
How to effectively bring those together using "old fashion storytelling" along with photos and/or video is the focus of this session. Visual increases engagement and reduces perception issues (after all that warning of things are closer than they seem isn't just for mirrors!).
Turn off Your Tech, Rest Your Thumbs!
Lorna Wilson
In today's fast social media driven society, we appear to be losing the all important face-to-face method of networking which can provide information unavailable through our tech-devices. The power to connect and get your message out there is stronger and credibility is increased when there is a personal connection.
Renew your person-to-person meeting skills at this fun interactive session, while learning how to blend the traditional style of networking with current technology. First time attendees as well as alumni are encouraged to attend this session where new and vital contacts will be fostered.
Voting ends 5pm ET April 23 [vote link].

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SOP Review: MS Applied Statistics
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Dec19-12, 10:59 PM
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Statistics use in predicting and modeling are the most attractive to me. The ability to model phenomenon and forecast the future with these models has wide and practical utility. Statistics also has the power to make any process more efficient. This is why I desire to study statistics.
Having studied structural engineering, I have seen the application of statistics first hand. The Load and Resistance Factor (LRFD) design process has its roots in statistics. Instead of engineers extemporaneously arriving at amplified load combinations for structures, statistics was used to calculate the likely hood of loading events. Events with a higher likelihood of occurring and whose magnitude is known with the most certainty were assigned a larger amplification factor. This design tool has made the design process more efficient; monies that would have needlessly been spent on infrastructuredue to overdesign of structural membersnow can be allocated for business and economy growing pursuits.
Data mining is also of interest to me. This field of statistics would make good use of my computer programming skills. With my programming experience in C++, Visual Basic Applications in Excel, MATLAB, and Python, I will be able to use my degree in statistics to glean the last modicum of information from a set of data.
Although uncertain, the future is bright for me with an advanced degree in statistics. Ideally, I would like to work in the intelligence sector of the federal government. Doubtlessly the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the NSA (National Security Agency) needs someone to analyze and summarize data they get from their various sources. I see some use for statistics in the cryptography mission of the NSA; if you could quantify the likely hood of someone choosing a particular combination for a code, you could design codes that are less likely to be cracked. Modeling a countrys growthbe it economically or militarilyand using this model to forecast their future needs and weaknesses also has statistics written all over it.
I will also include a fair amount of actuarial science coursework into my applied statistics degree. If I cannot find employment in the intelligence community, I will work as an actuary. Once I retire, I will teach at the junior college level. Having taught high school mathematics for two years, I could see myself retiring to a community college in Florida.
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Dec20-12, 11:19 AM
Statistics has the power to make any process more efficient. Really? Any process? Strongly disagree; knowing when to break out statistical methods and when not to is part of the art. It sounds like pandering anyways. Kill this one.
Can you describe what statistics were used? You say they made the design process more efficient, but I dont understand why. You reduced overdesign, but why is that a result of the statistics? What did the stats do that deterministic statics couldnt?
Finally, you say likely hood of loading events and then higher likelihood. Should both be likelihood? I might change monies to resources or just money.
Overall, good, just needs tuning up.
Dec20-12, 12:52 PM
Thanks for taking the time to read my SOP Locrian.
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The new sacred cows
It used to be that you didn't discuss two things in polite company: religion and politics. Nowadays, you can devote entire blogs to the intersection of those two things. So what is taboo for discussion these days? What opinions are you not allowed to hold?
There are the obvious opinions that Catholics hold that are under constant ridicule; publicly and unapologetically adhering to orthodox Catholicism will garner snarks, chides, and perhaps a lawsuit or two. And, as we've seen recently, it's okay to be a business and support certain causes but not others. ("You are Christians who sell chicken? Homophobes! You murder babies in the womb? Here's some federal funds.") (Aside #2: etymologically, wouldn't a "homophobe" be someone who fears sameness?)
But, in the spirit of having a little Friday fun, let me suggest two opinions you are not allowed to have. I know from experience because I personally hold both of these opinions quite strongly and judging by purely objective data (facebook comments) I assure you that making these opinions known will incite wrath faster than anything:
1) I can't stand football.
2) I don't like coffee.
Let me state my cases:
1) I don't think it's hard to argue that pro sports, along with Hollywood celebrity worship, are today's bread and circuses. Sure, people get obsessed with pro hockey, horse racing, and curling, but handegg takes the cake. Now, I'll be the first to admit that the fact that pro sports is probably a billion dollar business indicates that we've done phenomenally well in our economy's history. When most cultures have trouble generating enough income and productivity to feed themselves, we can do that and pay tons of money on trivial entertainments.
My beef isn't so much with enjoying temporary diversions, but the scope to which these diversions have risen. I don't think it's fair to compare the hours spent in church/at prayer with the hours spent watching games or highlights/following stats/playing fantasy handegg, since we are supposed to give God everything. Even if Americans spend more hours in church than they do watching sports and donate more money to churches than they do buying tickets or satellite TV packages, is that so wonderful? Aren't we supposed to give all to God?
We are always in danger of idolatry, making created things our gods. I know Catholics get accused of worshiping the saints in heaven, which we don't, but do you know people who worship the Saints in New Orleans? Have you heard people say, or have you seen bumper stickers that say, "Geaux Jesus!"
Instead of just being critical, here are some suggestions: if you spend time reading box scores online or in the paper, cut that time in half and spend the other half in spiritual reading (some of my faves: Scripture, Bible studies, St. Teresa of Avila, Peter Kreeft). If you watch games or highlights on TV, cut that time in half and spend the other half watching the Journey Home, other EWTN shows, or movies on the Vatican film list. Instead of checking your fantasy handegg every day, commit to an "hour" (really only about 5-10 minutes) from the liturgy of the hours or the morning prayer from the Magnificat. With a limited amount of time on this earth and the incredible wealth of spiritual classics in literature, art, and music from two thousand years of saints and Church history, watching guys run around in tight pants after a ball and following the statistics of which tight-panted guy ran the most yards this season seems a little mundane. Don't store up handegg treasures on earth; store up treasures in heaven. (By the way, if there is handegg in heaven, I'm going to have to rethink this whole "Christianity" thing…)
2) I made it through college, grad school, and months-long stretches of four-hours-of-sleep nights thanks to our two little guys without developing an addiction to coffee. I'm sure most people don't admit they are addicted to coffee, or if they do, they don't consider it very bad. But, here is a quote with some blanks thrown in:
"I have to have my ______ every morning. If I don't have my ______ in the morning then I'm not myself; I'm cranky all day. If I don't have my ______ then I get bad headaches."
For most people, the blank is "coffee" and we chuckle sympathetically and move on. For others, the blank may be "cigarette" or "heroin" and we pity or criticize the person and tell them to seek a 12-step program. If the results are the same, why does coffee get a free pass? Because coffee would win in a democratic vote over heroin? When did "we all do it" become a valid justification for any bad activity?
