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Racism, abuse: army training in time warp
ASIAN officer cadets were singled out to play the enemy in a classroom war lesson, reservists were called dogs and female recruits were harassed when they complained they were unable to carry loads of more than half their body weight, an internal army survey has revealed.
The descriptions of bastardisation at Duntroon, the Royal Military College in Canberra, came to light only when cadets were asked to assess their officer training course in an anonymous online evaluation.
Their responses so horrified the warrant officer who reviewed them that he informed senior officers at the college, who ordered an investigation.
In one instance, an instructor, of sergeant rank singled out two cadets of Chinese descent to play the role of the enemy Koreans in a theory lesson on the 1951 battle of Maryang San. A number of cadets complained about what they said was the sergeant's offensive behaviour. He told investigators he was "not aware that he had offended anybody" and he had thought his choice of the two Asian cadets to play the enemy was humorous.
One cadet said he felt "ashamed to be in the same room as this man". Another said "racial stereotyping is not funny and is beneath the dignity of a senior non-commissioned officer".
The sergeant, who said he was a qualified equity adviser, was counselled and apologised.
The records of interview, seen by the Herald, give a rare insight into an antiquated culture inside Defence's training establishments, which commanders have been unable to stamp out. It adds to a personnel crisis so serious that the Federal Government announced in December that it was spending $1 billion on new recruitment and retention measures.
The officer cadets - all reservists, some of whom had given up holidays, taken leave without pay or given up jobs to attend the course - said they were treated like "second-class citizens", with contempt, and were belittled by the instructors and staff who were all from the regular army.
Among the complaints, a captain told officer cadets to "put your wanking wrench in the air" to indicate they should put up their hands if they had a question.
Another instructor told a joke which, said a female officer cadet, was "structured like a fairytale which told of a man having to choose between a beautiful woman and an ugly witch. The punchline was words to the effect of 'just remember that, deep down, all women are witches'."
One female officer cadet said it was difficult for the women to go to the toilet because of the reaction it provoked from the males, who "simply go to the nearest tree and think it is funny when everyone is watching".
When women asked to go to the toilet "male platoon members and also the instructors would roll their eyes and sigh and look at their watches and make comments about how annoying it was". This prompted the cadet to drink as little as possible to avoid the comments, risking dehydration.
Two majors referred to them as dogs. One made a comment in earshot of the officer cadets that "it's a beautiful day for a walk with the hounds", and another told the cadets to "heel".
Officer cadets were told by an instructor: "You guys aren't officers; you guys aren't even officers' arseholes."
"Every day I am reminded of how glad I am not to be one of you," said another. One captain told the officer cadets: "You are all shit."
Explaining himself to an interviewing officer, the captain said he believed the complainants had "taken these comments personally rather than using them to improve their skills".
Military police were also called in to investigate two allegations of assault, one that a warrant officer threw a rock at an officer cadet who did not hear an order, and that the same officer hit an officer cadet on the back of his head for not clearing his weapon properly.
Some of the instructors involved have since been counselled.
Defence has also admitted - after three out of four women in one platoon undertaking the course were failed - that it did not have a policy on weight-to-load ratios for female staff cadets, and that it "should develop weight-carrying guidelines for trainees".
A comment made by one officer cadet sums up the Australian Defence Force culture in stark terms: "Bastardisation of individuals now being no longer available or condoned, certain ranks appear to have transmuted these old-time training behaviours into bastardisation of the entire course."
A military police investigation into the affair has been completed and Defence is considering its recommendations, a spokesman said.
Defence is relying more than ever on reservists to perform tasks because there are too few permanent members. The contingent sent to the Solomon Islands this year is the largest deployment of reservists since World War II.
In 2005-06 the Defence Force shrank by 624 personnel, leaving numbers below target by 409 in the navy, 225 in the army and 368 in the air force. These figures look even worse considering the force wants to grow by more than 500 people a year over the next decade, from 51,250 to about 57,000.
Mark Thomson, of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said: "I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the failure to attract and retain sufficient numbers of people in the ADF is fast emerging as the single largest strategic issue facing the Defence Department and the Government".
The damning revelations follow the release late last year of a report on the learning culture in ADF schools and training establishments. It found that while values on tolerance and equity had evolved at the top, the changes had not filtered down to the middle ranks.
The Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, questioned about the report in a Senate committee hearing this week, said: "We put a lot more emphasis on ensuring we don't damage people in the training process. We tend to back off now, whereas 10, 15, 20 years ago it was hard training all the way. Any form of behaviour that is designed to humiliate, bastardise, bully our people is totally unacceptable to me."
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Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) In the transition from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity, brought on by increasing division of labor, industrialization, and urbanization, Durkheim argues that there will be social pathologies, which he calls anomie. These abnormal and unhealthy consequences of the change in type of social solidarity have various causes. Durkheim is best known for arguing that a lack of moral regulation leads to social pathologies, but he also argues that overregulation—in the form of forced division of labor—will lead to fatalism, a kind of anomie. Anomie resulting from excessive demands on individuals from the market is similar to Marx's notion of alienation, although Durkheim does not use the terms alienation or exploitation. For Durkheim, anomie is an irregular form of the increasing division of labor and industrialization; it is not internal to the system itself. Durkheim's optimism about capitalism and his position that people need regulation, similar to Hobbes's conception of human nature, contrast sharply with Marx's ideas. 00:00 – Chapter 1. Review of "The Division of Labor in Society" 11:14 – Chapter 2. Anomie: Abnormal Consequences of the Divisions of Labor 38:15 – Chapter 3. Comparing Anomie, Alienation and Disenchantment 43:24 – Chapter 4. Theory on Human Nature Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.
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Three months ago, a crew of search and rescue volunteers found the remains of former Marine Noah Pippin deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The discovery brought to an end two years of uncertainty for the Pippin family. Yet some hope still lingers. Among Noah's possessions was an iPod with recording capability. It's too damaged to play back any material, but the Pippins have sent it into Apple, praying for some final word from their son.
Noah's father Mike shares the news in the lobby of Helena's La Quinta Inn on the Friday before Thanksgiving. He's sipping coffee with his wife, Rosalie, their youngest son, Josiah, and Josiah's wife, Ashley. The family flew in the night before for a ceremony honoring the two search crews who, in 2011 and 2012, braved bad weather to find Noah. And while Rosalie's eyes betray the specter of sorrow, her smile hints at silver linings.
Because of the publicity around her son's disappearance, people have been keeping a vigilant eye in Montana's backcountry, Rosalie explains. Authorities have subsequently received tips that, when investigated, closed the book on other missing persons cases. A scrap of cloth, a few spent shell casings—even as Noah's family prayed for closure, their tireless search was providing it for others.
Then there's Kevin Latshaw. A little over a year ago, a search crew combing the Bob for traces of Noah saved Latshaw's life. The young man's insulin pump had stopped working, and had those volunteers not been so deep in the backcountry—with a helicopter to boot—Latshaw would have perished. Latshaw is a native of Noah's home state, Michigan, and graduated this spring from the last college Noah attended.
Rosalie chokes up when recounting the story. She recently spoke with Latshaw's mother for the first time, and the woman said she felt bad that Noah wasn't similarly saved. As if to answer, Rosalie opens her Bible and quotes from Romans 9:15. "'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion,'" she reads. "I believe God has a purpose, for both our families. Even if I don't know what that purpose is."
Mike, Josiah, Ashley and Rosalie appear to be in good spirits, all things considered. They're bound for the Capital Rotunda, where they'll join friends made during their two-year battle with the unknown. And deep down, somewhere, is a shred of hope. Hope hinging on a broken iPod and the thought of hearing Noah's voice one last time.


