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Jun 13, 2019 · Just follow this guide and set up PureVPN on your Linux with a few clicks. Now introducing 7-Day premium trial to work, binge, & stay secure online Try Now in $0.99 Sep 26, 2018 · In this article, we will demonstrate how to quickly and easily setup a SSH tunneling or the different types of port forwarding in Linux. Testing Environment: For the purpose of this article, we are using the following setup: Local Host: 192.168.43.31; Remote Host: Linode CentOS 7 VPS with hostname server1.example.com. Feb 07, 2020 · Manually Configure VPN for Linux using PPTP via NetworkManager. PPTP is not a secure VPN protocol, so we generally recommend that you avoid it. NetworkManager comes with PPTP support “out of the box,” however, which can make PPTP a useful “quick and dirty” solution when security is not a high priority.
When starting VPN Server as a user mode program with general user rights, the program cannot be registered as a system service, but when a general user starts the VPN Server program in the background by typing [./vpnserver start], unlike the Windows version, the Linux version of the vpnserver process can continue to run even after that user
The VPN clients that the connect to the example server will be 22.214.171.124 and 126.96.36.199. 3.2 Determining what needs to be done on the firewall. If your VPN client or server has a registered internet IP address you do not need to masquerade or modify your kernel - the stock kernel will successfully route all VPN traffic. You can skip directly to All we need to do now is tell Linux to route traffic to this subnet over the VPN connection. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will assume that the remote subnet is 10.0.5.0/24 and the VPN server has an internal address of 10.0.5.1, as it was in our VPN server tutorials.
Sep 26, 2018 · In this article, we will demonstrate how to quickly and easily setup a SSH tunneling or the different types of port forwarding in Linux. Testing Environment: For the purpose of this article, we are using the following setup: Local Host: 192.168.43.31; Remote Host: Linode CentOS 7 VPS with hostname server1.example.com.
Option A: Linux VPN setup using the Network Manager Attention: At this point, there is a known issue with DNS Leaks on distributions up to Ubuntu 16.04LTS (and its dependencies and parents). If you find that you too are affected by DNS leaks, we recommend you to use Option B below. Aug 28, 2017 · A lot of VPNs provide excellent Linux clients. Even if they don’t, you can use the Network Manager applet to set up a VPN connection. However, if you want to connect without a GUI or you want your connection to run automatically as a service for all users, those options won’t really work. Most of the best VPN services are built on OpenVPN.
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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
versión On-line ISSN 1445-7377
versión impresa ISSN 2079-7222
Intersubjectivity is a key concept in phenomenology as well as in psychology and especially in psychotherapy, given the reliance of the therapeutic process on its location in relationship. While psychotherapy encompasses a range of what Owen (2006) terms "talking therapies", this paper focuses mainly on the Freudian model of psychoanalysis and its connection with Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology respectively. Freud's recognition that symptoms have meaning, and that the methodical disclosing of their meaning needs to be guided by the experience of the patient, accords with the emphasis of phenomenology on empathic attunement to the lived experience of the other. Insofar as the orientation of psychoanalysis towards methodically disclosing meaning gives it a hermeneutic dimension, it is also compatible methodologically with the interpretative mode of phenomenology. While Karlsson (2010, p. 13) identifies seven centrally significant "points of connection" between psychoanalysis and phenomenology, Thompson (2005, p. 40) suggests that "psychoanalysis is already phenomenological in its latency ... . Indeed, Freud's principles of technique make little sense outside a phenomenological context". Can it thus be claimed that, in the quest for intersubjectivity, sufficient common ground exists for meaningful dialogue between psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and phenomenology in general, and between Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in particular? That is what this paper seeks to explore. The paper proceeds from pointing to the ambiguity of the Freudian mode as simultaneously natural scientific and hermeneutic to exploring the fundamental points of difference and commonality between psychoanalysis and phenomenology, and in particular the significance of the role of the unconscious and intentionality in psychoanalysis and phenomenology respectively, as well as the orientation of both towards greater understanding of one's being in the world. Ultimately, however, the authors conclude that, while the points of commonality would seem conducive to dialogue between the Freudian and the phenomenological in the psychotherapeutic domain, their differences in aims and approach, each shaped by a different view of humankind, continue to obstruct it. The quest for it nevertheless remains ongoing, as demonstrated not only by the academic endeavours of theoreticians such as Owen and Karlsson, but by the contemporary urge of second century psychoanalysis for a theoretically coherent turn away from the Cartesian and towards the authentically intersubjectively relational.
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If you believe in that sort of thing, humanity can expect a mere two months left of existence before the Mayan apocalypse hits Dec. 21.
Today (Oct. 21) starts the two-month countdown toward doomsday, according to an interpretation of the Mayan calendar that has taken hold in some New Age and spiritualist communities online.
Two ancient texts confirm the end date of the Mayan Long Count calendar on the winter solstice of this year, which is Dec. 21, 2012. That day is the last day of the 13th bak'tun, or 144,000-day cycle, of the calendar. Ancient Maya would have seen the end of the 13th bak'tun as the end of a full cycle of creation.
However, experts in Mayan history say the end of the Long Count calendar is the equivalent of needing to buy a new calendar every year in December — not a harbinger of doomsday.
"This new evidence suggests that the 13 bak'tun date was an important calendrical event that would have been celebrated by the ancient Maya; however, they make no apocalyptic prophecies whatsoever regarding the date," Marcello Canuto, the director of Tulane University Middle America Research Institute, told LiveScience after the discovery of an ancient text referring to the date.
Not all apocalypse believers think the Mayan Apocalypse will bring fire and brimstone, or extinguish life on Earth. According to John Hoopes, a scholar of Maya history at the University of Kansas, many believers see the day as a time of spiritual transformation.
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© 2012 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.
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More than getting manicures or watching our favourite shows, self-care encompasses the daily acts that revitalize our minds and bodies.
Each July 24, people around the world celebrate International Self-Care Day to champion the importance of taking the necessary time out of our busy and sometimes stressful lives to care for our well-being. As our Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) expert Dr. Emma Morton explains, self-care is about playing an active role in meeting your physical, social and emotional needs.
Q: What is self-care and why is it important?
A: Self-care is an umbrella term used to refer to things that we do to help reduce stress and support our physical and mental well-being. While self-care can sometimes be portrayed as self-indulgence, such as getting a massage, it is more often about the daily things that we do to take care of ourselves, including less enjoyable or mundane tasks. This can take the form of getting a good night's sleep, staying hydrated, eating a healthy diet, managing stress, staying on top of your to-do list, paying bills and keeping your environment clean and comfortable.
Q: How can I figure out what type of self-care might work for me?
A: Activities that might be relevant to an individual can vary based on their circumstances or lifestyle. The World Health Organization defines quality of life as “an individual’s perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns.”
The following categories may help you determine what kinds of self-care may best meet your needs:
- Mental — Do you practise mental relaxation, mindfulness or live in a way that is in touch with your values? Do you seek support for mental health needs or engage in activities you enjoy, such as creative arts or looking at family photos?
- Physical — Do you take care of your body with good food, exercise, sleep and avoiding harmful substances? Do you seek care for any physical illnesses or injuries you might have and participate in self-soothing activities, such as running, yoga or mindfulness?
- Social — Have you set aside time to spend with supportive family or friends? Can you be in contact with others through leisure activities or spiritual or religious pursuits in a way that feels good to you in terms of your comfort level?
- Environmental — Research has shown that we sleep better on clean sheets, concentrate more easily in an uncluttered space and can be mentally rejuvenated by spending time in nature. What are a few actions that you can take to keep your living environment safe, clean and comfortable, and that can get you out the door now and then for some fresh air?
Q: I have a very busy schedule. How can I start and stick to a daily self-care routine?
A: Recent research shows that one third of Canadians are burning the candle at both ends. This makes it more important than ever to think of self-care as a necessary and important part of life. Put caring for yourself at the top of your to-do list. If you have ever been on a plane, you will have heard the flight attendant state in the safety instructions that you need to put on your oxygen mask before helping others put on theirs.
Check in with yourself to see if internal or external conflicts are preventing you from taking the time you need for self-care. If starting a new routine is the main obstacle, break the activity up into manageable pieces. For example, if your goal is to spend more time outside, start with short walks around the block and build up from there. Apply the five-minute rule and aim to do something for at least five minutes. You may soon find that five minutes turns into many more as you become immersed in that activity.
Q: Can practising self-care improve mental illnesses, such as depression or anxiety?
A: Often, when people are severely depressed, a lot of their daily activities fall by the wayside. This can make it difficult to feel motivated to do anything and result in a toxic cycle where delay leads to a deeper depression and less motivation to act.
In cognitive behaviour therapy, people are often taught behavioural activation. Similar to self-care, this involves getting on top of responsibilities and creating a healthy living environment to reduce feelings of isolation, provide a distraction from negative thoughts, lift mood and promote reconnecting with supportive people. Behavioural activation is a powerful tool that anyone can use, and it can also be supported by a counsellor.
Q: Can self-care be harmful?
A: There is the potential for self-care to become harmful if used as a replacement for health care or getting away from a situation that is hurting someone’s emotional or physical well-being. For example, self-care will not resolve a toxic work environment, a serious depression or other forms of physical illness.
Influencer culture can also play a role here — for example, women in particular may feel pressure to purchase expensive skin-care or diet products or treatments as a form of self-care. The reality is that self-care can be inexpensive and does not require changing who you are or how you look. Be selective about which sites you follow to ensure that they make you feel better and not worse.
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ERIC Number: ED217340
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1981-Nov
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Alienation and Depression in the Small Town Widow.
Jolley, Janina M.
Research has found that elderly widows are alienated, disengaged, and depressed. However, there is little consensus across theories as to the inter-relationship of these variables. The social interactionist theory that disengagement leads to chronic depression and alienation was tested for a group of widows (N=32) and married women (N=28) over the age of 50 who lived in a small town. Subjects completed Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale, a measure of alienation, and a behavioral checklist of frequency and nature of social contacts. Results indicated that marital status had a significant effect on alienation and depression. Widows were significantly more alienated and depressed than married women. Marital status did not have a significant effect on any of the social interaction categories. Widowhood correlated with alienation and depression, but not with disengagement. Disengagement was not an antecedent to alienation and depresison. Further research into the subjective and objective elements of disengagement is needed to arrive at a more cogent model of widowhood. (Author/NRB)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Note: Paper presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Scientific Gerontological Society (34th) and the Scientific & Educational Canadian Association on Gerontology (10th), (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 8-12, 1981).
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A CLASSIC aircraft dressed in the livery of a WWII aeroplane from the German Luftwaffe crashed on a highway in the United States of America.
Captured on camera by a motorist passing the incident on Highway 101, near the city of Agoura Hills, the North American T-6 Texan trainer aircraft had hit the deck after losing all power shortly after taking off from a nearby airport.
The two-seater aeroplane came down on the median of the road, and caught fire after crashing into the road. The pilot was retrieved from the plane without injury, and the stricken aircraft didn’t hit any vehicles on the highway.
— LACounty Fire PIO (@LACoFDPIO) 23 October 2018
The T-6 Texan is used by the local Condor Squadron group in air parades, according to reports.
Credit: Derrick Weldon via Storyful
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Apple keeps updating the macOS every year with new features and additions. Still, you might want to stay in the old version for many reasons. Whether you need it or not, your MacBook will still annoy you with “Update Available” and “Update Ready to Install” notifications now and then. We got you in case you want to get rid of such notifications.
In this guide, let us find out how to turn off the macOS software update notification on your MacBook and see how you can disable auto-updating.
Turn Off Mac Software Update Notifications
Whenever a new update is available for your Mac, the macOS pops up a notification, as you see below, which you must have already seen. Unlike other notifications, you cannot dismiss them forever. You can choose to remind later, but you will still get the notification hours later to update the macOS.
Although dismissing the update notification is not as effective, you can choose to disable the new update alerts from the System Preferences on your Mac.
- On your Mac, click the Apple icon from the menu bar and select System Preferences.
- Click “Software Updates” from the preferences window.
- From the next screen, click on the “Advanced” button next to the check box that says “Automatically keep my Mac up to date.”
- A window will now pop up for auto-update preferences. Uncheck the option “Check for updates.”
- Click “OK” to save the update notifications settings on your MacBook.
Once you save the settings, you will stop getting frustrating notifications for all the macOS updates. However, if you ever need to update your Mac machine to the latest macOS version, you will need to manually download and install it from System Preferences.
How to Turn Off Automatic Update on Mac
You would know the update notifications are not the most irritating once you see that the latest update just ate up 5-6GB of space on your Mac storage. Your Macbook sometimes download updates automatically and you will be stuck with less storage space. To prevent this, follow the below method to turn off automatic updates on Mac;
- Open System Preferences from the Apple menu.
- Go to the Software Updates option.
- From the window, click “Advanced.”
- On the popup window, uncheck the option Download new updates when available.
- Confirm to “Turn Off Automatic Updates” from the prompt.
- You will be asked to enter your passcode or verify with Touch ID. Do it and click the “OK” button.
Additionally, you can disable automatic update installation so that you won’t be upgraded to the latest version of macOS without your knowledge. This will save some storage space too.
Although, make sure the option “Install system data files and security updates” are enabled from the menu. Otherwise, you will miss major security updates to make your MacBook even more secure.
FAQ: Mac Software Updates
You can turn off the “update available” notification on mac from the System Preferences > Software Update > Advanced. There, you can choose to stop getting alerts of new updates.
Some notifications on your Mac won’t go away due to system preferences or software glitches. If a notifications get stuck on your Mac, go to the notification option from the System Preferences and turn off alerts for the affected app. Additionally, you can force quit Notification Center from the Activity Monitor.
You will see a red badge on the Software Update option in system Preference on your Mac if there is any pending update. The best way to get rid of the red badge is to install the downloaded update. If you are not ready to upgrade, you can remove the updates and turn off automatic updates on your MacBook.
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Champlin funds help preserve our history
According to Dianne Rugh of the historical society, the $27,205 grant was used to purchase and install compact shelving units. These new shelves roll on fixed tracks so that the vault’s storage space is put to more efficient use. And the shelves move easily, so just about anyone can slide the storage to where it is needed.
Also included in the project was the addition of three new flat file storage units. A work area was also created just outside of the vault so that historical society volunteers have a place to keep track of the collections and also research the collections.
The project is of great benefit to the historical society because now more historical artifacts and documents can be stored in the climate-controlled vault.
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There has recently been a wildfire spread of safety recommendations when it comes to infant sleep. First it was dropside cribs, now it’s crib bumpers. The following article from Parenting.com states that according to the AAP, crib bumpers do not offer any type of protection against injuries but they do increase the risk of suffocation or becoming entangled and strangled. SIDS Prevention – Crib Bumper Safety – Parenting.com.
Being popular for many many years, bumpers come in many forms- some included in a bedding set as more of a decoration, and others in the form of mesh to be “breathable”. According to the article, all types are equally dangerous and should be avoided.
Part of me thinks it’s great that despite not really knowing what causes SIDS in most cases, great efforts are being made to reduce the number of deaths and heartbreaks for parents. The other part of me wishes the same type of wildfire spread happened with child vehicle safety. Can you imagine the advances we could make if as many people knew about rear facing recommendations as they did about drop side cribs and not using crib bumpers? The infant that is lovingly placed on their back on a smooth as glass sheet in a completely bare crib wearing appropriately skin tight flame retardant pajamas is quite possibly being strapped into an unstable seat traveling 65mph in a 2-ton weapon on wheels the very next morning. Where is the attention to that little detail? Why are consignment shops dutifully declining/trashing drop side cribs and bumpers but continuing to sell used or expired car seats?
Are we making advancements in all the right areas?
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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today, Laura and I are in Latin America, where we are visiting five countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. These countries are part of a region that has made great strides toward freedom and prosperity in the past three decades. They have raised up new democracies. And they have undertaken fiscal policies that have brought stability to their economies.
Yet despite the progress we have seen, many citizens in our hemisphere remain trapped in poverty and shut off from the promise of this new century. Nearly one out of every four people in Latin America lives on less than $2 a day. Many children never finish grade school. Many mothers never see a doctor. The fact is that tens of millions of our brothers and sisters to the South have yet to see improvements in their daily lives. And this has led some to question the value of democracy.
Our Nation has a vital interest in helping the young democracies in our neighborhood succeed. When our neighbors prosper, they create more vibrant markets for our goods and services. When our neighbors have a hopeful future in their own countries, they can find work at home and are less likely to migrate to our country illegally. And when our neighbors feel the blessings of liberty in their daily lives, the appeal of radicalism declines, and our hemisphere becomes more secure.
The United States is doing its part to help our neighbors in Latin America build a better life for themselves and their families. We are helping these young democracies make their governments more fair, effective, and transparent. We are supporting their efforts to meet the basic needs of their citizens -- like education, health care, and housing. And we are increasing opportunity for all by relieving debt, opening up trade, and encouraging reforms that will build market economies, where people can start from nothing and rise as far as their talents and hard work can take them.
On Monday, I will meet a Guatemalan citizen who has experienced the power of open trade and free economies. His name is Mariano Can . Twenty years ago, he was an indigenous farmer whose land provided barely enough corn and beans to feed his family. No one in his family had ever been to college, and most of the people in his village never got past the sixth grade. And his own children's prospects for prosperity looked just as bleak.
Mariano was determined to do better for his family. So he organized an association of small farmers called Labradores Mayas. He persuaded his fellow farmers to switch their crops to vegetables they could sell overseas -- high-value crops like lettuce, carrots, and celery. Soon they were selling to big companies like Wal-Mart Central America. Today, the business he helped establish is thriving, and it supports more than a thousand jobs. It also has supported something else: a college education for Mariano's son.
Mariano is showing what the people of Latin America can accomplish when they are given a chance. We must help others like him gain the opportunity to build a better life for their families. The generosity of the American people is helping our neighbors in Latin America build free and vibrant economies. By doing so, we will increase living standards for all our citizens, strengthen democracy in our hemisphere, and advance the cause of peace.
Thank you for listening.
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This GCC show of unity can't hide its weakness
This week, the six GCC countries - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman - gather for their annual general meeting and will try to fix their internal disputes, especially with Qatar. On Monday, Saudi Arabia agreed to lift its land and air blockade on Qatar in a major step towards ending a Gulf rift that started in June 2017.
Diplomats and analysts say that Saudi Arabia was pushing for a deal hoping it would show US President-elect Joe Biden - who will be taking office later this month - that Riyadh is open to dialogue.
But the pomp and opulence of the meeting will not revive the states' diminishing strategic significance, especially in the eyes of their Western allies and partners.
The GCC states' strategic location, Islam and oil were three crucial pillars, allowing them to project power beyond their real capabilities, not only in the Arab region but also around the Muslim world
Since the 1980s, the GCC states were able to play a pivotal role in protecting Western interests in the Arabian Peninsula by deploying several assets. Their strategic location, Islam and oil were three crucial pillars, allowing them to project power beyond their real capabilities not only in the Arab region but also around the Muslim world.
Their strategic location was especially relevant to the US, the post-Cold War superpower that needed strategic Gulf bases to control and reach distant territories in the East.
Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries were turned into launching pads to carry out operations that served US interests. Even their religious tradition, mainly the Wahhabi strand of Saudi Arabia, was turned into a strategic asset deployed in the service of Western interests globally. Saudi Arabia weaponised Islam during the Cold War and launched futile projects that precipitated serious terrorism crises all over the world.
Despite the dangerous outcomes of this policy, the West benefitted from the weaponisation of the Islamic faith to deal with rising challenges such as the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the anti-imperialist movements that sprung across the Muslim world, and the anti-Western sentiments that dominated relations between the Muslim world and its previous colonisers.
The GCC countries played an important role financially, logistically, and ideologically in that saga that poisoned relations further between the West and the East. However, today, the West does not need GCC religion to fight its battles and consequently, the GCC will also lose this controversial strategic value.
Moreover, as the US - under the new Biden administration - is bound to scale down its engagement in the Middle East and beyond, GCC assets look less useful or necessary.
This also applies to oil, the only economic asset that GCC countries were able to deploy as a weapon. This was done once in 1973 but became a less effective strategy to fulfil national interests and objectives as time passed.
With at least two GCC countries, Bahrain and Oman, reaching the bottom of their oil reserves, and other countries struggling to meet budget deficits with declining oil revenues and rising domestic consumption, there will definitely be less oil to export in a changing energy market that is gradually but steadily moving away from Gulf black gold.
The industrial world is determined to move away from oil-based energy, consequently, the GCC countries will lose this crucial edge that had made them so important to the world since the Second World War.
Oil had allowed them to launch development and modernisation programmes that many Western countries benefited from as consultants, contractors, and builders of cities. They also launched an armament race, buying colossal quantities of military equipment, jet fighters,and technology, supplemented by training programmes, all provided by Western arms manufacturers and military consultants.
Yet today, less oil revenues mean less purchasing capabilities when it comes to building arsenals that almost always fail to provide the necessary security for each and all of the GCC countries.
When post-1979 Iran adopted an anti-western position and threatened the strategic western interests in the region, GCC countries positioned themselves as strategic partners to contain Iran and limit its expansion in the Arab world.
But the GCC countries themselves needed protection and could not really play a central role in any confrontation with Iran. They tried to do so when they backed late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in an eight-year war against Iran but utterly failed to defeat it.
It seems that if GCC countries want to continue to be relevant to the West, they have to show that they are crucial for Israeli security
In fact, Iran’s expansion in the Arab world accelerated after the US intervened in Iraq in 2003. The GCC watched the Iranian expansion without being able to either halt or contain it.
The US under Joe Biden will not rely on any GCC country to relaunch its dialogue with Iran, now the latter is weakened by successive US and Israeli assaults on its military and scientific cadres, starting with the assassination of Qassem Soleimani last year. The GCC countries can only watch and applaud as if the military strikes were a result of their own military might or strategic thinking.
No doubt Iran in 2021 is a weakened state, thus making it less aggressive when invited by the Biden administration to the negotiation table over its nuclear programme. But the GCC states will neither be full partners nor facilitators in such negotiations.
Another GCC asset is being eroded.
So far it seems that several GCC states - mainly UAE, Bahrain and Oman - have chosen to impress the West with their rush to normalise relations with Israel, without any real peace prospects in the region especially when Palestinian rights remain in jeopardy.
Qatar and Oman are hesitant while Kuwait declared rejection of any normalisation that does not take into account full Palestinian rights. Saudi Arabia awaits further nudges but continues to maintain clandestine relations with Israel.
It seems that if GCC countries want to continue to be relevant to the West, they have to show that they are crucial for Israeli security. Such a position impresses Western audiences, especially in the US.
So Gulf leaders will meet in Saudi Arabia and they will try to reconcile with their troublesome neighbour Qatar as they seek to draw the attention of the new US Biden administration to their rediscovered unity.
But the fact remains that all GCC states are witnessing a depletion of assets, both financial and strategic, in their struggle to make themselves the arbiters of Arab affairs and the interlocutors that the West can rely on to pursue its own strategic interests.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
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Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the embryonic precursors of
gametes. In most model systems, PGCs are migratory and navigate through
or around diverse tissues in order to find the site of the developing
gonads. PGC migration shares conserved features in many species
indicating the process arose in a common ancestor. In vertebrates,
however, the majority of factors implicated in PGC guidance are either
secreted or membrane bound protein growth factors (e.g. stromal derived
factor 1 and Kit ligand); whereas, evidence in Drosophila points to a
lipid-based guidance system .
A recent study bridged the gap by demonstrating that zebrafish PGCs,
like Drosophila PGCs, require 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A
reductase (HMGCR) for normal migration .
HMGCR is the rate limiting enzyme in isoprenoid and cholesterol
biosynthesis. In flies, HMGCR was shown to act within the somatic
gonadal precursors to control release of a secreted PGC attractant .
Drosophila lack enzymes required downstream of HMGCR for cholesterol
synthesis indicating that isoprenoids are the relevant downstream
effectors . In support of this, Santos and Lehmann demonstrated that mutations in the geranylgeranyl transferase 1 β
subunit cause PGC migration defects. It has been proposed that
geranylgeranylation of small GTPase in the Ras, Rac, or Rho families
regulate secretion of hedgehog or other putative Drosophila PGC attractants . In zebrafish, evidence also points to a role for HMGCR and isoprenoids in PGC migration .
Inhibition of HMGCR or geranylgeranyl transferase I cause PGC migration
defects. However, in this system it remains unclear whether HMGCR is
required in PGCs themselves or within the soma. Additionally, zebrafish
unlike flies are capable of de novo cholesterol synthesis and this
branch of the pathway was not carefully evaluated.
Cholesterol plays a vital role during vertebrate development.
Mutations in genes required for cholesterol biosynthesis cause severe
developmental defects. Loss of Hmgcr or squalene synthase result in early embryonic lethality in mouse models. Mutations in 3b-hydroxysterol-Δ7 reductase (Dhcr7) or lathosterol 5-desaturase (Sc5d) cause skeletal, neural, and in some cases urogenital defects in humans and in mice [9,10].
Additionally, mutations in genes required for cholesterol transport are
also associated with embryonic lethality or patterning defects .
Several models have been evoked in order to explain the role of
cholesterol during organogenesis. First, cholesterol is the precursor
of steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, and oxysterols, all compounds
known to mediate cell-cell signaling via activation of nuclear hormone
receptors. Second, cholesterol directly regulates cell-cell signalling
by controlling the diffusion or reception
of members of the hedgehog growth factor family. Finally, cholesterol
is a key structural component of the plasma membrane. Cholesterol
controls membrane fluidity and modulates membrane protein interactions.
Membrane cholesterol has been shown to influence the activity of growth
factor receptors and cell-adhesion molecules by clustering these cell
surface proteins into lipid rafts . Of particular note, lipid rafts have been shown to affect epidermal growth factor-induced chemotaxis and migration on fibronectin in cell culture. This suggests that cholesterol levels might also alter cell migration in vivo.
Considering the roles of cholesterol in cell-cell signalling and
cell migration, we thought it imperative to test whether this branch of
the HMGCR pathway is required for germ cell development in a vertebrate
model. In mice, PGCs migrate from the gut to the genital ridges between
embryonic day 9.5 (E9.5) and E10.5. Steroid hormones and hedgehog
growth factors are unlikely to play a role in this process. Enzymes
required to convert cholesterol into steroid hormones are not expressed
in the gonads until E11.5 .
Likewise, the three vertebrate members of the hedgehog growth factor
family are not expressed in the right place or time to play a role in
PGC guidance in this system [18,19].
However, changes in cholesterol could very well impact the ability of
PGCs to respond to proposed chemoattractants such as SDF1 or KITL .
To examine the role of cholesterol in PGC migration, we first
measured cholesterol in living tissue dissected from E9.5 embryos and
were surprised to find that cholesterol was enriched in the genital
ridges relative to the surrounding tissue. This asymmetric distribution
appears to be maintained via selective uptake of cholesterol by cells
within the genital ridges. We further demonstrate that inhibition of
HMGCR reduced total cholesterol and impaired germ cell survival and
migration in culture. These defects were rescued by co-addition of
geranylgeraniol and cholesterol indicating that both compounds are
required. To test if cholesterol biosynthesis is necessary for PGC
migration in vivo, we examine the number and distribution of PGCs in
embryos lacking Dhcr7 or Sc5d (see Figure 1). PGCs were normally distributed in both lines, but cholesterol levels are only modestly affected in these embryos [9,10].
We conclude that cholesterol is required for PGC migration but that
this requirement can be met by uptake of cholesterol from maternal
sources. We propose that the asymmetric accumulation of cholesterol
within the genital ridges controls signaling interactions required for
PGCs to colonize the gonads.
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The resurrection of the dead has been a subject that has deeply concerned the mind of man since ancient times. Job asked the question, “If a man die, shall he live again?” Shakespeare had Hamlet say, “To die, to sleep, perchance to dream, aye, there’s the rub.” The Christian finds the answer to Shakespeare’s “rub” in the Bible, the Word of God. Roy Gingrich, in his usual lucid and succinct fashion, has in this book outlined and elucidated in chronological order the seven resurrections spoken of in the Bible.
Praise for the Print Edition
These commentaries, written in outline form, are concise yet comprehensive, doctrinally sound and practically useful.
—Rev. John Edward HAO, President Faith Bible Seminary, Queens, NY
These commentaries are brief but thorough. They simplify the difficult passages. These books are factual, not fanciful, in their interpretation of the Bible.
—George A Hern, Pastor, Dellwood Baptist Church, Memphis, TN
Dr. Gingrich's commentaries have been used by thousands. Read and be blessed.
—Dr. Roger R. Clapp, Professor of Bible and Theology, Mid South Bible College
- Title: The Seven Resurrections of the Bible
- Author: Roy Edward Gingrich
- Publisher: Riverside Press
- Publication Date: 2005
- Pages: 21
About Roy Edward Gingrich
Roy Edward Gingrich was born February 3, 1920 in Ozark, Illinois. In 1941, Roy received God's call to enter the Christian ministry. After intensive preparation, he was called to pastor churches in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana and Memphis, TN. He was pastor of Faith Bible Church in Memphis, TN for over 40 years. In 1963 he graduated magna cum laude from Crichton College (formally Mid-South Bible College) and soon thereafter, he joined the teaching staff. In 1964, Dr. Gingrich began writing and self-publishing Bible commentaries. In 2001, Dr. Gingrich retired from a long and fruitful ministry and in 2003, was inducted into the Crichton College Hall of Fame.
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Dancing with Dziadziu
Written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Illustrated by Annika Nelson
Harcourt Brace, 1997, 40 pp.
Dancing with Dziadziu begins with Gabriella performing her snowflake ballet routine for her sick grandma, Babci. Although Gabriella is dissatisfied with her performance, Babci is reminded of the music that she danced to with Gabriella’s grandfather when he was still alive and she tells Gabriella the story of her Polish parents’ cross-Atlantic voyage to the United States. When Babci falls asleep, Gabriella finds her mother in the kitchen preparing an early Easter meal because she is afraid that Babci will not live to Easter. Later, Babci tells Gabriella more stories of her life growing up in the United States, and Gabriella feels connected to her grandmother. On Sunday, the family invites the priest to their house, and they celebrate the early Easter dinner with Polish food, making Babci smile. After dinner Gabriella is able to perform her snowflake routine just right for Babci, and she realizes that dance connects her to her grandmother.
Dance is a tradition that connects people in Gabriella’s family, regardless of the generation. Gabriella knows that she will always remember and honor her grandparents through her dance performances; thus she is able to cross the generational and cultural divide with her grandmother. This theme can provoke a discussion of how traditions are passed down through generations and the ways that we are connected to others although we have different cultural experiences growing up. Other books that would lend themselves to exploring grandchild-grandparents relationships and traditions in families are The Keeping Quilt (Patricia Polacco, 2001), Thundercake (Patricia Polacco, 1997), and Tortillas and Lullabies (Lynn Reiser, 2008).
As a Polish immigrant, I found that many cultural elements included in this picture book are authentic. Gabriella compares her grandmother to a round loaf of bread, a staple of the Polish diet. Babci talks about Polish songs, including the polonaise, polka, and mazurka. The traditional polish clothing and headdress depicted in the book are authentic, including the flowered skirts and vests decorated with beads, braided women’s hair, and halos of ribbons and flowers. A reference to a prized tea set is also reflective of important values in Polish culture. The Easter meal that the family prepares, which includes ham, kielbasa, horseradish, lamb butter, and Paska bread, represents an authentic tradition for Polish Catholics.
The life that Babci describes as an immigrant reflects Polish immigrants’ 20th century experiences, including having to bathe in a washtub, raising chickens, baking bread, and heating the house and water with coal. Anne Nelson’s illustrations portray all of these details and events realistically. Furthermore, Nelson illustrated the text using printmaking, an art form that is practiced in Poland, adding to the authenticity of the text.
At first, as a Polish-speaking reader, the inclusion of the word Babci seemed problematic to me. Polish nouns have declensions based on the context of the sentence. To me, Babci is equivalent to saying Grandmother’s, not Grandma. However, through personal correspondence, the author indicated that Babci is a regional word for Grandmother. Thus, the author represented this family based on what she knew of Polish immigrants in her region (Pennsylvania).
One issue of authenticity is the Easter meal. While all of the foods included in this meal are authentic, the family eats them for dinner. Traditionally, Poles celebrate Easter with a big Sunday breakfast following the morning mass. Although it is possible that this family’s custom has changed because several generations have lived in the United States, the fact that Babci insists on a traditional Easter meal makes me question why the family did not eat it at breakfast time. Also, a staple in the Polish Easter meal is pisanki – colored eggs. While the illustrator included two illustrations of pisanki in the story, they are not mentioned in the text.
Throughout the book there is little use of Polish words to represent Polish concepts; instead only the English translations are used. This takes away from the authenticity of the text, as many Polish immigrants and their descendants think of their traditional foods and customs in the original language, not in their English translation. The colors, illustrations, and immigrant experiences portrayed in Dancing with Dziadziu represent authentic Polish immigrant experiences, but this authenticity is affected by the lack of Polish words. Perhaps if Bartoletti had researched the language of immigrant families, she would have found that words that represent traditional foods, customs, and people are retained in their original language, and would have been able to create a more authentic representation of the language used within Polish families.
Margaret Grabowski, Donna Independent School District, Donna, TX
WOW Review, Volume III, Issue 3 by Worlds of Words is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on work at https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/iii-3/
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When you install the Solaris OS, two GRUB menu entries are installed on the system by default. The first entry is the Solaris OS entry. The second entry is the failsafe boot archive, which is to be used for system recovery. The Solaris GRUB menu entries are installed and updated automatically as part of the Solaris software installation and upgrade process. These entries are directly managed by the OS and should not be manually edited.
During a standard Solaris OS installation, GRUB is installed on the Solaris fdisk partition without modifying the system BIOS setting. If the OS is not on the BIOS boot disk, you need to do one of the following:
Modify the BIOS setting.
Use a boot manager to bootstrap to the Solaris partition. For more details, see your boot manager.
The preferred method is to install the Solaris OS on the boot disk. If multiple operating systems are installed on the machine, you can add entries to the menu.lst file. These entries are then displayed in the GRUB menu the next time you boot the system.
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IP address of the file server
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Serving our diverse community requires a culturally-responsive approach that recognizes the myriad strengths and assets that our students bring to the campus community. We do so by promoting a classroom and co-curricular learning environment that is inclusive, collaborative, engaging, and challenging, and where respect, dignity, and integrity are core values. We see students as producers of knowledge, not just consumers of knowledge. We work to reframe inequities as a problem of practice, and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and institutional responsibility.
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This is a protective service occupation. Under general supervision, the employee enforces rules and regulations governing the use of college buildings, grounds and other properties of the College and performs some functions that are clerical in nature. The employee has daily and direct contact with staff and college visitors and works outdoors in all types of weather. Errors in decision could result in injury to the users of District facilities.
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The Assam government has reduced the home quarantine period for cured COVID-19 patients to seven days, while also doing away with the provision of providing free essential items worth Rs 2,000 to families in quarantine, except for specified categories of people.
“With the evolving situation, Govt of Assam has decided to reduce the home quarantine period after discharge from hospital to seven days. As such we will not provide essential items worth Rs 2000/ except to the families living under BPL, elderly people, ailing and to Divyangjan (specially-abled),” state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in Twitter.
Earlier, all cured COVID-19 patients had to stay in 14 days mandatory home quarantine, whether they had been symptomatic or asymptomatic during the course of the infection.
On abolishing the provision of free essential items, an official circular from the Health and family welfare department issued on July 24 said, “…the essential items worth Rs 2,000 for quarantined families will henceforth be provided to families of the below poverty line category”.
However, the deputy commissioners have been authorised to extend these benefits to other categories, like elderly, sick, specially-abled, if deemed necessary.
“The state government needs to optimally utilise resources at its disposal for core activities of testing and treatment of COVID-19,” the circular has stated.
Over 1.12 lakh families have been provided with essential items worth Rs 2,000 each, while the state government has also provided financial support to people stranded outside due to the pandemic, including patients undergoing treatment.
The COVID-19 testing and treatment is provided free-of-cost by the government in the state.
Altogether 29,921 COVID-19 cases have been detected in the state so far, out of which 21,761 have recovered and 76 others have died.
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Laid These Lays Down to Allay Misfortune
laid these lays down to allay misfortunes
that in the turns of fate inevitable come
with melancholy and whist, yet tales
have transformings that turn fate's turnings
in mind so hearts find comforts, and thus
the poetic arts were given to console
so much as to inspire: grief at times
may be soothed and softened with song.
Well knew the Gods what grief
each birth brings with all its joys
yet in living the good strive, with bold,
cheer may the high heart of courage gain,
just as all brave Gods will. So they implanted
these seeds in the human heart for he
or she who would grow them. An active life,
a life rising to challenge, a life defies
inordinate fear that timid stills the will,
that life finds purpose, even through the pain.
Let a man live reverence, by walking in awe,
yielding each thing its true worth, whether
in work or at play, at home or abroad,
and the unspeakable holiness of wholeness
shall be upon each. Thus the Gods ordain.
Let she who would profit well water
those seeds given long ago to trees.
Or would you weep in poverty when life's
strikes come unexpected, your heart
untrained by song or deeds to meet
the might of strong bale on the road?
Then you would wish for a hoard
of songs and boasts that might mete
you meet the woe with courage
and resolve matured by long years' training.
That your brag might be you looked
with stout heart into eyes that come
uncertain from time's awesome fogs,
unflinching, or, flinched, as most men
might, up-gathered valor and forward
went despite, fireside tales of heroes
in desperate plight support your peril.
Let an earth's child drink potent mead
and ponder what knots bind debt in tangles
that trip the forward-going feet, and slowly,
with will and patience, undo each knot
and free oneself from unwilled legacies
of misfortune passed down in terrible
accident and misery. So a man might rise.
Redeem his kinfolk through valor and wit.
Let no man moan when he might roar instead.
The Gods do not hear whimpers. Let fade
whimpers once wounds licked, and mind's defiance
find again in rede to root out the unvictory,
together gathering arms to challenge odds ill
dealt out, and refind roaring. This they hear.
This they wish to hear, because they love.
One slanders holy givers to be weaker than
one's actual strength, so use the living muscle.
Your acres may be small, but they are
your acres, so choose garden or wasteland
what you will, they would have you treasure-
add to world in whatever small way you might.
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Revista Letral, #17
“Letral: Interview with David Rosenmann-Taub (Translation)”
by Álvaro Salvador
Álvaro Salvador (AS): What do you believe is the importance in your poetry of your deep knowledge of music? And of drawing, and of painting?
David Rosenmann-Taub (DRT): Poetry, music, and painting are ways of expressing thought: different languages: verbal, musical, plastic. You'll be able to see this in Almería, which is about to be published by Pre-Textos. Isaac Albéniz composed, in music, a poem. To leave a record of my existence through these languages comes naturally to me, like breathing. As for deep knowledge, if the knowledge is not at its absolute maximum, what is done will be either mediocrity or failure.
