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These three-year awards aim to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance outstanding young investigators’ early career development, and increase opportunities for young researchers to recognize the mission of the Air Force and related challenges in science and engineering.
Ryan’s project, “Effects of Material and Morphology on 3D Particle and Pore Dynamics During Rapid Compaction of Granular Materials,” will develop and use a new method for quantifying the 3D dynamics of particles during rapid compact of granular materials by combining novel algorithms with time-resolved 2D x-ray imaging techniques. The dynamics of individual particles in a granular material undergoing rapid compaction are of fundamental importance in manufacturing processes, planetary science, and defense applications. By the end of this project, Ryan hopes to be able to reconstruct the full 3D history of particle dynamics and stresses during impact events that occur over the course of several microseconds in granular materials of varied material and particle shape; results may be used to aid in validating models of planetary impact, projectile impact into soils, and ignition of energetic powders. | <urn:uuid:6c339d86-5288-496a-a0f9-1a87ceb62a82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hemi.jhu.edu/news/hemi-fellow-ryan-hurley-to-receive-an-afosr-young-investigator-program-award/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923606 | 238 | 2.59375 | 3 |
~ Cherry Point NC topo map, 1:24000 scale, 7.5 X 7.5 Minute, Historical, 2011
Cherry Point, North Carolina, USGS topographic map dated 2011.
Includes geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). This topographic map is suitable for hiking, camping, and exploring, or framing it as a wall map.
Printed on-demand using high resolution imagery, on heavy weight and acid free paper, or alternatively on a variety of synthetic materials.
Topos available on paper, Waterproof, Poly, or Tyvek. Usually shipping rolled, unless combined with other folded maps in one order.
- Product Number: USGS-5268877
- Free digital map download (high-resolution, GeoPDF): Cherry Point, North Carolina (file size: 16 MB)
- Map Size: please refer to the dimensions of the GeoPDF map above
- Weight (paper map): ca. 55 grams
- Map Type: POD USGS Topographic Map
- Map Series: US Topo
- Map Verison: Historical
- Cell ID: 72671
- Datum: North American Datum of 1983
- Map Projection: Transverse Mercator
- Map Cell Name: Cherry Point
- Grid size: 7.5 X 7.5 Minute
- Date on map: 2011
- Map Scale: 1:24000
- Geographical region: North Carolina, United States
All neighboring USGS topo maps are available for sale online at a variety of scales.
Topo map Cherry Point, North Carolina, covers the geographical area associated the following places:
- Cherry Point (historical) - Camp Seagull - Camp Don-Lee - Bachelor - Blades - Minnesott Beach - Cherry Point Landing (historical) - Club Creek Mobile Home Park - Janeiro
- Map Area ID: AREA3534.875-76.875-76.75
- Northwest corner Lat/Long code: USGSNW35-76.875
- Northeast corner Lat/Long code: USGSNE35-76.75
- Southwest corner Lat/Long code: USGSSW34.875-76.875
- Southeast corner Lat/Long code: USGSSE34.875-76.75
- Northern map edge Latitude: 35
- Southern map edge Latitude: 34.875
- Western map edge Longitude: -76.875
- Eastern map edge Longitude: -76.75
Approaches to Cape Fear River (11536-20) by NOAA
Beaufort Inlet and Part of Core Sound; Lookout Bight (11545-65) by NOAA
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Bachelor of Education (Home Economics and Irish)
The Bachelor of Education (Home Economics and Irish) is a full-time, concurrent teacher education degree leading to a National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) Level 8 honours degree.
Upon graduation students will meet all the Teaching Council requirements to be registered as a Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) of Home Economics and Irish.
Change to Accreditation for September 2022
Subject to incorporation, St. Angela’s College will become one of nine campuses across the new Atlantic Technological University which was designated on 1st April 2022. This means that St. Angela’s students starting this September will be awarded a qualification from the Atlantic TU. More details HERE
Applications and Selections
Who Teaches this Course
Requirements and Assessment
Minimum Grade H4 in Irish and Grade H5 in another subject and passes in four other subjects at O6/H7 level in the Leaving Certificate, including English, Maths, another language, a Laboratory Science subject or Home Economics and one other subject recognised for entry purposes.
*Laboratory Science subjects include: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Physics/Chemistry or Agricultural Science.
Additional Student Costs
A detailed list of required items will be included to all successful candidates in their CAO; however, it is at each students’ discretion as to how they obtain these items. A detailed list of these items can be found HERE
Next start date
A Level Grades (2021)
QQI/FET FETAC Entry Routes
Please see Important CAO Dates.
Mode of study
Bachelor of Education (Home Economics and Irish) Honours Degree
- Education Studies I
- General Pedagogics
- Subject Specific Pedagogics: Home Economics
- Subject Specific Pedagogics: Gaeilge
- Inclusive Teaching and Learning
- School Placement I
- Food Nutrition & Skills: Theory and Practice
- Introduction to Textiles and Design
- Family Resource Management: Home Economics Theory and Practice
- An Gearrscéal sa Ghaeilge
- Teanga na Gaeilge 1
- Teanga na Gaeilge 2
- Education Studies 2
- Subject Specific Pedagogics
- General Pedagogics and Inclusive Teaching and Learning
- School Placement 2
- Food Studies: Food Science and Nutrition
- Family Resource Management: The Family Home – Interior and Textiles Design
- Athbheochan na Gaeilge
- An Béaloideas agus An Fhilíocht Bhéil
- Teanga na Gaeilge 3
- Critical Perspectives in Education
- Educational Research Methods
- General and Specific Pedagogics
- School Placement 3
- Applied Food Microbiology
- Textiles, Fashion & Design
- Family Resource Management: Resource Management and Consumer Empowerment
- Drámaíocht agus Scannánaíocht sa Ghaeilge
- An tSochtheangeolaíocht
- Teanga na Gaeilge 4
- Critical Perspectives in Education 2
- School Placement 4
- Nutrition, Diet and Health
- Home Economics Practice in Everyday Life
- Family Resource Management: Family and Society
- An Fhilíocht sa Ghaeilge
- An tÚrscéal sa Ghaeilge
- Teanga na Gaeilge 5
Postgraduate opportunities at St. Angela’s College include: Structured PhD Home Economics, M.Ed. Home Economics; M.A. Contemporary Innovations in Education; M.Sc. Food Innovation.
Graduates may also proceed to postgraduate study in education, Home Economics, Irish or related areas in other HEIs.
Why Choose This Course?
Graduates of this course are qualified to teach Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate Home Economics and Irish. Graduates are provided with a professional and academic qualification which enables them to also pursue careers in a wide range of fields including Education, Home Economics and Irish.
Who’s Suited to This Course
Transferable Skills Employers Value
School Placement is a core element of the teacher education course. Student teachers undertake School Placement on a block release basis in the spring term of every year of their B.Ed. course which is completed in a variety of schools and educational settings:
- Year 1: 2 weeks
- Year 2: 6 weeks
- Year 3: 6 weeks
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2030 targets require tripling of climate protection investments
A study commissioned by Agora Energiewende and Forum New Economy shows that achieving a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 would require climate protection investments to be up to three times higher than currently estimated.
PUBLISHED8. SEPTEMBER 2021
READING TIME3 MIN.
In order to achieve a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 65 percent compared to 1990 in 2030, almost 30 billion euros of federal funding will have to flow into climate protection each year – almost twice as much as previously estimated. Together with further financial requirements at the municipal level, this means that climate protection investments will need to be up to three times as high overall, as a study commissioned by Agora Energiewende and the Forum New Economy shows.
Berlin, September 07, 2021 – The German federal, state and local governments must provide noticeably more public funding for climate protection than previously planned in order to achieve the 2030 target of 65 percent greenhouse gas reduction compared to 1990. Public spending of around 80 billion euros is planned for the period from 2021 to 2025 as part of climate protection and economic stimulus programs and the emergency climate protection program. This corresponds to just over a third of the investment sum required for climate protection over the next five years, according to a joint analysis commissioned by Forum New Economy and Agora Energiewende. According to the study, the public financial requirement for modernization investments in this area over the next ten years (2021-2030) as a sum of federal and municipal investments amounts to around 46 billion euros per year, of which just under 30 billion euros per year is accounted for by the federal government. “Regardless of who provides the new government, a public investment offensive must be launched for the climate protection measures that are needed now, otherwise there is a risk of missing the climate targets,” says Dr. Patrick Graichen, director of Agora Energiewende. The calculation of the financing gap took into account planned expenditures until 2025 in federal and European programs, but not funds provided by municipalities, which are expected to account for only a fraction. In addition, a constant investment path over time was assumed. This results in a general government financing gap of up to 150 billion euros, assuming a need of 230 billion euros over the next five years.
The public investment requirements for climate protection of around 46 billion euros per year by 2030 calculated by the authors are thus significantly higher than previously assumed. Existing studies assume an overall economic investment requirement in this area of around 70 billion euros per year. However, a highly regarded study by the German Economic Institute (IW) and the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) estimates the public sector’s share of this at just 15 percent.
The annual financial requirement of around 46 billion euros quantified in this study corresponds to only around 6.3 percent of gross economic investment and 1.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2019.
By way of comparison, the federal and state governments made 30 billion euros available this summer just to support the reconstruction of regions in western and southern Germany that were particularly hard hit by floods and heavy rain. “The famous Swabian housewife is now investing in climate protection instead of always having to clean up climate damage for a lot of money,” Graichen said.
The study’s total investment requirement of 460 billion euros breaks down as follows: Direct federal investments amount to around 90 billion euros, including 50 billion euros for investments in the expansion and digitization of the rail network. In addition, there is a public funding requirement to promote private investment, for example for energy-efficient building refurbishment, of around 200 billion euros, if the current values of ongoing subsidy programs are taken as the subsidy rates. Assuming that the promotion of private investments is essentially a federal task, the financial requirement for climate investments from a federal perspective thus amounts to around 290 billion euros. Added to this is the financial requirement for municipal climate investments of around 170 billion euros, the majority of which is for the expansion of local public transport (100 billion euros).
The public financing requirements for climate investments were determined using a bottom-up approach based on existing studies. The analysis is based on the technological transformation path KN2045 of the study “Climate Neutral Germany 2045” by Prognos, Öko-Institut and Wuppertal Institute. Since quantifying the requirements is associated with macroeconomic and political uncertainties, the results of this analysis are to be understood as approximate values.
The study “Public Financing Requirements for Climate Investments 2021-2030” has been published in cooperation with the Forum New Economy. Lead author is Prof. Tom Krebs from the University of Mannheim.
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This video will teach you some unusual facts about the job of drain cleaning specialists. You are likely to hire drain cleaning specialists if you encounter a sewerage problem that you cannot handle on your own.
How do drain cleaning specialists work? Pipe relining is one of the recent uncommon solutions in drain cleaning.
This solution has eliminated the need to dig underground or do demolitions when cleaning and repairing a clogged drain.
Pipe relining repairs drain interiors by pushing pressure-filled tubes through faulty sewerage systems. These pressure-filled tubes create a new lining in old, cracked, leaky pipes.
Drain cleaning specialists must conduct a camera-down assessment of your sewerage system before relining your pipes. After completing the evaluation, the specialists will use water and a rotating chain to clean your pipes and return them to their initial size.
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When and why was your organisation created?
FFLAG, as a national charity, was launched in 1993, at a meeting in Stonewall’s London office. But its origins lie 30 years earlier, when Rose Robertson, our founder, set up Parent’s Enquiry – the first support group for parents and their LGB children. Over the following years, local groups and helplines staffed by parents, were established all around the UK and at one time there were 41 helplines in operation. As well as supporting each other, parents started to campaign for equal rights for their children and this prompted the need for a national umbrella organisation to coordinate all the grass roots work. And so the charity FFLAG was born.
Tell us about the work you do? (In general, and for the trans community specifically)
FFLAG’s purpose is to help families to accept and support their LGBT+ loved ones. We offer peer support to parents whose children are LGBT+. We do this through our helpline and email support: FFLAG SUPPORT, our online resources and our Local Parent Groups. If you contact FFLAG, you will be speaking to another parent, and ideally we’ll find you someone whose family situation is similar. We’re not professionals, so we don’t give advice; we listen without judgement, we’re a safe space to let out any worries and fears and we can signpost resources we’ve found useful.
We recognise that family love and support can make a huge difference to the outcomes for LGBT+ young people; we understand that parents can sometimes struggle with the news that their child is LGBT+. Parents who contact us often say, ‘I’m absolutely fine with my child being LGBT+ – so why am I feeling like this?’ Sometimes parents are scared about discrimination that their child may face; some feel grief at the ‘loss’ of an imagined future; others really don’t understand what is going on for their child, feel scared and need information.
We’re very aware that many people who are now parents grew up under the restrictions of Section 28, and so were deliberately kept uninformed about LGBT+ lives. That lack of information can breed fear. We’re here to say that it’s ok to feel like this and to provide a space for parents to let out those feelings, which they probably don’t want to reveal to their children. And we don’t have an age limit for the ‘children’ in the families we support, recognising that people can come out at any life stage – and parents are parents for life!
FFLAG initially supported families with LG&B children. But since the mid 2010s we received an increasing number of requests for help from parents of trans youngsters, and so we have worked to become trans inclusive. A key part of our online resources are our booklets, How Do I Tell My Parents? and A Guide for Family and Friends, which were originally written by our founder Rose Robertson and existed in LGB versions. We’ve adapted and updated these over the years – and as FFLAG became trans inclusive, created trans versions. Our booklets are always written from experience and the best part of them is the quotes, where trans young people and their families have shared their experiences.
We’ve also adapted our local group support. During the Covid pandemic a lot of our local groups obviously had to start meeting up online. Now most are resuming in person meetings, but the Bristol group recognised the benefit of online meetings for those parents who can’t access a local meeting. So they are continuing to offer a monthly online (Zoom) meeting, separately from their monthly in person get together, and the Zoom meeting is open to parents wherever they live. This group supports an increasing number of families with trans youngsters.
FFLAG’s work includes education and advocacy. We want to be visible as families who love and celebrate our LGBT+ loved ones and to campaign for equality and inclusion, increasingly so for trans rights. We march at Prides, hold conferences and give talks, notably to the staff groups of large organisations who want to support inclusivity. We are also a member of the International Gender Inclusion Network, IGEN.
We’re really proud to be launching the new booklet, How Do I Tell my Children? which was inspired by demand from trans parents transitioning later in life and needing to explain this to their children. For this booklet we interviewed many parents who generously shared their experiences and we thank Trans in the City and The Intercom Trust who helped us to find contributors by publicising the project within their networks. The stories shared are really wonderful and we hope this will be a great resource for trans parents and their families.
Why is it important to acknowledge events like Trans Awareness Week and Trans Day of Remembrance?
As parents we want our children to grow up feeling safe, loved and secure in the knowledge that they have a place in society. Our trans children deserve to grow up knowing that they enjoy those same protections, rights and respect, not just amongst family and friends, but as they make their way in the world.
Sadly the British media seems to be determined to perpetuate negative myths about trans people. But we firmly believe that the general public are not as opposed to trans inclusion as this vocal minority insists. We feel sure that if people had better understanding of trans lives, acceptance and respect would flow from that and so a good way to combat these prejudices is to raise trans awareness by speaking out about unremarkable, everyday, happy family lives. Family life is relatable to most people. So Trans Awareness Week is a good opportunity to remind people that trans people are our children, our parents, our siblings, our friends, and that being trans is just a part of family life.
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Chlorophyll a, a pigment produced by phytoplankton, can be measured to determine the amount of phytoplankton present in water bodies. From a human perspective, high values of chlorophyll a can be good (abundance of nutritious diatoms as food for fish) or bad (Harmful Algal Blooms that may cause respiratory distress for people), based on the associated phytoplankton species.
Description of time series:
This time series shows the average concentration levels of chlorophyll ɑ for Alaska’s Eastern Bering Sea region. During the last five years there has been no significant trend while values have remained within the 10th and 90th percentiles of all observed data in the time series.
Description of gauge:
The gauge value of 65 indicates that between 2016 and 2020 the average concentration levels of chlorophyll a in Alaska’s Eastern Bering Sea region were slightly higher than the long term median of all chlorophyll ɑ concentration levels between 1998 and 2020.
0–10: Chlorophyll a was significantly lower than the long term median state.
10–25: Chlorophyll a was considerably lower than the long term median state.
25–50: Chlorophyll a was slightly lower than the long term median state.
50: Chlorophyll a was at the long term median state.
50–75: Chlorophyll a was slightly higher than the long term median state.
75–90: Chlorophyll a was considerably higher than the long term median state.
90–100: Chlorophyll a was significantly higher than the long term median state.
Indicator and source information:
The data for this Chlorophyll a annual indicator were provided by the NOAA Fisheries Coastal and Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, and Observations Database (COPEPOD). COPEPOD determined the annual Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) chlorophyll a concentrations using mapped, monthly composites of chlorophyll a concentration as calculated from radiance measurements ("ocean color") made by the SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua satellite sensors. These monthly composites were obtained from NASA (https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/). Annual means for each LME for each year were calculated from the average of the LME 12 monthly means in that year. The overall “National Annual Mean mean was calculated as the average of all LME annual means. See the Data Background section for more details. Source: https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod/about/about-copepod.html.
To learn more about satellite-based chlorophyll a measurements within NOAA or to supplement the time series data shown here, please visit NOAA CoastWatch for more information and assistance.
Data background and limitations:
Satellite chlorophyll a, 9 km mapped, monthly composited data from SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua NASA products were spatially re-binned into 0.5 degree latitude by 0.5 degree longitude boxes (nominally about 50 km2 near the equator) then those ~50 km2 box values were averaged over the area of a given LME, resulting in 12 values per LME, one value for each month. The annual LME chlorophyll a amount reported here is the average of those 12 monthly values. This technique was done for each LME from North America and Hawaii. The overall “National Annual Mean mean was calculated as the average of all the LME annual means. Note that chlorophyll a is often plotted on a logarithmic scale to accentuate proportional changes. In other words, small changes in concentration when amounts are relatively low could mean a very big proportional change in the phytoplankton whereas the same change in absolute concentration when concentrations are relatively large is less meaningful. | <urn:uuid:0b738b86-3a72-4981-9902-072e3e612c06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecowatch.noaa.gov/thematic/chlorophyll-a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939164 | 831 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Web development is the activity involved in creating a Web site either for the Internet, an intranet, or a website designed for the marketing. Web development may range from creating a simple single-page static HTML page of plaintext to complex web-based applications, electronic newsletters, and social networking services. This process may include building a company website, a personal website, a portfolio website, a social networking website, or a corporate website. The Internet and intranets have made the creation of a Web site significantly easier and faster, but the success of a site depends on the quality of its Web development.
In terms of web development, one activity includes building user interfaces, which are the fundamental interaction components in a website. User interface programming (UI) considers how users will interact with a website, from using text boxes to using a mouse. It includes the concepts of layout, text formatting, images, sounds, video, and user interaction. It also involves scripting languages, such as HTML and XML, and visual components such as Flash and Java. There is also a web development application development (WAD), which is involved in providing database server scripts to operate the database of Web pages. Database programming includes designing the structure, storing the data, creating an efficient database connection between various applications, and using WAD scripts. Web content management involves the process of managing the Web site’s content through a browser-based editor.
When it comes to web development, different programming languages support the various aspects of the Web site, such as building dynamic Web pages, providing interactive media features, and providing a store or inventory system. Web browsers can read and execute scripts written in the appropriate programming languages. These languages are often compiled by professional web developers of West Virginia who specialize in these tasks.
The term “web development” generally includes web pages and the associated software, which enable the viewer to view the Web site. Many organizations now use development frameworks. Common examples of these frameworks include Adobe’s Flex, Microsoft’s Frontpage and XEL style frameworks, Apple’s Safari, Google’s Android, Google’s Java, and Eclipse. These frameworks allow web developers to rapidly develop custom applications for mobile phones, handheld computers, e-commerce applications, web-based apps, gaming consoles, Web calendars, corporate intranets, blogs, corporate websites, intranets, and online portals. Web-based apps are applications that run on the Internet and can access local servers and databases through the Internet.
It is not enough that a web developer knows the different programming languages used. A web developer should also be able to code in different programming languages. Most web developers are skilled in several different coding languages, although not all different languages code. Everyone can’t code in every programming language, so web developers should know how to work with each language in detail. | <urn:uuid:64e11bc6-4291-4259-ae74-ad7c0888f3ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.athomecomputerservice.net/2021/04/18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.908124 | 871 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a Native Americanlanguage family spoken in different areas of the Southeastern United States. Though the debate concerning their interrelationships is ongoing, the Muskogean languages are generally divided into two branches, Eastern Muskogean and Western Muskogean. Typologically, Muskogean languages are agglutinative. One documented language, Apalachee, is extinct and the remaining languages are critically endangered.
The Muskogean family consists of six languages that are still spoken: Alabama, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek-Seminole, Koasati, and Mikasuki, as well as the now-extinct Apalachee, Houma, and Hitchiti (the last is generally considered a dialect of Mikasuki). "Seminole" is listed as one of the Muskogean languages in Hardy's list, but it is generally considered a dialect of Creek rather than a separate language, as she comments.
The major subdivisions of the family have long been controversial, but the following lower-level groups are universally accepted: Choctaw–Chickasaw, Alabama–Koasati, Hitchiti–Mikasuki, and Creek–Seminole. Because Apalachee is extinct, its precise relationship to the other languages is uncertain; Mary Haas and Pamela Munro both classify it with the Alabama–Koasati group.
For connections among these groupings, the traditional classification is that of Mary Haas and her students, such as Karen Booker, in which "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw) is seen as one major branch, and "Eastern Muskogean" (Alabama-Koasati, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, and Creek-Seminole) as another. Within Eastern Muskogean, Alabama-Koasati and Hitchiti-Mikasuki are generally thought to be more closely related to each other than to Creek-Seminole. That classification is reflected in the list below:
A more recent and controversial classification has been proposed by Pamela Munro. In her classification, the languages are divided into a "Southern Muskogean" branch (Choctaw-Chickasaw, Alabama-Koasati, and Hitchiti-Mikasuki) and a "Northern Muskogean" one (Creek-Seminole). Southern Muskogean is the subdivided into Hitchiti-Mikasuki and a "Southwestern Muskogean" branch containing Alabama-Koasati and "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw). The classification is reflected in the list below:
A third proposed classification is that of Geoffrey Kimball, who envisions a threeway split among the languages, with "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw), "Eastern Muskogean" (Creek-Seminole), and "Central Muskogean" (Alabama-Koasati and Hitchiti-Mikasuki). However, Kimball's classification has not received as much support as either Haas's or Munro's.
Possible Muskogean languages
Several sparsely attested languages have been claimed to be Muskogean languages. George Broadwell suggested that the languages of the Yamasee and Guale were Muskogean. However, William Sturtevant argued that the "Yamasee" and "Guale" data were Creek and that the language(s) spoken by the Yamasee and Guale people remain unknown. It is possible that the Yamasee were an amalgamation of several different ethnic groups and did not speak a single language. Chester B. DePratter describes the Yamasee as consisting mainly of speakers of Hitchiti and Guale. The historian Steven Oatis also describes the Yamasee as an ethnically mixed group that included people from Muskogean-speaking regions, such as the early colonial-era native towns of Hitchiti, Coweta, and Cussita.
The Pensacola and Chatot (or Chacato) people are reported to have spoken the same Muskogean language, which may have been closely related to Choctaw.
Sparse evidence indicates that a Muskogean language was spoken by at least some of the people of the paramount chiefdom of Cofitachequi in northeastern South Carolina. If so, that would be the most eastern outpost of Muskogean. The people of Cofitichequi were probably absorbed by nearby Siouan and Iroquoian speakers in the late 17th century.
A vocabulary of the Houma may be another underdocumented Western Muskogean language or a version of Mobilian Jargon. Mobilian Jargon is a pidgin based on Western Muskogean.
The best-known connection proposed between Muskogean and other languages is Mary Haas' Gulf hypothesis, in which she conceived of a macrofamily comprising Muskogean and a number of language isolates of the southeastern US: Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Natchez. While well-known, the Gulf grouping is now generally rejected by historical linguists. A number of Muskogean scholars continue to believe that Muskogean is related to Natchez.
Proto-Muskogean is reconstructed as having the consonants (given in IPA transcription):
The phonemes reconstructed by Haas as */x/ and */xʷ/ show up as /h/ and /f/ (or /ɸ/), respectively, in all Muskogean languages; they are therefore reconstructed by some as */h/ and */ɸ/.*/kʷ/ appears as /b/ in all the daughter languages except Creek for which it is /k/ initially and /p/ medially. The value of the proto-phoneme conventionally written ⟨θ⟩ (or ⟨N⟩) is unknown; it appears as /n/ in Western Muskogean languages and as /ɬ/ in Eastern Muskogean languages. Haas reconstructed it as a voiceless /n/ (that is, */n̥/), based partly on presumed cognates in Natchez.
Most family languages display lexical accent on nouns and grammatical case, which distinguishes the nominative from the oblique. Nouns do not obligatorially inflect for gender or number.
Muskogean verbs have a complex ablaut system; the verbal stem almost always changes depending on aspect; less commonly, it is affected by tense or modality. In Muskogean linguistics, the different forms are known as "grades."
Verbs mark for first and second person, as well as agent and patient (Choctaw and Chickasaw also mark for dative). Third-persons (he, she, it) have a null-marker.
Plurality of a noun agent is marked by either affixation on the verb or an innately plural verbal stem:
Pluralization via affixation, Choctaw:
"you [sg.] eat"
"you [pl.] eat"
Innately-numbered verbal stems, Mikasuki:
"to run (singular)"
"to run (several)"
"to run (many)"
Below is a list of basic vocabulary in five Muskogean languages from Broadwell (1992):
Muskogean basic vocabulary from by Broadwell (1992)
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One of the more interesting JFK books is an autobiography of Chauncey Holt, who claims to have been Meyer Lanksy’s accountant, forger and occasional pilot. Holt managed to outlive his gangster and CIA associates, which is why he was able to tell his story eventually. You might recognize him as one of the three “tramps” photographed in Dallas that fateful November day fifty years ago.
The other two photographed with him in the Plaza have since been identified Charles Harrelson (Woody’s dad) and Charles Rogers, although when the photos first surfaced, a huge effort was made to ID Holt and Harrelson as Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. It was actually James Angleton, head of CIA counterintelligence who planted the story Hunt was in Dallas that day, which was true, although Hunt seems to have had little idea what was going down. He was a propaganda expert who may have been placed in Dallas as a diversion, as the Plaza was filled with spooks and gangsters, most of whom had zero idea the President was about to be killed. See, spooks and gangsters often play their games with little background information or just a made-up cover story. Everything is done on intel rules: “need to know” basis, with most not knowing much of anything, except you do what the bosses say or face the unhappy consequences.
Organized crime and the intelligence agencies work hand in glove and the corruption of our political system is worse than you ever imagined. Holt was a lifelong criminal and he makes no excuses for his behavior. He does, however, provide an important window on the assassination.
I know Johnny Roselli was one of the shooters because Roselli confessed many times to multiple people. The other two shooters, however, may have been James Files and Charles Nicoletti, although there were multiple professional assassins in Dealey Plaza that day. Of course, the number-one suspect for the on-site team leader and a possible shooter has to be William Harvey because he was working closely with Roselli on assassinating Castro, a plot that was diverted to JFK after the oligarchy lost confidence in JFK as he was “changing too fast.” Many in the CIA believed Harvey took the kill shot.
Apparently, after Mary Meyer gave JFK some LSD for one of the lovemaking sessions, Kennedy decided to join her mission to manifest world peace and he began learning the strings of power to aid in his mission. No doubt, the military industrial complex became quite alarmed by this unexpected turn of events as they viewed JFK as little more than a chronic womanizer who stole lines from President Lincoln for use in his best speeches.
Holt, like most of organized crime, did not like Kennedy and felt he had betrayed their cause after they helped him steal an election from Nixon, something that mostly happened in Chicago. While attacking Carlos Marcello and Jimmy Hoffa through his brother Robert, JFK was also trading secret messages with Sam Giancana through their mutual mistress. It certainly would be interesting to know what was in those messages they traded as Giancana would soon be involved in assisting the assassination effort, sending his three best hit men to Dallas.
Although Holt died in 1997, long before this book was published, he did participate in a documentary available on YouTube that is worth watching. Like many involved, Holt did not come to Dallas realizing they were going to assassinate the President. Even among the spooks and gangsters at the scene there was confusion as to what had actually gone down and who’s secret agent(s) had done the shooting.
Very little about Guantanamo Bay ever made any sense to me. If you want to get to the bottom of the networks profiteering off guns and drugs, that investigation and trial really needs to happen in public view, with complete disclosure. Congress would have been a better venue for interrogating some of these people. In case you didn’t know, guns and drugs provide the essential financing for most terror networks. Drugs and guns go together like a horse and carriage because trade is a two-way street, which means guns go in one direction and drugs come back on the same planes and boats.
Here are some troubling facts: Over 700 people were taken to the prison and only six ever convicted. 86 of the 186 prisoners still held at Guantanamo (for over a decade now) have been cleared for release as they apparently have committed no crimes, yet they are never released? Four of those who pleaded guilty did so in order to obtain a plea bargain agreement. All evidence indicates Guantanamo is a medieval-style inquisition prison, where detainees are “put to the question” in new and novel torture techniques designed to skirt the Geneva Conventions at every opportunity. Unless they are using the prison to manufacture Manchurian Candidates, I can’t imagine what use this prison has served.
But the weirdest news about Guantanamo came today. One of the public defenders there died from a gunshot to the head last week, information that was strangely withheld for days, and even now it seems no mainstream newspaper wants to touch this story. Most of the detainees, by the way, are 3-months into a hunger strike and teetering on death themselves. But this information about the lawyer was withheld for nearly a week, and even now, very little is being revealed about this troubling case, while the hunger strike gets virtually zero attention. Even though President Obama has called for closing the base several times, nothing happens as we enter the 11th year of this dreadful prison’s existence.
Guantanamo will become a great stain on the history of the United States. The death of this lawyer, Andy P. Hart, reminds me of the death of William Pitzer, who was “suicided” after his role in the JFK autopsy. We really need a Congressional investigation on the size and scope of Watergate to get to the bottom of Guantanamo Bay.
Did you notice that HBO and Showtime have dueling perspectives on President Barack Obama currently airing? On HBO, you can view By the People, a loving documentary of Obama’s rise to power; while on Showtime, Oliver Stone tears Obama apart in the closing segment of his series on the Untold History of America, a finale that seemed primarily focused on showing how Obama was really a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and his velvet glove has disguised a fist of steel.
Obama is clearly one of the most intelligent and charismatic Presidents in history and his election was a tremendous watershed for the country, a wonderful thing for all, but especially for minorities. However, I couldn’t help but marvel at the complete lack of minority representation in his inner sanctums as shown in the HBO documentary. Clearly, Obama did not rise to power like a Martin Luther King, a grassroots activist with a team of peers. Obama’s career, it seems, has been much more carefully crafted, no doubt carefully guided by people inside the political power structure.
As Stone makes clear, Obama was secretly the candidate of Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex, since they gave far more money to his campaign than they did to his opponent. Meanwhile, although Obama was swept into office on a promise and hope of change, a lot of the same faces paraded into positions of power in his administration, while the perpetual war plans continued unabated, even though the wars have clearly bankrupted the nation. Obama doesn’t have the courage to face down the Joint Chiefs the way JFK did after the Bay of Pigs. But then, Obama probably doesn’t want to end up like JFK either.
I believe Obama’s grandfather worked for the CIA and this played a role in his political development. I saw this claim initially made in a DVD circulated during the election that claimed Obama’s real father is Frank Marshall. That claim may also be true. However, the DVD then jumped the shark by asserting Frank Marshall took topless pictures of Obama’s mother while she was underage and sold them to men’s magazines. And that allegation is what took the whole story off the deep end and guaranteed it would never be addressed in the mainstream press. But this is they way a lot of disinfo ops work: conceal the truth by wrapping it in lies.
Watching the two shows back-to-back is a real eye-opener, sort of like dueling propaganda pieces that cancel each other out. We can always hope Obama slips off leash and tries to do something to end the madness of promoting a fake war on terrorism that destroyed our Constitutional rights. So far, however, we’ve seen no signs of that happening anytime soon.
Maybe you noticed the RFK Jr., finally came out and branded the Warren Commission a “pack of lies.” JFK, Jr. already did this many years ago (and may have paid the price) but this ends the speculation of “why isn’t the family talking?” Perhaps someone will produce an honest documentary. It was, after all, the event that changed the course of American history, a coup by the big money powers with three major players doing the dirty work: Texas oil, the Chicago outfit, and the CIA’s Cuban exiles. I’d be happy to work on a comprehensive documentary since one of the three shooters was Johnny Roselli, who was also the lover of the owner of my hometown newspaper, The News Gazette, where I worked in the 1960s as a junior copy-boy.
But when you get down to the nitty-gritty, you’ll find James Jesus Angleton conspiring with Allen Dulles (as well as perhaps Dulles’ cousin David Rockefeller). These were some of the men behind the curtain in those days, although there were a bunch of them high up in the military involved as well. It was Seven Days in May come to fruition, just as JFK had feared.
My theory is 9/11 was perpetrated by a drug cartel. The Taliban had virtually wiped out opium production at the time, which was okay for a few years because opium warehouses were overflowing and prices were low and the cartel may have wanted to drive prices higher. But eventually, the poppy fields had to come back, which meant the Taliban had to go. Opium came back bigger than ever after 9/11. Let’s make one assumption: there was a connection between those two events.
If you lay out a brief history of banking, the evidence leads to one inescapable conclusion: banking and illegal drugs have been in bed together for a long time. So whoever is running the biggest drug cartels, is likely also running a major bank somewhere, at least, that is what history has taught us. These are not the figures you see in the media, but the real power behind the throne, the men who actually collect the cash and wash it clean.
I don’t pretend to know who these people are, although some would say it’s the English royals and others would say it’s the CIA, while still others might say it’s the Mossad. I just know it’s not a bunch of people living in tents in the Middle East. They are pawns in the game.
“Enlightenment’s not like ringing a bell. Some days you can stone people with your presence, some days not.” Stephen Gaskin
I used to wonder if all this deep political research I was doing was really worth it. Sometimes, when I’d try to clue my elders into the secret society network that controls real global power, they’d get depressed having to confront all that corruption for the first time.
Then I realized the case on the JFK assassination was closed. All you had to do was read the testimony of mafia figures and Cuban exiles who worked on that CIA project, presumably initiated at the request of the oligarchy, and not by some rouge agents either.
A peaceful calm came over me when I realized I no longer had to stay abreast of all the latest twists and turns. Conspiracy theory is 99% disinfo and 1% honest investigations. More than anything, it involves avoiding rabbit holes, like chemtrails and “we never landed on the moon.” These are the chaff and flares ejected to fool heat-seeking missile researchers.
The latest rabbit hole is 9/11 was a fusion of OTO/Freemasonic black magic rituals designed to penetrate the psyche of the nation.
I’d prefer an analysis of 9/11 based on the Harry Potter franchise, the most valuable media asset in the United Kingdom right now because I think Harry Potter contains more powerful magic than Aleister Crowley at this point.
Every generation shapes its own magic and I don’t subscribe to the theory a black magic cult has been running the world continuously for 2,000 years. Black magic cults are everywhere, usually hidden as white magic cults. LaRouche, Hubbard and Rev. Moon created three of the biggest of our time, but they still don’t approach whatever black magic cult is embedded in the corrupted Pentagon and CIA.
Rule number one: Never talk about the order.
Rule number two: Obey the order.
These societies are designed to hand down power from one generation of the oligarchy to the next and most of the people certainly don’t feel they’re committing any crimes or doing anything other than protecting their family’s interests.
We get a picture of the dark side of these societies by looking at the Sicilian men-of-honor society, whose initial induction ceremony involved black robes with hoods and a human skull with a stiletto driven through it. There were no complex OTO or masonic-style rituals, though. Just a pinprick on the finger, a few drops of blood, and the sacred oath to obey and conceal. Oh, and if you ever broke this vow, you gave the society permission to kill you as your just punishment.
Although we’ve never been inside the Bonesmen’s tomb during their initiation ceremonies, we’ve heard audio tapes from activities in the courtyard, which sound pretty hilarious. Ritual death seems to be involved there as well, just as it is with the masonic societies. I’m not familiar with the Mormon’s version, but given that cult’s rapid penetration of the FBI, I suspect ritual death may be a part of their initiation rites as well.
So why all this continuous reference to Crowley and Pike as if their ideas are actually driving the show? A huge part of disinfo is creating the false enemy.
Someday the corruption inside this network is going to be exposed because someone on the inside is going to make a serious run at exposing the hoodwink. But it will probably be preceded by a fake messiah acting the role of do-gooder.
The hidden cabal that controls the Federal Reserve hasn’t been this nervous since JFK began printing money not tied to their perpetual debt system. Seems we are reaching a tipping point on the reality this oligarchy doesn’t really deserve a monopoly over our money system. There have been numerous attempts to reform the Fed over the decades and today most of the billions it makes in profit is funneled directly into the Treasury (instead of being divided up amongst the stockholders, like the good old days). Now most of the stockholders are stuck with a measly 10% profit or so. We’re talking millions, not billions.
You can certainly find a lot of garbage about the Fed online, much of it will try to convince you the Rothschilds secretly own the system. I’ve always felt that unproven theory was a limited hangout. The Rothschilds are certainly a big dog in the world banking elite, maybe even the biggest on an individual basis, but do you really believe they have eclipsed the combined fortunes of the old money families of Europe and their relatives in the US? If that were so, the House of Lords would be quickly converting to the Jewish faith instead of Rothschilds in England rapidly becoming Christians to aid their entry into the House of Lords. No, contrary to popular crackpot conspiracy theory, I don’t believe the Rothschilds have taken over the world, although there certainly is a MI6-Mossad-CIA component to our current situation, most of which seem to revolve around oil and opium. The entire hoodwink for the next 50 years has been arranged around a holy war between Arabs and Jews, with the Christians siding with the Jews. They had to invent something to replace the Communist-Capitalist dialectic after that hoodwink collapsed, and jihad versus crusade was the best option available. Right now, the plan is to bilk as much money out of the oil industry as possible before that monopoly on energy runs out. Not because we’re going to run out of oil (Peak Oil is a scam) but because oil will one day finally be replaced by better, cleaner technologies that have been kept in the shadows in order to keep oil on top of the world.
Considering the rapid growth of technology, seems like the entire banking system, so rife with corruption, could be easily reformed if we just made a few changes. First, do we really need cash? In today’s world of smart phones, debit cards and online banking in a cloud, many people are finding cash unnecessary, unless, of course, you’re involved in illegal activity. The elimination of cash would pretty much end money laundering as we know it today.
Another tweak I’d suggest, is the end of bank secrecy for accounts over a certain amount. Let’s see who the big dogs are and what size bones they have. The majority shareholders of all banks, especially the Federal Reserve Banks, should be posted online. And all bank depositors with assets over one million dollars should not be able to cloak their accounts at all. I’d open up all records on the top 1%, including tax returns, banking statements, and anything else that would allow citizen researchers like me to look for fraud. The presumption would be: behind every great fortune is a great crime. So let’s see where those fortunes are so we can investigate the crimes behind them. And if any citizen whistle-blowers actually come up with some real crime, they should be rewarded for their efforts. In this way, many unemployed people could go back to work, catching swindlers and tax cheats and saving the government billions in the process. You wouldn’t have to win the lottery to get rich, you could do it by exposing white collar crime at the highest levels.
Can you tell the difference between a legitimate area of deep-political research and a carefully constructed rabbit hole leading nowhere? When navigating the conspiracy wilderness of mirrors, it’s important to realize 90% of the so-called “research” is garbage being spread by kooks or people pretending to be kooks, unless, of course, it’s a mainstream book parroting the official government line, in which case it will be praised to the skies in all the major media from far and wide.
This is how the entire spectrum of conspiracy research has been removed from the accepted borders of reality. In the jargon of mind control ops, all researchers have been “sheep-dipped” as lunatics. Good or bad, crazy or sane, every deep-political researcher is just another conspiracy crackpot. So much for investigative research. Investigative research is practically extinct at this point.
So the kookier the stuff that gets published, the farther they drive the center of gravity away from uncomfortable realities that might stir people into action, and the deeper they go into the designated rabbit hole, a place filled with fearful sheeple and paranoid delusions. Manufacturing all this noise is a sophisticated mind game played out on several fields. Most religion (and any other mind-control cult) works by first leading the gullible down into a state of fearful resignation.
This test is designed to measure your ability to navigate the many rabbit holes that dot the conspiracy landscape, so I invite everyone to take my Disinfo Quiz. Most of the theories listed here are discussed in greater detail elsewhere on my blog.
