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Revision Knowledge Organiser for GCSE Islam, with to reference to the OCR syllabus
Lesson on the Second Vatican Council AQA B Catholic Christianity GCSE
A Powerpoint file for you to edit to put in your teaching name, subject name and school name at. Once edited, copy and paste slide into a word doc to print for print outs.
Good 3 page bumper of key terminology and concepts for Religious Education - Buddhism GCSE revision, AQA
Revision resource- K / O The Second Vatican Council AQA B Catholic Christianity GCSE
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The Hunger Games movies made Jennifer Lawrence a household name and forced critics to take the Young Adult film genre seriously. So with Mockingjay Part II arriving this week, how else has the Hunger Games franchise influenced our cultural landscape?
The impact reaches farther and is more varied than you might expect. Suzanne Collins’ bestseller and subsequent blockbuster phenomenon has affected everything from ad campaigns to real-life political unrest. Here are just some of the ways Hunger Games has had a notable impact on our world.
Archery lessons have seen a surge in popularity since the start of the Hunger Games franchise, especially among girls. Helped along by Marvel’s Hawkeye and Merida from the Disney movie Brave, Katniss has inspired countless kids to take up this ancient fighting technique. The company behind Nerf guns even launched a range of kid-safe crossbows for girls, called Nerf Rebelle. We doubt that would have happened a few years ago.
2) Oddly dissonant ad campaigns
One of the key themes of the Hunger Games franchise is media manipulation, with Katniss becoming an unwilling symbol of a revolution she never meant to inspire. Her public image is crafted first by the Capitol and then by her allies among the rebel forces, but the film’s real-world marketing failed to achieve the same level of finesse.
Subway sandwiches may have been the weirdest Hunger Games tie-in product, considering the fact that Katniss has to break the law to feed her own family. But who could forget Cover Girl’s Hunger Games makeup collection, which allowed you to imitate the vain, oppressive Capitol citizens? Other Hollywood franchises should really learn from these mistakes.
3) Female-led sci-fi and fantasy movies
This may sound a little optimistic considering Hollywood’s ongoing problems with sexism, but the Hunger Games really did make a difference. Katniss Everdeen is now cited alongside Sarah Connor of Terminator and Ellen Ripley of Alien as one of the greatest female action heroes of all time, and her popularity has led to movies like Divergent and Mortal Instruments getting the green light.
4) Viral marketing transmedia campaigns for movies
Though the cross-platform literacy of promotional campaigns for properties like Marvel films and The Martian are now commonplace, it was only a few years ago that film franchises were still struggling to integrate high-quality multi-platform storytelling with regular marketing buzz. By drawing on the innately social-media-friendly nature of the storyline, The Hunger Games’ viral marketing campaign became the model for other films and marketing campaigns to follow. Thanks to The Hunger Games, we don’t have to wait until release date to start enjoying the narrative.
5) A wave of Young Adult Dystopia
Just as Twilight ignited the demand for erotica and “New Adult” literature, The Hunger Games led to a wildfire of gritty young adult dystopia that has yet to dwindle. From The Hunger Games sprang forth The Maze Runner and Divergent along with a rushed film adaptation of the classic dystopia The Giver. Patrick Kness’s popular adult dystopic trilogy Chaos Walking is getting a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, while Edgar Wright is producing an adaptation of the bestseller Grasshopper Jungle. And there are even more YA dystopic adaptations on the way, like the upcoming movie The 5th Wave, the hit trilogy Matched, and The Forest of Hands and Teeth, featuring Maisie Williams. Even Disney’s Tomorrowland got a dystopic infusion. And with The Hunger Games still featured on bestseller lists, don’t expect the craze to die down any time soon.
6) Amandla Stenberg
Sure, we would have had Amandla Stenberg, the actress, no matter what. But Stenberg, just 13 when her casting as Rue broke the angry racist side of the Internet, was not only thrust into the spotlight, but she had to bear the cultural impact of a story that dared to make a political point over the body of a dead black child. Just as her character became an innocent victim of the sadistic Hunger Games, Stenberg was subject to a torrential onslaught of racism and harassment—and in response she quickly evolved into one of the most eloquent and educated Black voices on social media. Would we have gotten Amandla Stenberg, one of Time’s most influential teens, a proud and outspoken feminist and advocate for #Blacklivesmatter, if not for Rue? Thankfully, we were lucky enough to get both.
7) The three-fingered salute
In Suzanne Collins’ novel, the three-fingered salute is a symbol of remembrance that evolves into a symbol of rebellion. In real life, Hunger Games fans all over the world have used the sign exactly the way their fictional counterparts used it—as a passive show of resistance and civil protest. In Hong Kong, protesters have flashed the sign in support of democracy; in Thailand, citizens were arrested and screenings of the Hunger Games franchise banned after the symbol became so popular among protesters that it was declared illegal. The far-reaching relevance of Katniss’ fight for freedom is so current that the Harry Potter Alliance has successfully launched the #MyHungerGames campaign two years running. Each year, it has rapidly filled with fans throwing the three-fingered salute—a reminder that the odds aren’t always in their favor.
Screengrab via The Hunger Games/YouTube
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The Science Of Stage Fright And How To Overcome It
People experience stage fright in all sorts of ways. For some, it’s a ball of energy that gets you pumped and excited. For others, the butterflies aren’t limited to the stomach. And, most unfortunately, some experience a severe and paralyzing nausea.
Everyone experiences some level of nervousness before speaking in front of an audience and everyone has to figure out their own way to overcome and conquer the feeling. It may not go away entirely, nor should it, but knowing how to diminish it and make it work for you is essential for any public speaker.
Before I speak in front of a group of 5 or 500, I get the pre-stage jitters just like anyone else. Thankfully, my acting training gave me so many tools I can use at a moment’s notice to help me get into an effective state.
However, I know that some people enjoy the more scientific approach to dealing with stage fright (myself included). And so, Isaiah Hankel the Cheeky Scientist offered to write a post with a bit more left-brained approach to conquering stage fright. I was more than happy to have him step in and share his thoughts.
“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
One of the worst things that can happen to a speaker moments before they take the stage happened to me.
No alarm and no wake up call and I’m supposed to speak in front of 200 people! I ran out of the hotel room with my laptop tucked under my arm. As I rushed into the lecture hall I was finishing slamming down a stale cup of coffee that I got in the hotel lobby courtesy counter. 5 minutes before I was supposed to start and the only thing I could think of was the image of an angry audience waiting impatiently. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had rotten tomatoes and cabbages armed and ready to throw at me.
Thankfully, I was able to set up quickly and start (almost) on time. The MC introduced me and I began hustling through my first presentation slide.
Then, things got weird.
All of a sudden, I started feeling shaky, lightheaded, and uncomfortable. My heart pounded and my lungs tightened. I felt like I couldn’t breath. I looked out at the audience and was absolutely certain they knew I was freaking out.
I looked around for the exits and rationalized ways how I could escape or at least take a quick break. I was having a panic attack.
Separated From The Herd
Most people fear speaking in front of an audience more than they fear death. Seriously, numerous public polls have shown that the average person would rather be dead than be on a stage.
Why is public speaking so terrifying?
The reason people would rather die than look dumb is because our bodies are hardwired to initiate a very strong flight-or-fight response in front of a captive audience. Your brain does not like being alone, completely exposed, surrounded by other people staring at you. These conditions are reminiscent of a young zebra, separated from its herd, slowly realizing he is being circled by a pride of lions.
Stage fright is a biological response.
This response, often referred to as hyperarousal (or, flight-or-flight) is characterized by a strong discharge of the sympathetic nervous system. Your subconscious brain starts attacking your body with large doses of adrenaline. As a result, the blood vessels in your muscles dilate while the rest of your blood vessels constrict. Your heart and lung activity accelerates, you digestion slows down, your skin pales and flushes, your pupils dilate, you get tunnel vision, lose your hearing, and start sweating and shaking.
Public speaking would be a lot easier if someone slapped you in the face 5 minutes before you took the podium
The key to overcoming stage fright is to activate it on your own terms.
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By entering a state of hyperarousal prior to speaking, you will deplete your sympathetic nervous system. In other words, you will take away your brain’s ammunition. It won’t be able to attack you.
Putting yourself through a difficult work out, or taking a very cold shower, does not feel good. It hurts. But, it hurts in a good way. Your body activates your sympathetic nervous system and releases large amounts of adrenaline, as well as endorphins. Endorphins are painkillers that give you a sense of calm and clarity. This is why, after a hard work out or a cold shower, you feel energized and relaxed at the same time.
Before your next presentation, wake up early and go for a run, or do a short weight circuit at the gym. Other options include yoga, Pilates, or just basic stretching. Any type of physical activity will force your sympathetic nervous system to discharge on your terms. Then turn your shower’s temperature control nob all the way towards the big “C” and jump in for at least 5 minutes.
These steps will help you feel energized and relaxed before your next big presentation.
One final note: avoid overloading your body with caffeine and sugar, especially on an empty stomach. Things like coffee and soda put your sympathetic nervous system in an overactive state and will lower your threshold for freaking out on stage.
Isaiah Hankel, Ph.D. is a scientist, entrepreneur, and coach. He manages four online business and is currently a consultant for over a dozen leading biotechnology companies. Most recently, Isaiah launched Cheeky Scientist, a platform for entrepreneurs and people with advanced degrees. In the last two years, he’s given 250 seminars in 20 different countries including keynote addresses at Harvard University and Cambridge University.
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At Millard Oaks Chiropractic, we believe that massage therapy in conjunction with chiropractic care yields the best possible results. Our therapists are trained in several modalities that are geared toward relieving pain & discomfort.
Why massage therapy and chiropractic in conjunction?
Whether you are seeing one of our doctors because of an acute injury or a longstanding ailment, massage therapy will enhance its effectiveness. The musculoskeletal system works as one unit. It is impossible to influence one without influencing the other. Massage therapy focuses on the manipulation of soft tissue -- muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia -- for increased healing, enhanced function of the body, promotion of well-being, and relaxation.
Even though chiropractic focuses on the spine and its direct influence on the nervous system and massage primarily focuses on soft tissue, the 2 modalities are complimentary. Because of muscle memory, the soft tissue surrounding the non-functional vertebrae (spinal subluxation) seeks to retain that position -- this happens because it requires less work by the muscle! Therefore, after a chiropractic adjustment restores function to a vertebral complex, the surrounding musculature intuitively resorts back to its prior behavior, negatively influencing the same vertebral levels. After a series of adjustments, the muscle groups begin to adapt to the new positioning of the vertebrae & will maintian functional positioning for a longer amount of time. Massage therapy accelerates this process!
Three reasons to combine chiropractic and massage therapy:
Quicker Recovery - Patients who receive both therapies will experience faster and more complete recovery.
Increased Range of Motion - In addition to pain, many chiropractic patients also suffer from reduced range of motion due to their injury. Much like spinal adjustments, massages are able to improve the flexibility and mobility of impacted areas such as muscles, ligaments, and other soft tissue.
Longer-lasting adjustments - Massage therapy helps reeducate the correct positioning of the muscle tissues surrounding the spinal subluxations.
Massage Therapy at Millard Oaks Chiropractic in Millard. Serving the Omaha, NE area for chiropractic and massage therapy needs.
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Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is a relatively new method in which the images are formed by the contrast produced by the random microscopic motion of water molecules in different tissues. Although DWI has been tried for different organ systems, it has been found its primary use in the central nervous system. The most widely used clinical application is in the detection of hyperacute infarcts and the differentiation of acute or subacute infarction from chronic infarction. Recently DWI has been applied to various other cerebral diseases. In this pictorial paper the authors demonstrated different DWI patterns of non-infarct lesions of the brain which are hyperintense in the diffusion trace image, such as infectious, neoplastic and demyelinating diseases, encephalopathies - including hypoxic-ischemic, hypertensive, eclamptic, toxic, metabolic and mitochondrial encephalopathies - leukodystrophies, vasculitis and vasculopathies, hemorrhage and trauma. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Separation of Church and State Back Before U.S. Supreme Court
Religious liberty continues to dominate the high-profile cases before the Roberts Court. Next term, the justices will consider Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, which involves whether states can be forced to use taxpayer funds to support religious schools.
Facts of the Case
In 2015, the Montana Legislature enacted a tax-credit scholarship program that aimed “to provide parental and student choice in education” for K to 12 students. To accomplish this goal, the program provides a tax credit—up to $150 annually—to individuals and businesses who donate to private, nonprofit scholarship organizations. Those organizations then use the donations to give scholarships to families who wish to send their children to private school.
Shortly after the program was enacted, the Montana Department of Revenue enacted an administrative rule that prohibited scholarship recipients from using their scholarships at religious schools. Rule 1 specificallychanged the definition of “qualified education provider” to exclude any organization “owned or controlled in whole or in part by any church, religious sect, or denomination.” According to the Department, Rule 1 was necessary to comply with Article X, Section 6 of the Montana Constitution, also known as Montana’s “Blaine Amendment.
Article X, Section 6 of the Montana Constitution provides:
(1) The legislature, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public corporations shall not make any direct or indirect appropriation or payment from any public fund or monies, or any grant of lands or other property for any sectarian purpose or to aid any church, school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific institution, con- trolled in whole or in part by any church, sect, or denomination. (2) This section shall not ap- ply to funds from federal sources provided to the state for the express purpose of distribution to non-public education.
Petitioners Kendra Espinoza, Jeri Anderson, and Jaime Schaefer, parents of children who attend a religiously-affiliated private school in Montana, filed suit challenging Rule 1. They argued that the rule was ultra vires because the Montana Legislature intended the scholarship program to include both religious and nonreligious schools, which was clear from the plain text of the statute and its legislative history.
Second, they argued that Article X, Section 6 of the Montana Constitution did not apply to the program because that section applied only to public funds, and not private donations incentivized by tax credits.
Finally, Petitioners argued that even if Article X, Section 6 requires exclusion of religious schools from the program, this would violate the Religion and Equal Protection Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
The trial court sided with the Petitioners, concluding that the tax credits implicated private, not public funds, and that Rule 1 was thus not required by Article X, Section 6 of the Montana Constitution.
However, the Montana Supreme Court reversed, striking down the entire tax-credit scholarship program. It held that the program’s inclusion of religious options was unconstitutional under Article X, Section 6 of the Montana Constitution. The court further held that the inclusion of religious schools was not severable from the rest of the scholarship program, and thus found both the program and Rule 1 to be invalid.
Issues Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court granted certiorari and has agreed to consider the following question: “Whether it violates the religion clauses or the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously neutral student-aid program simply because the program affords students the choice of attending religious schools.”
The case will be heard during the October 2019 Term. Oral arguments have not yet been scheduled.
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- Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedoms of Press
- Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
- The Right to Bear Arms
- Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
- Due Process
- Eminent Domain
- Rights of Criminal Defendants
Preamble to the Bill of Rights
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
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“Find it!” for Reactive Dogs: First Training StepsNov 24, 2020
“Find it!” for reactive dogs is one of our favorite skills to teach. It’s easy for most dogs to learn, and easy for dog parents to train. “Find it!” just means, “Put your nose down and sniff.”
What dog doesn’t love to sniff? For at least some dogs, “Find it!” could be reinforced in at least two ways: 1) finding the food; and 2) sniffing scents on the ground. It’s also possible that looking away from a “trigger” could be a relief (negatively reinforcing) for some dogs. All around, it has the potential to be a very useful, and fun, behavior!
This fall we discussed our video training series on “Find it!” for reactive dogs in our Facebook group. During our Facebook live discussions, we can get into the details of implementing new skills, and talk more about troubleshooting training.
To teach your dog a strong “Find it!”, we recommend starting indoors with few distractions. Our favorite way to start building the “Find it!” for reactive dogs is actually in our online Scent Work classes, but in this video we show you a quicker trainer method.
We’d love to hear from you! Have you used “Find it!” with your reactive dog? What is your favorite, most useful behavior you’ve trained your reactive dog to do?
If you're looking for a structured plan for training your reactive dog, check out our self-paced online class, the Reactive Dog Survival Guide.
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Travel and tourism is one of the world’s most gender diverse industries, with a 50-50 overall split between men and women, but female representation at senior management level and above is abysmally low, according to a new report by hospitality consultancy Aptamind and World Tourism Forum Lucerne.
The report reveals that female representation falls to 40% at mid-level management and 33% in senior management. In the C-Suite, 19% of roles are filled by women, with only five firms led by a female CEO. This is echoed at board level, where 24% of board members are women, 8% of boards include no women at all and there are only six female chairs.
The report analyzes data from 100 publicly listed companies in the travel and tourism industry across hotels; casinos and entertainment; airlines; airports; OTAs and travel companies; cruises; and restaurant chains/food & beverage companies. Together, they employ 6.2 million people across 120 countries, with a total market cap of more than $1.6 trillion.
While 24% of C-Suite execs at F&B companies are women—the highest proportion in the industry—the cruise sector lags behind with a disappointing 10%. Hotels have the highest proportion of female board members at 29%, and casinos and entertainment firms bring up the rear with 19% female representation.
“While many organizations are working on promising solutions and have taken significant steps to address gender diversity, it has not resulted in accelerating gender diversity into a collective, cohesive movement that motivates action at scale,” said Aradhana Khowala, CEO/founder, Aptamind Partners and board member at World Tourism Forum Lucerne.
As well as analyzing each part of the travel and tourism industry in detail, the report examines the seemingly impenetrable glass ceiling between senior management and the C-Suite, shines a light on nations setting positive examples and explains how governments and private sector companies can improve gender equality.
“As many businesses in our sector will be forced to restructure and as companies rebuild teams and organizational structures, this could be a great time for different, more diverse, leaders to emerge,” Khowala said. “If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it is a reminder that the human spirit is capable of tremendous achievement when faced with a crisis. The diversity and inclusion crisis needs the same can’t-fail mentality to solve. Despite the mounting challenges I am more convinced than ever that the travel and tourism industry is up to the task.”
For more on how the hospitality industry is focusing on the issue of diversity and inclusion, be sure to sign up for our upcoming Hot Topics session, “Breaking the Barriers: Creating an Industry for All,” scheduled for Wednesday, May 19, from 3-4 pm (EST).
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What type of landform is Singapore?
The middle of the main island contains several rounded hills; west and southwest the land is a series of low ridges, while east and southeast, the land is generally flat. The highest point of Singapore is Bukit Timah at only 545 ft.
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Is Singapore a natural island?
With a population of 5,469,700 and a land area of 709.2 square kilometres (273.8 sq mi) mainland Singapore is the 20th most populous island in the world and the 31st most densely populated island in the world.
|Native name: Pulau Ujong|
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Is Singapore an archipelago?
Singapore is actually an archipelago
Singapore is not one island but an archipelago of 63 islands.
Is Singapore hotter than India?
Average monthly temperatures vary by 17.3 °C (31.1°F) less in Singapore. … The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 13.3° higher in Singapore than in New Delhi. Relative humidity levels are 26.1% higher. The mean dew point temperature is 8.3°C (14.9°F) higher.
What country owns Singapore?
Singapore became part of Malaysia on 16 September 1963 following a merger with Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak. The merger was thought to benefit the economy by creating a common, free market, and to improve Singapore’s internal security. However, it was an uneasy union.
How big is Singapore vs NYC?
Singapore is about 170 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Singapore is approximately 719 sq km, making Singapore 0.59% the size of New York.
Does Singapore ever get cold?
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Singapore was 19.4C – the temperature pretty much stays between the mid 20s and low 30s during the daily cycle. Average daily highs vary from 30.0 to 31.7 according to climatic averages posted on Wikipedia – so a 2 degree variation through the entire year.
Is Singapore part of China?
listen)), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
|Republic of Singapore show 3 other official names|
|Ethnic groups (2020)||75.9% Chinese 15.0% Malay 7.5% Indian 1.6% Others|
Why Singapore is so small?
The rapid increase in population with ineffectual governance from the administration had turned Singapore into a “small island full of the very dreg of the population of south eastern Asia”. It was this situation that had prompted the British to establish the Straits Settlements as a separate Crown Colony in 1867.
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Feeling alone is never a good thing—especially if you’re married. Yet, it is a circumstance that so many married people find themselves in. One of the biggest reasons for this, according to Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., also known as “Dr. Romance,” psychotherapist and author of How to Be Happy Partners: Working It Out Together, is that many married couples enter a healthy relationship with the expectation that, if someone loves you, it also means they understand you. This is not always, or even usually, true. “Your partner can love you, and even be expressing love to you, but not understand how you receive love, so you don’t connect,” she says.
This disconnection often happens when one partner in a relationship loves the other partner the way they want to be loved—not the way their partner wants to be loved; and vice versa. This causes resentment to build on both sides and leads to both partners feeling alone, Dr. Tessina explains. “Another common scenario is that both partners get busy, with their priorities being taken up by work, children and other responsibilities that inhibit them from giving each other the time to feel emotional connection,” she says.
There is also the more unique scenario that involves being in a marriage with a partner who is physically present, but emotionally absent. “Being emotionally absent can mean not spending enough quality time together as a couple, not feeling heard or understood by your partner, not having your emotional needs met, not able to rely on them, or feeling like you’re shouldering more of the responsibility in your marriage,” explains Anita Chlipala, licensed family therapist and marriage therapist and author of First Comes Us: The Busy Couple's Guide to Lasting Love.
If you are feeling particularly alone in your marriage, it does not mean your relationship is doomed. It all depends on how early you do something about it. “Too often people wait too long, whether it’s speaking up or for their partner to take them seriously,” says Chlipala. “The latter is usually a hopeless situation because by the time the spouse takes their partner’s concerns seriously, the partner has already disengaged and it’s usually too late to save the marriage.” Also, allowing feelings of loneliness and emotional distance in a marriage to linger can open the opportunity for an affair in the future. “If your partner isn’t giving you attention, it can feel invigorating to get it from someone else and can start the cascade toward an affair,” says Chlipala.
Here, relationship experts share their top solutions for what to do if you are feeling alone in your marriage.
Figure out why you’re lonely in marriage.
Before you can really dive into remedying your feelings of loneliness, it’s a good idea to figure out why you’re feeling this way in the first place. Chlipala suggests reflecting on what is missing and what would make you feel more connected to your spouse and fulfilled in the marriage. “This step is important because you want to make sure if the loneliness is coming from your marriage or your own life,” she says. “When things don't go according to plan and a spouse has to cancel plans or is late, and the other is waiting at home, that can create a sense of loneliness if it happens often enough.” Instead of waiting for your partner to make a move, she recommends engaging in activities that make you feel satisfied and that are a good use of your time.
Communicate your feelings.
If your spouse plays a role in your feelings of loneliness, don’t be afraid to speak up. “They may be oblivious or not know the depth of your feelings, but, to avoid defensiveness, frame what you want as a positive need,” says Chlipala. “Provide a few specific things that you’re looking for from your spouse because you may have different ideas and needs.”
Practice active listening.
Just as you want your partner to hear you out, it’s important to lend an open ear to your partner. “It’s so easy to formulate your counter-argument while your partner is talking, but, instead, listen with a sense of curiosity to figure out why your partner feels the way they do,” says Amy McManus, LMFT, couples therapist and owner of Thrive Therapy, Inc. in Los Angeles. “Sometimes, when your partner is upset, simply asking them what this dynamic reminds them of will open a huge window for both of you into the reason why that thing you do pisses them off so much.”
Ramp up the sweetness.
“Married life has its unavoidable stresses and strains, but, to keep things in balance, we need to put a bit of energy into increasing the sweetness between us,” says Dr. Tessina. “Thoughtfulness, thank yous and gestures of politeness and affection are the glue that holds your marriage together and keeps things running smoothly.”
Carve out quality time.
A strong marriage takes hard work. No matter how crazy you are with your jobs, kids, and bills, Dr. Tessina points out the incredible importance of putting aside regular time each week for your marriage. “Have a ‘date night’ that includes a ‘state of the union’ discussion to keep yourselves reconnecting,” she says. “When you spend pleasant time together, you'll both be more motivated to make your marriage as good as possible.” Couples counseling is another way to connect with your spouse on a deeper level.
Remember that you made a vow to love this person through the good and bad, in sickness and in health, and that may mean periods of ups and downs, notes Paulette Sherman, Psy.D., psychologist, author of The Book of Sacred Baths and the host of The Love Psychologist podcast. “Have faith that in time you will work things out, give them some space and understanding and remember your commitment.”
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Dear Doctor Usability,
I am a consultant, and I am hearing more and more about the interactive Web, about smart clients, rich clients (I have one right now by the way), etc. Anyway, I am being asked to develop a Web application, and I no longer know what to assume. Should I design with just HTML in mind, or should I be assuming that more and more companies will be using smart- or rich-client technologies? I find this difficult because each uses their own definitions for these terms. What do you advise?
Confused in Bangalore
My advice is to wait it out, and apply my forthcoming standard, Web 3.1btm (that's right, it's trademarked; in fact, it's my own!). Web 3.1btm offers a matrix of mix and match interactions and you can make a cocktail of interaction designs with it. Until that day, you need to verify technological assumptions and targets with each and every client. The day has indeed come when you can no longer rely on the Web being just HTML (especially now since HTML is no longer just HTML). The technologies and what they will allow: single click, double click, drag and drop, varying save models, etc. The possibilities are thicker than a South Indian curryeven with a dosa or two.
Web applications are now getting much more complex than ever before. In fact we are performing a sort of u-turn in design all in the name of advancement: We are leaving the 21st-century nouveau-terminal style applications of html clients, and going back to the previous century for point, click, drag things around type interactions. The only problem is whether people will remember how to drag and drop and use thumb dials. The other problem is how to let the user know that your Web application has some new nifty interaction in it that they are not expecting. The last problem is of course making sure that you understand your clients' underlying architecture so you know what interactivity can be achieved on the client side versus the server side. The more that can be handled by the client, the richer the interaction is...generally speaking.
The Web is indeed becoming a brave new world.
Dear Dr. Usability,
I am working on setting up a usability test and I need to know how many users I should employ. Some people say I should use only three, while others instead say I need way more, like five. Once and for all I would like to know how many users to include? Just give me the answer, so I can get on with it and not debate this subject anymore; it's frustrating.
Testing it out in Philadelphia
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It has been more than a decade since I stepped into Seoul Garden, and I was blown away by its transformation.
But first, let me bring you back to the past, to what Seoul Garden used to be like.
Bowls of raw food placed on trays of ice cubes, the shiok smell of grilling in the air, friends gathering over yummy food and drinks.
Seoul Garden used to have a circular grill plate with a metal bowl in the middle. The grill was heavy and difficult to carry. The part I really really didn’t like was accidentally spilling soup from the bowl onto the grill, where the hydrophobic oil would then start splattering all over my skin.
Now you know why I stopped visiting Seoul Garden for years.
Then one day, I walked into Seoul Garden NEX outlet and wondered why it looked so different.
The trays of ice cubes were gone.
Now, the bowls of raw food are placed in specially-designed chillers that have a cold metal base and a horizontal layer of cool air (aka an air curtain) to keep the food cool and fresh.
Imagine all the extra time this new chiller saves staff from having to replace the ice cubes, clean the shelves and carry raw food to be placed in a storage fridge. Staff can go home earlier after work!
The grill is now ~300% lighter at 1-2kg (vs 5kg for the old grill).
With an ageing workforce, and because Seoul Garden had also begun hiring people with partial disabilities, the company looked for ways to make their jobs easier.
Replacing the heavy grill was one huge burden, so Seoul Garden decided to repurpose the tables with lighter grills.
The non-stick grills are part of a Smokeless Grill System, which is easier to maintain as there is less grease and cleaning required. The non-stick grills are easier to wash and don’t need to be replaced as often.
Diners can also adjust the temperature individually for each of the steamboat bowls and the grill.
I heard these improvements may also be rolled out to some of the other Seoul Garden outlets.
Why did Seoul Garden go to this extent of repurposing their equipment?
Seoul Garden has a staff strength of around 200 employees.
With an ageing workforce, many kitchen and service staff may not be as physically strong as they used to be.
Seoul Garden also hires around 20 staff with partial disabilities such as autism.
With a diverse workforce, the company continually looked for ways to improve difficulties that staff faced, so they would have easier and safer jobs.
This would free up staff to have more time and energy to focus on what matters, be it the customer service or improving the kitchen processes and food offerings.
