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Edwards, Susan and Haultain, Adie (2010) Secondary mainstream teachers' awareness of their contribution to successful English language learning. In: Waikato TESOL Branch Meeting, 17 September, 2010, Hamilton, New Zealand. (Unpublished)
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The research reported in this paper focuses on New Zealand secondary mainstream teachers' awareness of their role in the teaching of English Language Learners (ELLs). Recent Ministry of Education publications regarding the teaching of ELLs have made it clear that mainstream subject teachers are expected to play an increasingly important role in facilitating English language acquisition, rather than this being the sole or main concern of ESOL specialist teachers. For example, the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) (2008) states that the publication has been designed to "explain what ESOL specialists and mainstream teachers need to know about English language learners in order to maximise their learning and participation". The implication of this is that mainstream teachers are now expected to become informed about effective teaching of ELLs. The main aim of the research was to obtain an overall picture of the extent to which mainstream teachers are aware of their role in teaching ELLs. A secondary aim was to ascertain to what extent mainstream teachers are using the materials and resources that are currently available to support their teaching of ELLs. In the research, secondary mainstream teachers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their knowledge of various aspects of teaching ELLs and the importance of having this knowledge. Questions focussed on teacher knowledge of learners' backgrounds and level of English, and teacher knowledge of and use of strategies for teaching ELLs. Teachers were also asked to identify factors that had either assisted or hindered them from learning more about their ELLs or strategies for teaching ELLs. The research has applications for secondary mainstream teachers in general, and for those who train or provide professional development for secondary mainstream teachers.
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The up-and-down (mostly down) collegiate career of Duron Carter has apparently come to an end.
FAU head coach Carl Pelini confirmed to OwlReport.com Saturday that the mercurial wide receiver has left the football program. The website went on to write that "[i]t is believed that Carter will make himself eligible for the upcoming NFL draft."
Neither the player nor anyone connected to the redshirt junior have confirmed the report, although leaving college in the rear-view is likely the wisest tack to take.
The Owls were the fourth collegiate stop for Carter, son of former star NFL receiver Cris Carter, the past three years, with academics serving as a significant hurdle at nearly every one of them.
Carter was declared academically ineligible for Ohio State's appearance in the Rose Bowl game following the 2009 regular season, an issue that also kept him out of spring practice in 2010. He left the Buckeyes in June of that year and enrolled at a junior college in Kansas.
After transferring to Alabama in April of 2011 from the JUCO ranks, eligibility issues again involving academics kept him from practicing with the Tide until late August. It was announced in late September of 2011 that Carter would not play at all that season and would instead take a redshirt. He was suspended for spring practice this year, which prompted him to take his leave of Tuscaloosa and officially transfer to FAU.
An appeal for a hardship waiver that would've granted him immediate eligibility was denied in mid-September. OwlReport.com writes that, after that decision, Carter "worked with the scout team for part of the season but in the final weeks of the season, was given permission to miss practice to concentrate on school work."
The 6-5, 205-pound Carter was a four-star member of the Buckeyes' 2009 recruiting class, rated by Rivals.com as the No. 11 receiver in the country. As a true freshman, he caught 13 passes for 176 yards. Apparently, those will be the only catches he makes at the FBS level; whether he can catch on at the NFL level — likely as an undrafted free agent — remains to be seen.


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Newly diagnosed? Searching for an alternate to the scary-sounding drugs your doctor prescribed? That's normal. If there's a natural cure, spending thousands of dollars on medicines with long lists of serious side-effects doesn't make sense. Unfortunately, there's a long list of unscrupulous people willing to take money from anybody willing to hand it over, regardless of whether or not what they're selling really works. Others might not be deliberately deceiving people; they just don't realize the harm that they're doing. Regardless of the motivation, there are many people out there trying to push alternative treatments for RA. I was surprised, then, at one conversation with a doctor:
At least with RA, the treatment is clear. Nobody's trying to talk you into doing something different. I feel bad about all the fibromyalgia patients who have to deal with scams everywhere. I even called a few of those phone numbers to see what they were saying, and it's just a way to take people's money; those things won't help. With RA, there's nothing like that for patients to deal with."
My rheumatologist said this. Laughing, I told her about the gin-soaked raisin cure. She'd never heard of it, but admitted with a grin, "Well, I guess if you eat enough of them, you won't notice your pain."
I was shocked that she had no idea what her patients face. Do doctors really not know that everybody and their brother has a sure-fire "cure" for RA, and patients face quite a battle when well-meaning family and friends present us with all the things they think we should be doing instead of following our doctor's advice?
For everyday short-term illnesses that just need a quick round of antibiotics, not a lot of explanation is needed. People are familiar with that. RA is different. When I was faced with the need for life-long treatment, it would be great if my doctors had provided me with solid information to combat the nonsense I'm inundated with on a daily basis.
Most of us don't share our medical information with other people, but when friends know you've been to the doctor again, it's natural for them to ask, "What did the doctor say this time?" When the doctor just gave you a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, the friends only hear "arthritis" and respond with some variation of, "Oh, I have that in my neck/knee/little finger; just take a motrin/ibuprofen/tylenol plus." The first thing doctors should tell RA patients is that this is a disease in which the immune system starts attacking healthy tissue (both joints and organs), and it is nothing like the wear-and-tear arthritis that many people get as they age. The second thing RA patients need to hear is about the class of medicines called NSAIDs, and that they are not sufficient treatment for RA.
Next some well-intentioned person will say, "Doctors prescribe too many medicines without even checking how they interact with other things you're taking. Don't let them give you a bunch of pills." Or my favorite: "Medicines are toxic; you shouldn't be taking that stuff." Doctors need to explain what "early, aggressive treatment" means. Patients need to understand that the consequence of CAM instead of DMARDs is permanent deformity. Doctors need to thoroughly explain the treatment plan for RA, explain about combination therapy, and explicitly state that all the prescriptions are (a) necessary, and (b) not going to interfere with one another. Patients needs to understand all this well enough to explain it to friends who try to dissuade them from following their treatment plan.
Family and close friends will start surfing the net, somehow certain that the physicians who've dedicated their lives to learning about this disease, searching for a cure (or at least effective management of symptoms), have missed something so obvious that a simple consultation with Dr. Google will clear everything up.
Patients' email boxes are filled to overflowing with links to websites, and phones ring off the hook as friends follow up to make sure we got the information they sent us and we are now going to ignore our doctor's expert advice in exchange for the word of a stranger with questionable credentials (if it's on the internet, it must be true). Doctors can help their patients by knowing about the internet "cures" and teaching patients how to address those issues.