Again, don't compare the amount of money spent at Starbucks with the amount of money dropped in Sunday's collection plate. With plenty of cheaper substitutes out there for premium coffee, take the extra bucks saved per week and give to the Church, the poor, or buy those books I mentioned above. At the very least, admit that you may not be practicing the virtue of temperance in your coffee drinking, and that addictions should not be treated lightly.
Okay, in the grand scheme of things, football and coffee aren't big deals. But my other option was to write yet another economics-related post. You're welcome.
Speaking of watching sparks fly, check out the combox below in a few hours as the handegg and java devotees marshal their forces…
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I have found that the "I don't like coffee" reactions can generally be tempered with "I prefer tea" tacked onto it. Unless you're in Turkey. Then watch out. :~p
Hey, I'm right there with you on the football one. Not so much coffee. At least I'm addicted to decaf, ha ha!
I like coffee because it's the drug that both increases my intelligence and contains antioxidants, and is also cheap and social.
Still, I like to try to do a few simple tasks before I have any most mornings to make sure I still have some capacity to function without it; that just helps maintain my dignity.
As for American football, I object to it on just two grounds: games are too long, and it occurs during the day on Sunday, tempting people to skip church or cut out early. Sunday games should be half-games, in the evening only.
I live in Wisconsin, so denigrating professional American football is about as terrible a crime as hating deep fried fish and potato pancakes. That said, I have no deep and abiding love for the sport, but I'll enjoy a game if it's on. It's always on during the Season, so I guess that I enjoy it. Short of coming into a vast amount of wealth, I just can't see myself getting an official jersey of course, so that's where it stands.
As for coffee, it's received a papal blessing, so it's all copacetic. Yes, I'm physically addicted, though I am rather adamant to not partake when fasting (E5men). If it ever gets so bad that I drink bad coffee just to stay awake, I usually quit for a month or so to remind myself to enjoy the hedonic experience a fresh cup.
I've never cared about sports either, especially football, so you're not the only one (but we really are fairly rare birds).
I do drink coffee weekdays at work, but hardly ever at home. I don't get headaches from not drinking it over weekends or on vacations from work. Honestly I don't think coffee is all that addictive, if at all. At least it isn't for me. I don't know why you would insinuate that there is anything "bad" about drinking coffee, and it certainly doesn't deserve comparison to heroin. If you don't care to partake, that's your right, but I think it's ridiculous to malign those who do. It reminds me of Baptists and alcohol, except that they at least have the excuse that one can get drunk on alcohol.
I'm totally okay with people not enjoying football, although I'm a bit puzzled as to why anybody with a basic understanding of the sport wouldn't enjoy it.
But, if you peruse some history, you'll be impressed by the extent to which passions that once resulted in gladiator fights, marauding, and mass slaughter by enthusiastic armies now get poured into athletics. This is progress, of a sort. Save for the "Soccer War" between Honduras and El Salvador, and the horse races that almost brought down the Byzantine Empire, it's generally the case that fewer people get hurt.
People have gotten into murderous rampages in the past over electoral matters pertaining to slavery, the theological definition of Homoiousios versus Homoousios, the defenstration of Austrian regents, the cutting-off of a British official's ear, and the question of which socialistic atheist ideology is the more delusional and, by some exceptional twist of perception, "better."
Nowadays, we invest many of our feelings with various sports figures who submit the issues involved to athletic arbitration. Has it made us more Christlike? Not much more so, no. But maybe a bit more so. Inadvertently, perhaps. But still…
Of course, I'm somewhat biased myself regarding football. I grew up in Nebraska.


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Albany - Starting next year, Water, Gas and Light will receive millions of dollars in credits from the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia. Now, city and WG&L commissioners are discussing whether to use that money to give breaks to customers.
Commissioner Dorothy Hubbard is one of the commissioners charged with making a recommendation to the entire commission about how the money should be managed. She wants it to help customers. She also believes it could be used as incentives to attract industries to Albany.
"What kind of foundation would that lay for jobs and for economic development for the future of our city, for our children and our grandchildren," asked Hubbard. "That's one of the things I'm really pushing for."
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ASCE HeritageIn March 1995, the Executive Board of the Hawaii Section approved a request by past president C. S. Papacostas to start a column relating to the History and Heritage of Civil Engineering in the Wiliki o Hawaii, the monthly engineering newsletter of the engineering societies in Hawaii. Listed below are (slightly edited) articles that have appeared in 2002. For other years, click on the above links.
October 2002: Hawaii Wireless (Part 3)In a 30-year retrospective story carried by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of October 31, 1929 ("Today is 30th Anniversary of Radio Here"), an unnamed reporter recounts how in 1889, a former resident of Hawaii by the name of F. J. Cross, an electrical engineer, had managed to sign a contract with Signor Guglielmo Marconi to install the first commercial wireless communication system in the world in Hawaii.
This was after an attempt to establish cable telegraphy between Oahu and Molokai failed due to damage induced by the roughness and depth of the intervening channel.
According to the story, several unsuccessful attempts were made with direct help from Marconi company experts. According to another source, Robert C. Schmitt's "Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawaii," our Mr. Fred J. Cross and R. D. Silliman, his partner in the Inter-island Telegraph Company, Ltd., successfully demonstrated the technology between Kaimuki and downtown Honolulu in June 1900.
They began offering their inter-island services to the public on March 2, 1901.
This was the first commercially viable wireless network that was being recalled by Lorrin A. Thurston when delivering his speech during the inauguration of the largest wireless transmitter of its time in Kahuku on September 24, 1914 as I mentioned last month.
The Kahuku station constituted the transmission half of the 1914 system, the receiving part having been located at Koko Head where, among the necessary support facilities was the "Koko Head Hotel" that served as an employee dormitory.
Well, that building was, according to the April 2001 issue of "Ka Wai Ola o OHA,"constructed by the Marconi Company on land leased from Princess Pauahi's estate using blue prints developed for another structure in Marshall, California, stone fireplaces and all included!
The land and building were bought and granted to the estate in 1927 by descendants of O'ahu Governor Ii (about whom I've written in the past). The first Lunalilo Home, an adult care facility, originally opened its doors per his will in April 1883 in Makiki at Kewalo ma kai, the present location of Roosevelt High School.
By sheer happenstance, I recently ran across a headline in the April 16, 1881 issue of the Hawaiian language newspaper "Ko Hawaii Paeaina" that described the then recent laying of the cornerstone of the first Lunalilo Home: "Ka Hoomoe ana i ka Pohaku Kihio ka Home Lunalilo."
By another fortuitous event, I also discovered that the Koko Head building has recently gone through an almost $4.5 million renovation and is again open to kahunas.
What about the Kahuku wireless station, you may ask?
