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MathTango by Originator is a groundbreaking app that makes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division truly fun for kids aged 5-10 (Grades K-5)!
Kids will learn more and learn faster with a unique, classroom-tested combination of math puzzles (incorporating modern techniques that make math easier and more intuitive) and classic “world-building” activities found in games.
Kids will progress through hundreds of math lessons as they earn monsters, complete missions, build out their own unique worlds, and discover even more fun and surprises along the way. While they’re having great fun, you’ll know they’re learning!
PRESS AND REVIEWS:
⁃ KidSAFE Certified
- Common Sense Media's Best Math Apps for Kids List
⁃ Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice
⁃ Mom's Choice Awards Gold Recipient
- National Parenting Product Awards Winner
- Creative Child Magazine Children's App of the Year Award
⁃ Over 500 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division puzzles covering more than 40 math levels, followed by review levels with more math puzzles for lesson reinforcement and advanced play.
⁃ Lesson plan wizard generates a customized, age-appropriate curriculum for every user.
⁃ Common Core based curriculum that dynamically adapts so a child advances only when they have mastered the current lesson.
⁃ Addition and subtraction lessons include 9 unique puzzle game types that cover:
• Numbers and counting
• Ordering numbers
• Counting forwards and backwards
• Number patterns
• Odd and even numbers
• Comparing numbers
• Adding single digit numbers
• Adding doubles and near doubles
• Subtracting single digit numbers
• Subtracting 10’s
• Making 10 to add to 8 and 9
• Adding double digit numbers (with and without regrouping)
• Subtracting double digit numbers (with and without regrouping)
⁃ Multiplication and division lessons include 7 different puzzle game types that cover:
• Multiplying with factors of 2 and 5
• Multiplying with factors 9
• Multiplying with factors of 0 and 1
• Multiplying with factors of 10
• Multiplying with factors of 3
• Multiplying with factors of 4
• Multiplying with factors of 6 and 7
• Multiplying with factors of 8
• Dividing by 2, 3, 4 and 5
• Dividing by 6 and 7
• Dividing by 8 and 9
• Dividing with 0 and 1
⁃ Gameplay is structured around two worlds (Island and Starbase). Each world has never-ending missions that are completed to earn unique characters and dozens of in-game items to customize the worlds.
⁃ 7-day free trial gives you unlimited access to all activities and lessons in the app before paying.
⁃ Designed and developed for children of ages 5-10+.
⁃ Learn on the go. You can fully enjoy the entire app even when the device is offline.
⁃ Multiple user profiles on each device allow the entire family to learn at their own pace.
⁃ 100% free of advertisements and offers.
⁃ MathTango is a completely original app conceived, developed, and tested by a passionate team of 5 parents at Originator.
MathTango is a subscription service that gives total access to everything available in the app. You can choose to subscribe on a monthly or annual basis.
⁃ Payment will be charged to your Google Play account after the 7-day free trial.
⁃ Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
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A former FBI undercover agent and whistleblower tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen.
This indictment, which German supports with much evidence, is disturbing but not likely unsurprising for most informed readers ... Suitable for adults interested in politics and law enforcement reform.
German is an angry critic of his old employer. His anger makes his book a useful contribution. Despite the many reforms of the post-Hoover era, the FBI remains an institution apart from American society, still staffed overwhelmingly by white people who tend to be conservative and conventional and prone to big, embarrassing mistakes ... Comey does not escape German’s scorn.
... [an] impassioned polemic ...German collects a searing set of eye-opening case studies that point to a decreasingly effective organization ... erman’s experiences as an undercover agent provide a unique insight into the inner workings of the FBI ... Bound to be divisive, German’s account is unlikely to convince readers who don’t agree with him that the FBI is on the wrong path, but it raises some valuable questions about the primary role of this key government agency. | <urn:uuid:6d4adeb5-5c13-4d93-b75f-1aca554dc55f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/disrupt-discredit-and-divide-how-the-new-fbi-damages-democracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957599 | 265 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Nursing and physician attire as possible source of nosocomial infections.
Am J Infect Control. 2011 Sep;39(7):555-559
Authors: Wiener-Well Y, Galuty M, Rudensky B, Schlesinger Y, Attias D, Yinnon AM
BACKGROUND: Uniforms worn by medical and nursing staff are not usually considered important in the transmission of microorganisms. We investigated the rate of potentially pathogenic bacteria present on uniforms worn by hospital staff, as well as the bacterial load of these microorganisms. METHODS: Cultures were obtained from uniforms of nurses and physicians by pressing standard blood agar plates at the abdominal zone, sleeve ends, and pockets. Each participant completed a questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 238 samples were collected from 135 personnel, including 75 nurses (55%) and 60 physicians (45%). Of these, 79 (58%) claimed to change their uniform every day, and 104 (77%) defined the level of hygiene of their attire as fair to excellent. Potentially pathogenic bacteria were isolated from at least one site of the uniforms of 85 participants (63%) and were isolated from 119 samples (50%); 21 (14%) of the samples from nurses' gowns and 6 (6%) of the samples from physicians' gowns (P = NS) included of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. CONCLUSION: Up to 60% of hospital staff's uniforms are colonized with potentially pathogenic bacteria, including drug-resistant organisms. It remains to be determined whether these bacteria can be transferred to patients and cause clinically relevant infection.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Do Violent Films Cause Violence?
Do Violent Films Cause Violence? Media became a long run from history till present time. The motion picture from cartoons and real life human who acts out in plays and movies has developed a strong impact for the future. Before media made its money to develop better programs, technology and colors, media used black and white color so present their form of creativity in movies for people to enjoy. Those movies are often great examples to show people different life experience such as; social life, educational success, leaderships and other lessons that can be taught. Great lessons were able to be spread all around, and new stories were able to be told and perform. Nevertheless, when other companies see that different media is doing a better job, producing better theme, setting, and acting, they began to compete with one another. In order for the producer to keep high viewers, they start to change genres to capture more attentions. In addition, by doing this, most media and its society changed throughout many years, mo vies became more aggressive, convincing, sexually active, emotional, and very epic that caused most people to be violent. Most of these movies that are advertised in newspaper, channel commercials, side walks, and stores, will often persuade younger kids and teenagers to watch horror films, action movies, and unrealistic dramas that are visible in movies, due to their young age. However, most kids have not realized that at young ages, their minds are easily carried away from excitements, and fun advertisement. This changed most peoples personalities, characteristic in some of the ways other than the positives, such as negative; they happen to be more violent; they show more aggressions, and their body action changes. The different types of genre that inspire young kids and teenagers in many aspects that still exist in movies or novels are; Crime, Detective, Horror, Action, Epic/Myth, Fantasy, Gang-involve, Social Drama, and Thrillers. Most scenes show different kinds of violence, those are; domestic violence, abusive violence, and verbal attack that they use in novels or the movies. This is to show people that its an unhealthy relationship, and because now a day, most people are interested in life-drama theme, so they can relate their problems or issues to their partner. Since there are still domestic/relationship problems that involve in every-day issue, American media make most movies like how most problems are like. Hopefully it might show the person to stop being violent to their partner, because its very wrong, and hurtful, sometimes it might not inspire them to change for the better. Nevertheless, the domestic violence that has been going on, made the author decided to film A History of Vio lence, to support those who are getting hurt (McCarthy, Todd). Most television shows, shows the viewers who happen to be a kid, maybe an adult. Whether watching violent shows or playing video games, it has still given a higher chance to persuade younger kids to change in many perspectives. Their personality changes to becomes aggressive, which becomes very harmful to public, after most influences that people fall into. This also depends on the time span that a person would spend their time on watching, learning, or observing. In an article it mentioned, Exposure to violent electronic media has a larger effect than all but one other well known threat to public health. The only effect slightly larger than the effect of media violence on aggression is that of cigarette smoking on lung cancer, L. Rowel Huesmann, of the University of Michigan, and his colleague Brad Bushman said.. Media has a huge impact and inspiration to most peoples life. There is some type of people who likes to live in a fantasy. By doing this, it draws their attention to watch more their-like type of movies, or films. Then people would place their life in the story of the movie. It has changed many peoples lives, other than its attitude in life, but their views on society have changed as well. Before people started to be as aggressive and violent due to the medias influence, people were able to still communicate, get together, great influence to one another. Now its a lot different, people have strong opinion, their ways of thinking has advance, and their body motion are more complex in society. Everything that use to be once romantic, or lesson-learned, and even compromising, has turned into fights, negative influences, and discriminations, etc. There are still people who watches plays like Romeo and Juliet, but since everything in society is advance, most people expects a better theme running in the movie, therefore they have movies that will show a bit of pornography, or movies that are consider bad ass that were advertise coming soon in 3-D, in the movies theater (Markovitz, Adam). Young teens, should look more into the media fields, and realize that even producing new movies, songs, pictures, etc. there are people who has negative personality, and some that are really nice. Certain companies can be discriminate, and make movies based on making fun of another race, and when young kids watch it, they get influenced. The medias job is to entertain the people, and to entertain them in all sorts of way, and one way is to be funny. But kids did not notice that they got most of the jokes from internet, friends, films, plays, TV shows, etc. It is very true that not only creating movie films, or writing novels that can have an epic story line, influencing people to become more aggressive and violent, but violence in a verbally way. This is because watching movies that are just as scary, just as disgusting, horror, etc can also harm a persons health in many ways. Since most parents try to keep their children protected from other harms, or what their becoming will be in the future, they try not to let them watch too much epic shows. The news once mentioned that, à ¢Ã¢â ¬Ã ¦ children from attending violent films. Nor does it apply to gory movies already out, such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But it will alert parents to the content of such films in the future, (Movie violence gets new label) Perhaps, this is the parents way of raising the kids to not get involve with too much of these genre that may affect their life. Yet, as much as violence are mentioned, most media tries to express their art to public, but forming types of theme into the movie performance. In other words, media tries to show audience that being violence isnt the answer, but for kids, they look at another way. Most think its cool to be involved with gang, after watching specific type of movie. Perhaps as a younger kid, they might not feel that its giving them a negative or positive impact in life, but in a way its showing them new things that they never explored or has seen before, which lures them to try. To be surprise, kids see a scene in some movies, where for examples, underage are prohibit to go into legal age bars, so they use nasty body motions, pushing and shoving, thinking its a way to get through them. In the text it mentioned, Some people think the best way to get people into theaters is to show violence. Sometimes different gangs come to theaters because they want to see movies on the first night, and two gangs get together and fight, (Whats behind the black-on-black violence at movie theaters) However, media is only trying to do its part by producing different type of genre/themes that fits most audience to watch, since now a days, most movies arent has interesting as it once use to be. Verbal violence includes profanities that are often being used in films, and every day languages in the streets, when people fight, when they talk, or even for fun. When people watch films, modern times often use a lot of swear words, in scenes where two people are arguing, and get into fights, every sentences are shout out with swear words. When kids and teenager hear it, they think its a term people should use to express their emotions and style of getting nasty with one another. Its not just in the kids, but most grown up adults uses profanities in their language. Most TV shows, like the Maury Show, tries to censor negative words for people to watch at home. But the ones that are actually watching the show live can hear it. Most producers try to eliminate as much negative influence as possible, hoping that it will change the violence within the nation today. The exaggerated mugging and pantomime required for communication between characters on screen impart a histrionic falsity to the most passionate declaration and turn tragedy into melodrama, (Arts in the 1970s: Overview) Lack of communication is one way people cannot get along, then they find ways to hurt each other, whether its body language, getting physical, or verbal violence, but it is definitely a problem that most people experience, even today. In some problems, Directors argues to censorship. Its very understandable when some producer wants to display the negative language out in the films to show what kind of tragedy that is going on at this time. But most people believe that it will only be harmful to the kids, and what that is coming ahead for kids to get influence. In fact, kids rather have swear words indicate in magazines, movies, and even novel. To them, its a sign of entertainments, or genuine moviemaking situations. As public views the censors, they get bored, or mad, because words are being blocked, and it cuts out some other words that are being used in the sentence, and it annoys the audiences. But television shows like Maury Show has different task each day, and some are beneficial for kids, and adults, so if they have negative language spoken in public, then the show becomes very unhealthy for people to watch on the television. Other television shows like Jerry Springer also censor swear words, but there isnt a beneficial lesson that are being taught in the show. One of the reason people calls themselves and the person who is involved in the situation, they go to the show to argue, and then they fight. Has people forgotten that violence does not even solve anything, it only proves to their enemies that oh I beat you, I am the more dominate, or strongest one, Even though movies separate the level rating for specific age to watch, kids are still able to sneak in theater to watch what is not suitable for them, thats how strong media advertise things. It shows a strong persuasive desire to watch their films. Before movies starts, if there are any warning that needs to be given out to public, it would say on film, The pictures distributor include a warning in advertising that this film may be too intense for younger children. (Bronson, Gail, and Ste Hawkins) Yet, most people ignore it, because they do not bother to read it, theyre too excited to watch whats going to be played in the film. If that is the case, where separating ages so that they have their specific level of movies to watch does not help, then it also proves that most people does not respect the safety that is going on. Movies such as the Hang Over, have gotten many kids to gossip about this movie. All parents want their child to be a great student in school, get good education in school, and to come out to be successful. No parents would want their child getting hang over after parties and parties, or might encounter different type of influence that they do not want their child to be hanging around. When drinking, it changes the persons attitude, they will become very aggression, or more emotional about things. In fact it makes the person very convincing and vulnerable. Just like how most kids from middle school, high school, and the adulthood who has seen the movie Hang Over, should have an idea what it is like. Also if most parents has not notice, but the more demand that they have more a child, the m ore it persuades or motivates them to try to do something the parents does not approve, such as drinking, partying, and even gang involvements. In an article it stated that, à ¢Ã¢â ¬Ã ¦are reporting that parents who steer their kids away from R-rated films usually prevail against peer pressure on kids to drink alcohol. (Study: Parental Guidance on Movies Curbs Drinking) Even so, if most parents that are against it, it still gives the kids an idea to still try. But the kids mind isnt as complex as an adult, so they would not often think about the consequence that they will go through when they get in trouble with drinking. It boost their ability to be much different for a short time span, when a person gets aggressive they rage out of control. Physical fighting are involve with drinking too, some people feel that they get stronger, and unstoppable after they drink, and no one can possible stop them, some just go around looking for trouble to complete their anger or stress. This i s very unhealthy, and they do not need this in their body. Instead of fueling up at bars and then roaming around looking for trouble, potential criminals pass the prime hours for mayhem eating popcorn and watching celluloid villains slay in their stead. (Economists say movie violence might temper the real thing) One of the major issues that are happening in society is that women are being abuse in relationship; it does not necessary means that they are being physically hurt by men, or women, but they are hurt mentally. Violence can be caused in such ways if the men pressure the women to have sex with them, or else they would leave. Most of this problem can be found in movies, to provide people ideas what it is like. But for most of the people, they think its funny, they think its entertaining. Yet, most movie turns on the people into doing it, when movies shows scenes where theres a lot of things going on, it creates a hormones to teenagers and adults into the mood. Media wants the audience to feel like they are being placed in the movie, to know what its like, but when teenagers are watching it, some can be very irresponsible. As for most people, disrespect men would keep their girls around to satisfy them. They would say things that sound convincing and meaningful, to pressure girls to hav e sex with them. When the girl does not, relationship can turn into violent, continuous argument and very abusive. In a magazine it stated, girls often say, its a ridiculous argument to be having because youre never going to solve it. (But seriously) Yet the women insist to stay with the man. Many young children fantasize their life to the story line of the movie, either they wish they could be in their shoe, or they do not want to face reality. Movies portray a strong role for young kid, as their minds are not as settled as older adult. Some kids encounter scenes in the movies where a kid can be the hero if they see a bully, bullying a kid. So when they see that happens in real life, things are often tougher and different from films, but there are kids that try to defend for others, and get into dangerous fight. Unequivocal evidence from a wide variety of studies shows that in the short term exposing children to violence in movies, TV, video games and music increases physical and verbal aggression, and aggressive thoughts and emotions, (Bad influence.[Upfront: news in perspective]) Other times when kids get tempted to do harmful things to females, and much unexpected actions from kids. Perhaps those are times when kids can be the time where they are growing up, and its natural to feel new things, and explore different experience. But some movies consist of scenes where a person can be violently raping a little girl. There can be some psychotic people out there who can be encourage to do that, or be tempted after watching certain films. R-rated movies portray violence and other behaviors deemed inappropriate for children under 17 year of age. (R-rated movies increase likelihood of underage children trying alcohol) Even though these are inappropriate for children underage, these find ways to be difference whether its being violence, fitting in with other groups, and trying to be cool. Watching too much television show can not only turn aggression into violence, but it will affect their education in many ways. There are kids out there, who want to catch up to their episodes, so they sit and watch after every episodes. After watching too much episodes, any sorts of negative or positive impact draws drills into their mind. When they go to school, most that they think about is the television serious they watched all night. When parents want the child to go to sleep, eat, shower, or even do their homework, they refuse to. They will find ways to rebel from their parents into letting them do whatever they want to do. Sometimes if parents gets aggressive, they would either pull the plug from the outlet, take their privileges away from them, the kids would get mad and physical. When they want it bad, they would throw things, break things, and use verbal violence to yell at parents. Perhaps now days, people are more interested in romance series, that also shows more violenc e and sex involved, that keeps them up watching. When you look at the average, todays PG-13 movies are approaching what the R movies looked like in 1992. Todays PG is approaching what PG-13 looked like a decade ago, (Kimberly Thompson). Throughout the media history, motion picture from cartoons and real life human who acts out in plays and movies has developed a strong impact for the future. As modern time uses their form of creativity in movies to show kids what things can possibly be going on in life, it also gives them a bad impact. Nevertheless most movies are suppose to show people different life experience such as; social life, educational success, leaderships and other lessons that can be taught but media and its society changed throughout many years, movies became more aggressive, convincing, sexually active, emotional, and very epic that caused most people to be violent. The advertised in newspaper, channel commercials, side walks, and stores, will often persuade younger kids and teenagers to watch horror films, action movies, and unrealistic dramas that are visible in movies, due to their minor age. However, most kids have not realized that at young ages, their minds are easily carried away from excitement s, and fun advertisement. This changed most peoples personalities, characteristic in some of the ways other than the positives, such as negative; they happen to be more violent; they show more aggressions, and their body action changes. | <urn:uuid:a7c0999b-3df8-428c-9922-dea231f0cc63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://writingessaysservices.blogspot.com/2019/08/do-violent-films-cause-violence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976117 | 3,817 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Bali has been very well known throughout the world for its culture and natural beauty including its underwater beauty. Not surprisingly, every tourist who comes to Bali always takes the time to enjoy every inch of beauty. Bali has several world-class dive sites which are mostly located in east and north Bali and on the islands of Nusa Penida and Lembongan.
North Bali Reef Conservation volunteers work from Monday to Thursday, they have 3 days off from Friday to Saturday to explore the dive site with our experienced dive guide.
Below is a number of Dive sites that must be visited while in Bali:
Tulamben is a small fishing village on the north-east coast of Bali. It is among the most popular dive sites on Bali since the wreck of the Liberty, a US Army Transport ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942 lies just off shore. During high-season, up to 100 divers descend to the wreck each day. It is located only 15 minutes from our North Bali Reef Conservation Program.
The wreck lies in shallow water and is considered appropriate for divers of all certification levels. The ship rests in 30 metres of water, is roughly 25 metres from shore and can be reached with a short swim from the beach. The highest point of the wreck tops out about 5 metres from the surface. The ship was torpedoed by the Japanese off the nearby Island of Lombok and the ship was towed to the beach at Tulamben for salvage operations. The 1963 eruption of Mt. Agung, which devastated much of the eastern side of Bali, drove the ship into the water just off shore, where it became encrusted with coral and a home to other sea life.
The best conditions for diving here are during October and November, when the weather is generally calm and during the start of southeast monsoon, which typically extends from May to July. In addition to a wide variety of corals and invertebrates on the wreck itself, large fish frequent the wreck in some seasons, most popularly Mola mola and whale sharks, as well as Black-tip reef sharks. Professional divers have praised local residents for minimizing local fishing activity. | <urn:uuid:89032238-08d4-4171-bf10-be3e6f86a014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northbalireefconservation.com/bali-safari-dives.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981107 | 451 | 1.976563 | 2 |
As continuation of GS I initiative . We hope you were able to finish the particular sections and chapters mentioned in our previous post.
Here is the link to details of the initiative –
Questions to be answered :-(Max 150-200 Words)
- What is the difference between civilization and culture ? What are the characteristics that defines a culture ? What do you understand by cultural heritage, give few examples?
- “India was a secular country long before our constitution came in to being and Ahimsa was a norm long before Gandhi” . In this context evaluate Ashoka’s contribution towards Indian society, culture and constitution.
- From National flag to National Emblem, From Preamble of constitution to Fundamental duties – India has imprints of Ashoka all over it. He was relevant then , he is relevant now .Elucidate.
- What are the similarities and dissimilarities of Maurya age and Gupta age in terms of society, culture, religion, administration and status of women.
- The Indo-islamic architecture was as much Indian as it was Persian .Discuss.
- The tenets of Buddhism can be put to use to resolve moral crisis.Discuss with modern context. | <urn:uuid:0f7f021c-e837-4e8b-b381-c1a9c03c3bf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://upsctree.com/questions-gs-i-section-i/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955169 | 251 | 3.515625 | 4 |
I was wondering if you could help me with an assignment. I want to present The Tudors in a less traditional way. So I'm looking for some information about The Tudors, today. What have they done in the past that's had an effect on us today? From litterature to technology.
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Storing your car can be a daunting task, with a wealth of information on storing cars, how can you weed out the false information? Here at Stop and Store Squamish we can help you. We know that many people in the Squamish area choose to store their cars with us over the harsh winter months.
Now, every seasoned mechanic will tell you, you must deflate your tires when storing for a long period of time. This is to prevent warping and bubbling of the tires. Key world here was “seasoned”, yes it’s true that long ago you needed to deflate tires when storing, however, now with modern tires there is absolutely no need to deflate tires. The materials used to make modern-day tires can more than handle sitting for months, even years. This is one of the most common car storage myths.
Many mechanics will tell you to drain your car’s fluids like oil and coolant. Please do not do this, your engine has rubber seals that need to stay lubricated or they will dry and crack, causing costly repairs. The oil keeps the seals lubricated and prevents crack. If you do anything, perform an oil change before you store. Another one of the myths when it comes to car storage.
Most will say to start your car up for a few minutes every week or so, to keep the fluids moving. However, this causes wear on the engine parts, when a car sits, the oil collects at the bottom of the engine. Starting it up for a few minutes won’t give the oil enough to properly circulate and will result in engine parts wearing against each other. Unless you plan to take your car for a real drive, let it sit.
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Can It Happen Here?: Donald Trump and the Paradox of Populist Government
16 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2017 Last revised: 7 Jun 2017
Date Written: June 3, 2017
Donald Trump campaigned as a populist but how can a populist who blames the “establishment” for the country’s failures, rule, when the government bureaucracy is itself a creature of the establishment? The answer that appears to be emerging is a “personalist” style of leadership that may be popular in the short term but is unlikely to achieve any of Trump’s goals. If Trump wants to be effective, he will need to adopt a bureaucratic style of governance that will, however, require him to rely on the elites he has disparaged, disappointing his followers, converting him into a conventional president, and very likely ruling out the type of authoritarian regime that Trump’s critics fear.
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A fantastic Journalist portfolio should reveal a large range of skills and also passions. The items ought to be in various styles, consisting of print and online, and also cover different topics. Diversity is excellent, but not just in quantity. Quality must constantly precede. A Portfolio ought to be organized so it is easy to locate your items later. If you’re uncertain of where to start, below are some ideas. To make an effective portfolio, begin with your college jobs.
The most integral part of the portfolio is the web content. The write-ups need to remain in a layout that will certainly not annoy the viewers. No one intends to hang around reading a pointless portfolio. If you’re still a pupil, try to consist of the most effective job you have done, not just the most recent jobs. A well-crafted profile will certainly stand apart. If you’re a recent graduate, be sure to offer only the best of your work.
The web content of a Reporter profile varies greatly. While some reporters focus on their magazines, others concentrate on their composing design and also material. It’s vital to make your job relevant as well as interesting to readers by giving examples of your work. You ought to likewise make certain that your content is very easy to discover and accessible for your potential employer. It also reveals that you’re flexible, as you’ll be able to cover a selection of topics.
An excellent journalist profile does not focus on the sort of magazine. Smaller sized magazines typically play a crucial function in the dissemination of news, and it is essential to be varied as well as display the variety of your work. Don’t hesitate to include audio and also video clip media in your portfolio, especially if you have actually been a freelance reporter for years. As a matter of fact, lots of tiny publications don’t even exist. In addition to publish, you can additionally include your work as a journalist in other mediums.
The first thing a reporter should do is develop a site. A site must contain info concerning the journalist’s history, interests and goals. It needs to also include a contact web page, or a message board, where visitors can write questions and also responses to the reporter. A reporter’s site must be helpful as well as very easy to navigate. If it does not have all these elements, it’s probably unworthy a go to. Ultimately, a great journalism portfolio will draw in the ideal sort of audience.
An on the internet profile should have a contact web page, along with a Concerning Me web page. The Regarding Me web page must offer an understanding into the reporter’s history and goals. The call web page ought to be a conveniently accessible and organized web page. The web site ought to likewise have an Around Me area. This need to discuss for how long you’ve been a journalist as well as what type of subjects interest you. It must also contain a call kind. Along with the web site, it should have a get in touch with page for site visitors to leave messages for the journalist.
The next action in the development of a wonderful journalist portfolio is to choose a style. You must concentrate on a certain topic. If you are obtaining a work in traveling, for instance, the profile ought to have to do with travel. A sports-related sample must be similar to that of a travel-related job. A basic paper profile need to focus on a solitary subject. However, if you’re obtaining a work in a business, your samples must be about the exact same industry.
A good Journalism profile should be an easy read. The web content must be concise and also not fascinate the reader. An excellent profile should be clear and simple to check out. A reporter’s experience need to be clear, yet it is still vital to be unbiased when it concerns writing. It’s essential for the possible employer to get a feeling of your level of knowledge and history. By picking the right topic, the paper can judge the candidate based on their skill level.
If you’re applying for a sports or travel-related task, you must focus on that particular field. For instance, if you’re making an application for a task in travel, your profile must focus on that topic. If you’re getting a travel-related work, your portfolio must focus on that as well. Using an online publication to show your job is another excellent option. There are lots of choices available for providing your past writing work in an electronic layout.
It is important to style a reporter’s portfolio very carefully. Though a lot of these submissions are done online, the format still matters. For example, digitally checked newspaper clippings should be constrained to one page. Stories released online must be copied and connected into a message paper. If you plan to submit a newspaper or magazine article, ensure to consist of a web link to the original article. As soon as you have all the aspects all set, you can start building your portfolio.
When developing a journalism profile, remember the format for the different submissions. A site must have a tidy look. It should include an Around Me page where you can present yourself and explain your interests and also goals. A get in touch with page must also exist for site visitors to leave messages. It ought to also include a quick biography and also a biography. A personal website is recommended for journalists that are simply starting out in the profession. The site must be updated consistently to mirror the most up to date information and jobs.
For a professional-looking portfolio, you should additionally include a page explaining yourself. In the About Me section, discuss what type of journalism you do, where you have actually functioned, and what your goals are. The Get in touch with Page ought to consist of a simple method for site visitors to contact you. For an extra individual touch, include an email address. The About Me page need to include a details regarding you, including your bio as well as contact info. A bio web page is additionally an outstanding place to share examples of your work with potential clients. click here
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On February 4, eight members of the Quest Forward Academy Mathletes Team made their school community proud at the American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 10 & 12, hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
They took a 75-minute exam of 25 questions, where they challenged themselves in a series of intense math problems. The final results of the competition are pending, but more important than the scores, this event provided an opportunity for high school students to develop positive attitudes toward analytical thinking and mathematics that can assist in future careers. It helped to reinforce important skills and Essential Habits that we practice daily, and made our students stronger in many more ways than just math.
During the past term, our Mathletes Team has been preparing for this competition by following the MAA’s Curriculum Inspiration program by MAA ambassador Dr. James Tanton. This program teaches students 10 problem-solving strategies week-by-week.
I also invited students to take a practice test that, for many of the participants, was surprisingly intimidating and challenging. While the Mathletes Team has deep aptitudes and skills in various areas of mathematics, the practice test intensely covered a range of subjects from Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Trigonometry, Statistics, Probability, and deductive reasoning. I knew the students had not yet reached some of these topics in their coursework.
For the first time, the bright, skilled mathematics students were beginning to have self-doubt.
But, this is one of the reasons why I encouraged them to participate in the first place: To have the experience of getting hit hard to then get back up and continue! It was a perfect, real-life, personal lesson in perseverance and Learning from Setbacks.
It’s true in all areas of life, not just in a practice mathematics test: they will experience disappointment, and even failure. We just need to be ready for it, learn from it, and come back stronger and more prepared for success.
To emphasize this point, I decided to share a personal story with them. When I first took the Mathematics Subject GRE, I did not meet my own goals and expectations, and experienced self-doubt. Through hard work, I recovered stronger and ultimately found success. I was accepted to a PhD program. It was an effective moment of shared experience and gave students some much needed motivation.
One member of the Mathletes Team, Jaeda, experienced self-doubt after her practice test experience:
“I love to learn new things. We use math in other subjects, such as science to solve problems. When I told Juan about my practice test experience and how I questioned my math capabilities, he decided to share a personal story of his own math challenges to help me understand that I wasn’t the only one to feel this way… I was determined not to give up.
To me QFA is like a family. Mentors… really care about us. I feel a sense of belonging at QFA. It’s also fun to be in the community.”
– Jaeda, Mathlete
The students were energized, and took the initiative to organize extra practice with me outside of our regular Mathletes time. They focused on the process of learning mathematics and not on their performance. They demonstrated great initiative and maintained a growth-mindset!
I am immensely proud of our team. We are so much more than great scores. Our Mathletes team is about engaging in mathematical discourse, practicing skills in a mathematical context, learning how to deal with math anxiety by assessing our emotions when grappling with a tough problem or assignment, gaining strong confidence in math abilities, and collaborating with peers in a fun and challenging environment. We accept students of all skill levels, and foster an environment of sensitivity and support for our teammates.
Jaeda’s parents agree:
“[Juan] was 100% supportive, compassionate, and encouraging! This really helped Jaeda see that she would get over this bump in the road. The night before the AMC10, Jaeda assured us that she was fine and didn’t need our pep talk or reminders about test strategy. Her difficulty with the practice test and the conversations afterward helped her overcome her anxiety. It was as if a different person was taking the test. Jaeda is growing as a person and learning to try new things, take a risk and stretch into new experiences. It’s about math and so much more!”
– Melanie and Paul, Jaeda’s Parents
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The most popular and also well accepted element of commercialization of the net is the center to shop online. The convenience as well as comfort offered by on-line buying, along with numerous added benefits not readily available in physical stores have made the on the internet acquisition of products a choice in between all. Gone over here in short are a few of the qualities of purchasing items from buying internet sites.
Convenience and also comfort
Rather than needing to squeeze out dear time from busy routines just to visit busy industries and malls, waiting in line, not also sure that the desired products will certainly be available, modern consumers think about going shopping a task that can be completed easily any time, night or day, and from any type of place. The buyers can prevent the vacation rush by purchasing their items on the internet conveniently seated at home. The only effort needed of them is to log on to a buying site and easily locate products of their selection with the help of personalized search as well as arranging settings.
It is popularly understood that on the internet buying sites use items at relatively lower costs than physical shops, primarily because of the fact that the retailer, understanding that customer prefer to go shopping on-line mainly to spend much less, considerably minimize the costs by decreasing their very own earnings margins. Besides this, because of the consistent competitors between different web-stores, often updated price cut offers and also appealing bargains keep showing up routinely to magnetize bigger crowds.
The on-line shops use a multitude of choices in repayment choices, based on the consumers’ specific ease, consisting of charge card, cash-on-delivery and also cash transfer mobile apps. This center to pick an ideal and also reputable method of repayment keeps clients pleased. Even reimbursements in case of exchange or return are automatically attributed to the respective setting of settlement without any problem.
Tie-ups of on-line stores with leading cargo companies assure buyers of swift and responsible delivery of products, some retailers also using cost-free shipping in case of large orders, and also shipping on the same day as the positioning of the order.
Understanding effectively that you would certainly seek a product online mainly to get your hands on the very best online price cuts, the online shopping websites make use of the same products at much reduced costs than the physical shops. To add to the benefit of customers, a variety of repayment settings are offered at websites consisting of Credit history Cards, Cash on Distribution and even PayPal, together with speedy delivery, occasionally on the similar day, and even totally free delivery for large orders. There is no wonder that the number of online buyers has actually increased to the present height.
Fabulous bargains and discounts
In regards to bargains and also price cuts, on-line buying shops rack up really greatly over physical stores. Nearly daily, new deals as well as price cuts show up and many of people order them right away. Mostly all the online shopping destinations supply their regular customers with added advantages in terms of amazing deals as well as price cuts. Usually, the conscious, customers constantly subscribe the e-newsletter of their preferred shopping destination and get instant details concerning everyday offerings in their mailbox.
