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To monitor a grapevine's water needs, Fruition Sciences uses sensors to measure sap flow. Here's how it works.
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1/ Heater
Held in place with Velcro, this orange sleeve applies heat to the stem.
2/ Thermocouples
These take temperature readings at the stem surface just before and after the heat is applied. The differential in the readings reflects how much water is pumping through the vine.
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Shields against external sources of heat (mostly sunshine) that could interfere with accurate measurements.
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This wire connects to a solar-powered data logger, which transmits real-time information anywhere in the world.
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Fruition charges a grape grower $10,000 a season for two monitoring stations, analysis, and upkeep (or as little as $1,000 for tests and consultations without real-time monitoring). Ovid, with eight stations last year, is one of its biggest customers. Ovid's second-generation winemaker, Austin Peterson, is one of Fruition's most vocal supporters and attests to changes the sensor arrays can produce. "Before, irrigation management was basically done by our vineyard foreman looking at next week's weather forecast and at leaves that were starting to fold or tendrils that were drying," Peterson says. "But visual cues can be misleading. As we started to see the data, it started to explain some things."
Before becoming a convert, Peterson needed to see proof. In 2007 he divided Ovid's 15-acre property in half, using the visual method on one side, sensors on the other. Following traditional visual cues led to a regimen of shallow irrigations, which required more water and resulted in unintended side effects, like shriveled grapes and elevated alcohol levels. It also may have helped slow the ripening process and delay the harvest, which is always risky in Northern California, where early autumn rains can destroy a crop in a matter of days. Meanwhile, data gathered from the sensors dictated a near-opposite approach: fewer, deeper irrigations, primarily later in the season. After two years, the result was substantial water savings and earlier harvests. For Peterson, the experiment shed light on how profoundly irrigation affects fruit quality as well as a wine's flavors and bouquet. "It was like going from having an undergraduate degree in something to a PhD, where you have a deep understanding of why vines behave the way they do," Peterson says. "As a winemaker, you understand different flavors. But now you start to understand why the differences exist."
Napa Valley's oldest wineries were established in the mid-1800s. Its pioneers took their cues from the finest French producers, like those on Bordeaux's famed Left Bank, where winemaking dates back to the 12th century. There, frequent summer rains provide ample groundwater and allow vineyard managers to pack their fields tightly with vines. So the early Napa farmers planted their fields in a similar manner. "They assumed that if you copied and pasted the best vineyards, they would produce the best fruits," Scholasch says.
But Napa isn't Bordeaux. Soil composition and sunlight differ, and it typically rains very little in Napa between May and October. Certain grape varieties in certain parts of the world are dry-farmed, meaning the only water supply is Mother Nature. But not Napa's famed cabernet. Here farmers have historically hacked the climate to make it resemble France's, faking early rain to provide vigor, trimming the leaf canopy to gain sunlight, and packing the vines closely together. "We could go without irrigation entirely if we had been smarter about configuration and planting density," Scholasch says. "Applying the wrong sets of rules set up a need for irrigation."
Over-irrigating a vineyard isn't just wasteful; it's counterproductive. To understand why, there are a few important things to remember about grapes, especially the varieties used to create high-quality wine. First, they grow on vines, which require support to reach sunlight. Once the vines encounter light and water, they enter the so-called vegetative state and sprout leaves. But when resources are scarce, the vines become stressed and rush ahead to the reproductive state, ripening berries in hopes of escaping to a more resourceful area by way of a bird. That's why many of the finest wines are produced by vines planted in rocky, nutrient-poor hillsides with good drainage. The desperate vines focus much of their energy on the berries from the get-go and so reach optimal ripeness more quickly. The last thing to know: Unlike elsewhere in agriculture, bigger fruit isn't the goal. Water provides girth—and that's bad. Since the skin provides most of the flavor, it's far better to have pea-sized berries with a high ratio of skin to flesh.
This is why Fruition may advise clients to deny water early and irrigate deeply once ripening is well under way. At that point, the vine focuses its nutrients on flavoring the fruit. The Frenchmen also sometimes recommend not irrigating before heat spikes or at the first sign of wilting; this advice can be especially hard to take. We all see a droopy leaf and conclude that the plant must be thirsty, but watering at that point actually undermines the complex mechanisms a vine uses to conserve resources and can even cause shriveling. "People think that the plant kingdom behaves like us," Scholasch says. "But plants aren't designed to tell the human eye what they need. They have over 400 million years of evolution on us and very subtle ways of coping with heat and water regulation."
Vineyard managers often bristle at how the Frenchmen say a farm should look. "A lot of the vineyards, it's like pretty dresses. They look perfect, not one leaf out of row and it's all green and beautiful," Payen says. "But most vineyards that are making quality wines are going to have yellow leaves later in the year. They'll look like they're suffering."
For some clients, like Daniel Baron, winemaker for the renowned Silver Oak Cellars, the counterintuitive advice has been a revelation. "As farmers, we tend to baby our plants in the early season. The farmer tends to irrigate too soon, cut it off too soon, and pick too early," Baron says. Despite having more than 40 vintages to his credit, using the data-driven system has given him new confidence. "Anything that tells us the vines are going to be OK is a tremendous tool."
