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The Associated Press reports that Jerusalem's Israel Museum has opened a display featuring a fragment of Old Testament manuscript believed to have been written around the 7th century CE. "The manuscript, containing the Song of the Sea section of the Old Testament's Book of Exodus, ... comes from what scholars call the silent era - a span of 600 years between the third and eighth centuries from which almost no Hebrew manuscripts survive."
"The parchment is believed to have been left in the Cairo Genizah, a vast
depository of medieval Jewish manuscripts discovered in the late 1800s in a previously unknown room at Cairo's ancient Ben Ezra Synagogue. It was in private hands until the late 1970s, when its Lebanese-born American owner turned it over to the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library at Duke University." It is now on loan to the Israel Museum, displayed in their Shrine of the Book exhibit along with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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There are two ways to access data from an Item. The obvious way is by calling methods on the Item class such as Item.getValues, but methods are also available on the Document class such as Document.getItemValue. These convenience methods are a shortcut if the Item object is not already in hand. When Document class methods are called, backend internals create an intermediate item object to accomplish the data fetch.
In 8.53, in response to Out Of Memory reports from customer installations, we have made internal changes to the way backend does memory management in methods related to the Document.getItemValue method and its derivatives, getItemValueString, getItemValueInteger, getItemValueDouble, as well as the extended property syntax in LotusScript. An example of this would be
where myItem is the name of an Item within doc.
In releases prior to 8.53, when the shortcut methods to access Item data directly from a Document were used, an internal Item object was generated to access the value. Anticipating that the user might later access the Item, the intermediate Items were retained until the Document was destroyed. For the majority of users, this was not a problem, as Documents regularly are recycled or go out of scope, and the number of data accesses were generally not too many.
As the web gains importance, causing data access to simultaneously occur on many webserver worker threads, more conservative memory management techniques are needed. From 8.53 going forward, the internal Items will not be retained, and their memory is recovered as soon as the Item value is retrieved from a Document.
These changes affect both LotusScript and Java applications. Most will not notice the changes, as runtime behavior is identical to previous releases. Others that access many Items and keep many Documents in scope will have more available memory available to them. Note that if you intend to do additional Item calls after data access, it is now more efficient to do a Document.findFirstItem call to get the Item, then retrieve the values by direct calls to methods on the Item class. This is to prevent creating the Item itself multiple times as would be the case with multiple calls to the Document class.
For any applications running on pre-8.53 releases, if memory in this area becomes a problem, a good workaround is to avoid the Document class shortcut methods and instead use the Item class methods such as Item.getValues.
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Located in south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria, Delta State is an oil producing state situated in the region known as the Niger Delta. The state which was created in 1991 is divided into twenty five local government areas which include Aniocha-North, Aniocha-South, Bomadi, Burutu, Ethiope-East, Ethiope-West, Ika-North-East, Ika-South, Isoko-North, Isoko-South, Ndokwa-East, Ndokwa-West, Okpe, Oshimili-North, Oshimili-South, Patani, Sapele, udu, Ugheli-North, Ugheli-South, Ukwuani, Uvwie, Warri-North, Warri-South,Warri South-West.
Delta State which used to be a part of Bendel State was created in 1991 and got its name from the delta of the River Niger. The area called Delta State today was once an integral part of the old Western Region of Nigeria before it became an autonomous entity in 1991 after having been part of the old Midwestern State from 1963 to 1976 and the defunct Bendel State from 1976 to 1991. The state got its name as a result of its location within the delta of the River Niger.
People & Culture
Delta State has an estimated population of about 4.2 million with Urhobo, Itesekiri, Ijaw (Izon), Isoko and Anioma (Igbo) as the main ethnic groups. These groups share ancestral and traditional administrative systems, evident in their dress, language, festivals, music and folklore. The people are hospitable, enlightened, resourceful and hardworking. [tab:Geography] Covering a land area of about 18, 050sq km, Delta State shares common boundaries with Edo, Ondo , Imo, Anambra and Bayelsa States. In the south west and south it has approximately 122 kilometres of coastline bounded by the Bight of Benin on the Atlantic ocean.
Delta State is situated in the tropics and therefore experiences a fluctuating climate, ranging from the humid tropical in the south, to the subhumid in the northeast. The lessening of humidity towards the north is accompanied by an increasingly marked dry season. The average rainfall is about 266.5mm in the coastal areas and 190.5mm in the extreme north. Rainfall is heaviest in July. Temperature increases from the south to the north. In Warri, located in the south for example, the average daily temperature is 30°C, while the temperature in Asaba in the north eastern area is 44°C.
Cities & Towns
Other important cities and towns include Warri, Asaba, Ugheli, Sapele, Agbor, Abraka, Kwale, Oleh, Koko, Oghara, Ozoro and Burutu, with Sapele, Warri and Koko as major seaports. [tab:Attractions] Asaba Beach
The beauty of Delta State is held together by the dozens of rivers, streams and creeks which crisscross it. The majestic Niger, one of the most famous rivers of Africa, washes the shores of the capital city, Asaba. Further downstream, it breaks into the dozens of creeks through which it empties itself into the Atlantic. During the dry season, the golden sandbanks of the Niger are a sight to behold and ideal for relaxation.
Abraka Turf & Country Club
This is arguably the only equestrian leisure club in Nigeria and it usually hosts an International Polo Tournament, which takes place annually during Easter weekend. Here visitors can go horse riding or walk along the nature trail above the banks of the Ethiope river, swimming and fishing. Read more here
River Ethiope Source
River Ethiope, reputed to be the deepest inland waterway in Africa, has its source at the foot of a giant silk-cotton tree at Umuaja in Ukwuani local government area and it then flows through seven Local Government Areas in the state. By the time it reaches Sapele, it has become deep enough to provide a harbour for ocean-going vessels.
Kwale Game Reserve
This reserve is situated in the low coastal zone of Delta State, characterized by rainforest vegetation and deltaic swamps. It is rich in reptiles and water associated animals, particularly red river hog, sitatunga and a variety of brackish, marine and freshwater fish species.
A trip up the Jamieson River is a pleasant outing. If you cannot hire a boat it is possible to get to Jamieson River at Sapoda by car, where there is a pleasant picnic spot. The river up stream from Sapoba is beautifully clear and suitable for swimming, although the water is surprisingly very cold.
Chief Nana’s Palace Living History Museum, Koko
This is national monument also known as “koko palace” located at the port of Koko in Warri North, it is a monument that attracts thousands of tourists. It was the residence of Chief Nana Olomu Eborhimi of the Itsekiri tribe, who was a powerful nineteenth century indigenous entrepreneur.
Leisure Paradise Amusement Park, Ekpan
Located in Ekpan, Effurun, it’s a place to head for a family day off around Warri. With a newly built roller coaster, a flying elephant ride and waters slides, it’s great for kids. For the adult there’s the tumbler tower, horse bark riding or one should just take a walk round the park or enjoy a nice drink while listening to cool music.
Olona Ranch & Holiday Resort, Onicha-Olona
The ranch is noted for its traditional African setting with facilities for accommodation, conferences and recreation. The ranch is an ideal place for those who wish to escape the hustling and bustling of city life. Some of its attraction includes, fishing, swimming, bird watching and sumptuous Delta dishes.
Royal Palace, Idumuje-Ugboko
This is the palace of the Obi (traditional ruler) which was built over 150 years ago. Only laterite and traditional construction techniques were used in its construction. The structure and the cultural objects in it are singulary beautiful and historically significant.
Mungo Park House, Asaba
This is a national monument that happened to be the first headquarters of the Royal Niger Company and Nigeria’s first political headquarters in 1900.
Lander Brothers’ Anchorage, Asaba
It was built in memory of the Lander Brothers-Richard and John who anchored at about that spot of the River Niger during the expedition that they took over from Mungo Park. The erected anchorage is, however, not the original one but a replica; the original one is at Aboh. The Lander Brothers are credited with the discovery of the mouth of the River Niger. This led to the opening of the West African trade which eventually replaced slave trade. The anchorage has an information centre and a restaurant.
Expatriate Graveyard, Asaba
This is the resting place of missionaries and colonial workers that came to Asaba on a mission.
Bomadi Beach Party Resort
The Bomadi beach party resort usually takes place on the fascinating sandbanks of the Niger at Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi LGA.
This sandy beach is an exciting and popular site in Escarvos for relaxation and organizing of picnics.
Gordon River Resort, Abraka
The resort is located at Abraka on the road to Benin between Abraka and Obaruku and it is a tourist delight for those who want to get away into the kind of serenity that any african jungle can offer. Facilities here include swimming pool, restaurant, and bar and well furnished chalets, rooms and suites.
Other attractions [tab:Eating Out] Not yet posted [tab:Shopping] Not yet posted [tab:Hotels] Grand Hotel, Asaba
Set on the west bank of the Niger River with sweeping views of the landscape, the hotel has well-furnished rooms, restaurant and bar over looking River Niger, night club, casino, internet access, well-equipped gymnasium, Olympic-sized swimming pool, a giant chess board in the garden, and tennis court. There is also health and beauty treatments, massage and manicure services. Address: located at no 192 Nnebisi Road, Asaba, Tel: New Owerri, Off Port Harcourt Road, Owerri.
This is one of the top hotels in Asaba where leisure and accommodation are excellently provided. It has beautifully landscaped and gorgeous surroundings, fully fitted gyms, wireless internet access, relaxing pool side area, artificial beach, exotic lounges and bars, night clubs, beautifully appointed rooms, finest cuisine and much more. Address: Government House Rd, Asaba. Tel: +234 046-300688, 300324, 046-300263, 08034729419
Amena Hotels & Resorts
Located in Oghara, Amena is a seven-hole golf resort on the banks of the Ethiope river. The course features water holes with shots across hidden coves and hauntingly beautiful bayons. This golf resort is complemented with twenty five classy suites equipped with amenities that are anything but standard with variety of luxurious options, all with full kitchen, laundary facilities and pool. Address: 147 Aja Road, Ugbimidaka Qtrs, Oghareki-Oghara, Oghara. Tel: +234-056-342646, 341657, 08035779087
Hotel Excel & Towers
This is a home of comfort, leisure and luxury with beautiful landscape. For over a decade, the hotel has been delivering efficient hotel and catering services passionately at competitive and affordable costs. Address: Refinery Road, Effurun, Warri. Tel: +234(0)7092001714, (0)702613134
The hotel offers luxury and exquisite rooms furnished to taste with air-conditioning, cable TV, outdoor & indoor pool, sauna/spa, gym, non-smoking rooms, conducive relaxation, bar and restaurant, has a live band and a barbeque stand as extra facilities. Address: 2, Ayoro Lane, Off Enerhen Road, Enerhen-Warri. Tel: +234 (0) 8039279196
Located in Effurun which is few 15mins away from the city centre and also the local airstrip, Wellington Hotel offers 140 contemporarily decorated guest rooms with a warm, cozy and intimate accommodation experience. Address: 17 Effurun-Ughelli Expressway, Effurun.Tel: +234 (0)80 5502 44 (60-64), 080 3458 22 (11-14)
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Ronald Wendell Davis is active/lives in California, New Mexico. Ronald Davis is known for geometric and lyrical abstraction, graphics.
Born in Santa Monica, California, June 29,1937, he studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and began painting abstract expressionist works. Davis was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art grantee in 1962 and a National Endowment of the Arts grantee in 1968.
Davis' impressive career is punctuated with innovative work in a number of mediums. He made geometric shaped illusionist paintings using colored polyester resins and fiberglass from 1966 to 1972. His creative genius was utilized from the design and construction of numerous architectural studios, structures and residences collaborating with architect Frank Gehry, architect Dennis Holloway,and anthropologist Charley Cambridge; and sound sculpture ... Displaying 750 of 5363 characters.
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Horace Walpole's England: as his letters picture it.
Ed. by Mason, illustrated with period art. Walpole knew two Kings, their children, the famous mistresses of royalty, circulated in the best society and best clubs. His correspondence presented in this volume extends from 1737 to 1797. His letters are full of enlightening comments; for example, "It is very remarkable, how much better women write than men." (Oct 14, 1751). He was speaking of letters. X-Library, pocket inside back cover and a stamp, no dj but otherwise very good condition. USED. $20.00
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Background: Eating disorders (EDs) are complex mental illnesses with debilitating, pervasive psychological and physiological consequences when left untreated. Unfortunately, patients may face barriers to receiving treatment, such as stereotypes surrounding EDs, denial of illness severity, lack of motivation for treatment, and lack of knowledge about treatment resources. Barriers such as these result in a large treatment gap: only 20% of those with EDs will ever receive treatment. Digital tools like chatbots show potential to disseminate mental health–related interventions to large populations while offering a user-friendly, cost-effective, accessible, and anonymous means of tackling patient concerns.
Objective: This study developed and evaluated the usability of a chatbot designed for pairing with online ED screening. The tool aimed to promote mental health service utilization by improving motivation for treatment and self-efficacy among individuals with EDs.
Methods: A chatbot prototype, Alex, was designed using decision trees and theoretically informed components: psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, personalized recommendations, and repeated administration. Usability testing was conducted over 4 iterative cycles, with user feedback informing refinements to the next iteration. Postintervention, participants (N=21) completed the System Usability Scale (SUS), the Usefulness, Satisfaction, and Ease of Use Questionnaire (USE), and a semistructured interview. This process aimed to create an optimized chatbot by the final cycle for use in a randomized trial.
Results: Interview feedback detailed chatbot aspects participants enjoyed and aspects necessitating improvement. Feedback converged on four themes: user experience, chatbot qualities, chatbot content, and ease of use. Following refinements, users described Alex as humanlike, supportive, and encouraging. Content was perceived as novel and personally relevant. USE scores across domains were generally above average (~5 out of 7), and SUS scores indicated “good” to “excellent” usability across cycles, with the final iteration receiving the highest average SUS score.
Conclusions: Overall, participants responded well in interactions with Alex, including the initial version. Refinements between cycles further improved user experiences. This study provides preliminary evidence of the feasibility and acceptance of a chatbot designed to promote motivation for and use of services among individuals with EDs. Alex is the first chatbot designed for pairing with an ED or other mental health–related online screen, with the goal of ultimately increasing service utilization.
Acknowledgments: This research was supported by K08 MH120341 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Availability of Data, Materials, and Code: The data will be made available by reasonable request to the corresponding author.
Authors’ Contributions: EEFC conceptualized and designed the study. OL and BD conducted the investigation process. BD and JS assisted with data curation and conducted formal thematic analyses. JS conducted formal statistical analyses. JS wrote the original manuscript, with contribution from BD. EEFC, CBT, DEW, and SSS designed the data collection instruments, and coordinated and supervised data collection, in addition to reviewing and editing the manuscript with LS, LMF, LAF, and LD.
Conflicts of Interest: None declared.
Edited by S Pagoto; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. submitted 09.05.22; accepted 24.06.22; published 11.07.22Copyright
©Jilllian Shah, Bianca DePietro, Laura D'Adamo, Marie-Laure Firebaugh, Olivia Laing, Lauren A Fowler, Lauren Smolar, Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Craig Barr Taylor, Denise E Wilfley, Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft. Originally published in Iproceedings (https://www.iproc.org), 11.07.2022.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in Iproceedings, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.iproc.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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On Jan. 4, Matthew Longshaw’s quiet dinner with co-workers in Kabul, Afghanistan was interrupted by a loud, reverberating blast — a jarring noise that he and his dinner mates quickly recognized as a terrorist attack.
According to a report from the 455th Expeditionary Wing, a provisional U.S. Central Command unit stationed in Afghanistan that supports the ongoing war on terror, Longshaw was one of four Airmen who assisted first responders after an improvised explosive device detonated at the Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Longshaw is a master sergeant in the Utah Air National Guard and lives in Pleasant View.
According to the report, Longshaw, Tech. Sgt. Chad Huggins, Staff Sgt. Tobi Wagner and Airman 1st Class John Michael Aradanas were eating dinner at a restaurant on the military side of the airport when the bomb went off. The Airmen work together in the 455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, a materiel recovery component of the wing that inspects equipment for air transport out of Afghanistan.
“We were done eating and sitting there; then we heard (the blast) and we felt it,” Longshaw said in the report. “The building shook, and then Sergeant Huggins came in after that; he was pretty visibly upset.”
Huggins had been outside the restaurant, talking on his cellphone, when the explosion occurred.
“You heard it, and saw the flash and the next thing it was like a movie,” he said. “I got pushed into the wall and my phone went flying. I don’t even know how to explain it.”
The bomb left a 15-foot-deep crater in the earth and a large group of injured civilian government contractors in its wake.
“One of the civilians … asked for our help,” Longshaw said. “So we got up and started to help — did what we could and whatever we were asked to do.”
The Airmen helped establish a temporary first aid area as nurses treated the injured victims, then they set up temporary lodging quarters. According to the report, the group helped medical staff with sundry duties and comforted victims for eight hours after the attack.
The explosion killed one of the contractors and injured more than 25 others.
“I figure that the guys getting hurt are the ones kicking in doors or doing convoys and stuff like that,” Longshaw said. “I didn’t really think about our contractors getting blown up on the civilian side of an airport. I didn’t expect that to happen.”
Lt. Steve Dillingham, a spokesman with Utah’s Air National Guard, said Longshaw is still deployed and will return to Utah sometime in 2016.
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It’s no secret that switching majors can increase the time and money a student spends earning a degree. But college officials say it’s a scenario more and more undergrads are now facing.
According to federal data, a third of all college students change their major at least once. Ten percent of students switch paths two or more times.
Carol Jean Vale, president of Chestnut Hill College (PA), attributes the shift to a rise in college access. As more first-generation students enter college, they need different types of support, she told The Hechinger Report.
“There are so many options open to them, so many things they’re interested in, that settling on one thing can be very difficult,” Vale explained.
But that indecision comes with consequences, she noted.
“It’s not all right,” Vale said. “It’s just too costly.”
The college started a new voluntary program this fall designed to help students sort through their options. Students meet with an advisor once a week to weigh potential majors and narrow down their choices.
The challenge going forward for Chestnut Hill and other colleges is how to continue to encourage exploration, while helping students complete a degree in a timely manner.
“I don’t think that anybody who has gone through the collegiate process is surprised that a 17- or 18-year-old doesn’t know what they want to do for the rest of their lives,” Dhanfu Elston, with Complete College America, told The Hechinger Report.
Instead, the question becomes: How do colleges ensure their students are well-informed about their choices?
“That’s the first step institutions really have to think about,” he said.
Admitted writer/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at email@example.com.
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If you’re in the market intended for a snowblower, an individual may be asking yourself what type to choose. Just like intended for lawn mowers, snowblowers come in equally gas and electric power varieties and a person should choose the variety that makes one of the most sense for your own particular situation.
Typically the first thing to know about electric snowblowers is that the particular vast majority require a cord rather compared to being battery powered, so unless if you’re able to discover it of these uncommon snowblowers, make positive you have some sort of nearby standard (120V, 60Hz) electrical outlet nearby and the durable extension power cord. There isn’t many need to get worried about running over the cord or perhaps getting it tangled, since most versions have a hook or clamp that will keep it out in the way.
Once the above requirements are usually met, an electric power snowblower will make impression if you simply need to clear light, cosy snow up to be able to about 4 in . high. They can also be a lesser amount of expensive than gas-powered snowblowers. However, take into account that unless you catch it up to some home generator, you may not be able in order to plow throughout a strength outage, which is an unique possibility throughout a snowstorm. Still, many owners discover their electric snowblowers quite handy intended for clearing patios, porte, steps, and decks where larger gas-powered snowblowers can be tough to maneuver or even overkill for the particular job.
If an individual are concerned about the limitations of electric snowblowers, including their very own tethered operation, weakness to power black outs, ability to apparent snowfall of just several inches or less, and usually less power to be able to suck up in addition to discharge snow, then you certainly probably should select a gas snowblower. Gas-powered models will require the rare oil opportunity and gasoline fill-up, but can give much more electric power and clear the two taller and broader snowdrifts than electric powered models.
Gas snowblowers can feature 1, two, or about three stages. In common, a lot more stages, the particular more snow removing ability. Single-stage snowblowers are usually among 19 and twenty two inches wide and 6 inches large. They work simply by means of a new spinning auger that will scoops up the particular snow and flings it out with the chute (which usually can be adjusted based on which direction you wish to discharge the snow). yoursite.com are very best utilized on paved or flat surfaces (i. e. non-gravel) due to the fact the auger connections the ground and definitely will pick up tiny rocks as nicely as snow.
Dual-stage snowblowers feature a new high-speed impeller within addition to the auger that expels the auger-gathered snowfall your discharge picotazo. Besides being more powerful, these two-stage snowblowers may be significantly wider (approximately twenty two to 36 inches) and handle snowdrifts consisting of damp and/or heavy snow up to 16 inches high. Moreover, because the auger upon these models will not communicate with typically the ground, they may be utilized on each rocky and smooth surfaces. All in all, these kinds of snowblowers provide wonderful snow clearing overall performance, are highly tough, and provide typically the flexibility and electric power required for just about all household snow eradicating needs.
Although single or dual stage snowblowers will certainly suffice for the large majority involving people, you will discover three-stage snowblowers readily available for those who required more capacity and energy. These beasts are designed for almost two foot of snowfall and can clear paths between 26 and thirty inches wide. In case you have typically the should move freezing or compacted environments, these snowblowers are your best bet to get the job completed. They incorporate not really just one, nevertheless two metal augers to scoop upwards snow and ice cubes and pass that toward the biggest market of typically the scoop, where it is broken up by an accelerator ahead of being pushed toward the impeller regarding discharge through typically the chute. Just like the dual-stage snowblowers, the three-stage variety may also be used on either rocky or paved surfaces.
Your choice of an electric or gas snowblower ought to be based primarily how very much and the sort of snow you will certainly usually need to clear, the type of surfaces (paved or unpaved) you plan on clearing, and whether or not power outages present a concern. Generally there are several some other issues to consider too, but these types of take a returning seat to individuals above. If throughout doubt, a gas-powered model will usually provide more flexibility, power, and peacefulness of mind, although it may cost a bit more and require a few maintenance. If a person do choose a new gas snowblower, help to make sure that it has a sufficient number of stages, clearing size, and clearing elevation to satisfy your demands. It should end up being suited for typically the types of surfaces you plan in clearing.
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MMSD Working Paper No. 9 Human Rights in the Minerals Industry
The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD) was a research project looking at how the mining and minerals sector could contribute to the global transition to sustainable development.
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Cell division is an important fundamental biological process required for life, growth and development. It requires the coordinated action of many different cellular machines and regulators. Although we have known that cells divide since the concept of the cell was first established, there are many outstanding mechanistic questions, especially in cytokinesis, the final step where cells physically divide. Cytokinesis has been difficult to study because it is a complex, rapid and dynamic process. Many key proteins also perform important functions earlier in the cell cycle, which makes it challenging to investigate their roles during cytokinesis using traditional techniques. New approaches are therefore needed to overcome these barriers to deeper understanding, one of which is to develop probes that act rapidly and with high temporal control.
Our group uses chemical and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.
Our research is funded by the European Research Council, the Marie Curie Programme and the Human Frontiers Science Programme.
Our lab is in the Department of Chemistry and the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics.
Super resolution image of lipid markers in a dividing HeLa cell. Inset: midbody region (Cholera toxin to visualise GM1 - green, ceramide antibody -red)
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We all have firsthand experience with anger gone wrong. We’ve dished it out. We’ve been on the receiving end. We’ve heard and seen others get angry at each other. At some point in each day you are probably affected by some form of anger gone bad—either your own or someone else’s.
Often it’s mild—frustrations, complaining, irritation. Often it’s veiled—judgmental thoughts, passive aggressions. Often it’s buried—hidden from conscious awareness, painted over with pleasantries, anesthetized by distractions, busyness, or mind-altering substances. All too often it’s intense—bitterness, hostility, violence. It’s no surprise that when the apostle Paul lists typical sins, half his list belongs to the anger family (Galatians 5:19–21).
And yet anger done right is a great good. It says, “That’s wrong” and acts to protect the innocent and helpless. It says, “That’s wrong” and energizes us to address real problems. God, who is good and does good, expresses good anger for a good cause. Jesus gets good and angry—in the service of mercy and peace. He is willing and able to forgive us for our anger gone bad. He is willing and able to teach us to do anger right.
But it is hard to sort out the good from the bad in anger, isn’t it? And it’s even harder to change when anger has gone bad. Why are problems that are so common so difficult to solve?
All of us are in this boat. It’s hard to do anger right. Unless you have somehow numbed yourself to the human condition, every one of us struggles with anger. Your struggle with anger (and mine) will last a lifetime, but it can go somewhere good. We can learn to deal with anger differently.
What is anger?
That simple question quickly becomes complex. In the most typical case, you see something wrong or bad happening. When a supposed friend betrays you, that’s wrong, not right. When construction shuts down the highway and you miss an important appointment, that’s bad, not good. You get angry when you experience what happened as a moral offense or an unpleasant frustration. So far, so good. In theory, your anger could be clean and constructive. Yet most often, our anger comes out grubby and destructive in complaining, throwing tantrums, displaying coldness, trying to get “even,” and feeling self-pity. These are typical ways all of us return “evil for evil”—a natural response, for sure, but one that God identifies as the exact wrong response (Romans 12:17–21).
The question is also complex because each of us brings a certain set of associations with us into each angry moment. Particular memories, good and bad experiences, people who’ve hurt us or influenced us, the turmoil of emotions—these create a context that may be far more persuasive than any textbook definition of anger. Your instinctive, personalized definition may or may not be helpful in getting to the bottom of all that anger is.
Consider this analogy. Say the word father, and one woman thinks of a man who is gentle, strong, generous, protective, and reliable. She feels trust and pleasure at the thought. Another woman thinks of a man who was all those things, but he died last year. Her trust and pleasure are infused with grief. A third woman thinks of a man who is still a vicious drunk, betrayer, abuser, and hypocrite. She feels immediate fear, pain, and anger. A fourth woman thinks of a similarly harmful man . . . who died twenty years ago. Dark feelings are still present, but muted and colored “with a sense of regret, of emptiness, even of thankfulness that her life was not destroyed.
The same word yields a completely different starting point for the train of thoughts and feelings. If you are trying to understand what a father is or should be, it’s important to get your starting point out on the table. Only then can you start to think more widely and deeply.
It’s no different with anger. What image or experience comes to mind when you hear the words “He’s angry,” or “She’s angry,” or “I’m angry”? What do you picture taking place? Do you think of a hostile exchange between two people? A particular person’s facial expression, hostile words, and violence? An overwhelming burning inside? The way that you react fearfully to an angry person? An angry crowd of protesters? What is your association?
The Spectrum of Bad Anger
Here are six common wavelengths within the spectrum of bad anger. Perhaps one of these is what first captures your attention.
Irritability is anger on a hair trigger. Do you live or work alongside someone who is easily set off? Are you cranky, grouchy, and testy? (The English language contains such wonderful words for this!)
Arguing is the disagreeable “he said, she said” of interpersonal friction. Anger is the emotion that inhabits interpersonal conflict, and it takes two for a fight. Is quarreling your first association?
Bitterness expresses how anger can last a long, long time. People recycle old hurts and nurse grievances and grudges. They never get over it.
Violence expresses the sheer destructiveness of angry behavior. Anger attacks, hurts, destroys, and even kills, finding pleasure in inflicting pain.
Passive anger hides behind surface appearances and even beneath conscious awareness. As long as it remains undetectable by the person who is angry, it cannot be addressed. But it is not without its side effects—depression, lethargy, and pessimism can all stem from a passive anger toward others.
Self-righteous anger enjoys the empowering sense of grievance, of getting in touch with honest emotion and expressing it freely. It feels good to let it out, and it often gets results.
Each of these six problems matters hugely. Anger flares too quickly, alienates too many relationships, burns too long, causes too much pain, hides too well, and feels too good.
Anger always makes a value judgment. Anger is always a moral matter. It has rightly been called “the moral emotion” because it makes a statement about what matters. Human beings make moral judgments, therefore human beings do anger. Period. Like God, you come wired to size things up, to feel displeasure at wrong, and to act in order to do something about it.
Would you want to live in a world with no value judgments? Not on your life. When the standard of judgment is accurate and the way of reacting is constructive—then clear-minded, hearty disapproval is one of the best things going. If you were indifferent or approving toward child abusers, terrorists, or cheats, you’d be morally defective. Moral sanity must disapprove of wrong, and that disapproval is the essence of anger.
Every time you get angry, you make your values and point of view explicit. But anger isn’t the only reaction that proclaims what you value. In fact, every time you open your mouth (or don’t open your mouth) you are broadcasting your values to others. This is what is meant, for example, when Jesus said that “every careless word” will be evaluated and that the mouth speaks from what fills the heart (Matthew 12:36; Luke 6:45). Every word you say—including small talk—tells something important about you. What you choose to talk about (or never think of saying) broadcasts what matters to you. Your emotional reactions and your choices always proclaim your values. Stir in a bit of emotion—because you care, because something that matters is going wrong—and you can get the reaction we call anger. Every time you get angry (or don’t get angry) you broadcast what matters to you.
Throughout God and Angry I use the flexible word anger. It naturally will focus on the negative value judgments we make. But always in the background I’ll work within this broader description of our evaluative capacity as human beings. We evaluate everything—ourselves, others, weather, animals, ideas, dinner, God, prices, current events, you name it. Thumbs up or thumbs down. You can’t escape working the way a human being works. Anger simply expresses with particular force and emotion our negative evaluations. Where does the emotional charge come from? The more something matters, the more you care, the more important it is—the more you value something—the more force you’ll pour into your displeasure.
What is anger? It’s the way we react when something we think important is not the way it’s supposed to be.
Excerpted from Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness © 2016 by David Powlison. May not be reproduced without prior written permission.
GOOD AND ANGRY: REDEEMING ANGER, IRRITATION, COMPLAINING, AND BITTERNESS
Good and Angry, a groundbreaking book from David Powlison, shows readers how anger is more than a problem to solve. Anger is our complex human response to what we perceive as wrong in a complex world, thus we must learn how to fruitfully and honestly deal with it.
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I remember the first time I saw the Flint Hills on fire. I was driving up the turnpike on a mid-spring night. Suddenly as I crested a hill, I was met with snakes of red covering the endless valley. It was a breathtaking moment, as amazing as seeing the mountains or ocean for the first time. This product of the dance between man and nature produces a sight that never leaves your memory.
That was my first “experience” with one of the truly great wonders of our state, and the type of encounter the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan tries to replicate for its visitors.
The new discovery center in downtown Manhattan offers the opportunity to learn about the rich history, ecology and traditions of the Flint Hills. It has several elements that do a good job of placing the visitor in the middle of the Flint Hills experience.
Designers have used that compelling fire as a centerpiece for the story of the Flint Hills, examining the traditions of the people, the animals and plant life and the cycles of death and rebirth that make the Flint Hills so special.
This is a great stop for families. There are a lot of interactive elements. Since it is not actually a museum, most of the center is a hands-on-please-touch place.
Videos with interactive screens, spinning wheels with information on animal life and an immersion theater experience all are aimed at taking you into the story of the often overlooked treasures of the area. A walk-through tunnel lets you experience the underground life of the Flint Hills. A branding table teaches more about the cattle industry. There is also a crawl-through play area for little kids and an educational space which points to the real mission of the center, to light a fire of curiosity about the natural world around us.
My kids enjoyed the whole place. There is a variety in the exhibits that allows you to take it at your own pace and pick and choose the elements you want to learn more about. It could take you a couple of hours if you are a real reader, but can be enjoyed in about an hour if you just want to get an overview of the exhibits.