Seoul Garden worked with e2i (Employment & Employability Institute) to roll out the new chillers and Smokeless Grill System under the WorkPro Job Redesign initiative.
One of the best things I learnt about this initiative was that over 10 workers who were impacted by these changes at NEX received a wage increment and also some incentive bonus on top of their monthly pay.
What career and training opportunities does Seoul Garden offer?
Seoul Garden partnered e2i to hire several staff through Place-and-Train programmes where each staff got to experience a 6-month compressed training programme.
After they graduated, they got a salary increase and continued their career progression (or converted to another track if they wished to).
Some staff who have completed the Place-and-Train programme who have been placed as Duty or Operations Managers subsequently rose to Assistant Restaurant Managers and even General Manager!
Seoul Garden also opened a new department which currently hires five “Facilitators and Assessors” to help staff with partial disabilities ease into their jobs, be more independent and adaptable, and improve the culture of inclusion among the entire workforce.
Staff with partial disabilities are trained to work both in the kitchen and service line. Seoul Garden does not give them badges nor label them as staff with partial disabilities. The company also pays staff with partial disabilities equal wages as other staff.
If you are looking to support a restaurant which promotes inclusive hiring, better jobs and pay for staff, you can consider checking out Seoul Garden at NEX.
What do you want to tell others? Find me at jules <at> workersofsingapore (dot) com
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Leave it to Jack Welch, father of the famous rank-and-yank system, to defend micromanagement.
The former General Electric CEO is known for a lot of things, but in workforce terms, his embrace of forced ranking — the system where you evaluate your workforce by dividing them into 20-70-10 segments where the bottom 10 percent gets shown the door — is Numero Uno.
Welch emphatically disputes the criticism of forced ranking, and his role in making it famous, calling it a “media invented … sledgehammer of a pejorative that perpetuates a myth …”
Well, the media gets a lot of things wrong these days, so get ready for Jack Welch to have something else to get defensive about — people attacking him for his embrace of the wonders of micromanagement.
But maybe that’s just another bad rap on Neutron Jack.
Here’s what he said about micromanagement in a recent post on LinkedIn titled Why I Love Micromanaging and You Should Too:
Look, we all know jerk bosses who stick their nose into every little thing their people are doing, and basically try to drive the bus from the back seat. We also know perfectly good bosses who do the same kind of thing for a different and legitimate reason — because they know the people doing the real work aren’t yet ready to do it themselves.
Let’s put aside those two situations, and talk about the much more common occurrence of bosses who get deeply involved in the day-to-day work of employees who are capable and competent.
And let me repeat myself: of that I approve.”
Welch approves of micromanaging when it involves what he calls the “accordion approach,” where managers “get very close to your people and their work when they need you – that is, when your help matters – and pull back when you’re extraneous.”
When a manager can help
Now what do I mean by “when your help matters?” That’s the key question, and I’d answer it as follows: Your help matters when you bring unique expertise to a situation, or you can expedite things by dint of your authority, or both. Your help matters when you have highly relevant experience that no one else on the team brings, and your presence sets an example of best practices – and prevents costly mistakes. Your help matters when it signals the organization’s priorities, as in, “Hey, we have high hopes for this new initiative. That’s why I’m in the weeds with it.” Your help matters when you have a long relationship with, say, a customer or a potential partner, and your being at the table changes the game.
In such situations, you have to micromanage. It’s your responsibility. Just as it’s every employee’s responsibility to help the organization win.”
In other words, Welch believes that micromanaging helps when the manager or boss has something special they can bring to the issue that helps both the employee AND the larger organization — and that they would be foolish NOT to get involved if that were the case.
Good managers are engaged with employees
I know that some people will consider this hairsplitting on the part of Neutron Jack, but I actually think he’s on to something.
He’s talking about what I find most galling about the silly TV reality show Undercover Boss — senior managers who don’t have a clue about what their people are doing, then are shocked and surprised when they actually find out.
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I’ve managed a lot of people, and one thing I have found is that the staff was more productive and attuned to how and what we needed to get done when I was closely involved with them. I never thought me digging into what they were doing as micromanagement, but rather, a process where I was involved at a level where I could help them make smart decisions, and give them my thinking when it most mattered, to help them make better choices both now and in the future.
That’s not micromanagement in my book, but as I read how Jack Welch describes it, that’s exactly what I was doing. And, I found that the people who worked for me generally appreciated me doing it.
It’s all about truly knowing your people
Welch draws the line between good and bad micromanagement, and here he describes what people pejoratively refer to — and what drives so many employees crazy:
Micromanaging only stinks when bosses do it because they have nothing better to do, or they’re constitutionally unable to trust people, employees included. I’d never support that.
Ultimately, knowing how and when to micromanage comes down to engagement. If you really know your people and their skills – as you should – and you’re in their skin about their passions and concerns – as you should be – you will know when to “squeeze the accordion” and draw close.
Similarly, you’ll know when to pull away and give them space. When your level of micromanaging grows out of strong, vibrant engagement with your people, have no fear. When you get involved, your team will know you’re in it for them. And when you step back, they’ll be in it for you too.”
Leave it to Neutron Jack to make micromanaging acceptable. I’d call it something else — engaged management, perhaps? — but whatever we call it, Jack Welch knows how good managers can help to make their employees work better.
If that’s what passes for micromanagement these days, consider me guilty of it too.
Employee engagement? It’s “stagnant”
Of course, there’s more than Jack Welch’s views on micromanagement in the news this week. Here are some HR and workplace-related items you may have missed. This is TLNT’s weekly wrap-up of news, trends, and insights from the world of talent management. I do it so you don’t have to.
- Employee engagement? Gallup says it is “stagnant” — Are we at a point where we should stop focusing on employee engagement? Despite all the focus on it the last few years, the latest Gallup survey says that it is bad and not getting any better. “The percentage of U.S. workers in 2015 who Gallup considered engaged in their jobs averaged 32 percent” Gallup says. “The majority (50.8 percent) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 17.2 percent were “actively disengaged.” The 2015 averages are largely on par with the 2014 averages and reflect little improvement … most U.S. workers continue to fall into the not engaged category. These employees are not hostile or disruptive. They show up and kill time, doing the minimum required with little extra effort … Not engaged employees are either “checked out” or attempting to get their job done with little or no management support.”
- Zappos CEO defends getting rid of managers, downplays staff departures. I’m not surprised that Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is defending his decision to get rid of managers and downplay nearly 20 percent of his staff leaving, but I do question why he didn’t voice his defense in The New York Times or some other significant media outlet. Instead, he did it in something called the Ferenstein Wire where was able to ramble on and on and on and on about why what he’s doing is such a good thing. I don’t agree, as I wrote last week, but it’s interesting to read Tony Hsieh’s defense here.
- Should we blame consultants for the demise of middle management? I’m not a big fan of consultants, although I have known some good ones who certainly earn what they get paid. But, a lot of consultants just perpetuate BS and bad management, and The Washington Post is now blaming them for “the “flattening” of corporate hierarchies (that) has left employees with nowhere to go but sideways.” They write, “The practice of “flattening” organizational hierarchies — a way of improving efficiency by stripping out levels of bureaucracy, cutting costs in the process — has removed from many companies the ability to climb rungs in a corporate ladder, which used to serve as a primary motivation for high performance.”
- Here’s why you shouldn’t hire off Craigslist. Years ago, back in the dotcom era, Craigslist was THE place to find technology talent during the dotcom boom. Today, well, maybe Craigslist is best avoided as a source of new employees. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “A woman hired off of Craigslist to work as an accountant for a Maryland Heights firm worked there for just one day, but bilked the company out of nearly $15,000 over the following months, police say.”
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Smartphone App Study to Assess How Trikafta Affects Daily Life
A first-of-its-kind, observational study will allow patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) to use their smartphones to monitor the ways in which Trikafta (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) affects their daily lives.
Sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the now-enrolling HERO-2 study (NCT04798014) will collect patients’ self-reported feedback for one year to track changes in their daily medications and symptoms while taking Trikafta.
Participants will be also asked to report instances of changes to their treatment plan and pulmonary exacerbations (the acute worsening of symptoms), as well as to provide a monthly overview using patient-reported outcome questionnaires.
“Data from clinical studies suggest that Trikafta and other highly effective modulators have a transformative effect on pulmonary and nutritional outcomes of cystic fibrosis, yet we still have much to learn about how these therapies impact day-to-day life with CF,” Bruce Marshall, MD, chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical affairs at the CF Foundation, said in a press release.
Patients’ feedback will be submitted using the Folia Health app for smartphones, which allows health information to be securely sent without the need to visit a clinical site. Data in the Folia Health app will be linked to the foundation’s Patient Registry database.
The study, conducted by the Indiana University School of Medicine, is looking to enroll 860 CF patients, ages 12 and older, taking Trikafta and with access to an internet connection. It is scheduled to end in December 2023.
Patients in the U.S. with any type of mutation in the CFTR gene, the cause of CF, are invited to self-enroll. For more information, please contact Lisa Bendy, clinical research manager at Indiana University School of Medicine, by phone at 317-278-7152 or by email [email protected].
However, anyone enrolled in the randomized phases of the SIMPLIFY (NCT04378153) trial underway in the U.S. may not take part in the HERO-2 study. SIMPLIFY is evaluating the health of CF patients, ages 12 and older, on Trikafta who stop a nebulized treatment inhaled — hypertonic saline or Pulmozyme (dornase alfa) — compared with those who continue with both these forms of treatment.
Those interested in joining the trial can do so using the free Folia Health app, which can be accessed on its website using an iPhone, android phone, or a computer. After completing an initial survey, participants log in to their Folia Health account where they can provide information on their symptoms and medication use. While they are encouraged to report daily, the app allows for a “batch track” to provide reports covering the previous seven days.
On a monthly basis, they will be asked to complete a survey regarding symptoms and medication.
“Understanding real-world experiences with Trikafta will inform the continued evolution of CF care and aid in the prioritization of future research and support programs to meet the needs of people on modulators,” Marshall said.
The study was designed over eight months by a team that included CF patients, caregivers, clinicians, scientists, and information technologists, the CF Foundation reports. The aim was to ensure that the trial would be open to the broadest group of patients and families.
“We are grateful to our collaborators at Indiana University School of Medicine and Folia Health for enabling this important research,” Marshall.
Trikafta, marketed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is approved in the U.S. to treat CF in patients, ages 12 and older, who have at least one copy of the F508del mutation in the CFTR gene — the most common disease-causing mutation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon decide on an application seeking the expansion of Trikafta’s use to children as young as 6.
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Ministry of Unification (Yonhap)
The South Korean government proposed Tuesday North Korea resume inter-Korean dialogue in order to narrow differences and promote mutual understanding after its leader accused Seoul of being "hypocritical" and having "double standards."
In a speech Monday at a defense development exhibition to mark the 76th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party, the North's leader Kim Jong-un condemned Seoul for continuing efforts to boost its military capabilities while talking publicly of "peace, cooperation and prosperity," according to the North's Korean Central News Agency.
In response to Kim's speech, an official at the South's Ministry of Unification said it would be difficult to deal with inter-Korean relations from the "unilateral" standards of one side.
It is the government's basic stance that "Inter-Korean relations are difficult to resolve in a way to unilaterally demand and drive the standards of one side," the official said. "(We) will resolve such a problem, narrowing differences related to double standards through dialogue and cooperation based on agreements (between the two sides so far)."
The official said Kim's latest speech seems to be aimed at encouraging the implementation of the North's new five-year strategic goal to miniaturize nuclear weapons and produce super-large nuclear warheads, which was presented during the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in January.
It is also viewed, in general, as the confirmation of remarks he made during the Supreme People's Assembly last month, added the official who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity. (Yonhap)
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Back in the 1960’s when Marina City, designed by architect, Bertrand Goldberg, was first being built in Chicago, its towers were the first circular apartment buildings in history; as well as being both the tallest concrete structures and tallest residential towers in the world. “More importantly, they were an experiment in a new urban philosophy: building a city within a city.”
From the Blueprint Chicago site, they state this about Goldberg’s towers:
And Goldberg’s choice in the circle was based on more than just aesthetics. The circle gave the highest ratio of usable floor space to exterior skin. And to Goldberg the circle offered still something more. He once said, “(I) wanted to get people out of boxes, which are really psychological slums . . . those long hallways with scores of doors opening anonymously are inhuman. Each person should retain his relation to the core. It should be the relation of the branch to the tree, rather than that of the cell to the honeycomb.”
In a speech given by Goldberg himself, he states:
These buildings have been described as cylindrical. This is not true. The organization of the building is rather the organization of a tremendous sunflower – where the core is the center of the flower and each of the bays emanating from the core are very much – both in shape and in organization – like the petal of a flower.
How delightful! When we are willing to pay attention, Mother Nature provides a great source of inspiration for us all.
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Fortunately, most of those conditions are simply treatable. These videos explain frequent spots in out imaginative and prescient and vision loss. If you’ve eye floaters or notice different spots in your imaginative and prescient, then take a look at these movies. We have the unique capacity to understand processes from a practice stage to enable higher effectivity and profitability in the future. Experts in youngsters’s health are fast to level out that children usually are not simply small adults.
Prevent Blindness recommends periodic dilated eye exams as the best way to make sure that imaginative and prescient is wholesome and to assist hold it that way. 4.Pregnancy can cause imaginative and prescient changesincluding refractive adjustments, dry eyes, and puffy eyelids. Seeing clearly is just one part of your overall eye health. A cup of green tea is more than enjoyable and scrumptious — its antioxidants might assist maintain eyes wholesome.
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For much of the world’s peoples, the steps of a religious institution can invoke a powerful sensation of security and safety. The 1681 declaration by King Charles II ensuring “an asylum” of a persecuted French Calvinist is recognized by international legal scholars as the birth of asylum law. It marked the first moment in history that a national authority extended protective measures for a non-citizen from his home government. My research project would examine the Christian theological basis for protecting immigrants and explore the early history of religious involvement in persecuted refugee cases. Christian ethics of good works and social change movements supported the legal justification for the adoption of international doctrines of asylum. Faith-based international campaigns lauded the global responsibility of the faithful to protect certain groups of migrants. The paper will also examine contemporary Catholic groups that support Latin American asylum seekers in the United States. This paper will contextualize the role of the church in America’s national immigration debate and serve to illuminate the Christian ethics of migration.
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Catalog of the exhibition held at IVAM Centre Julio González and other venues Feb. 26-June 8, 1993. Bonet introduces this investigation of the use of found footage in film and video with a history of the genre. Five essayists discuss "scratch video," found imagery composed entirely of quoted material, the use of archival footage, and the impact and principles of collage. With comments (mostly reprinted) on works by 60 artists and collectives.
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Author’s creation, Disney’s jackpot
By all rights, Deborah Gregory should be sitting pretty: As a first-time author, she wrote the Cheetah Girls novels, a bubbly, 16-book series that became hugely popular with American tweens and teens. And she appeared to hit an even bigger jackpot when she sold the dramatic rights to the Disney Channel.
Her breezy, street-smart tales of five girls chasing pop music careers were turned into two hit television movies, and a third is now being filmed in India. Cheetah Girls CDs and DVDs have sold in the millions, and concert tours have hit more than 80 cities. Meanwhile, Disney’s fabled merchandising machine flooded the market with Cheetah Girls shoes, dolls, toothbrushes, video games, backpacks, note pads, pillows, posters, T-shirts and the like.
Gregory expected to get a piece of the action when she signed a 2001 contract promising her 4% of the net from all of this activity. But like many other authors who have signed away dramatic rights, she says she never got a penny of the profits. Unlike screenwriters, who were backed by a strong union in their recently ended strike, most literary writers are at a disadvantage when negotiating with Hollywood. And it is difficult, if not impossible, for them to crack the safe.
Indeed, Gregory said she’s pocketed $125,000 over the last nine years in option fees and payments for her title as co-producer of the movies. Although she’s asked for them, she has never gotten “net profit participation statements” from Disney, spelling out details of expenses and revenues. If anyone is getting rich on this formidable franchise, Gregory noted, it’s not the woman who created it.
“People think I must be living in a palace, when they think of the success of the Cheetah Girls,” she said, sitting quietly in the cramped studio apartment she rents in Manhattan. “But look at this place. It’s a . . . dump.”
Gregory, an imposing and outspoken African American, doesn’t mince words. She has a saucy, cheerfully profane sense of humor that she struggled to keep in check during interviews, and her anger over what has happened is palpable.
Disney officials, asked to explain why Gregory has not received any net profits -- and to estimate the collective revenue that “the Cheetah Girls has generated -- declined to respond. “Disney Channel doesn’t comment on the terms of its contracts,” spokeswoman Patti McTeague said in an e-mail.
“This is an old, old story in Hollywood,” said literary agent Nicholas Ellison, who has represented numerous clients in book-to-film negotiations. When studios are asked why an author has not received any net profits, he said, they often point to expenses that have grown larger than expected and contend that a hit picture has not, in fact, made money.
It’s called “Hollywood accounting,” and in some cases studios may be on solid ground, citing legitimate costs such as promotion and development. But in other cases, contracts contain definitions of “net profits” that make it all but impossible for an author to collect money that once seemed tantalizingly at hand.
In one of the most notorious cases -- when columnist Art Buchwald sued Paramount over its use of his idea for the 1988 film “Coming to America,” a film that grossed $350 million, and then later for its failure to pay him revenues -- a judge ruled in 1990 that the studio’s internal accounting procedures were “unconscionable.”
“Is Disney notorious for having a legal department the size of Western Europe and being particularly ferocious?” Ellison asked. “Yes. But that doesn’t mean they’re unethical. Or different from any other studio.”
The stakes are high because 43% of Hollywood movies in the last five years were adapted from books and other written materials, according to estimates by the Writers Guild of America. What makes Gregory’s case unusual is that she didn’t simply write a book, she wrote bestsellers that led to a movie and marketing bonanza.
And there was no union able to help her. Writers often turn to the Authors Guild, a national organization based in New York, for advice in protecting their rights with publishers. But although the Authors Guild offers a checklist of things to keep in mind when dealing with Hollywood, it does not provide individual guidance or counseling.
“Hollywood deals are a trap for the unwary; they’re almost intended to deceive,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “The best advice we give is that you should try to get as much of your money upfront. You can’t count on net profit deals for anything.”
Even if writers hire the best agents and lawyers, it might not make much of a difference, said veteran literary agent Jane Dystel, who has negotiated option deals on her own and in tandem with agents who specialize in book-to-film contracts.
“Studios are always offering authors take-it-or-leave-it deals, and if they don’t get what they want, they’re prepared to walk away,” she said. “They’ll tell you that there are plenty of other good books out there for them to buy, and they’re right.”
Asked about Gregory’s case, longtime industry observers offered differing takes: She was a first-time author who didn’t know the ropes when she negotiated her deal. Her attorney had only limited leverage because she was an unknown author. Disney officials grabbed whatever advantage they could, just like any studio. And although it’s easy to be bitter about monster profits in hindsight, few could have predicted that the Cheetah Girls would become such a marketing sensation.
Others blame Disney: “What happened to Deborah was unconscionable,” said an insider who is familiar with the Cheetah Girls project but asked not to be identified, citing business considerations. “At the very least, they should have cut her in on the revenue from the DVDs and CDs.”
Because “net profits” are virtually worthless, many agents seek alternatives: One strategy is to request bonus payments regardless of a film’s bottom line. But these are granted mainly to brand-name authors with clout. An even better deal is to win a share of “gross points” from box office revenues.
Yet this is the pot of money used to pay big-ticket actors, directors and other stars, and only the strongest players claim a share. For everyone else, there is a gnawing resentment that they’ve been excluded from the party.
“I never dreamed things would turn out the way they did,” said Gregory, recalling the heady days when she had first written “The Cheetah Girls” and the Disney Channel expressed interest. “I really believed I would be able to share in everything that was created, that I was going to be a participant. Well, honey, that was a sham.”
Born in New York, Gregory grew up in the city’s foster care system. She never knew her mother or father and was bounced from one home to the next. At an early age, however, she displayed an interest in fashion design and creative writing.
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and began writing freelance stories. By 1990, she had become the fashion and beauty writer at Redbook; she also wrote articles about all-girl groups like Destiny’s Child for Essence, Us magazine and other publications. The seeds of what would become her novels took root during her reporting: She went shopping in Houston with members of Destiny’s Child at the Galleria, which became the name of one of her characters.
The story was called “Shop in the Name of Love,” which became the title of her second novel. Gregory wore leopard-patterned clothes on the assignment -- a personal taste that would become a trademark for the Cheetah Girls.
Her life changed when she got a call in 1998 from Hyperion Books, owned by Disney. The publisher wanted to sign up books aimed at urban children. Did Gregory have any ideas? As a foster child, she was often lonely, yearning for companionship, and the notion of a bunch of girls who stick together as pals and chase their dreams was born.
“This is the core of who I am,” she said, describing the birth of her imaginary group of African American and Latino girls. “I’m someone who grew up in foster care with nothing. I have no family to this day. And what the Cheetah Girls represents to me and others is a chance to get out of the ghetto. It’s a chance to transcend your background through sheer talent.”
Hyperion gave her a $40,000 advance for the first four novels, and Gregory’s first installment, “Wishing on a Star,” appeared in 1998. Hollywood came calling before it was even published. Independent producer Cheryl Hill had gotten wind of the project and instantly saw its potential.
“The material was incredible, it was just jumping off the page,” said Hill, who brought the project to BrownHouse Productions, a company that included pop singer Whitney Houston and producer Debra Chase. After the Disney Channel expressed interest in producing it, the wheels began turning. “You could see the possibilities,” said Hill, who is one of the producers on the films. “I’m always looking for the next Davy Crockett phenomenon, with the jackets and merchandising.” Speaking of Disney, she said, “I’m sure they saw it too.”
Like many authors, Gregory was star-struck by the Hollywood attention. Flanked by her entertainment attorney, Lita Richardson, she signed a 2001 contract giving Disney approval to make a movie or TV series based on the books, as well as additional projects such as DVDs, CDs and other merchandising. In return she would get 4% of the net profits.
“I think authors are blindsided by this,” said Susie Norris-Epstein, a former Disney development vice president who played a key role in helping the company acquire the Cheetah Girls. “They’re impressed by the Disney machine, which is very good at marketing, and what they think it might mean for them. But it doesn’t mean they’ll be participants in this.”
Gregory’s 16 novels went on to sell an estimated 2 million copies for which she got a total of $180,000 in advances. But beyond her title as a co-producer on both films, she had limited creative input as Disney turned her books into a television and marketing phenomenon.
The first movie was broadcast in 2003, drawing an estimated 6.5 million viewers on its first night; the second aired in 2006, attracting 8 million. Two CD soundtracks sold a combined 3 million copies. National concert tours in each of the last three years have played to sold-out crowds. Merchandise made by a flurry of companies who leased the rights from Disney began flooding into malls across the nation.
Yet Gregory didn’t share in this bounty. Asked to explain what happened to her former client, Richardson declined to comment, even though Gregory gave her permission to talk about the case. The attorney said she represented the author long ago and that the files were in storage.
For some, the lessons are clear: “If somebody from Hollywood tells you they love your novel and they’ll take care of you on the back end, run for the hills and double the price,” Ellison said. More important, don’t make the same mistake twice.
In June, Random House will publish “Catwalk,” the first in a new series of novels by Gregory about budding fashionistas in New York. Once again, there has been Hollywood interest. But this time, Gregory vows to be patient in negotiating a contract.
She’s represented by the William Morris Agency and has also retained Lisa Davis, a veteran New York entertainment lawyer, to get her a much better deal this time around.
Davis is reluctant to say what she’ll be looking for, citing confidentiality, but she is keenly aware of what happened to Gregory with the Cheetah Girls.
“I have a close relationship with my clients, and I do consider myself an advocate,” said Davis, who also represents Terry McMillan and director Spike Lee.
“When it comes to authors, they have sweated to create characters that resonate with a large audience. They have created a whole world. And they should be paid for it.”
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Matt and Katie discuss the latest on the debate over Covid stimulus negotiations, NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller talks academic freedom.
‘You won’t be safe anywhere, even if you’re in Britain’
The nerve agent attack on former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter sends a powerful message to the rest of the world: the assassins aren’t playing by the rules.
.. Still, if the Russian government really was responsible, why use a nerve agent that could so easily be traced back to them? “They’ve had plenty of opportunities to kill Skripal,” says Michael Kofman, an expert on Russian military affairs at the nonprofit research organization CNA. “And there are, frankly, a myriad of much simpler and more practical ways of doing it.”
But using chemical weapons is about more than just killing. These taboo weapons are instruments of terror, and their use is designed to send a message to the world: that the power behind the attack — Russia, according to the UK — doesn’t think anyone else is ruthless enough to retaliate effectively. And to others who might consider betraying Russia to foreign powers, it’s that snitches get more than stitches — they get murdered.
.. Using Novichok as a calling card could be a way of saying that Russia doesn’t care about looking guilty because whatever retaliation the UK and the West might muster isn’t frightening enough. After all, an in-kind response is off the table
.. If only one side is willing to be ruthless, it changes the rules of the game. This “etiquette of espionage,” for example, held that former spies were off limits for assassination attempts
.. And there’s an international treaty against using chemical weapons, so using them for assassination attempts on foreign soil are beyond the pale. “They do things like this intentionally to show that they in no way will be limited by what are considered to be established rules and norms of behavior,”
.. That message is also aimed at anyone considering telling Russia’s secrets to foreign powers, Kimmage says. “One very clear message is ‘If you betray us, we will kill you’ to put it into blunt, mafia-like terms,” he says. “‘You won’t be safe anywhere, even if you’re in Britain.’” The attempted murder of Sergei Skripal made an example out of him, and the theatrical method ensured that the press picked up the message and distributed it around the globe.
.. “The threat of chemical weapons not only endures in the 21st century, but is spreading.” In the last few years, the Assad regime unleashed chemical weapons on civilians in Syria; ISIS used mustard gas in Syria and Iraq; state-sponsored assassins used the nerve agent VX to kill Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un’s half-brother. And now, a chemical weapon made for the battlefield was used in a UK cathedral town, in the attempted murder of a UK citizen.
Vestergaard writes: “It seems the chemical peace is not just broken; it is shattered.”
How did Google, the company that hires the smartest people in the world, become so ideologically driven and intolerant of scientific debate and reasoned argument?
.. We all have moral preferences and beliefs about how the world is and should be. Having these views challenged can be painful, so we tend to avoid people with differing values and to associate with those who share our values. This self-segregation has become much more potent in recent decades. We are more mobile and can sort ourselves into different communities; we wait longer to find and choose just the right mate; and we spend much of our time in a digital world personalized to fit our views... Echo chambers maintain themselves by creating a shared spirit and keeping discussion confined within certain limits. As Noam Chomsky once observed, “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”.. But echo chambers also have to guard against dissent and opposition. Whether it’s in our homes, online or in our workplaces, a consensus is maintained by shaming people into conformity or excommunicating them if they persist in violating taboos. Public shaming serves not only to display the virtue of those doing the shaming but also warns others that the same punishment awaits them if they don’t conform...In my document, I committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment. When I first circulated the document about a month ago to our diversity groups and individuals at Google, there was no outcry or charge of misogyny. I engaged in reasoned discussion with some of my peers on these issues, but mostly I was ignored... Everything changed when the document went viral within the company and the wider tech world. Those most zealously committed to the diversity creed—that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment and all people are inherently the same—could not let this public offense go unpunished. They sent angry emails to Google’s human-resources department and everyone up my management chain, demanding censorship, retaliation and atonement... Upper management tried to placate this surge of outrage by shaming me and misrepresenting my document, but they couldn’t really do otherwise: The mob would have set upon anyone who openly agreed with me or even tolerated my views.
What is happening with North Korea is not analogous to what happened in 1962, except for the word crisis. Fifty-five years ago was a different age with vastly different players and dynamics. We all mine the past to make our points, but Mr. Gorka’s evoking of the Cuban crisis to summon political support is intellectually cheap and self-defeating.
- The Soviet Union and Cuba were trying to hide what they had—offensive missiles in Cuba. Kim Jong Un enjoys showing what he has and taunting the world with it.
- President Kennedy gave great and grave attention to reassuring a nation and world understandably alarmed by nuclear brinkmanship. Does Mr. Trump? Not in the least.