All conspiracy research falls into one of three categories:
1) credible research; 2) manufactured rabbit hole leading nowhere; or, 3) limited hang-out, a deflection of the real story, usually scapegoating the designated patsy.
Limited hang-outs are often employed as lightning rods to capture the center of energy on an emerging consciousness.
So tell me which of the following categories do these popular internet conspiracy theories fall into?
Credible story? Rabbit Hole? or Limited Hang-out?
1) The CIA killed JFK
2) We never landed on the moon.
3) 9/11 was a ritual event based on Crowley magick
4) Chemtrails are poisoning the world
5) Fluoride is poisoning the world
6) Cannabis cures cancer
7) The Aurora shooting was a magic ritual event
8) Madonna is Queen of the Illuminati
9) Circumcision is a form of ritualized child abuse
10) Albert Hoffman, of LSD fame, secretly worked for the CIA
11) A vaccine given in the 1950s could be creating an explosion of cancer in Baby Boomers
12) The Jews are secretly running the world
13) JFK Jr was murdered
14) Elvis is alive
After you compile your score (answers below) find out how you rank, Magus or Sheeple?
13-14 correct: Magus
11-12 correct: Senior
9-10 correct: Junior
7-8 correct: Sophomore
5-6 correct: Freshman
4 or less correct: you are undoubtedly a member of the brainwashed sheeple
Marilyn Monroe was murdered. She did not take an “overdose of sleeping pills” as her stomach was virtually empty. She did have multiple bruises that were erased from the autopsy report, and her body showed evidence of having been given an enema, which may be how the barbiturates that killed her were administered, although some believe the final coup d’etat may have been delivered via syringe by her analyst Dr. Ralph Greenson, who was having an affair with her, a serious breach of professional ethics. Greenson is the man who discovered and reported her dead.
Perhaps the key detail in understanding this case is that her death occurred within days of her friend Dorothy Kilgallen leaking veiled info about Monroe’s brief affair with JFK in her widely-circulated gossip column. Although neighbors reported hearing quite a row that night, all this would be swept under the rug, along with an emergency visit from Robert Kennedy. There’s also a report of a possible intervention with Sam Giancana shortly before her death, both incidents of which might have indicated last-ditch efforts to save her life.
It all happened 54 years ago, so it’s about time the real facts come out, but don’t hold your breath. In the world of archetypes, icons just don’t get any bigger than Marilyn. She remains the sexiest woman alive and her personality seemed charmingly devoid of evil intent, so why would anyone want to kill Marilyn Monore?
Most of what I know about this case I picked up from Jim Hougan, one of my favorite conspiracy writers, who always maintains a great sense of humor, unlike many people in this field. Many years ago, Hougan published a brilliant book, Spooks, that went into detail on characters like Robert Vesco, Mitch WerBell, Robert Maheu, the sort of guys who dance between raindrops. But Hougan also connected some dots on the Kennedy-Teamster confrontation, a war Marilyn seems to have gotten caught in the middle of, which may be why she ended up dead.
The story starts in 1955. Senator John McClellan’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations nails its number-one target, Teamster boss Dave Beck, thanks to Beck’s assistant Jimmy Hoffa, secretly assisting Robert Kennedy with the incriminating evidence of Beck’s pension diversion schemes. JFK sat on the committee and RFK was the committee’s lawyer. Hoffa became the new leader of the country’s most powerful union. Soon, however, Robert Kennedy starts building a case against Hoffa and this becomes the most intense vendetta of his life. Papa Kennedy had earlier maneuvered his son onto the staff of Communist witch-hunter Joe McCarthy, a man RFK seems to have (strangely enough) held a lot of respect for. It was while working closely with McCarthy and Roy Cohn that RFK cut his political teeth and mastered the art of dirty tricks.
Many people make the mistake of thinking Kennedy “went after the mob.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Robert Kennedy went after Jimmy Hoffa, while others in the administration maintained friendly contact with Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, even to the point of requesting their services in the elimination of Fidel Castro.
RFK’s assault wasn’t nicknamed the “Get Hoffa Squad” for no reason. At one time, Kennedy had 40 grand juries all investigating different aspects of Hoffa’s life. Eventually Hoffa was brought down simply through defensive measures he initiated to fight against dirty tricks RFK was playing on him, which included planting government informants all around him and turning Hoffa’s own secret agents into well-greased doubles under RKF control.
Bernard Spindel is the key character in the Monroe mystery, a surveillance expert who worked for Hoffa, a person RFK attempted to double early on, telling him to set any price. “Now, Bernie, you know my brother is going to be the next President. You don’t have to worry about anything,” RFK is reported to have said. Bernie worked for anyone who paid him and, in his own words,”never asked for a pedigree,” but he refused to work for any government agency and he refused to break any laws. He pioneered all sorts of strategies for circumventing the laws against wiretapping, even to the point of using lip readers to decipher films he shot, rather than use the available audio track.
Spindel didn’t double, however. He took the 5th Amendment when called to testify. So the Spindel home in upstate New York was raided by the police and Spindel led away in handcuffs. Meanwhile, his extensive library of recordings disappeared into government hands, never to be seen again. Spindel would become so famous that he once appeared on “What’s My Line?” He was murdered eventually, although I can’t find much information on his death.
Spindel’s widow, Barbara, believes the seized tapes included conversations between Marilyn and the Kennedy brothers that contained proof of Monroe’s secret affair with JFK. These tapes could have destroyed his political future. Who ordered the tapes, who knew about them and who had copies?
Shortly before he disappeared, Jimmy Hoffa indicated he had evidence that could have been used to destroy the Kennedys but he chose not to use it against them due to its “unseemly” nature. Obviously, he was talking about sexual exploits, but was he talking about the Marilyn tapes?
The Hoffa/Kennedy War got as nasty as it gets, and Marilyn seems to have been caught in the middle. Did she consent to allow her conversations to be taped (which would have made the wiretapes legal), something that would have infuriated the Kennedy brothers? Or did Spindel’s surveillance include RFK’s midnight intervention? Was Marilyn really threatening to reveal her affair with JFK to the press? I find this last speculation, although popular on the internet, hard to swallow. I’m sure Marilyn had more than one extramarital affair in her life. But when you read Arthur Miller’s accounts with his wife, you begin to understand Marilyn was probably bipolar, which meant she was subject to manic mood swings and had great difficulty sleeping. No one could depend on her keeping quiet and she apparently wasn’t.
Most online theories point to a mafia-related hit, although that always seemed somewhat dubious since the Sicilian Men of Honor do not typically kill civilians or women, although they seek vengeance when they feel it’s justified. But the biggest mafiosos in the country were very close friends with Marilyn and she was an important member of their Hollywood Union, supervised by Roselli. According to “Double Cross” by Chuck Giancana, the hit was actually put out by the CIA and accepted by Mooney Giancana, who wanted to implicate Robert Kennedy, so they killed Marilyn immediately after a visit from RFK and Greenson, who only gave her a mild sedative. After she was asleep, they broke into the house and administered a fatal enema. Needles Gianola was in charge of the hit squad. The reason for the hit? Marilyn was talking too much about the mob/CIA relationship and threatening to “tell all to the press.” I’m not sure I buy that version, and there’s a competing theory that Greenson was being blackmailed by someone in the Kennedy circle.
In 2009, an FBI document appeared, a report from some unnamed agent and none of this could ever be authenticated, but it stated RFK made a call to Peter Lawford asking, “Is she dead yet?” The report went on to state Monroe was murdered in retaliation to threats she had just made to reveal her JFK affair to the press. Someday, those Monroe/Kennedy tapes just might surface, in which case we might clear some of the mud from these waters and learn more of the true subtext behind the murder of one of the greatest movie stars in history. Marilyn’s inside knowledge of government and mafia affairs was considerable and eventually she may have become targeted as a threat to National Security, undoubtedly the same crime JFK died for a few years later.
Dr. Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon, aka Ralph Romeo Greenson may be Marilyn Monroe’s real killer, claims an explosive book, which also claims he did it on Bobby Kennedy’s orders. The first thing about this book that makes me suspicious is the title includes the words “Cased Closed.” That meme was first employed by notorious disinfo artist Gerald Posner and didn’t get him any traction.
Here’s the crucial backstory: not only was Marilyn allegedly having an affair with Bobby Kennedy (something that supposedly started after Bobby was dispatched by JFK to tell Marilyn to stop calling him), but Marilyn was also having an affair with her analyst, the jet-setting and very well-connected “Romeo” Greenson.
According to the book, Marilyn had been keeping a little red diary, something that could compromise a number of Hollywood celebrities, Sicilian men-of-honor, and politicians. For some, having an affair with Marilyn revealed might have been an upgrade to their reputations, but for others, like Greenson and the Kennedy’s, it spelled potential professional disgrace. Supposedly, Marilyn was threatening to call a press conference and release the little red book, something that just doesn’t ring true for me, as calling press conferences was never really her style, or dishing on her past lovers.
As the greatest goddess of her time, I’d imagine Marilyn held some sway on the astral plane, so the taking of her life is a significant crime against the forces of the universe, and in such cases karmic blow-back is virtually guaranteed.
The real question is: upon whom do we fix the blame? According to these authors, both of whom have written previous books on Marilyn, two LA policemen gave Marilyn what was supposed to be a fatal enema, but the next day she still clung to life, so Romeo was dispatched to administer the coup de grace.
JFK would be dead within a year, and Bobby not long after. If true, it’s got to be one of the greatest tragedies ever told.
There’s something very special about her Majesty’s Secret Service and the Sicilian Men of Honor. They are, in fact, the greatest assassins of our time, although Seal Team Six was doing it’s best to capture that honor before, unfortunately, getting decimated in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan shortly after the bin Laden operation.
It’s funny how your perspective of these two powerful secret societies boils down to personal preference. Both societies have attained mythic status to the point of replacing the cowboy/indian dialectic that dominated the early film industry.
For many decades, the cowboy films portrayed the invading culture as the “good guys,” but later, that perspective seemed to slip closer to something less blatantly powered by propaganda. In today’s media, you can pick 007’s Queen, and, by extension, the Royal Houses of Europe as your “father” spirit guide; or, on the other hand, you might prefer a regional tribal leader of Italian ancestry, and, by extension, the Vatican? I can’t help but notice the British have attained a more favorable PR image than the mafiosos, who are typically portrayed as deese and doose individuals lacking any real cultural refinements, a low-brow style now likely preferred by many Italian youth, who might strive to be thugs, same way a Cheech and Chong I’m-high- all-day approach is preferred by other teenagers, although both approaches may not work out as well as they might think over the long-term, as opposed to those who seek a more intellectual and responsible approach to life.
You notice when the CIA wanted to whack JFK, they immediately turned to Johnny Roselli, a man of honor who actually rivals James Bond in style and substance, only Roselli was a real dude. They could have just as easily gone to the British SAS, where the real James Bonds of today actively reside. But William Harvey chose Roselli, a man who actually knew Kennedy socially and undoubtedly shared a few of the same mistresses since he rivaled Bond in the romance department as well as the assassination department. It’s funny how there’s no films about Roselli, even though he confessed to killing JFK many times before found floating in a barrel in Biscayne Bay, cut up into little pieces. Whatever happened to omerta, John? Did you actually have to brag about it so much?
For whatever reason, spooks and godfathers are the two dominant media themes of our time, both being mined primarily for violence pornography purposes: punches, shootings, explosions, multiple graphic murders and assorted traumatic imagery. The usual stuff the media wants to fill our little kids head’s with. Sometimes you have to wonder if these two memes emerged randomly, or whether they truly do represent the undercurrents ruling our banking industry?
Ever wonder why a British assassin is the most revered cultural icon of our time? You have to wonder who came up with the idea of Queen Elizabeth opening the Olympics with Bond. At first, I could not believe that was the real Queen; it had to be a look-alike actress, but soon I realized, yes, the Queen wants to put some of the James Bond assassin juice into her own aura.
I don’t think James Bond could have gotten so big if not for JFK. Soon after he was elected, the young Kennedy revealed his love of Ian Fleming’s books to the press and pretty soon, those books were being serialized in almost every newspaper in America. Kennedy did some spy work himself. In fact, he was romantically involved with a possible Nazi spy while in England. JFK started the war in Naval Intelligence, the same outfit that made the secret deals with Lucky Luciano to watch the docks, and prepare Sicily for invasion, in exchange for some wink-wink arrangements with the French heroin trade, but he got moved out to the Pacific possibly in order to get sheep-dipped as a war hero, or so many believe. While JFK was saving a man’s life, however, George Bush was jumping out of his bomber first instead of last like a pilot’s supposed to, so he probably botched his war hero sheep-dipping by being responsible for a couple of unnecessary deaths, or so the legend goes.
Soon after taking office, Kennedy told the CIA that he wanted to meet “the American James Bond.” In other words, who’s the top assassin who handles the high priority wet work around here? No doubt Kennedy wanted to talk shop and spy craft.
But when the CIA brought him their number one assassin, William Harvey, Kennedy was unimpressed. Harvey was a thug and had none of the social grace of a James Bond.
But there was a man of intense charisma and social grace, who became Harvey’s go-to assassin. Harvey would soon approach this man about killing Castro—more on that later.
Meanwhile, after taking LSD with one of his many mistresses (Mary Meyer, who was handing it out to lots of people in Washington at the time), JFK began opening up secret, backdoor lines of communication to Cuba and the Soviet Union. He successfully negotiated the first nuclear arms treaty and probably wanted to restore relations with Cuba and avoid a land war in Asia.
Yes, acid turned Kennedy into a pacifist but that should be no surprise since it also propelled Steve Jobs into creating the personal computer. Unfortunately, Kennedy’s pacifism and peace incentives put him into conflict with the most powerful force in the world, the war party that employs war as a strategic means of extracting the greatest possible profits from the misery and suffering of innocent people.
After JFK ordered all operations against Cuba ended, he discovered Harvey was still fomenting terror in Cuba and plotting a Castro assassination. JFK ordered Harvey sacked, but instead, James J. Angleton moved him to Italy. He was once the CIA’s greatest assassin, after all, even though his health is now failing due to stress and heavy drinking, but his services might be needed very soon, or so Angleton surmised.
But who was the real-life American James Bond? The one with the wit, charm and grace of a British lord mixed with the skills of a ninja warrior?
That would be Johnny Roselli, a “man of honor” in the Sicilian tradition who worked for the Chicago family interests in Los Angeles under the supervision of Sam Giancana, and who also worked with William Harvey on matters of intense national security. Roselli knew JFK, and, in fact, was instrumental in helping introduce him to Sam Giancana’s mistress, who soon became a carrier pigeon between the two, sending messages back and forth while Kennedy plotted his peace missions. Meanwhile, the CIA was plotting how to capture the heroin franchise from French control in Indochina. (Soon, any poppy fields not under CIA protection would be bombed out of existence.) Strange that Roselli would become an assassin of JFK. Roselli was sent to babysit Giancana’s mistress after the event. She was hysterical and Giancana was afraid she might talk to someone. Most of the other potential whistle-blowers were just whacked.
During this period, Roselli would drift in and out of my hometown, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. One of his favorite mistresses ran the local newspaper (where I worked on weekends) and television station. And when she needed someone to whack her philandering husband, she went first to Harvey, who was living in Indiana. Harvey turned down the assignment, so Roselli took care of it. None of this would be revealed until decades later, after all the principle characters were dead.
Ian Fleming was a real British James Bond, by the way. He handled a lot of the most sensitive undercover agents, including Aleister Crowley. His books are Cold War cartoon fantasies, however, as Fleming did not want to spill the beans on any real secrets, although he might have been able to offer some insight into SIS operations inside the USA. Funny how British spies are never uncovered or talked about in the media, especially the really famous ones from history, like Aaron Burr and Benjamin Franklin. | <urn:uuid:91c5198e-a07a-45bf-8f25-d69df2a25f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stevenhager.net/tag/jfk/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973446 | 8,407 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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For a description of the above types, see the TMEX Type Descriptions.
Specifies the session handle returned from the API function TMExtendedStartSession that specifies the desired 1-Wire network port. This parameter is required by most TMEX API functions.
Specifies a pointer to a memory location that TMEX keeps all of the state information for the 1-Wire networks. This parameter is required by most TMEX API functions.
Specifies the page that the packet will begin being written at. A CRC-16 verified packet always starts at the beginning of a page boundary. The valid range of a start page depends on the device type. Current 1-Wire devices range from 0 to 256 pages.
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Today, we are wrapping up our three part series on annual appeal letters. Saying thank you is one of the most important parts of obtaining and retaining donors; however, many organizations do not effectively say thank you OR even worse yet, forget or say thanks at all. Below are some tips to ensure that when you say thank you to your donors your organization will be remembered….for the right reasons.
Before you begin writing thank you letters, spend some time thinking about the letter and who it will be going to.
- What has the donor’s contribution enabled the organization to do?
- Is it the first time the donor has contributed, or is it a repeat donor?
- Will the organization use a tiered acknowledgement system?
- Who will sign the letters?
As you begin thinking about the responses to the questions above, it is also a good idea to develop a timeline for saying “thanks.” It should be common sense to thank donors quickly; however, many donors report not receiving any acknowledgement of their donation for months. This is unacceptable, no matter the size of the gift, all donors deserve the respect of a “thank you” within seven days of receipt of the donation. As a matter of fact, best practices in the fundraising field tell us that nonprofits should be sending out thank you letters within two days of receiving the donation.
Now that you have determined the answers to the above questions, it is time to sit down and write the letter. Begin by personalizing the letter, since the person has made a donation, you know their name…never write a letter to “Dear Friend.”
Next, your opening sentence needs to connect with the donor. This is your chance to let donors know how much you appreciate them. Here is a perfect spot to include a brief story about someone who benefits from the services of your organization. Use phrases such as, “your donation is making a difference,” “because of you we have been able to…”, etc.
If the donor is making the gift in response to your annual appeal or another campaign, make mention of it. This is another way of letting the donor know that their letter is personalized and not a letter you are sending to everyone. This section of the letter may also include a statement that the IRS requires about the deductibility of the donation; however, it is not enough to send a letter that only has the IRS statement and an amount. Doing so is not saying thank you; it is just complying with the law.
Let donors know how you will be using the funds that they have contributed and remember to say thank you once again. Conclude the letter by inviting the donor to stay in touch, perhaps by connecting on social media or signing up to receive your newsletter on your website.
Conclude your letter with a signature….a live signature, not one that has been computer generated.
Be very careful about one HUGE mistake that many organizations make: Do NOT use the thank you letter as a platform to request another donation. The thank you letter should only be used to say thank you and to let your donors know that you appreciate them. | <urn:uuid:3d6f3872-e21f-4ce8-bee9-74507145616f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://non-profitconsultant.com/thanking-your-donors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960196 | 646 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Who Are We
Mechinat Hannaton is a post-high school, pre-IDF program for Jewish teens unlike any other; dedicated to the exploration of Jewish-Israeli identity through a year of study, leadership training, and volunteer work in nearby underserved communities.
The Mechina at Hannaton emphasizes the importance of Jewish diversity and religious pluralism in Israeli society. Its goals are to develop and empower young leaders with passion, knowledge, and commitment to promoting the values of pluralistic Judaism, Zionism, and Humanism; to secure the future of Jewish peoplehood around the world and democracy in Israel.
The Hannaton Experience
- We provide a safe space where young people are encouraged to talk, to learn and explore their identities, to develop critical thought through experiential learning, to make their dreams a reality, to share their ideas and have them supported and challenged by their peers.
- ·We encourage community building by leading Mechina participants to create their own small community while simultaneously engaging with the larger Hannaton community, where they learn and lead by example.
- ·We instill the importance of volunteer work through hands-on engagement with disabled and elderly populations, and multi-ethnic minority communities that are part of the landscape of Israeli society.
- ·We promote a strong connection to the land by leading educational treks throughout Israel, learning the physical lay of the land and its connections with Jewish history and contemporary issues. | <urn:uuid:1faf4e2a-b45c-4bf5-a202-bee8c1ee7ffe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mechinot.org.il/en-us/yachad/m/hannaton-2109?print=1&tmpl=component | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94367 | 291 | 2.140625 | 2 |
“Irvine excels at giving a “walking tour” of the many schools of Stoic philosophy, from Greek to Roman traditions, identifying individual Stoic thinkers (many more than Seneca) and their principles and techniques, which Irvine argues are even more relevant in modern times than their own.”
“Well-written and so compelling, this is a rare example of a book that actually will make a difference in the lives of its readers. Whether it’s coping with grief or arriving at lasting happiness, Irvine shows, with care and verve, ancient Stoic wisdom to be ever relevant and very, very helpful.”
–Gary Klein, author of Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
“Bill Irvine has given us a great gift: the most accessible and inviting description of modern Stoicism available. Read this book and be prepared to change your life!”
–Sharon Lebell, author of Epictetus’s The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
- Introduction: A Plan for Living
- Part One: The Rise of Stoicism
- One: Philosophy Takes an Interest in Life
- Two: The First Stoics
- Three: Roman Stoicism
- Part Two: Stoic Psychological Techniques
- Four: Negative Visualization: What’s the Worst That Can Happen?
- Five: The Dichotomy of Control: On Becoming Invincible
- Six: Fatalism: Letting Go of the Past . . . and the Present
- Seven: Self-Denial: On Dealing with the Dark Side of Pleasure
- Eight: Meditation: Watching Ourselves Practice Stoicism
- Part Three: Stoic Advice
- Nine: Duty: On Loving Mankind
- Ten: Social Relations: On Dealing with Other People
- Eleven: Insults: On Putting Up with Put-Downs
- Twelve: Grief: On Vanquishing Tears with Reason
- Thirteen: Anger: On Overcoming Anti-Joy
- Fourteen: Personal Values: On Seeking Fame
- Fifteen: Personal Values: On Luxurious Living
- Sixteen: Exile: On Surviving a Change of Place
- Seventeen: Old Age: On Being Banished to a Nursing Home
- Eighteen: Dying: On a Good End to a Good Life
- Nineteen: On Becoming a Stoic: Start Now and Prepare to Be Mocked
- Part Four: Stoicism for Modern Lives
- Twenty: The Decline of Stoicism
- Twenty-One: Stoicism Reconsidered
- Twenty-Two: Practicing Stoicism
- A Stoic Reading Program
Quotes From the Book
Introduction: A Plan for Living
But a grand goal in living is the first component of a philosophy of life. This means that if you lack a grand goal in living, you lack a coherent philosophy of life.
I had long been intrigued by Zen Buddhism and imagined that on taking a closer look at it in connection with my research, I would become a full-fledged convert. But what I found, much to my surprise, was that Stoicism and Zen have certain things in common.
Furthermore, I came to realize that Stoicism was better suited to my analytical nature than Buddhism was. As a result, I found myself, much to my amazement, toying with the idea of becoming, instead of a practicing Zen Buddhist, a practicing Stoic.
I discovered, though, that the goal of the Stoics was not to banish emotion from life but to banish negative emotions.
There was also agreement that one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.
We will reconsider our goals in living. In particular, we will take to heart the Stoic claim that many of the things we desire—most notably, fame and fortune—are not worth pursuing.
And when they encounter Epictetus’s observation that some things are up to us and some things are not, and that if we have any sense at all, we will focus our energies on the things that are up to us
Part One: The Rise of Stoicism
One: Philosophy Takes an Interest in Life
classicist Francis MacDonald Cornford describes Socrates’ philosophical significance in similar terms: “Pre-Socratic philosophy begins … with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man’s soul.”
But even though schools of philosophy are a thing of the past, people are in as much need of a philosophy of life as they ever were.
Furthermore, whatever philosophy of life a person ends up adopting, she will probably have a better life than if she tried to live—as many people do—without a coherent philosophy of life
Two: The First Stoics
The Stoics’ interest in logic is a natural consequence of their belief that man’s distinguishing feature is his rationality.
Ethics was the third and most important component of Zeno’s Stoicism.
It is concerned not with moral right and wrong but with having a “good spirit,” that is, with living a good, happy life or with what is sometimes called moral wisdom.
If we lived in perfect accordance with nature—if, that is, we were perfect in our practice of Stoicism—we would be what the Stoics refer to as a wise man or sage.
Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy.
Roman Stoics had less confidence than the Greeks in the power of pure reason to motivate people.
By highlighting tranquility in their philosophy, the Stoics not only made it more attractive to ancient Romans but made it, I think, more attractive to modern individuals as well.
Three: Roman Stoicism
According to Epictetus, the primary concern of philosophy should be the art of living:
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
Part Two: Stoic Psychological Techniques
Four: Negative Visualization: What’s the Worst That Can Happen?
We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires. The psychologists Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein have studied this phenomenon and given it a name: hedonic adaptation.
As a result of the adaptation process, people find themselves on a satisfaction treadmill.
In other words, we need a technique for creating in ourselves a desire for the things we already have.
negative visualization—was employed by the Stoics at least as far back as Chrysippus. It is, I think, the single most valuable technique in the Stoics’ psychological tool kit.
What we find, though, is that the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.
But understood properly, saying grace—and for that matter, offering any prayer of thanks—is a form of negative visualization.
Furthermore, there is a difference between contemplating something bad happening and worrying about it. Contemplation is an intellectual exercise, and it is possible for us to conduct such exercises without its affecting our emotions.
It teaches us, in other words, to enjoy what we have without clinging to it.
we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent.
Negative visualization is therefore a wonderful way to regain our appreciation of life and with it our capacity for joy.
Five: The Dichotomy of Control: On Becoming Invincible
OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal.
make it your goal to want only those things that are easy to obtain—and ideally to want only those things that you can be certain of obtaining.
EPICTETUS’S HANDBOOK OPENS, somewhat famously, with the following assertion: “Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.”
There are things over which we have complete control, things over which we have no control at all, and things over which we have some but not complete control.
Thus, wanting things that are not up to us will disrupt our tranquility, even if we end up getting them. In conclusion, whenever we desire something that is not up to us, our tranquility will likely be disturbed: If we don’t get what we want, we will be upset
To begin with, I think we have complete control over the goals we set for ourselves.
Another thing I think we have complete control over is our values.
It will clearly make sense for us to spend time and energy setting goals for ourselves and determining our values.
When it comes to other, more significant aspects of his life, a Stoic will likewise be careful in the goals he sets for himself.
The Stoics, as I have explained, were very much interested in human psychology and were not at all averse to using psychological “tricks” to overcome certain aspects of human psychology, such as the presence in us of negative emotions.
He will instead concern himself with things over which he has complete control and things over which he has some but not complete control. And when he concerns himself with things in this last category, he will be careful to set internal rather than external goals for himself and will thereby avoid a considerable amount of frustration and disappointment.
Six: Fatalism: Letting Go of the Past . . . and the Present
Epictetus: “we should keep firmly in mind that we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more precisely, the Fates.”
Like most ancient Romans, the Stoics took it for granted that they had a fate.
For ancient Romans, then, life was like a horse race that is fixed: The Fates already knew who would win and who would lose life’s contests.
When the Stoics advocate fatalism, they are, I think, advocating a restricted form of the doctrine. More precisely, they are advising us to be fatalistic with respect to the past, to keep firmly in mind that the past cannot be changed.
Fatalism with respect to the past will doubtless be far more palatable to modern individuals than fatalism with respect to the future. Most of us reject the notion that we are fated to live a certain life; we think, to the contrary, that the future is affected by our efforts.
Notice that the advice that we be fatalistic with respect to the past and the present is consistent with the advice, offered in the preceding chapter, that we not concern ourselves with things over which we have no control. We have no control over the past; nor do we have any control over the present, if by the present we mean this very moment.
Seven: Self-Denial: On Dealing with the Dark Side of Pleasure
The Stoics, by way of contrast, welcomed a degree of discomfort in their life. What the Stoics were advocating, then, is more appropriately described as a program of voluntary discomfort than as a program of self-inflicted discomfort.
What Stoics discover, though, is that willpower is like muscle power: The more they exercise their muscles, the stronger they get, and the more they exercise their will, the stronger it gets.
Part Three: Stoic Advice
Nine: Duty: On Loving Mankind
They thought that man is by nature a social animal and therefore that we have a duty to form and maintain relationships with other people, despite the trouble they might cause us.
Therefore, in all I do, I must have as my goal “the service and harmony of all.” More precisely, “I am bound to do good to my fellow-creatures and bear with them.”
Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.
The biggest obstacle to Marcus’s practice of Stoicism, though, appears to have been his rather intense dislike of humanity.
He remarks that when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.
For now, let me say this: Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working to get whatever it is we find ourselves wanting is unlikely to bring us either happiness or tranquility.
Ten: Social Relations: On Dealing with Other People
In other words, by letting ourselves become annoyed, we only make things worse.
Eleven: Insults: On Putting Up with Put-Downs
we would be foolish to let the insults of these childish adults upset us. In other cases, we will find that those insulting us have deeply flawed characters. Such people, says Marcus, rather than deserving our anger, deserve our pity.
As a result, he says, “another person will not do you harm unless you wish it; you will be harmed at just that time at which you take yourself to be harmed.”
Therefore, if something external harms me, it is my own fault: I should have adopted different values.
It is therefore a response that is likely to deeply frustrate the insulter. For this reason, a humorous reply to an insult can be far more effective than a counterinsult would be.
The Stoics realized this and as a result advocated a second way to respond to insults: with no response at all.
Thirteen: Anger: On Overcoming Anti-Joy
Thus, when we feel ourselves getting angry about something, we should pause to consider its cosmic (in)significance. Doing this might enable us to nip our anger in the bud.
Fifteen: Personal Values: On Luxurious Living
Finally, Musonius advises us to follow the example set by Socrates: Rather than living to eat—rather than spending our life pursuing the pleasure to be derived from food—we should eat to live.
generally, it is perfectly acceptable, says Seneca, for a Stoic to acquire wealth, as long as he does not harm others to obtain it. It is also acceptable for a Stoic to enjoy wealth, as long as he is careful not to cling to it. The idea is that it is possible to enjoy something and at the same time be indifferent to it.
The Buddhist viewpoint regarding wealth, by the way, is very much like the view I have ascribed to the Stoics: It is permissible to be a wealthy Buddhist, as long as you don’t cling to your wealth.
Nineteen: On Becoming a Stoic: Start Now and Prepare to Be Mocked
In part because by adopting one, whether it be Stoicism or some rival philosophy, a person is demonstrating that he has different values than they do. They might therefore infer that he thinks their values are somehow mistaken, which is something people don’t want to hear.
If these people can get the convert to abandon his philosophy of life, the implied challenge will vanish, and so they set about mocking him in an attempt to make him rejoin the unreflecting masses.
Along with avoiding negative emotions, we will increase our chances of experiencing one particularly significant positive emotion: delight in the world around us.
Twenty: The Decline of Stoicism
Because of these similarities, Stoics and Christians found themselves competing for the same potential adherents.
In this competition, however, Christianity had one big advantage over Stoicism: It promised not just life after death but an afterlife in which one would be infinitely satisfied for an eternity.
The Stoics, on the other hand, thought it possible that there was life after death but were not certain of it, and if there was indeed life after death, the Stoics were uncertain what it would be like.
but the Stoics understood that there is at best a loose connection between our external circumstances and how happy we are.
If you consider yourself a victim, you are not going to have a good life; if, however, you refuse to think of yourself as a victim—if you refuse to let your inner self be conquered by your external circumstances—you are likely to have a good life, no matter what turn your external circumstances take.
And rather than wanting new things, we need to work at wanting the things we already have.
Twenty-One: Stoicism Reconsidered
If our goal is not merely to survive and reproduce but to enjoy a tranquil existence, the pain associated with a loss of social status isn’t just useless, it is counterproductive.
Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague humans and prevent them from experiencing a joyful existence.
As I explained in the introduction to this book, there was a time when I was attracted to Zen Buddhism as a philosophy of life, but the more I learned about Zen, the less attractive it became. In particular, I came to realize that Zen is incompatible with my personality. I am a relentlessly analytical person. For Zen to work for me, I would have to abandon my analytical nature.
Twenty-Two: Practicing Stoicism
Furthermore, by refusing to play the insult game—by refusing to respond to an insult with a counterinsult—I make it clear that I regard myself as being above such behavior. My refusal to play the insult game will likely irritate the insulter more than a counterinsult would.
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The Transgender Historian Zagria
Zagria is, as far as I see it, one of the most important transgender historians around. She is running “A Gender Variance Who’s Who”, an amazing repository for transgender history. The site contains a large number of posts, over 1500, about transgender and gender variant people from all over the world, spanning centuries.
We talked with Zagria about the site, her work and important transgender issues. Here follows part 1 of the interview.
(Above: Private photo of Zagria at Iguazu Falls in 1989)
A site about transgender history
How did you come up with the idea of starting a site about transgender history?
A major influence was Kay Brown’s Transsexual, Transgender, and Intersex History web site. I quickly noticed the narrow range, but thought that the basic idea was good. I had made an HTTRACK [web site copier] copy so could still refer to it when it was taken down.
Now of course it is available to all via the Wayback Machine.
I cannot help thinking that finding information about all these transgender and nonbinary people, and writing about them, must require a lot of research. How do you identify the people you are writing about, and where do you find the information you need?
Yes, a lot of research indeed. Basically I read widely. Sometimes while researching A, I encounter B, and follow up B and encounter C. I find inspiration from books, news articles, academic journals, academic theses, the internet, gossip, history, transphobic sites etc.
It is nice to discover someone while reading a book not about trans history at all. Such as Dudley Clarke, whom I discovered in a biography on the mid-twentieth-century popular novelist Dennis Wheatley, Charlotte Bach whom I discovered in Colin Wilson’s Mysteries, or the trans candidates for being Jack the Ripper.
There is a lot more information out there than there was 13 years ago. Google even suggests which books discuss a person or topic. However the amount of data is itself a growing problem, and results in a lot of reading before I can write something.
Access to journals
As I am not associated with a university, access to journals was a problem. An academic friend allowed me to use his library ID and I was thereby able to access journals until he retired and the ID stopped working.
However these days almost all journals and even many books are available via TransReads, LibGen, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Erudit, etc. Increasingly academic theses are available online, and older ones were available — until recently — at the UCalgary Gay, lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, Transgender & Two Spirit Info Site ( Archive).
I was frustrated when Google News was restricted. However we now have the Digital Transgender Archive which would be worthwhile for the issues of Drag Magazine alone, but has so much more.
I managed the cost of books by buying only one a week or so, and by waiting until I could get it for $20 or less (usually AbeBooks or Amazon Marketplace). If you buy a 1,000 books at $10 on average, that is $10,000. Therefore I must be careful. However by spreading it out, I acquired most books that I need for less than some people spend on beer. There is of course no chance of selling them for what I paid.
Some books I got via libraries. However some were not available and were also overpriced. The major bias in my work is that it lacks information found only in overpriced books, although where it is only a few pages, I was often able to read it via Amazon or Google Look Inside.
One trans woman, of significance to our history, wrote to me suggesting herself and her autobiography. Sure, I said, send me the PDF. However she wanted me to buy her book, from a non-secured website. She wanted €37 — which I would never pay for an autobiography. In the end I did write her up, using the information on her website and in various newspaper accounts — but without reading the autobiography.
I really feel that I would like to read Heike Bauer’s Women and Cross-dressing 1800–1939, but at a price in excess of $1000/£470 it is not likely. My local library does not have it, and even if it did, I doubt that I could read and absorb its 1352 pages in only 3 weeks.
How to choose whom to write about
At present I have a long to-do list, much longer than I had in 2007. There are several articles that I did many years ago that need to be redone because books came out later that provided a lot more information: for example David Martin, Donna Langan, Lou Sullivan — and I have just finished a rewrite of Liz Eden in time for the anniversary on 22 August.
How do I choose whom to write about?
Interesting story, significant to trans history; there are misconceptions or even lies that need to be corrected; a trans perspective is needed — I wrote on Janice Raymond because the Wikipedia article did not reflect a trans perspective at all (why do many trans writers still prefer to link to the Wikipedia version on Raymond instead?).
Sometimes I go back to notes that I made 10 years ago or more and check if the amount of public data on a person has increased.
In addition: Unless I can do better than the Wikipedia version, I leave it alone. But it is usually easy to do so.
Sometimes, after putting off writing about a topic because there is too much to read, I will find a writing that partly covers the topic, and that gives the boost that I need. Examples: Laura Wexler’s article on the Johns Hopkins Clinic in Baltimore Style Magazine; Brian Lentelme’s article on Sally’s Hideaway in Ladylik e; Patrick Califia’s summary of Renee Richard’s autobiography.
Finally, my husband, who is proficient in several languages, has helped with foreign materials like the many Spanish articles on trans, books in French about Violette Morris, etc.
Do you have problems with plagiarism?
There is no paywall or even a request for donations on my site. It is free for all to read.
In the menu across the top there is an item: Permissions for Copying.
Mainly it says: “If you copy one of my articles, please copy less than the full article, the paragraphs that are most interesting from your perspective, and send your readers to my site for the full article. Always be careful to give the correct web address, and not an RSS feed address.”
Sometimes this has been ignored. Examples:
A man called Pat Buckley, who claims to be a Bishop, has copied the entirety of my article on Elizabeth Moberly. He pretends to link to me but writes ‘bligspot’ not ‘blogspot’. I wrote him a friendly email pointing out his ‘typo’ — but he chose not to answer.
There is a trans history by Micheline Johnson which has cut and pasted freely from my encyclopedia, and then excluded me from her Bibliography.
I have a bigger problem with the opposite, being disregarded. I include all previous relevant work on the topic in my bibliography at the end, even those that I dislike.
I frequently find writings that would have benefited from including information from what I wrote, but simply ignore it even though a few minutes googling would find it.
Examples include Christine Burns’ Trans Britain, Julian Gill-Peterson’s Histories of the Transgender Child, Dana Bevan’s The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism, all those writers who persist against much evidence in proclaiming that Hirschfeld coined the word ‘transvestite’, and far too many Wikipedia articles to list, but I would mention those on Roberta Betty Cowell, Harry Benjamin, Lili Elevenes (Elbe), surgeon John Brown and Rupert Raj.
Are you criticized for including the ‘bad trans persons’, murderers and so on?
Every now and then. The Encyclopedia is not meant as an apologia for trans people, but as a demonstration that trans persons like everybody else are diverse: good, bad, emotional, stoic, angry, sad, clever, stupid, lazy, hard-working, etc, etc.
Incidentally, the trans who are murderers, or are accused thereof, are among the most popular of my articles. Along with persons in showbiz.
Which historians are you most influenced by?
I am probably a social constructionist, but definitely not a Foucaultian. There is a far superior model of the social construction of gay and trans in the work of Randolph Trumbach, who shows how modern ideas of sex and gender evolved in the 17th and 18th centuries, and how these changes interconnect to how heterosexuality and marriage were changing at the same time.
Unlike Foucault, Trumbach did not dramatically die from AIDS caught in the San Francisco bathhouses, but he has produced a body of work that meticulously explains how sex and gender has changed over the last few centuries, rather than merely asserting as Foucault does.
A second historian is Colin Wilson. An odd choice in that he is neither gay-positive nor trans-positive, and as he recounts re Charlotte Bach, was quite naïve re gender transition. However his history of sex is an alternate social construction, and some of his insights are worth paying attention to.
It is not that long since the most prominent trans histories and theory were by cis men and women. Are we now to call that cisplaining? They certainly leave much to be desired.
I wrote critiques about Ackroyd (Dressing Up) and (Queer City); Ekins (Male Femaling and overview); Bulloug h( overview); Garber (Vested Interests). Of better quality was Kirk (Men in Frocks); Hodgkinson ( and of course [Harry] Benjamin.
Trans on trans
Trans persons have been writing on transness since the 1940s, although the early ones were theory rather than history: Michael Dillon’s Self; Oakley (Sex Change and Dress Deviation); Turtle (Over the Sex Border).
As I have made clear in my reviews, I do not agree with or follow any of them — you can see the reviews for details.
Local trans histories
In recent years there have been regional or city gay and lesbian histories, particularly in the US. These often have trans content that is otherwise unknown. We need more local trans histories. I have written timelines for Atlanta and Seattle-Portland. I have also started such for Argentina, northern England, New Orleans and Hungary.
It is fairly easy to do the first 80% or so of such timelines, but then there are persons or events that require as much work as writing about them as a separate entry. The timelines for London and New York would be practically book-length.
Organizing the content
What is the sort order of the occupations in your index?
That was a problem. Alphabetical did not make sense. Why would I put circus, cooks and criminals next to each other? And you surely do want to put doctors, nurses and dentists next to each other.
I needed another approach. I was aware of the so-called Trifunctional hypothesis ( more) associated with Georges Dumezil. The hypothesis posits three castes or functions in traditional Indo-European society:
a) sacral (which subdivides into kings and priests)
c) economic, including fertility
Some writers add d) poets and musicians.
