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This new beer-centric bar from the owners of Bull & Bear opened in mid-January. Twice as large as its sibling with a pubbier feel, this bar and grill will aim to please wandering tourists as much as suit-wearing after work revelers. A dozen booths — including a fireplace nook — will be tricked out a with self-serve beer taps built right into the tables. They're just like the table taps you know and love at B&B, only will a few more bells and whistles, like chilled liquor on tap to replace bottle service and holographic keyboards that beam down onto the table and allow partiers to send messages to other booths, update their Facebook status or log on to Twitter. A semi-private party area has six taps built right into the wall so guests can mingle and help themselves to pours tracked with a barcode on their wristband. Though the bar's not overtly sports-themed, sports-watching on TVs plastered everywhere will be paramount. On the food front, B&B chef Dave Blonsky is also handling the menu here; expect a mainstream American menu for lunch and dinner serving burgers, sandwiches and chops.
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This masculine, upscale sports bar in River North is just steps away from the Merchandise Mart. The name gives a nod to the city's two major sports teams, plus a hint at the subtle stock market theme throughout (note the stock ticker stretching across the main bar and the menu, called "The Wells Street Journal.") If you want to take advantage of this spot's coolest feature–pay-by-the-ounce beer taps built right into the table–make a reservation for one of five premium booths sitting 8 to 15 or so people (depending on the day, minimums may apply). With a solid food menu by David Blonsky (Quartino), Bull & Bear's kitchen will be slinging eats all day long, from entree salads and gruyere-topped Kobe burgers at lunch to honey-miso salmon and pork chop with apple fennel salad for dinner. Happy hour appetizers are sports bar classics amped up a notch, from pigs in a blanket with citrus slaw to truffle fries with garlic-lemon aioli.
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Keys to success: Foremost in mind difference between WANT & NEED and independent thinking. Don't buy into the "keeping up with the Jones" mind set or succumb to related peer pressure trends. Strong work ethic, reliance on self, do not buy into social service reliance….However, if I was disabled and could not work I do expect government assistance. If I do happen to get laid off, I do expect government assistance. Mind set on both: I have been working & paying into the related systems since the age of 16. I also have expectations that social security that I've been paying into will be coming back to me when I reach related retirement age down the line.
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Today's Magnificat includes a beautiful and highly personalist quotation from Pope Emeritus Benedict on the Ascension and its promise for humanity.
The meaning of Christ's Ascension," writes Pope Benedict XVI, "expresses our belief that in Christ the humanity that we all share has entered into the inner life of God in a new and hitherto unheard of way. It means that man has found an everlasting place in God." It would be a mistake to interpret the Ascension as "the temporary absence of Christ from the world." Rather, "we go to heaven to the extent that we go to Jesus Christ and enter into him." Heaven is a person. "Jesus himself is what we call 'heaven'."
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It's hard to write dispassionately about Michael Voris, but I'll try.
In fact, it's not about him, but about something he says in this clip on the trouble with democracy. He believes that only "virtuous people" (which equals "faithful Catholics") should be allowed to vote, but that a "benevolent dictatorship" would be an improvement on any kind of democracy. (If you suspect I'm misquoting or taking him out of context, watch the clip and I think you'll agree I'm not.)
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[Laypeople] should not be regarded as "collaborators" of the clergy, but, rather, as people who are really "co-responsible" for the Church's being and acting. It is therefore important that a mature and committed laity be consolidated, which can make its own specific contribution to the ecclesial mission...
Pope Benedict spoke these words last August--but any Pope speaks so very many words that some of them invariably get lost in the shuffle. Happily, Al Kresta recalled this passage to us at a recent conference called "Catholic Witness in a Nation Divided."
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Researchers in New York studied the diets of older men and women and found that certain foods may be especially effective in helping to protect against Alzheimer's. The findings appeared online in the Archives of Neurology, a medical journal from the American Medical Association.
These brain-healthy foods include:
Conversely, particular foods may be bad for brain health and be linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's. Such foods, the researchers found, include high-fat dairy products, red meat, organ meat and butter.
The researchers studied the dietary habits of 2,148 older men and women living in northern Manhattan. At the study's start, all the participants were age 65 or older and free of memory loss or other symptoms of Alzheimer's. They were given follow-up exams every one-and-a-half years for an average of four years.
Earlier research, including research done by the Columbia group, have shown that a Mediterranean-style diet rich in fish, olive oil, fruits, vegetables and red wine and low in red meat and butter may help protect against Alzheimer's. But many Americans, including the older Caucasians, blacks and Hispanics included in this study, do not follow a Mediterranean style diet.
"Epidemiological evidence linking diet, one of the most important modifiable environmental factors, and risk of Alzheimer's disease is rapidly increasing," wrote the researchers, from Columbia University Medical Center in New York. "However, current literature regarding the impact of individual nutrients or food items on Alzheimer's disease risk is inconsistent, partly because humans eat meals with complex combinations of nutrients or food items that are likely to be synergistic."
