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Representative Warren Davidson announced plans to make crypto its own asset class at the Blockchain Solutions Conference. He’s drafted a federal law, and many industry players believe that the proposed legislation will provide much-needed clarity on the regulatory status of digital tokens.
US Lawmaker Introduces Crypto Bill To Clear Up The Confusion
Davidson hopes his plan will pave the way for reasonable government regulation that allows ICOs to prosper.
A longtime proponent of blockchain technology, Congressman Davidson once lamented that “current uncertainty surrounding the treatment of offers and sales of digital tokens is hindering innovation in the United States and will ultimately drive business elsewhere.”
If the bill makes its way into federal law books, the SEC could no longer classify ICOs as securities and eliminate the types of investigations currently hamstringing the industry.
Davidson’s bill is not the only one wending its way through Capitol Hill. Congressman Tom Emmer also has three pro-crypto proposals in play.
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In just over a week’s time, the Small Trans Library will be launching its first-of-its-kind Summer School! The school will consist of a weeklong series of events, workshops and seminars aimed at building both community and political engagement with a loose overarching theme of trans history.
The Small Trans Library is a community library, mutual aid organisation, and arts and events platform based in Dublin. The aim of the Library is simple: to create a thriving, diverse, and joyful environment for trans people in Ireland and abroad. The Summer School hopes to contribute to this goal by giving attendees a space dedicated to trans learning and shared experiences.
Events will take place both online and at different locations; in-person workshops and seminars will be held at the TENI offices at Ellis Quay, while outdoor events like Trans Self Defence and the Trans Picnic will happen in green spaces across the city.
The week will cover everything from Gay Liberationist history to trans zombies and robots in literature, as well as offering participants the chance to kick ass (or not) at Trans Self Defense, or make original art in a dedicated disabled space. The week will culminate in an interview with Trans History’s pre-eminent scholar, Susan Stryker.
All events in the Small Trans Library Summer School series are completely free, but some events are ticketed due to limited space. Registration for all ticketed events can be found here. Donation tickets are optional, and all donations received will go towards funding these and other completely free community and cultural events. Donations to the library’s ongoing mutual aid fund can be made here.
The STL hopes you have a good summer, and can’t wait to see you there!
Events are taking place from August 8 until August 14, finishing the week off with a community picnic in the Iveagh Gardens.
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Do you know? I mean, do you really know who you are?
It’s an important question. When you’re young, it’s not clear yet. Sometimes, you need to be able to ask for other people’s feedback. Asking for it is vital because you can direct your steps and do your best to get from where you are to where you want to be.
Once you’re my age, though, things are different. You’ve already made a few mistakes, and you’ve had your share of successes. When you need help, which is always the case somehow, especially if your commitments to the world and humanity go far beyond your well-being and sometimes your most precious relationships… I have had that experience; it’s a delicate balance.
In any case, when you’re my age, you seem to know better who you are, for better or worse. If there are things you can change, you know what you have to do. But the question is, do other people see you for who you are?
Suppose they do, which is rarely the case; why is it important?
For us to be able to continue our work in the world, people need to see us.
It’s like art; if you don’t ship the work and get the feedback, you don’t know its real value; why? Because you may start your creative work from what interests you, but when your work goes out there to your audience, your ability to touch and move people with it is vital for the future of your career and the possibility of continuing your work.
I belong to that breed of people who create the realities they wish to work in. I do. I don’t work in any organization, and I’m not fond of bureaucracy, politics, PR, and public opinion. I am utterly unemployable. But, I care deeply about people, about what is between a person and humanity. The impact we may have is of tremendous interest to me.
I must admit that at times during my professional circus career, it’s been evident that people who could help me were essential for the progression of my work. What they thought about it made a world of difference.
I was lucky in this sense. Some great generous people saw me for who I was. I can count them on one hand, but without them, I wouldn’t be writing this blog, helping so many other creative people, living the life I do now, or searching for what lies beyond what I know of myself today.
So, yes, people must see you and your work if you want to grow and contribute.
It is crucial to take care not to lose yourself in the appreciation of other people, especially if these are people whose opinions you value.
You need to be able to maintain your freedom to choose. This is easier said than done.
The secret is in understanding that no one but you knows how to keep going being you.
This is the million-dollar question. After having gone through all of the above roadblocks, possible forks in the road, plainly inevitable setbacks, and all other travel metaphors you can imagine for a life journey, the question always is, and always will be: Where is your bliss now?
I believe this is a question you need to ask at least once a year and give yourself an honest answer. Then ask the people you genuinely believe know you and who you trust, where they think your bliss lies, then make your choice.
In my humble experience, there is no other way to proceed.
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By David Madland
The employment figures released by the Department of Labor today show mixed news for workers. Unemployment fell to 9.7 percent in January 2010 from 10.0 percent in December 2009. Only 20,000 jobs were lost last month, and temporary employment increased, which is a harbinger of future job growth. This slowing of labor market losses, combined with last week’s positive GDP figures, show reasonably strong signs that the economy is starting to recover. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the same figures show that the economy lost over 1 million more jobs during the recession than previously estimated and that unemployment—especially long-term unemployment—remains at troublingly high levels. More than 14 million Americans are out of work, there are six job seekers for every available job, and 4 in 10 unemployed workers have been pounding the pavement searching for a new job for at least six months, a record level.
The Labor Department’s revisions of employment figures show that the economy shed 8.4 million jobs during the recession, instead of the 7.2 million, as previously estimated. To give a sense of how big this jobs hole is, we would need to create 350,000 jobs per month for the next 24 months just to recover what we have lost since the recession began, and that’s not even compensating for population increases. The United States has sometimes been able to create such high levels of job growth after a recession, but job growth during the most recent economic recovery was much, much slower. After the 2001 recession, it took several years before we saw any consistent job growth and 350,000 were created in only two months of the entire economic cycle.
The mixed news from today’s jobs report continued on many levels, but the overall direction of the labor market is trending up.
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Felder Rushing: How to make Yazoo clay work for you
Late this week, a window of opportunity opened briefly in my garden, and I jumped on it.
Some folks have great dirt in their garden, but those of us who have miserable sand or clay, in order to grow a wider array of plants, have to add stuff to what we are naturally blessed with.
My Yazoo clay is a type of mineral called montmorillonite, which swells into a sticky glob when wet and shrinks and turns as hard as concrete when dry. It has practically no porosity or oxygen, meaning roots can’t grow very deep. I might as well try planting in a flat deck of playing cards.
Digging it while wet is impossible; it just gobs up worse. Luckily, there is a brief moment of friability, just as it starts to dry out a little, when it becomes crumbly as chocolate cake. That’s when I pounce, digging shovel deep and adding stuff to it before it rains again.
Bark and compost to the rescue! Organic materials loosen and drain clay, allowing air to penetrate deeper and keeping it from packing back down. They also fluff and help sand hold moisture longer. Doesn’t take much to do the trick — think a handful of crumbled crackers to a bowl of chili — but it needs to be worked in thoroughly.
Unfortunately, while bark lasts longer than compost or manure, organic materials quickly decompose, leaving our soils flat again. Not much to do but keep adding more, which is easier if you dig in regularly and also use the material as a surface mulch (worms carry it down into the soil).
But I also follow the lead of athletic field managers by adding a special kitty litter-type material called expanded clay or slate, which never breaks down and holds up under compaction.
I use it in all my potting soils because it doesn’t crush or float up like white perlite. And I add it to my flower beds to help roots grow deeper, more branched and less likely to succumb to root rot in wet weather.
A couple of brands you might find at or have ordered for you quickly through local garden centers are Turface MVP (sold in big bags, or smaller amounts under the brand name Shultz Soil Conditioner), and Stalite PermaTill.
Both work great and last forever.
But there’s only a brief window of friability for getting it done easily.
Email Felder Rushing at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Weekend garden tips
Gardening with borderline cold hardy plants is a gamble, and many of us lost last weekend. Only replace what you can afford to lose again.
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Communication - The Key to a Successful Relationship
Whether you are into online dating or just dating offline you need to be good at communication. As it is said communication is an art and is necessary for any type of relationship, in our personal and professional lives. People that are poor communicators especially in a relationship do not generally have successful relationships. It can make a very negative effect on the relationship and could even lead to it breaking up. Communication has to flow both ways equally and has to be transparent and honest. While not everyone is born a great communicator over time and with practice it can be mastered. If you want your relationships to be a success you need to work on your communication skills.
Understand your partner’s communication type
Communication in relationships is broadly categorized into four kinds. Aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive and assertive are the four types of communication styles. Of the four types, dealing with an assertive partner is the easiest because they have an effective way of communicating while also keeping their partner’s thoughts and feelings in mind. Once you identify the kind of communication style of your partner it would ideal to communicate accordingly. In fact, both partners must understand and identify each other’s communication styles so that they could adapt and communicate more effectively with each other.
Keep the communication open at all times
Whatever the situation keep the lines of communication open at all times. There are times when we might be displeased with each other’s actions and decide to be silent about it at that moment. This is not the right attitude as it could lead to anger or resentment building up over time. Instead, be vocal about things and communicate with love by saying things in a gentle manner. When both partners adopt such an attitude it fosters love and the relationship thrives over time.
Discuss things together
there are times when certain things remain unspoken because of our busy professional and personal lives. However, take out the time at the end of the day to get together and discuss any concerns the either of you might have. When you address issues in the early stages they are nipped in the bud and do not lead to major conflicts. Taking out time to communicate with your partner daily will benefit the relationship immensely.
Transparency and honesty are the keywords
While communication between both partners is absolutely essential at all times it must be transparent and honest. When we share out thoughts and feelings honestly with one another it prevents any anger or resentment building up over time. Communicating with love and respect towards each other in an honest manner will strengthen the relationship over time.
Over time once you practice your communication skills they will improve even if you are not too great a communicator at the moment. Keeping your partner’s feelings in mind when communicating is essential at all times. When you communicate clearly and regularly there are hardly any chances of conflict arising in a relationship. Support and encourage each other in becoming more skillful communicators and apart from your personal relationship, it will improve other areas of your life too. | <urn:uuid:ca881af9-10a7-4223-add4-d4345ccf18cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beyondthecharter.com/12/05/communication-the-key-to-a-successful-relationship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954013 | 616 | 2.21875 | 2 |
But the wolf is an enterprising animal. He does not merely sit and look at what he wants, expecting it to come to him. Every wolf in the band knew that no matter how hard and long he might look that splendid food in the tree would not drop down into his waiting mouth. So they began to jump for it, and it was this midnight and wilderness ballet that Albert opened his eyes to watch.
One wolf, the biggest of the lot, leaped. It was a fine leap, and might have won him a championship among his kind, but he did not reach the prize. His teeth snapped together, touching only one another, and he fell. Albert imagined that he could hear a disappointed growl. Another wolf leaped, the chief leaped again, a third, a fourth, and a fifth leaped, and then all began to leap together.
The air was full of flying wolfish forms, going up or coming down. They went up, hearts full of hope, and came down, mouths empty of everything but disappointed foam. Teeth savagely hit teeth, and growls of wrath were abundant. Albert felt a ridiculous inclination to laugh. The whole affair presented its ludicrous aspect to him.
"Did you ever see so much jumping for so little reward?" he whispered to Dick.
"No, not unless they're taking exercise to keep themselves thin, although I never heard of a fat wolf."
But a wolf does not give up easily. They continued to leap faster and faster, and now and then a little higher than before, although empty tooth still struck empty tooth. Now and then a wolf more prone to complaint than the others lifted up his voice and howled his rage and chagrin to the moon. It was a genuine moan, a long, whining cry that echoed far through the forest and along the slopes, and whenever Albert heard it he felt more strongly than ever the inclination to laugh.
"I suppose that a wolf's woes are as real as our own," he whispered, "but they do look funny and act funny."
"Strikes me the same way," replied Dick with a grin. "But they're robbers, or would be if they could. That meat's ours, and they're trying to get it."
It was in truth a hard case for the wolves. They were very big and very strong. Doubtless, the selfsame wolf that had been driven away from the Annex by the mountain lion was among them, and all of them were atrociously hungry. It was not merely an odor now, they could also see the splendid food hanging just above their heads. Never before had they leaped so persistently, so ardently, and so high, but there was no reward, absolutely none. Not a tooth felt the touch of flesh. The wolves looked around at one another jealously, but the record was as clean as their teeth. There had been no surreptitious captures.
"Will they keep it up all night?" whispered Albert.
"Can't say," replied Dick. "We'll just watch."
All the wolves presently stopped leaping and crouched on the earth, staring straight up at the prizes which hung, as ever, most tantalizingly out of reach. The moonlight fell full upon them, a score or more, and Albert fancied that he could see their hungry, disappointed eyes. The spectacle was at once weird and ludicrous. Albert felt again that temptation to laugh, but he restrained it.
Suddenly the wolves, as if it were a preconcerted matter, uttered one long, simultaneous howl, full, alike in its rising and falling note, of pain, anguish, and despair, then they were gone in such swiftness and silence that it was like the instant melting of ghosts into thin air. It took a little effort of will to persuade Albert that they had really been there.
"They've given it up," he said. "The demon dancers have gone."
"Demon dancers fits them," said Dick. "It's a good name. Yes, they've gone, and I don't think they'll come back. Wolves are smart, they know when they're wasting time."
When they finished jerking their buffalo meat and venison, Dick took the fine double-barreled shotgun which they had used but little hitherto, and went down to the lake in search of succulent waterfowl. The far shore of the lake was generally very high, but on the side of the cabin there were low places, little shallow bays, the bottoms covered with grass, which were much frequented by wild geese and wild ducks, many of which, owing to the open character of the winter, had not yet gone southward. The ducks, in particular, muscovy, mallard, teal, widgeon, and other kinds, the names of which Dick did not know, were numerous. They had been molested so little that they were quite tame, and it was so easy to kill them in quantities that the element of sport was entirely lacking.
Dick did not fancy shooting at a range of a dozen yards or so into a dense flock of wild ducks that would not go away, and he wished also to save as many as he could of their shot cartridges, for he had an idea that he and his brother would remain in the valley a long time. But both he and Albert wanted good supplies of duck and geese, which were certainly toothsome and succulent, and they were taking a pride, too, in filling the Annex with the best things that the mountains could afford. Hence Dick did some deep thinking and finally evolved a plan, being aided in his thoughts by earlier experience in Illinois marshes.
He would trap the ducks and geese instead of shooting them, and he and Albert at once set about the task of making the trap. This idea was not original with Dick. As so many others have been, he was, in part, and unconscious imitator. He planted in the shallow water a series of hoops, graded in height, the largest being in the deepest water, while they diminished steadily in size as they came nearer to the land. They made the hoops of split saplings, and planted them about four feet apart.
Then the covered all these hoops with a netting, the total length of which was about twenty-five feet. They also faced each hoop with a netting, leaving an aperture large enough for the ducts to enter. It was long and tedious work to make the netting, as this was done by cutting the hide of an elk and the hide of a mule deer into strips and plaiting the strips on the hoops. They then had a network tunnel, at the smaller end of which they constructed an inclosure five or six feet square by means of stout poles which they thrust into the mud, and the same network covering which they used on the tunnel.
"It's like going in at the big end of a horn and coming out at the little one into a cell," said Albert. "Will it work?"
"Work?" replied Dick. "Of course, it will. You just wait and you'll see."
Albert looked out upon the lake, where many ducks were swimming about placidly, and he raised his hand.
"Oh, foolish birds!" he apostrophized. "Here is your enemy, man, making before your very eyes the snare that will lead you to destruction, and you go on taking no notice, thinking that the sunshine will last forever for you."
"Shut up, Al," said Dick, "you'll make me feel sorry for those ducks. Besides, you're not much of a poet, anyway."
When the trap was finished they put around the mouth and all along the tunnel quantities of the grass and herbs that the ducks seemed to like, and then Dick announced that the enterprise was finished.
"We have nothing further to do about it," he said, "but to take out our ducks."
It was toward twilight when they finished the trap, and both had been in the cold water up to their knees. Dick had long since become hardened to such things, but he looked at Albert rather anxiously. The younger boy, however, did not begin to cough. He merely hurried back to the fire, took off his wet leggings, and toasted his feet and legs. Then he ate voraciously and slept like a log the night through. But both he and Dick went down to the lake the next morning with much eagerness to see what the trap contained, if anything.
It was a fresh winter morning, not cold enough to freeze the surface of the lake, but extremely crisp. The air contained the extraordinary exhilarating quality which Dick had noticed when they first came into the mountains, but which he had never breathed anywhere else. It seemed to him to make everything sparkle, even his blood, and suddenly he leaped up, cracked his heels together, and shouted.
"Why, Dick," exclaimed Albert, "what on earth is the matter with you?"
"Nothing is the matter with me. Instead, all's right. I'm so glad I'm alive, Al, old man, that I wanted to shout out the fact to all creation."
"Feel that way myself," said Albert, "and since you've given such a good example, think I'll do as you did."
He leaped up, cracked his heels together, and let out a yell that the mountains sent back in twenty echoes. Then both boys laughed with sheer pleasure in life, the golden morning, and their happy valley. So engrossed were they in the many things that they were doing that they did not yet find time to miss human faces.
As they approached the trap, they heard a great squawking and cackling and found that the cell, as Albert called the square inclosure, contained ten ducks and two geese swimming about in a great state of trepidation. They had come down the winding tunnel and through the apertures in the hoops, but they did not have sense enough to go back the same way. Instead they merely swam around the square and squawked.
"Now, aren't they silly?" exclaimed Albert. "With the door to freedom open, they won't take it."
"I wonder," said Dick philosophically, "if we human beings are not just the same. Perhaps there are easy paths out of our troubles lying right before us and superior creatures up in the air somewhere are always wondering why we are such fools that we don't see them."
"Shut up, Dick," said Albert, "your getting too deep. I've no doubt that in our net are some ducks that are rated as uncommonly intelligent ducks as ducks go."
They forgot all about philosophy a few moments later when they began to dispose of their capture. They took them out, one by one, through a hole that they made in the cell and cut off their heads. The net was soon full up again, and they caught all the ducks and geese they wanted with such ridiculous ease that at the end of a week they took it down and stored it in the cabin.
They jerked the ducks and geese that they did not need for immediate use, and used the feathers to stuff beds and pillows for themselves. The coverings of these beds were furs which they stitched together with the tendons of the deer.
They began to be annoyed about this time by the depredations of mountain lions, which, attracted by the pleasant odors, came down from the slopes to the number of at least half a dozen, Dick surmised, and prowled incessantly about the cabin and Annex, taking the place of the timber wolves, and proving more troublesome and dangerous alike. One of them managed at night to seize the edge of an elk skin that hung on the roof of the cabin, and the next morning the skin was half chewed up and wholly ruined.
Both boys were full of rage, and they watched for the lions, but failed to get a shot at them. But Dick, out of the stores of his memory, either some suggestion from reading, or trappers' and hunters' tales, devised a gun trap. He put a large piece of fresh deer meat in the woods about a quarter of a mile from the cabin. It was gone the next morning, and the tracks about showed that the lions had been present.
Then Dick drove two stout forked sticks into the ground, the forks being about a yard above the earth. Upon these he lashed one of their rifles. Then he cut a two-foot section of a very small sapling, one end of which he inserted carefully between the ground that the trigger of the rifle. The other end was supported upon a small fork somewhat higher than those supporting the rifle. Then he procured another slender but long section of sapling that reached from the end of the short piece in the crotch some distance beyond the muzzle of the rifle. The end beyond the muzzle had the stub of a bough on it, but the end in the crotch was tied there with a strip of hide. Now, if anything should pull on the end of this stick, it would cause the shorter stick to spring the trigger of the rifle and discharge it. Dick tested everything, saw that all was firmly and properly in place, and the next thing to do was to bait the trap.
He selected a piece of most tempting deer meat and fastened it tightly on the hooked end of the long stick. It was obvious that any animal pulling at this bait would cause the short stick tied at the other end of it to press against the trigger of the rifle, and the rifle would be fired as certainly as if the trigger had been pulled by the hand of man. Moreover, the barrel of the rifle was parallel with the long stick, and the bullet would certainly be discharged into the animal pulling at the bait.
After the bait had been put on Dick put the cartridge in the rifle. He was careful to do this last, as he did not wish to take any chances with the trap while he was testing it. But he and Albert ran a little wall of brush off on either side in order that the cougar, if cougar it were, should be induced to approach the muzzle directly in front. When all the work was finished, the two boys inspected it critically.
"I believe that our timber wolves would be too smart to come up to that trap," said Albert.
"Perhaps," said Dick; "but the wolf has a fine intellect, and I've never heard that the cougar or puma was particularly noted for brain power. Anyhow, I know that traps are built for him in this manner, and we shall see whether it will work."
"Are we going to hide somewhere near by and watch during the night?"
"There's no need to make ourselves uncomfortable. If the gun gets him, it'll get him whether we are or are not here."
"That's so," said Albert. "Well, I'm willing enough to take to the cabin. These nights are growing pretty cold, I can tell you."
Taking a last look at the gun trap and assuring themselves that it was all right, they hurried away to Castle Howard. The night was coming on much colder than any that they had yet had, and both were glad to get inside. Albert stirred the coals from beneath the ashes, put on fresh wood, and soon they had a fine blaze. The light flickered over a cabin greatly improved in appearance and wonderfully snug.
The floor, except directly in front of the hearth, where sparks and coals would pop out, was covered with the well-tanned skins of buffalo, elk, mule deer, bear, and wolf. The walls were also thickly hung with furs, while their extra weapons, tools, and clothing hung there on hooks. It was warm, homelike, and showed all the tokens of prosperity. Dick looked around at it with an approving eye. It was not only a house, and a good house at that, but it was a place that one might make a base for a plan that he had in mind. Yes, circumstance had certainly favored them. Their own courage, skill, and energy had done the rest.
Albert soon fell asleep after supper, but Dick was more wakeful, although he did not wish to be so. It was the gun trap that kept his eyes open. He took a pride in doing things well, and he wanted the trap to work right. A fear that it might not do so worried him, but in turn he fell into a sound sleep from which he was awakened by a report. He thought at first that something had struck the house, but when his confused senses were gathered into a focus he knew that it was a rifle shot.
"Up, Al, up!" he cried, "I think a cougar has been fooling with our trap!"
Albert jumped up. They threw on their coats and went out into a dark and bitterly cold night. If they had not been so eager to see what had happened, they would have fled back to the refuge of the warm cabin, but they hurried on toward the snug little hollow in which the gun trap had been placed. At fifty yards they stopped and went much more slowly, as a terrific growling and snarling smote their ears.
"It's the cougar, and we've got him," said Dick. "He's hit bad or he wouldn't be making such a terrible fuss."
They approached cautiously and saw on the ground, almost in front of the gun, a large yellowish animal writhing about and tearing the earth. His snarls and rage increased as he scented the two boys drawing near.
"I think his shoulder is broken and his backbone injured," said Dick. "That's probably the reason he can't get away. I don't like to see him suffer and I'll finish him now."
He sent a bullet through the cougar's head and that was the end of him. In order to save it from the wolves, they took his hide from him where he lay, and spread it the next day on the roof of the cabin.
The gun trap was so successful that they baited it again and again, securing three more cougars, until the animals became too wary to try for the bait. The fourth cougar did not sustain a severe wound and fled up the mountain side, but Dick tracked him by the trail of blood that he left, overtook him far up the slope, and slew him with single shot. All these skins were added to their collection, and when the last was spread out to dry, Dick spoke of the plan that he had in mind.
"Al," he said, "these mountains, or at least this corner of them, seem to be left to us. The Sioux, I suppose, are on the warpath elsewhere, and they don't like mountains much, anyhow. Our wonderful valley, the slopes, and all the ravines and canyons are full of game. The beaver must be abundant farther in, and I propose that we use our opportunity and turn fur hunters. There's wealth around us for the taking, and we were never sure of it in California. We've got enough ammunition to last us two years if we want to stay that long. Besides, Al, old boy, the valley has been the remaking of you. You know that."
Albert laughed from sheer delight.
"Dick," he said, "you won't have to get a gun and threaten me with death unless I stay. I'll be glad to be a fur hunter, and, Dick, I tell you, I'm in love with this valley. As you say, it's made me over again, and oh, it's fine to be well and strong, to do what you please, and not always to be thinking, 'how can I stand this? Will it hurt me?'"
"Then," said Dick, "it's settled. We'll not think for a long time of getting back to civilization, but devote ourselves to gathering up furs and skins."
Chapter IX The Timber Wolves
The cold increased, although snow fell but little, which Dick considered good luck, chiefly on Albert's account. He wanted the hardening process to continue and not to be checked by thaws and permeating dampness. Meanwhile, they plunged with all the energy and fire of youth into the task of fur hunting. They had already done much in that respect, but now it was undertaken as a vocation. They became less scrupulous about sparing the buffaloes, and they shot more than twenty in the defiles of the mountains, gathering a fine lot of robes. Several more skins of the bear, grizzly, and silver tip were added to their collection, and the elk also furnished an additional store. Many wolverines were taken in dead falls and snares, and their skins were added to the rapidly growing heap.
They baited the trap gun once more, hoping that a fifth cougar might prove rash enough to dare it. No cougar came, but on the third night a scornful grizzly swallowed the deer meat as a tidbit, and got a bullet in the neck for his carelessness. In his rage, he tore the trap to pieces and tossed the rifle to one side, but, fortunately, he did not injure the valuable weapon, his attention turning instantly to something else. Later on the boys dispatched him as he lay wounded upon the ground.
Their old clothing was now about worn out and it also became necessary to provide garments of another kind in order to guard against the great cold. Here their furs became invaluable; they made moccasins, leggings, caps, and coats alike of them, often crude in construction, but always warm.
They found the beaver father in the mountains, as Dick had surmised, and trapped them in great abundance. This was by far their most valuable discovery, and they soon had a pack of sixty skins, which Dick said would be worth more than a thousand dollars in any good market. They also made destructive inroads upon the timber wolves, the hides of which were more valuable than those of any other wolf. In fact, they made such havoc that the shrewd timber wolf deserted the valley almost entirely.
As the boys now made their fur hunting a business, they attended to every detail with the greatest care. They always removed the skin immediately after the death of the animal, or, if taken in a trap, as soon after as possible. Every particle of fat or flesh was removed from the inside of the skin, and they were careful at the same time never to cut into the skin itself, as they knew that the piercing of a fur with a knife would injure its value greatly. Then the skin was put to dry in a cold, airy place, free alike from the rays of the sun or the heat of a fire. They built near the cabin a high scaffold for such purposes, too high and strong for any wild beast to tear down or to reach the furs upon it. Then they built above this on additional poles a strongly thatched bark roof that would protect the skins from rain, and there they cured them in security.
"I've heard," said Dick, "that some trappers put preparations or compounds on the skins in order to cure them, but since we don't have any preparations or compounds we won't use them. Besides, our furs seem to cure up well enough without them."
Dick was right. The cold, dry air of the mountains cured them admirably. Two or three times they thought to help along the process by rubbing salt upon the inner sides. They could always get plenty of salt by boiling out water from the salt springs, but as they seemed to do as well without it, they ceased to take the trouble.
The boys were so absorbed now in their interesting and profitable tasks that they lost all count of the days. They knew they were far advanced into a splendid open winter, but it is probably that they could not have guessed within a week of the exact day. However, that was a question of which they thought little. Albert's health and strength continued to improve, and with the mental stimulus added to the physical, the tide of life was flowing very high for both.
They now undertook a new work in order to facilitate their trapping operations. The beaver stream, and another that they found a little later, ran far back into the mountains, and the best trapping place was about ten miles away. After a day's work around the beaver pond, they had to choose between a long journey in the night to the cabin or sleeping in the open, the latter not a pleasant thing since the nights had become so cold. Hence, they began the erection of a bark shanty in a well-sheltered cove near the most important of the beaver localities. This was a work of much labor, but, as in all other cases, they persisted until the result was achieved triumphantly.
They drove two stout, forked poles deep into the ground, leaving a projection of about eight feet above the earth. The poles themselves were about eight feet apart. From fork to fork they placed a strong ridgepole. Then they rested against the ridgepole from either side other and smaller poles at an angle of forty or fifty degrees. The sloping poles were about a foot and a half apart. These poles were like the scantling or inside framework of a wooden house and they covered it all with spruce and birch bark, beginning at the bottom and allowing each piece to overlap the one beneath it, after the fashion of a shingled roof. They secured pieces partly with wooden pegs and partly with other and heavier wooden poles leaned against them. One end of the shelter was closed up with bark wholly, secured with wooden pegs, and the other end was left open in order that its tenants might face the fire which would be built three or four feet in front of it. They packed the floor with dead leaves, and put on the top of the leaves a layer of thick bark with the smooth side upward.
The bark shanty was within a clump of trees, and its open side was not fifteen feet from the face of an abrupt cliff. Hence there was never any wind to drive the smoke from the fire back into their faces, and, wrapped in their furs, they slept as snugly in the shanty as if they had been in the cabin itself. But they were too wise to leave anything there in their absence, knowing that it was not sufficient protection against the larger wild animals. In fact, a big grizzly, one night when they were at the cabin, thrust his nose into the shanty and, lumbering about in an awkward and perhaps frightened manner, knocked off half of one of the bark sides. It took nearly a day's work to repair the damage, and it put Dick in an ill humor.
"I'd like to get a shot at that bear!" he exclaimed. "He had no business trying to come into a house when he was not invited."
"But he is an older settler than we are," said Albert, in a whimsical tone.
Dick did get a shot at a bear a few days later, and it was a grizzly, at that. The wound was not fatal, and the animal came on with great courage and ferocity. A second shot from Dick did not stop him and the boy was in great danger. But Albert, who was near, sent two heavy bullets, one after the other, into the beast, and he toppled over, dying. It was characteristic of the hardy life they were leading and its tendency toward the repression of words and emotion that Dick merely uttered a brief, "Thanks, Al, you were just in time," and Albert nodded in reply.
The skin of old Ephraim went to join that of his brother who had been taken sometime before, and Dick himself shot a little later a third, which contributed a fine skin.
The boys did not know how hard they were really working, but their appetites would have bee a fine gauge. Toiling incessantly in a crisp, cold air, as pure as any that the world affords, they were nearly always hungry. Fortunately, the happy valley, their own skill and courage, and the supplies that Dick had brought from the last wagon train furnished them an unlimited larder. Game of great variety was their staple, but they had both flour and meal, from which, though they were sparing of their use, they made cakes now and then. They had several ways of preparing the Indian meal that Dick had taken from the wagon. They would boil it for about an hour, then, after it cooled, would mix it with the fat of game and fry it, after which the compound was eaten in slices. They also made mealcakes, johnnycakes and hoecakes.
Albert was fond of fish, especially of the fine trout that they caught in the little river, and soon he invented or discovered a way of cooking them that provided an uncommon delicacy for their table. He would slit the trout open, clean it, and the season it with salt and also with pepper, which they had among their stores. Then he would lay the fish in the hot ashes of a fire that had burned down to embers, cover it up thoroughly with the hot ashes and embers, and let it cook thirty or forty minutes—thirty minutes for the little fellows and forty minutes for the big ones. When he thought the fish was done to the proper turn, he would take it from the ashes, clean it, and then remove the skin, which would almost peel off of its own accord.
The fish was then ready for the eating, and neither Dick nor Albert could ever bear to wait. The flesh looked so tempting and the odor was so savory that hunger instantly became acute.
"They are so good," said Albert, "because my method of cooking preserves all the juices and flavors of the fish. Nothing escapes."
"Thanks, professor," said Dick. "You must be right, so kindly pass me another of those trout, and be quick about it."
It is a truth that both boys became epicures. Their valley furnished so much, and they had a seasoning of hard work and open mountain air that was beyond compare. They even imitated Indian and trapper ways of cooking geese, ducks, quail, sage hens, and other wild fowl that the region afforded. They could cook these in the ashes as they did the trout, and they also had other methods. Albert would take a duck, cut it open and clean it, but leave the feathers on. Then he would put it in water, until the feathers were soaked thoroughly, after which he would cover it up with ashes, and put hot coals on top of the ashes. When the bird was properly cooked and drawn from the ashes, the skin could be pulled off easily, taking the feathers, of course, with it. Then a duck, sweet, tender, and delicate, such as no restaurant could furnish, was ready for the hardy youngsters. At rare intervals they improve on this by stuffing the duck with seasoning and Indian meal. Now and then they served a fat goose the same way and found it equally good.
They cooked the smaller birds in a simpler manner, especially when they were at the bark shanty, which they nicknamed the "Suburban Villa." The bird was plucked of its feathers, drawn and washed, and then they cut it down the back in order to spread it out. Nothing was left but to put the bird on the end of a sharp stick, hold it over the coals, and turn it around until it was thoroughly broiled or roasted. They also roasted slices of big game in the same way.
As Albert was cooking a partridge in this manner one evening at the Suburban Villa, Dick, who was sitting on his buffalo-robe blanket in the doorway, watched him and began to make comparisons. He recalled the boy who had left Omaha with the wagon train six or eight months before, a thin, spiritless fellow with a slender, weak neck, hollow, white cheeks, pale lips, and listless eyes. That boy drew coughs incessantly from a hollow chest, and the backs of his hands were ridged when the flesh had gone away, leaving the bones standing up. This boy whom Dick contemplated was quite a different being. His face was no longer white, it was instead a mixture of red and brown, and both tints were vivid. Across one cheek were some brier scratches which he had acquired the day before, but which he had never noticed. The red-brown cheeks were filled out with the effects of large quantities of good food digested well. As he bent over the fire, a chest of good width seemed to puff out with muscle and wind expansion. Despite the extreme cold, his sleeves were rolled up to the elbow, and the red wrists and hands were well covered with tough, seasoned flesh. The eyes that watched the roasting bird were intent, alert, keenly interested in that particular task, and in due course, in any other that might present itself.
Dick drew a long breath of satisfaction. Providence had treated them well. Then he called loudly for his share of the bird, saying that he was starving, and in a few moments both fell to work.
Their fur operations continued to extend. They had really found a pocket, and isolated corner in the high Rockies where the fur-bearing animals, not only abundant, were also increasing. It was, too, the dead of winter, the very best time for trapping, and so, as far as their own goings and comings were concerned, they were favored further by the lucky and unusual absence of snow. They increased the number of their traps—dead falls, box traps, snares, and other kinds, and most of them were successful.
They knew instinctively the quality of the furs that they obtained. They could tell at a glance whether they were prime, that is, thick and full, and as they cured them and baled them, they classified them.
Constant application bred new ideas. In their pursuit of furs, they found that they were not quite so sparing of the game as they had been at first. Some of their scruples melted away. Albert now recalled a device of trappers of which he had read. This was the use of a substance generally called barkstone, which they found to be of great help to them in the capture of that animal.
The barkstone or castoreum, as it is commercially known, was obtained principally from the beaver himself. The basis of it was an acrid secretion with a musky odor of great power, found in two glands just under the root of the beaver's tail. Each gland was from one and one half to two inches in length. The boys cut out these glands and squeezed the contents into an empty tin can. This at first was of a yellowish-red color, but after a while, when it dried, it became a light brown.
