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Students to Spend Spring Break with Orphaned Children, Homeless Families
CHICAGO, IL (March 8, 2007) — While most college co-eds bask on the beach this Spring Break, several benevolent bands of North Park students will be spending their holiday with orphaned children in Bolivia and homeless families outside New Orleans.
Appalachia, Chile and the impoverished Oaxaca region of Mexico will serve as the other unlikely "vacation" destinations for 80+ North Park University students, March 9-18:
(3/10 – 3/17): Construction and landscape projects for a Christian summer camp. Also clearing brush, improving nature trails, interior and exterior paining, cleaning.
(3/9 – 3/17): Working in a home for orphaned, abandoned children at risk.
(3/9 – 3/18): Serving the needs of the camping ministry of local churches.
(3/10 – 3/17): Working in Oaxaca and Tiacolula, on construction of a conference facility, medical clinic and home for 90 orphaned children.
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(3/10 – 3/17): Building homes with Habitat for Humanity in St. Bernard Parish in the Upper Ninth Ward, in the heart of Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.
North Park has a century-old tradition of helping others. The institution holds a deep commitment to its mission "to prepare students for lives of significance and service." And students at North Park volunteer at a rate that's higher than the national average. Even as early as the school's founding in 1891, the pastor of the Swedish Tabernacle in Minneapolis (where classes were first held) declared that North Park students would be well served by "a sympathetic heart" and not only a "big, bright head."
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– When we know someone from the other side of the world, we read the news differently, think of justice differently and spend our money differently, all because we now have a personal connection.
– We pursue projects and locations where we can continue visiting and where we are working together to meet needs.
Urban Outreach is North Park's long-standing student-led service program comprised of seven different issue-focused teams dedicated to providing meaningful service and volunteer opportunities for the University Community. After Hours, Disability & Elderly, Green, Homelessness & Hunger, Independent, International, and Youth & Child Teams partner with over 20 different social service agencies, schools, and churches to address community needs. Through Urban Outreach, students have an impact on their local community by tutoring at-risk youth, providing assistance to the elderly, and those with HIV/AIDS, feeding the hungry and homeless, working with refugees, and much more.


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Fight against Internet, social media one I'm glad I lost 0
I was one of the last people to hop on board the social media train, but I am glad I did.
I admit, I had my reservations, even when the Internet was developed. I had several people claim to be me, posing as me and speaking to fans in chat rooms. One of these people was even arrested for trying to lure an underage girl to a hotel room. Luckily for me, I was told this by a friend and the authorities were notified.
As the years progressed and Internet social media sites became more credible, I still refused. I didn't have a MySpace account, but there were plenty of fake accounts posing as me. My own niece had someone talking to her and her friends posing as me on Facebook until she called me and asked if I was on Facebook, which of course, at the time I was not.
Two years ago, I finally caved in. I left WWE and decided to get my own website - www.TheTommyDreamer.com - and join twitter, @THETOMMYDREAMER. I own the name Tommy Dreamer, but someone else had those domain names, which made me beyond angry, but I digress. I figure if the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) could take down World Wrestling Federation(WWF), now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), I would take a pass on the legal battle. It worked out better for both parties anyway.
The Twitter concept was so foreign to me; I thought why the heck would someone care about what I was doing, and follow me, let alone in 140 characters or less. But was I wrong. I got hooked on it, big time, as well.
As a professional wrestler for more than two decades, I have travelled the world many times over. I have literally met millions of people in my career, some memorable and some just a casual hello, but thanks to Twitter, I get to relive these memories. People tell me stories or send me pictures of our meetings, which make me remember some of the greatest times of my life. I often say 'Wow, I look fat in that picture' or 'Man my arms looked jacked' or 'What am I wearing, is that a fanny pack?' when opening pictures from fans.
I usually respond to all my fans' questions when they ask me something on Twitter. It is a constant reminder of the amazing career that I've had. I enjoy getting feedback from my followers. I even appreciate peoples' creative ways of not liking me. People will message me just to tell me I stink, and yet I find myself replying to them to defend my stinkiness. I laugh at the comedy accounts which make fun of the same things I do, especially when there is bad wrestling on TV.
I have gotten bookings to other wrestling events and have done a music video and a movie, all thanks to meeting people on Twitter.
Of course, you must be careful, as always, to not open spam e-mails or e-mails from people not being who they are claiming to be. I, myself, am still not verified, but waiting for the Twitter folks to work their magic. But I mean, come on, only the real Tommy Dreamer would tweet about his love of wrestling, and food, with such passion, right?
I have found a number of great products that I use every day on Twitter. Olympic Gold Medallist and fellow professional wrestler Kurt Angle (@realKurtAngle), for example, endorses Ultra Fiber DX. WWE announcer Justin Roberts (@JustinRoberts) introduced me to www.handstogo.com , which helps my back, while former WWE star Trish Status, a Canadian (@trishstratuscom) offers a Yoga DVD that has actually made me like Yoga. Roland Berthiaume invented @LoBakTrax and it helps my lower back pain and may lengthen my career. I am not paid to endorse these products, rather just trying to help others like they helped me.
