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Mainstream reporting on issues concerning HIV is often sensationalized and stigmatizing, sometimes doing more harm than good. In fact, warned Josh Barro last year on MSNBC: “Negative attitudes about HIV are literally killing people.” Within the HIV community, this is widely known and well documented: Stigma fuels the HIV epidemic by creating barriers to HIV testing and care access, and by placing people with HIV at risk for discrimination and violence.
But the responsibility for addressing and ending HIV stigma cannot rest on people living with HIV alone. Makers of mainstream media have a responsibility to stop using language that labels and “others” people with HIV and communities at risk for HIV. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 62 percent of people in the US get their HIV information mainly from media. By becoming informed about the realities of living with HIV and incorporating these facts and stories into their reporting, media makers can also be some of our greatest allies in improving lives and upholding rights for people with HIV.
So, in the spirit of allyship – and helping media makers satisfy their professional responsibility to seek and report truth, Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA), a national membership body of women living with HIV, offers this primer for media makers to start today – right now! – to become allies in eliminating HIV stigma, one article and one report at a time.
To read each section of the statement as a separate article, click on the numbered section heading titles.
Special thanks and deep gratitude to all the insightful PWN-USA members who acted as Co-Authors and Contributors to this statement: Valerie Wojciechowicz · Venita Ray · Naimah Oneal · Susan Mull · Asha Molock · Vickie Lynn · Tommy Luckett · Vanessa Johnson · Olga Irwin · Tami Haught · Barb Cardell
The stigma attached to HIV is a significant barrier to living well with HIV. By working together, we can raise awareness and help improve the lives of those living with HIV by being mindful of our language. Language can be a tool to empower, or to further stigmatize. Media messages can support HIV prevention, care, and treatment by using empowering, appropriate terminology:
a. Refer to those living with HIV as “people living with HIV.” Always put the person before the disease. We are people first – we are not our disease.
b. Use “diagnosed with” or “acquired” HIV, instead of “infected with” HIV or “HIV-infected.”
c. Avoid words designed to shame or judge people – for example:
- “promiscuous” to describe a person who has had multiple sex partners is a judgmental term and is often applied differently to heterosexual men, gay men, and women.
- “prostitute” to identify a sex worker – the former is a legal term that does not apply in every context; the latter is preferred.
- “clean” or “dirty” when referring to HIV status. Clean and dirty should only be used when referring to laundry and dishes, not people.
d. AIDS is a diagnosis and not a disease – understand the differences between HIV and AIDS. People cannot transmit AIDS. AIDS is not a virus. Read a detailed definition of “AIDS” (from The Well Project)
e. Refrain from using the term “full-blown AIDS.” This terms is still used by many media outlets – but there is no such thing as full-blown AIDS. The term is “antiquated, redundant, stigmatizing and confusing” – as one longtime HIV provider recently put it. Replace with “an AIDS diagnosis” or simply “AIDS.”
f. Apply the information above and below to headlines, the gateway to stories – and avoid sensationalist headers such as “AIDS-Positive Alabama Pastor Who Slept with Congregants Banned from Church,” from the Associated Press.
For more information: View the full slide set for PWN-USA’s webinar “Eliminating Stigma from the Language of HIV Communications” – or view a recording of the full webinar including slides and voices of presenters.
From the beginning of the epidemic, HIV in the US has been perceived by some people as a moral issue and not a human one. People with HIV need the media to recognize, report, and share our stories as the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and grandparents that we are.
More often than not, those of us who are people living with HIV are framed in media as monsters, infected, dirty, predatory, and more. Those who are reported as having acquired HIV – or having been intimate with a person with HIV – are labeled as victims or as having been preyed upon. In truth, people living with HIV are just that: people. HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus that attacks the CD4 cells within a PERSON. And many of our partners choose to be | [
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I like being alone. There are many activities I would prefer to do solo, but I don’t often get the chance. I am rarely alone. I think I decided long ago that engaging others would lead to a more fruitful life. So, I do it. A lot. I love and am curious about people, but engaging can be draining. I find myself at times craving solitude. I feel lucky that I want to be and have the emotional ability to be alone, and yet I am never lonely. And that’s a statement confirmed by the UCLA Loneliness Scale.
In 1978, UCLA researchers, M.L. Ferguson, Daniel Russell and Letitia Anne Peplau, developed a survey for measuring loneliness now known as the UCLA Loneliness Scale. The scale has been revamped a couple of times over the years and is the most commonly used survey across the world to assess loneliness. Using the scale, Cigna determined in its 2020 Loneliness Index that 3 in 5 Americans considered themselves lonely (pre-covid). According to their findings, loneliness has a larger impact on certain demographics:
- Men are lonelier than women
- Younger people (18-22) are lonelier than older people (72+)
- Those living in urban and suburban communities are less lonely than those in rural areas
Cigna also found that social media has a major impact on loneliness with very heavy social media users significantly more likely to feel alone, isolated, left out and without companionship.
Where are you on the loneliness scale? Click on the link to complete the survey.
How do you feel about your results? If you are feeling lonely or not, I want to suggest four actions that I believe can have a positive impact on your state of loneliness/connection to others:
1. Feel the emotion: Let the emotion take center stage. If you let yourself feel the emotion 100%, it may just move through you more quickly. Be with the discomfort fully.
2. Be Alone. Love Yourself. Shocker! Being alone is often the only time we can truly rest, unstimulated by the environment and other people. Being alone can be a great source of joy. Love being alone with the best company, you.
3. Be Silent. Silence can be difficult and even scary. Choose to do something that simply allows you to be in silence. Be as present as you can with everything around you and within you.
4. Engage. Putting yourself out there can be scary too. With love of self and strength found in silence, reach out to others.
I’d love to hear any thoughts you want to share. | [
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Wondering what are the best things to do in Washington DC? Plan your trip with this 3 day itinerary including hotel and food recommendations.
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Paul Reuther lives and works in Washington, DC. He studied painting and drawing with Oliver Grimley, Louis Sloan, Arthur DaCosta, Seymour Reminick, and Sidney Goodman among others in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He studied art history at The University of Pennsylvania. Attending graduate school in Washington, DC he studied with William Woodward and Frank Wright.
He paints out of doors regularly in the summer months in New England and the Canadian Maritime provinces. Most recently, he has painted in Finland (Lappland and near Turku) and in the Skåne region of Sweden (in and around the Östra Göinge Municipality). In addition to landscape subject matter, the artist draws the figure from life as a regular part of his practice.
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The movie, directed by Bahram Tavakkoli and produced by Saeed Malekan, won Best Film Crystal Simorgh and Crystal Simorgh for Best Director at the 36th Fajr Film Festival.
‘The Lost Strait’ also led winners at the National Will Manifestation strand, which was held in Arvand Free Trade Zone (AFZ) located in the southwestern corner of Iran.
It depicts the story of one of the most critical days of the Iraq-Iran war, when a group of brave Iranian soldiers defended the Abu Ghraib Strait against the Iraqi invaders.
The epic film succeeded to gain good takings at the domestic box office at the time of public screening.
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1. The vane pump is noisy There are two reasons for the […]
1. The vane pump is noisy
There are two reasons for the high noise, the oil in the fuel tank is not enough or the pump core is worn. When this problem occurs, you should first check if the fuel volume is sufficient, and then check the pump core to see what is going wrong.
2. Vane pump system oil temperature is too high
The reason why the system oil temperature is too high is that the pipeline of the system is too small, the pressure is too high, the hydraulic oil cannot be discharged in time, and the cooling system does not meet the requirements, which causes the vane pump to be trapped.
3. Vane pump system pressure drop
The system pressure drop means that the vane pump can reach the predetermined pressure when it is working, and the pressure will gradually decrease during the work, so that the system cannot work normally. In this case, we should first check whether the main control valve leaks or the oil temperature is too high, and check whether the upper and lower oil distribution plates are worn.
4. No pressure
It means that the vane pump has no pressure in the working system. Firstly, check whether the vane pump has hydraulic oil discharged. Secondly, check whether the working direction of the oil pump is correct. Then, whether the coupling between the motor and the vane pump is normal. The final step is to check if the total pressure valve has failed.
5. Pressure swing
In this case, the pressure of the vane pump is unstable during operation. If there is no such phenomenon that the noise is increased, it is generally possible to directly check the total pressure valve to see if it is worn. If it is a pump core problem, it will be accompanied by this noise increase. | [
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Well this is the last day of our 21 days of prayer and fasting. I hope that you found it as encouraging and as uplifting as I did. For most people the word, sacrifice, is a term that invokes pain and discomfort. But really it doesn't When we make sacrifices for Christ we gain, we never lose. And what ever we have lost we will never miss anyway.
Jesus visits his disciples who are fishing. What were they fishing? Well, before they were disciples most of them were fishermen. They were doing what came naturally to them. However, the main character in this story is Peter, the one who denied Jesus three times. Jesus was there to reinstate Peter as a disciple. When we feel like we have fallen away from Jesus, we tend to go back to living life the "old" way. Don't do that. When you feel as if you have fallen away, go to Jesus and let Him reinstate your life. There your hope, your salvation, your joy, your peace and your security will be reinstated and renewed.
Dear Jesus, I love you with all my heart. These past 21 days have taught me much about myself. I thank you for them. Help me to put to good use what I now know. I pray for those who attend FFWC, or have been reading my blog that have been praying and fasting also. That what you have done in them will not be lost, but that they will continue to allow You to mold them and shape them into Your Image. I believe that great things are going to happen that will glorify You! In Jesus name I pray - Amen. | [
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On the sunny southern side of Marlborough's Waihopai Valley, nestled on the terraces of the Omaka river are the vineyards of Johnson Estate. Nine varieties of grapes are grown over 400 acres, producing fruit for Spy Valley Wines. Unlike the world of espionage, Spy Valley Wine has demanded global attention and collected many accolades, recently receiving the IWSC New Zealand Wine Producer of the Year for the second time (2010 & 2008).
Our environment is the most important thing we have, without it there is no Spy Valley Wines. In March 2010 Spy Valley became ISO 14001 certified, an international environmental standard. One of the initiatives we undertook to gain this certification was importing a glass crushing machine to recycle and crush the company's glass to a fine glass dust. This is then mixed with mulch and distributed below the grapevines to enhance light reflection into the vines. We are continually looking at ways we can reduce waste. We have moved from using diatomaceous earth as a filtering aid, to using a… Continue reading →
Family owned Marlborough Winery Spy Valley Wines has flicked the switch and is now generating some of its own power, via recently installed solar panels. In mid-August, 211 solar panels were installed on the roof of Spy Valley’s winery, creating a 52KW solar power system. It officially started generating power for the winery in late October. The installation of these solar panels makes Spy Valley Winery the largest solar producing winery in New Zealand. Spy Valley’s system is believed to be the 5th largest solar system in New Zealand. “Marlborough is widely acknowledged as one of the sunniest destinations in… Continue reading → | [
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Men who exhibit positive character traits, such as honesty and helpfulness, are perceived as better looking by the opposite sex, a study has found. The research, in Personal Relationships, examines the way in which perceptions of physical attractiveness are influenced by personality.
Subjects in the study viewed photographs of opposite-sex individuals and rated them for attractiveness before and after being provided with information on personality traits. After personality information was received, participants also rated the desirability of each individual as a friend and as a dating partner. The information on personality was found to significantly alter perceived desirability or attractiveness.
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Those who exhibited negative traits, such as unfairness and rudeness, appeared to be less physically attractive to observers. Interestingly, the findings remained consistent regardless of how "attractive" the individual was initially perceived to be or of the participants' current relationship status or commitment level with a partner.
According to the researchers, the study shows that perceptions of a person's physical attractiveness may change over time due to their positive or negative traits. "This research provides a more positive alternative by reminding people that personality goes a long way toward determining your attractiveness; it can even change people's impressions of how good looking you are," concluded Lewandowski.
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I saw this film during the Atlantic Film Festival last year. It was a wonderful film! I don't remember it being very long (a half hour, maybe?), but it left a nice impression of both Dolly Parton and the work she is doing for kids (who knew?) without getting too fluffy, as the previous user suggested. I particularly liked the subtlety in which the film (Dolly herself, actually) addressed her image as it relates to being a role model for children, as well as the closing song from the film, which also addressed this. I think if it had gone in another direction, it would have felt too sensational. Plus, the film was quite funny and complimented the other films nicely!
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Change behaviour is fundamental to contemporary organisational change management. Kurt Lewin’s Change model was a forerunner in the field of change management.
Today’s business environment is so complicated and dynamic that contemporary service management thought critiques the model for being too abstract and unsophisticated to create a significant shift in today’s firms.
What Is The Lewin’s Change Model?
Change management pioneer Kurt Lewin was born in Germany and raised in the United States in the early 1900s. One of the earliest researchers in organizational development and group dynamics, Lewin devised a three-stage model to analyze two areas: organizational development and group dynamics.
He argued that the behaviour of an individual in reaction to changes is influenced by the behaviour of the group. The individual’s behaviour and ability to change are jeopardized by the group structure’s interactions and pressures. As a result, every effort to bring about organizational change must consider the group dynamic.
The Change Process in Three Stages:
Using Lewin’s model, we’ll examine the three phases and how they define the nature of change, how to execute it, and the usual problems that accompany it.
