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If I were a restaurant owner in Santa Cruz de la Palma, I?d be Incredible Hulk coloured at the thought of La Placeta?s location. Enviable just doesn?t cut the mustard.
On the seafront side, La Placeta?s 18th century fa?ade forms part of one of the biggest attractions of La Palma?s capital, Los Balcones; a row of historic buildings whose antique painted balconies, adorned with tumbling plants, are a super magnet for cameras. La Placeta is one of the most colourful of Los Balcones, with a veritable jungle of potted plants hanging from its delightfully rickety looking balcony.
But, if that wasn?t enough, cut through a narrow passage and La Placeta also looks over one of the most picturesque little plazas in Santa Cruz de la Palma; the restaurant?s tables and chairs decorate a cobbled square and trickling fern fountain,
Let?s face it, anyone who sets eyes on La Placeta doesn?t need me to sell it to them.
Inside the charm continues with deeply polished floorboards and staircase and tasteful furnishings that are lifted by contemporary and witty touches. A fashion parade of stylish images accompany me up the staircase to intimate dining rooms whose open, latticed windows offer a light sea-breeze relief from stifling September temperatures whilst a jazzy soundtrack soothes my soul.
Within seconds of entering I?m relaxed and enjoying the ambience ? this is exactly my type of restaurant. It?s classy, stylish, historic and cool ? but totally unpretentious or fussy. You can enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, cocktails or simply just a coffee at La Placeta; they welcome all-comers.
Enticing though a beautifully tasteful wrapping is, it?s nothing if it can?t deliver a culinary present to match.
The Food at La Placeta
The menu is mainly traditional Canarian in personality but with a worldly wise influence; so that beside fried Camembert and local favourites there is hummus and even a selection of vegetarian dishes. The wine list has a distinctly Iberian flavour with a good selection of La Palma varieties.
Exhibit A ? Queso del Pais Tricolor
I?m a sucker for grilled cheese drizzled with mojos (Canarian sauces generally made with red peppers or cilantro) and honey but sometime the cheese can border on being rubbery in texture. Not so with La Placeta, the queso fresco is indeed fresh and soft, so that the flavours of the picante chunky mojos and sweet honey blend beautifully. They?re helped along by a cherry red bottle of Vega Norte that is summery light to drink ? dangerously so. There?s a real possibility of it disappearing before the main course arrives.
Exhibit B ? Crema de Calabaza
The gold and creamy pumpkin soup is light, peppery and full? of savoury flavour. I rarely opt for soup when eating out but this one makes me rethink that policy.
Exhibit C ? Conejo en Salsa
Rabbit in a rich sauce is a real Canarian speciality. Normally you see it as Conejo en Salmorejo on Canarian menus; La Placeta?s version is slightly different from the norm. Their rabbit sauce consists of red and green peppers, lentils, mushrooms and almonds and came with papas arrugadas (traditional small, salted potatoes in their skins). It?s a rich, hearty and tasty dish and I?m a big rabbit fan. But I don?t do this one justice. The combination of grilled cheese and soup (plus too much bread spread with more-ishly herby butter) beforehand leaves me a bit too stuffed to fully appreciate it.
Exhibit D ? Pr?ncipe Alberto
Despite being stuffed I feel it would be rude to say no to a local La Palma postre. With ingredients that include chocolate, fresh cream, sponge biscuits, hazelnuts and almonds, Pr?ncipe Alberto sounds like the sort of concoction that could push me into Monty Python Meaning of Life territory. But in reality it is fluffy white-cloud light ? it positively floats into the mouth bypassing the tongue and making straight for the taste buds. It is simply one of those orgasmic puds.
I think it?s fair to say that La Placeta?s ingredients match the promise of its oh so attractive wrapping.
La Placeta; Placeta Borrero, 1; +34 922 415 273; www.laplaceta.es; main courses average ?13; open 10am to 11pm daily
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After WWII, the Feds starting paying serious attention to the types of degrees college students completed. They had been compiling educational statistics since 1870, but?Vance Grant explains (in the historical overview?here)?that increasingly detailed surveys of higher education were funded in response to the post-GI Bill boom. Currently, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)?reports degrees conferred by field of study going back to 1949-50?in its?Digest of Education Statistics.?In 1966, the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) made major improvements in the granularity and scope of data collected. Institutions of higher education were asked to report degrees awarded under standardized numerical codes designating the field of ?study. (I have yet to determine the reporting mechanism for 1949-1966 surveys.) In reporting on degrees awarded in 1986-87, Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes replaced HEGIS as part the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS, here?s a history). This was a lengthy bureaucratic process rather than a wake-up-and-take-a-CIP kind of change, but for the sake of clarity let?s just stick with 1986 as the Dawn of CIP.
