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Ovarian cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the tissues of the ovaries. The ovaries, located on either side of the uterus, or womb, produce eggs for reproduction along with the hormones estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Ovarian cancer may develop in one or both ovaries. Cancerous growths may occur in any of the three different parts of the ovary. Ovarian cancer is hard to detect and often is not found until it has spread to the pelvis and abdomen, making it difficult to treat. While it is not a common cancer, it causes more deaths than other cancers of the female reproductive system.
With the UAB Medicine Ovarian Cancer Program, you receive care in the most advanced facilities from board-certified gynecologic oncologists trained in surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Our experts design customized treatment plans for each patient’s individual needs and use the latest technology to screen for and treat all types of women’s reproductive cancers.
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Your physicians at UAB Medicine are national and international leaders in gynecologic cancer and treat more gynecologic cancer patients in Alabama than any other group. Our modern clinical facilities include an embedded chemo-infusion unit. You will have access to the full range of the latest minimally invasive and open surgical techniques, including robotic surgery and complex radical surgery.
UAB Medicine is nationally renowned for our care of patients with women’s cancers. We have been recognized as one of the leading gynecologic oncology research divisions in the world and were one of five institutions to be awarded a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in ovarian cancer by the NIH. We currently partner with Johns Hopkins University in a cervical cancer SPORE. We are dedicated to improving treatments and ultimately finding a cure for these cancers.
Our physicians have access to a large portfolio of clinical trials, which gives many patients the opportunity to receive pioneering treatments not available at other medical centers. Through our Gynecologic Cancer Risk Assessment clinic, we also offer comprehensive risk assessments and prevention strategies for breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer, arming women with knowledge to make informed decisions about their cancer risk and care.
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Dr. Chih-Cheng Chen is Associate Research Fellow in Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica at Taipei, Taiwan. He worked as Assistant Research Fellow in Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica at Taipei, Taiwan form 2003-2011. He received his PhD from University College London, UK in the year 1997.
My basic research interest is to understand the molecular mechanism and genetic control of pain sensation and neurosensory mechanotransduction. In past years, I have accomplished works relating to molecular cloning and functional characterization of sensory neuron-specific ion channels, including ATP-gated ion channels (P2X3), acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs), and stretch-activated ion channels. I am actively engaged in work ranging from molecular biology to electrophysiology to animal behaviors. My laboratory is currently pursuing several different lines of research: A major interest is in pain mechanism, especially the pain associated with tissue acidosis. Muscle pain is our current focus. The long-range goal is to understand and control the intractable chronic musculoskeletal pain, such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndromes, complex regional pain syndromes, etc. A second major interest of the lab is related to neurosensory mechanotransduction. While sensory neurons are known to respond to chemical, thermal, and electrical stimulation, the effect of mechanics on these highly sensitive cells is still not known. Mechanoreceptors of sensory neurons diversely localize in specialized nerve terminals, which make a challenging for distinguishing, approaching, and mechanical stimulation. To conquer this difficulty, we have developed a novel method of analyzing mechanotransduction of neurite via localized elastomeric matrix control and electrophysiology. We aim to identify the stretch-activated ion channels that contribute to movement disorder and chronic pain in peripheral neuropathies.
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Team Members use interpersonal skills to help refugees cope with trauma and extreme change, guiding them toward stability by sharing faith in Jesus Christ and giving practical help in a ministry team. Experience in counseling would be helpful. The duration of this role is a minimum of 2 months and up to three years or more.
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Janalyn Duersch knew as a teenager that she wanted to be a Special Education Teacher. She began her career as a staff assistant 22 years ago and after 4 years began her journey to pursue that dream. “I knew what I wanted to be when I was 14. My family friend was a special ed teacher at Logan High School and encouraged me to get a job as a staff assistant while I was in college so that I could garner experience. He helped me to get a job at Logan High. I did my degree at Utah State University and worked at Logan High simultaneously.”
Janalyn is a teacher in the Adult Transition Program in the Ogden School District in Ogden Utah where her primary job is teaching students with moderate-severe disabilities ages 18-22 in a community based post high school program. She determines student needs to create plans and instruction for independent living skills, vocational skills, post-secondary education, community skills, social skills, hygiene skills and functional academics. She also delivers instruction, advocates for and links students and their families with community agencies such as Vocational Rehabilitation, Division of Services for People with Disabilities and The Utah Independent Living Center. Janalyn supervises staff, completes requisite paperwork (“Oh so much paperwork!”), collaborates with agencies, coordinates and creates job placements with local businesses, teams with other teachers, collects and analyzes data and disseminates information to the community. | <urn:uuid:6ddc33f7-e58b-48ba-8563-75c8e789a21e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transitionuniverse.org/category/teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961147 | 445 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Effects of smoking on the brain
If you smoke, you are more likely to have a stroke than someone who doesn’t smoke. In fact, smoking increases your risk of having a stroke by at least 50%.
One way that smoking can increase your risk of a stroke is by increasing your chances of developing a brain aneurysm. This is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall. This can rupture or burst which will lead to an extremely serious condition known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is a type of stroke, and can cause extensive brain damage and death.
Effects of smoking on the skin
Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your skin. This means that if you smoke, your skin ages more quickly and looks grey and dull. The toxins in your body also cause cellulite.
Smoking prematurely ages your skin by between 10 and 20 years, and makes it three times more likely you’ll get facial wrinkling, particularly around the eyes and mouth. Smoking even gives you a sallow, yellow-grey complexion and hollow cheeks, which can cause you to look gaunt.
Effects of smoking on the mouth and throat
Smoking causes unattractive problems such as bad breath and stained teeth, and can also cause gum disease and damage your sense of taste.
The most serious damage smoking causes in your mouth and throat is an increased risk of cancer in your lips, tongue, throat, voice box and oesophagus. More than 93% of oral cancers are caused by smoking.
Effects of smoking on the lungs
Your lungs can be very badly affected by smoking. Coughs, colds, wheezing and asthma are just the start. Smoking can cause fatal diseases such as pneumonia, emphysema and lung cancer. Smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer and 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease, including bronchitis.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease. The main cause of COPD is smoking and the likelihood of developing COPD increases the more you smoke and the longer you’ve been smoking. This is because smoking irritates and inflames the lungs, which results in scarring.
Effects of smoking on the heart
Smoking damages your heart and your blood circulation, increasing the risk of conditions such as coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke, peripheral vascular disease (damaged blood vessels) and cerebrovascular disease (damaged arteries that supply blood to your brain).
Carbon monoxide from the smoke and nicotine both put a strain on the heart by making it work faster. They also increase your risk of blood clots. Other chemicals in cigarette smoke damage the lining of your coronary arteries, leading to furring of the arteries.
In fact, smoking doubles your risk of having a heart attack, and if you smoke you have twice the risk of dying from coronary heart disease than lifetime non-smokers.
Effects of smoking on the stomach
Smokers have an increased chance of getting stomach cancer or ulcers. Smoking can weaken the muscle that controls the lower end of your oesophagus and allow acid from the stomach to travel in the wrong direction back up your gullet, a process known as reflux.
Smoking is a significant risk factor for developing kidney cancer, and the more you smoke the greater the risk. For example, research has shown that if you regularly smoke 10 cigarettes a day, you are one and a half times more likely to develop kidney cancer compared with a non-smoker. This is increased to twice as likely if you smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day.
Effects of smoking on fertility
Smoking can cause male impotence, as it damages the blood vessels that supply blood to the penis. It can also damage sperm, reduce sperm count and cause testicular cancer. Up to 120,000 men from the UK in their 20s and 30s are impotent as a direct result of smoking, and men who smoke have a lower sperm count than those who are non-smokers.
For women, smoking can reduce fertility. One study found that smokers were over three times more likely than non-smokers to have taken more than one year to conceive. The study estimated that the fertility of smoking women was 72% that of non-smokers.
Smoking also increases your risk of cervical cancer. People who smoke are less able to get rid of the HPV infection from the body, which can develop into cancer.
Smoking while you are pregnant can lead to miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth and illness, and it increases the risk of cot death by at least 25%.
Effects of smoking on the bones
Smoking can cause your bones to become weak and brittle. Women need to be especially careful as they are more likely to suffer from brittle bones (osteoporosis) than non-smokers.
Effects of smoking on the circulation
When you smoke, the toxins from cigarette smoke enter your bloodstream. This can make your blood thicker and increase your blood pressure and heart rate, making your heart work harder than normal. The amount of oxygen in your blood can also reduce by the narrowing of arteries and this affects the blood circulating to your organs.
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|Name||Canaan Mountain Formation|
|Geologic age||Lower Ordovician and Proterozoic Z|
Metamorphic > SchistRusty-weathering, coarse garnet schist and feldspathic schist.
|Comments||Part of Taconic-Berkshire Zone (Ordovician and Older Rocks); east of Berkshire Highlands. Shown as Canaan Mountain Formation of Proterozoic Z and Early Ordovician age. [GNU records indicate that this was a mistake and should have been shown as Proterozoic Z and Early Cambrian age.] per USGS Lexicon website (MA012).|
Zen, E-An (ed.), Goldsmith, R. (comp.), Ratcliffe, N.M. (comp.), Robinson, P. (comp.), Stanley, R.S. (comp.), Hatch, N.L., Jr., Shride, A.F., Weed, E.G.A., and Wones, D.R., 1983, Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, scale 1: 250,000.
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“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2 NKJV).
Have you ever heard the sayings: “you are what you think” and “beware of the company you keep”? The psalmist highlights that the blessed person is the one who watches the company he or she keeps and meditates upon God’s instruction all day.
Those whom we surround ourselves with affect and impact our thoughts and behaviors. Be careful, the psalmist warns. While we must guard ourselves from the negative influence of some, we must actively choose to meditate and delight in God’s instruction.
The one who does this, the psalmist compares to a “tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither” (verse 3). In the dry, hot climate of the Middle East, plants that are without sufficient water supply wither and die.
Those plants with ample water can sustain their life and will produce fruit. The psalmist uses the image of a well-watered tree to suggest that the one who acts as he outlines in verses 1 and 2 will thrive regardless of the weather conditions. He further describes this tree as producing fruit.
The Bible often uses the image of a tree or plant-producing fruit as a symbol of the actions of a person. The psalmist expects that our meditation and delighting in the law of the Lord will not simply remain a cognitive or emotional reality but will instead lead us to act and behave in a manner consistent with God’s instruction.
He concludes his image of the fruitful tree by saying, “whatever he does shall prosper” (verse 3).
We are responsible for our spiritual growth. We have to guard ourselves from corrupting influences around us. And, we have to make sure that we delight in God’s instruction all day, every day. Such meditation should lead us to bearing good fruit.
Do people look at our lives and see a fruitful tree, or do our lives look like “chaff which the wind drives away” (verse 4)? Our intentionality in cultivating our spiritual growth and maturity will determine what they see. What do you delight in?
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- from Thomas Edison
Edison’s family named him Thomas after a great uncle. His middle name, Alva, came from a family friend. As a child, he was called Al. He was called other things, too. There’s a famous story that one teacher called him “addled” (stupid). The teacher didn’t understand that young Al Edison learned by asking questions, not by answering them.
Even as a boy, Edison was curious. He also loved to experiment. Sometimes the results were funny. Sometimes they caused problems. Some stories about his childhood may be partly made up. But there may be a bit of truth in some of them. For example, people say that when Edison was very young, he asked why geese sat on eggs. He was told that mother geese sat on eggs to keep them warm until they hatched. He disappeared for a few hours, until his older sister found him. He was sitting on goose eggs! He was sad that they hadn’t hatched. Other experiments had more dangerous results. At the age of six, Al was interested in fire, so he started a small blaze in his father’s barn. Wind made the flames grow, and the barn burned down. Al escaped the flames. But probably not his father’s anger! | <urn:uuid:2b0c4102-c48b-42fc-ae6a-5776d97853e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://online.kidsdiscover.com/unit/thomas-edison/topic/early-years/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.995419 | 276 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Handwriting vs typing notes
Laptop? Or notepad? We take a look at current research to show you the most effective way to take notes.2 min read Published: 8 Sep 2021
Wondering whether to pack your laptop for your next class?
We know there’s a lot of information out there about learning with tech, so we thought we’d answer a pretty basic question - is it better to type or write your notes?
Thankfully, there’s been plenty of research into this topic in recent years.
We’ve broken it down for you in a quick comparison.
First, a few quick facts about note taking
No matter whether you write or type your notes, it’s worth keeping a few points in mind, not least the importance of note taking itself for learning.
The benefits of handwritten and typed notes
There’s evidence that taking notes by hand helps encode information into your long term memory better than other methods.
By taking notes on paper, you’re forcing your mind to work a little harder with the information you’re facing. Because you can’t write fast enough to get everything down by hand, you tend to summarize key points, which can help with your conceptual understanding of the subject.
In other words, the limitations of handwritten notes make learners naturally follow a more effective note taking process, based on summary and interpretation.
You can type at a much faster rate than writing, making laptop note taking the most efficient method for note taking. And because capturing more notes is better for learning, you can use this to your advantage.
Using digital programs makes it much easier to keep your notes organised and searchable than using a notebook, too. This will really help you out when you’re reviewing your notes later on.
The drawbacks of handwritten and typed notes
You’ll miss a lot of important information writing notes by hand. You’ll never be able to keep up with everything that’s being said, so you need to have a very effective method to get the most from class.
Another problem you may come across is collating your notes. Keeping everything together is one thing, but making sure your notes are useful for study is another, and you’ll need to do both to make note taking worthwhile in the long run.
Studies show that students tend to transcribe the professor’s words when typing notes. This captures more material, but it’s less useful for understanding the subject on a conceptual level. Typing notes in this way causes shallower information processing than handwritten notes.
For this reason, it’s assumed that typing notes is automatically less effective than writing. That’s not necessarily true (if you take the right approach).
Looking at the pros and cons, one thing becomes a little clearer; your note taking needs to follow a process that plays to its strengths for learning.
Handwritten notes help note takers process information at a higher level. And typed notes help learners capture more information. Both of these advantages are critical to deep learning of lecture material.
Just as the drawback of writing notes - the speed you can do it - pushes you to process new information more effectively, the advantage of typed notes can be detrimental to learning if transcribing a lecture is all you’re doing.
What you really need is a mix of both these approaches - a note taking method that allows you to properly digest what’s being said, while capturing more material to review when it really counts.
So how can you ensure you’re processing information properly while capturing everything you need?
Note taking for better learning
Note taking is just as much about process as it is about the content of the notes themselves.
If you want to take notes that’ll really improve your learning, it helps to have a simple process to take, review and use your notes - one that’s easy to follow and stick to, and proven to get you the results you need.
We call ours CORI.
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What would you do if your every action and culmination of all of your actions decided the fate of the entire universe?How would you feel knowing your life had already played out and that yo inspire so many people to do good? Could you fathom that your life had already played out but you still must live it and make the right choices?
Season eight of Smallville for all of it’s failings, of which there were many (and I mean many) it gave the idea of a much more expanded idea of Superman, explaining, like in the comics prior that just because Superman might one day day, his ideals will live on.
Now let’s look at the flip side. What if your future was far more bleak? What if you would never be remembered or saw as anything important? Is life still worth living? Should one still try?
Smallville has its strengths and weaknesses. Its greatest conceivable weakness is its focus on Superman being the apex of the entire universe instead of showing how shared it is. It’s upside is how it shows what the entire world is doing and expanding it’s universe with a standard issue and a quarterly that combine stories while pulling away from Superman.
Here, in Argo, it shows how the world will be changed by an alien who can show the entire world that it is okay to be different, to be special. Argo’s universal message shows that no matter how different, it is the same that brings us together. The ideals that all people are equal while instilling that our differences can still very much be a strength.
Take a character like Booster Gold, the greatest superhero you have never heard of…UNTIL NOW!, combine him the James Marsters’ BrainIAC 5, and you can see that very person, even if history does not remember them is important. Booster, who has always wanted the world to revolve around him, finds that no one remembers him except for his greatest mistake. This arc gave him the choice to see the virtue of making the truest of right choices. To do the right thing even when the whole world might not remember you for it.
Some of the story may feel Marvel-esque at times, making Booster comparable to Tony Stark, but it is okay because it is done the right way.
But at it’s core, the story telling here really works because it takes a feel elements from the Legion of Super-heroes comics and animated shows (cancelled after two season, much like Young Justice). Take Superman when he is young in his career and show him the world he will help make.
Take all of these elements and throw in an intergalactic war with a unstoppable Kryptonian weapon to battle with Superman and an army of Supermen and it gives a feeling that just shows the power of a race of Supermen.
Argo shows things that people would forget. Prejudice will always exist in the world no matter how perfect or technologically advanced we get. People always worry about themselves, they doubt themselves because of how they could fail. They worry because those past mistakes could happen in the future, and they would trip up and nothing will ever be the same.
I wanted you to see that your darkness lies not only dwelling in your past, but in fearing the future. You don’t need to worry about the future, Kal-El. You can see that it’s just fine as long as you shed the weight of the past. A hero is made in the moment, not from questioning the past or fearing what’s to come. Just remember that, Kal-El.
-BrainIAC 5 Smallville: Homecoming
And it returns to basics for Smallville. Every person makes a difference. It is not Clark’s tremendous powers that make him a hero, but his choices. He chooses the man he will be, not the future, not his powers, but him. He decides the man he will be. And he was able to change the world. But more than that, it shows how everyone has that choice, not just Superman because there was an entire planet of Supermen, and they chose to let hate and society decide who they were meant to be instead of choosing.
Argo for all of its ups and downs was very different than what Smallville has done in the past. But that does not make it bad. It just makes it different. Some of the low points were hard to read, but it’s high points were able to jump tall buildings in a single bound. | <urn:uuid:1df5fa25-e9c9-4eaa-8d12-176e9b8276ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://g33khq.org/comics/smallville-argo-a-look-into-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974402 | 936 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Productivity LPT: The better shape you keep yourself in, the better you will weather traumatic events. When work/life gets hard, make sure you do your best to keep yourself fit.
Science shows that the fitter you are, the less likely you are to develop PTSD symptoms if you experience something traumatic (like getting fired*).
In other words, when work gets hard, make sure you also get to the gym. Worst case scenario, you get fired. But you’ll be able to better process the event and move on, rather than suffering from nightmares, panic attacks, and recollections that hold you hostage.
*Obviously everyone has their own version of trauma.
I see this often. People expect others to know what they are talking about and don’t expand acronym. Why? Two of my favourites I’ve seen lately: MBT… Main battle tank (how would anyone get to that?) BBL… Brazilian butt lift.
Expand the acronyms people.
Smooth brains, you need to post LPT in the title to get the post approved as a…LPT 🧐
Productivity LPT: Take walking breaks when going out for a run. You’ll be less likely to be discouraged, and you’ll build a tolerance without noticing
A lot of people get discouraged to start running because they think they must run the whole time. If you want to build a tolerance to running, you should take it slowly at first.
Try to set little goals, such as, I’ll run until the next tree then I’ll walk until the traffic light. Soon enough, you’ll be running past that tree with no issue. Maybe even getting to the light!
Productivity LPT: If your goal is to lose fat and make healthier changes to your life, don’t say you’re on a diet.
Being on a diet suggests that at a later stage you’re going to be off the diet and go back to normal.
This small tip helped me tremendously with the daily mental battles of losing weight.
Productivity LPT: Doing things when you don't want to do them is a skill that you practice, so take advantage of times where you especially don't want to do something to practice your mind
Productivity LPT: Never send a work email when you’re emotionally compromised. Type it up, save as draft and walk away. Ideally, sleep on it. You’ll make a smarter choice when not heated
Productivity LPT REQUEST: How do you start a life of productivity, and commitment to things like projects, school, work or even just your social life after years of lazy habits?
I've struggled with motivation and productivity my whole life. All those years of lazy, self-deprecating habits of putting off chores, passion projects in hobbies like writing stories or coding, or hell even committing time to my friends have caused me to get into this state.
I procrastinate a lot on house chores I need to do, and I need to stop this, going into university. I do them at the very end. Meanwhile, passion projects, I may crunch and do a HELL ton of work the first or couple so nights, but then end up putting the project away indefinitely, and move onto another. A lot of my friends relationships are built on small talk in-person or through social media, we've never hanged out and I could be making deeper friendships.
I REALLY need to get out of this state and change, especially considering the fact I'm going into University.
My math teacher thinks I have potential though, saying I show a lot of commitment and hard effort during class, however, I don't study outside of class, which has affected my academic performance.
Man, am I doomed to be like this?
Productivity LPT - It takes 5 minutes a day and almost no cost to maintain dental hygiene. It takes a lifetime and a lot of money to correct it.
2 minute brush and mouthwash in the AM, 2 minute brush and floss in the PM. Doing these daily can prevent all sorts of decay and bacteria issues that would be extremely costly and time consuming to correct if left unchecked.
Productivity LPT: To encourage people to arrive punctually at meetings, set them at "unusual" times: 25 minutes past the hour, 10 minutes to the hour, and so on. This works on other people and on yourself.
People subconsciously think that there is something important about non-standard times, so they make a special effort to arrive on time.
The gym is a place that you can use to get back on your feet. In addition to getting regular exercise and meeting people, you can bathe there, store your valuables in a locker, wash your clothes in the shower and dry them in the sauna, you can also forage for new clothes from the lost and found bins. It also allows you to retain your dignity, as you have a regular way of being clean and fresh. Most gyms have long hours and unlimited use, so on days of bad weather you can take a free class or do laps in the pool. Most gyms have monthly cash options that are less than $50. You also will have a source of clean water and free energy to charge your devices. I used this method to free myself from homelessness years ago. I hope this helps someone.
There are virtually no US based required K-12 (and even most college) courses, aside from finance and accounting, that teach you the powers of Excel. I spent 10 years in engineering and the last 6 years in operations / business management and the single most important skill that has helped me throughout my career is excel.
Every company I’ve ever worked for has had a ton of data, all of it segregated and fractured requiring a ton of difficult joining to get the data points required for analysis. If you aren’t familiar with SQL this may require huge manual digging in order to perform ad hoc analysis. Learning a simple formula:
Will resolve this issue and provide relationships between data sets that are not connected. In addition, it will teach you a bit about coding (VBA), data structures, cardinality, data types, and much more. That formula merely scratches the surface of excel as any repetitive calculation can be done through data tables and more advanced users can use VBA or Power Query to automate data collection. Don’t just know about this software. Learn the crap out of it, plus it’s mind numbingly easy once you know what to type has all formulas have an auto fill function with help tips.
It’s hard to get started full force, even when you’re motivated to do so. It’s a lot easier to bar yourself from doing more work and then getting excited to add to your routine.
What worked for me (and many friends/family that have followed) is to focus first on spending a full hour every day in the gym. For the first couple weeks, only let yourself use the treadmill… start off walking, but make sure you spend the full hour in the gym every single day.
It may feel silly to go to the gym and not sweat, but I promise that if you’re consistent this will work.
After a couple days you’ll probably notice that you want to do a little more than just walk for an hour… maybe you start challenging yourself see how many miles you can fit into the hour.
Eventually (once the hour EVERY DAY) becomes part of your normal routine, you’ll find yourself actively wanting to try other exercises to fill up your gym time, and it will be enjoyable.
Start will the lowest weights you can. It will feel silly to bench press 5-10lb dumbbells at first, but again… you’ll find yourself wanting the additional challenge later.
Then you might start challenging yourself to eat better, as to not ruin all the work you’ve been putting in at the gym.
6-8 weeks in and your body will start to show progress, whether or not you’ve started your journey to lifting (which is the end goal).
You can do it. Get started. Stay consistent. Your physical, and more importantly, mental health will thank you for it.
Edit: Don’t care what you say. My advice revolves around THE GYM. Going physically to THE GYM. The space is important.
Edit 2: A lot of “um ackchewally” comments followed with how they are attempting to get past their fitness struggles… Again, this method is tried and true. If you have aspirational fitness goals, you will figure out the rest after you have this solid habit formed (or as you’re forming it). Don’t tell me “this may work for some” while you aren’t fit at all or are struggling to get there. If you can make it to the gym for an hour a day—this method will work.
Final edit: For those of you who are gym rats—try and remember how hard it was for you to start (unless you are an athlete, which kind of forces the habit to start). When I was a gym rat before Covid, I remember thinking to myself wtf all these people need to just start it’s so easy to be consistent and fit. But looking back on it, I remember how many times I tried to start and failed, until I just did this. And this is what I did to get back in shape over the last several months. The hardest part is just getting started and staying consistent.
Productivity LPT: I'm 43. By your late 20's/early 30's, make sure physical fitness becomes an absolute top priority.
I started a dedicated fitness regimen when I was 28 to improve my odds with a girl. Didn't work on the girl. What did work was that the routine stuck. Now pushing my mid-forties, I can't believe where I am physically compared to many others my age. Also scary is how they regard physical deterioration as an inevitability. It isn't. Get started now. It will be one of the greatest gifts you'll ever give yourself.
Productivity LPT: Think of everything you do as progress. Sent someone a meme? You progressed your relationship. Drew a doodle? You progressed your art skill. Took a bath? You progressed your mental health. Life is a bank and any time you do anything that brings you joy, you are earning.
Productivity LPT: If you're about to buy some big item on Amazon, check out the manufacturer's website first. Sometimes you can get additional discount and sometimes they don't charge you sales tax.
Manufacturers pay a premium to list on Amazon. They can often give you a steeper discount when you buy directly from them. I just bought 3 air purifiers from the manufacturer's site. They gave me 10% off and did not charge me sales tax. Saved me over $100 than if I purchased it from Amazon.
Obviously this doesn't work every time, but it's worth a shot to check out the manufacturer's website anyway to verify the product's specs.
The idea that you need to pay interest on anything in order to build credit is a myth. This myth needs to die.
It is never a good idea to finance your purchases solely to build credit. The best way to build credit is to regularly use credit cards for your purchases, and then pay them off in full each month so you don't pay a cent in interest.
DON'T PAY INTEREST TO BUILD YOUR CREDIT.
Productivity LPT: If your video games start to feel like work or you plan your life around it, then it is time to quit.
Productivity LPT: For when I can't fall asleep, keeping a notebook next to my bed and writing whatever thought that's keeping me up. It works best when it's things I have to do the next day, but even if it's just random thoughts, putting them on paper helps my brain understand that we'll deal with them tomorrow
Productivity LPT: If you're having a discussion/argument with someone and they admit they're wrong, don't rub it in their faces. Most people struggle with admitting when they're wrong as it is, mostly because of the way others react when they voice it out loud.
Productivity LPT: Many places charge cancellation fees if cancelling at short notice (less than 24 hrs usually) but do not charge to reschedule. Call and reschedule for a week or more away, you can now cancel the appointment with no fees.
Edit: as a lot of people are stating this is not something you should be doing to a small business that will suffer as a result, but aimed at the massive company’s that charge exorbitant fees.
I took a picture w my phone against a white background. From there I uploaded to Walgreens as a collage and chose 4x4. Doing this, I was able to print 4 2x2 pictures that Walgreens printed. They did this for $.49. They normally charge $18 for a passport pic. Be sure to take the pic on your phone as ‘square’ and then you can get it to the right size and proportion.
Productivity LPT: If you make a mistake at work be honest and come with a solution quickly. The boss will love your honesty, trying to hide the mistake makes you un-trustworthy.
A better word then boss would be leader
For all those who feel the need to lie because whoever is your leader will respond poorly, I’m sorry that you are dealing with that. A good leader is life changing. This LPT is for those who have a good leader that wants them to grow.
Productivity LPT: Practice doesn't make perfect, or even better. Practice makes permanent. If you practice doing something incorrectly, it will become far harder to get better as you have to unlearn bad habits. Be conscious of the right way to do things before devoting time to practice.
This is something I learned while in school for music, but can be applied to any skill that needs time and effort to get better at. You could put in hours and hours of practice and end up only digging yourself deeper into a hole. If you practice a scale wrong 1000 times, it becomes much harder to play it correctly than if you made sure to practice it right in the first place. Be aware of the right way to do things and put effort into getting better in that manner, even if it is harder at first. In the long run, unlearning something wrong takes much, much longer than learning something correctly once. Effective and focused practice is much more important than the amount of time you spend doing so. The person who practices a scale right 10 times is better at it than the person who practiced it wrong 1000 times
Edit: As many are saying, the phrase "perfect practice makes perfect" is similar to this. I personally use "practice makes permanent" instead as it emphasizes the potential for habits, good or bad, to become solidified.
Edit 2: I should clarify that mistakes are perfectly fine and even encouraged, as long as you can recognize them and take steps to improve them. Also, sucking is absolutely allowed; no one is good at something when they first try or will be able to do everything correctly in practice. The point of "practice makes permanent" is to warn against careless practice that may just end up being detrimental in the future if you let too many things slide. It's about identifying, preventing, or "painting over" bad habits to ensure you're spending your time effectively. When practicing, be conscious of what and how you are doing and take measures to ensure you are on the right track. Many students and other people learning skills think that time=skill (often learned from phrases like "practice makes perfect"), when really it's how you spend your time that matters.
Productivity LPT If you ever need a set amount of time to complete a task, ask for 10-25% more time.
Asking for more time than you initially thought you needed sets the expectation for all parties involved. In my experience, everytime I follow this method, I've finished with 1-2 minutes to spare.
The time you'll need varies, so use your best judgement but this applies to so many things in life:
1) Running late and the GPS says you'll be there by 12:17 - call/text ahead and say you'll be there for 12:30. You can never fully anticipate construction delays or collisions.
2) Spouse/SO and you don't want to share your one washroom in the morning and they ask how long you need to shave/style your hair - say you need 15 if you need 10. Those last minute beard/moustache trims can get precise.
3) Met with a client on Monday and they expect a proposal - say you'll get back with a tailored document for a review together on Friday at (the time that works best for you).
The benefit: You'll always win since you're done within the requested time. You also don't frustrate the other people since you're not going back to them to ask for more time. | <urn:uuid:2cfc386a-8cb2-4c1b-ba5d-d71d1f5c51c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/LifeProTips/search?q=flair_name%3A%22Productivity%22&restrict_sr=on | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957941 | 3,618 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Originally published in Search Engine Watch (July 2012)
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal shed light on Google’s plans to add depth to the search experience –foreshadowing the arrival of the Knowledge Graph. According to Amit Singhal, a top Google search executive, the goal is to make the search experience comparable to, “how humans understand the world.”
Google’s actualization of this vision is predicated on their ability to infer the semantics behind Web content. Take for example, a search query like, “The Dark Knight Rises.” In the legacy search paradigm, an engine would return a list of results based on similarities between the text string in the query and text strings in their index.
Google’s goal is to infer that “The Dark Knight Rises” is a specific entity type (a movie). Once this inference is made, they are then able to relate the entity with a set of associated entities (directors, actors, theatres, etc.). This relational understanding lays the foundation for a search experience that is far more consumer friendly, far more like “how humans understand the world.”
The paradigm shift has already begun. The aforementioned query reveals a search results page that illustrates Google’s transition into semantic search.
There are two main ways that Google is currently leveraging semantic search.
First, the right-column is almost entirely composed of content derived from semantic inference: it displays a list of people who have contributed to the movie as well as information about the movie pulled from Wikipedia.
Semantic search is also currently influencing the organic search results by displaying people related to the movie, dates associated with the movie, and once the movie has been released and reviewed, ratings associated with the movie.
The schema that Google applies in their approach is no secret: it’s publicly available on the aptly labeled Schema.org, a collaboration initiative being driven by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Schema.org breaks the world down into several fundamental entity types (CreativeWorks, Events, Organizations, People, Places, Product and Reviews) and a wide variety of associated entity types (e.g. LocalBusiness).
Using the prior example, Google views “The Dark Knight Rises” as a CreativeWork that is produced by a variety of People, will be shown at a variety of Events at different Places and ultimately, will have associated Reviews left by other People from different Organizations.
So what does this all mean for marketers?
1. Understand How Your Business Fits Into the Schema
If you happened to be responsible for the search marketing efforts at Warner Bros’, you should understand that “The Dark Knight Rises,” is no longer a text string; it is a CreativeWork.
Similarly, the Andrea Bocelli 2012 tour is a string of Events that have Reviews and is associated with a Person; the Asus U46E is a Product with Reviews, which can be purchased at certain Places; and Joel and Co. Construction is a LocalBusiness with an AggregateRating that has a specific ContactPoint.
2. Understand How Google Uses Semantic Data
The “Dark Knight Rises” is just one example of how Google is helping users make sense of a certain CreativeWork. Semantic data manifests in different ways for different types of queries.
Just for the sake of comparison, consider a query for the LocalBusiness, “Joel and Co Construction.”
Google has inferred that “Joel and Co Construction” is associated with a specific Place, which is illustrated in the Google Map that is displayed in the right column and in the search result and Google is also showing a variety of AggregateRatings for the various review sites that analyze Joel and Co. Construction.
Developing a firm grasp of how semantic search is influencing your specific entity type(s) has become a necessity.
3. Apply Semantic Markup to Your Site Based on What Google is Using
At a minimum, you should apply the semantic markup that Google is already leveraging in your vertical. For a LocalBusiness like Joel and Co. Construction, this can be facilitated by leveraging Google Places and associating it with your official website (the Joel and Co. example shows how the associated Google Places profile can append semantic data to the their official Website result).
Businesses without development resources should begin looking for opportunities to use third-party solutions. WordPress (for example) has a variety of plugins designed to add semantic markup to company websites.
4. Consider Applications of Semantic Markup Based on What Google is Likely to do
Schema.org contains a relatively broad set of attributes for its various entity types. Some of these attributes may have little or no impact on the actual search results; however there are others that seem to fit with Google’s trajectory.
For example, the offers schema can be applied to various entity types like Events, CreativeWorks, and Products. Given Google’s recent launch of Google Offers (beta), it seems logical that Google would offers they find via web search to populate the new application. Consequently, it may be worth considering how to markup offers on your site if you’re looking to get ahead of the pack. | <urn:uuid:4cc7b5a9-6292-4f15-b179-9eb590ea1dd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jiyanwei.com/semantic-search/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.923605 | 1,110 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Mid-afternoon in Baghdad's Honey Market, and business is brisk. An Iraqi woman buys a fluorescent light bulb. A Frenchman pays for a stack of Nicorette, three cans of Coke, and a bottle of water with a $100 note.
The Iraqi manning the cashier, Khaled Anton, starts counting out change in a mixture of dollars and Iraqi dinars.
Hundred dollar notes are a matter of course for Anton, 54, an Iraqi Christian who took early retirement from his job with the tourism ministry to set up his two-story shop off a traffic roundabout in northeastern Baghdad.
Over the years, the Honey Market has become a mainstay of the capital, offering up a precious supply of imported foodstuffs and other essentials to a mixed crowd of middle-class Iraqis and foreign expatriates in search of basics or a little bit of home comfort.
The day before, traffic in the shop was intermittent. Coalition troops had cordoned the area, setting up random checkpoints. Only two days earlier, a car bomb had gone off on the 14th of July bridge, killing six Iraqis and one U.S. soldier. Rumor had it that another car bomb was targeting the neighborhood.
"Hello, Mr. Kim!" Anton nods to a Korean man who rushes through the door and up the stairs where the store displays cans of soda and a wide selection of imported chocolate candies.
"Business looks good, but it is slow," said the shopkeeper. "A lot of foreigners left. Just to keep themselves alive."
He's come to accept it as part of the way of doing business. "We work [but are] not in a good mood now," he continued. "We're just keeping things going."
Anton and his brother-in-law and partner, Saad, have been keeping the Honey Market going for 14 years. The only time they've had to stop operating was during the war last year.
"We closed two days before the war, and then we opened again after everything settled," he explained. The store was one of the few that escaped damage or looting right after the war.