Also, save time to enjoy the outside space. Dancing fountains and a fireplace capture the spirit of the natural elements you learn about inside the discovery center.
The point of the Flint Hills Discovery Center is to pique your interest in what you see as you drive into Manhattan. Their mission to inspire, interpret, explore and preserve invites you to find your own experience in natural Kansas.
It reminded me of what I like about the Flint Hills. What is your favorite memory of this Kansas treasure?
Karen Ridder is a freelance writer living in Topeka. A former News Producer for KSNW-TV in Wichita, her work can also been seen in print publications including: Topeka Magazine, TK Magazine and the Topeka Capital-Journal. She has written for several national blogs and was recently recognized as one of the 2011 winners in the Annual Kansas Factual Story Contest. Karen has lived in Kansas for 15 years and married a native Wichitan. Together they are raising three little sunflower boys and a dog named George.
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Importance & Scope:
According to NIH mental disorders are common among children in the United States, Just over 20% (or 1 in 5) children, either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously exhaust mental disorder .4 million children and adolescents in USA suffer from a serious mental disorder that causes significant functional impairments at home, at school and with peers. Biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence. Encourage the development and advancement of clinical child and adolescent psychology through integration of its scientific and professional aspects.
Child development periods
Mainly, the researchers focused on:
The brain’s capacity for change decreases with age.
Cognitive, emotional, and social capacities are totally intertwine throughout the life.
Motivation for physical activity in children.
Child development is starting point for community development and economic development, as capable children become the foundation of a prosperous and sustainable society.
Why Philadelphia, USA?
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the fifth-most-populous city in the United, and the core of the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Philadelphia is known for its arts and culture. The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world. The birthplace of America is Philadelphia, the city where the founding fathers lived and the Declaration of Independence was signed. Today that history echoes in the original buildings and museums of the area often called “Historic Philadelphia.” Lacking defined boundaries, Historic Philadelphia covers parts of the Old City and Center City neighborhoods and includes the Independence National Historic Park. Some of the top Historic Philadelphia attractions is not exhaustive, but it does include some of the most popular, interesting and informative places to visit in the area. Center, Independence, Art, Rittenhouse, Reading, Eastern, Please, Masonic, Philadelphia, Franklin, Mutter.
Child Psychology conferences having high reputation in USA, Global distribution and marketing having a strong international presence and sales reach deeply into markets in the US, and the rest of the world. Psychology is not only a profession; it is a mega industry that takes us to the economic heart of modern society. The United States, when this phenomenon was still in its infancy, in 2010, an aggregate cost of US $148 billion for all mental disorders was calculated. Psychiatric drug makers had overall sales in the US of $14.6 billion from antipsychotics, $9.6 billion off antidepressants, $11.3 billion from antiseizure drugs and $4.8 billion in sales of ADHD drugs, for a grand total of $40.3 billion.
- Child & Adolescent Development
- Behavioral Psychology
- Prenatal Psychology
- Social psychology
- Parental psychology and personality development
- Cognitive and physical development
- Mental and emotional development
- Temperamental qualities in child
- Spiritual and moral development
- Brain Development
- Early Childhood Education
- Sexual development in children
- Autism spectrum disorder
Why to attend???
Child psychology- 2015 will provide an opportunity for all working on child & adolescent issues to talk about their work. Child psychology- 2015 will congregate renowned speakers, principal investigators, experts, psychologists and researchers from both academia and health care industry will join together to discuss their views and research. The conference will be comprised of sessions by world class experts in the field of child psychology. In Child psychology 2015, international symposiums, B2B meetings, international workshops will also be organized to discuss the specific topics in the field of Child & Adolescent psychology.
A Unique Opportunity for Advertisers and Sponsors at this International event:
Societies and Associations in Philadelphia
American Psychological Association
Pennsylvania Psychological Association
Society for Occupational Health Psychology
Major Psychology Associations and Societies in USA
There are approximately 50 psychology associations in USA. Few of them are:
California Psychological Association
Alaska Psychological Association
New York State Psychological Association
Washington State Psychological Association
Societies Associated around the Globe:
There are nearly 200 psychology associations globally. Mainly:
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Australian Psychological Society
German Psychological Association
Society for Research in Child Development
European Federation of Psychologists Associations
Canadian Psychological Association 1 2 3
Statistical Analysis of Associations
Figure 1: Statistical Analysis of psychological Associations & Societies
Deans/Directors, Psychologists, Neuropsychiatrist, Brand Manufacturers, Professors, Assistant professors, Lecturers and Students from Academia in the study of Child Psychology.
Universities in Philadelphia:
There are nearly 40 universities in Pennsylvania. Mainly:
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania State University
Universities in USA:
There are nearly 175 universities in USA. Mainly:
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
Universities associated around the Globe:
There are nearly 500 universities around the globe. Mainly:
The University of Sydney
University College London
University of Pennsylvania
Australian National University
National University of Singapore 4 5 6 7 8
Figure 2: Statistical Analysis of number of universities related to child psychology.
Figure 3: Statistical Analysis of Highly Ranked U.S. Child Psychology Graduate Schools.
Companies Associated with Psychology in Philadelphia & USA are:
There are three major companies in Philadelphia & USA which produces antipsychotic drugs they are:
Antipsychotic drug producing companies in the world are:
Universal Health Services Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Figure 4: Statistical Analysis of number of companies related to psychology.
Companies producing drugs
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Hospitals in Philadelphia:
List of Psychiatric Hospitals in Pennsylvania:
The Children’s hospital of Philadelphia
Allentown State Hospital
Haverford State Hospital
Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry
Danville State Hospital
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Torrance State Hospital
Dixmont State Hospital
Lawrence Frick State Hospital
Mayview State Hospital
Harrisburg State Hospital
Norristown State Hospital
Hospitals in USA are:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
New-York Presbyterian University Hospital and Columbia and Cornell.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
Hospitals associated with psychology around the globe:
Royal Children's Hospital, Herston
Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, NSW
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Hospital San Juan de Dios
Center for Psychology and Psychiatry Passeig de Gràcia 14 15
Figure 5: Statistical Analysis of number of universities related to Psychology.
Glance at Market of Child Psychology:
Child Psychology conferences having high reputation in USA. Global distribution and marketing having a strong international presence and sales reach deeply into markets in the US, and the rest of the world. Psychology is not only a profession; it is a mega industry that takes us to the economic heart of modern society
The United States, when this phenomenon was still in its infancy, in 2010, an aggregate cost of US $148 billion for all mental disorders was calculated. Psychiatric drug makers had overall sales in the US of $14.6 billion from antipsychotics, $9.6 billion off antidepressants, $11.3 billion from ant seizure drugs and $4.8 billion in sales of ADHD drugs, for a grand total of $40.3 billion. 16
Antidepressants Market Share by Revenue
In the last five decades, more than 20 antipsychotics and 30 antidepressants have been marketed with over $25 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2011.
Pfizer came to around 48.4 billion U.S. dollars of revenue.
Worldwide revenue was around 390.2 billion U.S. dollars. 17 18 19
Revenue of Global Top ten Psychiatric Drugs
Figure 6: Global revenue of top ten psychiatric drugs.
Members Associated with Child Psychology- 2015 in Philadelphia, USA:
The total number of psychiatrists could be between 3,500 and 5,000 which translate to one psychiatrist to 200,000 to 300,000 people.
In Philadelphia there are more than 100 people who are working in the field of child psychology
About 320 psychiatrists, 50 clinical psychologists and 185 mental health nurses per year.
This suggests that the current figure of psychiatrists should double in next 10 years
In USA, nearly 1000 people are working on child psychology
Throughout the world there are more than 5000 people who are working on psychology. 21 22
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Starting on Wednesday May 18th and ending May 24th 2011, The Windsor Police Service will be participating in a nationwide project called the “Canada Road Safety Week Project” which is sponsored by Transport Canada. This project was developed by the Traffic Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, in conjunction with several organizations focused on road safety.
One of the high priority goals for the Windsor Police Service is to reduce collisions and injuries through enforcement, and education; to eliminate aggressive driving , impaired driving and distracted driving, so that the citizens of Windsor and Essex County can drive, cycle and walk in safety on our streets and highways. This project is an enforcement -driven initiative designed to increase public compliance with safe driving measures and, ultimately, to save lives.
The focus during Canada Road Safety Week is on behaviours that reduce risks for drivers, passengers and other road users: sober and alert driving, seat belt use, and refraining from all aspects of aggressive driving.
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Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Roald Dahl was an author, poet, and screenwriter. He is mainly known for the books he wrote for children, although he also wrote books aimed at adults. How much do you know about his book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
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If the state has its way, there will be fewer overweight Ohioans by 2020, fewer teens who smoke and more residents who exercise every day.
Yesterday, state health officials released “Ohio’s Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease,” which took more than a year to produce with input from more than 40 organizations.
“We’re taking a very priority-driven, cross-cutting approach to how we look at chronic disease,” said Andy Wapner, chief medical officer at the Ohio Department of Health.
The plan outlines dozens of goals to “dramatically improve” the health of Ohio residents, Wapner said.
“I think that the point of (percentage goals) is, the state is coming together around a common set of outcomes that we’d like to achieve by 2020,” he said.
Officials said it costs Ohio more than $50 billion each year in treatment for chronic diseases and in lost productivity from work.
Physical inactivity, tobacco use and poor nutrition are targeted in the plan. So are increased screenings.
The plan also looks at ways that community organizations, schools and universities, employers, health-care systems and the government can “leverage resources” to make a difference.
That includes adopting smoke-free policies in public housing and on university campuses; promoting walking and bicycling to schools; increasing the number of farmers markets in low-income communities; and providing physical activity programs at worksites.
While some of the reduction goals might seem small, they show a commitment to coordination in order to make a difference, Wapner said.
“Even small changes in the prevalence of cigarette smoking ... has a significant difference in long-term health outcomes,” he said.
Robert Jennings, a spokesman for the department, said the plan was a collaboration of the public and private sectors.
Organizations that are participating in the Ohio Chronic Disease Collaborative include the American Cancer Society, local health departments, various universities, state and national health institutes and a number of businesses.
Helene Szczerba, chairwoman of the Healthy Ohio Business Council, said more businesses need to embrace the plan, which calls for health-conscious worksites.
Healthy workers mean lower health-care costs.
John Alduino of the American Cancer Society applauds the collaborative.
It “helps us bring together partners that wouldn’t necessarily be working together on these types of things,” he said.
The collaborative also gives public-health professionals hard metrics to meet and monitor together, said Siran Koroukian, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine.
“The plan isn’t owned by any one entity,” said Beth Tsvetkoff, executive director of the Ohio Alliance of YMCAs. “(That way) you accomplish so much more than people working on their own goals, kind of in a silo.”
To read the full report, visit www.healthy.ohio.gov/cdplan.
Will Drabold is a fellow in Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Statehouse News Bureau.
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Forget about pills and diets. Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) most effectively treats obesity and the diseases and conditions that go with it. Providing a safe environment for these types of procedures has encouraged the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) to join the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in streamlining the accreditation process and developing outcomes benchmarks.
On April 1, they unified their MBS accreditation programs.
“This will bring 621 approved [surgery centers] together and we will all be using the same data registry to provide enhanced patient safety,” says Robin Blackstone, MD, president of ASMBS. “For a specialty society like ours to join with the ACS strengthens the environment for patient safety.”
Medicaid and state employee health plans cover MBS about 90 percent of the time, says Blackstone. Small employers (10–499 employees) cover it 40 percent; large employers (>20,000 employees), 75 percent.
“As the effectiveness of MBS has become more well-known, it’s been covered more,” says Blackstone. “The question has been, with obesity affecting so many people, how do you achieve a universal benefit for obesity treatment? What you want is the most effective therapy with the least complications. That gives insurers the best value.”
About 200,000 MBS procedures are performed each year in the United States, costing from $11,000 to $26,000 each, according to the ASMBS. Value does indeed matter, as Blackstone says. The two organizations will not only merge their accreditation processes, but overhaul them as well.
“This new unified program will at first be organized around accreditation based on volume, but will be updated to reflect accreditation based on outcomes,” says Blackstone. “All of our programs will be able to access the database” to improve quality
For instance, MBS program directors will be able to track the incidence and causes of readmissions, and work to ensure that systems are in place, or that changes are made, to decrease readmissions, says Blackstone.
The college and ASMBS hope to meet with a broad spectrum of insurance company officials, including medical and pharmacy directors, sometime in the next few months to get feedback on the new accreditation standards, says Blackstone.
“What we’re hoping is that all of the payers will recognize the value of this type of outcomes reporting and data registry reporting and really get behind having this one standard and supporting it,” says Blackstone.
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Area of a Trapezoid (3)
- Tim Brzezinski
Points A, B, C, D are vertices of the trapezoid below. Move these points anywhere you'd like.
Now slowly slide the slider (at the bottom) all the way to the right. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
In general, how can we find the area of a trapezoid? Describe from what you see here. (Feel free to reposition A, B, C, and D to explore various types of trapezoids).
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Argomaniz J, Cidoncha MA, Martín J. Nuevos ámbitos para la práctica enfermera. Metas de Enfermería oct 2003; 6(8): 50-55
1Juana Argomaniz Alutiz, 2Mª Ángeles Cidoncha Moreno, 1Jesús Martín Bezos
1Diplomada/o en Enfermería. Profesora/or de la EUE de Vitoria-Gasteiz. 2Diplomada en Enfermería. Supervisora del Hospital Santiago Apóstol de Vitoria-Gasteiz.
EUE de Vitoria-Gasteiz. C/ José Achótegui, s/n. 01009 Vitoria-Gasteiz.
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The presence of nursing professionals in different social settings or social areas such as patient associations and patient relatives associations is looked upon as a research area for the development of the professional role.
Objectives: to determine the knowledge that the associations have with regards to what the nursing professional can provide them, to know the existence of nursing professionals in the said associations and to identify the most common problems in each association, evaluating whether or not these problems would be the competence of such professionals.
Material and Methods: cross-sectioned descriptive study. Sample: 27 associations of the city of Vitoria. Data compiled from interviews and a self-developed survey administered to the representatives of the associations.
Results: fifteen associations are not aware of what the nurse can provide and ten do not consider it necessary to have a nurse as part of their staff. Only two associations have nurses under contract. The most important problems have to do with psychological support and social integration.
Conclusions: very little participation of nursing professionals in the associations is observed. The image that the nurse is more involved in technical issues prevails. Professionals from other areas are performing duties that should be the responsibility of the nurse.
patient associations; nursing competenceprofessional settings
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If you are an automotive mechanic who wants to improve and gain the skills and certifications that BMW dealerships, other service centers and automotive technician jobs are searching for, you might consider getting BMW dealership certified. BMW has joined with the Universal Technical Institute (UTI) to design a program that focuses on diagnosing and repairing BMW vehicles. Currently, there are two easy routes to certification: FASTTRACK and STEP.
UTI’s FastTrack is a 12-week course that focuses on current BMW models, such as the X1, X3, X5, X6, 3, 5, 6 and 7 Series automobiles, and the Z4. The STEP program runs for 20 weeks and is a bit more intensive. However, BMW will pay for your training should you choose the STEP option.
What you’ll learn
While attending FASTTRACK/STEP, you will achieve BMW Level IV technician status and earn up to seven BMW FASTTRACK/STEPory credentials.
You will receive additional training in:
- New engine technology
- New engine fundamentals
- How to take basic measurements and completely disassemble and reassemble a BMW engine
- Engine electronics
- Become proficient in advanced wheel balancing equipment
- Learn BMW-approved brake service techniques
- How to diagnose and repair several types of BMW engine technologies including direct high-pressure fuel injection, turbocharging, and Valvetronic
- How to work on BMW’s Technical Systems
- How to work on new generation engines such as the N20, N55, N63, and turbo charging systems
- Learn the BMW technical information system (TIS), and BMW diagnosis and information systems that are currently used in service centers and dealerships
- How to use the latest Engine Management Systems
- How to work on BMW Body Electronics * Learn BMW-approved procedures to vehicle battery and electronic systems, service charging and starting systems
- Learn Power Management and Car Access Systems (Vehicles Immobilizers) and CAN BUS systems
- Gain experience with BMW Chassis Dynamics and Undercar Technology
- Perform alignment, strut removal and installation, and chassis service procedures
BMW FASTTRACK/STEP provides its students with a lot of hands-on experience. While enrolled in the 12-week or 20-week program, you will receive training in vehicle maintenance service, and safety and multipoint inspections. Your instructors will emphasize ASE certification training and preparation throughout your time at BMW FASTTRACK/STEP.
Is going to auto mechanic school the right choice for me?
Being certified through BMW FASTTRACK/STEP will ensure that you are current on all the newest BMW technology. And don’t forget that if you opt for the 20-week BMW STEP program, BMW will pay your tuition. Although it is a time commitment, you may also think of auto mechanic school as an investment in yourself, since your auto mechanic salary will most likely increase as you receive your BMW FASTTRACK/STEP certificates.
Competition in the automotive industry can be fierce, with technician jobs becoming harder to find. By attending auto mechanic school, you can only help to increase your auto mechanic salary.
If you’re already a certified mechanic and you’re interested in working with YourMechanic, submit an online application for an opportunity to become a mobile mechanic.
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Saturday, January 18, 2020
A Promise Child
She can’t survive the ‘30s alone…
Sibyl Trimble does everything she can to keep her family together. Before falling in love with a handsome, penniless hobo, she lived a life of new cars, speakeasies dances, and fancy cloche hats.
Then the Great Depression hits Oklahoma. The wind blows topsoil away, hundreds of jobless men hang around town, and the economy falls apart. Even Fremont, her strong, stable husband, grows discouraged and considers leaving as they struggle to put food on the table.
When disaster strikes again, will Sibyl and Fremont move on to California or try to survive in Oklahoma? Neither option sounds promising.
My thoughts: Kathryn continues the story of her grandmother, Sibyl Trimble Pope from A Promise to Break in A Promise Child. After settling down with Fremont, the two struggle through the Depression with their young children. A lot of difficult decisions come their way, and they experience a heartbreaking disaster. I appreciated that Kathryn writes about their struggles with life and faith. While they didn't live through an easy time, their faith is beautiful. This is an interesting novel based on true events.
I received this book from Celebrate Lit. This is my honest review.
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About the Author:
Kathryn Spurgeon, an award-winning author and recipient of a 2018 Illumination Book Award, has published over a hundred stories, articles, and poems. She grew up on an Oklahoma farm before moving to South Korea, where she adopted two children. She and her husband, Bill, hold weekly studies in their home for international college students. They have six children and twelve grandchildren.
More from Kathryn
Researching and writing about the 1930s has been a blast, and although it was the economically worst decade of the last century, faith, love, and life went on. It has been fun to glimpse into that historical time and find amazing and uplifting stories.
Sibyl Trimble, my grandmother and the ever up-and-down, emotional but brilliant lady, did her best to create a great family environment. Seeking God, she also studied, taught, and shared about Christ in the midst of heartaches. Based on a true story, I hope this tale will inspire, uplift, and bring a touch of nostalgia to your day.
The strength and courage Sibyl revealed can encourage us all and I am honored to share her tale with you.
For a complete list of blog stops, go here.
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The Teashirt zinc finger homeobox (TSHZ) family comprise a family of evolutionarily conserved transcription factors that, in Drosophila, are active in specific body parts for patterning, but whose function in vertebrates is less clear. In mice, the known three TSHZ proteins are expressed in distinct patterns in the developing and adult brain, suggesting that they play a role in the establishment of regional identity and specification of cell types within the brain. Both TSHZ3 and TSHZ1 have been found to interact with FE65, an adapter protein that binds to the amyloid protein precursor (APP) in neurons. Together with SET, a component of the inhibitor of acetyl transferase, and histone deacetylases, these proteins formed a gene-silencing complex whose target includes caspase-4. Recent experiments have also suggested this family of proteins may be involved in carcinogenesis.
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures. Not for resale without express authorization.
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But David took not the number of them from twenty years old
Only those that were twenty years and upwards; but, according to Cornelius Bertram F11, he numbered them that were under twenty, though but sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen years of age, provided they were of robust bodies, and of a tall stature, and able to bear arms; which he takes to be the sin of David, in numbering the people, being contrary to the law of God; yet though he had ordered them to be numbered, and they were, yet he would not take them and put them into the account of his chronicles, as in the next verse, that his sin might not be known, see ( 2 Samuel 24:9 )
because the Lord had said, he would increase Israel like to the stars
in the heavens;
which are not to be numbered, and therefore David sinned in attempting to number the people.
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Answer: There are a number of biological controls that you can try to get rid of white flies. Since you're dealing with an outdoor white fly problem, you might want to try releasing lacewings or minute pirate bugs, both available through the above suppliers. Other control methods include yellow sticky traps - basically cardboard painted bright yellow and coated with mineral oil or petroleum jelly, and suspended near the tops of plants. Insecticidal soaps work well against white flies, too. Just be sure to spray both top and undersides of leaves. Insecticidal soaps can cause burning of leaves if applied during hot weather, so use caution. Good luck in getting rid of those pesky pests!
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We established hormone analysis platforms, which realize both highly sensitive and high-throughput analysis and fine-tuned highly sensitive analysis for specific hormones. Targeted hormones are cytokinins, auxins, abscisic acids, gibberellins, jasmonic acids, salicylic acid, brassinosteroids, and strigolactones. We are conducting a number of collaboration researches using our analysis platform.
RIKEN PSC has developed a highly sensitive and high-throughput method for the simultaneous analysis of 43 molecular species of cytokinins, auxins, ABA and gibberellins (GAs). This method consists of an automatic liquid handling system for solid phase extraction and ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with a tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray interface (UPLC-ESI-qMS/MS). In order to improve the detection limit of negatively charged compounds, we introduced a chemical derivatization, that we call MS-probe derivatization. It increased quantification limits of gibberellins increased up to 50-fold and permits all compounds of auxins, ABA and GAs, to be measured in a single LC run. Our current method needs 1 to 100 mg fresh weight of plant tissues to determine phytohormone profiles and enables us to analyze 180 plant samples simultaneously. Required tissue amount is totally dependent on the nature of the tissues and the target hormone species.
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We have developed a fine-tuned analysis method of bioactive hormones and their related compounds. This method contains JA, JA-Ile and SA as bioactive hormones in addition to IAA, ABA, GA, CKs. High resolution LC system are connected to a tandem quadrupole and a quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometer equipped with electrospray interface (LC-ESI-qMS/qMS and LC-ESI-qMS/tofMS). LC-ESI-qMS/qMS has been used for high-sensitive analysis and LC-ESI-qMS/tofMS has been used for high-resolution analysis. In order to analyze brassinosteroids and strigolactones we are developing specific purification methods which are optimized for these neutral hormones. At the same time we are optimizing purification methods for specific tissue and organ as root or meristem tips which are targeted on limited hormone species. One example, we could analyze IAA from 10 of Arabidopsis 2 mm root tips and ABA from Arabidopsis single dry seed. Because the sensitivities of each hormone are strongly affected by impurities contained in target material, we do the detection test at first to confirm required amount for specific purpose before starting quantification analysis.
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The rapid deterioration of economic conditions in Zimbabwe has fueled corruption, said country officials of the watchdog group Transparency International who added that little is being done to combat corruption despite high-level condemnation.
They said widespread shortages have expanded opportunities for corruption.
Many observers have dismissed the government's Anti-Corruption Commission as an ineffective body, noting the political selection of the commission's chair.
"The commission is answerable to the executive," Executive Director Killron Dembe of Transparency Zimbabwe told AFP. As a result, he said, "it's limited in terms of independence and it's major challenges are resources and capacity."
The commission's spokeswoman declined to comment immediately on the report.
A 2006 Transparency report on global corruption ranked Zimbabwe 130 out of 163 countries. Chairman Goodwill Shana of Transparency International Zimbabwe said there was plenty of room for improvement if the right measures were taken.
But as matters stand, Shana told reporter Ndimyake Mwakalyelye of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, the government has only given lip service to tackling corruption.
More reports from VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe...
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Did not know this other definitionPosted: November 11, 2015
A gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/) is a mated worker ant that is able to reproduce sexually, i.e. lay fertilized eggs that will develop as females. Gamergates are restricted to taxa where the workers have a functional sperm reservoir (‘spermatheca’). In various species, gamergates reproduce in addition to winged queens (usually upon the death of the original foundress), while in other species the queen caste has been completely replaced by gamergates. In gamergate species, all workers in a colony have similar reproductive potentials, but as a result of physical interactions, a dominance hierarchy is formed and only one or a few top-ranking workers can mate (usually with foreign males) and produce eggs. Subsequently however, aggression is no longer needed as gamergates secrete chemical signals that inform the other workers of their reproductive status in the colony.
Ants are interesting.
The term “gamergate” derives from the Greek words γάμος (gámos) and ἐργάτης (ergátēs) and means “married worker.” It was coined in 1983 by geneticist William L. Brown and was first used in scientific literature by entomologists Christian Peeters and Robin Crewe in a 1984 paper published in Naturwissenschaften. The definition typically found in entomological dictionaries is “mated, egg-laying worker,” and is drawn from the glossary of Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson’s 1990 book, The Ants.
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28-04-2020 | | By Nnamdi Anyadike
The coming together of biology and electronics is moving forward apace with ‘bioelectronics’, specifically bio-molecular, changing the face of a wide spectrum of industry disciplines. Electronic biological materials (e-biologics), produced with microbes or designed with microbial components, promise to replace the energy intensive unsustainable production of electronic devices with ‘green’ non-toxic waste producing materials. Key players in the bioelectronics market include: Avago; Sotera Wireless; Bodymedia; Siemens; Universal biosensors; Abbott; Life Sensors; Medtronics; Danaher Bioelectronics; Roche; Omnivision; Sensirion; and Beckman Coulter.
In April, California based synthetic biology startup Zymergen launched ‘Hyaline’. It describes the product as a revolutionary new film for electronics applications. The new film co-created by Zymergen and its development partner Sumitomo Chemical Inc., is expected to pave the way for more sustainable, biologically produced products within the coming year. Hyaline has already been successfully been used in flexible circuits, display touch sensors and printable electronics. However, the new film merges the benefits of advanced bio-fabrication with traditionally generated materials. “Hyaline film truly shows differentiated and sustainable performance with respect to optical and mechanical properties that have not been available before,” said Richard Pieters, President of Products for Zymergen.
Zymergen CEO Josh Hoffman continued, “We believe that our biological innovation will have a transformative effect on people’s welfare. For the last hundred years, industries have largely relied on petroleum-based manufacturing, but we’re leading a new wave of innovation by reimagining how materials are produced through biology. Today we’re not just announcing new materials – we are making a promise that in 2020 consumers will begin to see, touch and use new products inspired by nature.” Key advances for Hyaline include: touch sensors; optical filters, where the thinner film with high temperature properties will enable faster processing times in manufacturing; and printed electronics.
Meanwhile, in March Zymergen acquired enEvolv the Boston based creator of engineered commercial products based on microbial genomes. The acquisition, writes John Cumbers founder of SynBioBeta, establishes a combined platform that promises to speed up R&D in biomanufacturing. Zymergen will use enEvolv’s ultra-high-throughput technology to screen and select individual cells from among millions, finding those rare cells with just the right genes and properties needed in biomanufacturing applications. enEvolv says it can do in a single month what would take 30 of today’s high-speed robots 2,000 years to do. “This partnership crystalizes our long-held belief that the combination of high throughput genome engineering, powerful technology, and new approaches to material science will push the biological manufacturing revolution into the mainstream,” says Colin South, CEO of enEvolv.
In March, researchers at MIT announced the development of a new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces that may enable better biomedical sensors and implants. Explaining the development the team said, “Polymers that are good conductors of electricity could be useful in biomedical devices. But there has been a sticking point preventing their widespread use: their inability to adhere to a surface such as a sensor or microchip, and stay put despite moisture from the body.” MIT’s new adhesive method involves an extremely thin adhesive layer between the conductive polymer hydrogel and the substrate material. “Though only a few nanometres thick (billionths of a metre), this layer turns out to be effective at making the gels adhere to any of a wide variety of commonly used substrate materials, including glass, polyimide, indium tin oxide, and gold,” says MIT. The coating is made of polyurethane, though other similar polymers could also be used. The result is a mechanically strong and conductive gel that bonds tightly with the surface it’s attached to. “It’s a very simple process,” MIT says.The bonding proves to be highly resistant to bending, twisting, and even folding of the substrate material.
A paper in the February edition of the nature research journal, Nature Communications, written by a team of researchers led by Shanghai based Shuo Chen, highlights groundbreaking work done by the team in the preparation of mechanically and biologically skin-like materials (PSeD-U elastomers). “In recent years, soft, and flexible skin-like electronic devices have attracted more and more attentions and become a novel platform to integrate with soft tissues for human–machine interaction, health monitoring, and medical therapies,” say the authors. Development in this area is needed, explains the research, because “despite the rapid progress in the capability and miniaturization of integrated circuits technology...electronics using rigid substrates and brittle components lack of biocompatibility and biodegradability, result in mechanical mismatch and complications in the contact areas between the devices and the surrounding tissues.”
Skin’s two major components are collagen and elastin fibres. And it remains a challenge to develop elastic materials with a suitable combination of nonlinear viscoelasticity, toughness, softness, and stretchability to mimic skin’s mechanical properties. Some elastic materials, such as poly (dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), polyurethane, polystyrene-block-poly (ethylene-ran-butylene)-block-polystyrene, have been used to fabricate stretchable electronic devices. However, these elastomers cannot mimic the mechanical properties of human skins and generally have high elastic modulus and low toughness. The research reports on a design that incorporates the physical hydrogen bonds and the covalent crosslinks to form a unique hybrid crosslinked networks. The PSeD-U elastomers were successfully synthesized and demonstrated their skin-like mechanical properties as well as biocompatibility and biodegradability with potential in bio-integrated electronics. To demonstrate the application of PSeD-U elastomers for bio-integrated electronics, the team fabricated the piezocapacitive pressure sensor based on a microstructured PSeD-U20-12h elastomer dielectric film. Gold was selected for the electrodes due to its biocompatibility.
Credit: Shuo Chen et al
According to a recent report from Verified Market Research, the global bioelectronics market is projected to reach $10.21 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 10.72% from its 2019 valuation of $4.5 billion. The market is expected to benefit from increasing advancements in surface chemistry and in semiconductor technology related to man-made devices and the interface of biology. Advancements in devices and technologies will enable applications in the areas such as prosthetics, disease detection, and disease prevention. The development of nano-scale electrical measurement devices are also expected to boost the growth of the market.
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Learning how to change a tire on a Jaguar is no different than changing the tire on a Taurus. If your Jaguar needs to have a tire changed you can do this yourself without calling a mechanic.
Here's what you'll need.
- Lug nut wrench and jack (these items will usually be found in the trunk of the Jaguar)
- Store purchased jack (optional)
- Wheel chocks (make sure the object used is not sharp)
- Secure the vehicle from moving. After your vehicle is parked, make sure that your parking brake is set. Place wheel chocks on the opposite end of the wheel you are trying to take off for additional safety.
- Loosen the lug nuts. Your car kit will most likely contain a special nut to remove the wheels. In certain cases, there may be a special lug remover. This is used for high security lug nuts. Loosen the nuts before you raise the vehicle. This will keep the wheel from spinning you loosen the nuts.
- Raise the vehicle. Place the vehicle lift under the specified jacking points (check your manual). If you have an aftermarket model, this will be helpful. Aftermarket models are hydraulically activated . Hydraulic jacks will life the vehicle much faster with less strain on your body.
- Remove the lug nuts. Fully remove all the lug nuts which you previously loosed, and take off the old wheel. The wheel may need to be gently tapped, if corrosion prevents the wheel from easily coming off.