At that point, HEGIS codes 1501 English, General, and 1502, English Literature translated to CIP codes 23.0101 English?Language and Literature,?General and 23.0801, Literature, English (British and Commonwealth). HEGIS ?605 Communications Media (Videotape, Film for Radio/TV) became CIP 10.0104 Radio & TV Prod & Brodcs and Hegis 1010 Cinematography became 50.0602 Film-Video Making/Cinematography & Production. ?That?s it for ?film.? Taxonomically, ?Film Studies? did not exist. One might well ask, therefore, how, if at all, degrees in film studies were counted? ?(Turn to the timeline in the back of?Inventing Film Studies to discover among the juicy factoids that in 1970 the AFI reported 68 institutions with a degree program ?in film or a related field? including 11 with PhD programs.)??In 1990, a CIP code was finally added for Film/Cinema Studies: 50.0601. In 2010, the name was revised slightly to Film/Cinema/Video Studies. By definition this is: ?A program in the visual arts that focuses on the study of the history, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts, as well as the basic principles of film making and film production.?
2010 brought bigger changes for English: a new series of 23.14 codes?for Literature. 23.0101 abides, but a degree specifically in British and Commonwealth literature could now be numbered 23.1404; by definition: ?A program that focuses on the literatures and literary developments of the English-speaking peoples of the British Isles and the British Commonwealth, from the origins of the English language to the present. Includes instruction in period and genre studies, author studies, country and regional specializations, literary criticism, and the study of folkloric traditions.?
I am sure you have already intuited the genius of CIP. It is so obvious! One simply lops off digits to arrive at higher levels of statistical abstraction. Thus the four distinct series under 23 English Languages and Literature/Letters (23.01 English Language and Literature, General; 23.13 Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies; ?23.14 Literature; 23.99 English Language and Literature/Letters, Other) can easily be collapsed into the area code for English: 23. One can perform the same trick with the six different varieties of 23.14 Literature ?(23.1401 General; 23.1402 American (US); 23.1403 American (Canadian);??23.1404 Brittish; 23.1405 Children?s and Adolescent ; 23.1499 Other). This allows institutions to track degrees at the level of granularity meaningful to them, while facilitating the kind of aggregation that makes results meaningful to those thinking about trends across the higher ed sector. When the?Digest of Education Statistics?compares degrees granted over time in various disciplinary areas, in considers the top level (two digit) CIP code by default. Degrees in Literature (whatever sort) will show up along with Rhetoric and Composition under 23 English Languages and Literature/Letters. Degrees in Film/Cinema/Video Studies will show up with degrees in studio art, music, ?arts, entertainment, and media management? and so on under CIP?50 Visual and Performing Arts.
I find a number of points of interest in this. Although it seems almost too obvious to state, English takes up a lot of real estate on this list. 54 History, by comparison, only contains one series with 9 parts. The level of granularity makes no difference to the aggregate totals (it shouldn?t), but it seems to point to something about disciplinary structure. What generates the need to distinguish so many flavors of English? ?History also has ?general? and ?other? categories, for example, but English seems to need them at the 23.14## level as well as the 23.## level. Why 23.1499 English, Literature, Other as distinct from?23.99 English Language and Literature/Letters, Other? Their definitions differ by a single word. 23.1499: ?Any instructional program in English language literature not listed above.???23.99: ?Any instructional program in English language and literature not listed above.? Does this result from?taxonomic logic merely or are there really hyper-specialized degrees out there that require this distinction? Is it an attempt to capture approaches at different types of institutions (Research 1s and Community Colleges,e.g.) and/or levels (PhDs and AAs)? ?Inquiring minds want to know.
Another kinda obvious point: while ?English? and ?History? designate both disciplines and commonly encountered administrative divisions (departments), the same cannot be said for 50 Visual and Performing Arts. At my institution, for example, the degrees encompassed within this category are spread out not only across different departments but also across different colleges: 50.09 Music has a Dean; while 50.06 Film/Video and Photographic Arts does not designate a coherent institutional entity at all. Precisely because the point of CIP taxonomy is to report degrees and not departments, we can see a much closer fit between institutional organization and taxonomic organization in the case of History and English than with Visual and Performing Arts. ?With respect to the later, there is a striking disjuncture between the discourse that reports on the credentials higher education confers, on the one hand, and the institutional organization producing those credentials, on the other. At the level of aggregated data about ?Visual and Performing Arts,? the institutional arrangements that credential students disappear entirely in favor of a new unity produced by the taxonomic scheme. 23 English is also an unity generated by the taxonomy, but looking at the series it comprises, one can imagine actually existing departments.
