Friday, October 13, 2006

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Chuck Noland: 87 hours is an eternity. The cosmos was created in less time.
~ Cast Away
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Emerald. said...

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5:14 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Bentley Benelux levert software voor de levenscyclus van wereldwijde infrastructuur. Bentley's samenwerkende softwareoplossingen, waarmee op effectieve manier engineering informatie kan worden gecreëerd, beheerd en gepubliceerd, wordt gebruikt in de vakgebieden Geospatial, Building, Plant en Civil. Met een omzet in 2004 van ruim 300 miljoen dollar is Bentley marktleider op het gebied van AEC en GIS software.

5:29 AM
Emerald. said...

VERTICALS

"" ...Bentley serves the civil, building, plant and geospatial verticals. Our software solutions are used to design, engineer, build and operate infrastructure such as roadways, bridges, airports, skyscrapers, industrial and power plants and utility networks.

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5:33 AM
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5:35 AM
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5:52 AM
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(( Generally, publishers and consumers of journalism draw a distinction between reporting — "just the facts" — and opinion writing, often by restricting opinion columns to the editorial page and its facing or "op-ed" (opposite the editorials) page. Unsigned editorials are traditionally the official opinions of the paper's editorial board, while op-ed pages may be a mixture of syndicated columns and other contributions, frequently with some attempt to balance the voices across some political or social spectrum.

However, the distinction between reporting and opinion can break down. Complex stories often require summarizing and interpretation of facts, especially if there is limited time or space for a story. Stories involving great amounts of interpretation are often labelled "news analysis," but still run in a paper's news columns. The limited time for each story in a broadcast report rarely allows for such distinctions.

6:13 AM
Emerald. said...

(( The faces of power debate has coalesced into a viable conception of three dimensions of power including decision-making, agenda-setting, and preference-shaping. The decision-making dimension was first put forth by Robert Dahl, who advocated the notion that political power is based in the formal political arena and is measured through voting patterns and the decisions made by politicians. This view was seen by many as simplistic and a second dimension to the notion of political power was added by academics Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz involving agenda-setting. Bachrach and Baratz viewed power as involving both the formal political arena and behind the scenes agenda-setting by elite groups who could be either politicians and/or others (such as industrialists, campaign contributors, special interest groups and so on), often with a hidden agenda that most of the public may not be aware of. The third dimension of power was added by British academic Steven Lukes who felt that even with this second dimension, some other traits of political power needed to be addressed through the concept of 'preference-shaping'. This third dimension is inspired by many Neo-Gramscian views such as cultural hegemony and deals with how civil society and the general public have their preferences shaped for them by those in power through the use of propaganda or the media. Ultimately, this third dimension holds that the general public may not be aware of what decisions are actually in their interest due to the invisible power of elites who work to distort their perceptions. Critics of this view claim that such notions are themselves elitist, which Lukes then clearly admits as one problem of this view and yet clarifies that as long as those who make claims that preferences are being shaped explain their own interests etc., there is room for more transparency.

6:56 AM
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8:26 AM
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As a soft guide, however, the numbers of currently identified species can be broken down as follows[3]:

287,655 plants, including:
15,000 mosses,
13,025 ferns,
980 gymnosperms,
199,350 dicotyledons,
59,300 monocotyledons;
74,000-120,000 fungi[1];
10,000 lichens;
1,250,000 animals, including:
1,190,200 invertebrates:
950,000 insects,
70,000 molluscs,
40,000 crustaceans,
130,200 others;
58,808 vertebrates:
29,300 fish,
5,743 amphibians,
8,240 reptiles,
9,934 birds,
5,416 mammals. ""

8:26 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Snief... En toch Lief...

8:32 AM
Emerald. said...

"" October 13
Free speech is not solicitation: American Civil Liberties Union
Former Head of Radio Liberty Russian Broadcasts Criticizes Kremlin's Reaction to Russian Journalist's Murder
New Zealand bank manager robbed own bank
Buffalo, New York snow storm closes schools, leaves over 150,000 without power
Recent American E. coli outbreak linked to cattle
British top General says troops are unwelcome in Iraq

9:00 AM
Emerald. said...