He knew that precisely because you are a nuclear power, you can’t make nuclear threats. A thing too easily referred to will lose its horrifying mystique, its taboo. So don’t go there when you speak, or allow people to think you’re going there.
.. He famously called his blockade of Cuba a “quarantine,” because a blockade is a military action and a quarantine is—well, whatever you think it is. He worked hard with aides on public statements, hammering out each phrase. He sometimes used dire language—we don’t want “the fruits of victory” to become “ashes in our mouths”—but he knew who he was up against, a Soviet premier whom he’d met in summit, and whose understanding of such messages could be at least roughly gauged.
.. It is not clear Mr. Trump is up against a rational player. He must therefore ask if inflammatory language is more likely to provoke than inform.
.. More than half the world at this point would see Kim Jong Un as mad, and some significant number might view Mr. Trump similarly. Thus the current high anxiety, and the need from America for calm, cool logic, not emotionalism.
.. Kennedy was quoted in the Oval Office saying his generals had at least one thing going for them: “If we listen to them and do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.”
.. JFK himself called the publisher of the New York Times , the president of the Washington Post and the owner of Time magazine to request pledges of cooperation and discretion. All agreed. He filled in his Republican predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, on the plan to blockade Cuba. “Whatever you do,” said Eisenhower, “you will have my support.”
..House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. “A military helicopter found Boggs, dropping a note to him in a bottle. ‘Call Operator 18, Washington. Urgent message from the president.’ ”
.. The U.S. military, he told the ambassador, was pressing hard to invade Cuba. The president would have to agree if Khrushchev didn’t take the missiles out now.
.. Actually, it was lucky the players in the Cuban crisis lived in a slower, balkier world. They had time to think, to create strategy and response. The instantaneous world—our world—is so much more dangerous.
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Suggest your child enroll in a college class online, she said, or aid librarians by transcribing historical documents from home. Parents can talk with their children about what interests them, then encourage them to create a project, like a website or a course for their peers, around that topic, Ms. Daryanani said.
Other experts caution against pushing too hard on teens already struggling with vast changes in their lives. One way to gauge that is to think about how much you used to have to push your kid before the pandemic, said Regine Galanti, a Long Island psychologist and author of “Anxiety Relief for Teens.” “If you are someone who didn’t push, and now your teen needs pushing, there may be other dynamics going on here,” she said.
One silver lining: This moment may be an opportunity for an “equal playing field,” said Warren Quirett, an admissions counselor at a Virginia boarding school and co-leader of the African-American Special Interest Group for the National Association for College Admission Counseling. That’s because affluent families cannot give their children an advantage by paying for expensive camps and experiences, since “it’s all been canceled,” he said.
Urge your student instead to pick up a new skill, or increase their involvement in their community — anything that will pique their interest and enrich their lives, he said.
Mr. Selingo said college admissions officers are going to understand that this is not a normal year. They’ll be “really looking for a mind-set,” he said. “They want students who are creative. They are going to be asking, ‘How did students respond to this pandemic?’”
But be forewarned: with other markers of achievement in short supply, colleges will focus on what is available. “I’ve been telling my seniors,” Ms. Daryanani said, “to really pay attention to their grades this semester.”
Hoping to generate some excitement for next year, Michelle Johnson and her husband took Emma to visit Northern Michigan University in late September. To ensure social distancing, the admissions office was limiting in-person campus tours to only five students at a time, and the slots for that day were already filled. But they walked themselves around the campus, the town and the Lake Superior shoreline. They saw hardly any students; those they did see wore masks.
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Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future
Center for Geosciences of the University of Coimbra, Instituto Terra e Memoria, Portugal
Submission: February 02, 2018; Published: May 11, 2018
*Corresponding author: Davide Delfino, Center for Geosciences of the University of Coimbra, Instituto Terra e Memória, Portugal Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
How to cite this article: Davide D. Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future. Glob J Arch & Anthropol. 2018; 4(1): 555628. DOI: 10.19080/GJAA.2018.04.555628
Research on prehistoric warfare is in progress since 60 years. But investigation specifically on Bronze Age period, when some tools are exclusively created for fight and the warrior societies are emerging, is always young. Scholars there were mainly interested on the origins of violence in mankind, on the fighting in the Neolithic or, if Bronze Age, on the wars in the empires of the Near East or in the Minoan civilization. But the warfare in the European Bronze Age up to a decade ago, it was dealt marginally. Violence and warfare in Bronze Age in "barbarian Europe”, to use an expression by Jaques Briard, can be defined as a "fashion” since the mid-2000s. Recent trends are analyzed according to various perspectives: generals, theoretical, study of material cultures and context, and interpretative tendencies. So will be discuss what the commonly accepted theories and what also remain subject of doubt and debate to draw a perspective for the future.
Keywords: European Bronze Age; Warfare; Literature review; New perspectives; Fashion; Barbaric Europe; Protohistoric; Perspective; Aegean civilizations; Archeology; Anthropology; Paleopathology; Primatological; Paleodemographic; Ethnography; Psychology
Object of the present work will be the review of the work, the state of the art and future research horizons on the warfare in the Bronze Age in the parts of Europe not affected by State-owned societies such as the Aegean civilizations: these include all the European regions that between the end of the third millennium and the first quarter of the first millennium BC know a chiefdom societies and that Jaques Briard has defined "barbaric Europe” (1976).
Violence and warfare in the pre and protohistoric societies are topics dealt with over several decades and under various perspectives. A first approach on prehistoric war had been by Childe in which we doubt the peaceful nature of primitive populations and the war as a factor linked to the most advanced societies. But the beginning of what will be the great debate on the nature of the prehistoric war, or ritual or real, coincides with the first two real works focused on the violence in prehistoric society, by is theory by Clastres who denied the real violence in the prehistoric societies, as Leroi Gouran , where hunting violence was linked to violence of the war, and the reply to tinted out by Lehoerff . Also in 60's appears the first paper on war in European prehistoric societies .
In the general topic on war in the prehistory, we will quote only main works after Keeley which created a break with the '70s and' 80s, combining archeology and anthropology beyond the Neolithic to the Bronze Age and combine archaeological data with paleopathology in the theme of the prehistoric warfare: so, Gulaine & Zammit which extend the investigation, iconography in rock art and cultural anthropology; Haas analyze the connection between warfare and social evolution; Parker Pearson & Thorpe , who coordinated multidisciplinary work on violence and the warfare between early prehistory and protostory under archaeological, primatological, paleodemographic and paleopathological aspects; Otto, Thrane & Vandkilde which in a general and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the warfare and the human society, gives a certain space to the pre and protohistoric period; Ralph which together with other authors makes a panorama of the archaeological traces of violence from prehistory to medieval age; Fry (2013), who together with other authors takes into account the violent or peaceful nature of mankind in an evolutionary context; Hallen & Jones who examine with other authors the origin of violence in mankind by analyzing the communities of today's hunter-gatherers, and Vander worker & Wilson who in a work with other authors deal with the theme of the relationship between the archeology of warfare and of food in daily, cultural, ritual and technical aspects but only in anthropological data on today traditional societies.
Specifically on the warfare in Bronze Age Europe, a vision will be made on studies concerning in particular the weapons, the defensive architectures, the warrior figure and the social aspects and all that it composes the "warfare”, on data and related theories.
Until 2000's, papers, books and other works have mainly dealt about experimental archaeology on Bronze Age weapons [14-16]; inventory, distribution and chronology of Bronze Ages weapons [17-25]. There is an immediate interest for the Bronze Age weapons in the UK for several volumes of the monumental series "Prahistorische Bronzefunde" , for the volumes belonging tothe "Typologie des objects de l' Age du Bronze en France" , as well as for other single works on circulation and development of the weapons [29-32] on regional context [33,34]: work by Osgood didn't have much information on the use of weapons and has been criticized for a too enthusiastic interpretation in start of the British hill forts and some inconsistencies in interpretation of the Early Bronze Age social aspect of warfare ( l’ultimo period non si capisce). Other works have been or in specific chapters on Bronze Age within works about more general chronologies or trans-chronological topics (anche qui non si capisce il period) [36-39], or within archaeometric studies dedicated to weapon technique [40-47], or in function analysis [48,49] or in a interpretative use of weapons [50-52], or in symbolism of the weapons or of the warrior , or, though the context of a more general chronological context, in social and cultural dimension of violent acts . In the late 90's the warfare in prehistory was defined a "young and brave field" . An important initial work on that "young and brave field" is the one by Osgood, Monks and Toms where for the first time the problem of warfare in "barbaric Europe" Bronze Age has been dealt with in a work entirely dedicated to it. , above all in the theoretic issues: what was the warfare in the Bronze Age like? How was the fighting mode and for what purposes were the fortified structures built?
After 2000's works on warfare in Bronze Age they seem more systematic. An initial work by Vandkilde draws attention to a more rational study of war, especially during the Bronze Age, which breaks away from the two paradigms which have perhaps misinterpreted this aspect during the XX century: the excessive pacifism of prehistoric people and the "celebration" of the war along the millennia. On the one hand, not exclusively dedicated to the warfare, the work by Kristiansen & Larsson illustrates the iconography, the heroic idealization of warriors and transmission of power symbols related to weapons and their use as a sign of emerging dominant classes and cultural identity, in the context on ideology and social role of warrior in the Bronze Age and its implication in the hierarchization of the society.
In one of the first works that can be defined as "global" on the prehistoric warfare, since they include more disciplines and cover all prehistory in most parts of the world, warfare during the Bronze Age are examined from the point of view of the beginning of warfare in specific cases of Slovakia and of western Iberia in a regional context and its link with the economy and social prestige, demonstrating that warfare in Bronze Age in two different parts of Europe is never isolated from social dynamics, again from the point of view of the study of raiding warrior graves , or from the point of view of the interpretation of the increase in weaponry that can be related not with the increase of the conflict but with ideological need of status symbol by elites .
In reverse, in a previous work, Kristiansenn demonstrates, after technical analysis on swords, that the weapons are effectively produced and used to fight. The first work ever dedicated exclusively to Bronze Age warfare in Europe, excluding the Aegean area, by Harding describes the development of weapons, defensive systems and the impact of war on the non-warlike population in the Bronze Age in Europe, focusing all the contexts that can give data on the war: he consider warfare to be very local and delimited , carried out by small warriors groups (few dozen) and defines the warfare as "the organized conflict between two peoples or groups with the purposeful intention of inflicting harm", which seems to be the most accepted definition for the warfare in the Bronze Age .
On the other hand they appear to reproduce the old utilitarian approach more refined and multidisciplinary, like the work coordinated by Uckelmann & Moedlinger , which can be considered the main and more recent work on use and on the technological development of the weapons along the Bronze Age, covering several parts of Europe. Bronze Age warfare is also entered into national works about the military history , witch, that while dedicating a brief chapter on the military history of Spain, brings out the warfare in III- II millennium BC. from anonymity also in historical discipline. A work edited by Jaeger, Czbreszuk & Fischl traces an overview of the fortified settlements along the Bronze Age and its connection to regional and interregional trade networks, but taking in account only the central Europe and Baltic regions interested by the amber network. In a work exclusively dedicated to a regional analysis of the prehistoric warfare , Bronze Age covers an important part, divided in two shares (Bell Beaker/ Early Bronze Age and Later Bronze Age) and interpretations are discussed about the cause of the destruction with the fire of some Bell Beaker/ Early Bronze Ages palisades (by attackers or for ritual), the early presence of swords and shields in Ireland and Great Britain and the percolation of territory and consequent violent competition between human groups in Late Bronze Age. In a short work analyzing the weapons of Baltic area, above all of Bronze Age, Horn stresses that the technical study of weapons as a main point to distinguish the warfare from other forms of violence, and emphasizes the importance of the psychological habitues of the fighters and of the adaptation to this of the shape of the weapons.
The work by Thorp in the most recent companion on European Bronze Age , the four main categories used by research on the Bronze Age warfare are defined (weapons, art, fortifications and skeletal analysis of injuries), with some important indications, like: daggers cannot properly be considered weapons, difficult to find in the material culture all the exact parallels of the weapons represented in the art, need to identify well the fires and deaths really caused by an attack in the fortified sites and, in the skeletal analysis, Thorp identifies different pieces of evidence of death or injuries in combat both at fortified sites and in burials or on battlefields; furthermore Thorp highlights the problem of the discrepancy of findings (weapons, fortifications, art and skeletons) in the various regions of Europe which may prevent a reliable identification of the warfare.
Other regional study by Molloy shows a case study on Ireland, which, according to the author, can also be extended to the rest of Europe: favoring direct study on weapons (daggers, halberds and axes to Early Bronze Age; swords, spears and shield to Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age) Molloy highlights both-melee combat both distance combat along all the Bronze Age, with particular importance of the invention of the swords and shields since Middle Bronze Age, assuming a close link between the personal characteristics of the warrior and the manufacturing technology of the weapons. Again Bronze Age in Ireland is the focus of another work where the authors analyze the fortified settlements and the warfare in a time span covering the Middle and Late Bronze Age: here the authors sees in Ireland but also in the main part of western Europe the true warfare and the rise of the chiefdom polities active in the consolidation of large regional territories.
In a recent PhD thesis Lineen in the context of an analysis of the territorial distribution of weapons in Bronze Age Ireland, carries outan interesting overview, resulting from an accurate bibliographic survey, about, among other things, the chronology of appearance and development of all weapons types in Europe during the Bronze Age, and the limits, in great detail, of the analysis of traumas in the bones of the skeletons, which remains essential anyway in the study of warfare.
Coming back to the monumental PBF, a very recent balance of 50 years of the project shows among others a recent view about some issue on the Bronze Age weapons; inside that work, a contribution by Peter Rocher summarizes some more recently shared aspects of the Bronze Age warfare: two types of fight action, namely the feud and the real war with its consequent tactical and social manifestations, the revolutionary role of the invention of the sword in the Middle Bronze Age as the first real object conceived and realized only for the war (sword), the dichotomy between shape and function of the swords with a strong symbolic load for many of them, the introduction of protective weapons like armor only from Late Bronze Age to Central Europe (Urnefield), the origin of combat information is hypothesized to counter the people on horseback in Central Europe may be in Late Bronze Age; Peter- Rocher shows also that for the end of the Bronze Age (Hallstatt B3), the combat tactics for Heunischenburg are documented where it seems that before throwing weapons (arrows) were used and then the melee began, the real war is believed to have begun with combat training and its social implications and the study of the wounds in the bone remains and the wear and tear of weapons is essential in order not to misunderstand true combat or rituality.
The last fundamental work brings together the contributions discussed at an international conference carried out at Gothemburg and analyze the connection between warfare and all the Bronze Age manifestation of social interaction or the various uses of weapons (practical and ritual) and all the aspects of identity of warrior. According to the authors, Bronze Age look a warfare as institutionalized and professionalized, with a construction of a hero- warrior and heroic- warfare.
In the light of the information currently available on material attestations (material culture, contexts, and human remains), by virtue of some acceptable data that emerged from other human sciences (anthropology, ethnography, psychology), and following the development, refutation and global acceptance of the formulated theories, the certain and commonly acceptable vision of the Bronze Age warfare in barbaric Europe are in some aspects well defined. It is now clear that the fight is generated by needs related to the social structure the need to defend or take control over interchange networks, the need, by elites, to manifest their power giving also the certainty of their ability to defend them to their communities, the need of a social group - in many cases coinciding with a professional group- to exercise its activity. In this series of "needs” that link the fight to a social "being”, two aspects can be glimpsed: to one hand it can be plausible, in our opinion, to include in the word "warfare” the combat done for economic reasons in a coordinated way by groups composed by more of dozen of warriors (true war), the combat made for other reasons (feud) by a few warriors in an unorganized way, and the combat made not for apparent practical reasons (often called ritual); this last aspect can also include individual struggles for pure training purpose. And why include these three aspects in the word?
For the simple fact that this term can mean the technique of fighting, with all the premises that the early Greek word texvt| imply (know-how, and so experiment, practice, training, passing on of notions). On the other hand Bronze Age it is an era of radical emergence of the elites and of revolutionary technological discoveries (we refer to the bronze technologies): this makes the Bronze Age an exceptional age for the development and consolidation of the warfare, in the light of the close link between these and the social dimension and the technological aspects. According to Thorp & Lineen [65,71] pieces of evidence of warfare in European Bronze Age are four: weapons/armour, fortifications, skeletal trauma and iconography, though Harding & Haas includes, respectively, also the social organization for one hand and, to prehistoric societies in general, the burial contexts and the site markers for other hand.
Specifically on the war technique, and not its symbolism or social role, starting from these pieces of evidence it has been possible to progress a lot in the last 15 years to understand that, among other things: swords are the first objects irrefutably produced for the one purpose of use in fighting, according to studies by Kristiansen & Molloy ; several walled settlements in different parts of Europe are really attacked and that demonstrate that talking about "defended sites" is pertinent also to the Bronze Age in "barbaric" Europe; also it has been demonstrated that the technique of weapons production, above all the swords, knows refined and timely solutions during Middle and Late Bronze Age; finally a recent and amazing find of the Late Bronze Age "battlefield" of Tollense Valley which gave us a fairly precise view of a clash of the Late Bronze Age: according to estimates, some thousand of warriors, who already fought perhaps other battles, fight with arrow points in flint and in bronze, bronze spears in melee, daggers, swords and wooden clubs, fighting so in distance and close combat perhaps with the first documented archers on horseback.
Relatively several problems and doubts need to be clarified. As far as weapons are concerned, they need work focused on the real use of the swords: if on one hand some scholars think that swords have been hardly used in the slashing role, but more likely to thrusting, on the other hand the shapes of several swords make think to a effective weapons both in slashing, both in thrusting; and others, as Molloy are inclined more for the thrusting attack, not excluding that slashing, depending on the type of sword and on the correct choice of use in combat. So, several study remain to be done in use of weapons, above all in creating continental overview: many works have been done, especially in the last 15 years, but that only concern weapons of specifically region or macro region (Scandinavia, Ireland, Great Britain). As remark Thorp the four pieces of evidence on warfare to the Bronze Age (weapons/armors, fortifications, skeletal trauma and iconography) are spread and known unevenly across the regions: it is necessary to understand if it is based on real data or due to particular circumstances, for example to the weapons caused by the activity of the rubbers. Again, according to Molloy is mandatory to have a line of study in the combined use of weapons in combat.
The study of wounds in the bone remains and the wear and tear of arms are surrounded by a lot of misunderstandings. : many mortal wounds, perhaps due to real combat and not ritual, may not be visible in the bones because they affect soft tissues that have not been preserved, according also to Walker and Lineen . The fact that defense weapons, such as armor and helmets, only appear from the Late Bronze Age, does not mean that for the previous periods they were absent: they could very well have been made with perishable materials, such as hardened leather, and have not been preserved: moreover, they are less protective, but much lighter and more comfortable in combat and perhaps not completely absent even in the Late Bronze Age for most warriors: this therefore does not completely rule out melee combat even before Late Bronze Age (also taking into account the wound factor in soft tissues as cited above).
The evident link between social structure and combat level (more or less close to a true war) should serve to better reconsider some rigid hypotheses that see the real war begin only at the end of Bronze Age: if it is true that this starts with a type of structured society probably closer to the complex chiefdom, it is necessary to consider that evidence such as the fortified citadels of the Iberian south-west, or the megalithic funerary phenomenon, or some complex set graves, already imply some simple chiefdom structures from the Middle and Recent Neolithic in many parts of Europe; it is unlikely that the social structure has not been further complexes until Late Bronze Age, and therefore it would be opportune not to exclude a priori the manifestation of true wars at least during the Middle Bronze Age when swords appear. Also considering that the presence of special weapons could be not the prerequisite, but the consequence of the warfare . By linking to this theme, it is clear that the warfare it is something not only symbolic in the Bronze Age: it is evident that it has a symbolic component, but like all symbolic things it is a practice, before becoming such. And if anyone still has some doubts about it, the example of the Tollense valley it's more than clear.
Finally, in the desirable interdisciplinary work involving both natural sciences, like biology and medicine on the study of injuries and chemistry in the study of weapons, and involving other human sciences as anthropology, ethnography and sociology, it is important to expand the collaboration to others human sciences as psychology and polemology , in the perspective that the human mind in a situation of violence and combat has behaviors that, although varying from person to person and from epoch to epoch, still maintains some ancestral characteristics and always induces certain behaviors of circumstance. That can be an immaterial, but scientific and useful, help to research in the material evidences [82,83].
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I once heard a narrative depicting the difference between Heaven and Hell. In Hell there exists a large banquet with the finest of foods and plenty for all. Every soul was seated at this magnificent table and provided spoons to eat. However since every spoon was too long, no one was able to feed themself since they could not bring the food to their mouth. In Heavan there exists the same table with the same spoons. However no one was left hungry. Why? Because they all feed eachother.
It bothers me how many people fail to realize what they already have or develop the justification that they deserve more for themselves. I'm not saying that people shouldn't improve their lives, on the contrary, it is a laudable goal. More specifically I think I'm trying to say that one makes his own heavan ... and one makes his own hell.
Tai on November 10, 2003 ~ 04:16 PM
I heard the exact same story back in elementary school, but if i remember correctly our white priest used “chopsticks” instead of “spoons”… go figure. I do agree more or less with one making his own heaven/hell, however many implicit factors contribute to an individuals life that are often out of his control. Although far and few, those factors still exists.
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Phylogenetic tree of Sinularia using COI sequences based on the ML approach. The number behind major nodes denotes bootstrap confidential values.
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... tree based on mitochondrial COI marker divided Sinularia samples in three major clads that S. grandilobata located as a basal clad (Fig. 4). In the other hand, phylogenetic tree using nuclear 28S marker divided studied samples in two major clads while S. grandilobata located as a sister clad for S. flexibilis, S. querciformis, S. humilis (Fig. 5). Figure 6 showed the COI haplotype distribution network of the Sinularia among different species. The 15 COI sequences of Sinilaria have represented 14 distinct haplotypes, that only two specimens of S. flexibilis represented same haplotype (H2) (Fig. 6). Figure 7 displayed the 28S haplotype distribution network of the Sinularia. ...
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Homeroom with Education Leaders: The Teacher Residency Return on Investment: A Pathway that Prepares Effective and Diverse Teachers Who Stay
CCSSO Restart and Recovery: State Leadership Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Continuous Improvement of English Learner Programs & Services During COVID-19 & Beyond
Toward Comprehensive Effective Literacy Policy and Instruction for English Learner/Emergent Bilingual Students
Meeting the Needs of English Learners With and Without Disabilities: Brief 2 Evidence-Based Tier 2 Intervention Practices for English Learners
This brief describes evidence-based interventions that support the academic literacy and language needs of English learners in Grades 3-5. The brief focuses on Tier 2 instruction, data analysis, and identification of students who need Tier 2 instruction.
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IFC and agribusiness in a changing environment
RVO and IUCN NL organized together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on 28 October a one-day event in The Hague in the framework of the World Bank Group-Netherlands strategic partnership ‘Food for All’. The event convened more than 80 professionals in the private sector, knowledge institutions, NGOs and policy makers engaged in agribusiness in developing countries. IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invests heavily in agribusiness in developing countries and emerging markets, and therefore has a great interest in exchanging experiences on investment opportunities, climate smart technologies and challenges in value chain operations. The main objective of the event was that both private sector and IFC bring current and upcoming activities and challenges in relevant countries to the table and explore opportunities for cooperation. This event was well received by the participants and some promising leads were established between IFC and several companies. One of the conclusions was that in order to achieve impact in climate smart agriculture and reducing deforestation, private sector green value chain initiatives and private sector finance must be aligned with public finance and government programs that ensure the necessary land-use planning, enabling environments, legislation and landscape wide monitoring and verification of impact. The complete meeting report can be found here.
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The port disbursement is one of the major cost items of shipping costs.
Some ship company port disbursement expenses, accounts for more than a quarter of the total cost, second only to fuel and ship repair.
Therefore, port disbursement, saving is to reduce the cost of transportation and ocean shipping enterprises must pay attention to the problem.
In general, the ship to save port disbursement approach can be shown in the following aspects: 1.
The ship must understand and master the port of all kinds of fees the charging rules, and its rate adjustment.
The ship should be very reasonable arrangement of ships in the harbor of each work, and make the corresponding record.
Correctly grasp the ship on time.
Should strive for in and out of the port during the day, because the port navigation, tug, cable system solution, such as cost, in the night, holidays are income surcharge.
Ship before the roads, under the condition of possible, leveling, tail first draft of the vessel, as far as possible to reduce the maximum draught of the ship.
Because some ports, such as Japanese port pilotage, first, tail is according to the gross tonnage of ships and maximum draught shall prevail.
Correctly declared tonnage of the ship.
Ship's tonnage dues, ships harbour dues, lighthouse fees are calculated based on the tonnage of the ship.
For 2 or more than 2 complete deck of the ship, can be in both sides draw triangle tonnage mark, and two kinds of tonnage of different size, to replace the past shelter deck the onoff tonnage of the ship.
When tonnage mark submerged, the ship should declare large tonnage;
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Reasonable plot cargo.
For each cargo operations at the same time, each class loading and unloading time balance as far as possible, to shorten the shipping time in Hong Kong.
Do the preparatory work, timely when dropped all kinds of fees.
The ship shall carefully examine and verify the charges and sign the documents, to prevent undue losses.
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Emergency kit list for severe weather
Be prepared: Put together emergency items before severe weather strikes. It's a good idea to put together an emergency kit to grab at a moment's notice. Store your basic emergency kit in a waterproof container, and remember to include:
- Flashlights for each person in your family and extra batteries.
- Battery-operated radio with weather band and extra batteries.
- First aid kit and manual.
- Credit cards
- Work gloves
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- Important papers such as drivers’ licenses, special medical information, insurance policies, personal belongings inventories, titles and social security cards.
- List of phone numbers and addresses for emergency services, shelters, physicians, family and friends outside your area.
You'll also want to build a survival kit with the following items:
- Food: Store at least a two-week supply of non-perishable foods and special dietary foods, if necessary. Store a manual can opener with the food supply.
- Drinking water: Have at least one gallon per person per day for two weeks.
- Two coolers: One for food, the other to hold ice. Ice is a precious commodity before and after a storm.
- Plastic tarp: Use for roof or window repair.
- Water purification tablets: plain chlorine and iodine.
- Prescription medicines: Have at least a four-week supply.
- Infant necessities: Have a supply of diapers, formula and plastic bags.
- Extra clothing: Pack shoes and a spare pair of eyeglasses.
- Cash: With no power, banks may be temporarily closed, checks and credit cards may not be accepted, and ATMs may not be in operation.
- Camera, with film or video recorder.
Make sure everyone in your family knows where the kits are kept.
Review your emergency plan with your family and post the written plan. Children may be at school and adults at work when the storm hits. Have a plan for getting back together. Ask an out-of-state relative or friend to serve as the "family contact."
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About Our Programs
The Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership offers eight after-school programs for neighborhood children in grades 3-8. Most programs operate for a 7- or 8-week session and are led by high school volunteers, plus an adult moderator. The Arrupe Explorers and Bigs & Littles programs run for the entire semester.
- Arrupe Academics – Match dedicated, positive high school volunteers with grade school students for relationship building and homework help during the school day.
- Arrupe Explorers – Junior high students will begin to prepare for high school and their career under the guidance of high school mentors in this year-long program. By exploring the city and topics like technology and education options, Arrupe Explorers emerge confident and ready for what’s next.
- Bigs & Littles – A year-long mentorship program for 5th- and 6th-grade students. Bigs & Littles matches a high school “Big” with a grade school “Little,” with weekly activities for mentoring and bonding.
- Cat Pack - Sports-based programming whereby students receive coaching in various sports from adults and high school volunteers.
- Culinary Arts – Learn recipes and make delicious snacks, desserts and meals.
- Homework Club - Students receive tutoring and homework help from Saint Ignatius students, or spend time together playing board games or doing other activities.
- Robotics/3-D Printing – Students will use the kits provided by Arrupe to code and program at home with the direction of the teacher.
How Do I Sign Up My Child?
Please contact Mr. Pat Valletta '05
, Coordinator for Programs and Volunteers, to learn how to get your child involved with Arrupe programs.
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“For the study, Timothy Pyrkov, a researcher at a Singapore-based company called Gero, and his colleagues looked at this “pace of aging” in three large cohorts in the U.S., the U.K. and Russia. To evaluate deviations from stable health, they assessed changes in blood cell counts and the daily number of steps taken and analyzed them by age groups.