I imagine that people with other chronic diagnoses face similar issues. With RA, some of the "cures" most frequently recommended by people with no medical credentials are:
Gin-soaked raisins
Antibiotic protocol (Road Back)
Marshall protocol
Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease
Cider Vinegar
Copper Bracelets
Bee Stings
Certo Pectin
Then there are people trying to sell stuff:
Various improvements on glucosamine
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The Durango Blues Train: Blues, brews, dancing — all on a moving train?
The scene almost seems unreal: You're in a 100-year-old coach being pulled by a coal-fired, steam-powered, narrow gauge locomotive heading up the mountain outside of Durango, and Colorado bluesman Robbie Overfield is throwing down a simple set of blues less than five feet away from you. Order another beer and manage your way into another coach – this one a gondola car, with its sides wide open to the wildflower-covered mountains outside – and Erik Boa & the Constrictors is laying down a searing, full-band set of blues for you and your new friends.
Dancing. Drinking. Blues music. New friends. All without getting off the (moving) train.
"That's the cool thing about the whole experience," said Bill Kight, marketing director with SBG Productions, which organizes the Durango Blues Train. "It's a moving experience. It's in its second year this year, and we're already half sold-out — and people are loving it."


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I live in a forest, and know that I am fortunate. I watch flicker and siskin in the cedars. I hear thrush and vireo in the veiled vastness. Cutthroat trout inhabit the lake, wolves howl on winter nights, and raccoons venture out with their families for my scraps. But I know the forest I live in is rare and under assault. Those cedar and fir, hemlock and spruce, could be converted to money, the great driver of this modern world.
The value of forests is an ancient tale. We may recall that humanity's earliest stories – Ramayana, Gilgamesh, Raven and People – take place in the forest, with awe for its mysterious immensity. Raven hops from its forest home to find humans inside a clamshell on the beach. Rama enlists the forest animals to help vanquish the world's evil. When King Gilgamesh falls a tree, the forest guardian Humbaba calls out, "Who is this that has violated my woods and cut down my cedar?"
Today, the once legendary cedar forests of Lebanon and Sumer are a desert. In Western Europe, India and China, ancient forest are largely gone, reduced to scattered remnants. Forests have protectors and champions, but Earth still loses ancient forest every year to human enterprise, and now, to the new human-mediated climate.
Almost half of Earth's forests – the once great forests that stood on Earth eight thousand years ago, at the dawn of human agriculture – are entirely gone. However, that measure accounts only for land area – approximately six billion hectares of forest reduced to three and a half billion. Many of the remaining forests survive only as tree farms, secondary growth, skeletal forests with declining plant and animal species. These remnant forests hold considerably less of their original biomass and carbon, in ecosystems fragmented by roads and resource development. When we account for this, we find that humanity has degraded or destroyed about 70-percent, with only 30 % left as intact forests.
The world's remaining forests survive principally in five regions: Two boreal forests in Russia and Canada, and three tropical forests in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Amazon basin. Meanwhile, global wood consumption is projected to double over the next 30 years. Those who turn forests into money may not notice until the forests are gone, until Raven has no home, forest creatures have no refuge, and Humbaba has nothing left to defend.
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Annually, we lose about 13 million hectares of forest, 10 million in the tropics alone. I am struck by the fact that the combined brainpower of humanity's schools of forestry, doctors of forestry, doctors of forest engineering, forestry consultants, and Nobel-prize-winning resource economists have not yet figured out how to achieve a sustainable yield of forest products. On the contrary, the world's forestry schools appear resigned to overseeing the complete destruction of the ancient forests.
This failure remains particularly disturbing since genuine sustainable forestry is practiced around the world by small communities and foresters. One such forester, the late Merv Wilkinson, a friend and mentor of mine, logged his 36-hectare (90-acre) forest on Vancouver Island in Canada for 73 years, 1938 to 2011. Wilkinson's forest held more standing timber on the day he passed away than when he started. His formula remained staggeringly simple:
"Cut below the growth rate."
Perhaps someone should burn that into the chalk boards of all the forestry schools.
Not long ago, certain technology-optimists believed we were going to preserve the forests by going digital, but this belief has evaporated. Today, human enterprise uses six-times the paper we used in 1960 at the dawn of the computer age. Computer technology increased the worldwide consumption of just about everything, including paper.
Pulp, paper, lumber, and agriculture companies pursue the vestige ancient forests night and day, 365-days per year. Giant agriculture companies level forests for soil that they will deplete in a decade of over-production and pesticide use for genetically engineered crops that further degrade ecosystems. These companies remove forests to grow biofuels, soybeans, and palm oil, which is used in ice cream, granola bars, and cosmetics for the world's rich consumers. Forests disappear for ranching, industrial projects, urban sprawl, resource sprawl, and energy sprawl. But now, a new human impact has arrived. Global heating is now adding to forest loss.
Throughout human history, degraded forests became scrub brush or grassland. Humans occupied those lands, farmed, grazed cattle, and paved roads. Some former forests became depleted further to become desert. Now, with a planet quickly heating and human enterprise expanding, this process has accelerated. Each year, as Earth loses forests, we gain six million hectares of desert.
Ecological feedback
Deforestation now accounts for 10-15 percent of humankind's greenhouse gas emissions, a major contribution to global heating impact. Reducing forest cover decreases carbon sequestration, increases local temperatures, and puts more pressure on fragile or fragmented forests. Heat and drought make forests more susceptible to insects and fire. In western Canada, as boreal forest temperatures have increased, over nine million hectares of pine forest have been decimated by beetles, which for the first time on record now swarm over the northern Rocky Mountains to attack trees on the eastern slope.
The increase in frequency and intensity of forest fires, from Australia and Indonesia, to Russia and the US, releases carbon that had remained sequestered for centuries. Forest fires now contribute about a third as much carbon to Earth's atmosphere as the burning of fossil fuels. Globally, forests and their soils still harbor over 650 billion tonnes of carbon, equivalent to nearly 80 years of global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Deforestation magnifies climate change impacts in tropical forests by fragmenting the remaining forest, making it drier and more vulnerable to drought-induced fire. The more vulnerable a forest to climate change, the more vulnerable the carbon stocks are to being lost to the atmosphere. This increases the risk of runaway climate change and losses of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as clean water and breathable air. Keeping forests intact is seen as key to maintaining their resilience to climate change impact.
