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It's super easy: just follow the few simple steps listed here.
The search engine Ecosia belongs to Berlin-based Ecosia GmbH, which is a German social business owned by Christian Kroll. To learn more about the folks behind the scenes, have a look here.
For starters, you can set Ecosia as your default search engine. After that, you can help spread the word about Ecosia with any or all of these fine activities. Thanks in advance!
Ecosia has two main sources of income, EcoLinks and EcoAds. We give 80 percent of what we earn from EcoAds and EcoLinks to the "Plant a Billion Trees" program. At the moment, this amounts to roughly $2,700 per day.
For proof of Ecosia's donations to the Plant a Billion Trees program, please have a look here.
The remaining 20% of Ecosia's income is used to neutralize the CO2 emissions of Ecosia's web search. In addition, this income also helps us pay our bills as well as keeping Ecosia running and growing.
In August 2013, we launched a new version of Ecosia. The biggest changes are the redesign to Ecosia's interface, and the partnership with The Nature Conservancy's "Plant A Billion Trees" program. You can now even keep track of how many trees you have planted with Ecosia. For more information about the changes, please check out this blog post.
Ecosia's search results are mainly powered by Yahoo. In addition, we've also developed our own algorithms to improve the search experience even further with features such as search tags or EcoLinks. We also use third-party search technologies like Wikipedia and Bing.
Ecosia search tags give you quick access to external search functions such as images, maps and YouTube. To use them, just enter your search term as usual with the tag at the end. For example, if you enter "Berlin #maps" into the Ecosia search box, you'll get Google Maps results for the term "Berlin". To learn more about Ecosia search tags, watch this video.
One of Ecosia's goals is to be a 100% data-private search engine. We believe that an individual's personal data, including their search queries, are their own business and no one else's.
But the policies of our independent partners may differ from our own, which limits our ability to make promises regarding privacy. We are still required to send some personal data (e.g. your IP address or browser type) to our search partner Yahoo, who may analyze this data. Regardless, we promise to continue improving Ecosia's privacy situation whenever and where ever possible. For a complete rundown of Ecosia's most current privacy policy, please have a look here.
In some cases, Ecosia displays search ads above the normal search results. These ads are text links to websites (i.e. businesses), which pay for each click by users. The ads are delivered to you by Yahoo, who pay Ecosia a share of the revenue generated via these ads. Ecosia then uses 80 percent of this income to plant trees. To learn more about EcoAds please watch this video.
Thanks, but don't do it. You should only click on search ads in which you are genuinely interested: arbitrary clicks could harm the advertiser and possibly even Ecosia. There are also algorithms active, which are designed to detect fake clicks and invalidate them.
With Ecosia EcoLinks, you help the environment every time you shop online. Just search for your purchase and activate the shop's EcoLink by clicking on it. Up to 5 percent of your purchase is then automatically donated to Ecosia — at no extra cost to you! To learn more about EcoLinks please watch this video.
While we do keep track of every purchase made through EcoLinks in order to guarantee that the right amount of provisions end up with Ecosia, we're unable to offer you a personal report about a specific donation generated through any one of your purchases at this time.
Yes! Please remember that you have to click through the desired EcoLink every time you buy something online to have it count toward Ecosia's income. Otherwise your purchase may be improperly tracked and its donation potential lost.
No. EcoLinks work for all kinds of products and services — not just the sustainable ones. The designation EcoLink only means that a share of your purchase is donated to Ecosia.
If you're using Ecosia to search for a particular product and no EcoLinks are appearing, try altering your search terms a bit. Doing so may increase the likelihood of more webshops with EcoLinks showing up.
Let's say for example you want to buy the book Siddhartha. Instead of just typing "Siddhartha" into the Ecosia search box, you could type the terms "buy book siddhartha" to try for more EcoLinks.
If you aren't able to find an EcoLink for a particular purchase, no worries: just try again the next time you want to buy something online. We have hundreds of partner shops and are adding more all the time.
EcoLinks are affiliate links Ecosia displays alongside the search results. An Ecosia-developed algorithm allows us to display the affiliate links most relevant to users' search queries, giving your business the opportunity to gain more visibility on the search results page — especially when a user searches for a product or service your business offers.
Joining the EcoLink program can help you gain new customers and increase revenue. In addition, you're also supporting a great environmental program from The Nature Conservancy with the provisions you pay to Ecosia. You can even communicate the amount your company has contributed to Ecosia on your website.
To become a part of the EcoLink program, please get in touch with our partners Yieldkit (mostly for German websites) and Skimlinks (all other countries). If you are currently active in the program and want to opt-out, you can contact these companies to do so as well.
The funds generated by Ecosia help to plant about one tree every minute. When you do a search with Ecosia, we display a personalized tree counter, which shows you how many trees you have already helped plant. Rather than showing you how many trees you have planted all on your own, the counter shows you how many times you have contributed to the planting of a new tree based on the Plant a Billion Trees program's calculation of one US dollar per planted tree.
You have probably chosen to search with Google on the Ecosia search page, which does not contribute to the planting of any trees. Read why below.
Ecosia's mission has always been to have the greatest positive impact per Euro (or Dollar) on Earth's environment. Because tropical forests provide several important benefits, including freshwater protection, clean air, crop pollination, wood and food, they are not only some of the most critical ecosystems in the world -- they are also some of the most overwhelmed.