I adapted this:
- Aristocrats, politicians, activists, event organizers, clubowners
- Religion (in the widest sense) and health workers (tasks originally done by shamans or medicine men)
- Military and police, lawyers and criminals
- All other occupations except (e), and then marriage and pregnancy
- The arts: sports, circus, musicians, dancers, fashion, performers, actors, writers, artists
This is probably a good place to mention that the index (all three of them) are the best ways to navigate through my encyclopedia.
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There are plenty of health and diet myths out there that we have all heard once or twice. The hard part is not hearing about them, it is discerning which bits are true and which bits are false. However, some have a bit more fiction than fact. These health and diet myths are about as untrue as they come… And some just might surprise you!
The first of the debunked health and diet myths is that none of us need carbs. Although none of us need to be eating breads and spoonfuls of sugar, there are carbs we need in a healthy diet. There are two kinds of carbs, complex carbohydrates and simple sugars. Complex carbs are the ones that we need and keep us feeling fuller for longer, like kale, spinach and any other veggie. Simple sugars are the things that give us the jitters and that infamous sugar high, like candy bars and chips.
Do you ever have the urge to trip a model who says her secret to being slim is sleeping enough? Me too. Sadly, she could be right. Researchers have found that those who sleep less than 7 hours a night are more likely to gain weight and less likely to lose it. The idea of sleeping more than 7 hours a night may make us all laugh, but so did the idea of working out 1 hour plus a day for our parents...
Yes, coffee does increase your heart rate, thereby increasing calories burned, but more than one cup of coffee will do nothing for you. Even worse, coffee could be having negative effects on your weight, depending what you put in it. Black coffee with a bit of cinnamon is best. All those other sugars and creamers will only take you farther away from those fitness goals.
I know, this is going against all those commercials we remember from the '90s, but it is still not true. There is no conclusive evidence that dairy products help you lose weight or cause you to gain more. If dairy causes you to bloat or feel abdominal discomfort, stay away. Those are signs of a mild lactose intolerance, which most of us start showing after childhood.
Many of us have tried the protein only diets (guilty) and had great success, that is, until we started eating normally again. Pairing protein and carbs together for meals will help you feel full for longer and the two together aid our bodies' digestive systems. Pair lean meats and complex carbs for the best results.
Here come those pesky '90s again. Back then almost everyone was on the diet food train, heading to have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too station. Now, we know that those labels promising 99% less fat and no added sugar are sneaking lots of bad stuff in behind the scenes. Extra carbs, sugars, calories, and preservatives are all part of the less fat game. Instead, eat the real stuff, but in moderation. This will work much better for your long-haul weight-loss goals.
Sweating is our bodies' way of reducing heat, it is not a good measurement for workout effectiveness. All that sweat is showing is that you are warm, it doesn't mean that not sweating makes the workout is less effective. Some workouts that are sweat free are better for us. Studies have actually found that working out in the cold will burn more calories since your body is having to fight to keep its internal temperature.
When it comes to losing weight, we have all tried one or two of those ridiculous myths that promise results. What seems to work best is the tried and true method of eating healthy and working out. What are some of the funniest fitness and diet myths you believed?
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The restaurants in Canada are demanding the federal government to support them so that they can regain over 400,000 jobs lost in food service because of the pandemic.
The April Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada reports that more than 70% of the 503,000 jobs lost by the economy are from the restaurant industry. It is predicted that this number will increase because the restrictions and closures continue. The owners said that their industry was the one affected first and hardest. Since the pandemic will continue to affect their business, it will take longer for them to recover.
What the federal government has done is to extend the rent support and federal wage. If needed, they said that it could be extended further. Restaurants are key to the recovery of the economy and employment, but this can only be possible if they get through the pandemic. If the support is stopped too soon, it will be hard to obtain the capital needed to transition from surviving to recovering.
In the latest survey information of Restaurants Canada, 80% of the food business have barely operated throughout the pandemic. 45% of these businesses lose money consistently for more than a year. If the restaurants have to continue suffering from less support, they might have no choice but to close down their businesses. Though small businesses can apply for financial aid, reports say that it takes weeks to get a response from their application.
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Northern Gastric Brooding Frog
The snout-vent length of the young at birth is from 15.1 – 15.9 mm (Tyler 1983).
Rheobatrachus vitellinus (female snout-vent length: 62.2 – 68.9mm) can be distinguished from its smaller southern counterpart, R. silus (female snout-vent length: 44.5 – 53.9mm), by its dark brown coloring and the patches of bright yellow under its limbs and abdomen versus the lack of dark brown coloration and the paler yellow seen in R. silus. The two species have the same diploid chromosome number and relative chromosome lengths, but the centromere location and position of secondary constriction does vary. Where the centromere is submetacentric in pair 6 and acrocentric in pairs 9 and 10 in R. vitellinus, they are acrocentric and metacentric respectively in R. silus. The prominent secondary constriction present in pair 6 of R. vitellinus’ chromosomes is not present in R. silus (Mahoney et al. 1984).
In life, R. vitellinus had a pale brown dorsal surface with darker patches. The ventral surface was white or brown and the abdomen and undersides of the limbs were bright yellow to orange in color. In preservative, the light brown dorsum is mottled irregularly with dark brown and small patches of cream. The ventral surface is cream with a dense dark brown stippling on the throat and chest that becomes sparse toward the posterior. The back of the thighs was heavily covered in dark brown (Mahoney et al. 1984).
In some individuals, the ventral surface was dark brown instead of cream where it was not orange (Mahoney et al. 1984).
Distribution and Habitat
Rheobatrachus vitellinus was discovered in January 1984 (Mahony et al. 1984) and was found exclusively in undisturbed rainforest in Eungella National Park, mid-costal Queensland at altitudes of 400 - 1000 m, with location coordinates 21°00’S, 148°35’E to 21°04’S, 148°41’E (Covacevich & McDonald 1993). The area of occurrence of R. vitellinus was less than 500 km2 (map in McDonald 1990). The species was considered common across its range until January 1985 when the first signs of decline (reported by Winter and McDonald 1986) were observed at lower altitudes (ie. about 400 m) (McDonald 1990). At higher altitudes the frogs remained common until March 1985 but were absent in June of that year (McDonald 1990). Despite continued efforts to locate the species, Rheobatrachus vitellinus has not been recorded within Eungella National Park or any other locations since March 1985 (Ingram and McDonald 1993; McDonald and Alford 1999). Rheobatrachus vitellinus was formerly known from Eungella National Park and Mt Pelion State Forest (Tyler 1997) and was not recorded on private lands.
Rheobatrachus vitellinus was recorded from pristine rainforest where the only form of human disturbance was a poorly defined walking trail (McDonald 1990). The species occurred in first- to third-order streams (McDonald 1990). Individuals were located in shallow, rocky, broken-water areas, in cascades, riffles and trickles, but were absent from the pools of water found between riffles (McDonald 1990). The water in these streams is cool and clear, and individuals hid away beneath or between boulders in the current or in backwaters (Tyler 1989).
Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors
Rheobatrachus vitellinus is mostly nocturnal. They are frequently found on rocks in and around streams during rainfall (McDonald 1990).
Rheobatrachus vitellinus brooded its young in the female’s stomach and gave birth through the mouth (McDonald and Tyler 1984; see Rheobatrachus silus for account of reproduction in similar species). It is not known whether the eggs are laid on land or in water prior to fertilization and the subsequent swallowing (McDonald 1990). The hormone, Prostaglandin E, was present in the jelly that surrounds the eggs, which inhibited the secretion of gastric acids in the brooding female, rendering her unable to feed (Tyler et al., 1985). There are no major structural changes to the stomach in R. vitellinus, contrary to R. silus, which suggests a dichotomy in the evolution of gastric brooding. The biochemical and physiological adaptations for gastric brooding in R. vitellinus remain unknown (Leong et al. 1986). The fully formed metamorphs are born via regurgitation in the months of January to February.
In the only documented case, 22 metamorphs were brooded in the stomach of one female. Upon collection the stomach of the female was reported to be greatly distended and during road transport the individual began to give birth. The birth lasted approximately 34 hours. The young were born underwater, though it is not known whether this underwater birth was a natural phenomenon or a consequence of the conditions in which the female was held (McDonald and Tyler 1984).
This species was both an aquatic and stream edge feeder. The diet of R. vitellinus included small crayfish, caddisfly larvae, terrestrial and aquatic beetles and a sympatric frog species Taudactylus eungellensis (Winter and McDonald 1986).
Rheobatrachus vitellinus was a food source for higher trophic levels including birds, fish and other aquatic fauna (Winter and McDonald 1986).
Males were most frequently heard calling between September and December (Winter and McDonald 1986). The call consists of several staccato notes and is deeper than that of R. silus (McDonald 2005).
Trends and Threats
Recently, it has been determined that the most likely cause of extinction is infection by the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, resulting in chytridiomycosis. The Eungella torrent frog (Taudactylus eugellensis), which inhabited the same streams, was actively preyed upon by R. vitellinus (Winter and McDonald 1986) and suffered a steep population decline around the same time as R. vitellinus was discovered to have traces of infection from the chytrid fungus (McDonald 1990; Rettalick et al. 1997). Taudactylus eugellensis has been implicated as a host and reservoir for the chytrid fungus (Rettalick et al. 1997) so it is therefore very likely that transmission of the fungus occurred between these species.
Relation to Humans
Possible reasons for amphibian decline
Rheobatrachus vitellinus has a sister species, Rheobatrachus silus, the southern gastric-brooding frog, which is also considered extinct (Richards et al. 1983). The last captive specimen of R. silus died in 1983 (Tyler and Davis 1985).
The name “vitellinus” comes from the Latin word for “of the yolk of an egg” and it refers to the yellow ventral coloration (Mahonet et al. 1984).
Rheobatrachus vitellinus had chromosomes with a diploid number of 2n = 24. The metacentric chromosomes include pair numbers 1, 5, 7 and 8, the submetacentric include pair numbers 3, 4 and 6, the subacrocentric consists of pair number 2 and the acrocentric includes pairs 9 – 12. Notably, a prominent secondary constriction is seen on the short arm of pair 6.
Cogger, H.G. (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia (7th ed.). CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
Covacevich, J.A. and McDonald, K.R. (1993). ''Distribution and conservation of frogs and reptiles of Queensland rainforests.'' Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 34(1), 189-199.
Hero, J-M., Hines, H.B., Meyer, E., Morrison, C., and Streatfeild, C. (1999). ''New records of 'declining' frogs in Queensland (April 1999).'' Frogs in the Community – Proceedings of the Brisbane Conference 13–14 February 1999. R. Natrass, eds., Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
Hero, J.-M., Hines, H.B., Meyer, E., Morrison, C., Streatfeild, C., and Roberts, L. (1998). ''New records of 'declining' frogs in Queensland, Australia.'' Froglog, 29, 1-4.
Ingram, G. J., and McDonald, K. R. (1993). ''An update on the decline of Queensland's frogs.'' Herpetology in Australia: A diverse discipline. D. Lunney and D. Ayers, eds., Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 297-303.
Mahony, M., Tyler, M.J., and Davies, M. (1984). ''A new species of the genus Rheobatrachus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Queensland.'' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 108(3), 155-162.
McDonald, K. and Alford, R. (1999). ''A review of declining frogs in northern Queensland.'' Declines and Disappearances of Australian Frogs. A. Campbell, eds., Environment Australia, Canberra. Available in .pdf format online.
McDonald, K.R. (1990). ''Rheobatrachus Liem and Taudactylus Straughan and Lee (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Eungella National Park, Queensland: distribution and decline.'' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 114(4), 187-194.
McDonald, K.R. and Tyler, M.J. (1984). ''Evidence of gastric brooding in the Australian leptodactylid frog Rheobatrachus vitellinus.'' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 108, 226.
Richards, S. J., McDonald, K. R., and Alford, R. A. (1993). ''Declines in populations of Australia's endemic rainforest frogs.'' Pacific Conservation Biology, 1, 66-77.
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Tyler, M.J. (1997). The Action Plan for Australian Frogs. Wildlife Australia, Canberra, ACT.
Winter, J. and McDonald, K. (1986). ''Eungella, the land of cloud.'' Australian Natural History, 22(1), 39-43.
Originally submitted by: Jean-Marc Hero et. al. (first posted 2002-04-05)
Edited by: Kellie Whittaker, Krystal Austin (2016-11-22)
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In this second blog post exploring leadership and the role of character development in good leadership, we take a look at what leaders are like. Or rather, we explore why asking this question is not a very good idea and whether there are better questions to give us insights into leaders and leadership. (Leadership development plan)
Leadership for many is something remote. Something other people do, and often don’t do well. It is something for older, more experienced people. Some may aspire one day to be a leader, others could imagine nothing worse. Leadership development is something that happens after management development. It is something we are invited by others to do, not something we take on to ourselves.
We watch the news and rarely can see ourselves doing what we see leaders doing: standing on stage, delivering speeches, confronting, arguing, playing the political game. It seems not to relate to our journey to work by tube, standing elbow to ribs. Leadership ends up seeming remote from our daily lives and this remoteness disables.
We have a powerful pull to see leaders as someone or something special. Yet the evidence suggests that this is not the case. There has never been a satisfactory answer to the question of what makes a leader. Read the political and historical biographies, watch the TED videos and tv programmes and try to summarise what leaders are like. Are there particular personality factors? A particular pattern of intelligence? A distinctive make up to their character?
It is easy to misstep in thinking about leadership. If we do not separate out the person and the role of ‘the leader’ we are destined to confusion. You might hope that somebody in a leader role would show leadership, but a moments reflection suggests that sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. Taking or showing leadership is not the same as having the role title ‘leader’.
This is a simple enough idea but one that has far-reaching implications. For example, if we study people who have the role title of leader we will end up listing out some behaviours and attributes that undoubtedly are related to leadership but we will also list out factors that do not relate. This then faces us with making the judgement about which of these attributes actually do relate to leadership, and how we are to make that judgement is not at all clear.
For example, in the UK at present business leaders are far more likely to be men. They are also more likely to be taller than average, to have more prominent jaw-lines, to have come from a particular educational background. They are also more likely to be extrovert, have lower trait anxiety and be more open to experience; they are wealthier and have more affairs. Our instincts are that some of these attributes legitimately relate to leadership and some are a reflection of current biases in who gets into privileged positions. But how are we making this judgement? In a very real way, we already need to have an understanding of what leadership really is before we can start to pick out the traits that distinguish and create a leadership development plan.
Businesses have invested heavily over many years in trying to identify the particular characteristics that pick someone out as having leadership potential. Each large corporate will have their own formula and our experience from consulting to hundreds of these corporates over more than two decades is that there will be some overlap (common traits), but each will have some distinctive parts. Many will emphasise the need for their senior leaders to have a quick mind, or to be extrovert, a good communicator. Some will emphasise curiosity, others emphasise people awareness; some self-belief, others humility, and so on.
When the picture is looked at in totality, it is hard to resist the conclusion that all that ends up being compiled is a list of the traits of humanity. There certainly seems to be no single thread from which the fabric is woven. Nor even a repeated motif in the pattern of the cloth.
This insight can be an uncomfortable one: there is no definitive list of characteristics that sets one person apart as being a leader or having leadership potential. The definitive and distinctive list of leadership qualities remains elusive because there isn’t one. And if there is no definitive list, then perhaps we are all more or less equally capable of leadership.
This conclusion feels at odds with our inner certainty that there simply must be something that sets leaders apart. To understand this, we need to go a little deeper again and in the next blog post we will shift from the question ‘what are leaders like?’ to some more fruitful ones: ‘what are leaders for?’ and ‘what do leaders do?’.
And again, let’s close with some quick personal reflections: are you able to pick out the behaviours and skills you have that others will experience as leadership? Are they the same as those shown by your colleagues around you? Have you ever been in a situation where there was no leadership and leadership was needed? If so, what stopped you from taking the lead? (Leadership development plan) | <urn:uuid:7c5d8c88-0721-4e01-b40e-5f93563f60bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jyre.io/homepage-article/leadership-development-plan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970904 | 1,031 | 2.625 | 3 |
From ARToolkit’s emergence in the 1990s to the emergence of augmented reality (AR) as an art medium in the 2010s, AR has developed as a number of evidential sites. As an extension of virtual media, it merges real-time pattern recognition with goggles (finally realizing William Gibson’s sci-fi fantasy) or handheld devices. This creates a welding of real-time media and virtual reality, or an optically registered simulation overlaid upon an actual spatial environment. Commercial applications are numerous, including entertainment, sales, and navigation. Even though AR-based works can be traced back to the late 1990s, AR work requires some understanding of coding and tethered imaging equipment. It was not until marker-based AR, affording lower entries to usage, as well as geo-locational AR-based media, using handheld devices and tablets, that augmented reality as an art medium would propagate. While one can argue that AR-based art is a convergence of handheld device art and virtual reality, there are intrinsic gestures specific to augmented reality that make it unique. The author looks at some historical examples of AR as well as critical issues of AR-based gestures such as compounding the gaze, problematizing the retinal, and the representational issues of informatic overlays. This generates four gestural vectors, analogous to those defined in “The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds,” which is examined through case studies. From this, a visual theory of augmentation will be proposed. | <urn:uuid:67625f4a-824c-4f3f-b332-95656d58e57f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/47/4/325/45752/The-Aesthetics-of-Liminality-Augmentation-as?redirectedFrom=PDF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.933978 | 314 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Malawi Government has come out punchy, warning job recruiting agencies that they risk prosecution should employers face problems in countries where they have been sent.
Principal Secretary for Labour Patrick Kabambe’s warning comes in the wake of reports that 12 more girls are stuck in Kuwait where they were sent by a local recruiting agency but discovered that the working conditions were extremely poor and were not given jobs they were offered in Malawi.
“We will charge all recruiting agencies which do not comply with our labour rules and regulations with human trafficking related offences,” said Kabambe.
He said it was the responsibility of the recruiting agencies to ensure there are written working conditions for prospective employees and that they are offered the very same job they applied in Malawi.
Kabambe said before sending prospective employees abroad, the government through the ministry of Labour must be informed so that it can scrutinise all the paper work and link up with the prospective employer to avoid problems.
The government has spent huge sums of money in the recent past to repatriate some Malawians who were dumped in Arab countries including Kuwait after being promised lucrative jobs.
Some girls are forced into prostitution once they arrive in the Arab countries whilst men are hardly paid their monthly salary.Follow and Subscribe Nyasa TV : | <urn:uuid:0ca56c4e-53e0-4262-b34f-d63afe5dfe70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi-govt-warns-job-recruitment-agencies-kuwait-labour-export-will-prosecute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979039 | 262 | 1.5 | 2 |
Are you or your kids a fan of American Ninja Warrior? The show has captured the hearts and imagination of countless individuals, encouraging them to get in shape and stay body positive. Obstacle courses like those showcased on the show are a great example of how fitness activities can be fun, exciting and exhilarating.
It’s possible your kids have already begged you to set up an obstacle course like the one displayed on the show using playground equipment. Here are some great ideas of how you can replicate the fun of Ninja Warrior in your own backyard.
Utilize A Large Play System
One of the easiest ways to set up a ninja warrior course in your backyard is to use a large play system. This can include a variety of different obstacles as part of the complete setup. For instance, this could include a rope climb, a rope ladder and a slide all built into one system. If you have a playscape like this, you can easily lay out a course for the kids to follow around it. Or, you can use the play system as a grand finale with various other possibilities to start out the course.
If you’re not going to set up a full play system in your backyard, then you can think about adding monkey bars to your already designed play area. This playground equipment is easy to install and is the perfect addition to any backyard course. When you are setting up a monkey bar set, make sure that you think about the height. It needs to be small enough that it’s safe if they fall off but tall enough where their feet don’t touch the ground. If you are worried about falls, consider adding mats underneath the monkey bars for protection. If you’re looking to make things more interesting, you can set up a pool underneath the monkey bars that they can fall into.
Another classic choice that’s easy to set up outdoors is a rope swing. If you have a tree in your garden you can tie the rope to one of the sturdier branches. Alternatively, a rope swing will often be included in one of the larger play systems that we mentioned above.
A key element of any ninja course is jumping from one platform to the next. This is easy to set up using foam mats in your yard or various different materials that you might have in your home.
Finally, you could think about including army crawls as part of your obstacle course. Army crawls can be created using plastic tunnels for purchase online. Alternatively, you might have pool noodles that you use in your swimming pools. Pool noodles can be bent in different shapes to create obstacles that kids need to climb under. You can also challenge them to get through in different ways from a bear crawl to a crab walk. Lay out the hoops in lots of creative ways to keep the kids entertained.
Bring Ninja Warrior to Your Backyard with Kids Gotta Play
Test your skills and bring a smile to your children’s face when you build the ultimate Ninja Warrior course. Whether you’re looking to find a fun way to bond with your kids or you want an inclusive way for everyone to join in on the course, Kids Gotta Play has you covered.
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Grab some Copper Foil paper and make a Bright Menorah Card for Hanukkah! Eight nights requires easy-to-make cards and this tutorial will show you how!
Using designer series papers make creating beautiful holiday cards easy. With just a small amount, this Plaid Reindeer Snow Globe Card can be made quickly and easily.
Make your holiday table feel cozy and festive with these DIY Feels Like Frost Table Place Settings. Read the easy steps here!
This Bokeh Encouragement Card is bright and happy with gold embossing, and a matching bookmark. A quick gift for your favorite student!
Have a merry christmas, mate, and make this Ripper Chrissy Koala Card! Getting a head start on holiday cards guarantees you’ll have a fair dinkum time!
Look at your stamp supplies to create something new. This Unicorn Cake Card is created with Tropical Chic stamps and die-cuts! Watch the video for all the tips and tricks!
Why bake when you can make a Unicorn Cake Card for a day that sparkles?! This gold and rainbow card features a digital stamp from Oddball Art and LOTS of glitter!
Courage is contagious! Check out how this colorful encouragement card featuring the gang from wizard of oz and rainbow colors can be easily created!
Learn two embossing techniques you can use with one embossing folder. Double the use of your craft stash!
Interactive cards are fun for people of all ages! Check out this tutorial to create this interactive truck card…complete with moving food truck!
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survey results showed.
About half of pediatricians and one-third of family physicians said they always or often initiate discussion of MenB vaccines for adolescents aged 16- 18 year, according to a report on the survey published in.
However, it is challenging to say whether or not that level of discussion is on track with ideal clinical practice, according toof the University of Colorado at Denver and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, and her coauthors. While MenB vaccines are recommended in this setting, the new Category B designation used for the recommendation indicates that the vaccines “may be administered” in the context of individual clinical decision making.
While some interpret the new Category B recommendation to mean that a discussion should always occur, others may interpret the recommendation as applicable to their own assessment of risks and benefits, without the need to involve patients and parents.
“Providers not initiating a discussion may not think the time required to discuss the MenB vaccine is justified by the risks posed by the disease or the benefits offered by these vaccines,” wrote Dr. Kempe and her associates. “Alternatively, they may have a low level of awareness regarding the disease or the MenB vaccine and feel insufficiently knowledgeable to have an informed discussion about the pros and cons of vaccination. They also may have been entirely unaware of the ACIP [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] recommendation for MenB vaccination.”
Dr. Kempe and her colleagues invited a nationally representative sample of primary care physicians to complete the survey, which was administered via Internet or mail between October and December 2016. They heard back from 374 of 475 (79%) pediatricians and 286 of 441 (65%) family physicians.
A total of 50% of pediatricians and 31% of family physicians said they always or often discussed MenB vaccines during routine visits with adolescents aged 16-18 years, with slightly higher percentages saying they initiated discussions during precollege physical exams, according to the report. Of the pediatricians, 58% recommended the MenB vaccine to those in this age group, compared with 50% of family physicians. Not all physicians who recommended the vaccine reported consistently initiating a discussion about it.
Nearly three-fourths of pediatricians and 41% of family physicians reported currently administering the MenB vaccine in their practices, the authors said, adding that greater awareness of disease outbreaks was linked to higher likelihood of discussing the vaccine, while working in an HMO setting was linked to lower likelihood of initiating that discussion.
Recommending MenB vaccination was closely tied to discussing the vaccine. Physicians who said they initiated discussion almost always reported making a recommendation to vaccinate, and conversely, those who rarely initiated discussions were unlikely to recommend it, according to Dr. Kempe and her colleagues.
Factors that made physicians more likely to recommend vaccine included awareness of outbreaks, effectiveness and safety data, and duration of vaccine protection.
The Category B recommendation, on the other hand, was one of the key factors that made physicians less likely to recommend MenB vaccine, according to this survey. ACIP made the Category B recommendation in October 2015, stating that those aged 16- 23 years may be vaccinated, with a preferred age of 16-18 years for administration. The accompanying rationale for the Category B designation referenced the low disease prevalence and insufficient data on effectiveness and safety for the two vaccines, which were both licensed under an accelerated approval mechanism following the outbreaks that have occurred on college campuses.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not provide additional guidance on how that Category B recommendation should be implemented, Dr. Kempe and her coauthors noted in their report.
“With our data, we highlight the challenges providers face with implementing recommendations for vaccination based on individual clinical decision making when they have limited experience with a disease and limited knowledge of a new vaccine,” they wrote.
The research was funded by the CDC. Dr. Kempe and her coauthors reported no relevant financial relationships or potential conflicts of interest.
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The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
Japan retains the death penalty for three main reasons: because it missed a major opportunity for abolition in the postwar Occupation, because of the long hegemony of the (conservative) Liberal Democratic Party, and because (like the United States and China) it has sufficient size, economic influence, and political clout to enable it to defy human rights norms. Capital punishment also persists in Japan because it performs welcome functions for politicians, prosecutors, media, and the public.
Despite widespread belief to the contrary, capital punishment in Japan does not deter homicide better than long terms of imprisonment do.
- Document type Academic report
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Our system has worked great in the past, but since we’ve switched to Unity things have been tougher:
See what I mean? In case you missed it:
- 61 changed files
- 28,707 additions
- 846 deletions
You’re probably thinking “WOW, that is a metric #&$#$#-ton of code*”. Not exactly…
The reason for the gigantic stats is that Unity creates a meta file for each file that you import. This is fine, because Unity needs this meta data to let you configure how you work with imported files (quality settings, slicing, etc). But as you can see it hoses the diffs.
I don’t think you can not check in those files. It would cause massive problems in the way that Unity keeps track of things. Surprisingly, there is no way to filter the view of those files within GitHub!
So what’s a Unity dev to do?
Use a bookmarklet to run some JS on the diff page and hide all the irrelevant files!
Here is a link to the gist with the JS files for hiding the irrelevant Unity files:
And here is the embedded gist:
- Make a new bookmark in your browser.
- Set the title to whatever you want… something like “
- set the URL to “
Now that we know how bookmarklets work, you can take the 2 JS snippets from the gist and turn them into bookmarklets! When you’re viewing a diff on GitHub, simply run your bookmarklet and voilà! Usable diffs!
So what do the scripts do exactly?
The main script simply uses JS to scan the page and find individual diff sections of certain file types and hide those sections. It uses jQuery for easy DOM searching a manipulation. Currently it hides files with the following extensions:
If you think of any more types to include, drop me a line on Twitter!
The secondary script finds all the diff sections and shows them, restoring the original view.
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As Cassie continues to talk about her love for fibers, it’s time to dive into sewing in the art room! In today’s episode, Cassie discusses everything you need to get started sewing with your kids in the art room. Listen as she talks about when and why to try new things in the art room, her favorite ways to teach sewing basics, and why kids love sewing their own creations. Full episode transcript below.
Cassie: If you think really hard and think back to that one thing that you created maybe in art class, or maybe with an adult, a grandparent, at a camp, at a vacation bible school, which is almost always where I was learning how to make things, what was the one thing that you made that got you so excited about creating, that was, we’ll call it, your gateway drug so to speak, your gateway object that made you decide that you wanted to do this forever, for the rest of your life? For me, gosh, it was so many things. But if I were going to say what those things that I created all had in common was that they were functional.
I remember making my first woven bookmark. I remember stitching my very first little wallet out of a pair of old jeans using my mom’s sewing kit, sitting in front of the TV watching Laverne & Shirley. Does that date me or what? Or just even making something simple. Like in eighth grade, never having worked with clay before, suddenly I made a pinch pot that I could put stuff in. And I just thought making something that just wasn’t a cool drawing or some nice painting that my mom might put on the fridge for a little while and then it would vanish into the depths I’m sure of the trashcan. Something that I could actually use was really, really magical. And I’ve noticed that when I introduce projects to my students, projects that in the end have a function, a woven pouch that they can use to keep their lunch money in, or even just something simple like a sewn stuffed animal, monster, what have you, they eat that up.
And I bring up sewing because a couple of weeks ago, we were chatting about weaving, and I was sharing with you all of the fun projects that I do with weaving and why I love teaching it so. And I promised you at that time that we would circle back and eventually talk about more fibers projects. And that’s what I want to chat with you about today, sewing. Because sewing is that gateway craft. I think it gets dismissed as a craft. But it’s actually this amazing art form where you can create something that can also have a function or learn a skill where you can go on to create things that could have a function.
Let’s talk about sewing in the elementary art room today. I’m Cassie Stephens, and this is Everyday Art Room. Okay, so before we get chatting about sewing with kids in the elementary art room, which sounds super fun and amazing, let me just press the pause button and say this. If you are a first-year teacher, if you are a third-year teacher, shoot man if you are a seventh-year teacher, and you’re still learning the ropes, getting the hang of things, figuring out your place in your art room, and just the idea of teaching sewing to your students sounds completely overwhelming, then take a deep breath, relax, enjoy this podcast, and just tuck it in the back of your mind. Because let me just say that as a person who’s been teaching art for 20 years, when you get to a point when you’ve been teaching for a while, you’re ready to start trying new things in the art room. You’re comfortable and you know a little bit more about child development, and you understand what’s age-appropriate and what’s not.
So if just the idea of me mentioning sewing in the art room sounds completely overwhelming and you’re getting stressed at the thought, I don’t want you guys to ever feel like, especially when you listen to this podcast, that you have to do the things that I’m talking about. Think of them as suggestions and just do your very stinking best in your art room. And when you feel confident, and you feel comfortable, and you feel like, “Yeah, I’m ready to go forward and tackle something a little bit different to really push myself as a teacher and my students,” then I say give it a shot. And I say that because if I were a first-year teacher, and somebody mentions sewing to me, I think I would have fainted. I would have been like, “I don’t even know how to distribute paint. I don’t even know how to teach them how to get them caps snapped back on those markers.” Let me just tell you, you’re never going to figure that one out.
So take it with a grain of salt and just … Yeah, let me just share with you what I do and maybe you’ll find a way to make it work. It doesn’t have to be next week. It could be a couple of years from now. All right, so sewing in the art room. I’m going to share with you my five “keys to success.” And I’m saying that in quotes because there are times that when I’m in the middle of teaching sewing, I really start to question my sanity and my choices in life. So let’s take a listen to those keys to “success,” shall we?
All right. So when it comes to sewing, the biggest struggle, and weaving, that I feel most teachers have and the reason that we want to end up pulling our hair out or sprouting more gray hairs, is because we don’t get our kids as independent as we can as possible. And what I mean by that is this. After the first … And I have my students usually for about 30 minutes, my younger students, and my third and fourth graders for an hour. So after the first two 30-minutes classes with my younger students and after the first hour class with my older kids, I have a very firm rule. I am not threading needles. I am not tying knots. And I am not removing stitches. Those are my three rules. Because if you don’t really establish that and get those kids being independent, then you are going to constantly be at the mercy of, “Can you thread my needle? Can you tie this knot? Can you show me how to do this? Can you fix this?” and next thing you know, you’ve got a big long line of kids who need help, when really they could figure it out themselves.
If you do stuff for kids all the time, then, of course, they’re going to let you. It’s far easier to let somebody else do the work for you. It’s not that they’re not able to, it’s just that you’ve enabled them to be dependent on you. So the faster that you can get kids threading their own needles, tying their own knots, and figuring out those sewing mistakes, the happier they will be, the more independent they will be, and trust me, the happier you will be. And we’ll dig a little bit deeper into that when I share some projects that I do with my students.
Another thing that I find to be super helpful when I’m teaching sewing to my kids is having some backup help. It is tremendous. I love having backup help when it comes to sewing, when it comes to printmaking is nice, but especially with clay. You know what I’m talking about. It’s always great to have another pair of adult eyes watching the kids, looking out for them, looking out for them making mistakes and helping them out. I used to send out emails to parents when we had a much larger PTO. We no longer have that luxury. But if you do have a nice PTO that’s a good size, definitely reach out to them and just say, “Hey, in the next couple of weeks, we’re getting ready to embark on a sewing project. We would love your help in the art room, even if you don’t know how to sew.” Make sure to stress that. Because if they’re in the room when you’re teaching sewing to your students, then they can learn along with your students and be able to help them.
And how cool is that to see Mom or Dad or Grandma learning along with you. What a great experience that could be for your kids. And trust me, it will help so much for your sanity to have another adult or a couple on hand to help kids when they’re learning how to sew. All right, now let’s talk about appropriate lessons for teaching sewing skills to kids. I do not do any kind of sewing with my kindergarten kids. I feel like when my students are in kindergarten, there are some kids who would get it no problem. First day, they would be off and running. And then there are the other kids who just are not developmentally ready to understand the concept of sewing. And that’s okay. But it can be very frustrating for both them and for you.
And the last thing, me personally, that I would ever want to do is cause one of my students to be so frustrated with an art activity that it turns them off to that art activity, that they potentially shut down. So for that reason, I do not do any sewing projects with my kindergarten students. But I do start it as early as first grade. Now, in the podcast where I was chatting about weaving, I shared that my weaving project for first grade is a simple paper weaving project. What I love about the paper weaving project is that the paper, the weft is going over and under the warp. Sewing is very similar. Your needle is going up through the fabric and down through the fabric.
So when my students have finished their weaving project, I usually will do a project where we hole punch along two of the sides of the weaving, and then the kids learn how to do a whip stitch around the edge of their weaving. And we do that with yarn, and like I said, I hole punch the holes for them. I’ve tried having them hole punch the holes before, but that usually ends up in kind of a disaster. They usually end up putting the hole punched holes too close to the edge of the paper causing it to have the thread just constantly fall out. So I usually do it for them, or like I said, recruit those parent volunteers. They’re always wonderful and game to help out.
Why I love doing that with my students is because you can teach them two kinds of stitches. You could show them how to do a running stitch along the edge of their weaving. Once they’ve gotten that, they could just pull the yarn out. Great, you learned how to do a running stitch. Now, let me show you how to do a whip stitch. And I like to show them the two different kinds of stitches just because it’s something fun that they can do easily and then they kind of have that vocabulary and understanding for when they go to second grade. I know it seems silly, like how are they going to remember in one year’s time something they did in first grade? Trust me, when it’s a unique experience, like sewing, and if you call it sewing, they’re going to have so many memories of or thoughts I guess of parents or grandparents, so that stays with them.
And when you carry that over to the second year and say, “Remember when you were in first grade, we learned how to do two kinds of sewing stitches, a running stitch and a whip stitch?” And even if you pull out the old example, a lot of them will remember that. Okay, so now let’s move on and chat about second grade. I’ve done different kinds of sewing projects with kids over the years. But one of my favorites is to use burlap as the fabric that we stitch on. And I really like burlap because you can buy it inexpensively and it’s a woven material that you can kind of see through. So the kids can see their hand underneath the fabric and know where to pull their needle up to create their stitches.
Something I don’t love about burlap is number one, I guess I could Google what is it made out of. But those little, weird fibers that get all up in my nostrils and tickle and I’m constantly sneezing. Maybe I have an allergy. Maybe I should look into that. But that’s thing number one I don’t dig about burlap. The other thing I don’t love is that it tends to unravel. And I have a solution for that. So when you purchase your burlap … And do a little bit of digging on some of your art supply catalogs because you can get burlap in some really beautiful colors. You don’t have to stick to the traditional brown. One thing you can do when you’re prepping your burlap for your students is this. Unroll … I usually like to buy it by the bolt. Unroll your bolt a little ways. Take a small snip of fabric. And what you can do is gently tug and pull one of the burlap threads out. And as you do that, it’s going to create a runner in the fabric. And what that runner does is it provides a line for you to cut along your burlap.
Now, once you’ve gotten your burlap pieces cut to size, and in this most recent project, my second graders stitched on burlap that was about 5 by 6 inches, a little rectangle of burlap. I lay all the burlap out on a piece of paper. And I draw a line of white Elmer’s Glue around the edge. The next day I come back, the glue holds the burlap fibers together so that even if the kids tug on it, it’s not going to completely unravel and fall apart.
Another thing I love about burlap is that when the kids are stitching with it, you don’t have to use embroidery hoops. Oh gosh, I’ve done so many sewing and embroidery projects with kids where I’m having to use embroidery hoops, and I’m taking them off and on to prep for the next class. It’s just a headache. I think it’s an important skill for them to learn, but not in a 30-minute time slot like what I’ve got. So if you’ve got that little rectangle of burlap, you don’t need embroidery hoops. Now, on those, my very first day that my kids are stitching, we use what’s called a tapestry needle. They’re metal needles. I love them because they have a large eye so the kids can thread them pretty easily. But we do have a trick for that. And they’re also blunt needles. So they’re dull on the end, and there’s no worry about kids getting harmed or poked with a needle.
I also have my kids stitch with yarn when it comes to burlap, which I love because it comes in a wide variety of colors for them to choose from. When they thread that needle, I have little tiny pieces of Post-it Note paper that I fold in half. That acts as our needle threader. The kids simply take that little-folded piece of Post-it Note paper, they unfold it, put their yarn inside. It’s shaped kind of like a long skinny hotdog bun. That’s actually what we call it, is a hotdog bun. They put their yarn in the hotdog bun, pinch it, slide it through the eye of the needle, pull it through, and voila, the needle is threaded. I always have them knot the yarn both at the needle and at the bottom of the yarn. And those are things that we learn on that very first day in 30 minutes. We do absolutely no stitching, we just learn how to thread our needle, tie knots, and we do what’s called parking our needle.
I have enough needles that each of my students can just keep the needle they’re using. They don’t have to take it out and give it back to me at the end of class. That to me is time-consuming. So I’ve splurged a bit just to make sure that I have enough of those tapestry needles for all of my students. They also make tapestry needles that are plastic. But there’s something about giving kids the “real art supplies,” a real metal needle, as opposed to a plastic one that just feels like a junky toy. It’s going to make them sit up a little taller and feel like they’re using actual grown-up supplies.
For this most recent project, my students did a running stitch around the edge of the fabric. So that was their first task was to learn how to do a running stitch. Then they could pick a little motif to go in the middle of their burlap fabric, a star, a heart, or a rainbow. I would draw it with Sharpie, and they learned how to do back stitch, which is just the same thing as a running stitch, except jumping forward a little bit with your stitch and then coming back to the original spot. And yeah, they had the best time. And they also did a really good job of, because I have my rule of I cannot help you thread your needle or tie your knots, they did a really good job of seeking out friends who could help them. Or if they were really smart, they just learned how to do it themselves because they found out things go a lot faster if I just figure this out on my own.
Now, when it comes to my third and fourth graders, who I do have for an hour, thank goodness, we’ve done all sorts of sewing projects. And usually it’s not an embroidered project like second grade or a tapestry, but it’s an actual sewing project. And let me tell you, they get so stinking excited. We have sewn emoji pillows, doughnut pillows, pizza pillows were and are a huge hit. You can find a video for that on my blog. And we make them huge, like the size of a New York style pizza. And we’ve also made stuffed monsters, another lesson you can also find in my blog.
When my students are sewing, they have to learn how to use an actual needle, one that’s not just like the tapestry needle, but one that’s actually sharp and pointy on the end. Those needles that we use for sewing are called chenille needles. This is important. I love chenille needles for use with the kids because they have an eye that’s just big enough for them to possibly thread without a needle threader, although we still use the same needle threader trick. So that’s great because then they can remember what they learned in second grade. So we’re building on that knowledge from second grade.
I also love chenille needles because they’re sharp on the ends, so it can really pierce through the fabric. Speaking of fabric, when it comes to sewing stuffies or pillow with my students, I love using craft store felt. I almost always buy it by the bolt. It’s way cheaper to do it that way. So with the emoji pillows, I bought a bolt of the bright yellow fabric, and we made big pillows, like the size of a plate, a dinner plate. And I say that because I actually took my stash of dinner plates to school for my kids to trace around. Mitch was not so happy about that because we had to eat off the tiny little dessert plates for a couple of nights. He got over it.
Then when we make pizza pillows like I said, those are massive, so I always buy a huge bolt of the tan pizza crust color fabric. So that’s one kind of fabric that I love to use. I also really like having my kids stitch with something called Smart-Fab. If you think about what those bags that you take to the grocery store, your reusable bags, that’s essentially Smart-Fab. It’s great. It’s cheap. It comes in a huge assortment of colors. And very easy for kids to get needles through.
