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British building preservation charity Landmark Trust has rescued and restored Le Moulin de la Tuilerie, which consists of three buildings called Le Moulin, La Célibataire and La Maison des Amis, and is the charity's first French property.
Visitors are invited to follow in the footsteps of Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Simpson, by staying at what was once their country retreat in Gif-sur-Yvette. The former 18th-century tile-making mill was converted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to accommodate to accommodate their guests, who included Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor.
"Through its association with Edward and Wallis, the lovely site at Le Moulin de la Tuilerie has great international resonance for the British, French and Americans alike," says Peter Pearce, Director of Landmark Trust.
Those wishing to explore history further can visit the nearby grand palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau. Projects are also underway - in partnership with the French government coastal conservation agency, le Conservatoire du littoral - to restore more historic buildings around the French coast.
"Our partnership with the Conservatoire du littoral provides us with a rare and exciting opportunity to restore historic buildings on the coasts of France for a new and public use in partnership with a French organisation whose culture and achievements we deeply admire and whose values echo our own," says Pearce. "These first Landmarks on French soil, while not themselves buildings of the Conservatoire's, nevertheless come to us thanks to a timely agreement with their English owner and will allow us to generate the income needed to support the launch of Landmark France and the development of our other French projects with the Conservatoire."
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The enemy, for some reason I cannot see, has decided to make me a 'person of interest' in this particular area of the battle, at least in my opinion......and the forces are gathering around me in strength. Even some from an unexpected quarter, my back to which I had the pledge of several of my fellow warriors to guard. They seem less now than the number that once stood there, in mutual support of protection, guarding my hind side.
None have fallen, but I see a few drifting away from the battle, as if forgetting what is happening around them. But the Few stand, faithful, and I would have no other than they at my side. True warriors. True friends. True brethren.
Far away, atop a grassy hilltop, I can see my General (with many of the 'special guard'---those who have gone before me through the ranks and now await the Lord's call to ride again into the final battle of this mighty war arrayed behind Him) standing there, watching to see where reinforcements are needed for additional breakthroughs to the souls lost in that darken field or for support to warriors in the thick of it.
I cannot be certain, but it seems that there is no attention given in my direction as those who oppose my King gather in ever enlargening numbers.
"These are the times that try the souls of man," the thought bounces randomly in my mind. But it is true....such are the times we are living in now. Most of the brethren are too distracted by the daily 'stresses' of living in abundance on the physical plane that they never seem to come to the front lines and give their sword in service. It frustrates me, and many other warriors upon this field of battle, for there are many wandering the landscape lost, unarmed, and in harm's way along with those who have sworn allegiance to the enemy.
Some of the Brethren stand near the hill, close by the General and the reserve troops, their varying state of battle preparedness a sight that saddens many a veteran warrior; missing leathers, helmets forgotten, shields too loosely strapped upon their arms. Some still manage to gather enough courage to blunder out upon the battlefield; too often either falling to the enemy or being borne back upon stretchers to the rear where they lie, deeply wounded--- battle ineffective.
A few are listening to the instructions coming from battle-hardened warriors who have been called from service on the frontlines to equip, train, and empower these newbies. The attentive ones will become great warriors in the King's army, vanquishing many foes and rescuing great numbers of those lost in the darkness of the enemy. Others, who fail to listen to the wisdom borne of warfare given by the veterans, will fall quickly, as they wander in and realize, in the din of clashing swords and impacted shields that they don't know how to fight.
Of course, a few are being berated by some wounded veterans, themselves victims of the long battle with wounds gaping open and painful. These are just as bad as the enemy we battle for our King, causing more damage to the newbies as they accidently cut them with their swords as they tighten the scabbards or bruising the skin as they yell at the recruits for loose leathers, rusty chainmail, or some other defect that in and of itself isn't a problem. Unfortunately, many of the recruits so treated come to the battlefield and fight far less eagerly, tending to stay close to the hilltop as if afraid to lose sight of the General.....afraid to die upon the field of darkness. These will never live up to their true potential and know the glories of dangerous service to the King.
There stand a growing number of brethren off to the far side of the hill, unaware of the battle that rages in the field on the other side. Their gear; swords, helmets, breastplates, and leathers lie in a unkempt pile nearby, discarded in favor of a flowing robe of green that is unfit for fighting and running ---necessities in this battle. The General looks behind Him with disgust as His eyes fall upon this group, the sickening sound of their chants of "Love, Love, Love" keeping time with the music of their harps and strings. Their heads shaved, the only movement they make is when the reality of the war comes near their haven and they quickly rush to clean any illusion that disturbs the beautiful meadow they've created. They cannot see the decay of their meadow; sickly flowers blacken with filth and the ground strewn with painful stones. Some of the battle-weary warriors succumb to the melodic rhythms and join them in this illusion, adding their armor to the pile, the fate of the embattled Brethren forgotten in favor of an illusionary peace.
There is always movement to and from the front lines as warriors come in to join their brethren in the fight, others are moved to the rear for supplication and rest within the General's camp, and newly promoted warriors move into greater areas of responsibilities. The line is an illusion, as the convoluted line flexes back and forth like a serpent as warriors push further into the darkness and others fall back. All under the General's eagle eyes.
The fluidity of the front line often confuses even the veteran warriors and they find themselves seemingly cut off from friends by a large number of foes. Some of the greatest warriors, surrounded and without hope of rescue have simply bowed to the pressure and surrendered. These are never seen from again.
Training is constant, as the needs of the great Army the General commands change, ebb and flow with the enemy's tactics. Some gather to be trained for a greater task, others to see retraining and debriefing from the General Himself. A veteran warrior knows where his greatest strength lies; in wisdom and knowledge gained from the mouth of the General and the endurance gained from His training. My thoughts wander back to the 'last' day of my training under the mighty General before I rejoined my brethren on the line, a newly minted sergeant chevron strapped to my breastplate.
Love and pride shone from His eyes as He gazed upon my brothers and I as we stood at inspection ready. His hands clasped behind His back as He walked the line, looking each one of us directly in the eyes, where the evidence of His passion pierced our hearts with purpose. He finished His 'inspection' and strode to a spot a few feet in front of us. The training had been tough, a few of my brothers in arms falling away during its course. We were the few left.
"Who do you fight for?" the General's booming voice echoed down the hillside.
"The lost!" my older brother next to me sang out........
"The future!" another, experienced brother cried.............
"For the heavy burdened" a newly freed warrior's shout was heard..............
"For my children!" a father sounded out........................................
Then the General stepped up to look deeply into my eyes,
"And who do you fight for?"
Strength flowed through my arms as I stepped back and drew my sword, heaving it to the sky....
"I fight to die for my King! I fight for His Glory! I fight for His Kingdom!!!!"
Standing with my remaining brothers far from that hilltop where the General and the reserves seem to measure the size of stick figures, my eyes clear from the memory..my heart beating, my muscles flexing, and a peaceful calm belying the reality of the gathered foes arrayed around me and my brothers.
My brother to my right catches my eyes, nods his head and gently speaks, "This is what we were born to do, my brother." My brother to my left replies, "We few, we precious few, know victory is already assured."
My gaze falls upon the ungirthed, unleathered souls that sit in our protective circle, rescued ones from the darkness newly born into the light of my King's army. Without them, my tiny band and I could outrun the enemy to gain a better fighting position. With them, we wouldn't be able to do so without losing some. This I will not allow. These are the reason I don't run, these are the ones I will gaze into my enemy's eyes from but a breathe away and say, "These are His!"
Two of the strongest brothers in our band look to me and I nod. They gather up the rescued ones and head out quickly along a thin, narrow line that snakes back to the hilltop. The innocent newborns will be protected as they grow in strength, endurance, and purpose before the General receives their assignments from the King's son, the Prince. Then, they will fight in a variety of ways for the Kingdom; some as warriors, some as trainers, some as healers. All for the King's glory and the glory of His Son.
The stench of the enemy's sulfurous breath tickles my nostrils as my humanity remembers a time when I thought it was such a sweet taste to my lips. The glow of the evilness sears from their eyes and the corruption of their flesh hangs limp and discolored on their bones. My brothers and I rock backward on our feet, as if to gather closer together in a fearful, hopeless last stand.
Surprise reflects in the eyes of our foes as we launch ourselves in flight towards the superior numbers.
Grins plaster our faces, I know without looking at my brothers, as we run towards the enemy with our swords swung high and our shields low. We know there is no dishonor in death or no fear of the beyond because we have the promise to return home to our King's kingdom. We are already victors in this war.
And we know no fear, because there is no greater love that we can give than to die for one another, and those yet to be saved. Before we even engage some of the enemy, they change..empowered by our stand for our King, they throw their weapons down and cry out for His mercy. But there are still many, more than our little band charges them with.
Laughter born of no fear echoes through the field of battle as we engage the enemy for the souls of the lost, the heavy laden, the confused, and the unloved. I feel the gaze of my General upon my shoulders as I stand against a large foe, fighting for the soul he grasps tightly behind his back. Love, peace, strength, and assurance flow through me as my laughter lifts to the sky.
I was never alone.
For my God is with me always.
My struggles, my battles, my wounds are never in vain, for they are in the service to my Savior..
Who died for me so that He could be my King!
"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:55-58 (WEB)
Jim is a Senior Ordained Chaplain with Chaplain Service Corp. Answering the call to ministry for the sake of all men, focusing on God, Jim writes and pursues with faith the plans of His Father wherever that may lead. www.chapel-michigan.blogspot.com
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Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
Check List Lep. Am. N of Mexico
Notes on certain Psychidae, with decriptions of two new Bombycidae
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New species of Heterocera from Tropical America. - I & II
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Estudio monografico de las Psychidae de Mexico I: Generos Oiketicoides Heyl., Eurykuttarus Hamps., Platoeceticus Pack.
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The overall well-being among Illinois residents has seen a slight improvement over the years, according to data from the American Human Development Index (HD Index) updated this month by Measure of America.
The HD Index factors in three issues Americans feel strongly about and also gauges human progress: health, education and income. The index tackles the question of how Americans are doing as opposed to how is the economy faring, which is something the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and other economic indicators seek to answer.
Illinois earned the 16th best HD Index score out of the 50 states, according to the “The Measure of America 2013-2014”. The report also includes an interactive map that lets users examine quality of life trends.
Connecticut came in at the top, followed by Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Maryland.
The worst human development score went to Mississippi. Also among the bottom were Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia.
In no state, or the 25 major metropolitan areas highlighted in the report, did African Americans and Latinos have well-being levels above those of whites or Asian Americans.
And while Illinois – and the nation – experienced an overall bump over recent years in educational attainment levels and life expectancy, wages decreased.
The report noted that the downward trend in personal earnings in Illinois, and other parts of the country, started even before the financial collapse. Illinois was among 39 states to see stalled or declined wages from 2000 to 2005.
Kristen Lewis, co-director of Measure of America, said using GDP and other economic indicators as a shorthand for discussing human progress often leads to a misleading picture.
For example, since 1974, GDP has nearly tripled, Lewis explained. As a result, some may expect ordinary Americans to have more access to financial resources and a better material standard of living. But in reality, median personal earnings have not budged for decades, she said.
“You get this really misleading picture when you look at these big economic indicators as opposed to looking at indicators that directly measure very important building blocks of a good life,” Lewis said.
According to the report, the state’s individual median earnings was $30,462, which is down from $31,475 in Measure of America’s 2010 report and $33,056 in 2008. The most recent figures show national median earnings at $28,899.
The 2013 HD Index update includes the most recent 2010 data available from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other government sources.
“You would think that this kind of critical data about people’s well-being would be produced on a more or less constant basis the way we can know the stock market numbers and things like that, or GDP every quarter,” Lewis said.
But the information needed to update the HD Index comes out after a long delay, specifically in regards to health data, Lewis said.
Measure of America, which is a nonpartisan project of the Social Science Research Council, was founded in 2007. It adapted the United Nation’s HD Index and put out its first report in 2008. The HD Index was also updated in 2010.
For the current report, Illinois earned an overall HD Index score of 5.31. The ranking is based on a scale from zero to 10.
In comparison, the country as a whole had a 5.03 rating.
Illinois’ current index score is up from 5.27 in Measure of America’s 2010 report. The state has also seen an improvement from its 2008 score of 5.24.
In regards to health, people in Illinois can expect to live for 79 years, according to the report. That is a slight uptick from 78.1 years cited in the 2008 report and 78.6 years in 2010.
The life expectancy at the national level is 78.9 years.
Illinois earned a 5.39 in education, which was the 11th best score. The District of Columbia had the best education index score of 6.48, while Nevada had the worst at 3.96.
Nearly 80 percent of people ages 3 to 24 in Illinois are enrolled in school, the report showed. In comparison, the nationwide percentage is 77.6.
And about 87 percent of the state’s adult population had a high school diploma, the data revealed. Nearly 31 percent of Illinoisans earned at least a bachelor’s degree, and a little more than 11 percent hold a graduate degree. Illinois scored better than the nationwide figures in all three categories, according to the report.
Overall, people living in the nation’s 25 largest metro areas, which are home to 40 percent of Americans, had higher levels of well-being and access to opportunity compared to the national average.
Just four of the 25 metro areas earned an index score below the national average, including Houston, the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, San Antonio and the Riverside-San Bernardino region.
The Chicago metro area had the 12th highest overall index score.
People in the Chicago area can anticipate living 79.3 years and the region's median wage is $31,757, according to the report.
A little more than 86 percent of the adult population in the Chicago area earned a high school diploma. About 34 percent hold a bachelor’s degree and approximately 13 percent completed a graduate degree. Overall, school enrollment was just shy of 80 percent.
Asian Americans do particularly well in the Chicago area, according to the report.
Chicago was among the top five metro areas for Asian Americans’ overall well-being and No. 2 for bachelor’s degree attainment. Nearly 64 percent of Chicago-area Asian Americans have completed a bachelor’s degree, which is much higher than the national average, Lewis said.
In all 25 metro areas cited in the report, educational attainment and life expectancy continued to increase in the Great Recession. Lewis credited the increase to long-term investments made by states, cities and individuals.
“That’s why investments in people are so durable and so important, because they really allow you to continue to grow and be poised for when the economy picks up again,” Lewis said.
African Americans, however, are not faring as well. The Chicago area was ranked 20th for the overall well-being of African Americans and 21st in regards to health.
At the national level, African Americans' life expectancy is 74.6 years. And although African Americans lived three years longer in 2010 compared to 2000, their life expectancy is about four years less than the national average, the report noted.
In Chicago, there is a 14-year life expectancy gap among Asian Americans and African Americans.
Chicago’s trend of Asian Americans living the longest followed by Latinos, whites and then African Americans is the same at the national level and in all the states, Lewis said.
“It’s not as big a gap everywhere, but ... that gap exists in all of the states and across the country,” she said.
Overall, the report’s data raised more questions than it provided answers.
For example, “why are we having this huge life expectancy gap between two ethnic groups within one city,” Lewis asked.
Dr. Charles Barron, medical director at Access Southwest Family Health Center in Chicago, said chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, are key contributors to the shorter life expectancy among African Americans. The population in general also faces challenges accessing health care and health-related education, he said.
The Chicago metro area has a large population of African Americans without health insurance, he explained.
In general, African-American women with children have more access to health care compared to men. And traditionally, black males “just don’t come to the doctor,” Barron said.
Chronic disease prevention and education is key, he said. Individuals with diabetes, for example, may not seek medical care until they are feeling unwell, and by then it could be too late, he noted.
Barron collaborates with churches and local organizations to hold community health fairs and educational seminars, particularly targeted at African-American males.
“We have to definitely put more money and more resources into outreach in the communities and underserved communities,” he said. “We have to get out there and really meet them where they are and understand what issues and barriers that they actually have, and we have to attack them aggressively and put resources into it.”
Lewis said the HD Index is a tool people can use to hold their elected officials accountable for progress. And shining a light on human development indicators is critical, she stressed.
“If people don’t really understand the extent of the disparities, they don’t really know what’s really happening,” Lewis said. “If you don’t know what the problem is, you really can’t fix it.”
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We just released our 2017 Corporate Sustainability Report showing our progress toward a sustainable future by reducing carbon emissions by 34% since 2005 and increasing investments in renewable energy.
We also cut fossil fuel generation water withdrawals by over 25% since 2005 with plans targeting a reduction of 75 percent by 2030.
“Sustainability means doing the right thing with an eye toward the long run,” said Alliant Energy’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Patricia Kampling. “So our sustainability strategy looks into the future, promoting responsible company growth through the economic, social and environmental decisions we make today.”
We continue to transform our generation profile to meet the future needs of our customers in a sustainable way. Between 2005 and 2018, our company will have permanently retired nearly 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired generation, and we’re planning to add over 1,000 megawatts of new, low-cost wind capacity by 2020.
Cleaner natural gas facilities are also being brought into our resource mix. Wind works hand-in-hand with natural gas generation, which can adjust up and down quickly to provide reliable power as the wind increases or decreases.
In 2016, renewable energy made up 15% of our company’s rated electric capacity. By 2024, that is expected to nearly double as we pursue new investments in wind and other renewable generation.
In addition, the report touches on topics like safety, our workplace, grid reliability, community support and corporate giving. The publication wraps up with a section that includes environmental and other performance data.
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Whether you are missing one tooth or multiple teeth, you can get your smile back through implant dentistry.
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Approved by Faculty Senate
University Studies Course Approval
Department of Physical Education and Recreation
PER Course Number: 141
Semester Hours: 1 SH
Frequency of Offering: Every semester, multiple sections
Course Title: Golf
Catalog Description: This course will teach students the techniques of a golf swing. Golf course strategies and etiquette will be explained and examined on an authentic golf course.
YES, this is an existing course previously approved by A2C2.
NO, this is not a new course proposal.
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION:
University Studies Approval is requested under Physical Development and Wellness in the BASIC SKILLS area.
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION FOR:
PER 100 Soccer
PER 101 Basketball
PER 102 Slow-Pitch Softball
PER 103 Racquetball
PER 104 Volleyball
PER 112 Folk & Square Dance
PER 116 Modern Dance I
PER 118 Jazz Dance I
PER 120 Ballroom Dance
PER 122 Beginning Swimming
PER 123 Swimming & Water Safety
PER 128 Ballet I
PER 134 Skiing
PER 135 Weight Training
PER 136 Tap Dance
PER 137 Fencing
PER 139 Tennis
PER 140 Bowling
PER 141 Golf
PER 142 Badminton
The general goal or intent of the 100 level courses listed above is to expose
students to, and create participative interest in, movement-based learning
opportunities designed to enhance physical and emotional health and wellness
throughout ones life span. Physical Education faculty concur that regardless of
the specific teaching tool utilized (e.g. badminton, volleyball, racquetball, etc.) all
PER 100 courses contribute to a similar set of course outcomes.
As required in 1 and 2 of the approval process, the following address the
outcomes listed for physical education 100 level activity courses and
document course content and learning activities relevant to the course outcomes:
Outcome #1: learn skills that will improve the quality and length of their
Through active participation in the listed PER 100 level courses, students
will experience first hand how physical wellness activities positively
impact one's quality of life.
PE 100 level courses contribute to cardio-vascular fitness, flexibility,
muscular endurance and strength. These factors are known to enhance both
longevity and quality of life.
Outcome #2: make pro-active choices leading to a healthier lifestyle
Incidence of inactivity in our culture will not be reduced without
considerable lifestyle change in people of all ages. Through participation
in the various physical activities introduced in PER 100 level courses,
students will gain first hand awareness of the manner in which physical
activity can stimulate both mind and body. After having gained this insight,
students may be more inclined to set and maintain long term goals related to
overall fitness and a healthier lifestyle.
Outcome #3 explore dimensions of personal health promotion and disease
Research indicates that physical activity reduces the risk for several
major chronic diseases. Skills and information introduced in PER 100
courses will heighten students awareness of the importance of developing
and/or maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle. When this awareness leads to
increased activity as a lifestyle change, the student will reduce his/her risk for
development of any diseases associated with inactivity.
Outcome #5 understand health as multidimensional, involving the whole
person's relationship to the total environment
PE 100 level courses involve the "whole person." The body is being improved
physically (hands-on activities), the mind is learning and expanding
(comprehension of rules and strategies, etc.), and students have opportunities to
improve their social development (teamwork, cooperation, healthy competition,
etc.) and appreciation of movement.
Outcome #6: utilize physical activity to reduce medical risks and provide
relaxation, socialization and balance in their lives
By nature of the physical requirements within the PER100 level courses,
students are challenged to improve their level of physical fitness.
Research indicates that one's level of fitness is associated with a
person's ability to work effectively, enjoy leisure time, be healthy,
resist disease, and cope with stress.
Each new activity based skill introduced gives the student additional
choices for a healthy and balanced leisure lifestyle.
The introduction of team games and skill related practice activities in PER
100 courses infuses a socialization aspect.
Outcome # 8 Enhance creative use of leisure time
The development and creative expression of an active leisure lifestyle is partially
dependent upon building a repertoire of leisure activity skills. Through skills
practice and other instructional strategies, students enrolled in PER 100 courses
gain new participatory skills and knowledge of leisure resources. This, in turn,
enhances the students repertoire of leisure skills which may ultimately lead to
more creative use of leisure time.
Outcome #9: develop skills consistent with efficient levels of human movement
With practice, basic skills introduced in physical education activity
courses may be taken to a higher level of physical achievement. As skill
related competencies become enhanced, participation typically becomes more
intrinsically rewarding. Individuals who are intrinsically motivated to
participate in healthy movement based activities are likely to continue
this pattern on a regular basis. Regular and consistent participation in a physical
activity leads to more efficient levels of human movement.
This is a 1 credit University Studies course that satisfies the "Physical
Wellness" component of the students Basic Skills program. Designated University Studies
outcomes for this course are listed below
Outcome #1 Learn skills that will improve the quality and length of their lives.
Outcome #2 Make proactive choices leading to a healthier lifestyle.
Outcome #3 Explore dimensions of personal health promotion and disease prevention.
Outcome #5 Understand health as multidimensional, involving the whole persons relationship to the total environment.
Outcome #6 Utilize physical activity to reduce medical risks and provide relaxation, socialization and balance in their lives.
Outcome #8 Enhance creative use of leisure time.
Outcome #9 Develop skills consistent with efficient levels of human movement.
College of Education
Department of Physical Education and Recreation
PER 141 Golf - 1 SH
1. Catalog Description
This course will teach students the techniques of a golf swing. Golf course strategies and etiquette will be explained and examined on an authentic golf course.
Golf is a game that is enjoyed by people of all ages and physiques. It is a lifetime activity that does not demand a high degree of physical prowess to be enjoyable.
To really enjoy participation in any sport, one wants to do well; therefore, a
knowledge of the game and a degree of skill should be developed.
The instructional program is designed to provide an opportunity to learn the language and strategy of golf and to develop the skills necessary so that you can enjoy it in your leisure time.
shorter shots and putting. (Outcomes #1,9)
2. To understand the relationship between set-up, balance and posture
to a successful swing. (Outcomes #1,2,9)
To appreciate the golf environment and understand proper care of a
golf course. (Outcomes #5,8)
4.To understand and apply the rules, procedures and courtesies of golf.
5. To be able to carefully select the proper equipment needed to enjoy
the game of golf. (Outcomes #6,8)
6. To understand and enjoy golf for its physical, social and leisure
benefits. (Outcomes #1,2,9)
3. Course Outline of Major Topics and Subtopics
I. Equipment (Outcomes #3,4,5)
D. Practice ranges
E. Golf courses
F. Carts, tees, clothing and other articles
II. Techniques (Outcomes #1,2)
1. Vardon cover lapping grip
3. Non-lapping (baseball grip)
3. Downswing and contact
3. Hitting from hazard
4. Play from uneven terrain
III. Rules and Strategy (Outcomes #4,5)
A. On the fairway
B. On the green
A. On the tee
B. On the fairway
C. On the green
4. Basic Instructional Plan and Teaching Methods
Demonstration, video tape, practice range, golf course play.
5. Course Requirements and Evaluation
Participation is required.
Practical pre-test and post-test on swing mechanics. Student must be
able to explain correct mechanics of the golf swing. (5 Pts.)
Students must be able to demonstrate proper set up and:
8 10 Pts.
7 Pts. B
6 Pts. C
5 Pts. D
4 or Below E
Handout on proper swing mechanics - required reading.
7. List of References and Bibliography
Leadbetter, D. (1990). The Golf Swing. Penguin Books, New York.
Toski, B. Love, D. Jr. (1988). How to feel the golf swing. Golf Digest.
Random House, New York.
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Policy Management for E-Health Records
Maritza Johnson and Steven M. Bellovin
Department of Computer Science
The ability to share electronic health records across healthcare providers plays a large role in the prediction that electronic health record systems will revolutionize the healthcare industry in the United States. Sharing health records raises the obvious question of how to implement access control in this distributed domain. The answer to which is not simply an architecture that can enforce the necessarily complex access control policies, but also knowledge of who will manage the policies and how they will manage them. Achieving this goal requires user-centered design methods and empirical evaluations of interfaces that facilitate fine-grained policy management. Policy management is a task that is difficult for users but is essential to an electronic health record system that permits sharing among users.
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are currently deployed or are being deployed in a number of large countries e.g., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and the United States. Recently, the United States enacted new legislation that provides $18 billion dollars in incentives to speed the adoption of EHR systems . The stated goal is to digitize the health records of every American by 2014. The ability to share health records between healthcare providers is projected to cut healthcare costs dramatically. Researchers have responded to this burgeoning demand by investigating the security requirements and design of such a system, while others are investigating the usability issues associated with adopting EHR systems and other health information technology solutions. Neither of these approaches is addressing the usability of managing the access control policies.