The Plant a Billion Trees campaign was launched by The Nature Conservancy in 2008 to restore Brazil's Atlantic Forest -- which is on the brink of extinction due to pressures of urban expansion, agriculture, ranching and illegal logging. This unprecedented major restoration initiative will reforest 1 million acres and connect more than a million acres of forest remnants, creating new forest corridors to improve the resilience of this critical and degraded ecosystem.
The effect will be improvements to important watersheds that provide clean drinking water and hydroelectricity to millions of people, plus protection for thousands of species of native plants and animals. On a global scale, the trees planted by the campaign will capture atmospheric carbon equivalent to the emissions of one million cars every year.
The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees approach uses the best available science to ensure its efforts result in viable ecosystems and sustainable, high quality habitats. Some of the strategies employed include:
Of the donations that Ecosia makes to the Conservancy, 90% are directly forwarded to the Plant A Billion Trees program. The remaining 10% are used by the Conservancy to cover any costs, including direct and indirect costs of implementing, administering and marketing related to the general mission of the Conservancy.
Ecosia neutralizes all CO2 emissions related to an Ecosia web search. To offset our emissions, we use a Gold-Standard project in Madagascar run by our partner myclimate.


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Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Digital Collections
November 29, 1973
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, the
latest figures on un.:mployment are at
4.5 percent which I l'1ink is the lowest
in 3 years. These .tlgur~ go back a month
I believe. Since that time, there hav~
been statements made that unemployment,
in view of the energy crtsis will
possibly reach 8 percent. '
I note that the administration, in the
person of the Chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers. Mr. Stein, said he
saw no basis for projections of a possible
8 percent unemployment rate in the next
year if the Arab oil embargo is not lifted ..
That statement is taken from the Oil
Daily under date of Thursday, November
8, 1973.
However, I note tha t United Airlines,
American Airlines, and Frontier Airlines
are either laying off pilots, stewardesses
and stewards, and some ground
crews, or will be in the process of doing
so shortly.
I note also that a private plane concern,
the Cessna Manufacturing Co., I
believe located in Kansas, at the present
time has indicated it will be forced to lay
off 25 percent of its personnel and perhaps
more in the months ahead because
of the prohibitions on fuel laid down so
far as general aviation is concerned.
I note also that on yesterday it was
announced the armed services are shipping
to Vietnam and Cambodia 22,000
barrels of aviation gasoline every day.
It is known, of course, that because of
the drawdown in Mideast oil, something
on _the order of 600,000 barrels a day, I
believe, have been diverted from domestic
use for the use of our armed services.
That is understandable. I do not know
whether they need that much. but certainly
the armed services should have a
priority. But I cannot understand 22,000
barrels of oil a day going to Cambodia
and South Vietnam at this time; because
I want to say to my associates in this
Chamber that we are facing a crisis
which I do not think we even yet realize
1s as serious as it is going to be.
Mr. President, the resumption of oil
shipments from the Mideast would make
no difference in the immediate future-and,
I would say, up to 2 years-In the
difficulties which confront this Nation In
an energy sense today.
We have been profligate with our resources.
We bave been wasteful with our
energy uses. We have, I understand, over
the past several years, wasted between
40 percent to 50 percent of the energy
we consume.
We are not going to be able to overcome
that deficiency through lowering
thermometers in our homes or offices to
68 degrees. We are not going to be able
to overcome that deficiency by establishIng
a rate of 50 miles an hour for automobiles,
a rate, Incidentally, which I note
In the last day or so has been raised to
55 miles an hour for trucks.
Chilly homes and reduced speeds on
our highways will be among the least
serious of the difficulties which confront
us at the present time.
What I am worried about is not the
minor sacrifices, but what the economic
effects of the shutdown on imports on
the one hand and the wastage on the
other by this country will cause, because
what we will have will be an increase In
fuel prices--whether we like it or not;
what we will have will be increased unemployment,
and the signs are there
already-whether we like it or not; and
what we will have will be increased inflation,
now running about 8 percent a
year-whether we like it or not.
If we are not careful and do not face
up to this problem as we should, I think
that the danger of a recession neltt· year
is not only apparent, but very likel:freal.
I would point out further, Mr. President,
that the petrochemical ·industry
will be hard hit, as well as the_plastics
industry, the synthetic rubber industry,
and the fertilizer industry. At the present
time, General Motors, I think, is shutting
down 16 of its plants a week or so before
Christmas. Whether they will reopen
after the first of the year is unct._etermined
at this time, but that means that
thousands of men will be out of work, and
consumer goods and food will be affected,
because, after all, if we are going to produce
the surpluses we need In order to
feed ourselves and hungry countries
throughout the world, we are going to see
that the farmers get enough gasoline.
Thus, Mr. President, with all these factors
to consider; namely, unemployment,
shortages, increase in prices, I woUld
hope that the administration woUld give
the most serious consi~·ation not to an
increase from the present 4-cent national
Federal sales tax on gasoline to something
on the order of 30 or 40 cents,
as has been mentioned, but to rationing.
That is not popular, but at least it is
equitable. The poor and the middle-Income
groups will be treated on that basis
just as fairly as the rich who can afford
increased Plices and who woUld be able
to afford increased taxes.
All I want to do is to raise, once again,
warning flags as to what confronts this
Nation at the present time, and to point
out that so far as Importation of fuel
from the Middle East is concerned, It will
not make a bit of difference so far as the
crisis which confronts us at this present
time is concerned, even If it is resumed.
