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Ten Young Latinos in Politics to Watch in 2013
This year Latinos boomed in mainstream American culture.
In media, Latino affairs grew in network news as Fox News Latino and ABC/Univision thrived as fresh, unique, English-language news sources for Latino culture and politics.
In politics, Latino voters took center stage throughout much of the 2012 presidential race.
At the polls, Mitt Romney never recovered from his perceived demonizing of immigrants during the GOP primary; and Latinos again elected Barack Obama by a wide margin.
A record 31 Latinos were elected to serve in Congress and we made historic gains in state legislatures, as well. Finally, we again lost hundreds of thousands of Latino innocents to the horror of deportation.
This was almost a good year for Latinos in America.
The stakes are high in 2013.
Republicans need us. Democrats owe us. Big media wants us. Our own media is having an impact.
Latino voters have made it clear that we will vote the Republican Party into irrelevance if it continues with the anti-immigrant rhetoric that dominated the GOP's presidential primaries.
Democrats, too, have much to prove to Latinos after failing to collaborate with Republicans toward meaningful immigration legislation during Barack Obama's first term in the White House.
We must give the White House and the Democrats and the Republicans another shot at the first-year comprehensive immigration reform that President Obama has again promised Latinos.
Nearly 1 in 5 Latinos living in the United States remains undocumented.
Whether Latino leaders will convert electoral clout into meaningful, comprehensive immigration legislation has yet to be seen, but Latinos will continue to shape American politics.
Below are 10 young Latinos (listed alphabetically by first name) who are leading the way.
• Adrian Garcia (Voto Latino): "Voto Latino has a lot of young staffers who are just getting started," a respected Washington operative in progressive politics tells me, "but Adrian's the real deal." As Voto Latino's chief of staff, this year Garcia saw the Latino vote break double digits at 10 percent of the electorate. A non-partisan organization, Voto Latino is the most-connected and collaborative force in Latino advocacy media. While Latino voter registration and mobilization are foundational to sustainable civic clout, Latino candidates again made historic gains during this election cycle. In 2013, Voto Latino will have time to consider where and how to continue flexing its talent.
• Adrian Saenz (Obama for America): As National Latino Vote Director at Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago, Saenz did his job extremely well for the president. This year Latinos voted for Obama over Romney by 71 percent to 27 percent, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. With results like these, it will be interesting to see where Adrian lands now that the election is over. Needless to say, he should be able to write his own ticket.
• Bettina Inclán (Republican National Committee): This year Republicans miscalculated the Latino vote. Bettina Inclán did not. Earlier this year, Bettina told the press that Romney was "still deciding what his position on immigration is." This did not go over well internally at the RNC. Bettina had to roll back what she said. In this, the GOP blundered badly, as Romney failed to reconsider his immigration policies and Latino voters made him pay at the polls. Now the GOP has bridges to build and Bettina is a proven Latina ambassador of Republican candidates to Hispanics. The GOP should ask Bettina about immigration reform.
• Clarissa Martinez (NCLR): On Election Night, I asked a relevant friend in cable news production why Latinos are so seldom booked to speak on air about the Latino vote. Her answer: it is difficult to find Latinos with the adequate level of live media training and experience that primetime television warrants. Not so with Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza. She has been developing as a Latino affairs pundit on television since the last major drive for immigration reform in 2010. As the battle for immigration reform again heats up in 2013, look for Martinez to continue to grow as a recognizable voice of Latino advocacy.
• Daniel Garza (LIBRE Initiative): An alum of Capitol Hill, Televisa, and the George W. Bush White House, this year Garza put the LIBRE Initiative on the Latino political map. The LIBRE Initiative promotes free market and limited government to the Hispanic community. Garza is LIBRE's Executive Director. It will be interesting to see how conservative groups like LIBRE continue to grow and develop now that the election is over and immigration reform is potentially more than a blip on the national political radar.
• Julie Rodriguez (The White House): As the associate director of Latino Affairs and Immigration for the Office of Public Engagement at the White House, Rodriguez has done a tremendous job of reaching out to Latino organizations and keeping immigrant advocacy groups in the loop about the inner workings of reform. Her immigration and Latino affairs email updates are an invaluable resource for folks looking to keep up with how the federal government is working with the Hispanic community. Sign up for Julie's emails here.
• Julio Varela (Latino Rebels): In 2011, there was still plenty of room for cojones in the Latino media sphere. This year, the Latino Rebels moved to fill the void by taking politicos, brands, and media organizations to task for under-representing or misrepresenting Latinos -- especially in politics and advertising. As entrepreneur jefe, Varela represented the Latino Rebels on Face the Nation, NPR, Univision, Forbes, and in The New York Times. This won the Latino Rebels this year's coveted LATISM Award for Best Advocacy Blog. In 2013, look for Julito continue appearing in mainstream media as a much-needed voice of Latino criticism.
• Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida): This year, the freshman senator from Florida went toe-to-toe with Univision's legendary watchdog news anchor Jorge Ramos through a grueling interview in Spanish for primetime. Next year Marco Rubio will have a lot to consider -- in particular, about immigration reform and the future of this political party. I tend to agree with Jorge Ramos' assessment of Rubio earlier this year: "The first Latino president? Maybe. But the first step for Rubio will be publicly defending Latinos in need of help, regardless of where they were born. Right now, Rubio has the opportunity to become their champion -- both those who are documented and those who are not." In doing so, Rubio should consider attaching his name to a very fine piece of immigration reform legislation.
• Sergio Romo (San Francisco Giants): After winning this year's World Series, Romo, the grandson of migrant farmers from Mexico, made waves in the political and sporting press when he wore a t-shirt to the Giants' victory parade that said "I JUST LOOK ILLEGAL". This was not the first time Romo has donned T-shirts showing provocative Latino affairs messaging. As political media and Latino advocacy groups look for fresh, authentic Latinos voices, Romo can continue to raise his profile in Latino politics. Or he can just continue inspiring us as a Latino success story and world class athlete.
• Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas): Last week, Cruz was elected to be the third Latino serving in the United States Senate. After the election, Cruz told CBS News "I don't think the answer to our immigration problems is amnesty." It would behoove Cruz to tread very lightly on the anti-undocumented immigrant rhetoric. He should fall in line behind Rubio and Republicans should lead the way on immigration reform. I am confident Sen. Cruz is well-versed in border security. He should avoid opposing immigration reform's necessary and responsible path(s) to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already living in the United States. Ronald Reagan did. "I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here," the Great Communicator told the American people during his 1985 debate with Walter Mondale, "even though sometime back they may have entered illegally."
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What is this FAQ about? Who is the intended audience? Technical Note: The Audience What is parapsychology? What is not parapsychology? What is a paradigm? What do parapsychologists study? Technical Note: Terms Why is parapsychology interesting? Technical Note: Some Implications of Parapsychology Practical applications of psi What are the major research approaches? What are major psi experiments today?