Instead, the researchers this time studied the diet in terms of seven main food groups and nutrients that have been tied to Alzheimer's risk. They looked at these key food groups, all of which have been linked to an increased or decreased risk of Alzheimer's.
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In the New York study, older men and women were given extensive questionnaires asking about the specific foods they ate daily. During the study follow-up period, 253 of them developed Alzheimer's disease. The researchers controlled for variables like smoking and alcohol use (moderate drinking, for example, may be good for the brain, whereas excessive drinking is not). One dietary pattern was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the disease. This pattern involved high intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, fruits and cruciferous and dark and green leafy vegetables and low intakes of high-fat dairy, red meat, organ meat and butter.
The combination of nutrients in the low-risk dietary pattern reflect multiple pathways in the development of Alzheimer's disease, the authors noted. For example, they write, "vitamin B12 and folate are homocysteine-related vitamins that may have an impact on Alzheimer's disease via their ability of reducing circulating homocysteine levels, vitamin E might prevent Alzheimer's disease via its strong antioxidant effect and fatty acids may be related to dementia and cognitive function through atherosclerosis, thrombosis or inflammation via an effect on brain development and membrane functioning or via accumulation of beta-amyloid."
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0Oct 25, '12 by Katie71275, ASN, RNQuick question.....is it possible that checking a child out AMA would not be reported to child protection?? Sorry my past is coming in, but I worked for child protection, and for a sickly child who needed medical care, going AMA might classifiy as medical neglect....Have any of you seen it go that far? Just curious.
1Oct 25, '12 by NicuGalWe would get an emergency custody thru the court.
0Oct 30, '12 by jpeters84We've had a couple parents threaten and our charge RN let me know that the police would arrest the parents the minute they left the hospital and the child would be brought back immediately to the NICU. The arrest is for child endangerment/neglect and it would immediately become a CPS as well as a criminal issue. I've never had parents actually go through with it though.
Quote from catlover314Has anyone noticed an uptick in parents seeking discharge Against Medical Advice?
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- 3 oz. bricks of Kato Polyclay:
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Condition all clay according to manufacturer's instructions. To make chartreuse clay, mix a 1-inch ball of green with a 1-1/4-inch ball of yellow.
- To make the mushroom stem: Flatten a sheet of chartreuse through the pasta machine on a #1 (1/8 inch) setting. Use the Nublade to cut a 1-1/2" x 2-1/2" rectangle.
- Press ends of the rectangle together to make a cylinder, erasing the seam with your fingers. Place on top of the blue glass.
- For the mushroom top: Flatten a 1-1/8-inch ball of green into a 2-1/4-inch circle, tapering the thickness from the center on out. Curl the edges slightly and place on top of the stem.
- For the flowers: Roll 15 small (approximately 5/32-inch) balls of white clay into teardrops. Use the toothpick to indent each petal. Press five petals together at the narrow ends to make the flower.
- Roll three 1/8-inch balls of yellow and press into the center of each flower. Position flowers on the blue glass.
- To make the fairy body: Roll a 5/8-inch ball of magenta into a 1-inch-long tapered log.
- For the legs: Roll two 7/16-inch balls of magenta into 1-inch-long tapered logs. Shape the widest ends into pointed feet. Press onto both sides to the body.
- For the arms: Roll two 3/8-inch balls of magenta into 3/4-inch-long logs. Press arms to both sides of the body and position.
- For the hands: Flatten two 3/16-inch balls of beige into teardrops. Press onto the end of each arm.
- For the head: Roll a 17/32-inch ball of beige. Press two black micro marbles into head for eyes. Use a toothpick to draw two squint lines by each eye. Roll a 1/16-inch ball of beige and press onto the head for a nose. Press a circle cutter halfway into the head to make the mouth, or use a toothpick to draw the mouth. Blush the cheeks using a cotton swab.
- For the hat, roll a 17/32-inch ball of magenta into a teardrop. Use the blunt end of a paintbrush to hollow out the hat, and press the hat onto the top of the head.
- For the ears: Flatten two 3/16-inch balls of beige into teardrops. Press onto both sides of the head. Use the blunt end of a paintbrush to indent each ear.
- Press the head onto the top of the body. Place fairy on top of the mushroom.
- For the wings, cut two 2-3/4-inch lengths of white wire. Shape into wings and twist ends together. Lay flat on parchment paper. Fill wings with Kato clear medium; then sprinkle glitter all over wings.
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- Bake entire piece at 270 F degrees for 25 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Use the blunt end of a paintbrush to dot entire mushroom top with white dots of paint.
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The speakers of Sony's XBR-X900B have come to kick butt and offer no apologies. They provide the sweetest sound we've heard from any TV, and combine with stellar picture quality to deliver the complete package. As long as you like the look of speakers, that is.