DRT: Rhythm is a constant phenomenon in the cosmos, biologically: starting with breathing and heartbeats everything falls under rhythm. Drawing, painting, music, and poetry: rhythmic thought. Real music is poetry, and also painting. True painting is also music: it has its own rhythm. Rhythm has a meaning, an expressive function. Tonality and atonality exist in all the arts. For each art, rhythm determines the conditions for relating one element to another: how to emphasize them, confront them with each other. The interplay of syllables is the same as counterpoint. Phonics in music is the search for equilibrium, the contrast of sonorities, the harmonic or the inharmonic: sounds in agreement, sounds at war. Tonality, rhythmic groupings, and their alterations are what rhyme is in poetry. The value of silence is of fundamental importance in poetry and music, equivalent to the distribution of space in painting, sculpture, dance, or theater.
AS: One notices in your poetry a stylization of the popular poetic tradition, not just of Chile, but more generally. Is that done consciously or does it arise in the process of your creative development?
DRT: What is considered popular sometimes has substance. Direct acquaintance with some Araucanos affected me.
AS: The tetralogy Cortejo y Epinicio took many years in becoming what it is. Do you consider your creative process as a work in progress?
DRT: In the recent publication of all four volumes by Ediciones LOM, the first volume contains an explanation of why it is called Cortejo y Epinicio: the four stages of life. I always saw it in its complete form; life confirmed what I had intuited. To do it took time, but I was perfectly clear as to what I wanted to do from the beginning. It's one thing to plan a work, another to realize it. How to do right by myself. Not to betray myself. Eighty years is an instant. What is indispensable is the testimony, with certitude, of the self. I am not a slave of time. I enjoyed the youthfulness of my grandfather. My parents were ageless. With them I knew what intelligence was, and what it meant to have a mind that is fresh and without prejudices. An influence that I keep with me.
AS: One of the most noticeable features of your poetic trajectory is the existence of long periods of silence. What are those periods due to? Do they have to do with the difficulties of poetic creation or simply with personal circumstances?
DRT: One thing is to write, another to publish. There has not been a day when I haven't written. From the age of two, I dictated to my father or my mother. Sometimes the thought manifests itself to me in music, in drawing. To publish is not easy. Interrupt my creative work? I have never experienced that.
AS: We know that for you poetry is, in a certain way, a process of essentializing the word. To do so, however, you have not spurned forms proper to conversational and even realist poetry, which lends your work a very remarkable singularity. What could you clarify for us about this aspect?
DRT: What is fundamental for me is to be exact. Everything that permits that exactitude, I put in the service of the work.
AS: What meaning do the labels vanguardista or neovanguardista have for you, which you also sometimes use?
DRT: For me, there are not vanguardistas or classicists or romantics. There are artists, or not. The vanguardista designation overlooks that we exist in time. I'm concerned with making art, not with being avant-garde or rearguard. Real art is always of now.
AS: One of your central themes is religion, but always treated in a very unorthodox way. What do religion or religions mean for a poet?
DRT: For me they mean nothing, because it makes no sense to me to take into consideration what I have not personally verified. Even fantasy is one of the many resources for expressing truth. One of the least religious expressions is religion. Christ is a manifestation of the truly human. And Jehovah allows me to show the inhuman. When it’s a matter of truly religious people, as is the case with John of the Cross or Teresa of Ávila, how did it go for them in their religious milieu? Ingenuousness is also human.
AS: Sexuality, eroticism, are not very present in your poetry, although they sometimes crop up, are suggested. Is it a delicate subject?
DRT: They are present in many aspects of my poetry. With respect to what is delicate, it’s as if you were to ask me, “Is mathematics a delicate subject?”
AS: What is your opinion of poetry committed to social concerns or that is directly political?
DRT: Human history is always the same play with different actors. If we see the expression of the Venus de Milo: “I do not want to look at the world; I look far, far away. I don’t want to look at those who are looking at me”: it is a sculpture for any time. The Preludes and Fugues of Bach, Gaspard de la Nuit of Ravel will always be as if written just now. Poetry is committed to beauty. What is more beautiful than truth?
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Afghan President Hamid Karzi has recently authorized the release of 72 prisoners, regarded as a threat to the security of the United States. The State Department has vociferously objected to that decision. On Thursday, Jen Psaki, aState Department spokeswoman said, “These 72 detainees are dangerous criminals against whom there is strong evidence linking them to terror-related crimes, including the use of improvised explosive devises, the largest killer of Afghan civilians.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney added, “We are very concerned about the release of any detainees who would pose a threat to U.S. forces.”
Yet, just in order to get the Palestinian Authority to deign to sit down at the negotiating table with Israel, the United States pressured the Israelis to release 104 terrorists, all of whom are responsible for the most heinous crimes imaginable. It is an absolute fallacy to believe that the terrorists that murder Israeli or American Jews on the streets of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv are any less a threat to the survival of Western civilization as we know it, then those released on the streets of Afghanistan.
Any one of them, whether they be from a Sunni Islamic group such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Ansar al Sharia, or a Shiite Islamic group such as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Al Quds Force of Hizb’allah, delights equally in the murder of either American or Israeli civilians. Not to believe this is to make a distinction without a difference.
On August 9th, 2001, Malki Roth, a 15-year-old American citizen, went to eat pizza in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem. Malki was a beautiful, vivacious young girl, an accomplished violinist, who wanted to devote her life to special education. Malki was profoundly affected by having a younger sister with severe learning disabilities, and wanted to do something to help those who were less fortunate than she.
Unfortunately, Malki’s dream of teaching learning disabled children was not meant to be. Her life was cut short when she sat down to eat pizza that day. A suicide bomber, Izz al Dehn Shuhail al Massri, blew himself up, killing 15 others and wounding 130. The person who orchestrated and planned that attack, AhlamTamimi, was released in an earlier prisoner exchange, and was welcomed home as a conquering hero. She now lives in Jordan where she has her own, Hamas-sponsored television show.
In a YouTube clip translated by MEMRI, AhlamTamimi actually boasts about the act.
This is a product of the culture of incitement and hatred that has metastasized throughout the body politic of the Palestinians, and has spread throughout much of the Muslim and Arab world. The United States bears much of the responsibility for this by willfully blinding itself to this fact, and by reinforcing the growing sense of Palestinian triumphalism by insisting upon these prisoner releases.
Oslo, Hebron, Wye, the Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East, and all subsequent agreements had always been predicated around one concept: Israel was to exchange something very real and tangible, land, for the end of terrorism and the end of incitement to terrorism. Yet, scarcely a day goes by when there is not some egregious incident of incitement to terror, classic anti-Semitic demonization and vilification of Israelis and Jews, a substitution of the entire map of Israel with “Palestine” and glorification of martyrdom and exhortation to become a “Shahid”, (martyr).
Secretary of State John Kerry has just completed his tenth trip to the region. On his way home, he made a stop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and met with King Abdullah to praise him and to reassure him that his 2002 “Arab Peace Initiative”remained “a part of the framework we have been piecing together.” Of course, any framework that has been accepted by the Arab league, which has never accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state already shows the inherent biases of this administration.
In fact, the actual intentions of the Palestinian Authority as regards these negotiations was very clearly stated on December 23, 2013 by Abbas Zaki, a senior Palestinian official and close friend and confidant of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas. When a Syrian television interviewer remarked, “When they (the US), talk about imposing a solution, we know it will be deficient,” Mr. Zaki vehemently responded, “You can relax. Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the 1967 borders. Afterwards, we will all have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. (Rather) in stages.” (With thanks to Palestinian Media Watch).
Irrespective of how generous the borders, and what the shape and contours of a future map of “Palestine” will look like, any society that celebrates the killing of innocents like Malki Roth, and that nurtures a culture of incitement and hatred such as this, could not be trusted to make a “peace agreement” that will endure, after the ink on the paper is dry.
Shame on us for imposing on Israel conditions that we, ourselves, could never find acceptable to live with.
Originally published at https://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/a_disturbing_double_standard.html
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The sales pitch to 46 uniformed men was simple: Welcome to Baltimore. Next time, bring a tall ship.
City and state officials and the nautical community have begun a marketing drive aimed at filling the Inner Harbor with majestic sailing vessels and gray-hulled warships for the War of 1812 commemoration finale, Sept. 6-14, 2014.
On Wednesday, they pitched military attaches from 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Turkey and Sri Lanka.
Navies begin planning their sea exercises and courtesy calls about a year in advance, and there's a lot of jockeying among East Coast seaports to secure the biggest and best ships for summer events.
"Everyone — New York, Miami, Norfolk, Boston — wants tall ships. It's very competitive and the best man wins," said Nan Nawrocki, president of the nonprofit Sail Baltimore, sponsor of Wednesday's get-acquainted tour. "There are a number of ships we're interested in, and we hope to have 10 or more lined up by the time we're done."
Last June, the group was successful in bringing more than three dozen ships to Sailabration, the kickoff of the war commemoration. The ships, in turn, attracted 1.5 million people — some 435,000 from out of state — that generated $166 million in economic impact in the metropolitan area, the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission reported.
With the Volvo Ocean Race choosing Newport, R.I., over Baltimore for its sole U.S. stopover in 2015 and the Grand Prix of Baltimore not on the schedule yet beyond this fall, the Star-Spangled Spectacular could be the biggest downtown event in the next two years.
The Navy's Blue Angels will be back next year, reprising their crowd-pleasing shows of last summer over Fort McHenry and downtown. Re-enactments will dot the weeks leading up to the finale, and a fireworks display will cap the 10-day commemoration.
But launching a maritime event without sailing vessels is like opening a zoo without animals. So there was a sense of urgency in lobbying the attaches.
After a quick breakfast on the observation deck of the World Trade Center, the attaches took a daylong tour that included stops at the USS Constellation, Camden Yards and Fort McHenry. A crab cake lunch during an Inner Harbor cruise ended with another pitch from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
At Fort McHenry, Ranger Vince Vaise, chief of interpretation, led the group in naval maneuvers on a sidewalk map of the Chesapeake Bay, complete with small replicas of 1812-era British and American warships.
"Anyone here from the United Kingdom?" Vaise asked.
"They refused to come today," replied Capt. Michael Setzer of the German navy to great laughter.
For some of the Washington-based officers, the tour was an introduction to Baltimore. Australian Commodore Stephen McDowall said he was struck by the sense of civic pride, the spotlight on sports teams and the waterfront.
"You're proud of where you are, where you've come from and where you're going," he said. "I'll be bringing my family here for a visit."
For other attaches, it felt like old-home week.
"We find Baltimore very friendly. There's lots to see and do," said Capt. Bjorn Egenberg of the Norwegian navy, which took part in Sailabration with the 437-foot frigate HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl. "We hope to bring a tall ship next year and a gray hull, too. That's my aim."
Several officers acknowledged the tug of war between cities.
Col. Jorge Correia Da Silva of the Portuguese army said his government had received a formal invitation from Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration for NRP Sagres, a 292-foot, three-masted barque that is used as a training vessel.
"It has been around the world several times, and it's invited to go a lot of places every year. It could be between California and Baltimore, and they will have to choose where to go," Da Silva said. "But I think it would be a good idea to come here. Baltimore has a beautiful harbor."
By the end of the day, everyone agreed the city's pitch was perfect.
"I think everybody's selling Baltimore quite well," said New Zealand navy Cmdr. Matt Williams.
"I don't think we have a choice," joked Egenberg. "I think we all have to send a ship."
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An Unexpected Road Hazard
One morning Erma Marshall was in such a hurry that she was unable to eat breakfast. When she was behind the wheel of her car later that day, she began sweating and feeling faint. As her condition deteriorated, her vision became so blurry that she could not see her cell phone to call for help. With great difficulty, she was finally able to pull over to the side of the road safely. Had she been drugged or struck by some weird virus? No, Marshall is one of 26 million Americans who have Type 2 diabetes. Her symptoms were both predictable and, in her circumstance, unavoidable. Fortunately they did not result in a fatal crash, though her driving abilities were so impaired that they easily could have. The cure was not the administration of a miracle drug. Instead, Marshall ate crackers and drank juice to bring her blood sugar back up to the proper level.
For Marshall, who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1990, the experience was a wake-up call, and she shared her story with others to help educate them about the potential dangers of low blood sugar and what can be done to help prevent it from occurring. What even longtime diabetics might not know is that traveling can interfere with blood sugar management and lead to low blood sugar levels, which can cause serious complications -- like loss of consciousness -- if not treated quickly. Of course, loss of consciousness while driving can have deadly consequences. According to a recent survey conducted by the American College of Endocrinology (ACE), 37 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes have experienced low blood sugar when driving or traveling.
While many diabetes patients recognize the importance of controlling high blood sugar, they may not know the risks of extremely low blood sugar. Six percent of people with Type 2 diabetes have had to go to the emergency room at some point as a result of low blood sugar. Even when the reaction is not that extreme, more than half (55 percent) of patients with Type 2 diabetes have experienced an episode of low blood sugar. The most commonly experienced symptoms are shakiness (91 percent), sweating (76 percent) and dizziness (75 percent). About 1 in 5 (21 percent) have needed assistance from others -- not good if you are alone driving a car.
What can you do to avoid the possibly dangerous effects of low blood sugar? ACE suggests packing more snacks, drinks and blood sugar testing supplies than you think you will need, so that you are prepared in the event of travel delays. If you are taking a long car trip, test your blood sugar before leaving. If it is 70 mg/dL or below, eat or drink something that will raise it quickly, and wait until your blood sugar is back to normal before getting behind the wheel.
While traveling, research nearby restaurants and grocery stores so you know your healthy options for meals and snacks.
If you have Type 2 diabetes, you are aware that you have to take and keep control of your blood sugar level. The important thing to remember is that this is more critical than ever when you are driving a car.
Luigi Fraschini is a Driving Today contributing editor based in Cleveland. He writes frequently about auto safety and safety-related issues.
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By: JR Dodd and RJ Stanton
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Reviews techniques for reconstruction of ancient environments, taking up the biological, chemical and physical principles of each technique. Extensively revised, coverage has been broadened to include more material from micropalaeontology, vertebrate palaeontology and palaeobotany. A new chapter on taphonomy, as well as case studies have been included.
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THE political-military situation in Zimbabwe could have influenced United States President Joe Biden to nominate a security expert as the next envoy to Harare with reports indicating the world superpower is casting its eyes on the southern African country’s next general election, political analysts say.
The White House last week announced that Biden had nominated Pamela Tremont , a security, political and military expert, as nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Zimbabwe.
The move, according to political analysts, could be an indication that Biden and US authorities want to put pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, which has a strong military inclination.
Tremont is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counsellor, and is currently assigned as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
She also holds additional responsibility of serving as the interim Chargé d’Affaires for 18 months.
According to a statement released by the White House last week, Tremont was assigned first as Assistance Coordinator and then as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Among her other roles, Tremont has been Deputy Director for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) policy in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, the Political/Economic Counsellor at the US embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, and a Political-Military Officer in the US embassy in London, United Kingdom.
Tremont also served as Political Military Officer at the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, as a Desk Officer for South Africa in the Bureau of African Affairs, and as a Watch Officer in the State Department’s Operations Centre.
Tremont holds a Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Baylor University as well as a Master’s in National Security Resource Strategy from the National Defence University.
In an interview this week, South African-based academic Ricky Makonza said the political crisis in Zimbabwe has a security dimension and the US government has realised that important fact.
“Biden would, therefore, want someone who is going to break down the analysis of this complex political-military problem as the country moves towards the 2023 elections,” he said.
“Tremont has a background that could give the Americans what they want. Having that understanding will assist Washington on how to relate to Harare.”
Another political analyst Methuseli Moyo concurred, adding that Tremont’s profile has a bearing on the mission of the same.
“In this case, the US believes her profile is the right one for the job. Therefore, this is an indication that the US reckons Zimbabwe is a militarised state,” he said.
“Read that with the impending 2023 elections, and the alleged role and influence of the Zimbabwe military in the politics of the state, clearly the US is stationing an envoy who will read the situation and advise accordingly.”
Effie Ncube, a political commentator, said the US wanted someone with the background to handle a complex situation like Zimbabwe.
“It does not mean the US is looking at attacking Zimbabwe, but it is looking for a seasoned diplomat who is going to push Zimbabwe towards respecting its constitution, the rule of law and the rights of Zimbabwean citizens,” he said.
“So there is no fundamental departure from the norm but all we are seeing is America doing what it has always done in different situations and by nominating this individual President Biden is sewing or demonstrating that he is serious about assisting Zimbabwe to achieve the democracy that it is yelling for.”
Ncube said Tremont had the necessary experience and commitment to democratic values and principles adding that she would assist in forming states structured for democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
In the US, the president nominates candidates for approval in the Senate.
So far Biden has nominated 11 ambassadors and only one has been confirmed by the Senate — his envoy to the United Nations in New York, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a retired career diplomat who took office in February.
Tremont’s nomination coincides with the US government triggering anxious moments in Harare after agreeing with the Zambian government to establish a military office in Lusaka and that the US has always had plans to establish military bases in Southern Africa amid fears that these would be targeted at Zimbabwe.
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TE Connectivity Champions Railway Safety With New Inserts for Heavy Duty Connectors
TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, has introduced a new range of inserts for heavy duty connectors (HDC) that comply with the EN45545 European standard on flame retardancy for materials and products in railway rolling stock.
The modular inserts provide customers with a high level of flexibility when configuring railway connector systems. They can be configured to hold anywhere from 1 to 216 pins and enable signal, data and power to be transmitted via one single connector.
EN45545 Railway Standards on Fire Safety in Rolling Stock
The EN45545 standard includes specifications on fire, smoke and toxicity (FST) compliance. It provides three classifications of hazard level, HL1, HL2 and HL3, with HL3 being the highest. The new inserts from TE meet R22 and R23 requirement set on level HL3. They have an operating temperature range that extends from minus 45 to 125 degrees Celsius.
Product Manager Ewa Bazior, said:
“TE has a strong commitment to the safety and reliability of its products and the systems in which they are used”
“We endeavor to anticipate and often surpass specifications contained in regulations and standards around the world. These new connector inserts are just one case in point. At the same time, we go the extra mile to make our customers lives easier, through innovations such as the simplicity of configuration for signal, data and power connection that we have here.”
About TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $13 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 78,000 employees, including more than 7,000 engineers, working alongside customers in nearly 150 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter.
Original press release credit: TE
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The introduction of audio-visual resources (AVR) in teaching and learning has far reaching effect on the management and infrastructure facilities in libraries. The integration of both books and non-book materials into the library system will go a long way in providing necessary information to clientele. This study surveyed the audio-visual resources availability and use for library services among colleges of education in Lagos State. A total of 150 male respondents and female librarians, lecturers and students were selected from three colleges of education in Lagos State of Nigeria using Random sample technique. Data were collected through 20 items questionnaire. Findings revealed that apart from FCE, AOCOED and LACOPED had no access to AV resources, no adequate time for training while respondents were of the opinion that AVR has a significant effect on teaching learning. Findings also revealed that the major obstacle faced is inadequate funding, skill, monitoring, irregular supply of electricity, non-provision of AV resources and attention of the government hindered the use of AV resources. Based on the result of the findings, the Federal Government of Nigeria should publish a position paper on provision of AV resources centers and to appoint professionals to man AVR centers. The centre should consist of departments like Graphics, Electronics, Audio-Visual unit, and be funded by federal and state government among other findings.
Key words: A-V resources, resource center, library services, information services, teaching and learning, colleges of education.
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Jenny Baker / Tuesday, September 21, 2021 / Categories: 592 New Trends in Workplace Psychology From Around the World Laura Dryjanska, Biola University; Sachin Jain, PepsiCo; Sharon Glazer, The University of Baltimore; and Andrei Ion, University of Bucharest; on behalf of the International Affairs Committee Recognizing the rapidly changing conditions at workplaces across the globe, 2021 SIOP Conference organizers invited the International Affairs Committee (IAC) leadership to facilitate a discussion with SIOP members about new trends in workplaces around the world. The information presented below is a result of that discussion. We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the 140+ attendees from around the globe who participated in this robust 8am EST session. Insights From IAC Session Attendees In order to manage the unprecedented numbers of attendees for an international session, the authors created 17 breakout rooms. After a brief introduction, attendees were asked to address three questions and take notes on a Google document or share their notes post conference with the facilitators. The three questions that were tackled in each breakout room were What are the most relevant I-O trends in your country? How do you define workplace diversity in your country/region? What initiative could SIOP focus on to support workers and work-eligible populations? Although many session attendees were located in North America, the majority of them identified as international I-O psychology-related professionals who had ties with different countries around the world. Following brief introductions, groups spent most of their time answering the first question. New I-O Trends in Selected Countries The attendees shared insights from the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Romania, Dominican Republic, Kenya, as well as reflections about Europe in general. Irrespective of the country or region of reference, two trends dominated the conversations: (a) remote work and (b) diversity, inclusion, and equity. Several more specific trends are subsumed under each. Remote Work Remote work stood out as the major I-O trend around the world. This trend captured several subtopics that were important: psychological well-being, personnel matters, and organizational climate and culture. Psychological Well-Being Attendees noted regional/local differences in burnout and mental health associated with working remotely. They expressed an increased focus on work–family integration, flex time, and adding health days. Additionally, office space/design was raised as an important consideration to ensure employee physical health as many members of the workforce will be returning to offices. Personnel Matters Another trend associated with remote work is the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in selection and the opportunities to engage in video interviews but also the possible exclusion of some populations who do not have access to reliable Internet connectivity or a computer. Some group members voiced concerns over biases inherent in computer-mediated and AI-influenced selection processes. Subsequent to selection is socialization. Some groups discussed increasing virtual onboarding but lamented over the need for human connectedness. Many organizations are currently attuned to the impacts of remote work on salary (e.g., pay equity related to area cost of living). Impact of Remote Work on Organizational Climate and Culture Several concerns were raised over organizational culture and team dynamics impacted by remote work and computer-mediated connectivity. With care providers having to split their attention between work and home more than ever before due to work-from-home orders, some breakout groups identified a virtual glass ceiling affecting women’s progression in their organizations. Relatedly, organizations are working to redefine productivity measures and performance criteria. Visibility was given to the importance of training and educating managers to support remote employees and developing remote leadership competencies. Finally, a group expressed increased attention being given to the advantages and disadvantages of online education and degrees. An advantage is the experience of the online platform and easy access to an education. A disadvantage is the limited ability to network and get to know faculty and peers in a close and meaningful, long-lasting way. This concern was echoed with ongoing remote work environments. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion The second major I-O trend across the world that has been extensively discussed as particularly relevant in English-speaking countries (especially the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom) consisted of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). I-O psychologists from the United States emphasized the subtopic of social and racial injustice, as well as implications of DEI for personnel selection. Attendees familiar with Canada and the Dominican Republic spoke about gender and intersectionality (Gender Based Analysis Plus in Canada), as well as inclusion of women in the workforce in light of childcare availability. Other subtopics mentioned in relation to DEI consisted of developing initiatives in corporations (e.g., the pressure on companies, such as Trader Joe’s, to change their brand) and in the public sector (e.g., how the federal government can attract and retain younger workers). Certainly, there is some overlap in the two major trends of remote work and DEI. When considering the virtual glass ceiling and incorporating DEI initiatives, employers might be prudent to account for the shift in household dynamics that might be affecting a person’s career progression, as well as a person’s feelings of inclusion associated with work (and schooling)-from-home orders and computer-mediated communication for remote workers. Definitions of DEI in Selected Countries National context matters for diversity and inclusion theory, policy, and practice (Dale-Olsen & Finseraas, 2020); it would be incorrect to assume that researchers and practitioners from different countries have the same understanding of DEI in the workplace. Given the importance of DEI in relation to the new international workplace trends, attendees of the session were asked to define DEI in their countries. In general, they agreed that overall more attention has been paid to race and gender. In the United States, the most relevant DEI categories seemed to be race, gender, age, disability, and LGBTQ+ status, similar to Australia. However, participants agreed that DEI covers more than just race or ethnic identity, and includes religion, age, beliefs, ideals, and mindset. In fact, attendees familiar with India concluded that DEI was more gender than race focused, as was the case with some European countries. In the Dominican Republic, the perception of diversity was more along the lines of social class and not skin color; furthermore, in the Dominican Republic, country or national origin seemed more related to prejudice and discrimination than race. Participants familiar with Kenya also mentioned social class as relevant for DEI, alongside tribal diversity (with some tribes having higher status than others). Linguistic diversity stood out as an important component of DEI in Europe where there is a need for cross-cultural inclusion and learning to value culture rather than using it as a stereotype. Participants in the session also posed some relevant questions in relation to DEI across countries. For example: What are possible differences in workplace DEI in STEM versus non-STEM fields? How can a researcher capture “56 different gender categories in a survey?” How do we attract diverse talent and onboard them? How do we alleviate the skills gap as we transition to new economic areas (i.e., solar from coal/ gas) and reskill the workforce that may be resistant to change in light of socio-economic gaps? There was much discourse on what is “DEI” and how to build it. For example, a group reported the importance of maintaining openness to different factors involved in diversity beyond race and gender to include identity issues, education levels, and access to technology and transportation. Recommended Initiatives The third question posed to the session attendees prompted them to identify a specific initiative that SIOP could focus on to support workers and work-eligible populations. Unfortunately, the vast majority of small groups reported not having enough time at their disposal to discuss this last question. The attendees who were able to consider specific initiatives would like for SIOP to create virtual learning opportunities, such as a knowledge database that stores uploads of various sessions, webinars, posters, and other materials. They also recommended a stronger international focus and more international perspectives and contributions at the conference. Some other initiatives discussed featured branding and marketing to enable SIOP practitioners and researchers to help organizations navigate multiple workplace challenges. The same group recommended more I-O psychology-oriented lobbyists to help North American decision makers, leaders, and policy administrators understand what SIOP does and what I-O psychologists do. Finally, another recommendation consisted of taking a full system, multidisciplinary approach to evaluating how people work, who might benefit from greater advantage or suffer from lack of advantage, and who might be victims of prejudice and discrimination, including groups that are not so vocal. Attendees would like to see SIOP identify elements of infrastructure that are important for workplace DEI and support the efforts that can impact education, transportation, and access to technology. Discussion and Conclusions For the good of reflection, but also a source of uncertainty, the COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted myriad ways of working for many people and ignited a conversation about the future of work for all of us. As evident in the workplace trends presented across the world, albeit primarily English-speaking North America, issues associated with COVID-19 work-from-home orders have permeated many practitioners’ and scholars’ purview. This impact is further evident in a Gallup poll conducted in late April 2020 showing that nearly 7 out of 10 employees were working remotely in some capacity (Hickman & Saad, 2020). As more employees work from home, they may be more likely to struggle with unplugging after work, loneliness, and collaborating with others (Buffer, 2020). Rudolph et al. (2021) discussed 10 of the most relevant research and practice topics in the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology that would likely be influenced by COVID-19. The topics discussed included occupational health and safety, work–family issues, telecommuting, virtual teamwork, job insecurity, precarious work, leadership, human resources policy, the aging workforce, and careers. These issues were echoed in the groups’ discussions. In fact, Brenner et al. (2021) benchmarked 20 Mayflower member companies to understand the importance of needing more in-depth research due to COVID-19 on each of the above focus areas. The results indicated that virtual teamwork and telecommuting were the two most important focus areas needing more in-depth research. Interestingly, these two domains were not identified as trends by SIOP attendees. We believe that together, the insights from various published works and SIOP attendees with ties in different countries shed light on workplace trends across the globe, albeit more Anglo-speaking countries. Emphasis on implications of remote work, as well as attention to diversity and inclusion, stands out as seminal challenges associated with the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic. References Brenner, J., Jain, S., Leas, K., Samudio, D.C., & Amundson, M. (2021). Mayflower group benchmark on changes in work due to COVID-19: Now and in the future. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14(1–2), 139–143. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.35 Buffer. (2020). The 2020 state of remote work. https://lp.buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2020 Dale-Olsen, H., & Finseraas, H. (2020). Linguistic diversity and workplace productivity. In A. Wilkinson & M. Barry (Eds.), Labour Economics (p. 49–64). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438256.00011 Hickman, A., & Saad, L. (2020, May 22). Reviewing remote work in the U.S. under COVID-19. Gallup. https://news.gallup.com/poll/311375/reviewing-remote-work-covid.aspx Rudolph, C. W., Allan, B., Clark, M., Hertel, G., Hirschi, A., Kunze, F., Shockley, K., Shoss, M., Sonnentag, S., & Zacher, H. (2021). Pandemics: Implications for research and practice in industrial and organizational psychology. 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By college, my favorite Tolkien tale was not The Lord of the Rings but "Leaf by Niggle," a short story he published first in 1947 and then, paired with the essay "On Fairy-Stories," as the slim volume Tree and Leaf in 1964. Both the story and the essay are defenses of fantasy, and it is the essay that includes Tolkien's famous response to those who deride fairy tales as escapist: "Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in a prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
As a self-contained argument, the essay is engaging but not really complete. As a companion-piece to the short story, it serves quite well. Faerie, it declares, "holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the Earth, and all the things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, when we are enchanted." It is this realm that the title character creates in "Leaf by Niggle," devoting his spare hours to a vast picture he's painting in a tall shed in his garden. Like Faerie -- or, more broadly, Fantasy -- Niggle's art serves as an escape, a fantastic diversion from a bland and bureaucratized life. While the world around him seems obsessed with trite legalities and matters of state, Niggle passes his time in the act of creation, inventing a new reality that not only is preferable to the world of a "serviceable cog" (Tolkien's phrase), but at story's end is truer than that world as well.
"On Fairy-Stories" declares the chief purposes of fantasy to be recovery, escape, and consolation, and Niggle's painting serves as each. It is a recovery of a clear view, the work of an artist "who can paint leaves better than trees" in a country where the individual leaf is sacrificed to the higher collective order. It is an escape from the "nuisance" of one's "duties" to that order. And it is a consolation, not only for Niggle but, later, for all those who use the world he has created "for convalescence." A theme of the essay reverberates in the story: that the fantasist, at his best, creates something more real than can ever be fashioned by the world's jailers, and that long after all the jails have decayed, Faerie will remain.
For a monarchist, Tolkien was quite the anti-authoritarian. His hobbits lived in a Chestertonian sort of anarchy; and Niggle is, in his ground-down way, an individualist hero -- smaller, realer, and altogether more interesting than the boring supermen favored by another sort of libertarian.
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About the Museum
The Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum is a private, non-profit facility designed to “demystify” the police and educate the public about the historic, cultural, technological and social transitions of the Seattle Police Department and King County Sheriff’s Office.
The Museum actively collaborates and is the official repository for both of the agency’s historical artifacts, which are on public display and include; historic photographs, documents, weaponry, uniforms, and a variety of other artifacts dating back to the 1880’s.
The Police Museum was formed in 1997 by Seattle Police Officer Jim Ritter and other police officers who transformed an abandoned building into the largest privately operated police museum in the United States representing a major U.S. city and county. The Museum administration consists of a President and Board Members from both agencies as well as an Office Manager, who is the only paid employee. The Police Museum has been officially endorsed by the Seattle City Council and King County Council and relies on the collaborative support from the City of Seattle and it’s Police Department as well as King County and its’ Sheriff’s Office.
In addition, the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum also collaborates with other private organizations and various media entities which include; Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound, America’s Most Wanted, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Steven King Productions and other organizations which share the mission, vision and goals of the police museum.
The Police Museum is does not receive financial support from any government agency and is funded entirely through the generous donations of over 1,000 Seattle Police Officers and King County Sheriff’s Deputies, Admission fees, Gift shop sales, private donations, facility rentals and grants. The museum is a federally recognized 501C3 non-profit organization.
The Police Museum welcomes media/press inquiries relating to historical police related events, protocol and or cultural transitions regarding the Seattle Police Department and/or King County Sheriff’s Office. Question relating to current police investigations and/or events should be directed to the appropriate agency’s Public Information Office.
President & Founder: Jim Ritter, Officer, SPD
Vice President: Glenn Kerns, Detective, SPD
Secretary/Treasurer: Damon Deese, Officer, SPD
Office Manager: Judy Thomson
Webmaster: Shanna Christie, SPD
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Enge had been procrastinating about buying a gun. The soft-spoken 69-year-old grew up around firearms, and always wanted one to protect her household. But in her highly conservative region of inland California, most training courses were linked to the National Rifle Association (NRA), whose politics she hated.
Then, in early 2021, she realised that she was transgender, and suddenly the situation was different. Not only did she feel unsafe presenting as a woman in her community, but she could see conservative rhetoric about trans people growing increasingly hostile across the US.
“Transgender women like myself are currently considered by the right wing to be dangerous, so I have a heightened sense of insecurity, and feel I should be better able to deal with a situation if it came up,” she tells The Independent as she slots bullets into a semi-automatic pistol magazine at a shooting range in Sacramento.
“A chill went down my spine when I heard that QAnon was asserting [falsely] that the Texas shooter was a transgender paedophilic groomer… I really don’t know where the threat to me will come from.”
It was only a few months after her revelation that Enge, who asked for her last name not to be used because she does not yet feel safe coming out publicly, discovered Pink Pistols, an LGBT+ gun group formed in the year 2000. Once alongside other queer people, she felt confident training regularly and eventually bought her own handgun. “The acceptance has been wonderful,” she says.
Over the past few years, the rising tide of attacks on LGBT+ people has sparked discussion in American queer communities about how they should defend themselves, and pushed some people to acquire or learn how to use firearms.
Yet anyone attempting to persuade LGBT+ people to exercise their Second Amendment rights faces distinct barriers, including elevated rates of suicide among some LGBT groups and a widespread progressive suspicion of guns and gun culture, which traditionally leans towards the right.
Erin Palette, Pink Pistols’s national coordinator and the head of its parent group Operation Blazing Sword, says she has seen a steady increase in membership and inquiries since 2016, when 49 people were shot dead and 53 wounded at a gay nightclub called Pulse in Orlando, Florida.
“That was in many ways our 9/11 moment,” she tells The Independent. “We were in just as much danger on 10 September as we were on the 11th; the big difference was that on the 11th we now knew it.
“That was the first growth spurt. And then in the fall of that year, Trump was elected… so yes, there has been an increase, not specifically only in the last two years – just the past two years were basically pressing the nitrous oxide button on the racing car.”
’Our enemies have guns, so we’d better’
The pandemic and its aftermath have seen a sharp escalation in political, legal, and physical attacks on LGBT+ people in America.
In 2020, murders of trans and gender non-conforming people reached their highest point in record. That same year was marked by a surge in far right movements and conspiracy theories hostile to LGBT+ people alongside then-president Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive attempts to stay in office.
This year, extremist groups have stormed or shut down Pride Month events, while Republican politicians have declared homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice”, sought to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, and embraced the idea that teaching children about LGBT+ life is a form of “grooming”.
These events galvanised an ongoing and sometimes contentious discussion in queer communities about whether it is necessary or wise for LGBT+ people to take up arms.
“If you are able to afford it, and if it is safe for you to do so, you should consider arming yourselves, then finding others to train with in teams and learn how to defend your community – we may need these skills in the very near future,” tweeted Chelsea Manning, the former US government whistleblower and a trans woman, on the day after news broke that the US Supreme Court was preparing to abolish the nationwide right to abortion.
Mutual aid groups such as Defence Fund ATL in Atlanta, Secure the Bag Safety in New York City, and Trans Defence Fund Los Angeles have sprung up to teach self-defence skills to LGBT+ people of colour and distribute free non-lethal weapons.
One group called Arm the Girls, founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, sent out designer bags holding stun guns, pocket knives, and pepper spray, as well as holding a photoshoot of trans people wielding firearms.
“[Guns] are so normalized in our culture, but when you see a Black person with a gun, automatically they’re a criminal, and when you see a queer or trans person with a gun – oh wait, you never see that,” Arm the Girls co-founder Guerilla Davis told Mic last June, though the outlet noted that they do not advocate gun ownership.
There has even been a swell of trans social media influencers devoted to teaching firearm skills, showing off modified assault rifles or explaining cleaning and camouflage procedures on Instagram and YouTube.
Chloe Corrupt, a 36-year-old porn actor and trans woman who lives in the Bay Area but grew up in inner-city Cleveland, told The Independent that she will probably buy a revolver later this year due to fear of planned or opportunistic attacks by right-wing extremists.
Despite having carried a gun daily in her youth, she has not done so since 2009, largely because she felt it unnecessary in the Bay Area. She asked to be identified by her stage name due to previous harassment and doxxing.
“Cleveland is a place with a lot of gun violence,” she says. “I grew up in extreme proximity to gang life; a close friend was murdered in front of me when I was 16.
“Unlike a lot of transgender individuals who are speaking about this, I am not suburban. I did not grow up in some cul-de-sac, I grew up where gun violence is not an abstraction. So I do understand very well what some of the negative outcomes are when you’ve got a marginalised population with a lot of guns and a lot of desperation.
“But much like [that] neighbourhood, I think the reality for trans people has gotten to the point where people want to kill us for who we are and where we’re from. They’ve got guns, they know how to use them, so we’d better… we have the ability to protect ourselves. We’re fools for not doing it.”
Indeed, gun sales in general skyrocketed during the pandemic, and not just among conservatives. Whereas previous election year spikes in sales were thought to be driven by gun enthusiasts concerned about new restrictions from Democratic presidents, gun shop owners and trade groups told The Los Angeles Times that large numbers of liberals, women, and Black Americans were buying their first firearms. Most said they wanted a gun for self-defence.
The Trace, a non-partisan gun tracking group, estimated that sales had jumped 64 per cent in 2020 after staying flat for most of Trump’s presidency. One Los Angeles councilman told The New York Times: “There was just as much a run on guns as on toilet paper in the beginning of the pandemic.”
While they cannot be certain of the reasons, LGBT+ gun groups likewise have seen increased interest from LGBT+ people. Three Pink Pistols chapter heads said they had had upticks in membership inquiries over the past year, though most new joiners did not mention anti-queer sentiment.
Palette also says the average number of people reporting that they were trained by Operation Blazing Sword, which connects LGBT+ people with queer-friendly volunteer gun instructors, rose from one per week in 2018 to two per week in 2019 and 2021 – probably an under-estimate, since not everyone reports their training session.
Lucas Hubbard, national press secretary for the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), which has a large number of LGBT+ people among its roughly 9,000 members and in its leadership, says: “More than ever marginalised groups are arming themselves, LGBTQ+ communities included. We see mass acceptance for getting armed nowadays far more than we have in the past.”
‘Putting the phobia back in homophobia’
At a Pink Pistols meet-up in Sacramento, California last month, Enge and a small group of other LGBT+ people gathered in protective earmuffs and glasses to fire off short salvos of ammunition at paper targets and compare techniques.