For both blood cell and step counts, the pattern was the same: as age increased, some factor beyond disease drove a predictable and incremental decline in the body’s ability to return blood cells or gait to a stable level after a disruption. When Pyrkov and his colleagues in Moscow and Buffalo, N.Y., used this predictable pace of decline to determine when resilience would disappear entirely, leading to death, they found a range of 120 to 150 years…
The researchers also found that with age, the body’s response to insults could increasingly range far from a stable normal, requiring more time for recovery. Whitson says that this result makes sense: A healthy young person can produce a rapid physiological response to adjust to fluctuations and restore a personal norm. But in an older person, she says, “everything is just a little bit dampened, a little slower to respond, and you can get overshoots,” such as when an illness brings on big swings in blood pressure.”-Emily Willingham, “The Maximum Human Life Span Is 150 Years, New Research Estimates
A study counts blood cells and footsteps to predict a hard limit to our longevity.” Scientific American. May 25, 2021.
Open Questions: How many steps a day are required for optimum fitness and health? Is there also a strength measurement that can be used to add an additional dimension?
The Nature research article is available online. I think the interesting thing about this study is it is another example where step counts are used as a proxy for health. There are recent studies in JAMA, Journal of Sport and Health Science, and others that suggest that increasing step counts lowers overall morbidity and mortality in older adults.
As an N of 1 thought experiment, I checked my daily step count over the last year. I average just over 10,000 steps a day. There are studies that classify step counts in the following way:
- sedentary category (<5000 steps/day)
- low active (5000-7499 steps/day),
- somewhat active (7500-9999 steps/day)
- active (≥10,000 steps/day)
The same study also makes the following observation: “We also observed that each 1000 steps/day increase in [physical activity] level over the 6-month follow-up was associated with a 0.26-kg (95% CI −0.29 to −0.23) [or just over 0.5 pounds] decrease in weight.”
The math is pretty easy. Let’s suppose 1,000 steps is about half a mile or a kilometer. That’s about ~60-75 calories, depending on intensity, walking or running. Let’s say 6 months is 182 days. So, 60 calories * 182 days = ~11,000 calories. That’s about 3 pounds or a bit over a kilo. Factor in additional urge to eat, and it sounds about right.
So, as a rule of thumb: Increasing step counts by 1,000 will generally reduce your weight by 1 pound a year, as well as your overall risk of morbidity and mortality. There’s probably some point of negative returns. I’ve seen some reports talking about hunter-gatherer groups walking on average around 7 or 8 miles a day, which would roughly be around 14,000 to 16,000 steps / day, which is probably a good benchmark comparison with humanity over an evolutionary time frame rather than comparing our activity with other people in our historical moment. Which I suppose suggests that I, and practically everyone, have some work to do to get our physical activity to an optimum level.
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Did you know at Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla landfills in Delhi, the piles of garbage have reached more than half the height of Qutub Minar? We all know there is a serious waste disposal problem to deal with, but the question is, are we doing enough to solve this problem? In an effort to cut Municipal solid waste (MSW), which is one of the most serious pollutants in the country, especially in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed an order on December 19 to enforce a fine of Rs. 10,000 on those throwing garbage in public places and in an effort to ease the pressure on landfills, it asked all the civic authorities to ensure that the waste is collected, transported and disposed is in accordance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. While one of the city’s municipal bodies the North Delhi Municipal Corporation welcomed the move, we spoke to a few experts for their views on the NGT order.
‘Putting the onus on Urban Local Bodies Won’t Suffice’
A fine when littering on public places is a welcome move by NGT, with piles of waste lying in open drains and illegal dumping points in the capital, the spot fine law shall restrict commercial complexes, hotels etc. to responsibly manage their waste. So far in Delhi, not many hotels are complying with treatment at source; the examples are just in numbers. Most of them illegally dump the garbage at night in open drains/illegal spots. This not only adds to littering and garbage in the city but can lead to outbreak of diseases as well.
But, the monitoring and fine shall only work if apart from municipalities, other bodies are empowered to take spot fines. Just putting the onus on Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) won’t suffice as they don’t have that much staff, says Swati Singh Sambyal, Programme Manager, Environmental Governance (Municipal Solid Waste) from Centre for Science and Environment.
By giving an example of Himachal Pradesh where over 20 institutions are empowered to collect fine on ban of plastic or littering, Swati Singh Sambyal added, “decentralization of powers is a must to make this work. Else, it will crash again.”
Ms Sambyal also said that this polluter pay principle is a way to make the generator responsible. Currently the capital generates about 9,600 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste per day, and mostly the waste gets dumped at three landfills, as there is very little segregation of waste happening. To deal with this troublesome issue fine for public littering jumped from Rs 50 to Rs 10,000 now.
In April, the Environment Ministry revised 16-year-old rules for solid waste management with an aim to start more solid waste treatment plants across the country. These new rules on solid waste management programme are aimed at covering 17,000 inhabited areas and will benefit some 45 crore people directly. As of today the solid waste management programme benefits only 15 crore people.
Bharati Chaturvedi, an environmentalist and the founder and director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group said, This move can only be made successful if public themselves is involved – Whenever they see a person littering they should immediately raise a complaint against them. What we need is not strict penalties, but public awareness about waste segregation and why littering is harmful. Government should focus on strategies which involve general public; maybe then this move will be a success.
Reacting to the NGT order, Founder of Swechha, an NGO that is engaged in environmental and social development issues, Vimlendu Jha said, Waste Management is the most challenging aspect of governance in modern India and it’s important that every stakeholder comes together in addressing this issue. The recent NGT order reinforces the need for strict adherence to waste segregation and imposing penalty for littering in public. This order will surely act like a deterrent but what is needed is strict imposing of this fine. It’s important for the public to know that they should not litter because it’s unlawful now, but it is environmentally dangerous. Virtue of waste wisdom should not be restricted to public places but also our private lives. When it comes to waste management, private is public, public is private.
The Green Court has also noted in its order that municipal bodies have no “clear map” ready as of now to deal with the huge quantity of waste. Therefore, the court has directed Commissioner of each of the corporations to submit a scheme in a month’s time to provide incentives to those who segregate waste at source.
Environmental experts opine that the need of the hour is that citizens need to adopt the practice of segregating wastes at source as the three landfills in Delhi have long crossed their permissible limit for dumping garbage. The limit is approximately 15 to 20 metres but the sites at Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalswa have crossed 40 metres for now.
A Delhi High Court-constituted panel had asked Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to identify new sites for two new landfills to cope up with the issue of ‘Garbage Dump.’ The panel had also suggested implementation of a policy focusing on the conversion of wastes to energy, compost and useful byproducts, but till date there has been no progress in this direction.
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Fireplace, castle of Blois
by JackDesBwa 2019-08-02 09:36
This fireplace takes place in the "salle des capitaines de garde" (captains' room) in the castle of Blois, France.
This castle is one of the major residences of several French kings, hence the profusion of richly decorated fireplaces. On this one, we can see the salamander, symbol of king François Ier and the ermine, symbol of queen Claude of France.
-- 2017-09-11, LX5 hardware-hacked sync
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. What is UNUS SED LEO? Here is the Crypto Currency LEO Coin in All Details – In this article, what is UNUS SED LEO? We will answer the question and try to present details about the project.
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UNUS SED LEO (LEO) is a new token designed to expand the capabilities of all platform users and services to iFinex, Bitfinex’s parent company. Such a decision should help to cope with the crisis that followed the allegations of illegal use of Tether cryptocurrency against the trading platform.
With UNUS SED LEO, Bitfinex is planning to fill its own budget. As a result of the first exchange, 1 billion dollars were collected.
IFinex has a budget deficit of 850 million dollars. Therefore, coins amounting to 27% of the profit are used each month to close the hole created in the budget. On May 20, 2019, the UNUS SED LEO token was added to Bitfinex and then to other trading platforms.
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As we mentioned earlier, iFinex will purchase LEO tokens that are equivalent to at least 27% of the company’s profit for the previous month on a monthly basis. This is an uncertain process while tokens are in circulation. Payback occurs at the current market price.
LEO tokens used to pay commissions can also be burned. The only platform that cannot destroy coins is Ethfinex, because it launched its own token called NEC in 2017 for the same purposes.
Benefits for UNUS SED LEO Token Holders
The benefits of owning UNUS SED LEO tokens include:
1) Commission savings on Bitfinex. All fees for those holding the token will be reduced by 15% for all cryptocurrency pairs.
2) Monthly discounts on Bitfinex. Token holders receive a 0.05% discount for every 10 thousand USDT on UNUS SED LEO tokens that were held on the trader’s balance sheet in the previous month. Calculations are made taking into account every day of the month. The maximum discount is 5%.
3) Discount on the withdrawal and renewal of both cryptocurrency and fiat money on the Bitfinex exchange. Owners of more than 50 million UNUS SED LEOs will receive a discount of up to 25% for withdrawing and depositing cryptocurrencies. In addition, market customers who will own $ 50 million in tokens will be able to withdraw up to $ 2 million per month at no additional cost. Also, the additional commission will be reduced from 3% to 2% with any withdrawal that exceeds 2 million USD in monthly fiat.
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A team of professionals that works with passion.
That’s right. This is how, in a nutshell, our students and their parents have come to describe us for our professionalism, dedication and love for what we do, teaching. All of our tutors come from different walks of life and backgrounds but they all have one thing in common which is at some point of time we took up teaching and tutoring as a main or part time job and we have been doing it and enjoying doing it ever since. All of our personal have experience spanning from at least one year to over thirty five years of teaching/tutoring students of different ages. Some of us teach various subjects and have taught at some point of time in schools, colleges, institutes and/or universities and of course in small groups as well as one-on-one sessions. Teaching is our passion and we take this profession very seriously. We make sure our students learn at a fast pace, retain material and are always ready for the time of tests. And as a team, we bring out the best in every student and your satisfaction is our goal. Trust is earned and we prove it with our work.
Local teams of tutors
Frequently, tutors are going to make use of computer-related educational resources which can do a lot to boost student’s capacity to assess concepts and retain data. The experience of using modern technology for learning should be important to a student who will learn to interact in a high-technology professional world.
Reasons for tutoring
These are useful for encouraging a youngster to adapt far better to classroom learning experiences. Because tutors spend a lot of time with their students, they’ll be able to establish both strengths and weaknesses within their learning abilities, styles, and overall method to schools and learning. They will be able to guide students in conquering their concerns and understanding their stress and anxiety over selected difficulties.
By helping a student develop confidence, a tutor can help him or her open up to more learning opportunities and gain new, helpful experiences. With professional and comprehensive tuition, students find out that learning can certainly be an entertaining and engaging personal experience.
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Thanks to a one-on-one approach, a student can get individual guidance in the required areas like SAT preparation and mathematics overall and emerge from the tutoring trainings as a more focused and responsive person who always takes part in school and is always energized to learn more.
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iPad was released a few days ago, as the biggest competitor for the kindle. iPad embeds a book reader named iBook, iBooks uses an ebook format called ePub. If you have many PDF files or some other format ebooks you want to put on iPad, there is a free converter called calibre can help. And this step by step tutorial will guide you through the process of converting PDF files to ePub for iPad with calibre.
If you want to watch video on iPad, here is a step by step guide regarding how to rip DVD and convert video to iPad.
Step1. Download and install calibre. The interface is very slightly different in each version. These tutorial images are captured on Mac, but Windows users should have no problem at all following along.
Step2. Find the PDF file you want to convert. In this tutorial, we used ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ as example.
Step3. The first time you run calibre it will take you through a quick setup. The first thing you’ll want to do is specify your ‘ebooks’ folder. This is the location you’ll save your .ePub files.
Step4. After you set the ebooks folder, click continue Then select Apple from the Manufacturers list, and iPhone/iTouch + Stanza from the Devices list.
Step5. Click ‘continue’, then you will see the main calibre interface. Click the Add books button in the top-left corner of the window to import your PDF file into calibre.
Step6. Now click the small ‘arrow’ next to the Edit Meta information and select Download metadata and cover files. Calibre will now download additional information about your PDF/ebook – if it can find it. If it’s an eBook (as a .pdf), you may need to manually enter the book title and author name if it isn’t present when you load it into calibre initially.
Step7. After finish download the ebook meta information. Click the small arrow next to the Convert E-books button. From the list that will appear, select Convert individually. You will be prompted with a “summary” window prior to calibre making the final conversion. Click the OK button.
Step8. After the conversion is finished, you can locate the folder on step3 where you save the ePub file. Then connect your iPad to your Mac or PC, and launch iTunes. From the iTunes menu select File -> Add to Library… to import the converted ePub file. The new .ePub file will now appear in the Books section of iTunes.
Step9. Select your iPad in iTunes and select the Books tab. After confirming your new .ePub book is listed, click the Sync button. That’s all. Then you can lunch iBooks on iPad and find the eBooks.
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By Jayant Thatte
In the light of the approaching BTP (B.Tech Project) and DDP (Dual Degree Project) reviews in various departments, Prof. K. Ramamurthy (Dean, Academics) delivered a talk on the same for the benefit of all final year students. The talk was held in MRC (Media Resource Centre) on the afternoon of Friday, October 5, 2012. The talk began with the various aspects of B.Tech, Dual Degree, M.S. and Ph.D. programs including key differences in the program structure for each of them. The latter half of the talk was mostly focused on IIT Madras Library, access to books, journals and related facilities. He also stressed that students need to look at their projects as a learning opportunity rather than as a hurdle that needs to be crossed before placements.
Prof. Ramamurthy pointed out that DD, M.Tech and M.S. projects are expected to be research based, whereas a BTP should put together the knowledge and skills gained over the three years into a capstone project. “For the past few years, BTPs are also turning out to be increasingly research oriented,” he said. Projects can broadly be divided into three categories:
- student centered projects, where the student comes up with the idea and the mentor provides suggestions.
- guide directed projects, where the research topic is assigned by the guide based on the guide’s long term research plans,
- organisation driven projects where the topic is chosen keeping the institute’s or the department’s research in mind.
The Dean stressed that the first step is to be clear about the research objectives, the methodology adopted and limitations of the project and to state each of these explicitly and clearly in the project thesis and during presentations. He said that a project is characterized, with increasing specificity, by discipline, specialization, area , topic and then the specific problem being addressed in the project. The students should be clear about their project in this sense before diving into the actual work. He also stated the importance of a thorough literature survey prior to the commencement of the project in order to understand latest progress on the problem at hand and also to avoid cases of “reinventing the wheel”. He said that every reference in the thesis should be cited at the end. Similarly, every paper cited at the end should be referred to in the project. It is important to report failures in the project thesis. This not only shows that the student has tried multiple approaches, but also cautions aspiring researchers to adopt those methodologies after some thought.
Prof. Ramamurthy raised concerns that in spite of having better facilities and easier access to a wider range of books and journals, the quality of B.Tech and DD projects has been dropping steadily over the last decade. He noted that the quality of the current DDPs is at par with or at times worse than that of BTPs of ten years ago. On the same note, he added “We always download papers from various journals. When will we learn to upload? When will our students start making significant contributions to research through their final year projects?” He also said that M.S. and Ph.D. These continue to be of a high quality and contribute research papers.
The latter half of the talk threw a great deal of light upon institute library and related facilities including books and journals. IITM spends 9 crore INR annually on research journals including several costly journals. He explained that for the past few years all journals are purchased in the form of licenses to view the journal online from anywhere inside the institute using an IP enabled system. This means that any student can access any paper published in these journals from their hostels, departments, library and so on. He also briefly told the audience about INDEST-AICTE (INDEST: Indian National Digital library in Engineering Sciences and Technology; AICTE: All India Council for Technical Education) consortium and its benefits. The INDEST consortium was set-up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The Ministry provides funds required for providing differential access to electronic resources subscribed for the Consortium to the core members through the consortium headquarters located at IIT Delhi. The Consortium has recently been renamed as INDEST-AICTE Consortium to include institutes under AICTE in addition to those in the original INDEST consortium. The technical institutes in the Consortium are divided into three groups:
- Group I, which includes the old IITs and IISc Bangalore.
- Group II includes new IITs, NITs.
- Group III comprises of other government funded colleges and IIITs.
IIMs are included as Group IV. This agreement enables sharing of electronic resources, so that any resource purchased by the Consortium is accessible to the member institutes depending on their group. Group I institutes have access to almost all INDEST journals while the further groups have more limited privileges. Each member institute pays a very small annual fee to be a part of the Consortium.
After this, Prof. Ramamurthy turned the focus of his talk to books. IITM spends about 1.4 crore INR on purchase of new books annually. This is in addition to the books purchased by the departments through research grants. He spoke briefly about International Standard Book Number and Universal Decimal Classification for books. He explained that students may request for the purchase, through department research grant, of books that may be required for their project work. Once the guide approves the request, academic section will buy the book within a couple of months.
In the final part of the talk, the Dean announced that IITM is ranked 312 in QS 2012 university ranking and explained reasons for IITs not featuring in top hundred in international university rankings. He pointed out that IIT is only a technical institute, not a university. IITs do not have medical or law streams nor a very big humanities section. Hence when compared to foreign universities based on size, number of publications etc., IITs do not fare well. Prof. Ramamurthy stressed that low ranking does not therefore mean that IITs are inferior in quality and that the rankings, though important, should be taken with a pinch of salt. On a more optimistic note, he said that several departments have been doing consistently very well in terms of research and international discipline-wise ranking since the bias of size of the university does not have such rankings. Several IITM departments including Electrical, Chemical, Civil and Mechanical are in top 100 in QS subject-wise university rankings. He mentioned that Department of Electrical Engineering, IITM has been showing a very notable, steady progress. He also said that he expects the said department to climb into top fifty in QS rankings really soon.
At the end of the talk, a student suggested the creation and maintenance of a database including student names and their project topics and abstracts. This will help students to identify other students of the current or previous batches who are or have done similar projects and approach them for discussions or clearing doubts. Prof. Ramamurthy appreciated the idea and said that from the next batch students will have to fill in project title and mentor during semester registration itself. This will also facilitate the creation of such a database.
Please refer below for further information related to INDEST-AICTE
2. INDEST Home
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Otto the skateboarding dog was one of many notable record-breakers highlighted for Guinness World Records Day 2015.
Otto was able to achieve what may seem impossible: breaking the record for "longest human tunnel traveled through by a dog skateboarder."
The video shows Otto hopping onto his skateboard, and with a couple little pushes with his front paw, he takes off, seamlessly skateboarding his way through the legs of 30 people.
He set the record in Lima, Peru on Nov. 8.
Others who broke a world record include a man who pulled off the tightest parallel parking in reverse. You can catch up on the other record breakers here: http://www.bit.ly/GWRday2015-blog
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Being the first-light telescope for the GMT, G-CLEF will enable a broad range of observational programs that can address several of the most urgent astrophysical problems highlighted in the 2010 Decadal Survey.
|Exoplanets||Precision Radial Velocity Studies
Exoplanet Atmospheric Science
|Stellar Abundance||The Discovery and Characterization of the Most Metal Poor Stars
Abundance Around and Beyond the Local Group
|Cosmology||Characterizing the First Stars and the Primordial ISM
Searching for Variations of Fundamental Constants on Cosmological Scales
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You select a link by typing the link's number and pressing "enter" ("return" on some systems) or by moving the highlighted region to the link using the the up and down arrow keys and pressing "enter". The left arrow key moves you back to the last page viewed. The right arrow follows the highlighted link (like pressing "enter").
Move to the Previous Link /|\ Go Back to | Follow the Previous <-- --> Highlighted Link Document | to the Next Document \|/ Move to the Next Link
If your arrow keys do not work then you can also use your "Control" key ("CTRL" on many keyboards) to move around. The symbol for the control key is "^". To move around the keys are:
The space bar moves you down within a document, and the "b" key moves you back up. If you know the address of a web-page you want to visit, press "g", type the address (e.g., http://www.altavista.digital.com), and press "enter". To read CCN's online help, press the "?" key or type "g" and then type the word "help" followed by "enter". Press "q" to quit and log out of the system.
To spare you the trouble of memorizing the various key commands, Lynx has a command bar summarizing them on the bottom of the screen:
Commands: Use arrow keys to move, '?' for help, 'q' to quit, '<-' to go back. Arrow keys: Up and Down to move. Right to follow a link; Left to go back. O)ther cmds G)o to P)rint B)ack H)ome page C)omment ^L=refresh Q)uit
In the last line, the letter before the closing bracket is the key you press to do that command. Pressing "O" changes the last line to show more commands. Note that if you know the letter of a command you don't have to type "O" to make the menu bar with that command visible before you type it -- you can just type the command's letter and it will execute. If you aren't sure what a command does, try it. You can cancel most commands by typing control-c or control-g. If you get lost type "h" to return to the CCN Homepage.
Instead of typing something horrendous like:
When using the G)o command, you can type in certain single words after pressing "g" (without the quotes) for the more commonly used web pages and programs on CCN. The shortcut names you can use at the time of this writing are listed below. Type "g" followed by "?" in Lynx to get an up-to-date listing. A listing is provided in this book under the section: Go Commands - The Shortcut List.
Information Providers are organizations or individuals who have formally registered to provide public information on CCN through special-interest web-pages. You can access the Information Provider pages using commands similar to the shortcut commands. Typing "i" followed by a single word or acronym will get you one of these pages without your having to type the full address. These shortcuts are called jumpkeys. To get a list of Information Providers and their corresponding shortcut words and acronyms, type "i" followed by "?" while in Lynx. Information Providers are covered in more detail in Section XV.
Once you get into the swing of things you may want to look at the more obscure Lynx commands by pressing "k" ( K)ey bindings ). Here you will find some neat little commands like "<" to go to the top of a document or "*" to represent images as links so you can download them to your computer and look at them later using a graphics viewer.
If you already know how to follow links and return to where you were, try the "User Help Index, User Help Outline or the keystroke_help Help Quick Reference. If a document fills more than one screen, press the spacebar once to view more. Remember this as you will need to use it while reading this help document. Whenever you are asked to press or hit a key, be careful to only press and release it once.
To find a word in the current document, type W followed by the word you seek and then press RETURN. This will take you to the next occurence of the word, highlighting the word to draw your attention to it. The N key will search for the next occurence o f the same word.
If you are looking for information and you don't know where to find it, you can search all the documents on the system for a word or words. The way to do this is to use a shortcut to go directly to the Finding Information page. Type "g" then "info" and then select one of the search options.
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Instructions how to join the game server
Welcome to the School of Gaming!
At Kids Euro Festival, School of Gaming provides children as gamers with the opportunity to build their own piece of Finland in Minecraft with the help of a game educator.
While building their own lot of land in virtual Finland, gamers will learn about Finland, Finnish language and culture in an entertaining and captivating way. The gaming session practices creativity, positive communication, and recognizing one’s own strengths. The game educator will be there with you, to guide and to help!
There will be six live gaming sessions during Kids Euro Festival:
Tuesday, October 20, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
Tuesday, October 27, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
Tuesday, November 3, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
Tuesday, November 10, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
Tuesday, November 17, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
Tuesday, November 24, from 4 pm to 6 pm (EST)
The sessions will open 10 minutes before the live gaming starts.
You are welcome to participate in multiple gaming sessions if you would like, there is no need to choose just one.
To play along, you will need to have the Minecraft Java version, which can be played on computers (PC & Mac). Unfortunately, the gaming session cannot be accessed with gaming consoles (Playstation, Nintendo Switch or Xbox) or via mobile phones or tablets.
While playing, please follow the School of Gaming’s Youtube-channel. The game educator will be guiding you via that channel, and ask fun questions about Finland!
Those who do not have access to a computer with a Minecraft license can follow the gaming session via a livestream on School of Gaming Youtube channel.Stream will be stored on our Youtube-channel for later viewing.
If you haven’t registered through Eventbrite, please do it here.
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Peyton was a true and devout Catholic. She loved God, and she loved her family. Therein was the problem. After a few miscarriages she was thrilled to discover her pregnancy, but then she heard the words that would forever change her life; the child had Down Syndrome. Her own experience tells her this special child will be loved and happy in their home, but her husband, Joe, is far from convinced. The thought of a special child terrified him, and he told her in no uncertain terms that she needed to choose between him and ‘it’, and in her religion that’s the choice between two unforgivable acts, abortion or divorce. As the pressure mounts, Peyton struggles with the choice, a choice that will destroy her either way, with repercussions that will span the rest of her life. But what will she choose, and will they be able to live with the decision she makes?
Laurie M. Lamb’s A Life Decision is a Christian fiction story preaching the moral that actions have consequences, along with the forgiveness and strength to be found in faith. From the start, difficult choices, addiction, guilt, secrets, and betrayal fight for your attention. This book is filled with emotional struggles the reader can’t help but be drawn into. More than once I had tears in my eyes as I read about the challenges, heartache, and hardships being experienced by not only Joe and Peyton, but Joe’s mother, Gert, and even Peyton’s own father. Everyone has a secret they are struggling with, decisions that test, break, and even aid them in finding faith and forgiveness. The book itself is written from the alternating first person perspective of Joe and Peyton, allowing the reader to get up close and personal with their inner demons as they are inserted beside them for the journey of their life. Moving, gripping and impossible to put down, A Life Decision will stay with you long after you’ve read the final chapter.
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1) Eating together at the same table.
Fr.: relevé commensal
The Table Mountain. A faint constellation near the south celestial pole, at 5h right ascension, 80° south declination. It contains part of the → Large Magellanic Cloud, and its brightest star is of magnitude 5.1. Abbreviation Men; genitive Mensae.
First introduced by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762) under the name Mons Mensae, from L. mons "mountain" + mensa "table" to refer to Table Mountain in South Africa. Lacaille made important early observations of the southern sky from the Cape Town region.
Mizkuh, from miz "table," originally "preparations for entertaining a guest; guest;" Mid.Pers. mêzd "offering, meal" + kuh→ mountain.
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Social Security, Retirement Benefits, and Divorce
Social Security in the United States refers directly to the lesser known federal Old Age, Victim, and Disability Insurance program or OASDI. The program was originally launched in the 1930s in an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers to the American way of life such as increased life expectancy, poverty, and orphans. So the Social Security Act, signed in 1935, created a social insurance program to provide benefits to retirees, the unemployed, as well as lump sum benefits to families at death. Many amendments have been made since the original Social Security Act of 1935. Most importantly; Medicare was added in 1965. The Social Security Act of 1965 also recognized for the first time that divorce was a common cause of marriage ending and added divorce to the list of beneficiaries.
The largest benefit component is retirement income. Throughout a person’s working life, the Social Security Administration tracks income and taxpayers fund the program through payroll taxes also known as FICA taxes (Federal Insurance Contributions Act). The amount of the monthly benefit that the worker is entitled to depends on the record of income and on the age at which the retiree chooses to start receiving benefits. The FICA tax is 7.65% for employees and 15.3% for self-employed individuals. The amount of taxes paid is not directly used to calculate individual benefits. This rate is divided into two parts: Social Security and Medicare. The portion is 6.2% and is paid out with a maximum income of $106,800 for 2009. The maximum income is also known as the wage base. Medicare’s share is 1.45% of all income.
Self-employed people pay double the amount of tax because the employer is responsible for the other half of the employee’s obligations. An self-employed individual is both employer and employee. There are wages that are not subject to FICA tax including some state and local government employees who participate in alternative programs such as CalSTRS and CalPERS. Each state and local government unit with a pension plan decides whether to opt for Social Security and Medicare coverage. Civilian federal employees are covered by Medicare but usually not Social Security.
The earliest age at which reduced benefits are paid is 62. The age at which full retirement benefits are available depends on the age of the taxpayer. An increase in the regular retirement age is enforced to reduce the amount of benefits paid out. For those who are currently over 70 years old, the normal age is 65 years. Anyone born after that will fall somewhere on an increasing scale that goes up gradually to age 67 depending on the date of birth. Anyone born after 1960 must reach the age of 67 to receive normal retirement benefits. Delaying receiving benefits will increase taxpayer benefits until the age of 70.
