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The Latest Children's Clothing & Crib Recalls: By Definition, Insanity
Although the quote has been attributed to Einstein, no one knows who said it first. But, whoever it was, their words were indeed genius:
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Case in point: In the month of May, alone, nearly 25,850 defective children's sweatshirts and jackets have been recalled, because their drawstrings created a strangulation hazard. In April, there were 24,300. In March, a staggering 50,295. But February wins the prize for insanity, with 227,200 of these sweatshirts and jackets recalled.
Actually, this goes beyond insanity. Consider this: In 1994, in response to 17 child deaths and 42 serious accidents, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) presented evidence to the garment industry that these drawstrings, "could kill children." The neck drawstrings could — and had killed children by strangulation, when the drawstrings got caught on slides and fences where children played, or on their crib rails. The waist drawstrings could — and had killed children by getting unknowingly caught in school bus or car doors, then dragging the children until they fell under the wheels of the moving vehicle. These drawstrings could — and had killed children whose drawstrings got entangled and pulled them into death matches with escalators, farm machinery, ski lifts….
The garment industry "promised that garments without these drawstrings would be available to consumers beginning with the Spring or Fall 1995 clothing lines." What they didn't promise, however, was to stop making them entirely.
In 1996, the CPSC again presented their evidence to the garment industry, only this time, they provided written guidelines (see the hood/neck guideline, below), hoping that the garment industry would voluntarily comply and stop using drawstrings. The following year, in 1997, the ASTM (the American Society for Testing and Materials, in charge of testing children's clothing for safety) adopted the CPSC guidelines as part of their "voluntary consensus standard" titled, ASTM 1816-97, for the clothing industry. Mind you, neither the CPSC or the ASTM ever breathed the words, "ban" or "mandatory" in their guidelines and standards. They left it to the discretion of the garment industry to stop making clothing that "could kill children."
Nearly 10 years later, and in the wake of more deaths and serious injuries, the CPSC decided in 2006 to post a letter on its website "to the manufacturers, importers and retailers of children's upper outerwear, citing the fatalities and urging them to comply with the industry standard, ASTM F 1816-97. The letter explained that the CPSC staff considers children's upper outerwear with drawstrings at the hood or neck area to be defective and to present a substantial risk of injury under section 15(c) of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), 15 U.S.C. 1274(c)." To give teeth to their pleas, the CSPC also advised that they would slap these manufacturers, retailers and importers with civil fines if they continued making defective clothing. Of course, the CPSC has rarely followed through on this threat.
Is it any wonder, then, that in the year 2010, these drawstring garments continue to be manufactured by the billions and recalled by the millions each year? Is it any wonder that, since the CPSC issued its first warning in 1994, another dozen children — ages 2 through 14 — have been strangled or maimed or pulled into machinery or dragged under the wheels of moving vehicles in accidents caused by these drawstrings?
Here, it's difficult to know who to blame. Do we blame the manufacturers (dozens of them in 2010, alone, hailing from all over the globe, from China to Mexico, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Peru, Pakistan, India and the U.S.) who have spent the past 16 years thumbing their nose at the evidence that their garments "could kill children"? Or should we blame the CPSC and the ASTM for their milquetoast response to these deaths? Or should we blame the retailers (e.g. various department stores & boutiques, but especially Burlington Coat Factory, which carries the bulk of these recalled garments) for repeatedly stocking their shelves with these sweatshirts, jackets and coats? Or do we blame the consumers, who keep the law of supply and demand alive by continually buying these defective clothes?
Whoever is to blame, the fact remains that — in 2010 alone — there have been 327,645 children's garments recalled because they were made with built-in hangman's nooses. Granted, the short-term remedy is simple enough. Remove the drawstrings or, if they're sewn in, cut the strings off before allowing the child to wear the garment. But this really isn't enough. After all, this same insanity has been playing out for years with other children's products — from toys to jewelry to furniture & accessories.
During the first 5 months of 2010, for instance, there have been over 1.5 million cribs recalled due to suffocation and strangulation hazards. This is just a fraction of the 7 million that have been recalled over the past 5 years — a toll that doesn't even take into account the number of recalled Simplicity brand cribs sold over the past decade or so, whose numbers are unknown and, according to the CSPC, can't be counted. Since 2000, forty-six children have been killed in defective cribs. Many more have been injured, some suffering permanent brain damage.
Just this month, the CSPC again issued a "warning" to parents against using drop-side cribs (a warning that encompasses just about any crib brand or manufacturer you could name: Storkcraft, Graco, Simplicity and Fisher Price, along with a slew of "boutique" brands). The parents got a warning, while the manufacturers still have carte blanche to keep making them until the proposed ban on the sale of these cribs takes effect at year's end.
In response, some, but not all crib manufacturers have promised to stop making drop-side cribs real soon, no kidding. Of course, drop-sides are not the only dangerous flaw to crib designs. The manufacturers know this, and so do the CPSC and ASTM. One design flaw, which I personally found present among the inventory of every single crib retailer I recently visited (from elite boutiques to department stores, and from $150 cribs to $1500 cribs) were corner posts and design elements on the upper crib rail that extended over 1/16″ in height — a potentially deadly flaw that is nothing short of criminal on the part of the crib manufacturers. They know better.
For their part, the ASTM has announced plans to introduce tougher guidelines on cribs by year's end, which will hopefully be tougher than their existing standards and testing, which gave a green light to most of the 7 million cribs that have been recalled over the past 5 years. Not to mention the millions of drawstring garments that have been recalled since the ASTM issued their voluntary standards 13 years ago.
On a related note, the CPSC is still hard at work on those drawstrings. Sixteen years ago, the CPSC described their efforts to stop the sale of these garments as a "fiery determination and creativity to solve the problem." Today, the CPSC is poised to make a rule that will "enhance understanding in the [garment] industry about how the Commission views such garments." Reading that line, I can almost hear Scarlett O'Hara breathing those words into Rhett's ear, using her sultriest southern accent. The CPSC's goal is modest. They simply want to rephrase their earlier plea to the garment industry, changing the verbiage to reflect this truth: children's clothing with drawstrings "constitutes substantial product hazards."
Granted, the wording isn't quite as strong as it was 16 years ago, when the CPSC advised the garment industry that such clothing "could kill children." But, heck, maybe the CPSC is onto something. Maybe that's the key: tone down the verbiage, and quit prattling on about dead children. Try that, and see if those manufacturers don't stop making products that could kill children. If that doesn't work, heck, ten years down the road, you can always consider a law to ban the things outright.
There's a word for people who do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. It's called insanity. But I wouldn't necessarily accuse manufacturers of dangerous children's clothing, cribs, jewelry and toys as being insane, just soulless. They've done the math. The payout in potential lawsuits for wrongful deaths and injuries pales in comparison to the killing they can make selling defective items. And apparently business is good enough that — even with billions of recalled products each year — there's still big money in manufacturing dangerous products. The retailers, such as Burlington Coat Factory, have done the math, too. They know that — even with the occasional $600,000 civil penalty for selling hazardous products — there's a killing to be made retailing defective goods. For their part, the CPSC and the ASTM are, at best, impotent to fulfill their roles as the vanguards of product safety; at worst, they're in the pockets of industry, just like everyone else.
But the consumers who knowingly buy these defective products over and over and over — they're the ones who sustain the demand for defective products. Whether it's a hangman's noose, a death trap disguised as a crib, a pretty trinket laced with cadmium and lead, or a toy with small parts that even a monkey could see would choke a child, the consumers keep buying them.