Technical Note: Methodologies Common criticisms about parapsychology
Why is parapsychology so controversial? What is the state-of-evidence for psi? What is the state-of-theory for psi? Where can I get more information? Are ghosts real? Are poltergeists real? Why aren't psychics breaking the bank in Las Vegas casinos? Is channeling real? Are large-scale effects, like levitation or spoon-bending real? Where can I get a degree in parapsychology? Where can I share/talk to someone about my experiences? Where are some of the active psi research facilities? Who were the main contributors to this FAQ?
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1969. The PA is a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization that endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry.

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CENTENNIAL -- Gov. John Hickenlooper urged Coloradans on Thursday to remain cautious and prevent wildfires despite recent snow and rain, warning that Colorado is still preparing for another "challenging" wildfire season.
Hickenlooper said the danger of wildfires starting and spreading isn't as bad as last year, but it is still higher than normal, and he doesn't want people to let their guard down.
"I don't think we're going to see what we saw in 2012 or 2002, thank God," Hickenlooper said at his annual wildfire briefing with state and federal officials at Centennial Airport. He was joined by representatives of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
Last year by this time, one major wildfire had already claimed three lives after a state prescribed burn sparked a wildfire in the Jefferson County foothills following the driest March on record in the Denver area. Three other people were also killed and around 650 houses destroyed during the lingering fire season. A wildfire burned through the winter in Rocky Mountain National Park. The state also experienced a bad fire season in 2002.


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News - 31.08.09
Latin Influence
The Argentinian wine scene heats up. Note by Stuart Tobe and Anthony Gismondi in Wine Access, the Canadian Wine Magazine.
In February of this year, we participated in the 3rd Annual Argentinian Wine Awards, where more than 350 wines were tasted from across the country. Those competitors, as well as the additional wines we tasted while there, have confirmed our belief in the continuing quality of wines being produced by this country. Argentina continues to produce excellent-quality malbec, perhaps its most well-known varietal, but outstanding efforts are being made in the production of torrontés, cabernet sauvignon, bonarda and syrah, as well. Many of the best wines coming out of Argentina now are Bordeaux-style blends, some with the unusual addition of tannat. With improvements in viniculture and winemaking, many of these wines offer fine value and the ability to improve further in bottle. The following is a selection of some of our favourites.
93 Cheval des Andes 2005
Vistalba, Mendoza, Argentina
A blend of malbec, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and a touch of petit verdot. Spicy, leather, dried herbs, savoury, black cherry, violet, plum, tobacco, cedar, mineral, black olive, coffee, vanilla and cassis aromas. Rich, round, supple but grainy tannins with good acidity and warmth. Intense black cherry jam, cassis jam, chocolate, liquorice, savory, tobacco, black tea, coffee, vanilla, barnyard and cedar flavours. Long, young and suave with good finesse. Certainly one of the most complex wines in Mendoza. Needs 3 to 7 years. (ST)
93 Cuvelier Los Andes 2006 Grand Malbec
Vista Flores, Mendoza, Argentina
Smoky, spicy, black pepper, tobacco, resin, graphite, floral, coffee, five spice, black cherry jam, kirsch, vanilla aromas, with a touch of barnyard and saddle leather. Rich, round, full, ripe and supple, with big concentration. Huge liquorice, black cherry jam, tobacco, peppery, clove, five spice, orange peel, mineral, coffee, cola, vanilla and mocha flavours. Great round tannins, big extract and broad structure. It's big, bold and sexy, but just a bit too hot and tart on the end for greatness. A sipping wine. (ST)
93 Viña Cobos 2006 Nico
Perdriel, Mendoza, Argentina
BC $200 estimated retail price
A blend of 63/37 cabernet sau-vignon and malbec. Very floral, spicy, garrigue, liquorice, tobacco, peppery, blackberry jam, black cherry, cassis, barnyard, saddle leather, coffee, vanilla, waxy, black olive aromas. Rich, ripe, round, full and supple palate, with grainy tannins. Very concentrated and intense with cassis jam, black cherry jam, savory, allspice, tobacco, coffee, black olive, smoky tea, liquorice root and graphite flavours. Long, ripe and intense, with good finesse and balance, despite being very warm and a bit tart at the finish. No lack of intensity here. Needs 3 to 5 years to fully soften. (ST)
92 Bodega Catena Zapata 2005 Argentino Malbec
Mendoza, Argentina
Spicy, smoky, meaty, resin, barnyard, saddle leather, floral, black cherry, tobacco ash, coffee and chocolate aromas. Rich, ripe, fat, big concentration and somewhat tannic and hot. Prune, black cherry jam, smoky, spicy, violet, mineral ash, tobacco, allspice, liquorice, vanilla and coffee flavours with some dried herbs and plum on the finish. Very good intensity, long but a bit tannic and angular now. Very good fruit, if hot at the end. Needs 5 to 7 years. (ST)
91 Bodega Catena Zapata 2005 Adrianna Vineyard Malbec
Gualtallary, Mendoza, Argentina
ON $70 suggested retail price
Smoky, meaty, peppery, chocolate, coffee, ash, tobacco, blackberry and black cherry jam aromas. Dry, round, supple palate, but ripe with grippy tannins. Peppery, smoky, black cherry, ash, liquorice root, spicy, vanilla, savoury flavours. Warm, slightly tart finish and good concentration. Needs 3 to 7 years to fully mature. (ST)
91 Finca Flichman 2006 Paisaje de Tupungato
Tupungato, Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina
Very ripe plum, black cherry, tobacco, chocolate, saddle leather, peppery, smoky, savoury, ash, floral, meaty, waxy nose. Rich, ripe, round and supple with good concentration and acidity, but somewhat tannic. Liquorice, tobacco, chocolate, black cherry jam, savoury, plum, vanilla, allspice and dried herb flavours. Finish is somewhat hot, chewy and intense. Still very young - needs 3 to 7 years to round out. (ST)
91 Bramare 2006 Marchiori Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Perdriel, Mendoza, Argentina
Coffee, mocha, blackberry, smoky, rooty, cassis jam, tobacco leaf, black olive, floral aromas. Round, dry, supple, elegant palate with good acidity but very ripe and warm. Vanilla, coffee, mocha, spicy, peppery, black cherry jam, cassis jam, tobacco, spicy, smoky garrigue flavours, with a touch of graphite. Warm but very intense finish and well balanced. Long tobacco, mocha finish with some slightly leafy tannins to shed. Needs 2 to 5 years to fully soften. (ST)
90 Bodega François Lurton 2008 Gran Lurton Corte Friulano
Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina
A unique blend of 70/20/8/2 friulano/pinot gris/chardonnay/torrontés. Spicy, floral, ginger, peach, lychee, butter, green apple and vanilla aromas. Dry, round, crisp, fresh and elegant, but has some fatness and concentration. Very spicy, lychee, ginger, butter, floral, peach skin, lees, apple flavours. Very good freshness, elegance and richness to accompany seafood or risotto. (ST)
