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There are two key changes which relate to cargoes which may liquefy (Group A cargoes), as follows.
1. Assessment of acceptability of consignments for safe shipment
The amendments to the Code include a more robust assessment of acceptability of Group A cargoes for safe shipment. This is detailed in new section 4.3.3 and involves extra approval from the competent authority of the port of loading before Group A cargoes can be transported. It specifically applies as follows:
The IMO will disseminate the names of the relevant competent authorities through the GISIS database
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The amendments also include a new schedule dedicated to nickel ore, a Group A cargo which may liquefy if shipped at a moisture content in excess of its TML, and a cargo associated with the loss of several bulk carriers, most recently Trans Summer on 14 August, 2013.
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With the economy just hours away from going over the fiscal cliff, Democrats and Republicans still haven't bridged the divide over their differences.
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After a very busy Sunday, negotiators are back at it.
(Reid) "There are a number of issues on which the two sides are still apart. But negotiations are continuing as I speak."
The update on the Senate floor from Democratic leader Harry Reid. But not every Democrat is ready to go along.
(Harkin) "No deal is better than a bad deal, and this looks like a very bad deal the way this is shapin' up."
Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin later he hinted to reporters he might filibuster a fiscal cliff deal he doesn't like.
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President Obama on word a deal is progressing that would raise taxes on couples earning over $450,000 a year and extend unemployment insurance, among other things. The hang up over shutting off automatic spending cuts from the sequester agreement. The President insists that includes more taxes, not just spending cuts elsewhere.
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OTTAWA - If there's an overarching lesson from the Ontario election being drawn around Parliament Hill, it's to keep the party tent flaps open to all comers.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne appeared to secure her majority victory by encroaching on conservative territory, while Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives seemed to scare potential supporters away with a plan simply too right-wing and austere.
In Hudak's case, some federal Conservatives wonder why his team didn't follow the ecumenical model laid out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Where Harper has eschewed big, bold moves, Hudak promised to cut 100,000 public jobs to get a grip on the deficit — even suggesting school class sizes should be increased. Where Harper seemed to campaign from the middle of the road, Hudak stuck to the right lane.
Lisa Samson, a longtime Conservative strategist, says a major lesson to be learned is that policies must resonate with a wide cross-section of regular folks — such as Harper's 2006 promises to cut the GST and to implement the $100-per-month childcare benefit.
"These were measures that were applicable to the vast amount of voters and so they know what they're voting for and how it will impact them and their own pocketbook issues," said Samson, a managing partner with consulting firm StrategyCorp.
"That's something for the federal Liberals to keep in mind as they formulate their own campaign platform."
Ontario Independent MP Dean Del Mastro says the Ontario PCs will need to go through the same process as the federal Tories did, emphasizing they're for all Ontarians through a rebranding exercise.
"We've gone through four elections where (former premier) Mike Harris is still being attacked — Mike Harris hasn't been premier for 12 years," said Del Mastro, who stepped out of the Conservative caucus pending a court case.
"If they want to get past that, they have to demonstrate they're a different party, with different people with different ideas and they've got to be more broadly appealing."
The NDP and the Liberals, meanwhile, are busy analysing the vote breakdown and what it could mean for building support federally.
Liberal strategist John Duffy, currently working on the Toronto mayoralty campaign of John Tory, said the Ontario election results suggest the federal party has opportunities not just with NDP supporters but also with Conservatives.
"It showed that the paradigm that suggests that the only opportunity for the Liberals is to consolidate support among New Democrats and Greens — that's not true," said Duffy.
"If the Conservatives actually run on "cut to grow," as they did here in Ontario, the biggest province in the country, they're not going to win. So it's an expansion of strategic opportunity for the Liberals."
Anne McGrath, national director of the NDP, said the Ontario election was another test of the tactic of trying to consolidate progressive voters behind one party in order to stave off a Conservative win.
She argues Wynne was unsuccessful at collapsing the overall NDP vote, which actually went up, in the same way that former federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff also failed.