The sane thing would be to stop buying defective products. Stop buying drop-side cribs, clothing with drawstrings, cheap children's jewelry from China, toys with small parts. Then, like magic, the manufacturers would stand up and do the right thing. They'd stop making them faster than you can say show me the bottom line. They might even roll out a campaign, patting themselves on the back for taking the initiative to stop selling dangerous products for children. Let them do this. The important thing is that the children — past, present and future — who are killed by these products do not die in vain.
For more information or to take action:
CRIB SAFETY: For more advice on crib safety, and how to assess if your crib is safe, visit the CPSC pages, Safe Sleep Part I: The Crib and Crib Safety Tips.
CLOTHING SAFETY: Read CPSC's documentation and proposed new rule, dated May 17, 2010 and titled, "The Determination That Children's Upper Outerwear in Sizes 2T to 12 With Neck or Hood Drawstrings and Children's Upper Outerwear in Sizes 2T to 16 With Certain Waist or Bottom Drawstrings Are a Substantial Product Hazard."
- From this same webpage, you can also access the Federal eRulemaking Portal, where you can submit your own comments on the CPSC's proposed rule. To leave a comments, simply follow the link to the Federal eRulemaking Portal, then enter the CPSC document number CPSC-2010-0043 into the keyword/ID space on this page and click "search." This will take you to a page where you can leave a comment. A sample comment might read: As a member of the American public, which your agency serves to protect from dangerous products, I would demand that the CPSC set aside this latest effort to urge voluntary compliance with the garment industry. I would ask that you put an immediate end to 16 years of ineffective CPSC guidelines and, instead, institute an outright mandatory ban on the types of drawstring garments you describe in your proposed rule. To do any less pays a grave disrespect to the painful lessons left by the children who were killed by these dangerous products.
PRODUCT RECALLS: To keep up to date on current product recalls, make regular visits to the CPSC Recall pages, where you can also observe an insane pattern, as the same types of dangerous products get recalled over and over and over again. While you're at it, you may as well also visit the FDA Recalls pages, where you can see the latest food and drug recalls. Here, you will also observe a similarly insane pattern, as the same types of dangerous products get recalled over and over and over again.


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This is quite detailed and invaluable to the treatment and possible cure of this disease.
Is a word that generally spreads panic through fish keepers, it is usually fatal and highly contagious, most fishkeepers hopefully will never experience this disease, those that have experienced it know how deadly this disease can be, this is a little introduction into this disease on what it is, how to prevent it, what to look for, and a possible cure
So what is bloat
Bloat affects the digestive system of the fish spreading quickly through the Gut, digestive tract, and intestine, eventually spreading to all the internal organs. Malawi Cichlids carry some form of bloat that lies dormant in the fish and usually requires a trigger to activate the disease. Poor water quality, as an example, will lower the fishes immune system making way for the disease to spark into life. Other factors can be newly introduced fish already carrying the disease. It grows through the digestive system eventually blocking any path for food to be consumed and the initial look of the fish is swelling of the body as the disease takes a hold of a fish, hence the name bloat. Because the path for food gets blocked the fish starve to death and if left the fish will look painfully thin at around the time of death.
What causes bloat
Poor water quality is a big factor in getting bloat. With poor water the fish become stressed and the immune system becomes affected, losing the ability to keep the disease at bay. A good maintenance routine on your tank is essential. Wild fish in particular are prone to bloat with near perfect water conditions required and a good maintenance routine needed, this is one of the reasons wild fish are not suitable for beginners to the hobby. Tank bred fish are a lot more hardy and can usually tolerate water that is, lets just say not ideal, although still require something near.
Newly introduced fish already carrying the disease
I cannot stress this enough, you have just spent £2-300 pounds maybe a thousand pounds on your tank, there is no excuse not to buy a small quarantine tank with a cheap filter and heater for thirty quid. You have a new fish and you want to see this fish in all its glory in the tank but this one fish has the potential to wipe out your whole population of fish why risk this for the sake of two weeks inside the quarantine tank, even if you have bought fish from a reputable source and your have bought from them before, always always quarantine
A good tip when buying fish is to find out what water parameters the fish is in because it might be vastly different from the water its going to be going in. If this is the case then you are better off shopping elsewhere, because this causes all sorts of problems to the fish and fish keeper with trying to balance out the difference with either having to gradually lower or raise the water parameters. Chucking a fish into vastly different water parameters will send the fish into shock/stress and leave it open to all sorts of infection. Remember, NEVER put the water in the tank that the fish have been in that you have just bought.
it can be from many sources bullying, water, over enthusiastic males ect, get to know your fish look for sudden changes in your tank, and if necessary make the changes needed for the fish to live a happy life.
Mbuna have developed, over how ever many years to feed predominantly on a veggie type diet. Yes they do take small fry but this is more of a tasty treat, not a regular part of their diet. Look for foods that have a protein content of a max of 40% lower if you can get it, too much of a meaty diet and the fishes digestive system simply cannot deal with it.
Most haps like a more meaty diet, giving them a veggie diet is not providing the fish with the protein it requires. [Mixing the two species in one tank is not really recommended because of this situation you cannot feed the fish the right diet without the Ddifferent types eating each others food.
Over feeding
These fish are greedy little scavangers, we all approach the tank and are faced with everyones face at the top looking for food. They are not hungry just greedy, fed once a day just enough, the general overall look of the fish should be lean, level ish across the bottom of the belly. A fat well rounded fish might look better in your eyes, but in fact isn't healthy for the fish, these fish have a fairly slow digestive system and because of this overfeeding can lead to undigested food rotting inside the fishes gut.
What to look for in a fish with bloat
Most of the things to look for can be something and nothing, and it is important to stress just because one of your fish might have, what look like a symptom can usually be put down to something else, so don't panic at the first sign of a fish behaving a little different. Instead try to associate two or more symptoms before you begin to stress yourself out.
Slow lethargic fish hanging around motionless, usually near the surface.
Do not confuse this with a bullied fish or a female that has been harassed and is having a break, if you study your fish then you will notice what exactly what this is.
White stringy faeces
We have all read or heard of this but what exactly is it. Look for faece trailing from the bum that is as thin as a piece of cotton and white/transparent in colouration , some foods can change the appearance of their poo, so if you are feeding something new for the first time don't panic, because sometimes the colour can alter due to this.
Lack of colour
This is usually accompanied with the slow movement of a fish, however this can be vague, if there has been a change in the social standing, a fish will colour down.Also a dominant male will never show a weakness so will always be in colour, sometimes the first sign of a problem is when he is dead from the disease
Swelling of the fish
If you are feeding the fish regularly and the right amount, then a sudden swelling in the fish can be down to the disease showing itself. Females swell when ripe with eggs so its important to notice the males behaviour around this time, he should be showing some signs of interest in his "girlfriend", if he is not it could be the wrong type of swelling, also they eat like pigs when getting fed, and eat as much as they can, so ignore any swelling just after feeding time.
Not eating any food
If your fish is an established fish in your tank, then a sudden lack of interest in food is a bad sign that the fishes digestive system is blocked with the disease and the fish cannot feed.They may take in some food but spit it out nearly straight away. With any new fish it may take a while for them to settle so give them around a week to start feeding, also if they spit food it could be down to, not being used to the feed you're giving them. Being naturally greedy, they will soon become accustomed to it and begin to feed. Females, when they have bred have a mouthful of eggs/fry and very rarely feed until the fry are released by the female, this can be up to six weeks, this is perfectly normal so do not worry about this.
The fish appear to be being sick with a rapid movement of the mouth and throat without actually coughing anything up, this usually coincides with the fish not eating, and is a reaction to the fishes digestive tract being blocked to the gut. Do not confuse with an occasional similar sign when the fish has taken something in its mouth that's its trying to rid from its gills ie. sand particles.