“Quasi-stationary equilibrium state” is how Lewin describes human behaviour in relation to change in the first stage. It’s possible to conceive of this as a mentality, a level of physical and mental capability that’s nearly there, but it’s not quite there.
The group forces, according to Lewin, restrict individuals from embracing change since it is met with opposition. There are times when this equilibrium state must be disturbed in order for a more open-minded behaviour pattern to emerge. He speculates that an emotional outburst might destabilize group dynamics and instil a sense of self-righteousness in some of the participants. It’s possible to shake things up in a number of ways, and you’ll need to decide whether an individual, group or company-wide change is essential.
Things to do in the initial stage of “unfreezing” include:
- Identifying the areas that need improvement. This may be accomplished by conducting an internal poll to determine whether or not changes are required.
- Assuring C-level and management assistance. With the cooperation of stakeholders and by framing your problem in a favourable light, you may get the support you need to go forward.
Encouraging others to make a change. Marketing a compelling message about the benefits of change and communicating the change’s long-term goal may help build this demand.
2) Make changes
It’s time to apply the adjustments after the status quo has been “unfrozen.” You may not get the effects you want from a well-planned change in your organization. The preparation of multiple change choices, from planned procedures to trial and error ones, is thus crucial. It’s essential to look at what worked, what didn’t, and which aspects of the process were resistant to change with each new change effort.
The achievement of an effective and successful organizational transformation process depends on two factors. The following are examples:
It’s essential to have a smooth flow of information across the organization so that different levels of experience and abilities may pool their resources to solve problems in a coordinated manner.
You might think of leadership as the ability of a group of individuals to work together toward a shared objective. Organizational transformations that go according to the plan need a clear sense of direction and inspiration from the top.
When it comes to maintaining changes, an iterative strategy is a must. According to Lewin, when a change is not reinforced, it is likely to fail to achieve the organization’s goals.
During this phase, firms should focus on the following:
- Make sure everyone in the company is aware of the proposed changes, their advantages, and the people who will be impacted by them. Do your best to answer all of their inquiries and clear up any misconceptions they may have.
- Engage in activities that inspire change and empower others. Ensure that your staff are actively engaged in the transition and provide daily and weekly guidance to the managers in charge of the project to help them succeed.
Participate as widely as possible with everyone. Working with a bigger group of people may help you build stronger relationships with your stakeholders and rapidly transform small, simple successes into larger ones.
3) Re-freeze the contents
The last stage is to ensure that the improvements you have made stick. Everyone’s objective is to accept this as the new normal so that they don’t oppose the forces of change anymore. The old ones tend to resurface without taking the necessary actions to maintain and enforce the further improvements. In order to adopt and “freeze” new changes, organizations need to consider both official and informal processes. Over time, overcoming opposition to change is more accessible if proactive measures are taken.
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It's circa 2001, and this pilot fish is at a site installing some control-room workstations that are intentionally isolated from the Internet -- and he realizes he's missing a driver. Fortunately, he knows where to find it.
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12:00 West Philadelphia Orchestra
1:20 Gretchen Elise
2:00 Badd Kitti
2:55 Little Sister Band
3:30 City Love
4:10 Timi Tanzania & The Bredren
12:45 WPSCC Line Dancers
1:15 Naatya Seva Classical Indian Dance
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2:40 Philly Surfers
3:05 Jasmin Yahne Dance Company
3:30 Clowns Without Borders
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The Franklin Institute /PACTS Program science activities
Please Touch Museum / Imagination Playground
Tree House Books / Book Give-a-way and Poetry Wall
FREE Historical Trolley Tours of Fairmount Park departing 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30
Standing History/Heritage Timeline / Global Philadelphia Association
Heritage Storytelling Booth / Global Philadelphia Association
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden / Artifacts WEPAINT Collaborative Painting
12:00 – 2:00 Philadelphia Zoo
12:30 – 3:30 Face Painting with Olga
12:30 – 2:30 Patchwork Storytelling Guild
3:00 Bicycle Tour
3:00 – 5:00 Keepers of the Culture
View a map of the art here. As West Fairmount Park was home to the 1876 Centennial Exposition, the art installations will offer an opportunity to reflect on this rich history as well as engage Parkside neighbors in considering the present and future narratives of their local community. Installations curated by Theresa Rose.
Eugene Lew, Ring My Bell
Eugene Lew uses playfulness with noisy bell bike tours to educate and engage community members. Lew presents a bell-ringing bicycle tour of West Park and a wheelie competition. Bells and lights will also be available to cyclists interested in audible signaling and low light visibility.
Claes Gabriel, The Totems
Claes Gabriel presents gorgeous, electric and highly detailed totem-like sculptures. Gabriel has created six totem-like painted stretched canvas forms. Their electric color and meditative-like patterning are a feast for the eyes.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Three Movements for Edmonia Lewis
Tiona Nekkia McClodden takes a critical look at the history of the Centennial Exposition and explores the complicated story of the sculpture The Death of Cleopatra in a multi-media installation focused on artist Edmonia Lewis. Lewis was the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to achieve international recognition for her work, and created the monumental marble sculpture for the 1876 Centennial Exposition. tionam.com
Timothy Belknap, The Great Massive
Timothy Belknap builds a cosmic sculpture that is both participatory and out of this world. Belknap presents a large comet-like sculpture with moving eyes. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the piece by creating their own welcome flags that can be mounted onto the sculpture. The flags are inspired by the Statue of Liberty, a welcome gift to the US from France; the torch was first exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. timothybelknap.com
Taji Ra’oof Nahl, Defenders of the Republic
Taji Ra’oof Nahl responds to the historic Smith Memorial Arch with a poignant, interpretative, and site-specific performance and installation. He will delve into the historical narratives of the site at the Avenue of the Republic, connecting to his long-standing concept, Defenders of the Republic.
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I was desperate to please my husband - Arrested child kidnapper admits
She had lied to her husband that she was pregnant
Parading the suspect before journalists at the police headquarters, the Commissioner of Polic said “the suspect took her desperation too far.”
He said the suspect had lied to her husband that she was pregnant. And after nine months, Iliyasu, said, the suspect called her husband and broke the news that she had delivered a baby boy.
The news, he added excited her husband, Gbenga Adebayo, who rushed down to her residence. But, he was said to have become curious when he demanded for the placenta and the suspect was unable to present it.
Iliyasu explained further that when the husband asked her to breastfeed feed the baby in his presence, she was unable to do so.
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The leaders who attended the ceremony included: leaders of Wuhu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government; Yang Qi, general manager of CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Vehicle Co., Ltd.; Zhang Jianwei, chairman of Bombardier China and president of Bombardier Transportation China,; Zhao Xiaowen, Deputy general manager of PBTS, and general manager of PBTS, Romuald Ponte, etc.
On the day of the ceremony, the Thai customer made a live video connection with the general manager of PBTS, Romuald Ponte. The Thai customer said that the Thai Golden Line APM project is the first APM project in Thailand to connect Bangkok's existing subway line to Bangkok's core business district. He also affirmed the important contribution of PBTS to promote the development of Bangkok's rail transit and boost economic consumption, and believe that both parties will have broader cooperation in the future.
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Seven Psychopaths centres on Marty (Colin Farrell) an Irish alcoholic who’s struggling to write a movie titled ‘Seven Psychopaths’. Marty wants to create a refreshing, new take on gangsters and psychos that minimises violent cliches, but his buddy, Billy (Sam Rockwell), has other ideas and Marty quickly becomes mixed up in the world he is writing about.
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Hans highlights the crude treatment of women in Marty’s script-writing work, while Billy argues for heaps of outrageous comic violence. Seven Psychopaths is littered with comments like these on the nature and reality of Hollywood’s gangster genre. While Marty’s film vision sees a traditional gangster movie set-up turned on it’s head, with his lead characters making a road trip to the desert and reflecting on their lives, Billy thinks ‘that sounds like the stupidest ending to a movie I’ve ever heard’. McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths does relocate to the desert but, in true Hollywood style, its final act shifts far from Marty’s vision.
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Seven Psychopaths is an ambitious film that balances the plot’s driving force – the dog-snatching events – with Marty’s creative processes. As McDonagh juggles with these two components, the film lurches between action, discussion and vignettes, as the characters’ escape unites with their movie planning and character sketches. It’s not an easy blend and Seven Psychopaths feels disjointed at times, but McDonagh makes this work, delivering entertainment and surprises. The film’s reflections are made accessible and McDonagh leaves his audience never quite sure whether they are watching his characters’ realities, or their imaginative musings.
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EDMONTON—A political scientist is warning that Premier Jason Kenney’s talk of “normal Albertans” versus “special interests” is setting the stage for budget cuts, dividing groups between those he’ll listen to and those he won’t.
Kenney announced Monday that his United Conservative government’s first budget will be tabled Oct. 24, two weeks after the legislature is set to reconvene and three days after the federal election.
“The people that Ralph Klein used to call ‘severely normal Albertans’ — the folks who just try to get by and take care of their families with an ever-rising cost of living — those folks, they understand that you can’t spend money you don’t have,” Kenney told a reporter in Calgary at a press conference Monday.
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Lori Williams, a policy studies professor at Mount Royal University, said that when Kenney talks about “ordinary” or “normal” Albertans versus special interests, he’s using rhetoric to assert “who the legitimate Albertans who need to be listened to are.”
“Ordinary people don’t align on a lot of these issues,” Williams said, “and so it’s a little bit misleading because it looks like you’re being democratic, but you’re basically defining those who you’re listening to as severely normal or ordinary Albertans.”
Kenney is trying to pre-emptively disparage the groups that could protest outside the legislature before they even start, she said.
“Nothing Jason Kenney does is not calculated; he’s a strategist to his core,” said Williams.
Public-sector unions have been protesting in recent months since the Kenney government passed Bill 9, which delays public-sector wage negotiations until after October.
Historically, health-care workers, teachers, farmers and oil-and-gas workers have also protested outside the legislature building in Edmonton. However, it’s unclear which groups Kenney has in mind when he speaks about special interests protesting at the legislature.
“There are countless special-interest groups from across the political spectrum, all lobbying for something,” said Kenney’s press secretary Christine Myatt in an email, responding to questions about who these groups are.
“We recognize that some of these groups will be disappointed with decisions this government makes in fulfilment of the resounding mandate we received from Albertans, securing an outright majority with over 1 million votes. Regardless, we will move forward in fulfilling the promises we made to Albertans this spring.”
During his budget announcement, Kenney thanked the government-appointed MacKinnon panel for its “sobering advice” on Alberta’s fiscal situation. The panel’s report, released earlier this month, recommended cuts to government spending in health care and education, among other things.
The MacKinnon panel, chaired by former Saskatchewan finance minister Janice MacKinnon, recommended an overall $600-million cut in the budget to deal with Alberta’s fiscal woes.
Traditionally, the province has depended on taxes and extraction royalties for oil, natural gas and coal to fill its coffers. Those commodities are subject to the whims of global markets, and when prices drop, Alberta is left with sizable budget deficits.
Kenney tampered some fears during his announcement when he said there would be no cuts to health care or education, something he’d promised during his election campaign.
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The Problem as Stated by : "FSU's Institute for Justice, Research & Development"
Twelve million people cycle through incarceration every year-95% of whom will come home to our shared communities. Most will be re-incarcerated. Failed reentry affects more than these individuals-their children and families suffer, our communities are less safe and bear tremendous financial burdens. However, incarceration and failed reentry disproportionately impact people of color and people in poverty creating multi-generational disadvantage.
Seventy-percent of incarcerated individuals are people of color compared to 28% of US residents; 67% of incarcerated individuals were in poverty prior to incarceration compared to 15% of residents. Racially- and economically-biased policies have fueled incarceration growth– not differences in criminal behavior among these groups. In 1970, the incarceration rate was 160/100,000; rates peaked in 2008 at 767/100,000. Although there have been incremental declines since 2008, incarceration cannot be dramatically reduced due to failed reentry. Reforms are needed across the entire criminal justice system, but reentry is the leverage point where the smallest change yields the greatest impact. Although moral, fiscal, and political momentum for criminal justice reform exists, there will never be sustainable appetite until failed reentry is disrupted.
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Canada’s largest city has not only been recognized as the 10th most economically influential cities in the world, but also the most influential in Canada for 2020.
This is according to a new report titled “Cities Of Economic Influence Index,” from CEO World, which ranked 100 powerful cities in the world based on their competitiveness as a major urban centre.
According to the report, the Cities Of Economic Influence Index is based on five core indices, including:
- Economic Power (overall economic activity)
- Financial Clout (strength of a city’s finance and banking industries)
- People and Political (political and demographic influence)
- Quality of Life (productivity, infrastructure, quality of life, equity and social inclusion and environmental sustainability)
- Competitiveness (business activity, human capital, cultural experience, and political engagement)
To find which city came out on top, CEO Wold calculated a city’s total score across these five indices.
Interestingly, the report found, “the top 100 cities generate roughly half of the globe’s total economic output and the top twenty-five accounts for more than 30% of global economic production.”
This year, London was dubbed the most economically influential city in the world with an overall score of 85.49, while New York came in a close second with 83.49, followed by Tokyo with 82.59 points.
