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Online Application and Admission
Applications can only be submitted online via the UZH application portal.
Please note the application periods. At the Bachelor's level, only certain degree programs allow you to start your studies in the spring semester.
On submission of an application you must pay an application fee of CHF 100.00, or CHF 400.00 in the case of a late application for a Bachelor's degree program (only possible if you have a Swiss university entrance qualification). The application fee will not be refunded or credited. Mobility students from other Swiss higher education institutions do not have to pay an application fee nor do they have to pay any semester fees at UZH.
Only applications submitted by the deadline will be processed.
Note for students already matriculated at UZH: If you would like to change your degree program or study program, please do so at "My Requests" in the student portal. Please only use this application form if you would like to enroll in an additional degree program (e.g. teaching diploma program alongside an existing Master's degree program or doctoral studies).
How to Prepare for and Proceed with an Online Application
The application process consists of eight steps:
1. Find out about admission requirements and select study programs
Find out about the UZH degree programs offered and the admission requirements. Please choose your degree program and study programs before you start to fill out the online application form.
Main Language of instruction
Also find out what the main language of instruction is for your chosen study programs. If the main language of instruction is not your primary language, you may have to provide proof of adequate knowledge of the main language of instruction. If you do not have proof at the time you apply, you can submit it at a later date (see Point 8).
Studying Medicine
You can only apply for medical studies starting in the Fall Semester. Please note the restrictions on admission and the registration deadline at swissuniversities for the Bachelor's degree program. If you're applying for the Bachelor's degree program in medicine, you can simultaneously apply online for an alternative Bachelor's degree program. In this case you must also pay the admission fee for the alternative degree program.
Specialized Master's programs or PhD programs
Applicants for a specialized Master's program or for a PhD program are required to pre-register with the respective institute or graduate school before applying through the UZH application portal. For information about the pre-registration and pre-registration deadlines please refer to the websites of the institutes and graduate schools.
2. Prepare information and documentation
When you fill out the online application form you'll be asked to provide information on your educational background (upper secondary school, higher education institutions, etc.) and personal data, and to upload the documents necessary for your application to be assessed.
You'll find lists of the documents to be uploaded on the page Documents to Submit. Certificates, proof of qualifications, etc., that you don't have at this point can be submitted later on (see Point 8).
Among other things, please have the following information and documents ready (applies only in part for mobility students):
- Information on your educational background; diplomas and certificates
- Information on your place of residence at the time your upper secondary school-leaving certificate or university entry qualification was issued
- Your AHV number if available (compulsory for applicants with a Swiss educational background)
- Signed Declaration of Consent (PDF, 57 KB)
- Officially certified translations of all documents that are not in German, English, French, or Italian.
3. Set up and activate user account
Open a user account in the application portal. You will immediately receive an e-mail from Student Services with a link to activate your account and your username. If you don't receive an e-mail, please check your spam folder.
Make sure you'll be reachable at the specified e-mail address during the entire admissions process, and keep a safe record of the username you have been sent. It cannot be changed.
Once you've activated your user account, you can log in and start filling out the online application form anytime.
4. Complete online application form and upload documents
You can apply via the online form as soon as the application period for the desired degree program has begun.
The application form is divided into several sections that you can work on independently of each other.
The first step is to choose your course of study. After that you can break off filling out the form any time, and continue later, provided you do so before the application deadline. Please note that the information you have entered will never be saved automatically; you need to click "Save" at the bottom of the page (or the "Continue" button where you select the course of study). Log in again another time with your username and password.
The info buttons to the right of the input fields will give you more information on filling out the form.
Tips on filling out the form and uploading documents
- Qualification for selected academic level:
Please specify whether you gained your university entry qualification at a school or higher education institution in Switzerland or abroad.
- Study programs:
The degree programs that are displayed depend on the level or type of study and the faculty selected. The study programs, on the other hand, depend on the degree program selected and the type of program (e.g. major 90, etc.). If the study program of your choice is not shown, you may have to change the degree program or type of program.
- Uploading documents:
Please do not use special characters in the document names (e.g. ä, ö, ü).
Details of single major, major and minor study programs, doctoral programs, etc., are available at: www.degrees.uzh.ch
5. Pay application fee online and submit application
Once you've entered all the information and uploaded the relevant documents, please submit your application. To do so, please click "Save and Pay" (or "Submit" when applying for Mobility within Switzerland). You will be taken to the payment page. You can no longer make any changes. Mobility students from other Swiss higher education institutions do not have to pay any application fee.
You must send your application by 12 midnight of the last day of the application period at the latest.
You can pay your application fee by Visa, Mastercard, or PostFinance Card. If you do not have one of these cards, you can get a prepaid card from various outlets (see FAQs application portal, point 4 a).
You will be sent a confirmation by e-mail once UZH has received your application. You can check the information you have entered in the application portal (using the Preview button) and print out a summary if required.
No application may be submitted after the application deadline. Please submit a new application if you wish to apply for a later semester.
6. Check payment status
Please check your payment status in the application portal. After you have sent your application, wait for five or ten minutes before checking. You may need to log out and then log in again, so that your data can be updated. If the payment for the application fee did not go through, please try again. Your application will only be processed once your payment has gone through. Students applying for Mobility within Switzerland do not have to pay any application fee.
7. Hand in any rejected or missing documents at a later date
If your application is incomplete or the files you have submitted do not meet the requisite quality standards, you will be sent (via application portal) a written request to supply the relevant information or files. Please upload these documents via the application portal.
8. Submit outstanding certificates/matriculate in person at UZH
Applicants with a Swiss educational background who have already been matriculated at a Swiss university or university of applied sciences as well as mobility students can go through the whole application process online, provided all the necessary qualifications and certificates are available at the time they make their online application.
For all other applicants, the following guidelines on submitting certificates and matriculating in person apply.
Please also note the detailed information on the procedure and deadline contained in the letter you receive after your online application has been reviewed by the relevant unit at Student Services.
a). Application with a Swiss university entrance qualification, Bachelor's degree program
If certificates are missing because you have not yet done the relevant exams, you must supply the relevant documents (university entrance qualification, confirmation of withdrawal from university, university certificates) at a later date via the application portal in accordance with the information provided in the letter mentioned above.
If this is your first matriculation at a Swiss higher education institution, in addition to the copy of your university entrance qualification that you upload online, please submit the original (e.g. Swiss maturity certificate, professional maturity certificate with proof of passing supplementary examinations, an entrance examination certificate, or university of applied science diploma) by mail or at the Student Administration Office counter. Please also note the information provided in the letter mentioned above.
b). Application with a Swiss qualification, Master's or Doctoral degree program or the program for the teaching diploma for upper secondary education
If you cannot provide a diploma because you have not yet completed all exams, you must submit the originals of the relevant documents (university transcripts, confirmation of withdrawal from the university) at a later date by mail or at the the Admissions Office counter. Please note the information provided in your admission letter.
