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Environmental Factor, April 2007, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Institute in Top Ten for Postdocs
By Eddy Ball
April 2007
The Scientist, a magazine focused on the life sciences, announced this month that NIEHS has again ranked high in the publication's annual "Best Places to Work for Postdocs" survey. NIEHS was the only NIH institute ranked in the top ten. The survey asks postdoctoral fellows to rate their institutions in 11 categories, including mentoring, communication and opportunities for networking and career development.
Not surprisingly, most respondents valued quality of training and career preparation highest among the categories - a category listed as a major strength along with pay in evaluations of NIEHS. The Institute ranked seventh this year after ranking number five in 2006 and number three in 2004 and 2005.
NIEHS was one of five 2006 top ten to make the top ten this year. Of the institutions included in the top 40 in 2007, 26 are new to the list, suggesting that growing awareness of the value of nurturing postdocs is intensifying competition.
This year marks the first time that private sector organizations have made the top ten with Genentech in San Francisco placing fourth and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle ranking tenth.
The Scientist article featured the comments of Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Fellow Amy Inselman, Ph.D., on her experiences at NIEHS. "The people, from the principal investigators to the support staff, are knowledgeable and willing to lend a hand any way they can," Inselman wrote in her survey response. "Collaborations are easy to build, and we have a wide array of resources available (from equipment to career guidance) that will help us transition to the next level."
During their typical two- to five-year stay at NIEHS, postdoctoral fellows are offered numerous opportunities to participate in professional development activities and explore career options. NIEHS sponsors regular workshops to help fellows improve their presentation, writing and speaking skills, as well as develop effective strategies for negotiating and resolving conflicts. Their mentors help them to build their CVs by encouraging research that leads to publication, often with the fellows as lead authors.
NIEHS also received good marks in the survey for its remuneration. Fellows receive compensation at National Research Service Award stipend levels and individual or family group health coverage at no cost through the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences. The cost of living in the Triangle helps the stipend go farther than comparable compensation in places with higher costs of living.
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Nov. 17, St. Hilda of Whitby
The feast of St. Hilda of Whitby is observed by the Greek Orthodox Church, [1] the Anglican Church, [2] and the Roman Catholic Church. [3]
"Christ's servant Abbess Hilda, whom all her acquaintances called Mother because of her wonderful devotion and grace, was not only an example of holy life to members of her own community; for she also brought about the amendment and salvation of many living at a distance, who heard the inspiring story of her industry and goodness."
-- Venerable Bede [4]
Hilda [5] hosted the Synod of Whitby. [6] Two of the major issues discussed at the synod were the setting of the date of Easter and the tonsure of monks.
(The Roman tonsure left a circle of hair around a bald spot. The Celtic tonsure left the hair behind a line drawn from ear to ear. Both styles may be seen in the picture.)
Mother Hilda encouraged Caedmon [7] the cowherd to become a monk and to continue writing poetry in the vernacular.
Hwæt, ic swefna cyst secgan wylle,
hwæt m? gemætte to midre nihte,
syðþan reordberend reste wunedon.
þ?hte m? þæt ic ges?we syllicre tr?ow
on lyft lædan l?ohte bewunden,
b?ama beorhtost.
-- Caedmon [8]


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Why music should be taught in schools
Silvio Catalin STEFAN, muzicolog, Australia
Subject:madvocating for music education: past, present, future - a philosophical statement
Keywords: sine qua non[1]
basic brain development
expression and intellect
À music education evolution
o a brief look back
o contemporary researchers
À a personal view
o mass students
o gifted students
o multiple intelligence; curing through music
À the future
À conclusions
À bibliography
Music education evolution
Music has played a sine qua non role in people enjoyment and education fulfillment all over the world, providing throughout history that can have major contributions in children and/or adultsÆ identity evolution, in their organic and spiritual development, or in their interior leaps.
We have already witnessed great pleadingsÆ for the importance of music not only in studentsÆ education, but also in human life. From Pythagoras[2] to Einstein, and from Leonardo DaVinci to the all second millennium philosophers[3], they all advocated for a very important feature of our life: music. Today, with the new high-tech image devices that can peer into so many fields, scientists have been able to assess the contribution that music education can have, boosting the IQ level, reducing the mental retardation, cutting school failure rates by much more, bringing people together. In fact, I think, the only idea that may pale the richness of the music endowment to the human evolution is the exclusive dichotomy: spiritual-material, body-soul, good-bad, black-white[4].
A brief look back
In ancient Greek, Plato and others used to place music in opposition with gymnastic or other physical pursuits. Music and physical education were the main subjects taught to the students, and were considered the best for their growth. Of course, music meant a very broad sense and included any of the arts and sciences that came under the patronage of the muses: lyric poetry, tragic and comic drama, choral dancing, singing, astronomy, history, were also included. Plato also considered that music has convivial modes (such as Ionian) and dirge mode (such as the mixed or the tense and higher Lidian). His famous quote music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything[5] may easily be a motto for any musicologist or music educator. This condensed quote states the power of music to unequivocally catalyse everything the music touches.
Music historians noted that in Middle Ages, music used to be studied along with the other science related subjects: math and astronomy. Music was considered a key component of youngstersÆ education and the power of music helped to the spread of the Christianity as well as the laic shows, legends and myths, vaudevilles[6] etc. It is believed by some musicologists that in Middle Ages music was highly appreciated as a new and modern language û a bit like todayÆs computerÆs language û and used to be implemented in young studentsÆ education, especially by wealthy families.
After the nineteenth century, many researchers or scientists û from Einstein to Kodaly or from Husserl[7] to Orff û embarked on different music-ship ideas or various writings advocating, one more time, for the importance of music in students, especially young students, education.
Contemporary researchers
Those whose profession is to teach music in schools have always had to plead in favor of it, to offer whatever arguments they could imagine to gain support for their endeavors[8], said Professor Emeritus Bennett Reimer within an article written for the International Society of Music Education. It has been discussed so much lately (especially in the last two decades) about music benefits to the development of skills; to intelligence; to health and well being; to creativity; to knowledge in subjects other than music. It is, however, widely recognised that music study, first and foremost, is basic to the curriculum because music is basic to the human brain. Professor Frances Rauscher, has shown in a study that a simple exposure to music can increase studentsÆ spatial IQ[9]. Other studies have proved that students who are studying music have more synapses inside their brain than the others who do not study music. Dr. pediatric neurologist Harry Chugani from Wayne State University, Detroit, believes that the new discoveries about the brain require a fundamental change in the nationÆs educational curricula. There should be more emphasis on earlier education for key areas: music, language, math, problem-solving[10].
