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^ ,^... ' 1^' I ,1/. 1 h ^V-' iWO f i'f r'"*, _.i, IMQa^ serving Cotumbus, Dayton! Sntraj'^lnrsouthwestern Ohio VHAR 1 '1 'S-M? Vof.U5, No.2 FRIDAY, JAISlUARY 13, 1967 - 2 SHEVAT 6727 39 Pgy*y tyj^yjf Campaign Clinic ts Scheduled By UJFC When the 1967 Campaign Clinic of the United Jewish Fund and Council takes place on Tuesday, January 17, at 7:30 p,m. at the Jewlsh'<Jenter, Dan Rosenberg, Wrector of Field Services for> the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds will be the guest speaker and discussion leader. '' ,' ¦This year's Clinic will bring together the leadership,and work¬ ers of the Trades and Professions and Young Men's Divisions of the forthcoming Cam|>aign. The chainnan for Trades and Profes¬ sions is Norman Meizlish, whose associate chairmen include Mau¬ rice Bleich, Arthur Katz, Ben Seiferas, Ernest Stern, Dr. Har¬ iy W. Topolosky and Hy Wein¬ berg. Harry Schwartz, past chairman of the division, Is serv¬ ing as advisor. OHAIRAIAN of the Young Men's Division is Millard Cum¬ mins; menibers of the Executive Committee for this division in¬ clude Stanley Katz, I. Dav"d Cohen, Benjamin Zox, David For¬ man, N. Victor Goodman, Irving Baker and Victor Krupman, with Bemard K. Yenldn as chairman. Each of .these men have a spec¬ ial" responsibility in connection with the Campaign of this Divi¬ sion, and,their partlclpatjon In the Clinic on January 17 will be of crucial Importance as leaders and workers alike take a look at the 1967 Campaign needs. t»artlcipating as discussion leaders in the bU2z sessions .^iSnislSaWiatlC: r To Be ObWWea "^ Dr. Solomon Abrams, Execu¬ tive DWector of the Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh, Pa. will be the guest speaker at the late Friday evening Service tonight at, the Agudas Achim Congrega¬ tion starting at 8:15 p.m. The Columbus Zionist District will host the Service designated as , "Zionist Night." Dr. Abrams wUl discuss the subject, "The Miracle of Israel." 'a nationaUy prominent edu¬ cator, Dr, Abrams, serves in many capacities of leadership in tlie Zionist Organization of Am¬ erica and in the field of progress¬ ive Jewish education. He serves as vice-president of the Trl-State Zionist Region. He is a past President of the Pittsburgh branch of the Religious Educa¬ tion Association and is currently a,Vice-President of the Midwest Region of the National Council for Jewish Education. ;db. abrams visited Israel in (contlnuid on pig* 4) which will follow' Rosenberg's Initial presentation will also be the following''section chabmen of the Trades' and Professions Division: Morris Groner, Carl Mellman, Seymour Goldstone, Dr. Harold ISpstein, Jerome Gross, Martin,Greenberg, Sher¬ wood Walker, >Hersh Adlerstein, Dr. Charles Young, Saul Kome¬ ssar, Robert Curl, Leonard Qulnn, Louis Berliner, Gerald Friedman, Arthur Pollack, Ray¬ mond; Wells; Dr. Irving Abramo¬ witz, Dr. Theodore N. Beckman, Dr. I. M. Brenner, David Levin¬ son, Dr. Jack Silberstein, Marvin (conllnuid on pag* 4) The World's Week r. • ' Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporh BROTHERHOOD PLANS VISIT BY CANTOR The Agudas Achlm Brother¬ hood presents for the first time in Columbus the voice of Cantor Moshe Taube on Sunday, Janu¬ ary 22, 8 p.m. at the synagogue. , -Cantor Moshe Taub^ was bom J{Ut^tfivyi^ft,ia27..1n "CcacfWr.>PQ- landj/At theage' of eight he be¬ gan 'to' "absorb "the traditional cantorlal melodies with two fa¬ mous {Cracow cantors: Shmuel Kaufman and Yossele Mandel¬ baum. AFTER BEING liberated from a concentration camp in Ger¬ many he migrated to (then) Palestine where he Joined the Jewish Underground "'Hagana" and then the Israeli Army. !He took an active part in the de¬ fense of Jerusalem during the War of Independence and later in the Sinai Campaign. While in the Army he often delighted large audiences with hi6 rendi¬ tions. Taube came to trte United States in 1957, and three days after his arrival he was engaged by one of the oldest and greatest congregations in this : country- Congregation Shaare Zedek New York City. He officiated there until his engagement by Congre¬ gation Beth Shalom, Pittsburgh, Pa. In May 1965. OANTOR TAUBE is a gradu- , (conHnuid on pag* 4) WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republlcanj called here for a three power conference by the United States, Britain and France to reaffirm their commitments to preserve peace In the Middle .East. It was these same three powers that issued the tripartite declar¬ ation in 1950 stressing their "unalterable opposition to the use of force or threat of force" in the Middle East. NBW YORK, (JTA) — The Welzmann Institute of Science in Israel was reported as consulting lawyiers in Washington for legal action against a rlght-vdng telephone message service which broadcast propaganda taped tele¬ phone messages that the drug LSD lias beea smuggled into the United States from the Institute, A spokesman for the Welzmann Institute here said/'there is hot a cintilla of truth in the outrageous broadcast." WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Edward M M. Warburg, the Jewish philanthropic and humanitarian leader who has served as chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee for 25 years, since 1941, was appointed to membership on the U.S. Agency for Interpatfonal Development's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. CHICAGO, (JTA)—- Plans to raise $250,000 to establish a chair of canon law in the Hebrew University in Jerus?i- lem, from which the Most Rev. John P. Cody, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago would deliver the first lecture,, were announced ¦ here. The announcement was made by John Crown, a lawyer, and Thomas A. Lewis, a stockbroker. They head a special fund-raising committee. Mayor Richard J. Daley is honoraiy chairman of the group. j''"'*'''''NE#*YdRft;;'(JTA)"—^ The' TWli 'Afmiversary'^Xear rj^n[l>e!jJfTyfffi"t)iifly~,E;orw;af3,.!leading Yiddisli" newspaper, was proclaimed here 'at a luncheon attended by leaders of Jewish ttade unions, cultural groups and philanthropic organizations presided over by Adolph Held, general man¬ ager of- the newspaper. NEW YORK, (JTA) — The ?5th anniversary of the execution by the Soviet authorities of Henryk Erllchand Victor Alter, leaders of the Jewish Labor jBund in Poland, were observed here with a protest meeting at Town Hall. Several hundred people attended the meeting which was organized by the Jewish Labor Bund In New York and sponsored by a number of Jewish labor organizations. NEW YORK, (JTA) — The World Union for Progres¬ sive Judaism, intematlonal body of 750 Liberal or Reform synagogues In 25 countries, endorsed the Viet Nam peace proposals of United Nations Secretary (Jeneral U Thant. In a statement adopted this weekend by the governing body.of the World Union, the Jewish group lauded the Steps being taken by U Thant which called for the United States to stop the bombing In the North as a "first, stepi, towards peace" and also requested all those Involved In the war to enter Into Immediate negotiations and to scalcf dowi military forces. Th6 World Union said that the resolution would be sent to constituent members through¬ out the world so that the statement could be forwarded to their own Governments, Tension Mounts On The Syrian Border T,™^^^y^J''^e' r '^^'"'°" continued to moUAt'along the "zz^. ssar -^ ¦»''^' •» • ""^^ "^ Syrian Iwmbardment Sunday resulted in fires breaWne out at ^pn &?.'"' °' ""^^'^ ';*"^'^''* °» *« Isr^U swWthTLr- der knd the wounding of two| Tn-State Region Elects Local Girl Deena Adlerstein has' been elected president of the Ken¬ tucky-Indiana-Ohio Region of B'nai B'rith Girls, marking tlie first time any Columbus teenager has been elected to this trl-state post. Deena is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hersh Adlerstein, of 1629 Kenview Rd., and is an Eastmoor High School Junior. She was'elected at the regional oonventlon in Louisville, Ken¬ tucky, December 26-30. ' THE KIO Region Includes over 650 girls hi 18 chapters in 16 cities. As president Deena will hpad the organization in three states until next December's convention in South Bend, In¬ diana. '. Miss Adlerstein has been ac¬ tive .'in BBYO activities since her freshman year. She is past president and currently Coun¬ selor of Emma Lazarus Chapter, BBGB, and vras recording sec¬ retary of the KIO Region last year. Actively involved in youth activities at the Jewish Center and at Eastmoor, Deena Is a member of the Center's Teenage Council and its Philanthropic chairman. She is currently Un¬ derclass Editor of the Eastmoor yeairbook. BOTH OP DEENA'S parents Deena Adlenteln have been actively involved in B'nal B'rith activities for many years. Her mother Is currently BBYO Chairman of ZIon Chap¬ ter, B'nal B'rith Women. Deena's father Is professionally associated with B'nai B'rith, serving as Associate Director of the Ohio-Kentucky Regional Of¬ fice of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith., David Engehnan, President of Capital AZA, was elected Reg¬ ional Gizbor (treasurer) of the AZA. David is the son of Dr. and Mrs. William P. Engelman, of 204 S. Broadleigh. Appointed as Corresponding Secretary of the BBG was Madeline Lowitz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Sidney Lowlt? of 2848 Scottwood Ave. Madeline is an officer of Emma Lazarus Chapter, and last year was the International story-tell- Ing Champion of B'nal , B'rith Ghrls. NEAUtY 60 Columbus repre¬ sentatives attended the five-day convention in Louisville. Colum¬ bus ooNtest winners Included (continued on pag* 4) Israelis who were called to a meeting with U.N. observers. WARNINO that the continu¬ ing ,Syrian bombardments were pushing the two nations to the brink of war, Israeli militaiy officials said Sunday that the attacks on Israeli farmers by