Curiously (kinda obvious point number three), the term ?humanities? organizes practically nothing in this schema. CIP code 24 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities is clearly meant as a designator for generalist degrees and not as rubric encompassing disparate disciplines. In contrast, CIP 45 Social Sciences has under it Anthropology, Archeology, Criminology, Economics, etc. NCES does sometimes combine CIP codes to report trends in the ?humanities,? but that requires an explanation of what gets lumped (see below). Reporting about ?Social Science? does not?although History does get combined with Social Science in the same tables that report on the humanities. Is the ?crisis of the humanities? partially, or maybe even primarily, taxonomic?
James English partly addresses this question in?The Global Future of English Studies. As his title suggests, English is specifically concerned with the discipline of English. He makes good use of the NCES data to deflate the rhetoric of ?crisis? often employed by English professors who want their departments not to change, to change dramatically, or to receive more funding. ?Though the specific position of English is subject to shifts on the wider academic landscape,? English writes, ?the discipline appears, according to various reasonable metrics, to be firmly embedded in the terrrain? (8). It is true that the percentage of graduates with degrees in English in 2008 (3.5%) was roughly half of its post-war peak in 1971 (7.6%). But, he argues, there are number of systemic factors at work here, such as the fact that the increasing diversity of degree programs available has tended to decrease the individual market share of ?each of them. Once this is taken into account,
English has held its own, remaining one of the largest non-vocational degree programs as well as the largest by far in the humanities. Nor are the humanities eroding away, as many of us believe them to be . . . As a sector, the humanities has been the clear winner in the enrollments chase over the last 20-25 years, outperforming all other sectors . . . including business. In short, considered strictly in terms of US higher education enrollments over the past quarter century, English is the dominant field in the fastest rising sector ?(16-17)
English illustrates with a chart (Figure 1.4. Percent change in share of undergraduate degrees granted, United States, 1983-2008). This has the humanities increasing by a whopping 28% at the left edge and Computer Science and Engineering declining by more than 30% on the right edge (worry about your bridges!). The source for this is Table 274 from the 2009 Digest. That table explains that ?humanities?
includes degrees in Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies; English language and literature/letters; Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics; Liberal arts?and sciences, general studies, and humanities; Multi/interdisciplinary studies; Philosophy and religious studies; Theology and religious vocations; and Visual and performing arts.
This aggregation includes within the humanities some fields perhaps not typically imagined there?those disciplines that might be encompassed by the ?arts? part of ?arts and humanities? as well as degrees like 50.1001 Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management and 50.0912 Music Pedagogy. The numbers would have to be re-aggregated and crunched to see what difference, if any, the inclusion of particular degrees makes to the overall trend, but differently tabulated data from the 2011 Digest does shed some light on the matter. If we take the same period English considers (1983-2008) and look at the change in the number of BA?s awarded, those in the Visual and Performing Arts more than doubled (220% increase) while those in English did not quite double (176% increase). Moreover, the absolute numbers are much higher in Visual and Performing Arts. In 2008, for example, BAs there totaled 87,703 as compared to 55,038 in English.?As James English points out, what matters to the ?health of the humanities? overall is the proportion of these increases relative to the overall growth in the number of BAs. But differently aggregated data does cast new light on his assertion that ?English is the dominant field in the fastest rising sector.? The dominance of English seems evident if the point of comparison is any one of the numerous disciplines comprised in the humanities as NCES defines it. But its presence does not loom so large?within the aggregation that includes Foreign languages (20,977 BAs in 2008?a 188% increase over 1983), Visual and performing arts, and all the rest. Moreover, it is not itself the fastest rising component of the fastest rising sector. The 2011?Digest doesn?t let me say conclusively which two digit CIP wins that honor; it only breaks out Visual and performing arts; English; and Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics. Of those, ?Visual and performing arts? wins. But then again CIP 50 contains a disciplinary hodge-podge, some of which are arguably not ?the humanities.?
James English is able to make the kind of argument he makes about English not so much because of its numerical strength but because of its institutional power, because, among other advantages, of the very good fit between the taxonomy that measures it and the departmental structures that sustain it. This is implied by his argument and worth underscoring. That?fit does not exist for those fields whose faculty and curricula may overlap with English but also have disciplinary autonomy, e.g,: 30.2601 Culture Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, added in 2010 to?CIP 30?Multi/Interdisciplinary studies (along with Mathematics and Computer Science, Gerontology, and Historic Preservation and Conservation); and 05.0201 African-American/Black Studies, part of 05?Area, Ethnic, Culture, Gender, and Group Studies (along with German Studies and Tibetan Studies); and of course 50.0601 Film/Cinema/Video Studies.