Above a 2°C global temperature rise, cosidered a critical threshold, we could witness dramatic shifts in forest ecosystems, but the trajectory is not linear. This non-linear response is due to the interaction between ecological tipping points. Climatologists now recognize that when one element tips – forest die-off or methane release, for example – other critical factors can be pushed beyond their delicate balance, adding to the feedback loop.
Fragile forest ecosystems
Human enterprise has generally approached forests as if they were free stores of lumber and agricultural soil for purely human priorities. The failure of industrial forestry stems from seeing forests as a collection of trees, rather than recognizing them as complex ecosystems. Ecologist Wade Davis has documented an exhaustive survey of the Carmanah Valley forest on Vancouver Island, on Canada's west coast, which revealed 15,000 species, including 500 species previously unknown to science, in the forest canopy alone. Davis reports that on a typical rainforest floor, each square meter of soil may host 2,000 earthworms, 40,000 insects, 120,000 mites, 120-million nematodes, and millions of protozoa and bacteria.
In an historic lecture, late ecologist Gregory Bateson pointed out that the survival unit in evolution is not a species, but rather a system of relationships among species. Such a system remains dynamic, with balances shifting within the limits of available energy and resources. Each species in a forest feeds on others, digests and recycles nutrients, and becomes food for other species.
Forest fungi, for example, play a critical role in keeping forest ecosystems healthy. All life forms require nitrogen to create proteins, but nitrates are rare in acidic and heavily leached rainforest soils. Fungi help solve this problem for the entire system of a forest. Clear-cut logging, on the other hand, can obliterate the fungal networks to such a degree that replanted tree farms may produce only stunted trees in degraded ecosystems.
A common mushroom that we see in the forest is only the fruit of the fungus, the reproductive phase. Most of the real work of forest fungi goes on in the dark, below the surface. Fungi produce mycelia in the vegetative phase, tiny filaments that spread throughout the soils, absorbing nutrients and accelerating decay. When certain mycelia encounter the right species of tree root, it draws the sugar it needs from the tree, and pays back the tree by helping the roots absorb nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphate.
Together, the fungus and root form mycorrhizae, and the tree root may also host nitrogen-fixing bacteria. In the northern rainforests of Canada, the roots of an old growth Douglas fir tree may form symbiotic relationships with as many as forty different mycorrhizae. Meanwhile, the mushroom fruit stage emits odors that attract shrews, rodents, and voles, who eat mushrooms and truffles and then carry the fungal spores throughout the forests, scattered in their waste droppings.
These fungal-tree-animal-mineral relations are typical of myriad dynamic, fragile systems that constitute a forest. Worldwide, forest loss deprives humanity and all species of vital ecosystem services. Forests provide oxygen, water filtration, air purification, soils, food, and shelter for everything that lives. For the human community, forests provide building materials, paper, medicines, fuel, and places of refuge, places of discovery, peace, solitude, education, myth, and spiritual insight. Forests, along with oceans, are also Earth's primary climate regulator and sustainer of biodiversity.
Canadian economist Mark Anielski estimates that environmental services from Canada's boreal forest are worth about $160 per hectare per year, $93 billion per year in Canada. Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev has estimated that humanity is losing 2-5 trillion dollars of natural capital annually from deforestation.
So, for both ecological and economic reasons, intact primary forests require priority protection. Human civilization teeters on the brink of the greatest natural disaster in our history: runaway global heating. The real value of the world's forests rests in their integrity as engines of biodiversity, the source for the clean air we breathe, and as climate regulators. The ancient forests are 70% gone or degraded. The remnant forests must be saved, and industrial society must harvest wood products from existing tree farms and already disturbed forests.
In the recent past, some environmentalists have celebrated deals that preserve a quarter or a third of some stand of ancient forest. There may exist some political logic in saving anything we can, but our aim, and our demands need to be more bold. To preserve the integrity of Earth's interconnected forest ecosystems, we must preserve every remaining square centimetre of our planet's ancient forests.
"We live at the edge of the clearcut," as Wade Davis reminds us. We either defend the last remnants of Earth's ancient forests, or we will lose them to the profiteers. The choice is ours.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.


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In the House with Kevin O'Connor | Ken Burns Part 1
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Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, timber framer Tedd Benson, and This Old House host Kevin O'Connor, discuss Burns' recently completed a post and beam barn that combines the unique spiritual feel of 19th century New England with modern-day functionality. The men delve deep into the artistic and collaborative process, and the philosophy of filmmaking through the lens of building.
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Sugar Rush: Olive Oil-Grapefruit Cake at Bouchon Bakery Café
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Your daily dose of something sweet.
We love the sweets at Bouchon Bakery, but today we're bypassing the bakery and heading straight to the sit-down Café. Here the Chocolate Soufflé and Profiteroles are classics, but new to the menu is an Olive Oil-Grapefruit Cake ($8.95). The cake is borderline savory, scented with rosemary and layered with housemade grapefruit curd. It is equal parts lush curd and moist cake all topped with gently torched meringue. On the side comes a quenelle of grapefruit sorbet and toasted pine nut crumble. It's yet another wonder to add to our list of crave-worthy olive oil cakes.
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Michelle Goldstein
Natural News
April 14, 2013
In a move to gain total control of the farming industry, three resolutions have been proposed in the state of Missouri. Saint Louis, Missouri is the home of biotech giant Monsanto's headquarters. These laws have been deceitfully written to appear to support modernization and progression in farming, while in reality their passage will severely limit the rights of small farmers to reuse organic seeds and preserve livestock lines. Small farmers provide consumers with their primary source for local, non GMO, organic foods. It is essential to take action to protect small farmers in individual states, particularly in light of the recent signing of the Monsanto Protection Act by President Obama. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
House Joint Resolution 11 has already passed in the Missouri House
House Joint Resolution 11 (HJR 11) is proposing an amendment to the Missouri Constitution to protect "agricultural technology" and "modern and traditional" farming practices in Missouri. Two other similar bills (HJR 7 and SJR 22) have been proposed, as well. HJR 11 has already passed in the House and is now being aggressively pushed through the Missouri Senate. Proposals to change the wording of the amendment to make the resolution more protective of small farmer's rights have been rejected.
The bill currently proposes to add a new section to Article l of the Missouri Constitution, Section 35. This addition to Section 35 states the following: "That agriculture which provides food, energy, health benefits, and security is the foundation and stabilizing force of Missouri's economy. To protect this vital sector of Missouri's economy, the right of farmers and ranchers to engage in modern farming and ranching practices shall be forever guaranteed in this state. No state law shall be enacted which abridges the right of farmers and ranchers to employ agricultural technology and modern and traditional livestock production and ranching practices, unless enacted by the General Assembly".