Syrian tanks constituted a "most blatant" tavltation to retalia¬ tion. The warnings came after a statement by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol that "Syria is not immune to treatment in kind." Thie premier declared in a press toterview that "We must warn Damascus that wie shall not tolerate these incursions.and wanton murder." He said lisrael was trying to limit jier military measures to self-defense ''but I cannot exclude the possibility that we may have no other re- coiirse but'detenrent measures." IN THE FIRST of the week¬ end attacks, the Syrians moved tanks tato positions at two places on the Israel border and thred at an Israeli tractor worktag on a field near Tel Katzlr setUc; ment southeast of Lake mberlas. The gunners theh opened ma- chtaegun fhre at the tractor driv¬ er but he managed to escape safely. The vehicle was not dam aged. In a second, tocideht, three Syrian tanks; fired; simultaneous¬ ly at isiraeli positions ta the Ora- zta area north of Lake Hberias.; Israeli officials said that the Syrians had sent field Workers into the Israeli area to draw an Israeli response, but opened fire with the tank guns before the Israelis were able to take any action to expel the field workers. , IT WAS also noted ta connec¬ tion with this incident that the Syrians broadcast a conununlque announctag that the Israelis had driven out the Syrian workers even before the shelltag began, bl fact, Israeli officials said, Is¬ raeli troops held their fire imtll some 40 Syrian shells had been fired. • Sunday momtag, Syrian tanks agata went tato operation, firing at an Israeli tractor and at an Israeli patrol to the Huleh area. The Israel Aimy spokesman said that the Syrian positions directed automatic fire at the Israeli trac¬ tor movtag along a road Inside Israeli territonf and parallel to the border. A half hour later, an Israeli patrol movtag towards the tractor was tired on from the same Syrian position. The patrol retumed the flre after the Syr-, ians used tank guns resulttag ta a flre at the former site of Not- era settlement. 9m Harold Monett Service League Organized By Jewish Center Plans for a new service pio- •Ject at the Jewish Center were unfolded this week by its presi¬ dnt, Leon Friedman. Embodytag a new program of volunteer ser¬ vice, the project will cany the banner of the Service League of the Jewish Cei^ter. Friedman announced the en¬ tire program will be caMed out under the dh%ction of Dr. Ivan Gilbert, vice-president of the Cen¬ ter for programmtag, with Dr. Harold Monett| chairman of the Adult Activities (Tommlttee. Friedman Indicated that "for more than a year we have given serious study to this forthcomtag project, and we aro Happy to make its announcement at this lime. It constitutes a service we have been needtag for some time; and it is certataly something that should challenge the public ser¬ vice utge ta most of us." . DiL MONETT added: "This is (conllnuad' en p«g* 4) '^^ *).< YOUjNu iVlAlKUi^d LiAUl^Ul UlUVL Mrs. B. W. Abramson, seated, serves cpffe© to the com¬ mittee planning the Advanced Gifts Parlor Meeting. At the left Is'Mrs. B. Lee Skilken, chairman, and in the center la Mrs. Edwin Ellman, colonel. Mrs. Abramson is the ad> visor for the Ypvmg Matrons Division. Not shoiyn is Mrs. Sam Abramson, educatipnal chainnan. The youngiMatrcauf-,/ launch their drive Tuesday dt 3:15 p.m. See detAUa'^'^Wl' Mra. Michael Comay To Addreaa UJFC .. Women At Luncheon Mrs. Joan Comay, wife of Is¬ raeli Ambassador to the United^ Nations Mldiael Comay and outstandtag' personality ta own right, will speak at the vanced Gifts Lundieon of Keynoters and Pacesetters of 1 UJFC. , . The lundieon is scheduledi^fl next Wednesday, Januaiy 1^ ^ the Fjord room of the ShersiJ* Columbus Motor Hotel. '" A ffATsysi of South Wft^-pmay' received a d^^ t^; Capetown |Unlv9rsIty| |us*|lte<*if^. .S(jiie,*ahd ^erf >«''¦''•5^^"~'>P*aMttae fo^ Ui^\aiiai on
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Vof.U5, No.2
FRIDAY, JAISlUARY 13, 1967 - 2 SHEVAT 6727
39 Pgy*y tyj^yjf
Campaign Clinic ts Scheduled By UJFC
When the 1967 Campaign Clinic of the United Jewish Fund and Council takes place on Tuesday, January 17, at 7:30 p,m. at the Jewlsh'
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Newberg, Oregon — There can hardly be an engineer more particular about getting the terminology right than one from Honda R&D in Marysville, Ohio. And yet here was Jim Keller describing the 2014 Acura MDX as a "car," not a "utility." He caught himself right away, but try as he might, "car" kept slipping into his description of Acura's seven-passenger utility vehicle.
He's right. Now that we've driven the Acura MDX past the little lakes in the mountains outside Portland, past the vineyards and walnut orchards along the Willamette River, and past the big box stores of Newburg, we've seen the light. Anyone who would argue that this third-generation MDX is an SUV might as well belong to the Flat Earth Society. The 2014 Acura MDX is the perfect expression of the modern car – capable, spacious, and friendly to drive.
You're reassured as soon as you walk up to the new MDX, since its styling is familiar, in a good way, as if everyone in the family had gotten a nice promotion at work and there has been some new landscaping at home that includes LED lights. Maybe more significant is the interior architecture, which features a dash design with an un-provocative yet high-style expression of modernism, including a center console that has a touchscreen interface rather than an array of buttons.
You'll find the driving experience just as familiar, because the MDX drives in the same self-effacing way – coolly comfortable and always steady on its feet, as if it has been this way before. Yet while we're navigating up and down the narrow country roads through the hills above the Willamette River in the middle of a rainstorm (hey, this is Oregon), we're struck that the new MDX is a lot better at this than we remember. The rush of the tires on the pavement is subdued at last, so you can make a telephone call and not have to shout to be heard. The electric-assist steering hardly crackles with communication, yet the front tires instinctively find their way through a rain-swept corner. When the wheels roll through a pothole, the body jounces once, not twice. And the engine always seems to be in the right gear, makes noises as if it means it at 6000 rpm, and then lets you sail past the gas station.
As with so many things about Honda, it's the little things that add up. Clever engineering and high-strength steel have created a body structure that's lightweight as well as crashworthy, while better seals, thicker acoustic-insulated glass and active sound control muffles the noise. The platform has been remade with new geometry for the front suspension that minimizes torque steer and a new multi-link rear suspension that keeps out noise and has high-tech dampers besides. The direct-injection 3.5-liter V-6 delivers 290 hp and 267 lb-ft of torque, and it combines variable-cylinder deactivation with a six-speed transmission that has a fairly active shift schedule, which helps deliver an EPA-rated 18 mpg City/27 mpg Highway for the all-wheel-drive MDX and 20 mpg City/28 mpg Highway for the front-wheel-drive MDX (both are best in class, Acura tells us).
Actually the 2014 MDX might be even more remarkable for the stuff that you don't actually notice. The all-wheel-drive system delivers torque vectoring front to rear to enhance traction, and side to side across the rear axle to improve cornering. The adaptive steering uses steering assist and the brakes to enhance cornering stability. Add on blind-spot warning, collision warning, lane-keeping assist, an adaptive cruise control that works even at a walking pace, and even GPS-linked air-conditioning control. Never mind the bright sparks at Google, because Acura has already invented the autonomous-driving car.
When you combine these things in a vehicle that has been engineered to weigh 275 lbs less than before, it's no wonder the MDX feels like a car. The living space has also been engineered with car-like convenience, including the extended-slide rear seat, improved third-row access, a smoother (though no lower) incline to the cargo floor when the seats are lowered, and a center-console cargo bin as magically spacious as Harry Potter's tent. The interior is fractionally smaller than before despite a stretch of the wheelbase by 2.8 inches, as shoulder room and hip room in the rear seats are each down by about an inch.
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We urgently need people to complete Chester and Cheshire West Council's online PSPO consultation and to express their opposition to the police and private business group Chester CH1 BID proposals to criminalise street culture
The Campaign against the Criminalisation of Street Culture in Chester
Nearly 7000 people have so far signed our petition against the proposal of Chester and Cheshire West Council to introduce a 'Public Space Protection Order' (PSPO) which, amongst other things would make it a criminal offence punishable by a £1000 fine to play music or sing songs in the street if you stand in the wrong place, for the wrong length of time and do not meet a quality assessment administered by the private business group Chester CH1. The proposed PSPO would also make it a criminal offence to 'lie down or sleep in any public place', to feed birds and to beg using 'verbal, non-verbal or written requests'. The proposals will have a hugely disproportionate effect upon vulnerable and dispossessed people in Chester, particularly the homeless and vulnerably housed as well as representing a direct assault on the spontaneity, informality and democratic access to public space for the arts and street culture that the Keep Streets Live Campaign exists to protect.