Well, a May 23, 1933 Star-Bulletin story informs us that "the lofty wireless towers at Kahuku" were to be torn down. Thomas H. Mitchell, the local superintendent for R. C. A. Communications (as the Marconi Company was then known), stated that the company had not used the 800-900 ft. high towers for about three years, that is, since the adoption of short wave radio that only needed 100-foot antennas.
However, it was more economical to keep the old towers standing until the tax-assessor decided to include them in the company's taxable assets!
And yet another coincidence: At the August 2002 meeting of the Section, I introduced myself to a Mr. David Cox, Cultural Resource Specialist for the Hawaii Army National Guard who was there to talk about the Battery Harlow that was constructed in 1910 on the slopes of Diamond Head. Before completing my question about Kahuku, he proceeded to explain to me that the massive foundations of the huge towers, as well as the lighter underpinnings of other structures, are still visible in the semi-submerged section of the abandoned airstrip!
Incidentally, Guglielmo Marconi did not visit Hawaii until a one-day stopover on his way to Asia in November 1933. On that occasion he announced that "television for commercial purposes may come within a year" and that "static in radio will soon be a thing of the past."
Among the welcoming committee at the dock was "a delegation from the Engineering Association of Hawaii."
September 2002: Hawaii Wireless (Part 2)"Every fisherman knows that there is a Marconi Road in Kahuku..." e-mailed Warren Yamamoto, Past-President of ASCE-Hawaii, "...by the airstrip that became the drag-racing capital of O'ahu after the war."
While searching the map of O'ahu to locate Marconi Road in Kahuku (which I did find), I also discovered Marconi Street, a north-south oriented roadway in the Lualualei Naval Reservation. Interesting!
Warren was referring to my comment in last month's article that, on September 24, 1914, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America inaugurated that era's largest wireless station in Kahuku.
The event was covered by both the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ("Great Marconi Plant is Opened. Celebration Marks Wireless Feat") and the Pacific Commercial Advertiser ("Marconi Wireless is Formally Opened by Governor Pinkham"). Most of the 198 invited guests rode a special train that left Honolulu at 9:00 a.m. Between thirty and forty of them drove their autos to Haleiwa and embarked the train there, as the roads between Haleiwa and Kahuku were in ill-repair. The train arrived at Kahuku at 11:40 a.m.
At ten minutes after noon, the Governor pressed a silver key to officially place "the greatest wireless station in the world in capacity and power" on line.
Nugent H. Slaughter, the "young" engineer-in-residence, explained that "the plant's capacity was between thirty and forty thousand words a day, a limit that would probably not be reached for some time." Lorrin A. Thurston was the first speaker during the ceremony. His "History of Communication in Hawaii," according to the Advertiser, "was interesting to all and illuminating to the few malihinis present, the speaker telling how Hawaii had a telephone system when the telephone was still regarded as a toy on the mainland, and how Hawaii had had the first commercial wireless system in the world."
Dozens of messages were exchanged between the Territory of Hawaii and various U.S. points. These included messages from U. S. President Woodrow Wilson and one from A. P. Taylor, officer in charge of the San Francisco office of the Hawaii Promotion Committee, the precursor of the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, I presume!
Another message from a Major-General Carter to the Adjutant-General in Washington, D.C. emphasized the military implications of wireless over cable: "The radius of action is upwards of 5000 miles and insures communication in time of war, regardless of any cutting of the cable."
On the business side, W.P.S. Hawk, the city manager of the Marconi Company, announced the rates that the new company would put in effect. For example, the ordinary day rate on messages to San Francisco and Oakland was set at 25 cents a word.
An advertisement is the previous day's edition of the Star-Bulletin urged potential customers to register their "code address" at he company's office at "923 Fort Street, formerly occupied by the Hawaiian Trust Company."
Among the Kahuku buildings pictured in the Advertiser were the administration building, a glass-screened boarding house ("hotel") for company employees, and the power house.
The Star-Bulletin further explained that the Hawaii Marconi station actually consisted of two parts: the Kahuku complex and a smaller plant at Koko Head. Among the pictures accompanying its story were those of resident engineer Slaughter, Harry M. Dougherty (Superintendent for the J. G. White Engineering Company), the Koko Head Wireless Office, and the Koko Head Hotel (i.e., employee dormitory).
In 1927, the Koko Head Hotel became the Lunalilo Home when it changed its location from its original (1883) Makiki site now occupied by the Theodore Roosevelt High School.
But the telling of this intriguing story, along with the little-known "first commercial wireless system in the world," and the eventual fate of the Kahuku station must await their turn in future articles.
August 2002: Hawaii Wireless (Part 1)Thanks again to Goro Sulijoadikusumo of the Hawaii DOT for reminding me that December 12, 2001 was the 100th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic radio transmission.
In this "new" age of wireless communication, this was a milestone event.
Born in Bologna on April 25, 1874, the self-taught Marconi conducted a series of practical experiments and by around 1895 clearly proved the feasibility of communication via electromagnetic waves between a transmitting and a receiving antenna.
Officials in Italy, his birthplace, scoffed at his 1896 patent for "a wireless system using Hertzian waves". Luckily, he was able to continue his work in England with encouragement from his Irish mother Ann of the "Jameson Whiskie Distillery," and with additional support from the British Post and Telegraph Company.
Having a pronounced entrepreneurial streak, he founded the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company at Chelmsford, England in 1898.
That same year, under commission
from aging Queen Victoria, he established communication between her residence
at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight and the Royal Yacht where her son
and heir was recovering from a knee injury.
Marconi was immediately threatened with a lawsuit from the Anglo-Newfoundland (or Anglo-American) Telegraph Company for interfering with the company's exclusive rights to communication by "telegraph!" With a grant from the Canadian Government, he built a new station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
By then, Marconi was well on his way to the Nobel Prize for Physics, which he received in 1909, and toward building a highly profitable global network.
A September 1912 "Popular Mechanics" article by Frederick Minturn Sammis, Marconi Chief Engineer of America, declared that "plans have been consummated for completely encircling the earth with a great chain of high-power Marconi stations... [T]he English government has arranged with Mr. Marconi to erect six high-power stations to be located at London, England; Cyprus, or Egypt; Aden, on the Red Sea; Bangalore, India; Pertoria (sic), South Africa, and Singapore..."
"Until the present time our country has not been entitled to boast of a real high-power station, but now plans have been finished that will place the United States in the first rank with respect to both size and number of these modern high-power stations, and which in conjunction with the stations being erected for the English government already referred to, will provide a commercial service that will encompass the earth. This station will be near New York City, at Belmar, N.J., where 500 acres of land have been acquired upon which the masts and plants will be erected. Transmission will be effected to the Panama Canal Zone and thence to Hawaii."
The Hawaii station (call sign KIE) was inaugurated on September 24, 1914. It was located at Kahuku, O'ahu and was, at the time, the largest in the world.