Even the violence last month didn't faze the shopkeeper. Most of his merchandise comes from wholesalers in Jordan. When the main highway from Amman to Baghdad shut down mid-April and truck drivers transporting the goods refused to travel on the back roads, the shelves remained half-empty for several days.
Open for business
But the Honey Market remained open, selling produce, meat and pastries from two local markets.
The supply routes are virtually back to normal now, and a glance around the shop is confirmation. There are brands from the United States, Europe, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq.
Products range from dried sheets of Barilla lasagna to El Paso taco shells, Heinz ketchup to Nutella chocolate spread, Lady Speed Stick deodorant to Windex spray cleaner, Kent cigarettes to Romeo Y Julieta cigars. Everything is laid out over two floors and a mezzanine entrance. Alcohol is sold next door in a separate shop.
Most things are tagged in dollars. "It's easier for us," said Anton. "With the inflation of the dinars, the dinar could go up and down six or seven times a day. It's better for most of our customers to pay in dollars." Smaller items, like chewing gum and local goods like pistachios or almonds, are charged in dinars.
Prices are reasonable, compared to other local shops, as well as back home. A large box of Rice Krispies costs about $3.20, while a Cup O'Noodles will set you back sixty cents. A bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from California is around $12.
According to Anton, not much has changed for him since the removal of Saddam Hussein. The only significant difference is the lack of paperwork. Under Saddam, Anton would spend days at various government ministries to obtain the required licenses to import certain goods. Otherwise, "business is the same mostly," he explained.
Anton travels abroad regularly to keep abreast of trends. His mother lives in Jordan, where he will often drop into grocery stores and supermarkets to see what they are stocking. He also watches satellite television to spot the latest fad.
Over the years, the shop owners have expanded cautiously, carefully timing the extensions and investing in periodic renovations.
But as the shop's profile increases, so do the risks. People “think we are printing money, but we are not," said Anton. "It's a normal profit. But it looks like a nice, beautiful shop."
Nice enough to attract the odd shoplifter. The latest addition is a in-store camera system that Anton said is designed to let customers know "we are watching them."
But the shopkeeper still has high hopes, even if their realization might be long in coming.
"What we want is when everything is all right, that companies are okay, they come to rebuild," he said. "We want to see many companies rebuilding. From these, then we can grow our business."
But money is not that important. Like many middle-class Iraqis in Baghdad, Anton explained, "We just want a normal life, a normal profit.... We want to live peacefully, where nobody can attack me or kidnap me." | <urn:uuid:0140965f-d536-4557-9229-da2447370e78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4945568 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970016 | 1,120 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Trump administration just ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but that doesn’t mean the “dream” is over.
The previous administration’s executive order was unconstitutional, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the Trump administration kicked the ball to Congress.
But will this legislative body pass what amounts to amnesty?
The DACA program will be phased out over six months.
“The executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions,” Mr. Sessions said Tuesday at the Justice Department. “Such an open ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.”
The Trump administration is facing a deadline set by the attorneys general of Texas and other states, who had threatened to file a legal challenge to DACA unless President Trump agreed to phase it out.
“To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who wants to come here. It’s just not possible,” Mr. Sessions said.
The question is, will a Congress that has so far refused to repeal the former president’s signature “health care” law do the right thing by law-abiding Americans? What happens if Congress passes a legislative version of the DACA program? How would that help Americans?
Whatever happens, President Trump did his part to end the executive DACA program.
In the interim, the government will stop processing renewal applications and the so-called advanced parole loophole pathway to citizenship, in which illegal aliens could be allowed to leave the country, re-enter, and apply for permanent legal status.
In a column titled “Mercy for the Dreamers,” Star Parker wrote:
Those who came here illegally of their own volition have violated both and this cannot be tolerated. President Trump said, “A nation without borders is not a nation.” I would add to this that a nation without law is not a nation. You need both.
Those whose arrived as minors, because their parents violated the law, do, I believe, deserve special consideration.
Certainly, as Christians, we understand that justice has two components — judgment and mercy. Judgment is the implementation of the law in its severity. Mercy is understanding and appreciating when there should be exceptions. | <urn:uuid:e3b9658c-99d8-4cd0-949b-f027fae4ec85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blackcommunitynews.com/daca-rescinded-trump-fulfills-another-campaign-promise-but-what-will-congress-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960908 | 492 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Research consultations are meetings with librarians that provide students with specific research assistance. Whether you're stuck in your research or need help getting started, research consultations are excellent venues for asking specific questions and gathering expert advice. This post offers 6 tips for how to prepare for a research consultation with a librarian.
1. Identify your subject librarian
Before you can schedule your research consultation, you need to identify which subject librarian could offer you the best advice. Academic librarians work with specific departments and have expertise across a range of fields.
For instance, if you are writing a paper for an engineering class, you'll want to look for the contact information for the science or engineering librarian. Depending on the size of your institution or library, there may be only one librarian who works with students and researchers in the sciences. Or, there may be librarians for each of the major disciplines within the sciences (i.e. engineering, chemistry, biology, etc.).
Some library websites may have a form that you need to fill out to request a research consultation with a librarian. You can also usually reach out to subject librarians directly via email. Your library's website will likely have contact information for librarians by subject or discipline.
2. Schedule your consultation
Once you know which librarian to contact, you'll want to schedule your consultation. Again, this may be done through a specific form on your library's website or via email. Ideally, you'll want to give yourself time to prepare for the consultation, although sometimes this isn't possible.
If you're experiencing a research emergency, consultations can definitely help you solve whatever issue you're having. However, it's always best to consider scheduling a consultation before your research problem escalates.
It's important to keep in mind that your subject librarian may not have an opening if you wait until the last minute to schedule your research consultation.
3. Prepare for the consultation
Most librarians will ask you for assignment details, rubrics, or a copy of the course syllabus—any information that can provide them with context about the research assignment.
In some cases, you may be scheduling a consultation with a librarian who presented in your class or who may be teaching the class. While less contextual information may be needed for those circumstances, it's still important to provide the librarian with any information that may be useful.
You'll want to come to your meeting prepared to take notes. You can also bring a laptop or tablet with a copy of your paper or with research notes.
If you are meeting with a librarian in order to get started on your research, the librarian may walk you through some tips and strategies that can help you find sources. For instance, the librarian may show you how to access, and use, a specific database related to your research topic.
4. Always ask questions
The research consultation is a space in which asking questions is expected. In fact, many librarians encourage students to attend consultations with a list of questions.
Never be afraid to ask a librarian for clarification or for more details. Subject librarians are experts in their respective research fields and can share a lot of helpful information. If a question comes up that the librarian can't answer, s/he will help you figure it out.
5. Follow-up with the librarian as needed
If you need additional assistance beyond a single consultation, or if you have further questions as you continue your research, be sure to follow up with the librarian.
There's generally no limit to how many research consultations you can schedule. If you're unable to find another time to meet, take advantage of email and also consider asking a question through your library's online reference chat.
6. Don't forget correct citations
The librarian you're working with will likely help you find sources that you can use for your paper or assignment. As always, you'll want to be sure that those sources are cited correctly.
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The bottom line
Research consultations are excellent opportunities to gather expert advice on how to find and cite research. Ultimately, students who utilize research consultations produce better work in much less time.
Frequently Asked Questions about research consultations
✒️ What do you do in a research consultation?
A research consultation is a meeting with a librarian that focuses on narrowing your research topic, finding sources, creating citations, or other research-related topics.
⚛️ How can a librarian help your research?
Academic librarians are typically experts in a specific research field. As result, they can help you identify a research topic, conduct research, and cite your sources. They help students find and assess credible sources for all kinds of assignments.
🥁 Can you start your research by talking with a librarian?
Absolutely! Librarians are experts at helping students and researchers choose topics and conduct preliminary research. Because they know the research landscape so well, they can help you efficiently identify the best methods and resources for getting started.
🗼 What should I ask a librarian about research?
To begin with, you might ask a librarian to help you choose or narrow a topic or how best to find and access sources for your paper or assignment.
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On April 29th, at the UN Campus in Bonn Germany, the post-Copenhagen negotiations began in earnest. There were two surprises. The first was that the mood was good. Most everyone was on their best behavior. Even the US delegation was in charming mode. This will no doubt change as we move closer to the Paris winter of 2015, where the next big showdown will take place, but still, it was a relief, and a good sign.
The second surprise is that, with the whole meeting dedicated to shaking out new ideas, we actually got a few. These included an encouraging proposal from AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States, to immediately focus the short-term ambition agenda on international support for scaled-up renewable and energy-efficiency deployment. And (the subject of this post) they included the emergence of a global strategy – still tentative, but increasingly defined – for breaking the deadlock on “equity.”
The background here is that the equity agenda continues to haunt the climate negotiations, as it has done since their inception. Nor is this just a matter of North / South bloc-politics-as-usual, though it’s certainly true that “equity” has been a political football since the earliest days of the climate talks. The real problem is that 1992’s UN Framework Convention of Climate Change very clearly obligates the developed countries to “take the lead” in facing the climate problem, and, when all is said and done, they have simply not done so. Even worse, the whole “development” project – the only project that has recently managed to lift significant numbers of people out of poverty – is being thrown into crisis by the scale and severity of the climate threat. In this context, the slogan is clearly right – equity is indeed “the pathway to ambition.” Absent a working agreement on its principles and implications, it will be extremely difficult to shift the negotiations onto anything like a high-ambition track. In may even be impossible.
This is a long and painful story, and I’ll not tell it again. What I will say is that, though the mood may have changed, the hallway crowds still contain plenty of battle-scarred veterans, many of them convinced that the demand for equity and “climate justice” really devolves to nothing more than the demand for a “right to economic growth.” And that, given the low rates of decarbonization that mark today’s techno-economic order, and given the developed world’s unwillingness to even discuss financial and technological support on the necessary scale, such a right simply cannot be squared with the demands of climate protection. That, in practice if not in principle, the demand for equity is an excuse for inaction, one that plays into the hands of both the old emitters (e.g. the United States) and the new (e.g. China). That it blocks the very narrow and difficult paths ahead. That it will be the end of us all.
Still, Bonn managed to cut an opening in the tangle. But how so? And what’s changed?
For one thing, time is running out, and everyone knows it. Given this, and given the experience of Copenhagen (which few negotiators want to repeat) there really is a sense that tough problems must be faced. No real action yet, of course, but at least an air of “flexibility.”
This has implications on the equity front. As one AOSIS advisor told me, there’s now a “very widespread sense” among negotiators that, despite its dangers, “there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle; equity must be engaged.” For another, the UNFCCC Secretariat evidently shares this sense. This, at least, is the impression I get from the ADP2 (the Bonn meeting was, formally, the 2nd meeting of the “Ad-hoc Durban Platform”) which featured, as the first speaker in the first workshop of the first day of this, the new round of the negotiations, Australia’s Professor Ross Garnaut. Not to exaggerate his influence, but this was a notable choice, if only because two months ago in February, in a speech to China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Garnaut had this to say about the bottom up, “pledge and review” regime which Copenhagen has left us with:
“For [this new process] to be effective, one major gap in the international regime needs to be filled. The regime needs some framework for guiding assessments of the level of mitigation in each country that amounts to a fair share of an international effort to achieve the agreed global effort.
It would be useful and probably necessary for heads of governments committed to strong global mitigation outcomes to appoint an expert group to develop such a framework for allocating the global effort among countries. Within the context of concerted unilateral mitigation, each country would be free to accept or reject guidance provided by such a framework. The framework would become a focus of international review of each country’s effort, and evolve over time in response to discussion and experience.”
Garnaut made a similar point in his opening talk (see the video here, the slides here), in which he argued that the scale of the danger – “a breakdown in international order” – compels us to break the equity deadlock. To that end, he proposed an “independent expert assessment” designed to yield, in the new term of art, an equity reference framework that could be used to “guide national targets” and, more particularly, to empower negotiators when they review each others pledges. The idea, in the jargon of the day, is to fashion equity into a “ratchet” that can be used to crank up overall ambition, and this despite the fact that we are, at least for the moment, in a bottom-up world.
In this context, I was pleased to be a respondent. I spoke as a member of the Climate Action Network, and in particular as the Co-Chair of its Equity / Effort-sharing Working Group, which recently, in one of CAN’s formal submissions to the UNFCCC, proposed that the Convention’s keystone principles of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities” be interpreted in a dynamic manner. In my talk (the script is here, the video here at 1:12:50) I commented on Garnaut’s proposal, and then introduced the notion of a dynamic model of differentiation based on an “equity spectrum.” I take the liberty of quoting myself at length:
“What is needed is a process that would allow for a proper equity review of the pledges, to be conducted in parallel with the equally-critical science review.
To that end, the Parties should launch an open, expert process to develop an equity reference framework that is suitable to the evaluation of national pledges. This framework would have to be designed to maximize both ambition and participation. Parties, when making pledges, would be guided by the knowledge that these would be evaluated within both the science and equity reviews.
Parties would of course be free to accept or reject the guidance provided by such an framework. But be clear. They would do so against a background in which the possibility of cooperation and ambition is obvious to all, even while it eludes our collective grasp. Even as the suffering and destruction increasingly surrounds us on every side.
They would not be thanked for their trouble.
How to think about such an Equity Review? The first point is that the demands of equity have already been agreed. This is true at the level of the Convention’s keystone text on “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities” (CBDR & RC), and it’s true of the four fundamental equity principles – ambition, responsibility, capacity, and development need – that underlie the principle of CBDR & RC and, of course, our shared vision of “equitable access to sustainable development” as well.
None of this is going to change. Nor should it. Climate, after all, is a global commons problem. The cooperation needed to solve it can only exist if the regime – as it actually unfolds in actions on the ground – is widely seen as being not only “fair enough,” but an actual positive driver of developmental justice around the world.
What is needed is dynamic equity spectrum approach. This is our key point. And here I must note that a dynamic equity spectrum approach would be entirely consistent with the principles of the Convention, and in particular with the principle of CBDR & RC.
A renegotiation or rewriting of that principle, or any other Convention principle, is not needed. Rather the opposite. Such an approach as this would give life and meaning to the principles of the Convention.”
The goal here was to put an “equity spectrum” approach onto the table, to make it clear that action was expected from all countries, in proportion to their “differentiated responsibility” and their “respective capability,” and to displace the argument that “equity” is straightforwardly and unproblematically equivalent to a “binary” model of global obligation in which the Annex 1 countries alone are on the hook for stringent climate action. And do not doubt that this argument lives. Down to Earth magazine reported an unidentified BASIC negotiator explaining that the Annexes are sacrosanct: “There is a meaning behind it. If you don’t follow the Annexes, it will mean side-stepping the Convention. We will not allow this. Even if it means no deal.” Even more starkly (and here again I’m forced to anonymous quotation) I was told of a Middle Eastern negotiator who publicly declared that “We are going to decide what we are entitled to, and that’s what we’re going to pollute.”
Don’t get me wrong. This kind of hard-ball defensiveness has a certain logic. It represents a style of negotiation that diplomats of all stripes – not just climate professionals – are wearily familiar with. It will certainly remain a part of the game for a long time, and an influential part for as long as the developed countries refuse to pull their fair share. But it is equally the case that it plays directly into the hands of the developed-world’s free riders. Which is to say that the recalcitrant parties of the North can easily hide behind it, and that they welcome the opportunity to do so.
Fortunately, it’s possible to gradually leave the Annexes behind. In their place, over time, we can introduce a dynamic, principle and indicator driven reference framework that expresses the notion of common but differentiated effort in a manner that more effectively captures the political and economic realities of the 21st Century world. And while such a goal would even a year ago have been taken as entirely quixotic, at Bonn it was suddenly on the agenda.
What’s changed? Only our common sense of reality. As one deeply experienced NGO realist put it to me, though (again) not on the record, “Equity is clearly necessary in the long term, if we’re to prevent catastrophe. But in the short term it’s dangerous, and if I thought the case was clear on that side, I’d do everything I could to derail it. But I’m no longer convinced that it’s more dangerous to engage with equity than it is to continue to try to avoid it. I just don’t know. It could go either way. And in the absence of certainly, one way or another, we might as well do the right thing.”
As the week progressed, this came to seem a widespread opinion. In the corridors, and in bilaterals, and in the workshops, the equity question received far more focused and official attention than could even have been dreamed of during the Copenhagen round. Even the venerable old Brazilian Proposal got its turn in the spotlight. Moreover, the conversation evolved in a notable manner. The notion of a dynamic “equity spectrum” remained in play, but the talk turned more and more to the need (echoing Garnaut) that what was really needed was an “open, expert process” that was charged with developing an equity reference framework that the Parties could use to evaluate each other’s pledges.
CAN’s position evolved as well, from the aspirational language that appeared early in the week (see this issue of the Climate Action Network’s ECO newsletter) to the more actionable text that marked the end of the session:
“Today, it is widely understood that without a Science Review there would be no real possibility of achieving the ambition required by science. An Equity Review is imminently needed to muster sufficient political will for that needed ambition.
Such a review must be based upon the equity principles that are embodied in the Convention, most notably the principles of ambition, responsibility, capacity and developmental need.
The challenge now is to develop a set of indicators that properly express these principles, and to build them into an Equity Reference Framework. Such a Framework could help Parties to negotiate a set of pledges that are robust and fair enough to yield the breakthrough that we need in Paris.
This is not about a “formula”. Rather, an Equity Reference Framework would be a tool that the Parties – perhaps with a bit of assistance from their friends in civil society – can use to review and improve each other’s proposals in the later part of the political negotiations.
Procedurally, the key is that, when developing their pledges at the national level, Parties would be fully aware of the fact that these pledges will be evaluated against the science as well as the Convention’s equity principles.
Of course, after this evaluation, Parties will want to scale up their pledges, until they finally have a set that fairly distributes the effort of holding warming to a manageable 1.5°C.
Thus, we are calling for a process that allows a COP decision to launch the Equity Review at Warsaw. This decision should include the following:
- Parties and Observers should be called upon to make submissions to the ADP co-chairs with their views on relevant equity principles and indicators. These submissions should be made by May 27, 2013.
- The co-chairs should organize a Roundtable on equity principles and the Equity Review during the June Bonn session.
- A decision text should be drafted during the autumn session.
- A decision to launch the Equity Review should be made at COP19 in Warsaw.”
This is, of course, a very big ask. It took years to get the Science Review accepted by the Parties, and there’s precious little chance that an Equity Review will be agreed in 2013. But we have to try, and even so the genie really is out of the bottle. There are lots of equity framework proposals on the table, and some of them are pretty good, and even if we can’t get the negotiations to bless an expert process capable of analyzing them properly, they’re not going to go away. If we can’t have a formal Equity Review, we can — and should — contrive an informal one.
Moreover, and this really is the key, the global carbon budget is now so small that any reasonable Equity Review would inevitably find a great deal of convergence among the proposals. Or at least among the important subset of the proposals, those that truly are founded on the key principles of ambition, responsibility, capacity, and development need. And such a finding of reasonable convergence just might be enough to change the debate, at least in the critical short term.
The critical short term. These are words to remember. It will take a few years to sort out the demands of equity, but it can be done – if we have the will to do so and if we act in good faith. In the meanwhile, the imperatives of the situation cannot be put on hold. As the UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, noted in her opening remarks, the Bonn meeting coincided, more or less exactly, with the first readings of atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations in excess of 400 parts per million.
Frankly, the situation is verging on emergency. Global emissions must be drawn rapidly down to extremely low levels, and this cannot happen without global cooperation on a grand scale. So remember this – the climate negotiations will not save us, but we can’t save ourselves without them. We must have a global climate accord, and we will not get one unless it’s fair. Or at least, as the Australians say, “fair enough.”
Constructing a fair climate accord will not be easy. One wag, commenting on Bonn’s relative conviviality, quipped that “The fangs and the claws will come out in June.” And perhaps they will. But right now we have at least a sense of the way forward. It’s one that must be pursued.
Have we reached an equity tipping point? No, and we may never do so. But we can see one from here.
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Feeding the Monarch
Nova Scotia earthenware clay, white earthenware clay, wire, epoxy
Shauna became fascinated with swamp milkweed a few years ago when vacationing on the French shore of Nova Scotia. Through research she learned the important role our plants and flowers play in the survival of the Monarch Butterfly.
The beautiful Monarch Butterfly is perhaps the most recognizable of the butterflies. They travel 1200-2800 miles or more from the Southeast of Canada to the mountain forests in Central Mexico where they hibernate for the winter. The Monarch Butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Adult Monarch Butterflies possess two pairs of brilliant orange-red wings, featuring black veins and white spots along the edges. Males, who possess distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings, are slightly bigger than females. Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks.
The Monarch has experienced a 90% decrease since the 1990s due to disruption of unique forested mountain areas in Mexico where most of the global population overwinters and habitat loss in summer breeding areas in Canada and the US. The increased use of industrial herbicides has depleted habitat.
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Community Development Needs Survey
Each year the City of Panama City receives federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) due to its population, demographics, and available funding. The City estimates it will receive approximately $375,500 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) each year of the next 5 years. These funds primarily benefit low to moderate income households, and can be used for affordable housing, economic development, community facilities and neighborhood infrastructure.
This survey is designed to collect public opinion regarding how the City should use funding in the area of Affordable Housing. This survey is voluntary, your answers will be kept confidential.
Please do not take this survey again if you have already completed it.
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Obsession with immediate problems
Preoccupation with short-term problems
There is a basic mismatch between people's primitive, limited and distorted capacity to perceive what is happening in their immediate environment in comparison with the urgent need to find ways of directing and controlling the tumultuous changes which scientific and technological ingenuity has enabled them to initiate. The relatively recent, and rapid, cultural evolution involving intellectual, social and political innovation, has enabled people to plunder an environment whose resources have been generated over millions of years. This has made the much slower processes of biological evolution completely inadequate as a means through which humans can adapt appropriately to their environment. As a consequence there is an almost universal tendency to focus on the more immediate short-term problems which can be effectively grasped, articulated, communicated and acted upon. Those problems requiring sensitivity to, and detection or analysis of, an underlying long-term trend or one involving distant factors, are avoided, often deliberately from political or economic expedience. | <urn:uuid:f1a30230-c520-439a-935a-8f45cf3664e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/insensitivity-non-immediate-hazards-society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950687 | 204 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Jannick Sercu, Marketing Director of Galloo Plastics discusses plastic compounds and the value to be found from ELVs.
Jannick Sercu, Marketing Director Galloo Plastics discusses plastic compounds and the value to be found from ELVs.
GALLOO PLASTICS is a subsidiary of Galloo Group, one of the leading recycling groups in Europe with more than 40 subsidiaries in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Galloo was founded more than 80 years ago and started as a simple scrap metal recycler.
Meanwhile, the company is handling around 1.500.000 tons of ferrous metals, 100.000 tons of non-ferrous metals and 50.000 tons of plastics. Over the years, the company has been investing a lot of resources in Post Shredder Technologies and has become a significant player in the industry.
In the light of the ever-higher recycling targets of End of Life Vehicles, already in the ’90, the Galloo Group understood they had to recycle the plastics as well. In 1997 Galloo Plastics was founded, and that meant the start of the recycling of plastics for the group.
Galloo can sort out a plastics mix from Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) and Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), and this mainly by in-house developed separation techniques.
This plastics mix is then further purified and separated into PP, PS, ABS and HD-PE regrind, which after fine regrinding and cleaning are then compounded into valuable plastic compounds.
The compounding takes place at one of the five extruders they operate. The final polypropylene compounds can be unfilled, but can also be filled with talcum to allow for higher stiffness or with EPDM to allow for higher shock resistance.
During the compounding process, several additives can be used to enhance specific properties of the final product, such as temperature stability, UV-stability, scratch resistance etc.
The whole process is under continuous quality control. Every final batch of products gets its proper product certificate, indicating the most important specifications.
The recovered HD-PE is, due to its low melt flow index, mainly destined for extrusion parts.
The ABS and PS granules are mainly used for the production of technical parts for the electro and automotive industry, but also for the building, horticulture, agriculture and other sectors.
Most of the produced granules in polypropylene are being reused in the injection moulding for car parts, such as wheel arch liners, engine bottom protection plates, bumper parts, under the bonnet parts and for other technical parts.
This way Galloo is closing the loop, plastics from End of Life Vehicles are being reused in brand new cars.
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Farmstead record ETN 025 - Farmstead: Bentries Farm
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|Grid reference||Centred TM 2874 5885 (148m by 114m)|
|Civil Parish||EASTON, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK|
Type and Period (6)
- CART SHED (19th century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
- FARM (16th century to 20th century - 1500 AD to 1999 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (16th century to 17th century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
- FARMHOUSE (16th century to 17th century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
- REGULAR COURTYARD F PLAN (19th century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
- BARN (16th century to 18th century - 1500 AD to 1799 AD)
Bentries Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed OS map The farmstead is laid out in a regular F-plan with the farmhouse detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in an isolated location. There has been a partial loss of working buildings.
The property was formerly a substantial tenanted holding on the Duke of Hamilton’s Easton Park Estate and extended to 286 acres at the time of the tithe survey in 1838. The pantiled brick and weatherboarded cart lodge which flanks the entrance to the site dates from circa 1830 and was shown on the tithe map but not an earlier plan of the farm drawn in 1817. It was described in the Easton Park Estate auction catalogue of 1919 as a ‘4-bay Waggon Lodge with Granary over’, and includes a lean-to shed against its rear wall that was added as part of a major expansion of the farm complex between 1838 and 1883. Most of this complex is understood to have been demolished after sustaining major damage during the 1987 ‘hurricane’, leaving only the cart lodge and barn still standing along with a rebuilt shelter-shed and a building adjacent to the cart lodge that appears to represent the 1919 catalogue’s ‘Harness House with Loft over’. The cart lodge’s refurbishment included the renewal of its external weatherboarding and the partial removal of the internal divisions between its four bays, but in most respects it survives unaltered and represents a typical example of its kind. Well preserved and extensive examples of cladding painted with red ochre in this way are increasingly rare, and serve to illustrate the appearance of local farm buildings before tar became ubiquitous during the mid-19th century (S1).
Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.
- --- SSF59079 Unpublished document: Campbell, G., and McSorley, G. 2019. SCCAS: Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project.
- --- SSZ54999 Vertical Aerial Photograph: various. Google Earth.
- --- SXS50088 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1880s. Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map, 1st edition.
- <S1> SSF58313 Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2017. Heritage Asset Assessment: The Cart Lodge, Bentries Farm, Easton.
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In Iraq, what ought to be the role of Islam and its legal system, called the Sharia? In theory, this topic should be the subject of a soul-searching debate in America and all the other countries whose forces are occupying Iraq, for how it is answered will likely influence Iraq's future in profound ways.
Views on Islam's proper role reflect how one understands the purpose of the war in Iraq one year ago:
Islamic law should be prohibited: The overthrow of Saddam Hussein was called Operation Iraqi Freedom for a reason: the American-led occupation forces must not become midwife for an anti-democratic legal system that disallows freedom of religion, executes adulterers, oppresses women, and discriminates against non-Muslims. Acquiescing to the Sharia discourages moderates while encouraging the Wahhabi and Khomeinist extremists in Iraq. Also, because Sunnis and Shiites interpret Sharia differently, its implementation promises troubles ahead.
Islamic law should be permitted: Coalition forces entered Iraq primarily to protect their countries from a threatening regime, not to achieve Iraqi freedom. Democracy and prosperity for Iraq is just a happy byproduct. The pursuit of coalition interests does not require that Iraq's penal, family, financial, and other laws conform to Western preferences. Further, for Washington to implement its ambitious goals in the Middle East, it must have good relations with powerful Shiite leaders like Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who want the Sharia in place. And if a majority of Iraqis should opt for Sharia, democracy advocates can hardly deny them their wishes.
This has the makings of a deep argument over the purposes of invading Iraq, long-term coalition goals in Iraq, and whether the Sharia is or is not inherently reactionary, iniquitous, aggressive, and misogynist.
Unfortunately, the debate is already over, before it could begin: Iraqis have decided, with the blessing of coalition administrators, that Islamic law will rule in Iraq.
They reached this decision at about 4:20 a.m. on March 1, when the Iraqi Governing Council, in the presence of top coalition administrators, agreed on the wording of an interim constitution. This document, officially called the Transitional Administrative Law, is expected to remain the ultimate legal authority until a permanent constitution is agreed on, presumably in 2005. The council members focused on whether the interim constitution should name the Sharia as "a source" or "the source" for laws in Iraq. "A source" suggests laws may contravene the Sharia, while "the source" implies that they may not. In the end, they opted for the Sharia being just "a source" of Iraq's laws.
This appears to be a successful compromise. It means, as council members explained in more detail, that legislation may not contradict either the "universally agreed-upon tenets of Islam" or the quite liberal rights guaranteed in other articles of the interim constitution, including protections for free speech, free press, religious expression, rights of assembly, and due process, plus an independent judiciary and equal treatment under the law.
But there are two reasons to see the interim constitution as a signal victory for militant Islam.
First, the compromise suggests that while all of the Sharia may not be put into place, every law must conform with it. As one pro-Sharia source put it, "We got what we wanted, which is that there should be no laws that are against Islam." The new Iraq may not be Saudi Arabia or Iran, but it will include substantial portions of Islamic law.
Second, the interim constitution appears to be only a way station. Islamists will surely try to gut its liberal provisions, thereby making Sharia effectively "the source" of Iraqi law. Those who want this change — including Mr. al-Sistani and the Governing Council's current president — will presumably continue to press for their vision. Iraq's leading militant Islamic figure, Muqtada al-Sadr, has threatened that his constituency will "attack its enemies" if Sharia is not "the source" and the pro-Tehran political party in Iraq has echoed Sadr's ultimatum.
When the interim constitution does take force, militant Islam will have blossomed in Iraq.
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Visit the Nashville Music City Center website; Green Roof page; and Facebook page. See the sustainable features and practices at the Music City Center.
February 4, 2019 Nashville Music City Center by Linda S. Velazquez on Greenroofs.com; March 19, 2018 Music City Center Green Roof Brings Nashville to Life by Rachel Bertone in Farm Flavor; August 19, 2017 National Honey Bee Day and Honey Harvesting at the Nashville Music City Center by the NewsDesk at Nashville.com; November 17, 2014 Music City Center’s Big Green Roof by Roofmeadow; October 31, 2014 Music City Center Recognized with Green Roof Award of Excellence Prior to CitiesAlive Conference in Nashville Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Media Release; June 2014 Case study: Music City Center green roof by Allan Wingfield in Geosynthetics; April 24, 2014 Music City Center Earns LEED Gold Certification from Clark Construction; June 5, 2013 Greenrise Technologies Complete Music City Center Green Roof Press Release; May 16, 2013 Who Will Mow The Lawn On Music City Center’s Roof? No One by Blake Farmer from Nashville Public Radio; January 13, 2012 Music City Center Roof Goes Green by Adam Ghassemi from NewsChannel5.com; January 9, 2011 Music City Center trims green roof plan by Anne Pain in The Tennessean; and November 18, 2011 Currently Under Construction – The Music City Center Green Roof by Evan Morettini from the Roofmeadow blog, with lots of construction photos.
The Nashville Music City Center (or simply Music City Center, MCC) is a 1,200,000 square foot convention center completed in June, 2012 in the SoBro (South of Broadway) district in Nashville, Tennessee. Spanning three city blocks, the MCC “boasts a 350,000 square-foot exhibition hall, 60 meeting rooms, and a 57,000 square-foot grand ballroom that also is designed to serve as a music venue and an 18,000 square-foot junior ballroom. In addition, there are more than 80 pieces of art, 32 loading docks, and an 1,800-vehicle parking garage. Large skylights and a 14-story glass curtain wall system allow daylight into the exhibit hall and concourse, making the convention center a warm space from within, and an inviting presence from outside,” (Clark Construction.)
Five stories high, the wavy roof has three independent green roof sections with rooflite® soil which mimic the area’s rolling hills. The official groundbreaking for the Music City Center was held on March 22, 2010, and the new building opened in early 2013. The Music City Center makes it a part of their mission to focus on environmental sustainability and the Music City Center is LEED Gold certified for New Construction by the U.S. Green Building Council.
“The Music City Center has many sustainable features, including a green roof and a water reclaim tank so that excess rain water can be used for things such as flushing the toilets and site irrigation. In addition to these sustainable features, the Music City Center Team also envisioned installing solar panels. The Music City Center building was designed to accommodate a solar panel system over the grand ballroom portion of the roof. That portion of the roof is approximately 1 acre in size and is designed to hold approximately 4-6 lbs/sf.” ~ Nashville Music City Center website, 2015.
The new convention center hosts visitors and serves as a central meeting point for Nashville’s residents. A wide green pavilion encircles the building on all sides, calling Nashvillians to enjoy the area’s newest landmark and offers public space for art and music.
“The 191,000-square-foot greenroof was designed for stormwater retention and urban heat island reduction. It was essential that this iconic building embody the essence of “Music City, USA,” so the greenroof design represents the frets and body of a guitar—including solar panels incorporated into the design of the guitar body itself—while the roof “rolls” symbolize the rolling hills of Tennessee. From a performance perspective, the system is built to handle a 2.6-million-gallon stormwater offset. We carefully selected the most heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant plants, and we also blended and installed bioretention soil and structural soil for the greenroof as well as the surrounding grounds. Slated to receive an award from the national organization, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, this project represents the ultimate fusion of aesthetics and engineered performance.” ~ Greenrise Technologies, 2014
The Music City Center’s structure is comprised of 13,000 tons of structural steel and 110,000 cubic yards of concrete. Although sections of the roof have zero slope (i.e., the crests and valleys), the green roof has undulating surfaces with pitches ranging from 16 – 25%, with a 65-foot difference in elevation. This difference required slope stabilization of the media.
Since the growing media depth was shallow at less than three inches deep, pre-vegetated sedum mats from Sempergreen were specified, the principal reason being to avoid wind erosion, especially with such an exposed and thin assembly. The Anti-Slip System Type N with net and sills from Optigreen® was used to hold the rooflite® Extensive MCL substrate and the sedum mats.
In 2014 Roofmeadow wrote, “The extremely lean 2.5-inch thick green roof profile weighs in at only 17.5 pounds per square foot (at its heaviest) and is designed to maximize the time water flows horizontally through the root zone before exiting at the drains, reducing irrigation requirements.”
“Roofmeadow specified Bonar’s Enkadrain®/W 3601, a new thin drainage composite that is part of the Enkadrain family of sustainable products, as an underlayment and drainage system for the roof’s organic materials.” ~ Bonar (Xeroflor GmbH) Case History
The specific blend of rooflite soil used on the living roof was fine-tuned several times to ensure just the right mix for the vast space. Because the green roof was so large, the rooflite growing media was blown onto the roof in an easy and smooth installation process.
“From my standpoint the most important aspect of the design was the unique green roof profile, which was specifically designed for this application. The profile, that includes six structural layers, includes, bottom to top, 18 oz/sy capillary fabric (for moisture control), Bonar drainage composite (storm drainage), geogrid (for slope stabilization), media, geogrid (for wind stabilization), and pre-grown mats.” ~ Charlie Miller, 2019
Here are just some additional noteworthy Architecture and Design features:
- The total land area of the site is 16 acres and features a 65-foot difference in elevation from the northwest corner of the site to the southeast corner.
- 14 plant species were incorporated.
- The total square footage of the facility, including parking, is 2.1 million square feet. The actual building is 1.2 million square feet.
- A 360,000 gallon rainwater collection tank stores rainwater from the roof which is used to irrigate outdoor landscaping and flush the hundreds of toilets in the building.
- An array of 845 solar panels.