Online Consultation
Chester and Cheshire West Council are currently carrying out an online consultation on the proposals which ends on October 15. It is vitally important that people participate in this consultation whether they are Chester residents, visitors, tourists, buskers or people who care about civic freedoms, public space and social justice. The more people who take part in this survey and express their constructive opposition to these damaging proposals, the more chance we have of ensuring that they do not go through. The consultation will take between 10/20 minutes to complete depending upon the amount of detail you go into it. Your response will make a big difference to this campaign, so please find the time to do it if you can!
Link to the online consultation:
Link to the petition against the PSPO:
The PSPO proposal
The consultation covers seven entirely separate proposals, each of which would create a new criminal offence in the defined geographical area of the PSPO.
1.) Measure 1 – Introduction of a controlled alcohol zone
2.) Measure 2 – Deterring the use of intoxicating substances
3.) Measure 3 – Deterring public urination/defecation.
4.) Measure 4 – Deterring rough sleeping
5.) Measure 5 – Deterring begging
6.) Measure 6 – Restricting the feeding of birds
7.) Measure 7 – Deterring inconsiderate buskers
As you will see, many separate issues have been lumped together under the ever-expanding category of 'anti-social behaviour'. The busking proposals are on part of a wider 'catch-all' approach to the oversight of Chester's public spaces. The Keep Streets Live Campaign has not taken a public position on whether Measures 1-3 should be included on the PSPO though we have expressed a view on those measures. We are strongly opposed to the inclusion of Measures 4-7 on the PSPO for reasons we make clear later.
In general the PSPO is an authoritarian and clumsy 'catch-all' piece of legislation which creates the potential for arbitrary criminal offences to be created with will have a disproportionate impact upon the most vulnerable members of society. Our considered view is that enforcement action should only ever be taken as a last resort against people whose actions were causing genuine harm to other people and who had refused reasonable requests to stop.
We strongly encourage people to take part in this online consultation and to answer the questions as they see fit. We are publishing our answers as a reference for people and to explain our reasons for opposing the PSPO clearly. Please feel free to use our answers as a framework for your own responses. A text summary follows each screen grab for ease of copy/pasting .
Keep Streets Live Campaign official response to Chester PSPO consultation
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As mentioned above I am the Director of the Keep Streets Live Campaign, a not for profit organisation which advocates for public spaces which are open to informal offerings of art and music. We work alongside local authorities to develop policies that support and sustain street culture and campaign against policies which criminalise cultural activities. In addition to this role I have been asked by members of Chester's busking community to represent their interests throughout this consultation process.
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People Being Drunk/Rowdy
My answer would have been neither positively or negatively, a choice that was not made available. In every town or city in the UK there are groups of people who are boisterous on a night out. There is a clear line between high spirited behaviour and behaviour that causes alarm, harassment or distress to other people. Most of the time people who are merry and high-spirited don't cause genuine antisocial behaviour and I wouldn't want people to be singled out unfairly for behaviour that wasn't causing any real harm.
People using legal highs/behaving erratically
Once again, any behaviour that causes alarm and harassment or distress to others should be dealt with appropriately and proportionately whether it is influenced by legal highs, illegal drugs or alcohol. I believe the resources of the police and local authority should be directed towards individuals that cause genuine harm to other people and that persons whose behaviour is not causing harm should not be a priority for enforcement. 'Behaving erratically' is a vague and nebulous term and is legally ambiguous. People who are not causing harm should not face enforcement action.
People urinating/defecating in public
The lack of public toilet facilities is a growing concern, particularly for vulnerable groups of people who are homeless or vulnerably housed and find it difficult to find places that allow them to use the toilet. There is a difference between a person on a night out who urinates in a public place and somebody who is homeless who lacks adequate places to use the loo. I would hope that any enforcement action would not be directed at vulnerable persons and also that the local authority would prioritise the adequate provision of toilet facilities in public places.
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Rough Sleeping
I have had many conversations with homeless people in Chester and have been impressed by the courage and resilience of this highly vulnerable group of people. They sleep in the public spaces of Chester because they are well lit and they feel safer there. There is a community amongst rough sleepers which is not always replicated in precarious temporary accommodation.
I would like to see social provision made for homeless people that makes it less necessary for them to sleep on the streets but I have never been affected negatively by a rough sleeper and would never support coercive measures taken against them.
People Begging
The vast majority of people who beg are vulnerable and destitute and are begging in order to survive. Whilst I don't give money to people who beg I always offer to buy them food and have positive interactions with beggars in Chester who have been very grateful when I bought them food and have spent time talking to them and finding more about the difficult situation they find themselves which is a visible reminder of the poverty and hardship faced by a growing number of people in UK society. They have always been grateful for someone interacting with them in a kind and non-judgemental way. I would not support coercive action taken against vulnerable people for begging in a way that doesn't cause any harm to other people.
Buskers providing musical entertainment
My experience of musical buskers in Chester, both as a performer myself, and as a tourist has been overwhelmingly positive. Chester is a world-renowned destination for street artists and performers and has a hard won reputation as a city which attracts a wide variety of street performers who are clearly part of the attraction for the millions of people who visit Chester each year. Musical buskers of all abilities add to the vitality and sociability of the city's cultural life. Chester's busking scene is also a great way for students and young people to gain performing experience. They are an asset to the city.
Other street entertainers (e.g. sand sculptors, fire eaters, jugglers, human statues, balloon sellers)
Chester, like York, Covent Garden and Edinburgh is one of the UK's premier destinations for 'circle acts', the kind of street performers that tend to attract larger crowds and perform circus skills like juggling and riding unicycles as well as telling jokes and providing free entertainment to people of all ages. They are a dynamic part of Chester's cultural landscape and one of the many reasons that I visit Chester. Balloon artists and human statutes also provide entertainment to families and cause no disruption or nuisance of any kind.
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This proposal would give public officials and police officers a discretionary power that would be open to potential misuse if there were not clear guidelines attached and I would be concerned that enforcement action would be targeted at vulnerable groups of people and leave them open to criminalisation/marginalisation. Would a police officer challenge a family picnic where Prosecco was being drunk or would they target a group of vulnerably-housed people who were drinking canned lager instead? Any intervention or enforcement action should always be directed only at people whose actions are causing genuine harm to others, not arbitrarily.
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I am concerned about the impact of this measure against vulnerable people leading to criminalisation and marginalisation. The police and local authority have adequate powers to use against people whose behaviour causes alarm/harassment or distress towards other people. They can also use CPNs (Community Protection Notices) to target individuals whose behaviour is having a detrimental effect upon other people. I believe that a targeted approach, based on harm reduction and providing appropriate support to persons with addiction/mental health problems, is much better than blanket ban provisions of the sort proposed.
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I would want clear guidance to accompany any proposal that ensures that enforcement is not directed against vulnerable groups of people. The fixed penalty is fixed at £100 rising to £1000 if it goes to court with a criminal record. If a person is urinating because they are homeless and have no place to use the loo I don't believe they should be criminalised or given a fine that they will be unable to pay. This is a different matter entirely from someone who is on a night out and urinates in a public space.
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It shouldn't be necessary to complete an online survey to explain why these proposals are not only wrong, but also highly unethical. People who sleep rough are amongst the most vulnerable members of our society and subject to violence, harassment alongside the many other difficulties they face on a daily basis. Many choose to sleep in well lit public places because they feel safer there and are amongst people they know. Criminalising rough sleeping in the defined area may well cause people to find other, less safe areas where they could be subject to assault and victimisation. Furthermore, there is no evidence that coercive measures are an effective way of getting people to engage with support services. Some people might 'choose' to sleep rough because they feel unsafe in their temporary accommodation or because they are trying to get away from people who are using drugs or alcohol. There is absolutely no justification for enacting a PSPO which incorporates rough sleeping. The local authority should concentrate on providing adequate support services for all people, but even if there were safe and available beds for all homeless people (there aren't), it would still be unethical and, unlawful, to criminalise people for sleeping rough.
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These measures will clearly affect the most vulnerable in Chester and should not be included in the PSPO. People asking for food or money because of desperate poverty should not face criminalisation and punitive fines that they could not reasonably be expected to pay. The proposed measure is 'catch-all' in nature by incorporating 'verbal, non-verbal or written requests'. This will affect people who cause no harm or interference to other people. Enforcement action should only ever be directed against persons who behave in a way that causes alarm, harassment and distress to other people. Adequate powers to already exist.
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Under these proposals Mary Poppins would become a criminal for feeding the birds with the children she is looking after. Would they also be in breach of the PSPO? Would a father who hands a piece of bread to his 9 year old son to feed the ducks become an accessory to the 'crime'? Adequate signage in appropriate areas, explaining why it is harmful to feed birds in certain places, coupled with non-coercive engagement from public officials would clearly suffice. If certain individuals persist in causing an issue by feeding the birds, existing powers are adequate to deal with them. There is no justification for a blanket ban.