90 Bodega Monteviejo 2005 Monteviejo
Vista Flores, Mendoza, Argentina
Spicy, blackberry, ash, black cherry, mint, allspice, coffee, cedar, mocha, saddle leather aromas. Rich, hot, tannic and concentrated, but good finesse and suppleness. Big blackberry, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, vanilla, cherry, resin, peppery, meaty flavours. Big monster, somewhat tannic but good fruit. Needs time. (ST)
90 Finca Las Moras 2005 3 Valleys Las Moras Gran Shiraz
San Juan, Argentina
Smoky, meaty, coffee, peppery, liquorice, OXO, black cherry, spicy aromas. Rich, ripe, round, fat, warm palate but very supple. Coffee, rooty, peppery, mineral, vanilla, stewed plum, vanilla, meaty, black cherry flavours. Hot and oaky, but with very good intensity and soft tannins on the finish. Bigger style for big game dishes. (ST)
90 Trivento 2006 Golden Reserve Malbec
Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Spicy, orange peel, ash, tobacco, smoky, liquorice, coffee, vanilla, curry, cedar, menthol and saddle leather aromas. Rich, ripe, full and concentrated with some grainy tannins to shed. Black cherry, vanilla, coffee, savory, five spice, peppery, liquorice and resin flavours. A bit fat and hot, but good concentration and balance. Needs 2 to 3 years to soften a bit more. Good value here. (ST)
90 Viña Doña Paula 2006 Seleccion de Bodega Malbec
Mendoza, Argentina
Coffee, black cherry jam, black plum, savory, liquorice, tobacco, vanilla, resin, garrigues, peppery aromas. Rich, round, supple and warm, with grainy tannins and a touch of acidity. Big spicy, savory, vanilla, liquorice, smoky, black cherry, plum, resin and mineral flavours with a leather, orange peel and tobacco finish. Long and intense, with good complexity but hot. Needs 3 to 5 years to soften the tannin and integrate the abundant oak. (ST)
88 Bodega Norton 2006 Privada
Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
A blend of malbec, merlot and cabernet sauvignon. Big spicy, floral, black cherry, liquorice, black pepper, meaty, menthol, smoky vanilla and leather aromas. Rich, dry, warm and somewhat tannic, with vanilla, coffee, blackberry, black cherry, meaty, saddle leather, peppery flavours. A big, chunky, warm style designed for steak. (ST)
88 Familia Zuccardi 2007 Q Malbec
Mendoza, Argentina
A mix of fruit from Agrelo and La Consulta, this shows spicy, vanilla, peppery, liquorice, smoky, savory, black cherry aromas, with a touch of saddle leather. Dry, elegant, slightly tannic palate with vanilla, spicy, peppery, coffee, liquorice, black cherry , tobacco, prune and dried herb flavours. Good finesse and elegance; not a big wine but well-balanced to accompany food. (ST)


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The idea of these magnets hit me when I was working on my Snuggle Play Laugh Love quilt. I noticed when you fuse two fabrics together with Heat N Bond, it makes the fabric rubbery. And I thought why not? Why not see if any one has come up with something like this by making the letters into magnets, and I was surprised that nobody had. It is another one of those things that stem from my childhood. I remember those plastic ABC magnets on my parent's refrigerator when I was little. I even had them for my daughter too when she was little. It was always fun to see what words you could come up with. And with today's technology and social media I added a few extras to add to the fun.
So with out further ado lets get started!
- 1 Charm Pack (Circa 1934 by Cosmo Cricket)
- 1 yard of Cream Garbo #37001 15 (Circa 1934 by Cosmo Cricket)
- 2 1/2 yards of Heat N Bond Lite or two packages of Heat N Bond Lite
- 6- 30 in magnet strips
- 1- Arleen's Fabric Fusion or any fabric glue of your choice will work.
Decorative stitching on letters and numbers if desired
Along with a storage pouch that includes a 7-inch zipper
To start:
You can either do the cut outs first or wait until you have all your material needs finished before printing and cutting out all the numbers and letters. There will be 70 of them to cut out, so grab a kid or grandkid of school age to help out.
*Helpful tip: Leave the dot attached to the j, i, and ? until you are ready to trace them out. Same goes for the = sign too. This way they will not get lost or thrown out by accident.
- Take the one yard of fabric and cut out two 10in x width of fabric strips.
- When you have both 10in x WOF cut out, open up the fabric and cut on the folded line. By doing this you will have four separate panels of fabric to work with.
7. Next arrange the charm squares (eight squares) to your liking on each bonded panel. You will end up using 32 squares out of the pack. Then place on ironing board to be pressed. Allow your iron to set for six seconds before moving around to another spot of the panel.
8. When the charm squares are bonded to all four panels, grab the cut out letter and numbers.
9. Take each cut out and strategically place them to your liking on each square for all the panels.
10. This is not something that I would normally recommend but trace around each template cut out on the right side of the fabric. Once template is trace remove from the panel. When every last template is traced you should have panels that look like the picture below. Then cut out each number and letter from the panels.
Now that you have all the letters, numbers, and extras cut out it is time to get out the magnet strips and fabric glue.
11. Cut out magnet strips to each desired length needed for each letter and number. Once the strips are cut, peel back the paper on the magnet strip.
12. Take the fabric glue and place a bead of glue down the middle of the adhesive side of the magnet.
13. The bead should be thin and not heavy. This way there is no excessive overflow of glue when you press the magnet to the letter or number. * The reason for fabric glue is because the adhesive on the magnet will not hold onto the fabric for a long period of time.
14. Place magnet onto the letter or number with the adhesive and glue side to the fabric. Make sure you also are placing magnet on the backside of the letter or number. Then allow the magnets to dry.
* The fabric and magnets will curl a bit and that is okay. Once they are completely dry, lightly flex the magnet to straighten them out. They will also straighten out once they are on the refrigerator too! And believe it or not that is the end of putting the magnets together. Keep scrolling for the storage pouch option if you want to.
* All seam allowances are 1/4 of an inch unless indicated otherwise.
1. With leftover yardage, cut the full length of fabric x 6 3/4 inches wide.
2. Fold fabric down the middle and finger press the fold. Then cut on the fold line.
3. Place the zipper in the middle of each fabric pieces with the print facing correctly.
4. Place the zipper facing down on the right side of one of the fabric sides and then sew the zipper and side together. * When stitching near the zipper head, stop with your needle down and lift your foot, unzip the zipper pass the need and foot. Place foot back down and continue sewing. Repeat and continue to do the same with the other fabric side.
