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Watarrka National Park and Leaseback Area Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA)
|3 October 2005
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|Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) (Native Title Act)
|Southwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
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|The ILUA area is located 330 kilometres southwest of Alice Springs, not far from Hermannsburg. The extract of the ILUA from the Register of Indigenous Land Use Agreements describes the area covered by the agreement as follows: 'The Park means all that parcel of land near Temple Downs in the Northern Territory of Australia containing an area of 105600 hectares more or less being the whole of Northern Territory Portion 2214 more particularly delineated on Survey Plan CP4527 lodged with the Surveyor General, Darwin.' The ILUA area falls within the Central Remote Regional Council ATSIC region.
|Legal Status:
|Registered with the National Native Title Tribunal
|Legal Reference:
|National Native Title Tribunal No.: DI2004/035.
|Subject Matter:
|Environmental Heritage | Future Act | Land Management | Land Transaction | Land Use | Native Title
|Summary Information:
|The Watarrka National Park and Leaseback Area Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) was made between the Central Land Council and the Northern Territory of Australia to clarify the future title and management of the Watarrka National Park and Leaseback Area.
This ILUA is one of 31 agreements signed over parks and reserves in the Northern Territory. The agreements were developed following the High Court's decision in Western Australia v Ward, which found that the Keep River National Park had not been properly established. In response, the Northern Territory government pursued ILUAs and joint management agreements to resolve tenure disputes and management of the parks. These agreements were negotiated from 2002 to 2005, during which time the Parks and Reserves (Framework for the Future) Act 2003 (NT) was also passed. These arrangements aim to settle all native title issues in Northern Territory national park areas.
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|The Watarrka National Park and Leaseback Area is listed under Schedule 2 of the Parks and Reserves (Framework for the Future) Act 2003 (NT). This means that the tenure of the ILUA land is changed to 'park freehold title' and is granted to a Park Land Trust (section 9). The land is then leased back to the Northern Territory Government for a minimum period of 99 years. The Act also stipulates the implementation of a joint management agreement.
Under the ILUA, the parties consent to the granting of Park freehold title in accordance with the Act (as above), and the grant of a lease over the Park to the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Government and the Central Land Council also agree to the execution of a joint management plan for the Watarrka National Park and Leaseback Area. The parties consent to any action permitted in accordance with the lease and under the Joint Management Plan, regardless of whether these actions are 'future acts'.
The parties agree that the right to negotiate provisions of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) do not apply, as the alternative consultation provisions are to be followed instead.
The purpose of the ILUA is to satisfy the conditions set out in s 10(1)(b) of the Parks and Reserves (Framework for the Future) Act 2003 (NT) (regarding the grant of fee simple title), and to otherwise deal with native title issues in respect of the scheduling of the park as Aboriginal land under the ALRA, the lease of the park to the Northern Territory Government, the execution of the Joint Management Deed and actions taken in accordance with the Plan of Management for the Park.
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Located within a public school system where 73% of the students are Hispanic, the Las Cruces Museum of Natural History (LCMNH) in Las Cruces, New Mexico strives to find new and successful ways to reach their vastly diverse and often underserved audiences. In collaboration with Scientifically Connected Communities (SC2) at New Mexico State University, the LCMNH received a NISE Network 2011 mini-grant allowing them to create a series of bilingual teacher and student resource kits focusing on different themes of nanoscience.
This program, titled Suitcase Science, allows the LCMNH to offer teacher training workshops on how to use the kits and the opportunity to loan them out free of charge to schools in the Las Cruces and Gadsden school districts of southern New Mexico. Themes for the Suitcase Science kits include: Nano 101, Nano Applications & Tools, Nanomedicine, and Nano & the Environment. Each kit comes complete with a binder of lesson plans and demonstrations for teachers and all necessary supplies for a class of 30 students to work in teams. In addition to the kits, museum staff also visit each classroom loaned a Suitcase Science kit for either a pre-visit to introduce the topic, or a post-visit presentation to review everything they learned on nanoscience.
Utilizing NISE Net materials previously translated from English to Spanish, the LCMNH is able to offer the Suitcase Science program as a bilingual teacher and student resource. Creating bilingual kits is a necessity in bringing cutting edge science into southern New Mexico classrooms in an accessible, engaging, and hands-on way.
The Suitcase Science program is just one example of LCMNH's continued efforts in offering nano education. The LCMNH is currently in the process of moving to a new facility where they will soon be able to utilize more NISE Net resources in their new Discovery Lab and themed classes throughout the year. You can check them out at: http://www.las-cruces.org/Departments/Public%20Services/Services/Museums/Natural%20History%20Museum.aspx
You can find a complete list of the NISE Net's Spanish-language resources at www.nisenet.org/catalog/spanish
This partner highlight was written by Tim Hecox from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the regional hub leader for the West hub.