Now speaking of stitching, let’s talk thread because this was little bit of a learning curve for me. When it comes to sewing, you think, “Well, we’re going to sew with thread.” I don’t love sewing with thread because I’ve noticed, especially if you use inexpensive thread, it tends to snap and break really easily. One thread that’s a little stronger is crochet thread. And this is what we use, and I absolutely love crochet thread. I guess you could call it crochet yarn. But when you go to the craft store, you want to buy the crochet thread that is the thinnest and smallest as possible that you can buy. I like it way better than embroidery floss, because if you’ve ever done any embroidery, you know that embroidery floss is actually six separate strands of thread, which is, gosh, just a mess of a tangle. So I suggest using this crochet thread. It’s my favorite stuff to use. And you can buy it in a pretty good amount. And I usually just get white. And that’s what we use to stitch together our pillows.
One last thing that I love to have on hand when my students are learning how to sew, my older students, is I love to have patterns for them to use. For example, if you didn’t want to use your dinner plate, that was, of course, our pattern, but had actual paper circles cut out. Or we always have pizza patterns for my students to use or even the monsters, they have to create their own pattern. It’s important for them to learn that aspect of sewing because when you are sewing, you’re always using a pattern. And if you’re using a pattern, you have to learn how to use a pin and pin the pattern to the fabric. And that’s another tool that I always include when we are sewing with my students.
So that’s a lot to take in. And now let’s talk for a hot minute about wrangling all of those supplies. Because if your schedule is like mine, you have back-to-back classes. And I have kindergartners come in right after my fourth graders. So if they’re sewing and they leave pins and needles on the tables, then we’re going to have an issue when I have kindergartners come in the room. So here’s how I keep up with supplies for sewing. And again, when it comes to needles, I have all of my students have their own needle. So when they’re finished stitching for that day, instead of tying a knot and putting the needles back, I simply have them park their needle. It’s a little bit more of an expense to make sure everybody has their own needle, but that’s just what’s worked for me. And I know other art teachers do it in a different way, so find out what works best for you.
As far as pins go, I love magnetic wands. You can find magnetic wands at your local craft store. And they’re great because the magnet in them is so strong that when you just kind of gently sweep it over the table, it’ll zap up any of those pins, especially the ones you might not see. And in the past, I’ve put together sewing kits. And my kits, because I wasn’t sure if I was going to get my boys on board with sewing. Trust me, you guys, they’re going to love it. I went to Dollar Tree and bought a bunch of their toolkits. They’re black. They have a bright yellow handle. They’ve got these really loud snapping latches. And when it’s cleanup time, they drop in their magnetic wand, their thread, and their needle book if they happen to have any needles that they’re not using into their toolkit and snap it shut.
So those are just some of the things I do that have really been my keys to “success” when it comes to sewing with my kids. I don’t know if that might help you. Hopefully, it does. Definitely check out my blog if you’re wanting a couple of more sewing or fiber arts videos because I’ve shared quite a bit. All right, guys. Happy stitching with those kiddos.
Tim: Hello, this is Tim Bogatz from Art Ed Radio. If you’re enjoying this episode about sewing and you want to learn, even more, check out Cassie’s learning pack in the Art Ed PRO Library called Sewing Basics in the Art Room. You can learn how to get started with all of the sewing fundamentals that you need. You can explore instructional strategies that work best when you’re teaching sewing and find the techniques that you need to add to your fiber arts curriculum immediately. All of that can be found, along with a ton of resources, in the Sewing Basics in the Art Room Learning Pack in the Art Ed PRO Library. And if you aren’t a member of Art Ed PRO, you can check it out and start your free trial at theartofed.com/pro. Now, let’s turn it back over to Cassie as she opens up the mailbag and finishes the episode.
Cassie: Wow. Since I done jibber-jabbered about sewing so much, I’m going to take a real quick dip into the mailbag. And this first question comes from Jill. She asks, “What kind of projects do you do for your Artome fundraisers. Okay, if you’re not familiar, Artome is this company out of Atlanta, Georgia where your students create a work of art on a 9 by 12 piece of paper, which they can provide. You send the artwork to them, and then they will double mat frame the artwork with a beautiful black frame. Then they bring all of the artwork to you on your designated art show day, a date that you can pick, set up your entire art show, and then you can sell the artwork. They, of course, because it’s a fundraiser and they’re a business, they gotta make some cha-ching, they take a portion of the sales, I believe it’s $19 per framed piece, and then whatever you upcharge is what you pocket for your art room.
So I usually charge $25 for a double matted, beautifully-framed work of art by a kiddo. I think that’s kind of a steal. We’ve been doing this fundraiser, this will be I believe our fourth year, and I love it. Now, I am not a person that repeats projects. But when it comes to the Artome fundraiser, I’ve kind of honed in the five, kindergarten through fourth grade, the five projects that always guarantees success for the kids’ beautiful work of art, and we always do self-portraits. If you ask a parent, “What’s the one thing your kid could make that you would really cherish,” they’re going to say a self-portrait, at least that would be my guess. So I never really ask. Maybe I should ask.
So all of my students, kindergarten through fourth, do a form of self-portraits. I have each one of those lessons on my blog and my YouTube channel except for the kindergarten project. The reason being is because it involves a photo of my students, and I cannot share photos of my kiddos on my blog. I probably could. I could probably have permission. I’m just not comfortable doing it. So I will just gently skip over that one and just share with you what I do with my first through fourth graders.
My first graders, we do a project titled Royal First Graders, royal first-grade self-portraits, where they make a painting of themselves and then we learn how to make a little crown, and we attach that to our self-portrait. Super cute turns out great. You can, again, find it on my blog or YouTube channel titled Royal First Graders.
Second grade, we do superhero self-portraits. So we learn a little bit about Van Gogh, create a really cool sky, paint a city under the sky, and then make a little cartoon superhero version of us flying over the city saving the day. That would be under Superhero Selfies.
My third graders do a project that is super popular on my blog. It’s inspired by the artist, Sandra Silberzweig. And these are abstract portraits with black glue on black construction paper with chalk. A show-stopper. These look gorgeous.
And then my fourth graders usually do a Romero Britto-inspired self-portrait with a lot of color and a lot of pattern. This project, however, does take a very long time. And I know my students this year quite well because I’ve taught them since kindergarten, and I know that they’re patience might not be able to last all the way through the duration of this project. As a teacher, you gotta know your people. And I know my people. So we’re changing it up a little bit where my students are using bingo daubers to create a simplistic self-portrait. And we will be using chalk and liquid starch to create a really colorful Fauve-inspired self-portrait. If you’re not familiar with the chalk and liquid starch trick, then hop over to my blog and look up Clair West landscapes. Chalk and liquid starch is about to blow your mind. And those words have never been spoken before in a sentence.
If you have a question for me, then hopefully I won’t talk about sewing so stinking long that I’ll have the time to answer it. You can send it my way at the Everyday Art Room at theartofed.com. You’re welcome.
Cassie: You want to know my most favorite thing about sharing my love for sewing with my students is watching them become in love with sewing as much as I am. Recently, I told my kids, because I’m just going to be honest with you, it takes forever to sew with kids. I’m talking forever. I don’t know what’s happening, but some of my kids are done in a heartbeat and my other kids, they’re just meticulous with those stitches. And y’all, they’re going to stitch until that very last day of school. So I have been putting deadlines on them.
You guys, today is the last day for sewing. Early finishers, you’re on standby to help my friends who are still stitching. But just so you know, these are the projects that you’re going to move on and work on. Which by the way if you’re curious, my early finishers are working on the sketchbook covers, which is an open-ended assignment that they can work on any time. Anyway, what I have done was I’ve opened up my art room to my students during their recess time. If you guys want to keep working on your sewing project or create something new, you’re welcome to come in during your recess time.
So I have a group of about a dozen fourth-grade kids who are now dedicated to coming to my room during recess, and I am living for it. They come in while I’m teaching my kindergartners, and I have established that I cannot help you. I cannot chat with you. Please make sure that you get out the supplies you need and make sure you put away everything. I told them that if they left even a single pin out, sewing club during recess would come to a screeching halt. These kids have been so amazing, so independent, creating additional things for their backpacks, little tiny emoji pillows, little heart shapes, checkerboard games, you name it, they are blowing my mind.
And I really think it’s because I have shared with them something that adults just don’t do anymore. They wouldn’t be able to learn from their parents because perhaps their parents don’t know or don’t have the time to share that with them. And it’s something that is a functional object, something that serves a purpose. And they made it with their hands. And how stinking awesome is that. I don’t know why I’m getting teary, but I am. So I’m just going to stop there and wish you the best upcoming week ever.
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How Long Does It Take To Have Braces Taken Off. This is one of the first things you notice once the brackets are off of your teeth. It's easy to go on reading love quotes for hours without getting bored.
Retainers are important for two reasons: Feeling the surface of your teeth for the first time in a while will feel weird for a couple of days. They make sure they are healthy and make eating less uncomfortable as the pressure of biting spread across equally.
Dental Braces Are A Method Used To Straighten Or Move Your Teeth From Their Initial Location, To Improve Their Look And How They Work.
Retainers are made and given that day. Then they use a tool to remove the brackets, and then they will use a special polish and a tooth scraper to get the glue or binding agent off of your teeth. Is your question related to the time you need to wear braces before the treatment is completed?
You Have Calluses On The Insides Of Your Lips.
When it’s all said and done, getting your braces removed is a great feeling. The best way to know how long braces take is to. The next step is to remove the bonding agent that attached the brackets.
Many People Say It Doesn't Hurt To Do This To Their Back Teeth, But Removing The Bracket From The Front Teeth Is Very Painful.
If you had metal braces, there are going to be calluses on the insides of your lips where there was once sensitive skin. This way it will be ready for you at your next appointment, when the braces will be taken off. Use the pliers to grab on the bracket, then gently twist it to pop them off.
How Long Does It Take To Get Braces Off?
Using a special “bracket removal” instrument, the orthodontic or orthodontic assistant will remove brackets from the teeth, leaving the adhesive or “braces glue. For patients with either type of retainer, you can benefit from having your retainers checked and adjusted by an orthodontist every one to two years after having braces taken off, she explains. With proper teeth care of brushing and flossing, you will see this diminish within a few days.
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The latest coming in indicates that 160 police officers will be sent to Somalia in December 2021.
The team is part of the Formed Police Unit (FPU) who completed a 6-month intensive pre-deployment training course in Peacekeeping Operations of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The officers, during the training at Kigo, were assessed by a team of five Formed Police Assessment officers Led by ASP Figalo Maxime from AMISOM Headquarters.
In Somalia, the officers will provide Public Order management, protection of African Union personnel and facilities within means and capabilities, and Support police operations that require a formed response.
The Government of Uganda deployed the first Formed Police Unit (FPU) in Somalia under AMISOM in July 2012 after the UPDF had deployed there in 2007.
Units have rotated on annual basis and the deployment of this Unit will make the tenth rotation of Uganda FPU in Somalia under African Union (AU).
AU was founded on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The intention of the AU was to replace the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa by 32 signatory governments; the OAU was disbanded on 9 July 2002. | <urn:uuid:d66334bf-43d3-4b7a-9b51-d2f56f813de9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mazima.ug/national/uganda-police-to-deploy-160-officers-to-somalia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968381 | 269 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Our lives and our economy will never really get back to normal until we have an effective vaccine for Covid-19. But just developing the vaccine is not enough. There’s also the matter of distribution—that is, creating a plan for swiftly, safely, and equitably distributing billions of doses to patients all over the world.
Dr. Clive Hohberger has been giving the matter a lot of thought, both tracking the progress of various vaccine trials and considering the logistics implications of what happens next. With a background in both biomedical engineering and supply chain tracking technology, he brings a unique perspective to the coronavirus vaccine discussion.
In the 1970s, Hohberger, who has a Ph.D. in engineering from Case Western Reserve University, worked in biomedical engineering at Brookhaven Lab and Abbott Laboratories, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. He then shifted to the automatic-identification and data-capture field, working at Zebra Technologies for 24 years before retiring as vice president of technology development in 2008. He continues to consult with blood banks and pharmaceutical companies on systems to track and monitor vaccines and medical devices.
Dr. Hohberger spoke recently with DC Velocity Editorial Director David Maloney about the prospects for a Covid-19 vaccine and why we need to be planning now for the monumental logistics challenges ahead.
Q: The whole world is waiting for a vaccine so that we can resume our normal lives. Why does it seem to be taking so long?
A: The Covid-19 vaccine development process is actually going to be remarkably short compared with all the vaccines we’ve previously developed. Normally, this process takes two or three years. In this case, we are trying to condense it into about one year by overlapping R&D and manufacturing startup, and fast-tracking regulatory approval.
Through the World Health Organization (WHO), we’ve had tremendous world cooperation at the scientific level with all countries. The regulatory agencies—like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—are closely monitoring the field trials so that approvals can come very quickly. So, if anything, it’s going to be a much shorter development process than we’ve seen with other vaccines, probably by several years.
Q: I understand the actual development of candidate vaccines took relatively little time. So are we now waiting to see how they do in clinical trials?
A: Yes. Clinical trials involve testing vaccines in a large number of infected patients. That is a process that takes time. First of all, you have to have a large patient population. Unfortunately, we do. You also have to have prototype vaccines manufactured in sufficient quantity for the trial and multiple medical institutions that can manage the trials.
There are a lot of cooperative alliances between research organizations and manufacturing organizations to build the facilities and start manufacturing some of the vaccines while the clinical trials are still in progress. A tremendous amount of capital is being risked on vaccines that may not make it to market. But the fact that very large corporations like AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson are investing in this indicates the degree of confidence among pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Q: Why do scientists feel a vaccine is the solution for the pandemic?
A: Part of it is we have no choice! There is no therapeutic cure for Covid-19. There are some promising new therapies, but there is no cure yet. The only way to keep this virus from posing a continual threat to our lives is to develop a vaccine and then vaccinate a large enough population to create herd immunity. This is a really critical point. Eventually, all 7.8 billion people in the world will need to be vaccinated. It is a massive global effort.
Q: So, without a vaccine, developing that same level of protection through herd immunity would require too many people getting sick and dying?
A: Yes, we aren’t even sure about how much immunity people are going to have after they’ve had Covid-19. It may not be like chicken pox, where you have the disease once and are immune for life. It may be entirely different. We don’t know that yet. We’re taking a tremendous amount of risk on the final solution, which is to come up with a long-lasting vaccine that will prevent people from contracting the disease in the first place.
Q: The scientists and medical community are taking different approaches to creating a vaccine. Why are they developing different types of vaccines all at the same time?
A: Well, for several reasons. The first reason is that while traditional methods of developing a vaccine using an inactivated virus are tried and true, they take time and they have very complex manufacturing requirements. The second is that this is a very unusual virus, and it has a couple of features that will make it possible to develop a vaccine that will be less sensitive to the virus mutating, which is a key issue with all viruses. Researchers are very confident they can develop a vaccine because of the unique features of this particular virus.
The other thing is that we now have processes based on knowing the DNA sequence of the virus, and we are putting into practice new technologies like recombinant DNA and the use of messenger RNA that have been developed in the laboratory. So, we are using all of what we’ve learned about genetics in the last 30 years to try and take a different, and maybe better, approach to making a vaccine.
Q: Where are we with some of the more promising candidates?
A: By way of background, there are three phases of clinical trials. Phase One is where you just determine that the vaccine is safe. Phase Two is when you actually start testing it to see if it will produce patient antibodies. In Phase Three, you test a large population of infected patients—typically, 10,000 to 30,000—on a double-blind basis and see how well it works compared with a placebo.
Today, one vaccine is well along in Phase Three trials. It is a relatively conventional vaccine developed at Oxford University. And there are three other ones that are starting Phase Three clinical trials, which means they have already been proved safe and have been shown to produce antibodies in patients. There are also another 120-plus candidates in the pre-clinical R&D stage.
Q: We’ve had trouble developing adequate testing capabilities in this country. What makes you confident that we’ll actually be able to develop, produce, and distribute the vaccine?
A: Part of the testing problem is that we’ve been developing the tests on the fly while we’re also trying to treat patients. So, there wasn’t time for the tests to go through the normal development process. Remember that Covid-19 did not exist until last December, so we have been trying to test and treat in parallel. Yes, there have been problems developing effective tests. But there are tests now that work adequately, so we’ve been able to conduct widespread testing.
Vaccination is a different matter entirely. One, you’ve got a lot of people you need to vaccinate, and during manufacturing startup, you’ve got to pick which subpopulation you’re going to immunize first. Do you start with the elderly population? People in nursing homes? One country can’t just hog all the vaccine for itself because people in all parts of the world are going to need it as well. So, you are going to have to figure out which subpopulation to begin with limited vaccine availability.
The next challenge is convincing people that the threat is real and that they need to get vaccinated. We have to get to the point where at least 50% to 80% of the population has been immunized in order for the vaccine to create herd immunity.
One problem is that, in this country at least, there’s a vocal anti-vaccine movement among people who don’t trust science and who don’t trust vaccinations. It’s going to take a lot of work to convince them that it’s safe.
Q: So far, the Covid-19 response has been largely left up to the states, which have ended up competing with each other for personal protective equipment, testing kits, and supplies. Given the current model, how will vaccine distribution be any different?
A: We’ve got to change the model. Unfortunately, the process has become so politicized that we have states competing for resources that the federal government ought to be managing and providing. Due to the lack of federal leadership, we have a few states like New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut that have done a great job of controlling the spread of the virus, while states like California tried to do a great job and basically got sabotaged. And then you have had deniers in places like Florida and Texas who are now suffering the consequences. It is really because the national leadership was never there and is still not totally focused on its response to the pandemic.
Q: How can we ensure that enough vaccines will be manufactured and then made available to people who need them?
A: I think the vaccine manufacturing part of it is already well in hand. You have some of the largest companies in the world engaged in the effort—companies like AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Sanofi as well as the huge Serum Institute of India and Sinovac and SinoPharm in China. So, the manufacturing side is probably more committed to it than the distribution side simply because people haven’t yet thought about how we’re going to distribute Covid-19 vaccines at the same time we’re also distributing vaccines for measles, shingles, polio, and other diseases.
Q: Will the Covid-19 vaccines require any special handling?
A: Virtually all of the vaccines that are in clinical trials right now are cold chain products. We have a well-established global distribution system for vaccines like polio. However, the last-mile problem is very serious when you get to developing nations that may not have adequate refrigeration capabilities in field clinics. The challenge there is to deliver the vaccine to the point of use quickly and ensure that it’s safe at the time it’s administered.
This is why WHO standardized time-temperature indicator labels—known as Vaccine Vial Monitors or VVMs—that allow a person to visually confirm that the vaccine has been properly handled during storage and transport. The last thing you want to do is inoculate someone with a vaccine that has expired or been mishandled, because they won’t develop immunity but they’ll still think they have.
There is also a brand-new sensor bar-code technology that the automatic-identification industry developed in the last year that allows you to put a sensor on a bar-code label that can be read by a cellphone app or scanner at the point of use, and automatically indicates whether or not the vaccine is within safe-usage limits.
Q: Is any vaccine manufacturing going on yet?
A: Not yet, but facilities are being prepared. My guess is that manufacturing will start around the fourth quarter. I would expect that manufacturers would then want to pre-position product in the cold chain in multiple countries while it’s awaiting regulatory approval.
Q: Does the U.S. medical supply chain have the capacity to handle hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines on top of all of the other medicines we need every day?
A: I think there are two groups that need to discuss that. One is the large pharmaceutical distributors that get the products from the manufacturers to some of the intermediaries, the Cardinals, McKessons, and so on. And the other group is the people who distribute them to the hospitals and clinics and places where people are vaccinated.
I also think that we need to turn the question around and ask: What do we have to do to ensure we have enough cold chain distribution capacity? I am not sure we have it, and I am not sure we even know to get there.
You don’t have time to build brick-and-mortar facilities. One thing we can do is leverage all the high-speed delivery services we have right now. So, rather than building a warehouse in Arkansas to store 50 million doses for that region, you could store them at an unused refrigerated DC in Massachusetts and ship them to Arkansas via overnight air. We are going to have to be creative.
Q: Most of the world’s current vaccines are manufactured in India and China. Will the U.S. have to compete with the rest of the world to get what we need?
A: Not initially. We are probably going to have two to three viable vaccines next year, which will be manufactured globally, including in places like Serum Institute of India, which services Southeast Asia and Africa. Then there are companies like Sanofi in France that basically deal with Europe and the Americas. You have American companies like Pfizer, Merck, Moderna, and the Janssen Division of Johnson & Johnson servicing the American market. So at least initially, we should not be competing with other countries.
Q: I understand we may be looking at a shortage of glass vials for the vaccines. Is that still a problem?
A: Yes, it is. We can’t just take existing vials and stoppers because they are still needed for polio and influenza vaccines. And the shortage could become particularly acute if we end up needing multiple doses to immunize people. It is definitely going to put a strain on some of the packaging suppliers—the people who make vial closures, for example. They’re going to have to ramp up their production. The same is true of companies that make containers for cold chain transport and even the syringes needed to administer the vaccine. There is a lot of stuff that will be needed other than just the vaccines themselves.
Q: There are several different vaccines being developed at the same time. Are there advantages in that?
A: Yes. There are a lot of parameters here that are more important than just being first to market. The holy grail of all vaccines is to have something that can be kept at room temperature or is not temperature-sensitive, but that is probably not going to happen, at least initially. Another thing is that a single-dose vaccine is highly preferable to a multi-dose vaccine, so if someone can produce a single-dose vaccine, it will likely displace some of the others eventually.
Q: I expect there will be some holdups and delays. Are they likely to be caused by supply chain issues?
A: I hope delays will not be due to supply chain issues. The supply chain has to anticipate that it is going to be on the “critical path” and think it through beforehand. We really have to look at nontraditional ways of distributing the vaccine to the point of care—this is going to be a global last-mile problem.
Q: The bottom-line question is when can we realistically expect a vaccine to be ready?
A: My guess is that in the fourth quarter of this year, we’ll see manufacturers start to ramp up production and pre-position product in anticipation of regulatory approval, which I expect will come in the U.S. in the early second quarter of 2021. At that point, people like Pfizer and AstraZeneca are going to be knocking on the door of logistics companies asking if they’re ready to pre-position the product because it will have to be stored somewhere until the Food and Drug Administration approves it for use.
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This doctoral thesis, developed in the International Strategic Studies Graduate Program of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, analyzes the foreign policy of the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), specifically focusing on the issue of international migrations to Brazil. The thesis is directed by Professor Dr. Sonia Maria Ranincheski and funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).
The dissertation’s central hypothesis is that international migrations to Brazil were motivated by the differentiated strategic insertion of these two governments into two specific regions: Latin America and Africa – precisely those regions with the largest influx during the period analyzed. However, as there was no defined immigration policy in either government, the attraction, management, and coordination of migrations occurred through foreign policy. As such, this thesis argues that there was a “migratory foreign policy”.
The resumption of international migration flows toward Brazil was due to the country’s strategic insertion in Latin America and Africa and the change of its foreign policy regarding these regions between the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. The strategic insertion of the Brazilian case and the attraction of potential immigrants to the country is based on four pillars: the country’s participation in humanitarian missions in Haiti and Africa; the More Doctors Program; cooperation and scholarship and fellowship granting programs; and the promotion of the country by migratory and international labor networks as an alternative to the United States, European Union, and other traditional destinations. The immigration of Latin Americans and Africans to Brazil from 2003-2015 is not part of a classical growth-stabilization-decline migratory cycle.
This doctoral research is expected to prove some issues that continue to have political and economic impact on the formulation of public policies, governmental agendas, and civil society debates in Brazil, namely: the dubious humanitarian character of Brazil’s strategic insertion in Latin America and Africa during the two administrations analyzed; the country’s receptivity to migrants as non-original; the verification of an effective change, reorientation, and differentiation of the migratory foreign policies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff; and the prevailing of political interests and agendas that sometimes prioritized or restricted the admission of certain immigrant groups, such as Bolivians, Haitians, Cubans, and Venezuelans. | <urn:uuid:4a4fd2a7-b5c2-4c79-aea2-9fc1a0d973b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://odysseus-network.eu/catalogues/phd-researches/ongoing/36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938649 | 505 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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NASHVILLE — Karl Dean, a Democrat in his second term as this city’s mayor, had a few minutes to tell President Obama about his dream: building a “trackless trolley” line that would connect Nashville’s gentrifying east side with its ritzy west. He had spent years submitting applications for a $75 million grant, and he made sure the president knew about it.
Two months after that January 2014 meeting in Nashville, the dream seemed to be coming true. The White House announced that money for Dean’s project was in the president’s budget.
Unbeknownst to Dean, however, an extraordinary coalition was at work behind the scenes to take away the money before the check could be written. The local leader of a group created by the conservative Koch brothers helped write a bill that was introduced in the Tennessee Legislature by a sympathetic Republican lawmaker and that was designed to kill the project.
“I’m not used to having the state come in and try to crush us,” Dean said in an interview last month, on his last full day in office.
The tale of the trackless trolley is, on one level, a prosaic account of a fast-growing city struggling to pay for much-needed mass transit. But as the story unfolded, it became clear that there was something much deeper going on: a bare-knuckle city-versus-state fight at a time when the partisan divide between big cities — mostly run by Democrats — and state capitals, where the GOP largely holds sway, has reached a historic extreme. It showed how national politics, and secretly financed outside groups, can influence even local battles.
Indeed, Nashville had become a sort of ground zero for a series of local brawls infused by an “all politics is national” trend, as some have put it, inverting the mantra of former House speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr.
A city ordinance designed to stop discrimination against gays and lesbians was undone by the state. An effort to ban guns in Nashville’s parks was overturned by the state. A plan by the Republican governor to expand Medicaid, providing health insurance for 179,000 Tennesseans, with Nashville the greatest beneficiary, was defeated because it was linked to “Obamacare.”
Then came the battle over the 7-mile high-speed bus line, lyrically dubbed the “Amp,” that was supposed bring together the disparate sides of Music City. Instead, it tore Nashville apart.
Zeroing in on this sort of local battle has become a key to success for groups such as Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-backed organization that counts its Tennessee chapter among its most effective.
The billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch have received enormous publicity for their announcement that they plan to spend $900 million to influence the 2016 elections. But with far less fanfare, they are having a clearer impact on local matters, right down to a fight over a bus line.
“The return on investment in time is much greater at the state than the federal level,” said Andrew Ogles, head of Tennessee’s Americans for Prosperity chapter, which played a key role in the fight against the Amp and Medicaid expansion. “If you have a rogue mayor or governor, our greatest influence is to talk to our state representative and senator. They are much more accessible to us than, say, a governor.”
Under recent Supreme Court rulings, the group is defined as a nonprofit social welfare organization that is allowed to advocate on legislative issues. It doesn’t have to identify who gives it cash, how much it has received, or how it spends the undocumented funds — known in politics as “dark money.” That is different from money given to candidates and political action committees, which generally is subject to disclosure.
What is clear is that the political ground is more fertile than ever for national groups to enter local fights. And it was exactly this divide that opponents of the Amp sought to exploit, pitting City Hall against the Capitol, two buildings sitting three blocks apart in downtown Nashville.
Mayor’s Massachusetts roots
Karl Dean, nicknamed by one headline writer as “Yankee Doodle Dean,” grew up in the furniture-making city of Gardner, Mass., went to Columbia University in New York — where, he said, he became enamored of public transit — and headed south for law school at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University.
He married a classmate, served as the city’s public defender and legal counsel, and was elected mayor in 2007 to the first of two four-year terms. He kept a made-in-Gardner chair in his office to remind him of his roots, and says he often thought about the need to bring at least a semblance of his home state’s public transportation ethos to Tennessee.
A system of Boston-style trolleys was deemed too costly, so Dean pitched the idea of a high-speed bus network on dedicated lanes, which some refer to as trackless trolleys, with the city’s east-west corridor as the first route.
The line would start in East Nashville, which is 39 percent African-American, and has more than its share of public housing, with half its families earning less than $38,000. It has lately become a gradually gentrifying haven for artists, musicians, hipsters, and working-class residents who make the city hum, in more ways than one.
The route would cross the Cumberland River and run along Broadway, past neon-bathed
honky-tonks with their cacophony of country bands, near the historic Ryman Auditorium, and alongside the arena where the Country Music Awards are held. It would pass Lee Beaman’s auto dealerships and continue on West End Avenue past Vanderbilt before ending near a hospital complex.
That would bring it deep into West Nashville, where nearly one-third of families have an income more than $200,000, and 92 percent are white, according to census records. Just beyond the western terminus is Belle Meade, one of the nation’s wealthiest neighborhoods, where residents cross creeks to enter a park-like setting of rolling hills, emerald lawns, Tara-style mansions and French-influenced chateaus.
Nashville’s need for mass transit seemed clear. One of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas, its population of 1.6 million is expected to add another million people in the next two decades.
The Amp was portrayed as a model that would be replicated across the state. Planners dreamed of a back-to-the-future day when express buses would be as prevalent as streetcars once were. After several years of hearings, it seemed like a done deal in early 2014, with supporters including the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Vanderbilt University, and major hospitals.
But some in the West End, in luxe neighborhoods such as Woodland, feared an influx. One resident, Edie Wenczl, elegantly dressed and wearing a string of pearls, stood during a 2012 public meeting on the Amp to declare her opposition.
“We don’t want the riff-raff of East Nashville in our neighborhood,” said Wenczl, who lives in what she calls a “precious” enclave of stately homes near the route’s western terminus, and explained in an interview that part of her concern was traffic on her street.
Rick Williams, the owner of Nashville Limousine Service for 15 years, also was aghast. He couldn’t believe it when he heard that taxpayer money would be used for the Amp.
“Is it my job to use tax money contributed by everybody to help a certain segment out, to say, you don’t want a car and responsibility of owning a car, or car insurance, is it my job to make transportation easier for you?” Williams said. He became chairman of a group he called “Stop Amp,” but said he figured the project was a done deal.
One day as he was pumping gas into one of his vehicles, Williams ran into Lee Beaman, the namesake owner of the auto dealership along the Amp route, and asked whether he had heard about the project. Beaman had not, but said he believed it was a terrible idea that would worsen traffic, make it more difficult for customers to get to his dealership, and attract few new bus riders.
Beaman also believed there was no chance to kill the project at City Hall, given Dean’s support. But stopping it at the state level seemed doable. That is where the Koch-supported group came in.
A few years earlier, Beaman had received an invitation from Charles and David Koch to attend one of their exclusive conferences. He went to a gathering in Palm Springs, Calif., and met the brothers.
“My wife and I went and were extremely impressed,” Beaman said. He started donating to the national Americans for Prosperity organization, and then to the state chapter. (He declined to say in an interview how much he contributes.) Eventually, he worked with Ogles on a successful effort to kill the estate tax in Tennessee.
So when Beaman heard about the Amp, he said, he again turned to the Koch group. Suddenly, what seemed like the mayor’s done deal was in trouble.
Power behind the scenes
Andrew Ogles holds no elective office. Yet he has, in the past 2½ years, become one of the state’s most powerful players through his role at the helm of the Americans for Prosperity chapter. A Tennessee native, he worked on former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign, and watched how a series of ads paid for by Mitt Romney’s “super political action committee” helped destroy his candidate.
Since taking over the Koch group in Tennessee, he played a major role in killing an effort by the Republican governor, Bill Haslam, to accept Medicaid money from President Obama’s health care plan. A Medicaid expansion could have provided health insurance to 179,000 Tennesseans, with a 2016 contribution of up to $1.7 billion in federal money, according to a White House report released in June. Haslam declined an interview request.
Ogles has been given broad latitude by the Koch brothers. When Beaman talked to him about how to stop the Amp, Ogles suggested a strategy that the Koch group is using across the country that relies on targeting hyperlocal issues that once would have attracted little national notice. Other state chapters, for example, have helped defeat a gas tax increase in South Carolina, and backed a conservative school board in Colorado.
Tennessee, like many Southern states, has gone through a political transformation in the last two decades, with Democrats losing control of the State House. Today, as in most states, Tennessee’s Legislature and governorship are in Republican hands; 68 out of 98 state legislative chambers are controlled by Republicans, the highest proportion in history, according to the Republican State Leadership Committee. Republicans lead in governorships by 31 to 18, with one Independent.
By contrast, Nashville, like most of the nation’s largest cities, is led by a Democratic mayor, although the post here is technically nonpartisan.
The split has set up a growing dynamic in which big-city mayors often clash with state legislators, many of them representing conservative rural areas, in their effort to win dollars from Washington for urban projects.
In the view of Americans for Prosperity, the lure of federal dollars is too enticing even for many Republicans.
Ogles helped kill the governor’s plan for Medicaid expansion by raising doubts about whether the federal government’s contribution would be shut off in the future, leaving the state responsible. Similarly, Ogles questioned the value of taking $75 million for the Amp, even if those dollars would simply be given to a transit project in some other state.
Ogles found his legislative partner in a state senator, Republican Jim Tracy of Murfreesboro, who chairs the Senate’s Transportation and Safety Committee. He gave Ogles an inside track to stop what he belittled as the mayor’s “vanity project.”
He worked with Tracy on a bill that gave the Legislature authority over transit projects that would operate on state roads — a definition that included the Amp. Given that it was widely known the Amp was the target of the bill, the project would be considered dead if the legislation passed.
“I sat down with Senator Jim Tracy and came up with this idea,” Ogles said. Tracy confirmed in a separate interview that he worked with Ogles to write the bill. The city-state fight was on.
Legislature hits the brakes
A week after the White House announced that money for the Amp was in the budget, on March 12, 2014, Tracy held a hearing designed to stop the project.
Nashville officials were shocked. They had hoped that with federal dollars on the way, and Nashville providing millions more, the state would provide a $35 million share. There had been more than 100 public meetings on the project, and Tracy had not attended any of them. (Tracy said city officials never contacted him about the Amp, and he learned of it through the news media.)
State Senator Thelma Harper, a Democrat whose district includes East Nashville, was appalled, and accused Tracy and other legislators of interfering in city affairs.
“There is concern that it looks like the Legislature is meddling with Nashville. We wouldn’t do the same thing in Murfreesboro,” she said during the hearing, referring to Tracy’s hometown.
The bill nonetheless was approved by the Senate as well as the House, where it was pushed by Speaker Beth Harwell, who represents portions of Nashville’s West End. Harwell did not return calls seeking comment.
Mayor Dean was stunned. His aides were left to inform the White House that the city couldn’t take the federal money.
“It concerned me that we would have that outside influence,” Dean said, noting that local opponents were “certainly working with Americans for Prosperity to essentially thwart what a city was trying to accomplish.”
Jeff Yarbro, who had served for five years on the board of Nashville’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, including a term as chairman, said legislators who bemoan a heavy federal hand in their work were being hypocritical by interfering in city affairs.
“They talk about local control when it is about the federal government, but when it is about the cities, it is more about controlling the locals,” said Yarbro, who was elected last year to the state Senate. “It is immensely frustrating. It is hard enough for a city to make decisions on its own without a legislature putting a thumb on the scale in every debate.”
To be sure, those on all sides said they learned lessons, and some even say they hope a version of the Amp might be revived on a more palatable route. But it seems unlikely that such an agreement will be coming anytime soon. A federal transportation official said any new proposal from Nashville would require city to go to the back of the funding line.
Dean’s role is done. His last full day in office was Sept. 24, and he soon will be heading back to Massachusetts, where he will serve during the spring semester as “mayor in residence” for the Initiative on Cities program at Boston University. His battle over the Amp is bound to be a topic of discussion.
Ogles, the Americans for Prosperity leader, is waging a new battle, fighting a proposal to raise Tennessee’s gas tax, which some here hope will pay for much-needed road improvements, but which might now be blocked by some of the same people who killed the Amp.
As for Tracy, the state senator who vanquished the city’s mass transit dream, when he finished an interview he set off on a 55-mile commute to his Murfreesboro home. It takes 70 minutes on a good day but if he hit rush hour, it would take two hours.
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When a Linux OS (such as Cent OS) image is used in Docker, ipv4 forwarding is disabled by default.
What does this mean ?
If you need to access the container application via web interface (example apache,nginx, airflow… ) from host machine, you wont be able to do it.
To prevent any security vulnerabilities to your docker container.
There is one easy solution to overcome this issue.
Add the following attributes when running docker command.
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Car Insurance Mandatory for Wisconsin Motorists by 2010
Change is afoot for Wisconsin drivers. Starting on June 1, 2010, all drivers will be required by law to have car insurance. From that day forward, if you are caught driving without car insurance in Wisconsin, you have to pay a fine. Habitual offenders may lose their license.
Until this new law, which was passed by Governor Jim Doyle as part of the state budget, Wisconsin was one of only two states in the US that did not have mandatory car insurance laws (New Hampshire is the other hold out). Wisconsin drivers previously had to comply with the Financial Responsibility Law, which states that all drivers had to show that they had the financial means to pay for damages after an accident. The Financial Responsibility could be met through car insurance, a surety bond, or by filing a certificate of self insurance. Approximately 85% of drivers in Wisconsin carried car insurance anyway, but despite the fact that 100% of drivers had to comply with the Financial Responsibility law, uninsured motorists were often unable to meet the costs of damages after a collision.
Wisconsin car insurance companies are rejoicing at the new law, but not everyone is on board with the changes. Part of the debate is over the mandatory minimums required in the new law, which will take Wisconsin from having no insurance laws to having one of the highest mandatory minimum requirements in the country. Current Wisconsin car insurance holders, who once enjoyed one of the lowest car insurance rates in the country, are concerned that increased demand will drive the prices up. Others are simply concerned at the prospect of one more bill to pay during tough economic times.
Proponents of the plan believe that requiring car insurance will take an undue burden off of those who already maintain insurance. They further believe it is necessary to require insurance to help deal with increased medical costs. As the cost of health care increases, the cost of caring for people who have been injured in an accident skyrockets, often to an extent that makes uninsured drivers unable to pay. This is also the justification for higher mandatory minimums.
Popular or not, Wisconsin drivers have to comply with the law if they want to keep their license. Wisconsin car insurance companies are ready to work with the uninsured to get them on board with the law. Wisconsin car insurance rates will be determined by a number of different factors, including your credit score, driving record, and where you live. If you have never carried insurance before, this could also lead you to more expensive insurance costs; though in time and with a good driving record, your car insurance rate may come down. | <urn:uuid:15d8b84c-9234-4927-91fd-98ec1854501f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.carinsurancequotes.com/articles/car-insurance-mandatory-for-wisconsin-motorists-by-2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981826 | 523 | 2 | 2 |
Caloric restriction in women with the triple negative disease was found to reduce incidence of metastases in a pre-clinical model.
Dieting may decrease chances for metastases in triple negative breast cancers by strengthening the tissue surrounding the tumour.
Calorie restriction, a kind of dieting in which food intake is decreased by a certain percentage, has been touted as way to help people live longer. New research suggests that there may be other benefits, including improving outcomes for women in breast cancer.
According to a study published on 26 May in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, the triple negative subtype of breast cancer — one of the most aggressive forms – is less likely to spread, or metastasize, to new sites in the body when mice were fed a restricted diet.
''The diet turned on a epigenetic program that protected mice from metastatic disease,'' says senior author Nicole Simone, M.D., an associate professor in the department of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University.
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A retreat is not a heavenly experience where one escapes from the world to chill. On the contrary, a retreat is to come back to what one keeps running away from and to face whatever fear that kept one at bay. In truth, retreat is facing the world again, the world within that has never left us.
Internal experiences become more obvious when one is in retreat. Triggers become obvious and little attachments made magnified, only if one takes notice of it, instead of the already always way of shunning it by giving it a meaning. Not that a retreat is a place for ego or defilements to grow, but rather, with no other outlets for the mind to escape, what was not obvious before comes out into the open.
Your only escape is to sleep, but even that is not a solution as what is being resisted will appear in dreams as nightmares or unpleasant experiences. What’s the point then of a retreat if one is not ready to face what one’s purpose of coming to a retreat for?
A retreat is like a coliseum where your entertainment is your very mind. Not a pleasant entertainment though if you have in the past with mindlessness, kept running away from it. But if one has been trained to watch the mind, giving it a priority instead of the outer world, a retreat will be an opportunity to deepen the skills. A retreat then will only be an extension of what has already been a daily practise in life. In fact, this is the correct attitude towards the approach of going into a retreat as it is not a place for escapism but a place to sharpen one’s skill in meeting the challenges the mind offers.
Hence your idea or ideal of a retreat makes your criteria of attending it. What is sure about a retreat is that it is not a place where you can chill unless and until you learn to face what is already in the mind. Facing one’s own mind is voluntary and cannot be coaxed. But it will be a matter of time when one takes the initiative to embark on this journey as each our threshold of pain has its limit and there will come a time where we just know for ourselves that there is a better way out to handle ourselves. It is this time that one will realise that it is through understanding the workings of the mind where and when one takes the resolution to explore what one has not understood – to realize that there is something much more than what one thinks life is all about.