None of Fruition's customers signed on expressly to save water, but it's a common side effect. Many of the wineries pump from unmetered wells, aquifers, or lakes, so they don't know precisely how much water they use, but everyone claims that it's far less now. "We're down maybe as much as 75 percent," says Kale Anderson, winemaker for Cliff Lede Vineyards in Napa's Stags Leap district. Another client, Dana Estates, uses sensors on five 2-acre parcels. On one of those plots, the winery reduced irrigation from a range of 36 to 64 gallons per vine annually to 0 to 10 gallons. Dana's director of production, Cameron Vawter, sees the potential for dramatic overall cuts. "We could save 5.8 million gallons a year," he says.
Payen gets even more specific while charting Ovid's results for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. "From bud-break to harvest, the plants saved about 25 millimeters of water on a one-acre block. That's roughly equal to 26,700 gallons," he says.
According to a survey by Wine Business Monthly, 68 percent of North American wine-grape farmers don't use equipment to monitor their irrigation, implying that they rely largely on observation to make watering decisions. Of course every farmer's instincts are different, and no two face the same geographical conditions. But if Fruition's conclusions are to be believed, it's safe to assume that anyone relying on intuition is wasting water. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest just how much: There are roughly 500,000 acres of wine-grape vineyards in California. If 68 percent are being watered based on instinct alone, that's 340,000 acres. According to Payen, Ovid is saving 26,700 gallons of water per acre. Multiply those two numbers and you get 9.1 billion gallons of wasted water per season.


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Bryson, Alex (2005) Union effects on employee relations in Britain. Human Relations, 58 (9). pp. 1111-1139. ISSN 0018-7267
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I estimate the effects of trade unions on employee and employer perceptions of workplace management-employee relations in Britain using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. Associations between these relations and unionization vary with institutional arrangements in relation to bargaining and lay representation. There is support for McCarthyâs view that union lay representatives can act as a âlubricantâ assisting with employment relations, but this is apparent from an employer perspective, not an employee perspective. The only union effect common across employers and employees is poorer perceptions of employment relations where union coverage is at the level known to generate a union wage premium. (Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd from Bryson, Alex (2005) Union effects on employee relations in Britain. © 2005 The Tavistock Institute)
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Potential Savings Associated with Drug Substitution in Medicare Part D: The Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) Study
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Drug substitution is a promising approach to reducing medication costs.
To calculate the potential savings in a Medicare Part D plan from generic or therapeutic substitution for commonly prescribed drugs.
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Low-income subsidy (LIS) beneficiaries (n = 145,056) and non low-income subsidy (non-LIS) beneficiaries (n = 1,040,030) enrolled in a large, national Part D health insurer in 2007 and eligible for a possible substitution.
Using administrative data from 2007, we identified claims filled for brand-name drugs for which a direct generic substitute was available. We also identified the 50 highest cost drugs separately for LIS and non-LIS beneficiaries, and reached consensus on which drugs had possible therapeutic substitutes (27 for LIS, 30 for non-LIS). For each possible substitution, we used average daily costs of the original and substitute drugs to calculate the potential out-of-pocket savings, health plan savings, and when applicable, savings for the government/LIS subsidy.
Overall, 39 % of LIS beneficiaries and 51 % of non-LIS beneficiaries were eligible for a generic and/or therapeutic substitution. Generic substitutions resulted in an average annual savings of $160 in the case of LIS beneficiaries and $127 in the case of non-LIS beneficiaries. Therapeutic substitutions resulted in an average annual savings of $452 in the case of LIS beneficiaries and $389 in the case of non-LIS beneficiaries.
Our findings indicate that drug substitution, particularly therapeutic substitution, could result in significant cost savings. There is a need for additional studies evaluating the acceptability of therapeutic substitution interventions within Medicare Part D.
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- Potential Savings Associated with Drug Substitution in Medicare Part D: The Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) Study
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Journal of General Internal Medicine
Volume 29, Issue 1 , pp 230-236
- Cover Date
- 2014-01-01
- 10.1007/s11606-013-2546-6
- Print ISSN
- 0884-8734
- Online ISSN
- 1525-1497
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- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- pharmacoeconomics
- Medicare
- health care policy
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- O. Kenrik Duru MD (1)
- Susan L. Ettner PhD (1) (4)
- Norman Turk MS (1)
- Carol M. Mangione MD (1) (4)
- Arleen F. Brown MD, PhD (1)
- Jeffery Fu PharmD (1)
- Leslie Simien PharmD (1)
- Chien-Wen Tseng MD (2) (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 4. Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 2. John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
- 3. Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA


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Summer of Networking is now for academic credit!
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Steven Wallace describes the final project for Y790 and Y390, two classes in the hands-on portion of the 2014 Summer of Networking (SoN) program. Wallace is a SoN program leader and the executive director of InCNTRE at Indiana University. Keep an eye on this space for additional updates.