For EHR systems to be successful it is critical that they are able to enforce an access control policy that states who can access what information and under which conditions. One aspect of implementing access control for EHRs is designing systems that are flexible enough to enforce a large range of access control policies. Expressibility is of concern due to the large number of rules, roles, and objects that will be needed (a case study of EHR usage in England had approximately 310 rules and 58 roles ). Proposed solutions include alternative database access protocols , systems that supplement preventative access control with audit-based access control , and solutions that support declarative policies using a trust management system . This work is certainly needed but immediate attention must be given to who will manage the access control policies. Indeed, audit-based access control will likely useful in this dynamic environment where users cannot always predict who will need access to what and when. However, someone will need to specify a base set of preventative rules since an audit-based system, one that primarily relies on logging and accountability, will not offer sufficient protection against unauthorized access. It will also be necessary to limit who is trusted to "break the glass" and under what conditions. These are access control decisions and policies that must be authored by a person.
The fact that a person is needed to author the access control policies implies the access control system must have a strong usability component. This will be a requirement regardless of whether the responsibility of managing access control falls on an administrator, a healthcare provider, or the patient. It will also be a requirement regardless of where the record is stored. With personal health record (PHR) systems, the patient maintains most of the data stored in the record and there are features that allow the patient to share their record with family members, healthcare providers, and other relevant parties. In this case, the patient will manage their access control policy.
Policy management is a difficult task for users and even administrators need usable tools. Policy management has been a topic of interest in the usable security community, where the primary focus has been on file access control and privacy settings, progress has been made but a solution for fine-grained access control has not been identified.
2 Usable Policy Management
The user who fills the role of the policy author is responsible for creating, editing, and managing policies. This means the user must have a clear understanding of the policy goals and be able to formulate how to achieve the goals using the policy language or interface provided. They must have a way to verify they specified the policy correctly, or as closely as possible, and they must have a way to quickly get an overview of the effective policy.
2.1 File access control and Privacy Settings
Currently, the average user might have experience with file-sharing but is more likely to have encountered a policy management task when using a social networking website. Users have a difficult time reading and modifying file permissions though changes to the interface can improve performance . Empirical evaluation has shown that most users share files via email attachments . Even users who know how to use file-sharing tools use email as a fallback when they have trouble . Online social network users have more incentive to manage their privacy settings since they can protect their personal data, but most users accept the default settings . Relying on default settings could be a reasonable option, but this assumes the default settings are useful.
These results have interesting implications for EHR policy management. It is possible that users do not have enough incentive to manage file permissions and privacy settings, but will put more effort toward managing their EHR. Or, existing tools are too difficult to use and fail to demonstrate enough utility to encourage users to learn to use them correctly .
2.2 EHR Systems
Endusers have never been required to manage an access control policy for data as sensitive as medical information. Because the data is more sensitive than data shared on social networking sites, users should be more motivated to manage the access control policies carefully. Prior research introduced tools that improve usability on small policy authoring tasks. Guided natural language and structured entry lists are more usable for policy authors compared to unstructured natural language . And tools to visualize the effective policy that help users understand file access control policies . However, more advanced methods of managing access control are necessary.
Policy templates composed of smart policy elements offer a new approach that has not been explored. Policy elements are objects that represent the elements of a system that are controllable by a policy. Policy templates are natural language policy statements composed of policy elements. The policy author creates new policies by selecting values for each policy element. For EHRs the policy elements will include: an object for each role/user who can access a record, an object for each data item in the EHR, an object for each possible action in the system, and objects to represent the conditions under which users can access information. Policy elements can be augmented to include risk information to be communicated to users and metadata that indicates which combinations of values are valid.
In existing EHR systems users are expected to self-police their access based on the knowledge that the system is auditing how they access patient's medical records. Fine-grained access control management tools are required to prevent hospitals from using this technique.
The development of tools for the visualization of the effective policy is important. Policy authors need a usable overview of the policy and endusers must be able to determine who has access to what. Expandable Grids was shown to be useful for representing the effective policy for file access control. Further research is needed to determine the best method of displaying a large number of rules. The number of rules in an EHR policy is likely to be large so it is important to research effective methods of easily determining what access a specific user has, or which users have access to a piece of data of interest.
Access control is paramount to the success of EHR systems. Usable fine-grained access control is a key requirement that needs immediate attention. Policy management has proven to be a difficult task even in domains where the policies are less complex than in the healthcare domain.
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at the endpoints.
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Seasonal tips for your lawn care
A lawn can take a lot of pounding, but we still want it to look good. So how should we care for it? See our seasonal hints and tips for lawn care throughout the year.
The first cut of the year:
Only use newly sharpened blades so that the grass is cleanly cut and not torn. Ideally, cut no more than 1/3 of the blade of grass, to maintain healthy growth and a lush looking lawn.
Aerate a heavily matted lawn using a scarifier when the soil is warm and dry. To assist healthy growth, use a long-term fertiliser during the Spring months. To encourage a thick lawn, mow once a week. During periods of intense growth, cut the lawn twice a week.
Avoid cutting your grass too short when very hot, as it may lose all its nutrients. Leave it at least 30mm high and water well. By using a mulching option, available on all VIKING 5, 6 and R Series mowers (except the MB 545 VR), this provides an ideal natural fertiliser for your lawn.
Mow less frequently when the weather is dry. Fertilising in Autumn is optional, particularly if the lawn has been mulched, but be aware that this will not have any effect until the following Spring. With the last cut of the year, leave the grass slightly higher than normal.
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With the California state legislature designating November as Sikh American Awareness and Appreciation Month in California, there has been significant activity across the state to commemorate the month and increase awareness of the Sikh American community.
The declaration by the State of California has provided a unique opportunity for the public to learn more about the Sikh American community in the state and beyond. To that end, the Sikh Coalition has provided a wealth of resources and support to facilitate Sikh awareness activities that celebrate this month.
Many organizations and schools across California are taking this opportunity already. Various events and activities that have taken place or that are planned are listed below.
Last week, the Board of the Elk Grove Unified School District formally recognized November as Sikh Awareness Month in the district.
On Tuesday, the City Council of San Jose, California, also proclaimed November as Sikh Awareness Month, passing a resolution that recognized the contributions of Sikh Americans to the city and country (see the Facebook event page here, and a video of the ceremony here).
In addition, many schools have or have scheduled Sikh-awareness activities to educate staff and/or students about Sikh Americans in the next month and beyond:
- New Haven Unified School District: Conley-Caraballo High School
- Fremont Unified School District: Maloney Elementary School, Vallejo Mill Elementary School, Oliveira Elementary School, Thornton Junior High School, Cabrillo Elementary School, Hirsch Elementary School, Azeveda Elementary School, Warwick Elementary School, Durham Elementary School, Blacow Elementary School, Walters Junior High School, Brier Elementary School
- Newark Unified School District: Kennedy Elementary School, Newark Junior High School
- Emery Unified School District: Anna Yates Elementary School
- Manteca Unified School District: Mossdale Elementary School, George Komure Elementary School, Brock Elliot Elementary School
- Stockton Unified School District
- Lodi Unified School District
- Fowler Unified School District
- Livingston Unified School District
Also, the Palo Alto VA Hospital will be holding a Sikh awareness event for their staff. Gurdwaras (Sikh houses of worship) in the cities of San Jose, Fresno, and Yuba City are hosting events for educators as well.
It’s exciting to see the level of interest and reach of Sikh awareness activities by all of these organizations. This is certainly a needed step to dispel ignorance within these jurisdictions and beyond.
Thanks to the Sikh Coalition for providing information about Sikh awareness events. Ideas and resources to commemorate the month are available at their California Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month webpage.
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May 15. International Day of Families. Anthony stated, “Collaboration between religious and government and international agencies is very important in our world which is becoming more and more secular. I am very pleased with the theme chosen by the UN for the International Day of Families 2021. The theme is “Families and new technologies.” In the explanatory document, after referring to Sustainable Development Goals, it recognized the importance of parenting education which has been emphasized in the recent report of the Secretary-General to Member States to “Invest in parenting education programmes in cooperation with families and relevant entities at the national level, as well as with regional and international organizations, civil society and academics and ensure that the programmes are inclusive of grandparents and other relatives raising children; maintain a gender perspective and recognize the role of men in families” https://www.un.org/development/desa/family/2021/03/19/2021-international-day-of-families-families-and-new-technologies
Priscilla and Aquila heard Apollos, and took him and expounded to him the way of God more accurately. When he arrived in Achaia he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, for he powerfully confuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scripture that the Christ was Jesus. Acts 18:23-28. Pope Francis: Digital relationship which do not demand the slow and gradual cultivation of friendships, stable interaction or the building of a consensus that matures over time have the appearance of sociability. Yet they do not build community and build bridges. FT43. Efforts need to be made to help the media become sources of new cultural progress for humanity and not a threat to our deepest riches. LS 47. Mary, Queen of Families in society, pray for us.
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Rich elite beware as death knell sounds for democracy
I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under."
Or the poorest man in Greece, or Italy, or the Republic of Ireland. Or woman, either. They who have not put the government above them are not bound to buckle under its decrees.
The quote is from Thomas Rainsborough, addressing Henry Ireton at the Putney Debates of 1647. Ireton, speaking for Cromwell, had wanted to know on what basis the Levellers demanded equal representation in Parliament for the poor and "the middling sort of people".
Because they who make laws for all must be chosen by all, rather than by, for example, the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Silvio Berlusconi may have been a corrupt buffoon, but he was a buffoon with a democratic mandate.
That counted for nothing when, fearful of the wrath of a broad swathe of the electorate, he proved unable, or unwilling, to meet the demands of the aforementioned unelected elite.
Following Berlusconi's replacement by a government headed by top Goldman Sachs adviser Mario Monti and a cabinet without a single member elected by anyone, in what sense is Italy now a democracy? Especially when the stated purpose of the regime is to impose measures it knows would not be accepted by the people if the people were asked?
Meanwhile, across the Aegean, Geogios Papandreu, Prime Minister on account of his PASOK party having won substantially more votes than any other in the October 2009 general election, was elbowed aside to make way for central banker Lucas Papademos, who has never sought - much less won - a single vote in his life. Not that Mr Papademos is now being indulged by his sponsors.
On Monday, the European Commission told Mr Papademos, in no-nonsense terms, that his administration must put its pledge to obey EU/ECB/IMF austerity requirements in writing before Athens is given the next installment of its bailout.
EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn specified that Antonis Samaras, leader of the second-largest Greek party, New Democracy, which has been a bit iffy about austerity, must personally put his signature to a document promising not to be so cheeky in future.
The Dublin government remains in office, but has already lost power. Its budget proposals have been submitted for approval to the Bundestag's finance committee before being made available to Irish parliamentarians because German law insists it be so. The fact that the Irish constitution says different is irrelevant.
What price, then, Mariano Rajoy's Spanish government, elected last weekend and now scrambling to find ways of avoiding a take-over by next weekend?
On Tuesday, the Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban, made an official request to the IMF and EU for financial help. Interestingly, and perhaps ominously for the UK, Hungary is a member of the EU, but not of the eurozone.
Portugal is a long-time basket-case. Since last week, the credit agencies have been writing down France. Yesterday, Germany found no takers for 35% of 10-year bonds it had just put on offer.
How many governments are there left in Europe with an ability to shape economic policy on the basis of the needs and stated wishes of the people?
The UK? The clearest sign yet of what's in store came last week with the disposal of the taxpayer-owned Northern Rock at a knock-down price to Richard Branson's Virgin Group - headquartered in a tax haven - in a deal arranged by Treasury consultants Deutsche Bank without need for Treasury approval.
All over Europe, democracy is becoming a dead letter. The reason the Occupy movement has touched a nerve is not just that economic disparities have become grotesque, but that masses of people are increasingly aware that conventional, constitutional politics are a waste of time.
If I were part of the moneyed elite, I'd beware the thing that is coming. The poor and the middling sort of people should be making preparation. Don't whinge. Organise.
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In the present era of evidence-based policy making in Indigenous affairs, where the monitoring and closure of socioeconomic gaps dominates the federal agenda, data have become paramount. Yet with regard to one of the cornerstones of the Labor government’s ‘Closing the Gaps’ initiative—Indigenous education—the reliability of the evidence base has been repeatedly called into question. Further, existing educational administrative data, as they are conventionally reported, fail to elucidate some of the key structural drivers of Indigenous educational disadvantage. For example, reported enrolment and attendance data often present an incomplete picture of Indigenous engagement with the formal education sector because they are not collected or reported in ways that adequately illuminate the realities of Indigenous temporary mobility practices. Drawing upon textual analysis and interviews with relevant public servants, this paper summarises administrative data management systems in five State and Territory public education departments, as the basis for evaluating the relationship between existing data and the realities of student mobility. It argues that both enrolment and attendance collections have the potential to render these movements more visible to, and instructive for, educators and policy makers responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating the delivery of formal education programs to highly mobile Indigenous students. To this end, it canvasses a range of potential reforms. The paper concludes by calling for significant reconceptualising and adaptation from both practitioners and policy makers in order to leverage enrolment and attendance data as more meaningful evidence when evaluating Indigenous engagement with formal education systems.
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Arts & Culture
Historic L.B. Brown House and Museum
The L.B Brown House is a physical legacy left behind by a former slave who defied the odds, and became an incredibly successful Florida business leader. It is possibly the only remaining house in Florida built and owned by a former slave.
From Slavery to Community Leader: “His”story
Lawrence B. Brown was born in Alachua County during the last decade of slavery. Following the end of slavery in 1865, his family moved to Volusia County, where Brown would go on to marry, and acquire a considerable amount of property. This self-taught master carpenter began to shape his destiny by building multiple homes on his property and either renting or selling them. The street that bordered his property was even named “Lawrence Street” in his honor.
Following the death of his father, Lawrence and his mother moved to Bartow, which was in the midst of an economic boom. Here, he continued the pattern of his earlier success by acquiring and developing more property with homes, including the historic L.B. Brown House.
The nine-room, 1,700 square foot Victorian L.B. Brown house is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a museum and architectural masterpiece honoring one man’s triumph over adversity, and contributions to community growth in Central Florida.
Tour de’ House
Visitors are of course always welcome to admire the architecture of the L.B. Brown House and look inside it, but it’s definitely worth scheduling a tour so you can get a closer look, and enjoy the insider knowledge from an experienced docent.
Guided tours can be arranged by calling 863-534-0100, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Weekend appointments may also be available, if scheduled several days in advance.
L.B. Brown Annual Heritage Festival
Three days of entertainment celebrated on the L.B. Brown House grounds. The event features vendors, “back in the day” demonstrations, senior citizens activities, a history lecture, music and dance, a talent show and a gospel program on Sunday.
More Bartow Historical Experiences
If you are into history, which you likely are if you are reading this, you’ll be happy to learn that the Bartow area is home to two other historic hot spots you can add to your itinerary: The Polk County Historical Center and Homeland Heritage Park.
Polk County History Center
The Polk County History Center is located at 100 East Main Street, Bartow, Florida. The museum consists of exhibits presenting local and regional history, and is located in the historic Old Polk County Courthouse. The Polk County History Center is the perfect place to start when taking an historical tour of the county.
Insider Tip: Sign up for a guided tour with a museum docent for the greatest experience.
100 E Main St, Bartow, FL 33830
Homeland Heritage Park
This unique park is home to several original structures from 19th-century pioneer life in Florida, including an 1800s farmhouse, school and church. The park is free to visit and makes a fun and educational field trip for students and families alike.
249 Church Ave, Homeland, FL 33847
Where to Eat
Cookie Jar Bakeshop
They serve casual breakfast, lunch and the best fresh-baked cookies and cupcakes you’ll ever put in your mouth.
What we order: Spinach, mushroom and cheddar quiche with a Grande Café Americano for breakfast – OR - a River Boat Salad (add chicken) and a cookie for lunch.
305 E Main St, Bartow, FL 33830
This restaurant is fantastic and perfect if you appreciate authentic Mexican flavor, great service and live music. They serve lunch and dinner.
What we order: The Quesadilla Hacienda and a Skinny Margarita … or water with lemon.
195 E Main St, Bartow, FL 33830
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Bio Of Mario William Vitale
The language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal with uprootedness. But this poetry is not sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature, and harmony with the world is never assumed. The way he captures the tenuousness of this faith, the balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of his history- both natural annd social- and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Vitale's poetry, gives it its depth and dimension:
Mario William Vitale Biography
I was born in 1970 Bristol hospital.
A young nurse took me in her arms and said that I would one day become a success,
As the years would pass I was heavy in the arts used to sing and act.
Was an altar boy at St. Pius Church.
In time I would act in my senior class play, "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood"
Where I had the lead role as the Narrator,
I touched many hearts with that performance in 1989,
Was hospitalized with mono that same year for two weeks long,
Also that same year I became prom king of my class Wolcott High School,
After the break up with my first grilfriend in 1989 I wrote the poem entitled, "Remembrance of a loved one" where I had it published on poetry.com
Attempted plays: Tartuffe, Miracle Of St. Anthony and Balm in Gieade, (His poetic aspirations had derived at 18 in 1989 from submitting his first poem entitled, "Remembrance Of A Loved One"- (Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum)
Attended Central Connecticut State University For Creative Writing: 1997
Next from 1989-1997 (Wrote primarily for Poetry.com and The International Library Of Poetry) , * Received editors choice award in 1997 for poem, " A Beacon Of Light ",
(1998)Sent poetic manuscript to N.Y. Time Magazine and Chief Editor " John Hyland".
Back with rave reviews!
* (From 1999-2008: Had adapted a real keen sense of style for writing poetry: (1999- Sent Editorial to:
New Man Magazine for the Passion of Christ Movie; Sent followup letter to company with poetry platform information attached,
* 2000-2007: Magazine: (Catholic)Maries Rose Ferron Magazine submitted poem" Beacon Of Light", which had excellent editorial reviews as the outset!
2008- Wrote poem entitled: (The Heavy Cross)to Poetry.com* Achieved Poetry status of work of Excellence in writing from the Academy Of American Poetry in which still having received rank and status as a member of Academy;
(The Connecticut Poetry Society) * Short story submitted entitled, "China Dog Ray" submitted to Virginia Writers Quarterly, West Virginia, Also having member status on their board of Poetry.
Attribute Poetry to an ever increasing love of God and his unconditional love that he has for us in return, Thankfulness toward family and friends.(To our past ancestors who fought to uphold freedom that far too many of us take for granted?
My contemporary artists include that of Ellan Bryant Voight, Kay Ryan and Carl Phillips.Which all three are Participants in the Academy Of American Poetry
Having been a member since 2006, My work reflects the likes of past poets such as C.S.Lewis, Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe.
Most of my work reflects with the values of religious beliefs intact
In my personal view it is essential in demonstrating a real heart of creative passion!
The reader I believe will benefit by my artistic style of development in a very positive light.)
After experiencing a life transformation encounter.I had realized that poetry is my unique way to convey myself my work speaks from the heart with pure sentiments of though intact,
As the years passed I would write over 4,000 poems and 5 short stories toward my platform,
My poetry is based on the free verse style of writing,
Was published in 10 venues such as Writerscafe, Neopoet, Hello poetry, Poem Hunter, Booksie, Poetryvibe, Poetrysoup, Starlifecafe.com, Poets Know It & poetry.com...
I was saved by God at the tender age of nine in Charlotte Carolina where I came to know the Lord that was in 1979,
Today I continue to write poetry was published on Spillwords, High On Poetry, Tuck Magazine & Setu Magazine.
My main emphasis in writing poetry is to share with the mass populace touching many hearts.
Hope you can read my poetry.
skipped rocks through a stream today
the opening of a brand new day
its frame is in minor decay
the bleached wood massed in bone piles,
we pulled it from dark beach and built
fire in a fenced clearing
the posts' blunt stubs sank down
the circled and were roofed by milled
lumber dragged at one time to the coast
We slept there
Each morning the minus tide-
weeds flowed it like hair swimming
The starfish gripped rock, pastel,
rough. Fish bones lay in sun
Each noon the milk fog sank
from cloud cover, came in
our clothes and held them
tighter on us. Sea stacks
stood and disappeared
They came back when the sun
scrubbed out the inlet
through the flame cover me
in silent sound dignity
for with what one is willing to achieve
feel the breeze
nestled through the trees
shaped through your dreams
a piercing of the skin
new hearts to begin
Many have a hard time understanding
They live for self and that of society
They are the walking dead yet they don't even know it
Eyes with blackened spots having holes
Viscous fangs with blood dripping off the side
You share with them the truth
They choose to run away & hide
Yet deep inside they may still question
Why am i here ?
They can't even help you
Cause they won't help themselves
They are the scum of the land
Much too afraid to stand among the son of man
A bitter taste
Do they want salt or sugar coated messages
Positive reinforcement strengthens the heart
Negativity kills it
Each of us has been given a choice
We must lend a helping hand with a voice
All of us have been given a choice
Now which pathway will you choose ?
There’ll be no unemployment in heaven.
No worry about the next meal.
There’ll be no bills to harass us,
and thieves will not break in and steal.
In heaven, we’ll have no need for money;
Everything up there will be free.
We’ll enjoy God’s unsearchable riches,
and have unending security.
I’m looking forward to heaven,
that land that is fairer than day.
Where all will be joy and gladness,
and sorrow and care will flee away.
Up there, no mean words will be spoken.
Each heart will be filled with pure love.
We’ll never be hurt or rejected,
in the beautiful city above.
There will be no disappointment or heartache.
God will wipe all the tears from our eyes.
No one will ever be lonely,
and there’ll be no anguished good-byes.
Up there, the love we have for each other,
by each heart will be shared equally.
And we’ll have all the things that we’ve longed
for, and at last we will really be free
Hope springs a new
On a cloud in heaven
Stand a heavenly angel
With mere beauty of crystalized light
Golden emblems encrusted their frame
Sweet songs drifting to a very faint whisper
Eyes, hands & face
A real message sent down to earth
To care for those lonely souls all alone
There beauty is a surprise to encounter
Slipping through locked doors to appear
Many have shed a tear to numb the inner pain
Causing accidents not to happen
They appear in the form of brightened miracles
We see them with a heart all a glow
Come to the birth of a new born baby
Come to servicemen who just joined the navy
You will see them at a graveyard setting
Even among gamblers who do there betting
There all around us you see
For all of life is but a mystery
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A decades-old program allowing fire departments to purchase surplus military vehicles appears to be no more.
An agreement between the Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency, aimed at reducing emissions, will stop the sale of defense vehicles that don’t meet the EPA’s emission standards, the state forestry service reports.
“This action will ultimately result in increased exposure of communities to loss of life and property associated with wildfire, as well as increased fire suppression costs,” said George Geissler, state forester and director for Oklahoma Forestry Services. “The greenhouse gas emissions associated with the vehicles are marginal at best compared to emissions of an uncontrolled wildfire.”
Not good enough for our federal government.
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Taking a small daily dose of aspirin can significantly reduce the risk of developing - or dying from - bowel, stomach and oesophageal cancer, according to a large review of scientific studies.
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Women who took aspirin at least a couple of times a week had a much lower risk of developing lung cancer, whether or not they ever smoked, according to a study of more than a thousand Asian women.
Seniors who take aspirin daily are twice as likely to have late stage macular degeneration, an age-related loss of vision, than people who never take the pain reliever, according to a European study.
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We’ve just been through a couple of elections in Ontario and it was heartening to see how some of the candidates in the running used social media to spread their ideas to the constituency. In fact, I blogged about the use of social media previously. It’s an interesting way to follow how the candidates are doing. Sure, there’s the traditional media but they’re not necessarily 100% objective; they often have their political angle to follow.
The thing that is disappointing though, is that for many, once the election is over so is the social media presence. I suppose it’s to be expected by those who were not successful, although if they really “got it”, it would be a change to have a voice to criticize and build a community for the next election. But, kudos have to go to those that continue to stay connected via blog, Twitter, Facebook or some other sort of social media. That really impresses me even though you know that not all of the messages are from them directly. One would be our Premier Dalton McGuinty. Another that comes off hand is Governor General David Johnston. What a great way to get an unfettered message to the masses.
The use of social media just at election time is disingenuous. I know that it’s a relatively new phenomenon to some but I think that I would really have a great deal of respect for someone who promises during her/his campaign to stay connected after the election to provide information directly to we taxpayers. In fact, anyone who promises to live-tweet or live-blog during debates on bills would be guaranteed to get me to look strongly at their candidancy.
Even more impressive would be someone who is a known user of social media to spur conversations, debate issues, take a stand, etc. BEFORE the election. For them to have a position already established and then to slide over to election mode would be the best possible scenario.
Voters in Scarborough-Agincourt have that opportunity in candidate for board of trustees, Monica Batac. Monica is a an established social media user. I first met her at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia where she was just another Ontario Educator in the pack of us that learned and dined together. At the time, she was going to school to get her Master’s Degree in Teaching. We met up again at the ECOO Conference in Toronto. What I particularly like about these events and the Ontario Educators that went to these two events is that the conversation is certainly not an echo chamber. In our discussions, we talk and push each other to think about the WHYs that go with what we’re doing. That is so helpful.
It was with a smile that I read that Monica was planning to run in Scarborough-Agincourt. Monica has strong ideas and opinions about education and isn’t happy with the status quo. I think that she’s perfectly placed to take on the challenge of representing people in that huge school district.
Many who head into political office do so with a machine behind them. Monica’s working to build a social machine. Whether it’s through her Facebook fan page, Twitter account, or personal website, she’s doing her best to build community to help spread her message. Reading the content recently, she does have friends and followers, but not necessarily in Scarborough-Agincourt. Hopefully, that grows as she heads towards the February 27th election date. She did get a little bit of traditional media coverage which can be a challenge in a by-election.
So, how does a first time politician get money to run? There have been a lot of fund raisers that I’ve heard of before but how about attending a Yoga Class together? Is this a sign of new thinking to come? Her friend Colin Harris already has blogged about her thoughts of planning and expecting excellence. These are the sorts of things that we need driving education towards the future.
It would be terrific and a positive sign for the future that candidates who know and use the technology are taking the time to get elected and move the educational system forward. I just wish that I could vote for her.