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The Harris Treaty
On July 29, 1858, the United States and Japan signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (the Harris Treaty). Townsend Harris, the first U.S. diplomatic representative to Japan, negotiated the arrangement, which became effective July 4, 1859. A New York merchant with experience in Asia, Townsend was appointed consul general to Japan in August 1856 and began his assignment shortly thereafter. Harris was not welcomed and was ignored by the Japanese authorities for more than a year. He operated in diplomatic isolation out of the Gyokusenji Buddhist temple in Shimoda. In 1857 the Japanese government approved Harris' move to Edo (Tokyo); he used the Zenfukuji Temple in Azabu as the U.S. legation. His negotiations with the Tokugawa regime were aided by concessions that the British had already wrought in China. Harris convinced the Japanese that a voluntary treaty with the United States was more advantageous than a forced treaty with the Europeans. Harris is credited with opening the Japanese Empire to foreign trade and culture. In addition to Shimoda and Hokadote, which already traded with the U.S., the Harris Treaty opened new ports to U.S. trade; granted U.S. citizens extraterritorial rights (exempting them from the jurisdiction of Japanese law); and permitted Americans their religious freedom. The tariff rates attached to the treaty favored the United States over Japan, but the treaty provided an opportunity to renegotiate in 1872. The Japanese Government also was allowed to "…purchase or construct in the United States ship-of-war, steamers, merchant ships, whale ships, cannot, munitions of war, and arms of all kinds … [as well as] to engage in the United States scientific, naval, and military men, artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service…" The Harris Treaty made reciprocal diplomatic representation possible. In 1860, a delegation of more than seventy Japanese traveled to the United States. Congress appropriated $50,000 for the visitors, who spent seven weeks touring the United States. Another trip was made twelve years later when, in accordance with the Harris Treaty, the Japanese attempted to gain concessions from the U.S. These visits are credited with helping to dispel cultural stereotypes and furthering diplomatic ties between the two countries.
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- Visit turn of the century Japan with the World's Transportation Commission. World's Transportation Commission contains nearly 900 images taken by William Henry Jackson, official photographer of the Commission. For images of Japan some forty years after the Harris Treaty, choose Japan from the list of countries on the World's Transportation Commission Trip Itinerary.
- Search on Japan in Map Collections to locate maps of Japan from the seventeenth century to the present day.
- Find more information about Japan in Japan: a country study, part of a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
- Read about Japan's generous gifts of cherry trees to the Unites States in the Today in History feature for March 27.


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EARLY pacesetters East Lancashire and Rawtenstall put their 100 per cent Foster's Lancashire League record on the line tomorrow as the heat is cranked up on the Bank Holiday weekend.
Both Vinny Hanson's Rawtenstall and Mark Bolton's East Lancs have gone about their business quietly and won three out of three but the accepted big hitters started to flex their muscles last week and are ready to pounce on any slip.
And both leading lights face tough games on the road.
Bolton takes his men to the Neville Gee Recruitment Ground for a tasty clash with Lowerhouse.
That promises to be a good encounter with Charlie Cottam's House getting off the mark at Enfield last week, while Bolton's men edged out Haslingden in a low scoring thriller at Alexandra Meadows.
Rawtenstall are also in form with a professional bang on form in the shape of Brett Pelser. The class act South African destroyed Nelson last weekend with a six-wicket haul and an unbeaten century, a day after they beat Lowerhouse in a rain affected game.
They also have a test on their hands at Centre Vale as they travel to a Todmorden side who boast the deadly pace of Queensland Bull Michael Neser.
Reigning champions Accrington are missing wicket-taker David Ormerod and former Lancashire man Graham Lloyd, who is umpiring the Kent v Surrey County Championship match but they are confident of beating a Colne side whose good start seems a long time ago.
There could be fireworks at Bentgate as ex-West Indian Test man Brenton Parchment makes his belated bow for Haslingden against Enfield.
The Jamaican suffered problems with a visa and will want to make up for lost time.
Burnley are without Michael and David Brown as they head to Bacup and are in desperate need of a win to boost spiritis. Bharat Tripathi's men were installed as pre-season title favourites but have lost all three games so far.
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DePauw gets $25M for dining hall, scholarships
A Colorado couple who both graduated from DePauw University have donated $25 million to the private liberal arts college to build a new dining hall and to endow need-based scholarships.
The university announced Thursday night that R. David and Suzanne Hoover donated the money. About $9 million will go toward the scholarship endowment and the rest will provide the lead gift for the dining hall to be named Hoover Hall.
The Hoovers, who reside in the Boulder, Colo., area, are both 1967 graduates of DePauw. David Hoover is chairman of the board of Ball Corp. and serves on the board of Eli Lilly and Co., and other companies. Suzanne Hoover is a former teacher.
DePauw is located in Greencastle, about 40 miles west of Indianapolis.
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Orchard Walnut Flooring from EcoTimber
"I think it is my responsibility to promote sources and materials that are environmentally friendly, even though I sometime have to shame my clients into it," designer Paul Wiseman told EOL. EcoTimber, a California-based company specializing in wood products from forests certified by the ForestStewardship Council, is one of the companies that Wiseman likes to recommend- not only because they are green but also because the product is so good. EcoTimber offers a wide range of gorgeous domestic and exotic hardwood and bamboo flooring, including pre-finished engineered and floating floors.


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Miley Cyrus Introduces In-Side Boob In The September Issue Of "Marie Claire"
The Huffington Post better get ready to create a new section because Miley Cyrus, ever the trailblazer in boob exposure, has found a new way to show off the goods. In the September issue of Marie Claire Miley models an Aquilano Rimondi gown, which reveals most of the inner side of her boob (aka In-Side Boob). We predict that in-side boob will be even bigger than side boob. Keep pushing the breast envelope, Miley. [Hollywood Life]


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|[Materials about Language Endangerment 2]
|Materials about Language Endangerment;
-"The World's Languages in Crisis" (Krauss, in Language, Vol.68, No.1, 1992)
-"Number and Viability of Native American Languages by State" (Krauss, 1992)
-Statement of Mr. Michael Krauss, Representing the Linguistic Society of America (1992)
-"The Status of Eskimo/Inuit Languages in World Perspective" (Krauss, 1992)
-"The Language Extinction Catastrophe Just Ahead: Should Linguists Care?" (Krauss, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists, 1992), also a Japanese publication
-Permanent International Committee of Linguists General Assembly Resolution, August 14, 1992
-"A Loss for Words" (Krauss, in Earthwatch, 1992)
- Ms. A revised count of North American Languages and Statuses, 1994
-"Language Endangerment" (Krauss, in Languages of the North Pacific Rim, 1994), Also printed in Japanese.
-Alaska Native Languages in 50 years (1945-1995): Changes in status, resources and public attitudes. (Krauss, in Bridges of the Science Between North America and the Far East. 45th annual conference, 1994, Anchorage, Alaska, Abstracts Book 2)
-"The Scope of the Language Endangerment Crisis and Recent Responses to It" (Krauss, in Studies in Endangered Languages, 1995)
-"Language Loss in Alaska, The United States, and The World" (Krauss, in Frame of Reference, Vol.VI, No.1, 1995)
-"Status of Native American Languages Endangerment" (Krauss, in Stabilizing Indigenous Languages, 1996)
-"Linguistics and Biology: Threatened Linguistic and Biological Diversity Compared" (Krauss, in Papers from the Para-session on Theory and Data in Linguistics, 1996)
-"The Indigenous Languages of the North: A Report on Their Present State" (Krauss, in Northern Minority Languages: Problems of Survival, 1997)
-"The Condition of Native North American Languages: the need for realistic assessment and action" (Krauss, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1998)
-"Preliminary Suggestions for Classification and Terminology for Degrees of Language Endangerment" (Krauss, 2000)
-"Lexical Documentation of Endangered Languages" (Krauss, abstract, 2001)
-"Speaking with a Single Tongue" (Jared Diamond, in Discover, 1993)
-"Can Linguists be Ethical?" (Krauss, 2005)
Various language stat summaries, ms. notes
-"Dynamics of Language Extinction" (Krauss, 2007)
|Materials date from 1992-2007
Krauss, Michael E. (author)
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Corn ethanol production is squeezing out production of advanced biofuels, is more polluting to the environment than gasoline, drives up the cost of food and feed, and should be phased out, according to testimony before a House subcommittee Wednesday afternoon exploring stakeholder impact of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
"The rapid expansion of corn ethanol production has increased greenhouse gas emissions, worsened air and water pollution, and driven up the price of food and feed," said Scott Faber, senior vice president for governmental affairs, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., based non-profit advocacy group specializing in issues related to public health and the environment.
"By contrast, some second-generation biofuels could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions without creating new environmental challenges or increasing food prices."