Benefits are paid from taxes collected from other taxpayers. This makes it a pay-as-you-go system and will ultimately be directly responsible for the downfall of the program. At least as we know it today. In 2009, nearly 51 million Americans will receive $650 billion in Social Security Benefits. Economists project that payroll taxes will no longer be sufficient to fund benefits somewhere in the next 10 to 15 years. Once we are unable to cover the expenditure from the cash flow, the program will start withdrawing the trust funds that have accumulated during the tax surplus period. We can only speculate what happens when the trust fund runs out. This is a concern that is often discussed in the news and other media. The fix for this problem is the subject of many political stances including those witnessed in President Bush’s speech.
The first reported Social Security payment was to Ernest Ackerman, who retired just one day after Social Security started. Five cents was deducted from his salary during that period, and he received a lump-sum payment of seventeen cents from Social Security. This may give you an indication of how Social Security handles business.
Spouses are currently eligible to receive survivor benefits equivalent to 100% of deceased workers’ benefits if they have reached the normal retirement age.
Divorced spouses are entitled to benefits equivalent to half of workers’ benefits if they have been married for 10 years and have not remarried and are at least 62 years old. These are called inherited benefits. Spouse applicants must wait until the worker reaches retirement age, 62, to apply for benefits. Workers are not required to apply for benefits in order for an ex-spouse to apply for spousal benefits. They are not entitled to an increase in benefits taken after the normal retirement age. If a worker has died and his former spouse has reached full retirement age, they can receive 100% of the worker’s benefits as survivor benefits.
If the applicant is between 62 years of age and their normal retirement age; Applications for benefits will be based on the applicant’s record of income. If half of the ex-spouse’s profit is greater than the applicant’s profit in their own records; the applicant can choose to take whichever is greater. If you wait until your normal retirement age and apply for spousal benefits, you can continue to receive benefits and upgrades to defer your own retirement until you are 70 years old.
The ex-spouse’s receipt of derivative benefits in the worker’s record does not reduce the worker’s benefits. There may even be more than one ex-spouse to collect employee derivative benefits. This could account for as much as 500% of the original benefits claimed by five former partners.
Windfall Elimination Provisions and Government Pension Offset Provisions
For workers covered by a pension based on their own income that is not covered by Social Security, a different method of calculating benefits applies. The alternative method is called the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and was created to close a loophole that would allow workers who benefit in covered and underemployed employment label low-income workers and receive disproportionately large Social Security benefits.
The formula weighs in favor of low income because such people are more dependent on Social Security. If WEP applies, it reduces workers’ Social Security benefits by 50% of workers’ pension benefits up to a maximum of $380.50 in 2010.
If you earn a pension based on an occupation for which you do not pay Social Security taxes, your spouse’s or Social Security derivative benefits may be deducted. Provisions for Government Pension Compensation (GPO) are applied to treat retired civil servants who have not received Jamsostek contributions the same as retirees who have. The GPO reduces derivative benefits by two-thirds of other government pensions received. This can reduce the benefits of Jamsostek to zero.
The truly important ramifications of the WEP and the GPO on Social Security retirement benefits come into play during the divorce process. Federal law makes Social Security benefit property separate from the party that acquires it.
They are not transferable or assignable in family law courts and are not considered a community asset in California.
Government and other pensions, on the other hand, are considered community property in the state of California to the extent that the benefits accrue during the marriage. The derivative benefits under the Social Security program for ex-spouse seem, at first glance, to address the problem. The non-employee’s spouse gets half of the worker’s pension benefit through derivative benefit payments. Getting to the true consequences of WEPs and GPOs during the divorce process requires good financial planning.
Consider the following pair.
– Jim is a private employee covered by the Social Security system. He retired at the age of 66 with a monthly Social Security benefit of $2,014.
– Barbara has worked as a teacher for the 30 years covered by the California State Teacher Retirement System. He retired this year at the age of 65 with 30 years of service under CalSTRS and a monthly allowance of $5,520 without paying a dime to Social Security.
– Barbara’s CalSTRS benefits are considered community property in California fully acquired during the marriage.
– Jim and Barbara will divorce and his CalSTRS pension will be divided equally with each party receiving $2,760.
– Jim will continue to receive Social Security $2,014 per month.
– Barbara will be entitled to a derivative Social Security benefit equal to half of Jim’s benefits, $1,007, or the benefits he accrues from his own records. Barbara has not yet benefited from her own records so she will choose to receive derivative benefits from Jim’s records.
– The Government Pension Offset will reduce Barbara’s Social Security benefits by two-thirds of her $2,760 pension benefit, or $1,839.82. The GPO leaves Barbara with $0 of Social Security derived benefits.
– Barbara will receive a total of $2,760 from CalSTRS Pension and $0 from Jim’s Social Security derivative benefits.
– Jim’s Social Security benefits will not be affected by GPO or WEP.
– Jim will receive $2,760 from Barbara’s CalSTRS benefits and $2,014 from her Social Security retirement benefits for a total of $4,776.
What the public saw as a properly regulated method of settling the division of equal assets led to a very unfair settlement that gave Jim $ 4,776 per month and Barbara $ 2,760 per month.
The California Federation of Teachers sponsored a rally on November 7 to urge Congress to pass SR 484 in the Senate and HR 235 in the House of Representatives to repeal the Provisions for the Elimination of the Government Pension Offset and the Elimination of Windfalls. This has been tried many times before without success. Social Security is a monster of finance, public policy, and rights. Making changes is not easy or quick.
Consulting with a qualified financial planner who is experienced in the nuances of divorce finance and maintaining their services as an expert or neutral advisor will help divorced individuals work with and around the inequalities caused by the system.
Pacific Divorce Management’s mission is to help couples deal with the legal, emotional, and financial aspects of divorce in a civilized, fair and efficient manner by providing expert divorce financial planning advice.
While breaking up a marriage is never fun, it doesn’t have to be an ongoing exercise in mutual misery. Pacific Divorce Management provides divorce financial planning services with a focus on the long-term welfare of all parties. The process known as Collaborative Mediation and Divorce is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution that Pacific Divorce Management specializes in.
Also read Socialization Process
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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Philip Moore,
Professor Stuart Edwards,
Professor Matt King
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
The accuracy and stability of the atmospheric wet path delay as measured by the microwave radiometer onboard ERS-2 is crucial to altimetric measures of sea-level change. In this study a GPS receiver on an oil platform in the North Sea is first used to quantify the ERS-2 radiometic wet path delay for the period 1999-2003. The observed discrepancies between the GPS results and the radiometer motivate an extended study utilising a network of 13 IGS stations operational for 1995 through to the present day. The GPS wet path delays are converted to an equivalent brightness temperature on the 23.8GHz channel and used in a subsequent analysis to determine a correction formula. The new formulism is validated by utilising coldest and mean tempertures for each ERS-2 cycle 1-85.
Author(s): Moore P, Edwards SJ, King MA
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the Envisat Symposium
Year of Conference: 2004
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Elemental and spectroscopic characterization of fractions of an acidic extract of oil sands process water
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'Naphthenic acids' (NAs) in petroleum produced water and oil sands process water (OSPW), have been implicated in toxicological effects. However, many are not well characterized. A method for fractionation of NAs of an OSPW was used herein and a multi-method characterization of the fractions conducted. The unfractionated OSPW acidic extract was characterized by elemental analysis, electrospray ionization-Orbitrap-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and an esterified extract by Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV) absorption spectroscopy and by comprehensive multidimensional gas chromatography-MS (GCxGC-MS). Methyl esters were fractionated by argentation solid phase extraction (Ag+ SPE) and fractions eluting with: hexane; diethyl ether: hexane and diethyl ether, examined. Each was weighed, examined by elemental analysis, FTIR, UV, GC-MS and GCxGC-MS (both nominal and high resolution MS). The ether fraction, containing sulfur, was also examined by GCxGC-sulfur chemiluminescence detection (GCxGC-SCD).The major ions detected by ESI-MS in the OSPW extract were assigned to alicyclic and aromatic 'O2' acids; sulfur was also present. Components recovered by Ag+ SPE were also methyl esters of alicyclic and aromatic acids; these contained little sulfur or nitrogen. FTIR spectra showed that hydroxy acids and sulfoxides were absent or minor. UV spectra, along with the C/H ratio, further confirmed the aromaticity of the hexane:ether eluate. The more minor ether eluate contained further aromatics and 1.5% sulfur. FTIR spectra indicated free carboxylic acids, in addition to esters. Four major sulfur compounds were detected by GCxGC-SCD. GCxGC-high resolution MS indicated these were methyl esters of C18 S-containing, diaromatics with =C3 carboxylic acid side chains. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
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Isolation and estimation of the 'aromatic' naphthenic acid content of an oil sands process-affected water extractJones, D.; West, C.; Scarlett, Alan; Frank, R.; Rowland, S. (2012)The naphthenic acids of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) are said to be important toxicants. The major acids are stated to have alicyclic structures and recently, numerous of these have been identified, but some ...
Steroidal aromatic Naphthenic Acids in oil sands process-affected water: Structural comparisons with environmental estrogensRowland, S.; West, C.; Jones, D.; Scarlett, Alan; Frank, R.; Hewitt, L. (2011)The large volumes, acute toxicity, estrogenicity, and antiandrogenicity of process-affected waters accruing in tailings ponds from the operations of the Alberta oil sands industries pose a significant task for environmental ...
Acute toxicity of aromatic and non-aromatic fractions of naphthenic acids extracted from oil sands process-affected water to larval zebrafishScarlett, Alan; Reinardy, H.; Henry, T.; West, C.; Frank, R.; Hewitt, L.; Rowland, S. (2013)The toxicity of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) has regularly been attributed to naphthenic acids, which exist in complex mixtures. If on remediation treatment (e.g., ozonation) or on entering the environment, the ...
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Federal agencies clash over who regulates genetically engineered meat
The FDA has long had jurisdiction over animal biotechnology, but USDA wants to take the reins.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to sign off on an agreement that would transfer oversight of genetically engineered livestock to the more industry-friendly Department of Agriculture (USDA), reviving a longstanding debate about how the new food technology should be regulated.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn cited concerns about the legality and health consequences of such a move to FDA’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Politico reported.
Animal biotechnology has long been the jurisdiction of FDA: In mid-December, the agency approved the first-ever genetically engineered pig for human consumption and medical use, a development that could potentially produce pork for red meat allergy sufferers. Before that, it had approved a genetically engineered salmon, as well.
In mid-December, the agency approved the first-ever genetically engineered pig for human consumption and medical use.
But producers and gene editing companies repeatedly called for USDA to regulate the sector instead, arguing that FDA has been too slow to green-light new developments. They seem to have found a particularly sympathetic ear in the outgoing administration.
A few days before the new year, USDA began to solicit feedback on a proposal to take over regulation of genetically engineered livestock meant for food. Under the suggested framework, the agency would oversee “end-to-end regulatory oversight from pre-market reviews through post-market food safety monitoring for animals modified or developed using genetic engineering intended for use as human food.” It also said that the proposal was developed “in consultation with FDA.” (Apparently, FDA leadership does not feel very consulted.)
To pass the baton, USDA and FDA have to agree to what is called a “Memorandum of Understanding” that delineates each agency’s jurisdiction in the sector. Commissioner Hahn’s refusal to sign the memorandum is significant because it would block USDA from moving forward with its plans. (Neither USDA nor FDA responded to requests for comment by press time.)
“There’s a perception, that I think is real, that USDA is more accommodating for farmers and ranchers than FDA would be.”
In the past, producers have complained that FDA’s biotechnology approval process is overly cumbersome, a characterization echoed by both Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and President Donald Trump. In a press release published Thursday, the National Pork Producers Council characterized Hahn’s refusal as one of many “delay tactics that are holding back U.S. agriculture.”
But USDA’s proposal has raised some concerns that the agency is too friendly with the industry it wants to regulate, and that it wouldn’t adequately scrutinize the new technology.
“There’s a perception, that I think is real, that USDA is more accommodating for farmers and ranchers than FDA would be,” said Joe Grogan, head of the Domestic Policy Council under Trump and senior advisor at FDA under George W. Bush. “[USDA] has a marketing mission. In earlier policy discussions, it was always a tension: Is it appropriate to put a promoter in charge of something this complicated?”
“When you have the FDA commissioner saying he doesn’t agree, it casts doubt on the policy.”
Indeed, USDA is heavily involved with the promotion of agriculture, and has faced criticism in the past for being especially cozy with large meat processing companies—a concern that came up in the recent debate over cell-cultured meat regulation. (FDA and USDA now have joint oversight of the sector.)
Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the Center for Food Safety, doesn’t agree with FDA’s current approach of regulating edited genes as drugs, but said that animal biotechnology should remain under the purview of FDA. “Genetic engineering should be treated as a new food additive, which is why FDA should be looking at it.”
Some officials told Politico that they feared DHHS leadership, empowered by the White House, may go so far as to override Hahn’s refusal. Should the turf war over genetically engineered livestock escalate to that point, Grogan says, it could ultimately backfire on the sector.
“When you have the FDA commissioner saying he doesn’t agree, it casts doubt on the policy,” he said. “And it will ultimately cast doubt on the products.”
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One-fifth of Americans can’t find their own country on a map? A Miss Teen USA contestant tells us why…
And to think that once upon a time, American educational institutions were hotbeds for political dissent. Suffice to say, students protesting the war on Iraq in the same manner their grandparent’s did in the 60’s, is, well, way off. To be fair, the US is full of very intelligent and articulate individuals; graduates of some of the best universities in the world in fact. Some of those people even end up becoming President.
In any case, I’ve been told that I shouldn’t be so hard on Mini Miss South Carolina. It is, after all, called a beauty pageant (‘drool-in-cup-and-look-hot contest’ came in second) and not a brains and beauty pageant. So I don’t know why they insist on testing the mental capabilities of contestants at these things just to show they’re looking for well-rounded figures (pun intended). Seriously, finding knowledge during one of these contests is as slim as a porn star finding religion at a sci-fi convention.
Ironically, her answer reminded me of practically every single time Bush has ever stood behind a podium and opened his mouth. Maybe the judges should start asking contestants if they have an exit strategy for Iraq.
Anyways, while most of the people living in the Arab world can find their own country on a map (and probably a few others as well), our region has a whole other set of problems when it comes to education. Problems I’ve talked about over and over and over again.
Hat Tip: Matthew Good
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“Interpretations of historical events evolve over time, driven by the discovery of new evidence and the introduction of fresh ideas,” Alexander Rossino opines in the introduction to his deep dive into the Antietam Campaign from the viewpoint of the Army of Northern Virginia and its commanding general, Robert E. Lee. “Thus, it benefits us every so often to re-examine subjects that may be considered settled in the historical literature.”
How much benefit the reader may derive from Rossino’s meticulously researched analysis will depend on his ability to follow the author’s minutely detailed investigations. For the novice reader, it poses a challenge that is well worth accepting. Relying on a rich repository of primary source material, Rossino hopes “my interpretations of these sources enhances our knowledge on some subjects, and corrects the record on others.”
Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862
By Alexander B. Rossino
Savas Beatie, 2021, $32.95
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Rossino begins by asking what Lee hoped to accomplish from the Confederacy’s first foray into Maryland, a slave state that did not secede. Was it a massive food raid to feed his hungry army? Did Lee believe he could challenge the security of Washington, D.C., or Baltimore? Did he expect that a second dramatic victory over a much larger Federal force, hard on the heels of his overwhelming success at Second Manassas, would impress foreign governments enough to recognize and aid the Confederacy?
Rossino argues, convincingly, that Sept. 6 was a pivotal date in the evolution of Lee’s thinking. While initially believing that the mere presence of his army would foment an uprising from thousands of sympathetic Marylanders, on that date Lee became convinced that only a battlefield victory on Northern soil could arouse the overwhelmingly apathetic citizenry his army encountered.
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Rossino goes on to discuss various expectations voiced by soldiers in the ranks as they arrived in Maryland and their subsequent interactions with the locals. He then proceeds to locate the encampments of the Rebel army, noting that they were more widely situated than concentrated around the Best Farm south of Frederick, as most historians document. Identifying specific units and where they camped is critical when seeking to answer the many questions surrounding Special Orders No. 191 — one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the entire war. Another chapter is devoted to identifying the timing of a rare photograph showing Rebel soldiers in the streets of Frederick. The final two chapters assess Lee’s strategy during the Battle of Antietam and his personal conduct during the fighting.
Rossino’s appendices are an integral part of the narrative. One of them discusses the author’s investigation into who probably lost Special Orders No. 191, Lee’s battle plans that found their way into the hands of Union commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. Rossino also provides an extensive bibliography, and Savas Beatie does scholars a distinct service by putting footnotes at the bottom of the page rather than at the end of chapters or, worse yet, at the end of the narrative.
The different takes offered in “Their Maryland” challenge many long-accepted paradigms. Readers may not agree with all of Rossino’s conclusions, but inviting new debates into old topics may be the most important aspect of this intriguing collection of essays.
this article first appeared in civil war times magazine
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Fort Richardson, established in 1868 as the northernmost army outpost in Texas, anchored the defensive line of fortifications built across the Texas frontier. During its 10-year history, the Fort, located just outside Jacksboro, served as home to soldiers who maintained the post, helped local law officers to keep the peace, pursued criminals and deserters, escorted wagon trains, oversaw elections, protected cattle herds, and patrolled for possibly-hostile Native Americans. The Fort also provided the major staging base for the final defensive effort against the Comanche and the Kiowas in the early 1870s. The military’s success in this operation ended Anglo/Native American confrontation in the region permanently and, as a consequence, the military abandoned the post in 1878. Almost one hundred years later Fort Richardson received National Historic Landmark status. Seven of the original 55 structures have been restored, including the imposing post hospital, a handsome construction featuring 18-inch thick sandstone walls and a wood frame veranda completely encircling the first floor. The hospital contains a kitchen, dining rooms, washrooms, a dispensary, surgeon’s office, and two large wards for patients. Although designed to patch up soldiers wounded in battle, records show that hospital staff treated more illnesses and saw more deaths caused by bad water, spoiled food, alcoholism, and venereal diseases than battle wounds. Today, visitors can enjoy a tour of the hospital and grounds among the restored structures, including the somewhat macabre pairing of the hospital with its only out-building — the morgue, complete with wooden coffin.
Fort Richardson was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1963.
Fort Richardson State Park, Historic Site, and Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway
Adults: $3, Children (Ages 12 and younger): Free
Open 7 days a week year-round.
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A Christian Christmas
We live in a society of extremes. Although there are many lights, people still live in “darkness”. There are frenzied shoppers in financial bondage, while others do not observe Christmas, insisting that it is wrong because of all the ado. Still others are out buying gifts because “they have to”.
Where do God’s people fit into the picture? How should we celebrate Christmas?
I’d like to first of all consider several historical facts of Christmas and the celebrations that tie into it. The observance of Christmas was started by the Roman Catholic Church as a substitute for a pagan celebration. The purpose was to offer people an alternative to the wild and wicked parties of the pagans. This effort, while noble, was not exactly effective and the tendency was for people to combine the best of both worlds into something that fit their taste. By the 17th century, the Puritans in England and the English colonies in America banned the observance of Christmas, because they felt it had become a season best known for gambling, flamboyant public behavior, and over-indulgence in food and drink. Due in part to the Puritan’s objection of Christmas, the day was usually a normal work day. But times were changing! With the rapidly expanding industrial economies of the 19th century, a new middle class of people was developing. It was a group of people with strong work ethics, and high family values, a group of people who valued home and family life, a people who viewed Christmas as a way to draw family together. A few commercial innovations such as department stores and mass advertising transformed the Christmas holiday into the large commercialized event that it is today.
But what really is Christmas all about? Is it really just about family and togetherness? Or is there something more, something deeper, something more certain and stable than human relationships?
Christmas is a time to reflect on the Gift that God gave to man when His son Jesus Christ came to this world as a baby. Luke 2 records part of the experience of Jesus carried to the Temple for the first time as an eight day old infant. Simeon, the elderly man who frequented the Temple took Jesus up in his arms saying: “for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.” Simeon recognized two gifts in Jesus; the gift of salvation, and the gift of light - without either of them we would live a very miserable life. Salvation is deliverance from the power and effects of sin. Salvation is the opportunity we all have to break the vicious cycle of sin, guilt, and then self-justification which leads us to more sin and guilt, becoming a never ending spiral downward. Jesus came to this earth to bring us God’s gift of salvation! Imagine yourself living in a world of total darkness, where you could never see the dangers and the pitfalls in the road ahead of you, where you couldn’t even see which the right road to take is. Light reveals truth, and Jesus came to reveal the Truth to us. He came as a light on our path; His life and ministry on this earth teach us about how God wants us to live, and the dangers on the road of life.
But so what! How does a little baby born 2,000 years ago have any effect on my life today? Well, we need to get back to the question “What is Christmas all about?” and realize that the story doesn’t end with Jesus” birth, or with His ministry here. The story continues today because God is calling people to a work. I would like to consider a man who lived after Jesus’ time, a man who hated Jesus, a man who hated anyone who identified with Jesus. Saul was on another journey, determined to destroy these followers of Jesus. As he travelled down the road towards Damascus, he heard a voice calling his name, “Saul, Saul”! The Bible tells us that Saul fell to the ground, crying out, “Who art thou, Lord?” Jesus answered him, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutes.” So here lies Saul on the road, looking up to the one that he has hated, while Jesus looks down on Saul. And Jesus says, “Get up Saul, I want to make you a Christian, and I want to make you a preacher.” Now if that isn’t a change of direction! Saul, who had set out to kill the Christians, is about to be made into one himself! But that is what Jesus is all about! He came to break the bondage of sin, to shine the Truth into the hearts and lives of people, to show them that there is a better way! Jesus continued to speak to Saul, telling him he wanted to use him to “open their [people’s] eyes, and to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me [Jesus].” Now it is easy for us to shrug our shoulders and say, well we are not Saul so what does that have to do with me? In 1 Peter 2:9- 10 we read “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; which in time past are were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” Because of Christ Christmas becomes a wonderful opportunity for the Christian to tell the world that there is HOPE! There can be JOY! There can be PEACE! All those things we say so quickly and easily, and maybe never know the feeling of personally experiencing them.
To many people, Christmas is about self. Sure we think of family and friends, but if we are really honest with ourselves, we are in it for what we can get! But God has another way. By His own example, He shows us that the world is better because of giving and not because of getting. And I believe that God wants you to be His messenger to tell others about the Real gifts at Christmas.
The message that we, as Christians should be carrying this Christmas is similar in many ways to the one that Jesus brought at His birth. We too should be giving the gift of the knowledge of salvation, telling others that it is possible to break the cycle of sin and to live in victory. What better gift could we give, than to give Light to someone who is lost in darkness? Light is a unique thing; it is not scared of darkness; it is not scared to be different; it simply does what it was created to do - expose truth. Light reveals; light helps us to see what is really in front of us, unlike darkness which blinds us from the truth and conceals the reality. Matthew 4:16 tells us about the people of Jesus day: “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” This sad picture of humanity is so much like many people today, people who have accepted the darkness as a way of life. As Christians, we have a God-given duty to shine the Light of God’s Word on the hearts of people and show them that darkness does not have to be a way of life. It is possible to live in the Light!
Because John the Baptist understood this, he wasn’t going to just sit around letting people feel comfortable in the darkness. Luke 3:7-9 tell us that he preached boldly to the multitudes, telling them about Jesus. One of the things that John preached to the people was the need to live lives of worth. “Bring forth… fruit”, he said, and a life of worth is one that focuses on giving instead of getting. Deal with your problems, John preached; take the axe to root of the issue and stop just making the surface appear good.
Sometimes we are scared to speak out and to challenge others, but there is a better way! It is much better than Santa Claus and expensive gifts! It’s the Way of Salvation! Romans 1:21 tells us that people who know God, and yet are ashamed to glorify Him as God, live a life of increasing darkness. None of us want that. In 2 Corinthians 4:6, Paul says we preach (tell) because God has blessed us with the gift of Light, and we want to give that Light to others! We all have experienced the life of darkness.
Ephesians 5:8 says, “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”. Philippians 2:16 reads, “Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.”
So what is it that makes a Christmas “Christian”? isn’t it you and I? We can become consumed with the “getting” of our world today, or we can become consumed with “giving” the knowledge of salvation to some lost soul. Many people are longing for a ray of hope, a bit of peace, some truth to base their life on, something – anything - to make them feel accepted. They may be in the hospital with no family to care for them; they may be a next door neighbor whose health is failing; they may be some friend who is facing a hardship in their life, or some poor soul you passed on the street. But they are all souls like you and I who need to know that salvation is come for all people!
What are you going to do this Christmas season? Will it be Christian? Or are you satisfied to go on in darkness?
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On April 22, the Supreme Court announced that it will take up three cases having an enormous impact on workers’ rights and workplace discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. The cases give the justices a chance to affirm that Title VII’s existing prohibition against sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity (Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC) and on the basis of sexual orientation (Bostock v. Clayton County and Altitude Express v. Zarda).
Former Justice Kennedy authored all of the Court’s major rulings recognizing LGBTQ+ equality. He has been replaced by Justice Kavanaugh, who the far Right hopes will be part of their efforts to strip basic rights, liberties, and dignity from LGBTQ+ people.
The Court last addressed LGBTQ+ equality less than a year ago in Masterpiece Cakeshop. Although the case was remanded to the lower courts due to an unusual circumstance in the state administrative record, Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 6-3 majority reinforced that our nation has moved past the time when LGBTQ+ people can be treated—and mistreated—as outsiders in our society. Justice Kennedy wrote:
Our society has come to the recognition that gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth. For that reason the laws and the Constitution can, and in some instances must, protect them in the exercise of their civil rights. The exercise of their freedom on terms equal to others must be given great weight and respect by the courts.
Joining him in this powerful guidepost for the judiciary were Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Breyer, Alito, Kagan, and Gorsuch. Two additional justices—Ginsburg and Sotomayor—agreed with this sentiment in their dissent.
Justice Kavanaugh has not yet addressed this area during his first half-year on the nation’s highest court. However, two of President Trump’s circuit court judges had a role in the Bostock case: Eleventh Circuit judges Kevin Newsom and Lisa Branch voted to keep the door open to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The issues here are straightforward and have been increasingly affirmed by the lower courts. Even if there were doubt that discrimination against a transgender person is discrimination based on their sex, a key 1989 Supreme Court precedent makes it clearer. In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, the Court held that employment actions based on sex stereotypes constitute prohibited sex discrimination under Title VII. And even without Price Waterhouse, allowing women employees to date men but firing male employees who do the same is obviously a sex-based decision that lower courts are increasingly recognizing as covered by Title VII.
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Hack Windows 10 Password: To bypass this you need to remove your hard drive and connect it to another computer. I use a USB dock to do this, using a USB docking station allows you direct access to hard drives and gives you plug and play functionality.
You will need a computer with Linux installed, preferably Kali Linux as this comes the the packages pre installed. If you are using a different distro(if you are not sure what a distro is have a look at our Introduction to Linux)
I have used a Virtual Machine and attached the hard drive to it and then booted to Kali Linux.
Once you have booted up the Linux VM you will need to open a terminal.
Hack Windows 10 Password:
Then navigate to the Media folder by typing the command:
- cd /Media
Then run the ls command to see what drives you have attached. Identify which drive has is your windows c: drive.
Change the working directory to the c:/windows/system32/config by running the command:
- cd Windows/System32/config
Once in the directory you will need to make sure that the SAM database is in this folder. To do that run the command:
- ls -l SAM*
Now you will need to view what users are in the SAM database you do that by running the command:
- chntpw -l SAM
Now you want to reset the password for the Administrator user and also enable the user by running the command
- chntpw -u Administrator SAM
Then select option 1 to clear the password
Run the command again
- chntpw – Administrator SAM
And select option 4 to enable the account
Now install the hard drive in the original computer and boot to Windows. If you had secure boot on your computer you will need to make sure that it is still enabled in BIOS.
You should now be able to log in as the built-in Administrator account, then you just need to reset the original user accounts password.
To do this open run a command prompt as administrator and type the command(make sure to replace with your username:
- net user *
Now log out of the administrator user and log in as your user, using the password that you have just set.
Now run a command prompt as administrator and type the command:
- net user administrator /active:no
Now your done! And password has been reset.
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How To Live More Sustainably
Making sure the planet doesn’t crash and burn in the next 20 years has become our primary focus. And while society’s “most important people” gather together to discuss a plan of action at COP26, it can feel as though our individual actions make very little difference. But in the world of supply-and-demand, our combined actions can have a huge impact on business. So what small day-to-day changes can lead to a more sustainable life?
