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St Einstein the 100% plagiarist
The name "Einstein" evokes images of genius, but was Albert Einstein, in fact, a plagiarist, who copied the theories of Lorentz, Poincare, Gerber, and Hilbert?
A scholarly documentation of Albert Einstein's plagiarism of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist discloses Einstein's method for manipulating credit for the work of his contemporaries, reprints the prior works he parroted, and demonstrates through formal logical argument that Albert Einstein could not have drawn the conclusions he drew without prior knowledge of the works he copied, but failed to reference. Numerous republished quotations from Einstein's contemporaries prove that they were aware of his plagiarism. The book includes 567 endnotes, countless references and an index.
"As a matter of fact, reading this text should be a must for all people professionally interested in the history of Physics or of Science (for these readers the book, its "polemical" thesis notwithstanding, could become an indispensable tool, packed as it is with information, quotations, meticulous references, etc.), but it is highly recommended even to teachers, scientists of all kinds, philosophers, epistemologists, in general to every person interested in the evolution of human civilization and knowledge." -- Professor Umberto Bartocci in his review of Albert Einstein: the Incorrigible Plagiarist.
. . . "Albert Einstein the Incorrigible Plagiarist suggests that Einstein had a tendency to incorporate the work of contemporary scientists without properly crediting them, and even offers a body of evidence that his wife, Mileva Einstein-Marity, was the true author of his attributed works. Albert Einstein The Incorrigible Plagiarist is a fascinating, albeit controversial treatise, packed cover to cover with meticulous references to document and support its seemingly outrageous claim." -- Midwest Book Review.
In 1997, noted Einstein scholars Leo Corry, Juergen Renn and John Stachel attempted to rewrite the history of the gravitational field equations of the general theory of relativity. Their radical revisionism was largely based on a set of printer's proofs of an important paper by the world-famous mathematician David Hilbert, in which Hilbert published the field equations of general relativity five days before Einstein copied them from Hilbert. Corry, Renn and Stachel claimed that these printer's proofs of Hilbert's paper did not contain the equations which appeared in Hilbert's final published paper. However, in their 1997 article in the journal Science, "Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute," Corry, Renn and Stachel failed to disclose the fact that these printer's proofs were mutilated, and are missing a critical part--the very part which contained the equations Corry, Renn and Stachel claimed Hilbert did not know. Anticipations of Einstein in the General Theory of Relativity refutes the baseless historical revisionism of Corry, Renn and Stachel, and proves that Einstein did not originate any of the major concepts of the general theory of relativity by comparing the original source material by Einstein and his predecessors. Einstein even fudged his equations in order to achieve the results others had published long before him.
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Albert Einstein
The Incorrigible Plagiarist
Bjerknes, Christopher Jon, 1965-
Albert Einstein : the incorrigible plagiarist / by
Christopher Jon Bjerknes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-9719629-8-7 (alk. paper)
1. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
2. Physicists--Biography.
3. Relativity (Physics).
4. Physics--History--20th century.
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Anticipations of Einstein in the general theory of relativity / by Christopher Jon Bjerknes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-9719629-6-0 (alk. paper)
1. General relativity (Physics)--History--20th century.
2. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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As Hinchingbrooke Hospital prepares to be taken over by Circle Healthcare, unions warn of the dangers of privatising the NHS
Privatising hospitals is an accident waiting to happen, unions have warned.
While UNISON is concerned that Circle Healthcare's takeover of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire could lead to a second Southern Cross crisis, Unite fears that 'flesh was being put on the bones' of the privatisation of the NHS, which has always been the intention of the coalition since it came to power in May, 2010.
Circle, which is part-listed on the Stock Exchange, will take over the running of the hospital in February 2012.
UNISON's head of health Christina McAnea said: "This is an accident waiting to happen. The company is currently in a vulnerable state and the takeover could lead to a second Southern Cross, putting patients at serious risk.
"We know the government is intent on privatising our NHS – that is the clear outcome of the Health and Social Care Bill. Privatisation, which brings in the profit motive, will damage our NHS.
"Circle has the same dangerous funding set up as Southern Cross, where it leases buildings owned by companies in tax havens, rather than owning them. The company is losing contracts and millions of pounds in turnover. Circle made losses of over £27m last year and recently floated on the stock market – they look less and less like the social enterprise they claim to be. Their management band is stuffed full of bankers and managers from private industry, who have no experience of health care. Yet this is a company now responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients.
"We have huge concerns that jobs will be affected by the move, as staffing is the biggest cost area for Trusts. The company is pushing the line that staff are getting involved, while avoiding the fact that merchant bankers are the one calling the shots. It is forging ahead with plans to make a profit when it is not a profitable company in the first place – and has been predicted to have an overspend this year.
"The hospital could have been kept running for the benefit of patients, rather than profiteers. This must not become a precedent for the NHS, or millions more staff and patients will be put at risk."
Unite's national officer for health Rachael Maskell said: "For the last 18 months, the government has been actively gearing up to privatise the NHS – and now at the first opportunity they have done so. They are putting the flesh on the privatisation bones. Local people in the Huntingdon area will be horrified that their local, acute hospital has now been privatised.
"We predict that in 12 months time, services will decline and some hospital staff will have been made redundant or will be facing redundancy. Circle is a profit-making firm whose first priority is shareholder satisfaction, and not patient care.