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The proposed PSPO would make it a criminal offence to sing or play musical instruments without permission, in the 'wrong' locations, and for the 'wrong' length of time. Under the proposals you could be committing a criminal offence, even if your actions were not causing any harm or annoyance to any person. People could face fines of up to £1000 and a criminal record just for singing on the street. This is arbitrary and constitutes a misuse of the law. It would damage spontaneity, deter high quality travelling performers from coming to Chester, deter students and young people from starting busking in the first place, damage relationships between police and the wider community and create an irrational obligation to enforce against people who are not causing any harm.
The option that asks the council to work on a new Code of Practise is a much better way of building good relationships of cooperation between local businesses, residents and the busking community. It would preserve the informality, spontaneity and democratic access to public space that is so intrinsic to busking whilst setting clear expectations for all those busking in Chester. Crucially, enforcement action under the code of practice approach would only be directed at those persons whose behaviour had caused actual harm to others. This would enable the local authority to target inconsiderate buskers whose actions not only cause problems for businesses and residents, but also other buskers, without creating a blanket ban which affects ALL buskers, regardless of harm caused. The council can use Community Protection Notices (CPNs) to target individuals whose behaviour is unreasonable, persistent and having a detrimental effect on the locality. This collaborative and targeted approach is much more appropriate for the oversight of a cultural activity such as busking, and, crucially, would have the consent and cooperation of the busking community and professional bodies such as Equity and the Musician's Union.
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Designated sites would make it a criminal offence to busk anywhere other than those sites and for that reason alone should not form part of the PSPO under any circumstances. The proposed sites leave out many spots that are currently popular for busking such as the central part of Northgate Street and don't include many spaces suitable for circle acts such as the central part of Eastgate Street. Designated spots impose an undue rigidity upon the fluidity and informality of busking as well as having the unintended effect of concentrating complaints about busking outside specific premises often leading to those pitches being closed down and even less pitches becoming available. Instead of designating fixed pitches the code of practise should make clear that busking is allowed in public places provided that a) No obstruction is being caused b) the performer is mindful of surrounding premises and other users of the street and makes approbate adjustments to their act upon reasonable request. Enforcement action should be directed only at performers whose actions are causing a genuine nuisance and who subsequently refuse to comply with a reasonable request to adjust their performance.
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The PSPO proposal is a fundamentally misconceived attempt to deal with specific issues such as the widespread disruption caused to Chester on certain Race Days in a catch-all fashion. It wrongly conflates busking, rough sleeping and feeding birds with 'antisocial behaviour', a term which is expanding its meaning to incorporate ever greater spheres of human interaction. It targets the vulnerable and marginalised through its provisions on rough sleeping and begging. It targets the cultural and artistic community in its provisions on busking and creates new 'criminal offences' which send a damaging message to the UK and beyond about what Chester is like and what kind of city it is. The provisions on bird-feeding are silly as well as draconian and betray an over-regulatory mindset which overlooks the crucial principles of policing by consent, equality before the law and proportionality. The council and the police have the use of robust existing legislation such as the 1986 Public Order Act to deal with genuinely antisocial behaviour. It is already a criminal offence to be drunk or disorderly or to cause alarm, harassment and distress to other people. Under the Police, Crime and Antisocial Behaviour Act 2014 the police and local authority have additional powers to use Community Protection Notices (CPNs) against any person whose behaviour is unreasonable, persistent and having a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the community. Used as a last resort, the CPNs enable the police or local authority to either issue Fixed Penalty Notices or fines of up to £2500 against persons who breach them. A far better approach to dealing with antisocial behaviour in Chester would be firstly to separate activities like rough sleeping, begging, bird feeding, and busking from consideration altogether. it was wrong to include these categories in the first place. Secondly, for issues around drunkenness, legal highs, and alcohol the police and local authority should identify those persons whose persistent actions have caused alarm, harassment and distress to other people and targeted enforcement action against those individuals using existing powers. This targeted approach could be achieved by drawing up clear guidance for officers and public officials on how to engage with vulnerable people what the real priorities for enforcement really were. My feeling is that the PSPO approach is about administrative convenience above all else. If an activity is named on a PSPO it becomes an offence by default, even if it is not causing harm or inconvenience to any person. Fixed penalty notices of £100 could be issued to people for sleeping on benches, feeding birds, or singing songs. The fine could rise to £1000 and a criminal record if it goes to court. This punitive and disproportionate response will do little to improve genuine community safety and will come at the expense of freedom of expression and association, freedoms that are intrinsic to life in an open and democratic country. Unlike Fixed Penalty Notices under a PSPO, prosecutions under existing legislation or through the use of Community Protection Notices require the police and the local authority to gather evidence that the person being targeted has caused a genuine issue. This is a protection against arbitrary outcomes and the potential abuse of power. The police and the local authority have an essential role in upholding pubic safety. It is vital that their scare resources are directed towards activities that are genuinely harmful and impacting upon the community, rather than in a scattergun approach against rough sleepers, buskers and bird feeders. Nonetheless the PSPO consultation provides the local authority with a value opportunity to develop a code of practise for busking that has the consent and full participation of the busking community, to examine the provision of services to homeless people, and to develop clear guidance for engagement with vulnerable groups on the part of the local authority. it provides the city of Chester, and the surrounding areas with a valuable opportunity to reflect upon what kind of city it wishes to be; the kind of city where people are made to feel welcome and included, whether they are a wealthy tourist or an impoverished and vulnerably housed resident, or whether it wishes to be a city where people face a criminal record for singing songs in the street and where, at the time of national housing crisis and widespread cuts to hostels and benefits, it becomes a criminal offence to sleep rough. It is greatly to be hoped that the opportunity to reflect upon these issues created by the consultation results in the wholehearted rejection of any measures that would criminalise the vulnerable and damage the vibrant street culture that is such an important part of making Chester the wonderful city that it is.
End of Formal Response to Consultation
Thank you for taking the time to participate in Chester and Cheshire West's PSPO consultation and to read the official Keep Streets Live Campaign response to it. The more people that can express their opposition to these proposals, the more chance we have of successfully challenging them. Please share this consultation response and our petition with anyone you think might share our concerns about the attack on civic freedoms in Chester.


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One might expect a wise farmer behind a near 300-bushel corn yield. But Gary Shepard says his corn-planting prowess was shaky from the start.
"I've never grown corn," the Corning, Ark., producer says, laughing. "I didn't know the planter should have been in 'low range.'"
When planting soybeans, Deere planters are left in "high range." Shepard, planting corn for the first time, had correctly set the sprockets for the proper plant population. Before heading to the fields, the planter had been calibrated and prepped.
But 30 acres into planting, Shepard called Roger Gipson, puzzled and worried.
"He said, 'Boy, something is wrong. I've planted way too much seed,'" recalls the Pioneer agronomist. "We calculated it and I said, 'Holy smokes! You just planted 48,000 seed per acre.'"
But if the mistake was to be made, says Gipson, the right hybrid had been planted.
"We call 31D61 the 'hurricane hybrid' because when we first looked at it a few years ago, hurricanes swept through. One of the Louisiana guys we work with had dealt with some serious weather. He said, 'Man, we like this hurricane hybrid. I went to the plots and that hybrid is the only one still standing. The roots and stalk are amazing.'"
Shepard had planted the conventional Bt version of that hybrid. Gipson said extra fertilizer, water and a fungicide should keep the crop healthy.
"And I told him I'd go ahead and send in the entry from for the NCGA (National Corn Growers Association) irrigated class contest."
Several months later, when walking through the field, "you needed a flashlight," says Shepard. "It was incredibly thick. A couple of storms blew through and not a stalk fell."
The nitrogen rate for the field was pushed to around 300 units.
"We actually went with a four-way split. We put out 80 units preplant, side-dressed 100 units, and flew on 46 units around three weeks prior to tassel. Then, we went back with another 46 units about a week before tassel."
The reason for that last dose: the plant population in the field was around 48,000 on 30-inch rows.
As for the contest, "we knew when harvesting, that it required 1.25 acres be checked," says Gipson. "A county Extension agent comes out and if the first yield check is 250 to 299 bushels, there must be a second check. The second check is the yield that sticks."
The men were sure the field's yield would be over 250 bushels.
"I told Gary, 'When they come out, just measure out the two cuttings. Put one in the front hopper and one in the back.' Gary called me later and said, 'I think those cuttings went over 300 bushels.' At that point, we knew the NCGA office in St. Louis would have to be called."
The office then appointed someone to come down for another check.
"We barely saved enough corn for the last check," says Shepard. "The first check was 308 bushels and the second went 315 bushels."
Bruce Beck, Extension agent from Butler County, Mo., came down and cut the last bit of the field.
It yielded 295 bushels.
"The highest NCGA figure I'd seen in Arkansas was 275 bushels," says Gipson. "So, Gary — a first-year corn grower — has come up with an amazing yield. That's significant here in the South."
Another thing of interest: 10 acres of the field was brought down to a population of 32,000. The yield difference between the populations was "probably 30 bushels."