A personal view
Mass students
During my last years of teaching music under an elective curriculum, I noticed that many students come over to study music because of an interior call, and I do believe that what they are actually looking for is to express their feelings, not to master their mind. They obviously will, but usually that is not the first call. So first of all, I consider that it is important that students are exposed to music so they can understand and communicate their own feelings. All students should experience and be given the opportunity to study music from the elementary school (see note 4). As the medical investigations demonstrated that music and speech require the brain to organize acoustic patterns and the learning capacity of our brain start going down from the age of twelve, it is notable to understand and proceed ahead accordingly. But music education also is a matter of expression, not only intelligence. And as music is so basic to the human condition, so foundational for a life well lived, it is essential to support it as everything now considered basic in education, perhaps even more important in that it balances attention to intellectual pursuits by attention to the inner life.
Gifted students
I also noticed quite often in schools many gifted students. My big frustration is that despite they really have valuable innate qualities for studying music at a very high level, the main challenge dwells in finding the best ways to work with them, identifying the most suitable materials (or other logistics issues) for such very special need. Special equipment and facilities, the student time away from other classes and other impediments that may occur are serious obstacles that need to be efficiently overtaken. A solution for those students who are very gifted may be a particular agenda for them; they are to be identified at least six months before the upcoming year and have a special timetable that needs to be worked out by the music instructor together with the other school teachers. For example, I have met students with fantastic vocal potential that gave up when they saw that school facilities and other regulations are not up to their natural potential.
Multiple intelligences; curing through music
Dr. Howard GardnerÆs[11] research identified seven types of multiple intelligences and one of them is musical/rhythmic intelligence.
Dr. Howard Gardener describes the musical/rhythmic intelligence as:
ôThis intelligence includes such capacities as the recognition and use of rhythm and tonal patterns, and sensitivity to sounds from environment, the human voice, and musical instruments. Of all forms of intelligence identified thus far, the consciousness altering effect of music and rhythm is the greatest. Just think of how music can calm you when you are stressed etc.ö[12]
The other kinds of intelligence are:
- logical/mathematical (numbers recognition)
- visual/spatial (mental pictures)
- body/kinesthetic (controlling body motion)
- interpersonal (operates person-to-person communication)
- intrapersonal (reflection, thinking about thinking)
- verbal/linguistic (related to words and language)
Of all above mentioned gifts with which individuals may be endowed, none emerges earlier than musical/rhythm intelligence. It would be unfair to conclude that musical/rhythm intelligence is thus superior to the above mentioned ones. However, the musician is constantly adjusting decisions on tempo, tone, style, rhythm, phrasing, and feeling-training the brain to become incredibly good at organizing and conducting numerous activities at once[13]. Most likely, I suppose, the multiple intelligences Dr. Howard Gardner described in his project do inter-communicate with each other, and it may be possible to be transferable. However, it remains uncertain why this particular intelligence emerges so early; or how a child, victim of autism, a youngster who can barely communicate with anyone else and who is severely disturbed in several affective and cognitive spheres, still s/he exhibit an isolated sparing of musical intelligence, such that s/he can sing back flawlessly any piece s/he hears[14]. United States since around 1944 has an undergraduate program in its current/modern way and United Kingdom since around 1960 grounded strong music therapy programs and is certain that music is one of the best remedy for diseases like schizophrenia, dyslexia, autism, learning disabilities, etc.
The future
The assets a child may have from its music education are infinite. Participation in music brings countless advantages to each individual throughout life. The benefits may be psychological, spiritual, and/or physical as well. Music education makes children smarter, there are proved measures of childÆs overall intelligence are increased with music instruction. In my opinion, the future in music education needs to be based on three aspects:
1) studentsÆ music exposure to a wide range of styles (such as pop, jazz, ballads, rock, blues, funk, reggae, country etc) includes at least 40% of classical music[15]. It needs to start with classical or to include classical music in their repertoire for their first five years of study.
2) the assessment a music teacher is doing is not only simple grading.
Although the ineffableness of music is above the words or other explanations (yet above the sounds[16]) and for some music teachers the very idea of objectifying music is to be shunned, various types of concrete assessment do exist[17]:
- student assessment
this is the evaluation of studentsÆ learning, which provides a basis for planning future instruction)
- program assessment
this examines a particular educational program. Music teachers not only assess the learning of students in their charge, but they also determine the efficacy of a music programÆs course offerings, ensembles, performance opportunities, and special events.
- authentic assessment
this is used to determine studentÆs progress. Music educators have an advantage over educators in other curriculum in that, they are involved in public activity by which they can demonstrate that.
- portofolio assessment
this is a tool for recording process and product. Ideally, an individualÆs portofolio contains items such as musical programs, teacherÆs written activities, recordings, self-evaluations. The results of periodic reviews of the portofolio provide feed-back to students, teachers, and parents.
3) the musician is the teacher, not the teacher is the musician.
The music is to be played or sung. The teacher is a model of music. The students often associate our ôpictureö with the music. It is important that music teacherÆs annual review includes whether s/he has had any music productions or not.
The epitome of this paper resides in doing it. We need to do less trying to persuade by claiming all sorts of marvelous achievements for music learning when we are still struggling to offer - or sometimes do not know how to offer û their magnificent beneficences. We really need to look at who we are and who we need to become, what we have done and what we have not done yet. The better we do the less need there will be for pro-music education arguments.
Silvio Catalin Stefan
22.05.2007, Warragul
[1] Latin, an approximate translation: it canÆt be done without it.
[2] The harmonic sounds theory, which is the fundamental basis of all pre-tonal and tonal music, belongs to Pythagoras. Pythagoras also thought that the cosmos perfection is based on acoustic principles.