In reality, modern farming and agricultural technology generally refers to genetically modified seeds and animals.
Organizations of the Real Food Movement are calling for action to stop these dangerous proposals
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and the Weston A. Price Foundation have both issued action alerts to their members in an effort to defeat this amendment. It is important to call Speaker Tom Dempsey at 573-751-1141 and Floor Leader Ron Richard at 573-751-2173. For Missourians, a list of local state senators can be found at (http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com)
Sources for this article include
Action Alert: Stop Missouri's Monsanto Protection Act, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com)
Stop Missouri's Monsanto's Protection Act, Weston A. Price Foundation, (http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com)
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( http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HJR11&year=2013&code=R)
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Michelle Goldstein is a licensed clinical social worker working as a mental health therapist. She incorporates holistic approaches into her counseling practice.She is a mother who found a cure in the realm of alternative medicine for her 11 year old daughter diagnosed in 2008 with an "incurable disease". Her two year search involved tremendous research,experimentation, and consultation with over 12 different holistic practitioners. Ms. Goldstein is now passionate about alternative health care and the politics which impact it. She has finished her first draft of a comprehensive book on holistic health. Her hobbies include short interval running, swimming and walking.
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As part of my continuing series featuring genealogical institute course reviews, here guest author Barbara McTygue Scanlon shares her experience with David Rencher's course at the British Institute. This institute takes place in October and is sponsored by the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History.
Review of "Genealogical Research in Ireland - Advanced Methodology"
taught by David Rencher
Have you reached a brick wall with an Irish ancestor? The British Institute offers a chance of a lifetime experience!
The British Institute is a week-long experience. The Institute format is instruction during the morning and guided research during the afternoon. The instructor for the Irish class is David Rencher. David is employed by the Family History Department in Salt Lake City as the Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch. A professional genealogist since 1977, he is an Accredited GenealogistCM with ICAPGenSM in Ireland research and a Certified GenealogistSM with the Board for Certification of Genealogists®.
I have attended the following classes taught by David Rencher:
2010 "Making the Transition from Irish Church Records to Irish Land Records"
2011 & 2012 "Genealogical Research in Ireland - Advanced Methodology"
David covers two or three topics each morning. During the week you will have a one hour consultation with David at the Library. He will give you feedback and advice on where to look for additional records. This consultation with David is priceless! The classes are small, this allows
everyone to get to know one another. On Monday the Family History Library closes at 5:00pm. The rest of the week it is open until 9:00pm. This gives you a chance to really spend time researching your family.
While researching my Irish ancestors for many years and I have been to Ireland several times. However David Rencher provided more information about researching Irish records that you can get anywhere else. I am looking forward to another opportunity to learn and research my Irish ancestors. This years class will be "Irish Land Records and Fragmentary Evidence Correlation."
If you really want to learn about your Irish ancestors join me this October at the British Institute in Salt Lake City.
In 2002 a group of friends started the Kansas City Irish Fest. We have almost 100,000 people attend each year. I developed the genealogy area for the festival. I have been a member of the Irish Fest Committee for the past 10 years. I am also on the Board of Directors for the Kansas City Irish Center. We celebrate, support, preserve and promote Irish heritage and culture. Last fall I started taking an Irish language class.


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(Dec. 15, 2011) A method for increasing solubility (the ability of one substance to dissolve into another), developed by a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, has yielded promising commercial benefits for industry, particularly in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and agriculture.
The method, developed by Katy Margulis-Goshen, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Shlomo Magdassi, produces a rapid conversion of oil-in-water microemulsions, containing an insoluble substance, into a dry powder composed of nanoparticles which can easily be dissolved in water or other biological fluids.
For her work, Marguis-Goshen, who immigrated to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, was chosen as one of the winners of this year's Kaye Innovation Awards at the university.
The process she developed is of unique industrial importance, since it leads to a significant increase in solubility and dissolution properties of almost any active ingredient, without a high energy investment.
Enhancing such solubility is especially important in the field of pharmaceutics, where nearly 50% of the newly discovered drugs cannot be administered or are very poorly absorbed due to their low solubility. Increasing solubility is also important in the field of agriculture, since the majority of insecticides are highly hydrophobic (resistant to mixing with water), and their regular application therefore requires the use of organic solvents, which are harmful to the farmer and the environment.
In cosmetics, active cosmetic ingredients for dermal delivery are usually also water resistant, so that incorporating them into non-greasy, water-based formulations is of great importance.
The new process invented by Margulis-Goshen can be also applied in many other fields, such as nutrition and the manufacture of printing ink and paint.
If the active ingredient, for example, is a water-resistant drug, the powder developed in her method may be injected or incorporated into capsules, tablets and other fast-dissolving drug formulations. Such dosage forms have shown a tremendous increase in dissolution rate in water and biological fluids. They are expected to improve bioavailability of the drug, minimize its side effects by reducing the total dose needed, and allow drug targeting. A very significant improvement in drug dissolution has been shown in this way in tests with three drugs.
Similar beneficial results have been shown in applying the invention to the conversion of hydrophobic pesticides into a powder, allowing a reduction of at least six times in the effective concentration of the pesticide with utilization of water instead of organic solvents as the dispersing medium. In cosmetics, the powder containing active cosmetic ingredient may be incorporated into new, stable, water-based formulations.
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Come for the Sunshine. Stay for the Lifestyle. Don't miss out on this Urology opportunity to join a very busy and growing General Urology group in Elk Grove, California! Below is a snapshot of the details as well as hyperlinks to acquaint you with the practice, community and our affiliate hospital, Methodist Hospital of Sacramento (Dignity Health). The Opportunity:
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If you are planning to relocate and would like to do some homework on the area, below are a few websites that may be of assistance.
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Sacramento City Unified School District : www.scusd.edu
Sacramento County Office of Education: This covers all schools districts within Sacramento County. http://www.scoe.net
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Struggling Giants, Cain hammered by White Sox in 8-2 loss
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For more than six weeks they were world beaters. Without warning, they became the beaten. They have entered a slide and could not find the brakes Tuesday night when they rolled into the South Side of Chicago for the first time in 11 years and got crushed 8-2.
Matt Cain took the brunt of it, allowing eight runs (seven earned) in five innings. All eight scored in a span of 16 hitters in the third, fourth and fifth.
Cain now has 13 career starts with at least seven earned runs. Six have come since the start of the 2013 season.
The Giants have won once in the past eight games, against the Nationals, in Tim Hudson's most recent start.
