During his fourth Thanksgiving presidential address, President Barack Obama referenced the recent, long and bruising campaign season, urged the country to unite behind his administration and, for the fourth year running, neglected to offer verbal thanks to God.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2012) ? The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby stars.
The galaxy is viewed from an angle, allowing Hubble to reveal its spiral nature clearly. The faint, loose spiral arms can be distinguished as bluish features swirling around the galaxy's nucleus. This blue tinge emanates from the hot, young stars located in the spiral arms. The arms of a spiral galaxy have large amounts of gas and dust, and are often areas where new stars are constantly forming.
The galaxy's most characteristic feature is a bright elongated nucleus. The bulging central core usually contains the highest density of stars in the galaxy, where typically a large group of comparatively cool old stars are packed in this compact, spheroidal region.
One feature common to many spiral galaxies is the presence of a bar running across the center of the galaxy. These bars are thought to act as a mechanism that channels gas from the spiral arms to the center, enhancing the star formation.
Recent studies suggest that ESO 499-G37's nucleus sits within a small bar up to a few hundreds of light-years along, about a tenth the size of a typical galactic bar. Astronomers think that such small bars could be important in the formation of galactic bulges since they might provide a mechanism for bringing material from the outer regions down to the inner ones. However, the connection between bars and bulge formation is still not clear since bars are not a universal feature in spiral galaxies.
The galaxy ESO 499-G37 lies in the southern border of the constellation of Hydra, which is shared with Antlia.
ESO 499-G37 was first observed in the late seventies within the ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO (B) atlas. This was a joint project undertaken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Uppsala Observatory, which used the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile, to map a large portion of the southern sky looking for stars, galaxies, clusters, and planetary nebulae.
This picture was created from visible and infrared exposures taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The field of view is approximately 3.4 arcminutes wide.
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Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation.
It has been awhile since I last posted on my doctoral research. The last portion I wrote about had to do with scrapbook shopping. Today, I am going to start writing about scrapbook cropping.
The decision as to where to actually crop draws a line or a boundary between work, home, and hobby though this boundary is quite blurry.
Cropping at home means still being ?on call? to housework and childcare (Demos 2006), which is why many scrapbookers who are mothers of young children wait until their children are asleep or their husbands can tend to their children?s needs before they begin cropping.
Cropping outside the home draws a line whereby the scrapbooker is now focused on the hobby and not on day to day housework or childcare. Regardless, family members can interrupt crops outside the home when husbands call wives on the phone while she is attending a crop (Demos 2006).
Although family members may not be physically present, typically, they are present in the subject matter of the scrapbook. In this way, scrapbooking is not a chance to get away from the family but is still very much a part of doing family. Scrapbooking, then, is a site where the line between pure leisure and doing family work is quite unclear. DeVault (1991) raises this same issue when it comes to feeding the family?it is difficult to delineate feeding activity that is work from that which is leisure. Though scrapbooks, like quilts (Stalp 2006), may be used by the family, the hobbyist does not necessarily view this leisure time or activity as being for the family.
The point is that scrapbooking may be a pure leisure activity, an activity that incorporates family and leisure, or more a type of family work. What is it for you? How does where you crop draw lines around your leisure activity from other aspects of your life??
References
Demos, Elizabeth J. 2006. ?Scrapbooking: Women Making ?Me Time? and Doing Family Through Making Memories.? PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL.
DeVault, Marjorie L.?1991. Feeding the Family: The Social Organizatio of Caring as Gendered Work. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Stalp, Marybeth C.??Negotiating Time and Space for Serious Leisure: Quilting in the Modern U.S. Home.? The Journal of Leisure Research 38(1):104-32.
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Over the past month, Americans have been challenged with flooding, power outages and other issues brought to our coastline by Hurricane Sandy. While thousands struggled without power for weeks in New York and New Jersey, our country has come together to provide support to these communities during the recovery process.
With the arrival of Thanksgiving, it is a good time to step back and be thankful for all that we have been given. These days, it might seem that we are sometimes just too busy to appreciate the simple things in life that we might take for granted. Whether it?s family, a job, friends or something else, now is a good time to acknowledge how lucky we truly are.
While many of us will be sitting down to eat a fulfilling meal with our families and friends, we must not forget those who are less fortunate. This week, I would like to share some opportunities to give back to our community.
In Torrington, the Friendly Hands Food Bank operates year-round to take in and distribute food, clothing and goods for our community. In recent years, they have grown to serve over 500 families each year. If you would like to help, Friendly Hands is always welcoming volunteers and donations of non-perishable foods, some perishable items (such as bread, butter, eggs, ham and turkey) and toys and clothing for children. They are located at 50 King Street and may be reached by phone at 860-482-3338 or by email at friendlyhands@optonline.net.
In Avon, Gifts of Love is a nonprofit organization providing basic needs, such as food, clothing, furniture, household items and energy assistance to people in the Greater Hartford area. Their programs help those who do not qualify for many government programs but who are facing a short-term crisis due to reduced working hours, illness, divorce, death of a spouse/partner or another significant unexpected increase in expenses. Gifts of Love is located at 35 East Main Street and may be reached by phone at 860-676-2323. For more information, please visit their website at www.giftsoflovect.org.
