Business Productivity Lead Our client, a leading ICT company in East Africa currently seeks to fill the above vacancy. Position Description and Objectives ??? The role is required to have had strong experience in Business Productivity solutions design and delivery. The role is expected to carry out number of pre-sales activities as part of the duties in helping structure the engagement. The role will play a vital role from the beginning of the lifecycle, in understanding the risks in the migration and planning of the deployment. ??? The lead must apply analysis skills and experience to provide detailed reliable solutions and estimates for service implementations. To be credible, he or she must have current and deep experience with Microsoft Exchange Server, Lync Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server and Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Security for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync, Office365, Azure platform, as well as a Strong understanding of competitive technologies and any other products relevant to perform the role effectively. Major Areas of Responsibility ??? Design and implement business productivity solutions ??? Deliver task assigned to the by project manager on time and efficiently ??? Provide technical HIGH level support for company?s customers in form of e-mail, phone call, on-site etc. ??? Assist team members to Install/configure Microsoft software products in line with your job description product line ??? Assist team members to Diagnose/Troubleshoot Microsoft Products in line with your job description ??? Provide information/consultation for the customer about solution and? products in line with your job description product line ??? Account Management to clients in line of your job description and product line ??? Prepare all the necessary documentation required in a project handled. ??? Evaluate new products and Solutions in line with JD ??? Provide on-job-training for new workers in your line. ??? Demonstrated excellence at presenting complex technical topics to both executive and technical personnel ??? Ensure all certifications required by self and by team members are kept up to date.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience (Essential): ??? Minimum of 4 years of solid technical experience in delivering solutions (not just planning or establishing enterprise architecture) for the following solutions:- Collaboration and Portal Solutions; Unified Communication Solutions; Messaging Solutions and General IT Infrastructure experience. ??? Candidates must have been in a lead technical role for helping to architect and implement solutions with >250 seats or similar complexity. ??? Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience. Higher relevant education preferred. ??? Have one or more of the following certifications; MCTS- , MCAD.NET, MCSD.NET.
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The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Ltd (APPEA)?is calling for nominations to fill eight vacancies on the APPEA Board.
Pursuant to APPEA?s Constitution, Directors are required to retire every two years on a rotational basis and may stand for re-election at that time.
In addition, Directors must also retire and may stand for re-election if they were appointed to fill a casual vacancy during the year.
This year, eight vacancies have arisen from the 16 member board. These vacancies will be filled by nomination and by election if required, with the results to be announced at the Annual General Meeting of APPEA on 29 November in Perth.
Retiring Directors are:
Antonio Baldassarre, Managing Director, Eni Australia
Colin Beckett, General Manager Greater Gorgon Area, Chevron Australia
Mike Sangster, Managing Director, Total E&P Australia
Mike Kelly, Country Manager, BHP Billiton Petroleum
Rob Cole, Executive Director ? Corporate and Commercial, Woodside Energy Ltd
Bruce Lake, Managing Director, Vermillion Oil & Gas Ltd
Grant King, Managing Director, Origin Energy
Warren Ford, Deputy Managing Director and Director of Projects, Apache Energy Ltd.
The role of the APPEA Board is to operate at the highest level of policy and Government relations and to set and steer the overall strategic direction of the Association.
Nominees are therefore expected to hold the most senior position within the nominating company and at least the equivalent of the CEO of the oil and gas exploration and production business where the company has multiple businesses.
Being active makes a person healthy and strong. It is not just for people who have a weight problem but for everyone who likes to stay fit.
There is a lot a person can do such jog or walk every morning, play basketball or any other sport with friends but if a person wants to have muscles and look lean, then one can sign up and workout in a gym.
People workout for 3 reasons;
The first is that the person is overweight and the only way to lose those extra pounds will be to reduce ones calorie intake and at the same time workout in the gym.
The second is that the person is underweight and the only way to add extra pounds is to have more calories in ones diet and workout.
The third is just for fun and to keep that person in shape.
The best exercise plan should have cardiovascular and weight training exercises. This helps burn calories and increase the muscle to fat ratio that will increase ones metabolism and gain or lose weight.
Just like taking any medicine, one should first consult the doctor before undergoing any form of exercise.
Here are some benefits of exercising;
1. It is the easiest way to maintain and improve ones health from a variety of diseases and premature death.
2. Studies have shown that it makes a person feels happier and increases ones self esteem preventing one from falling into depression or anxiety.
3. An active lifestyle makes a person live longer than a person who doesn?t.
Working out for someone who has not done it before should be done gradually. Endurance will not be built in a day and doing it repeatedly will surely be beneficial to the person.
It is advisable to workout regularly with a reasonable diet.
A person can consult with a dietitian or a health professional to really help plan a good diet program. It starts by evaluating the lifestyle and the health of the patient before any program can be made.
Afterwards, this is thoroughly discussed and recommended to the person which usually consists of an eating plan and an exercise program that does not require the use of supplements or one to purchase any expensive fitness equipment.
A good diet should have food from all the food groups.
This is made up by 2 things. The first is carbohydrates. The food that a person consumes should have vitamins, minerals and fiber. A lot of this can come from oats, rice, potatoes and cereals. The best still come from vegetables and fruits since these have phytochemicals, enzymes and micronutrients that are essential for a healthy diet.
The second is fat which can come from mono and poly saturated food sources rather than animal fats. Since fat contains more than double the number of calories in food, this should be taken in small quantities to gain or lose weight.
Another way to stay healthy is to give up some vices. Most people smoke and drink. Smoking has been proven to cause lung cancer and other diseases as well complications for women giving birth. Excessive drinking has also shown to do the same.