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Myths About Drugs and Booze In the Creative Process Have Been Perpetuated By People Who Should Know Better
Originally published in Seattle Weekly
Let's be honest: Drinking alcohol and taking drugs is fun. Unfortunately, in America there's a culturally ingrained fear of mentioning this obvious fact, and that obscures and garbles every attempt at rational conversation on the topic. Drug advocates are forced into the posture of arguing that marijuana is some kind of anti-anxiety and glaucoma medicine. Drinking and recreational drug use are only referred to in the national press in terms of a public-health crisis. This hysteria around the topic of getting high--the equating of all drug use with addiction and abuse--is one of the primary sources of the credibility gap that divides what we call "alternative" culture from "mainstream" culture.
Within the music community, getting high is a kind of shorthand for all the ways we're different from the high-collared moralizers on the other side of the cultural wall. The fact that drugs and alcohol are openly consumed and freely discussed within the music scene contributes to musicians' sense of themselves as more liberated, more honest. Still, the fact that drugs are a taboo subject in the culture at large imbues them with a false mystique even among people who should know better.
Musicians, of all people, are in a position to have a clear-eyed and unromantic perception of drugs. We're surrounded by them, and by people who are strung out on them. We confront drunks and tweakers and zombies on a daily basis, both on and offstage. You would think there'd be no mystery left.
But the music world is where mythologizers of drugs and alcohol find their last and safest refuge. People shake their heads ruefully at the fate of Layne Staley or Elliott Smith, but earlier this year a talented young Seattle artist, clearly struggling with alcoholism, was promoted by his own management as "elegantly wasted," as though puking up blood was one more reason to buy his album. Likewise, a few veteran musicians around town, beloved by all, routinely drink themselves into a puddle, as their friends and former bandmates edge away from them as the night wears on. Getting high is woven into the fabric of making art, of being young and chasing outsized dreams, but when it gets ugly, when it turns to darkness, musicians and band managers are no better than codependent housewives in owning up to the consequences. Everyone wants to bask in the reflected heat of a young star burning too hot, and no one wants to appear to judge when the flame-out follows. The line between "partying hard" and "falling down" is never easy to gauge, and a simple statement of fact like "Friend, you're too fucked up to drive" can be a deceptively difficult thing to say. But this is an area where musicians need to toughen up. Drunk driving, or overdosing, isn't cute, and calling bullshit on them isn't being judgmental, it's good manners.
One of the first and most common tropes about drugs is that they fuel creativity. I don't think there's any way to argue, at least initially, that they don't. A person's first experience with smoking pot or taking a psychotropic substance is, under most circumstances, accurately and best described as mind-expanding. Colors and sounds, newly fascinating, are the stuff from which art is made. I spent many hours as a stoned young man mesmerized by the simple, repetitive act of strumming my guitar, a scene easily mocked--stupid hippy, droning away on the three chords he knows, entranced by the mundane--but an overwhelmingly positive experience for me at the time. I bonded with the guitar partly by hearing it in the mildly euphoric state brought on by drugs, and that euphoria was easy to recapture after the drugs wore off. It wasn't a hallucination of something unreal, it was a perception of something that was true, something that might have escaped my attention without the aid of drugs, and something I could find again once I knew the way.
The idea that drugs fuel creativity is nothing new. The same can be said of almost any new experience or recognition of a new reality. But like anything perception-altering--love, adrenaline, or being a U.S. Senator--the effect dulls with time. The feeling you never thought you'd get tired of, eventually you get tired of. And unlike love, there are only so many ways you can reinvent the experience of taking drugs--eventually it boils down to the fact that you're just taking more drugs and stronger drugs, chasing the dragon. Drugs do fuel creativity, but being addicted to drugs, and especially dying from drugs, doesn't.
It's very hard to discuss this rationally or honestly with either drug users or drug prohibitionists. The equation of taking drugs with moral failure remains strong, yet drugs also have an unmatched countercultural cachet. In a country where political repression seldom affects the painter or guitar player, the cynical criminalization of drugs fosters a sense of exclusivity and resistance to authority among drug takers. When writers and poets in communist Czechoslovakia were being monitored by secret police, it fostered an explosive artistic movement. Writers and poets in America can only dream about being singled out for political repression (it might lead to sales, for God's sake!), but it is possible to get busted for $20 worth of pot. The sense of injustice at patently ludicrous laws, despite much lower stakes, is enough to give artists the persecuted feeling they crave. The mysterious air that results, the sense that drug-taking is anti-authoritarian, clouds the discussion of the real effects of drugs and alcohol even among those with first-hand experience.
Most people who get drunk and high do so without creating much of a problem--at least not a problem that requires military intervention and lengthy prison terms--so drug use clearly falls into the category of things that adults should be allowed to decide for themselves. Drugs, like alcohol, can be used responsibly. As an entertainer I know both those who have every privilege and those raised in abuse and poverty, and I can say with complete confidence that there is no profile for who will get addicted to drugs and who won't. Friends who have suffered through such diabolical childhoods that I choke when I think of them did nonetheless not become drug addicts or alcoholics, just as friends from loving, wealthy, supportive homes have died on the street from overdoses. There's no predicting it. Likewise, despite our almost constant access to drugs and alcohol, I don't think musicians and entertainers are any likelier to become addicts than your average citizen is. The world is full of junkie lawyers and drunk accountants, and believe me, the global drug trade is not being kept afloat by guitarists and their girlfriends. There may be more alcoholic guitarists than alcoholic ministers, but fewer guitarists are pedophiles, so it evens out.
As to whether drugs play a crucial role in creativity--well, I can think of no more destructive idea in music. For every good musical idea spawned in a drug-induced state, a dozen drunks and junkies are justifying their habits with the same lame excuse. Some of the edgiest performers I know never touch drugs, and some of the most boring performers I know swear by them. If anyone really holds to the idea that drugs play a central role in art-making, I would direct their attention to the collected work of Stone Temple Pilots. Drugs can be inspirational, yes--but after the inspiration wears off, the hard work of making art often has no worse enemy than the pipe or the bottle.
I've been straight for over 15 years. I like to joke that we all get an allotment of drugs and booze to last a lifetime, and I used all mine before I was 26. I'm not sad at the way things turned out, because being forced to choose a kind of cold-turkey existence has made my life dramatically better.
My 15 years of being clean has coincided with my 15 years playing music in Seattle, and I've seen every kind of melodramatic drug scene you can imagine, with new ones every day. The tragedies to me aren't the ones who die young. Life has a full complement of people who die young. The tragedies are the ones who slowly ebb, in thrall to the idea that drugs and alcohol are their friends and spiritual guides. Watching their art decline, replaced by bitterness or resignation, while they cling to their habits with the unyielding conviction that getting high is what sets them apart from the masses: That's a kind of dying that's hard to witness.
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3 MONTHS - 2 YEARS (MAXIMUM 10 CHILDREN & 4 STAFF)
On the upper floor, our duckling groups have 2 play rooms at their disposal. As well as their own changing room used for nappy and clothing changes, coat pegs for storage of children’s outer wear and slipper sacks.
The rooms are tailored to the smaller, non- walking babies, were toys and resources are accessible at their level.
We encourage a variation of messy play activities such as baked bean play, story and song time, physical games, manipulative skills, creating music and dance, outdoor play to name but a few
Routine is very important and this is why we make sure we follow your baby’s routine throughout their nursery day. Our practitioners aim to build close partnerships with parents and carers to help ensure the continuity of care between home and nursery. The babies are introduced gradually to different Nursery practitioners can support parents in areas such as weaning, routines and all other areas of their child’s development. On starting your child’s journey with us we ask you and your child’s keyworker to complete an ‘All About Me’ form so we can have an understanding of your child’s likes and dislikes and home routine.
We cater for a maximum of 10 children with 4 members of staff we have a high adult to child ratio. The children are able to split into 2 groups to provide support for children 3 – 12 months and another for 12 – 24 months. Activities are planned around the age appropriate milestones and individual interests of each child.
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As each individual day passes, it can be difficult to see your son growing up. Year-by-year, you see the changes in your son. Increases in height and weight confirm that he is, indeed, changing. Your daily routines don’t seem to vary, though. Here are ten unmistakable signs that your son is growing up.
1. He can take the adult dose of Tylenol. As soon as you no longer have to consider your son’s weight when administering medication of any kind, you can be sure that he is on the road to adulthood.
2. He increases in clothing size, especially making the jump from the kids’ section to the “young men’s” section.
3. He ceases throwing himself in your lap whenever he walks by. This is definitely a bittersweet mile marker!
4. He starts expressing a preference for how he wears his hair.
5. His friends start calling on the phone.
6. Girls start calling on the phone.
7. He has a specialized role on his sports team. He is no longer rotated or randomly assigned to a position.
8. He is old enough to drive.
9. He is starts shaving.
10. He understands the value of money…and realizes that $1.00 is a far cry from $10.00 or $100.00.
There are dozens more signs that your son is growing up. Physical indicators are always present, but, again, they are not always evident on a daily basis. One way to increase the chances of actually noticing the changes in your son is to keep a daily journal of his life.
A journal does not have to be long, detailed, or onerous. Consider just jotting down a few items each day related to your son. For example, most mothers make some sort of note when their son says his first word. Some note when he starts walking. The first time your son isn’t impressed when you give him a penny for his piggy bank, though? Most moms don’t note that, but it is a definite sign that your son is maturing! A daily journal can be a great gift for your son (or his wife) later in life, but it can be a great gift to yourself as well. If your son ends up having a behavioral, physical, or psychological issue later on, it can be tremendously helpful to be able to identify precisely when that particular issue first started. Memory is not nearly as reliable as the written record.
Go ahead and look at your son today and take note of what he does and what he’s like. Write it down. You’ll be glad you did!
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These ideas dont just echo the rhetoric of antisemitic nazi propaganda, but in some cases are the same arguments of subversion, degradation of racial purity. Holocaust denial includes any of the following claims. Books that deny the genocide of jews in the holocaust during world war ii. Mel mermelstein survived auschwitz, then sued holocaust deniers in court fed up with the lies and antisemitism, a california businessman partnered with.
Denying the holocaust is a thorough exploration of the rise and development holocaust denial. Deniers promote conspiracy theories about jewishcontrolled governments and media by attempting to undermine a history of horrific suffering. The growing assault on truth and memory, it was up to lipstadt to justify her criticism. But since academia and mainstream media keep pushing it, and because a new edition has been announced for late 2016, a thorough exposure. Lipstadt named writer david irving as a holocaust denier, leading him to sue her unsuccessfully for.
While most commentators have dismissed the holocaust deniers as antisemitic neonazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians michael shermer and alex grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these holocaust revisionists. The denial of the holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. The denial of the holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is. Day back outside the hall, the third mans fingers opening the book, finding the index. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content. Most of all, deniers focus on the extermination camp run by the. After seeing that i came to understand that lipstadt has a firm policy.
Sixteen european countries and israel have laws against holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million jews in europe by nazi germany in the 1930s and 1940s. In england, the burden of proof in libel cases rests on the defendant. Denying history takes a bold and indepth look at those who say the holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. A flood of refugeesafter kristallnacht, some jews realized that violence against them was bound to increase. The inspirational author behind the major motion picture denial, starring rachel weisz.
Denial forms the denial of the holocaust and genocide take many forms, from simply ignoring obvious facts by manipulating the sources, through minimizing the dimensions of genocide, to trivializing and rationalizing genocide by analogy and claiming that it is an acceptable example of the kinds of things that happen in wartime. Of the countries that ban holocaust denial, some, such as austria, germany. Try one of the apps below to open or edit this item. Holocaust denial and distortion generally claim that the holocaust was invented or exaggerated by jews as part of a plot to advance jewish interests. The growing assault on truth and memory, in which she gives her perspective of the political background, motiva. Denying the holocaust top results of your surfing denying the holocaust start download portable document format pdf and ebooks electronic books free online rating news 20162017 is books that can provide inspiration, insight, knowledge to the reader. Many countries also have broader laws that criminalize genocide denial.
How to understand and confront holocaust denial united for. Feb 07, 2017 in this edition of the aidan project podcast, aidan is joined by documentary filmmaker, frances harper, alongside richard payne, to discuss holocaust denial. Holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million jews in europe by nazi germany in the 1930s and 1940s, is illegal in 16 european countries and israel. The holocaust is the term that generally describes the genocide of european jews during. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Lipstadt named writer david irving as a holocaust denier, leading him to sue her unsuccessfully for libel see irving v penguin books ltd. Holocaust denial and distortion are forms of antisemitism, prejudice against or hatred of jews. This chapter argues that bare holocaust denialthe denial of the gas chambers, the sixmillion figure, and the nazi policy of exterminationis, in those parts of europe with direct experience with nazi rule, a form of hate speech. Running a finger down until coming upon irving, david, 8, 14, 111, 161163, 170. Historians agree that during world war ii, the nazis did kill millions of people during the holocaust, including many people in concentration camps. Countering holocaust denial in the twentyfirst century.
Working definition of holocaust denial and distortion the. Denial forms holocaust denial history auschwitzbirkenau. Holocaust denial is discourse and propaganda that deny the historical reality and the extent of the extermination of the jews by the nazis and their accomplices. Therefore, in the united states denying the holocaust or engaging in antisemitic hate speech is not illegal, except when there is an imminent threat of violence. Download pdf denying the holocaust free online new. Many other countries, particularly in europe where the holocaust occurred, have laws criminalizing holocaust denial and hate speech. Lipstadts book examines the evolution of holocaust denial from its immediate postwar origins to the rise of a modern denial movement, along with an examination of. A new book which does not deny the holocaust and the number of jews murdered in it has been published in egypt in recent days, israels leading newspaper yedioth ahronoth reported tuesday. Holocaust denial delegitimizes the suffering of jews, and exacerbates intergenerational traumas by denying holocaust history, and codifies antisemitic propaganda under the guise of academic research. Holocaust denial simple english wikipedia, the free.
The only thing missing is the importance of the internet in the spreading of the hate propaganda these days for the obvious reason, as the book was published before internet became mainstream and accessible to everyone. Lipstadts book examines the evolution of holocaust denial from its immediate postwar origins to the rise of a modern denial movement, along with an examination of the most famous and influential deniers and their claims. They agree that there is more proof in writing, pictures, and places about the holocaust than any other great killing of people. Deborah lipstadt, author of denying the holocaust, is appalled by the willingness of some students and the media to see holocaust denial as simply the other side. The growing assault on truth and memory deborah lipstadt. Lipstadt for years, those who claimed that the death of six million jews in nazi concentration camps was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful zionist conspiracy, were treated as harmless cranks. Constitution would have protected irvings right to free speech, but austria, along with belgium, france, germany, israel, spain, poland, lithuania and switzerland all have laws against denying the holocaust. Holocaust denial and hate speech oxford scholarship. With her book denying the holocaust, deborah lipstadt tried to show the flawed methods and extremist motives of holocaust deniers, who, so the books description claims, have no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. The jews of the holocaust kristallnacht marked a major stepup in the nazi policy of jewish persecution. Sometimes, for example, where the holocaust is not explored fully as part of the school. Forty years ago, such notions were the province of.
May 11, 2019 lipstadt, but as another holocaust historian with a phd, i have to say that her statements are accurate. In this edition of the aidan project podcast, aidan is joined by documentary filmmaker, frances harper, alongside richard payne, to discuss holocaust denial. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements. A comparative analysis of holocaust denial in the internet age. Denying the source download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Many other countries, particularly in europe where the holocaust occurred, have laws criminalizing holocaust denial and hate. Holocaust denial and distortion united states holocaust. Holocaust denial is any attempt to negate the established facts of the nazi genocide of european jews. Addressing holocaust denial, distortion and trivialization osce. In this first fullscale history of holocaust denial, lipstadt shows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses.
Sponsored by emory universitys witness to the holocaust program and. Alan levy nazi hunter the wiesenthal file internet archive. Mel mermelstein survived auschwitz, then sued holocaust. Click download or read online button to get denying the source book now. In 1996, emory university professor deborah lipstadt found herself in a peculiar situation. Click download or read online button to denying the holocaust book pdf for free now. The united states constitution ensures freedom of speech.
Lipstadts book denying the holocaust is the most pitiful book ever written against revisionism. It was a quirk of the english legal system that allowed the battle to play out in court. Liptsadt is being used as a location for deniala film about the astonishing legal battle fought 20 years ago by deborah lipstadt, at the time a littleknown american academic who specialised in the holocaust. A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion. My next encounter with the topic was seeing the denial movie about the lipstadtirving trial. Aug 04, 2019 denying the holocaust deborah lipstadt pdf by.
The book is partly a history of the denial movement and the denyimg or six men who got it going. Holocaust denial is the claim that the holocaust did not happen, or was not as bad as most people think it was. Lipstadt for defamation, to allow the public to take freely cognizance of the sentences and. But since academia and mainstream media keep pushing it, and because a new edition has been announced for late 2016, a thorough exposure of her incompetence and mendacity was overdue. The growing assault on truth and memory pdf for free, preface. Holocaust denial is the act of denying the nazi genocide of jews in the holocaust during world war ii. Of the countries that ban holocaust denial, some, such as austria, germany, hungary, and romania, were among the.
Nov 17, 2016 so, when irving filed a libel lawsuit against professor lipstadt and her british publisher for critical statements lipstadt wrote about him in her 1993 book denying the holocaust. Backed up with hundreds of references to thoroughly researched studies, the present book demonstrates. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million jews in nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful zionist conspiracy. Denying the holocaust download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Ebook denying the holocaust as pdf download portable. The author has certainly done her research and has tons of documentation supporting her alarm at the sheer size of the lipstadt shows that tens of thousands of witnesses of the holocaust are still alive and there is conclusive documentary evidence for it.
The holocaust denial materials are often quite slick, couched in scholarly dress, mixing kernels of truth with whopping lies, cleverly misquoting or quoting outofcontext bonafide scholars of the nazi era and holocaust all with the aim to portray the victims of atrocity as aggressive conspirators. Although he does not specifically write holocaust denial literature, david irving has been labeled by deborah lipstadt as one of the. A forceful analysis of attempts to deny the nazi holocaust. That nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers for the genocidal mass. Ebook denying the holocaust as pdf download portable document. Download pdf denialholocausthistoryontrial free online.
I also noted that legislation had been passed by the eu, partially. Who are some of the key people who dispute what holocaust deniers say. American professor of jewish history and holocaust research, published a book entitled denying the holocaust. On 8 september 1985 british tv screened a film which shows grisly scenes from the nazi death camps. The growing assault on truth and memory is a 1993 book by the historian deborah lipstadt, in which the author discusses the holocaust denial movement. Irving, who deny that the holocaust ever happened or who question the scope of the tragedy. She and a team of lawyers would have to defend the truth about the holocaust against british historian and famed holocaust denier david irving. Denying the holocaust download denying the holocaust ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Download pdf denying the holocaust free online new books.374 736 223 449 374 943 1394 1231 1472 359 111 1019 537 738 1355 760 1524 565 778 1604 535 1161 708 317 353 1018 980 1109 899 674 87 1458 390 1645 167 1383 398 620 363 381 790 984 1343 1147 310 105
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I’m speaking on a DRM Roundtable 10:30AM tomorrow at Seybold San Francisco. The panel will address current and future trends in Digital Rights Management (or the pejorative: Digital Restrictions Management).
We have two FAQs addressing Creative Commons and DRM, reproduced below:
Is Creative Commons involved in digital rights management (DRM)?
No; we prefer to describe the technical aspect of our work as digital rights description. Whereas digital rights management tools try to prevent certain uses of copyright works and restrict your rights, we’re trying to promote certain uses and grant you rights. Instead of having software say, “No, you cannot modify this file,” we want it to say something more like “The author will let you modify this file, but in return, give her credit.”
While the tools are similar, our goals are different. Instead of using one of the many DRM formats, we’ve chosen to go with the W3C’s RDF/XML format. Instead of saying “We’re not placing these restrictions,” we say “We grant you these permissions,” so that search engines and other applications can easily find generously licensed works and sort them.
A physical analogy may be helpful. It’s DRM’s job to put up signs that say “No Trespassing.” It would seem silly to take those signs and change them to say “Yes Trespassing,” which is what using a DRM format to express our licenses would be like. Instead, we’re building new signs that say “Welcome, Please Come In,” and that use different colors and designs to convey their different messages.
We’re leaving “enforcement” to the law, social norms, and the good faith of the participants. Our tools act as informative aids, not instruments of control. We want to help copyright holders notify others of their obligations and freedoms, and to help everyone find places on the Internet where creative reuses are encouraged.
What happens if someone tries to protect a CC-licensed work with digital rights management (DRM) tools?
If a person uses DRM tools to restrict any of the rights granted in the license, that person violates the license. All of our licenses prohibit licensees from “distributing the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement.”
For those not lucky enough to attend the panel, in addition to covering the FAQ points above I will give examples for positive use cases of Digital Rights Description in the areas of
- Resource Management
and draw some broad distinctions between DRM and DRD:
- Copy/Use promotion vs. Copy/Use protection
- Encourage fans vs. Discourage casual pirates
- Resource management vs. Customer management
- Web content model vs. 20th century content model
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Robotic technology is nothing more than an enhancement along the continuum of laparoscopic technological advances and represents only the beginning of numerous more forthcoming advances. It constitutes a major improvement in the efficiency, accuracy, ease, and comfort associated with the performance of laparoscopic operations. Instrument articulation, downscaling of movements, absence of tremor, 3-D image, and comfort for the surgeon, assistant and scrub nurse are all new to the practice of laparoscopy. In our hands, robotic operative times for simple and radical hysterectomy are shorter than those obtained by conventional laparoscopy. Robotic technology is preferable to conventional laparoscopic instrumentation for the surgical treatment of gynecologic malignancies and most operations for benign disease of certain complexity such as hysterectomy myomectomy, and invasive pelvic endometriosis.
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Iain Duncan Smith has backed Boris Johnson’s claim that the EU has the same goal as Hitler in trying to create a political superstate, despite the remain camp branding the comments “offensive and desperate”.
The former mayor of London drew criticism on Saturday after making the link between the EU and the Nazi dictator in a newspaper interview. While he acknowledged the EU was using “different methods” to the Nazis, his incendiary comparison quickly enraged remain campaigners.
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Johnson, seen as the de facto leader of the leave campaign, said the past 2,000 years of European history had been dominated by doomed attempts to unify the continent under a single government to recreate the “golden age” of the Romans.
“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” he said.
“But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe. There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void.”
As the remarks were condemned as inflammatory and offensive by Labour and Tory remain campaigners, Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary, said Johnson’s interview was “rather good”.
Defending Johnson’s use of “historical parallels”, Duncan Smith said: “He talked about this nonsensical idea of trying to drive these different countries [together]. It’s a historical fact of life that if you go through Napoleon, Hitler, everyone else … I think the whole process of trying to drive Europe together by force or by bureaucracy ultimately makes problems.”
Responding to the comments, the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, said: “Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass.
“After the horror of the second world war, the EU helped to bring an end to centuries of conflict in Europe, and for Boris Johnson to make this comparison is both offensive and desperate.”
The former cabinet minister Yvette Cooper, a member of the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign, accused Johnson of playing a “nasty, nasty game”.
“The more he flails around with this kind of hysterical claim, the more he exposes his shameful lack of judgement, his willingness to play the most divisive cynical politics, and the emptiness of his arguments,” she said.
“One week it is dog-whistle attacks on President Obama. Now he is trying to liken the institution that has kept peace on our continent for decades with Hitler, who pursued the genocide of millions of innocent people.
“All because he is desperately seeking headlines for a desperate campaign. He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history. The EU has played a critical role keeping peace in Europe ever since.”
Lord Bramall, the former chief of the defence staff, who took part in the Normandy landings, said: “I know only too well, this comparison of the EU and Nazi Germany is absurd. Hitler’s main aim was to create an empire in the east and violently subjugate Europeans. Any connection between that and the EU is simply laughable.”
Sir Eric Pickles, the Conservative former communities secretary, drew a comparison between Johnson and Ken Livingstone, a former London mayor, who was suspended from Labour for suggesting Hitler supported Zionism. He said: “If the last few weeks tell us anything: it is rarely a help to mention Hitler in support of an argument by an ex-mayor of London.”
Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, said Johnson was “yet another tuppenny tin-pot imitation Churchill promising to ‘fight them on the beaches’ while weakening our defences and wrecking our economy.”
Owen Smith, a Labour shadow cabinet minister, said Johnson was “a cut-rate Donald Trump.” “It’s a ridiculous and facetious comment by a man who is apt to make ridiculous and facetious comments,” Smith told LBC. “I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.”
“I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.”
The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
Lord Lamont said the headline for Johnson’s comments was misleading, telling Murnaghan on Sky News: “I don’t think [Johnson] was saying people who favour the European Union were comparable to Nazis.
“He was simply saying that historically, from the Romans, Charlemagne, Napoleon, there have been all sorts of attempts to dominate Europe and these have all floundered because Europe is not naturally one entity.”
Asked if Johnson’s remarks were helpful to the leave campaign, Lamont said: “I don’t actually think what he said, as it was said, was so outrageous. I think the headline is misleading.”
Pressed on whether he wished Johnson had not made the comments, Lamont said: “I myself referred not so long ago but was very careful to say, ‘I’m not comparing people who support Europe to Nazis’, but it actually is a fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe.”
Johnson made the comments in a newspaper interview after touring the south-west on a Vote Leave battlebus, as speculation grows that he will make a move for the Tory leadership if Cameron resigns in the event of a British exit from the EU or narrow remain vote.
Cameron has always insisted that he will carry on regardless of the result, but many MPs believe he will have no choice but to resign if the country rejects his call to remain or only narrowly votes to stay.
In comments clearly designed to stoke tensions within the Conservative party over the referendum, Farage said he could even envisage a situation in which he would work for Johnson in government.