This substance formed the main ingredient of barkstone, and in their medicine chest they found a part of the remainder. The secretion was transferred to a bottle and the mixed with it essence of peppermint and ground cinnamon. As Albert remembered it, ground nutmeg also was needed, but as they had no nutmeg they were compelled to take their chances without it. Then they poured whisky on the compound until it looked like a paste.
Then the bottle was stopped up with the greatest care, and in about a week, when they stole a sniff or two at it, they found that the odor had increased ten or a dozen times in power.
They put eight or ten drops of the barkstone upon the bait for the beaver, or somewhere near the trap, and, despite some defects in the composition, it proved an extraordinary success. The wariest beaver of all would be drawn by it, and their beaver bales grew faster than any other.
Dick calculated one day that they had at least five thousand dollars worth of furs, which seemed a great sum to both boys. It certainly meant, at that time and in that region, a competence, and it could be increased greatly.
"Of course," said Dick, "we'll have to think some day of the way in which we must get these furs out, and for that we will need horses or mules, but we won't bother our heads about it yet."
After the long period of clear, open weather, the delayed snow came. It began to fall one evening at twilight, when both boys were snug in the cabin, and it came in a very gentle, soothing way, as if it meant no harm whatever. Big, soft flakes fell as softly as the touch of down, but every time the boys looked out they were still coming in the same gentle but persistent way. The next morning the big flakes still came down and all that day and all the next night. When the snow stopped it lay five feet deep on the level, and uncounted feet deep in the gullies and canyons.
"We're snowed in," said Albert in some dismay, "and we can't go to our traps. Why, this is likely to last a month!"
"We can't walk through it," said Dick meditatively, "but we can walk on it. We've got to make snowshoes. They're what we need."
"Good!" said Albert with enthusiasm. "Let's get to work at once."
Deep snows fall in Illinois, and both, in their earlier boyhood, had experimented for the sake of sport with a crude form of snowshoe. Now they were to build upon this slender knowledge, for the sake of an immediate necessity, and it was the hardest task that they had yet set for themselves. Nevertheless, it was achieved, like the others.
They made a framework of elastic stripes of ash bent in the well-known shape of the snowshoe, which bears some resemblance to the shape of the ordinary shoe, only many times larger and sharply pointed at the rear end. Its length was between five and six feet, and the ends were tightly wound with strips of hide. This frame was bent into the shoe shape after it had been soaked in boiling water.
Then they put two very strong strips of hide across the front part of the framework, and in addition passed at least a half dozen stout bands of hide from strip to strip.
Then came the hard task of attaching the shoe to the foot of the boy who was to wear it. The ball of the foot was set on the second crosspiece and the foot was then tied there with a broad strip of hide which passed over the instep and was secured behind the ankle. It required a good deal of practice to fasten the foot so it would not slip up and down; and also in such a manner that the weight of the shoe would be proportioned to it properly.
They had to exercise infinite patience before two pairs of snowshoes were finished. There was much hunting in deep snow for proper wood, many strips and some good hide were spoiled, but the shoes were made and then another equally as great confronted the two boys—to learn how to use them.
Each boy put on his pair at the same time and went forth on the snow, which was now packed and hard. Albert promptly caught one of his shoes on the other, toppled over, and went down through the crust of the snow, head first. Dick, although in an extremely awkward situation himself, managed to pull his brother out and put him in the proper position, with his head pointing toward the sky instead of the earth. Albert brushed the snow out of his eyes and ears, and laughed.
"Good start, bad ending," he said. "This is certainly the biggest pair of shoes that I ever had on, Dick. They feel at least a mile long to me."
"I know that mine are a mile long," said Dick, as he, too, brought the toe of one shoe down upon the heel of the other, staggered, fell over sideways, but managed to right himself in time.
"It seems to me," said Albert, "that the proper thing to do is to step very high and very far, so you won't tangle up one shoe with the other."
"That seems reasonable," said Dick, "and we'll try it."
They practiced this step for an hour, making their ankles ache badly. After a good rest they tried it for another hour, and then they began to make progress. They found that they got along over the snow at a fair rate of speed, although it remained an awkward and tiring gait. Nevertheless, one could travel an indefinite distance, when it was impossible to break one's way far through five or six feet of packed snow, and the shoes met a need.
"They'll do," said Albert; "but it will never be like walking on the solid earth in common shoes."
Albert was right. Their chief use for these objects, so laboriously constructed, was for the purpose of visiting their traps, some of which were set at least a dozen miles away. They wished also to go back to the shanty and see that it was all right. They found a number of valuable furs in the traps, but the bark shanty had been almost crushed in by the weight of the snow, and they spent sometime strengthening and repairing it.
In the course of these excursions their skill with the snowshoes increased and they were also able to improve upon the construction, correcting little errors in measurement and balance. The snow showed no signs of melting, but they made good progress, nevertheless, with their trapping, and all the furs taken were of the highest quality.
It would have been easy for them to kill enough game to feed a small army, as the valley now fairly swarmed with it, although nearly all of it was of large species, chiefly buffalo, elk, and bear. There was one immense herd of elk congregated in a great sheltered space at the northern end of the valley, where they fed chiefly upon twigs and lichens.
Hanging always upon the flanks of this herd was a band of timber wolves of great size and ferocity, which never neglected an opportunity to pull down a cripple or a straying yearling.
"I thought we had killed off all these timber wolves," said Albert when he first caught sight of the band.
"We did kill off most of those that were here when we came," said Dick, "but others, I suppose, have followed the game from the mountains into the valley."
Albert went alone a few days later to one of their traps up the valley, walking at a good pace on his snowshoes. A small colony of beavers had been discovered on a stream that came down between two high cliffs, and the trap contained a beaver of unusually fine fur. Albert removed the skin, put it on his shoulder, and, tightening his snowshoes, started back to Castle Howard.
The snow had melted a little recently, and in many places among the trees it was not deep, but Albert and Dick had made it a point to wear their snowshoes whenever they could, for the sake of the skill resulting from practice.
Albert was in a very happy frame of mind. He felt always now a physical elation, which, of course, became mental also. It is likely, too, that the rebound from long and despairing ill health still made itself felt. None so well as those who have been ill and are cured! He drew great draughts of the frosty air into his strong, sound lungs, and the emitted it slowly and with ease. It was a fine mechanism, complex, but working beautifully. Moreover, he had an uncommonly large and rich beaver fur over his shoulder. Such a skin as that would bring twenty-five dollars in any decent market.
Albert kept to the deep snow on account of his shoes, and was making pretty good time, when he heard a long howl, varied by a kind of snappy, growling bark.
"One of those timber wolves," said Albert to himself, "and he has scented the blood of the beaver."
He thought no more about the wolf until two or three minutes later when he heard another howl and then two or three more. Moreover, they were much nearer.
"Now, I wonder what they're after?" thought Albert.
But he went on, maintaining his good pace, and then he heard behind him a cry that was a long, ferocious whine rather than a howl. Albert looked back and saw under the trees, where the snow was lighter, a dozen leaping forms. He recognized at once the old pests, the timber wolves.
"Now, I wonder what they're after?" he repeated, and then as the whole pack suddenly gave tongue in a fierce, murderous howl, he saw that it was himself. Albert, armed though he was—neither boy ever went forth without gun or revolver—felt the blood grow cold in every vein. These were not the common wolves of the prairie, nor yet the ordinary wolf of the East and Middle West, but the great timber wolf of the Northwest, the largest and fiercest of the dog tribe. He had grown used to the presence of timber wolves hovering somewhere near, but now they presented themselves in a new aspect, bearing down straight upon him, and pushed by hunger. He understood why they were about to attack him. They had been able to secure but little of the large game in the valley, and they were drawn on by starvation.
He looked again and looked fearfully. They seemed to him monstrous in size for wolves, and their long, yellowish-gray bodies were instinct with power. Teeth and eyes alike were gleaming. Albert scarcely knew what to do first. Should he run, taking to the deepest snow, where the wolves might sink to their bodies and thus fail to overtake him? But in his own haste he might trip himself with the long, ungainly snowshoes, and then everything would quickly be over. Yet it must be tried. He could see no other way.
Albert, almost unconsciously prayed for coolness and judgment, and it was well for him that his life in recent months had taught him hardihood and resource. He turned at once into the open space, away from the trees, where the snow lay several feet deep, and he took long, flying leaps on his snowshoes. Behind him came the pack of great, fierce brutes, snapping and snarling, howling and whining, a horrible chorus that made shivers chase one another up and down the boy's spine. But as he reckoned, the deep snow made them flounder, and checked their speed.
Before him the open ground and the deep snow stretched straight away beside the lake until it reached the opening between the mountains in which stood Castle Howard. As Albert saw the good track lie before him, his hopes rose, but presently, when he looked back again, they fell with cruel speed. The wolves, despite the depth of the snow, had gained upon him. Sometimes, perhaps, it proved hard enough to sustain the weight of their bodies, and then they more than made up lost ground.
Albert noted a wolf which he took at once to be the leader, not only because he led all the others, but because also of his monstrous size. Even in that moment of danger he wondered that a wolf could grow so large, and that he should have such long teeth. But the boy, despite his great danger, retained his presence of mind. If the wolves were gaining, then he must inflict a check upon them. He whirled about, steadied himself a moment on his snowshoes, and fired directly at the huge leader. The wolf had swung aside when he saw the barrel of the rifle raised, but the bullet struck down another just behind him. Instantly, some of the rest fell upon the wounded brute and began to devour him, while the remainder, after a little hesitation, continued to pursue Albert.
But the boy had gained, and he felt that the repeating rifle would be for a while like a circle of steel to him. He could hold them back for a time with bullet after bullet, although it would not suffice to stop the final rush when it came, if it came.
Albert looked longingly ahead. He saw a feather of blue smoke against the dazzling white and silver of the sky, and he knew that it came from their cabin. If he were only there behind those stout log walls! A hundred wolves, bigger than the big leader, might tear at them in vain! And perhaps Dick, too, would come! He felt that the two together would have little to fear.
The wolves set up their fierce, whining howl again, and once more it showed that they had gained upon the fleeing boy. He turned and fired once, twice, three times, four times, as fast as he could pull the trigger, directly into the mass of the pack. He could not tell what he had slain and what he had wounded, but there was a hideous snapping and snarling, and the sight of wolf teeth flashing into wolf flesh.
Albert ran on and that feather of blue smoke was larger and nearer. But was it near enough? He could hear the wolves behind him again. All these diversions were only temporary. No matter how many of their number were slain or wounded, no matter how many paused to devour the dead and hurt, enough were always left to follow him. The pursuit, too, had brought reinforcements from the lurking coverts of the woods and bushes.
Albert saw that none of his bullets had struck the leader. The yellowish-gray monster still hung close upon him, and he was to Albert like a demon wolf, one that could not be slain. He would try again. He wheeled and fired. The leader, as before, swerved to one side and a less fortunate wolf behind him received the bullet. Albert fired two more bullets, and then he turned to continue his flight. But the long run, the excitement, and his weakened nerves caused the fatal misstep. The toe of one snowshoe caught on the heel of the other, and as a shout pierced the air, he went down.
The huge gray leader leaped at the fallen boy, and as his body paused a fleeting moment in midair before it began the descent, a rifle cracked, a bullet struck him in the throat, cutting the jugular vein and coming out behind. His body fell lifeless on the snow, and he who had fired the shot came on swiftly, shouting and firing again.
It was well that Dick, sometime after Albert's departure, had concluded to go forth for a little hunt, and it was well also that in addition to his rifle he had taken the double-barreled shotgun thinking that he might find some winter wild fowl flying over the snow and ice-covered surface of the lake. His first shot slew the master wolf, his second struck down another, his third was as fortunate, his fourth likewise, and then, still running forward, he bethought himself of the shotgun that was strapped over his shoulder. He leveled it in an instant and fairly sprayed the pack of wolves with stinging shot. Before that it had been each bullet for a wolf and the rest untouched, but now there was a perfect shower of those hot little pellets. It was more than they could stand, big, fierce, and hungry timber wolves though they were. They turned and fled with beaten howls into the woods.
Albert was painfully righting himself, when Dick gave him his hand and sped the task. Albert had thought himself lost, and it was yet hard to realize that he had not disappeared down the throat of the master wolf. His nerves were overtaxed, and he was near collapse.
"Thank you, Dick, old boy," he said. "If you hadn't come when you did, I shouldn't be here."
"No, you wouldn't," replied Dick grimly. "Those wolves eat fast. But look, Al, what a monster this fellow is! Did you ever see such a wolf?"
The great leader lay on his side upon the snow, and a full seven feet he stretched from the tip of his nose to the root of his stumpy tail. No such wolf as he had ever been put inside a cage, and it was rare, indeed, to find one so large, even in the mountains south of the very Far North.
"That's a skin that will be worth something," said Dick, "and here are more, but before we begin the work of taking them off, you'll have to be braced up, Al. You need a stimulant."
He hurried back to Castle Howard and brought one of the bottles of whisky, a little store that they had never touched except in the compounding of the barkstone for the capture of beaver. He gave Albert a good stiff drink of it, after which the boy felt better, well enough, in fact, to help Dick skin the monster wolf.
"It gives me pleasure to do this," said Albert, as he wielded the knife. "You thought, Mr. Wolf, that I was going to adorn your inside; instead, your outside will be used as an adornment trodden on by the foot of my kind."
They secured four other fine and unimpaired skins among the slain, and after dressing and curing, they were sent to join the stores in the Annex.
Chapter X Dick Goes Scouting
Dick did not believe that the timber wolves, after suffering so much in the pursuit of Albert, would venture again to attack either his brother or himself. He knew that the wolf was one of the shrewdest of all animals, and that, unless the circumstances were very unusual indeed, the sight of a gun would be sufficient to warn them off. Nevertheless, he decided to begin a campaign against them, though he had to wait a day or two until Albert's shaken nerves were restored.
They wished to save their ammunition as much as possible, and they built three large dead falls, in which they caught six or seven great wolves, despite their cunning. In addition they hunted them with rifles with great patience and care, never risking a shot until they felt quite sure that it would find a vital spot. In this manner they slew about fifteen more, and by that time the wolves were thoroughly terrified. The scent of the beings carrying sticks which poured forth death and destruction at almost any distance, was sufficient to send the boldest band of timber wolves scurrying into the shadows of the deepest forest in search of hiding and safety.
The snow melted and poured in a thousand streams from the mountains. The river and all the creeks and brooks roared in torrents, the earth soaked in water, and the two boys spent much of the time indoors making new clothing, repairing traps and nets, and fashioning all kinds of little implements that were of use in their daily life. They could realize, only because they now had to make them, how numerous such implements were. Yet they made toasting sticks of hard wood, carved out wooden platters, constructed a rude but serviceable dining table, added to their supply of traps of various kinds, and finally made two large baskets of split willow. The last task was not as difficult as some others, as both had seen and taken a part in basket making in Illinois. The cabin was now crowded to inconvenience. Over their beds, from side to side, and up under the sloping roof, they had fastened poles, and from all of these hung furs and skins, buffalo, deer, wolf, wild cat, beaver, wolverine, and others, and also stores of jerked game. The Annex was in the same crowded condition. The boys had carried the hollow somewhat higher up with their axes, but the extension gave them far less room than they needed.
"It's just this, Dick," said Albert, "we getting so rich that we don't know what to do with all our property. I used to think it a joke that the rich were unhappy, but now I see where their trouble comes in."
"I know that the trappers cache their furs, that is, bury them or hide them until they can take them away," said Dick, "but we don't know how to bury furs so they'll keep all right. Still, we've got to find a new place of some kind. Besides, it would be better to have them hidden where only you and I could find them, Al. Maybe we can find such a place."
Albert agreed, and they began a search along the cliffs. Dick knew that extensive rocky formations must mean a cave or an opening of some kind, if they only looked long enough for it, at last they found in the side of a slope a place that he thought could be made to suit. It was a rocky hollow running back about fifteen feet, and with a height and width of perhaps ten feet. It was approached by an opening about four feet in height and two feet in width. Dick wondered at first that it had not been used as a den by some wild animal, but surmised that the steepness of the ascent and the extreme roughness of the rocky floor had kept them out.
But these very qualities recommended the hollow to the boys for the use that they intended it. Its position in the side of the cliff made it a hard place to find, and the solid rock of its floor, walls, and roof insured the dryness that was necessary for the storage of their furs.
"We'll call this the Cliff House," said Albert, "and we'll take possession at once."
They broke off the sharper of the stone projections with their ax heads, and then began the transfer of the furs. It was no light task to carry them up the step slope to the Cliff House, but, forced to do all things for themselves, they had learned perseverance, and they carried all their stock of beaver furs and all the buffalo robes and bearskins, except those in actual use, together with a goodly portion of the wolfskins, elk hides, and others.
Dick made a rude but heavy door which fitted well enough into the opening to keep out any wild animal, no matter how small, and in front of it, in a little patch of soft soil, they set out two transplanted pine bushes which seemed to take root, and which Dick was sure would grow in the spring.
When the boys looked up from the bottom of the slope, they saw no trace of the Cliff House, only an expanse of rock, save a little patch of earth where two tiny pines were growing.
"Nobody but ourselves will ever find our furs!" exclaimed Dick exultingly. "The most cunning Indian would not dream that anything was hidden up there behind those little pines, and the furs will keep as well inside as if they were in the best storehouse ever built."
The discovery and use of the rock cache was a great relief to both. Their cabin had become so crowded with furs and stores, that the air was often thick and heavy, and they did not have what Dick called elbow room. Now they used the cabin almost exclusively for living purposes. Most of the stores were in the Annex, while the dry and solid Cliff House held the furs.
"Have you thought, Dick, what you and I are?" asked Albert.
"I don't catch your meaning."
"We're aristocrats of the first water, Mr. Richard Howard and Mr. Albert Howard, the Mountain Kings. We can't get along with less than four residences. We live in Castle Howard, the main mansion, superior to anything of its kind in a vast region; then we have the Annex, a tower used chiefly as a supply room and treasure chest; then the Suburban Villa, a light, airy place of graceful architecture, very suitable as a summer residence, and now we have the Cliff House, in a lofty and commanding position noted for its wonderful view. We are really a fortunate pair, Dick."
"I've been thinking that for sometime," replied Dick rather gravely.
Hitherto they had confined their operations chiefly to their own side of the lake, but as they ranged farther and farther in search of furs they began to prowl among the canyons and narrow valleys in the mountains on the other side. They made, rather far up the northern side, some valuable catches of beaver, but in order to return with them, they were compelled to come around either the northern or southern end of the lake, and the round trip was tremendously long and tiring.
"It's part of a man's business to economize time and strength," said Dick, "and we must do it. You and I, Al, are going to make a canoe."
"I don't know just yet, but I'm studying it out. The idea will jump out of my head in two or three days."
It was four days before it jumped, but when it did, it jumped to some purpose.
"First, we'll make a dugout," he said. "We've got the tools—axes, knives, saws, and augers—and we'd better start with that."
They cut down a big and perfectly straight pine and chose a length of about twelve feet from the largest part of the trunk. Both boys had seen dugouts, and they knew, in a general way, how to proceed. Their native intelligence supplied the rest.
They cut off one side of the log until it was flat, thus making the bottom for the future canoe. They cut the opposite side away in the well-known curve that a boat makes, low in the middle and high at each end. This part of the work was done with great caution, but Dick had an artistic eye, and they made a fairly good curve. Next they began the tedious and laborious work of digging out, using axes, hatchets, and chisel.
This was a genuine test of Albert's new strength, but he stood it nobly. They chipped away for a long time, until the wood on the sides and bottom was thin but strong enough to stand any pressure. Then they made the proper angle and curve of bow and stern, cut and made two stout broad paddles, and their dugout was ready—a long canoe with a fairly good width, as the original log had been more than two feet in diameter. It was both light and strong, and, raising it on their shoulders, they carried it down to the lake where they put it in the water.
Albert, full of enthusiasm, sprang into the canoe and made a mighty sweep with his paddle. The light dugout shot away, tipped on one side, and as Albert made another sweep with his paddle to right it, it turned over, bottom side up, casting the rash young paddler into ten feet of pure cold water. Albert came up with a mighty splash and sputter. He was a good swimmer, and he had also retained hold of the paddle unconsciously, perhaps. Dick regarded him contemplatively from the land. He had no idea of jumping in. One wet and cold boy was enough. Beside, rashness deserved its punishment.
"Get the canoe before it floats farther away," he called out, "and tow it to land. It has cost us too much work to be lost out on the lake."
Albert swam to the canoe, which was now a dozen yards away, and quickly towed it and the paddle to land. There, shivering, the water running from him in streams, he stepped upon the solid earth.
"Run to the cabin as fast as you can," said Dick. "Take off those wet things, rub yourself down before the fire; then put on dry clothes and come back here and help me."
Albert needed no urging, but it seemed to him that he would freeze before he reached the cabin, short as the distance was. Fortunately, there was a good fire on the hearth, and, after he had rubbed down and put on his dry, warm suit of deerskin, he never felt finer in his life. He returned to the lake, but he felt sheepish on the way. That had been a rash movement of his, overenthusiastic, but he had been properly punished. His chagrin was increased when he saw Dick a considerable distance out on the lake in the canoe, driving it about in graceful curves with long sweeps of his paddle.
"This is the way it ought to be done," called out Dick cheerily. "Behold me, Richard Howard, the king of canoe men!"
"You've been practicing while I was gone!" exclaimed Albert.
"No doubt of it, my young friend, and that is why you see me showing such skill, grace, and knowledge. I give you the same recipe without charge: Look before you leap, especially if you're going to leap into a canoe. Now we'll try it together."
He brought the canoe back to land, Albert got in cautiously, and for the rest of the day they practiced paddling, both together and alone. Albert got another ducking, and Dick, in a moment of overconfidence, got one, too, somewhat to Albert's pleasure and relief, as it has been truly said that misery loves company, but in two or three days they learned to use the canoe with ease. Then, either together or alone, they would paddle boldly the full length of the lake, and soon acquired dexterity enough to use it for freight, too; that is, they would bring back in it across the lake anything that they had shot or trapped on the other side.
So completely had they lost count of time that Dick had an idea spring was coming, but winter suddenly shut down upon them again. It did not arrive with wind and snow this time, but in the night a wave of cold came down from the north so intense that the sheltered valley even did not repel it.
Dick and Albert did not appreciate how really cold it was until they went from the cabin into the clear morning air, when they were warned by the numbing sensation that assailed their ears and noses. They hurried into the house and thawed out their faces, which stung greatly as they were exposed to the fire. Remembering the experiences of their early boyhood, they applied cold water freely, which allayed the stinging. After that they were very careful to wrap up fingers, ears, and noses when they went forth.
Now, the channel that Albert had made from the water of the hot spring proved of great use. The water that came boiling from the earth cooled off rapidly, but it was not yet frozen when it reached the side of Castle Howard, and they could make use of it.
The very first morning they found their new boat, of which they were so proud, hard and fast with ten inches of solid ice all around it. Albert suggested leaving it there.
"We have no need of it so long as the lake is covered with ice," he said, "and when the ice melts it will be released."
But Dick looked a little farther. The ice might press in on it and crush it, and hence Albert and he cut it out with axes, after which they put it in the lee of the cabin. Meanwhile, when they wished to reach the traps on the farther side of the lake, they crossed it on the ice, and, presuming that the cold might last long, they easily made a rude sledge which they used in place of the canoe.
"If we can't go through the water, we can at least go over it," said Albert.
While the great cold lasted, a period of about two weeks, the boys went on no errands except to their traps. The cold was so intense that often they could hear the logs of Castle Howard contracting with a sound like pistol shots. Then they would build the fire high and sit comfortably before it. Fortunately, the valley afforded plenty of fuel. Both boys wished now that they had a few books, but books were out of the question, and they sought always to keep themselves busy with the tasks that their life in the valley entailed upon them. Both knew that this was best.
The cold was so great that even the wild animals suffered from it. The timber wolves, despite their terrible lessons, were driven by it down the valley, and at night a stray one now and then would howl mournfully near the cabin.
"He's a robber and would like to be a murderer," Albert would say, "but he probably smells this jerked buffalo meat that I'm cooking and I'm sorry for him."
But the wolves were careful to keep out of rifle shot.
Dick made one trip up the valley and found about fifty buffaloes sheltered in a deep ravine and clustering close together for warmth. They were quite thin, as the grass, although it had been protected by the snow, was very scanty at that period of the year. Dick could have obtained a number of good robes, but he spared them.
"Maybe I won't be so soft-hearted when the spring comes and you are fatter," he said.
The two, about this time, took stock of their ammunition, which was the most vital of all things to them. For sometime they had used both the shot and ball cartridges only in cases of necessity, and they were relying more and more on traps, continually devising new kinds, their skill and ingenuity increasing with practice.
Dick had brought a great store of cartridges from the last train, especially from the unrifled wagon in the gully, and both boys were surprised to see how many they had left. They had enough to last a long time, according to their present mode of life.
"If you are willing, that settles it," said Dick.
"If I am willing for what?" asked Albert.
"Willing to stay over another year. You see, Al, we've wandered into a happy hunting ground. There are more furs, by the hundreds, for the taking, and it seems that this is a lost valley. Nobody else comes here. Besides, you are doing wonderfully. All that old trouble is gone, and we want it to stay gone. If we stay here another year, and you continue to eat the way you do and grow the way you do, you'll be able to take a buffalo by the horns and wring its neck."
Albert grinned pleasantly at his brother.
"You don't have to beg me to stay," he said. "I like this valley. It has given me life and what is to be our fortune, our furs. Why not do all we can while we can? I'm in favor of the extra year, Dick."
"Then no more need be said about it. The Cliff House isn't half full of furs yet, but in another year we can fill it."
The great cold began to break up, the ice on the lake grew thinner and thinner and then disappeared, much of the big game left the valley, the winds from the north ceased to blow, and in their stead came breezes from the south, tipped with warmth. Dick knew that spring was near. It was no guess, he could feel it in every bone of him, and he rejoiced. He had had enough of winter, and it gave him the keenest pleasure when he saw tiny blades of new grass peeping up in sheltered places here and there.
Dick, although he was not conscious of it, had changed almost as much as Albert in the last eight or nine months. He had had no weak chest and throat to cure, but his vigorous young frame had responded nobly to the stimulus of self-reliant life. The physical experience, as well as the mental, of those eight or nine months, had been equal to five times their number spent under ordinary conditions, and he had grown greatly in every respect. Few men were as strong, as agile, and as alert as he.
He and Albert, throughout that long winter, had been sufficient unto each other. They had a great sense of ownership, the valley and all its manifold treasurers belonged to them—a feeling that was true, as no one else came to claim it—and they believed that in their furs they were acquiring and ample provision for a start in life.
When the first tender shades of green began to appear in the valley and on the slopes, Dick decided upon a journey.
"Do you know, Al, how long we have been in this valley?" he asked.
"Eight or ten months, I suppose," replied Albert.
"It must be something like that, and we've been entirely away from our race. If we had anybody to think about us—although we haven't—they'd be sure that we are dead. We're just as ignorant of what is happening in the world, and I want to go on a skirmishing trip over the mountains. You keep house while I'm gone."
Albert offered mild objections, which he soon withdrew, as at heart he thought his brother right, and the next day, early in the morning, Dick started on his journey. He carried jerked buffalo meat in a deerskin pouch that he had made for himself, his customary repeating rifle, revolver, and a serviceable hatchet.
"Look after things closely, Al," said Dick, "and don't bother about setting the traps. Furs are not good in the spring."
"All right," responded Albert. "How long do you think you'll be gone?"
"Can't say, precisely. Three or four days, I presume, but don't you worry unless it's a full week."
It was characteristic of the strength and self-restraint acquired by the two that they parted with these words and a hand clasp only, yet both had deep feeling. Dick looked back from the mouth of the cleft toward Castle Howard and saw a boy in front of it waving a cap. He waved his own in reply and then went forward more swiftly down the valley.
It did not take him long to reach the first slope, and, when he had ascended a little, he paused for rest and inspection. Spring had really made considerable progress. All the trees except the evergreens had put forth young leaves and, as he looked toward the north, the mountains unrolled like a vast green blanket that swept away in ascending folds until it ended, and then the peaks and ridges, white with snow, began.
Dick climbed father, and their valley was wholly lost to sight. It was not so wonderful after all that nobody came to it. Trappers who knew of it long ago never returned, believing that the beaver were all gone forever, and it was too near to the warlike Sioux of the plains for mountain Indians to make a home there.
Dick did not stop long for the look backward—he was too intent upon his mission—but resumed the ascent with light foot and light heart. He remembered very well the way in which he and Albert had come, and he followed it on the return. All night, with his buffalo robe about him, he slept in the pine alcove that had been the temporary home of Albert and himself. He could see no change in it in all the months, except traces to show that some wild animal had slept there.
"Maybe you'll come to-night, Mr. Bear or Mr. Mountain Lion, to sleep in your little bed." said Dick as he lay down in his buffalo robe, "but you'll find me here before you."
He was wise enough to know that neither bear nor mountain lion would ever molest him, and he slept soundly. He descended the last slopes and came in sight of the plains on the afternoon of the next day. Everything seemed familiar. The events of that fatal time had made too deep an impression upon him and Albert ever to be forgotten. He knew the very rocks and trees and so went straight to the valley in which he had found the wagon filled with supplies. It lay there yet, crumpled somewhat by time and the weight of snow that had fallen upon it during the winter, but a strong man with good tools might put it in shape for future service.
"Now, if Al and I only had horses, we might get it out and take away our furs in it," said Dick, "but I suppose I might as well wish for a railroad as for horses."
He descended into the gully and found the tracks of wolves and other wild beasts about the wagon. In their hunger, they had chewed up every fragment of leather or cloth, and had clawed and scratched among the lockers. Dick had searched those pretty well before, but now he looked for gleanings. He found little of value until he discovered, jammed down in a corner, an old history and geography of the United States combined in one volume with many maps and illustrations. It was a big octavo book, and Dick seized it with the same delight with which a miner snatches up his nugget of gold. He opened it, took a rapid look through flying pages, murmured, "Just the thing," closed it again, and buttoned it securely inside his deerskin coat. He had not expected anything; nevertheless, he had gleaned to some purpose.
Dick left the wagon and went into the pass where the massacre had occurred. Time had not dimmed the horror of the place for him and he shuddered as he approached the scene of ambush, but he forced himself to go on.
The wagons were scattered about, but little changed, although, as in the case of the one in the gully, all the remaining cloth and leather had been chewed by wild animals. Here and there were the skeletons of the fallen, and Dick knew that the wild beasts had not been content with leather and cloth alone. He went through the wagons one by one, but found nothing of value left except a paper of needles, some spools of thread, and a large pair of scissors, all of which he put in the package with the history.
It was nightfall when he finished the task, and retiring to the slope, he made his bed among some pines. He heard wolves howling twice in the night, but he merely settled himself more easily in his warm buffalo robe and went to sleep again. Replenishing his canteen with water the next morning, he started out upon the plains, intending to make some explorations.
Dick had thought at first that they were in the Black Hills, but he concluded later that they were further west. The mountains about them were altogether too high for the Black Hills, and he wished to gain some idea of their position upon the map. The thought reminded him that he had a book with maps in his pocket, and he took out the precious volume.
He found a map of the Rocky Mountain territory, but most of the space upon it was vague, often blank, and he could not exactly locate himself and Albert, although he knew that they were very far west of any settled country.
"I can learn from that book all about the world except ourselves," he said, as he put it back in his pocket. But he was not sulky over it. His was a bold and adventurous spirit and he was not afraid, nor was his present trip merely to satisfy curiosity. He and Albert must leave the valley some day, and it was well to know the best way in which it could be done.
He started across the plain in a general southwesterly direction, intending to travel for about a day perhaps, camp for the night, and return on the following day to his mountains. He walked along with a bold, swinging step and did not look back for an hour, but when he turned at last he felt as if he had ventured upon the open ocean in a treacherous canoe. There were the mountains, high, sheltered, and friendly, while off to the south and west the plains rolled away in swell after swell as long and desolate as an untraveled sea, and as hopeless.
Dick saw toward noon some antelope grazing on the horizon, but he was not a hunter now, and he did not trouble himself to seek a shot. An hour or two later he saw a considerable herd of buffaloes scattered about over the plain, nibbling the short bunch grass that had lived under the snow. They were rather an inspiring sight, and Dick felt as if, in a sense, they were furnishing him company. They drove away the desolation and loneliness of the plains, and his inclinations toward them were those of genuine friendliness. They were in danger of no bullet from him.
While he was looking at them, he saw new figures coming over the distant swell. At first he thought they were antelope, but when they reached the crest of the swell and their figures were thrown into relief against the brilliant sky, he saw that they were horsemen.
They came on with such regularity and precision, that, for a moment or two, Dick believed them to be a troop of cavalry, but he learned better when they scattered with a shout and began to chase the buffaloes. Then he knew that they were a band of Sioux Indians hunting.
The full extent of his danger dawned upon him instantly. He was alone and on foot. The hunt might bring them down upon him in five minutes. He was about to run, but his figure would certainly be exposed upon the crest of one of the swells, as theirs had been, and he dropped instead into one of a number of little gullies that intersected the plain.
It was an abrupt little gully, and Dick was well hidden from any eyes not within ten yards of him. He lay at first so he could not see, but soon he began to hear shots and the trampling of mighty hoofs. He knew now that the Sioux were in among the buffaloes, dealing out death, and he began to have a fear of being trodden upon either by horsemen or huge hoofs. He could not bear to lie there and he warned only by sound, so he turned a little further on one side and peeped over the edge of the gully.
The hunters and hunter were not as near as he thought; he had been deceived by sound, the earth being such a good conductor. Yet they were near enough for him to see that he was in great danger and should remain well hidden. He could observe, however, that the hunt was attended with great success. Over a dozen buffaloes had fallen and the others were running about singly or in little groups, closely pursued by the exultant Sioux. Some were on one side of him and some on the other. There was no chance for him, no matter how careful he might be, to rise from the gully and sneak away over the plain. Instead, he crouched more closely and contracted himself into the narrowest possible space, while the hunt wheeled and thundered about him.
It is not to be denied that Dick felt many tremors. He had seen what the Sioux could do. He knew that they were the most merciless of all the northwestern Indians, and he expected only torture and death if he fell into their hands, and there was his brother alone now in the valley. Once the hunt swung away to the westward and the sounds of it grew faint. Dick hoped it would continue in that direction, but by and by it came back again and he crouched down anew in his narrow quarters. He felt that every bone in him was stiffening with cramp and needlelike pains shot through his nerves. Yet he dared not move. And upon top of his painful position came the knowledge that the Sioux would stay there to cut up the slain buffaloes. He was tempted more than once to jump up, run for it and take his chances.
He noticed presently a gray quality in the air, and as he glanced off toward the west, he saw that the red sun was burning very low. Dick's heart sprang up in gladness; it was the twilight, and the blessed darkness would bring chance of escape. Seldom has anyone watched the coming of night with keener pleasure. The sun dropped down behind the swells, the gray twilight passed over all the sky, and after it came the night, on black wings.
Fires sprang up on the plain, fires of buffalo chips lighted by the Sioux, who were now busy skinning and cutting up the slain buffaloes. Dick saw the fires all about him, but none was nearer than a hundred yards, and, despite them, he decided that now was his best time to attempt escape before the moon should come out and lighten up the night.