It is important to separate any suspected fish early because the disease is very contagious and can wipe out your whole tank.
If more than three fish in your main tank are showing signs of bloat then it is probably best to treat the whole tank, rather than separating the odd fish, although this will be very expensive to do.
Setting up your quarantine/treatment tank
A tank around 20-30 litres is ideal, as soon as you get your tank place the filter pad inside your main tanks filter, this way it will be full of good bacteria, and if the time comes to utilise it the pads from your main tank can be placed in the filter with no need to cycle your tank.
Always fill your tank with water from the main tank. Do not fill with fresh water as this will knock the filter out.
Turn the heater on and set temp to the same as your main tank and leave for a couple of hours for the tank to settle.
No lights or interior decoration are needed such as sand, if you want to, you could add just a few small rocks for the fish to retreat to and feel safe.
Place the suspected fish inside the tank, and increase the temp to around 29 degrees as treatment will work better with an increase of temperature. *** This is for treatment only, leave temp alone if just quarantining a fish***
It usually pays to add an airstone as well, because like most medications it can reduce the oxygen levels in the water, or adjust the filter outlet so the water is breaking the surface.
Treating Malawi Bloat
Lets not get confused with this title, the treatment is not 100% and more often than not,the fish will die from this disease, this is a way of giving the fish a fighting chance of surviving, and remember treatment can be expensive, extreme and can last a long time, so its down to the individual if they wish to carry out these drastic measures in an attempt to cure the fish.
Day one
You have your quarantine tank set up and fish in place, what do we do first?
We apply the first dose of treatment in the form of a product called OCTOZIN, there are others available but this is the product I have used personally and can comment on . This is where it gets a little confusing because when you use this for the first time and read the instructions it goes against everything im about to tell you . It states that you use one tablet - 22.5 litres, ignore this and use 3, yes 3 tablets instead, they state this because of the salt content in the tablet hence why it's also used for a treatment for whitespot, most tropical fish are fairly intolerant to a high salt content but not Malawi fish they can handle the increase in dosage, also because this disease can be lethal an increase in dosage is a major factor in trying to rid the fish of disease and can only help. What you have to remember is this disease is stubborn, if you treat with just one tablet it will do absolutely nothing to cure the fish of this disease.
Add the second dose to the tank another 3 tablets
The third and last treatment for this course another 3 tablets
Do nothing except monitor your fish, the chances are it will not feed so don't give any, all you will do if you try to feed the fish, is pollute the tank and because its little, the water will deteriorate rapidly with uneaten food in there, and cause the fish even more stress and problems
The first course of treatment has finished, change around 40% of the water.
Treat the tank again with the dosage of 3 tablets, and repeat the course as if it was the first course from day 1
Your fish may begin to show signs of a recovery.
Look for a deliberate / increased movement from the fish.
The colour may begin to show again.
It may begin to show an increase in the willingness to feed ,try with a max of three pellets if it takes them in and spits them out it is still very ill so do not attempt any more food for a while, also if it completely ignores them no more food during this course of treatment remove any uneaten food,
it will poo thick white / transparent jelly and a lot of it as well, a lot more poo than normal, if this starts to happen then the fish is showing a good sign the disease is beginning to die off, and its being passed through the system, try to remove this if you can, as one of the ways its thought this disease can spread is through their poo, having a tank with no sand in is easy to monitor for this.
If at any stage the side of the fish bursts then euthanise the fish.
If the fish starts to poo thick red jelly, then the fish has damage to the internal organs and the fish is bleeding internally somewhere, chances are the fish will not recover from either the damage or the disease so euthanise the fish.
Ok, we are into the third course of treatment and a change of 40% of water is carried out again, and we begin the course as if it were day one. Its this course of treatment we are hoping that if no signs of recovery were showing before, then they do now because the disease may have taken a strong hold on the fish and will probably not let go, this is a little bit of a last chance of normal treatment for the fish.
If the fish has not show any signs of a recovery then it probobly never will, if there is a little sign and you wish to carry out another course of treatment then do so.
Because we have got to this stage, then the disease has all but condemned the fish and we are left with a decision as to wether to carry on as before, hoping the fish may recover, but will probably starve to death or die from damage to the internal organs.
Euthanise the fish,it sounds cruel but will be doing the fish a favour
Treat with a dose that will nuke the disease but may also kill the fish, it may sound daft, giving the fish a lethal dosage, but the fish will probably die anyway and you have nothing to lose.
If you wish to carry out the mega dose then change 40% of the water, and then add a dose of ten tablets on day 1, 10 on day 2 and 10 on day 3. If it lives till the 8th day, then it may show signs of recovery, if it does not then put the fish out of its misery. If the fish has shown signs of a recovery, revert back to a normal course of treatment until you are happy the fish is cured.
If at any stage the fish shows signs of a recovery, then complete the course of treatment it is on, change the water 40% and quarantine lowering the temp back to normal as well. Monitor the fish closely and if it shows any sign of a relapse then treat again from day 1. Do not put any fish in your main tank that have had the disease for at least two weeks and be 100% sure of a recovery because you may put back an infected fish to spread the disease to the rest of them again.
Some of what has been written, may seem to some, as extreme, heartless, and inhumane and for this I apologise. However you have to realise this disease is deadly, and drastic action has to be taken to stop this disease.
Follow a good water maintenance routine, feed the right stuff ,feed the right amount, stock the right fish ,and quarantine new fish, then the chances are you wont experience this fatal disease


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Digitimes reports that Samsung will adopt the Qi wireless charging standard for their upcoming Galaxy S IV. Recent smartphones like the LG Nexus 4, HTC Droid DNA, and Nokia Lumia 920 have all supported the Qi charging standard out of the box, but the wireless charging technology is still not very widespread and accessories are limited.
A representative from the Wireless Power Consortium told me that they estimate there are around 10 million Qi-enabled devices world wide. Analysts are predicting that Samsung could sell 100 million units of the Galaxy S IV, so that could increase the number of Qi devices by a factor of 10.
Some may remember that Samsung and Qualcomm created the Alliance 4 Wireless Power to push another wireless charging technology, but that is not expected to appear in devices until 2014 or later. Our sources tell us that technology from A4WP will be backwards compatible with Qi, so it makes sense for Samsung to use Qi in the Galaxy S IV, as itâs the most widely supported standard for now.
It is unclear if Samsung will embed the wireless charging technology or require users to purchase replacement back covers, but we are hoping that Samsung makes the feature standard. We have witnessed Samsung pushing their flip-covers in recent TV ads and we know those products are high margin, but we think that Samsung could create a whole new industry of wireless charging accessories if they just include Qi out of the box.
I own the LG Nexus 4 and use the LG wireless charging orb, but I have been longing to see wireless charging built into furniture accessories like a coffee table or night stand. We have seen several companies produce furniture prototypes (see my hands-on video from CES 2011), but none are currently available for sale.
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S IV on March 14th, so we shouldnât have to wait much longer to see if these reports are true.
Is wireless charging a feature you would like to see included on your next Android phone?


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OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The family of Terri Schiavo, a comatose woman who died in 2005, has become involved in helping the family of a comatose California teenager.
Jahi McMath's family hopes to transfer the 13-year-old from Children's Hospital Oakland to New Beginnings, a New York facility dedicated to Schiavo's memory, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Jahi's family has gone to court to force Children's to keep her on a ventilator, while the hospital contends she is brain dead.