Toronto secured the 10th spot with 76.90 points, just 8.59 points behind London. Canada’s largest city was followed by Washington DC (76.32), Moscow (75.94), and Sydney (75.38). Two other Canadian cities made it onto the list, with Vancouver taking the 65th spot with 62.0 points and Montreal in the 72nd spot with 60.45 points.
Mayor John Tory said it’s “no surprise” Toronto has made it onto this list and that as the city continues to prosper, “we must ensure that this success is something that is accessible to everyone in our city.”
It’s no surprise that Toronto has been named one of the most economically influential cities in the world. As Toronto continues to prosper, we must ensure that this success is something that is accessible to everyone in our city. https://t.co/G6qTfXKs5b
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Cap-aux-Meules, Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
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Take a boat ride to see Cap-aux-Meules Island's magnificent caves and cliffs and to learn about lobster fishing. As you travel, your guide explains the natural history of Cap-aux-Meules and will point out various pelagic bird species.
The realities of lobster fishing are brought home to you when you help with raising a lobster trap. Learn about the fishing license, how the lobster gets into the trap, what type of bait lobster fishermen use, how to tell the males from the females, what size of lobster can be kept, and more. Questions? Great! Your guide has the answers. Fishing is the leading economic activity on Les Îles de la Madeleine and your experience will explain how this key economic driver shapes the Madelinot way of life.
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Community Action provides services to create access and opportunity for people in need. We are the federally designated antipoverty agency for Franklin and Hampshire Counties. Our services include childcare, family services, fuel assistance, food pantries, and homelessness prevention. Community Action's programs improve the lives of thousands of our neighbors every year. Your support makes these success stories possible.
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ArtWall "Iris Dreams" Gallery Wrapped Canvas Art By Herb Dickinson; 36" x 36"
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ArtWall "Iris Dreams" Gallery wrapped canvas art By Herb Dickinson measuring 36" x 36" can be used in home or at office.
- Size: 36" x 36"
- Artist: Herb Dickinson
- Material: Canvas
- Style: Contemporary
- Title: "Iris Dreams"
- Subject: Floral
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- Featuring irises against a floral abstract background, it would be a vibrant addition to any home or office
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LODHRAN: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Hamza Shahbaz on Sunday said nation had rejected the policies of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the politics of agitation, Aaj News reported.
“PML-N is the popular party of the country and public has shown its trust in the recent local bodies elections on party policies,” while addressing the public meeting regarding by-election on NA-154 in Lodhran.
Hamza Shahbaz said the government had taken several measures to overcome energy shortage in the country.
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All the things you want are motivated by the good feelings they will give you!
And how do you receive the good things you want in your life? Good feelings!
Dollars want you. Health wants you. Happiness wants you.
All the things you love WANT YOU!
They are bursting to come into your life.
But you have to give good feelings to bring them to you.
You don't have to battle and struggle to change the circumstances of your life.
All you have to do is give love through good feelings, and what you want will appear!
(The Power - Rhonda Byrne)
This is FANTASTIC!!!! You rock hun!! :D
Big thanks and lots of love to you, my dearest MP :D
I've just come back to this, and it's made me smile all over again :D
Love you MP :D
Love you too, Charlie ;-)
I love all of your posts too!!! They make me smile too :-)
How do you bring good feelings when things have really gone wrong? How do you reinstate faith that this time it will work? I wish the book explains it.
It's good to read this again once in while... :-)
I needed this honestly. <3 Thank you so much. After reading the it's hard to get X person or Y situation posts it's nice to read this and fill my body up with it.
Yay! Thank you for the reminder MP! :D
I like this way of thinking, because I see everything as "one intelligence", and this concept helps bridge the gap of a separate consciousness my ego may feel.
Not only is it a snappy anecdotal thing, but I can literally see how it will work in a conscious state....
Know what I mean?.... It isn't that something like money or a car can think like a human, but it is part of consciousness itself. And, so, knowing that such a thing is "attracted to you also" kind of completes the circle....
I think this is the foundation for some really really great affirmations/afformations that will overcome the worthiness and ability to have some great experiences.
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by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Prague, Czech Republic - Czech Romany activists are deeply concerned about the Molotov cocktail attack on a Romany family in Vitkov, north Moravia, during the night in which a two-year-old girl was severely burnt, and called for Romany guards to be formed and for emigration to Canada.
Many of us in the Romany community worldwide will, I am sure, share the concern and the outrage as to the attacks that we see happening not just in the Czech Republic and Hungary but also in other places and which often go more or less unreported, bar in local media – if we are lucky.
While the idea of Romany guards has been suggested by this writer and some others before it has also inherent problems and that is that those on the outside will then blame the Rom for the problems. Not that they do not do so already.
A protection “force” should be considered, nevertheless, I think, but bow things are to be done must be considered very carefully here.
On the other hand to call for immigration to Canada is, certainly, not the way to go; or immigration to any foreign land. The only thing thins will do is create more problems, namely in the country to which the escape is being made. In many of those countries, the UK for example, there are people who would use such immigrations as a signal to start their own Anti-Gypsy actions, of that we can be sure.
"The movement of Romany Resistance calls on Romanies to be watchful against terrorist attacks by Czechs," the movement says in a press statement.
The statement was joined by the organisations Roma Realia - north Bohemia, Romani Alliance - west Bohemia and Futurum Roma - central Bohemia.
The movements says Romanies should not rely on the "failing state apparatus" and reminds that arson attacks on Romany homes are not unique in the Czech Republic.
We, the Rom, should have notices by now, in fact we should have notices long ago, that no state apparatus would ever protect us, despite all the laws that may state, on paper, that the Romany are a minority protected under this and that legislation, whether in the country, e.g. Czech Republic, or wherever, or in the EU as a whole.
Unknown perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails into a family house inhabited by a Romany family. Three people, including the child, were injured in the consequent fire.
The attack has been sharply denounced by outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and President Vaclav Klaus.
While both the Czech Prime Minister and the President may have condemned this attack this is but rhetoric and for the media and the rest of the world; a fact that we have to face.
The movement has called on Romany communities to prepare possible escape routes from where they live or stay. They should not leave old people, women and children alone without "a strong Romany protection."
"This is the sole that Romanies can do within their possibilities, " the movement says.
The old way used to be “roving camp guards” and maybe those need to be considered, even if the place where one lives is not a camp. In addition to that what might be needed – and I know people will attack me for saying this – is to actually set up Romany communities, Gypsy settlements.
The movement also told possible critics of the call for emigration that no one has the right to keep Romanies at a place of danger where they are the possible targets of neo-Nazis, the statement says.
Kumar Vishwanathan, who has devoted himself to work with Romanies in north Moravia for many years, said that the attack was an expression of cowardice and that the the situation in the Czech Republic for the Romany starts to be intolerable.
He said that he could personally see Romany families having machetes and axes prepared at the door to defend themselves in case of an extremist attack.
"Unless our elected representatives and courts awake and unless they do something about the situation, disturbances will follow," Vishwanathan said.
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BACKGROUND: Walking impairment is a prevalent, life-altering feature of multiple sclerosis (MS). There has been recent speculation that physiological deconditioning (i.e., reductions in aerobic capacity, balance, and muscular strength) contributes to walking and gait impairments in MS.
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the associations among aerobic capacity, balance, and lower-limb strength asymmetries, walking performance, and gait kinematics in 31 persons with MS and 31 matched controls.
METHODS: Participants underwent standard assessments of peak aerobic capacity, muscular strength (i.e., asymmetry between knee muscles), and balance. Walking performance was measured using the timed 25-ft walk (T25FW) and six-minute walk (6MW). Gait parameters were captured using a GaitRite™ electronic walkway.
RESULTS: Aerobic capacity, balance, and knee-extensor asymmetry were associated with walking performance and gait in persons with MS (r=.2-.6) and explained differences in walking and gait variables between MS and control groups (∆R2=.27-.34). Aerobic capacity and lower-limb strength asymmetries, but not balance, explained significant variance in walking performance and gait kinematics in the MS sample (R2=.32-.58).
CONCLUSIONS: Physiological deconditioning explains variability in walking disability in persons with MS and might represent a target of multimodal exercise training interventions for improving mobility outcomes in this population.
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MUMBAI: The navigation span between pillars of the coastal road must be at least 160 metres, states a report prepared by an independent coastal geomorphologist Surendra Thakudesai
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Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.HLT is a leading global hospitality company and operates under a number of leading brands. This hotel company began trading in Dec 2013 and has a significant presence in major hospitality markets across the world.
The company has an industry-leading guest loyalty program - Hilton HHonors loyalty program - which serves millions of members worldwide.
Hilton's geographic exposure in the U.S., solid transient business as well as its improving group business trends will continue to drive RevPAR. However, lingering political uncertainty in some of the regions where the company operates and negative currency translation remains a concern.
Investors should note that the consensus estimate for HLT has been stable over the last 60 days. Meanwhile, HLT's earnings have been mixed over the past few quarters. The company outpaced/met the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the past four quarters, with an average beat of 2.52%. Notably, revenues surpassed estimates in three of the trailing four quarters.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. Price and EPS Surprise
HLT currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) but that could change following Hilton's earnings report which was just released. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
We have highlighted some of the key stats from this just-revealed announcement below:
Earnings: HLT beats on earnings. Our consensus earnings estimate called for EPS of 28 cents per share, and the company posted adjusted EPS of 38 cents. Investors should note that these figures take out stock option expenses.
Revenues: HLT reported revenues of $2.16 billion, surpassing the consensus mark of $2.08 billion.
Key Stats to Note: System-wide comparable RevPAR increased 3.0% year over year in the first quarter on a currency neutral basis. RevPAR at comparable managed and franchised hotels increased 2.7% on a currency neutral basis.
Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter rose 16% to $424 million.
Stock Price Impact: In-active in pre-market trading.
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High-yield, High-strength Thixotropic Cablebolt Grout
MasterRoc MG 01 is a high yield, shrinkage compensated and thixotropic grout for placement of cable and rock bolts in civil tunnels and underground mines.
- MasterRoc MG 01 is particularly suitable as a grout used for the encapsulation of roof bolts and cable anchors where the “top-down” grouting method is preferred.
- MasterRoc MG 01 has been specially developed to give a high yield (volume) of grout without segregation or bleed whilst providing excellent compressive strengths
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Casinos also spend a great deal of time, effort and money on security. This starts on the casino floor, where employees constantly watch over patrons and their behavior. Dealers are trained to spot blatant cheating, such as palming cards or marking dice. Table managers and pit bosses have a much broader view of the tables and can spot bet patterns that could indicate collusion between players. Casinos have a number of high-tech methods of surveillance, including video cameras and computers that monitor the games themselves.
Many casinos have a variety of ways to give back to their communities and economies. For example, they pay taxes based on a percentage of their gross gaming revenue (GGR). These taxes are one of the main ways that casinos help to support local schools and other government services. Some casinos also pay a modified business tax, which is based on payroll and excludes employee benefits such as health insurance.
The casino industry has a long and complex history, and it is a source of controversies and debates. Some critics argue that it is a form of organized crime, while others point to the success of casino-based tourism as evidence that legalized casinos can be an important economic driver. In addition, some governments have taken steps to regulate the industry, while others prohibit it altogether.
Casinos make their money by charging a percentage of the bets placed by their patrons. This can be a flat fee, known as the vigorish or rake, or a percentage of the winnings on specific games. In poker, for example, the rake is a percentage of the pot after each round.
Some casinos are renowned for their elegance and sophistication, while others are famous for their entertainment options or the movies that have been shot there. The Bellagio in Las Vegas, for example, is a casino that is renowned for its glitz and glamour, and it is also home to the popular water show, The Fountains of Bellagio.
The elegant spa town of Baden-Baden in Germany is home to a casino that was originally designed to attract royalty and the aristocracy 150 years ago. The casino features a number of luxury accommodations, along with more than 2,500 slot machines and table games, including blackjack, roulette, craps and baccarat. The casino also hosts a large selection of concerts and other entertainment events. | [
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The case of Opole Province in Poland
The book is devoted to relations between the ethnic diversity and the quality of governance at the local level. Opolskie province in Poland is a case for explaining this interdependence. That is because of its history of multiculturalism and the present state of its ethnic diversity. The important feature of this region is, that nearly half of the communes is ethnically homogenous when the rest is ethnically diversified with a strong position of German and Silesian minorities. The preliminary assumption was, that the quality of governance would be higher in communes characterized by ethnic diversity. On the basis of the nested analysis method, authors conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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II Ethnic diversity and quality of governance. Conceptualization and measurement at the commune level
Before we focus on the issue of the conceptualization and operationalization of the notions of “ethnic diversity” and “quality of governance”, it is necessary to present a general description of the specific character of the administrative level that is being surveyed and compared. This is because the legal and political status of the Polish commune and its social and demographic specificity can have an effect on the directions and possibilities of the quality of governance in the commune. Consequently, these characteristic features should be taken into consideration in the interpretation of research results.
Since 1999 Poland has had a three-level territorial division system within which two local government segments have been shaped: the local system covering communes and districts and the regional system based on provinces. These changes of 1999 have occurred as a part of democratization process of post-Soviet Poland (which had started already in 1989), with the objectives, like: strengthening of local self-government, decentralization and deconcentration of political power (Yoder 2003).