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Ben Jervey | September 2, 2011
By Ben Jervey • Friday, September 2, 2011 - 14:16
Unfortunately, Secretary Chu's interview on Wednesday revealed that the administration is going to use this false claim as political cover if (or, more realistically, when) they approve the construction of Keystone XL. Here's the interview:
This is terribly cynical politics, as surely Secretary Chu – a Nobel-winning physicist and truly one of the world's premier energy experts – knows the folly of this "energy security" argument.
A report released earlier this week by Oil Change International highlights just how wrong the claim is. In "Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed" (pdf), the authors look at Energy Information Administration data, corporate disclosures from TransCanada and Valero Energy, and oil market analyst reports, and conclude that "the idea that Keystone XL will decrease America's dependence on foreign oil is demonstrably false."
The report, which is worth reading in full, draws three stark conclusions:
- The Keystone XL pipeline is an export pipeline. The Gulf Coast refiners at the end of the pipeline's route are focused on expanding exports, and the nature of the tar sands crude Keystone XL delivers enhances their capacity to do so.
- Valero, the top beneficiary of the Keystone XL pipeline, has recently explicitly detailed an export strategy to its investors. The nation's top refiner has locked in at least 20 percent of the pipeline's capacity, and, because its refinery in Port Arthur is within a Foreign Trade Zone, the company will accomplish its export strategy tax free.
- The oil market has changed markedly in the last several years, with U.S. demand decreasing, and U.S. production increasing for the first time in 40 years. Higher fuel economy standards and slow economic growth have led to a decline in U.S. gasoline demand, while technological advances have opened up new sources in the U.S. Increasingly, U.S. refiners are turning to export.
Earlier this week, Glenn Hurowitz, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, made a similar, tangential case. Hurowitz argued, in fact, that "Drilling in North America is the single greatest threat to our nation's energy security."
He continues:
It's important to contrast this depletion reality with the old canard that the oil industry and its backers continue to push: that drilling domestically somehow reduces the flow of money to the Middle East and other unstable oil suppliers. In practice, basic oil-industry economics show the opposite. Because Middle Eastern and Venezuelan oil is so much cheaper to produce and more plentiful than remaining domestic oil reserves, those countries can almost always outcompete domestic U.S. competitors and still maintain their enormous profit margins and high levels of production. Saudi and Iraqi oil, for instance, costs just $4-$6 per barrel to produce with another $2-$3 tacked on for transportation costs (costs are similar for Iranian oil). Production costs for tar-sands oil clock in at a minimum of $30 per barrel; costs for other domestic sources are similar
DeSmogBlog has been all over the Keystone XL story. For some background, check out this post on how the State Department's Environmental Impact Statement was woefully incomplete, this post on the many problems with tar sands pipelines, and this great infographic on how TransCanada's Keystone pipelines are "built to spill." Also, this Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Action page has links to just about every resource you could ever possibly hope to find.
"Here's the reality:
"Here's the reality: Protecting the United States' energy security means keeping our continent's oil in the ground for when we need it in an emergency."
Exactly. The USA & every other country has the opportunity to use renewables NOW, which WILL ensure energy security & prevent dependence on external sources for energy. It's ludicrous.
We might as well use renewables while we can. Our planet, whether it's via natural causes or human induced, will in all likelihood dish up inhospitable future climates & weather. If we need those fossil fuels for energy as a populous for survival in an emergency & they are depleted, we are screwed.
Btw, I gather techs are still
Btw, I gather techs are still working on the site changes, but blockquoting doesn't seem to work.
Testing the link tool:
Hmmm, creates a clickable hyperlink when you create the link, but when you save, it goes back to non clickable.
Anonymous, knowing that you
Anonymous/PhilM, knowing that you are my name impersonating dopelganger , I could only imagine that clicking on that clink will lead to either a PC infection, or some right wing propaganda out of context progaganda piece.
Haha! I actually agree with
Haha! I actually agree with the real Phil on this one. I'm very reluctant to click on any link from tinyurl these days.
Ok, curiosity got the best of me and I actually visited the link. It's a video from a site called the "Daily Caller" and they've picked on a few of the pipeline protesters in a funny, 'Jay Leno meets the public' style of interview. It's harmless, but demeaning to the 'movement' I guess.
Obama halts controversial EPA regulation
Obama halts controversial EPA regulation
"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.
Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. The decision rests in part on reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy."
RickJames replied on Permalink
I thought Obama and Chu were
I thought Obama and Chu were the planet healers.
If you've lost them, where can you turn? nowhere - anyone replacing them is going to be more industry and pipeline friendly than they are.
It seems clear that there will be no grand green revolution in the foreseeable future.
"If you've lost them, where
"If you've lost them, where can you turn? nowhere - anyone replacing them is going to be more industry and pipeline friendly than they are."
Out of interest Rick, for you being a Republican. Which one of the Republican front runners would you like to see win if they do happen to tip Obama?
The ultra Christian Rick Perry? Or the nutter that makes Sarah Palin look smart, Michelle Bachman?
Obviously if any Republican was going to win, Democrats would probably prefer either Jon Hunstman or Ron Paul. First preference would be Jon Huntsman who appears more center-right than the other far right candidates. He is also pro science. Despite winning most popularity polls Ron Paul has his own party & right wing media against him. Any government he would lead would be extremely hostile towards him & wouldn't play ball. But while Ron Paul hasn't been totaly pro science & supportive like Hunstman, he has said some encouraging things:
Ron Paul:
The question is: how much? Rather than taking a "sky is falling" approach, I think there are common-sense steps we can take to cut emissions and preserve our environment. I am, after all, a conservative and seek to conserve not just American traditions and our Constitution, but our natural resources as well.
We should start by ending subsidies for oil companies. And we should never, ever go to war to protect our perceived oil interests. If oil were allowed to rise to its natural price, there would be tremendous market incentives to find alternate sources of energy. At the same time, I can't support government "investment" in alternative sources either, for this is not investment at all."
Not so good ending renewable subsidies, but ending oil subsidies…good.
I've mentioned here a few times what Ron Paul mentions about conservatives, that if they are truly conservatives….then why don't they want to conserve the environment or even their own natural resources?
On biofuels & the stupid trend of using our staple food crops as biofuels.
"Congress decided that we needed more biofuels, and the best choice was ethanol from corn. So we subsidized corn farmers at the expense of others, and investment in other types of renewables was crowded out. Now it turns out that corn ethanol is inefficient, and it actually takes more energy to produce the fuel than you get when you burn it. The most efficient ethanol may come from hemp, but hemp production is illegal and there has been little progress on hemp ethanol."
We are going to have even more food supply issues in the future & fuel companies want to use our food for fuel? Why not hemp? It's fast growing & you can get a couple of crops a year, which wouldn't impact on our staple foods. People need to distinguish the difference between the plant that has high THC & the one (HEMP) that has low THC. Although, there is also huge resistance from the cotton industry against hemp.
"It seems clear that there will be no grand green revolution in the foreseeable future."
Well, not in the USA anyway, there are other countries on the planet you do realise? There is a lot of cleantech being adopted in the USA, but legislation from both parties are sure to kill it off in the near future.
RickJames replied on Permalink
No - I'm not a republican
No - I'm not a republican Im more of an equal opportunity critic.
Part of my thinking is that anyone who gains power (and it won't be Ron Paul) will be so beholden to and intensely pressured by all sides that he or she will be quite ineffective.
The most success he could hope for is personal fame and fortune.
Making a discernible lasting positive difference in the world? doubt it.
I expect Palin to endorse Perry and Perry probably wins.
Palin takes a position in the administration - secretary of state - and then in about 12 years she might run and win.
But you know, it's all for personal ambition of self centered ego driven individuals. No planets will be saved by any of them
Ok conservative then. If
Ok conservative then. If you don't live in the USA, republican is meaningless outside of there.
But you get what I mean. You are obviously a conservative voter, as you have rather a militant stance against environmentalists, greenies & progressives etc. You never mention a bad word about right wingers & defend them at every opportunity.
It's funny when you encounter people who have a long history of very obvious ideology, to hear them when asked, say that they are a swinging voter, or don't take sides….or "equal opportunity critic".
"Palin takes a position in the administration - secretary of state - and then in about 12 years she might run and win."
That would be a sadder day for America than GWB.
RickJames replied on Permalink
It's an understandable
It's an understandable misinterpretation.
Desmog takes a liberal, environmental approach to things. That's fine but as a critic I tend to draw attention to the other side of the coin. For example you say Palin becoming president would be a sad day, so I would argue that none of the other candidates are going to accomplish anything beyond personal fame and fortune either. That doesn't mean I'm pro Palin. It means I'm questioning your assumptions about Obama or whoever else you might put forward. None of these individuals will turn out to be saviors.
If desmog was conservative in nature, you might perceive me as a liberal. I'd be telling you that Palin is all about Palin. She's totally invested in her own perceptions and in her self image. She will probably start some regrettable wars and do lasting damage.
You can feel free to substitute Obama in for Palin in that last paragraph. It works both ways.
" It's an understandable
It's an understandable misinterpretation.
Desmog takes a liberal, environmental approach to things. That's fine but as a critic I tend to draw attention to the other side of the coin."
Cmon Rick, there is no need to be coy. You have said nothing on this blog to indicate you have a balanced view or are bipartisan. Your posts are pro fosssil fuel, AGW denialst, pro conservative. Please show where you have been bipartisan or criticized the right, like you have the left?
"If there seems to be a drift to the right, its all about improving economic conditions."
Become ONLY the right can deliver this naturally.
"Wealth and energy must be stopped. There is a serious danger of prosperity."
Classic conservative class warfare propaganda messaging. Or your troll comment ( which was deleted) on the xstrata post where you said we could irrigate Texas with environmentalists tears?
Oh yeah……..so bipartisan. Please point to a right leaning blog where you have had an opposing stance to theirs, or stance where it just appears like you oppose them because you are being balanced.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Well I'm trying to be
Well I'm trying to be neutral. I may not always be entirely successful.
I'll see what I can do.
It's all Bushs fault. How am I doing so far?
SteveFunk replied on Permalink
Here is the other side of the story, regarding exports and pricing. The idea that a large fraction of this flow would go to exports seems far fetched. But if the pipeline is not built, the Canadians will definitely find a way to get it to their east coast or west coast and export most of it. The price of oil is going up. World demand is too high, and supplies from most oil producing nations have peaked.
I am not commenting on the potential spill risk. My background is in economics, not engineering or hydrology.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University baseball team won its series opener with Saint Mary's by a score of 11-8 Friday evening at Buck Shaw Stadium, assuring the program its first winning season since 1997. The win moves the Broncos' record to 29-26 overall and 19-9 in West Coast Conference play, while the Gaels fall to 18-35-1 overall and 8-19-1 in league action.
Santa Clara jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, sparked by Jason Matteucci's RBI triple to left center that scored Jack Headley. Saint Mary's answered right back in the top of the second inning with a run of their own as Adam Bellows led off the inning with an opposite field home run. SCU proved resilient as A.J. LaBarbera led off the bottom half of the second with a solo home run over the left field fence to up the Broncos' lead to 3-1.
The Gaels added four runs in the third, highlighted by a Stephan Foushee three-run home run to center, and two more in the fourth to take a 7-3 lead before the Broncos plated three in the bottom half of the fourth and trailed by only one after four wild innings. Will Thompson led off the bottom of the fourth with his ninth home run of the season while Scott Dierks picked up his 40th and 41st RBI of the season with a two-run double to left center.
After a scoreless fifth inning for both sides, Mike Harris led off the SMC half of the sixth inning with a triple to right center field. He would come home two batters later on a sacrifice fly to right field, giving the Gaels an 8-6 lead.
The Broncos began a two-out rally in the bottom of the seventh inning as Jim Wallace and Thompson put together back-to-back singles before LaBarbera brought home Wallace with a double to right center, narrowing the lead down to 8-7.
Chad Fillinger, who came on in the third inning and allowed only one run on one hit in his five innings of work, struck out the side in the Gaels' half of the eighth inning, setting the stage for a Bronco comeback.
In the bottom half of the eighth inning David Hoffmire and Michael Lange each walked to start the rally. Hoffmire advanced to third on a fairly deep fly out to left field by Dierks, placing the tying run only 90 feet away. Headley promptly singled to center to tie the score at eight. Matteucci picked up his second hit and second RBI of the night as he singled through the right side, brining home Lange and giving the Broncos a one run advantage. The wheels began to come off for Saint Mary's at this point as Headley and Matteucci attempted a double steal on strike three of Jim Wallace, but Foushee's throw to second went into center field, allowing Headley to score. Lange would come around to score on Thompson's third hit of the night, a looping single to center that gave SCU a 9-6 advantage. LaBarbera reached on a fielding error by Mike Harris to prolong the inning, but a sharp line drive off the bat of Ryan Chiarelli was snagged by Harris to end the inning and prevent any further damage.
With the Broncos up by three heading into the ninth inning, they turned to freshman closer Patrick Overholt who brought his best stuff with him to the ballpark on Friday night. With his fastball topping out at 93 MPH and his slider breaking sharply at 84 MPH, Overholt collected his 10th save of the season as he struck out one to preserve the win. The saves moves him into a tie for first place all-time at Santa Clara for saves in a single season, tying the mark set by Mike McDonald in both the 1996 and 1997 seasons. He also moved into a tie for fourth place on the all-time career saves list at SCU.
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The Broncos move one step closer to reaching 30 wins for the first time since that 1997 season. They will try to attain that mark over the next two days and they wrap up their season with the final two games of the series against Saint Mary's. Both games over the weekend are scheduled for 1 p.m. starts.