What does this mean for Tom Mulcair's NDP? McGrath says it's time for her party to turn the dialogue on its head, and argue for making the NDP the only choice for progressives.
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Samson said there's one more key message that all parties should consider, not just after the Ontario vote, but also after the British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec campaigns that foiled predictions: don't take anything for granted.
"I'm seeing already in Ottawa people who think the 2015 election is a slam dunk. ... What you do and don't say in a campaign actually does matter."
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NBC took a narrow victory among adults 18-49 on the last Tuesday of the 2012-13 season. Following NBC News Special Devastation in Oklahoma (2.0 adults), the 8 p.m. hour's top performer, a one-hour episode of The Voice (3.1 adults) dropped four tenths of a point to a Tuesday low. Grimm (1.7 adults), getting a midweek sendoff in its sophomore year, was steady with last week's showing and up a tenth of a point from last year's finale. NBC averaged a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49 and 7.5 million viewers.
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Vladimir Putin's gay rights charm offensive ahead of Sochi Winter Olympics is all lies, activists say
The Russian leader is at pains to reassure the West that gay athletes and visitors are welcome at the Sochi Winter Olympics. But Oliver Wright and Alec Luhne in Moscow say the message from the LGBT community is far different
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Oliver Wright is Whitehall Editor of The Independent.
Sunday 19 January 2014
President Vladimir Putin's latent charm offensive ahead of the Sochi Games to persuade the West that he is not homophobic has been condemned by Russian gay rights campaigners as "lies".
In a round of carefully choreographed interviews with British and US television presenters Mr Putin claimed he was on "friendly terms" with a number of gay people and was "not prejudiced" in any way.
The Russian President also insisted there was no professional or social discrimination against gays in Russia and said Sir Elton John - who condemned a newly enacted law that criminalises "gay propaganda" during a recent performance in Moscow - was an "extraordinary person" loved by millions "regardless of his sexual orientation".
He told the BBC presenter Andrew Marr that he would be prepared to meet with the star and the English actor Sir Ian McKellen to discuss their concerns.
But Mr Putin's newly found liberal voice was met with incredulity by gay rights activists who said it did not square with the government-sponsored discrimination that was routinely practiced in Russia.
Yelena Kostyuchenko, a columnist for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and an LGBT organiser, said Mr Putin was "lying" when he said that gay people did not face discrimination at work or in Russian society.
Activists pointed to arrests, homophobic statements from officials and persistent violence against the LGBT community as proof that the opposite was true.
Ms Kostyuchenko said she herself has been detained and beaten with other activists during attempts to hold gay pride parades and "kissing rallies" pressing for LGBT rights.
Vladimir Putin: 'I know some people who are gay, we're on friendly terms'
The gay community now faces the possibility of further laws targeting them. Proposals by Yelena Mizulina, the author of the "gay propaganda" law, would see a new law allowing children to be taken away from gay parents.
"Many of my friends in same-sex families are either moving abroad or buying guns" in response to the proposals, Ms Kostyuchenko told The Independent.
Vladimir Putin's attack on homosexuality is shattering the lives of Russians
In June last year, Mr Putin signed a law forbidding the promotion of "gay propaganda" among minors that could be interpreted to ban any public event in support of gay rights. Activists argue that the law also condones homophobia and violence against gay people.
Mr Putin says the new law does not harm anybody and there is "no danger" for homosexual competitors or spectators at the forthcoming Winter Olympics.
But on Saturday, a gay man was detained in Voronezh when he ran toward the Olympic torch relay with a rainbow flag. He was later questioned at a police station. Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to the BBC's Andrew Marr during an interview in Sochi
In October, three LGBT activists unfurled rainbow flags in St Petersburg as Russia's culture minister carried the torch past, after which one of the activists said a man dressed in Olympic regalia attacked her. "Let's call things by their names," Ms Kostyuchenko said. "It's written in the law that gay people are not equal to other people."
The Russian president's charm offensive in Britain comes as Kremlin-connected opponents of gay rights continue to inflame tensions.