Proof of competence in the main language of instruction:
If you have to subsequently provide a language certificate, this can be submitted along with your original documents. Please note the information in your admission letter and on the relevant web page.
c). Application with a foreign qualification, all degree programs:
You have to matriculate in person at the Admissions Office counter. Here you must present original versions of the relevant documents (upper secondary school-leaving certificate, university certificates, etc.). Please note the information on the procedure and deadline in your admission letter.
Proof of competence in the main language of instruction:
If a language certificate is required, you can hand over the original when you matriculate in person. Please note the information in your admission letter and on the relevant web page.
After Submitting your Application
You can view the processing status of your application at any time in the application portal.
Messages and documents from UZH relating to your application and admission (with the exception of proof-of-matriculation vouchers) will be posted on the application portal for you to download. In each case you will be notified by e-mail.
Once the review of your application is complete, UZH will send you a letter of admission or rejection.
The login details for the online services at UZH will be available for download in a separate letter in the application portal usually within 72 hours after the matriculation is complete.
Semester Fees, UZH Card, Login Data for Online Services
Your invoice for the semester fees for your first semester will be made available for download on the application portal in the "documents" area of the application you handed in, once you have been admitted; if you are a foreign applicant, the invoice will be made available once you have matriculated in person. Mobility students from other Swiss higher education institutions do not have to pay any semester fees.
Once payment of your semester fee has been received and booked, you will be provided with the following documents issued by UZH:
- UZH Card
- Login Data for UZH online services and your personal UZH e-mail account (up to 72 hours upon reception and booking of the fee payment)
- Proof-of-matriculation vouchers
- Mobility students only receive login data for UZH online services
The UZH Card and proof-of-matriculation vouchers will be sent to you separately by regular mail.
Please note that you can only book modules online once you have paid your semester fees and received your login data for online services.
Please check your UZH e-mail account regularly. Once you have received login data for your UZH e-mail account, the University will send e-mail messages only to your UZH e-mail account.
Matriculation becomes legally valid after payment of the semester fees has been received.
If you fail to pay your semester fees by the deadline, you will be withdrawn from the University by the UZH. In this case you will have to repeat the application process if you wish to apply to UZH at a later date.
Withdrawal of Application / Matriculation
You can withdraw your application via the application portal at any time until admission to study is granted. If you withdraw your application, your application fee will not be refunded.
After matriculation, you must request withdrawal from university via contact form at the Student Administration Office. If you have already paid the semester fees for the first semester and would like to be reimbursed (less a processing fee), please return your UZH Card and the four proof-of-matriculation vouchers by 15 March (for the spring semester) or 15 October (for the fall semester) and provide us with your bank details. The Student Administration Office will then initiate the reimbursement of the fees.


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Planning Committee Unveils Proposals For NAEP Spanish Exam
Students may need to know at least some English to take the NAEP Spanish test, the national assessment's first exam in a foreign language.
That's one preliminary recommendation from a planning committee that has been designing the test for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
|Seeking Feedback
|Preliminary recommendations of the planning committee for the first NAEP foreign-language-test frameworks will be presented at the following meetings:
Oct. 16: Florida Foreign
Language Association, Orlando, Fla.
Oct. 22: Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Springfield, Ill.
Oct. 29: Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, Sturbridge, Mass.
Nov. 6: Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Appleton, Wis.
Nov. 9: National Foreign Language Center, Washington
Nov. 15: Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, Calif.
Nov. 21: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages '99, Dallas
The Center for Applied Linguistics also invites the public to comment on the recommendations using a World Wide Web site that will be available after Nov. 1 at www.cal.org/flnaep.
For information on admittance to the public-comment sessions at the foreign-language conferences, call Ed Scebold at the ACTFL, (914) 963-8830, ext. 222.
That recommendation, among others, is expected to draw debate over the next six weeks as the panel's proposed guidelines are opened for public reaction.
The National Assessment Governing Board, which is authorized by Congress to set policy for NAEP, voted in 1996 to conduct an assessment in 2003 of secondary students' knowledge of Spanish. The board said it also would carry out some small-scale tests in other foreign languages.
Through a $1.1 million contract awarded in May, the board, known as NAGB, asked the Washington-based Center for Applied Linguistics to form a national consensus among policymakers, curriculum and testing experts, business people, and others to plan the test's frameworks and specifications. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Institutes for Research were named as subcontractors in the process.
Recommendations yielded by the process were expected to be useful for a NAEP test in any foreign language, even though the first one will be in Spanish.
"The framework will provide some generic guidance for any foreign language so it could serve as a model for state and district assessments," said Mary Crovo, the governing board's assistant director of test development.
At week's end, the center will take the planning committee's preliminary recommendations on the road, making presentations and seeking comments at conferences of foreign-language teachers, gatherings of students and teachers, and public meetings in Washington and Monterey, Calif.
The planning committee will deliver its revised recommendations to NAGB in January, and the board will make its own revisions and take a vote on the final frameworks and specifications next May.
"NAGB may overturn everything; we hope not," said Dorry Kenyon, the director of the division of foreign-language education and testing at the Center for Applied Linguistics, who is leading the consensus process.
How Inclusive?
Whether to include students who have learned Spanish outside the classroom--native speakers, for example--has been the biggest sticking point for members of the committee, Mr. Kenyon said.
"There are two schools of thought: Is NAEP just about what schools have done, or is NAEP talking about a national capacity?" he said. "If you're talking about a national capacity, you would include 12th graders who speak Spanish, however they learned it."
The planning committee is recommending that the test sample include students who learned Spanish outside school, but that the testing follow the same guidelines for inclusion of limited-English-proficient students used by other NAEP tests. Mr. Kenyon also noted that the committee is recommending that instructions for the Spanish test be in English. Test scores would be broken out according to whether students had been taught Spanish in school or not.
Lawrence Feinberg, the assistant director of reporting and analysis for the assessment governing board, said the NAEP guidelines for LEP students shouldn't be an issue with the new Spanish test because so few students in 12th grade--the only grade being tested--fall under that category.
For the 1998 NAEP in writing, 2 percent of the 19,500 12th graders in the test sample were identified as having limited English proficiency, and only one-third of 1 percent of the total sample--fewer than 65 students--ended up being excluded for a poor command of English, Mr. Feinberg said.
The preliminary recommendations also say the test should be given to 12th graders who are currently taking Spanish, as well as those who have previously studied the language, and that scores should be broken out accordingly for those groups. The test results also should be broken out according to the highest-level Spanish course the test-taker would have taken, the panel says.