Relations among these three segments of regional and local government are based on a combination of partnership in most cases, however antagonisms over conflicting jurisdictions happen as well. It should be noted that at present the district is regarded as the weakest local government link with a weak financial base, while the commune constitutes the center of local power (Wojciechowski et al. 2014: 19–20). According to the typology of local government systems in Eastern Europe proposed by Paweł Swianiewicz, the Polish system, together with those of Slovakia and Hungary, was classified as »champions of decentralization«. It means that local government assumes responsibility for a wide range of tasks; is characterized by a directly elected mayor (in Poland since 2002, earlier major was elected by a commune council) and a majority voting system for decision making bodies (in communes with up to 20,000 inhabitants). Additionally, local government is characterized by a considerable scope of financial autonomy, which manifests itself in the right to determine the level of local taxes, the transparent criteria for receiving transfers from the central budget, and the right to incur ←29 | 30→debt and credit without external approval of other jurisdictional levels. Among the five types of local government in Eastern Europe proposed by Swianiewicz5, the Polish system represents the highest level of decentralization, showing similarities to the so-called Northern model characteristic of the Western European democracies (Swianiewicz 2014: 303–307). Thus, a Polish commune can be justifiably regarded as an autonomous political space since, by way of cyclical and democratic elections, voters appoint decision making authorities and executive authorities are responsible for fulfilling the needs of their self-governing community. Communes also pursue autonomous financial policies and make use of symbols expressing the identity of a local community (an emblem, local feasts, monuments of nature).
Nevertheless, the specific character of this local political system comprises rules of electing authorities, making decisions, and enforcing political responsibility that are determined at the center rather than local level. It means that in communes there exist structural barriers to the possibility of shaping the principles of good governance (Antoszewski 2014: 21–22).
The position of a commune in Poland’s political system is defined in Chapter VII of the Constitution of Poland, which guarantees its political and financial autonomy. A commune constitutes a basic local government unit, has the status of a legal person, and its autonomy is protected by courts. It executes all tasks of local government which are not reserved for the competence of the other local government units, i.e. districts and provinces. Its funds comprise its own revenues as well as grants and subsidies from the central budget. A commune’s activities are subject to supervision with respect to legality by central government bodies. Such supervision is exercised by the President of the Council of Ministers and provincial governors, while financial matters are monitored by regional accounting chambers (‘Constitution’ 1997). The range of public tasks carried out by a commune and the principles of the functioning of commune authorities are determined in the Commune Government Act of 8 March 1990. The Act sets forth 20 tasks for which a commune is responsible, among which are | [
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The next class of astronauts could head to the ISS, fly on NASA’s Orion or embark on a commercial crew spacecraft.
Moscow's spacecraft contractor is preparing a lunar ship.
Luckily, most of it will probably burn up in the atmosphere.
“Songs From a Tin Can” was recorded while the astronaut was on the International Space Station.
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"We have various levels of training certification for the crew for each system."
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This feast is the first of its kind.
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Soon we’ll get regular installments of images that capture the sunlit side of the planet.
One day after the flyby, the New Horizons team makes an important discovery about geology based on a detailed surface image.
The spacecraft’s team waited anxiously for it to “let us know it’s OK.”
Videos, tweets and a Google doodle honor the historic moment in space exploration.
NASA is set to make history shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday when the New Horizons spacecraft zooms past Pluto.
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SANTA CRUZ — Assemblyman Luis Alejo has written to UC President Mark Yudof saying he is “deeply disappointed” in the institution”s decision to raise compensation for three top administrators during the same week tuition was increased nearly 10percent.
During last week”s three-day meeting of the UC Board of Regents, tuition was raised 9.6percent, on top of an 8percent increase in November, in order to help cope with an unexpected $150million cut in state funding. The Regents approved pay raises for three top administrators.
“What the Regents will have to confront is that there will be a growing number of legislators who will be more critical of the UC system and will be looking closer at state funding for UC,” Alejo, a Watsonville Democrat who serves on the Assembly”s budget committee, said in an interview Monday. “They are making cuts to classes, increasing class sizes, and laying off employees, but yet they found the money for top executives to get massive pay increases.”
UC San Francisco Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Mark Laret received a $195,300 annual pay hike in what Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellman said was a direct reaction to an attempt by a Harvard University affiliated medical center to lure Laret away. Laret”s base annual salary will now be $935,000 a year, and he can earn $100,000 more each year through incentives.
For example, if Laret were to stay three more years, through 2013, his retention bonus would be $300,000 in that year alone. All of the funds being used to pay for the increase come from medical center revenue and not state funding.
“Mark Laret is a nationally recognized health care expert with a stellar record, and his compensation increase is consistent with market pay for leaders of his caliber,” Desmond-Hellman said in a statement. “The funds for Mark”s increase come from hospital operating revenue, not from state funds, and the new compensation will not affect student fees or academic program support.”
Santiago Muñoz, vice president for Clinical Services Management, received a new title to reflect current responsibilities, chief strategy officer, and a $49,600 annual raise to bring his salary to $250,000. Only a portion of Muñoz”s salary comes from state money, and the state-funded portion of his raise is $19,940.
Finally, Patrick Lenz, vice president of budget, also had his title changed to reflect other responsibilities he took on two years ago. His salary is entirely funded from state money and he received a $27,500 raise to bring his annual salary to $300,000.
“Each of the compensation packages approved by the Regents for three of our most talented and effective senior managers is fair to the employees and a prudent decision for the university,” UC Office of the President spokeswoman Dianne Klein wrote in an email. “The compensation increases for three individuals who have generated billions of dollars in new revenue and savings will cost a total of $47,440 in state funds.”
Assemblymen Paul Fong, D-Cupertino, who is on the Assembly”s Committee on Higher Education, and Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, who serves on the Committee on Education, agree UC”s compensation decisions are drawing more attention in the Sacramento.
“There is an a wall between the legislature and UC to avoid political interference in education and content, but we have the ultimate power of the purse strings and it”s our responsibility to use (taxpayer money) wisely,” Norby said.
Even though many students are not on campus for the summer, the decision by the Regents did not go unnoticed by student leaders.
“I understand that it is important in a good market to offer competitive compensation, but I”m not sure it”s appropriate to offer raises in this economy,” said Claudia Magaña, president of the UC Student Association and a UC Santa Cruz student. “Students just had their tuition raised twice in one year.” | [
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Hampton Roads and other coastal regions, said Wielicki, will have hard decisions to make.
"Our community, we like to think it's going to be here indefinitely," said Wielicki. "But at some point that's not going to be the case. There is a question: With continued sea level rise, is Hampton Roads habitable in the long run? Centuries, not decades. Are we living here temporarily, or is this a long-term community?
"We know the changes we're making are going to last for hundreds or thousands of years. We could be basically setting up civilization for challenges 100,000 years from now that we have a hard time even conceiving today."
Some recent progress has been made.
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other facilities dropped by 10 percent from 2010-2012. Power plants dump far more heat-trapping greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than any other type of facility.
And last month the EPA issued new rules to curb the amount of carbon that new coal- and gas-fired power plants can release. The agency plans to issue limits for existing power plants next summer.
Recently, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced $162 million for 45 projects to protect Atlantic coast communities from future storms. More than $3 million will go toward hydrological restoration in the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.
The award is part of President Obama's larger Climate Action Plan to restore natural shorelines to better protect communities from storms.
When ancient humans faced rising sea levels caused by natural climate change, said Hein, they could pack up and migrate inland.
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WATERLOO — The city is looking to expand its boundaries to provide additional land for economic development.
Waterloo Planning, Programming and Zoning Commission members voted unanimously Tuesday to support the city’s request to annex about 25 acres of land at the Northeast Industrial Area and add it to the tax-increment financing district.
The land along the east side of North Elk Run Road is currently farmed but sits just east of the Deere and Co. tractor assembly plant and north of Tyson Fresh Meats and Twin City Hides, the former Eagle Ottawa Tanning Co.
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“For the size of project we anticipate there, there is water, sewer, utilities and rail nearby,” Anderson said. “We might need to extend a rail spur for a project or extend the sewer from the rail area up to site.”
City Council members voted unanimously May 14 to buy the 19.08 acres of farm land from John and Dessie Rottinghaus for $285,000.
Council members will be asked in the future to annex the lot and North Elk Run Road right-of-way. They will also be asked to amend the TIF boundaries so taxes generated by other property in the district can be used to pay for the land and provide incentives to lure a development prospect.
The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors will be asked first to provide a resolution supporting the land being annexed into the city.
Anderson said the city may also ask the supervisors to add the property to the TIF district before it is annexed, which will allow the city to bring the site to market more quickly. | [
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Friday, November 18, 2011
It's Either The Lighting Or Somethin', But What's Wrong With MARSHA AMBROSIUS' Face? She Looks 15 Years Older!
Check out this pic from the Soul Train Awards.
There's Cynthia from Real Housewives of Atlanta, looking every bit a model with the bold red dress, black-out stockings, black suede heels, and a gorgeous smile... and good makeup.
On the other hand... there's Marsha Ambrosius with her vintage black dress and hott stilettos... and there's one thing that's NOT SO HOTT, and that's Marsha's face!!!
What happened?? Is it the lighting or bad makeup, 'cuz Marsha looks SEVERAL YEARS OLDER!!
Ladies, apply your makeup right or you're in TROUBLE!!
You don't want a man to mistake you for a COUGAR when you just graduated from college!
Pic: Jasmine Brand
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just splice the wires inside the insulator on the cable and solder them directly onto the board if you like.
Personally I wouldnt do that and id have some sort of plug there instead of a static connection. Even if you cant find a USB connector, just use any other sort of 5 pin connector (including the chasis for ground).
So your saying... cut my current cable.... solder on a new cable that has a new connector on it, and then plug in. Right?
if so... How can I tell which wire is which?
Colour code. there should be a red (+ve), black (-ve), green (data+), white (data-). and a braded sheeth (earthing).
Just a question, how did you bend it?
everything is mounted on a hinged board in my trunk. It was fine in the upright position, but when the board slipped down to the down position. there wasnt enough slack in the wires
They make connectors now! Here's Type-A if it's of any help.
ok, So I opened it all up for soldering today... and I got problems
as you can see, the Gray Usb Cable on the bottom (left to right) has, silver ground, grey, green, black, red... and the black USB CAble(the GPS) on top (left to right) has green, blue, yellow, red, black, white,
6 and 5 dont match...
How should I solder these?
I'd suggest you get a DVM or just a continuity tester and check the old connector. If it uses the standard colors correctly, the pins shound be in the order of black, green, white, red if you're looking at the male connector with the pins on the bottom, but don't trust that. Make sure! So most likely if that's the order of the old one (black, green, white, red) and the new one is black, green, grey, red, then just connect it like that and chop the other 2 wires (blue and yellow) off and tape/heatshrink over them. I'd keep the wires short so there's not a whole lot of unshielded wire there too.
EDIT: Oops, just noticed a mistake in the colors.
so your saying the blue and yellow wires are worthless?
I would do the continuity testing.......
but unfortunately I already hacked about the old connector in a frustrated attempt to see where the wires led to which pins... I couldn't really tell, and now my connector is in shreds... Thanks for the suggestion though Curiosity, It definatley would have worked...
Any other ideas?
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So, What’s Your Point? Finding the Plot in a Chart Your Own Adventure Culture
A Denver Journal Review by Denver Seminary Professor Bill Klein
Francis Sciacca. So, What’s Your Point. Finding the Plot in a Chart Your Own Adventure Culture. Birmingham, AL: Hands of Hur. 270 pp. $25.00. ISBN: 9780985967604.
It’s difficult to isolate one genre to describe this important book. It’s a perceptive and incisive social analysis—particularly of American, and more pointedly Evangelical, cultural values. Denver Seminary graduate Fran Sciacca writes out of his considerable research and wide-ranging personal experiences to analyze and critique important developments since the pivotal 1960’s. But more, he shows convincingly the impact of these developments on the church that has sadly come to mirror the culture in a multitude of ways.
The book is also self-help, if there can be a best sense of that genre. That is, Sciacca seeks to help followers of Christ come to embrace and live out their God-designed identity, not based on the values and messages the culture champions and sells so effectively.
Yet the book is also a biblical theology—and Sciacca is careful to tell the full story of the Bible, what some call the “Grand Narrative.” If Christians understand who they are and what God’s redemptive program in the world entails, they will find their own mission and real fulfillment—though probably not the “American Dream”! Prayerfully read, this book will provoke a crisis: do we really want what God wants or do we want what we want? Do we define the goal of life in terms of American values, or God’s call? Sciacca is bold, in the pattern of God’s prophets, telling God’s life-giving message in a day of great crisis. And, to be sure, Sciacca knows the ins and outs of that crisis in the lives of real people after a lifetime of teaching students and speaking widely, not to mention his own life story. Sciacca’s writing is gripping, alive, and engaging; he’s clearly an accomplished communicator.
My fear is that those who most need to read and heed his message won’t bother to read the book, or that we read the book and dismiss its wakeup call. But if we do, we will live much diminished lives. Sciacca gives Christians a prescription and a mandate for lives worth living, ones that truly fulfill the mission of God for this world.
