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Feminist Studies
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Sleep Disorders
Nostril Burning Pain and Swelling
I am trying to adjust to a bi pap machine with nasal pillow at night for sleep apnea. The mask fits fine. I am a nose breather and stomach sleeper. In a two week period, I have only been able to get through one night with the mask without nasal discomfort. (mostly left nostril) On another night, I decided to "tough" it out in spite of the discomfort, but had swelling on the left side of the nose up toward the eye and a bit of blood when I tried to blow the nose. I also take 2 liters of oxygen with it. It does have a water reservoir to prevent dryness. Also, I do not have a drainage problem. Is there anything I can do to alleviate the discomfort from this nightly procedure? Thank you
It's not clear to me from your question if your problem is primarily one of local discomfort from the nasal pillows irritating the nares or more one of nasal congestion. Further history will be needed to sort this out. However, I can provide you with some advice and maybe you can find this useful.
If it is primarily a problem of irritation of the nares, then there are a few options. For some individuals, using a mild lubricant to keep the nares protected can be helpful. This should only be in the form of a salt water (saline) gel such as Ayr nasal gel. Do not put vaseline or any other petroleum based lubricant in your nares as this can lead to lung problems. If this fails to help, then either resizing the nasal pillows or switching to a different interface (nasal mask, full face mask or oral interface) might be needed.
If you problem is more one of nasal congestion, then this might require a different approach. Nasal congestion is commonly associated with sleep apnea and may be part of the symptom complex of sleep apnea or a direct result of the treatment. When acute nasal congestion arises in an individual already on CPAP/Bipap therapy for sleep apnea, it can become a major problem and limit use of the CPAP/Bipap device. Acute congestion most commonly accompanies an upper respiratory tract infection or allergies. Treatment to minimize nasal congestion in this case will depend on the specific underlying cause (i.e. decongestants for a cold, antihistamines or nasal steroid sprays for allergies). For more chronic congestion, heated humidification with CPAP/Bipap is often beneficial (this may also help in acute congestion). If this doesn't work, then nasal steroids may be needed to alleviate the congestion. In some cases, switching to an alternative CPAP interface (either a nasal mask, full face mask or oral interface) or an alternative treatment (such as surgery or the use of an oral appliance) is required.
You should discuss the above options with your Sleep Physician to determine which will be best suited for you. Helping you to use your Bipap should be a priority and can usually be managed with one or more of the above measures.
To learn more about sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, please visit the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's website at www.aasmnet.org. In addition to information, the website contains a list of Sleep Centers across the country so that you may locate one near you. Good luck and here's to good sleep!
Dennis Auckley, MD
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Working at home
Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:50 PM
Walking the Line When You Work from Home (ALA)
Offices and The Creativity Zone (Hivelogic.com)
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"In the 19th Century there was only Army and Navy.
In the 20th Century we got air power as the third dimension of war.
In the 21st Century, Cyber is the 4th dimension of war.
It is another form of weapon and for unlimited range in a very high speed with a very low signature."
-- Maj. Gen. Amos Yadkin, Commander of Israeli Defense Intelligence, 2006 - 2010
Posted 17 July 2010 - 04:40 AM
The firm was expanding and the firm was increasing the number of computers from one or two per team to one per person. They needed more work desks and I had a bad back and it was suggested that I could work at home. I was given a new computer and it was connected by direct dial-up to the firm's server. I think it helped the firm because I released a valuable workspace.
At first it was great, I could start work at 7.30am, take a long lunch break and work on in the evening, all in peace and quiet.
As the years went by I found that I was getting out of touch with people in the office and new work developments, new IT systems, etc.
Every time I went into the office I saw people I didn't know and they stared at me like I was a newcomer, even though I'd worked for the firm for twenty years.
I was called in on occasions when a new computer program was being used for my work, but I still found that I missed the contact with people in nearby desks for advice and casual conversation. Luckily my main contact, the person I sent all my work to, didn't leave. I think I would have found it difficult to build up a relationship with someone new without working close by.
Getting huge piles of drawings and documents sent out to me was difficult and sometimes delayed me. If I had been in the office I could have started work on a revised drawing immediately (time was always critical) but I would either have to go in to the office to pick up the documents or they would be sent out with an office junior by taxi.
Sending my work back was easy - Excel or other files sent by email.
I retired after about four years. I don't think I could have done it for a lifetime. Too quiet eventually! Working at home for, say, two or three days a week would probably be the ideal because you could then keep up with latest developments and people in the office..
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 04:39 PM
Good idea for a post.
Thought I'd reply as the flexibility of working from home is one of (if not the) main reason that I am pursuing a career in web design, so would also be really good to hear about other peoples experience of it.
I can see that working from home full time with little contact with colleagues or clients could quite rapidly send you a bit stir crazy, but the idea of doing perhaps two/three days a week at home seems ideal to me. I'd love to have the flexibility of fitting my working day around my lifestyle, rather than being tied to a desk 9 - 5 all week.
Another interesting thought on this is how working from home affects your effectiveness. Perhaps the first thought on this would be that because you don't have someone watching over you all the time, cracking the whip as it were, then you might tend to slack off/do the laundry/pop to the shop/stick on the tv for a while etc... On the other hand, for the more self disciplined perhaps this would be an opportunity to increase productivity; if you have a set task to complete and know that once you complete it you are free to do what you like (because the boss aint watching) then maybe you'd find yourself powering through the work??
For me, I'd like to think I'd do the latter and maximise the freedom that working from home offers...but I guess that remains to be seen!!
Has anyone else here had the experience? What are the pro's and con's?
I read the ALA article a while ago by the way - interesting reading if anyone here hasn't seen it yet.
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I've updated the link -- looks like HiveLogic changed their URL structure at some point.
I read the first article from ALA and it was really interesting but when I was about to read the second article from Hivelogic.com I found that the link was broken, thanks for sharing this Kyle.
Take another look: http://hivelogic.com...creativity-zone
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Posted 18 December 2010 - 03:36 PM
...and there's politics, favoritism, backstabbers to name a few unless you condsider that 'fun'. In either case both working from home and at office has its pros and cons.
working from home would drive me nuts never under sell the value of human interaction and good old workplace drama that makes the office so fun and interesting
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"In the 19th Century there was only Army and Navy.
In the 20th Century we got air power as the third dimension of war.
In the 21st Century, Cyber is the 4th dimension of war.
It is another form of weapon and for unlimited range in a very high speed with a very low signature."