Schiavo was the focus of a lengthy legal battle between her husband, who wanted to remove her from a feeding tube and allow her to die, and her parents. In the months before her death, the case attracted national attention.
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Foundation said Tuesday it has been helping Jahi's family but has done so quietly because of the case's "sensitivity."
"Jahi McMath has been labeled a 'deceased' person. Yet she retains all the functional attributes of a living person, despite her brain injury," the foundation said. "This includes a beating heart, circulation and respiration, the ability to metabolize nutrition and more. Jahi is a living human being."
Allyson Scerri, the founder of New Beginnings in Medford, N.Y., made a similar statement Tuesday on her Facebook page, the Mercury News said.
Children's Hospital Oakland says Jahi is brain dead with no chance of recovery, KGO-TV, San Francisco, reported Wednesday. The hospital wants to remove her from a ventilator.
Jahi's family has won a court order requiring the hospital to keep her on the ventilator until next Tuesday, the day a hearing is scheduled in federal court.
Relatives say the girl cannot be moved until she has a tracheotomy and surgery necessary to insert a feeding tube.
"What the family attorney is demanding is for surgery to be done, for anesthesia to be applied to someone who is deceased, that's just not done," Sam Singer, a spokesman for the hospital.
Jahi has been comatose since tonsil surgery went badly wrong three weeks ago.
"Pretty much we want Children's Hospital to either help us or get out of our way," her uncle, Omari Sealey, told KGO.


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Open Source Bridge 2009 sessions
Open Source Bridge took place June 17–19, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
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* Bootstrapping Your Open Source Business
A panel on funding your business without VC, based on GitHub's experiences.
|Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Tom Werner
* Bridging the Developer and the Datacenter
This discussion will creatively explore the fundamental technologies being used by hosting providers, and bridge these concepts with open source development and application deployment. Developers attending this discussion will be provided with examples of where failure can occur, and what questions to ask their provider to ensure optimal uptime for their applications.
|Thomas Brenneke
* HOWTO earn an open source living without taking on investors or selling your soul
Earning a living from open source software? Yes, we can. Let's talk about what actually works (and what doesn't work) for building a service business based not just on open source software, but with an open source philosophy, drawing on real world experience.
|Brian Jamison
* How to build a successful open source software consulting company
Lessons learned from a successful open source consulting company. This talk is geared towards the open source developer who is considering starting his/her own business, and the entrepreneur who wants to grow the business by leveraging open source development methodologies.
|Nate Aune
* Information Security for the Open Source Business
Learn how to address the unique information security challenges that open source businesses face.
|Kevin Kenan
* Open Source Press Relations
You have a really cool open source project and everyone should see it, try it, and use it. But ... they don't seem to know about it. How can you make sure your project gets the press coverage it deserves?
|Josh Berkus
* Open Source Tools for Freelancers
As a freelancer, you must be your own IT department. You are responsible for website hosting, backups, version control, project/time-tracking and invoicing. Finding inexpensive and maintainable solutions for these needs can be quite daunting. In this session, I will present an overview open-source solutions for these needs.
|Christie Koehler
* Open Source on the Farm
Most farmers don't use Open Source Software. Why not? Are there cultural issues? Are needed applications missing? Could Open Source Software be packaged better for farmers? Are there marketing and advocacy issues?
|David Mandel
* Work for the Government for Fun and Profit
Government consumes lots of technology and, with the stimulus dollars poised to invest heavily in information technology, spending will increase sharply over the next several years. The potential benefits to using open source software in the public sector may seem intuitively obvious. But what if you own a small business or are an independent developer/contractor? Can the little guy do business with a big bureaucracy? And what IS the government doing to pursue open source today?
|Deborah Bryant
* A Database Called The Web
In 2002 people wanted to build a database to track creative works; we built that database and it's called the Web.
|Nathan Yergler
* An Introduction to Computer Vision
Learn about several computer vision techniques and how to put them together to form an entry-level object classifier.
|Matthew Dockrey
* Android location services from social networks to games
Adding real-world location to mobile applications on the Android platform takes users out of the ethernet and into the world.
|Don Park
* Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
This session is for developers who want to learn about the Android platform. Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. We'll discuss the Android toolset and platform API's.
|Sean Sullivan
* Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web
Rethinking MySQL for the modern web.
|Brian Aker
* Drop ACID and think about data
Survey of current database technologies beyond the traditional ACID RDBMS
|Bob Ippolito
* Is the Web Down: a Practical Tutorial on How the Web Works
You click on a link and you can't get to your favorite web site. Now what? Is the web site down? Is it your connection? Is it something in between? How can you figure out what's wrong if you don't know how it works? We'll show you everything that happens after you click a link so next time the web site is down you'll know what to do to fix it.
|Michael Schwern, Joshua Keroes
* Layers of Caching: Key to scaling your website
Caching is essential to ensuring that your website will survive a large spike in traffic. With so many different forms of caching, how are you supposed to know what works and why you should use it? The key is layering your site with several forms of caching.
|Lance Albertson, Narayan Newton
* Open Source Microblogging with Laconica
Microblogging lets people share short status messages with their social network. Public Web sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk are wildly popular with consumers, but Open Source programs allow a distributed social graph and implementation inside the enterprise firewall. Evan Prodromou, founder of Identi.ca, will describe the Open Source microblogging tool Laconica and its uses in the workplace and on the Public Web.
|Evan Prodromou
* PHP - Architecting and Profiling for performance
A look at efficient PHP development through proper architecture and profiling tools.
|Rasmus Lerdorf
* Speed up that library when you can't C a thing
The problem: you're using a modern dynamic language not known for speed, and you've identified a bottleneck. Write it in C? Does that give you the shakes? There are other language options available...
|John Melesky
* The Linux Kernel Development model
How the Linux kernel development model works.
|Greg Kroah-Hartman
* Virtualize vs Containerize: Fight!
Everyone has a different reason to love virtualization: security, configuration isolation... the list goes on. But containerization offers many of the same goodies as virtualization, alongside an efficiency and performance advantage. Just what you need, more options. There's no wrong answer. Andy de la Lucha and Irving Popovetsky help you ask the right questions about what's right for your environment.
|Andy de la Lucha, Irving Popovetsky
* Web Server Shootout
Deploying your .com behind nginx so you're ready to handle that flood of users on launch day? Wondering if you should use mod_python, mod_wsgi, or FastCGI to deploy your new Django project? This presentation will present comprehensive and practical benchmarks across a wide variety of metrics to help you make an informed decision.
|Michael Schurter
* "M" is for Manual: Creating Documentation for your Project
Documentation for open source projects is every bit as important as the code itself. But how can you create a single source of docs that can be used in a variety of ways and translated into other languages? This presentation will show you how.
|Paul Frields
* 5 things to know about MySQL if you don't have a DBA
quick and dirty operational best practices that should be baked into your development and deployment plans.
|sarah novotny
* A Tour of CodePlex
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting site. Get an inside look into how the CodePlex team builds the site using 3-week agile deployment cycles to deliver the best feature set for open source development.
|Sara Ford
* Advanced Git tutorial: Not your average VCS.