I have been wrestling since I was 18, living on the road for more than half my life. Sometimes I get sad not being with my extended family.
It is the hardest part of my life, trying to adapt to the real world and realizing that I am at the end of my career. But when I am down, I have one simple solution, which also happens to be my favourite part of Twitter. That solution is being able to follow my friends who are out on the road, continuing to live their dreams. I read their tweets (in their voices, no less) and I am back out there with them. I can laugh with them. I can picture Mickie James's smile, the way it lights up a room, The Miz being self-centered, Christian's awesome sense of humour, all while being a heel. Victoria/Tara making me laugh no matter what. I can see a picture of Candice Michelle's daughter. I can read about Jeff Jarrett's hard work in India and how much he misses his wife, Karen, and family.
I can read along as the Bella Twins make fun of Dolph Ziggler, or I can read Dolph's awesome, egotistical tweets, CM Punk's amazing banter with fans, Eric Young's love of hockey, Robbie E.'s love of himself, Hurricane's comedic tweets, or about MVP chillin' in Japan, or about Kelly Kelly being, well, Kelly Kelly.
I can keep tabs on Carlito making fun of every diva, just as he always does. I could go on and on, but knowing I can still know what my friends are doing gives me a weird sense of comfort.
I have always tried to be my brothers' keeper and watch out for others. Twitter just helps me do it from afar. I am glad I got out of the Stone Age and joined the world of social media.
Thanks for reading.
Tommy Dreamer is a legendary and influential pro wrestler and a father and husband who has worked for World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action. Follow him on Twitter - @THETOMMYDREAMER - and check out his website at www.thetommydreamer.com. He can be booked for live appearances through his website.


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Tell No One(2006)Pediatrician Alexandre Beck still grieves the murder of his beloved wife, Margot, eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One." For more about Tell No One and the Tell No One Blu-ray release, see Tell No One Blu-ray Review published by Dr. Svet Atanasov on June 20, 2009 where this Blu-ray release scored 2.0 out of 5. Director: Guillaume Canet Writers: Philippe Lefebvre (I), Guillaume Canet Starring: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye, Marina Hands, Gilles Lellouche » See full cast & crew Tell No One Blu-ray, Video QualityPresented in an aspect ratio of 2.38:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080/50i transfer, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Revolver Entertainment. Before I get to the technical analysis, I would like to quickly note that this disc has been encoded in 1080i/50, which is the reason why I have marked it as Region-B "locked" (most every US TV set cannot accept 1080/50 signal, and one needs to have a player capable of outputting 1080/50 signal - native Region-A players don't - to access the disc's content). This being said, the basics for the transfer appear to be intact contrast and clarity are very much comparable to what the French release of Tell No One reveals. The same could be said about the color-scheme. Furthermore, there isn't much edge-enhancement that I could spot, even though the print for the UK release occasionally looks a bit rough. I also did not spot any overly disturbing debris, dirt, or specks to report in this review. This being said, there is a serious amount of "ghosting" on this UK release. Especially during fast action scenes (the chase scene from the second part of the film is a great example), you would immediately notice its presence. As far as I am concerned, this is quite disappointing to see, given how consistently strong all of Revolver Entertainment releases have been thus far. Tell No One Blu-ray, Audio QualityThere are two audio tracks on this Blu-ray disc: French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and French LPCM 2.0. I opted for the French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track and later on did a few random comparisons with the French LPCM 2.0 track. The French disc we reviewed for the site contains a French PCM 5.1 track. This being said, the French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 is practically identical to it. A lot of the subtle special effects noticeable in the surrounds on the French PCM 5.1 track sound identical to me on the French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (I tested the lake scenes). On the other hand, dialog is pleasingly crisp, clear and very easy to follow. Balance is also convincing. Finally, I did not detect any disturbing pops, cracks, or hissings to report in this review. For the record, the English subtitles are imposed. They appear inside the image frame.
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I recently took out my graphics card from my PC to dust it and put in back in correctly and then afterwards upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I have installed all my past drivers correctly except for my graphics driver. Catalyst Software Suite is not recognizing my graphics card as the ATI 4890 graphics card I have and is instead downloading drivers for 3200 series graphics cards. I have tried almost every version of Catalyst Software Suite, including legacy. Please help
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Tombrello, T. A. and Caywood, J. M. (1973) Molecular-Ion Effects in Backscattering from Aligned Silicon Crystals. Physical Review B, 8 (7). pp. 3065-3070. ISSN 0556-2805. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:TOMprb73
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We have observed the proton spectra from equal-velocity beams of H+, H2+, and H3+ incident on aligned silicon crystals. Data for both axial and planar channeling show that the dechanneling is successively greater for the H2+ and H3+ ions than for protons. Since the depth at which dechanneling occured can be deduced from the energy spectrum of the backscattered protons, the comparison of the proton spectrum from molecular-ion bombardment with that produced by incident protons allows us to study the history of the motion in the crystal of the interacting protons from a given molecular ion.