The panel also is recommending that the test be closely aligned with national standards in foreign-language education set by professional groups in 1996. The committee is seeking public advice on what languages should be included in smaller test samples conducted along with the Spanish-language exam.
Remaining Questions
Though one education expert who wasn't a member of the planning committee applauded the preliminary recommendation that native speakers of Spanish be included in the test sample, she voiced concern that the test design would shortchange those children.
"I have to presume [the planners] are looking at the test from the foreign-language perspective, as an additive, rather than from the bilingual perspective," said Sonia Hernandez, the deputy superintendent for curriculum and instructional leadership for the California Department of Education.
"I have an ongoing concern about the question, 'Where did you learn your Spanish?' " she added, arguing that it leads to unequal recognition. She recommends that the distinction not be made in the reporting of the scores for the proposed NAEP Spanish test.
Experts have generally praised the governing board's decision to create a foreign-language test, saying they hope it will provide information useful to policymakers.
Vol. 19, Issue 7, Page 6Published in Print: October 13, 1999, as Planning Committee Unveils Proposals For NAEP Spanish Exam
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April 19th, 2010 – Written By Bonnie
Season 9 of American Idol is really flying by and we are just weeks away from finding out who will be named the next American Idol. This season has been full of entertainment, surprises, and drama, which can only be expected from one of the top reality shows around. American Idol has taken reality television to a new level, and has changed the lives of hundreds of people. Being part of this hit reality show is something people only dream of, and very few make happen.
Season 9 brought America some of the toughest competition we have seen yet and as the finals get closer, we will see a major increase in star quality performance from each and every contestant on the show. Last week was a very dramatic elimination show as we said goodbye to two of the fan favorites, Katie Stevens and Andrew Garcia. Both were on their way to being eliminated, and it may have just come a tad bit soon for one, thanks to Big Mike being saved the week before.
We are down to only 7 contestants remaining and each week the competition grows more intense. Now is the time for contestants to step out into the spotlight and really display what star quality is all about. The time to rise to the challenge and show America just how vocally talented they really are has come. Song choice is going to play a major role in weeks to come and if they can deliver a performance worth paying to see, they will find themselves standing in audition lines for many years to come.
Much like all the other millions of American Idol fans, online sportsbooks have been following Season 9 of American Idol since before the voting lines even opened and online bettors can get in on the action by placing a wager using American Idol entertainment betting odds.
Crystal Bowersox -118
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Siobhan Magnus +300
Casey James +400
Michael Lynche +1500
Aaron Kelly +4000
Tim Urban +4000


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Mathematics is a very important element in the development of the value and standard of the life of the individual and society. Mathematics enters in everything from science, technology and engineering to arts and social sciences to economics and decision making.
It is very important that society constantly produces new generations of well trained mathematicians. This means that the school should increase the student's interest and develop his skills in the subject. To achieve this goal the school should see the reasons why students fear mathematics and why many students do very poorly in the subject.
The fist reason for the difficulty of the subject for students is that mathematics is abstract. It is not tangible they can not hold it. To make them understand a pure concept at this early stage is very difficult. They need to relate it to real life problems that they face in their daily lives. This way they will be stimulated by its importance for them and will see that it is useful and fun. Moreover, the use laboratory experiments using calculators would make concepts more understandable. There are many new innovative software calculators built just for this purpose.
The conventional system of teaching mathematics contributes significantly to the poor performance of students. This is because many teachers teach students how to implement algorithms without teaching them the idea behind the algorithms and there is no stress on the understanding of the concepts. This causes the interest level in the subject to decline and soon students develop a disassociation with the subject. To solve this problem the schools can create a mathematics society and a forum where students can communicate with each other discussing material and asking each other questions. This kind of social behavior may increase the student's interest in the subject.
Students pass early mathematics classes and they are not really fit in the subject. This is because the exams and grading did not reflect the student's true ability. This causes the students to have very big problems in senior mathematics classes which are dependent on the early classes. For example if we look at the early pupil stage we can imagine a pupil who does not understand the concept of divide and multiply. That is to say when should he divide and when should he multiply. Now can this pupil at a later stage know to solve a word problem? The answer is surely no. He will not know what we are talking about. We can also imagine a student who does not understand the concept of the algebraic equations. This student could not be asked to plot a graph because simply he will not have an idea about what we are speaking about. The teachers can use calculators to teach pupils the concepts of multiply and divide. They can let them experiment on their own with many numbers using the calculators. From the observations the pupils will understand the concepts of multiply and divide. Moreover, teachers could use calculators to teach students the concepts of functions and graphing. It is easy and fun using calculators.
Finally, those who are teaching mathematics may have sufficient knowledge in the subject. They usually have a mathematics degree but this is not enough. To be a teacher you certainly got to be strong in the subject but this is only one major factor in being a successful teacher. The teacher should know about education and student psychology. he should also have a strong personality and be a good leader.


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Practice Bride Dress Cookies
I was practicing making these bride dress cookies. I am glad that I didn't have to do these for an order because I just couldn't get the swing of it to get them to come out right. I am still going to give them to bring them to the shower anyway because I think they will still enjoy them. Hopefully they can tell the cookies are supposed to be dresses


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Welcome to Nectar Wines
John McGrath and Carl Byrne, proprietors of Nectar Wines, bring you the finest in wine and food with personal service of the highest quality.
We import our wines from small quality producers around the world and personally visit the vineyards before including the wines in our range.
Nectar Wines' success to date can be attributed to the care and attention John and Carl display in all areas of their business from choosing suppliers to ensuring speedy delivery.
Our ranges are exclusive to Nectar Wines with many of the vineyards producing only small quantities of top quality wines.
Personal Service
We deal with our clients directly to ensure you receive the best in personal service.


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This page outlines how the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act works alongside other legislation to protect New Zealand from the negative impacts of hazardous substances and new organisms.
Biosecurity Act 1993
As well as managing the risks to the health and welfare of New Zealand's plants and animals, the Biosecurity Act protects New Zealand from unwanted pests and harmful organisms by imposing controls on the import of plants, foodstuffs and animals. The Ministry of Primary Industries administers it.
The Biosecurity Act utilises border controls to prevent unwanted organisms entering New Zealand and pest management strategies to manage unwanted organisms already present.
The Biosecurity Act is used to approve and monitor the facilities that meet the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA's) approval requirements. It contains the power to approve and monitor specific facilities for containing organisms (eg, for quarantine). The Biosecurity Act does not cover genetic engineering. Assessing and approving all genetically modified organisms in New Zealand is done under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act.