A retreat, to begin with, is a space of courage, where one takes the readiness to face what comes up in him. Hence, the beginning journey, as always, is pretty difficult and arduous – not that it is painful, but certainly unpleasant, as we are no longer subjected to what the mind draw us to do, but to observe with much impartiality how addicted we are to the ego’s need. Hence to have adequate right information of handling the mind is necessary as how you address the mind is how you define your practice. You can either see the mind as a threat or as an opportunity to learn its nature. Both have different flavour of practice and somehow either idea will define how you address your life as they define your attitude.
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The Tigray Churches are hidden away high up and inside the sides of hills and mountains in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
They are carved right out of the stone themselves which is a very difficult task to achieve.
They are located in the north of Ethiopia and it’s not easy getting around to see them, as the area is spread out, and many are located high up on cliffs.
The Tigray Churches
The rock churches were built into the side of mountains to protect them from attackers.
They date back to the 4th century onwards and were used by the Christians when invaders tried to wipe out Christianity in the region.
To get to many of the rock churches it is best to rent a car as public transport is almost non-existent to reach them.
Many of them will have to be climbed so a relative level of fitness would be needed.
The scenery is beautiful, eagles soar overhead, baboons jump around the rocks in some parts. It is an ideal place to do a some hiking.
Those who are not good with heights though would have some difficulty getting to some of the churches.
Many of the people in the region are very friendly and a good walk around the countryside is worthwhile for a few hours.
It’s best to take a guide with you so you don’t get lost, and to translate.
Inside the Rock Churches of Tigray are the usual frescoes and paintings depicting ancient Christian scenes.
The priests will show you around,and the guide will translate.
It’s best not to see to many churches as they can become very similar after a while, although some are more impressive than others.
The most fun churches are the ones that are more difficult to reach, whether by car or foot.
The sunsets are also spectacular in the mountains. Unbelievably the local people climb up the cliffs and mountains almost daily to pray at mass.
If you enjoy hiking and great scenery, as well as history, you will have an amazing trip to this region of Ethiopia.
Arriving in the morning light to a monastery with the mist and clouds wrapped around the surrounding hills, is a scene of complete tranquility.
And the people come out to pray.
Local people either ascend the stairs to get close to the church where the priests gather, or stay below to rest on the steps where doves fly about, adding to the ambience of the place.
You could get invited inside an enclave to the side of the church while people pray outside, and a local priest can show 500 year old manuscripts of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
After mass the people slowly depart and go about their daily activities.
About a 30 minutes drive from the first church one arrives at a monastery perched high on the top of a hill, with a steep drop on all sides.
The scenery becomes more dry and arid as you slowly arrive on the winding road.
Arriving at the top there is a scramble up a few hundred steps to get to a makeshift rope system.
To enter the monastery complex itself you must ascend the ropes, which sometimes are attached to a rather ageing priest who will help you.
The local people make it look easy going up and down without any rope attached to them. But then again they have been doing this all their lives.
Obviously this is not a welcome sight to those who are not comfortable with heights and even more annoying for females because they are not allowed to enter at all, as this a monastery just for men.
How to get to the Tigray Rock Churches of Ethiopia
There you can rent a car which will preferably be a 4wd for the terrain, although a minivan is perfectly good as well.
Most hotels can help arrange a trip. If you start in Aksum the Africa hotel is very helpful with this.
You can either fly to these cities form the capital Addis Ababa, or take buses and minivans if you have the time and patience.
More on the Tigray region here.
Two days and one night will give you plenty of time to see several churches, and the one night stopover will most likely be in the central area around the churches in what feels like a frontier town of dusty streets in the middle of nowhere.
Have a mystical trip to Tigray!
This is a stunning video on the Tigray region of Ethiopia to see what to expect –
Interested in more on Ethiopia? Check out my Ethiopia travel guide
This is the guidebook I recommend you take to Ethiopia:
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Kamran discovers an extensive conspiracy when his brother is accused of terrorism.
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2016
- ISBN: 9780545695190
Fourteen-year-old Hideki is preparing to defend his home island of Okinawa during World War II. Ray is an eighteen year old US Marine fighting his first battle. During the Battle of Okinawa, they will discover resilience and compassion as the horrors of war forever change their perspective on humanity.
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781338245691
Three countries in strife...three different periods in time...three families seeking one universal goal: FREEDOM. Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud offer realistic, fictionalized accounts of attempts to find refuge from 1930's Nazi Germany, Castro's 1994 Cuba, and war torn Syria in 2015.
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father. Morey's narration comes alive on the baseball field, delivering play-by-play with the excitement and enthusiasm of a modern commentator. | <urn:uuid:5ecd59a2-bef1-4d9d-87cb-e84d022044ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.booklists.yalsa.net/directory/results?author=45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943959 | 273 | 1.523438 | 2 |
LONDON (AP) — The pandemic-delayed London Marathon will be staged on Oct. 4 using a different route than usual and with only elite runners participating.
Rather than starting in Greenwich in east London, there will be a looped 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) course featuring 19.8 laps around St James’s Park within a biosecure bubble with spectators excluded. It will finish in the traditional place in front of Buckingham Palace.
Times will be eligible for qualification for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which had to be rescheduled until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele are expected to feature in the men's race. The women's field is headlined by world record holder Brigid Kosgei. Manuela Schär and David Weir will feature in the wheelchair event.
The London Marathon usually takes place in April, but organizers have already pushed back the 2021 event until Oct. 3 to maximize the possibility of a mass race returning after being deemed not possible this year.
“The biggest challenges were not those involving participants," London Marathon event director Hugh Brasher said, "but the multiple issues of managing spectators, ensuring the emergency services had access across London with the recent changes to the roadscape, the increased likelihood of a second spike that has led to the recent cancellation of spectator trials at major events and the ongoing concern about the pressure even a reduced size mass participation marathon might put on the NHS (National Health Service).
“Despite all our efforts, the fantastic support from all of our partners and the progress that has been made on planning for the return of smaller mass participation events that are not on the roads, it has not been possible to go ahead with a mass socially distanced walk or run."
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Great Change- The Last Generation Oral History Project.
Take part in our new Oral History Project
“History has its eyes on you” George Washington sang to the audience watching the musical Hamilton stream via Disney+ from the comfort of their living room. The Covid-19 Pandemic was sweeping across the globe, forcing international lockdowns and quarantines when the musical was released online.
Washington was right. History watches over and listens to everyone. History is made when we share our stories and memories with the rest of the world. The oral tradition that has existed since the very dawn of humanity, means that we are remembered by our families and our communities.
This is something that local and social history museums have recognised for years, by collecting oral history from the public. Museums have the ability to record, keep, and preserve the stories that shape the narrative that gets handed down through generations.
Now, history is not only close to home, but it is on the inside.
The Great Change Oral History Project will compare the present with the past by collecting both the Last Generations' stories of the slum clearances, war, and migration but also the stories of the Last Generation to experience the world Pre-Covid-19 and their experiences throughout the pandemic. The two subjects may seem at odds with each other, but there are many common themes. In both aspects, we are able to explore the loss of community when neighbourhoods are forced to move out or stay inside, but also about human resilience, strength, and pride of the King’s Lynn people. These subjects demonstrate their ability to adapt to even the greatest change.
It is the largest oral history project the Museum has ever attempted and aims to collect over 1,000 stories of change from the King’s Lynn public. We hope to reflect on how the town has changed, through the eyes of the people that saw it. This project has been made possible through a grant of £3,900 from The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.
True’s Yard Fisherfolk Museum wants you to take part in the oral history project, by telling us your stories. If you have memories about the North End, the Covid pandemic, war, migration, and change that you or your family would like to share, get involved, and be a part of history.
Stories given to True’s Yard will be kept at the True’s Yard sound archives, as a record of the local history, and used to create exhibitions online and in-person in 2021.
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The precipitates and hydrogen permeation behavior in three kinds of hot rolled low carbon heavy plate steels for enameling were analyzed; then, both sides of the steels were enameled. The experimental results show that a large amount of coarse Ti4C2S2 and fine Ti(C, N) particles exist in the optimized Ti-bearing steel, quite a lot of fine Ti(C, N) particles exist in the optimized carbon steel, but only a little bit fine Ti(C, N) particles exist in the carbon steel. The fishscaling resistance of the steels can be correlated to the effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient, and a model of correlation between the effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient and the volume fraction of the precipitates was established and verified. The effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient should be lower than 3. 96 × 10 6 cm2/s to avoid fishscaling in heavy plate steels. | <urn:uuid:08ee5c31-603e-4227-b966-872fdddda3f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/publication89425 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.913813 | 189 | 1.992188 | 2 |
God makes you stupid, researchers claim
Intelligence begot atheism
A psychology researcher has controversially claimed that stupidity is causally linked to how likely people are to believe in God.
University of Ulster professor Richard Lynn will draw the conclusion in new research due to be published in the journal Intelligence, the Times Higher Education Supplement reports.
Lynn and his two co-authors argue that average IQ is an excellent predictor of what proportion of the population are true believers, across 137 countries. They also cite surveys of the US Academy of Sciences and UK Royal Academy showing single-digit rates of religious belief among academics.
That professional skeptics don't believe in a creator is perhaps not all that surprising. Lynn argues, however, that it is their intelligence that directly gives rise to the boffinated classes' non-God-bothering tendencies. He said: "Why should fewer academics believe in God than the general population? I believe it is simply a matter of the IQ. Academics have higher IQs than the general population."
Lynn pointed out that most children do believe in God, but as their intelligence develops they tend to have doubts or reject religion. Similarly, as average IQ in Western societies increased through the 20th century, so did rates of atheism, he said.
The researchers' claims of a direct causal link have drawn criticism from others in intelligence research, who argue their conclusions are too simplistic. London Metropolitan University's Dr David Hardman said: "It is very difficult to conduct true experiments that would explicate a causal relationship between IQ and religious belief. Nonetheless, there is evidence from other domains that higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt intuitions."
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Since the Earth Summit in 1992 United Nations recognize the urgent need for join efforts of the all sectors of society and all types of people. The efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be made not only by the governments and Member States but also by other parties. The major groups of the civil society that can contribute from the achievement of SDGs are women, children and youth, indigenous people, NGOs, local authorities, trade unions, private business and industries, academia, farmers. These groups are not the only ones — volunteers, people with disabilities, elderly, educators also play an important role in achieving the SDGs. All these groups are recognized as SDGs stakeholders. They are represented in UN through Organizing Partners (OP). They establish direct connection between stakeholders and the United Nations.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Major Groups, members of civil society and relevant stakeholders were given significant roles and responsible mandates throughout the Rio+20 Outcome Document agreed upon at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. Various rights, obligations and tasks with relevance to NGOs, Major Groups and civil society are interspersed throughout the Outcome Document and an entire chapter is devoted to these groups. In 2020 ECA-CES became Organizational Partner for Central Asia for the United Nations NGO Major Group. The tasks of the NGO Major Group are aimed at facilitating the involvement and strengthen the participation of NGOs in all the processes that surround and relate to the High Level Political Forum (HLPF). Through participation in the Major Groups NGOs all over the world establish connections with each other and the UN directly without any limits that can be introduced by the governments. This group includes NGOs that work in all sphere of life. To organize the Major Group there is a systematic approach of thematic clusters. Clusters are also the focal points of expertise on various topics and SDGs. | <urn:uuid:95ae0870-4d44-4141-be94-57da35b11240> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eca-ces.ru/working-with-un | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95005 | 383 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Porto D’Abrigo, is where marine animals that are reported to have washed up on the coast or have some health problems are rehabilitated.
In 1988, the company that owns Zoomarine established itself in Portugal and, according to Élio Vicente, founder of Porto D'Abrigo, after some negotiations with the Portuguese State, in 1991, it was possible to develop a marine animal rehabilitation centre.
Porto D’Abrigo was created after a lack of feedback from the Portuguese State and has the support of Zoomarine, the founder of the rehabilitation centre. However, it soon became clear that they would be doing far more work than they initially anticipated.
Élio Vicente told The Portugal News, the biologists and veterinarians at the centre expected to treat “a dolphin every five years, because that was the statistic we had until then, one or two seals a year, and maybe one or two turtles a year.” However, media attention raised awareness of Porto D'Abrigo, facilitating the contact of the population to the centre when they find an animal in a dangerous situation, increasing the need for a response from Porto D'Abrigo, which began operations in 2002.
Over 20 years, the centre’s founder admits that he feels that the relationship between the Portuguese, entities, and foreigners visiting Portugal with the sea has been growing stronger, so “they end up knowing who to call when they come across a turtle, dolphin, seal, or a tortoise”, which has washed up and needs support.
For the past 20 years, the team's work has been positive, however, success rates cannot be measured, due to the unpredictability of the situations that professionals face. When an animal washes up on shore, this implies that it is already in a weakened state of health. However, some species are easier to treat than others. In the case of dolphins, Élio Vicente says that, when they come to shore, “it is practically impossible to save them, as they are already in a very bad condition.” Hopes grow when it comes to a calf separated from its mother, without health problems, or an animal caught in a fishing net. Regarding dolphins, he appeals to people who, when they find one on the coast, not to touch the animal, as human touch and voice can trigger stress, capable of killing the dolphin.
Animals such as tortoises still arrive at Porto D’Abrigo, often they have been caught and kept in captivity illegally, years after they were captured.
Returning back to nature
After the animals are treated, the goal is to return them to their natural habitat. Élio Vicente assured The Portugal News that no animals are kept for zoological exhibition at Zoomarine after their treatment. However, animals from other regions that, for some reason, are found in Portugal, will return to the region where they find the best conditions to live healthily. Certain cases force the animal to remain in captivity, due to paralysis, for example. In these cases, “the animal is sent to the Portuguese State”, which is responsible for looking for the appropriate place for the marine animal to stay.
Porto D’Abrigo “is a mixed space”, with the need to be multipurpose, as it treats various species of animals. The rehabilitation centre can treat various types of animals. Seven species of dolphins, four turtles, three species of seals, two crappie and even one species of otter. Several infrastructures guarantee the animal welfare of injured animals, with different dimensions and microenvironments. Élio Vicente also adds that it is an isolated space. Some animals may have the presence of a virus or parasite, harmful to human health, which should not be transported to other areas. As such, all professionals have access to bathrooms, so they can take all the necessary hygiene measures, as well as a laundry room to wash clothes that may or may not be contaminated.
During 20 years of animal rehabilitation, there are always more remarkable cases than others. Some for their media coverage and others for their challenge. Élio Vicente remembers the day that Porto D’Abrigo received a leatherback turtle that weighed 296 kilos, which was attached to a fishing line. The process became complicated from the moment of immobilisation of the animal until the treatment process. However, the animal that had to be transported using “a ship with a specific crane”, raised a wave of solidarity.
In Vila Real de Santo António, a fisherman caught jellyfish to feed the turtle, and the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere updated the rehabilitation centre as to the areas where jellyfish could be found, facilitating the capture of food for the animal.
Despite all his efforts and his high responsiveness, Élio Vicente wants more for the centre andhe hopes in five years to be able to have the latest technology at the centre, as well as a zoological ambulance, capable of accelerating the emergency resolution process.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced on Wednesday that Iran will partially withdraw from the nuclear deal struck with the Obama administration in 2015 and threatened to increase uranium enrichment in 60 days if Europe does not meet Iranian demands.
In a televised address on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump withdrawing the United States from the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Rouhani said Iran will resume stockpiling uranium and heavy water instead of selling them to other countries as the agreement requires.
Recent U.S. sanctions made it more difficult for Iran to export enriched uranium to Russia, so it would have been necessary to reduce production to respect the limits on Iran’s inventory. The sanctions did not entirely prevent other countries from working with Iran’s civilian nuclear program, but they were designed to pressure Iran into reducing the amount of uranium it enriches.
Rouhani further threatened to resume enriching uranium beyond the level necessary for civilian nuclear power and resume construction on the Arak nuclear facility, shut down as part of the nuclear deal.
He claimed “hardliners” in the United States have “spared no effort since 2015 to undermine” the nuclear deal because it benefited “the interests of the region and the world, but not the enemies of Iran.”
Rouhani claimed these measures were “surgery” to “save” the JCPOA rather than destroying it.
“If the five countries join negotiations and help Iran to reach its benefits in the field of oil and banking, Iran will return to its commitments according to the nuclear deal,” he said.
The “five countries” he referred to were the other signatories to the JCPOA: Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia.
The Chinese and Russians require no inducements to take Iran’s side in the dispute – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to Rouhani’s announcement by claiming Iran’s action is an understandable response to “Washington’s irresponsible behavior” – so the goal is clearly to blackmail the Europeans into helping Iran evade the crushing pressure of U.S. sanctions.
The initial reaction from the Europeans was to insist Iran abide by all of its obligations under the JCPOA, ruling out the use of “partial withdrawal” as a pressure tactic.
“We do not want Tehran to announce tomorrow actions that would violate the nuclear agreement, because in this case we Europeans would be obliged to reimpose sanctions as per the terms of the agreement. We don’t want that and we hope that the Iranians will not make this decision,” a source within the French government told Voice of America News.
“We sent messages to Tehran to say that we were determined to implement the agreement, that we really wanted them to stay in this agreement even though we took into account the complexity of the situation and passed on the same messages to our American allies,” the source continued, anticipating a “collective European reaction” will be forthcoming.
French Defense Minister Florence Parly said the possibility of European sanctions on Iran “will be raised” if Tehran violates the JCPOA.
“Nothing would be worse than Iran leaving this deal,” Parly said, adding that European governments “absolutely want to keep this agreement alive.”
Parly’s remarks suggest the Europeans believe they can hold firm until Iran’s tantrum passes because they doubt Rouhani would take steps that decisively ended the JCPOA and brought European sanctions crashing down on a badly weakened Iranian economy. Europe may also find the timing of Rouhani’s demands awkward since Iran’s allies in Gaza just launched 700 rockets at Israeli civilians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms.
“This morning, on my way here, I heard that Iran intends to continue its nuclear program,” Netanyahu said at a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery. “We will not let Iran get nuclear weapons. We will continue to fight our enemies and will strike our roots even deeper in our homeland. That is what our heroes did at the dawn of the nations’ rebirth, and we march in their path.”
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U.S. Embassy, London
December 15, 2020
On Monday 14 December, Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson participated in a tree planting ceremony to support the revival of the American Garden in Peckham Rye Park.
The United States Embassy has provided a grant to purchase ten American trees, that will be planted as part of the revival project. Ambassador Johnson and Harriet Harman QC MP jointly planted a “Green Mountain” sugar maple tree.
Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson said:
“The American Garden in Peckham Rye Park is a living symbol of the Special Relationship.
The Embassy is very proud to be planting these American species of trees for everyone to enjoy.”
Harriet Harman QC MP said:
‘’The American Garden is a terrific new addition to Peckham Rye Park and I was delighted to join the tree planting ceremony in celebration.
My huge thanks go to Nancy Coleman-Frank and all the teams that made the creation of the American Garden possible.
Peckham Rye Park is a magnet for local people. They come to enjoy themselves outdoors, to exercise, to be with family & friends and to see the wonderful nature.
The whole community will get to enjoy the American Garden and the great thing about planting new trees is that they take a long term view so everyone will get to see them grow over the years to come.’’
Nancy Coleman-Frank, Chair, American Garden in Peckham Rye Park, said:
“The ‘new’ American Garden will be a major feature of Peckham Rye Park and a springboard for future outreach and educational projects. We are very honoured to have received a grant from the American Embassy. This grant contributes a vital part to the initial restoration of the Garden by providing those trees which will form the main structure of the planting beds.”
Cllr Catherine Rose, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Environment and Roads, said:
“It is a tremendous honour to welcome Ambassador Johnson to Peckham Rye Park and his warm recognition of all the efforts of everyone involved in the restoration of the American Garden.
The garden is a reminder of the power of people with a shared purpose, determination and ultimately of the benefits migration. Specimens of plants can be brought across the world and transplanted to new places, where they not only adapt but thrive to the different conditions. Trees and plants that we now consider so fundamental to English gardens and parks, such as rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias were introduced from America and at one time considered foreign. The garden speaks as loudly today as these exotic plants did to 18th Century botanists and to our Edwardian park builders. The garden is a beautiful and poignant reminder of America’s great strengths and our common and shared histories”
- United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Robert Wood Johnson
- The Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP: MP for Peckham and Camberwell, House of Commons
- Nancy Coleman-Frank: Chair, American Garden in Peckham Rye Park
- Councillor Catherine Rose: Southwark Council Cabinet Member for Leisure, Environment, and Roads
About the Trees
Trees paid for by the U.S. Embassy have been chosen from a list of those introduced to Britain by botanist Peter Collinson as part of his seed and plant exchange in the 1700s with American botanist John Bartram.
- Acer saccharum – “Green Mountain”, commonly known as the sugar maple tree. The tree is native to the northcentral and northeastern United States, from Minnesota to Maine and down to Virginia and Tennessee and is source of maple syrup.
- Magnolia acuminata – “Yellow Bird”, commonly known as a cucumber tree. It is native to eastern Northern America and often seen in the Appalachian Mountains.
- Cornus florida – The flowering dogwood, is one of the most beautiful eastern North American trees having showy white early spring flowers, which are followed by red fruit and scarlet autumn foliage.
- Betula nigra – River Birch is originally found along river banks of south eastern United States Its unique shaggy, ruffled bark displays an array of colours and makes for brilliant year round interest.
- Sassafras albidum – native to eastern America, is a deciduous tree with deeply fissured bark and glossy aromatic leaves which color well in autumn.
- Oxydendrum arboreum – also called the sourwood or sorrel tree, has grey bark which is deeply furrowed and scaly. In spring it is covered with lacy white flowers. Its autumnal coloring is particularly beautiful and brilliant
About The American Garden in Peckham Rye Park
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Dave Dodson, Houston, TX
Do you ever engage in discussions or debates on social media? Do you think that social media is useful to debate important topics?
In the last couple of months, it seems like there has been even more political news in front of us than usual. A presidential impeachment, Brexit in Europe, a cabinet shakeup in Russia – all of these events stacking on top of one another. Thanks to social media, we see much of these events as they happen. However, as technology improves, brand new problems are cropping up which we have to anticipate and deal with.
Boston University professor, Danielle Citron, is tackling one of these problems: the rise of “deepfake” video clips. Deepfake fraudsters will soon be able to create phony video clips using cutting edge audio and video technology to make it appear as if a leader or public figure said or did something horrifying, when in reality, the whole video is simply computer-generated imagery. These videos will be posted onto social media, and then be shared again and again by angry individuals who think the video is real.
To combat this, Citron has developed an Eight-Point Plan to combat the spread of deepfakes. She is confident that we will be able to use technology to detect deepfakes, which can then be targeted and taken down by social media platforms. But will this be enough?
Unfortunately, human nature might not make it this easy. Human beings are hampered by a psychological tendency called “confirmation bias”. To put it simply, we tend to dismiss information or sources which challenge our existing ideas. At the same time, we automatically believe anything that helps confirm what we already believe. We’re not very good at listening with an open mind. Instead, we often seem to just want to be proven right.
- When is it important to listen with an open mind?
- What could make it hard for us to listen to other people and perspectives?
Transfiguration of Our Lord
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In high school, one of my teachers gave us an important rule for our class debates: No one was allowed to raise their hand while another person was speaking. It was a wonderful rule, and the reason was simple. As our teacher pointed out, when you raise your hand, you have stopped listening. From that moment on, you are thinking about what you are going to say, not listening to the current speaker. In our Gospel lesson today, Peter has let his enthusiasm run away with him, and he has metaphorically raised his hand.
Our story takes place at the top of a mountain. Stories in the Bible that take place on top of mountains are momentous, holy experiences. For instance, God revealed himself to Moses and handed down the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Today’s story mirrors that experience.
In this story, Jesus and three of his closest disciples – Peter, James, and John – have gone off together to a “high mountain”. As they reach the top, an amazing transfiguration takes place. Jesus becomes radiant and shines with the glory of God. As this happens, two of the most important figures in the Hebrew scriptures appear. Moses represents the law and commandments, while Elijah represents the greatest of the prophets. In these two figures, the whole of the Old Testament is symbolized. In this vision, we see Jesus as the law and prophecies fulfilled.
It isn’t surprising, then, that Peter gets excited! He blurts out his idea to build special places for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah right then and there. You can imagine his surprise, then, to hear the voice of God booming down, telling him to be quiet and listen.
What did Peter do wrong? Aren’t we supposed to get excited and want to work for God?
The problem isn’t Peter’s enthusiasm. Instead, it’s the fact that Peter’s eagerness to do something was stopping him from experiencing what the moment truly was. Peter was so busy with planning his next moves that he failed to truly experience the magnificence of Jesus’ transfiguration. The voice of God had to remind him to be quiet, be still, and truly listen so that he could grow.
It is certainly possible that we do this today, even when we’re trying hard to be great followers of God. Do we get caught up in planning church events, youth gatherings, and even outreach programs? Do we work so hard on building our church that we sometimes forget to be still and listen? It is easy to get caught up in our excitement to serve God. Sometimes, like Peter, we need to be reminded to be quiet, be still, and bask in the presence of God’s love.
- Does your church have members who run systems like audio and visual technology during the service? Do you think that it’s challenging to do those things and still be in a worshipful frame of mind?
- Why do you think so many religions throughout the world, including ours, promote meditation and quiet reflection as an important spiritual practice?
One of the finest meditative practices in Christianity is the walking of the Labyrinth. Consider projecting a labyrinth onto a paved space, and then tracing it with sidewalk chalk. Walk the labyrinth as a group, and invite your congregation to use it as well! For a guide on walking the labyrinth, check out this fantastic source from Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church in Salem, Oregon: http://stmarksalem.org/about/labyrinth/
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for the love and excitement you inspire in us. We want so much to serve you and to work for the coming of your kingdom. We ask that you help us remember to stop and listen. Grant us the peace and patience to seek your voice in the stillness of our hearts. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen. | <urn:uuid:680fe6b0-8473-42b7-8f4b-04a416c794cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.elca.org/faithlens/7696-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952839 | 1,319 | 2.359375 | 2 |
You can use a garments rail to put your garments on. If you offer tailoring or clothing and squeezing services, you might need several places where all your garments can be placed. Closet rails are great for home and business. A basic garments rail has 2 legs with an even bar running across it. they can be made from wood or metal. You can choose from a variety of materials and have a range of ways to set them up. Most of the major rail models come with napkins that allow for simple development. They can be used in any corner of the room and then move on to the next. This is not the case with stationary models.
You might also find them foldable so that you can transport the entire thing from your house to your car. There are many styles of rails. For protection against dirt and residue, your garments can be made in either a round structure or a boxed-walled area. Some Cloth racks are available in a variety of heights, which allows for hanging space as well as racking for clothing. Garments rails are versatile and can be used anywhere. You can use apparel rails for more than just your closet. They can also be used to display your business’s dress collection. You can also dry your clothes outside, which will help you save money on service fees. To prevent rusting, you can use a dress rail made from treated metal. A wooden rack for clothes can also be used in a similar way.
These apparel racks are essential for displaying your products in retail locations or as a dress retailer. You can increase the number of items you are able to show in one rack by securing the rails to your store. The racks can be placed close enough to save space but still allow enough room for clients to peruse. Racks allow potential clients to peruse garments without having them wait for them to be able to collapse. For entrepreneurs with clothing shops, fitting shops, or other businesses that sell finished employments, rails are essential. If you are able to hang a few rails in a small shop or shop, you can show the most important part of your product. You can also fold it up and put it somewhere else when you are not using it. Clothes rails are better than clothing racks
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Lower Colorado River Authority reported that zebra mussels have been found in Lake LBJ. Though small, zebra mussels — pictured here in Lake Texoma — pose a significant problem in lakes and waterways by forming huge masses on structures, beaches, rocks, and even boat motors. Photo by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
The species was previously discovered in Lake Travis.
“It is disheartening to see zebra mussels spreading higher up the chain of the Highland Lakes in the Colorado River basin as only boats can move this invasive species upstream to uninvaded reservoirs and downstream dispersal is inevitable,” said Monica McGarrity, senior scientist for Aquatic Invasive Species Management at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “Zebra mussels haven’t yet been found in Lake Buchanan and Inks, upstream of Lake LBJ, but their introduction closer to these lakes reinforces how critical it is for boaters to take steps to prevent the spread.”
Officials anticipate zebra mussels will move downstream from Lake LBJ to Lake Marble Falls, where they’ve yet to be found.
On July 29, LCRA staff found about a dozen juvenile and adult zebra mussels near the Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant in Horseshoe Bay. Though the adults measure less than an inch, zebra mussels mass together to cause damage, including plugging pipes and water intakes.
Further surveys found juvenile and adult zebra mussels near Wirtz Dam, McNair Park, and Kingsland Community Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials stated that zebra mussel larvae were also found in plankton samples.
In June 2017, the LCRA and TPWD reported zebra mussels had been found in an “established, reproduction population” in Lake Travis.
As of August 2019, the parks department has reported that 17 Texas lakes in five river basins are infested with an established, reproducing population of zebra mussels.
“There is currently no effective way to selectively control or eliminate zebra mussels once they get established in a public lake,” said Mukhtar Farooqi, inland fisheries biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “This highlights the importance of Clean, Drain and Dry as our best line of defense for reducing the spread of zebra mussels to new lakes.”
In Texas, it is unlawful to possess or transport zebra mussels — dead or alive. Boaters are required to drain all water from their boat and onboard receptacles before leaving or approaching a body of fresh water to prevent the transfer of zebra mussels and other invasive species. This applies to all boats and watercraft, powered or not, and includes powerboats, personal watercraft such as Jet Skis, sailboats, kayaks, canoes, and any other vessel used on public waters.
Zebra mussels can harm aquatic species; cover rocks, beaches, and hard surfaces with sharp shells; clog water intakes; damage and increase the need for maintenance on facilities using raw surface water; and damage boats and motors left in infested waters.
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I have a simple circuit that is a battery operated rgb color switcher that runs on a PIC10F202; When the button is pressed, the single RGB LED changes to the next color in the sequence. When the battery is installed, the unit is on, and when the battery is removed the unit is off.
What I need is to have the code modified so that the uController behaves in the following manner:
1 Unit is off with battery installed
2 Button is pressed once
3 Unit turns on with last selected color illuminated
4 Successive button presses will cycle to the next color in the sequence (R->G->B->Y-C->M for example)
5 Unit will stay illuminated in the current selected color until,
6 Long press (2 seconds) will shut the unit off and save the last selected color in memory
7 Operation repeats as above
This may require some additional circuit design; the schematic is generally represented in the attached image.
This should be an extremely simple project, just need some assistance designing it.
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The aim of this study was to investigate some aspects of the performance of electrochemical process as an alternative disinfection strategy, while minimising DBPs, for water purification. The study of electrochemical processes has shown free chlorine to be produced, but smaller amounts of stronger oxidants, such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide and OH radicals (•OH), were also generated. The formation of mixed oxidants increased with increasing electric conductivity, but was limited at conductivities greater than 0.6 mS/cm. Using several microorganisms, such as E. coli and MS2 bacteriophage, inactivation kinetic studies were performed. With the exception of free chlorine, the role of mixed oxidants, especially OH radicals, was investigated for enhancement of the inactivation rate. Additionally, the formation and reduction of DBPs was studied by monitoring the concentration of haloacetic acids (HAAs) during the process. | <urn:uuid:cd34f35c-e761-4a0f-b4f3-575ac5157ce2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/control-of-disinfection-and-halogenated-disinfection-byproducts-b | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974913 | 186 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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Dothraki, the language spoken by the warrior tribe of Essos from the show “Game of Thrones,” borrows many of its components from Russian.
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Many people working out at a gym tend to find a partner to go with them, but it can put stress on a relationship. A partner may have the motivation necessary to goad the other into going on a regular basis, and they have achieved nothing it they do not go. Joining a group of friends for an active sport is a much better idea when it comes to getting some exercise because it is fun, provides movement for the body, and it can even tone up some muscles.
Volleyball has become a popular sport over the last few years, and it is one where movement is important. Muscle strength must be developed in the arms, legs and torso to be able to return the ball. Teams tend to be groups of friends, so the motivation to not let them down during a game is a good one for showing up, and the exercise will help keep a person in shape.
Water polo has come and gone as a fad over the years, but it is an excellent way to work out in a group. Teams are immersed in a pool, and they score goals in much the same way as other games. Getting past the other team takes determination and physical prowess, so this is an exercise that involves the entire body. Just one game can help keep muscles toned, and the players can burn considerable calories as they try to score.
There are many group games that involve a great deal of exercise, so looking into local sports is a good way to get exercise without spending hours in the gym with weights and treadmills. For those who want to be more active, finding a new group to join can help them achieve their exercise goals and have some fun along the way. | <urn:uuid:4971629a-057f-48ab-9cb6-a70c6f33a703> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.rowerworld.com/joining-a-fitness-group | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978083 | 343 | 2.125 | 2 |
According to a nationally representative poll conducted by Nézőpont Institute for Magyar Nemzet, Three-quarters of Hungarians (74 percent) believe that education about homosexuality in schools and kindergartens should be made dependent on parental permission.
It has received significant media resonance these days that the government is asking people for their opinions on the Child Protection Law not only within the framework of the National Consultation but also through a referendum. According to the latest survey by the Nézőpont Institute, the vast majority agree with the government’s position on the issue. 3 out of 4 Hungarian adult citizens (74 percent) are of the opinion that education about homosexuality in schools and kindergartens should be made dependent on parental permission. Only 1 in 5 people (20 percent) believe that it should not depend on parental permission, as it has been prevailing more and more through “sensitization programs” in Western Europe.
The topic of the government referendum may cause further worries on the left, since the majority of government-critical people were also in favour of parental permits (56 percent), with only a third standing for LGBTQ organizations. In addition to the overwhelming support for the pro-government camp (86 percent), two-thirds of those with unknown preferences also support the government’s view that parents should decide on what to teach to their children about homosexuality in public institutions. Based on the analysis of demographic groups, there are minimal differences. Two-thirds of young people and four-fifths of older people share the views of the governing parties, while 7 out of 10 in Budapest and 3 out of 4 in the countryside think that parents should decide on the issue. | <urn:uuid:b2dd0bde-4a8b-40ec-87f2-8d6e7f663740> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nezopont.hu/en/public-opinion-is-on-the-governments-side-regarding-the-referendum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959645 | 348 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Ebenezer Baptist Church was founded in 1886 and the congregation moved into what is known as the Heritage Sanctuary in 1922. It was in this sanctuary where the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther preached his message of nonviolence in the 1960s.
There are now two Ebenezers and they are directly across the street from one another at the Martin Luther King Jr.’s Historical Site.
The old church stands next to the MLK Center and Dr. and Mrs. King’s tombs. The Horizon Sanctuary, where worship takes place today, was dedicated in 1999 and is next door to the National Park Service Center. | <urn:uuid:525eb355-a116-45a8-91a7-d55c78031eaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bindutrips.com/poi/ebenezer-baptist-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.97573 | 128 | 2.25 | 2 |
Friday, 29 July 2022
Commonwealth, state, and territory agriculture ministers met virtually on Wednesday 20 July 2022 for a 'new look' Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting (AMM). It was the first AMM for 2022 and the first chaired by the Australian Government Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator the Hon Murray Watt.
Minister Watt welcomed new members and returning members.
Ministers welcomed the opportunity to work in a more collaborative and cooperative manner, and committed to meeting regularly to address the challenges of mutual concern facing Australian agriculture.
With new membership – and a different set of challenges since agriculture ministers last met – ministers took the opportunity to outline the priorities in each of their jurisdictions. Biosecurity, agricultural workforce issues and climate change are nationwide challenges that ministers agreed to tackle together.
Agriculture ministers acknowledged the seriousness of the biosecurity threats at Australia’s doorstep, recognising biosecurity is a shared responsibility between governments, industry and the community. Ministers acknowledged the significant work of all jurisdictions to prepare and respond to pest and disease threats including foot and mouth disease, lumpy skin disease, khapra beetle and African swine fever.
Dr Mark Schipp, the Australian Chief Veterinary Officer briefed ministers on biosecurity challenges and threats, particularly foot and mouth disease and lumpy skin disease.
Ministers acknowledged the dynamic biosecurity landscape and discussed the need to be prepared for a coordinated national response. Ministers agreed to work together to scope a national exercise to ensure Australia is as prepared as possible for a significant outbreak of foot and mouth disease and other priority pests and diseases. Ministers requested advice from officials as a priority, for further consideration of arrangements and scheduling.
Ministers also discussed a range of options to enhance public awareness and other efforts to support preparedness, including additional measures at the national border, Australia’s mRNA vaccine capability and the need for a coordinated approach to assess potential mitigation measures. Ministers tasked officials with preparing advice for future consideration as a priority.
Ministers also discussed Varroa mite, fruit fly and red imported fire ants. Ministers commended Minister Saunders on the NSW Government’s response to the Varroa mite incursion and acknowledged the cross-jurisdictional cooperation to date. Fruit fly will be further discussed by senior officials.
Agriculture ministers recognised the importance of livestock traceability for increasing preparedness for foot and mouth and other animal diseases, and to effective disease response. Ministers agreed in-principle to advance work on a national approach to Australia’s livestock traceability systems noting the urgent need for a national mandatory individual identification system for sheep and goats that is practical to implement, industry led and cost efficient (following Victoria’s earlier introduction of these arrangements). Officials have been tasked by ministers with further work on implementation options and funding arrangements – to be discussed between the Commonwealth, jurisdictions, and relevant industries, at the next AMM to be held in the coming weeks.
National Biosecurity Strategy
Ministers discussed and agreed in-principle to the draft National Biosecurity Strategy – the first for Australia. Ministers commended the collaborative effort by citizens, industry and community groups together with research bodies – including through a dedicated reference group – to get to this point. This strategy will offer a critical roadmap to build a stronger and better coordinated national system to deal with current and emerging pressures. The emergence of foot and mouth disease in our near neighbours, together with the incursion of Varroa mite in New South Wales, reaffirm this. Ministers noted the important role for all parties in guiding implementation of this strategy, and agreed to the development of an implementation plan to enable ongoing monitoring of progress against the strategy. Governments will work with key stakeholders to support its finalisation and formal launch in the near future.
Agriculture ministers agreed workforce shortages are one of the biggest issues facing agricultural industries. Ministers noted the need for collective action to ensure Australians are supported to undertake the necessary training and upskilling for careers in agriculture, businesses can access overseas workers where there is a genuine need, and robust protections are in place to protect vulnerable workers. Minister Watt noted the Australian Government’s election commitments to expand and improve the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme to ensure businesses can access workers, particularly for seasonal jobs, and that workforce issues will be discussed at the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit. Agriculture ministers agreed tackling workforce availability issues will be an ongoing priority for AMM, with senior officials to continue this work.
Ministers affirmed their strong commitment to action on climate change, and desire to show greater urgency pursuing opportunities and addressing the challenges Australian agriculture faces. Ministers noted that agriculture sectors have already been proactive in both adapting to climate change and playing their part in mitigating carbon emissions. Ministers acknowledged work under the existing work plan and thanked Minister Tierney for the Victorian Government’s leadership on agriculture and climate change. Ministers requested a rapid stocktake of actions already underway under the work plan, for assurance that the key challenges are being addressed and so opportunities can be fully recognised – with Victoria to progress this work with other jurisdictions as a priority.
Ministers reflected on the National Drought Agreement (NDA) and restated the importance of preparing for drought. Ministers noted the NDA is under review and indicated they look forward to considering the NDA review report shortly.
Agriculture ministers will next meet virtually in the coming weeks, with Ministers noting there may be a need to convene additional virtual meetings to progress the agreed actions.
Ministers anticipate meeting in person later in 2022, in Western Australia over 2 days. This will be the first in-person AMM since 21 February 2020.
- Australian Government (Chair): Senator the Hon Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- New South Wales: The Hon Dugald Saunders MP, Minister for Agriculture
- Victoria: The Hon Gayle Tierney MLC, Minister for Agriculture
- Queensland: The Hon Mark Furner MP, Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries
- Western Australia: The Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLC, Minister for Agriculture and Food
- South Australia: The Hon Clare Scriven MLC, Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Tasmania: The Hon Jo Palmer MLC, Minister for Primary Industries and Water
- Australian Capital Territory: Ms Rebecca Vassarotti MLA, Minister for the Environment
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Concerning the selinari monastery and her little church there is a legend that tells about a sheep shepherd who, during the Ottoman Turkish occupation, wanted to rest in a cave. There he found a very special icon of Agios Georgios. He took it to keep it in the first church he came across.