The book will prove very useful for both groups and individuals, providing nearly 100 chapter-by-chapter discussion questions. It is self-published by Hands of Hur, Inc., the ministry that Sciacca leads in Birmingham, AL. The book is available directly from the website www.sowhatsyourpoint.org or via Amazon. Potential readers can also “test-drive” the first 30 pages on the book’s site.
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Oppo officially announces its 5x optical zoom technology
Just as we suspected, Oppo’s mysterious camera technology turned out to be an optical zooming one. Dubbed 5x, the company’s new tech manages to cram a telephoto lens inside a mobile phone, allowing for 5x "lossless" zooming.
Smartphones have had other optical zooming options in the past, the most popular solution being the one employed by the iPhone 7 Plus: having two sensors, one of which is permanently zoomed in, and using software to seamlessly combine the two. Oppo’s 5x, however, does things a bit differently, since the second sensor is hidden inside the phone’s chassis at a 90-degree angle.
Apple's iPhone 7 Plus only has 2x optical zoomThe tech works with a telephoto lens, which is rotated perpendicularly inside the device, and the light from which is then reflected through a rotating prism. The mechanism can rotate by increments of 0.0025 degrees, allowing for precise control of zooming, and also includes picture stabilization. Oppo claims the result is “lossless” 5x zooming, though we still have to see it in action before we believe it.
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6 steps to pay less for car insurance
Since you're paying more for gas, maybe it's time to save on another expensive part of the driving experience.
This post comes from Brandon Ballenger at partner site Money Talks News.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American spent $5.75 each and every day for gas in 2010. Since the average price per gallon is now approaching a record price of $4.11, you can bet that's a bigger number now.
What's a driver to do? You can try to use less by doing things like checking tire pressure, cleaning air filters and rolling up (or down) your windows. You might even try to hedge prices by following the advice in "The single best tip to beat high gas prices." But here's an additional idea you may not have considered: Adjust your car insurance.
The same BLS report says the average American spends more than $1,000 annually on car insurance. Squeezing savings from your policy will ease your pain at the pump.
In the video below, Stacy Johnson offers three practical ways to lower your premiums. Check it out, then read on for a few more ideas.
Let's add some detail to Stacy's suggestions and examine a few more ways to drive down the cost of car insurance.
Understanding exactly what you're paying for can help you save. (See "Understanding, organizing and saving on car insurance" for a look at the spreadsheet Stacy mentioned in the video.) For example, if you have an older vehicle you own outright, it might make sense to drop comprehensive and collision coverage. These expensive components of a car insurance policy cover theft, vandalism and accident damage to your car when you're at fault.
One rule of thumb: If the annual cost of comp and collision coverage exceeds 10% of the car's value, it might be worth dropping. So if your car is worth only $1,000 and comp and collision costs more than $100 a year, you might consider self-insuring against at-fault wrecks, theft and other perils. But remember, if you don't have full coverage on your car, you won't have it when you rent one either -- unless it's provided by your credit card -- which can mean paying outrageous rates at the rental car counter.
Another thing to remember: Don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish when it comes to liability coverage. That covers other people and their property if you cause an accident. It's critical.
The point is that from roadside assistance to towing to comp and collision, insurance is made up of components, each with its own price tag. Go over your policy and understand what each part costs and what it covers. If you don't understand it, there's a simple solution: Call your company and make a representative break it down for you.
A deductible is simply what you're willing to pay before your insurance kicks in. For obvious reasons, the more you're willing to pay yourself, the lower your premium. The Insurance Information Institute says going from a $250 deductible to $500 can save 30%, and up to $1,000 can save more than 40%.
Many companies offer discounts for having anti-theft and safety devices, multiple policies with the same company, pay-as-you-drive, low mileage, no accidents, being over 50 -- the list goes on and on. Even setting up online auto-pay can help. But often the discounts won't be made available to you unless you call and ask.
As Stacy mentioned, he does this only every couple of years. But it can pay off, especially if you haven't compared rates for a while. Use an insurance tool to compare rates. Also, look to see if any other insurers are licensed in your state. (Not sure about a company's financial strength? Check its ratings at Standard & Poor's.)
Insurance companies use lots of seemingly irrelevant information to set their rates, including your credit score. They've found that people with bad credit are more likely to file claims. So work on your credit score if it's not where you want it. Estimate your credit score for free.
Some vehicles cost more to insure, and not just Porsches either. While a low insurance rate may be way down the list of factors you consider when buying a car -- certainly behind mileage -- you can find out the least and most expensive cars to insure.
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Reality flew over this guy's head...
And Geico??? Please..."15 minutes will save you..." squat. They were about 30% higher than my current carrier. And boy...try to get these idiots to leave you alone once you request that "free quote". Worse than a damned mosquito.
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What Is Fantasy Football?
What Is Fantasy Football?
Gregg Rosenthal (Fantasy Sports Sr. Editor) gives expert video advice on: How does a fantasy football league work?; Are all fantasy football leagues the same?; What do I do if a conflict arises in my fantasy football league? and more...
What is a fantasy football 'league'?
Well, a league is comprised of a group of teams and those are owned by whoever. I'll own one team and maybe you‘ll own another, so each team has its own owner when you all get together. Usually I see 12 team leagues on average. There's some that are less, like 8 or 10, and there are some that are more, like 14 or 16. I would say on average that every league will be about 10 to 12 teams. Basically, your league is comprised of each team, and you therefore you are going to go through a draft and draft your players. Throughout the season you'll pick up players, you'll drop players and you'll trade players with other teams, and that's pretty much what all the league activities are.
How does a fantasy football league work?
You get together eight, ten, twelve, or even fourteen owners per league. Each owner is responsible for drafting their own team so you'll have a draft at the beginning of the season where you'll go through and pick your players. Each owner will be responsible for that team throughout the season, so there's a lot of activities to do during the season. You can pick up players or you can drop players every week in what's called a free agent or waiver process, and that can kind of tweak your roster. You can also make trades with other teams in the league. The fantasy football league is going to start when the NFL season starts, or a couple of weeks before when you do your draft. It will go all the way until just about the end of the NFL season. Towards the end of the NFL season, say week fourteen, fifteen or sixteen, that's when December is starting so that's when the fantasy playoffs are. And that's when all the best teams in your league will go into usually a single elimination tournament. They will play playoffs just like the NFL playoffs and the winner will be determined. Usually it's around week sixteen of the NFL season. That's pretty much how the fantasy football league is comprised. You'll keep track of all the events in your league, usually on a website where they can keep track of who's winning, who's losing and who comprises each roster and who's on each team.
Are all fantasy football leagues the same?
No absolutely not, they're so many different fantasy football leagues. Each fantasy football league I'm in is even a little different. Some fantasy football leagues have 12 teams, some leagues have 10 teams and some fantasy football leagues even have 16 teams. Some fantasy football leagues use very different scoring systems. I think the main difference I tend to see is in team defense, as every league has a different way of keeping track of team defenses. Some will really minimize how important they are so you won't really be able to score that many points, you'll just get a couple points maybe if you get an interception or a sack. With some fantasy football leagues, it's really important to hold the team under 10 points, then your defensive fantasy football team is going to score a ton. So that's one way leagues really differ. Another way fantasy football leagues differ I think, is if you keep track of a point per reception - that is maybe the other most important way fantasy football teams tends to differ. I almost think it's half and half. Half of the leagues out there, they give you a point if you catch a pass, if running backs or wide outs catch a pass but the other fantasy football leagues will just kind of ignore that. Every fantasy football league tweaks their scoring system a little and they also tweak their starting lineups a little different. With a lot of fantasy football leagues, you'll just play one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one kicker, and one team defense. But a lot of other fantasy football leagues will add a wide receiver to your starting lineup. Sometimes they will add what is called a flex position player to your lineup, and that'll be a player that you chose as your best sort of wild card player that's on your bench, either a running back, a wide receiver or a tight end. That's a couple of the ways fantasy football leagues can differ. They also can differ on what the prize money is going to be, or what the prizes are going to be. I think one thing you'll find is that there's sort of a league for everyone. There's also keeper leagues and that's where you keep your players forever. It's all about how much you want to put in and how intense you want the league to be. And one thing I really recommend with everyone, especially if they are just starting out | [
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Diabetes is a disease that interferes with the body's ability to use and store sugar and can cause many health problems. One, called diabetic retinopathy, can weaken and cause changes in the small blood vessels that nourish your eye's retina, the delicate, light sensitive lining of the back of the eye. These blood vessels may begin to leak, swell or develop brush-like branches.
The early stages of diabetic retinopathy may cause blurred vision, or they may produce no visual symptoms at all. As the disease progresses, you may notice a cloudiness of vision, blind spots or floaters.
If left untreated, diabetic retinopathy can cause blindness, which is one reason why it is important to have your eyes examined regularly by your doctor of optometry. This is especially true if you are a diabetic or if you have a family history of diabetes.
To detect diabetic retinopathy, your optometrist can look inside your eyes with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope that lights and magnifies the blood vessels in your eyes. If you have diabetic retinopathy, laser and other surgical treatments can be used to reduce its progression and decrease the risk of vision loss. Early treatment is important because once damage has occurred, the effects are usually permanent.
If you are a diabetic, you can help prevent diabetic retinopathy by taking your prescribed medication as instructed, sticking to your diet, exercising regularly, controlling high blood pressure and avoiding alcohol and smoking.
November is National Diabetes Month. Members of the American Optometric Association are joining with members of other health care organizations in an effort to prevent blindness in Americans with diabetes. If you or a member of your family has not received a dilated eye examination in the past year, you should contact your optometrist for an appointment. If you do not have an optometrist, click here to search for an AOA-member optometrist in your area. | [
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Max Brooks’s novel World War Z is surely the most successful zombie apocalypse novel in history, earning praise for its ability to transform inherently silly subject matter into something not only meaningful but even affecting. It achieved its success through Brooks’s keen understanding of the fact that a zombie apocalypse is essentially a narrative device to allow for in-depth social commentary and metaphor, not a great or interesting story unto itself. It’s the same understanding that makes George Romero’s zombie films so much better than Tom Savini’s and Zack Snyder’s remakes. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, Italy/USA 1978) is a film about consumerism and its supposed anti-intellectual effects, not how zombies could take over the world.
Unfortunately, Marc Forster and his trio of screenwriters (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof) don’t seem to share that understanding. Instead of delivering a film about the effects of consumerism on the minds of modern humans, the dangerous effects of racism and general fear of the “other,” or the dangers of increasing militarism in the modern political age (all of which have been the point of successful zombie films in the past), they present a zombie film that is nothing more or less than a medical thriller. It’s Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, USA/United Arab Emirates 2011) remade by someone who didn’t understand any of what made that such an excellent film. There is absolutely no unifying point to the film. It makes some pretenses of having them, repeatedly bringing up the idea that a powerful force’s greatest strength is also often its greatest weakness and focusing heavily on the hero’s love of his wife and children.
The film sets the tone for what it is immediately, opening with some simple family scenes that hamfistedly make the point that our hero, Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), is used to working in dangerous situations and has given up such work for the sake of his family. Then, we get a mysterious traffic jam with equally mysterious police presence and explosions that ends up turning into the first great zombie attack, ending with Lane driving his family away in an amazing display of driving skill. He is quickly established as a perfect human being, reminiscent of Tom Cruise’s character in War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, USA 2005), and this sequence immediately sets up the film as a simplistic, one-note action film that’s more about fire, explosions, and fast driving cars than anything else. It establishes that the film is going to spell out everything it wants to say as obviously as possible and will not have anything deeper to say than its surface story. And the rest of the film remains the same.
Visually, Forster and cinematographer Ben Seresin do very little to add to the film. Forster having done some interesting visual work in his past in Finding Neverland (USA/UK 2004) and Stay (USA 2005), it’s terribly disappointing to see him fall into such clear clichés. It’s shot mostly in a cool color palette like most science fiction films and thrillers with all the usual overuse of CGI and series of extremely quick shots that add nothing to the film except to make its pace appear quicker than the plot itself actually moves forward. Forster has previously loved playing with bright shafts of light, interesting color choices, using small amounts of CGI in nontraditional ways, and using mirrors heavily, but none of those elements is visible in this film. Instead, he shoots a standard-issue Hollywood blockbuster, and as a result the film is a failure in a visual sense, something I never would have expected to say about one of Marc Forster’s works.
Acting-wise, there is little that can be said about the film, because there really isn’t anything for anyone to do. The only character who gets a lot of screen time is Gerry Lane, but he is depicted as such a perfect human being that there really is nothing for Brad Pitt to do with the role. He acquits himself well enough with what he has to do, but it’s essentially nothing. And that description could easily be applied to very actor in this film. Mireille Enos is just a scared, put-upon wife and mother; Daniella Kertesz is a just a brave, tough soldier; David Morse is just a loon; and so on. No one does a poor job, but no one has enough to do to stand out in a positive way. It was nice to get a peek at the twelfth Doctor ahead of time for a crazy Doctor Who fan like me, but he didn’t have enough time on screen to do anything even if the character did have any depth.