5. Start with right sides of the fabric together. Line up the bottom edge then sew them together. Once the bottom is finished, sew up the side starting from the bottom up.
6. Once pouch sides are stitched. Pinch the edges and sew across 3/4 of an inch from the top. Do this on both sides of the pouch.
7. You should have…something that looks like ears.
8. Turn pouch outside right and push down on the "ears" so that they flatten on the inside of the pouch.
9. One completed pouch to store your magnets in. Yes, it is small but all the magnets will fit into it.
Thank you for stopping by. If you do make these magnets I hope you have a good time sharing them with the kids or grandkids.
Take care all!
Jennifer Overstreet


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Growth Markets Summit Highlighted on CNBC and Bloomberg
In conjunction with Goldman Sachs Asset Management's 2012 Growth Markets Summit, executives from the firm were interviewed by business news channels CNBC and Bloomberg Television at our global headquarters in New York on April 25.
Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, appeared on both channels to discuss the firm's strategy, performance and the influence of Growth Markets. CNBC also interviewed Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Jonathan Beinner, chief investment officer and co-head of the Global Fixed Income and Liquidity Management team in GSAM.
Webcast Links:
• Jim O'Neill discusses Growth Markets on CNBC
• Jonathan Beinner highlights fixed income in Growth Markets


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Bahrain, small Arab state situated in a bay on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago consisting of Bahrain Island and some 30 smaller islands. Its name is from the Arabic term al-bahrayn, meaning "two seas."
Located in one of the world's chief oil-producing regions, Bahrain itself has only small stores of petroleum. Instead, its economy has long relied on processing crude oil from neighbouring countries, and more recently the financial, commercial services, and communications sectors have grown markedly, as has tourism. The country's chief city, port, and capital, Manama (Al-Manāmah), is located on the northeastern tip of Bahrain Island. A strikingly modern city, Manama is relaxed and cosmopolitan and is a favourite destination for visitors from neighbouring Saudi Arabia; on weekends, crowds of Saudis converge on the city to enjoy its restaurants and bars. Yet the people of Bahrain remain conservative in their lifeways. This sentiment is enshrined in the country's constitution, which affirms that "the family is the cornerstone of society, the strength of which lies in religion, ethics, and patriotism."
Bahrain is renowned for its verdant groves of date palms; since ancient times it has been an entrepôt for trade and a source of natural resources for the surrounding area. Bahrain Island is widely believed to be the site of the ancient kingdom of Dilmun, a commercial centre that traded with ancient Sumer. It has been settled and colonized by various groups, including the Khalīfah family (Āl Khalīfah), a native Arab dynasty that has ruled Bahrain since the late 18th century. Recognizing the islands' strategic importance, the Khalīfah have opened Bahrain's port facilities to the naval fleets of foreign countries, including the United States.
Bahrain's total land area is slightly greater than that of Singapore. Saudi Arabia lies to the west across the Gulf of Bahrain, while the Qatar peninsula lies to the east. The King Fahd Causeway, 15 miles (24 km) long, links Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
The state consists of two separate groups of islands, which together extend about 30 miles (50 km) from north to south and 10 miles (16 km) from east to west. The island of Bahrain accounts for seven-eighths of the country's total land area and is surrounded by smaller islands. Two of these—Al-Muḥarraq and Sitrah, both to the northeast—are joined to Bahrain Island by causeways that have facilitated residential and industrial development; other islands in the group are Nabī Ṣāliḥ, Al-Muḥammadiyyah (Umm al-Ṣabbān), Umm al-Naʿsān (linked by the King Fahd Causeway), and Jiddah. The second group consists of the Ḥawār Islands, which are situated near the coast of Qatar, about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Bahrain Island; a dispute with Qatar over ownership of the islands was resolved in 2001, when the International Court of Justice awarded them to Bahrain. Small and rocky, they are inhabited by only a few fishermen and quarry workers, but they are believed to hold petroleum and natural gas reserves.
Relief and drainage
While the small islands in both groups are rocky and low-lying, rising only a few feet above sea level, the main island is more varied in appearance. Geologically, the island consists of gently folded layers of sedimentary rocks: limestones, sandstones, and marls (loose clay, sand, or silt) formed during the Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene periods (i.e., from about 145 to 2.6 million years ago). The central region is rocky and barren, rising to 440 feet (134 metres) above sea level at Al-Dukhān Hill (Jabal Al-Dukhān), the country's highest point. The southern and western lowlands consist of a bleak sandy plain with some salt marshes, while the northern and northwestern coasts afford a striking contrast, forming a narrow belt of date palms and vegetable gardens irrigated from prolific springs and wells that tap artesian water. The source of this water is precipitation on the western mountains of Saudi Arabia. The abundance of fresh water has provided Bahrain with fertile land, from which it gained importance historically as a harbour and trading centre in the Persian Gulf. Economic developments and population growth have outstripped the available artesian water in the country, and some three-fifths of the water used now comes from seawater desalinization plants powered by natural gas.
Summer in Bahrain is unpleasant, as high temperatures frequently coincide with high humidity. Midday temperatures from May to October exceed 90 °F (32 °C), often reaching 95 °F (35 °C) or higher; summer nights are sultry and humid. Winters are cooler and more pleasant, with mean temperatures from December to March dipping to 70 °F (21 °C). Rainfall is confined to the winter months and averages only 3 inches (75 mm) per year, but this may vary from almost nothing to double that amount. On average, rain falls only about 10 days a year. Sunshine is abundant year-round. The predominant wind is the damp, northwesterly shamāl; the qaws, a hot, dry south wind, is less frequent and brings sand, dust, and low humidity.
Plant and animal life
Some 200 different species of desert plants grow in the bare, arid portions of the archipelago, while the irrigated and cultivated areas of the islands support fruit trees, fodder crops, and vegetables. The variety of animals is limited by the desert conditions. Gazelle and hares are not yet extinct, and lizards and jerboas (desert rodents) are common; the mongoose—probably imported from India—is found in the irrigated areas. Birdlife is sparse except in spring and autumn, when many varieties of migratory birds rest temporarily in Bahrain while traveling to and from higher temperate latitudes.
Ethnic groups
Roughly half of the population is Arab, and most inhabitants are native-born Bahrainis, but some are Palestinians, Omanis, or Saudis. Foreign-born inhabitants, constituting about half of the population, are mostly from Iran, India, Pakistan, Britain, and the United States. About three-fifths of the labour force is foreign-born.
Arabic is the official language of Bahrain. English is widely used, however, and is a compulsory second language at all schools. Persian is also common, although it is spoken mostly in the home. A number of other languages are spoken among expatriates in Bahrain, including Urdu, Hindi, and Tagalog.
The population is predominately Muslim and includes both the Sunni and the Shīʿite sects, with the latter in the majority. The ruling family and many of the wealthier and more influential Bahrainis are Sunni, and this difference has been an underlying cause of political and social tension. Christians constitute about half of the remaining one-fifth of the population, with the rest consisting of Jews, Hindus, and Bahāʾīs.