-- Maj. Gen. Amos Yadkin, Commander of Israeli Defense Intelligence, 2006 - 2010
Posted 23 February 2012 - 12:14 PM
But it depends on what the actual work itself is.
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working from home would drive me nuts never under sell the value of human interaction and good old workplace drama that makes the office so fun and interesting
If you stay at the office for long time, you may have the opposite feeling.
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Can you believe it? School lunch is controversial. In this time of political extremes even the hot dog is at risk. The federal government, in an attempt to insure healthy eating for our children, requires schools to serve meals with new and very specific requirements for reduced salt, required whole grains, required quantities of fruits and vegetables, specified calorie levels for each age grouping, and low fat milk. Federal funding of the free and reduced lunches for school districts is dependent on compliance.
Child nutrition staffs at some schools say the requirement is resulting in children throwing the fruit or vegetable in the garbage and reducing the number of students participating in the lunch program. They argue that the new requirements are wasteful, difficult to implement and should be delayed.
Some schools argue that the calorie levels for older students are too low and that the high school athletes leave hungry. (Athletic power Wayzata High School, for one, has opted out of the federal lunch program, but elementary and middle schools in the district will remain under the new federal standards.)
Rep. John Kline of Minnesota is one legislator who has championed the call for a delay.
Supporters of the requirements argue that large producers of school lunch products are behind the call for a delay. The school lunch program is a major market for food producers and the new requirements may take them out of the market, force a change in products and detract from the product's student desirability.
Do school lunches need to be healthier? Can we affect the eating habits of children? Is the current law effective; and finally what do those who call for a delay offer as the alternate solution? Criticism is easier than problem solving and delaying a solution without specific steps and timelines is not to the betterment of our children's long-term health.
Critics argue that if the healthy food is being served but not consumed the program is failing. Changing our eating habits is really the problem and that is tough. We like our sugar, salt and fat. Our children like the unhealthy food we like and that's what we want to change.
We are considered an obese nation with related health problems that challenge our quality of life and the costs of health care. These are major problems that we can't afford to pass on to our children.
The federal school lunch requirements are an attempt to address that need. A successful effort toward healthier eating in the school lunch room has to also come from the home and the general environment in which our children live. We need a strong partnership between parents, the school lunch room, the government and the industries that produce food for our children.
If a delay is needed the proponents of delay should spell out alternative solutions and a timeline for implementation. The next time we hold hearing in Washington our elected officials should ask the food producers what they will do during a delay to make their product healthier in compliance with the standards.
Ask industry what they will do to make a healthier product more desirable to students and ask for a time line. Ask the leaders of the School Nutrition Association what they will do during the time of the delay to meet the standards. Ask what the association will do during the delay to overcome the challenges and meet the requirements. Ask the association what they will do to enhance the inclusion of the home when moving children toward better nutrition.
Members of Congress also have some questions to answer. Ask them what they will do to further ensure healthy eating habits of children. If additional funding is needed will they provide it? If corporate incentives are needed to improve commercial school lunch products will they support those incentives? If individual components of the law need be improved will they delineate those expected improvements as they call for the delays in implementation to assure a delay isn't an attempt at elimination of the effort?
Parents and grandparents of students have an extremely important, if not the most important role, in improving the life-long health of our children. Your expectations will greatly determine if the fruits and vegetables go into the stomach or into the garbage.
Perhaps it's time to engage in the lunch program just as its time to engage in the reading program. Let your children know what you expect and set an example (that may be the really hard part). Let your school know what you expect.
As a final note, families need to think about the new requirements and the requested delay and let your elected officials know what you want for your children.
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Hearing voices: Baylor's Institute for Oral History audio files going online
Since 1970, Baylor's Institute for Oral History has been collecting and transcribing interviews to preserve historical memories for posterity; since 2008, many of those interview transcripts have been made available online for researchers and lovers of history.
Now, the Institute is taking things a step further by making the original audio files available online. Most of the collection's audio is recorded on analog reels and cassette tapes, making digital conversions an expensive burden. But thanks to the growth of Baylor's Riley Digitization Center, the university is now able to better handle such efforts on campus.
The first recordings to go online were conversations with a former Waco mayor conducted from 1975-77 and an interview with the Waco-born daughter of a freed slave from 1968. Other recent postings include interviews with former Congressman Bob Poage, BA '21, and Warren Commission counsel Leon Jaworski, JD '25, related to JFK's assassination.
To learn more about the Institute of Oral History or to browse its collection, visit baylor.edu/oralhistory.
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I remember watching Depeche Mode perform live during their Music for the Masses tour. On stage Martin Gore would hit some pads that were connected to an Emulator sampler. From that moment on I wanted to turn everything into something that I could hit and have it make a sound. The Touch Board is a Kickstarter from a company called Bare Conductive. They have created a nice device based on Arduino that gives you a bunch of sensor connectors, an MP3 player, MIDI, machine control and more. You can also create and connect hit points using conductive paint. Watch the videos above to get an idea. I think this is pretty cool.
"Now anyone can transform touch into sound (and so much more!) with the Touch Board, an easy-to-use Arduino-compatible device. The Touch Board is a tool to make your projects interactive, responsive, smart or just fun. Use the Touch Board to change the world around you by turning almost any material or surface into a sensor. Connect anything conductive to one of its 12 electrodes and trigger a sound via its onboard MP3 player, play a MIDI note or do anything else that you might do with an Arduino or Arduino-compatible device." – Bare Conductive
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Distillation, Part 5: Multiple Products
In Part 5 of this series on distillation control and optimization, we find that adding a side-stream component to your process gives an additional degree of freedom, but makes it even more essential to not mismatch the variables.
Distillation is a common and energy-intensive method of separation in the petroleum, chemical, food, paper, and pharmaceutical industries. Globally, more than 80 million barrels of crude oil are refined daily. In the United States, 146 refineries operate, employing over 65,000 people and producing a total value that exceeds $150 billion. Yet, in the U.S., no new refinery has been built since 1976, and the control technology in use today is not much different from that used on the first distillation columns.
During the coming global transition from the oil-based economy to a clean and inexhaustible energy economy, the importance of distillation will increase. This is because ethanol and biodiesel duels will also need to be distilled, and because new oil refineries will also need to be built. It is hoped that the designers of these new refineries will benefit this series of articles.