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Fort Ville-Marie
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Fort Ville-Marie | |
Part of Pointe-à-Callière Museum | |
Fort Ville-Marie in 1645
Coordinates | 45°30′12″N 73°33′14″W / 45.503407°N 73.553974°WCoordinates: 45°30′12″N 73°33′14″W / 45.503407°N 73.553974°W |
Site information | |
Owner | Pointe-à-Callière Museum |
Controlled by | Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal, New France |
Site history | |
Built | 1642 |
Built by | Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal |
In use | 1611, 1642-1674 |
Materials | Wood |
Demolished | 1688 |
Garrison information | |
Past commanders |
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve |
Fort Ville-Marie was a fortress outpost of France in North America. It is the historic nucleus around which the original settlement of Montreal grew. Given its importance, the site of the fort was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1924.[1][2]
Samuel de Champlain built a temporary fort in 1611. He established a fur-trading post where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands as part of a project to create a French colonial empire. He and his crew spent a few weeks clearing a site that he named "Place Royale", dug two gardens and planted seed that grew well, confirming the fertility of the soil. In 1613, Samuel de Champlain returned to "Place Royale" and Sault-au-Récollet.
In 1641, some fifty French settlers, both men and women - recruited in France by Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière, of Anjou, on behalf of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal - set sail for New France. They hoped to convert the natives and create a model Catholic community. After a long crossing and a number of stops, the small group, led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, of Champagne, arrived in Quebec with approximately 40 men, three arriving with their wives; Jean Gorry with Isabeau Panie, Antoine Damien with Marie Joly, and Nicolas Godé with Francoise Gadois and their three children, Francoise, Nicolas, and Mathurine. The Godés are often referred to as the first family of Montreal. There was also an unmarried woman, Catherine Lezeau. Winter was spent on the land of Pierre de Puiseaux near Sillery.
In May 1642, the group left Quebec to go to the Island of Montreal in spite of the efforts by the Montmagny governor to have them settle on the island of Orleans. Since Cartier's time, an American Indian city named Hochelaga had existed on the island of Montreal but had later been abandoned following periods of war. They arrived on May 17th. Mrs. De la Peltrine, her lady-in-waiting Charlotte Barre, as well as Jeanne Mance, were part of this trip.[3]
The new arrivals set to work to build the Ville-Marie fort on the spot where Champlain had once stayed. The first governor was Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve.
The French and the Dutch (of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam) were primarily interested in fur trading. The Iroquois had allied with the Dutch of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam, who supplied supplied arms to them. In 1641 the war with the Iroquois began. By 1643, Ville-Marie had already been hit by Iroquois raids. In 1649, the situation was so critical that Maisonneuve went back to France to get help. In 1653, to confront this Iroquois danger, a group of 100 settler-soldiers came to stay in Ville-Marie. With them were 15 "girls to marry" placed under the care of Marguerite Bourgeoys. Jeanne Mance would set up the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal hospital in Montreal. In the first years, the Hôtel-Dieu was hosted inside the fort.
By 1685, Ville-Marie had a population of some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. The parish church and the seminary of the Sulpician fathers, seigneurs of the Island, dominated the little town. Most business was transacted in the Marketplace, located just next to the mouth of the little river. Here Montrealers and Amerindians would meet to trade.[3]
The fort, in use between 1642-1674, was demolished in 1688. The Louis-Hector de Callière residence was built on this place in 1695.
Montreal in 1647
Montreal in 1672
Montreal in 1675
Pointe-à-Callière archaeological site
- ^ "Montreal's Birthplace". Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada. Parks Canada. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
- ^ Montreal's Birthplace. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
- ^ a b "Ville-Marie", Old Montreal
See also[edit]
- History of Montreal
- French forts in Canada
- National Historic Sites in Quebec
- Military forts in Quebec
- Demolished buildings and structures in Montreal
- Old Montreal
- Buildings and structures completed in 1642
- Buildings and structures demolished in 1688
- Forts or trading posts on the National Historic Sites of Canada register


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Light plays important roles in modulating plant responses to attack by pests and pathogens. Here, we test the hypothesis that darkness modifies the response to wounding, and examine possible mechanisms for such an effect. We investigated changes in the Arabidopsis transcriptome following a light–dark transition and the response to wounding either in the light or in the dark. The transcriptional response to the light–dark transition strongly resembles responses associated with carbon depletion. The dark shift and wound responses acted largely independently, but more complex interactions were identified at a number of levels. Darkness attenuates the overall transcriptional response to wounding, and we identified genes and physiological processes, such as anthocyanin accumulation, that exhibit light-dependent wound responses. Transcriptional activation of light-dependent wound-induced genes requires a chloroplast-derived signal originating from photosynthetic electron transport. We also present evidence of a role for the circadian clock in modifying wound responses. Our results show that darkness impacts on the wound response at a number of levels, which may imply differences in induced herbivore defences during the day and night.