"Privatisation, which is central to the Health and Social Care Bill, currently before Parliament, has taken a giant leap forward with today's Hinchingbrooke decision.
Unite pointed out that this is a growing trend. In September, the Virgin-backed Assura Medical was announced as the preferred bidder to take-over Surrey Community Health in a £450 million deal.
GMB national officer Rehana Azam said: "We're watching this closely from the treatment of GMB members and their patients at the Trust to the financial engineering that the health and care sectors readily use to syphon money away to tax havens from its intend caring purpose. I have commissioned our researchers, who predicted the demise of Southern Cross due to the excesses of the landlords, to do a full investigation and to follow the money.
"The Hinchingbrooke take over is no different to hedge funds coming into the sector to asset strip and it is the patients and staff that will suffer. To think a private company will have the welfare of patients and staff at the heart of its motive is just untrue. Private providers are there to make profit and this is just the start of what will happen to the NHS as the Health Bill becomes a reality. Circle has masked this takeover under the heading of social enterprising it will only be a matter of time before profit will be put before patients or those who have the cash to pay take priority."
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Lotto Jackpot of £13.4 Million for Tonight's Quadruple Rollover Draw
Last Updated: Wednesday 17th June 2015, 09:02 am
It promises to be a fabulous Lotto draw tonight as ticket sales have been spurred on by the game reaching its limit of four rollovers in a row. The jackpot stands at a mighty £13.4 million and must be won, so anyone who matches all six main numbers drawn is in line to become one of the biggest UK winners of the year.
Even if no tickets are a match for the six main numbers, it will still be a special evening, as the prize fund reserved for the top tier will roll down and be shared amongst the players in the next winning category. The last time the Lotto rolled over four times was just last month, and in the following draw on Wednesday 27th May the jackpot of £13.5 million was scooped by a single ticket holder.
Great-grandad Peter Congdon, from Truro, quickly came forward to claim the prize and insisted that the massive windfall would not alter his plans for a family holiday to Butlin's, where he has been going for the past 40 years. A top prize of £3.4 million was picked up in the following draw but nobody has matched all six main numbers since then, driving the jackpot back into eight figures.
There have still been some big winners in the past four draws, and on Saturday evening one lucky participant matched five main numbers plus the Bonus Ball to earn a whopping £432,606. A full prize breakdown can be found in the Lotto Results section.
From October, there will no longer be a limit to the amount of times the jackpot can roll over, after a number of exciting changes were announced earlier this week. The top prize will roll over until it reaches or exceeds a pre-agreed amount, making it likely that there will be some enormous jackpots up for grabs. Tonight's draw could therefore be one of the last of its kind, guaranteeing great prizes after just four rollovers, so make sure to enter online or by visiting an authorised retailer. Best of luck!


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Women under age 50 need 25 grams of fiber daily, and men under age 50 need 38 grams of fiber each day; however, most Americans eat about 15 grams of fiber each day. Fiber can't be digested, so it adds bulk to the stool and slows down gastric emptying.
The two types of fiber are soluble fiber and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber helps lower cholesterol and control blood glucose levels. It is found in foods such as beans, oats, nuts and apples. Insoluble fiber assists with regular bowel movements and is found in foods such as whole grains, carrots and raisins.


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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Inspired by history and Tennyson's poem ("Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred"), The Charge of the Light Brigade tells the tale of a band of British Lancers who challenge an army of 25,000 Russians.
The film's highlight: the charge itself, a masterful, pulse-pounding nine minutes of thundering hoofs and flashing sabers that stands up magnificently against any Hollywood action scene of today—and brought 1936's Best Assistant Director Oscar® to Jack Sullivan for his staging of the vaunted sequence.
Errol Flynn, fresh off his success as Captain Blood, stars as the leader of the 600 horsemen. Olivia de Havilland, his Captain Blood leading lady, co-stars. And legendary composer Max Steiner makes his Warner Bros. debut a memorable one with his stirring, heroic musical score.


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VICENZA, Italy, Feb 8 (Reuters) - An Italian judge has thrown out a request to bring legal proceedings against Intesa Sanpaolo in a case revolving around the collapse of regional lender Banca Popolare di Vicenza, a court ruling said on Thursday.
The judge said the Bank of Italy and market regulator Consob will also not be involved in the criminal case which involves former Popolare di Vicenza chairman Gianni Zonin.
Intesa, Italy's biggest retail bank, took over the good assets of Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca for a symbolic price in 2017. Both regional banks had collapsed after years of mismanagement and poor lending.
Last month, Intesa was brought into judicial proceedings against Veneto Banca. The lender said at the time it was dismayed about possible involvement in the case and vowed to defend itself.
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Demystifying CRPS: What Clinicians Need to Know
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating neurologic syndrome characterized by pain and hypersensitivity, vasomotor skin changes, and functional impairment. The condition also is marked by various degrees of trophic changes, including alternations in hair pattern and in nail consistency.
CRPS generally follows a fracture, but also can be triggered by other types of trauma—surgery, inflammation, stroke, crush injury, myocardial infarction, neoplasms, immobilization, and sprains.1 Psychological stressors and poor coping skills can influence the natural history and severity of CRPS.
