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Some Favorites for Poetry MonthPosted by Jae, April 23, 2010 4:09 pm No Comments Filed under: Contributors, Poetry.
The poetry section of a bookstore can present potential challenges for any reader.The poetry section of a bookstore can present potential challenges for any reader. More often than not, poetry books are precociously slim, slipping past first glance; it's far easier to quickly name 10 famous living novelists than 10 famous living poets; and even when you know exactly what you're looking for, small print runs may have rendered the book unavailable. Despite these occasional pitfalls, people who persist in the hunt tend to become lifelong devotees. I don't know what provokes such dogged interest in one person and not another, but I'm convinced that finding a good entryway (even if it's not the front door) is essential. One arresting poet can point the way to at least two others, owing to influence, peer, or predecessor, ad infinitum. In honor of National Poetry Month here are three poets I love, each a potential portal, each a thread end to pick up and map some way through a labyrinthine and manifold art.
Alphabet by Inger Christensen
My engagement with Danish poet Inger Christensen's work was pretty limited prior to her death last year — I liked the few poems I'd read and had the recurrent recognition I'd do well to read more. Then I encountered her 1981 work Alphabet, comprised of 14 sections, each one corresponding to the first 14 letters of the alphabet and ending pointedly on n (as in number n). Christensen structured it further by determining the length of each section according to the Fibonacci sequence, a pattern in which the next number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers (this occurs widely in nature, such as the arrangement of pine cones, sunflower heads). Under such constraints, Alphabet risks losing its lyricism, but it never does. Instead, what unfolds is an exquisite symmetry of idea and content, by way of its surprising, tactile, and ranging language and a luminously specific imagery ("cicadas exist; chicory, chromium, / citrus trees; cicadas exist; / cicadas, cedars, cypresses, the cerebellum"). Beautifully realized in Suzanne Nied's award-winning translation, Alphabet is an expansive but precise vision of the accreting, refracting world. (If you like Inger Christensen, you might enjoy poets such as Cole Swensen, C. D. Wright, or Susan Howe.)
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch
A central New York School figure, Kenneth Koch and his inventive, playful poetry helped usher a little levity through the doors of American poetry. Though his output is prodigious — his Collected Poems is 784 pages — rather than highlight his poems, I want to instead tout Koch's Making Your Own Days as essential reading for anyone relatively new to poetry who's seeking a peephole into what may appear at first impenetrable. Koch's candid discussion about poetry asserts a cardinal yet overlooked truth — that poetry is, in fact, a separate language, however deceptively it may dress itself in our own, and like any language, must be learned for fuller appreciationpoetry is, in fact, a separate language, however deceptively it may dress itself in our own, and like any language, must be learned for fuller appreciation. His investigation is so resonant with the realities of inspiration and process that veteran poets can also find worthwhile and pleasurable review. Making Your Own Days includes a basic anthology of poems, each supplemented with a brief interpretation by Koch. This insightful book, culling from over 40 years of teaching and writing experience, is one of the most approachable introductions to poetry I've read to date. (If you like Making Your Own Days, you might consider The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, or poets John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara.)
Collected Poems by James Merrill
James Merrill's early poem "The Black Swan" is handwritten in my journal, copied just after my first reading because I loved it instantly. A poet I often revisit, his Collected Poems has become an indispensable book in my library. There's a quality to his poems akin to soft suede; they are polished and variant and when brushed against the grain, their surfaces reveal depth and buried color. Over the span of his prolific career he proved his remarkable ability to simultaneously subdue and highlight the tragic, to create tremulous undertone:
Black on flat water past the jonquil lawns
Riding, the black swan draws
A private chaos warbling in its wake,
Assuming, like a fourth dimension, splendor
That calls the child with white ideas of swans
Nearer to that green lake
Where every paradox means wonder.
Merrill's later poetry paired this sensibility with occult dimensions, most visibly in the fascinating 560-page epic poem "Changing Light at Sandover" (not included in this collection), which uses messages transcribed from a Ouija board. Merrill's father was Charles Merrill, of Merrill Lynch Investments, and James helped support fellow artists and close friends, notably Elizabeth Bishop and avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. Though the size of this volume may intimidate, it is well worth its weight in justly representing the work of an incredible American poet. (If you like James Merrill, you might consider poets Elizabeth Bishop, William Butler Yeats, and W. H. Auden.)