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If there's a sentimental favourite among this year's crop of candidates for the $1-million Nobel Prize in literature, it's probably Alice Munro – "our Alice," as Canadians might be wont to describe her.
She's 82. She says she's retiring from writing the brilliant short fiction that's made her famous. She's battled heart disease and cancer, and her husband of almost 40 years died earlier this year.
If the Nobel is at once a recognition of merit and a sort of valediction, Munro's a slam dunk, and we'll be toasting her when the 2013 laureate is named Thursday. Trouble is, 112 years after its creation, nobody's really figured out what the Swedish Academy's preferred combination of ingredients is for a Nobel author.
It's possible our Alice isn't even on the short list of five that the secretive Academy supposedly determined in May. All we have is this declaration from the president of the Academy's literature committee: "Be sure we read a select group of American, Canadian and Australian writers continuously!"
As of Tuesday afternoon, the bookies at Ladbrokes in London were giving Munro 4:1 odds of winning, just below its 5:2 rating for favourite Haruki Murakami.
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After waking up in a white room with no exit, six strangers discover that they're about to become pawns in a sick and twisted game. Watching the action through a video camera, an evil mastermind (Pierre-Luc Scotto) compels his victims to follow his rules or die. Knowing that their lives hang in the balance, each of the players complies with the disembodied voice's unusual demands, praying to be the last person left standing.


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Chargers re-signed DL Ricardo Mathews.
Chargers signed DL Ricardo Mathews.
Texans released DL Ricardo Mathews.
The Texans plan to play newly signed DL Ricardo Mathews at nose tackle.
Texans signed DL Ricardo Mathews, formerly of the Colts, to a one-year, $730,000 contract.
Ricardo Mathews will start at right defensive end with Fili Moala (torn ACL) out for the season.
Colts promoted DT Ricardo Mathews from their practice squad.
Colts waived DT Ricardo Mathews.
Colts agreed to terms with seventh-round DL Ricardo Mathews on a four-year, $1.83 million contract.


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Accusations of anti-Semitism in Beth David Hospital, Lexington avenue and 113 street, were vigorously denied by Samuel G. Ascher, newly-appointed hospital supervisor, and Arthur I. Levine, president of the board of trustees. The charge had been brought by employees of the hospital who were recently dismissed.
According to the discharged employees, the hospital had systematically "dismissed all Jewish floor nurses, replacing them with Gentiles." It also dismissed without notice student nurses at the hospital training school, they asserted, although many of the girls, who are practically all Jewish, had no homes in New York. Doctors, social service workers and pharmacists were forced to resign when they objected, the employees declared. The accusation was made in the form of a letter to friends of the hospital.
"It is ridiculous to accuse the hospital of anti-Semitism, especially since it is operated under orthodox conditions, with a rabbi in charge of the dietary department," declared Ascher in an interview. He denied categorically all accusations, and explained that the new supervisor of nurses was non-Jewish because there are no Jewesses competent for the position at the present time. All Jewish hospitals have non-Jewish supervisors, he said.
Ascher explained that the nurses' school was discontinued because it had not been officially accredited, although the hospital receives a Class A rating from the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association. Those students who had almost completed their courses were allowed to remain, he declared.
At the present time the hospital cares for relatively few Jewish patients, the percentage being approximately fifteen per cent. The rest are mainly Spaniards and Puerto Ricans. Of the thirty-six nurses in the hospital, fourteen are Jewish. Ascher refused to permit the interviewer to speak to any of the nurses or employees in the hospital.
Arthur I. Levine, president of the board of trustees, denied all the board of trustees, denied all the charges, declaring that it was simply a case of "disgruntled employees." He said that some employees had been discharged because they were incompetent, and asserted, "the charge of anti-Semitism not only has not a single grain of truth in it, but also has not the slightest foundation."
Miss Manya Belikoff, a social service worker at the hospital for the past ten years, who was discharged, asserted it was her conviction that anti-Semitism was the real reason for the dismissal, Other employees of the hospital scoffed at the sincerity of keeping dietary laws, and said, "The Gentile nurses don't know what it's all about. How can they tell the difference between the milk and meat regulations?"
Contradicting Levine's statement to the effect that the employees had been dismissed because of incompetence, Miss Belikoff maintained that the present authorities were not in position to decide, since they had taken office only last January.


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Half of the orders for Watsons Water will fail to reach customers today, as delivery workers remain on strike for a third day.
About 200 went on strike on Wednesday over demands that the company hire more staff and increase their allowances. Yesterday afternoon, they protested outside the A.S. Watson & Co offices in Tai Po.
The union said the strikers accounted for two-thirds of the delivery workers, and since the action began deliveries had dropped by half, to 20,000 bottles of distilled water a day.
About 70 people continued the protest last night.
Union organiser Leung Wai-yam said the staff shortage had greatly increased their workload, while their wages were HK$2,000 to HK$5,000 a month behind those paid by competitors. The workers earn an average of HK$13,000 a month.
He said the company had shown disrespect to the union by demanding it accept its offer of concessions by noon yesterday. The union did not have sufficient time to make counterproposals, he said.
A spokesman for Watsons said last night that it was disappointed an agreement could not be reached, 'as the [workers] kept making additional demands at the negotiating table'. He said the meeting had been adjourned.
The company, a subsidiary of tycoon Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa, agreed to union requests to pay an additional monthly attendance allowance of HK$2,000 for three months.
It said it would also increase commission by 3 per cent and the regular attendance allowance by 5 per cent from next year.
The spokesman said the company could not agree to the union's request to maintain the HK$2,000 additional attendance allowance after the three-month period ended.
Leung said the union wanted to continue talks with the company. 'We want them to stop contracting out services and solve the problem of staff shortages. Fighting for a higher salary is not our prime intention,' he said.
The union said in a statement last night the company had 'refused to talk about the core issues'.
'The union appealed to Watsons Water to understand the hard toil of frontline workers. It should not continue to contract out services without hiring more staff, when our workload is increasing,' it said.
The company spokesman said the offers reflected the sincerity of Watsons efforts, 'despite the prevalent economic situation'. It had raised workers' pay twice in the past six months, he said. The company apologised to its customers and hoped the workers would accept its offer and return to work.
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We call our chicken waterers "automatic", but the truth
is that you do eventually have to fill the buckets, whether that's once
a week or once a month. That's why I was so thrilled to see Glenn
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no matter what.
Glenn installed a gutter
on his coop with a two inch pipe coming down to fill a five gallon
bucket. He recommends upgrading to a three inch pipe if your coop
is much larger, but says his setup works great.
"So far, this has been a maintenance-free system. I have not had to fill this since I first installed it.
"I had 12 chickens on this system through the winter and they never even came close to emptying their water. I just keep an eye on the water level indicator when I feed them.
"It rains often enough here that it is simply kept full by the rain. Even a very light rain will fill this bucket as anyone with a rain barrel will know.
"Obviously, this would not work in the winter if your temperatures are too low to allow rain or melting of snow. We had an extremely mild winter so there were no problems."
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Chromic Acid and Chromates (as CrO3)
General Description
- Synonyms: Varies by compound. Examples include ammonium dichromate, barium chromate, calcium chromate, lead chromate, potassium chromate, potassium dichromate, silver chromate, sodium chromate, sodium dichromate, strontium chromate, tert-butyl chromate, zinc chromate, and zinc dichromate.
- OSHA IMIS Code Number: 0686 [IMIS Code history: used prior to 05/30/2006 and the Chromium (VI) standard]
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number: 7738-94-5 (Chromic acid)
- Department of Transportation Regulation Number (49 CFR 172.101) and 2012 Emergency Response Guidebook (PDF): 1755 154 (Chromic acid, solution)
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - Chromic Acid and Chromates: Physical description, chemical properties, potentially hazardous incompatibilities, and more
Exposure Limits and Health Effects
|Exposure Limit
|Limit Values
|HE Codes
|Health Factors and Target Organs
|Nasal septum perforation
|Eye irritation and skin sensitization
|Lung cancer
|Chronic asthmatic bronchitis
|Nasal septum perforation; irritation of the mucous membranes, larynx, pharynx, and conjunctiva
|Lung cancer
|Chronic asthmatic bronchitis
|Nasal septum perforation; irritation of the mucous membranes, larynx, pharynx, and conjunctiva
|Asthmatic bronchitis
|Nasal septum perforation; severe irritation of the larynx, pharynx, and conjunctiva; skin ulceration
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value (TLV)
CAL/OSHA PELs
*Chromium (VI) compounds are OSHA designated carcinogens (HE1).