Sony's second-tier 4K TV doesn't stock a full-array panel, but its extra features make it a hot contender.
If you can stand its speakers, Sony's XBR-X900B will reward you with the best combination of audio and video quality you've ever seen (or heard).
CNET's Luke Westaway, reporting from CES 2013 in Las Vegas, gives us a look at the Sony Bravia X900A TV, which has passive 3D, NFC capabilities, and a lot of other bells and whistles.
CNET reviewed the Sony XBR-X900B series, but since this 79-inch size has slightly different display technology, we can't assume it performs the same as the 65-inch size we did review.
Sony has announced its first 4K television, the 84-inch XBR-84X900, which features a separate stereo speaker system and passive 3D viewing.
Well, you can meet and greet if you're a customer of India-based Lava International, that is. Intel-based smartphones are also due soon from Lenovo, Orange, Motorola, and ZTE.
David Katzmaier and Ty Pendlebury test one of the first and only 4K TVs available for sale today. Is it the inevitable future, an underwhelming experience, an excellent performer, or all of the above?
Sony announces 4K resolution TVs in 55- and 65-inch sizes, promising real-world, if still surely expensive, pricing.
Panasonic's trio of prosumer camcorders, the hard-disk-based HDC-HS900 and flash-based TM900 and SD800, deliver generally excellent video quality and provide the full set of manual controls and features advanced users want. But you have to be willing to baby the white balance a bit. The TM900 is my top pick of the three for its EVF, but if you're on a tight budget the SD800 should suit just fine.


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On a trip to Key West several years ago, Morgan Overcash had an artistic epiphany.
Overcash, 20, was gazing at storefronts while on vacation with her family in 2006 when a few pieces of furniture caught her eye. She stopped to examine a cluster of elaborately painted Adirondack patio chairs, called Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville chairs. A budding artist, Overcash was fascinated with the designs painted on the furniture and knew immediately she wanted to do something similar. That's when her business, Bohemian Lily Designs, was born.
Retailers continue to pull selected snack food items from grocery store shelves after several food companies issued a recall on products made with peanut butter and peanut paste supplied by the Peanut Corp. of America in connection to a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. not only dreamed about what he could do but he did it, said keynote speaker Omar Tyree at the eighth annual Community Scholarship Breakfast held Monday to honor the late civil rights leader.
Tyree, a New York Times best-selling author, spoke to an exuberant crowd of more than 200 people gathered at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster Bradley Arts and Sciences Building. He emphasized the importance of visualizing where you want to be in life and applying all that you've learned to get there.
Neither the city nor county water district are testing your water.
Residents in the Elgin community of the county, and the Forest Hills neighborhood in the city of Lancaster say someone is leaving small water bottles at their mailboxes, asking residents to fill them with water from their homes and leave them for collection at the mailbox.
In South Carolina, high school football has the legendary John McKissick.
His counterpart in Palmetto State hoops would likely be Great Falls High School's John Smith.
McKissick is the legendary Summerville High School head football coach, who is the winningest prep football coach in the country.
Smith, a Lancaster native and a former Lancaster High School basketball star, stands just as tall in his respective sport.
Smith, in 40 seasons guiding the Red Devils, has more than 800 wins – an average of 20 victories a season.
Kathy Blackmon and her children, Madison, 11, and Hunter, 8, rode down the snowy banks of their yard on a sled on Dean Lane in the Rich Hill community.
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Maroon and white are the predominant colors at most Carolina Christian Academy basketball games as fans fill the school gym to root for the Cougars.
But on Friday's home tilt against Hawthorne Christian Academy Hawks of Chester, school colors took a back seat to purple.
Led by Carolina Christian 12th grader Jessica Hartley, all the proceeds from ticket sales at the door and from a basketball game bake sale were for Relay For Life.
Lancaster County is under a winter storm warning from 9 p.m. tonight to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
The National Weather Service is predicting 3 inches of snow to fall across the region between tonight and Tuesday morning.
Bryan Vaughn, director of safety and transportation for the Lancaster County School District, said he'll be checking roads after midnight, when the snow is expected to start falling.
He said school officials will make a decision whether to hold school, delay it or cancel school by 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Four teachers at Buford Middle School say if it wasn't for teamwork and extended support, they wouldn't have been able to accomplish their most recent feat.
Karen Dingler, Lisa Hallman, Paige Johnson and Mary Beth Mize are among 18 teachers in the Lancaster County School District who earned certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
National Board certification is regarded as one of the highest honors in the education profession.
Freda Usher isn't very hard to find most mornings. She'll be walking along the roadways near her South Potter Road home.
And Usher does the same thing each afternoon when there is enough daylight left to safely be out.
This 56-year-old wife and mother of two isn't walking for her health. Trash bag in hand, Usher is picking up litter.