The thermal energy requirements of distillation are enormous. The thermodynamic efficiency of distillation processes is less than 10%. The amount of energy used for distillation is approximately 8% of the total energy used in the industrial sector of the U.S. Refineries spend 50% to 60% of their operating costs (excluding capital costs and depreciation) on energy, while the much more advanced chemical industry spends only 30% to 40%. This difference shows that substantial savings can be obtained just by implementing state of the art controls and optimization.
Multiple Product Distillation
Most separations involve multiple components and produce multiple liquid or vapor products. When, in addition to the overhead and bottom products, there's a side stream, an additional degree of freedom is available. This is because the overall material balance becomes: F = D + C + B, where C is the side-stream flow rate. In such cases, two out of the three product streams can be manipulated, while throttling the third to close the material balance. This added degree of freedom makes it even more essential to avoid mismatching the manipulated and controlled variables.
If the feed rate and column pressure are held constant in a side-stream column, five degrees of freedom exist—three compositions and two levels. These five controlled variables can be assigned to manipulate the material and heat balance by throttling the three product flows and the heat and cooling loads (V and L). As was discussed in detail in Part 1 of this series (see "Distillation Control and Optimization," Control, Nov. '06, p. 16), interactions among the loops can be minimized by evaluating the relative gains of the possible manipulated and control variable combinations.
After such evaluation, one might arrive at the controls shown on the left side of Figure 1. Here the ratio of heat input to feed (V/F, boil-up to feed) is held constant, and separate dynamic compensation elements are used for the distillate, heat input, and side-stream loops.
The Refining Industry
Super-fractionators are used to separate streams with close relative volatilities between the light and heavy key components. These include de-isobutanizers, which separate isobutane from normal butane; propylene splitters, which separate propane from propylene; ethylbenzene towers, which separate ethylbenzene from xylene; and xylene splitters, which separate para and ortho-xylene from meta-xylene.
Super-fractionators require many trays, and therefore the column heights often necessitate dividing them into two or even three sections. Super-fractionators require high internal vapor and liquid rates and high flow ratios of both reflux-to-distillate and vapor-to-bottoms. These result in large tower pressure drops, long time constants and long dead times. Therefore, the response of compositions to the manipulation of feed and reflux flows is slow. As a consequence, dynamically compensated material balance control is recommended to control the distillate compositions.
Feed composition based feed-forward control of distillation.
Multi-product fractionators—crude towers, vacuum towers and fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) main fractionators—are common in the refining industry. Product quality is often based on true boiling point (TBP) cut points, which approximate the composition of a hydrocarbon mixture and are numerically similar to the American Society for Testing and Materials' (ASTM) 95% points.
As shown in Part 1, an artificial neural network (ANN) can calculate—on the basis of local temperature, pressure, steam flow and reflux data—the 95% boiling point or TBP cut point of the products.
If there is a boiling point analyzer, the ANN-based approximation can be used as the measurement for a fast inner slave loop of a cascade configuration in which the analyzer provides the measurement for the slower master controller, which trims the set point of the slave. In most multiproduct fractionators, the volume of liquid and vapor loads are large, and the best control sensitivity and quickest response can be usually obtained by throttling the product flows.
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Fifteen minutes into what began as a relatively run-of-the-mill interview, Kenny Ausubel drops a bombshell.
"I don't usually make predictions," he says—the type of statement interviewees consider a cautionary disclaimer, but which reporters tend to gleefully exploit—"but I think probably the next six or so years are the six most important years in the history of human civilization."
"I think we're undergoing a fundamental civilizational shift, and this is pretty much the keyhole," Ausubel continues. "Either we make it or we don't, but this is the choice point."
As the founder and co-CEO of Bioneers—a local nonprofit dedicated to finding solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental problems, and whose tagline is "Revolution from the Heart of Nature"—Ausubel has an undeniable stake in the revolution he predicts. In fact, he's been trying to foment it for years.
So what has changed?
"The next six or so years are the six most important years in the history of human civilization."
"The Earth will be just fine," Ausubel says. "The Earth has at least a billion years to go before the sun explodes, and the Earth has been through many changes, with—and mostly without—us."
He pauses. His slight build almost seems to quiver with excitement. Since 1990, when he founded Bioneers, Ausubel has advocated immediate, sweeping change.
"It's really about saving ourselves," he concludes. "We're entering an enormous period of creative destruction. What we have been doing is simply not working and not going to work, and the contradictions are too severe—and so it's now up to us to make those changes."
Overhauling human civilization may sound daunting, but Ausubel—who despite his upbeat personality is a self-described pessimist—isn't scared. Revolution is exactly what he's been waiting for.
Ausubel was born and raised in New York, the son of a Columbia University professor and a mother who worked at Variety, the entertainment magazine. (The magazine announced his 1949 birth—"my first credit!" Ausubel jokes.)
The family spent summers at Martha's Vineyard "before it was cool," he says; Ausubel and his brother "lived outdoors," exploring the island with bicycles and fishing poles.
"I didn't realize until many, many years later the profound impact or influence that had on me, but I've always been very connected to being outside," Ausubel says.
The events of the 1960s—the civil rights movement and Vietnam War protests—would further influence him. (In 1968, Columbia became a focal point of both movements when student protesters took over portions of the campus.)
But Ausubel's life took a dramatic turn when he was in college: He suffered a "real medical crisis," resembling a stroke. Though the origin of the illness has never been fully confirmed, Ausubel says doctors concluded it was the result of "some kind of huge chemical exposure" through his environment.
Ultimately, Ausubel realized he had to leave New York, and in 1974, he migrated with his first wife to Santa Fe.
"The minute I hit the ground here, it was home," Ausubel says. "I just loved this place."
At first, he worked odd jobs—including a stint as a writer for the Reporter—but soon moved to a small farm in Chimayó.
"I really kind of felt like an idiot because I'd grown up in the city—my parents literally never even had a houseplant, and we never even had a garden or anything like that," Ausubel recalls.
Still, he muddled through, learning to farm New Mexico soil from local families and "back-to-the-landers" in the neighborhood. Gradually, his health improved, in part due to a growing interest in natural medicine—"not out of any philosophical bias, but because conventional medicine was simply unable to help me," Ausubel says.
The 1970s also heralded the beginning of the country's first truly national environmental movement. Ausubel, having experienced firsthand the potentially harmful effects of environmental contamination, got on board.
"I wanted to know, given what's going on with this looming environmental crisis, what could we do about it? That's the basic question," Ausubel says. "And so I just began—partly as a citizen, really, and partly as a journalist—to poke around and see who was out there that might have some real solutions."