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Sticky Toffee Pudding, is a popular steam dessert, using dates, rich toffee sauce, and is usually accompanied with custard, cream, or ice cream. It is thought that the original Sticky Toffee Pudding was produced by Francis Coulson at Sharrow Bay Country House Hotel in the Lake District in the 1970s. The recipe was so secret that the original recipe is considered a culinary legend, and members of staff at Sharrow Bay signed a secrecy agreement not to reveal the recipe. The warming comfort that the Sticky Toffee Pudding provides, is perfect for the harsh cold weather the Lake District experiences.
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Oral cancer amounts to about 3% of cancer diagnoses every year, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
While it doesn’t get as much attention as other forms of the disease, prevention and early detection are important because it can spread quickly once it takes hold. More than twice as many men versus women are diagnosed with it every year.
April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month, so it’s a good time to learn how you can work with your dental care providers to defend yourself and your family against this cancer.
Visit your dentist regularly
Regular dental checkups are essential for early detection. Dentists are trained to identify signs of oral cancer during routine exams. Make dental appointments at least once every six months.
This may involve visual examination, manual palpation of oral tissues or the use of specialized diagnostic tools.
Know your risk factors
Understand your personal risk factors for oral cancer, including age (40+), gender, family history and previous history of cancer. Discuss these factors with your dental care provider to determine an appropriate screening schedule.
Tobacco use, including smoking cigarettes, cigars or pipes, as well as chewing tobacco, significantly increases your risk.
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Heavy alcohol consumption also is linked to an increased risk of oral cancer. If you choose to drink, do so in moderation.
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a risk factor for some types of oral cancer. Practicing safe sex and getting vaccinated against HPV can reduce the risk of infection.
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The West Wind is too great a king to be a dissembler: he is no calculator plotting deep schemes in a sombre heart; he is too strong for small artifices; there is passion in all his moods
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I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
Differing one from another in natures and moods
so greatly as they did, they yet formed, bending, a curiously uniform row--automatic, noiseless; and an alien observer passing down the neighbouring lane might well have been excused for massing them as "Hodge".
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had not indeed changed--but mellowed.
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Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017 R2 was just released. With this SDK, developers can use an advanced development environment to build OpenCL™ applications, accelerate heterogeneous compute application performance and customize their solutions. https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-opencl Download the new SDK now.
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In May of 2011 I was walking down the street on the way home from a doctor’s appointment when someone stopped me and asked me if I knew anyone who was interested in a position for part time or full time work. I then told him that I was interested, we then exchanged numbers, he called me and told me to come to a meeting so I showed up and when I realized that it was a Primerica function I automatically got discouraged because I was some what educated in the network marketing industry being in Amway years before (Who hasn’t served some time in Amway at one time or another). And I’ve heard a lot of negative things about Primerica so I automatically went in there with the “I’m not gonna listen to anything these people gotta say because THIS IS A SCAM.” type of attitude, I literally sat through that meeting with my arms folded and told myself “No matter what happens I WILL NOT GET EXCITED!”
As I sat through the meeting I was starting to realize that a lot of the financial concepts made sense to me, especially when they were talking about the importance of life insurance because I recalled the times some friends of mine who had unfortunately passed away and the financial devastation it took on their families. So after the meeting I had the opportunity to speak to the person who invited me so he could then explain to me on a one on one basis basically what they were about and how I could earn money with them. After the conversation I realized that this opportunity could be something that I could do in order to earn money so I immediately signed up.
Fast forward 6 months later I’m still involved in the company and it’s been a very educational experience. After being in Primerica for this time I have learned a lot of valuable of financial concepts such as buying term insurance and investing the difference so you will have money later in your retirement years. I have also learned the value of working in a team environment. The people in this environment are really positive and up beat and they are all looking to better themselves and their financial situation.
Every day I see someone new who inspires me to do better with myself and my business. For instance one of my colleagues who started at the same time that I did was able to earn close to three thousand dollars in two weeks! The best part about that was HE WAS ONLY 18 YEARS OLD!! Even though I was previously in Amway a couple of years before I didn’t earn any money being in that company but thanks to me being involved in the Primerica opportunity I was able to earn commission checks which solidified my belief not only in the company but in the network marketing industry in general.
Now that I’ve said these things let me get to the most important part of the article, which basically is “Is Primerica a scam? Can you earn money with the company? And will it work for me?” If you are asking yourself these questions let me tell you honestly that one, Primerica is not a scam it’s been around for a long time and the reason people don’t earn any money with this company or any company for that matter is that the network marketing industry has this giant misconception that as soon as you sign up with a company that YOU’LL BE ABLE TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS BY TOMORROW!! Obviously this is not true and when people realize this they are automatically put off on the business and the industry in general thinking that it’s a scam or a pyramid scheme because they wasn’t able to earn the money as fast as they thought they could. » Read more: A Look at Primerica From the Eyes of a Regular Person | [
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Pop-Up Opera at Carrick Hill
Our hugely successful Pop-Up Opera at Carrick Hill returns in 2017 to present a fabulous evening of opera, food and wine. The evening commences with State Operas' incomparable stable of singers entertaining you in the elm gardens wile you sip champagne. Once indoors the singers present a short, entertaining program accompanied by the historic Broadwood grand piano. A delicious dinner follows in the marquee with more superb music.
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This is an annual event for serious amateur astronomers! The Messier Marathon is an attempt to hunt down all off the objects in the Messier Catalogue in one very hurried night. If you plan to attend, come early so that your gear is set up and ready as soon as the sun sets.
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To describe mental health services utilization for adolescents after attempted suicide, explore factors related to treatment compliance, and determine the relationship between compliance and suicidality.
Eighty-five adolescents (ages 13–18) who had attempted suicide and their families were recruited from four psychiatric hospitals and were evaluated for symptoms of psychopathology. Subsequent assessments were conducted every six months for two years to determine treatment utilization, treatment compliance (non-adherence to medication regimes or non-attendance of psychosocial treatments against provider advice), attitudes towards treatments utilized, and further suicide attempts and ideation.
Adolescents with a disruptive behavior disorder diagnosis were less compliant with individual psychotherapy, as were those with a substance dependence other than alcohol or marijuana. Those with an affective/anxiety disorder diagnosis were less compliant with psychopharmacological interventions (6 months post attempt). Parental perception of treatment as helpful was predictive of greater compliance, while adolescents' attitudes towards treatment were not predictive of compliance. Finally, compliance with treatment was not generally predictive of future suicidality.
Interventions focused on increasing compliance with mental health treatment for adolescent suicide attempters should focus on specific child psychopathology, as well as parental attitudes towards treatment.
The problem of recurrent adolescent attempted suicide is a major one and has been the focus of increasing attention.1–2 Adolescents have been shown to reattempt suicide at rates ranging from 6% to 50%,2–3 depending on the time lapse at follow-up, with up to 11% of those who initially attempt suicide eventually dying by suicide.4 Recurrent suicidal ideation is also of significance, with a range between 38.5% and 45% of adolescent suicide attempters reporting suicidal ideation at follow-up three to six months after the attempt.3,5 Although a number of treatments have shown promise in improving outcomes among suicidal youth, including individual, family, and pharmacotherapies,6–8 there is some evidence that treatment compliance is generally poor.
Compliance with mental health treatments among adolescents is recognized to be poor,9 and adolescents who attempt suicide comprise a very difficult group to engage in even initial treatment follow-through after hospitilization.10–12 Trautman, Stewart, and Morishima13 found that 77% of their sample of 112 suicide attempters (ages 10–18 years old) either did not attend or failed to complete recommended treatment, and that suicide attempters missed more appointments and dropped out more quickly from treatment than non-attempters (mean of 3 visits versus 11 visits). Similarly, Granboulan and colleagues14 reported that only 32% of adolescent attempters (13–18 year-olds) attended all scheduled appointments, 31% attended some scheduled appointment, 11% attended only one session post-hopitilization, and 25% never attended any follow-up appointment. Reported rates of non-compliance with first appointments (i.e. post-hopitilization) for this population range from 17.5% to 41.6%.11,14–16
The few studies investigating the hypothesis that treatment compliance has positive implications for adjustment outcome and course have yielded some empirical support for it. Pillay and Wassenaar17 found significantly lower rates of psychiatric symptoms and hopelessness in those who had complied with treatment as compared to those who were non-compliant. Furthermore, Rotheram-Borus and colleagues18 found that for participants in their psychosocial intervention (140 female adolescent suicide attempters, ages 12–18 years) who had low to moderate symptomatology at baseline, attending at least 7 sessions was protective vis-à-vis suicidal ideation. Finally, Callor et al.,19 found through autopsy reports that among youths (ages 21 and under) who completed suicide, 82% did not have the therapeutic level of prescribed psychotropic medication at the time of death.
Since treatment compliance may have important implications for outcomes in this population, it is important to focus on factors related to noncompliance. Researchers have found poorer rates of treatment compliance among suicidal adolescents with comorbid diagnoses of substance abuse, conduct disorders,15 and depressive disorders,20 in terms of number of therapy appointments scheduled and kept, refusal of recommended treatment, and non-compliance with medication regimes.20 A number of family factors have been identified as having a positive influence on treatment compliance among adolescent suicide attempters, including parental involvement in treatment and family cohesion, which are associated with increased attendance at psychotherapy sessions, and positive parental attitudes toward mental health treatment, associated with initial treatment follow-through.12,21 King and colleagues10 assessed treatment compliance (none/minimal contact with recommended provider, some contact, or complete treatment) in the initial 6 months after hospitalization for suicidal symptoms. They found that mothers’ depressive and paranoid symptoms were associated with lower rates of individual and family treatment compliance, while mothers’ hostility was linked with poorer medication follow-through.
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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum says four companies have won contracts for mining nephrite in eastern Kunar and Nangarhar provinces.
Nephrite is a hard and precious stone that is used in sculpting statues and making a variety of ornaments.
Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Maulvi Shahabuddin Delawar, who was present at the bidding ceremony, said the mines were located the Khas Kunar and Goshta districts.
He added the ceremony was held on Tuesday in a transparent manner in the presence of the competing companies and the executive board.
Of 26 mining and processing companies that participated in the bidding, four firms won the contracts.
Delawar said the Bahirmal Company offered 1.6 million afghanis per tonne, Royal Mining 1.5 million afs, Jwang Buti 700,000 afs and Afghan Mining 520,000 afs. The four were declared the winners.
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The Passion of the Christ is one of the most controversial movies in the history of cinema. The sequence in the movie is covering the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ’s life among people. The movie was shot entirely in reconstructed Latin and Aramaic language and it was played with vernacular subtitles. The 2004 movie was directed by Mel Gibson and after its release many slated it for portraying the image of Jesus in a somewhat negative way.
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Shillong, Mar 8: Nongpoh MLA, Mayralborn Syiem, on Monday said that citizens of Meghalaya living along the border with Assam are registering their land with the neighbour due to complexities of registration in the state.
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Preparation and characterization of cellulose nanocrystal extracted from Calotropis procera biomass
Bioresources and Bioprocessing volume 6, Article number: 45 (2019)
Calotropis procera fiber (CPF) is the fruit fiber of C. procera and belongs to a typical cellulosic fiber. In this study, Calotropis procera fiber (CPF) was first purified in the pretreatment process including delignification and bleaching before the isolation of cellulose nanocrystal. Chemical composition of Calotropis procera fiber was determined according to TAPPI standard method. It was composed of 64.0 wt% cellulose, 19.5 wt% hemicelluloses, and 9.7 wt% of lignin. The morphology of the Calotropis procera fiber and fiber after each pretreatment process was also investigated. Cellulose nanocrystal was extracted by classical sulfuric acid hydrolysis of the pretreated Calotropis procera fiber. TEM and SEM were used to analyze the morphologies of the obtained CNC. The crystallinity, thermal stability and suspension stability of the CNC were also investigated. The interesting results proved that this under-utilized biomass could be exploited as a new source of cellulose raw material for the production of cellulose nanocrystal.
Calotropis procera fiber (CPF) is the fruit fiber of C. procera that can be collected from its mature fruits with 3–4.5 in. long and 2–2.5 in. wide. This fruit fiber belongs to a typical cellulosic fiber but has been overlooked for centuries (Kanchan and Atreya 2016; Tarabi et al. 2016; Zheng et al. 2016). Recently, Calotropis procera fiber has received more attention in the textile industry and for potential application in fiber-reinforced composites. The fiber possesses thin cell wall, large lumen and low density; thus, it exhibits excellent insulation property against sound and heat. In addition, this fiber could be used in making ropes, carpets, or sewing threads. It has been reported that the cellulose content of this fiber was in the range of 60–75%; thus, it could be a potential cellulosic material to produce cellulose nanocrystal (Kanchan and Atreya 2016).
Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC), a kind of nanomaterial derived from cellulose, possessed lots of desirable property, like extremely outstanding mechanical strength, biocompatible and biodegradable, high specific surface area and so on (Yu et al. 2013; Li et al. 2016). The distinctive property of cellulose nanocrystals make it useful building block in various applications, for instance as reinforcing agents (Ye et al. 2015; Song et al. 2017, 2020), biomedical implant (Rueda et al. 2013), rheological modifier (Li et al. 2015), nanocomposites (Yu et al. 2014) as well as electronic components (Eyley et al. 2012).