“The detonation of the first round is always shocking, so I keep doing this to try and desensitise myself a bit,” says Enge, who still feels she has to re-learn to shoot every time she visits.
“But I want to remain somewhat sensitised, because these are dangerous objects… I don’t want a goofball with a gun. To me they’re strictly tools, like a black and decker drill – a little more dangerous.”
Deanna Sykes, 59, a gay research scientist who founded and leads the Pistols’ Sacramento chapter around 2002, gives an opening safety briefing, then explains how to efficiently pull back the slide on a Springfield 1911 pistol and fire off multiple shots without reducing their accuracy by flinching.
“I have absolutely hated guns my entire life,” says Aileen Lauer, a 59-year-old orthopaedic therapist and lesbian. “I thought, you know, I need to make friends with this thing that I dislike so much. So I came to a Pink pistols meeting… I realised that it’s really nothing to be afraid of, and it turned into this sport that I love.”
During the pandemic she turned her van into a mobile home and travelled the country with just her dog, making her nervous about her safety, both as a gay woman and as a human being roaming the US almost alone.
“It has been dangerous in my lifetime to be identified as anything in the LGBTQ community,” she says. “I’ve walked out of a gay bar, minding my own business, and had a car drive by and throw rocks and eggs at me. I’ve been in a bar where guys came in with firearms – scary…
“People have strong feelings about who we are, and believe us to be wrong, and there’s a certain amount of those people that want to take action towards our community. I want to be able to stand in the middle of who I am and meet the moment, if it ever comes.”
Joseph Giambo, a 32-year-old bisexual man from Rancho Cordova, California, says his goal is to convert as many LGBT+ people and allies to gun ownership as possible. “The LGBTQ community shifts a little left, and there’s a lot more hesitancy,” he says. “I like to joke that I want to put the ‘phobia’ back in homophobia.”
That echoes the original purpose of Pink Pistols, whose motto is “armed queers don’t get bashed”. The idea came from gay journalist Jonathan Rauch, inspired by a 1987 incident in which a gay teenager in Arkansas who was saved from potential murder by four armed homophobes when his companion fired a pistol shot over their heads.
“If it became widely known that homosexuals carry guns and know how to use them, not many bullets would need to be fired,” Rauch wrote in Salon in 2000. Libertarian activist Douglas Krick took up on idea and founded Pink Pistols, which by 2018 was estimated to have about 30,000 members.
Palette, a longtime gun rights advocate and disaster prepper who started Blazing Sword the day after the Pulse shooting and immediately got an “avalanche” of inquiries, feels vindicated by the recent anti-LGBT+ backlash.
“I am frequently asked if gun ownership is more important to me than queer rights,” she says. “They’re both very important to me, but if I had to pick one, I would pick gun ownership.
“Queer rights are enforced by the government, and if the government suddenly decides that I no longer have those rights, there’s nothing I can do about that. But if I have a firearm, and I genuinely fear that the government wants to kill me – and I am not advocating for the overthrow of the US government or anything like that – then I’ve still got a firearm, and I can use that to defend myself and to protect my queer life.”
As a trans woman, she also remembers how carrying a gun made her feel more confident the first time she went out in public as herself. More importantly, she found it forced her to calm her emotional response to verbal abuse and disrespect, since she was conscious that escalating any argument might lead to someone’s death.
“When you become a gun owner you have to set aside a lot of your ego and you have to let a lot of things slide,” she says. “We catch a lot of crap over the way we live our lives… and I still get offended by that. But in most instances, I have to just take a deep breath and let it slide.”
However, she warns: “So many people think that the gun is a talisman – ‘I have the gun, and the gun makes everything better.’ And that’s not true. The gun is the tool, and tools do not operate by themselves. You have to have a will to use them.
“This is why I do not believe that guns are right for everyone – because there are a lot of people who, for whatever reason, believe that they are incapable of taking a life even in self-defence. I respect that, that’s a personal choice, but in that case they should not have a firearm.
“If you carry, you have to believe deep within yourself that if the situation calls for it, you can shoot another human being to defend yourself… I know that I have, deep within me, this core that will fight to the death to defend itself.”
LGBT+ gun advocates have an uphill climb
Many LGBT+ gun owners talk about a widespread cultural cringe in queer communities that makes firearms sometimes feel taboo. LGBT+ Americans overwhelmingly lean towards Democrats, and left-leaning Americans are overwhelmingly more likely to support tighter gun laws.
A 2018 report by the Williams Institute, part of the University of California Los Angeles, found that only 19 per cent of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) adults have a gun at home versus 35 per cent of straight adults. LGBT+ people were also more likely to support gun control proposals and oppose making it easier to get a concealed carry permit. Another study in 2020 found a similar effect for queer men, but not queer women.
The Pink Pistols meet-up in May came just four days after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, underscoring why many LGBT+ people are uncomfortable with guns and leading Sykes to emphasise how to carry a weapon that is not in use without making bystanders “jumpy”.
Do such events make her question her stance? “It’s tough, it’s really tough,” she says. “This last one in particular, I find myself thinking about it sand saying, ‘oh my God, are they right? Do we need to just try to get rid of guns?'”
She recalls how her father, who grew up “quite poor”, had been taught to shoot around the age of 11 and taken a .22 rifle to school so he could shoot squirrels and woodchucks for his family’s dinner. “Something’s changed in the world that is causing the things that we’re dealing with, and what’s changed is not the accessibility of guns,” says Sykes. “There might be more of them out there, but this country has had guns since its founding.
“Is restricting them part of the solution? Maybe it is, but I hate to see that solution pursued to the exclusion of all these other things we probably need… and figuring out what the heck is the source of all of the divisiveness we have in our world right now.”
LGBT+ people disagree on these questions. Enge believes the Second Amendment has been “badly misinterpreted” and supports stricter background checks, saying: “It was even too easy for me to get this weapon.”
Ari Drennen, a trans woman who monitors anti-LGBT+ hate movements at the progressive non-profit Media Matters for America, told The Independent she understands why some trans people are jumping into gun culture, but sounds a note of caution: “There are lots of ways to think about helping your community. Getting trained as an EMT is always valuable. We don’t have to match the aesthetics of the fascists to be a resilient community that looks after and takes care of each other.”
Chloe Corrupt, meanwhile, is firmly against gun control, arguing that it has historically been enforced disproportionately on marginalised people. She recounts how her Black friends in Cleveland were regularly harassed by police in the name of, in one officer’s words, “gun suppression”.
“The people who want to kill us for who we are are overwhelmingly white and suburban… and if gun control measures were taken and enforced against white suburban men more than other groups, it would be the first time in this country’s history,” she says.
Some LGBT+ people have expressed concern that arming up, and stridently advocating gun use, will inspire backlash at a time of rising fears about political violence and even civil war. Others in the community have raised the issue of suicide, which is two to eight times more common among young LGBT+ people than their straight peers, according to the aforementioned Williams Institute report.
Corrupt says the answer is to know oneself, and that people who think they might be at risk of suicide might be better off unarmed. She is more concerned about the possibility that the law will not protect trans people who kill in self-defence – so much so that she advocates buying guns “off the books” instead of submitting to the mercy of the courts.
After the Pink Pistols shoot, Enge spends a while chatting with the staff behind the desk at the range’s gun shop, stocking up on ammunition and considering various weapon models for her wife. For now, she doesn’t carry her weapon around, but might do in future if she begins facing street harassment.
“I want people to know that trans people may be armed, you know?” she says. “Be aware! Be aware that we’re not all a bunch of marshmallows.”
The Independent is the official publishing partner of Pride in London 2022 and a proud sponsor of NYC Pride
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Eaton’s French headquarters specializes in injection molding to produce plastic components of all forms and surfaces including structures that require millimeter-accuracy for clients in the building construction industry. However, their prior cooling system for their molding machinery required employees to switch couplings one at a time, leading to excessive downtime in the molding process and lost productivity.
Stäubli presented Eaton with a centralized solution: a multi-couplings module allowing for the simultaneous connecting or disconnecting of 12 hoses at one time. Not only does this apparatus feature a user-friendly lever for quick connecting and clamping to speed up the cooling cycle and increase productivity, but also ensures a guaranteed leak-free connection.
The multi-coupling system helped Eaton cut down on the time needed for switching hoses and connections by almost 40 percent. Since this solution’s implementation, Eaton’s French facility has also seen a decrease in coolant spills – eliminating the need for absorbents, reducing the risk of slips or falls and limiting their need for coolant consumption.
The Eaton Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of energy management solutions that help customers use electric, hydraulic, and mechanical energy efficiently, safely and sustainably.
Mold temperature control
Denis Paquet, Methods Technician, Eaton Corporation
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Interferometr Michelsona z Napędem Elektrycznym, typ: POD013496
Michelson apparatus is a dual beam interferometer: two beams generated by amplitude division can interfere. One semireflecting plate, called separator, divides one incident light beam into two beams, of identical intensity. Each beamis then reflected by a mirror. At the interferometer output, both beams, which have an optical path difference dependingon the distance & the angle between the mirrors, interfere ; generating therefore, an “interference pattern”. One of the two mirrors is fitted on a trolley, which enables to vary the path difference, in rotating one micrometric screw. On the other hand, a complete set of screws, intended to adjust the plate & mirrors positioning.
Michelson interferometer is constituted of mirrors: Ø 40 mm, and glass plates Ø 80 mm, in order to ensure a better visibility of the interference gratings. Plates & mirrors are anti-reflection processed, and have flatness of Lambda/20. The assembly is protected by infra red filter, Ø 50 mm. Screws & adjustment devices are made of stainless steel. The fine adjustment is geared down by a torsion system. The translation plate is guided by ball bearing systems. The motion range: 25 mm, is carried out by a micrometric screw with digital display (micrometric accuracy). The main plate is made of solid steel with anti-vibration feet. The adjustment screw of the compensating device angle is external, giving better access. Anti-unscrewing stop ends are also fitted on the moving mirror adjustment screws.
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We’re watching organizations come close to imploding daily. Violence – if you take a broad view of what that means – abounds everywhere in our workplaces. The kind of violence I speak of is not as readily obvious as bodily harm, war or mass killings, but it could be a form of violence nonetheless. The slow killing of employee’s spirit with the stress of expectations beyond what is humanly possible is a kind of psychological battle in and of itself.
Can we explain that the constant fear of job loss really isn’t a form of violence perpetuated by the way we do business today? Have you noticed the slow advance of the implicit idea that technology could create super-employees on which our workplaces place undue expectations? Are you ready to recognize and address the stress that is caused with often-inhumane workplace practices?
When people are stressed (and many are in our modern workplaces), a form of psychological harm occurs. I believe that you, as a leader, can make a difference amidst this war with every heart you touch. When you begin by making peace within yourself, and then within your organization, the conflict can ease and some peace can be at hand. With peace the rewards can be great – employees who once lived in fear become motivated employees who want to make a difference.
Peace begins with you.
How to cultivate your own peace:
Renounce violence in yourself. Deal with the stress that threatens violence in your own life by finding a way to cultivate peace in your heart. Exercise, eat well, meditate, do yoga, reflect on gratitude, forgive, pray, avoid external overt violence (in the media in particular), put your relationships and family first. Notice damaging thoughts about yourself and others and turn them around methodically to find goodness. Do whatever it takes to be resilient and strong in the face of the violence that is all around you.
How to impact peace in others:
Model for others what you are doing to cultivate internal calm. Encourage peace at work through coaching others to express kindness, understanding and gratitude. Do not tolerate the verbal violence that others perpetuate. Be aware that every thought you have and every word you speak either supports the violence around you or cultivates harmony. Allow those you lead to do what it takes to keep themselves and their families healthy and peaceful. Speak up against the systematic killing of spirit in the workplace.
You can make a difference in this, and you will see the impact on your bottom line. Cultivate peace in your own heart, and look for ways to impact those who follow you, one spirited person at a time.
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Is PCIe at the point where it has to declare itself for mobile (lower power) or performance (higher throughput)?
Late last month, I spoke with Chris Loberg, senior marketing manager at Tektronix, about how PCI and PCI Express (PCIe) are influencing testing. As PCI/PCIe standards have evolved, they have increased in scalability and improved throughput. In April, the PCIe Gen 3 spec was formally tested by the PCI SIG. Loberg called that "a big landmark for this very venerable serial bus."
What's next for PCIe? Loberg sees the industry at a crossroads. The consumer electronics industry is dealing with the impending demise of the personal computer for individual use. The marketshare for tablets, mobiles, and smart devices is growing. PCIe is right in this sweet spot. Loberg said the PCI SIG continues to move forward, developing Gen 4 (it's very early in the development process), doubling the data rate to 16Gbit/s, and making an effort to consider energy conservation. On the other hand, his wish list includes more emphasis on the role that the PCIe bus plays on a mobile platform.
Right now, M-PHY is being used as the physical mechanism for PCIe, but a variant called MEX or Mobile PCIe is also being developed. As a result, we see the PCI SIG driving the development (it just held a conference last week), but the MIPI Alliance is working to revise/review the interplay with M-PHY. By way of background, M-PHY is a high-speed serial PHY interface from the MIPI Alliance to JEDEC, USB-IF®, and PCI-SIG®.
All this is very interesting, but how is test and measurement affected? There are really two sides to the testing story here: compliance from the consumer side (items need to plug together and work) and conformance testing (making sure the devices are within specifications). Loberg said the challenge for many is that there's a specification for M-PHY, but it's much looser than what people are used to for the PCIe specs. For instance, the M-PHY spec gives reference levels but doesn't specify how to set up automated testing of your device. That's the area where test and measurement companies are stepping up their efforts to assist.
What do you think? Is PCIe at a crossroads? Does it have to declare itself for mobile (lower power) or performance (higher throughput)? Have you encountered testing challenges with these specs? What do you need from the test and measurement industry in this area?
- How to test for MIPI PHY compliance
- Compliance testing from PCI SIG
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Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. The regular Warner Bros. animation cast also became known as the "Looney Tunes" (often misspelled, intentionally or not, as "Looney Toons").
The name Looney Tunes is a variation on Silly Symphonies the name of Walt Disney's concurrent series of music-based cartoon shorts. Looney Tunes originally showcased Warner-owned musical compositions through the adventures of cartoon characters such as Bosko and Buddy. Later Looney Tunes shorts featured popular characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester and Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Taz, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Michigan J. Frog, and many others
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A 25-year-old, previously healthy woman presents with one month of anxiety, palpitations, intermittent loose non-dysenteriform stools, fine tremors, and hair loss. She has had a 20-pound weight loss in the previous four months, even though she reports an increased appetite. Her heart rate ranges from 115 to 130 beats per minute, and her temperature is 37.5oC. An exam is notable for mild bilateral proptosis, thin hair, and moist skin. A goiter is visible; it has increased consistency on palpation with an audible bruit over it. She has hyperreflexia and fine tremors. An EKG reveals sinus tachycardia. How should this patient be evaluated? What treatment should be initiated?
Graves’ disease, the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, is caused by autoimmune stimulation of the thyrotropin (TSH) receptor. It generally presents with a variety of signs and symptoms found with hyperthyroidism, but it can also carry unique clinical features unrelated to thyrotoxicosis, such as ophthalmopathy and dermopathy.
Graves’ disease diagnosis mainly is clinical, but also is supported by elevated free levels of thyroid hormones (mainly triiodothyronine [T3]) and suppressed TSH levels. Anti-thyrotropin receptor antibodies generally are present. Imaging in Graves’ disease is characterized by increased radioiodine uptake, as well as increased perfusion by Doppler ultrasonography.
Treatment can be pharmacologic, using anti-thyroid drugs, or ablative, with either radioiodine or thyroidectomy. Adjunctive therapy includes symptom control with beta-blocker agents, as well as steroid supplementation, especially in patients with orbitopathy undergoing radioablative treatment.
Epidemiology. Graves’ disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, with a prevalence of ~0.5% of the population. Women are most commonly affected, with a prevalence five to 10 times higher than in male peers. The most common age of presentation is between the fifth and sixth decades of life.1-3
The fact that Graves’ disease occurs with higher incidence in patients with a family history of thyroid disease—and that concordance rates of up to 35% are seen with monozygotic twins—suggests that both genetic and environmental factors influence disease susceptibility.2,4
Pathophysiology. Graves’ disease occurs as a result of direct activation of the G-protein-coupled adenylate cyclase in the thyrotropin receptor by circulating IgG antibodies.2,3 Follicular hypertrophy and hyperplasia, and increased vascularity, cause goiter formation and an increased production of T3 and thyroxine (T4). The increase in T3 and T4 subsequently suppress TSH production.
Graves’ disease also is associated with unique clinical manifestations unrelated to the circulating levels of thyroid hormones, such as Graves’ ophthalmopathy and infiltrative dermopathy (localized or pretibial myxedema). Both of these occur as a result of local tissue infiltration by inflammatory cells and deposition of glycosaminglycanes.5
Clinical manifestations. Graves’ disease is characterized by a constellation of clinical findings and patient symptoms (see Table 1).1-3 The clinical presentation could differ in elderly patients, who present more commonly with weight loss or depression (also known as apathetic hyperthyroidism) and less commonly with tachycardia and tremor.2,3
Although clinically apparent, exophtalmos is detected in 30% to 50% of patients; when using orbital imaging, it is identified in ≥80% of patients.5 Ophthalmopathy has a clinical course typically independent of the thyroid activity; its manifestations include proptosis, periorbital edema and inflammation, exposure keratitis, photophobia, extraocular muscle infiltration, and eyelid lag.5-8
Thyroid dermopathy (localized dermal myxedema) can occur in 0.5% to 4.3% of patients with Graves’ disease; it occurs most commonly among patients with Graves’ ophthalmopathy, in whom it occurs in up to 13% of cases. About 20% of patients with dermal myxedema have associated thyroid acropachy.3,9
Hospitalists should be aware of thyroid storm. Although rare, occurring in only 1% to 2% of patients with hyperthyroidism, it can be a medical emergency. It is generally manifested by fever (due to severe thermogenesis), atrial tachyarrhythmias (due to hyperadrenergic response), mental status changes, and liver dysfunction.
In addition, patients with thyroid storm might present with hyperglycemia, hypercalcemia, hypocortisolism, and hypokalemia.10 Thyroid storm requires prompt treatment of both the clinical manifestations and the underlying condition.
Differential Diagnosis from Other Causes of Thyroiditis
Laboratory. The classic presentation of Graves’ disease is a suppressed TSH and elevated serum T3 and T4 levels.1-3 Generally, T3 is higher than T4, which also occurs in toxic multinodular goiter, solitary hyperfunctioning nodule, and iodine-induced hyperthyroidism.2,6 The free T3 and T4 levels should be obtained, as these are useful for monitoring response to therapy.1-3
Most patients with Graves’ disease also have anti-thyroid antibodies (see Table 2), although these are not required for the diagnosis.1-3,11
Following initiation of treatment, TSH levels remain suppressed for approximately two to three months, even after free T3 and T4 levels return to normal or below normal. After this period of suppression is over, TSH levels can be used to adjust therapy.1-3
Imaging. A thyroid radioiodine-uptake study provides a measure of iodine uptake, as well as an image of functioning thyroid tissue; the imaging is done 24 hours after the intake of iodine-123 or iodine-131. Generalized increased uptake is characteristic of Graves’ disease.1-3,12 In comparison, patients with thyroiditis have decreased radioiodine uptake as well as low blood flow in Doppler ultrasonography.13
In patients with large goiters, when there are signs or symptoms of upper airway or thoracic outlet obstruction, imaging with a neck and upper-chest CT scan is recommended.2 In patients with unilateral proptosis, asymmetric ophthalmopathy, or visual loss, orbital imaging is advised (CT scan or MRI).2,5 In patients with tachyarrhythmias, an electrocardiogram should evaluate for the presence of atrial fibrillation.2 Table 2 illustrates how Graves’ disease can be distinguished from other causes of thyroiditis.1-3
Treatment of Graves’ disease has two main tenets: treating the underlying thyroid disorder and quickly controlling symptoms. The underlying thyroid disorder can be treated with such anti-thyroid drugs as thionamides (methimazole or propylthiouracil), ablative radioiodine, or surgical excision of the thyroid. Adjunct symptom therapy can include beta-blockers, organic iodide, and glucocorticoids.11,14 Thionamides are preferred in young patients, pregnant women, and cases with orbital involvement.14
In pregnancy, treatment with propylthiouracil is preferred, especially during the first two trimesters due to the risk of teratogenicity with methimazole (there have been associated case reports of choanal atresia, aplasia cutis, and facial malformations).15
Steroid prophylaxis is used in patients with prominent ocular symptoms who undergo radioiodine ablation to minimize risk of worsening of ophthalmopathy.16
Back to the Case
The patient was admitted; free T3 and T4 levels were elevated, TSH was suppressed, and anti-thyroid antibodies (anti-TPO, anti-TG, and anti-TRAb) were positive. An I-123 radioiodine uptake scan showed diffuse thyroid gland uptake. Beta-blockers were initiated for heart-rate control (atenolol 25 mg) with adequate response.
Given the patient’s young age, it was decided to initiate thionamides. A pregnancy test was negative, so methimazole was initiated at a dose of 10 mg orally once daily.
Dr. Auron is a hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine and the Center for Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Hamilton is a hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.
- Baskin HJ, Cobin RH, Duick DS, et al. American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the evaluation and treatment of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. (2006 Amended version). Endocr Pract. 2002;8:457-469.
- Brent GA. Clinical practice. Graves’ disease. N Engl J Med. 2008;358:2594-2605.
- Nayak B, Hodak SP. Hyperthyroidism. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2007;36:617-656.
- Manji N, Carr-Smith JD, Boelaert K, et al. Influences of age, gender, smoking, and family history on autoimmune thyroid disease phenotype. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006;91:4873-4880.
- Bahn RS. Graves’ ophthalmopathy. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:726-738.
- Woeber KA. Triiodothyronine production in Graves’ hyperthyroidism. Thyroid. 2006;16:687-690.
- Osman F, Franklyn JA, Holder RL, Sheppard MC, Gammage MD. Cardiovascular manifestations of hyperthyroidism before and after antithyroid therapy: a matched case-control study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;49:71-81.
- Wiersinga WM, Bartalena L. Epidemiology and prevention of Graves’ ophthalmopathy. Thyroid. 2002;12:855-860.
- Fatourechi V. Pretibial myxedema: pathophysiology and treatment options. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2005;6:295-309.
- Chong HW, See KC, Phua J. Thyroid storm with multiorgan failure. Thyroid. 2010;20:333-336.
- De Groot L. Diagnosis and treatment of Graves’ disease. Thyroid Disease Manager website. Available at: http://www.thyroidmanager.org/chapter/diagnosis-and-treatment-of-graves-disease/. Accessed Jan. 20, 2012.
- Cappelli C, Pirola I, De Martino E, et al. The role of imaging in Graves’ disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Eur J Radiol. 2008;65:99-103.
- Ota H, Amino N, Morita S, et al. Quantitative measurement of thyroid blood flow for differentiation of painless thyroiditis from Graves’ disease. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2007;67:41-45.
- Fumarola A, Di Fiore A, Dainelli M, Grani G, Calvanese A. Medical treatment of hyperthyroidism: state of the art. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 2010;118:678-684.
- Fitzpatrick DL, Russell MA. Diagnosis and management of thyroid disease in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2010;37:173-193.
- Bartalena L. The dilemma of how to manage Graves’ hyperthyroidism in patients with associated orbitopathy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011;96:592-599.
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The European Union should be pleased with the outcome of the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election. Not because the politician who received the most votes was former premier Viktor Yanukovich, the most pro-Russian of the main candidates. Rather, because the election for the most part met the very high standards of democracy, legality and fairness that the EU had demanded of Ukraine to sustain the process of bringing the country closer to the 27-nation bloc.
It was a genuine contest among a variety of distinctive candidates, and the second, knock-out round on February 7 between Yanukovich and Yulia Tymoshenko, the incumbent prime minister, will be a genuine contest, too. Compare this with the tainted presidential election of November 2004, which precipitated the Orange Revolution that propelled Viktor Yushchenko to power. In terms of democracy and the political maturity of society, Ukraine has progressed a long way over the past five years. Read more
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After a lot of scientific research, it has turned out that chocolates are good for health. the dark chocolates especially can reduce body mass and prevent the formation of blood clots. The chocolate confectionaries are also known to improve mathematical abilities. Several studies suggest that chocolates can impede the incidence of cancer. The gift baskets edmonton are renowned for their delectable taste and healthful factors. Chocolates can even fight stroke, heart disease and diabetes. The portals of http://thedailybeast.com/ illustrate the varied reasons for indulging in chocolates. Let’s get into a sneak peek preview of the different health benefits of chocolates.
It’s time for guilt-free indulgence
Consuming chocolates have been proven to maintain the ideal body mass index. The scientists at the University of California-San Diego have established the fact that people who consume chocolates on a regular basis have real control over their weight. Researchers from the Harvard University link chocolates and life expectancy. Eating about two pounds of chocolates per week can add two healthy years to your life. But, make sure not to binge on them. The chocolates that are heavily processed might not be able to provide you with the essential nutrients. So, it is important to make your choice wisely.
Chocolates can improve your brain functioning
Several research studies carried out in the test subjects revealed that on consuming chocolate for a fortnight improved the blood flow to the brain. With an enhanced blood flow, the brain performed faster and better. Studies from the Johns Hopkins University state that dark chocolates protect and strengthen the brain cells. The compound epicatechin present in chocolates reduces brain damage due to stroke. Epicatechin was also found to improve memory retention. Several psychologists and doctors have agreed to the fact that dark chocolates help with enhanced numerical processing. The flavanols in chocolates improved the neurotransmission process. On drinking hot chocolate, the test subjects found it relatively easy to count backward from a random number. Thus, chocolates can be a big boon to the students.
Chocolates can protect your heart
As per the results of the Swedish study, munching around 50grams of chocolate per week can reduce the risk of stroke by 20 percent in women. The important constituent of chocolates, flavonoids have high antioxidant properties to fight stroke. It also reduces the probability of heart attacks by preventing blood clot formation. Studies suggest that chocolates can delay the clumping of blood platelets. It also protects your body against inflammation. Consuming dark chocolates can eventually prevent the occurrence of different heart diseases.
Chocolates to ward away diabetes and cancer
A study from one of the Italian University suggests that dark chocolates improve insulin sensitivity that in turn reduces the occurrence of diabetes. The cocoa found in chocolates contain a significant compound termed pentameric procyanidin. This compound prevents the proliferation of cancerous cells. Doctors from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center were treating the cancer cells with pentameric procyanidin. To their surprise, they found that the compound blocked the proteins necessary for the growth of cancer cells. Thus, the division of tumor cells was suppressed. Let’s celebrate the healthful versions of chocolate in limited portion sizes. Get ready to grab your chocolate chunks for the day.
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Departing Obama Speechwriter: ‘I Leave This Job Actually More Hopeful’
Behind most politicians is a speechwriter, typing rapidly somewhere in a small office and trying to channel the boss's voice.
The man who has held perhaps the most prominent speechwriting job of the new millennium is Jon Favreau, a 31-year-old from Massachusetts who was President Obama's chief speechwriter until this month. He started writing for Obama when the president was just a senator in 2005.
He tells Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered, that writing for the president means walking a line between two worlds.
"You're trying to balance what the president would want to say with what people are looking to hear," he says. "But you need to strike the right balance, because if it's all what people want to hear, that's not true to who he is."
Favreau says his next stop after the White House is starting a communications consulting firm; he plans to write a screenplay based on his experiences.
"We'll see how long it takes for me to find my own voice again," he says.
On the writing process
"My challenge is to make sure that whatever he's thinking, whatever thoughts he has, we can get them down on paper, and we can shape the words to basically what he really wants to say. So our process is, I will sit down with him, we'll talk for 20 or 30 minutes, and he'll have lots of thoughts on the specific speech that he's going to give. And then I will go back, and I'll work with my team, and we will put together a draft that reflects the conversation that the president and I had.
"And then we'll start going back and forth. Sometimes he will just make line edits himself and send the draft back. Or sometimes he will want to take the speech in an entirely different direction, and he will write six or seven pages of scrawled handwriting on a yellow legal pad, and we'll go back at it that way."
On the editing process
"There have been times where I'll have a phrase in there and he'll take it out — and then I'll explain to him, 'Well, I put it in here because if we do it this way, maybe it'll be a sound bite or maybe we'll get a quote that way or, rhythmic-wise, it'll be better.' And ... once in a while he'll say, 'Oh, I think you're right, let's do it this way.' And sometimes he'll say, 'No, I think the way I had it was better.' And that's just how we work. We have a very honest relationship."
On collaborating on Obama's famous race speech
"When I talk about the speech, I always say, you know, the stuff in the speech that you could hear almost any other politician say is mostly the stuff that I contributed. ... Before he gave it, he called me after a long day of campaigning, and he spoke for an hour about what he wanted in that speech. He told me it was going to be random thoughts off the top of his head, and they were not random at all. He had the entire logical argument all ready. ... He laid out the whole thing."
On his departing thoughts
"I leave this job actually more hopeful than when I first got there, and that is because I think that the president went into this more realistically than many people thought that he did. I've been working on these speeches since 2005, and so I know that almost every speech, he makes sure we have the caveat that, 'This is going to be hard.' ... He's not mistaken about how difficult some of this stuff is."
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With summer long gone, are you finding it increasing difficult to get out and enjoy a little fresh air and sunshine? If so, chances are you’re like most Americans who find themselves deficient in what’s commonly referred to as the sunshine vitamin – vitamin D. But, while seasons may change, our basic needs do not. And, regardless of whether we’re blessed with the beautiful, scorching days of summer, or the dreary, often chilly days of fall, it’s extremely important to get vitamin D. Why? We’ve compiled a list of seven of the most important reasons.
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1. Preserve Your Teeth
What’s a good smile worth to you? If the answer is a lot, maybe you should start trying to consume more Vitamin D. According to the Journal of Archeological Science, individuals who lacked sufficient vitamin D had undesirable gaps in their dentin—the layer beneath the tooth’s enamel. Since the dentin makes up 85% of a tooth’s structure, dentin irregularities could prove to be quite serious.
2. Improve Mental Sharpness
Are you becoming progressively more forgetful or even mentally sluggish? According to recent British research, there may be a way to curb this. Researchers performed blood tests on more than 3,000 European men and discovered that participants with higher levels of vitamin D displayed superior memory function and information processing capabilities than those with lower levels of the sunshine vitamin. If you’re unsure of your vitamin D levels, ask your doctor to set up a blood test.
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3. Feed A Cold or A Fever
You’ve probably heard your friends say “starve a cold and feed a fever.” Colorado and Massachusetts researchers recently discovered that the opposite might be better advice. The study found that participants with lesser amounts of vitamin D in their bloodstream were over 30% more likely to have had a recent infection than those whose blood tests indicated higher levels of vitamin D. In other words, forget your friends’ advice. Instead, listen to statistical evidence and include vitamin D in your diet.
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4. Leaner Abs
Are your pants getting tighter? Hit the gym and leave the yo-yo diets to the celebrities. You might also want to try some vitamin D fortified orange juice. A recent 16-week study indicated that participants who consumed orange juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D had a significant reduction in abdominal fat over those who consumed the same orange juice without vitamin D. So the next time you’re in the grocery store, read the nutrition labels and choose an orange juice high in vitamin D.
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5. Healthier Heart
Do heart problems run in your family? If so, you might be interested to know about a recent Copenhagen University Hospital study. Research revealed that participants who had the lowest levels of vitamin D were found to have had an 81% increased potential to die from heart disease, 64% greater risk of heart attacks, and 57% higher chance of early death than those with the highest vitamin D levels. Add vitamin D rich foods and beverages such as salmon and milk to your grocery list and better your odds.
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6. Care For Your Hair
Everyone knows to attract the ladies you have to take care of your hair. What you may not have considered is the role of vitamin D. Researchers recently revealed that vitamin D has the ability to revive receptors in hair follicles that seemingly die and consequently leads many men to developing male pattern baldness. While more research will be conducted, these findings might be enough to prompt many to ditch their favorite stone cold beer in favor of a warm glass of milk.
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7. Deficiency Common in Cancer Patients
Cancer. The mere word sends shivers down your spine. Researchers discovered that regardless of the form of cancer or even the nutritional status of the patient, the one thing most cancer patients have in common is a vitamin D deficiency. Early detection is always your best chance of successfully battling it, so if cancer runs in your family, get screened. And, considering that vitamin D deficiency is considered common amongst cancer patients, don’t knowingly allow yourself to become vitamin D deficient.
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Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Billy at Coffee Addicted Writer. Hop on over there for more information about these questions. Here’s today’s question:
Do you read a lot of diverse or own voices books? Why or why not? (submitted by Kitty @ Vicarious Bookworm)
tl;dr response: Yes, because I think it’s important.
Long Answer: I read diversely for a few reasons. First, I am at the intersection of a number of identities (black American, queer, in an interracial relationship, to name a few). Just like anyone, I’m sure, I want to see my identities reflected in the novels I read. Most of the time, anymore, reading diversely isn’t a conscious decision. It’s an, “I want to read a book about this aspect of my identity,” kind of decision.
Really, it is unfortunate that reading representations of my lived experiences is considered reading diversely. I could go on about why, but I won’t right now.
I also read diversely because I know that there are more experiences in this world than just mine, and I want to imagine people complexly, which is hard. I like the reminder that I’m not the center of the universe, you know?
Additionally, because I teach on the US/Mexico border, many of my students identify as Mexican, Mexican-American, Hispanic and/or Latinx. It is important for me, in building relationships with them, to recommend books that both celebrate their cultural identity and heritage, and help them broaden their experiences.
What about you? Do you make a point to read diversely?
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Curry houses are commemorating the forefathers who introduced millions of Britons to a taste of the subcontinent.
British Curry Day has been launched to mark those who came to Britain from the 1960s – opening restaurants and takeaways – and to show support for the industry today.
And businesses taking part will donate £1 to good causes for every Tikka Masala – the nation’s favourite curry – sold on Wednesday, December 1.
Kamal Miah, who runs Maya restaurant in Atherstone and is third generation in the industry, said: “We want to celebrate our forefathers who had the resilience to set up what is now a billion-pound industry.
“Many families have benefited from the trade – either by working in the industry or having the opportunity to pursue other vocations – be it medicine, engineering or law – as a result.”
Kamal, 47, who arrived in the UK from Bangladesh at the age of six, grew up in Lozells and ran his first restaurant at the age of 19.
The former St Francis pupil soon learnt English and adapted to a new way of life. His father worked two jobs – in a factory and at a restaurant, his grandfather opened a restaurant in Sparkhill, and his elder brother and uncle were also in the industry.
Father-of-six Kamal, who started helping out in the kitchen at the age of 14, said: “The restaurant life is in my blood. I knew I would work in the trade – unless I became a famous footballer.”
Kamal, whose maternal grandfather was in the British navy (HMS Cambridge), said he grew up with the ‘best of both worlds’ combining both cultures.
He added: “I believe people of my generation have created variations of the traditional curry and added a modern twist.”
But the industry has faced its share of challenges, particularly following the pandemic.
Enam Ali, publisher of Spice Business magazine and British Curry Day founder, said: “Tragically we are losing many of the country’s first curry restaurateurs, who are now elderly with severe underlying health issues, to the pandemic.
“These people came to a strange foreign land at the invitation of the British government. Through their own endeavours and willingness to work anti-social hours, they built a special industry, which is now an integral part of British society.”
UK Curry Connect (UKCC) is a campaign group which has been set up to raise awareness of skills shortages in the Asian catering industry.
Naseem Talukdar, UKCC director for social responsibility and sustainability, said: “The industry has changed dramatically over the last 60 years and we have to find ways to continue to be sustainable.”
Kamal, who set up a takeaway in Nuneaton during the pandemic, has also struggled to get staff due to work permit issues.
He said: “It’s been a challenging time – from dealing with lockdowns, cancellations due to Covid, difficulties getting supplies and staffing issues.
“But we have very supportive customers. We’re still open. We’re still trading. We’re still in good health. We’re grateful.”
British Curry Day coincides with 50 years of independence for Bangladesh and it is a national holiday in the country on December 16.
And the restaurant in Sheepy Road will raise money for a charity nominated by North Warwickshire’s MP Craig Tracey.
Kamal, who received an award for community support from the High Sheriff and deputy lord lieutenant of Warwickshire Joe Greenwell, said: “It’s been a difficult time for many people.
“I’ve lost friends due to Covid and know many have struggled. I believe it’s important to help those in need and this is very much a team effort.”
The team at Maya were part of the Food4NHS – delivering meals to frontline workers.
Tam Webster, peer support lead with Armed Forces charity Veterans Contact Point, said: “We are delighted that British Curry Day, which marks the nation’s favourite dish and links with Bangladeshi independence, will support our charity. This will help us to continue to develop our services to veterans.”
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Standing room only doesn’t do the crowd in a packed Swanton meeting room justice.
“We would like to see our electric bills go down, but it’s where they’re putting them it, they’re putting these right near residential areas,” said one concerned citizen.
She spoke from behind the entrancem as select boards from Swanton, Saint Albans Town and Fairfield discussed a wind turbine project.
Swanton Wind LLC wants to put up seven wind turbines on an area known as the Swanton Ridge. The developer, Travis Belisle owns the land.
While Green Energy is a growing industry in Vermont, as Governor Shumlin set a high bar of reaching 90-percent renewables by the year 2050, the project was met with fierce opposition.
“499 foot towers are visual pollution,” said Swanton Selectboardman Joel Clark.
“If it’s going to affect the quality of my life, where I live now, then I have a problem with it,” said Fairfield Selectboardman Greg Christie.
“The fact that this may have some water quality issues, after all the work we did, after all the pain we put our farmers through when we did it because they want to protect the water, and this is going to have a problem with our water, we need to change the process,” said State Senator Dustin Degree, representing Franklin County.
Martha Staskus is with Vermont Environmental Research Associates. She’s working with the developers but says the plans aren’t entirely set in stone. The project has yet to be presented to the Public Service Board.
“Those environmental criteria and the questions that have been raised this evening will have to be much more thoroughly addressed,” Staskus said.
She went on to acknowledge her appreciation of the three boards meeting, and was taking notes on people’s concerns.
The Public Service Board will review the proposal, but some members believe its sole authority to approve such a project leaves the public out of the loop and process.
“The fact that all of you have no say in the process, that the towns are held completely out of the process, is just not the state that I grew up in,” Senator Degree said.
The crowd requested that the Agency of Natural Resources look into the proposed project.
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Bell Gardens, California, is a Los Angeles County city. Dating as far back as the 18th century, the city was home to a variety of tribes before it become an agricultural center for Californians. It was settled by Spanish settlers who worked together to develop the city to its current stature.
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Humans are capable of great imagination but, when faced with uncomfortable truths, we still defer to facts for reassurance and alibi. The climate crisis has been told to us, handed down as if a myth from the future that has not yet come to pass. The truth is, the climate crisis is here, and we’re living it now.