- Place the new wheel on the car. If the previous tire was flat on your Jaguar, you may have to first raise the vehicle slightly higher.
- Tighten the new wheel. Re-torque the wheel, using the original locking nuts. Lower the vehicle, and you should be all set to drive.
Tips: When you are placing the lug nuts on the vehicle, make sure you tighten them in an opposite pattern. Do not tighten them one next to another, but instead tighten opposite nuts first. After driving for a few miles, you may want to check the torque on the nuts. Your Jaguar manual will tell you how much torque should be needed.
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So-called “Zero TV” homes are causing concerns for many traditional broadcasters.
As the availability of movies and television programs grows across a number of different platforms, many families no longer gather around the TV for enjoyment. This ultimately translates into diminished returns for broadcasters who still rely heavily on the small screen for revenue.
Until TV stations learn to adapt to the changing times, they won’t see a dime from those who fall into the “Zero TV” category designated by Nielsen. Many stations are currently working on getting live content broadcast to tablets and even smartphones.
“Getting broadcast programing on all the gizmos and gadgets — like tablets, the backseats of cars, and laptops — is hugely important,” National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton told The Associated Press.
More and more people across the United States are ditching their cable in favor of getting content from the internet. Nielsen estimated last month that nearly five million people across the country no longer use their television set to watch programs.
However, 95 percent of Americans are still using their TVs in the traditional sense of the word. Those who fall into Nielsen’s “Zero TV” category account for nearly five percent of the television-watching public.
Even those folks who have decided to part ways with their cable or satellite providers still use their TVs to play video games or watch movies on home video. Roughly 67 percent of those who fit this classification still watch video content.
Nielsen seems to be aware of the shifting change in modern viewing habits. As a result, the company intends to start tracking broadband usage along with traditional TV ratings. Although it will track usage across a number of different platforms, Nielsen won’t be able to provide specific ratings for shows on Netflix or YouTube.
Instead of specific ratings, the company will track what people are watching and what platforms they are using. The first batch of data is expected to surface later this year.
Are you one of the five million people who live in “Zero TV” homes? Have you ever thought about ditching your cable or satellite provider?
[Image via Shutterstock.com]
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geriatric orthopaedic rehabilitation unit
geriatric orthopaedic rehabilitation unitAn NHS ward or part thereof in which beds are used for inpatients aged 65 and older who have an orthopaedic injury requiring an operation—usually hips, less often knees—and who need long rehabilitation. GORU patients are jointly managed by an orthopaedic surgeon and a geriatrician, the latter of whom is usually the named consultant formally responsible for the patient.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Local Assistance Division
Devolution of the Secondary System
What is Devolution?
Virginia is one of only a few states where state government has maintenance, operational, and construction responsibilities for local roads.
In most states, the state transportation agency assumes these responsibilities for interstate and primary routes while local governments assume them for local roads.
Except in Arlington and Henrico counties, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) assumes all maintenance, operational, and construction responsibilities on the secondary roads in the commonwealth’s counties.
In 2001, the General Assembly enacted what is commonly known as the “Devolution Statute” The statute provides that boards of supervisors in any county that wishes to assume responsibility for any portion of the state secondary system of highways within that county’s boundaries may request the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner enter into and implement an agreement to do so. This is known as “devolution.”
George Mason Secondary Road Study - June 2011
This report reviews the Commonwealth of Virginia’s secondary road policy in order to identify options for revising policy to improve the condition and operation of the secondary system in light of continuing reductions in secondary construction and maintenance budgets.
County Assumption of Secondary System Feasibility Study
In 2006, VDOT began a partnership with Stafford and James City counties (our “partner counties”) to evaluate options for a county to assume responsibilities for the secondary road system within their boundaries.
The purpose of the study was to determine the resources needed and the financial, organizational, and logistical implications associated with a county taking over the functional activities for the secondary road system.
The study, completed in March 2007, resulted in a “devolution guidebook,” which provides necessary background information when considering devolution options, and a “feasibility model for secondary system assumption,” which provides a computer model to estimate the costs associated with various devolution options.
Each partner county also received a detailed analysis of their devolution options.
As part of VDOT's continuing support to counties wishing to explore devolution, the agency has prepared tools to assist localities.
- A model resolution for use by boards of supervisors
- A "standard devolution agreement" with companion memorandums of agreement (MOAs)
One for maintenance and one for construction responsibility. These provide more details associated with the selected devolution option.
The devolution agreement and the MOAs have been approved as "standards" by the Office of the Attorney General.
County Construction Initiative
In 2005, VDOT was directed by the General Assembly to develop and prepare legislative recommendations, in conjunction with representatives of counties, on the process for any county, at their request, to assume responsibility for their secondary construction program.
VDOT established a stakeholder group of county officials from across the state. The group suggested changes to the Code of Virginia to clarify and further define how a county could assume responsibility for their secondary program.
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Since the turn of the century, the development of new methods and platforms, combined with improved computational infrastructure and reduced costs have made it easier for labs to adopt high-throughput technologies. Consequently, massive amounts of genomics data are being generated. These data are not limited to answering just a single research question; they harbor immense potential for reuse. There are several public repositories that promote data reuse, each dedicated to a specific kind of omics data or a specific disease.
However, data abundance is a measure of quantity, not quality. Public repositories often do not have specific guidelines that have to be followed while depositing data. As a result, a great deal of time has to be spent in cleaning and pre-processing, in order to bring the data to a usable form. One way of accelerating the process of discovering novel insights from legacy data, is by curating data.
Gemma was established in 2012, by the Pavladis lab at the University of British Columbia. It is a database containing approximately 10,000 genomics datasets that have been curated to enable meta-analysis. Data have been sourced from multiple public repositories, primarily the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). It hosts microarray as well as RNA-sequencing data and offers support for numerous platforms such as Affymetrix, Illumina and nucleotide arrays. An important feature of Gemma is the data annotation done by both manual and automated means. This enhances the ease of data usability from the database. Apart from serving as a database, Gemma also hosts web-based tools for data exploration and discovery.
A key difference between public repositories and Gemma is the emphasis on the quality of data being hosted. Once expression data has been imported from the public source, curators include corresponding annotations and sample metadata. Array and experimental designs are other aspects that are subjected to quality checks. Array design undergoes sequence analysis and corresponding gene assignment. Experimental design is closely examined to ensure that datasets meet certain criteria (such as a minimum sample number, contain minimal outliers or missing data). Gemma datasets are put through a quality assessment known as Geeq, which takes into consideration the quality and suitability of the data.
Gemma aims to streamline and ease the process of genomics data reuse by going the extra mile to ensure that all the data added to the platform are curated and subjected to rigorous quality checks. By eliminating the time spent on making the data usable, Gemma helps scientists focus on the more important task of using data to answer research questions and push the boundaries of science as we know it.
Get the latest insights on Biomolecular data and ML
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Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed.
Sparks fly at open house on 710 extension study (Pasadena Star News)
Some folks protested the study, others found the open house informative. Those who attended the meeting had the chance to visit different ‘stations’ and ask Metro and consultants questions about the ongoing study that is considering alternatives to improve traffic in the area around the 710 gap between Alhambra and Pasadena. Five alternatives are under study: the usual no build option, traffic signal and intersection improvements, bus rapid transit, light rail and a freeway tunnel. No decision has been made to build or not build anything yet — and there are no formal designs yet for any of the alternatives.
Newton: The city that could be (L.A. Times)
Editorial chief Jim Newton asks the four leading mayoral candidates — (in alphabetical order) Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Kevin James and Jan Perry — what the nation’s second-largest city would look like if they win the mayor’s job and hold it for eight years. Transportation is a frequent topic.
I especially like this kicker from Newton:
It may be tempting to dismiss the importance of a mayor’s physical vision for Los Angeles. But imagination matters, as L.A.’s history well attests. Rear Adm. John Walker recommended placing a port in San Pedro, and L.A. officials tethered it to the city by annexation; the port is still the region’s most important economic force. William Mulholland eyeballed an aqueduct from the Owens Valley, and it still supplies our water. Tom Bradley imagined a center of commerce on Bunker Hill, and there it is. Richard Riordan could not bear the unfinished parking lot on Grand Avenue and, together with Eli Broad and others, raised the money that paid for architect Frank Gehry’s building of genius.
Where would we be without those?
This brief article looks at the paper TAP tickets that Metro and Metrolink are developing to get Metrolink riders through the turnstiles when Metro begins latching them later this year. Here’s last week’s post with a look at the ticket prototypes.
Cubic buys Nextbus (Transit Wire)
Always interesting when one Metro contractor buys another Metro contractor. In this case, it’s Cubic — the contractor that installed the TAP system — purchasing Nextbus — the contractor that supplies real-time bus arrival info for smartphones.
Categories: Transportation Headlines
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A couple of days ago I wrote about Peace and my charge to be a “Warrior of Peace.” I wrote that there is only one place to begin the quest for that peace, which must be known so intimately well that it is like our own skin if we are to be true defenders of Peace, and that’s inside – the first step of the quest is inward!
And what do we find when we go inward? I am reminded not only that today is Valentine’s Day but also that Rosemary’s daily video message today (you can get it here: TheScientificMystic.com) is about Love; and not just any kind of love, romantic love for example, but Self-Love! When you go inside do you find there that sense of love, especially self-love?
If we have no sense of how to love ourselves then how can we love others? If our mantra is “Everyone is doing their best” then doesn’t that apply to ourselves first? Love, forgiveness, peace—they all begin with oneself!
We are each a unique expression of humanity with a unique soul, purpose, mission, destiny. We have to be here and be us to make everything work in some incredibly complicated, interdependent way. The Universe created us to be here now. That is a lot to love about ourselves! Without us the world would be incomplete, imperfect.
There is both grand praise and deep grief in this self-loving. The grief comes from the immense responsibility we fall so short from standing up to. But if we are doing our best at all times then forgiveness finds a home in our consciousness if we let it in.
I am reminded here of a deep thought given to me by Martín Prechtel, one of my most honored and revered teachers (his most recent book published this January, expands on this concept much more eloquently than I could ever attempt. See it at: The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic). We are all mutually and forever indebted for our life. Think for a moment of all you have that you are indebted for. And I’m not talking about “stuff” or bank-debt here. I’m talking about the deeper elements of life without which we could not live. How can we ever pay back the plants for the nourishment they provide and the air they produce for us to breathe? But we do our best and we offer all we have to pay the debt knowing all along that we can never make it; we can never pay it all back. The toll it takes from everything, everyone, especially Mother Earth to allow a human to grow, survive, thrive is just too great.
Knowing we can never repay is a source of both grief and praise at the same time (these feelings are really two sides of one emotion!). We grieve our indebtedness and still celebrate our lives as worth something, worth living, worth fulfilling our purpose. If we can’t celebrate life then there can be no meaning to any of it! We need to celebrate the perfection of our lives as token repayment, an honoring of the Mother for giving us this life in the first place! As Martín might put it: we feed (honor) the Holy (God/Goddess in all things) by celebrating our lives; and in turn the Holy feed us!
And out of this grief and praise comes Love! The Mother loves us into existence at great sacrifice. We are all born of love. And this is our first debt. We need to repay this love in kind. And this is where self-love really is important. It is not only the source of knowing how to love, it is partial payment for our very existence—the love that created us!
Peace, joy, fulfillment all spring from Love of Self! Celebrate this!
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Shubhada Rao (Chief Economist, YES Bank) on State of the Economy – Building a New India at #ThinkersSandbox
Since there is no quick fix path to high sustainable growth, the focus clearly has to be on institution-building.
The terms “economics” and “governance” are mutually reinforcing. The reason is that it is not possible to have good governance without sound economics in place while it is economics which becomes the key underpinning factor for ensuring that a country is governed well. Since there is no quick fix path to high sustainable growth, the focus clearly has to be on institution-building. An economy simply cannot afford to have poverty alleviation or equitable growth without having to institutionalize the growth process of creating productive jobs to bring in larger benefits to the society. Therefore, it becomes imperative for India to keep focus, which can now be seen clearly in the recent years that have gone by where the focus has been to keep away from the temptation of bringing in quick growth of 8% or 9%. Instead, stress has been laid on creating sound infrastructure for growth impetus and to get embedded in the system inclusively.
The first and the foremost step towards what is known as institution building in the past few years was accomplished with setting up of India’s growth path through a new institution NITI Aayog replacing the erstwhile Planning Commission in 2015. To move ahead in times of a highly volatile fast-paced global economy, India must keep her pace and make sure that we respond to our own domestic needs and contingencies along with what we can do with the global economy. Hence, more such efforts will be needed to do away with the past ideologies and move towards progressive institutions.
At a time when India was getting into the danger zone of being perceived as a high inflation economy, the setting up of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in 2016 brought about a major development in the area of monetary policymaking in the country. Struggling with nearly 7%-9% inflation for a few years, it became important for India to be seen as a country that is sincere about its inflation management. So, the institutionalization of the whole process of monetary policymaking which culminated in the form of an MPC has undoubtedly played a major role in anchoring inflation expectations in our economy to a large extent. The country is also looking at sectoral institutions that are getting built over time, for example, the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA).
In respect to the focus shifting from macro to micro, it can be seen that India is now starting to allow structural reforms such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to take the centre stage in the whole new fiscal scenario. The passing of the GST bill after close to a decade-long discussion and debates on its implementation has been in itself one of the biggest reforms in the post-liberalization era that has provided with multiple benefits. Of course, short-term disruptions are present in all likelihood but the basic idea and the emphasis have been to ensure a way for sustainable growth where our people, in general, have greater confidence and faith in our institutions and the systems.
While speaking about India’s potential to make tremendous progress in the years coming ahead, one cannot shy away from putting equal attention on how we are going to make our workforce employable. People by themselves are not an asset unless they are made employable. The need is to impart skills and that is where the focus should be at large- as to how to go about “Skilling India”. The focus in our fast-paced changing world also has to be on how to re-skill our existing workers. India has long been showcasing its natural inherent ability in software expertise globally, but to adequately harness the same on the home ground, it is crucial to ride on both digitalization and digitization for an inclusive growth. The way forward then is to how to use technology in different processes so that every citizen of this country is brought in the path of growth. Therefore, initiatives like Skill India and Digital India present all of us with an opportunity to unleash the true potential of our economy in today’s time.
India is amongst the very few economies in the world that enjoys the combination of both economics and political stability in general. The first impulse that comes from a large set of global investors is that India’s economy is one of the most attractive destinations because of this combination. So, quite impressively the focus has been on building a new India. It is about the change and the confidence that has been brought into our country in recent years and will continue if we keep on moving forward taking everybody along.
The four ideas that are helping the current government in bringing change are; one, a proactive approach to seek economic and investment participation at the global level. Second, is the focus on consensus in almost every key economic reform. Third, is the concept of competitive federalism amongst our states and lastly, a sound credit culture in the economy. Although we can see some of the major changes happening around because of these ideas, there is still a long way to go in reforming certain important areas like land and labor. There is also a dire need to usher in urbanization without crowding our cities. This calls for taking productive jobs to the rural economy so as to create what are known as Rurban spaces in terms of bringing some of the best benefits of an urban society.
A new India is thus getting built and the focus must be to nurture our strong pillars so that within a three to five-year time zone, India looks at an 8%-9% growth figure. This evidently requires the global rate to grow at 5% on a sustained basis but India presently has enough domestic levers and impulses to be able to realize a growth rate of more than 8% if it gets all the programs and designs in the right place.
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Carolyn B Mervis, PhD
Ph.D. (1976) Cornell University
- Language and cognitive development of typically developing children and children with Williams syndrome, 7q11.23 duplication syndrome, and Down syndrome
- Genotype-phenotype relations in Williams syndrome and 7q11.23 duplication syndrome
Selected Recent Publications
- Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2010). Cognitive and behavioral characteristics of children with Williams syndrome: Implications for intervention approaches. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 229-248.
- John, A. E., & Mervis, C. B. (2010). Comprehension of the communicative intent behind pointing and gazing gestures by young children with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 950-960.
- Edgin, J. O., Pennington, B. F., & Mervis, C. B. (2010). Neurospychological components of intellectual disability: the contributions of immediate, working, and associative memory. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 406-417.
- Mervis, C. B. (2009). Language and literacy development of children with Williams syndrome. Topics in Language Disorders, 29, 149-169.
- Leyfer, O., Woodruff-Borden, J., & Mervis, C. B. (2009). Anxiety disorders in children with Williams syndrome, their mothers, and their siblings: implications for the etiology of anxiety disorders. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 1, 4-`4.
- John, A. E., Rowe, M. L., & Mervis, C. B. (2009). Referential communication skills of children with Williams syndrome: Understanding when messages are not adequate. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 114, 85-99.
- Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2008). Vocabulary abilities of children with Williams syndrome: Strengths, weaknesses, and relation to visuospatial construction ability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 967-982.
- Mervis, C. B., & Becerra, A. M. (2007). Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 13, 3-15.
- Mervis, C. B., & Morris, C. A. (2007). Williams syndrome. In M. M. M. Mazzocco & J. L. Ross (Eds.), Neurogenetic developmental disorders: Variation of manifestation in childhood (pp. 199-262). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Osborne, L. R., & Mervis, C. B. (2007). Rearrangements of the Williams-Beuren syndrome locus: molecular basis and implications for speech and language development. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, 9 (15), 1-16.
- Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mervis, C. B., & Berman, K. F. (2006). Neural mechanisms in Williams syndrome: a unique window to genetic influences on cognition and behavior. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 7, 380-393.
- Somerville, M. J.*, Mervis, C. B.*, Young, E. J., Seo, E.-J., del Campo, M., Bamforth, S., Peregrine, E., Lilley, M., Pérez-Jurado, L., Morris, C. A., Scherer, S. W., & Osborne, L. R. (2005). Severe expressive language delay related to duplication of the Williams-Beuren locus. New England Journal of Medicine, 353, 1694-1701. (*: equal contributions)
- Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (2005). Designing measures for profiling and genotype/phenotype studies of individuals with genetic syndromes or developmental language disorders. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 41-64.
Courses Often Taught
- PSYC609: Developmental Disabilities
- PSYC609: Developmental Assessment
- PSYC609: Developmental Psycholinguistics
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Arturo Martí is professor of Physics at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). He completed his PhD in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona in 1997. For many years his research interests were focused on traditional academic topics centered in fluids and nonlinear physics, but recently he has also become involved in science popularization programs, the organization of physics Olympiads and teacher training workshops. Recently, he is developing physics experiments using smartphones.
Cecilia Cabeza is professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Her research interests focus on nonlinear physics, chaos, fluids and the teaching of experimental physics. Cecilia holds a cotutelle doctorate from Republica University and Paris VII University (France).
Cecilia Stari is professor of Physics at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). She completed her PhD at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, in 2009. Her research interest focus on superconductivity and physics education research. She is working specifically in active methodologies in university courses and also with physics teaching at primary school.
Martín Monteiro is professor of physics and laboratory coordinator at the School of Engineering, Universidad ORT Uruguay in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is engaged in several initiatives to disseminate science, like blogs, workshops, outreach activities, the organization of physics and astronomy Olympiads, scientific photographic contests, among others. His main topics of interest are physics education, scientific art, history of science, physics toys, physics everywhere, Fermi problems and experimental and computational physics. In the last few years he has been developing physics experiments using new technologies like open-source hardware and smartphones.
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By Lory S. Kaufman
Sands of Time Publishing, $14.99, 322 pages
By the 24th century, the perfect society has been achieved. There is no war, nor hunger, nor injury that cannot be fixed by technology. Population growth has remained at a sustainable one million people. In order to keep this perfection, society lives by one mantra: “relive the past so that past mistakes may not be repeated.” Youths are sent to reenactment camps filled with society elders, to experience life as it was lead by their ancestors. The more rebellious children are given carefully planned hardships meant to help them appreciate the current status quo. Three youths have already received the harshest punishment doled out by their government: a month long internment at camp set up as 14th century Italy. Soon after the teenagers sabotage camp, they vanish. Somehow they end up in real life 14th century Verona Italy, and they have brought with them smuggled technology from the future. Can they survive in the household of a poor sodden lens maker without altering the course of history?
The plot of The Lens and the Looker centers on the development of the telescope in 14th Century Verona. Learning about the history of the development of the telescope, while interesting, would not hold a reader’s interest for long without some other stimulus. Sadly, the magical element of time travel went unquestioned by the characters that were far too accepting of their situation for “rebels.” Though obviously well researched, the narration lacked tension. Much descriptive time was spent on developing a shop and a technique for shaping the lens and then constructing the looker. What little excitement was contained in these pages centered on different powerful government entities vying for ownership of the new Technology. There was also a brief unimaginative love story between a couple of characters ironically named Romero and Guillietta, neither of which ended up having suicidal tendencies.
Reviewed by Rachelle Barrett
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Florida Officials Out of Touch on Medical Marijuana
The disconnect between Florida residents and politicians continues as a medical marijuana bill failed to get a hearing in the state House and Senate despite the fact that polling indicates 70 percent of Floridians favor legalizing medicinal pot.The Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act is named after a Florida medical marijuana advocate who uses pot to treat symptoms of Lou Gehrig’s disease, which she’s suffered from since 1986.
Incredibly, after the Miami Herald ran a story about the potential legislation and mentioned Mrs. Jordan in February, police raided her home. Armed, ski mask-wearing cops seized 23 cannabis plants from the wheelchair-bound Mrs. Jordan. The divide between residents and their representatives is further illustrated by the unanimous approval of the bong ban bill by the Florida Senate Criminal Justice committee. Earlier this week the committee voted 6-0 in favor of banning sales of all smoking paraphernalia.
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Epsilon Phi Delta (ΕΦΔ) National Honor Society for Community College Students of German recognizes the outstanding academic achievement of learners of German. The organization was founded to reward scholastic achievement in the study of German and to promote interest in the study of German language, literature, and culture.
Establishing a Chapter. Epsilon Phi Delta chapters may be established in accredited community colleges. Chapter sponsors must be teachers of German and members of AATG. To establish a ΕΦΔ chapter, a request on official school stationery should be sent to AATG along with a one-time activation fee of $10.00 and may be paid via the AATG store.
Student Eligibility. To be eligible for induction, students must have completed at least one semester of German and be enrolled in the second semester course. Students must have attained a grade point average in German of 3.5 (on a 4-point scale). They must continue the study of German and have five hours of service to the German program. Individual chapters may set additional eligibility requirements
Inducting Members. Eligible students may be inducted into their local ΕΦΔ chapter upon registration and payment of induction fees. The induction fee includes a certificate printed with student name, institution name, and chapter affiliation. Special recognition of these students should be made during the induction ceremony and in the induction program. Download the induction ceremony script.
Annual Report. The sponsor is required to submit an annual report at the end of each academic year.
Reactivating a Chapter. A chapter is considered inactive if no activity has been reported for the last three years. Chapters may be reactivated by contacting AATG. The ΕΦΔ Chapter Handbook and replacement Kapitelurkunde will be sent upon reactivation. The fee for reactivating a chapter is $7.50 and may be paid via the AATG store.
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It’s no secret that yoga has been lauded for its many physical and psychological benefits. Millions of people have turned to yoga to increase their mental, emotional and physical well-being. In recent years a growing trend known as “hot yoga” has increased in popularity. Hot yoga occurs when individuals perform yoga movements in a room with temperatures between 90 and 105 degrees Fahrenheit. So the question remains – is hot yoga safe? Read on to find out.
Researchers say that hot yoga is safe provided the individual is properly hydrated before, during and after the session. In fact, a university study conducted by researchers at University of Wisconsin observed 20 people ranging in age from 19-44 and found that hot yoga was in no way detrimental.
The research group, whose study was published by the American Council for Exercise, measured the participants’ core temperatures after a rigorous 60-minutes session in a 70-degree Fahrenheit room. The researchers then measured core body temperature of the same group after a 60-minute class with temperatures in the room hovering between 90-95 degrees.
In what came as a surprise to some of the group, the researchers found that the core body temperature of all of the participants hardly rose at all. This shows just how good the human body is at regulating its temperature in order to protect itself from overheating. The average temperature for the group was 99 degrees Fahrenheit, which is far below the danger level of 104.
Researchers stated that the body basically shuts down when core body temperature begins to rise in order to protect itself from reaching dangerous levels. Researchers went on to discuss the similar results were most likely due to the fact each participant was well hydrated. In addition, the yoga instructor encouraged each person to stay hydrated during the 60-minute session.
It might be common sense, but the study showed the importance of being hydrated. If you plan on attending a hot yoga class, or any other sort of physical activity – especially when temperatures are high – it’s best to begin hydrating at least 30-minutes prior. The optimum amount of water depends on your size and fitness level, but a good range is between 6-8 ounces.
So is hot yoga too hot to handle? Not if you’re properly hydrated. But remember, the participants in the study were healthy, hydrated individuals between 19-44. Experts strongly urge people with to check with their health care providers before starting any sort of exercise program. Seniors and others with health issues should definitely see their provider before sweating it out in a hot yoga class.
What do you think of hot yoga? Share your thoughts with us below.
The Health Local Staff is a team of writers and experts dedicated to bringing you the latest health, nutrition and lifestyle information at www.healthlocal.ca.
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Mag. Rocco Leuzzi MSc
Office of the Lower Austrian Federal Government, Department of Art and Culture
A-3109 St. Pölten, Landhausplatz 1
The State of Lower Austria has had an extensive Folk Life collection since the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum was established in 1911. Systematic surveying and cataloguing began in the 1930s. Its holdings took shape through the incorporation of existing private collections and active collecting on the part of the museum staff. Particularly noteworthy in this regard were their “collection expeditions”, in which objects were collected in micro-regions through a targeted search on the respective sites. The collection holdings were expanded in the course of founding the Museum für Volkskultur in Groß Schweinbarth, a museum for folk life in operation from 1985 to 2011. The Folk Life collection is currently undergoing a process of scholarly reassessment and systematic expansion, with a strong focus on collecting objects of everyday culture from the recent past.
THE FOCUS OF THE COLLECTION
The Folk Life collection and its approximately 30,000 objects serve to document the cultural history of everyday life and festivities in Lower Austria. The large number of traditional, artisanal and commercial objects and household goods is joined by specific collection categories such as a traditional costumes and textiles collection, a large collection of devotional illustrations, a collection of rustic furniture, and a collection of votive images from sacred folk art and pilgrimages.
An extensive library of specialised literature has been tailored to the collection holdings.
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During the Spanish-American War, DAR purchased a ship's tender for the USS Missouri to be used as a hospital launch for transporting the wounded from shore to ship.
DAR Members of Note include Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross), Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Mamie Eisenhower (wives of Presidents of the United States), and Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the beloved "Grandma Moses".
About the Cooch's Bridge Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution: Excerpted from the 1986 history by Lucy Hazen Barnes and the 2003 history by Barbara Putman Clarke Bannowsky
Organized May 14, 1902
Cooch's Bridge Chapter celebrated its 100th anniversary on May 18, 2002 at a High Tea at the Newark Country Club, Newark, Delaware. There were several 50-year members in attendance as well as guests from the Delaware State Society NSDAR and the Delaware State Society NSSAR.
BATTLE OF COOCH'S BRIDGE
The only land battle ever fought in the state of Delaware took place on September 3, 1777, during the Revolutionary War at Cooch's Bridge near Newark. This "sharp skirmish" was the first battle of the British campaign to capture Philadelphia, our first capital city.
On August 25, 1777, General Howe's troops began disembarking near Elk Landing, Maryland after nearly a month at sea coming from New York City. That same day the Continental Army under George Washington entered Delaware and fortified the steep northern bank of Red Clay Creek, thus blocking the most direct route from Elk Landing to Philadelphia.
On the morning of September 3, 1777, a British column of nine thousand men under General Cornwallis advanced toward Cooch's Bridge from Glasgow. About a half-mile south of Cooch's Bridge they were fired upon by Continental troops under General Maxwell which were waiting in ambush. The Americans fell back to a defensive position... Read MORE About Us!
Membership - Eligibility Clause: "Any woman is eligible for membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution who is not less than eighteen years of age, and who is descended from a man or woman who, with unfailing loyalty to the cause of American Independence, served as a sailor, or as a soldier or civil officer in one of the several Colonies or States, or in the United Colonies or States, or as a recognized patriot, or rendered material aid thereto; provided the applicant is personally acceptable to the Society." (Constitution, Article III, Section 1.)
About the DAR: The DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children. DAR members volunteer more than 250,000 hours annually to veteran patients, award thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid each year to students, and support schools for underserved children with annual donations exceeding one million dollars. As one of the most inclusive genealogical societies in the country, DAR boasts 170,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the United States and internationally. Any woman 18 years or older-regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background-who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership.
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- Producer Archive-Workflow Network (PAWN)
- A mature software platform that is extremely flexible in implementing centralized and distributed ingestion and processing workflows. It is built on an infrastructure-independent scalable, secure, and reliable architecture. Specifically, PAWN was able to demonstrate the following capabilities
- Approval and signature gathering that can be customized depending on ingest requirements of a record schedule
- A mechanism to allow users to have customizable roles rather than locking users into predefined roles.
- Show how to present Record Schedules to end users through easy to understand templates.
- Allow automated and manual process chains to be defined and executed on data in PAWN. In addition, allow these chains to be customized depending on record set and template requirements.
- Audit Control Environment (ACE)
- ACE (Auditing Control Environment) is a prototype system that incorporates a new methodology to address the integrity of long term archives using rigorous cryptographic techniques. ACE continuously audits the contents of the various objects according to the policy set by the archive, and provides mechanisms for an independent third-party auditor to certify the integrity of any object.
- Our approach will allow an independent auditor to verify the integrity of every version of an archived digital object as well as link the current version to the original form of the object when it was ingested into the archive. Also, ACE is very cost effective and scalable while making no assumptions about the archive architecture.
- Format Curation Service (FOCUS)
- Rapid development in software industry has given birth to an enormous number of file formats. Deciding which file format a certain file belongs to is not a trivial matter anymore. Although the extension of a file, such as '.doc', '.pdf' or '.xls' on Windows, could give a nice hint for its actual file format, sometimes one could be faced with less known extensions like '.skl' or '.pdz', or even no extension at all.
- The file extension can be very misleading too. Even though a file can have a familiar extension, it does not necessarily mean that the file is of the familiar format. For example, the '.pdf' extension can be any of the followings: Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format, Analyser Protocol Definition, ESRI ArcView Preferences Definition File, Netware Printer Definition File, P-CAD Database Interchange Format, Microsoft Package Definition File, or Corel Ventura Publisher EPS-variation Page. In this case, having '.pdf' as an extension could be worse than not having anything at all in the end. In order to make certain of a file format, the only perfect, but impratical of course, way would be openning up the file with every possible application in the world.
- Thus, this framework for the file format identification intends to provide an easier way to help identify a file format. Although it might not be 100% precise, it aims to be as accurate as possible with a minimum amount of time to have the final result back.
- Storage Resource Broker Utilities
- A set of java-based utilities has been created to assist development of preservation tools on the SRB.
- Certificate Authority
- A standalone, tomcat based CA used to easily create pkcs12 keystores for use in securing web services.
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English to Hindi
Hindi English Lessons
English To Hindi
What is the meaning of
in Hindi is :
Definition of word accost
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
To approach; to come up to.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
To solicit sexually.
Examples of word
You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.
BTW, the first two definitions of 'accost' from dictionary. com:
They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.
We also spotted a SUSPICIOUSLY PALE young lady applying for employment, but she MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED before we could accost her!
Sorry to accost you, but there's something I felt I should tell you, she said, with a concerned expression.