So it is time to face up to the facts and
to do what can be done, and also to recognize
that there Is such a thing as
equality insofar as the distrlbution of fuel
oil supplies is concerned. That would be
far better than any kind of inequitable
system whic hseeks to raise more revenue
through increased taxes on gasol!ne.
Mr. President. If that is ever done-and
I shall oppose it all the way
through-it will mean that the poor and
the middle-income groups, who now bear
the greatest share of the burden of taxation
in this country-and they have no·
tax loopholes--will be the ones who will
have to carry the added burdens.
Accordingly, Mr. President, I wouJd
hope that while the administration, t~
President, and his counselors are mee~
ing, they will be able to come up with
solutions which will allow us to confront
this problem on an equitable basis.
~ want to assure the President that If
he does, the Senate will be prepared to
support him because we, too, are aware
of the emergency which exists in th18
country today and we are well aware of
what this crisis--this potential crisis-can
do to us in tbe years ahead.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 49, Folder 36, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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"The Language of God" Book Club–Chapter 6
How should we interpret the Bible? What is the role of tradition? What is the role of science? Who gets to decide whether traditional interpretations need to change?
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How should we interpret the Bible? What is the role of tradition? What is the role of science? Who gets to decide whether traditional interpretations need to change?
"Being confronted with evolution may have been the catalyst for asking the difficult questions, but the real problem for me was not evolution – it was biblical literalism."
Once we recognize that no one takes the text literally, and that we have often failed to account for the details in the text regarding the time of day, we can begin anew to try to understand the text as an ancient text rather than as a modern one. As such, we must begin with the idea that the text operates in the world of omens, not the world of physics and astronomy.
Critics of Christianity look to evolution to show how the emergence of human life on earth demanded enormous ruin and ravage, billions of years of apparent waste and futility, species extermination and organism road kill. Not only was the massive dying off rampant, it's mandatory too.
This series, by Old Testament scholar Richard S. Hess, was first published as an appendix to Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers Grove: IVP Academic; Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
In this series, Kathryn Applegate addresses the concern that randomness implies the absence of God's activity and involvement in the natural world. She begins by clearing up some common misconceptions about the concept of "randomness", and later focuses on the mechanisms of the immune system to demonstrate that God works through random processes to preserve life. Far from being an indication of a "godless" universe, one might conclude that randomness is one of God's favorite mechanisms for creating and sustaining life!
There's a word beneath the water, and the Bow River belongs to God. Have you been listening?
Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
It is not uncommon to hear voices proclaiming that biology and physics have shown us that—at fundamental levels—nature is random, hence meaningless, purposeless, and without a creator. But how might God work providentially through indeterminate processes? The John Templeton Foundation has provided a generous grant of $1.69 million to support a new research initiative on the theme of Randomness and Divine providence.
Charles Darwin's personal struggles and ultimate rejection of Christianity are well documented, and people are eager to link his loss of faith to his evolutionary theory. David Lack, on the other hand, began his scientific career as an agnostic, but shortly after publishing his famous book on the evolution of "Darwin's finches", he converted to Christianity.
This BioLogos videocast addresses the idea of randomness as a part of natural selection, and whether it challenges the possibility of God using the evolutionary process as a means of creation.
Barkley suggests that material creation is not the end of our understanding (as Naturalists think), but a beginning that unveils the majestic and power of a Creator who loves us.
In this three-part series from Pruim's chapter in the book Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church, mathematician Randall Pruim explains what scientists and mathematicians mean when they speak of something being "random". He also addresses God's use of apparent randomness in creation as a part of his sovereign rule.
Pastor Joseph Barkley of Ecclesia Church extols the greatness of the God who has brought forth incredible works and engaged humankind in relationship. In the first part of the sermon "Over and Above Naturalism," Barkley admires the factual knowledge unlocked by science, and yet reminds the Church that those material descriptions fail to answer the question of ultimate significance.
It should not be surprising that John Cage asked the stuff he used to make paintings to take part in the process—to contribute its own identity to the intentional, purposeful, and determined work of creating "based on chance."
N.T. Wright explores the context and manner in which Scripture is authoritative. He does so by questioning the meaning of an authoritative book as well as the application of such authority. Wright encourages us to flee from the controlling "list" mentalities that belittle the richness of God's Word, and rather to understand it as a narrative inspired by God and recorded by ancient persons. Ultimately, God "organizes" his people through his Son Jesus and by the Holy Spirit, and not through extracted rules from the Bible.
Perusing the writings of atheistic scientists and philosophers like Daniel Dennett, one could easily get the impression that arriving at a simpler explanation for something equates to a revelation that things are "lower, cruder, and more trivial."
Is Genesis 1 describing material creation or functional creation? Pastor Richard Dahlstrom of Bethany Community Church beautifully articulates the insights he has received through John Walton's book The Lost World of Genesis One and probes deep into the Biblical text with us.


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The good part for these aspiring hoop stars is that former University of Nevada stars are coming back to the Truckee Meadows in order to run their own camps and give back to the community that supported them during their college days.
The latest is Ramon Sessions, who just finished up his fifth season in the NBA and is now a free agent after getting his first postseason experience as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. He decided not to exercise a $4.55 million player option for 2012-13 season in hopes of landing a multiple-year contract with a winning team. He averaged 11.3 points and 5.5 assists per game last season with the Lakers and the Cavaliers.