Settlement patterns
The majority of the population now dwells in towns, but in the north and northwest of the main island, where irrigation has long been carried out using artesian water, there are numerous small villages and isolated dwellings where horticulture is the way of life. This area has an aspect of great fertility, which contrasts starkly with the bare desert appearance of much of the country. Villages consist, for the most part, of substantial flat-roofed houses built of stone or concrete. Some of the temporary settlements of fishermen and the poor are still constructed of barasti (branches of the date palm). There is little permanent settlement either in the southern half of Bahrain Island or on the smaller islands.
More than one-third of the population lives in the two principal cities, Manama and Al-Muḥarraq. Manama, with its port of Mīnāʾ Salmān, is the largest city and contains the main government offices, the business and financial district, many large hotels, Western-style shops, and a traditional Arab souk (market). It has a distinctly modern appearance as compared with Al-Muḥarraq, which is densely settled and has many narrow, winding streets. Other major settlements are ʿAwālī, near the centre of Bahrain Island, built largely for expatriate employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. (Bapco); Madīnat ʿĪsā (Isa Town), a community established by the government in 1968; the sizable settlements of Al-Rifāʿ al-Shamālī (North Rifāʿ), Al-Rifāʿ al-Sharqī (East Rifāʿ), and Al-Rifāʿ al-Gharbī (West Rifāʿ); and Madīnat Ḥamad, completed in 1984.
Demographic trends
The population of Bahrain has been steadily growing, increasing almost 2 percent a year. Birth rates are below average, but immigration rates are the sixth highest in the world. About one-half of the population is foreign-born. Life expectancy is high, males living on average to about 77 and females to 81. The death rate is well below the world average, and the major causes of death are diseases of the circulatory or respiratory system and cancer. About one-fifth of the population is under the age of 15.
Though it was the first emirate where oil was discovered (1932), Bahrain will most likely be the first to exhaust its reserves. Consequently, Bahrain has developed one of the most diversified economies in the Persian Gulf region. Bahrain's economic activity, like that of other Arab states in the Persian Gulf, has largely centred on the production of crude oil and natural gas and on refining petroleum products, making the country sensitive to fluctuations in the world oil market. Bahrain has built on its long tradition of shipping and commerce, however, and has been more successful than some other states in the gulf in developing manufacturing and commercial and financial services. The non-oil sector includes petrochemicals, ship repair, aluminum refining, and light manufacturing. The government-owned Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world's largest aluminum smelters, and Bapco have been profitable, but this has provided less incentive for privatization. Bahrain has remained the most important commercial and financial centre in the gulf, although it has faced growing competition from the United Arab Emirates.
Agriculture and fishing
Less than 3 percent of Bahrain is arable, and agriculture contributes only a marginal proportion of the gross national product. The majority of Bahrain's food is imported, but agricultural production meets some local needs, including a large portion of vegetables and dairy products. Tomatoes, dates, bananas, citrus fruits, mangoes, pomegranates, and alfalfa (lucerne) are among the main crops. Cattle breeding and poultry farming are also encouraged by the government, while camels and horses are bred for racing. The increasingly polluted waters of the gulf, mainly caused by spillages from Kuwaiti oil installations during the Persian Gulf War, have killed off economically valuable marine life (notably shrimp) that were important to the fishing industry. Fisheries have remained largely unexploited despite some government attempts to privatize and modernize the industry.
Resources and power
Bahrain's oil production has always been small by Middle Eastern standards, and refining crude oil imported from Saudi Arabia has been of much greater importance since vast oil fields were discovered on the mainland; in 1998 Bapco began a major modernization project for its refinery. Bahrain's only oil field, Al-Baḥrayn (also known as Awali), is rapidly depleting. Several oil companies, however, have been granted exploration rights by the government. The country's offshore natural gas supplies are somewhat more substantial. Petroleum and natural gas resources and production are nationalized, but in the 1990s the government began encouraging foreign investment in the sector.
The traditional industries of Bahrain were building dhows (lateen-rigged sailing vessels), fishing, pearling, and the manufacture of reed mats. These activities are now carried out on only a small scale.
Ship repair is handled at Mīnāʾ Salmān, near Manama, and at a large yard operated on Al-ʿAzl Island. Light industries include the production of building materials, furniture, soft drinks, plastics, and a wide range of consumer goods. The government has a significant financial stake in all these modern industries. In addition to the aluminum smelter operated by Alba, an aluminum rolling mill was opened in 1986 that manufactures such products as door and window frames.
The government has encouraged the growth of banking, insurance, and other financial services, and consequently Bahrain has become an important financial centre, notably of offshore banking. These activities have increasingly contributed to the country's balance of payments. Bahrain has also been able to benefit from its long tradition as a commercial centre. The country's central bank is the Bahrain Monetary Agency, which also issues the Bahraini dinar, the national currency. In addition to offshore banking units, there are local and foreign commercial banks, as well as investment banks. The Bahrain Stock Exchange opened in 1989.
Bahrain's main import is the crude petroleum brought in by underwater pipeline from Saudi Arabia to be refined. Other major imports are machinery, food, and chemicals. The primary exports are refined petroleum products and aluminum goods. Saudi Arabia is the principal trading partner, and the United States and Japan are also important.
Services, including public administration, defense, and retail sales, employ some three-fifths of Bahrain's workforce and also account for about three-fifths of the gross domestic product (GDP). The service sector, particularly tourism, is the fastest growing area of the economy.
Tourism is actively promoted by the government, and, with its balmy climate and scenic location, the country is a growing tourist destination. Travelers from other, more conservative Persian Gulf countries—who comprise the largest number of visitors—are attracted to Bahrain's more liberal society. Visitors from outside the region come for the country's climate and to experience its unique cultural wealth.
Labour and taxation
The majority of the workforce is men, with women constituting about one-fifth of the total. Women, however, are encouraged to work by the government, especially as a means of increasing indigenous employment. Beginning in the 1970s, non-Bahrainis have comprised a large portion of the country's workforce; by the end of the 20th century, two-thirds of those working were foreigners. There are no unions in Bahrain, which, although legal, are discouraged by the government. The standard work week is Saturday through Wednesday.
Bahrain has no individual income tax, and its only corporate tax is levied on oil, petroleum, and gas companies. Taxes account for less than one-third of the country's revenue.
Transportation and telecommunications
Bahrain Island has an excellent system of paved roads, and its causeway connections to Al-Muḥarraq and Sitrah islands and to Saudi Arabia facilitate travel. There are no railroads, but the principal towns and villages are well served by bus and taxi services; a large proportion of residents also own motor vehicles. Bahrain International Airport on Al-Muḥarraq Island is one of the busiest airports in the Middle East and is served by most major international airlines. Manama is the headquarters of Gulf Air, owned by the governments of Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Steamers run scheduled service from Bahrain to other gulf ports and to Pakistan and India.
Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), established in 1981, serves the country's telephone, wireless telephone, data communications, and Internet needs, either directly or through its subsidiaries. Through Batelco, Bahrain has promoted itself as a regional telecommunications centre, connecting the countries of the gulf region with the broader world. In 1998 Batelco opened an underwater fibre-optic cable network linking Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Since the 18th century, the head of the Āl Khalīfah, the country's ruling family, has taken the title emir. A constitution promulgated in 2002 established Bahrain as a constitutional hereditary monarchy whose head of state is now titled king. Under the new constitution the executive is composed of a prime minister, who is head of government, and a Council of Ministers, all of whom are appointed by the king. The legislative branch consists of two houses: a 40-member Consultative Council that is also appointed by the king and a 40-member Chamber of Deputies that is elected by universal adult suffrage. The voting age is 20 years. Members of both deliberative bodies serve terms of four years. Women, in addition to voting, may stand for local and national elections. An earlier constitution (1973) created a National Assembly composed of appointed members and others elected by popular vote, but after a period of labour unrest and political agitation the assembly was dissolved by the emir in 1975. Public representation thereupon reverted to the traditional Arab and Islamic system of a majlis (council), through which citizens and other residents presented petitions directly to the emir. In 1993 the emir created the Consultative Council, to which the first women were appointed in 2000.
Bahrain's legal system is based on Islamic law (Sharīʿah) and English common law. The highest court in the country is the High Civil Appeals Court, and there are separate courts for members of Sunni and Shīʿite sects. When the royal family faced growing unrest in the 1990s from protesters, predominantly Shīʿite Muslims calling for a restoration of the constitution, a special court was established to prosecute dissenters.
Political process
In light of the political unrest of the 1990s, Ḥamad ibn ʿĪsā Āl Khalīfah, after succeeding his father to the throne in 1999, promised political reforms. In 2001 a national referendum approved a new document, the National Action Charter (NAC), and the new constitution appeared the following year.
Participation in the military is voluntary, and males can enter service at age 15. The country maintains a large military and police force relative to its population, but it is one of the smallest in the region. In 1991, following the Persian Gulf War, Bahrain signed a defense cooperation agreement with the United States. Bahrain is the headquarters for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. The United Kingdom maintains a small military presence.
Health and welfare
Medical care is extensive and free, and there is provision for most forms of social security: pensions, sick pay, compensation for industrial injury, unemployment benefits, and maternity and family allowance payments. The government also sponsors public housing projects that are partially funded by its gulf neighbours.
Bahrain's constitution requires the government to help provide housing for any citizens unable to obtain adequate shelter through their own resources. Nearly three-fifths of all Bahrainis have benefited from government housing assistance in some way, and the government has likewise expended significant resources in recent decades to develop associated infrastructure. In 2001 the government inaugurated a new program to extend housing assistance to rural towns and villages.
Bahrain's public education system, founded in 1932, is the oldest in the Arabian Peninsula. Public education is free for both boys and girls at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels and is mandatory for all children aged 6 to 14. Private and religious schools are available as well. The University of Bahrain, Arabian Gulf University, and the College of Health Sciences are institutions of higher learning. The vast majority of the population is literate, and Bahrain has the highest female literacy rate in the Persian Gulf.
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text: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Joachim Worringen wrote: > The list is provided in XML for just this purpose. However, the list is > designed to show the list of the 500 "fastest" computers - and if many > systems of the same type are among these 500, it is valid information, > too, isn't it? Valid yes, particularly useful no, especially when it could be provided in summary form. > Concerning Geotrace: they propably operate 6 of these clusters > independendly for some reason - why shouldn't they be allowed to list them? Again, what useful purpose is served by listing any after the first, aside from things like impressing shareholder? And I'd be happy to let EVERYBODY list their clusters, one at at time, if there were decent integrated tools with which I could do searches on a structured database of benchmarks, cluster configuration data, cluster cost data. Especially if they stopped calling it a "Top 500" list and just provided the database and a variety of measures of performance that can be searched and sorted according to the needs of the user. Opened it up to anybody that wants to register a cluster! What is there about "500"? Is there part of site maintenance for a tiny database that scales, particularly, with the number of sites registered? Oh. That would interfere with the MARKETING, wouldn't it. > > c) It totally neglects the cost of the clusters. If you have to ask, > [...] > > First, you'd need to define 'cost'. I.e., how would you take into > account the fact that some of the computers are built by volunteers w/o > any effective pay? Does this actually make the computer more > cost-effective? Or the typically much higher maintenance cost for > clusters opposed to "big irons" that many sites experience? I'm perfectly happy to accept cost broken down by category, but I'm personally primarily concerned with hardware costs. Labor is always available at the local going rate, which will sometimes be opportunity cost from an existing labor pool and will sometimes be hired guns and will sometimes involved dedicated local personnel. People can do the math for that tradeoff using their own knowledge of their own organization and labor resources. On the other hand, the time required to get each and every hardware configuration under the sun quoted to do hardware cost estimates IS a significant expense in human time in and of itself in cluster design, and an expense that could at least partially be ameliorated by such a database. It would also help to "keep the vendors honest" if everybody published their cluster hardware costs up front. Hidden costs and privately negotiated deals serve nobody (really) but the system vendors, and clusters like BG and the VT cluster look entirely different when true market price is considered. As for your assertion that "many sites experience" higher maintenance costs for clusters compared to big iron -- I'd like to see that statistically documented beyond "many sites". Unfortunately, I can't, because there is no reliable collection (that I know of) of this sort of data and everybody relies on anecdotal accounts (likely as good or bad as your last experience with either one) or vendor TCO horror stories designed to make you feel good about paying them enough money to purchase two or three times the compute power you end up with in exchange for the promise that what you get will be reliable and "lower your TCO". Note that this isn't stating an opinion on TCO either way. I can tell some stories of my own both ways. In my opinion most big iron supercomputers ARE clusters these days, so what one is really differentiating in any event is the care with which a vendor is selected that can and will properly support the hardware they sell you at any price and however it is labelled. > [...] > > sponsoring institutions are listed). If they want to do us a real > > public service, they could do some actual computer science and see if > > they couldn't come up with some measure a bit richer than just R_max and > > R_peak.... > > Do you know Jack Dongarra's 'HPC Challenge' benchmark, and you track the > discussions on this i.e. on the SC04 panel? My proposal is to make > inclusion of the HPCC results mandatory for new entries in the TOP500, > but keep the list ranked by Linpack for consistency with the results > over time. No I don't, but your proposal is a sensible one depending on whether or not HPCC measures at least some things of