James English makes some astonishing claims about degrees in these fields.
While they are not English majors, their intellectual formation is being guided more directly by English than by any other discipline, and to this extent they remain under the curricular umbrella of English studies. The numbers at issue are not large: about 7,500 students graduated from American universities with degrees in the relevant subfields of ?Area, Ethnic, Cultural, or Gender Studies? in 2008 and another in ?Film/Cinema Studies? subfield within visual and performing arts. But these figures are rising rapidly, having increased more than 25% over the last decade. They might be regarded as representing a small but nontrivial ?hidden? fraction of English degree students. (21)
If we start from the contrary assumption?that ?cinema studies, ethnic studies, women?s studies, culture studies, African American studies, and Asian American studies? exist because scholars and students weren?t satisfied with the guidance they were getting under the English umbrella, it?s less easy to deny their disciplinary identity. (50.0601 definitely thinks it is a discipline and not a wayward child of 23.0101; I?m just sayin?.) Moreover, if we look at the CIP?s within Area, Ethnic, Culture, or Gender Studies, we discover that James English?s overhasty generalization may lump together very different types of programs (African-American Studies likely has a joint appointment in the English Department, German Studies may not). Because I like English?s book overall, I don?t want to brand him a typically imperialist English professor. Can we just stipulate that the small but rapidly rising numbers are probably not best understood as ?hidden? English majors? ?Unless, of course, they get aggregated in that way, through the two-step that turns them into ?humanities? majors and then establishes English as the dominant discipline in that sector.
It?s more interesting, I think, to play with the granularity that IPEDS affords, which anyone can do with the handy dandy report generator here.
In 2010-11, your institution awarded the following numbers of ?1st major? BAs, out of a total of 6,511:
At my institution, the numbers were, out of 4,462:
Do these number describe the campus you inhabit? Mine make sense to me but they do provide a new perspective. History and English, which seem ginormous on the ground, don?t look that way in this comparative view. Visual and performing arts, which does not seem to be a coherent area at all on my campus, looks like a major one in the numbers. Some of the degrees there to do not look like ?the humanities? to me, but a great many of them do. This suggests that a major thread of development in the humanities may already be precisely where we think it should be: in engagement with the full range of culture industries.
The bottom line: it is a good thing we?ve been paying our taxes because IPEDS will help us describe the humanities differently (and let?s hope the Department of Education stays in business). But it will be necessary to dive into the data, rather than rely on the?Digest exclusively, and we have to figure out how disciplines like film were counted before they were counted, which may mean research at particular institutions.
Mark
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Source: http://humanitiesafterhollywood.org/?p=248
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The Texas Rangers flash the baddest badge in the Lone Star State. They're the top cops working the biggest crimes beneath iconic white cowboy hats. They're the bodyguards for the governor.
All of which raises the question: Why are they investigating a Twitter prank poking fun at a small-town city council?
Since at least August, members of the state's 150-man elite police force are getting to the bottom of who's behind parody Twitter accounts lampooning council members in what's arguably the law-and-order headquarters of Texas: Huntsville, home to the nation's busiest execution chamber.
The mock tweeters include one councilman's?mustache?publishing zingers that include, "(Councilman) Keith (Olson) likes to abuse his powers like I like to abuse his face." Another from the handle Laughable Loll cracked, "I shined my head extra special for tonight so the camera would reflect off of it."
Not laughing is the local prosecutor. He says the tweets may run afoul of harassment laws and asked the Rangers to investigate. That's an absurd explanation to one of the tweeters, who called it a waste of taxpayer dollars, and to constitutional experts who say the tweets are a cut-and-dry case of First Amendment rights.
"When I think of the Texas Rangers, I think of people who are committing felonies," said Katie Newman, who says she admitted to creating one of the fake accounts while being interviewed by a Ranger. "It would strike me as odd that a Texas Ranger would be involved in a parody account of council members in little Huntsville, Texas."
A spokesman for the Texas Rangers, in a brief statement responding to questions about why it would look into such tweets, said only that the Rangers work with district attorneys who request assistance.
"The amount of time spent on this inquiry is a matter of hours so far," spokesman Tom Vinger wrote in an email.
It doesn't even warrant that much time, according to some law experts.