[3] In the twelfth century Hildegard von Bingen said that the human being has sounds principles in it, and through itsÆ nature is symphonizing. In the twentieth century Emil Cioran said that the whole universe is based on soundsÆ rules.
[4] I know how curious this may sound. Yes has to be yes, not has to be not, otherwise we will face an endless to be or not to be. All I am thinking about here is the understanding of a process, not the action, understanding which is locked by dichotomies.
[5] Citate celebre (Famous Quotes), Ed. Albatros 1992, Romania, p. 178
[6] Medieval street music shows, often having a comic topic
[7] Edmund Husserl does not have concrete studies about music exclusively. However, the phenomenology he created has been quickly assimilated in music and included by many educators in their teaching through different analytical-intentional approaches (possibly applicable to any kind of object): musical and/or acoustical maps, music stories, music personages etc.
[8] Bennett Reimer, Emeritus Professor û School of Music, Northwestern University, Chicago, The Danger of Music Education Advocacy, www.isme.org/en/advocacy
[9] Frances Rauscher, Department of Psychology, University of Wiscosin Oshkosh, Listening to Mozart enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: Towards a neurophysiological basis. Neuroscience letters, 185, 44-47
[10] Ronald Kotulak, Inside The Brain, Pullitzer Prize winning series, The Chicago Tribune Edition 1996, p.33
[11] Dr. Howard Gardner, Harvard University, a pioneer in the contemporary understanding of multiple intelligences, has led a cognitive research Project Zero where seven main types of intelligences were identified. However, he believes there may be more.
[12] Jane Southcott, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Methods of Teaching, Unit 2A, Off-Campus Learning Centre Edition, March 2006; Chapter 10, P. Lazear, Introduction, Seven Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences, Hawker Brownlow Education, USA, 1991, p. 131.
[13] Ratey John J., MD, A UserÆs Guide to The Brain, New York: Pantheon Books, 2001
[14] I have been teaching piano LS, an autistic student, for two years. He has constantly improved his piano skills as well as his results at all other school subjects; he certainly communicates better with everybody when he is in a music environment.
[15] Classical does not mean only the Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven era, but the wide meaning that comprehends all tonal music from baroque until late romantic music.
[16] Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996), the greatest Romanian conductor: Music starts when the sounds are finished.
[17] Jane Southcott, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Methods of Teaching, Unit 2A, Off-Campus Learning Centre Edition, March 2006; Chapter 9: Edward Asmus, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah, Music Assessments Concepts, p. 120-121
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In later years, Schrödinger concerned himself with the extension of Einstein's general theory of relativity to include electrical and magnetic phenomena. He also became interested in fundamental biology, and published a short, popular book, What Is Life? (1945). In this book, he attempted to explain the phenomena of life on the basis of purely physical concepts.
Schrödinger was born in Vienna, and in 1910 received his Ph.D. from the university there. He served as a professor of theoretical physics in several universities in German and Switzerland. He was also associated for many years with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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The environment movement has been catapulted into the heart of UK politics over the last 3 years. It's obvious that many more people are aware of and care about climate change and environment issues than ever before. To his credit, David Cameron and his "Vote Blue, Go Green" mantra has helped to make environmentalism politically mainstream. For all the political parties, robust environment policies are now essential for electoral success.
This shift isn't unique to the UK. Throughout the world we are seeing the growing clout of environment groups in political debates. If we are to deal with the plethora of human-created problems that are destroying our planet, this shift is both positive and essential.
There are a number of barriers, however, created by government and green groups, that could undermine this progress. Just as millions of people are becoming aware of the great threats to our environment, they are being frustrated by messy policies and priest-like environmentalists.
If we don't get our act together and make environmentalism more relevant to everyday life, the population at large will stop listening. In the UK, there are a number of reasons why people could quickly become fed up with aspects of environmentalism.
Firstly, taxes which have little to do with protecting the environment have been spun as "green taxes" by the government in an attempt to make them seem more palatable to the public. This strategy has backfired. Green taxes together cost the average household £1,417 a year and public impressions are negative. According to a YouGov/Sunday Times poll (pdf) from March last year, 63% of respondents believed that global warming was just an excuse to raise taxes further.
Secondly, some environment policies, such as subsidies for first generation biofuels, have been proven to be counterproductive and excessively expensive (see the Policy Exchange paper, The Root of the Matter(pdf)), shortly after they were touted as a solution. This has broken down public trust in the politicians and environmentalists that advocated them.
Thirdly, on almost everything from emission reductions to biodiversity conservation, the government's green targets have comprehensively failed (see the Policy Exchange paper Green Dreams (pdf)). This is because targets are set without considering the policies needed to implement them, are so vague as to be largely pointless or failing that, are chopped and changed when they are unlikely to be met.
Lastly, measures that are said to help the environment are made difficult and time-consuming by government. Take recycling, the options available for sorting our waste for recycling and disposal differ hugely between local authorities and the recycling of items like glass (pdf) actually uses more energy than it saves. This lack of clarity and simplicity, which is by no means confined to recycling, makes doing the right thing difficult, when it should be easy. People do want to help save the planet, but they need to be empowered to do so, not frustrated and hindered.
Given these obvious failures, what could be the options for restoring trust in environmentalism and making it more relevant to the individual?
One of the most important things to demonstrate is that policies actually protect our environment cheaply and effectively. Being transparent about the costs associated with particular policies is essential. For example, the vast majority of people don't know what the cheapest ways of reducing greenhouse emissions are. If they did, they might wish to prioritise expenditure on the cheapest methods or use some abatement options and not others. The public debate on this has been mute, primarily because government and many green groups are not willing to be transparent about the options available and their respective costs and benefits.
By far the most important thing, however, is to empower people to choose environmentally sound options and relate their individual actions to the bigger environmental picture of say, climate change and biodiversity conservation. As a country, the UK does this particularly badly. The important choices people make every day concerning transport, waste disposal, recycling, what to buy, and energy usage, are often not "green" because the greenest option is difficult or impossible to choose. Government needs to seriously think about to how make the greenest options the cheapest and easiest.