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The Ins & Outs: Countdown to the Festival on the Green
a blog about music, visual arts, entertainment and everything in betweenby tamara hilmes, internWelcome to the second installment of the Countdown to the 31st annual Festival on the Green, which will be coming to Middlebury July 12-18. So soon! What with only a few weeks to go, I am going to do my best to highlight the diverse range of musical talent that will be showcased in this year's festival. Last week we took a look at Crooked Still, an alternative bluegrass band, and while bluegrass/country/americana tends to dominate this annual event, this year's festival also includes honky tonk, jazz, and more eclectic and less-traditional, world music, which brings us to this week's featured band:the Guy Mendilow BandCited as "inventive world music and outreach" on both the band's web site and the festival site, and described as "Israeli peace songs and Sephardi canticas meet Bahian street beats and blues," let's just say that this isn't your typical down-home string band. While many of the groups performing in the festival are native to Vermont or New England, Israeli-born musician Guy Mendilow has lived in Israel, South Africa, and Brazil, and members of his band hail from Japan, Israel, Argentina, and oh yeah, the U.S.So we've got the "world" piece down, but where does the "outreach" come in? The band has been partnering with international peacemaking organizations, the most recognized of which is Seeds of Peace, the international youth leadership organization found in 1993 by journalist John Wallach. The main camp, which is located in, um, Maine (Otisfield, to be exact), plays host each summer to teens for conflict-ridden countries and leads them in dialogue, in hopes that they will "open lines of communication" between peoples. Mendilow, according to his site, believes that "music, and music making, can play a unique role in the effort to transform "the other" into a fellow human being to whom one can at least listen, if not necessarily agree." Thus, music, in his mind, can bring together various people in a way that nothing else can.World, check. Outreach, check. So now, on to "inventive," which the band's latest album, Skyland most certainly is. Each track is a curious and eclectic blend of sounds, styles, and languages. In "Sala'am," a bluesy harmonica is combined with an upbeat tempo and harmonies sung in hebrew. The harmonica, and guitar, however, are just about the only instruments that I was able to recognize and name; the band plays a wide range of ethnic instruments including the Cajon, which is basically a plywood box with sound-hole cut out of the back side, is an Afro-Peruvian mainstay. The Electric Mbira and Berimbau and other woodwind instruments are also featured in this hard-to-pin-down sound. Confused? So am I. And I just discovered that the "harmonica" that I was relieved to hear was actually a "jaw harp."Clearly, I'm not going to be much help in picking apart the music of this world-fusion, band, so I recommend you check the Guy Mendilow Band out for yourself on Thursday, July 16 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. during the "Brown Bag Special" slot, specially designed for the family picnic crowd. In the meantime, catch the jaw harp, Berimbau, and more in action online. Lucky for us, Guy usually explains how he coaxes music out of the bizarre contraptions he's holding...So, be sure to take your lunch break on the Green from 12 to 1 on July 16, and in the meantime, check back here on Thursdays for more musical murmurings and band profiles as we continue to count down to the Festival, blog-style.Online editor's note: Check back next Thursday for another update in the "Countdown to the Festival on the Green" series by Addison Independent intern Tamara Hilmes.


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Announcing the low-power, light-weight sysmoBTS
It hasn't been a secret that when I co-started a company called sysmocom more than a year ago, it was not about opening a webshop that sells cheap phones and DYI electronics kits to the larger community. Rather, it was to develop and sell exciting products surrounding Free Software and mobile communications.
There are of course the more or less obvious things to do, like system integration of OpenBSC and the related software on embedded systems, selling them as appliances including training, support and maintenance service.
However, we of course also want to more than that. Today it is my pleasure to say that the availability of our first BTS product called sysmoBTS has been officially announced.
See the news item, the product page and the data sheet for more information.
To make it very clear in the beginning: sysmoBTS is not an open hardware project. The schematics and layout files are proprietary and not disclosed publicly. Such is the FPGA bitstream and the layer1 inside the DSP.
However, any code running on the integrated ARM processor is available as free software. This includes a yocto/poky-built Embedded Linux distribution featuring u-boot, the Linux kernel (including all kernel modules!), the osmo-bts and OpenBSC software as well as many other Free Software packages.
We think this is a reasonable compromise between espanding a bit from our previous "BSC and above in Free Software" down to a "BTS Layer2 and above" divide. After all, if you use OpenBSC with a BTS from Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia or ip.access, you don't have access to the source code of anything running inside the BTS at all.
sysmoBTS offers some great new capabilities, such as integrating the BSC or even the entire osmo-nitb onto the ARM/Linux processor inside the BTS hardware itself, creating a less than 500gram, 10W power consuming autonomous GSM network.
I'm going to stop marketing here, but I thought it is one of the major milestones for sysmoocm and thus for what I've spent way too much time on in recent months - and thus deserves to be mentioned here on this personal blog.


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Soy & Antioxidants After Breast Cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was told not to take antioxidant vitamins C and E while I was taking chemotherapy for breast cancer. Supposedly, they are taken up by the cancer and used for growth. Should I take them now that I am no longer on chemo and Herceptin? I take Arimidex daily. Also, soy products, are they out also?
Katrina Claghorn, MS, RD, Registered Dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
The advice to avoid antioxidant supplements during chemotherapy is actually due to the potential for interaction with the treatments, not because they will promote tumor growth. So, you can take these supplements now that you are off chemotherapy & radiation treatment.
See these previous questions regarding antioxidants:
Antioxidants during radiation therapy
Antioxidant vitamin supplementation and cancer treatment
It has generally been recommended that women with breast cancer limit their intake of soy foods, since soy contains estrogen-like plant compounds. However, the ACS, in it's report "Nutrition and Physical Activity During and After Cancer Treatment: An American Cancer Society Guide for Informed Choices" (CA Cancer J Clin 2006;56:323-353) states that three servings per day of soy foods is unlikely to be harmful, however they discourage the use of soy supplements, as that may provide too much soy.