For people who don?t smoke, it is best to stay away from people who do since studies have shown that nonsmokers are also at risk of developing cancer due to secondary smoke inhalation.
John Seeley is free lance writer Who writes about health, the environment and development, issues he cares deeply about. For specific tips, old and new, to help women and men meet the current perception of our societal definition of beauty and masculinity. Visit http://www.GetHealthyBody.com
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Everyone needs to build his/her own house after getting married and earning incomes. Therefore, home construction always happens everywhere because all people want to stay at their home comfortably. Well, if you also plan to build a new house, you need to consider many things first because its construction is started. Make sure that you notice some important tips below:
Create your own concept
Before building a new house, you need to decide your upcoming house?s concept first in order to make you satisfied after its construction is finished. You have to consider many things when you create your own concept, such as: material, size and design. As a suggestion, you might need to hire service from home designer to get satisfying home design result.
Buy the best and most durable material
It might be the first time you build your own house that means you don?t have any experience in choosing material. In this case, you have to find reputable stores that provide the best and most durable material. You can ask your friends if you get difficulties in finding the right store.
Hire reliable home constructors
This way is a must if you want to build a new house. Hire reliable home builders and then you can get your dream house. By the way, you should know that reliable home builders usually use rig mats when they want to do work stoppages because of rain, hurricanes, and bad storms. You don?t need to worry about getting bad result in your home construction process anymore.
Start to buy furniture and electronic products to be put
You need to start buying new furniture and electronic products before your home construction is finished. Thus, you can choose to buy the most important items first because your money might be limited after building new home. Buying furniture like sofa and table, or electronic products like television and refrigerator must be prioritized.
After you know about four main tips in building a new house, you can sit peacefully while waiting for your home construction finished. Then, you can feel comfortable to stay inside with your family after you build your dream house by following the above tips.
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Dreama Walker and Krysten Ritter in Don't Trust the B___ in Apt. 23
Photograph by Danny Feld/ABC.
Nothing on TV epitomized the social disruptions of the 1970s like The Odd Couple: Two divorced guys move in together (breakdown of the family), date lots of airline stewardesses (the sexual revolution), and fret about their mopey teenage kids (the generation gap). In 40 years? time, any of our spaceship-riding descendants who want to understand our current era should watch Don?t Trust the B___ in Apartment 23 (ABC, Tuesdays at 9:30 ET). The deliciously depraved sitcom, which returns for its second season tonight, reminds viewers that these days a working stiff can?t catch a break: In a world of unpaid internships and crummy coffee-shop jobs, the only way to make it is to scam, cheat, and lie. Better (and more achievable) than career satisfaction: Hanging out with the cool kids.
Those cool kids can be awfully mean, though. Anyone who signs up to be roommates with the mini-skirted menace of the show?s title will discover that Chloe (Krysten Ritter) will steal from her, screw her fianc? on her birthday cake, set her up with a guy without mentioning that he?s her married dad, and generally make life an amazing roller-coaster ride to hell. All those things have happened to June Colburn (Dreama Walker), Chloe?s latest flatmate, a wholesome Midwesterner who moved to New York for a great job on Wall Street on the very day that the company was closed down for bilking its investors. Soon, June found herself a victim of Chloe?s roommate scam: She charms newcomers by boasting about her close personal friendship with Dawson?s Creek alum James Van Der Beek (they used to date, but they weren?t compatible, ?genitally speaking?imagine trying to fit a cucumber into a coin purse?), takes their first and last, sells their possessions, and drives them screaming back to the sticks.
But June scammed the scammer, earning Chloe?s grudging respect. In fact, Chloe likes June so much that she she?s taken her under her wing as a prot?g?e. June is still handing out r?sum?s after working extra shifts at It?s Just Beans. But thanks to nights spent in VIP rooms, at vodka launches, and visiting the Beek on the set of Dancing With the Stars, she?s gradually wising up.
Chloe is a Holly Golightly for the modern era. She isn?t ashamed of the sex tape she made with Van Der Beek back when they were dating??That video of me being rammed by my best friend means the world to me,? she tells June?and she loves being the subject of a series of comic books called Tall Girl, No Panties. She enjoys casual sex, she?s comfortable with her body (Chloe?s naked breakfasts make lots of work for the guy who works ABC?s pixelator), and she turns life into a nonstop, hangover-inducing party. ?Why do you like Chloe so much?? June asks Robin, an earlier victim of the roommate scam who now lives down the hall and is obsessed with Chloe. Robin is blunt: ?She?s pale, popular. She?s got 4 percent body fat ? If I could have one friend like her, everything would be good.?
Chloe really can?t be trusted, though. She has the morals of a pirate, and a bully?s enjoyment of other people?s misery?she?s the kind of person who takes marbles to a runway show just to watch the models fall. (?They?re like giraffes collapsing in the jungle.?) When June decides to sell homemade preserves to pay the rent?a page right out of the 2 Broke Girls? cupcake-making playbook?Chloe secretly turns the process into June?s Jammin? Jams, a fetish video and website, because she knows ?perverts would pay a lot of money to watch us make it.? Sure, the hidden cameras were an invasion of June?s privacy, but Chloe?s right: These days only a fool builds anything more concrete than a website.
Apartment 23?s creator Nahnatchka Khan spent six seasons as a writer and executive producer on the Seth MacFarlane comedy American Dad!, and her animation roots are visible in Don?t Trust the B___.* It?s an odd mix of the hyperreal?especially June?s worries about her stalled career?and surreal. There?s a pervy neighbor who talks to them through the window, characters are constantly interrupting each other?s interior monologues, and the same kind of amnesia that allows the cartoon universe to give a schoolboy a pet elephant liberates Chloe from the tyranny of consequences. A show that stuck to the rules of logic and credibility couldn?t pull off a storyline from Season 1 in which Chloe claimed that she and June were a lesbian couple so that she could get a foster child to act as her personal assistant during her ?busy season? as a nightlife guide during the U.N. General Assembly.