Here are just a few:
1. Listen to dad
“It’s like the Blackpool Illuminations in here”, “Do we live in a barn?”, “Put a jumper on” and other such dad-isms (other guardians are valid), may be about saving the family purse strings, but these actions also have a positive impact on our planet. Saving energy means reducing your carbon emissions, so whether it’s switching lights off when not in use, turning off appliances, popping another layer on instead of the heating, or just turning down the thermostat - your little changes could make a big difference.
2. Don’t have a cow, man
Controversial as it may be... The vegans are probably right. The production of meat is one of the biggest contributors to climate change and the pollution of landscapes and waterways. Your burger comes with one hefty carbon footprint. But no one's saying you must give up the Maccy D’s for good - you can simply cut down your intake. Try a meatless monday, try a meat-free alternative now and then, and when you do eat meat, purchase locally if you can.
3. Say no to single use stuff
Did you know that the more use you can get from an item, the better it is for the planet? Single-use products, particularly plastic ones, tend to end up in landfills and the ocean, causing harm to wildlife and the environment. So, pack your refillable water bottle, your biodegradable coffee cup, and your glass lunch box and grab a sustainable office lunch. When it comes to what you wear, try not to fall for short-lived trends. And what about that old mobile phone you’ve kept in a drawer at home? It could be living a lovely, sustainable life with someone else, right now.
4. Do not print this email
That would be a really weird thing to do, especially as this isn’t an email. But if you can, always opt to receive bills and things via email, rather than in the physical posts. Less mess, less fuss, less travel, and you’re saving trees. Most stores offer paperless receipts - so take that option if it’s given to you.
5. Be a keen, green, energy machine
Most UK homes are powered by oil, coal and gas - but the tide is slowly turning. Some energy businesses now offer renewables as the primary source of fuel - so consider switching to an eco alternative. Have a few more pennies to spend? Consider solar panels, an electric vehicle, and cleaner heat sources - like ground source pumps.
6. Reduce, reuse, recycle
If you’ve already kerbed your use of single use items, you’ll be well into the swing of reusing items. But sometimes, things need to be thrown away. Instead of clogging up landfill and contributing to even more pollution, you can recycle every suitable item. Plastics, tins, paper, glass... Many household items can be remade into something new - as long as you pop them into the right bin. (image:@mbocast via Twenty20)
7. Planet positive purchases
When you buy things, you get to choose where that money goes. Buying fast fashion contributes towards one of the most polluting and exploitative industries, whereas buying second hand can give unloved items a new lease of life. The same is true for your mobile devices. Choose refurbished to breathe new life into electronics that would otherwise end up in landfill. You get a fantastic quality item and save yourself some pennies, and you can continue the cycle and make more money by selling your old phone too.
8. Get out of the driving seat
It’s no secret that driving is a significant contributor to worldwide emissions. By taking public transport where you can, you share those emissions with hundreds of other passengers. Where possible, think about walking or cycling too - planet positive and good for your mental and physical wellbeing. If driving is necessary, consider investing in an electric vehicle (if you can).
9. Get smart with water
Water may not grow on trees, but it does fall from the sky. Think about installing a water butt and using it to water your plants instead of cracking out the hosepipe. Limit shower times, turn the tap off when brushing your teeth, and reuse water where you can - pasta water is great for feeding plants!
10. Don’t be a food waster
Your kitchen can be a big source of waste, but it’s easy to make sustainable switches. Make shopping lists and only buy what you’ll use that week, then eat or freeze leftovers. Buy local from butchers and greengrocers where you can, and choose produce with minimal packaging. Obsessed with keeping your kitchen spotless? Invest in eco-friendly cleaning products.
So there you go, 10 simple steps to a more sustainable life.
For a simple way to jump on the eco-train, check out the range of refurbished second hand phones available on Doji - and do your bit for our planet with your next upgrade.
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The Principles & Practice in Palliative & End of Life Care
This course will:
- Familiarise you to the concepts of palliative care.
- Introduce the 5 “Priorities of Care”
- Define Advance Care Planning and how you may contribute to this
- Develop your communication skills & confidence in having difficult conversations with patients/residents and those important to them.
- Explore common symptoms, the causes, effects, assessment & management
- Cover concepts & theories relating to loss, grief & bereavement.
- Increase your awareness of the concept of resilience
Book here now.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Care Staff & Allied Health Professionals who support patients/residents in the last 12 months of life in all settings including community, primary care, care homes and acute hospitals.
Your Care Setting
Community, primary care, care homes and acute hospitals.
Face to face training held at Spring Farm Moss Lane, Minshull Vernon, Crewe CW1 4RJ
Date and time
- Wednesday 20 April 2022 : 9.30 – 16.00
- Wednesday 4 May 2022 : 9.30 – 16.00
- Friday 20 May 2022 : 9.30 – 16.00
- Wednesday 25 May 2022 : 9.30 – 16.00
Course is full.
Fully funded for staff working in Cheshire CCG area.
£199 for staff outside this area.
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When Matthew Zachary was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 21 and told he had just six months to live, one of the hardest things to cope with was loneliness.
Then a college senior and concert pianist, Zachary had to abandon his plans to go to graduate school and study writing for film and television. It was 1995 and there was very little in the way of online resources.
“My family was amazing, my friends that didn’t abandon me were great, but they all went to grad school and I didn’t, so I was home alone and miserable,” he remembers. “Had I known what I know now, I would have at least asked the hospital if there is anyone else here like me. But you just don’t think to do that, plus you are terrified.”
Zachary survived cancer, but it took him another seven years to meet a person who shared his diagnosis.
“He was 10 years older than me, but he also had it in his twenties,” he says. “It was this incredible ‘aha’ moment to know that I was not the only college student to ever get cancer in the history of ever.”
Inspired by his experiences, Zachary founded Stupid Cancer in 2007. Now the non-profit organization is developing an app that will anonymously connect users with other cancer patients and survivors. Currently raising funds on Indiegogo, Instapeer will be open to everyone, but it is designed with the needs of teenage oncology patients in mind.
Zachary hopes that it will give other young cancer patients the same ‘aha’ moment he had when he met his friend.
“We’re such a small percentage of people who get cancer every year. So in meeting that guy, it opened up a whole new world for me and by that time I had rebuilt a whole new career for myself,” says Zachary, who worked in the advertising industry before starting Stupid Cancer.
“By meeting him, I met dozens of other people, and this whole world opened up that I didn’t know existed.”
Safe And Anonymous Peer Support
Zachary hopes that Instapeer will give young cancer patients a safe place to discuss issues they might not want to talk about even with their family and friends.
“I was impotent for two years after my treatment. I’d been infertile since day one, but I was impotent from treatments for two years and I never had anyone I felt comfortable telling this to until I met Craig. He said he went through the same thing and it totally sucked, and we commiserated on this incredibly intimate little thing that I felt so embarrassed to tell anyone else but him,” he says.
While young cancer patients currently have online forums and chatrooms to turn to, Zachary says those resources have limitations, especially for people dealing with new diagnoses.
“What I found for me personally, and what I’ve seen reciprocated with other people’s opinions, is that online forums are very intimidating. I mean, extremely intimidating,” he says. “It becomes a pissing contest for who has suffered more, and you can quote me on that. No one will disagree with me.”
“Can you imagine being a new patient seeking peer support and going into a forum where people are arguing over death, dying, who’s worse off, and I’m better than you?” he adds.
Many teenagers are also reluctant to call hotlines.
“Teens will not pick up a phone and call a hotline and ask to speak to a stranger and tell a stranger their story, then have a stranger tell them, here’s another stranger to talk to, talk to the stranger,” says Zachary.
How Instapeer Works
He hopes Instapeer, which is HIPAA-compliant, will offer a higher level of “privacy, anonymity, confidential relationships, and trust.”
Users who are matched with each other through Instapeer’s algorithm will see very little personal information about the other person, just a first name and last initial; their cancer diagnosis and what stage it is at; their city; a tagline; and recommendations from other users.
“I think the fact that there will be no avatars, no profile pictures, no screen names, is critical to that safety that people need. I’ve meet so many people that are wallflowers,” Zachary says.
“Cancer is still stigmatized and not everyone wears it on their sleeve like in the movies and TV shows all about it now. Not everyone is like that. There are still plenty of wallflowers that are scared, ashamed, and all the testing and survey groups I’ve done over the past three and a half years have shown that if you give someone the opportunity to feel safe, they will take advantage of that opportunity.”
The app is being designed specifically for teenagers “because in the world of cancer, teens are the most underserved in terms of peer connections and their access to age-appropriate resources and care.”
Lauren Scott, Stupid Cancer’s national spokesperson, was pivotal in helping Zachary understand what it feels like to be a teenage cancer patient before she passed away last year.
“She told me teenagers today don’t even make eye contact. They stare at their phones all the time and they text everything to each other. They use Snapchat and Instagram their life. If we are going to give them a support tool, it has to be SMS, it can’t be chatrooms. It has to be a very specific interaction with someone like them,” he says.
The app’s first group of users will be drawn from Stupid Cancer’s network. The organization currently works with six major oncology societies and associations, 18,000 cancer centers, and serves as a partner for about 140 other non-profit organizations.
Instapeer’s challenge is not building a community, but “scaling up once we open our doors,” says Zachary.
Stupid Cancer is collaborating with RapidValue, a mobile development team that has worked with eBay and Facebook, on Instapeer. One of the app’s advisors is former eBay director of product David Beach, who is also a stage four lung cancer survivor and member of Stupid Cancer.
Once Instapeer reaches the beta stage, it will be invite-only, including people who have donated money through the Indiegogo campaign. Then over the next six months, the app hopes to raise enough capital to scale up and launch a public app in the App Store by January.
One of the things Zachary wants to focus on as the app grows is making sure there is scientific evidence that Instapeer’s model helps improve quality of life and well-being for young cancer patients instead of just focusing on user adoption.
“We have a brand that is one of the most highly respected in the world of oncology at this point and we have a very delicate balance and line to tread in order to retain that reputation,” he says.
Instapeer will work with an advisory board that includes clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, licensed social workers, and oncology nurses.
“We’re trying to really cover as many bases as possible to make sure the app is not just cool and cool-sounding and innovative, and whatever other buzzwords there are in the industry, but also meaningfully valuable to the medical establishment, and that’s important.”
For more information about Instapeer, check out its Indiegogo campaign.
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AbstractAfter a review of the basic concepts behind OSI Reference Model, the paper shows the robustness of this model which has been able to absorb new technologies with minor modifications. The inflation of standards which followed the acceptance of the OSI RM was a real danger and the paper surveys the works of user's associations, standardization bodies and manufacturers to achieve implememtable protocol suites, known as profiles or functional standards. The possibility of revisiting the base standards is discussed as well as the possible aggregation of layers in profiles. Thr third part of the paper is devoted to the evaluation of what the OSI may offer as communication support to the distributed systems taking into account the requirements in terms of transparency, management and performance.
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Iraq offers oil and gas blocks in latest auction
Iraq on Wednesday put up for sale a dozen oil and gas exploration blocks at the start of a two-day auction it hopes will boost its reserves and strengthen its position as a key producer.
The sale, the fourth such auction to be organized by Iraq since mid-2009, comes as the country ramps up its oil exports, which account for the vast majority of government income, and looks to boost gas production to increase woefully inadequate electricity output.
But unlike the three previous sales, which offered contracts to foreign energy firms to boost output at existing oil and gas fields, Iraq will this time be showcasing acreage earmarked for exploration.
“This competition is transparent and public,” Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi said in remarks to open the auction.
“Many qualified companies will participate. The round is considered very important for the ministry and the country to develop and improve the economy.”
The exploration blocks include seven which are thought to hold gas and five that are believed to hold oil. In all, 47 companies have pre-qualified to bid.
Six blocks will be auctioned on Wednesday, with another six on Thursday.
All companies will be required to publicly reveal their offers for each exploration block they bid for, and the oil ministry is obliged to accept the lowest-price offer, regardless of the company or consortium that submits it, so long as it is below a preset maximum agreed by the ministry.
As in previous auctions, Iraq will require foreign firms that agree to explore the blocks to work under fixed-price service contracts, rather than production-sharing agreements that are common elsewhere and more popular with major international energy firms.
Baghdad is also now mandating that firms that win contracts agree not to sign deals with the autonomous Kurdish region, or any other sub-national authority, without the central government’s approval, according to the head of the oil ministry’s petroleum contracts and licensing department.
The new requirement comes with Baghdad and Kurdish authorities in Arbil at loggerheads over dispersal of oil revenues, and with an oil and gas law that would regulate the sector still languishing in parliament.
Crucially, ExxonMobil, which has a contract to increase output at one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields, will not be taking part in the auction, after Baghdad barred the US energy giant for having signed a deal with the Kurdish region without the central government’s go-ahead.
Kurdistan has signed dozens of contracts with foreign energy firms, but Baghdad regards them as illegal because they were not approved by the federal oil ministry.
Crude sales account for the vast majority of Iraq’s government revenue, and two-thirds of its gross domestic product, and the country is looking to ramp up its exports in the coming years from its current level of around 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd).
Iraq has proven reserves of 143.1 billion barrels of oil and 3.2 trillion cubic meters (111.9 trillion cubic feet) of gas, both of which are among the highest such deposits in the world.
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A moment spent in Sorrow
or a moment spent in Pain
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Enthusiasm is a Power
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There are people who Dream
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You can be who you want to be,
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2 edition of History of the Inquisition found in the catalog.
History of the Inquisition
William Harris Rule
An Account of the Inquisition When the reformed religion began to diffuse the Gospel light throughout Europe, Pope Innocent III entertained great fear for the Romish Church. He accordingly instituted a number of inquisitors, or persons who were to make inquiry after, apprehend, and punish, heretics, as the reformed were called by the papists. Get this from a library! A history of medieval heresy and inquisition. [Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane] -- In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the.
History / Fox's Book of Martyrs / Summary of the Inquisition; Share Tweet Save. The Story of Galileo An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy Summary of the Inquisition Of the multitudes who perished by the Inquisoition throughout the world, no authentic record is now discoverable. But wherever popery had power, there was the. Hill references infamous book burning incidents executed by the Nazi party and the Spanish Inquisition. He also mentions the Talmud being burned for blasphemy in These are groups and incidents nobody wants to be associated with.
The Middle Ages History. In Pope Lucius III required bishops to make a judicial inquiry, or inquisition, for heresy in their dioceses, a provision renewed by the fourth Lateran Council in Episcopal inquisitions, however, proved ineffective because of the regional nature of the bishop’s power and because not all bishops introduced inquisitions in their dioceses; the papacy. Inquisition (Ĭn´kwĬzĬsh´ən), tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church established for the investigation of heresy. The Medieval Inquisition In the early Middle Ages investigation of heresy was a duty of the bishops. Alarmed especially by the spread of Albigensianism (see Albigenses), the popes issued increasingly stringent instructions as to the methods for dealing with heretics.
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This book is an instructive lesson not only in inquisition history, but in the way myth and history often compete with one another. It is not, by any means, a "whitewash" of the phenomenon, nor is it apologetic revisionism.
It is an honest and accurate analysis of a religious-legal procedure which developed, changed, did good and bad, over the /5(14). The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas.
Beginning in the 12th. The Inquisition The Roman Catholic Inquisition was one of the most controversial organizations in human history. Although it has been painted in a negative light, the Inquisition was too broad in scope to define as simply good or bad/5(75). Notes.
Page in third book are missing. Page numbers skip from to in the third book : God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy - - 1 Ratings (goodreads) - Published The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen - - Ratings (goodreads) - Published Dog.
Theresa Breslin's History of the Inquisition book 10 books about the Spanish inquisition One of the darkest periods in Spain's history provides rich pickings for writers, says the children's author, inspiring novelists from.
Inquisition: Book Two of the Aquasilver Trilogy On the vast waterworld of Aquasilva, the priestly Domain controls magic, weather, and history itself.
Determined to crush every last spark of resistance against their despotic rule, they have launched a brutal Inquisition in order to root out dissent and. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the most feared institutions in Western history.
Set up by the Roman Catholic church to supress heresy, it operated in France, Italy, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, and was later extended to the Americas/5. Books shelved as inquisition: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, Incantation by Alice Hoffman, The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry, God's Jury: The.
History of the Inquisition by William Rule Harris, first published inis a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world.
This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation.
Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print. History of the Inquisition This book was written in and the english translation is from Where to get the book: This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its wider role as an educative force in society.
A reassessment of the history of the Spanish Inquisition. The History of the Inquisition of Spain, from the Time of Its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII: Composed from the Original Documents of the Archives of the Supreme Council and from Those of Subordinate Tribunals of the Holy Office: Author: Juan Antonio Llorente: Publisher: G.B.
Whittaker, Original from: the University of Reviews: 1. The Goa Inquisition (Portuguese: Inquisição de Goa) was an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in colonial-era Portuguese Inquisition was established to force conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and maintain Catholic orthodoxy in the Indian dominions of the Portuguese Empire.
The institution persecuted Hindus, Muslims, Bene Israels, New Christians and the Judaizing Nasranis Type: Part of the Portuguese Inquisition.
Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. search Search the Wayback Machine. Featured texts All Books All Texts latest This A history of the Inquisition of Spain by Lea, Henry Charles, Publication date Topics Inquisition -- Spain, Spain -- Church history, Spain -- HistoryPages: Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg. As far as I am concerned and based on what I already read about concerning this topic, the inquisition is one of the darkest, barbarious, outrageous events in the history of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church claimed to be the authorized embassador of God on /5(2). Learn the history of the Spanish Inquisition with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
The Spanish Inquisition was a governing authority started by the crown in the lateth century. It included a network of spies who worked across the state to ensure Spaniards conformed to the accepted behaviour of traditional Catholic subjects. t was. Check out this great listen on The Roman Catholic Inquisition was one of the most controversial organizations in human history.
Although it has been painted in a negative light, the Inquisition was too broad in scope to define as simply good or bad. It was a period where conflict and. Reston documents a critical period of history, when great socio-political and religious changes converge, the Moors finally defeated by the Christians and the gestation of the long deadly years of the Inquisition, birthed in Spain with the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Christopher Columbus's mission to the New World charged with the conflict 5/5(5).
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages Volume III by Henry Charles Lea. $ Free shipping. A History of the Inquisition of Spain: Volume II by Henry Charles Lea Paperback Russian book.
history book. HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION Henry Charles Lee. Russian book. history book. Item Information. Condition: Like NewSeller Rating: % positive. A History of the Inquisition: A Book Review. Since reading books on Early Christianity and gnosticism, it made me curious to learn more about the inquisition.
The best book I’ve read of many is A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea. It is very long but extremely fascinating. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the most feared institutions in Western history.
Set up by the Roman Catholic church to supress heresy, it operated in France, Italy, Spain, and the .
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How companies manage their data is one of the biggest challenges facing every business at the moment. Organizations need to cope with not only ever-growing quantities of data, but also an increasing variety of data types from multiple sources, thanks to innovations such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.
At the same time, there are growing demands that this raw data be turned into useful insights in or near real-time. All of this means more pressure than ever on the systems you need for gathering, storing and processing data.
When it comes to managing this wealth of data, the two main options are a data warehousing solution or a data lake. The former is a concept that has been around for many years and so should be familiar to any IT manager, while a data lake is a relatively new term that has arrived with the era of big data.
Some people may believe that the data lake is just an evolution of the older data warehouse and you may see the two terms used interchangeably to refer to any central repository for a firm's data. But there are actually a few key differences between the two. Understanding what these are and what the implications will be for data handling will therefore be vital when deciding which of these technologies is right for your business.
Raw vs processed data
One of the key differences between a data warehouse and a data lake is the type of information they store. Essentially, a data lake is a system into which a business can drop any and all types of data, including raw, unstructured data from every source the organization has access to. A data warehouse, on the other hand, handles preprocessed, structured data that has been cleaned and transformed into a format ready for analysis.
So does this mean the data warehouse is the better option for analytics? Not necessarily, as it depends on the type of data your company generates, and what you intend to do with it. For example, financial services firms will find warehousing highly useful, as much of the details they store will already be highly structured and easy to manage.
Some sectors, on the other hand, deal with much more unstructured data. Healthcare, for example, will have lots of clinical details, patient notes and medical imaging that will need to be analyzed. However, given the wide variety of types and sources involved and the lack of clear structures, warehouses are not the most efficient way of handling data for these organizations.
Do you have clear plans for your data?
Because of the greater structure that data warehouses provide, these solutions are much more suited for businesses that have a very clear idea of exactly what they want to do with their data and the types of outcome they are expecting.
Typically, data stored in a data warehouse will be easier to study and derive insight from than the less structured data lake. What's more, as it will have already been processed before being loaded into the warehouse, this means it is likely to have been used for a specific purpose and so will be more relevant than raw data.
While data lakes lack this structure, they can offer much greater agility than a warehouse. Being able to work directly with raw data means users can try new techniques, reconfigure their models and queries to answer a wider range of questions, and be more innovative in how they handle data. So if you don't already have a clear understanding of what purpose you'll use your data for, data lakes are an ideal place to experiment.
Who's interacting with the data?
Over the last few years, there has been great interest in the idea that data should be for everyone, and not only restricted to IT experts. But if you're encouraging business units and operational professionals to engage directly with your data, having a warehousing solution is likely to be the better approach.
Again, this is because the more structured format of these assets means it will be simpler for individuals without extensive knowledge and experience of programming to interact with the system and derive insight. Data lakes, on the other hand, can be harder to navigate and require more specialist skills to make the most of them. They may be able to provide answers to a greater number of questions than a data warehouse, but they will require expert data scientists to do this.
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In the second (annual) imbalance settlement the difference between metered realization pursuant to the General conditions for system use and electricity supply and realization in the first (monthly) imbalance settlement pursuant to the Rules for application of standard load profiles shall be calculated.
Settlement interval in the second (annual) imbalance settlement is a calendar month, and the settlement period is a calendar year.
Imbalances of individual balancing groups in the second (annual) calculation of imbalances is calculated by the Electricity Market Operator based on realization data of balancing group members and data on actual losses in the distribution and transmission system delivered by the Distribution and transmission System Operator.
Balancing group imbalance in the second (annual) imbalance settlement is a sum of imbalances of all metering points belonging to the balancing group:
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Know your numbers and get the tests you need
As the new year approaches, many people make health-centered resolutions. Some include eating healthier or being more active, but another great way to make sure you are in control of your health is to know your numbers. It is important that both you and your physician have a good understanding of your overall health and well-being, and an effective, efficient way to accomplish this is to undergo some important lab tests.
For your convenience, McLaren Greater Lansing offers first-rate laboratory services at 17 locations throughout mid-Michigan, including facilities in DeWitt, East Lansing, Grand Ledge, Holt, Lansing, Okemos, Portland and Williamston. McLaren provides a full complement of tests and procedures, including the following offered at minimal costs:
This test gauges a person’s average level of blood sugar over a period of time and is commonly used to diagnose both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. It’s also used after a diabetes diagnosis to determine how well the disease is being managed. The higher the A1C level, the poorer the blood sugar control and the higher the risk of diabetic complications.
A lipid profile is a group of tests used to evaluate a person’s risk of heart disease. It measures cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoproteins (LDL), high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and the cholesterol/HDL cardiac-risk ratio. A 12-14 hour fast is recommended prior to testing.
This test measures the amount of testosterone in the body, which plays a role in regulating bone and muscle growth, sex drive, repair, weight control, skin, hair and nail health, energy and mood.
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Libya's Tobruk-Based Parliament to Move to Benghazi After City's Liberation
21:08 20.09.2016(updated 21:14 20.09.2016)
The House of Representatives, Libya's Tobruk-based parliament, plans to move its headquarters to the city of Benghazi after it is freed from terror groups, the parliament's President Aguila Saleh told Sputnik on Tuesday.
AL QUBAH (Sputnik) – He added that the parliament would not move to the new headquarters until the security forces deem it safe.
"The place is ready, the secretariat of the parliament [House of Representatives] in Benghazi is making the official headquarters ready for the parliament, we will move there soon," Saleh said.
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since 2011, when a civil war began in the country and long-standing leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown.
As agreed in December 2015, the two Libyan rival parliaments – the House of Representatives and the Tripoli-based New General National Congress – established a UN-backed Libyan Political Dialogue as a mechanism of reconciliation and formed the Government of National Accord, which is yet to be supported by the House of Representatives.
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The Social Impact Award has recently selected ten of the most promising businesses in Austria. These ventures have the potential to impact a range of important issues, from refugee integration to environmental sustainability.
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Due to a lack of transparency and complicated bureaucracy many Austrians have troubles receiving their social state aid. Therefore we create www.anspruchpartner.at, where you simply enter your data and we show you exactly which state aid is relevant for you and how to get it.
Innovation drivers for the High-Tech Material “Bark”.
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“I am Refugee” is the digital partner that enables equal possibilities for both newcomers and locals in Austria. Our multilingual platform www.iamrefugee.at provides refugees with information on why, where and how to learn German, find Austrian friends, get work experience, find housing and generally prepare for a successful life in Austria.
Ingenieure ohne Grenzen
We are engineers without borders Austria and help people worldwide to implement their own ideas for enhancing their perspectives and living conditions. Specifically, the project EduZapa aims at creating a better learning environment by reconstructing a mexican primary school and implementing a new social concept.
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“Open Piano for Refugees” aims to include all people from all walks of life through music. Therefore, we place freely accessible grand pianos in public places and establish the music institute “Doremi”.
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Unused potential is costly for the society, frustrating for the individual and a loss for the labour market. We want to change that! MORE THAN ONE PERSPECTIVE (MTOP) is an advanced training program that offers various workshops, training and mentoring to prepare highly qualified refugees to enter the labour market. MTOP’s mission is to make refugees´ potential accessible to the labour market and break down negative stereotypes.