David Anderson, a law professor and First Amendment expert at the University of Texas at Austin, said neither prosecutors nor the Rangers have "any business" investigating tweets if the content is simply parody or satire. He said that even a tweet implying that a council member committed domestic abuse ? as one council member claims ? would be a libel matter taken up in a civil lawsuit, not in criminal court.
"It's ridiculous," Anderson said.
Few badges pack more lore than those of the Texas Rangers. They've followed the trail of Bonnie and Clyde, fought the Comanches when Texas still had its sovereignty and snuffed out smugglers during prohibition. Their Wild West legend has inspired characters from the masked "Lone Ranger" to Chuck Norris playing the karate-kicking "Walker, Texas Ranger."
Today, the Rangers have a lower profile as the state's lead criminal investigators. When polygamist leader Warren Jeffs built a massive compound for his followers in West Texas, the Rangers were the ones knocking on the doors in the middle of the night in a raid that produced widespread allegations of sexual abuse. A highly secretive "Ranger Recon" team patrols the border with the stated purpose of keeping drugs and cartel violence from Mexico at bay.
Walker County District Attorney David Weeks said asking the Rangers to investigate the tweets was appropriate.
"In looking at it, it's more the idea that you have someone totally uninvolved looking at an issue that may have political ramifications," Weeks said. "I try to err on the side of caution in those cases."
Twitter is swarming with the fake doppelgangers of celebrities and politicians. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel still has fewer followers than a well-known parody account that stopped tweeting a year ago, while Not Bill Walton exaggerates the eccentricities of the former basketball star to an audience of 125,000 followers. The tone of fake accounts range from gentle caricatures to the mean-spirited.
The mock accounts in Huntsville sprang up last year and most have only a few dozen followers. Newman, who unsuccessfully ran for a council seat last year, said a Ranger in August interviewed her for more than an hour at his office in Huntsville. She said the Ranger hinted at laws surrounding false impersonations but never cited any specific statute.
Newman said she felt kind of bullied into confessing to being behind one of the accounts.
"One of the things he said is, 'What if we have proof from a council member that you did their account?'" she said.
Newman said she hasn't heard from the Rangers since that meeting. She insisted she didn't know who is behind the other parodies.
"I personally think the Texas Rangers have bigger and better crimes to fight," she said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Nearly two dozen people who were enjoying a boat ride on what's billed as San Francisco Bay's only "floating wine tasting room" are OK after their vessel hit a shoal near Alcatraz Island and started sinking Friday night.
U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. j.g. Josh Dykman says the 45-foot Neptune hit the shoal around 8:42 p.m. and started taking on water after the impact left a 1-foot gash in the side of the boat.
The boat's captain tried to get it back to Pier 39, where the boat is docked, but the captain had difficulty navigating the vessel and it started sinking.
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There were no injuries. The damaged boat was towed to Sausalito Boat Works for repair.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -Italy veteran Andrea Pirlo scored one goal and created another as the Azzurri labored to a 3-1 win over Armenia in World Cup qualifying Friday.
Pirlo fired Italy ahead in the 11th minute from the penalty spot following Hrayr Mkoyan's handball. But Armenia leveled in the 28th through Shakhtar Donetsk's impressive Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Daniele De Rossi headed Italy back in front shortly after the hour mark before Pablo Osvaldo sealed the result with his third goal in as many qualifying matches.
"We suffered a bit with a few of their counterattacks and we had a couple of individual problems, but I'm happy," Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said. "I won't stop saying it, this is a particularly tricky group, we had a great game and played with a lot of character."
It is Italy's 33rd match without defeat in World Cup and European Championship qualifying matches.
Italy was without Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, who - although initially included in the starting lineup Thursday - had not recovered from flu in time. He was replaced by Juventus forward Sebastian Giovinco.
Italy started brightly and could have been ahead in the fifth minute but Armenia goalkeeper Roman Berezovsky did brilliantly at full stretch to keep out Pirlo's free kick, which seemed destined for the top right corner.
Riccardo Montolivo did well minutes later to carve out some space and cross in towards Claudio Marchisio but the ball was marginally too far away for the Juventus midfielder.
Italy was ahead shortly afterwards when it was awarded a penalty.
Domenico Criscito - back in the squad for the first time since being questioned over a match-fixing scandal - raced down the left flank before putting in a cross that Montolivo sidefooted straight at the goalkeeper. The rebound fell back to Montolivo, whose effort was blocked by Hrayr Mkoyan's arm.
Pirlo stepped up and sent Berezovsky the wrong way, firing low into the bottom left corner.
Armenia leveled almost immediately but Gianluigi Buffon did well to tip Aras Ozbiliz's free kick over the bar.