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California now requires businesses applying for a business license to show they have a national stormwater permit if one is required. Van Ness Feldman’s Andrew Cooper and EHS Support’s Maureen B. Hodson say compliance with the new law could delay business permits so businesses should consult environmental professionals early in the startup process.
A new law in California took effect Jan. 1 and requires industrial business owners applying to a city or county for a new or renewed business license to demonstrate enrollment in a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit, if it’s required.
This may seem rather pedestrian on its face, but the impact on California facilities is potentially significant and may even require retention of legal counsel and an environmental consultant in order to ensure compliance. Failure to comply will result in delay or denial of a business license, effectively prohibiting the business from starting its operations.
Stormwater Permits Still Required
What has not changed is that nearly all industrial facilities are typically required to obtain Industrial General Stormwater Permit (IGP) coverage. Industrial businesses, including but not limited to those operating facilities engaged in manufacturing, transportation, power generation, mining, recycling, sewage or wastewater treatment, landfill operations, or feedlots, are affected.
The IGP regulates industrial stormwater discharges and authorized non-stormwater discharges from industrial facilities in California. To do so, a facility must file a Notice of Intent (NOI) to comply with the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board). What has changed is that the new sections in the Water Code (13383.10) and the Business and Professions Code (16000.3 and 16100.3) apply significant teeth to these longstanding requirements.
The new law, SB 205, prohibits California cities and counties from issuing a new or renewed business license until and unless the applicant can show that it has obtained IGP coverage. In other words, failure to comply with the IGP program could conceivably leave a facility with no valid business license to operate (until it comes into compliance).
Obtaining permit coverage typically requires the business to draft a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), likely involves the assistance of a Qualified Industrial Stormwater Practitioner (QISP), and could also require taking steps to determine pollutant sources and levels and manage storm water discharges. The business owner must enroll the business under the IGP using the Stormwater Multiple Application and Report Tracking System (SMARTS).
90-Day Grace Period Optional
While a city or county can opt in to provide a business with a 90-day grace period, whether it does so is up to each individual jurisdiction. If the business falls within a regulated standard industrial classification (SIC) code, but the owner does not believe IGP coverage is required, the owner should contact the Water Board to determine whether the business qualifies for a Notice of Non-Applicability.
Businesses that are otherwise required to obtain coverage under the IGP but can certify that no industrial materials, equipment, or activities are exposed to storm water may be eligible for a No Exposure Certification. It is important to note that having a construction stormwater permit does not meet the requirements of SB205.
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Love has often been called the language of the heart, because it speaks both languages fluently. This is not only true in the verbal sense, but also in the non-verbal sense. The heart is able to speak the language of love even without uttering a single word. It can express itself through body language, touch, choice of accessories, facial expressions, and even behavior.
Love encompasses a broad range of positive and negative emotional and psychological states, from the highest sublime ideal, to the mildest personal pleasure, to the toughest conflict. Feelings range from being utterly pleased and joyful at the perfections of another, to feeling guilty and devastated at the downfall of a loved one. These are just a few of the emotions that one can experience during love. To further complicate the picture, there are feelings for friends, family, enemies, colleagues, acquaintances, neighbors, enemies, sexual encounters, and for many other objects and subjects.
Love allows us to share our most intimate thoughts, feelings, and emotions with another person. This sharing creates an intimate bond, which brings two people closer together than they were before. Love can vary from casual, light, and intimate gestures, such as touching your lover’s arm during a conversation, to deeper, more meaningful feelings, such as those experienced when you hold another person’s hand in yours. When intimacy is present between two people, their emotions become very real to each other, and their actions become more powerful and real.
However, love does not always lead to an enhanced level of intimacy. Sometimes, it can lead to feelings of loneliness and frustration, as well as negative emotions and behaviors. This is because feelings of love sometimes become associated with the exuberance of romantic love, which can be very powerful. The result can be depression, loneliness, anger, resentment, and other negative emotions.
While love is an important emotion, it is not unconditional love. One must choose to love unconditionally in order to experience true intimacy. Unconditional love, also known as kindness, does not demand that any reciprocation be experienced by either party. For example, although a mother does all she can to provide her children with love and attention, neither she nor her children will expect the mother to provide love and attention in return.
The above example illustrates that love and affection are closely intertwined with one another. However, one can choose to express love in different ways. It may be through words, or it may be through the things that you do to help others or protect them. Love is not always easy to describe, but when you connect with someone, you can feel the positive emotions that come along with that love, whether it is romantic love affection, or other types of affection. | <urn:uuid:9322b988-b4d9-4ca8-a2e8-9671490b4f57> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mainvibes.com/2021/09/14/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964502 | 555 | 3.03125 | 3 |
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder — tragically, just one of the countless murders of Black men and women due to police brutality — something has become abundantly clear: The American education system has failed to teach us the reality of American history. Not only are many events throughout Black history left unmentioned, but those covered in class are also completely White-washed.
As an individualized major in comparative literary and cultural studies, I have been studying race relations and the Black experience through the music and literature of the United States and Latin America since my first semester at UConn. It is only through these specialized courses that I have come to learn just a few of the troubling, yet accurate, facts that more accurately reflect the history of the United States of America. The following are just some examples that made the greatest impact on my understanding of the state of modern race relations in our country.
The role that continuing slavery played in the American Revolution
While it’s common knowledge that the debate over slavery was one of the major issues that caused the American Civil War, not many realize what an important role slavery played in the war that ultimately led to our country’s freedom. In the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, there were many slave rebellions throughout the Caribbean colonies owned by Britain, Spain and France.
These rebellions and the many newly freed Africans that came from them, along with the Somerset case of 1772 — in which the British Lord Chief Justice Mansfield declared that if a slave escaped while in England, no other man could lay claim to them, thus granting the escaped slave’s freedom — unnerved the American colonists, especially those in the South who relied on their booming export trade with Europe.
Since it seemed as though Britain was trending toward abolishing African slavery (with the country banning the transatlantic slave trade in 1807 and then eventually passing a bill to abolish slavery in 1833), this could have influenced the colonists to break from Britain and demand their freedom, thus inciting the Revolutionary War. My short summary of the theory is extremely simplified, but British historian Simon Schama wrote an entire book on the topic entitled “Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution.”
America’s modern day police force was descended from slave-catching groups
With recent increased awareness in cases of police brutality against Black people — the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd just to name a few — you’ve most likely been hearing the idea that the police force in the United States is a racist system. The modern-day police force descended from a very informal system that existed in Colonial America, most notably “night watch” volunteers whose main job was to watch for colonists engaging in prostitution or gambling.
In the South, the night watch’s job also included catching runaway slaves and stifling slave revolts. During the Reconstruction period, local sheriffs also implemented the same ideals as the earlier night watch groups, enforcing segregation and depriving newly freed Black people of their rights. It was only during the early 20th century, under President Hoover, that there was a push to professionalize these police forces. Thus, the night watch’s racist ideals were able to continue in the “professionalized” form of the police that we have today.
The FBI COINTELPRO’s role in the disruption of the Black Freedom Movement
The Civil Rights Movement is a part of the standard American History curriculum. However, the version of the Civil Rights Movement that is taught in schools across America is overly simplified and extremely White-washed. The Civil Rights Movement is part of a larger movement known as the Black Freedom Movement, which comprises both the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Black Power Movement. And yet, another thing that most history textbooks ignore is the role of the FBI, through their Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), in breaking up the Black Freedom Movement.
The FBI’s COINTELPRO was created in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party. After a group of activists broke into the FBI headquarters on March 8, 1971 and stole documents, it became clear that COINTELPRO was also working to explicitly break up Black activist activity through legal harassment, intimidation, wiretapping, infiltration, smear campaigns and blackmail. Martin Luther King Jr. was their No. 1 individual target, while the Black Panther Party was their No. 1 group target.
COINTELPRO was responsible for inciting violence during the Black Freedom Movement, most notably by murdering the young leader of the Chicago Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, in 1969. In an eerily similar way to the recent murder of Breonna Taylor, Hampton was shot and killed in an FBI-sponsored home raid while sleeping in his own bed next to his pregnant girlfriend. He was only 21-years-old. The PBS documentary series “Eyes of the Prize” does an incredible job of describing the true nature of the American Civil Rights Movement, including the role of the FBI COINTELPRO.
The true nature of Civil Rights Movement activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
From my personal public schooling experience, this is the general way Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were presented to me: MLK was a good, docile activist because he understood that nonviolence and meek solidarity were the ways to earn equality for African Americans (as well as being seen as the positive counterpart to the negative Malcolm X, which is a whole other issue), while Rosa Parks was a submissive old lady that one day decided she didn’t want to sit in the back of the bus. In reality, these descriptions of the two leaders couldn’t be further from the truth.
Parks, for one, was an activist her entire life, beginning her life’s work way before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks had served for years as the secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and her action of refusing to move to the back of the bus was anything but random. It was a strategic and planned act of civil disobedience.
Within this story, it’s important to note that Parks was not the first African American female activist to refuse to move to the back of the bus. Claudette Colvin was one of the first to do this, refusing to give up her seat to a White woman on March 2, 1955, months prior to Parks’ act of resistance. However, since Colvin was a pregnant teenager, it was decided she wasn’t the proper symbolic leader to rally behind. Parks was also an extremely vocal activist for women’s rights and sexual assault.
King also has a rich history of intersectional activism that is often not mentioned in standard textbooks. His work on racism and its connection with poverty is just one example of his work that has been criminally overlooked. In November of 1967, King announced the creation of the Poor People’s Campaign. King argued that while desegregation and voting rights were essential in the fight for equality for African Americans, this equality would never be fully reached without economic security.
The Poor People’s Campaign did not only include African Americans, but also American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and poor Whites. After King’s assassination in April 1968, the Poor People’s Campaign continued, with his wife Coretta Scott King taking on a prominent role in the movement. Scott King was an activist in her own right, yet her notable activism is another part of Civil Rights history that has been virtually forgotten. Again, the “Eyes on the Prize” documentary series describes all of this in great detail.
The extreme schooling and housing segregation that took place in the North
While our textbooks stressed the racial segregation in the South, especially in schools, they very rarely explained how segregation in the North became even more extreme. After Brown v. Board of Education, there was more pressure placed on Southern schools to desegregate, while in Northern states, segregation sometimes became even more rampant. A prime example of this is the Boston busing crisis that took place during the 1960s. The predominantly White schools in Boston had an abundance of materials, permanent teachers and smaller class sizes, whereas none of these things that led to higher success rates existed in predominantly Black schools. Furthermore, Boston bused White students to White schools in order to maintain the segregation in their school district.
A clause in the 1964 Civil Rights Act actually emphasized the continuation of segregation in the North. The clause draws a distinction between segregation by law, which is what existed in the South, and seemingly “natural” racial imbalances in the North, reading, “‘Desegregation’ means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but ‘desegregation’ shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.” This led many Northern cities to continue to bus White students to predominantly White schools, leaving Black students to stay in their inferior schools.
Continued school segregation was not the only negative to occur in the North. “Redlining,” or the policy of refusing to insure mortgages in or near minority-heavy areas, happened all throughout the North. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which was established in 1934, carried out this policy of redlining (literally marking minority-heavy areas in red on maps and deeming these areas dangerous to live in) as well as subsidized builders who created White-only housing complexes, explicitly stating these homes could not be sold to African Americans.
While this happened all throughout the North, one of the most clear-cut examples occurred right in Hartford, Connecticut. Although the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, making redlining on a racial basis illegal, there is evidence that redlining actively continued in the Hartford area until 1977. And even after explicit redlining stopped, the ramifications of the racialization of urban areas continues to be abundantly clear in the city. “The Color of Law,” a book by Richard Rothstein, does an incredible job of describing this phenomenon in much greater detail. What’s also important to think about are the present-day repercussions of this falsely deemed “de facto” segregation in schooling and housing in the North. The fact that this is often overlooked is one of the major reasons why segregation has been able to continue.
In no way is this an exhaustive list of Black history facts. These are simply just a very few of the many facts of American history neglected in our curriculum. I encourage you to continue to pursue this unlearning and relearning for yourself in order to better understand the current state of our country (and really, the world) as we know it.
It is through education that one develops empathy and awareness, which may ultimately lead to the change in mindset necessary in order to dismantle the system of racism that has descended from global colonization. By sharing facts and moving away from the learning of a White-washed national history, we can begin to implement long-lasting change. As Malcolm X said in a speech he gave on June 28, 1964, “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights … Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
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Al Jazeera's Daljit Dhaliwal recently visited Sturgis, South Dakota to report how Native Americans in the area feel the popular Black Hills Motor Classic motorcycle rally is threatening one of their sacred sites. While the rally provides an economic boost to the area, it's coming closer and closer to affecting Bear Butte, a site sacred to South Dakota tribes.
"For the Great Plains tribes Bear Butte is just as important as Mecca is to Muslims or Mount Sinai is to Jews," Dhaliwal says in the video.
Jace Decory, Lakota, says the situation has escalated because of a lack of awareness.
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Paradigm / Shift: Stories of innovation, shaped by intelligence.
From a corner building in central Bengaluru, a bunch of researchers are trying to crack the knottiest problems in computer science.
Found in Translation
India has almost 800 different languages. Here’s how artificial intelligence is trying to bridge the communication gap.
A new wave of Indian start-ups are thinking up innovative ways to deal with the climate crisis. Their tools are artificial intelligence and a whole lot of resolve.
For two decades now, fish have dwindled along Gujarat’s shores. So local fishermen have to go further out, closer and closer to danger: the unmarked, watery border between India and Pakistan.
Big data already changed the way cricket was being watched. Now, machine learning is transforming the way it’s played.
Man of Culture
A bacterium found on a remote Pacific island first became the obsession of a Punjabi microbiologist. It then became a wonder drug that gave hope to millions around the world.
In the mid-1970s, a remarkable cohort of women found themselves in Bombay. They believed there was more to science than labs and male geniuses. Some of them would pioneer the cause of feminist science studies in India. These are the women who paved the way for themselves.
The ‘disturbed areas’ and ‘illegal migrants’ of today’s India were yesterday’s ‘scheduled districts’ and ‘criminal tribes.’ The line between the past and present is straighter than you think.
Two trends mark the Great North Indian Wedding today. The first is gunshots. The second is orchestra dances performed by women artistes. Together, they’ve created a minor epidemic of crime headlines.
In places like Saharanpur and Buldhana, a rare genetic disease has been taking away control of bodies, lives and livelihoods from entire neighbourhoods. Against all odds, a few scientists and doctors are determined to ease the pain.
In the 1990s, most Pandits were displaced from the Kashmir Valley. The ones who remained are still fighting to be heard and seen.
Searching for Swadesh
On a June morning in 2006, a pathbreaking writer walked out of his home, never to be seen again. His friend and fellow writer is still looking for him and his words.
Shikar: the sport of kings, the symbol of colonial power play, legacy of an unfair age. But for a few years in independent India, it was also a source of income for a poor country—and a calling for the brown hunters, men trying to adjust to a changed world.
Forty years ago, there were two parallel movements in Bihar. One wanted a separate state. This is the centuries-old story of the second one: the movement for the independent country of Kolhan.
Political violence in West Bengal isn’t a new phenomenon. It isn’t dominated by election cycles. It doesn’t follow the same patterns as elsewhere in India. This is an explainer from those who’ve survived it for half a century.
He was a doctor on a tea estate in Assam. He studied at a prestigious college. Like thousands of other medical professionals in rural India, he was also not the person he claimed to be.
Ire on the Mountain
Some years before reality TV in India went full rogue, a primetime show had five civilians reach the basecamp of the world’s highest mountain. An oral history of ‘Mission Everest.’
Priya Ramani spoke up during 2018’s MeToo movement. A Union minister filed a criminal case against her. The consequences were severe—but also offered hope for the future.
How a generation of Punjabi giants rode the highs and lows of Indian basketball, guided by one slight Tamilian man.
Beyond Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah or Bose, the British Empire feared one revolutionary. This is the story of how MN Roy was chased around the world.
Rice, Fat, Meat, Streets
Why does biryani mean so much to so many people on the Indian subcontinent? The answers may be found on the streets of one of the world’s food capitals: Karachi.
The story of roughly fifty Sanjanas, how their parents decided to call them that, and the secret history of why Indians give their babies the names they do.
India’s marathon culture came of age thanks to liberalisation. It jump-started the career of many athletes, birthed new marketing strategies—and changed the lives of dozens of girls in a drought-prone village of eastern Maharashtra.
Liberalisation helped make India the world’s software capital. This is what it looked like to the men who built its most successful company, Infosys.
How the Cauvery was dammed, through the eyes of the project’s foremost champion, M. Visvesvaraya—and his fiercest critics.
For most of independent India’s history, President’s Rule was imposed on an average of 2.5 times a year. Now it’s rarely invoked. Here’s what changed the game for Indian federalism.
An Assam Border Police official and ex-serviceman, Mohammed Sanaullah was the model Indian citizen. Then his employers decided he wasn't.
Three boats, three men, and the Indian history of one of the world’s last great adventures.
A chef lifts the veil on his journey from home cook to TV stardom and the heat of the Indian restaurant kitchen.
For the nomadic Gujjar-Bakarwals of J&K, the abrogation of Article 370 came with a sliver of hope for their lands and livelihoods. But they’ve been losing both for years.
Not all new Indian cinema was born in Bombay, Calcutta or Madras. One pioneer helped build the Kannada movie world in Mysore. In the year of his birth centenary, this is the story of Shankar Singh.
The day India moved on from its national sport.
Monkeys and humans are fighting for space in Indian cities. Right now, it doesn’t look like a winnable war.
The internet was meant to transform how India falls in love. Instead, it revolutionised how we creep each other out.
Long before the people of Delhi had to worry about the climate apocalypse, a twister ripped through its university campus.
Indian scientists have been going to Antarctica for four decades. What exactly do they do there?
She aced independent India's first civil services examination. Then she made history by exposing the misogyny of the country's elite diplomatic corps.
Why Indians are still starving 75 years after independence.
Twenty years ago, a film about the bond between three posh Bombay boys changed the rules of Hindi cinema. Here’s an oral history of ‘Dil Chahta Hai.’
Over 50,000 Indians die of snakebite every year. We know how to save these lives—but producing the cure is easier said than done.
Hundreds of children from Bihar's Gaya district had been trafficked to Jaipur's bangle workshops. Then, a group of boys escaped against all odds.
Many in Pakistan have considered the sari a foreign item of clothing. Generations of Pakistani women have insisted on wearing it anyway.
Firebrand revolutionary, renowned administrator, betrayed communist icon. K.R. Gouri will go down in history as one of the tallest leaders of her time and place.
When it comes to life-saving, even India’s jingoists take modern medicine for granted. This is how that happened.
Stories from the spectrum of queer marriage in India, beyond the pale of law and identity.
Millions suffered through terror and upheaval in the turbulent years following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. One of them was a baby elephant from India.
The people of Banaras witness change coming to the city of ashes.
The Keeladi excavations may alter the world’s ideas about the earliest Indians. But progress hasn’t been smooth for one of the country’s most sensational archaeological projects.
Politics, social tensions, and comedy all found a home in Tamil cinema. The Tamil meme needs all four things to work.
Everything you wanted to know about election forecasting but were afraid to ask.
How cricket got over one of the biggest scandals in its history.
India has big plans for new nuclear power plants. What does it plan to do with the old ones?
In 1974, India boycotted the most consequential tennis tie in its history. It was a moral victory, but it took its toll.
The changeover that revolutionised the Indian movie theatre, and the projectionists who watched it happen.
How Prohibition came to Andhra Pradesh, and how it’s going.
An oral history of ‘Mundian To Bach Ke.’
Evolutionary ecologists keep finding new species in the Western Ghats. Here’s how it happens.
Exactly thirty years ago, an Indo-Japanese contingent set off on an audacious rafting trip on the Brahmaputra.
What it’s like to grow up in one of the chess capitals of the world.
A brief history of the Tezpur mental hospital through epidemics, wars and partitions.
It’s shopping season, and you’re buying the same thing over and over again.
She was shunted out of the history of India’s most prestigious business school. On her birth centenary, a researcher redresses the record.
Name, place, animals: the things that keep horse racing alive in India.
One man’s quest to save a Nilgiris forest, and how it changed Indian environmental law.
From the jungles to the negotiating table, a short history of India’s longest-running insurgency.
An open letter to the Supreme Court changed the way many Indians thought about women’s rights. The rest should be history.
A dog’s life in Gurgaon? It’s not for everyone.
For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.
A personal history of how the internet came home, became magazine fodder, and changed a life
From an English chemist to YouTube cooks via refugees from Rawalpindi, how custard changed India’s sweet tooth
Aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India
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The Montana Army National Guard is gearing up for "Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20" later this year.
It will be the largest exercise of U.S.-based military forces to Europe in more than 25 years, and will show how effectively the United States can deploy a division-size combat-credible force from the U.S. to Europe in a short amount of time.
MTN News visited with Bravo Company of the Montana Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment during some of their regular training near Townsend on Monday. That training included detonating claymore mines, launching mortars, and firing shoulder-fired missiles.
“Moving into DEFENDER-Europe 20 I’m very confident that my soldiers will be ready,” said Captain Jon Bogden, Bravo Company Commander. “Obviously with the time constrictions of the Guard, we make the best of every training opportunity.”
The 163rd has a long history of service to Montana and the United States, dating all the way back to the 1900s. The unit fought in the Pacific during World War II.
As a member of the 163rd, Bogden has served in Iraq with Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn in Afghanistan.
The members of Bravo Company, and the rest of the National Guard, are more than just soldiers. In addition to serving in the Guard, Bogden is also a small business owner of a fitness center with his wife.
The Guard requires one weekend a month, two weeks a year. The rest of the time those soldiers work in a wide variety of professions, and often serve their communities in other ways. “Roughly about a quarter of my soldiers are 'red card' firefighters,” said Bogden.
National Guard members are often called upon to assist with disasters and emergencies, like flooding and wildfires. “We’re always available, we’re always ready” said Bogden. “I am extremely fortunate to be in charge of 135 soldiers that can accomplish any task that’s given to them.”
While overseas for DEFENDER-Europe 20 the soldiers will participate in the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge. Bogden says he’s confident his soldiers will rise to that challenge as well. | <urn:uuid:39650cc4-310c-492e-84b7-c196b6b2b6e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/military-matters/montana-army-national-guard-prepares-for-european-training-exercise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960843 | 474 | 1.625 | 2 |
Studying with a disability
Everyone should be able to study on as equal terms as possible. If you have a disability, you can apply for support in order to carry out your studies.
For example, you can get help through:
- Course literature in the form of speaking books
- A Resource room
- Extended exam time
- Alternative forms of exam
- A Computer in written examinations
Apply for support early
Apply well in advance to ensure that the support is in place when you start studies or for elements of the course. You apply by logging into the Nais system. There you need to fill out the application form.
You must attach certification confirming permanent disability to your application.
Once the application is received, the Swedish Defence University’s coordinator will contact you to book a personal meeting.
If you have a temporary injury or illness, you do not have the right to special educational support. Contact the Swedish Defence University's study and professional counsellors should you have questions.
Digital aids for studies
The Swedish Defence University offers a number of programmes that facilitate reading and writing work on computers. The programmes are available to all registered students.
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DIY or the Do-It-Yourself mindset is fast becoming a way of life around the world.
Thanks to the advent of social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and more, there have been ample resources available for those looking to be more adventurous when it comes to solving technical issues by themselves.
As content centered around DIY flourish, more and more people are taking matters that needed professional assistance into their own hands and trying to problem-solve independently.
Noticing this trend and realizing that there needs to be a supportive community to help this mindset grow and flourish, Malaysian-born Johnson Lam founded the KakiRepair community on Facebook.
Today, the community is 37,700 member strong and was even featured on Meta's Forward Together With Meta video.
We recently spoke to Johnson to gain a better insight on his vision and mission for KakiRepair.
Hey Johnson, can you share with me how the the KakiRepair community got started?
KakiRepair was started as a physical event in July 2017 with the aim to encourage people to repair their own broken items rather than throwing them away and ending up in landfills.
I had the idea to spin off KakiRepair as a community movement after struggling to scale and grow KakiDIY, which is a DIY community platform that inspires innovators to solve problems and create solutions.
After looking into the root cause, I found out that people are generally not ready to innovate or invent as the fundamental issue is towards not being able to diagnose or fix broken items.
After talking to the different community groups on why people are not fixing their own broken items, it boils down to these three reasons or excuses:
1. No tools.
2. No space.
3. No knowledge.
Hence, the KakiRepair movement was created to solve these three pain points; a space with tools and experts to help diagnose and teach repair.
What is it about DIY that you and your community love the most? How has this way of life impacted your lives positively?
The whole sense of satisfaction when you get something done by yourself, your own strength, ability, and basic tools is the very reason that made all of us love DIYs.
To add on to that is the collaborative spirit, and more problems and solutions can be achieved when people share their experiences and strengths. Seeing this in action motivated me to create more platforms and opportunities for communities to collaborate and share.
What are some mental models/mental frameworks you and your community often utilize to problem solve DIY-related issues?
1. Be curious to ask why and how.
It is always good to take a step back and ask why the problem occurred, and how can we solve it, and how to prevent it from happening again. That's how to ensure that the DIYs or repairs we've done remain sustainable, or else it might keep occurring again.
2. Be hungry to search, reach out, and seek answers.
It is normal to not know the answer to a question, especially when we haven't experienced the problem before. With the power of the internet, it is easy to do some quick searches online and find answers. There are no stupid questions out there, the only stupid thing to do is to not ask.
What are your plans to keep KakiRepair sustainable and how do you get funding?
With the guidance and coaching we received from the 2021 Facebook Community Accelerator Program, we locked down a few validated methods to keep KakiRepair both sustainable in terms of the knowledge sharing activities as well as financially.
In terms of the community growth, we've coined it with the Facebook Group that KakiRepair is primarily on, achieving over 90 percent active and engaged members posting, sharing and helping each other diagnose and fix issues. We then created a knowledge management platform to help manage and categorize knowledge more effectively.
For financial sustainability, I started off self funding the entire movement, but today we are monetizing online via the content that we've created, affiliation with partners, and sales of our own products (the KakiRepair repair kit) and merchandise. We managed to monetize from our lifeskill content that were made into workshops and classes, and with all this we are on track to be financially sustainable this year onwards.
And to create more impact and drive more activations, I've created the third version of the Makervan (a moving maker-space with tools to support repair activities and community outreach).
How can people help create a more sustainable environment through repair/upcycling/recycling?
It starts from one's self and from home. By repairing items, we are prolonging the lifespan of items to prevent them from going to waste. If it is beyond repair, upcycling will turn the items into to be something new, into another form or function that can continue to serve its purposes in different ways.
And last but not least, the raw materials from the items that potentially go to landfills can be recycled and remanufactured again. There are many recycling centers and e-waste recycling centers out there that can help take these items and recycle them accordingly.
What's your tip/word of advice for those who are new to DIY?
Dare to try. Take up the challenge and have fun! Don't worry about failing especially in repair work since it's already damaged in the first place. Don't be afraid to ask around and collaborate with others. We might not successfully repair the item or create something, but we will definitely meet someone new or learn something new along the way. | <urn:uuid:51de0ca3-c6b6-470e-b56c-2515ef6d308c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sea.mashable.com/tech/19380/this-malaysians-diy-facebook-group-grew-to-37700-members-in-just-3-years | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963572 | 1,156 | 1.554688 | 2 |
December 23, 2018
Contacts: Andrea Alday, 818-512-7628, firstname.lastname@example.org
WASHINGTON— Just before Friday night’s government shutdown, President Trump quietly released an executive order, threatening America’s National Forests and public lands with increased logging and seeking to eliminate both public input and environmental regulations affecting federal forest management.
The order uses recent wildfires to undermine designated wilderness and roadless area protections, even though decades of data show these lands are the most likely to exhibit healthy fire behavior. In fact, commercial logging and road building have been found to increase wildfire risk.
The Wilderness Society issued this statement from Mike Anderson, Senior Policy Analyst:
“We are disappointed that the Executive Order calls for more logging and less public involvement to solve the nation’s wildfire problems. Instead of promoting divisive legislation to weaken environmental laws, the administration should work with the new Congress to give the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior the funding they need to reduce fire risks and properly manage the national forests and public lands.”
The Wilderness Society is the leading conservation organization working to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. Founded in 1935, and now with more than one million members and supporters, The Wilderness Society has led the effort to permanently protect 109 million acres of wilderness and to ensure sound management of our shared national lands. Visit www.wilderness.org. | <urn:uuid:c914f373-bc79-493b-b8aa-1733df3c394c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://protectnepa.org/executive-order-forest-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930475 | 295 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A few nights ago, I couldn’t sleep and ended up watching a show about the construction of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. In the show, they mentioned that the design used approx. 50% the amount of steel used in the construction of the Empire State Building, which is half the height of the Burj Khalifa. That fact initially surprised me, before realizing it was a simply matter of improved design efficiency and building a better foundation which could tolerate higher loads. That concept brought me back to one of our principal philosophies we apply at OSSPT, which is to ensure we build a better foundation of movement quality, before we ever increase movement quantity. The foundation of physical therapy should be about correcting faulty movement patterns.
“Tarzan, to me, is the epitome of fitness. The guy is strong, agile and quick. He can run, jump, climb and swing through trees. If we take a person who moves well and put them on a Crossfit type of training program, we turn them into Tarzan. If we take that same program and give it to the majority of people in society who move poorly, we turn them into a patient.”
– Gray Cook
Faulty movement patterns are the underlying reason behind ALL chronic conditions and many acute injuries. Without fixing the foundation, we are fighting a losing battle and eventually the walls will come crashing down, whether that be a recurrence of previous injury, worsening of current symptoms, or simply developing a new injury complaint. The number one risk for musculoskeletal injury is a previous injury, clearly indicating that something we are doing in the rehabilitation process is wrong and insufficient.
Ever wonder why your hip or knee become arthritic on one side and not the other? Ever wonder why your neck or low back are not getting better with years of adjustments, massages, etc? Ever wonder how you developed bone spurs in your your foot, heel, hip, shoulder, etc? The most likely answer is that you moved incorrectly, year after year, until finally, you developed structural changes, and then pain. As Gray Cook asks, are you moving poorly because you are in pain? Or are you in pain because you are moving poorly? We know that structural changes begin before we start experiencing pain, and we know that structural changes happen when we move improperly; therefore, we know that faulty movements lead to pain overtime. Here’s the great news… we can change how we move and if we change how we move we have an excellent opportunity to eliminate the pain cycle once and for all.
Try this quick test… perform a squat just like the kiddo in the picture to the right. If you can’t do it as well as that infant, then you are predisposed to injury. It’s as simple as that. We must squat, lunge, walk, climb stairs, push, pull, reach, etc. with proper mechanics, not because we are attempting to be elite level athletes, but simply because we are human beings and we must successfully build a solid movement foundation before we can build the walls of strength, flexibility, etc. around it.
“Success is doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
– Jim Rohn
Not sure if you move correctly or not, schedule an evaluation with me and we will perform the Functional Movement Screen, a reliable and valid tool, to determine what weak links you may have that could eventually be the crack in your foundation, and then provide you with the proper tools to fix it before it becomes a bigger problem. | <urn:uuid:cbfda2e3-3907-42b9-9283-971f7699b9be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://osspt.com/tag/tennis-elbow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946458 | 737 | 2 | 2 |
Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy
Dr. Ronald Chase
Dr. Duane R. Hampton
Dr. Alan Kehew
Dr. Vic Torrey
Studies documenting the roles that geologic materials and groundwater play in Great Lakes bluff recession are rare. This study reports findings concerning relationships between bluff lithology, bluff hydrology, and bluff recession along a 10-mile stretch of eastern Lake Michigan shoreline in heterogeneous Pleistocene deposes. According to a newly-developed, field-tested, GIS-based methodology, bluffs in the study area can be characterized lithologically as sand, clay, or mixed sand/clay, and can be characterized hydrologically as exhibiting either high head or low head.
Geotechnical analysis indicates that Atterberg limits, index properties, consolidation state, and drainage conditions affect the shear strength of bluff materials. Silty grey diamicton, a major constituent of clay-dominated bluffs, exhibits high undrained shear strength, and 0’ = 28°. Laminated, fine-grained clay, a major constituent of mixed sand/clay bluffs, has very low undrained shear strength, and 0’ = 20°. Sandy bluffs in the study area exhibit a range of effective stress failure envelope angles: 3 4 ° < 0’ < 43°.
Comparison of bluff characterization with historical recession patterns indicates that bluff lithology and hydrology influence recession. Mixed sand/clay bluffs with high hydraulic head were found to have receded up to 100 feet (30.0 m) over the long term (1938 to 1996), whereas bluffs characterized as all clay or all sand receded 50 feet (15.0 m) or less during this time. Over the short term (1989 to 1996), a period in which Lake Michigan water levels were not unusually high, mixed sand/clay bluffs were the only ones in the study area to show measurable retreat (> 4 feet, 1.2 m).