He pulled himself painfully from the kind gully. He had lain there hours, and he tested every joint as he crept a few feet on the plain. They creaked for a while, but presently the circulation was restored, and, rising to a stooping position, with his rifle ready, he slipped off toward the westward.
Dick knew that great caution was necessary, but he had confidence in the veiling darkness. Off to the eastward he could see one fire, around which a half dozen warriors were gathered, busy with a slain buffalo, working and feasting. He fancied that he could trace their savage features against the red firelight, but he himself was in the darkness.
Another fire rose up, and this was straight before him. Like the others, warriors were around it, and Dick turned off abruptly to the south. Then he heard ponies stamping and he shifted his course again. When he had gone about a dozen yards he lay flat upon the plain and listened. He was hardy and bold, but, for a little while, he was almost in despair. It seemed to him that he was ringed around by a circle of savage warriors and that he could not break through it.
His courage returned, and, rising to his knees, he resumed his slow progress. His course was now southwesterly, and soon he heard again the stamping of hoofs. It was then that a daring idea came into Dick's head.
That stamping of hoofs was obviously made by the ponies of the Sioux. Either the ponies were tethered to short sticks, or they had only a small guard, perhaps a single man. But as they were with the buffaloes, and unsuspecting of a strange presence, they would not detail more than one man to watch their horses. It was wisdom for him to slip away one of the horses, mount it when at a safe distance, and then gallop toward the mountains.
Dick sank down a little lower and crept very slowly toward the point from which the stamping of hoofs proceeded. When he had gone about a dozen yards he heard another stamping of hoofs to his right and then a faint whinny. This encouraged him. It showed him that the ponies were tethered in groups, and the group toward which he was going might be without a guard. He continued his progress another dozen yards, and then lay flat upon the plain. He had seen two vague forms in the darkness, and he wished to make himself a blur with the earth. They were warriors passing from one camp fire to another, and Dick saw them plainly, tall men with blankets folded about them like togas, long hair in which eagle feathers were braided after the Sioux style, and strong aquiline features. They looked like chiefs, men of courage, dignity, and mind, and Dick contrasted them with the ruffians of the wagon train. The contrast was not favorable to the white faces that he remembered so well.
But the boy saw nothing of mercy or pity in these red countenances. Bold and able they might be, but it was no part of theirs to spare their enemies. He fairly crowded himself against the earth, but they went on, absorbed in their own talk, and he was not seen. He raised up again and began to crawl. The group of ponies came into view, and he saw with delight that they had no watchman. A half dozen in number and well hobbled, they cropped the buffalo grass. They were bare of back, but they wore their Indian bridles, which hung from their heads.
Dick knew a good deal about horses, and he was aware that the approach would be critical. The Indian ponies might take alarm or they might not, but the venture must be made. He did not believe that he could get beyond the ring of the Sioux fires without being discovered, and only a dash was left.
Dick marked the pony nearest to him. It seemed a strong animal, somewhat larger than the others, and, pulling up a handful of bunch grass, he approached it, whistling very softly. He held the grass in his left hand and his hunting knife in the right, his rifle being fastened to his back. The pony raised his head, looked at him in a friendly manner, then seemed to change his mind and backed away. But Dick came on, still holding out the grass and emitting that soft, almost inaudible whistle. The pony stopped and wavered between belief and suspicion. Dick was not more than a dozen feet away now, and he began to calculate when he might make a leap and seize the bridle.
The boy and the pony were intently watching the eyes of each other. Dick, in that extreme moment, was gifted with preternatural acuteness of mind and vision, and he saw that the pony still wavered. He took another step forward, and the eyes of the pony inclined distinctly from belief to suspicion; another short and cautious step, and they were all suspicion. But it was too late for the pony. The agile youth sprang, and dropping the grass, seized him with his left hand by the bridle. A sweep or two of the hunting knife and the hobbles were cut through.
The pony reared and gave forth an alarmed neigh, but Dick, quickly replacing the knife in his belt, now held the bridle with both hands, and those two hands were very strong. He pulled the pony back to its four feet and sprang, with one bound, upon his back. Then kicking him vigorously in the side, he dashed away, with rifle shots spattering behind him.
Chapter XI The Terrible Pursuit
Dick knew enough to bend low down on the neck of the flying mustang, and he was untouched, although he heard the bullets whistling about him. The neigh of the pony had betrayed him, but he was aided by his quickness and the friendly darkness, and he felt a surge of exultation that he could not control, boy that he was. The Sioux, jumping upon their ponies, sent forth a savage war whoop that the desolate prairie returned in moaning echoes, and Dick could not refrain from a reply. He uttered one shout, swung his rifle defiantly over his head, then bending down again, urged his pony to increased speed. | <urn:uuid:0a300f33-d537-40f1-8d66-f780d9f986ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hotfreebooks.com/book/The-Last-of-the-Chiefs-A-Story-of-the-Great-Sioux-War-Joseph-Altsheler--3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.991343 | 18,944 | 2.328125 | 2 |
I was watching the news about the Duke lacrosse players, before two were indicted and subsequently arrested. One of the defense lawyers said: “In North Carolina, you can indict a ham sandwich.”
I wondered abou the origins of that phrase, but I didn’t have to look too far. Sol Wachtler, who was New York State’s top judge, once said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.” Specifically, he noted, “Even a modestly competent district attorney can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.”
Interestingly, seven years after the former Court of Appeals Judge made this pronouncement in 1985, a grand jury indicted him for sexual harassment.
The phrase went into popular use after Tom Wolfe used it in the 1987 book, Bonfire of the Vanities.
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The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North
Until the late 18th century, northern Scotland was regarded by outsiders as an alien, barbaric country into which only a few intrepid travelers dared to venture. The Jacobite rebellions reinforced the impression that the Highlands were a lawless land scarred by centuries of clan feuds and economic crises. However, the Romantic Movement in literature and art changed that perception through images of the Celtic hero in sublime settings, attracting painters and writers such as Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, John Keats and J.M.W. Turner and precipitating tourism to the Highlands. Simultaneously, the north of Scotland was appropriated as a holiday playground for the rich, many of whom were attracted by the sporting potential of its pristine rivers and glens teeming with wildlife. Newcomers adopted the region as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romance of the ‘reinvented’ Highlands. Known as shooting lodges because they were designed principally to accommodate the parties that flocked north for the annual sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornées and Scotch Baronial castles to Arts and Crafts mansions and modern eco-lodges. While their designs responded to some of Britain’s wildest and most stirring landscapes, inside many were equipped with the latest domestic technology and boasted opulent decoration and furnishings from the smartest London and Parisian firms. Historian and author Mary Miers will explore the history and social context of these houses, some of which survive in their original state and are still owned by descendants of the families who built them. She will illustrate her talk with ravishing photographs from the famous Country Life Picture Library, combined with many historic images that have been previously unpublished.
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Alfredo is a style of cream sauce made famous in 1914 by Alfredo's restaurant in Rome. X Research source The earliest variations on this dish originally used only butter and Parmesan cheese. Today, however, it is most well-known as a smooth, cream-based recipe. Alfredo sauce is a versatile accompaniment for pasta, chicken, and more. Best of all, it uses only a few basic ingredients and it's ready in minutes!
Basic Alfredo Sauce X Research source
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter
- 2 cups freshly-grated parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
- Water from cooking pasta (to thin sauce)
- 1-2 cloves of garlic (crushed, pressed, or minced)
- Zest of 1/2 lemon
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1/3 cup white wine
- 1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
- Nutmeg (to taste)
Method 1 of 2:Basic Alfredo Sauce
1Melt butter on the stove. Use a standard saucepan over medium-low heat. Your goal with this sauce should be to gently bring it to a warm temperature and a smooth consistency. Low, slow cooking is best. This can take patience.
2Stir in the cream and Parmesan cheese. Gently stir the mixture as you add the ingredients to keep them from burning or sticking. Continue stirring to combine.
- If you can, use fresh-grated Parmesan. The taste difference is noticeable compared to using pre-grated cheese. Fresh cheese also tends to be less vulnerable to "seizing." See below for an explanation.
3Heat until simmering. Wait until the sauce reaches a gentle boil. Just a few small bubbles will be forming. At this point, start gently stirring until it becomes noticeably thicker. This is usually about eight minutes. X Research source
- Resist the temptation to crank up the heat. Turn it down if you notice your sauce boiling rapidly. Not only can this burn your ingredients and produce an unpleasant bitter taste — it can also make your cheese "seize". When cheese is heated too quickly, the proteins in the cheese coil up rather than separating gently. This separates the fat and moisture from the cheese, leaving an unpleasantly hard product that refuses to melt. X Research source
4Add salt and pepper to taste. The sauce is ready to season when it's at a pleasantly thick consistency. You can add whatever seasonings you want, but plain old salt and pepper work great on their own. Stir to mix evenly after adding.
- A few shakes or pinches of each seasoning should do the trick. If you're worried about adding too much, try adding just a single pinch, stirring, and tasting the sauce. Repeat until you're satisfied!
5Optionally, use the pasta water to thin the sauce. If you saved the water from the pasta pot, you can use it to thin out a sauce that is too thick and rich. The water retains some of the flavor of the pasta, giving the sauce a nice "bready" flavor while thinning it.
- If you accidentally add too much water, just simmer it a little longer to thicken it again.
6Serve! When the sauce tastes just how you like it, it's ready to serve. Spoon steaming portions over your favorite pasta. The recipe in this section should serve about six.
- Alternatively, try using it to lend creamy flavor to your favorite meat and vegetable dishes, including chicken, shrimp, broccoli, and much more. This sauce's mild flavor is highly versatile, so you can use it for almost any entrée.
Method 2 of 2:Recipe Variations
This section offers a few ideas for spicing up the basic Alfredo sauce above. You can use any combination of the tricks below, or none at all. It's up to you!
1Try adding a few cloves of garlic. Garlic's pungent, savory taste is the perfect accompaniment to creamy Alfredo perfection. As you melt the butter, mince a clove of garlic or two. Then, cook them on their own in the butter for about a minute before adding the rest of the ingredients. This brings out their natural flavor and aroma. Leave the garlic in the sauce as you serve it.
2Try adding white wine. The sweet, slightly acidic taste of most white wines adds a refined dimension to simple Alfredo recipes. Slowly mix in about 1/3 of a cup of wine just before you add the salt and pepper to the recipe. You may find that you need to simmer the sauce slightly longer to re-thicken it after adding the wine.
- Most white wines will work well. The crisp, fresh taste of Chardonnay, for instance, will elevate the dish's smoothness. X Research source Avoid dessert wines like moscato, as these will be overpoweringly sweet.
3Try adding a twist of lemon for a citrus twist. The acidic flavor of lemon juice "cuts" the fat of the alfredo sauce. The interaction between the flavors can be tangy but mouth-watering. To add this citrus flavor to your sauce, halve a lemon while you're waiting for the sauce to come to a simmer. Use a fine grater or microplane to zest the peel into a small pile. Once the sauce has thickened, add the zest. Then, squeeze the juice from the lemon half in. Stir to combine.
- You may want to squeeze the lemon into the sauce through a strainer to prevent any seeds from falling in.
4Try adding a small pinch of nutmeg. Nutmeg may not be the first spice you'd think of that would fit well in a creamy alfredo sauce. However, in small quantities the spice can add a savory, pleasantly aromatic quality to the dish. Try stirring in a very small pinch of nutmeg (no more than 1/4 teaspoon) when you add the Parmesan cheese. If you like the effect you get, you can keep adding more in tiny increments.
5Use yogurt instead of heavy cream for a lower-calorie sauce. Alfredo sauce tastes great, but one look at the ingredients list will reveal that it's calorie-dense and loaded with fat. Try substituting an equal amount of your favorite low-fat plain yogurt for the cream in the normal recipe. Greek style yogurt is also OK. The dish will still be rich, but not as rich.
- The yogurt will also give the recipe a slightly "tangier" taste (similar to a Stroganoff sauce). Some prefer this.
- You may want to add about a tablespoon of flour to the recipe at the same time as you add the yogurt. Yogurt can curdle when exposed to high heats, but flour tends to prevent this.
6Try using only butter and cheese for a traditional variation. The earliest versions of the modern Alfredo sauce used only two ingredients: cheese and butter. X Research source When melted and combined, these form a smooth, rich, golden mixture that coats the pasta evenly. This version of the sauce is simple but hearty and delicious If you're looking to experiment with old-fashioned flavors, try leaving out the cream, water, and seasonings from the recipe above. You also may want to double the amounts of cheese and butter you use to get a similar amount of sauce.
- For a more authentic taste, use fresh, unsalted butter. Before refrigeration, salt was added to butter so that it would keep longer. When people wanted to make a great recipe, they would use unsalted butter, which had to be fresh because it wouldn't keep for very long.
QuestionCan I use regular milk instead of heavy cream?Community AnswerRegular milk will make the sauce watery and it won't taste the same. This sauce must stick on the pasta. You can do a quick internet search for lighter alfredo recipes.
This video shows a different variation of Alfredo Sauce that uses olive oil and white wine.
Can't say goodbye to tomatoes? Try making a tomato-alfredo (or "pink sauce") by mixing equal parts of Alfredo sauce and your favorite red sauce. You can use canned tomatoes or cook your red sauce from fresh — it's up to you. X Research source
Other great vegetables to eat with basic Alfredo sauce include basil, sundried tomatoes, and spinach.
Don't forget to stir regularly. Neglecting your stirring duties can cause the ingredients to stick to the sides of the pan. You can also introduce an unpleasant bitter taste to the recipe by doing this.
- ↑ http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq2.html#pasta
- ↑ http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/alfredo-sauce.html
- ↑ http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Olive-Garden-Alfredo-Pasta-Copycat-Recipe.html
- ↑ http://www.finecooking.com/articles/how-to-melt-cheese.aspx?pg=2
- ↑ http://www.totalwine.com/eng/guide-to-wine/chardonnay.cfm
- ↑ http://www.gustiditalia.com/1846/news/fettuccine-alfredo-history/
- ↑ https://www.onelovelylife.com/pink-pasta/
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To start a basic Alfredo sauce, melt 1 stick of butter over medium-low heat. Then, stir 8 ounces of heavy cream and 2 cups of grated parmesan cheese into the butter, heating the mixture until it’s simmering. When heating the sauce, refrain from turning up the heat, which can cause the sauce to burn. After a few small bubbles begin to form, add salt and pepper to taste. If your sauce is too thick you can add some water to thin it. Finally, pour the sauce over your pasta and serve! For variations, including how to make garlic or citrus Alfredo sauce, read on! | <urn:uuid:69af847b-0d9b-4517-99e7-55b8a8c0c16e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Alfredo-Sauce | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.910896 | 2,302 | 2.265625 | 2 |
67 per cent parents oppose reopening of schools
Only 33 per cent parents support reopening of schools from September 1, according to a survey by Local Circles. Risk and unknowns of Covid-19, and hard to implement social distancing norms in schools pose risk to seniors in the family are among the top reasons why parents don't want schools starting from September 1.
New Delhi: Only 33 per cent parents support reopening of schools from September 1, according to a survey by Local Circles. Risk and unknowns of Covid-19, and hard to implement social distancing norms in schools pose risk to seniors in the family are among the top reasons why parents don't want schools starting from September 1.
Many schools started online sessions for the children to ensure that learning does not stop. As per latest media reports, the central government is now considering opening schools from September 1 as part of its final unlocking measures starting with Classes 10-12 and Classes 6-9 with a 15-day gap.
As a reaction to the media reports, many parents raised the issue of schools restarting on September 1 and subsequently, LocalCircles decided to conduct a survey to get the collective parent pulse on how they feel about reopening of schools in less than a month.
The survey received over 25,000 responses from parents and grandparents in different parts of India.
With total number of Covid-19 cases at 2.2 million and a daily case load of approximately 65,000, India now has the highest number of daily cases in the world.
The infection is spreading so fast in the country that it took only 20 days for the number of infected to increase from 1 million to 2 million and as per the WHO guidelines, children fall in the high-risk category.
Children if infected can be carriers of the virus and spread it to other members of the family with grandparents being the most vulnerable as many families in India have a joint family structure.
Parents were asked if they approve of the reported Government plan of restarting schools from September 1 for Classes 10-12 and for Classes 6-10 after 15 days. In response, 58 per cent said 'no' while only 33 per cent answered 'yes'.
With majority of the parents opposing the reopening of schools from September 1, parents were also asked for the reason as to why they are opposed to schools in India starting from September 1, 2020.
In response, 13 per cent said they cannot afford to take chances with children given the risk and unknowns related to Covid-19, while 1 per cent said there is a serious risk with seniors in the family in case a child in the family gets infected. A 9 per cent said social distancing will not be possible in schools, 5 per cent said the Coronavirus spread will increase even faster if schools were reopened, and 2 per cent said they believe online education is a good substitute given the situation.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed state Republicans’ bill on Wednesday evening that will protect drivers who run over protesters from criminal and civil liability.
This comes amid mass demonstrations against anti-Black police brutality.
The bill, H.B. 1674, seeks to crack down on protests that obstruct traffic by granting drivers immunity and imposing harsher punishments on protesters who make it “unreasonably inconvenient or hazardous” for drivers to pass.
“We are sending a message today in Oklahoma that rioters who threaten law abiding citizens’ safety will not be tolerated,” Stitt said in a statement. “I remain unequivocally committed to protecting every Oklahoman’s First Amendment right to peacefully protest as well as their right to feel safe in their community.”
The injury or death of the individual occurred while the motor vehicle operator was fleeing from a riot, as defined in Section 1311 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, under a reasonable belief that fleeing was necessary to protect the motor vehicle operator from serious injury or death; and 2. The motor vehicle operator exercised due care at the time of the death or injury.
Under the new law, a driver who “unintentionally” causes injury or death while “fleeing from a riot […] under a reasonable belief that fleeing was necessary to protect the motor vehicle operator from serious injury or death” will not be criminally or civilly liable for that injury or death as long as the driver was exercising “due care at the time.”
ACLU Oklahoma policy director Nicole McAfee declared on Thursday that in signing the bill into law, Stitt “has decided to stand on the wrong side of history and threaten one of the most fundamental rights of our democracy.”
“The ACLU of Oklahoma along with organizers on the ground are in a fight to end the systemic violence inflicted on our Black and Brown communities, and our government’s escalating attacks on protests against racism and police brutality should concern everyone,” McAfee said in a statement. “We are in serious conversations with partners on our next steps to protect Oklahomans’ right to free speech.”
Rep. Kevin McDugle (R), one of the authors of the bill, argued in February that “it’s not going to be a peaceful protest if you’re impeding the freedom of others.”
McDugle (R) and his co-author of the bill, Sen. Rob Standridge (R), have cited an incident in Tulsa last summer in which a truck driver rammed his vehicle through a crowd of protesters and claimed afterwards that he and his family had been fearing for their lives at the time. The driver was not criminally charged.
Three people were injured in the incident, including a man who became paralyzed.
Oklahoma’s protections for drivers who run over protesters go further than those found in Florida’s “anti-riot” law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last week, which shields drivers who run over protesters from getting sued, but not from criminal charges.
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It's an important piece of U.S. financial market transactions and is the infrastructure, the official place for public companies report their results, deals, market-moving information plus management changes. .
The system processes more than 1.7 million corporate filings per year.
Why is EDGAR in the news? Hacks, related to illicit trading profits. Yikes.
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For the past 46 years, I have been a Marketing professional, a Forensic Marketing Expert, Marketing and Advertising consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing, global Marketing and Advertising.
Ten years ago, I created and own a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or, known as the "4P’s" by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.
In the late 60's I was first taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king or kings, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing.
The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help brand managers, companies, firms and business managers to find marketing problems and opportunities and to identify marketing opportunities, solutions, in a number of areas. The utilization of the 9P's of Marketing help, develop and guide a company or a firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions.
The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways and in many possible actions.
I consult, teach and work as a Marketing, business and Advertising expert using many Marketing concepts and practices, including the Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.
So what is Marketing?
Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, research, distribution, pricing, partnerships/alliances, promotion and more.
All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices.
Firms, associations and companies with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers ("People") and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).
In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing manager and Brand agents develop objectives, strategies, planning and tactics.
The 9P's of Marketing include important components, elements, actions and efforts.
Let's start with targeting, "People," one of the nine elements or components. :
- "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with Product, Promotion, Place and Price.
- Look at new, existing and repeat customers.
- Place "consumer" or "People" or "potential buyers" in the middle of a circle. Add the other components in the nine P's. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be greater focus on the "Customer," or "People."
- "People" or market segments may utilize demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics, which may be a vital component or components of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
- Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a major first step.
- It starts with research and researching. This element of planning in the nine P's is a method for achieving an end, and, looking at the eight other parts, can be a detailed formulation of a program of action.
- Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations.
- Review dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
- Product and Services:
- A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
- The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
- Place (Distribution):
- Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. It's the company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives.
- Considering, developing and reviewing store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.”
- Simply, all aspects regarding pricing.
- “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service.
- The amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product. Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms.
- Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
- Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities.
- The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
- Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons:
- Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering.
- Advertising: There's an expression "It is only creative if it sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
- Sales Promotion
- Collateral Materials
- Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
- Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media:
- Events and Experiences
- Public Relations/PR
- Also referred to as Alliances. Working with others and organizations which take part in an undertaking with another or others, in a business or company with shared risks and profits.
- With "Partners" and in Marketing, it is vitally important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, with agreed upon objectives and strategies.
- The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of presenting, displaying and putting forward any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others.
- Look at “real” product and service experiences.
- Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. As part of "presentation," I also place “events and experiences” under Promotion.
- While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers.
- Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.
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The Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 was incorporated in 1914.
When entering the MD for the first time you will descend into the beautiful Peace River Valley and then cross over the unique and breathtaking Dunvegan Bridge, the longest gravity-anchored suspension bridge in Alberta.
Council has adopted the "Code of the West" as a philosophical guideline for our Municipality.
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Protestant Charity World Vision announced a few weeks ago that they would now employ same sex “married” couples. World Vision president Richard Stearns explained that the decision was meant to serve Church unity. Since Protestant denominations disagree on the morality of homosexual unions, World Vision decided (allegedly) not take a stand either way. World Vision said they were following the same policy they apply to other controverted theological issues. They do not restrict employment in disagreements over the mode of baptism, for instance. Baptists and Presbyterians can both work there.
World Vision donors did not accept this reasoning. The Evangelical Charity quickly reversed its decision when they began to lose donor support. I first learned the news because of the uproar that it caused among conservative Protestants. Evangelist Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham) issued a public condemnation of the initial decision. Other prominent Protestant leaders also came out against World Vision. They objected not only to the tacit acceptance of homosexual unions, but also to the reasons that World Vision gave for this acceptance. Conservative leaders argued that sexual morality is not like the mode of baptism. Sexual morality is absolutely essential to Christian faith and life. The mode of baptism, they argued, is not.
Viewing this as a Catholic, I was troubled by the World Vision announcement. There are solid, rational grounds for resisting the secular push for same-sex “marriage.” You do not have to be a Catholic or even a Christian to realize this. The World Vision decision was one more example of fuzzy thinking about a matter that is really quite simple. Sex is for babies. Marriage is for families. Societies sanction marriage to support families, not to give political cover to “lifestyle choices.” But I was also dismayed by the nature of the debate among Protestants. The conflict evidenced a deep confusion about the grounds of Christian unity and the nature of Christian belief. Supporters and opponents of World Vision were locked in conflict over how to define the deposit of faith. Both sides agreed on the authority of Scripture. Both sides acknowledge that Christians can disagree. But what do you do when Christians disagree?
Protestants have answered this question historically in very different ways. Early in the Reformation, leaders did not hesitate to argue that one interpretations is correct, or that everyone should conform to one creed. But over time, as denominations proliferated, the dream of doctrinal unity seemed more and more elusive. By the eighteenth century, many Protestant leaders (especially in America) settled on a “least common denominator theology.” What counts, they said, is what we all agree on.
The World Vision flap exposes the vacuity of that reasoning. The core of “what we all agree on” (for Protestants) has gotten smaller and smaller over time. And here’s a further irony. World vision applied a traditional Protestant principle, but with very untraditional results. There is no longer widespread agreement on the meaning of human sexuality, so World Vision concluded it must not be essential. The “conservatives” strongly rejected this conclusion, but on what basis? They admit disagreement on issues like baptism. Why not human morality? Scripture alone can’t answer this, because it’s a debate about how to read the Scripture.
Fortunately, Catholics have no difficulty answering these questions. We know for sure what counts as essential because we do not rely on Scripture alone. Christ left us a revelation in Scripture and tradition, but He also left us a living Magisterium to interpret the faith with authority. We are not dependent upon a vague consensus or a shrinking common denominator. We acknowledge the Church Christ founded, the “pillar and foundation of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15)
The Catholic Church teaches the immorality of homosexual unions, but it also clearly defines the necessity of baptism, the structure of Church government, the nature of the Eucharist, and many other doctrines that Protestants teach are “negotiable.” This is not to say that Catholics regard all doctrines in exactly the same way. We acknowledge a “hierarchy of truths,” in which some doctrines are closer than others to the foundations of our faith. But that doesn’t make subordinate doctrines inessential or optional. The reason for Catholic clarity is the existence of a living Magisterium, the patrimony of tradition, and the dictates of natural law.
I am sorry that World Vision made the decision tacitly to approve homosexual unions. But I am also sorry that Protestant leaders do not see the difficulties with their doctrine of Scripture. More and more, they are going to have a hard time defending marriage and all the doctrines of the Christian faith. Fewer and fewer people take for granted the basics of Chrisitianty. Even fewer agree on what the faith means. More than ever, therefore, the quest for Christian unity will not be fulfilled apart from the promise of Christ: “You are Peter, and on this Rock I will build my Church.” | <urn:uuid:fb9f0217-9336-4d0d-8567-ddfe917bf582> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://calvin2catholic.com/world-vision-and-the-elusive-quest-for-protestant-unity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955855 | 1,031 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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My wife and I attended Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel today for the baptism of our grandniece, Angelina. The readings couldn’t have been more appropriate. They are the instructions to lead a blessed life. The first reading from Deuteronomy couldn’t put it any simpler:
“You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Let the words I enjoin on you today stay in your heart.”
Such simplicity is the heart of wisdom. And in today’s gospel, Jesus imparts it to yet another follower who wanted to test Jesus to see if he really knew his stuff. What are the greatest commandments? Jesus echoes Deuteronomy: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. But he adds an important amendment: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
This scribe liked what Jesus said so much that he added a little wisdom of his own: “this is far more important than any burnt offering or sacrifice.”
I suppose the spirit in which this guy responded to Jesus’ answer must have touched the Lord. For once this wasn’t some wise-guy Pharisee trying to trap Jesus, but a sincere soul, seeking salvation. And indeed, he found it.
“You are not far from thekingdomofGod,” Jesus told him.
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COVID-19 Q&A: When will commercial truck drivers be eligible?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska News Source is answering viewer questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.
When will transportation workers such as commercial drivers be allowed to get the vaccine? Does it depend on what age the driver is? - Anna
Age matters, but only on an individual basis. That’s according to the priority groups identified in the state’s phased vaccine eligibility plan.
If you are 65 or over, you are currently eligible to receive the vaccine right now.
The next group to become eligible will be front-line essential workers aged 50 and over, which could include commercial truck drivers depending on the sector they’re working in. Seafood industry and grocery store employees aged 50 and over are included in this upcoming tier.
The date this next group will become eligible is not yet known.
Dr. Anne Zink, the state’s chief medical officer, said Wednesday most of February will be spent continuing to vaccinate individuals who are 65 years old and over, health care workers and people living in congregate settings.
More information on phases, tiers and who’s eligible now and who will become eligible next is available on the State of Alaska Vaccine Eligibility web page.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art will have two projects underway in 2018.
Last week, The Advocate reported that the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at City Park will undergo a 6.5 acre expansion, effectively doubling its size. The Garden, which opened in 2003, is roughly 5 acres.
While many details are not publicly available, the expansion will include incorporating part of the City Park Lagoon and the McFadden Girl Scout Cabin. Though, the cabin will be independent of the sculpture garden, according to the Lease Agreement NOMA filed with City Park.
Planning for the Garden’s expansion will start in 2018. The 64-piece sculpture garden will continue to be free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, NOMA began its $8.4 million renovation. After closing part of Collins Diboll Circle in August, contractors started hurricane-proofing the basement level of the museum, which was damaged after Hurricanes Katrina and Issac. The renovation requires the removal of nearly 25,000 square feet of four-inch thick concrete, add a water-proofing layer, and apply new concrete on top of that layer. | <urn:uuid:37a354f4-32fd-4b2a-9cbf-5a75c3e66035> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nola.curbed.com/2017/11/27/16704272/new-orleans-museum-sculpture-garden-expansion-plan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917031 | 239 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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PERSPECTIVE: Midline clefts of the lower lip are very rare and range from minimal to severe including associations of the sternum and other anomalies. In this instance, there were three pregnancies, one of which produced the patient, another an infant with a fatal heart malformation and the third, the mother terminated the pregnancy because of fear of having a malformed infant. See the rest of images of this patient.
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Work and Travel in Mauritius
VOLUNTEER AND PAID WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN MAURITIUS FOR TRAVELLERS
Mauritius is an Indian Ocean island group in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Remote and isolated, only the adventurous choose to travel in Mauritius. Not many people know that there are volunteering opportunities in Mauritius for those who want to extend their stay.
The travel guides to Mauritius normally focus on the luxury resorts and the guided tours. If you’ve got better things to do as you backpack in Mauritius and you want to see something more, volunteer on your next adventure!
1. Lagoon Monitoring in the Blue Bay
Mauritius is famed for its coastal life. Play your part in protecting the coast as you work and travel in Mauritius by participating in a lagoon monitoring programme.
These initiatives focus on the Blue Bay area of the country. As part of your duties, you’ll be partaking in research, monitoring of animals like octopuses and turtles, as well as collecting data for further studies. Qualified or not, you’ll find a place for you in the Blue Bay.
2. Preserve Mauritian Art in Port Louis
Traditional Mauritian culture is under threat as the constant flow of migration leaves fewer and fewer people with knowledge of the old ways. Campaigns in Port Louis have been setup with the purpose of keeping Mauritian art and culture alive.
If you don’t mind getting messy, this is a great way to work in Mauritius. Learn about art, culture, and help these organisations spread awareness throughout the country. You don’t need to be a modern day Picasso to make a difference. These volunteer opportunities in Mauritius are available to everyone with an open mind.
3. Raise Awareness of Stray Dogs in Mauritius
One option for volunteering in Mauritius is raising awareness of stray dogs. Mauritius has an estimated 60,000 strays, which for such a small country is a huge number.
As you work in Mauritius you’ll be participating in making posters to spread awareness, talking to the locals in the part of the country you’re stationed in, and supporting the stray dogs picked up by the organisation.
If you love animals, this is a tremendous way to work and travel in Mauritius.
VOLUNTEER WORK VISA / PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR MAURITIUS
Mauritius is extremely open towards all developed countries. If you live in North America, Europe, or the developed countries in the Far East and Oceania, you can enter the country for a total of 90 days. This also applies to citizens of Russia and South Africa.
It’s even possible to renew the visa by leaving and coming back. But for both tourism and business purposes you can only stay for 180 days out of every year.
Take note that this is not a visa-on-arrival and doesn’t require you to pay any fees or obtain any documentation when you land in the country.
SEASONAL BACKPACKER SKILLS NEEDED IN MAURITIUS
The spring time, with the exception of April, is a time when Mauritius is in the grip of winter. The temperature is still pleasant enough, with low humidity. Many conservation projects on the coast choose to open their doors at this time of year, since there’s little to no threat of major storms.
You may also want to consider a homestay in the rural areas. Most of the roads will have been cleared from debris but there’s still a lot of work to do in village guesthouses and underprivileged communities just after the cyclone season.
The new school year also begins in January. If you want to work as a private teacher, this is the time to secure one of those positions. You could be teaching a language like English or French or acting as a substitute teacher if you possess formal teaching qualifications. Some of these roles could even be paid.
The summertime is actually the middle of winter. During the summer the temperatures are the same as the spring without the threat of storms or cyclones. Take a look at the skills required in the ‘Spring’ section as there are no additional projects that are specific to summer in Mauritius.
Until October, the winter season continues. But the start of the summer season does take up part of the season. We recommend trying to find positions in the tourism industry at this time of year.
Most resorts and tour operators prefer to hire people a month or so prior to the big tourist wave arriving in November. You could be a diving instructor, surfing instructor, or you could be just working as a waiter or as a concierge in one of the resorts. Whatever you want to do in the tourist industry you must submit a formal application and it’s nearly impossible to find a position without prior experience.
The bulk of the tourist season requires the skills detailed in the last section. Another option for experienced backpackers in the Mauritius is to become a tour guide. You usually don’t need much prior experience as long as you can show deep knowledge of the country.
Even if you’re a volunteer you’ll still be able to work for tips. And when working with the wealthy travellers that visit Mauritius it’s possible to earn a decent salary this way.
ATTITUDE TO FOREIGNERS WORKING OR VOLUNTEERING IN MAURITIUS
It’s hard for people to understand how the Mauritius really works because the majority of those who travel in Mauritius stick to the resorts and don’t go beyond their guided activities.
You should bear in mind that this is still a developing country and many of the people are desperately poor here. But by getting under the skin of the country as you work and travel in Mauritius you’ll discover a people that’s deeply proud of its history and the various cultures and traditions that make it up.
As long as you avoid the resorts of Mauritius you’re unlikely to run into any of the touts and beggars crowding around the main resorts.
Do you have what it takes to work and travel in Mauritius?
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The energy-rich nation of Qatar is pledging to fully eliminate a labor system that ties foreign workers to their employer and requires them to have their company's permission to leave the country.
That's according to the United Nations' International Labor Organization, which said Wednesday that Qatar planned to end the so-called "kafala" system there.
The ILO says workers would be able to freely change employers under draft laws described as being "expected to come into force by January 2020."
The ILO also says Doha also is considering a minimum wage.
Qatar, whose citizens enjoy one of the world's highest per-capita incomes due to its natural gas reserves, partially ended the "kafala" system in 2018.
This comes as Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the Arabian Peninsula nation.
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A project to take a close-up look at a group of highly specialised sea creatures could shed new light on the secrets of marine life living on renewable energy devices below the waves.
The project could ultimately see the creation of a detailed map to identify the type, speed of growth and prevalence of attaching organisms – a process known as ‘biofouling’ – with the aim of better informing the operation and maintenance of sub-sea equipment.
The project is being led by the Glasgow-based Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) catapult, the technology and innovation centre specialising in offshore renewables, in conjunction with researchers from SAMS Research Services Ltd (SRSL), PML Applications Ltd and paint manufacturer AkzoNobel.
The overall aim of the project is to map for the first time how communities of these attaching, or ‘sessile’, creatures vary around the UK’s coast and to develop a sensor to measure their growth rates, with the purpose of better advising offshore installations and developing preventative methods.
Leading the project is Vicky Coy, ORE project manager. She said: “Biofouling is a huge issue both in the UK and across the world. We work closely with offshore renewable energy technology developers and biofouling is repeatedly highlighted to us as a potential challenge for the renewables industry and related sectors.