In December, Mr Putin appointed Dmitry Kiselyov, a conservative television presenter with outspoken views on homosexuality, as the head of the new state news agency Rossiya Segodnya. Mr Kiselyov had previously made statements that gay people should be banned from donating blood, sperm or organs, telling a television audience in 2012 that "their hearts should be burnt or buried in the ground as unsuitable for the continuation of life."
Meanwhile, Ivan Okhlobystin, an actor and former Russian Orthodox priest who has been a main ideologue for the Kremlin-linked Right Cause party, earlier this month began a campaign to re-criminalise gay sex.
Okhlobystin, the star of a popular medical sitcom inspired by Scrubs, posted an open letter to Mr Putin calling for a Soviet-era article against sodomy to be restored to the Penal Code.
But Mr Putin insists that Russia is more tolerant of gay people than many other countries. "It seems to me that the law we adopted doesn't harm anybody," he said. "What's more, homosexual people can't feel inferior here, because there is no professional, career or social discrimination against them. So there's no danger for individuals of this non-traditional sexual orientation who are planning to come to the Games as visitors or participants."
Asked whether athletes or spectators who protest against the law could face action, Mr Putin said: "Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things. Similar, but from a legal point of view, protesting against a law is not the same as propaganda for homosexuality or child abuse."
Mr Putin has also been forced to deny allegations of corruption surrounding the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Western and Russian opposition critics have made allegations that large amounts of money have been stolen during construction for the 2014 Olympics in the Black Sea city, but have provided little concrete evidence.
Some Olympic subcontractors have said corruption has been endemic during preparations for the games, which start on 7 February.
In an interview with ABC, BBC and Russian and Chinese journalists, Mr Putin said: "We don't see any large-scale instances of corruption during our preparations ... in Sochi. If anyone has any information about corruption in Sochi, please hand it over, we will be glad and grateful."
Russia has spent more than $50bn (£30bn) on preparations for the Games, making them the most expensive in Olympic history. The Putin government hopes to show the world a modern face of Russia, which has faced increased criticism from the West over human rights.
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Christmas desserts
Started by Beanbag Warrior , Dec 19 2012 02:24 PM
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 02:24 PM
Quite apart from the fact I got asked to bring "the deserts", I need some ideas.
Flying down night of 28th. Family Xmas dinner is sometime on the 29th.
Needs to be something I can do in the morning, after a quick shop with Mum
Thinking a fruit platter, a Viennetta/icecream based thing and something else. I have +0 to cooking skill, but will have mum there for baking assistance.
Would rumballs be a bit lame? Or "chocolate balls" since I'll have 2 young nieces there.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 02:34 PM
As per the other thread for easy desserts, I suggest either an Eton mess or affogato. Neither require 'cooking' and can be assembled using good quality, store bought ingredients to create something fairly special.
Or order something from a gourmet bakery.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 02:42 PM
I've made little mini Xmas puddings, so easy, just get a fruitcake and crumble it, mix with a bit of Brandy (or orange juice for kids), shape into balls, ice with icing sugar and lemon juice mixture and decorate with a tiny piece of glacé cherry to look like a little Xmas pudding.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:18 PM
Ice cream pudding. Good quality vanilla ice cream left to soften then mix through goodies of choice. This year I'm doing craisins, pistachios & dark choc chips. If adults only add a liberal glug of Tia Maria/Baileys/whatever. Re-freeze in a glad wrap lined pudding bowl then turn out onto a plate & cut. Or just scoop out.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:28 PM
Mini pavlovas
You can buy the mini cases at woolworths. Add vanilla cream and sprinkle crushed up cherry ripes and peppermint crisps. Then to finish off add a slice of strawberry on top. They are delicious
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:31 PM
QUOTE (olikat03 @ 19/12/2012, 09:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Mini pavlovas
You can buy the mini cases at woolworths. Add vanilla cream and sprinkle crushed up cherry ripes and peppermint crisps. Then to finish off add a slice of strawberry on top. They are delicious
No one can finish a whole one - we all find them too sweet!