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A Reynolds number is typically a defined quantity appropriate for a type of system, such as pipes, spheres, etc. I know that a study of blending in conical flasks on a shaker table was done several years ago. I don't remember where or even if the results were published. The time required for blending was so short that measurements and correlations were difficult or even impossible.
With that as background, about the only relevant length dimension is the flask diameter, presumably measured at the widest point. A rotational speed could be based on the number of cycles on the orbital shaker. Density and viscosity are obvious physical property characteristics for the agitated fluid. To be dimensionless, the diameter must be squared, times the rotational speed, times density and divided by viscosity. At that point any similarity to the Reynolds number for impeller mixers ends. Just as turbulent conditions in a pipe are defined by pipe Reynolds numbers greater than 4,000 and impeller Reynolds numbers greater than 20,000 for mixers, some value must be observed for conditions in a flask related to the definition of the flask Reynolds number. The definition and values off the Reynolds number for a flask could be used to characterize other empirical observations.
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Lawyers representing the Retired Employees Association of Orange County were in front of the California Supreme Court today making their case that the county's retirees shouldn't be treated differently than current employees--at least when it comes to medical benefits.
They're trying to convince the Supreme Court justices they have a contractual right to be lumped in with current employees when it comes to medical benefits as a way of avoiding more expensive premiums. The county says no.
The decision on the case could have significant implications for local governments across California, many of which are struggling to get a handle on ever-increasing unfunded liabilities.
In June 2006, the county's employee union and the Board of Supervisors worked out a deal to reduce the then-$1.4 billion in unfunded liabilities for the retiree medical plan.
Prior to that, retirees and workers were lumped in the same benefit pool--but because retirees are usually older than current employees, they are more likely to suffer from health problems, resulting in higher medical costs.
The deal split the pool, which helped the county gain control of its unfunded liabilities when it came to its retiree medical plan but also resulted in higher premium costs for retirees.
Splitting the retirees from current employees slashed the unfunded liability by more than half, but the Retired Employees Association of Orange County filed a federal lawsuit claiming breach of contract and violation of due process.
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The 1SQ V-Cam adds several new twists to compact quadcopter flying fun. Its built-in digital camera lets you shoot aerial videos, with transmitter-activated ON and OFF. An LED illuminates each motor pod for exciting maneuvers after dark. And its TAGS-FX Sensor Fusion stabilization system — featuring a 3-axis gyro and a 3-axis accelerometer — corrects drift as well as unwanted movement in yaw, pitch and roll. New pilots enjoy unprecedented confidence… experts gain the precision to execute perfect maneuvers! All told, you get a helicopter that is not only fun and easy to fly, but also a stable video platform. This revolutionary machine is also available in RTF and Tx-R so you get everything you need and only what you need. You've spent all your life on the ground. It's time to see what the birds see; it's time for the 1SQ V-Cam.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched through European cities to demand action on poverty, job losses and climate change ahead of a meeting of the world's 20 leading economies.
In London, the British capital, about 35,000 protesters gathered on Saturday as part of an alliance of more than 100 trade unions, aid agencies, religious groups and environmental organisations to call on world leaders meeting next week to commit to reforms.
"Never before has such a wide coalition come together with such a clear message for world leaders," said Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the Trade Union Congress.
"The old ideas of unregulated free markets do not work and have brought the world's economy to near-collapse, failed to fight poverty and have done far too little to move to a low-carbon economy."
'Death of capitalism'
The demonstration marked the start of nearly a week of protests in London and other European cities before the Group of 20 summit in London on April 2.
G20 protesters' anger amid global financial crisis
A demonstration also was held in Frankfurt, Germany's banking capital under the slogan: "We won't pay for your crisis."
In Vienna, the capital of Austria, around 6,500 people gathered in the city centre with paper piggy banks, balloons or signs that read "Capitalism can't be reformed".
A group of around 200 protesters in Paris, the French capital, dumped a pile of sand outside the city's stock market to mock the use of island tax havens.
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Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri said the London demonstrators had united under the slogan "Put People First."
The protesters' main message was a call to world leaders to act on the deepening global recession, Moshiri said.
"There are a lot of ordinary people out here concerned about their jobs, about their homes, about their livelihoods," she said.
The protest remained relatively peaceful. British authorities have said they are spending $10m to ensure security at the summit.
World leaders, including Barack Obama, the US president, are expected to discuss the global economic crisis, among other topics at the summit.
The US is emphasising more public spending to stimulate the economy while several European countries are calling for new regulations to be implemented.
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Surrounded by art, memories and warm colors everywhere, Cassandra Carothers is comforted and supported for her life in the city.
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Founded in 1961, Horizon House is a nonprofit retirement community serving most income levels. It is located at 900 University St. and has 25 studio, 131 one-bedroom and 231 two-bedroom apartments in independent living; 90 apartments in supported living. Services range from a fitness center with a saline infinity pool to a medical-dental clinic. For details, go to www.horizonhouse.org.