As a journalist, he explored tensions between the conventional medical community and alternative therapy clinics in books and films; his writings on the environment, social justice and alternative medicine would later make it into the pages of Tikkun, Utne Reader and the Huffington Post.
In the late 1980s, Ausubel's path shifted again. Working on a film near Ohkay Owingeh, he met master organic gardener Gabriel Howearth.
Despite six years of farming in Chimayó, Ausubel says, "I had never seen biodiversity in the garden, and it totally blew my mind. It was extraordinary."
In Howearth's garden, Ausubel learned for the first time about quinoa and amaranth; he saw more varieties of tomatoes than he could have imagined.
In 1989, when Ausubel finished the film, he and Howearth cofounded Seeds of Change, an organic food and seed company that rapidly acquired a devoted following.
Through his journalistic forays into alternative therapy and Seeds of Change's focus on diversity and the environmental crisis, Ausubel began to form a nature-centric worldview.
"Historically, our society and our civilization have looked at nature as an object and as a physical resource," Ausubel explains. "The shift that's happening now is instead to look at nature as a mentor and a model and a teacher."
But even the mentor needs help—which was where Ausubel's enthusiasm for nature-based healing came in.
"That really became the underlying epiphany for me around Bioneers: Just like our bodies, the Earth has a profound capacity for healing, for self-repair, that we barely understand," Ausubel explains. "Our role, in a way, is to work with nature to heal nature—to help Nature heal itself. And that became the most fundamental premise."
As is the way in Santa Fe, though, "the true story" of Bioneers begins at a spa.
"I was sitting around with [philanthropist Joshua Mailman] up at Ten Thousand Waves, and I was, I guess, ranting and raving about all these amazing people who had these incredible solutions to major environmental problems that nobody's ever heard of," Ausubel says. "He kind of looks at me and says, 'Why don't you have a conference?'"
At first, Ausubel says, the idea didn't take.
"I'd literally never been to a conference in my life and thought it sounded intensely boring," he says, laughing.
But Mailman convinced him—and funded the first conference with a $10,000 grant. Together with his second wife, Nina Simons, who has a background in theater and production, Ausubel began planning the first Bioneers conference.
That first conference, held in 1990 in Santa Fe, attracted approximately 250 people from fields pertaining to biodiversity, ecology, alternative medicine and progressive politics.
"It was an experiment; I mean, we really didn't know what would happen," Ausubel says. "I just knew that there were these amazing people with great work…and within a couple of hours, it was just electrifying."
By 1993, the conference had outgrown its Santa Fe origins, and Ausubel and Simons opted to move it to California. Though their main focus was still Seeds of Change, Ausubel says the energy and excitement he saw in Bioneers began to demand their full attention.
In 1994, Ausubel and Simons left Seeds of Change—three years before the company would be acquired by food giant Mars Inc.—to devote their undivided attention to Bioneers.
"Bioneers," according to the organization's website, are "social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic 'nature's operating instructions' to serve human ends without harming the web of life."
It's a wordy, amorphous definition—but one that has also accommodated the organization's multidirectional, occasionally haphazard growth. (A better understanding can probably be gleaned from Bioneers' tagline, "Revolution from the Heart of Nature." If it's revolutionary, and it has something to do with nature, then it fits, more or less.)
After the first few conferences, Bioneers grew into a full-fledged organization. Under its official name, the Collective Heritage Institute, Bioneers incorporated as a domestic nonprofit in June 1995. In general, Ausubel says, Bioneers has always played the role of networker: connecting innovators to one another through conferences and other programming.
"A lot of our job is to promote the work of other people, honestly, and it's a privilege for us to get to do that," Ausubel says.
Still, merely helping forge connections—such as introducing Michael Pollan to Joel Salatin, the organic farmer who served as a primary protagonist in Pollan's food policy book The Omnivore's Dilemma—wasn't always enough.
In late 1997, Ausubel says, Bioneers nearly dissolved.
"We had a $10,000 shortfall, which, at that time, was enough to put us out of business," he says, laughing at the memory. But an unsolicited donor came to the rescue with a five-year, $1 billion grant. The organization used the money as a springboard to start an award-winning radio series, "Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature," and various media outreach programs including "Beaming Bioneers," which disseminates webcasts from its conference to remote locations around the country.
Today, in addition to its annual conference, Bioneers also runs several programs dedicated to "making a difference" in a range of areas: education, food and farming, indigenous cultures, women's leadership, youth unity and Dreaming New Mexico, a project aimed at rethinking the state's food systems, culture and economy.
To Ausubel, these programs represent the organization's evolution from networker to actor—a response, he says, to a growing sense of urgency about the state of nature and the world.
"Five or six years ago, it was very clear that things were going downhill fast, and so we started off in some new directions," Ausubel says.
Dreaming New Mexico is among the most innovative of these new directions.
After interviewing stakeholders from a broad range of professions (farmers, public officials, teachers, businesspeople, etc.), the project's coordinators crafted one comprehensive map of the state's food system and another exploring its renewable energy resources [news, March 10, 2010: "Living the Dream"].
The project has won acclaim, placing respectively as runner-up and semifinalist in the 2009 and 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which awards $100,000 to a project or strategy with "significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems."
Bioneers' women's leadership campaign, under Simons' direction, has also pursued creative solutions by sponsoring its own programming to involve women in global change (see Women in Charge at the end of the article).
In recent years, the organization has made a more concerted focus on education, Ausubel says, as more and more educators and students showed up at the annual conferences.
"The educational system at large is one of the big leverage points for change, not just because it's where our future leaders come from, and a lot of good research, but because those institutions have a lot of clout in society," Ausubel says.
In order to capitalize on both the resources and the influence inherent in the education system, Bioneers worked to develop a network whereby educators and other stakeholders collectively set goals and work together toward long-term change.
"Networks are nature's primary form of organization, and so what we're starting to do now, for the first time, is to proactively activate those networks," Ausubel says. "Bioneers grew up to be a de facto network of networks, but I was sitting around thinking about all this last year, and I realized we've never done anything with that."
The resulting Education for Action Network will debut at this year's Bioneers conference, held Oct. 14-16 in San Rafael, Calif.
Still, for all its good intentions, Bioneers has come under occasional fire for what some consider an unrealistic approach to social change.