Regarding the 845 solar panel array, its 211kW emissions offset the following over 25 years:
- 8,275 lbs. of nitrogen oxides
- 23,825 lbs. of sulfur dioxide
- 5,046 tons of carbon dioxide
The Nashville Music City Center’s carbon offset is equivalent to planting 3,750 acres of trees! (LightWave Solar)
The Music City Center also supports bee hives on its 4-acre greenroof in order to help the bee population in Nashville flourish, provide pollinators to the many green spaces in downtown, and produce delicious honey for use in their kitchen. The hives can produce up to 200 pounds of honey each year from approximately 100,000 bees.
In 2014 the Nashville Music City Center was the recipient of the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Green Roof Special Recognition Award. The co-recipients for the Special Recognition Award were Roofmeadow, who designed the green roof, provided construction oversight, and oversees maintenance; Greenrise Technologies, who constructed the green roof and also conducts green roof maintenance; and tvsdesign, lead architect, who conceived the green roof project and laid out the signature green diamond pattern.
Additional awards include 2015 Nashville Downtown Partnership Award in the LIVE category for the addition of bee hives on the greenroof; 2014 Urban Land Institute Nashville’s Excellence in Development Award; ABC of Middle Tennessee 2013 Excellence in Construction Award – Mega Project; AGC Build Tennessee Award 2013 – General Contractor Project, $250-500 Million; ENR Southeast – Best Project of 2013, Sports/Entertainment; and 2013 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award in the Building Green category.
In FY 2019, the Music City Center collected over 3 million gallons of rainwater from its greenroof, reducing their municipal water usage by 51%. Additionally, the MCC recycled over 400,000 lbs. of mixed recycling. The Music City Center strives to be a strong community partner and donated over 40,000 lbs. to the Nashville Rescue Mission. | <urn:uuid:a0c02a78-8ca2-4dea-a947-9a8751977deb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/nashville-music-city-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.918027 | 1,968 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Ten-year-old Phineas was up before the sun. He’d scarcely slept the night before and long before a sound was heard in the house, he was downstairs with his bag packed, ready to climb into the wagon. The year was 1820. And Phineas was about to see an island. His island, the island promised to him at birth. The day he was born, his grandfather presented Phineas with a deed, a sizable portion of Connecticut land called Ivy Island. And today, for the first time, Phineas was to see it.
Not every boy is born a proprietor. His parents were always quick to remind him of this. They urged him not to forget them when he came of age. Neighbors feared that the young landowner wouldn’t want to play with their children. Their concerns were legitimate. Phineas was different from his playmates. While they dreamed of fighting dragons he envisioned Ivy Island. Someday he would be lord of his own island. He would build a house, start a farm, raise cattle, and rule. When you own an island you feel important. Phineas had yet to see it.
He pleaded with his father to take him to his island and, finally, in the summer of 1820, his father agreed. Three sleepless nights preceded the expedition. Then, early that morning, Phineas, his father, and a hired hand climbed into the buggy to begin the long anticipated journey. Finally, Phineas would see his land. He could hardly sit still. At the top of each hill he would ask, “Are we nearly there?” And his father would encourage him to be patient assuring him that they were drawing near.
At last his dad pointed beyond a meadow to a row of tall trees stretching into the sky. “There,” he said, “That is Ivy Island!” Phineas was overcome. Jumping from the wagon, he dashed through the meadow leaving his father far behind. He raced to the row of trees into an opening from which Ivy Island was visible. When he saw the land his heart sank. Ivy Island was five acres of worthless snake-infested marshland. His grandfather had called it the most valuable land in Connecticut, but it was valueless. His father had told him it was a generous gift. It wasn’t. It was a cruel joke. As stunned Phineas stared, his father and the hired hand roared with laughter. Phineas was not the fortunate beneficiary of the family, he was the laughingstock. His Grandfather Taylor had played a joke on him. Phineas didn’t laugh, neither did he forget.
That disappointment shaped his life. He, the deceived, made a life out of deception and fooling people. You don’t know him as Phineas. You know him as P. T. You know him as the one who coined the phrase: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” He spent the rest of his life proving it. Such was the life of P.T. Barnum. (Gaining a new attitude on life; Max Lucado; 2007; Thomas Nelson Publishers) And such is the life of many who have been told lies. Disappointments have shaped their lives. The cure for disappointments is the Holy Bible. You can find more online at www.JoyChristianMinistries.com. Here's a link to find out more on P.T. Barnum.
Pastor J.C. Myers, III
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For years, scientists have been battling a theory that our brains physically change when we learn new things. Now, two new studies from the University of Texas at Dallas add to the evidence supporting this idea. This theory is known as neuroplasticity–the brain’s ability to change in response to learning or experience.
The more you use a particular part of your brain, the stronger those neural connections become—making it easier for your brain to access information and fire signals through these specific pathways in the future. This causes physical changes in the structure of the brain itself over time. In other words, if you practice the guitar every day for 20 years, then that part of your brain will be strengthened and have an increased number of neural connections. You’ll have built up a “mental highway” for your guitar playing, so to speak.
Deadly Brain Tumor Becomes ‘Self-Propelled’ With The Help Of New Treatment
A deadly glioblastoma brain tumour has been made more aggressive in mice by adding an experimental drug—but this same drug might be used to slow the disease down in humans one day. Glioblastomas are some of the deadliest cancers known because they can grow into nearby areas and quickly kill patients through increased pressure on the brain or when growing tumours cut off circulation to parts of the brain. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that nearly all mice with glioblastoma die within 12 weeks if they are not given the experimental drug. However, 90 per cent of the mice that were treated with the drug survived more than two years after receiving it.
“The field has been consumed by debates about whether this rewiring actually occurs,” said KAUST neuroscientist Peter Lederer. “But our data shows clearly that these changes occur in brain areas associated with higher-order thought processes.”
Neuroplasticity Linked To Better Cognitive Abilities In Older Adults.
Senior citizens who possess a greater capacity for physiological health and neural plasticity fare better at tasks involving thinking, learning and memory, according to research published in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers caution against drawing too many conclusions from their study due to limitations in sample size and diversity; however, the results do offer promising insight on how neuroplasticity—the ability of our brains to adapt and change in response to new experiences or injury— affects older individuals.
“We found that every area of cognition we looked at was correlated with physical and mental health,” said Brian Gordon, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University and corresponding author on the study. “For example, we saw more robust correlations between smoking, obesity, exercise and brain structure within individuals than socioeconomic status or education.” | <urn:uuid:df0181ff-799d-4dcc-ad27-9c001de2afdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dk-petsek.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95299 | 575 | 3.640625 | 4 |
The EPA MCL for Arsenic
The United States Environmental Protection Agency sets a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for contaminants in public drinking water. The MCL is the maximum concentration that is allowed for public water supplies. For arsenic, the MCL is 10 ug/L (which is the same as 0.01 mg/L). Arsenic in well water of private well owners is not regulated by the EPA. Home owners are advised to test and, when necessary, treat arsenic in their well water.
ARSENIC IN WELL WATER
Naturally-occurring arsenic is commonly found in Maine well water. Contamination from non-natural sources of arsenic is extremely rare in Maine. Naturally-occurring arsenic exists in two forms, trivalent arsenic (also known as As (III) and “arsenite”) and pentavalent arsenic (also known as As (V) and “arsenate”). As (V) is the most common form found in Maine well water and is also the most easily removed from well water.
HOW TO TEST FOR ARSENIC IN WELL WATER
The only way to know if there is arsenic in your well water is to test. The State of Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that home owners test their water every 3 to 5 years for arsenic. This is because the concentration can change over time.
We commonly hear from homeowners, “I tested my water for arsenic a few years ago and it was fine then.” The EPA’s MCL for arsenic used to be 50 ug/L but was changed to 10 ug/L a few years ago. This means that many wells that formerly had levels below the EPA MCL now have levels above the MCL.
In general, if you have arsenic levels in your water above 20 ug/L (the same as 0.020 mg/L) we recommend testing for both forms of arsenic prior to finalizing a treatment system. This is known as “speciation”. Some laboratories have special “speciation” sampling kits. Because a sample is exposed to oxygen the As (III) begins to oxidize and change to the As (V) form, it is important to properly sample the water on-site to accurately determine the amount of As (V) and As (III) in the water.
In general, the predominant exposure to arsenic is from drinking water and beverages made from the water. Eating foods prepared with water containing high concentrations of arsenic also pose a risk. A much smaller level of exposure comes from dermal contact or accidental ingestion while brushing teeth or bathing. In most cases, properly treating a small amount of water for drinking and cooking virtually eliminates health risks due to arsenic exposure from the well water. Please call Air & Water Quality to discuss your test result and to determine the best treatment method.
OPTIONS FOR REMOVING ARSENIC IN WELL WATER
Reverse Osmosis (RO) -Reverse osmosis is a membrane technology that uses pressure to force water against a semipermeable membrane. A portion of the water is forced through the membrane while leaving contaminants behind. The contaminants are then flushed down the drain with the remaining water. Reverse osmosis systems can be purchased to treat a small amount of water for drinking and cooking at a point of use (POU) or all the water at the point of entry (POE) to the house. Treatment with reverse osmosis has a number of advantages including:
- The high removal rate for both As (V) (nearly 100%) and As (III) (approximately 60% to 65%).
- The system does not accumulate arsenic that might become a disposal issue.
- The system performance can easily be monitored by the homeowner with a total dissolved solids (TDS) meter. Air & Water Quality installs TDS meters on all of its reverse osmosis systems.
Arsenic Media – This technique uses an iron-oxide media to adsorb arsenic. There are several manufacturers of this type of media and they all have similar capacities for arsenic removal. The arsenic media continues to remove arsenic until it has exhausted its ability to adsorb arsenic. Once exhausted, the media is replaced. These systems should be placed in a twin tank configuration. The two tanks should be placed in series. The first tank, called the lead tank, removes the arsenic and the second tank, called a guard tank, provides protection when the lead tank is exhausted. Regular testing of water from the lead tank is necessary to determine when the media is exhausted. When the lead tank is exhausted, the guard tank is put into the lead position. The exhausted lead tank with new media is placed in the guard tank position. Under the right water chemistry conditions and, with proper maintenance and testing this can be an effective way to treat arsenic. Under certain conditions, including high pH, high sulfate, silica and phosphate concentration, the media may not be practical because it can become saturated quickly. Maintenance required by the homeowner includes testing the lead tank effluent approximately every quarter and then arranging for replacement of the media when it becomes saturated.
Anion Exchange – This method is a water softener that has anion resin instead of cation resin. This system removes only As (V). Its main disadvantage is that the anion resin also dramatically lowers the pH of the water which can cause health and plumbing issues. This type of system can also bleed high concentrations of arsenic. We recommend anion treatment in commercially maintained systems only. | <urn:uuid:4ad1654d-9e1c-455c-b008-5577a7be31fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awqinc.com/arsenic-in-well-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954189 | 1,163 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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The term "appearance" has been used in different apparitions within a wide range of contexts and experiences. And its use has been different with respect to Marian apparitions and visions of Jesus Christ.
In some apparitions such as Our Lady of Lourdes or Our Lady of Fatima an actual vision is reported, fully resembling that of a person being present. In some of these reports the viewers (at times children) do not initially report that they saw the Virgin Mary, but that they saw "a Lady" (often but not always dressed in white) and had a conversation with her. In these cases the viewers report experiences that resemble the visual and verbal interaction with a person present at the site of the apparition. In most cases, there are no clear indications as to the auditory nature of the experience, i.e. whether the viewers heard the voices via airwaves or an "interior" or subjective sense of communication. Yet, the 1973 messages of Our Lady of Akita, which were approved at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1988 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) are due to Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa who had been totally deaf before 1973 (and remained deaf until 1982 when she was cured during Sunday Mass as foretold in her messages), suggesting means of communication other than airwaves.
In some apparitions just an image is reported, often with no verbal interaction, and no conversation. An example is the reported apparitions at Our Lady of Assiut in which many people reported a bright image atop a building, accompanied by photographs of the image. The photographs at times suggest the silhouette of a statue of the Virgin Mary but the images are usually subject to varying interpretations, and critics suggest that they may just be due to various visual effects of unknown origin. However, such image-like appearances are hardly ever reported for visions of Jesus and Mary. In most cases these involve some form of reported communication.
And apparitions should be distinguished from interior locutions in which no visual contact is claimed. In some cases of reported interior locutions such as those of Father Stefano Gobbi a large amount of text is produced, but no visual contact is claimed. Interior locutions usually do not include an auditory component, but consist of inner voices. Interior locutions are generally not classified as apparitions. Physical contact is hardly ever reported as part of Marian apparitions, unlike in cases of interaction with Jesus Christ. In rare cases a physical artifact is reported in apparitions. A well known example is the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is reported to have been miraculously imprinted on the cloak of Saint Juan Diego.
According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle. A Marian apparition, if deemed genuine by Church authority, is treated as private revelation that may emphasize some facet of the received public revelation for a specific purpose, but it can never add anything new to the deposit of faith. The Church will confirm an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required by divine faith. The Holy See has officially confirmed the apparitions at Guadalupe, Saint-Etienne-le-Laus, Paris (Rue du Bac, Miraculous Medal), La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Portugal, Pontmain, Beauraing, and Banneux.
As a historical pattern, Vatican approval of apparitions seems to have followed general acceptance of a vision by well over a century in most cases. According to Father Salvatore M. Perrella of the Marianum Pontifical Institute in Rome, of the 295 reported apparitions studied by the Holy See through the centuries only 12 have been approved, the latest being the May 2008 approval of the 17th- and 18th-century apparitions of Our Lady of Laus.
Other apparitions continue to be approved at the local level, e.g. the December, 2010 local approval of the 19th-century apparitions of Our Lady of Good Help, the first recognized apparition in the United States.
An authentic apparition is believed not to be a subjective experience, but a real and objective intervention of divine power. The purpose of such apparitions is to recall and emphasize some aspect of the Christian message. The church states that cures and other miraculous events are not the purpose of Marian apparitions, but exist primarily to validate and draw attention to the message. Apparitions of Mary are held to be evidence of her continuing active presence in the life of the church, through which she "cares for the brethren of her son who still journey on earth".
Not all claims of visitations are dealt with favourably by the Roman Catholic Church. For example, claimed apparitions of Our Lady, under the title of "Our Lady of the Roses, Mary, Help of Mother's", Jesus Christ and various saints at Bayside, New York have not been condoned or sanctioned in any way, nor those at the Necedah Shrine in Necedah, Wisconsin. The behavior of Ms Veronica Lueken and Mary Ann Van Hoof, who claimed these heavenly favors, was deemed not to compare favorably with the "quiet pragmatism" of St. Bernadette Soubirous - Church authorities are said to use Bernadette as a model by which to judge all who purport to have visitations. Indeed, both women seriously criticized the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, allegedly even harshly, and Mrs. Van Hoof is said to have subsequently left Roman Catholicism for an independent local Old Catholic Church.
Possibly the best-known apparition sites are Lourdes and Fatima Over sixty spontaneous healings, out of thousands reported at the Lourdes Spring, have been classified as "inexplicable" by the physicians of the Lourdes Bureau, a medical centre set up by the Church in association with local medical institutes to assess possible miracles. The Three Secrets of Fatima received a great deal of attention in the Catholic and secular press.
Apparitions and statues
Marian apparitions are sometimes reported along with weeping statuesof the Virgin Mary. However, to date only one single example of acombined weeping statue and apparition (namely Our Lady of Akita) has been approved by the Vatican and the rest have usually been dismissed as hoaxes.
Discerning Apparitions and Private Revelation
An Apparition is an appearance. In that sense, there have been reports of apparitions since the earliest history of the Church. I have always found St. Matthews account of the crucifixion to be one of the most fascinating. After the Lord Jesus surrenders Himself in Love for our redemption we read this account:
"But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!"" (Matt. 27: 50 -54)
"Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia," gives us some helpful distinctions concerning the language used when discussing purported heavenly appearances, private revelations and the messages associated with them. Here is a summary:
Apparition: The name given to various kinds of supernatural visions of heavenly beings and is frequently applied to the visions associated with Mary.
Private revelation: This comes from a vision and communication from Mary or other heavenly beings. "Revelation" is the body of truths found in the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition of the Church. "Private revelations" are not dogmas of faith and are open for selective acceptance and devotion of the faithful.
Messages: Often in an apparition, a message is given to the seer (the person who beholds the vision). It may be a warning about the need for prayer and penance to avert a coming war or disaster. After apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, Our Lady of Fatima told Sister Lucia de Santos that a pope would be shot. This prophecy was verified on May 13, 1981, when Pope John Paul II was shot in Rome.
Messages may also include a request that a church be built to honor Mary at the apparition site with the promise of blessing to all who come to pray there. For example, the basilicas in Lourdes, France, and Guadalupe, Mexico, were built in response to Mary's request and are visited by millions of pilgrims annually.
How Do we Discern Apparitions and Private Revelations?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church sets the standard by which the faithful should approach any claimed Apparition, private revelation or message associated with them:
"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.
"Throughout the ages, there have been so-called "private" revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.
"Christian faith cannot accept "revelations" that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such "revelations." (CCC #65-67)
Norms and Process for Judging Private Revelations
The following material is from the University of Dayton in Ohio which houses the International Marian Institute and the largest Marian library in the world. They have done a thorough job in offering assistance to the faithful on whether Apparitions are reliable and how we can approach them with the mind of the Church:
During the past several years, the number of reported apparitions has been greatly increasing. While concentrating on Marian apparitions, our purpose here is to view all popular piety in the context of the total picture of Catholic faith, devotion, and discipleship. Our approach is to strike a happy medium between vain credulity and sterile skepticism. Perhaps we could label our position as one of critical or moderate realism.
Visionaries or seers behold an object not naturally visible to other persons. An authentic supernatural vision or apparition is different from illusions or hallucinations that result from pathological conditions or even diabolical intervention. An authentic vision is a charism -- gratia gratis data -- given to an individual or group for the spiritual good of others and/or for the Church as a whole.
The Church's Voice
On February 25, 1978, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued "Norms of the Congregation for Proceeding in Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations." Pope Paul VI had approved these norms the preceding day.
Although this document uses the term supernaturalitas, we believe that what is meant is something supernatural in the mode in which it has occurred rather than supernatural in its essence or substance.
The Bishop's Role
When an allegedly supernatural event has occurred, it is the responsibility of the local bishop to conduct an investigation, usually through a committee of experts.
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Theologically and canonically, the bishop is entrusted with the role of "oversight" of the diocese. This role of "oversight" is based on the bishop's responsibility both for public worship and for the religious teaching which occurs in the diocese.
Norms for Discernment
1) The first norm for evaluating miraculous events is that there be moral certainty, or at least great probability, that something miraculous has occurred. The commission may interview the visionaries, call other witnesses, visit the site of the events.
2) The second norm deals with the personal qualities of the subjects who claim to have had the apparition; they must be mentally sound, honest, sincere, of upright conduct, obedient to ecclesiastical authorities, able to return to the normal practices of the faith (such as participation in communal worship, reception of the sacraments).
3) A third category deals with the content of the revelation or message: it must be theologically acceptable and morally sound and free of error.
4) The fourth positive criterion is that the apparition must result in positive spiritual assets which endure (prayer, conversion, increase of charity).
These four criteria may also be restated in a negative way. There must be no doubt that what is occurring is truly exceptional and beyond human explanation. There must be no doctrinal error attributed to God or to the Blessed Virgin Mary or some other saint. The third negative criterion is that there must be no hint of financial advantage to anyone connected with the apparitions, nor must any of the visionaries be accused of serious moral improprieties at the time when the visions were being received, nor may there be evidence of mental illness or psychopathic tendencies.
At the end of the investigative process, the committee may submit to the bishop(s) one of the following verdicts or conjectural judgements: constat de supernaturalitate (the event shows all the signs of being an authentic or a truly miraculous intervention from heaven); constat de non supernaturalitate (the alleged apparition is clearly not miraculous or there are not sufficient signs manifesting it to be so); non constat de supernaturalitate (it is not evident whether or not the alleged apparition is authentic).
The Bishop's decision regarding alleged apparitions usually does not attempt to interpret or give the spiritual significance of the events, nor to interpret the messages or identify the heavenly persons who may have appeared.
All such investigations are conducted by the bishop to determine whether public worship should continue to be held in those places. It could happen that the investigative committee could conclude that at this time it is able neither to make a clearly positive nor a clearly negative judgment. If the matter is still being investigated, the bishop could permit public worship, while at the same time continuing to be vigilant that the devotions do not wander into deviant directions.
As the bishops are entrusted with these responsibilities stemming from the nature of their office, so there are fundamental responsibilities on the part of the members of the diocese. First, they are to obey their bishops when the latter act as Christ's representatives (canon 212), that is, when they teach formally or establish binding discipline as pastors of a particular church. This obedience owed to the bishops in their capacity as leaders of particular churches is intended to promote the common good. Canon 753 also speaks of the "religious assent" owed to the bishops' teaching authority, which means a special quality of respect and gratitude, along with critical awareness and good will. Hence, there should be intelligent obedience to ecclesiastical authority in the matter of alleged apparitions.
A new era opened in the canonical regulations dealing with apparitions occurred in 1969. In that year, Pope Paul VI deleted certain canons of the Code of Canon Law (1917). These canons had specifically forbidden the publication of all books or pamphlets about new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, and miracles, or which introduce new devotions, even though justified as private. Such prohibitions are not part of the Code of Canon Law (1983). So the many reports of Marian apparitions may in part be due to the new freedom to discuss freely and to report such occurrences to the media, without first submitting them to ecclesiastical approbation.
The Foundations of Our Faith
Our faith cannot rest on private revelations and apparitions. Even with properly approved apparitions, we must maintain a proper perspective -- viewing them as an assistance to nourish our faith in the central dogmas of the Incarnation, the Trinity and the Eucharist. In their 1973 pastoral letter, Behold Your Mother: Woman of Faith, the American bishops called authenticated appearances of Mary "providential happenings [which] serve as reminders of basic Christian themes: such as prayer, penance, and the necessity of the sacraments." (# 100).
This text is based on "Discerning the Miraculous: Norms for Judging Apparitions and Private Revelations" by Frederick Jelly, O.P. (1993); and "Canonical Considerations regarding Alleged Apparitions" by Fr. Michael Smith Foster, JCD (1995). It was abridged, combined and rearranged by Fr. Johann G. Roten, S.M.
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heritage radio network tribute to Philando Castile
On June 5, 2020, Heritage Radio Network aired episode 77 of their flagship news show Meat and Three:
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This week on Meat and Three, we released a special episode that addresses recent police violence and revisits our tribute to Philando Castile, a school cafeteria worker who was killed by a police officer on July 6, 2016 in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Philando’s mother Valerie Castile generously shared her thoughts on the current moment. Listen here.
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Hybrid Center Solves Iraq Tactical Network Needs
|Line-of-sight antennas at Node Center 11, Victory Base in Baghdad, link assets in the mobile subscriber equipment network.|
Signaleers meet growing demands for expanded connectivity, additional capabilities.
Setting up and maintaining a communications network in a war zone is difficult under any circumstances, but it is especially complicated in a battlespace without defined front lines. To meet this challenge, the U.S. Army is combining military systems and commercial solutions to establish a reliable network for commanders and warfighters in operation Iraqi Freedom.
In January 2004, the 3rd Signal Brigade assumed responsibility from the 22nd Signal Brigade for the largest tactical network in Army history. The work completed by the 22nd Signal Brigade yielded a robust mobile subscriber equipment (MSE) network that was instrumental to the success of coalition forces during the first rotation of troops in operation Iraqi Freedom. During the initial push into Baghdad and throughout its tour in Iraq, the 22nd Signal Brigade provided commanders at all levels with the critical communications they needed to execute the mission.
Upon transition of authority, the 3rd Signal Brigade was charged with satisfying the growing requirements for quality voice, data and video services for support and stability operations throughout Iraq. While this task required the same dispersed, large-scale tactical network, other aspects of the network, such as commercialization, were becoming just as significant for subscribers all over Iraq. To accomplish this task for what is now called operation Iraqi Freedom 2, the 3rd Signal Brigade created the Coalition Network Operations and Security Center (CNOSC).
Unlike smaller exercises that involved two or three battalions at Fort Hood in Texas, the operation Iraqi Freedom 2 network integrates four corps area signal battalions, two divisional signal battalions, two range extension companies, the Stryker Brigade, units of action signal companies, echelons-above-corps signal assets and a variety of commercial signal assets. In addition, the geographic area covered by the operation Iraqi Freedom 2 network stretches from Mosul in the north to Basrah in the south and from the Iranian border in the east to the Jordan-Syria border in the west.
The first step for the 3rd Signal Brigade was to put the right people in the right positions on the CNOSC staff. Because managing the equipment for more than six battalions was not feasible with the existing staff, the 3rd Signal Brigade utilized battalion liaison officers (LNOs), a method successfully employed during the initial phases of operation Iraqi Freedom. As representatives of their battalions at the CNOSC, liaison officers monitor and track their part of the network and forward other battalion issues to brigade staff for resolution. “Serving as an LNO for the 3rd Signal Brigade has been a learning experience for me,” says Staff Sgt. Stefan Rothwell, USA, CNOSC LNO for the 711th Signal Battalion. “Working in the CNOSC gave me the opportunity to see the big picture of the MSE network. It gives you a better understanding of the systems and your purpose in being here.”
Because the battalion LNOs act as controllers for their respective pieces of the network, the 3rd Signal Brigade staff officers for operations (S-3) serve in specialty positions that do not exist at the battalion level. Given that MSE uses line-of-sight radio as its transmission medium, frequency management is essential to the brigade mission. Every link in the MSE network requires a transmit and receive frequency that does not interfere with the rest of the frequency spectrum. Assigning frequencies is a challenge because spectrum must be shared among all the services as well as with U.S. Defense Department personnel and Iraq, the host nation.
Another important position in the CNOSC is the satellite communications (SATCOM) planner, whose responsibilities include tracking and managing any X-band or Ku-band satellite assets in use in the Iraqi theater of operations. Because of the enormous geographic footprint of the units in the Iraq MSE network, the SATCOM planners have had to manage a collection of more than 25 ground-mobile-forces satellite terminals, the most ever connected in one network. “SATCOM management is never boring here in Iraq,” explains Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Aiken, USA, SATCOM planner, CNOSC. “The network is constantly in transition due to combat operations across the theater. But satellite communications have consistently provided vital connectivity to allow commanders on the ground to bring the pain to the enemy.”
In addition to the X-band and commercial Ku-band satellite networks, the Iraq extremely high frequency (EHF) satellite network is providing easily deployable satellite links via the secure mobile antijam reliable tactical terminal (SMART-T), the military’s newest mobile satellite terminal. Responsibility for keeping more than 30 SMART-Ts talking falls on Staff Sgt. Antoine Ford, USA, EHF communications planner, CNOSC. As the subject matter expert in troubleshooting EHF communications and SMART-T networks, he describes his experience as challenging because he has had to manage one of the largest SMART-T networks ever with a variety of units across Iraq. The SMART-T network stretches from the I Marine Expeditionary Force in the west to the 121st Signal Battalion in the east and from the Stryker Brigade in the north to the 13th and 57th Signal Battalions in Baghdad in the south.
With more than 50 node centers and 200 small extension nodes, the operation Iraqi Freedom 2 network is larger than any that the 3rd Signal Brigade has previously managed. This fact has led the CNOSC to try several different approaches to tracking the MSE network, specifically with respect to network management software.
One solution is a network management tool set called Integrated System Control (ISYSCON). The centerpiece of the General Dynamics’ ISYSCON network management suite is HP OpenView, a full-featured simple network management protocol-based tool that has special features to manage MSE node centers. In addition to tracking a tactical data network, the ISYSCON allows real-time tracking of the tactical Army voice network through connectivity to the node center workstations.
|Distances of more than 50 miles between locations in the 711th Signal Battalion network in Babylon require the use of troposcatter systems and tropospheric scatter radio antennas to provide beyond-line-of-sight transmission capability.|
In addition to troubleshooting network outages, the 3rd Signal Brigade began using Solar Winds, another simple network management protocol management tool, to track specific trends in the tactical MSE network. After assuming responsibility for the network, one major challenge was managing the data bandwidth on the MSE links throughout Iraq. Once the network analysis team had entered information from more than 300 routers into the operation Iraqi Freedom 2 network, their status was tracked automatically with the Solar Winds server at the CNOSC. Almost overnight, Solar Winds produced charts and graphs that made it easy to track trends in the data network such as daily average bandwidth utilization and packet loss.
Staff Sgt. Steven DuBose, USA, brigade Solar Winds noncommissioned officer in charge, is responsible for supervising four soldiers who manage and update the server with him as well as for identifying problems to the battle captain and network management cell at the CNOSC. “Solar Winds is a great tool for analyzing bandwidth usage within the network,” he says. “This helps us to find and ease the heavy usage areas and make the changes necessary to increase bandwidth or add links as needed to reduce usage on high-traffic routes.”
Since the server was installed and populated with information, it has yielded tremendous results. The charts of bandwidth utilization have been presented to commanders on a nightly basis to highlight data usage within each battalion’s network, and the graphs have been customized to show acceptable levels of bandwidth usage as required by Defense Information Systems Agency standards, which state that a link above 60 percent usage justifies more bandwidth or additional links to alleviate the traffic load.
In addition, Solar Winds helped identify a saturated gateway link at or near 100 percent usage almost daily from the Multinational Coalition-Iraq area at Victory Base to the 1st Infantry Division in Tikrit. This led to the successful installation of a new satellite link to decrease usage on that link and provide more bandwidth for mission-essential communications.
Automation has played a major role in CNOSC operations. The staff has used a variety of tools to simplify workflow and to improve knowledge management. A prime example of this initiative is the CNOSC SharePoint Server, which was first implemented when the 3rd Signal Brigade arrived in Iraq. Implementing a SharePoint Server was a first for the brigade and the automation staff. The most important aspect of the SharePoint server for the CNOSC is to provide a common document library that can be searched and archived easily. It has been an exciting challenge for the automators at the CNOSC to learn and implement the SharePoint server into daily operations.
As in all network operations centers, the shift-change briefing is important to maintaining continuity throughout 24-hour operations. Since the shift-change briefing was first implemented by the 22nd Signal Brigade, the CNOSC has continued to rely on a hypertext markup language-based brief that loads PowerPoint slides based on hyperlinks in a Web document. Staff members can load their slides into the appropriate directory, and their slides are opened with the click of a hyperlink when it is their turn. Compared to compiling one unwieldy brief, this method puts responsibility for slide preparation on the person presenting the brief, freeing the battle captain to focus on the network. This approach also allows important information from the battalions’ PowerPoint briefings to be accessed via the secret Internet protocol router network.
Over the course of the yearlong deployment to Iraq, the 3rd Signal Brigade’s work at the CNOSC has been critical to the success of coalition operations. As its primary mission, the CNOSC ensures that commanders have reliable and capable communications for every mission throughout the deployment. Maj. William Lee, USA, brigade S-3 and CNOSC director, previously served in Afghanistan during operation Enduring Freedom and understands the importance of signal support. “Just like Afghanistan, our mission is and always has been supporting the warfighter,” he says with respect to the brigade’s deployment in Iraq. “But soldiers in the 3rd Signal Brigade also have played the role of combat soldiers. In this theater of operations, signal soldiers have shown the ability to successfully engage the enemy in combat operations.”
In Baghdad, the 57th Signal Battalion has conducted daily convoys and used its own “home-made” gun trucks to deal with threats encountered en route. The 711th Signal Battalion, while providing communications to the central-south region of Iraq, not only drove hundreds of miles daily on some of the most dangerous routes in Iraq but also provided firepower and forces to coalition partners during intense combat in April 2004, battling in close-quarters firefights and even escorting other coalition convoys with its gun truck teams. The mission for the 3rd Signal Brigade in Iraq has been equally focused on communications and combat/security operations, allowing the brigade to demonstrate its excellence in both supporting and being warfighters.
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Bear attack in NJ is blood on Gov. Murphy’s hands (Opinion)
If that headline seems dramatic to you, please hear me out.
A few days ago in Sussex County a woman went outside her home with her two dogs. She stumbled onto the scene of two huge bears, both estimated to be between 400 and 500 pounds, that had helped themselves to the contents of her trash cans.
The dogs, one older and one younger thus faster, charged after the bears. One bear bolted and the other stood its ground.
The younger dog was too quick for the bear but the older dog was soon in the huge animal's jaws.
I can’t imagine the fear this woman, who is 81 years old by the way, felt about having to make that one-second decision. She intervened. She tried to get her dog from the bear's clutches only to be attacked herself. She felt the bear bite into her flesh and tear open her leg. Next, the bear's claw swatted at her head creating puncture wounds.
We can only imagine the trauma she has suffered.
Then it turned its attention back to its prey and carried the helpless dog off into the woods in its jaws.
When help arrived the woman received medical attention and first responders voyaged into the woods and found the dog still alive but mortally wounded. It was brought to a vet where it died.
The woman received seven stitches to close the wound on her leg. We can only imagine the trauma she has suffered.
While bear attacks are still rare, let’s not forget in 2014 a Rutgers student on a hiking trail was confronted by a bear that tore him to pieces. His partial remains were later found. More recently there was the 82-year-old man attacked by a bear that had gotten into his garage.
Murphy does not follow science.
Which brings me to my point. In a two-year period while Phil Murphy has been governor, the bear population in New Jersey literally doubled. Why? Because he does not listen to his own wildlife experts who have told him bear hunting is necessary to control this population. He does not follow science.
First, by executive order, he canceled all bear hunts on state land which took away 40% of the territory available to hunters to control the population. Next, when the program was up for renewal, he made sure that no action was taken so that the bear hunts would end. As it stands now there will be no more bear hunting in New Jersey whatsoever.
So what do we expect to happen? Do I even need to point it all out? The population is going to explode. And the amount of land needed for one bear to sustain itself is larger than you would think. This means bears are going to spread out and end up in more built-up human territory. This in turn means that they will slowly become more familiar with humans and lose their fear.
Once that happens, we are bound to see what we saw this week in Sparta. More property damage, more aggression and eventually more bear attacks.
We need to bring back bear hunts. Period.
Phil Murphy’s assertion that we can control the bear population through humane means is nonsense and his own wildlife scientists have told him so. He’s not listening to them. He’s not listening to the facts. He’s not listening to the hunters who by the way are the greatest ecologists the world has.
So yes, this governor indeed has blood on his hands and he will have more someday. We need to bring back bear hunts. Period.
And for all those bleeding hearts who will tell you it’s not fair to the bears because we encroached on their land, ask them if they sleep on a pile of leaves in the forest at night or inside their own warm house. Then ignore their hypocrisy.
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At their lowest, the Solent flying boats dipped so close to the waters of the Pacific Ocean that passengers could pick out brilliant coral formations, whales, and even the occasional shark from their windows. Starting in 1951, Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) operated the Coral Route, a monthly island-hopping extravaganza for some of the world’s glitziest people. Within six months, demand was so great that the airline doubled its services. But by the end of 1960, it was all over and the islands, touched for a brief period by seaplane magic, were brought abruptly back to normal.
It started with a mail service. In the wake of the Second World War, New Zealand found itself with an impressive fleet of pilots, who had learned to wrangle tide charts and coral reefs alike as they came in to land in the lagoons of the South Pacific. And so, in the final days of the British Empire, the Royal New Zealand Air Force ferried mail from one island outpost to the next, everywhere from Tahiti to Fiji.
But, as enthusiast Stewart Haynes writes, “a scheduled air service, flying boats linking islands scattered over thousands of miles on the South Seas; silver craft putting down oh-so-softly in tropical lagoons … was just too appealing.” The seaplanes continued to take mail, but began bringing passengers with them, on a romantic tourist package that left Auckland for the first time in late December 1951. The name “Coral Route” came from a TEAL staff competition: the head steward, Eric Mullane, was inspired by both the beauty of the coral islands and the “choral” musical welcome that guests received on their arrival in each spot.