They turn to Hudson again in search of a salvation in the second of the two games in Chicago. The major-league ERA leader has a tough opponent in lefty Chris Sale, whose ERA (1.97) is not much higher than Hudson's (1.81).
And the Giants might need to attack Sale at less than full strength.
Angel Pagan missed his second consecutive start with a back injury that was concerning enough to warrant an MRI exam. The scan showed inflammation but no structural damage.
Manager Bruce Bochy listed Pagan as day to day and said the disabled list had not been discussed.
"He's making a little progress, but not as much as we'd hoped," Bochy said.
Cain's excellent second half in 2013, when he had a 2.36 ERA over 11 starts, is a distant memory. Sprinkled among his two disabled list stints this season have been some good starts and others that have been dismal.
His first career game at U.S. Cellular Field definitely fell into the latter category.
Cain had a 2-0 lead that disappeared with Gordon Beckham's two-run, two-out homer in the third inning on a 3-2 pitch that ended an at-bat that began 0-2.
The White Sox edged ahead 3-2 in the fourth when Cain walked Tyler Flowers with the bases loaded. Flowers had been as close to an automatic out as there can be in the majors. He was hitless in his prior 23 at-bats - with 19 strikeouts.
The Sox added two runs in the inning on an Adam Eaton infield hit and a Brandon Crawford throwing error. Dayan Viciedo's two-run homer in a three-run fifth inning was Cain's death knell.
After Cain started with two good innings, Bochy said, "He derailed. His stuff flattened out. His slider flattened out, and they took advantage of him being wild in the zone."
Cain thought his stuff and movement were fine, saying, "I felt comfortable with anything I threw. I made a bad changeup pitch to Viciedo. The other ones weren't terrible. They caught too much of the plate and those guys were swinging the bat. The biggest thing is just location."
The Giants had gotten the jump on John Danks with Hunter Pence's first inning home run, his 10th. An error by shortstop Alexei Ramirez allowed Gregor Blanco to score on Buster Posey's single for a 2-0 lead in the third, although Pablo Sandoval and Michael Morse failed in a bid to tack on.
Danks did not allow another run, leaving in the seventh inning. Former Dodgers closer Javy Guerra ended the seventh by getting Posey to hit into a double play.
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Sandler Certification training benefits both individuals and organizations. A primary benefit is that the sales process is broken down into a system that can be replicated and scaled for growth.


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The Wall Clock Hidden Camera With DVR is a great way to set up a one camera video surveillance system that will record clear color video whenever someone walks in front of the camera.
If you are looking for the easiest, low cost way to watch one room in your home, apartment, or office, than these self-contained, one camera video surveillance systems are for you.
These cameras are only color, not low light b/w, so they work best in during the day, or in lit rooms. In dark rooms, they will not work very well, if at all if it's pitch black. Try the SecureShot Phantom one or two hidden camera system for the best in low light or dark recordings.
Just pick the location you want to record, set the Wall Clock Hidden Camera With DVR in a corner, or on a wall or shelf, and plug it in. The unit is set up for motion detection, so it will record video during the time a person is in front of it. It will not record "dead air," unless you change the setting to record continuous.
When you plug in the the Wall Clock Hidden Camera, it will power the unit, the camera, and the DVR, so everything is powered by the standard electrical plug sticking out the back. No cords, wires, antennas, or anything else that will make someone think these are hidden cameras recording their every move.
If you feel your Nanny or Elderly parents caregivers are not taking care of them correctly, set this up in the room, and you will know right away if they are the person you need to take care of them.
If you have things showing up missing at home or work, set this up in the corner, and anyone that comes in the room will be filmed. If someone is stealing something, or doing something they should not, you will get it on tape.
This Wall Clock hidden camera also has Motion Detection Area Masking. For example, if you have a dog or cat, and don't want it to set off the motion detector, you can mask the lower part of the field of vision so it does not detect motion, thus your dog does not set it off every time they enter the room.
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TVLine is reporting about the latest DC villain to make the leap to The CW's new series Arrow and their sources tell them that it's Count Vertigo. The only catch though is that it won't be an exact adaptation of the character. Instead, the name 'Vertigo' will belong to a new drug that makes its debut in the same episode as the character inspired by Count Vertigo. It remains to be seen if the character's abilities will remain in the series, but an insider describes him as "Oliver's deadliest adversary to date..He will be truly scary and nightmarish." There's no word on casting at this point.
Originally, Count Vertigo appeared in World's Finest in 1978 and quickly became an adversary of Green Arrow and Black Canary. The character later joined the Suicide Squad for a long period of time. He also appeared in Batman: The Animated Series.
Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.
From Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and David Nutter, the hard-hitting action series reinvents the DC hero. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and very lethal new set of skills that he uses in a war on crime.


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Absolut Vodka was first launched in New York in 1979. It soon became the talk of the town, in the US and eventually of the world. But the recipe behind the clean and natural taste of Absolut is actually older than 40 years. So is the 18th century medicine bottle found in an antique store in Stockholm, Sweden that gave inspiration to the iconic Absolut Vodka bottle.
Absolut Vodka is a Swedish vodka made exclusively from natural ingredients, and unlike some other vodkas, it doesn't contain any added sugar. In fact Absolut is as clean as vodka can be. Still, it has a certain taste: Rich, full-bodied and complex, yet smooth and mellow with a distinct character of grain, followed by a hint of dried fruit.
In 1879, Lars Olsson Smith introduced the continuous distillation with which he made Absolut Rent Brännvin. Instead of the usual three or four times, the vodka was distilled an infinite number of times. 100 years later, it was reintroduced as Absolut. Just as then, Absolut is produced in Åhus, L.O. Smith's birth town. Also the place where the wheat used for making the vodka is grown. And since the way Absolut is made won't change, neither will the true taste of vodka.
The main ingredients in Absolut Vodka are water and winter wheat. The water comes from a deep well in Åhus where it's protected from impurities. Winter wheat differs from other crops: it's sown in fall, and harvested the next one. Days in between it grows under the Swedish snow developing its hard grain. Also, the use of fertilizers is minimized.
Being so refined, why drink Absolut Vodka any other way than it is? In fact, there's a good reason why: the more refined the vodka is, the better it blends with other aromas meaning Absolut Vodka enhances the taste of your favourite cocktail.
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Matt Kline Passes Away at Age 36January 8th, 2010
Those of you who followed the case might remember the name Matt Cline and his connection to this case. If you don't you can check out the interview on getbig.com that talks about it. The interview was conducted shortly after the Titus and Ryan case hit the National news over 4 years ago.