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A pacifist, war-tax resister, and advocate for social justice, Randy Kehler was born in Bronxville, New York, on July 16, 1944 and raised in Scarsdale. From Philips Exeter Academy, Kehler went on to Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1967 with a degree in government. It was at Harvard that Kehler first became politically active, working with the Harlem chapter of CORE to organize support for the 1963 March on Washington and directing programs for inner city children at a Boston settlement house. He credits Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" during the March on Washington with changing his life, moving him toward an increasingly radical stance.
In 1964, Kehler went to Africa to teach in Tanzania. There he met Congolese refugees who had been forced out of their villages when unmarked U.S. planes had dropped napalm bombs. At one point he was mobbed because his backpack said "U.S. Army." This experience had a profound effect on Kehler. Upon returning to Harvard, he heard that the United States was dropping napalm bombs on the Vietnamese and he began organizing against the Vietnam War. In 1965, Kehler started "Letters for Peace," a letter writing campaign to Washington. A short time later, Kehler signed a petition entitled, "We Won't Go" and acknowledged to himself that he was willing to be imprisoned for anti-war beliefs. Although he moved on to Stanford in 1967 to pursue graduate work in education, he left after only three weeks to work full time in the movement against the Vietnam War.
Taking a job with the War Resisters League in San Francisco in 1967, Kehler joined a small number of protestors by refusing to pay his telephone taxes as a protest against military expenditures, and he returned his draft card to the Selective Service. As a result of his non-compliance with the draft, he was arrested in 1969. He represented himself at trial and argued that the law itself was unjust. He refused to argue his case as a conscientious objector because he felt that was simply a form of cooperation with the government's actions in Vietnam. Kehler was found guilty and served twenty-two months of a two year sentence for his act of resistance.
By 1973, Kehler was participating in local community organizing and economic development work in Western Massachusetts. He co-founded the Traprock Peace Center in 1979, served as National Coordinator for the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign from 1981 to 1984. From 1986-1988, he worked on staff of the Peace Development Fund's Exchange Program, offering strategic advice for grassroots justice and peace groups across the country. In 1989, Kehler was also one of the founders of the Working Group on Electoral Democracy to encourage political reform and create a pro-democracy movement in the United States. Kehler married Betsy Corner in 1976, and they had their first child, a daughter, in the following year.
In 1977, the first year that they had a taxable income, Kehler and Corner decided to withhold their federal income tax as a protest against United States military expenditures and involvement in global human rights violations. The couple continued to pay state and local taxes and donated their federal tax money to various charities. Although the IRS response was slow, in 1989 they moved to foreclose on Kehler and Corner's Colrain home to recover back taxes. After finding no bidders when the house was put up for auction, the IRS bought the house themselves and began eviction proceedings. They arrested Kehler and Corner for trespassing on federal property in 1990, and when they returned to the house following their release in 1991, they were arrested yet again. After agreeing not to return to the house, Corner was released, but Kehler's refusal to cooperate earned him an additional six months in jail in Northampton for contempt of court. After another IRS auction resulted in a buyer for his Colrain home in February 1992, a group of friends and supporters of Kehler occupied the house for several weeks until they were forced out by the new owners, Danny and Terry Franklin, on April 15, 1992.
Despite being removed the house, the Kehlers continued to fight. A vigil was set up on the property that was sustained for over eighteen months by various affinity groups and supporters. Although the Franklins owned the house, the property surrounding it was owned by the Valley Community Land Trust (VCLT) and the water system was shared by the surrounding neighbors. As soon as the Franklins moved in, the VCLT took legal actions to have them removed based on several stipulations in the Kehlers' lease, including one that made the lease on the land non-transferable. During the eighteen months of sustained vigil outside the Colrain home, the protestors brought the Franklins water in hopes of reaching of amicable settlement. Ultimately, in 1994, after an undisclosed negotiated settlement, the Franklins vacated the house. However, the Kehlers declined to move back into the Colrain house, insisting that their actions were intended to protest the government's use of their tax dollars, not to regain their property. The Kehlers currently live in a house owned by Betsy's mother on another lot in the Valley Community Land Trust. They continue to withhold their federal income taxes and have said they will never own anything again.
The Randy Kehler Papers document the five year struggle (1989-1994) of war tax resisters Randy Kehler and his wife Betsy Corner to fight the Internal Revenue Service's seizure and sale of their home while raising awareness of government military expenditures and practices. The collection includes meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings; letters to the editor, essays, articles, plans and strategy for the vigil set outside the Kehler home, support committee information and actions, correspondence with government officials, IRS, and the Justice Department; hundreds of letters of support from all the country, court documents from the legal proceedings and political literature addressing the Kehlers' situation.