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Purplish-red almandine garnets with alexandrite-like effect: causes of colors and color-enhancing treatments
Fine gem-quality, purplish-red garnets from the Tocantins State, Brazil, were investigated for their crystal chemistry and optical properties by several spectroscopic techniques, including electron microprobe analysis, Mössbauer, Raman spectroscopy and optical absorption. Although most garnets are purplish-red, some specimens show color zoning, with deep red color in the core and purple in the outer parts. Electron microprobe analysis showed that these garnets are principally almandine-pyrope solid solution at the rim. However, at the red core, they contain also up to 7 % of spessartine. Mössbauer spectroscopy reveals that the iron content is predominantly Fe2+ (>99 %) in the natural garnets. The optical absorption spectra are dominated by spin-allowed and unusual high-intense spin-forbidden transitions from eightfold coordinated Fe(II) in the near infrared and visible spectral region, respectively. For the red core, in addition, three sharp bands centered in the blue part of the visible spectral range and a broad charge transfer band in the near-UV region are observed. All garnets with purplish colors show also a remarkable color-changing effect from purple in daylight light to red in incandescent light called alexandrite-like effect. Heat treatments in the 700-900 °C temperature range in oxidizing and reducing atmospheres lead to reversible and irreversible color changes which are discussed based on the microscopic changes in the Fe ion coordination and valence states.
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Pennock's Primer for Defending Science
Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism. Robert T. Pennock. 440 pp. MIT Press, 1999. $35.
Robert T. Pennock charts the transformation of creationism into a new movement that seeks not to set up a rival "creation science" but to undermine the credibility of the whole naturalistic methodology on which science itself is based. His book offers a useful survey of recent developments in the creationist movement and valuable advice for evolutionists trying to defend the credibility of their theory in public debates.
Pennock's title alludes to the Tower of Babel for two reasons. He uses a comparison between biological evolution and the evolution of languages to expose how the old-fashioned "young-earth creationism" is forced to deny the validity of a whole range of scientific disciplines. If the earth is less than 10,000 years old, then the vast array of human languages cannot have a natural origin (because there is not enough time for them to have diversified), and the creationists happily turn to a supernatural explanation in the form of God's imposition of language diversity in order to humble the builders of the Tower. Pennock offers a cornucopia of arguments against this and other creationist claims, so that his book will serve as an invaluable source for anyone seeking ammunition with which to attack creationists in public debate.
The other allusion to Babel arises from Pennock's detailed account of recent developments within the creationist camp, which have generated a multitude of competing creationist positions. Young-earth creationism has failed in its attempt to get "creation science" into the public schools because that description of the earth's origin is so obviously based on the Genesis story. The new generation of creationists, including law professor Phillip Johnson, now try to discredit evolutionism in the name of "intelligent design theory"—the claim that the only satisfactory explanation of complex structures such as living things is design by a supernatural creator. Once again, Pennock offers a detailed critique, pointing out the completely negative character of Johnson's arguments and the inability of his "theory" to offer any significant guide to research.
But the adversarial nature of Johnson's courtroom style all too easily allows him to convince the gullible that if there is something wrong with evolution, then creationism must be accepted as the only alternative. Pennock maintains, correctly in my view, that attack is the best means of defense when dealing with a lay audience; evolutionists should try to expose the weakness of the opposition instead of getting bogged down in technical arguments about biology.
Much of Pennock's book is devoted to exposing the philosophical and ideological underpinning of the new creationism. Instead of trying to offer "flood geology" as an alternative science, the exponents of intelligent-design theory seek to dismiss the whole naturalistic methodology of science as the product of a materialistic philosophy and value system. Johnson even tries to make common cause with those scholars who are trying to undermine the authority of science in the academic community by claiming that it is an ideological construct. For the creationists, however, the aim is to defend the values of the religious right. They believe that evolutionism is evil because it undermines the moral authority of the Bible—and has thus opened the way for a breakdown of traditional values. Since they have no philosophical arguments with which to sustain those values, the Bible remains the only foundation, and its authority must not be challenged even in areas related more to science than to ethics.
Pennock exposes the emotional insecurity on which this position is based. He also warns against continued efforts to get creationism into the public schools, pointing out that an attempt is now being made to bypass the constitutional prohibition against the teaching of religion. If these efforts succeed, America will end up with Fundamentalist Protestant schools—but presumably all other faiths will then be in a position to demand the same privilege. As a resident of Northern Ireland, where separate Protestant and Catholic schools have helped to sustain a sectarian divide with disastrous consequences, I offer heartfelt support for Pennock's warning against the dangers of going down this road.
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Tires: round and boring? Not if you're Bridgestone which has developed a revolutionary new printing technology for tires that is different from any tire printing or coloring process on the market today.
Until now, white rubber has been used on the sidewalls of tires to manufacture white ribbon and white letter tires. This process requires the use of large amounts of white rubber to prevent discoloration and to also maintain durability. This conventional manufacturing process can also add additional weight to the tire.
Bridgestone's advanced tire printing technology consists of a protective layer to prevent discoloration as the base, inks newly developed for this technology, and a layer to protect from external damages on the surface. Through this new technology, Bridgestone can realize more creative showcase of tires while also considering environmental issues such as fuel efficiency, without any additional weight to the tire.
Bridgestone says it will continue to explore the many opportunities associated with this new tire printing technology. As an example, original customer designs or photographs could be printed on tire sidewalls and later removed or changed if a customer chooses.
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has announced the hosts and themes for the Fall 2021 Jesuit Studies Cafés. The series of informal, remote discussions with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus presents unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in Jesuit Studies. The fall schedule appears below.
The series is organized in collaboration with the University of Lisbon and the Italian German Historical Institute.
Additional details are available at: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe.html
“Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys”
Ulrike Strasser, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego
Zoom | 9:20 a.m.–10am (Eastern, GMT-4)
How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis in the formation of the Jesuit missions, as well as the significance of patriarchal dynamics. Focusing on previously neglected German actors, Strasser shows how stories of exemplary male behavior circulated across national boundaries, directing the hearts and feet of men throughout Europe toward Jesuit missions in faraway lands. The sixteenth-century Iberian exemplars of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, disseminated in print and visual media, inspired late-seventeenth-century Jesuits from German-speaking lands to bring Catholicism and European gender norms to the Spanish-controlled Pacific. The age of global missions hinged on the reproduction of missionary manhood in print and real life.
Ulrike Strasser is a professor of history at the University of California San Diego. Her publications include the award-winning monograph State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State (University of Michigan Press, 2004).
“The Education of a Historian: A Strange and Wonderful Story”
John O’Malley, S.J.
Zoom | 9:20 a.m.–10am (Eastern, GMT-4)
In this autobiographical memoir, John W. O’Malley recounts how his life-story is unintelligible apart from his craft as an historian and from the passion his craft inspired. The narrative is the straightforward story of how a young man of modest background from a small town in Ohio achieved international eminence as a historian of the religious culture of modern Europe. In some detail, therefore, this book tells how four of the twelve monographs that O’Malley published during his career had field-changing influence: Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome (1979), The First Jesuits (1993), Trent and All That (2000), and What Happened at Vatican II (2008). The book is, however, much more than a tedious review of scholarship. It teaches the reader lessons in historical method and lessons in what good history does for us. They are lessons easy to digest because they are taught not by abstract principles, but by following a historian in action as he learns in fits and starts how to interpret the past in ways that do less injustice to it than other ways.
John O’Malley is University Professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. His specialty is the history of religious culture in early modern Europe, especially Italy. He has received best-book prizes from the American Historical Association, the American Philosophical Society, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the American Catholic Historical Association, and from the Alpha Sigma Nu fraternity.
“Veronica and her devils. Jesuits, exorcism and medicine in Nineteenth Century Rome”
Fernanda Alfieri, Ph.D.
University of Bologna, Italy
Zoom | 9:20 a.m.–10am (Eastern, GMT-5)
In December 1834, a small group gathered in a house near the Ghetto in Rome. A Jesuit father and a brother, along with a physician, entered the apartment where a famous family of artists lived, and surrounded the bed where a young woman aged 19 layed-down. Her name was Veronica, and she was affected by symptoms that her family and social environment had defined as demonic possession. From that day of December, for six months, exorcists and doctors visited the young girl every day. What was at stake was not only her deliverance from the devil, but the very identity of the Society of Jesus, restored twenty years before, and the capability of medicine to heal both bodies and souls. The research was carried out starting from the documentation stored in the General Archives of the Society of Jesus in Rome (ARSI), and led its author not only to an investigation of the case, but also to question the nature of historical writing and the very nature of the discipline. The supposed demonic crises of Veronica provoked many other crises. After all, “Deviltries are at once symptoms and transitional solutions. The ‘diabolical crisis’ has a double significance: it reveals the imbalance of a culture, and it accelerates the process of its mutation. It is not merely an object of historical curiosity. It is the confrontation (one among others, though more visible than others) of a society with the certainties it is losing, and those it is attempting to acquire” (M. de Certeau, The possession at Loudun).
Fernanda Alfieri is a researcher at the University of Bologna and on leave Fellow of the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She was Invited scholar at the Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Perth and Melbourne nodes) and the Institute for European Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, and Visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Gefühle Geschichte, Berlin. Among her publications: Nella camera degli sposi. Tomás Sánchez, il matrimonio, la sessualità (secoli XVI-XVII), Bologna, il Mulino, 2010; Veronica e il diavolo. Storia di un esorcismo a Roma, Torino, Einaudi, 2021; with T. Jinno, Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Perspectives from Europe and Japan, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021.
“A Global Earth in the Classroom: Jesuit Education and Geographic Literacy at the Dawn of Globalization”
David Salomoni, Ph.D.
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Zoom | 9:20 a.m.–10am (Eastern, GMT-5)
Between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries two processes of great importance for world history came to an end. The first was the impulse given by the Iberian monarchies to the exploration of the earth. In 1522, the expedition started by Ferdinand Magellan had completed the first circumnavigation of the world, but it was only from the second half of the century that a series of stable colonies between Asia, Africa, and America gave birth to an actual global system. The process was completed in 1565 when a stable maritime route from East Asia to West America was established thanks to the Manila Galleon. In an apparently different domain, in 1599 the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum, the most important rule of study in Catholic Europe, was completed. Following the Jesuit example, other religious teaching orders developed their rules of study. What was the connection between these two phenomena? Did the process of exploration of the world—and the emergence in this process of new scientific concepts—influence the way in which knowledge was produced and transmitted? This talk aims at deepening the reflection whether the process of the first globalization influenced the making of the epistemological foundations underlying modern science through Jesuit pre-university schools.
David Salomoni holds a PhD in history from the University of Avignon, and a PhD in pedagogy and history of education from the University of Rome III. In 2017 he started research on the educational institutions of religious teaching orders in early modern Italy and in 2019 he was awarded an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections. At present, he holds a post-doctoral position at the History of Science Department of the University of Lisbon in the framework of the ERC funded project: RUTTER Making the Earth Global, under the direction of Prof. Henrique Leitão. The project studies early modern Iberian nautical rutters as the oldest sources on the emergence of the idea of a global earth. Dr. Salomoni has published several articles and books. In 2017 he was awarded the Galileo Galilei Prize for young scholars by the Rotary International.
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In Dongguk University, the percentage of the voter turnout of the GSC and the GCSC is barely over or under 50 percent for the last three years. (There was no GCSC in 2016.)
/Information sources by the General Representative Council
The by-election of the Preparing Committee for Graduation (PCG), the representative councils, and the student councils was held from March 27th to 29th. Recently, some elections of Dongguk University often have been canceled and resulted in the by-election due to low turnout and candidate’s absence. This situation is not limited to the problem of Dongguk University. Other universities, including Yonsei University and The Catholic University of Korea, are also struggling to form the student councils because of students’ lack of interest in the elections. The Dongguk Post investigated the reason why this phenomenon lasts and what is needed in order to improve the situation.
Voter turnout for election is barely over half the student body
Voter turnout has been generally about a half due to students’ indifference to the elections in Dongguk University in recent years. For instance, in the 2016 Student Council Election, the turnout of the General Student Council (GSC) recorded 52.58 percent. In the following year, 2017, the election of the GSC and the General Coed Student Council (GCSC) was foundered since the turnout stood 42.31 percent and 45.1 percent each. At the 2017 By-election, the turnout of the GSC was 52.63 percent and that of the GCSC was 56.64 percent. Moreover, in the 2018 Election, even though the voting period was extended for one day, the turnout was just over half the student body. As a result, the GSC “Turning Point” and the GCSC “Moving” were elected with turnout of 50.74 percent and 52.52 percent each. During the period, the student councils recognized the low voting participation and started to promote the importance of the election.
If the election is canceled, the Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) is responsible for all the work on behalf of the chairperson when there is no elected representative of council or committee. It has the same position and authority as the steering committee. However, it has only the right to speak and does not have the right to vote in official meetings. In other words, the EPC cannot directly reflect the opinion of students in the real decision-making processes in the general meeting.
During the 2018 election period, the 49th GSC “HIFIVE” encouraged Donggukians to vote by posting on their Facebook page and providing hot packs beside the polls. Also, Lee Kun-haeng, the Chairperson of the Student Council of the Department of Business Administration, explained the necessity of voting in a group chat for the department saying, “Please vote in the student council election. It is important to solve the problems in school; the student council negotiates the increase of tuition fees, scholarship issues, and facilities with the school.”
Other universities are in similar situation. The 2016 Student Council Election of Yonsei University was held but foundered since there were no candidates. After that, the by-election took place in March, 2017.
Even though it was given one more day, the final turnout was only 26.98 percent and the GSC was not formed again. To make matters worse, this year’s by-election foundered due to the absence of candidates. The EPC will take the role of the GSC for the second consecutive year. This is the first time in the history of the GSC of Yonsei University.
Only one candidate or no candidate runs for the election
Besides the low vote rate, there is often no candidate in the election. Even if someone runs for the election, it is usually a single candidate. In the 2018 Student Council Election, only one candidate appeared in the GSC, the GCSC and each college student council election: eight colleges including the College of Buddhist Studies, the College of Business Administration, and the College of Liberal Arts.
It also narrows the choices for candidates. If you do not prefer the single candidate, you may refuse or give up voting itself rather than voting against the candidate. Ju Su-min (Junior, Department of Business Administration) explained that she is more indifferent to the election when there is only one candidate, which makes it hard to compare with the other party. She mentioned, “In the case of single candidate, I am not sure whether the candidate is promising pledges just to prepare for the election nominally or he or she is really ready to work for the welfare of the school and Donggukians since they do not have any competitors.”
Several universities, such as Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul Women’s University, and The Catholic University of Korea, had no candidate for the Chairperson of the GSC last year. Even after the by-elections, they could not elect the student representatives due to the absence of candidates. Especially, in the case of The Catholic University of Korea, candidates did not come up for every unit in the 2018 election. Then, following by-election and re-voting were foundered on April 6th because of the low turnout.
One student of the College of Engineering is voting for the representatives of student organizations on the ninth floor of the Engineering Building 2 on the first day of the election.
/Photograph by Kim Min-ji
Some students refuse to participate in election
One reason for the students to reject participating in the election is that many candidates of the student councils make negative campaigns, in which they try to find faults of their opponents. During the 2017 Election, this happened. One of the candidates of the student council of the College of Social Science, “Counter Punch” party, was involved. During the electioneering period, the party presented a photo to point out their opponents’ attitude on demonstration against Lifelong Education College. Regarding this, someone questioned if the source of the photo was the school or not because it could be inferred that the party was receiving improper support from the school. However, the party refuted that they downloaded it from the Internet.
Such a confusing matter makes students think that political conflicts also exist in university campus and even feel repulsion about voting itself. Oh Dae-hyun (Junior, Department of International Trade) expressed his opinion saying, “I felt insensitive to the case of the ‘Counter Punch’ party since, in fact, such conflicts among the candidates occur in frequency during the period of the election.” He additionally commented, “I agree that some unpleasant situations caused by the negative campaigns by partial candidates do make students have an aversion to the politics in the campus. This is because students cannot believe that the people, who fight without any standard and consideration, would provide the members of the school with upright criteria and care even though they are elected as the student representatives.”
Students have difficulty finding meaning of joining student council
Furthermore, many university students think that there is no need to join the student councils and do activities as a student representative. They think they do not have enough time to volunteer for the students in campus. Instead, they try to look for study groups, outside activities, club activities, and some others, which can be helpful to improve their career. A Junior from the Department of Business Administration said, “I have never thought that I would like to run as a candidate in the student council. It will be too busy when I join the student council and work for other students since there are still lots of things to do for me now.”
Moreover, some students think that working as a student representative is not rewarding compared to the effort they put into it. Choi Eun-ji (Junior, Department of International Trade) mentioned, “I think the members of the student council are putting too much time and effort to do their expected tasks. However, I have seen them being criticized about their performance by many other students, so it would additionally increase their burden at the end.”
Posters of a single party is informing students about the candidate of the Student Council of the College of Engineering.
/Photograph by Hwang Hae-su
Giving students information can increase their interest in election
To improve the situation regarding lack of interest in student elections, a variety of measures need to be implemented. First, with regards to the student council, they can provide opportunities for students to learn about the roles of the student council departments to increase their interest. With this method, students would break away from their nagative awareness, which is usually negative and can become aware of the student council properly.
In the public hearing of last year election, the “Dongteum” party for the GCSC suggested implementing a student council simulation program. A possible solution was presented being aware of the fact that there are few programs to give information about the student council to students. The program included some education courses where students make up each type of student organizations: such as the GSC, the GCSC, the student councils of each college, and the board of representatives. Then, the students can discuss the problems that can occur in the campus, aiming to run in the Freshmen Orientation.
Regarding this method, Kang Hyeon-ju, the Vice Chairperson of the GCSC, commented, “There are only little information about how the elections in university proceed, whom to vote for, whether students themselves can join the election, and with whom the student council is consisted of. I think the student council simulation program would contribute to activate elections in the campus since it will let students experience the student councils and help to understand them.” She also explained, “Although there has not been enough discussion of the program after the public hearing session, I believe it would be possible for the GCSC to suggest such program in the general meeting. Furthermore, what is needed is that the student councils of each college should actively push ahead in order to make the program actually be operating with the students.”
Increasing accessibility can help to increase a turnout
In the case of Chonbuk National University, they introduced an online voting system in the student council election for the first time. With the new system, students can easily vote on the candidates with their smartphones anywhere and anytime. It can increase the accuracy in counting the votes. After changing the election system, the voting rate of Chonbuk National University increased from 54.61 percent in 2016 to 81.91 percent in 2017, a number that had never been reached before.
Song Wan-sang, the action officer of the Office of Student Affairs in Chonbuk National University, commented, “By introducing the online voting system to the student council election, students could join the vote everywhere and anytime so that it led the turnout increase dramatically about 28 percent point. The students also could easily take a look at the pledges each candidate presented by receiving messages explaining its contents.” He added, “The selected student representatives could have more confidence because they were selected with quite a lot of students’ support. Therefore, we are going to use this system to the by-elections of the student councils of three colleges thanks to the students’ positive reactions.”
Recently, it is prevalent that student elections often foundered and have by-elections because of its low turnout and lack of candidates. Even worse, sometimes, the by-elections are nullified so that certain units of student organizations are managed by the EPC. However, it is not the best way to operate the organizations since it cannot reflect the ordinary students’ opinion. Improving the election culture can make more satisfying university society. If so, the voting rate and the participation in the student council activities will increase, as well.
Kim Jung-do, the Chairperson of the GSC, mentioned, “In order to improve participation in the elections on the campus, long-term businesses should be established rather than short-term ones. In other words, the student councils should accumulate trust with students with proper welfare policies and transparency.” He also said, “Moreover, the role of the GRC is also quite important. By keeping the student councils in check accurately, they would be operated in a better way.”
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On 15 March 2009, when the space shuttle Discovery was about to launch into orbit, a wounded bat grabbed ahold of its fuel tank to become an officially recognised stowaway, despite safeguards that are supposed to keep such things from happening. He was a bat pioneer hell-bent on glory, or so we choose to believe.
So what exactly happened here? The story started on a mild Sunday evening at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, as crew members began prepping to launch the STS-119 mission. As the crew made their rounds checking for icy buildup on the Discovery fuel tanks and whatnot, they were shocked to find a small free tail bat clinging to the tank’s foam insulation.
"Based on images and video, a wildlife expert who provides support to the centre said the small creature was a free tail bat that likely had a broken left wing and some problem with its right shoulder or wrist," NASA explained. Unfortunately, it did not appear to be wearing a tiny spacesuit at the time.
Since the space centre is on the same grounds as the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, NASA has implemented warning sirens that usually deter animals and birds from hanging around the launch pad. Apparently, this particular bat didn’t get the message, or just straight-up ignored it, because if he wasn’t going to explore the cosmos, what other bat would?
Despite their little bat problem, the team continued to ready the rockets for launch and thought it would eventually wake up and fly off before it was go time. They were wrong. In fact, the bat wasn’t asleep or on the verge of unconsciousness at all. It seems like it was just content where it was, even when the engines kicked into gear and the spacecraft began to shake.
"Nevertheless, the bat stayed in place and it was seen changing positions from time to time," the NASA report states.
Using infrared cameras, NASA officials tracked the bat’s location to see how its temperature changed during launch. Surprisingly, the area where the bat hung stayed a stable 15 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit) while the bat stayed a cool 21 degrees (70 Fahrenheit), which means it didn’t freeze or burn up at the time of the initial launch.
As the rocket took off, the bat stayed put the whole time until it was impossible to track any longer. Though NASA states the poor creature probably perished shortly after take-off, no one really knows, which means you can choose your own ending here if you want. Maybe he flew off just in time? Maybe he’s now the first bat astronaut?
An imgur post by a "Mr Fireworks" gets pretty poetic about the bat's uncertain fate:
"Once the shuttle's rockets began pushing its massive frame toward the heavens, he turned his little eyes skyward. The shuttle gained speed, terrifying speed, and he knew he would soon slip the surly bonds of Earth. His grip would eventually fail as Discovery sped faster than a bullet toward the inky blackness of space."
Whatever really did really happen, the small bat has surely earned a place in space history, and that's more than many of us will achieve in our lifetimes. So we salute you, Batstronaut. Your stubbornness courage is an inspiration to us all.
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The MongoDB driver is not installing correctly Most of the problems are with the native BSON parser and there can be a multitude of reasons why it’s not installing correctly and the driver is falling back to the js implementation of the serializer. This post will hopefully help you track down what the problem is on your system. We will start looking at it from a checklist point of view. Build Essentials Linux/Unix If you don’t have the build essentials it won’t build.
The New Bulk API One of the core new features in MongoDB 2.6 is the new bulk write operations. All the drivers include a new bulk api that allows applications to leverage these new operations using a fluid style API. Let’s explore the API and how it’s implemented in the Node.js driver. The API The API have two core concepts. The ordered and the unordered bulk operation. The main difference is in the way the operations in a bulk are executed.
Mongo Driver and Mongo DB 2.6 Features MongoDB 2.6 introduces some new powerful features that are reflected in the 1.4 driver release. These include. Aggregation cursors Per query timeouts maxTimeMS Ordered and Unordered bulk operations A parallelCollectionScan command for fast reading of an entire collection Integrated text search in the query language Moreover the driver includes a whole slew of minor and major bug fixes and features. Some of the more noteworthy features include.
I gave the presentation “Lessons from 4 years of driver develoment“ at JSConf EU 2013 in Berlin. The presentation is a summary of my four years of experience writing a successful open source project and all the good and bad experiences I’ve had over the last years in relation to this. Lessons from 4 years of driver develoment The video is also available Lessons from 4 years of driver develoment
At FOSDEM 2013 I gave a talk about MongoDB internals, going through how the database physically stores data in memory and disk and why you should learn about the internals of the database you use in production to let you get the maximum performance out of it and to be better able to diagnose issues in production. How does mongodb store my data
The wonderful world of GEO spatial indexes in MongoDB MongoDB has native support for geospatial indexes and extensions to the query language to support a lot of different ways of querying your geo spatial documents. We will touch on a all of the available features of the MongoDB geospatial support point by point as outlined below. Query $near a point with a maximum distance around that point Set the minimum and maximum range for the 2d space letting you map any data to the space GeoNear command lets you return the distance from each point found $within query lets you set a shape for you query letting you use a circle, box or arbitrary polygon, letting you map complex geo queries such as congressional districts or post code zones.
A primer for GridFS using the Mongo DB driver In the first tutorial we targeted general usage of the database. But Mongo DB is much more than this. One of the additional very useful features is to act as a file storage system. This is accomplish in Mongo by having a file collection and a chunks collection where each document in the chunks collection makes up a Block of the file.
The Node.js MongoDB driver was started in 2009 and has grown to become one of the most popular database drivers for the Node.js Platform. MongoDB is a document database that allows the storage of documents in json format. It’s main benefits come from it’s ability to store unstructured data while maintaining traditional databases ability to query and index the document efficiently. MongoDb also provides a whole scaling up path. A whole ecosystem has sprung out on top of the driver including ODM mappers such as Mongoose and whole frameworks such as Meteor (a fantastic real time framework).
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The autumnal equinox brings the first day of fall to the western United States tomorrow at 2:18 p.m. At this time the sun will be directly over the equator and the southern half of the globe will begin to tilt toward the sun. Our nighttime hours will approximately equal those of the day, and be precisely the same as nighttime hours in the southern hemisphere.
As fall progresses the sun will be heading south for the winter and will appear even lower on the horizon. This annual progression causes me to reflect upon our connection to the cosmos.
The North State is among the sunniest parts of the planet so the seasonal transit of the sun has a profound influence on our climate, agriculture, and energy requirements. Careful consideration of these natural effects can provide opportunities we all can use to reduce our resource requirements and live more sustainably.
Plant trees strategically. Deciduous trees on the south and west sides of your home can cool the surrounding air up to nine degrees Fahrenheit in summer but let in warming sunlight during winter.
Evergreens planted on your home?s windward side block winter winds and provide continuous shade in sunny climates. According to the DOE, just three wellplaced trees can offer yearly energy savings of $100 to $250 while absorbing heat-trapping carbon dioxide and reducing storm-water runoff.
You can contact the Tehama County Cooperative Extension office at (530) 527-3101 for a list of trees suited to our region and keep in mind that some trees can increase water use on your property.
Orient windows with overhangs to the south.
Since the sun is closest to the horizon in winter and directly overhead in the heat of summer it makes sense to have south facing windows that let the heat of sun rays into our buildings when we need it. By employing adequate overhangs and/or deciduous trees to shade them during the hot months we reduce heat gains when our buildings need to be cooled. These passive heating methods require no energy, only the use of our intellects to design sustainable buildings.
Landscape for water efficiency. You can cut outdoor water use significantly by replacing some or all of your lawn with native plants and ground cover, which are adapted to thrive on rainwater alone. Talk with your neighbors and the experts at local gardening centers to select the best plants for your particular situation and reseed the remaining lawn with droughtresistant grass. Place mulch around flowers and trees to help the soil stay cool and retain water.
Install drip irrigation systems and water your plants in the early morning when it is still cool.
Create natural fences. Trees and bushes can replace fencing and edging made from wood or energy- intensive manufactured materials.
They also provide food and shelter for local animals and insects.
Use plants to control pests.
Native plants tend to resist damage by local pests, and you can also avoid the need for toxic pesticides by planting flowers and bushes that attract pest-eating insects. For example, sunflowers draw lacewings?native predators of plant-eating aphids.
Use hand- or electric-powered lawn equipment. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that gas-powered push mowers emit as much nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons per hour as 11 cars.
Riding mowers emit as much as 34 cars.
Fertilize naturally. Leave grass clippings and leaves on your lawn or turn them into compost (regular mowing will help prevent grass clippings from clumping on the grass). By so doing you can supply nutrients without chemical fertilizers, avoid carbon-emitting trips to the dump, and create less landfill waste.
There are a number of organizations that can help you make good choices for your landscape.
Locally there is the Red Bluff Garden Club (see redbluffgardenclub. com), the Tehama County Extension Office (see cetehama. ucdavis.edu), and the Shasta College Master Gardener (see www.shastacollege.edu/cms .aspx?id=2597). In addition our many local builders, landscapers and gardening centers will provide free advice and information, and direct you to sources of supplemental help for big jobs.
I entreat you to invest some time and effort as we go through this seasonal transition to consider improvements you might make in your homes and businesses to live with the natural flow of the universe.
By adapting our construction, landscaping and energy using habits to local conditions we will minimize waste, protect our natural resources, and save a great deal of money in the process.
Richard Mazzucchi is a retired research engineer specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy. He has travelled extensively and now makes his home in Los Molinos, where he is striving to manifest a sustainable and spiritual lifestyle. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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In many developing countries economic growth and increased income-earning opportunities, especially for the rural poor, depend on the performance of the agriculture sector. Over the last 20 years, improved crop varieties have accounted for an estimated half of agricultural productivity improvements. As we face global population growth, increased competition for land and water resources from industrial and urban growth, climate change, and the need to protect the environment, we need new solutions to increasing agricultural productivity to combat hunger and poverty. Agricultural biotechnology offers an important tool, which along with traditional breeding, new technologies, and improved resource management, enhances crop, livestock, and aquaculture productivity.
This increases the incomes of small-scale agricultural producers in an environmentally sustainable way by:
- Reducing pesticide use and excess fertilizer use that pose threats to biodiversity and human health
- Battling damaging plant diseases and pests by developing new resistant crop varieties
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Branch Insignia: Two crossed arrows 3/4 inch in height and 1 3/8 inches in width all gold color.
The Special Forces branch insignia was authorized in 1987 for wear by personnel in the Special Forces branch. It was previously authorized in 1984 for wear by enlisted personnel in Career Management Field 18 (Special Operations). Originally (from 1890 to 1926), crossed arrows were prescribed for wear by Indian Scouts. During World War II, the crossed arrows were worn as collar insignia by officers and enlisted personnel assigned to the First Special Service Force.
Branch Plaque: The plaque design has the branch insignia, letters, and rim in gold. The background is Jungle Green.
Regimental Insignia: Personnel assigned to the Special Forces Branch are all affiliated to the 1st Special Forces since there is only one Special Forces regiment. The insignia is a silver color metal and enamel device consisting of a pair of silver arrows in saltire, points up and surmounted at their junction by a silver dagger with black handle point up; all over and between a black motto scroll arcing to base and inscribed "DE OPPRESSO LIBER" (Liberate From Oppression) in silver letters.
Regimental Coat of Arms: The regimental flags for the lst Special Forces has the shield of the coat of arms appearing on the breast of a displayed eagle. The background of the Special Forces regimental flag is Jungle Green. The Special Forces Groups have the same design and use this coat of arms on the Special Forces Group flags; however, the designation scroll contains the designation of the group instead of the designation "First Special Forces".
Regimental Insignia Symbolism: The shield of the Coat of Arms was approved for the First Special Service Force of World War II on 26 February 1943. The knife is of a distinctive shape and pattern and was issued only to the First Special Service Force. The crest is the crossed arrows from the collar insignia worn by the First Special Service Force in World War II but changed from gold to silver for harmony with the shield and to make a difference from the collar insignia. The coat of arms and distinctive unit insignia was approved on 8 July 1960.
Branch Colors: Jungle Green. 80066 cloth; 67191 yearn; PMS 343.
The establishment of jungle green as the branch color was approved by the DCSPER on 22 May 1987. Silver Gray is used as a secondary color on flags and guidons.
Birthday: 9 April 1987. The first Special Forces unit in the Army was formed on 11 June 1952, when the 10th Special Forces Group was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A major expansion of Special Forces occurred during the 1960s, with a total of eighteen groups organized in the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard. As a result of renewed emphasis on special operations in the 1980s, the Special Forces Branch was established as a basic branch of the Army effective 9 April 1987, by General Orders No 35 dated 19 June 1987.