"" The first stable conclusion I reached … was that the only thing brains could do was to approximate the responsivity to meanings that we presuppose in our everyday mentalistic discourse. When mechanical push comes to shove, a brain was always going to do what it was caused to do by current, local, mechanical circumstances, whatever it ought to do, whatever a God's-eye view might reveal about the actual meaning of its current states. But over the long haul, brains could be designed - by evolutionary processes - to do the right thing (from the point of view of meaning) with high reliability. … [B]rains are syntactic engines that can mimic the competence of semantic engines. … The appreciation of meanings - their discrimination and delectation - is central to our vision of consciousness, but this conviction that I, on the inside, deal directly with meanings turns out to be something rather like a benign 'user-illusion.'

—Daniel Dennett, Brainchildren

9:10 AM
Emerald. said...

"" The first orphanages, called "orphanotrophia," were founded in the first centuries AD amid various alternative means of orphan support. (Jewish law, for instance, prescribed care for the widow and orphan, and Athenian law supported all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen.) The care of orphans was particularly commended to bishops and, during the Middle Ages, to monasteries. Many orphanages practiced some form of "binding-out" in which children, as soon as they were old enough, were given as apprentices to households. This would ensure their support and their learning an occupation.

Historically, certain birth parents were often pressured or forced to give up their children to orphanages: those of children born out of wedlock or into poor families; those with disabilities or of children born with disabilities; and those with girls born into patriarchial societies. Such practices are assumed to be quite rare in the modern Western world, thanks to improved social security and changed social attitudes, but remain in force in many other countries.

Since the 1950s, after a series of scandals involving the coercion of birth parents and abuse of orphans (notably at Georgia Tann's Tennessee Children's Home Society), the United States and other countries have moved to deinstitutionalize the care of vulnerable children—that is, close down orphanages in favor of foster care and accelerated adoption. Moreover, as it is no longer common for birth parents in Western countries to give up their children, the need to operate large orphanages has decreased. These factors have also resulted in a dramatic reduction of local orphans available for adoption in first-world countries, necessitating journeys by many would-be adoptive parents to orphanages in the Third World.

Nonetheless, in the United States during the 1990s, many political conservatives advocated placing indigent, illegitimate children in orphanages. The idea was not implemented; however, comprehensive federal welfare reform legislation was conceived in 1996 as an alternative means of striking at the perceived social ills caused by rising illegitmacy rates.[citation

10:45 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Missie
Het NCRV omroepbedrijf is een ideële, protestants-christelijk geïnspireerde, multimediale onderneming die haar media wil gebruiken om een wezenlijke bijdrage te leveren aan de kwaliteit van de samenleving en daarbij een onmisbare schakel wil zijn in een sterke Nederlandse Publieke Omroep.
De waarden die de NCRV uitdraagt bij haar stellingname ten aanzien van maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen zijn Verantwoordelijkheid, Respect, Betrokkenheid en Rechtvaardigheid. Deze waarden zijn, zowel in hun combinatie als afzonderlijk, gerelateerd aan de inspiratie van de NCRV en herkenbaar aanwezig in al haar uitingen.
De NCRV vindt het belangrijk om een rol van betekenis te spelen bij het behoud en verbetering van de kwaliteit van de maatschappij, in het bijzonder op de volgende gebieden: levensbeschouwing, maatschappelijk debat, zorgzame samenleving en natuur & milieu.
Meer over Maatschappelijke betrokkenheid NCRV>>

11:10 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Divergent usages
As noted, in addition to the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East all see themselves as the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" of the Nicene Creed. Anglicans and Old-Catholics each see themselves as a Communion within that one Church, and Lutherans see themselves as "a reform movement within the greater Church catholic." The Orthodox do not recognize the universal primacy of the Bishop of Rome (i.e., the Pope), but do rank him as primus inter pares ("first among equals") among the five major ancient Christian Patriarchates (super-metropolitical archiepiscopal Sees) of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Rome. Anglicans and Old-Catholics accept that the Bishop of Rome is primus inter pares among all primates, but they embrace Conciliarism as a necessary check on what they consider to be the "excesses" of Roman Ultramontanism. The Catholic Church's view of the Bishop of Rome is that he is not only primus inter pares, but that he is also given a special charism as the "Successor of Peter" to serve as universal pastor to the entire Church. The Catholic Church summarizes this view with the ancient quote, "Where Peter is, there is the Church."

Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians (in general), and the Assyrian Church of the East each recognize the "validity" of each other's Eucharist (Mass or Divine Liturgy), and of the holy orders of their respective priesthoods and episcopate. The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, considers Anglican Holy Orders to be "null and void," as declared by Pope Leo XIII in his Bull Apostolicae curae. Beginning with the Encyclical Letter Saepius officio of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in response to Apostolicae curae, Anglicans, for obvious reasons, have steadfastly rejected this claim. At present, Old-Catholics are in full communion with the worldwide Anglican Communion, including full exchange of clergy and participation in each other's ordinations (including episcopal consecrations), and many Lutheran Churches are in communion with Anglican provinces. Although there were several statements made by a couple of Orthodox leaders in the early 20th century giving hope to High Anglican clergy that their priestly orders would eventually be recognized as valid by the Orthodox, today there is little variance among Orthodox patriarchs and metropolitans on the validity of Anglican Orders. As with the Catholic Church, today the Orthodox churches universally require ordination to the priesthood for Anglican clergy that convert to Orthodoxy, evidencing the prevailing Orthodox view that the Anglican liturgy is non-sacramental in nature. Recent decisions by various Anglican/Episcopal bishops to ordain women to the priesthood and to the episcopate have rendered any hope of formal ecclesiastical union with Orthodoxy (from the Orthodox point of view) a moot point.

Thus, for example, in an emergency, when no Roman Catholic priest is available, a Roman Catholic may, under canon law, receive the Holy Eucharist and receive absolution from an Orthodox priest, but not from an Anglican priest. This also means that if an Episcopal or Anglican male priest converts to the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church confers ordination on him (in its view, for the first time) and excludes women from Holy Orders. This divergence of belief is a considerable block to greater unity, in spite of substantial progress in ecumenical dialogues between Anglicans and Roman Catholics since the Second Vatican Council.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of Roman Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western ("Latin" or "Catholic") Christian Church and the main body of the Eastern ("Greek" or "Orthodox") Christian Church. Before he was incapacitated with a degenerative illness, Pope John Paul II often spoke of his great desire that the Catholic Church "once again breathe with both lungs," thus emphasizing that the Catholic Church seeks to restore full communion with the separated "Eastern" and "Oriental" Christian Churches.

After the first rupture in the Catholic Church in 1054 between East and West, a brief reunification took place in the mid-15th century at the Council of Florence. The present Pope (Benedict XVI) has stated his intentions in restoring full unity with the Orthodox. From the Catholic standpoint, almost all of the ancient theological differences have been satisfactorily addressed (the Filioque clause, the nature of purgatory, etc.), and the experience of the Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with Rome has shown that the eventual reunion will not mean a "Latinization" of the Eastern Churches.

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Capitalization
Capitalization is no sure guide to denominational affiliation. It may indicate formal affiliation with the (Roman) Catholic Church or it may not. Capitalization may merely indicate a wish to stress the holy and solemn nature of the spiritual body of believers and a desire for all Christians to be one.

It would be anachronistic to attribute significance to capitalization or lack of capitalization in printings of texts dating from before the last few centuries or in translations of those texts, since the originals were written in unmixed majuscule or minuscule letters. Translations even of modern texts into English often follow the usage of the original language. For instance, since French normally capitalizes only the first word of the title of an entity, the adjective "catholique", following the noun "Église", has a lower-case initial. Texts in Latin generally follow this usage, not the English practice.

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Avoidance of usage
Some Protestant Churches avoid using the term completely, to the extent among many Lutherans of reciting the Creed with the word "Christian" in place of "Catholic". [6][7][8] The Orthodox Churches share some of the concerns about Roman Catholic papal claims, but disagree with some Protestants about the nature of the Church as one body. For some, to use the word "Catholic" at all is to appear to give credence to papal claims.

11:11 AM
Emerald. said...

(( It does not explain terms like invisible hand, macroeconomics, or demand curve, and may take just six or seven words to explain the theory of comparative advantage. The newspaper usually does not translate short French quotes or phrases, and sentences in Ancient Greek or Latin are not uncommon. Even phrases in languages as obscure as Basque have been included[citation needed], relying on the above-average intelligence of its readers to glean meaning.