Books mentioned in this post
Collected Poems James Merrill Used Trade Paper $19.50
The Making of a Poem (Norton Anthology) Mark Strand Used Trade Paper $10.00
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch Kenneth Koch New Trade Paper $34.95
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buzzing dimmed bulbs
Is there no way to dim a bulb silently?
The dimmer is Lutron brand. Don't know how to determine what other dimmer might be "better". Asked the clerk at the electric counter -- even showed a diagram of the inner workings of a dimmer -- and she looked at me like I was from Maine. "We only sell Lutron. I never have any complaints."
Tried rough service bulbs and they made a deeper sound, but just as loud.
Tried lowering wattage from 75 to 60.
The electrician who was out here actually stood next to me and said "Look it up on the internet".
I have no hair left on my head but fistfuls in my pockets.
Is there an answer?
Given that it's AC and not a 'steady' flow like DC, I suspect not. If it's part of a 3 way switch you could try it in another location. My only other thought is to go to a really low wattage, one more like the brightness you want.
Have you tried dimmable LEDs? They may be quieter, but otherwise it's the nature of the device. Unfortunately dimmers need to be kept cool so covering or muffling them isn't an option either.
The dimmer works by waiting a period of time after the zero crossing and then firing the triac which conducts until the next zero crossing. When you set the dimmer at half intensity, you have the sharpest rise time in that "turning on". This is what makes the filaments sing. A small toroid is added to slow this down both for filament sing and for other interference issues. Some dimmers are better at this than others.
It's not the DIMMER that's making the noise, it's the bulbs, alan.
Some bulbs (rough service perhaps) may be less noisy in this situation than others. However spending many years in the theater industry hanging and operating lights and repairing dimmer boards, I can tell you that some sing in incandescent bulbs on triac dimmers is inevitable.
Your best bet is to use smaller bulbs that you run at full dimmer settings.
I'll second what brickeyee said.
I had the same problem and just randomly trying different bulbs I eventually found some that didn't hum. Not the most efficient means of finding the right bulbs, but hopefully you'll be able to use the humming bulbs in some other non-dimmed fixtures.
The rough service bulbs were $6.00 per 2-pack.
I consider Reveal bulbs to be my "non-cheap" bulbs, but I just checked and they are made in China. (You may not be able to find these, btw. I bought them all up.)
Tonight, when the noisy day is over and I'm ready to hear quiet, I'll swap out some different ones.
Thanks to all.
Since the vibration is generated in the lamps, the luminaire and how it is mounted might have some role in the transmission of that vibration to air. Some luminaires might damp the sound better than others. I am willing to accept that the difference might be insignificant if the envelope of the lamp is directly transmitting most of the vibration to air.
You may wish to try two other style dimmers to see if either of them will help reduce your light bulbs from singing. One, is a Lutron dimmer for ELV (electronic low voltage) applications which can also be used on incandescent light bulbs. It is a trailing edge dimmer meaning it clips the waveform after the lamp voltage has already cycled up.
The other is one from the Lutron C-L line made specifically for dimmable CFL & LED light bulbs, and works with incandescent as well.
Neither make any claims to eliminate the singing problem in incandescent bulbs but, as part of their design, they both reduce some of the sharp transitions and harmonics that can cause problems in ELV power supplies, CFLs, and LEDs - which is also what's causing your problem.
Don't know if either will have any effect but that's what I would try. BTW, Lutron also makes an LDC (light debuzzing coil) which is wired in series to address this problem but I believe it runs around a couple hundred dollars.
Bill is right. THe trailing edge dimmer will help this. It's not so much the "trailing edge" aspect as the fact that unlike a TRIAC which tries to conduct all at once once it fires, the transistors in these dimmers can make the transition from on to off much slower.
I'm more skeptical about the HED dimmer, isn't that more of a dynamic adjustment of the TRIAC control to fix the low end drop outs?
Ron, I agree about the HED dimmer but since they designed it specifically for CFL/LED applications, you'd think the design would at least attempt to minimize the overshoots a little better than std. dimmers.
I looked on the Lutron website at their whitepapers for a technical description of their HED dimmers but couldn't find anything - still might be worth a try.
