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Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Provinces of Noord-Holland, Utrecht, Zuid-Holland, Gelderland and Noord-Brabant
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The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie is a military defence line that marked the administrative and economic heart of the Netherlands - Fort Holland. It was designed to keep out invaders by the controlled flooding of a chain of inundation fields to a depth of up to a metre.
The inundation line was laid in the 19th and 20th centuries and runs from Fort Naarden to Fort Steurgat in the Biesbosch. The line consists of a system of waterworks and over 1,000 forts, casemates, sluices and wooden houses. The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie is one of the largest projects ever undertaken in the Netherlands.
The fields of fire and inundation basins around the forts consist mainly of open land, since the Strategic Defences Act (Kringenwet) of 1853, which was only repealed in 1963, prohibited any building on such designated areas until 1963.
The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie links up with, and is an extension of, the Stelling van Amsterdam, which already has World Heritage status.
Justification of Outstanding Universal Value
The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie is of exceptional significance through its extensiveness, the fact that it uses a specialised system of waterworks, and the pristine character of the fortifications.
Criterion ii: The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie and the Stelling van Amsterdam are exceptional examples of an extensive, integrated European defence system of the modern period which has survived intact and well conserved since their creation in the late 19th century. They are both part of a continuum of earlier defensive measures and were later to influence certain portions of the construction immediately before and after World War II.
Criterion iv: The forts are outstanding examples of an extensive, integrated defence system of the modern period which has survived intact and well conserved since its creation in the late 19th century.
Criterion v: The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie represents the skill of the Netherlands in water management and its practical application in the defence of the nation.
Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
The cultural value of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (as an illustration of Dutch water management) is expressed through extant portions of the system, most of which is still intact.
The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie and the Stelling van Amsterdam formed the line of defence of Fort Holland, the western conurbation now known as the Randstad. The addition of the Inundation Line to the World Heritage site of the Stelling van Amsterdam would enhance the value of both properties and improve the opportunities for conservation. The site would then comprise all the elements of the Fort Holland defence line.
Comparison with other similar properties
The Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie and the Stelling van Amsterdam partially overlap, use the same inundation system and were designed with the aim of defending the same area of land (the present-day Randstad).
The former Grebbelinie, the defence line that extended from the Lower Rhine to the IJsselmeer, is a comparable site. Until 1951, the Grebbelinie functioned as a forward defence line of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie.


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A planned search for six climbers believed to have fallen to their deaths while ascending Washington's Mount Rainier will be scaled back due to dangerous conditions, a park spokeswoman said on Sunday.
The search, already held up by ice and rock falls and poor visibility, has not been called off. But it will be limited to efforts to spot the missing climbers from helicopters, said Patricia Wold, a spokeswoman for Mount Rainier National Park.
"Due to the extreme danger of rock and ice fall at the bottom of the fall area we are not able to do a ground search," she said.
Officials believe the six climbers, caught in an avalanche of snow, rock and other debris, likely fell about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) from the north face of the mountain in what would be the worst accident on Mount Rainier in three decades.
Helicopter crews found climbing and camping gear in snow more than 3,000 feet (900 meters) below the climbers' last known position and also picked up distress signals from the group's avalanche beacons.
The climbing party, including two guides from Seattle's Alpine Ascents International, set off on Monday for a five-day trek intended to take them up one of the toughest ascents of the ice-covered 14,100 foot (4,298 meter) massif.
They were last heard from via satellite phone on Wednesday evening, when they had reached a height of 12,800 feet (3,900 meters).
The climbers indicated they were fine and planned to reach the summit on Thursday but noted bad weather seemed to be moving in. A rain and hail storm swept through the area Wednesday and produced snow at higher elevations.
Alpine Ascents' website describes the Liberty Ridge hike as "one of the most technical and physically demanding climbs we do in the lower 48 states".
"The larger Alpine Ascents community and families are stunned and grief stricken," a statement from the group said.
The identities of the climbers have not been released.
Mount Rainier, an active volcano, is part of the Cascade Range and dominates the Seattle skyline. An ice fall on Rainier took the lives of 11 hikers in 1981.Last Mod: 02 Haziran 2014, 09:40


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Syria fears awaken gold bugsAugust 27, 2013: 2:59 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Gold often does well in times of turmoil. It's a tangible asset that is viewed as both a classic safe haven investment and as an alternative to paper currencies such as dollars, euros and what have you.
Well, guess what? Fears that the United States could launch missile strikes against oil-rich Syria should meet anyone's definition of turmoil.
The price of gold has shot up nearly 4% in just the past five days. Much of the move has taken place since remarks from Secretary of State John Kerry late Monday regarding allegations of Syria using chemical weapons. That helped push gold firmly above $1,400 an ounce.
Gold prices are now up about 20% from their 52-week low. But gold is still down more than 20% from its 52-week high.
The gold bugs had been sleeping for a big chunk of 2013. (Do bugs hibernate? Or is that just bears?)
It definitely seems like worries about the Middle East have awoken them from their uh, golden slumbers. (Smiles await them when they rise.) Gold prices rose earlier this month, following the deadly protests in Egypt.
The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) exchange-traded fund gained more than 1% Tuesday while the broader stock market fell. The ETF also rose Monday.
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Shares of big gold miners Newmont (NEM), Goldcorp (GG) and Barrick Gold (ABX) started Tuesday off as market leaders but all lost ground as the day wore on. Still, the Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) ETF is up during the past week.
"This is a classic case of a flight to safety. The tension in Syria, as well as Egypt a few weeks ago, have set the wheels in motion for gold to rise," said Mike Meyer, assistant vice president with EverBank World Markets.
Silver has done even better than gold lately. Silver is now trading 35% above its 52-week low. But silver remains in a bear market as well, with prices more than 30% below their 52-week high. The iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) has soared more than 7% in just the past week.
Now, it makes sense that gold and silver would be moving higher on fears of more turmoil in the Middle East. Oil prices have unsurprisingly shot up as well. And oil and gold often move in tandem.
Related: Oil prices jump as Syria conflict heats up
Gold is often referred to as an inflation hedge. And if the price of commodities that consumers actually use every day (like oil) start to climb even higher, then gold would likely keep rising as well.
But some experts think the recent run in gold and silver is not over ... and that they could continue to do well even if the tension in Syria is resolved quickly and (relatively) peacefully.
Mike McGlone, head of U.S. research at ETF Securities, which offers ETFs tied to precious metals, says this year's massive pullback in gold and silver was healthy. It helped shake out some of the speculative froth.
Related: Hedge funds lose faith in gold
McGlone notes that huge demand for gold and silver from Asia (particularly China and India) is a sign that the worst may be over.
"The correction in gold and silver gave investors a good idea of what the ocean looked like with the tide low," McGlone said, referring to the famous quote from investing legend Warren Buffett about not knowing who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.
McGlone said investors should not go overboard with gold or other metals though. He said having gold account for 5% of an investor's portfolio could help provide protection against market volatility that may arise every now and then ... like this week for example.
Related: Fed warned of global economic risks
Still, what about the Federal Reserve? One of the reasons gold and silver have plunged this year is because there is a growing sense that the Fed will finally start to trim (I'm declaring a personal moratorium on the word that rhymes with caper) its $85 billion-a-month in asset purchases sooner rather than later.
Gold had spiked while the Fed was in QE ∞ mode because all those bond purchases helped reduce the value of the dollar, keep long-term bond rates low and fan the flames for eventual inflation down the road. That may no longer be the case if the Fed is going to slow down its pace of quantitative easing.
But McGlone and Meyer both think the Fed-induced gold sell-off was an overreaction.
Related: Four downsides of a chattier Fed
Meyer noted that cutting back on bond purchases is not the same thing as tightening monetary policy.