“These organisms often attach in large numbers, creating particular problems for offshore renewable energy structures and the associated operational activities, adding weight, clogging machinery and accelerating deterioration.
“While much is known about these communities, this is the first time they have been looked at in this way, including the way growth patterns vary around the UK’s waters, and the impact they could have on renewables installations such as offshore wind and subsea tidal turbines, wave energy devices and their connected infrastructure.
“The project outcomes will also support greater understanding of the evolving bio-diversity of our seas.”
Dr Raeanne Miller, marine scientist at Oban-based consultancy SAMS Research Services Ltd, said: “The build-up of marine organism growth, or biofouling, is well-known to result in severe operational issues and increased down-time across a range of marine industries – offshore renewable energy included.
“The type of biofouling around UK waters varies greatly. Biologists already have some tools and datasets to predict the type of biofouling which may develop on subsea structures and more data will continue to support the assessment of forthcoming sites for development and the planning for accurate maintenance and cleaning levels.
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The Muskoday First Nation (formerly the John Smith First Nation) is a First Nation band government in Saskatchewan, Canada, composed of Cree and Saulteaux
peoples. The First Nation has a registered population of 1,828 people as of
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on-reserve, and approximately 1204 live off-reserve. Muskoday's territory is located in the aspen parkland biome. It is bordered by the rural municipalities of Birch Hills No. 460 and Prince Albert No. 461.
The flag is a vertical bicolor, green-white-yellow, with the emblem on the
central stripe, depicting a buffalo on a blue disk.
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Morningside Estate, Booval, 1887 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online.
This real estate map from 1887 advertises 146 allotments of land for sale at the Morningside Estate in the Ipswich suburb of Booval. The allotments were situated on Brisbane Road, Railway Street, Elizabeth Street (now Green Street) and Mary Street (now Marian Street).
"Working men! Now is your opportunity! Capitalists! Don't miss investments! All! Take a good chance when it offers!" (Queensland Times, November 22, 1887)
A public auction was held at the site on the afternoon of December 3, 1887. The Queensland Times newspaper reported the results of the sale.
"The Morningside Estate was sold by auction, on the ground, on Saturday, the 3rd instant. About two-thirds of the estate found purchasers at fair prices, making about £1000 for the afternoon's sale." (Queensland Times, December 13, 1887)
A higher resolution image of this map can be viewed and downloaded through our One Search catalogue.
Prints of this map are also available through the Library Shop.
You can browse a compendium of our previous maps of the week on our blog.
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Henri Astier examines the large and ongoing demonstrations by French youth over the proposed change in the labor code, in openDemocracy.
France is undergoing another social convulsion, as hundreds of thousands of students and young people – now joined by the children of immigrants from the deprived banlieues – protest against a new law designed to increase the flexibility of the labour market. Some, like Naima Bouteldja, see the demonstrators as resisting the “flexploitation” characteristic of “the authoritarian market society France has become”; others, like the veteran of the 1968 protests (and current Green member of the European parliament) Danny Cohn-Bendit, portray their actions as “defensive, based on fear of insecurity and change”.
These contrasting perspectives reflect the fractures at the heart of current French social experience. Every country has its “haves” and “have-nots”, but in France the have-nots are a particularly desperate lot…
[U]nemployment is only part of the story. Millions more are caught on a treadmill of short-term schemes – mostly subsidised by the government – that lead either nowhere or to another dead-end job. Add those living off various welfare benefits, and the number of people relegated to the margins of French society has been variously estimated at a staggering 7-12 million.
The real fracture sociale Jacques Chirac referred to when he was elected president in 1995 – and has gone on to do nothing about – is between “insiders” with well-paid, secure positions, and “outsiders” who find it extremely difficult to get on the career path many take for granted in other countries. | <urn:uuid:f6ca665c-50f1-4d74-8726-2ab26c1430f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2006/03/french_youth_re.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962629 | 358 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Thank God for the second reading and the gospel reading at today’s mass. The first reading from Job was a real bummer. If that’s all we would have had to chew on for the rest of our day (Job’s tale of woe and drudgery that became his life) it wouldn’t give us much to be thankful for.
But putting all three readings in context, we realize how blessed we are for the freedom to be God’s slaves.
Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians, wrote that he took “recompense” for being a slave to the Gospel. And in today’s Gospel from Mark, Jesus didn’t even complain about the day he had, casting out demons and preaching to thousands. In fact he was ready to move on to the next town and do it some more.
If the Son of God could be a slave to the Gospel, what right do we have to complain about the petty drudgeries of our lives? In fact they seem ridiculously lame compared to the challenges Jesus’ disciples faced in taking over for Jesus in spreading his good news.
We are called to take recompense from choosing to be slaves for the gospel and sharing it with our families and everyone else in our lives. For in being slaves, we set our souls free. | <urn:uuid:e6a36e28-f74c-4600-a302-372c0621c76a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brothersinchristcmf.org/blog/2012/02/05/free-to-be-slaves-02-05-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974949 | 279 | 1.625 | 2 |
TERRITORY OF DARKNESS
Published in THE SEERS' CATALOGUE, 2nd Edition
10 OCT 2020
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Here is the beginning of a wider investigation regarding ecological image making - The Ecological Image.
TERRITORY OF DARKNESS is a photographic article that conceptually explores the astrophotographic digital photography practice of dark frame (a light and lens less image) captured from the internal electronic and thermal signals of a Nikon D70s' light sensitive CCD panel. It asks, how can the awareness of specific periodic elements within a digital camera realign the practice of photography to a cosmic, geologic, and ecological haunting?
This project primarily focuses on the element silicon, an active component in the CCD sensor that plays an important role in the conversion of light to electrons to image through feminist theorist Karen Barad’s notions of quantum discontinuity and intra-action, and, the experimentation of dark frame image creation.
The aim of this project, and The Ecological Image Project at large, is to decentralise the singular position of where an image is captured by bringing awareness to the interconnected systems of earthly extraction and labour that give rise to image capturing devices such as digital cameras. It endeavours to emphasise how non-human agents like digital cameras, and the images they make, are haunted by the materiality of the earth and cosmos from which they are made, to which humans are inextricably enmeshed.
The SUN and MOON image collections in TERRITORY OF DARKENSS document a D70s with materials such as a face, a palm, sand and another digital camera in the posture of a dark frame capture that was made within the D70s. In the article, the documented images are presented with an interactive dissolve with the dark frame image from the D70s.
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I like to make new cushion covers to match my new house, get pictures up on the walls and do what I can to make it feel like my space. Involve the kids too if you can, and help them feel they have a safe space in their new home. It can take ages to unpack and settle. Don’t pressure yourself to do it all at once. Break down the tasks into steps, and don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Moving home can be stressful but it can also be an opportunity for a fresh start. If you are forced to move, say because of a separation, it can be hard on you and your children because of the likely losses. There are things you can do to make this easier on you all.
Moving to a new home or area can also be exciting. It’s a chance for a new start with your children. Be prepared to feel a bit homesick. You might miss family and friends, and your children might feel the same. Can you keep in touch on social media like Facebook and WhatsApp? You can then share things with them so they still feel a big part of your family’s life.
It’s natural to want a fresh start after a difficult time. For some people this means moving to a new area. But make sure you’re moving for the right reasons. Think about whether you’ll just be taking your worries with you. Getting support now might be a better option in the long run. How will it feel if you are far from family and friends, if children have to start a new school, if you have to look for work in an unfamiliar area, and so on?
If you have to move to a new place with or without your children, try to take the time, if you can, to make sure it’s the right place for you and your children (or as right as you can make it).
Some questions to ask are:
Do you want to be near to other people or away from them?
What sort of facilities do you need like health centres, hospitals, shops, play parks and libraries?
Is it close enough to your place of work and schools and nurseries?
What is public transport like?
Will there be opportunities for making friends?
Do your research about areas you’d consider. Think about the things that would affect you: the area, the street, the facilities.
Do some research about the housing available. As well as council housing, there may be housing associations in the area. Rather than completing several forms, check first. It’s likely that one form will add you to all waiting lists. It’s worth checking if there are smaller housing associations which aren’t on this form.
Be realistic about the type of housing you’ll be offered and the likely waiting time. The more particular you are about certain things such as fuel type, area, garden and so on, the longer you’re likely to wait. It might be worth reviewing your application to see if there are any changes you could make to get rehoused quicker.
If you or your children have any disabilities, this is something that you will have to take into account for any move. Your local council should be able to help with adaptations to make any housing suitable and accessible.
The house and the area need to feel and be safe and secure. Risk of domestic abuse from an ex-partner might affect your choices about type and location of housing. If domestic abuse is a factor, speak to the local Women’s Aid group. They should be able to put you in touch with what’s needed by way of home security, fire safety checks, lighting, stair entry systems and alarms.
Once you are in your new place, try to keep a structure to your day. You may be feeling a bit lost and lonely, so even just having set mealtimes can help give your life some shape.
Moving home can be a big change for anyone: adults and children. Some children adapt more easily than others. It can be harder if it’s a forced move, or if they need to move schools.
Change is to be expected. You can’t avoid it. But you can help your children cope with it.
Talk to them about how change can be positive. Maybe they’d like their new bedroom to be a different colour or theme and they can help choose other things around the house.
Talk to them about any worries they have. They may worry about things that seem small to you but can be huge for them.
Reassure them if you can but be honest about anything that you don’t know.
Include your children in choices such as any toys and favourite things they want to keep when they move, or how they want their new bedroom to be.
It can be helpful for everyone to pack one ‘open-me-first box’ with the things you all want immediately in your new home to help everyone settle.
Make the first night fun and an adventure instead of everyone being stressed about all the boxes to unpack and furniture to build. You could all ‘camp out’ in one room together, play a game and eat your favourite food.
Speak to them about how they can stay in touch with friends and anything they’re moving away from. Help them keep in touch.
Support them to find ways to connect with the new area and make new friends.
Look at how you can get to know people in the area too. This will help your children see that you also have to make new friends, and that they’re not the only ones who have to get used to the changes.
Children with autism might need some extra help with moving home or school. The National Autistic Society has information about this on its website or you can phone the Autism Advice Line on 01259 222 0222.
Furnishing and household items
If you’re on a tight budget look on Facebook Marketplace, Freecycle or Gumtree for household items. There might be a local ‘sales and wants’ page.
If you don’t have the money to decorate, you may be able to get some help from projects which help parents develop painting and decorating skills.
You may not want other people to know that you’ve been searching for information or help from OPFS.
When browsing the internet whether on a mobile phone, tablet or computer, you leave a ‘history’ trail of pages and sites you’ve visited.
It’s impossible to completely avoid being tracked online but if you’re worried about someone knowing which sites you’ve been looking at, there are some things you can do to help cover your tracks.
If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, try keeping another document or website open in a new tab or window while browsing. If someone comes in the room and you don’t want them to see what you’re looking at, you can quickly switch to another window or tab.
Deleting browsing history
You can delete the history of websites you’ve visited, but it’s important to know that if you delete your browsing history, someone else using the same device may notice.
If you share a tablet, mobile phone, laptop or computer with someone, they might notice that passwords or website addresses have disappeared from their history.
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The Flavors of Spring Lamb
Sheep production is thought to be man’s oldest organized industry. Domesticating sheep as a source for both clothing and food dates back at least 10,000 years to Central Asia. The German word “lambiz” was quickly shortened to “lamb” in Old English, a term that has meant “a wee sheep” since at least the 8th century A.D. During the Middle Ages, farmers discovered even more uses for sheep, including skins for parchment paper and milk for butter and cheese. It’s said that Christopher Columbus’ voyages during the late 1400s were financed with sheep’s wool.
Lamb, technically, refers to a sheep that is less than 12 months old. These “wee sheep” tend to make a culinary appearance each spring. Tender spring lamb is typically five to six months old and appears at the butcher shop between March and October. Today’s top lamb-consuming countries? New Zealand, Australia, Greece, Uraguay, and Ireland.
When it comes to lamb preparation, take a trip around the globe for inspiration. The English often slow roast lamb and serve it with roasted potatoes and fresh mint sauce. A typical Scandinavian preparation might include mustard seeds and an anchovy-based brine. A Mediterranean lamb dish often includes olive oil, lemon, and garlic. A Korean barbecued lamb might feature miso (soybean paste) and kimchi (a spicy, fermented condiment). The sweet spices in Baharat (sometimes called Lebanese allspice) are a natural pairing for lamb. And the most American variation has to be the lamb burger.
Depending on where in the world you’re searching for inspiration, here are some of our favorite Savory Spice Shop seasonings to celebrate the distinctive flavors of spring lamb.
Limnos Lamb Rub
A Greek-inspired seasoning for lamb, this blend features classic Mediterranean flavors, including sea salt, lemon, thyme, oregano, and spearmint. Simply rub a leg of lamb with olive oil, coat it with Limnos Lamb Rub and roast or grill it. Or bring these Mediterranean-inspired flavors to your favorite vegetarian dish, like our squash tart.
There are hundreds of variations of this Mediterranean condiment, varying by region, town, and family tradition. Savory’s version of Za'atar features sumac, sesame seeds, thyme and oregano. The combo provides a nice citrus-y zing (from the sumac) and interesting texture (from the sesame seeds) for unique Za'atar Naan Pizzas, topped with ground lamb and feta cheese.
A Middle Eastern-inspired blend, Baharat is often referred to as Lebanese allspice, because its uses are so versatile. Featuring some of the common flavors associated with allspice (cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg), Savory’s Baharat blend also adds the sharp heat of Lampong peppercorns and the sweetness of Spanish paprika. Try this flavor combo on our Baharat Lahmacun (which translates to "meat and dough" in English).
Coastal Cali Fennel Pollen Rub
Fennel and lamb go hand-in-hand. With bright flavors, like orange, garlic, California paprika, and Aji Amarillo chiles, this truly American-inspired Coastal Cali Fennel Pollen Rub is perfect for flavoring our decadent lamb burger.
Whether lamb is one of your favorite meats from the butcher’s counter, or you’re new to the distinctive flavors of lamb, the key to a great lamb dish is the seasoning. You can’t go wrong with one of the above blends or recipes.
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Does Seborrheic Dermatitis Itch?
Seborrheic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that results in scaly, flaky skin. It typically affects areas of the skin with a large number of oil glands, such as the scalp, face, and chest. While the exact cause of seborrheic dermatitis is unknown, it is thought to be related to an overgrowth of a type of fungus called Malassezia. Seborrheic dermatitis is not contagious and cannot be passed from person to person.
One common symptom of seborrheic dermatitis is itchiness. The itchiness can be mild or severe, and is often worse when the skin is dry. Scratching can make the itchiness worse and can also lead to skin irritation and infection. If you have seborrheic dermatitis and are experiencing itchiness, there are a few things you can do to help relieve your symptoms.
First, try to avoid scratching your skin. This can be difficult, but it’s important to resist the urge to scratch. Second, keep your skin moisturized. This will help to reduce the dryness that can worsen itchiness. Use a gentle, fragrance-free moisturizer and apply it liberally to affected areas. Third, try using a medicated shampoo or cream. There are several over-the-counter products that can help to control seborrheic dermatitis flare-ups. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about which product may be right for you.
Seborrheic dermatitis is a common skin condition that can cause your scalp to itch. If you have seborrheic dermatitis, you may notice red, scaly patches on your scalp. This can lead to dandruff and an itchy scalp. In some cases, seborrheic dermatitis can also cause acne-like breakouts on your face, chest, and back. If you have seborrheic dermatitis, you’re not alone—it affects millions of people worldwide. While there is no cure for this condition, there are treatments that can help control the symptoms.
If home remedies don’t seem to be helping, or if your symptoms are severe, talk to your doctor. They may prescribe a stronger medicated shampoo or cream. In some cases, oral antifungal medications may be necessary. Seborrheic dermatitis can be a pesky condition, but with proper treatment, it can be controlled.
If you have seborrheic dermatitis, you may be wondering if it will always make your scalp itch. The answer isn’t always clear, as the symptoms of seborrheic dermatitis can vary from person to person. For some people, the itchiness associated with seborrheic dermatitis may go away on its own without treatment. Others may find that the itchiness persists, even with treatment. It’s also worth noting that the itchiness associated with seborrheic dermatitis can come and go — you may have periods of time when your scalp is itchy, and other periods when it’s not.
If you’re trying to figure out whether or not your seborrheic dermatitis will always make your scalp itch, it may be helpful to talk to a doctor or other healthcare provider. They can give you more information about the condition and how it may affect you specifically. | <urn:uuid:c23a0cee-ccb4-4050-9e08-e2e737f04971> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.merelta.com/blogs/all-blogs/does-seborrheic-dermatitis-itch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92573 | 719 | 2.5 | 2 |
The paper reviews the history of the widespread toponym Belgrad/Belgorod and the derived adjectives in Russian and Church Slavonic. The author analyses variant forms for different periods. Morphological and accentual variations are demonstrated, as well as the connecting vowel -o- vs. its absence, pleophony vs. absence of pleophony and the tendency to make a formal difference among several «White Cities». The ancient word combination bělъ gorodъ (gradъ) attested in old manuscripts and books has been transformed into a composite word. The short form bělъ has become indeclinable, but in liturgical texts some relic forms denoting exotic places still remain unchanged. Particular attention is paid to the Modern Church Slavonic liturgical texts to honor the Saints of Belgorod (Russia). The variant nouns Bělgrádъ/Bělográdъ ‘Belgorod’ and adjectives bělográdskij/bělgoródskij are discussed. | <urn:uuid:897e64b9-bdfc-40e3-9e7c-ebcd3e43665b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rjano.ruslang.ru/en/archive/2013-2/249-262 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.880864 | 235 | 2.875 | 3 |
Antinori winery located in Bargino, between Florence and Siena, in one of the most beautiful Italian regions of Tuscany, is an example of harmonious insertion of the building in the surrounding nature.
The presence of two rows of glass walls extending horizontally along the slope and a pair of sliced roof openings infilled with glass reveal the presence of the underground structure. The use of Pilkington extra clear glass provides visitors an unlimited contact with the picturesque surroundings and access to the daylight.
The glass façade, despite its height and span, is completely safe and resistant to wind loads or accidental breakage. It uses an extra clear laminated glass Pilkington Optilam™ OW with a properly specified thickness of 16.8 mm as other pane and Pilkington Optilam™ Therm S3 OW with a thickness of 12.8 mm as inner pane with low-e coating. The skylights are made of the same type of low-emissivity laminated glass combined with toughened glass, Pilkington Optiwhite™ T, providing an increased impact resistance.
Antinori winery designed by Archea Associati architects does not violate the surrounding nature visually and has minimum environmental impact. The use of low-emissivity laminated Pilkington Optilam™ Therm S3 OW glass provides thermal insulation, thereby enabling a reduction of energy consumption required for the heating.
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Stoicism as Philosophical Psychotherapy
This article was first published in the July 2005 edition of the BACP magazine CPJ (now Therapy Today).
Republished with minor amendments. Copyright © Donald Robertson, 2005. All rights reserved.
The philosopher’s school is a doctor’s clinic. (Epictetus, 1995: 3.23.30)1
There is currently a growth of interest in the “practical” or psychotherapeutic aspects of classical philosophy. Academic experts have long perceived “Late” or “Roman” Stoicism (c. 1st – 2nd Century AD) as offering the most explicit system of therapeutic concepts and techniques to be found in classical literature. This article seeks to introduce some of the basic principles of Stoic philosophy to an audience of psychotherapists and counsellors. We have found that therapists are often surprised at how relevant to their practice and strangely familiar Stoic ideas actually are. Indeed, we hope to demonstrate that many modern theories of psychotherapy, counselling and personal development are ultimately indebted to this age-old but virtually forgotten therapeutic tradition.
The Origins & History of Stoicism
Stoicism is an ancient European school of philosophy, which incorporates a comprehensive system of therapeutic exercises. Zeno of Citium founded the school in Athens, as a “Socratic” sect, around 300 BC. However, Stoicism was more than just a “philosophy”, in the modern academic sense of the word, it was a far-reaching and long-standing cultural movement.
The historical boundaries are controversial, but it is safe to say that the Stoic school of philosophy can be situated within a broader philosophical tradition of “practical philosophy.” That movement as a whole lasted from around the time of Pythagoras of Samos (c. 6th century BC) –who may be considered the original philosopher-therapist– to the superseding of pagan philosophy by Christian theology well over 1,000 years later. Following the closure of the great pagan academies by the Christian Emperor Justinian in 529 AD, the therapeutic practices of Stoicism and other philosophical systems survived only insofar as they were assimilated into orthodox Christian theology, i.e., barely at all.
As a living tradition of philosophical practice Stoicism’s time was over. However, some of its concepts survived in literature and experienced various revivals, most notably the so-called “Neostoicism” of the Renaissance period, explaining the traces of Stoic thought in the work of such influential figures as Erasmus, John Calvin, Rene Descartes, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Michel de Montaigne, to name but a few. Even the royals, Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James I of England (VI of Scotland), were considered admirers of Stoic philosophy. More recently, Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), published a novel called A Man in Full (1998) in which one of the lead characters adopts a philosophy of life based on the ancient Stoic Manual of Epictetus. Hollywood director Ridley Scott’s epic Gladiator (2000) depicts the last days of the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) and briefly alludes to the cardinal philosophical virtues and the Stoic notion of ‘contempt for death.’
It is worth noting, in this context, that the English language still retains evidence of the therapeutic dimension of philosophy. The adjective ‘philosophical’, among other things, still clearly alludes to the ancient ideal of emotional calm (ataraxia) and self-mastery (sophrosyne). This usage of ‘philosophical’ has also become virtually synonymous with the modern, popular meaning of ‘stoical.’
philosophical. adj. 3. Calm in adversity.
stoical. adj. Having or showing great self-control in adversity. (OUP, 1992: ‘philosophical’, ‘stoical’)2
Indeed, Stoicism’s influence over our thought and language, usually unrecognised, endures right down to the present day, so much so that people are often surprised to find that many familiar clichés and proverbs are derived from Stoic philosophy – I call this its “déjà vu factor.”
Stoicism & Modern Psychotherapy/Counselling
Stoicism is fundamentally a philosophy of life independent of any political or religious dogmas. Some have seen it as comparable to a “European Buddhism” or “Western Yoga”, similar in appeal to Oriental systems of thought. Yet it is essentially agnostic, naturalistic, and European in character. Though we shall focus on the therapeutic dimension of Stoicism, it does encompass the possibility of certain metaphysical and spiritual themes, which provide the basis for a sophisticated kind of rational mysticism. Indeed, historically Stoicism evolved into the high mysticism of the last great pagan philosophical school, Neoplatonism, which was in turn assimilated into Christianity.
However, Stoicism is also the forgotten ancestor of our own psychotherapeutic tradition. The modern history of psychotherapy begins in the early Victorian era with the development of hypnotherapy as a medico-psychological treatment, from which Freud subsequently developed psychoanalysis. Yet thousands of years earlier, it was common parlance to refer to philosophy as a “physician of the psyche” and for philosophers to employ therapeutic aims, concepts, techniques, and styles of working. For example, it’s now known that Freud derived his concept of katharsis (psychical “purification”) from a superficial reading of Aristotle. However, as a classical scholar himself, he might have been aware that the word was more commonly used as a technical term to describe the separation of mind from emotional attachment to external, material things. This notion of the need to “separate” and “purify” the subjective (self) from the objective (other), so fundamental to Stoic practice, pre-empts the basic psychoanalytic concept of projection, which both Jung, and later Klein, inferred was among the most fundamental of all Freud’s so-called ‘defence mechanisms.’
More recently, existential and cognitive therapies have drawn explicitly upon similar themes from classical philosophy. When existential therapists, following Heidegger, discuss the importance of an “authentic being-toward-death”, e.g., they are perpetuating one of the central methods of ancient philosophical therapy, the melete thanatou or “meditation upon death”, dramatically portrayed in Plato’s dialogues on the last days of Socrates. The “here and now” philosophy of Gestalt therapy is a figure of speech translating the Latin “hic et nunc”, one of the key themes of Stoic psychotherapy: returning awareness to the present moment. Albert Ellis, the founder of REBT, openly acknowledges his debt to Epictetus, the author of the therapeutic Manual of Stoicism; hence many students of REBT are already partially apprised of its connection with Stoic philosophy. The “ABC model” widely used in cognitive therapy is simply another re-iteration of the perennial philosophical notion of philosophical katharsis, i.e., separating out our subjective judgements from the external events to which they give emotive meaning. In this regard, Cognitive therapists repeatedly cite the famous quotation from the Manual of Epictetus: ‘It is not things themselves that disturb people but their judgments about those things.’ (Epictetus, 1995: §5)1
Nowadays thinkers are freely developing personal development systems and eclectic psychotherapeutic techniques which, often unknowingly, re-introduce key concepts and techniques from classical Western philosophy. Indeed, the many ways in which modern therapists are indebted to ancient philosophy would fill a book by themselves. We only offer a few examples of this intellectual debt to emphasise the point that all therapists, for the most part unwittingly, operate in the shadow of a very ancient therapeutic model. We still speak the language and use the methods of an ancient therapeutics, whether we realise it or not.
The Basic Concepts of Stoicism
The name “Stoic” simply refers to the stoa poekile, the “painted porch” within which Zeno of Citium, the school’s founder, delivered his lectures and training. However, Stoicism has a more descriptive name, it is also called the “Natural Life” or “Following Nature”, and many variations of this phrase are used to describe the basic orientation of the system. The ancient historian of philosophy Diogenes Laertius writes, ‘the end [of Stoicism] turns out to be living in agreement with nature, taken as living in accordance both with one’s own nature and with the nature of the whole [universe]’ (Diogenes Laertius: 1964, VII: 88).3 In this, Diogenes is alluding to the central Stoic distinction between (internal) human nature, and the (external) Nature of the universe. In fact, this basic ideal was interpreted as applying at three levels, Diogenes could have added, ‘living in accord with the nature of all mankind,’ because the Stoics believed that the individual self can only be understand as one part, or rather a ‘limb’, of the community of all people. Hence, we have a system of coherence at three levels of ‘nature’:
- Self. Moral integrity, truthfulness, and personal authenticity
- Mankind. Empathic understanding, social justice, philadelphia (“brotherly love”)
- Universe. Being at one with life, with the All, with the totality of Nature
The Stoic Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, employs these three tiers of psychological relations in the therapy journal he kept, the famous Meditations, when he writes:
Your own mind, the Mind of the universe, your neighbour’s mind –be prompt to explore them all.
Your own, so that you may shape it to justice [and authenticity]; the universe’s, that you may recollect what it is you are a part of; your neighbour’s, that you may understand whether it is informed by ignorance or knowledge, and also may recognise that it is kin to your own. (Marcus Aurelius: 1964, 9:22)4
Stoicism, therefore, is essentially a philosophy of being at one (homologoumenos), or in harmony with, the totality of life. As psychotherapy, it equates mental and emotional health with integration or a sense of “oneness” at these three levels of existence. This simple and intuitive threefold classification also provides the basic structure for applying Stoic psychotherapy, the ‘Threefold Rule of Life.’
The Threefold Rule of Life
Objective judgement, now, at this very moment [Logic].
Unselfish action, now, at this very moment [Ethics].
Willing acceptance –now, at this very moment– of all external events [Physics].
That’s all you need. (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 9.6)5
The Stoics divided their philosophy into three branches: Logic, Ethics and Physics. It is important to realise that these words have now changed their meaning; indeed we will substitute “Metaphysics” for “Physics.” Greek philosophy in general also recognised four ‘cardinal virtues’: Truth, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude. These may correlate with the Threefold Rule, the disciplines of Judgement, Action, and of Fear and Desire, and with what we might term the three ‘Core Qualities’ of Stoicism: ‘Objectivity’, ‘Integrity’, and ‘Acceptance.’ Fortunately, for ham-fisted scholars trying to translate these ideas into plain English, we possess a beautifully concise and poetic expression of the Threefold Rule,
“The Serenity Prayer”
Grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
This is the so-called “Serenity Prayer” of the Twelve Step Programme of Alcoholics Anonymous. Although the earliest records attribute it to the late Victorian era, it is so obviously consistent with Stoic philosophy that it is tempting to speculate whether it originates in a much earlier source. In fact, some writers claim that it is based upon the work of the early medieval philosopher Boethius, author of The Consolations of Philosophy, though I have been unable to verify this.
This, in a nutshell, is the essence of Stoic philosophy; though precisely because of its simplicity it does not give full expression to the enormous breadth of ideas which that system contains. It expresses one of the most fundamental principles of Stoicism: ‘to know the difference between what depends upon me and what does not.’ The Stoics mean by this precisely the distinction we have made between that which is internal and directly subject to my will, and that which I must accept as external and beyond my immediate control, i.e., wholly, or even partially, contingent upon external events.
What, then, should we have at hand upon [challenging] situations? Why, what else than to know what is mine, and what is not mine, what is within my power, and what is not. (Epictetus: 1995, 1.1.21)1
The Threefold Rule of Life
The previous section considered the Stoicism’s history and its relation to modern psychotherapy and counselling. We explained that the grand maxim of Stoic therapy is ‘To follow Nature.’ The first logical step on this path being to distinguish between our own internal nature, the field of Stoic Ethics, and the external Nature of the universe as a whole, the domain of (Meta-) Physics; Stoic Logic aims to make this distinction objectively. This is the Threefold Rule of Life, the basic psychotherapeutic structure presupposed in classical Stoic literature. Marcus, e.g., exhorts himself to: “Apply them constantly, to everything that happens: Physics, Ethics, Logic” (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 8:13) 5 We now proceed to examine each of these therapeutic disciplines in turn.
Logic: The Discipline of Judgement
And progress for a rational mind means not accepting falsehood or uncertainty in its perceptions […]. (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 8:7)5
We can equate the supreme classical virtue of ‘Truth’ with the core quality which I call ‘Stoic Objectivity’, the ability to separate internal from external nature. In one sense, the heart of Stoic Logic is ‘know thyself’, the legendary maxim inscribed at the Oracle of Apollo in Delphi. However, such knowledge takes on a special character in Stoicism; true knowledge is seen as precisely this ability to clarify the boundaries of the inner self. That is, to continually distinguish, in the present moment, between internal and external nature, i.e., between mind and matter. As Epictetus says, ‘And to become educated [trained in philosophy] means just this, to learn what things are our, and what are not.’ (Epictetus: 1995, 4.5.7). We can picture this demarcation as the drawing of an imaginary boundary, a circle around the limits of the true self. Indeed, the Stoics described the perfectly circumscribed mind of the ideal Sage as ‘fencing itself off’, an unassailable ‘inner citadel’, and a ‘sphere in perfect equilibrium.’
The ancients generally defined the psyche in terms of activity, as ‘that which moves itself.’ Hence, for Stoicism, the essence of the self is the autonomous action of our freewill: our intentions, thoughts, and decisions. This is a deeply existential view of the self; man is essentially freewill in action, everything else is extraneous to the self. The attitude we call ‘Stoic Mindfulness’ (prosoche), then, means constant self-awareness of the movements of the mind, assuming full responsibility for our own judgements, actions, fears and desires.
Mindfulness also entails owning our thoughts, re-owning our projections, and suspending all value-laden or emotive judgements. Our thoughts project meaning and form onto our perceptions, by separating the two we attain Truth and Objectivity. Moreover, the key therapeutic slogan of Stoic Logic is: ‘It is not things that disturb people but their judgements about things.’ (Epictetus: 1995, §5)1 Hence, John Milton’s Satan boasts, ‘The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.’ (Milton, :I, 254)6 As Shakespeare’s Hamlet exclaims: ‘There’s nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so!’ (Shakespeare, 1994, Act 2, Scene 2)7 Marcus Aurelius provides many practical examples of this principle in his therapeutic journal:
[Remember that] this noble vintage is grape juice, and the purple robes [of imperial office] are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood. […] Perceptions like that –latching onto things and piercing through them, so we see what they really are. That’s what we need to do all the time –all through our lives when things lay claim to our trust– to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them. (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 6:13)5
[Assent to] nothing but what you get from first impressions. That someone has insulted you, for instance. That –but not that it’s done you any harm. The fact that my son is sick –that I can see. But “that he might die of it,” no. Stick with first impressions. Don’t extrapolate. And nothing can happen to you. (Marcus Aurelius: 2004, 8:49)5
We ascertain the truth when we acknowledge and suspend our own prejudices and let the facts speak for themselves. This technique of stripping things down to their essence, phrased in a few words, is known by scholars as ‘essential analysis.’ Its goal is called ‘objective representation’ (phantasia kataleptike), to this alone the Sage’s judgement assents.
At a practical level, the Discipline of Judgement was achieved by a variety of therapeutic methods. For instance, sophisticated rhetorical techniques and verbal formulae –i.e., language patterns– were used to reframe perceptions. Visualisation was employed, e.g., in imagining the presence of an ideal Sage, accompanying the student as a mentor and observer. Moreover, the therapy was conducted in three modes which happen to correspond to the main surviving examples of Roman Stoic literature.
|Solitary||Therapeutic journal||The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius|
|One-to-one||Mentor and student||The Letters of Seneca to his student|
|Group||Dialectical debate||The dialogues in Epictetus’ Discourses and Manual.|
Although the Discipline of Judgement was the logical cornerstone of the whole therapeutic system, practical training began with the two disciplines to which we now turn.
Ethics: The Discipline of Action
[Follow] your own nature, through your actions. Everything has to do what it was made for. […] Now, the main thing we were made for is to work with others. (Marcus Aurelius, 2003: 7:55)5
Stoic Integrity means to act at one with one’s own innermost nature and the nature of all mankind. The cardinal virtue of ‘Dikaiosyne’ has a dual meaning, it translates as either ‘personal authenticity’ or ‘social justice.’ Likewise, the Discipline of Action involves taking responsibility for all of our actions and directing them toward the solitary goal of reconciling personal moral integrity with love for all mankind. Our sense of identity determines self-interest and therefore Ethics, because ‘wherever “I” and “mine” are placed, to there the creature inevitably inclines.’ (Epictetus: 1995, 2.22.18)1 For the Sage, therefore, there is no conflict between self-interest and social-interest because he identifies his own nature with the nature of all mankind. This sense of existential kinship is exercised by deliberately practising ‘brotherly love’ (philadelphia) and ‘exploring the minds of others.’ The striking parallel with the core counselling qualities of ‘congruence’, ‘unconditional positive regard’, and ’empathic understanding’ espoused by Carl Rogers will be obvious to any counsellor. Motivation comes by making an affirmation of the first principle of Stoic moral psychology: ‘The good man is always happy.’ They distinguish sharply between sensory ‘pleasure’ (hedone) which is superficial insofar as it depends upon external factors, and ‘happiness’ (eudaimonia) which comes purely from doing the right thing, i.e., Integrity.