Results of Factor of Safety analyses performed upon bluffs at six field sites suggest that effective stress-based analyses that reflect long-term, drained conditions may be most appropriate in modeling recession in sandy bluffs of both high and low head, mixed sand/clay bluffs of both high and low head, and diamicton bluffs with high head. Diamicton bluffs with low head are apparently not destabilized by groundwater; in this case, total stress-based Factor of Safety analysis may be an alternative method for modeling recession.
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we finally assambled our GoPiGo2 (from kickstarter) but we have a problem - nothing happened after ethernet cable connection.
Leds are not blinking at all, only after poweron they blink for the very short moment.
I tried with 3 different computers: Win 8,1 and Win10, i changed cable - nothing helped.
I had a similar problem, due to weak batteries. If the 8-battery pack puts out around 8.5 Volts, that’s not enough. Fresh batteries should show around 12.5 Volts.
Another possibility is that the microSD card didn’t get set up right. If you power up the Raspberry Pi card from a 2V (or higher) usb charger, and connect through the HDMI video port and a USB keyboard and mouse, you should see a more-or-less normal Raspberry Pi display (the icons will be different, no Mathematica, etc.) Then set up your LAN connection (WIFI or Ethernet) for SSH, and you should be good to go.
I use almost new original NI-MH eneloop 1.2v min1900 mAh, i don’t think it is a problem. Btw i used wall adapter - no changes.
SD-card is empty (no visible files in explorer), is it Ok?
I take it you’re using a Windows computer, so it probably won’t recognize the files on the SD card. Can you hook up a television or monitor to the Raspberry Pi and see if the card boots up into the desktop?
If not, or if that isn’t a possibility, how did you put the OS image on the SD card? (Or did you get a preloaded card?) On Windows, they recommend using the Win32DiskImager program to set up the card - see http://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/install-raspbian-for-robots-image-on-an-sd-card/.
I tried to connect monitor - nothing happened. I’ve got preloaded card, but it is empty 7.38 free from 7.38gb, now i’m trying to install raspbian on it
Just as well, I had a preloaded card that dated back to January - the most recent OS image is April, and runs the newer “Jessie” kernel. Also supports my RPi 3’s wifi card.
Should i make this after first install “The first time you run the new SD Card in your Raspberry Pi, you should make a few adjustments.” or just put it in?
Sorry for noob questions, thi is my first arduino.
I think the “first time” stuff allows you to configure some things, for example if the SD card is bigger than 4GB it’ll make use of the additional space. Go ahead and do that, it shouldn’t hurt anything.
Umm, this isn’t an Arduino, is it? That’s a different brand and design of single-board computer, doesn’t have a micro-SD card slot (and is usually a blue circuit board). Not a generic name, even if my department chair seems to be unclear about that
thx for help, now it looks ok!
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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, “My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is.” Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.
from the book Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa
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Further quotes from the book Ocean of Dharma:
- The beauty of totality
- Capable of dealing with reality
- Restless mind
- Illuminating life
- The natural beauty of meditation
- Rejoicing whenever there is an obstacle
- Enlightenment Is Irritatingly Possible
- Work of art
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#TechBytes: New features coming on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Google is making its office software easier to use for G Suite users around the world. The company has announced a bunch of updates for its Docs, Sheets, and Slides mobile apps, promising a range of features to help you work seamlessly and efficiently, even from your home. Let's take a look at everything Google has announced.
First and probably the biggest change is the integration of AI-powered Smart Compose on the Android and iOS apps of Google Docs. The feature, first introduced two years ago in Gmail, deploys machine learning to learn from users' writing style and automatically suggest them appropriate words and phrases to complete sentences. Google claims it saves 3 billion keystrokes every week.
Along with Smart Compose, the Docs app will also get link previews. The feature will show a dynamic card under a public link, mentioning its title, description, and visual thumbnail. This will help you directly understand the content and information on the site and save the trouble of clicking through and opening a fresh web page.
Google is also adding a single unified interface to access comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps. The feature will end the mess of selecting each comment individually and enable you to "scroll through and respond to comments" more easily in a larger, clearer area. It also offers a quick access button to reply and mention others.
Google is also bringing the much-needed ability to view, edit, comment, and collaborate on Microsoft Office files within Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The feature had already debuted for G Suite users on the web and is now coming on Android and iOS, with the release for Android coming first and iOS following sometime later this year.
Finally, to help you review presentations quickly and seamlessly, Google is bringing vertical navigation in Slides. The feature will let you scroll through a presentation in a breeze, and pinch-and-zoom to examine its content. This, as Google explains, will be helpful in taking a quick look at all the slides at once, and making quick last-minute changes if needed. | <urn:uuid:1b74173a-c23c-4d0e-9376-6e099abb5037> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/news-features-coming-on-google-docs-sheets-slides/story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938391 | 443 | 1.5 | 2 |
- Chili pepper boosts microbiome diversity
Beneficial bacteria produce short-chain fatty acids by fermenting fiber in the gut, which intestinal cells use as energy to absorb minerals, reduce inflammation, and aid metabolism. In the lab, doctors introduced chili pepper capsaicin into human gut microbiota and found regular capsaicin changed its structure by increasing diversity and certain short-chain fatty acids, particularly butanoic acid.
Discussing the findings, doctors said “The microbiota changes may be responsible for the health benefits associated with consuming chili pepper capsaicin.”
Nutrients; 2022, Vol. 14, No. 6, 1283
- Prebiotics boost iron absorption
In the lab, doctors gave iron-deficient rats the prebiotics fructo- and galacto-oligosaccharides (FOS, GOS) at no, 3, 5, or 10 percent of total calories. After 21 days, GOS doses over 5 percent improved iron status, with greater improvement at higher doses.
Doctors said, “For the first time, we show evidence that increasing doses of GOS improve iron absorption and gut microbiota, even with the less-bioavailable ferric citrate form of iron, suggesting a positive role for GOS in reducing iron-deficiency anemia in children.”
Reference 2: Molecular Nutrition & Food Research; 2022, Vol. 66, No. 10, 2101064
- Wild blueberry speeds wound healing
An earlier study treating human umbilical cord cells with blueberry extract increased new blood vessels and sped cell repair. In this lab study, doctors treated open wounds in rats with a topical gel containing wild blueberry phenolic extract or a placebo.
Wild blueberry increased new blood vessels by 20 percent, and wounds closed 12 percent faster than placebo. Wild blueberry, which is all natural, inexpensive, and without side effects, may help heal chronic wounds by promoting new blood vessels.
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Inventions don’t typically occur by accident or in a random order: science and know-how progress in a really logical way, with each new discovery main on from the final. His book ‘One Straw Revolution’ talks about fashionable agriculture exploiting soil excessively making it infertile piece of wasteland. Cellphones have however led to the expansion of the ‘texting’ tradition and it’s execrations of our language and dialog abilities however it’s only a small worth to pay for the networking of the human race.
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invent the CCD (cost-coupled gadget): the sunshine-sensitive chip used in digital cameras, webcams, and other fashionable optical gear. The common thread in these examples, is that there is nothing fallacious with the modern technology, it is the implementation that requires attention!
Weco-Travel is an progressive company, oriented in direction of technological solutions permitting the customer to be serviced in a comprehensive method and in compliance with clients’ expectations. His essay ‘Mohandas Okay. Gandhi: Citizenship and Community for an Industrial Age’ discusses of Gandhi’s view on know-how.
However with our brains now underneath such widespread assault from the trendy world, there is a hazard that that cherished sense of self might be diminished or even lost. This technology is comfy with technology, thus it logically follows that know-how may be a great tool in connecting with and teaching them.
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How to get the youth involved in agriculture?
With farming populations aging, there is a need to engage youth in agriculture by making it attractive for them to be involved. This entails giving them access to knowledge, information and education on agribusiness, and access to land, financial services, and markets in ways that fit their interests and skills.
What did agriculture allow early Americans to do?
- North Carolina
How did early agriculture develop and spread?
In Europe agriculture developed through a combination of migration and diffusion. The oldest sites with agriculture are along the Mediterranean coast, where long-distance population movement and trade could be easily effected by boat.
How agriculture changed the world?
“Farmers and ranchers are on the frontlines and have an important role to play in driving solutions that could deliver a host of benefits, including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity and a resilient food system. We need to help bring natural and technological innovations forward to tackle climate change together.”
What was the agricultural revolution?
All that changed in the 18th century with the agricultural revolution, a period of agricultural development that saw a massive and rapid increase in agricultural productivity and vast improvements in farm technology.
Who invented the seed planter?
Seed planters for corn came somewhat later, as machines to plant wheat successfully were unsuited for corn planting. In 1701, Jethro Tull invented his seed drill and is perhaps the best-known inventor of a mechanical planter.
What happened between the eighth century and the eighteenth century?
Updated August 11, 2019. Between the eighth century and the eighteenth, the tools of farming basically stayed the same and few advancements in technology were made. This meant that the farmers of George Washington’s day had no better tools than the farmers of Julius Caesar’s day.
When were drills invented?
American manufacture of these drills began about 1840. Seed planters for corn came somewhat later, as machines to plant wheat successfully were unsuited for corn planting. In 1701, Jethro Tull invented his seed drill and is perhaps the best-known inventor of a mechanical planter.
Did textile mills have free land?
Additionally, there was a good supply of free land or land that was practically free. Wages were high enough that many could save enough to buy their own land. Workers in textile mills often worked only a few years to save money, buy a farm or to enter some business or profession.
How long has agriculture been around?
It is thought to have been practiced sporadically for the past 13,000 years, 1 and widely established for only 7,000 years. 2 In the long view of human history, this is just a flash in the pan compared to the nearly 200,000 years our ancestors spent gathering, hunting, and scavenging in the wild. During its brief history, agriculture has radically transformed human societies and fueled a global population that has grown from 4 million to 7 billion since 10,000 BCE, and is still growing. 3
How did farming help the population?
5 More abundant food supplies could support denser populations, and farming tied people to their land. Small settlements grew into towns, and towns grew into cities. 1.
What was the dawn of civilizations?
Dawn of civilizations. An ox-drawn plow prepares a rice paddy field in Vietnam . The plow and the various improvements upon its design were innovations that transformed human history, allowing farmers to cultivate land with a fraction of the labor they once used.
What is the name of the wild food that nourished our hunter-gatherer ancestors?
Left to right: Gingerbread plum ( mobola ), baobab seed, carissa fruit. These wild foods, native to Africa, may resemble the fruits, nuts, and seeds that nourished our hunter-gatherer ancestors. There is growing interest in cultivating these “lost” crops on a larger scale—the carissa fruit tastes a little like cranberry …
What was the difference between hunter-gatherer and agriculture?
Whereas hunter-gatherer societies generally viewed resources as belonging to everyone, agriculture led to a system of ownership over land, food, and currency that was not (and is still not) equitably distributed among the people. 1,16.
What did people who didn’t need to be farmers do?
Those who didn’t need to be farmers took on roles as soldiers, priests, administrators, artists, and scholars. As early civilizations began to take shape, political and religious leaders rose up to rule them, creating classes of “haves” and “have-nots.”.
When was the plow used in Egypt?
Grave chamber of an Egyptian public official, circa 1250 BCE. The plow is believed to have been used as early as 4,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Although it brought tremendous gains in short-term productivity, it has also been a major contributor to soil erosion.
What was the agricultural age?
Thus the Agricultural Age began. During the Agricultural Age most people were merchants, craftspeople, farmers, or farm workers.
Why did people work for themselves during the Industrial Age?
Few people worked for themselves due to the large expenses of owning the large equiptment in factories.
Where did early agricultural societies develop?
In the Old World, settled life developed on the higher ground from Iran to Anatolia and the Levant and in China in the semiarid loess plains and the humid Yangtze valley.
What was the main crop of Sumer?
Sumer’s Early Dynastic Phase began about 5000 bp, a century or so after the development of a nuanced writing system based on the Sumerian language. Barley was the main crop, but wheat, flax ( Linum species), dates ( Phoenix species), apples ( Malus species), plums ( Prunus species), and grapes ( Vitaceae species) were also grown.
How long did horses live in Ukraine?
The horse, which was probably domesticated about 6000 bp by pastoral nomads in what is now Ukraine, did not displace the heartier onager as a draft animal in the region until about 4000 bp.
What was the agricultural produce of the Temple?
Agricultural produce was allocated to temple personnel in return for their services, to important people in the community, and to small farmers. The land was cultivated by teams of oxen pulling light unwheeled plows, and the grain was harvested with sickles in the spring.
How were oxen and onagers drawn?
They were drawn by oxen or onagers (wild asses) that were harnessed by collars, yokes, and headstalls and controlled by reins and a ring through the nose or upper lip and a strap under the jaw. As many as four animals, harnessed abreast to a central pole, pulled a wagon.
Where did farming originate?
Some of the earliest evidence of farming comes from the archaeological site of Tell Abu Hureyra, a small village located along the Euphrates River in modern Syria. The village was inhabited from roughly 11,500 to 7,000 B.C. Inhabitants of Tell Abu Hureyra initially hunted gazelle and other game.
When did humans start farming?
There was no single factor that led humans to begin farming roughly 12,000 years ago. The causes of the Neolithic Revolution may have varied from region to region.
What were the first crops domesticated in the fertile crescent?
Plant domestication: Cereals such as emmer wheat, einkorn wheat and barley were among the first crops domesticated by Neolithic farming communities in the Fertile Crescent. These early farmers also domesticated lentils, chickpeas, peas and flax.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Neolithic Age. The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the New Stone Age. Neolithic humans used stone tools like their earlier Stone Age ancestors, who eked out a marginal existence in small bands of hunter-gatherers during the last Ice Age.
What is the process by which farmers select for desirable traits by breeding successive generations of a plant or animal?
Domestication is the process by which farmers select for desirable traits by breeding successive generations of a plant or animal. Over time, a domestic species becomes different from its wild relative. Neolithic farmers selected for crops that harvested easily.
How did the Neolithic Revolution help the Iron Age?
The Neolithic Revolution led to masses of people establishing permanent settlements supported by farming and agriculture. It paved the way for the innovations of the ensuing Bronze Age and Iron Age, when advancements in creating tools for farming , wars and art swept the world and brought civilizations together through trade and conquest.
How did the Neolithic era begin?
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The first principle of Unitarian Universalism is recognizing the inherent dignity and worth of all people. Events of the last year (ish) have challenged that idea for me. I think your dignity comes from how you live your life. How you carry yourself, represent yourself. Your observable integrity is the source of your dignity. Something like that anyway.
And your worth is what you bring to the world, whatever size your world is. It may well just be you. What value do you bring yourself?
These are not inherent qualities. They’re derived, consequences of beliefs held and actions taken. This can’t be what UU means. This is my crisis of faith, and here is my first attempt at a partial solution. (It’s after midnight and I’m having terrible insomnia. Stream of consciousness follows.)
If you have in your inventory a Narcan spray, and you find someone who has had too much heroin, you do not consider how valuable the person is, for any definition of “value,” before giving them the Narcan and calling emergency services. There are no conditions attached; someone will die if you don’t intervene, so you intervene, and that’s that.
What is it about that person’s life that makes the choice for you? Whatever it is, that must be their “inherent worth”, or at least one part of it.
If someone is facing charges, no matter the crime, no matter the evidence, we give them a fair trial. (Well, we pretend to, anyway.) What is it about them that guarantees the right to a trial? Even if they enter the courtroom and there’s no question what they’ve done, all the procedure is still followed. Whatever it is, I’m calling it their “inherent dignity” (or at least one aspect of it). No disgrace takes it away. But what is it?
I believe the answer is diversity. There is no other human like that one, and for that reason alone, they’re worth saving. That’s the part of their worth and dignity that is inherent. | <urn:uuid:6055c897-653c-4cb8-adf5-6430cc25da1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.naptastic.com/2020/07/14/inherent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957478 | 452 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Representations of polar bears in tourism: Exploring power relations through discourse analysis
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Historical and contemporary relationships between human beings and polar bears are dynamic and complex, and the lives of these two animal species continue to be intimately intertwined in the tourism context. The polar bear viewing industry increasingly relies on the (re)creation, dissemination, and maintenance of particular meanings and natures of polar bears and human-polar bear relationships for economic benefit, raising concerns about how power is circulated and negotiated through representations of polar bears in tourism promotional materials. This paper explores how the polar bear viewing industry constructs or portrays polar bears, and the social effects of these portrayals, through an examination of tourism promotional materials associated with Churchill, Manitoba, the self-proclaimed “polar bear capital of the world.” Informed by ecofeminist theory, the author explores how tourism supports and/or resists the gendered exploitation of polar bears—a social issue that intersects gender and species studies. Employing Foucauldian discourse analysis, three “kinds” of qualitative and visual texts were discursively analyzed, along with the socio-cultural context within which these texts are embedded: websites of 17 tour operators offering polar bear related tours or tourism activities in Churchill; polar bear tourism related online marketing campaigns of two (crown) tourism corporation, Travel Manitoba and the Canadian Tourism Commission; and promotional materials (e.g., postcards, souvenirs, brochures, signage, etc.) collected or observed during the author’s nearly four week stay in the town of Churchill. The author’s reflexive engagement with her own Churchill researcher/tourist experience informs, and is weaved into, this discourse analysis. The paper shows how various representations of polar bears and the depictions of human-polar bear interactions are not impartial, but embedded contextually and within an intricate web of power relations. The author reveals how these representations express highly objectifying messages, the marginalization of polar bears and their subjective experiences, the imposition of hegemonic gender roles onto the lives of polar bears and a gendering of their environment, and an exploitative attitude toward these animals. Analysis further reveals an interspecies relationship that engages limitedly (if at all) with the notions of care, connectedness, kindness and compassion espoused by ecofeminist philosophy. The author argues for the importance of addressing the issue of species inequality, power abuse, and domination when envisioning sustainable and ethical engagements between human and other-than-human animals in wildlife tourism contexts.
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Olga Yudina (2014). Representations of polar bears in tourism: Exploring power relations through discourse analysis. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8755 | <urn:uuid:dae2e53a-9f0b-434d-8c0c-74caf26f8497> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/8755 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.887068 | 588 | 2.265625 | 2 |
For all of you American patriots, we will be posting interesting articles from other sources that you may find interesting. Topics will include our Founders, the Constitution, the American Revolutionary War and many others.
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What Makes You A Patriot
by Ben Domenech
What makes you a patriot? There are so many things on the 4th of July that inspire us – today, we asked our contributors to share the odd little found elements of patriotic flavor which extend into our lives from surprising sources and inspire us on a day to day basis. Here are just a few, and we encourage you to share your own.
Official National Motto of the United States
In 1956 the President approved a Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress declaring "In God We Trust" as the official national motto of the United States of America. Each of the 50 United States also has an official motto (all state mottos).
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Because of their similar spellings and pronounciations, the words perpetrate and perpetuate often get mixed up by writers despite having different definitions and uses. This post will try to help you identify these differences in order to use these terms properly.
The word perpetrate is used as a verb meaning “to bring about or carry out something, such as a crime or deception” or “to produce, perform, or execute something likened to a crime.” Among its conjugations are perpetrates, perpetrated, and perpetrating.
Utilities Knew About Climate Change In 1968 and Perpetrated An ‘Ongoing Deception,’ Report Says
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Cyber bullying: easy to perpetrate, hard to stop
Sydney Morning Herald
Media allowed Theranos to perpetrate a ‘scam’: Sam Waksal
On the other hand, the term perpetuate is used as a verb meaning “to make something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief, continue indefinitely” but may also mean “to preserve something valued from oblivion or extinction.” Its conjugations include perpetuates, perpetuated, and perpetuating.
How sexist Hong Kong adverts perpetuate gender stereotypes…
South China Morning Post
Jacob Lacey’s commitment helps perpetuate Notre Dame’s surge in defensive line recruiting
Notre Dame Insider
Evictions perpetuate Baltimore’s cycle of poverty
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Years ago, bedding choices were simple: straw or sawdust. But today there are a plethora of bedding products to pick from. Before ordering your next truckload of bedding, check out all of the options available.
For many horse lovers, there’s something about the sight and smell of a stall freshly bedded in bright yellow shavings that just makes us feel at home. However, the look of a freshly cleaned stall may be changing: many companies offer alternative bedding products along with claims of improved absorption, decreased dust and less waste.
With all the decisions facing a barn manager, which bedding to use may seem relatively minor. But as Kirsten Johnson, owner of Kentucky Equine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center (KESMARC), points out, it is a serious decision. “Horses in stalls have no choice: proper bedding is not a option, it is the rule. Horses stay down longer and get a better quality of rest if they have a good bed.”
When considering bedding for your barn, there are several factors to ponder. The first is your horses’ needs. Those with allergies, COPD or similar problems may not be able to tolerate dusty bedding. Also consider the cost of purchasing the bedding as well as stall cleaning time. Think about how you will dispose of used bedding: some types compost more easily than others, and some kinds of bedding are difficult to spread with a manure spreader. Last, how will you store your bedding? Loose bedding and straw bales need a dry covered place, while bagged bedding may be stored outside on pallets under tarps. Finally, not all types of bedding are available in all areas, so unless you want to pay for shipping, look for products that are available locally.
Straw was once the normal bedding material for all barns and stables. At that time, it was cheap and easy to find, and was the only option available. However, straw does not absorb urine well. It generates a lot of heavy waste and creates huge compost piles that decompose slowly. Today, straw is not easy to find in many areas, so outside of Kentucky, it is rarely used except in foaling stalls. Prices range from approximately $2 per bale in areas where straw is commonly produced to $10 or more per bale in other locations.
Sawdust and Shavings
Sawdust and shavings are currently the most common bedding types. Some cabinet makers and lumber yards give away sawdust if you are willing to haul it away. Sawdust soaks up urine well and stall waste can be spread on fields or composted. However, sawdust can cause problems for horses with COPD or other breathing conditions. Additionally, sawdust sometimes contains large chunks of splintered wood or other trash that’s not healthy for your horses.
Although dusty, shavings generally aren’t as bad as sawdust. You may be able to buy them in bulk and have them delivered, or several stores sell compressed baled shavings. Like sawdust, they absorb urine well, and baled shavings are easy to haul to horse shows or clinics, so you can comfortably bed your horse even when not at home. Cost for bulk delivery varies with the amount you order and your area. Bagged shavings generally cost between $4 and $6 per bag.
Jennifer Brooks of Equine Rehabilitation Services, LLC in New Hampshire uses rubber mats on top of sand, topped with pine shavings to provide plenty of cushioning for horses at her rehabilitation center. In addition to providing added cushioning, mats also protect floors from the wear of horse hooves, especially horses who pace or paw. Another advantage is you can use less bedding with mats since the mats provide cushioning, and bedding is needed only to absorb moisture. There are many types of mats available, and prices generally start at $250 to $300 per stall. Besides rubber mats, many companies have other flooring options, from rubber pavers to interlocking systems that hold in the bedding better. And like rubber mats, these options help save on bedding and labor.
Wood pellet bedding is gaining popularity among horse owners. This bedding is made of shavings and sawdust that are processed to extract the moisture and oils. The material is then compressed into small pellets and sold in bags. Once the bedding is spread into a stall and watered with a hose, it expands into a fluffy sawdust bed. It absorbs urine well and then dries again. It produces less waste and many people find it easier to clean. This bedding also composts more quickly than shavings, sawdust or straw. The downside is that you must keep the bedding slightly damp or it generates dust. It also generally costs more, but that cost is offset, since you can use less bedding. The cost is generally between $5 and $6 per bag.
Shredded Paper and Cardboard
Although not available everywhere, bedding made of shredded paper or chopped cardboard is gaining popularity. It is lightweight and practically dust-free, making it a great choice for horses with COPD and other allergies. It also absorbs urine well and decomposes well in compost piles and as long as it contains no foreign materials, it is safe for horses. These beddings don’t work well in manure spreaders, but waste can be burned. This product often costs more than traditional bedding, but those who use it say it lasts much longer and provides a great deal of cushioning for the horses. The cost for shredded paper or chopped cardboard bedding starts around $6.50 per bag.
Although more commonly used overseas, peat bedding is another alternative stable owners may consider. Peat bedding is very absorbent and composts quickly, but it is not as attractive as shavings or straw. However, peat bedding is hard to find, and since is absorbs urine so well, it can become very heavy and make stall cleaning difficult and tiring. Costs vary depending on your location, and peat bedding is almost impossible to find in some areas.
The rice hull (also called husk) is the outer covering of a rice kernel that is removed during rice milling. Rice hulls can be used in the place of sawdust or shavings as bedding. Manufacturers claim that rice hulls are less dusty and more absorbent than shavings. Rice hulls are generally sold in bulk, and price varies by location and amount purchased.
Bedding manufacturers continually strive to create quality products for horse farms and stables. They understand that barn owners want clean products with little dust that are easy to clean and create less waste. Watch for bedding products to continue to evolve, and evaluate your operation and needs so that you can change to better products as they become available. | <urn:uuid:39ae3e1c-687a-423e-be49-8e1703b36fc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stablemanagement.com/articles/the-bedding-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957009 | 1,453 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Its perhaps a measure of Ludwig Wittgensteins genius as well as his enigma that the volume of writing about him is almost comically disproportionate to the volume of writing by him. Before his death in 1951, Wittgenstein had published a total of one book, one article and one book review (the review was written when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge). Described by another philosopher as a spellbinding and somewhat terrifying person, he was intensely lonely, and he dedicated his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to David Pinsent, who died in a plane crash in 1918, calling him my first and only friend.
Yet as Ray Monk observed in his biography, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990), memoirs even by those who barely knew him are countless, including recollections by the lady who taught him Russian and the man who delivered peat to his cottage. Economist Friedrich Hayek happened to be a cousin, and he wrote a remembrance that recalled the few times they met, when Wittgenstein toggled between eager conversation and sudden withdrawal, at one point sticking his nose in a detective novel, apparently unwilling to talk.
That Wittgenstein should turn from having plenty to say to having nothing to say was in keeping with his own Tractatus, in which he listed more than 500 numbered statements, delving into detailed logical formulations, before arriving at his terse conclusion: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Or, as Wittgenstein put it in his notebook in July 1916, What cannot be said, cannot be said!
Wittgenstein wrote this down for his private consumption, scribbling the declaration in the code he had used with his siblings when they were children. He had volunteered for the Austrian army, and in August 1914 began to keep his war notebooks, only three of which survived. On the right-hand (recto) pages he wrote in ordinary, uncoded script what would become the notes to a draft of the Tractatus, which would be published in 1921; on the left-hand (verso) pages he kept his secret, coded diary, which has now been translated into English for the first time by the poetry critic Marjorie Perloff.
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 is a strange and intriguing record illuminating when it comes to Wittgensteins preoccupations, his sexual anguish, his continuous struggles with his work in philosophy, along with his intermittent comments about his job in the military. (Like other writings by Wittgenstein that have been published posthumously, Private Notebooks is a bilingual edition, with German and English printed on facing pages.) Perloff also points out that unlike so many other war diaries, Wittgensteins includes very little about the larger stakes of the war itself. One exception is an entry that reads like a startlingly cheerful declaration that his own side was doomed: The English the best race in the world cannot lose! We, however, can lose & will lose, if not this year, then the next!
Nor did Wittgenstein share the average war memoirists sentimentality for his fellow soldiers. In fact, he seemed to despise them, only to clarify that what he felt wasnt quite hatred but disgust. Wittgenstein was from one of the richest families in the Austro-Hungarian Empire the habit of polite conversation is so ingrained in me! and his revulsion was immediate. My shipmates are a bunch of swine! No enthusiasm for anything, unbelievable crudity, stupidity & malice, he wrote a few days after enlisting, the first of many complaints about insolence and boorishness. More than two years later, he was still insisting that he was surrounded by viciousness!
If the people around him were one kind of problem, his philosophical work was another. It was an obsession and often a torment. Sometimes he was matter-of-fact: Did no work; Did some work; Worked pretty hard but without real confidence; Worked pretty hard but without much hope. He found he could think best when peeling potatoes, likening it to Spinozas day job grinding lenses. The Tractatus would prove to be a slender book, but using language to explore the limits of language meant that Wittgenstein had embarked on something painful and painstaking. I see details without knowing what role they will play in the whole, he wrote. For this reason, I also perceive every new problem as a burden.
He experienced his sexuality as a burden, too, writing elliptically about any possible relations with men but frankly (and frequently) about his masturbation (or lack thereof), an activity he associated with not getting enough exercise. Sometimes commentary on work and sex would run together: Will I find the redemptive thought? Will it come to me??!!Yesterday & today I masturbated.
In the second notebook especially, the punctuation gets noticeably idiosyncratic. Wittgenstein was partial to exclamation points and em dashes, sometimes doubling or even tripling them, interspersing them among other forms of punctuation, like ! . or !! or the mysterious .. Perloff cites one scholar who has argued that the long dashes represent forms of prayer. Wittgenstein, for his part, knew what he wanted them to do, at least in his published work. My sentences are all supposed to be read slowly, he once wrote. I really want my copious punctuation marks to slow down the speed of reading. Because I should like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
Perloff has already written a book about Wittgenstein, Wittgensteins Ladder (1996), in which she examined his poetry of ideas. Wittgenstein likely wouldnt have objected; he said that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, and he resisted traditional forms of argumentation, much to the disappointment of his mentor Bertrand Russell. I told him he ought not simply to state what he thinks is true, but to give arguments for it, Russell wrote in a letter to a friend, exasperated by Wittgensteins stubbornness when it came to the declarative statements in the Tractatus. But he said arguments spoil its beauty, and that he would feel as if he was dirtying a flower with muddy hands.
Guy Davenport once described Wittgenstein as someone who thought himself into subtler and deeper problems, and Private Notebooks shows the philosopher wrestling with this process in real time. His verso entry for July 24, 1916, recounts the experience of being shelled, and how much he wanted to keep on living; on the recto for that day he wrote, The world and life are one and Ethics and aesthetics are one sentences that would find their way into the final version of the Tractatus. The war meant that Wittgenstein and therefore his philosophizing had changed: My work has expanded its reach from the foundations of logic to the nature of the world.
This transformation comes across as bewildering and almost unbearably moving. The notebooks show the circumstances in which Wittgensteins mystical turn toward the end of the Tractatus was born not in an attempt to escape that world, but in a determination to immerse himself in it.
By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff
Illustrated. 218 pages. Liveright. $24.95.
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Puran poli is very famous in Maharashtra, a state in Western India. It is served during all auspicious occasions and during major festivals like Holi, Padwa etc. The poli is a flat, round bread. It looks like chapatti. The puran is the stuffing made out of jaggery and boiled, crushed chickpea lentils. The poli which serves as the outer covering for puran is cooked on a hot griddle. The puran is seasoned with aromatic spices, and puran poli together tastes awesome. The other adjoining states of western India have also learnt the art of making puran poli.
I’m sharing this Puran Poli recipe which I learned from my Dadi ma.
Cooking time: 1 hour
Preparation time: 10 minutes
- Chana dal or chickpea lentil (soaked in water for 4 hours)-2 cups
- Jiggery-2 cups
- Refined flour-2 cups
- Ghee-3 tablespoons
- Milk-1/2 cup
- Turmeric powder-3/4 teaspoon
- Cardamom powder-1 teaspoon
- Nutmeg powder-1/4 teaspoon
- Saffron-1 teaspoon
- Pressure cook chana dal until it softens. Drain out the excess water to get an absolutely dry lump of the cooked dal.
- Now add jiggery, mix and cook further; mash to get a soft paste.
- Add saffron, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and mix well.
- Remove from stove, make 20 balls out of the soft lump and keep aside.
- Mix refined flour, turmeric powder, ghee and milk and knead in to soft dough. Break the dough in to 20 equal sized balls.
- Grease your palm and flatten each dough ball on your palm to make a flat disc. Put the chana-jiggery paste in the centre of the disc and fold from all sides to cover up the paste completely.
- On a well-floured board, roll out each stuffed discs in to round flat breads using a rolling pin. All breads should be 4 inches in diameter.
- Roast the puran polis in hot dry girdle. Roast both sides thoroughly.
- Your puran polies are ready for serving.
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The Labour party has pledged free personal care for over-65s in England should it win the next general election. The pledge to help with dressing, washing and meals will be paid for by the state in England, and is estimated to cost £6bn a year.
Presently, those with savings of more than £14,250 have to contribute to the cost of home or residential help.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is set to announce plans today (Monday September 23) for a National Care Service, which would more than double the number getting state-funded help in their old age.
Labour said it would give more details of how it would be paid for in its election manifesto but the Conservatives said the opposition’s already extensive spending commitments meant” there simply won’t be enough money to pay for it”.
The shadow Chancellor will say cuts to care funding since 2010 have left a million people not getting the care they need and”87 people dying a day waiting for care”.
Scotland has already introduced it and Wales and Northern Ireland each provide some level of universal entitlement. In Wales the cost of home care is capped, while in Northern Ireland the over-75s get it for free.
What is more, how much impact the policy has depends on the threshold that is set for accessing it. Even in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the bar for getting help is set very high. Only those with the most severe needs get it.
Based on Scottish figures, Labour said the move could save those currently self-funding their care almost £10,000 a year while 70,000 fewer families would be liable for”catastrophic” lifetime care costs in excess of £100,000.
“The next Labour government will introduce personal care free at the point of use in England.”