It was back on level terms when Mkhitaryan collected the ball near the halfway line, evaded Andrea Barzagli and raced away from Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci before firing into the bottom right corner.
The in-form Mkhitaryan is currently the leading scorer in the Ukrainian league, with 14 goals in 11 matches.
The Italy players were furious because they wanted the game to have been stopped just before Mkhitaryan got the ball because of a clash of heads between Armenia midfielder Davit Manoyan and Italy defender Christian Maggio.
"When two players clash heads, you have to stop the game. The referee didn't do that and that's why I protested," Prandelli said.
Armenia could have taken the lead seconds after halftime but Artur Edigaryan's fierce effort flew over the bar after a lucky deflection from Criscito.
It went even closer moments later when Giovinco turned in the area to carve out some space for himself but fired over.
Italy could have had a penalty when Karlen Mkrtchyan appeared to handle in the area but the referee waved play on.
Armenia almost took the lead when Mkhitaryan raced down the right flank and crossed towards an unmarked Yura Movsisyan whose volley was brilliantly saved by Buffon.
Italy restored its advantage shortly afterwards when De Rossi headed in Pirlo's cross off the underside of the crossbar.
Armenia battled hard for the equalizer and Movsisyan would have had an almost certain goal after a mistake by Bonucci but for a sliding, last-ditch tackle by Maggio.
Italy sealed the result when Osvaldo headed in De Rossi's free kick.
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Overnight on October 4-5, 2012, a mass of energetic particles from the atmosphere of the Sun were flung out into space, a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection. Three days later, the storm from the Sun stirred up the magnetic field around Earth and produced gorgeous displays of northern lights. NASA satellites track such storms from their origin to their crossing of interplanetary space to their arrival in the atmosphere of Earth.
Using the "day-night band" (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite acquired this view of the aurora borealis early on the morning of October 8, 2012. The northern lights stretch across Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces in the image, and are part of the auroral oval that expanded to middle latitudes because of a geomagnetic storm.
The DNB sensor detects dim light signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In the case of the image above, the sensor detected the visible light emissions as energetic particles rained down from Earth's magnetosphere and into the gases of the upper atmosphere. The images are similar to those collected by the Operational Linescan System flown on U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites for the past three decades.
Auroras typically occur when solar flares and coronal mass ejections?or even an active solar wind stream?disturb and distort the magnetosphere, the cocoon of space protected by Earth's magnetic field. The collision of solar particles and pressure into our planet's magnetosphere accelerates particles trapped in the space around Earth (such as in the radiation belts). Those particles are sent crashing down into Earth's upper atmosphere?at altitudes of 100 to 400 kilometers (60 to 250 miles)?where they excite oxygen and nitrogen molecules and release photons of light. The results are rays, sheets, and curtains of dancing light in the sky.
Auroras are a beautiful expression of the connection between Sun and Earth, but not all of the connections are benign. Auroras are connected to geomagnetic storms, which can distort radio communications (particularly high frequencies), disrupt electric power systems on the ground, and give slight but detectable doses of radiation to flight crews and passengers on high-latitude airplane flights and on spacecraft.
The advantage of images like those from VIIRS and DMSP is resolution, according to space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "You can see very fine detail in the aurora because of the low altitude and the high resolution of the camera," he said. Most aurora scientists prefer to use images from missions dedicated to aurora studies (such as Polar, IMAGE, and ground-based imagers), which can offer many more images of a storm (rather than one per orbit) and can allow researchers to calculate the energy moving through the atmosphere. There are no science satellites flying right now that provide such a view, though astronauts regularly photograph and film auroras from the International Space Station.
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The future will be much different than it is today, and if we were to fast forward 100-years, you wouldn?t believe what you see. Today, we have centurions living amongst us, those that were born around the turn of the century between 1905 in 1910. Imagine how life has changed since they?ve been alive. There was no Internet, we didn?t have cell phones, and there was such thing as a fax machine. When they were born the first automobiles were a novelty in their town. Only the rich could afford them.
The first airplane flew when they were only children. They saw the great flu, they saw World War I and II, they saw the first landing on the moon, and they had no idea there was still more, much more to come. Today, we sit here and look at all of the things that were created in the past 100 years, and that history is truly incredible. But it?s nothing compared to the future and next 100 years.
We will be able to send messages back in time; we will be able to send people to the other side of the planet in just over an hour. We will see private space flight, colonies on the moon and Mars. We will see the first electronic devices attached to the brain for communication. We will see the cure of cancer, and we will solve the longevity problem. If you can live for another 30 years, you may in fact live forever, or for however long you choose.