Your integrity is your own; who can take it from you? Who but yourself will prevent you from using it? When you are eager for what is not your own, you lose that very thing. (Epictetus: 1995, 1.25.3)1
Epictetus elaborates, ‘nothing is of concern to us except our volition.’ The Sage, therefore, renounces attachment to material possessions and invests happiness solely in what is always within his grasp, moral integrity. However, the Stoics recognised this was an idealistic vision. For practical purposes they distinguish between the absolute value of internal acts and the relative value of external goods. For example, physical health is considered a natural thing to desire and worth having, however, its value is secondary and derivative. That is, physical health is worth having only insofar as it contributes to moral integrity. Yet the Stoics believed that in extreme circumstances even death could be a rational choice. The archetypal example being Socrates, who famously accepted forced suicide rather than accept the trumped-up charges made against him in court – choosing Stoic Integrity over life. This solitary existential decision made him a legendary martyr, and effectively guaranteed philosophy a place at the heart of Western civilisation for posterity.
Some of the Stoics’ ethical views may seem challenging, even radical. However, their “Ethics” was not about moralising, in the modern sense, but something more akin to a system of personal development. Classical philosophy in general predicated its ethics on a notion of enlightened self-interest, which aims for a state of personal fulfilment and happiness. Hence, Aristotle refers to ethics as ethike arete, the science of ‘character excellence.’ Our moral character (ethos) is constituted by the principles of action which we develop into habits.
[Philosophy is] doing what human nature requires. […] Through first principles. Which should govern your intentions and your actions.’ (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 8:1)5
The process of ‘essential analysis’ central to Stoic Logic also creates the pithy slogans typical of their Ethics, e.g., “Seize the day”, “Indifference to indifferent things”, etc. Contemplation, repetition, and memorisation of such principles of action (dogmata) was a key psychotherapeutic technique, as can be seen from the journal of Marcus Aurelius. Hence, these statements were used as autosuggestions, or affirmations, composing a ‘principle-centred’ and inherently therapeutic Ethics.
Metaphysics: The Discipline of Fear & Desire
Reasonable nature is indeed following its proper path if […] it has desire and aversion only for that which depends on us; while it joyfully greets all that which is granted to it by universal Nature. (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 8:7)5
Stoic Acceptance means living at one with the external Nature of the universe. The cardinal virtue of ‘Temperance’ means mastering our desire for sensory pleasure, that of ‘Fortitude’ the conquest of our fear of pain and death. Hence, this discipline is about controlling pathos, or emotion. The Stoics believed that both fear (or emotional ‘aversion’) and desire result from excessive emotional attachment; the attitude of the Sage toward external things, therefore, is one of serene non-attachment. The primal and underlying fear which the Stoic seeks to conquer is that of death. ‘The breast from which you have banished the dread of death’, counsels Seneca, ‘no fear will dare to enter.’ (Seneca: 1997, 19)8. Contemplating the transience of life was a standard therapeutic technique of classical philosophy in general. Indeed, Socrates famously insisted that all philosophy is preparation for death. In the wake of military victory, ancient Roman generals were followed by assistants whispering “memento mori” in their ears: “Remember you must die!” (cf. Discourses 3.24.84-8). Traditionally, many clocks and watches carried Latin inscriptions meant for the same purpose, typically the tempus fugit (‘time flies’), of the Roman poets.
This philosophical theme spawned a vast genre of the same name in the history of art. Examples of memento mori are countless, from the human skulls and wilting flowers of classical Vanitas painting to the animal cadavers of Damien Hirst, all confront us with coolly dispassionate reminders of our own mortality. That most iconic of all Shakespearean images, black-clad Hamlet contemplating the skull of his jester Yorick, affectionately parodies the philosophical practice of meditation on death. The practice of non-attachment and conquering death-anxiety is basically the application of Metaphysics. The original Stoic Metaphysics was wedded to pagan theology, however, belief in God is not essential to Stoicism. As a system of psychotherapy it stands apart from any particular religion or set of spiritual beliefs, and is easily adapted to modern agnostic or even atheistic perspectives. Nevertheless, the early Stoics were mainly pantheists who believed that the totality of the physical universe is simply the Body of God, and the object of His eternal meditation. The aim of their mysticism is simply union with the Mind of God (‘the One’). Hence, it was natural for them, like many earlier philosophers, to infer that by visualising the universe (‘the All’) they attained a Godlike point-of-view. From this God’s-eye perspective, the key concepts of Stoic Metaphysics became more apparent; namely, the unity, transience, and interdependence of all material things.
The world as a living being –one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. And how everything feeds into that single experience, moves with a single motion. And how everything helps produce everything else. Spun and woven together. […] Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. (Marcus Aurelius: 2003, 4:40-43)5
For the Stoic, the universe viewed in its entirety is objective reality. Our normal, embodied and earthbound perspective necessarily distorts reality because it is confined to a tiny corner of the universe. Hence, ‘the All is One’, and the totality is the only authentic reality.
Modern scholars call this meditation exercise the ‘View from Above’, and variations of it abound in ancient literature. Sometimes it entails contemplation of the entire universe as though contained in a sphere. Typically though, philosophers attempted to visualise the Earth seen from outer space, a technique which created profound emotional detachment and tranquillity. Support for this ancient therapeutic intuition comes from the numerous observations of astronauts, who describe the actual experience of seeing the world from space in remarkably similar terms. General Thomas Stafford, commander of the NASA Apollo 10 project, reports:
[From space] you have an almost dispassionate platform -remote, Olympian- and yet [seeing the Earth from up there is] so moving that you can hardly believe how emotionally attached you are to those rough patterns shifting steadily below. (Kevin W. Kelley (ed.), 1988)9
Marcus Aurelius writes of the ideal Stoic attitude in identical terms: ‘To be free of passion and yet full of love.’ (Marcus Aurelius, 7.9)5 Coincidentally, this meditation exercise may well have evolved out of attempts to visualise the same perspective, of Zeus looking down from Mount Olympus, that General Stafford metaphorically alludes to. This attitude of serene affection is the goal of the Discipline of Fear and Desire. It is for this reason that Stoicism viewed the practice of pre-scientific, or ‘phenomenological’ physics as a therapy of ‘fear and desire’ in its own right.
[After training in Freudian analysis] I gradually turned more and more to accumulated wisdom in the fields of philosophy. After all, philosophers have been thinking of some of the same issues that we have for the past 2,000 years and I’ve drawn a lot from philosophical insights. (Dr. Irvin Yalom, interviewed in the CPJ, July 2004: 8)
Why does this philosophy stuff matter so much to so many therapists and counsellors? First, many people simply prefer the stylistic beauty and philosophical depth of classical literature over modern alternatives. Stoicism has demonstrated a perennial appeal enduring more than two millennia. For example, former US President Bill Clinton recently named the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as his most treasured read.
Second, many therapists feel the need for a broader philosophical framework. Psychoanalysis, perhaps Marxism, and to some degree religions such as Buddhism and Christianity offer an established ideological basis for therapy practice. Stoicism, on the other hand, offers a viable philosophy of psychotherapy which is not inherently wedded to religious or political dogmas. Ironically, in relation to modern, brief psychotherapy Stoic philosophy proves significantly more relevant than traditional Freudian theory.
Third, the Stoic system contains basic therapeutic principles and techniques not found in modern therapy, which are still relevant and applicable today. Indeed, we have only scraped the surface of Stoic psychotherapy in this article. In particular there are a number of rhetorical strategies and therapeutic interventions –visualisation techniques, etc.– which are not discussed here but which we have found of considerable use in working with clients and workshop participants. Hence, we would encourage those with an interest in this area to research the primary texts themselves. There is still a great deal to be learned from the ancient forebears of psychotherapy.
1 Epictetus The discourses, the handbook, fragments. London: Everyman, 1995.
2 Oxford University Press The Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Oxford: OUP, 1992.
3 Laertius, Diogenes Lives of the philosophers. H.S. Long (ed.) Oxford: OUP, 1964.
4 Aurelius, Marcus Meditations. London: Penguin, 1964.
5 Aurelius, Marcus Meditations: living, dying and the good life. London: Phoenix, 2003.
6 Milton, John Paradise Lost. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
7 Shakespeare, William Hamlet. London: Penguin:, 1994.
8 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Consolation to Helvia, in Dialogues and letters. London: Penguin, 1997.
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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2010. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation today to create job opportunities for veterans returning home from war and help businesses create jobs.
“Our servicemen and women put everything on the line – leaving their families, their homes and livelihoods to protect us,” said Baucus. “No veteran returning home from service and looking for work should be greeted with an unemployment check instead of a job. This tax cut will help create new job opportunities for veterans by giving employers incentives to do the right thing and offer our veterans a job.”
“These men and women are extremely capable,” Grassley said. “They have a lot of skills to offer in the workplace. This legislation will clear some bureaucratic hurdles and add a financial incentive to encourage employers to seek out veterans. These steps are a logical follow-up to my effort to increase the IRS’ hiring of veterans. The IRS saw the value of this pool of potential workers and followed through on increased hiring of veterans. Other employers, including small businesses, should have similar opportunities.”
This legislation will reward employers that hire any qualified veteran who has recently completed their service in the military with up to a $6000 tax credit. The bill eliminates the administrative burdens that make the current Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) provision directed toward unemployed veterans difficult for small businesses to use. As a result, servicemen and women who have been recently discharged will be able to provide documentation from the Department of Defense without having to go through the tax credit’s current certification process, which can be lengthy. Any recently discharged veteran that has discharge paperwork showing 180 days of qualified active duty is eligible. This includes those men and women who were activated by their states as members of the National Guard. The bill also requires the military to educate service members on how employers may qualify for the tax credit by hiring them.
The unemployment rate among veterans who have served in the military since September 2001 far exceeds that of their civilian peers with 14.7 percent of post-9/11 veterans unemployed. The rate of unemployment for veterans aged 18 to 24 is 30.2 percent, nearly double the rate for non-veterans the same age.
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Hi-Tech Now An Essential Tool On Southwest Farms
Much of the country’s fresh fruits and vegetables are grown in the Southwest and harvested by farm workers.
But these days, a successful harvest relies on a combination of three different factors: farming, technology and venture capitalism.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Kate Sheehy from the Fronteras Desk at KJZZ reports.
- Kate Sheehy, senior field correspondent with Fronteras: The Changing America Desk at KJZZ. She tweets @khsheehy.
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Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a simple, supervised machine algorithm used for classification and regression purposes.
SVM finds a hyperplane that creates a boundary between two classes of data to classify them.
In 2-D space, this hyperplane is a line.
SVM plots each data item in an N-dimensional space. Dimension depends on the features or attributes of data. Then, it finds a hyper-plane to separate the data.
SVM mostly classifies data between only two classes. For multi-classes, the mechanism is a little different.
This method creates a binary classifier for each different class of data. It returns a boolean result whether the data belongs to that class or not.
For example, in a class of chocolates, a multi-class classification will be performed for each chocolate. For example, ‘Hersheys’ class will use a binary classification to predict if the chocolate is Hersheys or not.
SVM uses a simple technique. First, it identifies two data points, also called “support vectors.” Then, the model creates a line between the points that is also equidistant between both the points. This line is called the “best hyper-plane.”
Next, it creates two imaginary lines passing through these “support vectors,” which are parallel to the best hyper-plane and are also called positive and negative hyper-planes. All the data points are then validated to see which hyper-plane they are closest to. Hence, the entire data is classified.
It is easy to separate linear separable data. Data can be classified using a straight line. However, for non-linearly separable data, Kernelized SVM is used.
Suppose there is a piece of non-linear data in one-dimension. The kernel will map each point in one dimension to an ordered pair in two-dimensions and transform it into two-dimensions. As a result, this data becomes linearly separable in two-dimensions. Data can be easily mapped in a higher dimension to make it linearly separable in that corresponding dimension.
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PHOENIX - A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for 13 Arizona counties, including Maricopa County, as monsoon storms continue to bring rain, lightning, and hail to cities across the state.
The advisories are set to last throughout the weekend, as a weather system is expected to bring heavy rain and thunderstorms across large swaths of central and southern Arizona.
Mohave County is the latest county to be issued a weather advisory. Their Flash Flood Watch goes into effect Saturday afternoon.
The following counties are affected:
- Mohave from July 24 at 12 p.m. until July 26 at 12 a.m.
- Gila, Yavapai from July 22 at 11 a.m. until July 26 at 12 a.m.
- Apache, Coconino, Navajo from July 22 at 12 p.m. until July 26 at 1 a.m.
- Maricopa, Pinal from July 22 at 5 p.m. until July 26 at 12 a.m.
- Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz from July 22 at 6 p.m. until July 26 at 12 a.m.
The expected rainfall could cause flash flooding in washes and areas with poor drainage systems. This is particularly an issue in areas with past burn scars from wildfires, which will be "especially prone to flash flooding and debris flow," according to the National Weather Service.
Thursday monsoon storms bring flooding, damage
A new round of monsoon weather brought windy conditions, as well as lightning and flooding from rainfall to parts of the Valley.
Besides rain and wind, some Valley roadways were also flooded during the late-night hours of July 22 as a result of the storm.
One of the hardest hit areas was at McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale, which is now littered with dozens of downed trees and power poles.
The McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park sustained so much damage on Thursday that it is not closed until further notice.
Customers inside the Fogo de Chao Brazilian Steakhouse near Lincoln Drive and Scottsdale Road say the storm took down power lines while they were eating.
One witness said she saw people trapped inside their cars because live wires were down around their vehicles.
APS crews are working to restore power despite rain, thunder and lightning continuing to batter down the city on Friday.
Power outages reported
As a round of monsoon storms hit the Phoenix area Thursday night, SRP reported a number of power outages throughout their service areas in the Valley. Most of the outages are centered in Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa. APS officials are also reporting power outages at multiple sites in the Phoenix area.
At one point, 14,000 APS customers were without power. As of Friday afternoon, around 2,200 customers are still without power in the metro Phoenix and Scottsdale area.
Flagstaff braces for more flooding
In Northern Arizona, the National Guard is stepping in, as flash flooding continues to impact communities affected by the Museum Fire.
The fire, which burned in 2019, left burn scars in the area.
Lt. Andrew Smith says the guard will be there for a week, and that time period can be extended.
With more rain expected, crews are making preparations.
"We put an additional almost 10,000 sandbags out just yesterday. We put in jersey barriers to stabilize channels, so that’s really just to help keep those flows into those channels so they don’t disperse out into the community," said Andy Bertelson, Flagstaff's Public Works Director.
The flooding has so far cost $4 million in damages, and there is a lot of work to be done to rebuild infrastructure in the area.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued a Declaration of Emergency in response to ongoing flooding in the Flagstaff area, which has been affected on a daily basis by heavy rain and storms.
Many places in the state have received more rain in the past month than in the entire 2020 monsoon season, which ran from mid-June through September, the weather service said.
Be prepared and stay safe during the monsoon
The Glendale Fire Department reminds residents of ways they can be prepared and stay safe:
- Have flashlights with extra batteries on hand.
- Have food that can be prepared without the need for cooking or refrigeration.
- Have at least one gallon of clean water for each person in the household.
- Have backup power for anyone requiring power for a medical device.
- Have backup power for cell phones that do not require charging.
- Have a first aid kit ready and accessible.
- Never drive into areas with flowing water; it takes less than 10 inches to wash a car away.
- Avoid flooded areas, such as washes.
- If waters are rising, seek higher ground.
- Do not approach downed power lines, the ground can be energized for up to 200 feet.
- Keep pets indoors during storms.
Rain/flood safety tips
The American Red Cross' tips for heavy rain situations and flood safety:
- Turnaround don’t drown! If you must drive and you encounter a flooded roadway, turn around and go another way.
- If you are caught on a flooded road and waters are rising rapidly around you, get out of the car quickly and move to higher ground.
- Tune in to your local radio, NOAA radio, or news channels for the latest updates.
- If your neighborhood is prone to flooding, be prepared to evacuate quickly.
- Follow evacuation orders and do not attempt to return until officials say it is safe.
- If power lines are down, do not step in puddles or standing water.
- If power is out, use a flashlight. Do not use any open flame as alternate lighting.
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The center, slated to open in 2024, will include tours, exhibits, lectures and visual displays centered around LGBTQ culture and history.
Seventy-one percent of Americans say they support legal same-sex marriage, which exceeds the previous high of 70% recorded in 2021 by one percentage point.
The radicals who dominate today’s gender-identity movement forget why we’ve come so far.
On April 26, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill prohibiting nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates.
Ms. Jean-Pierre, who will succeed Jen Psaki, will be the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to serve in the role.
The court said that the military should not punish consensual sex acts that had taken place in a nonmilitary setting.
The map’s creator said it has been viewed more than 100,000 times and lists more than 500 businesses all over the world.
In late March, President Vladimir Putin of Russia compared his country’s reputational plight to that of J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series.
The United States will officially allow citizens to select "X" as a gender marker on their passports beginning next month.
"Now our children have the same rights (as other families) and they will be able to have, we hope, a better future," one of the grooms said.
While the Health Ministry has recommended against conversion therapy for years, this is the first formal ban.
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How do corporations dedicate their time to the communities around them? How do they decide on corporate social responsibility objectives and then measure their success in these areas?
These were some of the questions examined by a group of 17 students from the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI during their spring break study abroad program to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Our class was all about understanding the role that organizations can take in addressing issues in society,” said Emily Murphy, lecturer in business communications and the faculty advisor for the trip. “Argentina has a very unique economic and political history, so in addition to studying the evolution of CSR in the US, we also studied the past 40 years in Argentina’s history and examined how that and the current economic reality shapes its people and their lives.”
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Locality and Ancestral Home
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The “I” is chained to ancestry by many factors. This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.” – Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), Nobel Laureate
The village of Bangalore is said to have been gifted to Kempe Gowda I (1513–1569) by the Vijayanagar emperors. The Ulsoor Lake was built by his successor, Kempe Gowda II, and is the only surviving tank built by the Gowda kings in Bangalore. The first British military station was set up in Halasuru in 1807.
Halasuru is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bangalore. Earlier, Halasuru was considered to be in the eastern part of Bangalore with a dominant Tamil-speaking population. Halasuru is renowned for its numerous temples and narrow streets. There used to be a jackfruit orchard near the Ulsoor Lake, and the Kannada name for jackfruit being ‘Halasina hannu,’ the area came to be known as ‘Halasuru’ (‘uru’ means ‘town’ in Kannada). During the British rule, the name was anglicised to ‘Ulsoor.’ Most of the residents of Halasuru were either from the working class or were small-time traders or contractors. Now it is very much part of central Bangalore and has become cosmopolitan.
Every house will have an address; #32, Madras Road, Ulsoor, Bangalore was the address when Raghavachari bought the house from Kistnaiah in 1877. Just as the house went through several modifications over time, the address underwent changes on a couple of occasions. When I write about modifications in my forthcoming blogs, I will mention the address changes.
Our ancestral home was already seventy-three years old when I was born. Most of the information that I have gathered about my ancestral home is from my paternal grandmother Kaveriammal, who moved into this house sometime during 1901 from Nellore after her marriage to M A Srinivasachar – the eldest son and second child of Raghavachari. Over the years, I learnt more about my paternal forefathers and the house from Prof. M Narayana Iyengar—Kaveriammal’s brother, who was a Professor of Mathematics—since he was also the son-in-law of Kanakammal (Atthanga paati), who was the first new-born (1877) in my ancestral home.
While buying the house, Raghavachari got some valuables along with it – A unique Tanjore painting of Lord Srinivasa, a replica of which is supposed to be in the Srirangam Ranganatha Temple and the Melkote Cheluvanarayanaswamy Temple and nowhere else; a painting of the ‘English Durbar’ that was exclusively held for British officers during Dasara at Mysore, which is a replica of the painting on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with the only other copy at Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore (many have visited our ancestral home just to have look at these two paintings!) and another Tanjore painting, that of a popular motif – Baby Krishna.
During the nineteenth century many houses did not have any gate or door in the front and our ancestral home was no exception. The main door was some sixteen feet inside. There were two tinnais (pyols or raised platforms) in the front veranda. In addition to being used by the family members of the house—mostly the menfolk sat on the tinnai to engage in casual banter—strangers too could take rest there without entering the house. Sometimes, their needs—like water or food—would be taken care of by the members of the household. This is just an illustration of the hospitality of the people in the bygone days.
The house had two verandas – one in the front after the tinnais and the other at the back. As one entered from the front veranda, there was a big hall and six rooms – three to the right and three to the left, in addition to the dining hall and kitchen. One room was exclusively assigned for women who had delivered babies (It was called ‘Pillai petta room.’) Since 1877, starting from Kankammal (1877–1973), more than twenty members of my family, including me and my younger sister Dr. Vijayalakshmi (b. 1955) were born in our ancestral home. It was only since 1963, when my youngest sister Latha was born, babies were delivered at hospital.
There was one shelf in the dining hall called ‘Ganga porai’ (‘Ganga shelf’). I came to know much later—circa 1960, why the shelf got such a name. When the house was bought, there was a small shelf (depth in the wall) in which water from the sacred river Ganga was kept. When people die, there was a practice of feeding a few spoons of the holy water to the corpse. After people turned fifty, they typically visited pilgrimage centres such Haridwar and Banaras, collected water from the Ganga, and brought it home.
The house was built with bricks covered with mud and later a coat of lime. The roof at a height of eight feet was laid on a bamboo structure covered with mat and mud mixed with lime. The top of the roof was coated with some mix to make it waterproof. The roof was supported by wooden pillars. There was a small raised platform in the kitchen on which the fireplace for cooking was built (called addupu in Tamil) with stone, bricks, and mud. The toilet was some forty feet away from the back of the house. There was an independent puja room, which doubled as a store room.
In the evenings the house was lit with oil lamps; electrification happened much later. On any given day, there were between eight and fifteen people living in the house. There were even couple of weddings performed in the house, which I will write about later.
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Designing Railways looks at the construction and planning of new railways, and maintenance of railway infrastructure, covering the initial spatial planning studies, financial budgeting, and project planning
This book presents the current state of the railway technology in Germany and also in Austria to a lesser extent. It looks forward to expected technical and legal developments and also contains valuable information on effective planning and approval procedures.
The authors are well-known experts in the railway sector and their expertise make this book an indispensable compendium on the subject of railway construction. The book is aimed at civil engineers and architects as well as students at the German-speaking technical universities and colleges. It provides all necessary information and tips, e.g., on line management, superstructure, railway bridge construction, earthworks, tunnel construction, railway crossings, container terminals, sound and vibration protection. As the railway system is an extremely complex technical system, there is also a description of the essential requirements, which are derived from other relevant fields, such as signalling, overhead lines and vehicle interface.
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Used once, lasts forever.
This is the unfortunate effect that comes from using single-use plastic. Plastic does not biodegrade, but instead breaks down into tiny fragments called microplastics.
World Oceans Day is on June 8th.
This year’s theme is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean, and to celebrate this theme, we’ll be highlighting the three worst global plastic polluters – and sharing ways you can avoid them in your daily life.
The first offender to watch is microplastic.
Microplastic is one of the most dangerous offenders on the plastic pollution list. These small, plastic fragments are less than 5mm long and typically result from larger plastic pieces photo-degrading over time or microbeads found in personal care products.
Because of their small size, microplastics are easily ingested by marine life, which is inherently harmful to the animals, as well as harmful to consumers who eat seafood. Learn more here.
Not only have microplastics been found in marine life, recent studies have even detected plastic particles in sea salt.
These tiny plastic fragments are also finding their way into our tap water. “Tests show billions of people globally are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles, with 83% of samples found to be polluted.”
Three easy ways to reduce your contributions to microplastics:
- Avoid personal care products containing microbeads
- Reduce single-use plastic consumption by using a refillable bottle
- Refusing plastic straws
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Children's hospital using 'Pokemon Go' to get patients out of bed
A Michigan children’s hospital is using Pokemon Go as a tool to get sick patients out of their rooms and interacting with fellow patients and hospital staff.
In the past, young patients at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., shuffled down the hallways without speaking to each other, but now it’s not uncommon to see them stop and talk near a Pokemon Go hotspot, according to J.J Bouchard, digital media manager, and certified child life specialist at the hospital.
“It’s a fun way to encourage patients to be mobile,” Bouchard said. “This app is getting patients out of beds and moving around.”
Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that accesses a smartphone's GPS and camera to allow players to explore their surroundings in search of more than 100 Pokemon creatures. Features within the game include "Pokestops" — where users collect items they can use — and gyms, which are larger landmarks that users battle to control.
Jennifer Griggs said she and her 11-year-old son, Braylon, recently downloaded the app and began playing at Mott Children's Hospital, where Braylon receives treatment for an inoperable brain tumor.
"We started just trying to get him out of the room to do something active because it gets a little depressing while you are in the hospital for a lengthy stay," she said.
Bouchard said there are several Pokespots in the hospital, including a statue of Big Bird that’s marked as a Pokemon gym. He noted that patients will stop and help each other pose for a picture with a Pokémon that’s only visible on a phone.
But while Mott Children’s Hospital hasn’t had any issues with people playing on campus, other hospitals have banned Pokémon Go.
In Springfield, Mo., the two main health systems are asking members of the public to stop playing the game on their campuses — and one specifically requested employees on the job cease trying to "catch 'em all," the Springfield News-Leader reported.
Bouchard said the hospital is aware that other facilities have had negative experiences with Pokemon Go, and people have wandered into areas where they shouldn’t, so hospital staff put signs in front of hot spots.
We have signs that say, ‘this is a Pokemon hotspot, take a picture, but don’t take a picture of someone who is not in your family,’” he said.
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A few months ago, Gianna Biscontini, a board-certified behavior analyst, author and coach based in Los Angeles, noticed a change in how her brain was working. “I noticed a cognitive decline. I began to miss meetings, leave my stove and sprinkler on and stumble over my words.” When thinking back on things that had occurred earlier in the day, everything seemed “hazy, barely there,” she says.
Initially, Biscontini says she felt embarrassed. “No one expects a 40-year-old woman to have trouble forming thoughts or to stumble over her words.”
But she soon discovered she was experiencing brain fog, a common symptom associated with a range of illnesses, conditions and even some medications. In Biscontini’s case, her brain fog stemmed from a COVID-19 infection, and that mental fuzziness has altered the way she moves through the world.
What Is Brain Fog?
“Brain fog is a mild but important form of neurocognitive impairment,” says Henry Mahncke, a neuroscientist and CEO of Posit Science, a San Francisco-based company that offers brain-training exercises designed by scientists to improve cognitive performance.
Brain fog “is very likely to be a sign or symptom of another issue,” says Dr. Freda C. Lewis-Hall, a life science leader and co-editor of the book “Psychiatric Illness in Women: Emerging Treatments and Research.”
People who experience brain fog often describe it as a sense of confusion or disorganization, disorientation or feeling scattered. A diminished ability to react and difficulty thinking, expressing your thoughts or thinking through complex situations or calculations can all be considered brain fog.
Dr. Emily Huang, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, says that “while the term ‘brain fog’ is not a phrase we use medically to define a specific condition, the term can be used to describe an experience associated with mental fatigue, memory issues and decreased focus throughout the day.”
Patients who are experiencing brain fog often describe it as “not being as mentally sharp or having a slower processing speed, loss of attention and memory lapses,” says Laura Boxley, director of clinical neuropsychology training in the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
What’s actually occurring in the brain, Mahncke says, is that your brain’s processing capacity has slowed because there’s more interference than in a brain that’s functioning optimally. “It’s like if you had an old radio where you had to tune the dial and you weren’t quite on the station and there was some static.”
That static impedes the brain’s ability to process information quickly and that can impact how you make sense of the world around you.
What Causes Brain Fog?
Brain fog is a symptom that can have a variety of origins. “There is no specific cause of brain fog as there is relative ambiguity regarding this symptom, and it is typically a result of other medical conditions,” Huang says. These conditions may include:
- Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. Changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s and dementia often cause brain fogginess to develop.
- High blood pressure. High blood pressure can damage blood vessels, making them less efficient at carrying blood and the oxygen and nutrients it contains to hard-working cells in the brain.
- Viral infections, such as COVID-19 and HIV. Inflammation from viral infections can impede normal brain function and cause brain fog.
- Autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and lupus. Inflammation is also a factor in the development of brain fog related to autoimmune disorders. In the case of MS, lesions that develop as part of the disease’s course also impede normal brain function.
- Lack of sleep. Fatigue related to poor sleep can impair your brain’s ability to function optimally.
- Low blood sugar levels. If your brain doesn’t have enough glucose to fuel its work, that can lead to feeling fuzzy.
- Vitamin deficiencies, such as low levels of vitamin B12 or vitamin D. Without the right levels of nutrients, your brain can’t process information optimally.
- Hormonal changes, such as those that occur with menopause, pregnancy and thyroid disorders. Hormones are involved in many bodily processes, including cognition. So as their levels shift throughout life, that can impact how the brain functions.
- Stress. Stress increases blood pressure and can lead to exhaustion, two key factors that can lead to brain fog.
- Depression and other mental health conditions. Depression and other mental illnesses occur when the levels of certain neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, aren’t adequate. These chemicals are also related to cognition and mental clarity.
Brain fog can be a side effect of many medications, too, such as:
- Chemotherapy for cancer, which is often referred to as chemo-brain.
- Blood pressure medications.
- Anti-anxiety medications.
- Anti-nausea medications.
- Some sleep aids.
Lewis-Hall says that if you experience brain fog, “even if you think it’s easily explained by something that’s happening in your life, talk to your health care provider about it.”
She says that for many people, this recognition that something is a little off may come from a loved one or a co-worker. “Have someone help you identify periods when you feel foggy or appear foggy. Having someone to tell you, ‘Yes, you kind of lost yourself in that sentence,’ or ‘You seem more forgetful to me than you usually do,'” might help you identify the source of the brain fog.
The key is figuring out what’s causing the fogginess, because “brain fog related to multiple sclerosis has a very different set of treatments than brain fog caused by stress and anxiety. That’s why you have to have a professional really work you up and make sure the symptom is attributed to the right thing,” Boxley says.
This diagnostic work-up may include your health care provider:
- Asking about which prescription medications you’re taking. If a medication is the culprit, your provider may be able to adjust the dose or substitute another medication that doesn’t cause those symptoms.
- Ordering a blood test. A blood test can provide insight to how your body is working, and whether something like low blood sugar levels or an autoimmune disorder could be causing brain fog.
- Ordering a CT scan or MRI of the brain. Structural changes inside the brain, such as those associated with dementia, can trigger symptoms of brain fog.
- Asking about the timeline of symptoms, such as when symptoms first started and whether there was a triggering event. Knowing when and how symptoms first started can help your provider determine the cause.
- Asking whether symptoms have changed significantly over time. If symptoms have changed, for example timed with menopause or pregnancy, that can also provide insight into that might be causing the brain fog.
To assist your doctor in getting to the bottom of the problem, it helps to keep a journal of your symptoms so you can recall details of past episodes.
All that detail is important because the more information you can provide about your symptoms, the more likely your provider will be able to pinpoint the problem and offer you helpful treatment.
Boxley notes that if your experience with brain fog changes, it’s even more important to talk to your doctor. Brain fog often “ebbs and flows, so if there’s been a recent change or shift, or if it seems like it doesn’t let up or it’s progressive and gets worse, that might be a different category of health problems than just feeling fatigued.”
How Is Brain Fog Treated?
Depending on what’s causing your symptoms, your doctor may be able to help alleviate them. Boxley says that although not every case of brain fog can be easily cleared up with a prescription, there are still some changes you can make to improve your situation.
“We tend to focus on helping patients learn cognitive compensatory strategies,” or simple ways to improve memory and attention, she says. “For example, whereas previously you’d just remember something, now you might have to write it down.” Carrying a notebook with you at all times and getting in the habit of using it can make a world of difference.
In this digital age, there are all sorts of technological tools that can help too. Whether it’s a programmable timer set to remind you to take your medications at a certain time, a digital calendar that reminds you of when and where you need to be next, an app that helps you shut off distractions when you’re working or a note-taking app on your phone that helps you organize your day, the key is to build in fail-safes that can support you as you go about your regular activities.
Boxley calls these tools “external memory,” and they can make a big difference in how you navigate the world when dealing with brain fog. She says it’s also helpful to “avoid too many distractions and recognize when you’re getting overwhelmed.”
Huang cautions that though it may seem like a lot of work to develop the kind of strategies Boxley recommends, it’s better to change your approach than just reach for a quick fix. “One of the most common ways people address the symptoms associated with brain fog is by drinking fluids high in caffeine like coffee or energy drinks to stay alert.”
However, ingesting too much caffeine can cause other problems, such as a racing heart or increased blood pressure. Too much caffeine can also interfere with your ability to focus, and many energy drinks are loaded with sugar.
How to Get Rid of Brain Fog?
Though you may come across many so-called “natural remedies” for brain fog online, it’s best to confer with your doctor before you add any over-the-counter or herbal supplements or vitamins to your diet to make sure they won’t cause further problems or interact negatively with other medications you may already be taking.
“I don’t know that there’s anything in the cupboard that can cure it,” Boxley says.
Still, there are some lifestyle changes you can make that can improve your experience with brain fog. These include:
One of the best things you can do to help alleviate feelings of brain fog is to move more, Mahncke says. “It’s very clear now that there’s a link between physical activity and brain health and cognitive function. People who exercise more have better cognitive function and they tend to resist the onset of dementia. It’s extremely likely that that applies to brain fog as well.”
It’s long been said that what’s good for the heart is good for the brain, so many doctors and nutritionists recommend following a heart-healthy diet, such as the Mediterranean diet to improve brain health and function. The Mind diet is another well-studied eating pattern that supports brain health.
“Countless published studies and research have shown that improved duration and quality of sleep have a myriad of benefits for your well-being, including cognitive function and alertness,” Huang says. “Ensuring you’re getting adequate levels of sleep would be one of the best recommendations I could give.”
Being dehydrated even just a little bit can quickly impact cognitive function. A 2012 study noted that just a 2% decrease in hydration levels can lead to noticeable changes in mental clarity. Drink plenty of water each day to make sure your brain has the water it needs to perform.
Managing stress through mediation or other means can also help alleviate brain fog. Mahncke says that social isolation can also impact brain function, so be sure to make time for friends and loved ones to keep your brain functioning optimally.
Mahncke says that brain training exercises, such as those offered by Posit Science through its BrainHQ website can help speed up how your brain processes information and alleviate symptoms of brain fog.
Examples of these kinds of exercises include visual tests that require you to find matching birds or butterflies that appear for just a moment on the screen then disappear or tracking a specific trio of bubbles in a field of several other identical moving bubbles. Auditory-based games include listening to tones that fire in sequence and then trying to remember the number and type of tones you heard.
“What we’ve seen from study after study is that if you build the right kind of brain exercises – there’s lots of brain games on the market that don’t work – but if you build the right kind, that are designed to improve the speed and accuracy of neural performance, we can use brain training to make the brain faster and more accurate. We can take that noise out of the system and improve cognitive performance.”
Mahncke adds that as neuroscience advances and researchers’ understanding of how brain plasticity can be leveraged to improve cognitive performance, he expects that treatment of brain fog will evolve. “The future of treatment here isn’t with drugs and it’s not with putting electrodes inside your head. It’s with developing the right set of brain training exercises to treat the core problem, which is the brain information processing is noisy.”
In combination with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, sleep and stress management, brain fog could become a thing of the past.