This collection is organized into five series:
The collection is open for research.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Randy Kehler Papers (MS 396). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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The organized effort to protest the seizure of the Kehlers' Colrain home became known as the "Colrain Action." The Colrain Action was highly organized political protest that involved two main groups, the Support Committee and the Occupation Subcommittee (OSC). The Support Committee was responsible for fundraising, maintaining media relations, writing newsletters, coordinating public support and the overall direction of the campaign. The collection includes newsletters, meeting notes, press releases, a phone log, mailing lists, financial information, and various other materials that document their work.
The bulk of the correspondence in this series is from various supporters of the Colrain Action. Although some are well-known figures, such as Joan Baez, Dave Dellinger, and Barbara Bush, most of the letters are from normal people across the country who were inspired by the Kehlers and wrote letters of support. Kehler supporters sent many letters to politicians such as Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Silvio Conte, and Paul Wellstone; many sent copies of these letters to the Kehlers, which are include here. The remainder of the series consists of correspondence between the Kehlers and people who were directly involved in the Colrain Action such as Juanita Nelson, Ed Argo, Mary Link and Don Mosley. Also included in this series is correspondence between the Kehlers, the Franklins, and their attorney, John Stobierski.
The legal series includes court documents from the four major cases that arose from the Colrain Action. United States v. Kehler/Corner is the case brought by the federal government against the Kehlers' for failing to pay their income taxes. In Commonwealth v. Kehler/Corner, the Kehlers faced trespassing charges for refusing to leave their property after the Internal Revenue Service seized their house. The charges against Betsy Corner were ultimately dropped in this case when she agreed not to return to the property, but Randy Kehler was jailed for his refusal to agree not to return to the property. Danny Franklin, in Franklin v. War Tax Resisters, ultimately brought suit against the Kehler supporters who maintained a vigil on the property of the Colrain home for over eighteen months. The Valley Community Land Trust v. Franklin is a suit brought by the owners of the land on which the Kehler home sits against Danny and Terry Franklin. The lease that the VCLT signed with the Kehlers was non-transferable; if the Franklins wanted to live on property in the VCLT they had to apply and be approved by the VCLT board. The Franklins failed to do this and the VCLT sought to have then legally removed.
This series contains correspondence with various lawyers and judges, a court schedule, forms and receipts from Hampshire County Jail, records of arrests, trespassing summons, policy reports and information on the mediation sessions between the Kehlers, the Franklins and the Valley Community Land Trust. Additionally, correspondence with the IRS, the IRS assessment of the Kehlers tax situation, the rules and regulations for seizing property, various articles on legal issues, and correspondence with the Justice Department as well as Valley Community Land Trust by-laws, legal positions, general correspondence and the Kehlers' lease.
The Colrain Action generated a lot of media attention and not just in the local papers. Articles about the Kehlers ran in national magazines and newspapers. Many political organizations used the Kehlers' story as part of their literature and often ran updates on the Colrain situation in their newsletters. The series brings all that coverage together and arranges most of the articles by the name of the organization or magazine that published the article except the articles that were written by Randy Kehler, which are filed under his name. This series includes newspaper articles about the Kehlers and letters to the editor arranged by year as well as various political literature collected by the Kehlers.
This series is comprised of three scrapbooks that were put together by an unknown person. They contain newspaper clippings, newsletters, letters to the editor, photographs and flyers documenting the Colrain Action, and provide a good timeline of the events surrounding the seizure of the Kehlers' home and the subsequent protest.
War tax resister, resides on Valley Community Land Trust.
Essay on occupation of Kehler/Corner home.
Marblehead High School, Mass.
Randy Kehler's mother
Attorney for Danny and Terry Franklin.
Professor at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.
Assistant to President of Czech Republic.
United States Senator from Minnesota.
Letter addressing trespassing charges.
Group that awards peace activists.
Narrative of a tax resister.
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Surface roughness introduced on to horizontal ground between a noise source and receiver has previously been demonstrated to provide additional attenuation for sound near grazing incidence. Roughness-enhanced ground effect has been shown to depend on the relative source-receiver geometry. In most studies of the effects of surface roughness there has been line of site between source and receiver [see for example "Diffraction assisted ground effect" Bashir, Attenborough, Hill and Taherzadeh, Proc. 2010 ASA, Cancun] whereas for potential applications this may not be the case. Numerical calculations and data indicate the benefits of applying specific surface roughness profiles to large-scale acoustic obstructions such as an earth berm. Boundary element calculations have been used to investigate the attenuation of sound by the scattering of surface/creeping waves from surface roughness. The influence of different roughness cross-sections and distributions on the attenuation of noise from standard road traffic sources are discussed [work supported by European Community FP7 project number 234306].
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LAS VEGAS--The House of Judah is divided. Super Zab Judah is picking Miguel Im No Angel Cotto to whip Pinoy Idol Manny Pacquiao while his father and trainer, Yoel, is sticking to his prediction that Pacman will emerge the winner on Nov. 14.