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The following poem was written by a friend of mine. The thought is so meaningful and important — more today than ever before.
Too Busy by Fred Watts
"Judge not, that you be not judged," (Matthew 7:1).
Roy and I would never be friends; I could tell.
By: Joe King
Growing up, my parents always encouraged me to strive toward excellence.
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Add custom items to main and meta navigation bar
This plugin allows you to add custom items ("buttons") to both the main and the meta navigation bar. Item name, title and URL can be specified in trac.ini, as well as an optional permission the user is required to have to see the item.
The plugin was inspired by and derived from NavMoverPlugin. In contrast to NavMoverPlugin this plugin does not hide navigation bars, which was my main motivation for creating this "fork".
Enable with:
[components] navadd.* = enabled
All configuration settings are to be kept in a section called
[navadd] in TracIni. The basic syntax is:
add_items = <item>,<item>,...
- comma-separated list of items that will be added; only items that are listed here will be processed.
And then for each item:
<item>.title = <title>
- the name (title) of the button
<item>.url = <url>
- the URL the button should link to; please note that TracLinks syntax is not supported here yet
<item>.perm = <permission>
- an optional permission that a user needs to have in order to see the button
<item>.target = <navbar_name>
- the name of the navigation bar the button should be added to; only
metanavhave been tested so far, others names probably work as well
This is the configuration I use on madwifi.org to add a link to the imprint in the meta navigation bar, and a link to our download section on sf.net in the main navigation bar.
[navadd] add_items = imprint,download imprint.title = Impressum/Imprint imprint.url = /wiki/Impressum #imprint.perm = WIKI_VIEW imprint.target = metanav download.title = Download download.url = http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82936&package_id=85233 #download.perm = WIKI_VIEW download.target = mainnav
Ordering of buttons
It might be worth to note that buttons which are added with this plugin can be ordered in the usual way, i.e. by specifying the actual order in section
[trac], keywords
mainnav and
metanav in TracIni.
Let's assume that you add a button
Download to your main navigation bar (same as in the configuration example above), and you want it to appear right after the
Wiki button. The configuration then looks like:
[trac] ... mainnav = wiki,download,timeline,roadmap,browser,tickets,newticket ...
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for NavAddPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the zipped source from [download:navaddplugin here].
You can check out NavAddPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Recent Changes
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Remove obsolete "0.9" code
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0.4: Highlight active navigation item
Patch by bellair, revised by walty8.
Fixes #592.
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Cruzin' on Twitter
Evidently the New York Times isn't the only entity that recognizes newly elected U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as a force to be reckoned with.
Florida senate colleague Marco Rubio also recognized it with this tweet: "Happy to see @TedCruz came to DC to make a difference not just make some friends. He is doing very well! #tcot #gop #texasgop"
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Sen. Cruz also doesn't hold back expressing his opinions in just 140 characters to his more than 50,000 Twitter followers: "Obama claims proposals won't increase debt by a single dime. I believe him. They'll increase debt by A LOT of dimes"
SOTU in 140
Political strategist, and contributor to CNN and ABC News, Donna Brazile challenged Twitterers to write a State of the Union speech in 140 characters or less. Here's what a couple came up with:
#sotu – The state of the union is less unified, less prosperous, less solvent, less employed, less innovative, less free"
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#sotu140 This speech began with my pollsters, then came the speechwriting team. There are no new ideas or programs. Only applause lines.
U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., tweeted a valentine to a lovely young thing during the State of the Union address last week, causing a cacophony of "ooh-la-la" tweets from other birds on the wire. After much clucking and cooing over the 60-something congressman's flirty cri de ceour to the beautiful blonde coed half his age, it turns out the lass is his daughter, leaving twittering twits to eat crow.
"Gulp Fiction"
The biggest news coming out of the State of the Union was Sen. Marco Rubio's water grab during his GOP rebuttal. It didn't take long before yucksters were producing their own "gulp fiction" vids like this one. #RubioFilms spiraled into the No. 3 slot on Twitter's top ten trends, perched several notches above #SOTU.
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Calling Dr. Carson…
In his first ten hours after joining Twitter last Friday, Dr. Ben Carson @RealBenCarson attracted nearly 15,000 followers. Like a raging fever, his popularity spiked to 21,259 within the first day. What caused the heat?
Dr. Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., gave a keynote speech at last week's National Prayer Breakfast during which the soft-spoken doc's remarks politely but firmly flew in the face of President Obama's policies on health care, taxes and the economy. President Obama sat stone faced just feet away from the speaker.
The result? Instant celebrity in the political arena, with appearances on major radio and television talk shows and the subject of countless blogs and new media feature stories.
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Would he consider running for president?
"I've always said if God grabs me by the collar and sticks me in that arena that's the only way that I'd do it," Carson responded.
How lucky can you be?
In the "It Must Be Nice" department, Facebook is getting a tax break – a multi-million dollar tax break. Want to know how this company, which reportedly reaped $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations in 2012, qualified for such a windfall? Here's your answer.
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A Majorly shirty day
Major Garrett, CBS News' chief White House correspondent (formerly with Fox News), tweeted that he'd had a pretty "shirty" day recently. According to a Washington Post item, Garrett tweeted, "The [f-word] I am. That is shirty business what you did. Fix it. I'm not [f-word, present participle] kidding."
The offending tweet was soon deleted, drawing this reminder from the WaPo's Erik Wemple: "An iron rule of social media says, 'All profanities from the Twitter accounts of famous media types shall be screen-grabbed by gawking onlookers and commented upon extensively.'"
Tweeters, let this be a lesson, lest your day end up "shirty" too.
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Go Dorner, go!
Fans of former LAPD police officer Christopher Dorner cheered the killer last week on Facebook and Twitter, as he eluded police and later holed up in a mountain cabin where he met his end in a raging fire.
Dorner himself used a now-deleted Facebook page to post his 10-page manifesto. Almost immediately, other Facebook pages sprang up in sympathy and support by fans, some who compared Dorner to the title character in the Quentin Taranto film "Django Unchained."
Open States
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Now you can find out all you need to know about your state lawmakers. The Sunlight Foundation has launched OpenStates.org – a website you can use to discover almost everything about lawmaking in your state. It contains a comprehensive database of legislative information for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. You can find state lawmakers, review their votes, search legislation and track bill progress, as well as compare legislation from state to state.
Watch this video to see how it works.
White House doings
White House to counter online "radicalism." What exactly does that mean? Read about it here.
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Twitter takes notice: President Obama catches bird droppings. He has yet to acknowledge death of American hero Chris Kyle.
"I am trying to quote Obama on the death of CPO Chris Kyle. Do you put "crickets" in quotation marks or not?
Saving the best for last
We ran out of room for this last week, and as it is we're sliding it in sideways this week, but here you go! If you've already seen it, as more than 13 million have, then you know it is worth watching again: "The Farmer."


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"Off the beaten track"—that's a phrase that characterizes both my life and my career. I enjoy leaving that track, not only professionally, but also personally. For instance, I love traveling to unusual destinations. In the past few years, I've visited countries such as India, Tibet, China and Africa. My most recent trip was to Alaska.
Traveling brings out the explorer in me. Curiosity is my main motivation: How do people from other cultures live? What values do they have? It broadens my world view and lets me look at myself through different eyes. In the long run, it helps me keep both feet on the ground and my own life in perspective. I often think: "Do I really need to worry about this?"
Consciously looking for diversityI'm also a pioneer in my work. Every couple of years, I energetically dive into another position at work, with new customers and new colleagues. I enjoy building things, taking risks. If you manage to successfully finish such a job, it gives you a great deal of satisfaction and self-confidence. For instance, I love giving a boost and new motivation to a team that's not performing to the best of its abilities. I also enjoy setting up a new team, such as the Financial Services one for which I'm now responsible.
The financial sector is in the midst of a culture change, and the composition of my team reflects this. It's a real mix: men and women, classical consultants and IT people, those with and without financial experience—all coming from a variety of backgrounds. The banking and insurance industry has always been an elite one. I very consciously put together such a diverse team to help further drive and realize the culture change now going on. Here too, I like getting off the beaten track.
Enjoying human dynamics
A variety of different backgrounds creates a great deal of human dynamics in a team, but that's exactly what I enjoy so much. I find people and their interactions absolutely fascinating. I've always been people-oriented. During my time at university, I was very active in a student association—it was a nice counterbalance to the technical program I was following.
In my current job, working with people provides the same attractive contrast with the consultancy work, which is primarily brain work. I'm happy to see this kind of diversity increasing within our organization. In the past few years, my company has made great strides in that respect. We're no longer a company of just men in suits, even though the outside world may sometimes still regard us that way. On the contrary, there's a lot of room for authenticity! And we've also switched to an output-oriented way of working, which enables people to combine work and life even better.