But, surprisingly, this was not Hawaii's first wireless station.
Stay tuned!
July 2002: Hawaii's Early "Ditch" EngineersLast month, I indicated that, according to the documentation prepared by C. Dudley Pratt, Richard H. Cox and yours truly, C. S. Papacostas, nominating the East Maui Irrigation (EMI) System as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, several notable engineers were involved in the construction of sugar plantation aqueducts ("ditches") on Maui. Among them was Michael Maurice O'Shaugnessy, of Hetch Hetchy fame, who was the engineer of the Koolau Ditch built in 1904-05.
The first Hamakua Ditch on Maui was constructed between 1876 and 1878 without the services of a trained engineer. According to the record, Oahu College (i.e. Punahou) graduate Henry Perrine Baldwin, one of the founders of Alexander & Baldwin, was aided by a carpenter named Langford in completing what was originally called "The Big Ditch." About 10 years later, this Old Hamakua Ditch was abandoned and replaced by the New Hamakua Ditch (1904-05).
Hermann Schussler (1842-1919), was brought to Hawai'i in 1878 by his San Francisco-based Hawaiian Commercial Company partner Claus Spreckels, the "King of Sugar," to work on several ditches, including the Spreckels Ditch (1879-80), the Center Ditch (1878) and the Manuel Luis Ditch (1900).
Schussler studied at the Polytechnique Institute in Zurick. In 1872, he engineered the Pilarcitos Lake water system for San Mateo. He also designed two clay-core dams, one at Upper Crystal Spring and the other at San Andreas; both dams survived the 1906 San Franciso earthquake.
Between 1888 and 1902, Schussler was Chief Engineer on the construction of a pipeline under San Franciso Bay from Alameda County. In 1905, he was appointed by U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a multinational commission th at investigated Panama Canal alternatives.
Edmund L. Vander Neillen is also mentioned as an engineer brought to Hawai'i by Spreckels to work on Maui's Lowrie Ditch (1899-1901). The EMI nominating committee found little information about this engineer but a recent internet search I conducted showed him, or someone identically named, as the 13th person to be issued a Land Surveyor's License in California circa 1891.
Another of the early ditch engineers was Arthur W. Collins (1883-1932) who earned the B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Maine in 1905. A year later, he became engineer for the Maui Agricultural Company in Paia. He also served as engineer for Hawaii Commercial and Sugar Company as well as the Kahului Railroad. He was an engineer in charge of the construction of the Kauikoa (Kauhikoa) Ditch (1912-1915).
Collins was a prolific writer of technical reports. One of these reports, published in 1918 by The Hawaiian Gazette Co. Ltd., carries the title "Water Supply and Crop Development Since 1894 on Maui Agricultural Co. Lands, Island of Maui, Showing Detailed Costs of Kauhikoa Ditch."
John Harrison Foss, Sr. (1879-1946) was another engineer described in the EMI nomination document. Born in California, he earned the A.B. and C.E. degrees from Stanford in 1903. A year later, he became an engineer with the Maui Agricultural Company. Back in California between 1907 and 1918, he held the position of Associate Professor of Engineering at Stanford. He then returned to Maui and was the engineer for the Wailoa Ditch (1922-23).
In addition to his engineering and management positions, which included the presidency of Maui Electric Company, Foss was very active in community affairs. He also served as President of the Maui Chamber of Commerce and as Chairman of the Tax Review Board of Maui County.
I am sure that the next generation of Hawaii Engineers included graduates of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaii, the precursor of the University of Hawaii.
June 2002: Sugar Plantation DitchesThanks to Goro Sulijoadikusumo for taking the time to dig into the Hawaii Department of Transportation's archives to find the accompanying picture taken in 1875.
It shows a group of kanaka maoli on horseback at the Nu'uanu Pali pass before Johnny Wilson and Lou Whitehouse built the first Pali Road in 1897-98 as I described in a series of articles beginning in October 2001.
And now back to the topic I embarked on last month: Water use licensing that facilitated the network of sugar plantation ditches.
Notable engineers and other professionals became involved in the construction of these ditches that were the forerunners of large irrigation projects in the Western United States. Among the engineers was Michael Maurice O'Shaugnessy who went on to build, among other projects, San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy system (see my August 1998 article).
Getting a government license for the ditches was one thing, but building them in Hawaii's rugged terrain was another.
As O'Shaugnessy put it in a report entitled "Irrigation in Hawaii" about the Koolau Ditch on Maui (1904-05),
"The country was so steep and precipitous that little ditching could be employed, and it was necessary to make four and one-half miles of wagon road and eighteen miles of stone paved pack trails to facilitate during construction the transportation of supplies..."
At the beginning, even the most basic necessities were lacking. This fact is evident in a hand-written letter dated September 13, 1883 by James M. Alexander to the Reverend S. Bishop, Principal of Lahainaluna School on Maui that we discovered at the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library:
"Dear Brother,
I am inclined to buy an instrument for surveying like your Transit. As I would regret waiting for one to be produced from the U.S. while needing it at once, I would thank you to let me know whether you would be willing to sell yours, to send for another yourself. Perhaps it would not much inconvenience you to be without one for a few months while teaching school. I could possibly have the compass I now use which belongs to the Haiku Plantation with you a few months..."
This sounds like a good deal to me. It also shows that educational institutions have always been valuable resources to the professional community!
May 2002: Water Use LicenseAn ASCE, Hawai'i Section committee consisting of Past Presidents Richard Cox, Dudley Pratt, and yours truly has prepared a proposal to designate the East Maui Irrigation (EMI) system as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
EMI was selected to be representative of the many "ditch" systems built in 19th century Hawai'i to support the sugar industry that dramatically changed the economy of the kingdom.
Two major ingredients were needed for the sugar industry to prosper: land and water.
As I have explained in earlier articles, a transition to private ownership of land followed the "mahele" (i.e., "division") of 1848. This development forever changed the use of land from the traditional system of self-sufficient ahupua'a supporting dispersed settlement to today's dispersed ownership of land parcels. Reverberations of this fundamental change are heard in modern controversies involving what came to be known as "ceded lands."
Water use has also had a complex and contentious history. My April 2001 article pointed out, for example, the interplay between ancient native practices, common-law riparianism, the concept of prior appropriation, and the 1987 State Water Code's establishment of the public use doctrine relating to water rights.
With only a single notable exception, traditional native practice did not involve the diversion of water away from streams and rivers. The famous "Menehune Ditch" on the west side of Kauai, with its unusual stone lining, was the exception; some even claim that this aqueduct anteceded the arrival of the kanaka maoli to Hawai'i.
Our nomination committee discovered a groundbreaking "Letter from Attorney General William R. Castle to His Excellency Wm. L. Moehonua, Minister of the Interior, dated 7 September 1876."