That being said, I'm thinking a modified trifle/Eton mess with crushed pav bases, custard, fruit and jelly sounds pretty good.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:33 PM
I'm making a couple of pavlovas this year as we are feeding a crowd and I have fresh farm eggs, so need to use them up. I just whip them up the night before and let them dry out in the oven overnight after they're cooked.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:35 PM
QUOTE (NapCat @ 19/12/2012, 10:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No one can finish a whole one - we all find them too sweet!
That being said, I'm thinking a modified trifle/Eton mess with crushed pav bases, custard, fruit and jelly sounds pretty good.
Oh really they are only a little bit bigger than a vol-au-vent
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:45 PM
QUOTE (ThatsNotMyName @ 19/12/2012, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ice cream pudding. Good quality vanilla ice cream left to soften then mix through goodies of choice. This year I'm doing craisins, pistachios & dark choc chips. If adults only add a liberal glug of Tia Maria/Baileys/whatever. Re-freeze in a glad wrap lined pudding bowl then turn out onto a plate & cut. Or just scoop out.
I'm doing this for the non-pudding eaters. Mine will be 1 litre Vanilla icecream, 14 roughly chopped Ferreros and 1-2 cups of frozen berries.
Posted 20 December 2012 - 07:08 AM
Oh no, I was all set for desserts for Christmas but the 2 suggestions for ice cream puddings sound DELICIOUS!
I was going to suggest Trifle OP with a dash of Christmas with red/green jelly, red berries.
One of my treats is mars bar slice ingredients rolled in to balls, drizzled with white melted choc and topped with red candy beads.
I am also making a fruit tree. Styrofoam cone, toothipics, red/green grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit (sliced, skin on), rockmelon star on top and gingerbread shapes throughout tree. Greenery placed at base - like mint for example.
Edited by ~Jane05~, 20 December 2012 - 07:18 AM.
Posted 20 December 2012 - 06:02 PM
Can I just put a plug in for a fantastic recipe from the Essential Kids recipe section.
Berry Trifle
You can make it in advance, in fact it only gets better.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
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A Call to Action to Advance Climate Education and Literacy
Posted by Laura Petes and Sarah Hubbard on October 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM EDT
America's students need access to the latest information, knowledge, and skills in order to be prepared for the jobs of the future. This means continually ensuring that citizens of all ages have a solid grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills that serve as a basis for discovery, invention, and innovation.
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Sunday, October 26, 2014
Another World at Black Mesa: Oklahoma Academy of Science field meeting, part three.
After lunch at the fall 2014 field meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences at Black Mesa State Park in the distant panhandle of Oklahoma (see previous essays), a few of us took headed northwest on dirt roads.
First, at an unmarked spot, we saw a few sauropod dinosaur tracks, almost hidden by mud. Ecologist Chad King demonstrates that the sauropod that made the tracks must have been about the same size as he.
Then we went to see Three Corners, a place where humans have arbitrarily drawn lines on a map, with the result that Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico meet at this spot. Some of us were able to jog through three states in less than ten seconds. In this photo, OAS executive director David Bass and his assistant Kinsey Tedford look off into the distant and uncertain future of three states.
Then we started on the trail to the top of Black Mesa itself. Before we had gotten very far, Chad demonstrated how to get a tree core out of a juniper, by which we could see that it was far older than you would expect a little tree to be. But, out in the high plains, the way for a tree to survive is to grow very, very slowly.
The trail went on and on and on for two miles parallel to the mesa before making an abrupt turn and climbing up. Most of the rock layers formed from Jurassic sediments, and some of them were quite visibly green. But the top of the mesa is a cap of volcanic rock only about five million years old. Near the top we found some mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus), but we did not find the wafer ash Ptelea that I am quite certain I saw somewhere around here about a decade ago. I stopped at the top of the plateau and admired the view of the juniper-studded hills and the Polanisia flowers, while the others went to the end of the trail, to the highest point. I did not, because I figured that if I was riding the back of the elephant, there was no need to mount the head.