For two and a half days, Coral Route passengers would hop from flying boat to island, and from island to flying boat, on a journey nearly 5,000 miles long. The trip began in Auckland, New Zealand, traveling through to Suva in Fiji, the Cook Islands, and Tahiti. Stops to Samoa and then Tonga were introduced in 1952.
Passengers sat in luxury in TEAL’s Solent flying boats, which were hulled like a boat, but with wings like a plane, allowing them to take off and land on water. First developed in the late 1940s as part of the war effort, the seaplanes seated up to 45 passengers over two decks, and included a five-strong crew, including a chef. Like the zeppelins of just a few decades earlier, passengers enjoyed a full silver service on board, with fresh linen tablecloths and meals cooked to order. The airline’s two Solent boats—named Aparima, after a Tahitian dance, and Aranui, a Māori word meaning “the great path”—cruised at speeds of around 170 miles per hour, in decadent sky-high surroundings. Each guest had paid £30 for their transit, about a third of the annual U.K. salary in the year the service began.
For many passengers, the crowning jewel of the route was the island of Akaiami, an uninhabited islet in the Cook Islands. New Zealand Geographic describes an islet almost parodic in its deserted perfection: shallow, turquoise waters beset with garlands of tropical fish; coconut palms; glittering silver sands. The flying boats landed at dawn, before the sun could climb too high in the sky, and drag the thermostat up with it. TEAL staff on the ground had, the night before, marked out a water landing area with inflatable buoys; the flying boats were then anchored in Akaiami Bay, while crew scrambled to fill the plane with fuel using a refueling barge.
This hectic behind-the-scenes activity was usually kept out of sight of the passengers. Though exhausted—they had taken off from Apia, the capital of Samoa, at 1 a.m.—for a few, brief hours, they enjoyed moments of absolute serenity, hundreds of miles from civilization. After being ferried off the flying boat, guests were welcomed onto the passenger wharf, and decorated with sweet-smelling flower leis by people from nearby Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands.
For the roughly 2,000 locals of Aitutaki, the arrival of the seaplane to Akaiami was a high point in the week. Aitutaki villagers lived an easy existence in huts with wooden walls and roofs thatched with coconut palms. When the flying boat arrived, children stood agape on the beach, trying to spot someone they might have heard of—although Aitutaki was at that time so isolated from the rest of the world that even the most renowned personality would be likely unrecognizable.
This uninhabited island paradise was, for a few years, witness to some of the world’s most glamorous people, including Marlon Brando, who liked Akaiami so much he returned a second time while filming Mutiny on the Bounty, and the Crown Prince of Tonga, who reportedly needed a custom-made seat to accommodate his bulk. Passengers recuperated in the thatched TEAL guest house, splashed in the shallow waters, or simply wandered the two miles along the island’s coast.
As a little girl, Queen Manarangi Tutai, now one of Aitutaki’s three high chiefs, remembered often taking a large canoe to Akaiami in the early 1950s with her family, on the night before the plane’s arrival. This was an easy journey of five miles on her father’s sailing canoe, with its mighty cotton sail. When they made it to the islet, they would stay in a local hut, sitting beneath the stars on a coconut log by a hissing billy cooking pot. “We seemed so isolated, so remote, and yet, for a brief instance the next day, Akaiami would be the only place in the whole Cook Islands where we would be so very close to the outside world,” she wrote, on her personal website. “We were, for a very short time, an international airport.”
At 9 a.m., Tutai recalled, the plane would make radio contact with TEAL staff on the ground. “A shout would go up, and everyone would man their stations,” she wrote. “We all would strain our eyes to see her, vying to be the first. Then, there she was, a speck, gradually becoming larger and larger—then a huge seaplane lining up with the water landing area in the lagoon.” The plane flew lower and lower, until it was just skimming the surf, before settling on the water and taxiing over the buoy. “In the peace of Akaiami, I can still remember the deafening roar of those big engines, and the silence that followed when they were stopped. It just seemed to make the stillness much greater somehow.”
The travelers were an exciting addition to island life, providing a brief glimpse at the outside world, far from the South Pacific, and welcomed accordingly with celebration and singing. In Papeete, in Tahiti, every boatload of disembarking guests was greeted with a dance called “Soirée de TEAL.” The night before, the village’s restaurants and bars displayed blackboards outside, which proclaimed: “L’avion TEAL arrivera demain”—“The TEAL plane is coming tomorrow.” Bars put on special parties to welcome them, and Solent crew and passengers alike treated like stars. Often, they were.
Despite its popularity with both passengers and Pacific Islanders, in September 1960, the service ceased. TEAL had inherited landplanes from a British airline, and the Solents were slowly phased out. First, they vanished from TEAL’s Tasman Strait crossings between New Zealand and Australia. Then, after a new international airport was built at Papeete, landplanes took over the journeys between the Pacific Islands, bringing the Coral Route to an end. By 1965, TEAL was rechristened Air New Zealand, and the service all but forgotten. A glorious chapter in aviation history had come to a close. After a decade of welcoming strangers from far away to their sandy homelands, the islanders, and their islands, went back to the way things had been before. | <urn:uuid:9ee34a29-cda5-49e8-8e2e-f74012d12f7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coral-route-teal-flying-boat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969391 | 1,767 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that verification and accept a dependency that would otherwise fail the build as an untrusted external artifact. This can occur in two ways. When signature verification is disabled but the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies that only have a `gpg` element but no `checksum` element. When signature verification is enabled, the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies with a `gpg` element but there is no signature file on the remote repository. In both cases, the verification will accept the dependency, skipping signature verification and not complaining that the dependency has no checksum entry. For builds that are vulnerable, there are two risks. Gradle could download a malicious binary from a repository outside your organization due to name squatting. For those still using HTTP only and not HTTPS for downloading dependencies, the build could download a malicious library instead of the expected one. Gradle 7.5 patches this issue by making sure to run checksum verification if signature verification cannot be completed, whatever the reason. Two workarounds are available: Remove all `gpg` elements from dependency verification metadata if you disable signature validation and/or avoid adding `gpg` entries for dependencies that do not have signature files. | <urn:uuid:06ea81cf-9d27-42d5-9f36-b8de9d2014ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cve.jirak.net/cve-2022-31156/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.906321 | 316 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Google made searching for the addresses on Google Maps to make simpler by launching Plus Codes in India 2 years ago. A Plus Code is an open-source solution or feature of the Google Maps, that allows you to look for a given location across India and also globally without a known address. This comes particularly handy when you are not absolutely sure about an address that you want to locate on Google Maps.
“Plus Codes are often used for a good sort of reasons including communicating the venue of a short lived event, guiding emergency services to afflicted locations, and providing an identifiable location for complicated addresses,” as Google says. On Friday, Google also announced that it is making it easier for Google Maps users to share the Plus Codes with others. Sharing Plus Codes is a one-step or two processes, but only on Android. Google is looking to breathe fresh life into the Plus Codes, hoping more and more people will use this very convenient feature.
Plus Codes are a replacement quite addressing system designed by Google for the Google Maps which allow you to look for and share your exact location even without an address. Say, when you’re in the middle of nowhere. Plus Codes work across India as well as globally. Google system divides the geographical surface of the Earth into tiny tiled areas and attributes a unique code to each of them. This code comprises a “6-character + City” format and may be shared and searched by anyone.
To use the plus code, tap the blue dot which represents your current location on Google Maps to access your Plus Code. You can also choose any other random location too. Then share your location. On receiving a Plus Code, users need to simply enter it into Google Search/Google Maps, mobile or desktop, to show the location. | <urn:uuid:bd0718cc-61a9-4c1d-bcbd-bef69dbd28f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://financerewind.com/economy-news/google-maps-made-easy-how-to-search-and-share-your-location-even-without-an-address/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.939874 | 360 | 2.21875 | 2 |
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Since the start of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has been mutating. Given the swift spread of the virus, experts said the new variant B.1.1.7 contains mutations that could make it easier for the virus to spread 40 to 70 percent more quickly.
Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman said that those mutations make it more transmissible, meaning that it may be better at replicating itself in people’s bodies.
"[The new variant] has the potential to transmit very effectively at super spreader events or crowds. The transmission rate has reached 40 percent to 70 percent," Dicky told Kompas.com, Wednesday, March 3.
The Covid-19 B.1.1.7 variant is the SARS-CoV-2 virus found in the UK, which is similar to the virus in Indonesia. The only difference lies in the genetic code.
"The virus is SARS-CoV-2, the disease is the same, it's Covid-19. The only difference is the genetic code of the virus," Dicky asserted.
Mutations are a natural part of a virus’ life cycle and occur when a virus causes infections. Most mutations are useless or weaken the virus, but occasionally a mutation may benefit the virus.
Some research scientists suspect the B.1.1.7 variant may not only be more contagious but also deadlier, especially for the elderly or people with comorbidities. People would have a 30 percent chance of mortality if they had an infection from this variant, Dicky said.
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Effective communication in the workplace is integral to a company’s culture and business success.
Whether it’s face-to-face verbal communication in the office, or non-verbal communication like a quick email to a customer, getting the right message to the right person can be vital.
Good communication can mitigate conflict and improve engagement among employees. It can also create better relationships, both internally and with customers, that result in a more talented, productive workforce.
The Highfield e-learning Short Course in Communication is designed to help your organisation understand the importance of good communication.
Learners on the course will learn what communication is, the different types of communication and the importance of context in communication. It will equip learners with the tools to identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them. Finally, learners will understand the importance of effective communication in the workplace and the potential consequences of ineffective communication.
- The communication cycle
- Communication in different contexts
- Types of communication
- Barriers to communication
- Inclusive communication
- Overcoming barriers to communication
- Effective communication in the workplace
- Consequences of ineffective communication
Who Is It Aimed At?
Highfield e-learning’s Short Course in Communication is ideal for all levels of employee within a business and as part of the induction process for new employees.
The course is also ideal for use as part of the on-programme element of the new apprenticeship standards and can support the knowledge, skills and behaviours apprentices need to effectively integrate into the workplace.
No prior knowledge needed.
20 – 40 minutes.
How It Works
Our e-learning is available to use on multiple platforms such as tablets, PCs and laptops. All you need is an internet connection. Learners simply log on to the Highfield Learner Management System (LMS) and work their way through the course, along with the scenarios that provide them with real-life context.
Learners are assessed at the end of the course by multiple-choice questions.
Learners will receive a Highfield e-learning completion certificate, which is downloadable upon successfully finishing the course.
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We make the most complex of subjects easier to digest through media and content-rich exercises that motivate and engage learners. All of our e-learning uses interactive exercises and gaming combined with media-rich content, interactive scenarios, and relevant photography and illustrations. Content is provided by industry-leading experts. What that means for your learners is stimulating and engaging content they’ll respond to and, most importantly, remember.
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“. . . a hot time in the old town . . . “
By Robert Titus
The Columbia County Independent
July 23, 2004
Like many readers of the Columbia County Independent, I enjoyed reading Margaret Schramm’s history of the city of Hudson. Hudson is an old town with a venerable history and her account covers a lot of that history. I, of course, am a geologist and my idea of history extends a lot farther back into time. I see the city of Hudson as a place which has been here since the formation of the Earth. I am fond of waving my arms and orating about how any spot on the globe has been there for more the four and one half billion years.
The Hudson vicinity has had a long geological history and glimpses of that history can sometimes be seen in the rocks. I recently had the experience of seeing such a moment of time when I traveled 1 mile south on County Rt. 29, from its intersection with Rt. 23B. At that location the road is funneled through a narrow passage. Claverack Creek closes in from the east and a large cliff rises to the west.
My attention was on a sequence of sedimentary rocks. I pulled over and began to look them over. The unit was familiar to me; it is the Manlius Limestone, something that I see all across New York State. It’s thinly-bedded, fine grained strata took me back about 420 million years to a time when most of New York State was submerged by the shallow waters of something called the Helderberg Sea. This was a very warm sea; North America lay just a little south of the equator. The “City of Hudson” was enjoying a very tropical climate at that time.
The thin laminations of the Manlius tell us a lot about what the City of Hudson was like back in the early Devonian. They are the product of what are called algal mats. Once this was a mud flat and sheets of primitive algae grew on its surface. You might have to travel as far as the Persian Gulf so see something like this today. But there is much more to see here.
There was a fine overhang in the cliff right where I parked. When I looked up at the stratum exposed beneath it, I was surprised to see one of those little wonders of geology; that surface was covered in mud cracks.
Mud cracks – averaging about 4 inches across each
Mud cracks are imprints that formed at approximately the time of deposition. They speak to us of a moment in time 420 million years ago. Mud cracks are also called desiccation cracks, which is to say that they formed at a time when the sediment was baking in the sun.
I reached up and touched the surface. To touch such a rock is to literally be in contact with the past. Now I became a time traveler, and in my mind’s eye, I was back in the early Devonian and on that mud flat. I had arrived at noon on a clear day in August. The Sun’s heat seemed to pound down on the surface. There was not even the slightest of breezes and the hot air pooled on the ground. In the distance, I could see rising currents of air distorted by the heat. This is the stuff of mirages, and near the horizon there was the appearance of an expanse of water.
But there was no water. In fact, recent days had witnessed a terrible long low tide. The ground was bare marine sediment and it positively blistered in the sun. Over time, all moisture had been baked out of the ground. The sediment then slowly shrank and, as it did so, it began to pull into polygonal masses bordered by polygonal cracks.
If you ever get a chance to see a pond which has dried up in some summer drought, you will see the same thing today. But I was in the Devonian and parched mud cracks stretched out in all directions. It was surreal, something Salvador Dali might well have enjoyed painting.
And it was a dead landscape. I felt very small and alone in this inhospitable Devonian plain. Then I pulled my hand away from the rock and all around me was the cool greenery of a late spring. This is Hudson as it is today, but not as it has always been.
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It’s no secret that technology has become an integral part of our lives. Whether we’re checking our phones as soon as we wake up or spending the entire work day in front of a computer, we’re constantly engaging with gadgets.
So, it comes as no surprise that these gadgets would be featured in the retelling of our life stories. Especially when these stories are told visually, as is the case of movies. Most modern (and even older) movies feature some form of tech in developing or even resolving the plot. Like people falling in love through their laptops or hostage situations being resolved over the phone.
But sometimes these tech costars have more prominent roles than usual. They even have supporting roles in the sense that they become so deeply ingrained in the plot that the story wouldn’t make sense without them. Let’s have a look at some of these tech supporting roles and how they’ve aided in telling the story.
Stars of the big screen
When we consider computers that feature in feature films, we need to make the distinction between computers as we know them (desktops and laptops) and artificial intelligence. Both are valid as computers, but the way they’re used differs quite a bit.
With conventional computers, we see a great example of a supporting role in the 2014 film The Imitation Game. The film is based around the development of a machine (or computer) to decipher an intricate set of code in order to get the leg up on the Nazis who communicated through these codes.
As for artificial intelligence, one of the best examples to use is the 2013 film Her. The main character quite literally falls in love with an operating system. In this sense, the artificial intelligence is seen as a costar as it speaks and interacts with the protagonist.
For cars, we’ll look at two different ways they’re used in films. Firstly, the use of cars as emotive characters and then cars as inanimate objects that are crucial to the plot development. For both cases, there are many examples, but here we’ll feature two that best illustrate the point.
Our first example, the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded shows a car that interacts with costars and its surroundings. The car is independent and self-serving and makes decisions that influence the other characters. We also see a strong relationship between the protagonist and the car which drives home this film’s cuteness.
The 2004 film I, Robot is an example of a vehicle not serving as a character, but more as a tool to develop a certain chain of events. In this film, the storytellers used the futuristic Audi to signify the start of the protagonist’s downfall. From the beginning, he’s seen using his self-driving car to commute. The car is in control of the route and the speed.
Once the robots take over, we see the car no longer acting in the protagonist’s best interests. If we see the robot army as a character, then this car is a supporting actor. It actively takes part in the robots’ attempt at world domination.
They phoned it in
When it comes to cell phones, it’s quite difficult to narrow down movies that prominently feature them. Most movies from the past decade will feature a cellphone in some way. But, we’re looking for instances where the phone actually contributed to the storyline. Not just any modern movie where someone books a plane ticket through mobile.
So, the first example is the 2003 film One Missed Call. The phones in this film are directly involved with the death of the protagonist and several other characters. It can almost be seen as an accomplice in these murders. In this sense, the use of a phone goes beyond the normal everyday capabilities we expect from it and changes how the story develops.
The second example takes this even further. Let’s look at the 2016 film Nerve. In this film, mobile phones are used to take part in a dangerous game where many people die and where many lives are ruined. This already qualifies this example as the phones are partly responsible for disastrous events.
But this example can be taken a step further. It’s the social platform used in the film that causes most of the chaos, and this social platform is a feature unique to the mobile nature of a smartphone. So, this means that both the phones and their features become prominent characters in this film.
For the hardcore fans
If you are like many who enjoy films more than the average person, you might want to emulate these films and make them part of your life. If that’s the case, you can always consider bidding for the pieces used in these films. But that will no doubt cost a lot of money.
You can, however, simply use them as inspiration. For example, look for used Audis that look like the ones used in your favourite films, or check out some second-hand models of the computers used.
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in Nuenen / Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Daan Roosegaarde teamed up with Heijmans Infrastructure to create the 1-kilometer-long Van Gogh-Roosegaarde cycle path. It lies on the border of Nuenen (where Vincent van Gogh lived for 2 years) and Eindhoven.
An innovative idea, which fits in the activities of Jakajima, based in Nuenen, The Netherlands
Welcome to Van Gogh Village Nuenen
You can’t get closer to Van Gogh…
Walk in the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh. You can actually do that in Nuenen! What makes it so special is that you can see and experience the stories about Van Gogh, his letters and his paintings from the very same spot.
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common causes of vertigo. Vertigo is the sensation when a person feels that they or the objects around them are moving. A person with vertigo may also experience dizziness, tilting, swaying or being pulled in one direction. These symptoms may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sweating or difficulty walking. Vertigo can be caused by problems with the brain or the ear. BPPV episodes typically last no longer than a minute and can occur sporadically with long periods between episodes.
BPPV is caused by a mechanical problem in the inner ear, which is a part of the vestibular system that helps maintain balance. When calcium carbonate crystals that are normally embedded in the utricle part of the inner ear become dislodged, they can migrate into the ear canals and clump together. This interferes with the fluid in the canals that helps sense head motion and false balance signals are sent to the brain.
The cause for the crystals to break loose of their normal positioning and migrate is unknown; however, trauma to the head may be a factor as well as inner ear disorders, migraines and ear surgery. Aging can also be a factor if the patient is older than 50. BPPV is uncomfortable and puts people at greater risk for injuries from falling.
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The Tüpras Field Archaeological Project began in 2006 after a substantial scatter of Early Islamic ceramics was detected from a walking survey around the Bronze, Iron Age, and Hellenistic port of Kinet Höyük in 2005. The site, known as the Tüpras Field, is a low mounded site completely covered by cultivated fields located 800 meters north of Kinet. The site is in the province of Hatay in Turkey, in the northern part of the Bay of Iskenderun and at the foot of the western side of the tall Amanus Mountains near Antakya (classical Antioch). Geographically and topographically, the site is part of the Plain of Issos, the easternmost extent of the broad Cilician Plain. Located near the Syrian Gates, this narrow coastal plain was a corridor that connected Anatolia (via Cilicia) with Syria (via the Amuq Plain) and was known as a key area for the harvesting of timber from the mountains. Archaeological investigations at Tüpras Field in 2006, 2008, and 2010 revealed an eighth to twelfth century settlement dominated by a small fortified enclosure with surrounding buildings. The site is to be identified with the frontier settlement of Hisn al-Tînât, previously unlocated but known from the tenth century geographical sources of Ibn Hawqal and Muqaddasî as a military garrison and depot and port for the gathering and redistribution of timber to Syria, Egypt and other parts of the frontier.
General view of Tüpras field and surrounding area
Very little is known about the Islamic-Byzantine frontier or al-thughûr in the Early Islamic period (mid-seventh to mid-tenth centuries) and even less is known from the subsequent period of Byzantine reconquest (c. 963 to the end of the eleventh century). What little is known comes from historical accounts from either Muslim or Christian sources that are imbued with a strong sense of religious and political propaganda. New archaeological work is filling in our understanding that the frontier was a settled region, well-connected with both Byzantine and Islamic central lands, with an economy comprised of local industry and long-distance trade. Early Islamic settlement on the coasts of the Byzantine-Islamic frontier, itself another frontier, has remained elusive. Yet, historical accounts of sea-borne Islamic invasions as far as Constantinople and archaeological evidence of both (eastern) Islamic material culture in the west and non-Islamic material culture in eastern sites around the Mediterranean attest at the very least to Islamic presence and involvement in port sites, trade, and shipping. At the intersection of two frontiers, the site of Hisn al-Tînât in the Plain of Issos is well situated to closely examine a frontier settlement and its role.
Plan of Early Islamic and Middle Byzantine phases around the fortified enclosure.
Given that sources mention that the site was not only a garrison but depended local natural resources (timber) as a depot and port, the project incorporated both an archaeological and an environmental investigation of the site in relation to its surroundings. Soundings in 2006, archaeological and geomorphological excavations with geophysical prospection in 2008, and material culture analysis and geomorphological survey investigating the site’s watershed in 2010 were conducted by myself and geomorphologist Dr. Timothy Beach (Georgetown University) under the auspices of the director of the Kinet Höyük project, Dr. Marie-Henriette Gates of Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) with funding from the Fondation Max van Berchem.
Tüpras field (Hisn al-Tinat) seen from the sea
(photo Marie-Henriette Gates)
Archaeological excavation revealed that the site had two major phases and an intervening secondary phase and was founded in the mid-8th century and destroyed and abandoned sometime in the early 12th century when settlement during the Crusader period was taken up once more on the high mound of Kinet. The earliest phase of the site (mid-8th century to tenth), was only revealed in small areas and suggest a wide cobblestone and ashlar fortification wall with smaller interior walls perpendicular to the enclosure walls. Parts of a room with a stone pavement and a patch of tile floor were excavated and associated with this structure, likely the original Hisn al-Tînât known from primary source descriptions. South of the enclosure, a domestic building was excavated with several rooms around a possible courtyard with a main threshold flanked to either side by low square ashlars supporting plastered colonettes. The walls of the building contained spolia from a nearby Late Roman settlement. Part of a stone pavement in a room off of the courtyard was found utilizing a basalt grave stela with a crude Greek inscription. Grain bins in the courtyard indicated a domestic function. The Early Islamic assemblage associated with the lower enclosure and its floors and the domestic building included glazed wares mainly produced locally on the frontier at cities such as Raqqa and Antâkiya, as well as some wares produced farther south in central Islamic lands and Iraq (such as lusterware). Brittleware cooking pots were locally produced on the frontier and buffwares, including the thin-walled mold relief pitchers mainly from the ninth century, were locally produced or similarly from Iraq and the Jordan Valley. An early ‘Abbasid copper coin (767/768-816/817 C.E.) from an Iraqi mint was found in the domestic building. The material culture shows both local frontier manufacture and long distance imports, mainly with ‘Abbasid central lands during the eighth - tenth centuries, implying that the frontier, beyond a military no man’s land, was part of an interconnected economic trade network.
View of the fortified enclosure from the west
(photo courtesy of M-H. Gates)
Following an intermediate phase or rebuilding, a large well preserved and articulated fortified structure was constructed and inhabited in the last two phases of occupation. The structure measured 25 x 25 m with corner square towers and tower buttresses arrayed along the midpoints of the massive fortification wall. The building was built directly over the Early Islamic enclosure. Internal walls created rooms about 3.4 m to a side and were built above earlier leveled walls. A thin black floor surface with many large sized ceramic sherds was the living surface of the structure which was subsequently destroyed by fire, evident from thick layers of burning within the building in the uppermost phases. This was corroborated by geophysical evidence of burning only in the area of the fortified structure and nowhere else on the site itself. The structure belongs to the period of Byzantine reconquest of the region or the Middle Byzantine period. Unlike the Early Islamic period of occupation, no other structures were found on the site during this period but the well-built fortified enclosure. In contrast to the Early Islamic phases, preliminary faunal analysis showed a significant and majority presence of pig, many bones of which were juvenile with butchery marks, suggesting that pigs were bred for meat production from this phase of the enclosure. Pottery ranged from the tenth to early twelfth and constituted a predominately less local and more Levantine and Egyptian coastally connected assemblage. The presence of many metal and industrial objects and weaving related objects suggests that some rooms were used as workshops or stables or other livestock areas. Some may have had purposeful usage, for example one room revealed at least four clay pestles while another room had none. The discovery of horseshoes and nails in great amounts from the excavations suggests the importance in manufacture and/or trade in iron. The material culture of the period of Byzantine reconquest on the frontier implies more connection and exchange with Islamic lands than suggested by historical sources which paint a picture of instability and holy war. The fortified enclosure of the latest phase seems of similar size and orientation to the Early Islamic one below and as such, can be used to hypothesize what the Early Islamic structure represented. This type of structure, based on its small size, qusûr type of arrangement, mid to late eighth century date, and open location along major frontier roads corresponds with the category of the fortified waystation, seen throughout the frontier, and part of a network of sites built in the early ‘Abbasid period. Geophysical survey indicated that there are more extramural buildings like the domestic structure, between the fortified enclosure and the coast. This raises the possibility whether there was continual settlement down to the sea not relegated within the confines of a fortification questioning the idea militarized frontier and garrison under constant threat.
View of the fortified enclosure from the west during excavation
(photo courtesy of M-H. Gates)
Key to the project was an environmental investigation whose aims were to locate the elements of a timber industry. In a geomorphological trench excavated at the coastal faultline, a buried peat layer contained many well-preserved pieces of wood laying along parallel lines outside of a building with a tile and plaster floor and two Early Islamic large buff amphora fragments and an Early Islamic eighth to tenth century brittleware holemouth cooking pot. Remote sensing using CORONA satellite imagery shows a relic stream, the Tüm Çay, coming down off the Amanus Mountains and opening up into a lagoonal delta west of the site. The lagoon would presumably have also functioned as the harbor anchorage. Geomorphological survey into the Tüm Çay watershed at the foot of the mountains showed one other significant Early Islamic site on the streambed which would have facilitated the transportation of timber. Southeast of the site, near Kinet Höyük, we excavated patches of a Roman/Late Roman coastal road used in the medieval periods in 2005. These elements – the excavated wood, coastline, anchorage/harbor, river, coastal road, and a contemporary site on the same river – build a picture of the environmental landscape of the site and the site’s connection to its immediate natural resources, its role in the procuring and shipping timber, and the site’s wider connections.
The frontier site of Early Islamic/Middle Byzantine Hisn al-Tînât alludes to the complex symbiotic yet stable relationship of a militarized and economic resource-based frontier for an otherwise turbulent period of history generally thought to be characterized by one of general decline, abandonment, or conquest by Islamic (including later Saljuq), Byzantine, and Crusader groups. Future work in 2011 will target the Early Islamic enclosure, port, and area in between, examine the capacity for timber trade with geomorphological excavation and coring of the streambed and coastline, and finish analysis of the material culture to gain a better understanding of the scale of these short and long distance networks on the frontier.
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I sat with a group of business leaders a few weeks back and one stated that their goal was to make San Diego as business friendly as possible. (I guess these are the greedy capitalists.) And then I sat with and listened to others groups that talk about creating a San Diego with the best quality of life. (I assume they are anti-business, destroy-the-economy types.)
How can these things be counterposed when they should be the same thing?
There are some business leaders who define the “best business climate” as the lowest taxes, the lowest wages, the fewest environmental regulations — just being left alone. But there are others who define it differently — a world class infrastructure, highly educated workforce, housing that workers can afford and healthy consumer spending (and perhaps even a nice place to raise their own families with clean beaches, parks, libraries, culture, etc., etc.).
While I’m not a business leader, I certainly want San Diego to have a healthy competitive regional economy. That’s good for business profits and good for workers that share the fruits of their productivity.
So I ask my friends in the business community (answers without political posturing and rhetoric please): How can you have a great business climate:
- If you underinvest in your physical infrastructure (you wouldn’t in your own business) and let it fall into disrepair.
- If you don’t invest in a world class education system — both K-12, community college and higher education.
- If there are 500,000 uninsured people in San Diego draining our public resources and burdening our hospitals.
- If wages of San Diego workers don’t put enough money in people’s pockets to afford homes, raise their children and spend in the region to grow the tax base and regional economy.
- If you don’t have decent level of city services: libraries that round out our world-class education system; adequate public safety so that, when people call 911, they get response times that we would want for our own families; and parks, beaches, museums and other things that would make San Diego a good place to raise a family.
- If we don’t have homes that people can afford to rent or own. This means that they have to match the wages of the jobs we are creating.
- If the natural environment (air, water, beaches, parks) in San Diego of all places isn’t the envy of the nation and world.
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To help young researchers develop and extend their skills, the Academic Careers Team regularly compiles a workshop program offering training opportunities in the areas of Scientific Methodology and Practice, Academic Writing and Publishing, Presentation, Communication and Organization Skills.
It is important at each stage of your doctoral studies to deepen your knowledge and extend your skills in the application of specific methodologies and the use of analytical tools. It is also important to keep up-to-date with the professional ethics of research and the requirements of good academic practice. Various training events for beginners and advanced researchers support doctoral candidates in personal skill-building in these areas.
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Publishing your own research results is a key task for all researchers. Training courses on publishing your research will not only help you to write your own texts, but also give you an insight into publication practices, working with publishers, and copyright and open access issues. The University Library is often involved in training events in this area.
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The characteristics of an successful marital life depend on what sort of couple grips being hitched. Being committed to each other and willing to give the other person the benefit of the doubt during difficult intervals is one of the biggest keys to a long term matrimony. Being able to maintain a successful relationship even when the roller coaster drive that it assumes, is amazing. If you find yourself in times where you as well as your partner happen to be dealing with some marital concerns, there are many strategies to deal with them effectively. A committed marriage is definitely one in which in turn problems are taken care of in a develop fully fashion.
Communication is yet another key element in keeping a relationship mutually. The solid marriage model recommends that both parties communicate frequently, although not always regarding everything, to ensure that there is no misconceptions or harm feelings. Within a marriage just where communication has gone stale because of inactivity or infidelity, operating through the concerns and discovering solutions to all of them can be very irritating, but flexible one another often prevents further more turmoil. Individuals have forgiveness for one another if they are at the stage to do something wrong; after they see that their very own partner is happy to mend, forgive and never carry a grudge, they often come to feel inspired to work items out.
Another attribute of a extended marriage is certainly trust. Having complete trust in your spouse means knowing that all the important decisions and conversations in your lifestyle are in your way on the path to your partner. A healthy level of trust means that you can talk about serious is important without reluctance, and that you can find complete visibility and honesty with your spouse. Trust is a great emotion that needs to be nurtured, in order to grow and thrive. Trust is the foundation of a passionate reference to another person, and if you foster your partner's trust you will also develop a passionate connection with your spouse.
Commitment and spirituality are the final two characteristics of the successful marital life. In most cases, the bond is strong enough to overcome any differences. Nevertheless , for those couples where one or both companions have personality disorders or serious behavioral issues, these kinds of concerns need to be dealt with prior to a marriage is created. In these couples, the love may be there, nevertheless there are severe conflicts which in turn prevent all of them from designing a trusting marriage.
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The Yellow Sapphire is a highly sought-after stone. It is one of the most auspicious Navratnas. Also known as Pukhraj. This brilliant yellow-colored gemstone, which is the birthstone for those who were born in September, is ruled over by Jupiter. This is a remarkable choice amongst all gemstones. Pukhraj is a safe and reliable choice. It can be worn to alleviate problems. This gemstone’s strength and vast celestial powers are almost magic and extremely beneficial to those who wear it.
Pukhraj- The Yellow Sapphire
The Pukhraj Stone is a member of the Corundum family, which makes it a twin to the Ruby and Blue Sapphire. The iron in the stone gives it its yellow color.
The ruling planet of Yellow Sapphire is Jupiter. Jupiter is the most powerful planet according to Vedic Astrology. When its metaphysical powers are combined with the Yellow Sapphire, the effects multiply exponentially.
Significance Yellow Sapphire
This gemstone is bright and beautiful and elicits positivity in both the wearer as well as their surroundings. Although it is a versatile gemstone that can be worn by anyone, an expert astrologer must check your Janam Kundli before you wear one. Wearing this stone could have negative effects if Jupiter is in the wrong place in one’s Kundli.
Jupiter is the planet of wisdom, sound health, and prosperity. The Yellow Sapphire is a symbol for these elements and can be used to attract them. This stone is recommended for Pisces and Sagittarius zodiacs. However, it can also be used to solve problems in other zodiacs.
Importance of Stone:
When worn correctly, the Yellow Sapphire is a powerful stone that can have many positive effects on your body and mind. It is loved for its many positive effects, which make it an extremely popular gemstone.
The Yellow Sapphire has many benefits:
- Improves health
- Strengthens Communication
- Harmony is a key ingredient in marital relationships
- Delivers Professional Success
- Attract Wealth
- Fame amplifies Prosperity
- Fights against Evil
- Facilitates Anger Management
- Supports academic success
Side Effects from the Pukhraj Stone
To reap the full potential of Yellow Sapphire, it must be used untreated.
The following side effects can be experienced by those whose Jupiter is not aligned with their house:
- Chaos and marital disassociation
- Status and social life are negatively affected
- Conceiving progeny: Problems
- The health situation remains unchanged or worsening
Is the Yellow Sapphire right for you?
Ceylon Yellow Sapphire
These stunning Yellow Sapphires, one of the most valuable types, are mined in Sri Lanka. They are then exported around the globe and are the main source of high-quality sapphires.
Thailand Yellow Sapphire
Like the yellow sapphires from Burma, they also have a secondary tint that makes them appear to be orangish. They are usually darker than those from Ceylon.
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/ March 25, 2021
by Eric Clary
Tanzania’s former Populist President John Magufuli’s state funeral commenced on March 22 before throngs of supporters. The coronavirus lockdown critic made international headlines in May of 2020 when he made light of a popular COVID testing kit. Magufuli, a PhD chemist, embarrassed the international community when he publicized that a pawpaw and goat
had tested positive for COVID-19 according to the kits.
When the government confirmed that Magufuli had died of heart disease on March 17, the corporate media focused on unconfirmed reports the lockdown skeptic had succumbed to COVID, a twist in irony that seemed too good to be true. But, for some, the media’s selective reporting has raised more questions than they answered.
Magufuli is somewhat a giant in Tanzania. The social conservative and traditional Catholic proved a formidable roadblock to globalists.
Upon entering office, he implemented commonsense austerity reforms that quickly made him enemies. Among the measures were limits on foreign travel which he applied to himself. In 2018, Magufuli raised eyebrows when he declined to attend the United Nations General Assembly summit
in New York in order to save money.
He also downsized the presidential cabinet, imposed restrictions on government officials’ foreign travel and removed ‘ghost workers’ from the state’s payroll.
However, the enemies that Magufuli made domestically paled in comparison to those from abroad.
In a blatant attempt to intervene in domestic policy, globalist institutions, in what could only be described as quid pro quo, withheld finances from Dar es Salaam when Magufuli enforced Tanzania’s longstanding anti-homosexual laws.
According to Time
, “The World Bank withdrew a $300 million loan to Tanzania [in November 2018], in response to a number of controversial laws passed by the national legislature in recent months. As well as clamping down on an existing ban preventing pregnant girls from attending school, Tanzania has made it illegal to question official statistics and cracked down on LGBT rights in a country where homosexuality is already illegal.”
The United States followed suit in 2020 by imposing a travel ban on Tanzania
and sanctioning regional commissioner Paul Christian Makonda for “targeting marginalized individuals.”
The State Department’s timing was a blatant attempt to inflict maximum damage on Magufuli’s October election bid. Most leaders in Magufuli’s position would have caved, but the president’s tango with western powers only prepared him for what came next.