Food Act 2014
The Food Act seeks to ensure that all food sold in New Zealand, whether imported or locally produced, is safe and suitable for consumption. Food must be labelled as genetically modified if it contains DNA or protein from a genetically modified (GM) source. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) administers the Act.
The HSNO Act overlaps with the Food Act because food can expose people to the toxic effects of hazardous substances used as a pesticide or a food additive.
Food additives are covered by the HSNO Act and require approval. Ready-to-eat food is not covered by the HSNO Act.
MPI is the statutory body responsible for setting limits for hazardous substances when those substances are used in food.
For further information see Food safety [MPI website]
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997
The Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 (ACVM Act) aims to prevent or manage risks associated with the use of agricultural compounds such as risks to trade in primary produce, risks to animal welfare and risks to agricultural security. The Act also seeks to ensure that domestic food residue standards are not breached and sufficient consumer information about agricultural compounds is available. The Ministry of Primary Industries administers the Act.
The ACVM Act overlaps with the HSNO Act because a number of the compounds used in agriculture (such as pesticides) are also hazardous substances.
Gas Act 1992
The safe use of fuel gases in systems such as town gas reticulation is controlled under the Gas Act 1992 which is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
There is an overlap of interest with hazardous substances legislation because these fuel gases are flammable and may also have toxic properties. The HSNO Act provides performance requirements to limit the likelihood of harmful effects from these properties.
The HSNO Act also allows for the EPA and MBIE to consult on gas regulations. MBIE is the regulatory authority responsible for setting controls on fuel gases when used as specified under the Gas Act.
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
The purpose of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSW Act) is to 'provide for a balanced framework to secure the health and safety of workers and workplaces'. It obliges people who have a role in a workplace to prevent harm from hazards, which include hazardous substances.
All hazardous substances in the workplace must be managed in accordance with both the HSW and HSNO Acts.
To find out more about the HSW Act see the HSW Legislation page of the WorkSafe website.
Medicines Act 1981
The safe use of substances as medicines is controlled under the Medicines Act administered by the Ministry of Health. There is an overlap of interest with the HSNO Act because some medicines are also hazardous substances.
Regulations under the HSNO Act apply to the safe transport and storage of medicines in their bulk form. The Medicines Act controls medicines in their finished-dose form. The Ministry of Health advises the EPA of approvals issued and controls imposed under the Medicines Act.
Building Act 2004 and regulations
The Building Act provides controls to ensure that buildings are structurally safe, while the HSNO Act sets controls to ensure that specialised containers and buildings can safely contain the hazardous substances (eg, explosives magazines and bulk petroleum storage tanks) that they are designed to hold.
Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996
This Ozone Layer Protection Act regulates the phasing out of ozone depleting substances. Other hazardous aspects of the chemicals are still controlled under the HSNO Act.
The Imports and Exports (Restrictions) Prohibition Order (No 2) 2004
New Zealand is party to several multilateral agreements relating to the import and export of hazardous waste such as the Basel Convention. A permit under the Prohibition Order must be obtained from the EPA before hazardous waste can be imported to, or exported from, New Zealand.
For more information see Shipping hazardous waste [EPA website].
Transport legislation
Transport legislation helps ensure New Zealand's air, sea and land transport systems operate safely. This legislation includes the Land Transport Act 1998, the Land Transport Rules, the Maritime Safety Rules and the Civil Aviation Rules.
Transport legislation requires that:
- hazardous substances are contained or packaged to withstand the conditions of transport (eg, loads imposed by a ship rolling at sea or the reduced pressure in an aircraft flying at altitude) and are identified so that they can be correctly managed in transport
- operators know about and comply with the appropriate requirements of the HSNO Act (demonstrated by hazardous substances endorsements on drivers' licenses).
The HSNO Act requires the following.
- Vehicle safety requirements specific to a hazardous substance (such as corrosion resistance of an acid tank mounted on a truck).
- Identification of standards to be set for hazardous substances based on standard international transport labelling and marking requirements. These standards supplement the identification requirements contained in transport legislation.
It also specifies the performance required of hazardous substances packaging. These performance requirements are derived from the United Nations Recommendations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods, and meet land transport requirements. However, air and sea transport require additional precautions as noted above. Stricter regulations also apply to these forms of transport under the Maritime Transport Act 1994 and the Civil Aviation Act 1990.


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Adding regular deep work into your routine, 4 – 7 consecutive hours of focused activity on a project, will do wonders for your productivity. But to really get into the habit of deep work, you must also practice deep scheduling.
From Deep Tallies to Deep Schedules: A Recent Change To My Deep Work Habits
by Cal Newport (@StudyHacksBlog)
Tips & Tricks:
A couple of ways to make sure you do deep work each week:
- Keep a "deep tally" of the number of hours of focused work you do. A continuous tally adds a sense of satisfaction and a small number motivates a more intense commitment to finding time to focus.
- Do some "deep scheduling" and book a meeting with yourself to do deep work. The best way to do so is creating calendar meetings a month in advance to ensure your deep work isn't overridden by other appointments.
If you're doing deep work already, consider taking deep breaks as well.


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|Steed and Peel
Joe Bunting has a good article on literary foils at The Write Practice. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, John Steed and Emma Peel, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Homes and Dr. Watson, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, Cole and Hitch, among many others. I'm inclined to favor a good buddy story over the lone protagonist. I even prefer James Bond when the rule-following CIA agent Felix Leiter is around.
Use literary foils to maintain tension when there are no bad guys within sight. As can be seen from these few examples, famous literary foils possess opposite personalities. That's why on television cop shows, partners are contradictory. They can play off each other in any circumstance. This device makes it easy to generate low-key tension when the protagonists are disengaged from battling whatever has irked their ire.
Bunting correctly points out that literary foils can also be a love interest or an antagonist. When an antagonist is used as a literary foil, the relationship goes beyond rivalry. There's an emotional tie between the two. In other words, the protagonist and antagonist are in a relationship. Homes' long-running battles with Moriarty and Clarice Starling against Hannibal Lecter come to mind, but I've always been partial to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.
|Cole and Hitch
Literary foils are an indispensable tool for writers. The Steve Dancy Tales is written in the first person, so without Jeff Sharp and Captain McAllen, it would be necessary to rummage around inside Steve head to get a feel for who he is and what he's about. That would be boring. But with two contrary foils, Steve can interact with his friends and his personality is shown, not told. In The Shut Mouth Society, Greg Evarts and Patricia Baldwin are opposites in every conceivable way. The relationship makes it easier to keep the tension taut in this thriller.
There is an old saying that opposites attract. I'm not certain about life, but they certainly attract readers and viewers.