"The Fed is still going to be expanding its balance sheet. And it is not raising short-term interest rates anytime soon. That should, in theory, lead to more inflation pressures," he said.
McGlone took it a step further. He used the well-known metaphor about the Fed and a certain cocktail party drink.
"This is just a reduction in accommodation. The Fed is not taking away the punch bowl. It is just lowering the amount of alcohol and steroids that were spiking it," he said.
"There has been a sentiment shift with metals. The lows for gold are in ... not just this for year, but for a long time," he added.


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Why does a stationary body above the surface of the earth not change its position after some time while the earth is moving? Suppose if we place an object above the surface of the earth, would it be at the same position after some time and why?
Picture credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon
Answered By: Kenneth S. Mendelson, Marquette University


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I also confirmed that Combobox selections now work in the IDE preview.
I also confirm that comboboxes issue is now solved.
But still improved rendering does not work - all items are on top of each other and hidden items are visible.
@SilverK This sounds like a layout exception. What are the chances you have a form with groups or other non-datacard controls as immediate children?
We are having an issue with Navigate (with 'none' animation effect) between screens containing galleries - as you can see on the gif below, it shows in a kind of overlapping way on the galleries before the new screen would be fully loaded. It happens only over galleries (where item source is a delegatedly filtered SPO list), and it works perfectly with 'classic' rendering.
Any tips on how it can be fixed with improved rendering is ON? We are fine with classic rendering also as soon as the 'improved' one is not forced, but I'm afraid the clock is ticking...
@karacsondi Can you set Gallery.Transition to None and check if it still happens? I want to make sure it is a bug we are aware of.
@tahoon : Changed it from .push to .none at both galleries but it still happens.
I don't observe this problem with my apps.
Same behavior in Chrome and FF, gallery is at top level of a non-scrollable screen. Problem got solved by re-creating the gallery in a new screen within the same app with the same setup, where it works properly. Weird enough but I let it go.
I have issues with the app restarting (or crashing) all the time. It may be more likely to happen when scrolling through large galleries and lists with 100-300 items, but sometimes it seems to happen randomly as well. There is no error so I can only guess the reason beyond this point. I found someone mentioning the improved rendeing is the cause. I have done some testing and indeed it seems to be much more stable and responsive now that I have disabled the improved rendering. We are running iOS 12.2 and PowerApps 3.19053.21
Will developers enforce the new rendering even when there are issues like this present? Anyone else experienced similar issues?
I have tried improving some of the forms and screens by pure speculation on what could be memory/cpu intensive, but it is a waste of time unless I have some hint as to what the cause is. There should be some error messages available to the app designers. Perhaps there already is, if so, where? 🙂
@hjaf This is a reported issue that we are actively investigating--particularly related to iPhone devices. We will update this thread as we know more.
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I'm not yet done posting my thematic "Q & A Collections" that bring together posts from the past two years, but I know that many of us will be starting the new school year soon.
So, I wanted to take a one-week break from posting those compilations and, instead, consider this question again:
"What's your best advice on getting the new school year off to a good start?"
I've previously posted a three-part series on that same topic, but we teachers can never get enough good advice on how to best approach this important time of the year.
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Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage
- Joe Wheeler Author
- 2008 18 Feb
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler (Howard Books).
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Chapter One
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading, but false. The author makes a wonderful hero of his subject. He magnifies his perfections, if he has any, and suppresses his imperfections. History is not history unless it is the truth.
—Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was permitted to live only fifty-six years. Yet had he been given the opportunity to choose any fifty-six-year period from the thousands of years of recorded history, chances are he'd have chosen 1809 to 1865. These were quite possibly the fifty-six most exciting years our world has ever known.
As we set out to examine Abraham Lincoln's life, it might be helpful to take a quick look at the world in which he lived and made such a lasting impact.
The Industrial Revolution
Lincoln was born at the intersection of two ages: the colonial and the industrial. The old ways were dying out and were being replaced by newfangled inventions and mysterious automated processes.
For thousands of years the fastest form of land transportation had been the horse. In 1858, land travel's last hurrah was the overland stage. What an experience it must have been to have boarded that great Concord stagecoach with its gleaming metal and wood accoutrements. At the head of the coach, restlessly snorting their eagerness to hit the roads, were six magnificent horses. When the driver snapped his whip, the stage leaped into motion. As the horses galloped out of St. Louis, hundreds of bystanders enviously watched it streak by. "Would you believe," one of them said in wonder, "that only twenty days from now those folk will step down onto the streets of Los Angeles in California, 2,600 miles away!"
"'That the most direct way there is?" his neighbor might have asked.
"Nope. But it's the only one that'll get them there in twenty days without being scalped by Indians on the warpath."
In those days, getting mail across vast distances was always a problem. In 1860, William Russell and Alexander Majors bankrolled and organized the Pony Express. Their intrepid riders raced across the country from St. Louis, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, changing horses 119 times along the way—that was, if Indians hadn't attacked the stations before they got there. In spite of all obstacles, including blistering heat, sandstorms, ice storms, snowstorms, rainstorms, and Indian attacks, those courageous riders still averaged an almost unbelievable twelve miles an hour.
Then there was travel by sea. For millenia the fastest means of sea travel was the sailing ship. In the middle of the nineteenth century, as always, there were but two alternatives: oars and sails, neither of which resulted in much speed.
It's doubtful that a more beautiful sailing ship was ever constructed than that legendary windjammer the Flying Cloud. She sailed from Boston clear around Cape Horn, on the southern tip of South America, to come up to the coast of California. Travelers wanting to get from Boston to California overland were faced with a long wagon-train ride that was iffy at best and ran the risk of attack by marauding Indians. Ship travel, then, dangerous as the storms might be, offered more favorable odds. Still, it was a 19,000-mile-long voyage (only 5,000 miles shorter than traveling clear around the world). Even so, in 1854, the Flying Cloud broke the time record by making the voyage in eighty-nine days and eight hours.
Impressive as such feats may be, the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Flying Cloud were swan songs from a dying age. The Industrial Revolution was beginning, and steam engines were changing everything.
Though Isaac Newton had come up with the concept of steam locomotion way back in 1680, it didn't move out of the theoretical into the practical until 1801. That's when Richard Trevithick, a Cornish mine captain, built the first steam locomotive. George Stephenson took it to the next level. By 1830, when Lincoln was twenty-one, the railroad age had begun in America. From that time on, faster and faster locomotives were built, and more and more track was laid. People then traveled by horse or coach only when rail transportation wasn't available.
For the first time in human history, time became relevant. Unless a train arrived and departed at a specific time, how could travelers know when to be at a station? So clocks became important and time zones became necessary. The modern age was dawning.
Steam changed sea and river travel, too. Until then, sailing ships had arrived in port "whenever." The vagaries of wind and weather made more precise timetables impossible. As for river travel, it was possible to float downstream with a current but it was nearly impossible to travel the other direction against a current. Mark Twain immortalized for us the practice of mules towing boats upstream on rivers.
But now steam engines were propelling sea and river vessels. By the time Lincoln was born, steamboats were beginning to appear on lakes and rivers. A few years later, more powerful engines would make it possible for steamboats to travel against the current up rivers such as the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio. On the high seas, in 1838, the British steamer the Great Western crossed the Atlantic Ocean in an unprecedented fifteen days. By 1850, the crossing time had been reduced to ten days. Timetables now became crucial for sea travel as well as rail.