New Opportunities, Inc. is a community action agency that offers a variety of social service programs designed to eliminate poverty and assist those in need in northwest Connecticut. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for low-income, elderly and disabled communities by providing the necessary resources to increase their standard of living, foster self-improvement and maximize self-empowerment. New Opportunities is always welcoming volunteers and donations. Their Torrington office is located at 138 Migeon Avenue and may be reached by phone at 860-482-9749. To learn more, please visit their website at www.newoppinc.org.
Two regional organizations serving towns in our area could also use some help. The Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare, Inc. work with businesses, community organizations and individuals to accept donations, warehouse and transport food to hundreds of local soup kitchens, shelters, food pantries and more. Both organizations are seeking volunteers and donations of food. For more information, please visit their websites at www.ctfoodbank.org and www.foodshare.org.
These are just some of the many opportunities that are currently available to give back to our community. Thanksgiving is an excellent occasion to reflect upon all that we have been given and to help others who are less fortunate. I wish you and your family all the best this Thanksgiving holiday!
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Wanted: Store Associates who will work for low pay, poor working conditions, erratic schedules -- including working on Thanksgiving Day -- and not enough hours to qualify for health care. Associates must be willing to live on public subsidies at taxpayer expense in order to survive. Those who try to speak out or unite as a group to address workplace issues will be silenced and possibly terminated. Please apply within your local Walmart store.
As the six members of the billionaire Walton Family -- heirs to the Walmart superchain -- prepare to sit down to a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner with their families, the holiday will be very different for the 1.4 million Walmart associates who work for them. For the second year, Walmart is planning to put profits before its workers by beginning its Black Friday sales at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and forcing its workers -- many of whom are part-time -- to abandon quality time with their own families during a cherished American holiday.
This latest move by the biggest retail employer in our country is the most recent blow to Walmart associates, who are already struggling to survive on an average hourly wage of $8.81, and are punished or fired for sticking together to address the erratic work schedules that do not provide enough hours to support a family or qualify for benefits. The retail sector is the largest industry by employment in the United States, and Walmart's sheer scale in size means that its practices have an enormous impact on our country's labor, business, and employment climate. The retail giant's drive to put profits ahead of its workers has influenced other retailers to do the same, and this low-wage business strategy has, in turn, led to depressed wages across the retail and manufacturing sectors and forced more and more workers to rely on public subsidies at tax payer expense.
It doesn't have to be this way. A recent study by Catherine Ruetschlin, a policy analyst at Demos, titled "Retails Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy," shows that raising wages to $25,000 per year for full-time retail workers at the nation's largest retail companies (or those employing at least 1,000 workers) would result in improving the lives of more than 1.5 million retail workers and their families who are currently living in or hovering above poverty. A higher wage increase would create more purchasing power for retail workers, which would generate $4 to $5 billion in additional annual sales for the industry, keep prices low for shoppers, and create more than 100,000 jobs.
Walmart -- which paid its top six executives $59 million in compensation in the last fiscal year -- can afford to pay its workers more. But instead of investing in their workers, the Walton family -- whose combined family fortune is estimated to be over $100 billion -- has chosen to engage in elaborate stock buybacks that take earned corporate profits and put them back into the hands of shareholders. For Walmart, stock buybacks have been the reason the Walton family's interest in the company has risen to 51 percent -- shifting the control of a so-called public company into the hands of a private family.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is more than familiar with Walmart's tactics of silencing workers who want to unite as a group to address work-related problems. But as so often happens in our resilient American workforce, employees are taking the lead in changing the Walmart culture themselves.
Last fall, the new employee association, the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), was formed by and for hourly associates in Walmart stores to help change the way Walmart does business. In just one year, OUR Walmart has grown from a group of 100 Walmart associates to an army of thousands in hundreds of stores across 43 states. Last month, members of OUR Walmart participated in first-ever strikes and protests in cities across the country -- including Chicago, Dallas, the Washington, D.C. area, Miami, Orlando, Seattle, and from Southern California to Sacramento and the Bay area.
It's time to restore some balance between the wealthy few and the rest of America, and we can start by making sure that our country's biggest retail employer lets its workers have a voice and a seat at the table. On Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, these brave men and women will take a stand against the retail giant to protest Walmart's attempt to silence workers who speak out for change. Will you join us?
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Greenpeace often seeks to light a fire under companies it thinks are dragging their heels in clean technology, and that's more apparent than ever in its latest Guide to Greener Electronics. The frontrunner this time is chart newcomer Wipro, an Indian tech giant that scores a high 7.1 in the rankings for both green products and aggressive attempts to cut down on pollution. Most everyone else lags behind, however, and their scores only emphasize how little progress there's been. Apple (4.5) is hurt mostly by a lack of transparency; Dell (4.6) is bruised for not living up to its own promises of the past two years, and Lenovo (3.9) is chastised for the absence of clear policies. Greenpeace once more has an agenda in its report -- in this case, drawing attention to India's environmental situation -- but the high-contrast study does show that planet-friendly gadgets can be more than just dreams.
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Black Friday's tendrils have crawled upwards to Monday, which means Amazon already has some excellent deals posted. For those of us into all things smartphoney, there are quite a few great accessories and devices that have been significantly marked down. There are also a lot of crazy flash sales going every couple of hours and offer lots of opportunity for those of us that want to get our holiday shopping done early. I just missed out on a 64 GB microSD memory card for $38; they were all sold out in a matter of minutes, so you're going to have to be fast. Let's see what else Amazon is offering...
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