After such results, what does Gipson now tell growers about planting populations and seeding rates? "I think as we come up with newer, high-yielding genetics — genetics with better stalks and roots — the final plant population recommendations will probably increase. I'm not saying some outrageous amount of seed should go out. But it's very possible recommendations will hover around 38,000 to 40,000.
"I mean consider that (southwest Missouri grower) Kip Cullers (see http://deltafarmpress.com/mag/farming_freeze_temporary_setback/index.html) is on a twin-row system, but he's been getting 330-plus bushel yields with 60,000 plants."


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The attackmen were coming at Drew Abatangelo fast and furious.
The attackmen were coming at Drew Abatangelo fast and furious.
Abatangelo held his ground and kept Misericordia together, like he has for four seasons.
Misericordia's defense and Abatangelo, a 2009 Valley Central graduate, allowed just one shot in two overtime periods and held off DeSales for an 8-7 overtime win in a Freedom Conference semifinal Wednesday.
"It was one of our biggest wins so far," Abatangelo said. "It was the first time that we've ever made it to the" conference finals.
Misericordia was a struggling lacrosse program in Abatangelo's freshman season. The team won just four of its 16 games. Abatangelo started on defense in every game. Each loss made Abatangelo hungrier to improve.
"It was rough," Abatangelo said. "Teams wouldn't take it easy on us."
Three years later, Abatangelo could be capping his career on the most successful team in school history.
Misericordia will play Eastern for the Freedom Conference title Saturday. The winner advances to face the Commonwealth Conference winner for a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament.
Senior J.R. Lauri, Abatangelo's teammate at Valley Central and an attackman for Misericordia, scored his 18th goal of the season in the semifinal win.
"It's my last chance to play a sport in a game that matters, said Abatangelo, who has started in 62 of 63 games in his career.
Abatangelo, a second-team all-star defender, was named the Freedom Conference's lacrosse scholar athlete earlier this week. He graduated with a 3.5 grade-point average and a bachelor's degree in psychology in December. Abatangelo is currently working toward his doctorate in physical therapy.
"It's a three-year program," Abatangelo said. "It will have taken me a total of 61/2 years to complete. I'll have my doctrate in 2015."
Abatangelo attended Misericordia for the education. He wanted to play a sport as, "a gateway to relax" from his academics.
Lacrosse has taken Abatangelo on the brink of a championship.
The Freedom Conference title, Abatangelo said, "would be the icing on the cake."


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Nov 23, 2005
Our latest joint podcast with MuggleCast, The Leaky Mug #5, is now available for download. It's our little wrapup of the live NYC podcast from last week, giving some info about what went on behind the scenes that weekend…with some celebrity surprises. Also, we announce our next LIVE podcast, to hit Vegas in 2006!
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Enermax Modu82+ II 625W PSU review -
Load testing the PSU
Load testing the PSU
As you can see, we had a bit of a challenge at hand. I mean without professional Chroma load testers it's pretty hard to stress a power supply of this class and actually measure its behavior.
So here's what we did. We use, what is now to be considered "old gear", a power hungry nForce 790i SLI motherboard. We take two GeForce GTX 295s (thus four GPUs) for some serious power consumption.
Then we add in another GeForce GTX 280 purely for PhysX as well. Next, we take a power hungry QX9770 processor and overclock it to 3600 MHz (the one with the 1600 MHz FSB). Then we overclock our memory as well.
These are the components used:
- nForce 790i motherboard (has high power consumption)
- Core 2 Quad QX 9770 Processor (overclocked to 3.6 GHz)
- 2x GeForce GTX 295 primary (4 GPUs)
- 1x GeForce GTX 280 (PhysX)
- 3 GB Memory DDR3 @ 1600 MHz
- Optical Drive x1
- HDD x1
Now two years ago we'd reach 750+ Watts power consumption with this setup, in fact I remember this setup peaking to 800W at one point with a PSU. But with power supplies getting more and more efficient these days... that proves to be a very hard task to accomplish. We gave it our best though. Let's have a look at the test results.
In the screenshot below you can see the five GPUs we have installed and activated in this PC. For our test we used several pieces of software which allows us to go hard on the GTX 295s (Quad SLI) but also use Physx on that additional GeForce GTX 280. For this test run we simply monitor a professional watt-meter (thus we measure in-between PC and wall socket).
The reality is very interesting, where we passed 750W two years ago with all that equipment and overclock we are barely able to pass ~700 Watts load.
Now mind you, this is a 625W PSU, with an allowed peak to 690W. It however was not an issue.
As stated, a year or two ago with this very system we'd have passed 800 Watts. PSUs themselves are becoming more and more efficient and thus greener as well, in the end saving on overall power draw from the wall socket, and that in return saves you money on the power bill.
Some notes here. Powered down the PSU consumes very little current, we measured roughly 1 Watts only. We had so much gear plugged into this system, the power consumption remained fairly low, making me believe that 84%~88 power efficiency is very plausible.
Great stuff really and on par with a lot of other high quality high efficiency PSUs we've tested.
Out of pure curiosity I also connected the PSU towards a new P67 / Core i7 2600K platform. Check this out, a new Gigabyte P67A-UD4 on a BFG 1200W PSU in idle measures up to 84W and under CPU load 159W.
Now we replace the PSU with the Enermax Modu 82+II and in idle we now measure 78W and under CPU load 146W. And that's the difference in efficiency. Surely a few watts won't bother you, but with massive power consumption you can shave off 50 to 100W compared to old PSUs at high load.
ErP - Now then, new in the revised Modu82+ II and Pro82+ II series is that they support the new EU regulation ErP Lot 6 for PC systems. This norm regulates the standby consumption of systems, which affects PSU and mainboard.
Basically in standby the PC system should not consume more than 1W during off-state or standby. From the 7th of January 2013 on, the limit will be 0,5W. We tested that with the latest ErP compatible P67 motherboard from Gigabyte and indeed, we notice a 1.1V standby power consumption.
When we place the PC into sleep mode we measure 0.9 to 1.6v power consumption, it would fluctuate a little bit but it's testimony that the feature really works well.
We test and review the all new Enermax Liqtech 120X and 240 Liquid coolers. Can it keep up with similar Asetek and compeeting products? Let's find out!...
Enermax Fulmo GT review
We review and test the Fulmo GT. Enermax has been going very strong with their power supply and fans. For a while now they also offer PC cases, and more recently they released what seems to be the biggest chassis I've ever laid my hands on. This chassis series has HPTX support for the bigger than biggest motherboards and some pretty cool features as well.
Enermax KW001 Briskie Keyboard mouse combo review
Keyboard kits come in all sizes, shapes and forms .. and that's next to a gazillion of manufacturers that offers them. Surprisingly enough a few weeks ago Enermax, the guys behind the best power supplies and the brightest fans also launched a keyboard/mouse combo. Briskie is all about value and as such for 25 USD/EUR you get a mouse and what we think is a very decent wireless RF keyboard.
Enermax Platimax 850W power supply review
Enermax always is able surprise us, they now have released the Platimax power supplies, that means a platinum certification and yeah .. that boils down to a 94% efficient product. Very few products get this certification. Today we'll grab a couple of older older supplies and see if what they claim is true, can we really save on energy. We fire off three PSU's at a P55 / Core i7 870 based system setup with a GeForce GTX 590. We then monitor power consumption in idle, CPU productivity (stress) mode and then lock into a gaming session.


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Canine ear canal surgery considerations
Ear canal surgery in dogs can be performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, or a combination of these. As a therapeutic procedure, surgery can be considered either for definitive treatment or as an adjunct to ongoing medical treatment.
It's important to select the appropriate type of surgery to avoid either insufficient treatment (and the possible need for revision surgery later) or overtreatment, which could expose the patient to a greater number of (or more severe) complications.
Lateral ear canal resectionLateral ear canal resection is primarily indicated in cases of refractory otitis externa in which glandular or epithelial hyperplasia and stenosis are not contributing factors. The operation entails making parallel incisions in the cranial and caudal aspects of the lateral portion of the vertical ear canal and then leaving the ventral border of the resultant flap intact (in some cases, the cartilage of the flap is also scored). The extent of ventral incisions and dissection is determined by the point at which the vertical canal transitions to the horizontal canal.
The surgical goal is to have a flap that lays flat (hence the preference of some surgeons to score the ventral margin) at or slightly below the level of the horizontal canal's base. This provides direct access to, allows aeration of and permits gravity-dependent drainage from the horizontal canal.
The cartilage flap is sutured to adjacent skin to provide a drain board, while the skin is sutured over the cartilage's cut edges of the remaining vertical canal. When making the parallel incisions in the cartilage, don't allow the incisions to converge (as is the natural tendency), lest the base of the flap end up narrower and more fragile than the drain board.
The improved aeration and drainage lateral ear canal ablation provides may be curative or at least allow an easier and more successful continuation of medical treatment. However, in dogs with established hyperplasia or stenosis or in breeds in which this is common (e.g., cocker spaniels), lateral ear canal resection usually fails, so it should not be used. In some cases, the procedure can be used to visualize and excise nonmalignant masses on the medial aspect of the vertical canal that aren't accessible from the normal opening.