Abraham Lincoln had no way of knowing that his world was changing so rapidly as he grew up in a frontier time warp. Nine years before Lincoln was born, Alessandro Volta had discovered how to create electricity, which would change the world much more dramatically than steam had done. When Lincoln was five, the circular saw was invented. By the time he was twenty, the trickle of technological change had swelled into a torrent: the electric motor, photographic negatives, acetelyne, carpet power looms, rubber, ozone, thermodynamics, the hydroelectric crane, the first form of an electric light bulb, rayon, tungsten steel, the passenger elevator, the lawnmower, electrical incandescent light, the practical storage battery, and the discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and the subsequent oil boom. All of these represent just a few of the inventions and discoveries that would revolutionize Lincoln's world during his lifetime.
When Lincoln was born, America was almost totally an agricultural nation. But technology began to change there, too. The cotton gin (1793), the Deere steel plow (1833), the McCormick reaper (1834), and the grain elevator (1842) would make seismic changes in farm productivity.
Changes at Home
The home life of Mary Todd, the future Mrs. Lincoln, would change, too. During her lifetime came the development of the icebox (1803), the canning process (1810, 1819) and Mason canning jars (1858), and the sulfur match (1827). With the sulfur match it was no longer necessary to keep a fire burning day and night. Now a fire could be started whenever anyone wanted one. More inventions that transformed domestic life during this period were Howe's sewing machine (1843), Singer's continuous-stitch sewing machine (1851), and the cold-storage machine. And what a difference a simple little thing like a safety pin (1849) would make in a mother's life!
For company and special occasions, party hostesses could now offer Ghirardelli's chocolate (1851), potato chips (originally called "Saratoga chips," 1853), strawberry shortcake (1855), and dessert out of a hand-cranked ice cream machine (1846); children could enjoy chewing gum (1848).
Customs and fashions were changing as well. At the dinner table, the two-pronged fork was changing to four prongs, and good manners required not using it with the left hand anymore but moving it to the right.
In 1800, only eighteen years before Mary Todd's birth and for the first time in fashion history, a shoe for the right foot was contoured differently from one for the left foot. Trousers began to replace breeches in Paris by 1821, and by 1823, men were transitioning to trousers in America as well. In 1830, stiff white collars would begin to make men's social occasions miserable, while in the same year it became fashionable for women's sleeves to expand enormously. During the 1850s, women sometimes dared to wear those scandalous items of attire called "bloomers." More prosaically, in California's mining camps, more and more men were wearing Levi Strauss's utilitarian creation—jeans.
The Art of Healing—and Killing
Sadly, medical science was not advancing at the same rate. Men and women of the nineteenth century were morbid about disease and death, and for a very good reason: no one—least of all doctors—seemed to know what caused disease. More to the point: no one knew what caused one patient to recover and another to die. All people knew was that when a disease hit a given community, some lived and some died. Doctors took credit for the former and blamed God for the latter. Terrible visitations such as cholera took 4,000 lives in New York and the Carolinas in 1831 and 1832. Smallpox killed 13,000 Indians in 1838. And in 1843, yellow fever ravaged the Mississippi Valley, to the tune of 13,000 lives.
Those who could afford doctors were often worse off than those who could not, as misdiagnosis was almost a given, pills were often as big as cherries, nostrums might contain almost anything, and the favorite all-purpose remedy of the day was bleeding the patient with leeches. Not even the high and mighty were spared. When sixty-seven-year-old George Washington contracted "quinsy" (acute laryngitis) on December 13, 1799, his solicitous doctors bled him four times, inflicted garglings of molasses, vinegar, and butter on him, and for good measure plastered a blister of cantharides on his throat. Not surprisingly, he was dead by the next day.
Neither did doctors understand what germs were, what an antiseptic was, or why they should want to keep anything sanitary. On the frontier, baths were rare. One might take a bath or two during the summer months and none at all during the rest of the year. And when baths were given—well into the early twentieth century—chances were that the entire family, beginning with the oldest adult and ending with the smallest child, would climb into the same little tub and wash in water that got filthier with each immersion. The folk saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," resulted from documented incidents of babies drowning in bath water so filthy that no one had noticed they'd slipped under the surface.
The average man in the nineteenth century would go through three wives in a lifetime. Nobody seemed to know why women died so often in childbirth. In the middle of the century, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865) discovered that there was a simple reason why so many mothers died of a particular childbirth complication, puerperal fever: neither doctors nor midwives bothered to wash their hands between patients. The result was that they would carry death on their hands as they moved from one patient to another.
The medical profession so ridiculed Semmelweis for his "theory" that he died young (of a broken heart, some say). It would not be until half a century later that the medical profession would correct the mistake that continued unnecessarily to take the lives of millions of women. Today, women have not only caught up with men in terms of longevity but now outlive men by seven or eight years.
Sadly, though the science of healing had improved little, the science of killing was improving at a dizzying rate. The Lincoln era saw the development of shrapnel (1784), the torpedo (1805), the breech-loading rifle (1811), the steam warship (1814–1815), the Samuel Colt revolver (1833), nitroglycerin (a high explosive, 1833), the Smith and Wesson quick-firing revolver (1854), the exploding artillery shell (which replaced the solid cannon ball, 1860), the fast-firing Winchester repeater rifle (1860), the Gatling gun (an early machine gun so deadly that some prophesied it would make war obsolete, 1861), the rifle-bore cannon (1862), and ironclad warships (1862). Indeed, it was these new killing technologies that would make the Civil War so terrible, especially because the technology of saving lives was still so primitive.
Ecological Conditions
Ecologically, the United States of the nineteenth century was on the road to unmitigated disaster. So vast did the continent appear at the time that people assumed it would take a thousand years to populate it. Consequently, since the land was perceived as both "inexhaustible" and "cheap," they could with impunity do anything to it they wanted—from neglecting to rotate their crops to chopping down entire forests, from poisoning streams and rivers to damaging beyond recovery irreplaceable natural resources. In the words of Henry Steele Commager:
The American rarely expected to stay put and had little interest in building for the future. It was easier to skim the cream off the soil, the forests, the mines. … For this self-indulgence he paid a high price, and his descendants a higher. Dazzled by the concept of infinity, prodigal of the resources of nature and of his own resources, greedy and reckless, he did more damage in a century than nature could repair in a thousand years.
Political Conditions
Politically, America had never become one nation. The founding fathers had been against slavery. Indeed they had held a high view of human rights in general. But knowing that bringing up the slavery issue at the very beginning would have cost them any chance at nationhood, they left it alone, and so it became a ticking time bomb for later generations to deal with.
The global climate was changing with regard to slavery. In 1807, the British abolitionist William Wilberforce and his associates pushed a bill through Great Britain's Parliament against slavery. Denmark abolished it in 1792. The French colonies abolished it in 1794. In 1807, Britain's Parliament abolished the slave trade itself. But none of this caused Americans to take a stand against it.
The early history of America was plagued by an ever-present migraine that sabotaged any chances that America might become a united people: slavery. As we shall see, never in Lincoln's lifetime did he experience a day without being impacted by being a citizen of a hybrid nation—half free and half slave.
Cultural Expectations
Lincoln's generation was incurably optimistic. Having never known national defeat, anything seemed possible to these Americans. Even in grinding poverty, the common assumption was that "tomorrow" life would get better and wealth would come sooner or later. Most Americans were more religious than devout. They made hard work into essentially an eleventh commandment. In their minds, shiftlessness was considered to be on a par with cowardice. Whatever increased wealth was thus automatically good.
Fair play was expected of every boy and man. Those who violated that code were expelled from society's good graces. Since most frontier people were unable to read or write, the oral tradition was valued, and storytelling became almost a fine art. Women controlled both education and religion and thus dictated the standards of literature and art.
Paradoxically, Americans on the frontier venerated laws and honor and in general lived by Puritan standards. Purity and female virtue were venerated; chastity was a given. In their minds there was a crystal-clear demarcation between right and wrong. The Bible was universally read and was considered the basic storehouse of society's allusions. Terms such as truth, justice, loyalty, reverence, virtue, and honor were not mere abstractions to them. They were the very fabric of day-to-day life.