- National Toxicology Program (NTP) carcinogenic classification: Not listed
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) carcinogenic classification: Not listed
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carcinogenic classification: Not listed
- EPA Inhalation Reference Concentration (RfC): Not established
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Inhalation Minimal Risk Level (MRL): Not established
- NIOSH Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) concentration: 15 mg/m3 [as Cr(VI)]
- Notes on Other Potential Health Effects and Hazards
- Inflammation of oral structures; keratosis of the lips, gingival, and palate; gingivitis; and periodontis may be associated with chromate exposure (Gomes 1972).
- Chromate may have the potential to induce prostate injury through nonspecific inflammation (Wang et al. 2012).
- Date Last Revised: 9/6/2012
- Literature Basis:
- ANSI: American Standard Allowable Concentration of Chromic Acid and Chromates. January 6, 1942 (reaffirmed January 27, 1971).
- ATSDR: Toxicological profile for chromium. September 2012.
- Gomes E.: Incidence of chromium-induced lesions among electroplating workers in Brazil. Ind Med 41(12):21-25. 1972.
- NIOSH: Draft Criteria Document Update - Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium. September 2008.
- NIOSH: Occupational Health Guideline for Chemical Hazards - Chromic Acid and Chromates. September 1978.
- OSHA: Standard Interpretation - Enforcement of the Chromate and Chromic Acid PEL. April 8, 1991 (edited on March 25, 2008).
- Wang, T.C., Jia, G., Song, Y.S., Zhang, J., Ma, Y.H., Feng, W.Y., Liu, L.Z., Zhang, N., Zhou, J.W., Yan, L., Zhen, S., Qian, Q.: Effects of chronic chromate exposure on human serum prostate specific antigen: a cross sectional study. Ind Health. 50(2):95-102, 2012.
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Will Joyce's Qantas cuts be enough?
In Thursday's confirmation of every carefully planted leak about the quantum of his airline's interim loss and the human and structural sacrifice it will generate over the next three years, Joyce danced his way joylessly through another convincing strategy aimed at recovery of the airline's financial standing.
By our count this is the third big reform package of the Joyce era.
Each has been the rigorous response to what the Irishman's predecessor
The net result of the first two is that Qantas is still unprofitable. And all this third great leap forward is telling us is that the airline remains years away from meeting Joyce's original apparently modest design of ensuring it start returning its cost of capital.
Joyce's first and most famous reform pitch culminated in the decision of October 2011 to absorb the financial cost and brand damage of grounding his fleet as a means of ending a confrontation with the airline's 14 unions over management's right to run the business.
The second revolution arrived just a year ago after a period of regional expansion and domestic consolidation that exposed to obvious and general view the fragile financial state of Qantas's international business.
Thus Joyce was able to replace longtime ally
The idea then was to have Qantas International back in the black by 2015 while adding enriching momentum to Asian growth by translating the financial bounty generated from its domestic strength into a series of new capital-lite Jetstar satellites.
Third time . . . lucky?
A year and two weeks on and Joyce is back telling us that a third wave of his revolution is now the only way to sustain Qantas.
Five thousand jobs will go by 2017 as Qantas further trims its operational map, growth plans, capital programs and its ageing fleet. And Joyce will again invite industrial relations turmoil by attempting to enforce a wage freeze across his entire business.
This little piece of the puzzle is a tough ask. Qantas employs about 32,000 people. Agreements covering about 1000 of them, including short-haul pilots, are currently open for negotiation. The balance are covered by extant arrangements.
To change the existing arrangements Qantas will need to win a ballot of workers who are going to have to agree to surrender what has already been won.
Embedding a freeze into open agreements will be no less problematic. Discussions with the short-haul pilots have already lingered more than a year. Adding a pay freeze to the mix is unlikely to improve the mood much.
To be fair to Joyce, he explained how the uncontrollable head-winds of cost and competition had flown Qantas to an underlying loss of $252 million. He explained how over-capacity, exchange rates and fuel prices had combined to nearly triple the losses of the international wing.
He talked cogently about the way the cornerstone of his profitability, Qantas Domestic, had been shaken by apparently irrational competition that was being financed by a trio of carriers which are either fully or partially state-owned.
That segued nicely into the pitch for the government rated entity (GRE) status that Qantas has asked of the Commonwealth and which looks likely to be on offer.
Twofold ambition
The ambition here is twofold. First, GRE status should, at very least, secure Qantas's credit rating at the credible top of the junk tree while it carries the cost of reform over the next two years. And second, it seems Joyce is hoping the government support might drive some level of recovered rationality in his loss-splattered market.
The issue here, of course, is that rationality in the airline industry sits very much in the eye of the beholder. Joyce sees it as a return to the old normal where
The Virgin view is that Qantas would do better by walking away from the paired unmovables that have secured every strategic step Joyce has made in running Qantas.
Joyce, like his predecessor, insists that the airline's dual brand strategy simply does not work at peak efficiency if Qantas fails to sustain 65 per cent of the domestic market capacity and 80 per cent of the Australian corporate market share. The lines remain set in otherwise rapidly shifting sands.
You really need to be mathematician to understand how this all stacks up. Thankfully, Joyce is an actual savant with numbers. He left Dublin's Trinity College as an honours student of physics and mathematics. I did not. But I cannot be alone in wondering why Qantas might plan to throw more capacity into a market that it insists is already over-supplied.
Mutually assured destruction
Across the suite of its operations, Qantas increased capacity faster than it did passenger numbers through its opening half. Yet Joyce says the airline will add 4 per cent to capacity over the coming half in response to Virgin's plan to add 5 per cent to its system.
This seems more like mutually assured destruction than it does business strategy.
The cost of over-capacity and of a new round of reform has analysts suggesting Qantas could lose a record-breaking $800 million by financial year's end. But Joyce says shareholders need to understand that this is part of the short-term pain that is required to protect and enhance long-term gains. Whether his owners have patience enough to entertain that message, well, time will tell.
New Zealand billionaire John Todd has entered the Australian iron ore game with a pair of investments that might well end with the construction of $3.6 billion worth of rail, port and mines in the central Pilbara.
In a complication of deals, Todd Corp has aligned itself with two iron ore ventures in the Pilbara, one run by Lynas chairman
Todd Corp has emerged as a 20 per cent owner of
Rutila's thing is a low-grade iron ore project called Balla Balla. As well as its direct stake in Rutila, Todd Corp owns a direct 32 per cent stake in the JV. The first phase of its plans would cost $370 million and result in production of 10 million tonnes of iron ore. The problem there is that the spend on the port needed to export that material will be large. So for the last little while the Balla Balla guys have been looking for people who might need export capacity.
The result is that Curtis and Todd have signed up Flinders Mines as "foundation customers" for 200 kilometres of railway and an upgraded port at Balla Balla.
Which might sound a bit airy-fairy except for the fact that Flinders will introduce Todd Corp as a 5 per cent shareholder when it goes to market for new funds to pay for final drilling and project appraisal work on its Pilbara project.
Ever since the Adelaide diamond explorer found itself with some iron ore tenements on the southern reaches of Fortescue Metal's Pilbara holdings, life at Flinders has been nothing if not interesting.
Over just four years the junior has dropped diamonds, proved up a fair little iron ore resource in the central Pilbara and been chased by a Russian oligarch who came with $544 million for the company only to walk away under orders from the Siberian courts, leaving hedge funds digesting losses of maybe $320 million and the company back where it started.
For some little while now a couple of those hedge funds have been banking on the idea that China Inc might find a way to rebuild the Flinder's dream. As it turns out, they were looking in the wrong direction. Because this cycle of ecstasy to agony has run full circle courtesy one of New Zealand's richest private companies.
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Since there are a couple large features that are in the queue, I am deciding to stop features on current branch (1.x) and starting a new branch (2.x) for the new features:
* #573728: Utilize ctools plugins for key methods
* #609592: Support for PHP Secure Communications Library (phpseclib)
This means I will be releasing a 1.0 in a few moments.