Huffington Post TV critic Maureen Ryan recently suggested that Apartment 23 would work better as an animated show, since ?most of the characters are written as loud, one-dimensional types.? Of course, it isn?t the only TV sitcom to veer into cartoon territory?as I wrote back in March, Fox?s Raising Hope is in many ways a live-action version of The Simpsons?and while I agree with Ryan that Chloe?s ?occasional forays into human compassion seem forced and out of step with every other way she's characterized,? I find the tonal variation refreshing. It?s rare that TV characters can genuinely surprise jaded viewers, but Chloe?s depravity shocks me at least once an episode. And without at least one foot in the real world, James Van Der Beek?s self-satirizing portrayal of preening B-list star James Van Der Beek would land with a thud.
If there?s one built-in limitation to Apartment 23, it?s that Chloe?per the title?must always remain a bitch. But in our kleptocratic, recessionary age, what else could she be?
Correction, Oct. 23, 2012: This piece originally misspelled Nahnatchka Khan?s last name. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Apple Inc.'s pencil-thin, smaller iPad will cost much more than its competitors, signaling that the company isn't going to get into a mini-tablet price war.
The company unveiled the iPad Mini on Tuesday, with a screen about two-thirds the size of the full model, and half the weight. Customers can begin ordering the new model on Friday. In a surprise, Apple also revamped its flagship, full-sized iPad just six months after the launch of the latest model.
Apple's late founder Steve Jobs once ridiculed a small tablet from a competitor as a "tweener" that was too big and too small to compete with either smartphones or tablets. Now Apple's own Mini enters a growing small-tablet market dominated by Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire.
Apple is charging $329 and up for the Mini - a price that fits into the Apple product lineup between the latest iPod Touch ($299) and the iPad 2 ($399). Company watchers had been expecting Apple to price the iPad Mini at $250 to $300 to compete with the Kindle Fire, which starts at $159. Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook HD and Google Inc.'s Nexus 7 both start at $199.
"Apple had an opportunity to step on the throat of Amazon and Google, yet decided to rely on its brand and focus on (profit) margin," said Bill Kreher, an analyst with brokerage Edward Jones.
Apple shares fell $20.67, or 3.3 percent, to close at $613.36 after the price was announced. Shares of Barnes & Noble jumped 88 cents, or 6.1 percent, to $15.32. Shares of Amazon rose 53 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $234.31.
Apple has sold more than 100 million iPads since their debut in April 2010. Analysts expect Apple to sell 5 million to 10 million iPad Minis before the year is out.
Apple starts taking orders for the new model on Friday. The iPad Mini will be competing for the attention of gadget shoppers with the release that same day of computers and tablets running Windows 8, Microsoft's new operating system.
Wi-Fi-only models will ship on Nov. 2. Later, the company will add models capable of accessing cellular, LTE data networks.
The screen of the iPad Mini is 7.9 inches on the diagonal, making it larger than the 7-inch screens of the competitors. It also sports two cameras, on the front and on the back, which the competitors don't.
The iPad Mini is as thin as a pencil and weighs 0.68 pounds, half as much as the full-size iPad with its 9.7-inch screen.
The screen resolution is 1024 by 768 pixels, the same as the iPad 2 and a quarter of the resolution of the flagship iPad, which starts at $499.
The new model has better apps and is easier to use than competitors such as Google's Nexus, said Avi Greengart, a consumer electronics analyst with Current Analysis.
"This really is not in the same category as some of the other 7-inch tablets," he said. "And that's before you consider that it has a premium design - it's made of metal that's extremely lightweight."
Jobs attacked the whole idea of smaller tablets in his last appearance on a conference call with analysts in October 2010.
"The reason we wouldn't make a 7-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point. It's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a 7-inch screen," Jobs said. "The 7-inch tablets are tweeners, too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad."
Job's chief objection was that a smaller screen would make it hard to hit buttons on the screen with the fingers - never mind that Apple's iPhone, with an even smaller screen, was already a hit at the time.
Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue started working on changing Jobs' mind. In an email sent to other Apple managers in January 2011, Cue said the CEO had started warming to the idea of a smaller tablet. The email surfaced as part of Apple's patent trial against Samsung Electronics Co. this year. Jobs died last October.
Company watchers have been expecting the iPad Mini for a year and most of the details, except the price, had leaked out.
Apple also said it's upgrading its full-size iPad, doubling the speed of the processor. Previously, the company has updated the iPad once a year.
The fourth-generation iPad will have a better camera and work on more LTE wireless data networks around the world. Apple is also replacing the 30-pin dock connector with the new, smaller Lightning connector introduced with the iPhone 5 a month ago.
The price of the new full-size model stays the same as the previous version, starting at $499 for a Wi-Fi-only version with 16 gigabytes of memory.
Apple also introduced a 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop with a Retina display sporting four times the resolution of the older model.
The new model, which follows a 15-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display introduced in June, goes on sale Tuesday for $1,699.
The old MacBook Pro will still be sold, starting at $1,199.
The new model dispenses with an optical disc drive and a traditional hard drive. Instead, it uses solid-state flash memory. This makes it 20 percent thinner and at 3.75 pounds, nearly a pound lighter than the previous model.