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Farage rejected suggestions that Johnson would not be serious enough to be prime minister if Cameron were forced to stand down. “Boris goes on surprising people. They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker – it’s like Ronnie Reagan. Could he do it? Yes. If you’d asked me six months ago, I’d have said no, but I’ve changed my mind,” he said.
Asked if he would like to work for Johnson if there were a vote to leave the EU, Farage said: “I love Boris, respect him, admire him; I’m a Boris fan. Could I work for him? Yes. Could I see a scenario if he was PM and he asked me to do something? I wouldn’t rule it out.”
In an interview with Peston on Sunday, he also revealed he would back Republican candidate Donald Trump for US president over Democrat Hillary Clinton while acknowledging he had reservations about him.
“You put me up against a wall, it’s got to be him, not Hillary – but I have reservations: encouraging people to beat up protesters, one or two things like that bother me. But I’ll tell you what: I think he’s going to win,” he said.
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|Title:||Numerical Simulations of the Rapid Cyclogenesis Over Canada and Evolution of a Cold Front Observed on 25-26 April 1979 (sesame-Ave-Iii)|
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|Abstract:||The rapid development of a cyclone over Canada and a cold front over the United States were the major weather systems observed on 25-26 April 1979 during the period of SESAME-AVE (Severe Environment Storm and Mesoscale Experiment-Atmospheric Variability Experiment) III. The objectives of this study are two-fold; one is to investigate the mechanisms of this rapid cyclogenesis, the other is to discuss the synoptic- and meso-scale environment with the cold front. A regional scale prediction model, which is the quasi-Lagrangian nested model developed by Mathur (1983) and modified in this study, was used to achieve these objectives. FGGE (First GARP (Global Atmosphere Research Program) Global Experiment) level IIIb and IIb data were used as input and verification data for numerical simulations, and for a diagnostic study.
There were two cyclones involved in the event over Canada (designated as cyclones A and B). Cyclone A was given rise as a shallow surface pressure low. As the incipient cyclone A was moving southeastward, a region of high potential vorticity in the upper- and mid-troposphere, representing the tropopause folding, closed in. As a result, horizontal advection of absolute vorticity as well as differential temperature advection increased over the center of cyclone A, making cyclone A more intense and deep in its vertical extent. On the other hand, cyclone B was born shallow and remained shallow until it merged with cyclone A. Before merging, it propagated northeastward within a zone of small Richardson number. Further, relative vorticity associated with it had its maximum at the level just above the planetary boundary layer. It is concluded that cyclone B was intensified by localized baroclinic instability. The evolution of these cyclones were well simulated even with a dry model, suggesting that condensation heating was not crucial for their development. The evolution of environments associated with the cold front was well predicted by the model in comparison with the observations. The moist southerly low-level flow provided moisture convergence ahead of the front, while temperature inversion ahead of the southern portion of the cold front prohibited convection there.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988.
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Edited by Rosalind H. Searle and Denise Skinner
Chapter 6: Human Resource Management, Person–Environment Fit and Trust
6. Human resource management, person–environment fit and trust Corine Boon and Deanne N. Den Hartog INTRODUCTION A good match between employees and their work environment, also labeled ‘person–environment (PE) fit’, benefits both individual employees and the organizations that they work for (Bretz and Judge, 1994; Kristof, 1996; Kristof-Brown et al., 2005b) Research has shown that PE fit is associated with positive attitudes, behaviors and performance of employees, including trust (Kristof-Brown et al., 2005b). Different types of PE fit are distinguished. The most widely studied type of PE fit is the match between employees and the organizations they work in, person–organization (PO) fit, also labeled ‘value congruence’. Other types of PE fit that have been studied are the match between employees and their jobs (person–job (PJ) fit), their team or workgroup (person–group (PG) fit), and their supervisor (person–supervisor (PS) fit) (ibid.). Researchers have suggested that high value congruence, which implies a strong culture and shared values among employees, relates to higher levels of employee trust. The social identity literature, for example, shows that positive beliefs associated with group membership influence trust and cooperation (Williams, 2001). Also, the strong culture that results from high value congruence creates a sense of corporate community, which enhances trust (Zeffane and Connell, 2003). Of the different types and degrees of trust that are distinguished, relationship and identificationbased forms seem particularly closely linked to PE fit, for example, as identification-based trust is ‘such that both parties assume a common identity, and...
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Across Los Altos
The seeds of my south-of-the-border adventure had been sown six years earlier, when I met Jorge Serrano Zermeno, aka “Pancho,” at a horse sale held on the Wyoming ranch where he worked at the time.
As we talked, the Mexican cowboy told me of his life back home, and described for me his family’s hacienda, located near the beautiful town of Lagos de Moreno, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, a few hours west of Mexico City.
Proud of his country’s horsemanship heritage and ranch culture, Pancho said that he dreamed of one day returning to Mexico, and to the hacienda, and of sharing his country’s cowboy traditions with guests from around the globe.
Sure enough, when his stint in Wyoming ended, Pancho returned south and set to work on his project. In March of last year, some fellow riders and I joined him for a horseback excursion across Los Altos, the Mexican high desert. For six days, we rode from hacienda to hacienda, traveling portions of the historic Camino Real and, along the way, working beside charros as they gathered cattle and branded calves.
A year later, I find myself missing the warmth of Mexico’s people. They are generous in their hospitality, proud of their culture, and unmatched in their horse, cattle and rope-handling techniques.
To see more of the photos from this story, pick up the March issue of Western Horseman. Guy de Galard is a Wyoming-based freelance writer and photographer. For more information on attending a hacienda-to-hacienda ride, contact Jorge Serrano Zermeno at email@example.com.
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Today we will see plenty of rain as a large band of rain cloud moves across the central parts of the UK. The radar images are suggesting that the further north you travel today (towards Stoke and Manchester) the heavier the rain will be.
The risk of prolonged periods of rain today is 99%. To confirm the opinion that a low pressure system is moving into the area is that the readings on the barometer (at the time of observations) are reducing rapidly. By mid afternoon the low pressure system will be centered on central UK and the air pressure will be around 1008mb (a reduction of around 10mb).
With long periods of rain comes the risk of flooding. The Met office have issued a yellow weather warning for the Staffordshire area. On high ground (above 400m the rain could fall with some snow). The risk of rain will remain with us during daylight hours.
The top temperature will be around 11c and overnight the low will be around 4c. (last night’s lowest temperature was 2.9c at 01:25 hours)
Our wind today will be deriving from the S-SW this morning before moving clockwise to end the day from the cool WNW-NW. The average wind speed will be around 8mph with gusts of up to 25mph. The wind chill will reduce the feel of the top temperature by around 3c.
It is certainly a day to wrap up warm and waterproof if you have to go outside today.
Summary: A day with frequent showers and prolonged periods of rain.
Observations made 07:30 hours Hammerwich, Staffordshire.
Air pressure : 1018.5mb reducing rapidly; Temperature 4.6c ; Relative humidity :88%; Wind: 2mph SW; Rain this month : 26.8mm; Rain this year : 500.2mm.
Hammerwich weather, Lichfield weather, Burntwood, weather, Brownhills weather, Bloxwich weather, Pelsall weather, WS7 weather, Walsall weather
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The erhu, a two-stringed instrument somewhat like a violin, appeared in China more than a thousand years ago. The zheng, a plucked half-tube wood zither, dates even farther back to 2,500 years ago, and the marimba, a wooden keyboard, evolved from early African instruments.
If you put the three instruments together, as Canada’s renowned Orchid Ensemble does, they produce a soothing, ancient sound that is unfamiliar to most modern audiences. At 2:30 p.m. on March 1, the ensemble will bring their unique, Chinese and Chinese-blended music to the Austin Peay State University Music/Mass Communication Building’s Concert Hall for a free concert.
“Orchid Ensemble defines the very essence of Canadian Music,” The Whole Note magazine recently proclaimed. “It crisscrosses both time and space, spanning over 2,000 years of cultural inspiration and influence.”
The group features percussionist Jonathan Bernard on marimba, Lan Teng on erhu and Yu-chen Wang on zheng. The ensemble has been recognized by the Juno Awards, the Western Canada Music Awards and the West Coast Music Awards. It receives regular support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.
The Orchid Ensemble has performed at concert halls and prominent music festivals across North America, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery, Canada’s National Arts Centre, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Festival Miami and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Children’s Festival and Folk Festival.
For more information on the March 1 concert, contact the APSU Department of Music at 221-7818.
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Particle-water interactions of Ni and Zn in coastal waters
Samples of suspended particulate matter (SPM) and sediment were collected from the Humber coastal zone during six seasonal and inter-annual surveys (November 1993 - July 1995) on board RRS Challenger as part of the NERC Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) initiative. Concentrations of Ni, Zn, Fe and Mn, extracted using a 1M HCl digest, were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry techniques. Particulate Ni and Zn both exhibited a pronounced seasonal distribution in the Humber coastal zone. Significant metal-salinity relationships were obtained for both metals indicating the Humber Estuary to be a significant source of Nip and Znp to the region. Metal distributions in the coastal zone were influenced by residual flow and tidal range at the mouth of the estuary, as well as wind speed and direction. Estimated fluxes of dissolved and particulate Ni and Zn from the Humber mouth to the North Sea indicated significant seasonal variation for both metals (17-290 kg dayˉ¹ Ni; 34-1737 kg dayˉ¹ Zn) and identified transport in the particulate phase dominant in autumn/winter (61-82 % Ni; 68-92 % Zn) but less significant in spring/summer (2-41 % Ni; 15-72 % Zn). Comparison to estuarine inputs suggested retainment of Ni and Zn within the Estuary. In the Humber mouth and throughout the Plume Nip and Znp concentrations significantly correlated to Fep suggesting uptake onto Fe-oxyhydroxide phases was important. Trace metal settling velocities indicated a significant seasonal variation in the settling of Ni (<1-163 µm sˉ¹) and Zn (2-218 µm sˉ¹) with these metals generally settling slower than the average SPM in winter but at the same rate in spring. Particle-solute interactions of Ni and Zn, investigated using the radioisotopes ⁶³Ni and ⁶⁵zn, indicated significant variation in metal partitioning (Kd) for the SPM end-members of the Humber coastal zone with Ni Kd's varying from 6.7 x 10² for Holderness Cliff material, to 13.0 x 10² for estuarine SPM and up to a maximum of 22 x 10² during spring/summer phytoplankton blooms. These results provide the basis of a consistent seasonal data base of trace metal distributions within the Humber coastal Zone which will substantially contribute to the development and parameterization of a fine sediment transport model for trace metal contaminants in coastal zones.
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Generation R – Millennials are largely living at home or opting to rent. What happens when homeownership is less accessible to younger Americans?
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There is a big challenge when someone comes of age during an economic crisis. Millennials, the children of baby boomers born between 1982 and 2000 have largely grown into an economy that was fully in shambles. This is a generation that grew up with parents talking about the middle class as if it were a foregone conclusion. Their parent’s went to school when it was affordable, came of age when jobs were plentiful, and housing costs were reasonable relative to incomes. Those days are largely gone. While some in the real estate industry scratch their heads as to why homeownership for younger Americans is so low, they should spend some time analyzing the cross-currents that are hitting this cohort. The older Millennials are well into their first home buying years yet their homeownership rates are far below those of previous generations. It was thought that once the Great Recession ended in 2009 that somehow these people would be back at it and buying homes. Yet growing up during a time of massive uncertainty leaves a psychological impact on how you view your future goals. Many are opting not to buy homes and many others simply cannot afford to leave home. The apt title for this cohort is Generation R, as in a new generation of renters.
Does the American Dream carry the same weight for Millennials?
When we look at homeownership data broken out by age groups, we find that many younger Americans bought during the apex of the housing bubble. Many went into massive debt to purchase a home when they were already carrying high levels of student debt. As the housing bubble burst, many who were junior in their careers, were at times the first to be let go. Also, since they bought at the peak, they were severely underwater and many were unable to carry their mortgage payments.
There is a growing amount of data suggesting that homeownership will be very different for future cohorts of Americans, particularly the young:
“(Century Foundation) According to Census data, less than half of those aged 25–34 years old are homeowners today, the lowest percentage since 1999. Despite a brief upsurge in young homeowners signing subprime leases during the heady days of the mid-2000s, on net nearly all of the 11 million unit household growth of the last ten years occurred among older households, while Millennials—children of the Baby Boomers born between 1982 and 2000—are now overwhelmingly choosing to rent or move home with their parents. That’s problematic because first-time buyers are critical to the health of the housing market, which depends on new blood to finance older sellers’ movement into the higher ranges of the market. It’s also a major contributing factor in the continued weakness of the construction sector: single-family housing starts for February were down 12.5 percent from the same time two years ago, while renter-friendly housing was up 197.5 percent.”
This is incredibly important information. The middle class was largely developed around the mythology of owning a home. Most Americans contain all of their net worth in the equity of their home. Yet today, home prices are largely out of the reach of younger Americans with lower salaries. Take a look at the above chart. You can see that homeownership for younger Americans peaked during the height of the housing bubble. Since then, it has fully retreated.
That is one source of information. The impact of the housing bubble popping on Millennials can be seen even more dramatically when we look at those now living at home with parents:
There is a near perfect correlation here. As the bubble burst many younger Americans were forced to move in with their parents or many simply never left the nest. This is largely driven by financial forces versus any sudden shift in wanting to live with mom and dad. The problem is that mom and dad are also struggling with their retirement planning. Since the Great Recession ended the large buying in the housing industry has come from investors. The growth in renting households has been dramatic.
You can see the problem for the housing industry with household formation:
This weak growth in household formation is largely due to younger households living at home or simply linking up with roommates under one roof. It also helps to explain why construction and home building continues to be weak. Investors in many cases are buying up existing inventory simply to rent out to households. It will be interesting to see whether motivations for home buying shift for Millennials. I would argue that we would first need to see a shift in wages and jobs before seeing a surge in home buying. Generation R is the new trend here and many are redefining the definition of the American Dream when it comes to homeownership.
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I. MAKING THE LINE FOLLOWING SENSOR MOUNT:
To make the mount for the IR sensors you need the following
11. 16K to 1M Photoresistor (BUY NOW)
1. First bend over the two middle legs of the QRB1134 , so that they touch each other .
2. Then solder the two middle legs of EVERY sensor together
( STEPS 3 -5 SHOULD ONLY BE DONE TO TWO SENSORS. AFTER STEP 5 IS FOR THE THREE OTHER SENSORS )
3. Put a washer on the 1/2" machine screw.
4. Using a screwdriver , screw in the 1/2" screw with the washer into the sensor. Make sure the washer does not fall off.
5. Repeat this so you have two screws which have 1/2" screws going through them. This is the outside sensors .
6. Now mount one of the remaining sensors through its screw on the long side of an L bracket. Put a nut on the end. The order is:
Sensor with screw in it ----L bracket ---- nut
7. Repeat Step 15 for the other sensor.
8. Now mount an L bracket with sensor to one side of the mending plate .
9. Repeat Step 17 for the other sensor and screw.
10. Now take the 1 1/2" machine screw and put a washer on it. We are now mounting the three middle sensors.
11. Using a screwdriver, screw in the screw through one of the sensors.
12. Now push the end of the screw through a hole on only one mending plate .
13. Now add four #8 washers through the screw so that on the screw there is the following c
omponents in the following order.
Washer --- Sensor --- Mending plate --- 4 washers
14. Use the screwdriver again and screw in the 1 1/2" long screw through another sensor. The order on the screw should be like this:
Washer --- Sensor --- Mending plate --- 4 washers ---Sensor
15. Add four more washers to the end of the screw. The arrangment on the screw looks like this:
Washer --- Sensor --- Mending plate --- 4 washers ---- Sensor --- 4 washers
16. Push the second mending plate onto the end of the screw. The order now looks like this:
Washer --- Sensor --- Mending plate --- 4 washers ---- Sensor --- 4 washers --- Mending Plate
17. Screw in another sensor at the end and put a washer and a #8 nut on the end . Almost done!
Washer --- Sensor --- Mending plate --- 4 washers ---- Sensor --- 4 washers --- Mending Plate --- Sensor --
Washer -- Nut
18. Tighten the nut with pliers or a ratchet and make sure all the sensors are aligned and facing the same way.
Alright we mounted the middle sensors!
19. Now align all the sensors and tighten all the nuts. 95% Done !
20. Next just solder red wires to all the legs except the middle pins.
21. Mark the wire that is attached to the S side with white wire.
22. Solder a black wire to all of the middle pins of all the sensors. Solder all these wires together. Look in the picture carefully to notice the black wires.
23. Solder a black wire to the any another black wire connected to a sensor. This will be the wire which is negative or ground for the entire sensor array.
24. Now apply the heat shrink to the pins of the sensors. Place your soldering near the heat shrink to shrink it. Then you can add hotglue on top of the heatshrink or instead of the heatshrink.
25. NOW THAT WASN'T THAT HARD! :#)
One more step and the entire mount is done. Take a photoresistor , cover it in heatshrink and hotglue it in between the two mending plates. Instructions are here , follow them exactly!
So you should have something that looks like this:
Also right now you should mark the sensor wires with a specific label or with a specific color electrical tape. I just wrapped a different color electrical tape for each sensors wires .
Now remember those wires marked with white tape? Do the following to them.
The outermost left sensor's signal wire should be wrapped with yellow tape .
The outermost right sensor's signal wire should be wrapped with green tape.
The left sensor's signal wire should be wrapped with blue tape.
The center sensor's signal wire should be wrapped with red tape .
The right sensor's signal wire should be wrapped with white tape .
MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHICH WIRE GOES WHERE. LABEL IT WITH A REGULAR LABEL OR WITH TAPE. KNOW WHICH IS THE SIGNAL WIRE AND POWER WIRE FOR EACH SENSOR.
An optional choice here would be to add wire connectors to each of the sensor wires . Instructions can be found in this tutorial created by Admin http://www.societyofrobots.com/electronics_wire_connector.shtml
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Bill C-10 is titled The Safe Streets and Communities Act — an ironic name, considering that Canada already has some of the safest streets and communities in the world and a declining crime rate. This bill will do nothing to improve that state of affairs but, through its overreach and overreaction to imaginary problems, Bill C-10 could easily make it worse. It could eventually create the very problems it’s supposed to solve.
Bill C-10 will require new prisons; mandate incarceration for minor, non-violent offences; justify poor treatment of inmates and make their reintegration into society more difficult. Texas and California, among other jurisdictions, have already started down this road before changing course, realizing it cost too much and made their justice system worse. Canada is poised to repeat their mistake.
The Canadian Bar Association, representing over 37,000 lawyers across the country, has identified 10 reasons why the passage of Bill C-10 will be a mistake and a setback for Canada:
1. Ignoring reality. Decades of research and experience have shown what actually reduces crime: (a) addressing child poverty, (b) providing services for the mentally ill and those afflicted with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, (c) diverting young offenders from the adult justice system, and (d) rehabilitating prisoners, and helping them to reintegrate into society. Bill C-10 ignores these proven facts.
2. Rush job. Instead of receiving a thorough review, Bill C-10 is being rushed through Parliament purely to meet the “100-day passage” promise from the last election. Expert witnesses attempting to comment on more than 150 pages of legislation in committee hearings are cut off mid-sentence after just five minutes.
3. Spin triumphs over substance. The federal government has chosen to take a “marketing” approach to Bill C-10, rather than explaining the facts to Canadians. This campaign misrepresents the bill’s actual content and ensures that its public support is based heavily on inaccuracies.
4. No proper inspection. Contrary to government claims, some parts of Bill C-10 have received no previous study by parliamentary committee. Other sections have been studied before and were changed — but, in Bill C-10, they’re back in their original form.
5. Wasted youth. More young Canadians will spend months in custodial centres before trial, thanks to Bill C-10. Experience has shown that at-risk youth learn or reinforce criminal behaviour in custodial centres; only when diverted to community options are they more likely to be reformed.
6. Punishments eclipse the crime. The slogan for one proposal was Ending House Arrest for Serious and Violent Criminals Act, but Bill C-10 will actually also eliminate conditional sentences for minor and property offenders and instead send those people to jail. Is roughly $100,000 per year to incarcerate someone unnecessarily a good use of taxpayers’ money?
7. Training predators. Bill C-10 would force judges to incarcerate people whose offences and circumstances clearly do not warrant time in custody. Prison officials will have more latitude to disregard prisoners’ human rights, bypassing the least restrictive means to discipline and control inmates. Almost every inmate will re-enter society someday. Do we want them to come out as neighbours, or as predators hardened by their prison experience?
8. Justice system overload. Longer and harsher sentences will increase the strains on a justice system already at the breaking point. Courts and Crown prosecutors’ offices are overwhelmed as is, legal aid plans are at the breaking point, and police forces don’t have the resources to do their jobs properly. Bill C-10 addresses none of these problems and will make them much worse.
9. Victimizing the most vulnerable. With mandatory minimums replacing conditional sentences, people in remote, rural and northern communities will be shipped far from their families to serve time. Canada’s aboriginal people already represent up to 80 per cent of inmates in institutions in the Prairies, a national embarrassment that Bill C-10 will make worse.
10. How much money? With no reliable price tag for its recommendations, there is no way to responsibly decide the bill’s financial implications. What will Canadians sacrifice to pay for these initiatives? Will they be worth the cost?
Canadians deserve accurate information about Bill C-10, its costs and its effects. This bill will change our country’s entire approach to crime at every stage of the justice system. It represents a huge step backwards; rather than prioritizing public safety, it emphasizes retribution above all else. It’s an approach that will make us less safe, less secure, and ultimately, less Canadian.
Trinda L. Ernst is president of the Canadian Bar Association.
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When it comes to mental and physical health, most people’s diets are deficient in the vitamins and minerals their bodies need to succeed. We’ve all heard the term “superfoods,” which refers to foods rich in vital nutrients. But just as important as incorporating these choices into our daily diets is discovering how we go about doing it.
“Across the board, as dietitians, we like to categorize foods,” says Julia Zumpano, a registered dietitian at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Human Nutrition. “It’s the methodology around not limiting yourself to one food but enhancing your choices within a category of food.”
She recommends focusing on whole foods, plant-based foods, berries, legumes, nuts, seeds, fish — specifically tuna and salmon — and healthy fats, such as extra virgin olive oil.
“The key is a variety of foods, and eating a good basis of nutrition each day,” Zumpano says.
When adding these choices into your diet, it’s also important to remove foods that do your body harm. They include beverages such as soda and alcohol, white bread, cookies, white condiments and processed meats.
“If you’re going to have a bacon-and-egg croissant and add blueberries, you’re not going to feel amazing,” Zumpano explains. “It’s important that we remove foods that are inflammatory and replace them with foods that are anti-inflammatory.”
The result: “You’ll physically feel better, sleep better and be less lethargic,” Zumpano says. “You’ll have more energy to exercise, and you might find that your hands and feet are less swollen and you have more joint movement.”
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On July 27, 2006, the first six TED Talks were posted online. Among them was Al Gore’s talk at TED2006, “Averting the climate crisis,” given a few months before the release of his groundbreaking documentary An Inconvenient Truth. With the release of the film, climate change stormed into public awareness. Fast-forward to 2016 and things have changed a lot, for both the discussion around climate change and TED.com. Both have grown and evolved in ways that would have been impossible to predict back in 2006.
When Al Gore took the stage at TED2006, there was little public discussion or even awareness of climate change. In fact, An Inconvenient Truth was so instrumental in making people aware of climate change that scientists actually study its impact. But the conversation in 2006 was very different than the doomsday-scenario, polarized discussions we sometimes hear today. It was casual and calm, and the solutions at the heart of the talk weren’t big or grandiose. They didn’t involve terraforming a new planet or growing baby corals to rebuild reefs or locking seeds away deep in a Norwegian mountain. They were simple, the kind you might put on a pamphlet: Buy a hybrid, consume and invest consciously, calculate your carbon footprint, reduce-reuse-recycle. That’s not to say these are not important steps, they are, but listening to the conversation in 2006, there isn’t the same sense of urgency that comes later. And in fact, the primary message is not about a particular solution, it’s about raising awareness. “Become a catalyst of change. Teach others, learn about it, talk about it,” urged Gore. (Jill Sobule added her voice to the 2006 conversation with the lighthearted song “Manhattan in January.”) The public conversation was in its infancy, and before we could focus on making serious change, we needed to get the word out …
2007-2008: Quiet period
… which takes time. In 2007, there’s a TED salon called “Hot Science” to dig further into climate and energy science, but otherwise TED Talks goes relatively quiet on climate change. We posted 8 talks on climate change in 2007 (though some were filmed before 2007, before we had a website to put them on), and in 2008, we posted just 2 talks on climate change, including a follow-up talk from the newly minted Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The lull in coverage is reflective of the larger public and political conversation, or lack thereof. As Gore noted in his 2008 talk, “The top journalists for NBC asked 956 questions in 2007 of the presidential candidates. Two of them were about the climate crisis. ABC: 844 questions, two about the climate crisis. Fox: two. CNN: two. CBS: zero.”
Even harder than getting people to talk was getting them to care, he said. “There has been progress, but here is the key: when given a list of challenges to confront, global warming is still listed at near the bottom. What is missing is a sense of urgency. If you agree with the factual analysis, but you don’t feel the sense of urgency, where does that leave you?”
At this point, the real problem rested not with science–the evidence was strong–it rested with the public and policymakers.
2009: How can we help inspire the public to care?
In 2009, James Balog shared images from his Extreme Ice Survey, a photographic-scientific endeavour that showcased the role of art in getting people to care about climate: “In the Extreme Ice Survey, we’re dedicated to … merging art and science to the end of helping us understand nature and humanity’s relationship with nature better.” His goal: make climate change feel tangible to people. The problem is so abstract that it can be difficult to motivate people around something that feels so, well, distant. But being able to see it. Well, that changes everything.