The environment movement is at a crucial juncture, where global awareness of environmental threats is extremely high. Yet, that movement has so far failed to reach the heights of transparency and relevance needed to keep the struggle to protect our planet continually vivid in people's minds and central to our way of life. Environmentalism now needs to take into account of people's legitimate concerns about cost and propose cost-effective solutions to the problems we face. It must also help to make the greenest options in everyday life the easiest to choose.


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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 06, 2006
The European Space Agency is working with multinational companies to integrate a new practice called corporate sustainable development into their operations.
Among the participants are Alcan, AMEC, Aon, B&Q, Lafarge, Shell, SUEZ Energy and UPM. All are using satellite data to incorporate CSD practices across a wide variety of industrial sectors, including energy, civil engineering, offshore and onshore oil and gas operations, forestry and forest products, pulp and paper, aluminum and cement production.
Corporate sustainable development - also referred to as corporate social responsibility - now sits at the heart of many business practices, and Earth observations from space offer the potential to provide a global and cost-effective way to measure progress toward the sustainability of business activities, ESA said in a statement.
First championed by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the concept of sustainable development has since become familiar and accepted, spurred on by widespread adoption within the private sector. Leading companies know CSD equals good business, ESA said, while continued economic growth becomes unsustainable if business practices contribute to environmental degradation.
Many companies regularly issue environmental audits of their CSD activities and report on what is called the "triple bottom line" of economic, social and environmental impacts. Standard assessment methods include the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, along with several other means to track industry CSD leaders.
ESA said its Earth Observation Market Development program - set up to build remote sensing business capacity - has been responding to the needs of business by developing services to apply the new dimension of objective, wide-area and regularly-updated environmental information supplied by satellites.
EOMD is starting six contracts to work on the application of Earth observation to support CSD assessment, with more in preparation. All contracts involve partnering between a number of specialist value-adding companies and large corporate players. One positive sign of industrial interest is some of the contracts are being led by large corporate players.
"CSD is not just our business but our mission," says Tony Moens de Hase of Tractebel Engineering. Tractebel is prime contractor for a project to apply satellite data to CSD reporting for SUEZ hydropower plants in locations including Laos, Brazil and France. Other participants are Keyobs and Nadar in Belgium, and the environmental consultancy firm CAP Conseil.
"SUEZ recognizes it is working with some of the most important aspects of CSD including water, waste and energy," ESA said. "The company has been a pioneer in this area and has issued CSD reports for the last five years." Meanwhile, the Canadian firm VIASAT G�o-Technologie is running another project applying satellite measurements of sustainability to mineral resource extraction, working with Canadian aluminium mining company Alcan and French cement aggregate and concrete company Groupe Lafarge.
A major part of both firms' operations concerns the development of mines and quarries around the world, with the potential to impact the local environment. Satellite imagery is being used to measure and regularly monitor the biodiversity at four active sites in Brazil, Guinea, Kenya and the United States.
"We think there is a lot of potential for remote sensing in this area," said Pierre Vincent of VIASAT G�o-Technolgie. "We will focus a lot on the vegetation aspect: typically such operations remove part of the natural cover, so the local environment has to be restored during or after industrial activities to its previous state. Such activities take place across quite large areas, so with satellites we will better be able to monitor them as they take place."
He said the company would like to combine remote sensing with other data sources "to estimate the carbon captured through reforestation and related activities. There are not a lot of tools developed to measure that kind of stuff as yet, but it represents a new market - in the future there will be that need."
There also is a large number of stakeholders with an interest in how forests are managed: local communities as well as users of timber and forest-related services including tourism, recreation and biomass burning.
Aon, a major British re-insurance company, is the prime contractor working with companies exploiting forest products including leading U.K. home-improvement chain B&Q, South African forest product firm Global Forest Products, and household cleaning manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser.
Earth observation value-adding companies Sarmap in Switzerland and Ambiental Technical Solutions are applying both optical and radar satellite imagery to sustainable management and forest protection, with certification being provided by the Forest Stewardship Council, an international non-profit organization.
"We'll be examining the standards currently used in forest certification and looking at the way data is currently collected - which is mostly in-situ," said Charles Eyre of Aon.
"We'll be assessing if the current sources of data are accurate, whether data frequency is sufficient and the transparency of data collection - and one of the key issues is cost. We hope to cover both plantation forests as well as natural forests and look at how certification relates to the emerging market for forest eco-services."
Another contract, led by Definiens AG of Germany, is examining CSD reporting in forestry for pulp and paper manufacture. Working with UPM Forest CE and Bayerische Staatsforsten, with a focus on test sites in Bavaria as well as the Czech Republic, the project will seek to use Earth Observation to improve sustainability in exploitation and logistics of timber.
The project also will provide regularly updated information on large forest areas, so forest managers know how much wood will be available at any one time on a sustainable basis. They will be able to compare up-to-date maps of forests and conserved areas with information from wood suppliers to prevent protected wood from being taken, thereby risking damage to a company's hard-earned reputation.
CSD concerns also extend to water bodies. Another project led by Germany-based AMEC Engineering is addressing this issue via satellite sensors to assess water quality of freshwater bodies. Multispectral sensors such as Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) can observe the color of surface water as a means of deriving their environmental quality. Spanish company STARLAB and Dutch firm ARGOSS will process satellite images to retrieve key water quality parameters.
"In late 2000, AMEC set out to develop a CSD programme appropriate for our newly expanded global business and today it is a huge part of our business," said Tim Conley, Managing Director of AMEC's Earth & Environmental European operations. "What we are trying to do with this project is not just look at our impact on the environment in a negative way but track what positive contributions we are making to the environment."
The Hatfield Group, an environmental consultancy firm in Canada, will exploit satellite data to monitor CSD practices of Shell Canada related to the exploitation of oil sands located in rural Alberta province, estimated to be the largest known oil reserves in the world.
These bitumen-saturated sand deposits represent the equivalent of between 17 and 25 trillion barrels of oil, although unlike conventional crude oil they need to be mined in situ, rather than pumped to the surface and then specially treated before being transported via pipeline.
As global oil reserves dwindle, the cost of extracting Canada's oil sands has become feasible. About 1 million barrels of oil currently are extracted daily, and this figure has the potential to double in the next five to seven years, experts estimate.
Hatfield is working with French Earth Observation specialist ACRI on applying satellite data to CSD practices and reporting in this sector, along with Shell Canada Ltd and affiliated company Albian Sands Energy Inc.