Apple also eliminated the optical drive from its new iMac desktop computer, helping slim the edges down to 5 millimeters, one-fifth the thickness of the old model. That makes the edges thinner than most stand-alone computer monitors. It bulges in middle of the back, however.
An iMac model with a 21.5-inch screen will start shipping in November for $1,299 and up. A 27-inch version will start at $1,799.
Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Conde Nast Traveler.
Last month, the New York City Board of Health approved Mayor Michael Bloomberg?s ban on the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces at restaurants and concession stands. Since its proposal in May, the restriction has been met with a PR campaign and a lawsuit by the American Beverage Association, head-shaking by a skeptical citizenry, and mocking glee by newspaper headline writers and Jon Stewart, who on his show said, ?I think people look at this and say, ?Well, that?s just silly.? ?
Silly or not, the Board of Health voted 8-0 for the limited ban. The lone abstention, Dr. Sixto Caro, told the Associated Press he believes that to fight obesity the plan ?is not comprehensive enough.?
Caro is wrong. The soda plan is perfectly incomprehensive. It?s so incomprehensive, it just might work. The array of similarly modest measures stitched together by Bloomberg over the last decade may represent the first new and effective government strategy of pursuing social justice in a generation.?
For much of the 20th century, mayors ruled New York through audacious, sweeping measures. In the long wake of the New Deal, every mayor following Fiorello La Guardia inherited a mantle of urban renewal, the mandate to lift the poor and harmonize society?s economic and racial factions through immense infrastructure projects and dramatic growth in city services. La Guardia midwifed the radical idea that the city was responsible for its neediest citizens, and his successors, one by one, all stood for it and, because the dream was too big, ultimately failed.
No failure was more disappointing than that of John Lindsay, who entered office as a warm-hearted savior with matinee-idol looks. ?New York is ill beyond belief,? Norman Mailer wrote in his endorsement of Lindsay in 1965. ?I think he?s a great guy, and it would be a miracle [if] this town had a man for mayor who was okay.? Yet Lindsay?s two terms would be marked by nearly ceaseless strife: major transit and sanitation strikes, increased racial tension, looming deficits. The conflict between families trying to make their own way and a system intent to carry everyone into a world of tomorrow had sharpened to a dangerous point. The city was rapidly losing its taste for grand ambition.
The darkest of New York?s days came once Lindsay left office, in the four-year pit presided over by the hapless Abe Beame, when the city came within mere hours of bankruptcy, and looting and arson in the ?77 blackout burned parts of Brooklyn nearly off the map.
The only way to go, in hindsight, was up?thanks in large part to the rise of Wall Street, which paid, directly and indirectly, for much of the city?s resurgence. Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Rudy Giuliani finished out the 20th century as the first caretaker mayors of a post-industrial New York, each attempting to build a city hall independent of party machines, power brokers, and ceaseless patronage (with varying success). That they proved the city was even capable of being managed?hardly a credible idea for decades?cemented their place in history. No surprise that social programs were de-emphasized in these years; there were more pressing things to worry about. At least Koch worked to functionalize and clean up existing anti-poverty programs. Under Giuliani, welfare caseloads declined more than 50 percent and food-stamp enrollment dropped off precipitously. La Guardia?s New York was by now little more than a faint memory.
No one would have blinked in 2002 if the city and its new mayor had continued this steady sloughing of the social safety net. Indeed, Bloomberg retained many of Giuliani?s work-requirement welfare reforms. He could also have done nothing, resting on his first-term laurels as a master of the budget, having headed off a post-Sept. 11 deficit crisis. But what the Bloomberg administration did instead was formulate, within the constraints of its era, a new way to address the effects of unequal living?and in terms of the most pressing issue of today: health care.
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Contact: Diane Swanbrow swanbrow@umich.edu 734-647-9069 University of Michigan
How many Gen Xers know their cosmic address?
ANN ARBORLess than half of Generation X adults can identify our home in the universe, a spiral galaxy, according to a University of Michigan report.
"Knowing your cosmic address is not a necessary job skill, but it is an important part of human knowledge about our universe andto some extentabout ourselves," said Jon D. Miller, author of "The Generation X Report" and director of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation since 1986, now includes responses from approximately 4,000 adults ages 37-40the core of Generation X.
The latest report examines the scientific literacy of Gen Xers about their location in the universe. Miller provided Generation X participants in the study with high-quality image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble space telescope, and asked them to identify the image, first in an open-ended response and then by selecting from multiple choices.
Forty-three percent of the Gen Xers surveyed were able to provide a correct answer that indicated that they recognized the object as a galaxy similar to our own. Miller found that 53 percent of males correctly identified the image, compared with just 32 percent of females, and that the proportion who identified the image correctly rose steadily with education, from 21 percent who had less than a high school education to 63 percent of those with doctorates or professional degrees.
"One of the factors that contributes to this educational difference is exposure to college-level science courses," Miller said. "The United States is unique in its requirement that all college students complete one year of college science courses as part of a general education requirement.
"And because these courses are often taken during the first or second year of college, students who enter college but do not earn a degree are still exposed to college science and other general education courses."
Miller also found that more than 60 percent of those surveyed said that this was the first time they had looked carefully at an image from a space telescope, even though four out of five reported that they had seen this kind of image before, often on the Internet.
"One of the important results of the growth of the Internet and the expansion of communication devices is that it is easier today to find high-quality science information than at any previous time in human history," Miller said. "But some of the science information on the Internet is incorrect or misleading, so we asked our survey participants to indicate what sources they would trust for information about the universe."
The most trusted sources were information on a website operated by NASA, a program or exhibit in a planetarium or museum, a Public Broadcasting System Nova or Discovery Channel science show, and a lecture by an astronomy professor. The least trusted source of information was a lecture by a leader of a church or religious group.