In a 2006 column for environmental website Grist, journalist Gregory Dicum described the Bioneers conference as "elitist" and "self-congratulatory (yet one more forum where people go on about change being in the air, a new world being born…in defiance of all evidence)."
Indeed: A one-day pass to the live auditorium at this year's Bioneers conference costs $175; a one-day pass to closed-circuit TV screenings of the conference costs $95.
And despite Ausubel's assertion that this year's conference marks the beginning of revolutionary social change, he has made similar statements in the past.
At the 2005 Bioneers conference, for instance, Ausubel told the crowd that the environmental/social justice mission embodied by Bioneers was "the biggest movement in the history of the world," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
But even Dicum, in his 2006 article, went on to say that Bioneers nonetheless succeeded in being "inspirational and moving." Further, the notion that change is afoot no longer defies all evidence.
On July 13, the nonprofit magazine Adbusters issued a call to occupy Wall Street.
"On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months," the magazine exhorted readers in a blog post.
Two months later, the protests began. As of press time, they had spread across the country and beyond, including here in Santa Fe (news, October 12, 2011: "Pre-occupied"). After various unions gave their support to the protesters, their numbers swelled to tens of thousands of people.
To Ausubel, it's evidence that the tide of consciousness is shifting.
"Today, the wealth inequality is even greater than in the gilded age of the robber barons, which is hard to even wrap your mind around," Ausubel says. "I think that what's going on in Occupy Wall Street right now is just the tip of the iceberg."
Back in 1976, two years after Ausubel first moved to New Mexico, his brother took a job in Washington, DC, at the National Academy of Sciences. Through their conversations, Ausubel started learning about global warming—the existence of which was confirmed in NASA physicist James E Hansen's 1988 testimony before Congress.
"We knew what was on the horizon," Ausubel says. "When we started Bioneers, in 1990, it actually looked like the country was awakening."
Global warming—and the need to halt its progress—was front-page news, Ausubel recalls, referencing Time magazine's 1989 Person of the Year issue, which featured a polluted Earth on the cover.
Needless to say, the revolution didn't happen.
"Hansen and company hoped to provoke a national reaction—and they did, but it came from Exxon Mobil and the oil and gas industry, who spent 20 years creating climate denial, sowing doubt," Ausubel says. "We've lost these critical two decades; now, it's too late to prevent all this stuff. We're gonna be scrambling just to adapt."
("Now, as then, I can assert that these conclusions have a certainty exceeding 99 percent," Hansen told the National Press Club in 2008, two decades after his original testimony.
Ausubel points to the catastrophic summer of 2011 as evidence that the proverbial time bomb is ticking.
Wildfires raged across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado; floods plagued the Midwest; hurricanes migrated as far north as New York; no region of the country seemed immune.
Ausubel says that "physical reality" is slowly convincing people that it's time to rethink the interplay between humanity and the natural world—which, in his view, should never have been separated.
But the real revolution, he says, will come down to something much more concrete: jobs.
"Both Europe and China have seen this next industrial revolution and the green economy," Ausubel says. "Europe explicitly has said they want to capture 25 percent of the global green products market by 2020, and they're on track to do that. China is seizing the high ground on clean energy, building giant research institutions that will rapidly outstrip anything going on here," he continues. "What the US faces is actually, ultimately, a business competitiveness issue. If we don't get with the program here, we're never going to catch up. We're just going to sink like a stone."
Bob Dylan lyrics aside, the times are changing—and not just according to the Occupy Wall Street contingent.
Ausubel points to US Marine Corps Col. Mark "Puck" Myckleby as an example of the broader awareness of global climate issues: Myckleby will present at this year's Bioneers conference on "the relationship of climate change and energy use to national security," according to the conference program.
The US military, Ausubel adds, has committed to a goal of using 50 percent renewable energy by 2020.
"The military's going green," Ausubel shrugs, grinning. What's more, he says, its concept of national security relies upon less centralized—and therefore less vulnerable—food and energy systems.
In short, Ausubel says, "All the things we've been talking about for a couple decades are now being talked about in the highest levels of the military."
That could be part of the reason a man whose job it is to point out the flaws in civilization's current economic, political and environmental systems remains so uncannily upbeat: Incremental success is coming his way, and has been for a while.
"I think we've been onto trends really early that are now really catching fire," Ausubel says. "We're now kind of moving into the next position, which is more of an action position of 'How do you actually manifest all this stuff—not just educate and communicate, but actually put it in place?' I think that's the big shift."
Though Bioneers has always been "solutions-focused," Ausubel says, there's still an enormous amount of work to be done.
"I'm less focused on our accomplishments than I am on what needs to be done still—and it's definitely daunting," he admits.
But that doesn't diminish his expectations for the revolution—the one that will make the next six years the most important ones in human history.
"I think we're about to see this giant explosion, where we're going to see essentially the equivalent of a wartime mobilization—but this time to restore nature and people," Ausubel says. "And it's a matter of when, not if. In my opinion, it's going to happen within the next three or four years."
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In addition to Bioneers' conference, radio show and other media outreach, one of the organization's primary purposes is to foment change in five different areas, or campaigns: education; food and farming; "indigeneity," or indigenous rights and cultural values; Dreaming New Mexico; and women's leadership.
Nina Simons—who co-founded Bioneers with husband Kenny Ausubel and now heads the women's leadership campaign and coordinates its signature training program, Cultivating Women's Leadership—says the campaign arose out of her own experience.
"I began being acknowledged for my leadership when I turned 40," Simons says, "and found I had a very conflicted reaction to it." Simons began "an inquiry to understand what that was about," she says—and found that many other women in similar circumstances had similar reactions: They weren't sure they were actually leaders or didn't think they deserved recognition.
In part, Simons says, that grew out of a subconscious understanding of leadership as a primarily masculine value—the result of a competitive, hierarchical reckoning.
For instance, Simons says, despite co-founding Bioneers with Ausubel, she felt that she was "supporting my husband's vision" rather than actively pursuing her own.
And it wasn't just Simons.
"The same biases that I found within myself as an individual, I also saw in all of our institutions and societal structures, and I recognized them as an unconscious residual legacy of a culture that has been shaped by a bias towards those things seen to be 'masculine' and a bias that has tended to undervalue or diminish the contribution of those things or people seen as 'feminine,'" Simons says.
Together with experienced leadership trainer Toby Herzlich, Simons developed a women's leadership program that, over the past six years, has trained more than 200 female leaders, many of them from New Mexico.