Comment #1giorgio79 CreditAttribution: giorgio79 commented
Do you have a timeframe on the 2x release?
Comment #3ClearXS CreditAttribution: ClearXS commented
Maybe have a look at the several other encryption modules (sometimes not maintained for some time) and ask their maintainers to join; maybe together there is synergy and more 'horsepower'?
Think there should be one Encryption API module that does all the possible encryptions.
Same for a 'login security API' that has to do all types of login securities , but it should use encryption methods of the Encryption API as a dependency.
Then the USB keys authentications work with USB's that have to be bought, instead of that one puts its own key on its own USB-stick
http://drupal.org/project/yubikey - http://drupal.org/project/swekey
Comment #4greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
|Encrypt 2.x
|» Create Encrypt 2.0 stable release
|» 7.x-2.x-dev
In my opinion it no longer makes sense to have a 6.x-2.x branch of this module. If people want that code they can upgrade to 7.x-2.x.
I think that the 7.x-2.x branch is very close to being ready for a final 7.x-2.0 release. If anyone else has ideas on what to improve before then please post a comment here or an issue.
Comment #5greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
I removed the AES combination idea and subbed in a new bug that needs some review. I haven't looked into it yet, but we should confirm that's not an issue in 7.x-2.x.
Comment #5.0greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
Comment #6rickmanelius CreditAttribution: rickmanelius commented
Hi Everyone. I had a fairly interesting conversation with a company (Townsend Security) that is looking to help create a 2.0 release. Looking at the issue summary, it appears that there is only one remaining feature request for the 7.x-2.0 release. Is that still accurate? If not, it would be helpful to get an updated punchlist so we can get a better understanding of the amount of effort it would take to achieve that goal.
Comment #7greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
There's a list of bugs, features and tasks for 7.x and I think there's about a dozen or so that should ideally get fixed before a stable release. None or supremely complex, but all should have automated tests.
I'll be around on Friday for anyone interested to work on this. Happy to strategize and agree on a plan and path to release.
Comment #8rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
My understanding is that #1927572 does not apply to 2.x, so it shouldn't block a release, and I think everything else has been addressed. There are two issues that aren't blocking, but if we can get them RTBC soon, I'd love to get them committed.
There have been some significant changes since 7.x-2.x-beta3, so I propose an RC1 (or beta4) and make it the recommended version. If all is well after a few weeks, we can release 2.0. Then, it's Drupal 8 time.
Comment #9greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
The plan in #8 makes sense to me. Let's make it an RC1 to make it clear that the next thing is a full release.
Thanks, rlhawk!
Comment #10rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
Terrific. I've tagged and created the release and made it the recommend one.
Comment #11greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
I just reviewed the list of open issues that affect 7.x-2.x and it seems like most are not release blockers.
Let's wait another week or so and try to get some more testing and go from there.
Comment #12rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
That sounds good to me.
Comment #13rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
I tried the latest version of Encrypt with the recommended release of the Webform Encrypt module (1.0) and it failed with a fatal error when trying to encrypt. It did the same thing with 2.0-beta3, so any problem was not introduced in rc1. I tried again with Encrypt 1.1 and it worked better, encrypting and decrypting as desired, but a lot of warnings and notices were thrown, but only on the main Results page. I got the same success-with-warnings-and-notices result using Encrypt 2.0-rc1 and the latest dev version of Webform Encrypt. All indications are that any issues are with Webform Encrypt, especially since it seems to be not actively maintained at this point.
Comment #14rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
Comments in issue #254979 seem to support my conclusion.
Comment #15rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
I installed Alan D's sandbox project, Webform Encrypted Components, which worked perfectly with Encrypt 1.1, but threw a fatal error with any 2.x versions, because the module doesn't just use encrypt() and decrypt(). It calls encrypt_initialize(), which was removed in Encrypt 2.x.
Comment #16greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
OK, I filed #2325353: Compatability with Encrypt 7.x-2.x for webform encrypt. I think we should just file issues and add them to a listing.
Do you have a list of modules that use Encrypt? That seems like a nice thing to have on the project page and then we could show a table of which versions of the modules are generally working, work with 7.x-1.x, work with 7.x-2.x.
Comment #17Cellar Door CreditAttribution: Cellar Door commented
Would it be helpful if we arranged a hangout for maintainers and contributors for the various encryption modules (field and webform are first that come to mind) to discuss roadmap and syncing up with 2.x? We can then come away with stronger docs for both implementing developers as well as contributors since a lot has changed in 2.x
Comment #18greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
I'm open to being on a hangout and editing docs, though probably couldn't organize one or write the docs you mention.
Comment #19rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
I've updated the project page, in preparation for releasing version 2.0.
Comment #20greggles CreditAttribution: greggles commented
Great, thanks! I think it's probably time :)
Removing #1927572: Key file is never used from the issue summary because it's about 7.x-1.x.
Comment #21rlhawk CreditAttribution: rlhawk commented
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This is a tough week to be a trader.
The S&P 500 is about 5.5% off its high, which is sure to give an itchy trigger finger to those trained to buy the dip after a multiyear bull market. On the other hand, this selloff has led to more severe technical damage on the charts than we've seen in past downturns, with the S&P 500 breaking its lower trendline and the Dow Jones Industrial Average violating its 200-day moving average.
So what's next? The key levels that traders are watching on the S&P 500 are support at 1730 and the 200-day moving average at 1707. However, with the S&P 500 at 1750 as of this writing, that leaves room for more damage before the next alarm bell sounds.
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Molina's also been posting to the TWOP fora, dropping hints about the title (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) and the though process that lead to it. ("byzantine" ... a word that's been heard in specs surrounding BtVS/AtS as well)
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December 20, 2013
Around Town Blake Buchanan achieves Eagle Scout ranking
Pioneer Travels SANDUSKY, OHIO
On a recent trip to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio with Caroline and Luke Maynard, we provided the light reading between the roller coaster rides.
We certainly get around. Last month, we were in China, following the route of the Silk Road for 16 days. We stopped for a photo op and snapped this one at the Astana tombs outside Turpan in the ancient city of Gaochang. From left: Bob
Duensing, Candy Negrete, Stephanie Pence, Carol Riley, Jim Riley, MaryLou Gallagher.
Blake Buchanan, Boy Scout Troop #364 in Clayton, recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout when he completed building 16 barn owl boxes. He donated the boxes to the Native Bird Connections to provide a habitat for Bay Area barn owls displaced by urban development. Owls are natural predators to rodents and contribute to natural pest abatement. Blake is a 2013 graduate of De La Salle High School and attends Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Blake is also a member of the Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow and is a third generation Eagle Scout. He is the son of Don "Buck" and Joy Buchanan.
from page 1 mayor. I admit that the office makes me a little nervous and I hope to serve the community in a meaningful way this next year. How can I help you, or your family, or your neighborhood? I hope that you will offer suggestions on how I and/or the city can help you. I realize that our resources are limited and that there always seems to be myriad reasons why something can't be done, but it is helpful to hear your thoughts and ideas. As for this column, I will try to write about those things that are of interest to our community. I welcome (maybe even beg for) your questions or suggestions for the column.
Casey Mitchell goes for gold
Gary Halick has a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. In October, we went along to help him make a sales call in Guam.
CASEY MITCHELL (left) supervised a team that prepared art kits with supplies and craft instructions and delivered them to Autumn Green, director at All in Need Family Support.
Casey Mitchell is aiming for the Girls Scouts of America's Gold Award with a project that uses art to develop skills and bring enjoyment to children with special needs. For the past eight months, Casey has taught art classes to children at All in Need Family Support in Pleasant Hill and has provided takehome art kits for the students. The Gold Award is the highest achievement in Girl Scouts, requiring at least 80 hours to complete. Casey submits her project for approval in January. All in Need provides support to East Bay families with children that have special needs. Casey is a junior at Clayton Valley Charter High School and has been in Troop 31895 since first grade.
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Mitchell remains undefeated with close win over Witherspoon
ATLANTIC CITY - Heavyweight Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell survived a brutal first round in which he appeared out on his feet, and came back to stop Chazz Witherspoon with a flurry in the third round to remain undefeated.