These trials will apply in particular to freshwater, biodiversity and forests in the Muskeg and Athabasca River basins, with the proposed services being developed envisaged as being sufficiently general to also have potential in other business markets, either for Shell or other multinational clients. The services will undergo independent audits by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Sustainability Asset Management Group for incorporation into sustainability indices, including the Dow Jones.
"The dominant focus is using satellite data to help quantify habitat change in various ways, such as looking at habitat fragmentation," explained Tom Boivin of the Hatfield Group. "We will gather baseline information by getting satellite data from the present - or if available the past - to understand how a habitat may be influenced by the oil sands operations."
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I apologize in advance if I'm jumping the gun a bit here. I'm not sure if 64 bit Mac builds are an immediate goal of GR2. It does build under 10.6.4 and produce working executables. However, it appears there are still some issues there, as scrolling in the source pane doesn't work correctly. The scrollbars size correctly and respond to both mouse navigation and keyboard navigation within the displayed source. The source pane doesn't actually scroll though. Without any indication of whether 64 bit support on OS X was intended for this iteration, I didn't explore further. On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > > More immediately, it's time for you to try out the "gr2" branch for > everyday work. I've switched to GRacket2 for SirMail, Slideshow, and > DrRacket --- even during lecture. All library functionality is in > place, but I'm sure that gaps and problems will show up as we put the > library to work (and I know that some of the tests still fail). I > expect to see many bug reports; once the bug reports slow down, I'll > take that as a sign that GRacket2 can move to master branch. >
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Mr Clarke was the first children's commissioner appointed in the UK back in 2001.
Proposals for a similar post in England was outlined in a green paper in September last year in order to improve accountability between different agencies involved with children.
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The best of the historic Angkor Temples & Lake Tonle Sap with a culinary delight at each meal • 5 days/4 nights
Day 1:
Welcome at Siem Reap Airport by one of the managers from our hotel
- A lemon-grass scented towel to freshen up
- Transfer in a luxury tuk-tuk with chilled mineral water
- Welcome drink on arrival at the hotel
"That something extra" at Samar Villas:
- For gents – a daily shave at the traditional barber
- For ladies – a complimentary relaxing facial during your stay
- 15% discount on treatments & massages at Samar Spa
Depending on your time of arrival: A visit to the National Museum to an insight into Khmer architecture and style before visiting the temples of Angkor. Depart in a tuk-tuk for Banteay Kdei to enjoy a drink as the sun goes down. This site, still not fully restored is in the same style as Ta Prohm. Dinner in one of our restaurants:
- Option 1: (Mondays, Wednesday & Fridays) – dinner in the Fou Nan Restaurant with a display of classic Apsara dance and other popular traditional dances.
- Option 2: If the menu seduces you, snack on chic signature tapas in the comfort of the deep cushions of the Fou Nan Lounge
- Option 3: Dinner menu at Samar Restaurant
Day 2:
- "A la carte" American Breakfast
- A traditional shave for gents before or after your programme for the day
- A relaxing facial for ladies during their stay
- 15% discount on all treatments and & massages in Samar Spa
You leave the hotel in the Samars' tuk-tuk and head for the photogenic site of Tha Phrom (cold water and towels are available), a walk in the forest to Ta Nei and at the end of the morning, the mountain temple at Ta Keo.
After a barbecue lunch at The Samar, you have time to take a swim or enjoy a massage (option).
Discover the ancient city of Angkor Thom: the town centred behind four kilometer long walls and whose five gates are crowned with the faces of the great kings, guardians of the East, Buddhist cosmology and also all the gods of the empire. The site is bounded on the east and the west by two giant reservoirs, the Baray, which stretch to the edge of the site: on one side the Baray of the East and on the other the baray of the West. In the north is a smaller reservoir – the baray of Preah Khan, which takes its name from the vast temple in the east.
- • Elephant Terrace
- • Terrace of the Leper King
- • Baphuon (recently restored by the French)
- • Reclining Buddha
- • Bayon
Sunset drinks overlooking the site. Dinner in the superb gardens of the Chanrey Tree, next to the river. Khmer cuisine served in a wonderful mix of traditional and contemporary architecture.
Day 3:
- A la "carte" American Breakfast
- A traditional shave for gents before or after your programme for the day
- A relaxing facial for ladies during their stay
- 15% discount on all treatments and & massages in Samar Spa
A suggestion for "early risers": leave before sunrise to watch the sun come up at Angkor Wat – an unforgettable moment at one of the wonders of the world, without crowds of tourists. Built, according to legend, by a celestial architect; Angkor Wat appeared at the beginning of the century bringing enchantment and dread to Westerners in an unknown world. Angkor Wat is the masterpiece of Suryarman II (1113-1150) who is often compared to Louis XIV for the splendor of his reign. This competent monarch found became ruler over all of southern Indochina and at the same time achieved spiritual harmony. Return to Samar Villas for a late "a la carte" breakfast.
Lunch & cruise on Lake Tonle Sap: Tonle Sap which translates as "great river of fresh water" or more frequently, simply as "great lake", is a hydrological system combining both river and lake. The system is of paramount importance to Cambodia. The lake is the largest body of fresh water in SE Asia and UNESCO recognized its ecological importance in 1997. It is located not far from the site of Angkor Wat and is linked by its river to the River Mekong and so to the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. You take a deluxe picnic lunch on-board your boat prepared by the chefs at The Samar. On your return to the hotel, a masseuse is at your service for:
- A hand massage
- Herbal reflexology & leg massage
- Manicure & pedicure
- Dinner is at Tchoui Restaurant – well away from the tourist trails with an authentic Khmer ambiance.
- A "Khmer mojito" as an aperitif, a choice of starters. Got the main course, a choice of charcoal grilled fillet of beef marinated in herbs or fish in a salt crust. Tropical fruit platter.