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The courses will be held June 23 – August 1st, during the second six week summer session. Brief descriptions are below. The topics class is primarily a lecture class focused on WiFi issues at scale, considerations in high-speed national and international networking, and approaches to network security. It will lay the groundwork for the research class. The research class will be a group development effort focused on answering difficult questions based on an extensive datasets from an enterprise-scale WiFi system.
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The new $14.4 million fine and performing arts facility at The University of Virginia's College at Wise is now officially the Gilliam Center for the Arts, following action taken Monday by the UVa-Wise Board.
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Planning rules on extensions to be relaxed 'to boost economy'
The government wants to get planning officers "off people's backs" with a relaxation of current rules in England.
The government will consult on allowing people, for a three-year period, to build larger extensions on houses - up to 8m long for detached homes.
Rules on shops and offices expanding and on developments having to include affordable housing will be relaxed as ministers seek to boost the economy.
But Labour says that ministers are "kidding themselves".
The proposals, it says, are "not up to the scale of the challenge" and do not address the real problem of a "lack of confidence and demand in the economy".
Affordable homesAnd the Local Government Association says it is a "myth" that the planning system was stopping house-building.
Government proposals on housing-building
- Consult on a three-year relaxation of planning rules on extending homes and business premises.
- All householders would be able to build 6m long extensions without planning permission (it's currently 3m)
- Removing requirements for developers to include affordable housing - if they prove they make a site "commercially unviable".
- An extra £280m for the FirstBuy scheme to help would-be homeowners with a deposit.
- A new bill to provide £40bn in government guarantees to underwrite major infrastructure projects and £10bn to underwrite the construction of new homes.
- Funding of £300m to provide 15,000 affordable homes and bring 5,000 empty homes back into use.
- A new "major infrastructure fast-track" for big projects.
- Putting poorly performing council planning departments into "special measures" and allowing developers to bypass them if they fail to improve.
It released figures which show a backlog of 400,000 prospective homes which have planning permission but have not yet been built. It says these "conclusively prove" the planning system is not holding back development.
The coalition, which has undergone a reshuffle this week, is looking for ways to boost the economy and end the ongoing recession.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy PM Nick Clegg have announced that 16,500 first-time buyers are to receive help getting on the housing ladder under an extension of the FirstBuy scheme.
Under this, would-be homeowners without a deposit are given an equity loan of up to 20% of the purchase price.
Just a few months ago the government rewrote the entire planning framework for England, after fierce initial resistance from countryside campaigners.
Now ministers want further changes to planning in England in an attempt to boost house-building and revive the economy.
The announcements come as the economy continues to languish, with the recession now having lasted more than nine months. The construction sector has performed particularly badly.
Mr Cameron said: "This government means business in delivering plans to help people build new homes and kick-start the economy.
"We're determined to cut through the bureaucracy that holds us back. That starts with getting the planners off our backs, getting behind the businesses that have the ambition to expand and meeting the aspirations of families that want to buy or improve a home."
He told ITV's Daybreak developers were being held back by the "many obligations" on them to build affordable housing.
From those who usually complain the loudest about the "housing crisis" - a surprisingly positive reaction.
It's true that some business organisations would have liked to see more radical action to speed up planning.
But fresh from the battle over the national framework earlier this year, the government backed away from another full-scale confrontation. So this programme tinkers with the rules - and targets specific areas seen to be holding back the builders.
Housing associations thought the government would actually go much further, in removing the requirements to build affordable homes. They're also delighted with the extra billions for investment.
But many still say the economy, rather than government initiatives, will ultimately determine how many homes are built.
Under the government's plans, if developers can prove these requirements make a site commercially unviable, the conditions will be removed.
There will be a one month consultation on allowing homeowners and businesses, for a three-year period, to be able to build much bigger extensions without planning permission than they can at present.
The new Permitted Development Rights would make it easier to install conservatories and loft extensions without going through weeks of planning bureaucracy.
If the plans go ahead, full planning permission - required for extensions of more than three or four metres from the rear wall of any home - would only be needed for those reaching beyond 8m for detached homes and 6m for others.
Rules that restrict an extension to no more than 50% of a property's garden will remain.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told the BBC that the extension rule changes would benefit local businesses as well as householders, as new carpets and furnishings would be needed for them.
Businesses would be able to expand shops by 100 square metres and industrial units by 200 square metres.
There will also be £300m of additional funding to provide up to 15,000 affordable homes and bring 5,000 empty homes back into use.
'Conservatories not an economic plan'Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Nick Clegg said the government was putting forward a "big set of measures" to boost house-building but accepted some of the proposals would be controversial.
"We have a real crisis. We're not employing enough people in the construction sector. The construction sector has had a really hard time of it.
"We're not building enough homes. We're not building enough affordable homes. We've got to take some of these difficult decisions - yes, even with some controversy around them - to get Britain building."
The National Housing Federation, which represents England's housing associations, welcomed the package of measures as "a major step forward" with "the potential to transform the housing market".