Currently, cellulose nanocrystal can be obtained from wood, non-wood fibers, algae, tunicates, and agro-industrial residue or biomass. However, cellulosic agro-industrial residue or biomass are the most promising sources because of their low cost and availability (Reddy and Yang 2011; Zhang et al. 2012; Chen et al. 2013). During the pursuit of naturally abundant, renewable and sustainable cellulosic raw materials, lots of researches have already been focused on the utilization of agricultural residues or biomass for the extraction of cellulose nanocrystal, such as rice straw (Johar et al. 2012; Hsieh 2013), grape skins (Lu and Hsieh 2012), pineapple leaf (Dos Santos et al. 2013), sugarcane bagasse (De Morais Teixeira et al. 2011), banana rachis (Elanthikkal et al. 2010) and so on. Calotropis procera fiber could be exploited as a suitable new cellulosic material for the production of cellulose nanocrystal.
This study was to isolate cellulose from Calotropis procera fiber and investigate the effect of treatment on the properties of the obtained cellulose nanocrystal. The pretreatment process was carried out to remove those impurities on Calotropis procera fiber, such as the wax, lignin and make cellulose more accessible to chemicals. It is the first time that systematical study of pretreatment and acid hydrolysis of Calotropis procera fiber for cellulose nanocrystal extraction was conducted. The influence of pretreatment on the chemical composition and morphology of Calotropis procera fiber was investigated and characterized. The morphology, crystallinity and thermal stability of the obtained cellulose nanocrystal were also investigated.
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- DescriptionThis book provides a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a theoretical basis for the algorithms presented. Topics include: physics of light transport, Monte Carlo methods, general strategies for solving the rendering equation, stochastic path-tracing algorithms such as ray tracing and light tracing, stochastic radiosity including photon density estimation and hierarchical Monte Carlo radiosity, hybrid algorithms, metropolis light transport, irradiance caching, photon mapping and instant radiosity, beyond the rendering equation, image display and human perception. If you want to design and implement a global illumination rendering system or need to use and modify an existing system for your specific purpose, this book will give you the tools and the understanding to do so.
- Author BiographyPhilip Dutre is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). His research areas of interest include photorealistic graphics, real-time global illumination, texture synthesis and perceptual-based rendering algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leuven and spent several years at the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. Philippe Bekaert is associate professor in computer graphics at the Expertise Center for Digital Media of Hasselt University, Belgium. He obtained a Masters degree in physics (1991) and computer science (1993), as well as a Ph.D. in computer science (1999) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Kavita Bala is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. She specializes in scalable computer graphics leading research projects in interactive rendering, scalable illumination, perceptually-based rendering, feature-based graphics, perceptually-based rendering, and image-based texturing. Bala received her B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Bombay), and her S.M. and Ph.D. from MIT.
- Author(s)Kavita Bala,Philip Dutre,Philippe Bekaert
- PublisherTaylor & Francis Inc
- Date of Publication30/08/2006
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- Place of PublicationNatick
- Country of PublicationUnited States
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- Content Noteillustrations (some colour)
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- Foreword byPeter Shirley
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The electro-optical modulation effect of a (10,0) boron nitride nanotube is investigated by first-principles, density functional theory calculations. The optical properties of boron nitride nanotubes can be tuned through perturbation by a transverse electric field. Large optical anisotropy in variations of the absorption spectra and refractive indices in response to external electric field is found. In addition, a method called the band-resolved absorption density analysis technique is developed to investigate the detailed optical absorption transition processes. The result is consistent with the recent experimental observation [M. Ishigami et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.94, 56804 (2005)] and suggests that the boron nitride nanotubes can be a promising material for electro-optical modulation device applications. | [
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We encourage you to vote “yes” on Public Question 1 on Nov. 3 to continue critical open space, clean water and farmland preservation efforts in New Jersey.
Where would we be without these things, which are so important to our quality of life in this area and our state? We've lost so much open space in the past few decades, but voting “yes” will help to keep the rural character of our communities intact. It will let us leave a place to our children and grandchildren not too different from what we inherited from our parents.
A program known as Green Acres has funded much of the preservation effort in New Jersey. It was created by the state in 1961 to meet growing recreation and conservation needs. Together with public and private partners, the program has protected almost 640,000 acres of open space and provided hundreds of outdoor recreational facilities in communities around the state.
Per the timing set forth in the last round of Green Acres funding, it is basically out of money and is up for renewal by the voters. To deny renewing the fund would be a huge mistake on many levels.
Preserving our land, water and history is a wise economic investment. Without funds for preservation, we'd not only lose more places that we love, but see our taxes increase because of the expensive services required from new developments. Moreover, it is better to protect clean water at the source, instead of spending more on water treatment facilities in the years to come.
State preservation programs are a high-return investment. A recent analysis based on extensive state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) data found that a two-year, $400,000,000 open space investment could protect 73,500 acres and yield $10 in economic value for every $1 invested in the forms of ecosystem services such as water purification, waste treatment and flood mitigation, natural goods such as fish and farm products and eco-tourism revenue across the state.
The annual cost per household would be $10.
The communities in the Somerset Hills have benefited from this funding source as local municipalities and land preservation non-profit organizations have utilized Green Acres funding in the purchase of numerous properties in recent years.
Halting this progress would be a disappointing mistake as our efforts to permanently protect special properties in our neighborhoods has only just begun. In fact, this is an ideal time to preserve open space, as land prices have declined.
The cost of this ballot measure will be less than $1 each month per household, and full public disclosure of all funds is required so we can trust the funds will be spent as intended.
To continue living in a state where we can connect with nature and wildlife, preserve farms and local treasures, enjoy clean water, and enable our children and grandchildren to do the same, it's important that we vote “yes” for open space on Nov. 3. | [
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The Texarkana Texas Parks & Recreation Department has set aside Saturday, October 21 as Bringle Lake Wilderness Trail Clean-Up Day and are seeking volunteers to help clean up.
Trail day is this Coming up Saturday, October 21st! We meet at 9:00am at Bringle Lake East to work on the trail, so if you ride, run, jog, walk, hike, unicycle or just enjoy the trails, come on out and help clean it up! You are more than welcome to bring leaf blowers, trimmers, and yard tools that you think may help out. Give back to the trail that everyone enjoys! We hope to see you there! | [
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Former chief minister of Jammu, Kashmir imprisoned for opposing anti-encroachment drive
(MENAFN) Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was taken into custody on Wednesday in the nation's capital, New Delhi, for demonstrating against the government of Jammu and Kashmir's anti-encroachment campaign in the valley.
"Jammu and Kashmir has been transformed into Afghanistan by the Bharatiya Janata Party," claimed Mufti at the protest venue (BJP). The government is tearing down the impoverished people's homes using bulldozers as part of an anti-encroachment campaign.
The Mufti was seen being dragged by police officers from the protest location and put into a police vehicle in the footage seen on local media networks.
She claimed that in addition to robbing Kashmiris of their homes and employment, the BJP is also stealing their lands.
She urged everyone in the opposition to get together and oppose this barbarism.
On February 6, the Jammu and Kashmir government released a statement claiming that the Evacuee Property Department had the responsibility of protecting the evacuee property. "The department responds quickly to allegations of encroachment with the help of the Revenue Department and recovers unlawfully occupied evacuee land from the encroachers/land grabbers/illegal occupancy."
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The History of a Historical Society
By Karen Schlenker, Milaca Area Historical Society
While 30 years is a very short time, even in the not-so-long history of European-American settlement of this area, it is an accomplishment when an all-volunteer organization lasts, and even thrives, that long. The Milaca Area Historical Society attained 30 years of existence at the end of May in 2014.
On May 30, 1984, a group met and paid dues to their new historical organization. Beatrice Schweiger, Stella Allen, Bonna and Reuben “Rub” Dahlstrom, Alyce Alkire, Mary Jane Bridge, Terry and Leslie Anfinson, and Julia Swalboski were the charter members of the Milaca Historical Society. The main interest of this group was genealogical research and gathering information about the community’s beginnings. The Milaca Civic Club had had a collection of historical objects since 1972, which they displayed in cases in the city hall, so there was no need for another organization to create a museum collection. The Mille Lacs County Historical Society had already been formed in Princeton, so the Milaca area group would concentrate on the midsection of the county.
The group got a boost from Milaca’s centennial celebration in 1986. There was much interest around the community in creating a history book, and the research and writing of the Milaca Centennial book drew more people to the organization. There was also an effort to locate and photograph as many paintings by early Milaca settler Harold Sirene as could be located, culminating in a display at the Milaca Depot during the festivities.
Besides their shared interest in genealogy, the Historical Society members took on other projects. In 1988, they received a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to help them purchase a microfilm reader-printer, so research in the area’s microfilmed newspapers could be done locally.
Also in 1988, some logs were discovered just upstream of the dam by Recreation Park. This was in the middle of a drought, when the river level was quite low, and Don and Tillie Pluimer saw the logs from the walking bridge. With the help of the city of Milaca and East Central Electric Association, seven oak logs were lifted from the river, and some were found to have marks stamped into their ends. Historical Society members Don Pluimer, John McClure and Rub Dahlstrom traveled to the History Center in St. Paul to research the marks. They discovered that the logs had been in the river prior to 1896, when the local planing mill, sited in what is now Recreation Park, changed ownership to Foley Bean. In 1990 the logs were put on display in front of the old city hall building (at the time the library), but exposure caused them to deteriorate so that they had to be removed prior to the museum moving into the library space in 2007.
The society carried out other projects over the years, including expanding the microfilm collection and having the Federal Arts Project murals in the old city hall professionally cleaned. But the biggest ongoing project of all came in 1995, when the Milaca Civic Club disbanded and donated its collection of historic photographs and objects to the Milaca Area Historical Society. MAHS members Julia Swalboski and John and Novella McClure painstakingly inventoried and documented each item, following standard museum procedures, and finally, in 1997, the Milaca Museum was reopened to the public under the auspices of the Milaca Area Historical Society.
In the spring of 2007, the Milaca Library moved to its new building, and the MAHS moved part of its museum display into the refurbished auditorium area. With increased visibility, membership has grown, and with increased membership, open hours have been increased.
Each season, part of the exhibit space is “refreshed” with new displays, and this year, the downstairs space features the stories of area small towns. Foreston, Bock, Pease, Long Siding and Estes Brook are joined by Tosca and Page—settlements that no longer exist. Visitors are surprised to see how many hotels, lumber yards and general stores did business in these towns.
It’s hard to know where you’re going if you don’t understand where you’ve been. The Milaca Area Historical Society has been gathering and preserving the stories and artifacts of where our community has been for over 30 years, offering us a better understanding of our past. | [
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ArtWall "Orchid Blossom" Gallery Wrapped Canvas Art By Elena Ray, 24" x 16"
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It is true that schools play a massive role in every child’s growth. Schools not only educate children but also help them socialize and polish their talents and capabilities. However, schools are not entirely responsible for children’s education and growth. It is known that before any child goes to school, their parents play an important role in shaping their behavior and teaching them the rules of society and how does one survive in this world. The classroom management ideas are introduced by teachers but students are the one who carry out activities to perform. A child learns the basics and some of the most important lessons of life from their parents which is why it is important for them to pay attention to their children and teach them what schools cannot. It is essential for your child to know about the etiquette and customs of the world beforehand so when they step out into the world including their schools, they would make a great impression as a civilized person on everyone. This is only possible if they follow all the rules for classroom behavior management and follow a positive behavior in the classroom.
In order to promote positive behavioral supports for the classroom and good habits of children in school, the parents must teach their little ones a few things beforehand. Some of those are listed below:
1) Teach your children to respect their teachers:
Tell your children that teachers are the most important people in their lives after their parents. The best way to teach your child about respecting not only their elders but the younger people also is to act it out for them. Children must be aware of the fact that they set up behaviour management strategies in the classroom for their betterment and to help them succeed in the future. Children mostly copy what their parents do. If you respect everyone around you, your child is likely to learn faster and do the same.
2) Tell them why obeying the school rules is important:
Your child must be taught discipline and good manners for which they must follow the school rules. Positive behavioral supports for the classroom leads to maintain a healthy environment throughout the school. Before your child goes to school, properly instruct them about following the school rules and tell them it is important to maintain a good character and positive behavior.
3) Explain why running in the school’s corridors is wrong:
Tell your children to avoid running in the school halls and corridors as it is not only dangerous for other students but it is also a violation of the school rules. If they run around the school’s corridors, they can bump into other students and get hurt.
4) Encourage your children to accept their mistakes instead of letting other children take the blame:
Tell your child that it is okay to accept their mistakes and apologize for them without fearing punishment. Tell them to never let another student take the blame for what they did as it is dishonest and cowardly. Promote the sense of humanity and helping others in your children by portraying the same behavior at home. Facing the circumstances to what you have done is one of the examples of positive behavior supports in the classroom.
5) Tell them to ask for a teacher’s permission before entering the classroom.
In case your child is late to school, instruct them to ask for the teacher’s permission before entering the classroom and politely explain why they are late. Tell them that acting up on their own is a bad manner.
6) Allow them to help other students who lose their stationary:
Allow your children to help their friends and classmates in case they need stationary or colors. Teach them that sharing is a good habit.