Day 4:
- "A la carte" American Breakfast
- A traditional shave for gents before or after your programme for the day
- A relaxing facial for ladies during their stay
- 15% discount on all treatments and & massages in Samar Spa
Leave in a private vehicle for Bantaeay Srei – a marvelously preserved temple from the 10th century which some say is more beautiful than Angkor (one hour drive from the hotel). Bantaeay Srei is a sculptural jewel carved from sandstone that changes colour with the suns passage through the day. Many well-preserved pavilions with finely sculpted walls picturing scenes from Hindu mythology. The architect Maurice Glaise considered Bantaeray Srei to be "the most beautiful Khmer temple" and it is also famous for the theft of an 800kg lintel by Andre Malraux. Sometimes called the "citadel of women", it is completely covered with surprisingly perfect reliefs. The lintels and doorways are magnificently detailed. You continue on by road to Kobal Spein, the river of a thousand "linga" before returning to The Samar for a light lunch by the side of the pool. A free afternoon to discover the rage of treatments and massages available in the Samar Spa. Dinner at Wat Damnak Restaurant where the owners, Johannes & Caroline offer an excellent choice of local recipes prepared with the finest local produce and served in a high quality setting.
Day 5:
- "A la carte" Breakfast
- A traditional shave for gents before or after your programme for the day
- 15% discount on all treatments and & massages in Samar Spa
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Well, Tim,I meant rather a backport to your current Fedora version. Anaconda does depend on around 2 dozen packages, so I tried to incorporate recent changes from livecd-tools-006 fc7 rpm back to my FC6 a few weeks ago. Everything was almost fine but faulty yum install root setup broke my host. Afaik, it has been fixed a week ago. But I doubt those changes have been also made to FC7 LiveCD.
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Crowded: Episode 1 is finally released! Subscribe to the podcast now! Episode 2 is currently being edited on MinimumNoise and should be along shortly. I also started collecting audio for Episode 3, but I have been having so many problems with PubClip (which I am using to gather the audio from the MT workers) that I am thinking that I have to change to a custom solution. None of the problems are the fault of PubClip – I am just using it in a way that they probably didn't intend. The audio quality is horrible. I have been getting some complaints from the wonderful audio professionals at MinimumNoise (where I am crowdsourcing the editing of the show) saying that they can't do anything with such low-quality audio. I looked at Skype as a possible solution and signed up for a voicemail plan, but for various reasons this didn't work out. Then, after spending four hours trying to get Red5 – a media server for Flash that would allow me to create a little Flash recording tool – running on my server, I gave up and realizes that I knew the answer all the time. When in doubt, crowdsource. Rent-a-coder, I hope you come through on this one.
TV of Tomorrow is finally over. Overall, the experience was okay. We didn't meet anyone who was interested in our project, and the entire festival (our presentation included) was plagued with technical difficulties leading to extremely poor image quality from the projectors.
I was very excited to find out yesterday that I was accepted to the Minneapolis Art On Wheels residency program. So from May 17th to June 6th, I will be up in The City of Lakes (? – no good nicknames). Phun Phact: Minnesota is known on its license plates as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," but Minnesota actually has 12,000 lakes. Unfortunately, class at Bennington doesn't end until May 24 — not sure how this one got by me, but I will make it work somehow.
Immediately before that, from May 14th-16th, I will be traveling to my home town, Baltimore, to the Megalopolis Audio Festival. I will be presenting Crowded.
The torch video is kind of crashing and burning at the moment. We got a few good contributions from some awesome people out there (post one and post two), but unfortunately it just wasn't enough. We are thinking about scrapping the whole idea and using clips from famous "running" scenes in movies instead of the crowdsourced videos. Shame.
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Upstate New York refers to the part of the state of New York that is north or west of New York City and its suburbs. This refers to people who live in the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca and Utica, as well as the rural parts of New York. These include the Adirondack Mountains and the Mohawk Valley. Culturally, upstate New York is quite different than New York City. The people who live in upstate New York came from different places than the people who live in New York City. Also, upstate New York is more conservative politically.


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THE LOW-DOWN: This is a 36 megapixel full frame DSLR that supersedes the 12mp D700. We tested it with the 24–70mm and the 85mm Nikkor lenses. Construction is to Nikon's highest standards and the ergonomics are brilliant. Ever major function is accessible from knobs, buttons and wheels on the camera body. There is even a blackout shutter for the viewfinder – no more looking for the little rubber doodad to cover the finder. There is an inbuilt flash, unusual for this level of camera, that wirelessly controls off-camera flashes. The D800 has enhanced video capability with uncompressed HDMI output. The 8cm LCD is high resolution and bright. There are both CF and SD card slots that can be configured in various ways.
LIKE: This is a beautifully responsive camera that produces superb images. Nikon's auto-focus and auto-exposure systems have always been the best and here they are even better. The lenses supplied matched the quality of the camera, focusing quickly and accurately with outstanding resolution.
DISLIKE: Auto focus is a tad slow in live view mode. It is surprising that Nikon can't bring the contrast detection system up to the lightning speed of compact system cameras.
VERDICT: This is a magnificent camera. It is being spoken of by reviewers as the conventional DSLR that makes medium format digital cameras look over-priced, over-bulked and clumsy. For anyone with Nikon lenses and accessories looking to move up to a full frame FX DSLR this is an obvious winner. This is the best camera for general use (as distinct from the special requirements of professional sports photographers, for instance) that we have ever handled. We didn't try the video function but as the module is the same as in the professional D4 we expect it to be sensational. In a word: Majestic.


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Don't Show-cha Your Chocha
A little over a week ago, we introduced a new feature, Don't Show-cha Your Chocha, in which we document egregious examples of companies trying to sell shirts as dresses, or celebrities forgoing pants, or, well, you get the picture. This week we have some awesome reader submissions to add to the mix. Remember, if you're shopping online or checking out celebrity photos and spot a Don't Show-cha Your Chocha moment, send the link to [email protected] and we'll feature it in a post. Stay vigilant. Wear pants when necessary. And click through for this week's roundup of awkward crossed legs and thigh clenching…


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(HT: Justin Taylor)The ever interesting Carl Trueman provides a nice online tutorial on how to read Martin Luther. Trueman, an historical theologian at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, explains how Rob Bell's use of a Luther quote in his recent book does not deliver what Bell thinks it does. You can read it here. What follows are Trueman's concluding remarks: Popular books written for popular consumption are vital in the church; and Bell is to be commended for seeing that need. Further, … [Read more...]