Sessions also runs a camp in his hometown of Myrtle Beach, SC. But he has a special place in his heart for Reno since he was not heavily recruited coming out of high school and Nevada gave him a shot to fine tune his skills in preparation for an NBA career.
Sessions was in the middle of the action Monday, the first day of the camp, coaching players and teaching them fundamentals.
"I come here and do this once a summer, and it's always good to come back to my second home," Sessions said. "I did three of the best years of my life out here. It's something I cherish day in and day out. Just to come back and see the smile on the kids' faces is enough for me."
The fifth annual Ramon Sessions Basketball Camp runs until Thursday at the South Reno Athletic Club and is for kids ages 6-16.
Sessions isn't the only former Nevada star leading the camp. Eathan O'Bryant was a star point guard for the Wolf Pack in the 90's and is the camp organizer.
O'Bryant was a two-time all-Big West Conference performer and was third in the nation in assists his senior season. O'Bryant played professionally in Europe and was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
O'Bryant also hosts an annual spring break basketball camp in April for the same age group at the South Reno Athletic Club.
"I can only imagine how the kids feel," O'Bryant said. "To have an actual NBA player here participating in the camp and showing you drills and moves, it's got to be a big thrill."


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Andy Warhol's "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century" are view at the Milwaukee Jewish Museum, on loan from Spertus Institute.
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From eJewish Philanthropy, Spertus Chief Academic Officer Dr. Dean P. Bell weighs in on why Jewish arts and culture matter.
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Fooling Houdini
Alex Stone $26.99 (Reviewed in galley)
At the 2006 FISM close-up magic competition in Stockholm, Alex Stone, an ambitious journalist and amateur magician (who had gained entry to the competition thanks to an endorsement by the President of the Society of American Magicians), was "red-lighted"—meaning that he was stopped before completing his performance. Most red-lighting at FISM takes place because a performer runs over the allotted time, but Mr. Stone was the only act in the close-up competition (and one of few ever) to be "given the hook" because his performance was so utterly execrable and below par.
In some dimension of time and space, a man might, in the face of such public humiliation, retire to private self-contemplation, lick his wounds, and perhaps venture forth gingerly to beg forgiveness from those whose life's work and art he had so publicly sullied. But to quote Richard Kaufman, who offered this comment on the Genii Forum in the wake of Mr. Stone's next public step, "People like to fail in public these days. A good wallow in your own failure is sometimes the road to success."
That next public step of Mr. Stone's, proving Mr. Kaufman's prescience, was to write a 13-page feature article about his FISM experience in the July 2008 issue of Harper's magazine. Far from appearing embarrassed much less contrite, he took the opportunity to brag about his hard work and magic expertise, strutting his personal sense of intellectual and moral superiority over his fellow competitors and the larger community of magic, while posing as a working pro. Although in possession of an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard, Mr. Stone had apparently been absent the day his class learned the meaning of "hubris."
The title of the piece that Harper's blared across the cover of the magazine was "The Magic Olympics with Tricks Explained!" And explain them Mr. Stone did, with gusto, illustrations, and in great quantity. Harper's editors, perhaps desperate to find an audience for a piece that risked being of interest only to the magic community (not exactly the magazine's core readership), appear to have pressed the author to litter his article with abundant if meaningless explanations of magic methods, while they would advertise those contents right in the headline. "Tricks explained!" would doubtless sell more copies than "Loser Loses."
To this reader it was difficult to decide which was more offensive: the writer's preposterous conceit, or the wholesale quantity of gratuitous exposure (including the Muscle Pass, the Topit, the one-ahead principle, Retention Vanish, classic palm, Spellbound change, Tenkai Palm, Pickup Move, and believe it or not, much more). In the closing paragraphs of the piece, Stone managed to proudly display both facets in close proximity: first by exposing the method of an extraordinary signature illusion currently in use by a prominent creator and performer; then, in his final judgmental paragraph, promptly declaring it "something brilliant, yes, but also sad." Was the illusion sad? The illusionist? The method? Or was it just the writer?
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"Fooling Houdini" is an ostensibly self-effacing memoir by an inept amateur conjurer. Alex Stone's quest to become a master magician, however, does not bring him nearly as close to that goal as he imagines. Instead, he skirts the borders of popular genres of memoir, producing a tale that, had it verisimilitude, might appeal in the universal tradition of triumph over formidable odds. Instead it shares genetic material with narratives in which that triumph is markedly exaggerated.
"Fooling Houdini" begins with Mr. Stone's arrival at the Magic Olympic Village in Stockholm. He competes in the Magic Olympics, and, as he says, is "humiliated." Let's be clear: There is no Olympic Village, because there is no Magic Olympics. What Mr. Stone attends is a triennial gathering of magic enthusiasts, sponsored by an international organization of magic clubs. The event includes shows, lectures and competitions in many categories: micro-magic, mentalism, card magic, illusions, etc. The contestants are occasionally very good—but to compare the victors to Olympic athletes, who perform quantifiably world-class feats, is ludicrous.
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. . . You've just performed what magicians call a retention vanish: a false transfer that exploits a lag in the brain's perception of motion, called persistence of vision. When done right, the spectator will actually see the coin in the left palm for a split second after the hands separate.