This, in brief, was Abraham Lincoln's world.
From Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler. © 2008. Reprinted by permission of Howard Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Click here for a chance to win a free copy of Abraham Lincoln.


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Charlotte, N.C., Sep 7, 2012 / 02:33 pm MT ().- Providing economic security for the middle class and access to free contraception as a key part of women's health care were major issues that dominated conversations at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"Yes, our path is harder – but it leads to a better place," said President Barack Obama in a Sept. 6 address as he accepted his party's nomination for re-election.
Obama said he would aim to "create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years," improve and expand access to education, pursue a wide variety of new energy options, continue strengthening national security and "reduce our deficit without wrecking our middle class."
He also warned of "Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves."
Although Obama's speech was originally planned to be held in the Bank of America stadium, the threat of inclement weather moved it to the nearby indoor Time Warner Cable Arena, where other convention speeches had been held.
Much of the three-day convention was dedicated to responding to criticism of Obama over the struggling economy while portraying his Republican opponents Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as disconnected politicians who want to give tax credits to the wealthy, and who would also devastate programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Repeatedly throughout the convention, speakers made the case for Obama's re-election, asserting that he can repair the economy and create more jobs if he is given four more years.
First lady Michelle Obama painted a picture of her husband as a compassionate man who can relate to the needs and interests of average Americans, saying that the past four years have shown his character and conviction.
In a Sept. 4 speech, Mrs. Obama told Americans that "we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard," the first lady said that her husband "doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above," but instead is "always looking for the very best in everyone he meets."
Former Democratic President Bill Clinton fired up the crowd on Sept. 5 with a 48-minute speech on Wednesday night in which he described Obama as a competent leader whose efforts to revive a devastated economy have been hampered by Republicans' unwillingness to cooperate.
"No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years," Clinton said, adding that the current president has created millions of jobs and is "still committed to constructive cooperation."
Obama needs more time to accomplish his goals of building up America as "a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community," he said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden preceded Obama's address with his own speech, in which he praised the president's leadership in ordering the attack that killed Osama bin Laden and stepping in to save the American automobile industry with a government bailout.
"We now find ourselves at the hinge of history. And the direction we turn is in your hands," said Biden. "The journey of hope is not yet finished, but we are on our way."
Women's health care was among the most prominent topics at the convention, particularly the controversial Health and Human Services mandate that requires employers to offer free birth control to employees in their health care plans.
The mandate has drawn criticism from the U.S. bishops and other faith leaders who object that it violates the religious freedom of those who object to its requirements.
However, the mandate was praised by numerous abortion advocates who were given speaking slots during the evening sessions of the convention, where they made strong accusations against the Republican Party.
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, charged that "we cannot trust Mitt Romney to respect our rights."
"He would overturn Roe v. Wade and sign into law a wave of outrageous restrictions on a woman's ability to make decisions about her pregnancy," she said.
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards warned of a time in America nearly a century ago when "birth control was illegal."
"And as a result, few women had the opportunity to finish school," she said. "We weren't even expected to live past the age 50."
She cautioned against "politicians who want to end access to birth control" and said that Romney is trying to "turn the clock back on a century of progress."
Romney and Ryan "are committed to ending insurance coverage for birth control" and want to "turn women's health care decisions over to our bosses," she claimed.
Georgetown University law graduate Sandra Fluke reiterated this argument, warning of "extreme, bigoted voices" in the Republican Party, whose plan would provide a future that "looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past."
Fluke has been a notable figure in the birth control debate since she testified in February before a U.S. House committee in favor of requiring Georgetown University and other Catholic institutions to offer free contraception in their health care plans.
While speaker after speaker painted Republicans as having extreme views that would block women from accessing contraception, the GOP has not included a ban on birth control in its platform. Rather, party leaders say they would repeal the mandate that requires it to be offered for free, returning to longstanding policies that allow companies and individuals to purchase contraception as they see fit.
GOP leaders in turn have charged that Democrats are the extreme party, adopting a platform opposed to any restrictions or limitations on abortion and arguing that President Obama "has respected the principle of religious liberty" in requiring free contraception to be included in health insurance plans.
The Democratic platform also came under scrutiny during the convention for removing a reference to God. The statement, which had previously been in the party platform, called for a government that gives "everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."
After receiving criticism for the decision, the statement was reinserted, leading to both cheers and boos from Democratic delegates.
In addition, the party's platform has drawn garnered attention for its unprecedented support for the redefinition of marriage to include gay couples.
References to redefining marriage were scattered throughout numerous speeches during the convention, but the main speakers did not give the subject a heavy emphasis.
Despite speculation that prominent gay Rep. Barney Frank would highlight the issue in his Sept. 6 address to the convention, the Massachusetts congressman limited his speech to economic issues.
However, at a smaller caucus of LGBT delegates and supporters earlier in the day, Frank spoke very directly about the party's endorsement of "gay marriage," saying that the Democratic Party has become the party of the gay movement.
Other caucus speakers said the redefinition of marriage is "inevitable" and insisted that they would not be content with civil unions but would insist upon the full recognition of "gay marriage."
"There's no such thing as half-way to justice," said Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.
Among the most notable Catholic voices at the convention was Sr. Simone Campbell, who heads the social justice lobby Network and led the "Nuns on the Bus" tour to protest Paul Ryan's federal budget proposal.
Sr. Campbell criticized Republicans for failing to acknowledge the shared responsibility of Americans to care for their neighbors through federal government programs. She applauded the president's economic, health care and Medicaid policies.
"This is part of my pro-life stance and the right thing to do," she said.
The convention also featured celebrity appearances by actresses Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Longoria, who voiced approval for Obama's economic policies and financial support of Planned Parenthood.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholics Bishops, offered the final benediction to conclude the convention.
He prayed for the nation's leaders and for all Americans, as well as for immigrants, the poor and those struggling to find work.
"Renew in all of our people a respect for religious freedom in full, that first most cherished freedom," he added.
The cardinal, who also offered the closing benediction at the Republican National Convention, prayed for "those yet to be born" and for a respect for "the laws of nature and nature's God."
"May you mend our every flaw, confirming our soul in self-control, our liberty in law," he prayed.
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Today in unnecessary reboots, Bravo has announced it is redeveloping Heathers, the 1988 cult classic starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, for the small screen:
In the updated take, Heathers picks up 20 years later, with Veronica (Ryder's character) returning home to Sherwood with her teenage daughter, who must contend with the next generation of mean girls: the Ashleys: the daughters of the surviving Heathers.
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"Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions…. This is the Southwest." If you have traveled through the southwestern parts of the United States, you understand how the colors and textures are a feast for your eyes, how the majestic sunsets and Grand Canyons cause you to catch your breath, and how it is very likely that you will lose your heart to the desert.
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So long as you have a constant data connection and a bit of patience, the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 (also known as the Axiom for U.S. Cellular) is a pretty good little smartphone for Cricket's lineup.
Compact, heavy, and a spitting image of last year's flagship Galaxy S3, the Admire 2 is nevertheless a smooth, polished Android 4.1 showing that has the added benefits of 4G LTE support, Cricket's Muve Music service, and a quite decent camera.
For $249.99 off-contract (or $11 down and $11 per month for 23 months), it's one of the priciest Cricket Muve Music phones around, but it's a significant savings over the higher-powered, but also much more costly Samsung Galaxy S4 ($580 in all) and Galaxy S3 ($480).
Music-loving Cricket customers should consider the likable Admire 2, but also be aware of its flaws: namely, the carrier's limited 4G footprint, and a frequently unstable music service that's overdue for an overhaul.