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Owners of units in the embattled Regis Towers apartment complex in the CBD have weeks to find a new strata manager after the existing manager announced he would leave within a month, a rowdy meeting of owners heard last night.
There are still 107 owners who have not paid a special levy imposed by strata manager John Edwards of Strata Associates, papers distributed at the meeting showed. The levy was imposed in May last year to pay debts of more than $1.5 million owed to creditors by owners of units in the CBD complex.
Before the meeting began, Strata Associates had distributed hand-outs emphasising the importance of the company remaining in control for at least the next three to six months.
"There is a risk that ground gained over the last 12 months will be quickly lost if the thread of understanding gained by John Edwards is lost," the leaflet read.
But after the gathered owners cheered at the prospect of Mr Edwards's removal, he withdrew his offer to continue managing the Meriton complex, which is Australia's largest strata scheme with 653 units.
If a count of votes from last night's meeting reveals the motion for Mr Edwards to continue as manager for the next month was not passed, the complex will be without a strata manager from today, when Mr Edwards's 12-month contract expires.
Last month, the owners' corporation discontinued legal proceedings against Meriton for structural and design faults with the building, which left unit owners with a $40,000 bill for Meriton's legal costs. The owners' corporation is now pursing an insurance claim through the Office of Fair Trading.
Solicitor David Le Page last night assured owners they would be able to recommence legal action against Meriton in the future "if the amount obtainable from the government office is not sufficient to cover defects".
Any insurance claim will be limited to $13 million, which Mr Le Page believed would cover the costs of rectifying any defects. An earlier estimate had put the defect bill at $20 million.
Claire O'Rourke reports: Ratepayers may be asked their opinion on a proposed merger between City of Sydney and South Sydney councils after the Boundaries Commission refused to rule out a plebiscite.
The Boundaries Commission's chairwoman, Edith Hall, said yesterday it was not safe to assume there would be no poll on the issue. She was speaking at the first day of public hearings on the amalgamation proposal.
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|Welcome to my Follow the Arrow resource site. These days technology is taking over our lives. Geocaching is no exception. With the ability to use smart phones as well as handheld GPS to go geocaching I felt that a resource that would provide help and information about using the technology and geocaching in general would be useful. You are very welcome to contact me with suggestions, comments or for help
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Whether you are an 'old hand' or relative 'newbie' to geocaching here you'll find a wealth of information including everything you need to know about how your GPS works; what the features do and how to do Pocket Queries to load into it so you don't need to print out cache pages anymore. Not got a GPS yet and want to buy one? Then the buying guide will help you choose. Perhaps you have a smart phone and use that for caching? Did you know you can load your Pocket Queries into that too?
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Cherry: Pittsburgh is no day at the beach, Mom says
My mother isn't very fond of Pittsburgh.
She's a fan of the Steelers, Pirates and Penguins; enjoys Primanti's sandwiches; likes chipped ham; says "pop"; loves nighttime rides in the front seat of Kennywood Park's Thunderbolt; and reminiscences of Downtown shopping trips to Gimbels, Horne's and Kaufmann's.
But don't get her started on the region's apparent unfortunate geographical position — as if chosen through some kind of lottery system where Pittsburgh's founding leaders lost.
You see, if my mother could take a pair of scissors, cut out the Pittsburgh area, haul it south and plop it smack up against the Atlantic Ocean near Myrtle Beach, S.C., she would.
She's had this belief for as long as I can recall, always choosing to use Pittsburgh's location on a map as some kind of (weak) argument for why the region never will live up to much smaller oceanfront cities along the coast.
Though, to be fair, she's also fond of Erie (as am I) because of its location — beautiful Presque Isle jetting out into Lake Erie, creating the bay and panoramic views.
Oh, and beaches.
Sure, we Pittsburghers hate crossing bridges to get anywhere, though it no longer fazes me as I cross the Sewickley Bridge to get to the Herald. But my mother might be the only Pittsburgher — born and raised, I might add — who hates the rivers.
All three of them. The Mon, the Al and the O.
Point State Park?
To me, it's the most beautifully placed park in the world (maybe tied with Presque Isle).
To her, Point State Park doesn't have a beach, so what's to enjoy?
The North Shore?
I enjoy it for its great sports stadiums, budding nightlife and use of the river through Venture Outdoors and the Riverwalk. For my mom?
Again, no beach, no boardwalk, no deal.
But get her to a Steelers or Pirates game and she's OK with it.
Picturesque views of the skyline from any vantage point do nothing for her.
She can't sink her feet into the tall buildings and hillside the way she can a sandy beach with rippling waves and splashing dolphins.
I enjoy calling her bluff, reminding her how much she enjoys Saturdays in the Strip District; eating pierogies, wedding cookie tables, french fries on top of salads and sandwiches; shopping at the Downtown Macy's, going to a Penguins game and being able to watch many fireworks shows in several different directions thanks to the hills and valleys.
So maybe it isn't that my mother dislikes Pittsburgh.
She seems to recognize it for what it's worth, even if Pittsburgh can't offer her a day at the beach.
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November 10, 2003
Scandal: Wal-Mart, P&G Involved in Secret
RFID Testing
and Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID trial involving Oklahoma
consumers earlier this year, the Chicago Sun Times revealed on Sunday.
Customers who purchased P&G's Lipfinity brand lipstick at the Broken
Arrow Wal-Mart store between late March and mid-July unknowingly left
the store with live RFID tracking devices embedded in the packaging. Wal-Mart
had previously denied any consumer-level RFID testing in the United States.
"It proves
what we've been saying all along," says Katherine Albrecht, Founder and
Director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
(CASPIAN). "Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble and others have experimented
on shoppers with controversial spy chip technology and tried to cover
it up. Consumers and members of the press should be upset to learn that
they've been lied to."
Sun Times also reported that a live video camera trained on the shelf
allowed Procter & Gamble employees, sometimes hundreds of miles away,
to observe the Lipfinity display and consumers interacting with it.
trial is a perfect illustration of how easy it is to set up a secret RFID
infrastructure and use it to spy on people," says Albrecht. "The RFID
industry has been paying lip service to privacy concerns, calling for
notice, choice and control. But companies like P&G, Wal-Mart and Gillette
have already violated all three tenets when they thought nobody was looking.