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The course is part of this learning path
This course explores maps and how we can integrate them into our apps. We'll leverage map functions like finding the user location, showing the user's location on the map, and choosing a location on the map to get its coordinates. And in order to do that, we're going to be focusing on an app called Travel Book. We're going to integrate Core Data in this Travel Book as well so that we can re-practice what we have learned in the previous section.
This course is designed for anyone who wants to:
- Learn about iOS development and coding
- Move into a career as an iOS developer
- Master Swift skills
To get the most out of this course, you should have some basic knowledge of iOS.
Hi. Within this lecture, we're going to learn how to add the navigation and finalize our travel book app. Right now, when we click on this detailed disclosure button, we want to open navigation. So, we have to find a way to detect if the user tapped on this accessory view and there is a function to do that of course. Remember this is called a D, the right call out accessory view, and this is generally called accessory view. So, if you come over here and search for call out accessory control tapped. So, this is the function that we are looking for. If you double click on this function you will see something like this, call out accessory control tapped. So, our call out accessory control in this case the detail disclosure bottom. So, when the user taps on this button, this function will get called automatically. So, under this function, we have to open the navigation. In order to do that, I'm just going to control If selected title is not an empty string again. Because why? Because we're going to need the latitude and longitude in order to just open the navigation and we have to make sure they are not nil or they do not have any other value than we are looking for. So, if the selected title is not an empty string it means that we have a chosen latitude chosen longitude and we can safely use them. And the reason why we are using them we're going to leverage a function called leverage a method called CL geolocation. I'm going to show you what it is, but we're going to take this annotation latitude and annotation longitude before we forget what were those. So, we're going to use those in our colored accessory control tapped function. So, what is the CL Geocoder that I'm talking about? If you write CL Geocoder, this is an interface for converting between geographic coders and place names. So, if you say CL geocoder.reverse geocode location, that will give us some object called place mark. And this is what we need to open in the navigation. So, we have to use this and this will give us a place mark. And in order to use this as you can see, it asks for a location. So, this is kind of a function that we will use to give the location and convert it to a place mark, and then we will use that place mark object to open in navigation. But before we do that, of course we need a location and we're going to create that location by using annotation latitude and annotation longitude, and that's the reason why we are checking for if selected title is not empty. So, let's go for CL location and this will just ask for some parameters and easiest way to do that is to choose this latitude and longitude work, and we're not going for CL location according to the because in the CL Geocoder, function that we have seen before, it asks for this CL location specifically. So, I'm going to say annotation latitude and annotation longitude in here. And this will create my CL location and I named this request location but you can name this whatever you want. Now I can easily come over here, under if selected title is not empty string, I'm still in this if block. After I create my request location, I can just call the CL location.geo reverse thing that I have shown you and I can give this request location as a parameter. So, let's do that and see what we get back. So, CL Geocoder.reverse geo code location, okay, this one so find one between with location and completion handler. So, what is a completion handler? Let me write the location here first. So, request location, and if you come over this completion handler and hit "Enter", you can see that we're getting two outputs back. So, first we're getting an array and in which we have CL place Mac objects. So, that's what we were looking for. Remember we're going to use it for our Navigation. So, I'm going to call this place marks and the second one will be an error, so I'm going to call this error. So, what's a callback, what's a completion? So, this type is called closure. When we get something back from a function and it's called callback function in some of the programming languages, it gives us some outputs, and we generally get some multiple outputs here, like a completion error or place marks. So, when this action completes, we get some output as a result of that action and we can decide what to do with next. For example, we can check to see if error is not nil. If error is not nil that we can display an alert message to the user or if place marks is not nil, we can go ahead and do whatever we want to do. So, I'm going to do that exactly. So, if place marks dot count is actually bigger than zero, then I can create my place mark object, right? I can just call new place mark is an MK place mark, and I'm going to get this place mark from my place marks array. So, all I'm doing this for is to find a place mark object to use in my navigation remember. And this is giving us an error, so let me do a command B to see if there's an actual error. Yes, that's an actual error. It says that place marks is actually optional, so either we make this force unwrap and I believe it's not too safe, and it's not a safe operation to do that. So, I'm going to go ahead and use an if let. I'm just going to say if let place mark equals to place marks. It means that if place marks is not actually nil. So, if place mark is equal to place marks, then I can come over here and say if place mark.count is bigger than zero, so I replaced place marks with a place mark object. And just for a variable name, I mean I replaced the name place marks with a place mark. And in here I believe let new place mark, MK place mark. We have to change this place marks as well because we have renamed this with if let and since we have our place mark, we have to create an item, a map item. You're going to see what it is, so let me just write this. I'm going to say let item and this will be an MK map item, so this is a point of interest on the map. So, this will ask us for a place mark and this is the place mark that we have been trying to figure out. And now I can come over here and I can give it a name and you will see why I'm doing this. I'm just going to say chosen title from here, so let me see what was our title. A notation title, okay so let's say a notation title. It will display a title for us when we go for navigation and it gives us an error since we are in a closure, we have to say self.a notation title, okay, remember this is a closure type. In order to make this explicit, we are referring to annotation title that we have created before. Now, I can come over here and say item.opening maps, and it will ask me for launch options, and this is what it's going to bring out the navigation. For example, let me create these launch options. As you can see this asks for a string to any dictionary and the string that I'm looking for is actually the MK launch options mode, okay, mode key. So, I'm going to define my MK launch options, directions mode key. So, whether I'm going by a car or a bicycle or on foot. So, if you write MK launch options here, I'm going to go for driving. So, it will just show me how to navigate between points with driving. Of course we can change that, but this will be the default. So, let me run this and if this works, I'm going to take you over all these codes one last time so you will understand it better, don't worry. If I click on this, it will open the maps and it will just bring up a navigation and it asks me for a permission, of course I'm going to give it one. And here I am, this is my current location and it gives me a navigation to the Notre Dame categories. So, that's very cool, right. I can just see how can I go to Notre Dame category by car or by walk, I can choose other options as well. But since I made this a default option, I'm seeing the driving first. So, I have to bring up the navigation by saying item.opening maps and it asks me for a launch options and it's very easy to create that. But before we do that, we have to create this item with a place mark. And we create this place mark from CL Geocorder.reverse geo code location. And in order to get this place marks array, we have to give in a location. So, the location will be the annotation latitude and annotation longitude and it says that you created it but you didn't change it, so let me do it with let. Yes, it actually makes more sense. So, I believe when I explained it to reverse ray, so we created the item and it asks for this. So, it asks for that, it's more easy to understand. But maybe when the first time when we were doing it for the first time, it may seem complicated for you. As you can see, it brings up the navigation for different kinds of places, so it's working very fine. And I believe this is kind of hard to remember by so we have learned a lot of information during this process, right? But if you understand why we are doing all of these things, then it's okay, you don't need to remember these codes. You may just take a note and if somebody asks you to do some app, including a map, okay, you can come over here and you can take a look at your notes and you can write it on your own later on. You don't need to remember anything in here regarding to pin view customization, regarding to navigation, opening launch options. If you understand why we are doing all of these things, then that's okay. Furthermore, in order not to make this section into a very long run, we omitted some operations like hiding the keyboard. We omitted some operations like hiding the save button, so you know how to do that, right? If you are to make an app in which you will use these map options and then you will upload it to the app store, then you should definitely implement those functions as well. But luckily you know how to do that. So, let's stop here and continue within the next section.
Atil is an instructor at Bogazici University, where he graduated back in 2010. He is also co-founder of Academy Club, which provides training, and Pera Games, which operates in the mobile gaming industry.
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On January 6, 2016, North Korea’s state media announced that the DPRK had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. North Korea’s nuclear test resulted in a predictable array of international condemnations, but Russia’s harsh response to the DPRK’s belligerent action was especially intriguing.
Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vladimir Voronkov described North Korea’s nuclear test as a clear violation of international law and a national security threat. Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, the head of the Russian State Duma’s defense committee echoed Voronkov’s statement, calling North Korea’s nuclear test “frightening” and urging the international community to contain the DPRK’s growing nuclear potential. Following from this rhetoric, Russian diplomats have engaged with their counterparts in the United States, Japan and South Korea. Russia has also not ruled out supporting tougher international sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime.
Russia’s hawkish response to North Korean belligerence appears to have at least temporarily halted the trajectory towards more favorable Russia-DPRK relations, cemented by joint military drills, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first-ever visit to the DPRK, and the declaration of a year of friendship between the two countries. Russia’s transformed North Korea policy in light of the hydrogen bomb crisis can be explained by two main factors. First, Russia wants to thaw relations with Japan to dilute its increased economic dependence on China. Second, Russia believes a mediation role in the Korean peninsula would greatly bolster its international status.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
A Pivot to Japan
Even though Western analysts have frequently described stronger ties between Russia and North Korea as a renewal of the Soviet-era alliance, current cooperation has been much more limited and tactical in nature than the Cold War partnership. Vladimir Putin’s decision to reach out diplomatically to North Korea was a direct consequence of Western sanctions. To combat international isolation, Russia pivoted towards the Asia-Pacific and forged alliances with anti-Western authoritarian regimes across the developing world.
Although North Korean official rhetoric has hailed the DPRK’s pivot towards Russia as a diplomatic triumph, the partnership has weak economic foundations. Andrei Lankov, one of the world’s leading North Korea experts, believes that Russia’s pledge to expand trade with the DPRK to $1 billion by 2020 is primarily a symbolic gesture, as North Korea has little to offer Russia economically and Russia lacks the financial resources to rival Chinese investment in the DPRK.
As North Korea is little more than an expendable foothold for Russia in the Asia-Pacific region, its recent belligerence has caused Putin to look elsewhere. Russia is keen to avoid becoming economically dependent on China and is inherently fearful of Chinese economic hegemony in the Russian Far East, and Putin has attempted to use a common fear of North Korean aggression to thaw relations with Japan. Russia-Japan relations have been strained in recent years due to Japan’s disapproval of Russian military activities in Ukraine, its imposition of sanctions against Russia, and the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute. These tensions have resulted in a 30 percent decline in Russia-Japan trade in 2015, a worrying statistic for Kremlin policymakers seeking additional markets for Russian oil and gas.
Despite these ongoing sources of disagreement, Putin’s strategy of opposing North Korean belligerence to improve ties with Japan appears to be working. The vice president of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Masashiko Komura visited Moscow shortly after North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test. After consulting with Russian officials, Komura called for deeper Russia-Japan economic cooperation and collaboration on the development of a stricter UN Security Council resolution to deter further North Korean nuclear tests. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga also hinted that Shinzo Abe would visit Russia in the near future. This is a marked reversal in policy – high-level diplomatic meetings between Japanese and Russian officials were shelved after Dmitry Medvedev’s controversial August 2015 visit to the Kuril Islands.
In response to these positive developments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized in his January 12 statement, that both Russia and Japan desire stability on the Korean peninsula as peace allows for a “fruitful trade, economic and investment relationship.” Despite the conciliatory rhetoric, Japan is unlikely to break away from the Western consensus by lifting sanctions against Russia in the near future. But improved relations deriving from cooperation on Northeast Asian security could boost the prospects of a historic Japan-Russia treaty officially ending World War II and resolving the Kuril Islands dispute.
Komura officially displayed his support for peace talks on January 11. A successful diplomatic resolution to this long-standing conflict would be a major symbolic victory for Putin’s pivot to Asia strategy and potentially result in expanded Japanese investment in energy-rich Siberia.
Russia as Potential Mediator
Much like during previous security crises, China has been expected to lead mediation efforts after the latest escalation of hostilities on the Korean peninsula. South Korean president Park Geun-Hye has overseen significant improvements in the ROK’s bilateral relationship with China. Her calls for Chinese punitive measures against the North Korean regime will be a vital litmus test for the success of her diplomatic overtures. However, China’s vested interest in maintaining stability in North Korea to prevent a refugee crisis on its borders and to restrict the regional influence of the United States and Japan limits Beijing’s scope for action against the DPRK.
Even should China disregard these strategic concerns and threaten North Korea with drastic punitive measures, North Korea’s long-term compliance with a Chinese-mediated nuclear deal is not guaranteed. Kim Jong-un is keen to show domestic audiences that the DPRK is independent from China, despite its economic reliance on Beijing. The moral hazard created by past Chinese support for North Korea after nuclear tests could cause Kim Jong-un to question the credibility of Chinese threats.
In this context, Russia, North Korea’s second most important strategic partner, could have an opportunity to play a more prominent mediation role. While China’s improved relationship with South Korea was triggered in part by increased tensions with North Korea, Russia has arguably been more effective in balancing relations between North and South Korea. Even though Russia expanded military cooperation with North Korea after the annexation of Crimea, South Korea has refused to participate in Western sanctions against Russia. The ROK’s rhetorical statements on Ukrainian territorial integrity more closely resemble Chinese than European responses to Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine. South Korea has also upheld a visa-free travel agreement signed in November 2013 and cooperates extensively with Russia in the heavy industry and aeronautics sectors.
Russia’s state-backed news agency TASS reported after the announcement of bilateral talks between Lavrov and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, that South Korean experts were confident that Russia would spearhead the next wave of sanctions against North Korea. But Russia’s biggest contribution as a potential mediator on the Korean peninsula lies not in coercive diplomacy but in its ability to economically bridge North and South Korea. After forgiving 90 percent of North Korea’s debt in 2012, Russia announced extensive infrastructure investments, including the construction of a major natural gas pipeline from Sakhalin to South Korea. South Korean businesses responded to this proposal by participating in the Rajin-Khasan railway project that links a vital North Korean port city to Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway.
As Russia has much less of a vested interest in maintaining ties with North Korea than China does, North Korean elites would take a Russian threat to abandon these projects much more seriously than a Chinese threat to cut off assistance. Losing Russia as an ally could also threaten the DPRK’s diplomatic outreach to India and authoritarian regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa that have close relations with Moscow. By invoking the threat of complete international isolation for North Korea, Putin could compel Kim Jong-un to de-escalate hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
As the Russia-North Korea alliance was never as solid as the Communist-era partnership, Russia’s hawkish stance towards North Korea after Kim Jong-un’s latest provocations is unsurprising. Russia’s break from North Korea should be viewed as a tactical, short-term decision aimed at improving relations with Japan and bolstering its international reputation as a diplomatic arbiter. Should Russia succeed in achieving these objectives and become an indispensable player in one of Asia’s most intractable conflicts, Putin will greatly strengthen his case for Russia being an equal partner to China and the West.
Samuel Ramani is an MPhil student at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford in Russian and East European Studies. He is also a journalist who is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post Politics andWorld Post verticals, and recently to the Kyiv Post.
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Many of us who use smartphones have probably dropped our device. Have you ever experienced a cracked screen? How about a dead device? A brick? Whether you use a case or a screen protector, your smartphone can suffer tremendous damage if it gets dropped. Even if your device has Corning Gorilla Glass, the "insides" could still get damaged.
When will we see more rugged smartphones being used in the health care industry? Maybe it will be the day when Apple releases a rugged version of its iPhone. I believe there's a true need for health care professionals and students to switch to rugged devices because you can't afford to lose access to your critical data that's stored on a smartphone. For many of us, the smartphone is our peripheral brain. Life without a smartphone could mean utter chaos.
I'm sure we'll see more rugged smartphones designed specifically for the health care sector. Maybe they will have some of the features commonly found on Mobile Clinical Assistants (MCAs) and include a radio frequency identification (RFID) scanner along with a bar-code scanner.
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The Columbus Metropolitan Library will kick off its Summer Reading Club on May 31 at the Main Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
People of all ages are invited to a celebration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that will include games, activities, music and food. It also will provide an opportunity to sign up for the club.
Last year, 82,000 people participated in the Summer Reading Club.
"It's a great way to develop a joy of reading and instill that joy of reading," said Ben Zenitsky, a spokesman for the library.
This year's theme is "Imagine Your Story. Read," which will offer participants the opportunity to win prizes throughout the summer.
As readers track their progress, they can earn milestone prizes geared toward every age range, including coupons, flash drives and tote bags, Zenitsky said. Once they achieve a certain milestone, their names are entered in a raffle for a grand prize. Last year, CML gave a bicycle each to a boy and girl.
Greg Denby, manager of the Whetstone Branch, said the library is working hard to hold reader interest throughout the summer.
"We're real busy now because we have programs every day, different programs for different age levels," Denby said. "We're out there on the floor trying to hook kids up with good books they want to read. It's not school. Even reluctant readers, if you find them books they like, they're going to read them."
Zenitsky said students particularly benefit from the program.
"Research has shown summer is a time when students are vulnerable to losing reading skills they gained over the year," he said. "So the Summer Reading Club is a way to keep those skills fresh."
Zenitsky said there are hundreds of Summer Reading Club events at all 21 CML locations, which can be viewed at columbuslibrary.org/events. People can sign up for the club online or at any branch on or after May 31.
On a related note, CML will continue its Reading Buddies program this summer for children in kindergarten through third grade. The program is geared toward helping students with the state Third Grade Reading Guarantee tests.
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In the Media: Jack Gravely interviews University Librarian and more
January 24, 2013
For the annual Black History Month lecture Feb. 5, Peter Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project, took the stage with Marvin Anderson, who was exonerated of wrongful conviction after serving 15 years in prison. Anderson, an Innocence Project Board member, and Neufeld explored the relationship between race and wrongful conviction. The 11th annual VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture was sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and the Francis M. Foster African-American History Endowment Fund.
- University Librarian John E. Ulmschneider appeared Jan. 10 on WLEE's "Jack Gravely Show." He discussed VCU's hardworking students and how VCU Libraries serves them: Interview with John Ulmschineder.mp3.
- VCU Libraries Moves to the Cloud, in University News.
- VCU is among the first major research institutions to develop a cloud-based library platform. Today leaders in the library field from across the country will dive into a discussion on how the emerging cloud-based technologies are transforming research libraries. WCVE-FM's John Ogle interviews VCU Libraries Senior Associate Librarian John Duke, who led the technical team and talks about innovations with moderm academic libraries with WCVE-FM's John Ogle.
- January 2013 Richmond Magazine article about St. Philip School of Nursing, which operated from 1920 to 1962, features photographs and reference to Special Collections and Archives at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences.
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When a group of men and women leave Earth to start afresh on a new planet, they are alarmed to discover that the new planet is not the one they were aiming for. And other disasters follow as they attempt to land on the surface. But land they do and they name the planet Pax, almost immediately establishing a constitution that upholds peace and harmony with nature, and trust and support for each other. This will be a utopia in the making. There will be obstacles to face but they will endeavour to meet them with hope.
But, of course, they can have had no idea what they would face on a world so far away to the one that they had left. And a perfect society is no easy thing to achieve. In Semiosis we view the struggles of the settlers over a hundred years of so, moving from one generation to another. Each generation is clearly defined and apart from the others – one may have green hair, another may wear beads, and no sexual relationships are allowed between them. The result of this distinction and definition is an absorbing portrait of a society as a whole from members of it who have purposefully limited their perspective. It’s appealingly complex and unusual.
My favourite element of Semiosis, though, is its depiction of the animals and plants of Pax. Both have certain characteristics that are reminiscent of animals and plants on Earth – cats, lions, eagles, bamboo, oranges and so on – but, in other and more fundamental ways, they are entirely different, alien. All are sentient to varying degrees. The utopian aim of Pax is aided by the playful and trusting nature of some of the animals (some are adorably fluffy and friendly) and there are some stunning concepts – plants that swim through the seas or fly high in the skies. But one of the main challenges of life on Pax will be deciding how to evolve a new and equal society when the plant life wants to take an active part. The relationship between humans is difficult enough but how much more difficult life becomes when one must learn to decipher signals and signs from an entirely different alien species.
There are more discoveries to be made on Pax and some are shocking. Misunderstandings are rife and can have lethal consequences. Each section focuses on a different generation and so our perception of events and people shifts and there are moments when we realise that something may well have happened entirely differently to the way in which it’s presented. And it also means that we draw close to certain key individuals in each generation but then we’re almost forcefully taken away from them.
Sue Burke is a sophisticated storyteller and Semiosis intrigues from start to finish. It’s fundamentally a first contact story but it’s largely character-driven, complemented by the beautiful descriptions of the other life forms on Pax. The human settlers – Pacifists – constantly remind each other that it is they who are the aliens and it is up to them to try and make peace with the exotic life around them but everything in this wonderful novel is strangely curious, occasionally terrifying and often gorgeous. The themes are huge! There’s a great deal going on to think about and, as the clever novel continues, one character in particular tests everybody’s ability to understand the signs and symbols around them – the semiosis that is so crucial on Pax if society is to evolve. It is all absolutely fascinating and thoroughly engaging.
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Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art: James Mercer '20
Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.
A bike takes a bath; condoms are scattered across the kitchen counter; men walk in sync to the DMV. James Mercer’s '20 drawings are definitely humorous, humor derived primarily from the suggestion of human behavior, rather than images of humans actually behaving this way. In calculus the derivative of a function reveals the function’s sensitivity to change over time; likewise, Mercer’s work, like his bike-in-a-bath—two human-sized objects fitted together—is derivative in the mathematical sense. His work, in their black-and-white, have the appearance of being a simplification of human life, when in fact these cunning grids and sparse images reveal far more.
In this conversation, we talk about life in a gentrifying New York, collaborating on art projects, and the function of language in art.
Looking around your studio, I see lots of paintings, drawings, flat things. Mostly two-dimensional things. Is “visual artist” too broad of a term to call the work that you do?
JM: I don’t think it’s too broad. I try to put very few constraints on myself, and particularly while I’ve been in school, really if I have some sort of impulse or idea that’s sticking in my head, no matter what medium it is, I try to give myself space to do that. It’s just that most of those ideas have been for paintings and drawings.
It’s often an image that will pop into my head that I will become fixated on. I will be thinking about variations on something, for example, this painting of a bike. Imagine it from the side, from all these angles, think about various ways and situations in which I could paint a bike. And what will usually happen is that one idea will be a little bit stickier in my mind, one of them will kind of persist, and I more or less will have to paint it—I kind of don’t have a choice.
You placed a bicycle in a bathtub. Could you take me through the thought process of getting that bicycle into the bathtub?
JM: Here, I was thinking about the placement of the bike. I also have a kind of a persistent interest in objects in spaces that can be stand-ins for a person. A bike and a bathtub are both those, they are both single-person-sized objects. On a very basic level, I ride a bike, and I use my bike every day, so to some extent, not really in any obvious way, but there is a little bit of a way in which the bike is a stand-in for me, or could be. Or at least I identify with it. So I think the image of a bicycle was one persistent idea in my mind, and how I could portray it, and where it could go.
You know, I was excited about the absurdity of that—also the double-figure thing. If you look at the image closely, the scene is a little spare. The tiles on the bathroom floor are kind of cracked, a little bit messed up. And I think part of what was compelling for me was that there might be a sense of abandonment, that you are coming into an empty scene. Having a view from above implies that this scene is truly empty in the sense that the viewer can’t even really be there. You’re looking at the objects from an impossible view, there is no one here.
People are missing in your paintings, which is quite a melancholy feeling. In their place, people-sized objects. What’s the story behind this insistence on grids?
JM: I have some pretty wild philosophical musings about grids that have been going through my head for a while. The idea that a grid is sort of a fundamental organizational structure, and maybe all reduced are being reduced to a single grid, then also living in New York, living in a more or less grid system, which then nests other grids in the form of floor plans of the buildings, the layout of various objects, working on lined paper. If you start counting the number of rectangles in any given room, for example, you realize that it’s enormous.
Standing in this room right now, there’s probably tens of thousands of rectangles in this space. Grids and geometric organizations are everywhere. We’re surviving by them constantly, and I wanted to explore that very simply. It’s such a pervasive form in my life that it was inevitably just coming out in the work. I began by trying to do perfect rectangles, with a ruler, but then I started to feel as though measuring the grids without a ruler, drawing them freehand, so the line kind of wavers, was more evocative of my lived experience in New York, which is that everything is laid out in a very geometric way, but it’s also imperfect. Everything’s so damaged. This room has various dings and dents and stains on it, everything is kind of destroyed by touch.
Why are there condoms on a stovetop?
JM: I was thinking about living in New York, specifically, grids—I was attracted to these weird contrasts between intimate and impersonal, or spaces that are infrastructural and also domestic. The thing about condoms is that they are mass-manufactured objects for totally utilitarian purposes, but they also exist in the most intimate spaces and moments in our lives. There’s something really crazy when you think about them. There’d be this insertion of industry into quite literally the most intimate sexual interpersonal space. Scattering them all over a kitchen, and having a lot of them, implies some kind of weird sexual situation, and I was compelled by this strange dissonance between distance and closeness, and the kind of perverseness of that, and the potential of this to be kind of disgusting.
I guess something about these go back and forth between indifference and intimacy, between geometry and disgust, is that often for me, the thing that breaks the order of the picture is where it actually becomes fun.There is a way in which these images can be disturbing, but there’s also a way in which I find joy in the spaces where order breaks down. There might be something dystopian about them, but that dystopianism is actually a positive thing. That’s actually where I find pleasure in images.
What is happening here [below]?
JM: There’s a bunch of guys coming out of a plastic bag and then going in a line into the Cranston, Rhode Island DMV.
I was thinking it was maybe their life cycle: they leave their plastic bag and then go to the DMV, and then that’s it. When I was living in Providence—I went to RISD—there was this failed retail chain called Apex. The buildings would look really strange, sort of pyramid-shaped buildings, very bizarre. It looked like a ziggurat or something. And the chain store failed, so for a while Providence had its registry of motor vehicles in the abandoned Apex. You would go in and it would be this massive room. It’s like if you took a Dress Barn or a T.J. Maxx and converted it into this single space full of office cubicles where people would go to renew various forms of identification. It was really weird, this funny mix between retail and state institutions. At one point I got a ticket to go to a particular booth to renew my driver’s license, and I got lost on the way, and just ended up in what used to be the men’s section clothing, but there were just piles of discarded coat hangers everywhere. It was very bizarre, it left an impression on me.
From that, I learned you went to RISD.
JM: (Laughs). Which bit of information is more important? We’ll let the readers decide.
How was RISD?
JM: It was great. RISD was just what I needed at the time. I’d been obsessively making artwork for all of high school and before—a lifelong obsession, really. It was great to go there and be able to make. And the school really celebrates that. At least when I was there, they appreciated the people who could just kind of focus and produce a lot of work.
Could that ever be overwhelming, or paralyzing, sometimes, you think?
JM: There were some people who didn’t have as clear of a direction and didn’t know what they wanted as much, and so I remember that time for them could be a little more frustrating. And I’m also of the opinion that it’s sometimes healthy and necessary to be in a little bit of a crisis, and that anyone who doesn’t have crises every so often probably isn’t trying. There’s also a way in which you could have a thing that you’re doing, and get so fixated on the opportunities or other ideas could drift off. I’m of the opinion that sometimes it’s necessary to make that art. School’s a great place for that.
School can be a place for great freedom.
JM: I’d mentioned earlier wanting to give myself a lot of permission while I’m here. If I have an idea, even if it doesn’t seem like a good idea, I will execute it. And that’s something I’ve really appreciated about this program, having the space to do that. I’ve definitely gone down some weird side roads while here. I’ve had to explore things that turned out to be dead ends, because that’s just part of what you have to do, to find out what you really want. I think I’ve narrowed in on some things.
What specific changes have you noticed?
JM: For one thing, I realized how important language is to me. That was something that I wouldn’t have guessed a year or two years ago. I would not have guessed how important the tenets of language would have been for me. When I first got to school, I would make work, and each work would look like it was made by a different person. And only when you saw a lot of them would it seem credible that these were made by the same artist. That, I think, has softened a bit since school. There’s more transactions, there’s more consistency across pieces. I still experience them as being pretty disparate, but it’s narrowed a little. I would attribute that to just having the time to explore the spaces in between works. I’ve made a few works where I think about a literal analogy, kind of like: these two paintings are going to have a baby painting, and I’m going to make a painting that’s halfway between these two paintings. I’ve done that before, and it’s been somewhat productive.
How does language play into your work? What kinds of freedoms do you have to give yourself to allow this element to sink in?
JM: I’m a pretty verbal person on a cognitive level. I’ve always been sensitive to words, and to language. When I came to school, I also had serious questions about the value of art, and how art operates within a larger context, and what it is we want from artwork, either as artists or as consumers of it. And language can be a very clear way of communicating—no one questions whether or not we need language. But people constantly question whether we need art. Bringing text into artwork is a way to think about those kinds of differences, and to think about what an artwork can do, what it can be, what it can mean.
Have you worked in other mediums?
JM: I’ve done a lot of work in animation. I recently did an animation with Yifan Jiang, who’s also in the program, called Two Truth and a Lie. I really love animation. It’s very time consuming so I don’t make them all the time, I’ll do an animation every couple years or so, and there will be long stretches in which I paint and draw.
It was great working with a friend, that was so much fun. Working with another person opens up other possibilities, things that you wouldn’t do. Decisions that you would never make alone may come up in a collaboration, so it will expand what’s possible for you to make, what’s possible to happen in artwork. Ideas I would’ve written off, she would be very enthusiastic about, so it becomes almost like we would dare each other to do wilder and wilder things. Yifan and I really understand each other, and we’re friends, and so we share enough of a vocabulary—we’re also strangely similar as people. Anyway, we share enough of a vocabulary that I think, even though we were daring each other to do these wild things and communicate about them and understand them and process them very well.
That can be rare.
JM: I think so. Particularly in interdisciplinary programs, where people have different backgrounds and different vocabularies. Maybe part of what helped was Yifan and I both have a solid painting and drawing two-dimensional background, and are even similar in our artwork. We’re both very interested in painting. We are both wanting to turn up our commitment to narrative and to storytelling. Having that shared vocabulary enabled us to communicate despite doing weird, counterintuitive things.
You have lived in New York for twelve years now, right? Since 2008. That’s quite a while. I love hearing people’s moving-to-New York stories. What’s yours?
JM: There really was no grand scheme to move to New York. I was in Providence, somewhat drifting, and a friend offered up a room for sublet. So I’ve been here for twelve years, and will be here maybe for life. (Laughs).
How has the city changed for you?
JM: The specter of gentrification has been a much talked-about subject, and it’s—the understanding that you as an artist are part of that problem has been a feature of living in New York since I arrived. It seems like all that’s really changed is the vanguard of gentrification, and what’s already lost territory. I will say there is a kind of disturbing sense that eventually New York will end up like Zurich, where you just have to be rich to exist there. I think this is also said about D.C., which is surrounded by a periphery of poor areas that kind of feed the wealthy center of the city. It’s easy to imagine New York going in that direction, but who knows what tomorrow holds.
Who are some visual artists you admire?
JM: Paul Klee is a heavy hitter for me. Diana Cooper, who teaches here and is a good friend of mine, has had a very big influence on me. I listen to a lot of music, and I think that arguably the influences coming to me from music are more important to me than the visual art. Specifically, Peter Seligman, he’s also a friend of mine. Josephine Halvorson ’07 is someone who has more recently entered my mental space.
What classes are you taking?
JM: This semester, I’m taking Painting III with Rochelle Feinstein, which is great. I’m also taking Sarah Sze’s class, and it’s been really excellent to meet her and have studio visits with her. Before, I’d been mostly taking philosophy classes, specifically David Z Albert’s class, which was excellent, I would highly recommend it to anyone. A totally no-bullshit kind of thinking is required for that class. It really helps to clarify and structure your thoughts. The whole class is about constructing these elaborate very precise ways of thinking. I’d also taken Philip Kitcher’s Classical American Philosophy class, which was really about American pragmatism, also an exceptional class. Not unrelated to David’s science of philosophy class, but maybe with a bit of a more expanded scope. Both of them are great.