In April of 2020, Magufili rejcted a Chinese debt trap initiated by his predecessor, Jakaya Kikwete. The “deal”, according to the International Business Times
, was for “Chinese investors to build the port on condition that they will get 30 years to guarantee on the loan and 99 years uninterrupted lease, according to local media reports.”
The unfavorable deal was renegotiated but then dropped by Beijing. The move strengthened the African leader’s populist bona fides and testified to Tanzania’s trend towards self-reliance.
Magufuli’s toughness paid off. On July 1, 2020, The World Bank
raised Tanzania’s economic status to the lower-middle income category, a sizable jump for Tanzania and the region. But the international community was not without resentment.
When The New York Times
ran a deceptive article entitled, "John Magufuli, Tanzania Leader Who Played Down Covid, Dies at 61
," the obvious takeaway was that the former president died of COVID-19. Yet nowhere in the article does Times
reporter Abdi Latif Dahir confirm that Magufili had tested positive for coronavirus.
Nevertheless, the "Magufuli died of Coronavirus" narrative was parroted by all the major international media outlets. As convenient of an explanation as that may sound, the question not being addressed is how a major African leader succumbed to coronavirus on a continent with a lower COVID mortality rate
than the United States.
Such improbabilities also apply to other African leaders who, like Magufuli, bucked international “norms” on policy issues out of synch with the values of average folks. The challenges they shared will be addressed in an upcoming article.
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In 1995, I moved from a comfortable life in America to Ramallah,
Palestine, to invest in the most American of businesses there. I was
instrumental in bringing Coca-Cola to the Middle East in the early
1980s; after the Oslo Peace Accords were signed I decided to launch the
Coke franchise in the West Bank and Gaza.
Over the last decade, the business has grown. Today, Coca-Cola employs hundreds of Palestinians and sells 10 million cases of Coke a year.
As a Palestinian American, this was more than a moneymaking venture. Each gleaming bottle, with that red Coca-Cola swirl in both Arabic and English, would be a miniature ambassador from America. And each potential investor who saw that Coke was successful might decide to invest as well. It seemed the perfect strategy: to promote American interests while helping to build an economy that could serve as the foundation of a viable, independent Palestinian state.
Following the peace accords, scores of other Palestinian Americans moved to the West Bank and Gaza. Professors came to teach at universities. Doctors came to help modernize the healthcare system and treat patients. Artists came to exhibit and perform. Other business professionals came to invest, modernize the economy and create jobs. Each, in their way, wanted to help build an independent Palestine. Each served as the real ambassadors of America, so different from the American-made Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets Israel uses to rain destruction on the Palestinian economy, cities and villages.
But Israel has decided that we Americans are not welcome. Many, like me, have lived in the West Bank for more than a decade. Unlike American Jews — or Jews from anywhere — who can receive instant citizenship upon arrival, we are unable to obtain residency. Instead, we Christian and Muslim Palestinians must rely on our American passports, renewing our tourist visas every three months. A hassle, yes, but the only way to stay in Palestine, often in the homes our families have inhabited for generations.
Since Hamas assumed government authority after democratic elections this year, Israel has begun to deny Palestinian Americans the right to enter. We are left to wonder why.
This new policy could be another turn of the screw to pressure Hamas. It could be manufactured as a painless concession for future negotiations. It could be one more tactic in Israel's drive — which began in 1948 with the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians — to empty as much land of as many Palestinians as possible.
We do not know the reason for denying entry to Palestinian Americans. But we do know the result. In addition to breaking families apart — for example one spouse with children in the West Bank, and the other unable to return from visits to the U.S. — it is discouraging investors. It is driving out the very people the U.S. State Department, the World Bank and other international organizations encouraged to return. We are the ones building businesses, creating jobs and inspiring hope for a better future.
Using the pretext of security, Israeli policies of home demolitions, land confiscation, restrictions on movement and construction of the separation wall have choked the Palestinian economy. According to the U.N., more than 540 checkpoints and other structures impede movement throughout the West Bank, and crossings into Gaza are rarely open. Gaza represents 30% of the Palestinian economy. Yet we cannot ship goods from the West Bank to Gaza. And Gaza cannot import raw materials for processing, even though it possesses a talented labor force. Israel has also been refusing to turn over nearly $55 million a month (now totaling roughly $400 million) in Palestinian tax revenue. With the cutoff of international aid, this has led to a humanitarian catastrophe. Since March, Palestinian Authority employees — about one-quarter of the labor force — have not received their salaries.
Israel will not gain security by creating Mogadishu next to Silicon Valley. Only an open and thriving Palestinian economy can lay the foundation for a sustainable peace.
Our humanitarian crisis is not the result of a natural catastrophe. There was no tsunami, earthquake or drought. We helped to build nations. We have the natural resources and human capital to build a thriving, stable Palestinian economy as well. We do not need international handouts. We need the free movement of people and goods. We need unrestricted gateways between the occupied Palestinian territory and the rest of the world.
American policy makers have tremendous influence with Israel. They should use it to insist on freedom of movement of people and goods, and to maintain access for Palestinian Americans and Palestinians with other foreign passports to continue to play a role in economic development. A vibrant Palestinian economy serves the interests of all — Palestinians, Israelis and Americans.
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NP Hohe Tauern is the largest national park of Austria and stretches over parts of Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol. The highest summit of Austria the Großglockner (3798m) is also located in the park. There is a healthy population of alpine ibex in the park. Besides that alpine marmots, chamois, golden eagle, bearded eagle and very seldom brown bears and lynx making their way back into their former habitat. | <urn:uuid:2ce88ad6-a71f-447b-8dcb-003ed19542bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fascinationwildlife.com/np-hohe-tauern/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.944967 | 106 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Dr. Richard Thomas shares his passion for LabVIEW and how the software is essential to his career.
Q: What were some of the first projects you worked on with LabVIEW?
A: In 2000, I was completing my PhD studies at Leicester University where LabVIEW 6i was controlling and acquiring data from a large-scale wind tunnel. I took to the concept of graphical programming like a duck to water and began using LabVIEW to acquire, process, and present the masses of data I was collecting. Because it was so easy to experiment and explore software ideas, I quickly created an interactive, animated plot to show a measured boundary layer time variation, which I could export as a movie file. When I later worked at the University of Cambridge, I created numerous software solutions for myself and students, including high-speed data acquisition, 3-axis robotic probe controls, and APIs for communicating across instruments. I also created a network-enabled safety-monitoring application for students working in isolated laboratories. LabVIEW drivers made it easy to communicate with most third-party hardware.
Q: What did you do to improve your LabVIEW programming skills?
A: I initially just explored LabVIEW, examined existing code, and interacted on the NI forums to learn programming techniques. When I joined Product Technology Partners Ltd, I started a more rigorous training program. By studying the resources and training manuals on the NI website, I honed my software development skills and became a Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA). The training helped advance my professional approach to designing full software solutions for customers.
Q: How has LabVIEW helped advance your career?
A: LabVIEW has been absolutely instrumental in my career. After studying aerodynamics for many years, I realized in 2008 that LabVIEW development was what I really wanted to do. I took an ambitious sideways leap into the software consultancy world and I’ve never looked back. Becoming a CLA raised my profile in my local LabVIEW developer community. LabVIEW is the largest part of my unfolding career and I couldn’t imagine a future without it!
Q: How do you give back to the LabVIEW Community?
A: I help run one of only two LabVIEW user groups in the UK. As a regular presenter and host of the Cambridge LabVIEW User Group, I’m happy to share my knowledge and experience with other developers. I’m also a regular contributor to the NI Community and NI Discussion Forums, and I participate in the LabVIEW beta program. My community contributions recently helped me become the first UK developer accepted into the prestigious LabVIEW Champions group, which is made up of members from the global community who are recognized for helping grow LabVIEW adoption and proficiency. | <urn:uuid:10829230-c5e6-43a7-a89b-c4452ae368ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.ni.com:443/t5/LabVIEW-Champions-Directory/UK-s-First-LabVIEW-Champion-Looks-Back/ta-p/3536163?metc=mtyh4s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96814 | 552 | 1.515625 | 2 |
One of the basic needs of anyone is finding a shelter to live in it. As a single mom with kids, you need to have access at least a decent home you can provide for your family. You would like to be able to offer your kids a safe place and a safe environment. There are several rental assistance options which are available to single moms in the United States. The government or private organizations sponsor rental assistance programs. Whichever the case, as a single mom, you deserve to have a home to raise your kids. Here are some of the rental assistance that you can choose to get your home.
As a single mother, you have the opportunity to access rental assistance from one of the oldest and leading non-profit organizations in the United States. YWCA focuses on helping children, women, and single parents. The organization provides several affordable housing resources to people with housing challenges. Irrespective of how difficult housing your family may be, YWCA has different rental assistance programs you can bring relief to you. Be sure to visit http://www.ywca.org/ to learn more about rental assistance for single moms.
CoAbode’s rental assistance program is a great option to consider as a single mother with housing challenges. When you apply for housing assistance, you’d be screened and paired up with other single mothers who have applied for rental assistance too. Of course, both parties will be adequately tested and checked if they’re compatible before pairing them up. After you’ve been paired with another single mom, you’d both share the housing expenses. This includes energy bills, gas bill, and your rent. As a single mom who requires help often, you could work out modalities with your co-tenant on how to help each other with the kids. Visit http://www.coabode.org/ to get the information you need.
There are several Catholic Charities in the United States that offer various relief programs to people, especially single mothers. As a single mom, you can get rental assistance from them irrespective of your religious affiliation. And they’re are located in various states across the country. There are special rent offers and other housing assistance programs available to people. You and your kids are provided with low-cost housing units based on your eligibility. This gives you a sense of relief and helps you to work towards improving your lifestyle for your kids. Ensure you visit their website at https://catholiccharitiesusa.org/ to find out more information about their housing assistance programs.
The Salvation Army has many rental assistance programs for people. It could be for the short term or long term, depending on how critical each person’s needs may be. Depending on how crucial a person’s case might b, the Salvation Army has transitional and permanent housing options. They also provide counseling and training sessions to the needy. As a single mom, you can get rental assistance from the Salvation Army too. There are several centers around the country. They offer various food and clothing programs also. You can visit them to assist you in getting a solution to your housing challenge. Endeavor to visit their website at http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Vision House Grants
As a single mother with rental challenges, this is another excellent option to explore. Vision House has many rental assistance programs available for people, especially single moms. This is a non-profit organization that provides decent and affordable houses for the homeless. Some of the resources available include cheap rental housing units, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. Be sure to contact them either through email, or you can call (425) 228-6356. To find out more information about Vision House, please visit http://vision-house.org/
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that builds low-cost housing units for single moms and their families. As a single mom, with stable and good sources of income, you can explore the possibility of building your own home. This is a wise option compared to renting a house. The finished home becomes yours, and you can buy affordable furnishings from ReStores. Although this might be stressful at the beginning, in the long run, it becomes your property. You can call their helpline 1-800-422-4828 to make inquiries about the various rental assistance programs available. You can also visit their website at http://www.habitat.org/ to learn more about their rental assistance.
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)
This is an excellent option to consider as a single mother. The organization provides affordable housing units to low-income homeowners in America. They educate and support the construction of low-income homes in the United States. Should you settle for this option, you can make inquiries by calling 1 (202) 662 1530 or send an email to email@example.com. You can also visit their website at http://nlihc.org/ to find out what you need to become a homeowner. | <urn:uuid:ee0cf478-3e83-451a-8f3e-4b9e227dd403> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asinglemother.org/rental-assistance-for-single-mothers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961812 | 1,060 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Knights Templars were a secret society whose true purpose remains a mystery or is at least vigorously debated among scholars and historians to this day. The Templars left behind many clues of their actions which have been passed down through generations, hidden in ancient manuscripts and discovered by archaeologists in the modern era. Their story is one that has captured the fascination and curiosity of people throughout the ages – were they sent to the holy land in Jerusalem to protect Christians on pilgrimages, or were they sent there on secret missions by higher authorities in order to unearth lost artifacts and buried treasure under temples and sacred holy sites?
Artist’s impression of a Templar Knight
The Knights Templars were members of a religious military order of Christian knighthood founded around 1118-1119 in Jerusalem by the French knight Hugh des Payens. For nearly two centuries this organization was the most powerful order in the medieval world. They were the first standing army in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire and by the time they reached their pinnacle of power in 1300, it is said they numbered in the tens of thousands. In the beginning, there were a total of nine founding knights who made up the organization and were all related to one another through blood or marriage. As both monks and soldiers, they were a paradox without precedent since there had never been praying priests who took up arms who also took vows of poverty, obedience and celibacy. Knights Templars did not surrender unless they were outnumbered three to one and believed that since they were fighting for God they would be immediately sent up to heaven upon falling in battle.
BaldwinII ceeding the location of the Temple of Solomon to Hugues de Payns and Gaudefroy de Saint-Homer. The fourth person is Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Today in Europe, there are hundreds of former templar sites scattered across the continent showing how influential they were centuries ago. At their peak, there were approximately 15,000 Templars houses with a network stretching from England to Egypt with the center of power situated in the then heart of the medieval world, France. Conventional history says the Knights Templar’s purpose was to protect travelers traveling along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem. In the middle ages, pilgrimages were made by westerners who had been guaranteed their safety in the city and templars protected them through the passes and mountains. In addition to protection of the pilgrims, Templars also defended the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem and other holy sites as part of their duty.
Crusades and Escort Service
For two hundred years, the Crusades were fought in the name of God and were considered to be a clash of civilizations. Enemies were formed between the Christian west and Muslim east, which have endured to this day. In 1065, Jerusalem was taken by the Turks and the Christians were treated badly enough to where, throughout Christendom, people were stirred to fight and recapture the city. Another reason for the Crusades stems from the Church‘s desire to block any Islamic incursion into Christian lands. On November 27th 1095, Pope Urban II gave a speech in which he exhorted Christians to rise up against Muslims in the Holy Land. At this point in time, Muslims controlled Spain and parts of Eastern Europe. Thousands responded to the call and took up the sword but only around 1,000 ever made it to Jerusalem. The western Christians united with the Byzantines in the east and in 1099, the Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, captured Jerusalem back from the Turks after a five week siege. When the holy sites were in Christian hands, Westerners began traveling to the area in record numbers. Outside the city walls, life was dangerous and there became a need for an escort service which is when the first Knights Templars came forward.
Pope Urbanus ll preaching the First Crusade.
Banking Back Home
During the third crusade, the Christians were decimated at the battle of Hattin. It was the single worst military disaster in the holy land and one of the worst defeats for Christianity. The Templars were all put to the sword by their Muslim conquerors who would go on to take the city of Jerusalem a few months later. Subsequent crusades by later generations would come to be known as failures. When they returned home after the first crusades in 1128, the Templars were rich and influential and answered to no one but the pope. They also did not have to pay taxes and were allowed to cross through the borders of European countries unrestricted. From 1150 on, they stopped guarding the road to Jerusalem. Instead they devised a system which allowed pilgrims to travel without cash and valuables that might otherwise make them targets. The Templars entered into the banking business and the Temples (local lodges) were established throughout Europe, drawing deposits of massive wealth. The services the templars offered became the model for today’s banking system, money transfers, pension plans and traveler’s checks. Their wealth made them the prominent bankers of their age and the first western multi-national corporation. The most controversial service the Templars offered was the issuance of high profile loans. Princes and commoners alike banked with the Templars, and many states became indebted to them. The church, adamantly against usury at this time, looked the other way.
Crusader coins of the kingdom of Jerusalem, Denier in European style with Holy Sepulchre. British Museum, 2007.
Decline of the Templars
With the fall of the Holy Land to the Muslims in 1187, the Templar order lost its founding purpose and became a target for unhappy debtors. With the failure of the crusades and subsequent closures of the passage to the holy land, there no longer became a reason for the Knights Templars to exist. Imagine a standing army roaming Europe that answered to no one and with no battle to fight. This attracted attention and due to the wealth and political power the Templars had, they were seen as a threat to the power structure. During the early 14th century, the order experienced a sudden decline. In 1302, King Philip IV of France came into conflict with the pope. Needing cash for his wars, he waged a vicious and skillful campaign aimed at suppressing the Templars, gaining their wealth while simultaneously, striking a blow against the papacy.
On Friday October 13, 1307, all the Knights Templars in France were arrested by agents of King Philip and he ordered any still residing in the country to be thrown into prison where they were tortured until confessing to accusations of heresy, homosexuality, and dishonest business activities. They were charged with capital offenses and their properties seized. More than likely, many of the confessions were meaningless but following these admissions, a Papal command was issued by Pope Clement V to all Christian sovereigns in 1312 which ordered that all Knights Templars be disbanded. The order of the Templar Knights went underground and their movements have been shrouded in mystery ever since. Friday the 13th is linked with this historical event.
Execution of the Templars in the presence of Philip ‘the Fair’. Bedford Master 1415-1420, France.
After Clement’s edict in 1312, the Templars virtually vanished from the pages of history. Of the hundreds, possibly thousands of Templars who were not arrested, there is little record of what happened to them. There is documentation that their large fleet of ships vanished and it’s possible that they fled to Scotland since the country was something a Templar stronghold at the time. They might have gone to Switzerland or hidden in the Alps which bordered southern France (its endless mountain range would have been a perfect hiding spot for treasure). Some survivors of the Templar order can be traced and they simply changed their name becoming the Knights of Christ in Portugal for example.
But of all the mysteries surrounding the Knights Templars, the most puzzling one concerns their time spent in Jerusalem. The Templars literally disappeared there for nine years and what they did in their time there remains mostly unknown. There were nine middle aged monks who were hardly in a position to protect travelers coming in and out of Jerusalem. There also doesn’t seem to be a written account of any pilgrims being guarded by the Templars. In 1867 a clue came to light when a British archaeological team excavated under the site of the temple mount in Jerusalem. There, they uncovered tunnels extending vertically from a mosque for some twenty five meters which fanned out horizontally under the dome of King Solomon’s temple. Templars spurs and various pieces of armaments were found as proof that the tunnels had been used by them. A prevailing theory is that the Knights Templars were digging under the Temple for treasure left there by the Jews after the invasions by the Romans in 70 AD. Other theories suggest the knights were guarding the Holy Grail and in possession of major treasures. The biblical temple of Solomon once housed the Ark of the Covenant and Ten Commandments. There are early masonic writings in the 1800’s citing documents which allegedly link the Templars with the arc of the covenant and treasure buried in the Temple of Solomon. Regardless of which theory is the right one, when they emerged again in Europe they were more wealthy, powerful and influential than ever.
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The SNI served as the backbone of the military regime's system of control and repression. Although there have been secret police in Brazil since at least the Vargas era, military involvement reached new heights with the creation of the SNI. The SNI grew out of the Institute for Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais--IPES), which General Couto e Silva had established to undermine the Goulart government. The SNI provided clearances for anyone seeking a government job or requesting to conduct research in the army archives. Using an elaborate system of informants and telephone taps, the SNI accumulated and analyzed reports on a wide range of people, organizations, and topics. One study by political scientists David V. Fleischer and the late Robert Wesson suggests that there were as many as 50,000 persons in the employ of the SNI during the 1964-85 regime. Furthermore, both Presidents Médici and Figueiredo had been SNI chiefs.
In theory, the SNI supervised and coordinated the intelligence agencies of the three services. However, in practice the service agencies maintained their autonomy. The service agencies included the Army Intelligence Center (Centro de Informações do Exército--CIE); the Air Force Intelligence Center (Centro de Informações da Aeronáutica--CIA); and the Naval Intelligence Center (Centro de Informações de Marinha--Cenimar).
The chief of staff of each of the army commands supposedly was responsible for the intelligence work in that command's territory. In practice, that officer was not necessarily informed of CIE activities, which followed a parallel chain of command. Each command also had an Internal Operations Department-Internal Defense Operations Center (Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna--DOI-CODI). The DOI-CODIs became centers of dirty tricks and torture.
From the outset, there was resistance to the idea of the CIE. In 1966 President Castelo Branco rejected the idea of creating an army intelligence service annexed to the minister of army's office, because it would weaken the General Staff's influence. The next year, the new minister of army, General Aurélio de Lyra Tavares, established the CIE over the objections of the chief of staff, General Orlando Geisel. As early as 1968, the CIE was exploding bombs in theaters, wrecking bookstores, and kidnapping people. When the left began terrorist violence in late 1968, the CIE expanded to about 200 officers and became the axis of repression, eliminating all signs of leftist violence in three years.
The SNI, CIE, and other intelligence agencies were the most dubious legacy that the military regime left to the New Republic. The scars of repression and violence, including the mistreatment, torture, and murder of prisoners, will mark the officer corps for years to come. During World War II, Brazilian officers serving in Italy with the FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force), the first Latin American military organization in history to participate in combat in Europe, prided themselves on the correct treatment they accorded German prisoners under the Geneva Convention. Their successors, however, were taught that international law did not apply in cases of internal security. Thus, they used massive intimidation, kidnappings, beatings, secret arrests and imprisonments, psychological and physical torture, murder, and secret burial. In the past, rebels or criminals from the margins of society and working-class people could expect brutal treatment from the forces of law and order. The military regime brought that experience to the opposition in the middle and upper classes. The "repressive apparatus," as it was often referred to, cast a shadow of fear and drew an invisible pale through Brazilian society to dissuade the educated classes from crossing it. It also served to dissuade opposition within the military itself.
The creation of the DOI network beginning in 1971 formed a parallel chain of command, one that did not necessarily end with the president of the republic. President Geisel, a retired general, struggled to have his orders fulfilled by the CIE system. Consequently, the CIE sought to undermine his government and to make Minister of Army Sylvio Couto Coelho da Frota the next president. The CIE also waged a pamphlet war against General Golbery do Couto e Silva, chief of Geisel's Civilian Household, who wanted to shut down the CIE. | <urn:uuid:d5204c9a-a4c2-4fa6-8bd5-97bc0e199022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.fact-index.com/s/sn/sni.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958042 | 930 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Community Dental Services is proud to be commissioned to carry out dental epidemiology across the following locations, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Leicester city, Rutland , Northamptonshire and Bassetlaw
The Epidemiology team facilitates Dental Health Surveys coordinated by Public Health England, which have been carried out across the UK since 1987. The information arising from them allows NHS England area teams to plan dental services and health improvement teams to tailor programmes for groups where oral health is poor.
The overall aim is to support actions to improve oral health, reduce health inequalities and improve the provision of treatment services.
CDS teams are trained nationally and regionally to ensure that high standards are kept and all teams work to the same level at all stages in the survey. Participants will be asked to have a very simple and quick dental examination. The dentist or dental therapist and an assistant who are trained to do this work will only do a simple examination. No treatment will be provided. The dentist will use fresh disposable latex free gloves and sterilised mirrors. The check takes only a few minutes and teams let participants know if they find anything wrong.
Publications based on the data collected by Community Dental Services will be made available on the PHE website and may be published in journals. You can see the results of similar surveys on this website: www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/
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November 27, 2013
A new kind of genetic switch can target the activities of just one type of brain cell.
Mysterious brain cells called microglia are starting to reveal their secrets thanks to research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Until recently, most of the glory in brain research went to neurons. For more than a century, these electrically excitable cells were believed to perform the entirety of the information processing that makes the brain such an amazing machine. In contrast, cells called glia – which together account for about half of the brain’s volume – were thought to be mere fillers that provided the neurons with support and protection but performed no vital function of their own. In fact, they had been named glia, the Greek for “glue,” precisely because they were considered so unsophisticated.
But in the past few years, the glia cells – particularly the tiny microglia that make up about one-tenth of the brain cells – have been shown to play critical roles both in the healthy and in the diseased brain.
The octopi-like microglia are immune cells that conduct ongoing surveillance, swallowing cellular debris or, in the case of infection, microbes, to protect the brain from injury or disease. But these remarkable cells are more than cleaners: In the past few years, they have been found to be involved in shaping neuronal networks by pruning excessive synapses – the contact points that allow neurons to transmit signals – during embryonic development. They are probably also involved in reshaping the synapses as learning and memory occurs in the adult brain. Defects in microglia are believed to contribute to various neurological diseases, among them Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. By clarifying how exactly the microglia operate on the molecular level, scientists might be able to develop new therapies for these disorders.
More than a decade ago, Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Steffen Jung developed a transgenic mouse model that for the first time enabled scientists to visualize the highly active microglia in the live brain. Now Jung has made a crucial next step: His laboratory developed a system for investigating the functions of microglia.
The scientists have equipped mice with a genetic switch: an enzyme that can rearrange previously marked portions of the DNA. The switch is activated by a drug: When the mouse receives the drug, the enzyme performs a genetic manipulation – for example, to disable a particular gene. The switch is so designed that over the long term, it targets only the microglia, but not other cells in the brain or in the rest of the organism. In this manner, researchers can clarify not only the function of the microglia, but the roles of different genes in their mechanism of action.
As reported in Nature Neuroscience, Weizmann scientists, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Marco Prinz at the University of Freiburg, Germany, recently used this system to examine the role of an inflammatory gene expressed by the microglia. They found that the microglia contribute to an animal disease equivalent of multiple sclerosis. Prof. Jung’s team included Yochai Wolf, Diana Varol and Dr. Simon Yona, all of Weizmann’s Immunology Department.
The system developed at the Weizmann Institute, currently applied in numerous other studies by researchers at Weizmann and elsewhere, promises to shed new light on the role of the microglia in the healthy brain as well as in Alzheimer’s, ALS and various other diseases.
Prof. Steffen Jung’s research is supported by the Leir Charitable Foundations; the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust; the Adelis Foundation; Lord David Alliance, CBE; the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust; the estate of Olga Klein Astrachan; and the European Research Council.
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Models of Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking and Quintessence.
We study several models of relevance for the dynamical breaking of supersymmetry which could provide a scalar component with equation of state , . Such models would provide a natural explanation for recent data on the cosmological parameters.
pacs:PACS numbers: 98.80.Cq, 98.70.Vc
There are increasing indications that the energy density of matter in the Universe is smaller than the critical density. If one sticks to the inflation prediction of , then the natural question is the origin of the extra component providing the missing energy density. An obvious candidate is a cosmological constant, whose equation of state is . This faces particle physics with the unpleasant task of explaining why the energy of the vacuum should be of order , a task possibly even harder than the one of explaining why the cosmological constant is zero. In particular, it seems to require new interactions with a typical scale much lower than the electroweak scale, long range interactions that would have remained undetected.
It has recently been proposed to consider instead a dynamical time-dependent and spatially inhomogeneous component, with an equation of state , . Such a component has been named “quintessence” by Caldwell, Dave and Steinhardt . Indeed, present cosmological data seem to prefer , in the context of cold dark matter models, a value for of order . Several candidates have been proposed for this component: tangled cosmic strings , pseudo-Goldstone bosons . Of particular relevance to some issues at stake in the search for a unified theory of fundamental interactions is a scalar field with a scalar potential decreasing to zero for infinite field values [2, 6].
It has been noted that such a behaviour appears naturally in models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking (DSB). Typically, the scalar potential of supersymmetric models has many flat directions, i.e. directions in field space where the scalar potential vanishes. Once supersymmetry is broken dynamically, the degeneracy corresponding to the flat direction is lifted but generally the flat direction is restored at infinite values of the scalar field111In some cases, the field value may be interpreted as the inverse coupling constant associated with the dynamics responsible for supersymmetry breaking. An infinite field value means a vanishing gauge coupling and thus restoration of supersymmetry.. We are thus precisely in the situation of a potential smoothly decreasing to zero at infinity. This is usually considered as a drawback of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking models from the point of view of cosmology: in the standard approach, the potential has a stable ground state, where the potential is fine tuned to zero (in order to account for a vanishing cosmological constant); but the initial conditions and the subsequent cosmological evolution may lead to a situation where the field misses the ground state and evolves to infinite values.
Dynamical supersymmetry breaking is often favoured because it can more easily account for large mass scale hierarchies such as through some powers of where is the dynamical scale of breaking. It is thus a natural question to ask whether the corresponding models may account for quintessence. Indeed, in this case, there is a fundamental reason why the scalar potential vanishes at infinity: this is related to the old result that global supersymmetry yields a vanishing ground state energy. And there may be reasons as to why once it dominates, the contribution of the scalar field to the energy density is very small (again through powers of ).
In the following, we will discuss two models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking which may be considered as representative of semi-realistic models for high energy physics. One is based on gaugino condensation coupled to the dynamics of a dilaton field, the other uses the condensation of flavors in a gauge theory.
Models with a dilaton
We start with a class of models, reminiscent of many superstring models, where supersymmetry is broken through gaugino condensation along the flat direction corresponding to the dilaton field. Indeed, in many superstring models, the dilaton field does not appear in the superpotential and thus corresponds to a flat direction in the scalar potential. It couples to the gauge fields in a model-independent way:
where is the field strength corresponding to a generic gauge symmetry group and, throughout this article, is expressed in Planck mass units. Thus the vacuum expectation value can be interpreted as the inverse of the gauge coupling at the string scale. Indeed, it is directly related to the inverse of the string coupling constant (see below). The interaction corresponding to the gauge group becomes strong at a scale:
where is the one-loop beta function coefficient of the gauge group . The corresponding gaugino fields are expected to condense:
and they lead to a potential energy, quadratic in the gaugino condensates, that scales like . In the limit of infinite , that is of vanishing gauge coupling, the dynamics is inoperative and one recovers the flat direction associated with the dilaton.
We have followed a very crude approach and there are, of course, many possible refinements: one may include supergravity corrections, the effect of other scalar fields such as moduli, as well as corrections which may be needed to stabilize the potential for small values of (that is in the regime of strongly coupled string ). For example, in a given model , the potential reads, in term of the field which precisely describes the string gauge coupling:
where and appear as non-perturbative contributions to the Kähler potential. The dilaton is related to the field as . One recovers, in the limit of large (small string coupling ) a leading behaviour in .
Since there are obvious power law corrections to this behaviour, we will consider a toy model of a dilaton field with a Lagrangian:
The non-canonical kinetic term for is caracteristic of the string dilaton and accounts for the non-flat Kähler metric.
The cosmological evolution of the field is described by the following set of equations ():
where is the background energy density associated with matter () or radiation () and .
If we first consider that is a constant and solve these equations assuming that dominates for some time, there exists a scaling solution with the following behaviour:222 For a similar analysis, although in a different context, see Ref. . the field evolves down the exponentially decreasing potential as as long as remains smaller than , reached at ; for larger values, there exists a scaling solution [11, 12, 13] where the field evolves logarithmically as . The ratio starts at for and from then on slopes down to zero as for large values of . Finally, starts at a value of and decreases monotonically towards as increases. There is therefore no hope of using the dilaton for the dynamical component of quintessence since never reaches a negative value. Power law corrections () do not change this conclusion.
This might be in some sense a welcome conclusion since the vacuum expectation value provides, after renormalisation down to low energy, the fine structure constant . A sliding dilaton would make the fine structure constant vary with time at an unacceptable rate .
Similar conclusions can be reached with other types of weakly coupled scalar particles, such as the moduli of string theories. For example, in a model with several gaugino condensates and a modulus field describing the radius of the six dimensional compact manifold, the scalar potential scales for large values of as :
where the sum runs over the different condensates (one for each group , with corresponding beta function coefficient ). We have fixed the dilaton field at its ground state value. Let us note that, although the modulus definitely cannot be used for quintessence (since, as above, the corresponding reaches asymptotically ), a large value of may contribute to giving a small contribution from to the vacuum energy.
A model of fermion condensates
We now turn to a model which yields inverse powers of fields in the potential, a welcome situation for quintessence models . It is based on the gauge group and has flavors: quarks in fundamentals of and antiquarks in antifundamentals of .
Below the scale of dynamical breaking of the gauge symmetry , the effective degrees of freedom are the fermion condensate (“pion”) fields . The dynamically generated superpotential reads :
Usually, one allows a term linear in in the superpotential in order to stabilize this field. We will instead assume here that a discrete symmetry ensures that no linear term is allowed by the abelian symmetry. Let us note that this symmetry cannot be a continuous gauge symmetry since this would yield in the scalar potential D-terms with positive powers of which would stabilize the field.
The effective Lagrangian reads:
where the potential originates from the F-term for the field . For simplicity, we will take to be diagonal and write with real. One obtains:
The corresponding potential has been studied in Ref. in the case where dominates over the energy density of the field. One obtains
Hence decreases less rapidly than until it dominates it for values of the cosmic scale factor larger than . Throughout this period (which must obviously include nucleosynthesis), one has:
The equation of state for the field has :
Thus, in a matter-dominated universe (), which is between and for . This provides a candidate for the dynamics of quintessence.
Once has reached the value , we enter a different regime where dominates the energy density. The field slows down and one may solve for ir neglecting the terms in its equation of motion and in . One obtains:
where is the present value for , and one obtains
If at is already close to the present value (this occurs typically for GeV), this second period is short () and will be given approximately by (16). For simplicity, we will suppose from now on that this is so. In this case, the value of might prove to be too small to account for the data .
However, larger values for may be obtained by complicating slightly the model and introducing other fields. As an example, we will assume the presence of a dilaton field, much in the spirit of the models of the previous section (although the dilaton is this time not sliding but fixed at its ground state value). The dynamical scale is expressed in terms of the dilaton through (2) with . This induces a new term in the scalar potential:
that is an extra term of the form with
Since , this term dominates for large values of the condensate and, for ,
which precisely lies between and : taking for example and yields .
There could be other contributions to the -term auxiliary field for , say (which will contribute to supersymmetry breaking). If so, the leading term in for large is and , in which case . This time, one may even obtain with ().
Strictly speaking, the leading term is and thus of the cosmological constant type. But this is an artifact of global supersymmetry and it is well-known that, by going to supergravity, we may cancel this cosmological constant term, while keeping a non-vanishing contribution to the -term of the field. Such a study goes beyond the framework of this paper. This stresses however an important fact: even if we deal here with a dynamical component () which may account for a cosmological constant type behaviour of the cosmological parameters, it is important that the energy density eventually dominates over all other forms and thus that these other components do not produce a significant cosmological constant of their own. Thus, the cosmological constant remains a problem for all other components.
Likewise, the amount of supersymmetry breaking due to the fact that has not reached an infinite value (and thus its -term is not vanishing) is not sufficient to account for the amount of supersymmetry-breaking observed in nature. There must be other sources (e.g. in our example) which may produce unwanted amounts of cosmological constant if care is not taken.
In other words, there is still a “cosmological constant problem” in the models studied here (that is to say, from the point of view of the quantum theory) but the interest of such models lies in the fact that they can successfully account for the recent cosmological data on supernovae of type Ia, if confirmed.
I wish to thank Alex Vilenkin for raising my interest in the issue of quintessence, the Berkeley Lab Theory group for hospitality while part of this work was done, and Reynald Pain for valuable discussions.
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UN Meets with protests and People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice
Leaders from around the globe gathered Wednesday to open three days of talks at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, where a sober, unambitious mood prevailed as negotiators produced what critics called a watered-down document that makes few advances on protecting the environment.
Negotiators worked for months to hammer out a document that many hoped would lay out clear goals on how nations could promote sustainable development—making economic advances without eating up the globe’s resources.
But with time running out, contentious issues like technology transfers from rich to poor nations and new financing for developing countries were set aside. Diplomats agreed on what all call a mere beginning, a step toward a roadmap on how to embrace sustainable development at the conference dubbed “Rio+20″—coming two decades after the landmark 1992 Earth Summit put sustainable development on the globe’s agenda.
“The future we want has gotten a little further away today. Rio+20 has turned into an epic failure. It has failed on equity, failed on ecology and failed on economy,” said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace. “This is not a foundation on which to grow economies or pull people out of poverty, it’s the last will and testament of a destructive twentieth century development model.”