"It will provide homes for some of the millions of families on waiting lists, create jobs and give the UK economy a shot in the arm with a speed and effectiveness few industries can match," the group said.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls launched an attack on the coalition's economic record and set out what they see as the start for a fundamental rethink about how a future Labour government would approach the economy.
As big a shift in thinking is needed now, Mr Miliband said, as happened after the second world war and in the late 1970s.
"Instead of a change of direction," Mr Miliband said "we get increasingly complex schemes and initiatives".
"Someone in New Labour said if you want to understand aspiration you need to understand conservatories. They were right about that.
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JKLF launches campaign for return of Maqbool Butts mortal remains
London, Nov 2: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), UK, has launched a parliamentary petition to be sent to the president of India to ask him for return of mortal remains of JKLF founder Muhammad Maqbool Butt to Kashmir from Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
The Front launched a parliamentary petition to be signed by members of Commons and Lords during the meeting of All Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir in London last night.
At a meeting chaired by Lord Ahmed, who himself hails from Kashmir, many Kashmir related issues including the issue of Kashmirs unmarked mass graves, forced disappearances and extra-judicial killings and imprisonment of minors as well as the constitutional issue of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) including Pakistans annexation of Gilgit-Baltistan territories were debated.
It was decide that the APPG would support the move to launch a parliamentary petition to be sent to the President of India to ask for the return of mortal remains of Kashmiri independence leader, Maqbool Butt, who was hanged in Tihar Jail in 1984 and buried inside the jail premises.
New Delhi has been refusing to return his mortal remains for burial in Kashmir for all these years. A JKLF delegation led by its president in UK, Azmat A Khan, gave a briefing at the high level meeting of members of parliament on several issues and asked for the group to take up action points. The members of the APPG on Kashmir who signed the petition during the meeting include, Lord Ahmed, Lord Hussain, Sir Gerald Kaufman MP (Manchester Gorton), David Ward MP (Bradford), Debbie Abrahams MP (Oldham), Gavin Shuker MP (Luton), Lady Sarah Ludworth (Walthamstow Peer). Another 6 MPs added their names to the petition later overnight, said a spokesman of the Front in a statement today from London.
JKLF delegation also raised concerns over constitutional issues in Pakistan administered Kashmir assembly elections where pro-independence candidates are barred from contesting elections and also demanded that Pakistani government should halt its program of illegally annexing Gilgit-Baltistan.
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I Just Couldn't Walk By
I was still in a very fragile state of depression when this happened, but it still makes me sad to think about it. I had just driven my youngest son to his hockey game and since we had to be there an hour before his game started, I decided that I had enough time to go browse at the magazine store nearby. On my way back I saw an older gentleman who had slipped and fallen into a large puddle of water. His granddaughter who looked to be about seven or eight was with him and crying ''get up grandpa, please try to get up''. She was pulling on his arm and he was also crying that he couldn't and telling her to leave him and go home. This made her cry even harder. The poor man had fallen right in front of a parking lot exit and as I approached I saw a teenager in a small pickup truck trying to leave the parking lot.
Instead of getting out to help the man in distress he started yelling at him ''get up gramps, you're blocking the road'' and honking his horn. This only served to fluster the grandfather and his granddaughter even more. When I finally reached them I helped the old man up and made sure there was nothing physically wrong with him. While I was doing this the teenager asked me if I needed help. I told him, not too politely, that he had done enough. I also told him that one day he might be in the old man's position and that I hoped he receive more help than what he had given this man.
Once he was up, I could see that he was soaking wet. I asked him if I could call someone to come and get him, but he said no, he lived nearby. I walked him home and had him lean on me the whole way and I made sure that he got safely into his house. He thank me warmly and so did his little granddaughter, but I could see how humiliated he felt.
When I made it back to the arena the hockey game was well underway. Then the callousness of that teenager's actions hit me and I started to cry. I cried for that old gentleman who I'm sure was feeling so powerless, I cried for the little girl who was clearly very worried and scared. I cried for that teenager who, at such a young age, already had a hardened heart.
Thank goodness that the other parents at the arena saw my distress and gathered around me to console me.
I have never liked jokes about old people because they promote the lack of respect our society has for them. Our seniors should be valued for what they have contributed.
You know hun, as for me I would have only shouted back at the git of a teenager.
I know how u feel couse im the same way.I'd rather help my elders than the young.cousr if it wasn't for them .we wouldn't be were we r today.
what a sad story, i have almost got a lump in my throat from reading it................ well you deserved the biggest pat on the back for what you did, fabulous person you are, you will get your reward one day, you should be well proud of how you helped and dealt with the situation. you are a credit to the world.

God bless you for being there just then.
JJ, you often perform acts of random kindness here on EP! I love getting a special gesture from you, or some other rtecognition from you, here on EP! Whenever I do, it brightens my day - but when I am depressed (as at present) it is a gift beyond price. Thank you dear friend - you truly ARE a jewel!!
jojewel,

Your story touched me. You didn't say if you were a Christian or not, but it was a Christ like thing that you did; the Bible says that if you give a cup of cold water in His name you shall in no wise lose your reward. I try to live by the motto, "If I can help someone along the way, then my living will not be in vain."