The Attorney General's opinion addressed an application by "Messrs Castle and Cooke, representing the Haiku Sugar Company, Alexander and Baldwin, James M. Alexander, the Grove Ranch Plantation and Capt. Thos H. Hobron ... to take water from several streams, in Koolau Maui, to be carried to their respective sugar plantations, for purposes of irrigation." His understanding was that the application was not "for land, nor ... for an absolute sale or grant of the waters... [but] for a license; the license to take and use water, conveying the same in part over several government lands."
The opinion favored the granting of the license partly because "[t]he Reciprocity Treaty having passed and a brighter future opening for the country, it becomes the duty of the Government to aid and foster in every possible way the agricultural interests of the country upon which our prosperity mainly depends."
AG Castle justified granting the license to private parties because unlike "the case in some of the European nations," the Hawaiian Government was "not prepared to engage in any such development of internal resources" and that "[u]ntil the government is ready to undertake such work - no obstacle should be thrown in the way of others, who are able and ready to commence such work."
And thus changed the flow of history!
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Discussing georeferencing coordinate
systems and map projections in my Geographic Information System (GIS) class,
I point out to my students a log entry by Captain James Cook on his second
voyage to Polynesia:
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Some old-fashioned off-the-cuff and slipshod blogging about politics.
I suspect it will be very tight nationally, and I try not to give predictions. But if Romney gets a landslide in the electoral college, many of us will have to reassess our entire understanding of America, politics and polls. And if Obama wins, Michael [Barone, who predicts a Romney landslide,] will presumably acknowledge where and how he was so, so wrong. There might even be a crack in the cognitive dissonance and epistemic closure across the right.
I really enjoy making predictions, and doing so as publicly as the few online forums I have access to allow. On one hand, since one of the more unfortunate aspects of my character is my general assumption that I am smarter than most people and unrecognized for it, and since the Internet is, in substantial part, an ego substantiation engine, being proved right gives me a little extra dose of strut. On the other hand, since I am aware of the failings in my character and do, genuinely, wish to patch up the holes in my knowledge and erode the bulwarks of my ego, getting egg on my face is just as appreciated. I, too, want to know where and how I am so, so wrong.
Here's what I think is going to happen on Tuesday. I think Barack Obama is going to win Ohio, and consequently the Electoral College, and consequently a second term as President. (I don't care what the popular vote is because it's irrelevant and has always been irrelevant and the gargantuan cost and effort it will take to make it relevant so dramatically outweighs the benefit of it becoming the way we pick our President that it will not happen in the foreseeable future. On top of this there's no consensus that it would be better, anyway. So why even bother?) I make this prediction based on everything I've read over the past year, and I don't really understand how someone can absorb the same information I have and come to the opposite conclusion.
Plenty have, of course, and publicly predicted a Romney victory. Some of these people are advocates. They're trying to project victory in order to create victory, however effective that might be as a strategy. They're bullshitters and trolls and they're boring. They can crawl back into whatever cynical jackal cave they've hollowed out for themselves as soon as this election is over, no doubt to emerge later at the first scent of prey. The others are in denial. And this is more hopeful to me because I think they're going to break.
The thing about denial is that it's always only a temporary condition. Once it passes, you see the situation as it is and go forward from there. Here the situation is clear. When the Tea Party and their ilk secured for themselves a foothold of power, it distorted the voice of the entire Republican Party. Specifically, they ceded the center-right to the Democrats, who didn't so much as conquer that territory as they were sucked into it by an ideological vacuum. A perfect example of this is the health care mandate, which had its roots in the center-right but was somehow painted as a "liberal" issue once the Democrats took ownership. It doesn't matter whether you think this country has a center-right or center-left ideology, when the left-leaning party holds the center-right ground, they have the majority.
The Republicans are about to lose a winnable election, and they're going to lose it because the makeup of their party was constitutionally incapable of fielding a viable center-right candidate. I'm not sure how they will fix this. I'd like to see the David Frums of the world jump ship and reregister as Democrats, but I doubt this will happen. Somewhat more likely is that the moderate, "good" Republicans will find away to run the extremists out of town on a rail. The most probable outcome, I think, is that nothing will change for the next 8 years, and the Democrats will run the table until the next census, the next chance the Republicans will have to break up the "safe" districts that allowed the party extremists to take some power in the first place.
But since this post is about making predictions, I'm going to bet that the Republican Party splits down the middle, that the moderates will form a bloc that sides with the Democrats time after time during this coming term, that the RNC cuts funding to extremist candidates in 2014, and that they spend the next four years gutting their organization with the hopes of winning on the basis of sound strategy in 2016.
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As if I needed another reason to hate the CBCP…
sorta NSFW, but crazy fascinating.
Not only has the fight over access to contraception been led entirely by men (President Obama on one side, Sen. Marco Rubio and House Speaker John Boehner on the other), but a recent report has confirmed that the voices that have dominated this debate in media have been overwhelmingly male, as well. By a nearly 2-to-1 margin male guests and commentators outnumbered females in discussions of the contraception controversy on news programs. Sen. Rick Santorum's inaccurate remarks regarding the cost of contraception served as a powerful reminder of the severe handicap our political discourse suffers when women are not permitted to speak for themselves on the issues that directly affect them.
Before contraception was widely available, there were far fewer women able to do just that, because of the physical, emotional, and financial demands that giving birth to and raising sometimes more than a dozen children (something my great-grandmother did) required. Maybe that's the point. Maybe some of these elected officials fighting so hard to make contraception as inaccessible as possible want to return to the good old days when contraception was virtually impossible to come by, and therefore men were able to rule the world and, more importantly, their households. Men were able to enjoy absolute power in the legal system and in domestic life without fear that a woman could carve out some semblance of financial and political independence that would enable her to engage in such scandalous behavior as running for office or leaving an abusive relationship. Because after all, where would a woman with six, or seven, or eight small children to care for really go, even if she had a good reason to?
With that in mind, below is a list of the most powerful ways contraception has impacted and continues to impact the world, from issues such as literacy to life expectancy rates of women. I'm sure there are more than 10, so please feel free to add to the list in the comments section below.
1. In countries with the highest fertility rates, women have the shortest life expectancies.
Women in Sierra Leone live half as long as women in developed countries and 10 years less than their African counterparts in some African countries, and no, this is not merely due to the history of civil unrest. One in eight Sierra Leonean women die in childbirth. In other countries like Chad, where women are likely to give birth to six or more children, women are lucky to live to age 55.
2. In countries with the highest fertility rates, women have the fewest rights.
In countries like Niger and Mali, both of which fall in the top 10 for countries with the greatest number of births per woman, women and young girls can still be forced into marriages. A recent case in Niger documented a 9-year-old girl forced to "marry" a 50-year-old man.
3. Countries with low contraception usage have the lowest number of women who can read.
In Afghanistan, which continues to have one of the highest fertility rates in the world, and where contraception knowledge and access remains limited (and women give birth to an average of six children), 87 percent of women cannot read. In Sierra Leone the number is 71 percent.