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Design and build
If you're wondering how the Admire 2 compares with Samsung's original Admire, forget it. The two phones are like night and day. It's better if you see the Admire 2 as a modified Galaxy S3 Mini (which, of course, is already a heavily modified S3).
Samsung starts with a hefty (4.8-ounce!), compact pill-shaped body that stands 4.8 inches tall, 2.6 inches wide and 0.48 inch thick. Shiny blue-gray accents brighten up the illusion of brushed metal all over the smooth, high-gloss surfaces. The phone fits well in the hand and is short enough for my pockets, though its girth gives it a noticeably bulkier fit.
Running the risk of sounding like a broken record here, the phone's weight-to-size ratio makes it feel heavy when you're holding it up to your ear, or even when it's in your hand for awhile. However, it didn't make much of a difference in my already stout purse, and when I slipped it into a hoodie or sweatshirt pocket while playing tunes, I barely noticed it was there.
Smaller than today's 5-inch jumbo screens, the 4-inch WVGA on the Admire 2 here offers enough screen space to get things done, though the virtual keyboard is a little more cramped than the current fashion. Luckily, word tracing is built in.
The 800x480-pixel resolution doesn't hold up against top-tier HD phones when it comes to absolute image clarity, but there's nothing at all wrong with the 233 pixel count. One thing I will say is that the screen looked a bit dim on automatic settings, and I did transition to manual controls, especially in brighter surroundings.
Like the Galaxy S3, navigation takes place with the multifunction Home button (which also operates recent tabs, Google Now, and S Voice), and two backlit capacitive buttons that dim from view. There's a front-facing camera set next to an array of sensors, and around the spines are the volume rocker, power/lock button, microSD card, headset jack, and Micro-USB port.
On the back live the 5-megapixel camera and flash; the Micro-SIM card hides out beneath the back cover.
OS and apps
An Android 4.1 Jelly Bean phone, Samsung adds its typical TouchWiz OS on top. Like the design, this interface is last year's model, and doesn't have quite the number of assets found in top-tier phones like the Galaxy S4. Don't let that worry you. You'll still be able to gain quick access to system controls, use NFC and S Beam, and turn the phone into a hot spot (with the right kind of plan).
Cricket's Muve Music service is an enormous ingredient in the phone's appeal. Stitched into the monthly Android rate plan, the Muve app lets you download an "unlimited" number of songs and ringtones -- so long as you keep paying your bill, and until you run out of room on the microSD card (you can have up to 64GB to play with, so really, do your worst).
There's a radio station element as well in MyDJ, and social networking tie-ins.
The problem is that navigation can be a little clumsy and the software is overdue for a major upgrade. Worst of all, the Muve Music app frequently halts, crashes, and doesn't recover until you close it down or reboot the phone.
I still think that Muve is a genius addition that gives the Cricket customer an enormous value, but it's time for Cricket to reinvest in its third-party software partner. A flagship product like this one requires tending and forward progress.


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This lab course provides an introduction to experimental approaches in neurobiology. Emphasis is on molecular, anatomical, and physiological approaches for studying neuronal function. Among the molecular topics to be covered are analysis of cDNA clones, PCR amplification of DNA and expression of genes in foreign tissues. Among the anatomical topics to be covered are gross and microscopic anatomy of nervous systems, axonal pathway tracing, and immunocytochemical localization of specific neuronal proteins. Among the physiological topics to be covered are intracellular, extracellular and patch clamp recording, as well as the use of computers in the acquisition and analysis of data. This course is intended for students who plan to engage in research in neurobiology.
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Dr. Grumpy: "Is it being treated?"
Mr. XY: "Yeah, they said it had spread to my uterus or something."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
That's a damn shame. That's what that is.
you HAFTA be kidding...
I wish, but no. His wife looked shocked, too.
It is hard to imagine someone could be so uniformed. My facial expression would have said it all had I been part of that conversation.
Gosh, I sure hope they don't have to remove his uterus... That would be awful!
I hear it all. Some of it (I hope) is just a slip of the tongue.
MJH, CPhT- If they do, at least they could replace it with the one you suggested they take out of Mrs. Nursing earlier today.
That's about as good as the woman who told you her mother had a miscarriage.. with her. :]
LOL! Did his wife at least laugh at that? Please tell me she did! I know I would!
Kim- No, she had this shocked "I married a moron" look.
Before you mentioned his wife, I
envisioned your patient as a
trans-gender person...
I remember a woman called me up once and asked what her husbands Flomax really did.. the sequence of questions went in the direction of what his problem really was to what a prostate is and whether or not this problem can be transmitted to her sexually. :]
So do I need to see him?
Hopefully he meant ureter....
He likely did. But at least I got a blog post out of his (I hope) error.
I thoroughly enjoyed that post.
Almost as much as when a husband tried to tell me that his wife's "vergina was aproximately 5 cm dilantin"... of course he had her squat over a mirror to check.. just to be sure.
well at least he hasn't gotten pregnant over all of these years. we can only pray he hit menopause and we are all safe.
I would have busted out laughing.
Must be catching. I had a dear old gentleman on a cardiac floor tell me he needed his NTG often for his "TERRIBLE VAGINA". Sad cases, no?
Pattie, RN
gift him an atlas of human anatomy or something, i m kinda feeling sorry for laughing at the ignorance ..
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Many of us view conservation as the collection of recycling and energy saving habits that good citizens of the planet try to practice in their daily lives. Carpooling. Reminding a guest to toss that Coke can in the recycling compartment. Flipping off a light switch when you leave a room.
For others, conservation is an all-encompassing worldview. They look at the natural world and see a richness and an unfolding narrative that most of us have not been trained to see. For those folks, a short hike through a valley is a biodiversity adventure. A tree planted in between blocks of cement is the launch of a stormwater collection mission deep into the ground.
And then there is the language of conservation. Conservationists use terms like "invasive species" (which, unlike boring "weeds," contain action-packed tales of clashing natural cultures).
Conservationists, because they have learned to see the world as a rich and animated place, are also quick to perceive the worth of cultural artifacts. To value intersections of nature with human experience. Nevada's ancient Native American rock art, for example, belongs to the fuller landscape—and merits protection and preservation as much as the landscape itself.
When my colleague Beth Beard and I dived into research for the April cover story, "Natural Leaders," I expected to hear about a lot of best practices and finer points of water re-use, master planning, and land acquisition. And I did hear about those things. But what I learned was that, when you are talking with a true, dyed-in-the-wool conservationist, you always hear the story behind the practice first.
Species inventorying in North Carolina, for example. It all began with the discovery of an endangered sunflower native to the Charlotte area. Fields of vivid yellow wildflowers captured the imaginations both park leaders and the public—and staff scientists then led the effort to study and protect hundreds of other species native to the county.
And in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, invasive species management in forested areas became a youth camp exercise in "battling the invaders,"—complete with war paint and "weapons."
In New York City, each tree planted drives toward the thrilling goal of achieving a million-tree-strong urban forest.
In Columbus, Ohio, prairie habitat restoration means the return of bison to a land they had vanished from more than 200 years ago.
The practice of conservation happens in a thousand different ways. But true leadership in that area, I learned, occurs when the vivid "conservation imagination" intersects with opportunities to educate and engage the public.
And park leaders can do that like no one else.
Maureen Hannan is the Senior Editor for Parks & Recreation magazine.


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FRISCO, Tex. -- Bruno Guarda is always ready. Should FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman need his Brazilian midfielder, he always wants to be in the mix.
Take FCD's 1-1 draw against the Chicago Fire, when the former SMU star got his chance by coming on in the 59th minute for injured regular Dax McCarty.