I am at my happiest when serving others. God bless you for your compassionate act.

Hey JJ your act of kindness and graciousness, just made a huge difference to what would have otherwise been a very demeaning experience to that elderly gentlemen. It was a huge study in contrast between human compassion and the opposite, human cruelty. It just goes to show that while there are callous monsters of human beings in this world there are also people out there willing to lend a helping hand for someone to get back on their feet. If there are people like you around JJ. There's still hope for this world yet!!!
Thats true.It just angered Me at first reading of this story.I understand that there are many many young people raised without love and compassion in their lives.Not being showed any to them in their life can make one insensitive and numb to the feelings of others.Sorry I sounded harsh.It just flew all over Me that someone could just honk and yell like that,instead of helping the elderly man.God bless.
Thank you for being one of the kind souls in this world. I do see some correlation between those who battle depression and their capacity to love and help others around them. Your courage in battling your depression and for just being the kind of friend and person we all wish we had can never be praised enough. Keep up the good fight and may you get ahead of your depression for ever.
It is awful how young people are today.No respect.now im not saying all young people,there are some very respectful young men and women.but the majority has been brought up in a generation,where when made to respect,the state and law call it abuse.It is a crying shame(literally) that that young man was so callouse that he had no compassion for the old man's welfare.God bless him,is all I can say about him.And God bless you hon for having enough sympathy and love for this man to help.God bless! Love Shiloh.AKA HeartOnnaLiveWire. (:
Hi Jojewel! You were a Godsend for the Elderly Gentleman & his Grandaughter. I hope God remembers your act of kindness & rewards you for it someday. I also hope the teenager learned a lesson life lesson here & changes his attitude accordingly. I wish you a very nice day. Take Care.
God is really going to bless u for what u did.Just as i was readin thru ur story,i also felt like bursting into tears.You know,there are some teenagers who think they will never grow to be old n tend to mistreat the aged anyhow but they shd bare in mind that whatever u sow u shall surely reap.
Wow, the number of comments on this post is incredible. I think that simply the fact that people felt compeled enough to read your story and then respond to it when they may not even know you is a testimate to the fact that not all hope is lost in humanity. Not that this is by any means an original statement compared to what others have been saying, but I think that not only was is great what you did but I think it is going to be one of those things that stick with you, reminding you how the world should really be. Not to say that it wasn't a disheartening situation, but like others have been saying I think it may have been a blessing in disguise for everyone involved. Sometimes it takes situations like that for us to step outside our routines and daily lives and remind ourselves what life is really about: people. Like someone else said, the world would be a better place if more people like you showed others what life is really about.
JJ - about that teenager. When we drive, we are locked in a cage of steel and glass. We cannot communicate with each other, except with rude gestures. We have no verbal skills to use between drivers, we have no body language. All we can do is give crude gestures, like some neanderthal brutes. This is why road rage is so common. And this is why the teenager behaved differently as soon as he got out of the car.

On the lighter side, I had a different experience, where a person ended up dripping wet. I was being rehired by my former company. No formal interview, but I still went with my would-be manager for a coffee. She was a petite woman, extremely intelligent. She dressed well, with great taste and distinction. I knew her before, in fact I interviewed her many years earlier when the company first hired her. We were chatting away, when a clumsy waiter spilled two cups of coffee in her laps. Now remember, I was actually unemployed at that time, and this was still a job interview. I wished the waiter to hell. If the lady got really nervous, my employment prospects were not that good. I offered to call a cab, take her home to change and then come back. But she soldiered on all day in that elegant, coffee-stained, wet dress. And I got the job.
This experience was not just the helping of the two people in distress it was mainly to open the fountain of your tears to release the depression that had been there for a time longer than it should have. The location may have not been one that you would have chosen to release all that energy but it had to be done at that instance. I'm sure your kindness will never be forgotten. I pray that it was also a beginning or turn in your life.
Thank you and bless you for you act of kindness to all three of these people. Not only did you go way out of your way to help the elderly man and the young girl, but perhaps you also were the model the teenager never had in his family life. I'm sure you gave the other parents something to think about, and perhaps your act will change the directions of some of those families also.

God bless you for being such a caring person.
that was a very kind thing to do. u must hav a big heart ^__^
Thank you for being the person you are.
Your story has touched my heart! I too feel your sadness at the growing apathy around us, I see it way too often and its difficult to cope with, but it is people like you that give me hope. I think it was not only marvelous that you stepped in to help him out of the puddle, but you also gave him the gift of some retained dignity. Someone else may have insisted on an ambulance or driving him home, but you helped him walk away on his own two legs.