4. Men who physically abuse their partners fear contraception. (Think about that for a moment.)
A national study of more than 3,000 abused women conducted by the National Domestic Violence Hotline found that one in four said their partners sabotaged, hid, or prohibited use of birth control as a form of control in an already abusive relationship. These findings confirmed those of a number of smaller studies.
5. When contraception availability goes down, abortion rates go up.
Abortion remains illegal in the Philippines, but for the last decade the nation's capital, Manila, has been at the heart of a battle over contraception. Contraception was stigmatized and difficult to access prior to 2000, when contraception was prohibited altogether by an executive order. (It is not unusual for women who have come of age in the city during the time period of the ban to have more than 10 children.) While the abortion rate in the country has barely changed in recent years, the rate in Manila increased by more than 10 percent. So has the number of women dying of complications from illegal abortions.
6. Countries with the highest fertility rates have the highest poverty rates.
Ten of the countries with the world's highest fertility rates are located in Africa. Between 1990 and 2001, the African continent experienced what is deemed "extreme population growth." The number of those on the continent living in "extreme poverty" ballooned from 231 million to 318 million.
7. Before contraception* American women were statistically more likely to die in childbirth than they are today.
At the start of the 20th century, the maternal mortality rate in America was approximately 65 times higher than it is today. During the 17th and 18th centuries, long before modern contraception became widely available, the average American woman gave birth to between five and eight children. Her likelihood of dying in childbirth increased with every birth. The number of women who died in childbirth or its immediate aftermath was one in every eight women.
*Forms of contraception have been available since ancient times (click here to see ancient forms of contraception), but contraception did not become widely available in the U.S. until the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. Click here to read about Griswold and other key contraception cases.)
8. Before contraception men greatly outnumbered American women in colleges.
Today, women outnumber men. In 1960, just before the Griswold decision, only 35 percent of college students were women. Today women represent at least 57 percent of students on most college campuses.
9. Before contraception there were no female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Katherine Graham became the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she became Chairman of the Washington Post Company in 1973. She inherited the publication from her husband, who had inherited the role from Graham's father, but Graham succeeded far beyond anyone's expectations. Since her trailblazing ascent, more than a dozen other women have reached the highest rung on the corporate ladder with a record-breaking 18 women serving as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in 2011, the largest number in history.
10. Before contraception women were virtually invisible in Congress.
Just before contraception became officially legal in the U.S. (1965), there were 20 women in the House of Representatives and one female senator, Margaret Chase Smith. None of them were women of color. (Patsy Mink, an Asian American, was elected to her first term the year Griswold was decided by the Supreme Court.) Today there are 76 women in the House. Fourteen of them are African American, four of them are Asian American, and seven are Latina. There are 17 women in the Senate.
And for the record, I doubt any of them want to return to the days when men spoke and voted for them, or for any of the rest of us blessed with ovaries.
I head to the ER. If I'm lucky, the family will accept the news that, in a time when we can separate conjoined twins and reattach severed limbs, people still wear out and die of old age. If I'm lucky, the family will recognize that their loved one's life is nearing its end.
But I'm not always lucky. The family may ask me to use my physician superpowers to push the patient's tired body further down the road, with little thought as to whether the additional suffering to get there will be worth it. For many Americans, modern medical advances have made death seem more like an option than an obligation. We want our loved ones to live as long as possible, but our culture has come to view death as a medical failure rather than life's natural conclusion.
The explosion was so severe that it destroyed some of his front teeth, as well as part of his tongue, and left his face severely burned. On top of that, carpet, cushions and pictures in his home were set on fire.
Holloway, from Niceville, Florida, is reported to be recovering in an Alabama hospital. It's believed a faulty battery caused the incident. The specific brand of electronic cigarette and battery hasn't yet been identified although it's thought that the battery was a rechargeable lithium type.
To be fair, it was the battery, but still.
Dear Susan G. Komen for the Cure,
I was so excited and glad to be part of a group that empowered and helped women across the country and in my own community by making knowledge and resources available to those in which it previously was not.
After reading today's news, I am ashamed that I spent so much time and effort raising money for an organization that now obviously caters to political opinions instead of the actual health of women. Trust that the people that made the donations are equally appalled. I hope the SGK organization is aware of how their decision to part ways with PP will have a hugely negative impact on the lives of women and their families all over the country.
I realize that this local chapter is part of a much larger institution, so please feel free to forward my disgust on to them if you are able to.
This man would not return to his little village in defeat, sad and grieving. He would go home the proud, respected father. We could make his son a hero and send him home in glory. So we talked.
"When your son came to this country, he had dreams and plans. He wanted to be a success in America. He wanted to make you proud of him. He wanted to come home a hero, and a real hero is a man who doesn't think of himself first. He is a man who is willing to make sacrifices. A hero is a man who will give up his own life so others may live. That is what a hero is."
The old man looked deep into my eyes.
"I will tell you in the morning" he said, and then he left.
The next day, when I went to meet with the father, he greeted me with an embrace. "Let us talk of heroes," he said. "How many lives can my son save today?"
"He can save two lives with his kidneys, two lives with his lungs and another with his heart," I said. "He can save a life with his liver and help a diabetic with his pancreas. With his skin we can heal the burns that otherwise would be forever painful, and with his bones we can help many people walk. With his eyes he will bring sight to two people who would be in darkness without him. He will save many lives and change many more."
"Good, then we can put up a plaque in the church by the plaza so that everyone in the village can see. My son will come home a hero. I hope you will do our family the honor of coming to visit the plaque sometime and see the place where my son grew up."
That night, when I filled out the death form, my tears fell on the part that asked if the family was approached about organ donation. I had never felt so good about putting an "X" in the box. I had never felt better about what I do. It just doesn't get any better than being on a team that saves lives and at the same time helps ordinary people become heroes.
Someday I'm going down to that village in Mexico. I'm going to see that plaque and meet that young man's family. I need to tell them again what a hero he was. They all need to know he saved so many lives.
"If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts, he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet and crap in your sink"
Rat poison. Lighter fluid. Battery acid. Pesticides. And now…radiation. What do they all have in common? They're all rolled into one cancer causing cigarette. What's worse, tobacco companies have known that radiation was inside cigarettes but hid evidence of it for 4 decades.
The radioactive substance found in cigarettes is polonium-210, a radioactive material that "emits hazardous particles called alpha particles". Whens smokers inhale, the particles work with the other carcinogens found in cigarettes to pull double duty in damaging the lungs (and creating cancer).
ABC News reports that researchers at UCLA recently discovered that tobacco companies knew of radiation in cigarettes as far back as 1959. In 1960, the tobacco companies studied polonium, figured how much radiation a normal smoker would inhale over 20 years, knew it would cause cancer but nefariously hid their calculations so no one would find out. They did their research, knew it was bad and covered their tracks.