There’s a sense of realization with your work, I find. Like the men leaving the bag to enter the DMV, the condoms in the kitchen—things are paired weirdly. What is your intention in doing this?
JM: I like them to be sort of a slow read. I think a lot of people come in and don’t know what they’re seeing, and part of that is by design. I like images where it takes a second to resolve what you’re even seeing. That’s an important method for me. Slowing down recognition. Looking at something familiar and, in such a way, surrendering to the unfamiliar.
JM: I’m full of aphorisms. (Laughs). I just hang out here and spout quotes until the sun goes down.
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Early Saturday morning I returned home after receiving a routine COVID-19 test at the Seahawks’ facility, sat on my couch and held back tears.
I thought about Colin Kaepernick and Michael Bennett, two Black athletes who used their platform as prominent figures in America’s most popular sport to denounce America’s most deep-rooted sin. I thought about how, years after Kaepernick took a knee, the sports world is finally starting to listen. And as I thought about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell publicly saying “Blacks Lives Matter” in June and NFL teams releasing statements in support of that movement this week after another police shooting of an unarmed Black man, and my tears finally started to fall.
What took so long?
As Seahawks coach Pete Carroll reached the heart of his 14-minute denunciation of racism Saturday — the one he made before announcing the cancellation of the day’s practice — I started to tear up again, for the same reason.
What took so long?
Carroll spoke from the heart Saturday, as he so often does. He gave a call to action to fellow coaches in all sports to use their platforms and their influence to help rid America of racism. He encouraged everyone to vote and said his entire team would be registered to do so on Saturday. He denounced the whitewashing of American history, implored White people to listen to Black people as they discuss their plight and accurately described systemic racism as a problem White people created — and thus should have the task of solving.
“Black people can’t scream anymore,” Carroll said. “They can’t march anymore, they can’t bare their souls anymore to what they’ve lived with for hundreds of years, because White guys came over from Europe and started a new country with a great idea, wrote down great writings and laws and all of that: democracy, freedom and equality for all. And it ain’t happen.”
Carroll is a 68-year-old White man. His voice therefore will inherently carry tremendous weight in this country. Carroll is also an NFL head coach, meaning his voice is amplified further in this football-obsessed nation. Because of these truths, the impact of what Carroll said Saturday cannot be overstated. As a 28-year-old Black journalist covering an NFL team in the city I’m from, I truly appreciated his speech. It was tremendous. It was genuine. It was powerful.
It was also long overdue.
Carroll began his statement by noting that he’s been coaching in some capacity for roughly 50 years, which has provided him a unique opportunity to be in diverse settings on a daily basis. He’s coached athletes from all walks, recruited young men from impoverished and privileged backgrounds alike and developed young men into adults for years.
Translation: Very little of this is new to him.
To take it a step further: For five years, he coached Bennett, who in August 2017 claimed to have had his life threatened by police on a Las Vegas sidewalk. Bennett cried at the podium at the team facility while recalling the incident to the media one week later. That entire year, he sat during the national anthem to protest racism, oppression and gender inequality while working on a book titled “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.”
Bennett not only was a victim of police brutality but also was directly involved with local organizations in creating change, amplifying the voices of Black victims of police violence, such as Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother who was killed by Seattle police in June 2017. As powerful as it is for Seahawks players and coaches to be moved to action by videos of violence against people like George Floyd and Jacob Blake, there have been plenty of similar situations in Seattle that have gone relatively unnoticed.
What Carroll did Saturday is what I would have imagined him saying in the wake of Bennett’s experience. First, he’d have to believe his player, but as Carroll said Saturday, an impediment to racial progress has been an unwillingness on the part of White people to listen to Black people. Ignorance is only partly to blame.
“The really amazing thing that I’ve learned is Black people know the truth,” Carroll said. “They know exactly what’s going on. It’s White people that don’t know. It’s not that they’re not telling us. They’ve been telling us the stories. We know what’s right and what’s wrong. We just have not been open to listen to it. We’ve been unwilling to accept the real history. We’ve been taught a false history of what happened in this country. We’ve been basing things on false premises, and it has not been about equality for all. It has not been about freedom for all. And it needs to be.
“This is a humanity issue that we’re dealing with. This is a White people’s issue, to get over it and learn what’s going on and to figure it out and start loving everybody that is part of our country and that want to come to our country, wherever they want to come from.”
I’m not saying Carroll wasn’t listening. I know he was. But on Saturday, he took the next step, spreading the word and calling for action, specifically to other White people. That is what had been missing from his allyship.
“Coaches, I’m calling on you,” Carroll said. “All coaches. Let’s step up. No more being quiet, no more being afraid to talk the topics. No more ‘Oh, I’m a little bit uncomfortable. I might lose my job because I’ve taken a stand here or there.’ Screw it. We can’t do that anymore. Maybe if we do, we can be a leadership group that stands out, and maybe others will follow us.”
Maybe other coaches will follow Carroll’s lead, but speaking out can come with consequences from their superiors, an element that Carroll alluded to and cannot be ignored. At the very least, every coach, Black or White, should take Carroll’s advice on listening to their players, because as they’ll find out, those players have plenty to say.
“Our players are screaming at us. Can you feel me? Can you see me? Can you hear me? They just want to be respected,” Carroll said. “They just want to be accepted, just like all of our White children and families want to be. It’s no different, because we’re all the same. There’s a lot of people that don’t see it that way, but there’s a lot of people that do. I’m hoping that from this point forward, maybe there’s a new door to open for us, and we can walk through it together with the thought of doing what’s right.
“What’s right is treating people equally, we know that. Forefathers knew it — they wrote it all down, they just didn’t do it. They got caught up in making money, and they figured out a way to do it, and it meant persecuting and abusing an entire race of people.”
Black athletes do not have the answers. They’ve just diagnosed a problem they did not create but one they feel the consequences of every day. When people in positions of power like Carroll acknowledge those problems and demand that they be fixed, the steps toward enacting change will begin.
I understand this might come off as a somewhat cynical view of Carroll’s courageous decision to speak out against systemic oppression of Black people. You might be wondering why I’m not simply applauding his bravery and honoring his candor.
Believe it or not, I commend Carroll for his comments, as they were much needed. I understand how difficult it was for him to be vulnerable in this moment. At the same time, as Carroll said, Black people have been at this for years, and it’s exhausting. And while White people joining the party is necessary, there’s only so much patting on the back Black people are willing to do when they finally show up.
The central theme of Carroll’s football program is competition. What he and other White people in the organization are seemingly learning through emotional conversations with one another is that they are desperately needed in a war against racism that Black people have been fighting for centuries.
“I hope someone is listening because we have to create the change,” Carroll said. “Can you imagine how long Black people have hung together with the faith and the hope something is going to change and it’s going to be better?”
As one of the three Black people on the Zoom call, I wanted to answer that particular rhetorical question.
Carroll went on to say that it must require “unbelievable endurance” and “unbelievable competitiveness” to maintain faith and keep hope alive that change is coming.
It takes all of that and more.
I hold back tears when I think about that, too.
(Photo of Pete Carroll and Michael Bennett in 2016: Otto Greule Jr. / Getty Images)
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FRANKFORT -- Two state lawmakers with an extensive background in education are the recipients of the 2011 KIDS First Advocacy Award from the Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA).
Rep. Linda Belcher (D-Shepherdsville) and Sen. Jack Westwood (R-Erlanger) were honored Feb. 23 in Frankfort during the opening session of KSBA’s two-day KIDS First Advocacy Days in Frankfort lobbying conference.
“Sen. Westwood and Rep. Belcher are exactly the kinds of advocates our
schools and students deserve in Frankfort,” said KSBA President Tom
Blankenship, a member of the Lincoln County school board. “They came from the education field, they are devoted to issues revolving around teaching and learning, and they have been active partners with our efforts to advance student achievement through Kentucky’s elementary and secondary education system.”
Belcher is a retired educator, having served as a teacher, principal and district administrator in the Bullitt County system before being elected to the House of Representatives in 2008. Her nomination by Bullitt County Schools Superintendent Keith Davis cites her work to raise Kentucky’s mandatory school attendance age with adequate funding, her co-sponsorship of
the 2009 school reform legislation, Senate Bill 1; and her leadership in seeking training for school employees to recognize signs of student suicide
She currently serves as vice chairman of the House Education Committee.
KSBA annually recognizes the legislative work on behalf of Kentucky schools by a state representative, a state senator, a school board member and a superintendent. The local school leaders will be honored in July.
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What is Collagen?
Collagen is one of the most plentiful healthy protein in your body, and it’s a huge part of your tendons, skin, bones, teeth, muscle mass and also tendons. Collagen gives your skin strength and strength. It helps the cartilage in your joints stay supple. It offers structure to your arteries, maintaining them strong and also adaptable. It offers your bones framework, as well, by functioning as ‘enhancing poles’. Collagen is an outstanding building product.
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It’s important to understand that the ‘kind’ of collagen is only relevant when it’s currently a part of your body. When you consume it, your body simply re-makes it into brand-new kinds.
Collagen is so huge as well as tough that we can not absorb it ‘as is’ when we consume it. What we can do though, is ‘hydrolyze’ the collagen, which indicates it’s broken down into much smaller pieces (‘ peptides’) by water, making it functional by your body. Collagen Facility offers easy-to-digest hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
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This article will certainly aid you choose which collagen supplement is best for you.
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What is the difference in between hydrolyzed collagen and collagen peptides?
There is no difference. Collagen proteins are long chains of amino acids. The process of hydrolysis breaks them down into peptides, which are just shorter chains of amino acids. Collagen supplements are variously classified as “hydrolyzed collagen” or “collagen peptides,” but they’re the same.
That requires collagen supplements?
In my point of view, virtually everybody might benefit. Most individuals do not consume bones, skin, and also connective cells– the parts of pets which contain collagen. That suggests they do not obtain the amino acids (especially hydroxyproline, glycine, and also proline) that are found in collagen however not much in muscular tissue meat.
How much collagen should I take daily?
There is no RDA for collagen, and to my understanding, no studies have established ideal dosing guidelines. You may need more or less depending on your dietary consumption. To be secure, it’s always a great concept to comply with the dosage guidelines on your collagen supplement of option.
Can you take way too much collagen peptides?
Several points in nature comply with a J-shaped curve– way too much or inadequate are both negative. The exact same might be real for collagen supplements, yet regrettably, there’s no indicator of what would make up “excessive.” There’s also no evidence that collagen toxicity is an issue if you following dosing guidelines.
HOW LONG DOES IT CONSIDER COLLAGEN TO FUNCTION?
It depends what you’re taking collagen to support. If you’re taking collagen for muscle development, favorable changes will certainly start to happen nearly instantly with your exercises– although you may not see the development as soon as possible.
In studies taking a look at collagen supplements for joint discomfort and also skin elasticity, individuals experienced noticeable improvements in regarding four to 8 weeks of everyday supplements.
Like any type of supplement, collagen isn’t an over night miracle remedy however sticking to an everyday supplement routine will certainly create the best results.
What Is Bovine Collagen?
Bovine collagen comes from cows– ideally grass-fed cows.
There are 3 various types of collagen: collagen I, II, and also III. Each type of collagen supports various parts of the body. In bovine collagen made from hide, you’ll usually find kinds I and III which operate in similar means to support skin, bones, muscular tissues, tendons, as well as digestive tract wellness.
If you get a bovine collagen supplement made from cartilage material, connective tissues, or bones, this supplement must also include collagen kind II which assists assistance joint wellness in particular.
What Is Marine Collagen?
Marine collagen has type I collagen and also is generally sourced from wild captured fish. This type of collagen is exceptional for improving sustainability methods because it’s made from fish components that commonly wind up in the garbage.
The wonderful aspect of aquatic collagen is that it’s easy for the body to process as well as take in.
Any individual on a vegan or strict vegetarian diet regimen can not take collagen supplements due to the fact that it’s always sourced from some kind of pet product.
Nonetheless, unlike standard jelly, bovine collagen and also aquatic collagen do not contain any kind of pork-derived products so they appropriate for anybody on a kosher or halal diet.
Does Collagen Break a Fast?
Yes. Considering that collagen is a protein, it stops the autophagy process induced throughout fasting.
During periodic or long-term fasting, autophagy takes place to clear the cells of built-up toxins. Collagen or any other kind of healthy protein is a precise no while fasting.
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NorthBay Adventure is the kind of small business that could be expected to buy medical insurance for workers under sweeping health-act rules taking effect in 2014. But executive director George Comfort says that's not likely to happen.
Instead, NorthBay became self-insured last year, paying most of its workers' health costs directly, a practice more typical of large employers. The decision to self-insure was about free choice, savings, and what's best for his company, Comfort says.
But others see it as a threat to the Affordable Care Act. As more small employers like NorthBay avoid the health act's requirements through self-coverage, small-business marketplaces intended to cover millions of Americans could break down and become unaffordable, they say.
"What you've got is basically a loophole for the small employer to get out of the ACA requirements," says Robert Laszewski, a Virginia-based consultant and former insurance executive.
To employees, medical self-insurance looks like a regular health plan. Self-insured employers pay for most worker health costs directly, though they contract with an insurer or other company to administer claims. The employers also buy coverage known as stop-loss for claims exceeding a certain amount. Brokers say a growing number of firms see such plans as low-cost alternatives to conventional coverage because they're exempt from ACA requirements such as insurance taxes and specified benefits.
NorthBay, which is located on the north shore of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay and delivers outdoors education to sixth-graders, saves some 45% on self-insured health costs for its 60 or so covered employees compared with the price of regular coverage, says Comfort.
"We have a very young workforce," says Comfort. "Our average age is at or below 30. So we have a very healthy group."
But if too many small companies take a similar route, insurance plans for small businesses will be stuck with older and sicker members, say policy scholars.
Under some conditions, such a dynamic could drive up the cost of traditional insurance by as much as 25 percent, says Matthew Buettgens, a researcher at the Urban Institute, at a time when many already worry about the affordability of coverage next year.
"If it becomes too easy to self-insure, you're inviting employers to choose one kind of coverage if their workers are healthy and a different kind of coverage if they're sick," says Mark Hall, a law professor at Wake Forest University.
That undermines a basic feature of the exchanges: the "community rating" obliging insurers to offer similar prices to all comers, spreading the cost of care among well and sick alike. In a worst-case scenario, small employers will self-insure when workers are healthy, avoiding community rating, and then immediately buy price-controlled coverage on the exchanges if someone becomes gravely ill.
Health-act advocates especially worry that firms with fewer than 50 employees will self-insure. Those companies aren't required to offer policies under the health law but many are expected to buy in online marketplaces, also known as exchanges, scheduled to open in October.
However, self-insurance might be the only way some struggling employers can afford medical coverage, says Michael Ferguson, chief operating officer at the Self-Insurance Institute of America, an industry group.
Even so, he disputes the notion that firms and stop-loss companies can "cherry pick" the system by self-insuring only when workers appear healthy. Even young people have accidents and get sick, he says, adding that companies often know less about employees' health than they think.
"The idea about employers gaming the system is just a canard," he says.
The key to self-insurance for small companies is stop-loss coverage, which often kicks in when medical costs per worker are as low as $10,000 or $20,000, limiting the employer's risk almost as well as a regular plan. Brokers report brisk sales of self-insured plans and this backstop coverage.
"Last year we saw a huge uptake of self-funded or partial self-funded business," says David Fear, a Roseville, Calif., consultant who helps brokers and agents issue stop-loss coverage.
The average size of self-insured companies Fear handles is between 25 and 30 workers, he estimates. His business for firms with fewer than 100 employees doubled in the last year, he says.
At BSI Strategic Consulting, a Fresno, Calif., firm that helps small companies self-insure, "our business has more than doubled in the last 6 months," says CEO Lawrence Thompson. "There's a lot more interest in self-funding than I've seen in the last 32 years."
At insurance giant Cigna, self-coverage for small employers grew by a fifth last year, says Julie McCarter, vice president of product development for Cigna Select, which sells medical stop-loss coverage and claims processing.
"A lot of it comes down to what's going on in Washington," says Donald Drelich, CEO of D.W. Van Dyke, a Connecticut insurance consultant. "People are seeing the cost of insurance rising because of the things that are being added [under the ACA], so they're exploring other possibilities."
Self-coverage is exempt from ACA premium taxes estimated to raise prices from 2% to 4%, as well as from the health law's "essential benefit" and community rating rules. Employers such as NorthBay's Comfort say that gives them the flexibility to tailor plans for their workers.
For insurers, there may be another reason to promote stop-loss policies: They aren't subject to the health act's limit on profits, which requires at least 80% of premiums for small business to be spent on medical care.
Officials in some states are trying to limit self-coverage. California, Rhode Island, and Minnesota are considering legislation that raises the point at which stop-loss insurance kicks in, reducing or eliminating small firms' ability to self-insure.
Two years ago then-New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance Thomas Considine warned stop-loss insurers to cease "selectively marketing" to small employers with young workers. He pledged to issue regulations prohibiting the practice but, following industry protests, they were never published. A proposal to recommend limiting stop-loss insurance with low trigger thresholds stalled recently at the insurance commissioners' association, also after industry lobbying.
Last month the self-insurance institute formed an alliance with the National Retail Federation and other business groups to oppose such measures. If the idea behind the ACA is to increase health coverage, such groups ask, why would anybody want to limit small businesses' ability to offer self-insured plans?
"To the employers it looks like health insurance, it feels like health insurance, and it's less costly," says David Burton, general counsel for the National Small Business Association. "Do you want to set up a situation where an IBM or a GM can be self-insured -- or even a small company with 100 or 150 employees -- and the smaller guys don't have that option? I don't see the logic in that."
This article, which was produced in collaboration with USA Today and first appeared March 15, 2013, was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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One of the first images from the new VIMOS facility, obtained right after the moment of “first light” on February 26, 2002. It shows the famous “Antennae Galaxies” (NGC 4038/9), the result of a recent collision between two galaxies.
Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038/NGC 4039
Release date: 13 March 2002
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VIMOS is a visible (360 to 1000 nm) wide field imager and multi- object spectrograph mounted on the Nasmyth focus B of UT3 Melipal. The instrument is made of four identical arms with each a field of view of 7′ x 8′ with a 0.205″ pixel size and a gap between each quadrant of ~2′. Each arm is equipped with 6 grisms providing a spectral resolution range from ~200-2500 and with one EEV CCD 4k x 2k.
VIMOS operates in three different modes: Imaging (IMG), Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS), and with Integral Field Unit (IFU).
As an immediate outcome of this dramatic event, stars are born within massive complexes that appear blue in this composite photo, based on exposures through green, orange and red optical filters.
Individual exposures of 60 seconds each; image quality 0.6 arcsec FWHM; the field measures 3.5 x 3.5 arcmin2. North is up and East is left.
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Students in Orange County are reading and learning with myON all year long!
Become a Star Reader with myON!
Our 2016-17 school year reading campaign, “Lights, Camera, Read: Find Your Focus with myON” is underway from now through May 22, 2017.
This school year, we want to be sure that you have the props – and prompts – to help every student become a star reader with myON. Our Educator Prompt Book is a turnkey toolkit that contains tips, resources and materials to help keep students reading and learning all year long! Family resources are part of this fun-filled package.
Find them all on our Educator Resources site http://prodev.myon.com/in-school/reading-campaigns ]. (ProDev login required.)
Our OCPS Title I Summer Reading Contest has ended!
Way to go, OCPS!
Our 49 myON schools read over 47 million words, 44,000 books and spent over 546,000 minutes reading this summer! There’s only one word to describe those statistics – STUPENDOUS!!!
Congratulations to our 3 Top Summer Champion Schools!
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It’s easy to believe that we shape our own destiny and draw our own pathway through life, yet might we be wrong? Does history influence us more than we think? So the question is: What did history ever do for us?
We may not choose to study the past, but we cannot remove ourselves from it’s impact on our day to day existence, can we?
Scotland’s North East is positively dripping in history. It’s a region favoured by the early Kings and the powerful bishopric. There are battlefields which hosted history-changing encounters and before all of that, a host of mysterious pagan worship sites to boot. Our lifetimes are tiny flashes of time in relative terms, and to ignore the learnings from those who came before us, may be a mistake.
Leonardo Da Vinci once said “It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” And isn’t that still so true today? We have the do-ers, those who spot opportunities and dive right in. And then there’s everyone else.
We may not all be go-getters and potential history makers, but by learning from the mistakes of others, we can avoid some of life’s banana skins and save our energies for more positive endeavour. We lead our children and those around us by example, and so even in that small way, we are changing history, and can count that as our valid contribution to human development.
Maryculter House is one of the North East’s top drawer hotels. Doused in history, tracing it’s origins back over 800 years. The lands around the hotel were granted to the Knights Templar back in 1227.
It’s Managing Director is Peter Walker, who has used teachings from the past to shape a new destiny for his business. Peter began his teenage years in rural Aberdeenshire, with little idea of where his career might lead.
His first job as a paperboy however gave an early indicator of his attitude to customer service. He quickly realised that his clients should get their morning paper early enough to read it over breakfast. This meant a very early start, making him probably the least visible paperboy in the town, but certainly the one with the happiest households! His belief, which still determines his approach to hospitality today, is that you should do anything for your guests. A great premise from which to shape a career in this exacting business.
Peter was encouraged by an observant school teacher to take work experience in a local hotel. In turn this became a part time job, and led to a college course to study hospitality. With an opportunity to go on to University, Peter opted to take the less crowded route by heading straight into full time work.
The renowned Pittodrie House Hotel was where he found Theo Smith, a respected hotelier of drive and discernment. He, along with other equally illustrious names, shared with Peter the knowledge and rich experience they’d acquired over many years. All of this was absorbed and directed as Peter determined to explore every facet of the trade he was making his own. From the exacting standards of fine dining, to the multi disciplines of event management, taking the learning and direction of those who’d gone before, led Peter to be appointed a Master Inn Holder, a remarkable accolade for one so young.
May 2022 sees the launch of the ‘Girly Getaway’ at Maryculter House. So get your friends together to enjoy 2 cocktails each, cream tea, brasserie dinner, overnight stay and breakfast, plus a Molton Brown gift set.
All for £149 per person.
Humans have found a way to leave their mark on history. From the days of painting on cave walls to heroic deeds which will be remembered long into the future. Martin Luther King stated that “We are not makers of history, we are made BY history”. So perhaps, when we understand the impact of history on each of us, we can allow it to guide us to our own individual success in whatever shape that takes. We may not choose to study the past, but we must surely acknowledge that it shapes us more than we might have realised.
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Professionalism/The Loss of Ocean Ranger
On February 15, 1982, the Ocean Ranger, a mobile offshore drilling platform, sank off the coast of Newfoundland Canada. All 84 lives aboard were lost. It remains the biggest accident in the Canada’s offshore petroleum industry. Post-accident studies showed that it was not a catastrophic technological failure; rather, a result of a combination of a failure of the Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO) training policy, the lax safety training of the crew, and the lacking seaworthiness of the lifeboats on board. Due to the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, improvements in safety regulations for offshore drilling companies, technological innovations in survivability, continued escape evacuation and rescue (EER) research, and improved safety training procedure have helped decrease the number of offshore drilling incidents. The Ocean Ranger sinking showed that technological improvements are only as effective as the training and management structures of its users.
Ocean Ranger BackgroundEdit
The Ocean ranger was designed by ODECO engineers incorporated for ODECO International of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Norwegian firm of Fearnley & Eger A/S. It was built at the Hiroshima yard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries .
The Ocean Ranger rig consisted of two pontoons, eight vertical columns, an upper hull with two decks, and a supporting framework of braces and trusses. The two pontoons each contained 16 tanks that served as storage for ballast water, fuel oil, and drill water. The pontoons were connected to the upper hull by eight watertight vertical columns. Each of the four corner columns contained three chain lockers for storing the anchor chains. There were two upper deck openings that led to each chain locker. Although the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) designated these openings as the first point of down-flooding, there were no coverings provided for these openings, no drainage system in the chain lockers, no means installed for pumping out water, and no alarm system to indicate flooding. The Ballast control room was considered a dry area, but it was not protected from sea water. There was no protection provided for the console in case of a port light break, and the console was not designed to be watertight.
The Ocean Ranger's safety manual described how to keep the rig level and stable, how to operate it safely during transit, mooring, drilling and storms, and how to handle severe damage. On January 21, 1977, the manual received final ABS approval but ABS disclaimed any responsibility for the adequacy of the instructions contained in the operating manual. The ABS certified only the Ocean Ranger's construction but not its safety design or operation. However, ABS’s official stamp could have led third parties to conclude that the approval applied to the manual as a whole. As a result, the Ocean Ranger’s operating procedures were never thoroughly reviewed. The manual was deficient in several respects :
- Lack of direction for the prevention of down flooding into the chain lockers
- The closure of deadlights in the ballast control room during storm conditions
- Manual control of the ballast system in the event of serious damage to the ballast control console.
- No information concerning the limitations of the ballast system
Manning and OperationEdit
Post-accident research showed that the command structure of the Ocean Ranger was deficient. The electrical and mechanical systems on the Ocean Ranger were maintained by two electricians, an electronics technician, two motormen and two mechanics . They shared responsibility for the maintenance of the system, but no single person fully understood the function and operation of the entire system. Thus, no one was able to detect and remedy the situation during a severe accident. The crew structure of the Ocean Ranger reflected a predominant interest in an efficient industrial endeavor. The marine operations which ensured the stability and safety of the rig were relegated to a subordinate role, comparable to that of any other support group. Evidence shows that at the time of the loss, the Ocean ranger was undermanned by a minimum of 3 certificated lifeboatmen and 2 able-bodied seamen . Additionally, in practice, the crew training on the Ocean Ranger was not consistent with ODECO’s stated training program. Three formal employees testified on the public hearing that 80 weeks of training were required. In reality, less than 40 weeks of training were practiced .
February 15th 1982Edit
A series of weather forecasts issued by Newfoundland Oceans Research and Development Corporation (NORDCO) indicated that the weather conditions at the drill site would deteriorate during the early hours of Sunday, February 14th, as a deep low centre approached the area. At 1:30 a.m. on Saturday February 13th, NORDCO forecast that wind speeds of 60 knots and maximum sea heights of 22 feet could be expected at the drill site by mid-afternoon on Sunday . By 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, the forecast was changed to maximum wind speeds of 70 knots and maximum sea heights of 24 feet. Then, at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, NORDCO revised its forecast predicting potential wind speeds of 90 knots and maximum sea heights of 40 feet by 2:30 p.m, and warned against continued drilling during the storm .
Cause of the IncidentEdit
The actual sinking of the Ocean Ranger was caused by winds of 68 knots and seas of approximately 50 feet . With the greater sea heights, the large waves and strong winds caused failure to the portlights of the ballast control room. The rough weather caused the windows to break, and this failure allowed seawater to enter the ballast control room .
The Ocean Ranger’s ballast control console and communications equipment malfunctioned due to the water entering the room. This control room was used to control the pumps and valves that kept the rig balanced and stable. The susceptibility of this console to water damage was a serious design deficiency for a craft working in a marine environment.
Control Room MalfunctionEdit
Because of the malfunction of the control panel, employees onboard the Ocean Ranger took matters into their own hands. A rod and bushing, part of the ballast control system, was used to control valves manually in the event of a failure of the automatic controls . Due to the limited knowledge about the operations of the vessel during an emergency, operators wrongly believed that inserting the rod closed the valves to the stability rigs where seawater from the storm was flooding. In fact, this opened the valves, allowing the seawater to flood in.
Capsizing of the Ocean RangerEdit
At approximately 1 a.m. on Monday February 15th, 1982, the Ocean Ranger started emitting distress calls, indicating that they were abandoning the rig . Rescue teams were sent out to aid the MODU, but were not able to get to the rig in time. At 3:00 a.m., the Ocean Ranger capsized and sank into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 166 miles east of St. John’s Newfoundland in about 260 ft of water.
All 84 people aboard the Ocean Ranger died. 22 bodies were recovered between February 15th and February 24th 1982, and had died as a result of hypothermia. The remaining 62 bodies of crew-members remain missing. Out of the 84 people, 46 of were Mobil employees, and 38 were contractors from various other service companies.
Effect of The Ocean RangerEdit
Lawsuits and ODECO's FateEdit
In October of 1983, the families of The Ocean Ranger crew reached settlement with the ODECO Company and its partners. Individual settlements from $25,000 to $270,000 were awarded. The total settlement was approximately $20 million . In 1993 11 years after the loss of the Ocean Ranger, the Diamond M Corporation purchased all outstanding ODECO company stock from Murphy Oil, ODECO’s parent company .
Following the Ocean Ranger and EER ResearchEdit
The flowchart above shows the events that occurred directly following the sinking of the ocean ranger. In 1983, the East Coast Petroleum Operators Association published a report on offshore safety which analyzed the current state of affairs. The Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster (RCOMD) published parts I and II of their report on the ocean ranger; this report identified the primary causes of the ocean ranger disaster and the primary action items to prevent such an event from being repeated. In 1985 and 1987 respectively a federal government investigation into the Ocean Ranger disaster occurred and a five year update report on regulatory improvements since the Ocean Ranger was published. Parts I and II of the RCOMD report identified three primary groups involved in the Ocean Ranger sinking: government, industry, and researchers.
At the time of the Ocean Ranger sinking, the majority of research into EER was focused on technology. Following the Ocean Ranger sinking, there was a noticeable increase in EER research .
In July of 1988 the Piper Alpha , an offshore oil drilling platform in the North Sea burned down. This resulted in the deaths of 167 of the 228 crew members onboard. Prior to the fire the Piper Alpha was responsible for 10% of the oil and gas production in the North Sea. The Cullen Report published in 1990 conlculded that there was no technological faul onboard the Piper Alpha platform. The fire was due to the failure of the safety management systems and of the command and control structure responsible for preventing and managing emergencies. This resulted in a shift in focus in EER research, from a mostly technological focus to a combination of technology and systems. .
Improvements Since Ocean RangerEdit
Individual survivability has been improved through new immersion suits. Evacuation methods from the platforms have been renovated through life boat launch system enhancements and the seaworthiness of evacuation vehicles has also been improved. The reliability and effectiveness of search rescue and recovery has been increased through improved capabilities of the search and rescue aircrafts. Despite these advances, some manufactures of immersion suits and lifeboats refuse to interrupt current production lines to design and develop new equipment for offshore energy industry systems because in maritime, offshore oil drilling companies make up a small percentage of revenue compared to world shipping fleets.
Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada (PRAC) was created and has led to the creation of "Communities of Interested" which create specific research areas and prevent redundancies in research. However, due to the "cyclical nature" of the offshore industry some research is lost in the complexity of the operations resulting in inefficiencies and duplication of research. In addition escape, evacuation, and rescue (EER) research follows a "pattern of disaster", it focuses on fixing the element of technological capability found lacking in the last disaster. As a result relatively little EER research breaks new ground.
New safety regulations in offshore drilling platforms require more frequent equipment checks and safety drills. The survival equation was changed.
Safety regulations enacted to respond to specific disasters are appropriate when the regulation is enacted but the regulation quickly becomes irrelevant due to technological advancements. Safety regulations in mobile offshore drilling must add consideration for future advancements in technology.
EER Standards & ProceduresEdit
Advances in safety equipments and standards address EER problems that existed in the 1990's. However, due to international nature of offshore drilling, some countries refuse to implement EER standards created without their influence. This leads to delay in modernization of certain offshore technological standards.
New safety training procedures incorporate recent updates to EER standards. In addition, personnel onboard offshore platforms are required to participate in safety training prior to deployment onboard platforms. Despite these improvements, changes in adult learning theory have not been efficiently applied to employee training. Current training requirements may not fully reflect the needs of a modern learner, making EER training less effective.