Miller also examined the link between knowledge about the universe, as indicated by correctly identifying the Hubble image as a spiral galaxy much like our own, and a variety of personal and policy attitudes. Gen Xers who recognized the image were more likely than those who did not to agree that "When I see images like this, I am reminded of the vastness of the universe" (70 percent vs. 53 percent) and "Images like this show how small and fragile planet Earth is in the context of the universe" (58 percent vs. 44 percent).
They were also more likely to agree that "Seeing images like this make me want to learn more about the nature of the universe" (27 percent vs. 19 percent) and "It is very likely that there is intelligent life at many places in the universe" (39 percent vs. 26 percent).
But they were less likely to agree that "The size and complexity of the universe proves the greatness of God's creation" (45 percent vs. 51 percent).
"Unlike our distant ancestors who thought the earth was the center of the universe, we know that we live on a small planet in a heliosphere surrounding a moderate-sized star that is part of a spiral galaxy," Miller said. "There may be important advantages in the short-termthe next million years or soto knowing where we are and something about our cosmic neighborhood."
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The Generation X reportPublic release date: 23-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Diane Swanbrow swanbrow@umich.edu 734-647-9069 University of Michigan
How many Gen Xers know their cosmic address?
ANN ARBORLess than half of Generation X adults can identify our home in the universe, a spiral galaxy, according to a University of Michigan report.
"Knowing your cosmic address is not a necessary job skill, but it is an important part of human knowledge about our universe andto some extentabout ourselves," said Jon D. Miller, author of "The Generation X Report" and director of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation since 1986, now includes responses from approximately 4,000 adults ages 37-40the core of Generation X.
The latest report examines the scientific literacy of Gen Xers about their location in the universe. Miller provided Generation X participants in the study with high-quality image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble space telescope, and asked them to identify the image, first in an open-ended response and then by selecting from multiple choices.
Forty-three percent of the Gen Xers surveyed were able to provide a correct answer that indicated that they recognized the object as a galaxy similar to our own. Miller found that 53 percent of males correctly identified the image, compared with just 32 percent of females, and that the proportion who identified the image correctly rose steadily with education, from 21 percent who had less than a high school education to 63 percent of those with doctorates or professional degrees.
"One of the factors that contributes to this educational difference is exposure to college-level science courses," Miller said. "The United States is unique in its requirement that all college students complete one year of college science courses as part of a general education requirement.
"And because these courses are often taken during the first or second year of college, students who enter college but do not earn a degree are still exposed to college science and other general education courses."
Miller also found that more than 60 percent of those surveyed said that this was the first time they had looked carefully at an image from a space telescope, even though four out of five reported that they had seen this kind of image before, often on the Internet.
"One of the important results of the growth of the Internet and the expansion of communication devices is that it is easier today to find high-quality science information than at any previous time in human history," Miller said. "But some of the science information on the Internet is incorrect or misleading, so we asked our survey participants to indicate what sources they would trust for information about the universe."
The most trusted sources were information on a website operated by NASA, a program or exhibit in a planetarium or museum, a Public Broadcasting System Nova or Discovery Channel science show, and a lecture by an astronomy professor. The least trusted source of information was a lecture by a leader of a church or religious group.
Miller also examined the link between knowledge about the universe, as indicated by correctly identifying the Hubble image as a spiral galaxy much like our own, and a variety of personal and policy attitudes. Gen Xers who recognized the image were more likely than those who did not to agree that "When I see images like this, I am reminded of the vastness of the universe" (70 percent vs. 53 percent) and "Images like this show how small and fragile planet Earth is in the context of the universe" (58 percent vs. 44 percent).
They were also more likely to agree that "Seeing images like this make me want to learn more about the nature of the universe" (27 percent vs. 19 percent) and "It is very likely that there is intelligent life at many places in the universe" (39 percent vs. 26 percent).
But they were less likely to agree that "The size and complexity of the universe proves the greatness of God's creation" (45 percent vs. 51 percent).
"Unlike our distant ancestors who thought the earth was the center of the universe, we know that we live on a small planet in a heliosphere surrounding a moderate-sized star that is part of a spiral galaxy," Miller said. "There may be important advantages in the short-termthe next million years or soto knowing where we are and something about our cosmic neighborhood."
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ? George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He was a dedicated, decent man, a devoted Democrat even when the party establishment turned away from him in defeat.
He wasn't good at political gamesmanship. He suffered his worst blunders when he strayed from straight talk in his doomed 1972 presidential campaign. It didn't fit the man and it shook the credibility he treasured.
McGovern was a partisan without the poison that increasingly infected American politics. In his career-long quest for programs to feed the hungry, in the U.S. and worldwide, he worked in partnership with Bob Dole, former Republican leader of the Senate where they'd both served.
During his years of political retirement ? he lost his South Dakota Senate seat in 1980 ? McGovern remained active, lecturing, teaching and writing. He even waged a token presidential campaign in 1984. He'd also run briefly for the 1968 nomination after the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
In his 2011 book, "What It Means to Be a Democrat" he summed up his credo:
"Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ..."
That was the essence of his program during four terms in the House, three in the Senate, and a doomed and crushed presidential campaign in 1972. By the time he was nominated for the White House, McGovern had been marginalized by rivals in his own party, who argued that he was too far left to be elected. That probably was so, but President Richard M. Nixon was the overwhelming favorite against any Democratic challenger.