Boston.com has Matt's obituary and it states he passed after numerous illnesses.
CLINE, Matthew Age 36 of Stoughton, on January 5, 2010 after a valiant battle with numerous illnesses. Dear son of Barbara and Dr. Ronald Cline of Canton, formerly of Randolph. He was blessed with the love of his life, his soulmate and best friend Pam Karambelas who was always by his side to love and support him. He was the loving brother of Heather Rue of Needham and Joshua Cline and his wife Jessie of Bala Cynwyd, PA. Best uncle of Hannah and Zac. Dear nephew of Helaine and Richard Berry and cousin Emily Berry. Cherished grandson of the late Evelyn and Swede Goldstein of Stoughton and the late Gladys and Dr. Harold Cline of Randolph. Services at Temple Beth Am, 871 North Main St. (Rte 28), Randolph, on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:00 am. Following interment at Baker St., West Roxbury. Memorial observance will be held at the home of Barbara and Dr. Ronald Cline until 9:00 pm Thursday, Friday 11:00 am-3:00 pm, Saturday evening and Sunday Thru Wednesday 2-4, 7-9pm. In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to The American Liver Association, c/o Zachary's Hope, 88 Winchester St., Newton, MA 02461. Matt, rest in peace with Bubbie and Papa. Brezniak-Rodman Chapel www.brezniakrodman.com 617-969-0800


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The next generation of CTrain cars will arrive in late 2015. To the relief of those used to the morning and afternoon sardine-can drill, it will also include the first generation of four-car LRT chains.
After welcoming bids from four other companies — including Canada's Bombardier — Calgary Transit chose to stick with Munich-based Siemens, which has built every car since the system first rolled to Anderson Station in 1981.
Here's what Calgary will get for its $200-million order, announced Wednesday:
BULK BUYING: The city expected to purchase 50 new cars at $4 million each. Siemens will charge $3.2 million a pop, which means the city can buy 60 and have a bit left over for contigency and exchange-rate fluctuations for the made-in-California vehicles.
Officials were planning to devote 30 of the trains to expanding the system fleet and 20 to replacing some of its most breakdown-prone older cars. Now the split will be 35 and 25, respectively.
Other bidding firms offered cars at between $3.7 million and $4.7 million each, transit managers said Wednesday.
Siemens Canada will save money by building its S200 trains with materials such as bonded aluminum walls rather than traditional welded steel, said CEO Robert Hardt. "We know exactly what we do so that we can tailor-make the car specifically for Calgary, and also make sure it still stays in an economic range," he said.
(A LITTLE) MORE BREATHING ROOM: For years, running longer cars has been Calgary Transit's promised decongestant on a system packed with 300,000 daily passengers. It has spent heavily to extend platforms throughout the entire system.
Four-car trains will first arrive on the more congested Crowfoot-Somerset line, where some riders head from Fish Creek-Lacombe station to the line's end, to snag a seat for the ride downtown.
"It's a long time coming and it's going to mean so much for the deep south," Ald. Peter Demong said Wednesday.
Calgary Transit had earlier promised four-car trains by 2014, but faced delays in applying for and securing the provincial transit dollars it needed.
The first S200 will arrive in August 2015, but until three arrive by that year's end, the city won't be able to deliver longer trains. But by squeezing the maintenance schedules on existing trains, crews should be able to run three to five of the extended chains that year, city transit director Doug Morgan said.
By late 2016, the whole Siemens order will arrive, and four-car trains will become more common during peak periods.
BETTER SEATING — IF YOU CAN FIND ONE: The latest model of CTrains moved seating to the sidewalls, to maximize standing room. That will change with the S200s.
"We got some feedback from passengers that they didn't like the current seating, so we are talking with Calgary Transit (about) how to do that," Hardt said.
Russell Davies, the city's fleet manager, said the old-style front-facing and back-facing seat sets from Calgary's oldest LRTs will make a return at either end of the cars. There will be some side seating too, as well as padded walls at the train's midsection, so riders can lean.
The seats themselves will also be remodelled for comfort, Hardt said. On the latest Calgary model, they were hard plastic.
WINDOWS 2015: Siemens Canada promises larger windows that are triple-paned rather than the existing trains' double-paned, which will offer more insulation.
Glass will also separate the driver from passengers. "That benefits passengers who have motion issues — they can actually see where they're going," Davies said.
GREENER: Well, they'll be shaded red, but will have better environmental features than Calgary's existing Siemens fleet, Hardt said. The windows will save energy costs, and the air conditioners will be more efficient.
Brighter LED lighting instead of fluorescent offers a 40 per cent energy saving, Siemens said. And a new electrical brake system is designed to feed power back into the train's cable system.
ACCESSIBILITY: On current trains, each vehicle had two wheelchair-accessible doors on each side. The S200 will feature wheelchair accessibility on every door, and there will be no centre poles as obstacles, Davies said.
FAIR BIDDING: Calgary Transit also considered bids from Hyundai Rotem (South Korea), Kinki Sharyo (Japan) and CAF (Spain), but Davies said Siemens offered the best design, price and mechanical specification.
He said the tender process was "completely unbiased" and included hiring a fairness adviser.
But he also said there are advantages to sticking with the company that CTrain brass have dealt with since before the system's 1981 launch.
"There's a similarity in parts, but I think as much as anything else there's a relationship with the supplier that we have, that they know exactly what we need and what Calgarians need," Davies said.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESIGN: Next week, Calgary Transit will begin asking Calgarians which of three nose designs they want on the new trains. One option is made to look like a goalie mask, one a buffalo, and another is inspired by the Bow River.


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PHOTOPHILE- Independence Day: Monticello gets presidential treatment
"It's all about the First Amendment," said Albemarle police Captain John Teixeira, somewhat presciently, before the start of Monticello's July 4 Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. The presence of President George Bush turned a favorite, easygoing annual event into a regimented, security-minded yell-zone. [See news story for more–editor.]
It's not like this area is a stranger to U.S. presidents, but it's been a few centuries. The 1,000 tickets available to the masses were quickly snatched up by citizens eager to see the POTUS– or to protest his policies. Even now, the debate continues: were activists exercising their First Amendment rights on Jefferson's lawn– or just being plain rude?
Protesters in the parking lot on the way up to Monticello are a time-honored tradition, and although the lot was closed this year, the protest fashions reached new heights of creativity with Lady Liberty, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, and impersonators not only of Bush but also Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.