This bizarre afterimage results from the fact that visual neurons don't stop firing once a given stimulus (here, the coin) is no longer present. As a result, our perception of reality lags behind reality by about one one-hundredth of a second.
Magicians have long used such cognitive biases to their advantage, and in recent years scientists have been following in their footsteps, borrowing techniques from the conjurer's playbook in an effort not to mystify people but to study them. Magic may seem an unlikely tool, but it's already yielded several widely cited results. Consider the work on choice blindness — people's lack of awareness when evaluating the results of their decisions.
In one study, shoppers in a blind taste test of two types of jam were asked to choose the one they preferred. They were then given a second taste from the jar they picked. Unbeknown to them, the researchers swapped the flavors before the second spoonful. The containers were two-way jars, lidded at both ends and rigged with a secret compartment that held the other jam on the opposite side — a principle that's been used to bisect countless showgirls. This seems like the sort of thing that wouldn't scan, yet most people failed to notice that they were tasting the wrong jam, even when the two flavors were fairly dissimilar, like grapefruit and cinnamon-apple.
In a related experiment, volunteers were shown a pair of female faces and asked which they found more attractive. Then they were given a closer look at their putative selection. In fact, the researchers swapped the selection for the "less attractive" face. Again, this bit of fraud flew by most people. Not only that, when pressed to justify their choices, the duped victims concocted remarkably detailed post hoc justifications.
Such tricks suggest that we are often blind to the results of our own decisions. Once a choice is made, our minds tend to rewrite history in a way that flatters our volition, a fact magicians have exploited for centuries. "If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely," said Teller, of the duo Penn and Teller, to Smithsonian magazine. "This is one of the darkest of all psychological secrets."
Another dark psychological secret magicians routinely take advantage of is known as change blindness — the failure to detect changes in consecutive scenes. One of the most beautiful demonstrations is an experiment conducted by the psychologist Daniel Simons in which he had an experimenter stop random strangers on the street and ask for directions.


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The Quantitative Methods Area of the Department of Psychology at UBC offers graduate study leading to both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The mission of the quantitative psychology graduate program is twofold: To train students in the theory and application of quantitative methods for psychological research and to contribute to the development of new knowledge in the field of quantitative psychology. With regard to training, we seek to develop a foundational knowledge for graduate students of all areas and to provide state-of-the-art training for graduate students seeking a Ph.D. in this field. The graduate program provides a rigorous curriculum, opportunities for experience in teaching, and extensive training and experience in research. Our mission also involves the conduct of research that will make valuable contributions to the growth in knowledge regarding the theory and use of quantitative methods in psychological research. In addition, we contribute to the advancement of knowledge in substantive areas through the careful and proper use of sophisticated quantitative methods.
The field of quantitative methods covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the mathematical modeling of psychological processes and phenomena (mathematical psychology) to the theory and techniques of mental measurement, individual differences, statistics, and data analysis techniques generally. Largely because of the interests of the faculty members in the Psychometrics Area at UBC, the emphasis of the graduate program is on measurement and data analysis, rather than the mathematical psychology side of the field. Opportunities do exist, nonetheless, for some exposure to the latter.
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Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Digital Collections
March 20, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE S4091
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President. I ask
unanimous consent that a speech I made
at the ammal convention of the American
paper industry in New York City last
Tuesday, March 17, 1970, be printed in
the RECORD.
There being no objection, the speech
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD.
as follows:
(Remarks of Senator MIKE MANSFIELD Democrat
of Montana, nt the annual convention
luncheon of the American paper iudustry,
New York City, March 17, 19701
I am Yery gmteful for t he opportuul ty to
get away !rom Washington, even for r• dn)
These are busy times in the Senate. The pan·
Is as though the 6esslrs. All the whlle, De-:nocrats
are confronted "'lth the sheriff hold!~ g. I am
told, nine mllll)n dollars In mortgag.~s from
the last election. As It that were not enough,
the Republican National Commltee has made
clear that It will zero In on the Senate as
as the citadel of the rema~nlng Democratic
Influence In the government.
Nevertheless, the Senate's present disquiet
goes deeper than politics. In the first place,
the sentiment Is to be found not only In
members of my party but among Republicans
as well. It atlllcts those who are slated to be
candidates In November and those who are
not. Its origins, I belleve, lie not In partisanship
but In acute sensitivity to what ts a
growing disquiet in the nation.
The current Senate, In fact, Is one of the
least partisan I have known. For the past
year, most of Its members have been inclined
to act on the view which President Nixon
eKpressed In hls Inaugural address. You will
recall that the President suggested it was a
time for lowered voices.
While restraint In speech was an excellent
suggestion, It is not of itself a response to
the nation's dllllcul ties. It wlll not defuse
the economic and social time bombs in our
midst. Our problems wlll not grow less dangerous
by virtue of being soft-pedaled. Nor
wlll neglect, benign or otherwise, solve them.
To manage these problems at all, It seems
to me, requires a combination of thought,
discussion and action, quiet and restrained,
If you wlll, but nonetheless, purposesful. To
achieve that combination throughout the
nation, there Is a need for the consistent apJ1llcatlon
of Presidential leadership supplemented
by the Congress. The past few weeks
of Intense activity offer evidence that the
Senate Is wlll!ng to supply the supplement.