At least 50,000 new cases of CRPS occur annually in the United States, although the true incidence of CRPS is uncertain. A 2003 study of residents in Olmsted County, Minnesota, found an incidence of 5.46 per 100,000 person years.1 However, a 2007 study by de Mos et al found an incidence of 26.2 per 100,000 person years.2 In both studies, females were 3 to 4 times more likely than males to be affected with the condition. Upper extremities are more likely than lower extremities to be implicated in CRPS, with fractures often precipitating the onset of the syndrome.
Studies have identified potential links between CRPS and several other conditions, including asthma, migraine, and osteoporosis among patients who develop the pain syndrome later in life. A significant association exists between concurrent use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and the risk for CRPS, although the relationship has not been proven to be causal.
What is CRPS?
In 1994, a panel working for the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) developed the umbrella term CRPS encompassing 2 conditions: reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia. Under the new classification, RSD became CRPS Type I and causalgia, CRPS Type II.
Although the IASP definition of CRPS is extremely sensitive, it has been criticized for leading to over diagnosis of the condition. Recognizing this problem, a panel of experts met in Budapest, Hungary, in 2003 to resolve the issue. Their modified criteria, published in 2007, are generally considered to have improved the diagnosis of CRPS (Table).3
Both forms of CRPS include an initial "warm" phase, which likely is due to extravasation of plasma and protein in the affected area, followed by vasodilation. The etiology of this phenomenon, while uncertain, may be the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (interleukins [IL] and tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-alpha) and neuropeptides (calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P). Tests of blister fluid, plasma, and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with CRPS have revealed elevated levels of these cytokines.
Patients with either form of CRPS also experience hyperesthesia, allodynia, and/or hyperalgesia. Hyperesthesia is the increased sensitivity to stimulation; allodynia is the pain associated with stimulus that normally provokes no pain; hyperalgesia is an exaggerated painful response to a painful stimulus.
CRPS Type I is marked by a lack of a specific nerve lesion. Patients with Type II CRPS, on the other hand, have clear evidence of nerve injury (causalgia), although symptoms may extend beyond the course of the affected peripheral nerve, differentiating the injury from isolated mononeuropathy.
Patients with Type I (but not Type II) CRPS sometimes experience spreading of their pain to areas beyond the intial locus of pain; in order of prevalence, this spreading can be contiguous (enlargement of the affected area), independent (symptoms in a distant non-contiguous location), or mirror-image (symptoms in a region opposite of the area of the initial presentation).4
There is no medical cure for CRPS. The vast majority of CRPS patients have some degree of pain and dysfunction for greater than 5 years after onset, whereas approximately 15% of CRPS patients develop intractable pain and physical impairment that impacts their ability to work and function normally.5 As with other chronic conditions, patients with CRPS commonly experience psychological symptoms related to their condition that clinicians also must address. These include depression, anxiety, fear, disuse of the affected body part, and social withdrawal.
The value of CRPS staging has become a matter of dispute among pain specialists, and clinicians tend to ignore them in practice. Further, a prospective study involving more than 800 patients with CRPS failed to cinform a sequential progression of the syndrome.6
Stage I CRPS traditionally has been thought to manifest as acute symptoms marked by sensory and/or vasomotor changes, and possibly sudomotor changes. Stage II involves increased pain, as well as vasomotor, motor, and trophic changes. Patients in Stage III experience a diminution in pain, significantly increased motor and/or trophic changes, and continued changes in vasomotor activity.
How to Diagnose CRPS
Because no definitive test exists for CRPS, the diagnosis must be made by exclusion. The list of conditions with symptoms that overlap with those of CRPS is long, and includes entrapment neuropathies, thoracic outlet syndrome, discogenic disease, deep vein thrombosis, cellulitis, vascular insufficiency, lymphedema, and erythromelalgia.7
The hallmark of diagnosis is a thorough clinical evaluation of symptoms and signs. A variety of laboratory and vascular studies can be helpful in excluding other pain diagnoses. These tests including electromyelography and nerve conduction testing to rule out peripheral neuropathy; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and x-rays to identify any soft tissue trauma, disc disease, central canal stenosis, or bone disorders; vascular testing to rule out deep vein thrombosis; and blood testing to rule out infectious causes of pain, cellulitis, and rheumatologic disease. However, outcomes studies have failed to support the value of such testing.


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Drošības policija Latvijā cenšas atjaunot totalitārismu, liedzot cilvēkiem tiesības uz vārda brīvību. The Security Police in Latvia are renewing totalitarianism by denying people their freedom of speech
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Riga city councilors ask that Baltic Pride be banned
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- Kurt Sveilis said...
As you know my bags are packed, but am I being naive in your statements? I still keep hope that "they" can keep it together and fundamentally get it right..or do I watch the wrong news program.
- May 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Im sure cutting half the numbers of Riga councilors would free up enough money (in these times of crisis) to help many a minority to get there voice heard here. I am astounded at the number - 60 councilors!! - what actually is there job description? what do they do all day?? why so many?? and is it true that if I vote for a certain mayoral candidate and become a rail worker I will get an average of 800Ls/month?? Its true, it was written on a billboard and you know this certain bulldozer would never use this as some kind of bait and then not follow through with it when he inevitably gets elected........
- May 12, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- Pēteris Cedriņš said...
Though I agree that this move by these Rīga city council members is reprehensible, I don't see why you keep using these "third world banana republic" types of comparisons, Juri. Anti-gay politics have been common in Eastern European capitals, for example in Warsaw. Poland isn't the third world, and neither is Latvia. Your hyperbole often detracts from your points.