Do you know the basics of Git but wonder what all the hype is about? Do you want the ultimate control over your Git history? This tutorial will walk you through the basics of committing changes before diving into the more advanced and "dangerous" Git commands.
|Sarah Sharp
* Agile JavaScript Testing
|Scott Becker
* Ask Forgiveness not Permission
In this session we will explore many of the ways to innovate without the need for a significant budget by using open source software to try new things under the radar and on a shoestring budget.
|Emma McGrattan
* Become a better programmer by bridging Ousterhout's Dichotomy
Do you know a dynamic/scripting language like Ruby or Python, but you don't know C? Diving down just a little can make you a better programmer in your preferred language! Scripting languages can teach old C hands a thing or two, too. Delve into the benefits of being a multilingual programmer.
|Andy Grover
* Building Open-Source Desktop Apps with the Titanium Platform
The open-source Titanium platform allows developers to use their existing knowledge of rich web application technologies – JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS – to build desktop applications. In this presentation we'll go from start to finish building a desktop application using Titanium.
|Marshall Culpepper, Martin Robinson
* Building Scale Free Applications with Hadoop and Cascading
A rapid introduction to Hadoop architecture, MapReduce patterns, and best practices with Cascading.
|Chris Wensel
* Building a SQL Database That Works
As a developer, what you really need are some simple recipes for how to think about designing your SQL databases so that they are simple, maintainable, expandable and easy to troubleshoot.
|Josh Berkus
* Clojure: Functional Concurrency for the JVM
Talk about strange bedfellows: what happens when you mix one part Lisp (one of the oldest computer languages), one part Java (so young, yet so well adopted), a healthy serving of functional programming, and a state-of-the-art concurrency layer on top? That's Clojure, which "feels like a general-purpose language beamed back from the near future."
|Howard Lewis Ship
* Clustering Data -- How to Have Fun in n-Dimensions
The amount of information freely available on the internet from sources like Twitter and Github grows every day. This gives us new opportunities to leverage the collective consciousness. Clustering is a wonderful method for finding useful information in large amounts of data. But it can be an intimidating topic for programmers without a lot of academic background. In this talk I will introduce and explain some practical techniques for clustering real-world data.
|Jesse Hallett
* CodeIgniter As Drinking Game
|Jeffrey McManus
* Command-Line Kung Fu: White Belt
Come and learn some useful command-line short cuts and shell idioms that will make you vastly more productive in a Linux or Unix shell. Time permitting, we'll even play "stump the expert", so bring your thorniest shell problems.
|Hal Pomeranz
* Configuration Management Panel
Configuration management tools are finally coming into their own. Powerful, automated infrastructure management is now available in a wide variety of open source tools. Tools written in different languages, using varying operational methodologies and embracing differing philosophies. Come meet some of the creators and maintainers of these cutting edge tools like cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 and quiz them in the why and hows of their tools and the philosophies behind them.
|James Turnbull, Igal Koshevoy, Luke Kanies, Narayan Desai, Adam Jacob, Brendan Strejcek
* Django: Thinking Outside The Blog
Django is a powerful web development framework that is incredibly well-documented. Many tutorials exist for doing simple things quickly in Django... but what do you do after that?
|Dylan Reinhardt
* Drupal, What is it Good For?
Unlike war, Drupal is good for many things. On the other hand, Drupal is far from a one-size-fits-all solution, and some projects are a much better fit for it than others.
|Lev Tsypin
* Firefox Switchblade
Building novel and robust applications with Firefox
|Dietrich Ayala
* Getting Started in Free and Open Source
"All That Glitters is Not (Only) Code - Testing - Localization - Documentation - Release Engineering - User Interface Design / Usability - User support"
|Cat Allman, Leslie Hawthorn
* Introduction to Lift
Build real-time interactive applications using the Lift Web Framework
|David Pollak
* JRuby: when Ruby grows up and gets a job
Ruby has established itself as a first-tier language for developing web applications. Now it's time to think about everything else.
|Lennon Day-Reynolds
* Practical Paper Prototyping
Paper prototyping is the fastest, cheapest way to test your user interface designs. To prove it, in 45 minutes we'll walk through several rounds of prototyping and testing a small application.
|Randall Hansen
* Project Management Should be Boring!
Many people see project management as the art of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one, while trying not to go too far over deadline and too far over budget. It doesn't have to be that way. Good project management can be so predictable and reliable that it's almost boring. Here's what works in real projects.
|Chromatic X
* Scala for recovering Java developers
Scala is a functional/object-oriented hybrid language that runs on the JVM or the CLR. Scala is fully compatible with Java and brings many powerful features to the JVM, features such as: the ability to easily create DSL's due to Scala's ability to define methods for most operators, easily target multi-core hardware as Scala's types are immutable by default, access to the Actor based concurrency model, and expressive and concise code due to Scala's type inference and expressive syntax. All this without much of the boilerplate and cruft code that is so common in Java.
|Shawn Spooner
* Tangible open source!?
A crash course in applying the principles of open source to the creation of real objects.
|Dave Rauchwerk
* Unit Test Your Database!
Given that the database, as the canonical repository of data, is the most important part of many applications, why is it that we don't write database unit tests? This talk promotes the practice of implementing tests to directly test the schema, storage, and functionality of databases.
|David Wheeler
* Using virtualization and automation to improve your web development workflow
Large-scale web projects use sophisticated staged deployment systems, but the prospect of setting these up can be daunting. Using virtualization and automated configuration puts the benefits within easy reach even for small projects. David Brewer explains how Second Story uses Linux, VMware Server, and AutomateIt to grease the wheels of development on their museum-sector projects.
|David Brewer
* Web Testing with Windmill
This talk will discuss different web testing strategies, tools, and getting you up and writing windmill tests.
|Mikeal Rogers
* What's New in GCC
The GNU Compiler Collection keeps getting better. Learn about new functionality and nifty optimizations that have been added in the last couple of years and hear about what's on the horizon.
|Janis Johnson
* Write your own Bayesian Classifier: An Introduction to Machine Learning
Can you perform simple arithmetic? Do you know how to program well enough to open and read files? Then you can write a Bayesian classifier, one of the machine learning techniques for predicting categories, most famous for its use in spam filters. Let's demystify this impressively-named but ultimately simple process.
|John Melesky
* bzr vs git smack down
Selena loves Git and EmmaJane loves Bazaar. And like all good nerds they've spent a fair amount of time talkin' smack about the other's version control system (VCS). Come see what the fuss is all about!
|EmmaJane Hogbin, Selena Deckelmann
* Assholes are killing your project
The strength of your community is the best predictor of your project's long-term viability. What happens when your community is gradually infiltrated by assholes, who infect everyone else with their constant negativity and personal attacks? This talk will teach you about the dramatic impact assholes are having on your organization today and will show you how you can begin to repair it.
|Donnie Berkholz
* Building Open Source Communities in Higher Education
Learning how Open source communities work is an important skill in today's job market, but many college students fail to join projects. Come learn how the School of EECS at Oregon State University is working to motivate students, and help them overcome the barriers of joining open source projects through Beaversource.
|Jose Cedeno, Eric Betts, Justin Gallardo
* Effective code sprinting
Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
|Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright
* Faking It Til I Make It: A Woman On The Fringe Of Open Source
As a long-time user of open source software, I've often considered myself an advocate but not necessarily a participant. Over the last year and a half, my own search for technical inspiration has led me full-circle to the realization that I'm an active member of a vibrant community of technical women.
|Maria Webster
* Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
Welcome to the unconference day.
|Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina
* Get Off Your Asana and Move!
This is a yoga workshop for anyone who sits and works on computers a lot. You will learn breathing exercises and physical postures that can be done at anytime to help maintain a healthy body and clear mind. Suggestions will be included for how to modify stretches to protect injuries and provide gentle opening.
|Sherri Koehler
* How Idealist.org uses technology to change the world
Idealist.org's mission is to help change the world by providing proactive people, communities, and organizations with a forum to connect and communicate.
|Michel Pelletier
* My Grand Experiment: A Portland Women-focused Tech Group.