Responding to the Labour Party’s expected announcement later today that they would, if elected, introduce free personal care for older people, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “The thousands of vulnerable older people who are left to fend for themselves every day without the care and support they need will welcome these proposals. Free personal care will help a lot more people with their day-to-day needs – this is the right and fair thing to do.
“This is a welcome commitment from the Labour Party but we need to see further details of how this would be delivered and how it would be paid for. It is the first step along the path to delivering the long-term reforms and funding required to abate the social care crisis, but this is an issue that has vexed successive governments and the detail here will be critical.
“It is also good to see Labour’s commitment to supporting our underpaid and overstretched social care workforce. Paying a living wage, offering training and improving working conditions will help attract, retain and look after those who care for the most vulnerable people in our society.
“However, whatever solutions are put forward by individual political parties will likely founder without cross-party input and support. This is one of the defining issues of our time and we need politicians from across the main parties to work together in the best interests of vulnerable older people, disabled working age adults and their carers.”
Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, said:
‘The social care system is not fit for purpose. Many older and disabled people who need help with basic tasks such as washing and eating are forced to rely on family, pay for care themselves or are unable to access care at all.
‘The case for reform is overwhelming and free personal care would be a good step. If funded properly, this will be simpler for people to understand and mean more people receive the help and support they need. But free personal care is not the same thing as free social care, and some people would still be left facing catastrophic costs of care.
‘Labour’s recognition of the importance of the social care workforce is welcome, but there is little detail in how those aspirations will be delivered and what it will cost. The lack of serious proposals to support working age adults is also disappointing. Working age adults account for around half of the public money spent on social care and they must not be forgotten when reforming the system.
‘Reducing the historic divide between means-tested social care and largely free-at-the-point-of-use NHS services could benefit thousands of people, but that does not necessarily require more services provided by local authorities. A properly funded new system should have space for public, private and voluntary sector care providers – a diversity that has been feature of social care for 30 years. Reforms to social care are desperately needed and should focus on creating a better funded and fairer system that delivers the quality of care that older and disabled people need and rightly expect.’ | <urn:uuid:7cabb661-1d14-472a-8d0b-ddb1139b5a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecareruk.com/labour-pledges-national-care-service-for-all-over-65s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969054 | 1,010 | 1.65625 | 2 |
ECCO’s QUANT-U project takes individual data to produce customised silicone midsoles via an in-store additive manufacturing process.
In the space of a few minutes, consumers receive a full digital analysis of their foot structure and the way they move. Shoes are then tailored to their specific requirements in a few hours.
A wearable sensor embedded in the soles of the test shoes collect data using gyroscopes, pressure sensors and accelerometers – as well as recording the temperature and humidity inside each shoe – to create a unique digital footprint.
This data is autonomously translated into geometries for in-store 3D printing of shoes based on each individual’s biomechanical and orthotic parameters.
“The biggest challenge was the fact that the sensors are very close to the ground, hidden inside shoes and covered by a human body – yet they need to send data from both shoes simultaneously to a connected device such as a mobile phone,” said Roberto Basile, a software engineer at CDP. “We needed to maintain reliable communication – using Bluetooth Low Energy – despite the human body acting as an obstacle to the wireless signals. The mechanical system inside the sensor had to be robust enough for people to walk on it, while the battery had to be small and last at least three days without being recharged.”
The first prototype of the wearable sensor was created by CDP and ECCO in under four months. The inbuilt algorithm filters the raw biomechanical data from the sensor into functional information. This data creates the input parameters for a 3D-printed customised midsole for individual customers in approximately two hours.
“Additive manufacturing offers the chance to create bespoke parts in series but this is rarely translated in a consumer product; most likely due to the complexity of the 3D models and a lack of measuring data to begin with,” said Patrizio Carlucci, head of ILE (Innovation Lab ECCO). “To solve this, we focused heavily on the digital capture and interpretation of motion and orthotic data, then made sure this experience would be no more complicated than trying on a shoe in the store and walking for a few minutes. We truly translated more than 50 years of shoe making experience into an algorithm.”
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"I-aș cumpăra acest ceas de mână tatălui meu."
Translation:I would buy this wristwatch for my father.
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If you ask about the "i-" in front, it is because it is "for my father", which in Romanian requires the dative case, for whom?, tatălui meu, and the extra "îi" (lui îi, to him) to determine the subject. Linked to another word that starts with a vowel, it contracts to "i-".
This sentence does not really work in English as a stand alone statement. In English it would normally be followed by a qualifying follow up such as "I would buy this wristwatch for my father IF I had enough money" or " I would buy this wristwatch for my father BUT he probably wouldn't wear it" | <urn:uuid:827d5a7f-8cd6-40e3-8532-3251474d29bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/22919756/I-a%C8%99-cump%C4%83ra-acest-ceas-de-m%C3%A2n%C4%83-tat%C4%83lui-meu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976799 | 202 | 2.5625 | 3 |
When Utah sued the federal government over the 2000 census, a census-taking technique called “hot-deck imputation” was on the hot seat. Utah was none too happy to have lost a representative based on its population estimate, so it argued that “imputation”—inferring who lives in a residence by looking at like neighbors—was essentially “sampling,” which is prohibited by statute.
At the oral argument, the Court seemed receptive to the State’s argument. But then Solicitor General Ted Olson stood up and tossed out the following “metaphor,” as he called it:
[Say] the Court asked the library of this Court to ascertain the number of books [. . .], but sampling was not permitted to do that, so that the librarian could not go to every third shelf, multiply, count the books, multiply by three and get the census.
But if the librarian went to those shelves and counted every particular volume and found that there was a space here on that shelf, a space this big on the next shelf, and a space this big on another shelf, for example, the imputation would be saying, “Well, all the books or the books right next to this are this size, and therefore that space a book is missing, so we know we have a book, and we will impute one book to that space or two books to [that] space.”
So that the sampling technique is completely discrete from the imputation technique.
The Justices’ skeptical tone softened. “I’d like to understand this better,” said Justice Breyer. “In the library, you look and see that everything around the book is a history book and so then you impute the characteristic of being a history book to the one that’s missing. That’s your analogy of what goes on here, is that right?”
As you can guess, the federal government eventually won the case.
Some say you should reserve your best analogies for oral argument, but by then it may be too late. That’s why many of the best-known brief-writers sprinkle in the occasional example or analogy that crystallizes an abstract principle, provokes the reader’s thinking, or both.
Perhaps the boldest and riskiest strategy is to pin your entire case on an analogy, as David Boies and Joshua Rosenkranz do below at the start of their recent Federal Circuit brief for Oracle in Oracle v. Google, a dispute over the Droid smartphone:
Ann Droid wants to publish a bestseller. So she sits down with an advance copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix—the fifth book—and proceeds to transcribe. She verbatim copies all the chapter titles—from Chapter 1 (“Dudley Demented”) to Chapter 38 (“The Second War Begins”). She copies verbatim the topic sentences of each paragraph, starting from the first (highly descriptive) one and continuing, in order, to the last, simple one (“Harry nodded.”). She then paraphrases the rest of each paragraph. She rushes the competing version to press before the original under the title: Ann Droid’s Harry Potter 5.0. The knockoff flies off the shelves.
J.K. Rowling sues for copyright infringement. Ann’s defenses: “But I wrote most of the words from scratch. Besides, this was fair use, because I copied only the portions necessary to tap into the Harry Potter fan base.”
Obviously, the defenses would fail.
Defendant Google Inc. has copied a blockbuster literary work just as surely, and as improperly, as Ann Droid—and has offered the same defenses . . . .
Although both Google and the court will no doubt poke holes in this whimsical analogy, the writing still puts Google on the defensive while affording Oracle and its lawyers a vivid and enduring theme.
Other times, you might weave an analogy into the body of your argument. Let’s take an example from a brief that some of the then-Justices said was the best they’d ever seen. The brief from Alaska v. EPA was written by Chief Justice Roberts, then just John Roberts, who suggested that deciding which technology is “best” for controlling air pollution under the Clean Air Act is sort of like . . . asking people to pick the “best” car:
Determining the “best” control technology is like asking different people to pick the “best” car. Mario Andretti may select a Ferrari; a college student may choose a Volkswagen Beetle; a family of six a mini-van. A Minnesotan’s choice will doubtless have four-wheel drive; a Floridian’s might well be a convertible. The choices would turn on how the decisionmaker weighed competing priorities such as cost, mileage, safety, cargo space, speed, handling, and so on.
Of course, not all analogies and examples need to strike at the heart of your case. Also consider giving readers a mental landmark for abstractions such as numbers, as Nancy Abell and a Gibson Dunn team did for Wal-Mart here:
[T]he district court concluded that their pay and promotion claims were representative of those that might be asserted under Title VII by each and every female Wal-Mart store employee in the United States over a six-year period—more than 1.5 million women, a group that outnumbers the active duty military personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force combined. The size of the putative class exceeds the entire population of at least 12 of the 50 States.
As Morgan Chu did for the abstract word “products” here in Tessera v. United Test and Assembly Center:
The truth is that United Test and Assembly Center would like to litigate this case in a vacuum, presenting it as a sort of bloodless logic puzzle in which accepting Tessera’s contract interpretation means that UTAC is paying on products (yo-yos? Chia pets?) that have little or nothing to do with any licensed Tessera patents.
And as Senator Ted Cruz, then the Texas Solicitor General, did with a bit of whimsy in a Ten Commandments case here in Van Orden v. Perry:
It is not at all clear how, standing in the midst of the Capitol Grounds’s many stone monuments, an observer would reasonably understand the State to be officially endorsing the command, “Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.” Nor is it clear how an observer would reasonably understand the State to be endorsing the command to “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” For example, no one would reasonably think that the State has adopted a position, one way or the other, on whether the Dallas Cowboys should continue playing professional football on Sundays or whether the Texas Longhorns should continue playing college football on Saturdays (notwithstanding the seriousness, and even religious fervor, with which Texans approach their football, it would be a stretch to describe the game as “holy”).
Finally, when you want to stress the pragmatic effects of an adverse ruling, examples can help stir a sleeping judge. As Judge Posner has advised, “[Y]ou should explain not only what the case is about and what the background law is about, but also why the case is important (or unimportant)—what if anything turns on the outcome, either for the parties or for some larger community.”
In seeking to get Arthur Andersen’s corporate conviction overturned, for example, Maureen Mahoney drilled down on jury instructions for what it meant to “knowingly corruptly persuade.” She paraded all manner of communications that could be deemed felonies were the government’s approach to prevail:
In addition to the retention policies discussed above, the [jury] instructions given here would make any of the following into a felony:
- A mother’s advice to her son that he should assert his Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify before a grand jury, because his testimony would incriminate him;
- A manager’s instruction to a custodian of records not to comply with a voluntary request for documents from the SEC;
- A CEO’s instruction to her company’s general counsel to assert, not waive, the company’s attorney-client privilege in response to an SEC subpoena;
- An attorney’s advice to her client to answer only the question posed and not to volunteer information; or
- An in-house attorney’s suggested deletions of potentially damaging statements in a draft memorandum prepared by a colleague.
Closer to our own day, Paul Clement took a similar tack in his brief against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate:
How much easier, for example, to support the price of wheat by compelling individuals to purchase wheat than to devise an elaborate system of subsidies and quotas and limit on-farm consumption to prevent an indirect effect on prices. And how much easier to stimulate the economy and promote the automobile industry by compelling new car purchases rather than by merely offering incentives, such as “cash for clunkers.”
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It is not Hong Kong protests or the trade war, China’s leaders fear most, but hogs hit by African swine fever and the rising pork prices, says political analyst Victor Shih at Phys.org. An estimated 40 percent of its pigs have been killed already and massive reserves of frozen pork released on the stretched markets.
And as it wears on, it is not just a problem for farmers, but also for the country’s leaders—afraid of social repercussions and spiralling economic costs.
“Historically, high food inflation has triggered bouts of urban protests,” says Victor Shih, the Hi Ho Miu Lam chair professor at University of California San Diego.
Beijing has implemented several measures to boost the pig population, including subsidies of up to five million yuan ($700,000) for breeders.
They also announced in September that new large-scale breeding bases were being built in southwest Sichuan province with the capacity to produce two million pigs a year.
But farmers contacted by AFP—reluctant to be identified—were afraid to raise new herds despite government subsidies, fearing that any trade deal between Beijing and Washington would undercut Chinese producers or that their hogs would be taken away again…
In a bid to keep a grip on escalating prices, the government auctioned 30,000 tonnes of pork from its strategic meat reserves ahead of the National Day holiday.
Officials insisted in September that there was sufficient supply and prices would now be stable.
But given the slowing economy and the trade war, “pork-driven inflation has further limited the government’s options”, says Shih.
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Rectal prolapse occurs when the rectum becomes stretched out and protrudes from the anus.
Rectal prolapse occurs when part of the large intestine's lowest section (rectum) slips outside the muscular opening at the end of the digestive tract (anus). While rectal prolapse may cause discomfort, it's rarely a medical emergency.
Rectal prolapse can sometimes be treated with stool softeners, suppositories and other medications. But surgery is usually needed to treat rectal prolapse.
If you have rectal prolapse, you may notice a reddish mass that comes out of the anus, often while straining during a bowel movement. The mass may slip back inside the anus, or it may remain visible.
Other symptoms may include:
- The inability to control bowel movements (fecal incontinence)
- Constipation or diarrhea
- Leaking blood or mucus from the rectum
- Feeling that your rectum isn't empty after a bowel movement
The cause for rectal prolapse is unclear. Though it's a common assumption that rectal prolapse is associated with childbirth, about one-third of women with the condition have never had children.
Certain factors may increase your risk of developing rectal prolapse, including:
- Sex. A majority of people with rectal prolapse are women.
- Age. Rectal prolapse is more common in people over age 50.
Sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish rectal prolapse from hemorrhoids. To help diagnose rectal prolapse and rule out other associated conditions, your doctor may recommend:
- Digital rectal exam. Your doctor inserts a gloved and lubricated finger into your rectum to evaluate the strength of your sphincter muscles and to check for any abnormalities in the rectal area. During the exam your doctor may ask you to bear down, to check for rectal prolapse.
- Anal manometry. A narrow, flexible tube is inserted into the anus and rectum. A small balloon at the tip of the tube may be expanded. This test helps measure the tightness of your anal sphincter and the sensitivity and functioning of your rectum.
- Colonoscopy. To rule out other conditions, such as polyps or colon cancer, you may have a colonoscopy, in which a flexible tube is inserted into your rectum to inspect the entire colon.
- Defecography. This procedure combines the use of a contrasting agent with an imaging study, such as x-ray or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Defecography can help reveal structural changes in and around your lower gastrointestinal tract and show how well your rectal muscles are working.
Treatment for rectal prolapse usually involves surgery. Other treatments include various therapies for constipation, including stool softeners, suppositories and other medications. There are a few different surgical methods for treating rectal prolapse. Your doctor will choose the best approach for you after considering your age, physical condition and bowel function.
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Using the probing power of neutron beams, Professor Dimitry Sediako at the University of British Columbia is solving industrial challenges in the development of lighter powertrains for automotive and marine vehicles.Continue reading Using Neutrons to Design More Efficient Cars and Boats
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Los Angeles City Councilmembers unanimously voted to adopt an antiracist framework in the City of Los Angeles, calling the motion a long overdue response to generational inequities that perpetuate racial disparities across City services and the region at-large.
“As leaders of a city as diverse as Los Angeles, it is our responsibility to ensure the equitable distribution of city services and resources. But in order to do that, we must have the tools in place to effectively examine the ways in which we have unwittingly fallen short. Only when we are clear on our flaws, can we course-correct,” said Councilmember Ridley-Thomas.
Introduced by Councilmembers Mark Ridley-Thomas, Curren Price and Marqueece Harris-Dawson, the “Antiracism motion” calls upon the Civil and Human Rights + Equity Department to produce a Racial Equity Audit of City programs, policies and practices; and to develop a plan that addresses barriers to economic stability, specifically among African Americans.
"For generations, the saying, ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ has been used as a wholly inadequate instruction. Local institutions and businesses hindered and denied African Americans and others participation in employment, housing, and opportunity in everyday life through legislation and policy. The strategic deployment of racism through acts and mandates is the most significant loss of social capital and innovation across sectors that Americans have ever known, and still need to remedy. Today in Los Angeles, this motion is foundational and ignites the way for change," said Councilmember Harris-Dawson.
“We have reached a critical turning point and if we are ever to reconcile with the past wrongdoings done to the Black community and tackle race relations, it is our duty to push for measures that ensure there is a more equitable and fair distribution of services that addresses systemic inequities to erase color-lines,” said Councilman Curren Price. “We cannot sit back and watch history continue to repeat itself. We want to put an end to the cycle here and now.”
“I want to thank Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas and the co-authors of this motion for taking bold action on racial equity. LA Civil Rights is grateful for the opportunity to support this important work,” said Capri Maddox, Executive Director of the city’s Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department, also known as LA Civil Rights. “Systemic racism didn’t come out of thin air - it came from centuries of policies that separated Black communities from their wealth, their health and their freedom. But just as our country designed a system of inequality, we can also build a future of inclusion and justice - and Los Angeles is showing the way.”
Earlier this summer, Mayor Garcetti signed Executive Directive 27 to establish a Racial Equity Task Force within the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department, and pushed forth the formation of the Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE) coalition which aims to support federal reparations legislation, establish advisory commissions in their respective cities, and work toward developing and implementing reparations demonstration programs targeted to a pilot group of Black Americans in their communities. The motion builds on this work by codifying Executive Directive 27 into law in the City of Los Angeles.
“There is no question that work remains to close the racial gaps that exist in our country when it comes to wealth, health, and education,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “The motion builds on the equity work we’re doing in Los Angeles, and I’m proud to work alongside Councilmembers who are committed to confronting structural racism and fulfilling America’s promise to all its people.”
The motion attracted an outpouring of support from the community and local leaders including:
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President, April Verrett.
“We can no longer just talk about equity, we must practice equity. More than ever we need policies that address the systemic and structural barriers that keep people of color from thriving. This motion to Establish an Antiracist Los Angeles is a critical step forward in the journey to ensure our city is a place where all of us have the opportunity to flourish.”
“A Racial Equity audit of the city's government and structures is needed now more than ever as we move as a city and a people from moral imagination to action. Now is the time to not only confess our sin of racism as a city, as so many did during the pandemic, but to grapple with the hard truth that the path to justice runs through equity for Black communities and communities of color across this city who have been perpetually and systematically left out of resources and advancement, this motion moves us one step closer to a more just and equitable Los Angeles and builds upon the hard work and reports of community,” said McCarty Memorial Christian Church Senior Pastor, Edward Anderson.
I am pleased to see that the City Council has taken this pivotal step, through the unanimous passage of the Anti-Racist LA Motion, to implement an annual Racial Equity Audit of the City's programs to promote an equitable distribution of services and resources to Los Angeles residents,” said Professor Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and member of the City's newly-formed Reparations Advisory Commission. As a member of the City's newly formed Reparations Advisory Commission, this is precisely the tool needed to assist the Commission as we work to develop a plan to address the intergenerational barriers of systemic racism and racialized forms of wealth accumulation that have for too long oppressed Black Angelenos, as well as Indigenous and People of Color communities.
“One human's despair is all humans' despair - one human's joy is all humans' joy - one human's accomplishments are all humans’ accomplishments. Such should be the genuine thinking of a civilized and conscientious human, if there is to be peace and harmony in the world. Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you put on a life, said Brotherhood Crusade President and CEO, Charisse Bredmond Weaver. “The Establishing an Antiracist Los Angeles motion introduced by Councilmembers Ridley-Thomas, Price and Harris-Dawson fully embodies this Abhijit Naskar quote and, more importantly, moves the City ever so much closer to a just, productive, inclusive and harmonious society. I commend the Councilmembers for their work and strongly encourage the City Council to not only adopt the motion but to also integrate its spirit and tenets throughout the City’s infrastructure.” | <urn:uuid:41d9daa7-d124-4506-a8c0-d536a52c2e2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cd10.lacity.org/articles/la-city-council-adopts-anti-racist-framework-city-los-angeles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.954875 | 1,348 | 1.84375 | 2 |
How can i find the solution of the equation when the R.H.S also contains the unknown??
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I have this eqaution that need to be plotted between s_y and beta. But the problem is that, the R.H.S also contains the quantity beta but under a different math term. This is the eqation:
Except for Beta, all the values are known and s_y has been defined as
How can i do this?? meaning, how can i solve for beta? am new to matlab and just learning the basics. So if anybody is able to help me with this,I ll be grateful.....
Walter Roberson on 23 Apr 2013
atan2(sqrt(-(-d+R-s_y+u) .* (-d+R+s_y-u) .* (-d+R+s_y+u) .* (-d+R-s_y-u)) ./ (u.*s_y), (R.^2-2.*R.*d-u.^2+d.^2-s_y.^2) ./ (u.*s_y))
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Indoor arenas make great venues for horse shows. During inclement weather, the enclosure protects competitors from the wind, rain and snow. On hot days, the roof protects everyone from the beating sun.
“My arena is about ten degrees cooler than outside during the summer,” says Marianne Jackson of Twin Willows Ranch in Bend, Ore., where the high-desert sun is scorching hot during July and August. Jackson has hosted buckle-series open horse shows in her indoor arena for the past seven years and sees many benefits to holding an event indoors. Mainly, the enclosure extends the show season in an area where hail is known to fall in June and winter begins before Halloween.
Along with the benefits of holding horse shows under cover, indoor horse shows come with their own set of challenges, and there is an initial learning curve, Jackson admits. “It takes a lot of research to get it right, and then there are just things you learn along the way,” she says. With these tips, you can smooth out your own journey into an indoor horse-show venture.
Problem: Indoor arenas trap dust
Solution: Condition the arena footing
Loping horses in dried-out footing can make an indoor arena feel like a boxed-up dust devil. The swirling dust fills the lungs and eyes of horses, riders and the ground crew. To get her arena ready for shows, Jackson devotes three hours the day before to watering, raking and dragging her indoor arena. The end result is a well-manicured footing that keeps the dust down and her judges happy.
Investing in a good, dustless footing for your indoor arena is another great option if you plan to host indoor horse shows. Or, use an indoor footing conditioner to reduce the amount of water required to keep the dust down.
Ventilation also helps alleviate dust issues. “If the weather’s good, I’ll open up the doors on each end of the arena,” Jackson says.
Problem: Classes indoors feel crowded
Solution: Limit class sizes
Indoor arenas are typically smaller than their outdoor counterparts, so culling class sizes is important. Too many horses in too small a space can lead to disaster, especially in novice classes. So Jackson limits the size of classes held in her arena to “10 or 12 in regular classes, and maybe up to 15 in a walk-trot class,” she says. Any more than that can lead to chaos and put horses and riders in danger. “If a horse does get to acting up, I put a stop to the class right away and excuse the problem horse,” Jackson says.
Problem: Competitors outside mill around the in and out gates.
Solution: Create a designated catch pen
Contestants need a place to stand “on deck” for their classes to keep a show running quickly and smoothly. However, indoor arenas rarely have a catch pen or make-up pen where riders can congregate before their classes. To solve this problem, create a temporary area outside of the gate that’s only open to horses in the next class. Mark the area with cones.
On rainy days, Jackson creates a catch pen inside the indoor arena so riders have a place to stand out of the weather. The reduced arena size means reduced class sizes, but it’s a trade worth making when Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate. “It’s nice to be able to pull everyone inside,” she says. “It means we can show rain or shine.” And that’s the whole point of indoor shows, isn’t it?
Problem: Contestants outside or in parking areas can’t hear the class announcements coming from inside the arena
Solution: Find a way to communicate with competitors outside of the arena
For Jackson, the best solution is a bullhorn, which she uses to make important announcements, such as how long the lunch break will last. For everything else, “people have to be responsible and know when their classes are getting ready to go in,” she says. “If they miss their class, then they miss their class. They figure that out pretty quick.”
If you take the bullhorn route, find someone who isn’t shy and make it his or her job to repeat messages so contestants in the parking area hear them. Another option is to hook up an actual public-address speaker system near where people park.
Problem: Spectators clog up the indoor aisles
Solution: Designate a viewing and seating area
Spectators, usually parents and siblings at the Twin Willow shows, want to cheer on the riders. With an indoor arena, that can mean squeezing lots of people into tight quarters, often in an aisle that flanks the ring. To keep everyone one safe, Jackson bans horses and people from the barn aisles during horse shows. “I have wooden benches for people to sit on,” she says. “There’s plenty of seating and 180 feet of wall for people to hang on.”
Problem: Inexperienced horses become nervous indoors
Solution: Provide ample time for indoor warm-ups
Dark corners in indoor arenas often become hiding places for imaginary monsters. Horses, especially young or inexperienced ones, may act wary for the first few laps around. “Spooking indoors is a big thing,” Jackson emphasizes.
To create a safe experience for everyone at her shows, Jackson allows ample time in the morning for longeing and schooling. She also opens the indoor arena for practice during the lunch break. “The people who need to, get here early so they can work their horses in the arena,” she explains. “Some even haul in the night before to work their horses, and I let them rent a stall for the night if they want to. Usually, a couple laps around and everyone has calmed down.”
Problem: Dim lighting makes indoor photography difficult
Solution: Find a properly equipped professional photographer
Parents love photographs of their kids showing. Unfortunately, indoor arenas make getting great pictures nearly impossible for the average amateur shutterbug. Even for local schooling shows, consider bringing in a professional photographer to take pictures. A professional with the right lighting equipment will be able to deal with the darkness, and the riders will have the option to buy great-looking images. | <urn:uuid:7747714d-40cb-4161-89db-cf7aa7481bbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stablemanagement.com/articles/bring-it-inside/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947993 | 1,330 | 1.617188 | 2 |
World´s largest trees can burn – level 1
Authorities close Sequoia National Park. The park is in California, US. The world´s tallest trees grow there. They are called sequoias.
Around 2,400 sequoias are in the park. Two large fires are burning close to the park. It is possible that the sequoias will burn. Firefighters put aluminum around the lowest parts of the trees. It will keep them safe from fire.
General Sherman is the tallest tree in the world. It is in the park, too. It is 83.82 meters high. It is between 2,300 to 2,700 years old.
Fires are also good for sequoias. It is interesting that fire helps sequoias grow. When it is hot, sequoias make more seeds. Fires burns other trees. Then, sequoias have more space.
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The Democratic National Convention, which opened Monday in Boston, is the culmination of a drive by the most powerful forces in the Democratic Party, the media and the US ruling elite as whole to banish from the November presidential election any debate on the most critical issue facing the American people—the war in Iraq.
The impending coronation of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry as the Democratic presidential candidate is the result of a concerted effort during the Democratic primaries to undermine the campaign of then-front-runner Howard Dean. The former Vermont governor is a thoroughly conventional bourgeois politician who, however, recognized early on that his best chance for winning the nomination was to appeal to mass antiwar sentiment among Democratic voters and in the population at large. But any such appeal, no matter how limited and lacking in principle, was considered within ruling class circles to be a dangerous concession to popular discontent. Dean’s presidential bid was shut down in order to marginalize and suppress antiwar sentiment and orchestrate an election in which it would be essentially ignored—and Dean himself quickly fell into line.
This process of political disenfranchisement is to be completed with the official endorsement of Kerry and his running mate, North Carolina Senator John Edwards. Both are multimillionaire representatives of the US ruling elite. Both voted in October of 2002 for the congressional resolution authorizing Bush to attack Iraq, and both voted in favor of the Patriot Act. That measure, under the guise of fighting the so-called “war on terror,” gives the CIA, FBI and other police agencies unprecedented powers to spy on the American people and override constitutionally protected civil liberties.
That there is to be no debate on the ongoing war and occupation of Iraq has been sealed by the passage of a party platform which refuses to take a position on Bush’s decision to invade the country, and the agreement of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to squelch any floor debate on the question. Kucinich, who ran in the primaries as the most outspoken opponent of the war, formalized his junking of the war question by announcing over the weekend his endorsement of Kerry.
The contempt of the party hierarchy for the sentiments of Democratic voters and the squelching of any democratic discussion were underscored by a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Sunday showing that nine out of ten of the convention delegates thought the United States should not have gone to war in Iraq.
In the run-up to the convention, Kerry has gone out of his way to stress his support for the occupation of Iraq and the crushing of the anti-US insurgency, mainly criticizing Bush for not deploying more troops and, in general, botching the colonial enterprise. He has repeatedly proclaimed his support for the “war on terror” and the doctrine of preemptive war, which is the centerpiece of the Bush administration’s policy of using military force to topple unwanted governments and seize the land and resources of foreign peoples.
Democratic officials have made clear they hope to use the convention to outflank Bush on the “war on terror,” portraying Kerry as a strong military leader and hard-line enforcer of “homeland security.” The Democratic candidate has rushed to embrace the far-reaching and antidemocratic proposals of the 9/11 commission for a major consolidation and strengthening of US intelligence, security and police agencies.
Kerry summed up the approach he will take at the convention, telling the New York Times in an interview conducted on Friday, “I can fight a more effective war on terror.”Austerity and militarism
On domestic social issues, one can anticipate that the convention will issue some hollow phrases about the “two Americas” and criticize Bush’s tax cuts for brazenly favoring the rich, but the Kerry campaign has steered clear of concrete proposals for social reforms and heeded the injunctions from the establishment press to avoid “class warfare” rhetoric.
An indication of the Democrats’ social policy—under conditions of growing economic distress for large sections of the population—came in Kerry’s speech last week before the Urban League. He presented as the centerpiece of his urban agenda a federally funded crackdown on youth crime, which is to include token expenditures for job-training and drug treatment and cost $400 million over ten years—a drop in the bucket in relation to the $1 trillion-plus annual federal budget.
On the same day that Kerry announced this initiative, Congress overwhelmingly approved a Pentagon budget totaling $417.5 billion, including an additional $25 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With the Democratic Party voting in lockstep with the Republicans, the Senate approved the measure 96 to 0, and the House of Representatives passed it by a vote of 410 to 12.
The essence of Kerry’s domestic economic policy—and the center of his attack on the policies of the Bush administration—will be a call for fiscal responsibility. Under conditions of record budget deficits and massive military spending, this can only mean further cuts in social programs.
The further turn to the right represented by the convention is underscored by cautions from Kerry and other Democratic officials against any outright political attacks on the Bush administration. “This is not going to be about attacking George Bush,” Terry McAuliffe, the national Democratic chairman, declared over the weekend.
Among the proscribed topics is the stolen election of 2000. In line with the efforts of the party hierarchy to suppress any overt expression of hostility toward Bush or anger over the illegitimate origins and authoritarian character of the present government, the organizers have made sure that the speech by former vice president Al Gore, the party’s 2000 presidential candidate, will not be aired by the broadcast networks. The titular head of the party has been relegated to a timeslot outside the hour being set aside for convention coverage by NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox.
What is planned is an orgy of flag-waving patriotism, in which Kerry’s Vietnam War record will take center stage. An unnamed “senior Democrat” told the New York Times, “You’re going to see more veterans, more patriotism, more talk about protecting our country. You’re going to think you’re looking at a Republican convention.”
The counterpart of this rightward shift—in the parlance of the media, an appeal to “independent” and “swing” voters—is a ruthless drive to silence political challenges from the left. The Democratic Party is engaged in a nationwide effort to exclude from the ballot all third-party and independent candidates who criticize the war in Iraq and articulate in any way the profound hostility of millions of working people and youth to the Bush administration. The Democrats are systematically working to deny ballot status to Ralph Nader and the Green Party, and are pursuing a brazenly antidemocratic operation to keep the Socialist Equality Party candidate for the Illinois state legislature, Tom Mackaman, off the ballot.
This effort to exclude from the political process all voices of serious dissent, and suppress the most vital concerns of the vast majority of the people—not only the war, but also the assault on jobs, living standards and democratic rights—testifies to the organic incapacity of the two major bourgeois parties in America to address, let alone resolve, a mounting social and political crisis of historical proportions.A travesty of democracy
The stage-managed and tightly scripted character of the convention is, in its own way, a further expression of the crisis of the two-party system. The event being mounted in Boston is a media spectacle devoid of any real debate or struggle. It has the character of a hollow ritual. Placed against the backdrop of a country at war, torn by social and political divisions and afflicted with a host of social problems, a country moreover with a massive and highly diverse population, the pageant in Boston underscores the disconnect between the existing political setup and the realities of American society.
It is a political system—in which the corporate-controlled media plays a critical role—that is entirely dominated by a financial aristocracy whose interests it openly and directly serves—one that dares not raise any serious social issues, for fear of lifting the lid on pervasive discontent that is churning below.
The New York Times, in its convention-eve editorial, felt obliged to pose the question: what is the point of the whole affair? Acknowledging that the convention was a political coronation, that the Democratic platform refused to even take a position on the invasion of Iraq, and that no real debate would be permitted, the newspaper said it could not argue with the decision of the broadcast networks to limit prime-time coverage to one hour a night. Nevertheless, the Times concluded, lamely: “But this is still a ritual worth having. The delegates may not have much to do, but it is important for them to get together.”
It is more than three decades since the national conventions of the two major bourgeois parties had, to some degree, the character of a debate on policies, and in which the outcome was not preordained. The emptying of the conventions of any genuine content and their complete ritualization are bound up with definite political and social processes.