As I returned to the van, I was frequently alone. There was no wind. I could literally hear nothing except the ringing in my ears. This is something most of us can probably not experience anywhere that we live, where we are always near road noise or, at my house in Tulsa, a constant flow of old propeller planes.
For the Saturday evening presentation, Leland Bement of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey illustrated his research in the Black Mesa area, which has had continuous human occupation at least back to the days of the Clovis culture, when Native Americans made "stone" tools out of dinosaur bones. Since the Santa Fe Trail ran through this area, the caves have not only Native American art but white pioneer inscriptions as well.
What was perhaps most amazing of all to me was the stars. Tired from long hikes, I chose not to go to the star party (regarding which I hope others will write), but I did look at the sky from behind my distant cabin. There is very little light pollution—Black Mesa is almost as isolated from civilization as is Death Valley—and the Milky Way was clearly visible, something I cannot see even from the "small town" of Durant. If you haven't seen the Milky Way, you have not seen the sky. You are looking into the flat disc of stars that make up our galaxy. There are so many that it looks like a band of milk. (The word "galaxy" comes from the Greek for milk.) Billions of stars! The black splotches are not the absence of stars, but the presence of dark nebular clouds hiding yet more stars. In other directions you can see the relatively few (but absolutely many) stars that surround us in our distant arm of the galaxy. Even the minor stars were bright, so that I was unable to recognize the constellations that I thought I knew. I was totally disoriented. And that, my friends, is the right way to feel when beholding the universe.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Another World at Black Mesa: Oklahoma Academy of Science field meeting, part two.
Here is the second of three essays about the Oklahoma Academy of Science field meeting this fall
On Saturday morning, we gathered for our respective field trips at Black Mesa State Park way out in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Many students were required to take some of these field trips. One of them started at the crack of dawn, or even before: Bill Caire of UCO led an excursion to collect mammals from traps. Not to scare any of you campers, but you might as well know. Bill and students found a bear track in the mud in the camp. Black Mesa, way out in the shortgrass prairie, is not where you might expect to find this.
But the rest of us started our trips at 8:00 or 8:30. I went on a local botany hike led by Gloria Caddell of UCO. The bluffs had a lot of shortgrass prairie species, plus a few scrubby trees, mostly netleaf hackberry (Celtis reticulata), soapberries (Sapindus drummondii), one-seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma), and fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica). We had left most of Oklahoma, with its ubiquitous red cedars (Juniperus virginiana), behind. We also got help from Northeastern State botanist Suneeti Jog.
At least we thought it was going to be a botany hike. But we had not even gotten up onto the bluff before we found a snake failing to hide itself in a cholla cactus. That is, we saw more herps on this trip than did the people on the herpetology trip.
Some of us got into the trip with all of our senses. Of course, we could see the beautiful flowers. We learned that you have to look closely. To see, you have to do more than glance. Gloria identified for us no less than eight species of composites that had yellow ray or disc flowers. But we also got to feel the biota. For example, Grindelia gumweeds actually exude enough gum to make them look like goblets of cream. Of course, it felt gummy. But some of us got to feel three different kinds of pain. First, a tiny plant called Tragia has almost invisible and very nasty stinging hairs. And the beavertail cacti have big thorns—which poked some of us—and the even nastier little hairs, which got in my hand when I ate a cactus fruit, and which got in the lips and tongue of a less fortunate person. And I definitely felt the spiny tip of the yucca leaf that I accidentally and barely touched—it was like getting poked by a sword.
But we also used our senses of taste and smell. The cactus fruits tasted fresh and slightly sweet. And the buffalo gourd's scientific name is Cucurbita foetidisssima, which means "the most foul," which some people discovered to be truly the case. And next came a perfect example of how terminology can bias perception. Gloria wanted to know what we thought the fragrant sumac smelled like. Nobody had any really clear idea. But when she told us that one of the plant's names was skunkbush sumac, of course we all started imagining that, yes, indeed, it smelled like a skunk.
Finally, we could hear the wind in the grass and the tree branches. There you have it—all five senses. Gloria showed us almost as many plants before we got on the nature trail as after; I wonder how many casual visitors think that nature exists only on the other side of the Nature Trail sign!