“Ice is the canary in the global coal mine. It’s the place where we can see and touch and hear and feel climate change in action. Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. Whether or not you believe in it is based on your sense of, Is it raining more or is it raining less? Is it getting hotter or is it getting colder? What do the computer models say about this, that and the other thing? All of that, strip it away. In the world of the arctic and alpine environments, where the ice is, it’s real and it’s present. The changes are happening. They’re very visible. They’re photographable. They’re measurable.”
(Other TED Talks have echoed this sentiment, the role of art in creating action and change on the part of the populace. For more talks like this, check out: Zaria Forman, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and Chris Jordan.)
In 2009, we posted 9 talks on climate change, a 350% increase. The talks are varied. James Balog and Yann Arthus-Bertrand touched on the role of art, Cary Fowler shared a radical idea on how to protect ourselves and our plants, and Jane Poynter and Lewis Pugh shared two extraordinary awareness-raising experiences. The conversation has grown from its roots. There is a growing awareness that this touches all of our lives, all of our fields, and the way we talk about it has greatly expanded and will continue to over the following years. Climate change is no longer just about science or energy. It’s about art and social justice and philosophy–everything under the sun. The urgency, the care — it’s starting.
2010-2012: A lull, and then some tough love
But the momentum slackens for a moment after 2009. In 2010, we posted only 4 talks and in 2011, zero talks specifically on climate (though climate change is mentioned in lots of talks both years). In 2012 the momentum returns — but more important even than the number of talks we posted is how the tone of the conversation changes. There’s no gentleness anymore. There’s tough love, shake-you-awake kind of talks. The talks emphasize the severity of the situation and underscore that we need to do something about this.
At TED2012, climate scientist James Hansen said, “This path, if continued, guarantees that we will pass tipping points leading to ice sheet disintegration that will accelerate out of control of future generations. A large fraction of species will be committed to extinction. And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline. Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth.”
There’s also a move away from the mentality that it will only take simple changes within our existing economic framework. Instead, we start to share a realization that this will take immense change and action on the part of everyone at every level. As Paul Gilding said in 2012, “the idea that we can smoothly transition to a highly efficient, solar-powered, knowledge-based economy transformed by science and technology so that nine billion people can live in 2050 a life of abundance and digital downloads is a delusion. It’s not that it’s not possible to feed, clothe and house us all and have us live decent lives. It certainly is. But the idea that we can gently grow there with a few minor hiccups is just wrong, and it’s dangerously wrong, because it means we’re not getting ready for what’s really going to happen.”
2012-now: Acceptance and urgency
Between 2012 and 2015, the conversation continues. There’s a growing sense of acceptance and understanding, and with that comes fear and urgency. There are a lot of calls to action — along with growing frustration and despair at our lack of action. We’re there, but we’re not quite there. It’s an interesting time because there’s a lot of thought being given to climate change and growing understanding, but a complete inability to get anything done about it. It’s like there’s this sense of urgency but we are unable to harness it, or it hasn’t yet reached a tipping point.
Throughout these years, talks ranged from the firm, hopeful and practical in 2012…
“It’s up to us to look at our homes and our communities, our vulnerabilities and our exposures to risk, and to find ways to not just survive, but to thrive, and it’s up to us to plan and to prepare and to call on our government leaders and require them to do the same, even while they address the underlying causes of climate change. There are no quick fixes. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions. We’re all learning by doing.” (Vicki Arroyo)
…to the more ominous in 2014:
“the world as a whole is moving far too slowly. We’re not cutting emissions in the way we should. We’re not managing those structural transformations as we can. The depth of understanding of the immense risks of climate change are not there yet. The depth of understanding of the attractiveness of what we can do is not there yet. We need political pressure to build. We need leaders to step up. We can have better growth, better climate, a better world. We can make, by managing those two transformations well, the next 100 years the best of centuries. If we make a mess of it, we, you and me, if we make a mess of it, if we don’t manage those transformations properly, it will be, the next 100 years will be the worst of centuries.” (Lord Nicholas Stern)
Come 2015, a big shift occurs. Rather than talking about climate change happening in some distant, uncertain future, we see people talking about it as something that is happening now. As the president of the island nation of Kiribati, Anote Tong, said at Mission Blue II in 2015, ”What many people do not understand is they think climate change is something that is happening in the future. Well, we’re at the very bottom end of the spectrum. It’s already with us. We have communities who already have been dislocated. They have had to move, and every parliament session, I’m getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it’s being destroyed. In my trips to the different islands, I’m seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.”
Mentally, that’s a big shift. It dashes whatever delusions people held about averting climate change, and it makes the threat seem more imminent. Plus, if we’re being honest with ourselves, it’s much easier to care when the problem is going to affect us directly rather than the unnamed, unborn generations of the future. Alice Bows-Larkin put it well when she said, “So we have a choice. We can either choose to start to take climate change seriously, and significantly cut and mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions, and then we will have to adapt to less of the climate change impacts in future. Alternatively, we can continue to really ignore the climate change problem. But if we do that, we are also choosing to adapt to very much more powerful climate impacts in future. We’re making that choice on behalf of others as well. But the choice that we don’t have is a no-climate-change future.”
As we’ve seen, the buildup to 2016 was slow and painstaking, but TED Talks help illustrate how far we have come. In 2006, we posted 3 talks on climate change, but in 2016 so far we have posted 11. As a global community, we’ve gained urgency and momentum. We have gone through a dark period where it seemed unlikely we would ever act, but in 2016 we hear for the first time strains of optimism and concrete hope. That optimism is important.
For years, we have heard speakers reiterate their frustration: We know this is happening, but there’s no urgency to act. That urgency and momentum has been building. What was needed next was a way to harness that urgency, and Christiana Figueres found the key: optimism. That key would culminate in the Paris Climate Agreement.
So, when Al Gore took the stage again in 2016, a decade after his first talk, we had come a long way. It is just the start, the tip of the iceberg to solving this problem — but what a step from where we have been. As he says, “Paris really was a breakthrough; some of the provisions are binding and the regular reviews will matter a lot. But nations aren’t waiting, they’re going ahead. China has already announced that starting next year, they’re adopting a nationwide cap-and-trade system. They will likely link up with the European Union. The United States has already been changing. All of these coal plants were proposed in the next 10 years and canceled. All of these existing coal plants were retired. We are moving forward. Last year — if you look at all of the investment in new electricity generation in the United States, almost three-quarters was from renewable energy, mostly wind and solar. We are solving this crisis. The only question is: how long will it take to get there?”
As these talks show, the road from awareness to concerted action (and the faintest glimmer of a solution) has not been easy. It’s been frustrating and scary with a strong helping of denial and pessimism. But they all share one commonality: an iron-strong belief that in our darkest hour, we can shine. Here’s to hoping that our next ten years of talks on climate change will show that to be true.
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The author of the book: John Carroll
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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many schools and universities have shifted to online education. Even though this was not the preferred way to get an education, it is the safest one for the time being. However, children have adapted easily to this new way of learning things and participate in classes. They are well adapted to using gadgets and technology, so from this point of view was a facile change.
Learning could happen in a context different from the school one. Games usually have a bad reputation, especially because they do not encourage children to move, but to be sedentary. On the other hand, they come with many benefits as well. They help children develop their skills, learn new things in a funny way, and study better. As writers from the UK Best Essays agree, there is a good selection of educational games that will help children to study. They need fascinating games to engage them in, so here is a list of a few of them.
My Word Coach
This is one of the games that help children expand their vocabulary. My Word Coach is a game that can be played on Nintendo and Wii, something kids will love. It has a collection of six games that aim to help children improve their vocabulary and verbal skills funnily. The game has a dictionary of about 17,000 words, so it will surely be one of the best games kids can play.
They are in a constant process of expanding their knowledge, so acquiring new ones in a funny way will be the easiest way to learn. Learning new words will help children express their ideas, feelings, and opinions better, agree writing experts who write my dissertation at a case study writing service.
Learning new words will empower children to read more diverse texts and books. So, why not put their reading skills to the test? Reader Rabbit is a funny game that has a wide variety of small games and quizzes with educational reading material. While children are having fun playing this game, they improve their reading and comprehension skills. On top of this, they are also expanding their knowledge because the topics and reading material are carefully chosen. You can find here games for every grade, so you have a wide variety of options.
National Geographic Challenge
But besides their vocabulary and reading skills, children could also play an educational game that helps them improve their geography and biology skills. National Geographic Challenge is a nice game that makes children more aware of the impact of their actions on the environment. This is a hot topic these days, especially because the effects of climate change and plastic pollution are more and more pressing and severe. It is a game that can be played on Xbox and it has a variety of games children can play. They can take quizzes, explore the world, or make puzzles. All these funnily and engagingly will expand children’s knowledge of the environment and the planet.
Little Big Planet 2
Little Big Planet 2 is one of the best educational games out there. Learning new things and developing new skills is something that happens along the way, while children are engaging in a creative and interesting game. This is a classic game of searching for clues or objects to help you solve a mystery or unlock the next part of the game. Exactly this is happening in Little Big Planet 2. Children have to navigate a landscape where they will find many objects. These objects will help them solve and complete some challenging puzzles. It is a game that can be used for the improvement of children’s problem-solving skills.
Magic School Bus Oceans
Magic School Bus Oceans is one of the most amazing games out there and kids will love it. It is a game that is relatable to them, especially because children have a rich imagination. There is this magic school bus that takes children on an adventure in the oceans of the world. Here, through a wide range of games and lessons, children will discover the creatures that live in the water, but also a lot of interesting facts about them.
Children are fascinated by animals, especially because their diversity is so wide. There is a lot to be learned about this field, so why not do it in a funny and engaging way? Animal Genius is one of the best educational games that help children learn more about the animal kingdom, as well as their habits and particularities. Animal Genius can be played on Nintendo or PlayStation and it encompasses five games that will take children through an educational adventure in five habitats.
Even though video games kind of have a bad reputation, mainly because they do not encourage children to be active, they come with many benefits as well. They can help children expand their knowledge about a wide variety of subjects, such as animals, science, environment, civilization, and many more. At the same time, they develop and improve their problem-solving and verbal communication skills. All these fascinating video games will help children to study better.
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The Library offers legal research training in group sessions and on a one-to-one basis for pupils, students and barristers.
We have been running a legal research training course for new pupils each spring and autumn since 2013.
The date of the next session on the essentials of legal research will be advertised soon.
The Library runs a Qualifying Session for new Bar Course students in the autumn, which provides a basic introduction to legal research.
Other research resources produced by the Library which pupils and students may find useful include:
Legal Research FAQs (on UK and EU case law and legislation, treaties and parliamentary publications).
ICLR Research Tips
If you would like more information about the training offered by the Library, please email firstname.lastname@example.org
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Calvin Theatre Company’s fall play boasts magnificent cast and design
It is 1895 and London’s high society is gossiping and participating in political life. But when secrets are revealed and the true colors of the men who seemed so spotless are exposed, the question is asked: what makes an ideal husband?
“An Ideal Husband” is a wonderfully witty and romantic play that addresses many moral themes while revolving around political corruption. Written by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, the play takes place in “the present” and follows a dramatic series of events that lasts for just 24 hours.
Sir Robert Chiltern, a member of the House of Commons, and his wife host a dinner party for their friends. One of the guests, Mrs. Cheveley, an old schoolmate of Lady Chiltern’s, blackmails Sir Robert. Claiming Sir Robert’s wealth began with a crime, Mrs. Cheveley asks him to use his political power to do her a favor. Sir Robert, wanting nothing more than for his wife to be disappointed and lose her love for him, searches for help in his friend Lord Goring.
This is the Calvin Theater Company’s first play of the 2013-2014 school year and is directed by Debra Freeberg. The cast is small and the play is filled with wit, charming characters and lots of laughs.
The play is performed in the Gezon Auditorium, which has effectively been transformed into a room from a large Victorian mansion. The set is beautiful and impressive. Each setting is transformed with the mere replacement of furniture while the beautiful gold walls remain. The costumes are authentic and take the audience back in time; the eveningwear, which is worn quite beautifully by the whole cast, is stunning.
The cast is magnificent. Not only does this play take place in London, so accents must be British, but it takes place in the 1800s, so the old time Victorian tongue is needed. The cast definitely delivers. The play is mostly dialogue — this may sound obvious, but there is little action and a lot of talking. I didn’t mind though because the cast spoke so beautifully that I just enjoyed listening to them talk.
Some of the characters are meant to be liked and others to be hated. I found myself hating Mrs. Cheveley, played by Jennifer Kang. It wasn’t just because of her actions but because her personality truly enraged me. I mean this as a deepest compliment; Kang’s acting was so superb that she was very unlikable.
At the same time I loved Mabel Chiltern, played by sophomore Emily Wetzel. Wilde’s description of her in the script says that she embodies the “tyranny of youth.” She was a very talkative, flirtatious and sometimes sassy character, who Wetzel played beautifully.
The cast in its entirety was splendid. They truly embodied the properness of aristocratic London throughout the play. The proper physicality and character was never broken; the cast drew the audience into the era and kept them interested with perfect comedic timing and exquisite accents. They also got a lot of laughs.
You can see “An Ideal Husband” on November 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. I encourage you to do so.
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Rain gamble pays off for crop tour committee
Submitted by crecord2010 on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 11:51am
It was a DeWitt County Row Crops Tour that almost wasn’t.
Standing in the drizzly weather at the first stop on the tour at the Fred and Chad Hahn farm, DeWitt County Extension Agent Anthony Netardus spilled the beans what really happened concerning the tour.
“What Chad didn’t tell you is that we almost didn’t have a tour,” Netardus said after Hahn gave a brief history on the corn crop in his field. Hahn said the field was planted on February 28 with marginal moisture noted in the ground. He said the area received 1 1/2 inches of rain two to three days later, stating the corn then came up, but very dry conditions existed. Hahn concluded stating they decided to wait and see what the corn did.
Netardus said, “We had a row crops tour meeting on May 9 to decide what to do. We were debating on whether to have the tour since it hadn’t rained. But then it rained that day.”
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Some background about your sensor and how it connects to WIFI:
Once you have set up and deployed a sensor in the desired location, it will intermittently “check-in” by attempting to reconnect to your WIFI every day or two just to ensure that it can still do so successfully. This is important because the sensor relies on WIFI to communicate with you via text or email alerts in case a leak/freeze is detected.
If your sensor attempts to check-in and fails after multiple attempts, then it will send you a notification saying, “Device Offline Detected”, followed by the location and description of the affected sensor. This does not necessarily mean that the sensor is no longer functioning, rather it is a warning that the signal may be weak because something is interfering with its ability to reliably connect to your WIFI network.
In most cases this is caused by a one-time disruption to your WIFI, which could be due to a variety of causes. Once normal WIFI signal is restored your sensor will automatically reconnect to your network without requiring you to do anything. When the sensor successfully reconnects for the first time after going offline, you will receive a "Device Back Online" notification via text and/or email.
If the "Device Offline" alerts are recurring, then continue reading for more connectivity-related information as well as trusted solutions to remedy weak or unreliable WIFI signal.
Causes of weak or unreliable WIFI signal:
- The sensor is too far away from your WIFI router – WIFI signals will tend to weaken as the distance between the router and the connected device increases. If you cannot move your sensor closer to your WIFI router, it is suggested that you use a WIFI extender.
- Certain objects, materials, or structures can partially/totally block the signal to the sensor – Large concrete or metal objects between your device and router are known to significantly interfere with the strength and reliability of WIFI signal. Walls and floors can cause the same type of issue, although to a lesser degree, but the signal will generally weaken as the number of walls or floors between the device and your router is increased.
- Having too many devices on the WIFI network at one time – Sometimes having a number of different devices on the same WIFI network can cause interference as they all compete for your network’s resources at the same time. As more devices (smartphones, computers, smart TVs, tablets, etc.) connect to your WIFI it can become too much for your router to handle at one time. This leads to interference and you may notice as a significant slowdown that occurs while loading web pages or using apps, and in some cases, it can even cause a failure to load all together.
Solutions – How to improve WIFI signal:
- Try moving your sensor closer to the location of your WIFI router – the goal here is to keep it close enough to the original area that it will still detect water in case a leak occurs, while positioning it as close as possible to the location of your WIFI router
- Rotate the sensor so the antenna is pointing in the direction of you WIFI router – this is tricky because the antenna is hidden inside the sensor. If you look at the bottom of your sensor, you will notice a rubber stopper located on one end. The antenna is located on the same end of the device as the rubber stopper (if the rubber stopper is not there, you will see a screw instead). To improve WIFI signal you can rotate your sensor so that this end is pointing in the direction of your router. In addition, placing it on its side can change the position of the antenna to help increase the WiFi signal as well.
- Give the sensor a clearer path to your router – large appliances such as water heaters, refrigerators, washing machines, etc. can sometimes block incoming WIFI signal, especially if your sensor is located under or behind an object like this. Do not worry though, because in most cases the signal can be improved with some slight repositioning of the sensor.
- For example, if your sensor is located under your water heater, then you can improve the signal by sliding it out from under the water heater towards the side facing your WIFI router. This way it is not directly under the water heater, but it is still close enough to sense the water if the water heater starts leaking.
- If your sensor is located behind an appliance like a washing machine, and the washing machine sits between the sensor and the location of your router, then moving the sensor to the other side of the washing machine could significantly improve the signal. The sensor would still encounter water from a leaking washing machine, but now the WIFI signal will not be blocked.
Interpreting RSSI values:
This is the negative number that you see next to the WIFI symbol in the app, and the values can be interpreted as follows:
-50 to -70: Good
-70 to -80: Weak, but acceptable
<-80: Weak, may lead to connection issues
Interpreting the WIFI Symbol:
3 bars/rings = Great Signal Strength
2 bars/rings = OK Signal Strength, there should be no issues with connectivity if it is consistently at 2 bars
1 bar/ring (or switching between 1-2 bars/rings) = Poor Signal Strength, can lead to recurring WIFI issues and offline notifications
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For some dogs, an occasional, isolated episode of vomiting can be nothing to worry about. If your dog does not have any other signs of illness (e,g, fever, lethargy, not eating), it is best to be patient and continue to monitor your dog.
Signs that Your Dog Needs to See a Veterinarian
- Vomiting beyond a day or two
- Vomiting more than three times
- Vomiting large amounts
- Vomiting along with lethargy and/or diarrhea
- Vomiting with blood in it
What You Can Do in the Meantime
- Do not feed your dog for 12 hours; then try feeding a small amount of a bland food (e.g., plain boiled chicken and plain cooked white rice). If he/she keeps this food down, continue to feed frequent small amounts of bland food for a day or two. If your dog continues to vomit, withhold food until your dog can see a veterinarian.
- Encourage your dog to drink small, frequent amounts of water so that he/she does not become dehydrated. Water fountains can entice your dog to drink more water. Place additional bowls of fresh water throughout the house.
- Look around your house for any evidence that your dog got into something that he/she should not have (e.g., garbage can is knocked over, household items have been chewed up, medications or chemicals are spilled on the floor).
- If your dog is new to your home, minimize stress by providing a "safe zone" where your dog can retreat without being bothered by people or other pets.
Common Causes of Vomiting
- Diet changes
- Toxins like antifreeze, Xylitol, leaves of poisonous plants, slug bait, and certain medications
- Swallowing objects such as stuffing from a toy, parts of shoes, rocks, etc.
- Gastrointestinal conditions like constipation, inflammatory bowel disease, or intestinal obstruction
- Infectious diseases like parvovirus
Treatment of Vomiting
- Subcutaneous or intravenous fluid therapy
- Medication to stop vomiting
- Bland, easily digested diet once the vomiting has stopped
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Thirty-one years ago this week, the Pontiac Silverdome hosted Super Bowl XVI.
Today, the building’s roof features bigger holes than the Detroit Lions defense had during their winless season in 2008.
WXYZ-TV published aerial footage of the stadium’s torn roof on Monday.
“We deflated the roof in the beginning of January,” Silverdome spokesman Alex Loewy said Monday afternoon.
Officials said at the timethat the deflation was a planned event, but Pontiac Building Director Jeff Bowdell told the Oakland Press at the time that a small tear prompted the deflation.
“I was told there was a small tear that kept the fans from being able to keep up with the air necessary to keep the roof inflated,” Bowdell said.
Bowdell said he wasn’t aware of the latest damage to the Silverdome’s roof, but it wouldn’t change the city’s position.
“We’ve already given them an order that they can’t use (the arena),” Bowdell said Monday. Bowdell works for the firm Wade Trim, the city’s contractor for building department services.
After the roof was deflated on Jan. 3, the building department’s order was that no one is to be in the arena unless they are there to repair the roof.
Loewy said Silverdome officials expected the winter weather to exacerbate the roof’s damage.
“We knew with heavy winds and snow (the roof) would start to tear,” he said. “We were prepared for it.”
That preparation included a winterization of the building, though the field remains uncovered.
Loewy said the plan still calls for a “new hard roof structure with solar panels,” with installation beginning in the spring or early summer.
“Once everything’s done, we plan on hosting all kinds of different events,” Loewy said.
The city sold the Silverdome at auction in November 2009 under the direction of then-Emergency Financial Manager Fred Leeb to Andreas Apostolopoulos of the Canada-based Triple investment Group LLC for $583,000.
The stadium was completed in 1975 at a cost of $55 million.The 80,000-seat Silverdome was the home of the Detroit Lions from 1975 until January 6, 2002, when the team played its final game in Pontiac before moving to Ford Field in Detroit.
Contact Dave Phillips at 248-745-4631 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @dave_phillips1.
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Boy, have America’s taste buds changed over the years.
We used to be a steak and mashed potatoes nation. Meat and veggies were an American staple since we became a nation nearly 250 years ago.
Now? It’s all over the place. With the internationalization of cultures, and the advent of social media, we’ve really expanded our food palettes. Sushi? Hummus? That used to be the stuff that ‘other’ countries ate.
We’re not going to speculate on whether our food choices are decided by trends, and where our appetites will head next. But for now, let’s just say that Americans in each state have very distinct interests.
To figure out which food each state likes the most, we simply had to turn to Google to see which food each state was searching for the most. The answers were all over the place. Some of them make sense: In Idaho, people like potatoes, and in Texas, they like tacos. Duh.
Georgia eats lots of fast food, and Californians love their sushi. New York loves hummus and Arkansas? You can have your cheese dip.
Check out the fascinating map below. We’re getting hungry just reading it ourselves.
For more reading, check out:
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Over the past 50 years, countries across Africa have undergone radical changes, including to their economic circumstances. Signature successes have been tempered by the emergence of equally prominent challenges. In the midst of a rapidly evolving world and a global pandemic, we face key questions about the next phase of Africa’s transformation: What kind of transformation is needed? What is the role of the private sector in such a transformation? What is the role of government in creating circumstances for success, including investments in human capital? How can COVID’s effects on economies across Africa be mitigated? What should the broader global development community do to ensure African leaders drive this transformation?
A new book, “Know the Beginning Well,” by African Center for Economic Transformation founder Dr. K.Y. Amoako, explores these and other questions and highlights the most important factors for achieving sustainable, lasting progress.
Join a distinguished panel for a discussion on the themes raised in the book, including the role of strong African leadership and ownership, the importance of investing in youth and education and human capital generally, the most effective approaches for building capacity, and the value of bringing people together to solve problems.
- Dr. K.Y. Amoako, President and Founder, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
- Gina Lagomarsino, President and CEO, Results for Development
- Dr. Kelechi Ohiri, CEO, Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation
- Dr. Reeta Roy, President and CEO, Mastercard Foundation
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Can information outreach increase participation in community-driven development? A field experiment near Bwindi National Park, Uganda Mark
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Decentralization and community-driven development intend to bring public decisions closer to the people, yet elites often capture local institutions. One way that local elites capture community-driven development is to limit information about opportunities for citizens to shape group decisions. We investigate whether sending citizens targeted and timely information about when and how they can participate in the planning of community-driven development projects increases knowledge, participation, and satisfaction with local institutions. We implemented a pre-registered randomized field experiment in partnership with the Uganda Wildlife Authority that involved sending residents in randomly selected villages near Bwindi National Park approximately 60 messages by mobile phone over eight months about how a park-sponsored revenue sharing program worked and how and when residents could participate. We do not find evidence that the information increased perceived knowledge, participation, perceived efficacy, or satisfaction with local institutions. Exploratory findings suggest that among women, who are often disenfranchised in Ugandan society, the information treatment backfired related to perceived opportunities to participate. More positively, we find that reaching more people in a community with information led to promising results related to participation and satisfaction with the park. We conclude that informational treatments are unlikely to empower participation on average, unless they are deployed broadly and in ways that promote collective action.
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Business owners need to understand their revenues and earnings to make effective business decisions. However, it’s not easy to keep track of this information manually because unanticipated expenses often come into play. The profit margin formula helps business owners quickly gauge their company’s financial health. Profits are the ultimate goal for every business, so every business owner should know how to use this metric. Here’s what you need to know about profit margins:
Profit Margins: Explained
Profit margins measure a business’s profitability by examining take-home earnings in proportion to overall revenues. Accountants usually write these figures as percentages that reflect the profits earned on every sale. There are several different types of profit margin formulas, but we’ll focus on net profit margins here.
Net-profit margin percentage shows you how much profit you bring in on every dollar in sales. For example, a 50% profit margin means you earn 50 cents worth of profit on every dollar in sales. Businesses with higher profit margins are more profitable than firms with slimmer margins.
Average profit margins vary based on a variety of factors, so there is no universally accepted ‘good’ or ‘bad’ profit margin. Generally, it’s desirable to keep margins as high as possible, but you need to consider business conditions in your industry to determine a healthy margin goal.
What is the Profit Margin Formula?
It takes a little bit of math to calculate your business’s margins. Most accounting software can tell you this automatically, but you should know also know how to calculate it manually. The formula is simple enough, it goes:
Net Profit Margin = (Total Net Income) divided by (Total Revenues) x 100
Your business earned $100,000 in profit in the second quarter, and revenues came in at $300,000. To calculate the net margin, take the $100,000 quarterly profit and divide it by the $300,000 representing revenues. The final product is 0.33. Multiply the total by 100 to get a whole number percentage of 33%.