First is the lurch to the right by both bourgeois parties and the collapse of American liberalism, which finds its clearest expression in the repudiation by the Democratic Party of the social reform policies with which it was associated from the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
This phenomenon is bound up with the erosion of the mass social base of both parties, and their increasingly naked domination by the financial and corporate elite. What is the base of the Democratic Party? It consists of sections of the financial and corporate elite and a privileged and narrow stratum of the middle class, including the trade union bureaucracy and the most wealthy sections of blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
The Republican Party has come to be dominated by an extreme right-wing element that most consistently and ruthlessly articulates the interests and demands of the most predatory factions of the financial oligarchy. As the crisis of American capitalism has intensified, these factions have come to the fore and assumed an ever-more dominant position.
Underlying the political atrophy and rightward trajectory of the two parties is the growth of social inequality. The ever-more-pronounced division of America between a very small and fabulously wealthy financial oligarchy and the broad mass of working people has rendered the two-party setup increasingly threadbare and ossified. The collapse of the labor movement and the absence of mass organizations that in any way articulate the interests of the working class have played a significant role in this process.
There is no longer any room within a capitalist system awash in insoluble contradictions for a party of social reform. Instead, the people are confronted with two right-wing parties which, no matter how sharp and even explosive the partisan conflicts, are united in their commitment to a strategy of US global hegemony abroad and social reaction at home.State of siege
Perhaps the starkest manifestation of the underlying social and political crisis is the extraordinary and unprecedented security surrounding the Democratic convention. This event, supposedly a showcase of American democracy in action, is being held under conditions of a virtual state of siege. Entire sections of Boston have been closed down. Steel barriers have been erected. Ordinary people are being excluded from the convention’s environs. Thousands of police, security personnel and plainclothes federal agents have descended on the city. Police are randomly searching the belongings of people riding the subways.
Demonstrators are prohibited from assembling anywhere near the convention site. They are being herded into fenced-off, isolated “free speech zones”—an Orwellian term if ever there was one—where no one can hear what they have to say.
Meanwhile, behind the barricades and phalanxes of armed police, the politicians and corporate fat cats are indulging themselves in corporate-sponsored bashes.
These measures are not being taken to protect the convention from large hordes of angry protesters. The demonstrations promise to be relatively small and politically subdued. Most of the protest groups and liberal-left organizations are lining up behind Kerry, and staging whatever activities they have planned as unofficial addendums to the convention, rather than politically hostile actions.
This only underscores the existence of an unspoken agenda behind the massive police deployment. The official justification is the danger of a terrorist attack in the post-9/11 environment of perpetual threat and open-ended war. But no evidence has been advanced of any specific threat by terrorists to attack the convention.
The aim is to create an atmosphere of fear and accustom the public to accept as the norm the use of police-state measures and the suppression of democratic rights, including the very holding of elections. In the weeks preceding the convention, the Bush administration made dire warnings of a pre-election terrorist attack, and leaked reports that it was engaged in internal discussions on the possible postponement or cancellation of the November elections, on the pretext of such an attack.
The police-state operation in Boston has far more to do with the internal crisis in America than any external threat from terrorists. It provides a snapshot of a society riven by class divisions and social tensions.
Taken as a whole, the Democratic convention testifies to the crisis and disintegration of the two-party system. Here, the operative word is “system.” The existing political setup has the character, not so much of two independent parties, as a single political structure consisting of two constituent parts. This system has long been maintained as a means of excluding any independent expression of the interests of the working class and defending the rule and basic interests of the capitalist class.
It is a system in mortal crisis. It is no longer able to present itself as a democratic vehicle for the masses. It is no longer able to contain the social contradictions of American society. Hence the ever more naked and ominous turn to extra-parliamentary and extra-constitutional methods, which, in their totality, constitute a transition toward police-state rule.
Herein lies the significance of the Socialist Equality Party campaign in the 2004 elections. The SEP alone is advancing a revolutionary socialist program that speaks to the needs of the working people—the vast majority of the population. Our party is calling for an end to the Iraq war and the immediate withdrawal of all US and foreign troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. We are demanding the immediate repeal of the Patriot Act, the dismantling of the Homeland Security Department, and the reversal of the whole battery of measures taken to curtail the democratic rights of the people.
We advance a program for a revolutionary transformation of economic life, in which the needs of the people for good-paying jobs, health care, decent schools, affordable housing and a secure retirement are placed above the drive for corporate profit and the accumulation of personal wealth.
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Tailoring perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with graphene oxide membranes
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AbstractGraphene oxide (GO) membranes have been widely explored for their excellent physical and chemical properties, and abundant functional groups. In this work, we report the improvement of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of CoFeB thin films by applying a coating of GO membranes. We observe that the PMA of the CoFeB/MgAl–O stacks is strongly enhanced by the coating of GO membranes and even reaches 0.6 mJ m−2 at room temperature after an annealing process. The critical thickness of the membrane-coated CoFeB for switching the magnetization from the out-of-plane to the in-plane axis exceeds 1.6 nm. First-principle calculations are performed to investigate the contribution of the GO membranes to the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE). Due to changes in the hybridization of 3d orbitals, varying the location of the C atomic layer with Co changes the contribution of the Co–C stacks to PMA. Thus, the large PMA achieved with GO membranes can be attributed to the orbital hybridization of the C and O atoms with the Co orbitals. These results provide a comprehensive understanding of the PMA and point towards opportunities to achieve multifunctional graphene-composite spintronic devices.
CitationNing K, Liu H, Li L, Li H, Feng J, et al. (2017) Tailoring perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with graphene oxide membranes. RSC Advances 7: 52938–52944. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ra08644j.
SponsorsThis work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation(51501098, 61574083, 61434001), National Key R&D Program (2016YFA0200400), National Basic Research Program (2015CB352101), Special Fund for Agroscientific Research in the Public Interest (201303107) of China, Research Fund from Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chip, and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 4164087). The authors are also thankful for the support of the Independent Research Program (2014Z01006) of Tsinghua University, in part by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). J. F. acknowledges Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2017010). We would like to thank Dr Caihua Wan for discussions.
PublisherRoyal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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I am excited to introduce a guest blogger for the week, Margaret. She has been working with identified adults in need of assistance on a day to day basis for the past few years and is here today to talk a little bit of how different ways of communication is essential. Take it away Margaret!
Communication is essential to our lives and how we interact amongst each other. Now please do not mistake “Communication” for “Speaking” as they are not mutually exclusive. One can communicate with a look, a gesture, a word, or a machine. It would not be correct or wise to conclude that just because someone cannot speak means they cannot express themselves. Certainly there are those who may not express themselves fully or are in need some help from others in the process, but anyone can learn independently to share what they have to say with the world.
Take for example a young woman, whom I shall refer to as Amy, I have come to know quite well over the past couple of years. She had learned over the years that her inability to verbally speak was a great way to have others communicate for her. It was not that she was not expressive, but rather the opposite. Though unable to formulate words other than “huh,” “yeah,” and “mum,” she is adept to vocalizing, using her volume and tone to share pleasure or displeasure at any given moment, which many can find off-putting or confusing. But, it is by her vocalizations that she is able to make phone calls with the people in her life, done so by having whoever is with her during the call relay every detail of the day to the receiver, to which that person on the other line would repeat these facts back to Amy for her to respond (often with great enthusiasm) to the various activities she participated in. In public settings, Amy would often look to others to make statements or answer questions that were not a simple “Yes” or “No” question. While having a limited vocabulary in a modified Sign Language helped her communicate some basic needs, such as “Help,” “Bathroom,” “Food,” and “Drink,” there was much to her that we knew she could be telling us.
Now, here I will share briefly one practice being used for people in similar situations who cannot speak or speak clearly, which is facilitated communication, or the assisting of an individual who is typing or spelling out words on a computer, iPad, or Alphabet Chart that he or she wishes to say.
A controversy with this method is the misunderstanding that the person facilitating this is guiding or forcing the particular letters to be typed while holding onto the arm of the one typing, so what is being said are not the true words we are meant to hear. Having been trained in directing and utilizing facilitated communication, I can assure you that the image above is not accurate as to how one approaches. The person who is typing ideally knows how to type and what they want to type, and will actively reach for the correct letters necessary for a word they need or want to convey. Oftentimes, this individual may have difficulties processing and need to “reset” before they reach out to hit another letter. This is where the facilitator uses their hand as a support (using the palm of our hand and not gripping as the photo indicates) to hold back the arm in order for the one typing to stop and think about what letter it is they need to press next, so that they may proceed and reach out to select the correct letter. When this “reaching out” occurs, the person supporting does not actively hold back or push forward the hand to try and control what is being typed.
Now that I have gotten that out of the way, due to Amy’s fine motor skills, or lack thereof, typing out letters to spell proves to be a difficult task, as well as being able to differentiate some of them by their appearance. Because of this, the above form of facilitated communication would actually further limit her ability to communicate. Instead, we have had the pleasure of using a wonderful program for the iPad called Proloquo2Go (unfortunately not a free application when used for its full potential), and we have given her a voice that she can control. Using images to represent a word or phrase, we have given a source of ways to express needs and wants to anyone, and not just those of us who knew her enough to recognize her vague vocalizations and modified signs.
The success of this program has been made very clear when, after a wonderful and very new trip down to Florida, we gave her a series of phrases that simply described what she did during this vacation. Then while on the phone with someone, she was able to say “I went to the ocean for the first time,” or “I rode on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad” or “I stayed at many hotels” without needing others to speak for her. Through this device, she has found her voice, and found how receptive people can be when they are able to respond directly to her. There is no greater joy than seeing someone so lost in her “learned helplessness” (ie letting others speak for her) discover just how communicative she can be.
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Vaccines, auto insurance rates among introduced bills
LANSING — The state Department of Health and Human Services would be prohibited from imposing more stringent rules on vaccinations than is already allowed under state law under a bill that was introduced last week.
The bill also would prohibit the state from excluding students from schools based on vaccinations as a disease-control measure.
The debate over vaccinations flared late last year after an outbreak of measles hit Disneyland in California. The state health department issued rules that would require parents to attend a meeting with local health officials if they wanted to seek a vaccination waiver.
And the Detroit delegation in the House introduced a package of bills that would, in part, require auto insurance companies to reduce rates by 12% in cities with populations of more than 500,000.
HB 5121: Require notification to firefighters if a building is made of lightweight materials. Sponsor: Rep. Laura Cox, R-Livonia.
HB 5122 and SB 655: Create the Water Shutoff Protection Act. Sponsors: Rep. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit and Jim Ananich, D-Flint.
HB 5123: Require installation of arc-fault circuit interrupters in new residential home construction. Sponsor: Rep. Erika Geiss, D-Taylor.
HB 5124: Allow for inclusion of roads with a primary residence in determining distribution of snow-removal funds. Sponsor: Rep. Joel Johnson, R-Clare.
HB 5125: Require policies and procedures regarding the closure of a school building. Sponsor: Rep. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit.
HB 5126-5127: Prohibit exclusion from schools for students without vaccinations and rules that are more stringent than in current law. Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Hooker, R-Byron Center.
HB 5128: Allow retired state employees to contract with the Department of Natural Resources for wildlife suppression without losing retirement allowances. Sponsor: Rep. Bruce Rendon, R-Lake City.
HB 5129: In driver training classes, require instruction on how to move over for cars pulled over with their flashers on. Sponsor: Rep. Peter Pettalia, R-Presque Isle.
HB 5130: Provide for the definition of a hoop house in the construction code. Sponsor: Rep. Adam Zemke, D-Ann Arbor.
HB 5131: Eliminate flow-through entities from income tax withholding requirements. Sponsor: Rep. Jeff Farrington, R-Utica.
HB 5132-5133: Require direct-mail companies to comply with streamlined sales and use tax. Sponsors: Reps. Jeff Farrington, R-Utica, Wendell Byrd, D-Detroit.
HB 5134-5135: Require auto insurance companies to reduce rates in certain municipalities, change personal protection benefits, create fraud authority and provide tax credit for certain auto insurance policies. Sponsor: Rep. Brian Banks, D-Detroit.
HB 5136: Allow use of school sinking funds for safety and security improvements. Sponsor: Rep. Kristy Pagan, D-Canton.
HB 5137: Designate a portion of U.S.-12 as the Officer Gordon Lewis Stevens Memorial Highway. Sponsor: Rep. Kristy Pagan, D-Canton.
HB 5138: Revise requirements to restructure municipal health facilities into nonprofit corporations. Sponsor: Rep. Peter Pettalia, R-Presque Isle.
HB 5139-5141 and SB 648-650: Clarify the ability to create unequal joint interests in property conveyances and modify the procedures to determine whether there has been a transfer of property ownership. Sponsors: Rep. Peter Pettalia, R-Presque Isle, and Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba.
HB 5142-5144: Establish a 30-day license plate and require monthly proof of auto insurance policy; require certain nonrefundable charges in 30-day policies. Sponsors: Reps. Tom Cochran, D-Mason, Mike McCready, R-Birmingham.
HB 5145: Require that local units of government be given first shot at state sale of transportation equipment. Sponsor: Rep.John Kivela, D-Marquette.
HB 5146: Increase penalties for possession of a carcass of a deer or elk that has chronic wasting disease. Sponsor: Rep. John Kivela, D-Marquette.
HB 5147: Exclude credit union loan promotions and raffles from gambling and lottery crimes. Sponsor: Rep. Anthony Forlini, R-Harrison Township.
HB 5148: Prohibit operation of drones over the state Capitol without permission from the state Capitol Commission. Sponsor: Rep. George Darany, D-Deaborn.
HB 5149: Create a legislative committee on state agencies. Sponsor: Rep. Jim Townsend, D-Royal Oak.
SB 642: Allow property owners to participate in clean energy programs and authorize issuance of general obligation bonds for alternative source clean energy programs. Sponsor: Sen. Rebekah Warren. D-Ann Arbor.
SB 643: Create Human Right to Water Act. Sponsor: Sen. Coleman Young, D-Detroit.
SB 644: Revise requirements for the authorization to restructure municipal health facilities as nonprofit corporations. Sponsor: Sen. Jim Stamas, R-Midland.
SB 645: Establish uniform criteria for employee misclassification in the Fair Employment Practices Act. Sponsor, Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake Township.
SB 646: Provide for second parent adoption. Sponsor: Sen. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor.
SB 647: Require instruction of CPR and use of automated external defibrillation as a requirement for graduation from high school. Sponsor: Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, R-Lawton.
SB 651-653: For tax purposes, transfer commercial forest programs into qualified forest programs. Sponsors: Sens. Darwin Booher, R-Evart, Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba.
SB 654: Revise requirements for financial school aid support for attendance at post-secondary institutions. Sponsor: Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake.
SB 656-657: Modify applicability of collection practices in the occupational code. Sponsor: Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge.
SB 658: Allow five zoos -- Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Children’s Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw, John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Potter Park Zoo in Lansing and the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak -- to breed large animals to protect the species. Sponsor: Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge.
SB 659: Expand investment options for fostering futures scholarships. Sponsor: Sen. Peter MacGregor, R-Rockford.
SB 660-661: Create a state historic preservation office and require commission approval for changes to the exterior of historical sites. Sponsors: Sens. Wayne Schmidt, R-Traverse City, and Hoon-Yung Hopgood, D-Taylor.
SB 662: Provide for forensic audits for first-class school districts. Sponsor: Sen. Coleman Young, D-Detroit.
SB 663: Provide a grace period for certification lapses for certified nurse aides. Sponsor: Sen. Coleman Young, D-Detroit.
SB 664: Authorize a pilot project for a tuition loan repayment program based on a percentage of the graduate’s income. Sponsor: Sen. Coleman Young, D-Detroit.
SB 665-666: Modify sentencing guidelines to provide for a five-year sentence for failure to store a firearm resulting in access by a minor or injury or death. Sponsor: Sen. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor.
SB 667: Modify rules for providing liquor advertising items to retailers. Sponsor: Sen. Jim Stamas, R-Midland.
SB 668: Prohibit resisting arrest of a reserve police officer. Sponsor: Sen. Joe Hune, R-Whitmore Lake.
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Succession noun - Acquisition of property by descent or by will.
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Unification and succession are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unification" instead a noun "Succession".
Unification noun - The act or an instance of joining two or more things into one.
Succession and unification are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Succession" instead a noun "Unification".
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- Kiai (Japanese for "unification of will", and pronounced like the words "key" and "eye" in rapid succession) is the technical term for the shout that accompanies kata (martial arts moves).
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Olivia Martin ’16 was recently awarded the Gold Award from Girls Scouts of Eastern Missouri (GSEM). The Gold Award represents the highest honor bestowed by Girl Scouts of the USA, earned by Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts. Only 5.4% of eligible Girl Scouts successfully earn the Gold Award.
This prestigious award challenges individuals to change the world. Olivia’s Gold Award Project was “What’s the Buzz…..BEE Attitudes,” an environmental science project that explores the important role bees and bee habitats play in our community; while exposing underrepresented minorities to STEAM careers and addressing socio-economic issues that disproportionately impact urban youth.
The What’s the Buzz Gold Award Project supports the efforts of four organizations: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. St. Louis Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter Educational Development Program (SLMAC) and St. Louis County MU Extension Delta 4-H Club, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), St. Louis PCI Chapter and SisterKeeper, community based organizations that service youth across the St. Louis, Metropolitan Area.
Through a series of workshops, guest speakers and interactive demonstrations, the What’s the Buzz Project provided information to program participants during monthly meetings and area youth during the: 2014 SLMAC College and STEAM Careers Panel, 2014 NSBE Walk for Education, 2015 St. Louis Science Center Minority Scientists Showcase, 2015 National Engineers Week Expo and the 2015 Fair St. Louis STEAM Expo, increasing awareness of local and national medical research, conservation efforts, industrial impact, educational pathways and STEAM careers that involve bees and bee habitats.
In June 2015, the What’s the Buzz Community Garden was established at Florissant Valley Community College to support Ferguson youth and NSBE participants, instilling the importance of collective work and community while promoting agricultural, environmental, plant and biological engineering/science.
Olivia plans to pursue studies in biomedical engineering in college. She will be honored at the Girl Scouts Reflection Ceremony in June 2016.
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Are we nearing the day of the sun darkening, the moon losing its light, and the stars falling from the sky?
The gospel reading of Sunday November 18, 2018 (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time) comes from one of the most difficult sections of Mark that is commonly known as the Olivet Discourse or “Little Apocalypse” (Mark 13:1-37). It’s so named because the discourse between Jesus and his four apostles - Peter, James, John, and Andrew - took place while Jesus “was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple area”, and its literary style is dominated by apocalyptic and prophetic symbolism (Mark 13:3).
Hard to miss is the eschatological overtone of the gospel reading: “[I]n those days…the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken”; “and then [the Son of Man] will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth” (Mark 13:24-25, 27). ). The nerve-racking, end-of-the world language that begins with visions of the celestial bodies in disarray, rises to a crescendo with the appearance of the “Son of Man” - the royal, Messianic figure in Daniel 7 whose enthronement in heaven caps off the Last Day – and ends in a thunderous blast when Jesus warns that “this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place” (Mark 13:30).
If there’s any doubt about the theme of this Sunday’s readings in spite of the eschatological language of the gospel reading, the first reading, also from the Book of Daniel, is selected to drive home the prophetic warning that the day is coming when the whole human race – from now to ancient times, from the current generation to Adam and Eve - must witness the unthinkable occurrence of the resurrection and the Last Judgement. "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some shall live forever, others shall be an everlasting horror and disgrace”, Daniel predicts (Daniel 12:2).
A key difficulty of the Olivette Discourse is that what is apparently a depiction of the end of the world that includes cosmic and catastrophic atrocities is predicted to occur at a time that is plainly inaccurate if understood literally. According to Jesus, “this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place” (Mk 13:30), which suggests that the fulfillment of these eschatological events would have already taken place within the lifetime of his contemporaries. If that’s the case, why are we still here two thousand years later, alive and kicking?
When it comes to biblical exegesis (interpreting the various passages of the Bible), it’s important to understand the difference between the literal sense and the spiritual sense (see CCC 115-119). Literally, “the sun darkened”, the moon losing light, “the stars falling from the sky” (cf. Mark 13:24-25) suggest physical, cosmic disturbances. Spiritually these visions of heavenly chaos can be understood as God’s judgment against the pagan ways of Jerusalem which in Jesus’ time had deteriorated to an unseen level in terms of faith and morality (see commentary of Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament on this passage). The final punishment of Jerusalem, mentioned repeatedly by the OT prophets and Jesus himself, would be so sweeping and devastating that it could only be described in end-of-the-world language. In 70 AD, which is well within the lifetime of Jesus’ contemporaries, a large Roman army under the generalship of Vespasian, the future Roman Emperor Titus, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, demolishing the 500-hundred-year-old Temple, plundering the whole city, and killing 1.1 million people, of which the majority were Jewish. The rest is history.
For real-life application, let us end this reflection with a few thought-provoking questions: Given the “pagan ways” of our world today and its new lows in morality and faith, can we see the city of Jerusalem of 70 AD as the prefiguration of the world we live in? As the residents of this “world city”, are we in danger of an imminent and devastating destruction that might sweep away not only a city but the whole world? Are we nearing the day of the sun darkening, the moon losing its light, and the stars falling from the sky? | <urn:uuid:6e87f53b-e6ec-435b-aae8-451be29f8c39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elodocuments.blogspot.com/2018/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934504 | 984 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo continued this week with similar transmission
an update of World Health Organization,
last few weeks of the outbreak have been characterized by the geographic
expansion of cases to new health zones, we continue to see high case numbers,
sustained local transmission, and inter-health zone movement of cases both into
and out of the hotspot areas of Beni, Mandima, and Butembo. In the past 21 days
from 31 July through 20 August 2019, 69 health areas within 19 health zones
reported new cases (Table 1, Figure 2). During this period, a total of 216
confirmed cases were reported, with the majority coming from the health zones
of Beni (31%, n=66), Mandima (18%, n=38), and Butembo (8%, n=18). High risks of
transmission are also associated with an emerging cluster in the city of
Mambasa, which has reported 14 cases in the past 21 days. The response
continues to address these hotspots through early case detection and thorough
investigation, strong contact identification and follow up, and engagement with
the local communities.”
health zones reported cases in the past week: Mwenga Health Zone in South Kivu
and Pinga Health Zone in North Kivu. In Mwenga, four confirmed cases were
reported after two individuals (mother and child) had contact with a confirmed
case in Beni before travelling south. The father of the child was subsequently
confirmed positive as was a co-patient in a community health facility where the
first case initially sought care.”
one confirmed case has been reported with no apparent epidemiological links to
other cases and no recent travel or visitors from outbreak affected areas.
presents an added challenge to response teams in terms of remoteness, limited
telecommunications, security risks, and resistance within the affected family
As of 20
August, a total of 2927 EVD cases were reported, including 2822 confirmed and
105 probable cases, of which 1961 cases died (overall case fatality ratio 67%).
Of the total
confirmed and probable cases, 58% (1697) were female, and 28% (830) were
children aged less than 18 years. To date, 154 health workers have been
additional probable cases were validated last week, among these were cases who
died in the community in Katwa, Kyondo, Vuhovi, and Mabalako health zones
during March through June 2019 with epidemiological links to the outbreak;
these cases could not be sampled for laboratory testing to confirm/exclude EVD.
On 19 August
2019, a “ville morte” protest took place in Beni, Butembo, and Oicha in
response to recent attacks by armed groups on civilians. This resulted in a
temporary suspension of Ebola response activities.
resumed on 20 August 2019 with increased caution, and further demonstrations
The suspension of Ebola response activities
often results in an increase of case numbers and spread of cases to new areas
in the subsequent weeks.
against any restriction of travel to, and trade with, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo based on the currently available information. There is
currently no licensed vaccine to protect people from the Ebola virus.
Therefore, any requirements for certificates of Ebola vaccination are not a
reasonable basis for restricting movement across borders or the issuance of
visas for travellers to/from the affected countries.
continues to closely monitor and, if necessary, verify travel and trade
measures in relation to this event.
no country has implemented travel measures that significantly interfere with
international traffic to and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. - More than 400 manatees have died this year, with more than a third in Brevard County alone. In fact, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said more manatees have died in Brevard County than in any other Florida county.
The numbers are astounding. Florida’s beloved sea cows are dying at an alarming rate this year. According to the FWC, 168 deaths were reported in Brevard County, and we’re just two months into the year. Last year at this time, only 85 had died statewide.
"It’s been ongoing for a number of years but it really has gotten dramatically worse," said Save the Manatee Club Executive Director Patrick Rose.
Rose said the cold weather and too much nutrient, or pollution, in the Indian River Lagoon, are to blame.
"What that does is causes algal blooms that then will shade out the seagrass and with that shading, some of the seagrass will die," said Rose.
Less seagrass means dying manatees. Cleaning up the Indian River Lagoon and the coastline requires a massive overhaul: eliminating pollution, switching from septic to sewer, and funding more research.
Patrick Rose has written op-eds and reached out to the federal government to helps save the manatees.
Despite the numbers, he remains hopeful. "We did a lot of good work but now we’re on that precipice where all that good work will just go to waste if that population begins to crash 08 and we can stop that by working together." | <urn:uuid:98dea6da-9939-4785-9c7f-e6d6149bc1fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/manatees-dying-at-alarming-rate-in-central-florida-in-2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973 | 340 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:38 AM PST
This November, the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) and its partners are proud to support National Diabetes Month 2014. Throughout National Diabetes Month, the NDEP and its partners will promote “Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes” to help people with diabetes learn they are at greater risk for heart disease, and also how they can lower that risk by managing the diabetes ABCs: the A1C test, Blood Pressure, Cholesterol and Stop Smoking.
NDEP has a variety of resources for you to use to promote diabetes management. Share these free resources* with your patients and partners:
*NDEP resources are also available in Spanish.
To find related information and additional resources that you can use in your National Diabetes Month outreach efforts, visit www.YourDiabetesInfo.org/DiabetesMonth2014 | <urn:uuid:1ad89737-b48d-4413-99cf-61abaea25158> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coruralhealth.org/2014/11/november-is-national-diabetes-month.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.901805 | 182 | 2.21875 | 2 |
At 6:22pm PDST on May 30th, Mercury turns back to its direct motion at 22 degrees of Taurus. The few days before and after this date can often feel like we are intensely focused on certain issues or thoughts that have us captivated. What’s happening is that Mercury is barely moving or completely stationary, which is akin to the needle of a turntable being stuck in groove. There can be a tendency to react strongly to whatever we are thinking, and approach these with an all-or-nothing attitude. Also, our thoughts may be intense because they are actually revealing an aspect of our unconscious, inner world struggling to see the light of day. Usually, it is best to try to work out our own thoughts by ourselves before expressing them as they could come out quite strongly. And yet, it is simultaneously important to recognize that whatever is coming up really could be quite important. It’s just a matter of separating ‘what’ you are dealing with from the ‘way’ you decide to deal with it. If necessary allow a process to take place within yourself before expressing it outwardly, unless, of course, it simply cannot be done. The truth is that life often doesn’t allow us to take time out and we have to do the best we can to deal with whatever is coming out into the open. Things should smooth out and feel like we can move forward by early Monday or Tuesday.
Jupiter Aligns with Neptune (and Chiron too)
This major transit has officially begun. Jupiter conjuncted Neptune for the first time on May 27th (Wednesday) at 1:12pm PDST, and will do so two more times before Jupiter moves on into Pisces. This transit will last until early January and is already having a very significant effect on how we are perceiving the world. There are some wonderful characteristics of this transit but first let’s look at the more negative ones.
Neptune can create illusion, fog, uncertainty, and idealism and alongside Jupiter’s optimism we can feel that things are much better than they really are. Perception is important, but in a case like this, it can also lead to a severe letting down or bubble bursting later. Let’s give a specific example. Right now, the price of gas is going up and people are wondering how this can be. The common view is that it’s the coming of summer. But take a look at this article.
The view presented in this article is that the rise in prices is not due to increasing demand, but to the BELIEF that demand will increase. This is because it has become common to think that the recession will be over by the end of the year. So production is being ramped up and the prices rise as we get ready for things to return to normal. Things are going to return to normal?? Huh!!
To astrologers this is to be expected and has nothing to do with what is actually going on but with the Jupiter/Neptune lens through which the society is looking. If we examine the actual data, we see that unemployment is rising, large business credit card companies are going bankrupt, more layoffs are expected in many industries and our car companies are declaring bankruptcy with no one knowing what the future landscape for this area of our economy will look like. The list of unresolved problems is huge. So, why are we so optimistic? Well, part of it is that we want to be. We are tired of feeling negative, so we decide to feel better, even if there’s no evidence for it. But the ‘environment’ astrologically encourages us to do just this. Have faith and it’ll all be fine. Even blind faith is OK, at least for now.
The real problem with this, as I see it, is that the fundamental issues that got us into this mess have not been addressed, both economically and in the larger societal context. The needed reforms are not being made and will not be made as long as people believe that things will turn around without these changes. The transits that follow this Jupiter alignment with Neptune are far more serious than any we’ve seen so far, so unless the proper steps are taken to deal with the causes of the problems that got us here, we are still open to a major falling apart of our economic and governmental systems. Just look at what’s happening in California and you’ll see how serious things are becoming. No one can know what would happen if things got even worse.
On a personal level however, things are very different. This transit is a beautiful one for the development of compassion and sympathetic understanding. We may find that we are engaged in the emergence of a new faith and understanding towards Life itself and our connection to something higher, whatever terminology we use for that. This is a time for healing of old wounds (Chiron) by forgiveness and the adoption of a greater understanding of others that is impersonal and universal. There is a chance that our health care system may be reformed if we can take advantage of this short window to do so, since the idea that health care is a ‘right’ rather than a privilege can resonate now.
This is a mystical time. The boundaries between self and others and society are blurred right now enabling us to understand viscerally the challenges we face together just because we’re human, doing the best we can, and that we do share a common destiny in so many ways. This is also an aspect of the healing we can do for ourselves and the world in general. At the same time it is wise to remain aware that blind trust in people is an invitation to being used and conned. Whenever clarity is lost, which can occur right now, we must proceed with more caution, not less. It’s best to separate one’s worldly affairs from our personal and private approach to spirituality and transformational growth. The inner and personal one can thrive right now, while we may want to handle our financial affairs in a more practical way.
Finally, I want to suggest that we can be inspired powerfully right now. We can sense an awareness inside of things that we usually only dimly perceive. That awareness is of our highest Self, the god-nature that is our truest foundation and which we share with Life itself. It’s often a matter of allowing these deeper feelings to take root in us. There’s nothing necessarily to do per se, just allow something inside us that’s always been present to simply Breathe.
I know the economy is difficult so I am continuing the reduced price of $110 for a 60- 80 minute consultation. I welcome people who have never had an astrological consultation to give it a try as well as those of you who have.
If you haven’t already, please check out the website for Sher School of Wisdom at www.sherschoolofwisdom.org.
Here’s wishing you all lots of beauty and joy.
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VATICAN CITY, JUNE 13, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Ecology and solidarity are two inseparable elements, the Vatican says in a document written in preparation for a forthcoming world summit.
The World Summit for Sustainable Development will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4. It takes place 10 years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
When the preparatory committee met in Bali, Indonesia, from May 27 to June 7, the Vatican presented a document to the participant delegations with its suggestions for the Johannesburg summit (see Documents).
According to the document, ecology is an authentic sign of “human solidarity,” which “obviously includes the preservation and cultivation of the earth´s resources.”
Such development must be based on “solid ethical values, or it is without direction and lacks the necessary foundations upon which the sought-after development can be built and sustained.”
“The concept of sustainable development is taken to mean the process of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This concept has to be understood from the perspective of integral human development,” the document stresses.
The first principle of the Rio Declaration is that “Human beings are at the center of sustainable development concerns.” This is why the Vatican appeals to the World Summit for Sustainable Development to adopt the term “human ecology.”
“The complete notion of human ecology … [rests] primarily on ensuring and safeguarding moral conditions in the action of the human being in the environment,” the document continues.
“It must also be noted that the first and fundamental structure for human ecology is the family, in which man receives his first formative ideas about truth and goodness, and learns what it means to love and to be loved, and thus what it actually means to be a person,” the document adds. In this context, particular “attention should be given to a ´social ecology´ of work.”
In regard to globalization, the Vatican document explains that “it is neither good nor bad. It will be what people make of it. No system is an end in itself, and it is necessary to insist that globalization, like any other system, must be at the service of the human person; it must serve solidarity and the common good.”
The Holy See insists on “the absolute necessity to eradicate poverty.” To this end, “the active participation of the poor” is necessary. “There is a distinct possibility that too many of the schemes currently under discussion look at the poor simply as a problem, rather than as potentially productive and creative actors in society,” the document stresses.
From this point of view, the Vatican regards as critical the “delivery of employment opportunities, education, basic health care and adequate shelter.”
“New patterns of consumption and production should be examined and promoted in accordance with the principles of human dignity and solidarity,” the document suggests.
“Since more than half of the world´s population still lives in rural areas and the rural poor lack access to the most basic social services, they must be given increased attention and consideration,” it continues.
Moreover, adequate “supplies of water of good quality need to be ensured for everyone,” the document emphasizes.