Total ear canal ablation
Total ear canal ablation (TECA) entails the removal of the entire external ear canal from the medial aspect of the pinna to the osseous tympanic bulla. Because diseases that may necessitate the use of TECA also commonly involve the tympanum and middle ear cavity, bulla osteotomy (BO) is almost always performed in conjunction with TECA (TECA-BO).
Indications for TECA-BO include end-stage otitis externa, especially those cases with hyperplasia and stenosis, and malignant neoplasia within the ear canal. In the latter instance, wider resection in the mastoid region may be required for complete tumor removal with effective margins (usually based on preoperative cross-sectional advanced imaging with computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging).
Most candidates for TECA-BO are dogs with often painful, malodorous otitis that has become refractory to all other treatments—both topical and systemic. Many affected dogs also have mineralization of their ear canals that virtually precludes any other effective treatment besides ablation. Cultures of microorganisms obtained before surgery may or may not show the actual flora present deep within the canal or middle ear cavity. Hence, it's usually valuable to obtain such cultures from the tympanic bulla and external auditory meatus at the end of TECA-BO surgery, since this may provide a more accurate representation of pathogenic bacteria. Consider both aerobic and anaerobic cultures.
Note that many dogs with end-stage otitis are affected bilaterally, and it's common to perform bilateral surgery concurrently.


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As treated by Wilson and Mittermeier (2009), the mammalian order Carnivora includes 281 species in 128 genera and 16 families, although the number of species and genera recognized can be expected to fluctuate slightly as a result of new research and based on the opinions of different experts (see family taxon pages for more specific information). Of these 16 families, seven are in the suborder Feliformia and nine are in the suborder Caniformia:
Suborder Feliformia: 120 species in 56 genera
Family Nandiniidae (African Palm Civet): 1 species in 1 genus
Family Felidae (cats): 37 species in 14 genera
Family Prionodontidae (linsangs): 2 species in 1 genus
Family Viverridae (civets, genets, oyans): 34 species in 14 genera
Family Hyaenidae (hyenas): 4 species in 4 genera
Family Herpestidae (mongooses): 34 species in 15 genera
Family Eupleridae (Madagascar carnivores): 8 species in 7 genera
Suborder Caniformia: 161 species in 72 genera
Family Canidae (dogs): 35 species in 13 genera
Family Ursidae (bears): 8 species in 5 genera
Family Otariidae (sea lions): 16 species in 7 genera
Family Odobenidae (Walrus): 1 species in 1 genus
Family Phocidae (earless seals): 19 species in 13 genera
Family Ailuridae (red panda): 1 species in 1 genus
Family Procyonidae (raccoons and relatives): 12 species in 6 genera
Family Mephitidae (skunks): 12 species in 4 genera
Family Mustelidae (weasels and relatives): 57 species in 22 genera
Mammals in the order Carnivora are often referred to as carnivores. This can be confusing, however, since in both popular and scientific usage "carnivore" also means simply "meat-eating"--but many mammals not in the order Carnivora also feed largely or exclusively on meat and many members of the Carnivora are quite omnivorous (and African Palm Civets eat mainly fruit!). For clarity, therefore, some authors prefer to use the term "carnivoran" to refer to a member of the order Carnivora.
The order Carnivora is a morphologically and ecologically diverse group that is distributed across the globe and includes many of the animals humans find most "charismatic". Carnivorans range across five or six orders of magnitude in size from the Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis, which can weigh in at as little as 25 g when fully grown; Larivère and Jennings 2009) to the Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina, weighing in at 2000 to 3000 kg--possibly as much as 5000kg) (Agnarsson et al. 2010; Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds 2012).
The phylogenetic relationships among the carnivoran families have been the focus of considerable research and controversy, although the structure of some clades is now well established (see references below and EOL family pages for details). One well established finding is that the two suborders comprising the order Carnivora, Feliformia and Caniformia, are indeed reciprocally monophyletic.


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BRODHEADSVILLE — Pleasant Valley's baseball team needed a break to go its way.
BRODHEADSVILLE — Pleasant Valley's baseball team needed a break to go its way.
On the 21st out, the Bears got one.
Austin Yoffredo's two-out cue ball down the first-base line somehow snuck between the legs of Lehighton's first baseman allowing the winning run to score in the bottom of the seventh in the Bears' 3-2 win over the Indians on Friday.
The Mountain Valley Conference meeting — a very possible conference tournament semifinal preview — featured a solid start by PV's Howie Stevens (6IP, 4 Ks, 3 walks), a good day at the plate by James Shank (3-for-4, RBI) and a wild ending.
After an 8-5 upset loss to Pocono West on Wednesday, the Bears (12-4, 8-2) got just what they needed — a win.
"There's no secret, right now we're not playing our best ball, but we're still fighting," PV coach Charlie Inserra said. "Every time you put a check in the W, it's big, especially with next week looming."
PV loaded the bases in the seventh on a Shank double, a Stevens walk and a walk by Troy VanHouten. That set up Yoffredo's spinner down first base that somehow snuck between Vince Mele's legs, despite him being on one knee, even with the bag.
"We definitely needed a win today coming off the loss to West," Stevens said. "We came in here knowing we needed a win and as the game went on, we knew we had to keep fighting. This is a big game for us."
Stevens kept PV in the game, working out of multiple jams. Lehighton left 11 men on base. Jacen Nalesnik went 2-for-2 with two walks and a run for the Indians, who are now in a battle with PM West (4-5 MVC) for the final conference tournament seed.
PV has two conference games remaining, one against defending champion Stroudsburg next week and current MVC leader at 9-1.
For now, the Bears can enjoy a thankful victory against a team they may very well play again in the playoffs.
"We'll take it," said first baseman Jordan Caffrey, who singled, walked twice and scored twice. "Any way we can win, we'll take it. Coming off the last game, we just wanted to get a win so we'll take it."
PV tried to break a 2-2 tie in the fifth inning on a suicide squeeze. Inserra put the squeeze on the first pitch of Lehighton reliever Zach Rex. Rex's pitch was a curve ball in the dirt, leaving pinch runner Adam Raseley hung up. He was tagged in a run down.
"Trying to make things happen," Inserra said of the failed squeeze. "I think when you struggle offensively sometimes you try things you might not normally try. You try and get things going somehow."
Lehighton had a runner on third in the sixth inning, but Stevens got DH Josh Kern to bounce to third to end the inning.
After Dan Hrbek pitched a perfect seventh in just his second relief appearance this year, Shank led off the bottom of the seventh with a double down the left-field line. Five batters later, Yoffredo ended it by putting the bat on the ball.
"People might call that a cheap win, but I don't think there are such things as cheap wins," Inserra said.
Pleasant Valley 3, Lehighton 2
Lehighton 000 020 0 — 2 8 4
Pleasant Valley 100 010 1 — 3 5 1
L, Thatcher David, Zach Rex (5), James Farano (6) and Jacen Nalesnik; PV, Howie Stevens, Dan Hrbek (7) and James Shank.
W — Hrbek. L — Farano.
SO-BB — L, David 3-3, Rex 0-2, Farano 0-3; PV, Stevens 4-3, Hrbek 1-0.
2B — L, Vince Mele; PV, Shank, Stevens.
Records — Lehighton 9-7, 5-5 MVC; Pleasant Valley 12-4, 8-2.


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@flysurfing: I think it is possible to go from 12 to 18 knots with the 14 and then go for the 9 from there. (I believe I start to have fun with the 9 from 20 knots). So you might have a little gap.
As I understand you like to have lifting power, and here you will definitely have more fun with Draft over Bolt. Which will be better in the waves. So in a perfect world you also change the Bolt 12 to a Draft 12. They will overlap a bit but you will always be in the sweat spot then
Here is my roughly thoughts where I think you can use the kite (depending on your weight, board and skills)
Size 17 (7-14 knots)
Size 14 (12-18 knots)
Size 12 (16-22 knots)
Size 9 (20-26 knots)


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BSU Catalog Home | Accounting Program | All-University Courses and Descriptions
Check with department for semester when these courses are offered. Read each course description for prerequisites.
1101 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I (3 credits) Modern accounting concepts including financial statement preparation, internal controls, short and long term assets, and introduction to corporations.
1102 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING II (3 credits) Modern accounting concepts including the cash flow statement and consolidated statements. An introduction to management accounting topics, including cost volume-profit relationships, costing methods, and variance analysis. Prerequisite: ACCT 1101.
3100 INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTING (3 credits) Emphasizes the accounting theory upon which financial accounting is based by studying the fundamental interrelationships within the financial statements. Also includes a detailed study of stockholder's equity, EPS, and revenue recognition. May be taken concurrently with ACCT 3201. Prerequisite: ACCT 1102.
3110 ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS (3 credits) The theory and methodology of analyzing, designing, and implementing accounting information systems. Emphasizes integrated general ledger application software and the managerial aspects of systems design. Prerequisites: ACCT 1102 and BUAD 2280.
3117 MANAGERIAL ANALYSIS (3 credits) Explanation of how accounting data can be interpreted and used by management in planning and controlling business activities. Course is not open to accounting majors. Course is not acceptable as a business administration elective if Cost Accounting I or II is completed. Prerequisite: ACCT 1102.