Forests are responding to increasing temperatures by moving to higher altitudes. Arctic ice is thinning twice as rapidly as previously predicted, and more than 1 million species are at threat of extinction. Climate change made Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfires at least 30% more likely. A heatwave in Canada and the western US has caused hundreds of deaths, and flesh-eating parasites are moving north as temperate climates become warmer. This is the climate crisis.
Our awareness of the damage inflicted on our planet is at an all-time high. Rather than taunting consumers with the monster we fear is coming, let’s commit to transparency about what is happening now and sharing the stories about how your business decisions positively impact life right now.
Change the narrative about the climate crisis
In a world that keeps telling companies they’re the ones that need to change, perhaps accepting individual responsibility for changing the narrative around climate change is just as important. Especially if that environmentalism is intersectional. We’re at the point where every decision we make can change the planet and its people’s lives for the better. Climate crisis is an immediate threat. It’s time to communicate that your actions – and the purchasing power of your customers – can change things for people in the here and now. We’re not in the future, so instead, the threat of a changing climate remains an abstract concept.
Show them the problem, share your solution, and give power back to the individuals who, as it’s becoming more apparent, are making a difference.
Get their attention with stories
Stories are one of the most influential and accessible tools for learning (and for rebellion as it happens). For 60 years, Sir David Attenborough has brought the natural world into living rooms around the world. Then in 2017, Our Blue Planet, the final episode of Blue Planet II, flipped the narrative, warning us that, “The future of humanity, and indeed all life on Earth, now depends on us.” Against a backdrop of images of the oceans drowning in plastic and sea species injured or ingesting humanity’s plastic waste, the threat became real. It made us vigilant, and the world reacted – because we could see the short-term benefit as much as the long-term.
Make real progress against climate change
Individuals and organisations are reluctant to change, especially when, as in the climate crisis narrative, it feels like that change equals sacrifice. That’s why the stories that show redemption and advantage as an in-the-moment solution get results. Of course, these actions need to be transparent and genuine. With the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) currently investigating greenwashing, we’re hopeful that we’re moving towards legislation that demands every claim of positive environmental impact is true and provable.
So, if you can already prove them, you should back your ethical claims up with the right content and start the right conversations.
Because the stories we are living right now are the ones that will ignite and inspire change.
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Agenda and minutes
Here’s a quick overview of why and how to write an agenda, and minute a meeting.
Make meetings as productive as possible by creating and sharing an agenda beforehand, and circulating minutes afterwards.
A meeting agenda sets out a framework for your meeting.
It means everyone knows before they attend what they’re going to talk about.
People can prepare properly.
You’re much less likely to leave something out if you have a clear agenda.
It also helps attendees to focus on the right things in the meeting.
If the meeting is long, people who only need to be involved in part of it can use the agenda to plan when they should attend. They may join in later, or come at the start and leave once their topic is over.
By adding who will lead on which topic, you can help to make sure everyone has a voice. The agenda can also encourage different people to take responsibility for different areas of a project, and share the load.
If you are taking minutes, use the agenda as a helpful framework.
The minutes of a meeting are a written record of what was agreed.
Minutes will tell anyone reading them why the meeting was held, record decisions, plan the next steps for future meetings, and track action items. They help avoid misunderstandings later, and provide information to people who couldn’t attend.
Meeting minutes don’t need to include everything that was said. They just summarise the important points in a discussion. [The name ‘minutes’ comes from the Latin ‘minuta scriptura’, which means ‘small notes’.]
Start with the details of the meeting subject, location, time and date. Include your own name as the minute-taker.
List the attendees and those who have sent apologies
Decide on the order. Will you make the list alphabetical? By job seniority? If there are people from different organisations or departments, cluster the members of each group together.
Double-check the spelling of people’s names.
Add initials to save time and space in the notes. Make sure there are no duplicates – you may need to add a third letter to tell people apart.
If your meeting is online, agree with the chairperson that you will ask if anything isn’t clear. Ask them to ensure that everyone identifies themselves each time they speak.
It is often appropriate to record the reasons for conclusions which were reached, but avoid going into details of arguments. If you have to record a disagreement, avoid naming anyone. Instead, say “some people felt that” or “the two points of view were as follows.” The minute-taker must stay neutral.
Make sure for each point you note what has been accomplished, what was decided, and what needs to be done – as well as who is responsible for taking the next steps.
That is easier if you stick to the active voice “JS will arrange transport” rather than the passive voice “Transport will be arranged” (by whom?). The template columns ‘Action’ and ‘Due’ will help – if necessary, ask for this information before the meeting moves on to the next point. Use initials – if a company collectively will take action, use the company name, shortened if necessary.
Before you send the minutes
Feel free to share the minutes for checking with a colleague before sending. You should also check if your client would like to see a draft of the minutes before formal circulation. Allow them to have a couple of days to comment and possibly make changes.
Minutes are much neater if you use a table to format them.
Use numbers in the reference column to make it easy to reference different points later. Use Word’s ‘Numbering Library’ function for automatic table numbering.
Make sure the fonts are consistent – use Ctrl + A to select the whole document and check the font style and size. Also check the borders are consistent throughout.
Check headers and footers are accurate.
Word formatting can be problematic on different devices, so when you circulate minutes, send them as a pdf. Check that the pdf comes out the way you expect it to before you press ‘send’.
Formally circulate the minutes to everyone who attended, and to people who sent apologies. You may want to share them again just before the next meeting, to jog people’s memories.
Writing minutes is a skill, and like any other, you will get better with practice.
Design managers use the minutes of a meeting to ensure everyone on an architectural project carries out their required actions. Where there are questions, the minutes will show what was agreed and ensure the project stays on track for a successful conclusion.
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2015 and the Next Big Changes
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As previously mentioned, newspaper astrologers have a fight amongst themselves discussing a new phenomenon which divides their camp into two parties. There looms a new 13th zodiac sign, which has recently appeared. The fight is real, as 50% will adhere to the old zodiac system, which is pitted against from the upstart as it defends modern science. They need a referee like Mr. Gore is to the climate changing champions.
That political football is very profitable for some, but not necessary when it is connected with the truth about climate change. It may get lucrative money grants from governments and corporation cartels, but it will not lead to better understanding regarding what is really going on. Instead, it just transfers money from the taxpayers to someone else’s pocket.
The spin axis of 23½° has never really been investigated thoroughly by the science establishment since Galileo. I cannot find any reference that our earth axis is not moving, except in the newspaper columns written by astrologists, who are upset with each other over zodiac changes. This tells me that the earth axis is still not at rest.
By applying Newton’s laws, what we see linked to the earth axis today must have been different in ancient times, which is now verified with ancient clocks, exhibited in museums. Only an asteroid can change an earth axis. Depending on the size of an asteroid and inertia transferred, it would take hundreds of years to slow down a wobble. The Aztec calendar told us it would be 21 December 2012 for the axis to be at rest, which began 4300 years ago on 5 February 2287 BC, as calculated by other clocks.
Investigating a moving earth axis should be linked with the many facts presented in this paper to broaden our horizon. More discoveries showed up in the meantime, which are explained in the 7th Babushka book.
What is the Time Dimension? will define a new theory from a scientific and metaphysical perspective, which is all related to the fact that ‘light’ is changing. It seems to be polarized also, like a neutrino energy source that could reverse, heading into the Jod Dimension. Also, looking in that direction has tremendous possibilities that match up with Bible prophecies. It has even been mentioned on the Dr. Phil TV show that people are getting larger in size and living longer. Nature feeds 7 billion people. To supplement answers, many new concepts appear, such as my Donut Atom theory, replicated in galaxy pictures that match my new science model, corresponding with so many examples that are all linked to Bible prophecy.
This can be applied to climate warming, in that as we investigate the Bible to see things from the metaphysical domain, it was predicted that people will be living longer in the third civilization after 2018 AD. We could use repeated history as a model since it is linked to the consequences of the second civilization, where the climate changed drastically, as demonstrated by an asteroid in 2287 BC.
Now the Bible announces a climate change once again, when God’s wrath is poured out upon an atheistic, evil One-World-System that is destroying His creation. That civilization will experience the same fate as the Atlantis people, which is to be terminated and totally destroyed after the birthing of the Saints, just like a placenta is discarded and burned. God the Elohim will use the same tool again very effectively to cause changes with a second asteroid, which is already in orbit and is predicted to strike the earth once more on the 10th-17th of September, 2015. That could cause a flood again.
However, as we investigate Bible prophecy which is history written in advance, we now see a 52 Km rock orbiting in space, which has been tracked by science, which is much too large and would totally destroy our earth and must therefore break up in pieces and fragments. This matches with both Revelation and what the Aztecs and Toltec recorded, stating that the fifth cycle ends in a fire-rain.
Otherwise, as physics teaches, we will have another destructive flood, which God promised would never happen again. He signified His contract that He made with mankind with a rainbow, which we still see today. That is recorded in Genesis, but the knowledge is no longer allowed to be taught in our schools. I explained it all from two perspectives and put it together in Babushka egg concept books for the next generation to remember.
Although, seeing so many applications embedded in the Bible that match true science, I can postulate a scenario that the imbalance of a tilted axis, created by the first asteroid could be reversed from another asteroid. Yet it must come from a different direction so as not to trigger a gigantic wobble again, causing continents to shift which would end with an ice age. Yet again, prophecy after the Apocalypse projected a warm climate growing plants and vegetation in profusion, much like it was before Noah’s days when rain was still yet unknown.
This can be explained by light speed going faster again, causing bigger cell growth in a shorter time, but we should look further by looking at the gravity center of our earth, which was dislocated in ancient times. It ended up tilted, like offset ballast in a boat, at rest in a 23.5° axis position. It will no longer be moving on 21st of December 2012, as calculated from the Aztec calendar perspective, which is now better measured by modern GRACE satellites more accurately.
Read my previous egg-throwing experiment again, as it will reveal more, such as the interior of the magnetic nucleus of our earth being surrounded in a liquid that acts like a gyroscope inside an airplane instrument.
For the last 20 years, French scientists have visited the North Pole and measured its movements at 40Km per year and will be heading toward Siberia-Russia in the next 50 years.
The gravity center of the earth is just waiting to go back where it was originally balanced, just like a rubber band that has been stretched, which has a built-in memory that wants to go back in place when the forces are reduced.
Check out my rubber band-slingshot illustration again and try visualizing it as when the earth is nudged again. Just like a stretched rubber band needs to relax, it would happen when an asteroid hits the earth once again, only this time the inertia forces are directed backwards and must now come from a different angle, striking the earth on the south side of the equator.
Prophecy dates the precise time, which is focused towards the winter equinox axis position, when the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, when our earth is most vulnerable.
The predicted asteroid from space is attracted by the great sun gravity, but will be interrupted by an earth orbit crossing by. At that precise point in time, the earth is also positioned in-line with the spin angle direction turning in the same direction, because at that southern location (below the equinox) our earth is pointing directly toward the asteroid belt direction.
That would have two consequences, being based in physics that follow the entropy laws of Newton. However, as prophesied on the metaphysical side, it will therefore happen at the precise time and precise location because the Plan for Mankind was laid out before the earth was created and put into orbit. It is linked to the laws now governing and that were established on the fourth night-morning creation cycle.
That event was not very long ago (4488 BC), which was proven with true science. It is based on ancient clocks and many witnesses, which oppose the modern fairytale opinions and which are controlled by an atheistic university priesthood who need billions of years to prove their theory, which has never been proven.
When I saw a simple book for children showing our earth and planet relationship to the sun, I was impressed by how big the sun is and how very close our tiny ball, the earth in relation to the sun is like a pea seed to bowling ball.
Immediately, I thought that any asteroid coming from space, regardless of angle, would mostly hit 99.999 % of the sun first because of its size, distance relationship and attraction force known as gravity. The exception would be if we project an imaginary asteroid coming from outer space and moving horizontally towards the earth equator, or just bypassing it to then hit the equator of the sun. That gives us a very narrow angle of impact possibility on both sides of the earth equator.
I believe that the hugely amplified energy solar flares and sunspots are caused by asteroid strikes from outer space. We cannot see the speeding asteroid only the aftereffect. These outbursts indirectly cause climate change and telecommunications interference. Electricity blackouts occur as energy is transferred through radiation and temperature changes.
Focusing on the sun outburst looks like the shape of an inverted trumpet similar when you plunge a stone in the water pool. Space is Kelvin cold. It would immediately cool down debris and crystallize what was ejected under great pressure 1000 miles from the sun, but it is sucked back by immense gravity force which turned into a big ark because the sun keeps rotating, too.
We must not forget that the outer planets all work like a shield against asteroids coming from space, which was even recently photographed, as we saw a number of huge asteroids, one right after another impacting Jupiter. Our moon is the last shield and we can see the impact craters with our bare eyes. However, I realized that only something close to the equator could produce an axis shift and to prove my theory, I started to look a little closer at my model globe. A paper model of our globe (earth) is a very useful tool to check out my theory and investigate different angular positions in order to find a possible location that an asteroid might have impacted in antiquity.
Let’s use the concept of architectural drawings, but they must show three side views to define a body in three dimensional space. Let’s take a pencil and some paper and sketch three-way positions of an imaginary stone coming horizontally from space, which would affect our earth. It is drawn like a small circle with a cross-line to indicate polar positions.
Finding the Asteroid impact area or angle let’s sketch a horizontal line that represents solstice positions, showing two small circles on either side of a big circle that represents the sun.
Step 1 - Top View
Then we mark the Northern and Southern solstice in circular positions on either side of our two small circles representing the earth on the horizontal line. Since the earth axis does not gyrate and is fixed, we must mark the North Pole that appears to be offset on left side, and the South Pole offset on the bottom, which cannot be seen on the right side bottom circles. Looking from this top view enables us to visualize the tilt axis of our earth from a dot pole with a vertical center going through the equator of the earth.
According to the cause and effect rule, we can now see from which direction something must come in order to make the dot move closer to the sun in relation to the pole dot axis, which must be quadrant in order to effect a spin change. In conclusion, there is only one quadrant on the northern equator, or one quadrant on the southern side of the earth which is vulnerable, in order to be hit in such a way as to cause a spin axis to move and end, eventually changing to a 23 degree tilt angle.
Expand that illustration. Now imagine turning the polar axis counter-clockwise and moving the axis horizontally, which is one quadrant; then repeat three more times and we are back. Comparing this with the Step #1 sketch, we can identify which quadrant could cause a possible tilt axis.
Now we need a side view, like any architectural drawing have. Using the same top view sketch for a side view, we pencil in the same picture, but it now becomes the side view for finding a crossover point. Again, on either side we have two little circular balls and in the middle we have a big circle representing the sun.
Now let’s draw an imaginary line from the earth equator to the sun equator on both sides and we will have an angle projection within the path of an imaginary asteroid coming from space. Any object outside that angle does not affect the earth. However, in order to influence a tilt axis force, we will imagine an asteroid hitting the earth on the inside angle, which must be in a position close to the Tropic of Cancer line or Tropic of Capricorn. Both are shown on both sides of the diagram of small circles.
So in the original Aztec earth spin axis, we could imagine an asteroid shooting toward the sun along the horizontal North Pole/South Pole axis to align with the horizontal line of the earth-sun-earth circles. From this, we can form a conclusion from the two possibilities that exist.
If an asteroid shoots along our horizontal line and would hit the South or North Pole, no tilt axis change is possible. Remember the little circle is turning, which is the “X” axis. The day movement twist would not change either. The other possibility is if the asteroid hits close to the equator of the earth inside the angled line projection. Then again, the day twist would not necessarily change, but the polar axis can be affected toward a new spin location, ending with 23rd degree.
We have now found the only two points of possibilities to affect a tilted axis change either on the northern half of our earth or southern half. Together with the one quadrant possibility of the first step, we must now look for the cause and effect side to determine where along the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn could be the candidate of an impact site, depending on the “X” axis earth spin at the time of the quadrant of step 1 step first, and coming together in the second equatorial possibilities.
Now I am ready to look for the effect side. I am looking for fractures of land after the impact like a trailing tail and in front there will be crinkles or uplifts of huge mountains. So take your paper globe and look down on the North Pole and check out the equator all around the globe, and then do that with the South Pole as you look at the raised mountain ranges.
Here is my best guess:
- North Pole projection – Gulf of Mexico.
Only one choice exists along the Tropic of Cancer. The asteroid would have a scattering trailing effect on the North Pole and go across Canada, Hudson Bay, Victoria District and Greenland.
- South Pole projection - two possibilities:
- Along the Tropic of Capricorn, from Madagascar to the western edge of Australia, with frontal effects shoving mountains that would be lifted up in Northern India / Nepal / Bhutan.
- Along the line of Tropic Capricorn, from Archipelago in the middle Bolivia-Argentina, with the mountains lifting up in Chile.
Any projected impact will have different effects, either going into or against the direction of the earth’s axis spin. Going against the earth’s velocity will result in horrendous tectonic changes. If the daily velocity movement of our earth is just stopped for a moment by the front of the impact, it would cause a sliding action on the top of the harder earth surface like dross floating on a very hard plane. It would pile up landmasses as they still moved and raise the landmass, forming mountains, according to physics.
Look at the picture and notice the mountain range on the west coast. As the energy force from the impact is transferred to the interior, it will cause a continental shift behind the impact, as the mass will keep going on top of a very glass-hardened surface. A resulting wobble was measured by many ancient clocks, exhibited in numerous museums globally. Check out the Antikythera clock from Athens that has 32 gears, which allow mathematics to prove the date of an Asteroid Impact in 2287 BC, in the center of the Gulf in Mexico.
The next predicted asteroid (52Km) has already been in orbit 825 days around the sun. It would create an in-line impact force and therefore a much smaller wobble, which could add velocity a little faster to the daily turn of our planet. That is consistent with Bible prophecy and therefore brings much physical phenomena into alignment, thereby fulfilling prophesies which must conform to physics.
The impact on the exposed southern location would nudge the earth just enough for the axis to straighten back out a few degrees, to the point where it was before. It will still keep the calendar going 365.25 days for one orbit around the sun, but perhaps a little faster, which would make the climate milder. That is also prophesied. If it creates a smaller wobble, it would further increase the ice on the North and South poles, perhaps lasting a thousand years for another cycle; like it was around BC/AD. I think it is connected to the parabolic time-light-gravity curve that is linked to Jesus Christ (now corrected to 35 AD), which is my new calendar adjustment center point and where it divides BC and AD time line matching ancient clocks and the Hebrew 7000 year calendar.
I am positive that much of that huge, approaching asteroid will explode in our air space, into a thousand fragments as prophesied by the Aztecs and Revelation, which is very detailed. It is said in the Bible that everything needs two witnesses to establish facts. Prophecy conforms to mathematics, just as surely as when we send a rocket 10,000 miles away, it will hit a bridge in Bagdad. We would not expect to call a technician a prophet, who would push the button and tell us in 5 minutes that the bridge is history. Don’t you ever think God is not as wise as a technician!
Jesus the Creator of the cosmos and the earth will restore a perfect climate again, so that polar bears and the thousands of fish will reappear and flourish around an ice environment and multiply in abundance. That way a previously prolific eco-system would be reborn with thousands of creatures efficiently reproducing all over again. Only this time, a previous evil, atheistic predator scientists and corrupted politicians will be prevented from interfering, thus causing extinction in the environment because he will no longer be permitted to be around. It will take Israel 7 months to collect their dead bodies polluting the land, read the Bible.
That will be guaranteed by the resurrected Saints watching, as they will be appointed to govern with the King of kings, Jesus Christ, who will rule all the nations with wisdom and an iron rod during the thousand years of Gods Kingdom on earth. They will apply good judgment gained and learned from the consequences of having lived in evil, atheistic, destructive time periods causing much extinction.
It was predestined for the saints to be appointed and for a new administration to be elevated into many leading positions, thereby guiding a new third civilization. They are well-qualified, since many graduates experienced great suffering from a Satan-controlled civilization that killed many Christians and Jews throughout history. They will qualify to be employed and trained on a new job assignment, which is based on a divine metaphysical perspective, to control mankind’s golden 1000-year period of unparalleled prosperity for all nations, which will no longer permit anyone to steal and rob from their neighbors and spend their money on military hardware of destruction. A time of peace lasting a thousand years, as war will be forgotten and will no longer be remembered by the next generation of mortals.
A true Sabbath rest was planned before the earth was created, as I describe in the Babushka concept books in a more detailed way. It now becomes reality as the Hebrew 7000-year time-train arrived right on schedule and is heading towards the 14th station, the last station, which is called Taw in 3018 AD. The Time Dimension flywheel at that point has run out of energy, existing NO MORE.
It will start the cosmic movie again, which will run forever, expanding into a Jod dimension yet again, at a juncture similar to a time calendar that is divided into BC/AD.
A new earth shows up with a new heaven promised. We will no longer need calendars because time is no more. It will be within a balanced cosmos, for eternity, never to become corrupted again. However, what is important to me today is that I have noticed that the train has arrived at the 13th station; the APOCALYPSE has started. It has been predicted that it will end our atheistic civilization that is destroying God’s creation.
A warning was previously given which was ignored, such as the Atlantis civilization that perished. The same message is spelled out again “do not mess with God which has consequences”.
My Babushka books describe much from a scientific perspective, as theologians are mostly confused and divided since the Middle Ages about what the Bible teaches. Now for the first time, it can be better explained in the Babushka egg concept books because I use the ancient Hebrew Alphabet Number System (HANS), which corrects false thinking. New understanding came just in time to explain the apocalypse without a dark colored filter postulated by denominational biases.
My last Babushka book (7th) exposes the Time Dimension coming back fully. Turn to the 1st Babushka book for understanding that which was never understood by science. It is connected to metaphysics and linked to God’s Plan for Mankind. It had initiated the reason, as well as the provision to end, which is what the Elohim wanted.
We can now understand for the first time what the ancient “∞” hieroglyph math symbol means, which is embedded in the Tzolkin clock and is also linked to my first cuckoo clock diagram concept, which is designed in a pyramid base. The Hebrew letters (HANS) have much more embedded, which I should mention additionally for those who have never heard about it. Some sell a substitute, calling it the kabala mystery, in order to make some money. Ersatz (substitute) or the fake is spiced with lies and created an evolution religion, which was invented by Satan, so that more money could be made in order to finance his evil system that is destroying the environment.
- Gravity is like a rubber band affecting the earth and moon. Before 2288 BC, the earth orbit was 360 days. Now, it is about 365¼ days. Slowing down the velocity gets the earth orbit closer to the sun and that will make our climate warmer, I am sure. The wobble calendar was modernized by important witnesses, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, as they noticed the wobble getting smaller.
- Polar ice receding from a 30° Parallel to a 60° parallel in a declining earth axis wobble was the major contributor to global warming over a range of 4,300 years [2287 BC – AD 2012]. It was witnessed by many scribes in the Old Testament before BC and after AD, written in the gospels, describing forest-high grass surroundings, spaced 1000 years apart. Today’s barrenness, only 2000 years later, is an obvious climate change, if you are able to think logically. If a three thousand year range of ancient calendars is not enough to convince the skeptic, take notice of the mathematic gravity-light-time graph to formulate a good global warming theory. Additionally, there are a number of witnesses like the Alpha [+One] force witness. Checking out European history, many tribal nations moved northwards following the snowline that was receding and exposing land to grow forests, which opened up agriculture. This is now dated from other sources.
- The IKP world kilogram was recently measured across a period of 100 years and a 13th constellation was discovered, which makes New York newspaper publishers happy. It becomes a witness that the earth axis wobble is still not at rest, causing gravity to change and become heavier due to orbit changes. A tighter orbit around the sun would produce higher gravity moving closer to the sun, hence higher mean average temperature.
- The moon took 30 days to orbit around the earth before the asteroid strike and it has not caught up since, affecting the earth which is still lagging by two days. The moon orbit is still changing and getting longer by 2 inches/year so everybody gets one potato chip heavier. That also contributes to gravity changes and the shifting orbit around the sun.
- The ancient clocks exhibited in museums around the world show a constant 14.305789 compared to the Antikythera clock constant, which reveals a gravitational relationship that acts in the same direction. Mathematics will explain the difference measured across 3,000 years, which is expounded upon in the next section.
- Space debris has increased the diameter of our earth’s mass like a soap bubble and could change the orbital relationship to the sun’s gravity.
- A 13th Zodiac constellation appearing in the sky is upsetting to pop astrologers. This event demonstrates that the earth axis is still not at rest and likely won’t be until perhaps the 21st of December 2012.
- The earth’s accelerating velocity in an elliptical pattern with a liquid center and an off-center rotational axis, which means that the same orbit pattern is never repeated. It also oscillates like a second resonance every 100 to 400 years. Read my egg-throwing fun story to be convinced.
- Environmental changes caused by air pollution, the reduction of the rain forest area, and increasing asphalt/cement covering the green belt will accelerate the model for global warming.
- The mean average gravity around the globe is now tracked by two satellites (GRACE) that can penetrate below the icecap. It measures gravity fluctuation caused by tidal waves and especially tectonic pressure released from ice melting. It tracks those tectonic movements that now cause frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and underwater steam vents, heating ocean water (recent outbreaks in Iceland), as well as the tsunamis and horrendous storms seen on TV. Expect more of the same to increase every year.
Climate changes can be predicted from the Bible, and if you have added manmade causes, it only accelerates the predictions in an exponential curve a little. If the magnitude of change were to exceed the permissible range, then God, who invented the system, will adjust it at the source.
Check out how key dates in Bible prophecy have been identified in the structure of ancient gold–bronze calendar-clocks. This research confirms the Hebrew Alphabet Number System, which deciphered a Rosetta Stone ratio of 7:5 that can be used to organize and align the gears of Bible prophecy. It conforms to a Hebrew hand rule for simple math concept explanations in order to understand our world a little better.
Incidentally, the 7:5 ratio, matches the ancient pyramid mathematics, without which we could not travel in space. This ratio echoes the “Seven Royal Numbers” and “Five Mathematical Equations” that are special cosmic laws in mathematics, including the pattern for all human history, which is embedded in the Bible. If you do not read it, then you are an uninformed fool, blindly accepting lies from Satan without even knowing it.
Climate change from a Biblical perspective is more trustworthy. As a retired scientist, I have not found one scientific impossibility or wrong assumption in the Bible when reading it from a scientific mindset. The Bible even explains paradoxes that modern science has problems with.
I would rather use old-fashioned logic, even though it is no longer fashionable with the atheistic education establishment. It makes more sense to me than acting like a dog chasing his tail, which is what it is like trying to explain the present phenomenon of global warming without its proper historical context.
You be the judge. Please think about climate change from the balanced perspective of two rails, physics and metaphysics. Climate change will end on the 17th September 2015. This is my conclusion from becoming educated in ancient clocks, HANS and comparing them with Bible prophecy. The next 52 km asteroid will strike earth as predicted. It has already been tracked through space by scientists. It has an 825-day orbit around the sun. When it hits the earth, all speculation about climate change will end with the Apocalypse, now dated; then we start a new civilization.
The next Section in my little book that explains Global Warming is the heavy hammer for scientists, as what is revealed will cause upside-down commotion and ruffle some feathers, as light speed measured at 186,000 mi/sec can go faster at 186,282 mi/sec, which is now measured. Check it at Princeton University. This was recently demonstrated by ancient clocks, but using mathematics, we can even point to the speed of light [80 billion mi/sec], which makes the Big Bang appear sooner, as the Antikythera clock measuring gravity indicates this, pointing to the same date again at 4488 BC, which is proven with three (3) witnesses.
In my last 7th Babushka book, we will first explain what a time-light diagram is, starting from (+Heh) Dimension, a parabolic fast declination to BC/AD and increasing again to the Jod Dimension, derailed with two options ending in (-∞) Taw to run out a Time Dimension, like when a flywheel uses up all its energy. That will be proven with science.
But much more is embedded in the first opening verses of Genesis, starting out by only quoting one verse in the Bible linked to Global Warming.
Bereshyt ∞ ELOHIM < > Heaven and Earth
If we analyze the word Bereshyt-in the beginning ∞ bara-created from the perspective of the Hebrew Alphabet Number System (HANS) in just one verse, all the laws of physics and metaphysics are expressed how the cosmos was created never preached in any church and not allowed in universities. That was my biggest discovery and well worth a Nobel Prize surely because I will have answered Global Warming for everyone.
More information is collected which will end our journey in the next 7th Babushka egg concept book to investigate a Time-Light-Gravity curve coming full circle around to 360°, which was invented by the ancient Sumerians who are linked to the Aztec-Hebrew calendar, the oldest of the world, which was decoded in ancient mystery clocks from a Hebrew Alphabet Number System perspective.
That opened Bible prophecy and various dates embedded with a schedule made for mankind to understand God’s creation a little better from a physic-metaphysic perspective like a dual rail road, which is better designed for balance. Have fun reading further. It surprised me greatly how much physics is embedded in just one Bible verse, so it’s definitely from divine origin. Before we go on, let’s sum up what we learned thus far about Global Warming.
More to come in the next book, where I will be further analyzing Global Warming from gravity-light-time dimension, which is a physics perspective that is never taught in universities and ending in the first application of a creation example. By dissecting the first four words in Genesis, I discovered a lot of science and metaphysics embedded, which is never preached in church.
Global warming for various reasons stirs up great waves of big money to flow like water in somebody’s pocket, without changing any of these 10 reasons, as the Nobel Prize is only given to those who believe in evolution fairytales. Please read the Bible and free Babushka books for a balanced understanding of global warming from another perspective to widen our knowledge horizon 360°, in order to understand nature a little better.
It took 21 earth days, travelling through billions of light years for the angel to find Daniel. Does God know your name and have your address? Read my Babushka books to get some answers.
This material was published four years ago as more information was discovered thereafter. The fact that light is not constant is now proven, which has consequences in science that opens a science horizon wider to understand Global Warming. As the Apocalypse is accelerating toward its end, which is now dated with many proven data bytes based on physics and metaphysics, I did not waste more time trying to clean up this text, which is free on the Internet anyway. The message may be duplicated here and there, but feel free to write a better book because in 2015 on September 28th all that you read will either be obsolete or it will no longer matter anymore.
God’s focus on safeguarding the earth since creation is logical. The earth is protected against asteroids by 10 orbiting planet-shields at different speeds along with the size of the sun to earth from a gravity perspective. But the earth was still hit by two asteroids in 2287 BC and 2015 AD. This seems a impossible mathematical probability, which tells me it was willfully caused by the Elohim pouring out his wrath. Find out why.
The 7th Babushka book explains through physics what a Time Dimension is, based on entropy laws and expanded to a meta-physical domain for a panoramic perspective.
When the (+∞) infinite time-light-gravity curve crosses over to the (-∞) parabolic curve, it’s divided to the mathematical DOT, which is about BC/AD, which means Zero-Time and that has a big meaning scientifically in mathematics. You will find out next. It is guaranteed that it has never been found in any book. It is totally original. The implication will shake up a lot of people, comatose theologians and scientists alike, just as it did me.
The Hubble telescope reveals much of God’s creation a wonderful tool to broaden our horizon. New discoveries will be continued in my next Babushka egg book so that we come around full circle to find the lock for the girl’s precious bracelet, which gives it value. Have fun reading more in the next section.
Additionally, let’s not forget the Readers’ Forum as people around the world ask questions, which always are answered with science and technology linked to the Bible. I will guarantee that it is never preached in church nor allowed in the halls of higher learning. If you avoid reading the Babushka concept books, which are free on the Internet, you will never know the other side of the precious coin; therefore, you will remain ignorant about what life is and why we were designed mortal, using the correlation of a caterpillar-butterfly, two-stage system my favored analogy.
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During the 2019 novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, limited data from several countries suggested reduced seasonal influenza viruses’ circulation. This was due to community mitigation measures implemented to control the pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We used sentinel surveillance data to identify changes in the 2020 influenza season compared with previous seasons in Bangladesh.
We used hospital-based influenza surveillance (HBIS) data of Bangladesh that are generated year-round and are population-representative severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) data for all age groups from seven public and two private tertiary care level hospitals data from 2016 to 2019. We applied the moving epidemic method (MEM) by using R language (v4.0.3), and MEM web applications (v2.14) on influenza-positive rates of SARI cases collected weekly to estimate an average seasonal influenza curve and establish epidemic thresholds.
The 2016–2019 average season started on epi week 18 (95% CI: 15–25) and lasted 12.5 weeks (95% CI: 12–14 weeks) until week 30.5. The 2020 influenza season started on epi week 36 and ended at epi week 41, lasting for only five weeks. Therefore, influenza epidemic started 18 weeks later, was 7.5 weeks shorter, and was less intense than the average epidemic of the four previous years. The 2020 influenza season started on the same week when COVID-19 control measures were halted, and 13 weeks after the measures were relaxed.
Our findings suggest that seasonal influenza circulation in Bangladesh was delayed and less intense in 2020 than in previous years. Community mitigation measures may have contributed to this reduction of seasonal influenza transmission. These findings contribute to a limited but growing body of evidence that influenza seasons were altered globally in 2020.
Citation: Akhtar Z, Chowdhury F, Rahman M, Ghosh PK, Ahmmed MK, Islam MA, et al. (2021) Seasonal influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0255646. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255646
Editor: Muhammad Adrish, BronxCare Health System, Affiliated with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA, UNITED STATES
Received: March 28, 2021; Accepted: July 14, 2021; Published: August 3, 2021
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Data Availability: According to institutional data policy of the icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), only summary of data can be publicly displayed or can be made publicly accessible. To protect intellectual property rights of primary data, icddr,b cannot make primary data publicly available. However, upon request, Institutional Data Access Committee of icddr,b can provide access to primary data to any individual, upon reviewing the nature and potential use of the data. Requests for data can be forwarded to: Ms. Armana Ahmed, Head, Research Administration, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: email@example.com, Phone: +88 02 9827001-10 (ext. 3200).
Funding: This hospital-based influenza surveillance was funded by the Influenza Division of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, under the co-operative agreement (6 NU51IP000852-05-01). icddr,b is grateful to the Governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden, and the UK for providing core/unrestricted support. The funders had no conflict of interest with the contents of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
In early 2020, the United States and several Asian countries [1–4] in the Northern Hemisphere reported sharp declines in the numbers of cases of seasonal influenza, which typically occurs during the months of October to April in these countries. In the Southern Hemisphere, Australia, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand reported similar observations during influenza season, which occurs typically from April to September in these countries [5–7]. Previous studies suggested that the decline in seasonal influenza virus activity may have been attributed to widespread community mitigation measures implemented to control the pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1, 5, 7]. Further exploration of influenza seasonality in the context of SARS-CoV-2 interventions may improve our understanding of how these interventions may impact seasonal influenza transmission.
Bangladesh is a tropical country in the Northern Hemisphere, and its annual seasonal influenza epidemic occurs typically during the monsoon period, from May to September, which reflects a Southern Hemisphere pattern . The SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in Bangladesh on epidemiologic (epi) week 11 of 2020 (March 08, 2020), and pandemic control measures were initiated on March 16, 2020 (epi week 12) through closing all educational institutes and on March 26, 2020 (epi week 13) through suspending all political, religious, social, and cultural gathering including state public programs and events; closure of transport services including domestic and international flights, and closure of all public and private offices except for hospitals, kitchen markets, drug stores, and emergency services . Social distancing, wearing face masks and maintaining hand hygiene were made mandatory after May 30, 2020 (from epi week 23) . Enforcement of some measures was relaxed after May 30, 2020 (from epi week 23) at which time public transport service resumed (ground and air) and shopping malls/service sectors opened on a limited scale . All control measures were enforced up to August 31, 2020 (epi week 36) .
We used sentinel surveillance data to identify changes in the 2020 influenza season compared with previous seasons in Bangladesh.
The hospital-based influenza surveillance (HBIS) system in Bangladesh generates year-round population-representative data for all age groups from seven public and two private tertiary care level hospitals through a collaboration between the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) of the Government of Bangladesh, the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) . Participating hospitals were:
This surveillance system has been described elsewhere, and outputs of the system include the number of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) cases (defined as: history of fever or measured fever ≥38C with cough, onset within the previous 10 days, and requiring hospitalization) each week and the percent of those cases that tested positive for influenza viruses using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT- PCR) [12, 13]. The hospital-based influenza surveillance protocol in Bangladesh was reviewed and approved by the IRB at icddr,b. In addition, the CDC’s Human Research Protection Office has reviewed and approved a continuing reliance on the icddr,b IRB.§ Participants or legal guardians provided written, informed consent before data and biological sample collection and fully anonymized data were accessed for analysis
We used the R language (v4.0.3) and MEM web applications (v2.14) to generate an average influenza seasonal curve using influenza positive rates of SARI cases collected weekly by the HBIS from January 2016 to December 2019 . Briefly, this software generated epidemic curves of percent of SARI cases positive for influenza for each season of surveillance data from Bangladesh from 2016–2019. The MEM program then aligned the curves to generate an average curve, and set thresholds to define pre-epidemic, epidemic, and post-epidemic periods, as well as medium, high, and very high intensity thresholds for seasonal influenza activity [14, 15]. To determine the epidemic threshold, the MEM software calculates the upper limit of a 95% confidence interval around the 30 highest weekly values before the epidemic period, and intensity thresholds are calculated so that approximately 60% of seasons will cross the medium intensity threshold, 10% will cross the high threshold, and 2.5% will cross the very high threshold. The model estimates sensitivity (correctly defining the epidemic period above the epidemic threshold) and specificity (correctly defining the non-epidemic period below the epidemic threshold) of the model, and it calculates 95% confidence intervals for the average season’s start date and duration . We applied the average seasonal thresholds to identify the beginning, end, and intensity of the 2020 influenza season.
From 2016 to 2019, the HBIS reported 2,714 to 5,001 SARI cases per year; 15% to 26% of these were influenza positive. The HBIS included cases for each month of 2020, although the total of 2,361 was less than in previous years, with an average of 8% influenza positive over the entire year (Fig 1).
The MEM software generated seasonal influenza epidemic curves for 2016–2020 (Fig 2) and an average curve for 2016–2019 seasons (Fig 3). Based on the average curve, MEM identified thresholds for the start of seasonal influenza season (21% of SARI cases influenza positive), the end of the season (27% positive), and seasonal intensity (medium: 47%, high: 60%, very high: 67% positive) (Figs 1 and 2). The sensitivity of this model was 78% with 96% specificity; that is, for each season used to build the model (2016–2019), 78% of the weeks above the epidemic threshold fell within the model’s predicted epidemic season and 96% of the weeks below the epidemic threshold fell within the model’s predicted non-epidemic season.