Though women's skills and interests vary, Simons says many share an enthusiasm for community service, the health of the Earth and a cooperative rather than competitive leadership style.
Fostering and expanding on those qualities, she says, not only encourages more women to be leaders, but also improves the way society functions.
"Almost any system or institution you could name would be improved by a rebalancing of the masculine and the feminine within its infrastructure and perspective," Simons says. "I see it in education; I see it in economics; it's been widely acknowledged within business; and certainly our governance would be tremendously improved if we could break the magic ratio and have more than 30 percent…women in the House and Senate."
To that end, alumnae of Simons' leadership training program will meet at the conference to "cross-pollinate and connect," she says. They'll also have the opportunity to hear acclaimed women's liberation leader Gloria Steinem and Pam Rajput, the founder of a women's "shadow parliament" in India.
But the conference's overall message of social change and environmental recovery also pertains to women's leadership, Simons notes.
"Given the urgency and opportunity of the environmental and social challenges we face, restoring balance to the masculine and feminine within us each, and within our larger institutions and structures, is one of the most essential shifts we could make," she says.
The 2011 Bioneers conference is the organization's 22nd, and though approximately 3,000 people attend it each year in San Rafael, Calif., the remote broadcasting program "Beaming Bioneers" last year reached another 9,000 people in 20 locations around the world.
This year, an impressive list of keynote speakers, including Rocky Mountain Institute Chairman Amory Lovins and renowned feminist Gloria Steinem, brings the revolution to Albuquerque Oct. 20-22 via the Open Space Alliance, and to Santa Fe Community College in January 2012.


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daverupa wrote:Spiny O'Norman wrote:a straightforward understanding based on the way DO is described
"Do not say so, Ananda..."
I'm talking about the way DO is described in the suttas, where in the cessation mode there is cessation of death following the cessation of birth. Given this it is logical to conclude that amata, the Deathless, refers to Pari-nibbana.
Actually though, I can see some some ambiguity in the suttas extracts we've been looking at, and I can see that amata may well refer to both Nibbana and Pari-nibbana.
What I find interesting is the reluctance of some contributors to acknowledge the option that amata refers to Pari-nibbana.


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JR wrote:No chart shows how the entire flight path changes with differing distance, spin rate and nose angle plus off axis torque. I wouldn't read much into you flipping the Monarchs because others do too and they are notorious for misbehaving if not thrown flat and clean. If you were to to flip a beefy disc then OAT would be the likely explanation here i'm not sure at all. The Monarch is not at all usable yard stick for cleanliness of form.
To me the Vulcans are real flippers like fast Sidewinders and my max distance with the 159 Star hit a wall at IIRC 430' s-curved. Normally 400-410' is tricky because it flips so much but with a mild anny after the flip 410' is pretty much guaranteed minimum. Too bad the hit rate is low due to the flippyness.
When i've had different results flight wise the most common cause has been others throwing faster than i do and from flight description with less spin than me. Speed and spin dominant throws are different and gyroscopics of the disc in straight and understable discs is influenced a lot by spin. And i'm not tops in spinning the disc vs the speed. With golf form (not using distance tricks) my record is 92 KPH at 20 revs per second. Avery Jenkins has thrown way farther with a quarter higher radar result than my radar result with the same revs. So the forces acting on the discs are very different with more understable flight behavior supporting speed for Avery with the same force of the gyroscopics resisting turn. That is why i throw Beasts straight and the big boys flip them.
I'd like to know how far do you get your Vulcans and with what kind of flight path and apex height to compare where we differ. And don't dramatize i don't have that different results to most experienced throwers especially when we factor in different distances we throw to. Ginormous pfft.
Why do you bring up variables? You assert that a Vulcan is more understable than a Monarch. It just cannot be. Hell, even Innova compares the Monarch to a Roadrunner. Oh, and stop ignoring the speed. I have no idea what most of the above is even trying to say.


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The U.S. is becoming a crowded market for avocados, but Chile still has a strong place in the fall/winter season, marketers say.
California's avocado deal is still peaking but is scheduled to wind down as fall takes hold, while Peru recently completed its second full summer season in the U.S. and Mexico launched its new-crop shipments late this summer.
The timing of the Chilean deal brings its share of challenges, shippers say.
It's always difficult, regardless of the size of Chile's crop, said Rankin McDaniel, owner of Fallbrook, Calif.-based McDaniel Fruit Co.
"Each year presents its own challenges, because each year depends on what a country of origin has in the way of volume and how they can transition with other countries of origin either entering or leaving a marketplace," he said. "It requires much work and very close communication with customers.
"We have to advise them on directions that they should be going in terms of what we think is the best quality avocado for the consumers that shop with our customers," he said.
Coordinating the Chilean crop involves communications with Mexico, California and Peru, but Chile still has its own opportunity to dominate, said Adolfo Ochagavía, president of the Chilean Hass Avocado Committee.
"Chile usually supplies their big volumes when California starts to decline in their local weekly harvest and Peru declines its weekly shipments during August, so that gives us some space to allocate part of our shipments to the U.S.," Ochagavia said.
Timing Chile with California and Mexico is a hurdle, but so is ensuring profit for Chilean growers and shippers, said Chris Varvel, sales/distribution manager with Escondido, Calif.-based Henry Avocado Corp.
"The challenge usually is getting the kind of price return to the Chilean shippers that they're expecting," he said.
Chile competes against a Mexican industry that continues to dominate the U.S., but working a Chilean crop in with the Mexican supplies generally isn't a problem, said Gary Caloroso, marketing director with Escondido-based Giumarra Agricom International.
"A major difference between now and previous seasons is that consumer demand continues to dramatically increase, so we believe having a steady supply of avocados available for consumption in the United States is absolutely critical," he said.
California's large crop this year could provide a little extra twist, said Rob Wedin, vice president of sales and marketing with Santa Paula, Calif.-based Calavo Growers Inc.
"We're continuing the California crop and believe we're going to go through October, but we're feeling a little less confident about November," Wedin said. "Fortunately, there's just tremendous demand for avocados in the U.S."
That's where Chile proves its worth, Wedin said.
"For the most part, growers are continuing to do fairly well, so you have that safety net of demand here — when you make mistakes, they are correctable," he said.
Calavo relies more heavily on Mexico production, however, Wedin said.
A later-starting crop has been a help to Chile, said Dana Thomas, president of Index Fresh Inc., Riverside, Calif.