use and interest to people who do something other than linear algebra, and the extent to which it includes a useful spectrum of microbenchmark results, which I personally think are a lot more useful than high end "challenge" results likely to be directly applicable to a relatively small range of cluster designers/users. As I said in my response rant that's in proctor-limbo, the way things are now somebody could actually have the fastest HPC computer in the world in terms of (say) the balance between CPU and network and memory to support some fine grained synchronous computation (one that scales out to the largest number of the fastest nodes) and still have the NUMBER of those nodes be only 64 or 128 -- far too small to make a decent Top 500 impression. To that I'll add the proposition that a proper HPC "benchmark suite" should be a lot more concerned with the scaling properties of the suite components than with their utility or "challenge" nature, per se. In many cases, parallel programs have quite predictable scaling properties. One annoying feature of the top 500 is that the linpack scaling properties are so general that it is possible to scale to thousands or tens of thousands of processors (as the current top 100 clearly show) on top of gigabit networks in general. Where are the theoretical curves? What designs are in any sense beating those curves (indicating true innovation) versus lagging them (indicating a sloppy design or perhaps the nature or real engineering)? What designs are living square on the curves, but some at half the hardware cost of others? And of course, none of this is at all useful to people who live on different curves, which is one of my MAJOR complaints. So please, forget the "challenge" part (an open invitation to marketing hype if ever there was one) and provide carefully selected HPC archetypes that might actually be of use to people trying to engineer predictable performance scaling for problems that RESEMBLE those archetypes. Speaking for all the people who do grid-like, coarse grained or embarrassingly parallel applications AND for the people who do computations solving ODE sets with long range interactions AND for the biogenetics people and for the many, many others doing work that is not well represented by Linpack, please include archetypes for those sorts of computations however "boring" and non-challenge-like they may seem at first glance. Of course, one would have to move away from Linpack as the prime determinant of Top 500 membership for this to really do any good, as a lot of potential competitors might have plenty of compute nodes but not much of a network or a hell of a network but not that many compute nodes. > Concerning scaling, R_half gives you some impression already (if > provided - not all sites do so, probably with a reason). > > Apart from this, everyone is free to actually introduce a new kind of list. True. > > > Now, with that said (and it needed to be said, it did it did) the only > > thing most real cluster computer buyers care about is price/performance. > [...] > > I know that at least *some* customers also care for things like > reliability, features like job migratrion, low maintenance overhead and > so on, and include this in their discussion. This is reflected by the All of those are a part of price/performance (or if you prefer, cost/benefit analysis). But no argument. Still, I think that it would be very useful to indicate $/FLOP, if one could ever get honest numbers. Even dishonest numbers would be useful. > fact that not everything in the TOP500 is about beowulf-style > clustering (with the lowest $/linpack-FLOPS ratio). Thus, it might > actually give a fair view of the $/"user value" - if you also, in some > way, could filter out the usual political bias towards or against > certain systems (like, for example, institutions in the U.S. that are > not "allowed" to buy the sort of computer that solves their problems > most efficiently). True enough. A lot of this would be improved by just increasing the range of what is reported to include more detail, and maybe not putting it all on one line. > > > SO I'd have to say that I doubt that the authors of the article were > > particularly well informed, and that AMD is likely to be around and > > kicking for a few years yet. Look, even the Power series hasn't > > disappeared and it has almost no top 500 presence at all, if you > > discount BG itself as IBM showing its marketing clout and finding a use > > for 700 MHz CPUs in Very Large Quantities... > > IBM SP (Power Architecture) has 52 Entries - 10% of the list is just a > little bit different from "almost no top500 presence at all"!? Or did > you mean PowerPC? The latter, sorry. 8 entries (admittedly, four in the top 10:-) -- three of which are big blue, and one of which is the infamous VT cluster. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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At first when she came she ate like she'd never seen food before. I can understand - another dog was there and she probably felt threatened because of where she came from. She was fed alone with her foster mom. If Kosmo came near her bowl she would growl at him.. not nice. She got told no and I took it away for 5 minutes. She used to eat her food then run to kosmo's and try to eat his too. I've now let her know that her food is hers and his food is his and neither one is to touch the other's bowls. (Kos takes a long time to eat.) She's been great with that..
Then we have these chicken jerkey chewies from Costco. If she's eating one and Kosmo gets up on the couch she growls at him. Great.. I take it away from her but I have to be honest with you guys and tell you that I've gotten my hand bit quite a few times from this. I've managed to train her to eat treats pretty, but when it comes to chicken jerkeys there is no going back. Last time I gave her one I ripped it up into tiny pieces and made her work for it - sit - no biting.. if she bit my fingers she couldn't have it. It killed her as I think it's her favorite treat, but she worked through it and eventually got the entire thing. Not the best thing for my fingers, but I am hoping she learned a lesson. My other option is to take them away completely, but I would really like to work through these issues.
I took her to avi's daddy's house yesterday and to keep her busy I brought alone one of those Texas Toothpicks (cow tails.) She was laying in the middle of the rug and Avi wanted to her to be in the bed so she didn't get squished (you never know with seniors) and so he moved her and she growled at him for getting too close to the toothpick I am assuming. Not nice again.. We took it away for 5 minutes and then left it and then took it and then gave it back. As long as she didn't growl at me for taking it, I gave it right back.
When we got home Avi's sister was over. She was playing with Faith and Kosmo with the hide a squirrel toy. She would squeak it and throw it. She growled at Kosmo when he came too close a few times. Again, I took it away.
This behavior is not acceptable at my house and I don't know how else I am supposed to deal with it other than saying NO and removing the offending object. If I yell "AHH NO!" Avi says to me "she's not deaf - don't shout at her." I know she's not but I can't have a low mean puppy voice - it has to be loud and mean, right? I have her in training and her trainer recommended that I spray her when she growls - I don't want to make her not like water and I can guarantee you I won't have a water bottle for every time she growls so I don't think that method will work for me. I don't have kids (thank God) but I do have a niece and nephew that like the dogs and if she ever tried that on them I think I would have a heart attack.
First time I've been saying AHH AHH and NO and taking it away - if it happens again I take her and put her in time out for 5 minutes. I don't know what else to do - does that even sound like it will help?? I am happy we got through the kibble issue - she left some of her food for the last few days which is a good sign to me - I think she knows it's going to keep coming.
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When a team is in a funk like the Canucks are it's only natural for tempers to flare, and they did today at practice as Jonathan McDonald of the Vancouver Province reported.
The Canucks practised today at UBC Thunderbird Arena, and the highlight came 25 minutes in during a full-ice drill. During a breakout, struggling defenceman Willie Mitchell pasted struggling winger Mason Raymond against the side boards. Raymond didn't like it; heavy physical contact is unusual during an NHL team practice.
Mitchell turned and skated back into his zone to retrieve the puck, at which time Raymond ran him. Two hits, both clean, both unlikely.