One thing father and son do agree on about the Boricua Banger, though, is that an opponent starts getting to Cotto, the physically strong WBO welterweight champion will start playing dirty. Zabby Dabby hurt Cotto early on in their June 9, 2007 fight,and Cotto hit Judah way below the belt. There was a series of excruciatingly, flagrant low blows and finally ref Arthur Mercante Jr. penalized Cotto one point. Cotto rebounded to drop Judah in the ninth round and win on a TKO in 11. Expect more of the same nastiness , said Yoel, when Megamanny starts cracking on Cotto. My son and I, we disagree, Zab has Cotto, I got Manny. But we know only too well what Cotto does when things arent going his way. You can fully expect some dirty tactics from him. That is his m.o. Cotto will hit Manny low or else he will give him a body slam like he did to Josh Clottey in his last fight. Dont forget that he also likes to use his elbows or put the other guy in a headllock, Yoel said Friday at The Pa,ms Resort & Casino where Zab has a stay busy PPV TV bout against solid Mexican journeyman Ubaldo Hernandez on a card also featuring Cuban cutie Joel Casamayor and up and comer Ron The American Dream Johnson. Co-promoters of the event are former world champion Fernando Vargas and Johnson. Executive produce of the show is capable former Showtime marketing whiz Brian Ricco. (Announcers on the telecast are Arnie Tokyo Rosenthal, former world champ Bobby Czyz and a guy who resembles your humble White Gorilla. The White Gori is cast as sort of a poor mans Larry Merchant on the affordably priced $29.95 card so check your cable listings.) When the situation goes against him, this is what Cotto does. When Manny starts getting at him, he will get down and dirty. This is what Cotto does when he knows he is getting beat." Pacman training Coach Freddie Roach has expressed similar comments and plans to repeat his do not let Cotto cheat position during fight week here. The Nevada commission wisely chose its top-rated referee, smoothie Kenny Bayless, to handle the Cotto-Pacquiao main event. If you know Bayless, you know that he will not long tolerate foul tactics by either side. http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Bo...ill-play-dirty |
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Zemp, M; Haeberli, W; Hoelzle, M; Paul, F (2006). Alpine glaciers to disappear within decades? Geophysical Research Letters, 33:L13504.
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Past, present and potential future glacier cover in the entire European Alps has been assessed from an integrated approach, combining in-situ measurements, remote sensing techniques and numerical modeling for equilibrium line altitudes. Alpine glaciers lost 35% of their total area from 1850 until the 1970s, and almost 50% by 2000. Total glacier volume around 1850 is estimated at some 200 km3 and is now close to one-third of this value. From the model experiment, we show that a 3°C warming of summer air temperature would reduce the currently existing Alpine glacier cover by some 80%, or up to 10% of the glacier extent of 1850. In the event of a 5°C temperature increase, the Alps would become almost completely ice-free. Annual precipitation changes of ±20% would modify such estimated percentages of remaining ice by a factor of less than two.
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A new era for dental hygiene research in Canada.
A number of forces are combining to bring a new level of credibility to dental hygiene research in Canada and a growing recognition of its importance. This is translating into unprecedented research opportunities for dental hygienists, and is making the job of the Canadian Foundation for Dental Hygiene Research and Education (or the Foundation) more exciting and more valuable than ever.Canada's only foundation dedicated exclusively to dental hygiene research and education is still quite young. The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association (CDHA) formed the Foundation in 2004, with a mission to "enable dental hygiene research and education in order to enhance the oral health and well-being of Canadians." The Foundation has since raised and awarded more than $63,508 in grants to dental hygienists for research projects to help advance clinical practice, dental hygiene education, and oral health outcomes.
Researchers in the field believe the circumstances are right for a new era of dental hygiene research in Canada due to a combination of changes both within the profession, and in the wider sphere of health care research and delivery. "Absolutely, the timing for research couldn't be better," says Salme Lavigne, Chair of the Foundation, and Director of the School of Dental Hygiene at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. "It's a really exciting time right now for the profession, and at the same time, it's critical that we do everything possible to encourage the movement of the CDHA research agenda."
One of the factors elevating the need for research is the evolution of dental hygiene as a profession in Canada, and the move towards more independent practice in many provinces, according to Prof. Lavigne. "It's vital at this point that we take some accountability and begin to add to the dental hygiene body of knowledge."
"The time for research funding is certainly now," agrees Dr. Joanne Clovis, Associate Professor at the School of Dental Hygiene at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and one of Canada's most active dental hygiene researchers. "Over the past decade, legislative and educative initiatives to advance the profession have taken priority. Many of those initiatives are more stable now, which allow us to put more emphasis on research and research funding."
Dr. Clovis is the first dental hygienist in the role of principal investigator for a project funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Her grant is one of four which CIHR awarded to research projects addressing oral health disparities in Canada. Many see her leadership role in this project as a sign of dental hygiene's evolving credibility, and Dr. Clovis is hopeful it will pave the way for future funding for dental hygiene researchers. CIHR has indeed demonstrated its commitment to dental hygiene research in a concrete way, through an innovative partnership with the Foundation.