U.N. Secretary General Bank Ki-moon acknowledged the world has made little progress on environmental issues since the first Rio meeting in 1992, but said leaders are working to reverse that at the Rio+20 summit.
“Twenty years ago, the Earth Summit put sustainable development on the global agenda. Yet let me be frank: our efforts have not lived up to the measure of the challenge,” he told delegates. “For too long, we have behaved as though we could . indefinitely . burn and consume our way to prosperity. Today, we recognize that we can no longer do so.”
“We recognize that the old model for economic development and social advancement is broken. Rio+20 has given us a unique chance to set it right.”
Critics blasted the draft document before leaders as requiring little and using language that turns what were once demands into goals for individual nations to aspire for—on increasing use of renewable energy, on protecting forests, on eradicating poverty and hunger.
French President Francois Hollande told reporters that he wasn’t too excited about the summit’s likely results.
“Disappointment, yes, there’s always a bit of disappointment. But I’ve come here to show my hope, my confidence.”
He highlighted what he said were two shortcomings: the failure of the document to create an international agency for development and also the inability of negotiators to agree on additional ways of financing sustainable development, including through a tax on financial transactions.
The same roadblocks that have hindered all environmental summits in recent years have been seen in Rio.
Delegates from developing nations said the U.S. and other developed nations wouldn’t agree to any language in the Rio+20 document that would mandate direct transfers of environmentally sound technologies. The U.S. and other rich nations have said that simply violates intellectual property laws, while poorer nations insist there is no way they can afford to pay for the advanced equipment that would, for instance, allow factories to operate in a way that pollutes less.
The economic crisis cast a clear shadow over Rio+20—and was the reason many heads of state did not show up, like Italy’s Mario Monti. With Europe in crisis and the U.S. still in economic doldrums, delegates said there was no way those nations would agree on new financing for poorer nations to promote sustainable development. The document reflects that.
While Hollande, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and China’s Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao are among more than 100 leaders expected in Rio, there are high-level absentees: U.S. President Barack Obama, Britain’s David Cameron and German leader Angela Merkel are all no-shows, adding to a subdued atmosphere that the action taken in Rio isn’t getting the global spotlight.
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Philomath Academy Principal Dan Johnson is almost never at a loss for words. But during a short talk following Friday night’s first-ever graduation ceremony, the man had trouble expressing how important the evening had been for the program that he’s worked so hard to establish and for the 20 graduates who beat the odds to earn diplomas.
A collection of photos from Friday night’s Philomath Academy graduation ceremony in the Philomath High School auditorium.
“The pride, the adversities the students have gone through,” Johnson said. “We’ve worked, we’ve had kids who were in huge credit deficits that we just worked to get through.”
Twenty Philomath Academy students earned their diplomas on Friday and seven others that overcame significant credit deficiencies will walk in the high school graduation on Saturday.
“This ceremony is amazing but just the process of having everybody get to the finish line is just astronomical,” Johnson said.
The 20-minute ceremony included the awarding of diplomas to 17 of the 20 graduates who were in attendance. One of those reaching the accomplishment was Sophian Meyner, one of two students who spoke during the ceremony.
“COVID brought up a lot of challenges academically … one of them was distance learning,” Meyner said. “I personally struggled and I’m sure many of my peers did also. But with the help of Philomath Academy’s faculty, I was able to work toward the credits I needed to make it to graduation — to this exact moment.”
The school that provides an alternative to the typical high school setting fills a need, Johnson said.
“We’re looking at who and how do we serve, you know, there’s a lot of students that just have different needs,” he said. “So you have to find what those are.”
In comparison to traditional classrooms, Philomath Academy provides a more intimate connection that can vault students toward the finish line that is graduation.
“When I was in the classroom (in traditional high school), it was mass prepare, mass distribute, mass assess,” Johnson said. “Here, we get masses but we have to micro assess and then address the needs and difficulties to fill gaps to help them move forward.”
Johnson believes society today is more accepting of a virtual curriculum.
“We can truly address the needs of the kids that come in,” he said. “If I come in as a student and I’m struggling in algebra, we’re going to make sure that you find a way to understand algebra. … I’m lucky, I have a really great group of adults that care about the kids in school.”
Philomath Academy, which is in its second year, will be moving this next academic year from the high school library to the district office, which is situated on Applegate Street in front of the elementary school.
“We can have our own space … it allows us to meet some needs of students who for whatever reason, have a hard time being in a (high school) building,” Johnson said, and then joked, “My goal before I retire is to have the building and have the district office in a nice, luxury condo somewhere.”
To start, the academy will take over the conference room where School Board meetings are currently held along with a computer lab toward the back of the building.
The ceremony started with students entering the PHS auditorium to “Pomp and Circumstance.” Following the national anthem, math teacher Rob Zarfas made a few welcoming remarks that led into Meyner’s student comments.
Language arts teacher Daniel Mikula, who had a graduation in his own family to attend and couldn’t be there, wrote comments that were read aloud by counselor Beth Edgemon as a lead-in to the next student presentation. Gavin Ivanovich then read a poem he composed and had been submitted to a youth poetry contest.
Johnson shared his thoughts in a principal’s address and Superintendent Susan Halliday followed with the presentation of the class. Graduates were called up one by one by Edgemon and Marina Castilla and four School Board members — Joe Dealy, Erin Gudge, Karen Skinkis and Rick Wells — were there to distribute diplomas.
Johnson led the students through the turning of tassels as confetti shot into the air. Afterward, cake was served.
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Using Finding out Stations to help Kick Off last year
In the past, can be of school traditionally ran the same way for me each and every year: Pass out the actual syllabus, rapid introduction to who I am and exactly our course is about, a summary of the 12 months, and then a little while ice breaker to end the class. While this data format did provide some information to college students, it did not accurately represent what our class would look, audio, or believe. In a school room rooted within collaboration, online community, and college student voice, it all came to seem to be inauthentic personally to start the year away as a talking about head prior to the class.
To remedy this, I’ll use discovering stations within the first morning of school in an attempt to break up the program, add exercise, and boost engagement pertaining to both scholars and myself.
Depending on your company’s class sizing and the occasion you have by using students, you can change what number of stations you have and how very long you have trainees spend at each station. When you have a lot of diverse ideas for your individual stations and even limited time frame, a location activity last more than one morning because gas stops allow a whole lot of flexibility and the ability to correct based on the obtainable time and the needs of your individuals. During these routes, you can flow around the space, check in by using students, be sure they know about tasks, and commence to get to know these folks.
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Here are the stations I shall be implementing inside my classroom.
Syllabus station: Young people will grab a copy of your syllabus plus an outline from the units with study in the year only at that station. I am going to ask my very own students to learn to read this utilizing their peers inside their group. Subsequently after reading, they can take a sticky note and even write down almost any reactions or possibly questions they also have and place that on a cartel board. We address these kind of questions or concerns the following day.
Introduction location: This place has only two tasks. The very first is for students to utilize Flipgrid for you to film theirselves saying their whole preferred identity (first call, nickname, and so forth ). Items use the movies to learn most student artists and their proper pronunciation swiftly. You can do this along with any video clip recording blog or application your school uses.
Another task as of this station are going to be for students that will fill out a quick questionnaire that features a place to compose their names and gender pronouns (she/her, he/him, or they/them) in addition to questions with their interests. You can decide what the other questions are usually essential for you to know— perhaps the way they are passionate about, what exactly is their strength on your course topic, or any things they have.
Big name tag location: I’ll make use station to supply students cardstock and prints to create a company name tent that’ll be displayed own desk for that first few days so they can learn about their classmates’ names. Items ask young people to write most of their preferred company name and 3 to 5 symbols, words, or drawings that ideal represent these products. After they accomplish, they can promote their call tent and the symbols with the group desire.
Community binding agreement station: With this station, individuals will collaborate with their set members to produce at least several class area agreement arguments. I’ll check with, “How can we create a safe and strengthening learning conditions? ” Very own students may think of behavioral norms that they can need their own peers plus me in order to abide by so that you can feel risk-free, respected, in addition to empowered in the classroom. Factors ask them to possibly be as specified as possible.
Should you try this, you might offer up a couple of examples to get the snapshot: “One express, one microphone stand, ” “be kind in addition to respectful to help everyone, ” or “be a good fan base. ”
In late class or the next day, we’re going discuss whatever they wrote as well as I’ll produce a master set of their arrangments made on cartel paper. Virtually all students will probably sign this unique paper how to get homework done fast, and it will be on exhibit in the classroom all year round.
CUSTOMIZING FIGURING OUT STATIONS
These are a very few station options— you can tailor-make this in the slightest that makes sensation for your school room and your age bracket of individuals. Perhaps the good news is station designed for you to have a seat and interact with students, or else you want a train station where scholars can sign up for any technological innovation or systems you use all through the year, or maybe you can set up a conversation starter game. | <urn:uuid:df2145f5-ea61-4778-a975-ee398ccc9a02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waskomsacco.com/blog/using-finding-out-stations-to-help-kick-off-last-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959691 | 1,031 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Anti-Aging Serum is the brand-new gold requirement in anti-aging skin care – just due to the fact that they really function! Anti-aging skin products have actually been extremely light, highly focused fluids, loaded with powerful active components. They are comprised primarily of tiny, fast-absorbing, easy-to-distribute, active components indicated to go where various other lotions and creams can’t. Their make-up is implied to aid revitalize the skin and protect against additional skin damage triggered by complimentary radicals.
Lots of people think that the active ingredients in anti-aging serums and lotions resemble those in lotions and also fragrances. Nevertheless, these components are much various. Creams and perfumes consist of alcohol, scent, dyes, and also in some cases also chemicals. These active ingredients can trigger irritability and redness, and can even lead to allergies.
Since a lotion is suggested to moisten the skin along with shield it from future damage, the best anti-aging serums need to additionally have skin brightening residential properties. Creams include natural antioxidants like vitamin An and also beta-carotene. This kind of vitamin removes damaging totally free radicals as well as toxic wastes, which can cause skin damages and also signs old to create gradually. This kind of nutrient is really important in keeping health and wellness. Vitamin A is especially terrific for nourishing the skin, and aids make it appear more vibrant and much healthier.
In contrast, a lotion just nourishes the skin, leaving it really feeling moisturized and also soft. This kind of product requires to have relaxing substances like glycolic acid, AHAs, and/or BHAs. Glycolic acid, for one, can scrub dead skin cells, allowing for an also smoother skin tone. It additionally has the ability to deeply hydrate the skin.
One example of an efficient moisturizing component is algae remove. Dermatologists advise that people with all skin kinds include this in their anti-aging regimen. Active components that work best with algae are kelp remove and resveratrol. The kelp essence has phytosterols, fatty acids, and also ferulic acid.
When selecting a moisturizer, it is best to choose one that does not contain any type of man-made chemicals or fragrances. Moisturizers with synthetic chemicals tend to leave a movie on the skin, that makes it show up plain and lifeless. Instead, choose a non-chemical based cream with one ounce of each of the active ingredients pointed out above.
The major energetic ingredients found in Anti-Aging Lotion ought to boost flow and rise collagen and also elastin production. A key benefit of the product is that it consists of the required anti-oxidants to assist battle complimentary radicals. It can assist combat the damaging results of the sunlight on skin. The sunlight defense that it provides is essential due to the fact that excessive direct exposure to the sunlight can mature the skin faster. This product is also suitable for individuals that do not tan quickly. If you are just one of these people, an SPF of at the very least 15 will certainly be sufficient.
It’s best to utilize this day-to-day on any kind of part of your body. Essentially, it works well to enhance flexibility and lower great lines and also wrinkles. Nevertheless, there are a couple of negative effects that are detailed on the bottle, including inflammation at the website of application, peeling as well as fracturing of the skin, as well as a small fragrance. The producer alerts that repeated usage might trigger irritability. For security factors, kikam suggests that you make use of the lotion at night.
This product has niacinamide, a skin vitamin that is in charge of the production of collagen and elastin. Niacinamide, though, causes moderate irritation when it is available in contact with the eyes. This is why the eyes are the only area where the product is recommended to be used.
The appearance of Anti-Aging Product is somewhat crude as well as thick. This assists to prevent the lotion from clogging pores as well as improving firmness as well as elasticity. The structure additionally stops the item from absorbing into the skin swiftly, leaving an oily feeling. The thick structure likewise aids to give the product an abundant structure and makes it feel elegant. Thus, it assists to make the skin appear smoother and younger-looking.
As you can see, Anti-Aging Product is among the very best products to make use of on your face if you are looking to minimize the look of fine lines, wrinkles, and acne-prone skin. It is extremely efficient, light-weight, and also hypoallergenic. Unlike other anti-aging items which may create dryness and flakiness, this item works best with oily skin. It likewise contains natural botanicals that work to bring back moisture to the skin and relieve swelling, making it a perfect option for those that want to eliminate indicators of aging without creating any kind of injury.
Anti-Aging Serum is a product made use of for skin revival, providing protection from the components such as ultraviolet rays from the sun. The long term use of anti-aging creams brings about firmer as well as healthier skin, less wrinkles, as well as usually a more youthful look. Several note that after years of daily usage, their skin still holds its youthful smoothness. Anti-aging creams present much needed nutrients to your skin which allows it to fix itself quicker.
As a topical solution, anti-aging serum has a selection of ingredients which can be made use of individually or integrated to produce wanted outcomes. Components to look for are retinol, vitamin A, hyaluronic acid, and also coenzyme Q10. Retinol is originated from milk as well as functions by urging the production of collagen and also elastin. These compounds can not be generated naturally by the body, so the items will certainly assist your skin keep its all-natural try to find approximately possibly a years. This is one of the much better anti-aging results, however it does not provide you firm, smooth skin.
As part of your anti-aging lotion, try to find components such as vitamin A, hyaluronic acid, coenzyme Q10, and collagen. These are all normally sourced compounds which have been displayed in professional trials to generate certain advantages. The skin’s layers are held tight by collagen, helping to smooth the appearance of wrinkles and also age lines. Hyaluronic acid aids to keep the dampness in your skin, while vitamin C promotes collagen development. Retinol and vitamin An incorporate to stimulate collagen production while the last two give antioxidant assistance. https://ipsnews.net
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Bing Maps adds a distance calculator, gas price finder, and more.
Microsoft is adding a slew of new features to its Bing Maps. There’s a distance calculator that tells you the distance between any two points on the map, a gas price finder, and a parking finder to locate nearby parking spots. All of these features have been available on most competing solutions for some time. But Bing Maps has never been the most advanced navigation app, so it’s no surprise.
Bing Maps adds distance calculator and more new features
Starting with the distance calculator, this feature does the job quite effectively. You enter your origin and destination locations and Bing Maps will show you the distance between the two points for one or more routes, if available. It will find the best route for driving, transit or walking with the estimated time. You can add Points of Interest (PoI) along the way to see the distance and time update in real time.
If you take a different route on your way, whether for points of interest not mentioned or for some other reason, Bing Maps will recalculate everything to make sure you have navigation instructions at your fingertips. Although fairly late on the scene, it’s a welcome addition to Microsoft’s navigation app.
Finding nearby gas stations is one of the most used features of navigation apps, especially when driving in an unfamiliar location. Luckily, Bing Maps can now not only locate gas stations, but also show you prices. If available, he will provide you with the phone number of each station so you can call and confirm prices. This allows you to make an informed choice as to where you want to fill your tank. You may be able to save money on fuel without straying from your route.
Bing Maps will also let you find nearby parking spots. You will get information such as address, phone number, payment methods and type of parking, such as outdoor parking and self-parking. Maps will show you directions to the location.
Bing Maps uses Isochrone API to find relevant results
None of the features that Bing Maps gains with the latest update are new to the navigation space. But Microsoft’s Isochrone API intelligently finds relevant results when searching for nearby points of interest, such as hotels, gas stations, and more. Instead of showing places within a circular radius of your location, it uses drive-time polygons to find places that require a shorter drive.
For example, if you’re in a city with a river running through it, Bing Maps won’t show locations across the river unless it’s relevant. A location may be physically close to you, but first you will need to find a bridge to cross the river. And the bridge may not be close enough. In addition to this, some bridges may not allow cars. So a physically more remote location may be more suitable for you. The Isochrone API takes all these calculations into account.
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Top resources for learning a walk cycle.
One of the best ways to refine your skills as a Character Animator is to do a walk cycle. While the exercise may seem easy, it actually takes a lot of skill to perfect a good walk cycle. How many times has your walk cycles turned out like this?
We love walk cycles so much that we thought it’d be cool to create a list of our favorite walk cycles from around the web.
The Basics of the Walk Cycle
There are a lot of really great resources out there that can help you create great walk cycles. One of the very best is the Animator’s Survival Kit. In the book there are tons of charts and examples of how to animate your character’s movements. Here’s one of the charts:
A team of students even took the time and effort to animate the example characters from the Animator’s Survival Kit using the techniques outlined in the book. This took them 9 months to create. Holy potatoes…
Reference footage is indispensable when you’re creating a walk cycle. A simple search will reveal thousands of great resources for walk cycles online. One of my favorites is this dude on a treadmill. This guy loves his job.
Walk Cycle Inspiration
Here’s a few insane walk cycles:
WILD & WOOLY
Have you ever seen a walk cycle that makes you question career as a Motion Designer? This ridiculous work from 2veinte is a masterclass not only in Walk Cycles, but also character design and hand-drawn animation.
Practice is the secret to perfecting your craft as a Motion Designer. Conor Whelan did a new walk cycle every week for 4 months and shared it out on Vimeo. There’s lots of fun walk cycle examples here.
GOING TO THE STORE
And no walk cycle list would be complete without the mother of all walk cycle videos. Did you know you can actually buy a body pillow of this character and a book with the YouTube comments? The internet is a wonderful place.
Create Walk Cycles in After Effects and Photoshop
Want to create a walk cycle for yourself? This tutorial created by Joey (you may have heard of him…) is a great intro lesson into the world of walk cycles. In the tutorial Joey shares how he designs his characters in Photoshop and animates them in After Effects.
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It's a New Day in Public Health.
The Florida Department of Health works to protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.
Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
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Florida Department of Health Resources
The Florida Public Health Risk Assessment Tool – The FPHRAT captures information in a residual risk matrix that produces a risk, capability and resources gap analysis for each hazard by county. Access is managed to allow county planner(s) to rank capability functions, resources, and hazards. This tool requires a login password to protect the integrity of the data.
The guide to learn how to use this tool is:
The 2020 FPHRAT Users’ Guide provides information for completing assessments, creating reports and interpreting the data.
State of Florida Enhanced Hazard Mitigation Plan 2018 - hazard mitigation plays an important role in the primary objective of protecting citizens’ health, safety, and welfare. This reference helps define the actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to human life and property from manmade or natural hazards and should be considered when developing plans. This resource does not require a login password. The Florida Enhanced State Hazard Mitigation Plan 2018 Update is effective August 24, 2018 through August 24, 2023.
Federal and Other Resources
Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS) - is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard event types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each county. This tool does not require a login password.
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Spotify, which launched a year after the 2007 launch of the iPhone, said on Wednesday that Apple's control of its App store deprived consumers of choice and rival providers of audio streaming services to the benefit of Apple Music, which began in 2015.
Central to Spotify's complaint, filed to the European Commission on Monday, is what it says is a 30 percent fee Apple charges content-based service providers to use Apple's in-app purchase system (IAP).
Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify's general counsel, said the company was pressured into using the billing system in 2014, but then was forced to raise the monthly fee of its premium service from 9.99 to 12.99 euros, just as Apple Music launched at Spotify's initial 9.99 price.
Spotify then ceased use of Apple's IAP system, meaning Spotify customers could only upgrade to the fee-based package indirectly, such as on a laptop.
Under App store rules, Spotify said, content-based apps could not include buttons or external links to pages with production information, discounts or promotions and faced difficulties fixing bugs. Such restrictions do not apply to Android phones, it said.
"Promotions are essential to our business. This is how we convert our free customers to premium," Gutierrez said.
Voice recognition system Siri would not hook iPhone users up to Spotify and Apple declined to let Spotify launch an app on its Apple Watch, Spotify said.
Spotify declined to say what economic damage it believed it had suffered.
"We feel confident in the economic analysis we have submitted to the Commission that we could have done better than we have done so far," Gutierrez said.
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The Parkinson center for expertise at Radboudumc receives 10 million euros from the Gatsby Foundation. Thanks to this private donation the center, together with the University of Bristol (UK), can implement a new healthcare model that focuses on the desires and needs of people with Parkinson's disease. Implementation of this model is monitored for five years to evaluate to what extent the model leads to health improvement of patients and lower health care costs.Many different organizations and healthcare providers are involved in Dutch healthcare. As a result, it is often a challenge for patients to find the right caregivers for their health problems. Moreover, healthcare providers often do not work well together and insufficient use is made of each other's knowledge and expertise. This is at the expense of patient's health and leads to unnecessarily high costs.
Prof. Bas Bloem, leader of theme Disorders of movement: 'In order to really tackle the problems in healthcare, two have to be met: sufficient money to bridge the gap between the optimal healthcare model and what is now financed by the healthcare insurers, and sufficient time (at least a few years) to show scientifically that the new model is really better. We are therefore very grateful to the Gatsby Foundation for giving us the unique opportunity to implement and evaluate a new model of healthcare in the coming years. '
The new healthcare model is initially aimed at supporting people with Parkinson's disease, but is also suitable for a wide application in the healthcare sector. Key elements of the new approach are: optimal collaboration between all involved healthcare providers within one integrated healthcare network, the availability of a central contact point for all patients and the organization of care close to patient’s home.
In order to provide the right care in the right place, Radboudumc is starting an intensive collaboration with multiple hospitals and ParkinsonNet. Within this integrated network, the Parkinson's nurse plays an important role as the first contact point for patients. In addition, thanks to portable sensors (such as a smartwatch and a fall detector), it is possible to remotely monitor and supervise patients at home. Furthermore, both care providers and patients can also benefit from the knowledge and expertise from the university medical center via "telemedicine" (eg video calling).
Thanks to the donation from the Gatsby Foundation, the new healthcare model can be evaluated for 5 years and the knowledge gained can be shared with others. Healthcare insurer CZ will be involved from the start of the project to realize a future-proof and replicable organizational model for this new healthcare system in which the patient receives the best care. The assumption behind this is that care providers are rewarded for good cooperation and for the good health status of their patients. The new healthcare model will be initiated in Nijmegen area (Radboudumc and surrounding hospitals) and in the southwest of the UK. | <urn:uuid:2184d9ac-16c9-45bb-8446-428d1ffbdc7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news/2018/gatsby-foundation-donates-10-million-to-improve-parkinsons-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952372 | 576 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The 1896 Light Railways Act – the law that made heritage railways possible explores the enduring impact of the 1896 Light Railways Act which was designed to speed up the official procedures for gaining approval to construct a railway line. Originally intended to lapse in 1901, it was extended instead, and somehow stayed on the statute books long after is use had ceased. Then, in the 1960s, groups of steam railway enthusiasts recognised it as a possible means of gaining approval to re-open stretches of railway lines which had been closed by Dr. Beeching and keep the steam dream alive. More than half a century later, some of these restored lines have already celebrated their golden jubilees, and their popularity continues to grow. Thanks to the unintended consequence of that 1896 Act, each new generation since Beeching has had – and will continue to have – the opportunity to enjoy the magic of steam trains.
The 96-page book, illustrated in colour throughout with a mixture of modern photography and Edwardian images, published in softback by Amberley Publishing price £14.99.
The Governor – controlling the power of steam machines is published in hardback by Pen and Sword, price £30
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Does a day go by without you thinking about a lot of things? Yours might even be little things or a single thought that may not only be harmful to you but to those around you.
From one exposure to another, our minds, like mirrors, reflect whatever object stands before it. Just like an empty slate, as every day passes by, a lot of things are being written down on the pages of our minds from what we see, hear, feel or touch.
Oftentimes you might even come across pieces of information either in graphics, songs, spoken words, articles, videos, and all which you never planned to. It might even be an event that might have occurred in the past. It can also be a fear of what would happen tomorrow. At such times what do you choose to focus on?
Think on these things
Are they true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report? These should be the yardstick you should set for each of your thoughts. They are God’s words and surely have stood the test of time.
God is interested in your life, even your mental health, and He, through His word in Philippians 4:7, has set a boundary for your thought. It’s that simple, true, and powerful.
At those moments where you get disturbed and depressed over the thoughts running through your mind, just remember this and let go of those thoughts.
To what do you expose yourself? Who do you listen to, what books do you read, what movies do you watch? What about the songs you listen to? Each of these things contributes to your thought pattern, and indeed you ought to be conscious of them.
Replace those lies with God’s word. Keep confessing them till they become a part of you.
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Lagos State, through its Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, has developed the Lagos State Off-Grid Electrification Strategy and Action Plan with support from the British-funded Africa Clean Energy Technical Assistance Facility (ACE-TAF).
The programme, which is being implemented by Tetra Tech International Development and funded by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), is geared towards the improvement of the off-grid energy access in the state.
Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources Olalere Odusote, at the handing over yesterday, explained that the ministry was working to improve energy access in the state.
He recalled that the government, in 2021, developed the Lagos State Electricity Policy to articulate its vision for creating a viable sub-national electricity sector that caters fully to the needs of its residents, while also enabling significant socio-economic growth.
Odusote explained that with the emergence of the off-grid solar sector as an important component in achieving access to energy for all, the ministry has developed the Lagos State Off-Grid Electrification Strategy and Plan with the support of ACE-TAF to ensure the implementation of the Lagos State Electricity Policy on off-grid electrification.
Country Manager of the ACE-TAF Nigeria Chibuikem Agbaegbu expressed delight at the collaboration with the government in improving energy access to Lagosians.
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This course provides an overview of qualitative methodologies in linguistics, focusing on case study, discourse analysis, questionnaire, interview, and integrated methods. Emphasis is placed on: 1) understanding how studies are designed to respond to specific questions, including how questions are derived from prior theory and research; and 2) how validity is assessed, including what counts as evidence and what makes data analysis systematic; 3) how quantitative and qualitative methods compare. To that end, students in the course will read theoretical and practical explanations of prominent qualitative methodologies; critically analyze research reports employing those same methodologies; write a qualitative research design for an original research project employing one or more of the methodologies; and share that research design in a concise oral presentation.
Understand the characteristics and purposes of prominent qualitative research methods
Critically analyze published qualitative research, focusing on threats to validity
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↑ comment by Tristan Cook ·
2021-03-13T11:09:27.005Z · EA(p) · GW(p)
Thanks for such a detailed and insightful response Gregory.
Your archetypal classical utilitarian is also committed to the OC as 'large increase in suffering for one individual' can be outweighed by a large enough number of smaller decreases in suffering for others - aggregation still applies to negative numbers for classical utilitarians. So the negative view fares better as the classical one has to bite one extra bullet.
Thanks for pointing this out. I think I realised this extra bullet biting after making the post.
There's also the worry in a pairwise comparison one might inadvertently pick a counterexample for one 'side' that turns the screws less than the counterexample for the other one.
This makes a lot of sense, and not something I’d considered at all and seems pretty important when playing counterxample-intuition-tennis.
By my lights, it seems better to have some procedure for picking and comparing cases which isolates the principle being evaluated. Ideally, the putative counterexamples share counterintuitive features both theories endorse, but differ in one is trying to explore the worst case that can be constructed which the principle would avoid, whilst the other the worst case that can be constructed with its inclusion.
Again, this feels really useful and something I want to think about further.
The typical worry of the (absolute) negative view itself is it fails to price happiness at all - yet often we're inclined to say enduring some suffering (or accepting some risk of suffering) is a good deal at least at some extreme of 'upside'.
I think my slight negative intuition comes from that fact that although I may be willing to endure some suffering for some upside, I wouldn’t endorse inflicting suffering (or risk or suffering) on person A for some upside for person B. I don't know how much work the differences of fairness personal identity (i.e. the being that suffered gets the upside) between the examples are doing, and it what direction my intuition is 'less' biased.
Yet with this procedure, we can construct a much worse counterexample to the negative view than the OC - by my lights, far more intuitively toxic than the already costly vRC. (Owed to Carl Shulman). Suppose A is a vast but trivially-imperfect utopia - Trillions (or googleplexes, or TREE(TREE(3))) lives lives of all-but-perfect bliss, but for each enduring an episode of trivial discomfort or suffering (e.g. a pin-prick, waiting a queue for an hour). Suppose Z is a world with a (relatively) much smaller number of people (e.g. a billion) living like the child in Omelas
I like this example a lot! and definitely lean A > Z.
Reframing the situation, and my intuition becomes less clear: considering A’, in which TREE(TREE(3))) lives are in perfect bliss, but there are also TREE(TREE(3))) beings that monetarily experience a single pinprick before ceasing to to exist. This is clearly equivalent to A in the axiology but my intuition is less clear (if at all) that A’ > Z. As above, I’m unsure how much work personal identity is doing. In my mind, I find population ethics easier to think about by considering ‘experienced moments’ rather than individuals.
(This axiology is also anti-egalitarian (consider replacing half the people in A with half the people in Z) ...
Thanks for pointing out the error. I think think I’m right in saying that the ‘welfare capped by 0’ axiology is non-anti-egalitarian, which I conflated with absolute NU in my post (which is anti-egalitarian as you say). The axiologies are much more distinct than I originally thought. | <urn:uuid:360f5ea3-f645-42c1-993d-834c5d192c89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eaforum.issarice.com/posts/mLqKcYahP5nbjK9ir/tristan-cook-s-shortform | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953236 | 848 | 1.546875 | 2 |
May Day At Hitchin
William Hone, The Every Day Book, 2 Vols. London: William Tegg, 1825, 1827.
Volume 1, May 1
MAY-DAY AT HITCHIN, IN HERTFORDSHIRE.
For the Every-Day Book.
EXTRACT from a letter dated Hitchin,
May 1st, 1823.
On this day a curious custom is observed here, of which I will give you a brief account.
Soon after three o’clock in the morning a large party of the town—people, and neighbouring labourers, parade the town, singing the “Mayer’s Song.” They carry in their hands large branches of May, and they affix a branch either upon, or at the side of, the doors of nearly every respectable house in the town; where there are knockers, they place these branches within the handles; that which was put into our knocker was so large that the servant could not open the door till the gardener came and took it out. The larger the branch is, that is placed at the door, the more houourable to the house, or rather to the servants of the house. If in the Course of the year, a servant has given offence to any of the Mayers, then instead of a branch of May, a branch of elder, ‘with a hunch of nettles, is affixed to her door : this is considered a great disgrace, and the unfortunate subject of it is exposed to the jeers of her rivals. On May morning, therefore, the girls look with some anxiety for their May-branch, and rise very early to ascertain their good or ill fortune. The houses are all thus decorated by four o’clock in the morning. Throughout the day parties of these Mayer’s ale seen dancing and frolicking in various parts of the town. The group that I saw to-day, which remained in Bancroft for more than an hour, was composed as follows. First came two men with their faces blacked, one of them with a birch broom in his hand, and a large artificial hump on his back; the other dressed as a woman, all in rags and tatters, with a large straw bonnet oil, and carrying a ladle: these are called “mad Moll and her husband.” Next came two men, one most fantastically dressed with ribbons, and a great variety of gaudy coloured silk handkerchiefs tied round his arms from the shoulders to the wrists, and down his thighs and legs to the ankles he carried a drawn sword in his hand; leaning upon his arm was a youth dressed as a fine lady, in white muslin, and profusely bedecked from top to toe with gay ribbons: these, I understood, were called the “Lord and Lady” of the company; after these followed six or seven couples more, attired much in the same style as the lord and lady, only the men were without swords. When this group received a satisfactory contribution at any house, the music struck up from a violin, clarionet, and fife, accompanied by the long drum, and they began the merry dance, and very well they danced, I assure you; the men-women looked and footed it so much like real women, that I stood in great doubt as to which sex they belonged to, till Mrs. J.—— assured me that women were not permitted to mingle in these sports. While the dancers were merrily footing it, the principal amusement to the populace was caused by the grimaces and clownish tricks of mad Moll and her husband. When the circle of spectators became so contracted as to interrupt the dancers, then mad Moll’s husband went to work with his broom, and swept the road-dust, all round the circle, into the faces of the crowd, and when any pretended affronts were offered (and many were offered) to his wife, he pursued the offenders, broom fin hand; if he could not overtake them, whether they were males or females, he flung his broom at them. These flights and pursuits caused an abundance of merriment.
I saw another company of Mayers in Sun-street, and, as far as I could judge from where I stood, it appeared to be exactly the same description as that above- mentioned, but I did not venture very near them, for I perceived mad Moll’s husband exercising his broom so briskly upon the flying crowd, that I kept a respectful distance.
May-Day At Hitchin, In Herefordshire
The “Meyer’s Song” is a composition, or rather a medley, of great antiquity, and I was therefore very desirous to procure a copy of it; in accomplishing this, however, I experienced more difficulty than I had anticipated; but at length succeeded in obtaining it from one of the Mayers. The following is a literal transcript of it
The Mayer’s Song.
Remember us poor Mayers all,
And thus do we begin
To lead our lives in righteousness,
Or else we die in sin.
We have been rambling all this night,
And almost all this day,
And now returned back again
We have brought you a branch of May.
A branch of May we have brought you,
And at your door it stands,
It is but a sprout,
But it’s well budded out
By the work of our Lord’s hands.
The hedges and trees they are so green
As green as any leek,
Our heavenly Father He watered them
With his heavenly dew so sweet.
The heavenly gates are open wile,
Our paths are beaten plain,
And if a man be not too far gone,
He may return again.
The life of man is but a span,
It flourishes like a flower,
We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow,
And we are dead in an hour.
The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,
A little before it is day,
So God bless you all, both great and small,
And send you a joyful May.
William Chappell, The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time. London: Chappell & Co., 1859.
The May-day, or Mayers’ Song, which is printed by Hone, in his Every Day Book (i. 569), “as sung at Hitchin, in Hertfordshire,” is also to this tune. It is semi-religious medley, — a puritanical May-song (“of great antiquity,” says Hone), and begins thus :—
“Remember us poor Mayers all,
And thus we do begin,
To lead our lives in righteousness,
Or else we die in sin.
We have been rambling all the night,
And almost all the day,
And now, returned back again,
We have brought you a branch of May.”
The carol is sometimes sung in a major key, and sometimes in a minor; besides which difference, scarcely any two copies agree in the second part.
See generally Christmas Carols - William Chappell.
Ralph Dunstan, The Cornish Song Book (London: Reid Bros., Ltd., 1929), p. 45:
Dr. Dunstan notes:
This carol is much like "The Old Waits Carol" [The Moon Shines Bright] and both came probably from the same original source. It is of great antiquity, and there are many variants of the words. Some of the verses given here (from Hone's The Every Day Book, Vol. I) were sung by my wife's mother and grandmother, who were of the Treloar family of Helston.
The carol may be sung to the tune on the preceding page [The Old Waits Carol, The Moon Shines Bright], or to the following beautiful one.
Dr. Dunstan also notes Tune: "Good-morrow 'tis St. Valentine's Day," a traditional melody sung by Ophelia in Shakespeare's HAMLET.
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What does ssk1 mean in knitting?
slip, slip, knit
::: how to work a SSK (slip, slip, knit) ::: Insert your left needle through the front of the 2 slipped stitches. 4. wrap your yarn around the right needle (it’s in behind) and pull the loop through both of the slipped stitches, knitting them together.
What does S2kp mean in knitting?
slip 2, k1, pass
S2kp is short for “slip 2, k1, pass slipped stitches over” and is also referred to as a Centered Double Decrease. You work an s2kp over three stitches, decrease two, and end up with one.
Is SSK the same as k2tog TBL?
K2tog-tbl does not produce the same result as SSK: with k2tog-tbl the stitches get twisted (they don’t in the SSK). The two stitches do look different. It’s more noticeable in some fabrics than others, and as long as you’re consistent it’s not a bad substitute. But it does NOT look the same.