Why? There are two issues for CFL/LED/LowVoltage apps and the rapid rise time isn't one of them. As near as I can tell, other than the fact that it uses a neutral connection rather than expecting the bulb to be resistive, and the fact that it adjusts the dimmer linearity to handle the fact that CFL's take a decent jump to get them started.
Why? Since the input on CFLs is a bridge rectifier with something like a 4.7ufd filter capacitor hanging on it, it will draw something like 4-5 times it's normal operating current during the rise of each chopped cycle.
This is one of the problems of using switching power supplies on chopped AC or modified sine-wave inverters. If you look at the specs on the C-L dimmers they are derated to about 1/4 wattage for CFL as compared to incandescent.
With early CFLs, the rectified DC voltage was applied to one side of a high frequency switching transformer. The spikes and DC components caused by the nonliterary of TRIACS would cause various levels of saturation and overheating. This is the primary reason not to use "non-dimmable" CFLs on dimmers.
Modern LEDs use driver ICs that really don't care too much about the amount of AC ripple as they use constant current control in regulating the bulb. They usually can work from 90-265 VAC and actually work fine on DC as well.
The two problems with designing dimmable CFL/LED bulbs is dealing with the truncated waveform along with the overshoots/harmonics/DC component and then being able to interpret the phase angles of the dimmer into a control signal within the bulb. Fortunately driver ICs for both CFLs and LEDs have been developed and dimmer mfgs have worked towards the same goal.
" There are two issues for CFL/LED/LowVoltage apps and the rapid rise time isn't one of them. "
The chopped off low voltage (TRICS do not turn on till at least 0.7 V and many closer to 1.0 V) causes heating in inductors as does the delayed turn on ad sharp steps produced in the current waveform.
Even at 100% on time, the voltage loss is present on every AC cycle.
The delayed turn on also produces a sharp rising edge 9and by this means a lot of harmonics of the 60 Hz).
The impedance of an inductive element rises with frequency, meaning more power is dissipated in the part heating it up.
It is not hard to design AC-DC power supplies to cope with TRIAC switching, but it needs to be done if the supply needs to operate correctly.
CFLs have even more problems, since they both rectify the incoming power, and then use switching techniques to boost it up to many hundreds volts for starting, ad then keep it provide a lower (but still high) voltage ft operation at tens to hundreds of kilohertz frequency (instead of the power line 60 Hertz).
Dimming fluorescent lights has always been a problem.
Minor dimming (5 to 15) is not hard, but after that it gets worse and worse.
Leakage in the off device state also can produce odd effects on electronic ballasts.
They store up the small leakage charge until the voltage stored is high enough to start a strike to turn the device on.
Then the power is not adequate to keep the lamp on.
It appears as a quick starting flash at intervals depending the loads and leakage present.
Some LED switching supplies can respond in a similar way. while others just make the LED glow dimly all the time.
Switching to the trailing edge for cutting the current allows the parasitics in the circuit to limit the fall time of the current resulting in fewer harmonics being created (and less inductor heating).
The problem for the consumer is that the two devices (dimmers and lighting power supplies) have NOT always moved together.
A more complicated trigger circuit on a TRIAC can use the trailing edge, but they are far from trivial to design and take significantly more parts.
You have to pull current out of the gate to force the shutdown (and the negative gate current can depend on the load on the TRIAC, generally unknown and changing as the light dims).
Reporting back:
I exchanged one of the rough service bulbs for a reveal bulb - this dimmer controls two sconces - and the hum was reduced on both fixtures!
When I exchanged the second bulb, I realized that the hum, although now very low, was lower on the bulb that had been screwed in a little less tightly. So I loosened the other bulb. It's quiet enough now. I wonder if some of the vibration is now in the socket rather than the filament.
Thanks everybody.
The vibration is coming from the filament, and when the bulb is tightly screwed i it is more easily transmuted to the fixture the junction box, and even the wall.
You might also check how tight the fixture mounting screws are (including any mounting strap between the fixture canopy and the box itself), af even if the junction box is firmly attached to the structure (like a stud and not just the drywall).
If things fastening is tight small vibrations do not have enough energy to move the larger mass fastened securely together.


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The hospitals and long-term care facilities of the Hawaii Health System Corp. (HHSC) provide critical and essential health care services that form the "safety net" for many of our neighbor island and rural communities.