Later on, the tobacco companies even ignored new procedures like "acid washing" that would have removed 99% of the polonium-210 from cigarettes. Their reason for not using it? The process would have reduced the "instant nicotine rush" smokers crave. If healthier means less addictive, tobacco companies will never let it happen.
"In Australia and New Zealand it is available from 3M as Difflam-C Alcohol & Colour Free Solution, Difflam 3% Gel, Difflam Extra Strength Gel 5%, Difflam-C Solution, Difflam Solution (including Difflam Throat Spray), Difflam Cream and Difflam Lozenges.[2]
It is sold in eastern Europe without prescription as Tantum Rosa - a vaginal antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, containing 0.5 g of benzydamine hydrochloride to be reconstituted with clean water to a 0.1% (1 mg/mL) solution for vaginal enema/instillation."
Er. Whut?
Actually, it sorta makes sense that throat spray and vaginal washes would be the same thing. Similar environments, right?


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" Lindy FireWire 800 Card - FireWire adapter - PCIe - FireWire 800 - 2 ports + 1 x FireWire "
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Banivo, baniwa, curripaco-baniwa, kohoroxitari, kurripako-baniwa., kurripako
Brazil: state of Amazonas.
Total number: approximately 3,800, of whom 1,000 to 6,000 are Baniwa and 2,800 to 3,700 Curripaco. Data is confusing, since it is not always clear if both groups are included.
Spanish is the official language of Venezuela. Since 1999, the country's native peoples have also been able to use indigenous tongues in an official capacity. The Venezuelan state has approved a series of laws to protect its Amerindian languages in recent years, although this situation is not currently reflected in real life.
Portuguese is Brazil's only official language. The country's only linguistic legislation concerning other tongues refers to schooling and is restricted to bilingual and intercultural primary education (exclusively in indigenous communities), although there are actually few trained bilingual teachers.
In Colombia Spanish is the official language, alongside 'the languages and dialects of the ethnic groups in their territories', but this is merely a symbolic recognition.
QUEIXALÓS F. and O. RENAULT-LESCURE (eds.) (2000) As línguas amazônicas hoje, IRD/ISA/MPEG, São Paulo.
Some experts consider that Baniwa and Curripaco (or Kurripako) are the same language. From that perspective, the two terms would be synonyms, the first corresponding to Venezuelan and Brazilian use, and the second to Colombian use. Other experts consider that the two groups share the same culture but speak very different dialects or even separate languages belonging to different subgroups within the Arawakan family.
Curripaco has three dialect variants, namely ôjo-kjárru, âja-kurri and êje-kjénim.


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Digicel Board
|Denis O'Brien
Denis O'Brien is Chairman of the privately-owned Digicel Group, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in the world.
Denis founded Digicel in 2001 when the company launched a GSM cellular phone service in the Caribbean. Digicel has extended its operations to 32 markets with over 11 million subscribers in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific regions.
He is one of Ireland's leading entrepreneurs with extensive investments across several sectors including international telecoms, radio, media, property, aircraft leasing, golf and other leisure interests. He also founded Communicorp Group which owns and manages a portfolio of media and broadcasting-related companies in Ireland and eight other European countries.
Denis founded the Esat Telecom Group plc and built it throughout the 1990's until its sale to British Telecom plc for €2.4 billion.
Outside of his extensive business interests, he chaired the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland. It was the first time the Summer Games were staged outside the US with teams from 160 countries and over 30,000 volunteers. The 2003 Summer Games were the most successful in the history of the Special Olympics World Summer Games.
Denis is Chairman of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Judging Panel, having previously been a recipient of the award. He serves as a Director on the US Board of Concern Worldwide.
In addition, he is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Frontline, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Based in Dublin, Frontline is working to ensure that the standards set out in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, adopted in 1998, are known, respected and adhered to worldwide. Frontline's work consists of research, advocacy, communications/technical assistance and emergency evacuation of human rights activists.
In 2000, Denis established The Iris O'Brien Foundation to identify and assist projects in Ireland and internationally which aim to alleviate disadvantaged communities.
In 2010, he was named Goodwill Ambassador for the city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti by the Mayor of Port-au-Prince in recognition of his efforts to rebuild Haiti and attract foreign direct investment in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake on January 12th. Digicel is the single largest private investor in Haiti.
He has also been appointed to the Broadband Commission for Digital Development.
Denis holds a BA degree from University College Dublin and an MBA from Boston College.
|Leslie Buckley
Leslie Buckley is one of Ireland's most successful business consultants having helped manage the start-up of Esat Telecom Group plc and Esat Digifone Limited. He held the position of Chief Operations Officer of Esat Telecom in 1996 and 1997.
Leslie established his own consultancy business in 1990 and has since been retained on key public and private sector projects, including the reconstruction of Waterford Crystal plc, the reconstruction and sale of Irish Steel plc, consulting work with Irish Rail and the restructuring of Aer Lingus, Ireland's national airline.
Leslie is currently a director/chairman and shareholder of a variety of companies, including Irishjobs.ie, Communicorp Group Limited, Radio 2000 Limited and Globetech Technical Services Limited. In addition, Leslie's energy and management skills were recognized by the Irish Minister for Health who appointed Buckley to the Commission for Nursing in 1997.
|Colm Delves
Colm, currently the Group Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, joined Digicel in May 2004 in the role of Group Chief Financial Officer before taking up his current role as Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2005.
When he joined the company, Digicel was active in eight markets in the Caribbean having launched its first operation in Jamaica in 2001. Since then, Colm has overseen a fourfold increase in the number of markets Digicel serves and has been instrumental in taking the Digicel brand of best value, best service and best network mobile communications across the Caribbean and Central America. With the addition of six markets in the Pacific to the portfolio, Digicel Group now spans 32 markets worldwide and is proud to serve 11 million customers worldwide.
Prior to his role in Digicel, Colm provided consultancy services to a number of companies, including O'Brien Cellular Ltd., owned by Denis O'Brien. From September 1993 to October 2003, Colm held the position of Chief Financial Officer of Hibernia Foods plc, a Nasdaq-quoted company in the food manufacturing industry.
Colm qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG Dublin and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Dublin City University and is based with his family in Kingston, Jamaica.
|Lucy Gaffney
Lucy Gaffney's involvement with Esat Telecom spanned six years from her role as Managing Director of The Ideas Company, where she was an advisor to Esat Digifone in its successful bid and subsequent launch as Ireland's second GSM mobile phone operator to a number of senior positions within the company itself, including Chief Operations Officer, Director of Marketing, and Managing Director of Esat Clear, Esat's residential division.
In addition, Lucy joined the board of Ulster Bank Limited, whose parent company is the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, as a non-executive director in May 2004. She also currently serves as chairperson of Communicorp, which has radio operations in Ireland (Newstalk, Spin,98FM), Ukraine, Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. In March 2009, she was appointed to the Board of Independent News & Media plc as a Non-Executive Director.