The idea for Code-n-Splode grew out of the Women in Open Source BOF at OSCON 2007. I'll talk about my original reasons for starting a women-friendly tech group, how the group is evolving, and what I've learned.
|gabrielle roth
* New Ways for Teaching Children Software Programming
Software programming has come a long way for students and younger children since the days of Logo. Syntax has been replaced with connecting blocks and the triangle turtle has been replaced with custom artwork children create themselves. Now, multi-threading and event processing are easier to teach children than functions, and this session discusses these ideas as well as so the edge of kid code.
|Howard Abrams
* Open Source Development - The Dark Side
Navigating the Darkside of the Open Source Development Community. A decidedly sarcastic and hopefully humorous look at the dark under-belly of the Open Source Development Culture.
|Jennifer Redman
* Open Source Library Software: Empowering Libraries - Creating Opportunities
The closed, proprietary, integrated library systems (ILS) of the last decade have left libraries with no control over features, enhancements, hardware platforms, or support options resulting in an attitude of "learned helplessness" when it comes to their ILS. Open Source Library Systems (OSLS) offer opportunities to empower libraries and library staff to create new kinds of collaborative support and development environments. This session uses activities that will help participants understand (from the inside) the cultural shift that needs to happen so they can take advantage of their participation in this Open Source project and not just remain passive bystanders.
|Lori Ayre
* Organizing a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Community Project
Panel: Organization, coordination, and implementation of a volunteer community open source project: http://rosecityresource.org (by PDX Drupal UG)
|Sarah Beecroft, Molly Vogt, Joaquin Lippincott, Melissa Anderson, Israel Bayer
* Python for Teachers
Bring your laptop with Python installed and follow along as we go through examples from a 21st century high school mathematics curriculum, such as we're currently prototyping and implementing in niche markets.
|Kirby Urner
* Re-factor Your Brain: Meditation for Geeks
Meditation is the ultimate open source tool. You can do it anywhere and it's free. It requires only your brain and your body. It's positive effects are numerous, including increased productivity, better problem-solving and a reduction in overall stress. Learn about long-term effects of mediation on the brain, some meditation techniques and how mediation can help you do your job better.
|Christie Koehler
* Running an EDU on OSS
An examination and discussion of the various enterprise-class OSS tools available for course management, online collaboration, and administration for educational institutions.
|Michael Alan Brewer
* Social network supermarkets and how to defeat them
The open source ecosystem operates at human scale, and yet the most popular social networks today are mammoths, where an open source citizen has limited agency with little to no ability to change her environment. Furthermore, efforts like OpenSocial serve to further limit what independents can build outside of the major networks, culminating in a threat the very essence of what makes the open/open source community thrive: choice and marketplace competition guaranteed through the ability to fork.
|Chris Messina
* Teaching System Administration
How would you teach system administration? What important princples and practices would you want students to learn?
|Steve VanDevender
* The Scylla and Charybdis of Open Source Legalese
We exist within invisible frameworks of legal and regulatory schema - even if we're coding in our underwear.
|J-P Voillequé, Paula Holm Jensen
* Thursday Keynotes
Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham
|Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham
* Trust the Vote: An Open Source Digital Public Works Project
If you have ever wanted to know what you can do to make a difference in our electoral process, then this talk is for you.
|Gregory Miller
* Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
|Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
* Building an embedded Linux system monitoring device
As a Kernel developer I spend alot of my day looking at syslogs and rebooting systems. So, I set off to automate the process and you, the audience, will get an introduction to building ARM software and network device drivers.
|Brandon Philips
* Deploying to the Edge from CouchDB
CouchDB can serve standalone applications, which can be shared amongst users, putting the source code (and control) back in their hands.
|J Chris Anderson
* Introduction to Parrot
This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.
|Chromatic X
* Making Twitter Suck Less With Perl
Spam is starting to infiltrate Twitter and other similar online communities. Learn how to use Perl to filter to garbage from the gold and search for what matters to you.
|Jonathan Leto
* Please Your Pixel-Hungry Eyes With Codes That Read Better
Make the text you see in the Terminal window more legible and readable by finding, customizing and designing your own font!
|Bram Pitoyo
* Programming patterns in sed
Learn to turn line noise into clean and structured, albeit unreadable, sed programs.
|Philip Tellis
* Remember Tcl/ Tk? Grandpa might be old, but he can still kick your ass!
Rumors of its senescence -- at least lack of stylishness -- to the contrary, Tcl/Tk is still one of the best scripting environments around. I will show you why.
|Webb Sprague
* RubySpec: What does my Ruby do?
RubySpec is a project to write a complete, executable specification for the Ruby programming language. If organizing Ruby programmers is akin to herding cats, imagine what it's like to organize Ruby language implementers. We will talk about the history of RubySpec, how it works, challenges along the way, and the current status.
|Brian Ford
* Server Sky
Solar powered server and communication arrays in Earth orbit . Manufacturing, costs, environmental benefits, security, maintenance, and survivability will be discussed.
|Keith Lofstrom
* Spindle, Mutilate and Metaprogram: How far _can_ you push it before there be dragons?
Maybe the edge isn't as close as we thought it was. Maybe you can do some really funky things with your language without accidentally summoning eldritch spirits. Or maybe not. The only way to find out is to try it—or, if you are of the more prudent proclivities, to watch someone else try it.
|Markus Roberts, Matt Youell
* Ubiquitous Angels
We're using a variety of gems to build an ambient sensing tool to watch user activity over urban environments. The acts_as_solr gem to help provide faceted search, carrot2 to perform clustering and topic analysis, the twitter gem to fetch user activity in the first place.
|Anselm Hook
* Your Shell History In The Cloud
Use Google App Engine to harness a lifetime of shell history from any computer with tagging, searching and annotations.
|Josh Cronemeyer


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"GET THE F.A.C.T.S." Secrets on how to maintain a Healthy Relationship from a Guy's Point Of View By. Jermaine A. Hamwright
This is close to my final step It's a great book that I wrote it helps couples maintain Love and Honesty in their relationship. It also talks about God in this book
The Dimensions are 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches the book is going to be 195 pages
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The tageting age is 21-50 its a Christian Book
The Values: all they want is to have Love and Honesty
Tageting gender both male and female book
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Build or Tune-up Your Website
What Is It?
A Website is a collection of documents, information and utilities that are hosted on a server that allows access to anyone with a connection to the Internet. The primary elements of a well-constructed site include navigation, your business contact details, and information that accurately and completely differentiates your business from your competition – capabilities, equipment, expertise, qualifications, history, facility details, and any news or events that elevate your stature as a dependable supply chain partner. Until fairly recently, the creation and development of Websites required specialized and often expensive technical expertise. However, many 'open source' platforms are emerging as technically sophisticated, affordable options for small job shops & contract manufacturers to launch and maintain effective Websites with less time, investment or reliance on experts. These platforms include Drupal, Joomla and several other emerging products in this rapidly growing market. These options can save you money in development costs when professionals are needed. For small manufacturers with a primitive, outdated or no Web presence, utilizing a Blog for a primary Web site may offer your best option. Blogs offer many advantages and great flexibility to small shops with limited resources. Wordpress is often referred to exclusively as a blog platform, but it has recently evolved into a sophisticated option for basing an entire site upon. The benefits to small manufacturers in following this path include flexibility in adding content without the aid of a programmer or expert, built-in Search Engine Optimization features, and low costs to launch & maintain. For little effort or budget, a small shop can get an extremely professional & effective Web presence in a matter of days.
Why Is It Important?