$100,000 (earnings) / $300,000 (revenues) = 0.33 X 100 = 33% Net Margin
Why are Profit Margins Important?
Profit margins are important because they give you an idea of what to expect in the future. When you understand how much money your business makes, you can make more accurate financial decisions. This crucial piece of knowledge is invaluable when making substantial investments in your business, and it can also help you develop more accurate budgets and forecasts.
Profit margins also provide a clear picture of your business’s overall health. You can repeat the same formula using a variety of different parameters to focus on different areas of your business. For example, calculate margins for each particular product or service to identify your most profitable margins. Or, look at the numbers on a month-by-month basis to determine your prime selling season. Each piece of information can provide valuable insights for business owners.
Tips for Improving Margins
Increasing your profit margin can help your business make more money without growing sales. Instead of focusing on growing revenues, you can improve your profits by making your business more efficient. Higher margins help you make more money from the sales you already have, so it seems like a much more attainable goal for many companies. Here are some ideas that can help you pump up your margins:
Strong expense tracking protocols help businesses stay accountable for their spending. You can also review your expense records to see where you’re going over budget.
Stick to Your Budget
Regularly develop and adjust budgets to give your business a guidepost for staying on track. If you’re consistently going over budget, back-track through your books and find out why.
Take Advantage of Discounts
Shop around for deals and take advantage of discounts whenever available. Contact your regular vendors and see if they’re willing to offer you more favorable terms for repeat business.
Identify ways to lower your operating costs so you can increase your profit margin.
Elevate Your Brand
Stand apart from your competition to break away from the rat race and start attracting more customers organically.
Eliminate waste and operation inefficiencies so you can reduce your overall costs.
Raising rates is a significant decision for any business, but sometimes it’s the right one. If you’re not earning enough at your current price points, you might want to consider raising your rates.
Foster Positive Customer Relationships
It’s a well-known fact that signing a new customer costs significantly more than keeping an existing one. Hold onto your customers and give them good reasons to come back. Satisfied customers also tend to refer their friends, so building customer loyalty can lower your long-term customer acquisition costs too.
Promote your Business Efficiently
Many businesses spend a large portion of their budget on advertising, but promotion isn’t worth it if it’s not carrying its weight. Make sure your ad campaigns are performing well enough to justify the expenditure. If it’s not, you should put the money to use elsewhere.
More Answers to Your Bookkeeping Questions
Profit margin is a relatively simple accounting metric, but it’s just the beginning. Unfortunately, most business owners are too busy to learn accounting principles from scratch and simultaneously manage their business. That’s why many growing firms outsource their accounting to professional bookkeepers. Shared Economy Tax offers affordable bookkeeping services that are ideal for growing companies. Find out if our services are right for you by signing up for a one-on-one strategy session with one of our bookkeeping pros today. We’ll take care of your books so you can focus on business. You can also sign up for our complimentary newsletter using the form below for more accounting tips.
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Exciting article about by PhD Steven Jones re: more recent surviving native horse in North America
Here is a paper on the subject which I wrote which may be of interest; published (June 2012) in the latest issue of Ancient American. I hope it is helpful.
Were there Horses in the Americas before Columbus?
This letter is in response to a request from Wayne May for information regarding my research on early horses (Equus) in the Americas, before the arrival of Columbus. This interim material is shared in order to encourage a wider community to join in the task of gathering further evidence regarding pre-Columbian horses in the Americas, including a request for photos of pictographs, petroglyphs and engravings which may represent pre-Columbian horses.
About twelve years ago, I began a project to seek horse bones from sites in North America and Mesoamerica for the purpose of radiocarbon dating. In this research, I was joined by Prof. Wade Miller of the BYU Department of Geology, archaeologists Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales and Shelby Saberon, and Patricia M. Fazio of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. My special thanks to FARMS and ISPART who funded much of the project in years past. We secured horse bones for dating, some directly from the field. Then state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating was performed at Stafford Laboratories in Colorado, the University of California at Riverside, or Beta Analytic in Miami, Florida, employing Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) dating methods. The reliability of the AMS method of radiocarbon dating of bones is delineated in: Radiocarbon, Volume 34, Number 3, pp. 279-291.
The goal was to provide radiocarbon dates for samples that appeared from depth or other considerations to be pre-Columbian. The time frame of interest can be expressed in terms of “Before Present” by convention and extends from 10,000 BP (thus after the last ice age) to 500 BP (when Spaniards soon after Columbus brought horses to America). The prevailing paradigm holds that there were no horses in the Americas during this time interval; the Book of Mormon and a number of native American oral traditions hold otherwise. The samples in this study can be divided into two categories according to their origins: Mexico, and the United States.
Forty-five Equus samples were obtained in Mexico. Based on AMS dating, there was one sample from the Ice Age period, and six from the post-Columbus period. Other samples had insufficient collagen in the bone to permit dating – collagen protein locks in carbon-14, permitting accurate C-14 dating. Thus, the laboratories require a certain minimum amount of collagen in order to proceed with the dating. There were no Equus samples found in this study in Mesoamerica for the time interval 14,700 BC to 1650 AD.
By contrast, in North America, there are found Equus samples which do indeed appear in the time frame between the last ice age and the arrival of Columbus. The first of these was found in Pratt Cave near El Paso, Texas, by Prof. Ernest Lundelius of Texas A&M University. Prof. Lundelius responded to my inquiries and provided a horse bone from Pratt Cave which dated to BC 6020 – 5890. This date is well since the last ice age, into the time frame when all American horses should have been absent according to the prevailing paradigm.
Another Equus specimen was identified by Elaine Anderson, an expert on Equus identification, at Wolf Spider cave, Colorado. It dated to AD 1260 – 1400, again clearly before Columbus. Note that horses arrived on the new-world mainland with Cortes in 1519 AD [Henry, Marguerite and Wesley Dennis. All About Horses. Random House, 1962.]
Dr. Patricia Fazio of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, has joined our network of researchers in this field. Dr. Fazio (private communication) alerted us to a horse bone found at Horsethief Cave in Wyoming which dates to approximately 3,124 BP, i.e., 1100 BC, using thermoluminescent methods. We attempted to have this bone re-dated using the AMS methods which are more accurate, but there proved to be insufficient collagen in the bone to permit AMS dating. The 1100 BC date (although approximate) still stands.
Dr. Fazio also pointed to a publication, The Wyoming Archaeologist 38: 55-68, where results of a horse bone found in Wyoming were dated to 1426 – 1481 AD (one sigma calibrated dates) using AMS methods, well before Columbus. The authors express difficulty in explaining this early date:
“These radiocarbon dates place the horse skeleton at a very early age for modern horses to have been in Wyoming.”
A paper by Dr. R. Alison notes evidence for horses in Canada dating 900 and 2900 years ago; also in the period of interest:
However, the compete extirpation of ancestral horse stock in Canada has yet to be completely confirmed and a bone found near Sutherland, Saskatchewan, at the Riddell archaeological site suggests some horses might have survived much later. The bone (Canadian Museum of Nature I-8581), has been tentatively dated at about 2900 years ago. Another Equus sp. Bone, found at Hemlock Park Farm, Frontenac County, Ontario, dates to about 900 years ago. Exhaustive confirmation of both bones has yet to be completed, but if they prove to be authentic, they comprise evidence that horses survived in Canada into comparatively modern times.
Thus, there are a half dozen dated Equus samples that date in the time frame 6,000 BC to 1481 AD, well since the last ice age and all before Columbus. Note that all of these radiometrically-dated Equus remains were found in North America.
In addition to this hard physical evidence, a number of researchers are looking seriously into oral histories of native Americans which point rather clearly to the existence of horses before the Spanish arrived. In particular, we note that research results have been published by Yuri Kuckinsky [http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/tran/thor.htm ] and Claire Henderson [http://printfu.org/horses+north+dakota or http://printfu.org/read/the-aboriginal- … uT5MzLkq3m ]. For example, the Appaloosa horse appears to have been in North America before the Spanish brought European horses.
A January 2012 publication describes progress in DNA analyses of horses which promises to open new avenues for this research:
“In recent years, many scholars have embraced the hypothesis that the Botai or other inhabitants of the Eurasian Steppes became the first people to tame the wild horse, Equus ferus, between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago. This theory implies that horses were domesticated in a similar manner to other modern livestock, such as cattle, sheep and goats, said Alessandro Achilli, a geneticist at the University of Pavia in Italy. DNA analyses have revealed little genetic variation among these animals, suggesting that they descended from a small group of ancestors tamed in just a few places, he explained.
In particular, the Equus samples that have been identified in North America, anomalous because they date to the “excluded” period between 6,000 BC and 1490 AD, can now be analyzed to determine whether or not the DNA corresponds to domesticated Spanish horses brought over by the Conquistadores. My prediction is that the DNA will not so correspond.
In conclusion, using state-of-the-art dating methods, we along with other researchers have found radiometrically-dated evidence for the existence of horses in North America long after the last ice age and before the arrival of Columbus. These data challenging the existing paradigm. Further DNA analyses will provide additional data and insights.
Background of Professor Steven E. Jones:
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Metro Atlanta is in the grip of a major heat wave, throwing into stark relief the fact that some city neighborhoods are disproportionately hotter than others. This phenomenon is known as the Heat Island Effect.
A look at which parts of the city are the hottest and why
Why do heat islands exist? Because our expansive city has a wide variety of land uses and surfaces. For example: Atlanta’s lush tree canopy helps to keep many of its single-family residential areas cooler. But in contrast, areas in a “concrete jungle” with buildings, asphalt and concrete absorb and re-emit heat, keeping these areas warm both during the day and at night.
Areas in a “concrete jungle” with buildings and asphalt absorb and re-emit heat, keeping these areas warmer throughout the day and night.
Heat islands are urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. Structures such as buildings, roads, and other infrastructure absorb and re-emit the sun’s heat more than natural landscapes such as forests and water bodies. Urban areas, where these structures are highly concentrated and greenery is limited, become “islands” of higher temperatures relative to outlying areas. Daytime temperatures in urban areas are about 1–7°F higher than temperatures in outlying areas and nighttime temperatures are about 2-5°F higher. ~ EPA.gov
Last September, Spelman College and other local institutions paired together to put a number on these heat extremes. See the full study here, conducted last year by Spelman University and CAPA Strategies.
While “green roofs” are a recent trend among developers in the city’s newest skyscrapers, planting trees and adding small parks to those hottest parts of the city can be some of the most cost-effective and easily obtainable ways to provide some relief to Atlantans most in need.
Dr. Guanyu Huang,
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Health Sciences
Researchers had 60 volunteers ride their bikes or drive their cars around the city three times on the day of the study. They found that the hottest parts of the city were an average of 14.5 degrees hotter than the coolest. “The central part of the Atlanta downtown… those large communities are actually hotter than where the trees, the vegetation are,” said Dr. Guanyu Huang, who helped administer the study. “So we do see a pretty big and strong temperature hotspot over the downtown area.”
The volunteers recorded more than 48,000 temperature measurements, showing which neighborhoods face the greatest threat from extreme heat. Neighborhoods primarily in or south of downtown saw the hottest temperatures. Many of those areas are historically Black neighborhoods. According to Dr. Huang, historically underserved communities are the greatest impacted by more extreme heat. “People of color and, you know, communities of color… are actually suffering more heat than…surrounding areas,” he said. The City of Atlanta stepped up to become a partner in the study. Dr. Huang said the city is aiming to use the data to highlight which neighborhoods need improvements to curb the impacts of the extreme heat.
While “green roofs” are a recent trend among developers in the city’s newest skyscrapers, planting trees and adding small parks to those hottest parts of the city can be some of the most cost-effective and easily obtainable ways to provide some relief to Atlantans most in need. “Trees and the vegetation are actually super helpful for cooling down the area,” Dr. Huang said. “So based on our study, we just noticed that over the parks, even like a very small park, a block sized park, actually helped a lot to reduce the temperature or kind of like, change the microclimate in a neighborhood.”
The next goal, Dr. Huang said, is working on a proposal to further investigate temperature distributions and bring in community engagement, to increase awareness of climate change and environmental justice issues. “This project that we’ve been working on, definitely, the goal is always to make Atlanta a better place for everybody,” he said.
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Los Angeles is home to the largest urban oil field in the United States. Due to decades of redlining, environmental racism, and indifference of elected officials, the majority of these oil fields are concentrated in low-income Black and Latinx communities from South Los Angeles to Wilmington. This rule is an important development to protect the over 200,000 Angelenos that live within half a mile (2,500 feet) of oil drilling.
“Wilmington residents have lived with the dangerous health impacts of oil drilling for far too long. The Governor’s announcement regarding the CALGEM rulemaking shows us that the Newsom administration is listening to us,” said Wendy Miranda, Wilmington Community Member, Communities for a Better Environment. “We need the Governor and his team to strengthen this rule. And at the same time we need local elected officials in the City of Los Angeles to address hundreds of wells in our neighborhood not covered by the draft rule -- and to finally approve their own proposal to comprehensively phase out oil drilling in our City. Countless frontline environmental justice communities have been waiting -- and organizing -- for years. Whether it’s at LA City Hall or in Sacramento, we will continue to organize until policies protecting our neighborhoods from big oil become law."
“Today’s announcement represents years of work by environmental justice advocates to put public health first after over a century of prioritizing oil company profits above health and safety. Governor Newsom and his administration are now listening to the front line communities and health professionals who have borne the burden of proving harm from oil extraction,” said Martha Dina Arguello, executive director of PSR-LA. “The Governor’s leadership should spark the Los Angeles City Council into action, to pass a motion before the end of 2021 to phase out oil drilling across the city. We know there is no safe distance for oil and gas drilling, and until we phase out all drilling, our communities will continue to be at risk from day-to-day operations and the continuous threat of catastrophic accidents like we saw in Orange County."
“For generations, the health and quality of life of low-income BIPOC communities have been compromised for the profit of oil industries. We've worked with South Los Angeles community leaders for years, building a large-scale grassroots movement that centers their experiences with the collective vision of completely phasing out oil drilling,” said Gloria Medina, executive director of SCOPE. “Today's announcement is an important first step towards holding oil industries accountable by building a standard setback for oil drilling sites. We commend the Governor's decision to prioritize frontline communities. We are hopeful that California will continue to work towards an equitable and just transition that centers the voices of low-income BIPOC communities.”
You can find the full text of the draft rule here.
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Yes, the emergency powers are a necessity to efficiently address the transportation crisis that impedes mobility of individuals, goods and services. The other eight house cusps divide the four quadrants to make twelve homes of thirty degrees each and every in total. However it is unlikely that several US homes or other buildings will nonetheless be about say 500 years from now. A relative of mine has recently purchased a new house in Los Angeles for close to a million dollars, and it is also a plywood construction. Before you go into your preference convocation, try to evaluation your notes on the houses and the girls, which includes your thoughts on the final round of parties. The added problem with the rampant house price inflation in these places is that it is added in to the national statistics, and creates a false overall image.
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At this point, the Astrologer knows what is named The Trinity”, or three most crucial elements in a person’s horoscope, the Sun Sign, Moon Sign, and Ascendant. I’ve by no means constructed a shed, but I am confident once I get about to buying a house and not just living in an apartment I will be developing my personal shed, and for that I will be back to study in much more detail. I’d like to incorporate independent power sources for this house if I can to manage its electrical energy and heating needs. The body components ruled by the third house are shoulders, arms, hands, lungs, the collar bone and the nervous system.
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To be genuinely authentic, gambrel roof rafters are all the identical length and the angles for each of the rafters is 22.5 degrees at the joint. Nevertheless, this totally free enterprise did eventually lead to the emergence of strong private ownership rights, and the increasing realisation of house owners that holding on to their homes for as lengthy as achievable could be a profitable course of action. Sensible matters getting to do with death come below Eighth House jurisdiction, so wills, life insurance, and funerals happen now.
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Sustainable nutrition is not a new concept. Well, if you say what happened, we started to hear it frequently lately, here is the answer; The increase in the world population and the climate changes have brought sustainable nutrition to the fore. The rapidly increasing food waste around the world has started to pose a threat to meet current and future needs. Well, if you say what we can do, I will talk about all of them one by one in this article.
Here are the Keywords of Sustainable Nutrition;
I am sharing the necessary keywords for those who say how to eat sustainably..
Sustainable nutrition;It is reliable, healthy, nutritious and low-environmental nutrition.
At the same time For a diet to be sustainable, it must be:
2- Accessible by everyone
4- It must contain ingredients that contribute to food safety.
However, nowadays; how changing diets have caused us to consume much more than the amount of protein we need. But there is something we should not forget; Small changes in dietary choices lead to big changes.
What Do I Do to Be Sustainably Nutritional?
Have an adequate and balanced diet
Reduce animal-derived proteins, increase vegetable-derived proteins
Consume at least 5 servings of vegetables and fruits a day
Increase consumption of legumes, whole grains and oilseeds (nuts, almonds, walnuts)
Choose fish caught (in season) from sustainable fishing
Consume vegetables and fruits that are in season
Stay at your ideal weight
Make your eating habits sustainable
Sustainable Diet Model Became “Mediterranean Diet”!
Yes, you heard right! Here is the key model for laying the foundations of sustainable nutrition! Eat the Mediterranean model..
Mediterranean diet, which is a plant-centered diet; It has been accepted as a sustainable diet model because it reduces the demand for land, water and energy resources.
Moreover; in the last 10 years, the mediterranean diet; contributed to environmental sustainability due to both low greenhouse gas emissions and low water footprints.
Is Famine Coming? How Will We Reduce Our Carbon Footprint? Does Red Meat Consumption Deplete Natural Resources?
Here are the most important questions and their answers.
With the accumulation of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere as a result of global warming, the temperature on the earth’s surface is increasing. In other words, global warming occurs and therefore climate diversity is deteriorated. At this point, the inadequacy of natural resources and the risk of famine emerge!
It is the measure of the damage done to the environment by greenhouse gases, which are known as the main responsible for global warming and measured in terms of carbon dioxide. ”carbon footprint”
This carbon footprint, which we show as responsible for everything, is released into nature as a result of human activities! And it is in our hands to reduce this emission.
For example, consumption of red meat; Consuming red meat reduces the lifespan of natural resources. First of all, it causes global warming! In other words, the more methane gas produced by farm animals, the more global warming increases.
Do you know how much a cow’s annual gas emission is? Equal to the gas emissions of 4-5 cars!
It takes 100,000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of red meat! This figure is considered equal to the amount of water a person spends while taking a shower for 2 years.
means 4 meat-free days; It means equal to the electricity used by the entire household.
6 meat-free days has the same effect as not driving cars at all.
To compare; The amount of space used to produce protein of animal origin is approximately 10 times the area used to produce protein of vegetable origin! That means; The solution to climate problems is in our food choices.Let’s think about it now, shall we?
Say No to Waste of Food in the Kitchen!
1- Make Planned and Weekly Shopping
Buying less is a more effective way to waste food than we think. The fact that the foods we do not need are not taken at all and that too many foods that we cannot consume mean that they do not enter the fridge at all, means that no food waste occurs! Going grocery shopping on a full stomach and preparing weekly needs lists are the simplest but most effective ways to ensure that foods we don’t need are not taken!
2- Place Your Refrigerator Correctly
This substance is very important especially for preserving the freshness of vegetables and fruits.
The best way to store sensitive and perishable green leafy vegetables is to wrap them in a kitchen cloth and then place them in a closed container in a closet.
Some fruits (apples, bananas, pears, etc.) release ethylene gas, causing them to deteriorate quickly by accelerating the decay of green vegetables! That’s why not putting greens next to fruit is the best way to increase their freshness.
Some root vegetables such as sweet potatoes, pumpkins, potatoes, and vegetables such as onions and garlic are not in the refrigerator; They retain their freshness for a longer period of time when stored in a cool, moisture-free, dark environment.
3- Your Freezer Is Your Biggest Friend
The easiest way to reduce food waste is to use products for a longer period of time. At this point, your deep freezers are your biggest friend. Throwing leftover food and unused parts of vegetables and fruits into the freezer means the opportunity to reuse these products!
If you have half-boiled legumes, washed and chopped vegetable roots, and vegetable stocks that you have prepared and frozen in advance, here is a great soup for the evening.
4- Use Vegetables and Fruits from Root to End
Use all parts of vegetables and fruits that have been adequately washed, from their skins to their stems. It can be a good option to use without scraping the outside of the carrot or removing the stems of the parsley. But if you don’t want to use vegetables in this way, then I have another good suggestion;
You can prepare vegetable stock by boiling the parts you do not use, such as parsley stems, vegetable roots and stems, with spices such as black pepper grains, bay leaves, thyme, rosemary sprigs, basil, and boil them in a pot and store them in the freezer.
You can grate the peels of citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges and use them in salad dressings, meals or desserts.
You can also dry the apple peels and add them to your herbal teas and get nice aromas.
5- Make Pickles from Leftover Vegetables
It is possible to consume more of the vegetables that are in season by pickling them and consuming them with the taste of the first day all year round.
Thus, you will be able to ferment every vegetable that you cannot consume and store it for a very long time.
6- Make Jam from Ripe Fruits
The most delicious way to evaluate well-ripened fruits can be to make jam from them. Also, since the natural sugar content of ripe fruits increases, with very little sugar and adding a little acid (lemon can be a good choice), boil them until they start to rise and cool at room temperature, then store them in glass jars in the refrigerator.
Your fruit, which is about to be wasted, will now decorate your breakfasts.
You can freeze the fruits (like bananas) that you can’t turn into jam in the freezer section of your fridge and use them in your delicious smoothie recipes, or maybe you need them to make a fit ice cream one day.
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Business Law: Laura Cullen on the power of courts to ‘pierce the corporate veil’
- Credit: Archant
It is a fundamental principle of English company law that a limited company has a separate legal personality from its shareholders.
Furthermore, directors also usually benefit from a degree of protection from liability when acting on behalf of a company and it is this “corporate veil” of protection that is the reason that so many businesses choose to operate as limited companies.
However, veils are not bullet proof! In certain circumstances, although these are few and far between, a court may, where it feels it is just and equitable to do so, “pierce the corporate veil”.
What does this really mean? It means that they can set aside the company’s separate legal personality and make its directors and/or shareholders responsible for the legal consequences of what they are purporting to be the company’s actions.
If the veil is pierced, it means that it is no longer just the company’s assets at stake but also the personal assets of those persons who have acted improperly.
Even though instances of piercing are rare, historically it is most effective with smaller manager-owned businesses which have only one or two shareholders who often act as the directors too.
Typically these sorts of companies will have limited assets and therefore if it was not possible to pierce the veil, it would do nothing to discourage fraud or improper trading and could lead to injustices.
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Common examples of where the veil may be pierced include where a rogue director controls a company which has been set up as a device to conceal true facts with the aim of avoiding liability, or where it is in the public interest to do so.
To be able to pierce the veil though, you must do more than prove that a director has acted in an improper manner.
You must also show that the company has been used to shield the improper actions, therefore hiding the actions of that rogue director.
A final point for directors to note is that even if the courts are unwilling to pierce the veil, directors still owe various duties to a company and if they are in breach of those duties they can once again be held personally accountable.
: : Laura Cullen is a business law solicitor at Gotelee.
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Cost of living in Tabriz, Iran compared to Al-Fashir, Sudan
WARNING! Tabriz has artificial and unrealistic official exchange rates. You can also get this comparison using the parallel street rate in Tabriz.
WARNING! This comparison is based on only a few data points. At this point it is only a guess. It is based on 196 prices entered by 17 different people.
These prices were last updated on January 17, 2017. Exchange rate: 0.00020 SDG / IRR *
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Cost of living in Tabriz (Iran) is about the same as in Al-Fashir (Sudan)
For example, to keep the same standard of living that would require 16,250 Pound in Al-Fashir you would need to make just about 16,063 Pound (﷼ 81,144,337) in Tabriz.
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Breakthrough in active virus protection against infection through airborne transmission
We have been researching and developing nature-based disinfection technologies for over 23 years.
Now we have made the breakthrough:
Our air nebulizer actively neutralizes bacteria and viruses in the air and is still highly compatible.
We would now like to make this technology accessible to everyone.
Would you like to protect yourself and others from viruses like corona?
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Active Protection Against Aerosol Infection Among Humans
After a short nebulisation period, the AVISNA® system builds up disinfecting aerosols in the room air, which offer active protective properties against infectious aerosols for hours. The protective disinfectant aerosols are well tolerated by the body. Laboratory tests at the University of Leipzig showed that coronaviruses in the room air were completely inactivated after a short nebulisation period.
Unique Selling Points of AVISNA Products
AVISNAir are disinfecting aerosols that are generated in-situ and distributed by nebulisation. Guaranteed to inactivate up to 99.9% coronaviruses after nebulisation;
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The disinfectant used consists of the same active ingredient as is produced and used against all infections in the human body.
The AVISNA® disinfectant is produced in-situ from products such as regular salt.
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The disinfecting aerosols linger in the air for hours and actively connect to other aerosols in the room
They immediately inactivate viruses that are already in the room or are newly exhaled
In addition to AHA+L and vaccination, why do you still need
SARS-CoV-2 is particularly infectious because it is easily transmitted via respiratory air. AHA+L and vaccination are only passive measures.
Please click on the image below to watch an explanatory video.
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Organizational Change Memo- Assignment 1.1
I believe that NCTC should implement consistency within its online and hybrid courses. For some
students taking online classes can be very difficult getting around on a well-organized website,
let alone a website
I have always wondered why in some states motorcyclist and their passengers are not required to
wear helmets, but motorist and their passengers are required to wear seatbelts. I should mention that I
have owned motorcycles in the past sometimes wearing a
Can Quiktrips recipe for success be a management revelation for other businesses?