Proven way is public-private partnerships
Mufi Hannemann
The precarious financial position of our state hospital system has lingered for more than a decade. Unfortunately, state government leaders have allowed it to languish.
Broken and broke, hospitals need urgent aid
James "Duke" Aiona
Health care costs are rising and government coffers are shrinking. Who should we protect? Should we protect our poor and indigent and neighbor island residents, or should we protect our government systems like education?
HHSC needs lot more than Band-Aid
Bruce Anderson
Elections always offer a chance to attend certain problems, and our public hospital system certainly needs attention.
What's in the wind
Vicki Viotti
It may seem as if the wind has died down and everyone is letting the sun shine, where alternative resources are concerned.
Smaller wind projects, including a giant kite
Vicki Viotti
The public profile of the wind energy issue has dropped lower on the viewscreen in the last six years since the adoption of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, in which it played a starring role.
Saving ancient trails
David Brown, Ted Blake and Jimmy Medeiros
In June, the United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, granted world heritage status to the Inca trail system, recognizing that trails can rank alongside the Acropolis in Greece or the Cathedral of Notre Dame in France as some of the world's most important cultural treasures.
Hawaii preschoolers deserve a level playing field
Deborah Zysman
Forty of our 50 states have systems for 4-year-olds to attend preschool, regardless of income. Ten states do not -- Hawaii is among them.
Subsidies benefit the rich, leaving poor with low-quality schools
Corey Rosenlee
There is a public perception that the constitutional amendment for preschool is going to improve our keiki's education and provide a leveled playing field for poor and middle-class children, but in reality, the ConAm to give public money to private preschools is indicative of the poor treatment we give to public schools in the U.S.
Parents should learn options to promote healthy relationships
Aileen Deese
The recent high-profile stories of abuse involving NFL players is bringing focus to the problems of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect.
Non-violent parenting must overcome widespread beliefs
Haaheo Mansfield
The news about Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson's switching of his 4-year-old son has created an opportunity to discuss appropriate methods of child discipline in the public forum.
Building a foundation for better schools
Christine Donnelly
The consensus of the five executives who met Wednesday with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's editorial board: Hawaii's public schools have made remarkable progress overall, and individual schools are generally much better than they're given credit for.
A healing place
Bradley Willcox, M.D.
Hawaii has a lot of things going for it. One thing most people don't likely realize is that Hawaii residents are the healthiest and longest-lived people in the nation.
Gimme shelter
Vicki Viotti
Larry Geller, a longtime community activist for various organizations but testifying before the City Council as an individual, said he "bristled" upon hearing Mayor Kirk Caldwell describing Honolulu as on the "vanguard" for Housing First.
Decentralizing allows faster, cheaper plug-in
Neil "Dutch" Kuyper
We view the transformation of Hawaii's energy future through the lens of "Faster, Better and Cheaper." For us, faster is vital because of the detrimental impact of high oil prices on the average resident and business.
New structure must be diversified and nimble
Ron Binz
On Aug. 26, the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO) will release much-awaited plans for its vision of Hawaii's energy future. HECO is in good company: States everywhere are taking a fresh look at energy and the companies that provide it.
Consumers deserve control, choice, value
Jeff Mikulina
One hundred years ago today -- Aug. 24, 1914 -- a Hawaiian Electric ad in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin promoted Westinghouse electric fans, asking readers to "count up the minutes and hours lost on account of the heat at the desk that has no fan."
We must find path to steward lands and boost local food and farm efforts
Kyle Datta
Do we still make choices based on our values? What do we as a society value more: securing a resilient future for our children or increasing our fortunes today?
Sustainable agriculture is welcomed but community compatibility is key
Jun Fukada
Any agricultural project that is sustainable will be well received. But it is absolutely essential that the definition of sustainability includes environmental stewardship -- both with respect to the land involved, as well as the communities surrounding the land.
Voters: What are they thinking?
Vicki Viotti
The voting-booth curtain that preserves the secrecy of the secret ballot hasn't become any thicker or impenetrable, but it's harder than ever this time to picture the person behind it.
Seeking success in schools
Christine Donnelly
Coming off a tumultuous period that saw a group of retired principals publicly, albeit unsuccessfully, seek her ouster, Hawaii schools Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi looks forward to the 2014-15 school year as one that will prove the worth of enormously hard work carried out in public schools over the past few years.