Advice for Dealing With Brain Fog
If you’re dealing with brain fog, Biscontini urges you to “be patient and give yourself some grace.” She says that while coping with brain fog for her has been challenging, “it’s given me the chance to learn about humility, to ask for help and to understand the value in accepting and adapting to where I am that day. Most of us push through fatigue, illness or stress, but with brain fog, there’s really no option for that.”
Strategies that have worked for her include:
- Controlling stress levels and finding the humor in the situation.
- Carrying around a notebook where she writes down everything “as the thoughts come.” She prefers a physical notebook to a phone app because “the notebook remains visible to me providing prompts throughout the day, unlike notes on my phone, which required me to find them first. I found that when I opened my phone to set reminders or take notes, I was highly distracted with social media and other notifications, so it was ineffective.”
- Rearranging her daily tasks periodically throughout the day to stay on top of priorities and to limit distractions.
- Changing how she prepares for interviews, podcasts and coaching calls to focus her energy on staying on track with what she wants to say.
- Reducing time spent on social media. This was the biggest help, Biscontini says. “Once I began to remove it out of necessity, so much more life opened up before me. My mental health improved dramatically, and I slept better at night.”
Biscontini adds that while a visual prompt like a notebook can be super helpful, “we tend to habituate to visual prompts after seven to 10 days, and we become blind to them this way. Keep visual prompts somewhere in a clear visual field and move your lists around to keep your brain engaged in them.” | <urn:uuid:916cdddd-1b8f-445a-8f8a-2021a1df6d45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brainhq.com/news/brain-fog-causes-and-treatments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944685 | 3,361 | 3.734375 | 4 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new version of the “WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines” on September 22 after 16 years of violations . The report systematically reviewed more than 500 papers around the world, and based on this, Updates reference indicators for six pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, O₃, NO₂, SO₂, CO) and warns Senegal Phone Number of significant risks to global health posed by air pollution. It is estimated that exposure to air pollution causes more than 7 million premature deaths each year, with the loss adding up to millions of years of healthy life. Most of the Taiwanese people’s understanding of air pollution is that thermal power generation will cause extremely serious air pollution. Therefore, the issue of energy transition and thermal power generation load reduction has been highly valued and discussed.
However, from the objective analysis of scientific data
whether the power industry is Is it really the main culprit of air pollution? What other sources of air pollution and substances pose a major threat to our health? Pollutant emissions far exceed the power industry: a mobile pollution source that cannot be ignored In July 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency of the Executive Yuan updated the TEDS11.0 version of the air pollution emission inventory, and conducted pollutant surveys and statistics based on 2019, including more than 14,600 point source factories; 21 categories of business or self-use registered by the Vehicle Supervision Office There are also 119 small pollution sources of different sources, and the total emission data exceeds 4.3 million.
According to the collected pollution source statistics,
In 2019, the total national emission. Of granular pollutants was about. 301,647 metric tons, sulfur oxides were about 66,487 metric tons, nitrogen oxides were about 294,110 metric tons, and volatile organic. Compounds were about 460,000 tons. 6502 metric tons. Chart1 produced by the author if you look closely at the classification. Statistics of pollution source emissions. In taiwan, you can find that the power. Industry accounts for about 3.5% of the national. Pm2.5 emissions, sulfur oxides account. For 35.44%, nitrogen oxides account for about. 13.8%, carbon dioxide hydrogen .Compounds account. For only about 0.01%, non-methane hydrocarbons. Account for about 0.01%, carbon monoxide only 2.45%, and lead accounts for 7.1%.
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United Arab Emirates entrepreneur’s $80m plan to drag Antarctic iceberg to Perth
A United Arab Emirates entrepreneur wants to drag an iceberg from Antarctica to Perth — so it can be harvested for drinking water.
Abdulla Alshehi reportedly wants to transport a chunk of Antarctic glacial ice by tugboat to either Perth or Cape Town this year.
The iceberg will then be “harvested” for drinking water under the $80 million plan.
The mission will act as a test run for a far more ambitious project which he hopes will end with a hunk of ice measuring almost 2km by 500m being taken to the UAE.
The aim would be to provide the Emirates with a steady supply of drinking water, and be a tourist attraction.
Mr Alshehi said it would be cheaper to create drinking water by towing an iceberg than by desalinating sea water.
The block selected for use by the UAE will be chosen via satellite.
It is expected to lose about 30 per cent of its mass during its 10-month journey from Heard Island, near Antarctica, to the Fujairah coast.
The final project will cost between $100 million and $150 million, in addition to the $60 million to $80 million spent on the test run.
“This is the purest water in the world,” he said.
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A good life needs both work and play. Better still to play and work simultaneously!
A bit of both worlds!
During the day (and right times of year) I get to teach classes about logical argumentation. Last semester, I spent a day with my classes considering an argument put forward by Christopher Ketchum here. The NPS faces budget constraints and growing demand for more facilities. Ketchum suggests (perhaps sarcastically) solving both problems by eliminating road access to the National Parks. In class, the focus falls on reading carefully to understand Ketchum’s argument. But today, I’m thinking more about the dual mandates of the Park Service and how they relate to our family.
On one hand, the Park Service must preserve the natural beauty of the Parks. But they must balance this against making the Parks accessible for the public to enjoy. Ketchum’s suggestion would alter the existing balance in favor of preservation. While our family generally bemoans the hordes of tourists in certain areas of the Parks, I’m much happier with the balance being struck by the Park Service.
The Park Service currently deals with the dueling mandates in part through diversity across the system. The roadless National Park Ketchum envisions wouldn’t change anything for Gates of the Arctic National Park. They don’t have roads to begin with! On the other end of the spectrum, Hot Springs National Park sits in the middle of town with historical buildings as a main attraction. Removing the roads would be nigh impossible.
When most Americans think National Parks, they think of Yellowstone and Yosemite, not Gates of the Arctic or Hot Springs. Great Smoky Mountains National Park sees more than 10,000,000 visitors in some years, while Gates of the Arctic sees closer to 10,000. But even in the more crowded units, you can still enjoy the wilderness Ketchum seeks. While the Yosemite valley may suffer traffic congestion and overflowing trash receptacles, the back country still provides places you can go for days without seeing other humans.
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RF Limiters Information
RF limiters are circuits that prevent the amplitude of a waveform from exceeding a specified value. There are three basic types of RF limiters: conventional, feedback, and high power. Conventional PIN diode limiters protect sensitive circuit elements by reducing high power inputs to low levels that can be tolerated by the next component. Feedback limiters have lower threshold and leakage levels than standard limiters in order to protect more sensitive components. High power limiters protect sensitive receiver circuits from close proximity, high power signals. Applications for RF limiters include stabilizing generator outputs, providing constant amplitude signals in phase-sensitive systems, and reducing amplitude variation in frequency modulation (FM) systems.
Performance specifications for RF limiters include frequency band, peak power, average power, insertion loss, spike leakage, flat leakage, pulse width, recovery time, and input voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). Insertion loss is the total RF power transmission loss resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line. Spike leakage is the amount of current that leaves on the phase and does not return on the ground. Flat leakage is the undesirable loss of a signal through an RF limiter under normal usage. Pulse width is the time interval between the leading edge and the trailing edge of a pulse at a point where the amplitude is half of the peak value. Recovery time is the interval required for normalization of the signal. Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is a unitless ratio that ranges from one to infinity and expresses the amount of reflected energy at the input of the device. A value of one indicates that all of the energy passes through. Any other value indicates that a portion of the energy is deflected.
RF limiters use several types of connectors. Bayonet Neil-Concelman (BNC) connectors are used in video and RF applications to 2 GHz. Threaded Neil-Concelman (TNC) connectors are similar in size to BNC connectors, but feature a threaded coupling nut for applications that require performance to 11 GHz. Miniature coaxial (MCX) connectors provide broadband capability through 6 GHz and are used in applications where weight and physical space are limited. Micro-miniature coaxial (MMCX) connectors are smaller than MCX connectors, but feature a more robust interface for greater durability. Ultra high frequency (UHF) connectors are designed with non-constant impedance for use in comparatively low voltage and low frequency applications. Mini-UHF connectors are well suited applications in which size, weight and cost are critical. Subminiature-A (SMA) connectors directly interface the cable dielectric without air gaps. Subminiature-B (SMB) connectors snap into place and are used for frequencies from DC to 4 GHz. Subminiature-P (SMP) connectors are rated to 40 GHz and, depending on detent type, can withstand from 100 to 100,000 interconnect cycles. Other connectors for RF limiters include Type F, Type N, 1.6/5.6, and 7/16 connectors.
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This is Day 9 of the Family History Writing Challenge, 2018.
In yesterday’s post, I described the restrictions against immigrants, especially Jews, coming to the U.S. from Nazi Austria (an accurate term, I decided, for a country that welcomed Hitler and that was instrumental to putting his Final Solution into place–claims of being occupied notwithstanding).
Adolph and Bertha Schweizer, the focus of this family history search, didn’t survive their attempt to escape the Nazis, but other members of my family did.
A Solo Journey
My mother’s departure from her parents was wrenching, but I got the sense that there was a part of this 25-year-old who regarded her journey to America as an adventure–not believing at the time that the separation would be permanent of course. My parents met in America, at English classes in Brighton Beach, but my mother liked to tease my father — the easygoing one of the two, comparatively speaking–that she was fine during the entire passage overseas while he’d been seasick and had spent the entire voyage below deck.
But it’s the question of who sponsored my mother that’s been on my mind. My mother rarely talked about those early years in America. I know that she initially lived with a distant relative in New Jersey; that he had a maid who terrified her; and that he tried to “take advantage” of her. She moved out as soon as she possibly could. My mother worked as a seamstress and lived on pea-and-mayonnaise sandwiches — a detail that has always stuck in my mind — to save money. By the time she scraped together enough to get her parents to the U.S., the borders had closed.
The Relatives Who Wouldn’t
In contrast to my mother’s sponsorship story, which remains mysterious, that of her uncle Rudolf Kornmehl and his wife Molly was detailed in a book by my late cousin Gigi Michaels, No Place Called Home.
The family fled from Vienna to Shanghai, because they didn’t need a visa to go there, but they were anxious to get to America. Molly wrote to one of her cousins to ask for sponsorship and received the following reply:
Dear Molly and Rudolph,
We were so happy to receive word from you. Your letter was such a relief to us… We could hardly sustain our excitement about your survival in Shanghai, China, of all places! What an interesting story you must have. We want to hear all about it and hope that you will write to us again soon.
Life in America has been difficult too. The war affected us as well. Food was rationed, and few could afford even basic necessities. We are very lucky because my practice continued to do well even during those hard times. People get sick and need a doctor in good times and in bad. We really didn’t miss out on anything but what we really do miss is not having family around us. We would love to see you here in New York. I often recall sharing holidays with you and your family. Those were wonderful times.
As for your request to sponsor you and your family, we really can’t do very much for you although you must know that we would love to.We understand your predicament with the new immigration laws and we would help you if we could. To sponsor you would mean to guarantee your housing and provide you with your needs. H. and I discussed the matter at length and we agreed that we really can’t do that for you at this time. My practice is right in the building where we live and if anything should go wrong with the sponsorship I could be jeopardizing my whole career.
The other thing is that not all my patients are Jews. The war left many people angry. Many wives lost their husbands and many parents their sons. Some came home from the war with injuries that left them disabled. Many blame the hard times and the war on the Jews. There will always be people who think that way. I don’t discuss my religion with anybody. If I were to have you to live with me in my apartment it might cause gossip throughout my building. People talk, and in my profession that could become a problem. We just have to accept that. As you know, a doctor’s reputation is his whole practice. We hope that you can understand our position on this.
We wish you luck in finding a quick resolution to your situation and please write and let us know where you decide to live once you leave Shanghai .
With our best wishes, Love,
I can’t even imagine how let down and infuriated Rudolph and Molly must have felt when they received this tactless, tone deaf letter; they were living in squalid conditions in a ghetto of less than one square mile in Shanghai. They eventually went to Palestine and, after several years there, were able to emigrate to Queens, New York. I wonder if they ever spoke to the relatives who refused to sponsor them.
Here’s the odd thing about this story. Although I never met Rudolph and Molly, I did know the cousins that turned them down. My family didn’t socialize with them — we didn’t socialize with anyone — but my mother visited them on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with me a few times. Now they seem like the villains of this story, but my mother must not have viewed them that way. And neither did I, until I read my cousin’s book. | <urn:uuid:d1bc46e6-a078-4065-8e13-acfbdc9a520f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freudsbutcher.com/genealogy/jewish-immigration-part-2-sponsorship-family-rifts/?replytocom=148079 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985576 | 1,148 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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On this day in 1908, my 2x great-grandfather, John McMurry died in Winn Parish, Louisiana.
I know very little about John McMurry; what I have learned is pieced together only from census, land, and church records. It seems he lived a very un-recorded life, a simple farmer in a quiet community. Because I know so little about him, he remains one of my major research interests.
John McMurry was born about 1853 in either Mississippi or Louisiana. He first appears in the 1860 census with mother Judah, brother Robert, and sister S. A. near Farmersville, Union Parish, Louisiana. He then appears as a farm laborer / hired hand on the next two censuses — in the household of Morris Evans near Oak Grove, Carroll Parish (present-day West Carroll Parish), Louisiana, in 1870, and in the household of G. B. Higgs in Ward 2, Jackson Parish, Louisiana, in 1880.
Sometime after 1880, he married Mary Smart, daughter of Samuel Smart and Adeline Shaver. I have not found a marriage record for John and Mary; however, their son Robert lists Mary Smart as his mother’s name on both his Social Security application and on his own marriage license application in Franklin Parish.
John and Mary had three sons: Robert Franklin McMurry in 1882, James J. “Jim” McMurry in 1884, and my great-grandfather, George Washington McMurry, in 1888.
On December 1, 1898, John purchased and was issued a land patent by the US Government for 159.74 acres in Winn Parish, Louisiana. The patent describes the property as “the south half of the northwest corner and the north half of the southwest corner” of Section 22, Township 13N, Range 2W — placing the property near the community of Gaar’s Mill. John and his family likely lived in the Gaar’s Mill area even before purchasing this property, as my great-grandfather George listed Gaar’s Mill as his birthplace on his World War 1 draft registration.
By the 1900 census, John was widowed and living with his three teenaged sons in Gaar’s Mill. He was working as a farmer with his sons as farm laborers.
The only other information I have found about John McMurry is his appearance in the records of Harmony Grove Baptist Church. The church was located in the community of Gaar’s Mill. The transcribed membership list shows a “J. Mack Murry” joining the church by experience in September 1893. Under his entry are lines for Robert McMurry and James McMurry, most likely referencing his sons. These church records also include other McMurrys, but I have not yet established a relationship for these McMurrys to John and his family.
The final notation in the church records state John McMurry died on July 13, 1908. His burial site is unknown; however, it is possible he is buried in the Harmony Grove Baptist Church cemetery.
1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Judah McMurry and household, Union Parish, Louisiana. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. John McMurry in the household of Morris Evans, Ward 5, Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” digital images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 10 Jul 2018), John McMurry (Winn Parish, Louisiana), accession number LA1420.069.
Harmony Grove Baptist Church, Dodson, Louisiana. “Record Book 1: 1877-1912,” transcribed by B. Jo Branch. http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/winn/churches/hargrove-records.txt, accessed 1 Aug 2016.
“Robert Franklin McMurray” in U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). John McMurry in the household of G. B. Higgs, Ward 2, Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. John McMurry, Police Jury Ward 7, Winn Parish, Louisiana. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
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/ ˌu nəˈlɑtʃ tɪˌgoʊ /
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noun, plural U·na·lach·ti·gos, (especially collectively) U·na·lach·ti·go for 1.
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
the Eastern Algonquian language of the Unalachtigo, originally spoken in the middle Delaware Valley.
QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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You’ve almost certainly encountered Critical Race Theory over the last year, even if those words aren’t familiar. Gaining immense popularity in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the view that Western civilisation is inherently racist, and that white people benefit from this status quo at the expense of people… Read More A Commonsense Guide to Critical Race Theory
George Floyd’s cruel murder is sparking much-needed conversations about justice and racial harmony in America and beyond. The ripple effect has already reached us Down Under, with protests taking place in Australian capital cities this past weekend. Last week I spoke with a friend who has ministered among Indigenous Australians for decades. He told me… Read More The Race Rhetoric That Causes More Harm Than Harmony
In case you didn’t think 2020 could get any more perplexing, there are now uncontrolled riots taking place in dozens of American cities. From coast to coast, cars and businesses have been set alight, numberless shops have been looted, vehicles have been driven into crowds, and mob violence has broken out on city streets. In… Read More Are America’s Riots Still About George Floyd? | <urn:uuid:7925c2df-eeec-48b5-9823-3a2e10ec0141> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kurtmahlburg.blog/tag/george-floyd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934758 | 244 | 1.945313 | 2 |
A photonic integrated circuit (IC) is a complicated IC or chip that integrates several optical devices into a single photonic system. It consists of several photonic parts that function with the help of light, or photons. These devices are analogous to electronics ICs with several embedded optical components, such as optical lasers, optical amplifiers, detectors, de-multiplexers, multiplexers and attenuators.
In electronic ICs, an electron flux moves via electronic components including inductors, resistors, capacitors and transistors, whereas in its photonic counterpart, photons travel via optical devices such as phase shifters, lasers (analogous to transistors), waveguides (analogous to a resistor) and polarizers.
Operation of photonic ICs
Photonic ICs utilize a laser source to produce light, which is harnessed to power optical devices, just as activating a switch produces electricity to power electrical components. Integrated photonic technology solves problems common to electronic circuits such as heat generation and integration by utilizing photons rather than electrons. This takes photonic technology-based products to the next level, which is ruled by the “more than Moore” concept to enhance data transmission speed and capacity.
Typically, in a photonic IC, the signals are applied with wavelengths ranging from the visible spectrum to the infrared, primarily between 800 nm to 1700 nm. In 2005, a quantum noise problem arose when a laser light was being developed with a silicon-based electronic IC, which deferred this generation. To fix this issue, a photonic IC was used, which produced the laser in a single medium and with higher bandwidth.
Photonic IC fabrication methods
Two major categories of photonic IC synthesis are hybrid photonic fabrication and monolithic photonic fabrication.
In hybrid photonic fabrication, ICs are developed using a single platform that includes several photonic components that are utilized for the same function. This method allows for the incorporation of many optical devices.
In the monolithic photonic fabrication method, several optic devices with dissimilar functions are joined together to develop a single photonic IC. Such device manufacturing is complex as many fabrication materials must be integrated in a single substrate. In the end, several tasks can be performed on a single IC board.
Benefits of photonic ICs
Photonic ICs deliver several benefits such as higher speed, miniaturization, large integration capacity, low thermal effects and support of current processing methods that result in lower expenses, high volume manufacturing and high yield. The whole IC-based system becomes more compact and discrete with the use of optical devices and assists in delivering high performance. Photonic ICs can even be incorporated with fundamental electronic circuits and thus, can be used for developing more functions.
Although it is rare, photonic ICs are susceptible to the neutron flux effect that can deteriorate their function. However, when it comes to the hazards of electromagnetic pulse, these devices do not cause performance issues associated with electronic ICs.
Substrate materials for photonic ICs
The major substrate materials used to fabricate photonic ICs are lithium niobate, silicon and silicon dioxide, indium phosphide and gallium arsenide. Lithium niobate crystals are mostly consumed for developing electro-optic modulators with good modulation linearity, high performance and high modulation bandwidth. Nevertheless, these crystals cannot be used for lasing or as a photodetector. Moreover, crystal processing methods are also very complex, which makes it practically infeasible for large-scale photonic ICs.
Silicon and silicon dioxide materials are basic elements for developing electronic ICs as they offer stable performance and low cost. The processing methods for these materials are mature and simple, which deliver high yield, and are appropriate for big projects. In photonic ICs, silicon-related materials have three critical vulnerabilities. First, silicon-based lasers are complex to develop and their laser emission efficiency is reduced. Second, these materials cannot identify the specific light wavelengths that are used for optical communications at 1310 nm and 1550 nm. Third, because of the restrictions of silicon-based components, the implementation of electro-optic modulation is out of the question. Several academic organizations, including Intel, are seeking to make breakthroughs with silicon-based optical devices. Currently, they are being used in passive photonics ICs and hybrid large-scale photonic ICs.
Because indium phosphide integrates both active and passive optical devices, it can meet the requirements for use in communications at both 1310 nm and 1550 nm operating wavebands. In the meantime, in mass manufacturing, standardized semiconductor technologies could be able to further cut costs. These materials can concurrently provide optical amplification, detection, laser emission and electro-optic modulation services along with optical switching, dispersion compensation and wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing. This allows photonic ICs to use indium phosphide materials for big projects.
Due to the intrinsic bandgap of gallium arsenide, photonic ICs can operate in the range of 850 nm when utilized for active photoelectric systems. Thus, active optical devices with these materials can just be used for local area network communications. It will not be feasible for large-capacity and long-distance transmission systems.
Photonic ICs leave electronic ICs behind when it comes to problems of heat generation, integration and electromagnetic pulse. The compact and discrete ICs offer several benefits such as higher speed, miniaturization, large integration capacity, low thermal effects and support of current processing methods that results in lower expenses, high volume manufacturing and high yield. This technology is still in its infancy, but research advances are expected to enhance its popularity and versatility with increases in efficiency and declines in cost. | <urn:uuid:2141a58b-31ef-4635-8d13-cdcc66651fe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/16586/shedding-light-on-photonic-integrated-circuits | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926837 | 1,175 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Microsoft & Facebook's 6,400 Km Trans-Atlantic Internet Cable Will Have A Speed Of 160 Tbps
Microsoft and Facebook have just announced the completion of an undersea cable, in collaboration with telecom infrastructure company Telxius, the highest capacity cable of its kind to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The cable, called Marea (Spanish for ‘tide’) stretches across 6,400 km between Virginia Beach and Bilbao in Spain, approximately 17,000 ft below the surface of the Atlantic. It’s capable of transmitting a blistering 160 terabits of data per second, equivalent to streaming 71 million HD videos simultaneously.
Marea is approximately 16 million times faster than the average home internet connection, Microsoft said in a blog post, and will be operational by early 2018. Marea also stretches further south than other transatlantic cables, automatically safeguarding it against natural disasters like hurricanes that can disrupt services.
“Marea comes at a critical time,” Microsoft president Brad Smith says. “Submarine cables in the Atlantic already carry 55 percent more data than trans-Pacific routes and 40 percent more data than between the US and Latin America. There is no question that the demand for data flows across the Atlantic will continue to increase.”
The cable was completed three times faster than expected, finishing up in just under two years. It also has an “open design” meaning it can be easily upgraded and expanded as the number of Internet users around the world increases. In the meantime, both Microsoft and Facebook will benefit from the technology. | <urn:uuid:2d05e802-4355-4d7d-ace5-736e3cc6dbf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/microsoft-facebook-s-6-400-km-trans-atlantic-internet-cable-will-have-a-speed-of-160-tbps-330507.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928731 | 324 | 2.375 | 2 |
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The extensive program of the Rabotheater offers something for everyone. The theater offers an attractive program of shows and concerts in the genres: comedy, dance, youth / family, classical, music, musical, opera, show and so on.
The Krakeling has been the theater for the youth in the heart of Amsterdam since 1978. Annually, more than 40,000 children and young people experience the best youth performances in this theater. A first encounter they will not soon forget.
Efteling Theatre is a theater located in the amusement park Efteling in Kaatsheuvel. The Efteling Theatre is located next to the main entrance of the Efteling Park. It shows large musical productions, but it is also used for different events.
The world-famous Amsterdams Marionetten Theater is a unique form of contemporary theater - classical puppet theater. Wooden actors in silk costumes perform with the music of famous composers.
Theater aan de Schie is a theater in Schiedam which is in the same building as the city hall of Schiedam and the municipal library. The theater was opened on April 15, 1998 as Fortis Theater aan de Schie and replaced the Passage Theatre, which was demolished in 1994.
Royal Carré Theatre is a theater in Amsterdam which is located on the Amstel. It was originally called Circus Carré and is built in the classicist style. It is undoubtedly one of the most popular and well-known theaters in the Netherlands. Royal Theatre Carré features a wide range of different shows. The repertoire is diverse, from operas to sitcoms, ... Read More
Theater DeLaMar, which is located in Amsterdam, has a rich concert and tour program that it is often considered to be an entertainment complex, not a theater. But officially it is a theater. The building in which DeLaMar is housed, was built in 1887 and were used as a school. Since the Germans kept their data in this ... Read More | <urn:uuid:ed48f441-0e1b-4d42-b07f-3b2d46783a6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationalereisopera.nl/categorie/for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969734 | 419 | 1.875 | 2 |
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here passed over. Our business is only with George Wash ington. The fame acquired by him as commander of the Virginia forces, together with his well-known military talents, procured for him the distinguishing appellation of the soldier of America. Those who, before the commencement of hostilities, had looked forward to war as the probable consequence of the disputes between Great Britain and her colonies, anticipated his appointment to the supreme command of the forces of his native country.
As long as he continued a member of congress, he was chairman of every committee appointed by that body to make arrangements for desence. These duties in the senate were soon superseded by more active employment in the field. As soon as the congress of the United Colonies had determined on making a common cause with Massachusetts, against which a British army had commenced hostilities, they appointed, by unanimous vote, George Washington commander-in-chief of all the forces, raised or to be raised, for the defence of the colonies. His election was accompanied with no competition, and followed by no envy: The same general impulse on the public mind, which led the colonies to agree
other particulars, pointed to him as the most proper person for presiding over their armies.
To the president of congress, announcing this appointment, General Washington replied in the following words:
• MR. PRESIDENT, “ Though I am truly sensible of the high honour done me in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks, for this distinguished testimony of their approbation.
“ But, lest some unlucky event should happen unfavourable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered, by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honoured with.
“ As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that
as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses ; those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.”.
A special commission was made out for him, and at the same time a unanimous resolution was adopted by congress, " That they would maintain and assist him, and adhere to him with their lives and fortunes, for the maintenance and preservation of American Liberty."
Artemas Ward, of Massachusetts, who had commanded the troops before Boston ; colonel Lee, a British officer, who had distinguished himself in Portugal, but had resigned his commission in the service of the king; Philip Schuyler, of New York; and Israel Putnam, of Connecticut, now also before Boston, were appointed to the rank of major-general; and Horatio Gates, who had held the rank of major in the British service, was appointed adjutant-general.
General Washington immediately entered on the duties of his high station. After passing a few days in New York, and making some arrangements with general Schuyler, who commanded there, he proceeded to Cambridge, which was the head-quarters of the American army. On his way thither, he received from private persons and public bodies, the most flattering attention, and the strongest expressions of determination to support him. He received an address from the provincial congress of New York, in which, after expressing their approbation of his elevation to command, they say, • We have the fullest assurances, that, whenever this important contest shall be decided by that fondest wish of each American soul, an accommodation with our mother country, you will cheerfully resign the important deposit committed into your hands, and reassume the character of our worthiest citizen."-'I'he General, after declaring his gratitude for the respect shown to him, added, “ Be assured, that every exertion of my worthy colleagues and myself, will be extended to the re-establishment of peace and harmony between the mothercountry and these colonies. As to the fatal, but necessary operations of war, when we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen, and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour, when the re-establishment of American liberty, on the most firm and solid foundations,
shall enable us to return to our private stations in the bosom of a free, peaceful, and happy country.”
A committee from the Massachusetts congress received him at Springfield, about one hundred miles from Boston, and conducted him to the army. He was soon afterwards addressed by the congress of that colony, in the most affectionate manner. In his answer, he said, “ Gentlemen, your kind congratulations on my appointment and arrival, demand my warmest acknowledgments, and will ever be retained in grateful remembrance. In exchanging the enjoyments of omestic life, for the duties of my present honourable but arduous station, I only emulate the virtue and public spirit of the whole province of Massachusetts, which, with a firmness and patriotism without example, has sacrificed all the comforts of social and political life, in support of the rights of mankind, and the welfare of our common country. My highest ambition is to be the happy instrument of vindicating these rights, and to see this devoted province again restored to peace, liberty, and safety."
When General Washington arrived at Cambridge, he was received with the joyful acclamations of the American army. At the head of his troops, he published a declaration, previously drawn up by congress, in the nature of a manifesto, setting forth the reasons for taking up arms. In this, after enumerating various grievances of the colonies, and vindicating them from a premeditated design of establishing independent states, it was added : “ In our own native land, in defence of the freedom which is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it, for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the industry of our fore. fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms; we shall lay them down when hostili. ties shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before."
When General Washington joined the American army, he found the British intrenched on Bunker's Hill, having also three floating batteries in Mystic River, and a twentygun ship below the ferry between Boston and Charlestown. They had also a battery on Copse's Hill, and were strongly fortified on the Neck. The Americans were intrenched at Winter Hill, Prospect Hill, and Roxbury, communicating with one another by small posts, over a distance of ten
miles ; nor could they be contracted, without exposing the country to the incursions of the enemy.
The army, placed under the command of Washington, amounted to fourteen thousand five hundred men. Several circumstances occurred, to render this force very inadequate to active operations. Military stores were deficient in camp, and the whole quantity in the country was inconsiderable. On the 4th of August, all the stock of powder in the American camp, and in the public magazines of the four New England provinces, would have made very little more than nine rounds for each man. In this destitute condition, the army remained for a fortnight. To the want of powder, was added a very general want of bayonets, of clothes, of working tools, and a total want of engineers.--Under all these embarrassments, the General observed, that “ he had the materials of a good army, that the men were able bodied, active, zealous in the cause, and of unquestionable courage,' He immediately instituted such arrangements as were calculated to increase their capacity for service. The army was distributed into brigades and divisions, and, on his recommendation, general staff-officers were appointed. Economy, union, and system, were introduced into every department. As the troops came into service under the authority of distinct colonial governments, no uniformity existed among the regiments.--In Massachusetts, the men had chosen their officers, and, rank excepted, were in other respects frequently their equals. To form one uniform mass of these discordant materials, and to subject freemen, animated with the spirit of liberty, and collected for its defence, to the control of military discipline, required patience, forbearance, and a spirit of accommodation. This delicate and arduous duty was undertaken by General Washington, and discharged with great address. When he had made considerable progress in disciplining his army, the terms for which enlistments had taken place were on the point of expiring.–The troops from Connecticut and Rhode Island were engaged only to the first of December, 1775; and no part of the army longer than to the first of January, 1776. The commander-in-chief made early and forcible representations to congress on this subject, and urged them to adopt efficient measures for the formation of a new army. They deputed three of their members, Mr. Lynch, Dr. Franklin, and Mr. Harrison, to repair to the camp, and, in
troops under the command of Washington, to be nearly treble the royal army. This ample force was supposed to be furnished with every thing necessary for the most active operations. Their real numbers, and deficient equipments, were, for obvious reasons, carefully concealed. The ardour and impatience of the public had long since anticipated the expulsion of the British from Boston. Washington was equally ardent, but better informed and more prudent.--He well knew the advantages that would result to the cause in which he was engaged, from some brilliant stroke; nor was he insensible to insinuations made by some, that he was devoid i of energy; and by others, that he wished to prolong his own importance, by continuing the war. He bore these murmurs with patience, but nevertheless, had his eyes directed to Boston, and wished for an opportunity to commence offensive operations. The propriety of this measure was submitted to the consideration of repeated councils of war, who uniformly declared against it.—A hope was nevertheless indulged, that ice, in the course of the winter, would be favourable to an assault. That this opportunity might not be lost, measures were adopted for procuring large reinforcements of militia, to serve until the first of March, 1776. From four to five thousand men were accordingly procured. Contrary to what is usual, the waters about Boston continued open until the middle of February. Councils of war were hitherto nearly unanimous against an assault.-General Washington was less opposed to it than some others; but the want of ammunition for the artillery, together with the great probability of failure, induced him to decline the attempt. In lieu of it, he formed a bold resolution to take a new position, that would compel the British general either to come to an action, or to evacuate Boston. The American army was now stronger than ever. Recruiting for the last two months had been unusually successful. The regular army exceeded fourteen thousand men, and the militia were about six thousand.
Thus reinforced, Washington determined to fortify thre heights of Dorchester, from which he could annoy the ships in the harbour, and the army in the town. To favour the execution of this plan, the town and lines of the enemy were bombarded on the 2d, 3d, and 4th of March. On the night of the 4th, general Thomas, with a considerable detachment, took possession of the heights of Dorchester. By great ex. | <urn:uuid:70e1877c-7593-4194-91d0-3d8ce0546094> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.no/books?id=xChV1CO8KhcC&pg=PA29&focus=viewport&vq=%22ways,-+to+nourish+and+increase+the+general+mass+of+the+national+navigation,+it+looks+forward+to+the+protection+of+a%22&dq=editions:HARVARD32044097048508&lr=&hl=no&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980112 | 2,442 | 1.851563 | 2 |
In mid-June, we had the opportunity to attend a national consultation with members of Parliament in Bangladesh on integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights into the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The consultation was hosted by the Family Planning Association of Bangladesh with support from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Bangladesh has made impressive strides toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It has met the gender parity goals for primary and secondary education and is on track to fulfill the tertiary education goals. Bangladesh has also met the under-five mortality-reduction rate goal and is likely to reach the goal of reducing maternal mortality.
Despite impressive progress, many sexual and reproductive health targets still need attention. Approximately one in three Bangladeshi girls is married before age 15 and 40 percent of Bangladeshi women ages 20–24 reported giving birth before age 18. The majority of adolescent pregnancies occur within marriage, and most first births occur within the first year of marriage. Cultural pressure to demonstrate fertility soon after marriage, combined with a high rate of unmet contraceptive need (16 percent) in this age group, are the primary contributing factors to high birth rates soon after marriage. Adolescent mothers face an increased risk of pregnancy complications, such as obstructed labor and fistula, as well as infant and maternal mortality. Furthermore, early marriage and unintended pregnancy are two of the main reasons that girls drop out of school.Young people’s sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental component of human development. Click To Tweet
Increased investment in sexual and reproductive health, specifically for adolescents, will move the country closer to reaching the proposed SDGs with specific, applicable targets. These include SDG Target 2c (realize sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, and promote the rapid reduction in fertility to replacement level or below through exclusively voluntary means) and 5a (ensure universal coverage of quality health care, including the prevention and treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases, sexual and reproductive health, family planning, routine immunization, and mental health, according the highest priority to primary health care).
Investment in sexual and reproductive health is also critical to achieving other proposed goals that do not specifically address this topic. Examples include proposed Target 3b, which aims to reduce the school dropout rate to zero, and Target 5b to end preventable deaths, which involves reducing maternal mortality to 40 or fewer deaths per 100,000 live births.