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Hot Shooting JMU Defeats Monarchs,70-62
By ODU Athletics
Jan. 7, 2009
NORFOLK,VA--Juwann James scored 23 points and JMU (10-6/2-2) shot a Constant Center best.667 (28-42)from the floor to defeat Old Dominion(9-5/2-2) ,70-62 Wednesday night. It was the Dukes first ever win in the Constant Center and first win in Norfolk since 1999-2000.
JMU jumped out to a 20-point lead, 31-11 with 7:25 left in the first half. The Monarchs rallied to cut the lead to three, 37-34 at halftime. James led the Dukes with 19 first half points on eight-for-nine shooting. Overall, JMU was 16-23(.696), while the Monarchs shot .517(15-29). Gerald Lee led ODU with 13 first half points.
In the second half, ODU took its first lead of the game at 43-41 with 16:29 left on a trey by Darius James. The Monarchs led,45-43 with 16:05 left on Keyon Carter's lay up and that was the Monarchs last lead.
JMU retook the lead for good, 47-45 on James layup with 15:13 left, and eventually built it to 11, 66-55 with 4:43 remaining.ODU finished the night shooting .403 (25-62).
Gerald Lee led the Monarchs with 20 points, hitting seven-for-10fromthefloor.Keyon Carter added 13 points with a game high eight rebounds. Darius James scored 14 points and dished out a game highs even assists.
The Monarchs forced JMU into 20 turnovers with the help of 11steals. Gerald Lee, Keyon Carter, Ben Finney and Jonathan Adams each had two steals for ODU.
Besides James 23 points, Julius Wells added 13 and Devon Moore 12.Moore also dished out seven assists for the Dukes. The previous Constant Center opponent field goal mark was .562 by Charlotte in 2003. ODU's best ever mark in the Center was .574 against DePau lin 2005. The all-time best shooting by an ODU opponent was North Carolina who hit .754 in 1992 in Chapel Hill, NC.
ODU returns to action on Saturday when they play at George Mason in a 2 p.m. contest that will Be televised by ComCastSports Channel 35.


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Number: 109-18
Date: December 14, 2006
House and Senate Pass S. 4091, the Social Security Trust Funds Restoration Act of 2006
On December 9, 2006, the House passed S. 4091, the Social Security Trust Funds Restoration Act of 2006. The bill was introduced by Senator Grassley (R-IA) on December 6, 2006. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent on December 7, 2006. The bill will next be presented to the President for his action.
The bill contains the following provisions of interest:
Would provide an appropriation of the amount of funds needed to restore fully the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance Trust Fund from the consequences of a bookkeeping error at SSA that resulted in the overpayment of amounts transferred from each Trust Fund to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 1999 through 2005 as transfers of anticipated taxes on Social Security benefit payments under the voluntary withholding program authorized by section 3402(p) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (This bookkeeping error did not affect the amounts of taxes that SSA withheld from payments made to Social Security beneficiaries.)
Would appropriate an amount to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security, equal to the difference between:
The total amount that the Social Security Trust Funds have lost (including interest that would have been earned, calculated at the statutory Social Security investment rate); and
The total amount that the IRS has already refunded to SSA under existing Internal Revenue Code authority (including interest that the IRS paid, calculated at the statutory IRS interest rate).
Would direct the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the amount appropriated to each Trust Fund in accordance with currently applicable investment policy for that Trust Fund.
Would require the Secretary of the Treasury, in cooperation with the Commissioner of Social Security, to accomplish the required restoration within 120 days after the date of enactment of the Act.
Would require the Secretary of the Treasury to notify Congress in writing of the actions taken not later than 30 days after taking the last action.


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Any bank can lock money in a vault. It takes people who know you to watch over far more valuable things, like your hopes, dreams, and peace of mind.
We learned over 100 years ago that banking isn't really about money at all. It's about the people who earn it, save it, and use it to change things for themselves and others. So while we'll continue to find new ways to make banking easier, simpler, and more convenient, we will always rely on people who share a community together to make sure it's right.
We're First-Knox National Bank. But we'd love to be called your bank.


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Business Benefits RealizedBy Susan Nunziata | Posted 08-17-2010
Business Analytics: Turning IP Into Opportunity
North Carolina State University had a challenge. It needed a new process to monetize its treasure trove of scientific advancements and university-invented technologies by matching these with potential research partners and sponsors. Any organization sitting on reams of intellectual property (IP) will learn from the experiences of Billy Houghteling, Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at NC State.His office is resonsible for transferring University-developed innovations to the marketplace and interracting with partners. "Our portfolio is very large, very diverse and it's understaffed," says Houghteling. "We have a hard time managing the intellectual property assets we have."
There are seven licensing professionals (including Houghteling) in the department and they are managinging some 3,000 technologies. In addition, there are 12 support professionals working in the department.
"Not only are we charged with managing the university's intellectual property assets, we're also charged with raising whole profile of technology in NC State," says Houghteling. "So we are always thinking about what type of research partnerships we could establish between an industry partner and faculty member in, say, our department of chemistry, for example."
The most time-consuming part of the process is what Houghteling's team calls "triage," in which the licensing professionals review an opportunity to determine market potential, investigate the patent landscape, and, if necessary, seek patent protection in order to move early-stage technologies to market. This triage process typically takes two to four months, and much of that time is spent on the back end trying to identify the right partners in a particular industry so they can be pitched on the project, explains Houghteling.
For the triage process, the licensing profesionals search a plethora of documents, scour SEC reports, keep up with blogs to see which company's R&D efforts are successful and which have failed, attend industry trade meetings and do anything else required "to really get a handle on who is interested in any given technology space," says Houghteling.
IBM Big Data Pilot
This summer, the department began piloting IBM's "Big Data" analytics technology, which mines large amounts of unstructured Web data. The analysis is based on factors such as business relevancy, government policies, market needs and trends. In the pilot phase, the tools unearthed hidden business opportunities that likely would not have emerged under the old triage system, notes Houghteling. In addition, the analytics tools condensed the triage process down to a seven- to 10-day period. "We do this by identifying key words, using speciic phrasing dedicated to key words, and by identifying specific documents," Houghteling says. "You can get these types of analytics tools to spit out a scored or ranked list of potential partners. That's attractive: to have a group of potential partners ranked based on how they match to our specs."
For example, a team of researchers at NC State is investigating new strains of Salmonella for use in vaccines. With IBM Big Data analytics technology, it took less than a week for the university to analyze 1.4 million Web pages, including opinion blogs, social networks and documents. The analytics technology sorted through a wide variety of information and analyzed the contents in real time to find relevant details, ultimately identifying potential investors and partners.
The pilots at NC State were conducted in collaboration with the university's College of Management Bioscience Management Group and its Center for Management Studies.
As part of this project, NC State is using:
- IBM BigSheets, part of IBM's BigInsights portfolio, a software engine that helps get insights from really large data sets easily and quickly
- IBM LanguageWare, a text analytics tool created by IBM's Dublin Software Lab in Ireland for the purpose of harnessing the wealth of unstructured data contained in text documents, Web site content and enterprise applications
- IBM Cognos Content Analytics, an analytics software which gives organizations the necessary tools to access and analyze the volumes of unstructured content.
These three components were running on IBM Distribution of Apache Hadoop. The analytics solution interfaced with the University's TechTracS database, developed by Knowledge Sharing Systems. The proprietary database supports innovation m anagement functions and is used by the technology transfer offices of many universities to manage their IP portfolios. "It has its base modules that we have customized for ouruse at NC state," says Houghteling. "We license use of several seats of the TecTracS software and, in partnership with Knowledge Sharing Systems, we pay for process improvements particular to our processes and practices."The relational TechTracS database is used for all the agreement tracking, invention disclosure tracking, compliance, and patent management for the Unversity. It is also from that database that the department launches all of its marketing activities to potential partners.
In the pilot phase, the interface between the IBM Big Data solution and the transfer management database went smoothly, and Houghteling says "I don't foresee any challenges related to transferring information gathered by use of analytics tools into our transfer management database."
Business Benefits Realized
So far, the IBM Big Data pilots delivered two strong benefits, says Houghteling:
- They reduced the triage process down to seven to 10 days from two to four months;
- The licensing professionals are now able to use their newfound time to work on raising the university's technology profile and building new business opportunities.
"This would allow staff to have more time to manage those strategic assets that have been overlooked, or work on activities that result in new business formation," says Houghteling. For example, in addition to technology transfer, one of the things the department does is launch new companies based on some of the technologies being developed within the university. To date, 70 companies developed by faculty, staff or students have been launched, says Houghteling.
As the pilots continue, he says, "We're definitely in the process of making the business case [for a full deployment]. There aren't necessarily budget limitations to make the transfer of these tools happen, it's just the next step of the discussion. We are optimistic that our partnership with IBM doesn't end here, and we are committed to expanding collaboration management and use of Big Data to transform technology transfer process."
Adds Houghteling, "It's only a matter of time before these tools become available to every member of my office to test and see how they improve their daily flow of work and efficiency."