Regarding relations between states, the Vatican highlights the fact that “solidarity has a spiritual quality that must become more deeply rooted in our approach to international problems.” In this connection, it proposes an “international governance” based on the principle of subsidiarity,” according to which if a state is “incapable of meeting its development needs, others are obliged to come to its assistance.”
Lastly, the Vatican document explains that human dignity “is based on the uniqueness of the human being from the rest of creation; that of being made in the image and likeness of God.”
However, this does not entitle the individual to be selfish. “This likeness shows that man, the only creature on earth that God wanted for its own sake, cannot fully find himself except in sincere serf-giving,” the document says.
Indeed, the “gift of self ultimately ensures the well-being of others and of future generations,” the Vatican document concludes. | <urn:uuid:32ad9151-78ba-4f3c-8480-db056c5d9d92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zenit.org/2002/06/13/solidarity-and-ecology-are-two-sides-of-same-coin-says-holy-see/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945292 | 922 | 2.625 | 3 |
The Impact of the Transfer of Intangible Assets on the Valuation Effects of High-Tech Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
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The technology industry is characterized by a greater than usual reliance on intangible assets. During the tech bubble many firms were valued entirely on intangible assets and growth prospects. In the aftermath of the bubble, intangible assets still play an important role as the innovative performance of a firm’s human capital and the value of its patents creates much of the value of high-tech firms. The problem of transferring human capital and knowledge may be further exacerbated when the firms belong to separate national cultures. Investor perception of acquisition announcements may be more favourable if the target workforce is much smaller relative to the bidder, and thus easier to integrate. Also, perceptions may be favourable when the target has a high ratio of intangible assets to total assets, as this may be a proxy for the relative value of the extractible intangible assets. This study uses a sample of 61 acquisition announcements between 1991 and 2004, where both acquirer and target are high-tech firms and accounting and trading data is available from three years prior to three years after the acquisition announcement. There is weak evidence to support the employee ratio hypothesis for bidder returns, and no evidence to support the intangible assets to total assets hypothesis for either bidder or target returns. Additionally, it is found that average bidder abnormal returns during the announcement period (as measured from one day prior to the announcement acquisitions to one day afterwards) are negative but not significantly different from zero, and that average target abnormal returns are positive and significant. Average wealth gains to bidders are negative and to targets are positive over the window from five days prior to the acquisition announcement to five days afterwards. Furthermore, combined wealth gains are negative, indicating the synergistic gains from high-tech cross-border acquisitions are offset by high premiums paid by the bidders for the targets. Relatedness, a lack of tender offers, and non-US acquirer status are demonstrated to be related to negative returns to bidders, whereas tender offers, US-acquirer status, and termination provisions are shown to be related to increased returns to target shareholders. In the long-run, it is found that acquirers experience superior operating cash flow returns when compared to their industry peers, however, the acquirer experiences diminished performance when compared to the combined performance of the pre-acquisition acquirer and target firms.
Cite this version of the work
Andrew John Sinclair (2009). The Impact of the Transfer of Intangible Assets on the Valuation Effects of High-Tech Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4696 | <urn:uuid:78314a84-5188-4169-911c-3f241027be55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/4696 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925079 | 567 | 1.773438 | 2 |
What's the Difference Between Powdered Sugar and Confectioners' Sugar?
Think confectioners' sugar and powdered sugar are the same? Think again. The terms are often used interchangeably, but technically these two sugars are different. Powdered sugar is simply granulated sugar that has been ground to a very fine powder. Did you ever wonder what the "10x" on the label means? It refers to the number of times the sugar is processed and milled—in this case, 10!
Confectioners' sugar, on the other hand, is powdered sugar with starch added, to prevent it from caking as it sits. Most sugar companies use cornstarch, which helps keep the confectioners' sugar from melting into cakes, cookies, and other sweets, like Fry Bread, when it's dusted over their tops. A few smaller sugar producers, particularly those that offer organic varieties ($3.99, target.com), use other starches, adding potato or tapioca starch to their confectioners' sugar.
Some pastry chefs and other food professionals, like Stella Parks, author of BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts ($24.69, amazon.com), swear they can taste the difference between the starches. They insist that the cornstarch imparts a metallic taste to confectioners' sugar, or a chalky consistency. If you have also noticed this, you may want to do a side-by-side test and see for yourself.
Why Not Just Use Granulated Sugar?
Aside from the added starch, powdered and confectioners' sugar essentially perform the same function: to sweeten. These finely milled sweeteners are most often used in glazes and icings (which is why powdered sugar is known as icing sugar in the UK), and they dissolve much more quickly and easily at room temperature than granulated sugar does. When whipping cream, for example, confectioners' sugar is a better option than granulated, since it will dissolve easily into the chilled cream; this results in a better, less grainy texture.
How to Make Powdered Sugar or Confectioners' Sugar
It's easy to make your own powdered sugar from scratch if all you have in your pantry is the common granulated variety. Simply grind the granulated sugar in the bowl of a food processor or blender until it's a fine powder. To make confectioners' sugar, add about one tablespoon of cornstarch per one cup of granulated sugar before processing. The longer you grind it, the finer your powdered sugar will be. | <urn:uuid:e4910b31-a206-4d46-8e33-76373a3adb07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marthastewart.com/8014695/powdered-sugar-confectioners-sugar-explained | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952372 | 538 | 2.625 | 3 |
These are the country's best-paying jobs, with salaries over $100,000
SAN FRANCISCO – More of the country's highest paying jobs are in technology, and they all require specialized training – but not necessarily an advanced degree. In return, workers can expect a salary of $100,000 or beyond.
Glassdoor, a jobs and recruiting website, found that 13 of the 25 highest-paying jobs in America are in tech, up from 11 in last year's report. Tech has the most jobs of any field in the top 25, while health care holds the spots for most richly paid.
What are they? In tech, the highest-paying jobs include enterprise architect ($115,944 median base salary), software development manager ($108,879) and software engineering manager ($107,479).
Overall, physician jobs pay the most ($195,842 median base salary), pharmacy manager is second ($146,412) and pharmacist is third ($127,120 ).
The report is based on salary reports from people who hold these positions shared on Glassdoor's website.
There are no CEOs, professional athletes or movie stars on the list because Glassdoor doesn't include "C suite" or executive jobs with a "Chief" at the front of the title. And the company only includes positions with at least 100 reviews on its site.
"For many years tech roles have dominated this list," says Amanda Stansell, an economic research analyst at Glassdoor. "This reinforces that employers are willing to pay top dollar for these positions."
High demand for skilled tech workers continues to outpace supply, Stansell said.
Those jobs don't only exist at major tech companies, as many tech roles have moved to other industries. In retail, for example, companies "need skilled tech workers to research and analyze data to further their business practices," Stansell said.
A different study from real commercial real estate firm CBRE, released last month, found similar results. That report said cities like Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have an influx of tech graduates but not enough jobs to keep them all there. Many of those tech graduates are relocating to cities with a lower cost of living in the American Midwest and Canada.
Skilled workers entering the workforce now should look at their online network for people doing the jobs that they want, says Stansell. That way, they'll see the diverse paths to get there.
For a data scientist in particular (number 25 on the list), there are many different ways to land a high-paying job, and it doesn't always require an advanced degree.
"You can get many of these jobs by attending a coding boot camp or by learning different coding languages," Stansell said.
Other jobs, like a scrum master, or someone who manages the process of how information is exchanged (number 20 on the list with $98,239), require several years of on-the-job experience.
Stansell predicts the number of high-paying tech jobs will continue to grow as it has for the last few years.
Eight job titles are new to the list this year, including strategy manager (No. 18, $101,754), cloud engineer (No. 23, $96,449) and data scientist (No. 25, $96,116).
Glassdoor also studied what job seekers are looking for when researching job ads. A survey found that salary and benefits are the most important factors for Americans when job searching, followed by location, commute time and positive employee reviews.
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The installation, entitled Tactus Tetris, features seven interactive exhibits highlighting the artistic works of CPP’s resident ensemble, Tactus.
One of the exhibits called Portals by Han geul Lee uses the classic arcade game “Snake” as a vehicle for soundscape generation. Another, Getting Through It by Jordan Bartow is a mixed-media sound installation that uses audio clips submitted by members of the MSM community. Also on display are current performances by Tactus that are streamed on the MSM website.
The exhibits are open all all times to experience by anyone currently working or studying at the School.
CPP students are on hand to guide users through the installation each weekday from 2:00–4:00pm.
The CPP musicians have created a webpage on Teagan Faran’s website that gives insight into each of the seven “blocks” in the exhibit. Their artistic statement reads as follows:
Taking inspiration from the 7 Tetris blocks, the Contemporary Performance Program’s first ever sound installation, Tactus Tetris, explores the idea of individuality as we work to fit into a larger whole. How are we unique? How does that help us fit together? What happens to us when too much stacks up? How can we come together to reset when it’s all too much?
Tactus Tetris is on display in the student lounge from now until Tuesday, December 15.
Tactus Tetris Credits:
General Curation – Nicole and Teagan
Artistic Design – Alyson, Emmalie, Gabe, and Laura
Tech Crew – Jordan and Han
Ambient Sound Design – Maxine, Laura, and Jon
General Exhibit Prep – Steph, Maxine, Makana, and Jon
Web Design – Teagan
Tactus Artistic Director – Margaret Kampmeier
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“To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, and the destruction of our most cherished values—there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally—and breed.” (Isaac Asimov)
Environmentalists have been often accused of being prophets of doom. Now there is a new species of Catastrophists: they are political and economic commentators with a pervasive lament that the world faces exponential population decline, with a “Global Aging Crisis” that threatens to “stunt” economic growth.
Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation writes that current population trends also threaten to make military actions increasingly difficult for most nations. Pensions and health care will require increased funding. As the labour force stops growing, it will become more difficult for Washington to sustain current levels of military spending or the number of men and women in uniform.
Many commentators are concerned, more or less openly, with national or international prestige, not just economic, but military. It is not just about pensions; at stake is the decline of national prestige and of capitalism, which as rule have always flourished with population growth.
Governments, media, industries and business in general have switched from their previous 1970s preoccupation with uncontrolled population growth, to focus on the consequences of unplanned Western population decline. They fear the asymmetrical proportions of an ageing population in the developed world against the youthful force of Asian nations of the new coming world. The decline of the West is seen as tantamount to decay and loss of relevance on the international stage. It is the tragedy of Western extinction. Competition about power has got a new name: Fertility.
The Canadian political analyst Mark Steyn asserts that the West is in danger of extinction. “We’re pretty much awash in resources, but we’re running out of people, the one truly indispensable resource, without which none of the others matter.” In the face of his preoccupation with the ‘demise of Western civilization’, Steyn ignores questions about the abundance of every other resource.
Since the United Nations downgraded its assumption of global population projections, from 10 billion to slightly under 9 billion by 2050, the press have reacted as if Earth were on a fatal collision course with a giant asteroid. They have created panic among the Old Cornucopians and anyone else who believes that population growth is ‘No Problem’.
However, they shouldn’t worry, because, according to these predictions, population growth is still on course to add, by 2050, a new population nearly the current size of India, or almost five times the size of sub-Saharan Africa. The trouble is, the growth will be mostly in developing countries, in places where women average six or more children (Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Somalia) and those where they average five or more (Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Guinea, Nigeria, the Palestinian territories, Sudan and Togo). India is projected to overtake China’s population by 55%, while Indonesia is expected to increase its population by 30% and Vietnam by 40%. And if Turkey joins the EU, with a projected increase of 30 million, it will count as the Union’s most populous member.
Different projection models, seen by some as pessimistic, and by others as optimistic - conclude that there is an 85 per cent chance that the world’s population will stop growing before the end of the century. There is a 60 per cent probability that it will not exceed 10 billion people before 2100, and around a 15% probability that, at the end of the century, Earth’s population will be lower than it is today. For different regions, the date and size of peak population will vary considerably. At the global level, old age will prevail: the proportion above age 60 is likely to increase from its current level of 10 per cent to around 22 per cent in 2050.
If trends were to be borne out, by 2050 the cohort aged 65 to 84 years old would reach 1.3 billion, while those aged 88 and over would number 175 million.
These projected numbers are feared likely to impose a destructive burden on society. Hence, for some, the prospect of an end to world population growth is welcome news for sustainable development. (Lutz,Sanderson,Scherbov)
The pessimistic view of a population decline depends on absolute faith in the benefits of population growth. The new breed of pessimists is the antithesis of the Old Cornucopians and a new mutation. Their literature is studded with references to the perils of ageing.
“Economists in the West have declared that it will be impossible to sustain the present system of old age pensions.” (Mullan). “The United Nations duly convened in October 2000, a group of experts to examine issues of population aging and decline, the twin most dreaded consequences of humanity’s biological success.”
Such fear is not new. As early as 1937, John Maynard Keynes assured us that the problem of overpopulation is old hat and in its place we have a different threat: lack of demand caused by a declining population. The nationalistic content of such preoccupations was reflected in the thinking of many and endorsed by the Royal Commission which reported in 1949 the danger of a steady fall in birth-rates from 1870 (Mullan).
The European Union (EU) has an ambivalent attitude: while promoting population control policies in the developing world, it would look stupid, not to say racist, in denouncing the danger of falling birth rates in the West.
For some commentators this worry is part of a more generalised alarmism, which touches every aspect of modern society: food scares, water depletion, climate changes, family crisis, terrorism, social fragmentation, immigration, AIDS, bird flu, civil and uncivil wars, football violence, unruly teenagers, destruction of forests, and so on, some of which are suspected to have been promoted by environmentalists in search of a visible platform.
The lack of growth produces a stationary society especially if older people are excluded from the labour market. The trend has become a cause for angst, paradoxically transforming the old image of the demographic “bomb” out of recognition. No more explosions, but implosion. “An older industrial world will inevitably be a slower growing one.” (Hamish McRae)
#economy" id="economy">It’s the economy, stupid
The author offers an interpretation for the existence of the New Catastrophists. Their insistence on gloom mongering is manipulative and follows deliberate ideological ends, the ideology of eternal Growth: The Golden Calf.
The ideology underlying the population growth model is inspired by Adam Smith, mercantilist/imperialist economics, and modern demand and supply theories. (A. David Coleman)
As life expectancy has increased in the entire Western world, it has been associated with longer and healthier life spans in the older population. A 60 year old today is not the same 60 years old of twenty years ago. As a result, people can either work longer or consume less.
Ah! Consuming less! This concept is anathema for the disciples of the New Dogma—the Growth Factor. No society today, rich or poor, of left or right government, will oppose this dogma, which has become a quasi-religious belief system. It follows that economic growth cannot do without population growth.
Among supporters of population growth, the late Julian Simon is the most extreme case. He advocated continued population growth long into the future, deserving Professor Albert Bartlett’s award of membership in “The New Flat Earth Society” because a flat earth is the only earth that has the potential to allow the human population to grow forever.
“We have in our hands now - actually in our libraries - the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next 7 billion years… Even if no new knowledge were ever gained...we would be able to go on increasing our population forever.” (Julian Simon)
How has this self-confidence in progress and everlasting human improvement, founded on growth, given way to gloomy predictions about the future?
Again, the word on which we should concentrate is “growth”. No population growth = no economic growth. It is simple. The faith of the Cornucopians in a radiant future is based on growing growth. To anticipate lower economic expectations, resulting from less people to feed, clothe, house, educate, mobilize, and serve in the army - even if this includes unemployment, crowding, pollution, cementification, and social conflict - goes against the conventional assumption that human inventiveness doesn’t accept biological limits and is the motor of progress.
The over-optimistic view that purports humanity’s capacity to overcome every difficulty, with time, technology and lots of human beings, has turned on its head, when confronted with the awful perspective of a diminishing population.
If humans are so deft in inventing new solutions to ever increasing problems, what then stands in the way of creating new solutions to the economic affliction of demographic decline, publicised by the press and governments as the ultimate tragic event?
Surely, the same race that has sent man to the Moon - an incredibly difficult task previously thought to belong to the realm of science fiction - can manage changes arising from the so-called demographic transition?
We are being instructed to believe that the problem is economic. Ecological concerns are not a priority, nor are related issues of resource depletion, energy availability, loss of biodiversity, plunder of our natural capital. The fact that many species are in danger of extinction is not a major concern, nor that natural beauty is disappearing under tons of concrete. Though it is undeniable that the density of human populations is responsible for environmental devastation, it is also evident that not everybody is concerned. Our governments obey the economist exhortations and rightly recognise that people are mostly interested in what is called “purchasing power”.
If people were better informed about the threat to their lifestyles they would take into consideration other factors: Peak Oil is already upon us and its scarcity is already affecting their purchasing power. And if they were to reflect further, they should recognise that a less populated world would have everything to gain in security, democracy, liberty, employment, resources availability, and so on.
#solutions" id="solutions">Solutions to the crisis
A report released on Sunday, February 19th by the English Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) the leading New Labour think-tank, claimed that Britain was at a “demographic fork in the road” and needed to increase its fertility to prevent future tax rises.
The answer ? “The IPPR report says, in effect, that we need more babies to pay for our pensioners but this ignores the fact that those babies will eventually become pensioners themselves,” said David Nicholson-Lord, research associate for the Optimum Population Trust. “When that happens, we will need - on the IPPR’s logic, at least - even more babies to support the even greater number of pensioners. Population would thus have to go on increasing ad infinitum - something the planet clearly cannot support.” (David Nicholson Lord)
Behold an Editorial from The Economist of January 7th 2006, the smartest most influential magazine in the world,” according to The Sunday Telegraph
“The new demographics that are causing populations to age and to shrink are something to celebrate. Humanity was once caught in the trap of high fertility and high mortality. Now it has escaped into the freedom of low fertility and low mortality. Women’s control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good, as is the average person’s enjoyment, in rich countries, of ten more years of life than they had in 1960. Politicians may fear the decline of their nations’ economic prowess, but people should celebrate the new demographics as heralding a golden age.”
Notwithstanding the congratulating tone of this article, about the happy consequences of the lengthening of life, due to a limitation of births, the general reaction is of dismay and hand wringing. Some reactions are obsessively concentrating on a narrow issue. It is called: pension funds, or the preoccupation of providing funding to a growing number of older people.
Nobody seems to be able to find a solution, in spite of the proclaimed inventiveness of the human race.
According to certain UN figures “The ‘population bomb’ is now, officially, a dud…. The Population Division of the UN has now published a report titled ‘Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Aging Populations?’ that claims to address a problem population doomsayers did not predict: that within 50 years many countries around the world will be suffering from underpopulation. The report explicitly states, ‘Among the demographic trends revealed by those figures [generated], two are particularly salient: population decline and population aging.’ The report predicts that by 2050, Japan’s population will have dropped by 18 percent, Italy’s by 28 percent, and Europe as a whole by 13 percent,” according to Joseph Klesney a policy analyst at the Acton Institute.
The UN Population Division continues to worry: if the United States hopes to maintain the current ratio of workers to retirees over time, it will have to absorb an average of 10.8 million immigrants annually through 2050. At that point, however, the U.S. population would total 1.1 billion, 73 percent of whom would be immigrants who had arrived in this country since 1995 or their descendants.
Just housing such a massive influx would require the equivalent of building another New York City every 10 months. (Longman)
Europe is also deemed to need mass immigration to fix the support ratio between workers and pensioners. Britain, for example, is recommended to take a million immigrants a year to 2050, just to maintain the balance, which would bring the population to 120 millions…
Some European countries try to ignite more pro-natalist propaganda.
In extremis, some demographers recommend more immigration, in order to pay for our pensions.
But this is a theme for another, more ad hoc article.
Feeding reciprocally these up-down fears of economic decline = population decline, one of the most active and fundamentalist proponents of population growth is Ben J. Wattenberg, Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative institution supported by Big Business. And it is not strange that Big Business should support a rise in population, even through immigration, as businesses depend on a growth of their customer base. Just think how depopulation would play in favour of the construction industry.
Wattenberg “believes in the dire economic and emotional repercussions consequent to the “birth dearth”: shrinking markets, wrenching economic dislocation and great personal costs for millions of young people who decide not to raise families. (Wattenberg)
He then puts his foot in it, by bringing in scenarios of the Black Death, to support his theories. While recommending not investing in Europe, he compares our situation to “that plague demography, losing about a fifth of its population by 2050 ”.
Back in 1348, Europe suffered the Black Death or Plague, the second worst catastrophe in recorded history, which reduced the estimated European population by about a third.
It also brought stability, progress and freedom from want to the people who escaped death. As the distinguished scholar David Herlihy pointed out, the great reduction in population created opportunities for the survivors and those who came after them; there were fewer people, more jobs and a higher standard of living. (David Herlihy and Samuel K., Jr. Cohn)
Another historian agrees that, before the Black Death the continent “was caught in a Malthusian deadlock” in which “the balance between people and resources had become very tight.” After the plague, Europe “emerged from the charnel house of pestilence and epidemic cleansed and renewed, like the sun after rain.”(John Kelly)
Moreover: “Serfdom declined more rapidly. The status of women rose. Wages rose for common people. Talented young people were able to advance faster. The power of the kings declined more rapidly.” (Norman Cantor ) It is an indisputable fact that the sudden population decline stimulated labour-saving technologies that transformed the economy.
It would be nice if future population decline were not the result of tragic circumstances, but rather the consequence of many factors, all signs of progress in medicine, economic progress and cultural deliverance from old customs.
#optimists" id="optimists">Where are the Optimists?
The writer John Seager, currently writing a book on the effects of population trends around the world, asks: “Is this so-called ‘birth dearth,’ as Wattenberg puts it, really a problem? It is not. In fact, smaller families represent a great potential opportunity. The world is beset with social, political, and environmental challenges and crises;many caused by rampant population growth.” (John Seager)
Most invectives against population growth come not from straight environmentalists but from scientists:
“If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery restored.” says the biologist Richard Dawkins,
“It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death-rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.” Richard Dawkins
Most environmentalists appear less concerned with overpopulation. They concentrate on poverty, global warming, human rights, and many other ecological and sociological fears, but they shy away from overpopulation, which is the underlying reason for these problems. They may fear to lose many of their supporters, who believe that the real problem lies elsewhere, mostly in overconsumption by the rich.
Dr Madsen Pirie, President, Adam Smith Institute, said it: Do not worry: you said it all. We will get over this hump of population decline, go through the difficulties and come out the other side, happier and with better living conditions. The benefits of any given situation depend on good policies. (News night’s David Grossman Aug 2003 BBC)
Exponential growth cannot go on eternally and more so population growth plus economic growth.
As noted by The Economist, higher life expectancy goes hand in hand with better health, and better health may improve worker productivity and savings, and puts pressure to introduce new technologies to boost workers’ efficiency.
Policymakers should focus on the advantages of the median income on a per capita basis, which would make more individuals better off, rather than on the gross national product or national income.
If Governments hate a shrinking population is because it restricts their power status, but what matters is GDP per person.
A slowly shrinking population will bring a more egalitarian society, lower unemployment, elimination of costly and obsolete infrastructures, a stimulus to economic modernization, like the use of robots as substitute for menial labour, and improved living standards.
Although, realistically speaking, we recognize that every economic regime has its problems, population growth seems to have accumulated more than enough: they include increased import dependency for food and raw materials, increases in housing costs, congestion and crowding, marginal population ignored and exploited, balance of payments problems, inhibition of productivity growth and real income, an abundance of young people of working age, which can result in unemployment or underemployment, accompanied by political instability, elevated rates of crime, and the deterioration of social capital as a possible further consequence.
The “greying” of developed nations will provide opportunities as well as challenges. The real crux of the population question is the quality of people’s lives; the ability of people to participate in what it means to be really human; to work, play and die with dignity; to have some sense that one’s life has meaning and is connected with other people’s lives.” (Cohen, J.)
Let’s be optimistic for a change and look forward to our old age, when we will all be wiser, reasonably healthy and still active in contributing to society.
What better challenge for Cornucopians? So why not apply the famously sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg’s cheerfulness as medicine: emphasise the possibilities of technology and human creativity! (“The fact is human ingenuity has conquered every problem so far.”). I didn’t include him in my review because he is an unreconstructed optimist, the True Original Cornucopian. Because he thinks that everything is just a management problem, we shall call on him to fix things whenever they get a bit too difficult.
Dear Cornucopians who have lost their sense of reliance on technological fixes and market forces, consider that even Wattenberg and Co will come up with some extraordinary solution to our new predicament, new technological advances, and man’s creativity will rush to the rescue in a world of sprightly octogenarians, with the added benefit of living in a cleaner, peaceful and greener environment. And with a New Cornucopian suit fitted to their leaner new frame, we can celebrate together the Age of Increasing Opportunities.
1. Phillip Longman, May/June 2004,The Global Baby Bust”, Foreign Affairs. In “The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World prosperity and What to do About it” New York Basic Books, 2004, he urges that policies in the USA and other rich countries encourage more children.
2. Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson &amo; Sergei Scherbov, 2 August 2001” The end of world population growth”, NATURE vol. 412www.nature.com 543 27. Sunderland, Massachusetts.
3. Phil Mullan,2002 “The Imaginary Time Bomb” I.B. Taurus Publishers, theorises that Ageism is a form of discrimination
4. Hamish McRae 1995, OECD Economic Outlook.
5. A.David Coleman 2006, The prospect of population decline, University of Oxford, Round table discussion on the economic financial and environmental implications of over-population, OPT London 15 Feb
6. (Julian Simon L.) 1995, “The State of Humanity” Cato Institute and Blackwell Publishers.
7. David Nicholson Lord, 2006, Optimum Population Trust, News Release: Baby Shortage A Myth
8. Ben J. Wattenberg “The Birth Dearth” New York: Pharos Books.
9. Ben J. Wattenberg, 1997 “The Population Explosion Is Over”
10. The New York Times Magazine
11. David Herlihy and Samuel K., Jr. Cohn , 1997,” The Black Death and the Transformation of the West” (European History Series), Kirkus Associates,Harvard University Press , Cambridge Massachusetts)
12. John Kelly 1002, “The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time “ Harper Collins Publishers,10 East 53rd Street , NewYork )
13. Norman Cantor 2001,”In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made “, New York Free Press.
14. John Seager 2004, Why Anxiety Over Low Fertility? Population Connection, (Fact Sheet From The Reporter)
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Guide of LITHUANIA
Overlooking the Baltic Sea, Lithuania is a fascinating country with many places to discover. In 2015, Lithuania a became part of the European nation, breaking away from the Soviet republic and adopting the Euro currency.
There are written testimonies of Baltic tribes inhabiting Lithuania, dating back to 1200. For centuries Lithuania was the target of the Crusaders, but by 1400 it was the largest European state in Eastern Europe. Towards the end of the 1500s there was a union between Lithuania and neighboring Poland called the Polish-Lithuanian confederation, due to the marriage between the Grand Duke Jogaila and Queen Hedwig of Poland, this marriage also Christianized the country. More recently Lithuania was under Russian hegemony, then suffered Nazi invasion during the Second World War and the post-war period saw Lithuania under the control of the Soviet Union. Independence finally came in the nineties when Lithuania become the first Baltic republic.
What to see in Lithuania
The capital Vilnius, is a city to be experienced, characterized by beautiful landscapes and fairytale views, with Baroque style palaces in the old town. In 2009 Vilnius was made European Capital of Culture. A few kilometers from Vilnius there is the the town of Trakai. It is an enchanting place, on an island connected to the mainland by a strip of land, surrounded by the waters of Lake Luka and Lake Totoriskiu. There is a beautiful red-brick castle built in the 1400s. In the center of Lithuanai is the city of Kaunas, which is home to a medieval fortress that is worth a visit, there also an interesting cathedral. Siauliai is a destination for pilgrims and The Hill of Crosses features more than one hundred thousand crosses placed on the hill by the pilgrims who visit from all over the world. Finally, Druskininkai is a very popular spa resort, surrounded by rivers and lakes.
The Lithuanian culinary tradition is based on simple foods, its an earthly, peasant cuisine influenced by German, Polish and Scandinavian flavors. The main dishes consist of potatoes, beets, soups and meat, mainly pork. A very common dish is the Vedrai, which is composed of potato, sausage and pork intestine, accompanied with fresh vegetables. Celelinai, are large potato dumplings stuffed with cheese or meat, served with sour cream and mushrooms. Kibinai, small puff pastry pocket stuffed with chicken or cheese, or vegetables. A classic snack to enjoy whilst sipping some excellent Lithuanian beer are Kepta Duona, strips of black rye bread fried with garlic and usually accompanied by cheeses. | <urn:uuid:b565bf3b-ad2a-41d7-9691-9ac9a06c951f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netferry.com/destination-guides/lithuania | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963825 | 556 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Writer and publisher Dennis Loy Johnson is the creator of the literary weblog MobyLives.com and the founder of Melville House Books, which he launched with his wife, Valerie Merians, in 2002. Their most recent publication, What We Do Now, is a collection of responses by a motley assortment of contributors, including Howard Dean, to the paralyzing despair felt by America’s liberals after Bush’s reappointment. The Rail’s Kate Trainor braved the PATH train to speak with Johnson and Merians in their Hoboken studio.
Kate Trainor (Rail): Both of your brainchildren, MobyLives.com and Melville House, pay homage to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Dennis Loy Johnson: I love Moby Dick, but I’m no Melville scholar. I’ve read Moby Dick once, maybe once and a half, so I’m no specialist on it. I just think it’s the great American novel, and when it was time for us to name the publishing company, we actually had another name picked out, but that turned out to be the name of another publisher. So at the very last minute, we decided it would be great to name a publishing company after Herman Melville, who’s kind of the epitome of the writer’s life. He died in poverty, a very depressed man. His greatest work was underappreciated. We just thought that this was a great way to show some appreciation for him.
Rail: How did MobyLives evolve into Melville House?
Johnson: We started right after 9/11.
Valerie Merians: With a book of poetry. After 9/11, poets were sending Dennis poems to put up on MobyLives, so we decided, well, let’s make a little book out of this. And things got out of hand from there. The word started circulating among poets, and we got submissions from all kinds of people. We even have a Pulitzer Prize winner in our book [Steven Dunn].
Johnson: We got a lot of press for that. We really didn’t know what we were doing. We were very unhappy with the media discussion of 9/11, and we were interested in what the artists had to say about things. As it turned out, even though we didn’t know what we were going to do—we just thought it was going to be this chapbook, we didn’t even know how we’d sell it—a lot of people, not only the public but the press, got interested in it. The New York Times did a profile of us, then CNN called, and NPR, and it just kind of steamrolled from there. People kept coming at us with book ideas that were pretty good, and we’d try them out, and they’d do okay. So we finally incorporated, but it was never our intention to do that. It was just a collaborative art project that got out of hand.
Merians: But then as we kept going, we kept thinking about books we’d like to bring into print and books we’d like to make. We would be talking and think, “We could do it ourselves.” And so we did.
Rail: Is there one book or one project that you’re most proud of?
Johnson: (to Merians) Uh-oh, which child do we like the best, dear?
Merians: I think we’re most proud of our most recent book, What We Do Now, which was sort of a herculean effort on both our parts, just timewise, because we crashed it in a very short period of time, sort of a lam-speed world record for book publishing—in three weeks—to get it in the stores.
Johnson: We’re still recovering. That was a case where we had an idea for a book and we made it happen. There was such a feeling of urgency about it. It wasn’t about making money or publishing. It was about the real need to speak to a community. We really had something to say, and it was very, very difficult to say it properly and get it in front of people. But we did it, and that was very satisfying. It’s still having repercussions and impact, and we’re still really absorbed in that one. It’s about spreading a message as much as it is about selling a book, in this case.
Rail: What is this urgent message that you’re trying to send?
Merians: After the election of Bush for a second term, we were really despondent. Everybody we knew was really despondent. After we were despondent for a while, we figured, “We’ve got to do something. We can’t just wallow like this. It’s too depressing. What we can do is publish a book.” That became a very galvanizing thing to get out of our own feeling of malaise. We can do something, and we can also give people a push to convince them that they can do something too. The huge coalition of people that did vote against Bush should be very proud of themselves and should not sink into abject despair.
Johnson: Our company has been a real “take things into your own hands” effort. This is the modus operandi that we exist under. That’s how we wanted this project because that’s what we felt people should do. Fifty-six million people voting for the man declared the most leftist senator. We felt that that was the greatest leftist coalition in the United States of America. It was. That’s more people than voted for Bill Clinton, more people than voted for Ronald Reagan. It was a true coalition effort. Our book was a true coalition effort. It’s got people from the [Democratic] party, from outside the party, people who hate the party. There are disagreeing voices in there, but the point is they can all work together to achieve something. In this case, it was the achievement of a book, a unified opposition. We hope it’s analogous to a larger effort, as well.
Rail: Part of your coalition was Howard Dean.
Johnson: Yes. We put out a call. I basically pulled every string and every connection that we have, and we made a wish list and asked a lot of people who we read regularly, progressive voices we admire. We asked him, and he was one of the first who said yes.
Rail: Liberals are being criticized for their feeble response to Bush and his politics. Would you agree that the liberal response has been weak?
Johnson: I think we agree wholeheartedly with that. That’s why we did the book. Don’t sit around, don’t wait. Keep going now. That’s why we crashed the book, that’s why we made it in three weeks instead of making it in a normal cycle, which would have been a year or longer. We just thought that people were so down, if something didn’t happen fast, the whole movement would dissipate.