Is SSK and SKP the same?
SKP is an easy left-leaning decrease that gives basically the same effect as an SSK or slip, slip, knit. You may see it used in combination with k2tog (knit two together) to produce symmetrical decreases on each side of your knitted object. Decreases are done to narrow or taper your knitting piece.
What does knit 2 together mean?
Knit two together is the most basic method of decreasing stitches. It makes a decrease that slants slightly to the right and is often abbreviated as K2Tog or k2tog in patterns. To “knit two together” is just like making a regular knit stitch, but you work through two stitches instead of just one.
What is the meaning SSP?
statutory sick pay
the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick. ▶ USAGE The abbreviation for statutory sick pay is SSP.
What is the difference between M1L and M1R?
Both the M1R and M1L are techniques that will increase your knitting by one stitch. The only difference is the direction of the increase. The M1R slants to the right, while the M1L slants to the left.
What does SSK mean in knitting?
“Slip Slip Knit”, or SSK, is a term often found in knitting patterns. It’s a common tool used to decrease two stitches on a stitch while knitting a row. Before learning the slip slip knit stitch, you should be familiar with the knit stitch and the slip stitch.
How do you SSK on a knitting machine?
To ssk you simply reduce the number of stitches in your row of knitting by slipping 2 stitches knitwise from your left-hand needle onto your right-hand needle. Then, you slide the tip of the left-hand needle into both of those stitches knitting them together.
How do you knit two stitches on a knitting needle?
Slip the left needle through both of the slipped stitches on the right needle, so that the left needle is in front and the right in back, as if you are going to knit. Pick up the yarn from behind the needles. Pull it between them as if you are knitting. Knit the two stitches.
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When dealing with cocaine addiction, many people fear going through detox. They may have concerns about what to expect during the cocaine withdrawal process. It’s common to feel a hesitancy based on fear and anxiety. However, by putting off what you need to do to deal with your cocaine addiction, you may slip into deeper addiction problems or even face an overdose. By understanding what to expect during cocaine withdrawal and seeking the proper cocaine addiction treatment, you can overcome these fears and get to a resolution.
Psychological Symptoms of Cocaine Withdrawal
Cocaine addiction has a strong psychological pull to it. If you’re using it regularly, you will be attached to it psychologically. It becomes a daily habit and routine. Some people feel attached to it like they do a “friend” in some ways. They use it to push out negative emotions. Some use cocaine to block out past trauma. Still others take cocaine to deal with the stress in their current life. For these reasons, cocaine gets a powerful psychological hold on them.
Consequently, part of the cocaine withdrawal process involves going through psychological symptoms, such as:
- Moodiness or irritability
- Anxiety and restlessness
- Depression and even suicidal thoughts
You’ll also experience strong psychological cravings. These will be cravings to soothe your emotional well-being as opposed to your physical state. Although the psychological symptoms of cocaine withdrawal are difficult to endure, with proper treatment programs, including addiction therapy, you can go through the process safely.
Physical Symptoms of Cocaine Withdrawal
The cocaine withdrawal process also affects your body. In other words, you will experience physical symptoms. When you’re using cocaine, your brain, central nervous system, and body are impacted by the substance. It makes sense that quitting this drug will lead to physical symptoms too.
Cocaine is a stimulant that increases the levels of chemicals in the brain that make you feel more alert. The brain’s naturally occurring chemical, dopamine, is enhanced while using cocaine. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that gives you a sense of well-being. So, when it’s increased or enhanced, it creates a “high.” This constant reward to the brain is interrupted when you quit taking cocaine, thus sending your body into the cocaine withdrawal process.
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- Slowed down thinking, which affects your ability to concentrate
- Nerve pain or muscle aches and pain
- Cravings for the drug that “feel” more physical
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Looking for some fun and free Halloween printable activities for kids? You’re in the right place! You’ll find all kinds of Halloween worksheets, printables, and more (created by me, teacher Cendu).
This post has a couple of fun and free spooky Halloween word search printable activity pages you can choose from with varying difficulty levels for kids of all ages. It’s the perfect activity to keep the kids busy and learning all at the same time.
A word search is a fantastic way to work on language, vocabulary, and visual discrimination. All important skills to our little learners.
These Halloween word search printables also make a great non-candy treat, just add a pencil or highlighter. I always put together a little goodie bag with all the free printable worksheets to make a fun Halloween activity book.
If you’d like to make your own, be sure to visit the other blog posts to get them all!
BENEFITS OF WORD SEARCH PUZZLES
Word search puzzles aren’t just fun for kids, they learn a lot too!
It lets our little learners work on new vocabulary in a fun way. It’s an easy way to learn spelling and new words. They begin to pick up pattern recognition and rules like a ‘U’ always follows a ‘Q’.
It also teaches students to figure out contextual clues because most word search puzzles revolve around a certain theme and all the words are related to that main theme.
Like when you hear Halloween, you think costumes, jack-o-lanterns, and trick or treating.
It’s also an easy way to reduce screen time! Word search puzzles are fun and entertaining. All you need is a puzzle and a pencil so kids can put away the iPad for a while.
These kinds of puzzles are beneficial for kids and grown-ups alike, you can read more about the benefits of word search puzzles in this news article if you’re interested.
HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH PDF – HOW TO PLAY
There are 3 different difficulty levels to choose from with your free printable Halloween word search. Choose from an easy, medium, or hard level.
The easy level is perfect for your younger learners in early elementary. We stick to short Halloween words and they’ll be found either horizontal or vertical and there won’t be any surprises like spelling backward.
The medium level is perfect for your older kiddos who may be around grades 3 and up. Here we’ll use horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions.
In the hard level, anything goes! You’ll find words spelled backward, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
Make sure to choose the right level for your child to make it just challenging enough and
MORE WAYS TO PLAY
If your child is looking for a challenge you can set a timer and see how many they can find in a set amount of time.
If there are more kiddos playing together (say in the classroom, or at a Halloween party) you can either have them play in pairs or compete against each other to see who will find them all first!
EASY HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH
Here’s our easy Halloween word search pdf! Perfect for your early elementary learners to work on their Halloween vocabulary. I’ve used this Halloween word search for kindergarten through to grade 1 or 2.
To print, simply click the download pdf under the image and it should open in a new window.
Click the print symbol in the top right and choose your printer.
EASY LARGE PRINT HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH
HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH FREE PRINTABLE – MEDIUM DIFFICULTY
Next up is the more difficult Halloween word search that’s perfect for mid-elementary and up. I usually use these with my grade 3 or older classes.
MEDIUM DIFFICULTY WORD SEARCH FOR KIDS
DIFFICULT HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH
The last one on the list is our more difficult Halloween word search that’s suitable for the older kids (I would say maybe grade 4 or 5 and up). This one has words in all directions and backward as well.
Plus there are 40 words to find!
Since this one is kind of a toughie I’ll include this advanced Halloween word search with answers.
Hard Halloween word search with answers
MORE HALLOWEEN THEMED POSTS
WRAPPING UP HALLOWEEN WORD SEACH ACTIVITY SHEETS
I hope you enjoy these free Halloween word search activity sheets! If you’re looking for more fun and free Halloween worksheets, be sure to check out some of the posts listed above.
My personal favorites are the super cute Halloween coloring pages. We love coloring them and hanging them around the classroom to spruce the place up.
Have yourselves a spooktacular Halloween!
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2017 was a whirlwind for the electric power sector.
The utility industry saw the death of two utility mega-projects, jaw-dropping prices for renewable energy and storage and a federal subsidy proposal that threatened to “blow up” the wholesale power markets.
And that was just the second half of the year.
2018 promises to be no different. From EPA speeding through a Clean Power Plan replacement to FERC's "truncated" resilience docket and the first federal pipeline policy review since 1999, the sector's plate is full even before state and local issues come into play.
Fortunately, events of the last year give a good indication of which issues are likely to dominate in 2018. Here's what we'll be watching.
Focus on resilience
Not a month into the new year and the sector's buzzword is resilience.
Utilities and regulators have long addressed resilience — the ability to bounce back from power outages — through resources like fast-start plants and microgrids. But the concept gained new significance in September when Secretary of Energy Rick Perry positioned it as a central justification for a proposed rule at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to subsidize coal and nuclear plants.
Perry's proposal would have lent cost recovery to merchant generators with 90 days of fuel supply onsite, a requirement that critics said was unrealistic, expensive and would do little to benefit the grid. One oft-cited analysis from the Rhodium Group showed that fuel security issues hardly added to customer outage hours in recent years — and those that did largely stemmed from a single coal plant
FERC largely agreed, writing in a 5-0 rejection that DOE and its allies failed to prove the fuel security provision would improve the grid. Regulators, however, lauded the DOE's focus on resilience, asking regional grid operators to report back in 60 days about how it can be enhanced. Perry "asked the right question," said Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, but "proposed the wrong remedy."
FERC's new grid resilience docket ensures that a main focus of the power sector in 2018 will be finding technologies and market rules that can drive down the customer outage hours. Industry stakeholders have 30 days to comment on the FERC docket after the grid operators' deadline, but the proceeding could well run longer, so expect a flurry of lobbying from power groups on how to value their "resiliency attributes" in the months to come.
Wholesale pricing reforms
Perry's proposal to save coal and nuclear plants filled the headlines in the last quarter of 2017, but regional grid operators have been working for years on more gradual pricing changes that could benefit the same resources.
Proposals working their way through markets like PJM, ISO-New England, MISO and others differ in construction, but have a similar aim: boost payments to existing generators in the face of low wholesale power prices. The goal is to ensure enough of these plants can recover their costs so they do not go offline, threatening reliability.
FERC held a technical conference last May on such solutions, and regulators hailed PJM and ISO-NE proposals in their rejection of the DOE grid rule, saying the pricing reforms could contribute to grid resilience. On the same day FERC issued that decision, ISO-NE filed its two-part capacity market proposal with the agency. PJM followed suit weeks later, submitting its capacity repricing proposal to FERC even before stakeholders voted on an alternative proposal.
Like ISO-NE's plan, PJM's would establish a two-part capacity auction. Generators would bid as they normally do in the first, then PJM would adjust awarded prices based on the amount of subsidized resources in the market. A separate proposal would boost energy market prices to benefit "inflexible" coal and nuclear generators.
The pricing reforms, however, are controversial. Environmental and consumer advocates label them as little more than an expensive ploy to bail out struggling generators that would typically retire in a competitive power market. An alternative proposal in PJM to expand the Minimum Offer Price Rule garnered more stakeholder support, but PJM staff rejected it, saying it would disrupt state power policies.
The new FERC resilience docket is likely to stoke these debates in 2018. With the DOE proposal off the table, look for owners of large coal and nuclear assets to push for swift changes in price formation this year to keep their plants online.
States act on carbon, fuel mix
Much of the focus on wholesale pricing reforms stems from state efforts to shape their fuel mixes. In power markets, high levels of resources subsidized or mandated by law can drive down the prevailing price, making it difficult for older, less flexible generators to recover costs.
The issue shows little sign of abating in 2018. Nuclear subsidies, the source of much derision in FERC's technical conference last year, are under consideration in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey, and the ones in place in Illinois and New York have so far stood firm against legal challenges.
State policies for renewable resources will also be a focus, particularly for liberal states keen to buck the Trump administration's pro-fossil energy policies. In New England, lawmakers are looking to offshore wind and hydro imports as an alternative to new gas infrastructure, and in California, lawmakers are poised to debate a bill that would set a 100% renewable energy target for utilities.
Other state initiatives are likely in 2018 and a key area to watch will be whether renewable and nuclear energy groups set aside their historic political differences to lobby for inclusive clean energy standards. A recent report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab shows there may be opportunity, as a number of states in recent years have moved to reform renewable energy mandates:
States are likely to make waves in carbon regulation as well. Early in January, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) released a carbon pricing plan that would start at $20/ton, and Virginia could soon become the first Southern state to regulate carbon by joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a nine-state (plus D.C.) cap-and-trade system.
Environmental regulations in flux
States have always shaped their fuel mixes and environmental policies, but a chief driver of the zeal in many blue states today is the consistent and coordinated effort across the Trump administration to loosen regulations on the energy sector.
In its first year, Trump appointees moved to review or rescind 60 environmental regulations and more than 30 at the EPA, including high-profile reversals of the Clean Power Plan, the Waters of the U.S. rule, methane regulations on oil and gas drilling, rules for coal ash disposal and more.
Not all the rollbacks found immediate success — the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out EPA's methane rule rollback in July — and liberal states and environmental groups will challenge the White House at every juncture. But administration officials are also changing the way agencies work. EPA administrator Scott Pruitt removed EPA-funded scientists from the agency's advisory boards, floated "red team/blue team" exercises to relitigate climate change and supported President Trump's proposal to cut the agency's budget by a third.
None of these activities are likely to wane in 2018. Pruitt will try to finalize the EPA's rewrite of the Clean Power Plan this year so it can be defended by Trump’s legal team during his first term, Politico reported last month. That's a strategy the administration could deploy for a number of major regulations.
To the White House's supporters, including many generation and mining interests, these moves represent a necessary reset after eight years of regulatory overreach from the Obama administration. But at regulated utilities, the efforts to cut carbon regulations may not go over as well:
Pipeline politics heat up
All regulatory debates in 2018 promise to be contentious, but only one promises to take on a novel dimension.
On Dec. 21, new FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre announced the agency would conduct its first pipeline policy review since 1999, saying it was time for a "fresh look" at how regulators judge the "value and viability" of project applications.
The decision comes during boom times for the natural gas industry and unprecedented public opposition to its infrastructure. FERC has only rejected two pipelines in the last 30 years, and despite being without a quorum for six months in 2017 approved more than 1,600 miles of pipelines.
Anti-pipeline groups say FERC is a rubber stamp for pipeline approvals, granting project approvals with little regard to state preference or impacts on communities and the environment. Regulators argue they are authorized by law to evaluate project need, not environmental impacts, and must authorize projects that can serve market demand.
That could be about to change. Democratic FERC Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur and Richard Glick have both expressed skepticism with FERC's current evaluation process, particularly how FERC assesses market need. Republican Commissioners Robert Powelson and Chatterjee see no reason to change the process, and Chairman Kevin McIntyre has so far been tight-lipped about his views.
But with three Republican Trump appointees on the commission, actions to streamline pipeline approval processes are more likely than new environmental rules. Chatterjee and Powelson have voiced support for shortening approval timelines though McIntyre's perspective remains unclear here as well.
However the argument turns, the pipeline review promises to be a banner issue for FERC in 2018, and the policies it produces will shape energy infrastructure decisions for years to come.
Gas generation continues its rise
FERC's pipeline review comes as natural gas solidifies its role as the top U.S. generation fuel.
Gas-fired plants first produced more power than coal on a monthly basis in April 2015. In 2016, gas surpassed coal for annual generation for the first time.
Gas is likely to widen that gap in 2018. The Energy Information Administration expects gas to generate 33.1% of U.S. electricity this year to coal's 29.6%. In 2019, gas's share grows to 34.3% as coal falls to nearly 28%.
Much of gas generation's competitiveness in wholesale markets comes from historically low natural gas prices due to advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. In 2018, EIA expects prices to fall. The agency estimates Henry Hub spot prices will average $2.88/MMBtu in 2018 and $2.92/MMBtu in 2019. The average price in 2017 was $2.99/MMBtu.
Low gas prices kept wholesale power market prices low throughout most of 2017, fueling pricing reform discussions at regional grid operators and driving the DOE to propose a controversial cost recovery package for coal and nuclear plants. Those pricing reform discussions will likely be a focus after FERC rejected the DOE plan.
Renewable energy faces speed bumps
Renewable energy enters the year with momentum. Wind, solar and hydro beat out nuclear generation for two months in 2017 thanks to flush hydro reserves, and the most recent numbers from consulting firm Lazard show renewables are at grid parity across large swaths of the country
In addition 2017 was witness to some eye-popping power contracts for large renewables and storage. In Xcel's all-source solicitation, which received bids last year, the median wind-plus-storage bid was $21/MWh and the median bid for solar-plus storage was $36/MWh. Previously, the lowest known bid for similar solar resources was $45/MWh in Arizona, released in May of 2017.
Economies of scale and the preservation of federal tax incentives in the GOP tax overhaul would typically mean renewable energy prices would continue to decline, but other policy changes threaten to slow the sector's progress.
President Trump in January imposed a 30% tariff on imported solar cells and modules, expected to reduce solar deployment 11%, or 7.6 GW, in the next four years. And the wind sector faces some uncertainty over a provision in the Republican tax law that could hamper the tax equity market used to finance projects. How the sector responds to these new policy challenges will say much about resource deployment in the coming years.
Storage becomes a mature power resource
Like renewable energy, battery storage is in the midst of rapid price declines and a growing appreciation among utilities across the country. But unlike renewables, it does not face any overwhelming federal policy roadblocks — if anything, the opposite.
Buried beneath all of FERC’s resilience and price formation work is a proposed rulemaking to define market roles for energy storage — a proceeding commissioners have pledged to move this year. That could allow batteries to play a larger role in wholesale power markets where they so far have gained little traction.
But regardless of federal progress, energy storage is fast becoming a central part of utility planning processes in all types of markets. 2017 was the first year storage was widely included in utility Integrated Resource Plans, from Indiana and North Carolina to Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon.
The growing acceptance of storage comes as utilities gain confidence in its ability to replace traditional power infrastructure. In August 2017, Arizona Public Service announced it would use 8 MWh of batteries to defer a remote transmission upgrade. Then, in January, California regulators took the unprecedented step of asking Pacific Gas and Electric to consider how storage and other zero-carbon resources could replace three gas peaking plants. That order came after large battery arrays were quickly deployed to help mitigate for a natural gas shortage outside of Los Angeles.
The utility business is a notoriously cautious one, with many companies opting to adopt technologies once they're proven by other entities. With increasing numbers of power providers demonstrating the potential of battery storage, 2018 could be the year it becomes a mature resource.
DERs prove their system worth
Similar to storage, distributed energy resources (DERs) are positioned to gain broad utility acceptance in 2018.
Long envisioned as a threat to reliability and finances, a number of utilities are realizing the potential of DERs to solve system needs usually reserved for bulk power assets like plants and transformers. In July, ConEd announced it would expand the best known of these non-wire alternatives (NWAs) — the Brooklyn-Queens Neighborhood Program — after deferring a $1.2 billion substation upgrade with 52 MW of demand reductions and 17 MW of distributed resource investments.
ConEd's project is well known partly due to the visibility of New York's regulatory reform proceeding, Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), but DERs are assisting utility operations across the country. In May, the Bonneville Power Association announced it would not build an 80-mile transmission line, instead turning to distributed energy, storage and demand reductions. In California, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) each have multiple NWAs to address load growth and generation retirement.
Utilities across the nation are still figuring out how best to get into the distributed energy business, but survey results indicate the vast majority are trying to figure it out:
As utilities gain greater familiarity with DERs, 2018 could be the year they truly come to see them as grid assets, rather than liabilities.
State regulators push PBR — and the utility model begins to change
A chief driver of utility interest in non-wire alternatives is a trend in utility regulation away from traditional cost-of-service ratemaking and toward more performance-based regulation (PBR).
New York's REV docket is the most well-known of these proceedings, but California had been implementing PBR standards since the mid-aughts, and investigations into PBR are active in Ohio, Rhode Island, Minnesota, D.C. and elsewhere.
Each state gives its flavor to the debate, but the aim is similar: devise ways to compensate utilities for new energy services, like efficiency or DER deployment, that do not fit into the traditional utility ratemaking model. In places like New York, regulators are devising new markets for utility services and incentives for customer outcomes like efficiency, while in California the commission has relied more on mandates and enforcement.
In the year ahead, PBR efforts could gain momentum from the push for grid resilience. A chief motivator behind the establishment of New York's REV was to incentivize the deployment of DERs like microgrids to enhance the grid’s durability. As more states look to beef up their power systems, commissions could turn to PBR to help them make a sturdier system.
If that happens, utilities could see their traditional rate-based revenues decline over time, replaced by new revenues from market-based activities and performance incentives. That could leave utilities in future decades quite a different business model from today:
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The Daly City Earthquake of 1957:
What Does it Tell Us?
Richard Marsden graduated with honors from Churchill College,
University of Cambridge, with a degree in Natural Sciences (Geological).
He also holds a Masters Degree from the University of Durham. It was as
part of this that he worked with Drs. Mary Lou Zoback and Bruce Julian at
the U.S. Geological
Survey, Menlo Park, California, on the Daly City Earthquake of 1957. A
paper about the earthquake was presented to the Fall 1995 meeting of the
American Geophysical Union. The abstract can be
found on his homepage.
As a keen amateur astronomer, Richard served on the Committee of the
Cambridge University Astronomy Society in its 50th and 51st years.
Richard is also a major author of the CADIE
project - an
educational computer tool for diabetics. He currently works and lives in Houston, Texas.
On 22 March 1957, the San Francisco Peninsula was rocked by an
centered in the Daly City area that caused damage in Westlake District of
and some damage in San Francisco.
Although only magnitude 5.3, this was the
largest earthquake on the Peninsula since 1906.
Recent work which has attempted to find the epicenter of the 1906 San
earthquake has suggested an epicenter on or near the Peninsula.
Originally, this epicenter was thought to be at Point Reyes, but work using
distant seismograms suggests a more southerly epicenter.
Because it now appears that the Daly City earthquake occurred in the
where the 1906 earthquake was centered, the 1957 event suddenly becomes
more important for scientists, as well as the people who live and work in
Unfortunately, the seismometers then in place in and around the San
were not as numerous as they are now, so the earthquake mechanism data
derived from 1957 seismic recordings were not conclusive.
What is an earthquake mechanism?
The vast majority of earthquakes are due to blocks of rock which slide
planes. An earthquake mechanism merely describes the orientation of the
which the earthquake moved.
By analysis of seismograms after an earthquake, it is possible to discover
orientation of the plane. Usually, it is assumed the earthquake occurred
at a point - the focus. The epicenter is the point lying on the Earths
surface, directly above the focus. Because the earthquake mechanism is just
this point, the mechanism is often called a focal mechanism.
This is extremely useful, because scientists can then characterize particular
earthquakes. This, in turn, allows us to work out why earthquakes happen.
There are three main kinds of earthquake mechanism:
1.) Strike-slip (Transform or Sliding) Faults
In these, the fault plane is vertical or near vertical, and the motion of one
block is in a horizontal direction parallel to the plane.
The most famous example is that of the main San Andreas Fault. In the
the west (Pacific) side moved north relative to east (California) side. There
is little or no vertical movement on the fault, although the surface may
local slumping and slippage.
These faults typically occur when a plate is moving sideways relative to an
adjoining one (eg. Pacific and North American Plates). They also occur
mid-ocean ridges (eg. central Atlantic), and combined with other fault
(Kobe 1995 occurred on a transform fault).
2.) Compressional (Thrust) Faults
These occur where forces are pushing two blocks of rock together. The fault
plane will be dipping, with the upper (Hanging Wall) block overriding
lower (Foot Wall) block.
These faults typically occur in mountain ranges where the thrusting of
causes mountain uplift (eg. Himalayas and Alps), or in subduction zones
Due to the compression, the crust tends to thicken, hence it is no
that most areas of compressional faulting are of relatively high terrain.
3.) Extensional, or Normal Faults
These occur where rocks are being stretched. Again, there is a dipping
but the upper (Hanging Wall) block moves down.
These are often likened to dominos leaning against one another.
This effect can be seen in Nevada, where the faults form the steep sides of
Due to the stretching, the crust tends to thin, so areas experiencing
extensional faulting tend to be low-lying. About 100 to 200 million
this occurred in the North Sea. This provided an ideal environment for oil
formation, and the area is still below sea level.
Extensional faults are also very common along mid-ocean ridges.
So what was the Daly City Earthquake? you ask. Because the San
fault is predominately a transform fault, we would expect a
mechanism like that of the 1906 event and most other San Andrean
even though it was only a moderately-sized earthquake.
Initial work immediately after the 1957 earthquake showed that this was
Unfortunately, the earthquake was limited in size, so records were limited.
During the summer on 1995, I worked with Dr. Mary Lou Zoback
and Dr. Bruce
Julian from the U.S. Geological Survey at Menlo Park, with help and using
methods developed by
Dr. Doug Dreger at U.C. Berkeley. We attempted to get all the records
extant. These data were combined with modern seismic-wave
to the better seismograms, to so reduce the number of possible earthquake
We decided that the most likely mechanism was that of an extensional
Isnt this a bit strange?
At first sight it might be, but there are a number of pieces of evidence that
tell us that we should expect some extensional faulting near Daly City:
1.) In recent years, a dense
network of seismometers has operated in the San Francisco Bay region.
This network picks up hundreds of small earthquakes the vast majority
too small to feel. Along the San Andreas fault, two clusters are of note. In
the Santa Cruz mountains, there is a cluster of compressional
events related to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Another, smaller
cluster, lies in the Daly City. These are predominately extensional faults.
2.) The San Andreas fault is not dead straight, but has a number of small
kinks. Curving of strike-slip faults would be expected to lead to
extension faulting. In the Santa Cruz
mountains, the fault curves slightly to the left, whilst along the Golden Gate
section, it curves slightly to the
right. The Pacific plate is moving northwards, so it hits the American
in the Santa Cruz mountains, but moves away from it in the Golden Gate
This is why compression faults are seen in the Santa Cruz mountains, whilst
extensional faults are seen in the Daly City region. In fact, the Loma Prieta
earthquake was caused by a combination of compressional and strike-
3.) This also explains the topography. Compressional faulting occurs in the
Santa Cruz mountains, hence the crust thickens, and mountains form. In the
City region, faulting is extensional, so the crust thins, hence the fault drops
below sea level.
This is a 44K WAV file
audio recording of the 1957 Daly City Earthquake.
The original is from a Benioff seismometer (T0=1sec, Tg=90sec)
recording made at the PAS (Pasadena) station 540 km [336 miles] from the
epicenter. This may sound like a long-period instrument, but it is
actually one of the shorter recordings that could be found. The original is a
paper (analog) record, later scanned at the University of California
Berkeley, and digitized at U.S.G.S., Menlo Park.
This recording is unfiltered, but speeded up 134 timesrelative to
real-timeto make it audible. The recording, therefore, does not
sound very realistic with small PC speakers. It does sound surprisingly
authentic when played through a medium-to-low-end
high-fidelity amplifier. For best effect, set the bass control to full. The
results should allow you to hear the recorded 1957 earthquake vibrations
from the eaves of a four-story building, to the basement.
You may also experience the 1957 earthquake at the shake-table
located at the California Academy of Sciences Museum of Science and
Natural History in Golden Gate Park.
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I would invite you to open the Word of God again to the first chapter of the gospel of Luke. As you know, the four Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – record the arrival and the life and death and resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. His story is told by all four writers. Luke in particular is the one who details for us the story of the angelic visitor who comes to Zacharias and Elizabeth and tells them that even though they have been unable to have children because of her barrenness and they are now in their old age, much like Abraham and Sarah, the Lord is going to allow for a miraculous birth, and from them will come the first prophet in four hundred years and the greatest prophet of all prophets. In fact, our Lord said the greatest man who had ever lived, this man called John, who later became known as John the Baptist. And he was the forerunner of the Messiah, as we read. His job was to make the way ready for the arrival of the Messiah by gathering the people, preparing their hearts so that they would be ready when the Messiah came.
Now we have come through the account of Luke all the way down to verse 67 of Luke 1. At that point, Zacharias now has his voice back and he begins in verse 64 to speak in praise of God, that God had indeed given them a son whose name is John which means gift of God. Zacharias, according to verse 67, was then filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied – not the idea of predicting the future, but the word simply means to speak on behalf of God.
“So Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to say the following words,” – let’s follow them, verse 68 – ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant – as He spoke by the mouth of the holy prophets from of old – salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; to show mercy toward our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant, the oath which He swore to Abraham our father, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways; to give to His people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the Sunrise from on high will visit us, to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.”
What you have here from Zacharias is essentially a song. It’s a song. And that’s what people do when they celebrate. We are familiar with that because Christmas is filled with music, song upon song upon song, and we never get enough. It is natural for people to sing when they’re happy, and at the greatest occasion in all of human history it’s little wonder that so much music is identified with the coming of the Savior.
But this is nothing new really for the people of God. Songs of praise are all over the Bible. In fact, the book of Psalms is a book of songs, a hundred and fifty songs that the children of Israel would sing – songs of worship, songs of praise, songs of petition, songs reciting history, songs of confession, songs of joy, songs of sadness. They expressed everything in their lives in song, and God gave them a songbook to sing so that their songs they’re singing would be accurate. But again, much of the Psalms is joy and praise to God for what He has done.
And again, that is not even new. If you go back to the book of Exodus, you will find that Moses and the Israelites, when they had passed through the Red Sea that God had parted, they went through safely, and then the water closed and drowned Pharaoh. Upon getting to the other side safely, Exodus 15:1 records these words: “I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and the rider He has thrown into the sea.” It was a song of deliverance because God had brought through the children of Israel and drowned Pharaoh’s pursuing army behind them. They sang a song of deliverance, a song of salvation from the Egyptian force.
A little bit later in the book of Judges, again we find Deborah and Barak, two of the judges that God used to rescue Israel from surrounding and vicious Pagans. And when God had declared His victory, they burst forth in praise. Essentially it’s a Deborah and Barak duet that proclaims the strength of God in delivering His people, Judges chapter 5. It goes all the way for thirty-one verses, this song of deliverance.
And then there was Hannah who had been delivered from the stigma of not having a child, and the Lord had promised to give her a child and had given her Samuel, and she sings in response to that deliverance from that stigma, 1 Samuel chapter 2, the opening ten verses – you can read them. It’s her song of praise. Solomon had a great choir for the temple, a choir to sing praise to God – praise for God’s glory, praise for God’s deliverance and salvation. And when the shekinah glory entered into the temple, you remember all the trumpeters showed up and all the singers showed up and they began to praise the Lord with thanksgiving for all He had done for Israel, and you see that in 2 Chronicles chapter 5.
And then you add to that – there are many other songs that I skipped over, even some back in the book of Genesis. But it seems as though very often in the early years of Israel’s history, they punctuated significant action by God with songs. And whenever they came together to worship they would sing, and much of what they would sing, of course, came from the Psalms. The dominant theme in their singing and the dominant theme even in the Psalms is God’s deliverance, God’s salvation. In fact, through the Psalms you find the expression “new song” a number of times. And the new song all through the Psalms is always the song of salvation, the song of deliverance. “God has seen us in our situation, the dire reality of it, and God has delivered us,” the song of deliverance, the song of salvation.
By the way, we read the first chapter of Luke and we did not read Mary’s Magnificat, verses 46 to 55 of chapter 1, but that too is a song. Mary is offering a song, a song of praise to God for sending salvation through the very Child that she would bear. She says, verse 46, “My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.” Salvation again. God has sent through her a Savior. So much of our singing is connected to our salvation. In fact, we could argue that were there no salvation there would be no singing. Salvation is the heart and soul, the core reality that gives us all our Christian music.
And it wasn’t just the people who sang in the times of deliverance. Occasionally there was a heavenly choir as well, such as at the birth of our Lord Jesus. Luke 2, look at verse 13: “Suddenly there appeared with the angel” – who appeared to the shepherds – “a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.’” And we heard all the glorias, didn’t we, sung so beautifully this morning. The angels joined the celebration, and the angels offer glory to God because of the arrival of the Savior and thus the arrival of salvation.
Even Simeon, down in chapter 2 of Luke’s gospel and verse 25, is at the temple. And when Mary and Joseph bring the child there for the celebration and the ceremony of purification for the new Child, this man Simeon is introduced to us in verse 25. “This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law, then he took Him into his arms, and blessed God and said,” – and here this appears to be a short song – ‘Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of Your people Israel.’” A short song, a solo, if you will, from Simeon at the arrival of the Messiah.
There’s no greater joy than salvation. We understand that, right; that’s the greatest reality. Nothing else would matter if we were lost in sin and facing divine judgment. We need salvation. That is why when you go to heaven in the fifth chapter of Revelation you come to the end of the New Testament and you listen for what is going on in heaven. According to Revelation chapter 5, this is what you would hear: “And they sang a new song saying, ‘Worthy are You to take the book and break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.’ And then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’”
And so in heaven they’re singing the hallelujah chorus. They’re singing Handel’s Messiah with all the glorias and the declarations of salvation. We will always sing the song of salvation. And as I said, all the music of Christianity is based on our salvation. If we were not saved, if we were still in our sins, there would be nothing to sing about. So Luke actually opens his gospel with five songs, as the celebration expresses praise for salvation having arrived – promised, yes, for a long time, but actually arrived in the announcement of a prophet to announce the coming of the Savior and the announcement to Mary that the Savior would be born.
The Old Testament ended with a promise. The book of Malachi, the promise comes in the last chapter: “The Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in His beams.” And the curtain goes black at the end of the Old Testament and it stays that way for four hundred years. For four hundred years there’s no prophet, there’s no word from heaven, there’s no revelation. But the last word is echoing in the ears of the people of God, “The Sun of Righteousness, the Messiah will arise with healing in His beams.” Four hundred years have gone by and the darkness remains, until this monumental time when Gabriel comes from heaven and announces the coming of a forerunner, and then announces the arrival of the Savior, the Messiah Himself. The salvation of God was to break out very soon on Israel and on the world. The light was only a few decades away when the announcements came to Zacharias, Elizabeth, and Joseph and Mary.
In the text before us then we hear from Zacharias the joy of his heart over the arrival of the promised Savior. And Zacharias knows that if he’s going to have a son and this son’s name is John and the son’s duty is to be the forerunner of the Messiah, then Zacharias knows the Messiah is coming soon. And in fact, Elizabeth and Mary, Elizabeth bearing John and Mary bearing Jesus, meet together. They were born only months apart. And when John had grown to manhood, he went into the wilderness and began to prophesy the coming of Messiah. And soon the Messiah showed up, and John pointed to Him, said, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” This is a glorious moment, and Zacharias understands it fully.
I remember years ago talking to a Jewish rabbi who said to me, “I admit I don’t understand the New Testament. I don’t have any knowledge of it. I’ve spent my whole life studying the Old Testament. What would be the most help to me in understanding the New Testament and its relation to the Old, how they are connected if, in fact, they are?” And I said, “It’s not really difficult. Would you believe the testimony of an Old Testament priest, like an Old Testament rabbi, an Old Testament scholar, a scholar in the Old Testament who had spent his long life studying the Old Testament? Would you believe his testimony about the meaning of the arrival of the Savior Jesus Christ?”
And he said, “Well, I would be more prone to believe the testimony of an Old Testament priest or rabbi.” So I said, “Well then, I would like to introduce you to one. His name is Zacharias. He’s an Old Testament man. He’s been declared righteous by faith. He’s a man whose life is marked by blameless behavior before God. He’s a true worshiper. He’s a teacher of the Old Testament. And if you want to know how an Old Testament priest views the arrival of Jesus, here it is; he’s given it to us in the first chapter of Luke.”
At that time, I had been going through the gospel of Luke, and so I had about, I don’t know, seven or eight messages on this passage. I sent them all to him, and I said, “This is how you’re going to know the significance of the New Testament.” I had hoped to hear from him. I heard nothing except a thank you for sending those things, nothing beyond that. But this is the testimony of an Old Testament priest to the reality of the arrival of Messiah.
Now down in verse 76, Zacharias does make reference to his own son, who will be the prophet of the Most High. “You, child,” – he’s speaking now to the little infant John – “will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways.” And he borrows that from Malachi where there’s a promise of a prophet who would come, and he would be in the spirit and power of a prophet like Elijah, and he would prepare the people for the arrival of the Messiah. So he does make reference to his son in verse 76. But the rest of this Benedictus – as it’s been called because of the word “blessed,” which is the beginning word of it – the rest of it focuses past John to the arrival of the Messiah Himself.