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Right? Just an automatic typing twitch. SHE's feeling revved and types #fetalrights because it feels gooooood.
Because M312 is NOT about abortion.
Let's look into fetal rights.
Much opposition to legal abortion in the West is based on a concern for fetal rights. Similarly many pro-choice groups oppose fetal rights, even when they do not impinge directly on the abortion issue, because they perceive this as a slippery slope strategy to restricting abortions.Oh dear. 'Fetal rights' and 'abortion' together right there. Also. 'Slippery slope'.
Last night, SHE tweeted:
SHE has me blocked like most of the gutless yobs who are whining for the Debate, but block anyone who comes back with facts or uncomfortable questions. Also, being blocked is a ginormous pain in the butt. I can't retweet, can't embed, can't expand the conversation, i.e. see the context...
I replied:
@roseblue: Examples of countries 'recognizing' #fetalrights without affecting abortion, please? #M312— Fern Hill (@fernhilldammit) July 27, 2012
I've repeated it at least three times since and it's been retweeted a few times too.
There's been no reply.
So, again I do the fetus fetishists' research for them. Back to wiki.
I found four countries that have enshrined fetal rights in law: some US states, Iran, Ireland, and Germany. The case in Germany is a bit twisty.
In 1993, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany held that the constitution guaranteed a right to life from conception, but that it is within the discretion of parliament not to punish abortion in the first trimester, providing that women agreed to undergo special counselling designed to discourage termination and "protect unborn life".[citation needed] The intermediate decision was the result of an attempt to join East Germany's abortion law to that of West Germany after reunification in 1990.Ireland is no surprise. The case in Iran is also a bit twisty.
And we know how fetal rights play out in the US. In the ipso facto criminalization of pregnancy.
Under the heading 'Behavioral intervention', wiki says:
No U.S. state has enacted a law which criminalizes specific behavior during pregnancy, but, nonetheless, it has been estimated that at least 200 American women have been criminally prosecuted or arrested under existing child abuse statutes for allegedly bringing about harm in-utero through their conduct during pregnancy. Reasons for pressing charges included use of illicit drugs, consumption of alcohol, and failure to comply with a doctor's order of bedrest or caesarean section. Drug addicts have been accused of "supplying drugs to a minor" through unintentional chemical subjection via the umbilical cord. Others have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with the "deadly weapon" in question being an illegal drug. Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota allow women who continue to use substances while pregnant to be civilly committed. Some states require that medical providers report any infant who is born with a physical dependency, or who tests positive for residual traces of alcohol or drugs, to child welfare authorities.Giving fetuses rights takes rights away from women. Moreover, fetal rights creates a new class of people -- pregnant people.
Every pregnant person would be subject to an entirely different regime of law.
The fetus fetishists know this. Are okey-dokey with it.
But continue to lie that Woodworth's Wank is NOT about abortion and women's rights.
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Joe Lunardi's latest NCAA Tournament projections are out, and the ESPN guru has the Washington Huskies as a No. 7 seed playing against a familiar foe — No. 10 Marquette — in a first-round game in Denver.
It seems like a long shot for the Huskies to play Marquette in the first round two seasons in a row. UW beat them in San Jose last year when Quincy Pondexter broke a tie game in the final seconds by banking a leaner off the glass.
In Lunardi's scenario, the Huskies would get the winner of the No. 2 vs. No. 15 matchup between BYU and Long Beach State.
Washington State dropped from Lunardi's projected field and is now in the "first four out" category. Arizona (No. 5 seed in Denver) and UCLA (No. 9 seed in Cleveland) are the other two Pac-10 teams still considered worthy by Lunardi.
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GENEVA — Scientists hunting the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe, decided on Monday to turn up the power in their Large Hadron Collider to try to prove its existence this year.
The CERN research centre near Geneva wants to prove or disprove the existence of an invisible 'Higgs' field permeating the universe quickly, before the giant LHC machine is shut down for a long-term upgrade in late 2012.
"This means more Higgs, more quickly," said CERN spokesman James Gillies. The existence of the particle was postulated by British physicist Peter Higgs in 1964 but has never been proved.
According to the theory, the particle was the agent that made the stars, planets — and life — possible by giving mass to most elementary particles, the building blocks of the universe.
In the LHC, two beams of energy are fired in opposite directions around the 27 km (17 mile) pipe before slamming into each other, spawning particle collisions that recreate what happened a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago.
Physicists believe that without the Higgs boson and its associated 'particle field', debris from the Big Bang would never have coalesced to form galaxies, stars and planets.
In December two teams of researchers at CERN, the European particle physics centre, both said they had separately seen "tantalizing glimpses" of what might be the Higgs during collisions inside the LHC, deep under the Swiss-French border.
But both groups need to gather enough information independently to claim formal discovery of the boson — or to conclude that there is no Higgs, at least in the form that they and others have been seeking since the mid-1980s.
Whether the existence of the Higgs is proved or disproved, a definitive answer would be a momentous event in modern physics, which combined with cosmology and astronomy is rapidly pushing back the frontiers of knowledge about the universe.
The LHC has been closed for a three-month winter break and is due to close again for 20 months from the end of 2012 for a major upgrade in its equipment and power.
"By the time the LHC goes into its first long stop at the end of the year, we will either know that a Higgs particle exists or have ruled out the existence of a Standard Model Higgs," said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci.
The Standard Model is an overarching theory explaining how the known universe works, based on the work of Albert Einstein and his two theories of relativity early last century.
The Higgs is the last important element in the model whose existence has yet to be proven. If it is found not to exist, physicists will seek answers from the super-powered LHC when it starts up late in 2014.
The upgrade is intended to let the LHC investigate "New Physics", which includes concepts such as super-symmetry, dark matter, dark energy and parallel universes, long been the stuff of science fiction.


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Ten AIDS activists were arrested near City Hall today for demonstrating how Mayor Bloomberg and HRA Commissioner Robert Doar's AIDS policies are kicking people with AIDS "to the curb."
Housing Works activists set up a house, complete with couch, bed, sink and toilet on on Broadway across from City Hall to show the world exactly what recent HASA policies are doing to people with AIDS: creating more homelessness. NYPD came swiftly running, trashed the installation, and arrested the protesters. The demonstration was a part of the 25th Anniversary march and rally to commemorate AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT-UP), which forced NYC and the nation to respond to the needs of people with AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s.
"ACT-UP formed 25 years ago to demand that NYC and the nation put resources into helping people with AIDS access basic care and services," said Charles King, CEO for Housing Works. "Today, Housing Works is still fighting for the same demands for people -- the right to housing for people with HIV, the right to treatment and care, and the right to prevention methods like access to syringes and condoms."
Housing Works has always emphasized that "housing is the key" to ending the AIDS epidemic, and now supported by plenty of research. Despite this fact, NYC's social services have made the reality of affordable housing even more difficult for people with HIV. Housing Works has been actively advocating against recent changes to NYC's policies for people living with AIDS under the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA).
"If Mayor Bloomberg and HRA Commissioner Doar continues to cut services for people with AIDS, you're going to see more homeless people in the streets of New York, just like this demonstration today, said Derrick Chandler, NYS Issues Organizer for Housing Works. "We need to make sure that the city reverses the recent changes to HASA that make it harder for people with AIDS to get access to affordable housing."
But true to ACT-UP's original form, the local AIDS issues were linked to the global. While Housing Works focused on the NYC AIDS housing budget cuts being made because of the city's fiscal problems cause by the recession, several ACT-UP protesters were arrested at Wall Street to protests the havoc Wall Street speculators wreaked on the global economy, which has caused many Western countries to drastically cut funding for Global AIDS treatment, and social safety net cuts at home (called "austerity" measures).
Hundreds of protesters marched from City Hall to Wall Street, demanding a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.). This policy would involve a small tax -- a mere fraction of one percent -- on speculative trading by Wall Street investment banks, hedge funds and other large financial institutions. Funds from the tax would be invested in providing full access to treatment and services -- such as housing -- for people with HIV across the globe.
"Poor people with HIV didn't cause the economic crisis, and they should not be forced to have their services cut because of the actions of bankers and hedge fund managers." said Kristin Goodwin, director of NYC policy and organizing for Housing Works.
This year will be a red letter year for AIDS activism. In addition to the ACT-UP anniversary, Housing Works and other activists were arrested on Capitol Hill protesting the federal ban on syringe exchange in March. In July Housing Works and organizations across the globe are planning the We Can End AIDS mobilization, at the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC.
AIDS is not over, and neither is the fight to end it.