"Their start has been later, September/October, the last couple of years, and that's helped with marketing conditions," he said.


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As I drank a morning cup of coffee, a reflection arose in my mind thus: Suppose one were to translate dukkha as 'troublesome'; does this capture the essential meaning?
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Dukkha (adj. -- n.) [Sk. duḥkha fr. duḥ -- ka, an adj. forma- tion fr. prefix duḥ (see du). According to others an analogy formation after sukha, q. v.; Bdhgh (at Vism 494) expls dukkha as du+kha, where du=du1 and kha=ākāsa. See also def. at Vism 461.] A. (adj.) unpleasant, painful, causing misery (opp. sukha pleasant) Vin i.34; Dh 117. Lit. of vedanā (sensation) M i.59 (˚ŋ vedanaŋ vediyamāna, see also below iii.1 e); A ii.116=M. i.10 (sarīrikāhi vedanāhi dukkhāhi). <-> Fig. (fraught with pain, entailing sorrow or trouble) of kāmā D i.36 (=paṭipīḷan -- aṭṭhena DA i.121); Dh 186 (=bahudukkha DhA iii.240); ofjāti M i.185 (cp. ariyasacca, below B I.); in combn dukkhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā D iii.106; Dhs 176; Nett 7, 112 sq., cp. A ii.149 sq. ekanta˚ very painful, giving much pain S ii.173; iii.69. dukkhaŋ (adv.) with difficulty, hardly J i.215.
lucky-2012 wrote:So I would say 'troublesome' describes 'dukkha', but they are not interchangeable...
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text: Luxury auto show accommodations February 3, 2009 12:00 AM The three official hotels of the Chicago Auto Show — the Fairmont Chicago, Swissôtel Chicago and Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago — provide the ultimate luxury to hotel guests. With newly renovated guest rooms and the addition of other amenities at the Swissôtel and the Fairmont, auto show media and executives are certain to be pleased. These first-rate accommodations are also conveniently located within close distance to McCormick Place – only a quick drive or free shuttle ride away. Registration deadlines apply. Please contact the individual hotels for additional information. Recently redesigned by David Rockwell, the Fairmont Chicago is sleek and contemporary with warm splashes of color. Highlights of the recent renovation include Australian artwork, 42-inch flat panel TVs, Nespresso Cofffee Makers, iPod docking stations, triple-sheeted pillow top mattresses and Miller Harris bath amenities. The luxurious hotel is also pleased to announce the arrival of mySpa, an 11,000 sq. feet urban sanctuary featuring eight treatment rooms and a fitness studio. For additional information about mySpa or to see a menu of services, please visit myspachicago.com. The Fairmont Chicago overlooks Millennium Park and Grant Park and is in walking distance of Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Theatre District and world renowned museums. Please call 1-800-526-2008 and ask for the 2009 Chicago Auto Show rate of $130 per night, or visit http://resweb.passkey.com/go/chicagoauto to make a reservation. Designed by Melanie Swisher, each recently renovated Swissôtel room features a specialty Swiss Comfort Bed with an upholstered headboard, a 37-inch high-definition split screen plasma television, a frameless glass shower stall and photo art floating in an acrylic panel. The rooms also contain a technology docking center, laptops, MP3 players, DVD players and game consoles. Guests are also capable of programming their personal phone number to the room. Guests can overlook panoramic views of Lake Michigan when visiting the 42nd floor Penthouse Health Club and pool. Located just steps away from the Magnificent Mile and Navy Pier, Swissôtel Chicago has spectacular views of Lake Michigan and the city skyline. Please call 1-888-73-SWISS and ask for the Chicago Auto Show rate of $135 per night or call Suzanne Quinley at 312-268-8203 for additional information for groups of 10 or more. Visit the Swissôtel Web site at www.swissotelchicago.com. With a grand opening of January 30, 2008, the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is ninety-two stories upon its completion with an elegant structure of polished stainless steel and iridescent-tinted glass. The hotel offers spacious, contemporary accommodations starting at 600 sq. feet, personal attaché service, in-suite chef services, 42-inch flat screen plasma TVs with DVD and CD players, luxurious limestone bathrooms and 10 feet floor-to-ceiling windows. Other features include state-of-the-art conference rooms, signature restaurant and lounge and an array of spa indulgences. Located near Navy Pier, Michigan Avenue, the Theater District and the Financial District, the hotel is steps from world-renowned shopping and restaurants. Please call 1-877-45-TRUMP for special Chicago Auto Show reservations starting at $250 per night or visit www.trumpchicagohotel.com. Back to News


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The Fairfax County Consolidated Community Funding Advisory Committee (CCFAC) has released, for public comment, the Draft Priorities for the Consolidated Community Funding Pool for the next two-year cycle for FY 2013-2014 of the Consolidated Community Funding Pool (CCFP). The CCFP is a Fairfax County competitive contract award process for eligible programs and services offered by community-based organizations. Comments on this proposal can be provided in writing or presented at the CCFAC meeting Tuesday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Conference Rooms 9 and 10 at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia, 22035. After receiving public comments, the CCFAC will recommend funding priorities to the Board of Supervisors for FY 2013-2014. The Board is scheduled to consider the CCFAC's recommendation at their meeting on Tuesday, July 12 and act on the priorities to be included in the Request for Proposals (RFP) that will be issued in the fall of 2011 for the FY 2013-2014 two-year cycle.
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Angels have basepath plan for Pujols, in a pinch
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The Angels had an interesting plan in place in case Albert Pujols got on base in his spring debut on Tuesday. Manager Mike Scioscia asked permission from his Cincinnati counterpart, Dusty Baker, to use a pinch-runner for Pujols and still allow him back into the game.
That plan didn't wind up taking effect, though, because Pujols struck out and grounded out twice. The three-time Most Valuable Player came out of the box gingerly on each of his groundouts, and he said that he's been able to do some sprinting but that he really hasn't run the bases yet.
"I think they talked to Dusty about where they were going to take me out and put me back in. Dusty was OK with that," said Pujols. "I was fine to do either/or. I told them I was ready to [run], but since I haven't [run] the bases and all that, they wanted to be careful. I think that's something I'm going to do right now. And then tomorrow. And then hopefully in a couple days I won't have to worry about it."
Baker, for his part, got in a great quip when he heard Pujols would be in the lineup.
"You know Albert wouldn't miss us," said Baker of the ex-Cardinal.