The 2019 season was the most intense (peak 72% positivity), while the 2016 and 2018 seasons exceeded the high intensity threshold (peaks at 61 and 65% positivity, respectively). The 2017 season exceeded the medium intensity threshold (peak at 57% positivity), and the 2020 season exceeded the “season start” threshold but did not reach the medium intensity threshold (peak at 43% positivity, Fig 2). The 2016–2019 seasons started on weeks 21, 27, 30 and 23 respectively, and the average season started on epi week 18 (95% CI: 15–25) and lasted 12.5 weeks (95% CI: 12–14 weeks), until week 30.5 (Figs 2 and 3). The 2020 influenza season started on epi week 36 (at baseline epidemic threshold 21%) and ended at epi week 41 (at post epidemic threshold 27%), thus lasting for only 5 weeks (Fig 4). The 2020 influenza season started on the same week COVID-19 control measures were halted, and 13 weeks after the measures were relaxed.
Bangladesh maintained influenza surveillance throughout 2020. Data indicated that the start of the 2020 influenza epidemic was 18 weeks delayed compared with the four previous seasons’ average, and it lasted less than half (5 weeks vs. 12.5 weeks) the duration of previous seasons. Similar marked reductions in influenza circulation were also reported in Singapore, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Australia, South Africa, and Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic; these reports cited a collateral effect of pandemic control measures as a potential cause [1–6].
The start of the 2020 influenza season began after most of SARS-CoV-2 mitigation interventions ended. Public health control efforts undertaken to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh were initiated five weeks before the average start of the previous four years’ influenza seasons and may have contributed to delaying the country’s 2020 seasonal influenza epidemic. Pandemic control measures were ultimately enforced until epi week 36 but after epi week 23 they were relaxed . The 2020 influenza season started on epi week 36. Since both SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses have similar modes of transmission through contact, droplet, and airborne routes , pandemic control efforts may have also limited the transmission of influenza virus, a less transmissible virus, during its peak season in Bangladesh. Therefore, it is likely that efforts to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 contributed to the delay of the 2020 influenza season in Bangladesh.
Strengths of this report include use of data from a robust surveillance system that continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the use of an established modeling method to generate seasonal influenza epidemic timing and thresholds . An important limitation is the 42% lower number of SARI cases detected by surveillance in 2020, compared with the average of the four previous seasons. This decline may have resulted from reduced health-seeking behaviors, undocumented changes in sampling of SARI patients, limited availability of personal protective equipment and reagents for sampling and testing, and logistic challenges of surveillance operations. All of these challenges may have been associated with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and contributed to fewer SARI patients presenting and tested for influenza and decreased the precision of relationship with influenza. Furthermore, the data presented here includes only hospital-based surveillance. Less severe influenza cases—those that did not require hospitalization—were not considered in this analysis and it is possible that trends in inpatient hospital admissions or health seeking behaviour may have changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and confounded the influenza positivity rates. Another limitation is that we only used four seasons of data to generate the average epidemic curve; given considerable variability in influenza seasonality, more data would yield more precise start and end dates of the average season.
In conclusion, our findings suggest that seasonal influenza circulation in Bangladesh was delayed and less intense in 2020, compared with previous years. Community mitigation measures may have contributed to this reduction of seasonal influenza transmission.
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The Water Conservation Speakers Bureau consists of conservation staff members who speak on topics such as water conservation, irrigation, leak detection, and water waste. They are available seven days a week for day and evening presentations to speak to a variety of audiences:
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Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most recognizable, memorable part of the speech that he is most famous for, according to his speechwriter and attorney Clarence B. Jones.
King had spoken about a dream before, Jones told Reuters in a recent interview, but the "dream" was not in the text Jones prepared for King to deliver before 250,000 that day in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963 – 50 years ago on Wednesday.
According to Jones, King initially followed the text Jones had written. Seated 50 feet behind King, Jones followed along up until the seventh paragraph of the speech, when King started to read the parts of the text he had added to Jones' speech, according to Reuters.
But then, according to Jones, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson yelled, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin!"
And King nodded to her, placed the text of his speech aside, and veered off-script, delivering extemporaneously what is one of the most famous, well-known and stirring orations in American history.
Jones said the reference to a "dream" had never resonated with the audience like it did that day.
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Plastics industry leaders from the United States and the European Union on Oct. 15 made a presentation to members of the European Parliament describing their industry's many contributions toward improving quality of life, sustainability and the environment.
The event was held against the backdrop of the ongoing negotiations surrounding the U.S.-E.U. free trade agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
"There has always been a strong economic case for a transatlantic trade deal," said Michael Taylor, senior director, international affairs and trade for the Washington-based Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. "But at this point in time the argument in favor is even more compelling.
"While it is true that the U.S. plastics industry stands to benefit greatly from improved market access to Europe, SPI member companies are very focused on the millions of dollars that can be saved by achieving regulatory coherence and mutual recognition of standards. This will lower the bar for market entry for both the E.U. and the U.S."
The presentation to the EU parliament was co-organized by SPI, Amcham Belgium (the American chamber of commerce in Belgium) and Assocomaplast (the Italian plastics and rubber processing, machinery and molds manufacturing association).
Taylor added that "a significant part of what SPI does on a regular basis is educational. Supporting our European colleagues at an event in the European parliament, where we can speak about the positive contribution of the plastics industry to those who shape policy in the European Union, is a major opportunity.
"It is vitally important that everyone be aware of how plastics improve the quality of life, from safe and efficient packaging to life-saving and life-sustaining medical devices."
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jcatcw writes "From Xerox PARC to Apple to Microsoft, the GUI has been evolving over the years, and the increased complexity of current systems means it will continue to change. For example, Microsoft is switching from dropdown menus to contextual ribbons. Mobile computing creates new demands for efficient presentation while the desktop GUI doesn't scale to larger screens. Dual-mode user interfaces may show up first on PDA phones but then migrate to laptops and desktops. Which of today's innovations will become tomorrow's gaffs?"
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Janice Chow renewed her exercise regimen after retiring. She uses a Jawbone to monitor her workouts. (Janice Chow)
When Elisabeth Handler, 71, of San Jose decided to commit to losing weight, she started using an activity tracker from Fitbit. Handler wears the tracker on her wrist to monitor her daily step count.
We rarely hear stories in the press about people who use wearable technology that aren't young, fit and generally healthy. But Handler is far from alone in finding value in apps and activity trackers later in life.
New research is finding that seniors are monitoring their health using wearable trackers at similar rates as their younger counterparts. A recent survey of 4,017 Americans, conducted by Rock Health, found that demographic variables, like age and income, had no statistically significant effect on adoption of digital health. In other words, seniors are just as likely to use a Fitbit or Jawbone device as a millennial.
"We were surprised, but pleased, that age wasn't a significant factor in determining adoption, because it implies that digital health technologies are reaching the senior population,” said Rock Health's Teresa Wang, one of the researchers behind the survey.
How Can Seniors Benefit From Wearable Tech?
I spoke with several retired people over the age of 65, who said they had more time to tackle the health challenges they have been putting off for a lifetime. And wearable health trackers provided the data they needed to meet their goals.
“When I was working, I always said I wanted to exercise,” said Janice Chow, a 66-year-old resident of Castro Valley who uses a Jawbone Up24 tracker. “Now that I’m retired, I have time to exercise twice a day.”
Chow resumed regular exercise with activities she loved: Walking and hiking. She describes herself as "technologically challenged," but when she received a wearable fitness tracker as a gift, she found it integrated easily into her workouts. It could tell her how many steps she had taken and how far she had hiked.
Her Jawbone device (and the several Fitbits she had previously lost) began inspiring her to do more. At its suggestion, she has integrated more dynamic activity into her workout regime.
“I take aerobics because the Jawbone would tell me, ‘Try to get your heart rate up,’” Chow said. “I’m trying to tone my muscles and be healthier. It motivates me to do more.”
'Awareness Around My Physical Life'
Handler has been relying on technology to manage her health for years now. When she needed a new hip 11 years ago, she turned to the Internet to find a surgeon. Today, she uses an online portal to access her health records, make appointments and email doctors.
But her most enthusiastically-adopted piece of technology will always be her health tracker.
Handler said her health habits began to evolve when she retired from a traditional career in favor of working from home as a consultant. She signed up for a 30-week health program through Kaiser in 2013, during which she abided by a rigorous supervised diet and bought a treadmill desk. She quickly became frustrated with tracking her workouts on paper.
She had used pedometers in the past, but never felt like they were accurate enough. This time, she bought a Fitbit Flex, a thin wristband that can track factors like steps, calories burned and sleep patterns. She monitors the data it collects in an app called MyFitnessPal, which can also log her food consumption.
Handler eventually lost 50 pounds. She’s found it isn’t hard to keep active during the day if she keeps her exercise simple. During our interview, Handler admitted she was currently walking at a very slow speed on the treadmill.
“For me, the tracker was a very easy entry-point into kind of a whole ecosystem of awareness around my physical life,” Handler said. “It gave me a really tangible, un-fudgeable, un-manipulatable way of being honest about what I’m doing."
Both Handler and Chow said their wearables helped them improve their sleep. In Chow’s case, the reports she received on her sleeping patterns helped her improve her quality of sleep. When Handler paired her step counts with overnight reports, she realized more activity led to better sleep.
“If I have a high number of steps on Tuesday, Tuesday night I sleep better,” Handler said. “It’s a clear correlation. That to me was an enormous ‘aha.’”
The next step is, of course, to track more. Handler is eyeing an upgrade that would allow her to monitor her heart rate. Chow would like to start logging her water consumption--something the Jawbone app keeps bugging her to do. But she’s not quite sure how to do it.
“My daughter says she’ll help me figure that out,”she said.
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The State Public Service Commission is extending a public comment period on whether it’s a good idea for Verizon to stop providing land line service to some customers and supply a wireless telephone connection instead.
Verizon so far is only replacing the land lines with a wireless alternative to homes with copper lines severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Fire Island, off of Long Island. But it is seeking permission from the state’s Public Service Commission to expand the wireless option, known as Voice Link, to other customers if the copper land lines are in disrepair and it makes sense not to replace them.
Opponents worry the move opens the door to the phone company’s abdication of land lines in other regions of the state.
Bill Ferris, with AARP says it would be premature to allow a switch. The group has asked the PSC to conduct a more thorough investigation.
“Is Voice Link a good alternative to land lines?” Ferris asked. “At this point we don’t think it is.”
According to a report given by Verizon’s director of telecommunications at a PSC meeting in May, Voice Link would need electrical current in order to operate. Ferris says that could be a problem in the aftermath of major storms like Sandy, Irene and Lee.
“We all know when a storm hits in upstate New York or downstate, the lights go out and they can stay out for a while,” Ferris said. “ Voice Link will not work.”
Ferris says Voice Link also will not work for seniors who are dependent on Life Alert devices to notify medical professionals by phone when they fall ill.
“It’s really their communication to the outside world if something happens to them,” Ferris said.
A spokesman for Verizon denies that the request to the Public Service Commission is a back door way to end the company’s responsibility to maintain the land lines. John
Bonomo says worries about the limitations of Voice Link are overblown.
“Some of the critics of our Voice Link service have taken this ‘the sky is falling’ kind of theory,” Bonomo said. “But really nothing is further from the truth.”
Bonomo says Voice Link, in many cases, can work better and more reliably for customers than deteriorating copper lines. The company installs a box, around the size of a hardcover book, near the telephone, that connects the line to Verizon’s wireless service, provided through cell phone towers. And he says the average customer won’t notice anything different.
“It has a dial tone, it has the same 911 capabilities,” Bonomo said. “The bill that you receive, the price of the service, is either the same or better than what you are currently paying.”
And he says if the power goes out, there’s a battery pack attached that lasts for 80 hours of standby time, and four hours of talking time. He says a new model is being developed that can run on double A batteries for the duration of the outage.
Bonomo says for now, if Voice Link will not work as well as a land line, then the company will not force the customer to switch their service. He says if someone is in a rural area that has spotty cell phone coverage, then the company would continue to maintain the existing land line. And he says if a person is dependent on a Life Alert system, then they would not have to switch either. He says the current version of Voice Link also is not compatible with ankle bracelets given to convicted criminals sentenced to home confinement.
AARP’s Ferris says his organization is not against adopting new technology, but they simply want it to work as well as the old system that it’s replacing.
“We think this new technology should be tested before it’s applied throughout the whole state,” Ferris said.
But the trend , over time, is that the usage of copper land lines is rapidly declining. Bonomo says customers have been voluntarily dropping the service for years, from 50 million landlines around a decade ago, to just 17 million today. But he says the copper land line infrastructure is “not going away any time soon”.
The Public Service Commission recently extended a public comment period on whether Verizon should be permitted to offer the wireless telephone connection instead of land lines in some cases. Comments will be accepted until September 13th.
The PSC has so far rejected AARP’s request for a more in depth investigation.
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Exposure to fine particle air pollution linked with risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseasesBeing exposed to fine particle matter air pollution increases a person's risk for hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, according to a study in the March 8 issue of JAMA.
Numerous studies have shown associations of chronic exposure to airborne particles and increased health risks. Recent evidence on adverse effects of particulate air pollution on public health has motivated the development of more stringent standards for levels of particulate matter in outdoor air in the United States and in other countries, according to background information in the article. In 1997, the standard for airborne particulate matter was revised, maintaining the previous indicator of particulate matter of less than or equal to 10 µm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10) and creating a new indicator for fine particulate matter of less than or equal to 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5). Particles in this size range have a much greater probability of reaching the small airways and the alveoli (air sacs) of the lung than do larger particles. Evidence is limited on the health risks of this size range of particulate matter.
Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a study to estimate the risk for cardiac and respiratory diseases from exposure to fine particulate air pollution. The researchers analyzed data from a national database for 1999 through 2002 on hospital admission rates (constructed from the Medicare National Claims History Files) for cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes and injuries for 11.5 million Medicare enrollees (aged 65 years or older) who lived in 204 U.S. urban counties (population greater than 200,000). The individuals lived an average of 5.9 miles from a PM2.5 monitor.
The researchers found there was a short-term increase in hospital admission rates associated with exposure to PM2.5 for all of the health outcomes except injuries. The largest association was for heart failure, which had a 1.28 percent increase in risk per 10-µg/m3 increase in same-day PM2.5. Cardiovascular risks tended to be higher in counties located in the Eastern region of the United States, which included the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the South.
"In the lung, particulate matter may promote inflammation and thereby exacerbate underlying lung disease and reduce the efficacy of lung-defense mechanisms. Cardiovascular effects may reflect neurogenic [arising in or stimulated by nerve tissues] and inflammatory processes," the authors write.
"Our findings indicate an ongoing threat to the health of the elderly population from airborne particles and provide a rationale for setting a PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard that is as protective of their health as possible," the researchers write. "The sources of particles contributing to the observed risks need to be identified so that control strategies can be targeted efficiently."
(JAMA. 2006;295:1127-1134. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org)
Editor's Note: For funding/support information, please see the JAMA article.
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Choose Thy Ground: The Tombs of Nineteenth Century American Writers
Oct 28, 2010
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Join U.N.I. Associate Professor of History, Tom Connors, as he digs for the truth to uncover how writers in this period became national celebrities, cemeteries became tourist attractions, and American sculpture reached a golden age. The most celebrated authors knew their graves would attract pilgrims and made careful plans to greet their arrival.
This program is free to the public and was made possible by the Friends of the Cedar Falls Public Library.
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Physics, Vol. 1, Second Edition
Like having a private coach at their elbows, this introduction to algebra-based physics involves readers actively in a guided learn-by-doing process—sensing when they need a very patient exposition and when they need only minimal reinforcement, when they need to focus on concepts and when they need an opportunity to practice their quantitative skills. At the heart of the volume are worked examples in a unique, two-column format that focuses on the basic strategies and step-by-step thought processes involved in problem solving—with an emphasis on the relationship between the physical concepts and their mathematical expression. Color-coded drawings help readers visualize physics problems, and companion photographs show the same principle at work in different physical contexts, or juxtapose situations in which contrasting principles are at work. Real-world physics applications abound. Volume 1 contains Chs. 1-18 of the main volume: One-Dimensional Kinematics; Vectors in Physics; Two-Dimensional Kinematics; Newton's Laws of Motion; Applications of Newton's Laws; Work and Kinetic Energy; Potential Energy and Conservative Forces; Linear Momentum and Collisions; Rotational Kinematics and Energy; Rotational Dynamics and Static Equilibrium; Gravity; Oscillations about Equilibrium; Waves and Sound; Fluids; Temperature and Heat; Phases and Phase Changes; The Laws of Thermodynamics. For anyone needing an introduction to, or refresher of, algebra-based physics.
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Planning a year-round garden, how to plan, plan, and harvest your own food. (See the garden illustrations and photos in the image gallery.)
Planning a Year-Round Garden
Born in 1938, I was a product of the Great Depression. Ben Franklin's words from another era, "waste not, want not;" are burned into my psyche. How could people have gotten into the dreadful positions in which they found themselves during the thirties? More important, how could I avoid the same kind of pain and struggle if history repeated itself in my lifetime?
Living in New York City in the '60s I felt even more vulnerable. Remember when the lights went out in the entire Northeast? People were stuck in elevators and subways for hours. If the electricity were off long enough, there would be no water. When the sanitation workers went on strike, garbage piled up on the streets for weeks. Progress ... hmm.
What if everything failed, all that we have created in the industrial age-roads and means of transportation, electricity, communications, water delivery, the economic system? The farm in Maine that I purchased in 1969 became the focus of those thoughts. I could walk from New York City to Maine if I had to. I could dip my water out of a hand-dug well that was there. I could become a hunter-gatherer, if need be, on my own and nearby lands. These thoughts relieved my anxiety over being dependent on electricity, municipal water, and the complex and expensive food distribution system. Not only did the notion of independence relieve anxiety, it felt really good. The more I thought about it the better it felt.
When we moved to the farm in 1972 I decided to try to meet our needs as directly as possible. We needed to heat our house and we had lots of trees on the land, so we converted the heating system to wood and started cutting and splitting. While food is certainly a very basic need, I also find it to be a great source of pleasure. I wanted more variety and refinement than a hunter-gatherer's diet. Thus I began gardening for independence.
We need air, water, and food to live. Air and water were taken care of (though I later got involved in protecting those basics). That left food. The idea was to plant, tend, harvest, and store enough food to feed first two, then later, four people for 365 days. It would, presumably, be easier in the Garden State, New Jersey, or the central valley of California. But we lived in Maine and had no desire to relocate. I welcomed the challenge.
Three years later when I pried the first parsnips from the not-quite-yet-thawed ground in the spring, we were still eating potatoes, carrots, onions, winter squash, tomatoes, peas, green beans, spinach, cucumbers and rutabaga that we had stored from the previous summer's garden. True, we were dying for a fresh salad; but there was certainly plenty of variety available to us. Several years after attaining vegetable independence, I was asked to teach a gardening class. As the core of this class I designed a first- and second-year garden for beginning gardeners interested in growing all their own vegetables in our northern climate. Successfully planting, tending, harvesting and storing the vegetables from these two gardens would prepare a person pretty well for planning their own full-size garden in the third year. I think I was offering more than a four-year college degree in just three-a degree of self-sufficiency.
My first-year garden is strange compared with most first-year gardens. It is not recommended as a first garden for anyone who does not have a goal of providing all their family's vegetable needs directly from the soil. A novice need not make such a dramatic plan.
However, this garden is designed to give a novice confidence in growing and storing vegetables. Onions are easy to grow and store well at any temperature above freezing. Tomatoes and green beans can be canned or frozen. Potatoes and carrots do best in a cool, dark, humid place. A root cellar is ideal, but they can be stored right in the garden under an insulation of hay.
The rest of the crops are there for variety and some summer eating. The second planting of lettuce and the second and third plantings of beans are examples of succession planting. The beans and potatoes are planted together as an example of companion planting.
Planning the Garden Plot
The garden is a place for both plants and the gardener. I give myself one foot wide walkways. This allows me to work around the garden without stepping on the soil in which the roots will be spreading. I have found that it is difficult to work soil farther than two feet from where my feet are, so I space the walkways no more than four feet apart.
Each plant is given the space that it needs. For instance, I plot a three-foot-by three-foot square for zucchini. It is a big bushy plant that covers an area with a diameter of three-and-a-half to four feet. When it reaches maturity and overreaches the space I gave it, my visits will be less frequent, only coming by to harvest. Onions, however, grow almost straight up, with slim leaves taking very little space. They are spaced an onion-width apart in rows eight to 12 inches apart. The space between rows is enough to fit my wheel cultivator or a hoe.
The rectangles for each vegetable indicate the space planned for the mature vegetable. The seeds or transplants are planted in the center of these rectangles.
When drafting my garden plot I work in pencil. I have erased through the paper at times as my winter reading has brought a new idea to light. The dates are target planting dates. When I do the actual planting I ink in the date and variety planted, the plot then becomes an excellent record for future reference.
I run my rows north-south. My reasoning is that there is more space between the rows than between the plants in the row. The sun sweeps across the garden every day and will reach each plant more fully if the rows run north-south. In all honesty, if this makes any difference, it's minimal. I just do it because I came up with the idea and because my garden is flat, so I can run the rows any direction I want to. If my garden were on a slope, I would run the rows across the slope, not up and down. You want to do anything you can to prevent erosion.
The first plot is designed to give a novice gardener confidence while introducing a number of gardening techniques. You will notice that most of the planting for the first year is done on Memorial Day weekend. This is the beginning of the frost-free season in my garden, and the time most gardeners in this area do most of their planting. The idea is to focus on planting for a day when the motivational juices of spring are running high.
Tilling and Planting the Garden
Ideally the garden spot was tilled between a week and two weeks before planting (see "Turning Sod into Garden Soil," in the MOTHER EARTH NEWS January issue, NO. 153). During the 10 days, give or take, since tilling, thousands of weed seeds have sprouted. They send hairlike roots down and a fragile stem up. You can easily dispatch these thousands of weeds by raking, hoeing or otherwise cultivating the soil surface before planting. Do it.
Onions are easy to plant, easy to grow, and easy to store. One hundred feet of row will yield as much as 100 pounds of onions from two pounds of sets. Sets are small onions that were started from seed and had their growth interrupted. I make a trough two or three inches deep with the corner of my hoe, push the sets into the bottom of the trough root-end down, pull the soil back into the trough, and firm it.
Zucchini and Cucumbers
To plant zucchini and cucumbers I spread the fingers of one hand as widely as possible and push them into the soil in the center of the designated area, making five indentations about half an inch deep, drop a seed in each, fill with soil, and firm with my hand.
Tomato seedlings are practically indestructible except by cutworms. The defense against cutworms is to make the transplanting as stress-free as possible. We're talking about the plant's stress, not yours. Seedlings are, after all, babies, and should be treated as such. They have been growing inside, so make their transition to the outdoors gentle. Expose them to the sun an hour the first day, two the second, four, six, in successive days. This is called hardening-off. I put them in a place where the sun's movement will cause them to be in shade after approximately the time I plan for, so that they will not get sunstroke if I forget.
The next trick is to separate them without damaging the roots. The roots will have become tangled together in the planting mixture of the seedling flat. I remove the flat and place the mat of roots in a bucket of water, into which I poured a couple of tablespoons of liquid seaweed. I work the plants back and forth in the water while pulling them gently apart. Some roots will break-it's inevitable. But tender loving care will keep the damage minimal. Plant them two or three inches deeper than they grew in the potting soil in holes three feet apart. They love it when you work some compost into their new home. Firm the soil around their roots. When they are all planted, empty the bucket of water on them equally. Then give them some more water so the soil is soaked down to the bottoms of their roots. The best time of day to do this is evening so they don't have to withstand a blazing sun all day while they are trying to adjust to their new environment.
Cutworms are gray grubs of a night-flying moth. They like wilting plants. That is why you want to make the transition as easy as possible so the plants don't wilt and send out the dinner-bell signal to cutworms. When I do lose a plant I just stick in another that I have waiting for such an eventuality. If you are worried or don't have backup plants, you can put up a barrier for the cutworm. The cutworm wraps its body around the stem of the plant and then cuts through the stem close to the soil line. You can put a match stick next to the stem to prevent them encircling it, or a collar to keep them from reaching the plant.
I plant bush beans the same as onion sets except that I drop the seeds into the trough about two inches apart. Same with potatoes except the though is deeper, about six inches, and the potato pieces are spaced about a foot apart.
Potatoes are grown from the eyes of potatoes. You cut potatoes into pieces making sure each piece has an eye in it. My pieces are about golf ball size but they can be much smaller. In fact, we have had potatoes grow on the compost pile from potato peelings.
Many seed companies now carry seed potatoes but I still prefer getting them locally. You can use potatoes from the market but you don't know what variety they are. They are not certified against disease but then neither am I. That may sound like a joke but it is also intended to make some sense. We are all surrounded by disease organisms all the time. It is not so much the presence of these organisms that makes us sick but our health that makes it possible to resist disease. Concentrate on having healthy plants in a healthy soil rather than avoiding disease organisms.
Carrot seeds are small and germinate slowly. They also should be planted fairly close to the surface, no more than a quarter inch deep. Wiser people than I discovered that if you mixed carrot seeds and radish seeds together, you would be able to space the seeds better. The radish seeds germinate very fast, four or five days, and grow to maturity in three to four weeks. They pop out of the ground showing you where the carrots are located, which makes cultivation easier. They shade the row, holding in moisture, which helps the carrots germinate.
Parsley is of the same family as carrots and can be planted the same way. Lettuce seed should be planted very shallowly, covered with just a sprinkling of soil. Because they are so close to the surface the soil needs to be kept moist until the seeds have germinated. The only time I water my garden is when new seeds are trying to germinate and the weather is especially dry. Lettuce grows best in cool weather, so you should be careful to pick varieties that do better in summer. Romaine lettuces and buttercrunch are two that have been consistently good in the heat of summer. Swiss chard is planted about half an inch deep.
Weeding: The 10-Day Rules
All but the row that will be getting succession plantings of beans have been planted. The job was done in less than a day. You should get a great night's sleep and your body should not feel too much the worse for wear the next morning. You don't have to do anything else to this garden for 10 days. If you are going to use mulch to improved soil texture, control weeds, add fertility, and retard the evaporation of water from the soil surface; you can begin applying it. Coarse material like hay or straw can be applied to the walkways and around the zucchini and cucumbers. You will be able to see where you planted because of the firmed soil. You can also mulch around the tomato plants. All of this mulch should be about six inches thick. If you are using baled hay or straw, it peels off in books that can be dropped just as they are. If the material is loose and fluffy, it should be more thickly applied.
The 10- day rule is one that you should make every effort to obey. Whenever you plant, mark your calendar to cultivate in 10 days. It can be done a couple of days earlier or a day later if the weather or your schedule demand it, but don't let it go longer unless you like to make extra work for yourself. Remember, you killed all the weeds that had started growing before you planted. But your planting disturbed the soil and brought a new batch of weed seeds close enough to the surface for them to sprout. A light surface hoeing just barely disturbing the top half inch of soil will again kill thousands of weeds when they are at their most vulnerable. These seedlings will not be able to re-root nor will they resist the hoe. It is like slicing butter. Every day after 10 the weeds will be spreading roots and their stems will become stronger. More mature weeds can cling to enough soil to keep on growing even when pulled up by the hoe, or the roots may hold on against the hoe leaving a viable plant behind.
Controlling weeds that have gotten a hold requires more vigorous work with the hoe-good exercise for the stomach, chest, and arm muscles if that's what you are looking for. You will also spend more time pulling weeds.
Mark your calendar for another 10 days. The radishes and the onions are up by now, marking those rows. I like to mulch these crops with grass clippings, whereas the potatoes seem to do better with leaves. Mulching with leaves requires a calm day so they don't blow around, however. I cover them with enough of another mulch to keep them from taking flight. If everything is mulched by the end of the second 10-day period, weed control is essentially done. If not, cultivate the unmulched areas.
I say essentially because there will inevitably be some weeds that have escaped our diligence. There are only two crops that might suffer from weed competition.
Onions, with their very slender leaves, need full sunlight. Keep an eye on them and pull weeds as needed. This will not be much of a job. The other crop is lettuce. It just doesn't like crowded places. Weed it and thin it to about four inches apart. When these plants start to crowd each other, take out every other one for a tender salad.
One Month Later, You Start Eating
Come the third to fourth week, you can start eating radishes. When they are at their peak pull them all. Take off the tops, wash them, and put them in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. They will last a couple of weeks. If you like radishes the way I do, throw a few seeds in some corner that looks possible.
While pulling the radishes you might have come across some weeds that you felt like pulling while you were there. The carrots might benefit from some thinning, too. Get rid of the extra zucchini and cucumber plants by pulling all but the two strongest.
Visiting the garden at least once a week is an excellent plan. All of the "jobs" I have mentioned since planting can easily be handled in an evening or two a week. While you are visiting the garden you should be checking the plants to see how they are doing. The potatoes may have attracted Colorado potato beetles. The beetles don't eat much themselves, but they lay clusters of yellow-orange eggs on the underside of the leaves of potato plants and sometimes tomato plants. These eggs will hatch in four to seven days, depending on the air temperature. The brick-red grubs are pretty hungry and can defoliate the plants. Until recently I controlled these fellows by hand. I went down each row at least weekly, checking the underside of the leaves for egg clusters and crushing the clusters twixt finger and thumb. Inevitably a hot, humid spell would keep me out of the garden and they would get ahead of me. When that happened I usually quit harassing the bugs and let them do their worst, which may have resulted in a diminished crop, but still more than satisfactory results. Some years I have had very little damage without any hand picking. 1, of course, attribute that to my soil and the poor years I blame myself for not getting the fertility right.
A recent breakthrough in biological controls has given me an option that I find acceptable. Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) is a bacteria that only affects insects that eat it as opposed to most insecticides which kill everything they touch. One variety is Colorado Potato Beetle Beater, available from Johnny's Select Seeds, Albion, Maine.
The only other insect that has done substantial damage to any of these crops as I have grown them over the past 24 years is the tomato horn worm. You are likely to spot the damage first and then the droppings. This is a large (about the size of a finger), green worm with-you guessed it-a horn on its tail. It takes some patience to locate it. My control has always been to find them, pick them off, and stomp on them. The more squeamish might want to wear gloves or get tongs or pliers. They can't hurt you, but they will squirm around a lot when plucked from the plant. There is a widely available BT spray that works on all moth and butterfly larvae. Dipel is the one I am most familiar with, but there are some other brands. This stuff will kill the larvae of any moth or butterfly that eats it but don't worry about destroying the butterfly population. Most butterflies don't lay their eggs on plants in your garden. In its adult stage the tomato horn worm is a moth. It can be mistaken for a humming bird as it is approximately the same size and moves the same way.
I could fill a page with insects that you might find on your preciously planted plants, but that would just make you paranoid. Instead, cut down on your entomological studies and just keep your plants as healthy as possible; if you see insect damage, try to figure out who is responsible. Observe the insects. The chances are the damage will be minimal. If a crop is destroyed, thank the insect for indicating that the crop was inferior and not fit for your table anyway. Recognize that the plant was under stress, probably due to an imbalance in soil nutrients. Get a soil test. Make more compost. Arrange for some manure.
On your frequent visits to the garden you will see the beans blossoming. Each blossom will become a tiny bean, which will grow practically while you watch. They can be eaten at any size, so when they are two or three inches long have a taste. The first picking will be light and best cooked right away for a tender meal of garden sunlight. Fifty feet of beans is quite a bit. The plan here is to pick enough at their peak to store for the winter. Our favorite storage method for beans is to freeze them. We snap off the ends, snap them in two or three, drop them into boiling water for a couple of minutes, then plunge them into ice water, drain in a colander, put in a plastic bag or container and freeze. If you want to be able to take out a handful of beans from a larger container and leave the rest in the freezer, dry the beans on a towel before freezing.
This garden does not give you any other green vegetable for winter use, so you may want to put away more than in future years. Figure on 25 weeks when you won't have greens from the garden. How often do you want to eat beans each week? You don't want to get sick of beans. They are too good.
The onions are ready to be harvested when most of the tops have flopped over. There is no hurry to harvest them. When you are ready pull them all and leave them lying right in the rows. I try to leave them lying in a way that allows the most air to get around them. Leaves that are still green are laid out so they will dry rather than rot. The only danger is when the harvest is late enough in the fall so there might be a freeze. I spread them out on the porch when this is a possibility.
Once the tops are dry the onions can be put in a mesh bag and stored anywhere that won't freeze. Colder is better according to the experts, but we have had braided onions last until spring that were hanging from the kitchen ceiling where the temperature must have gone over 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Separate any onions that have thick necks and use them first. If you have a lot of thick neck onions, make onion soup and freeze it.
Tomatoes are so good for so mane dishes. We have no preference over canned or frozen. When we were raising our own meat and the freezer was frequently full, we canned. Now we freeze. When there is danger of frost, some people cover their tomatoes. We used to. It was such a hassle and we were never sure we got much, if anything, for the effort. Now we bring in all the green tomatoes we think we can stand when frost threatens. We love fried green tomatoes and green tomato chutney is great, too. We have pickled green tomatoes, though other people's always seems better than ours somehow. The green tomatoes will ripen in the house. Though their flavor is not as good as vine-ripened they still beat store-bought. We have tried wrapping them in newspapers, keeping them in a cool place and various other suggestions we have read about. Last fall we just put a bushel basket full on the floor out of the way. We picked through the basket whenever we wanted tomatoes, moving ripe ones up or out onto the floor where they could be easily spotted by anyone with an appetite.
When we were heating with wood stoves in the house the cellar became a perfect place to store potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, and cabbage. It literally has water running through it. The floor is dirt and the temperature is below 50 degrees Fahrenheit most of the winter, and only goes below freezing in a couple of places where I have water pipes. The stored crops have never frozen. I made wooden boxes for each crop and set the boxes on blocks so they would not get wet. The humidity and temperature have been close to perfect: The crops always lasted through the year.
We have a furnace in the cellar now, and the conditions are not as good. Potatoes do well, but it is too dry for carrots. The trick with this crop is to experiment with storage solutions to find one that best fits your situation. The optimal temperature for potatoes is 38 degrees Fahrenheit to 40 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 85 to 90 percent. For carrots the optimum is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and a humidity of 90 to 95 percent. (Handbook for Vegetable Growers by James Edward Knott, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NYC)
One of the options is to keep them in the garden. Place bales of hay right over the rows of carrots where they are growing. The carrots should be at least eight inches from the edge of the bale in our climate-whatever it takes to insulate them from freezing. You can remove the bales in the winter and pull the carrots. Those orange carrots really look great lying on top of the snow. I just wish Barbara would tell me she has run out of the supply in the refrigerator before the blizzard rather than after.
The same could be done for potatoes, though I have never done it. There is a danger that some rodent gets in under the mulch and has a feast. The best winter storage potatoes I ever had late in the winter came out of a hole I dug in the woodshed, another dirt floor. I buried a wire basket full of potatoes in the dry sandy soil where I reasoned I would be able to dig it out any time. I reasoned correctly. Even though the woodshed had approximately the same temperature as outdoors, there was not enough moisture in the soil to freeze. When I dug the basket up, the top layer of potatoes had frozen and had to be thrown out. The rest were perfectly firm and tasted superb.
It is time to invite people over for Thanksgiving dinner. Beans, potatoes, onions, and carrots from your garden will grace the table. How about fresh carrot sticks as an appetizer. Did you think I forgot to mention the succession planting of lettuce? That lettuce planted in early August might well have withstood several frosts and be available for a salad, that is if the deer, woodchucks, or rabbits didn't eat it. Lettuce cells are flexible enough to take a certain amount of freezing, and we frequently have it available until the end of November.
The idea of companion planting is that one crop helps another, that there is a symbiotic relationship. I read that insects that like beans don't like potatoes and visa versa, so I coupled them. Darned if I know if it does any good, but the two crops go well together so I just keep doing it. It doesn't hurt.
Cabbage will be a new challenge. Ideal storage temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit at 90 to 95 percent relative humidity. I'm thinking of making a room in my cellar that is insulated from the heat of the furnace for troublemakers like these. An insulated box in the wood shed with a pan of water in it is another thought. I do miss the perfect root cellar but without the furnace we can't leave the house for more than 12 hours at a time in the winter.
Nothing has fascinated me for as long as gardening. There are so many variables and so many things yet to be learned—the mystery of the soil, the beauty of growth, the timing, the search for the best variety of a vegetable, the fresh air, my bare feet connected to the earth, working with nature, learning, observing, and every year tasting and being nourished by the product of this collaboration.
Mort is now on his 26th self-sufficient garden and immodestly reports that the last time he went to the grocery store was for batteries.
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As I approached a Brooklyn public high school in one of my favorite suits, fending off the discomfort of the September heat recently, a mix of excitement and anxiousness bubbled in my chest. This moment was the product of 11 months of groundwork. Today, a pilot of EdConnective coaching was to begin with five teachers at a high-performing school in New York City that serves predominantly African American and Latino students.
Last October, I reached out to Jahmani Hylton, the director of the New York City Young Men’s Initiative (YMI), a “public/private partnership aimed at reducing disparities between the economic and social outcomes of young men of color and other demographic groups in New York City.” I hoped that the YMI could fund EdConnective coaching as an innovative tool for some of the schools in its Expanded Success Initiative (ESI), which supports new and creative ideas for preparing black and Latino males for college and career opportunities. Jahmani could have ignored my email (the way many others already had). But even when traffic turned a two-hour drive from Philadelphia to New York City into a six-hour trip, Jahmani still made time to meet with me.
He listened to me pitch my vision for ensuring great teaching in every classroom by providing teachers with the supports they need to thrive. He even reeled in Paul Forbes, the director of the Expanded Success Initiative, who got an earful about my research and my mission to accelerate student outcomes by empowering teachers through video coaching. Numerous meetings and visits to City Hall later, an EdConnective pilot was approved. YMI agreed to fund the endeavor for a small group of teachers, and ESI agreed to offer it to its affiliated schools as a pilot.
Fast forward 11 months and I, along with a colleague, find myself at this Brooklyn high school, ready to provide an overview of EdConnective to a group of teachers selected by the principal. Two hours later, with cameras, bagels, and handouts in tow, we begin to present to the participating teachers. The first thing I notice is the surprise on the faces of the teachers, evidence that this might be the first time they are hearing about their participation in this pilot. Then I notice signs of fatigue and possible discontent marked by glossy eyes and luke-warm temperaments. Furthermore, our presentation comes immediately after a long morning of professional development workshops, and right before lunch. You guessed it: all of these factors means EdConnective faces an uphill battle for teacher buy-in.
I explain to the teachers that I had interviewed successful black and Latino males in their school one year earlier, as a research team member on the Succeeding in the City study. I mention how students at their school noted how talented teachers contributed to their success and how EdConnective could support teachers in new ways. I detail how often they would Skype their instructional coach and how to upload recordings of their classroom instruction. However, it was only after meeting with teachers one-on-one, that they started to engage.