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"I learned so much from him. I learned through his eyes," says Cassandra Carothers, sitting at the dining table in her apartment the color of toast, high in the downtown Seattle sky at Horizon House.
Landscape architect Richard Carothers was Cassandra's husband of 35 years. He died not even two months before this conversation. But his wife could think of no better way to honor him than to talk about their life together, here at the nonprofit retirement community and before.
Cassandra and Richard Carothers spent their honeymoon in Mexico, a place they could not forget. Back in Seattle, their life was one of fine design and good art. Early on, Cassandra had her eye on prominent architect Gene Zema's "Stephens House" in the Montlake neighborhood.
"I always said, if it comes on the market, let's buy it."
Half a dozen years in, however, Cassandra developed a hearty case of seasonal affective disorder. (And later, Richard developed Parkinson's disease.) "It's remarkable how many people can slug it through," Cassandra says of SAD.
The couple left the Zema for a Magnolia home of two-story windows designed by another respected Northwest architect, Ralph Anderson. The big windows, however, "just let in more gray."
They thought again of Mexico (the light, the vibrant and saturated colors, the culture) and settled, for the next 10 years, on sunny Tucson. "We lived in an adobe house there," Cassandra says.
Everywhere and in each home there was art. Paintings, baskets, ceramics, sculpture, fabrics. "Art became a second family. And it behaves," she says, a smile in her eyes.
Richard presented Cassandra with a massive Alden Mason painting from the artist's Burpee series for their wedding. A sculpture of a jockey wrapped in cigar bands by Jim Jones came from their time in Tucson. There's also a Morris Graves charcoal, a sleeping duck. "Art never seems to present itself when you can afford it," she says philosophically.
When Richard's condition worsened, Cassandra came north, saw the 1,100-square-foot Horizon House apartment and decided in one day that this is where they should live.
"I always look for a wall for the Alden," she says. "That's the denominator." She removed the white carpeting and black marble for deep cherry-wood floors and paint the color of a suntan. Richard lived elsewhere in the building in supported living. Cassandra has been here a little more than four years now.
"To live in a community of people with similar circumstances is to be cared for," she says. "I find it so comforting."
Cassandra has one more move in mind. A slightly larger Western-view apartment in Horizon House with room not only for all of the art, but also to seat guests for real conversation. "When I worked in commercial real estate I had that view. It's a part of me," she says.
"I think what we're always looking for is the creative outlet, and when we're done we move on."
Cassandra will pack up the Alden and the Morris Graves and all the rest of it, and take the life she shared with her dear Richard with her. "This is the perfect place when you've had a major life loss," she says of her vertical neighborhood. "There are so many friends here who say, 'Let me know what I can do.' But there's a period when you have to be alone.
"I like living with things that both soothe me and inspire the soul. The moral to the story is, be open to surprise."
Rebecca Teagarden writes about architecture and design for Pacific NW magazine. Benjamin Benschneider is a magazine staff photographer.
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Cavender, owner of the Oxford jewelry shop Sarah Cavender Metalworks, enjoys gardening when she's not traveling the country attending jewelry conventions.
In proper seasons, the backyard of her Anniston home on Glenwood Terrace is dotted with kale, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms and wildflowers. The bees, she said, would help pollinate her garden in addition to providing honey for personal use.
After attending a meeting last week of the Northeast Alabama Beekeepers Association, she and a group of friends have begun working to research and raise awareness about the benefits of city beekeeping.
The arguments for codes like Anniston's — which bans keeping bees within 300 feet of any residence, school, church, hospital, public building, park, public playground or body of water — are straightforward, Cavender said. Being stung by a swarm of angry bees is reason enough, she said.
But honeybees are not as aggressive as other types of bees, and by fencing off hives to prevent someone from tampering with them, that problem would largely be avoided, Cavender said. Several local beekeepers and experts agree with Cavender.
Steve Chapman, a member of the Northeast Alabama Beekeeping Association and a volunteer with the Alabama Extension Office, lives in Anniston and has a farm in Saks where he keeps bees to help pollinate his crops.
Chapman has kept beehives for about the last six years, and said when kept properly, he sees no reason codes shouldn't be changed to allow them inside city limits.
"Bees are inside the city limits anyway," Chapman said. "They're here. They're inside of homes and in trees. We're living with them every day."
About 40 people routinely attend the association's meetings, and while not all of those who attend keep bees, there are many more who keep bees and never attend, Chapman said. He estimated there might be as many as 60 beekeepers in Calhoun County.
Jim Tew, state beekeeping specialist for the Alabama Extension Office, said that while exact numbers are hard to pin down, backyard beekeeping has increased in popularity in recent years.
More than 600 beekeepers met in February for the 2013 Auburn University Spring Beekeeping Symposium, the most ever to attend the annual event, Tew said.