- May 13, 2009 at 5:36 AM
- Pēteris Cedriņš said...
P.S. Just a quick check re the size of the city council -- Stockholm has 101-seat municipal assembly (the population is similar to Rīga's).
- May 13, 2009 at 5:46 AM
- Juris Kaža said...
OK. but Stockholm has representation by district, in Riga they elect the whole mob for the whole city??
I will use "primitive East European Bardakistan" instead... :)
- May 13, 2009 at 7:26 AM


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In ___ 2016 the former arcade in Crown called Galactic Circuz reborned as Playtime!
The whole place has been revamped and renovated. There are 150 new games, including lifesized games like a huge claw machine, huge pacman, colour wheel and Tetris blocks. There is even an arcade bowling, Simpsons soccer and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.
The prize vault looks like a little kids heaven, all the toys in their arms reach for them to pick which prizes they want to swap for. I love this new structure as it gives you a more intimate experience with your prize selections, you don't have to squint and look at them at the back of the counter, they are right in front of you and you can inspect them before you decide. No awkward waiting for the staff of you are a really indecisive person like me too haha
Another thing they changed was that they are no longer any physical paper tickets, they get automatically added into your cards which is good for the environment.


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Political motives for Al Azhar's break with Vatican? January 21, 2011 Egyptian politics and personal rivalries may have contributed to the decision by Al Azhar University to break off talks with the Vatican, according to one leading analyst.
Father Bernardo Cervellera, the director of the AsiaNews service, suggests that Al Azhar, and influential institution in Cairo, may have fallen into step with the political strategy of President Hosni Mubarak:
In an attempt to determine the next presidential election in his favour, Mubarak is trying not to upset the Muslim world. Critics of the Vatican have this aim: lay the blame on the Christian and Western Pope, thus stroking the frustrations of the Muslims towards the (so called) Christian West. Al-Azhar has simply latched on to this trend.However, Father Cervellera also detects another factor in the Egyptian institution's decision. Since early in January, he says, Al Azhar had been complaining about the Vatican's decision to include a Jordanian priest, Msgr. Khaled Akasheh, in the delegation for bilateral talks. The reason for Al Azhar's opposition is obscure, but the Muslim scholars may have objected to the inclusion of a native Arab with a thorough knowledge of the Qu'ran.
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Adobe Camera RAW 6.7 beta support E-M5 has long, this is evidence:
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i think Adobe Camera RAW 6.7 FINAL coming soon and everyone is happy.
This is the very reason I ask for another RC. The EM-5 profile is obviously ready. So why do they make a RC with 5DMKIII support but not with EM-5? Seems very arbitrary to me. If the profiles are there, just release them in a RC, if only that EM-5 users can give their feedback. Again, too much to ask the market leader for?
RC2 is out and it looks like the support has been added
I successfully imported my OMD .orf files into it. Made my day WOOHOO
You got your wish!
Wow, great, a lot of thanks Adobe. I don't know, if my posts had any influence that Adobe decided for another RC with the requested camera support. However, it proves my pledge right: if the functional code is ot ready for final release, make your customers happy with new camera support in release candidates. This policy makes everyone happy, the early adopters of new cameras and the development team, which needs time to fix some outstanding issues.
Again, thanks a lot.
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I don't know, if my posts had any influence that Adobe decided for another RC with the requested camera support.
No, it didn't...this has been in the pipeline for a while. Software doesn't just turn on a dime ya know...it takes a LOT of man hours. Your OP on the 23rd of April was just a drop in the bucket in terms of engineering time it takes.
I did not really expected that it did, and after I learned that RC2 has some additional features, such as new defringing tools, my post certainly had nothing to do with it. However, RC2 supports my pledge not to wait with new camera support until final release.
C'mon, Jeff. You could just say "it helped" even if it's not totally true ;-)
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C'mon, Jeff. You could just say "it helped" even if it's not totally true ;-)
Pretty good reason not to say it, really...


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A PUB chef is to swap his whites for trainers in a bid to complete the gruelling Edinburgh Marathon.
John Riley, 51, who cooks at The Richmond on Scarisbrick New Road, is to undertake the punishing 26-mile run around the Scottish capital to raise funds for cancer support charity Macmillan.
The Welwyn Avenue resident aims to raise £1,000 by competing in his second marathon on Sunday, May 25.
John said: "To an extent it was a case of ignorance is bliss when I ran the Edinburgh Marathon last year. Now I know just how difficult they are to complete and I've been in training a lot."
John has regularly started running 14 to 18-mile treks as he builds up his stamina for Edinburgh but with three Liverpool half-marathons to his name he is already an accomplished athlete.
He added: "I love running and I've always tried to keep myself fit. My trainer at the JJB gym has got me in a rigorous programme, so hopefully I'll be ready to go."
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Manchester is bursting with ways to get connected with books this summer--and earn some prizes too--although the real prize is getting "lost" in a wonderful story, or learning all about something new in a non-fiction book. Here are some of the ways to get books this summer:
*Our own Little Free Library at Wilson School
Open 24/7! I will be stocking the library with new books once a week!
*Story Time for Kindergarten and First Grade at Wilson
July 10, 17, 24, & 31 from 11:30-12:30. I will be reading/telling Trickster Tales on July 17th!