She is a member of the new National Sports Campus Development Authority set up by the Irish Government and is Chair of the Steering Group of the Governments National Action Plan Against Racism.
She is a Board Director of Digicel Ltd, the fastest growing telecommunications operator in the Caribbean with operations in 26 countries in the Caribbean and Central America.
She served on the Tesco Ireland Board from 2000 to 2005 and was a Director of the 2003 World Special Olympic Games held in Ireland.
|PJ Mara
PJ is the Chairman of Mara & Associates, a firm that he founded in 1992, which acts as advisors in the areas of financial planning, public relations and public affairs to financial institutions, public companies and trans-national corporations. Also in 1992, he was appointed Media Relations Adviser to Guinness Peat Aviation, the Irish-based aircraft leasing group.
PJ is one of Ireland's most highly respected political advisors. In 1983, following a brief period as a Member of the Irish Senate, he was appointed Press Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Fianna Fáil, in the Irish Parliament and continued in this role until 1987 when he became Press Secretary to the Prime Minister and Government of Ireland. He ran Fianna Fáil's national election campaigns in 1997 and 2002, both of which proved successful for the party.
PJ served on the board of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games, which took almost four years to organise and was the first such Games to take place outside of the USA in its 36 year history. It was also the world's largest sporting event for 2003, featuring 7,000 athletes, from more than 150 countries, participating in 21 sports.
Since 2003, PJ Mara has acted as an Advisor to the Prime Minister and Government of Croatia.
|Greg Sparks
Greg Sparks is a founder partner of FGS - a firm of business advisors and consultants with offices in Dublin and Belfast. Greg has over 20 years' professional experience in accountancy and corporate finance. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, programme planning and implementation and change management.
Recent projects in which Greg has been involved include the restructuring negotiations at The Irish Times; advising the response to Irish government plans on liberalisation of the electricity industry; advising Aer Lingus on the selection of a strategic partner for the airline as well as restructuring negotiations.
Greg has advised a number of clients in negotiations with banks, including developing and agreeing revised financial structures to enable companies to grow and prosper.
|Seamus Lynch
Mr. Lynch joined Mossel in May 2000 as Chief Operating Officer for Jamaica, having worked in a consulting capacity over the previous months. A year after the successful launch of the company, Mr. Lynch was named Chief Executive Officer.
He continued his successful trend of making the Digicel brand, one to be reckoned with. In his new role as Group Chief Executive Officer, Seamus spear-headed successful lauches in six (6) other Caribbean Islands. After a four year long journey, Seamus has been appointed an official Digicel Board member. Mr. Lynch obtained a Bachelor of commerce from University College Dublin in 1989 and an MBS in International Marketing a year later. In 1991 Mr. Lynch joined Telecom Eireann (now Eircom) in their New Enterprise department identifying new businesses opportunities for the company. In 1993 he was transferred to Eircell (Eircom's mobile arm) as GSM Sales Development Manager. He later joined Esat Telecom as Bid Director and within two years assisted in the successful acquisition of the GSM license. Mr. Lynch then transferred to project management, where he helped to set up East Digifone and not long after was promoted to National Sales Manager.
|David Sykes
David Sykes, age 58 Non Executive Director, started his career in Allied Irish Banks and subsequently worked for 15 years with Trinity Bank Ltd. in Ireland.
In 1990, David joined Riada Stockbrokers and is currently an Associate of Dolmen Securities Ltd, an Irish-based independent stockbroking and investment management firm.
David manages the family office of our Chairman Denis O'Brien and is a Director of a number of other companies. He was appointed to the Board on 3 May 2006.
|Sir Julian Horn-Smith
Sir Julian Horn-Smith, is the Chairman of The Sage Group plc and one of the founding members of The Vodafone Group Plc. Considered the principle architect in the development of Vodafone's Global Strategy, Sir Julian joined Vodafone in 1984 as a Marketing Executive and was appointed to the Board in 1996, after becoming the Chief Operating Officer of the Group in 2001. Sir Julian was then appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer in January 2005, a post he held until his retirement in July 2006. Age 58, Sir Julian's other Non-Executive directorships include: Lloyds TSB Group Plc, Smiths Group Plc and the Altimo Advisory Board.
|Ralph Williams
Some twenty-three companies, with a combined asset base of US$116 million and an annual turnover of approximately US$85 million, report to Mr. Williams. These businesses include Farming, Manufacturing, Property Development, Warehousing, Equipment Rental, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Contracting, Yacht Charter, Well Drilling, Water Desalination,Garbage Recycling and Solar Power– some of these in joint ventures with other companies. Born in Barbados in July 1942, "Bizzy" as he is affectionately known, holds a Honours degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the West Indies.
His ability to expand and control such a range of companies has gained him the 2000 Ernst & Young Caribbean Entrepreneur of the Year Award and in 2001, the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Multiple Business Creation, which he won in Monte Carlo from participants drawn from a total of 19 countries. An avid sailor, Mr. Williams launched Tiami (his acronym for This Is A Moving Investment) Catamaran Cruises in Barbados – a concept that spawned a multi-million dollar business in Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Kitts, employing over 150 people and providing tours each day for hundreds of visitors to the islands – one of the enduring examples of his creativity and business acumen. Williams Industries Inc. is owned by 368 Barbadians and St.Lucians who are members of the Williams Industries Inc. team.
The company has as its main objective, the development of a business concept which amounts to a long-term plan that gradually transfers ownership from the original founders to the long-serving people who have worked to build the company. This is an excellent illustration of concerting the providers of labour to owners of capital. Williams Industries Inc. perceives itself as a 50:50 joint venture between capital and labour. The company also has a policy of seeking out partners in business who have technology that the company does not but who need Williams Industries Inc.'s local knowledge and ability to get things done in Barbados to make joint ventures successful.
|Kyffin Simpson
Mr. Simpson is regarded as one of the most outstanding Caribbean entrepreneurs of his time. His company, the Simpson Motors Group, is the leading automotive and commercial dealership in Barbados. The company represents Mercedes Benz, Suzuki, Isuzu, Skoda, Chrysler, Daewoo, Opel, General Motors and Porsche, as well as JCB, Bobcat, Ingersoll Rand and Toyota Forklifts. Simpson Motors has been the market leader in automotive sales for over two decades and maintains a high level of customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Mr. Simpson's business interests span the entire Caribbean region and parts of South and Latin America.


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Groups Sue After E.P.A. Fails to Shift Ozone Rules
Health and environmental groups challenged the Obama administration's rejection of stricter air quality standards, arguing that the move endangers public health, John M. Broder reports for the New York Times.
This is a health story that has far-reaching impact.
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Leatherback turtle hatchlings emerge from nest. French Guiana.
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