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Thinking of You Quotations
Related Quotes
Miss You
Hang in There
Women's Greetings
Thou perchance art thinking now
As I think of thee,
And our thoughts in heaven above
Meet invisibly.
~J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "To C.E.S.: A Thought"
If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~John Burroughs
May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. ~Walt Whitman
Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone's prayers.
~Author Unknown
A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing
God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown
My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown
May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
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When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. ~Author Unknown
When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me! ~Author Unknown
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~A.A. Milne
I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
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New Dixie Chicks band Court Yard Hounds to release album
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
By Abbey Khan
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire of The Dixie Chicks are coming out with a new album on May 4th under the name Court Yard Hounds. The album is now available for pre-order exclusively through their website CourtYardHounds.com with all pre-orders receiving an instant gratification 4-song download not available anywhere else.
The newly formed duo will make their first live concert appearance at SXSW, performing during the Americana Music Association showcase at Antone's on Thursday, March 18. They are also scheduled to tour North America in the summer and Europe and Australia in the fall.
"It was time," said Robison. "We had been on hiatus from The Dixie Chicks for about a year, I was getting very restless and needed to be creative for my own sanity. And at the same time I was going through my divorce so it was very fertile ground for writing."
"Emily was just writing and writing all of these deeply personal and truly beautiful songs," added Maguire. "She was initially going to pitch them to other artists and I kept telling her no, no, you have to save that for you. It's too good and too personal."
Robison writes and sings lead on most of the tracks, with Maguire taking the lead on her solo composition Gracefully. Their debut album combines folk, country, rock and Americana music and the sisters even collaborate with fellow labelmate Jakob Dylan on See You in the Spring, which is the wry tale of a couple from the northernmost and southernmost parts of the country who find their biggest obstacle is climatic. In addition to contributing to this album, Dylan is releasing his second solo album Women and Country in April.
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Indiana Membership by Region
NASW Indiana is divided into 10 geographic regions, and all NASW members are also given membership to their region. Each region has representatives on the state chapter board of directors. You can contact the local Region Representative for the latest information on activities in your area or visit your region's page.
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Molecular Diagnostics and Microbial Forensics
Plant pathogenic bacteria cause numerous diseases of plants throughout the world and have a direct impact on food security. Hawaii relies on the imported food supply and also imported seeds and propagative stock of plants which introduced new bacterial species and strains; introduction of these new strains could have huge impact on local crops and ornamentals. Effective and sensitive detection methods (lab and field-deployable) are required to detect the latent infection with higher sensitivity and reliability; help to identify the disease(s) and the causal organism(s). Early and accurate detection on local crops and ornamentals, is extremely important for effective disease management. Detection tools are also important to facilitate epidemiological, host-bacterial interactions studies and quantification of disease resistance in breeding programs. Therefore, our goal in this project is to develop robust, accurate and reliable lab and field deployable diagnostic tools for application in routine diagnostics, microbial forensics and surveillance. We use advance methodology to develop these lab and field-deployable tools.


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Book Publisher to Speak at Library
Calling all book lovers, writers, and dreamers!
The Writers Bloc Welcomes Book Publisher Ted Savas
Join us on Saturday, May 7th at 1:00 pm when special guest Ted Savas from Savas Beatie LLC gives us a glimpse into the secret world of book publishing at the Placerville Library, 345 Fair Lane in Placerville.
Finding and Working with Publishers in Every Niche
Ted Savas will be speaking on niche publishing, working with authors, and developing manuscripts as well as addressing your burning questions about writing and publishing.
Some questions Mr. Savas plans to speak about:
About Ted Savas
Ted Savas has been in the publishing business for decades and has seen the industry from all angles: as author, editor, publisher, agent, and consultant. He is an award-winning author in his own right and has been a witness to the changing landscape of publishing over the years.
"The world of book publishing is fascinating and changing rapidly. I'm lucky that my passion is also how I make my daily living," says Mr. Savas, now Managing Director of Savas Beatie.
Mr. Savas is a returning guest speaker addressing the library's writing group, The Writers Bloc,
which invites publishing professions to give their insights into the publishing world. "I'm looking forward to speaking to writers and book enthusiasts at the Placerville Library and explaining the ins-and-outs of book publishing from both a writer's and publisher's perspective," Mr. Savas adds.
"His knowledge about the industry and generosity with his time are invaluable," Jen Garrett, facilitator at The Writers Bloc says about Ted Savas. "We're excited to have him speak to us."
Savas Beatie LLC is a leading military and general history publishing company located in El Dorado Hills. Since 2004, Savas Beatie has been publishing ground-breaking and award-winning titles.
For more information on this free public event, visit the Upcoming Events calendar on the
library's website:
www.eldoradolibrary.org or contact the Library at (530) 621-5540.
About The Writers Bloc
What started as a group of local writers that met once a month has evolved into an online community with a mission to help writers everywhere find their niche on their respective writing journeys. With a monthly newsletter, speaker events, and a Facebook group, the Writers Bloc seeks to provide resources and insight to writers of all genres. To join our community, subscribe to the Writers Bloc Newsletter or find us on Facebook.
Special thanks to Renee Morehouse at Savas Beatie and Krystal Owens at the Library for the source material of this blog post.
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Listed in the National Registry, the Camden Maine Stay is a grand old New England home dating from 1802. It was actually built by Alden Bass, a direct descendant of John Alden, who came over on the Mayflower. Camden is one of those picturesque towns surrounded by hills from which you peer down onto a harbor of schooners and boating activity—for me as mesmerizing as staring into a star-filled evening sky. The Camden Maine Stay is delightfully decorated and shipshape in every respect, and you'll find any one of the rooms to be totally comfortable for as long as you can stay. There's a variety of accommodation both in the main house and the attached carriage house, from the two-bedroom Amelia Huse Suite with its own sitting room to my favorite, the cozy Carriage House with its private patio overlooking the spectacular gardens that buffer one from any sense of reality. There is no such thing here as a room that I would not love to stay in for nights on end. Two inviting parlors provide guests with comfortable places to relax and chat with one another. There's also a sitting room with fireplace, TV, and DVD player and, of course, a porch—the kind that makes New England inns so very special. A huge Aga stove warms the kitchen and bakes all the wonderful food that you'll enjoy at breakfast. You can walk to everything in town and the innkeepers are happy to steer you in the right direction for all the interesting places to visit in the area.
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How to Deploy a Tensorflow Machine Learning Model to Live Production
Complete end to end demonstration. Plus know that this guys is probably one of the best ML tutors I have come across on Youtube
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Once we've trained a model, we need a way of deploying it to a server so we can use it as a web or mobile app! We're going to use the Tensorflow Serving library to help us run a model on a server that we can then make HTTP requests to for data. We'll have the user upload an image and it will return a classification for that image.