You will be able to download your brain into a computer as a backup, and the virtual reality living room and video gaming will be just as real, as real life. Everything will change, and there will even be peace in the world amongst all of humanity, all this will take place in the next hundred years. Imagine that.
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Remember Proton?s plans to develop an ?Islamic car? designed for Muslim motorists? We first heard of this back in 2007, where it was reported that Proton would be teaming up with a company in Iran to introduce cars that has features for Muslims.
It wasn?t really specified what a Muslim car meant at that time, but features such as a compass pointing to Mecca and dedicated space for a copy of the Koran was brought up. That plan was discontinued in 2010 when Proton pulled out.
We?re currently in South Korea to try out the new Kia Sorento facelift as well as the Kia Quoris and I saw this very interesting feature built into the Sorento?s full colour touch screen infotainment and navigation system. It actually had a Qibla compass, which you could activate by pressing the Qibla button. It did not work in our cars though, as the GPS map data was not installed.
Of course we don?t expect all Sorento facelifts to come with this feature. This particular model was probably for Middle East markets as the wing mirrors warning text was in Arabic. Dear Muslim readers, would you find this feature useful in your car? Share in the comments below.
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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011, photo, a customer places first class stamps on envelopes at a U.S. Post Office in San Jose, Calif. It'll cost another penny to mail a letter in 2013. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011, photo, a customer places first class stamps on envelopes at a U.S. Post Office in San Jose, Calif. It'll cost another penny to mail a letter in 2013. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? It'll cost another penny to mail a letter next year.
The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents.
It also will introduce a new global "forever" stamp, allowing customers to mail first-class letters anywhere in the world for one set price of $1.10. Currently, the prices vary depending on the international destination, with letters to Canada and Mexico costing 85 cents.
Under the law, the post office cannot raise stamp prices more than the rate of inflation, or 2.6 percent, unless it gets special permission. The post office, which expects to lose a record $15 billion this year, has asked Congress to give it new authority to raise prices by 5 cents, but lawmakers have failed to act.
The mail agency also will increase rates on its shipping services, such as priority mail, by an average of 4 percent.
The post office, which is struggling with debt and low cash flow, said the rate hikes were partly aimed at bringing in new revenue while maintaining its pricing advantage in the shipping business. Private companies such as UPS and FedEx, which offer similar shipping services, regularly adjust their prices.
The post office lost $5.1 billion in fiscal 2011, mostly due to a 5.8 percent decline in revenue for first-class mail. Financial results are expected to be even worse when final figures for fiscal 2012 are released next month. Earlier this year, it was forced to default on two payments due to the Treasury totaling $11.1 billion for future retiree health benefits because it lacked sufficient cash reserves.
While the Postal Service has said it will continue seeking ways to cut costs, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has made clear that the agency has little left it can do to bring in significant new revenue. After months of congressional delay, he said it's now up to lawmakers to pass a postal fix when they return to Washington after the November elections.
The latest rate increase, for instance, will make only a small dent in the Postal Service's losses, caused by the economic downturn, movement of mail to the Internet and a congressional requirement that the mail agency fund future retiree medical benefits years in advance. Earlier this year, the mail agency floated a proposal to Congress aimed at increasing stamp prices to 50 cents as a way to generate $1 billion in new revenue.
The Postal Service has also asked Congress to allow it reduce mail delivery from six to five days a week and reduce its annual $5 billion payment for the future retiree health benefits.
The current 45-cent rate for first-class mail in the U.S. has been in effect since January. Since 2006, the Postal Service has now increased the price of the stamp five times, from 39 cents to 46 cents.
Because stamps are now being issued as forever stamps, they will remain good for first-class postage. But buying new forever stamps will cost more when the prices go up.
While the price for the first ounce of a first-class letter will rise to 46 cents, the cost for each additional ounce will remain at the current 20 cents.
Other price increases:
?Postcards will go up one penny to 33 cents.
?Priority mail, small box, $5.80; medium box, $12.35; large box, $16.85.
?Priority mail, regular envelope, $5.60; legal envelope, $5.75; padded envelope, $5.95.
?Delivery confirmation will be free on packages, including priority mail and parcel post, rather than being an extra charge.
The Postal Service, an independent agency of government, does not receive tax money for its day-to-day operation but is subject to congressional control.