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How do these attitudes and emotions influence the employees work behaviors?
COMP 245 STATISTICS
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Cultural Dimensions- Assignment 1.2
I interviewed a Hispanic coworker name Jimmy. Jimmy has a great since of humor and
pleasant to work with. Jimmy tries to balance his responsibilities as
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Disorder-specific Impact of Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management Treatment for Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care
Published In: Archives of General Psychiatry, v. 68, no. 4, Apr. 2011, p. 378-388
Posted on RAND.org on April 01, 2011
CONTEXT: Anxiety disorders commonly present in primary care, where evidence-based mental health treatments often are unavailable or suboptimally delivered. OBJECTIVE: To compare evidence-based treatment for anxiety disorders with usual care (UC) in primary care for principal and comorbid generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). DESIGN: A randomized controlled trial comparing the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) intervention with UC at baseline and at 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-up assessments. SETTING: Seventeen US primary care clinics. PATIENTS: Referred primary care sample, 1004 patients, with principal DSM-IV diagnoses of GAD (n = 549), PD (n = 262), SAD (n = 132), or PTSD (n = 61) (mean [SD] age, 43.7 [13.7] years; 70.9% were female). Eighty percent of the participants completed 18-month follow-up. INTERVENTIONS: CALM (cognitive behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy recommendations) and UC. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale, Panic Disorder Severity–Self-report Scale, Social Phobia Inventory, and PTSD Checklist–Civilian Version scores. RESULTS: CALM was superior to UC for principal GAD at 6-month (–1.61; 95% confidence interval [CI], –2.42 to –0.79), 12-month (–2.34; –3.22 to –1.45), and 18-month (–2.37; –3.24 to –1.50), PD at 6-month (–2.00; –3.55 to –0.44) and 12-month (–2.71; –4.29 to –1.14), and SAD at 6-month (–7.05; –12.11 to –2.00) outcomes. CALM was superior to UC for comorbid SAD at 6-month (–4.26; 95% CI, –7.96 to –0.56), 12-month (–8.12, –11.84 to –4.40), and 18- month (–6.23, –9.90 to –2.55) outcomes. Effect sizes favored CALM but were not statistically significant for other comorbid disorders. CONCLUSIONS: CALM (cognitive behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy medication recommendations) is more effective than is UC for principal anxiety disorders and, to a lesser extent, comorbid anxiety disorders that present in primary care.
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An interesting experiment is about to be conducted in London. A public-housing authority has constructed exact replicas of elegant early-Victorian townhouses on one side of Union Square in Islington, of the kind much coveted by bankers and lawyers in the nearby financial center, the famed (or ill-famed) City. The authority will rent these houses to relatively poor families at a steep discount. The scheme is revealing from at least three points of view: architectural, social, and politico-economic.
Architecturally, the houses are a reproach to the criminal stupidity, barbarity, and incompetence of postwar British architects, who made so much of urban Britain a visual hell. Whoever built the houses has followed the Victorian pattern exactly, without the need to leave his trace on it as a dog does with a tree. Recognizing that he could do no better, he has done the same; the result is more important than the architect’s need to prove his originality. Such replication might have been the dream of the population, but it has been the nightmare of architects, with their egoistic need to prove their supposed artistry.
Socially, the experiment may help determine whether architecture has an effect, for good or ill, upon social pathology. Will people, given elegant houses, behave more elegantly? Some hypothesize that what is granted to people without their personal effort or desert will produce no beneficial effect; but grounds exist for the opposite view. From a casual study of what one might call the epidemiology of graffiti, I think that even supposedly antisocial types are capable of aesthetic discrimination. I’ve noticed that, on the whole, they confine their efforts to the brutal concrete or otherwise hideous surfaces of the modern urban environment and leave architecturally meritorious buildings and surfaces alone, even in otherwise grim areas. In other words, their graffiti are an aesthetic commentary, albeit an unconscious one, on the world in which they live.
The politico-economic effects of the experiment are less happy. To live in such housing is an enormous privilege, since of course the supply is so limited. This hands enormous patronage powers to those who administer the project, supposedly on behalf of the general public. It is not difficult to imagine the corruption, both political and financial, that will result. The liberal newspaper, the Guardian, heralds the scheme as “a magnificent, two-fingered challenge to the notion, fashionable in some political circles, that people who cannot afford to live in expensive areas should not live there.” In other words, the project is a triumph for “social justice.”
But where justice is concerned, the effect is precisely the opposite. Under normal circumstances, people must make enormous effort and sacrifice to live in such accommodations. To grant them to people by political grace and favor, or even just to a lucky few, is the opposite of justice. There may be good reasons for doing so—despite such schemes’ tendency to devalue personal effort in favor of seeking political or bureaucratic influence—but justice is certainly not among them.
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FULLY-INOCULATED jobseekers may soon have a higher chance of getting hired under the proposed Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) policy to give employers discretion to hire based on the vaccination status of applicants.
In a virtual press briefing on Wednesday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) disclosed there is now such a pending IATF resolution, which is expected to further increase the number of workers who are vaccinated against Covid-19.
“As its stands now the term used [in the resolution] is ‘may’ so it is still not mandatory,” said Labor Assistant Secretary Dominique R. Tutay, in explaining about the resolution.
Instead, she said, employers may use the vaccination status as one of the criteria when selecting a qualified applicant.
Once finalized by the IATF, Tutay said DOLE will issue guidance for the implementation of the said policy.
DOLE issued the statement after President Duterte said in his public address on Tuesday night that it is “legal” for employers to hire vaccinated workers over those who are not.
“If you are not vaccinated, you will not be hired. I think that is legal,” Duterte said.
He, however, stressed employers could not fire workers who refuse to get Covid-19 vaccines.
Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III had made a similar policy pronouncement last month, which drew the ire of labor leaders, who tagged it as a form of discrimination.
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Vertebral body fracture
Vertebral body fracture is a fracture of the vertebrae that eventually cause a collapse of the vertebral body. The often painful fracture may be the result of a disease or trauma, e.g. accident. But the major risk factor for vertebral body fracture is increasing age. If the bone structure of an elderly person has already been damaged, the vertebra can even break without any external influence (mostly because of osteoporosis).
Symptoms of vertebral body fracture
- Sudden onset of back pain (increasing pain during movement)
- Fracture in the area of the cervical spine: no free head movement (forced posture)
- Larger or smaller spaces between spinous processes in the affected area
- In case of spinal cord or nerve tract injuries:
- Amyosthenia (Muscle weakness)
- Muscle paralysis
- Urinary and fecal incontinence
- In case of an existing disease (osteoporosis, cancer e.g.) that has already damaged the bone structure: Bone fractures
Causes and origin of vertebral body fracture
Usually, a vertebral body fracture in younger people is caused by strong external forces, such as:
- Car or sports accidents
- Jumps into shallow water
- Physical force, e.g. kicks, stab and gunshot wounds
- Accidents at work and at home
Elderly and sick people
If the bone structure is already damaged and the bone is weakened, e.g. by osteoporosis or cancer, the vertebra can break with everyday stresses (and without external impact). Sometimes a trivial injury is enough to cause vertebral body fracture.
But a vertebral body fracture may also have any of the following causes:
- Osteomalacia (softening of the bones)
- Osteitis (Inflammation of bone)
- Bone cancer
- Skeletal metastases
Consequences of vertebral body fracture
There is an increased risk for vertebral fracture if a vertebral body fracture develops due to osteoporosis. In case the fracture causes a severe hunchback, the lung function may deteriorate and the risk for a secondary disease can increase.
Prevention and therapy of vertebral body fracture
If a patient has any of the symptoms mentioned above, he/she should definitely see a doctor. Depending on the extent of the injury, a vertebral body fracture can heal very well if therapy starts in time.
During consultation, the physician should get all the important details, e.g. on a previous accident or an existing disease that might be the cause of the vertebral body fracture. Subsequently, various imaging examination procedures follow, such as x-ray, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Patient and doctor decide together if surgery is needed. However, if e.g. the spinal cord is injured, it is necessary to operate quickly.
Surgical procedures are, for example:
- Spondylodesis: Two or more vertebrae are stiffened, e.g. with Fixateur interne (internal fixation)
- Ventral stabilization: e.g. with a Cage (fills the intervertebral space)
- Kyphoplasty: The vertebral body is stabilized using an expandable balloon.
Treatment of the vertebral body fracture is supposed to restore the stability of the spinal column, ease pain and prevent abnormal biomechanical stress. After treatment, it is very important to train the mobility with physiotherapy as early as possible.
Vertebral body fractures might be prevented with a few precautions, such as wearing a seat belt in the car or using protective gear in sports. Patients with damaged bone structure caused by osteoporosis or cancer should try to minimize the risk of accidents. It is also important to get best possible treatment for existing diseases at an early stage to reduce the risk for vertebral body fracture.
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A collection of articles written on gay marriage since it became legalized in Scandinavia. (In Denmark since 1989). What are the statistics? What are the Pros and Cons? Did Gay Marriage hurt Straight Marriage?
Did gay marriage destroy
heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia?
This week, Massachusetts began handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Amid the cheers, there are the doomsayers who predict that same-sex weddings will mean the end of civilization as we know it. Conservative religious leader James Dobson warns that Massachusetts is issuing “death certificates for the institution of marriage.” And conservative pundit Stanley Kurtz claims to have found the “proof” that the institution will see its demise: Gay marriage helped to kill heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia. Indeed, Kurtz has become a key figure in the marriage debate: He and his statistics have been taken up by conservatives to support their argument that gay unions threaten heterosexual marriage. He has shown up in Congressional hearings, lawsuit filings, newspapers, debates, and anti-gay marriage videos across the country.
But Kurtz’s smoking gun is really just smoke and mirrors. Reports of the death of marriage in Scandinavia are greatly exaggerated; giving gay couples the right to wed did not lead to massive matrimonial flight by heterosexuals.
Currently there are nine European countries that give marital rights to gay couples. In Scandinavia, Denmark (1989), Norway (1993), Sweden (1994), and Iceland (1996) pioneered a separate-and-not-quite-equal status for same-sex couples called “registered partnership.” (When they register, same-sex couples receive most of the financial and legal rights of marriage, other than the right to marry in a state church and the right to adopt children.) Since 2001, the Netherlands and Belgium have opened marriage to same-sex couples.
Despite what Kurtz might say, the apocalypse has not yet arrived. In fact, the numbers show that heterosexual marriage looks pretty healthy in Scandinavia, where same-sex couples have had rights the longest. In Denmark, for example, the marriage rate had been declining for a half-century but turned around in the early 1980s. After the 1989 passage of the registered-partner law, the marriage rate continued to climb; Danish heterosexual marriage rates are now the highest they’ve been since the early 1970’s. And the most recent marriage rates in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland are all higher than the rates for the years before the partner laws were passed. Furthermore, in the 1990s, divorce rates in Scandinavia remained basically unchanged.
Of course, the good news about marriage rates is bad news for Kurtz’s sky-is-falling argument. So, Kurtz instead focuses on the increasing tendency in Europe for couples to have children out of wedlock. Gay marriage, he argues, is a wedge that is prying marriage and parenthood apart.
The main evidence Kurtz points to is the increase in cohabitation rates among unmarried heterosexual couples and the increase in births to unmarried mothers. Roughly half of all children in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are now born to unmarried parents. In Denmark, the number of cohabiting couples with children rose by 25 percent in the 1990s. From these statistics Kurtz concludes that ” … married parenthood has become a minority phenomenon,” and—surprise—he blames gay marriage.
But Kurtz’s interpretation of the statistics is incorrect. Parenthood within marriage is still the norm—most cohabitating couples marry after they start having children. In Sweden, for instance, 70 percent of cohabiters wed after their first child is born. Indeed, in Scandinavia the majority of families with children are headed by married parents. In Denmark and Norway, roughly four out of five couples with children were married in 2003. In the Netherlands, a bit south of Scandinavia, 90 percent of heterosexual couples with kids are married.
Kurtz is also mistaken in maintaining that gay unions are to blame for changes in heterosexual marriage patterns. In truth, the shift occurred in the opposite direction: Changes in heterosexual marriage made the recognition of gay couples more likely. In my own recent study conducted in the Netherlands, I found that the nine countries with partnership laws had higher rates of unmarried cohabitation than other European and North American countries before passage of the partner-registration laws. In other words, high cohabitation rates came first, gay partnership laws followed.
A subtler version of Kurtz’s argument states that the advent of registered partnership caused an increase in cohabitation rates and children born outside of marriage (nonmarital births). If that were true, then we would expect to see two patterns: Cohabitation rates and the nonmarital birth rate would rise more quickly within a country after it passed partner registration laws; and the rise in the nonmarital birth rate would be greater in countries that had such laws than in countries that do not recognize same-sex partnerships.
Kurtz’s argument fails both tests. From 1970 to 1980, the Danish nonmarital birth rate tripled, from 11 percent to 33 percent. Over the next 10 years, it rose again to 46 percent and then stopped rising in 1990s after the passage of the 1989 partnership law. Norway’s big surge occurred in the 1980’s, with an increase from 16 percent to 39 percent. In the decade after Norway recognized same-sex couples (in 1993), the nonmarital birth rate first rose slightly, then, after a couple of years, leveled off at 50 percent.
Cohabitation rates tell a similar story. In Denmark, from 1980 to 1989, the number of unmarried, cohabiting couples with children rose by 70 percent, but the same figure rose by only 28 percent from 1989 to 2000—the decade after Denmark introduced its partner-registration laws—and then stopped rising. From 2000 to 2004, the number has increased by a barely perceptible 0.3 percent. The fact that rates of cohabitation and nonmarital births either slowed down or completely stopped rising after the passage of partnership laws shows that the laws had no effect on heterosexual behavior.
Furthermore, the change in nonmarital births was exactly the same in countries with partnership laws as it was in countries without. The eight countries that recognized registered partners at some point in the decade from 1989 to 2000 saw an increase in the average nonmarital birth rate from 36 percent in 1991 to 44 percent in 2000, an eight percentage point increase. Among the EU countries that didn’t recognize partners (plus Switzerland), the average rate of nonmarital births rose from 15 percent to 23 percent—also an eight-point increase.
No matter how you slice the demographic data, rates of nonmarital births and cohabitation do not increase as a result of the passage of laws that give same-sex partners the right to registered partnership. To put it simply: Giving gay couples rights does not inexplicably cause heterosexuals to flee marriage, as Kurtz would have us believe. Looking at the long-term statistical trends, it seems clear that the changes in heterosexuals’ marriage and parenting decisions would have occurred anyway, even in the absence of gay marriage.
And all the conservative hand-wringing seems especially unnecessary when you consider the various incentives that encourage American heterosexual couples to marry. By marrying, U.S. couples obtain health-insurance coverage, pensions, and Social Security survivor benefits. Plus, in the United States we are required by law to be financially responsible for our spouses in bad times, since we don’t have Scandinavian-style welfare programs to fall back on.
In addition, American society already wrestles with the social tensions that Kurtz claims have occurred as a result of gay marriage in Scandinavia: deepening divisions over gay issues in churches, the increasing acceptance of lesbian and gay relationships in the media, and the occasional radical voice arguing for the abolition of marriage. Yet heterosexual couples keep getting married—more than 2 million of them every year.
Concerns about the impact of gay marriage on heterosexual behavior are not unique to the United States, of course. European countries that recognize same-sex couples initially had their worriers, too. Over time, however, it became clear that civilization and family life would survive the recognition of gay couples’ rights. Even the conservative governments that came into power have not tried to repeal rights for gay couples in France and the Netherlands.
Both demographic data and common sense show that the dire predictions of Dobson and Kurtz are just cultural prenuptial jitters. Now that gay and lesbian couples are marrying in Massachusetts, we’ll have a home-grown social experiment that will undoubtedly compare to that of Europe: Letting gay couples say “I do” does not lead to heterosexuals saying “I don’t.”
A video clip from The View: http://blip.tv/file/898530 including marriage statistics in Scandinavia.
Lessons from a Gay Marriage
Despite stereotypes of gay relationships as short-lived, gay unions highlight the keys to success.
By: Marian Jones
One lesson may be to wait before tying the knot. Many of the gays and lesbians who’ve married had been in their relationships for years beforehand, notes Dorte Gottlieb, a Danish psychologist who studies homosexuality. They have also been older on average than newly married heterosexuals.
Another likely reason Danish gays and lesbians rarely divorce is that only those who are strongly motivated to marry do so, given society’s disapproval of overt homosexuality. “It takes courage to marry and then live with information about your sexual orientation mentioned in your official documents,” says Danish psychologist Vibeke Nissen, herself a married lesbian.
However, the low gay divorce rate may have as much to do with gender as sexual orientation, Nissen believes. The vast majority of gay marriages in Denmark are male-male, and only 14 percent of these end in divorce, compared to 23 percent of female marriages. The higher rate for lesbians is consistent with data showing that women initiate most of the heterosexual divorces in Denmark. (In the United States, women request about two-thirds of divorces.) “Women simply expect different things from marriage than men do,” says Nissen. “And if they don’t get them, they prefer to live alone.”
Same-Sex Marriage: Demographics from Scandinavia
Dale Carpenter relates some fascinating research on same-sex unions in Scandanavia:
[T]here is no evidence that allowing same-sex couples to marry weakens the institution. If anything, the numbers indicate the opposite. A decade after Denmark, Norway and Sweden passed their respective partnership laws, heterosexual marriage rates had risen 10.7% in Denmark; 12.7% in Norway; and a whopping 28.8% in Sweden. In Denmark over the last few years, marriage rates are the highest they’ve been since the early 1970s. Divorce rates among heterosexual couples, on the other hand, have fallen. A decade after each country passed its partnership law, divorce rates had dropped 13.9% in Denmark; 6% in Norway; and 13.7% in Sweden. On average, divorce rates among heterosexuals remain lower now than in the years before same-sex partnerships were legalized.
In addition, out-of-wedlock birthrates in each of these countries contradict the suggestion by social conservatives that gay marriage will lead to great increases in out-of-wedlock births and therefore less family stability for children. In Denmark, the percentage of out-of-wedlock births was 46% in 1989; now it is 45%. In Norway, out-of-wedlock births jumped from 14% in 1980 to 45% right before partnerships were adopted in 1993; now they stand at 51%, a much lower rate of increase than in the decade before same-sex unions. The Swedish trend mirrors that of Norway, with much lower rates of increase post-partnership than pre-partnership.
Is there a correlation, then, between same-sex marriage and a strengthening of the institution of marriage? It would be difficult, and suspect, to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between these trends in heterosexual marriage and marriage rights for gays and lesbians. But the facts demonstrate that there is no proof that same-sex marriage will harm the institution of marriage, or children. An optimistic reading of the facts might even suggest that the energy and enthusiasm that same-sex couples bring to the institution of marriage may cause unmarried heterosexual couples to take a fresh look at marriage as an option.
Of course, there are the downsides, too. Like increased monogamy among gay people and increased toleration of gays and lesbians in society as a whole:
Our research has also uncovered additional social benefits. In dozens of interviews with partnered couples and through other sources, we found that marriage rights had an important beneficial effect not only on the couples themselves, but on their local and national communities as well. Couples reported that their relationships were stronger and more durable, that relationships with family members had deepened, that co-workers had become more tolerant and supportive, and their children felt greater validation by having married parents. Many couples reported a greater emphasis on monogamy, which may be reflected by the fact that national rates of HIV and STD infections declined in each of the Scandinavian countries in the years after they passed their partnership laws.
Strong, durable same-sex unions are exactly what the religious right fears most. They want, and need, gays to be promiscuous, irresponsible, shunned, and freakish. Dare I say it: diseased, too. They want gays forever to be scapegoats, and never to be people.
To them, tolerance is the enemy — and this is the reason they oppose civil marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. Forbidding civil marriage sends a message, and they know what the message is just as surely as they dare not speak it aloud: You, it says, you are not fully our equal. To win, all that they need to do is to insist that heterosexual marriage is “special,” that it is “sacred,” and that its sacredness must be defended by the government. Civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples strikes at the heart of this agenda.
Now, there are the usual and expected caveats of any study of this type: It’s the first of its kind, selection is always an issue, and so forth. For details, see the lengthy comment thread to Carpenter’s post. Still, I think he is correct when he concludes,
What we can say with confidence so far, based on the evidence, is that the sky doesn’t immediately fall when a society recognizes gay relationships. As time passes without the sort of cataclysmic consequences predicted by opponents of gay marriage, we will be able to say more. We may soon be able to say, with good evidence to back it up, that recognzing gay marriage leads to greater stability in gay families, with benefits to gay couples, children raised in gay families, and communities. The signs so far are pointing in the right direction.
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Item description for Peter Greenaway: Drowning By Numbers by Peter Greenaway...
This story is like a story told by children to adults, and the adults are like the creations of children. A combination of innocence and experience and the first shocks of curiosity and comprehension.
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Peter Greenaway was born in Wales. He trained as a painter, and began working in the British film industry as an editor in 1965. He started making his own films in 1966, and has continued to produce paintings, novels, exhibitions and theatre and opera work. His 1982 feature, "The Draughtsman's Contract", received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an important filmmaker. His films include "A Zed & Two Noughts", "The Belly of an Architect", "Drowning By Numbers", "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover", "8 1/2 Women" and "A Life in Suitcases".
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Together with the Book: "Fear of Drowning" (see my review), this is all you will need to watch this Film over and over again, and enjoy it more every time. They both serve as wonderful companions. The book contains the exceedingly well written script to this incredibly complex, well thought out, multi-layered Film. Also included are the scenes that were cut, which I am sure all afficionados will find quite interesting, and a sort of list of the locations of the number count in the film, as well as some great photos.
I am not going to review the Film here. Look in the VHS Section for that. I will say that "Drowning by Numbers" is my favorite Film because of its complexity, playfulness, symbolism, its numerous allusions, beautiful cinematography, excellent acting and casting, wonderful music and of course, its Script, which this book is. To the person who enjoys the Film, this will surely make them enjoy it even more. Buy it, and start counting. One-Antares, Two-Capella, Three-Canopus, Four-Arcturus, Five-Agreetor, Six-Anektor.....
Watch and read, repeat as required. Nov 14, 1998
It may be because it was filmed near where I live (Suffolk, England and the Nethertlands) It maybe it's quintessential Englishness and it's bizarre twists or it maybe that it's just a classic story of love, lust, trust and betrayal that ends in beautiful tragedy. This is only my favourite film of all time because of this book. Watch the film, read the book, then watch the film again (visit Southwold, drink a pint of Adnams, walk round the lighthouse, take a stone from the beach) then read the book. The book retells the lives of nine (then five, and in the end three) people who live a life so out of the ordinary it's probably happening in every town across the world. It deals with the relationships between men and women and hilights the games we play and what happens when we go too far.
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Lovering, John Francis (1956) Structural and compositional studies on selected phases of iron and stony-iron meteorites. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-03262004-144306
On the basis of new data for the frequency of band width distributions in a collection of 63 octahedrites, a revised classification into coarse, medium and fine octahedrites has been proposed. A study of the nickel contents and structures of iron meteorites would suggest that the following relationships hold: hexahedrites and nickel-poor ataxites, 5.5-6.0% nickel; coarse octahedrites, 6.0-7.2% nickel; medium octahedrites, 7.0-10.2% nickel; fine octahedrites 7.7-14% nickel; nickel-rich ataxites, 14.23(?)% nickel.
New data on the metal phase of iron meteorites indicate that the gallium and germanium contents are distributed between three distinct levels, confirming a previous observation by Goldberg, Uchiyama and Brown (1951) with regard to gallium. Cobalt and copper values are shown to vary more or less sympathetically with the nickel content. The distribution of chromium would appear to be complicated by the presence of troilite either close to, or contaminating, the sample analysed. Similar data for the metal phase of nine stony-iron meteorites suggest a similarity in nickel content and trace element content of all the samples analysed.
Semi-quantitative determinations have been made of cobalt, chromium, copper, germanium, manganese, nickel, lead, tin, vanadium and zinc in troilite from fourteen iron and two stony-iron meteorites. Similar determinations have been made on schreibersite from two iron meteorites. Semi-quantitative analyses of barium, cobalt, chromium, copper, gallium, germanium, manganese, nickel, tin, titanium, vanadium and zirconium in olivine from four pallasites, together with macro-analyses and optical data, suggest that the olivine has a constant composition.
The data have been used to calculate new abundances for these elements in meteorites and new data on the geochemical behavior of these elements.
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Fascism, genocide, the Holocaust, Hitler, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Racism, white nationalism, and homophobia. Not a day goes by without charges and warnings about illiberal tyranny, looming oppression, and impending atrocities ringing through the public square.
On their face, charges of bigotry seem strange in contemporary American society. Rates of racial intermarriage are at all-time highs. Hollywood, higher education, and corporate America cheerlead for LGBT causes. Women make up a supermajority of university students. The leading problems, such as declining life expectancy, working-class failure-to-thrive, and populist anger at elites, have little or nothing to do with issues of bigotry and exclusion. Yet these charges not only persist, but increase.
And not just by a little bit.
No doubt these spikes in media fixation on white supremacy and racism reflect the fact that the incoming generations of reporters, columnists, and editors have been weaned on identity politics at every stage in their educations. The university culture’s fixations have entered the mainstream media, as this chart shows.
There are larger forces at work, however. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the liberal establishment has anchored its power in the promise of minority (and female) empowerment and inclusion. This promise has inspired white liberals with a sense of a noble calling, and it has won the loyalty of minority voters.
The problem, however, is that as our society has become less racially divided, less judgmental about sexual orientation, and more enthusiastic about career women, the political potency of the promise of inclusion has diminished. This sets up powerful incentives for the liberal establishment to deny progress, citing the enduring—even intensifying—problems of “exclusion.”