The next day, when the Shepard went back to the cave, he found another icon of Agios Georgios. When he took this icon to the same church his find of the previous day appeared to have disappeared. The icon had returned to the cave. The shepherd thought this was so special that he decided to leave the icon in the cave and built a church around it. | <urn:uuid:f9422236-f94c-4f79-9eab-401dc8f55bd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://routaki.com/selinari-monastery-legend-icon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.98947 | 139 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, burning with the dream of reaching Mars, shared new details about the company’s rockets. According to Musk, the cost of rockets is considerably lower than the rockets NASA uses for the same missions. In addition, rockets can be used multiple times.
It’s been on our agenda for a while. SpaceX, had put together the Starship rocket and Super Heavy launch unit for some tests last week. Together 120 meters The duo, who reached the length of time, took the ‘longest rocket in the world’ record from NASA’s rocket. Now about the exciting Starship. Elon Musk’s We are here with the details he shared on social media.
According to the information given by Musk about this rocket, which is aimed to provide the transportation of people between Earth and Mars, the rockets are quite affordable compared to other rockets used in the same area. Besides that they can be reusedtakes this affordability to even higher levels.
As long as it’s reused, Starship will be incredibly affordable:
Musk, who came to him on Twitter,Starship cost‘ while answering the question about Starship’s reusability standing on it. They say Starship will be incredibly affordable for earth orbit and lunar missions.
But when it comes to Mars, things get tough, according to Musk. This is Earth and Mars every 26 months due to the same alignment.
If we look at how much is saved with Starship rockets, I’ll tell NASA at this point. will question life We encounter such values. Because if what Musk says is true, the cost of Starship is NASA’s only 1.3 percent of what he spends on the same tasks will coincide. Earlier, Elon Musk said that the running costs could be about $ 2 million, then added that this is less than the cost of even a small rocket.
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Starship, where there is no clear information about its functionality because it has not yet gone to its main tasks, seems to make everyone’s work easier in this area if it is successful. | <urn:uuid:1d1816b2-3e12-4b34-b220-ab86d9556bb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://no1geekfun.com/elon-musk-provides-details-about-starship-rockets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948167 | 470 | 2.265625 | 2 |
As one of the new energy vehicle technology routes, hydrogen fuel power battery cars have triggered a global scale.. It is well known that in recent years, my country has made some progress in hydrogen fuel power batteries, then what is the results of the hydrogen fuel power batteries in the same period, the United States, Germany, Japan, and Korean? What new plans? At relevant meetings, relevant people from multiple countries have shared the above aspects.
The following is a key remittance, for the industry reference! (According to the live speech record Energy, although it has just become the world’s largest natural gas and oil producer, we are currently exporting to 35 countries, five continents, we have actually imported exporting countries in the past 60 years, but you can also see We are actually very concerned about the strategy of developing energy, renewable energy accounts for 11% of all our consumer energy, so that hydrogen is indeed an important part of the energy combination, we can use themselves in China. We can produce themselves, we can also use in multiple fields..
In addition, today I want to introduce you to the four key information. The first information is a very superior development of our US, the last time I came to my country to be a year ago, from that time until now, we The energy of more than 650 MW fuel power batteries has been transported globally, and 70,000 fuel power batteries are delivered globally, as well as the $ 2 billion fuel power battery, so we have a total of The energy of more than 100 MW a year is sold globally, most of which is applied in the transportation industry..
In the United States, we now have 5,600 commercial fuel power batteries, or they are either leased or sold out, this number is much more than any other country.. And at the same time, we now have more than 20,000 forklifts, all of the fuel power battery, like some important companies to use fuel power battery forklift.
There are more than 13 million hydrogen stations, which are important for the forklift industry. We now have two projects and fedex, they will constantly expand our mileage, and we have 350,000 fuel bus..
We have a lot of funds in many continents in the industry, about $ 180 million in fuel power battery infrastructure investment. Klausbonhoff, president of Germany, Germany, Hydrogens: We see that the industry is indeed with this technology, the first round, the second round, the third round, and now it has reached the fourth round of company joint ventures. Common investment, we are now accelerating the development of the market, and also protecting the technical leadership of Germany in this area.
It doesn’t mean that we are doing the best, but when talking to a hydrogen fuel power battery, When the infrastructure technology, when we talk about the vehicle dynamic system, we are indeed a leader.. Then now the government is still supporting, has reached the second stage, in addition to research and development, of course research and development in the value chain is very critical, and we are also supporting some activities launched in the market, such as hydrogen like transportation industry , Renewable energy to produce hydrogen these projects, and still have a static fuel power battery project.
From 2007 to 2016, this industry they are willing to spend 2 billion euros in these projects, and the government’s funding has reached 1.4 billion euros, which is very meaningful event..
We can actively promote the development of the hydrogen-fuel power battery market, then we can certainly take a closer look at the transportation industry, we have two guidance in funding, one is R & D, one is a market launched project. In terms of research and development, we are important to pay attention to vehicles, and there are electric stacks..
The electric stack of the hydrogen fuel power battery, and the total function is also a reduction in the large-scale production period, and the production of production. This is very important for our strategic planning, we hope to follow the pace of South Korea, Japan, my country..
Therefore, we feel that it is a very important point to our industry to maintain development.. We understand that many countries in Asia have active initiatives in this regard, then we see a lot of German car dealers, such as Mercedes-Benz, etc.
also cooperate with the government to launch the corresponding model.. R & D and market activation, this is very attached to the two pillars, which shows the fuel power battery car, its complementarity, then we have always emphasized that we have always emphasized that we are not only in terms of vehicles.
Also constantly improve. To help the popularity of hydrogen-powered battery cars, the government is also planning, and in Germany to improve the infrastructure of hydrogen, this is one of our business, under the framework of the EU, is also our mission. one.
In 2016, we have built 50 hydrogen supplements, hoping to have entered 100 in 2020, before 2025, to 400 hydrogen stations, this is the official data submitted by the EU Commission, then we Industry, once again, it is also a support for the government. It is widely established these infrastructure. Everyone understands the company to create a company to operate these hydrogenation stations, not light in Germany, but it is important to operate these hydrogen stations in Germany.
. So now we have 52 hydrogen stations. We also launched the app, then look at the future, these blue dots are all popularized to 100 hydrogen stations, and they have reached such a figures before 2020.
At that time we will also From the south of Germany to the north, the east to the west, where you can see the Hydrogen station, one starting this is a company’s joint venture, and I saw the government’s positive driving of the private company, the infrastructure is constantly Perfect. Japan’s new energy industry technology comprehensive development agency (NEDO) Hydrogen energy division researcher Eijiohira: In order to promote hydrogen energy development, the Japanese government has introduced hydrogen national strategy, setting up a 2050 vision, is 50 years of hydrogen development Choose, this is a basic strategy, I hope that by hydrogen can have substantially replaced oil and gas and traditional fossil fuels before 2050, and we are more mid-term goals like 2030, for example, our hydrogen The amount reaches 300,000 tons, then the cost reaches 3 USD and one kilogram, etc. These indicators.
We have just heard of some international cooperation in hydrogen energy development. In fact, Japan also holds a full-length meeting in hydrogen energy, which is the meeting that has just ended yesterday, and we have many countries have many regions. International organizations, as well as global multinational companies to participate in this meeting, then in this conference process, the conference representative explored the hydrogen, everyone’s vision hoping to build hydrogen to create a more sustainable society.
. This conference has reached a consensus, which is to promote cooperation between the international, we must unity, standard unity, standards in regulations, and promote the sharing of information between countries and countries, including joint research and development, especially Hydrogen safety and infrastructure supply chain, while strengthening publicity education, while including some improvement potential for carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutions, hydrogen alternatives can bring. We have launched an Ene-FARM to make power generation and heat, and then the entire conversion efficiency has reached more than 90%, and our project is also constantly expanding in the past years, and then this project is also a lot of collection.
family. This is the development of Hydrogenstones. We are still a little backward in the United States.
Now you have a total of 2,700 fuel power battery vehicles on our road. This map is fully demonstrated with hydrogenated infrastructure network. The distribution of Japan has reached 150 tons last year.
In 2017, it is very important to promote hydrogen energy in Hydrogen, and a company is definitely can’t be done, so we see that the vehicle is still There are energy companies, etc. also form alliances, to promote the Hydrogen station in Japan, you can see these companies’ logo, of course, the project objective of this network is to reduce the cost of hydrogenation, expand hydrogen Fuel accessibility. Look at what activities do you have to promote hydrogen? This is a funding situation of Japan’s related activities related to hydrogen energy, and the total funding of the total funding is about $ 260 million this year, and then 40% is important to support subsidizes hydrogenation station, 15% R & D through METIS.
The 3 billion yen is important to support the use of a hydrogen fuel vehicle and there are also many funds for promoting static fuel power batteries.. This is a very clear goal of our R & D market.
Of course, our hydrogen stop is very important, but in 2025, our goal is that the hydrogenation cost of the hydrogen station can fall half.. In the future, improve the durability of technical materials, R & D is also very important.
Of course, our importance in this regard is the company’s efforts, our government is also supporting a lot of institutions and organizations, in this regard.. Then we are now in this commercial car, about 50,000 hours from the previous 5,000 hours of life, such as this is an indicator, and we have 2040-22050, in fact, Comprehensive indicator requirements, some goals, this is the standard set for our research and development.
This technology regarding the PEFC of the transportation industry is the first is the endless mileage. We have a target of more than 1,000 kilometers. The power density of the electric stack is 9 kilowatts per liter.
This is 3 times the current level, then there are other Technical indicators, of course, this is a very huge challenge, we don’t know how to achieve this goal, we welcome everyone to carry out this development in the future.. There is also how to improve the demand for hydrogen, we now also hope to develop the application of hydrogen turbine, and one is to improve the supply chain of large-scale hydrogen, and how to improve between electricity to gas System technology? Improve electrolysis technology, etc.
, it is also our focus, and one has just said that it is a hydrogen gas turbine. Now, how is our challenge to control the temper, reach low nitrogen oxide emissions, now we are also developing new The nozzle, the new burner to cooperate with the good combustion of hydrogen, this is the first project in the world, which is a turbine using hydrogen gas to carry out the electric cogeneration, this total dress capacity is 1 MW, the whole The system is 100% hydrogen driven. This is our efforts for hydrogen supply chain optimization, such as the transportation of long-distance hydrogen, we can transport through long-distance liquefied hydrogen, through vessel, can also transfer hydrogen hydrogens.
This is our electricity to the gas, solar energy can supply a large number of hydrogen, which can support the use of thousands of hydrogen fuel power battery vehicles.. Then through this hopes in 2020, we also expected the Olympic supply hydrogen supply energy to Tokyo.
. Jeahangshin, Director of South Korea, Hydrogen Period: In last year, South Korea’s hydrogen fuel power battery production is a total of 19,000 tons, then there are many of them include the processing of refining, and some other methods, exterior Cycle reaches 250,000 tons. In addition, we have also established 15 hydrogenation stations, 9 of which come from private sectors, and some other planned this year, this year, the construction of 15 hydrogen stations at the end of the year, so we currently go to eight this year.
Month, there are 422 fuel-powered batteries, and in addition, there will be a fuel power battery bus from Seoul next year.. In addition, we can also use other fields.
In next year, we will invest more applications. We currently have 47 fuel power battery power stations, and its energy is 380 megawatts..
We also have some other projects, including some display, some hydrogen shipping projects have started this year, and we will have some corresponding display projects next year.. Let’s take a look at the current situation of Korean fuel power cells, corresponding policies, in 2007, South Korea established a hydrogen fuel association, and we have also begun to build some planning to continue promoting, and the implementation of hydrogen economy is also more interesting, that is, electric The car is constantly changing, then this, this hydrogen economy will be pushed, and we have established some industrial goals, 15,000 fuel power batteries, more than 300 Hydrogen stations planned to be established in 2022, which is planning and planning on fuel power battery industries.
This is the strong support and commitment of the Korean government.. In 2017, the Korean government has also recommended that the hydrogen product has been launched and popularized.
About our hydrogen generation and use establishing the corresponding standards, this year we also announced some strategies about innovation, and in Korea Inside the economy, hydrogen economy is also an important field of investment strategy, to increase innovation and rise, and additionally, hydrogen production is also hydrogen transport, and the like.. The Korean government also hopes to be able to launch a transformation, hoping to establish such an energy transformation with environmentally friendly, including energy security, and the future industry can become more smooth, to promote the economy of hydrogen.
This is also a short-term plan, so that it is until this year, the government planning is to establish a framework for such agencies. For example, we will establish some of the long-term road maps, and our hydrogen economy legislation, also established Got up. Of course, there is also a basic planning of the country.
In addition, the government hopes to support 726 hydrogen fuel vehicles, and 10 HRS development, the establishment of HRS, and next year. South Korea’s government will build 20 fuel bus, and will be newly deployed for 2,000 hydrogen fuel vehicles..
In a medium long term, the government will make some efforts to improve the technology. It is important to promote environmental protection technology, such as a large number of production of hydrogen-fuel power cells, in the transportation industry, government tried to go Ensure a cooperative network, to give us the country to supply hydrogen in a reasonable price, then develop some highly efficient transportation techniques and demonstration projects, combined with hydrogen, the government will also improve the hydrogenation device, Then optimize the development of this hydrogen-fuel power battery car, promoted to the use of railway, vessels, buildings, electricity, etc., the use of fuel power batteries.
Then some key projects, the government hopes to promote demonstration projects, research and development demonstration projects, it is important to focus on original technologies, including green, and low-carbon hydrogen production, including the aqueous bases and some efficient technology development , Liquefaction like hydrogen like methane. At the same time, the government has also established a long-term plan. Next year, the government will also conduct feasibility research on long-term planning, trying to establish a more complete, hydrogen industry infrastructure in China.
. Tell the establishment of hydrogen base, government planning to establish a base of hydrogen production, 30 production bases. It is important to establish such a production base to establish such a production base.
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A priest hunter was a person who, acting on behalf of the English and later British government, spied on or captured Roman Catholic priests during Penal Times. Priest hunters were effectively bounty hunters. Some were volunteers, experienced soldiers or former spies.
As the Catholic bishops during the reign of Queen Mary were dead, imprisoned or in exile, and those priests they had ordained were dying out or converting to Protestantism, William Allen conceived the idea for a seminary for English Catholic priests at Douai, where several of the chief posts were held by professors who had fled Oxford upon the reimposition of Protestantism in England. The English College at Douai was founded as a Catholic seminary in 1569. Similar colleges also came about at Douai for Scottish and Irish Catholic clergy, and also Benedictine, Franciscan and Jesuit houses. Other English seminaries for the training of priests from and for England and Wales included ones in Rome (1579), Valladolid (1589), Seville (1592) and Lisbon (1628).
Elizabeth I reinstated the Protestant bible and English Mass, yet for a number of years she refrained from persecuting Catholics. After the Rising of the North of 1569 and the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis (1570), plus the threat of invasion by Catholic France or Spain assisted by English Catholics led the Crown to adopt ever increasing repressive measures.
An act of 1571 (13 Eliz. c. 2) not only forbade the publishing of any documents from the Pope, but also the importation and distribution of crosses, beads, pictures, and tokens called "Agnus Dei" (a Lamb of God sealed upon a piece of wax from the Paschal candle blessed by the Pope). From the 1570s missionary priests from continental seminaries came to England secretly. In the autumn of 1577, Queen Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, Francis Walsingham canvassed the Anglican bishops for a list of recusants in their dioceses and how much each was worth. Cuthbert Mayne (1544–1577) was the first English Roman Catholic "seminary priest" to be executed under the laws of Elizabeth I.
The Religion Act 1580 (23 Eliz.1 c. 1) fined and imprisoned those who celebrated the Mass or attended a Mass. The Jesuits, etc. Act 1584 (27 Eliz.1, c. 2) commanded all Roman Catholic priests to leave the country in forty days or be punished for high treason unless, within the 40 days, they swore an oath to obey the Queen. Those who harboured them, and all those who knew of their presence and failed to inform the authorities would be fined and imprisoned for felony. It also provided an incentive to informers by according them one-third of any forfeitures.
This was followed by another in 1585 (27 Eliz. c. 2) that declared that anyone ordained a priest outside the Queen's dominions who then came into the country was deemed a traitor, and anyone harboring them, a felon. Nicholas Woodfen (Devereux) and Edward Stransham, who had both studied at the English College, Douai were executed at Tyburn on 21 January 1586.
One of the most infamous priesthunters of Elizabeth's reign was Sir Richard Topcliffe, who delighted in personally torturing and playing mind games with the priests whom he apprehended. Described by Father John Gerard as "old and hoary and a veteran in evil," Topcliffe ultimately fell from favor with the Queen and was imprisoned very soon after his role in the arrest, trial, and execution of the underground priest and secret poet, Fr. Robert Southwell, S.J.
Walsingham tracked down Catholic priests in England and supposed conspirators by employing informers and intercepting correspondence. Shortly before setting off for England, Edmund Campion learned that a letter detailing their party and mission had been intercepted and that they were expected in England. It was a common practice for a spy to pose as a Catholic and engage a suspect in conversation in the hope of eliciting an incriminating statement. This technique led to the arrest and execution of Richard Simpson in 1588.
Apostate Catholics and former priests and seminarians were particularly helpful in this regard. A London priest hunter named Sledd had been a servant to Dr. Nicholas Morton at the English College in Rome. After George Haydock had been betrayed to Sledd by one of Haydock's old acquaintances, Sledd went to the house where Haydock took his meals, and recognized the priest Arthur Pitts and law-student William Jenneson.
In early July 1581, John Payne, while staying on the estate of Lady Petre in Warwickshire, was denounced by informer George Eliot, a spy in the employ of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. Eliot became a spy, agreeing to seek out recusant Catholics, in order to avoid a pending murder charge. He had insinuated himself into a position in the Petre household where he then proceeded to embezzle sums of money.
Eliot followed that success shortly thereafter with the capture of Edmund Campion, who had arrived in London on 24 June 1580 disguised as a jewel merchant. Eliot used his past experience working in a Catholic household to gain admittance to a Mass Campion was saying at Lyford Grange in Oxfordshire. Elliot then returned with an armed company and searched the house until they discovered the priest hole where Campion and two associates were hiding.
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They used a number of informants within Catholic communities. Starting in the 1640s, James Wadsworth, Francis Newton, Thomas Mayo, and Robert de Luke formed a partnership to hunt down Roman Catholics in the London area and handed them over to the authorities for a reward. Between November 1640 and summer 1651 over fifty individuals were turned over to the government. Some were executed, some banished, and some reprieved.
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A 1709 Penal Act demanded that Catholic priests take the Oath of Abjuration, and recognise the Protestant Queen Anne as Supreme Head of the Church of England and, by implication, in Ireland. Priests who refused to conform were arrested and executed. This activity, along with the deportation of priests who did conform, was a documented attempt to cause the Catholic clergy to die out in Ireland within a generation. Priests had to register with the local magistrates to be allowed to preach, and most did so. Bishops were not able to register.
The reward rates for capture varied from £50–100 for a bishop, to £10–20 for the capture of an unregistered priest; substantial amounts of money at the time. The work was dangerous, and some priests fought in self-defence.
The hunters were outcasts in their communities, and were viewed as the most despised class. Often when someone arrested or killed a priest, local rapparees would retaliate by assassinating a British soldier or even the priest hunter. If they could not kill the priest hunter, local Irish Catholics even would seek revenge by burning down his house and farmyard. The risks were the same for known informants.
The Penal law imposed outlawry upon the remaining clerics, and they were forced to say Mass in secret, and in remote locations. High risk worship at Mass rocks became common. The attending priest would usually wear a veil, so that if an attendee was questioned, they were able to say truthfully that they did not know who had said the Mass.
The distribution of Priest hunters was uneven; some local police forces chose to overlook both the presence of priests and their activity at Mass rocks.
Around 1680, persecution of Catholics heated up in reaction to Titus Oates' claims of a non-existent Catholic conspiracy aimed at assassinating King Charles II of England and massacring the Protestants of the British Isles. As a result, a Roman Catholic priest named Fr. Mac Aidghalle was murdered while saying mass at a mass rock that still stands atop Slieve Gullion, in County Armagh. The perpetrators were a company of redcoats under the command of a priest hunter named Turner. Redmond O'Hanlon, the de facto Chief of the Name of Clan O'Hanlon and leading local rapparee, is said in local tradition to have avenged the murdered priest and in so doing to have sealed his own fate.
Perhaps the most notorious was John O'Mullowny of Ballyheane, in County Mayo, an alcoholic and horse thief who took up the profession in return for a pardon from the hangman's noose, c. 1715. In 1726, he was killed by a priest he was pursuing, and his body was thrown in a lake, before later being recovered and buried.
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Matty has everything going for him - a loving family, great friends, great skills on the soccer field and pretty good grades at school - which should add up to a great life right? Well they did, until recently. When soccer season started this year Matty found he couldn't get himself onto the pitch without sweaty palms, a racing heartbeat and a mind that kept telling him he wasn't good enough. And he couldn't figure out why. Things got worse when he began dodging his friends calls and texts, missing birthday parties, not doing homework and avoiding school. He felt guilty, scared, angry and sad with himself, and all he really wanted to do was sleep the world away. But one morning his dad convinced him to go for a walk in the local national park where they came across an abandoned dog. Matty felt an instant connection to this small, frightened creature. After coaxing him into their car, taking him to the vet and eventually being allowed to adopt him and bring him home, 'Cliff' and Matty become inseparable. Cliff has 'good days and bad days', and as the dog begins to heal, Matty realises that he needs help to heal too. He summons up all his courage to eventually tell his dad that he thinks he might be depressed, to which his dad replies 'You've no idea how brave you're being by telling me that.' This is one of my favourite moments of the book. Kate Foster writes with such clarity, compassion and understanding about Matty's struggles. There is a beautiful empathy and strength that shines through in this story, and the relief Matty feels after he finally tells his closest friends about his depression is palpable. As is the surprise when he discovers that someone else his own age, whom he would never have suspected, is suffering from severe anxiety. This is my other favourite moment in the book as it is Matty's realisation that he is not alone.
Animals, especially dogs (sorry but I'm totally biased about this!) are the perfect listeners and companions for when we're not feeling great. They know when we need a snuggle and will goof around with us when we're happy. They are like mirrors into our souls, emotional soothsayers, and seem to have an innate understanding of exactly what we need at any given time. Cliff was Matty's ideal companion.
Kate's own experience with depression has no doubt given her an invaluable, first hand insight into this illness. Her writing is filled with emotion, and the story is meaningful and transparent without being patronising or reductive. This is an important, must have, highly recommended novel for upper primary and middle school.
Matty is not alone as a young man suffering with depression as, according to the Beyond Blue organisation, one in seven young men aged between 16 and 24 experience depression or anxiety each year. If you are suffering from mental health issues you can contact Headspace, Kids Helpine or Reachout.
Themes for teaching could include mental health, depression, anxiety, friendship, courage, self awareness, dogs, pets as therapy, families and father-son relationships.
Find out more about Kate Foster.
Release date May 4, 2022. Published by Walker Books Australia
ISBN: 9781760654719 (PB)
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Much of the rocks of Kilim is made up of the Setul Formation, the oldest carbonate rock in the region, formed 490-370 million years ago.
The prominent features of the Kilim area are karst hills with vertical and overhanging cliffs, exposed bare rocks, islands and caves. Different landforms indictae different stages of karst development. As to special forest types, Kilim is home to the country’s only mangrove ecosystem on a limestone substratum.
From the Ordovician to Permian period, this area was under a marine neritic environment, depositing predominantly carbonate particles with little amount of detrital particles, which have now become limestone, sandstone and shale. After being exposed to the surface due to the movement in the earth’s crust (tectonic uplifting), the rocks had been shaped through prolonged dissolution and erosion by ground water, surface runoff and wave actions, forming the present day karst landform. These landforms are of great value for scientific study.
A geologically older area like Langkawi has greater rock diversity because it has gone through many geological processes over a long time. The most common is limestone which is hard, thickly layered, and is made up wholly of carbonate materials.
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Make Their Hearts Sing
Too often, we hear that we have to use the latest in marketing research, cheap advertising tricks, and other forms of consumer manipulation in order to effect change. But the changes being effected by such methods are generally skin deep. If we want to move people to real and permanent effect, the models we should seek are models from storytelling, from art, from the great social justice movements of history, and even... from a beautiful song.
This is not just the sentiment of a lover of music (which I am). There is actually an established science to the question of, What makes a great song? And many of the elements of a memorable song are also elements of an inspirational campaign. Powerful contrasts between highs and lows. (The message must be as accusatory of the target, as it is supportive of allies). Tension built up through anticipation. (Build up momentum and interest through small steps, that culminate in powerful actions.) The energizing effects of surprise. (Catch the target, and public, off guard.) And dissonance caused by conflict. (Dramatize the issue by creating a good v. evil dynamic.)These are the elements that move us, in song, and they are the elements that move us to action, in campaigns, too.
So when someone asks us, what are you trying to achieve? Don't answer with dollars and cents, or supply and demand. Don't talk of advertising research and consumer marketing tricks. Answer, quite simply, that our goal is to make the people's hearts sing, with a new sort of song. A song for the liberation of all animals. | <urn:uuid:744cc1bb-4262-48de-893e-b6d861bf7a08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2013-9-22-make-their-hearts-sing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960565 | 333 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Global Musics, Local Connections
Global Musics – Local Connections involves two knowledge-exchange events in Canada: in Sydney, Nova Scotia and Edmonton, Alberta. The first, in Sydney, will be held in conjunction with Celtic Colours International Festival 2016 – with community events, learning opportunities, workshops, film screenings, exhibitions, the creation of new performance works, and scholarly presentations – and will involve the creation of digital media for educational and research purposes, and publications. The second, in Edmonton will explore Music for Human Global Development and will include distinguished speakers, artists, students, faculty and community members.
As part of this project, an international interdisciplinary symposium will be held in Sydney Nova Scotia, Canada from October 6-9th 2016, hosted by CBU. This conference is the 5th International Symposium of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology and will welcome scholars and music makers from around the world. Global Musics – Local Connections is grateful for the partnership of the ICTM’s Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology and the opportunity to welcome these delegates to Sydney!
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Salem water crisis: What if you drink the tap water during the advisory?
Salem's water remained unsafe for young children and some adults to drink Thursday after new test results found toxins remain in the city's tap water.
The advisory does not apply to everyone. Here's what you need to know about the advisory, who is at risk and how to spot symptoms in case of emergency.
Who is at risk during Salem's water emergency?
Healthy adults are not at risk. Children younger than 6, people with compromised immune systems, people receiving dialysis treatment, people with pre-existing liver conditions, pets, pregnant women or nursing mothers, or other sensitive people should not drink the water.
Why the water is dangerous and symptoms to look out for:
If you drink the water you may consume cyanobacteria, a common bacterium that can produce a natural poison called cyanotoxins. In mammals like humans, exposure to cyanotoxins can cause allergic reactions, respiratory issues, and severe illnesses like liver and kidney damage. With extreme exposure, symptoms may include organ failure, paralysis, and even death.
The level of toxins are not considered dangerous for most adults.
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When bottled water is your best friend:
Since boiling water and most filtration and purifier systems won't entirely remove the toxins, officials recommend vulnerable populations avoid drinking the city water until the advisory has been lifted. In addition to children under age 6, these vulnerable populations include dialysis patients and nursing mothers.
Nursing mothers and pregnant women are advised to stick to bottled water.
Can I use tap water for cleaning purposes?
The water is fine for daily tasks like washing hands, bathing, cleaning dishes and laundry, and flushing toilets. David Farrer, a public health toxicologist with the Oregon Health Authority, said these toxins are not absorbed through the skin - the harm is caused when they are ingested. He added that a small amount of tap water consumed while washing your face is harmless. But health officials recommend monitoring infants and young kids while bathing and doing other tap water-related activities to prevent them from drinking the water.
How Salem hospitals are reacting
The Oregon Health Authority has advised Salem hospitals against using the tainted tap water, providing this guidance: "At drinking water advisory levels, hospitals should not use tap water for patient care that includes washing open wounds or exposed tissues unless the water has been treated at the facility to remove cyanotoxins. Hospitals that pre-treat water from the local public water supply using reverse osmosis, nanofiltration or continuous disinfection with chlorine as per recommended treatment specifications may continue to use the water for patient care."
Salem water update:Health authority tells area hospitals what to do about tainted water
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You can do a lot of soul-searching to discover what motivates you most. Or you can simply access all the wonderful motivation material you find around you. Use your intuition to assess whether something inspires you or makes you want to go back to bed.
Turn your Monday into your source of motivation to maintain your focus for the rest of the week. If you find it difficult to remain consistent, even after a great start to the week, here are some great tips to take on each day of the week like a champ.
Choose a motivational quote to take you through the day. That quote has the power to increase your daily motivation and to move you closer towards your goals. You’ll have a much easier time staying focused throughout your weekly schedule if you have a variety of quotes to live by each day.
Tuesday is often considered a great day for work. Even though the week is just getting started, you’ve made it through Monday. You aren’t necessarily too concerned about the weekend, and you’re still relatively fresh from your days of relaxation and comfort. This can go a long way in helping you stay more focused and committed to the tasks ahead.
For Wednesday motivation, humor is the best kind of motivation Motivation should be about making the day fun, you can enjoy your entire Wednesday from start to finish. By the time you get into bed, you’ll most likely be feeling relieved knowing that you’re halfway done with your week and the weekend is well on its way.
Thursdays may feel longer than most days, which can make it difficult to stay driven on your tasks and responsibilities. In order to help de-stress and stay calm, try listening to some gentle motivational music, reading a chapter from an inspirational novel. It’s very important to stay relaxed, so try not to overwork yourself. Remember, the weekend is right around the corner.
You’re probably trying to get everything done with your job before the week is out. At the same time, you’re beginning to feel festive about the approaching time off. You can use this by tapping into your sources of motivation to finish your Friday well.
Use your mood to make work more enjoyable, you’ll have more energy to quickly complete your tasks and meet your goals for the week.
If Saturday is your first full day off for the weekend, you may have conflicting feelings about it. Different goals may come to mind, and you’re going to have to decide which ones are a top priority. You’re probably going to feel tired or stressed from your week, so relaxation is going to sound like a great idea.
Saturday might also be the only day when you can do household chores, errands, or socializing.
To make the most of your Saturday, start the day with goal-setting. Decide what you’re going to do with the time you have off and get started right away.
If you get all your boring chores done first, you have the whole rest of your day to relax, go out, or do whatever makes you happy!
Sunday is a day for time away from work and religious activities. You may get up early and attend services, church events, or community activities.
No matter how you spend your day, take some time for reflection. Consider how your plans are shaping up. Think about what you want out of your Sundays and every day for the following week. Then take some time to simply enjoy the day in comfort.
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CloudVue allows radiologists and other healthcare professionals to access, view, and share photorealistic cinematic rendered medical images in the cloud using any device. It does not require any on-premises back-end servers, according to the company.
Using IMS' CloudVue viewer for mobile 3D with cinematic rendering, physicians can use both views to determine the procedure's efficacy. One can see the stent placement in both environments, and mobile 3D with cinematic rendering. The surgical team is using these images to determine the outcome of this patient's procedure. Image courtesy of IMS.
The company notes that the software only requires one central processing unit (CPU) core to support up to 30 users to view high-quality cinematic image renderings with the same performance as a back-end server.
What's more, clinicians can access cinematic-rendered images in the cloud on any device (desktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet) with no cloud latency or app installs required.
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We all want to feel safe and secure in our homes, but there are certain threats that we should all be aware of. Radon is one of them, and perhaps one that should get a good deal of our concern indeed. After all, radon levels that meet or exceed the action levels that have been set up by the EPA are more common than many realize, with data gathered on the subject showing that up to one fifteenth of all homes in this one country alone have radon levels meeting the above. And in some parts of the country, radon in homes at such levels is even more commonplace. Up to seven surveyed states and Native American reservations were found to have up to one third of homes at high radon levels. There is no doubting the fact that this data is troubling indeed.
But why, exactly, is it troubling? What is the issue with radon that makes knowing the radon levels in your own home so very crucial? Simply put, radon is a gas that is HUGELY detrimental to your health, as it can lead to a number of different serious health concerns. Of these health concerns, lung cancer is by and large one of the worst things radon can lead to. Getting a lung cancer diagnosis is all too often devastating, as many cases of lung cancer will not be diagnosed until the cancer has advanced considerably, thanks to the way that the disease presents its symptoms.
And lung cancer develops all too often because of radon exposure. As a matter of fact, only tobacco use causes more cases of lung cancer, meaning that radon is the second leading cause of this all too devastating illness here in the United States. In just one single year in this one country alone, as many as 20,000 people will die not just of lung cancer, but of lung cancer that has been caused by radon exposure. Therefore, radon presents a very real threat to you if you do not know the radon levels in your own home, as radon is not able to be detected without professional detection methods.
Fortunately, a radon testing contractor is relatively easy to hire no matter where you are located in the country. A radon testing contract will be able to perform radon testing throughout your home, typically using a short term radon detector, which will last for around three months (90 days, to be just a bit more precise). In addition to this, a radon testing contractor will also be able to utilize a long term radon detector for more than than 90 day period, should one be necessitated.
And a radon testing contract is easy to find, so long as there is a radon testing company in your area (as there more likely than not will be). A radon testing contractor can determine whether or not radon levels are safe within your home, and said radon testing contractor can also refer you to radon mitigation and abatement companies if the radon levels are deemed to be too high for human safety. And radon abatement services, as any radon testing contractor can tell you, can certainly be quite effective indeed, to say the very least on the subject matter. As a matter of fact, even passive methods of mitigation have been known to work quite well, even reducing overall radon levels by as much as 50% when indoors. For many people, such passive methods of mitigation alone will be able to bring down radon levels to safe levels. In addition to this, radon ventilation fans can also be used to further reduce the overall level of radon in just about any indoor space, most typically the residential home.
The prospect of finding high levels of radon in your home can certainly be a frightening one, of this there is no doubt. Fortunately, however, finding radon in your home is far from a death sentence, as there are a great many ways in which radon can be mitigated within your home or even eliminated entirely. Having radon testing conducted is a great first step. | <urn:uuid:d397e8cb-2df9-4bf9-a945-aba5d374feba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://firsthomecareweb.com/2019/10/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-the-threat-of-radon-exposure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970878 | 812 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Spring is right around the corner and that means it is time to get your lawn and your trees whipped into shape. It’s time to make sure things are properly cared for and as healthy as they can possibly be.
Where do you even start? Check out our simple checklist of springtime care for your trees!
The first thing you should do is inspect all of the trees and shrubs on your property. Chances are those trees and shrubs have been through some stuff through the winter. They could be damaged or hanging on by a thread and it’s important to take a look and determine what needs to be addressed.
You can take a glance at your trees on your own and see if you notice anything specific right off the bat. Perhaps you see water damage or standing water. Maybe you’re noticing hanging limbs or a general look of unhealthy appeal on your trees.
We recommend you bring in a trained and certified arborist to inspect all of your trees and shrubs and let you know what steps should be taken.
At American Tree and Lawn, we can inspect your site and consult with you for a plan of action. Whether you need some trimming or tree removal or you simply need to go on the defensive with pest treatments, we’ve got your back!
One good way to get your trees and shrubs looking great for the spring is to prune them up. No doubt there are broken, unhealthy, and dead limbs. Pruning up your trees should be done very carefully. Sometimes, your tree might require cabling and bracing.
Hire the experts to safely clean up branches and prune your trees and shrubs to be prepared for the spring. This not only makes them look so much nicer but it also keeps your trees healthy as well.
In addition to cleaning up with pruning practices, you should also clean up in general. For your lawn, you can treat for weeds and clean weeds and leaves out of your garden and flower beds. Clean up the spaces around the base of your trees and make sure they are healthy and able to get the nutrition that they need.
Spring is the perfect time to plant some new trees in the area, especially if you have lost any trees from weather or pestilence. Take the opportunity to plant some new trees. It’s great for the scenery and great for the planet as well.
There are some basic principles for planting trees on your own, but American Tree and Lawn can also help plant the trees and care for them as they grow.
One thing that many people take for granted is mulching. Whether you simply don’t have tools for mulching or you don’t understand the benefits, you may want to consider mulching. Mulching helps your trees absorb the natural nutrients better underground. It basically holds the nutrients in place right below the surface.
Mulching can reduce weeds and can also help to conserve moisture within the soil for your tree.
Mulching is something you can do on your own with the right equipment. American Tree and Lawn is also happy to help if you need it!
Finally, your trees need appropriate fertilization. You can use a slow-release fertilizer in early spring to help protect your trees’ health and provide them with valuable nutrients that they need. Fertilization makes your tree healthier and more robust.
Preparing for Spring with American Tree & Lawn
If you find yourself needing help preparing your trees for springtime, American Tree & Lawn can help! Our experienced staff includes certified ISA arborists that can help safely and effectively prepare your trees for springtime and keep them in the best health possible!
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The perennial bestseller-now available as a sensational new graphic novel.
Since its publication in 2003, nearly 7 million readers have discovered The Kite Runner. Through Khaled Hosseini's brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers. Now, in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation, Hosseini brings his compelling story to a new generation of readers.
About the Author
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Praise for The Kite Runner (the novel) :
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"A beautiful novel... This unusually eloquent story is also about the fragile relationship between fathers and sons, humans and their gods, men and their countries. Loyalty and blood are the ties that bind their stories into one of the most lyrical, moving and unexpected books this year." --The Denver Post
"A marvelous first novel... the story of two young boys who are friends in Afghanistan, and an incredible story of the culture. It's an old-fashioned kind of novel that really sweeps you away." --San Francisco Chronicle
"This extraordinary novel locates the personal struggles of everyday people in the terrible sweep of history." --People
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‘Why did you leave us?’ said the old Sudanese man in Omdurman market. ‘Things were so much better when you were here.’ He was talking about the British empire, of course, and apologies if I’ve told the story before, as I know I have. It’s just that it’s such a fantastically satisfying way of winding up all those guilt-ridden post-colonial types who find it a source of shame and embarrassment that the world’s atlas was once half-covered pink.
I don’t though. Not at all. What shames me far more are the mistakes we’re now making as a response to that guilt. We’re still treating the Africans like children; and we’re still ripping them off. But where before we at least gave them a functioning administration and justice system and a passable transport infrastructure, now all we’re offering them is a bunch of Ruperts with Soas degrees in sustainability, zooming around in Land Cruisers in search of hot French doctors from Médicins San Frontières to shag, while helping the local economy barely one jot.
There are now 100,000 aid workers in sub-Saharan Africa. As Jonathan Foreman notes in his superb Civitas pamphlet Aiding and Abetting, this ‘greatly exceeds the number of foreign administrators engaged by the former colonial powers at the height of the imperial era.’ And to what end? Since 1960, western governments have pumped more than $1 trillion in aid into the region, with the remarkable result that GDP per capita has declined.
A few months back, Foreman and I appeared at the Durham University Union, proposing the motion ‘This house would put Britain before Bangladesh’. We lost, as I knew we would. (Because I’d already lost debating a similar motion at Oxford last year.) You can lay out the evidence as clearly as you like: that aid props up corrupt politicians; filches the best local talent; kills entrepreneurship; misdirects resources. But no audience — least of all a bunch of right-on undergraduates with their frontal lobes as yet unformed — is going to be seduced by such unpalatably brutal truths. Far better to succumb to your feelings, and what your feelings say is: ‘Aid must be right because it’s caring; and caring is nice!’
The Chinese and the Saudis, the West’s two main neo-imperial rivals in the region, are far more clear-headed and ruthless about the purpose of their African presence. For the Saudis, it’s religious imperialism: they build mosques and medical centres and in return get converts to Wahhabism. For the Chinese, it’s economic imperialism: they build the infrastructure; in return they get the mining rights — and woe betide any locals that stand in their way: they just get shot, as happened to 11 workers in Zambia four years ago.
Could we do something similar, only more sympathetically? Of course we could. But look at what happens when we try. You’ll no doubt have seen the story a few months ago about a FTSE 250 company called Soco exploring for oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ought, by rights, to have been presented as a great British success story: UK firm brings much-needed revenue to a basket-case economy ravaged by civil war.
Instead, what we got was a horror yarn about rapacious Big Oil violating ‘Africa’s oldest national park’, the Virunga, and threatening the mountain gorillas made famous by David Attenborough. Never mind that the designated drilling area was nearly a hundred miles from the nearest gorilla — the WWF-sponsored campaign got into all the newspapers, a) because it enabled them to run free gorilla photos and b) because it was fronted by the actress Anna Friel, photographed in Uganda looking caringly across the border through a pair of binoculars.
At the height of the campaign, I met Soco’s American-born CEO, Roger Cagle, who was in despair. Nothing in his past — not even a stint with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam — had prepared him for the horror of dealing with a green NGO. He’d tried presenting the facts as he saw them, but the WWF just weren’t interested. ‘They told me that that campaign was the most successful fundraiser in their history, so they weren’t in any mood to climb down.’ Nor did they. Humiliatingly, Soco decided to bow out by signing an agreement promising not to drill for oil in the area. Leaving the door wide open, presumably, for the lovely, nurturing, eco-friendly Chinese to move in instead.