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Climate Change and Philosophy at the Tipping PointDate: 28 March 2011 Time: 10am - 5.00pm Venue: The Storey Institute, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster 28th - 29th March 2011 Organised by the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University Funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Society for Applied Philosophy Open to all - attendance free. There is still time to register, contact John Foster, email@example.com Anthropogenic global warming is certainly occurring. Over the coming decades, one of the key issues that will face humanity is how to deal with it. This conference asks: Is it now too late to stop runaway climate change? Or are we still in with a chance? Either way, can philosophy help? Hitherto, philosophical concern with these matters, whether in ethics or in other areas of the discipline, has overwhelmingly assumed its practical context to be the need to avoid seriously adverse environmental consequences of global warming. But voices are now increasingly to be heard in the policy domain, suggesting that the question is no longer how we avoid such consequences, but how we go on hoping and acting after the recognition that they are coming. If that is right, very large ethical and epistemological issues (at least) may need to be re-thought. What different senses might we have to make of obligation, justice, the scope of scientific knowledge and the nature of humanity in a decisively warming world? Or are these questions still premature? - is there still philosophical work to be done which could help avert such outcomes. We believe it is time to confront philosophy directly with these challenges. The topic is of key public concern and the conference will also be open to interested members of the public. Day 1 - Monday 28th March 09.30 Registration 09.50 Welcome and introduction 10.00 - 11.30 Should egalitarians discount the future? John O'Neill, Hallsworth Professor of Political Economy, University of Manchester. Intergenerational egalitarianism based on discounting has enjoyed a revival since the Stern Review. In a growing economy, future generations will arguably be better off and so better able to meet environmental costs. Does not justice therefore demand that we redistribute these costs from the present to the future? This paper argues that, to the contrary, we have good perfectionist grounds to improve the lives of future generations, and grounds of justice to avoid harming them. Coffee 12.00 - 12.45 Climate change, civil disobedience and political obligations Simo Kyllonen, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki Are new forms of civil disobedience licensed by the defence of "lawful excuse" provided by the potentially disastrous impact of anthropogenic climate change? Does our understanding of citizens' political obligations in democratic societies need to change accordingly? This paper explores these and related questions about the justified practices of citizenship. Lunch 14.00 - 14.45 A scientific solution and arguing for its implementation Laurence Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent Most discussion of global warming, including within environmental philosophy, has hitherto been about how we could slow its speed - little has been about how we could actually reverse the process. But if we are currently meeting global energy demand by methods that warm the polar regions, a logical solution would be to draw energy from cold regions, thus achieving a cooling of these regions. This paper argues that the technology is available, once we see the need. 14.45 - 15.30 Climate engineering, indeterminacy and the human condition Bron Szerszynskiand Maia Galarraga, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University Technologies for geo-engineering the atmosphere are increasingly being canvassed as political progress towards CO2 emissions reduction falters. But how do we grapple with the ethics of such interventions, and what kinds of hazard do they pose? This paper draws on Arendt's framework for analysis of the human condition, with reference also to Heidegger and Castoriadis, to explore these questions and their implications. Tea 16.00 - 17.30 The very idea of 'Sustainability' Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia Liberalism in its environmentally-conscious forms of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' will fail to address ecological problems because it always puts us (present humans) first, and seeks to move away from the status quo as little as possible. We need instead a politics which sees future people as equals who are powerless in relation to us, and correspondingly puts them first. Day 2 - Tuesday 29th March 10.00 - 11.30 After illusion: realism, philosophy and hope, John Foster, Research Fellow in Philosophy, Lancaster University What if we actually took seriously what some eminent climate scientists are already saying: that more than 20C of warming will be disastrous, and we are now clearly going to exceed 20C? What deters us from accepting such admittedly bleak realism?- where are the existential roots of denial in all its varieties? And if we finally came out of denial, how could we possibly go on hoping? All these questions call for philosophical work: if not to help avert disaster, then maybe to help retrieve our humanity in confronting it. Coffee 12.00 - 12.45 The environment, myth and motivation, Andrew Godfrey, Birkbeck College, University of London Attempts to avert, mitigate or adapt to climate change all need to be informed by an adequate theory of the relations between knowledge, motivation and action. It appears that the communication of propositional knowledge about environmental impacts does not suffice to motivate necessary changes. This paper seeks to account for this by drawing on a Wittgensteinian / Nietzschean distinction between merely intellectual knowledge and knowledge that has been integrated into a particular 'picture' or 'myth'. Lunch 14.00 - 14.45 Unpredictable Earth System - philosophical responsibilities, Mark Charlesworth, Keele University We need to move away from irrational Baconian assumptions about the predictability and controllability of nature for human benefit, especially as embodied in neoclassical economics. Runaway climate change is essentially unpredictable due to the unknowns surrounding tipping points and climate inertia. We must develop the capacity to respond to this unpredictability. Forms of virtue ethics and virtue epistemology are leading candidates for more rational responses. 14.45 - 15.30 Politics, philosophy, religion: an interdisciplinary approach tocontemporary environmental debates Ghayas Chowdhury, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University The possible limits of Western philosophical thinking in relation to climate change are explored in this paper from the perspective of the Islamic tradition. At both theoretical and practical levels, Islamic ideas can illuminate philosophical attitudes and human behaviour towards the natural world. Equally, this tradition may be resistant to some of the Western philosophical assumptions implicit in the sustainable development model, with implications for the practice of Muslim countries and environmental organisations. Tea 16.00 - 17.30 Ethics and action on climate change, James Garvey Secretary, Royal Institute of Philosophy To what extent can the moral demand pressed on us by climate change push us into action? Human beings, despite knowing something about morality and about our warming world, have done little or nothing about climate change. Why is this, and what might get us past whatever it is that stands in our way to taking real action? What good philosophical reasons might we have for doing little or nothing about our changing world? The thought that it makes no difference what we do is a part of our hesitation - what, if anything, can we do about this thought? End of conference Contact: Who can attend: Anyone Further informationOrganising departments and research centres: Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR |
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Flock of yellow butterflies (Pieridae sp.) feeding on a river shore of Rio Jauaperí. Reserva Ecolôgica do Xixuaú - Xiparinã, Amazonia, Brazil
The Amazon abounds with wildlife.