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Jack Chapman, a founding member of the Beekeepers Association (and no relation to Steve Chapman), keeps about 150 hives, largely for honey production, in several spots around Calhoun County.
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This is part of a four-part series on intellectual property. Other posts in the series may be found at Part one, Part three, Part four.
In my last post discussing the value of an idea, it was argued that more attention needs to paid to understanding the value of intangible assets – information saved as digital records. A retailer wouldn't leave its stock in an unlocked warehouse so why would – for example – an industrial designer leave plans and client details open to competitors via an unsecured USB drive or unencrypted email message?
While there are some simple steps that can be taken to protect ideas and information – including policies for employees and how they handle data and technological steps such as end-point security – there are plenty of grey areas and complications.
The key issues relate to efficiencies and value for businesses. While it's vital for an organisation to protect its information, if by doing so it is hampered in carrying out its main purpose, there is little point in doing so.
For example, Graeme Hackland, CIO for the Lotus F1 Team, says there is no point in the team's laptops having endpoint security if that adds valuable seconds to start-up or connection to a car's on-board system. When drivers come into the pits, the diagnostic systems need to connect immediately. If IT security software interferes with that process and slows it down, it simply cannot be used. It needs to be unobtrusive and fit into a business process – whether in F1 or any other context.
Equally, some IP is just not worth protecting beyond a certain point. Using the F1 example again, car design and development changes so quickly that it's not worth adding protection. Less than seven percent of a car's design is carried over from one season to another because of new engineering developments and regulations in the sport. In the long-term, protecting historic data adds no value to the organisation and can be an avoidable cost.
Equally, in high-street fashion, as soon as an item of clothing goes on sale, there is no point in protecting the design. Others retailers will create similar garments and within a season the whole collection will be old and therefore lower commercial value. Why invest in protecting something that has such as short shelf life and is so openly in the public domain?
Further underlining this point, the 2012 Symantec State of Information Survey shows that 42 per cent of business information is duplicated. And that's just the information they can find. That means two fifths of the intellectual property businesses may be protecting is essentially worthless – and costing businesses through the need for additional resources.
Despite this, it remains that case that more attention needs to be paid to the protection of ideas and the value they bring to an organisation in a knowledge-based economy. But in doing so, it is vital that whatever steps are taken, they support an organisation in achieving its aims. If the protection of IP – for its own sake – stops a business reaching its goals in the most efficient way or adds unnecessary costs, it simply cannot be supported.


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Documenting Changing Church Rhetoric on Gender Roles
My impression is that Church rhetoric defines women by their roles more often than it does men. Women are wives and mothers. Even if they aren't technically mothers, women are mothers, because that's just who they are. Men, on the other hand, sure we're admonished to be good husbands and fathers, but those roles are discussed as being much less central to who we are. I would be shocked, for example, if someone gave a talk titled "Are We Not All Fathers?" in General Conference.
When this difference in the centrality of women's and men's gender roles is discussed, one hope that is often held out is that the Church is changing. Women are coming to be defined less by their roles and more as people of worth even if they don't take on those roles, and men are being reminded more often that our roles as husband and father should be central to our lives.
It occurred to me recently that I could easily test for whether such a change is actually occurring by looking at how often different words are used in articles archived at LDS.org. Specifically, I chose to look for how often role labels (wife and mother for women; husband and father for men) were used versus how often the general labels woman and man were used. So for each year from 1971 to 2007, I counted how many articles in the Gospel Library used the words woman, wife, mother, man, husband, or father. For each year, I found the ratio of articles using wife and mother to the number using woman, as well as the ratio of articles using husband and father to the number using man.
My first hypothesis was that the discussion of women's roles relative to the discussion of women in general would be declining. This hypothesis would be supported if the wife to woman and mother to woman ratios were declining over time. My second hypothesis was that the discussion of men's roles relative to the discussion of men in general would be increasing. This hypothesis would be supported if the husband to man and father to man ratios were increasing over time.
The results are in the figure below. The red squares plot the mother to woman ratio. The orange squares plot the wife to woman ratio. The blue circles plot the father to man ratio. The black circles plot the husband to man ratio. For each of the four ratios, the dashed line of the same color shows the best linear fit to the data.
Both the mother to woman and the wife to woman ratios declined with time. Only the decline of the wife to woman ratio was statistically significant, though1. You can see why the mother to woman ratio did not achieve significance: its values are much more scattered around the best fit line than are the values for the wife to woman ratio. These results offer partial support for my first hypothesis, that women's roles are being emphasized less over time.
Both the father to man and the husband to man ratios increased with time. Although the father to man increase was much more dramatic, both increases were statistically significant2. These results are consistent with my second hypothesis, that men's family roles are being emphasized more over time.