What I found particularly depressing about the episode wasn’t so much the WWF’s behaviour — just greenies doing what greenies do — as the way the political and media establishment ganged up to join them. The newspapers ran the WWF’s propaganda virtually straight off the press release; their City pages couldn’t get enough of those sexy Anna Friel photos; the trendy Frontline Club screened a documentary ‘proving’ how totally evil Soco were; even the Foreign Office joined in to say the drilling didn’t have its support.
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Objective of FATCA ?
The US government has recently enacted Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which is primarily intended to detect and thus discourage tax evasion by persons living and earning in United States.
What does FATCA Mandates ?
FATCA mandates reporting by US taxpayers about certain financial accounts and offshore assets and reporting by foreign financial institutions about accounts held by US taxpayers or foreign entities in which US taxpayers hold a substantial ownership interest.
Impact on Indian Banks
Indian financial institutions with overseas branches have time till 31st December’2014 to register. However, they should register for GIIN only when the formal Inter Governmental Agreement is signed.
CAME and FATCA
Provisions of the FATCA may require the amedment in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. This calls for the change in the syllabus of the Certified Anti Moneylaundering Expert (CAME) Program and from 1.1.2015, ie exactly after the date of obtaining the GIIN is over the syllabus of CAME would be changed to accommodate the provisions of FATCA in the course-ware.
Impact on Foreign Financial Institutions
FATCA will require FFIs to enter into an agreement with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whereby they agree to:
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A core objective of this paper is to find out the credit performance of Bank Asia, Uttara branch and its management. This paper has been prepared with the help of practical working experience in the rotation program along with information collected through interviewing the senior officials, observing the activities of other employees and information collected through reading various files, manuals and documents of the bank. For finding the relation between the various aspects of the credit and its interests here used some technical approach and statistical tools (e.g. correlation study). On the overall performance analysis, it can be said that the overall performance of the branch on business loan is quite satisfactory. The performance is good. The branch maintains a systematic and constructive way.
1.1 Background of the project
As per the internship program for M.B.A students major in management (11th batch), I Tilova sumaiya khan priyanka, roll: 247, were assigned to join at uttara branch of bank asia ltd. And work for three months. After the rotation program of total internship of mine are to submit a report on a specific area of overall banking functions during the period. Therefore, I have prepared this research paper according to my internship programmed to present before the executives of the bank and to my supervisor of my university.
1.2 Statement of the project issue on research problem
This paper has done on the credit performance of Bank Asia, Uttara branch. Mainly here the research problem defined as the appraisal of the credit performance and its management procedure. How a bank conduct its business loans and how it operate its total credit segment. This paper has critically explored the whole procedure and it shows the performance of the business credit of Bank Asia.
1.3 Significance and rationale of the study
It is an essential step that I proceed for preparing this research paper on the credit performance of the Uttara branch of bank Asia. It helps to find out the overall credit performance of the bank and the current status of its clients. It also useful for finding the defaulter clients and who the actual profitable clients for the bank are are. It also helps to build the correlation between its various credit and its interest income and interest expenses.
1.4 Objectives of the study
The main objectives of this job rotation program and the report are as follows:
- To familiarize with overall banking activities.
- To understand the functions and mechanisms of banking activities.
- To be introduced with the professional banking environment.
- To know about the manner and style of doing practical jobs.
1.5 Scope of the research paper
This study is limited to our job rotation program which will not cover all the banking activities in detail.
As this is a program of one and a half month, it has been difficult for one to learn such a huge thing like banking activities and focus that learning accurately on the report. The limitations in brief are:
- Time constraints for preparing the report.
- Shortage of time of the officials to arrange time for conversation.
- Shortage of time to learn all the activities of each department.
- Personnel are too busy with their client and related tasks so that they can not give enough time to the internee for providing overall knowledge about their tasks.
1.1.2 Literature review
As most of the studies on bank performance are conducted in the US and emerging markets,we will divide our presentation in two parts: US evidence and emerging market studies.The empirical evidence in the US is due to Berger (1995), Neeley and Wheelock (1997) and Angbazo (1997). Berger (1995) examines the relationship between the return on equity and the capital asset ratio for a sample of US banks for the 1983-1992 time period. Using the Granger causality model, he shows that the return of equity and capital to asset ratio tend to be positively related. Neeley and Wheelock (1997) explore the profitability of a sample of insured commercial banks in the US for the 1980-1995 period. They find that bank performance is positively related to the annual percentage changes in the state’s per capita income. Anghazo (1997) investigates the determinants of bank net interest margins for a sample of US banks for 1989-2003 period. The results for the pooled sample documents that default risk, the opportunity cost of non-interest bearing reserves, leverage and management efficiency are all positively associated with bank interest spread. The main Studies on the determinants of bank’s performance in emerging countries were carried out in Colombia (Barajas et al.,1999), Brasil (Afanasieff et al., 2002), Malaysia (Guru et al., 2002) and Tunisia (Ben Naceur and Goaied, 2001). Barajas et al. (1999) document significant effects of financial liberalization on bank’s interest margins for the Colombian case. Although the overall spread has not declined after financial reform, the relevance of the different factors behind the bank spreads were affected by such measures. Another change linked with the liberalization process was the increase of the coefficient of loan quality after the liberalization. Afanasieff et al. (2002) make use of panel data techniques to uncover the main determinants of the bank interest spreads in Brazil. A two-step approach due to Ho and Saunders (1981) is used o measure the relative impact of the micro and macro factors. The results suggest that macroeconomic variables are the most relevant elements to explain bank interest spread in Brazil. Ben Naceur and Goaied (2001) investigate the determinants of the Tunisian bank’s performances during the period 1980-1995. They indicates that the best performing banks are those who have struggled to improve labour and capital productivity, those who have maintained a high level of deposit accounts relative to their assets and finally, those who have been able to reinforce their equity. Guru et al. (2002) attempt to identify the determinants of successful deposit banks in order to provide practical guides for improved profitability performance of these institutions. The study is based on a sample of seventeen Malaysian commercial banks over the 1986-1995 period. The profitability determinants were divided in two main categories, namely the internal determinants (liquidity, capital adequacy and expenses management) and the external determinants (ownership, firm size and external economic conditions). The findings of this study revealed that efficient expenses management was one of the most significant in explaining high bank profitability. Among the macro indicators, high interest ratio was associated with low bank profitability and inflation was found to have a positive effect on bank performance.
2.1 Population parameter
According to Bangladesh bank there are 48 banks as on 30 june,2008. These are
Agranee bank ltd, janata bank ltd., rupali bank ltd., sonali bank ltd.,Bangladesh krishi bank, Bangladesh shilpo bank etc.
Profit compares with main bank of the other following branch in the business credit aspects
|Sl no.||Name of the bank||Profit achieved in 2010||Principal branch profit|
|4||Mercantile bank ltd.||307.00||53.93|
|5||Southeast bank ltd.||320.00||62.00|
|6||The city bank ltd.||310.00||71.83|
|7||Dutch banal bank ltd.||193.00||82.00|
|8||Dhaka bank ltd.||215.00||93.00|
|9||One bank ltd.||220.00||56.00|
|11||Bank Asia ltd.||450.00||85.62|
|13||The trust bank ltd.||324.00||54.00|
|14||Premier bank ltd||254.00||56.33|
|16||Brac bank ltd||260.00||86.00|
|17||BASIC bank ltd||204.00||93.45|
|18||Shahajalal islami bank ltd||218.00||126.00|
|19||Mutual trust bank ltd||185.00||120.00|
|20||Standard bank ltd||201.00||69.00|
|21||National bank ltd||185.00||56.42|
|23||Jamuna bank Ltd.||227.00||24.47|
|24||First security bank ltd||180.00||42.00|
2.2 Sampling design
I have chosen Bank Asia ,Uttara branch for researching the credit performance and its management.
2.3 Methods of data collection:
This paper This paper has been prepared with the help of practical working experience in the rotation program along with information collected through interviewing the senior officials, observing the activities of other employees and information collected through reading various files, manuals and documents of the bank. In brief the methods of collecting information are:
- Practical working experience
- Primary source of the data
- Oral conversation with the officials
- Secondary sources
- Documents, credit manuals and files
3.1 An Overview on Bank Asia Ltd.
Bank Asia Limited is one of the third generation private commercial banks (PCBs), incorporated in Bangladesh on September 28, 1999 as a public limited company under the Companies Act 1994 and governed by the Banking Companies Act 1991. The Band went for public issue of its shares on September 23, 2003 and their shares are listed with Dhaka Stock Exchange Ltd. And Chittagong Stock Exchange Ltd.
Bank Asia Limited acquired the business of Bank of Nova Scotia (incorporated in Canada), Dhaka, in the year 2001 and at the beginning of the year 2002, the Bank also acquired the Bangladesh operations of Muslim Commercial Bank Limited (MCBL), a bank incorporated in Pakistan, having two branches at Dhaka and Chittagong and one booth at Dhaka. In taking over the Bangladesh operations, all assets and certain specific liabilities of MCBL were taken over/assumed by Bank Asia Limited at book values.
The vision of the Bank is to have a poverty free Bangladesh in course of a generation in the new millennium, reflecting the national dream and to build a society where human rights receive the highest consideration along with reduction of poverty.
The authorized capital of the Bank is being raised to Tk. 4,450 million as approved by the regulatory authority, compared to Tk. 1,200 million at present, the paid up capital from Tk. 930 million in 2005 to Tk. 1,116 million in 2006. The Bank ended the year 2006 with a total Shareholder’s Equity of Tk. 1,949.74 million compared to Tk. 1,566.98 million in the year 2005. The bank attained capital adequacy of 11.23% compared to the current regulatory requirement of 9.00%.
The objective of the Bank is to provide efficient and personalized banking services to corporate, institutional and private clients to help them realize their short-term goals and long-term aspiration. The range of services includes import/export finance, short-term credit, retail banking, tele banking, and home banking. These services will be supplemented by a strong project division to manned by a dedicated team of technical experts, economists and financial analysts
Bank Asia has on offer a broad array of innovative financial services specially designed to match the specific requirement of the clientele ranging from large corporate houses, small and medium enterprises, to private individuals. The team of professional assists the clients in finding the most appropriate financing package making use of the Bank’s own resources and/or organizing loan syndications, to help the clients realize their short-term goals and long-term aspirations.
Bank Asia Ltd. currently has a total of 28 Branches inside and outside the DhakaCity. All Branches of the Bank Provides all the services of a Commercial Bank.
Besides normal services Bank Asia have the following distinctive services :
- Any Branch Banking
- Fully Computerized on line
- Customer Oriented Flexi Credit
- Corporate Banking
- Retail Banking
- Investment Banking
- SME Banking
- International Trade Financing
- Credit Card
- ATM Service
- Locker Facilities
- Priority Banking
- Custodial Service
- Syndicated Loan
A special contribution of Bank Asia towards society:
Bank Asia makes socially responsible activities an important part of its culture, identity and business practice. In the year 2005 the Bank started a program in collaboration with BangladeshEyeHospital to help the handicapped and the underprivileged by providing necessary financial support for performing ophthtamological operation of all born blind children of Bangladesh. Bank Asia also arranged a program with the IslamiyaEyeHospital to provide free eye examination to school children in Munshiganj and Kishorganj. The poverty alleviation scheme “Palli Shawnirvor” and “Kormoshangsthan Prokolpo” of the Bank operating through the rural branches are financially benefiting the poor. The Bank is also indirectly extending their support to the disadvantaged by financing several large NGOs which provide micro credit and work with the underprivileged for social empowerment. In collaboration with D.Net-Development Research Network, Bank Asia has established Computer Learning Centers (CLC) at several sub-urban areas outside Dhaka.
Study results and findings
4.1 Management procedure of business credit. Bank Asia, uttara branch
4.1.1 Performance at a glance of business loans & advances : Bank Asia ltd. Uttara branch as on 16.03.2011
Outstanding position of loans advances:
- PAD (cash) = Tk 12,45,237.30/=
- Time loan = Tk 15,00,000.00/=
- Cash credit (cc Hypo) = Tk 94,72,412.81/=
- Demand loan = Tk 10,00,000.00/=
- Term loan (others) = Tk 16,39,13,092.97/=
- Term loan (industrial) = Tk 11,63,79,769.80/=
- Overdraft (OD) = Tk 21,21,60,875.16/=
- Secured overdraft (SOD) = Tk 5,89,17,661.60/=
- Loan against packing credit = Tk. 1,05,64,051.13/=
- Loan against trust receipt = Tk. 2,16,77,265.50/=
- Local bills purchased (LBP-DOC) = Tk 5,34,28,753.26/=
- Foreign bills purchased (DOC) FC-USD = Tk97,39,501.01/=
- Total loans and advance sanctioned = Tk. 1,05,65,92,854/=
- Total loans and advance outstanding =Tk. 81,73,29,852/=
- Cumulative profit as on 29.12.2010 = Tk. 6,19,47,955/=
4.1.2 Definition of credit:
Lending/credit is the main asset of the bank but lending business is risky as well. If we apply the principles of sound lending before any advance then risk of default will be minimized. The credit department should apply those principles before extending credit to a borrower. The constituents of sound lending are as follows:
4.1.3 The constituents of sound lending:
- Safety: The most important thing in making advances is whether the money would definitely come back. The credit officer must ensure that the money they advance to the right borrower, and will be utilized in such a way that it will not only safe at the time of lending but will remain so throughout the serving purpose.
- Liquidity: The borrower must be in a position to repay within a reasonable time on demand or as per arrangement. The source of repayment must be definite. The business or the project for which advances are extended must be self liquidating to ensure repayment.
- Purpose: The purpose of borrowing should be productive so that the money not only remains safe but also provides a definite source of repayment. Purpose should ensure generation of adequate cash repayment of advances.
- Profitability: The bank is in a business and so profit is needed for long term survival and growth. Lending rate must reflect bank’s costs, earning and long term goals of the bank.
- Security: For advances, purpose is important which should be productive to ensure repayment. But even then security is necessary to ensure safety-to provide against such contingencies such as unexpected changes in circumstances which may affect safety and liquidity of the advance.
- Diversification: Diversifying the risks to a large number of borrowers and different business is a means of reducing risks. Large number of borrowers, many types of businesses, different types of securities reduces lending risks to some extent.
4.1.4 Types of loans & advances
b) Cash credit
When an advance is made in a lump sum repayable either in fixed monthly installments or in lump sum and no subsequent debit are ordinary allowed except by way of interest, incidental charges etc. it is called a term loan. Term loans are normally allowed to those parties who have either fixed source of income or who desire to pay it in lump sum.
I. Important finance:
a) Letter of credit: this is a short of non-found credit in which bank does not give direct money. After shipment of imported goods when documents are negotiated and negotiating bank claims reimbursement from the Nostro account then it becomes funded credit
b) Payment against documents (PAD): When a L/C is opened by the bank in favor of his client the bank is bound to honor its commitment to pay for import bills after shipping documents are presented. Consequently the issuing bank settles the said claim by creating a loan account as a payment against documents. The importer is compelled to pay the stipulated amount of money before he gets the shipping documents. Shipping bill is acted here as a security against PAD loan.
c) Loans against trust receipt (LTR): LTR is a document duly stamped and signed in bank prescribed format by the importer before getting the particular shipping documents for releasing the goods from the customs. In the trust receipt the importer specifies the goods and agrees that he is holding the goods not as an Agent for the Bank until the goods are used for expressed purpose. Generally the duration of LTR facility is 180days.
d) Bank guarantee: Bank guarantee is an undertaking given by the bank to settle a debt if the debtor fail to do so. This type of facility is normally given to a client when imported goods already arrived at the port but shipping documents got some discrepancy.
II. Export finance :
Packing cash credit: These types of credit are extended to the exporter to facilitate export of goods.
III. Consumer credit
The consumer credits are a kind of term loan. There are several types of consumer credit lunched by Bank Asia. They are:
- House Finance
- Auto loan
- Loans for professionals
- Consumer durable loan
- Unsecured personal loan
I. Education support
II. Marriage support
III. Motor bike loan
IV. Medical support
V. Senior citizen support
- Bills purchased and discounted: Apart from sanctioning loans and advances in various forms and on the security of various types of goods and documents etc. Purchase and discounting of bills of exchange is another way of employing the bank funds. Such bills of exchange arise out of commercial transactions both inland trade and foreign trade.
Charge means “Where in a transaction for value both parties evidence an intention that property existing or future shall be made available, there is a charge, even though the present legal right which is contemplated can only be enforced at some future date, and though the creditor gets no legal rights to property, either absolute or special or any legal right to possess ional but only gets the right to have the security made by an order of the court.
Classification of charge
A charge may be classified as fixed charge and floating charge. The description is as follows:
a. Fixed charge: A charge is said to be fixed if it is made specially to cover definite and ascertained assets of permanent nature or assets capable of being ascertained and defined, e.g. charge on land and building or heavy machinery. It prevents the leader from dealing with the property charged without consent of the charge holder.
b. Floating charge: It is charge on property which is constantly changing, e.g., stock. A company can deal with such property in normal course of its business until it becomes fixed on the happening of an event. Thus it is a charge on the assets of a company in general.
The other classification of charge is:
Pair passe charge: Pair passé charge is created in favor of several creditors, with the condition that they have equal priority. It is generally created in case of consortium accounts.
Second charge: A creditor holding a second charge by way of mortgage, is entitled to the proceeds after the first charge is met. He must inform the prior mortgagee of his charge because the first mortgage can not part with the proceeds of his charge because the first mortgage cannot part with the proceeds or title of the property if he has n0otice of the second charge.
Charging of security:
Charging of security means making it available as a cover for an advance. The manner by which some articles or commodities or properties are made available is known as charging of securities.
The method of charging on securities depends upon the followings:
- The type of property to be charged.
- The nature of the advance
- The degree of control over the debtor’s property required by the banker
The common methods of charging securities are:
a. Pledge: Pledge is the bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise. Bailment is the delivery of goods by one person to another for some purpose, under a contract that the goods shall, when the purpose is according, be returned or otherwise disposed of according to the directions of the person delivering them.
b. Hypothecation: Hypothecation is a charge against property for an amount of debt where neither ownership nor possession is passed to the creditor. Though the borrower is an actual physical possession but the constructive possession remains with the bank as per the deed of hypothecation. The borrower holds the possession not in his own right as the owner of the goods but as the agent of the bank.
Features of hypothecation:
- Charge against a property for an amount of debt.
- Goods remain in the possession of the borrower.
- Equitable charge to the bank under document letter of credit.
- Borrower binds himself to give possession of the hypothecated goods to the bank when called upon to do so.
- It is a floating charge.
c. Mortgage: Mortgage is transfer of interest in specific immovable property for the purpose of securing the payment of money advanced b way of loan, an existing or future debt or the performance of an engagement which may give rise to pecuniary liability. The mortgage only parts with the interest in the property and not the ownership.
Documents to be obtained for mortgage:
1. Chain document (if available) 2. Original title deed/ certified copy along with original money receipt 3. C.A., R.S Parcha 4. Mutation, separation, order sheet (in case of new purchase) 5. Up to date rent receipt. 6. Non encumbrance certificate. 7. Power of attorney 8. Legal opinion 9. Valuation certificate 10. Location map 11. No objection from any development authority
Features of mortgages:
ü Mortgage can be created to cover general balances, existing payment as well as future loans and advances.
ü There must be creditor and debt relationship between the bank and the mortgagor at the time of deposit
ü Actual existence of the debit is necessary but even an application for the debt and its acceptance establishes this relationship.
ü A partner can not mortgage the property of the firm without other partners joining him in doing so.
d. Lien: A lien is the right of a creditor in possession of goods, securities or any other assets belonging to the debtor to retain them until the debt is repaid.
Banks generally extends loan facility to its customers against the lien of
- Fixed deposit receipt
- Sanchayaptra (savings certificate)
- Wage earner’s development bond
- Share certificate
- Unit certificate of investment corporation of Bangladesh
- Credit balance D.P.S. & S.P.S. A/c’s
e. Set off: The right of set off is the right of a creditor to the total or partial merging of a claim against the counter claim of the debtor. In the other words, a set off is a right which enable a creditor to adjust wholly or partially a debit balance in the debtors account with any credit balance lying in his (debtors) favor.
Notice of set off: Banker should give reasonable notice to the customer of its intention to exercise its right of set off otherwise it may face troubles. So, it is better for a banker to obtain a letter of set off signed by the customer before disbursement of loan so that he can exercise his right of set off without notice.
f. Assignment: An assignment means a transfer of right property or debt (existing or future) by one person to another person. In banking the usual subject of assignment is actionable claim. Actionable claim is an unsecured claim to money which is actionable e.g. for recovery of which an action may be brought into the court of law. In baking practice it is done through a registered irrevocable power of attorney where transfer of actionable claim is clear and absolute.
4.1. 6 classifications of loans:
Loan classification attempts to categorize the debt information in a systematic manner. Loan classification is defined in terms of degree of risk associated with loans. Classification of loans mean and include only such assets of the balance sheet of a bank which do not yield interest income and which have remained past due for some quarters. The enormity of the loan classification status of Bangladesh can be gauged from the figures of total classified loan in the country. Loans are generally categorized in Bangladesh as either classified or unclassified. Loans are classified which are judged to have a reduced chance of repayment. Loans are classified as:
Substandard, Doubtful, Bad/loss as per classification guidelines by the Bangladesh bank.
Sources of Credit Information
Broadly, a banker collects the required information about a prospective borrower from the
a) Loan application
When a loan proposal has to be processed a banker first studies the loan application made by the borrower. A loan application usually contains information pertaining to the name of the concern, constitution, nature and place of business, year of establishment, borrower’s experience in the Iine, particulars of assets and liabilities, purpose of advance, amount required, the period of advance applied for, nature of security offered, sources of repayment etc.
b) Market Reports
Reports can bee obtained from the various markets, particularly, from businessmen carrying on the same trade as the borrower does, some of whom may be his,& her friends, others his/her rivals or enemies. Some may give exaggerated figures of his/her means which others may try to run him/her down. Al1 such reports are sometimes contradictory to each other’ It is for the lending banker to analysis these reports and form a balanced opinion about the sincerity, honesty, integrity, capacity and financial position of the borrower.
c) Study of Account
If the borrower is the customer of the bank, a study of the borrower’s account and his,4rer past dealings will throw light on the aspect of keeping up commitments, borrowing else where etc. which will assist a banker in judging about creditworthiness of the borrower. If the account shows a good turnover, and the cheques were never returned for want of funds that will give an impression about the volume of business of the borrower as well as his/her honest dealings.
d) Financial statements
The borrower should be requested to supply the latest statement in regard to his/her assets and liabilities. It is always preferable to have audited statements for the last 3 (three) years. In addition, the bank must arrange to obtain a copy of the latest income tax statement of the borrower from which it will be possible to estimate his/her income. Similarly, his/her sales tax return will give an idea about the sales, In case of limited companies, the audited balance sheet and profit and loss account for the last 3 (three) years must be obtained to assess the financial position of the company and various financial aspects of the borrower’s business’
e) Other Sources
Other sources of information about the borrower include press reports regarding purchase and sales of property, auctions and decrees. Registration, revenue and municipal records can also be referred to with advantage to verify the properties owned by the borrower and charges thereon, if any. If the borrower happens to be a limited company, a search of the records of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies should be made for finding our if there are any prior charges or mortgages on the company’s assets, VAT Registration and Return, report form CIB, confidential report from other fellow banks.
f) Personal Interview
After having collected all the information from outside sources, it is advisable to arrange for a personal interview with the borrower. The interview should be conducted I a free and pleasant atmosphere. The questions must be suggestive and helpful to put him/her employing the funds prudently, his/her capacity to repay and the suitability of the security offered, if any. It is not necessary for the banker to make any commitments in a case which requires further analysis.
Procedures of operating Overdraft:
Overdrafts mainly disbursed on the fixed deposit account or land, property etc’ In the case of fixed account the client can withdraw money as a loan up to 90olo of their fixed deposits And the interest rate will be charged as quarterly. These months in the Bank Asia are March, June, September, and December’ In this procedures when client withdraw a few amount of his, sanctioned money for loan, then the interest rate will be charged on that amount up to march. And the account will be closed on March for that amount.
4.1.10 Management of credit department of the branch:
Credit department are managed by some guidelines, policy, rules & regulations, terms & Conditions. The total procedure can be considered as management of credit department. The management authority determines guidelines, rules, regulations, policies, schemes, They make these decisions in the board meetings for managing credit department.
188.8.131.52 Credit Approval Authority Y:
The Credit approval authority of Bank Asia Ltd. has three levels: i) Branch, ii) Zonal Office, iii) Corporate Office
The Zonal Office has authority to approve credit facility up to Tk’ 1’00 million’ anything more than Tk. 1.00 million the approval of the corporate office is a must’ For a credit facility over Tk. 10.00 million the approval of the Board of Directors is required’
approval levels are: i) Branch Manager ii) Zonal Head iii) President & Managing Director
iv) Board of Directors of the Bank’
4.2. Performance analysis of the businessloans of Bank Asia Ltd. , Uttara branch, Dhaka based on facts of last 5 years
4.2.1 Performance analysis of the business loans of bank asia ltd., Uttara branch, Dhaka based on facts of last 5 years :
Here this paper have dicussed about the business loan of bank asia, Uttara branch. This is an comparison on the current position of bank Asia uttara branch with previous 5 years. Consecutively 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & as on 31.12.2010. The bank Asia ,uttara branch provides twelve different types of loans. First I like to show the present outstanding at recent year of the branch. So the present outstanding of the business loans & advances as on 31.12.2010 of the uttara branch are given bellow :
|Sl No||Name of the business loans and advances||Amount|
|01.||Loans against packing credit||1,05,64,051.13|
|02.||Loans against trust receipt (LTR)||2,16,77,265.50|
|05.||Cash credit (CC HYPO)||94,72,412.81|
|07.||Term loan (industrial)||11,63,79,769.80|
|08.||Term, loan (others)||16,39,13,092.97|
|11.||Local bills purchased (LBP)||5,34,28,753.26|
|12.||Foreign bill purchased (FBP)||9,739,501.01|
(Source: primary source)
Table: present condition of business loans &advances of current year 2009
Bank Asia, uttara branch recently charged interest rate on their business loans mostly at 13%. In addition, They charged interest rate at quarterly basis. And the selected months of the banks are march, June, September, and December. In the case of secured overdraft, the loans provide to the customer on their fixed deposits. Here interests are charged differently. The rate which customer get as interest on their fixed deposits, above 2% of that rate are charged when the secured overdraft loan are provided to the customer. The branch mainly provides 12 different types of business loan recently. The most profitable source of the business loan for income is overdraft & term loans. On the current year the branch have earned profit widely on this sector.
The branch’s growth gradually going to improve, if I compared the current position of the branch with the previous 5 years & recent years. The following chart will be showing the position of these years:
Chart: Outstanding position of loan for the period form year 2006 to Oct’ 2009
From the given chart, it is obvious that the improvements have gradually occurred year to year At the beginning of the year 2006 the branch were provided only 6 types of business loans and advances. In the year, 2007 they augmented one types of business loan criteria
This is payment against documents It is a short term loan It uses only for 1 or 2 days. Then in the year 2008, the branch increased another kind of business loans sector. This is foreign bill purchased finally, in the year 2009 the branch started to provide business loan on many sectors. In addition, gradually their outstanding positions of the loan increaseds year to year.
The gradual changes of the position of these business loans of each segment in each year can also be started by a diagrammatical representation. It will be clear if show the data by a bar diagram. It will clearly show the gradual changes of the condition of the branch from year to year. So here, I have given a diagrammatical representation of the gradual improvement position of the loans outstanding position.
From the above diagram it clearly shows that the outstanding positions of the loans are highest in the year 2009. Moreover, inyear 2006 it was lowest, and day by day the position going to improve.
The growth of the outstanding losans & advances improved year to year. Critically it can be discussed that in 2006 the volume of the general loans including LTR,SOD,Overdraft, term loans etc. were leass than 2007.and then 2008 it increased more than 2007. Here continiously increasing growth of the loans outstanding position can be showed by the following table:
|Loans & advances||2006-2007||2007-2008||2008-2009|
|General loans and advances||2,12,89,779.8||130,846,593.4||2,12,89,779.8|
|Bills purchase & discount||1,40,28,275.27||2,08,06,093.24||5,95,32,229.0|
(Source: primary data source)
Table: Growth of the outstanding position of loans and advances
So from the above chart and discussion the consequence exposed that the growth from 2006-2007 was going slow, which is less than the 2007-2008, the growth was so high than 2008-2009. The whole circumstances of the branch shows that from the year 2007-2008 was good going and the position of outstanding loans was the best. The following showing the growth scale of the outstanding position of the loans is 13%. Therefore, this can be a reason of increasing or decreasing income from the interest. However, the main reason is increasing volume of disbursing loans & advances which increases in every year for the efficiency of the bankig functions & employees.
The interest rate charged on the loans and advances are also increased as their sectors of providing loans & advances increased and volume of the loan amount increased. Interest incomes from each segment from year to year are stated in the following:
The growth scale of the outstanding position of the business loans in percentage can be showed. From that, it will be clarified that what the actual position of the growth scale of the year in percentage rate. So the following table represents the percentage rate of the growth of outstanding position of business loan:
|Loans & advances||2006-2007||2007-2008||2008-2009|
|General loans & advances||13.31%||29.42%||3.7%|
|Bills purchase & discount||90.18%||57.22%||73.73%|
(Source: financial performance of the year to year from the balance sheet of Bank Asia)
Table: The growth of the loans outstanding position in percentage
4.2.2 Interest income
Interest income refers those incomes which bank earns. They earn interest income by charging on loans& advances, it can be charged also on bills purchased & discounts. So these interest incomes also increasing year to year As the outstanding position of the loans augmented. Present interest rate of the branch is 13%. Which business loans & advances bank has to pay as interest on their fixed deposits to the customer, above 2% of that rate. In the previous year, the rate of interest was too high. It was then 16%, but today the rate is 13%. Therefore, this can be a reason of increasing or decreasing income from ike interest. However, the main reason is increasing volume of disbursing loans & tt\i •rn which increases in every year for the efficiency of the banking functions & employees.
The interest rate charged on the loans and advances are also increased as their sectors of providing loans & advances increased and volume of the loan amount increased. Interest incomes from each segment from year to year are stated in the following:
Name of the interest income
Interest on general loans & advances
Interest on bills purchase Si discount
(Source: financial performance of the year to year from the balance sheet of Bank Asia)
Table: Interest incomes from each segment of year to year
Interest income from each year clearly shows that, it is continuously improved year to year. As the outstanding position of loans increased in each year, so interest income increased as volume of the outstanding position of loans increasing. In year 2006 the income from the interest was 3, 90, 99, 865.25 as it given to the chart, but in that year interest was high than today of the branch. Then the volume of disbursing loans and sanctioned loan was less than today. Then the segment of disbursing loans was not so wide like today. In the next year this volume of income from interest was increased than the previous year and it earned 5, 67, 88,297.11 taka. Next year it is more increasing than the before. Finally, it reached at highest position. They earned 7,81,58,386.22 taka So if I look at continuous basis it seems to be trend to be high. In addition, it can be said that, if this trends sustaining then the improving of the branch will be stable and this trends of improvement will also be increasing in every year.
The growth of the interest income are clearly stated the improvement of the branch. So here I have constructed a table for showing the improvements and gradual changes of the position of the interest income. The following table shows the growth of the interest income:
|Source of the interest income|
|Interest on general loans & advances|
|Interest on bills purchase & discount|
(Source: financial performance of the year to year from the balance sheet of Bank Asia)
Table: Growth of the interest income of 2006-2007 to 2008-2009
From the above table it is assumed that, from the year 2006-2007 the position of the interest income from general loans was highest growth than the next 2 years. But the growth of income of this segment in the year 2007-2008 was decrease than the previous year. Finally, in the year 2008-2009 the growth goes to downwards. And the growth shows the negative position. Which refers in the year 2009 was not profitable than the previous year 2008. 2008 was the better position than the year 2009 in the case of general loans & advances. In the case of interest income on bills purchase & discount, in the year 2006-2007 the growth was slow than next year 2007-2008. Finally in 2008-2009 this scale was highest than the previous 2 years. If I look into the overall growth trend of the income of interest then it can be said according to the that on the overall performance the total growth trend to high and it goes to the upwards. That actually indicates the total growths of the income from the interest increased in the year 2007-2008 than the previous year 2006-2007 but finally in the last year 2008-2009, the growth was not as much higher as it was in the year 2007-2008. Therefore, from the overall analysis of growth trend is stated that the growth trend was highest from the year 2007-2008.
4.2.3 Cause and effects of increasing & decreasing interest income from the loan:
Reasons for increasing
Þ When interest rate charged low on the business loans, then tendency of the borrower’s applying for the loans increased, that why income from the interest are also increased.
Þ While the bank disbursed the loans on the various types of sectors, then numbers of the borrowers increased for applying for the loan in different sectors, as they are required to. Therefore, in that case the income from the interest rate increased.
Þ Sometimes bank offering some extra facilities in the case of applying for the loan and provide some services by which the borrowers can be benefited, in that cases the numbers of loan increased and for that reason income from interest are also increased.
Þ Sometimes bank increased the duration of the payback period of installments for any kind of the loan. Therefore, in that case borrowers are interested to apply for the loans and in this way the income from the interest are also increased.
Þ When the branch disbursed the loans among so many sectors and so many clients then the income from the interest increased.
Þ When government or Bangladesh bank prescribed for higher interest rate and imposed it on some specific sector then branch charged higher interest rate and from here, the bank can increase their interest income.
Reasons for decreasing
Þ When the interest rate charged high on the business loans, then tendency of the borrower’s applying for the loans decreased, that why income from the interest also decreased
Þ If there are few sectors for providing loans then disbursement of the loans are getting restricted and income from the interest are also become restricted because of the limitation of broadly dispersed sectors of business loans and advances. So in this case the interest income was short.
Þ Some time the branch charged higher interest rate on loans and sometime this rate are low, so for this reason the interest income increased and decreased.
Þ Sometime the branch provides the loans on a few sectors in a large amount. Therefore, whenever the client became defaulter, then the branch falls in a big problem, And the income from the interest are decrease.
Þ Client often shows irresponsibility for payback the installments, so for this reason the income from the interest of the year became reduce.
Þ There are so many lengthy procedures for getting loan. So sometimes client became fed up for maintaining as much as long procedure
4.2.4 Relationship between the interest income and interest expense
Interest income refers those incomes that charged for providing loans. In this report, I have already discussed about the interest income position of the branch in details.
Now it required to discuss about the interest expense position of the branch. So here, I have discussed about the current position of the branch in regard to interest expense. I also bring the comparison of the current position of interest expense with the last 3 years of the.
Interest expense indicates those expenses that bank give to the customer on their deposits or any other account which opened by the customer to the bank. Mostly the branch gives interest to the customers on their fixed deposits and saving accounts. Bank has to pay a large amount on this purpose. In the case of fixed deposit the current rate of interest on FDR are 8.00%.-8.50% The branch also pays interest on deposit scheme, which have many stages. Bank has to pay interest quarterly or monthly or yearly. It depends up on varieties of accounts or different types of deposit customer possess.
4.2.5 Correlation between the interest expense & interest income:
Now I can construct a correlation between the interest expense & interest income it will help in determining the degree of relationship between these two important part of the banking on which the profit or loss position depends.
The correlations of the total growth of interest expense and interest income given bellow in the following table:
Total growth of interest income
Total growth of interest expense
Correlation ( r )=
Table: determination of the correlation of interest expense & interest income according to the year 2006-2007 to 2008-2009
The full interpretation depends upon the circumstances. Here the value of ( r ) is in the (+)1 to (-) 1, which is not equal to 0 so it interprets that there is a closer relation slop exists between the interest income & interest expense. All that can really be said that when estimating the value of one variable from the value of another, the higher the value of r , the better the estimate.
4.2.6 Business loan customers of the branch of Bank Asia:
In the initial stage the uttara branch, start banking with limited customers. However, in every year the number of the customer gradually increased. So many customers individually or many groups, companies, firms are now involved with this branch of Bank Asia. So many renowned companies and people are the honorable customer of the Bank Asia, uttara branch. The current positions of the customers are huge. At present, the total numbers of the business clients are 181. Overall loans have disbursed on so many sources & sectors. Here include so many individual customers and so many company and organizations too.
4.2.7 Major business loan customers of the branch:
However, total client of the business loans are 181 but a few of them are the major clients of the branch. Branch is not interested to involve with so many major sectors with a large amount of sanctioned loans, because bank believes that so many major risks involved with the major loans. In this major sectors branch invests and sanctioned loans & advances. In these major sectors, bank invests huge amount of money. Bank provides such huge amount of loans to the 11 major clients. These clients borrow huge amounts of loans from the bank. These amount is up to 6 crore. Their outstanding balance have given into the following lists. This statement shows the current outstanding position of these major borrowers.
Name of the borrowers
Amount of the outstanding loans
Mascot knits LTD.
J.H.K properties LTD.
City CNG refueling station
Syed grand center
Five star woven bag industries ltd
M/S khokon auto bricks
Rafia textile mills
Brothers automobile engineers
Mushaka chemical ind. Ltd.
Mazeda febrics ltd.
|Total outstanding position of the major business loans=||143,619,388.6|
(Source: list of the clients credit monitoring and administration)
Table: list of the major business loans of the branch with the current outstanding position
So from the table, the outstanding balances of the major business loans have clearly expressed. All of these sectors are most profitable source of income, because these sectors contain loans of huge amount with a high interest rate. The branch acquire huge amount of money and profit with these interests. However, not all of these sectors are profitable. Some are big defaulter for the branch and for this reason bank get trouble on those sectors. The borrowers of these segments didn’t payback their installments as on the date. They are irregular. Therefore, they are the big risks for the bank.
4.2.8 Major defaulter clients of the branch
The major business loans that involved with some major sectors sometimes causes big problem to the branch. Some of these major sectors are become defaulter. Recently there are 3 defaulter or classified account have in the branch. The account names of these defaulters are given bellow:
• Top tailors & fabrics
• Mukta foam corner & Bedding house
• M/S master ovijat share bhander
Conclusions & Recommendations
5.1 Problems on overall operation & performance of the business loans:
Findings of the study:
The following problems I have been identified during the period of my internship at Bank Asia Ltd., Uttara branch:
Þ Although the growth trend of profit of the branch gradually increases but it can assume that, the growth trend was not consistent as it was at the previous years.
Þ The procedure of lending is too complicated and lengthy so it is tuff to handle business loans and advances.
Þ In this branch, there are only 3 employees for operating business loans. So became hard to maintain the whole process by the employees.
Þ When any two of the employee going outside for the site visit or recovery then it creates problem to deal with the people by one employee.
Þ Borrowers sometimes intentionally or for any other reason have skipped repayment of the installments, and then employees have to remind them to payback the installments. So its make an extra problem to the employee.
Þ When the clients hide the important information to the lenders then it creats a big problem to them.
Þ Most of the people in our country don’t have proper knowledge of policies of Bangladesh Bank and other authority concerned on credit.
Þ The working procedure of the banking could be more organized.
Þ The investment, loans & advance procedure takes long time to process loans
Þ Interest rate is high which discourage people to take loans.
Þ The entire employee’s back ground was not business related, some of them was political science or any other subjects, so they have no proper knowledge about this field of banking.
Þ Employees face big problems when they going for recovery, they have be rough with the customers. It causes to be upset.
Þ The branch are involved with some major sectors for providing loans which is too much risky.
5.2 Opportunities of the branch in case of business loans
There are so many opportunities in this branch. These are giving in the following:
Þ The practical knowledge about the business loans & advances can acquire properly because the employees are very co-operative.
Þ The branch continuously increases the area and sectors of the business loans and they are providing loans on this sector to help any kind of business man & industrialists. Therefore, the branch is benefiting clients.
Þ The employees always ready to provide any kind of service in favors to the business loans so borrowers are happy by getting this kind of service.
Þ There are so many experienced and brilliant employees’ deals with the business loans, so they can handle the overall operation with a great skill.
Þ Some of the employees have the outstanding performance so; so many things I have been learnt from those employees.
Þ The branch provides so many facilities to the employee, that’s why they are getting
Þ encouraged and they give their best to the banking activities.
Þ Customer can get any kind of facilities in the area of business loan so they became the permanent customer of the branch.
Þ Employees continuously reminding the borrowers for repayment of their installments, so borrowers not get in a big problem and timely they can payback the installments.