Chinatown in transition
Vicki Viotti
Just mentioning the name of Chinatown conjures diverse mental images. That's what happens with places in transition, and Honolulu's Chinatown district is clearly in transition.
How affordable should city's apartments be?
Vicki Viotti
Honolulu leaders have wrestled over what role city government should play in managing Oahu's affordable housing since the city shuttered its Department of Housing and Community Development in the wake of a corruption scandal in 1998.
The American Dream: Duty, honor and a pledge
Richard O. Rowland
There are three actions called for in the Declaration of Independence that assure that individual liberty will be preserved: We, the People form the government to serve us, not vice versa.
Government by the people, not by special interests
Carmille Lim
The face of Hawaii's democracy is shifting. Citizens' faith in government is dwindling, while vast and increasing amounts of money are pouring into elections and drowning out the voices of the people.
Hawaii deserves political alternatives
Patricia (Pat) Saiki
In remembrance of July Fourth and in what it means to be an American, it is important to understand and appreciate how fortunate we are to live in Hawaii as part of the United States of America.
Declaration provides citizen road map to opportunity
Stephanie Ohigashi
Fireworks, flags, face painting, family and food is how we in Hawaii celebrate the Fourth of July. Of course, the real celebration is to honor our founding fathers and the 238th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Penalty of death?
Vicki Viotti
Hawaii's opposition to the death penalty was enacted in law only a few years before it became a state. But it arose from a basic mistrust, originating decades earlier, that government justice can be fair to all the people in its multicultural society.
Seeking death sentences here
Star-Advertiser staff
Hawaii outlawed capital punishment in 1957, but federal prosecutors can recommend seeking the death penalty for cases here that fall under the U.S. District Court jurisdiction.
There are better ways to develop rail transit
Karl Kim
I've been an ardent supporter of rail in Honolulu. I've studied transit, worked as a planning consultant, and have written about how urban rail could contribute to our quality of life.
Project transforms Oahu transportation
Kirk Caldwell
To the residents of Honolulu in the year 2039: Twenty-five years from the day I write this letter, I am optimistic that you, the citizens of Honolulu, will be living in one of the world's great cities, a city that thrives, because of the strong infrastructure that supports it.
Honolulu's rail system will stand test of time
Dan Grabauskas
History has shown us that the most worthwhile endeavors are not without challenges or controversy. Hawaii's first metro rail system is no different. For more than 40 years, this rail project has been debated and discussed.
The train will prove an expensive anachronism
Benjamin Cayetano, Walter Heen, Randall Roth and Cliff Slater
Even pro-rail optimists would have a hard time describing a bright future for Honolulu 25 years from now. The environmental impact statement made clear that traffic congestion would be substantially worse with rail than it was back in 2014.
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Waiting, waiting for cars to move • Oahu left to the rail and the rich • An eyesore for 20 miles • Technology may outpace a train • Traffic woes need fixing • A better lifestyle for isle residents and more
New clinic on Oahu, more access to doctors
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz
This is an issue of policy and funding, but at its core, this is a moral failure. Veterans put their lives on the line, and it's our obligation to take care of them when they come home.
Veterans need to know how to access services
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono
The recent revelations over wait times at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have severely shaken the trust that veterans, their families and the general public should have in the VA health system.
Hospital in Guam can help far-flung veterans
U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa
Ongoing concerns about our VA health care system and a recent Access Audit by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have left policymakers, veterans and the general public searching for answers on how to provide the men and women who have served our nation with the health care they earned and deserve.
Those responsible must be held accountable
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Imagine if your son or daughter, or your brother or sister, was sick or injured, and needed urgent care, but couldn't see a doctor for three months, six months, or more than a year. This scenario would be unacceptable to all of us.
Rail transit gets real
Vicki Viotti
For people driving into town from East Kapolei. the line of concrete columns seen from Kualakai Parkway are a long-established part of the landscape. Now the impact of Honolulu's 20-mile elevated rail project will be seen and felt by an ever-growing number of Leeward Oahu residents.
Keep track of the construction
Star-Advertiser staff
The world is full of busy people who pay attention to something only when it appears on the doorstep. The time to tune in has arrived, rail-watchers: The show is about to start.
Let us now praise the process
Christine Donnelly
How parents talk to their children has a huge impact on whether the kids believe that their intelligence, talent and ability can grow with hard work. Instilling this "growth mindset" has lifelong benefits, just as the pitfalls of a failure-fearing, challenge-averse "fixed mindset" also linger.