Rail: How do you feel about people who voted for Ralph Nader?
Johnson: No problem. It’s America. You should be free to vote for whoever you want without criticism. Unless of course you voted for Bush, in which case you’re an idiot. We’re leftists, and the sad thing about America today is that we had to get behind a moderate “Republican”, John Kerry. It was the best we could do. I’m not going to criticize anyone for voting for Ralph Nader. Do I wish that Nader had quit and thrown his support behind Kerry? Yeah, but he didn’t. So, on we go.
Rail: Some leftists feel despondent because their protests have been largely ignored. Many who attended the demonstrations in New York said they felt like people were showing up for the entertainment value of the spectacle, not to support a political cause.
Merians: Well, it was a pretty impressive turnout, the people who came out to protest the RNC. It was a pretty successful protest. Unfortunately, the function of turning out on the street as a protest gesture has shifted. Our expectations are from the sixties—about what could happen if you turned up on the street and made a lot of noise. At the 1968 protest in Chicago that turned into a police riot—there were only about 4,000 people, which is really small, compared to the kind of numbers we have now.
Johnson: But they got better press! You really can’t have an opposition without massive gatherings of people, simple bodies on the street. It’s very important. The problem today, unlike any time in our history, is that the mainstream media is marginalizing these events, even though they’re historic numbers. We were just down in Washington for the inauguration protests, and there was a lot of violence there. There were an amazing number of protesters.
Rail: But it didn’t get reported.
Johnson: Exactly. I wrote a whole book about exactly this, about the 2000 elections and how many significant demonstrations were actively suppressed and oppressed and not covered by the press. The powerful conglomerate press just doesn’t cover it. So we’re all learning to live by another press. There’s a really submerged population, and I’d call it a counterculture, except that it’s just people like you and me. It’s not like the sixties where it’s true outcasts, true rebels. It’s just normal people who want to find out what happened.
Rail: Are any of the proceeds from this book going to leftist campaigns or organizations?
Johnson: Well, we hope to see some profits. We haven’t made a profit in our existence yet. We’ve donated a lot of books. We’re not giving a portion of the proceeds, but as of yet, there are no proceeds.
Rail: How are you surviving in the meantime, if you’re not turning a profit?
Johnson: We’ve been artists our whole adult lives, and we’ve never made anything above the poverty level, so it’s nothing new. It’s a labor of love to be a publisher. You just hold on and hope that a few books catch. For an independent, you don’t need your books to sell a million copies to get by. I think we’ll make it. Of course, if you’re not careful, we’re apt to show up at your house for dinner.
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Another California Heat Wave Will Bake Forests Already Primed to Burn
May Gray, June Gloom, No-Sky July ⦠whatever you call it, the marine layer and Californiaâs coastal summer weather patterns are insulating the Bay Area from yet another punishing summer heat wave descending on the Central Valley.
While inland areas will broil this weekend, the forecast for cities around the bay is warm, but not uncomfortable.
Meteorologists are still sizing up the projections, and say the heat isnât likely to break all-time records like the heatwave that cooked the Pacific Northwest last month.
Carbon pollution is trapping heat and warming the planet, causing more frequent and severe heat waves, even as companies and governments continue to emit planet warming gases with little abatement.
A pre-print study released Wednesday by an international group of climate researchers found that the Pacific Northwest heat wave wouldâve been âvirtually impossible without human-caused climate change.â
The World Weather Attribution group produced the rapid-turnaround modeling of the extreme weather event. The researchers predict similar heat waves will be increasingly common in a warming world, although the conclusions have not yet been scrutinized through a peer review process.
Hidden away in coastal fog, residents of the inner Bay Area could almost forget that June saw daily temperature records crushed all across the state. For the Sierra and other interior regions of California, it was the hottest June in more than a century of record keeping, according to climate scientists.
The baking continues. National Weather Service issued a heat warning for the Bay Area region that lasts until Monday, July 12. Residents of the far eastern parts of the region â Antioch, Brentwood, Napa, and Livermore â face triple-digit temperatures, hotter nights, and homes that likely wonât cool off in the evening, all of which compound to create health dangers.
Temperatures are on the rise this weekend. An Excessive Heat Watch has been issued for the North Bay Mountains, the East Bay Hills as well as the Santa Lucia Mtns, S. San Benito and the S. Salinas Valley.
— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) July 7, 2021
The good news for the Bay Area is that the marine layer will function as natural air conditioning for the coast, as it usually does this time of year. The bad news is that statewide, forests are extremely dry and vulnerable to wildfire. Scorching temps will likely only create more heightened risk of a big fire.
Heat Could Bring a ‘Significant Health Risk’
The incoming weather event â a couple days of heat brought on by a high pressure system moving in from the southeast â is fairly normal, said Jan Null, meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services, but cautioned that high temperatures can be dangerous.
âWhen we start seeing temperatures in the upper 90s and past 100, there is a significant health risk in people overexerting themselves, especially when theyâre not acclimated to it,â he said.
If you live west of the East Bay Hills, or wear shorts when itâs 60 degrees out, thatâs you, likely to be poorly acclimated to heat.
The heatwave wonât extend to the coast âbecause there just isnât enough offshore flow to overcome the strong marine influence this time of year and to fully suppress the marine layer,â wrote Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLAâs Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, on his blog, WeatherWest. Most of the stateâs population lives in places where cool ocean air provides some relief from summer heat, like the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego metro regions.
âThis is a pattern weâve seen occur somewhat frequently in recent years, with searing heat inland yet quite mild conditions where the marine influence hangs on, and which also makes for a rather strange reality,â he wrote.
Later in the season, when high pressure and hot air push toward the coast, effectively turning off the coastâs natural AC, the extreme temperatures will likely push out to the Pacific.
Hot Temperatures Intensify Already Bone Dry ConditionsÂ
This particular heat wave will bake an abnormally dry landscape, priming it further to burn. Much of the Bay Area is in an exceptional drought, the highest category on the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Scott Stephens, a forestry professor at UC Berkeley is seeing evidence of that first hand in the Plumas County town of Quincy, where heâs teaching a summer field course for undergraduates.
He said after several weeks of temperatures above 90 degrees, plants there are âalready showing signs that look like August: leaves starting to shrivel, shutting shut down because moisture is being depleted by the heat.â
âThe hot temperatures plus the combination of two years of below average precipitation this year is really worrisome because that lower moisture is going to make fire behavior more extreme, spread rates more extreme,â he said.
Itâs typical for plants and trees to dry out in the summer in Californiaâs Mediterranean climate, but not typically this fast, Stephens said. During the state’s last major drought, which lasted from 2012 to 2016, more than 120 million trees in the Sierra Nevada succumbed to bark beetles infestation and drought.
Those stands of dead trees and dry timber fueled blazes like the Creek Fire, which ignited near Shaver Lake last September and burned for nearly four months, consuming an area larger than the city of L.A., almost 600 square miles of forest.
Stephens notes that the northern tier of the Sierra has not yet experienced a similar tree die off during this drought, although heâs seeing an increase in bark beetle activity.
âIf we put two more years of drought and warm conditions on this part of California, I’m afraid we might see the same kind of disaster,â he said.
Stephens blames decades of fire suppression and poor forest management for the larger fires in recent years, making parched land more vulnerable to extreme fire behavior. These policy failures are compounded by rising average summer temperatures.
âYou put climate change on top of [years of fire suppression] and it makes it worse,” he said. “Weâve got warmer periods, lower fuel moistures, snow melting earlier. All of this is contributing to what fire is doing,â he said.
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is well-known to visitors to this blog. I think that people who visit this web site can get a sense of world events and new directions the world is moving in. This Forum could be characterized as a multilevel network which links the world together horizontally, and it is a place for those individuals who are international leaders and have themselves been characterized as a “super class” in a book of the same name.
A conference was held last week in Dalian which has been dubbed the “Summer Davos” (a name that brings to mind Davos which is held in the winter). More than a hundred attended from Japan, but my schedule did not permit me to make it. The WEF Asian-Pacific Summit was held about a month ago in Indonesia, and I was unable to make that conference either. I recommend the WEF site to everyone who wants to keep tabs on our rapidly changing world whose future is almost impossible to predict.
In light of these activities, Professor Klaus Schwab, who is the prime mover behind the WEF, has launched the new Global Shapers Community. The aim is to broaden the arena for young activists who are striving to invigorate society. William H. Saito, with whom I worked to launch Impact Japan in Japan, has been appointed as the Japanese Curator. Impact Japan has also become a contact point.
Mr. Saito arrived back in Japan in the early hours of Saturday the 17th (actually he landed a bit after 5:00 in the morning on the day of the gathering). Prof. Schwab, who had arrived in Japan the previous day, met with a gathering of approximately 30 youths in their 20s. The Global Shapers Community was thus launched in the course of the subsequent 90-minute meeting. Everyone, with the exception of 1, is someone who is working towards socially significant goals, setting up new organizations and engaging in entrepreneurial activities. They are a hard-working and energetic group.
I beseech adults before they start to say “the young people of today are so . . .” to think about these youths who are actively engaged and to offer them support. There are also a number of youths based overseas. Mr. Atsuyoshi Saisho and Mr. Yusuke Matsuda (in Japanese) who I have talked about previously in this blog also participated. All of them are setting high goals and aggressively tackling them even while running into obstacles and dealing with major setbacks.
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Service Description for Optional Services Priced Software
This Service Description for Optional Services ("SDOS") describes generally the features of the Optional Services Priced Software:
E. Priced Software
Capitalised terms used in this SDOS have the meaning set out in the Terms or other documents comprising the Agreement. Dimension Data may amend this SDOS from time to time, including by adding or removing Optional Services, by posting the updated version at this URL or otherwise providing notice to Client.
1.1. Priced Software Service permits Clients to use Third Party Software for which the Client has an appropriate valid licence with the third party vendor (EULA) for an Optional Service Fee calculated in Software Units on either a per server, or a per CPU basis.
1.2. The Third Party Software is loaded into a Cloud Server that may be deployed using either the Service Portal or API as Priced Software on the Public IaaS.
1.3. Ordering. To order a Priced Software Service, the Client must submit an Order for Optional Services.
1.4. Fees. Fees for Priced Software are calculated using the Software Units price specified in the Dimension Data Public Compute-as-a-Service Regional Rate Plan Pricing Optionshttp://www.dimensiondata.com/en-US/Documents/Rate%20Card.pdf at the rate of units nominated for the relevant for Third Party Software designated for the pricing model, being either per Server or per CPU:
1.4.1. Per Server Priced Software incurs a specific rate of Software Units per hour when a server is running and a specific rate per hour when a server is stopped. This hourly rate is the same regardless of the number of CPU's configured on the server.
1.4.2. Example: Per Server Priced Software with a rate of 50 units per hour when the server is running and 25 units per hour when the server is stopped. If a 2 CPU Server is deployed in a running state for 2 hours and a stopped state for 1 hour, it will incur 125 software units (50 units x 2 hours running + 25 units x 1 hour stopped)
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1.5. Cloud Servers with Third Party Software that requires additional licensing are labelled as Priced Software in the Service Portal and API along with a table describing the Software Units incurred by that specific Cloud Server.
1.6. Software Units are only incurred when a Cloud Server is deployed that includes Priced Software.
1.7. If multiple Priced Software is deployed on a Cloud Server, the Software Units and Fees for each Priced Software deployed are charge.
1.8. Once a Cloud Server has been deployed that contains Priced Software, all subsequent Customer Images created from the Server will carry the same Priced Software packages and Cloud Servers deployed from those Customer Images will incur the same charges.
2. Addtional Terms
2.1. Use of Priced Software may not be available in all locations.
2.2. Not all Priced Software contains VMWare tools. This may limit certain administration functions using the Service Portal or API. Limited functions include the ability to Modify IP Address, Restart and Clone Cloud Server using the Service Portal or API.
2.3. Clients purchasing this Service must have valid support agreements with the vendor of the Third Party Software.
2.4. As Priced Software includes Third Party Software that may be untested by Dimension Data, Incident Correction, Technical Support, Service Levels and Service Level Credits do not apply to Priced Software.
3. Priced Software Availability
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|ATD(8)||System Manager's Manual||ATD(8)|
atd - run jobs queued for later execution
atd [-l load_avg] [-b batch_interval] [-d] [-f] [-s]
atd runs jobs queued by at(1).
- Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compile-time choice of 0.8. For an SMP system with n CPUs, you will probably want to set this higher than n-1.
- Specify the minimum interval in seconds between the start of two batch jobs (60 default).
- Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3). This option also implies -f.
- Run atd in the foreground.
- Process the at/batch queue only once. This is primarily of use for compatibility with old versions of at; atd -s is equivalent to the old atrun command.
atd won't work if its spool directory is mounted via NFS even if no_root_squash is set.
/var/spool/atd The directory for storing jobs; this should be mode 700, owner daemon.
/var/spool/atd The directory for storing output; this should be mode 700, owner daemon.
/etc/at.allow, /etc/at.deny determine who can use the at system.
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You may want about 50 days until the start of the biggest technology fair in the world, 2,012 CES , but have already started some events to present these to see you there.
Among them stands HzO technology can be applied to any smartphone to make it waterproof, with a completely different approach than we used to “armor” devices.
So instead of preventing the ingress of water, technology HzO lets it flows through the device without causing any damage! The information is not many, but has been known to create a hydrophobic layer a few nanometers, which protects the insides of the device from the liquid element.
To prove their claims, the company sank a “neat” Samsung Galaxy S II in water and as you will see the following video, it works normally without any limit of its capabilities.
We do not know when it will be widely available technology HzO, but may find application to any device like smartphone, tablet, TV, bags, etc.) while the well-known maker Zagg protection cases has undertaken to use it to its own products.
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Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging vaccinated teachers to go to school and teach the nation’s children as he responded to the news of strike action.
The SVG Teachers Union has issued a call for all teachers to stay away from school on Tuesday and Wednesday as well as to join a picket line on Friday. The strike is over the issue of mandatory vaccination.
Speaking on WEFM99.9 on Sunday, Gonsalves said all schools will be open and ‘this thing about asking parents not to send their children to school is a non-starter.’
He said to teachers: “You cannot use children as a battering ram against the government, it is wrong.”
The prime minister said the country cannot have a set of people who want to act outside the framework, decide they are going to seek to disrupt the education of the children.
He said that is not going to happen and added it is unacceptable for any teacher who is vaccinated to say they are going to ‘sit out’ or ‘sit in’.
Gonsalves questioned the public morality of being paid, deciding not to go to work and then using the children they are obligated to teach, as a battering ram against the government.
“Where is the public morality in you not doing your job? You will be paid for five days employment but have determined in advance, three of the days you will not be teaching people children?
To have the government change its position you want to use the children as a battering ram against the government?”
The prime minister has urged those teachers who have taken the vaccine and who have an obligation to teach people’s children, to do so.
Eighty-five per cent of teachers in primary and secondary schools are vaccinated. Some are awaiting letters as to whether they have received an exemption from the vaccine on medical or religious grounds.
The prime minister noted that as a consequence of the slower movement in the vaccination rate among teachers and given the importance of educating children and keeping them safe in school, the government had to make sure there was an adequate supply of teachers for those who were unvaccinated as of November 19.
An advertisement was posted for persons who wanted to teach and following interviews, up to Saturday morning, 91 teachers have been hired, largely in the primary and some also in secondary schools.
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CARMEL, IN, January 11, 2021 – Indiana begins the recognition of the state’s aviation heroes, pioneers, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
The Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation formed in 2017 to recognize, honor, and perpetuate the memory of those special individuals who have made an enduring contribution to aviation and aerospace in Indiana through achievement, leadership, exceptional service, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Inductees to the Hall are enshrined with memorial plaques and medallions struck in their honor.
The Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame is accepting applications of worthy individuals for the Class of 2021 on its website, https://inahof.org.
In advance of naming the honored Class of 2021, the Board of Directors enshrined eleven Legacy Class Members whose achievements in aviation and space flight are recognized by the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio. The Legacy Class Members of the Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame are:
- Wilbur Wright, pioneer of flight, visionary, and inventor.
- Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, test pilot
- James Allison, aviation engine manufacturer and industrialist
- Harvey Weir Cook, World War I ace, World War II veteran, and aviation pioneer
- Frank Borman, U.S. Air Force veteran, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and airline executive
- Lawrence Bell, helicopter development pioneer, industrialist, and manufacturer
- Edwin Link, developer and pioneer in flight training devices and simulators
- Abe Silverstein, visionary NASA engineer and space program director
- Roscoe Turner, aviation pioneer and showman, Thompson Trophy winner, businessman
- William “Pete” Knight, US Air Force veteran, test pilot, world speed record holder
- Collett “C.E.” Woolman, founder and chairman of Delta Airlines
Complete biographies and information on the Legacy Class Members can be found at https://inahof.org/members/legacy-class/.
The Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame will honor the Class of 2021 inductees at the Honors Banquet to be held October 1, 2021 in Carmel, Indiana. Information on the Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame, the Honors Banquet, and to nominate a future Hall of Fame honoree can be found at https://inahof.org. | <urn:uuid:817c1017-3bc9-44db-8bd4-da0993e1ffa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inahof.org/news/indiana-aviation-hall-of-fame-enshrines-legacy-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.882173 | 501 | 1.765625 | 2 |
TeamSTEPPS Helps Arizona Hospital Reduce Emergency Department Wait Times
Prior to 2015, patients waited an average of nearly 90 minutes for treatment at the emergency department (ED) of Banner Payson Regional Medical Center, Payson, Arizona. While Banner Payson had earned high rankings for some clinical services and had been designated as one of the Nation’s top 100 hospitals three times by Thomson-Reuters, wait times at the central Arizona ED were high on the list of issues demanding a top-to-bottom overhaul, according to hospital officials.
To improve performance, the facility used a combination of operational improvements and TeamSTEPPS® training to reduce the hospital's ED wait times from a high of 89 minutes in April 2015 to an average of 18 minutes in April 2016, according to Banner Payson CEO Lance Porter.
Banner Health, a Phoenix-based non-profit system with 29 hospitals, acquired the 44-bed hospital from Community Health in 2014. Banner Payson suffered from problems with communication among physicians and nurses, a lack of teamwork and accountability among staff, and a general culture that shunned new approaches to familiar problems, according to Porter. For example, input from the nursing staff was discouraged by the former ED physician group, increasing the risk of delays and poor outcomes, he noted.
To begin addressing the ED's problems, Banner Payson brought in the national ED staffing firm TeamHealth, which recommended using AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS training program. Developed in collaboration with the Department of Defense, TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based patient safety system used worldwide to improve communication and teamwork.
Banner Payson also introduced several operational fixes to help improve efficiency. These included hiring scribes to input notes into electronic health records for physicians, allowing nurses to order routine lab and blood tests, and shifting schedules to make more providers available during peak times. Using ED technicians during busy summer months also helped reduce waiting times. Together, these changes began to move the ED into performing in a more efficient manner, according to Porter.
"The real achievement is the change of culture" that occurred as a result of the TeamSTEPPS training, Porter noted. One tool known as a huddle, where physicians and nurses meet at the end of every shift to share patient information, has been a notable teamwork booster. Physicians use huddles to discuss with nurses why they’ve chosen a certain clinical protocol, encouraging nurses to be actively engaged in the care plan.
"Nurses are doing more than checking a box or keeping score," Porter explained, adding that "they feel part of a team, and they have that sense of urgency."
Maintaining a culture in which teamwork and communication are valued is an ongoing challenge to many organizations, and one that Banner Payson has anticipated. To maintain the momentum, all ED staff are involved in teams that address how to continuously improve patient information-sharing so that patients have a personal stake in the process, Porter explained.
Making sure that new hires are committed to a teamwork-oriented environment is another priority. "We only want people who fit the new culture," Porter said. "Luckily, we have enough staff interested that we don't have to settle for less."
In a related effort, the hospital is forming a team to review admission delays and determine how to admit patients more efficiently.
Impact Case Study Identifier:
AHRQ Product(s): TeamSTEPPS®
Topics(s): Emergency Department, Patient Safety, Health Care Quality
Geographic Location: Arizona
Implementer: Banner Payson Regional Medical Center
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E-Invoicing System under GST Act. 2017
Background of E-Invoicing under GST
E-Invoicing is being implemented in a phase manner since October 2020. The history of E-Invoicing is as under: –
|S. No.||Notification No.||Turnover||Effective Date|
|1.||61/2020 – Central Tax||500 Crore||01/10/2020|
|2.||88/2020 – Central Tax||100 Crore||01/01/2021|
|3.||05/2021 – Central Tax||50 Crore||01/04/2021|
|4.||01/2022 – Central Tax||20 Crore||01/04/2022|
2. Update as on 24th February 2022
The CBIC has notified that e-invoicing will be applicable from 1st April 2022 for businesses with a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores (in any financial year from FY 2017-18 onwards) Notification No. 01/2022 Central Tax dated 24/02/2022 for business-to-business transaction. (Change in Notification no. 13/2021 Central Tax Dated 01/05/2021).
3. The documents that will be covered under e-Invoicing system are as follows-
2. Credit Notes
3. Debit Notes
5. Any other document as notified under GST law to be reported as e-invoice by the creator of the document
4. Exemption form E-Invoices under GST-
A) Entity Level: – Irrespective of the turnover, e-Invoicing shall not be applicable to the following categories of registered persons for now, as notified in CBIC Notification No.13/2020 – Central Tax:
B) Transaction Level:-
C) Documents Level: – Following Documents that not be covered under E-Invoicing Systems are as Follows:-
5. Amendment / cancellation of e-invoices
1. Can an e-Invoice be cancelled partially/fully?
An e-Invoice cannot be partially cancelled, it has to be cancelled fully. Once cancelled, it will need to be reported into the IRN within 24 hours. A cancellation done after 24 hours cannot be done on the IRN and needs to be manually cancelled on the GST portal before the returns are filed.
2. How can an e-Invoice be amended?
All amendments to an e-invoice can be made only on the GST Portal.
6. What are the modes available for getting e-Invoices Registered?
Multiple modes will be made available for getting e-Invoices registered on the Invoice Registration Portal (IRP). Some of the proposed modes are-
1. Web based,
2. API based,
3. Offline tool based and
List of all Notification issued by CBIC in relation to E-Invoices System
1. Notification No. (Central Tax) Key Contents 68/2019 Dt. 13-12-2019
Central Goods and Services Tax (Eighth Amendment) Rules Inserted below new sub-rules in Rule 48 of CGST Rules, 2017: (4) The invoice shall be prepared by such class of registered persons as may be notified by the Government, on the recommendations of the Council, by including such particulars contained in FORM GST INV-01 after obtaining an Invoice Reference Number by uploading information contained therein on the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal in such manner and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be specified in the notification.
(5) Every invoice issued by a person to whom sub-rule (4) applies in any manner other than the manner specified in the said sub-rule shall not be treated as an invoice. E-INVOICE – FAQ (VERSION 1.3) 3 of 21 EE-
(6) The provisions of sub-rules (1) and (2) shall not apply to an invoice prepared in the manner specified in sub-rule (4).
Notified 10 Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portals for the purpose of preparation of invoice in terms of rule 48 (4)
Notified registered person, whose aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds one hundred crore rupees, as a class of registered person who shall prepare invoice in terms of sub-rule (4) of rule 48 of the said rules in respect of supply of goods or services or both to a registered person; notification to come into force from the 1st day of April, 2020 (This notification superseded by 13 of 2020 Dt. 21-3-2020)
Substituted Form GST INV-1 as e-invoice schema (Schema further amended vide Notification 60/2020 Dt. 30-7-2020)
5. Notification No. 13 of 2020 Dt. 21-3- 2020 (in suppression of 70/2019 Dt. 13-12- 2019)
E-invoicing to start from the 1st October, 2020;
Notifies registered persons, other than those referred to in sub-rules (2), (3), (4) and (4A) of rule 54 of the said rules, whose aggregate turnover in a financial year exceeds Rs. 100 Cr., as a class of registered person who shall prepare invoice and other prescribed documents, in terms of sub-rule (4) of rule 48 of CGCT Rules, 2017, in respect of supply of goods or services or both to a registered person. (Further amended by 61/2020 Dt. 30-7-2020)
The CBIC has notified that e-invoicing will be applicable from 1st April 2021 for businesses with a turnover of more than Rs.50 crores (in any financial year from FY 2017-18 onwards)
The CBIC has notified that e-invoicing will be applicable from 1st April 2022 for businesses with a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores (in any financial year from FY 2017-18 onwards).
54. Tax invoice in special cases.-
(2) Where the supplier of taxable service is an insurer or a banking company or a financial institution, including a non-banking financial company, the said supplier [may] issue a [consolidated] tax invoice or any other document in lieu thereof, by whatever name called [for the supply of services made during a month at the end of the month], whether issued or made available, physically or electronically whether or not serially numbered, and whether or not containing the address of the recipient of taxable service but containing other information as mentioned under rule 46. [Provided that the signature or digital signature of the supplier or his authorised representative shall not be required in the case of issuance of a consolidated tax invoice or any other document in lieu thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).]
(3) Where the supplier of taxable service is a goods transport agency supplying services in relation to transportation of goods by road in a goods carriage, the said supplier shall issue a tax invoice or any other document in lieu thereof, by whatever name called, containing the gross weight of the consignment, name of the consigner and the consignee, registration number of goods carriage in which the goods are transported, details of goods transported, details of place of origin and destination, Goods and Services Tax Identification Number of the person liable for paying tax whether as consigner, consignee or goods transport agency, and also containing other information as mentioned under rule 46.
(4) Where the supplier of taxable service is supplying passenger transportation service, a tax invoice shall include ticket in any form, by whatever name called, whether or not serially numbered, and whether or not containing the address of the recipient of service but containing other information as mentioned under rule 46.
[Provided that the signature or digital signature of the supplier or his authorised representative shall not be required in the case of issuance of ticket in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).]
[(4A) A registered person supplying services by way of admission to exhibition of cinematograph films in multiplex screens shall be required to issue an electronic ticket and the said electronic ticket shall be deemed to be a tax invoice for all purposes of the Act, even if such ticket does not contain the details of the recipient of service but contains the other information as mentioned under rule 46: Provided that the supplier of such service in a screen other than multiplex screens may, at his option, follow the above procedure.]
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We had an overnight fall of snow recently. Come morning it had melted away but not on high ground. This scene looks Westward, towards the Slieve Bloom Mountains. These are old mountains, possibly one of the oldest mountain ranges in Europe and originally one of the highest (estimates of 3,700m, 12,000ft). The shape of the individual mountains testify to aeons of erosion. The wide base and tapered peaks have a distinctive profile, like a wall sitting on the horizon. Normally this ‘wall’ is unnoticeable, blending-in with low lying cloud. With a capping of snow, and bright April light, it looked surreal.
A small painting, 11″x8″ (31x19cm), this was completed in less than 2 hours with the level of work I was happy with. I like a weave of intense deliberate brushstrokes, and this is time consuming. On large paintings I find it impossible to work this way. The paint has to be wet on wet, with enough dryness to allow more paint to be put on top if needed. I think the ‘lines’ or strokes made by the brush, or whatever, are important . An alphabet which allows the image to be ingested differently from photos or mechanically produced or accidental patterns. For this reason I don’t like to see the weave of the canvas as a feature of the painting, although it works for some people.
The colours here are Indian Red (red), Yellow Ochre (yellow) and French Ultramarine (blue). Also Sap Green, and of course, black and white. Indian Red is a powerful, rust red, colour. It is lighter in tone than Burnt Sienna but does not mix as well with other colours. It is so strong, adding the same volume of black paint still produces a red colour. I find it produces ‘gritty’ looking pictures compared to Burnt Sienna, which always produces a range of pinks when in contact with white. These remarks are personal and your own experiences may be completely different. I always use a very limited palette and this effects the behaviour of colours.
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Vladimir Smirnov. Kazakhstan’s first Olympic gold medal
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In 1994, 29 Kazakh athletes represented the country in the Norwegian Lillehammer. But only Vladimir Smirnov’s performance, who was one of the strongest skiers in the world in the 1980s-1990s, resulted in a triumph. Before that iconic race, he had already won 2 medals there: for 10 km classic style and 15 km freestyle races. At that moment, he was facing the most difficult part - the 50 kilometres race. And although Vladimir Smirnov had not previously shown high results at that distance, he was the first to cross the finish line. You will learn more about all this in the new Flashback release.
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Kevin Taylor, ICTMN
With his distinctive round eyeglasses and long, gray braids, Walter Echo-Hawk looks rather more owlish than revolutionary.
But the longtime Pawnee speaker, author and lawyer who toils on the frontlines of federal Indian Law makes a strong argument that it is time to drive a stake into the legacy of colonialism in his new book, In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Fulcrum, 2013).
That stake could be the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Echo-Hawk sets out to examine and explain. Adopted by the United States in December 2010, it has yet to be integrated into law or policy. This provocative book, educational and inspiring for indigenous and “settler” alike, can show the way.
Echo-Hawk says he was motivated to write this volume as something of a hopeful counterpoint to his previous book, In the Courts of the Conqueror, which examined the worst cases in federal Indian law.
What jumps out at anyone studying mainstream attitudes toward this country’s Indigenous Peoples is the fact that what much of white America thinks of as a bygone era of treaty making, frontier warfare and taming the West is, to Indian people, current events. Life under the heel of historical oppression looks far different than the view of the boot wearer.
This difference in perspective goes deep to the bubbling heart of the notion of Melting Pot America, dividing white from brown, immigrant from Native. The confusion over Indian and Non-Indian relations becomes clear in this well-focused book when Echo-Hawk identifies a root cause that is often forgotten, or is not understood in the first place: colonial policies and their attendant settler mind-set.
It’s symptomatic of a severe disconnect, to say the least, that a nation founded upon principles of liberty and justice and freedom for all—one willing to shed blood in defense of these principles against oppressors, no less—could treat its original inhabitants with such astonishing injustice.
Echo-Hawk demonstrates how this dynamic plays out in America’s courtrooms, especially the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Marshall is one of the nation’s most revered jurists, yet it was Marshall who introduced the doctrine of conquest into federal Indian law in the 1823 decision Johnson v. M’Intosh, ruling that colonists owned any Indian lands “acquired and maintained by force.” Tribal people, he wrote, were “fierce savages, whose occupation was war,” and thus did not warrant international legal protections for countries under invasion.
Doctrines of conquest and discovery used by European nations during 500 years of colonization, Echo-Hawk writes, allow governments to usurp indigenous land, property and rights without consent even today. Though Marshall later evolved his thinking, Echo-Hawk notes, the seeds planted in 1823 still exist. The Roberts Court, he writes, is one of the most hostile to Indian rights—the Baby Veronica ruling being the most recent example—and is actively eroding gains made in recent decades.
For every M’Intosh, Echo-Hawk says, there were other, more reasoned, decisions such as Worchester v. Georgia in 1832, in which the high court rejected conquest as an absurd legal fiction. But even as that ruling was being published, the federal and state governments were in the grip of the Indian Removal Movement, evicting Southern tribes from their homelands.
These “clothes of the conqueror,” as Echo-Hawk calls them, do not befit a democratic nation such as ours. He offers keen insight into the parallels between the long, painful African-American struggle for equality and the fight of tribal people to maintain their rights. The Civil Rights movement for many years used a counterintuitive tactic, known as the Margold Plan, to file a multitude of lawsuits urging the federal government to uphold its legal standard of “separate but equal.” Case after case after case was pursued to this end, forcing school districts and local governments and the courts to confront racial inequalities and cynical government policy.
Over several decades this approach focused at least a trickle of attention onto racial injustice, scored court victories and gained allies. Then, Brown v. Board of Education signaled a shift in tactics to a direct assault in order to show, Echo-Hawk writes, that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional.
Echo-Hawk believes that Indian Country is poised at a similar tipping point.
Skirmish after skirmish in often hostile federal courts has carved some sturdy pillars for treaty rights and sovereignty. But, Echo-Hawk argues, the cultural survival of Native America depends on a march to justice, and so does America’s evolution from a settler state to a more fully just society.
Echo-Hawk is a lawyer, and his topic of international human rights sometimes pulls him into dense thickets of language. But far from being a slog, the words in this book are illuminated by his passion for the topic, and his deep knowledge of the fight for fair treatment in federal courts. His words often burn with clarity, as does his message: Although the U.N. Declaration is a powerful tool for asserting human rights for Indigenous Peoples, it will not implement itself.
“Indigenous rights are never freely given—they must be demanded, wrested away, then vigilantly protected,” Echo-Hawk writes. “That is the essence of freedom.”
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One thing that is obvious about this exciting electoral season is that white Americans often exhibit difficulties in talking openly about issues of white racism, indeed even about racial and ethnic issues in vague terms. (photo: afscme)
In a May analysis of important class and racial issues in the 2008 election primaries, prominent MSNBC news commentator, Chris Matthews, said that Hillary Clinton’s frequent comments on the importance of “white working class” voters in her primary victories were strange to him. He added three times in various comments that she seemed like the “Al Sharpton of white people.”