"I think Bruno played well," Hyndman said. "When I looked at the game again, it was interesting because his possession in the game was like 81 percent, which for a center midfielder is really high."
Said McCarty: "I think he had a fantastic game in my place. That's what we can count on, the depth on this team."
It was just Guarda's second game this season, and even though his playing time has been sparse, he feels he answered the bell at Toyota Park last week.
"I think I did what coach asked me to do. I came in with a lot of intensity," he said. "It was a 1-1 game. I tried to get the guys going. Our team was doing well. I think I did well."
Guarda also wanted to show his longtime coach that he can still deliver when he is called upon.
"Schellas knows that any time he needs me, I'll be ready. I didn't play for maybe six games and he asked me if I was ready," he said. "I said yes."
Despite logging only 31 total minutes with the first team this year, Guarda's confidence remains high.
"Yeah (I feel confident). I come to practice every day thinking that I'll get a chance in the game," he said.


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I came across this sudoku at sourceforge.net.
You can download the source code from here..
After extracting the files,i don't know how to compile all these files one by one..
i mean which should be compiled first and which one later..
Can anyone please help me in compiling all these source files and executing the program?
Plus i've noticed none of these files contain a class which contains the main function. So i also don't know from where will the execution start.


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I suppose staying up late, even very late, wasn't all that big a deal when I was in college either. I remember musing about some trivial subject matter, telling jokes, or playing penny-ante poker until early in the morning. And sure, there was the occasional very late night spent writing a paper and the obligatory parties, beer, and something called Wapatui, too, as well as some nights that might well have ended better sooner. But heck, what's college for if not being extreme and passionate about just about everything, doing things that haven't been done before, and being practical only when it helps those other things?
Still, "extreme" has limits doesn't it? You can't, for example, rush inspiration or the creative genius, can you? It's not possible to conceive of and make a movie in just two days, 48 hours from start to finish, script to screening. The production headaches, computer editing hang-ups, and publishing hardships alone would take longer, even if the flesh was willing, wouldn't they?
Today's digital studio technology certainly is good and fast, but it can't provide that idyllic and automatic Crocesque link between the creative inspiration and the finished product. But maybe it's starting to come close.
Project 2880 started as a typical shameless, self-interested promotion ploy for Pioneer's next generation DVR-AO5 DVD-R/RW burner, burning twice as fast (4X DVD-R, 2X DVD-RW, 16X CD-R, and 8X CD-RW) as the previous version, and now supporting editing on disc (think of editing out commercials). How does a marketer show "fast"? Do something faster than humanly possible. Or better yet, have someone else do it for you.
Perhaps it was some aging post-collegiate envy, or maybe some dark and devilish marketing glee, that schemed to play college enthusiasm for all it was worth in the name of promoting the A05. But somewhere Pioneer came up with the outlandish idea of extreme filmmaking and getting a few bright-eyed students to stay awake longer than they should for the sake of art and the possibility of a $10,000 grant ($5,000 for 2nd and 3rd place).
But in 2880 minutes (48 hours), nine groups of college film students took Pioneer's challenge and turned Pioneer's show into proof positive that fresh ideas and powerful technology, along with the energy of youth, know little about limits and a lot about rising to a creative challenge. And in the end, all nine seemed to turn the marketers at Pioneer into independent film buffs.
Each school was given a different single-paragraph scenario, created by Hollywood writer/director, Pete Jones of HBO's Project Greenlight. The goal was simple enough: read the scenario and create from it a script for an up to 10-minute short, shoot the footage, edit it into a finished short movie, then burn it to DVD disc, all in less than 2880 minutes.
OK, so the concept was simple, but what of the execution? What of practical things like sleeping, eating, and studying for finals? And, how does art emerge when there's not enough time for logistics, let alone creativity? Oh, to be young again…
The winners, Sloane Korach and Tony West of Florida State, opened their scenario envelope at 12:30 a.m. with the plan of writing their script, identifying shooting locations, and planning production through the night and starting shooting in the morning. In other words, potentially wasting seven hours of shooting time.
In hindsight, Korach credits this very logical pre-planning and fresh morning start for the rest of the eight-person crew of actors and technicians as what made their winning movie, Ripples, come together so well in such a short time. That's where being practical augments the extreme and the passion.
A single Sony DCR-TRV30 MiniDV camcorder was all that was needed for production the next morning, and editing on an Avid Xpress DV system started almost right away after that as the first few screens rolled in from the field. From there, shooting, editing, and compositing in After Effects were intertwined with common goal and common vision for the next 40 hours or so, with, I'm told, actors, camera operators, and editors independently fitting in time for other work, eating, and even some sleeping.
So where does the Pioneer DVR-AO5 fit into this whole Extreme Filmmaking picture?
"Pioneer's drive worked great and I'd like to have spent more time working on the authoring part," said Sloane Korach at the end of a phone interview in a dutifully polite, last-minute plug for Pioneer.
But no need, Sloane. By allowing you to burn your finished movie to disc in the last ten of your waning 2880 minutes, when you were hungry and tired and extremed out, Pioneer promoted itself just fine. It was Pioneer that set the authoring world on an extreme path of its own two years ago with the first sub-$1000 burner, effectively starting the shift from authoring as an esoteric and very expensive discipline to the very approachable and affordable process it is today.
With the robust fifth-generation DVR-AO5 working faster and available for less than $300 on the street, the final publishing piece of the creative process, following a decade of digital editing advancements, and seven years of digital camcorders, has brought the digital video revolution full circle. It's no longer about pricey production, the exclusivity of editing studios, and the labyrinth of mastering and distributing. For thousands of creative people with ideas and talent, affordable and professional tools have made the digital studio an artist's paint palette and that's how it should be.
Of course, it doesn't hurt to be young, or at least to have youthful ideas, enthusiasm, and energy.


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Richard S. Sarason is Director of the Pines School of Graduate Studies, Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought, and The Deutsch Family Professor of Rabbinics and Liturgy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has been a faculty member since 1979. Prior to that time, he was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, in 1974. He received his A.B. in Economics from Brandeis University in 1969, and was a visiting graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1970 to 1972, while attending HUC-JIR.
He is the author of two books, A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: A Study of Tractate Demai (1979), and The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation. Tractate Demai (1993), as well as numerous articles in the areas of classical rabbinic literature and thought (Mishnah, midrash, liturgy). He is the English translator (from the original Hebrew) of Joseph Heinemann, Prayer in the Talmud: Forms and Patterns (1977), and co-editor, with Jacob Neusner, of The Tosefta, translated from the Hebrew. First Division: Seder Zeraim. The Order of Agriculture. He served as Associate Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual.
Dr. Sarason has taught at many Reform congregations around the country, and many programs of the Reform movement, among them URJ Summer Kallot, CCAR regional Kallot, Hadrachah Seminar for Lay Leadership, NATA certification program, Schindler Outreach Program, and Mifgash Musicale. He is vice-chair, for HUC-JIR, of the Reform Movement's Joint Commission on Worship, Synagogue Music, and Religious Living. He was a member of the Siddur Editorial Advisory Committee that worked on Mishkan T'filah, the new Reform prayer book. He authored a popular commentary on that prayer book and on the forthcoming Reform Mahzor, Mishkan HaNefesh, which appeared between May, 2008 and February, 2014 on the URJ's Ten Minutes of Torah email-list and website. He is also an experienced choral musician with a strong interest in Jewish liturgical music.
He is married to Anne Arenstein; they have two sons, Jonathan and Michael.