By 8am, most attendees were up on the mountain with two hours to kill in the ever-warming sun. Reporters were asked to stay in the press area– later dubbed the "free speech cage" by local wag Janis Jaquith– because of "security concerns," although 3,000 other people roaming around did not seem to raise similar worries. Shortly after 9am, everyone was asked to remain in their seats, with temperatures rising, serenaded by the Charlottesville Municipal Band while Bush motorcaded up and toured Monticello before the 1oam ceremony.
Secret Service operatives placed around the lawn and spotters stationed on the old house's roof seemed to have the Independence Day crowd tightly controlled. And then all free-speech heck broke out, at least during the president's talk.
For America's newest 72 citizens, being welcomed to this country by President Bush capped an already extraordinary day– and provided some of the best photo ops in 232 years.
Jineen Abed came up from Roanoke to see her friend sworn in as a U.S. citizen– and then she was headed to Washington.
Tighe Barry wears red, white, and blue to Monticello to voice his opinion of President Bush.
Former Bosnia-Herzegovina resident/new American Haris Bukvic, left, is joined by Carleen and David Lane.
President George Bush, Governor Tim Kaine, and Virginia First Lady Anne Holton (top right) applaud America's newest citizens.
Zeljkovic, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, gets a presidential hug.
Vesna Zeljkovic, 20, (center) beams with friends Sophia Griffiths and Lauren Camac after the ceremony.
Desiree Fairooz makes a dash toward Bush screaming, "war criminal!"
Albemarle's Captain John Teixeira keeps the peace with Virginia State Police First Sergeant D. Hunter Hepburn, who drove up from Lynchburg.
Ruhi Ramazani, UVA professor emeritus and a naturalized citizen himself, estimates he's celebrated the Fourth at Monticello for well over 40 years.
George Thomas and his wife, Supervisor Sally Thomas, run into county exec Bob Tucker at an event that's not an Albemarle Board of Supervisors meeting.
Ernesto Dovis, with baby Luca Dovis, celebrates Independence Day on the side of Route 20 with Condoleezza Rice, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the ghost of Thomas Jefferson.


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Meshnets, Freedom Phones, and the People's Internet
Egyptian recording on mobile. From NYT.
The course of recent events across the Middle East & North Africa have highlighted both the power in organizing & reporting protest movements using network technologies and the weakness inherent in their corporate & state-controlled architectures. While social media & mobile phones have not explicitly created the revolutions we're witnessing in Egypt, Libya, & Bahrain and the protests mounting in many other regions, they are making it much easier for collective actions to coordinate, inspire, and outwit the authorities. Conversely, ruling classes are now far more savvy to the threat these tools bring and will quickly act to shut down internet & SMS services that might undermine their authority. The tension in this dynamic emerged in 2009 when Chinese Uighurs in Xinjiang had mobile access removed by the government in an attempt to quell their uprising. And these tactics have played out repeatedly since as design patterns for resistance & rebellion formalize into institutional playbooks.
In this context, mobiles offer immediate & direct communication with allies while social networks offer distributed coordination and instantaneous global reporting. Indeed, the ability to capture and share information across the world is ultimately the most threatening aspect of such hyperconnected protest movements. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube empower protesters to be field reporters,capturing atrocities and inviting the rest of the world in to see. It is this universal witnessing that makes a local protest into a global movement. It brings normative pressure from the free world into old and rigid totalitarian regimes. Once such regimes could easily crush uprisings with limited exposure. Now they find themselves cast on the world stage in a glaring spotlight. Dispersed & sympathetic legions of like-minded freedom hawks mobilize around these events lending moral & technical support to ensure their success. Aging dictators wrinkle in the sun as their every word & action is shared & deconstructed by the world at large. And so these rulers move quickly to try and shut down the networks, to hide from the light and roll their rule back into the pre-dawn of geographic isolation.
And yet the revolution spreads. Mobiles & social networks transmit ideology & emotion, outrage & courage. Everyone wants in on the spectacle and the hope of real change that it invokes. It might not be too hyperbolic to suggest that True Democracy, co-opted and tarnished by Western realpolitik, so often used as an excuse to prop up the very dictators who've held these people in fear for decades, might break out through the networked world, demanding its due and even resuscitating the anemic corpus of the American protest movement.
But this assumes many things. Douglas Rushkoff and others have begun to point out the relative weakness of the internet and of mobile networks. Corporate choke points quickly buckle under government pressure and the threat of national security. So people naturally look for ways to build resilient networks that can resist the hunger & fear of power. Ways to route around the censorship.
Of course, revolutions are not the only things that need resilient ad hoc networks. Increasingly, large-scale construction projects require on-site network support, with or without internet backbones. Emergency relief, as we saw in the Haiti earthquake in 2010, also require fast response to restore communication networks. Any sufficiently large regional disaster could knock out communications & database access leaving first responders in the dark and victims & families struggling to find help & relief support. It's important to understand that these services require local networks but don't necessarily require internet access. In emergencies its critical that quickly-scalable ad hoc regional networks can be deployed to restore basic communications and access to necessary information, be it status updates or institutional knowledge bases.
Venessa Miemis has a great round-up of the many players in this field, highlighting 16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks. From her list its impressive how many groups are working on solving these problems.
Mobile phones are a valuable infrastructure that often gets overlooked in discussions of resiliency. Everyone has a phone so everyone is a potential node. Research in wireless meshnets that use mobile phones instead of carrier backbones offer localized solutions for resilient networks. If a city loses it's carrier support, if AT&T & Verizon are offline, mobiles can default to a lilly-pad model where voice & data move from phone to phone, hopping across the community through wireless overlaps. The phone becomes the hot-spot and a personal IP address. This allows information to pass from across the mobile meshnet until it reaches an internet uplink, such as a Meraki node. In this manner individuals can still coordinate resources & activities if, say, an earthquake or a dictator has taken mobile carriers & ISP's offline, and can hop to a strong wireless uplink outside the range of blackout.
To look forward, local mobile meshnets could be used as distributed processing clusters, like a SETI At Home for mobiles. Consider the processing power latent across a city of 20 million mobile subscribers, such as Tokyo. As smart phones integrate more diverse sensors, mobile meshnets could be addressed as distributed sense platforms, analyzing air quality, for example, or deputized as camera arrays. [Klint Finley expands on this idea over at ReadWriteCloud.] Consider what could be done with an API for addressing clusters of mobile sensors. [Update: Imagine the types of shared augmented reality experiences that might be possible across localized mobile meshnets… eg bands could push experience layers out to their audiences during concerts – any venue could run a layer that would automatically sync with a user's phone/headset when they entered it's radius of activity.] When mobiles have the ability to firewall from selected authorities or create opt-in experience zones users might develop incredibly sophisticated tools for distributed in-field utilities. Of course, so might criminals and insurgents… and regimes.