Your Website is the center of your business' marketing universe. It's where your prospects and customers are getting to know you to assess your value as a supplier and business partner. The preferences of your prospects, engineers, sourcing professionals and purchasing reps at businesses looking for your services have forever been changed by the Web as a sourcing tool. The amount of time to assess potential suppliers, compare and research their capabilities, and create short lists of candidates now takes hours or days instead of weeks or months. Also, your potential customers can now conduct this research without you knowing that they've researched you at all. In the past, buyers and prospects had to contact you to get the information they'd need before continuing their research of sources. Today, that equation has completely reversed – they now collect the information they need, and then make contact. This simple but crucial shift makes what you say, how your Website is found, and the context of the information presented especially important in the extended sourcing and research efforts to support technical industrial and manufacturing projects.
Key Elements & Considerations:
Most contract and custom manufacturers' Websites focus on company history, equipment lists and facilities information. Buyers can find anyone with a Mazak or Okuma – what they're looking for are examples of what you've done with that equipment for others – it is your greatest online asset. Include examples of the work you've done for others. The more, the better
Don't just include pictures of parts you've made – complement photos with related information – specs, materials, cycle times, project highlights, qualifications required. Not only will these characteristics elevate your stature with prospects, but you will naturally add the keywords and phrases they search for when seeking suppliers or solutions
Get a good URL (uniform resource locator, or Web site address) for your business' Web site. Too often, small businesses overlook the SEO value of a URL with the company name, and the overall value of a prospect remembering it for future use. An excellent site to search for and buy a URL for your site is www.godaddy.com
Include your company's contact information – email, phone, fax, and mailing address – on every page of your site
Include an easy-to-use Request For Quote with an option to upload prints, with a prominent link to it on every page of your site
Your customers and prospects go to the Web to work, not to read. Long narratives do not play well online, especially for technology sourcing professionals with problems to solve. Be brief
Include full navigation to all sections and items of your Website on every page. Often, the most visitors into an industrial Website enter via subpages from search engines because they will contain more specific descriptive information. Make it easy for them to learn more about your company's strengths
Don't get fancy with the design. Manufacturing professionals don't like fancy. Use a white background with black or dark print, in an easy-to-read font. And yes, they will often print your Website pages to share with colleagues or include in reports. Keep it simple – professional is important, but simple is better
Avoid splash screens – the greetings screens that require another 'click' to enter your Website. They are speed bumps to the value of your company
Do not use clip art or stock photography of people not affiliated with your company. It looks fake and implies deception
What your Website SAYS is much more important than how it LOOKS. A professional look is important, but what a prospect learns about your business is paramount.


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O death, where is thy ecological concern?
The environment is an end-of-life issue: Caring for creation shouldn't stop when we die.
By Joe Sehee, executive director of the Green Burial Council (www.greenburialcouncil.org), an organization "working to make burial more meaningful, simple, and sustainable." Sehee is a former Jesuit lay minister and spiritual director and a senior fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program.
[Please take the survey that follows this essay.]
Last year, I was contacted by a woman named Jean who was seeking to arrange a "green burial" for her mother who was nearing her last days in hospice. In my role heading up the Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainable end-of-life rituals, I've helped hundreds of people seeking out a funeral service with a minimal impact on the body and the environment. This was the first time, however, I'd aided someone whose affiliation as a Catholic seemed as strong as that of being ecologically conscious.
"My mother cared deeply about the planet," Jean told me. "But she really cared about her faith, too."
Knowing that being eco-conscious and Catholic were not incompatible, I set out to find a cemetery that would accommodate Jean and her mother. The first call I made was to a Catholic burial ground not far from their home. The person I spoke with at the cemetery balked at the notion of allowing anyone interred in "just a shroud," as Jean's mother wanted, rather than be placed in a casket. When I reminded him that Jesus was laid to rest in "just a shroud," he told me, "Maybe so, but we're just not comfortable with that."
While this man was speaking only as a cemetery operator, he could have just as easily been representing the majority of American Catholics who, like most Americans over the past century and a half, have become alienated from a way of caring for the dead that the rest of world has always found appropriate, practical and comforting. But, thankfully, because of the burgeoning green burial movement in this country, growing numbers of us are getting reacquainted with the "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" customs of our ancestors to better serve God's people and planet.
Green burial allows returning to the earth in a manner that interacts with, rather than impedes, the natural process of decay and regeneration. A family forgoes embalming their loved one's body with toxic chemicals, and avoids non-biodegradable metal caskets and burial vaults. Instead, a decedent, often washed by family members, is wrapped in a shroud or placed in a simple wood casket before being lowered into the ground. Some families even chose to help dig the grave rather than rely on heavy, energy-intensive equipment.
While it can take place anywhere within a conventional cemetery (no state laws prohibit green burial even though most cemetery policies do), this kind of interment can also become a mechanism for creating sacred space within protected natural areas that enables us to experience life and death not as separate but as highly entwined. It's also the antithesis of what we've been doing in this country for a long, long time.
The genesis of the American way of death goes back to the U.S. Civil War, when enterprising individuals discovered a market for the disinterment from battlefields of deceased Union Army officers. Their bodies were embalmed with arsenic and transported back home for burial. Though the war ended, the practice of embalming did not, due in part to the fact that the chemical companies, which manufactured embalming fluid, also founded the nation's first mortuary schools.
The cross-country funeral of President Lincoln, which took several weeks to complete, is often credited with putting embalming and the modern casket on the map, as well as the notion that delaying the time between death and burial was not only decent but perhaps preferable.
During this same era, burial vaults were developed in England for the express purpose of deterring grave robbing. We began using them in the United States in the early part of the 20th century to prevent graves from settling, which increasingly became a problem as caskets grew larger.
As vaults became more ubiquitous, so does the use of equipment needed to haul them around burial grounds. A Catholic cemetery operator once told me that it seemed less than decent to think of heavy machinery "running over loved ones," and potentially crushing their graves. I reminded him the heavy equipment that might do this is primarily used to move vaults, a risk that could be eliminated if vaults were too.
Vaults, along with the use of heavy caskets and the practice of embalming, were all sold to the American public because of the role played in "protecting" a body. This way of caring for our dead that we regard as "traditional," is rarely seen outside of this country. And we've been paying quite a price for it.
Not only does an American pay on average nearly $10,000 for the typical funeral and burial, but the environmental impacts are also substantial. The Green Burial Council concerns include the protection of worker health, the conservation of natural resources, the reduction of carbon emissions, and the preservation/restoration of habitat.
Most embalming fluids contain any number of toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde that have led to higher incidences of diseases like nasal cancer and leukemia among funeral workers. The 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete in burial vaults, along with the nearly one million tons of metal that go into caskets each year in the US come with a great deal of embodied energy, which contributes to climate change. Conventional cemeteries, because of their often highly manicured lawns, also require a tremendous amount of natural (and unnatural) resources like water, gasoline, pesticides, and fertilizer.
Preventing people from being able to get in synch with the process of decay and regeneration has come with a hefty emotional and spiritual price tag too, which has led many of us to become alienated from our mortality. For Catholics, it flies in the face of some of the Church's great spiritual teachers going all the way back to early Christian monastics—our desert mothers and fathers—who taught us that death is something we can befriend, particularly with the help of nature.
Green burial invites us to get up close and personal with our end-of-life rituals, which good ritual almost always requires us to do. Rather than handing over responsibilities to others, families can get involved with everything from body preparation to grave decorating, and almost anything else they deem important for honoring the dead, healing the living, and inviting in the divine. It also doesn't take away options many families have found comfort in, such as public visitations or open-casket funerals, and even cremation. The end result is often a great deal of solace.