Matthews added, nonetheless, that he himself did not like to use class and racial labels:
We’ve known that ethnic and racial issues always get in the way of arguing over issues–real issues. But this conversation as it’s turned–I even hate saying things like ‘white working class voters.’ I was taught growing up don’t even say words like ‘blue collar’; don’t even get into that kind of elitist talk. We’re not sociologists, we’re Americans.”
Hmm, one cannot be a sociologist and be “American”? That American word is one of the most complex in the US vocabulary. Notice too his emphasis on the Reverend Al Sharpton, a civil rights leader who in Matthews’ white mindset has apparently become the stereotyped icon of the militant Black spokesperson. And he uses that to critique Hillary Clinton?
Matthews suggests too that even using labels like “white working class” or “blue collar” is inappropriate, even elitist. Most conspicuously, he wants to downplay racial and ethnic issues as not “real issues,” yet still is eager to talk about those issues in rather titillating and stereotyped ways. One reads in amazement this attempt to set aside racial issues as somehow not “real issues,” especially in this very racialized electoral season. For him and many other white Americans, I suppose, these issues do not seem really important enough to talk about publicly so much–unless they draw viewers.
Matthews’ commentary clearly suggests to me that the old white racial frame is still the normal “American” way of viewing the world, but that frame should not be overtly foregrounded and too often discussed in public. | <urn:uuid:e6753395-24df-43f8-88c9-398a1ff95bc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969702 | 500 | 2.078125 | 2 |
NASA has been involved with the International Space Station since the beginning some 15 years ago, but that association may be coming to an end. NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier explained at a recent meeting that the agency plans to “get out of ISS as quickly as we can.” This by no means points to a scaling back of NASA’s human spaceflight. Rather, it’s the beginning of humanity’s return to the moon and beyond.
One of NASA’s main goals for the long term is a manned mission to Mars, but there are a lot of technologies and strategies that need to be developed first. Focusing on the Moon first will let NASA prepare for the Mars mission. It’s unclear if a lunar landing is in the cards, but the space agency does intend to send astronauts to lunar orbit (sometimes called cislunar space). Astronauts would be considerably farther from Earth and exposed to more radiation than they are on the ISS. This would be an important test for a Mars mission, which would likely include years of living outside Earth’s protective cocoon.
The problem is money. NASA doesn’t have enough of it to continue taking a leading role in low-Earth orbit operations and still fund missions to the Moon and Mars. In 2015, NASA spent about $3 billion on ISS operations, which amounts to 20% of its entire budget. That’s expected to rise to $4 billion by 2020. The agency pays for transport of its own supplies to and from the ISS, but also experiments run by private companies. Astronauts aboard the station also spend time on these projects on NASA’s dime.
NASA is currently committed to support the ISS until 2024 or 2028 at the latest. At that point, the ISS would be nearing the end of its useful life, and NASA will be be faced with either developing an expensive replacement or moving on to bigger things. It’s choosing the latter and leaving low-Earth to private spaceflight — or at least that’s what everyone hopes will happen.
Having a presence in orbit of Earth is important for basic space research, and also as a stop-off for missions heading deeper into space. Any private station would undoubtedly be much more modest than the $140 billion ISS, but even building a smaller station is expensive. China expects to have a permanent station in orbit by 2020, which could take over for some ISS responsibilities.
Gerstenmaier sees this announcement as a warning to private space firms. They’ve got a decade to commercialize low-Earth orbit before NASA moves on. But what will become of the ISS? When the time comes, it’ll probably be deorbited over the Pacific to burn up harmlessly. NASA hopes there will be a new commercial station in the works to see it off. | <urn:uuid:487401ca-73e8-47d1-9902-678d1225b4c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/219416-nasa-plans-to-leave-iss-to-focus-on-future-mars-mission | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95798 | 593 | 3.46875 | 3 |
News is breaking this morning that brewing giant Foster’s has invoked the provisions of Trade Practices Act to withhold supplies of some of its top-selling beers to retailers Coles and Woolworths to thwart plans to heavily discount its brands.
ABC News is reporting that it withheld supplies of top-selling VB and other brands in February and early March after learning Coles and Woolworths were planning to sell the beer for as little as $28 a carton.
While Foster’s can be congratulated for the bravery of its stance in taking on the nation’s largest retailers to prevent them from using its beer as a loss leader, a move that does have benefits for the entire market, the move is primarily aimed at protecting its own brand capital. Quite simply, it doesn’t want the market to get used to seeing its beer sold at $28 a carton.
The issue throws the very vexed issue of what is competition into sharp relief. While the supermarket-owned bottleshops seem to be trying to cast themselves as the good guys, with one bottleshop putting out a sign saying, “We’re out of stock because Foster’s, the supplier of VB, says we are selling it too cheap,” the moves by Woolworths and Coles are cynical marketing stunts that have no benefit for the wider beer market. Attractive in the short term for consumers, such loss leaders generally offer false economies. As Senator Nick Xenophon told Sky News, “the concern is that Coles and Woolworths are using loss leaders with a view of destroying small business, the corner stores, the independent grocery chains”.
The ABC reports University of New South Wales Associate Professor Frank Zumbo as saying, “when you’ve got players like Coles and Woolworths, if they engage in below-cost pricing, that distorts the market,” he said.
“That’s bad for consumers over time because that below-cost pricing is used as a tactic to drive out independents.”
While the media is reporting that, unlike small dairy farmers, the big brewers can actually push back, the same is not true of small brewers. The move increases the pressure on small independent retailers who cannot subsidise the largest brands and widens the gulf between the mainstream beers and craft beers. Many small brewers already report they often have their wholesale price dictated to them based on what price the major retailers want to sell their beer at rather than on the cost of producing it, an unsustainable situation for small brewers.
Foster’s seems to be drawing a line in the sand now, but their move is more about protecting their brand than the market. The large brewers’ businesses are built upon ‘partnerships’ that see volume discounts handed out to those retailers who move their product in the greatest volume, a move that benefits the largest retailers and further entrenches their market positions. Further, the prime shelf positions in bottleshops are generally given to the brewers who offer the best “marketing support’’, which can involve large cash payments, and a position in the pages of the glossy catalogues that land in our letter boxes each week are generally paid for by the brewers. Beers aren’t in there because they’re good beers that sell well, they’re in there because brewers that can afford to have paid. These practices are ‘competitive’ in one sense, but combine to stifle competition in another by excluding, often superior products from small operators, from the shelves.
One of the factors that has allowed the liquor barns to flourish and smother smaller competition is the preferential pricing that their size commands. The large brewers seem to support enthusiastically these pay-for-play arrangements, as long as they they benefit from them.
Of course, the large brewers aren’t above a little anti-competitive behaviour themselves. As we noted recently, tap contracts are enthusiastically chased by brewers such as Fosters, who routinely ask prospective pub licencees whether they would be open to specifically excluding certain competitor brands in return for a higher rebate or promotional allowance. While Fosters and Lion Nathan mat argue that they are competing for taps with each other, it can not be said that the market is competitive in a broader sense when small operators and emerging brewers are actively shut out of the market under these pay-for-play arrangements.
The best outcome for the beer market from Fosters’ stance is that it sharpens the focus on competition across the entire beer market, a genie that Fosters may not really want let out of the bottle. | <urn:uuid:36c757c8-c4b5-4b46-aebb-636b94900533> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brewsnews.com.au/2011/03/23/fosters-to-dan-no-vb-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969242 | 958 | 1.734375 | 2 |
One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict
Princeton University Press, 1997 M09 18 - 304 pages
In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway.
Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests--mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies. | <urn:uuid:34522448-a971-49dc-a15b-5b43c16091ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.et/books?id=X8G7mAEACAAJ&dq=editions:ISBN140082169X | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932128 | 339 | 2.5625 | 3 |
There’s a good chance you came across the following headline, or another one like it, a couple of weeks back: “Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health.” These click-baiting newsflashes referred to a new study out of Sweden’s famed Karolinska Institute that looked at the molecular and metabolic effects of a HIIT program in previously casual adult exercisers. Eleven unlucky volunteers were subjected to an utterly brutal regimen that ramped up to five HIIT sessions per week within three weeks, each session comprising a mix of four- and eight-minute intervals performed at maximum intensity. The consequences of this diabolic torture program included severely compromised mitochondrial function and erratic blood sugar levels.
My first thought on reading the above-referenced headlines was duh. In more than 20 years of serious endurance training I never attempted anything approaching the savagery of what those poor, unsuspecting guinea pigs underwent in a state of woeful unpreparedness. I know with 100 percent certainty that the same routine would have utterly steamrolled me even if I’d gone into it at my absolute lifetime peak of fitness. Hilariously, though, the negative effects seen in this study’s subjects were referred to in one article as “unexpected.” Is the popular media really that clueless? I guess so!
Coincidentally, these shockingly predictable fresh findings from the Karolinska Institute came fast on the heels of a highly complementary recent study by scientists at the University of Guelph. For this experiment, 23 overweight, sedentary men were separated into groups, one of which did three HIIT workouts per week on stationary bikes while the other did five longer, low-intensity workouts. Versions of this format had been used in many prior studies, but what was different this time was that the two exercise programs were not matched for total workload (i.e., total energy expenditure).
The purported rationale for matching workloads in past research was fairness. The scientists conducting these experiments wanted to see whether low-intensity or high-intensity exercise was more “effective,” and in their minds this required that total energy expenditure be held equal. In my mind, however, the format unfairly disadvantaged low-intensity exercise, for the thing about HIIT is that a little goes a long way, so of course it’s going to seem more effective if a little HIIT is compared against a little low-intensity exercise, which only has a chance to really shine in large amounts, which (unlike large amounts of high intensity) are well tolerated by the human body.
Anyway, in the new Guelph study, common sense prevailed at long last, and the low-intensity and high-intensity programs were balanced in a more realistic way. And wouldn’t you know, the low-intensity program kicked the HIIT program’s ass in terms of health benefits, yielding bigger improvements in body composition, lipid metabolism, blood pressure, and blood sugar regulation.
I’m now waiting for it to finally cross the minds of exercise scientists to investigate the health effects of mixing together workouts of different intensities as we endurance athletes do. Up to this point, researchers interested in the health effects of aerobic exercise have focused entirely on trying to figure out which intensity is “best,” but to me that’s a little like trying to determine which of a baseball pitcher’s five pitches is his best pitch with a view toward having him throw only that pitch going forward. What would happen in this scenario, of course, is that hitters would know exactly what was coming their way every time the pitcher wound up, and all of a sudden his best pitch wouldn’t be so effective anymore!
Okay, that’s a poor analogy, but you get my point. Sometimes things work better in combination than they do in isolation. And we already know this is true of exercise intensities when they are assessed according to their effects on fitness. Specifically, we know that an exercise program comprising an 80/20 balance of low intensity and moderate/high intensity yields greater gains in endurance fitness and performance than a program consisting entirely (or even mostly) of work at either low intensity or moderate/high intensity.
Would an 80/20 program also yield greater health benefits than the alternatives? It seems likely to me that it would. It’s been shown, for example, that 80/20 training yields greater improvements in aerobic capacity than does any other way of balancing intensities, and we know that aerobic capacity is a strong predictor of health in old age and longevity.
What are the chances, though, that 80/20’s factual superiority will result in its popularization beyond the endurance community? Rather slim, I would imagine. One of the reasons HIIT became so popular is that interval sessions are sexier than slow-and-steady aerobic workouts. Can you picture a bunch of folks gathering for a group fitness class where the instructor pedals nice and easy for 80 minutes straight and invites everyone else to do the same? Yeah, me neither. But one can dream. | <urn:uuid:404604cb-2a31-484b-9690-355f875f3528> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.8020endurance.com/new-reasons-not-to-overdo-hiit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96784 | 1,054 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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You can use a framing square to calculate inches of rise per foot into degrees of slope.
I picked up a new framing square the other day, as my old one was getting increasingly hard to read due to corrosion. Of course, when you buy a framing square, you get a great deal more than you may ever use, for a framing square is truly a carpenter’s computer. Knowing how it can be used may help you decide what to look for in buying one yourself.
My use of a framing square, like my use of a computer, has always been relatively simple, checking board ends for a square cut and marking boards and beams for cuts. Just as I’ve never done complex calculations on my computer, I have never framed rafters for a roof. However, embedded in the side of my framing square is all the information needed to cut and bevel rafters and more. And that is just the beginning.
Framing squares differ in the number and type of information presented and can differ substantially in price, running only a few dollars to $50 or more, depending on whether they are made of aluminum, steel or even stainless steel. Mine was relatively inexpensive at $14.95 and made of double-weight aluminum, yet it offers me straight edges divided to 1/8 inch, 1/10 inch, 1/12 inch or 1/16 inch. Tables convert inches to tenths of a foot, as well as provide decimal conversions for common measurements from 1/32 inch to 15/16 inch and inches of rise per foot into degrees of slope.
Next week, we’ll take a look at some of the countless ways a framing square and these tables can be used in your home and shop, even if you don’t plan on building a house. | <urn:uuid:b40f42c3-405f-4db3-8cc7-34e5b9c553ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nz.camarahelenoargentina.org/7658-framing-square-the-carpenter039s-computer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948885 | 396 | 2.4375 | 2 |
EAFRD funds financed the partial renovation and restoration of an historic building and its surrounding area.
Projects & Practice
CAP funds new public roads and renewable energy solutions in Poland.
Offering support to maintain and possibly increase populations of specific rare breeds under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 of Ireland.
The North Connemara Locally Led Agri-Environmental Scheme is a local agricultural scheme to incentivise farmers to incorporate agricultural animals in improving the ecology of their land.
Organising a series of awareness raising and capacity building activities for environmental NGOs in Mayotte.
A cooperative of apple producers set up a joint effort among its members to control the codling moth, a major pest, by means of sexual confusion.
project focusing on the protection and promotion of a breed of cattle specific to Western Macedonia, the Greek Red Kastoria-Kristalopigi cow.
The Rural Broadband project is a national intervention to close the digital divide in remote and sparsely populated rural ‘white areas’.
Using RDP support to implement a sustainable model of agriculture that combines the production of high quality products and environmental protection. Winning initiative of the 2019 Rural Inspiration Awards in the 'Environment & Climate Action' category.
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The global economy has come to a standstill and governments around the world have had to intervene massively to support their domestic economies during the Coronavirus crisis. Government support to industry is only likely to increase as companies face ever-greater financial difficulties due to the continuing public health restrictions.
In the EU, government aid (State aid ) to companies is in principle forbidden as it distorts competition in the Single Market, but there are specific exceptions foreseen in the EU Treaty. The damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic clearly falls within these exceptions. However, any aid (or aid scheme) falling within the EU State aid rules is subject to notification and prior approval by the European Commission (‘Commission’) if the aid is not to be illegal and subject to possible recovery – i.e., clawback.
The Commission has introduced a Temporary Framework (‘TF’), which it last amended on 3 April 2020, to cover Member State aid to locally based industries during the coronavirus crisis (see earlier Baker Botts Alert). To date, the Commission has approved approximately 90 aid schemes worth several hundreds of billions of euros under the TF.
Many companies will be receiving State aid in the EU for the first time or will consider applying for such aid, but will have limited experience or insight into the rules. Beneficiaries (or potential beneficiaries) need to familiarise themselves with certain key elements of the State aid rules. Recent court rulings confirm that it is the beneficiaries of aid and not the granting authorities that are exposed to significant risks if there are failings. Two important categories of government failings which can impact beneficiaries are procedural failures and failure to observe relevant conditions when implementing aid schemes.
This Alert flags up some of the basic EU State aid rules that should not be overlooked by potential beneficiaries and highlights the consequences and risks if the rules are not respected. It concludes with a short checklist of key take-aways.
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A RISD-NASA collaboration
The deep space science vessel is a conceptual living space for long-term, high population space exploration missions.
Tasked by NASA to design a living space for 40 crew members within pre-specified dimensions, Michael Lye's studio split up into four primary systems: crew quarters, galley, entertainment & exercise, and hygiene, and set about designing an outer space habitat that prioritized emotional health and wellbeing over the course of six weeks.
I worked on the hygiene team, which involved ideating concepts for full body cleansing as well as a high fidelity model of an individual waste containment system and private stall.
The dssv is divided up into seven decks and two semi-spherical caps.
The recreation deck serves as a common space free of work.
The exercise deck houses all exercise equipment. four stories of crew quarters house individual living units with a common central corridor.
There is a hygiene deck capping each end of the crew quarter stack.
The galley houses all food storage and prep and serves as a communal meeting space for debriefs and even movie nights.
Translation between decks occurs in one of the two ship-long corridors on the left and right sides.
While developing the design for a private waste
containment system module, we focused on
maintaining a sense of comfort and autonomy
while also paying special attention to gender
The existing toilet on the International Space
Station, while generally uncomfortable to use
and cumbersome in its process, holds unique
difficulties for people who menstruate.
In an effort to let female astronauts maintain
as much autonomy over their bodies as possible,
we incorporated a bidet system (which also
requires less toilet paper to be sent on resupply
missions), toiletry storage units, and a separate
waste bin for menstrual products.
Planning also included general space
delegation for crew navigation, waste
collection and storage, air treatment
We split our time working on overall concepts and functionality, CAD models, and a high fidelity, full scale mock=up of an individual stall and section of the radial hallway.
I worked primarily on overall concept development, user interfaces, and constructing a soft goods model of a custom filleted lighting system
The user interface for the tablet, which is universal for both the bathroom and "shower" stalls, uses a dark and light rotating background to simulate the natural cycle of day to night in an artificial environment.
It coordinates with digital wearables (which are already used on the International Space Station) to save personal preferences to individual profiles so as to prevent unnecessary time wasting with reentering data.
Group Members: Nick Burger, Jerry Ma
Class Members: Will Zhang, Irina Wang, Sam Zaref, Dan Limonchik, Osub Lee, Cameron Absher, Rohit Sen, Jonah Palmer, John Cho
Professor: Michael Lye
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Written & Illustrated by Jessie Sima
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018
Love, Z is a great example of a robot tale about the meaning of love. I grabbed Love, Z from a library display and checked it out. Simplicity, good story, nice interactions, clean and beautiful illustrations, and great examples of love help Z (and young readers) understand love. I fell in love with the adventures of Love, Z.
Love, Z is the perfect book to springboard conversations about love and how it looks to different people, even robots.
Blurb from Amazon:
When a small robot named Z discovers a message in a bottle signed “Love, Beatrice,” they decide to find out what “love” means. Unable to get an answer from the other robots, they leave to embark on an adventure that will lead them to Beatrice—and back home again, where love was hiding all along.
Build a Love Robot
Materials: construction paper, scissors, glue sticks, markers
1. Cut shapes from construction paper-hearts, circles, rectangles, triangles.
2. Arrange shapes on a table until you find the perfect design for a love robot. Use glue stick to glue edges together. Don’t forget to add arms, legs, and faces (eyes, nose, mouth, ears).
3. Use a marker to add details to your robot. Give him or her a name! As you create, think about what love means to you. Tell your mom or dad your thoughts and let them tell you what they think about love.
4. Find a nice spot to hang your robot where you can see him or her. May I see? Ask for help and take a picture and add it to the comments. We’d love to meet your new friend. | <urn:uuid:3a0dc5f4-f0c7-4426-833a-c5f97fa1e577> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://angiequantrell.com/tag/jessie-sima/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.909901 | 393 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Markets feel a similar course out-of lifetime. Exactly as you’re born, expands, grows up, and finally event decline and finally passing, so as well carry out areas and product lines. The new amounts are identical for everyone marketplaces, but really all of the community have a tendency to feel these types of degrees differently, they will last for much longer for the majority of and you can admission quickly for other individuals. Even during the exact same business, some agencies is at additional lives cycle degree. A companies proper package can be significantly influenced by this new phase in the lives duration from which the organization finds out alone. Particular people or even industries come across the fresh new uses for declining romancetale products, ergo extending its life duration.
The growth out of an enthusiastic industry’s conversion process through the years is used so you can graph the life span stage. The fresh distinctive line of amount off a market life years is: addition, increases, maturity, and decline. Conversion generally begin slower within addition stage, upcoming block rapidly in the progress stage. Immediately following leveling away at readiness, transformation then initiate a steady decline. Alternatively, profits generally always increase regarding the existence period, as the people inside the an industry make the most of possibilities and you can economies of level and you may range to minimize product will cost you through the years.
Regarding the introduction stage of the lives stage, market is during their infancy. Possibly a unique, unique product giving has been developed and you can patented, ergo delivery another type of community. Some experts actually create an embryonic phase ahead of introduction. During the addition phase, the business may be by yourself on the market. It could be a little entrepreneurial organization otherwise a proven providers that used look and you will development funds and you can systems to cultivate things the fresh new. Sales relates to new service offerings within the a new world just like the “question marks” as the popularity of the merchandise and lifetime of the fresh marketplace is unproven and not familiar.
A firm use a concentrated means during this period so you can stress the newest individuality of one’s new product otherwise provider so you’re able to an excellent small percentage away from consumers. These types of customers are generally regarded regarding the profit literary works since the the brand new “innovators” and “very early adopters.” Product sales ideas during this stage are designed to describe the product and its own uses to help you users which means carry out sense into equipment as well as the world. Considering search of the Hitt, Ireland, and you can Hoskisson, firms establish a niche having prominence within market during this phase. Eg, they often times attempt to present very early attitudes out of tool high quality, technological superiority, otherwise useful relationships that have providers for the have chain to cultivate a competitive advantage.
Whilst will set you back currency to create something new providing, produce and you may decide to try prototypes, and you can field the product, the brand new company’s and industry’s earnings usually are bad at that stage. People payouts made are usually reinvested to your company to solidify its standing and help financing went on development. Introduction needs a serious cash outlay to carry on to advertise and separate the latest giving and develop the supply arrives a position shop to help you possibly a group disperse. Industry demand increases throughout the addition, and as the life span cycle curve event development at the an ever-increasing price, the industry is claimed to be entering the progress phase. Companies may also class together with her close up during the early amount of globe lifestyle years getting entry to secret product otherwise technological assistance, as with the outcome of your own U.S. Silicone polymer Area desktop processor chip companies.
Including the inclusion stage, the development stage in addition to means excessively resource. The goal of product sales services at this stage will be to distinguish an excellent firm’s choices off their competition when you look at the globe. Therefore the development stage need money in order to launch a newly centered paign including finance to have went on financial support from inside the property, plant, and you can equipment so you’re able to support the organization necessary for the market industry demands. not, a is experiencing even more equipment standardization at this time, that may prompt economic climates off measure and you can facilitate development of a good line-disperse design to own development show. | <urn:uuid:f7d96949-73c7-416f-87f8-e53b121aae26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://en.kryptodeutsch.com/life-cycle-models-are-not-only-a-trend-of-lives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952301 | 913 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology are collaborating to provide patients minimally invasive coronary artery bypass techniques (CABG) at Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington Kentucky. A hybrid strategy combines the treatments traditionally only available in the operating room with those only available in the cath lab.
As the baby boomers age, the risk profile of patients referred for CABG worsens. Older patients with a high incidence of diabetes, renal failure, hypertension, stroke, and COPD represent the typical patient cohort referred for CABG. Hybrid coronary revascularization (a combination of PCI/stent to the right coronary artery and/or circumflex coronary artery with minimally invasive left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery) avoids a sternotomy.
The LIMA patency rate of 95 to 98 percent at 10 years provides a survival benefit to each patient. This is the premise on which Hybrid CABG is based. The rational for Hybrid CABG is based on the fact that drug eluting stents and vein bypass grafts to non-LAD territories appear to have comparable patency rates. Minimally invasive LIMA, the LAD Bypass is performed through a small sub mammary incision (5 to 7 cm). This is less traumatic for the patient and provides a faster recovery time. Indications for Hybrid CABG include proximal LAD lesion with favorable lesion for PCI in the right coronary artery and circumflex coronary arteries. Contraindications include body mass index greater than 35, intra muscular LAD and a left subclavian occlusion, or prior thoracic surgery.
Other Hybrid surgeries being performed at Saint Joseph Hospital included Percutaneous Valve (TAVR), Mitral Clip procedure, and Hybrid Aortic Arch Debranching procedure for Thoracic Aneurysms. The results for Hybrid revascularization are safe with a low mortality rate; low morbidity rate; shorter ICU stay; and shorter hospital stay with a faster recovery. We believe this team approach with the Interventional Cardiologist and Heart Surgeon working closely together provides better patient care and outcomes. | <urn:uuid:26fc569c-be21-4e88-875a-d7073dc2e77d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.md-update.com/2014/02/minimally-invasive-hybrid-coronary-revascularization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.887942 | 442 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Introduction to Pre-Workout Supplementation:
Athletes everywhere have used supplements to enhance and improve their workouts ever since the nutritional industry was in its infancy. There are a number of things that should be considered when choosing such a product. The first of these considerations is energy. Obviously, in order to power through an intense workout you need a lot of energy. Of course, you also want this energy to come from a natural source since having to deal with side effects like an energy crash an hour or so later is just not worth it.
Another benefit sought from pre-workout supplementation is an ability to support muscular gains. This way, you will also put yourself in the best position to recover faster from your workouts and to translate the hard effort into real benefits. Some of the best supplements to be used before a workout are L-Arginine and L-Citrulline.
L-Arginine is an amino acid that has a number of positive benefits associated with its supplementation. These benefits include the ability to help the body produce and synthesize proteins. Proteins are essential in the process of muscular repair and growth. It is also thought to stimulate the production of growth hormone like natural sterols. These are also quite effective in helping the muscles rebuild and grow larger after an intense workout.
This supplement is also thought to help remove cortisol and other waste products in the body. Cortisol is chiefly responsible for stress levels throughout the body. Therefore, its removal can lead to a more focused and intense workout, potentially even helping one to remain more energetic throughout.
One of the most popular benefits associated with L-Citrulline is its ability to help reduce body fat levels. It is also incredibly helpful in maintaining your natural energy production, which can often drop off considerably during a hard workout. Another excellent benefit is that it acts as a vasodilator. This has the effect of helping to open and expand blood vessels. This may be also why it can lead to a reduction in blood pressure levels.
For weight and strength training athletes, this supplement also helps in the release of nitric acid. This chemical helps to build proteins and re-form muscles that have been torn down from intense training. Citrulline acts in the urea cycle to remove lactic acid from the body which is produced as working muscles become fatigued. Couple this together with the ability of the supplement to enhance ATP (energy) production and it easy to see how this can lead to a much improved workout.
Citrulline vs Arginine Pre Workout
Overall in the question of L-Citrulline vs L-Arginine, both of these supplements can certainly be helpful as a before workout addition. Instead of being forced to choose one or the other, why not stack them together and take both? | <urn:uuid:a8fde595-89fc-46ac-83db-cff6fefefa7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.preworkoutbuzz.com/citrulline-vs-arginine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966486 | 598 | 1.578125 | 2 |
What most folks don't know about me is that when I was a child, I had problems with my hips. They were developing wrong, and in the process were cutting off circulation to my legs. When I was 4 years-old, the docs diagnosed something called Legg Perthes, or more completely, Legg-Calve'-Perthes Disease (click here for more background.) I spent two years in a rather large two-legged cast, which was followed by ongoing physiotherapy.
In many respects, the cycling and other distance sports were my way of saying that I was fine. Indeed, better than fine. To this day, thankfully, I am. And I take nothing for granted, because you simply never know.
So when I started reading about American cyclist Floyd Landis's pursuit of the Tour de France, I was intrigued. Here was a guy who suffered from osteonecrosis - the same thing I had, only his resulted from a crash in 2002 - and his hip was quite literally decaying. His attitude struck me as inspirational. And I knew that, win or lose, I needed to write about him when I next picked up my pen.
He won the Tour de France on Sunday. My column in today's paper pays tribute to the kind of singular devotion that, if leveraged on a larger scale, might help make our world a better place. Here it is...
Deriving strength from afflictionYour turn: Do stories like Mr. Landis's inspire you to push yourself further? Why? What's your next step after reading this?
Published Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The London Free Press
It's easy to be inspired by greatness. It's just as easy to miss it when it comes in a humble package.
Such is the case with Floyd Landis, who on Sunday became the third American in history to win cycling's greatest race, the Tour de France.
Landis's win is more remarkable because his right hip will be replaced later this year. After a 2002 crash, the joint began to decay and die. He is in almost constant pain, and can't cross his legs. Yet he views the pain as a motivator to drive himself harder.
Landis, 30, could have blamed his hip when he failed to perform in a crucial mountain stage last week. He could have used the pain as an excuse.
Instead, he fought back into contention the very next day.
In a world where we are quick to blame others and make excuses for our failures, it's refreshing when a champion takes the high road.
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Thabo Jacob Modise, popularly known as Thabo the Tourist, is an award-winning, emerging entrepreneur and accredited tour operator. He was born in Zeerust, North West and grew up in Soweto, a cosmopolitan township situated in Johannesburg, arguably the art capital of South Africa.
Modise is passionate about the art space and exposing people from disadvantaged backgrounds to the art space. Modise, who in the past has operated several business enterprises which focus on the art space, ranging from selling t-shirts to tourism, is embarking on a new journey, and that is to organize gallery tours for art enthusiasts.
His journey as an artistic entrepreneur started in 2008 by selling printed t-shirts. His range went by the name Masiseleni–Harenweng which is a mix of two South Africa languages, Sotho and Xhosa, and it means, “Lets drink and be merry.”
During the 2010 Soccer World Cup that was hosted in South Africa, there was an influx of tourists coming to his township and he saw this as an opportunity to sell his t-shirts, so he opened a stall in Vilakazi Street, the most famous street in Soweto. This famous street is internationally and affectionally known as the only street in the world to have produced two Nobel Prize winners—His Excellency Nelson Mandela and The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu. From then onwards he has ventured into various aspects in the art space.
“I believe that my love for art is a calling and I have always been creative and fascinated by art. My first artist branch/journey was in 2008 when I sold a t-shirt range and from there I have grown, I have worked, lived, dreamt and immersed myself in art,” Modise stated in an interview with Arts Help.
Currently, he is taking over art tourism, which he strongly believes was a natural progression in his artistic career path. Art tourism is defined broadly as any activity that involves travel to see art and would include those people who travel very specifically to see art somewhere else, as well as those who often or occasionally include visits to see art among other activities during tours, holidays or other trips away from home.
Art tourism is a symbiotic phenomenon which helps promote the artists’ work, and creates an interest in people who were previously oblivious to these artists. Modise believes that art tourism has the power to expose people who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, and in the South African context that usually refers to Black people. In South Africa, Black people account for over 80% of the population and White people account for 9% of the population, yet in the art world, throughout the whole value chain, the inverse is true, White people dominate this space.
Modise’s passion is to expose Black people to spaces that are not easily accessible to them. Modise has noticed that in most art spaces there is a lack of diversity, which he aims to create. There are also several hurdles and myths that hinder the interest of Black people, such as the fact that the cultural spaces are overwhelmingly White, which creates a hostile environment for Black people. These myths contribute to a segregation of culture, and a hierarchy of cultural production. The cultural spaces in the South African context are deeply entrenched in racial segregation, and with people like Modise actively reclaiming these spaces, inclusive and diverse cultural spaces will be created for all to enjoy.
Modise believes that inclusivity is vital in the art space, “More than anything, I am of the thought that art imitates life. Representation in art gives you a moment of enlightenment and it will inspire Black people to come into these spaces. This is done through going to these spaces and reclaiming these spaces, to introduce them to African art spaces. It is time to have an inclusive African contemporary artwork created by Black people," Modise stated in an interview with Arts Help.
Through his ethos of wanting to create an inclusive environment for everyone by actively creating spaces for Black people in the art world, Modise’s business model focuses on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal for Quality Education. Modise is empowering Black people and creating a sustainable economic inclusion of Black artists. His passion for uplifting all Black people through creating inclusive spaces which promotes the visibility of Black artists, museums and curators, adheres to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Reduced Inequalities.
Modise is the founder of Toura Travel Therapy, which offers a novel art gallery experience called “Hop-On Joburg Art Galleries with Thabo the Tourist”. His tours explore the Keyes Art Mile and start at the Everard Read Gallery, Africa's oldest commercial art gallery. He takes art enthusiasts on guided tours through the enthusiastic art gallery experience, whereby people hop on empty and hop off fulfilled. This experience will be a once in a lifetime experience and it is aimed to nourish the souls of people after the traumatic experience of the COVID-19 pandemic that people have been battling.
Black bodies, experiences and history are essential in the world, yet the people who are the focal point of these artworks are deprived from proactively participating in that space. Black artists should be allowed to speak on their own experiences and not have their experiences artistically fetishized or exploited without being part of the process.
Chair of the MFA film program at the University of Iowa, Christopher Harris, eloquently wrote that he wished White people would start making art about being White and stop trying to embody the stories of Black people. These faux pas can be avoided by allowing Black people into the cultural world throughout the whole value chain in order to speak of their own experiences. Modise is playing his part by including galleries that are owned by Black people such as BKhz Gallery and Gallery MOMO, which opened in 2003 and is owned by Mandla Sibeko.
As the adage goes, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Equality and creating the perfect racial inclusion in the art space may be a mammoth task which Modise alone cannot embark on and conquer, but spreading his personal mantra on inclusion is important—and with his charismatic persona it will indeed spread. Thus, if we all play a role on this integral journey, equality will no longer be an unobtainable dream.
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