*Hear a story and pick a book from the new Book Mobile! The bookmobile will visit parks and schools around the city, with 2 stops every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The closest stop to Wilson is Beech Street School, where the Book Mobile will stop on Fridays from 10:30-12. I will be there on July 13th and 20th. You can find the full schedule here
*Manchester Public Library, along with libraries around the state, will be running its Summer Reading Program
This year the theme is "Libraries Rock!" (Can you find the toy guitars hidden around the library? More information here
So there you have it! Have some fun in the sun this summer, but spend some time under a tree with a good book too! Happy Reading!
Mrs. Linehan
5th grade students are listening to the book A Long Walk to Water. Other students around the world are reading the same book!
We are communicating with a class in Hampstead, NH, using Padlet.
Through a webquest, we are learning what it means to be a refugee.
If you have used the Little Free Library lately, you may have noticed that the door is sticking. We had so much wet weather that the wood swelled up! I am working on a new door, and expect to have it installed soon! For now, just lift gently on the doorknob to unstick the door!
Welcome back for the 2017/18 school year!
Although it went up last year, I wanted to remind everyone that our Little Free Library is up and running in front of the school near the flagpole!
Did you know that there are Little Free Libraries all over the world? These free book-exchange boxes are built and maintained by volunteer stewards in the belief that access to books improves our communities. Please help yourself to books from the box at any time, and exchange them for books you have a home or return the same book when you are done. For more information about these libraries, visit littlefreelibrary.org
Hi Everyone!
My favorite thing to do in the summer is to make something new. Usually, this involves gardening or carpentry. Almost always, I read a book or website first to learn how to do a new thing. This summer, I'm building a little deck, planting blueberries, and trying out new vegetarian recipes. I challenge you to make something new! It doesn't have to be big or expensive. It could be an art project, a poem, an invention that you make out of recycled junk, a new recipe...Email me with how and why you did this project. Take a picture if you can, and I'll post your creations on this web page.
Hey Everyone! Welcome back to school!
We have a new library catalog this year that you can search from home! Click on the link below, or on the sidebar where it says "Library Catalog" and click on the name of our school to check it out! You can even change the way the page looks by clicking the "paint" icon up in the right-hand corner.
Welcome back to school, everyone! The library looks a lot different this year, as I had to re-organize the space a bit. New books, funded through last spring's Scholastic Book Fair, will be on the shelves any minute. Circulation will start next week, for most classes. Speaking of the bookfair, it's coming again soon! I decided to run it early this year, so look for flyers with all the info. It will be set up from October 6th-10th. Family Night will be that week, but a date hasn't be picked yet--stay tuned.
We would love gift cards to Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Gibson's Bookstore (Concord)!
We also go through lots of pencils, colored pencils, crayons, and tissues like any classroom.
Here is a link to a template for the vocabulary cards:
Hear the 3 Little Pigs in different languages!
This year's Scholastic Book Fair begins on Monday, October 6th and runs through the week to Friday, October 10th. Students can shop during their regularly scheduled library classes, or you can come with them to Family Night on October 7th from 6-7:30. City Year will be running a fun Family Literacy Night that same night in the gym. The book fair will be held in the library. For a larger selection of books for all ages, you can shop the online book fair. Shipping is free, and books will be sent home with students after the fair closes.
During the event we'd like to gather some information about the ways your family reads and your thoughts about our school library program. Look for a table where you can fill out an online survey and get a raffle ticket for one of three bags of books pulled from the book fair!
You may have noticed that your child has not brought home any library books yet this year. Borrowing has been pre-empted during the NWEA tests for all students. Things will get back to normal once the book fair is over.
5th grade students are hard at work on their science fair projects. They have been doing background research for their projects during library classes. Work will begin soon on preparing their experiments in science class with Mrs. Sindoni. The actual experiments will mostly be done at home. I will be setting up times after school to assist students in completing their projects. Use the links below to help you!
Science Definitions (click on sites below)
Want to do some research this summer? We have access to databases for students and teachers! To see the passwords, click on the link below. (You will be asked to log into your school Google account, if you are not already!)
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I postponed seeing Australia (2008) because most of the people who recommended it to me don't generally give me good movie recommendations. I sat down to watch this nearly three hour movie expecting a overlong, bland movie about a couple who bicker and fight, then fall in love and live happily ever after. It turns out Australia was much better, and much more rich than I had assumed.
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland called Faraway Downs. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man Drover (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
I'm sure the country Australia was somewhat romanticized in this movie, but wow! Australia spared no expense to show us some gorgeous shots of the outback. We get to see some Australian historical tidbits that I was unfamiliar with such as racism and Japan attacking Australia during World War II. I knew Japan attacked Australia, but most of my WWII studies revolve around The United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan; most other country's involvement seems to get swept under the rug. Australia is full of rugged cowboys reminiscent of Crocodile Dundee, Aborigine culture, and gorgeous Australian wildlife and wilderness. This movie shows us the Australia of our dreams.
The characters were good, too. Lady Ashley was hilarious for the first part of the film, being a pompous, lady-like British aristocrat who is shocked and appalled by nearly everything the brawny Australians do. She sees herself as the only civilized woman on the continent and believes that every graceless man there intends to have his way with her. The British seem to have a long standing practice of dressing in warm climates as if they were not, and Lady Ashley keeps up the tradition.