We went into each teacher’s classroom and helped set up the cameras. There, we were met with questions such as, “What is this really about?”, “Who are the coaches?” and “What makes a good coach?” We took this opportunity to answer every question, ensuring teachers that the effort was not an evaluation. We provided detailed information about the backgrounds of the EdConnective coaches, and their abilities to provide feedback and new strategies. With each conversation, I felt progress towards acceptance of the EdConnective program.
I empathize with the initial apprehension of the teachers at this Brooklyn high school. In So Much Reform, So Little Change, Charles Payne explains how educators are often demoralized, winded, and disheartened by their experiences with wave after wave of new initiatives and responsibilities thrust upon them, only to see these endeavors fail, lose traction, or be scuttled after short periods of time. For the next seven weeks, EdConnective will be working diligently to win the buy-in of the teachers while simultaneously providing an experience that will hopefully escape the gravitational pull of the education reform graveyard.
For more information follow Will Morris on Twitter @edconnective.
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This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program.
A great discovery often brings together strange bedfellows. Such is the case when the Jubilee Oil Field is discovered within Ghana’s national waters in the Gulf of Guinea. The heights and depths of the relationships between the people and groups pulled together around this oil field is the subject of the new Rachel Boyton (director) and Brad Pitt (producer) documentary Big Men. The documentary was filmed over five years from first discovery of the oil field to nearing “first oil” -when actual production begins.
The cast includes the original owner of the oil exploration license, George Owusu, a Ghanaian; the leadership of Dallas-based Kosmos Energy, which buys out and hires Owusu; the Blackstone Group, which funds the exploration and initial production phases of the project; two administrations of the Ghanaian presidency; and “The Deadly Underdogs,” a Niger Delta oil bunkering group in Nigeria, which is primarily portrayed as a cautionary tale of everything that could go wrong should Ghana’s new “national resource” be misused.
The documentary continually juxtaposes the conflicting motivations, goals, and intentions for the oil and its revenue between the different “big men.” Ghanaian presidents John Kufuor and his opposition successor John Atta Mills are interested in having the oil reserves extracted, but only -and this is particularly apparent in Mills’ rhetoric- on Ghana’s terms. The investors are looking to see a return on their investment, and the Ghanaians are adamant about benefitting more from these newly discovered oil reserves than they feel they have from over one hundred years of gold mining and export in Ghana. No single perspective is elevated above the others by the filmmakers, instead, each is given equal space to state their case. The effect is to provide a glimpse into the hugely complex sector of oil (and other extractive resources) production, and into corporate/government relations.
Possibly the most interesting contrast in the documentary is that between the fortunes of Ghana and Nigeria. The filmmakers made multiple trips to the Niger Delta throughout the nearly five year process of filming. They record specifically the changing fortunes of one militant group in the Delta creeks that is destroying pipelines and bunkering (stealing) the oil. In interviews with the militant group “the Deadly Underdogs,” and with other individuals engaged in bunkering, the consensus is that Nigeria’s oil belongs, not only to Nigerians, but specifically to the communities in which the oil is found. Yet the benefits of oil extraction are not felt in the communities, nor is a path open to them to oppose their perceived marginalization. This disaffection is where the bunkering rises from.
One militant with the “Deadly Underdogs” stated that “we are in the creeks so that our children can have something better.” Two other interviewees, who admitted to being engaged in sabotage of the pipelines in a bid to be hired as a repairman for those same pipelines had diverging sentiments on their actions. One felt that Nigerians were shooting themselves in the foot by attacking their resources, but could find no alternative action available to gain access to them. His companion however said -and I’m paraphrasing- “I don’t feel that this is wrong. If someone pays me to shoot myself in the foot, I will do it. If I survive I will have the money.” It’s a stark image of desperation and destitution amongst riches.
I would highly recommend the documentary. It is showing in the West Village in New York City and opened this week in Washington DC and Los Angeles. It is a revealing window into the complex world of oil exploitation and production, the dreams such resources conjure, and (in some cases) the utter destruction of those dreams.
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to illustrate process for using TI83/84 calculator when finding least-squares regression lines (lines of best fit).
The data here pairs number of credits with amount spent on textbooks. Linear regression line is calculated.
Use the TI83/84 to find the least squares regression line - also called the line of best fit. The process is called linear regression. Access the STAT key and use the CALC menu to find option 4:LinReg(ax+b).
After entering data into lists, use the STATPLOT function to create a scatter plot.
Use the VARS button.
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Rajat directed me to a series of posts by Ben Bernanke, discussing monetary policy options if the US once again hits the zero rate bound. Bernanke thinks this problem is likely to occur in the next recession, and I agree. Here's the punch line:
To anticipate, I'll conclude in these two posts that the Fed is not out of ammunition, and that monetary policy could help cushion a possible future slowdown. That said, there are signs that monetary policy in the United States and other industrial countries is reaching its limits, which makes it even more important that the collective response to a slowdown involve other policies--particularly fiscal policy. A balanced monetary-fiscal response would both be more effective and also reduce the need to use unconventional monetary tools.
In a recent post, I quoted from a 2004 Bernanke paper, where he indicated that if monetary policy is less effective at the zero bound, then the Fed might need a higher inflation target. Here he suggests fiscal stimulus as the relevant alternative. I prefer his 2004 approach, as I think a higher inflation target would be far less costly than fiscal stimulus. However I also think that NGDP targeting, level targeting, is superior to either fiscal stimulus or a higher inflation target.
The first post in Bernanke's series focuses on negative interest on reserves. Bernanke thinks this is an attractive option, but suggests that it's unlikely that the Fed could push rates as far below zero as Switzerland (minus 0.75%) without either technical or political complications.
Nonetheless, I am heartened by Bernanke's endorsement of the basic concept. Although market monetarism is often associated with NGDP targeting, that idea actually pre-dates market monetarism by several decades. On the other hand negative interest on reserve truly is a market monetarist idea, which was originally greeted with great skepticism. If it's now catching on, that suggests that we (MMs) might know something useful about monetary economics. On the other hand our motivation (reducing the demand for the medium of account) is very different from the justification of more mainstream economists (reduce market interest rates.)
In the second post in the series Bernanke focuses on a long-term bond yield peg, such as the 2.5% cap on long term Treasury bond yields maintained by the Fed during and after WWII. Here again Bernanke takes a more interest rate-oriented approach than I would prefer, viewing low rates as easy money. In contrast, NeoFisherians might view a low bond yield peg as a policy that actually lowered inflation expectations, i.e. a contractionary policy.
Market monetarists take an intermediate position. A promise of low interest rates well into the future might be viewed as an easy money policy, or it might be viewed as "promising to be like Japan", in other words a very pessimistic forecast for the US economy. I'm not saying Bernanke's proposal would not work---the focus on 2-year bond yields makes it more likely that it will be viewed as expansionary than would a 10-year promise---but there are dangers. I'd prefer a promise to buy assets until NGDP (or inflation) forecasts rose to the Fed's target path.
In the two posts, Bernanke occasionally alludes to the difficulty in getting the FOMC to accept ambitious policy initiatives, and I think his statements about the need for fiscal support need to be viewed in that context. In my view a sufficiently determined central bank can always inflate, at least up until it owns the entire global stock of assets. And if that happened there'd be no need to inflate in any case, as the entire country's population could stop working and simply live off the sweat of foreigners.
Of course I'm half-joking, but only to show how absurd is the concept of a central bank running out of ammo. That's not a criticism of Bernanke, I can easily imagine that he is picturing what it would like to be Fed chair once again, and he may well be right that it would be impossible to sell the FOMC on the needed stimulus, and hence that fiscal stimulus would help.
But it's very unlikely that fiscal stimulus would ever come to the rescue, at least in the sort of quantity that would be needed. Japan's national debt soared in the 1990s and 2000s, and yet their NGDP actually fell over two decades (1993-2013)---the worst performance by NGDP for a developed country in world history. If even Japan's huge deficits were not enough to boost AD at all, just imagine getting a future GOP Congress to do what it takes. In my view we need a conversation about changing the Fed's target, to a new target which makes the zero bound much less of a problem---something like NGDPLT.
I hope that Bernanke will speak out on this issue in the future, even if he opposes NGDPLT. There are other options, such as a slightly higher inflation target. I don't know for sure that my preferred policy target is optional. But there is one thing of which I am certain. If the current 2% inflation target is going to lead to future monetary policy failures so severe that a fiscal rescue is needed, then the current 2% inflation target is definitely not optimal. If Bernanke is right that we might again hit the zero bound during the next 10 years, then Janet Yellen and the Fed made a mistake raising rates in December, even if not doing so would have pushed inflation above the 2% target.
You can argue for monetary policy ineffectiveness, or you can argue for a 2% inflation target. You cannot argue for both. I'm not seeing enough Keynesians loudly and forcefully making that point.
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Date: 10/27/2020, 10:00 am—4:30 pm
County: Training Offerings
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: Fred Finch Youth & Family Services
We can’t know what we are treating if we don’t do a full assessment of the youth’s context including family relationships, historical trauma, and intergenerational influences. Learn how the history of the biological families of our youth impacts their current functioning and how a family’s life cycle developmental challenges are intricately related to a youth’s own developmental challenges and attachment issues.
We will review the importance of utilizing genograms and timelines with families in order to learn about their culture/stressors/life experiences and other important values. This information guides our case planning and service provision of all kinds. Without context, we cannot possibly understand what the behaviors of our kids in the Continuum of Care mean or how we might go about healing the pain and achieving positive outcomes.
Click on the Register link below and click on the NON-EMPLOYEE REGISTRATION button on the Fred Finch website to register for classes.
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Protecting the cultural heritage of Iraq for future generations: first ICC Iraq meeting held in Iraq
International Coordination Committee Meets in Erbil from 3 to 4 April 2011
Flanked by international experts and with the support of UNESCO, Iraqi officials took significant steps to address the threats against the nation’s cultural heritage at the 5th Plenary of the International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Iraq, also known as the ICC. The two day meeting, which was held for the first time in Iraq, resulted in a list of targeted recommendations intended to ensure that Iraq’s cultural heritage remains for future generations.
“The reconstruction and future development of Iraq must occur within a framework, and culture provides that framework. Our heritage tells us where we’ve been, lighting the way for our future endeavors,” said Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director General of UNESCO for the Culture sector.
As testimony to the importance of the ICC, First Lady Hero Khan, wife of President Jalal Talabani, opened the session with words of encouragement to the plenary and voiced her concern over potential lost heritage in the Marshlands of southern Iraq, where an entire culture was nearly wiped out due to the policies of the last regime. The Ministry of Culture of Iraq represented by the Deputy Minister Mr. Fawzy Al Atroushi chaired the meeting of behalf of the Government of Iraq.
The recommendations covered specific policy and management areas, as well actions to be undertaken to prevent any further loss of Iraqi heritage, as emotionally highlighted by the Advisor of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Mr. Bahaa Mayah. “This meeting had two primary objectives in support of one goal,” said Mohamed Djelid, Director of the UNESCO Iraq Office. “One objective was to firmly establish a working mechanism that allows the brightest international minds to join with their Iraqi counterparts. The other, was to identify actions to be taken to safeguard and promote Iraqi cultural heritage. And all of this to ensure that future generations can learn from the valuable lessons that first emerged from the peoples of these lands.”
The recommendations were the outcome of frank discussions between nearly a dozen international experts, some of them reappointed for another 4 year term of ICC Membership, but 4 newly appointed in that capacity and nearly twice as many government officials from the central government as well as the Kurdistan Regional Government. The key programmatic recommendations included:
- Cooperating with international experts on the preparation of the Management Master Plan for the Marshlands for the potential of creating a mixed cultural and natural heritage site, in light of the ongoing process for its nomination to the World Heritage List;
- Expanding the Erbil Citadel maintenance Master Plan into a comprehensive management plan within the Citadel’s larger urban context;
- Developing a master plan for the Babylon Museum, to be located in the former presidential palace, which would be based on the holistic approach taken in the design of the Basra and Sulaymaniyah Museum projects that include supportive, yet strong roles for the international community.
The 5th Plenary also marked the first time the ICC has met on Iraqi soil. The symbolism was not lost on the ICC members who saw this as an important transition to true and full Iraqi ownership of this deliberative body. Next meetings of ICC are planned to be organized in Baghdad, at the technical level, and in Najaf, at the political level and in view of the celebration Najaf Islamic Culture Capital in 2012.
The success of the Plenary was in part ensured by the attendance of some of the most important contributors to the preservation of Iraqi Cultural Heritage from inside and outside the country.
For more information contact:
Programme Specialist, Culture Sector UNESCO Iraq
firstname.lastname@example.org +962 (6) 590 2340
<- Back to: UNESCO Office for Iraq
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During this one-time class, students will be taught how to draw and paint a Halloween-themed painting while socializing. Topics covered will include drawing techniques such as using lines, and shapes to create art as well as painting and blending techniques. Students will be encouraged to add their own creativity to the art created during this class. The class will be structured as a step-by-step demonstration class. It will use the following formatting: Greetings Directed drawing of a...
Students will learn how to draw a Halloween-themed painting while socializing.
I have taught in brick-and-mortar schools for 30 years. During this time, I have taught all academic areas as well as art and STEAM classes for grades K-5. I have also taught virtually for over a year.
No outside homework will be assigned. However, some students may wish to add more details to their paintings after class time.
Canvas Pencil Eraser Paints- colors of the student's choice preferably Cup of water Paper towel Pallett Paintbrushes Creativity Smile
Learners will be assessed informally throughout the lesson.
30 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.
Students will determine the topics of some of the conversations. Younger students may need help with paints.
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Hi, and welcome to my little piece of the world. I am a retired teacher that is still passionate about working with children. I love to teach Art (both drawing and painting), STEM, Geography, Social Skills, and Language Arts to children because...
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Is the county safe from nuclear disaster?
Explosions and fires rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan just days after the country was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in mid-March.
Weeks later, a large-scale nuclear disaster was avoided, for now. The near-catastrophe drew worldwide attention to nuclear power and the potential dangers of radioactive materials. The United States government recommended a 50-mile evacuation zone around the site to avoid harmful radiation in Japan.
Parts of Catawba County are within 10 miles of Duke Energy's McGuire Nuclear Station, leaving many to wonder what county residents should do if and when a nuclear disaster occurs.
What is McGuire Nuclear Station?
McGuire Nuclear Station, located in Huntersville, is one of three nuclear facilities operated by Duke Energy in North and South Carolina.
Duke Energy has about 2.2 million customers in the Carolinas, and about half of that energy is generated through nuclear power. About 1,200 employees work for the McGuire Station, as part of a total Duke Energy workforce of 18,000.
The facility started energy production in 1981 and will celebrate 30 years of operation this year, said Duke Energy communications manager Valerie Patterson.
During that time, the facility hasn't had any major nuclear disasters like the one reported in Japan.
"Certainly over the years, we've had some operational challenges," Patterson said. "We are an industrial organization. We do produce electricity, but those certainly haven't been challenges we haven't been able to overcome."
McGuire Nuclear Station uses pressurized reactors to produce power, unlike the facility in Japan, which uses boiling reactors. Duke Energy doesn't have any boiling-water reactor facilities, but those facilities exist other places in the country.
The difference in reactor design, however, won't stop Duke Energy from learning from the nuclear plant event in Japan.
"Events in Japan are still unfolding, so we are certainly in no position to point to where things went wrong," Patterson said. "In the nuclear industry, we are keen and extremely focused on learning from each other. Whatever operational experience will come out of the events in Japan, we are watching very closely so we can learn from what happened there."
How is Catawba County involved?
The Sherrills Ford area in Catawba County is part of the McGuire plant's 10-mile radius. Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and Mecklenburg counties are also included within the 10-mile radius, also known as the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ).
Catawba County's specific EPZ is bordered by N.C. 150 on the north, the Catawba County line on the south, Lake Norman on the east and N.C. 16 on the west.
What to do during an emergency
Patterson said Duke Energy nuclear facilities, as well as other nuclear stations in the country, are built with "redundant, but physically separated, safety features" to withstand natural disasters and other emergencies.
Duke Energy plants are built to withstand the largest-known earthquake to hit the area surrounding the plant. That means Duke Energy's facilities will withstand a repeat of the 7.3-magnitude, Charleston, S.C., earthquake of 1886, Patterson said.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the 1886 quake is the most damaging earthquake to occur in the southeastern United States.
"Public health and safety is able to be maintained even in the unlikely event that we deal with hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados," Patterson said.
Although the likelihood of a nuclear disaster is rare, Duke Energy has procedures in place to ensure safety of employees and residents.
The response to an emergency situation varies depending on many factors, including the type of emergency, as well as weather conditions, Patterson said.
Nearby residents are notified of a problem at McGuire Nuclear Station in several ways to ensure all people, regardless of where they are, know about the potential dangers.
Station officials sound sirens to alert people who are outdoors when the emergency happens. When a siren sounds, people are encouraged to turn on their televisions and look for news alerts about an impending nuclear situation.
Catawba County has one site, Patterson said. The county also acts as a "host county," where residents of nearby counties can seek refuge in the event of a disaster.
Duke Energy partners with other government agencies to make recommendations about what actions should be taken during a disaster.
Government officials then decide the course of action for residents, whether that is evacuation, staying indoors or taking potassium iodide tablets.
Potassium iodide (KI) is a non-prescription drug similar to iodized table salt and can prevent the body's thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine. KI tablets are available to residents in the EPZ at no cost through each county's health department. Catawba County distributed free KI tablets in September to residents living within the 10-mile EPZ. That was the first time the tablets were distributed to residents and businesses since 2002.
"It's a well-coordinated effort between Duke energy, state officials and the federal government," Patterson said. "We're going to be in close contact and working very closely with state and county and federal officials."
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Falling Three Method - Continuation PatternA major candlestick continuation pattern is called the three methods signal and be classified as a rising three, which is bullish, or a falling three, which is bearish. Both signal small interruptions but do not signal a reversal. Taking the concepts of supply and demand into consideration, the three methods are predicated by uncertainty in the market. However, the market corrects itself when the bulls see can't be made or when the bears see that a new high cannot be made. In either situation, the original trend continues. The bulls become bullish again and the bears become bearish again. The three methods are related to support and resistance lines, which can be penetrated, and the Rising Three Methods signal and the Falling Three Method signals are ways of confirming that the attempted penetration will fail, and that the trend will continue.
The Falling Three Method begins with a long black candle followed by a series of upward reaction candles. These candles all form within the range of the original candle, but have smaller bodies. Normally, the smaller candles would be white, since the large trend candle is black. The fifth and final candle is the same as the original trend candle but it closes at a new low and opens lower than the close of the previous day. The only difference is that the candle will be higher or lower, depending on the trend of the original candle.
Recognizing continuation patterns is important, whether you are in a long position or a short one. Besides adding to positions, it also confirms your other indicators. Even if you are trading on the short side, the three methods can help you use the continuation pattern to do much more.
FALLING THREE METHOD
The Falling Three Method is basically the opposite of the Rising Three Method, The market has been in a downtrend. A long black candle forums. It is then followed by a series of small candles, each consecutively getting higer. the optimal number of uptrending days should be three. Again, two or four or five counter trend days can be observed. The important factors are that they do not close above the open of the big black candles and that the shadows do not go above the black candle's open. The final day of the formation should open down in the body of the last uptrend day and close lower than the first big black candle's close.
- A Downtrend is in progress. A long black candle forms.
- A group of small bodied candles follow, preferably white bodied.
- The close of any of the uptrend days not does close higher than the open of the big white candle.
- The final day opens up into the body of the last uptrend day and proceeds to close below the close of the first big black candle day.
The Falling Three Method is considered a rest in the downtrend. Just lie the Rising Three Method, the appearance of the white candle unnerves the bears. Buat any they see the bulls unable to take the prices higher, the bears gain their confidence back and resume their selling. The concept is that the first black candle day brings some doubt ino the bull camp. The next day does the same. By the thrid day, the bears are now convinced that the bulls do not have the strength to push prices up anymore. The bulls get their courage back and start stepping in.
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Jack Johnson becomes the first African American to win the world heavyweight title when he knocks out Canadian Tommy Burns in the 14th round in a championship bout near Sydney, Australia. Johnson, who held the heavyweight title until 1915, was reviled by whites for his defiance of the “Jim Crow” racial conventions of early 20th-century America.
The boxer that is still remembered as the greatest defensive boxer in heavyweight history was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1878. Johnson dropped out of school after fifth grade and worked the docks of Galveston before taking up professional boxing. He proved himself a powerful fighter, but the rarity of champion white boxers agreeing to meet black challengers limited his opportunities and purses. In 1903, Johnson won the “Colored Heavyweight Championship of the World” and the next year issued a challenge to Jim Jeffries, the white American who held the world title at the time. Jeffries refused to meet him, and it was not until 1908 that Tommy Burns agreed to give Johnson a shot at the more prestigious white heavyweight title.
The boxers met at Rushcutter’s Bay on the outskirts of Sydney on December 26, 1908. Few of the 20,000 spectators gathered there cheered Johnson as he dominated Burns and became the heavyweight champion of the world. Johnson’s reception upon returning to the United States was equally lukewarm, and racists were appalled by his marriage to a white woman. Johnson refused to keep a low profile in the face of criticism of his color and character, and instead took on an excessively flamboyant lifestyle. He drove flashy sports cars, flaunted gold teeth that went with his gold-handled walking stick, and engaged in numerous, overlapping romances with women–all of them white. Reporters began calling for a “Great White Hope” to put the heavyweight title back in a white man’s hands.
Johnson defeated several U.S. challengers, and in 1910 Jim Jeffries agreed to come out of retirement to try to beat the black boxer. In a fight held at Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910, Johnson became the first boxer to knock down Jeffries, and in the 15th round Jeffries’ corner threw in the towel. The outcome of the match prompted racial violence and rioting across the United States.
In 1912, Johnson was convicted of transporting an unmarried woman across state lines for “immoral purposes,” a law that was drafted primarily to prevent prostitution and the white slavery trade–not to prevent a black boxer and nightclub owner from having an affair with his white secretary. Johnson was sentenced to a year in prison and released on bond pending an appeal. He took the opportunity to flee the United States disguised as a member of a black baseball team.
Johnson lived in exile for the next seven years and continued to defend his title in bouts in Europe and elsewhere. On April 5, 1915, he lost the heavyweight title when he was knocked out by white American Jess Willard in the 20th round of a fight in Havana, Cuba. There were rumors that Johnson threw the championship in order to have the charges against him dropped. The charges were not dropped, however, and when Johnson returned to the United States in 1920 he was arrested by U.S. marshals. He was sent to a federal prison in Kansas to serve his year sentence.
After his release, Johnson boxed occasionally but never regained his former stature. His fortunes steadily diminished, and near the end of his life he worked as a vaudeville and carnival performer. He died in a car accident in 1946.
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The number of people in Teesside visiting accident and emergency departments in May was the highest since before the covid-19 pandemic began, new figures reveal.
NHS England figures show 14,327 turned up to A&E at South Tees NHS Trust's James Cook University Hospital in May.
That was a rise of 10% on the 12,939 visits recorded during April, and 38% more than the 8,850 patients seen in February 2021 when England was in its third lockdown.
Figures also saw 14,144 visits to A&E at North Tees and Hartlepool Trust in May, a rise of 10% on the 12,736 patients seen during April and 38% more than the 8,688 visits recorded in February 2021.
The figures show attendances were also above the levels seen before the pandemic – in May 2019, there were 13,615 visits to A&E at the South Tees NHS Trust and 14,614 A&E visits at North Tees and Hartlepool Trust.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust had more A&E admissions than usual on Sunday night during the Euros final between England and Italy.
Samantha Derbyshire, a nursing sister in emergency care at the University Hospital of North Tees said: "We had quite a busy evening on Sunday night – including a number of injuries people sustained while watching the match.
“Waiting times for treatment in our urgent and emergency care departments remained long on Monday. We want to again urge people to only come to our service for treatment if it is an emergency.
“We are asking people to think twice before coming to the department – many minor injuries and issues can be treated by self-medicating or visiting your local pharmacy or your GP.
“The NHS 111 service is also here for you if you need advice and support about a health issue and to direct you when appropriate.
“By taking this course of action you are helping reduce pressure on the service, meaning we can treat people who urgently need our help.”
In May 86.8% of patients were seen and admitted, transferred or discharged at South Tees NHS Trust within four hours, below the NHS England target of 95%.
Figures also show that 1,899 patients spent more than four hours waiting to be seen at an A&E department.
One in five patients with major emergencies waited more than four hours.
Across England, 2.1 million people visits A&E departments last month, an increase of 11% compared to April, and 65% more than the 1.3 million visiting during May 2020 in the early stages of the pandemic.
Mike Stewart, chief medical officer at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are continuing to urge the public to think pharmacy, GP and 111 first and only attend A&E or call 999 if you have serious or life-threatening emergencies.
“Those that do turn up to our A&E department will of course be assessed clinically by a member of our team but will be re-directed to a more appropriate service for their needs if they don’t need emergency care.
“By thinking of alternative services people will be doing their bit to help keep A&E free for those who really need it.
“Please remember that NHS 111 online or telephone can make direct appointments at surgeries, pharmacies and urgent treatment centres. They can also send an ambulance for serious or life-threatening issues.”
To sign up for Teesside Live news updates, go here
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Keep cooking areas clear of combustibles and wear short or tight-fitting sleeves when you cook. Keep the handles of your pots turned inward so they do not over-hang the stove. If grease catches fire, carefully slide a lid over the pan and smother the flames, then turn off the burner.
Matches and Lighters are Dangerous
In the hands of a child, matches and lighters can be deadly! Store them where kids can't reach them, preferably in a locked area. Teach children that matches and lighters are "tools" and should only be used by adults.
Use Electricity Safely
If an appliance smokes or has an unusual smell, unplug it immediately and have it repaired. Replace frayed or cracked electrical cords and don't overload extension cords. Extension cords should not be run under rugs.
Cool a Burn
If someone gets burned, immediately place the wound under cool water for 10 to 15 minutes. If the burn blisters or chars, see a doctor immediately!
Be Careful of Halogen Lights
If you have halogen lights, make sure they are away from flammable drapes and low ceiling areas. Never leave them on when you leave your home or office.
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I often get asked how to become a freelance writer and editor, because a lot of people are intrigued at the thought of working from home in their pajamas and having time to just do what they want every day.
I always quickly set them straight: The freelance business is tough, and working in your pajamas every day starts to make you feel like a mental-ward patient. And any spare time you have will be spent throwing in a load of laundry and cleaning up dog puke.
But freelancing is a viable option for many people, and one that more employers are starting to embrace for a variety of professions. Here's a story I did on the issue of contract work for Gannett/USAToday...
Is the temporary worker about to become a more permanent fixture in the American work force?
As the economy begins to recover, more employers are sticking with hiring only contract or temporary workers. It's a move designed to give them flexibility in dealing with the improving market, but it's also a way to keep their costs under control.
Permanent employees often are provided employee benefits, and those can comprise 40% or more of a worker's total compensation package. Many companies don't offer temporary workers any benefits, so that helps greatly reduce their costs.
"The biggest fixed cost an employer has is payroll," says Tim Ozier, director of contract staffing at MRINetwork in Philadelphia. "It's to their advantage to hire contract workers in many cases."
Still, what does that mean for someone seeking permanent employment? Will a temporary job be the only route open to bringing home a paycheck?
No, says Ozier, because only 1.5% of the work force is considered contract or contingent workers. And even though he expects that number to rise to 5%, in line with the temporary employment figures in Europe, contract workers won't dominate the employment landscape.
"But people shouldn't be afraid of being a contingent or contract worker," he says. "Companies are opening up all kinds of work in these areas. We've place CIOs (chief information officers) and COOs (chief operating officers) for eight months or longer with one company."
The days of temp workers being qualified for only low-paying, entry-level jobs is past, and workers who embrace the work may find they appreciate the flexibility and experience they gain, Ozier says. While information technology and engineering have a great demand for contract workers, other workers being hired on an as-needed basis include human resources, advertising and marketing.
"It's a great way to enhance your skill set and broaden your sphere of influence," he says. "You can get experience with different kinds of companies."
Ozier says that staffing companies such as his also find that older job seekers — who often have a more difficult time in the job market — have skills that are in demand by employers seeking contract workers.
"Tenured, mature workers are an important part of the contingent worker landscape," he says. "They are experienced, have a shorter ramp-up time and have very sought-after skills."
For those considering contract or contingent work, Ozier recommends:
• Staying connected. Online networking sites such as LinkedIn are critical steps in letting others know of your availability for contract work and the skills you can bring to the table. Attend industry events to let employers know of your expertise.
• Seeing temporary work as a logical step. Not only can temporary work keep a paycheck coming, but it also can lead to permanent employment. Ozier says employers may use a contract gig as a way to try out an employee. When employers hire a temp for a full-time position, they often offer a higher salary than if making an outside hire.
• Being vocal. Just as if you were applying for a full-time, permanent position, be specific about what you can offer an employer as a contract worker. Cite specific cases of where you helped an employer's bottom line.
• Looking forward. Some employers may hire you with a six-month contract that can be extended — or ended as planned. If you've worked with a recruiter to land the temporary gig, plan about a month before the end date to check in with the recruiter to begin looking for another assignment, Ozier says.
• Knowing your worth. It's not unheard of for temporary workers — who prove their worth — to be able to ask for a pay raise from the employer, no matter how temporary the employment. In addition, many employers will pay some living expenses if you're asked to relocate or travel for a temporary assignment.
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REXBURG, Idaho — For many high school students in rural districts throughout eastern Idaho, fall break means heading to spud fields early in the morning for tedious labor in the dust and cold until well after dark.
School district officials say a fall potato harvest break is a necessity since state funding is tied to attendance, which tends to be poor when local growers need more helping hands to bring in their crops.
The students can pad their savings accounts in short order. And the growers get needed labor at a critical time — as well as a valued opportunity to pass along a farm work ethic to a younger generation.
St. Anthony seed potato grower Dirk Parkinson said high school students comprise about 30 percent of his harvest workforce. They're paid equivalent wages as H-2A workers.
"We're really quite dependent on high school kids because we've been using them for so long," said Parkinson, who recruits most of his students from nearby South Fremont High School. "If the school district decided not to do it, it would jam us up pretty hard."
A few students have rolled trucks, but Parkinson said they generally do a good job and there have been no serious injuries.
Though Madison High School in Rexburg returned from its week-long harvest break on Oct. 7, senior Kim Crawford chose to spend a few more days sorting out dirt clods and rotten spuds at a local farm. She'll avoid penalization for absences through a school work-release program. She explained the district's break used to be longer, but there was a decline in students participating in harvest.
"It's super long hours, but you can earn money fast," Crawford said.
The farms feed the workers hot meals, which Crawford said taste especially good on cold nights.
Adrian Arreola, a senior at Sugar-Salem High School, located on Digger Drive in Sugar City, has been visiting farms since early childhood and riding in the tractor with his father, a farm manager in Newdale. Arreola just finished his fourth spud harvest and also spends summer breaks bailing hay and helping with grain harvest.
"You get kids who work hard and can handle it, and some kids you can tell haven't worked in all of their lives. They act like they're working when the boss comes around," Arreola said.
Sugar-Salem Principal Jared Jenks estimates 100-150 students work in spud fields during his school's two week harvest break, which was moved up a week this season because farmers told the school board the crop was maturing ahead of schedule.
"Working is as educational as being in school. Kids can learn a lot of life lessons by working on a farm," said Jenks, who was raised on a farm.
Some faculty members at rural schools also take advantage of the chance to make a bit of extra money at harvest, including Aberdeen High School Principal Travis Pincock. His school recently returned from a 12-day harvest break, during which he worked along side some of his best students.
"It's not surprising to see the ones who are working hard because they work hard in the classroom," Pincock said. "Some of those kids are out in front of that conveyor belt for 13 hours picking out dirt clods."
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Reformed Church in Zambia RCZ has commended government for its support towards addressing the plight of the people.
RCZ Moderator Edwin Zulu says the church is happy to note that government has taken an active role in providing safe and clean water to the Zambian communities.
Dr. Zulu was speaking during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Katete between the Reformed Church in Zambia and Eastern Water and Sewerage for the construction of a dam.
He says the Church cannot sit and ignore the challenges society is faced with such as inadequate water supply which has affected Katete district for a long time.
And receiving the land transfer agreement on behalf of government, Katete District Commissioner Peter Kaisa praised the church for its contribution.
The District Commissioner said Katete district has for a long time not had reliable water sources as the current water supply can only go for seven hours per day.
Meanwhile, Eastern Water and Sewerage Company Managing Director Wamuwi Changani says it is the first time in the history of his company that the legal processes for a land transfer has been successfully followed.
Mr. Changani thanked the Reformed Church in Zambia for the gesture in helping Katete residents find a solution to the water problems.
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If you have been paying any attention to the news recently, you will have heard that the United States is experiencing a resurgence of heroin use. Unfortunately, Louisville is smack in the middle of this growing epidemic. Locally, I think the perception is that one, this problem sprung up overnight with no warning and two, even if heroin use is a problem, it isn’t a problem near me. But is there truth to either of these beliefs?
Being the data geek that I am, these questions piqued my curiosity. So instead of just accepting these reports as fact, I decided to see just how much of a problem heroin actually is in our region. Using heroin crime data (namely possession and trafficking) from Louisville’s open crime dataset as a proxy for use, I decided to visualize Louisville’s heroin problem to see if I could gain any insight. Is there truly a heroin epidemic? How fast did this become a problem? And probably most important to the average person, is this actually happening near me? Sadly, the answers appear to be ‘Yes’, ‘Quickly’, and ‘Absolutely’.
Overview of Various Drug Offenses
To get a sense of the general drug ‘scene’ in Louisville I want to look at the number of offenses of the major drugs over the past decade. I can’t really tell if heroin is a problem if I have no idea of the general level of drug use in our city.
Using some simple bar plots, the huge increase in heroin offenses is immediately obvious. We have seen a staggering 2834% increase in heroin offenses from 2007 to 2016. While it is true we have seen an increase in methamphetamine and opiate offenses–by 831% and 208% respectively– it is not to nearly the same degree. Heroin’s offenses have increased over 3 times as fast as those of meth and other opiates, even though we are seeing large increases in crime related to those drugs too!
When I first saw this–after the initial shock–I figured drug use in general over the past decade must just be up. A rising tide lifts all boats so to speak. However, when you plot out the other major recreational drugs, you don’t see this. We have seen fairly sizable decreases in criminal activity relating to cocaine and marijuana(-33% and -63% respectively) over the same period of time.
In fact, if we look at a plot of all recreational drug offenses, we see a slight trend downward over the past decade.
A couple important points probably should be noted here. First, if you look at the scale of the y-axis on all the previous plots, you will notice that marijuana offenses dominate the overall count. If you plot heroin and marijuana offenses on the same scale, heroin use still appears minuscule. As of 2016 we still had 3.2 times more marijuana offenses than heroin offenses.
This is not to say that heroin use is small and inconsequential. What this means is that marijuana offenses have the power to move(and very possibly distort) the entire drug picture by itself. As can often be the case, taking a very aggregated view of the data would lead you to a completely incorrect conclusion.
Secondly, we need to keep in mind that none of this is happening in a vacuum. There are very real social, political, and economic changes that happen which do end up altering the landscape. Unfortunately, these changes can make it very difficult to pin down exactly what is happening. For instance, when Obama first took office in 2008, he voiced a softer federal stance on prosecuting marijuana crimes. So while marijuana was–and still is–illegal in all forms in Kentucky, did this federal statement affect the enforcement and prosecution of marijuana offenses in Louisville? It is way too complicated of an issue to answer simply yes or no, but I think it would be naive to think it had zero effect. But we can’t be sure (at least with this simplistic analysis) that there wasn’t simply a coincidental decline in marijuana use, which also resulted in fewer marijuana crimes. This same sort of logic applies to offenses of all types.
In that vein, we have to at least mention the changes in the opiate drug landscape that could explain some of this heroin epidemic. Back in 2010 and 2011, two of the major opiates abused recreationally were reformulated to make recreational use more difficult. Around the same time, various systems(for instance KASPER) were put in place to make abusing prescription opiates more difficult. Though it is always difficult to establish causation, it seems very likely that effectively restricting the supply of prescription opiates around 2011 triggered a surge in heroin demand as a replacement.
Regardless of what caused the surge in heroin use, the grim reality of the increase can been seen in the plot below. This plot shows the number of overdoses reported in the crime data. While overdoses aren’t strictly a crime, they are reported in the crime statistics. I can’t be sure that the overdoses are all heroin related(for instance, meth shows a correlation of 0.68), but a correlation of 0.93 between the heroin uptick and the overdoses is extraordinarily coincidental if they aren’t related.
This explosion of overdoses since 2012 really drives home the true human cost of the heroin epidemic. I think it is crucial to remember that these are real people with real lives who are being ravaged by addiction and, ultimately, death.
Mapping the Epidemic
After this sobering dose of reality, I want to see exactly where this is happening within our city. In this day and age, we hear news of heroin crimes and overdoes almost nightly on the news, but despite this, I think many people still assume this is something that only happens in “bad” neighborhoods with bad people. This distancing thought makes it easy to put an unpleasant piece of information out of our immediate focus. But doing that doesn’t change the reality– heroin use is all around us today.
The first thing I wanted to do when I decided to look into heroin use was map out the data in some way. Luckily, R has some brilliant mapping tools that allow me to do just that. The finest-grained geographic area I could sub-divide the data into turned out to be zip codes, but this works perfectly for a type of plot typically known as a choropleth plot.
Using a shapefile from this website, I grabbed the zip code boundaries for the city of Louisville and after some cleaning, aggregation, and a ton of formatting(huge thanks to Timo Grossenbacher and his brilliant post on formatting clean choropleth plots) we can easily see the spread of heroin use through the city.
The quick saturation of the city is pretty shocking. Even after seeing the sharp rise in 2012 in the plots earlier, the near immediate darkening of the west and south end in 2012 took me by surprise. In 2016, we had 11 zip codes that saw at least 1 heroin crime per week. In 40203, they saw a heroin crime every 2.6 days!
But perhaps even more shocking is that even the ‘better’ parts of the city are being hit. The east end and regions like Prospect– typically thought of as very affluent parts of the city– have seen huge increases as well. We see east end regions with increases as high as NA %. This is definitely not something that is only happening in one area of the city. An incredible NA % of Louisville zip codes are seeing at least 1 heroin crime every other week. Keep in mind that this is heroin crime data–meaning that heroin use is likely to be significantly higher in all regions. I shudder to think about the true number of overdoses or the number of families affected by the epidemic.
It should be noted that none of this really changes when you normalize for population density. The regions with high counts downtown are not merely high because they have a higher population density. In fact, I was going to included a normalized map, but there was so little difference that it didn’t seem to warrant the space.