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Do you remember the day when you learned how to ride a bike? I was only 7, but I have vivid memories of my grandfather teaching me how to ride. He had a big yard, and there was one place where a concrete block stood, and became my starting position. This was because I didn’t use training wheels, and I couldn’t touch the ground. The block became my perch where I mounted up.
The bike was a hand-me-down. The paint was red and chipped, but I loved it. I would climb on the bike and he would give me a push to get me going. There were definitely some good crashes, but I picked up the balance thing really well. I just couldn’t stop…literally. Being a crafty little guy, my solution was simple; I just rode in a circle around the yard for as long as I could, and then attempted different “landings”. I tried to ride by trees and grab branches, I tried to just jump off the bike, and I also tried to ride along the fence to stop myself with friction. One way or another, I would get the job done. Those are good memories.
From the first push off the concrete block with my grandfather, I’ve always loved cycling. It’s one of those things you can do in life where your stress can be put on a shelf and you can enjoy the hum of your tires on the road and feel the wind blowing through your helmet. I enjoy being in the saddle and riding the fantastic trails that are available throughout the metro area.
I had an accident several months ago, and really tore up my knee and I haven’t been able to be in the saddle for a while. I was getting really tired of the stationary recumbent bike that I have had to use for physical therapy.
Today, I was finally given the thumbs up by my surgeon to get back up on my bike and get to the outdoors! I was super excited and nervous at the same time. I didn’t know if my knee would hurt or if I would be comfortable on the bike. I remembered back to my childhood, where I used my determination to learn to ride. With today’s ride, I had to use some of that determination to get back into that saddle and push myself off that concrete block so that I could get some mileage out of my body. The ride was fantastic. While it took a little longer than normal, I busted out 24 miles yesterday. Not bad for not being on my bike since September!
Thanks for taking this trip down memory lane with me. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to think back to the time you learned how to ride a bike. Then get on your bike and ride with that same excitement that you had when you rode solo for the first time.
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Marian Diamond (1926-2017) was an American neuroscientist. Her work changed scientific understanding of the brain from being a static organ that generated with age to one that could be affected by experiences. As she so well put it: “Use it or lose it.” In examining four chunks of Einstein’s brain, which she said looked like… Read More Like a diamond …
“People think of education as something they can finish.” Isaac Asimov
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso
Tomorrow … might you have an opportunity to learn something from someone close?
“By three methods, we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience which is the bitterest.” Confucius
I have the utmost respect for people who can admit their mistakes. And more importantly, learn from them.
“Don’t judge. Teach. It’s a learning process.” Carol S Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success
What did you learn today?
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To discuss alternative approaches, the British Cattle Veterinary Association (BVCA) has invited Dr Cath Rees, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Nottingham and Chief Scientific Officer at PBD Biotech, developers of Actiphage, to speak at the BVCA Congress 14-16 October 2021.
Dr Rees says: “I am delighted to have this opportunity to discuss the role of Actiphage in the future of bTB diagnosis.
“Tuberculosis is a complex disease that has different phases as it progresses through the animal. We see Actiphage as another tool as part of a combination of approach to better manage the disease.”
The limitations of the Single Intradermal Comparative Cervical Test, (SICCT) which is currently used in the UK, were outlined in an independent review led by Professor Sir Charles Godfray (2018).
SICCT measures the immune response of the animal, rather than detecting the presence of the mycobacteria and actual infection. Therefore, the skin test may miss cattle that are in the early stages of infection that have not yet developed a strong immune response to the infection and also give a false positive results for animals that have been vaccinated.
The session will look at alternative approaches for testing for bTB :-
- Actiphage, which directly identifies the presence of the mycobacteria in blood or milk,
- Enferplex and Idexx that identify the presence of antibodies created by the animal’s immune response.
The Actiphage assay allows genomic DNA to be recovered from the mycobacteria so that it can be used in PCR assays to sensitively and accurately identify any mycobacteria present in the blood sample.
The Actiphage method allows routine detection of less than 5 mycobacterial cells in blood within 6 hours and therefore is more sensitive than other PCR-based methods.
By confirming the presence of M. bovis at very early stages of infection, often before the animal has developed a full immune response, Actiphage enables infected animals to be identified earlier as part of a disease management strategy.
It can also be used as a DIVA tests to support the introduction of a vaccine which would provide the ultimate protection of herds.
BCVA Congress 2021, 14th – 16th October 2021
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Trying to follow the national conversation about “fake news” and the spread of bad information online can be confusing because not everybody is using the same vocabulary.
Claire Wardle, a research fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, has created a glossary to help everyone understand certain words and phrases and how terms that may seem quite similar actually have very different meanings. For example, disinformation is false information meant to cause harm while misinformation is false information that might cause harm, although not deliberately.
Below, we provide a copy of Wardle’s “Information Disorder: The Essential Glossary,” with her permission. Her work is based on research collected by Shorenstein Center researchers Grace Greason, Joe Kerwin and Nic Dias.
Definitions and terminology matter. For the policy-makers, technology companies, politicians, journalists, librarians, educators, academics and civil society organizations all wrestling with the challenges posed by information disorder, agreeing to a shared vocabulary is essential.
This glossary features the most frequently used and commonly misunderstood words, acronyms and phrases that relate to information disorder. It is designed to be a living document that will evolve as a reference point alongside research findings, shifts in technology and the inevitable debates sparked by the definitions.
An algorithm is a fixed series of steps that a computer performs in order to solve a problem or complete a task. Social media platforms use algorithms to filter and prioritize content for each individual user based on various indicators, such as their viewing behavior and content preferences. Disinformation that is designed to provoke an emotional reaction can flourish in these spaces when algorithms detect that a user is more likely to engage with or react to similar content.¹
An API, or application programming interface, is a means by which data from one web tool or application can be exchanged with, or received by another. Many working to examine the source and spread of polluted information depend upon access to social platform APIs, but not all are created equal and the extent of publicly available data varies from platform to platform. Twitter’s open and easy-to-use API has enabled thorough research and investigation of its network, plus the development of mitigation tools such as bot detection systems. However, restrictions on other platforms and a lack of API standardization means it is not yet possible to extend and replicate this work across the social web.
Artificial intelligence (AI) describes computer programs that are “trained” to solve problems that would normally be difficult for a computer to solve. These programs “learn” from data parsed through them, adapting methods and responses in a way that will maximize accuracy. As disinformation grows in its scope and sophistication, some look to AI as a way to effectively detect and moderate concerning content. AI also contributes to the problem, automating the processes that enable the creation of more persuasive manipulations of visual imagery, and enabling disinformation campaigns that can be targeted and personalized much more efficiently.²
Automation is the process of designing a ‘machine’ to complete a task with little or no human direction. It takes tasks that would be time-consuming for humans to complete and turns them into tasks that are completed quickly and almost effortlessly. For example, it is possible to automate the process of sending a tweet, so a human doesn’t have to actively click ‘publish’. Automation processes are the backbone of techniques used to effectively ‘manufacture’ the amplification of disinformation.
Black hat SEO (search engine optimization) describes aggressive and illicit strategies used to artificially increase a website’s position within a search engine’s results, for example changing the content of a website after it has been ranked. These practices generally violate the given search engine’s terms of service as they drive traffic to a website at the expense of the user’s experience.³
Bots are social media accounts that are operated entirely by computer programs and are designed to generate posts and/or engage with content on a particular platform. In disinformation campaigns, bots can be used to draw attention to misleading narratives, to hijack platforms’ trending lists and to create the illusion of public discussion and support.⁴ Researchers and technologists take different approaches to identifying bots, using algorithms or simpler rules based on number of posts per day.⁵
A botnet is a collection or network of bots that act in coordination and are typically operated by one person or group. Commercial botnets can include as many as tens of thousands of bots.⁶
Data mining is the process of monitoring large volumes of data by combining tools from statistics and artificial intelligence to recognize useful patterns. Through collecting information about an individual’s activity, disinformation agents have a mechanism by which they can target users on the basis of their posts, likes and browsing history. A common fear among researchers is that, as psychological profiles fed by data mining become more sophisticated, users could be targeted based on how susceptible they are to believing certain false narratives.⁷
Dark ads are advertisements that are only visible to the publisher and their target audience. For example, Facebook allows advertisers to create posts that reach specific users based on their demographic profile, page ‘likes’, and their listed interests, but that are not publicly visible. These types of targeted posts cost money and are therefore considered a form of advertising. Because these posts are only seen by a segment of the audience, they are difficult to monitor or track.⁸
Deepfakes is the term currently being used to describe fabricated media produced using artificial intelligence. By synthesizing different elements of existing video or audio files, AI enables relatively easy methods for creating ‘new’ content, in which individuals appear to speak words and perform actions, which are not based on reality. Although still in their infancy, it is likely we will see examples of this type of synthetic media used more frequently in disinformation campaigns, as these techniques become more sophisticated.⁹
Disinformation is false information that is deliberately created or disseminated with the express purpose to cause harm. Producers of disinformation typically have political, financial, psychological or social motivations.¹²
A dormant account is a social media account that has not posted or engaged with other accounts for an extended period of time. In the context of disinformation, this description is used for accounts that may be human- or bot-operated, which remain inactive until they are ‘programmed’ or instructed to perform another task.¹⁰
Doxing or doxxing is the act of publishing private or identifying information about an individual online, without his or her permission. This information can include full names, addresses, phone numbers, photos and more.¹¹ Doxing is an example of malinformation, which is accurate information shared publicly to cause harm.
Encryption is the process of encoding data so that it can be interpreted only by intended recipients. Many popular messaging services such as WhatsApp encrypt the texts, photos and videos sent between users. This prevents governments from reading the content of intercepted WhatsApp messages.
Fact-checking (in the context of information disorder) is the process of determining the truthfulness and accuracy of official, published information such as politicians’ statements and news reports.¹³ Fact-checking emerged in the U.S. in the 1990s, as a way of authenticating claims made in political ads airing on television. There are now around 150 fact-checking organizations in the world,¹⁴ and many now also debunk mis- and disinformation from unofficial sources circulating online.
Fake followers are anonymous or imposter social media accounts created to portray false impressions of popularity about another account. Social media users can pay for fake followers as well as fake likes, views and shares to give the appearance of a larger audience. For example, one English-based service offers YouTube users a million “high-quality” views and 50,000 likes for $3,150.¹⁵
Malinformation is genuine information that is shared to cause harm.¹⁶ This includes private or revealing information that is spread to harm a person or reputation.
Manufactured amplification occurs when the reach or spread of information is boosted through artificial means. This includes human and automated manipulation of search engine results and trending lists, and the promotion of certain links or hashtags on social media.¹⁷ There are online price lists for different types of amplification, including prices for generating fake votes and signatures in online polls and petitions, and the cost of downranking specific content from search engine results.¹⁸
The formal definition of the term meme, coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976, is an idea or behavior that spreads person to person throughout a culture by propagating rapidly, and changing over time.¹⁹ The term is now used most frequently to describe captioned photos or GIFs that spread online, and the most effective are humorous or critical of society. They are increasingly being used as powerful vehicles of disinformation.
Misinformation is information that is false, but not intended to cause harm. For example, individuals who don’t know a piece of information is false may spread it on social media in an attempt to be helpful.²⁰
Propaganda is true or false information spread to persuade an audience, but often has a political connotation and is often connected to information produced by governments. It is worth noting that the lines between advertising, publicity and propaganda are often unclear.²¹
Satire is writing that uses literary devices such as ridicule and irony to criticize elements of society. Satire can become misinformation if audiences misinterpret it as fact.²² There is a known trend of disinformation agents labelling content as satire to prevent it from being flagged by fact-checkers.
Scraping is the process of extracting data from a website without the use of an API. It is often used by researchers and computational journalists to monitor mis- and disinformation on different social platforms and forums. Typically, scraping violates a website’s terms of service (i.e., the rules that users agree to in order to use a platform). However, researchers and journalists often justify scraping because of the lack of any other option when trying to investigate and study the impact of algorithms.
A sock puppet is an online account that uses a false identity designed specifically to deceive. Sock puppets are used on social platforms to inflate another account’s follower numbers and to spread or amplify false information to a mass audience.²³ The term is considered by some to be synonymous with the term “bot”.
Spam is unsolicited, impersonal online communication, generally used to promote, advertise or scam the audience. Today, it is mostly distributed via email, and algorithms detect, filter and block spam from users’ inboxes. Similar technologies to those implemented in the fight against spam could potentially be used in the context of information disorder, once accepted criteria and indicators have been agreed.
Trolling is the act of deliberately posting offensive or inflammatory content to an online community with the intent of provoking readers or disrupting conversation. Today, the term “troll” is most often used to refer to any person harassing or insulting others online. However, it has also been used to describe human-controlled accounts performing bot-like activities.
A troll farm is a group of individuals engaging in trolling or bot-like promotion of narratives in a coordinated fashion. One prominent troll farm was the Russia-based Internet Research Agency that spread inflammatory content online in an attempt to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.²⁴
Verification is the process of determining the authenticity of information posted by unofficial sources online, particularly visual media.²⁵ It emerged as a new skill set for journalists and human rights activists in the late 2000s, most notably in response to the need to verify visual imagery during the ‘Arab Spring’.
A VPN, or virtual private network, is used to encrypt a user’s data and conceal his or her identity and location. This makes it difficult for platforms to know where someone pushing disinformation or purchasing ads is located. It is also sensible to use a VPN when investigating online spaces where disinformation campaigns are being produced.
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Situation in CAR remains unstable, humanitarian access difficult, civilians in fear
|Publisher||UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)|
|Publication Date||5 July 2013|
|Cite as||UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Situation in CAR remains unstable, humanitarian access difficult, civilians in fear, 5 July 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/51da672e4.html [accessed 19 January 2017]|
Three months after the ousting of the Central African Republic government, UNHCR is extremely concerned for the situation of more than 200,000 internally displaced people and over 20,000 refugees there.
Over the past month, and together with our partners, we have had some limited access to parts of Bangui, as well as further afield in CAR - namely Ouham, Batangafo, Bambari, Kaga Bandoro and Mbaiki. These visits were intended to assess the general situation of people affected by the recent insecurity. The findings are very troubling.
Overall, there remains a serious absence of security, and lawlessness is widespread. Our staff on these missions received reports of arbitrary arrest and illegal detention, torture, extortion, armed robbery, physical violence including sexual violence, rape and attempted rape, abduction, restriction of movement, targeted lootings and attacks on civilians. Villages and houses had been burnt down in some areas by armed groups.
Violence against women, girls and boys had also increased. Humanitarian agencies, working under an inter-agency response, have been giving assistance and counselling to victims in some locations.
Of additional concern to UNHCR is the recent arrest of one of our former government counterparts who worked in Bangui. We are currently seeking information about this person from the authorities, and assurances of his safety.
Although schools have reopened in parts of CAR, in many areas they remain closed. Access to health and basic services is also very limited. Mothers with new-born babies in many areas have no access to medical care and new births are not being registered.
Despite the volatile security situation, UNHCR and its partners are coordinating efforts to assist refugees living in camps in CAR (mainly of Congolese and Sudanese nationality).
UNHCR, along with the World Food Programme and the International Medical Corps, has been able to distribute food to some 11,000 refugees in the refugee camps of Batalimo, Bambari and Zemio. Refugees also received plantation seeds in the Zemio refugee camp.
In neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where over 40,000 CAR refugees have arrived, UNHCR continues to work with the national authorities to relocate refugees from the bordering areas into safer locations. A majority of refugees are in DRC's Equateur and Oriental provinces.
Nearly 60,000 people have fled CAR since December 2012. As more people continue to flee insecurity, the total number of refugees from CAR in the region now stands at over 220,000. UNHCR has recorded some 1000 refugees arriving in DRC last month.
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Publisher: Phoenix Publishing Inc; First Edition edition (May 1998)
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
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Downloadable formats: PDF
each plant has its personal specified religious strength or its personal deva. Devas are the radiant gentle of the common Divine which permeates all things.Since the earliest instances humans have been conscious that each one of Nature is divine. nice and wondrous myths have been instructed which defined the presence of divine strength because it exists in thunder, in bushes and in sun. a few of this lore used to be the basis of religions. however the less complicated tales reminiscent of these of a plant's strength explored day by day concerns like healthiness and love. This realizing of the realm has been preserved in folklore via poems, chants, ditties and spells.From getting to know the background of folklore from cultures worldwide, styles emerge which permit us to process the real nature of crops' devas. This compendium provides the lore and the corresponding utilization for 330 magickal herbes. nice care used to be taken simply to incorporate folklore that was once documented as being authentic.You will meet many new herbes during this textual content and discover interesting magickal and religi makes use of. yet such a lot of all we are hoping you come back to recognize the divine that surrounds your lifestyle.
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Two major uses of iron pots
Iron pots can be used for two different purposes. The first purpose is: using it for growing plants and the second purpose is: using it as a cookware. This article covers the various reasons because of which the iron pots are used for growing plants & for cooking different kinds of foods. Certain tips are also mentioned in this article that helps you in using the iron pots well – for cooking purposes. It is true that various modern kinds of pots are available in the market – like the plastic pots – that can be used for growing plants. But they are not environment friendly and thereby using iron pots helps nature too (when compared to the usage of plastic pots which are not easily degradable & cause negative effects to the environment).
Two major uses of iron pots
Iron pots are the pots that are made up of iron – which are in cylindrical shape or round shape. These pots can be used for two different purposes.
- The first use of the iron pots is as a cookware
- The second use of the iron pot is to grow plants
The first use of the iron pots is as a cookware
Each cookware is made up of a different kind of material. Some cookware has non stick coating on it that helps you in cooking easily – as the food materials do not get stuck to the cookware in such cases. But the non stick material is not healthy and causes harm to your health. Therefore use iron cookware pots instead of the non stick ones – which you can gather from the market easily – for your cooking purposes. This helps you in maintaining your health well and also assists you towards better health.
Human beings need a specific amount of iron in their body in order to be healthy. Otherwise diseases like anemia results. A natural way of getting iron while cooking is through the usage of iron pots that you buy from iron pots suppliers in India. They provide you with nice iron pots that can be used finely for your cooking purposes. This helps you in gathering better health through the iron content that goes inside your system via the food that you prepare using the iron pot & eat.
Initially iron cookware consumes more oil than the other types of cookware. But slowly the iron cookware absorbs the oil and provides you with a fine finish (as a layer is created on the cookware that helps you in preparing food easily – similar to the non stick coating in the non stick pan). This is because of the layer of the oil coating that form on the top of the cookware (by repeated usage).
The second use of the iron pot is to grow plants
Iron pots can be used for growing plants too. There are many other kinds of pots like pots made out of earthenware and the pots that are made out of plastic materials. The plastic pots are not good for the environment as they are not biodegradable in nature. The earthenware on the other hand is biodegradable. But the issue is that they easily break. So it is better to use iron pots instead of these two kinds of pots for growing plants. Make sure that you buy an iron pot that have a hole at its bottom – facilitating drainage of the extra water that is poured into the pot. Too much of water too damages the plants like no water. Hence it is always mandatory to use iron pots that have a hole towards the end – assisting the fine drainage of the extra water poured into the pot. Buy iron pots from flower pots manufacturers in India and use them for your plants-growing needs.
The two kinds of iron pots that you can gather from the market are: iron pots that can be used as cookware and iron pots that can be used for growing plants. Buy them and have a great time cooking or growing plants.
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It was a dream that always seemed far off into the future - an obscure plan to host an urban youth baseball development academy in the nation’s capital.
That day is arriving, or will be arriving soon, and the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation is busy moving forward at a frenzied pace after overcoming complex bureaucratic obstacles. It’s something the Lerner family has poured its hearts into since assuming ownership of the team in 2006.
And this past winter, the final piece fell into place. The District of Columbia approved a 10-acre lease at Fort Dupont Park for the construction of a state-of-the-art baseball and academic development facility culminating a complex land transfer arrangement several years in the making.
Today, it’s full steam ahead for Marla Lerner Tanenbaum and her crew, who hope to break ground on the new facility in May. When finished, the property will host a regulation baseball field, a Little League field and a softball field where players, coaches and Major League Baseball instructors will teach baseball skills clinics to the children. As part of Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy Initiative, MLB faculty will travel between different cities to teach at the various academies.
“I’ve had players and coaches express interest or downright enthusiasm to me to be a part of this,” Tanenbaum said. “I’m hoping the players who are committed to us over a longer period of time, like Ryan Zimmerman and Jayson Werth, will take a deeper interest in it.”
Tanenbam consults with Harlem RBI to help structure the youth development portion of the program, which teaches not only baseball skills but literacy, academic development, nutrition and health. Tanenbaum is also busy recruiting a new executive director to implement the Lerners’ vision for the academy.
“We’ll open all three fields and the academy building by our opening day in 2012,” Tanenbaum continued. “If we can do something earlier than that, we will. I’m hoping to break ground by May.”
When complete, the academy will open to third- and fourth-graders in the schools near Fort Dupont Park. Gradually, the program will expand until it serves children through seniors in high school.
Nationals Park architects at Devrouax-Purnell began working on the project pro bono, but continue to advise the Lerners on the final design, which changed after the lease finally fell into place. The Brickman Group also pledged its interest in the project, loaning the pre-eminent field designer in the country, Murray Cook, to the project. Cook advises Major League Baseball on its fields and he’s helped the Lerners with design placement, green issues, sighting of the fields and sighting of the academy building on the Fort Dupont property.
“They’ve all really put their heart and soul into this. I’m excited about that,” she said.
And so, the dream is almost a reality. Soon, district youth will have access to a tremendous new baseball facility, world-class baseball instructors and a program designed to provide academic enrichment and development.
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Q- Some women argue that the Dower (a gift, whether material or moral, the Husband gives to his wife) is an insult to the woman and her feelings; Furthermore, they consider it as a price to the woman paid by the man, what is your answer to them?
A-The dowry is not a price to the woman, however, it is a gift as God, the most exalted, said: (And give women their dowries as a free gift, but if they of themselves be pleased to give up to you a portion of it, then eat it with enjoyment and with wholesome result.) 4:4. So, the dower could be a copy of the Quran or teaching part of it, or whatever the husband and the wife agree upon.
Conditions of temporary marriage
Q: What are The Conditions of Temporary marriage and what is the wording of the contract?
The woman has to say that I have wedded you myself and she must state the time period and the dowry. The man has to say that he accepted the marriage. The time period and the dowry have to be defined. The woman has to be free: (she ought to be unmarried and has finished the period she ought to stay unmarried after her last marriage. The woman has to be either Muslim or from the People of the Book (Christian or Jew).
It is allowed to conclude a temporary marriage with a virgin if she is an adult, since she has the right to wed herself without the permission of her guardian, but other considerations should be taken into account – like bad reputation the girl might acquire or that she might put herself in a dangerous situation, since it is illegal to endanger oneself in Islamic law even if it were in marriage.
Q: Is writing the form of the contract considered a condition for the validity of temporary marriage?
A: It does not need to be written to become valid, whereas, confirming the contract by writing is permissible and even preferable.
Q: Is muta marriage lawful? what are its conditions ?And how is it done?
A: Muslims have agreed unanimously on the legitimacy of “Muta”. Many Haidths showed that it was being contracted during the Prophet’s age as well as during Abi Bakir’s age and a part of Omar’s. Later, the juristic opinion of the juristic sects, other than the Shiites sect, considered it illegitimate (haram). Whereas, the Shiites still consider it legitimate (halal).
Muta marriage is also called “breakable marriage”, since it is limited by a definite time at the end of which it would be terminated without divorcing. Thus, it is different from the “permanent marriage” which is not limited to a specific time; and would not be terminated unless by divorcing. Muta marriage is similar to permanent marriage in many ways while it is different from it in what follows:
Firstly, in the verbal form of the contract, the dowry (al-mahr) and the period must be stated. The form is.
a. The woman must say to the man: I have wedded you myself and then she states the time period and the dowry.
b. The man says: I accept.
Secondly, this marriage will be terminated when the specific period of time expires, without having to divorce.
Thirdly, the woman whose marriage was consummated (sexually) must finish her Iddat (period in which the woman can not remarry); in case she wants to marry another person. Its Iddat finishes in two menstrual periods. Therefore, she is legitimately prohibited to remarry before the termination of Iddat. Whereas, if her marriage was not consummated (sexually), she will not observe an Iddat and she has the right to conclude immediately a marriage contract with another man.
Fourthly: The husband is not obliged to support her with money, unless she stipulated this condition in the contract.
Fifthly: in case of death, no one can inherit the other during the contract period.
On the other hand, if the husband wishes to leave his wife before the termination of the specific period, he can donate her the time period and tell her: I donate you the time period. So, she will be separated from him and the contract will be terminated.
If the husband wishes to renew the contract after it is terminated, the Iddat will not be imposed on the wife and she just has to state the verbal form of the contract in order to be remarried. We have to observe that it is unlawful for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man, even if he believes in the legitimacy of the Mutaa. Likewise, it is unlawful for the Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman, unless she is of the People of the Book. It is also lawful to conclude this marriage without obtaining the approval of the girl’s guardian. But it is better not to do so due to the moral harm which may affect her future. But in case this marriage was concluded, it is better not to consummate the marriage.
Q: Is it permissible to conclude a contract with a girl that is 18 years old and that supports herself financially?
A: It is permissible, in case she is rational.
Q: Is the Sunnis Messier marriage lawful?
A: All marriages between adult men and women that comply with the jurisprudence conditions are legal. Therefore it is permissible.
Q: Could a man marry a woman whom he had sex with when she was married to another man?
A: If a Moslem makes a contract of marriage (Aqid) with any married woman, or if he consummates the marriage with her (has sexual intercourse with her), knowing that she is married, then she is said to be banned from him eternally.
Therefore, it’s impossible for him to marry her even if she gets divorced from her husband.
Q: Does marrying an adult girl require her parents’ approval?
A: For this marriage to be valid (from an Islamic point of view), it is not necessary to obtain the agreement of parents. However, obtaining it could be necessary from a social and practical point of view in order to maintain family union. Therefore, it is better to keep on trying to convince them, for no one can antagonize his parents, even if he is married and independent.
Marriage between Shiites and other Muslim sects.
Q: I want to marry a Sunni girl should I tell her that I am a Shiite?
A: You should not cheat her. If you marry her on the basis that you are Sunni she has the right to annul the marriage contract, since it is based on cheating.
Marriage between Muslims and Christians
Q: Is it lawful to marry a Christian woman?
It is possible and lawful for a Muslim to marry a Christian women, in the same way he marries a Muslim, with no difference since it is lawful for a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman if she is of the People of the Book even if she stays committed to her religion.
The same thing applies to both permanent and temporary marriages. The only difference is that if he wants to marry permanently a non-Muslim, then he has to ask his Muslim wife. Nonetheless, we do not encourage the Muslim to marry a non-Muslim woman due to the negative effects – in most cases – on the Islamic atmosphere of the family and the children in the future.
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Cloud computing is the in thing right now. It’s everywhere you turn – and an excellent way to simplify the way you use technology and extend its capabilities.
The main aim is to centralise everything IT related into one place; putting more material on the internet and less on PCs and servers run by your company. The maintenance burden of servers and applications is taken away from the business, freeing up time and resources for other areas.
Essential IT services can be better managed externally on a pay-as-yougo basis, while you have the benefit of being able to access your material from anywhere with an internet connection. It’s the structure that runs sites such as Amazon, Facebook and Twitter, and the core that allows you to use services such as Google Docs, Skype and Gmail.
Although adoption of cloud computing is growing at a promising rate, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often reluctant to make the migration due to concerns over security, cost, and whether cloud will really make a difference to their business.
Once they’re using cloud computing, SMEs will pay for software or a service only when they use it. Previously, businesses would buy software on discs and would need to physically manage the installations (and upgrades) themselves. Equally, businesses will not have to invest in and maintain expensive datacentres themselves. Most importantly, they will have access to enterprise technology that their IT budgets would not normally accommodate.
What the technical experts don’t tell you is that the term ‘cloud’ is just a label. In fact, cloud is simply a way of describing the pay-per-use model that the internet enables; therefore the term internet is completely interchangeable with the label of cloud.
Cloud computing offers several advantages to phone services, especially by enabling voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
As you can see, the ‘I’ in VoIP stands for internet. Think of the internet like a closed circuit into which your phone is connected. It breaks down the audio of your call into random sections, and then sends it around the circuit to the recipient. When it reaches the person you’re speaking to, it has been put back together again in the correct order…voila! This is the same way that emails work, and just like emails, making phone calls over the internet is free, whereas a physical (fixed line telephony) network will charge line rental.
VoIP-to-VoIP calls are always free, whether between two employees of the same company or from one company to another. Not only that, but it is still free when calling someone on the other side of the world, supporting the global economy. Calls are only charged for if they leave the internet circuit – for example, VoIP to landline calls.
Cloud and VoIP are leading-edge technologies that go hand in hand. A common concern when considering signing up for VoIP is the fear that telephony will be lost every time there is internet downtime, or that sound quality will become poor at peak times.
Internet service providers such as Gradwell offer VoIP-friendly broadband that creates the perfect connection for VoIP users by prioritising voice data over regular data, slowing down your YouTube videos instead of your business calls. This gives you a business grade internet connection to match the business-grade phone line. A cloud computing service can also offer reliability and resilience, with back-up lines which are considered best practice anyway.
The cost and use of resources are greatly reduced, as you don’t have to take care of things at your end. Through an agreement with a cloud provider, it is possible to store all data at a single location or datacentre, increasing data security.
This piece is taken from MicroScope
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Berlin, Jan 8 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made a courageous choice by taking in a large number of refugees, faces challenges amid emerging cases of sexual assaults by attackers of foreign origins.
German police have so far identified a total of 16 suspects who could relate to sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne, Xinhua reported.
On New Year’s eve, a group of around 1,000 men surrounded, harassed and robbed especially women in Cologne.
Among about a quarter of the reported cases, the victims indicated that they were sexually harassed, while two cases of rape had been reported, according to the report.
The number of criminal complaints filed rose to 121, a police spokesman was quoted as saying on the same day.
He said most suspects’ names still remain unknown, but they were clearly recognizable on pictures or video recordings.
According to eyewitnesses and the victims, the perpetrators were from the Arabic or North African region regarding their appearance.
However, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Tuesday said there should be no general suspicion towards refugees.
Nevertheless, opposers of Merkel’s refugee decisions have seized the chance to launch attacks on the chancellor’s open-door policy.
Right-wing parties in the country have renewed calls for caps on the number of refugees and asked Merkel to implement tighter border controls.
The event has had major bearing on the Germans’ mentality. According to a poll by broadcaster ARD, 30 percent of respondents said they would avoid big crowds because of the events in Cologne.
The ARD poll also showed 57 percent of those asked wanted to reinstate border controls, up 12 points from September.
Merkel won international fame last year when she announced Germany could cope with the 1.1 million migrants who arrived in 2015 amid mounting pressures.
The chancellor said the events were “completely unacceptable” and “intolerable”.
She said she would consider a number of measures, including moves to boost police forces and efforts to sharpen the country’s deportation system.
However, the chancellor called for continued discussions on “cultural coexistence.” “We have a duty to give the right answers,” she said.
Following revelations of the Cologne assaults over New Year’s Eve, similar events were also reported in other parts of Europe including Austria and Switzerland.
Analysts said those events may fuel outcries against refugees in Europe, making it even harder for bolder leaders to continue embracing for incoming refugees.
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15:50 16 January 2013
Traces of horsemeat have been found in beef burgers sold in supermarkets in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, it emerged on Tuesday. A total of 27 beef products were tested; with 10 of them containing traces of horse DNA, and 23 products having traces of pig DNA in them.