Drover gets his name from his job; a Drover is an experience stockman who moved livestock. I've seen Hugh Jackman in a number of movies but I think this is the first time I've seen Jackman actually use his native Australian accent. If you needed a rugged, manly Australian character in your movie, Jackman is easily your best bet. Kidman and Jackman bounce off of each other really well. Early on, Drover is talking to Lady Ashley about breeding horses which she erroneously interprets as coming on to her. Drover is offended by this and sparks fly and hilarity ensues. They do comedy bits well together, but they also have good chemistry. Later on they develop romantic interest in one another and while their characters clash, I can still buy their love.
Part of what draws the characters together is a Nullah (Brandon Walters) who is half-aboriginal, half-white. The boy is about 11, lives with his mother who works at Faraway Downs. Walters was a great kid actor and does a fantastic job of playing a tragic character. Since Australia is basically a western, there has to be evil cattle tycoons and rattlers. Neil Fletcher (David Wenham) plays both roles at some point in the movie. He's a great villain and makes very personal attacks on each character, and of course it's all about money and revenge for him.
Australia sounds like a long romantic western, but there are some excellent action scenes; brawling bar fights, stampedes, bombed harbors, hiding from Japanese invaders, and more. There were times I was on the edge of my seat, especially the scene where the stampeding cattle are headed for a cliff. The movie was longer than I thought it needed to be. At times it appeared that the movie was coming to a nice place to end and wrap things up. But a small new plot development appeared and moved the story forward. This happened two or three times before the end credits started rolling. That isn't to say it was bad, Australia simply felt a bit longer than it needed to be.
Australia was a good movie, almost like an Australian Gone With the Wind. Good acting, great cinematography, romance, action, and drama; what's not to like? I imagine most men would be put off from Australia at first since it really does look like a dull "chick flick" at first glance. There is a good blend of action and drama that I think would give Australia an appeal to most any type of movie watcher. This is an excellent, worthwhile renter and I could see some people enjoying it enough to want their own copy.


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VoIP Myth Busters
Five years ago, a technology professional couldn't turn around in a crowded room without bumping into a vendor selling a hot new technology called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Each year brought the same promises of how VoIP would revolutionize the delivery of phone service, replacing expensive and cumbersome traditional phone service delivered by the "Baby Bells" with a cheap alternative.
Better sound quality was promised, but the reality was static and choppy connections. So most organizations wisely stayed away from the new technology.
Things change, but the college or university now considering adapting VoIP technology still confronts a series of popular myths. Here, University Business debunks the top 10 myths and uncovers the realities of a technology that has finally begun to be deployed on campuses large and small.
Myth No. 1: As long as IT staff members understand networks, they can implement VoIP.
Reality: Implementation likely requires outside help, and IT staffers had best be spending their time learning how their jobs will be changing after VoIP comes to campus.
Moving from a separate voice-based phone system to one in which voice and data are shared over the data network does eliminate some complexity from the systems. However, the new hybrid network will require some new skills, and therefore a degree of retraining of IT staff may be necessary.
With VoIP, "you get the synergy of being able to use your existing Ethernet network and fiber optic networks to provide telephony," says John Bryan, vice president for Information Technology and Services at Clayton State University in Morrow, Ga. When tech leaders there adopted IP telephony, they didn't have to do much new hiring and training. In fact, Bryan notes, "We've been able to eliminate one whole type of technology, and that's a tremendous savings in terms of cost and support."
Though they understand the technology, IT staff typically don't have voice expertise, explains Todd Grafton, an engineer with CDW Government, a technology products and services provider. A person trained in data networks may not think to ask certain questions, such as how direct-dial numbers might affect the arrangement. But most vendors will provide training courses to their customers as part of the implementation process.
Chip Towle, senior IT director at Boston's Wheelock College, says the amount of retraining needed for his campus' switchover was less of a problem than ensuring that the campus' Nortel data network was properly configured to support voice as an application. In March 2003, he deployed VoIP phones, and today 95 percent of Wheelock's faculty and staff use VoIP. Training presented no problem, and Towle reports that he has no traditional phone technology staff on campus.
Myth No. 2: VoIP is free.
Reality: VoIP can be less expensive than traditional phone service, but free it is not.
"Every now and then, somebody is under the impression that if they deploy a VoIP solution for their office, they will end up with free phone service," says Grafton. That is not true, he adds, but the "base price of a VoIP platform is vendor-determined; there are more expensive and cheaper ones." Also, a lot of institutions of higher education are finding it makes sense to switch to VoIP as part of a larger overhaul of their data networks, which blurs the distinctions about what costs are for what purpose.
But that's not to say that there are not some significant savings from VoIP once it has been installed.
A return on investment for Clayton State's VoIP system will take five years, reports Bryan, and better yet, ongoing operating costs are much lower. He says that after five years, the VoIP system will cost half of what it would have cost to keep operating a traditional phone service, known as plain old telephone service (POTS).
Russ Beard, director of Information and Communication Services at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Wash., estimates that his campus' VoIP system costs are "almost identical" to the institution's former phone system. Yet, when he adds in all of the services and features (such as caller ID and voicemail) that are standard in VoIP, the balance tips in favor of the newer technology.
Towle finds VoIP to be much cheaper, in part because when he upgrades one part of his network, he is upgrading his data and voice application capacity at the same time. "Voice is [simply another] application running on a data network today," he says.