McGovern got just 37 percent of the vote to Nixon's 61, carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Embittered, he considered whether to even stay in politics, especially as other Democrats made him a symbol of what ailed them and kept him off their stages. McGovernite became a label for losers. But he went back to the Senate, and within months he could joke ruefully about his landslide loss.
"I opened the doors of the Democratic Party and 20 million people walked out," McGovern later joked of his reform commission, which had broadened the nominating process, driven out the old party bosses and ultimately made the presidential primaries the arenas for choosing nominees of both parties.
There was nothing strident about McGovern; even when his words were harsh, his delivery tended to be bland. As a young man, he had been a warrior, and a heroic one. As a senator, he opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam from the beginning, in 1963. Arguing in 1970 for legislation to cut U.S. war spending and force troop withdrawal, he offended his colleagues by telling them, "This chamber reeks of blood," vehement words delivered in the matter-of-fact McGovern style. His 1972 presidential campaign proposals included withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for draft evaders and steep cuts in the Pentagon budget.
For a time, he also advocated a $1,000 tax grant to every American to replace complex welfare and income support programs, saying the needy could spend it and the wealthy would pay it back in taxes. It came with no numbers, no estimate of the cost, although McGovern claimed, against arithmetic and logic, that it would balance out at zero. He dropped that idea, but the Republicans never did.
That spoke to one of his chronic political problems. He was an idea man, not a manager. Witness the uncontrolled chaos of his nominating convention, dramatized when assorted Democratic interest groups spent so much time talking that McGovern did not get to deliver his own acceptance speech until 2:48 a.m., long after the TV audience had gone to bed.
But one of his best-remembered, and most unfortunate, lines came later ? after his unvetted selection of Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate turned into a political disaster with the disclosure that Eagleton twice had undergone electric shock therapy for depression. McGovern said he was "1,000 percent" for Eagleton and wasn't dropping him from the ticket. But he had to. Then he had to shop for a running mate, with five Democrats declining before Sargent Shriver finally said yes.
So if there'd been any doubt about his outcome against Nixon, it was erased before the fall campaign even began. McGovern was frustrated because Nixon stayed at the White House and seldom campaigned at all. McGovern called him the most corrupt president in American history, as The Washington Post published a succession of Watergate disclosures. Nixon just denied it all.
The political pain would ease. More devastating was the death in 1994 of his daughter, Teresa, who had suffered mental illness and alcoholism, and froze to death in a snowbank near a bar where she'd been drinking in Madison, Wis. "You never get over it, I'm sure of that," he said. "You get so you can live with it, that's all." McGovern and his wife Eleanor, who died in 2007, had four daughters and one son.
McGovern wrote a book, "Terry," about his daughter's life struggle, the family impact and his own worry that his political preoccupations had somehow contributed to her troubles. He used the proceeds to open the Teresa McGovern Center in Madison to help others afflicted by addictions.
As a candidate, McGovern had to fend off conservative claims that he was weak on national defense, a naive peacenik ? that he had, according to the far right, shirked combat, which was a lie. He was a decorated World War II pilot with 35 combat missions in B-24 bombers.
It could have been a campaign asset, but he talked little about it. He did in a Labor Day speech: "I still remember the day when we were hit so hard over Germany that we were all ready to bail out. So I gave this order to the crew: 'Resume your stations. We're going to bring this plane home.' I say to you and to people everywhere who share our cause: 'Resume your stations. We're going to bring America home.'"
That last line became the standard closing of his campaign speech. But he didn't repeat the details of the mission that won him the Distinguished Flying Cross for safely landing his crippled B-24. Perhaps he should have said more about his service, he said later, "but I always felt kind of foolish talking about my war record ? what a hero I was."
That he did not was typical George McGovern.
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bombs killed at least eight people and wounded 38 more in a busy market in Baghdad's Kadhimiya District on Saturday, police and hospital sources said, breaking weeks of relative calm.
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The blasts hit the Iraqi capital ahead of next week's Islamic Eid al-Adha festival, a period when security officials believe al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliates and other Sunni Islamist insurgents may attempt a major attack.
Police said the bombs blew up inside a busy public market and most of the victims were women and children.
"We heard a loud explosion so we ran to see what happened ... there was big mess near the explosion scene, clothes, toes, food and bodies were everywhere," said a policeman at the scene.
"Many wounded people were shouting and looking for their relatives."
The monthly death toll from militant attacks across Iraq doubled in September to 365, the highest figure for more than two years, with most of them killed in bomb attacks, according to government figures released this month.
The insurgents have launched one major assault a month since U.S. troops withdrew in December.
Iraq was caught up in sectarian slaughter soon after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Though now far off the peak of 2006-2007, violence has remained frequent since the last American troops left as political tensions among Iraq's main Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions simmer.
(Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Suadad al-Salhy; Editing by Patrick Markey and Sophie Hares)
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(Moscow, October 20, 2012) ? The Russian authorities should stop the impending forced eviction of a Sochi family to make way for road construction ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, Human Rights Watch said today. The International Olympic Committee?(IOC) should urgently review the case and insist that the Russian authorities provide the family with fair compensation.
As a result of the often chaotic transition from the Soviet communal land era, many homeowners in Sochi do not have clear title to their property. For years, however, the authorities have treated the homes and individuals? use of them as legal. With this and other cases as examples, the IOC should investigate whether local authorities are suing homeowners for constructing homes unlawfully to avoid the regular processes for compensating property owners evicted for construction of Olympic venues and infrastructure.
Aleksei Kravets, 39, has been living in a three-story home he built himself in Sochi on the shore of the Black Sea for nine years, together with his thirteen-year-old son. The Sochi authorities claim that Kravets has no right to compensation for the house and are threatening to evict the family and demolish the home in the coming days. Guards on the road construction site have threatened Kravets with beatings and destruction of his property.