We believe that young people’s sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental component of human development. The recent meeting in Bangladesh provided an important opportunity to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive health as critical to achieving the proposed SDGs. Investments in this population will do more than move Bangladesh closer to achieving the proposed SDGs; it will ensure that young people are able to reach their full potential. | <urn:uuid:93ffff27-253c-4a4d-b889-a45597cc5b3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://degrees.fhi360.org/2015/06/improving-adolescent-sexual-and-reproductive-health-in-bangladesh-through-the-sustainable-development-goals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950033 | 568 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Geometrical frustration : a study of 4d hard spheres
Phys. Rev. E , Volume 79 - Issue Article number: 30201 p. 1- 4
"The smallest maximum-kissing-number Voronoi polyhedron of three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean spheres is the icosahedron, and the tetrahedron is the smallest volume that can show up in Delaunay tessellation. No periodic lattice is consistent with either, and hence these dense packings are geometrically frustrated. Because icosahedra can be assembled from almost perfect tetrahedra, the terms ""icosahedral"" and ""polytetrahedral"" packing are often used interchangeably, which leaves the true origin of geometric frustration unclear. Here we report a computational study of freezing of 4D Euclidean hard spheres, where the densest Voronoi cluster is compatible with the symmetry of the densest crystal, while polytetrahedral order is not. We observe that, under otherwise comparable conditions, crystal nucleation in four dimensions is less facile than in three dimensions, which is consistent with earlier observations [M. Skoge , Phys. Rev. E 74, 041127 (2006)]. We conclude that it is the geometrical frustration of polytetrahedral structures that inhibits crystallization." | <urn:uuid:e43483b3-d2f4-43da-ba83-30e26894d5a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ir.amolf.nl/pub/5496 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.890962 | 291 | 2.140625 | 2 |
A New Year's seminar was held on Thursday, January 17, at the Main Hall of the Kyoto Station Satellite of the The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics and Technology (KINTEC), with the secretariat located in KCG (Kyoto Computer Gakuin).Mr. Takanori Mazawa, Manager of Cultural Promotion, President of Fuji Xerox Kyoto Co., Ltd. gave a lecture titled "Advanced Technology to Inherit History: Learning from Reproduction of Old Documents".He introduced the company's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative to reproduce ancient manuscripts in Kyoto, saying, "There are many hints for living in the modern world buried in old things.We hope to achieve deeper communication that transcends time and continue to be useful in the promotion of traditional culture.The seminar was attended by members of the association, The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI), and students of KCG.
Mr. Mazawa began by explaining that the company was looking for a CSR activity unique to Kyoto, when in 2008 it was asked to duplicate an old document, "Toshu-kakume," which describes the yearly activities of the Naraya Sugimoto family, including events and cuisine.Even our company, whose main business is copying, faced bottlenecks in reproduction on Japanese paper, which copy machines are not good at, and the fact that this ancient document was folded into four pieces.
The completion of this project led him to make a series of free reproductions of ancient documents, including the Daifuku-cho and sutras, that remain in Kyoto and other places.Mr. Mazawa says, "The facsimile reproductions have made it possible for us to hold these ancient documents in our hands and see them for ourselves, which is a welcome development.I hope that many people will learn about them, as they contain many techniques for living in the modern world," he said.He also announced that he has received many inquiries, including from areas outside of Kyoto.The foyer on the 6th floor was lined with old documents reproduced by the company, and a large circle formed after the lecture. | <urn:uuid:4f7c3e0a-c7ca-4bd1-b94e-c1d92180483e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kcg.edu/en/news/2013/01-18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971724 | 442 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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Linux, which is a very versatile operating environment, caters for an array of different needs of different users. One such specific usage of Linux is in the area of computer security and penetration testing. Among the digital forensic tools available for Linux, BackTrack is well known as an all-in-one platform that offers security professionals all the tools that they may need to carry out various security related tasks.
For those who are new to the information security field, BackTrack is a Linux distribution that is customized from bottom-up just for one purpose – penetration testing. Every package, kernel configuration and script is customized in a way to aid in this process. This distribution does not just offer an operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, but also an assortment of security related software tools that come pre-installed and ready to use.
The current major version (version 5, codenamed Revolution) of BackTrack was released on May 10th 2011 and is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Linux kernel version 2.6.38. It’s similar to Protech and Helix, two other security related Linux distributions also based on Ubuntu Linux. Being based on Ubuntu gives these variants more stability, hardware support and access to a wider range of software applications that already work on conventional Ubuntu. BackTrack 5 is available both in GNOME and KDE Plasma Desktop environments.
BackTrack 5 Boot Menu
The distribution usually ships as a Live DVD which can optionally be installed if needed for use as a regular operating system. There are few different boot options available including Default text mode, Stealth mode and Forensics mode. The Stealth mode boots the OS with networking disabled and the Forensics mode boots without automatically mounting drives or swap space. The default mode boots into the customized Unix/Linux shell from which you can run the desktop environment.
BackTrack 5 comes with more than 300 security tools that are all open-source and freeware. They are arranged in the BackTrack menu of the Application Launcher under the following categories.
- Information gathering – Foot printing tools, port scanners and web crawlers
- Vulnerability assessment – Network and web assessment tools
- Exploitation tools – Web and wireless exploitation tools, social engineering tools
- Privilege escalation – Password attacking tools, sniffers, spoofing tools
- Maintaining access – OS backdoors, tunneling
- Reverse engineering
- RFID tools
- Stress testing
- Forensics – Forensic hashing tools, forensic imaging tools
- Reporting tools – Evidence management, media capture
BackTrack menu with the supplied security tools
/pentest directory with the installed tools
Zenmap, a port scanner
WireShark, a Network analyzer
Apart from these security tools, BackTrack also comes with two browsers (Firefox and Konqueror) and other tools such as the Wine emulator and KMix (a sound mixer) pre-installed.
Overall, BackTrack 5 is a feature rich and a robust security suite for both penetration testers and for new comers to the information security field. However care should be taken when using such powerful and dangerous tools that are supplied with BackTrack as they can easily lead to harm when found in the wrong hands. The only manifest drawback is the scarcity of documentation and support which can be overlooked considering that this is a distribution for advanced and experienced users.
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CitationGissler, Mika; Berg, Cynthia; Bouvier-Colle, Marie-Helene; & Buekens, Pierre (2004). Methods for Identifying Pregnancy-Associated Deaths: Population-Based Data from Finland 1987-2000. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 18(6), 448-455.
AbstractTo find maternal and pregnancy-related deaths, it is important that all pregnancy-associated deaths are identified. This article examines the effect of data linkages between national health care registers and complete death certificate data on pregnancy-associated deaths. All deaths among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Finland during the period 1987-2000 (n = 15 823) were identified from the Cause-of-Death Register and linked to the Medical Birth Register (n = 865 988 births), the Register on Induced Abortions (n = 156 789 induced abortions), and the Hospital Discharge Register (n = 118 490 spontaneous abortions) to determine whether women had been pregnant within 1 year before death. The death certificates of the 419 women thus identified were reviewed to find whether the pregnancy or its termination was coded or mentioned. In total, 405 deaths (96.7%) were identified in registers other than the Cause-of-Death Register. Without data linkages, 73% of all pregnancy-associated deaths would have been missed; the percentage after induced and spontaneous abortions was even higher. Data linkages to national health care registers provide better information on maternal deaths and pregnancy-associated deaths than death certificates alone. If possible, pregnancies not ending in a live birth should be included in the data linkages.
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As I’ve been doing this blogging thing a little while now and it seemed a good idea to pass on a few of the things that I’ve learned over the five years that I’ve been doing this. In easy and often geeky steps you’ll be taken through the steps and point out the pitfalls of taking your blog seed and growing it into something really amazing.
The Gutenberg post editor has arrived and as with all change there’s something else to learn and a few ruffled feathers. I’m just coming to grips with it myself so I thought I would be helpful and give you my bloggies a few pointers.
Firstly the Gutenberg editor is built around blocks. For those of you that don’t know Gutenberg was the father of modern printing – he transformed the world with his innovative use of blocked letters to produce pages of print that took books to the masses.
This gives a clue on the thinking with this Gutenberg editor. Everything on your posts and pages is now a block.
Here’s the start of this post Up at the top there’s the familiar formatting addition tools that you usually got. There are a few changes:
The ‘+’ button now add’s blocks, this includes pictures, text, separators and user defines reusable blocks. Create a re-usable block by highlighting whatever and then on the three vertical dot at the top select add to reusable blocks. One feature of this is that if you change the reusable block some time after it will also change wherever it has been used. Neat that.
The ‘i’ button gives the writer information about the post or page being written, this is where the word count now is. I have to say on this I don’t know what was wrong with the count on the bottom right – but there we are!
The funny PT symbol seems to transform blocks, I’ve not played with this yet, so if you have let me know what it does.
One thing to note is the hyperlinks tool, I’ve not really worked it out yet. I doesn’t seem to work in the same way. But if you highlight text or picture (I assume) and click the hyperlink button and paste in the link, it seems to work.
On the right is a familiar Document settings bar, when you click on the page You get a load of options.
YOu can change text and background colour and set text size.
Using the drop cap does this:
Which is nice… I’m not sure what I would use it for… but cool!
The order of the blocks can change really easily too…
On the left at the top there’s up / down arrows which shift the block order as desired. Also quite neat.
When editing and you click on the ‘+’ to add a block there’s a whole list of blocks to choose from – I’m sorry. I am not going to go through them all. I haven’t tried most of them yet. But have a play – find out what they do and you’ll soon get the hang of how it works.
At the moment I’m finding the Gutenberg editor a bit clunky, whether that’s me or this I’m not sure. I can see some of the benefits – there is one thing I really want them to add. I want to be able to copy posts, if they did that I would be a very happy man.
This is just a little sweetener to get you going – if I get questions or feedback I might write another post on this as there is so much to it But let me know what you think and any questions you might have… I would be interested.
Hello there bloggies! I can’t believe we’re already 10 days into August and I’ve not posted for a few week. That’s a bit bad of me… Over here on this little island the ship is sinking with no one at the helm, or we would be sinking if it wasn’t quite so dry here, we’re … Continue reading Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022
Back in early spring when food was hard to come by for all our feathered and furry friends the local squirrel (or one of them) was as is usual helping himself to the birsds nuts and it seems they were having some difficulty getting to the nuts inside. This was evident from the way the … Continue reading The Squirrel Cage Cutter
This is my Blog Battle Entry for July 2022 and the prompt is Hatch. Figel and the Intern Figel Narage was one of the most annoying, self righteous and obnoxious individuals to work at the Jacob and Bradley management consultancy. He was also totally incompetent however he had managed through all kind of obnoxious schemes … Continue reading FIGEL and the intern | <urn:uuid:0ca2f821-40d4-4dfd-97dd-e1ca9760c513> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2018/12/06/the-geeky-guide-to-wordpress-the-gutenberg-post-editor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957326 | 1,026 | 1.617188 | 2 |
What is life about?
As we come to the final verses of Ecclesiastes, Solomon has reached the end of his search. I love these verses. They are very simple yet powerful. The writer says, “The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person” (v. 13).
Think about that: “Fear God and keep His commandments.” Nothing difficult to understand there. Yet that is where Solomon was at the end of his life. When everything was said and done, after everything he had tried, he said, “Fear God and keep His commandments.”
Ecclesiastes is about Solomon’s quest for meaning. He tried wealth, he tried pleasure, but nothing gave him satisfaction. As he comes to the end of his quest, Solomon offers in Chapter 12 a conclusion of the meaning of life. He asks, “What is life about?” Lots of people are asking that same question.
As Solomon reflected on life he spoke of three things.
The Twilight (1–8)
Solomon speaks to the young and says, “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth.”
First, Solomon says whom they should remember. We are to remember our Creator. Young people are tempted to turn away from God and find purpose in other things. At times, they get wrapped up in their sin.
Second, Solomon tells them to remember “the days of their youth.” Statistically, if a young person does not give their life to Christ when they are young, the chances of them doing so diminish with time. For this reason, Solomon reminds us of the need to speak to youth about the end of life.
The Truth (9–11)
Solomon identified himself as the teacher, and evidently he explained to others what he had discovered. He emphasized that true wisdom comes from God.
This truth needs to be taught today. We live in a world of information and, unfortunately, much of it is bad. Social media is a major part of this. We need to be careful what we read and listen to. We need to be careful where we get information. Many of us are on social media, and we need to watch what we share. Whatever we post reflects us. We need to be sure we are sharing truth.
The Conclusion (12–14)
Solomon concludes with, “Fear God and keep His commandments.” After all the experimenting, after all the searching, “Fear God and keep His commandments.” As Solomon was reaching the end of his time on Earth, that’s what he had concluded regarding life.
It begins with trusting Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
Bob Buford was a businessman from Texas. His son, Ross, died while swimming the Rio Grande River, which led to a crisis in Bob’s life. He hired a “life coach” who was an atheist. Buford was a Christian. One of the first things the coach asked Buford was “What’s in the box?” meaning, “What’s important to you?”
Many people are asking that question. Some go through life pursuing the wrong things, yet they get to the end of life where they are preparing for eternity and they question what is important. They conclude they need to be ready for eternity.
What about you? As you reach the end of life, are you preparing for eternity? Solomon said the conclusion is to fear God and keep His commandments.
By Gregg Potts, D. Min.
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Lean Six Sigma Applications in Healthcare You Should Know
Lean Six Sigma gives a ton of knowledge and advantages to the healthcare industry, one of numerous enterprises that do not have the drawn out chance to set out on broad Six Sigma Ventures. In view of these time requirements, healthcare has found itself an extraordinary mix in utilizing the standards of speed and waste disposal that drive Lean cycles with the customary Six Sigma preparing. The mix of these two components can work on numerous areas of patient consideration and in general practices so healthcare administrations can work at their best. Keeping clients cheerful inside a business or association is a certain something, yet keeping patients in a condition of prosperity and a protected climate is crucial for the healthcare field. Without Lean Six Sigma, numerous arrangements could in any case be out there ready to be found and utilized by healthcare offices all over the planet that have gone to Incline Six Sigma to help their business.
The objective of Lean Six Sigma is to take out squanders and accelerate processes with the goal that an organization can rapidly have better execution in some space. There are many devices that you learn of in Lean Six Sigma Preparing that can without much of a stretch add advantages to the healthcare setting. Esteem Stream Planning, the 5 S’s, Visual Cycle Management and Arrangement Time/Changeover Decrease are well known apparatuses to use in the Gezondheidszorg wereldwijd healthcare industry with regards to setting up Lean Six Sigma projects. There are horde of emergency clinics and clinical offices that you can find contextual analyses on to perceive what Lean Six Sigma meant for their association and in this way what it can mean for yours when appropriately utilized. The significant thing to note with healthcare and Six Sigma is that customary cycles can be excessively tedious or involved for such a quick moving field where consumer loyalty at last understands security and prosperity.
With regards to the healthcare industry, a decent system that includes Lean, Six Sigma and other helpful devices for change and improvement can give the best outcomes to any association needing process upgrades and quality control evaluations. It probably would not be enjoyable to call attention to the blemishes of your own association, yet it is now that the pride should be saved in the purpose of working on the association. Center around doing what is best for the organization and for individuals included. Do not live willfully ignorant that your healthcare association cannot profit from Lean Six Sigma Preparing, on the grounds that in doing so you can frequently make a lot more concerning issues than you could have needed in the first place. | <urn:uuid:f94b1aea-1ab6-47c8-ae2a-aa2995af2f8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sunsethousebb.com/2022/lean-six-sigma-applications-in-healthcare-you-should-know.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9471 | 512 | 1.976563 | 2 |
WSD 2018 (18. 9.)
On September 18, 2018, at the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a Web Survey Day (WSD) event for the seventh time. WSD is an event organized by CDI since 2012 and is attended by more than 200 users of the online survey tool 1KA (www.1ka.en) and other users of online surveys. Therefore, the target audience is everyone who is interested in the latest achievements and trends in the methodology of online surveys.
In the introductory speech, dr. Vasja Vehovar, head of the Centre for Social Informatics, presented some global trends in online surveys, where he highlighted the problem of recruiting the general population and also closed populations, mainly due to the question of privacy or underperformance of cooperation. He also presented guidelines for the development of the 1KA tool in the future.
In the second lecture of the plenary part of the event, dr. Benjamin Lesjak from the Institute for Legal Solutions of the Information Society (IPRID), Datainfo.si, presented the problem of online surveys and the GDPR regulation. He pointed out some concrete examples of dilemmas or issues that, in the light of tough legislation on privacy (GDPR), are encountered in a specific field of online surveys.
The second part was followed by the introduction of the 1KA tool, where three thematic seminars were held in parallel, where the members of the CDI presented the different functionalities of the 1KA tool. Gregor Čehovin conducted a seminar called ‘A systematic overview of the main functionality of the 1KA tool’ which was intended for beginner users. Miha Matjašič and Katja Zrim conducted a seminar for advanced users and presented the ‘Advanced and new functionalities’ of the 1KA tool. Peter Hrvatin presented several different ways of customized use of the 1KA tool at the seminar ‘Installation, Integration, API and Custom Adjustments’. In addition to thematic seminars, the Methodological seminar was conducted simultaneously by dr. Nejc Berzelak. At the seminar, he presented some principles and trends related to online surveying as a method of data collection.
Materials of individual lectures WSD 2018 are available for registered users >> (only in Slovenian language)
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UTILIZE DISTRICT LOANS
If a library user wants an item that is not owned by their library, other libraries in the district may be able to fulfill it.
HOW DOES MY LIBRARY PROCESS A DISTRICT LOAN?
When a patron wants an item that is not owned by your library, the patron fills out a request form and submits it to library staff.
Step 1: Library staff verify the title and request information using local processes. This step allows the library to investigate the best method of acquiring the item for a patron. Note: Check the copyright date of the item: If it is a newer title, please determine if your location should purchase a copy.
Step 2: Library staff look in the catalogs of the other larger systems in the district. If the item is available in another district catalog and is an item type they lend, the library places a self-mediated district loan request using local barcode and PIN number. Note: If the item is not currently available on the shelves of the library, has a long list of patrons who have already requested the item, you may want to reconsider the item for local purchase or inform the patron that there may be an extended waiting period. Requests for District Loans are not filled until after local library patron requests are filled.
PLACING A DISTRICT LOAN REQUEST
Your library location has a barcode and a PIN that works in the online catalog. Place the district loan request in the catalog of the library using the barcode and PIN assigned to your location as though you were a regular library patron. The item will be sent to your library when it is available.
BORROWING FROM DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
District libraries may borrow any circulating item that can be requested from the catalog. You are typically not billed for late fines by district libraries, but will be asked to pay replacement costs for items that are lost while on loan to your library.
Step 1: Go to the DCLS online catalog and search for the item you would like to borrow.
Step 2: When you find it, click on the Request It icon.
Step 3: Enter your library's barcode and PIN number.
Step 4: Select a pick-up location from the drop down menu. If a copy is checked in at a location, please select that location as your pick-up location. If all copies of an item are currently checked out, select East Shore Area Library.
Step 5: Wait for delivery! DCLS locations print their pull lists every day they are open and check the shelves to see if they can fill the request. Staff will notice that the patron name is the name of a district library and will check the item out to the library barcode, note the due date, and prepare the item to be sent directly to the requesting library using a delivery slip. | <urn:uuid:f98afafb-6ead-4586-ac16-165ed01d875e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capitalarealibrarydistrict.org/district-loans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.907896 | 587 | 1.585938 | 2 |
St. Edward's University
This paper sets out to discover how access to water and sanitation has changed overtime for the residents of deserted satellite IDP camps in Lapul sub-county, Northern Uganda. Throughout the period of conflict in the region until today, residents of this region have struggled to gain adequate access to water and sanitation.
Qualitative field research was carried out over a period of eleven days, with six interviews and three focus groups held to gain information on how access to water and sanitation has changed overtime for the displaced. Methods of Rapid Rural Appraisal and Direct Observation were applied to make assessments of the camp environment. Restricted time limited the ability to produce a comprehensive report, and the communities interviewed were chosen to represent the larger population of rural displaced in Northern Uganda. Other limitations to research included the prevalence of alcoholism as a side effect of war, and the language barrier between the interviewer and the residents.
It was concluded that access to water and sanitation is currently decreasing for many of the rural displaced. Although greater access was provided in camps, overcrowding prevented IDPs from obtaining adequate amounts of water. When moved to satellite camps, international humanitarian aid provided greater access, but the boreholes put in place are now broken down and the pit latrines have filled up. Without adequate money, tools, or management to fix these systems, many are returning to collecting unprotected water sources and to using unsanitary means of human waste disposal. Coordinated efforts between the government, NGOs, Community Based Organizations, and local leaders are needed to address this growing problem.
Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Public Health | Sustainability | Water Resource Management
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Turkeys live pretty much everywhere in the united States, together you have the right to see in this map below — which offers 2012 data native the USDA. (That’s the critical time the company conducted an farming census.)
But two states really lead the method in turkey production: Minnesota and also North Carolina.
Alongside Minnesota and North Carolina, four other claims are responsible for almost all turkey production in the USThe recent 2016 number from the USDA display that two-thirds that turkeys created in the united state hail from six states.
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Minnesota leader the country in turkey production, with 44 million turkeys. Following is north Carolina, through 33 million turkeys.
Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, and also Virginia round the end the list, through each state contributing more than 15 million turkeys annually.
Overall, turkey manufacturing is increase in 2016, which is good news. In 2015, American farmers endured through the worst bout the avian flu in history. The epidemic killed nearly 50 million birds, many of which to be chicken and turkeys. Follow to Fortune, the outbreak cost farmers nearly $191 million in shed revenue.
More Americans are eating turkey, too, as various cuts of turkey increase in popularity
Americans no longer simply buy entirety turkeys. Ground turkey, turkey breasts, and also turkey deli slices are also popular turkey products, according to nationwide Turkey Federation spokesperson Kimmon Williams.
Williams called me via email that since the 1970s, turkey has actually been the fourth most popular meat in the US, and also that the amount of turkey civilization eat every year has doubled from about 8 pounds come 16 pounds.
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Most turkey in the united state is quiet consumed through supermarkets and also retail, yet in recent years, nationwide Turkey Federation data has shown turkey acquiring ground in the food business industry as well.
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What is Collagen?
Collagen is one of the most abundant healthy protein in your body, and also it’s a huge part of your ligaments, skin, bones, teeth, muscular tissues and ligaments. Collagen provides your skin toughness and also durability. It assists the cartilage material in your joints continue to be flexible. It provides framework to your arteries, maintaining them strong and also versatile. It offers your bones structure, as well, by serving as ‘reinforcing poles’. Collagen is an amazing building and construction product.
Collagen is available in many forms, however the large bulk in your body includes types I, II and III. These kinds all develop reasonably long fibers (contrasted to body cells). Type I collagen is – ounce for ounce – stronger than steel. Type II collagen is thinner than type I, and is utilized in cartilage material all bunched up like springs for shock absorption. Type III is essential for the hollow things in your body– like big blood vessels, the bowel as well as bladder.
It is very important to understand that the ‘type’ of collagen is only pertinent when it’s already a part of your body. When you eat it, your body just re-makes it right into brand-new types.
Collagen is so big and also difficult that we can not absorb it ‘as is’ when we eat it. What we can do however, is ‘hydrolyze’ the collagen, which implies it’s broken down into a lot smaller pieces (‘ peptides’) by water, making it useful by your body. Collagen Complicated gives easy-to-digest hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
What are the Benefits of Collagen Supplements?
Each offering of VitaPost Collagen Complex supplies replenishing hydrolyzed collagen. Collagen supplements are not only great for your skin but additionally for your hair, nails, and also joints. It can aid with joint pain as well as joint inflammation along with making you really feel much more vibrant.
VitaPost Collagen Complex supplies all-natural hydrolyzed collagen that supports your body in the regular fixing of harmed skin; sustains the skin’s natural suppleness as well as structure; sustains skin tone and also can improve the visible appearance of fine lines as well as creases. Researches have wrapped up that supplementing with collagen can likewise boost skin hydration.
VitaPost Collagen Complex could have terrific advantages supporting the body’s upkeep of the skeletal system, especially in women that are undertaking natural hormone changes. Researches suggest a diet plan supplemented with hydrolyzed collagen can support the maintenance of the bone collagen currently present – suggesting much less all-natural deterioration of the bones with age.
Collagen in your cartilage is the mechanical reason why joints don’t simply split and break whenever you leap or run. Supplementing the diet with hydrolyzed collagen has actually been associated with joint advantages for an entire variety of individuals, from age-related joint deterioration, to highly-active professional athletes that push their joints to the limit.
Exactly how to Choose a Good Quality Collagen Supplement
This post will certainly help you decide which collagen supplement is best for you.
There are various kinds of collagen supplements on the market today. With a lot of choices, it can be hard to know which one is the best top quality. Below are some actions to comply with when searching for a top quality collagen supplement.
1) Inspect how long the firm has been in business and what their track record resembles.
2) Look at the ingredients and also see to it they have something that will certainly help your needs (i.e., kind 1, kind 2, type 3).
3) Inspect if there are any kind of fillers or other components that might not be as healthy as what you intend to put into your body and also if so, locate one without any fillers or additives.
4) Check out client testimonials about the product.
What is the distinction in between hydrolyzed collagen as well as collagen peptides?
There is no difference. Collagen proteins are long chains of amino acids. The procedure of hydrolysis breaks them down into peptides, which are simply much shorter chains of amino acids. Collagen supplements are variously labeled as “hydrolyzed collagen” or “collagen peptides,” yet they’re the same.
Who needs collagen supplements?
In my point of view, basically everybody can benefit. Most individuals do not consume bones, skin, and connective cells– the parts of animals that contain collagen. That means they do not get the amino acids (specifically hydroxyproline, glycine, as well as proline) that are located in collagen but not much in muscle meat.
How much collagen should I take per day?
There is no RDA for collagen, and also to my understanding, no studies have actually developed ideal application guidelines. You might require basically depending upon your nutritional intake. To be risk-free, it’s constantly a great concept to adhere to the dose guidelines on your collagen supplement of selection.
Can you take way too much collagen peptides?
Numerous things in nature comply with a J-shaped curve– too much or insufficient are both poor. The exact same could be true for collagen supplements, yet unfortunately, there’s no sign of what would make up “too much.” There’s additionally no evidence that collagen toxicity is a problem if you following application standards.
FOR HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR COLLAGEN TO WORK?
It depends what you’re taking collagen to support. If you’re taking collagen for muscle mass development, positive modifications will certainly start to happen almost promptly with your workouts– although you might not discover the development today.
In researches considering collagen supplements for joint discomfort as well as skin flexibility, participants experienced recognizable improvements in regarding 4 to eight weeks of daily supplements.
Like any supplement, collagen isn’t an overnight miracle remedy however sticking with an everyday supplement regimen will generate the very best results.
What Is Bovine Collagen?
Bovine collagen comes from cows– preferably grass-fed cows.
There are three different kinds of collagen: collagen I, II, and also III. Each type of collagen sustains different parts of the body. In bovine collagen made from hide, you’ll usually discover kinds I and III which operate in similar methods to support skin, bones, muscle mass, tendons, as well as intestine wellness.
If you get a bovine collagen supplement made from cartilage, connective cells, or bones, this supplement ought to likewise consist of collagen type II which helps assistance joint health particularly.
What Is Marine Collagen?
Marine collagen has kind I collagen and also is usually sourced from wild caught fish. This kind of collagen is excellent for boosting sustainability methods due to the fact that it’s made from fish components that generally wind up in the garbage.
The great aspect of aquatic collagen is that it’s simple for the body to process as well as absorb.
Regrettably, any person on a vegan or stringent vegan diet regimen can not take collagen supplements due to the fact that it’s constantly sourced from some kind of animal item.
Nevertheless, unlike typical jelly, bovine collagen as well as marine collagen do not include any kind of pork-derived products so they appropriate for any person on a kosher or halal diet regimen.
Does Collagen Break a Fast?
Yes. Considering that collagen is a protein, it stops the autophagy process induced throughout fasting.
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Door of the day: The paint is peeling, the handle is rusting, and the keyhole is encrusted with cobwebs—what sort of adventure awaits? I came across this at the back of Moulin Church in Pitlochry, Scotland in 2014.
The churchyard at Moulin also features a Kirk Bell (first cast in 1749), a crusader’s grave from the twelfth century (look closely, and you will see the etching of a sword in the stone), and an ash tree that is growing on the site of the old “joug” tree—it was as the joug tree where offenders of crimes were shackled with a hinged metal collar for public display (and shame) until the requisite amount of time was passed for their atonement to be completed.
I’m posting my door inspirations from around the world to celebrate releases of The Secret of Zoone (paperback – January 28) and The Guardians of Zoone (February 25).
Zoone might be the nexus of the multiverse, with a thousand doors leading to a thousand worlds, but not all are easily opened and, sometimes, little critters come scuttling out of those keyholes!
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How to Protect Your Brand Online Using a VPN
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We live in the day and age where one’s identity can be easily stolen. This can be very devastating for the individual whose identity was stolen on the internet and may result in serious loss of money and energy due to the fact that recovering your online identity takes time. However, personal identities do not get often stolen but rather those of companies. In other words, it is brands that get stolen the most.
Why do brands get stolen on the internet?
One of the popular things why brand names get stolen is for the purpose of cybersquatting. Cybersquatters are people who make website on the domain name that is similar to the name of your brand in order to sell it to you for a lot of money afterwards. This type of online activity is illegal and the authorities are doing its best to prevent this from happening. However, with the technology progressing rapidly, thieves always find new ways to steal.
Another thing is also typo-squatting where someone uses a possible different spelling of your brand name and makes a URL with it. Therefore, if you are using a brand name that can easily be misspelt, you might come upon such a nuisance.
Other occurrences of brand name theft include regular things such as someone pretending to be you in order to achieve something, promoting their own business or using it for any other selfish reason.
Quick tips for protecting your brand and identity
Before we proceed to explaining how to maximize protection with VPN, here are a few useful tips to raise awareness of your internet behavior.
- You need to keep all the passwords to yourself and possibly remember them by heart. Consider changing passwords often and using numbers, signs, lowercase and uppercase letters in your password.
- Get educated about harmful websites. Most of them are software download or pornography websites. If there are too many popups on a website with suspicious offers, you should definitely avoid websites like that.
- The process of buying should always be conducted via trusted websites. If a website which is not trusted offers you a product to buy, avoid it immediately.
- Google Alerts can help you monitor the usage of your brand name online. This is a very powerful tool and combined with Google Analytics can also help you with advertising your brand online.
- Check all settings on all websites where you have an account in order to achieve maximum security. For example, Facebook posts can have visibility set to public which means that everyone can see them. Unless you want everyone to see your posts and information about you, you should keep it private.
- Use a VPN. This requires thorough explanation, which is presented below.
VPN can help you increase anonymity online
By increasing your level of anonymity, you will feel much safer while surfing and developing the name of your brand online. Anonymity is increased due to the fact that you will not be using your IP address. In fact, you will be given a completely dedicated IP and many other factors will benefit to successfully hiding your information online.
Therefore, all of the information that your IP unveils to the hackers and thieves lurking in the dark corners of the internet will be hidden underneath. Imagine VPN as a big concrete fence around the house – people passing by would not be able to take a look at its residents, let alone be able to enter that house and steal from it. This metaphor of a big house and a concrete fence can actually be applied to all the other things that VPN offers – it makes you more secure and anonymous.
Additional security with file sharing
Building a brand online involves a lot of file sharing and without appropriate encryption of those files, you will be completely exposed to the threats. Using a VPN means having and end2end encryption where the only people who will be able to see the shared files and folders are the one who sent them and the one who received them. This type of encryption is slowly becoming a part of many chat applications, but the best one is provided by VPN.
There are many programs that are very simple to use and that can intercept files being sent or received over the internet. In fact, there are government surveillance programs such as PRISM, which can basically use all information about you from Google and Google is required to provide such information. Of course, this does not mean that only information will be given away, but all the data that is being sent or received can be intercepted.
Be secured while being connected on public Wi-Fi
One way to have your identity stolen is by accessing a public Wi-Fi. Public Wi-Fis are a very easy target to hackers and all they need is the right software which will crack all your passwords and completely own your identity. Therefore, if your brand is exposed on public Wi-Fis, such as those in a bar, restaurant or any other kind of public place, you are in great risk.
Luckily, this is yet another instance where VPN comes in and saves the day with the layer of protection that is added when accessing to the internet this way as well. In other words, you do not have to fear anything while sitting in a cafe and connecting to the internet from there.
To sum up, identity theft can be a dangerous thing and many people go through a very difficult period if that happens to them. There were cases where the damage was never really fixed and the stolen brand was never returned. In order to prevent that from happening, you should be more aware of your behavior on the internet and consider using a virtual private network, such as LimeVPN for the purpose of maximizing the protection, raising the level of anonymity, introducing encryption and safely connecting on public Wi-Fis.
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Throughout history, societal influence has greatly influenced marketing decisions made by companies in all industries. The world has been affected by many difficult times in history, such as war, acts of terror, the great recession, or global pandemics. During these times, many companies are forced to change their business model and marketing strategies. These situations can create great hardship for some companies and opportunity for others.
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An Evaluation of an Improper Integral Arises from an Analytic Solution of a Model Boltzmann Equation for Photon Transport
Keywords:Boltzmann Transport equation, Support, Radiotherapy, Minimum rectangle, Scattering cross section, Compton scattering
In this article we adopted the Mathematical model of solution of an improper integral which is created from the solution of the Boltzmann Transport equation (BTE) for photons. For the dose calculation of radiotherapy for cancer treatment, we need to solve the Boltzmann Transport equation. This improper integral is the important part of the BTE. Also the calculating time of the dose calculation is mostly dependent on the calculating time of this improper integral. For reducing the calculating time we need the minimum integrating area which is explained in this paper.
GANIT J. Bangladesh Math. Soc.Vol. 35 (2015) 87-94
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Only those that have lived by the seaside can attest to the statement: there is no better place to live than right beside the ocean. This is especially true in Canada, with the wild Atlantic ocean on our east coast and the warm pacific on our west coast, those with a penchant for seaside dwelling who want to live and work in Canada will be spoiled for choice.
As it turns out, Canada has 243,042km of coastline, with hundreds of beautiful villages, towns and cities scattered all along. Let’s not even get started on the amount of towns that are lakeside (look out for that future article), as Canada has over two million lakes! But we understand that they can’t all be winners, so with that in mind let’s take a look at the top 3 maritime cities in the Atlantic region to live and work in Canada.
Top 3 Canadian Seaside Towns
While the following small cities are perhaps not the most beautiful maritime settlements in Canada, there were a number of factors we have taken into account.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The unofficial capital of Atlantic Canada, Halifax has a population of a little of 430,000 people. Like any city it has its upsides and its downsides, and we will consider both. Let’s start with a positive, the affordable cost of living. Rent is around $1,100 a month for a two bedroom apartment, which is pretty standard plus utilities of $116. If you are looking to buy a house, the average home price for a three bedroom is $363,000. This is a quarter of what a home would cost in Toronto or Vancouver. Public transport is fairly cheaper than in other major cities, your monthly public transport ticket will only set you back $79. A beer at the local pub will cost you $6 and a meal to go with it around $10.
Depressed economic growth has contributed to the lower property prices in Atlantic Canada, but where some see a problem, we see an opportunity. The Immigration, Refugee Council of Canada has created the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, a unique immigration program specifically targeting foreign workers who want to settle and live in one of the four Atlantic provinces. With a valid job offer in Atlantic Canada, you could be eligible for permanent residency right away. There is also the option to complete a post secondary qualification at any one of the amazing schools the provinces have to offer. This will lead to you being able to apply for permanent residency through the program as well, as long as you intend to continue living in the province you completed your studies in.