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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Learn about contrast ratio — what it means for a TV's picture quality, and how to use contrast ratio numbers when comparing TVs.
Video TranscriptSteve: Hi. I'm Steve and I'm here in the Crutchfield studio to talk about TV contrast ratio. Contrast ratio measures the difference between the brightest whites and the darkest blacks that a TV can produce. The higher a TV's contrast ratio, the better it will be at showing distinct details especially in the darkest areas of the screen. Now you might see contrast ratios ranging from 5,000:1 to 5,000,000:1. Now if you're shopping for a TV it might seem obvious to just compare the contrast specs between TVs, and buy the one with the highest contrast ratio. But actually you need to keep two things in mind when comparing these numbers.
First of all, you'll find that some TVs list two different contrast ratio specs. Static contrast ratio measures the difference between the brightest and darkest images a TV can produce simultaneously. Dynamic contrast ratio measures those same differences over time, so that number is always much higher. For example, a TV with a static contrast ratio of 3,000:1 may have a dynamic rating of 100,000:1 so make sure you're comparing apples to apples.
Second, there is no agreed upon industry standard for measuring either type of contrast ratio, and measurements of dynamic contrast ratio are especially varied. While static contrast ratio is a more real world measurement, there are still likely to be differences in how that number is calculated across different brands. The bottom line: The contrast ratio spec is most useful when you're comparing different TV models from the same manufacturer. Just don't rely on it as the most important factor when assessing picture quality. You can learn about other HDTV terms and technologies at crutchfield.com/chooseTV, or you can always call our experts at 1-800-555-9408.
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I would assume anyone watching this would want to buy a TV or projector with a good Contrast ratio. To help in making that decision, if you could mention what is a good static contrast ratio value and dynamic contrast ratio value, that would help.


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This major does not have any required major courses in the first semester, though students may be placed in one or more of the following, depending on availability:
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For program information and course descriptions, please visit the on-line Undergraduate Catalogue. You will follow the 2015-16 Undergraduate Catalogue. This catalogue is currently under construction but should be posted sometime this summer. In the meantime, please refer to the 2014-15 Undergraduate Catalogue, as much of the information is the same.
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If you think there are only two genealogy-related television programs available or soon-to-be available, then put down your clicker and listen up!
The Generations Project is a series produced by BYU Television and each episdoe profiles the ancestry of everyday folks like you and me. I just watched my first episode this week and it was excellent!
In the episode, Danielle Jones, a young African-American woman studying to become a lawyer is able to connect across the generations with an ancestor who was an emancipated slave. The journey starts with her great-grandfather in Ohio and then travels to the Jamestown Plantation area in Virginia.
Below is a link to the full episode which will remain online until Monday, February 22, 2010. Also, you can catch the Danielle Jones episode rebroadcast at 6pm MST this coming Monday and a new episode will be broadcast that same evening at 8pm MST.
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First we had the Scotties, then it was the Brier, and just the other week, it was the women's world curling championships. This week, the men's world curling championship takes centre stage. If you think this marks the end of the season, you would be wrong. In fact, your last chance this season to watch the best teams in the world battle for curling supremacy out on the ice is from April 16-21, when the Players' Championship, the final event of the Grand Slam of Curling, takes to the ice.
Playing host to the thirty teams participating in the Players is the Mattamy Athletic Centre, which is the former Maple Leaf Gardens, in the heart of downtown Toronto. And the field is top notch. On the men's side of the draw, we have teams skipped by Balsdon, Cotter, Edin, Epping, Frans, Gushue, Howard, Jacobs, Kean, Koe, Laycock, Martin, McEwen, Stoughton and Ulsrud. On the women's side, we have teams Carey, Crocker, Homan, Jaeggi, Jones, Kleibrink, Lawton, Middaugh, Muirhead, Nedohin, Ott, Sidorova, Sigfridsson, Sonnenberg and Tirinzoni.
The stakes are higher than ever before, with a prize purse of $200,000. And there's even more money on the line for Rachel Homan, winner of The Masters. Should she win the Players' Championship, she would win a bonus of $100,000 for being a two-time winner on the women's 2013 Slam series. (And I think she'd welcome the chance to play Eve Muirhead one more time this season, after suffering a heart breaking loss to Scotland in the semi-finals of the women's world championships).
We have had Grand Slam curling in the greater Toronto area over the last five years, with Mississauga hosting the Masters in 2009, and Oshawa hosting the Canadian Open in 2011. But if you live in Toronto, the action is that much closer this time round: it is just a quick hop onto the subway, where you'll head to College Station and from there it is a short walk to see the best curlers from Canada and around the world. There are four draws daily.
Tickets are now available for purchase for the full event as well as for each single draw. So, get on to Ticketmaster and get your tickets now! If you're a member of a club that is part of the Toronto Curling Association, order your full event pass using the promo code for your club, and $25 of the purchase price will go back directly to your club. And just this week, Sportsnet announced that once full event ticket package sales hit $25,000, a $5000 bonus will be paid to the club who had the greatest percentage of its membership purchase a package. Wow!
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BiographyJerzy (Jurek) Konieczny, Professor of Economics, received an MA degree from Warsaw University (where he also studied mathematics) and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. He joined the WLU faculty in 1987. His primary area of teaching and research is macroeconomics, in particular the microfoundations of sticky prices and menu cost models. His other research interests include transition and industrial organization. Recent research focuses on the behaviour of prices, and of price setters, regular adjustment, distribution of price changes over time as well as on testing menu cost model.
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When I started Vermont Woods Studios Fine Furniture I was working out of my home office and seven years later I still spend a good part of my workday here. So I'm always interested to see what new furniture is coming out for home offices.
Copeland Furniture has recently brought out a couple new workstations: the Sarah Modular Corner Desk with Rolling File and Return and the Berkeley Desk w/ Organizer & Return shown here.
These solid wood workstations are designed in an "L" shape to fit in a corner space but they are modular and versatile so you can change them around as your needs change. I've seen the return desk used as a sofa table and it worked beautifully.
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An analysis of lupus patients found that kidney disease and a high level of autoantibodies were associated with a higher risk for flare. These results were published in the August 2013 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism by lupus expert Michelle A. Petri, MD of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues.
In a media interview, Dr. Petri and colleagues noted: "This study provides data that help us to identify patients at greater risk of severe SLE flare; these data should also help us to select the most appropriate SLE flare index in clinical trials assessing the ability of new therapies to reduce rates of moderate-to-severe lupus flare."