As of 2005, at least 427 mammals, 1,294 birds, 378 reptiles, 427 amphibians, and at least 3,000 fishes have been scientifically classified in the region.
But smaller life forms win hands down in terms of their numbers: just in Brazil, between 96,660 and 128,840 invertebrate species have been described by scientists.
Some scientists estimate that 30% of the animal biomass of the Amazon Basin is made up of ants. Ants can easily outweigh in mass all other vertebrates in a parcel of lowland rainforest. In fact, just the total arthropod species richness of the tropical forest canopy may be as high as 20 million.
A South American civilization once believed that butterflies were a supernatural phenomenon. They thought the butterflies were angels because their wings folded up to resemble praying hands. Each butterfly was worshipped differently based on the colours of its wings.
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Managing security on an organizational group
Article:HOWTO45855 | | | Created: 2011-03-22 | | | Updated: 2011-03-24 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO45855 |
Managing security is an important part of asset management. You can grant different levels of access according to the responsibilities and location of the users. These settings ensure that only authorized users can access and modify the data.
Managing security on an organizational group involves two main steps. You assign an organizational group to a security role, and then you set the security permissions for the organizational group.
Table: Process for managing security on an organizational group
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Step 1 | (Optional) Create a custom security role | When you want to manage security on an organizational group, the first step is to create the custom security roles. Custom security roles can help you better manage the assets that are dispersed over multiple sites or organizational units. For more information, see the topics about creating and configuring a security role in the Symantec Management Platform Help. |
Step 2 | Assign an organizational group to a security role | After you create a security role, you can assign an organizational group to it. Only users who are assigned to this security role can view and manage the assets of this organizational group. |
Step 3 | Configure security permissions for an organizational group | To control what a security role can do with asset records of an organizational group, you must configure its security settings. See Configuring security permissions for an organizational group. |
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Commencement 2014
Commencement is truly a celebration of the future. The hard work and effort you have demonstrated in order to secure your degree shows a commitment to excellence that will serve you well as you continue to achieve your goals. You can rightfully be proud of your success and accomplishment. We are very proud of you! Congratulations!
Schenectady County Community College's 44th Commencement Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at 3 p.m. at Proctors, located in downtown Schenectady.
Graduates should arrive at 2 p.m. and will line up outside of the back entrance to Proctors (the entrance closest to the Parking Garage, NOT the State Street entrance). Guests should go directly to the theater to be seated.
Grads, remember to BRING WITH YOU: your cap and gown and your name card.
A light fare, post-Commencement reception will follow the ceremony and will take place at Key Hall (located next to the theater). At the post-Commencement reception, graduates and their families can share this special moment with the faculty and staff members who have assisted them along their journey. There is no formal program during the reception, therefore it is not mandatory, but we encourage you to attend.
View the program with this year's list of graduates!
Meet some members of the Class of 2014.
NEW THIS YEAR! Remember this hashtag #SUNYSCCC2014. It will be our official hashtag for Commencement! Bring your smart phone to the big event!
Meet this year's keynote speaker, H. Carl McCall, Chairman of the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
Important Commencement Reminders
- Order your cap and gown from the College Store. No orders will be accepted after Friday, April 11.
- Pick up your cap and gown, Commencement invitations and tickets between Tuesday, April 22, and Wednesday, May 21, in the College Store. Along with your cap and gown, you will receive four Commencement invitations and four tickets. Additional tickets will be available on Monday, May 5, in the College Store (first-come, first-served).
- Consider attending a Commencement Informational Session.
They will be offered:
- Monday, May 5 through Friday, May 9, from 1 2 p.m., Activity Forum, ground floor of Elston Hall, across from the Student Commons
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- Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15 from 5 - 6 p.m., Library Conference Room, Begley Library
Name cards will be distributed at these sessions.
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God Forbid Jason Biggs Post Videos of His Wife Jenny Mollen in Labor
Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen had a child over the weekend. Congratulations! But wait – maybe next time don't tell us so much about how you had that child, says Good Morning America, which aired a segment Thursday about where "the line between 'okay' and 'TMI'" is when it comes to sharing on social media.