The reason for the slow economic growth we just mentioned is that there simply aren’t enough people to fill the positions available in the Atlantic labour market. Some of the most in-demand jobs in Nova Scotia include:
|Top 15 In-Demand Jobs in Halifax|
|Registered nurse||Family doctor||Financial/Investment analyst|
|Information system analyst||Electrician||Electrical/Electronics engineer|
|IT professionals||Truck drivers||Deck officers|
|Civil Engineers||College instructors||Community service workers|
Halifax has six degree-granting universities and 81 post-secondary students per 100 people, which is three times the national average. So it’s a great place to be a student and has a bright future. On a side note, the city also has more pubs per capita than anywhere else in Canada. Culturally, the city has a lot to offer too. Home to the Canadian Museum of Immigration, Atlantic Canada’s only national museum, the residents of Halifax have a favourable attitude towards immigrants. There is a growing understanding that more people means a larger tax base, immigrants start businesses which creates more jobs and contribute to a more diverse and happy community. While there may be opposition forming toward immigration in other regions of Canada, in the Atlantic provinces support is strong, and rising.
Moncton, New Brunswick
While Moncton may not technically be coast side, the city is the connection point between a tributary of the Atlantic flowing right through downtown and a finger of the Atlantic ocean reaching up to take it at the south west corner of town. The city has weathered two economic disasters; the most recent was the closure of it’s CNR locomotive shops in the 1980’s, after the city’s rebirth following it’s first economic trauma, the collapse of it’s shipbuilding industry in the 1860’s. However, the city adopted the Latin motto: Resurgo which translates to Rise Again and that they have done, in magnificent style. The local unemployment rate is consistently lower than the national average and the economy diversified, supplementing it’s traditional distribution industry by nurturing educational, financial, health care, information technology and insurance sectors.
The cost of living is notably less than Halifax, and most other major urban centres in Canada. A two bedroom apartment in the city would cost around $875 a month and the total cost of living (excluding rent) is estimated to be around $1,342 a month. This includes utilities, markets, transportation, sport and leisure, so if you want to save, you could cut that already low number down drastically. For example, your monthly public transport pass is only $65. The city has a reputation for being one of the best cities to live in Canada. It is filled with natural parks, has a number of beaches and a thriving entertainment industry. You won’t go wrong choosing to live in Canada if you choose a place like Moncton.
There are currently over 400 employment opportunities on Canada Job Bank alone. From semi-skilled to highly skilled occupations, there is opportunity across the board. Some of the in-demand positions that could see you eligible for the Atlantic Immigration Pilot include:
|Popular In-Demand Jobs in Moncton|
|Food & beverage server||Security guard||Law clerk|
|Cook||Motor & tyre technician||Material handler|
|Truck driver||Web developer||Home care provider|
|Nursing assistant||Food service supervisor||Optician|
|Electrician||Office clerk||HVAC mechanic|
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
When you imagine living in Canada, you probably don’t picture yourself living on an island. But when you consider that the total number of islands in Canada has never been actually established, because there are quite literally too many of them (there are over 30,000 islands in the Georgian Bay alone), it doesn’t seem like such an improbability anymore does it? Especially when the island is home to the safest city in Canada, Charlottetown.. Connected to the mainland and the province of New Brunswick by a 12.9km long bridge, this unique island offers a sanctuary for those looking for a more simple, peaceful life. The island is majoritively made up of national parks and has some of the most beautiful beaches in Canada.
The cost of living in Charlottetown is slightly higher for the obvious reasons, transportation of goods, construction costs, storage etc make it a little more expensive to live on an island. However, the average wage is also slightly above the national average and ironically, consumer prices, including rent are 37% higher in Toronto than in Charlottetown. Your local transport pass will cost you $58 a month, rent for a two bedroom apartment between $775 and $945 and your monthly cost of living is estimated at $1,421. Why fight to get by in a busy, noisy major city when you could live a happy and fulfilling life in one of Atlantic Canada’s smaller cities.
Charlottetown is probably one of the harder towns in Atlantic Canada to secure a job offer, and for a good reason. The people that live on Prince Edward Island are here to stay. The way of life and sense of community is unlike anywhere else, so when you become a resident, it is likely you’ll want to hold onto your spot too! Nevertheless, there are opportunities to be taken, such as:
|Job Opportunities on Prince Edward Island|
|Child care worker||Baker||Accountant / bookkeeper|
|Auto Body repair||Truck driver||Electrician|
|Software engineer||Carpenter||Farm labourer|
|Retail sales||Food and beverage server||Plumber|
Hundreds of people choose to start a new life in Canada nearly every day. Smart people, however, put thought into what kind of life they want to have in Canada. Choosing one of the cities on this list, or one of the many others like them, rather than setting your sights on a major hub like Toronto, has benefits that far outweigh any cons. The coastal and pastoral beauty of Atlantic Canada draws many people in, but they stay because of the small-town, community feel they get here. They stay because there is no such thing as ‘rush hour’, they enjoy short drives to work, an affordable cost of living and best of all an extremely low (almost non-existent) crime rate and access to high quality educational institutions. It’s your choice, but it really shouldn’t be a tough one.
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A hilarious and anarchic collection of classic bedtime stories for young readers, all utterly updated for a new generation.
Meet Trumplestiltskin, a vain and gold-obsessed little man who will stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There’s Sleeping Brainy, the princess whose only dream is to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Gingerbread Kid, who escapes persecution in his home country but struggles to fit in in his new one. You won’t forget the lingering stench of Mouldysocks – a boy obsessed with staring at his iPad but rather less obsessed with personal hygiene – and you’ll be rooting for Rap-Unzel when she gets the chance of fame by appearing on Kingdom’s Got Talent . . . but at what cost?
Packed with stories about boys who aren’t afraid to cry and rhymes about girls who refuse to kiss frogs, FEARLESS FAIRY TALES shakes up dusty, old-fashioned (and, to be honest, rather sexist) bedtime stories and totally reinvents them for the twenty-first century. From fake news to female footballers, environmental pollution to equal pay, nothing is off limits in this anthology of laugh-out-loud fairy tales with thoroughly modern morals.
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You can make your own gift boxes this holiday by recycling calendars and last year's Christmas cards.
Start by making two squares. If one is slightly smaller than the other, it will fit inside of the other one really well.
Crease through the middle by folding diagonally each way. Good creases will make a crisp box.
Your paper won't be this creased, I was working ahead a little bit.
Fold points to middle.
Open up and fold sides in this way, reopen,
and that way.
Open and refold in these two points, and
the two sides.
Fold pointed ends under.
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The big question now is which country will take the Gulf states’ place as the next super power of power. You know, the renewable kind
Spare a thought for those poor Saudis, particularly those with fleets of gold-plated Rolls-Royces and hundreds of hypercars. When your country holds 17 per cent of the entire world’s proven petroleum reserves, it’s easy to think your life of wanton wealth will go on forever, and surely no country can have been less excited about the invention, and increasingly rapid uptake, of electric vehicles.
With countries like the United Kingdom planning to ban the sale of all petrol or diesel-powered cars by 2030, the good times might not be over yet, but they’re definitely trending in an inky black direction for oil producers.
The big question now is which country will take the Gulf states’ place as the next super power of power—the renewable kind. And when it comes to cars—and, perhaps more importantly, SUVs—it’s wise to look beyond the current shift towards electric vehicles, to a world in which hydrogen, pumped from a bowser in a few minutes and creating nothing at the tailpipe but droplets of water, becomes the dominant fuel.
Hydrogen cars, for the uninitiated, are a lot like Marty McFly’s upgraded DeLorean from Back to the Future II, because they have their own power stations on board. A hydrogen fuel cell combines oxygen and hydrogen as you drive, which creates the electricity that runs a motor to power its front wheels. This is why they’re known as Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs), because they have an onboard fuel cell that gives them the power to operate like an EV—quietly, and with much instantaneous torque.
So where does the hydrogen for these cars come from? Well, hopefully from right here in Australia—the Saudi Arabia of hydrogen.
The local green hydrogen market is expected to be worth US$2.5 trillion (S$3.39 trillion) by 2050, according to analysis by Intercontinental Energy and CWP Global, which just happens to be behind the recently announced Western Green Energy Hub, which will cover 15,000 square kilometres of Western Australia and produce 3.5 million tonnes of hydrogen, and enough energy (50 gigawatts of it) to power not just our cars, but every home in Australia.
The fact is, we’re going to produce much of our hydrogen in the future for export, of course, with the CSIRO predicting the potential demand for imported hydrogen in China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore could reach AU$9.5 billion (S$9.25 billion) by 2030.
Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, believes everyone else is being too conservative. It says green hydrogen could be supplying one quarter of the world’s entire energy needs by 2050, estimating it will become a US$10 trillion (S$13.55 trillion) market.
With our boundless solar and wind resources delivering us the chance to cash in on this global boom, Australia could be even richer from hydrogen than it’s been made by coal and steel.
So just how likely is it that hydrogen cars will one day dominate the market—and how close is Australia to snatching a large share of the opportunities that hydrogen production offers?
Scott Nargar, co-founder and director of the Australian Hydrogen Council, is utterly convinced the revolution is coming, and points to countries like Germany, where hydrogen bowsers are already popping up on service-station forecourts. There’s even an app (H2.Live) in Europe that will help you find places to fill your hydrogen car.
“There’s no doubt that we could become the Saudi Arabia of hydrogen, but the thing to remember is that Saudi Arabia could still be that, too. They’ve got plenty of desert and plenty of sunshine, so there’s nothing to stop them doing it,” Nargar explains.
“The advantage that Australia has—as well as our natural benefits of space, sun and wind—is that we are close neighbours of Asia, and we’re politically stable.
“There’s been a lot of talk about Australia’s hydrogen future in the past, but now there’s a lot of hard money being invested, not only in WA but places like Bell Bay in Tasmania and across Queensland.”
In terms of the infrastructure necessary for a switch to hydrogen vehicles, Nargar admits that—in much the same way that Australia hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory with EV charging stations—we’re lagging a fair way behind.
And as Nargar—who also works for Hyundai, which already has a hydrogen car, the Nexo SUV, several of which are currently taking part in a trial in the ACT—points out, it’s the car companies in Australia that are now pushing for change, rather than governments, which is the inverse of what has happened in places like Europe.
“We know what’s coming, car companies do, because we’ve seen the pace of regulation around the world, with bans on the sale of internal-combustion engines, and it’s seriously going to limit the options for cars that will be available here over the next five to 10 years,” he says.
“The big oil and gas companies know what’s coming too, and that’s why you’re seeing those companies starting to offer both electric and hydrogen options on their forecourts in places like Europe. But it won’t just be oil companies, there’ll be tech companies wanting to take them on in that ‘green’ space, so we’ll be seeing competition driving that change.”
Nargar says that in the near future, EVs will become the dominant form of vehicle for inner-city living, but when it comes to longer-distance travel, and larger vehicles—everything from the SUVs that Aussies now buy in such huge numbers to trucks for carrying freight—hydrogen will be the answer.
“Fuelling time and range are the big advantages for hydrogen—you can take a lot more weight, and take it a lot further, basically,” Nargar explains.
“With an electric truck or bus, it’s going to be 10 or 12 minutes to fill up with hydrogen and they’ll get up to 1000 kilometres off that, while an electric truck or bus is going to have to stop for 1.5 hours each time and only go 300 to 400 kilometres until it has to stop again. It’s a similar story with a big SUV, you’re just going to be better off with hydrogen.”
EV versus FCEV is not so much Betamax vs VHS, then, as Amazon Prime vs Netflix. Both will win, but only one will dominate.
Those on the EV side of course, like Elon Musk, can be predictably scathing about hydrogen vehicles, which the Tesla boss has already described as not only a crazy alternative to electric vehicles but a “big pain in the ass”.
While Hyundai (Nexo) and Toyota (Mirai) already have hydrogen cars, there are more, and bigger, ones on the way, with Land Rover announcing a trial of FCEV tech in its Defender from later this year.
And a US-based supercar startup, Hyperion, is working on a hydrogen car called the XP-1, which has a claimed top speed of 355 km/h and a range of 1600 kilometres between hydrogen refills, with production planned for 2022.
Locally, a Sydney-based company has also developed the world’s first home hydrogen generation, storage and power unit. LAVO has come up with a system that allows for “inter-seasonal storage” of hydrogen, making it possible to “stow summer sunlight (in hydrogen form) to use in winter”.
The LAVO system, which could be right up there with the invention of Wi-Fi in terms of great Australian moments of ingenuity, integrates with standard solar systems to create hydrogen from water, with an electrolyser using solar-power input, and then stores that hydrogen in a patented metal-hydride unit. The hydrogen can then be converted to electricity via a fuel cell, which could be used in a car or via a domestic or commercial application.
It’s a world-first, one which really could, in the future, kick the hell out of lithium-ion batteries.
Governments also, it seems, are starting to take the shift to renewables more seriously; Western Australia even has an official “Hydrogen Minister”, Alannah MacTiernan, who has been talking up that huge Green Energy Hub in her state as an opportunity to take advantage of growing demand for hydrogen as a fuel of the future.
“These major corporates absolutely understand the writing is on the wall,” Ms MacTiernan said.
“If they want to have a business in 20 years’ time, they’ve got to transition from fossil fuels into these renewable fuels and of course hydrogen is a magnificent medium for storing renewable power.”
The future for hydrogen, then, isn’t just bright—particularly in Australia— it’s a gas, gas, gas.
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Statesmanship and Reform Analysis Paper
Discuss the key statesmanship principles needed to reform a nation. It consists of 3 parts (below). These sections must be discussed in the order presented above and with appropriate headings
· Part 1: a) An introduction including a thesis statesman. b) A summarization of biblical principles of government, leadership, and statesmanship relevant to reforming a nation and fighting injustice (1–1.5 pages);
· Part 2: An application of those principles to the decisions and actions of William Wilberforce, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1-1.5 pages) and
· Part 3: Application of the statesmanship principles discussed in parts 1 and 2 to one germane issue in a contemporary context (1-2 pages). (The application is not a full blown case study as you read in Newell. The application links the principles and in Part 2 to a similar situation today.
In Part 2, remember to provide specific evidence (i.e., actions taken and decisions made) to explain how these leaders demonstrated the various attributes and principles discussed in Part 1. In doing all of this, keep in mind the following:
1) While statesmanship is certainly about personal leadership skills, moral attributes, and vision, it must also include an understanding of how government actually works and should be structured. There are plenty of nice, honorable people who care for others but who do not possess an understanding of the inter-workings of government and the required structure needed for a government designed to figh injustice, prevent exploitation, and limit tyranny, particularly in reforming a nation.
2) Thus, your discussion must include a conversation about the type of understanding needed by a statesman as it relates to government structure.
3) Your discussion must also focus on those statesmanship principles needed specifically for reforming a nation. It could be that different statesmanship principles are needed for these different contexts. Therefore, make sure you are thinking specifically about the challenges of creating a nation based upon justice and liberty for this assignment.
4) A Conclusion
· 3-6 pages, not including the title page or references page
· Citations from:
· 3–5 outside scholarly sources
· Any Leadership and Statesmanship article
· Newell, T. Statesmanship, Character, and Leadership in America. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, (2012).
· Vaughan, David J. Statesmanship and Saint: The Principleed and Politics of William Wilberforce. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House Publishing Inc. (2002)..
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Dundee Cold Stores is Scotlands largest frozen vegetable plant. Processing a large proportion of the UK’s Pea and Broad Bean crop grown on the fertile surrounding countryside in Angus, Perthshire and Fife.
The factory is situated in pleasant surroundings and has been completely modernised and uses the latest technology. Frozen peas and beans processed at Dundee Cold Stores can be found in most major Supermarkets.
Bought in 2007, our 8.5-acre site has a long history of food processing and, following significant investment, is now one of the UK’s most efficient plants. In peak harvest season, the facility operates 24 hours a day, processing 30,000 tonnes of peas and beans.
Colin - General Manager
Colin started work at the Eyemouth Processing Factory which belonged to Christian Salvesen, in October 1979. He transferred from Eyemouth to Dundee in September 1992 where he continued to work for Christian Salvesen at their Dundee Processing Factory.
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It’s that time of year again to make some space in your home. Between more items entering your living space, and relatives and friends coming over, you might consider de-cluttering. Cleaning up for the holidays will make it much more enjoyable for your guests and your life a lot more stress-free. Even if you aren’t hosting any parties, these tips can also help you prepare for the new year. Here are a few places in your home that could do with some clutter management.
The kitchen can be one of the busiest places in your home when you have people over. When you’re baking, cooking, and serving drinks, it’s better to have everything to be organized and not overcrowded. Go into your fridge and remove anything that is expired. Non-perishables such as rice and canned goods can be donated to food banks or charities. Then go through your cabinets and find things you no longer need or have too many of. Kitchen tools, appliances, and other miscellaneous items can also be donated.
Now that your kitchen is slightly more clutter free, now it’s time to store the remaining items. Keep things you use every day up front, like pots and pans, so they are easily reachable. If you happen to be hosting and baking during the Holidays, put everything you know you’ll use in one cabinet that is easily accessible
Spend some time in your garage making room. You’ll want access to decorations, shovels if you need them, winter supplies, and other things you might want to pack away once the holidays are over. Garages are often the place we leave neglected items, things we no longer have a use for.
Give away anything that fits this description or, if it’s no longer useful, toss it out. You may want to store the remaining items on shelves rather than the floor of the garage. This will give it a neater appearance. Anything that still has use or sentiment can be put away in a storage unit for safe keeping.
If you have children, then you’re aware of the clutter that can pile up rather quickly, between games, crayons, books, and toys.
Think of all the items your child no longer uses. These things can be donated to a local charity or family in need, especially during this time of the year. Anything that has been outgrown or forgotten will certainly be well loved by a family less fortunate.
Some children may be more attached than others to certain items. If they don’t really use it, try putting it away for a while and if it isn’t used again then consider donating it.
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WASHINGTON — Three career diplomats in the U.S. Foreign Service answered questions Wednesday from senators during a hearing examining their credentials to lead U.S. diplomatic missions in Africa. If confirmed, three of the toughest diplomatic missions abroad will be led by women, who told the lawmakers that serving on the diplomatic front lines is a privilege and that they are committed to doing what they can to further peace and prosperity in the region.
Lucy Tamlyn, who currently heads the U.S. diplomatic mission in Sudan as chargé d’affaires, may soon head south to the Democratic Republic of Congo to serve as ambassador. The DRC is the largest country, by size, in sub-Saharan Africa.
In her testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tamlyn described the DRC as a country of enormous size, complexity, and promise, and said “the DRC’s dynamic, entrepreneurial, and creative population of over 100 million are eager to engage with the United States.”
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of both Foreign Relations and the Appropriations Committee, which has authority over U.S. foreign aid, pointed to the challenges awaiting Tamlyn at the hearing.
“The DRC is an incredibly complicated place with all sorts of rivalries and conflict, especially in the East. My question for you is: what do you think is at the heart of those conflicts and what do you think you can do as U.S. ambassador to try to address them in the long-term interest of stability in the DRC?” Van Hollen, himself the son of a career U.S. Foreign Service officer, asked.
A lack of governance, coupled with the possession of vast natural resources formed the basis of some of most entrenching challenges the DRC has faced, Tamlyn said in response to Van Hollen’s question.
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Major benefits as well as costs in rivers clean up
17 Nov 2015
A new report outlines how there will be extensive benefits as well as costs from work to restore and protect the health of the Waikato and Waipa rivers under the Healthy Rivers: Plan for Change/Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai project.
And a second report, following peer review of earlier modelling, shows that at least some initial steps towards restoring and protecting the rivers can be taken “relatively cheaply” and with a manageable economic impact.
“These reports outlining the gains to be made under various river improvement scenarios, plus the modelling of potential financial impacts of change, are key bits of information that will help the Health Rivers/Wai Ora project move forward,” said Bill Wasley, the independent chair of the multi-sector Collaborative Stakeholder Group (CSG) working on river health solutions.
“For example, it is encouraging to see that we can potentially at least make a start on the journey towards our goals without having too much economic impact.
“Our challenge over coming months will be to use this new data - and the feedback we’ve had from recent public workshops and a survey - to develop a recommended change to the Waikato Regional Plan so that we can better improve the rivers, taking into account the expected pluses and minuses of different courses of action.
“This is leading edge stuff nationally being carried out right here in the Waikato and we’re determined to get the best possible solution that works for our region and the environment. We stress again that the models are just that, they are not suggested outcomes, and making improvements in water quality is expected to be achieved over time, not in one king hit,” said Mr Wasley.
The first report – the Integrated Assessment Baseline and Scenarios – outlines expected benefits of making change and includes data on potential financial costs. New features of this report include evaluation of the impacts of changes on a range of Māori, environmental, social and economic indicators.
Integrated Assessment Baseline and Scenarios again looks at five river health protection scenarios:
- Scenario 1: Making both rivers swimmable and fishable everywhere (equivalent to meeting the legally binding Crown-iwi Vision and Strategy for the rivers)
- Scenario 2: No further degradation and improving to minimum acceptable states
- Scenario 3: Some general improvement for swimming, taking food and healthy biodiversity
- Scenario 4: No further degradation
- ‘Stepping stones’ to achieving Scenario 1 over time.
Some of the report’s examples of river health benefits under each scenario include:
- Scenario 1: Better overall water clarity, less sickness-causing bacteria and improvements in ecosystem health. Also, better knowledge of swimming places and increased recreation use, as well as reductions in pest weeds and fish, and improvements in edible food.
- Scenario 2: Better clarity, mostly in the lower parts of both rivers, and bacteria reductions, and some improvement in ecosystem health, as well as better knowledge of swimming places and increased recreation use, reductions in pest weeds and fish, and improvements in edible food.
- Scenario 3: Better clarity generally supporting an increase in swimming suitability and less bacteria. Better knowledge of swimming places and increased recreation use, as well as reductions in pest weeds and fish, and improvements in edible food.
- Scenario 4: No clarity or bacteria improvements, and no benefits to ecosystem health. Better knowledge of swimming places and extra recreation use.
- ‘Stepping stones’ (10, 25, 50 and 100 per cent over time): Improving trends for clarity, bacteria, pests and ecosystem health from 10 per cent step. Also improvements in edible food from 25 per cent step.
The costs outlined in Integrated Assessment Baseline and Scenarios are similar to those identified in the media release issued by the project in September (See www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/Community/Whats-happening/News/Media-releases-archived/Models-look-at-potentially-very-large-costs-of-improving-water-quality/).
At the top end of estimates, under water quality scenario one, a potential was identified for multi-billion dollar regional gross domestic product (GDP) reductions over coming decades in discounted present day terms. That is based on an annual regional GDP reduction of $630 million (equivalent to about three per cent of regional GDP) in present day terms.
“What the confirmed estimates clearly show is that costs are potentially very substantial over time and illustrate the complexity of the issues Health Rivers/Wai Ora is grappling with. The figures take no account of river health protection measures being phased in over time, as is expected will happen,” Mr Wasley said.
“The good news in the second modelling report is that making a start – and making some substantive progress – can be done relatively cheaply. The second modelling report sets out the cost of progressive steps towards scenario one, which is considered to meet the Vision and Strategy. Getting 10 per cent of the way might reduce the actual profits of land use by around three per cent a year, while getting a quarter of the way there would cost around seven per cent.”
Beyond this, with the cheaper options already used up, further improvements become more expensive, Mr Wasley said. Getting half way to scenario one could reduce annual profits by a quarter, and getting three quarters of the way there could reduce them by half.
“The CSG’s challenge now is to sift through all this evidence and advice, along with the input we’ve had from the public, to come up with a sound, science-based recommendation for a regional plan change in the new year.”
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You can use Xiaolin Wu algorithm, but the concept is not restricted to straight lines, it handles circles, ellipses, any kind of functions. Moreover this is concept of fast antialiasing, if you need some polyline you have to apply it for every segment. If you meant curves, these are locally flat segments, so this concept is still applicable.
The thin line might described $1px$ lines, but if you need thinner width (less than $1px$) the common algorithm that comes to mind is Gupta-Sproull, which is not that common due to computation time. The same is applicable here like in the Wu case, it is not limited to straight lines.
The idea of drawing lines (probably with Bresenham) and then blurring is more computationally expensive and weights are not normalised, which gives feeling of thicker lines.
The concepts described can easily be extended to thicker lines (using Bresenham and applying antialiasing to the outter layer) or even varying width lines (with Bresenham extension - the Murphy algorithm).
Techniques like MSAA or FXAA are too expensive, unless implemented on GPU with a lots of lines and no concern about perceptible width. After reading about Mathematica, it uses MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing), graphics is rendered on GPU, also Mathematica's reference supports this statement merely by looking at de Moiré patterns. | <urn:uuid:18b4a163-367d-49cb-a06d-8c307bc45b3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/58193/algorithm-for-antialiasing-thin-lines/58199 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937686 | 302 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The Face of Innovation
Harvard Business Review articulates how the three key factors of People, Policies and Resources contribute to Asia’s innovation ecosystems, and shares how companies like Intel, Micron, Medtronic have been innovating for Asia from Singapore.
This white paper examines Asia’s role in business innovation through a variety of lenses, including:
- What innovation means at leading companies today.
- The key components companies need to create leading-edge innovation platforms that can help them take advantage of all that Asia has to offer, including not only fast economic growth but also a burgeoning, tech-savvy middle class and a fastexpanding knowledge base.
- The many Asian companies that have created environments that support these innovation platforms, which in turn has led to the development of industry-specific ecosystems in which vendors, suppliers, and manufacturers cluster in distinct, innovation-rich locations.
- Real-world successes at companies that are already taking advantage of Asia’s innovation ecosystems to stay a step ahead of the competition. Their stories suggest a path forward for others that wish to unlock Asia’s benefits and embed innovation more deeply in their own organizations. | <urn:uuid:d82f095f-8c8a-48ab-ae86-fc6264cbbdf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/whitepapers/the-face-of-innovation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949066 | 239 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE), an alliance of organisations and individuals across 27 countries, is fundraising to send 20 young basic income advocates aged 16-30 to the European Parliment in Strasbourg October 8-9th, for the European Youth Event (EYE) 2021. The group this year is twice as large as the one that went on behalf of UBIE in 2018 and include many from underrepresented communities. Among other things they will be leading a workshop on ‘Policies for a fairer economy’ which will include basic income. It is also a good opportunity, they say, to advocate for UBI policies at the European Parliment and exchange their views with experts, activists, influencers and decision-makers on a high level.
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BIEN’s 2021 annual congress took place from the 18th to the 21st August 2021. The website for this online congress, containing the agenda, attendees, questions and answers, and much more, is still available: click here.
BIEN’s 2022 Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2022. This will be a hybrid face to face and online event. Further details will appear here as soon as they are known.
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From Commercial corridor to modern main street
Hyde Parkers want a downtown where they can eat and shop, work and relax. A walkable downtown will make Hyde Park a vibrant Hudson Valley destination and an even better place to live. It will also boost the tax base and create good jobs.
The Hyde Park Town Board is improving the town center through cooperation and creativity. While the specific use of each property is the property owner's choice, the town is using the tools available in the public sector to encourage investment -- improving infrastructure, creating attractive streetscapes, maintaining a predictable review process and keeping taxes under control.
Sidewalks create a safe and inviting atmosphere for people of all ages to walk. The Hyde Park Town Board has taken advantage of plentiful sidewalk funding opportunities.
Updated zoning guidelines give investors confidence and ensure that the community's needs and expectations are clear. Hyde Park is modernizing zoning on Route 9.
Adding a sewer system to Hyde Park's commercial district will support more businesses and housing. The Town is designing a sewer system and assembling funding for construction.
Active partnership with residents, business people, property owners, and all units of government is helping Hyde Park to grow a strong economy in a cooperative spirit.
project of the town of hyde park
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In today’s world, digital is the way to go. The TV industry has evolved from analogue systems to adopt a digital format that opens up a new world of possibilities. Aside from the benefits these developments offer to content creators and service providers, there are many opportunities for set-top box (STB) application developers.
Set-top box application development refers to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of the various applications that run on the digital TVs on the market today. Developers are responsible for creating applications capable of adapting to a rapidly changing technological landscape while keeping their products accessible to the average consumer.
In this article, we’ll take a dive into the world of STB app development, taking a look at what exactly goes into it and what we might look forward to in the future. We’ll try and figure out what it takes to create a powerful set-top box app in the current technological climate.
Let’s get right into it.
Set-Top Box Applications Defined
In traditional terms, set-top boxes were hardware devices that made it possible for digital signals to be received, decoded, and ultimately displayed on our television sets. They allowed cable television and internet data streamed to our homes via underground cable connections or telephone lines.
These devices would allow end-users access to a much broader spectrum of channels and had the capability of filtering out channels that the viewer did not want to see.
Over-the-top (OTT) apps can be directed to your digital TV, smartphone, or tablet and will most often be related to communication media, entertainment, games, or videos.
The appeal of this innovation is that it is generally much cheaper than classic conduits and allows for much greater flexibility or freedom, benefitting the end-user. For these reasons and more, the set-top box application development market is currently experiencing explosive growth with no signs of tapering off.
Developing Powerful Set-Top Box Applications
One can use various developer tools in the process of creating STB applications out there. Depending on your skill level and familiarity with the programming language of your choice, manipulating the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that work at the core of your application will primarily be a matter of your preference.
The core steps you will need to go through are as follows:
Here you will be looking at just how likely it is that the market will accept your STB app. Careful study of the current data concerning consumer uptake across the various hardware platforms on the market will be your first and significant area of focus.
You will then need to consider the amount of work it will take to develop an app that works for your target consumers’ content preferences, but whether or not you will deliver a viable product within a reasonable timeframe and budget.
The design phase of your development project will not vary on any significant points regardless of the results of your initial feasibility studies. STBs are only as good as the application software that underpins them. All good STB apps will come with intuitive GUIs (graphical user interfaces) that make it easy for users to navigate through the system.
A rich sampling of advanced applications such as content aggregation, recommendations, and an integrated browser that allows users to access the media-rich realm of the wider internet is a must in this day and age.
The design stage is perhaps the most crucial in the entire process, as this is where the software will be ultimately defined and realized. Quality conditions and parameters will be outlined and expounded here. The implementation stage and all that comes after will hinge upon the app design, and errors here may thus be very costly down the road.
Here things become more straightforward. As long as your code is clean and abiding by the guidelines set out in the design stage, it will only be a matter of shaping your output to align with the projections laid out. One significant hurdle here, however, will be figuring out the most effective ways to enable the compatibility of the software across various hardware platforms.
Here you will be making trial runs of your STB app to determine its capability to perform its tasks. Depending on the scope of your application, this fundamental trouble-shooting exercise should quickly expose any significant bugs in your system and allow you to rectify them before the launch of the product.
From that point, you will need to keep your eyes and ears open to respond to any bugs you might have missed and implement software upgrades whenever it might be required. Customer feedback and reviews are a great way to keep up with your application’s market desires.
Challenges Facing STB App Developers
The most challenging aspect of this endeavor is that there are so many competing hardware platforms or operating systems that developers will need to adapt their apps to Roku, Google TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and many more. This scenario is similar to what faces mobile application designers who need to take the iOS (Apple) or Android ecosystems into account while developing their apps.
The trouble here is that there is a wider variety of platforms in the digital TV market. Each of them is currently striving to beat out the competition by hosting the more significant market share in terms of the applications running on their platforms, which ties in closely to the number of clients using their services. | <urn:uuid:19f13f56-5895-4192-92fe-9589083d217f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenexthint.com/how-to-build-a-powerful-set-top-box-app/8482/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944003 | 1,096 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Having just come through the government shutdown and the debt ceiling deadline, it is critically important that we must not lose a true sense of what was actually most at stake financially.
American exceptionalism — the idea that we are the “best country” in the world, the one whose values and stature supposedly all others aspire to — is a commonly held belief in the U.S. If true, the natural response should lead to a national sense of gratitude and humility for the great privileges, and consequent responsibilities, that we enjoy. What we must continually watch out for is the human ability to morph such a high-minded opinion of our situation into arrogance and a sense of entitlement.
Having just come through the government shutdown and the debt ceiling deadline, it is critically important that we must not lose a true sense of what was actually most at stake financially. Especially since the deal only funds the government through Jan. 15 and raised the debt limit through Feb. 7.
No it was not the win-lose political blind-alley arguments that many congressmen and their emotional constituents focused upon that mattered most. As Spencer Jake wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 12, what was really at stake was "...the Full Faith and Credit" of the U.S. government.
We take our financial dominance and credibility so for granted that we lost sight of just how much it really means to us. And to the point of this column, we lost sight of just how much any tarnish on that full faith and credit can cost each of us in increased interest rates — that means you and me.
Because the U.S. dollar is the default currency of the world (a surprising 85% of all international transactions, Jake says), and U.S. Treasury bonds are the world's largest and most liquid pool of securities, our nation's bonds have become the very definition of what is considered "risk free." So, as a partial result, people and nations are "forced," as some say, to buy bonds from us for their "safety" and subsidize our government at lower rates than other nations and entities have to pay in interest.
But if our internal dissension leads to an actual future failure to make good on those bonds (read: debts) even once, even for a short time, for the first time in our long history, then bad things will happen. There will still be a line to purchase our debt because there is really no viable alternative. But we will have to pay a higher interest rate because we will no longer be as credible in our promise to re-pay those loans. And when you owe some $16 trillion (yes, with a "T") even small raises in rates will cost us untold billions.
And no matter how future politics shake out, we would never be able to go back to our traditional status of trustworthiness having once driven over the cliff. Once we have driven over that cliff, our shaken credit will lead, in some measure, to both fewer services and higher taxes. And a slower economy, fewer jobs, lower quality of life and so on down the cascade of bad results.
Some say that there are no rules in bargaining. But even in war we have the Geneva Conventions. The bottom line should be that despite the temporary working agreement Congress passed, we should demand our legislators pass a law forbidding any such future extortionate acts of governmental suspension or debt ceiling blocks, by either party, that endanger all of our economic futures. Maybe, like the cardinals in a papal election, we should just lock Congress in a room until it hammers out an agreement. | <urn:uuid:7b42f0f6-1abd-4c75-acd4-e472fd11d1dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/high-cost-of-taking-things-for-granted | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960246 | 737 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Pumpkin a.k.a. Jack-o-Lantern
Original PEZ, Inc. creation
- Pumpkin A is available in a number of different color combinations. The two-tone colors are considered more difficult to find.
- Pumpkin B and Pumpkin C are very similar in design, with C having a larger, rounder head.
- Pumpkin C is also available in both clear crystal and blue-tinted crystal versions.
- Pumpkin D was released in the mid-'and features a completely redesigned head with a glow-in-the-dark stem and facial features.
- In 2009, version D was released as a limited-edition set with four crystal head colors: blue, yellow, red & green. All are on white glow-in-the-dark stems with the words "www.linzgathering.com" printed on the front of the stem. These were only available via the Austrian convention in Linz.
1980's - current
- Pumpkin A: both No feet and with feet
- All subsequent versions are with feet only.
Patents & Countries
- 3.9, 4.9, 5.9
- Austria, Hungary, China
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