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The Australian Government has released a framework for the introduction of digital radio, with a staged rollout of the technology due to start in metropolitan areas "as soon as practicable".
Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, IT and the Arts, said the government had consulted widely on the proposed introduction of digital radio and that input from stakeholders had been useful in designing a suitable framework.
"As radio is the only mainstream broadcasting platform to remain analogue-only, and with increasing competition from new digital platforms such as the internet and mobile phones, the radio industry needs the certainty to plan and promote the potential benefits of digital radio," Senator Coonan said.
According to a statement from the Minister's office, the government was also urging broadcasters to begin digital radio trials in regional areas, so technical and other issues could be resolved.
"The Government will then consider what financial support is necessary to expand digital radio services to rural and regional Australians," the statement said.
The digital radio framework would see Australia implementing terrestrial digital radio based upon European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standards, which the Minister's office said was also known as Eureka 147.
Commercial, national and wide-coverage community broadcasters currently operating in the broadcasting services bands (BSB) in those areas would have the opportunity to participate and would share the available digital spectrum, according to the statement.
Digital radio had the potential to deliver new services to listeners such as record and rewind, streamed text with news and weather updates, play list information and still pictures, the statement said.
"International experience shows that digital radio will supplement existing analogue radio services for a considerable period, and may never be a complete replacement," Coonan said.
"Accordingly, the government's framework has been built around digital radio being a supplement to existing services in Australia rather a replacement technology, as it is in television."
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Fifteen Doubts About Eye Doctors in Greenville SC You ought to Clarify.
What You Must Learn About Eye Care
Handling your eyes is tremendously important. After all, the two eyes you might be born with would be the only eyes you can expect to have. That's why it's crucial that you consider actions you can take to look after the eyes. The tips in this article can help you take better care of the eyes. Read on to find out what you can do.
Sunglasses are certainly not created equal, with a bit of doing nothing to offer eye protection. You should make sure that the shades can filter out 100% of UVB and UVA radiation.
Sunglasses should not be solely bought for aesthetic purposes.
Everything you consume can greatly affect your vision. High amounts of C and E vitamins may help prevent macular degeneration as well as other diseases. Foods like beans, nuts, salmon, tuna and leafy, green vegetables will provide these nutrients.
If you smoke, stop to protect your eyes. You most likely know of the damage it can to the lungs, but you might not know the eyes are affected, too. Most smokers have an increased proclivity for eye disease. Quitting now will decrease your chance of cataracts and optic nerve damage.
Good eye care may be enhanced by taking an Omega 3 fatty acid supplement. Food that is healthy and has proper nutrients is useful to keep up eye health. Foods like salmon, tuna, halibut and vegetables that are dark green leafy vegetables are good choices. Omega-3 essential fatty acids are great for eyes, so be sure to eat them as much as possible,
Wearing sunglasses can definitely protect your vision. You should wear sunglasses even on cloudy days. When you select your shades, seek out ones which have UV protection. It might be worth paying more to make certain that your eyesight are protected.
Wear good sunglasses. These glasses can serve as a shield for your sun's rays. Get sunglasses that block out 100% of the UVA and UVB rays. Take into consideration getting lenses that are polarized if you're likely to drive often. They help in lowering glare. Even if your contacts offer UV protection, wearing sunglasses is still important.
Consider the heating and air-con situation in your home. Heat blowing around the house is well known to cause or exacerbate dry eye. Activate a humidifier to aid put moisture inside the air. This moisture may help maintain your eyes from become irritated and dry.
Looking at a computer very long can strain your eyesight. If you believe like your eyes are drying out, make an effort to blink more often. Make sure you cut down the level of screen glare. It is possible to find anti-glare screens. Make your computer position correctly so your eyes are level with all the computer. Your view ought to be looking down to the screen.
Keep some saline solution around your own home all the time. When you're at the office, you can use goggles. However, should you be in the home cleaning, you aren't likely to wear goggles. If you afflict receive an irritating liquid within your eye, you need to flush the attention with cold water combined with saline solution.
Start immediately with rehabilitating your eyes. Start using these tip for taking great care of your vision for your future. You'll soon begin to notice that your eyesight feel great..


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Read PC World's comparative review of the PS3 and the Wii. We also have a detailed test drive of the PlayStation 3.
In a perfect world, determining which new game console to purchase would be out of your hands. Instead the matter would be handled Thunderdome style: Two beefy consoles enter the arena, they battle, and one console is left standing. But since such combat would inevitably lead to the enslavement of mankind by a superrace of cyborg overlords, it's probably best to figure it out for yourself. Here is some information on the major contenders to help you decide.
Sony PlayStation 3
With a North American installed base exceeding 40 million units (and over 111 million worldwide) for the PlayStation 2, this console enjoys a level of brand awareness somewhat lower than Coke's, but much better than Dr. Pepper's. That means everyone on the planet wants one. Couple that level of demand with a ridiculously low number of units available at launch--only 400,000, rising to 1 million by year's end--and buying a PS3 becomes a task generously characterized as Sisyphean. There aren't even enough PS3s in the pipeline, apparently, to cover the puny preorder allotment initially promised to the Gamestop online store/community.
If you have enough accrued vacation time, you could spend it camping outside of Best Buy, but be warned: Others started lining up as early as November 9--more than a week before the PS3 goes on sale on November 17. The PS3 isn't cheap, as the base model with the 20GB hard drive is $499 while the high-end 60GB model is a daunting $599. And that's before you buy any games.
Of course, if money is no object you could buy someone else's PS3 preorder from eBay for a price that redefines obscene. (How about from about $1000 to $1900? But hey, most of them will ship it to you for free.) Or you can secure a PS3 preorder by buying a new high-def TV at CompUSA, at least in California this week.
PS3 Bottom Line
The PS3 is definitely your priciest option. But is it really for you? If you need to have the absolute cutting edge in graphics, the answer is yes: The PS3 looks great, supporting resolutions as high as 1080p, plus it doubles as a Blu-ray Disc player. If you (or your kids) are hard-core gamers and fans of PlayStation brands like the Metal Gear Solid series, you'll want it even more. If you're dying to play online, you might want to hold off--the PS3 will have online features, but how those actually perform is a big question mark until the services are up and running.
Nintendo Wii
Have kids? Get a Wii.
On a budget? Get a Wii.
Not a super-hard-core gamer? Get a Wii.
Super-hard-core gamer? Get a Wii.
Loathe the prospect of telling your friends you're playing with your Wii? Get a Wii and some better friends.