There's a tremendous amount of work advancing these technologies. The events in the Middle East & North Africa, coupled with the creeping authoritarianism and neglect in western countries, are lighting a fire under innovators to figure it out. Likewise, major mobile manufacturers are exploring this space to anticipate consumer demand and create differentiating features to compete in the impacted & accelerated smartphone marketplace. The internet & mobile communication have rapidly proven themselves to be indispensable to the lives of billions of people. Any efforts to exert power and authority over them on a mass scale while run into fierce challenges born from the simple nature of human ingenuity & adaptation. And yet, there are many reasons we should not take such access to mobile communications and the internet for granted.
John Gilmore's famous quote (and Mark Pesce's analysis) applies here: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Whether that censorship comes from corporations, dictators, or acts of god is immaterial.
[Update: Check out the World Community Grid for crowd-sourced cluster computing. Would be great to see them include mobile when the tech catches up…]
[Definitely read this Tech Crunch post, Humans Are The Routers, by the founder of the Openmesh Project, Shervin Pishevar.]


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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am referring to the Channel News Asia report by Nathan King dated April 22, 2007 "Overseas S'poreans flock to inaugural Singapore Day in NYC". Don't believe a word of it. It is one big lie. Nathan King has spun up a big story. It is nothing more than his imagination.
It is like this. New York Central Park as you know is a public park. Anyone can go there. What Lee Kuan Yew did was to spend your tax payers money, lots of it, and hired American contractors paying them lots of money (yours), to erect a lavish looking stage in the middle of the park, which was open to the general public, and gave out free food to any member of the public who wanted to eat (paid for by tax payers like you). Please note that the spot for the event in the public park was not sequestered, meaning anyone, including American Australian and Mongolian, never mind Singaporean, could come and go and eat all the food they want and stand wherever they want.
Naturally they got a big crowd. Who wouldn't want to eat free food, tell me? But the big crowd were not Singaporeans. They were Americans who happened to be there, being a weekend, at the park. There might have been few Singaporeans but they could not have been more than a handful. If you look carefully at the picture provided in the paper, most of the faces are that of Americans. I could not find any Chinese face among the crowd, except of course that of Wong Kan Seng speaking to a Chinese man and woman.
According to Mr. King, the writer, he claims that there were 6,000 people there and Wong Kang Seng met them personally. I suppose there could have been more than 6,000. After all it is Central Park New York on a weekend! And what is more, there was free food for all! But the question is how many Singaporeans were there among the general American public in the park.
This is classic Hitlerian propaganda at it's best. And I doubt even Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister could beat this lie, making it look so real.
Of course, since you are not in Central Park, you could not have known this lie one way or another, unless someone from here points this out to you. And I have been glad to have been given the chance.
My answer to Mr. Wong Kang Seng is this. Don't count on it. Singaporeans have left Singapore because they could not stand people such as Wong Kan Seng who refuses to allow people their fundamental human rights and their liberty. Where he has made Singapore into a police state so much so that you may need a police permit, almost, even if you needed to wink! Try to get it into your head Mr. Wong Kan Seng, that people who leave Singapore are smarter than you think. The people who are prepared to live in Singapore other than freedom fighters like Dr. Chee Soon Juan, are those with little education, who do not know their rights. Had they a better education they would have left too. So, Mr. Wong, I am sorry to tell you that Singaporeans who have left will not return to your Alice in Wonderland Police State. And at the same time, more and more people are leaving the shores of Singapore each day to supplement those already abroad.
And finally the number is not 6,000. If you subtract the Americans who came to spend their time at the park on the weekend and those American passers by who came to try free Singaporean food for the first time, the actual Singaporeans there would have numbered not more than 40. Not 6,000 as Mr. King claims.
Mr. King, the writer has used a great deal of imagination in conjuring up the number of 6,000 and Singaporeans coming from Canada and California. Good thing, he did not suggest that Singaporeans had flown from all over Europe to come to Central Park New York that day!
Lies, Lies and More Lies. But in the end, it will not work. You see, Mr. Wong, all over the world, Singaporeans have said good riddance to your police state. Unless you give them their human rights, they will get their education in Singapore and be on the next plane to Perth, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto or San Francisco.
By way, I live in the outskirts of San Francisco.
Gopalan Nair
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Channel News Asia has lived up to it's reputation as nothing more than propoganda. Lies lies and more lies.
Posted by Gopalan Nair at 8:25 PM
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I found your 'report' quite insightful and have submitted it to tomorrow.sg to be 'broadcast' accordingly. I am sure you are doing well in San Francisco and wish you all the best.
For other readers interested, the link to the Channel NewsAsia article is here...
- Tue Apr 24, 03:59:00 AM PDT
Could it be true? For the average local Singaporean whose daily news feed has ever been the government daily The Strait Times, your report bears testimony that there is always two sides of a coin.
I applaud your coverage on the outrageous spin they are trying to conjure. In spirit of true journalism shame on you Nathan King!
- Fri Apr 27, 11:28:00 PM PDT
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Hi! I'm a new member but I have an issue...when I signed up I used Cheryl P. as my sign in (my name) which went through just fine but when I click on my name, it goes to a cherylp profile. I'm hoping it can be fixed or I can change my sign in name which would be fine too..please, any help will be appreciated. I like the forum and have found quite a few great tips..thanks for your time Cheryl P.
Hey, Alan! Just a thought....has M* considered slashing the prices on fabric yardage that is less than 3.5 yards for fabric lines that are discontinued? Most generally, when I support the local quilt shops (rare); a "discount" to take the end of the bolt is given...does M* do this? And would it be considered with on-line purchases? I.E......I am looking for backing fabric in the Robert Kaufman Satsuki line. M* has 3 options of yardage left, but...how much is left on the bolt and why is M* higher than other sites that still has it? Just a thought for "sale" items and a way to empty inventory to make room. I realize M* has the most variety in designer fabric lines and by far the best in pre-cuts!
What size squares were used to snowball in the corners of the Churn Dash blocks? Really like the effect it makes.
Hahaha! I think this was the first time I read your "about me." Aren't friends great?
You new profile pic is a wee bit scarey.
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one of our members, Trish (id here = aliaslaceygreen) has not been able to post for the past few days. I told her that I would let you know and possibly you could help her out.
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Don't want to be a bother, Al, but is it up to me to recover my missing albums or can you re-install them?
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