The changing economics of the telephony industry are also working to the advantage of VoIP systems. With the increased competition in the telecommunications industry since it was deregulated, users can get competitive bids and lower prices for services.
"Long distance used to be a profit center in higher education," says Bryan. "When there was no competition and the phone companies were regulated, the economic model made sense to have centralized phone companies that had very expensive switches to provide expensive long-distance and local services. It was long-distance services that many colleges and universities resold to their students and [departments] and made a profit on, so they could afford to buy a large switch and get the economies of scale to run it themselves."
But since the mid-1990s, long-distance costs have declined dramatically. Calls that once cost 25 or 50 cents a minute dropped to as little as 1 cent a minute if bought in bulk. In this new paradigm, Clayton State no longer charges back to departments the costs of long distance. Billing and account maintenance costs simply "don't make sense economically," says Bryan.
Myth No. 3: VoIP sound quality is better than traditional phone service.
Reality: It can be--for calls within the campus network.
With POTS, the end-to-end phone connection is kept open for the extent of the entire call. With VoIP, the voice transmission is broken up into multiple packets of information that are coded and sent over the network to the recipient device, which reassembles them.
For calls involving one party that is off-campus--for example, a POTS customer calling from another state--you are at the mercy of the long-distance carriers. In most cases, that's not a problem, because the Baby Bells have expertise in delivering high-quality voice service. But if your POTS service has been bad, VoIP won't improve the connection that goes over someone else's system.
At Clayton State, the quality of the local POTS service had been "awful," says Bryan. It was cumbersome, too. Users had to dial 10 digits just to reach some departments on the same campus.
He reports that one would need excellent or very perceptive hearing to be able to notice problems with his VoIP service. Some of the people in Clayton's music department faculty can sometimes hear a slight difference, for example, but not other people.
Myth No. 4: VoIP sound quality is worse than traditional phone service.
Reality: The campus determines the quality of voice service.
The quality of the intra-campus calls, therefore, depend on things such as how much priority voice packets are given over data packets on the network or, if the two run on separate networks, how much bandwidth is allotted to each. If insufficient bandwidth is given to voice, the packets can be compressed to squeeze more information through smaller channels, but that can hurt sound quality. It also requires a system that can assemble the packets quickly, without the delay that is acceptable with assembling an e-mail message, for example, where a delay of 10 seconds between sender and recipient is no problem.
Telephone service is the service that wants to be taken for granted by its users. People expect to pick up the phone and have it work, no questions asked. And that is what typically what POTS has delivered over the past century.
But if a VoIP system isn't set up efficiently, or if compression starts to degrade sound quality, then the comparison with POTS will not go well for VoIP advocates. If there's a 10-second delay in a VoIP phone conversation, one of the callers will have hung up and contacted the IT department to complain.
"A university with a self-contained VoIP network can make the direct connection and it'll be perfect," says Grafton. He tells his higher education customers that if they want to implement VoIP but are not willing to allocate sufficient bandwidth or give voice packets "supreme priority on that network to get to the voice server, ... then it's not going to work."
Big Bend has its voice and data traffic running on the same physical network but using separate "virtual networks," in which the two uses are allocated specific amounts of bandwidth for exclusive use. Beard says voice traffic is also prioritized in case it needs to use more than its set bandwidth. "For example, if everything is running to capacity and voice [traffic] needs 2 percent of what data has, voice will get it," he says.
"The good news is that with most VoIP systems, you as the customer have the option of selecting various quality levels with regard to the voice quality," says Bryan, who notes that Clayton has chosen the highest quality level.
Myth No. 5: IHEs can ignore VoIP.
Reality: They can, but they could end up paying much higher communications expenses and supporting an out-of-date campus network.
Voice and data are converging on so many fronts that ignoring it could leave an IHE with much higher communications expenses--and supporting an out-of-date campus network.
Consider the rapid growth in video and other forms of multimedia use on campuses. Online multimedia teaching, research, and collaboration all leverage an institution's voice and data networks, and keeping them separate makes less and less sense.
Myth No. 6: Security is a weakness of VoIP.
Reality: Not any more than it is for your critical data systems.
A recent survey of 300 organizations (not necessarily IHEs) carried out by IDC for the Computing Technology Industry Association showed that only 48 percent of the respondents trust the security offered by VoIP. More than three-quarters of the respondents trust POTS security.
And yet, VoIP just takes the voice traffic and runs it over the same network already handling data traffic. Colleges and universities have spent years toughening the security for these systems because that data traffic often includes confidential or proprietary information.
"Security is always going to be an issue, but I don't consider VoIP traffic running within an organization's infrastructure a big concern," says Grafton.
Companies such as NextiraOne have addressed the VoIP security perception by offering services to make sure an organization meets all of the security needs dictated by its own users as well as any pertinent regulations, laws, or compliance requirements.
Myth No. 7: VoIP is an unproven technology.
Reality: True five years ago, but not today.
Tell that to Cisco Systems, which has sold more than 6 million IP phones and counts many universities and government bodies among its customers. But Towle says there were not a lot of VoIP value-added resellers with much experience deploying VoIP in 2003, when Wheelock first launched the technology.
Big Bend's Beard says he loves to be a trailblazer. But he admits that it can be a challenge to be one of the first to adopt a new technology, as he was when he began to research VoIP five years ago. At that time, state guidelines for its colleges required special approval for cutting-edge items, such as VoIP.