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October 8, 2012-The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) deployed IntelliLinkTM, its IP-based Interoperability solution from Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc., for the Republican National Convention.? IntelliLink is part of FHP?s Mobile Command Center, a customized bus that incorporates the latest technology for critical communications.? The Catalyst solution was used to increase the capacity of public safety wireless communications in the Convention area, thereby boosting efficiency and providing a margin of safety in the event of a crisis.? IntelliLink performed flawlessly as it routed push-to-talk voice traffic for State of Florida personnel from a transportable repeater site brought in for the convention back to the statewide radio system.? By using the transportable repeater site, local channels were available for other talk groups and additional capacity was available.? The Catalyst solution routes voice using Internet Protocol (IP) and FHP has configured the Mobile Command Center to use any of four different transports for routing the IP traffic to ensure that the messages get through.
Dispatchers in Tampa were able to communicate directly with State officers in Tampa through the Catalyst system.? These dispatchers were able to continue to use their Harris consoles for a variety of communications tasks and support the detail in Tampa as the Catalyst system brought the audio directly into the existing Harris consoles.? IntelliLink provides an intelligent interface into the Harris 800 MHz trunked radio system and manages the flow of the audio so that every syllable is accurately transmitted between dispatchers and field personnel.? Major Steven Williams, FHP?s Chief Technology Officer, noted, ?IntelliLink provides FHP with immense flexibility in responding to a variety of events.? Over the last eight years we have used it to ensure that our officers have the support they need to protect the public.?
The 2012 Republican National Convention was held in Tampa, FL from August 26 ? 30.? Law enforcement personnel arrived weeks before the actual event for coordination and planning.? The event was designated as a National Special Security Event by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.? Security and transportation plans for the convention and its events were developed by a partnership of local, state and federal law enforcement and public safety agencies.? Hurricane Isaac threatened to disrupt the convention as did a variety of protestors.? Tallahassee, Florida-based Williams Communications, Inc. installed the IntelliLink system and provides maintenance and technical support to FHP for it and other communications needs.
Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc. markets Radio Control over IP technology for the Land Mobile Radio Industry and is a force for change in the effort to bring Internet-derived technologies into mobile radio applications.?? Catalyst focuses on products that leverage standard Windows?-based computers to reduce cost and increase the efficiency of network operators and end users.? Catalyst?s extensive product line significantly enhances legacy dispatch communications systems by seamlessly bridging wireless and wireline communications networks for network-based interoperability.
IntelliLink? ?is a trademark of Catalyst Communications Technologies, Inc.
Contact Catalyst at info@catcomtec.com or (434) 582-6146 for additional information.
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A new OECD report on education in the world's top economies highlights the importance of higher education, which includes vocational schooling, during an economic downturn.
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently released its Education at a Glance 2012 report, which examines education in OECD and G20 countries (where the data was available). Here are the five most educated countries in the world.
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The key to understanding this year?s report is the 2009 - 2010 global recession: ?No group or country ? no matter how well-educated ? is totally immune from the effects of a worldwide economic downturn,? begins the Education at a Glance 2012 report, which notes that young people have borne the largest burden. Nearly 16 percent of people between the ages of 15 and 29 in OECD countries in 2010 were neither employed nor in some kind of education or training program.
The OECD research highlights the importance of higher education, which includes vocational schooling, during an economic downturn. People with more education were found to be able to keep or change jobs more easily; unemployment rates for those with higher education remained low during the economic crisis; and the earning gap between people with higher vs. lower levels of education grew wider during the recession.
Access to higher education is not equitable for all students, however, and creating opportunities for everyone is a challenge that all countries face, notes the report. For example, young people with at least one parent who has completed a higher education degree in OECD countries have nearly double the chances of attaining higher education opportunities, the report notes.
Another barrier is that students and families have taken on an increasingly large portion of education costs in OECD countries, which the report notes can lead to situations where individuals are burdened with debt that could prevent them from pursuing further education. ?These barriers may impede countries? own goals of increasing educational attainment in their populations,? the report notes.
COUNTRIES INCLUDED IN THE STUDY:
OECD countries:
Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Chile; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Korea; Luxembourg; Mexico; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States
Non-OECD G20 major economies:
Argentina; Brazil; China; India; Indonesia; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; South Africa
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A new economic reality triggers the return of a payment plan of yesteryear. NBC's Chris Clackum reports.
Many people used to think of layaway as that relic of the past that your grandmother used during the Great Depression.
But the weak economy and? an increasing interest in keeping down credit card debt has pushed the holiday savings plan back into the spotlight.
Retailers including Kmart, Wal-Mart and Toys R Us are offering special deals and discounts aimed at getting people to start using layaway early.
Experts say layaway can be a good way to get customers into stores early, for shoppers it can be cheaper than using a credit card. But others note that those shoppers may be better off just saving money on their own, if they have a savings account, and holding out for late-season discounts.
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Big retailers offering free pre-holiday layaway
Do you plan to use layaway this year?
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