"The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy," in Pamela Barmesh and W. David Nelson, eds., Exodus in Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), pp. 53-110
"The Persistence and Trajectories of Penitential Prayer in Rabbinic Judaism," and "Afterword," in Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds., Seeking the Favor of God. Volume 3, The Impact of Penitential Prayer beyond Second Temple Judaism. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008, pp. 1-38, 255-264
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"Communal Prayer at Qumran and Among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties," in Esther G. Chazon, ed., Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. 19-23 January, 2000. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003, pp. 151-172
"The 'Intersections' of Qumran and Rabbinic Judaism: The Case of Prayer Texts and Liturgies," in Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001), pp. 169-181
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"Akeidah: Historical Background," Nitzavim: Historical Background," "Shofar Service: Historical Background," Eileh Ezkerah: Historical Background," "Yizkor: Historical Background," Hin'ni: Historical Background," in Machzor: Challenge and Change, vol. 2 (New York: CCAR Press, forthcoming in 2014)
"Machzor: The Poetry of Truly Awe-Inspiring Days," in CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer, 2013, 40-44
"Un'taneh Tokef: Historical Background," in Machzor: Challenge and Change (New York: CCAR Press, 2010), 19-23
Historical background annotations in "linear services" (Service 2) for Shabbat evening and morning, Mishkan T'fillah: A Reform Siddur (New York: CCAR Press, 2007)
Historical commentary to Mishkan T'filah and Mishkan HaNefesh, "Delving Into T'filah," Ten Minutes of Torah (URJ email and website, 2008-2014)


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FALLS VILLAGE >> Thirty-seven students, or about 40 percent of seniors at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, had at least one failing grade during the first semester of the 2012-13 school year, according to a report given to the Region 1 Board of Education Monday night.
That dismal finding was followed by similar numbers for failing grades in other classes: 38 students, or about 32 percent of the junior class; 41 students, or about 41 percent of sophomores, and 20 students, about 18 percent of the freshman class.
"I am not happy with these grades at all. We are not satisfied with it, but we have been moving in the right direction," said Principal Matt Harnett, who is in his third year at the helm of the school.
He said that he and assistant principal Ian Strever have "started a conversation about raising standards and being more relevant." In addition, he said discussions with staff have suggested raising standards and being more rigorous are desirable.
"But we have to decide what that means," he cautioned. "In some schools in the past, teachers have just assigned more homework -- but it goes beyond that."
For instance, he said the state currently requires students to successfully earn 21 credits to graduate. Housatonic's standard is 23 credits with the possibility that will be increased to 25. "If a student comes in as a freshman and does what is expected through his junior year, he only has to earn two credits in his senior year," he explained. "Apathy becomes a problem for seniors -- they will say, 'I don't need to pass that course.'"
Harnett said raising the number of courses needed for graduation could help counter this. The state is also considering raising the number of required classes to make it mandatory for students to pass core subjects like English, history, math and science in all four years. But this, he said, would make scheduling more difficult and would lessen students' ability to take courses they are interested in.
"The state is talking about four across the board, but that locks up the kids' schedule with little room for error," he observed. "There may be three years of a foreign language required--that would restructure everything--electives, staff, all these things have to be figured in."
He added that making more early college credit courses available to students "gets them on the path to post-secondary work, which is what we want."
At present there are too many gaps between classes when students are face-to-face with their teachers the principal said. "It could be three or four days before a student is in a teacher's classroom again," he said. "That is too long."
He also said that some "expectations and policies" need to be reviewed.
Adding to the difficulties of changing expectations and outcomes is the continuing downward trend of the student population. In her report, superintendent of schools Patricia Chamberlain introduced an enrollment forecast that showed 178 fewer students at HVRHS by 2020. Enrollments have been declining annually for decades.
"You can see the downward trend by the chart," Chamberlain said. "This projection is even lower than the last one."
Harnett said that seniors are beginning to receive acceptance letters from colleges. "We have found some good letters and good results, kids are getting into their schools of first choice," he said, adding that the preponderance of the acceptance letters will come later in the spring. "Some are getting some nice scholarship offers," he concluded.
Harnett asked permission to hire a hall monitor for after school hours. "This building is a huge traffic area all day long," he said. "After school there are any number of activities with kids all over. We need someone assigned inside and outside the building to monitor. It would add a level of security--there is a level of safety that comes into play."
He suggested that the position would cost $7,500 for a school year. "This is a response to what people asked for in increased security," he said.
The board approved the proposal.
Business manager Sam Herrick described an effort to contain transportation costs over the next seven years. Through an agreement with All-Star Transportation, which buses HVRHS students from the six member towns, the high school would purchase 27 new buses through a lease. At the end of the lease All-Star would pay fair market value for the buses.
The contractor would realize savings by not paying sales tax on new vehicles that can cost up $85,000, while the district would be guaranteed cost increases of 2.5 percent a year and 0 percent in the first year.
"It average 1.8 percent per year over seven years," said Herrick. "Our thinking is that they are being more than fair."
The matter is currently with the board's attorneys.


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By age 15, most girls have had their first menstrual period and have completed the rapid growth spurt that usually occurs during puberty. After the first period, teenage girls grow 1.5 in. (3.8 cm) to 3 in. (7.6 cm) on average. Other early changes of puberty, such as the growth of pubic hair and breasts, have also occurred. Teenage girls tend to complete breast development an average of 4 years after breast buds signal the beginning of puberty.
The growth spurt in boys tends to reach its peak sometime during the early to mid-teen years. Although boys lag behind girls in height in early adolescence, they generally end up being taller than girls by age 18. After growth starts, boys grow at a faster rate and for a longer period of time. Also, boys usually continue growth of facial hair, penis and testicles, and pubic hair during the late teen years.
These and other physical changes are highly variable by individual. Some individuals are "early bloomers," and others grow and develop later.
Your teen's doctor may use a growth chart to track how your teen is growing.
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The American Legion's persistent efforts to improve job prospects for veterans were recognized during the final debate between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney on Oct. 22. For years, the Legion has pushed to fairly and easily convert military experience into credits toward certification and licensure in a number of trades and career paths. Obama touched on this important matter during the debate. "What I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home," he said. "And what we can now do is …put Americans back to work, especially our veterans … making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place."
He continued, "I was having lunch with a veteran who had been a medic dealing with the most extreme circumstances. When he came home and he wanted to become a nurse, he had to start from scratch. And what we've said is let's change those certifications."
There is no debate from Romney over this matter. The presidential contender addressed the issue during an appearance at The American Legion's 94th National Convention in August, telling some 10,000 veterans, "To make it easier for veterans to find employment in skilled trades, I will work with the states to create a common credentialing and licensing standard, and encourage credentialing organizations to recognize and grant credit for military training."
American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz said he was "heartened to hear the licensing and credentialing issue being brought to the fore in this election campaign. It is apparently important to both the incumbent and the contender that our veterans are given the best and fairest possible opportunities for employment as they return to our communities. While our 15-year campaign is far from over, President Obama and Governor Romney's bringing it to 'top of mind' advances the Legion's cause greatly."
The candidates' stated positions regarding the expeditious issuance of certifications and licenses to experienced and qualified veterans can be viewed as a direct result of The American Legion, whose Economic Commission has made the issue a high priority since the mid-1990s. The Legion teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in February to conduct a National Credentialing Summit to find solutions to a decades-long problem. The Legion then worked with Congress to draft and pass two bills – the Veteran Skills to Jobs Act and the Military CDL Act of 2012 – which aim to give veterans advantages when pursuing licenses and certification in civilian and government careers.
Thanks to Legion efforts, legislation is now in place mandating a study by federal agencies that grant licenses and certifications, such as the FAA and FCC, on how they can best serve servicemembers and veterans. Obama also recently signed into law the Military Commercial Drivers License Act of 2012, allowing states to, at their choosing, lift residency requirements to grant commercial licenses to active-duty and reserve military truck drivers, thus creating immediate job opportunities for as many as 200,000 military trained and experienced drivers. This new law was backed strongly by The American Legion, the sole veterans' service organization to formally encourage its passage.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Outside Employment and Volunteer Services
State employees often have other jobs or businesses and participate in volunteer activities. The State has no interest in these activities unless they are incompatible with or conflict with an employee's state duties. The Executive Branch Ethics Act addresses this concern.