This is exactly why we oppose item-level RFID tagging and have called
for mandatory labeling legislation."
The Lipfinity tests were conducted while Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble were sponsors of the MIT Auto-ID Center, a consortium of over 100 corporations and government agencies founded in 1999. Auto-ID Center trials were overseen by a Board of Directors, which included both Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble, along with the Uniform Code Council (UCC), the standards body that oversees the bar code. The UCC (along with EAN International) took over commercial functions from the Auto-ID center on November 1, 2003.
"Given the players, the Wal-Mart Lipfinity trial probably isn't an isolated
incident," says CASPIAN spokeswoman Liz McIntyre. "UCC and Auto-ID Center
documents suggest that other products, including Huggies baby wipes, Pantene
shampoo, Caress soap, Purina Dog Chow and Right Guard deodorant were also
slated for live RFID field trials. Coca Cola, Kraft, Kodak and Johnson
& Johnson products are also implicated. However, it may be difficult
for consumers to learn the extent of those trials in the current climate
of secrecy and denials."
to documentation provided below.)
of the Broken Arrow trial is only the latest scandal to hit the privacy
plagued RFID industry. Early this year, CASPIAN called for a worldwide
boycott of Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton when the company announced
plans to equip women's undergarments with live RFID tracking tags (see
This summer, CASPIAN uncovered an RFID-enabled Gillette "smart shelf"
in a Brockton, Massachusetts Wal-Mart and helped disclose Gillette's scheme
to secretly photograph consumers picking up Mach3 razor blades in UK Tesco
stores (see http://www.boycottgillette.com/spychips.html).
The group also revealed confidential industry plans to "pacify" consumers
and "neutralize opposition" in the hope that consumers will be "apathetic"
and "resign themselves to the inevitability" of RFID product tagging (see
press release).
encourages consumers to contact Wal-Mart, P&G and the UCC to voice
their opinion about the use of RFID spy chips in consumer products. Contact
information for these companies is provided on the group's RFID website
at http://www.spychips.com.
links to documents implicating other consumer products in item-level tagging
trials, see:
"The EPC Network, RFID
and data" at http://www.autoid.org/SC31/clr/200305_3822_UConnect%20I4.pdf
"EPC Field Test" at http://cryptome.org/rfid/field_test_nov02.pdf
"Lessons Learned in the Real World" (note, for
example, pages 25 & 26) at http://cryptome.org/rfid/rfid-field-test.pdf
Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a grass-roots
consumer group fighting retail surveillance schemes since 1999. With members
in all 50 U.S. states and over 20 nations across the globe, CASPIAN seeks
to educate consumers about marketing strategies that invade their privacy
and to encourage privacy-conscious shopping habits across the retail spectrum.
The Spychips website is a project of CASPIAN, Consumers
Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering.
© 2003-2007 Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. All Rights Reserved.


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Lolly Holland
2010 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2010 - Played in 24 matches at midfield, missing only the NCAA First Round game ... Earned starts against Kentucky, Arkansas and LSU ... Scored four goals for eight points ... Tied for the team lead with a three-match goal scoring streak ... Opened the season with Carolina's game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory at Boston (8/20) on her only shot of the game ... In her first career start, scored in the 56th minute at Kentucky (9/26) ... Scored goals in both of South Carolina's next two games, hitting one against Ole Miss (10/1) and one against Mississippi State (10/3) ... Registered 22 shots and 11 shots on goal ... Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2009 - Played in 15 matches at midfield ... Scored one goal for two points ... First career points in a goal against South Alabama (9/20) ... Registered seven shots ... Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2008 - Played in 15 matches at midfield ... Notched lone shot of the season at Western Carolina (10/21).
PRE-COLLEGE - Three-year member of Georgia '89 ODP team (2003, 2005-06) ... Participated in Region Camp (2003, 2005-07) ... U15 National Team alternate ... Two-year member of Super Y ODP region team ... Named to Atlanta Journal Constitution All-Northside soccer team in 2005 and 2007 ... Named to Forsyth County News All-County team from 2005-07 ... High school region champion and state runner-up in 2005 ... Played for Gwinnett Soccer Association club team (Phoenix Red 90) ... Two-time club state finalist and state champion in 2004 ... Three-time USYSA Region III participant ... Region III Premier League East champion (2005).
PERSONAL - Full name is Lauren Elizabeth Holland ... Majoring in sport and entertainment management ... Hobbies include hanging out with friends and family, listening to music and watching movies ... Favorite athlete is Steven Gerrard ... Brother Andrew was a member of crew team at George Washington ... Another brother, Nicky, was a manager for the Georgia baseball team ... Born September 6, 1989 ... Parents are John and Patty Holland.


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Enough Racism Already
Enough Racism Already
I was pretty upset when I learnt that Sarai Tepou and her family, residents of Epsom, were escorted out of Newmarket pools by police and issued a trespass warrant for two years because the pool staff alleged that property went missing from the pools when her family turned up.
Neither the staff nor the police checked their bags, or had any proof whatsoever that Sarai was responsible for the so called missing property.
It seems to me this is yet another example of racial profiling.
It reminds me of the bad old days when upon first arriving in New Zealand, I was teased and taunted as a 'bloody coconut', except in this case, Sarai and her family have been called 'thieves' without any proof of wrong-doing.
These days the police mostly do a great job but they dropped the ball this time. They should not have immediately escorted the family out, based solely on the word of the staff without any proof. What happened to being innocent before proven guilty?
In this day and age I do not expect racism as displayed in this case against Sarai and her family. I especially don't expect it from publicly funded organisations such as the Newmarket pools and the Police.
It is racial profiling at its worse. To make matters worse it was only because Sarai approached the media, and the media asked for their view, that the pool staff eventually apologised to Sarai and lifted the ban.
The Pacific community are an integral part of the modern New Zealand society today. We've put up with this treatment from day one and we shouldn't have to any longer. This is our country too and we deserve better than this.
I am glad Sarai is taking this matter to the Race Relations Commissioner and expect them to hand down a strong decision. She will have my full support. Enough Racism Already. As a nation we must do better.