So, sadly, it seems since around 2012 Louisville has been in the midst of a heroin epidemic. If you don’t think it’s happening near you, you are being blinded by wishful thinking. Heroin crime–and one can then surmise heroin use– is happening all around us. While I don’t proclaim to know the solution to such a complex, multifaceted problem, I do think the first step is to acknowledgement that this is an issue for everyone in our community. The consequences of this epidemic–be it in lives taken, or families shattered, or property destroyed–are affecting people of all ages, races, genders and incomes.
As usual, all code used in this report can be found here.
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Starlink, very high-speed satellite Internet access, is available in beta in the United States and has just obtained the necessary authorizations to launch in France. Date, price, flow, operation… we take stock of this issue!
Starlink is one of those projects that may well revolutionize internet access around the world. It is a question of delivering an Internet access offer relatively affordable for areas that are inaccessible, poorly served, or simply too peripheral to have internet access worthy of the name.
For now, Starlink is only available in beta in the United States. In France, Starlink has obtained the essential authorizations from Arcep, but the firm has yet to reveal the date of arrival of Starlink in France. It is nevertheless possible to register now on Starlink.com to find out when the service will be available in France.
In the USA, beta customers pay $ 99 subscription. We imagine a price of the same order in euros. This price does not include the connection kit billed at $ 499 and the commissioning fee of about fifty dollars.
The Starlink constellation is under construction. But, as the number of satellites increases, the constellation’s capacities also increase.
The first independent flow tests carried out in North America show that the bandwidth is on average around 150 Mbps descendants. However, Elon Musk promises that in the coming months the average speed will be doubled to 300 Mbps with a latency of around 20 ms.
Originally, Elon Musk presented Starlink as a service ultimately allowing speeds of up to 1 Gbps downstream. However, it appears that Starlink has since revised its targets upwards, and plans to eventually deliver a 10 Gbps internet connection, or as much as the fastest consumer internet access by fiber.
Starlink is the first constellation of satellites to have theambition to deliver very high speed internet access at very low latency across the globe. For this SpaceX must put into orbit around 12,000 satellites in low orbit by 2025. In total, including the 1,015 satellites already deployed by Starlink, there are only 2,000 active satellites around the Earth today.
And we do not count the authorization to launch several tens of thousands of additional satellites. Until now, the only satellites providing Internet access were placed in geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000 km. This has the advantage of being able to cover a large area with just one satellite. But this also has the drawback of necessarily causing a high latency (> 600 ms) due to its very high altitude while limiting the capacity of the infrastructure.
To avoid this, Starlink prefers to place a large number of satellites in orbit very close to Earth. A first fleet of satellites (7,500 in the long term) is thus planned at an altitude of 340 km. 1600 satellites must be placed at an altitude of 550 km. Finally. 2800 satellites must be placed at an altitude of 1150 km. The internet connection of a given user is provided by a succession of satellites scrolling at a high frequency.
To ensure the coordination made necessary by this movement, the satellites will communicate with each other by laser link. Communication with base stations and clients takes place through a so-called phased array antenna system. These can direct the signal without moving part. A motor in the customer’s dish nevertheless assists the orientation of the antenna for a better signal.
What equipment do I need to connect?
Starlink customers receive a extremely easy installation kit. It is composed of a motorized dish with phase control antenna array, a long Ethernet cable with PoE, a power brick that also serves as a PoE injector and a kind of switch. As well as a triangular shaped router.
All of these elements arrive already plugged in for simplicity. The instructions are pretty straightforward: place the dish outside, on the ground, or on your roof – so that it has a clear view of the sky. Open your smartphone, connect to the hardware and follow the instructions. The connection is established in seconds.
This kit isn’t free – it’s billed at $ 499.
On paper, in principle, nothing prevents Starlink from operating in town. However, this technology is generally unsuitable for dense areas, while it is ideal in sparsely populated or rural areas. The reason is simple: because they are closer to the ground, each of the satellites in the constellation covers a fairly small area.
However, in cities, this can potentially lead customers to saturate their satellite cell. Otherwise, Starlink’s rate is currently significantly higher than the cost of fiber internet access. So we can say without getting too wet that‘You will not be able to subscribe to Starlink at any time if you live in town.
Note that the help pages specify that you will not be able to really move your Starlink installation to another address. In any case, if the latter is outside your usual satellite “cell”. The delivery of internet access is indeed a kind of synchronized and coordinated dance of satellites appearing and disappearing in front of the antenna every second.
If you leave this cell, you will not find yourself in the right place to receive internet from one of the satellites programmed to serve you. You will therefore no longer have access to the service. So that means for those who are considering subscribe in their second home to enjoy it in town that unfortunately will not work.
Starlink underlines that it is a question of geometry, and not of a voluntary restraint. Even if de facto, this seems to arrange the service well since, as we explained above, Starlink is not suitable for heavily populated areas.
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The various tests are beginning to be numerous enough that we can say that Starlink is relatively insensitive to the weather. Speed may drop slightly in case of heavy rains, snow, strong winds, and other weather events, but nothing, normally, which does not become prohibitive.
In addition the Starlink antenna can detect snow. A specific mode is then activated to melt it, to clear the view to the sky as much as possible, which strengthens its resilience to the elements. Starlink nevertheless notes in its help pages thatin the event of heavy snowfall, make sure that the snow has not accumulated too much around the dish.
For now, as Elon Musk revealed a few months ago, Starlink is technically functional only on “high latitudes”, that is to say the north of the United States and Canada, or Central and Northern Europe on this side of the Atlantic. Over time, Starlink will become available closer and closer to the equator, until we can truly speak of planetary coverage.
But if we explore this fascinating subject that is the cover of Starlink, it is also necessary to take into account its kinetic aspect. Unlike 5G antennas which are fixed, and whose coverage can be plotted on a map, the constellation of Starlink satellites is in perpetual motion. This interactive map gives you a very detailed idea of the coverage everywhere in the world at a given moment:
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“Glad am I, dearest of friends, that sleep has eased thy pain. But lie still yet awhile, and let me again transport thee to a time long past when Shir Shaheen cursed and hated all humans. Freed was Shaheen, yet trapped was he also. Freed from the desert glass, the Tears of Safar; trapped within the ruins of Paridiz, the creation of Safar.”
Vengeance had Shaheen sworn against the vizier of Gorj, yet no vengeance could he wreak unless he escaped from Paridiz. Long he considered the sorcerer’s words – that one certain thing no other djinn had done would set him free – yet was he no closer to understanding what he must do nor the intent behind it. But if he could not unravel the sorcerer’s riddle, he could battle the sorcerer’s binding.
With the dribble of magic left to him Shaheen was able still to change his size and shape, though now only in limited ways, and as a lizard he climbed the city’s walls, as a beetle he probed their every cranny and crevice, as a sand fox he dug to their foundations, and in incorporeal form he slipped into their brick and stone.
To no avail. As far as he could reach above, as far as he could delve below, a barrier, invisible, unmoveable, surrounded the city through which he could not pass. With his fists he struck it, with rocks he pounded it, with shards of stone he stabbed it, with a mirror reflecting the sun’s rays he tried to burn holes in it. But not the least mark or dent or scorch did he create. Even when he threw down a wall, though the bricks fell, the barrier remained.
“Rest now, O dear one, friend of friends. Rest and forget all thy cares, for I shall tell thee a tale of wonder – a tale of Shir Shaheen the fierce and terrible, lord of the desert waste, strong lion of the sands, swift falcon of the air. Shaheen, the greatest djinn that ever was or is or will be.”
Like the wind was Shir Shaheen as he flew across his realm of the Great Salt Desert, invisible, incorporeal, outpacing hawks and eagles – with warm zephyrs he caressed the hidden oases and the creatures that lived upon the shining salt flats, but harsh gusts he hurled at any men trespassing on his lands, and against the merchant caravans which tried to cross the desert, he raised towering sandstorms a thousand times a man’s height. Few caravans ever ventured the desert crossings; fewer still survived.
But though he wielded such great powers, there came a time when Shir Shaheen was outwitted by the humans he so hated.
In the sweet cool of evening, he sensed their foul shadows crossing the gold and ochre sands towards the ruins of Paridiz. Enraged, he sped towards them, for though the city was now a haunt of jackals, to Shaheen it remained a place of veneration for it was the finest creation of his elder brother, Safar.
From both north and south the humans came. From the north, a small party with mules laden with hateful, soul-tearing iron; from the south, a merchant caravan of many camels, bearing something so precious Shaheen trembled as he felt its call – a shard of desert glass, known to all djinn as the Tears of Safar.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. I have found the men who have ravished the land. I have found Aprakash.
She stands in the shadow of a cliff. High above her are the men who have plundered and butchered and raped across the borderlands.
It’s been two months since she lay on a ridge looking down onto a burning village and discovered Aprakash was the bandits’ leader. Two months in which she’s followed his bloody footsteps through more ravaged villages and small townships, recording, witnessing, collecting every scrap of evidence. Two months in which she has finally reached acceptance of what must be done, what she must do, for at last she understands.
Compassion needs Benevolence – pity can do little without action. Wisdom requires Truth – the lodestar which guides and governs. And the Giver-of-Judgements relies upon Justice, the last gift of the Lady of Six Aspects – both noble ideal and the weapon without which judgements are merely words.
She finishes her scrutiny of the cliff then stealthily returns to the tiny cave where she spent the night. She brought just a few scraps of food and a small pack with her – most of her belongings, including all the evidence she’s assembled, are with her horse in the care of a pedlar two miles away. Whatever happens, the evidence will be sent to the monastery for copying and lodging with the central court administration; if she doesn’t return, everything else will be the pedlar’s.
She’s spent a day and a half examining the bandit’s lair, studying its approaches, its defences. Even at the cliff top they have a guard, though only one, confident as they are of the cliff’s protection. But with more than a dozen men to confront, she needs to wait until the darkest part of the night, for their fires to burn low, their raucous laughter to fade to snores, the guards themselves to be lulled towards sleep by the quiet of the mountains.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. The men I have sought are many. I am one. But I am also many, if, Lady, you are with me.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. I wandered long and far after leaving the monastery, but you surely knew me still, though I had no name …
“I’m no one,” she says, putting the final stitch into the gash in the boy’s arm. This is the third village she’s seen plundered; the first with survivors, thanks to the old man now interrogating her as he holds the injured boy still for her needle. The old man she refuses to name, because she can’t allow this haggard, wasted figure to be the beloved Sukhbir of her memories.
“I don’t believe you,” says the man who can’t be – mustn’t be – Sukhbir. “I know a priestess when I see one.”
“Look at my hands, old man.” She holds them out, palms uppermost, bloodied as they are from her work. “You see any symbols of the Lady there?”
“The Lady has more than one way of marking her own – even the lad can see she’s in you.” He pats the boy. “The priestess has patched you up well. Now be off and get us some tea.” He smiles, the same gentle smile as ever, and she can no longer pretend.
It’s been twenty years since he escorted her to the monastery and she first saw men’s blood staining his kukri; thirteen since she last sat with him in the House of Healing, his body mended but his mind still broken with grief. She’s changed beyond recognition in that time, especially as life has not been kind to her since she walked away from the Lady – three years of taking any job that offered, staying nowhere long, forever trying to escape herself. And though the child he knew might yearn to be held by him, the woman she’s become is too ashamed, too full of self-loathing, to reveal who she is. Better that he believes her long dead.
So she turns from him and washes her hands clean of blood. Then from her pack she takes out pen, ink and the precious sheets of reed paper she bought after finding the first burnt village. “Describe the men who did this and tell me everything that happened.”
“What for?” he asks.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me, the woman who turned away from you a second time …
Girl walks steadily across the courtyard towards the chamber. She tells herself she won’t stop, she won’t even pause for the briefest of moments, and not only because the night air against her newly shaved head is chilling her to the bone. She’s heard that everyone stops. It’s the weight of what’s about to happen; the dread, excitement, awe. But she has nothing to fear; she knows the Lady. She …
It’s not fear or dread, not even excitement. It’s the realisation that when she next looks upon the world, she’ll be changed. She’ll no longer be Girl. The other names the Lady has given her are merely clothes covering her nakedness. The name the Lady will give her now will invest her whole being, her flesh and blood and bone. And Girl will be no more.
She looks up at the stars – the last time Girl will see them. Only minutes ago she was with Lal in the stables waiting for a mare to foal, wondering aloud about the places she’d visit when she became judge-priestess, and laughing at Lal’s declaration that he’d join Sukhbir as a farmer when that happened – “You’d be a nightmare to guard! You’d never be content with only the cases brought to you. You’d be out looking for evidence, and finding hidden crimes to judge.” That seemed long in the future then, for Girl is only twenty-three and acolytes never undergo the Day of Accepting so young, and no judge-priestess has received the Lady’s brand before the age of twenty-eight.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. My life in your service came full circle when I once again journeyed with your judge-priestess …
Everything is the same, and nothing is.
The thought isn’t new, but it strikes Girl with greater force as they ride into the foreign city, as this leg of their itinerary will be very different. No more trials for one thing, since the judge-priestess has no standing here, this embassy being a step towards changing that, at least for the country’s border villages. But the main difference between this journey and the one fourteen years ago is Girl herself – she’s not an encumbrance to be delivered to the monastery, but a valued member of the priestess’s entourage.
She doesn’t have Sukhbir, and her heart aches at his absence, but Lal is with her, though he’s now senior guard and no longer drinks rice wine and raksi nor would ever again leave a priestess undefended. But the smell of the guards’ hard-leather armour is the same, as is their grumbling about everything, especially thieving villagers charging too much for stabling the horses. The long, tiring days have been the same, the pity and horror of the trials, the tears and anger at the judgements, the glimpses of good and evil.
Yet the main thing that’s the same is Girl herself. Her excitement, her hunger to learn, her resolution to make Sukhbir proud of her, and her determination to become a priestess of the Lady Giver-of-Judgements.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. As an acolyte I tended the most beautiful of your shrines and discovered the secret of its reliquary …
Girl steps back, the better to see how the shrine looks. She’s privileged to be keeper of the oldest and greatest of the shrines to the Lady, especially as she’s the youngest and newest of the acolytes, as some of the other girls continually remind her. So it has to be perfect for the ceremony tomorrow. No, it’s well past midnight, the ceremony today. Which is why she’s here, not still in bed. Sleepless with excitement and worry, she couldn’t remember if she’d cleaned one of the butter lamps, so she dressed hurriedly and rushed across to the temple to check.
She had cleaned the ornate copper lamp. But she cleaned it again, and the others, then spent time rearranging them around the jewelled casket – the reliquary – which, for so long, has had sole pride of place beneath the statue of the Lady. The reliquary itself received special attention from her during the day. Above all else, it has to look perfect.
Opinion is divided in the Acolytes’ Hall as to whether Revered Mother will break the reliquary open to split the precious palm-leaf manuscripts it contains – manuscripts the goddess herself wrote, setting out the rules of the Order. If so, the new reliquary being presented tomorrow – today – will hold half the leaves; if not, the new one will stay empty, so won’t be a reliquary at all, only a decorated box. Girl hopes the old reliquary remains sealed. After so many months caring for it, studying every detail of the finely worked silver with its lapis and gold inserts, its sapphires and emeralds, she wants nothing to spoil its perfection.
But the pottery lamp she brought with her is failing. She makes one final, tiny adjustment to a butter lamp’s position, then – as always before leaving the shrine’s enclosure – she kneels and gazes up at the gilded statue. Every other figure portrays the goddess with six arms, usually with the symbols of her six aspects in her six hands. Only in this statue can Girl see any likeness to the Lady, and with the marble evoking silken robes, its beauty and serenity fill her with ever-renewed wonder.
“Thank you, Lady, for entrusting me with this honour,” she whispers, then offers her usual prayers for the monastery and its people, for Sukhbir and others she loves. Then she rises and steps through the gate in the tall railings that surround the shrine, locks the gate, and drops the key chain over her head.
As she emerges from the temple, the lamp’s flame is no more than a red glow. The night is overcast, with no glint of moon or starlight, but in the distance she sees a momentary pale glimmer, a sense of movement relieving the darkness. It’s only when she’s again undressing for bed that she wonders why anyone else would be out there in the middle of the night.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. Your aspects of Wisdom and Truth guided me both in the Novitiate House and in my travels with your priestesses …
“So while Wisdom and Truth are comprehensively interlinked,” the priestess of Truth continues, “they remain discrete entities.”
As, for example, now, thinks Girl. For the truth is she’s bored – she’s heard this lesson many times – but wisdom keeps that truth hidden. She suspects the merchant and his family are also finding the lecture tedious, though they’re valiantly pretending otherwise, mindful of the honour accorded their house by the presence of two of the Lady’s priestesses. Only the simple-minded daughter, staring open-mouthed, appears truly interested, though doubtless understanding little. As for the boys, they’re a mass of twitches and fidgets, and one is surely about to yawn.
The priestess has noticed. “But I’ve talked for too long. Perhaps, Master Tshering, you might now tell us more of the white-hued golden takin we hope to see.”
“First,” says the priestess of Wisdom, “we should release the children. I’m sure they’d rather be elsewhere.”
The boys leap up and are out of the door as soon as their father nods. The girl, Pema, trails after them.
“You may go, too, Kalpana,” says the priestess.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me. My first year in the Novitiate House was a time of great learning, but also a time of sorrow and death …
Girl is kneeling, about to pour yet more tea for the foreign trader, when he slips from his cushion and slumps against her.
The other traders jump to their feet, exclaiming loudly. The priestesses of Wisdom and Truth rise more elegantly, quietly worried. Unmoving, unmoved, old skinflint Dhanash, who invited himself to the negotiations, demands to know if Master Jin is dead.
Girl tries to remain calm, supporting the trader as she sets the tea-kettle down, then carefully lowering him to the devdar-wood floor. She touches his throat, seeking the pathways of his life force, but finds only clogged and stagnant channels.
A priestess kneels beside her, considers the man’s harsh breathing, his rank breath, then presses a point of confluence at his neck. “I fear it’s the honeyed disease. Fetch a healer, Kalpana. Go your quick way.”
Girl runs from the Teaching Hall. The proper way to the House of Healing is down the four storeys of the Novitiate House, then through, across, along and past the many courts, open alleys, covered passages and buildings winding their way around the monastery. But the roofs of the two Houses are connected. It’s a simple climb even in formal robes, and she knows which window shutters open easily from the outside.
For Girl is no stranger to the House of Healing. She lost Sukhbir there.
Hear my prayer, Lady, and remember me, the child you named Kalpana, though in my heart I always remained Girl. In the Postulant House I learned of your first aspects, but I didn’t truly understand until the township and the pilgrim hospitium …
Girl stands by the prayer flags, several yards from the hospitium door, and not only to ready herself for the stench of illness and death. She’s accompanied priestesses of Compassion and Benevolence on many occasions to comfort the dying, but always alongside other postulants. This time she’s the only one.
Girl has learned a great deal in her six years in the Postulant House, not least that it’s more than a place of teaching, it’s a place of assessment, and not every applicant is accepted into the Order. She’s determined to become a priestess, but first she must progress to the Novitiate House, and she’s sure the hospitium is where she’ll be tested and the decision made.
One deep breath and she takes a step forward. Then stops dead. Inside the hospitium a woman’s voice has risen in a screech.
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Agile Testing: Past, Present, and Future -- Charting a Systematic Map of Testing in Agile Software Development
2012 Agile Conference (2012)
Dallas, TX USA
Aug. 13, 2012 to Aug. 17, 2012
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/Agile.2012.8
Testing has been a cornerstone of agile software development methodologies since early in the history of the field. However, the terminology used to describe the field -- as well as the evidence in existing literature -- is largely inconsistent. In order to better structure our understanding of the field and to guide future work, we conducted a systematic mapping of agile testing. We investigated five research questions: which authors are most active in agile testing; what is agile testing used for; what types of paper tend to be published in this field; how do practitioners and academics contribute to research in this field; and what tools are used to conduct agile testing? Of particular interest is our investigation into the source of these publications, which indicates that academics and practitioners focus on different types of publication and, disturbingly, that the number of practitioner papers in the sources we searched is strongly down since 2010.
Testing, Systematics, Industries, Encoding, Software, Databases, Collaboration, testing tools, agile software development, software testing, systematic mapping, empirical, test-driven development
Theodore D. Hellmann, Abhishek Sharma, Jennifer Ferreira, Frank Maurer, "Agile Testing: Past, Present, and Future -- Charting a Systematic Map of Testing in Agile Software Development", 2012 Agile Conference, vol. 00, no. , pp. 55-63, 2012, doi:10.1109/Agile.2012.8
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Enabled by exponential technological advancements in data storage, transmission and analysis, the drive to “datify” our lives is creating an ultra-transparent world where we are never free from being under surveillance.
Increasing aspects of our lives are now recorded as digital data that are systematically stored, aggregated, analysed, and sold. Despite the promise of big data to improve our lives, all encompassing data surveillance constitutes a new form of power that poses a risk not only to our privacy, but to our free will.
Data surveillance started out with online behaviour tracking designed to help marketers customise their messages and offerings. Driven by companies aiming to provide personalised product, service and content recommendations, data were utilised to generate value for customers.
But data surveillance has become increasingly invasive and its scope has broadened with the proliferation of the internet-of-things and embedded computing. The former expands surveillance to our homes, cars, and daily activities by harvesting data from smart and mobile devices. The latter extends surveillance and places it inside our bodies where biometric data can be collected.
Two characteristics of data surveillance enable its expansion.
Data are used to track and circumscribe people’s behaviour across space and time dimensions. An example of space-based tracking is geo-marketing. With access to real-time physical location data, marketers can send tailored ads to consumers’ mobile devices to prompt them to visit stores in their vicinity. To maximise their effectiveness, marketers can tailor the content and timing of ads based on consumers’ past and current location behaviours, sometimes without consumers’ consent.
Location data from GPS or street maps can only approximate a person’s location. But with recent technology, marketers can accurately determine whether a consumer has been inside a store or merely passed by it. This way they can check whether serving ads has resulted in a store visit, and refine subsequent ads.
Health applications track and structure people’s time. They allow users to plan daily activities, schedule workouts, and monitor their progress. Some applications enable users to plan their caloric intake over time. Other applications let users track their sleep pattern.
While users can set their initial health goals, many applications rely on the initial information to structure a progress plan that includes recommended rest times, workout load, caloric intake, and sleep. Applications can send users notifications to ensure compliance with the plan: a reminder that a workout is overdue; a warning that a caloric limit is reached; or a positive reinforcement when a goal has been reached. Despite the sensitive nature of these data, it is not uncommon that they are sold to third parties.
It’s opaque and distributed
Our digital traces are collected by multiple governmental and business entities which engage in data exchange through markets whose structure is mostly hidden from people.
Data are typically classified into three categories: first-party, which companies gather directly from their customers through their website, app, or customer-relationship-management system; second-party, which is another company’s first-party data and is acquired directly from it, and; third-party, which is collected, aggregated, and sold by specialised data vendors.
Despite the size of this market, how data are exchanged through it remains unknown to most people (how many of us know who can see our Facebook likes, Google searches, or Uber rides, and what they use these data for?).
Some data surveillance applications go beyond recording to predicting behavioural trends.
Predictive analytics are used in healthcare, public policy, and management to render organisations and people more productive. Growing in popularity, these practices have raised serious ethical concerns around social inequality, social discrimination, and privacy. They have also sparked a debate about what predictive big data can be used for.
It’s nudging us
A more worrying trend is the use of big data to manipulate human behaviour at scale by incentivising “appropriate” activities, and penalising “inappropriate” activities. In recent years, governments in the UK, US, and Australia have been experimenting with attempts to “correct” the behaviour of their citizens through “nudge units”.
With the application of big data, the scope of such efforts can be greatly extended. For instance, based on data acquired (directly or indirectly) from your favourite health app, your insurance company could raise your rates if it determined your lifestyle to be unhealthy. Based on the same data, your bank could classify you as a “high-risk customer” and charge you a higher interest on your loan.
By signalling “appropriate behaviours” companies and governments aim to shape our behaviour. As the scope of data surveillance increases, more of our behaviours will be evaluated and “corrected” and this disciplinary drive will become increasingly inescapable.
With this disciplinary drive becoming routine, there is a danger we will start to accept it as the norm, and pattern our own behaviour to comply with external expectations, to the detriment of our free will.
The “datafication” of our lives is an undeniable trend which is impacting all of us. However, its societal consequences are not predetermined. We need to have an open discussion about its nature and implications, and about the kind of society we want to live in.
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Описание презентации The Earth is in danger The Earth по слайдам
The Earth is in danger
The Earth is in danger. April 22 is Earth Day. Our planet is in danger. People think about our planet, how to protect wild animals and plants , how to keep water clean and air fresh. There is a lot of water in our planet, but very little water on Earth is good for drinking. In many rivers and lakes the water is very dirty because of factories which are near them. The way people live has changed the climate on our planet. The climate has become milder and warmer. Some people’s activities do a lot of harm to the forests. People cut down trees to build farms, homes and roads. Many animals and plans lose their homes. Modern plans and factories send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. It’s difficult to breathe in big cities. The problem now is to protect life on Earth and to save our planet for the future.
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By DAVID MERCER
Associated Press Writer
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny
invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake’s
The New Zealand mud snail joins a long and growing list of nonnative species
moving into the Great Lakes, threatening to disrupt the food chain and change
the local environment.
Scientists checking Lake Michigan water samples earlier this summer found a
population of the New Zealand mud snail, the Illinois Natural History Survey
said. They grow to only a few millimeters — several dozen could sit on the
surface of a dime — making them hard to spot.
The snails reproduce asexually and in large numbers, and have no natural
predators in North America, Kevin Cummings, a scientist who works for the
Natural History Survey, said Thursday.
That means they could quickly spread, at high enough densities to out-compete
native invertebrates for food and living space, he and other scientists say.
“It’s hard enough to contain a species once it makes its way into nonnative
waters,” Cummings said in a statement. “When each mud snail has the ability
to produce large quantities of embryos without a partner, you’ve really got a
Scientists won’t know for some time how well the mud snail will do in Lake
Michigan, but it has been in Lake Ontario since the early 1990s and lives in
high numbers there and in Lakes Superior and Erie, said Rochelle Sturtevant,
an ecologist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The snail is native to New Zealand but is now found in several western states
and all the Great Lakes except Lake Huron. It is carried in ships’ ballast
water and, once in lakes and streams, hitches a ride on boats and even the
clothes worn by human waders.
“Where they’ve gotten into streams in the western part of the country,
they’ve caused a lot of problems,” said Sturtevant. “They’re taking over
space that should have other native species living in it.”
Plenty of invasive species have made homes for themselves in the Great Lakes.
Zebra and quagga mussels are a threat to the region’s $4 billion-a-year
fishery, eating up algae that is the lowest link in the lakes’ food chain.
And some invasive species make it possible for others to follow, Sturtevant
said. The round goby, an aggressive fish native to Eurasia, now thrives in
the Great Lakes because it eats zebra mussels.
Those are just a handful of what Sturtevant says are now at least 186
invasive species in the lakes.
Environmental groups are particularly critical of the role oceangoing ships
play in introducing species like mussels to the lakes.
Ships that aren’t loaded down with cargo fill their ballast tanks with water
for better stability when they’re on the ocean, then empty the tanks when
they arrive in port. That ballast water often contains any number of species,
from microscopic organisms to mussels and fish.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency introduced a plan earlier this
summer that would require ships to dump ballast water at least 200 miles from
shore. But the plan, called a permit, includes an exemption for loaded ships.
Environmental groups are particularly critical of the EPA’s plan.
“I could sum it up in one word: nothing. The permit doesn’t change a thing,”
said Joel Brammeier, vice president for policy at The Alliance for the Great
The shipping industry, including the U.S. Great Lakes Shipping Association,
has said it supports the idea of treating ballast tanks to kill potentially
invasive species. But industry officials say that while treatment is being
researched, so far there isn’t a feasible way to do it.
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Teaching Math with Reasoning
The National Council of teachers of Mathematics wants high school students to make sense of their math. The organization is excited about the recent unveiling of Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making, a book published last October (and part of what will become a full series), in which NCTM builds on three decades of advocacy for standards-based mathematics learning of the highest quality for students.
It is a follow-up to the NCTM's 2006 document, Curriculum Focal Points for Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics, which offered grade-by-grade math content standards. This new book offers a different perspective, proposing curricular emphases and instructional approaches that make reasoning and sense making the foundation to the content taught in high school.
DA recently spoke to Hank Kepner, NCTM's president, about this book, which he co-authored with a team of mathematicians and math teachers, and what it means for high schools across the nation.
How has NCTM shifted its focus with respect to math?
HK: At each grade level, the 2006 Curriculum Focal Points said here are three key ideas that students in prekindergarten through eighth grade should know. And math was criticized for being a mile wide and an inch deep. So NCTM responded to the question from our high school teachers, "What are you going to do for these students?" by publishing this book. students to provide reasoning in their answers is one of the biggest goals in this professional development.
Focused opportunities for teachers talking to each other to expand their questioning techniques and observe students' reasoning on each topic, along with the connections across mathematical topics and applications, would be best.
We don't see this [kind of reasoning] adding content to topics, but every day this should be embedded in that day's lessons. In this way, we can get students to consciously explain their reasoning and recognize initial errors in that reasoning.
For the teacher, it's a way of looking for and then building instruction on misconceptions that might have occurred in the students' heads.
What has the response been to the book? Any buy-in yet?
HK: I think, in the math community, that it's well received. It's making a critical point that reasoning ought to be included in math and for the most part, it's not. There is such a public belief that mathematics is a set of rules and calculation procedures. The "I could never do math" comment is often based on two challenges: First, I don't know which formula to use; and second, I don't remember how to do that calculation. Too often, students don't see how the mathematical concepts and a set of rules fit together.
There are so many classroom tests and, in many states, high stakes tests, and students are memorizing calculations. It's the expectation, and students learn, "This is what I'm supposed to do."
Some memorization is necessary. But then days later, the teacher gives a new rule, and that appears to be different from what it was prior. But really, it's the same thing, just generalized. So kids get their head stuffed with formulas, but they don't know how to build strategies or choose the correct formulas.
When we first wrote the 1989 Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, we did not know if anyone paid attention to it. That turned out to be the start of the standards movement in this country. And it forced all the other disciplines to do the same thing.
I wouldn't say every district used it [the 1989 book], but a lot of districts did, and states started creating math standards. I'd argue that the 2006 Curriculum Focal Points was popular. We knew we had leverage and that this was responding to what NCLB wanted. Almost every state is following the focal points.
How do reasoning and sense-making lessons relate to the math wars, such as the battle over soft math and hard math?
HK: I would argue that I think the book has been received well, from both the soft math and hard math proponents. But some mathematicians are concerned that reasoning and sense making is not formal proof. Sometimes they are concerned that we are pushing students to write mathematical truths. However, there is an acceptance that we are on the right track.
If we prepare students for STEM, this will make them more prepared to do that. Children come to school as willing reasoners. In grades K-1, they can prove to you what they did and why they think it was right. They can talk to you comfortably about their thinking in addressing mathematical challenges.
But we often lose it by high school. We shut them down, and we stop asking, "Why?" And we start looking only for answers. Some parents think the only important part of math is answers. To me, it's more frustrating to watch middle grade students who have several word problems and they have two numbers in front of them, and it's sometimes random in what they do with the numbers because they use no reasoning and no sense making. It's so frustrating that they don't even expect to have to think. We've almost trained them that there is one skill to practice—the rule of the day. We've taken the thinking out.
Could sense making play a role in common core standards?
HK: I just talked with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, who are working on the common core standards. NCTM is providing feedback on the draft documents, and we have been pushing reasoning and sense making in high school math, which is now a core piece of their draft document. They appear to have accepted the importance of mathematical reasoning, which means students can calculate after thinking.
We have a lot of steam going into 2010. Our job is to make sure there is more opportunity for teachers and examples they could use in their classroom and to get practice on a regular basis.
So will this reasoning and sense making help students become financially smarter than their parents, given some recent press about the importance of teaching financial literacy to K12 students?
HK: I will say they will be smarter if we prepare them to ask the right questions about financial issues. They will have better tools to pursue those answers. In terms of income and family expenses, I would argue that if financial literacy learning helps them ask those questions, the reasoning they learn in math should help them better answer that question. What we need is to change people's perspective of what math is. In a broad sense, if we make people think math is more than what they use in the classroom, then that will be a general success.
In the end, will this hoped-for new approach to teaching help students make better advances in math?
HK: Yes. If we can break that belief that to be good in math is to know what formula or rule to use, then I think we'll have better results. But it's a tough belief to break down. If students learn to reason with a problem, they should have more success at a later time. They will be better decision makers at the problem level.
One of our struggles in the high school community is that it's so skill oriented on calculation, but one can't forget about this reasoning part. This belongs to every kid in a math setting, whether they're in the highest or lowest track in math, and it's important for life in general.
A lot of people go through life and do not think math has anything to do with anything—there is math in credit cards, when you go to a grocery store, get a car loan and get a mortgage. Students need to realize there is a mathematical side to it, and reasoning could help them.
Angela Pascopella is senior editor.
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China is set to approve anti-domestic violence law after four years of campaigning took place in the country.
Sources at the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) told the Beijing News that the Chinese legislature would pass the law after the organization campaigned for the legislation for four consecutive years.
AdvertisementThe 2010 province based research by ACWF had found that about 64 percent adults faced domestic violence, and 60 percent of teenagers have been the victims of abuse by parents, the China Daily reports.
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Kiev, Ukraine: some observations
A two-language country
Ukraine is a country with two languages, but the situation is not like that of Belgium or Canada in which the linguistic division reflects two distinct rival ethnic communities. A better analogy would be Ireland, whose history parallels that of Ukraine in certain respects. Most of Ukraine has been ruled by the Russian Empire (in its Tsarist and then Soviet incarnations) for centuries, with the result that Russian has displaced Ukrainian as the native language of the population in large parts of the country. Today the east and south are solidly Russian-speaking, while in the center and west large numbers of people speak Ukrainian as their native language, though the bigger cities still tend to be more Russian-speaking; Ukrainian becomes more predominant as one moves westward. (I should add that everyone in Ukraine, as in other former Soviet republics, can speak Russian, which was a mandatory subject in Soviet schools; the distinction I'm making here refers to people's native language.) The situation thus somewhat resembles the relative positions of English and Gaelic in modern Ireland. And as in Ireland, since independence the Ukrainian government has been trying to bolster the position of the original indigenous language. Ukrainian is the sole official language of the country, even though many Ukrainians, especially in the east and south, do not understand it; and patriotic feeling leads many people to favor the use of Ukrainian regardless of which language is their own primary one.
This has led to an odd form of bilingualism. In Kiev, in every case where I could identify the language people were speaking around me in casual conversation, it was Russian. Most newspapers and magazines I saw, and most books for sale in bookstores, were in Russian. All street signs, identifying signs on public buildings, and similar "official" notices were in Ukrainian, as were the majority of business signs and advertisements. I was sometimes given store receipts and restaurant checks which were partly in Ukrainian and partly in Russian. Having stayed only in Kiev itself, I don't know firsthand how closely the situation in other parts of the country resembles this. At least, unlike English and Gaelic (which are only distantly related and are very different from each other), Russian and Ukrainian are closely-related languages and are very similar to each other, and a native speaker of one can probably make a good deal of sense out of the other, especially in written form, even if he has never studied it.
The linguistic division seems to fuel a difference in cultural and political orientation. The east and south are more conservative, more authoritarian, more dominated by a wealthy "oligarch" class on the Russian model, and more in favor of close ties with Russia; in Ukrainian political shorthand, these areas are "blue". The center and west are more reformist, more open, more accepting of Western values, and more in favor of ties with the West; they are said to be "orange". This also reflects the fact that western Ukraine spent less of its history under Russian rule -- especially the far western region of Galicia, which spent the Renaissance under Polish and Austro-Hungarian control and never fell under Russian rule until the Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland in 1939. However, the geographical split is not absolute. People of either persuasion exist everywhere, just as American "red" states contain some liberals while "blue" states have some conservatives. Kiev itself is something of an anomaly; though apparently mostly Russian-speaking, it is an "orange" electoral stronghold.
(Note: the spelling "Kiev" is based on the Russian form of the city's name. "Kyiv", based on the Ukrainian form, is commonly used in English-language materials printed in Ukraine. I'm sticking with "Kiev" here purely because it's the common spelling in English.)
This land is my land
Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is a Ukrainian city. This might seem like a trite observation, but it reflects a fundamental difference between eastern and western Europe.
I've written before about the presence in most major western European cities of large Muslim minorities which subject the indigenous inhabitants to high rates of violent crime, create a general sense of menace, and constitute entrenched cells of alien culture which are resistant to assimilation and challenge the long-established native cultural character and identity of those cities (for more on this issue, see here and here, especially all the links, and of course this essential book). I saw not a trace of any such phenomenon in Kiev. The only cultural and behavioral norms apparent in Kiev are those of the indigenous Slavic society. Kiev belongs to the Ukrainians, period, in a way that Paris or London or Amsterdam can no longer be said to belong unequivocally to the French or British or Dutch.
Of course, this is partly because Ukraine is poorer than western Europe and thus less attractive to Muslim (or other Third World) immigrants. Yet even if this were not the case, it is difficult to imagine Ukrainians or most other eastern Europeans tolerating an indigestible and aggressive minority bullying and threatening them on their own turf. In contrast to western Europe, where resistance to Muslim intimidation has usually been stymied by the sniveling and tremulous political correctness which dominates elite opinion, Ukraine shows evidence of a robust and unabashed patriotism more resembling that of (most of) the United States. Ukrainian cultural and military heroes of the past are proudly remembered with large public monuments and with portraits on the national currency; the country's independence in 1991 is commemorated with an exuberantly gigantic monument in what is now called Independence Square, the heart of Kiev, dwarfing the other structures there (I was also told that each year's party-like independence day celebration lasts a full week); people wearing clothing with the distinctive blue-and-gold colors of the national flag were common enough to be noticeable. I saw nothing at all reminiscent of the sickly western European tendency to downplay national heroes, symbols, and identity out of fear that they might "offend" someone.
The beautiful people
One of the things that struck me most strongly about Kiev was the great physical attractiveness of the young people, especially the women. Part of the reason for this was straightforward. As one can confirm by looking around any crowded street or mall here, the majority of Americans are overweight, many very seriously so; even among people under 30, the number who are overweight is quite substantial. I saw hardly anyone under 30 in Kiev who was overweight at all; a remarkably high percentage of the young women had the kind of figure we have come to think of as almost impossibly perfect because it is relatively rarely seen any more in our own country.
And yet there was more to it than a simple matter of not being fat. Stunningly-pretty faces were everywhere, as if I had happened to arrive in town at the same time as a models' convention. I've been to many different places around the world, but have never seen a place where such a high percentage of the population seemed so well-favored in looks. I can think of no obvious explanation for this. Perhaps Ukraine simply got lucky with the random global distribution of genes.