Several years ago, I presided over a graveside funeral at a green cemetery for a 3-year-old girl. Two of the girl's grandparents were first generation Irish Catholics, and one of them told me how each week she visits the grave of her granddaughter, which rests underneath a small tree on the edge of a meadow. She recently remarked how the experience compared to visiting her mother's burial plot back in Kilkenny.
"Death used to feel like a form of punishment with all those tombstones," the woman told me. "But I don't feel any of that here. I feel comfortable talking to my 'little angel,' and, Joe, I may not know a lot of things, but I do know she's an angel."
Catholic cemeteries have been slow to come on board the green burial movement, but the Green Burial Council has approved providers in more than 40 states, including a burial ground at a retreat center run by Trappist monks and two diocesan cemeteries.
One of them, Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Detroit, started a green burial section three years ago and buried Jean's mother. Father Charles Morris, a diocesan priest and environmental activist since the 70s, was happy to allow for her mother to be buried in a shroud made from muslin rather than require a casket. He let Jean and her sisters lower their mother's body into the ground on ropes rather than use a mechanical device. And he encouraged the family to shovel dirt onto the grave rather than let the back hoe do all the work. At the conclusion of the service, Morris blessed Jean's mother and the ground with holy water from the river Jordan. As he did, a hawk flew across the sky. Morris, Jean, and her sisters all smiled.
Burial practices should not be industrialized, but in this country they are. What the growing number of eco-conscious American Catholics can bring about, is a kind of conversion that makes it economically viable for them to accommodate families who want to live—and die—with a lighter hand on the land.
By embracing green burial, the church can allow for a more authentically Catholic practice of caring for our dead: one rooted in a long-held spiritual tradition as well as a newer call to be good stewards of our earth. It will take Catholic cemeteries to get on board and individual Catholics to demand it, but if enough American Catholics want to make "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" once again mean something, it most certainly will.


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For five decades Boeing has awarded bigger and bigger shares of its supply contracts to Japanese firms, but that could change after Japan Airlines defection to Airbus and as the plane maker seeks to win orders in China.
Boeing's carbon composite 787 is 35 percent made in Japan – as big a share as it builds in-house – but Japanese aviation insiders fear the Dreamliner could be the high water mark of the industry's partnership with the U.S. company.
The close co-operation has not only benefitted Japan's industrial giants Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries – it has also enabled Boeing to dominate one of the world's biggest aviation markets with a share of more than 80 percent.
That status quo crumbled on Monday, when JAL signed a deal to buy 31 Airbus A350s, its first purchase of European jets.
In rejecting the rival Boeing 777X, JAL can only have increased the likelihood that the U.S. company's next project will be less Japanese.
"Negotiations for the 777X work share are ongoing, and that may be influenced by the JAL decision," a government official who helps oversee Japan's aerospace industry told Reuters on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.
Tokyo, he added, was looking to win a work share for Japanese suppliers greater than the 21 percent that Mitsubishi Heavy, Kawasaki Heavy and others build of the current 777.
The fear in Japan is that Boeing, which says the business it gives Japan adds up to 22,000 jobs accounting for around 40 percent of nation's aerospace workforce, may be tempted to shift more production to China, South Korea or elsewhere.
"If I was Boeing, I would hold their feet to the fire," said Lance Gatling, founder of aerospace and defense consultancy Nexial Research in Tokyo. "International competition for what they build can only increase."
Spokesmen for the Japanese suppliers involved and for Boeing in Japan declined to comment on the share out of work for the 777X, which Boeing has said it plans to officially launch later this year.
JAL's defection to Airbus stacks on top of other reasons why the Japanese may find it harder to win bigger chunks of business from their American partner.
Boeing, having faced criticism it overextended itself on the delayed 787 with an ambitious global supply chain, has said it will take a more conventional approach to the 777X, a re-engine more fuel efficient upgrade of its long-range, wide-body 777.
That, industry watchers say, could mean it builds the aircraft wings at home, after allowing the Dreamliner wings to be made overseas – in Japan – for the first time.
A longer-term worry for the Japanese is that their country, once Asia's biggest aircraft market, is no longer the goldmine that first drew Boeing to seek panel suppliers for its 747 there.
Both Boeing and European rival Airbus are now more focused on vying for business in burgeoning China. The entry price often imposed by the Chinese government is a share of the build.
Boeing, in its most recent 20-year market forecast that runs through 2032, predicts China will buy 6,000 new planes while the market in Northeast Asia, which includes Japan, North and South Korea and Taiwan, will be 1,360 aircraft.
"If the Japanese could put the arm on Boeing the Chinese have got the ability to put the arm on Boeing," said Nexial Research's Gatling. "The Chinese have cheap labor and a huge market."
He added that the Japanese were also looking over their shoulders at upcoming South Korean firms such as Korean Aerospace Industries, which Boeing in 2011 named supplier of the year.
Part of Japan's response to that challenge is the 70-90 seat Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), its first commercial aircraft since it lashed itself to Boeing.
Apart from being a bid to claim a share of the expanding market for smaller passenger jets, it is an both opportunity to showcase its skills to Boeing and provide a hedge against a fall in orders from Western manufacturers.
One lure that could keep Boeing heavily involved in Japan is government financial support for R&D that could end up in its jets.
According to the European Union, which is locked in an aircraft subsidy dispute with the United States, Boeing benefits from support from the Japanese government for development of the 787, including financing of up to 70 percent of development costs incurred by Japanese suppliers.
Attention in Japan has now turned to Boeing's battle with Airbus to supply JAL's rival ANA Holdings.
Boeing is widely seen as the favorite in that tussle, although some analysts think ANA will buy Airbus wide-body planes to hedge against delay and avoid getting left with older fleets while competitors fly new jets that consume less fuel.
Like JAL, ANA is looking to buy around 30 jets to retire its aging long-haul 777s and is considering the carbon composite A350 and the 777X as replacements.
A win for Boeing would offer a keen incentive for the U.S. company to stay deeply rooted in Japan, and industry sources expect a lobbying backlash as pressure from the aerospace industry's political backers comes to bear.
And at ANA, political pressure may bear more fruit. In a reversal of roles, ANA now enjoys a closer relationship with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a position once enjoyed by flag carrier JAL before its bankruptcy and bailout in 2010.
ANA this month won double the number of new landing slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport, prompting a rare public complaint by JAL that it had been unfairly treated.
The question remains whether ANA is willing to do something for Team Japan in return.
"Obviously it (JAL's decision) is a setback, but Boeing has been investing in Japan for decades and is not going to suddenly say from now on we don't like you," said Adam Pilarski, senior vice-president at Virginia-based aviation consultancy Avitas, on the sidelines of an aviation finance conference in Barcelona.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
This clockface-style pet feeder indicator is used to keep track of when a pet has last been fed. The mechanical features have been designed, and now it needs a creative graphic element, one for cats and one for dogs. See sketch + more information here: http://jillnagle.typepad.com/invent…cator.html
I have a patent pending on the mechanical technology of this pet feeder indicator. Now, I want to create a graphic design that can be reproduced and manufactured to sell in pet stores. Actually, two designs: one for cats and one for dogs. Or one great design--I am open to ideas!
The indicator either needs to say "fed," or there has to be some way of knowing what the indicator is indicating, so people don't wonder whether it means "feed me" or "fed!"
It could be inside a cat face or dog face--the indicator part just has to be able to be large enough for the elderly to see clearly. It could have a place for the human companion to place a photograph of the animal.
You can also play with the shape of the indicator, the fonts, anything, as long as the device is still able to do its job.
YES: I am looking for fun and playful, Cute, catchy, bold, snappy, CLEAR. See sketch here of text to include, plus more description:
Who knows what will work!? I am not sure.


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