The Food Standards Agency has said in light of the situation that there is no health risk posed to humans. The burgers have now been removed and it is understood that investigations into the matter will take place.
The meat is said to have come from two processing plants in Ireland the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has stated, and these were Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in the UK.
Raymond Ellard, from the FSAI, confirmed in a report by the BBC that there will be investigations made into how the items on sale in the UK and Ireland became contaminated with horsemeat.
Among the stores to stock some of the contaminated products weresupermarket giants Tesco and Iceland, as well as Aldi and Lidl.
Mr. Ellard said that the firms have ‘withdrawn products from sale’.
He told the BBC: “They are co-operating completely with the authorities here to investigate how this could have happened.
“A long chain of inquiry has to take place now to look at all the raw ingredients that we use for these productions, where they came from and how the cross-contamination could have occurred.”
Tim Smith, the group Technical Director for Tesco, said they immediately removed stock from sale after receiving information on Tuesday. He said: “The presence of illegal meat in our products is extremely serious.”
He added: “We are working with the authorities in Ireland and the UK, and with the supplier concerned, to urgently understand how this has happened and how to ensure it does not happen again.”
Iceland said that the news was ‘concerning’ and that they had also removed products from sale. The firm said in a statement that it would help look into the situation.
Aldi explained that one of its beef burger products was also involved in the matter. They immediately removed the affected stock from sale, and said in a statement they would investigate the incident.
The Independent has said in one report that Liffey Meats has attributed the contamination with ‘imported ingredients.
It is understood that certain people do not have pig meat in their diets.
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Every summer teachers go back to school for reasons ranging from love of learning to state regulations that require graduate study. Most take courses like Dr. Peter A. Barile Jr.'s curriculum workshop, which focus on the practical aspects of teaching. These courses are often criticized for not giving teachers in-depth knowledge of the subjects they teach. Yet the courses remain the major forum where teachers escape the isolation of the classroom to share what experts call the ''wisdom of practice.''
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Microfinance is the provision of financial services that target low-income clients, particularly women and people living in poverty.
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My project is to connect USB webcam (device) to Altera DE2 Board(host), and get isochronous video stream.
Iím using DE2_NIOS_HOST_MOUSE_VGA demonstration as my start-point reference
Thus far Iíve managed to get device and configuration descriptors from the webcam, complete probe-and-commit procedure and choose one of iso interface endpoints. As I understand, at this point webcam should start sending ISO data.
My problem is that I donít get any iso data from the webcam after completing these stages.
As I see it, there may be 2 problems:
1. Phillips USB controller is not configured in the right way to receive ISO data.
2. I miss some critical stage.
So the questions are:
1. Is Phillips USB controller has to be configured in a special way to receive ISO traffic (except ISTL buffer size definition)?
2. Are the stages Iíve done enough to trigger the webcam to send ISO packets? Do I miss any stage that is critical to get ISO stream?
3. How to define ISO starting frame in the PTD?
Thank you in advance
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Help Morgan & other kids get their needed service dogs!
Raising funds for Morgan’s Service Dog with 4 Paws for Ability.
Anything over $17000.00 donated will go towards other families struggling to raise the money for their needed Service Dogs!
We are raising money for 4 Paws for Ability, Inc. to help them provide service dogs for children worldwide, including our daughter Morgan!
Morgan is 6 years old who loves to swim, play outside, and loves playing with children and animals. She is very social, and she has a great sense of humor. Morgan was in gymnastics and recently had to quit, which broke her heart, because she was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Hypermobility Type III.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a group of inherited disorders that affect connective tissues — primarily skin, joints, and blood vessel walls. Connective tissue is a complex mixture of proteins and other substances that provides strength and elasticity to the underlying structures in your body.
People who have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome usually have overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile skin. This can become a problem if she gets a wound that requires stitches, because her skin often isn't strong enough to hold them, and her skin may develop prominent scarring. She has overly flexible joints which could result in joint dislocations, early-onset arthritis, chronic degenerative joint disease, muscle pain, and frequent tearing of tendons or muscles. Morgan is living with wide spread pain on a daily basis. She also has other side effects such as insomnia, sensory disorders, migraines, allergies, and gastric reflux.
While there is no cure for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, there is treatment for symptoms, and there are preventative measures that are helpful for most. Morgan participates in Physical and Occupational Therapy to help strengthen her muscles to support her joints.
Follow her journey:
https://www.facebook.com/4PAWSforMORGAN/ Please LIKE and SHARE her page to help spread awareness of EDS!
Morgan has been accepted by 4 PAWS for Ability in Xenia Ohio to receive Service dog to help with:
– Increase independence when she has trouble standing and/or balancing. Can provide her with stability while walking to prevent falls and injuries, and could help her up if she falls. Can also help with tasks such as retrieving dropped items, opening doors, and barking for help when needed.
Her story on 4 PAWS for Ability website:
http://4pawsforability.org/morgan-yoder/ Do not forget to LIKE and SHARE this page to raise awareness for 4 PAWS for Ability! You can also donate directly on 4 PAWS website with this link!
Costs for Service Dogs
At 4 Paws for Ability it costs at least $34,000 to train and place a service dog with a disabled child.
Through partial payment for service model, families can pay or engage in fundraising activities to cover the fee.
The fee for a service dog is $17,000.
Upon completion of training, 4 Paws service dogs are required to be re-certified annually with 4 Paws to maintain their skills and public access proficiency.
It costs about $1,500 – $2,000 to maintain a service dog each year…about $100 a month.
This link will take you to some videos that show the incredible work 4 Paws does:
We have begun fundraising so we can get a service dog from the wonderful organization, 4 Paws for Ability in Ohio.
The full cost of the dog is actually $34,000, but the family is asked to raise half at $17,000. Once this goal is met, the training process will begin and hopefully Morgan will have her new furry best friend within two years.
Meet 4 Paws For Ability:
4 Paws for Ability is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization whose mission is to place quality service dogs with children with disabilities and veterans who have lost use of limbs or hearing; help with animal rescue, and educate the public regarding use of service dogs in public places.
Their primary goals include:
•Providing as many children as possible, within the scope of their ability to serve, and with disabilities falling under the definition of such in the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 with access to a qualified service dog trained specifically for their needs, with no minimum age, and regardless of the severity of the disability
•Increasing public awareness of the laws regarding service animals and the value they provide their owners.
To learn more about this amazing organization who has provided hundreds of disabled children and their families with great hope, safety and companionship, please check out their website at www.4pawsforability.org
Please help us raise funds for 4 Paws for Ability. Morgan and the other children they serve have so much potential, but they need our help!
Donating through this website is simple, fast, and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fundraising efforts.
Or you can mail a check: We are given volunteer credit towards our fundraising requirement for bringing your donation to 4 PAWS For Ability, Inc.
Please include Morgan Yoder’s name in the memo of any check mailed to the following address:
4 Paws for Ability (In Honor of Morgan Yoder)
253 Dayton Ave.
Xenia, OH 45385
Thank you for your support!!!
Many thanks for your support! PLEASE do not forget to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!
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How forgiving can help you mentally, spiritually, and even physically
By Wendy DuBow, PhD
As most of us are well aware, the world's faith traditions have advocated forgiveness for millennia. Touted as the "right" thing to do, forgiving is supposed to make you feel good after you do it. But is it actually the best response to abuse, betrayal, or disappointment? And when you forgive, have you resolved your negative emotions or simply suppressed them?
Since the mid-1980s, researchers in psychology, education, theology, neurology, and behavioral medicine have sought answers to these and a host of related questions. In fact, academicians have completed about 60 scientific studies on the topic. Approximately three dozen additional studies are currently underway, investigating the effects of forgiveness in contexts as varied as human rights tribunals, marital therapy, terminal illness, and even primate relationships. Perhaps most interesting in this burgeoning field of research is the focus on the connection between forgiveness and physical health. "We've found evidence of a clear relationship between certain health factors and people who are more forgiving," says Carl Thoresen, PhD, principal investigator with the Stanford Forgiveness Project at Stanford University. Current physiological studies are exploring the effects of forgiving on the body's immune system, as well as on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, on the hormone testosterone, and on the neurotransmitter serotonin. Could forgiving, long known as an effective psychological coping mechanism that helps a person deal with the suffering that accompanies emotional hurt, actually make you healthier and possibly happier? Numerous studies and researchers indicate that the answer is yes.
For more details on the latest forgiveness studies, visit the Campaign for Forgiveness Research website at www.forgiving.org. Why A Grudge Is Unhealthy
So perhaps your significant other forgot your birthday, made a joking yet hurtful comment about your weight, or worse, cheated on you. It may be hard to swallow the idea that forgiving your partner could help improve your health when you're fantasizing about doing him or her bodily harm. Yet several studies suggest that in the long run, forgiving does actually benefit you. One study reveals that forgiving can decrease levels of anger and hostility, increase feelings of love, and improve physical and mental health (Psychotherapy, 1986, vol. 23, no. 4). Another shows that forgiving can be a learned technique that reduces stress and thereby improves immune system and cardiovascular functioning (Psychosomatic Medicine, 1993, vol. 55, no. 4). In a recent study at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, researchers asked individuals to recall hurtful moments from the past in which they held grudges, as well as hurtful moments from the past in which they forgave their offenders. While recalling the "unforgiven" incidents, participants measured stronger physiological stress responses—including increased facial muscle tension, blood pressure, and heart rate—than when they recalled the "forgiven" incidents, leading researchers to believe that a chronic lack of forgiveness may indeed be bad for your health (Psychological Science, 2001, vol. 12, no. 2).
The link between forgiveness and improved health may be cortisol, a stress-related hormone released in response to tension, fear, sadness, and other negative emotions. When we forgive, the level of cortisol in our bodies decreases (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2001, vol. 48, no. 4). And for years, researchers have known that stress is a strong risk factor for disease.
Saying "I forgive you" may also be good for your mind and spirit. "Forgiveness opens the door for people to let go of the negativity of the past," says Thoresen, and therefore allows them to experience positive emotions. And positive emotions are known to have tremendous motivating potential, stimulating people to be creative and open-minded (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998, vol. 74, no. 6). Not surprisingly, negative emotions, such as anger, bitterness, and resentment, largely have the opposite impact.
Steps To Forgiveness
Experts agree that whether to forgive or not is a choice. And although choosing forgiveness is difficult, according to Thoresen, it's well worth taking the plunge. "Harboring resentments and animosities is imprisoning," he says, "but fortunately we can all break free and learn how to forgive." Central to Thoresen's model of forgiveness is the idea that when people hurt or offend you, most of the time it is not their intent to cause pain. His study participants are led through a reexamination of their own life rules. "If you're a perfectionist about how others treat you, then you'll get hurt a lot," says Thoresen. "So one major step of the training is for people to examine their expectations and beliefs of how others should deal with them." Because ultimately, you can't control what others do or say to you, but you can control how you respond to their actions.
At the International Forgiveness Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, director Robert Enright, PhD, maps out a path to forgiveness, based on 18 years of research. Enright details some 20 steps to forgiveness in his book Forgiveness Is a Choice (APA LifeTools, 2001). First, he says, you need to uncover your anger by describing the source of your pain and its implications for your life. If, for example, your older sister humiliated you in front of your extended family at the last reunion, don't suppress your negative feelings. Instead, think about why her actions made you mad. If you're avoiding your sister or dreading family reunions, then her actions have altered your life—something you want to address.
Next, Enright says, potential forgivers need to determine how effectively they've coped with pain or disappointment. Ask yourself, "What have I done in response to this betrayal? Has it worked?" To move on, it helps to recognize that in all likelihood neither holding a grudge nor avoiding your anger has worked well. Simply put, stewing over your sister's indiscretion and complaining about her to your mother and brother are not the best responses. "The crucial aspect of forgiving is that you have made a commitment to absorb the pain—sponge it up—and not pass it on to others," says Dave Fulton, PhD, a researcher at the International Forgiveness Institute.
Tell us what you think
Did you forgive someone for your health? We want to know your stories of triumph over long-held grudges. E-mail us at email@example.com and let us know how it feels to experience the freedom of forgiveness.
Your next step is to work toward forgiveness logically. Try to understand the offender's situation and the context in which the hurt occurred. At the institute, participants are advised to separate the offender from what he or she has done and to try and see the person as someone capable of both good and ill. So if, for example, your husband forgets your anniversary and your birthday, rather than ruminate over it and reprimand him for it again and again, consider why he may have been so distracted. Has he been under a lot of pressure at work lately? Is money tight? Then recall his past kindnesses—the morning he brought you breakfast in bed for no reason and the surprise party he planned for you on your 40th—rather than harbor feelings of resentment and anger. "This is definitely the hardest phase of forgiveness," acknowledges Fulton, who recommends that people practice forgiveness with the help of a partner, a friend, or a journal for support. If the process seems daunting, that's because it is. Recognize that for some people and in some instances, true forgiveness does not come for months or even years. So give yourself time if you need it.
The crucial aspect of forgiving is that you have made a commitment to absorb the pain and not pass it on to others.
Finally, perform an act of kindness toward the offender—even if it is just sincerely wishing that person well. Because this can be a monumental achievement, many who learn to forgive also experience a beneficial boost in self-esteem. At the end of all this mental and spiritual soul-searching, experts say, you should feel an emotional release and experience the freedom of forgiveness. Indeed, many people find themselves changed spiritually and emotionally after letting go of a grudge they've held for some time.
In the end, whether you forgive for the health of your body, peace in your mind, or the growth of a relationship, this opening of your heart can lead you on a path toward a fuller life. And remember, when you choose to forgive someone, you've really got nothing to lose—except, of course, a grudge.
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The complexity of tractor fuels and taxation can be appreciated only by considering first the background of state motor fuel tax and petroleum inspection laws against which is reflected the interest of the states in tractor fuels. Since the State of Oregon first adopted a gasoline tax to aid its road building program, this tax has become universal among the forty-eight states and is a major source of state revenues throughout the nation. While a degree of uniformity does exist among the states, it is found largely in such matters as the unit of measurement of the tax rather than in the tax rate, in the regularity and frequency of collection of the tax rather than in the use of uniform reporting forms or procedures, in the general application of the tax to receipts or sales at the supplier and jobber levels rather than in the final retention of or relief from the tax in so far as the ultimate consumer is concerned.
Anderson, Arthur B.
Director, Department of Taxation, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.
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The Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied science is a well-reputed state university in Germany, which carries out research and higher education at four locations. OWL belongs to the 10 best research oriented Universities of Applied science in Germany and enrolled approximately 6.700 students in 9 faculties, which offers Bachelor and Master study programmes with a strong focus to Engineering and Technology disciplines. Ph.D.-programmes are carried out in cooperation with different partner universities .The headquarter is in Lemgo, located between Hannover and Dortmund, in the north-east of the state North Rhine-Westphalia. The university is named just as the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe, which is one of the most important technology clusters of mechanical engineering and industrial electronics in Germany. Because of its research strength the university became a full member of the European University Association in October 2010. In the CHE-Ranking 2013/2014 Electrical Engineering was listed as one of Germans best study programmes. Wikipedia.
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Felser M.,Berne University of Applied science
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | Year: 2013
Nowadays, computer systems are presented in almost all types of human activity and they support any kind of industry as well. Most of these systems are distributed where the communication between nodes is based on computer networks of any kind. Connectivity between system components is the key issue when designing distributed systems, especially systems of industrial informatics. The industrial area requires a wide range of computer communication means, particularly time-constrained and safety-enhancing ones. From fieldbus and industrial Ethernet technologies through wireless and internet-working solutions to standardization issues, there are many aspects of computer networks uses and many interesting research domains. Lots of them are quite sophisticated or even unique. The main goal of this paper is to present the survey of the latest trends in the communication domain of industrial distributed systems and to emphasize important questions as dependability, and standardization. Finally, the general assessment and estimation of the future development is provided. The presentation is based on the abstract description of dataflow within a system. © 2005-2012 IEEE. Source
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Gunther W.,TU Ilmenau
Energy Conversion and Management | Year: 2013
A big increase in the number of solar thermal cooling installations and research efforts could be seen over the last years worldwide. Especially the producers of solar thermal collectors and systems have been looking for thermal chillers in the small capacity range to provide air conditioning for one or two family houses. Furthermore, many developments aim to increase the efficiency of the system and to decrease the specific costs of the produced refrigeration capacity. The growth in the use of solar thermal cooling systems amounted about 860% from 52 units in 2004 to 450 units in 2009 . This tendency is expected to be continuously in the next years. The practical examinations on solar thermally driven absorption machines with refrigeration capacity of 15, 10 and 5 kW have shown that this technology has a good chance to be standardized and to replace partly the conventional one. These systems can save more primary energy at high fraction of solar thermally driving by suitable control and regulation of the system. The investing costs still higher as the conventional one, however, the operating costs are less than the conventional one. The Coefficient of Performance (COP) depends on the kind of the system, work temperatures and conditions as well as the refrigeration capacity of the systems. It lies between 0.4 and 1.2. In the framework of the research on this field, we built, tested and measured two prototypes. After measuring the first prototype, the chillers were redesigned to reduce internal heat losses and make the heat and mass transfer over the surfaces of heat exchangers more effective. Thus, many investigations have been done on some types of heat exchangers for optimization of heat and mass transfer in the system. In this contribution we will show some investigation results on solar thermally driven system in small capacity range. Moreover, we will illustrate an experimental setup for investigation of heat transfer by shell tube heat exchanger consisting of two kinds of tubes. The first one has a smooth outer surface and the other one has a ribbed outer surface. The aim of these investigations is to optimize the whole system. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Source
Agency: Cordis | Branch: H2020 | Program: IA | Phase: LCE-07-2014 | Award Amount: 2.97M | Year: 2015
The AnyPLACE (Adaptable Platform for Active Services Exchange) project intends to develop a modular smart metering platform. The targeted system aims to provide a bidirectional service exchange gateway that enhances the interaction between end users, market representatives, electricity network operators and ICT providers. The proposed solution will allow performing energy remote metering (electricity, gas, heating and cooling), exploiting electricity networks in a more efficient manner and turning end users in active energy markets players through their engagement in demand response programs. Moreover, the utilization of the AnyPLACE platform to actively manage and control electricity networks will also allow mitigating operational problems related with the variability of renewable based generation. To enable the development of an effective modular and flexible platform, an analysis to the different regulatory frameworks, energy/telecommunications standards, potential scenarios of deployment, technical requirements of the solution and technologies currently available will be performed. A modular and plug and play SW and HW platform will be developed in parallel with current and expected regulatory initiatives and standards. A cost-benefit analysis on different possible configurations will be developed, to ensure that appropriate configurations, or even retrofitted solutions, are designed for each context and their cost do not exceed 100. A set of prototypes will be built with different combinations of modules to deal with different scenarios of application, which will be tested in a smart grid laboratory environment and in a field trial, providing a real-world assessment of their performance. Near-market prototype versions will be produced, accomplishing the project knowledge and technology transfer to industrial consortium partners as well as general industry and service providers. The AnyPLACE project will also address public acceptance of the designed solutions.
Bayer Material Science and Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences | Date: 2014-01-13
The invention relates to a process for the production of at least one multilayer electromechanical transducer (
Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences | Date: 2010-03-02
A device for transmission and/or generation of torque having a driveshaft and having a driven shaft acted upon by field-excited forces of a magnetorheological medium, the driveshaft terminates in a flange in a housing, at least one cylinder is arranged on the flange (
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The air conditioner is typically given all the glory for keeping your home cool during a hot and humid Houston summer season. But did you know that without the indoor coil your air conditioner (or heat pump) would be completely useless?
An air conditioner has one primary job: compressing refrigerant. Refrigerant is a gas that when compressed condensates to a chilled liquid. Once compressed, the refrigerant is pumped by the air conditioner inside to the evaporator coil. The fan motor in the furnace pulls warm air from the home, and it is forced through the coil. The refrigerant absorbs heat energy from the air and turns back into a gas, then the process repeats.
A clean coil means more efficient cooling. UV lamps can be mounted in your coil to kill the mold that can easily grow. Call Air Bourne Air for any indoor coil related needs, from new equipment to cleaning to UV lamp mold protection. We’re a local, Houston air conditioning company you can trust for the finest service in town!
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3D printing technology has made so many things possible. I am so excited every time I see something new and interesting that has been 3D printed. I recently found out that you could print in more than just plastics/ nylon. Now you can print metal and ceramics among other materials! so amazing. Also check out Shapeways.com for more cool stuff.
Here is one piece from the MOST show in Milan, as seen in the Transnatural Art & Design Collection (balancing nature and technology) section. Beach Animal “elegant moving creature” by AD Lakerveld. 3D printed nylon: (I have a great video of this moving, but WordPress will not let me upload it. more soon..)
In the Lambrate District of Milan this super hidden show held some of the most interesting work I saw the whole week. The show was called Analogico Digitale and it had a 3D printer on site to demonstrate how some of the pieces were made.
Nervous System has been 3D printing some very cool jewelry and small home products for a few years now (showing at ICFF Design Boom mart annually). Starting with plastics and moving into metals..
The Model Citizens show in NYC during ICFF had a whole booth filled with cool 3D printed objects. Here is a great write up by Shapeways.
Also at the Model Citizens show, friends from Gotham Smith showed their latest designs in 3D printed metal jewelry.
Everything you wanted to know about 3D printing– Mashable (images below show other possible creations/ materials)
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July 21, 2011
China Takes Submarine To New Depths
A Chinese submarine performed the country's deepest manned dive ever on Thursday, completing a milestone for China's deep-sea ambitions.
The State Oceanic Administration said in a statement that the Jiaolong undersea craft reached 13,211-feet below sea level in a test dive in the northeastern Pacific."The success of this test dive has laid a solid foundation for completing the mission of diving to 5,000 meters (16,404-feet)," it said.
The submarine carried three people in Thursday's journey and will attempt to reach 16,404-feet in another dive on Friday.
China has been developing its technical capabilities in recent decades, exemplified by a fast-growing space program that made China the third nation to conduct manned space flight in 2003.
The state news agency Xinhua quoted the administration's director Li Cigui as saying the vessel was a "marvel" of Chinese engineering.
The submarine is designed to reach a maximum depth of about 23,000-feet and in a dive in the South China Sea last year it made China only the fifth country to go deeper than the 11,500-feet mark.
The U.S. Navy conducted the deepest dive ever, which reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench. This area of the ocean is the deepest point in the world's oceans and is 36,089-feet.
China said its development of submarine technology is aimed at scientific research and the peaceful exploration and use of natural resources.
However, during the vessel's dive to the bottom of the disputed South China Sea last year, it planted a Chinese flag in the seafloor in what was seen by some as a provocative act.
The South China Sea is claimed in whole or in part by China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia.
Scientists believe the ocean's floors contain rich deposits of a range of potentially valuable minerals, which adds more fuel to the debate of who owns the waters.
The Xinhua news agency quoted officials saying the Jiaolong's crew would conduct tests in the Pacific, including taking photos, shooting video, surveying seabeds and taking samples from the ocean floor.
Xinhua said China would also examine sites for a potential future test dive to its maximum depth of about 23,000 feet.
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Students aged 11-14 who are facing school suspensions for making poor choices can benefit from our Choices and Consequences program. The program concentrates on the factors that build resiliency in youth so that the students can develop skills in social competence and successfully overcome the effects of a high-risk environment.
The program accommodates groups of six-to-eight students; the groups can be co-ed or same-sex. The program is designed to take four days and is not designed for students with severe behavioural or learning issues.
Choices and Consequences focuses on the factors that promote resiliency:
- Bonding: strengthening a feeling of “being connected” to positive, pro-social peers and adults (one of the most important protective factors in the development of healthy behaviours)
- Opportunity for Meaningful Participation: ensuring the constant presence of interactive approaches to learning
- Norms for Healthy Behaviour: practicing clear rules of conduct, while being encouraged to model desired behaviour
- High Expectations for Behaviour: tutoring in and encouragement of high and promising expectations for themselves
The outcomes we anticipate that students could demonstrate after completion of the program are:
- A greater understanding of legal processes
- Fewer discipline problems in school
- Improved attitudes towards self and others
- Greater empathy for victims
- An increased ability to consider the consequences of choices and to suggest alternative solutions to problems
Click here to view an evaluation report on the success of the Choices and Consequences program. (PDF)
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This is an animation showing a sequence of solar images taken by NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft on July 14, 1998.
Coronal loops, immense coils of hot gas on the surface of the Sun, vibrate wildly after the blast wave from a solar flare hits them. The flare is the bright area in the top left of the animation, with surrounding coronal loops below and to the right. The X-shaped starburst pattern is just an instrument artifact.
The displacement of the bottom loops is prominent as the flare blast wave hits them and they snap back to their original position. This causes them to vibrate back and forth for several minutes.
However, their dance is quickly squelched by resistance from the Sun's outer atmosphere (corona). The corona restricts motion due to internal friction hundreds of millions of times greater than expected, according to recent observations from NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. This friction, called viscosity, may help explain why the corona is more than 100 times hotter than the Sun's surface, a mystery that has occupied solar researchers for decades.
Just as a guitar string vibrates when plucked, coronal loops move back and forth after being disturbed by a flare. The new TRACE observations show that, rather than vibrating like they are in thin air, the loops act as if they are trying to vibrate in something much thicker, like pudding. This rapidly halts their swaying motion -- it stops after twelve minutes or so. If the original theories on coronal viscosity were correct, the loops would continue vibrating for more than a week.
Solar physicists suspect that magnetic energy produced by the roiling, electrically charged gases on the solar surface is somehow transferred to the corona, heating it. However, the old theory of a low viscosity corona made the process so inefficient that scientists could not see how it was done. This new discovery reveals a high viscosity corona with a lot of friction that can be used to transfer energy and generate heat much more efficiently.
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The Megleno-Romanians or Meglen Vlachs or Moglenite Vlachs (Megleno-Romanian: Vlashi; Greek: Vlachomoglenítes; Romanian: Meglenoromâni, Megleniţi, or Vlaşi) are a small Eastern Romance people, currently inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis prefectures of Central Macedonia, Greece, and one village, Huma, across the border in the Republic of Macedonia. This people live in an area of approximately 300 sq. km in size. They speak a Romance language most often called by linguists Megleno-Romanian or Meglenitic in English, and Vlachomoglenítika or simply Moglenítika in Greek. The people themselves call their language Vlaheshte, but the Megleno-Romanian diaspora in Romania also uses the term Megleno-Română. Unlike the Aromanian Vlachs, the other Romance speaking population in the same historic region, the Meglen Vlachs are traditionally sedentary agriculturalists, and not traditionally transhumants.
Historians Ovid Densusianu and C. Jirecek considered that Megleno-Romanians descend from a mixture of Romanians with Pecenegs, settled in Moglen by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1091. They argued this based in part on the Asian-like facial appearance (more prominent cheek bones) of Meglen Vlachs. By contrast, Gustav Weigand and George Murnu believed that Megleno-Romanians are descendants of the Romanian-Bulgarian Empire that retreated to Moglen. Pericle Papahagi argued another version, that Megleno-Romanians are descendants of a group of Romanians who were incorrectly called Vlachs. Theodor Capidan, studying the resemblance of the Megleno-Romanian language with Romanian and other languages, concluded that Megleno-Romanians must have spent some time in the Rhodope Mountains before moving on to Moglen (due to similar elements with the language of the Bulgarians in the Rhodopes).
From the medieval and modern periods, it is known that Moglen Vlachs had an administration of their own. Each village was led by a captain. Their economic and social center was the town of Nânta. After the incursions of the Pomaks of Moglen against the Ottomans, the latter started a persecution campaign against villages in the area, including those of the Moglen Vlachs. Most of the villages were put under the administration of an Ottoman bei, who exploited them to the extreme in exchange for their security. The village of Osani, however, resisted much longer before being subdued by the Ottomans, because its captain was more skilled militarily.
Most Meglen Vlachs are Orthodox Christians, but the population of the village of Nânti (Nótia), which in 1900 had a population of 3,660, of which 3,500 Megleno-Romanians, in the Upper Karadjova Plain converted to Islam in the 17th or 18th century. It is the only case among Eastern Romance populations with an entire community converting to Islam. The entire population of this village was forcefully expelled to Turkey in 1923, as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, where they mostly settled in Kırklareli and Şarköy, and became known as Karadjovalides after the Turkish name of Moglen.
In 1926, about 450 families of Megleno-Romanians of Greece moved to Romania, and settled in Southern Dobruja (Cadrilater), a region which became Romanian in 1913. They originated from the villages of Osani, Liumnita, Cupa, Lundzini, Birislav, Livezi, and were settled in villages around the city of Durostor such as Cocina, Cazimir, Capaclia, Bazarghian, Aidodu, Tatar Admagea, Uzungi Ozman, Strebarna Viskioi, Cadichioi, Haschioi. After Bulgaria re-acquired Southern Dobruja from Romania in 1940, the Megleno-Romanians moved to other regions of Romania, many of them to the village of Cerna in Tulcea County, in northern Dobruja. 270 families of Megleno-Romanians and 158 families of Aromanians settled in this village in 1940. Between 1940 and 1948, the Aromanian families moved to other localities of Dobruja. Another wave of Megleno-Romanians emigrated to Romania and to other countries during World War II and the Greek Civil War, due to the heavy fighting carried out in the Moglená region. As of 1996, in all Romania there were about 820 families that claimed Megleno-Romanian origin.
However, their small overall number led to the fact that after 1950 mixed marriages with Romanians were more often, unlike the Aromanians who by the nature of their traditional occupations have developed a special psychology, gaining weight in the Romanian society and preserving their people (very few mixed marriages with Romanians occuring). However, due to the hardships this small community has passed through, Megleno-Romanians in Romania remain very united, with a very sharp national sentiment. During their weddings, they use the Romanian tricolor as a furgliţa (wedding flag), and very rarely the traditional white-red colors. This illustrates the fact that despite their distinct (albeit also East Romanic) language, identity-wise, Megleno-Romanians in Romania identify themselves as Romanians. According to one observer, they consider themselves "more Romanian than the Romanians". (From Wikipedia)
Tour in Batistei area. Sunday 30 October
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Diskussionsbeiträge: Serie II, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 "Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft", Universität Konstanz 267
A multihousehold economy with production/consumption externalities, environmental taxation, and governmental production of pure, nonexclusive and nonrivalrous public goods is assumed. The production of public goods is financed from environmental tax revenue. Globally valid necessary and sufficient conditions for gains from international trade are derived and interpreted. A simple yet general environmental policy rule ensuring trade gains is put forward. The effect of international trade on the personal distribution of income of households is also considered. If the simple policy rule is followed, it is shown that the move to free trade represents a Pareto improvement without lump sum compensation by the government. The relevance of the double dividend debate for the achievement of trade gains is discussed.
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A rare look inside the community of about 300,000 Brooklyn Hasidic Jews whose members strive to keep out all secular influences and remain isolated while living in the middle of America’s biggest city. But what happens when some of their followers want to see what’s on the outside? NBC Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman follows the experiences of four people who left the community.
The wedding images didn’t strike me as belonging to Satmar Chassidim – more a mix of Lubavitchers and Litvaks. But I think in today’s language, “Hasidic” means the folks in dark suits and hats.
The four people being interviewed are not part of God’s gift to scholarship and articulate thinking – the fun part is that they’re still stuck with their heavy, Jewish accent.
One of them left the fold because of his first encounter with a dinosaur in the museum.
Still, a thought provoking piece, despite all the many—and they’re truly numerous—misunderstood and misrepresented facts. It’s an uneven piece, and very much biased in favor of leaving the religion. But if you catch a glimpse of yourself here – say hi.
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