A few other random notes:
- These ratios are clearly extremely crude measures of how much women's and men's roles are being emphasized. Given that there are clear effects even using them, I suspect that a better measure might show the changes over time more clearly. Perhaps they would even show effects depending on who the prophet is. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy to do a study with a more precise measure.
- It would be interesting to see how many articles refer to wife or mother versus woman instead of just looking at wife and mother separately, but unfortunately, the Gospel Library search tool does not support boolean "or" searching.
- I said at the beginning that I think Church rhetoric defines women more by their expected roles than it does men by theirs. Unfortunately, I don't think these data can be used to test whether that's true. My first thought, for example, was that I could compare the mother to woman ratio to the father to man ratio to see which was higher. The problem with this is that both father and man are used in many contexts that have nothing to do with fathers or men. Man is often used to refer to all of humanity, for example, and any talk that refers to Heavenly Father would show up as a match for father. If we assume (as I did here) that these kinds of usages are fairly constant over time, then we can take some meaning out of the change in the ratio over time. But without accounting for these usages, we can't meaningfully compare the ratios for men's labels to the ratios for women's usages.
- Related to the previous point, if the use of man to refer to all of humanity is in decline in the Church, this would account for some of the increase in the husband to man and father to man ratios. If this effect accounted for the majority of the declines, though, we would expect that the slopes of the man lines would be more parallel. Given that they're quite different (and it's the woman ratios that are in fact nearly parallel) I think there's clearly something else going on here. A change in how man is used might account for some of the decline in the ratios involving man, but certainly not all or most of it.
- I considered including partial year data for 2008, but ultimately decided against it. I was concerned that General Conference talks might be consistently different from other materials in the Gospel Library, so having data including only one General Conference might make the partial year data a bad proxy for the full-year data.
- Of course I began with 1971 because that's as far back as LDS.org goes. Does anyone know where I can get electronic indexes of earlier Church publications?
1. For mother to woman, p = .102. For wife to woman, p = .002. These are two-tailed p-values based on a permutation tests: I shuffled each series of ratios 9,999 times and found the proportion of the 10,000 datasets (9,999 shuffled and one original) in which the absolute value of the slope of the best fit line was greater than or equal to the absolute value of the slope of the observed best fit line.
2. For father to man, p < .001. For husband to man, p = .001. These are also two-tailed p-values based on permutation tests with 9,999 shuffles.
- 9 September 2008
18 Responses to "Documenting Changing Church Rhetoric on Gender Roles"
Wow, Ziff. This is incredible.
You're developing a reputation, though, of putting so much work into your posts, that you're beginning to make the rest of us look bad
It looks like your hypothesis is on the right track, and I do hope that it's right, that women are being defined less by their roles than they were years ago.
My sense is that's true. However, we still have a long way to go.
Thanks for putting all of the time and effort into looking at this.
If there was a reference section for the bloggernacle, I'd put your work there.
I would be really interested in seeing this data controlling for the use of the term Father in reference to Deity. My guess would be that the use of the term Father is referencing Deity at least 80% of the time. Probably too large a task for a blog post, but it would be interesting.
And we know the term Mother is never/almost never conflated with Deity (on lds.org anyway), so no worries there
My guess is that talk of men's roles is more normally wrapped up in "priesthood holder" than it is in "father."
I will say anecdotally that I think there is much less attention to women being good wives than there used to be–you almost never hear anymore about things that women should/should not do in order to make lives better for their husbands. (Contrast that with how often you hear about what men should/should not do to make lives better for their wives.)
Anyway. Interesting stuff.
Interesting post, well put together. It brings some very interesting thoughts to attention.
I think Julie nailed it. Priesthood is often portrayed as the corollary of motherhood, and the reason for the "every woman a mother" rhetoric.
Very well done, once again, Ziff.
I have no graphs or nifty data sets to back me up, but I think I have noticed something of a shift in the past 13 years, andI am wondering if anybody else is noticing it, or if I am off base.
It seems to me that right after the Proclamation to the world was issued in 1995, there was a heavy emphasis on the separation of duties and roles. I think that still exists for women, but in the past few years the direction has been greater emphasis on the need for men to perform well both outside the home as a provider AND inside the home as a co-nurturer. It is my impression now that is is now perfectly acceptable for a man to take over as much of the homemaker/nurturer riole as he wants to, as long as he also keeps up with the provider role. Has anybody else noticed that, or is it just my weird impression?
Mark, I think you're right, or at least I've seen a similar thing. I guess I just hadn't noticed the timing as specifically as you have. But I certainly agree that it appears that men are now encouraged to do as much parenting as possible.
Julie–good point about the end of the "how to make your husband happy" article/talk. My impression is that those persisted at least until the 1970s; do you know when they finally disappeared? Or was it earlier?
Good point, Bree. We're probably not going to see references to "Heavenly Mother" except when someone gives "the new seven deadly heresies" talk. It would be much clearer to pull out all the references to deity and see what the numbers look like, but of course I'm too lazy to do that.