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A 17-year-old Cañon City girl was reported missing Friday night by family members who filed a runaway/missing person report with authorities.
Miranda Baca is described as 5 foot 2 inches tall, weighs 100 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a tattoo that says "Sister" on her front left shoulder, one that says "Family First" with a cross on her back shoulders, and a tribal design on her left foot.
The CCPD said Baca may have gone to Pueblo to meet with a person she had met on the Internet or to be with a boyfriend. Cañon City Police and family members are actively searching for Baca. Anyone who may have information pertinent to this case is asked to call the CCPD at 276-5600 or contact Crime Stoppers at 719-275-STOP (7867); email Crime Stoppers at tipsubmit.com or text Crime Stoppers at 274637. If texting, start the text with: tips680.


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Improving Social Security cards -- that's one of the things that an immigration bill in the Senate aims to do.
There are a bunch of ways you could try to accomplish this, but one controversial option has been around for decades and has never really gathered much momentum. Create a secure card using "biometric" data.
The idea sounds more futuristic than it really is. "Biometric" authentication is basically identifying humans by their physical traits, so the card would have something along the lines of fingerprint or eye scan data.
The current Senate proposal says it would make Social Security cards "fraud-resistant, tamper-resistant, wear-resistant, and identity theft-resistant" within five years. But it doesn't call for the use of biometrics specifically.
There are reasons for that.
See Also: Immigration Reform Has Never Been Just A 'Latino Issue'
In 1986, when the last large-scale legalization program took place, the legislators working on the bill were also considering a biometric ID as part of the package.
But the idea ran upon rocky shores for a few reasons. One was technology, according to Charles Kamasaki, the executive vice president of National Council of La Raza (NCLR).
The federal government "would not have been able to come out with a counterfeit-proof official document that would both be available to all workers and could have prevented fraud," said Kamasaki, who is currently writing a book about the 1986 immigration law. "The technology just didn't exist."
Today, producing a biometric card for all residents and citizens remains a hurdle, if only because of the cost.
A 2012 study by an institute at the UC Berkeley School of Law found that a mandatory biometric ID card would cost $40 billion at the outset and $3 billion per year to maintain.
But even if the government found a way to justify that cost, it would still take a lot to get everyone to agree to the idea.
That's because, as far back as 1986, proposals for biometric IDs have been attacked from both the right and left, by libertarians and civil rights groups, respectively.
Libertarians oppose such cards for a variety of reasons, one of which is the impact on businesses, according to David Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank.
"The main objection from a business perspective is simply the risk of penalties and threats," he said. "Employers could be put in a position where they have to verify the authenticity of an identification card, and could face fines if there's a mistake."
Bier also thinks heightened workplace enforcement will fail to address the issue of undocumented workers. "The only proven way to end illegal immigration is a robust legal immigration process, whether guest workers or otherwise," he said.
Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have different concerns.
"From the ACLU's point of view, a biometric national ID card represents a massive privacy invasion," said Christopher Calabrese, the ACLU's legislative counsel for privacy-related issues. "It changes the relationship between the citizens and the state, so things that you used to be able to do as a citizen, like work or travel, suddenly you need this card to do that."
The Senate immigration bill doesn't include a biometric Social Security card, and that isn't likely to change, even as the bill is tweaked in the legislative process.
There's an alternative that the group thinks will be a strong deterrent against hiring undocumented workers, however. Under the bill, an electronic employment verification system, called E-Verify, would be phased in for all businesses within four years.
The same forces -- libertarians and civil rights groups -- will likely push back against mandatory employment verification. But since the system is already in use and mandatory in some states, it's an easier sell.


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Paul J. Taubman, Morgan Stanley's co-president of institutional securities, will retire at the end of the year, the financial services giant announced Monday.
Taubman will retire after a 30 years at Morgan Stanley .
Colm Kelleher, co-president of institutional securities with Taubman, will become president of the division effective January 2013, the company said.
"We are intensely focused on improving returns for our shareholders," Chairman and CEO James Gorman said in a statement. "I am confident that under Colm's leadership, we will continue to align sales and trading more closely with investment banking and capital markets to drive synergies between these businesses and optimize our ability to grow our revenue base and drive profits."
The company also appointed Mark Eichorn and Franck Petitgas as global co-heads of investment banking. The two will report to Kelleher and will join Morgan's operating committee. Jeff Holzschuh was named chairman of institutional securities and will also report to Kelleher.
Eichorn and Holzschuh will join Morgan Stanley's management committee.