Mitchell (25-0,-1, 19 KOs) was on wobbly legs, but was saved by the bell after Witherspoon outlanded Mitchell in power shots 24-7.
But by the second round, Mitchell got his legs back and turned the fight on Witherspoon, pounding him with body shots. He outlanded Witherspoon 51-11 in power shots in both the second and third round, and scored two knockdowns in the third round before referee Randy Newman stopped the fight at 2:31 of the round as Witherspoon appeared unable to defend himself.
"I've been working on my right hand. I was countering him and I know he was coming to fight," said Mitchell. "To be honest, I was a little nervous for this fight. He has a lot of experience. In the heavyweight division it only takes one shot. I saw it in his eyes I knew he was coming for me.
"But I never stopped using my body shots. They were slowing him down and he had no defense for them."
Mitchell connected on 80 of 205 punches (39%) while Witherspoon landed 60 of 182 (33%).
"I got a little excited after I had him hurting," said Witherspoon (30-3, 22 KOs). " I never got back to fighting smart.
"He dealt with adversity great. I was fighting a stupid fight after I got him hurt and I was looking for a knockout.
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A little problem I have with this plugin is that often times I need to install a plugin straight from Github. Well, the issue is that Github gives you a link to download a zip which look pretty much like this one:
Notice there is no .ZIP extension at the end. So when I enter this URL, I get an error that only .ZIP files are accepted. But the funny thing is, that this is a ZIP file! But I know, there is no easy way to figure that out from the URL.
I do have a suggestion though. You could take any URL that the user inputs and try to fetch only the headers. If it's a ZIP file, there will be a MIME-Type header that is equal to application/zip or some similar variation (some more options for this MIME value). Then if the MIME type is of a different file type, let the user know that only ZIP files are allowed.
I would love to help with this issue and contribute!
Please let me know what you think of this issue.
After all the plugin is great and this is the only downside of it. By fixing this issue it can be perfect!
Thanks for reading!
M. Chasen
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Le Centre National de la Bande Dessinee (Cartoon museum)
Entirely dedicated to the art of the cartoon: works and original strips- 250,000 albums and magazines.
Musee des Tumulus (Tumulus Museum)
A rich collection of prehistoric archeological objects, including exhibition of Neolithic burial mounts (5,000 B.C.).
These world famous Cognac houses organize visits of their distilleries and cellars, including group tastings. The major Cognac producers are: CAMUS- COURVOISIER - HENNESSY- MARTELL - OTARD POLIGNAC REMY-MARTIN - RENAULT-BISQUIT.
Chateau d'Oiron
16th century château with sumptuous painted ceilings and galleries and numerous rooms dedicated to contemporary art.
La Rochelle
Musee du Nouveau Monde - New World Museum (pictured): Located in an 18th-century townhouse, this museum is dedicated to the transatlantic trade and commerce between France and the New World.
La Rochefoucauld
Chateau de la Rochefoucauld: This 12th-century Renaissance château is entirely furnished and has a magnificent stairway, and a library of over 18,000 books.
Les Tours du Vieux Port
The Tour of the Lantern, Tour de La Chaine and Tour St-Nicolas, former "doors" protecting La Rochelle during the 14th and 15th centuries, have been transformed into museums.
Le Marais Poitevin
A labyrinth of peaceful canals and secluded waterways lined with willow and poplar and adorned with orchids and waterlilies. The best way of exploring the network of waterways is to hire a flat bottomed boat for one or two hours which you can do with or without a guide.
Futuroscope - Ten kilometers north of Poitiers: the European park of the moving image houses in stunning architecture of crystal a great number of pavilions set in several acres of beautiful parkland and lakes. Mesmerising images of its giant screens and 3D images.
Romanesque Art
Right across the region stand some 600 examples of the Romanesque sanctuary, a heritage which began around the 10th century. Monuments line the ancient route to Santiago de Compostella the most famous ones are Notre-Dame-la Grande in Poitiers with its beautifully carved facade, Saint-Savin-sur Gartempe with its 11th century biblical frescoes protected by the world heritage organization UNESCO as well as the Saint-Pierre d'Aulnay de Saintonge, a major example of Romanesque monuments.
18th century Military Harbor: A former military port with its 374 meter-long Royal rope factory and its dry dock where the French vessel "Hermione", Marquis de La Fayette's frigate, which served during the American War of Independence, is being rebuilt. (pictured: The Church of Saint-Louis in Rochefort)
Historic Museum of the Royan Pocket: Royan, a city entirely rebuilt in the Fifties: it was razed by the Allies in the morning of January 5th, 1945 and liberated by the French troops of General de Larminat on April 15th. The "historic museum of the Royan Pocket" features the great moments of this period.
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Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, the voices of Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma
MPAA Rating: (for intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images and brief strong language)
Running Time: 1:30
Release Date: 10/4/13
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Review by Mark Dujsik | October 3, 2013
The first image we see in Gravity is an absolute stunner, and the film's sights only become more remarkable as it proceeds. The camera hangs suspended, with Earth on the weak side of the screen, looking toward the planet's horizon into the abyss of space that fills up the strong side of the frame. The camera moves slowly as if it were in orbit until more and more of the blue orb fills the screen, and a speck in the distance gradually gets larger until we comprehend that we are looking at the underside of a space shuttle.
It's a patient shot, and in fact, it's only the first part of an extended one-take (Technically, it's not—could not be—one, of course, but the combination of the free-roaming camera and the visual effects gives the sensation that it is) that introduces the characters, the reason they are out there, and a catastrophe that could—and, in the majority of cases, will—mean certain doom for them. We know this from common knowledge, and the film reminds us of all the perils of space exploration in the opening text. The temperature shifts dramatically from over 200 degrees to under 150 degrees below zero depending on where one is. There is neither air pressure nor oxygen. "Life in space," the film concludes, "is impossible."
As those factoids appear and disappear, Steven Price's score swells to near-deafening levels—a chorus of foreboding. After the music cue has ended and when we see that opening image of the beauty of Earth juxtaposed with nothingness of space, what strikes us first is not the visual but the silence. After so many movies over so many decades have incorrectly portrayed space as a place where sound can travel, here is a film that not only accurately gives us silence (The opening text reminds us why that it is) but also employs it as a contrast to the alternate splendor and pandemonium of the film's constant visual mavels.
Silence is also a means to the film's fundamental thematic end. If space, as we learn in the introductory text, is both silence and death, then the ultimate question is whether or not the characters will embrace the silence and, hence, death. The appeal is there for them. For one, it's jokingly a way to immortality in the form of a record that will never be broken. For the other (There are, really, only two actors in the film—not counting the voice work of others who are either off-screen or, apparently, created entirely through effects), it's an escape from the pain of being alone after tragedy.
This brings us back to that first image. On the one side—again, the weak side—is Earth, which now represents life. While the astronauts venture to the side unaffected by the sun, we can see the lights of cities—signs of life. One character repeatedly speaks of people looking up at them, and, even more telling, the present conclusion for both of these travelers is that the people they love or loved at one time are no longer doing so. On the other side of the frame—the strong side—is space and all it has come to represent.
Hovering between these states of being are our astronaut protagonists. They are in orbit around Earth on a fairly routine mission: to install hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), the hardware's designer, is there to do the actually installation after six months of NASA training, which included multiple attempts in a simulator that always resulted in crashing—a bit of foreshadowing for later. The mission commander, overseeing everything with the aid of a jetpack, is Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a smooth-talking, calm-headed man of authority who's quick with a story that everyone has already heard countless times. The voice of mission control (voice of Ed Harris) in Houston politely scolds him about this fact while a third astronaut launches himself from the shuttle, only to be pulled back by the tether connecting him to the craft—emitting a gleeful laugh every time.
As they go about their work, director Alfonso Cuarón's camera acts as a weightless observer, moving with smooth dexterity and seemingly limitless range. Like its subjects, the camera moves to and fro, up and down, and circling around the characters, including one brief moment in which Kowalski stops to admire the view of Earth as the camera itself does the same. There's a fluidity of shared choreography between the camera, the actors, and the visual effects (Those effects, blended with Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography, are so seamless that it becomes impossible to discern where they end and where the real, practical elements—i.e., the actors, physical sets, props—begin) here that is simply awe-inspiring. At times, it's even dizzying as we try to reconcile that our preconceived notions of up and down have no real meaning in space.