Thanks, jessawhy. I like the idea of a reference section for the Bloggernacle. I always like when new posts build on older posts, or discussions that followed them. Perhaps collections of data like this might be useful in some future discussion, at least as a starting point.
Ziff, will you finish my dissertation for me?
I actually tried to do something like this a while ago, but failed miserably both because I lack statistical skill and your tenacity with such things. The LDS.org failure to support boolean searches drives me bananas! Thanks for doing all this.
Janet, I'd be happy to, just so long as your committe doesn't mind an abrupt shift from actual content to a bunch of random charts and tables.
I agree that the lack of boolean searching is a pain. Also I've sometimes done searches where I was counting the number of hits, and the number changed over time, and not always by increasing. Also I've found that the labeling of the documents that the search tool uses isn't consistent. For example, searching for "General Conference" won't necessarily turn up all General Conference talks. Neither will limiting your search to General Authorities necessarily get you all General Authorities. Also the non-intuitive URLs are frustrating. If their structure were more transparent, it would be easier to use Google to search them.
Okay, I'll stop complaining now. Thanks for mentioning that this irritates you too because LDS.org frustrates me endlessly and it's nice to know I'm not alone.
Thanks for another fascinating analysis, Ziff!
I'm particularly interested in Julie's and Mark IV's observations about a decrease in discussions of women's duty to be good wives and an increase in discussions of men's duties to be good husbands and fathers and co-nurturers.
Definitely something to listen for in next month's General Conference. (Even the slenderest hypothesis or slightest bit of rhetorical analysis can help keep me from fuming when the inevitable divine gender roles talk comes up. My new motto: don't get mad, pretend to be a sociologist!)
Is General Conference next month already?
It's funny that Mark mentioned that because I just found an old notepad in my handwriting that was full of church stuff.
Here's part of what I wrote:
"Husbands, love your wives. Wives, honor and respect your husbands."
I'm looking back at this (no idea where I was when I took the notes, or why I copied them, but I'm sure I thought it was great doctrine.)
Now I wonder, why can't we all just love, honor and respect each other?
Yes, things are changing. At least they are for me.
Is General Conference next month already?
Shocking, isn't it? Although I find General Conference alternatively inspiring and infuriating, I'm definitely looking forward to staying home in my pajamas and listening on my laptop. Following the threads on T&S and BCC and playing with the language channels have greatly contributed to my friendlier relationship with the whole thing.
I actually have something useful to add here. My thesis at the "U" consisted of doing a content analysis and then a computer time series of "Constants and Changes in Role Pre-scriptions for Mormon Women based on selected periodicals." (It seems the first step in doing a thesis is to come up with an impossible title.) Anyway, I read and coded every time certain role words occurred in the March issues of the Exponent, Relief Society Magazine and The Ensign, looking for how the rhetoric had moved or stayed the same from 1881 to 1993. "Wife" was a "relative constant", that is the word was frequently mentioned but mostly in the context of "wife and mother" then the discussion quickly veered off into some discussion about motherhood. It seemed that "wife" had no function expect to legitimize motherhood.
However, from the 1940s on with the rapidly accelerating social change in the wake of World War II, there was increasing concern with changes in family life in these periodicals. These concerns included the stability of marriage and the rising divorce rate. For virtually the first time marriage itself was directly addressed. The RSM for March 1948 was almost a theme issue on the stability and importance of marriage. Even though marriage was now being directly addressed, it was still in the context of preserving the marriage for the sake of the children. Nevertheless this was an important shift. For the first time I saw ideas on how husbands and wife should "communicate", for example.
The distinct emphasis on "wife" as an important role apart form mother did not come until President Kimball became the prophet in Dec. 1973 and his ideas started appearing in the Ensign in 1974. His emphasis was then echoed by other General Authorities and writers. Marriage was now more than just a vehicle for effective parenting (although, of course, that continued to be important.) But husbands and wives were now distinct roles in relation to one another, quite apart from the children. This pretty much brings this overview to the years Ziff was able to access with his computer searches.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who plays with the language channels to de-stress about General Conference!
I think the emphasis Mark mentioned really did come from the Proclamation. The statement about there being primary roles but that husbands and wives need to "help each other in these roles as equal partners" is quite a radical departure from the earlier statements, and I don't think most members really understand that entire paragraph in the Proclamation very well. (For example, the inclusion of the very open-ended and broad "other circumstances" that make "individual adaptation" justifiable is an amazing step.)
It might take a generation to embed the new vision into the general membership, but I personally love that vision.
Wow, Marjorie, thanks. That's fascinating! It also sounds like a ton of work–actually coding articles must have been very labor-intensive.
When I first joined the Church, Russell M. Nelson spoke in a stake conference where he mentioned that we were all Fathers, in a sense, to those we had stewardship over. That is the closest I can think of to an "Are we not all Fathers?" moment.