It strives to be well-rounded. As well as financial and economic issues, it reports on science, culture, language, literature, and art, and is careful to hire writers and editors who are well-versed in these subjects.[citation needed]

The publication is not without a sense of whimsy. Many articles include some witticism. Image captions are very often humorous. The Letters section usually concludes with an odd or light-hearted letter; one notable example[citation needed] simply asked, "What is the idiot's corner, and how can I get published there?"

11:31 AM
Emerald. said...

(( The European gas market is liberalized. The Netherlands has already advanced quite far in this process. As part of the liberalization, trade and transport of natural gas are separated all over Europe. The idea behind the separation is that, with independent transport, every supplier of gas will have equal opportunities to market gas, and that competition in the market will function better this way. European directives have been drawn up for the separation of trade and transport. In the Netherlands, these have been incorporated in the new Gas Act. To ensure that the Gas Act is correctly complied with, the State has installed a regulator, the Dutch Office for Energy Regulation (DTe). The DTe concentrates chiefly on the activities of GTS.

11:36 AM
Emerald. said...

"" IndicatorsOverall length of transport grid: 11,600 kilometres
Gas receiving stations: 1100
Control stations: 77
Export stations: 10
Compressor stations: 9
LNG installation: 1
Calibration installations: 2
Nitrogen installation: 1

Corporate Governance CodeGasunie is aware of its position in society in the Netherlands and its special responsibilities in relation to this position. Although the Dutch Corporate Governance Code (Tabaksblat) formally does not apply to Gasunie, the Board of Directors decided to conform to the Tabaksblat Code as much as possible

11:36 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Een tornado is een wervelwind met zeer grote windsnelheden tot enkele honderden kilometers per uur en een diameter van enkele tientallen meters tot een paar kilometer, die meestal zichtbaar is doordat waterdamp condenseert in de wervel of doordat materiaal van het aardoppervlak wordt opgetild.

Een tornado ontstaat in een sterke opwaartse verticale luchtstroom onder een buienwolk. De tornado ontstaat wanneer deze stijgstroom nabij de grond gaat roteren. De rotatie kan onderdeel zijn van een rotatie van de hele bui, die dan supercel genoemd wordt. De rotatie wordt wel een mesocycloon genoemd. Daarnaast kunnen ook tornado's voorkomen die niet met een rotatie van de gehele bui samenhangen. Deze zijn meestal zwakker.

Tornado's zijn gevaarlijk. Het gebied met hoge windsnelheden is doorgaans kleiner dan een kilometer, aanzienlijk minder dan de honderden kilometers van tropische stormen en orkanen. Tornado's komen meestal voor bij krachtige onweersbuien, hoewel ze zich ook bij kleinere ontwikkelende stapelwolken kunnen vormen. In het laatste geval zijn ze vaak niet zo krachtig en worden ze windhoos genoemd.

De krachtigste tornado's komen voor bij supercel buien. Deze buien bezitten een roterende stijgstroom en vormen zich meestal wanneer de wind in de atmosfeer sterk toeneemt met de hoogte. Voorwaarde voor het ontstaan van deze - en andere felle onweersbuien - is dat de temperatuur sterk afneemt met de hoogte, terwijl er bij het aardoppervlak vochtige lucht aanwezig is; lucht die veel waterdamp bevat. Wanneer de waterdamp in de stijgstroom van de bui condenseert tot waterdruppels, komt warmte vrij die ervoor zorgt dat de stijgstroom warmer blijft dan zijn omgeving en dientengevolge de neiging heeft om door te groeien.

Tornado's komen relatief vaak in het centrale deel van Verenigde Staten voor, gemiddeld zo'n duizend per jaar. De meeste zijn niet sterk, maar sommige wel. Het gebied dat wel Tornado Alley genoemd wordt, van midden-Texas tot het oosten van Nebraska en Iowa heeft er het meeste mee te maken, voornamelijk in de maanden april, mei en juni. Vochtige warme lucht stroomt vanuit de Golf van Mexico noordwaarts en schuift over Tornado Alley onder een luchtlaag afkomstig uit Mexico en de Rocky Mountains, waarin de temperatuur sterk afneemt met de hoogte.

Vergelijkbaar met de Schaal van Beaufort voor wind worden tornado's ingedeeld volgens de schaal van Fujita.

11:40 AM
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