The impetus for the plot is simple: The Russians have destroyed one of their old spy satellites, which causes a chain reaction of destruction of other orbital objects. The debris is sent hurtling through orbit faster than a bullet, and the mission is right in its path.
What follows is a breathless series of hindrances to Ryan and Kowalski's forward momentum to find a vessel that will return them to Earth (The camera, then, is basically echoing their need to keep moving). It's an exercise in Murphy's Law, with the screenplay by Cuarón and his son Jonás constantly finding new and logical impediments that take full advantage of the purity of Newton's physical laws that the setting provides.
These are thrilling and sometimes terrifying scenarios. They are only broken up by short scenes of respite (or, in one case, a startling realization in the midst of a hectic sequence) in which the characters must contemplate the immediacy of their mortality (Bullock's performance, stripped down to the essential conflict within the character, is particularly effective in this regard).
Early in the film, Ryan is hurled off-structure, which leads to an extended shot that subtly rotates and moves closer to her face until we almost imperceptibly find ourselves in a subjective point of view as she spins further into the vacuum of space. The arrival at the International Space Station sends the astronauts bouncing off the structure like ragdolls, furiously grasping at something—anything—that could stop them from floating away from their only chance of survival. The return of the debris leads to the film's most spectacular setpiece, which combines an attempt to free an escape pod from a larger object as that vessel is torn to shreds.Gravity is a triumph of visual effects, but it's the way that Cuarón implements those tools that is exhilarating. For all of its technical prowess, this is a work of pure and unabashedly virtuoso filmmaking from a genuine master of the craft.
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Strap yourselves in, we have a lot of news to report on this morning…
If you haven't seen Friday night's episode of Inside MMA on HDNet yet, go ahead and check it out above.
UFC 82 Fighters Test Clean
All of the fighters that were tested following UFC 82: Pride of a Champion on March 1st came back negative for performance enhancing drugs and drugs of abuse.
The ten fighters that were tested are as follows: Andrei Arlovski, Anderson Silva, Heath Herring, Chris Leben, Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Yushin Okami, Jon Fitch, Luigi Fioravanti, and Jorge Gurgel.
Clark-Harper Finalizes Next Week's WEC Show
After opponent Bryan Baker was tapped to replace WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho against Team Quest product Chael Sonnen, Logan Clark will now take on American Top Team's Scott Harper in a middleweight preliminary bout.
Clark revealed the news on his official website yesterday.
"Scott may have a few losses but hasn't dropped a fight since joining American Top Team this last year," Clark said in the post. "He is on a three fight win streak with three submission stoppages. He looks to have a good ground game but not exceptional stand-up. This means that I will be able to stick with my previous gameplan and look for the knockout standing."
Two More EliteXC Bouts in March
Light heavyweights Aaron Rosa and Jaime Fletcher will now clash on the televised main card portion of this Friday's ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series event.
The news comes from ProElite.com, which also reports that a women's bout between Jen Case and Cristiane Cyborg was scrapped after it was learned that Cyborg would be unable to enter the United States in time for the event due to visa issues.
Luke Stewart will also meet veteran Tiki Ghosn at the upcoming Elite Xtreme Combat and Strikeforce co-promoted "Shamrock vs Cung Le", which take place on March 29th at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, according to MMA Junkie.
Report: Lytle Tapped for July UFC Return
The Fight Network is reporting that popular welterweight Chris Lytle will likely return to action at UFC 86 in July against an opponent yet to be named.
Lytle has now won two out of his last three bouts inside the UFC. A loss to Thiago Alves because of a cut is currently sandwiched in between wins over Jason Gilliam and Kyle Bradley.
World Victory Road Announces Fighter for Next Event
WVR officials have announced four confirmed participants for their next event on May 18th at the at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan.
Roger Gracie, Satoru Kitaoka, Yuki Sasaki, and Yoshihiro Nakao, who was originally reported as facing Mirko Cro Cop at this past weekend's DREAM event, are all expected to be in action. Even though his name was not mentioned, former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman has stated that he will be fighting at the show as well.
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Mac and time machine backup to a common network drive
Yes you can use a single device to support backup for all machines
Due to the way Time machine/Capsule works it needs to be a separate *special* share (AFP), the windows backup can be done to SMB or iSCSI.
You need a NAS such as one from QNAP that actually supports "Time Machine Backup" or use some open source software such as FreeNAS to turn a spare PC into a TimeCapsule, with SMB shares for PCs.
If you read the link http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11171 carefully however you will realise that Apple only officially supports network backup to either Time Capsule or another Mac running MacOSX.
So an option would be a MacMini with the MacOSX server installed. That could serve as both Time Machine backup and also serve Windows clients.
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I'm Rachel Keslensky, and I'm studying Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology. My last "formal" art classes were in high school back in 2004.
I've been advised to come here, although I'm not entirely certain what needs working on. Most of the portfolios I see here are more focused on what I consider "photorealistic" work, and the lack of anything else on the forums makes me hesitant to post my work since it deviates so much from that norm. I'm not certain if the advice I would receive here would be useful in actually improving the work I'm currently doing, as opposed to just steering it into looking like all the other work I see here.
Any input would be most valuable.
My focus has been in sequential art, concept art, and character design. You can see the work I've done so far on my comic at lastres0rt.com
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Adesh Diagnostics, an unit of Adesh
Medical Centre (P) Ltd. introduced WHOLE BODY MAGNETIC
RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) facility for the first time in Malwa
region of Punjab and proved to be a boon for people of Bathinda and
its surrounding region. The cost to patient for getting a MRI scan
done is reduce due to close vicinity. Now patients would not have to
go to distant areas such as Ludhiana (164 k.m.), Jalandhar (184
k.m.), Chandigarh (218 k.m.), Amritsar (175 k.m.) for MRI
investigation and hence not bear extra expenditure and delay in
diagnosis, which results in harmful consequences leading to death of
patients.Unprecedented developments have taken place that
has catapulted MRI to the forefront of modern medical imaging. MRI
has widespread applications in routine clinical practice and
provides significant and valuable information that cannot be
duplicated by other imaging modalities. This is especially true in
imaging all lesions in head, spine and musculoskeletal system. MRI
also has the unique advantage of assessing the entire vascular tree
without the need of administering exogenous contrast agent.
Presently MRI is used for imaging from head to foot; and from bone
marrow imaging to bone and soft tissue.We, at Adesh
Diagnostics have installed latest and modern (brand new)
SIGNA Profile/ i Open Magnetic Resonance System with a Slew
Rate capability of 30mT/m/msec from WIPRO GE Medical
Systems to deliver all advanced applications. The astounding
variety of newer and faster acquisition techniques are providing
unprecedented wealth of diagnostic information for
patients.Dr. G. S. Shekhawat, M.D. (Radio-diagnosis) and
Gold Medallist from S. M. S. Medical College, Jaipur is one of the
Directors of the company. This centre is running under his direct
day-to-day supervision and management.Dr. (Mrs.) Deepshikha
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has also done one year PDCC (Post Doctoral Certificate Course) in
Neuro-radiology & three years senior residency at SGPGI,
Lucknow. She has been Assistant Professor at P.G.I., Chandigarh. Dr.
(Mrs.) Shekhawat is also working as full-time Consultant Radiologist
at Adesh Dignostics.MRI has a vast critical role in
early and correct diagnosis, which is the most important factor in
management of critical patients. MRI has a very important role in
Headache, Seizure, Stroke - EPI & Diffusion Images for Early
Inject Detection, Brain Tumours. In Spine, Disc disease or any kind
of tumour safe in diseases during pregnancy because MRI have no
radiation. In child, no radiation hazard during Myelination of
Brain, best Imaging Mortality in HIE, White Matter Disease. In
joints, Cruciale Ligament Injury, Meniscitear, Joint Effusion, other
joint diseases. In abdomen, very useful for Abdominal Tumours, Liver
Masses, Renal Masses, Pelvic Masses, MRCP for Biliary system.