The unfortunately named Wii has a lot of things going for it, starting with a very forgiving $250 price tag. The odds of actually snagging a Wii on launch day are also encouraging: Nintendo should have a cool 1 million units in retail on November 19. There will surely be lines to purchase one, but chances are good that the folks waiting in those lines will see their patience rewarded. Compared with the trail of tears that will be the PS3 queues, that's pretty appealing.
Wii Graphics
You're not going to want the Wii if you're judging games by the current default metric, graphics quality. Wii graphics look like (very) modestly upgraded Nintendo GameCube visuals, and they aren't likely to dazzle.
The big reason to consider a Wii is accessibility (it almost feels more like a toy than a video game console) and game innovation, much of it driven by the innovative controller. The very unthreatening controller informally known as the Wiimote looks like a TV remote control but has significantly more functionality, chiefly in its motion-sensor abilities.
Playing a Wii game will be a much more active, visceral affair, with players swinging the controller to play tennis in Wii Sports, slashing it to sword-fight in the new Legend of Zelda game, or gently guiding it to excise tumors in Trauma Center. The Wii simply offers experiences that no other console can promise.
Microsoft Xbox 360
Your third and least trumpeted option is the increasingly appealing Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Almost a year old, the Xbox 360 has one huge advantage over both the PS3 and the Wii: You can buy it right now, without waiting in line for three days.
It's also competitively priced, with the core model selling for $299 (an extra $100 will get you the Pro version with its 20GB hard drive and wireless controller). With the $600 you'd spend on a high-end PS3, you could buy a high-end 360 and have enough money left over for at least three games and a year's worth of Xbox Live Gold membership ($50).
The 360 keeps looking better compared with the Sony PS3, thanks to a recent update to the Microsoft console's software that now lets it support resolutions up to 1080p--just like the PS3. Further, Microsoft has also recently released an HD DVD add-on for $199, pitting the console squarely against Sony not only in the console wars but in the high-definition DVD wars as well.
With a full year's worth of releases backing it, the Xbox 360 has a much larger and stronger library of games, and playing games is the point, right? The 360's latest releases run the gamut from the very mom-friendly Viva Pi
While the retail games appeal to the hard-core, Xbox Live Arcade appeals to the, um, soft-core. This online marketplace features classic arcade titles like Dig Dug, Gauntlet, and Pac-Man, and casual gems such as Zuma Deluxe that should attract the nongamers in your home and make rationalizing your purchase even easier.
While Nintendo and Sony are just getting started online, Microsoft's yearlong head start has made its online component a real selling point. And there's even more on the horizon: video downloads.
'Wii60': Another Option?
Of course, there is also a fourth option. A shiny new 60GB PlayStation 3 costs $599, but if the money doesn't bother you, perhaps owning both an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii--a pairing that's come to be known in Internet chatter as "Wii60" or "Wii360"--may be an attractive alternative. It's certainly a bit cheaper.
Here's the math: If you were to buy a $250 Wii in addition to the $299 core 360 (which lacks the $399 Pro pack's 20GB hard disk and wireless controller), you'd spend only $549. That's fifty bucks cheaper than the high-end PS3, and you get two consoles.
However, to view high-def movie (HD DVD) playback on the Xbox 360, you'd still need its $200 add-on and, even then, you'd be using component video versus the PlayStation 3's HDMI connection.
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Our economy's function is to direct capital, that's money, labor, and natural resources, in such a way as to benefit society's goals. From that perspective, spending a couple TRILLION on the nation's power grid to digitize it and to turn it into a "smart" grid seems like a brilliant idea – the good. Unfortunately, while this is a FAR BETTER use of funds than throwing money at bank robber barons (the bad), it's still spending money that we do not have – the ugly. And, as you will find out if you read the linked article, it will take billions just to repair the existing infrastructure… the ultimate price tag for a fully modernized smart grid? It's just a little bit more expensive than a couple of measly billion; it is approaching $2 trillion!
First let's talk about the good aspect of a smart power grid. As envisioned, a smart system would communicate through its lines to everything that's plugged into the grid, right on down to every appliance in your home. That way power could be better matched to demand.
Power lines carry alternating current, but at the same time they can also carry digital information. The UK has a company that helped to develop and already provides internet service over power lines (NORWEB, North Western Electricity Board), so that technology is getting pretty well understood. Here's how it works: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/broadbandoverpowerlines.html. In fact, there are companies trying to push for this in America, Google is among them Article; Broadband's power-line push.
A new grid would also be more efficient. Larger cables would be strung and that could provide about a 10% bump in the efficiency of carrying electricity across large distances (which is another topic of debate as the grid could be decentralized vs. our current centralized system). More capacity will be needed if we remain centralized, especially if we're going to make a push to electrify automobiles, which, in my opinion we should. There are huge leaps being made in electrical technologies and we need to be putting our efforts and resources there, not into more of a petroleum based economy. This is one arena where I would argue that the market is not free – the oil industry is too powerful, they exert too much influence over our political system. Their influence makes a good argument that corporations should be separated from all forms of influence over the state.
Here's a link to a CNN article that came out today and stimulated my thoughts about the power grid proposal:
A $2 trillion bet on powering AmericaIn Jim kunstler's "The Long Emergency," he sees the petroleum based suburbia economy coming to an end. I'm NOT so pessimistic, I believe that electric transportation IS RIGHT AROUND THE FIGURATIVE CORNER despite the petroleum industry's attempts to thwart this. The technology is on the verge of becoming compelling, even with modest oil prices. Advanced super capacitors that use new carbon nanotube technology and new batteries are making huge breakthroughs, while at the same time our ability to control power and make electric engines smaller, lighter, and more powerful is on an exponential curve. That's why Boeing went with electrical actuators for their flight controls on the 787, they also replaced most hydraulic and pneumatic systems with electrical ones as well. That's the future, real progress is being made in this field.
The stimulus plan might jump-start investments, which could drastically change how we use electricity.
CNN article, A $2 trillion bet…
Another mind blowing technology is the advancement in electrical flywheel technology. These flywheels can store energy and deliver it back almost instantly for short burst applications and acceleration Link – Flywheel energy storage. A Bellevue, Washington company, AFS Trinity Power Corporation is leading in this field. They have been involved with flywheel technology for uses in space, in powering trains and busses, and using them as backup power sources for the power grid. Now they are using super capacitors and electrical management to produce electrical/hybrid SUVs capable of getting 150 mpg. Exciting stuff! Here's a link to their site if you're interested, be sure to dig into their other work besides auto technology – AFS Trinity Power Corporation.
A few years ago, I couldn't get the concept out of my head of using all this electrical technology to make the world's first truly high performance and SAFE flying automobile, so I filed a provisional patent on the combination of technologies and how they could be used and put the basic information on a website and you can view it pictorially here: Avicar Aerospace, or read about the basic concept here: Avicar Aerospace introduction.