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Grammy award-winning singer Rihanna just listed her Pacific Palisades home for $14.995 million. While the mansion is absolutely gorgeous, the starlet is probably happy to unload this piece of property; just a year after she bought it, the home was broken into twice in two weeks! That's enough to send any girl packing; it doesn't matter how "bright like a diamond" that home might shine.
The style icon purchased the home in December of 2012. It spans 9,595 square feet, and has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. "Rihanna's modern mansion epitomizes luxury, with a top-of-the-line gourmet chef's kitchen, grand entry and 14-foot ceilings," said Eric Tan, a Redfin real estate agent in Los Angeles. "The home offers plenty of privacy too, as the estate is situated behind a long gated drive on almost an acre of land."
RiRi's former Beverly Hills home is also on the market. She purchased that home in September 2009 under her real name, Robyn R. Fenty, and sold it two years later in 2011. The current owner has it listed with a $8.395 million price tag. The seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom home is a contemporary gated estate with an open floor plan. The home also has a home theater, a large chef's kitchen and a pool and spa. The star didn't have much luck with this home either, as the home reportedly flooded in 2010 due to a leveling issue. The star sued the previous owner and the inspector for a poor remodeling job.
Maybe Rihanna will have better luck finding real estate love in a more hopeful place, such as New York City. Rumors have gone around that the singer has packed her bags and headed to the East Coast, and that she might have also purchased a place back home in Barbados.
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The BBC is taking a mild pummeling for giving foreign television networks the option not to buy an episode about climate change when purchasing rights to air a nature and wildlife series about Earth's polar regions.
British viewers will see all seven episodes of Frozen Planet, but viewers in other countries, including the US, will see only six, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. "Over thirty networks across the world have bought the series, but a third of them" have opted out the final episode, "On Thin Ice," as well as a behind-the-scenes documentary also being offered as an "extra."
The Telegraph quoted a variety of environmentalists calling the BBC irresponsible and accusing it of censorship. A spokeswoman for the Corporation said that "In international sales it is normal practice to offer broadcasters the option to take which parts they want, as well as add-ons, such as the one-hour Making Of episode." According to the paper, the spokeswoman "said it was not be feasible to force networks to buy the climate change episode as it features Sir David [Attenborough] talking extensively to the camera and there are many countries where he is not famous."
The BBC's blog elaborated, stressing that "the majority of international broadcasters will show all Frozen Planet episodes":
The first six episodes of Frozen Planet have a clear story arc charting a year in our polar regions and are narrated by David Attenborough, who appears briefly on camera in the opening episode. In non-English speaking countries, this out-of-shot narration is the preferred way of buying documentaries as it gives broadcasters the opportunity to voice-over in the relevant local language, without having to re-edit the programme.
The seventh and final episode of the series "Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice" is presenter-led with David Attenborough in shot. Although it is filmed by the same team and to the same production standard, this programme is necessarily different in style. Having a presenter in vision requires many broadcasters to have the programme dubbed, ultimately giving some audiences a very different experience. It is for this reason and not the content - that we market the episode separately, giving broadcasters the flexibility in how they schedule the programme.
The fact that the vast majority of broadcasters have licensed the Frozen Planet:On Thin Ice episode is testament to the appeal of David Attenborough.
Nonetheless, The Telegraph suggested that broadcasters' decisions may have had as much to do with their countries' biases as their appreciation of Attenborough. According to it article, the BBC said that Discovery Channel, which co-produced Frozen Planet and is airing the series in the US, "had a 'scheduling issue so only had slots for six episodes', so 'elements' of the climate change episode would be incorporated into their final show, with editorial assistance from the Corporation."
In the paragraph before it presented that explanation, however, the paper stressed that "climate change skeptics are a particularly strong group" in the US. The Daily Mail, a British tabloid that (like The Telegraph) often makes space those skeptics, took it two steps further, suggesting that political calculus was a factor alleging while taking a cheap shot at the BBC. "The timing of a one-sided global warming programme could be particularly sensitive in the U.S., where climate change is an issue in the presidential race," its article speculated.
While it is true that skepticism and apathy about climate change are problems in the US and that Republican presidential candidates have used climate change as a wedge issue, it's hard to believe that the BBC and Discovery Channel, which have both produced mounds of climate coverage over the years, were afraid of offending skeptics. But this isn't the first time in recent months that critics have charged that the Corporation has gone soft on climate coverage.
At the beginning of 2010, the BBC Trust—the governing body of the BBC—announced that it would review the accuracy and impartiality of the outlet's coverage of science, citing controversial stories such as climate change as its motivation. The Trust regularly conducts such reviews, but members of the BBC's science staff as well as outside critics worried at the time that it risked sending the wrong message.
"I dare say [the review] might be useful, but I'm concerned about the way it has been framed," Guardian columnist and science media critic Ben Goldacre told CJR. "'Impartial' is a word you use to describe political disputes. We don't want media coverage of science to be obsessed with representing all political constituencies and extreme interest groups, confusing 'balance' with 'accuracy.'"


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