Raymond went to the net. Mitchell followed him, and delivered a cross-check followed by a high-stick.
This is either a good thing or a bad thing. It's good if in fact it signals these guys care and are getting pissed off enough that something like this comes to a head. it's bad if it's done out of pure frustration.
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EmpathyMy long-term interest is social and emotional development, especially empathy, moral development, and the relation between the two. Included are certain affects/motives that result from the interaction of empathy, causal attribution and situational contexts: sympathy, guilt, empathic anger and feelings of injustice. Also empathy's role in clinical contexts: impact on treatment; vicarious traumatization in therapists; empathetic processes in depression. Of equal interest are the interaction of empathy and abstract moral principles such as justice; and the processes of interaction between affect and cognition in general.
Education:PhD, University of Michigan, 1951 (social psychology)
MS, University of Michigan, 1947 (psychology)
BS, Purdue University, 1945 (electrical engineering)
Affiliations:- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
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- Fellow, American Psychological Society
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Hoffman, M.L. (In Press). How automatic and representational is empathy and why? Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
Hoffman, M.L. (2001). A comprehensive theory of prosocial moral development. D. Stipek & A. Bohart (EDs.), Constructive and destructive behavior. (pp. 61-86). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Hoffman, M.L. (2000). Empathy and moral development: Implications for caring and justice. New York: Cambridge University Press. (This book has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Serbian.)
Hoffman, M.L. (1997). Varieties of empathy-based guilt. In J. Bybee (Ed.), Guilt in children (pp.91-112). New York: Academic Press.
Hoffman, M.L. (1990). Empathy and justice motivation. Motivation and Emotion, 4, 151-172.
Hoffman, M.L. (1987). The contribution of empathy to justice and moral judgment. In N. Eisenberg and J. Strayer (Eds.), Empathy and its development (pp. 47-80). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hoffman, M.L. (1985). Affect, motivation, and cognition. In E.T. Higgins & R.M. Sorrentino (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: Foundations of Social Behavior. NY: Guilford, 244-280.
Hoffman, M.L. (1983). Affective and cognitive processes in moral internalization: An information processing approach. In E.T. Higgins, D. Ruble, & W. Hartup (Eds.), Social Cognition and Social Development: A Socio-Cultural Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 236-274.
Hoffman, M.L. (1982). Development of prosocial motivation: Empathy and guilt. In N. Eisenberg-Berg, (Ed.), Development of Prosocial Behavior. New York: Academic Press, 281-313.
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Mills comes under fire for refusal to revive BDR
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has expressed Disappointment that the Northern Territory Government has ruled out the reintroduction of the Banned Drinker Register (BDR).
Ms Macklin is in Alice Springs today after having met with Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills in Darwin last night.
She has met with representatives from the People's Alcohol Action Coalition in Alice Springs to discuss alcohol abuse in the town.
Ms Macklin is again calling for an assessment of two locals hotels known to operate "animal bars" for Aboriginal patrons.
She says she still wants the Territory to reinstate the BDR, but would not be drawn on what action the Federal Government will take if it doesn't.
"We have been calling, from the Commonwealth, for the reintroduction of the Banned Drinkers Register and I am very disappointed that the Chief Minister has said that the Northern Territory Government will not do that," she said.
"We will continue to consider the best way forward in this regard."
Mr Mills says the Federal Government would be foolish to revive the BDR.
He says while he and Ms Macklin have agreed to work together on remote service delivery, they remain at odds on some issues.
Mr Mills says he is not worried about the Commonwealth using its powers to bring back the BDR scheme.
"I'd be stunned if they wanted to try that kind of stunt," he said.
"That sort of intervention would be a very foolish thing to do, given that the Banned Drinkers Register didn't work."
Mr Mills says he has no problem with the Federal Government's minimum standards for Alcohol Management Plans.
"Those minimum standards are fine," he said.
"It's just how we actually make that happen is the point.
"That's the discussion yet to be had."
He also has reservations about sending assessors to two Alice Springs hotels.
"I've got some real reservations about that being an appropriate measure."
Federal Health Minister Warren Snowdon says the Territory Government is ignoring what is best for Aboriginal people by refusing to restore the BDR.
He says the it has thrown away its best tool for tackling alcohol abuse in Aboriginal communities.
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"There would be less stress on the hospital system, families would be happier, kids would be going to school.
"We'd get better outcomes for everyone.
"Why the hell can't they see it?"
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Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the schedule for our August 22rd, 2009 4th Annual Night Shoot at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum. At this point of firming...
Some events coming up at the BigE fairgrounds this month
the big train show
Springfield Motorcycle Show
Some coming in February
RV and Camping Outdoor Show
Are we going ahead despite the rain? :confused:
The Big E is coming up soon in Mass. Sept. 18 thru Oct. 4
What better way to spend the day with a loved one... than taking them to Magic Wings!! Normally we would be snowmobiling over this long weekend but with the weather pattern changes we will be sticking around and heading out to Magic Wings for the day on Saturday Feb. 14th...
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Any of you guys familiar with the area? have to drive out there for work to pick up some equipment too big to ship. I will probably have at least some evening time to kill. decent dinner and maybe a good beer, any suggestions? have to be able to be easy access to a large fan, small box truck so...
Ya this is a bit early but i ran across this and thought Id post up
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3rd Annual Nightshoot @ Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Official Post
Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the schedule for our August 23rd, 2008 3rd Annual Night Shoot at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum. At this point of firming up I would ask that please post your confirmation on this thread...
Trish and I were discussing having another Magic Wings get together... if there is interest of course...
For those that havent been... its a Butterfly Conservatory in MA... they have thousands of butterflies there all year long... its a macro target rich environment...
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Trish, myself and the clan are going to Magic Wings on Saturday the 8th.... if anyone is interested in going post up or just meet us there!!!
I went to this last year.
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The region's top "all brand" motorcycle show featuring most major brands and custom bikes.
Well looks like snowmobiling is out this weekend... too much snow loss on Tug Hill... so we will be going sunday for the day to Magic Wings and getting brushed up on our macro shooting...
If anyone wants to meet up (this isnt the official NEF meet) post up... and we can work out the where and...
Date is confirmed and payment has been paid!! We will be having a group photoshoot at Magic Wings from 7am - 9am on May 20th!
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Just a friendly reminder that Berkshire Scenic is running its Santa Trains December 1-2 and 8-9th from Stockbridge, MA and Lenox, MA
a good kids event...
This is a GREAT time. Women, children and men are invited. Bring your appetites and cameras.
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The 3rd Annual Goddess Fair, a celebration of the female spirit, will be held at Western Gateway Heritage State Park, North Adams, Sunday September 9th from 12PM-4PM. ...
Just a heads up that I will be heading to Washington Hill area somewhere between the 120s and the 140s to do some shooting... if you will be in the area send me a PM...
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