?This family has the right to compensation, and shouldn?t be evicted until it?s been provided,? said Jane Buchanan, senior researcher on Europe and Central Asia for Human Rights Watch. ?Olympic construction is again being used as an excuse to evict a family and deprive them of their rightful home and compensation.?
On October 9, 2012, a subcontractor of Russian Railways, which is building the road, erected a 2.5-meter metal fence around the house. On October 15, a second fence was erected, this time with barbed wire along the top. Family members must crawl through a hole at the bottom of the fence or climb over the fence in order to leave the property to attend school or buy food or water.
Guards at the site, armed with mace, stun guns, and rubber truncheons, have threatened Kravets, saying they will ?bash him up? and start destroying the house. Kravets has filed two complaints with the local police regarding the threats and the fence, but has received no response. He told Human Rights Watch that he believes the fences and the threats are designed to intimidate him and force him to leave the property.
?The authorities have created an unbearable situation for the Kravets family, apparently to compel them to leave their home,? said Buchanan. ?Kravets and his son should not be forced to endure this harassment and indignity.?
Local authorities claim that the Kravets? home was built illegally and sued the family in May and October 2012, ultimately winning a court order to demolish the building. Aleksei Kravetstold Human Rights Watch he did not receive notification of the October legal proceedings. The court decision is subject to ?immediate execution.??
By failing to properly inform Kravets of the hearing and ordering swift execution of the court order, the court is failing to ensure Kravets? right to due process, including to appeal a decision affecting him, Human Rights Watch said.
In suing Kravets for constructing their house unlawfully, the local authorities are able to avoid the regular processes for compensating property owners evicted for Olympic construction. ?
An independent appraisal in 2011 valued Aleksei Kravets? 152 square-meter, three-story house located on the shore of the Black Sea at 13 million rubles (US$422,000).?
Prior to and during construction of the home, Aleksei Kravets filed multiple notifications with the authorities regarding the construction largely based on improvements to legal structures built on land leased to his father under an indefinite lease. The authorities twice issued the home a technical passport, in 2003 and 2010. He also twice tried, unsuccessfully, to privatize the property.
Prior to the establishment of the Olympic program, the authorities never insisted that the building was illegal or forced him to leave.?
?Despite ample opportunities, the Sochi authorities at no point suggested that Kravets should stop his efforts and considerable investment to improve the lawful buildings on the plot, which ultimately resulted in the house he lives in today,? Buchanan said. ?Now, with Olympic construction underway, the authorities suddenly decide to take advantage of an ambiguous legal situation and deprive the family of their rightful compensation. We?ve seen this same tactic in other recent forced evictions for Olympic construction in Sochi.?
The treatment of the Kravets family by the authorities and the courts violates Russia?s obligations under international human rights law, Human Rights Watch said. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, the Russian government is obliged to respect and protect the rights of all people from arbitrary interference in their home and family life. The failure to respect and protect those rights and ensure a fair process concerning the Kravets home is a violation of the European Convention.
Forced eviction ? or the coerced or involuntary displacement of individuals from homes or lands that they occupy or depend on ? without provision of and access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection as well as provision of reasonable compensation, is a serious violation of international law.
?Unfortunately, the Kravets? family is not the only one to experience this type of eviction without compensation,? Buchanan said. ?The International Olympic Committee has a crucial role in preventing any further situations like this. It should no longer simply sit by and watch as the local authorities trample the Olympic ideal of dignity by forcing people out of their homes without compensation and in an environment of threats and harassment.?
Background The Adler region of Sochi is the location of multiple large-scale construction projects for sports venues and related infrastructure for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Aleksei Kravets inherited from his parents a 13-square-meter dormitory room at 65 Prosevsheniya Street in the Adler section of Sochi. The room had no running water, toilet, bathroom, or kitchen. The room was given to the family by local authorities in 1963 under a long-term lease agreement and was located in a building that did not have central heating or a sewage system. The room came with a nearby plot of land, under indefinite term lease, designated for construction of additional necessary structures for the family?s needs, such as a toilet, kitchen, and storage shed. In 1993, Alexei?s father privatized the room.
Starting in 1997, Kravets sent numerous requests to the local authorities asking permission to improve the old structures ? including an outhouse ? on the land plot, but said he never received an answer to these requests. Kravets improved some of the structures on the plot, ultimately completing the home in 2003.
The authorities twice issued the house a technical passport, in 2003 and again in 2010. Kravets told Human Rights Watch that he had twice tried to privatize the house, in 2010 and in 2011, but that both of his requests were refused.
In 2011, a court assessment of the structures, requested by Kravets in accordance with Russian law, found the house and the other structures on the land were in compliance with construction norms and standards and did not constitute a threat to anyone?s life or safety and did not obstruct anyone?s enjoyment of their own property. Under Russian law (article 222 of the Civil Code), a court may recognize an individual?s right of ownership to an unauthorized construction (samovolnaya postroika) if the individual has the right of ownership to or lawful use of the land (through inheritance or indefinite lease) that the construction was built on, and so long as the construction does not violate the rights and interests of others and does not endanger anyone?s life or well-being.
Judiciary interpretations of the law by the Supreme Court of Russia and the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia further state that the absence of a construction permit for an unauthorized construction cannot in itself be a reason to deny recognition of a person?s right of ownership to the construction as long as there is proof that they tried to obtain the permit and providing that the construction does not violate the rights of others and does not present a threat to anyone?s life or health.
In May 2012, Kravets filed a request with a local court to recognize his right to ownership of the house. The court refused to recognize his property rights.?