A muscular mind
Christine Donnelly
Why does one 4-year-old try again and again to solve the toughest puzzle in the toybox, while another refuses to attempt the task even once? Why does a talented young athlete resist the practice that would take him from good to great?
A Hawaiian nation?
Vicki Viotti
The Native Hawaiian Roll Commission translates Kana'iolowalu, the name of its enrollment project, as a poetic allusion to the act of striving ("na'i"), and to the din of many voices.
Going public
Christine Donnelly
Attorney Clare Hanusz was surprised by the reaction after she was quoted briefly at the tail end of a newspaper story reporting annual tuition increases at Hawaii private schools.
Organizing to support Hawaii public schools
Star-Advertiser staff
The nonprofit advocacy group Parents for Public Schools is launching its "1,000 Family Voices" campaign to mobilize support for Hawaii's public schools.
U.S. military operations, nuclear testing, led to COFA pact
Vicki Viotti
The Compact of Free Association (COFA) comprise a series of treaties between the United States and three countries: the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae), the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Spurned by a federal court, Pacific migrants seek justice through politics
Vicki Viotti
Micronesians in Hawaii, who face adjustment problems similar to other relatively new arrivals, have turned to the courts for help but now are poised to change tracks and go political.
OHA has made a firm commitment to develop its land responsibly
Davianna McGregor
In 2012, the state transferred 30 acres of prime real estate in Kakaako to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), in a long-awaited settlement of the state's outstanding debt to Native Hawaiians.
OHA understood restrictions on development in Kakaako Makai
Marcus Oshiro
The Hatfields and the McCoys. Mention either of these families and thoughts of unpardonable sins, generational grievances, and collateral damage come to mind. But despite all that had happened between these two families, at some point, peace was finally restored.
Preventing child abuse begins with a healthy start in life
Howard Garval
As our community works together to raise awareness of the heartbreaking results of child abuse during Prevent Child Abuse Month in April, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser is bringing to light how important it is to be vigilant and persistent in reporting suspected abuse and neglect.
Parental training can teach proper discipline techniques
Kathy Bentley
Recently there have been several stories about children who were killed while in the care of adults who should have been protecting them. It appears that in two of these cases the parents were overwhelmed, and didn't have the knowledge and skills necessary to care for these children.
Hawaii needs to do more to protect childrens well-being
Aileen Deese
Each year, April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month and this serves as a reminder of our nation's need to focus on healthy child development. Given our nation's rank in child well-being according to UNICEF, we need to focus extra hard this year.
Restricted-access Pono Choices material reveals a curriculum that parents might find disturbing
Camille Fleming
As a mother of two young children, I decided to learn more about Pono Choices, the pilot sex education program for 11- to 13-year-olds in some Hawaii public schools.
Public input is welcomed in reviewing the DOE's sex-education policies and curricula for students
Ronn Nozoe
Sex education is among the most personal issues addressed in schools. Families and community members have strong opinions about what, when and how such issues should be covered in schools.
Protecting the 'Last Hawaiian Island'
Vicki Viotti
Whoever it was that coined the moniker "The Forbidden Island" to describe Niihau, the label stuck and an air of mystery has hung over the privately owned island ever since. But mysteries soon run up against modern realities.
Faced with few options for income, Niihauans still protect Hawaiian life
Vicki Viotti
There are no paved roads, no cars, no stores and that's only the start of what makes "The Forbidden Island" distinct. Niihau is home to about 130 permanent inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Native Hawaiians, speaking a dialect of Hawaiian as their first language.
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Our state is in a unique position when it comes to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. Hawaii has long been the leader in health care, with many residents insured because of our Prepaid Health Care Act.
Universal health coverage would suit Hawaii better
Michael A. Gold
March 31, 2014, is a milestone date for Hawaii and the nation. It marks the deadline of the first open enrollment period for individuals under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
A consumer's complaint: Connector no help at all
Nanette Napoleon
As of this writing, it has been five months since I first attempted to obtain individual health insurance through the Hawaii Health Connector (HHC), and I still don't have insurance.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Jindal Steel and Power Ltd(JNSP.NS) will stop buying coking coal from Australia in three months from now as its own mines there start shipping, a top company official said, a move that could further soften prices of the commodity.