Zacharias understands that this is a time to praise God for the salvation that will come through the Messiah. This is such a joyous occasion in the mind of Zacharias that he says nothing about judgment at all, nothing at all about judgment. Even in Mary’s Magnificat there are comments about judgment, verse 52: “He brought down rulers from their thrones. He sent away the rich empty-handed.” But there are no such references to judgment in the song of Zacharias. This is pure praise. With the birth of John, John’s father knew Messiah was near; and that was validated, of course, when Elizabeth and Mary met, and the Lord Jesus was soon born.
Now I want you to take a look at this from his perspective as an Old Testament priest. He knew that there were three very important promises that essentially laid out God’s pledge for the future of Israel’s salvation and the world. And he, by the way, understood that it was not just Israel, but it was far beyond that; it was the world. There were three promises. One was made to David, one was made to Abraham, and one was made to the prophets, in particular, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. And so, as Zacharias begins his praise, he identifies the fact that the Messiah’s arrival is a fulfillment of a promise to David – and you’ll see David’s name in verse 69 – and then that it is a promise made to Abraham being fulfilled – Abraham’s name is in verse 73. And then finally, in verse 77, it is a promise fulfilled to give the people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins, which promise was given to the prophets, particularly Ezekiel and Jeremiah. So the view of Zachariah or Zacharias is this is fulfillment of specific Old Testament promises. This is so very, very important, critical for Jewish people to understand that the story does not end at the last book of the Old Testament. It doesn’t end with promises unfulfilled. The New Testament is the revelation of the promises fulfilled in Christ.
Let’s look together at verse 67: “His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and preached or prophesied, saying, ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel.’” This is why it’s called a Benedictus, pronouncing a blessing. He is filled with joy, filled with gratitude, as well as being filled with the Holy Spirit. This was very common for Jewish people to say, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel.” You find it scattered throughout the Psalms. You find it in other places like 1 Kings chapter 1, verse 48, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel.” And this is a Jewish expression, very familiar to a Jewish priest. He blesses God because he sees the coming of Messiah as the fulfillment of God’s promises. He says this: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us. He has visited us.” He anticipates the arrival of Messiah as if it’s already happened, puts it in the past tense.
Now in the Old Testament you have God visiting. Occasionally God visits in judgment, God visits in wrath, like in Exodus 32. Sometimes God visits for gracious purposes such as in Exodus 4 or the book of Ruth chapter 1, verse 6. But a visit from God was always monumental, whether it was for judgment or for an expression of grace. It’s a very common Old Testament term. It literally means to visit as if someone showed up to be in your presence for some important purpose. God showed up. God showed up when Jesus came. God showed up when Gabriel came to Zacharias and Elizabeth. God had arrived in history. Decades had gone by, centuries had gone by, millennia had gone by, people waiting and waiting and waiting for God to arrive. And finally, He comes.
Why did He come? Back to verse 68: “He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people.” He accomplished redemption for His people. That’s what His people were looking for. Over in chapter 2 and verse 38, this is Anna who was advanced in years. She lived with her husband seven years, verse 36, after her marriage, then he died. She became a widow until she was eighty-four, seventy-seven years a widow. “She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers. At that very moment” – when Jesus was taken to the temple and she happened to be there – “she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.”
They were all looking for the redemption. They were looking to be redeemed, the true and faithful, godly ones. They wanted redemption. They wanted to be bought back from the bondage of sin. They wanted to be rescued. Redemption is to rescue at a cost, in fact, a very high price.
She along with other faithful, godly Jews were waiting for redemption, and Zacharias sees it. God has come and accomplished redemption for His people. Birth of John then signals the arrival soon of Messiah, and that means God will show up to rescue His people to purchase them back from sin and death and judgment and hell. And God had shown great power to redeem, and the touchstone for that was the Egyptian display of divine power. He had rescued them after 430 years of bondage in Egypt in miraculous ways through the plagues and the exodus and the dividing of the Red Sea and all the miracles in the wilderness. Psalm 106, by the way, is a celebration of that rescue.
So God is a Savior, God is a deliverer, God is a rescuer of His people. And now He has come to redeem His people, and through them to bring redemption to the world. And how will He do that? How will God accomplish redemption? Verse 69: “He has raised up a horn of salvation for us. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us.”
“Horn” here not in the sense of trumpets or trombones, French horns – as you heard this morning – but in the sense of an animal. When the Jewish people talked about strength, they would speak, as a figure of speech or kind of a metaphor, of animal power. And the power of an animal basically was in its horns, its ability to do killing damage. So a horn became an expression for power; and you see that very often in the Old Testament. For example, numbers of times in the Old Testament we read this statement: “The Lord is the horn of my salvation. The Lord is the horn of my salvation.” It means the strength, the power of my salvation.
Psalm 132:17, “I will cause the horn of David to spring forth.” Wow. What is the horn of David? That is the Messiah who comes in the line of David. And that’s exactly what you have here. That’s from 132:17 in the Psalms. And here, Zacharias says, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people.” And how? “He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant.” This is essentially to say what Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 50, verse 34, that our Redeemer is strong, our Redeemer is strong.
Redemption will come. Redemption will come through a powerful, powerful Redeemer. This Redeemer comes to save. And I need to just stop and add a footnote here. That’s why Jesus came. “Call Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” That’s why He came. The problem was the people of Israel in general, except the faithful remnant like Anna and Simeon, and Mary and Joseph, and Zacharias and Elizabeth, and all the others waiting for redemption in Israel. They knew they needed to be redeemed. The rest of the population didn’t think they needed a Redeemer at all; all they wanted was a king. They were ready to receive the kingdom, they were secure in their own self-righteousness.
Luke wants to make it crystal clear that Jesus didn’t come to be a king over people who were already righteous, but He came to be a Redeemer for people who were in bondage to sin and death and judgment and hell. In fact, Luke makes such an issue out of the fact that Jesus came to save that over thirty times he refers the person and work of Jesus as a saving work, or Jesus, in specific, as a Savior, more than any other gospel. And it’s Luke who says, “The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” That is why He came, and that is what set Jesus on a collision course with the self-righteous that ultimately caused them to reject Him and send Him to the Romans to be executed. Zacharias knows that the Messiah comes as a Savior, as a Redeemer, to redeem His people back from the bondage of sin and death and judgment and hell. In order to do that, He has to be a mighty Savior.
And again, Mary understood that. Mary said, “My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.” Listen, even Mary knew she needed a Savior. She was not sinless, she was not virgin-born. She was a sinner like every other human being; she needed a Savior. “My Savior is coming,” she said.
So we now know the theme of Mary’s praise and the theme of Zacharias’ praise. It is, again, a song of salvation, like so many other songs throughout the Old Testament. A mighty Redeemer has come. And before the Redeemer begins His ministry, His forerunner will go out to make the way for Him to come. Zacharias’ son John will be the prophet who announces His arrival, as it says in verse 76, “to prepare the way for the Lord.”
Now Zacharias understands this very important reality, and this is what I want you to draw from this beautiful, beautiful, magnificent song of salvation. He understands that it is a fulfillment of promises made to David, promises made to Abraham, and promises made to the prophets. This is what connects the New Testament to the Old Testament. Zacharias builds the bridge for us.
First, he says, this Savior comes in the house of David – end of verse 69 – God’s servant. He is in the line of David. That’s why Matthew begins, “Jesus was the son of David.” The Redeemer, the Horn, the Messiah will be from the house of David. Zacharias knows that it’s not John. John’s not the Messiah because he, Zacharias, is from the house of Aaron; that’s the priestly line. And his wife Elizabeth, as I read, also from the house of Aaron. John, therefore, is a descendent of Aaron by both parents and not from David; so he knows he’s not talking about his son John. John is the prophet, the announcer.
The Messiah, according to Psalm 132:17, will be the horn of David. The Savior was to be born in the royal line of David. And why is that so important? Because back in 2 Samuel 7, God said in verse 16 to David, “You will have a greater son who will reign on your throne everlastingly, eternally, in a kingdom that will never end.” This was not Solomon, this was the Messiah far down in history but in the line of David. That’s why Matthew gives a genealogy of Joseph, showing he comes from David’s line. And we have also in Luke a genealogy of Mary who came also from David’s line. So the Messiah was born. Bloodline: Mary from David. And right to rule, you could say, was past down even through His adopted father Joseph. The Messiah will come to fulfill the promise of a Son of David to reign on the throne of Israel. And it would be beyond that; He would reign over the whole world.
Go back to chapter 1 and verse 31. When Gabriel comes to Mary, he says to her, verse 31, “You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus,” which means Savior. “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” Verse 35 he adds, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.” Son of God, Son of the Most High, Son of David. Messiah has to be in David’s line. Psalm 89 – I read that to you a little bit last week – declares this as well.
But Psalm 2 tells us that His rule does not end just with the Jewish people. It’s the line of David, and He rules over Israel. But it’s beyond that. Listen to Psalm 2: “Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing?” – talking about the nations. “And the kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Messiah, saying, ‘Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!’ He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them. Then He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury, saying, ‘But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.’” God installing His Son the Messiah as King. And then He goes on to say, “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.’” He not only comes as a King over Israel, He not only comes as a King over Jerusalem, He comes as King of the whole world. He has an eternal and boundless kingdom.
So Zacharias understands that the Messiah’s arrival is for the purpose of salvation. “Salvation” – according to verse 71 – “from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.” He comes to deliver His people. He comes to be a Deliverer, and then a Sovereign who will not only rule over Israel, but He will extend His rule over the entire world. That’s the promise of the Old Testament. The Child is the King of kings.
And then starting in verse 72, Zacharias takes a look at the second promise and covenant that is fulfilled. “He comes to show mercy toward our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant, the oath which He swore to Abraham our father, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.” He comes not only to be a Sovereign over us, but He comes to be the object of our worship, the object of our affection, and the source of our holiness and righteousness.
This is referring back to Abraham. “God made a holy covenant” – verse 72 – “based on His mercy toward our fathers,” Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the fathers. God gave the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 that He would have a people come from the loins of Abraham. They would be a people that would spread across the earth, they would be a blessing to the nations of the world; they would have a land. They would have blessing, they would become a blessing. A little later in the book of Genesis we find out that this covenant also includes a Redeemer, and that is graphically predicted in Genesis 22, where God tells Abraham to go slay his son Isaac. And then as he’s about to do that, God says, “Stop, I have a substitute,” and brings out an animal to be slain in the place of Isaac. And God is saying there will be a divine substitute, a sacrifice who will suffer death on behalf of God’s covenant people.
So it is a covenant of salvation. It is a covenant of redemption, as illustrated even by the Abraham and Isaac incident in chapter 22. This is because God is merciful and He sends the one who is the descendant of Abraham. That’s why Matthew 1 says He’s not only Son of David, He’s a Son of Abraham, to grant us to be rescued from the hand of our enemies, so that we could serve Him without fear and holiness and righteousness before Him all our days. He will not just rule over us, He will provide holiness in us. He will provide righteousness, covering us. This speaks of the fullness of salvation, that it’s an imputed righteousness that’s over us, and it’s a righteousness and holiness that’s in us. This is fulfilling the redemptive aspects of the Abrahamic covenant, to grant us salvation from our enemies.
David promised that there would come a Ruler, a King, and His kingdom would extend over the whole world. And that sovereign rule would be a kingdom in which we would all dwell who know Him and love Him. Through Abraham’s promise that there would be for all of us in that kingdom a transformation so that we would be literally covered by righteousness through faith as Abraham was. “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.” We would have an imputed righteousness, and we would also be converted so that there would be holiness and righteousness within, and we would become true worshipers, serving the Lord without fear. So the Messiah was going to bring the promise of a Sovereign Ruler and the promise of a Savior who would totally transform us from sinners into those who are righteous.
There’s a third covenant in the mind of Zacharias down in verse 77. “The Messiah will come, the Horn will come, to give His people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.” This is the first time this is mentioned. The Davidic covenant doesn’t talk about forgiveness. The Abrahamic covenant doesn’t talk about forgiveness, it talks about the sovereignty of God and the rule of Messiah over the world in the Davidic promise; it talks about a righteousness and transformation in the Abrahamic covenant. But now we’re talking about forgiveness.
Where did Zacharias find that? Go back to Jeremiah 31. Back to Jeremiah 31. And I’m just giving kind of the broad view to you. But in Jeremiah 31, verse 31 comes the most important of all Old Testament covenants: the new covenant. Verse 31: “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. Not like the Mosaic covenant. No, the Mosaic covenant was simply this: “Here’s the law: you obey it, you’re blessed; you disobey it, you’re cursed.”
There’s coming a new covenant, not like that one, not like a covenant that requires obedience or death. There’s a new covenant, a new promise. What is the character of this new promise? Verse 34: “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” That’s the new covenant. The new covenant promises forgiveness of sins. So Zacharias understands that the Davidic covenant is being fulfilled in that a King is coming. The Abrahamic covenant is being fulfilled in that a substitutionary Redeemer is coming. And now he says there is the reality that the knowledge of salvation depends on the forgiveness of sin. So this is the fulfillment of the new covenant, when our sins will be completely forgiven.
We can’t overlook Ezekiel commenting on this, in Ezekiel 36, as he receives revelation from God. He says, verse 24 of Ezekiel 36, “I’ll take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you, cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. I’m going to change your heart. I’m going to change your spirit.” That’s the new covenant. The new covenant is a transformation in the forgiveness of sins.
So all of this is in the mind of this Old Testament priest. Everything that was promised to David is going to be fulfilled in this Child. Everything that was promised to Abraham is going to be fulfilled in this Child. And that most glorious of all Old Testament promises called the new promise or the new covenant, the covenant of forgiveness is going to be fulfilled. Here comes the One who will make the provision by which God can forgive our sins.
And Zacharias understands why God would do this. Look back at verse 78: “because of the tender mercy of our God, because of the tender mercy of our God.” This is what defines God: tender mercy. If mercy is music to your ears, then tender mercy is a symphony. Who is a pardoning God like You, overlooking transgression? This is the highest of all causes for praise: the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. The forgiveness is only possible because the Redeemer has come. And the Redeemer has been the substitute taken to the altar in our place and slain for us.
As a result of all of this, Zacharias knows that the final promise of the Old Testament has been fulfilled in the arrival of the Messiah. Listen to what it says. Malachi 4:2, right at the end of the Old Testament. “But for you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His beams.” The Sun of Righteousness will rise. That’s the last word in your Old Testament; and then the screen goes dark, the curtain drops and it’s all darkness.
But Zacharias knows. Look at verse 78: “The Sunrise from on high will visit us.” Finally, the Sunrise. Literally, the rising. It’s a term that simply refers to the dawn. The first light of sun rising to dispel the darkness of the night. Jesus who said, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever believes in Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
The rising has come, the darkness is over – darkness, four hundred years of darkness, and darkness for millennia before that; the rising, the sun. “And He will” – verse 79 – “shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Jesus, he says, is the Sunrise promised at the end of the Old Testament, to shine upon us.
Isaiah makes much of that in chapter 9, chapter 59, chapter 60. You can read that on your own. Messiah comes then as the dawn, as the dawn. That’s why the book of Revelation concludes with that most magnificent recognition, Revelation 22:16, “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root” – says Jesus – “and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” Brightest morning star is the sun, isn’t it?
The Old Testament ends with the Sun will come and dispel the darkness. The New Testament begins with the rising of the Sun. The Bible closes with a declaration that Jesus is that Sun, dispelling darkness. And for those who come to Him and to the Light, “He guides our feet into the way of peace.”
Zacharias knew his Old Testament. And what that tells me is so did John the Baptist. If this was his dad before he ever went out into the wilderness to begin, he had been taught all these things and many more. And when that day he pointed to Jesus and said, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,” he was essentially saying, “Forgiveness has arrived. The Sun has risen, the darkness is over.” And for every person who believes in Him, that’s exactly what He does: He dispels the darkness and He opens the way of peace.
Our Father, we come again this morning as we conclude this time to talk with You – that’s what prayer is – and to say thank You. We bless You. We say with Zacharias, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. Blessed be the Lord God of the nations. Blessed be the Lord God of creation. Blessed be the Lord God of salvation.” We bless Your name for sending the Messiah, Son of David, Son of Abraham, the One who would provide the sacrifice on the cross so that our sins could be forgiven. He bore in His body our sins on the cross, so that believing in Him we can be forgiven, because He paid the penalty. There are not enough songs of salvation to sing the praises of the Savior.
We thank You for the continuity of Your precious Word. All that was promised in the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New. The pledge made to David and to Abraham and the prophets all came together in the arrival of the Son of the Most High, Son of God, Son of Man, Son of Mary, the Dawn, the Sun of Righteousness rising with healing in His beams. I pray, Lord, that there’s not a person in this room today who has not come to Christ for forgiveness of sin. The wages of sin is death. Death is an entrance into eternal punishment in hell. You came to save us from our sins, from our enemies, not just temporal, earthly enemies, but that enemy of our souls, Satan and all his forces. You came to save us from the enemy, sin, who powerfully resides in our own flesh. You came to rescue us, and Christ accomplished all that was necessary to provide that salvation when He died in our place on the cross. For all who believe in Him, there is complete forgiveness, no condemnation, reconciliation, restoration, redemption, adoption, sanctification, and one day, eternal glory. No wonder we sing the songs of salvation.
Father, I ask that You would work in every heart here, that You would draw conviction, repentance, and faith in those hearts that have resisted the Lord, have resisted confessing Jesus as Lord and Savior, the only one who can provide forgiveness. May Your Spirit draw hearts out of the darkness into the light of the glory of Christ, even today we pray. Amen.
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Researchers recently observed dysbiosis in the lid microbiome of symptomatic contact lens wearers, and they found lid margin exfoliation reduced the number, frequency of isolation and ratio of gram-positive rods and cocci.
The study evaluated 30 experienced contact lens wearers. Their eyelid margin physiology, tear properties and comfort scores were assessed, and the number, type, frequency and lipase activity of lower eyelid margin bacteria were measured.
The team discovered that symptomatic lens wearers had a higher ratio of the number and frequency of gram-positive rods and cocci. For these symptomatic contact lens wearers, exfoliation of debris at the lid margin reduced the number and ratio of gram-positive rods to cocci from baseline to seven to 10 days after treatment. They added that the number of bacteria, the ratio of rods to cocci and lipase activity correlated with lash contamination and anterior blepharitis, while bacterial lipase correlated with meibomian gland secretions and tear evaporation rates. The investigators also found that lid treatment produced a significant reduction in CLDEQ-8 scores and converted 10 symptomatic contact lens wearers to asymptomatic lens wearers.
“The ocular microbiota, especially in contact lens wearers, may possess the potential of modifying meibum, thereby destabilizing the tear lipid layer leading to contact lens discomfort,” the study authors concluded.
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This text provides information in simple language on the topic: tonsillitis.
What is tonsillitis?
The tonsils are small lumps of tissue. They are very far back in the mouth. The tonsils can become infected. Then they are usually red and swell. Affected people then have problems swallowing, for example. Often they also have a sore throat. The technical term for tonsillitis is: tonsillitis. Tonsillitis is contagious.
What happens with tonsillitis?
The tonsils are part of the body's defense system. The tonsils swell? Then the immune system in the body is currently active: it fends off pathogens. The almonds protect the upper respiratory tract in the throat from pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. In children, the tonsils help to develop the body's immune system properly.
Do the almonds fight bacteria or viruses? Then they swell and hurt. As a result, an affected person often has problems swallowing and a sore throat. Have the almonds successfully repelled the pathogens? Then they swell again and the inflammation disappears. The pain when swallowing and in the throat also stop.
Sometimes the almonds can defend themselves against bacteria or viruses on their own. But sometimes they also need help with that. Then an affected person has to take additional medication. The drugs then support the human immune system and fight the pathogens. In this way, the person concerned can get well again.
How can you recognize tonsillitis?
A tonsillitis can show a number of signs.
Common signs of tonsillitis include:
- difficulties swallowing
- Sore throat: sometimes into the ears and jaw
- reddened and swollen tonsils in the back of the throat
- increased salivation
- Bad breath
- general feeling of illness
- a headache
- little hunger
- swollen lymph nodes on the neck and jaw
For example, children can have abdominal pain with tonsillitis. They may even vomit.
You think: maybe I have tonsillitis? Then go to the doctor. The doctor will examine you and give you all the important information.
What are the causes of tonsillitis?
A tonsillitis can have different causes. These include, for example:
- Glandular Pfeiffer fever
Tonsillitis is contagious. Therefore you should:
- do not cough at other people,
- do not sneeze on other people,
- not kissing other people,
- Do not share cups and cutlery with other people
- and wash your hands regularly with soap.
Children with tonsillitis should stay at home for the time being and not go to kindergarten or school. This prevents the contagious disease from being passed on to other people.
What can you do about tonsillitis?
Go to a doctor. The doctor will examine and treat you.
Did bacteria cause the disease? Then the doctor can prescribe an antibiotic for you. This will help the tonsillitis heal faster.
Did viruses cause the disease? Then the doctor will not prescribe an antibiotic for you. In this case, the body has to fight tonsillitis on its own.
If you have tonsillitis, you should rest. You should also refrain from smoking. And you should avoid spicy and acidic food and drink. Eat and drink soft and cool foods.
Do you want to alleviate the symptoms a little?
There are many remedies for sore throats in the pharmacy. You can take medication for fever and pain. Ibuprofen, for example, helps here.
Note: Talk to your doctor or pharmacist first. Read the leaflet that came with your medication. Only then do you take any medication.
Where can you get more information?
You think: maybe I have tonsillitis? Or do you have severe complaints? Then go to the doctor. The doctor will examine you and give you all the important information.
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Being safety conscious doesn't make you a sissy.
Bricklayer Chris Johnson developed acute silicosis after a few months on a job that involved re-pointing and cutting in expansion joints. His only respiratory protection was a paper mask.
"Soon after, doctors diagnosed him with a permanent, debilitating lung disease called silicosis."
—Chris Johnson, former bricklayer
There is no treatment for Chris's type of silicosis short of lung transplants.
"The problem is that the air sacks in the lungs are filled up with this thick material so the air can't get into the body."
—Dr. William Beckett, Lung disease specialist, Harvard Medical School
The image at right shows a slice of a lung with filled air sacks. You can see a sizable percentage is unusable.
Chris' surgeon told him that his odds of living through a lung transplant were slim and Chris didn't want to put his family through that. Instead, his doctors tried to clear one of his lungs with a procedure called lavage, but it didn't really improve much.
He had a second lavage, which helped a bit more, but he has not been back to work since 2004.
"I guess I thought I was invincible ... something like that—taking me down, and it being the cause of what I do for a living ... was kinds tough to deal with."
Prevention is simple: keep the dust out of your lungs. Dr. Beckett points out that the required technology is generally low technology. The simplest way to keep the dust out of your lungs is to pour water on the blades and bits. Another way is to wear a respirator. Another way is to do both.
"I see a lot of guys jackhammering with a lot of dust around, and no mask. The only thing they wear is eye protection, and some of them don't even use that."
Chris is forty years old and his life expectancy is forty-five. Read his full story.
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XICHANG — China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province Thursday.
The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan 35 family at 10:22 am (Beijing Time) by a Long March 2D carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellites will be mainly used to conduct science experiments, land resource surveys, yield estimation of agricultural products and disaster prevention and reduction.
This launch marked the 424th mission for the Long March series carrier rockets.
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A confident detection of a moon orbiting a planet beyond our solar system – called an exomoon – has eluded astronomers so far, but they have found a new candidate
Astronomers have spotted signs of what may be an exomoon orbiting a planet more than 5000 light years away. If it is real, it could be the first exomoon we have found, but the detection isn’t conclusive.
There have been a few unconfirmed exomoon candidates before, most notably one around a planet called Kepler-1625b, spotted by David Kipping at Columbia University in New York and his team. Out of a sample of about 300 planets, all observed by the Kepler space telescope, Kepler-1625b was most similar to Jupiter. “That’s kind of unusual, because Kepler has a strong bias toward looking at planets closer to the star, and Jupiter-sized planets are quite rare,” says Kipping.
So in the researchers’ next search through Kepler data, they focused on searching for moons orbiting Jupiter-like exoplanets – those at least half as big as Jupiter with relatively long orbital periods. They found 70 such worlds and sorted through them, looking for signs of exomoons.
Kepler searches for planets by observing the light of stars. When a planet passes in front of its star, the light from the star dips, and this should happen at regular intervals as the planet orbits. If there is a moon, it will cause an extra dip in starlight as it, too, passes in front of the star.
Of the 70 worlds, Kipping and his colleagues found three for which the starlight was a significantly better match to a model containing both a planet and a moon than a model containing just a planet. After digging more deeply, they attributed one of the signals to the effects of the telescope’s movement and another to activity on the star’s surface, but the third stubbornly defied explanation by anything other than a moon.
“In the first two cases, we’re pretty sure they’re bogus, but for the last one we couldn’t kill this moon,” says Kipping. “We tried every technique we could imagine and we couldn’t get rid of it.” That third planet is called Kepler-1708b and the telescope observed it passing in front of its star twice, both with small extra dips in starlight that could be attributed to a moon.
The researchers calculated that there is about a 1 per cent chance that the detection is a false positive caused by noise in the signal. If the exomoon is real, it is about 2.6 times the size of Earth, far bigger than any moon seen in our own solar system and only slightly smaller than the unconfirmed exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b.
That may seem strange, but it doesn’t mean that these enormous moons are likely to be common. If it were any smaller, the signal wouldn’t be strong enough for Kepler to spot it – it is only just significant enough as it is. “If it wasn’t this big, there’s no way we would’ve found it,” says Kipping. “Any survey for moons with Kepler is, by definition, a supermoon survey.”
Even with a potential moon of such a large size, the observations aren’t conclusive – usually astronomers prefer to have at least three dips in a star’s light, and we only have two for Kepler-1708b. Additionally, the star is relatively dim, so the signal isn’t particularly strong, says René Heller at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
“Looking at the numbers, I would say it’s interesting, but it’s not a killing argument in favour of an exomoon,” says Heller. “I’m not convinced, not at all.” Kipping and his colleagues are now working to figure out what we could learn about this system with additional observations, but it is possible that the star is so faint that we will never be able to know for sure whether Kepler-1708b has a moon – a similar fate to the potential exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b. “This candidate might just be doomed,” says Heller.
Journal reference: Nature Astronomy, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01539-1
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200 years ago the War of 1812 rocked our newly won sovereignty to its core as residual resentments between our Union and Britain remained, and a bloody, 32 month conflict was ended only after Washington was burned to the ground.
State of the art transportation was a horse drawn buggy, candles and oil lamps lit rooms and hallways, armies fought with muskets, slaves comprised the manual labor of agrarian states, and agreements were honored with just a handshake to bind them.
A Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, drafted from a Revolution, were still relatively new, and America, although growing more powerful from that promise of freedom, was still considered an experiment in Democracy; no one was absolutely certain that it would work.
Central to the theme of this great republican trial was religious freedom, arguably the cornerstone of all the freedoms our founding fathers envisioned and designed in their documents to uphold a constitutional government.
It was nearly 200 years before the revolution when immigrants from England made the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to escape the Church of England seeking freedom from persecution. Over time they, themselves, exercised their own forms of persecution between settlers of other denominations, but central to the cause of the immigration to America was a concept of freedom.
It was amorphous and roughly drawn from their sense of dignity coupled with desperation, but it was nevertheless the motivation for their adventure to an unknown land and was the premise by which they would form new laws, and begin to resist a King.
By the mid-18th century colonial farmers and tradesmen still carried the torch of the original pilgrims adventure, but now these Americans were turning their collective spirit toward the tyranny of a British Monarchy that demanded from them what their innate sense of justice told them was unfair.
10 years after the implementation of The Stamp Act in 1765, the colonists declared war against Britain on the grounds of unfair taxation, and from the historic winds of change rose a rag tag collection of Christians, Deists, and Unitarians who transcribed the calling of human beings toward freedom and justice into words of action.
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” published in January of 1776, is regarded as the original primer that put this aggregate spirit of freedom into the context of a new government and to fan the populist flame of revolution. Only 6 months later Americans read the Declaration of Independence for the first time and now a document existed to eloquently express a noble purpose.
(Note: While I forgive our revolutionary forebears for the context and complexities of their time, I cannot overlook that human bondage was a legal practice that took another hundred years to abolish).
The Declaration makes it clear that governments created by humanity derive their powers from the consent of the governed, and it served as the adumbration for the Constitution which followed. It is not a legal document, but a statement of purpose to define and to defend the Inalienable Rights of Men (human beings) in the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness.
When the Revolution was won and a Constitution was drafted, the framers very carefully constructed its First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
There is no mistaking what these words mean. They are the very definition of our hard won Republic and they frame the security upon which it rests.
“No law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” specifically and clearly outlines that we cannot fall under the auspices of a national religion, and that any religion can be freely followed or expressed. If there is any leeway for interpretation it would only regard the freedom from religious practice, as well, but no free nation, founded on inalienable rights, can exclude non practicing agnostics and atheists.
Freedom of speech is a broad concept in terms of what it entails, but it is specific at the same time as it means that government cannot legislate to curtail the free expression of ideas.
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This Grand Experiment in Democracy is now a third of a century past 200 years, and while we can rest assured that we are stronger today from the fruits harvested from freedom, the conviction of some of our constitutional principles are fading or forgotten.
The modern interpretation of the original rebellion that calls itself the “Republican Party” has carried into its vague (yet dogmatic) agenda, theocratic ideas that are contrary to our founding purpose.
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It is almost on a daily basis that I will read or hear someone state the belief that our Founder’s design for America was born exclusively from Christianity. But, when we look critically at the story of our nation it is clear that such an exclusionary religious concept is contrary to all of our freedoms and would be, in fact, un-constitutional.
It is irrefutable that Christianity was a primary influence on the creation of our nation and that Christianity embraces many of the moral directives that define our ideal Republic, but it is also irrefutable that one doctrine cannot be the sole proprietor of such virtues.
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likeMEDIA.tv and Shaykh Shafi Chowdhury are organising a series of events examining the names of Allah (SWT). This is an ideal opportunity to learn more about The Lord of the Worlds, with lectures devised to take a deeper look at Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth. How can we call Him by His Names if we do not know them and if we do not understand them? And what is the purpose of Allah (swt) revealing to us 99 of His Names and His Attributes? It is in order for us to know Him, and through knowing Him, we are able to worship Him better and understand the nature of this world.
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- Code ASIA1030
- Unit Value 6 units
- Offered by School of Culture History and Language
- ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
- Course subject Asian Studies
- Areas of interest Non Language Asian Studies, Pacific Studies, Asian Studies, Asia Pacific Studies
- Academic career UGRD
- Dr Shameem Black
- Yon Paik
- Mode of delivery In Person
Second Semester 2019
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This course aims to break down modern stereotypes of Asia and the Pacific, and in doing so, to spark your curiosity about this fascinating and dynamic region. The course offers a feel for the way individuals and communities live their lives and find different ways to navigate the currents, aspirations, and crises that have shaped Asia and the Pacific. We will explore key themes, such as the organization of life in politics, families, and language; the effect of poverty and riches; the importance of race, ethnicity and gender; and the power of belief, creativity and performance. The course will introduce you to many different ways of thinking about these themes, such as those found in political science, history, anthropology, archaeology, gender studies, economics, cultural studies, linguistics and other disciplines. Experts from across the ANU will raise big questions and case studies in lectures, while tutorials will help you hone your skills of critical thinking and effective communication.
This course is one of two required foundational courses for the Bachelor of Asian Studies degree. It is also highly suitable for students from other programs who would like to learn the basics of understanding the Asia-Pacific region, and assists them in gaining what is sometimes called "Asia literacy," a valuable attribute in any career in the 21st century.
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Advance your curiosity and your understanding of the diversity of experience in Asia and the Pacific, which can form a basis for your independent lifelong learning from and with these regions.
2. Understand how different concepts and methods from the humanities and social sciences can help you analyse Asia and the Pacific.
3. Use your understanding of Asian and Pacific diversity to question popular stereotypes about the regions, to become aware of the theoretical standpoints of others, and to begin to reflect critically on your own perspective.
4. Apply your knowledge of Asia and the Pacific in a written form that draws upon research, makes a coherent argument, uses a logical structure and method, and shows your correct use of scholarly citation.
5. Develop critical thinking and independent judgment in your research process, in your writing, in your class discussions, and in your individual and group presentations.
Tutorial participation 10% (LO 1, 2, 3, 5)
Op-Ed assignment 20% (LO 1, 3, 4, 5)
Workshop team presentation 10% (LO 1, 2, 3, 5)
Research paper and bibliography (1500-2000 words) 30% (LO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Take home exam 30% (LO 2, 3, 4, 5)
The ANU uses Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. While the use of Turnitin is not mandatory, the ANU highly recommends Turnitin is used by both teaching staff and students. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website.
Three hours of lecture/tutorial, plus 7 hours of additional reading and assignment work each week.
Valentine. Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropology of Violence. 1996.
Demick, Barbara. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. 2010.
George, Kenneth M. Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld. 2010.
Hamid, Mohsin. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. 2014.
Kwon, Heonik. Ghosts of War in Vietnam. 2013.
Assumed KnowledgeCompletion of ASIA1025 is recommended but not required. This course assumes no background knowledge.
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Following issue of the IMO’s statistics for stowaways in 2014, Dryad’s Head of Operations, Mike Edey, discusses the challenges of accurate reporting when so many incidents go unreported and the number of stowaways that successfully complete their journey go undetected.
IMO has recently released its annual statistics for stowaways in 2014. The headline figures could provide a good news headline, ‘A 40% drop in reported stowaway incidents in 2014’, but is this really the case?
It is difficult to believe that with the mass, irregular migration around the world, in particular from North Africa across the Mediterranean, that there were only 120 cases reported worldwide in 2014, a drop of over 40% from the 203 reported in 2013. I suppose this could be seen as a good news story and an argument that security has improved in all the ports which deters people from attempting to embark on ships in an unconventional manner. However, this reporting accounts for the stowaways that were caught or identified and not the total number. How many stowaways actually managed to evade capture? We are unlikely to ever know the real numbers but with record level of irregular migration from Africa witnessed in 2014, and a reported reduction in stowaway numbers, this rather than being good news suggests that incidents were almost certainly not reported or security at the port failed to stop them.
It is difficult to judge exactly how many incidents have gone unreported, or the number of stowaways that successfully completed their journey undetected. The IMO’s stowaway report in 2008 set a high point of 494 incidents and 2052 actual stowaways, seven times that reported in 2007 and twice as many as reported in 2009. However, none of the reports attempts to explain the spike. Is it just an anomaly? Has security at ports really improved so much since 2008 that these irregular migrants dare not risk being caught on board a merchant ship while accepting the possibility of death in the Mediterranean? Has the security situation in Africa or the Middle East improved so much that there is no need for these methods of irregular migration, or do the 2008 figures represent a closer approximation of the actual numbers of stowaways? Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever know the actual numbers involved.
Irregular migration numbers source
Maritime security sits at the heart of this issue. These stowaways instead of being political or economic migrants could possibly be terrorists attempting to gain access to western countries via less protected routes. Islamic State have already made a clear intent to use the irregular migrant routes in the Mediterranean to enter southern Europe. What is to stop them attempting to do it as stowaways? Until we have clear reporting and a better understanding of the problem, it is likely that ports, and some shipping companies will ignore it. There should be no stigma attached with being recorded in the IMO’s stowaway statistics as it represents demonstrable success on the part of the shipping companies and ports in catching them, rather than letting them slip away. The question is, ‘are we seeing the full scale of the problem or is the truth, like the stowaways, hidden from our view?’
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