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Introduction: Caring for a family member with a long-term illness is a significant source of chronic stress that might significantly accelerate the cognitive ageing of informal caregivers. Nevertheless, the absence of a defined theoretical body of literature on the neuropsychology of this population makes it difficult to understand what the characteristic neuropsychological deficits of these caregivers are.; Aims: The main aim of this study is to carry out a systematic review of studies of cognitive deficits present in informal caregivers of people with several chronic pathologies, and analyse the effects of cognitive-behavioural interventions on caregivers' cognition.; Methods: The scientific literature was reviewed following the PRISMA quality criteria for reviews using the following digital databases: PubMEd, PsycINFO, and Dialnet.; Results: Identification of 2046 abstracts and retrieval of 211 full texts led to the inclusion of 38 papers. The studies showed heterogeneous results, but most of the cross-sectional studies reviewed that employed neuropsychological assessments concluded that informal caregivers reported a generalized cognitive deterioration, especially memory dysfunctions (i.e. learning verbal, visuospatial, and digit information). Moreover, they also presented low selective attention and capacity for inhibition, along with slow processing speed. Longitudinal studies confirmed that caregivers whose care situation was more prolonged showed a marked deterioration in their overall cognitive state, memory, processing speed, and vocabulary richness. However, although the patient's death does not seem to reverse the neuropsychological alterations in caregivers, cognitive-behavioural interventions that employ techniques to reduce stress levels, cognitive biases, and inadequate adaptation schemas seem to improve some of the aforementioned cognitive abilities.; Conclusions: Results from this synthesis and critical analysis of neuropsychological deficits in informal caregivers offer guidelines for diagnosing caregivers' cognitive status by including a test battery covering all the domains considered relevant. Finally, given the ability of cognitive behavioural interventions to improve cognition in caregivers, further studies on their long-term effects on caregivers are warranted. Chronic stress entails an acceleration of the cognitive ageing Cross-sectional studies concluded that informal caregivers reported a generalized cognitive deterioration Cognitive-behavioural interventions seem to improve cognitive abilities of caregivers.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., MBA, FACEP, is a Professor of Surgery and Director of the Arizona Bioethics Program at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ. He practices emergency medicine and is the medical director of southern Arizona's major search and rescue operation. Although Dr. Iserson treats dying patients, counsels professionals and families about sudden death, and has been in medicine for more than twenty years, he found that he had large gaps in his knowledge about what happened to dead bodies--and was initially stymied in his attempt to get more information. This book is the result of his investigations. DEATH TO DUST: What Happens to Dead Bodies? by Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D. Tucson: Galen Press, 1994. 709 pp. Death to Dust answers the many questions that everyone--professional and layman alike--wants to ask. What really does happen to a body after death? What does our culture do with corpses and what have other cultures done? How does a body turn into dust? What happens in embalming, cremation, cryogenic preservation, autopsies, organ donation, anatomical dissection, burials, and funerals? How do we transport bodies and what does a medical examiner really do? How about the more bizarre uses for corpses, such as cannibalism, body snatching, use in secret rites, research, and religious ceremonies? This book describes individual and societal experiences, drawing not only fromt he medical sciences, but also from the arcane and secretive world of the funeral industry. We rarely speak about death--because it is the pornography of our culture and we know so little about it. This book sheds some light into dark corners of our society and proves that, once again, truth is stranger than fiction. *Death to Dust* convincingly argues the case for donating your organs and tissues when you no longer occupy your body. "I was very impressed by the information I learned that theyd on't teach you in mortuary school. In my opinion, this book should be a requirement in all mortuary and medical schools." --Howard Belkoff, Funeral Director "This book is *too icky* for the reading public." --New York editorial group "This book is a unique resource in death education, for both health professionals and laypersons. &Death to Dust* unveils the mysteries and secrets of after-death activities. It turns the unknown into the known in an easily understood format." --Kyle Nash, Executive Director, Death Education in Medicine "Masterly crafted. Dr. Iserson adroitly answers questions that remain hard for many to even formulate about what happens to dead bodies. His style of weaving historical, legal, physiological, and religious facts into one cloth is truly remarkable." --Bruce White, D.O., J.D., Bioethicist-Pediatrician "My 78-year-old mother, fascinated by the title, grabbed the book as soon as I got it, and started reading madly. The next thing I knew, she was on the phone with her 80-year-old friends, giggling like a young girl as she told them all about the book. She absolutely loved the book and couldn't put it down." --Kathryn Coe, Ph.D., Anthropologist By ordering the book with our form, you ensure that GriefNet will receive a percentage of the proceeds to help us in our work. Thank you. Special Report: AFTER-DEATH PLANNING adapted from *Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?* by Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D. This 8-page pamphlet serves as instructions for those planning after-death rites, as well as a convenient discussion guide through which individuals can broach an often difficult subject with their loved ones. YOU don't have a problem with how people dispose of your body when you're dead. That's someone else's problem, isn't it? Give them a break! Let them know whether you want cremation or burial, a formal funeral or a simpler memorial service, who you want to attend, and what preparations you have already made. Do you want to donate organs, tissues, or your whole body? If you don't tell your loved ones that you want to donate, your organs and tissues may end up buried or cremated. Don't make them guess at answers while they grieve over your loss. Talk to your loved ones about your wishes now. $3 each. By ordering the book with our form, you ensure that GriefNet will receive a percentage of the proceeds to help us in our work. Thank you. About Galen Press Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 130-201), the Greek physician whose writings guided medicine for more than a millennium after his death, inspired the name, Galen Press. As the father of modern anatomy and physiology, Galen wrote more than one hundred treatises while attempting to change medicine from an art form into a science. As practicing physician, Galen first ministered to gladiators and then to Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Far more than Hippocrates, Galen's work influenced Western physicians, and was the "truth" until the late Middle Ages when physicians and scientists challenged his teachings. Galen press, publishing non-clinical, health-related books, will follow Galen's advice that "the chief merit of language is clearness...nothing detracts so much from this as unfamiliar terms."
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It is difficult to remember any one particular Winchester College chapel service. They were repetitive experiences of finding oneself pressed uncomfortably inwards by a boy on either side and a hard wooden pew board behind. Any sermon in the chapel, where the ceiling is designed to imitate a ship’s hull, feels like a naval captain’s speech to a tightly assembled crew. I believe this is exactly the desired effect.
I do remember one sermon early on in Dr. Tim Hands’ headmastership. He explained to us that the school’s long-enduring motto of “Manners Mayketh Man” was not a call for “pleases” and “thank yous”, but rather the need for the formation of a certain character. With the recent news — that the college will begin to admit girls and day pupils from 2022 — Dr. Hands and the governing body have irrevocably altered the character of the school itself, and consequently the character of the public school system.
These changes have come at a pivotal moment for public schools, where merely kicking cans down roads will not suffice. While public opposition to private schools is relatively low (22 percent according to a 2019 YouGov poll), financial stresses and issues surrounding their political image mean that public schools are becoming increasingly dependent on their status as registered charities. Any move by a public school to emphasise a claim to charitable status is therefore entirely understandable, and is, indeed, admirable and right if we wish to live in a meritocratic society that values attainment.
It is difficult to remember any one particular Winchester College chapel service.
It is clear, though, that the decision to admit girls has nothing to do with the college’s aim to provide 30 extra students with a form of bursary. It does not matter whether the planned 150-pupil increase is male or female, and convenience states that it is cheaper in this regard to remain single-sex, thereby avoiding the need for new facilities and guidelines. The simple and easy thing would then be to admit more boys. This is similarly the case for any public school hoping that economies of scale might save them some money — and political capital while they’re at it.
Nor is the basis of the decision in educational value. There is a reason that it took 122 years for the school to come to this decision, as Dr. Hands joked to The Times — that there is little to no evidence that co-educational schools benefit either boys or girls academically. An Oxford Review of Education article in 2007 found that girls attending single-sex independent schools achieve higher progress than their peers in co-educational independent schools. Most importantly, a single-sex environment is proven to develop higher academic and socially competent self-images. Girls in single-sex education feel more positive about their own abilities and control over their lives. They also have less stereotyped gender role attitudes and hold higher aspirations. As a result, if a girl wishes to receive a top education, it is better that she apply for Cheltenham Ladies, or St Paul’s Girls, or Wycombe Abbey, not a converted boys’ school.
Boys at single-sex schools are claimed to be more motivated, as teaching can be more tailored with fewer distractions. They form atypical self-conceptions of “gendered” subjects, while co-educational schools see the formation of “laddish” micro-cultures that are much less common in all-boys boarding schools. The result is that boys at single-sex schools do better at both English and languages than their counterparts at co-educational schools. I must only look around my English Literature lecture hall to see that, when seeking to achieve gender diversity in university subjects — and thus achieving “diversity of thought” — single-sex education is the way forward.
Introducing girls will undoubtedly improve the school’s academic record — take the lowest achieving half of boys and replace them with the highest achieving half of girls — but it doesn’t benefit anyone on the individual level. We and those who funded us through public school know that education, especially in the private sector, should always seek to act at the level of the individual.
The college’s governing body, who are no doubt academically rigorous, know this, and have highlighted instead that bringing in girls will promote both “diversity of thought” and “pastoral benefits”. It is certainly true that in co-education both boys and girls are more positive about their schools and about the developmental aspects of their schooling. But the success of the British public school lies in the bonds of friendship formed in both the pursuit of study, and shared experiences of personal development. That has always been the case, and it is this that parents value alongside their sons’ academic education.
It is also clear that there is no lack of “diversity of thought” at a school that has produced such divergent thinkers as Geoffrey Howe, Freeman Dyson, and John Lucas. In a world of radical intellectual change, the importance of the divergent thinker taking a step back to ask ‘are you sure?’ is paramount. If the governing body was worried about boys’ attitudes to feminist ideas across a broad range of developmental activities, a suggestion might have been to hire talented female teachers who might challenge boys’ expectations and opinions, if and where they were not “21st century appropriate.”
Ultimately, then, Winchester College’s decision is politically motivated, which is a shame. The governing body knows, as Tony Blair knew, that interference of the state with education, whether directly or indirectly, is ‘extraordinarily debilitating, and often, in the worst sense, politically correct’. Those who took the decision no doubt felt that their hand was forced in this matter by a societal force that does not find opposition in government. It is disappointing that the confidence that has characterised the British public school sector for centuries, which at its best produces men with acute senses of national service and responsibility, should suddenly evaporate away in the face of a little heat.
More than anything, it is disheartening that it is no longer politically tenable for boys specifically to be educated in single-sex environments. Only four all-boys boarding schools now remain. That number will certainly drop, with Eton touted as the next behemoth to fall. Meanwhile the number of girls’ boarding schools sits comfortably in double figures. This begs the question: if a parent wishes to educate their son at an all-boys boarding school, where are they to do it?
On a personal level, I am saddened that future boys will not share the magical experiences that I did, in an environment characterised by curiosity and innocence, fellowship and tradition. I was lucky to have been a willing participant in this long era, older than both the United Kingdom and the Protestant church; it is a shame – that era is now over.
Malcova, Eva. May, 2007. “Effect of Single-Sex Education on Progress in GCSE.”
Oxford Review of Education 33 (2): 233-259. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20462332?seq=1.
Smyth, Emer. 2010. “Single-sex Education.” Revue française de pédagogie 171, no. La mixité scolaire, une thématique (encore) d’actualité? (June): 47-55.
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It’s smaller, lighter, faster and most importantly sucks less battery; meet Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835, the chip every mobile nerd will be lusting after for the next 6 months or so. By the numbers, the 835 is 35% smaller and uses 25% less power thanks to the 10 nm design, and Qualcomm hopes this will allow device manufacturers to design thinner premium-tier consumer devices such as smartphones, VR/AR head-mounted displays, IP cameras, tablets, mobile PCs, and more.
Most of the details about the Snapdragon 835 have been well and truly leaked by now, but let’s review. The Snapdragon 835 is an octa-core processor implementing the big.LITTLE design with the 4 higher powered cores supporting a max clock speed of 2.45 GHz and the 4 low power cores supporting a max clock speed of 1.9 GHz. The chip also includes an Adreno 540 dedicated GPU, Spectra ISP (Image Signal Processor) Hexagon DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and the Haven Security suite to improve both chip and device security.
Qualcomm is heavily promoting the heterogeneous computing approach they are taking with their chips where the individually optimised components of the chip (GPU, ISP, DSP) are bring used to handle different parts of the same tasks for things like AR/VR and machine learning. This apparently allows them to improve performance whilst maintaining lower battery drain, if true this sounds like a great approach, I wonder what the next “Signal Process” will be?
The 835 supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 4 fast charging protocol that can provide “five hours of battery from just 5 minutes of charging”, see our QC4 post for more details on that one! Technically QC4 is compatible with USB C, and QC4 charges can output the 5v 3amp charge as per the USB Power Delivery spec, however, the actual QC4 technology is proprietary and is not a part of the USB-PD spec and as such may technically breach the Android Compatibility Definition Document, however, I’m not thinking this will be a barrier.
Of course, no top-end chip is complete without some AR/ VR compatibility and Qualcomm is boasting a 20% reduction in motion-to-photon- latency, or in English there is a 20% reduction in the time it takes the processor to compute and output the results of your head motion, hopefully reducing VR nausea.
The 835 brings with it all of the standard connectivity you would expect, Wi-Fis, MIMOs, x10 LTE, however, one nice inclusion is Bluetooth 5.0 compatibility; yes that’s right, this is the first official Bluetooth 5.0 certified chip. Unfortunately though, Bluetooth 5.0 does little to improve the many many issues with Bluetooth pairing and audio, so OEMs please keep our headphone jacks in!
The first device to support the Snapdragon 835 isn’t a phone, tablet or even a Convertible laptop hybrid, no it’s a pair of AR/VR smart glasses that are well into development, so they may be first announced but I doubt they’ll be first to market.
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(CNSNews.com) - Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an ordinance that banned cross burning, the court revisited the matter Wednesday, this time reviewing a Virginia statute that makes it illegal to burn a cross with the intent to threaten or intimidate someone.
Three men who were convicted under the Virginia law have used the First Amendment as a defense. But an attorney representing the state defended the law's constitutionality on the grounds that it protects citizens from groups like the Ku Klux Klan that might pose a threat to blacks, Catholics or Jews.
"The cross is a symbol the Klan has used to threaten bodily harm," Virginia solicitor William H. Hurd told the justices. "It is illegal to burn a cross with the intent to intimidate."
Some of the justices appeared to buy into that view, including Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's only black member. Thomas said cross burning conveys a message of racism that permeated the South for more than 100 years.
"This was a reign of terror, and the cross was a sign of that," he said. "It is unlike any symbol in our society. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population."
The case follows a 1992 Supreme Court ruling involving a St. Paul, Minn., ordinance that prohibited cross burning with the intent to arouse anger "on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." The court only focused on the second part of the St. Paul ordinance, however, which gave rise to the Virginia challenge - whether a cross-burning statute that focuses on intimidation violates the First Amendment.
University of Richmond law professor Rodney A. Smolla, an attorney for the Virginia men, said the court should uphold the Virginia Supreme Court's decision in favor of his clients. Smolla argued that the facts of this case are nearly identical to the St. Paul case.
To single out cross burning, Smolla argued, represents viewpoint discrimination, which the court has consistently said violates the First Amendment. He also compared the concept of burning a cross to burning a flag, an action the court said was permissible in a 1989 decision.
"There is a huge difference between burning a flag and burning a cross," countered Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "A flag is a symbol of our government. A cross is not an attack on the government, it's meant to threaten people."
A Virginia trial court found all three men guilty of intimidating individuals for burning crosses. A state appeals court upheld their convictions, but the state supreme court, relying on the R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul ruling, overturned the decision.
The case stems from two separate incidents. In May 1998, Richard J. Elliott and Jonathan O'Mara burned a cross in the yard of a black Virginia Beach man, according to court records. Another incident took place in August 1998 in Carroll Country, Va., when Barry Elton Black burned a cross at a KKK rally that frightened a neighbor.
Hurd stood by the convictions and told the justices the First Amendment was not at issue since the law only banned actions that were found to be threats. He said Barry Elton Black, for instance, came from Pennsylvania to lead the rally in southwest Virginia after learning that blacks and whites were holding hands.
The Bush administration defended Virginia's law. It has also received the support of 14 states that either have similar laws on the books or want the authority to forbid such an activity.
Michael R. Dreeben, a deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department, spoke about the historical context of cross burning and its use to instill fear in some individuals.
But during his argument, Thomas, who rarely makes comments or asks questions, interrupted Dreeben. Thomas said Dreeben was "understating the symbolism" of cross burning.
The court was again without Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is recovering from a knee operation.
The case is Virginia v. Black and will be decided before next June.
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Historical Events In August - 15
Saturday, 13 August 2022
2013 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut on August - 15.
2017 Falling tree kills 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira on August - 15.
2017 Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in "Nature Communications" on August - 15.
2017 Barack Obama 's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." in response to Charlottesville violence becomes most-liked tweet ever on August - 15.
2017 On August - 15 daniel Craig confirms he will play James Bond one more time
2018 Italian PM Giuseppe Conte declares a 12-month state of emergency in Liguria after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge on August - 15.
2018 Boat overturns in floods near the Nile in Northern Sudan, leaving 25 dead, most of them school children on this day in history.
2018 On August - 15 suicide bomber attacks tuition centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 48 and injuring 67
2018 Australian Senator Fraser Anning evokes Nazi euphemism "a final solution to the immigration problem", in proposing outlawing Muslim immigration into Australia in parliament speech on this day in history.
2018 Record 72,000 Americans (up 10%) killed by drug overdoses in 2017 in new figures by Centers for Disease Control on this day in history.
2018 On this day in history first ever US execution by fentanyl of Carey Dean Moore at Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln
2018 Bar-hopping for pintxos (Basque tapas) in San Sebastián, Spain, named world's best food experience in Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist on August - 15.
2018 US President Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA Director and Trump critic John Brennan on this day in history.
2019 On August - 15 the European Central Bank shuts down PNB Banka after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called Norvik Banka, was Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and was a critic of the Baltic country's financial authorities.
2020 On this day in history the Japanese bulk carrier Wakashio, which stranded on a reef in Mauritius last month, breaks in half. Approximately 1,000 tonnes of oil are spilled into the ocean, becoming the largest environmental disaster in the history of Mauritius.
2021 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a snap election for 20 September, two years ahead of schedule on this day in history.
2021 2021 Taliban offensive: The Taliban capture Kabul; the Afghan government surrenders to the Taliban on this day in history.
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Police have issued an appeal for a missing marsupial.
A wallaby escaped from an animal park in North Yorkshire on Monday night.
The force said the 2ft tall animal went missing from the Filey Bird, Garden and Animal Park in Filey overnight on Monday.
It’s a popular place to visit for tourists, including many Teessiders who take the short trip down the North Yorkshire coast for days out and holidays.
Filey Police said on its Facebook page: “G’day mate. There’s a lost Wallaby from Filey Bird Garden and Animal Park, Scarborough Road, Filey.
“It has escaped at some point overnight.
“It is described as about 2ft tall (and) brownish grey in colour. If seen please ring us on 101. Thank you.”
Wallabies are native to Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand and are similar to kangaroos - only slightly smaller.
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Data collected as a part of a survey on radon concentrations from about 40 000 dwellings in England for six contrasting geological units were analysed to evaluate the impact of house-specific factors (building characteristics and construction dates) and of proximity to geological boundaries. After adjusting for temperature and outdoor radon, geological unit, house type, double glazing and date of building were found to have a statistically significant influence on indoor radon concentrations and explained about 29 % of the total variation between dwellings in logarithmically transformed radon values. In addition, there were statistically significant differences in radon concentrations according to proximity to geological boundaries categories for most of the geological units, but no consistent pattern could be detected.
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believed to have never before been made in print, possibly because no previous writer thought it worth making. If so, some service will here have been done, in pointing out for the first time its importance. Any definitions less distinctive than those just given would fail to mark the exact outlines of actual or present supply and demand.
The nature and limits of such supply and demand being thus ascertained, the manner in which they affect price is next to be considered. The prevailing doctrine on this subject is variously expressed. Sometimes the statement is simply that supply and demand determine price; sometimes, a little less loosely, that price depends on the proportion or relations between supply and demand. Always it is assumed that price rises when demand exceeds supply, and falls when supply exceeds demand. These are the popular ways of putting the case, and in none of them is there anything inconsistent with the more scientific language used by Mr. Mill, who, however, besides systematising previous notions on the subject, has made some material additions to the stock. With arguments which appeared to me to be irresistible, until I caught myself half unconsciously resisting them, he maintains that price depends on the equation of supply and demand; propounding as the law of value or price, that the price
l resulting from competition will be the one at which demand and supply—the quantity supplied and the quantity demanded—will be equalised. These several propositions are quite consistent with each other; they are one and all versions, more or less complete, of a doctrine preached by the first teachers of political economy, and unanimously accepted as axiomatic by their successors. Nevertheless, in opposition to pre-eminent authority and universal credence, the present writer is heretic enough to assert that not one, or at least not more than one, of these propositions is strictly and invariably true. They are indeed not put forward by their propounders unconditionally; they are not represented to be applicable except to a market in which competition is perfectly free and unrestricted—in which dealers, on the one hand, are anxious to get the utmost for their goods, and customers, on the other, anxious to get the utmost for their money. Neither—although this point is not so generally insisted on—can they be applicable unless goods be offered unreservedly for sale, or unless the customers be at least two in number. Evidently they cannot apply either if dealers are resolved not to sell below a certain price, or unless there be customers as well as dealers to compete with each other. But what I presume to assert is, that even though all these conditions be fulfilled, the propositions I am impugning will still be untenable. How can such presumption be excused ? How can such audacity be justified ? Clearly only by my making good my case, only by my completely proving my assertions. This, however, I shall do to the satisfaction of every competent judge,
if I cite examples inconsistent with the propositions in questionexamples in which the relations between supply and demand do not determine price in which, though demand exceed supply, price does not rise—in which, at the price finally resulting from competition, supply and demand, or the quantity offered for sale at a certain price and the quantity demanded at that price will not be equal; and such examples I undertake to bring forward.
When a herring or mackerel boat has discharged on the beach, at Hastings or Dover, last night's take of fish, the boatmen, in order to dispose of their cargo, commonly resort to a process called “Dutch auction." The fish are divided into lots, each of which is set up at a higher price than the salesman expects to get for it, and he then gradually lowers his terms, until he comes to a price which some bystander is willing to pay rather than not have the lot, and to which he accordingly agrees. Suppose on one occasion the lot to have been a hundredweight, and the price agreed to twenty shillings. If, on the same occasion, instead of the Dutch form of auction, the ordinary English mode had been adopted, the result might have been different. The operation would then have commenced by some bystander making a bid, which others might have successively exceeded, until a sum was arrived at beyond which no one but the actual bidder could afford or was disposed to go. That sum would not necessarily be twenty shillings : very possibly it might be only eighteen shillings. The person who was prepared to pay the former price might very possibly be the only person present prepared to pay even so much as the latter price; and if so, he might get by English auction for eighteen shillings the fish for which at Dutch auction he would have paid twenty. In the same market, with the same quantity of fish for sale, and with customers in number and every other respect the same, the same lot of fish might fetch two very different prices.
This, however, although a very noteworthy case, is not a case in point, and the only motive for bringing it forward is to show the utility of our amended definitions of supply and demand. If by supply were meant the quantity absolutely offered for sale, there would here be an instance of price varying while supply and demand -the quantity offered for sale and the quantity demanded—remained the same. But if we adhere to ur own definitions, we shall see that supply and demand varied just as much as price. When the price was twenty shillings the supply was not the same as when the price was eighteen. In both cases it was indeed a hundredweight of fish ; but in the one case it was a hundredweight offered for sale at twenty shillings, and in the other a hundredweight virtually offered at eighteen shillings; while the quantity demanded, instead of being a hundredweight for which somebody or other was prepared to pay something or other, was a hundredweight for which some one was
prepared to pay, in the one case twenty shillings, and in the other eighteen shillings. This, then, is no example of price varying while the relations of supply and demand remain unaltered ; nor does such a variation seem to be possible in a market under the influence of unrestricted competition. But though no instance of this sort be producible, examples of a converse character are as plentiful as blackberries. Although, where competition has full sway, price can never vary if supply and demand remain the same, price often continues the same while supply and demand vary exceedingly. Suppose two persons at different times, or in different places, to have each a horse to sell valued by the owner at fifty pounds; and that in the one case there are two, and in the other three persons, of whom every one is ready to pay fifty pounds for the horse, though no one of them can afford to pay more. In both cases supply is the same, viz., one horse at fifty pounds; but demand is different, being in one case two, and in the other three, horses at fifty pounds. Yet the price at which the horses will be sold will be the same in both cases, viz., fifty pounds. Or again, reverting to our former hypothesis, suppose that when a hundredweight of fish was sold by auction for eighteen shillings, there was no more fish of the same description in the market; but that no one, except the actual purchaser, was willing to buy any at that price, and that even he did not want to buy more than a hundredweight. The whole demand, then, was one hundredweight of fish at eighteen shillings. But now suppose that, though there was only one hundredweight of that sort of fish to be had, the actual purchaser would willingly have bought three hundredweight at the same price if he could have got them; or suppose that two other customers as well as himself, though neither of them willing to pay more than eighteen shillings a hundredweight, would each of them have been glad to take a hundredweight at that price if he had not forestalled them. The total demand would then have been three hundredweight at eighteen shillings, yet the resulting price would still have been only eighteen shillings, the same as it was when the demand was only one hundredweight, the supply all the time remaining the same. Here are palpable examples of the relations between supply and demand varying without any variation of price, and such examples might evidently be multiplied at pleasure.
Perhaps this sale of fish may be deemed an exceptional transaction. Even if it were so, its importance as an example would be in no degree impaired, for a scientific law admits of no exceptions whatever; one single exception suffices to deprive it of all legal character. If one single instance could be found or conceived in which water failed to seek its own level, that water seeks its own level would cease to be a law. So, however exceptional might be an instance of price remaining unaffected while supply and demand varied, that one instance would be not the less conclusive against the notion that price depends on supply and demand, or that the relations of these determine price. But, in fact, the instance selected, instead of being exceptional, is almost typical of commercial transactions in general, most of which partake more or less of the character of sales by auction. Every trader who wishes, as all traders do, to get the utmost for his goods, begins by setting a price upon them, probably the highest at which he thinks they can be speedily sold. If the sale simply answers his expectation, he will have no motive for altering his price, but he will be tempted to raise or will be obliged to reduce it, either at once or gradually, if he finds the goods go off much more rapidly in the one case, or much more slowly in the other, than he anticipated. In either case, he will imitate the practice of an auctioneer, adopting the Dutch method when he reduces the set up price, and the English mode when he raises it. The price finally reached may probably be the highest at which the stock then remaining in hand can be disposed of, but although in that case no customer might be willing to pay a higher price for any part of that remainder, the whole body of customers might be very glad to take much more than the whole remainder if more could be got at the same price. They might or they might not be; but whether they were or not, the price in the circumstances supposed would remain unaltered, that is to say, the price would not vary, whether, while supply remained the same, demand were or were not in excess of supply. It would not, in short, follow that, because price had reached the utmost height at which any of the customers would purchase at all, therefore the stock in hand was the utmost which customers would have consented to purchase at that price. Exceptions, it is said, prove the rule, but to the rule that price depends on the relations between supply and demand, the exceptions are evidently so numerous, that beneath their weight of proof the rule itself would be crushed as completely as Tarpeia was beneath the weight of Sabine bucklers.
The illustration already used will serve to refute another of the popular fallacies respecting supply and demand. The demand of horses at fifty pounds each, or of fish at eighteen shillings a hundredweight, may, as we have seen, be three times as great as the supply, without occasioning any increase of the price of horses or fish. When a tradesman has placed upon his goods the highest price which any one will pay for them, the price cannot, of course, rise higher, yet the supply may be below the demand. A glover in a country town, on the eve of an assize ball, having only a dozen pair of white gloves in store, might possibly be able to get ten shillings a pair for them. He would be able to get this if twelve persons were willing
to pay that price rather than not go to the ball, or than go ungloved. But he could not get more than this, even though, while he was still higgling with his first batch of customers, a second batch, equally numerous and neither more nor less eager, should enter his shop, and offer to pay the same but not a higher price. The demand for gloves which at first had been just equal to the supply would now be exactly doubled, yet the price would not rise above ten shillings a pair. Such abundance of proof is surely decisive against the supposition that price must rise when demand exceeds supply. Although, however, price does not always rise when demand exceeds supply, it must needs fall when supply exceeds demand, provided always that competition is allowed free play, and that goods are offered unreservedly for sale. This is the one solitary truth among the fallacies of the popular theory. In the circumstances supposed, a dealer must either lower his terms or part of his stock will be left on his hands. Three horses cannot possibly be sold at fifty pounds a piece, nor three hundredweight of fish at eighteen shillings a hundredweight, nor three pair of gloves at three shillings a pair, if at those prices only one horse, or one hundredweight of fish, or one pair of gloves be demanded. If a dealer wish to sell more than is actually demanded, he must tempt customers to demand more by reducing his price.
Next we come to the supposed dependence of price on the equation of supply and demand; and here I find myself in collision with Mr. Mill, feeling in consequence a little as Saul of Tarsus might have felt, if, while sitting at the feet of Gamaliel, he had suddenly found himself compelled by a sense of duty to contradict his master. But Mr. Mill is not one of those teachers who desire that their scholars should prefer them to truth, as Cicero foolishly boasted of preferring Plato. On the contrary, there is nothing respecting which he is more likely to be curious than the grounds on which others differ from his views. Now his theory is that price is always tending to a point at which supply and demand will be equal; that price will keep falling towards this point as long as supply exceeds demand, and rising towards it as long as demand exceeds supply. I venture to assert that no part of this theory is strictly or literally true. One half of it, I submit, was completely refuted when examples were given of demand greatly exceeding supply without occasioning the sınallest increase of price; and with regard to the other half also, I undertake to show that, though perhaps near enough to the truth for most practical purposes, it is not accurate enough to satisfy the rigid requirements of science.
No doubt, when of goods offered unreservedly for sale, the supply exceeds the demand, the whole stock cannot be sold unless the price be lowered to a point at which supply and demand will be equalised ; but it does not follow that the fall of price will then cease. The only
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ICE HSI holiday counterfeit operation seizes $1 million in counterfeit drugs, products
NEW ORLEANS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans seized 59,425 counterfeit items valued at more than $1 million during a holiday-related intellectual property rights surge operation.