MRI : An
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TOOLWe cater various novel techniques. Some of these are
mentioned below:1. Diffusion weighted Imaging (DWI)
DWI noninvasively and quickly provides information about the
in-vivo water diffusion in the pathological tissue, hence providing
early diagnosis of the Infarct within one hour.2. Magnetic
Resonace angiography (MRA) MRA has enjoyed clinical success
in the assessment of the cranial, carotid and peripheral vessels.
The main advantage of MRA is the visualization of major blood
vessels without the use of contrast agent. Contrast enhanced MRI
tends to further increase the resolution, thus allowing
visualization of smaller vessels with slow flow .It also overcomes
the flow related artifacts.3. Magnetic Resonace
Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)- MRCP is emerging as an
exciting tool for the non-invasive evaluation of pancreatic and
biliary ductal systems and is gradually replacing PTC and ERCP for
diagnostic purposes. Duct dilatation, stricture and ductal filling
defects are clearly seen and the diagnostic information obtained is
equivalent to ERCP in most patients.4. Magnetic Resonance
Urography (MRU) MRU is recently being added to the
diagnostic work up of a case of urinary tract obstruction. The
coronal images using FISP or HASTE sequences rapidly portray a
dilated collecting system and demonstrate the site of obstruction.
It avoids use of contrast agent and radiation to the
patient.5. Magnetic Resonance Myelography (MRM)It is
a non-invasive modality that gives myelography-like pictures without
the need for injection of contrast agent into the subarachnoid
space. It is done by two techniques namely RARE (highly T2 weighted
image) and FISP 3D.6. Magnetic Resonance Cisternography (MRC)
MRC is a non-invasive way of detection of CSF leaks with no
need of lumbar puncture and injection of intra-thecal contrast or
use of ionizing radiation. Since a prompt and accurate
diagnosis is important for determining treatment strategies and
planning rehabilitation programs, we hope that we would be of help
to patients to get significant health benefits from the pivotal
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David Wright, MD, MBA, MHSA
465 Winn Way, Ste. 221, Decatur, Georgia
Therapy for Couples is approached in a highly individualized manner--taking into account both client's background, personality factors, religious or spiritual beliefs, and their support system. This approach may include subconscious, unconscious, pre-conscious, &/or conscious techniques. This approach may also involve taking into account personality & emotional factors that are specific to each of the clients. Most importantly, this approach takes into account the use of positive and negative triggers that can prevent disagreements in the first place. It's a highly pro-active, pre-emptive approach. Family, Social, and Personality Dynamics are a key focus at our practice.
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Sheri Hardin, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
2784 N. Decatur Rd., Suite 145, Decatur, Georgia
In working with couples, I encourage each partner to stop blaming, understand how they are being triggered by each other, learn how to stop arguing, and most importantly, how to hold onto their individuality while staying lovingly connected to each other. I also specialize in divorce support and recovery therapy when it has been determined by you and/or your partner that the relationship/marriage is over.
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Couples therapy can seem intimidating – one reason why people often wait too long to talk to a therapist. In my experience, when couples therapy isn't successful, it is usually because the couple has waited far too long to give it a try. Remember, couples counseling is an investment in what matters most in your life. A therapist isn't a judge, and neither of you is on trial. As with other forms of therapy, the right commitment and the right therapist at the right time can make all the difference. I have worked with all sorts of couples for more than 25 years; contact me if I you'd like to talk about your situation and whether therapy can help.
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Paul F. Austin, MS, LPC
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Relationships are difficult. They require constant care and an understanding of how they work. I help you to identify where the issues are of you and your partner and how to overcome them. I will help you to increase your effective communication and how to have fair discussions. We can work together to build a trusting, committed and strong relationship with you and your partner.
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As an Imago therapist, I see your relationship as my client. I teach you powerful skills and processes that will increase the effectiveness of your communication, help each of you to understand what you bring into the relationship as an individual, and help you to make deep lasting change. I have found Imago therapy to effectively and quickly help you to navigate the struggles you are having and to help you to reconnect in a deep, meaningful way and to put romance back into your relationship. For those who are just beginning their relationship, Imago therapy is an excellent tool to teach you how to understand and navigate the inevitable issues that couples bump into.
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Tania Suarez, MSEd, LPC, LMHC, NCC
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Relationships take work, commitment, sacrifice, communication, and compromise. None of this is easy! And when you and your partner don't see eye to eye or have differing values, this becomes even more stressful and frustrating. I can help facilitate open communication between you and your partner to help you understand the root of your problems, how they are negatively affecting your relationship, and how to work through and resolve them. It's a process and takes time, but worth the effort if the relationship is important to you.
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Summer Gray, MS, LPC, CIRT
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Imago Therapist
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Summer is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist (CIRT) and a member of Georgia Regional Imago Therapists (GRITS). Imago, which is the Latin word for image, is a highly effective method of couples' counseling. Summer is passionate about helping couples restore and improve their connection to one another, especially challenging in times of transition or crisis. A healthy marriage is what we envision when we get married, but too often we don't get the help we need when we are stuck in unhealthy patterns of relating. Or, just as often, unhealthy patterns of not relating. Summer encourages couples to reconnect in therapy, providing a safe, compassionate and challenging place to do this.
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Matthew Smith, Psy.D.
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Dr. Smith enjoys working with couples and has a proven record of assisting couples though their issues. We also provide pre-marriage counseling as well to assist couples with a smoother transition to the alter. Our families, martial couples, and partners counseling is focused on assisting individuals to realize improved levels of wellness with each other. From interventions involving relationship coaching to premarital counseling, our services could help resolve the challenges individuals face with their relationships.
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Wendy Dickinson, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
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If you are in a relationship you know that it is both exhilarating and challenging. Relationships are play, fun, supportive, and work! Every relationship will eventually hit a bumpy season - this may be the results of expectations, needing new skills, or something that one person has done. Whether you just want to see your relationship grow or you are in a crisis, we love to help couples go from surviving to thriving whether it be in a dating or committed relationship. Additionally, We offer pre-marriage/pre-committment counseling focusing on topics such as expectations, finances, children, in-laws, career, communication, managing conflict, etc. Give us a call today and let us help!
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Philip Kolba, MA
Atlanta, Georgia
There are countless models of healthy romantic relationships, from monogamous to polyamorous, and unique variations between partners. The scripts for dating and longterm relationships of our parents' generations may not be applicable to your relationship, and there is no formal education in how to be a good partner or how to identify unhealthy relationships. But there is psychological research that shows that effective communication, emotional openness, intimacy, and other factors contribute to healthy relationships. Creating these conditions are skills that can be learned. I practice brief humanistic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help my LGBTQ and hetero clients learn these skills.
Couples Counselor
Kevin Fleming Ph.D.
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What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don't agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php
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Elizabeth Rogers, LPC
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A psychodynamic approach to couples therapy is an application of psychoanalytic theory and acknowledges that the subjective structures of the individuals in a couple interact at conscious and unconscious levels. Psychoanalytically -informed couples therapy can take several different forms dependent on the particulars of the couple and each individual in the couple.
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Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach
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Many clients say that I have a spiritual gift for counseling couples. There's nothing more gratifying than turning around a marriage that almost ended in divorce. I use "Emotionally Focused Therapy" by Sue Johnson and "Gottman Method Couples Therapy" by John and Julie Gottman. Both methods have been researched over 40 years. Now we know exactly what creates masters and disasters of marriage. Statistics show that 75-85% of marriages are saved when using these two therapies. If prior couples therapy did not work for you, I recommend you see a counselor trained in these two methods. Read my educational articles and client stories on my website: www.Flourishing-Lives.com.
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EXPLORaider Mission
EXPLORaider (formerly the Multicultural Retreat) is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to experience the multiculturalism of the United States of America. Students along with faculty and staff from the College travel to metropolitan areas to absorb the unique diversity which cities offer. In addition, the EXPLORaider gives students an opportunity to share with others their own uniqueness and individual identity as well as to engage in dialogue with others from the campus community.
On the retreat, students, faculty, and staff engage in group-building, intellectual and recreational activities and discuss concepts of diversity, culture, and their impact and influence within American society. In addition, an adequate amount of free time is incorporated into the retreat for roaming city neighborhoods; fellowshipping with retreat and local residents; catching dinner in stylish ethnic restaurants; and visiting brilliant museums, exhibits, and major city attractions.


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