In early August 2008, the Foundation announced a new Master's Award in partnership with CIHR, marking the first time that the national health research granting body has funded a grant specifically for dental hygiene research. The award is a breakthrough opportunity that will significantly influence the dental hygiene research community in Canada posits Susan Ziebarth, Executive Director of the Foundation.
"It's a very exciting opportunity because CIHR is focusing on dental hygiene as a recognized profession, a credible profession in terms of research and building a knowledge base," says Dr. Ziebarth. "This is an important step and one from which we can grow."
"This is a major step forward," says Prof. Lavigne. "It's going to be very prestigious and truly has given us a great deal of credibility with the government and with the research world."
The Award provides funding of up to $17,500 a year to support research project development by registered dental hygienists enrolled full-time in a Master's program, subject to certain other conditions. The deadline for applications is 2 February 2009.
The explosion of the evidence-based movement in all aspects of health care is another development fuelling the need for dental hygiene research. The push to deliver cost effective health care treatments and services that have a positive impact has never been greater. More research will produce the evidence to drive better clinical practice, giving dental hygienists new tools and knowledge to improve the oral health of their clients.
"With all the emphasis on evidence-based practice, it is vital that we advance the body of dental hygiene knowledge," says Dr. Ziebarth. "The more evidence we can build, clearly the more effective and more recognized the practice and the treatments will be."
Another important development is the growing understanding of the link between oral health and overall health. "Good oral health leads to good health outcomes," says Prof. Lavigne. "It's something we have always inherently known but now there's a growing body of research that further supports these connections. Dental hygiene researchers have a wonderful opportunity to conduct intervention studies and help build additional evidence about these important relationships."
Dr. Clovis agrees dental hygienists need to become more involved in this area of research. The oral health systemic link is driving the need for prevention of oral disease and oral health promotion, areas in which dental hygienists have unique expertise and experience; an untapped opportunity that dental hygienists should seize.
"There is a real lack of dentists and dental hygienists who are dental public health specialists," she says. "We need to have people with oral health backgrounds qualified at a Master's level with some specialization in dental public health. Dental hygienists are perfect in that role."
The Foundation recognizes that both the opportunities and the need for dental hygiene research have never been greater. As a result, the Foundation is working to encourage more dental hygienists to get involved in research.
Researchers in the field believe strongly that dental hygienists should be leading dental hygiene research because they know the real life issues that affect care on the frontlines. "The questions for research should come from practice," says Dr. Clovis. "When we are actually with clients, how do we communicate with people, what kinds of clinical services do we provide? Those are key questions that should be addressed in research, and the answers can become the foundation of practice. This research needs to be done for dental hygiene by dental hygienists."
With the opening of new horizons for dental hygiene research, the Foundation is also urging members of the profession to provide support in other ways--through financial donations and by fundraising on behalf of the Foundation. More funding will help the Foundation build the financial strength to seek other partnerships, similar to the one just developed with CIHR.
Whether as researchers or through donations and volunteer work, dental hygienists have a key role to play in helping advance the profession and its body of knowledge by supporting research.
"All of us in the profession are called upon to support research that improves our clinical practice, as well as research in health promotion and community-based health," says Prof. Lavigne. "There is such a huge burden of dental disease in the country and so many vulnerable population groups. We need to figure out how to reach those population groups and how to improve oral health outcomes. Research is critical to achieving these goals."
The Canadian Foundation for Dental Hygiene Research and Education would like to thank Kathie Lynas for writing this article.
SANDRA COBBAN: A passion for moving research into the hands of dental hygienists
Sandy Cobban readily admits she is "passionately committed to advancing the dental hygiene profession through research." So much so, her own research projects are focused on research utilization by dental hygienists--to understand how to increase use of the latest evidence in dental hygiene practice.
"If we want to have high quality care based on the best research evidence, we really need to understand how dental hygienists get their knowledge for practice," says Ms. Cobban. "Studies suggest that dental hygienists are not using a lot of the available research evidence but we don't really understand why."
The Foundation has helped Ms. Cobban pursue her quest to understand why. The Foundation funded two of her projects; a 2005 study to determine if" critical thinking dispositions" affect dental hygienists' use of research in practice, and her current project, funded in 2007, focused on developing an instrument to measure facilitators and barriers to the use of research by dental hygienists.
Ms. Cobban is currently an Associate Professor with the Dental Hygiene Program, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. At the same time, she is pursuing a PhD in knowledge utilization through the university's Faculty of Nursing.
In her first Foundation-funded project, she wanted to see if dental hygienists were more likely to use research in their practice if they showed a greater disposition to critical thinking. Previous research found this type of link for nurses.