Recent coking, or metallurgical, coal price settlements by major miners showed a fall in the price of all coal types for the first quarter of 2014, underscoring a weak demand outlook from steelmakers in Asia.
"We get 50,000 tonnes per month from our mine in Mozambique and another 50,000 tonnes we buy from Australia," said V.R. Sharma, deputy managing director of Jindal Steel.
"But after three months we will not be buying because we have our own mines there," he told Reuters late on Tuesday.
Jindal Steel, headed by billionaire lawmaker Naveen Jindal, got access to 650 million tonnes of coking coal resources in October after buying a majority stake in Gujarat NRE Coking Coal GNM.AX, the Australian unit of Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd (GJNC.NS).
Gujarat NRE Coking's two mines, located in New South Wales, are currently producing 1.5 million tonnes per year and are expected to have an output of 5 million tonnes by 2016.
Australia is the world's largest coking coal exporter, with shipments expected to rise 6 percent to 163.9 million tonnes this fiscal year ending March 31.
Sharma said Jindal Steel's coking coal consumption will more than double to 2.6 million tonnes by 2016 as it expands capacity. About 80 percent of the coal will come from its mines abroad and the rest it will buy from the open market.
But unlike other Indian companies such as Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL.NS) and Neyveli Lignite Corp (NELG.NS), Sharma said Jindal Steel was no longer looking to buy coal mines overseas as it has enough coking coal resources now.
India's coking coal imports are set to rise 6 percent to 35 million tonnes this fiscal year ending March 31. Domestic output has been stagnant at 18 million tonnes per year as most reserves are in thickly populated areas.
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hiv and interferonmy cd4 was 915 and when i took interferon from 4months i found my cd4 436.what the reason and what can i do iam very afread.
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Interferon and Beyond: Treating HEP C...enter clinical trials soon. The following is a review of the current options available to people living with both HEP C and HIV, along with a nod to the promising future of HEP C treatment. The Impact of HAART While some studies have... Read more »
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TORONTO - Women who sit on corporate boards are more likely to "rock the boat" and be more open to new ideas than their male counterparts — skills that often translate into better decisions and financial success for the company, according to a new study.
The survey, recently published in the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, found that of the 624 board directors polled in Canada, women were more likely to use "co-operation, collaboration and consensus building" when dealing with complex decisions.
While male directors more often made decisions by using "rules, regulations and traditional ways of doing business."
Study co-author Chris Bart said Monday that his research showed that the way women operate as directors often contributed to a company's success, raising the question of why women are still in the minority in Canada's corporate boardrooms.
"Why would governance, nominating committees and board chairs not want to have that skill set, that competence available to them in abundance?" asked Bart, a professor of strategic management at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.
"It's no longer just a question of it being the right thing to do, to have women on the board... it's the bright thing to do."
The finds, part of a larger study conducted between 2004 and 2012, presented morally conflicting scenarios to board members, asking them to solve them and explain how they came to their conclusion. Of those surveyed, 75 per cent were male and 25 per cent were female.
Bart, who did the research with Gregory McQueen of A.T. Still University in Arizona, says the answers from female directors showed that they were "less constrained" in their problem-solving skills than male directors.
It also found that women were more likely to take into account interests of multiple stakeholders and viewed fairness as an important factor in their decision-making.
"Women seem to be predisposed to be more inquisitive and to see more possible solutions," he said. "This quality makes them more effective corporate directors."
A recent study by TD Bank (TSX:TD) found that women only make up 11 per cent of board members at companies on the S&P/TSX Composite Index, which represents more than 240 of Canada's largest companies by market capitalization.
Nearly half (43 per cent) of the companies on the index reported no female board member and 28 per cent only had one.
Bart says the reality is that the "old boys" culture is still alive and well in corporate boardrooms across all sectors.
"Men are pack animals and they are very much quick to recognize the hierarchy of the alpha males in the group," he said. "They would be very unhappy with people coming in with different values or views to the board."
Bart says the study signals that boards, investors and shareholders, all benefit when there are more female directors.
"There's a huge pool of qualified, available women who would certainly be eligible based on their experiences to fill the boardroom seats," he said.
"(Companies) drum up all sorts of excuses as to why women aren't being appointed to the board but they're no longer holding water."
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