What It Is that produces the uneasiness
and, In turn, the predisposition to action In
the Senate is not dllllcult to find. There Is a
clue to a principal source In the closeness
with which the Wall Street J01Lrnal Is read
these days In the Senate Lobby. I venture to
say that this Interest bas more to do with
stock-taking than stock-holding. The financial
news Is followed because there Is uncertainty
regarding the trends In the nation's
I shall not pre-empt these rna tters when
o~hers here are far more expertly qual!fied to
diScuss them. I would only point out that
Senators are acutely aware that prices have
been rising at an ann~tal rate of six per cent
for the past tvm years. They know, too, that
price levels have reached an all time high and
that Interest rat<:P. are at a 100-year pinnae!!'.
Nor Is there a~y point In mincing words
about the housing industry and, perhaps,
other m.ajor elements In the economy. The
word there Is not recession, it Is depression.
The national unemployment rate Is above
four per cent for the first time In m.any years,
and the factory work week ts shrinking In a
number of the nation's key Industries.
Economists grasp the significance of these
and other Indicators In one way. Bankers In
another. Business managers In still another.
.Senators read the mall from home. We are
well-Informed, for example, on the consequences
of unemployment or shrinking incomes
In terms of personal hardships. We are
well aware of what high prices mean to old
people living o.n Social Security annuities or
pensions of $100 a month or less.
The Senate may acknowledge as Inevitable
some of the actions which the Administration
has taken to combrut Inflation. By the
same token, however, the human Impact of
these actions are not Ignored. In short, senators
do not exclude from their judgment of
the nation's eoonomic situation, the human
plight of Americans who are caught In the
statistics, who are squeezed In the vise or
declining or fixed Incomes as against still
unchecked prioe-rtses.
It Ia only too apparent that what began
a year ago as a laudable effort by the Admlnlatratlon
to restrain a serious lntlatton
has not yet succeeded In achieving that goal.
At the same time, a large segment of American
enterprise and many Americans have
been hurt In consequence of those measures.
That Is the reality and I see no point In
whispering or Ignoring lt.
There is no panic reaction In the nation to
this situation. There should not be. There
need not be. I do not believe, however, that
the way out of the dlf!l.cultles lies In whistling
In the dark. The fact Is that there Is no
assurance of what lies just around the next
comer. •
The economy as a factor of concern has
registered this session on the sensitive litmus
of the Senate for the first time In many
years. It joins the catalogue of carryover
national l!ls which have long been a source
of anxiety. These other difficulties were there
during previous administrations and are
pressing In the current administration. Included,
of course, Is the still-seething Issue
of race-relations. In the Senate, this problem
Is now seen more and more not as peculiar
to the south but one that Is woven Into the
social fabric of the entire nation.
The problem of crime In all of Its ramifications,
Including the condition of the courts
and criminal proceedings, also continues to
stalk the Senate Chamber. There Is great
concern at the loss of the sense of sheer
physical safety especially among the nation's
urban dwellers. So, too, Ia there deep distress
over the proliferating use of dangerous
drugs, particularly among the young, and
the apparent Inability to get at the origins
of this phenomenon or to grapple efiectlvely
with its consequences.
Finally, as you know only too well, the
n~tlon has suddenly awakened to the extent
of the pollution of the environment.
May I say that the Senate has been aware
of this gathering. cloud for several years.
Pioneer legislative work had already been
done In past sessions and effective followthrough
In the Executive Branch Is now
awal ted. In this Instance, the Congress was
able to supply a pre-paid supplement to support
the emergence of Presidential leadership
on pollution a few months ago.
What these difficulties add up to is a long
neglect of the nation's Inner structure. Disintegration
of the physical environment, especially
In the urban areas, Is far advanced.
Furthermore, the social cement of civility,
community responsibility and personal restraint
appears to have given way In many
places. Resort to violence grows. The whole
range of public services-state, local and
federal-seems sometimes Indifferent to the
situation. More often It Is Inadequate and
Ineffective. Whatever the c.ase, the pillars of
the nation's habitability are tending to
weaken-and some at least faster than they
can be reinforced.
Solutions to complex problems In a complex
society costs a great deal of money. We
have spent much and we will, undoubtedly,
have to spend more. Whatever Is spent, bowever,
will not be enough If we do not also
direct to these difficulties a concentration
of Intelligence and skills and a diligent and
determined Industry. That kind of effort requires
leadership In all parts of the nation,
Inside and outside of government.
Do we have these resources? Can we afford
the effort? We have no choice, It seems to me,
but find them and to afford them. The key
to the solution, I believe, Is to be found In
the use of existing resources more effectively
and purposefully. In my judgment, a
prohibitive taxation Is not the sole alternative
to decaying cities or Insecure streets. Nor
Is a run-away Inflation the Inevitable consequence
of providing for the needs of the
old and the Indigent, for adequate health
facilities and services and for a decent education
of the young.
There Is another basic alternMI ve as I see
lt. It is, as I have Indicated, a better use
of the resources which n.re available and,
largely, already available to the federal government.
To that end, or course, a continuIng
Improvement In the productivity or government
Is necessary and I am delighted
that the President has made a start In that
connection. However, while we reach for savIngs
of the millions of dollars which are
spent for outdated tea-tasters and the !Ike,
It is to be hoped that we will not overlook
the billions which are poured out annually
In pursuit of outdated foreign policies and
m!lltary prf\ctlces.