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ESL students may face many challenges as they begin their college education in the US. One of the new concepts for them when they begin their college education in the US is the idea of approaching "writing as a process." The notion of approaching writing as a process is unfamiliar to many ESL students, especially those who are from countries in which students are tested mostly in a multiple choice format and given very few writing assignments.
Most ESL students have limited experiences with academic writing; the genres of English texts that most international students have written before they came to the US are limited to timed-essay tests such as the TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, etc. As they have been trained to write for the standardized English tests based on the grammar correction model of writing instruction that focuses on guiding students to identify grammatical errors, they often look at writing as an activity to formulate ideas into certain frames or patterns and tend to associate good writing primarily with grammatical and stylistic aspects of writing.
Most ESL students are not familiar with writing process pedagogy—such as writing multiple drafts and revising them, focusing more on ideas and less on form, reflecting on the process of their engagement with writing assignments, peer reviews, instructor conferences, going to the writing center, etc. The process pedagogy is predicated on the view that, by writing, students can develop more solid ideas on the topic and will ultimately improve their learning of the subject (Crowley, 1998; Ede, 2004; Fulkerson, 2005). The process approach characterizes a developmental model for writing instruction, which is very different from the traditional grammar correction model of writing instruction.
It is important for faculty to learn practical strategies to guide ESL students to approach writing as a process and help them perceive writing as a rhetorical activity that is always situated in the specific genre, audience, topic, and purpose of the assignment.
The two key ideas that are essential when it comes to the notion of writing as a process are "reflection" and "revision." But students do not need to do the reflection and revision alone. Faculty should guide students to reflect on the process of their engagement with their assignments and incorporate their reflective thinking into their revisions by engaging other peoplein the development oftheir work.
Faculty often ask students to take their assignments to the Writing & Communication Center and discuss their papers with the tutors in each stage of their writing whether they are brainstorming, researching, drafting, revising, or editing. The Writing Center has a crucial place for students' writing and learning processes; however, many ESL students are not familiar with the idea of the Writing Center. Many of them are from countries where it is not common for colleges or universities to have a Writing Center on campus. Their expectations of Writing Center services can be quite different from the students who have used a Writing Center before they began their college education.
It is important to note that many international students are not familiar with the idea of peer review at all. In some countries, peer review is regarded as a form of cheating because students are not allowed to show their papers to other students before they submit them to their instructor. Students new to peer review need more guidance on how to engage in a peer review process and what feedback they should offer to their classmates. Thus, it is important to guide students in how to engage other people(Writing Center tutors, classmates, librarians, etc.) in the development oftheir work, which will ultimately help them become not only better learners but also better communicators in both spoken and written English.
One practical strategy that can help ESL students engage other people (instructors, Writing Center tutors, classmates, librarians, etc.) in their writing processes is to ask them to keep a feedback log and an error log. Many ESL students tend to be overly preoccupied with the grammatical aspects of writing. They may feel quite embarrassed about errors in their writing and want to clean up all the errors that their instructors or Writing Center tutors have pointed out. They put away their paper after inserting other people's feedback. However, students may make the same errors over and over again if they just put away their paper after inserting other people's feedback. Often, students do not even realize that they make the same mistake over and over. If they are not aware of the problem, they won't be able to fix it.
Keeping an error log about frequent mistakes or weaknesses can help draw students' attention to the areas where they need to improve. It can guide them to focus on the rhetorical aspects of writing concerned with ways of developing their argument, organizing their ideas, synthesizing sources, constructing a thesis statement, and representing their identity.
As faculty guide students to reflect systematically on the feedback they receive from the other people, students become more aware of their strengths and weaknesses as a thinker, reader, and writer. Keeping logs on a regular basis can help students grow naturally as researchers as well as writers for the courses that require students to integrate their everyday experiences into their writing and academic analysis. It will also help students write up a portfolio project, which requires them to reflect on the process as well as on the product of their work. Here are error log and feedback log templates.
Another effective strategy to help students approach writing as a process is to have them draw their own writing process. For example, ask students to think about their most difficult assignment and then draw the processes of their engagement with it on a blank piece of paper. Ask them to capture each step of the process including the readings they did, the conversations they had with their instructor, classmates, librarians, the tutoring sessions they had at the Writing Center, etc. Ask them to see how much time they really spent for each stage of their writing process (i.e., planning, reading, researching,drafting, writing,revising, editing, etc). Students may realize that they spent a small percentage of their time researching the topic despite their lack of knowledge about the topic. They may realize that they just skimmed the required readings on the computer screen resulting in an insufficient understanding of the reading material. They may also recognize that they worked on the assignment as a solitary writer: they did not talk about their work with any other people at all. They may realize that they were not familiar with the genre of the assignment as well as the audience of the assignment.
This kind of visualization can help students to understand writing as a rhetorical activity that is always situated in the specific audience, genre, and purpose of the assignment. Drawing their writing process with a particular assignment can help them realize that writing involves multiple modes of the writer's interaction and communication in a variety of settings about the ideas that they have been thinking about while cooking, eating, driving, exercising, showering and walking (Prior & Shipka, 2003). It can also help students see the specific aspects of writing where they are having the most difficulty and the areas that need improvement. When they have difficulty understanding certain concepts of readings, the process of visualization can also help them identify the gaps and fallacies in their thinking and writing.
Crowley, S. (1998). Composition in the university: Historical and polemical essays. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Ede, L. (2004). Situating composition: Composition studies and the politics of location. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Fulkerson, R. (2005). Composition at the turn of the twenty-first century. College Composition and Communication, 56(4), 654-687.
Min, Y.K. (work in progress). Writing as a process: Practical strategies for ESL students.
Prior, P. & Shipka, J. (2003). Chronotopic lamination: Tracing the contours of literate activity. In Charles Bazerman and David Russell (Eds.), Writing selves, writing societies: Research from activity perspectives (pp. 180-238). Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity.
Young-Kyung Min, PhD
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Empiricism is a philosophical approach to knowledge and Epistemology that emphasizes reliance on evidence gained through the senses and experimentation, as opposed to intuition or purely theoretical considerations. Something described as empirical is generally based on direct observation or experience, with emphasis on those experiences being objective. It is contrast with idealism, rationalism, and historicism. It is classified as a phenomenological theory of thought.
Typically, empirical research results in gathering quantitative measurements. Several examples of this are:
- Measuring the position of a star beside the sun during a solar eclipse to verify Albert Einstein's Theory of relativity.
- Measuring the voltage across the terminals of a capacitor over time, at regular intervals.
- Keeping statistics regarding the effects of a new medicine versus the placebo effect.
Implications to Apologetics[edit]
One of the primary failures of the God hypothesis, as well as most supernatural claims, is that they are not empirical, testable or even falsifiable. Most supernatural claims are subjective in nature. Subjective arguments for God and the supernatural usually have open-ended interpretations of events, especially in regards to meaning.
A large portion of the arguments for the existence of God attempt to reason God into existence, devoid of any empirical experimentation. These logical arguments for God's existence are theoretical in nature and are not based empirical evidence. Philosopher Rene Descartes' arguments can be seen as non-empirical.
An empirical phenomenon manifests in some physical way. If the phenomenon does not manifest physically, then it is impossible to determine its existence by physical (empirical) means. Empiricism is the final confirmation for hypothesis, which most apologetic claims cannot do.


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Let's see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars?
And Kitsap County?
Don't let the economy, lack of idea's, or know -how stop you from enjoying what spring and summer can do for the outside of your home or apartment. People are always giving away plants and other garden goodies on sites like Craigslist and Free cycle. So if there is a will there is a way to create a plant and flower oasis for you, your family, and the people who may visit you. It will make you feel good to be in beautiful surroundings at your own home and shed all of that rainy dark winter.
I don't know about you but I have the plant passion fever right now and I have found ways to do it economically that will allow for good herbs, vegetables and flowers. I like to mix herb plants with a couple of flowers, rocks and usually a shiny piece of art or glass. I do not think plants, veggies, herbs and outdoor design in general should cost a lot of money and right now most people are being money conscious about extra expenses. This doesn't mean we can't enjoy outdoor design delights in color and function.
I get my seeds from the dollar store at 4/ $1.00 and I don't think you can't beat that price with a garden stick right? I am also a fanatic "as seen on TV" person and found the min water globes. I don't think mine works right but for a buck it is so…VERY pretty! See it in blue in the above picture…
Things you can add to your garden to delight you are plant signs, rocks, beads, and marbles to make for interesting effects to the design and plants.
As far as plants, I like and seriously need low maintenance. I purchased pansies ( I got mine from the nice people at Valley Nursery in Poulsbo) which are very hearty and bloom well into summer. They can also survive a little bit of the cold nights like we are still having. I also love hens and chick succulents (which is the pointy plant on the left in the picture below). These grow anywhere and multiply very quickly. They love containers and often love to multiply in them. They are available in seeds or plants but if you know someone who has them in their garden you can ask for a baby hen and you will be filling containers and gardens with tons of them in no time. These also transplant from location to location well, as I have transplanted them to three different Kitsap towns but I must warn you…
Chicks and Hen Succulents, Oregano, and Pansies
If you live in Bremerton you may want to get permission from the chicken politic people to have these hen and chick plants! Hahahaha sorry (don't be a hater) but I couldn't help myself on that big chicken!
My Chocolate Mint Plant,Purple and White Pansy & Chives w/my homemade rain chain.
I also am homing chocolate mint, oregano and chives. Even though I am a renter I will be growing (from seed) squash, lettuce and sunflowers. The lettuce will be in hanging containers on my back deck and my Sunflower seeds are going straight into the ground on the sunny side of the house. I will worry about thinning them out later (the less work the better right now) right?
Special Lisa Sunflower outside Garden Art Picture in progress
Anyhow, when you are planting make sure you sing …
"Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars.. Let me see what spring is like… On Jupiter and Mars " or just listen to the video below to get in the planting design mood. Enjoy Designing!
I hope you create something meaningful that will help you enjoy every single day of your life.
Look at the pretty pictures for more container and plant ideas.
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2018
"Solid execution and success in our efforts to reposition the Company resulted in a $289 million improvement in Adjusted EBITDA on a $53 million increase in revenue in 2017," commented Clay Williams, Chairman, President, and CEO. "Our team continues to position the Company in the markets that matter most to our customers by investing in technologies that drive better economics for our clients.
"Our diverse global franchise that leverages capabilities across business lines is focused on developing improvements in drilling automation, multistage completions, predictive analytics and condition-based maintenance, and deepwater project economics. Advances on these and other initiatives have us well positioned to capitalize on improving industry fundamentals in 2018 and beyond."
Revenues for the fourth quarter were $1.97 billion, an increase of 7% compared to the third quarter and an increase of 16% from the fourth quarter of 2016. Operating loss for the fourth quarter was $111 million, or 5.6% of sales. Adjusted EBITDA (operating profit excluding depreciation, amortization, and other items) for the fourth quarter was $197 million, or 10% of sales, an increase of $30 million from the third quarter. Cash flow from operations for the fourth quarter was $321 million.
Revenues for the full year 2017 were $7.30 billion, operating loss was $277 million, and net loss was $237 million. Adjusted EBITDA for the full year was $611 million, or 8.4% of sales, and cash flow from operations was $832 million.
NOV had several significant achievements this quarter:
Published Date: 2018-02-06
Source: Business Wire