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Glyphosate-resistant giant ragweed in Arkansas was reported in 2005. A study was conducted to (1) confirm and characterize the glyphosate resistance in giant ragweed, (2) determine if reduced absorption or translocation is the mechanism of glyphosate resistance in giant ragweed, and (3) evaluate the efficacy of nine POST-applied soybean herbicides to control glyphosate-resistant and -susceptible giant ragweed. Based on the rate required to kill 50% of plants (LD50 values), resistant giant ragweed biotypes from Greene and Jefferson counties were 2.3- to 7.2-fold less sensitive to glyphosate compared to susceptible biotypes. Glyphosate absorption and translocation for glyphosate-resistant and -susceptible biotypes was similar at 24 and 72 h after treatment. Thus, differential absorption or translocation is not a mechanism of glyphosate resistance in this resistant giant ragweed biotype. Control of resistant giant ragweed biotypes with glyphosate at a labeled field application rate of 840 g ha−1 was only 60% or less compared to complete control of a susceptible giant ragweed biotype. However, bentazon, carfentrazone, cloransulam, and fomesafen controlled both biotypes more than 95%.
Nomenclature: Bentazon; carfentrazone; cloransulam; fomesafen; glyphosate; giant ragweed, Ambrosia trifida L.; soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr.
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Why Stones is used in Electrical Switchyard & Transformer Yard:
Reasons for using Stones is used in Electrical Switchyard & Transformer Yard:
- Stones in the substation is provided to reduce the step potential and touch potential when operators work on switch yard. Step and touch potential occurs due to the short circuit current flows on the conductor.
- All the substation is provided with the good grounding system or low resistance path to the fault current. Therefore to provide the high resistance for foot and ground, the stones are provided.
- Stones eliminate the growth of small weeds and plants inside the switchyard or transformer yard
- It protects the moisture content evaporation and keeps the ground wet.
- Most in switchyard Power Transformers insulated with the insulation oil. The insulating oil spillages catches fire easily. So Stones/Gravel is provided to protect from fire when oil spillage takes place.
- Moisture on the floor level get minimized.
- Compensate the vibration in transformer which has been caused due to magnetostriction in core
- Improves yard working condition.
- It restricts entering of snakes and other reptiles as the surface would be inconvenient to crawl.
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The story of the Howell-Price brothers is one of the most remarkable examples of a family at war. Six Howell-Price brothers served during the First World War. They were sons of a Welsh clergyman, who for many years was the vicar of St Silas's Anglican Church in Waterloo, Sydney.
When war broke out in 1914, the brothers ranged in age from David, 33, to down to Richmond, 18. All the brothers except David served overseas with distinction and were highly decorated. Sadly, the three youngest brothers were all killed in action on the Western Front.
David had served in the South African War. During the First World War he remained in Australia as the adjutant of a light horse (militia) regiment.
Sub-Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander) John Howell-Price DSO, DSC (1886-1937)
John Howell-Price served with the Royal Naval Reserve from 1915 to 1918 and in the Royal Australian Navy from 1918 to 1921. He survived the sinking of the HMS Alcantara in February 1916 and took part in the submarine attack on Zeebrugge, Belgium, on 23 April 1918 for which he received the Distinguished Service Order. He subsequently served with the Merchant Navy until his death on 13 November 1937 in Liverpool, England.
Major Frederick Phillimore Howell-Price DSO (1888-1978)
Frederick Howell-Price enlisted as a Driver in 6 Company, Australian Army Service Corps, attached to the 2nd Light Horse Brigade. He served at Gallipoli from September to December 1915 and also during the Romani, Beersheba, Jericho Valley and Syrian Operations in 1916 and 1917. During this time he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and twice mentioned in despatches. He returned to Australia in May 1919.
Lieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price DSO, MC (1890-1916)
Owen Glendower Howell-Price was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, AIF and subsequently served at Gallipoli where he won the Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches for his bravery at Lone Pine. During July and August 1916 he fought at Pozieres and Mouquet Farm, France, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was again mentioned in dispatches. Owen was killed in action near Flers, France on 2 November 1916 . His final words were 'Give my love to the Battalion'.
Lieutenant (later) Major Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price DSO, MC (1894-1917)
Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion AIF and subsequently served at Gallipoli. It was here he was mentioned in despatches for work in the Lone Pine Battles. He also fought at Armentieres, France, June 1916 for which he received the Distinguished Service Order, the Somme in July, Flers in November and at Bullecourt in March 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross and was later to die at Broodseinde, Belgium on 4 October 1917.
Lieutenant Richmond Gordon Howell-Price MC (1896-1917)
Richmond Gordon Howell-Price enlisted in December 1915 and served as a Trooper and Corporal in Light Horse units in the Middle East and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion AIF in December 1916. He was killed in action at Bullecourt, France 4 May 1917 and was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.
- 2nd Lieutenant David C W Howell Price
- Major Frederick Phillimore Howell-Price
- Lieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price
- Major Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price
- Second Lieutenant Richmond Gordon Howell-Price
- Chris Coulthard Clark, The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition : lives from the Australian dictionary of biography, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1993, pp. 189-191
- David Horner, Howell-Price, Owen Glendower (1890–1916), Australian dictionary of biography
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A man walks his dog through Taikoo Li mall after many retail stores were closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 on May 10 in Beijing
China has reported disappointing economic data for the month of April, underscoring the extensive damage Covid lockdowns have wreaked on the country.
The world's second largest economy reported shocking drops in retail sales and factory production, widely missing market expectations.
Retail sales plunged 11.1% in April from a year ago, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. That was well below the 6.1% drop forecast in a Reuters survey of economists, and also much lower than the 3.5% decrease seen in March.
Industrial production fell 2.9% last month from a year earlier, reversing a 5% gain in March.
This marks the worst contraction in industrial production since February 2020, when China's economy came to a near standstill during the initial coronavirus outbreak. Unemployment also surged to the second highest level on record.
The urban jobless rate hit 6.1% in April, up from 5.8% in March — which was already at a 21-month high. The only time China's jobless rate was higher was in February 2020.
Young people have been finding it especially hard to find jobs, the data showed, with the unemployment rate for those between 16 to 24 years of age rising to 18.2% — the highest ever.
Rising unemployment is a warning sign for the ruling Communist Party given the risk of social and political instability. After all, zero-Covid at the cost of surging unemployment is a hard sell politically,” said Larry Hu, chief China economist for Macquarie Capital.
By Laura He, CNN Business, Published May 15, 2022
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Sustaining a healthy dental condition requires choosing a Dentist that fulfills the specific needs of you and your family. Every Dentist provides services that are related to the protection and maintenance of dental health and oral hygiene as with children dentist in Aiea HI.
Significance of Family and Children Dentist
Some dentists only provide their services to a specific age group like for example, pediatric dentists who restrict their practice to providing dental care or treatment from infancy till adolescence. Family dentists cater to a variety of patients i.e. from infants to adults.
As they care for the whole family, they are able to identify common genetic characteristics in parents and their kids and provide care accordingly. Family dentists are as good at curing most kids' dental problems as pediatric dentists. Like Westchester children's dentists, family dentists are known to be the primary defense against dental problems.
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And as a matter of fact, the Dental Association strongly advises a minimum of two visits a year to your dentist's place. These visits should consist of routine check-ups or deep cleaning to eliminate the buildup of plaque and prevent tooth decay.
The dental problems can be long before detected even before the symptoms arise with the help of Preventative dental check-ups. A visit to your family dentist may sometimes include taking X-Rays which are radiograph examinations to identify if there are cavities or other jaw and tooth abnormalities.
The family dentist provides solutions for the dental needs of the whole family and offers a range of dental procedures i.e. Pediatric and Adult. This dentist can offer ample care for children with ways devised to protect against prospective tooth problems and main dental health.
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The project is designed to help parents improve their Internet safety knowledge and skills through participating in learning events hosted by Halley Movement and its NGO partners.
Parents and specially ‘Home Stay’ mothers will gain a strong understanding of the risks, harms and rewards that come with their child being online. This awareness campaign will identify the risks and address ways to mitigate the harms so that parents and children can reap the rewards of digital technology.
Halley Movement aims at reaching out a majority of community leaders, PTA members, Caregivers and Religious groups in order to create a greater confidence in their ability to manage the digital lives of their children. They will have learned ways to increase the safety, decrease the fear, while reaping the rewards of digital lives.
Several partners have expressed their wish to collaborate with this initiative.
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Celiac disease is a disease that occurs as a result of an abnormal response by the immune system to gluten, a protein found in cereals such as barley and rye, especially wheat. What is celiac disease? What are the symptoms of celiac disease? How is celiac disease diagnosed? How should be fed in celiac disease?
What are the symptoms of celiac disease?
In celiac disease, the prolamines in wheat, barley, oats and rye are toxic when they reach the small intestine wall. These polypeptides damage the intestinal lumen, the small intestine mucosa loses its normal structure, normal absorption is impaired with a decrease in enzyme concentrations. As a result of all these effects, symptoms such as chronic and recurrent diarrhea, oily and smelly stools, anorexia, vomiting, growth retardation, abdominal swelling, inadequate weight for age and neck for age are observed.
How is celiac disease diagnosed?
The first step in diagnosis is serological tests including EMA and tTG antibodies. Small intestine biopsy is required for definitive diagnosis.
How should be fed in celiac disease?
The treatment for celiac disease is a lifelong gluten-free diet. It has been shown that celiac patients who do not follow a gluten-free diet can develop short stature, various vitamin deficiencies, uterus, osteomalacia and some autoimmune diseases.
- Any food made with wheat, barley, rye, oats
- Bulgur, pasta, vermicelli, vermicelli, couscous
- Ice cream, ice cream cone, wafer, chocolate, waffle, chips
- Fruit yogurts
- Cornflakes, whole grain breakfast cereals
- canned meat
- Processed meat products such as salami, sausage, sausage, pastrami
- Yeasts other than sugar cane
- Salty, sauced cookies
- Malt, balsamic vinegar
- Salad dressings, bouillon tablets, spice mixes, instant soups, flavorings, ketchup, mayonnaise
- Instant salep, boza, turnip juice, beer, wine, whiskey, liqueur, brandy
Free foods in a gluten-free diet;
- Meat group (meat, chicken, turkey, fish)
- Egg and cheese types
- Milk and its products
- Dry beans
- Vegetables and fruits
- Honey, molasses, homemade jam
- Homemade tomato paste
Gluten-free grains (it is important to have the phrase "gluten free" against the risk of contamination);
- Brown rice
Gluten-free flour and starches;
- Gluten-free flour
- Rice flour
- Cornmeal / corn starch
- Buckwheat flour
- Potato starch
- Chickpeas, lentils, broad beans, peas, soy flour
What should be considered in a gluten-free diet?
Even a grain of gluten can be risky for people with celiac disease. For this reason, care should be taken not to contaminate the foods consumed with gluten-containing foods. Bread crumbs should not splash, the fat with which baked foods are fried should not be used again, the same grill should not be cooked without thoroughly cleaning, ready-made minced meat should not be bought, foods containing gluten should be kept in a separate cupboard at home, and all kitchen equipment of celiac people should be separate.
Label reading habit to children with celiac from a young age kazanshould be raised. Food additives such as stabilizer, starch, sweetener, emulsifier, hydrolyzed, plant protein may contain gluten.
Studies show that a gluten-free diet can result in malnutrition in terms of carbohydrates, fiber, iron, zinc, folate, and niacin. Getting support from a nutritionist can prevent these deficiencies.
One of the most common nutritional elements in gluten-free diets is dietary fiber. In order to meet the daily pulp requirement, grains with high fiber content such as buckwheat, amaranth and quinoa should be preferred instead of gluten-free grains such as potato and rice, which are commonly consumed in gluten-free diets, or the consumption of legumes should be increased.
Foods such as gluten-free bread and pasta are produced to make the gluten-free diet more sustainable. The processing of foods to obtain gluten-free products changes the macro and micronutrient composition of the food, thus the nutritional quality. Gluten-free products are lower in iron, folate, B vitamins and fiber. In addition, foods containing gluten have higher glycemic index, carbohydrate and fat content than their equivalents. Therefore, attention should be paid to the consumption frequency of these foods.
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Doubling is the premier way to accomplish the principal task of Collaborative Couple Therapy, which is to turn arguments into conversations and disengagement into engagement. When I double, I kneel next to one of the partners and speak as if I were that person talking to the other partner. I translate that person’s angry, defensive, or avoidant comment into a collaborative, confiding one. I’m going to use an example from a previous blog entry to describe the essence of doubling.
Jack (to Anna): You fuss too much with the baby. You—
From what I know of this couple, Anna is almost certain to react angrily, and the two are about to slip into the kind of escalated exchange that they’ve come to therapy to stop. I pre-empt the fight by moving in and replacing Jack’s “you” statement with an “I” statement (a vulnerable feeling).
Dan: Jack, let me soften that and see what you think. Here, I’ll be you talking to Anna. And for you, I’d say, “Anna, I miss the alone time we used to be able to have before Ella was born.”
Since I’m making a speculation—although an informed one—I quickly add, “Where am I right and where am I wrong in my guess about how you feel?”
Anna is almost certain to find my restatement easier to hear. She’s likely to turn to Jack and say something like, “It would make all the difference if you put it that way” or “Is that how you feel?” I prepare for the possibility, however, that she might say to Jack, “He said that, you didn’t!” My task then would be to double for her. “Anna, are you saying, ‘Jack, it’s too good to believe that you might actually feel that way, but it would be wonderful if you did’.” I’d be reshaping Anna’s fight-inducing comment into an intimacy-inducing one, as I did a moment before for Jack. Again, I’d add, “Anna, where am I right and where am I wrong in my guess about how you feel?”
But how does Jack feel about my replacing his “You fuss too much with the baby” with “I miss the alone time we used to be able to have.”? He might welcome it, seeing that my translation is more likely to get Anna to listen. He might feel relief in having his tender feelings brought into the open.
On the other hand, Jack might not want at the moment to talk about vulnerable feelings. He might say, “What I feel is that Anna fusses over the baby too much” or “No, you’ve got it all wrong. It’s what I said, which is….” But let’s say he welcomes the opportunity to confide his softer feelings. Turning to Anna, he says:
Jack: I feel foolish being jealous of my own daughter. I miss the intimacy that you get breast feeding Ella. I feel so left out.
Jack would be confiding feelings in a way that could jumpstart an intimate conversation. This example demonstrates how in doubling the therapist:
- Provides an in vivo demonstration of intimate talking.
- Serves as spokesperson, translator, and advocate for each partner.
- Recasts what each partner says in an effort to make it more satisfying to that partner and easier and/or more positively engaging for the other partner to hear.
- Interrupts an escalating exchange (and, in other cases, breathes life into a devitalized one).
- Turns what the couple is concerned about or struggling with at the moment into an opportunity for intimacy.
- Ends each doubling statement by asking in one form or another, “Where am I right and where am I wrong in capturing how you feel?”
But is it such a good idea to skip over Jack’s complaint that Anna fusses too much over Ella and to suggest the issue is also within him? Couldn’t he feel embarrassed or undercut? Couldn’t he believe I’m siding with Anna and putting the blame on him? He could. Accordingly, before making my intervention, I ask myself, “Is there a chance that my comment will alienate Jack in a way I can’t easily repair?” If I believe there is, I content myself with a less chancy intervention such as:
Dan: Here, I’ll be you, Jack, talking to Anna. And for you, I’d say, “Anna, I know we disagree about Ella, but don’t you wonder sometimes whether there might be at least a little something to my concern?”
I’m getting behind Jack in what he has been trying to say, reshaping his angry statement into one that might actually start a conversation. Instead of pressing his case, which is what he was about to do, I show how it might look if he were able to step back from the intensity of the moment and present what he wants to say in a more convincing and less accusing way.
If I stick more closely to what Jack has been saying—if I meet him where he is and pay attention to what he’s trying to express—he may be able to look at his vulnerable feelings, if not immediately, perhaps later in the session or in future sessions. People need to feel heard in order to feel safe enough to confide their vulnerable feelings or even just recognize that they have them.
Doubling reveals to partners the problematic aspects of their way of relating. By giving the partners examples of what confiding, acknowledging, and listening look like, the therapist shows by contrast how they have been accusing, dismissing, and not listening.
Doubling—speaking as one partner talking to the other—enables the therapist to intervene directly into the couple system.
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From 2021-2025, ChETEC-INFRA provides free access to infrastructures to researchers from any country, with proposals selected based on scientific excellence only. In addition, dedicated work packages (WP) improve the usability and accessibility of the several types of infrastructures and network them with each other, with the nuclear astrophysics community, and with other scientific disciplines.
ORChESTRA (Online Repository of ChETEC Stellar TRAjectories) is developed and maintained as a free open-source platform under ChETEC-INFRA. The aim of ORChESTRA is to publish regularly a fully documented library of certified trajectories, covering a wide range of stellar conditions for nuclear astrophysics simulations. Trajectories with initial conditions, origin and relevant information will be fully available. The required data to upload a trajectory are: 1) initial isotopic abundances, 2) evolution of time, temperature and density; 3) final isotopic abundances; 4) main description of the trajectory source; 5) description for a safe use of the trajectory, i.e., what studies can be done accurately using the data provided.
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In these times—aptly described as the age of dehydration—few food products appear to have aroused as much technical interest as has dried egg. Upon this point we have the criterion of the galaxy of papers and communications in the various trade and scientific journals. Admittedly, much of the interest is doubtless due to the painfully rare appearance of the goods in the form delivered by the hen. However, there is little doubt that some of the developments in our knowledge and usage of a convenient form of an otherwise highly perishable commodity may have wide repercussions in food‐preparation in the future, both in industry and in the household. It would appear that the attaining and maintaining of hygienic conditions in the dehydrating plants has received the attention it warrants. Naturally, unless reasonable care in the storage or usage of the finished product is exercised, conditions will occur under which rapid contamination with and multiplication of bacteria will occur. The intention of the Dried Egg (Control of Use) Order, 1945 (S.R. & O. No. 627), which forbids the use of dried egg in certain foods and in materials sold in the wet state, is to provide against such conditions. Of the desirable properties which a dehydrated product should possess, ease of reconstitution is one of the most important. In the bakery and allied trades the difficulty, or, more correctly, the variability, of solubility of various deliveries of dried egg has occasioned some complaint. It is interesting to note that, with a view to assisting wetting, and hence reconstitution, addition of surface‐active agents, either to the egg pulp before dehydration, or to the dried product, has been the subject of several patents. As regards keeping properties, dried egg offers no exception to the general rule that the rate of deterioration on storage decreases progressively with reduction in the moisture content. It is reported that a product containing as little as 2 per cent. of moisture is being manufactured in U.S.A. Apparently, the only satisfactory packing for such a highly‐dehydrated product is a sealed metal container. The deterioration of dried egg powder, with the production of the peculiar and characteristic off‐flavour, has been shown to be connected with a small amount of glucose originally present. This decreases during storage, and the development of unpalatability may be correlated with the amount of glucose remaining. At the same time, the solubility of the powder decreases, rendering reconstitution more difficult, and the whipping or beating properties, so vital in the making of cakes, become impaired. Initial removal of the glucose, such as De‐controlled fermentation, markedly improves the stability of the product; re‐addition of glucose to an egg pulp from which the natural carbohydrate has been removed yields on dehydration a powder showing the same effects of deterioration as ordinary dried egg. Addition of reducing monosaecharoses other than glucose has a similar effect. Recently‐published reports of work carried out at the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station provide strong evidence that the reaction mechanism resulting in the loss in solubility of dried egg powder is a two‐stage process. In the first stage, which does not in itself result in a decrease in solubility, the reducing group of the glucose molecule condenses with the free amino groups of the protein components; a further reaction then occurs which causes the protein to become insoluble. It had been previously discovered that addition to the egg pulp before drying of a simple amino‐acid such as glycine or alanine retarded the loss of solubility, although other forms of deterioration, such as the darkening of the colour of the powder, were not inhibited. Presumably, the glucose reacts preferentially with the added amino‐acid, instead of attacking the egg‐proteins. Another method of overcoming the loss of solubility is by the addition of substantial amounts of sucrose (or lactose) to the egg pulp before drying. How the protective action operates does not appear to be known, and it is peculiar that lactose, itself a reducing sugar, does not cause loss in solubility in the same manner as glucose. The “sugar‐dried egg” obtained on dehydration is readily soluble, and, since it possesses all, or nearly all, of the aerating properties of fresh egg, is claimed to be as good as frozen egg, or even shell egg, for cake‐making. Allocations of sugar‐dried egg are now being made to the bakery trade, and, should no difficulty be encountered in large‐scale production, it is to be presumed that in due course its use will become much more general. In the form now being supplied, sugar‐dried egg has an egg solids to sugar ratio of 2 to 1, thus allowing existing trade recipes to be rebalanced without recourse to awkward calculations. When reconstituted, 3 pounds of liquid egg contain approximately 5 ounces of sugar; this high sugar content of course restricts the use of this product to food preparations of a sweet nature. The mixture aerates rapidly, and, since it possesses a good oven spring, underbeating rather than full development of the batter gives the most satisfactory result. Additionally, the use of sugar‐dried egg lowers the amount of baking powder required; in some mixes baking powder may be omitted altogether. Sponges and similar goods of superior texture, flavour and keeping qualities may thus be made. Obviously, developments in other forms of dried egg and allied products are to be expected. Thus the previously‐mentioned protective action of lactose suggests the preparation of dehydrated mixtures of egg and milk or milk products, and in fact interesting experiments have been carried out involving the use of whey powder as a protective agent.
MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1946, MCB UP Limited
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Chittirai festival happens every year in the month of Chitrai (or Chaitra) at Madurai when the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi of Madurai to Lord Sundareswara is celebrated. This is witnessed by thousands of people at Madurai and all over the world.
Earlier in my site, I have written this story under the title “Legend of Madurai”.
As a part of this festival, Lord Azhagar, who resides 20 kilometres away from Madurai, comes and steps into the River Vaigai but does not come and witness the wedding. This act of stepping into the river is celebrated as a great event.
This is the story behind this event.
Azhagar Kovil is a quaint village with a hill situated about 20 kilometres from Madurai. The place is very beautiful, lush with vegetation with the River Silambaar flowing by. Silambaar is also known by the name “Noopura Gangai”. Here Lord Vishnu is known by the name Soundararaja Perumal or Azhagar (the handsome one). It is believed that when Lord Vishnu took the form of Trivikrama and raised his foot to measure the earth, Lord Brahma poured water from his ‘kamandala’ to wash the Lord’s feet and few drops of the water washing the Lord’s anklet fell at this place and this river was born. Hence the name ‘Noopura Gangai’ or “Silambaar”. “Noopur” in Sanskrit means anklet and “Silambu” in Tamil means the same.
Once a sage by name Suthapas, lived in this beautiful place propitiating Azhagar. Suthapas could withhold his breath and stay under water for long and in order not to be disturbed while praying, he used to go deep under the waters of Silambaar and withhold his breath and meditate.
One day, as he was meditating, sage Durvasa was passing by the river with a group of Rishis. Durvasa, with his yogic powers knew that a sage was inside the river and as was his temperament expected the sage to come out and pay obeisance to him, he being so senior.
Suthapas, on the other hand was so deeply engrossed in his prayer that he failed to notice the presence of Durvasa and the other sages on the banks of the river.
Durvasa mistook this as arrogance and cursed the sage.
‘So arrogant you are, to remain under water, you are not fit to be a human being, may you become the frog that you are! Mandooko Bhava! (Become a frog)” cursed the sage in an angry voice.
The voice shook Suthapas and before he could realise what was happening, he noticed that his body was turning to become amphibian.
He rushed to the surface of the river and fell at the feet of the sage. “Pardon me O Great sage! I was deeply meditating on the Lord that I did not realized your presence. Please pardon me for I never intended to disrespect anyone” he pleaded.
The ring of truth in Suthapas’ voice brought Durvasa to his senses. He realized that he had indeed cursed a person without reason. However, it could not be undone immediately. Durvasa prayed for a moment to Sri Narayana and said to Suthapas, “O Suthapas, you will be known as Mandooka Maharishi and you will go to the banks of the Vaigai River and continue your prayer to Sri Narayana. This Azhagar will come to Madurai and relieve you from the curse” So saying he blessed Suthapas and went his way.
Suthapas, now Mandooka slowly moved to a village by name Thenur, near Madurai, by the banks of the Vaigai River and continued his meditation there. After many years, Azhagar came to Madurai. Since he had to pass through forests, he dressed like a bandit it is said and therefore the name “Kalla Azhagar”. The Tamil word for bandit is ‘Kallan”
Kallazhagar came to Madurai with his entourage and blessed Mandooka and relieved him of his curse. He blessed the sage with visions of his ten ‘avatars’.
This festival of Azhagar coming to Thenur was being performed for many years by the Vaishnavites as a separate festival where Kallazhagar used to go from Azhagar Kovil to Thenur and back.
The Chittirai festival with Goddess Meenakshi’s wedding used to be celebrated by the Shaivites at Madurai. Credit goes to the great ruler Tirumalai Nayakkar for combining this Azhagar festival with the Chitrai festival. Nayakkar not only wanted to create bonhomie between the Shaivites and Vaishnavites, but wanted all communities to participate and prosper by this festival by inviting Azhagar to Madurai during the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi.
He planned this in a beautiful manner and created a beautiful lore for this purpose…
Goddess Meenakshi invites her brother Kallazhagar for her wedding with Lord Sundareswara. Kallazhagar promises to attend and starts from Azhagar Kovil well in advance. But he has the tendency to stay at every place his devotees ask him to stay and bless them and so by the time he reaches the banks of Vaigai, the wedding is over. Goddess Meenakshi and Sundareswara, along with another incarnation of Vishnu, come to meet and welcome Kallazhagar.
Kallazhagar is very much angry and disappointed that the wedding has been performed without his presence and turns to go back but is overwhelmed by the affection of the people who revere him and agrees to go to Vandiyur with them to relieve the curse of the sage Mandooka.
Here, it is understood that Tirumalai Nayakkar shifted the venue of this ritual in 1653 AD from Thenur to Vandiyur probably because Vandiyur was nearer to Madurai. He built a ‘Mandap’ at Vandiyur by name “Thenur Mandapam” where the Lord Kallazhagar could be worshipped and the ritual of granting relief to Mandooka Maharishi could take place.
After blessing the Maharishi, Azhagar goes back to Madurai and blesses his devotees with the visions of the ten ‘avatars’ (He is decorated in the forms of the ten avatars one by one) through the night and stays for one more day at Madurai. The next day in a floral decorated palanquin, Azhagar leaves for his abode Azhagar Kovil.
This event is celebrated year after year with pomp and gaiety and for any person born and brought up at Madurai, the mention of the Chittirai festival and Azhagar brings lots of nostalgia and joy to the mind.
The moment Azhagar reaches Madurai, he is welcomed with flower showers, crackers and music – the traditional Nadaswaram and Thavil (drum). Ladies welcome the Lord with ghee lamps made of rice flour and jaggery and sprouts called Mulappari. It is a sight of great religious fervour and joy and the welcoming ritual marks the grand entry of Azhagar into the city. Lots of folk dancers perform dance and music wearing their traditional costumes with their musical instruments in the respective folk styles.
In those days since the festival was in peak summer, maybe to quell the heat and to settle the dust due to huge crowds, there was this practice of spraying water with a leather pouch with tubes attached. This has become like a vow now and people pray for the wellbeing of their families and do this ritual in return. The male devotees offering this vow wear a colourful special dress made of velvet called ‘salladam’. The Pudu Mandapam which was built by Tirumalai Nayakkar is now the house of numerous tailors stitching these clothing and special caps for this vow. Even on this day tailors make good profit in the festival by stitching these special costumes.
Also it is the strong belief that the colour of the silk worn by Azhagar prior to the entry into the river Vaigai indicates how the year would be for the people. When Azhagar comes from his abode he comes dressed as a bandit in bandit costume (to escape from the bandits in the forest route!) Prior to stepping into the river he changes costume. A number of silk sarees are kept in a wooden box and the priest blindfolded picks out one from the box. If the colour is green, it is believed that the year would prove prosperous. If red, it indicated famine and drought, if white or blue, it would be not too good nor too bad and if yellow, it symbolizes lot of auspicious happenings. So the people who are gathered in lakhs to see Azhagar step into the river wait with bated breath to see the colour of his silk!
On the whole, the Chittirai festival in its entirety brought enormous joy to all as everyone took part in the activities and the city of Madurai wears a festive look buzzing with fairs and melas bringing people from all walks of life together to carry home beautiful memories.
That’s what festivals of our great land Bharat were intended for!
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