Shortly thereafter, the Sochi administration sued the Kravets family for unlawful construction and won. The court order to demolish the house was not executed due to inconsistencies in the court order on demolition.
In July 2011, the Department of the Krasnodar Region for the Implementation of Authority in Preparation for the Winter Olympics 2014 seized the dormitory building at 65 Prosvesheniya Street for the purpose of Olympic construction. As compensation for the dorm room that the family had used since 1963 and had owned since 1993, the four members of the Kravets? family ? including Alexey, his former wife Nadezhda, and their two children, Kristina, 12, and Maxim, 13 ? were offered a studio apartment of 33.84 square meters under shared ownership in another part of Sochi.? Kravets has never lived in the apartment and his former wife maintains control over it.
The land plot, including the land occupied by the Kravets? house, was transferred to the state corporation Olympstroy, which is responsible for Olympic construction, for the purpose of building the combined auto and railroad ?Alpika-Service? from Adler to Krasnaya Polyana, the location of the mountain cluster of Olympic venues. The authorities have provided no compensation for the home.
SEOUL ?? Impoverished North Korea threatened on Friday to open fire on South Korea if it allows activists to go ahead with plans to drop anti-North leaflets on its territory, its most strident warning against its long-time foe in months.
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North Korea, which is still technically at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in merely a truce, often uses shrill rhetoric denouncing its rich, capitalist neighbor and threatening all-out war.
A looming presidential election in the South and plans to deploy longer-range missiles by the government in Seoul have angered the North and prompted an escalation of belligerent commentaries from Pyongyang.
"We had similar threats last year and they did not stop us before and this is not going to stop us this time," said Pak Sang-hak, a North Korean exile who defected to the South 12 years ago.
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He is the leader of a coalition of groups of North Korean exiles and human rights activists who plan to launch giant balloons containing 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea's government for the second year running.
Some of the leaflets, printed on plastic bags, will contain $1 bills. As well as the dollars, the bags themselves are said to be prized by North Koreans, many of whom often lack daily necessities.
South Korea's defense minister told parliament that its military would retaliate in the event of any attack.
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South Korea's military has come under pressure after it failed to detect a North Korean soldier walking across the world's most heavily armed border until he knocked on the doors of soldiers' barracks.
"If (a North Korean strike) were to happen, there would be a perfect response against the source of the attack," Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee.
North Korea shelled a South Korean island almost two years ago, causing civilian deaths. It was also widely blamed for sinking a South Korean navy ship, although it denied responsibility.
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North Korea said that if the leaflets were dropped on Monday, a "merciless military strike by the Western Front will be put into practice without warning", according to state news agency KCNA.
It said it would target a tourist area at the border city of Paju a few miles from the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries, the most specific threat in months.
"The KPA (Korean People's Army) never makes any empty talk," KCNA quoted military commanders as saying.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - The Tennessee clinic that received more potentially tainted steroid than any facility in the nation has been closed temporarily as it struggles to cope with an avalanche of patient calls about the deadly meningitis outbreak, its administrator said.
The Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center in Nashville received 2,000 vials of the steroid from a Massachusetts company. The drug was shipped to 76 facilities in 23 states.
Twenty people have died, including three at the hospital where the clinic is located, and 254 contracted fungal meningitis traced to vials from New England Compounding Center used mainly for epidural injections to ease back pain.
Tennessee has more confirmed cases than any other state. The Nashville clinic was one of the first to notice its patients were suffering from severe headaches and other symptoms.
The clinic, which administered about 5,000 epidural injections a year for back pain, closed on September 20 and has not reopened.
"We started out with 300 phone calls a day and now we are getting 40 or 50. As long as these phone calls are coming in, we are not comfortable to be open," Scott Butler, administrator of the clinic, said in an interview on Wednesday.
"I would never want somebody who called in, in pain, to be told ?We're working here. We'll call you back,'" Butler said.
It is still not clear how much of the clinic's medication was tainted with a fungus.
The Tennessee Department of Health said 477 of the 2,520 vials shipped to three facilities in the state, including Saint Thomas clinic, were not used. This suggests that all but about 20 percent of the supply was administered to patients.
Butler said he could not comment on the clinic's relationship with NECC. The Massachusetts pharmacy compounder faces multiple investigations including whether it broke state and federal laws by shipping medications in bulk.
The outbreak has been stressful for patients and the clinic's 15 employees.
"It has been one of the most emotionally taxing things on these employees over there, simply because every patient they are talking to is scared and in pain. It has been very tough," Butler said.
It has hurt the business of the clinic, which continues to pay its employees while as the facility remains closed.
It has also hurt the business of the clinic, which has continued to pay its employees full-time even as the facility remains closed and has received unwanted publicity.
The clinic is on the ninth floor of a building adjacent to Saint Thomas Hospital, which has sought to distance itself from the clinic since the outbreak, even though the two share some common ownership and part of the same name.
"The only center that received the tainted steroids was the ninth-floor Outpatient Neurosurgery Center, which is separate from the hospital or any other outpatient center on the Saint Thomas campus," Saint Thomas Hospital Dr. Robert Latham said last Friday in a briefing hosted by the Tennessee Health Department.
Saint Thomas Network, which owns Saint Thomas Hospital and other hospitals in Tennessee, also is a part owner of the clinic through a joint venture with Howell Allen Clinic.
The Tennessee Health Department said the clinic has been helpful in its efforts to investigate the outbreak and is free to reopen. But Butler said that will not happen soon.
"Obviously it's hurting business. Our concern right now is taking care of the patients. As we get down the road, we'll worry about the business," Butler said.
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