It Is not only a matter of waste and lnefllclency
In operations. By far, the greater
drain lies In the Irrelevance and excesses
which exist In these main categories o! federal
expenditures. Some would call for a "reexamination
of priorities" In the National
Budget of $200 billion. I thing It Is more
accurate to speak of moving towards a better
balance between expenditures for securIty
against threats from abroad and expenditures
for security against erosion by neglect
at home.
For many years, this balance has been
heavily weighted on the side of defendln~
agaln.st foreign dangers-real or presumed.
!mediate or projected. That Is why the co;t
of the Defense Department towers above all
other federal expenditures. At $72.6 billion It
is far and away the greatest single Item In
the current budget. In my judgment, the
balance is lopsided, primarily because, as a
nation, we have acted for too long on tbe
basis of lopsided fears. We have concentrated
on allen dangers and overlooked or disbelieved
the dangers accumulating at home. In
the circumstances, the civilian authoritiesand
that Includes the Senate-have not exercised
fully their responsbllltles to Inquire
In depth Into expenditures for nntlonnl defense.
For years, the checkbook hns been open
!or military expenditures.
Let me cite an example. Cost over-runs
on new weapons systems obviously do not
contribute to the nation's defense: they contribute
to the r.atlon's Indebtedness. Yet, on
38 major weapons procurement systems, over
$20 bllllon above the original cost estimates
was permitted to accumulate without serious
challenge from anywhere In the government
until very recently. This total Includeer amicable contact between East o.nd
W~st. We have not done so, notwithstanding
the consistent disinclination o! the Europeans
to mf'(lt their NATO commitments at
anywhere nel\r the agreed on levels.
It Is not surprising that a majorltf of
Senators are now urging a contra.ctlon In
the U.S. t!"oop deployment In Western
Eurc,pe. What Is surprising is that the Executl>
e Branch l>"S rPslst-" commitment.
The rost of thls en terprlse has been estimated
by S!!nator Percy of IIllnols at •14
billion. It Is a L'Cvere drain on tax resources,
a source of Inflation and, ot course, a major
Item ot outflow In the balance ot payments.
I look to the Senate to press tor a contronta.tloa
on this excess In what Is otherwise a
de:«lrable o.nd. still necessary commitment to
NATO. Together with the President, It seems
to me, thAt we will have to require this confrontation
If we are t.o bPgln tQ redrP.SS the
balance In the use ot the nation's resources.
Unless tbere Is a rP•dlness t<> taco up to Issues
ot thl& kind, the prospects or shifting resources
to desperate domestic needs are dim
What Is transpiring In Soutbenst Asia Is
even more disturbing than the Inertia ot our
policies regarding NATO. To date, the Involvement
has already exacted an Immense
cost--easily over UOO billion tor VIet Nam
alone and that war continues to command
U.S. resources at the rate of about $1.5 to 112
billion a month. More tragic, VIet Na.m has
claimed almost 50,000 U.S. lives and caused
over 250,000 other casuA.ltles. The toll ot
human life continues heavy rrom week tQ
week. There is no definite sign, as yet, that
there Is an end In sight via "VIetnamlza.tlon"
or o.ny other route.
On top of the continuing drain of VIet
Nam, there baa now unfolded the possiblllty
of a deepening Involvement In Laos. I speak
now not o! the U.S. bombing of the Ho Chi
Minh Trails which, just Inside Laos, lead
from North to South VIP.t NA.m. Th<"'e mllttary
operations Mtually have ltttle to do with
the situation inside Lnos t>nt are related dir
ectly to tbP. conftlct In VIet Narn. At this
late date, It Is probably not to be expected
that they will end until there Is an end to
the w~~.r In Viet Nam. In themselves, however,
they do not necessarily Involve an enlargement
of the war In Southeast Asia.
There Is another war within Laos-the socalled
"hidden war"-whlch carries the risk
or a new U.S. entrapment. It takes a great
stretch of the Imagination to relate vital U.S.
interests to this remote confilct In a primitive
land Inhabited by scarcely three million
people. N'ev.,rtheless, we have somehow already
managed, by the way of foreign aid or
otherwise, to sink billions of dollars In Laos.
To that aid ha.s been added U.S. advisors a.nd
those who go beyond advice. U.S. transport
and helicopter support bas been committed.
Even a B-52 homblng raid hM boon undert
aken among the ancient burial urns ot the
so-called Plll.!n of Jars. It Is a tam111ar pattern,
akin to tnat which drove us, beginning
in 1952, ever deeper Into VIet Nam.
The warning flags are flying in the Senate
on Laos. ·They have been raised by
Members ot both parties. They have been
raised, In my jucl.gment, b"C&U~e the Senate
senses that it Is vlt".l to the future of this
nation-and I use the word advisedly-that
what transpired In VIetNam not be repeated
In Laos-<>r anywhere else. Unless thls bleedIng
of men and resources can be halted now,
where on the Asian mainland does It end?
What lies beyond Laos? Thailand? Cambodia?
China? As the drain goes on In Southeast
Asia, where will we find the resources,
nnd the young initiatives and strength and
ideals which nre essential elements for meetIng
the difficulties within the nation? In
the face of thiR war's divisiveness, on what
will we rebuild a firm national unity without
which the stability ot the Republic Is
It seems to me that we must not only
avoid a new enmeshment In Laos but t h at
we must ret Nam. The way Is still open
In Paris; It can be reopened In Geneva. To
that end. It might be helpful, I believe, It
the President would defllgnate to the presen t
peace talks In Paris a represP.ntatlve of stalture
and authority with his full confidence. I
would hope, further , that there would be a
clarion call for a revival of the Geneva Conference
ot 1961-1962 on Laos, coupled with
the proposal that the Conference be
broe.dened In membership and objective In
order to consider the situation or all of Indochina
and the Southeast Asian mainla n d.