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Another World at Black Mesa: Oklahoma Academy of Science field meeting, part one.
Recent announcement: I have uploaded a video about The Great Unconformity in the Black Hills, one of the best geological evidences of an old earth in North America.
Here is the first of three entries I wrote for the blog of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences.
Here is the first of three entries I wrote for the blog of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences.
On September 19, 2014, hundreds of people hit the road and headed out through the Panhandle of Oklahoma as if being shot through the barrel of a rifle. We came to rest right at the very tip, at Black Mesa State Park. Black Mesa is like a different world, more closely resembling New Mexico than any part of Oklahoma with which most of us are familiar. As we left most of the trees, and even many of the shrubs, behind, we knew that we were also leaving behind comfort and safety. We were exposing ourselves not only to stormy weather (which, despite predictions, did not materialize) and almost desert-like conditions, but also to biological dangers, everything from rattlesnakes to hantavirus. Hantavirus has already claimed lives in the Panhandle. Notice that "Hantavirus" is spray-painted on the board of this house.
What surprised me most about this meeting is that there were over a hundred undergraduate students. As president, I had begun to worry that perhaps OAS was becoming a coterie of old people. But the average age of the people at this meeting must have been about twenty, despite the considerable statistical leverage provided by seasoned individuals such as Craig Clifford, David Bass, and myself. I can only hope this means that science is alive and well in the next generation of Oklahomans. Of course, they will probably all find jobs in other states where the pay is better.
Once we all got settled down in our bunkhouses and tents, we had dinner provided by a caterer who was actually willing to drive all the way out to Black Mesa. I am still amazed that any caterer would be willing to do this.
Our evening program was a presentation by Dr. Anne Weil of OSU.
She teaches anatomy in medical school during the academic year, and does vertebrate paleontology research in summer. She studies dinosaurs and ancient mammals. The land that is now Oklahoma had some truly amazing dinosaurs. She handed around what appeared to be pieces of rock. But they were fossilized dinosaur bone fragments. Even after being told what they were, I could not tell that they were anything other than rocks, except for one, which clearly had fossilized bone tissue in it. She conveyed to us some of the excitement of scientific research, often punctuated with "Yay!" and "Woo!" By using microscopes and isotopes, Anne said, we can ask and answer questions that Cuvier could not even imagine.
In the next entry, I will write about a couple of the field trips in the vicinity of, and up to the top of, Black Mesa, on Saturday, September 20.
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Videos about plant fossils
I just posted three videos about Fossil Bowl, the most amazing plant fossil site in the world, in Idaho.
Also, an update for the entry about Oklahoma earthquakes: This morning there was a 4.3 earthquake near Cushing, Oklahoma, where I was born.
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Labels: Clarkia, Fossil Bowl, fossil leaves, fossils, Idaho, Kienbaum
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Encouraging student activism: tobacco
A while back, I wrote about how to use extra credit to motivate students to use their power as consumers to influence those aspects of the economy that are directly harmful to people and/or the world. I believe that this is an essential "closing of the loop" in our teaching: students need to not only learn about the damage that some of our economic activities are doing, but to take action.
I started with an extra credit project in which students send letters or emails to tobacco corporations. I realize that tobacco corporations probably do not care that most people think they are evil—they have an addicted, and very sizable, minority of citizens as customers. But I refuse to totally give in to cynicism on this point. The best effects of this project may be on the students, even if the effect on the market is negligible.
I would like to post a link to updated instructions for such an assignment. Since my original posting, there have been some changes in tobacco corporations. Specifically, the big four will soon be the big three. But the biggest change is that I have added a positive activity. As most of you probably know, CVS Health has decided to stop marketing tobacco products—a decision that will cost them about two billion dollars a year in lost revenue. I would like my students to send them emails thanking them for this decision.
Here is a link to my website, on which I have posted a PDF of the instructions I posted for my students. You may alter it for your students, if you wish to do this activity.
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