3118 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS (3 credits) Comparisons of items on the financial statements of modern business concerns to determine their strengths and weaknesses. Methods include vertical and horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial statement disclosures. Not recommended for accounting majors. Prerequisite: ACCT 1102.
3140 FRAUD EXAMINATION (3 credits) Principles and methodology of fraud prevention, detection, and deterrence. Topics include the nature of fraud and the fraud triangle, the symptoms of fraud, and different fraud schemes, including financial statement fraud, skimming, disbursement schemes, billing schemes, misappropriations, and corruption. Prerequisites: ACCT 1101 and ACCT 1102.
3201 INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING I (3 credits) Detailed study of discounted cash flow techniques, current and long term assets and liabilities. Prerequisites: ACCT 3100 (may be taken concurrently), ENGL 1151, and ENGL 2152 or ENGL 3150.
3202 INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING II (3 credits) A detailed study of the statement of cash flows plus several complex financial accounting topics. Prerequisite: ACCT 3201 and BUAD 2280.
3300 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING (3 credits) Introduction to state and local government accounting, and accounting for colleges, hospitals, and other not-for-profit organizations. Accounting follows the pronouncements of the Government Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Prerequisite: ACCT 1102.
3301 COST ACCOUNTING I (3 credits) Fundamentals of cost accounting information systems, including cost-volume-profit relationships, costing in the service and manufacturing sectors, cost behavior, and budget variance analysis. Prerequisites: ACCT 1102, ENGL 1151, and ENGL 2152 or ENGL 3150.
3302 COST ACCOUNTING II (3 credits) Refinements of cost accounting information systems, including management control systems, cost allocation refinements, capital budgeting, and performance measurement. Prerequisite: ACCT 3301.
3404 INCOME TAXES I (3 credits) The federal income tax laws and regulations concerning taxable income and computation of tax as they affect individuals. Prerequisites: ACCT 1102, ENGL 1151, and ENGL 2152 or ENGL 3150.
3405 INCOME TAXES II (3 credits) The federal income tax laws and regulations concerning taxable income and computation of tax as they affect corporations, estates, and trusts. Prerequisite: ACCT 3404.
4110 ADVANCED ACCOUNTING (3 credits) Accounting for partnerships, combined corporate entities, consolidated statements, foreign currency transactions, interim financial statements, segment reporting, fiduciary accounting, and SEC reporting. Prerequisite: ACCT 3202.
4210 AUDITING I (3 credits) Duties and responsibilities of an auditor, kinds of audits, and audit programs. Preparation of audit working papers and compilation of audit data. Prerequisites: ACCT 3202 and ACCT 3302.
4217 ACCOUNTING THEORY (3 credits) Conceptual framework and structure of accounting theory, including study of selected Financial Accounting Standards Board statements and other professional literature. Prerequisite: ACCT 3202. (Might not be offered every year)
4307 SEMINAR IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (3 credits) Integrates economics and business finance, organization and behavior, including ethical considerations, public reporting standards, auditing and taxes, periodic reporting for internal and external purposes, and decision analysis, including modeling and information systems. Designed for students interested in careers in management accounting and the Certificate in Management Accounting (C.M.A.). Prerequisite: Senior status and consent of instructor. (Might not be offered every year)
4310 AUDITING II (3 credits) The auditor's responsibility and liability, ethics and standards of professional conduct, auditing electronic data systems, and the application of statistical audit techniques. Prerequisite: ACCT 4210 or consent of instructor.
4510 SPECIALIZED ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS (3 credits) An in-depth study of special accounting problems adapted to current business conditions. Prerequisites: ACCT 3202, ACCT 3300, and ACCT 3302.
4600 SENIOR SEMINAR: ACCOUNTING (1 credit) Course consists of recommended common professional components (major core courses required for both Accounting and Business Administration majors), and preparation for and completion of assessment exams for all Accounting majors. Assessment exams measure student knowledge of required basic core courses in accounting, economics, business law, statistics, computer business applications, management, marketing, finance, and strategic management. Test results allow the Accounting department to compare departmental with national student outcomes and implement subsequent curriculum improvements. This course is required of all Accounting, B.S. majors. Prerequisite or Corequisite: Completion of the required basic core and senior standing.
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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 21, 1909
Captain Chandler has commenced the work of launching the large fleet of small boats stored at his boar house for the winter.
From the Newport Daily News, May 25, 1909
(At the town council meeting) the license for fruit peddlers was fixed at $15. … Bids for watering the streets were received and Alton Head was granted the contract at $5 per day and to furnish the water sprinkler. A sum of $15 was voted for use of the chief of police for supplies. … Bids were received for lighting the lights at Conanicut Park. Wilton R. Arnold was granted the contract at $10 per month.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 22, 1934
It is noticed through an attractive blue and gold sign, with silhouettes of sports activities, the Jamestown Board of Trade has opened up for the summer season its Bureau of Information in the Jamestown Coal Company office on the ferry wharf. Last year it is reported that this office answered more than 4,000 inquiries.
There will be a meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association at the Thomas H. Clarke school this evening. The Home Economics classes will give an exhibition of the work done during the past year by the dress making classes, and there will also be an exhibit by the Manual Training classes.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 25, 1959
The first Jamestown Town Council elected for a two years term will hold its initial meeting tonight in Town Hall. Inauguration ceremonies for elected officials, all Democrats, were held in Memorial Hall, with an attendance of 100. … During the inauguration ceremonies yesterday in the flag draped hall, with a background of greens, Judge Florence K. Murray of the Supreme Court administered the oath of office.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 24, 1984
(photo caption) The 185-foot, 700-ton ferryboat The Narrows sits at Jamestown awaiting outcome of an ownership battle.
The Zoning Board of Review has asked owners of the Bay Voyage Inn to advise them on when the $2 million renovation project for the building will begin. … The Zoning Board of Review granted (Frederick H.) Coleman and three other partners … three variances on Feb. 1. Two of the variances were with stipulations to renovate and restore the Victorian Inn for time-sharing units.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, May 19, 1994
The state's request to use controlled blasting in the cross-island highway construction corridor will be the topic of a public work session held by town officials this Monday.
Legislation that would require the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to make payment in lieu of taxes to Jamestown got overwhelming approval from the state Senate last week.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, May 20, 1999
Soon after they were sworn into office, Town Council members, sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners, learned that North Pond reservoir was down seven inches, and that three inches of that drop had occurred in the past week.
Jamestown business owners generally agree that last week's filming of scenes for "Me, Myself, and Irene" was fun to watch, but they are glad the movie-makers are gone.


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Ever wondered what the programmers at Microsoft put in that C:\WINDOWS directory? Well, mostly, it's just a bunch of DLL's. Now, the \WINDOWS\system32 directory is what i'm talking about. Here are a few little Easter Eggs for you to enjoy .
DrWatson32. Program that handles what your system does(such as crash dump location, etc) when you get the infamous BSOD, explorer crashes on you(again), etc. If you've ever seen explorer crash, you'll notice this process run before explorer comes back. Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drwtsn32.exe
DrWatson. Windows fault detector. But, it always says "No Faults Detected"... wonder what would happen if we ran it on Windows 95 . Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drwtsn.exe
ClipBoard. Windows NT ClipBook Viewer(according to description. Any of you vet's mind explaining it?). Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\clipbrd.exe
Private Character Editor. Allows you to make your own custom characters for Windows fonts(At least, that's what it claims). Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\eudcedit.exe
Now, some that I don't know what do(Descriptions are as entered in the Properties menu)...
clipsrv.exe. Windows NT DDE Server. Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\clipsrv.exe
conime.exe... or .com... whatever. Console IME. Directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\conime.exe
There are more that you ol... well, more experienced Windows users may recognize. Remember, it's allll stored in \system32. Browse around in there, as I know that there's more that you'll end up recognizing. Have fun with these. And remember, if you're beginning to hate Windows again, all you need to do is restart, hold F8, boot into DOS mode, and type: "format c:".


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My baby is now 4 weeks old and is ebf. He went from having major blowouts almost everyday to hardly pooping at all in the last week! He has only had 2 bms in the last 5 days. He wets at least 10+ diapers a day and passes lots of gas. Doesn't fuss like he is constipated, but I am still worried that it is a sign he is not getting enough milk. He has also been gaining weight very well too.
The lack of bms is the only sign that he may not be getting enough milk. Should I supplement with formula or be worried about the lack of bms??


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Look around your modern office. If it's like most offices, amid the hodgepodge of cutting-edge technology are quite a few dinosaurs that seem pulled from yesteryear. Those devices survive for a variety of reasons: sentimental value, the lack of something better to replace them, a shortage of money allocated to have them upgraded, or the fact that they simply do their jobs and don't need to be removed.
But which of them do we really need? Which ones are on the endangered list, which should be, and which continue to survive regardless of new digital evolutions? Here's a look at eight of them.
1. Fax machines
I got to thinking about this after reading Paul Venezia's column in InfoWorld about why he hates fax machines.
Personally, I have nothing against fax machines. Venezia claims they are a nightmare from an IT perspective, but I disagree. We have a fax machine in the lab that receives product submission forms for when we do reviews. In the 10 years it's been doing its job, it's never jammed once. Other than putting in new paper and changing the ink cartridge (only once, I think), it's a maintenance-free dinosaur that we have no intention of tossing out anytime soon.