"Critical thinking is very important in dental hygiene education programs now. I wanted to study whether it correlates with higher research utilization in our profession and my study did find a statistically significant correlation."
In her current study, Ms. Cobban is starting with focus groups to determine if instruments for measuring research utilization by nurses and others can and should be refined to measure barriers and facilitators for dental hygienists.
The end result she hopes is to "reduce the time gap between when research knowledge is known and when dental hygienists are applying it on a daily basis in frontline practice."
The Foundation's funding has been vital to her work, Ms. Cobban points out that many granting agencies will not fund researchers who are earning other income. She says, "I am a single mother working full-time. Without the Foundation, I wouldn't be able to do this type of research. I am so grateful that, as dental hygienists, we have this opportunity in Canada."
SUSANNE SUNELL: Building national competencies for dental hygiene entry-to-practice
The project began when Dental Hygiene Educators Canada (DHEC) called upon Dr. Susanne Sunell to help develop a proposal to review and revise the competencies which DHEC had developed for diploma and baccalaureate dental hygiene programs.
The DHEC Board and Dr. Sunell began to explore the idea of bringing together all the national dental hygiene organizations to develop one national standard for dental hygiene entry-to-practice in Canada. "We thought it would be fruitful to get all the organizations together and develop a common document that everyone could agree upon. It would be more meaningful for the profession and it would have more impact."
The Foundation helped make possible this valuable collaboration through a 2007 grant. The funding was awarded to the University of Manitoba's Joanna Asadoorian, who had an advisory role, with Dr. Sunell directing the research.
Dr. Sunell, who began her career as a registered dental hygienist in clinical practice, has a consulting company, Omni Educational Group, and is a part-time faculty member at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Dentistry in Vancouver.
The project brought together CDHA, DHEC, Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada (CDAC), Federation of Dental Hygiene Regulatory Authorities (FDHRA) and the National Dental Hygiene Certification Board (NDHCB). It was the first such collaboration in the Canadian dental hygiene profession. The result was a new draft framework for dental hygiene competencies which is to be further validated through broader consultations.
"We are hoping to move forward with one common national standard for entry-to-practice to raise the standard and equalize dental hygiene education across Canada," says Dr. Sunell. "This will support the inter-provincial mobility of dental hygienists and the ongoing development of the profession."
In 2005 as well the Foundation had funded research by Dr. Sunell. Working with a colleague from Sweden, she studied factors affecting research utilization by dental hygienists. One finding was that dental hygienists with more years of education made greater use of research in practice.
The Foundation provides considerable value to the profession, says this researcher. With its unique mandate to fund dental hygiene research, the Foundation is meeting a vital need. "It's essential for dental hygienists to be involved in research because we need to frame questions for our own practice. It is only by being involved that we will develop the strong research questions that will yield the data we need to support us in educational, clinical, or community practice."
PAULINE IMAI: Helping people care for their oral health, and inspiring students
Pauline Imai appears to have endless energy for dental hygiene research. She has several projects either on the go or in development, and ideas for many more. Her particular research passions are Phase III clinical trials and education, and one of her missions is to inspire dental hygiene students to get involved in research.
Ms. Imai is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Dental Hygiene Degree Program of the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Dentistry in Vancouver. After becoming a registered dental hygienist, she went on to earn a Bachelor's (Dental Hygiene) and a Master's Science degree (Dental Hygiene, Clinical Research) as well as a certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, all at UBC.
The Foundation provided funding in 2006 for her Master's research, a study on flossing with chlorhexidine (CHX). It's just the kind of clinical trial project that she enjoys the most.
"I find it very gratifying to do human trials because I can actually see the positive impact of research on people," says Ms. Imai. "In particular I want to empower clients to help themselves achieve oral health, by studying methods that they can use at home."
The research compared a group of subjects with gingivitis who used dental floss presoaked in CHX oral rinse, to a control group using dental floss in placebo solution. One of the objectives was to find an alternative application method for CHX because as a rinse, it causes unattractive tooth staining, leading to a drop in client compliance. Using CHX with dental floss carries it to the interproximal area, where most periodontal disease begins, while reducing this staining.
Both groups showed a reduction in gingival index over the twelve weeks, but the CHX floss group had statistically significant reductions in bleeding on probing for subjects with moderate gingivitis. There was no statistically significant difference between the groups for stain or plaque indices.
The Foundation also provided funding this year for another clinical trial in which Ms. Imai will compare plaque and bleeding among a group using a new interdental brush, to another group using the gold standard, dental floss.
Ms. Imai is also working on research studies related to dental hygiene education and the impact of UBC's entry-to-practice baccalaureate dental hygiene program on a community of low income families.
And she's continually encouraging the love of research in her students. "I say to them, if you have a question and it's not answered in the literature, why not find the answer yourself through research? Use your curiosity as a springboard to inform the entire profession."
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Title Annotation: | CFDHRE |
Publication: | Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene |
Geographic Code: | 1CANA |
Date: | Jan 1, 2009 |
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