But the situation has changed. By the time Beard finished his research three years later, VoIP was no longer a special item on the list and didn't require special dispensation.
Myth No. 8: VoIP is too big of a project to take on.
Reality: Combined with other network or infrastructure upgrades, VoIP becomes a logical choice.
The decision to switch to VoIP at Clayton State was aided by some mundane real estate factors. "Our administration building is about 50 years old, and it housed our old [voice traffic] Centrix switch," says Bryan. The building was scheduled for renovation, but the architects and engineers reported that it would make more sense to demolish and rebuild the building. So the phone system was going to be relocated anyway, and "the cost to pull copper wires for telephones to a new location just did not make sense," says Bryan. "VoIP was the perfect technology for us."
As part of the switch, Clayton State upgraded its backbone network and switches campuswide to handle more traffic. Similarly, Beard's research at Big Bend showed that a network upgrade and VoIP implementation were best carried out together if they were to work best.
Myth No. 9: Power outages always render VoIP phones useless.
Reality: There are ways to address the problem.
With POTS, the phone company provides the energy for the phone system during emergencies, so users can call emergency services even if there is a power outage. But VoIP runs on a campus network, so if electricity goes out, a VoIP phone becomes a useless paperweight.
There are a couple ways IHEs can handle that problem. Power over Ethernet actually delivers power through the Ethernet system on the campus, providing power to the VoIP phones. (Network switches may need to be upgraded or replaced to handle this functionality.) Also, power generators in the data closets and emergency generators in critical campus locations can help ensure uninterrupted power supplies, notes Bryan.
Beard and Towle both say their institutions retained a relatively small number of POTS phone sprinkled across the campuses, serving as backups.
Myth No. 10: VoIP is just a new way of delivering voice traffic. So what's the big deal about that?
Reality: VoIP systems generally bundle in many services previously offered separately and at higher cost.
Bryan says that many of Clayton State's departments could not afford voicemail with its former POTS service; instead, they went out and bought answering machines. "We had a hodgepodge of services available to callers when they reached a telephone number," he says. Many of the departments also bought the very cheapest phones available.
With the campus's VoIP system from Avaya, functions such as voicemail, call-center capabilities, and caller ID are included on every phone. Clayton State is also looking at implementing universal messaging, in which voicemail messages, e-mails, and faxes can all be accessed from the same interfaces. It never hurts to be looking toward the next best thing.


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I drew the basic snowman shape onto a piece of paper, covered the shape in glue and let her go at it with cotton balls.
Then we made the snowman's accessories. She helped me cut out a hat, arms, mittens, eyes, a nose, and a smile. She picked out puffs for buttons and got to help glue everything on.
It's a simple, cute, quick project. She is so proud of it and it is now in the spot of honor on the fridge.
|My phone did this feature somehow and it made me smile so I had to share!
Do you have any fun toddler crafts for Christmas? Please share any ideas you have! I'd love to try some new ones in the next couple of weeks.


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LAGOS - Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest oil producer, is set to emerge as the continent's biggest economy on Sunday when the results of an overdue rebasing of its gross domestic product are announced.
Although United Nations statisticians recommend that countries rebase their GDP calculations every five years to reflect changes in the structure of production and consumption, Nigeria last carried out the exercise in 1990. So the new figures expected to be unveiled by Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela and top government statisticians are expected to place Nigeria ahead of continental powerhouse South Africa as new and fast-developing sectors such as telecoms, music and local film industry, Nollywood, are considered in the GDP rebasing. Following the adjustment, Nigeria's economy is expected to increase by as much as 60pc, taking it from $264 billion past South Africa's $384 billion.
Nigeria, with 170 million people is about three times the size of South Africa , but its economy is the second-largest on the continent, after South Africa . Africa's leading crude producer has enjoyed high rates of growth, notwithstanding widespread corruption, poor governance, rampant oil theft and a raging Islamist insurgency in the north. The annual growth rate averaged 6.8 percent from 2005 to 2013 and the economy is projected to grow this year at a rate of 7.4 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. That compares to a little over five percent between 2005 and 2008-9 in South Africa , which has struggled to go beyond 3.5 percent since. Analysts say while at this stage we can only speculate how big the impact of the rebasing will be, the actual size of the adjustment is probably of less significance than the psychological effect this will have on perceptions about Africa.
It would be interesting to see how international relations will be affected when South Africa is no longer the largest African economy. South Africa is, for example, the only African country represented in the G20. For Nigeria, the rebasing will probably not mean a significant change, but it will improve the country's balance sheet and its credit rating. This should lead to lower borrowing costs for the government, which is ultimately beneficial for the country's citizens. It will also shore up Nigeria's image and make it interesting as an investment destination for foreigners, a status hitherto enjoyed by South Africa . But analysts cautioned against viewing the new figures as a sign of development, noting that South Africa is still way ahead in terms of GDP per capita, infrastructure and governance. Nigeria still faces an immense challenge in terms of infrastructure deficits. Slow ports, bad roads and a lack of electricity are some of the major factors hampering business activity. Despite its vast oil wealth, the last available World Bank figures from 2010 indicated that a staggering 84.5 percent of Nigeria's 170 million people lived on less than $2 a day. "For the average person on the street, it (rebasing) really does not have any meaning," Pat Utomi, professor of political economy at the Lagos Business School, told AFP.