Of course, people can e-mail us their product submission forms now. But guess what? When they do, we print the form out so the reviewer can refer to it while testing. So the fax machine actually saves a step.
It's true there are ways to get around not having a fax machine in your office, but those are workarounds for what is essentially a simple and elegant way to transport paper documents from one place to another. All you need is a phone line. No Internet, switches, routers, hubs, traffic-filtering appliances or (gasp!) IT people are needed. So in the dinosaur IT wars, I declare the fax machine a survivor, at least for now.
Species outlook: Still thriving despite recent overhunting.
2. Disk drives
Some technologies have disappeared on their own, like those big floppy disks that used to be standard on every IBM PC. But those technologies have been replaced by something better that does the same function. Big floppies evolved into the little hard-cased disks. And those pretty much became today's key drives with a couple steps such as Zip drives in between. Nobody would argue that they need a 5.25-inch floppy anymore because other storage technology has replaced and improved on it.
And those modern flash memory drives can have their own intelligence built in, as the LOK-IT drive showed when we reviewed it, making data in transport highly secure in a way that no floppy disk of any size could ever hope to achieve.
Species outlook: Extinct.
3. CRT monitors
Now, there are some technologies that have no business in the office anymore yet somehow keep hanging around.
The biggest example I still see are CRT monitors. Graphic designers used to argue that they needed those power-hungry, 300-pound giants because of their ability to display true colors, but LCDs and now LEDs (really a type of LCD) can achieve the same level of color accuracy.
And the prices are the same now. No agency or company has an excuse not to upgrade to LCDs.
In fact, I have a personal beef with CRTs. A few years ago I was starting to get a lot of eyestrain, to the point where I was being fitted for glasses with a very low focusing-like prescription. However, my doctor suggested I upgrade from CRT monitors to LCDs. I did that at home and at work. Within about a week my eyestrain problems were gone. It must have been all that CRT flickering.
So please, people, do yourself and your agency's workers a favor and kick those CRTs to the curb. The money you save on your cooling and power bills alone will make up any cost difference, and besides, in many cases LCDs are actually cheaper than CRTs now. So you really have to work to stick to your old tech. The CRT dinosaur needs to be extinct. If you see one, please put it out of its misery.
Species outlook: Going extinct (and good riddance).
4. Non-smart phones
One technology group that is kind of on the bubble is the cell phone that is not a smart phone. Much to the surprise of many people who know me as the uber-tech geek, I happen to carry one of these.
Although I see the advantages of being able to check e-mail while sitting in my car or whatever (but not while driving, thank you), I also see that the same people who have to buy the latest phone gadget don't really use them to their full potential. They purchase a $499 phone or tablet, impress their friends, and then spend all their time watching YouTube videos and playing Angry Birds. Oh, and they use their phones like phones.
My phone gets calls and that's it. If you need to reach me to tell me something important, you can. I don't feel the need to incorporate a smart phone or tablet into my box of tools. I've used them and even had a few on very long term (yearlong) loans for testing. And I've found that, for the most part, they just get in the way, unless I'm using them like a phone.
That said, I have to admit that non-smart phones are probably on the way to extinction. In fact, when my old, true blue Samsung model dies, I'll probably upgrade to something a little more advanced. I don't want to be like the lone columnist in a newspaper office banging away on an old school Royal typewriter, though that is a pretty cool image.
So the non-smart phone is probably going on the endangered list, confined to out-of-the-way places and curmudgeons like me for now, but for the most part, it's probably not long for this world.
Species outlook: Endangered.
5. Desktop PCs
If anything is a sacred cow (or triceratops) in the office, it's the desktop computer. They are as much a part of life as cube walls and office chairs. But are they actually on their way out?
We've looked at many desktop replacement schemes over the years, from thin clients to life in the cloud, and many of them show a lot of promise. But many also come with their own host of problems.
We are just figuring out how to reduce latency and provide robust security within the cloud. Thin clients were never able to do everything that desktops could. And laptops with docking stations don't have the power of most desktops. Plus, when they are all suited up in a dock, they're practically as large as a desktop anyway, at least in terms of footprint.
Desktops are evolving, though. Models like the Dell Vostro are doing all-in-one right, putting the entire computer inside the monitor. And systems like the Vostro kill off CRTs too, so you can kill two possibly endangered species off with one stone.
Still, the security blanket of a rectangular black box on your desk is hard to pass up. And new models like the ThinkCentre M91p come out all the time that are smaller, faster and cheaper than the desktops of yesteryear.
Throw in the fact that in a lot of workplaces, such as government agencies that deal with sensitive information, managers don't want the computers to be portable, and we don't think desktops are in any real danger. The look and feel of them might change slightly, but don't go reselling the desktop real estate your computer is sitting on just yet.
Species outlook: Stable and evolving.
6. E-mail
It's hard to imagine a relatively new technology like e-mail being thought of as endangered, but that is just what some people are thinking. Instead, they want to replace good old e-mail with social media technology like Yammer, Jabber or Google+.
There is something to be said about creating a private space where workers can chat among themselves. But I've seen these systems implemented in places, some of them within government, and they don't really improve efficiency any more than e-mail.
In fact, in a lot of cases, productivity drops. After all, it's like Facebook, but for your workmates. It seems people do a lot more talking about work once these go online but less actual working. Every minute spent with social media is a minute away from actual work. And if someone really needs to contact someone else, there is e-mail or even the phone.
People said that e-mail was dead when AOL came out with instant messaging years ago. But e-mail is still around, and AOL, well, lets just say they are not doing quite as well. IM could not kill e-mail, and these new social media tools won't either.
Species Outlook: Stable.
7. Paper
Since the 1980s we've heard tales of the paperless office, but we've never actually seen one. Especially in government, nothing gets done unless ink meets paper. Things need to be printed out, signed and approved to become law. There is simply no other way. Possession is the law in most cases, and we feel a lot better holding a signed contract between our fingers that guarantees our rights than a digital copy that represents the real thing.
Paper is comforting. It resists tampering. It's real. And paper does not crash.
The thing is, Americans love technology, but there is a small part of us that does not trust the machine. We can never know what really goes on inside those little boxes we so love. A hundred years ago the stuff we do electronically would be considered a magic trick. A few years before that, it might get you burned at the stake.
And I've seen technology fail at the worst possible time. When I was covering Hurricane Katrina for GCN, I saw how vulnerable computers were when pressed. I even wrote a novel about how people needed to fall back on antiquated technology to survive the storm when everything else failed. Paper for the most part is incapable of failing you.
I am a big fan of recycling and reducing our use of paper as much as possible. But our dependence on the stuff seems to be growing. I don't think we will get rid of it anytime soon.
Species outlook: Thriving.
8. Humans
I couldn't resist adding our favorite real species to the list. After all, aren't humans the cause of most problems in the workplace? They make mistakes. They get sick. They play Angry Birds when they should be working. If they were computers, they would have been kicked to the scrap heap a long time ago.
But humans have skills that no computer could ever hope to mimic. Despite human-seeming robots and computers such as IBM's Watson that can win at game shows, we are in no danger of losing our dominance to them anytime soon. Computers aren't creative. They couldn't come up with a plan to destroy us if they wanted to, which they also can't do. So for now, we will just have to live with ourselves, though I know quite a few IT managers who would happily replace some of their users with nice, reliable computers.
Species outlook: Thriving for now. And if we ever fall into decline, we've probably only got ourselves to blame.
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Outstanding article. Flip phones are cool, they are compact yet open to function as a phone should. I keep a portable 1970 Royal wannabe (Sears) in my closet, just in case. Are Texting and Twitter fostering Newspeak -- if one cannot read or write to articulate, does that truncate a critical DNA sequences?; bad enough are the really bad, devolving driving habits (did Driver Training disappear from High School Curricula, along with other practical courses, like Industrial Arts?). Facebook is Big Brother's freeware to follow all unsuspecting and unwise participants. E-mail promotes real writing, and thinking before writing, I should hope, therefore better communication and nurturing those critical neural pathways and DNA sequences. Let's be careful out there.
Good article and one that I agree with for the most part. I do think, though, you might want to rethink #7-paper. Many people lost paper documents during Katrina....papers that they cannot get back. A digital document with digital signature can be backed up in multiple locations and retrieved when and where needed.
I am in my mid 50s and all my business documents and emails are on the cloud. If I lose my laptop, I can replace it anywhere and have all my documents immediately available. Even paperless books are gaining in popularity.
Here are a few old tech dinosaurs that might actually help. Less use of toxic materials in electronic manufacturing. Require equipment be made for easier recycling. Ensure the safety for workers anywhere and a wage equal to what white people in the USA would be paid? (Yes, I can hear the gasps as white CEO's faint in terror.)
One NEW tech I'd like to kill is the arrogant fad for making laptops without optical drives. I don't always have download or streaming access and I like watching a DVD on a plane or in bed, or ripping CDs into my MP3 player. Not sorry; but I'm not about supporting corporate profit decisions, esp Apple.
Re: Humans When the robots come they will not need any stinking computers! Error Error Exterminate Exterminate!
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