Moreover, It may well be desirable that the
call which goes out should go out tor a.
foreign ministers meeting In order to register
Its urgency.
From the poln t of view ot the Interests of
this nation, It Is time to seek, I believe, the
neutralization not only or Laos, but or all
of Indochina and the entire Soutbea&t Asian
mainland. It Is time to join with oth er ou t side
powers In bona fide multilateral gu arantees
o! the neutrality of the region.
I do not underestimate the difficulties.
But what Is the ·alternative? This nation
bas everything to gain by trying to revitalize
without delay the dlploma>tlc machin ery
which may bring about a termination of
this tragic situation on the Southea.stern
Asian mainland.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 45, Folder 79, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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Superior Twin Room, 2 Single Beds
- 2 single
Superior Room
- 1 queen
Luxury Room, 2 Single Beds
- 2 single
Luxury Room
- 1 queen
5-star luxury hotel in Buenos Aires (Retiro) near Plaza San Martin
With a stay at Sofitel Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires (Retiro), you'll be minutes from Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernandez Blanco and Plaza San Martin.
This 5-star hotel is close to Teatro Colon and Obelisco.
Make yourself at home in one of the 144 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature bidets and hair dryers. Conveniences include direct-dial phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take time to pamper yourself with a visit to the full-service spa. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including a health club, an indoor pool, and a sauna. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare, and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 2 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and limo/town car service. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and a ballroom. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
In addition to a full-service spa, Sofitel Buenos Aires features an indoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center, secretarial services, and limo/town car service. Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms, a meeting/conference room, and small meeting rooms. This luxury hotel also offers a sauna, a library, and tour/ticket assistance. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
Sofitel Buenos Aires is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Audiovisual equipment
- Babysitting or childcare
- Ballroom(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Business services
- Cell phone/mobile rental
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Computer rental
- Concierge desk
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Currency exchange
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Full-service health spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Sauna
- Tours/ticket assistance
- One meeting/conference room
- Parking limited (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 19
- Total number of rooms - 144
- Parking (surcharge)
- Valet parking
- Porter/bellhop
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Secretarial services
- Security guard
- Smoke-free property
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Tour assistance
- Translation services
- Wedding services
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Valet parking, Parking limited (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Bathrobes
- Bidet
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Complimentary bottled water
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Climate control
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Desk
- Direct-dial phone
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room massage available
- Minibar
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Slippers
- Turndown service
- Dining
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 11 AM.
Le Sud - This fine-dining restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Dock nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Pilates classes/instruction nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Racquetball/squash nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Volleyball nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Bird watching nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Playground nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Spa
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Additional Details
Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Awards & Affiliations
- Details
- Sofitel Buenos Aires is listed in the 2013 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List of the world's best places to stay.


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Like many new meeting planners, Melody Aldrich had to grow with the job. Fortunately, the job also grew with her. She was working as an accountant in 1989 when 12 people formed the Philadelphia Church of God. After her day job, Aldrich would work on church business. "Someone had to do the convention planning," Aldrich says. "I volunteered and was volunteered."
From a small start, the church grew "exponentially," she says. Its first convention included 231 people; the second year 500 attended, and there was a convention in Australia; the third year saw 900 attendees and several other locations. Current church membership is 7,000 worldwide.
Aldrich's only previous experience was planning small meetings for the Petroleum Accountants Society, of which she was a member. She learned her job with the church as a "matter of necessity. I had no mentor to go to; I didn't take classes. You just do it because it has to be done," she says.
Today, she plans 15 to 20 annual worldwide conventions. Attendance varies from a high of 1,100 to a few hundred people at international sites. The nine-day conventions occur simultaneously around the world, in the fall. Besides worship services twice a day, the conventions include entertainment and outings for all age groups. People stay 10 nights in the convention hotels.
"Because of all the activities and the meeting space required, when we go into a city we try to look for a minimum of a three-year commitment," Aldrich says. "It's a big project. Being a small organization staff-wise, we can't reinvent the wheel. It helps us not to be looking three years down the line when planning this year. Plus, having a longer commitment gives us more bargaining power, and we have very good attendance rates."
Often they will go back if everything is a good fit. "We'll stay until it becomes old or the prices go up," Aldrich says. She chooses three different hotels based on price, and often books an extended-stay type hotel for families and others who prefer to eat some meals in their rooms.
Because of the simultaneous conventions, the church uses technology to bring sites together. Locations are linked via satellite two to three times during the convention, and other speakers or programs can be downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes a speaker will fly between sites, but usually speakers are scheduled for one location. The church ships most of its own audiovisual equipment to locations, and Aldrich and her staff of two handle renting of staging, pianos, copiers, computers, printers, and whatever else is required.
Aldrich herself is counting on technology for her meeting planning. She relocated to Minnesota from Oklahoma in July, after her wedding. With e-mail, courier, and telephone, she expects to be able to do her job efficiently enough to limit visits to the home office to twice yearly. She believes it will be successful, thanks to her two assistants in Oklahoma, as well as the fact that she has had the job since day one of the church's organization.