7) Teach them to greet everyone they meet including teachers:
The basic greetings such as good morning, good afternoon, etc. are a must for your children to know. Tell them to greet almost every one they make an eye contact with, especially teachers to promote a positive behavior in the classroom. Even before they address someone, initiate a conversation with, greeting others promotes a good character.
8) Teach your child to raise their hand first if they want to speak and wait for their turn:
It is important for your child to learn about patience as well. This rule is implied by the teachers to follow classroom management ideas despite feeling excited to answer the teacher’s question, teach your child to raise their hand first and wait for their turn to speak. Tell them not to rush and quietly wait until the teacher allows them to speak.
9) Train your children in terms of etiquette:
This is also important as it speaks for the sense of responsibility in your children. Gestures like holding the door open if they see a teacher entering the classroom, or lending a hand to a teacher if they see them carrying too many books, etc. promote positive classroom environment and a great sense of responsibility in your children.
10) Instruct them to address someone before acting out without them knowing:
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PG man gets 13 years in double-death DUI collision case
Stuart A. Elder, 32, of Pacific Grove, was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in state prison for being drunk at the wheel when he crashed into a car carrying two women in Pebble Beach, killing them, prosecutors said.
Monterey County Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Elder to two years in prison on one count of driving under the influence causing injury, with an additional nine years consecutive for causing great bodily injury to his own passenger and the two women killed in the other car; and an additional two years consecutive for causing injury to more than one victim. Elder must serve 85 percent of his sentence before being eligible for parole, prosecutors said.
A jury convicted Elder on Feb. 6, of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, one count each for the death of Sharon Daly and Linda Larone, and a special enhancement of causing great bodily injury to a third person, Selvia Gattas, Elder’s passenger. The jury also found the defendant guilty of driving under the influence causing injury, and driving with a blood alcohol level of.08 or higher causing injury with special enhancements of great bodily injury to the three victims, and causing injury to multiple victims, prosecutors said.
The testimony and physical evidence established that Elder spent the afternoon of April 7, 2013, drinking wine at the Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach. About 7:30 p.m. he got into his black Cadillac Escalade with Gattas, his girlfriend, and headed towards his home in Pebble Beach. While driving on Sloat Road, a 25 mph residential area, Elder reached speeds of 80 miles an hour, prosecutors said. As he approached Bird Rock Road he rounded a curve traveling over three times the speed limit and crossed into Daly’s lane, crashing into her Ford Freestyle and killing her and her passenger, Larone. Gattas was also seriously injured in the collision, prosecutors said.
Elder was driving these excessive speeds with a.17 blood alcohol level, which is over double the legal limit of.08, prosecutors said. | [
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The Initiative: Establishing a Nationwide Litigation Blueprint by Focusing Intensive Efforts in a Single State—Specifically, Louisiana
Louisiana has the largest ratio of police officers to residents of any state and has the highest incarceration rate in the country. Moreover, state law allows police to expunge any alleged violation of criminal battery and assault involving domestic violence from their personnel files if the formal complaint at issue was made anonymously or was not substantiated within twelve months. In other words, in Louisiana, police misconduct goes largely unchecked. The State is a microcosm of the structural flaws that plague this nation’s criminal “injustice” system.
As one of a host of solutions that seek to end endemic and systemic racial injustices that permeate unconstitutional policing practices in this country, the ACLU of Louisiana will: Encourage participation of—and lead– for-profit law firms, located inside and outside of Louisiana, and law school legal clinics in marshaling their resources to bring legal actions intended to stop racially discriminatory policing practices. By focusing critical law firm and law school resources on a single state, the ACLU of Louisiana—alongside community-based organizations, activists, and groups—can help establish a litigation blueprint geared toward altering police conduct that every other state in the nation can follow. We aim to take hundreds of cases over the next several years.
For more information on this initiative, visit: https://www.laaclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/justicelabfactsheet.pdf
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"I felt like I've known her in another life." Mileham believes the time has come for the Internet to become as essential a part of pre-marital discussions as is whether or not to have children.
"To prevent future problems, young couples, as well as long-term committed couples, need to talk about what role the Internet will play in their relationship."- The University of Florida Articles in The Science of Mental Health are written by the originating institution. Newswise maintains a comprehensive database of news releases from top institutions engaged in scientific, medical, liberal arts and business research.
“It’s not just that you’re communicating with someone online but that there is a sexual or emotional nature,” says Katherine Hertlein, Ph D, an associate professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas who studies online affairs.
“With the Internet, we’re moving away from just physical ideas about infidelity and acknowledging emotional infidelity.” While there is no universally accepted definition, an Internet affair frequently involves intimate chat sessions and sexually stimulating conversation or cybersex, which may include filming mutual masturbation with a Web camera.
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Julie Speegle, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network is responding to the whale, which now has a swimming companion, a second adult humpback whale. The crew’s first priority is to get underwater video of the entanglement to determine whether the other whale has also become tangled in the line.
The location of the whale now is on the opposite side of Admiralty Island from where the whales were spotted last week and over the weekend.
The 40-foot adult humpback whale was first reported entangled last Wednesday near Admiralty Island, where it was found.
At first contact, the Forest Service and NOAA fisheries staff were unable to free the whale as the weather worsened. NOAA asked for the public to alert them to the whale’s location.
The whale was seen again on Saturday, this time, with a second adult whale, in Gastineau Channel south of Juneau. Crews were again unable to free the animal, but managed to attach another buoy with a satellite tracker. | [
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|Name:||Beans Food Thin Film Coating Machine Spraying Liquid Sugar Coating Machine||Model:||SED-JB600|
|Drum Revolution (r/min):||2.0-12rpm||Main Machine Power:||4KW|
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|Material:||Stainless Steel||Key Word:||Tablet Coating Machine|
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Beans Food Thin Film Coating Machine Spraying Liquid Sugar Coating Machine
Product Description of Coating Machine
The tablets make complicated and constant track movement with easy and smooth turn frequent exchanging in a clean and closed drum of the film coating machine. The coating mixed round in the mixing drum are sprayed on tablets through the spray gun at the inlet unaction of the peristaltic pump.
Meanwhile under the action of air exhaust and negative pressure 100,000 clean hot air supplied by the air exhaust cabinet is exhausted from the fan at the sieve meshes through tablets.
So these coating mediums on the surface of tablets get dry forming a coat of firm, fine and smooth film. The whole process is finished under the control of PLC.
Product Parameters of Coating Machine
|Main Machine Power||7.5KW||4KW||3KW||2.2KW||1.5KW||1.1KW||0.55KW|
|Diameter of coating drum||1800mm||1580mm||1580mm||1200mm||930mm||780mm||500mm|
|Power of air exhaust cabinet motor||11KW||11KW||7.5KW||5.5KW||3KW||2.2KW||0.75KW|
|Air exhaust flow||18000m3/h||15450m3/h||10000m3/h||7419m3/h||5268m3/h||3517m3/h||1285m3/h|
|Power of hot air cabinet motor||7.5KW||4KW||2.2KW||1.5KW||1.1KW||0.75KW||0.37KW|
|Hot air flow||10650m3/h||6500m3/h||3517m3/h||2356m3/h||1685m3/h||1285m3/h||816m3/h|
|Weight of main machine||2000Kg||1600Kg||1000Kg||850Kg||600Kg||500Kg||200Kg|
Trait of Coating Machine
this tablet coating machine consists of major machine, slurry spraying system, hot-air cabinet, exhaust cabinet, feed and discharge device, and computer programming control system.
It can be widely used for coating various tablets, pills and sweets with organic film, water-soluble film and sugar film etc. In such fields as of pharmaceutical, food and biological products etc. And it has such characteristics as good appearance in design, high efficiency, low energy consumption and small floor area, etc.
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Does anyone know where I can get hold of a horizontal version (or something very similar that works horizontally) of the vertical jquery based parallax script at the Nike Better World website?
It also needs to have navigation, maybe like the dots on the Nike script, but obviously along the bottom probably in the footer, to allow for gentle "easing" navigation between slides.
I've found a few vertical ones based on the Nike script but nothing that works horizontally with an inbuilt navigation from panel to panel.
Maybe http://www.magictoolbox.com/magicslideshow/ might work for you. It doesn't need the thumbnails, but can work with "dots" if you wish along the top.
Here's one: Background Parallax Example
And here's one that uses a CSS mouse-over to achieve the effect: CSS 3D Meninas
It looks good but his instructions are virtually non-existent unfortunately...
The page says:
The jQuery Background Parallax project is a plugin that causes a background image to scroll at a different speed to content, giving an illusion of depth.
Which is pretty much self-explanatory. If instead you want multiple layers with different images overlapping each other at different visual perspectives, that plugin is not for you.
Ah, sounds like it's not really what I need then- as I want something very close to the Nike effect. Thanks anyway.
The series of demos at the following location seem to be closer to what you're after
Ultimately though, what Nike has come up with there takes some clever engineering to look as good as it does there.
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Well... We are still adding jobs as we move into the 10th month of the Trump Presidency. That's a good thing considering the uncertainty and absurdity of many of the President's policies.
But how are we doing compared to the last 5-6 years of the Obama Presidency?
Let's not just look at raw jobs numbers, but let's look at the percentage increase in jobs numbers over six month periods. That will even out the jobs numbers, which tend to jump up and down month to month, over a six month period.
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You may have to click on the graph to really look at it, but just compare the red sticks on the right (job growth under Trump) with the green and blue sticks. Job growth has been slowing slightly since 2015. Job growth is certainly lower under the Trump administration than it was during the five month transition period (green sticks) or the Obama years (blue sticks) displayed on this graph.
What does the future hold for job growth under Trump?
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Captain Vinther (right) and co-pilot James F. Bachmeier examine sketch of strange object. Vinther, 33, has over 8,000 hours, is ex-USAAF cadet instructor.
|The Office of Naval Research claims that
cosmic ray balloons explain all “saucer”
If so, what did this pilot see?
When the Office of Naval Research recently disclosed that all
“reliable reports” of flying saucers can be attributed to cosmic
balloons, the nation's press sat back stolidly and accepted the
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The press services, the leading weekly news magazines, most of the country's newspapers and a host of periodicals hailed the revelation as the solution to a long-standing mystery.
Yet the mystery is not solved. It has only been deepened.
In the past 11 months, Flying has reported the observations of five veteran airline pilots who, along with their co-pilots, encountered strange objects flying over the United States.
Last July, Flying said: “... it is obvious that skilled pilots, trained observers of sky phenomena, saw something. If they saw it, it must exist. They are not all victims of hallucinations despite the ready explanations of the physicists. But what the strange phenomena are, the editors of Flying do not pretend to know.”
The following is a report from a veteran Mid-Continent Airlines captain, the sixth report of this type to be published in Flying.—The Editors.
I WAS taxiing out for take-off at Sioux City, la., on Mid-Continent Airlines’ scheduled Flight 9 of January 20, 1951, when the tower asked if I would investigate a very bright light west of the field. I told him that what he saw was a star.
“No,” the tower said, “I see what you mean, but this is higher than that — about 8,000 feet.”
Looking higher, I saw the light moving from north to south, west of the field and fairly high. I agreed to investigate it.
The crew of the Mid-Continent Airlines DC-3 that night, in addition to myself, included Co-pilot James F. Bachmeier, lieutenant commander in the Naval Air Reserve (who returned to active duty March 1, as commanding officer of a supply squadron), veteran of World War II in the South Pacific where encounters with Jap night fighters were commonplace. Bachmeier had flown nearly four years with Mid-Continent and had a total flight time of over 6,000 hours.
Immediately after a northwest take-off, a left climbing turn was started, following the left-hand circle of the observed light. The radius of the circle of the light was at least two miles—possibly more—outside the circle made by the DC-3.
Southeast of the field the strange lights were blinked five or six times. The rest of the time they were steady. When we reached a point east of the field (the DC-3 was headed northeast), we observed a change in the object. By the time we realized what the change was, it dived over our nose at about a 160° angle to the heading of the DC-3 and 200 feet above it.
That brought the object down beyond the left wing of the airliner, and then came the strangest part of the whole encounter. Instead of running by, as any aircraft will when met nearly head-on, the object abruptly (as quickly as the heads of the pilots could be turned) was flying in the same direction as the airliner — and at the same altitude and the same speed! Here it was, flying formation with us, about 200 feet away!
And the object was big! We estimated the size as being anywhere from that of a B-29 to half again as big. The time was 8:30 on an exceptionally clear moonlight night, so we got an excellent silhouette view. There was a definite fuselage and wing configuration. The fuselage was cigar-shaped. The wing was further forward than a B-29 wing and no engine nacelles or jet pods could be seen. The wing had no sweepback, being perfectly straight. It had a high aspect ratio like a glider wing.
I couldn't tell whether the object turned around or just reversed direction. We didn’t see any jet glow or exhaust flame. As the object dived across our nose, the bright white light observed by the tower could be seen at a slight angle — not in full force as it would have been head-on. As nearly as could be determined, this light was located on the bottom of the fuselage. It was either in a “tunnel” mounting that blocked the view, or was turned off as it came toward us. From take-off to the time of this run toward the airliner, we were able to see a red form of navigation light.
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