I only post this information to stimulate thought, this technology would cost billions to develop properly and funding this type of innovation will certainly not come in this environment. There's a lesson here!
Although technology is developing very rapidly, during the past decade massive amounts of human effort were misallocated towards "financial" innovation. Instead of funding derivatives and over inflated home values, our money system needs to provide funding to innovative and promising new technologies and manufacturing capabilities that can make it on their own. Yes, sometimes government money is needed to move technology forward like how we used to spend money on Aero engineering through NASA but no longer do.
This country built amazing infrastructure; roads and bridges, dams and electrical distribution, airports and air traffic control, water systems and reservoirs, waste disposal, mail, etc. These WERE great systems in their day, but they are aging and require great sums of money just to maintain them. Money we do not have.
That's one of the problems with owning anything, you must maintain it and your revenue had better be big enough to do so or you're in trouble. In our case, we used our infrastructure to build other great industries. Now many of those industries are gutted shells of their former selves.
What happened? Free trade for one. The people who control the money and promoted free trade could care less where the production takes place so long as it's cheap. Hey, that's cool as long as it's a level playing field for everyone, but it's not. Wage arbitrage and overseas competition sounds great, but the fact is that "pulling them up" brings us down. Over the past decade our greatest exports are "financial products" (time bombs) and debt while we import cheap goods from overseas and pay with money that's truly not backed by anything more than an empty promise.
Now all that's left is to attempt to print our way to prosperity, and history shows that NEVER works.
I think a lot of this boils down to leadership. Our national priorities have not been effectively mapped out or presented. Of course the root of that problem is our money system that allows corporate influence to dominate politics. This is backwards.
The current dilemma and reality is that we are up to our eye sockets in debt, and that means that we have already spent FUTURE tax income, just as being in personal debt means that you have spent your own personal FUTURE income. Since ALL our future tax income has already been spent, how do we pay for what should have been proper uses of money now?
Infrastructure on the scale being discussed will not pay for itself, sorry. Two Trillion dollars represents approximately $30,000 of additional debt burden for every family of four in America. Remember, all the debts, governmental (Federal, state, and local), corporate, and personal ALL ULTIMATELY GET SERVICED BY THE SAME 305 MILLION PEOPLE. And actually the number is much smaller than that when you consider that over half the jobs in America are either directly or indirectly tied to the government. That leaves less than half the working population to support all the debt, and that math has already stopped working - Death by Numbers.
Those who think that we can do it all, like Obama, are mistaken, they do not understand our money system, debt, capital flows, or how the math works. Our debt based money system depends upon people, both here and abroad, to finance our debt. Debt must be serviced from somewhere. In the case of our government, that somewhere is taxes, and Americans do not have the capacity to pay even more taxes when they are burdened by excessive tax and debt already. Inevitably spending big money on infrastructure now will lead to printing/monetary easing. This will eventually destroy global capital flows and we may be at this point already.
During the Great Depression, New Deal spending came at a time that had far lower taxes, less government, and less personal debt. My own father worked in the CCC camps during this time building our nation's park infrastructure which has been a national treasure now for decades. However, unemployment in the 30's did not recover and by the time WWII started unemployment was still running at 17%, and did not recover until the war "equalized" the employment picture – think about the ways in which the war did that, it's sobering.
Below is a chart of unemployment during the 1930's (keep in mind that modern media reported figures do not compare to figures during this time period):
Here's a modern day chart showing the striking and dramatic difference between reported unemployment and how it used to be calculated (courtesy of Shadowstats.com):
My father joined the Navy one year before Pearl Harbor was bombed and was at sea almost the entire duration of WWII. It was one year after the war that he became a civilian, went to the University of Washington and became a businessman. Note the time relationship here… Stocks first crashed in October of 1929, then the bond market dislocated, all along there was stimulus spending via public works projects, Roosevelt created the New Deal from 1933 to 1936, and a decade following the stock market crash in 1939 WWII began. If you look further back in time, you will find the same sequence repeated over and over following times of economic upheaval.
What did the war bring us? A bigger military, a bigger military industrial complex, more deficit spending, and an expensive world wide infrastructure to maintain. Today, we spend more money on our military than the rest of the entire world combined.
Chalmers Johnson – 6 minutes
According to Chalmers Johnson, this progression is typical of empires who are nearing the end of their dominance, and he's one of the world's foremost experts who has worked for the CIA, for years as a university professor, and is the author of 3 terrific books on the subject.
Yes, new technology and infrastructure are terrific, BUT... We must be able to finance it, and it must pay for itself over time. Stimulus, by itself, is not a valid reason to assume more debt and yet infrastructure spending seems vastly more worthy than propping up banks and failed companies.
Right now there's a standoff between the need to spend more on the good; our impossible debts are the bad that prohibits us from investing in needed infrastructure; and the ugly are the likely outcomes of reckless spending and never ending stimulus.
Will spending on the good compound upon the bad, leading to the ugly? Watch to find out:
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Perhaps Bernanke didn't catch Clint's line: "You see there are two kinds of people in this world… those with loaded guns and those who dig."


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Climate change, food security and sustaining peace
The interconnectedness of food security, natural resources, peace and conflict is not new to anyone familiar with fragile and conflict-affected states. The question is how to reverse this negative spiral. It is instrumental to focus on the questions of how interventions are interacting with other factors, what negative side effects may appear and how to reduce or, even better, prevent them.


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The amazing photo in the header post illustrates are are times in the running cycle when neither of a runner's feet are touching the ground.
Back in the 1800s, people argued whether there was a point in the running cycle of a horse when none of the four hoofs touched the ground.
Some argued it was not possible for a 2-ton animal to be airborne. Leland Stanford, oil barron, founder of Stanford University, and Governor of California, argued to the contrary. He solicited the help of one Eadweard Muybridge (born Edward James Muggeridge), who proved his point with a photo (since lost) in 1877 and followed by a full studio of the running cycle of the horse.
To understand how it is possible for a 2-ton horse or a roughly 1/8 ton person to be airborne at some point when at a full gate, you have to understand some engineering principles, which we'll not delve into here.


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Accommodation in Buzios
The hillside location looking over the ocean gives this hotel a feeling of splendid isolation. The ocean view rooms also have their own private terraces, so we will be sure to request one for you. There's a well-appointed spa for relaxation.
The beaches of Buzios are yours to meditate on as you peak over the edges of your infinity pool. With just 14 rooms, the place feels exclusive and the landscaped gardens give it an extra sense of privacy. Off the colourful lobby are a couple of small but well-formed spa treatment rooms.
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