Sadly, beauty proves fleeting. With advancing age, the country's meat-heavy diet and shocking rates of smoking and alcohol consumption take their toll; among middle-aged people, excess weight becomes more common, and people over 40 generally look less healthy than their American counterparts. We know from our own experience that smoking and drinking can be curtailed over time with vigorous public-health campaigns, but in these respects Ukraine has a long road ahead of it. I often saw people drinking beer in public as early as 7:00 AM, and these were not derelicts, but ordinary citizens. Stronger drink is also routinely consumed in eye-popping quantities. Smoking is also much commoner than in the West, and does not appear to be nearly as stigmatized. These things are true of most Slavic-speaking cultures, not only Ukraine. And, tragically, the people pay for these habits, not only with the loss of looks and health, but with life expectancies among the shortest in the developed world.
Forgive us, for we knew not what we did
One place I visited in Kiev was an open-air museum displaying Soviet military hardware used in the war in Afghanistan, complete with a memorial to the soldiers from Ukraine who died in that war (Ukraine, of course, was part of the Soviet Union at that time). To me, as an American, this memorial aroused complex feelings. At the time of that war, the United States supported the Afghans against our superpower rival, the Soviet Union. The logic of doing so at the time was obvious, yet I could not help remembering the wise words of Oriana Fallaci, who reminded us that it was actually the Soviet Union that was on the side of civilization in that conflict, fighting against something dark and medieval and barbaric which by its very nature presented an existential threat to everything non-Muslim, including the West. We found out, much later, just how right she was. If we had sat on our hands and let Afghanistan be absorbed into the Soviet Empire instead of lapsing back into the chaos that allowed the Taliban to transform it into a jihadist haven, would September 11 ever have happened?
The Soviet system needed to be overthrown. If it had not been, Ukraine itself would not be an independent and democratic nation today. But in the Soviet case the problem was only a matter of the political system; there is nothing inherent in Slavic culture that makes it hostile to our own. Being in Ukraine, I could see how much we have in common with people like the Ukrainians and Russians -- in contrast to those whom we helped fight against them in Afghanistan.
-- Ukraine is one of the most welcoming countries for American visitors. An American staying for less than three months does not even need a visa. Passport control and customs at Kiev's Boryspil Airport were the fastest and simplest I have ever been through in any country. Crime is much lower than in other eastern European countries, partly due to an intensive campaign to reduce it. In marked contrast to western Europe, I never ran into any anti-American hostility.
-- One unnerving thing about walking around Kiev is the fact that cars routinely park on the sidewalk. Kiev was never designed to cope with the sheer numbers of cars which swarm through it today, and the supply of normal parking is pitifully inadequate. The sidewalks, however, are invitingly wide (the sidewalks of Khreshchatik, Kiev's main street, must be fifty or sixty feet wide). Not only are sidewalks all over the place choked with parked cars, but it is common to see a car pull out of traffic, mount the curb, and cruise slowly along the sidewalk among the pedestrians, looking for a free spot to park. This is not as dangerous as it sounds, but it takes some getting used to.
-- Aside from World-War-II-era monuments, the main relic of the Soviet system is a very erratic grasp of the concept of customer service. Restaurants seem to have done best at moving away from such habits, and eating out was always a pleasant experience; at the post office on Volodimirska Street where I went to buy stamps, on the other hand, I was treated with rudeness worthy of the most arrogant tinpot bureaucrat to be found in any Third World backwater.
-- People do not smile much. This is simply a cultural habit and does not reflect unfriendliness, but it's something that visitors need to be aware of lest they misinterpret it.
-- I want to say thanks to "Wali" from Donetsk for taking me around the Pechersk area, talking me into trying vodka, and everything else you did, even though I know there's not a chance in Hell you'll ever read this.
So there you have it. I'll be posting more over the next few days, and will of course also be watching the outcome of the Ukrainian parliamentary election tomorrow.
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Canberra, Australian Bureau of Statistics Media Release, 29 April 2016 – Just over half (50.7 per cent) of Australians aged 65 and over reported living with disability in 2015, compared to one in 8 (12.5 per cent) aged under 65, according to new data published today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
First results from the 2015 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers show that almost 4.3 million (18.3 per cent) Australians reported having disability. This is an increase of nearly 56,000 people since the survey was last conducted in 2012.
“While in line with expectations due to population growth, this increase in the number of Australians living with disability has important implications for service provision,” said Justine Boland, ABS Program Manager of Health and Disability Statistics.
These first results also paint a picture of the labour force status of people with disability – of the 15.4 million Australians of working age, there were more than 2.1 million with disability.
The rate of participation in the labour force for persons with disability (53.4 per cent) has remained steady since 2012 (52.8 per cent). This is considerably lower than those without disability (83.2 per cent in 2015 and 82.5 per cent in 2012).
“Lower proportions of persons with disability were employed full-time (27.0 per cent) compared with those without disability (53.8 per cent),” said Ms Boland.
“Australians with disability were more likely to be unemployed (10.0 per cent compared with 5.3 per cent). This trend has remained stable since 2012, where the rates were 9.4 per cent compared with 4.9 per cent, respectively.”
Ms Boland said the ABS survey collected information on disability and discrimination for the first time.
“One in five (20.5 per cent) young people with disability (aged 15 to 24 years) reported experiencing discrimination in the previous 12 months because of their disability,” Ms Boland said.
Results released today from the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers 2015 are a snapshot of the more comprehensive results that will be published in the latter half of 2016.
Further information is available in Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: First Results (cat. no. 4430.0.10.001).
- The Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers 2015 defines disability as any limitation, restriction or impairment which restricts everyday activities and has lasted, or is likely to last, for at least six months.
- Labour force figures are for persons aged between 15 and 64 living in households.
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I am always a sucker for free curriculum resources. In fact, anytime I here free my ears are perked. Often though the free part comes with a catch. This is not true for Elementary GLOBE. Elementary GLOBE is a resource sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation and then further supported by NOAA and the US State Department.
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This is the accessible text file for GAO report number GAO-05-668R entitled 'Agriculture Production: USDA's Preparation for Asian Soybean Rust' which was released on May 23, 2005. This text file was formatted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to be accessible to users with visual impairments, as part of a longer term project to improve GAO products' accessibility. Every attempt has been made to maintain the structural and data integrity of the original printed product. Accessibility features, such as text descriptions of tables, consecutively numbered footnotes placed at the end of the file, and the text of agency comment letters, are provided but may not exactly duplicate the presentation or format of the printed version. The portable document format (PDF) file is an exact electronic replica of the printed version. We welcome your feedback. Please E-mail your comments regarding the contents or accessibility features of this document to Webmaster@gao.gov. This is a work of the U.S. government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. It may be reproduced and distributed in its entirety without further permission from GAO. Because this work may contain copyrighted images or other material, permission from the copyright holder may be necessary if you wish to reproduce this material separately. United States Government Accountability Office: Washington, DC 20548: May 17, 2005: The Honorable Tom Harkin: Ranking Democratic Member: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: United States Senate: Subject: Agriculture Production: USDA's Preparation for Asian Soybean Rust: Dear Senator Harkin: In November 2004, Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) was discovered in the United States in Louisiana. In the following weeks, it was found in eight additional southern states. ASR is a harmful fungal disease that has spread throughout many other parts of the world, including Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America. ASR can infect over 90 host plant species, including legumes, such as dry beans, peas, and kudzu, a plant that grows wild primarily in the southern United States. Although the disease has caused significant soybean crop loss and increased production costs in many other countries, ASR arrived in the United States too late in the crop year to have any effect on soybean production in 2004, and scientists were uncertain about how it would survive the winter climates in the United States. However, in February 2005, researchers found that ASR had successfully over-wintered on kudzu in Florida, and it was subsequently detected in Georgia on soybean plants in April 2005. Since environmental factors, such as rainfall, humidity, and temperature, affect both the severity and incidence of ASR, scientists do not know how widespread or damaging the disease will be in the United States during the 2005 crop year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for monitoring and addressing the problems posed by ASR. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for licensing fungicides to treat the disease. You asked us to determine (1) USDA's efforts to develop and implement an ASR surveillance strategy to identify and protect against ASR's entry into the United States and to test and verify suspect cases; (2) USDA's strategy for minimizing the effects of ASR now that the fungus has arrived in the United States; and (3) the progress that USDA, EPA, and others have made in developing, testing, and licensing fungicides to treat ASR and in identifying and breeding ASR-resistant or -tolerant soybeans. We provided your staff with a formal briefing on our findings on April 28, 2005. In that briefing, we cited USDA's lack of funding for ASR oversight as an area of concern. On May 12, 2005, the Secretary of Agriculture announced that USDA will use about $1.2 million in contingency funding to help monitor, report, and manage soybean rust during the 2005 growing season. This report summarizes the results of our April 28TH briefing, and enclosure I presents our briefing slides. To respond to your questions, we met with USDA and EPA officials and visited state, industry, and soybean association officials and university extension faculty in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, and Minnesota. We selected these states to provide geographic representation of states where soybeans are grown. We also conducted a survey of 31 soybean-producing states in April 2005. Enclosure II describes our scope and methodology, and enclosure III presents our survey results. We performed our work from December 2004 through April 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. In summary, we found the following: In May 2002, after ASR was identified in Brazil, USDA began planning for the introduction of ASR into the continental United States. Three USDA agencies--the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)--the National Plant Board, industry, and several land-grant universities formed an ad hoc Soybean Rust Committee. At about the same time, USDA established the National Plant Diagnostic Network to enable diagnosticians, state regulatory personnel, and first detectors to communicate information, images, and methods of detection for ASR and other diseases in a timely manner. In the fall of 2002, USDA began disseminating information and conducting training courses in an effort to educate growers about how to identify and manage the disease. In January 2004, APHIS issued a strategic plan that provided information on the protection, detection, response, and recovery from ASR. While generally comprehensive in its coverage of issues, the plan was not fully developed when ASR was first identified in the United States. Since the initial discovery of ASR in the continental United States, USDA and others have increased efforts to inform growers about how to identify and minimize the effects of the disease. In April 2005, USDA issued A Coordinated Framework for Soybean Rust Surveillance, Reporting, Prediction, Management and Outreach. The framework includes a surveillance and monitoring network, a Web-based information management system, decision criteria for fungicide application, predictive modeling, and outreach efforts. We surveyed 31 soybean- producing states to obtain information about their efforts, in coordination with USDA, to prepare for and manage ASR. The states generally responded positively when discussing efforts to educate growers and others on ASR and in setting up sentinel plot monitoring programs. (Sentinel plots will be planted earlier than commercial plants to alert growers if ASR is present in their region.) However, some of the states reported that their diagnostic laboratories may have insufficient funding and/or staff to test suspected samples for ASR. In addition, most states indicated that they were either uncertain or did not believe they would have enough equipment available to apply fungicides to treat the disease. The American Soybean Association, representing many of the nation's largest soybean growers, has also expressed concerns about whether growers will have access to equipment as well as fungicides in a timely manner. Finally, USDA's Risk Management Agency has recently developed additional guidance on the actions growers must take to ensure that any losses due to ASR are covered under their insurance policies. However, growers have expressed concerns about what they need to do to demonstrate good farming practices in treating ASR and the documentation they must provide to demonstrate that they followed such practices. Further guidance may be needed because of the uncertainties associated in dealing with the disease. USDA, EPA, and others have made significant progress in developing, testing, and licensing fungicides to treat ASR. As of April 2005, eight fungicides were registered with EPA for treating ASR. In addition, EPA had approved emergency exemptions for an additional 11 fungicides to treat ASR under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Section 18 exemptions provide designated states with an emergency exemption to temporarily use a fungicide. As of April 2005, 32 states had applied for and been granted section 18 exemptions that are effective through November 10, 2007. USDA estimates that researchers are 5 to 9 years away from identifying or breeding ASR- resistant or -tolerant soybeans. In addition, on March 10, 2005, USDA removed ASR from the list of select agents and toxins, which removed certain restrictions and will aid ongoing research on the disease in the United States. We met with USDA's Special Assistant for Pest Management Policy and APHIS, ARS, CSREES, the Economic Research Service (ERS), and RMA officials to discuss the facts in this report. We also discussed the report with officials in EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs. USDA and EPA generally agreed with the information in our report and provided some clarifying comments that we incorporated as appropriate. As agreed with your office, unless you publicly announce the contents of this report earlier, we plan no further distribution of it until 30 days from the date of this letter. We will then send copies of this report to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of EPA. In addition, this report will be available at no charge on the GAO Web site at http://www.gao.gov. If you have any questions about this report or need additional information, please contact me at (202) 512-3841. Key contributors to this report were James L. Dishmon, Jr., Chad M. Gorman, Ronald E. Maxon, Jr., Lynn M. Musser, and Deborah S. Ortega. Sincerely yours, Signed by: Robert A. Robinson: Managing Director, Natural Resources and Environment: Enclosures - 3: Enclosure I: USDA's Preparation for Asian Soybean Rust: Briefing for Senator Tom Harkin: Ranking Democratic Member: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: United States Senate: April 28, 2005: Background: In November 2004, Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) --Phakopsora pachyrhizi--was first discovered in the continental U.S. in Louisiana. ASR is a harmful fungal disease that has caused economic losses in Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America because it decreases crop yield and increases fungicide costs. Environmental factors, such as rainfall, humidity, and temperature, affect both the severity and incidence of ASR. Long periods of leaf wetness, high humidity, and temperatures between 60 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit are ideal for spore germination. ASR can infect over 90 host plant species of legumes, such as dry beans and peas, and kudzu, which grows wild in the southern U.S. There are no commercial U.S. soybean cultivars with resistance or tolerance to ASR. Fungicides are currently the primary tools for managing ASR. However, growers must be knowledgeable about the various types of preventative and curative fungicides as well as when and how to apply them. An April 2004 USDA study projected U.S. losses between $640m and $1.3b in the first year of ASR's arrival. Objectives: Provide Information on: * USDA's surveillance strategy to identify and protect against ASR entry into the U.S. * USDA's strategy and actions to minimize the effects of ASR now that it is in the U.S. * USDA, EPA, and others' progress in developing, testing, and licensing fungicides to treat ASR and in developing rust-resistant or rust- tolerant soybeans. Scope and Methodology: Met with USDA and EPA officials and visited state, industry, and soybean association officials and university extension faculty in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, and Minnesota. Surveyed 31 soybean-producing states: * Training and Education: * Sentinel Plots: * First Detectors: * Laboratory Facilities and Staff: * Fungicides and Application Equipment: Objective 1: USDA's Preparation for ASR: In May 2002, after ASR was identified in Brazil, three USDA agencies-- the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)--joined with the National Plant Board, industry, and several land grant universities to form an ad hoc Soybean Rust Committee. In June 2002, USDA established the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) to allow diagnosticians, state regulatory personnel, and first detectors to communicate information, images, and methods of disease detection in a timely manner. In November 2002, USDA began conducting training to educate growers and others about how to identify and manage ASR. In January 2004, APHIS issued a strategic plan providing information on how to detect, respond to, and recover from ASR. The strategic plan appeared to be comprehensive in its coverage of issues, but ASR was identified in Louisiana before many aspects of the plan were fully developed. In September 2004, USDA participated in a mock field exercise held in Minnesota to prepare for ASR. In October 2004, USDA issued standard operating procedures for plant diagnostic laboratories to deal with ASR. The procedures included information about the symptoms of the disease; protocols for screening, examining, shipping, storing, and destroying ASR samples; and guidelines for who should be notified of the results. USDA supported states' efforts to obtain EPA emergency fungicide approvals. Objective 2: USDA's Efforts to Minimize the Effects of ASR: In January 2005, USDA issued a draft copy of A Coordinated Framework for Soybean Rust Surveillance, Reporting, Prediction, and Management. The final framework was issued in April 2005. The framework includes: 1. A surveillance and monitoring network, 2. A Web-based information system, 3. Decision criteria for fungicide application, 4. Predictive modeling, 5. Outreach for training, education, and disseminating information. Training & Education: Before the November 2004 discovery of ASR, land-grant universities had given over 300 presentations, programs, and workshops to educate growers about ASR detection and fungicides. Since the discovery of ASR, they have given about 1,500 additional presentations, programs, and workshops. In 30 of the 31 states we surveyed, training covered identification of ASR and "look-alike" diseases and available fungicides; 25 states covered ASR tracking and forecasting information; and 25 states covered application methods. Sentinel Plots: The sentinel plot program has three functions: 1. Serve as an early warning system. 2. Quantify the timing of spore production. 3. Provide means to collect data for research. Sentinel plot data, along with data collected by mobile field monitoring teams and industry, will be entered into USDA's Soybean Rust Monitoring and Prediction System. USDA has established a Web site that will use sentinel plot data to allow viewers to monitor the progress of the disease on a daily basis. States reported that they plan to have 347 USDA plots, 516 university- sponsored plots, and 186 other plots. Most states reported various factors for determining the number and distribution of sentinel plots. The most common factors were location of plot within the state and distribution of soybeans within the state. Only 15 states reported that scientific data, such as wind patterns, crop yield, or rainfall, were factors. In most states, a combination of people will monitor the plots. The number of monitors that the states plan to train varied, ranging from 1 to 300. USDA has recommended that the states plant 320 plots at a projected cost of $800,000, but USDA has not yet provided funding. The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) and the United Soybean Board (USB) have provided $389,000 for a sentinel plot program consisting of 20 plots to be established in each of 20 states. The total amount of funding that the states anticipate receiving also varied. The states anticipate receiving over $500,000 from USDA and approximately $390,000 from the North Central Soybean Research Program and the United Soybean Board. First Detectors: The states reported that they have already trained over 5,000 first detectors to assist growers in their efforts to detect ASR and that they plan to train over 1,000 more this year. First detectors include: extension personnel, crop consultants, agribusiness employees or consultants, state department of agriculture personnel, growers, USDA/APHIS personnel, and master gardeners. 30 states indicated that first detectors were being given instructions on how to prepare, and where to send, samples for confirmation of ASR. Laboratory Facilities and Staff: State labs have allocated $0 to $91,000 for testing samples for ASR in 2005. The amount of funding that the labs believe is needed to run the 2005 ASR testing program varied, ranging from $0 to $150,000. USDA estimates that each state will require $45,000 for diagnostic staff and equipment dedicated to diagnosing ASR. States' Assessment of Laboratory Facilities and Staff for ASR Testing: ASR testing: Sufficient staff? Probably or definitely yes: 18; Probably or definitely no: 7; Uncertain: 6. ASR testing: Sufficient funding? Probably or definitely yes: 10; Probably or definitely no: 7; Uncertain: 14. Source: GAO's analysis of state survey data. [End of table] Fungicides and Application Equipment: Surveyed states reported that their growers and commercial applicators probably or definitely had a good understanding of: * available fungicides (27 states), * when to apply fungicides (23 states), * the appropriate methods for applying fungicides for ASR (23 states). Estimated Percent of Soybean Growers Who Own Equipment to Apply Fungicide: Estimated percent: 1-25%; Number of states: 6. Estimated percent: 26-50%; Number of states: 7. Estimated percent: 51-75%; Number of states: 3. Estimated percent: 76-99%; Number of states: 4. Estimated percent: 100%; Number of states: 2. Estimated percent: Uncertain; Number of states: 9. Source: GAO's analysis of state survey data. [End of table] Fungicides and Application Equipment: 8 states believe there are enough commercial applicators to provide service to growers in their states who do not own equipment to apply ASR fungicide. 5 states do not believe there is sufficient equipment, and the remaining 17 states indicated that they were uncertain. 1 state did not respond. Estimates for the percentage of soybean acreage that could be sprayed within 5 days following the confirmation of ASR in the states we surveyed ranged from a low of 20 to a high of 100 percent. Chemical companies that manufacture fungicides approved by EPA for use on ASR declined to go on record with the quantities they had on hand or planned to manufacture. A trade association representing crop protection chemical companies has stated that it believes the industry will be responsive to growers in managing the disease during the 2005 crop year. The American Soybean Association has expressed concerns regarding the availability of fungicides. ASR Disease Forecast/Predictive Models: The Soybean Rust Aerobiology Prediction System is a collaborative project between Pennsylvania State and North Carolina State Universities and ZedX, Inc. Iowa State University is developing forecast models using predicted daily weather data from an atmospheric model to make short-term predictions of ASR risk in different geographic areas. The North American Disease Forecast Center at North Carolina State University will also provide ASR disease forecasts. Crop Insurance Coverage: USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) has stated that losses of insured growers will be covered if they follow "good farming practices.": 12 of the 31 soybean-producing states indicated the information provided by RMA is sufficient for use in extension presentations to growers on ASR; 18 were uncertain, while 1 said it is not. RMA stated that it has recently provided insurers with guidance regarding what steps growers must take to insure that their losses will be covered. Objective 3: Licensing Fungicides and Developing Rust-Resistant Soybeans: As of April 25, 2005, 8 fungicide products (4 active ingredients) were registered with EPA for treating ASR in the U.S. In addition, EPA has approved 11 fungicide products for treating ASR under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Section 18 quarantine exemptions grant three years of temporary use rights in specified states. 32 states have received section 18 emergency exemptions for 6 or more fungicide products. Most of the states we surveyed reported that they did not have difficulties obtaining EPA section 18 emergency exemption approvals for ASR fungicides. 26 states have obtained information or consulted with officials from Brazil or other countries regarding lessons learned about applying fungicides to treat ASR. 27 states believe that growers and commercial applicators in their states have a good understanding of the types and product names of fungicides to treat ASR. USDA estimates that its researchers will identify soybean germplasm with some level of rust resistance within 5 years and that industry will require an additional 2-4 years to develop commercial soybean lines with resistance. On March 10, 2005, USDA removed ASR from the list of select agents and toxins, which will allow for additional research to be conducted in the U.S. In April 2005, USDA issued its National Strategic Plan for the Coordination and Integration of Soybean Rust Research. Areas of Concern: USDA has not provided funding to the states for the sentinel plots. However, if the states do not monitor the plots as recommended, the quality of the data used in the forecasting systems and for future research could be jeopardized. Fungicides and application equipment may be insufficient to meet the needs of growers if and when ASR occurs. The predictive models have not yet been validated, and there are questions about the timely reporting of data. RMA may need to issue additional guidance regarding what steps growers must take to insure that their losses will be covered. Although USDA's framework is generally comprehensive, more information is needed regarding how it will be implemented. [End of slide presentation] Enclosure II: Scope and Methodology: To determine the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) efforts to develop and implement an Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) surveillance strategy to identify and protect against ASR's entry into the United States and to test and verify suspect cases, we interviewed officials from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to identify actions that the department took before November 2004, when the first case of ASR was confirmed in the continental United States. In addition, we discussed these actions with USDA's Special Assistant for Pest Management Policy. We also reviewed pertinent documents regarding USDA's efforts to educate growers and others to identify, report, and test suspected cases of ASR. To determine USDA's strategy for minimizing the effects of ASR now that the fungus has arrived in the United States, we interviewed officials from USDA's APHIS, CSREES, ARS, Farm Service Agency (FSA), and Risk Management Agency (RMA) to identify efforts that have been implemented since November 2004. We also surveyed the 31 soybean-producing states that were included in USDA's sentinel plot program to obtain information on their efforts to minimize the effects of ASR through education, training, surveillance, and testing. We pretested the content and format of the survey questionnaire with officials in four states. During these pretests, we asked the officials to assess whether the questions were clear and unbiased and whether the terms were accurate and precise. We made changes to the questionnaire based on pretest results. We also conducted site visits to Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, and Minnesota, where we met with officials from land- grant universities, field-based extension offices, state departments of agriculture, and state soybean associations and check-off boards to gain more in-depth information about their efforts to mitigate the effects of ASR.[Footnote 1] We also interviewed industry and trade representatives to discuss the adequacy of available fungicides and application equipment. To determine the progress that USDA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and others have made in developing, testing, and licensing fungicides to treat ASR and in identifying and breeding ASR- resistant or -tolerant soybeans, we interviewed officials from USDA, EPA, and state departments of agriculture to obtain information about their efforts to license fungicides to treat ASR. We also interviewed ARS personnel as well as researchers from academia and industry and reviewed related reports and studies regarding efforts to identify and breed ASR-resistant or -tolerant soybeans. We performed our work from December 2004 through April 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. [End of section] Enclosure III: Survey of Soybean-Producing States: Preparations for Asian Soybean Rust: [See PDF for image] Note: The total for question 6 does not equal the subtotals in 6a and 6b because some sentinel plots will use both soybeans and non-soybean hosts. Note: The total for question 11 does not equal the subtotals in 11a and 11b because some sentinel plots will use both soybeans and non-soybean hosts. [End of figure] [End of section] (360578): FOOTNOTES A check-off board is an industry-funded marketing and research program that promotes an agricultural product.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Consisting of or containing gum.
- adj. Covered or clogged with or as if with gum.
- adj. Having the texture or properties of gum; sticky and viscid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Showing the gums.
- n. Short for gummy shark.
- n. A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.
- adj. Resembling gum (the substance).
- n. A gummy candy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of gum; of the nature of gum; viscous; adhesive.
- Impregnated with gum; giving out gum; covered with or clogged by gum or viscous matter.
- In pathology, pertaining to or having the nature of a gumma; gummatous.
- Having an accumulation of gum, or matter resembling gum; stuffy; puffy; swollen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. covered with adhesive gum
- adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Her wrists are covered by lots of thin gummy bracelets.
Australian sea-side hotel was regularly supplied with young shark -- "gummy" -- by a fisherman, for whose veracity the author can vouch.
July 23, 2009 at 9:59 am yeps …. no be calling her gummy yet LOL
Columbia student gastronome Jason Bell first caught the attention of New York Magazine's Grub Street blog for calling Colicchio's gnocchi "gummy" and his bacon "vague," among other verbose critiques.
I found that when I chilled this before baking it (like I usually do for my lasagnes) it got kind of "gummy" (to quote my mother) - I'd bake it ASAP next time.
Bake in the center of the oven for 55 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out absolutely clean under-cooking may result in a "gummy" texture.
They tasted "healthy" - kind of gummy I think because my figs were dry and old.
Customers also can choose special toppings, such as gummy bears and chocolate chips, for an extra 25 cents.
The poet's truth to Nature in his 'gummy' chestnut-buds, and to Art in the 'long green box 'of mignonette -- and that masterful touch of likening the first intrusion of love into the virgin bosom of the Miller's daughter to the plunging of a water-rat into the mill-dam -- these are beauties which, we do not fear to say, equal anything even in Keats.
And when she discovered that her chest of drawers had been opened with an indifferent chisel, and that a silver watch of her grandfather's -- weighing one pound and a quarter -- had disappeared, along with an apple-scoop, also of precious metal, belonging to her late husband, who was "gummy," Mrs. Kibbey became a physical wreck, fit for nothing, and comprehending next to nothing.
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The wireless Internet has arrived – and now the sky's the limit.
We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment that echoes the birth of the Internet in the mid-'70s, when the radical pioneers of computer networking - machines talking to each other! - hijacked the telephone system with their first digital hellos. Or that jaw-dropper a decade later when the FCC official whose job it was to track the growth of communications networks suddenly realized that his neat tabulation of local and long-distance had been made moot by the unforeseen rise of local-area networks: an unregulated, unmonitored, uncontrollable phenomenon of the upstart PC industry that would soon shake the telecom world. Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.
This time it is not wires but the air between them that is being transformed. Over the past three years, a wireless technology has arrived with the power to totally change the game. It's a way to give the Internet wing without licenses, permission, or even fees. In a world where we've been conditioned to wait for cell phone carriers to bring us the future, this anarchy of the airwaves is as liberating as the first PCs - a street-level uprising with the power to change everything.
The technology is Wi-Fi, and it's the first blast in a revolution, called open spectrum, that will drive the Internet to the next stage in its colonization of the globe. Like the Net itself, Wi-Fi was confined to technical circles for years before exploding into the mainstream, seemingly out of nowhere. Over the past two years, it's become one of the fastest-growing electronics technologies in history.
What makes the new standard so alluring? Wi-Fi is cheap, powerful, and, most important, it works. A box the size of a paperback, and costing no more than dinner for two, magically distributes broadband Internet to an area the size of a football field. A card no larger than a matchbook receives it. The next laptop you buy will probably have Wi-Fi built in. Wires may soon be for power alone.
But the appeal goes deeper. Wi-Fi represents a fundamentally different approach to the airwaves that could lead to a new era of wireless policy. Like other open spectrum technologies rising in its wake, Wi-Fi is a way to use the handful of frequencies set aside for unrestricted consumer use. That's true of the old CB radio, too, but unlike the trucker channels Wi-Fi is digital and smart enough to avoid congestion. After 100 years of regulations that assumed serious wireless technologies were fragile and in need of protection by monopolies on exclusive frequencies (making spectrum the most valuable commodity of the information age), Wi-Fi is fully capable of protecting itself. It has turned the airwaves into a commons without tragedy, and turned the economics of wireless on its head.
Among the geeks, Wi-Fi has become a fascination, a glimpse of the future of the Internet. Like the Web, it's open, unregulated, and free. It doesn't require a loyalty oath to some corporate behemoth. Anyone can deploy it, and millions have. For many it's an epiphany - the unforgettable impact of being in the presence of something important and new.
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This Christmas, Give the Gift of... Snow?
Snow... what would winter be without it? That's the question enterprising entrepreneurs in the northern Japanese farming town of Hayakita considered when wondering how to boost business in what's normally the off-season. Located in the hinterlands of Abira county in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost large island, Hayakita has seized on a very enterprising way to create both interest and income from their most abundant natural resource: snow.
The essence of the plan is simple - pack snow into styrofoam snowmen and send them via the post office to folks in warmer climes who place orders online or at their own local post offices.
The costs are 4,000 yen (about $45) for 45cm (18-inch) tall Snowman "A" and 5,000 yen (about $55) for 55cm (22-inch) tall Snowman "B", which may seem pricey but all taxes and delivery charges are included.
With more than 65,000 units shipped since 1986, Hayakita's entrepreneurial villagers seem to have achieved success with a concept that some say wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell!
All is not rosy, however - Abira is suffering an unusual shortfall of snow this year, perhaps due to global warming - which has forced the Hayakita Yukidaruma-kai snowman group to source fresh snow from the town of Yubari. The organization is distributing snowman (in Japanese, "yuki-daruma) kits to villagers who fill them in Yubari, then bring them back to Hayakita for distribution through the post office.
"A snowman year-round, delivered" is Hayakita Yukidaruma-kai's motto. Just imagine the excitement of children living in Japan's tropical southern areas, waking up to a real snowman and perhaps touching snow for the very first time. Now that's cool! (via Asahi.com and Yomiuri Online)
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South Wales Police say the recycling plant that was on fire yesterday evening is expected to burn for two days.
Firefighters were called to a blaze at the 'SitServ Recycling Centre' in Llandow Trading Estate in Cowbridge last night.
The cause of the fire is yet to be established.
It's thought that the building has asbestos on the roof. As a precautionary measure, residents within a two mile radius, particularly those in Llantwit Major and Southerndown, are being asked to keep their doors and windows closed.
Premises near to the scene of the fire are also likely to be affected.
More top news
A night of two halves - cold under clear skies in the south, with cloud and mist around the hills in the north!
The partner of a man critically injured in a crash in Cardiff has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
There are calls for the Welsh Government to change the law to force councils to collect rubbish at least once a fortnight.
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We love watching PR2 fold laundry, play pool, bake cookies, and bring us beer, but robots with the capability to do the same kinds of things that humans can do aren't around just to take over for us when we're feeling lazy. Robots also exist to do things that humans can't do, whether that's making fast and precise movements, defusing bombs, or lending a gripper to a person with a disability.
Henry Evans, the dude in the above video, has been a quadriplegic for the last ten years, having suffered a stroke when he was just 40 years old. He saw a PR2 on TV last year, and thought that a robot might be a handy thing to have around the house to help him live a bit more independently. Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab and Willow Garage have been collaborating with Henry since then, and he's been able to use a PR2 to do things like shave himself and scratch itches when he has them, things for which Henry has been dependent on other people for the last decade.
Part of what makes the PR2 ideal for this sort of thing are its high-level autonomous capabilities. Using a head tracker, Henry can give the robot commands to navigate to specific locations or fetch objects, and the PR2's sensors and software handle the rest. Of course, it's not realistic to hope that every disabled person will be able to one day get a PR2 (each costs $400,000). What is realistic (I hope) is that what Willow Garage and Georgia Tech are learning here will help them to design better software and hardware for the next generation of home service and healthcare robots, which will be affordable so more people can have them.
This project is an important reminder that while most of us are hoping that robots will at some point step in and make our lives easier and more convenient, most of us actually don't really need robots. Some people do need them, though, and it's great to see companies and research groups with so much expertise in this area working to make robots available where they have the potential to do the most good.
[ Willow Garage ]
Blog Post: A U.S. senator criticizes the NSF for squandering "millions of dollars on wasteful projects"
Blog Post: Push a single button and have your PR2 bot bake you a fresh batch of cookies
Blog Post: PR2 may not be the fastest at folding towels, but the fact that it can do it entirely autonomously is nuts
Blog Post: After learning how to open doors, plug itself into wall outlets, and fold towels, the robot now can play pool
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Somebody in Texas claims they just sold a Porsche for 300 bitcoins, the latest sign of a bitcoin bubble. Or the rise of our new bitcoin overlords.
An Austin family bragged Tuesday night that it had sold a 2007 Porsche Cayman S for 300 bitcoins, a virtual currency that has long been little more than a curiosity for financial reporters but is suddenly breaking into the broader consciousness, maybe just in time for the whole thing to go kablooey.
Rob Wile of Business Insider tracked the family down to verify their claim, and they showed him all sorts of official-looking documents they say are proof of the sale, which at the time was worth $39,000, or the book value of the Porsche.
The value of those bitcoins might be harder to pin down.
This week, the price of one bitcoin, a digital currency that is randomly generated, or "mined," by computers using DARPA levels of computing power, crossed $100, and the total value of bitcoins outstanding passed $1 billion. You may not be able to bounce a bitcoin into a cup of beer, but you can actually buy stuff with bitcoins, from participating vendors/pimps.
The value of bitcoins has risen tenfold since January, partly thanks to investors looking for a cash alternative amid the Cyprus meltdown and partly because of new federal regulations on virtual currencies that raised fears of government intervention but also gave the currency more legitimacy as real money. Bitcoins have also proven quite appealing to the crowd that expects Barack Hussein Obama to be rounding us all up into FEMA camps any day now, as Salon's Andrew Leonard noted recently.
But bitcoin is not going to supplant the dollar any time soon. After surging to a record high of $147 on Wednesday, the value of a bitcoin tumbled to $117 after a Japanese site called Mt. Gox, the biggest Bitcoin exchange, apparently struggled to keep up with a flurry of orders for bitcoin.
A bitcoin wallet service, Instawallet, shut down on Wednesday to better protect itself from hackers, who have recently hit Mt. Gox and the online payments site Dwolla with denial-of-service attacks.
And actually climbing on board the bitcoin train is kind of a hassle, as New York magazine's Kevin Roose found out recently when he set out to buy just one bitcoin.
A media frenzy has suddenly erupted, with mainstream news outlets scrambling to explain to people how bitcoins work and what they could mean (for arguably the best of the lot, see the one by Maria Bustillos in the New Yorker.
Media attention is never a good sign for a bubble.
Adding to the circus atmosphere, Business Insider honcho Henry Blodget tongue-in-cheekily raised his target price for bitcoins to $400 (echoes of his Amazon.com price target from his dot-com glory days). Blodget, who has called bitcoin the "perfect bubble," said that bitcoins could actually be worth $5,000, or $0, depending only on how much people are willing to pay for them.
Today, they're worth a Porsche. Tomorrow, maybe this guy's house in Canada, currently seeking bitcoins. The day after that? Who knows: Maybe 5,000 Dutch guilders, the price of tulip bulbs at their peak.
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After your teacher puts you into either group A or group B, move to join other students in that group. Together with the other members of your A or B group, analyze one the cartoons below in terms of its meaning related to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and Korematsu v. United States. Your group should discuss the following questions:
- What do you see in the cartoon? Make a list. Include objects, people, and any characteristics that seem to be exaggerated.
- Which of the items on the list from Question 1 are symbols? What does each symbol stand for?
- What is happening in the cartoon?
- What is the cartoonist's message?
- Do you agree or disagree with the message? Explain your answer.
- If you were a cartoonist who held the opposite point of view that this one, what would your cartoon look like? What images, symbols, and messages would it have?
After your group has answered the questions above, split and partner with someone who analyzed the other cartoon. Show your new partner the cartoon you considered and discuss your reflections about it.
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Methods and Applications
- New Horizons in Intellectual Property series
Edited by Federico Munari and Raffaele Oriani
Chapter 7: Valuing Patents through Indicators
7. Valuing patents through indicators Nils Omland 7.1 INTRODUCTION Various fundamentally different approaches to patent valuation exist, as described in Chapter 5. One approach (the income approach) is to analyse the future benefits of the patent to its owner. This approach generally builds on expert knowledge of the technology, markets, production facilities, legal effectiveness of the patents, and so on. Most of this information is not easily available: different experts, possibly even from different organizations, have to be asked and market research might have to be done. These valuations are expensive, they cannot be reproduced by third parties and they cannot be performed by computers. A different approach is to use indicators of patent value such as, for example, historical prices (market approach) or cost (cost approach). These indicators may not determine the value of a patent in any way, but they have been found to exhibit a high statistical correlation to value and can thus be used to estimate it (see Chapter 3 for a broad review of the empirical literature and Chapter 13 on the relationship between patent indicators and stock market values). All of us use indicator-based valuation in our daily lives. For example, we assume that the value of our car can be approximated by the prices of similar cars sold recently. We also expect its value to be related to its manufacturing cost, age, mileage, horsepower and other indicators. The main advantage of indicator-based valuation methods is their lower cost (both in terms of time...
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Carved stone – but where from?
When Mike was preparing ground for the Centenary Seat on the village green, his fork hit something hard. After a tussle, Mike came up with a piece of rather nicely carved sandstone.
And here it is.
The question now arises as to where this came from originally. We believe the land it was found on was originally a part of Grove Farm but it lies only just outside the churchyard. This leads some people to believe it is a part of an old gravestone – possibly 18th century. There appears to be some kind of urn carved on the right with the leafy plant clearer on the left. Both symbols can be found on gravestones but the very even flat base of the stone might suggest this is not what this was. But there again, the urn only appears to be half there.
As a gut feeling, we reckon this stone carving could date from the 18th century.
Maybe somebody out there could tell us more.
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At the far end of Holywell Street in Oxford is the site of the gallows where, on 5th July 1589, two priests and two laymen were executed for the Faith. A plaque on the wall above a window (in the left of the above photo) commemorates their offering. I stopped here to ask the intercession of these Blesseds for the Mission of the Church today.
Bl George Nichols, priest; hung, drawn, quartered.
Bl Richard Yaxley, priest; hung, drawn, quartered.
Blessed Thomas Belson, layman; hung.
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