1. Why do I have to disclose outside employment?
The Ethics Act requires you to submit an annual disclosure by July 1 and updates as changes occur. You submit your disclosure through your work supervisor to your agency's Designated Ethics Supervisor for review. In this way, we ensure that employee activities are compatible with official duties.
2. What do I have to disclose?
- Any compensated employment;
- Any compensated services benefiting a business or organization you are involved with;
- Any volunteer activity, if you receive any type of compensation, such as payment for travel or meals; and
- Any other volunteer or non-compensated work, if there is a possibility that such work conflicts with your official state duties.
3. What does "outside employment" include?
- Any employment, services, or work for which you are paid, but not your state employment.
- Examples: a job with another employer, work as an independent contractor, and work in your own business.
4. Where does the Ethics Act address volunteer activities?
The statute (AS 39.52.170(a)) restricts public employees from providing services that benefit a personal interest if those services are incompatible or in conflict with the proper performance of official duties. The companion regulation (9 AAC 52.090) clarifies that "service" includes volunteer activities.
5. Do I have to list all my volunteer activities or memberships in organizations?
No. You only need to disclose volunteer service if it is possible that your service may conflict with your official duties or you receive compensation. If your volunteer service is with an organization or for an activity that has no relationship to, or overlap with, your official duties and you receive no compensation, you do not have to disclose this volunteer service. When deciding what to report, consider the scope of your official duties and the specific volunteer activity you do. If you have a volunteer interest that is closely related to your official work duties, you should file a disclosure.
6. I volunteer my services to an organization that works on issues similar to those before my department. Do I have to discontinue my membership?
Not necessarily. The Ethics Act recognizes that public officers have outside interests. Membership in an organization with interests or issues similar to those of your department itself does not constitute a conflict. However, if you actively volunteer to work on issues for the organization related to your department's responsibilities, you must tailor your activities to ensure no conflict exists with your official duties. Otherwise your participation will likely be disapproved.
Please keep in mind that the purpose of the disclosure is to identify potential conflicts, provide you the opportunity to design your volunteer efforts to eliminate conflicts, and create a record of compliance with the Ethics Act if questions are asked or complaints brought to the Department suggesting that you have a conflict.
7. Do I need to disclose activities related to my rental property?
Possibly. You do not have to disclose rental property if someone else manages the day-to-day work of advertising the property for rent, screening perspective tenants, communicating with tenants and arranging or doing repairs. But if you provide these services instead of having someone else do them, you should submit the disclosure because you are engaging in outside services to benefit a financial interest and are compensated by the rents.
8. Do all employees have to file? Are there exceptions?
All employees who are currently involved in outside employment, services, or volunteer activities, as described above, must file a disclosure by July 1 each year. Employees with no outside employment, services, or reportable volunteer activities do not need to file a disclosure. If you later take a second job or provide paid services, you submit a disclosure at that time.
9. My outside employment or volunteer activities have not changed since I filed last June. Do I still have to file this June?
Yes, an annual disclosure is required whether or not there has been a change from the previous year's report.
10. What if my employment situation changes during the year?
If your outside employment or volunteer service changes during the course of the year, you are required to file a notice of the change in a timely manner. A good rule of thumb is to file within 30 days of any change to ensure compliance. You may also submit the disclosure in advance if you have any concern whether an outside activity will be approved.
11. How do I file?
Use the ethics disclosure form titled: Outside Employment or Service Notification. The form is available at http://www.law.state.ak.us/doclibrary/ethics.html, the Department of Law's ethics webpage, or from your Designated Ethics Supervisor. Complete the form with enough information so that the ethics supervisor will understand the kind of work or service you do, when you do it, and who employs you or to whom you provide services. Then give it to your work supervisor for review, recommendation and signature. Your work supervisor will forward it to your Department's Designated Ethics Supervisor or return it to you, so you may do so.
12. What happens to the disclosures I file?
The Designated Ethics Supervisor reviews your disclosure to make sure your outside activities are compatible with your state job. You may be contacted for more information about the nature of both your state responsibilities and your outside employment or volunteer activities. If there is no conflict with your state job, the Ethics Supervisor signs the form and returns a copy to you for your records. In some cases, you may receive a memo with specific restrictions or instructions about your outside employment or volunteer activities. In rare instances, you may be told you can't participate in the volunteer activity or outside employment if you want to keep your state position. Your original disclosure is archived in your official personnel file.
13. How is a conflict determined?
Your Designated Ethics Supervisor considers:
- Whether the activity will take time away from your official duties.
- Whether the activity inappropriately limits what you can do in your state job without triggering a conflict.
- Other circumstances suggesting an incompatibility or conflict with your job.
14. What can I do to help the annual reporting go smoothly?
You should provide enough information about your outside employment, including when you do this work, so that your ethics supervisor can evaluate whether there is a conflict with your official state duties. If you are a consultant or independent contractor, you need to attach a list of your clients.
15. Where can I get more information about the Ethics Act?
The Department of Law's website has guidance available addressing other topics with examples to explain the topics. You may also contact your department's Designated Ethics Supervisor.


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There are 55,000 acres of National Forest on Vail Pass (which stretches from Copper Mountain to Vail, across Interstate 70 to Highway 24), and Vail Powder Guides accesses 3,500 of those acres that include Ptarmigan Pass, Resolution Bowl and the famous 10th Mountain Division training grounds. As the elevation in the area is almost all above 10,000 feet, the snowfall is greater and more frequent than what falls on neighboring Vail Resort.
Vail Powder Guides has been operating on Vail Pass for almost 30 years and Owners Jenna and Ben Bartosz have 28 years experience guiding in the area. Skiers and rider become members of the VPG family after only a day of powder riding with them. After the day, head back to Vail or Beaver Creek for every amenity you could ever want.
If You Go:
Travel: Vail Powder Guides meets at Vail Pass rest area, right off I-70 (exit 190). Vail Pass is a 90-minute drive from Denver.
Basic Package: A full day of cat skiing, plus a hearty lunch of sandwiches, soups and desserts.
Years in Biz: 28
Size of Tenure: 3,500 acres
Snowfall: 400 inches
Size of Group: 12
Guarantee: Average ski days are between 8 and 12 runs (700-1750 vertical feet), depending on your group.
How they Charge: $400 per person; $4400 for all 12 seats in the cat
A 50 percent deposit is required at the time of reservation. The remaining 50 percent is collected at the end of the ski day.


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General license Information
The Division of Fish and Wildlife uses the Integrated Electronic Licensing System (IELS) to issue hunting and fishing licenses and permits. Licenses are available online and at the agent locations listed below. All agents sell all hunting and fishing licenses.
When purchasing your first hunting license using the IELS you must show an agent a previous year's resident license (any state) or Hunter Education card. After that initial transaction you will never have to show proof again to obtain a hunting license. You will then also have the option of purchasing your license(s) online (those licenses which cannot be printed at home will be mailed and a shipping fee added).
Nonresidents can use the Nonresident License Documentation Form to enable online license purchases without first going to an agent.
License purchasers are required to submit the NJ Child Support Certification each year. The certification can be obtained at an agent or online (recommended). If you complete the certification online, license agents will not require you to complete a paper form at their location. For more information see the NJ Child Support Certification Information page.
The following list of license agents is provided for informational purposes only. It is best to contact the agent beforehand to ensure the license(s), stamp(s) and/or permit(s) you want are available and their system is active.