5.3 Comment on overall performance of the business loans of the branch
On the overall performance analysis, I can say that the overall performance of the branch on business loan is quite satisfactory. The performance is good. The branch maintains a systematic and constructive way. This helps them to attain their objectives and goals. All the employee of the branch in the business sector are industrious and friendly. They are devoted towards their organizations so the branch improving their position day by day. If I look at the profit and income of the year from business, loans it is clearly expressed their gradual improvements in each year. This branch starts their journey by a very short time but within this little duration, they have reached a better position. The branch start journey for 6 years And their defaulters are too little in amount. So it clearly indicates their gradual improvements.
5.4 Recommendations for the business loans of the branch’s
Þ The branch should maintain a short cut way and less complicated way for the loan approval procedure, it takes time too long.
Þ The branch should activate all the technology and on line activities though they using online for the operation of banking but still today there are so many aspects where they are not using internet which can make the activities easy and saving the time .
Þ The branch should charge a low interest rate on their business loans and advances.
Þ The branch should maintain a consistency in case of the growth trend that i have specified the growth line of the branch of loans and advances, there it was show that the growth trend was not consistency, and it was up and down.
Þ Strict supervision is necessary to avoid loan defaulters, the bank officials should do regular visit to the project.
Þ It may be affair deal if the high-risk borrowers should not to pay the same interest rate interest rate could be arranged according to the amount they borrow.
Þ The Branch may recruit more employees for effective and timely management of total loan portfolio.
Þ The Branch should be more devoted to implement the policies regarding business credit.
- Annual reports of the bank Asia ltd. For the year 2008
- Statement of the trial balance for the last 3 years (2006-2008)
- Statement of the outstanding balance of the client for the year 2009
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Private banks are banks owned by either an individual or a general partner(s) with limited partner(s). Private banks are not incorporated. In any such case, the creditors can look to both the "entirety of the bank's assets" as well as the entirety of the sole-proprietor's/general-partners' assets.
There were many private banks in Europe, but most have now become incorporated companies, so the term is rarely true any more. Today, the term "private bank" can also refer to the financial institution specializing in financial advice and services for high-net-worth individuals (private banking).
"Private banks" can also refer to non-government owned banks in general, in contrast to government-owned (or nationalized) banks, which were prevalent in communist, socialist and some social democratic states in the 20th century.
YWCANashville & Middle Tennessee has elected 12 new members to its board of directors for the 2022-23 term ... The 124-year-old Nashville nonprofit also promoted three senior leaders ... Dr ... Dr ... Tracey Silverman, senior vice president/senior credit products manager, PNCBank. Cameron Simmons, executive director and private banker, JPMorganPrivate Bank.
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He also served at the WorldBankGroup as the Private Sector Development Programme Manager in Guinea, responsible for designing and implementing the business climate improvement programme, while developing a bankable pipeline of investments and government advisory projects in strategic sectors of the economy.
The transaction is managed by Hamburg-based private bank M.M.Warburg... The Bayreuth-based company has a solar portfolio of 352 MWp. Including asset management, the portfolio rises to 412 MWp ... (EUR 1 = USD 1.016).
SEIFamily Office Services delivers technology and outsourced services, including the Archway PlatformSM, that support the accounting, investment management, and reporting functions of family offices, private banks, private wealth advisors and alternative asset managers.
Another recent report, this from the NationalBank of Australia, found that four in 10 ... 1 issue they continue to raise is labor shortages, and this is across all sectors and all parts of the country," said Andrew Irvine, the bank's group executive for business and private banking.
"When I'm out talking with customers, the number one issue they continue to raise is labor shortages, and this is across all sectors, and all parts of the country", said the bank's GroupExecutive for Business and Private Banking Andrew Irvine.
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Auto major Maruti Suzuki India and food-delivery giant Zomato were among the most purchased stocks by mutual fund managers in the month of July, data sourced by EdelweissAlternative Research showed ... Fund managers bought 4.5 million shares of the private sector lender while the value increased by Rs 8.22 billion. | <urn:uuid:8f1d6816-9676-4160-b48e-a8cfed23609c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/Private_bank_manager?from=privatebankmanager.com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964136 | 748 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Being a top app development company, we know that mobile apps have become as regular as clockwork in the lives of people. And as a mobile application developer, it is your duty to allow every user a great user interface and performance experience.
User experience is the marquee thing that everyone is aware of. The more hassle-free and effortless experience of using apps, the more famous they become. Being user friendly as well as interactive is very crucial to making the user experience smooth and seamless.
To make such highly performant apps, the market is flooded with resources and tools which react native developers can leverage. From big tech companies to new budding unicorn companies, everybody needs a solution provider who can solve the problems of users to make them useful. React Native is one such framework widely used and marquee thing that developers talk about.
What is React Native?
It is the framework you can use for the development of natively rendering mobile apps for iOS and Android. Meta Platforms Inc. has successfully developed many applications and Real Native is one of them. Facebook launches it in March 2015. It’s an open-source UI software network meaning Facebook has its rights and allows it to change, use and study.
Many businesses stumble over the platform to use to build their application. Whether to go for React Native or any other Cross Platform Mobile App Development frameworks like Ionic, PhoneGap, Xamarin, etc? Each has its uniqueness and advantages. But React Native is unique as it allows comparatively better User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX).
React Native apps have multiple advantages. They are user friendly and super-fast with their user experience. But along with that, you need to be aware of the fact that a few simple tips can help you improve the user interface multi-folds. This article gives you a deeper insight on some of the lesser known performance tips to improve the User experience in React Native apps.
- Memory leaks in lists
- setTimeout: This is the kind of hack you provide the application. It allows the animation to get some frames. The standout option is that it allows better control over time.
- InteractionManager: It allows an option of a callback that is fired after all animations are done.
- didFocus: It differs from interaction manager in that it provides a callback for when the screen is focused. So it also allows the transition to be completed.
- Application size and its performance
- Minimize the application size as much as possible.
- Create compact APK files. Specific APK files for CPU architectures can help you better the performance. This reduces the requirement to have JSCore binaries.
- Compress resources like videos, graphics and images.
- Increase native libraries which automatically accommodate more and increase performance.
- Data Storage
A very commonly hated and yet very often seen problem is memory leaks in android. You can see many options from which these memory leaks can be introduced in your react native app. For Example, if the application is a hybrid video player, then scrolling down the list of video songs through your playlist can face issues. Imagine you are surfing and scrolling up to the third or fourth page and suddenly the application freezes. This freezing of RAM takes the application down. It does not just hamper the performance but also the application standards.
But with careful ways, this problem can be eliminated. You can change the views option. The Flatview or Virtualized List view is the best option. Also, a section list is a very astonishing option to avoid this kind of blunder.
A random scroll through the play store or AppStore may lead you to highlight one comment that the app has glitches and has slow navigation. It is the reason that many applications has less following. For a seemingly seamless and effortless transition, React Native Navigation component can be used to resolve these issues.
With many components on the screen, sometimes user may notice some delay between the time users chose the option and the actual transition of the new screen. It depends on the library of navigation.
There are a few ways which developers can use to accomplish this.
You may have heard that the bigger the better when it comes to fortunes. But while building the android application, this may not be true at all. A bigger sized application is not just a catastrophe but also a disaster when it comes to its performance.
If the application is a third-party application or hybrid application, or it is using multiple pages or screens and libraries this might be a consistently occurring problem. The more resources and tools you load into the application, the more time lag and sluggishness it might develop. These loaded resources have a direct impact on the application performance.
To optimize the application size of a react native application, you should:
To toe, the line of performance, the storage in the app must be sufficient. We already know that, when you save huge data files, it makes the application a lot slower. Saving real-time data is required many a times. Using debounce is the really better option. Debounce can delay calling of save function for some predetermined time from the time it was called. It queues up what needs to be saved and then saves it all when the application is free to do it. If you use React Persist, this just makes the performance effortless.
We tried to address a few problems in the React Native application and various ways by which you can handle these problems. With this, you can go the extra mile without working hard.
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How long you cook your turkey can vary, depending on the temperature of the oven and whether or not your turkey recipe calls for a stuffed or unstuffed bird. We recommend roasting turkey at 350 degrees F for 13 minutes per pound for an unstuffed turkey.
Is it better to cook a turkey at 325 or 350?
Roast the turkey uncovered at a temperature ranging from 325°F to 350°F. Higher temperatures may cause the meat to dry out, but this is preferable to temperatures that are too low which may not allow the interior of the turkey to cook to a safe temperature.
What is the best temperature to cook a turkey?
165°F is the USDA recommended internal temperature for cooked turkey. The turkey will continue to cook for several minutes after you take it out of the oven, so take it out before the meat reaches those target temperatures.
How many minutes per pound do you cook a turkey and at what temperature?
Calculate Turkey Cooking Time and Temperature. The simplest way to figure out turkey roasting times is to calculate 13 minutes per pound at 350°F for an unstuffed turkey (that’s about 3 hours for a 12- to 14-lb turkey), or 15 minutes per pound for a stuffed turkey.
How long should a 20lb turkey cook?
If you’re baking it at 325°F (the lowest temperature the USDA recommends), you’ll need to bake a 20-lb turkey in the oven for 4 to 5 hours if it’s unstuffed, and 4 ¼ to 5 ¼ hours if it’s stuffed.
How do I keep my turkey moist?
When you roast that turkey, it will retain more moisture, making for juicier, tastier meat. To dry brine a turkey, gently separate the skin from the breast meat, and rub kosher salt into the cavity in between, as well as all over the legs and back.
How long should a 20 pound turkey cook at 350 degrees?
We recommend roasting turkey at 350 degrees F for 13 minutes per pound for an unstuffed turkey.
How Long to Cook a Turkey.
|Turkey Weight||Servings||Cooking Time|
|12 to 14 lb||8 to 10||2 3/4 to 3 hours|
|15 to 18 lb||10 to 12||3 1/4 to 4 hours|
|18 to 20 lb||12 to 14||4 to 4 1/4 hours|
|20 to 22 lb||14 to 16||4 1/4 to 4 3/4 hours|
Is it better to cook a turkey at a lower temperature?
A lower the rack will take more time to thaw. It’s absolutely critical that the turkey is completely thawed to be successful using a low-temperature, slow-bake recipe.
Should I start my turkey at a higher temperature?
I find it is best to start the turkey at a fairly high temperature (400°F), roast for about twenty minutes and then lower the heat to 350°F for the remainder of the cooking time. Sometimes I forget to lower the oven, though, and the turkey still comes out fine, just perhaps a little darker than I would like!
Why did my turkey cook so fast?
Turkeys do cook faster on a Weber because it’s basically a convection oven, plus it’s directly on the grill, not in a pan, which maximizes airflow around the bird. Still, it was even faster than I expected. The only problem with it cooking so fast is that it didn’t get much smoke flavor.
Do you cook a turkey covered or uncovered?
Always cook your turkey until the skin is a light golden color. Cover your roasting pan with a lid or foil and cook covered for 2 hours (depending on size of your bird) and uncovered for the remaining time. Baste your turkey every half hour or so.
Can you cook a turkey at 250 degrees?
As long as the turkey registers a temperature of 165 degrees F. it is safe to eat no matter the color. This requires a cooking time: At 235 degrees F your turkey will take 30 to 35 minutes per pound. At 250 degrees F your turkey will take 25 to 30 minutes per pound.
How often do I baste a turkey?
How often to baste a turkey. Most recipes will tell you to baste your turkey every thirty minutes. But our rule of thumb is actually every forty minutes, and here’s why. You don’t want to open the oven too many times, or else the whole bird will take much long to cook, and that’s a huge inconvenience.
How long should you cook a turkey at 325?
For one 8- to 12-pound turkey, roast at 325°F for 2¾ to 3 hours.
Should I cover my turkey with aluminum foil?
Just make sure you uncover the lid about 30 minutes before the turkey’s done roasting so the skin has a chance to get crispy. … Covering the bird with foil mimics what a roaster lid would do — it traps steam and moistness so the turkey doesn’t dry out — all the while allowing the skin to crisp up.
What is the fastest way to thaw a 20 pound turkey?
We recommended thawing a 4- to 12-pound turkey in cold water for 2 to 6 hours, a 12- to 16-pound turkey for 6 to 8 hours, or a 20- to 24-pound turkey for 10 to 12 hours. Estimate about 30 minutes per pound of turkey to thaw in the sink. | <urn:uuid:ad0861a4-1124-4a9a-9d9b-b26ef4202827> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solefoodkitchen.com/%D1%81ooking-outdoors/question-how-long-should-you-cook-a-turkey-and-what-temperature.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.908567 | 1,171 | 1.851563 | 2 |
— -- Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida Sunday, days after the powerful storm's winds and rain devastated many islands in the Caribbean.
Many humanitarian organizations are still reeling from the massive devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which inundated Houston with deadly floodwater less than two weeks ago.
Here are some ways to help those impacted by Irma. All of the charity organizations below have been approved by the nonprofit group Charity Navigator as highly-rated organizations that are currently responding to areas affected by Irma.
American Red Cross
"The Red Cross has mobilized its second massive hurricane response in two weeks to help people affected by Hurricane Irma," the organization said in a statement on its website. "Relief efforts stretch from the U.S. Virgin Islands through Florida to the mid-Atlantic region."
The American Red Cross is accepting donations to help with Irma relief efforts on its website and by phone at 1- 800-RED CROSS. People can also text the word "IRMA" to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Catholic Relief Services
This international humanitarian organization that is affiliated with the U.S. Catholic church and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has already begun responding to the devastation in the Caribbean, providing shelter, water, hygiene kits and other supplies to those displaced by Irma. Information on how to donate and where the funds are being allocated is available on its website.
The NGO Direct Relief has staff already stationed in Miami, ready to respond to medical needs that arise across Florida, according to its website, where information on how to help is available.
Heart to Heart International
Heart to Heart International, which focuses on providing access to health care, is preparing a disaster team and Mobile Medical Unit to respond in Florida and other parts of the U.S. where Irma hits, according to its website.
"Hurricane Irma has already caused significant damage, and millions more people live in its path. Our relief workers are on the ground in several different locations, coordinating with partners and standing ready to help address health needs resulting from the storm,” Garrett Ingoglia, Americares' vice president of emergency response, said in a statement on the group's website, which is currently accepting donations.
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund has already begun responding to Irma's devastation in the Caribbean. The humanitarian group, which focuses on advocating for children, is also preparing for its response to those affected in the U.S. The group is accepting donations via text and on its website.
The non-demonimational Christian organization has already responded on the ground, bringing critical supplies to those affected by Irma in St. Maarten, and announced on its website that it is "ready to go" in Florida. Donations can be submitted on its website.
Other ways to help
ABC News' technology and consumer correspondent Becky Worley shared additional ways to help survivors of Irma, besides donating money.
Worley advised that many charities and relief organizations have advised against donating large amounts of clothing or goods because of infrastructure challenges that arise when people are displaced.
Instead, one way to help out is to open your home to displaced families or relief workers. The website Airbnb can match people who have spare rooms with those who are displaced or helping with relief efforts.
Another way to help without donating money is to volunteer your time during the relief efforts. Worley recommends finding an organization that matches your individual skill set, or calling your local chapter of big volunteer organizations such as the American Red Cross or Catholic Charities, for example.
Finally, another way to help communities affected by the storm is to take in a pet that was transported out of an area affected by Irma. | <urn:uuid:d04e2368-15ed-4971-a958-4078b77b2014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abcnews.go.com/International/charities-begin-accepting-donations-areas-affected-hurricane-irma/story?id=49681095 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958289 | 769 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Among white Tulsans, Ellsworth encountered a mix of shame and defiance. Photographs and official records had disappeared. Someone had even cut out relevant parts of The Tulsa Tribune before the newspaper was committed to microfilm. Black Tulsans, too, had their own reasons not to revisit what happened. What they had lived through was horrific — Ellsworth himself has likened it to an American Kristallnacht. Many of those who had survived didn’t want to burden their children with such trauma.
He did find some Black survivors who wanted to talk — but not to him, at least not at first. In the mid-1970s, Ellsworth introduced himself to W.D. Williams, who was a 16-year-old high school student in 1921. Williams had been waiting for decades to tell his life story, but Ellsworth knew that he “sure as hell” hadn’t been waiting to tell it to someone like him: a young Reed College student who hadn’t written a book or even an article yet, and “had grown up on the same side of town that, 54 years earlier, the people who had tried to murder him, his mother and his father had come from.”
“The Ground Breaking” is filled with moments like these — candid and self-aware, undergirded by Ellsworth’s earnest efforts to get at this history, and to get it right. Where the history of the massacre wasn’t obscured, he found it distorted, deformed by conspiracy theories or attempts to both-sides it. Part of what makes this book so riveting is Ellsworth’s skillful narration, his impeccable sense for when to reveal a piece of information and when to hold something back. During his research he seized on any numbers that were available. He found one particularly rich source in medical statistics compiled by Maurice Willows, who arrived in Tulsa in 1921 to lead the first coordinated response by the American Red Cross to a man-made disaster.
In his report, Willows listed the number of hospital admissions and the number of people requiring urgent care. But he didn’t include the number of dead, and he explained why: “Figures are omitted for the reason that NO ONE KNOWS.” A century later, Ellsworth says, “that is still the case.”
“The Ground Breaking” makes for sobering reading; but it also sheds light, and some of it is hopeful. Ellsworth makes clear that Oklahoma is decidedly not a model of racial reconciliation — it was the only state where not a single county voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, and where all of those counties voted twice for Donald Trump. Yet with last year’s exhumation of those graves, it’s also where Tulsa’s Republican mayor has committed to doing something that Ellsworth calls unprecedented: deliberately setting out to locate the remains of those murdered by racist violence. The history of homegrown bigotry and selective amnesia might be very old, but this, Ellsworth writes, “was something new.” | <urn:uuid:1bb30526-8df4-4d05-87b0-b9be05bb5875> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cnnewstoday.com/1489/a-skillful-narrative-of-excavating-the-truth-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre/books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.984097 | 646 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Lunar Outpost, a Golden, CO-based commercial planetary mobility company, raised $12M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Explorer 1 Fund with participation from Promus Ventures, Space Capital, and Type One Ventures, and Cathexis Ventures. Explorer 1 Fund’s Daniel Kleinman and Promus Ventures Partner Gareth Keane also joined Lunar Outpost’s Board of Directors.
The company intends to use the funds to launch a new class of autonomous lunar rovers, deploy its robotics in additional environments, and invest in new technologies to improve its existing platforms.
Led by CEO Justin Cyrus, Lunar Outpost is developing and implementing technology that enables a sustainable presence in cislunar space, including commercial space robotics, lunar surface mobility, and in-situ resource utilization solutions.
Its technologies have both Earth and space applications, providing “mobility as a service” on the Moon to companies, researchers, governments, and universities. Its modular autonomous rovers and service-based business model aim to lower the cost to explore space, build interplanetary infrastructure, and harvest the vast resources of space. Current offerings include:
- Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP): a commercial lunar prospector, a robotic vehicle designed to explore and investigate key resources and characteristics on lunar surfaces. In 2023, the MAPP rover will provide mobility too Nokia’s LTE/4G with Intuitive Machines to build, integrate and test the LTE/4G network on the surface of the Moon.
- Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), which contributed to the first demonstration of space resource utilization on another planet by creating oxygen from the atmosphere of Mars.
- Canary Industrial-Grade Environmental Monitors, continuous smart IoT devices customizable for PM 2.5, tVOC, O3, NO2, CH4, CO, meteorological data and much more. | <urn:uuid:d01c2d5e-b736-44d6-943d-2c2089e72a3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.finsmes.com/2022/05/lunar-outpost-raises-12m-in-seed-funding.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.869659 | 409 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Adding the B vitamin folic acid to flour has been the subject of five years of debate in Britain some have heralded this as a way to lower the number of births affected by neural tube defects (NTDs), which affects around 900 pregnancies a year. However, two studies carried out last year raised questions on whether a greater intake of folic acid could encourage cancer in some areas of the population. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) was supposed to decide on whether to introduce mandatory folic acid fortification of bread or flour some time this year, following advice from the Scientific Advisory Group on Nutrition (SACN). However, it will now delay its decision until the middle of 2009, when it will have reviewed a further two studies that will be completed at the end of this year. Investigation into folic acid Last May, the FSA board decided to recommend that health ministers introduce mandatory fortification of bread of flour with folic acid. It estimated such action alone could reduce NTD births by about a third - from 1,100 to 350-400. However, it subsequently called on food manufacturers to consider reducing folic acid levels in some foods to ward against overexposure at the same time two reports were released on links between folic acid and cancer. Cole et al (Journal of the American Medical Association) conducted a randomised trial that investigated the potential of folic acid in the prevention of new growths forming on the colon in a group of patients who already had some removed, at a time when mandatory fortification was introduced in the USA. There was no evidence to show that folic acid supplementation was successful. Furthermore, there was a significantly greater incidence of advance lesions in the folic acid group compared to the placebo group. A paper by Mason looks at a temporal association between folic acid fortification and an increase in colorectal cancer in the USA and Canada. Mandatory fortification was in place in the US by the beginning of 1998 and in Canada the following year. The FSA is set to wait for results of a new US study that will investigate the effect of folic acid on the risk of bowel cancer. Another study that will form part of the FSA's review is an assessment of pooled data from trials investigating the effect of folic acids on cardiovascular disease (CVD) that will also collect data on cancer risk. 'Concerns are unfounded' Liam Donaldson, a member of the SACN, said that while the trial by Cole raised concerns, the increased risk of colectoral cancer "appears to be associated with doses in excess of the upper safe level of 1mg per day of folic acid". Donaldson also said the trend data in the Mason study "might be explained either by increased screening or by increased intakes of folic acid as a result of fortification". There has been backlash within the industry over the FSA's hesitancy in requiring manufacturers to use flour fortified with folic acid. Last month, Folic Acid Action (FAA) said that the FSA's position "lacks clarity" and its concerns were "unfounded". It said no risks had actually been proven over increased consumption of folic acid. At the same time, the organisation insisted the vitamin helped reduce dementia in the elderly and CVD, as well as helping against NTDs. It is estimated that around 13.3m people in the UK currently consume too little folate, natural dietary sources of which include grains, lentils, chick peas and green leafy vegetables. No other European country has yet introduced the measure, but Ireland is at an advanced stage in the process. | <urn:uuid:10e61fd3-7cef-420c-9c73-7060584f4e3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2008/03/04/Cancer-fears-delay-folic-acid-decision | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972422 | 729 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The internet service provider has been under investigation for blocking file-sharing among subscribers, but announced a change of heart today, promising to treat all apps equally — but they'll still slow down traffic for customers who consume larger amounts of bandwidth than others.
Since user reports of interference with file-sharing traffic were confirmed by an Associated Press investigation in October, Comcast has been vigorously defending its practices, most recently at a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in February.
Consumer and "Net Neutrality" advocates have been equally vigorous in their attacks on the company, saying that by secretly blocking some connections between file-sharing computers, Comcast made itself a judge and gatekeeper for the Internet.
They also accused Comcast of stifling delivery of Internet video, an emerging competitor to the cable company's core business.
Comcast has said that its practices were necessary to keep file-sharing traffic from overwhelming local cable lines, where neighbors share capacity with one another. On Thursday, Comcast said that by the end of the year, it will move to a system that manages capacity without favoring one type of traffic over another.
Update: here's a press release issued by Comcast about a hollow, face-saving, baloney-scented deal with BitTorrent announced today. The bit about "a capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic" effectively means that heavy P2P users will still be throttled, they just won't be identified by protocol.
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#UNSTOPPABLE® IMPACT STORIES: JACKSON
Assistive and adaptive technologies such as communication devices and mobility equipment enable individuals living with disabilities to maximize their abilities, exercise their independence and actively take part in their communities. Every year, thousands of people across Canada benefit from the assistive equipment and adaptive technology supports provided by Easter Seals.
Learn more about Easter Seals programs and services.
Jackson is a little boy living with a disability who is full of life. He is a happy child who brings joy to his family and everyone who knows him. His mother Hannah, describes him as “the strongest, bravest, most incredible boy” she knows.
Jackson was born very premature and at the age of 4, he required specialized technology for communication.
“Jackson was born weighing 1 pound 10 ounces, and has since exceeded all of the expectations that doctors set for him,” Hannah says. “He has yet to walk, talk or eat on his own but he is always smiling.”
“Jackson is non-verbal, so by receiving the EyeGaze system, a whole world of communication has been opened to him with just the use of his eyes. We are so thankful for this amazing technology that will provide Jackson with his own voice.” – Jackson’s mother, Hannah
After receiving the EyeGaze communication aid through Easter Seals, Jackson is now able to express himself in new ways and build his confidence and independence!
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The foundation annually awards scholarships to outgoing seniors in the district who are pursuing a college degree or vocational training beyond high school. This year, despite the cancellation of the scholarship award ceremony, 315 students were selected to receive 342 scholarships, according to a news release from the foundation.
“I am so thankful for all the opportunities McAuliffe has given me in my life,” said Garrett Karbs, recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Elementary Scholarship and Marcus High School senior. “It gave me a true passion for learning and an enjoyment to come to school. I am especially thankful for this scholarship now.”
Karbs plans to attend The University of Texas in Austin and study business, thanks in part to the LEF scholarship.
“This scholarship will help ease the financial burden of college and allow me to focus more on my classes,” he said.
More than 1,100 seniors from each of the five high schools in LISD applied for an LEF scholarship. Criteria for each scholarship are developed by the scholarship donor and are based on both financial need and merit.
Scholarships average between $500 and $3,000 with the largest two being the $10,000 Steve Allen Memorial Scholarship and the $20,000 Jessica Martinet Memorial Scholarship. They are established by individuals and organizations that want to not only reward outstanding LISD seniors, but also to promote study in a specific area of study. The Martinet scholarship, for instance, will be awarded to a special needs student or a student pursuing special education as a major.
“We are grateful to the donors who make all of this possible,” said Thomas White, LEF executive director. “Many great community partners have stepped forward to permanently endow a scholarship allowing us to award them every year, and we have a tremendous group of donors who give each year so that LISD seniors have the best chance to further develop academically, professionally and personally.”
To see a complete list of all announced recipients, click here.
Pam Nelson, LEF vice president for Programs and Outcomes, said that raising money for and awarding scholarships are two of the main functions of the foundation.
“We make it one of our main goals each year to reward the hard work of LISD seniors through these scholarships,” Nelson said. “From raising money to selecting each scholarship recipient, we spend a great deal of time and effort to make sure these students will be able to continue their success after they graduate.”
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Localization is the key to any global e-learning course. Without it, the course’s success and even your company’s profitability may be diminished. Yikes. That’s a pretty scary thought – especially if you’re spending a great deal of time, resources and money to make your e-learning course amazing.
We know, some of you may be thinking, “Hold on! My course is going to be a failure because of local-what?” Although it may sound like a confusing word, localization doesn’t have a complex meaning at all. It simply means adapting a translation so that people who live in a certain location can understand it. For example, if people listening to your course in Panama get a version that was translated and recorded in Mexican Spanish, they probably won’t understand some of your message.
And – don’t be mad at the messenger – but there’s even worse news. Let’s just say you used humor, slang or sarcasm in the course. Some cultures don’t use or understand any of these things within their local dialects. In fact, sometimes a lack of localization can lead to the audience finding the material offensive!
In a nutshell, that’s the bad stuff that can happen when you don’t use e-learning localization. Now, let’s take a look at all the great things that will occur when you do use it.
Localization opens up new markets.
That’s right. With e-learning localization, your message can be heard and – most importantly – understood by anyone. No longer will your market be only English speaking groups. Now anyone interested in quality e-learning opportunities in their native languages will have the ability to benefit from your courses. This will open up many doors for you, as your market (and revenue!) will grow.
When you use localization, you gain credibility.
We’re sure you’ve heard the phrase “You get what you pay for.” This couldn’t be truer when it comes to localization. Yes, it costs money to have your materials translated properly for each target audience. But when you make the investment, the value of your course skyrockets. Now, you are really a global company with a brand that embraces effective communication with people in different parts of the world.
Localization helps people to learn.
If you work for a company that uses e-learning courses to train employees, localization will allow you to properly train those who may not know English as a first language. Localization gives these employees a chance to understand what you want to teach them. With good training, they will be able to do their jobs efficiently.
So what are you waiting for? If you want to gain access to more markets, boost your company’s credibility, and really help people to learn, e-learning localization is for you. The best part is that you don’t have to do anything other than contact us here at Metro Audio & Video. We specialize in localization and have 2 decades of experience. Leave the localization to us, and you can spend more time creating amazing course materials! | <urn:uuid:38fae4bf-0263-461b-babf-eedc947da09a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metroavonline.com/blog/localization/elearning-localization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944252 | 664 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Source: Australia BioCommons
Australian BioCommons is thrilled to announce the launch of the Australian Apollo Service in partnership with QCIF and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. This new service offers access to the popular tool, Apollo, which facilitates real-time collaborative curation and genome annotation editing, along with a valuable layer of IT support. The Australian Apollo Service allows researchers to focus on the genome annotation curation itself by taking care of all the system administration and hosting customised, local instances of Apollo.
Community roadmaps developed together with the Genome Annotation and Genome Assembly Communities highlighted the local need for access to Apollo. Many researchers who undertake genome annotation work identified Apollo as essential to their research as it allows them to collaboratively improve genome annotations that are the product of automated annotation tools or pipelines. But these researchers faced significant challenges in using this software as the overhead of deploying and managing an Apollo instance themselves was too high.
Recognising this as a priority, Australian BioCommons has brought together partners at QCIF and Pawsey to build and deliver a service that is freely available to Australian-based research groups and research consortia. The complete system administration, build and deployment of the instance is done on behalf of researchers, with support provided through a help desk, user documentation and training events. The deployment of a full technology stack, long term hosting of data, maintenance updates and security are all covered by the Australian Apollo Service, providing customised, local instances of the Apollo software for individual genome projects.
At our launch webinar, you’ll hear what’s possible from Dr Rahul Rane (CSIRO), Prof Sandie Degnan and Prof Bernie Degnan (University of Queensland) and Julia Voelker (Southern Cross University). The demonstration of what Apollo brings to these researchers’ genome annotation and curation workflows will be accompanied by an overview of what the Australian Apollo Service can offer from Dr Tiffanie Nelson (Australian BioCommons).
New users will be supported by a hands-on training workshop Refining genome annotations with Apollo in November led by experts in the Apollo tool and its use to support genome annotation, Dr Anthony Bretaudeau (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment), Dr Helena Rasche (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands) and Dr Sarah Williams (QCIF).
If you are interested in genome annotation, editing and curation, or you think that Apollo might be useful for your research, please join us for the webinar: Launching the new Apollo Service: collaborative genome annotation for Australian researchers on Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 12:00 pm AEST.
BioCommons partner QCIF is offering the Apollo Portal service, and it is underpinned by computational resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. These efforts are supported by funding from the Queensland Government’s Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF), Bioplatforms Australia (BPA) and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). BPA and ARDC are enabled by NCRIS. | <urn:uuid:7a245b56-76b9-4cb4-96b3-7cc94ed19a7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pawsey.org.au/launching-the-new-australian-apollo-service-for-collaborative-genome-annotation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.905761 | 627 | 2.03125 | 2 |
San Antonio has a rich history of leadership and innovation in civil and military aviation.
The first flight of an airplane in the San Antonio skies was in February 1910 by French barnstormer Louis Paulhan. It was quickly followed by the first military flight in the United States, by Lt. Benjamin Foulois at Fort Sam Houston on 2 March 1910. In February 1911 the Army purchased five additional aircraft, which arrived in San Antonio in May, accompanied by three other Army flyers who had trained in California: Paul W. Beck, John C. Walker and George E. M. Kelly. Flying was dangerous, with a number of near-misses and crash landings, one of which resulted in the death of Kelly during his qualification flight. As a result of the accident, the commander of Fort Sam Houston, a longtime opponent of aircraft for the military, forbade any further flying at the Fort. The Signal Corps ordered all aircraft and personnel back to College Park, Maryland, putting a halt to military aviation in San Antonio for the next four years.
Military flying resumed in San Antonio in November 1915, when the newly-created 1st Aero Squadron arrived at Fort Sam Houston. The squadron remained at the post only until March 1916, when it left to join Brigadier General John J. Pershing’s Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa on the U.S.-Mexico border. Problems experienced by the 1st Aero Squadron on that expedition and the ongoing war in Europe persuaded Congress to improve and expand the nation’s air arm. In August 1916, over $13 million was appropriated for military aviation, and the Signal Corps undertook a major reorganization.
As part of this effort, Foulois, now a Major, returned to San Antonio to form two new aero squadrons and create an aero supply depot. It was quickly apparent that Fort Sam Houston had inadequate space for additional flying operations, especially with newer and more powerful aircraft. On November 21, 1916, Major Foulois, with the support of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, selected a site five miles southwest of the city for a new aviation airfield. On April 1917, one day before the U.S. entered World War I, four aircraft landed at the field to begin flying operations on what had been named Kelly Field. By the end of May, the field’s population had grown to over 4,000 men.
Eventually, 326 aero squadrons were formed at Kelly during World War I, with all but twenty of these moving to other installations in the U.S. or overseas. Kelly instructors trained over 1,500 pilots and thousands of men received training at the Air Service Mechanics School, founded in October 1917. After World War I Kelly Field continued to be the site of important advanced skills training: n the 1920’s it graduated some of the world’s legendary pilots, including Charles Lindbergh and Major General Claire Chennault. Kelly Field was closed in 2001.
If you walk the 42km marathon during the Texas Trail Roundup on Saturday you will pass through Stinson Municipal Airport. In 1915, Marjorie, Katherine, Jack, and Eddie Stinson arrived and established the Stinson School of Flying at what later became Stinson Field.
Hoping to finance her musical education with money earned from exhibition flying, Alabama native Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) convinced famed flight instructor Max Lillie of Chicago to take her on as a student in 1912. Katherine became the fourth licensed female pilot in the U.S., began touring as a stunt pilot and became one of the country’s most famous female aviators. Her family–mother Emma, sister Marjorie and brothers Eddie and Jack–established the Stinson Aviation Company in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Marjorie and Eddie trained at the Wright Flying School in Ohio and also became pilots. In 1913, Max Lillie encouraged the Stinsons to move to San Antonio where the army had granted him permission to use the parade ground at Fort Sam Houston.
The family leased 500 acres of farmland from the city in 1916 and established Stinson Field. Marjorie founded the Stinson School of Aviation, thus being the first woman to own and operate a flying school in the United States. During its first years in operation, the Stinson family flying school trained many World War I pilots. After the ban of civilian flights during World War I, Stinson Field became the city’s civil airport in 1918.
You can tour the Texas Air Museum at Stinson Field, open Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Admission is $4 ($3 if you are over 55.) The museum boasts a large and varied collection of aircraft, vehicles, uniforms, weapons, and other artifacts. Of particular note are Katherine Stinson’s Bleriot, an AVRO Tri-Planeand many aircraft from the early days of flight. It’s also a great place to eat. At the he Big Bib Barbecue Restaurant inside the terminal you can gnaw on a rib while watching the planes take-off and land.
Want to learn more about the aviation history of San Antonio? Wings Over the Alamo, an hour-long documentary produced by our Public Television Station, KLRN, can be watched online:
The Saturday walk that goes through Stinson Field qualifies for this new AVA Special Program that will launch in 2020.
This program runs January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2022. Redeem completed books by Dec 31, 2023. The program includes major Metropolitan and International Airports, smaller Regional Airports, Small Regional Airfields, and even Military Airfields if the walk criterion is met, but Heliports or Helipads do not count. The qualifier is meant to define that the walk must be near enough to see airport operations., The walk needs to be along a roadway or pathway adjacent to, abutting, or such similar terms to the Airport property line. Cost of book is $10. Qualifier is 12 different AVA sanctioned events (Same walk/different year = different walk event.) Patch is 3 ½ x 4 1/2” multicolored embroidered patch. Make checks payable to Seneca Valley Sugarloafers. Order books from POC: Michael Cannon, PO Box 3716, Gaithersburg, MD 20885-3716 email@example.com 301-540-0466. | <urn:uuid:7564dc3d-c655-435f-b28e-fd184df746bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://texastrailroundup.org/san-antonio-flight-stinson-field/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955376 | 1,325 | 3.375 | 3 |
Tall Ships Races in the Baltic and Mediterranean thi s summer, 24 countries were signed up to participate. Germany , Great Britain and Russia each entered more than 20 vessels and France had four vessels signed up (more than ever before). But still no entry from the USA, although I did notice that there were transatlantic entries from Mexico , Venezuela, Urug uay and Belize and other entries from as far afield as Australi a, Oman and Indones ia. Come on, Sea History! Stir them up before all us E uropeans disgrace you by coming across (again) in the millenium year! MORIN SCOTI
Paphos, Cyprus The latest word from Commander Scott is that one American ship did, indeed, join the fleet-the US Coast Guard bark Eagle came in eighth in a field of eleven Class A ships in the Rostock-St. Petersburg race. But what about the rest ofyou ? (Race results are on p. 39.}-ED.
new edition of the Guide to Maritime Museums. Any takers ?-ED.
Kaiulani Down Under In researching the Iife of my grandfather Daniel William Ripley , for a biography I am writing , I fo und the article " Bringing Home the 'American Ship, "' about the Kaiulani, in Sea History 72. During the Second World War my grandfather was contracted to the US Army Small Sh ips Section and served in the Southwest Pacific Zone. As skipper of the sea-goi ng tug James Wallace his duties were transporting troops and supplies to the US lines to repel the invading Japanese. Hi s initi a l duty under the American flag was to tow the Mainebui It bark Kaiulani from Tasmania to Sydney (illustrated in the SH 72 article). My grandfather kept a record of this trip but from the rug 's perspective, and the account of the voyage from Karl Kortum 's pers pective aboard the Kaiulani complements hi s writing. STUART RIPLEY
How Did They Know? I just read "Report from the Falkl ands" in Sea History 78 and am curious about something. How did the tug Samson, which rescued the Wavertree when she was dismasted in December 19 10, know that the vessel was in distrees? Was the Wavertree eq uipped with a wireless? HENRY E. JOHNSO McLean, Virginia The Wavertree had no radio and, in fact, no electrical appliances ofany kind, and no power other than the men's muscle and the wind in her sails. Strangely enough, she didn't even have a donkey engine. The dismastedWavertree ran downwind to the Falklands under a few scraps of canvas, and dropped anchor outside the narrow, tricky entrance to Stanley, where she was in plain sight.-ED.
Sydney, Australia ''The sea is one," and it's grand to hear from the other end ofthe hawser after half a century,from half a world away.-ED.
Memories of Ernestina Recently I came upon Sea History 34 (Winter 1984-85) at our library and my attention was drawn to the article on Rick Lopes 's quest to make a film about the schooner Ernestina (ex-Effie M . Morrissey). I have a particular interest in the vessel as I sai led aboard her during World War II. While I was ass igned to HQ B W 1 at
Narsarssuak Fjord in Geenl and, my job involved checki ng bases in Greenland and Ice land. During this tour I was assigned to the Effie M. Morrissey for a45day inspection crui se up the east coast. Captai n Bob Bartlettof Brigus, Newfo undl and, was the skipper and hi s brother Will was part of the small crew. I am 78 years of age and I shall never forget the wo nderfu l friendship that existed between us. After the War we wrote to each other. Indeed, I treasure hi s letters . His funeral at Campbell s in New York City was attended by his admirers from E urope and elsewhere. I was glad to learn that the vessel has been restored and sails today out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, as the Ernestina. LT. COL. ROBERT LEE GROSS (R ET.)
Bainbridge Island, Washington QUERIES
Robert L. Webb, curator at the Maine Maritime Museum , wants information about the SS Atlantic Sun, a tanker built by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock in 1920. The ship served the Sun Oil Company until the late 1930s, when she was sold to Italian interests, and finished up in the 1950s as SS Panuco for Petroleos Mexicanos in Mexico. Contact Mr. Webb with photographs, memories, documents, plans-anything on this ship-at HC32, Box 29, Phippsburg ME 04562-9601. A 48-year-o ld mechanic in Russia is interested in correspond ing and exchanging stamps and postcards with people who share his interest in ships and polar expeditions. Write Arkady Norinski at PO Box 20, 19670 St. Petersburg, RUSSIA.
This cachet was postmarked aboard the San Diego Maritime Muse um' s Star oflndia of 1863, at sea on 18 August 1996. The image is from Richard DeRossett' s portrait of the Star under sail on 9September 191 3 en routefromNushagak , Alaska, to her home port ofSan Francisco with a cargo of canned salmon for the Alaska Packers Association. (See story, pp. 16-17.)
What's New with the Guide? It looks like author and deckhand Joseph Stanford is having a fun time working on tugs in and aro und New York Harbor (Sea History 76). It reads as if there could be a book in his adve ntures. Before that, though, is there any possi bility thathe (or someone else) wi ll update Sea History's Guide to American and Canadian Maritime Museums (1990)? The Guide is very informative but it should be revi sed every five years or so. PETER HORN E
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