In short, liberal power requires racism and other forms of bigotry. The loyalty of high-minded whites and minority voters needs to be renewed. The spike in articles about racism is therefore entirely predictable. White supremacy must be ferreted out and lifted up again and again in the media. When it can’t be found, it has to be invented—as in the case of Jussie Smollett, whose wanton lies were treated as necessary truths by the mainstream media.
There is another dimension to this power dynamic. Keeping racism, homophobia, and other charges of bigotry prominent in the public square suppresses dissent from liberal dominance. The same is true for charges of fascism or “far right” extremism.
Consider debates about immigration. The liberal media regularly reframes them in terms of racial politics. Those who object to mass migration are targeted as “white nationalists.” Those who insist upon assimilation are described as nostalgic for a white-majority nation. These rhetorical moves—tolerated, if not encouraged, by editors of liberal establishment newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post—function as threats. They warn dissenters that should they persist, they will be lumped in with Bull Connor.
In practical terms, this is not an idle threat. It implies professional assassination. A recent NYT op-ed issued that exact warning. “Similar to the way the American Medical Association has made it clear that its members must not participate in torture, the American Bar Association should signal that anyone who defends the border patrol's mistreatment of children will not be considered a member in good standing of the legal profession”—which is to say, those who support the administration’s policies will be “terminated” professionally.
Antifa thugs in Portland recently beat up Andy Ngo. It was an outwardly violent expression of the spirit of punishment abroad in today’s universities. Harvard law professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., was not physically attacked. Instead, he was forced out as the faculty dean of a Harvard undergraduate house because student activists deemed his role on Harvey Weinstein’s defense team unacceptable. Professional assassinations of this sort are commonplace. The liberal establishment’s readiness to label as bigots anyone not fully loyal to its agenda implicitly authorizes these actions, which now take place in many professions and corporations.
The atmosphere of threats affects conservatives, as was obvious when some prominent conservatives rushed to condemn high school students from Covington, Kentucky, whom social media set up as racist Trump supporters. The impulse was understandable. The conservatives wanted to insulate themselves from professional assassination by proving their loyalty to the anti-racist imperative.
A similar dynamic characterizes the charges of theocracy, fascism, and other illiberal crimes in public debates about the future of our country. Not far beneath the surface is the threat of prosecution at latter-day Nuremberg trials. Labels of this sort, especially fascism, target careers and livelihoods. This explains why so many on the right anxiously seek to find safe ground whenever charges of illiberalism or bigotry are made.
I was a child in the racially divided city of Baltimore when the historic civil rights legislation passed. I grew up knowing exactly what racism meant, having friends and parents of friends to whose lips the N-word came easily—and who had sentiments that accorded with that derogation. Baltimore remains racially divided, but “anti-racism” has come to mean almost the opposite of what it meant in my youth. Black empowerment and racial reconciliation are afterthoughts, at best. Today, anti-racism, like anti-fascism, anti-homophobia, and other crusades against bigotry and exclusion, is first and foremost an instrument of attack and assassination that serves the interests of liberal power.
R. R. Reno is editor of First Things.
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Summary: Isaac’s excited to be at Grandpop’s house, but he’s a little less certain about sleeping over. “I’m not sleepy,” he says as bedtime approaches. “Then stay awake,” replies Grandpop, “But it’s time to put the house to bed.” They move slowly and quietly around the house, turning off lights and pulling shades. When Isaac hears noises, Grandpop patiently explains what’s causing them: Snuffles the dog, the swingset creaking in the wind, the house making sleepy sounds. Finally, Isaac and Grandpop snuggle in a chair to read a bedtime story. Grandpop invites Isaac to tell him what’s happening in the pictures, then promptly falls asleep in the chair. Isaac takes one more good-night tour around the house, then settles himself in. The last picture shows the two of them and Snuffles snoring. 32 pages; ages 3-8.
Pros: A cute and reassuring bedtime story that could start a new nighttime routine of putting the house to sleep. More power to Grandpop; after a whole day with his grandson, he still has enough patience to take the time to make bedtime relaxed and happy.
Cons: “Snuffles” seems like kind of a sad name for a dog.
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A national telephone survey conducted in early April by Rasmussen Reports, the US polling company, discovered that only 53 percent of Americans believe capitalism to be superior to socialism. Twenty percent favor socialism and 27 percent are undecided.
Adults under 30, according to Rasmussen, were “essentially evenly divided: 37 percent prefer capitalism, 33 percent socialism, and 30 percent are undecided.”
These results lift the veil on a reality the US establishment feverishly seeks to conceal: the existence of a deeply-felt popular opposition to the existing economic system and social conditions.
The Rasmussen findings, under the ideological conditions that prevail in America, are a stunning refutation of the official manufactured public opinion. To the extent that socialism is understood as the opposite of capitalism, it is viewed favorably by substantial sections of the population.
There is widespread popular outrage at the bankers, the corporate CEOs and the rest of the financial aristocracy who have plundered the country for decades and now accept trillions of dollars in handouts. This is viewed as deeply unjust by millions of people whose jobs, pensions and health care benefits are under sustained attack, who have seen the value of their homes drop dramatically and who generally view the future with increasing pessimism and even alarm.
The mass anger toward Wall Street and the generalized disaffection with the existing system generates the strong desire for an alternative to the present intolerable conditions. That alternative, evidently, is identified in general terms with “socialism.”
Socialism is associated positively in many minds in America with a more humane, democratic and egalitarian policy, with a society in which social needs, and not the profit interests of the rich, are addressed.
The high level of popular support for such ideas, especially among the young, is particularly striking when one considers that for the past 60 years or so socialism has been relentlessly denounced in the US, or banned from public discourse altogether. Within the political establishment, including its liberal wing, to label someone a “socialist” has been the equivalent of formally cursing, shunning or excommunicating an individual.
In recent decades ruling circles were unanimous: the capitalist free market solved all problems and “un-American” socialism was a dead issue. Apparently not.
A vast chasm separates Establishment opinion and consensus from the thoughts and feelings of the working population. The average American sees and experiences nothing in the mainstream political arena or the daily media that would offer a favorable picture of socialism. And yet, according to the poll, 47 percent of the population, according to this survey, either favor or haven’t made up their minds about socialism.
In March Barack Obama told a group of top corporate directors, “I’ve always been a strong believer in the power of the free market. It has been and will remain the very engine of America’s progress—the source of a prosperity that has gone unmatched in human history.” When the economy “gets out of balance,” Obama argued, government has to intervene, “but the goals should always be to right the ship and let private enterprise do its magic.”
Millions of Americans think otherwise, but their views find no expression in the existing set-up. Every significant American politician, as well as many insignificant ones, is a bought and paid for stooge of powerful corporations and financial interests. We have, in effect, the Senator from Oil and Gas, the Governor from Finance, the Representative from Health Care or Defense. Social inequality has reached levels disastrous for the functioning of any society; the obscene flaunting of wealth by the super-rich does not go unnoticed.
The powers that be imagine they have gotten away with their looting of society, colonial wars and other crimes because the rottenness of the trade unions, the so-called civil rights organizations and liberalism has meant no one speaks up for the needs and interests of the population. But the more the social contradictions are ignored or papered over, the more explosive they become.
This situation, in which popular sentiment and the entire political system are so obviously out of joint, is volatile and untenable. The US has been staggered in the past seven months by the economic breakdown. Objective developments, despite all the efforts of the establishment, are bringing about a violent adjustment in the relationship between social consciousness and social reality: socialism will emerge as a major presence in American political life. The poll reflects a process already under way.
After decades of a reactionary bombardment, most Americans are no doubt confused about socialism. If Rasmussen or any other firm, however, asked people whether they preferred a society in which all policy was geared to the enrichment of the wealthiest one percent (or one-tenth of one percent) of the population, or a society based on social equality ... what would such a poll show?
In a crisis, inevitably, basic social interests and sentiments find expression. The present breakdown of the capitalist order is objectively sorting the population out along class lines.
Despite all the efforts to brutalize American society and render the population callous and indifferent to the suffering and plight of others, the recent poll reveals that the broad masses of the people have an elemental socialistic orientation. They oppose injustice, they support social equality and democracy, their sympathies lie with the downtrodden.
The capitalist media believes in its own reality and its infinite ability to manipulate and shape public opinion. In fact, other processes are taking place, with ultimately revolutionary implications. Leon Trotsky offered a far more profound view of the changes in consciousness that occur in a time of crisis: “Scientific socialism is the conscious expression of the unconscious historical process; namely, the instinctive and elemental drive of the proletariat to reconstruct society on communist beginnings. These organic tendencies in the psychology of workers spring to life with utmost rapidity today in the epoch of crises and wars.”
Social development has an inexorable logic. At the very moment when popular sentiment is shifting to the left, against capitalism, the remnants of the liberal-left around the Nation magazine proclaim the virtual impossibility of “reimagining socialism,” much less realizing it. These social elements, deeply conservative in their outlook and wedded to the economic status quo, will fiercely oppose the growth of a mass socialist movement in the US. That is the elemental instinct of their class, the privileged petty bourgeois.
The poll conducted by Rasmussen is cause for genuine optimism. For the same reason, while the poll’s uncovering of socialist sympathies in the population has created a stir in ultra-right circles, it has gone largely unreported in the major media. If Rasmussen, run by a right-wing evangelical Christian, meant the poll as a wake-up call, the phone was promptly hung up.
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Once upon a time in the enchanted land of Queens, a colorful borough in the City Of New York, a young boy named Seth Krasilovsky eagerly awaited the nightly ritual of his bedtime story. Spending time embraced by the warmth of his bed and the presence of his parents, Seth would drift off to sleep as he listened to the latest folk story or fairy tale.
Seth’s enjoyment of bedtime stories extended beyond quality time with mom and dad. What he enjoyed most was escaping into the imagery of the various stories being narrated. So the first time he heard, as a 3rd grader, about the New York City Public Schools’ storytelling contest, it got his attention and he wondered if he might be as good a storyteller as he was a listener.
For each of his last 4 years of elementary school, Seth entered and won storytelling contests at the class, grade, and school-wide levels. His renditions of folk stories, fairy tales and fables, delivered with animation and poise and punctuated with hand gestures, led to his selection as finalist in multiple championships of his public school district.
Years later, after he graduated from law school, Seth brought his inherent gift with him to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. There, the importance and power of the craft of storytelling were reinforced, and his ability to paint pictures for judges and juries reaped immediate rewards for the People of The State of New York. But his favorite memories of storytelling came when it became his turn to pass along the tradition of bedtime stories to his two young children.
Concentrates practice on trust, estate and conservatorship litigation and administration.
Represents corporate, private professional and individual fiduciaries in disputes and litigation, including surcharge and removal proceedings, contested accountings, claims for breach of fiduciary duty and suits involving lifetime transfers.
Represents individual and charitable beneficiaries in litigation and disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty claims, trust and will contests, and interpretation of testamentary instruments.
- Successfully represented a California non-profit public benefit corporation and obtained judgments, after two trials, surcharging trustee for breaches of fiduciary duties.
- Obtained judgment on the pleadings while successfully defending trustee against claims for accounting, breach of trust and surcharge.
- Negotiated favorable settlement terms for a previously discharged corporate trustee of special needs trust in obtaining disgorgement from California Department of Health Care Services of previously over-distributed trust assets.
- Represented eight prominent charitable organizations in successful challenge of purported trust instrument.
- Successfully defended successor trustee and trust beneficiaries against petition seeking disqualification of entitlement to decedent’s property due to alleged felonious and intentional killing of decedent.
- Obtained judgment on the pleadings while successfully defending trustee against petition seeking removal and appointment of successor trustee.
- Successfully represented a college as trust beneficiary in obtaining order removing malfeasant trustee and negotiated favorable settlement of surcharge claims against trustee.
- Negotiated favorable settlement terms for a member-supported public media network and protected its beneficial interest under testamentary instrument challenged for lack of due execution.
- Successfully represented corporate trustee in arbitration resulting in approval of accounting and report of trusteeship.
- Assisted in obtaining a $113 million settlement of litigation to remove and surcharge trustee of trusts controlling Farmer Bros. Coffee Co.
- Obtained significant settlement as lead trial counsel for quadriplegic unlawfully evicted from skilled nursing facility.
Honors & Awards
- "Top 5% of lawyers in Southern California," Southern California Super Lawyers (2013-2017)
- "Southern California Rising Stars," Super Lawyers (2009-2012)
- Elyse S. Klein Memorial Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Legal Services, Bet Tzedek Legal Services (2005)
- AV® Preeminent™ Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Professional, Business and civic Affiliations
- Former Co-Chair, Anti-Defamation League, Glass Leadership Institute
- Jewish Federation, New Leaders Project
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section
- Beverly Hills Bar Association, Trusts & Estates Section
- New York State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section
- American Bar Association, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
- Former Gift Chair, University of Pennsylvania Penn Fund
Other Career Experience
- Assistant District Attorney, New York County District Attorney’s Office
- Judicial Intern, Hon. Leslie Crocker Snyder, New York State Supreme Court
- January 20, 2016
- January 2014
- January 2013
- June 8, 2012
- June 13, 2011
- “To Fee, Or Not To Fee: Entitlement Is The Question,” San Fernando Valley Estate Planning CouncilMay 2015
- Exercising Discretion in Administering Discretionary TrustsJune 2009
- April 8, 2016
Events & Speaking Engagements
- February 1, 2017
- May 21, 2015
- December 8, 2014
- November 12, 2013
- October 15, 2013
- The Trustee's Investment Responsibilities under the Prudent Investor Act and the Resulting Damages for Breach of the Trustee's Investment ResponsibilitiesOctober 21, 2010
- Trust Asset Management: The Trustee's Evolving Duties and LiabilitiesJune 2010
- June 15, 2010
- California, 2003
- District of Columbia, 1998
- Massachusetts, 1997
- New York, 1998
- U.S. District Court, 2003
- Central District of California
- U.S. Tax Court, 2001
New York University School of Law, LL.M., 2001
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1997
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1994; cum laude
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Head and Neck Cancer Introduction Page
Larynx (voice box)
The larynx, or voice box, consists of three major anatomic areas: the supraglottic larynx; the glottic larynx; and the subglottic larynx.
The supraglottic larynx is the portion of the larynx above the vocal cords. It consists of the false cords, the laryngeal ventricles, the epiglottis and the aryepiglottic folds. The glottic larynx consists of the vocal cords themselves. The subglottic larynx is the portion of the larynx below the vocal cords. This area is continuous with the upper trachea.
The combination of tobacco use and alcohol use significantly increases the possibility of laryngeal cancer.
The symptoms of laryngeal cancer may vary according to the exact location
within the larynx from which the tumor is arising. Tumors of the supraglottic
larynx tend to bring on sore throat and painful swallowing. Hoarseness
is also possible, if the tumor extends onto the vocal cords. Tumors arising
from the true vocal cords, as well as those arising from the subglottic
larynx, usually lead to hoarseness. Hoarseness is often an early sign
of laryngeal cancer. Because hoarseness occurs very early in the natural
history of vocal cord cancer, most patients with cancer of the vocal cords
have early stage tumors.
The first step in a proper clinical evaluation is a complete history and physical examination, which should include a thorough head and neck examination. Once a lesion in the larynx has been identified, a biopsy (which involves removing a piece of living tissue from the suspicious area and examining it with a microscope) should be performed to establish the diagnosis. If there is an enlarged lymph node in the neck, a fine needle aspiration biopsy is often done to obtain the diagnosis of the neck node. A fine needle aspiration biopsy involves inserting a small needle into the mass and withdrawing cells. The pathologists examines these cells under a microscope to see if they are cancerous.
Usually, a biopsy is performed on the larynx as well. A CT scan, which uses X-rays to create a two-dimensional image of the area, and/or an MRI scan, which uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to visualize the detailed anatomy, will often be done to evaluate the extent of the primary tumor, and to assess if cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. A PET scan, which creates computerized images of the metabolic changes that occur in tissue, may also be performed for further evaluation of the extent of the primary tumor, as well as the presence of metastases in the neck. Today, PET/CT scans can be performed together, which gives a higher level of radiologic information. It also helps to explore the rest of the body for any evidence of cancer spread outside the head and neck region.
An examination under anesthesia including direct laryngoscopy and biopsy is a very important part of the clinical evaluation. This involves an examination under anesthesia, which allows physicians to assess the exact extent of disease. Along with proper biopsy and tissue sampling, this is essential in the treatment planning process.
Early stage supraglottic larynx cancers can be treated with either radiation therapy or surgery. The decision as to which modality to use is based upon the exact extent of disease, how well the patient is functioning, and his/her medical condition. When radiation therapy is utilized, the standard of care is to deliver appropriate radiation therapy to the larynx as well as to the lymph nodes on both sides of the neck. Surgery in the form of a supreglottic laryngectomy is a more conservative procedure that preserves the vocal cords. It is a consideration for patients with good lung function. Patients with poor lung function should not be considered for this surgery.
Early cancers of the true vocal cord are usually treated with definitive radiation therapy. This means that radiation is directed to the larynx itself, since there is no need to treat the surrounding lymph nodes. The cure rates are very high, and the functional and voice outcomes are good or excellent for most patients. Surgery may also be selected for certain patients with true glottic cancer. For some patients, laser vaporization, or directed surgical excision, may be appropriate. In general, radiation therapy provides a better functional and voice outcome, which is the reason it is usually selected.
Early cancers of the subglottic cancer are uncommon. However, they are usually treated with radiation therapy. As mentioned above, selected patients may be offered surgical options.
More advanced lesions of the supraglottic larynx present more complex management issues. If the patient is a candidate for a surgical procedure that does not require total laryngectomy, then primary surgery may be an option. The majority of patients are now treated on combined modality programs, usually referred to as Larynx Preservation Programs. These programs usually involve a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy delivered together. Surgery is generally reserved for recurrence, if the radiotherapy/chemotherapy does not work. It is absolutely essential that patients are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team, including otolaryngologists, radiation oncologists and medical oncologists. This ensures that the patient receives all of his/her treatment options, and that a proper strategy can be executed. At Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, we are committed to using state-of-the-art treatments for cancer, which includes a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional approach.
Advanced cancers of the glottic larynx have many of the same issues as advanced cancers of the supraglottic larynx. The goal is to perform surgery without a total laryngectomy (total removal of the voice box). Today, most patients are managed on a larynx preservation program. A larynx preservation program involves the use of combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Often, surgery to the neck is added after the chemotherapy/radiotherapy. It is absolutely essential for the patient to undergo a multidisciplinary evaluation, which includes the head and neck surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist, so that an appropriate decision about management can be made.
If a patient with either advanced supraglottic or glottic cancer has metastatic disease to the neck, a neck dissection is usually performed after the chemotherapy/radiotherapy is completed. The general approach is to complete the chemotherapy/radiotherapy, and perform a neck dissection about 6 to 8 weeks later. If the patient has no obvious spread to the neck, or minimal spread to the neck, then treatment may be chemotherapy/radiotherapy alone. These decisions are made by the multidisciplinary team and the patient.
Despite the availability of all treatment options mentioned above, certain patients may still require a total laryngectomy (total removal of the voice box) as part of their treatment. When this is necessary, patients are eligible for a variety of rehabilitation and reconstructive procedures. These are geared to restoring as much of their voice function as possible.
Click Here for more information about radiation oncology treatments for head and neck cancer.
After treatment is completed, the patient enters the follow-up phase. Usually, all of the treating physicians are involved in follow-up evaluations. For the first year, patients are usually seen every one to two months. During the second year, they are often seen every two to three months. After the second year, patients are usually seen every three to six months. Of course, the follow-up schedule is individualized for each patient.
Imaging procedures like CT scans, PET scans, or fused PET/CT scans, are done according to a routine that is individualized for each patient. Not all patients require these studies. A chest X-ray is usually done on an annual basis. Regular dental evaluation is done, because good dental care is essential to the head and neck health.
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213. Thomas Wafer LEWIS was born on 16 September 1815 in Louisiana. He died on 14 December 1887 at the age of 72 in Otero County, New Mexico.
1850 Census. Union Parish, LA, Hh 707
Thomas W. Lewis, 36, Farmer, b. GA
Evaline, 25, b. TN
David, 5. Elizabeth, age 3. - both born in Louisiana
1860 Census. Western Dist, Trinity Co, TX, Hh 91
T. W. Lewis 39, Farmer, b. MS
Elina, 20 (she was more like 35), b. TN
David, 15, b. Texas
Elizabeth 14, b. LA
Addelina, 10, b. LA
James 7, b. LA
Letty, 6, b. TX
John Smith, 21, Labor
1870 Census. Medina Co, TX, Hh 379
Thomas Lewis, 54, b. GA
Ebline, 45, b. Tennessee
Atlein, 23, female, b. LA (Addelina)
James 17, b. LA
Laty, 14, b. TX
Saline, b. TX, female
Frances and Josephine, age 6, b. TX, both females
Next door was son David.
1880 Census. Bandera Co, TX, Hh 67
Thos. W. Lewis, 64, Farmer, b. MS, parents b. SC
Evaline, 55, wife, b. TN
Rosa, 16, daughter, b. TX
F. A., 16, daughter, b. TX
Next door was son David.
Thomas W and Ebalina Lewis moved to New Mexico from Bandera County, Texas in 1887 and settled in the Sacramento Mountains. Thomas Wafer Lewis passed away in Jim Lewis Canyon, Otero County, New Mexico, of pneumonia. Only five graves are noted in the cemetery - his and four young grandchildren.
Thomas Wafer LEWIS and Evalina GOODGION were married circa 1841. Evalina GOODGION was born on 22 January 1825 in Tennessee. She died on 22 April 1908 at the age of 83 in Uvalde County, Texas.
Some of this information seems unlikely and needs to be cross checked with other records. Evalina's parents said to be James Watson Goodgion (1801-1830) and Letticia Lyles (1801-1890) Leticia's place of death said to be White Co TN, as was her husband's.
Evalina's name is also found as Ebalina and that's how it is on her grave marker, Montell Cemetery, Montell, Uvalde Co, TX
Thomas Wafer LEWIS and Evalina GOODGION had the following children:
|David L. LEWIS.|
|Elizabeth Wafer LEWIS.|
|Addelena LEWIS was born in 1850 in Lousiana.|
|James Pierce LEWIS.|
|Lettica "Lettie" LEWIS was born in 1856 in Texas. She died on 3 May 1932 at the age of 76 in Kinney County, Texas. |
Lettie married Samuel C. Casey. They are buried Devine Evergreen Cemetery, Medina Co, TX.
1880 Census. Prec 4, Bandera Co, TX, Hh 32 - two houses from her sister Elizabeth Jeffers
Samuel Casey, 29, Farmer
Lettie, 24, wife, b. TX
E. C., 6, daughter
James J. 4, son
Jowel, 2, son
|Crawford Josephine LEWIS was born on 31 May 1864 in Texas. She died on 13 December 1947 at the age of 83 in Copperas Cove, Coryell County, Texas. |
Married James B. Kidd
Josephine is buried Herrington Family Cemetery, Bell Co, TX, as his her husband - he was a CSA marker, Co. L, 8th Texas Inf. James Kidd was born 17 Feb 1845, died 9 Jan 1923.
|Frances LEWIS was born in 1864 in Texas.|
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Union Public Service Commission
Lecture Notes for Indian History
This material contains the topic of Indian History
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What is the Prajnã Wisdom?
What is the Wisdom of emptiness?
What is the Prajnã? What is emptiness?
Does the Prajnã Wisdom rely on the thinking?
While thinking, do we have Prajnã?
Having emptiness does not have thinking, as thinking relies on contemplating, based on the past, consists of prejudices, facts, with time and space in the development process.
The prajnã wisdom stays in the purity of the present time. The present time is the momentary existence of creativity. During the period of creativity, the natural initiation links with the evolution process, without the influence of all human laws.
All creations and products of art and knowledge develop freely, without the suppression of human laws.
When you look at an artistic or religious creation, but it still depends on reason, constraint, or fear, this means you are not yet delivered.
To have true creativity, all creations should be generated from the emptiness of Prajnãpãramitã. Pãramitã is the source of universal center, which is not created by human beings, but initiated by the Divinities. This is the Center of the Macro Cosmos, where the human beings are unable to reach. This is the Source of all Principles of the Arising Conditions. Without it, everything would be stagnant, and all life forces, creativities, evolutions will cease and fall into destruction. This is the Extinction, as all life forces would be cut off as the light goes out.
Human beings who want to survive, to receive the life force, to progress, need to wake up. They should stop being blind, manipulated by greed, hate, delusion, joy, anger, love, and hatred; this means, they should wake up and get out of the control and influence of six senses, six sense-objects that cover up their illuminated mind, their purity source of creativity. The capability of receiving this endless source of life is for the evolution, to maintain the continuity of the universe, to avoid the extinction of the cosmos.
Today's world is an obscure world without realizing that it is like a light which is about fade. Greedy and selfish human beings are being infatuated by material pleasures, pursuing relentlessly fame and richness. The impediment is already perceived in the three heavenly worlds, which always protect the survival of the universe, prevent the extinction of humankind.
Why such impediment exists today?
It is due to greed and selfishness.
Divinities have descended to the earth to found the religions and provide an illuminated way to help humankind to continue receiving the never-ending source of energy from the macro cosmos. However, representatives of the religions and of divinities did not rightly execute their duties and roles. For that reason, divinities are coming back to this earth in the ordinary roles amidst the societies, to sound the everlasting bells to wake up humankind, to wake up those who wear religious clothes but do not fulfill their duties accordingly. Instead of accomplishing religious practice to attain wisdom, they are enticed by material things and money, by ambition for high positions and great power, for good food and high respect by the followers, consequently, they are caught in obscurity of ignorance.
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Helen Robinson got her first job at 11, set up her own tech business at 22, and 20 years later was managing director of Microsoft NZ. These days she is a professional director, chair of Network for Learning and Cloud M, and on the boards of ATEED and the Open Polytechnic. In her copious free time she is co-founder and executive chair of Organic Initiative, a company making biodegradable, organic, fair trade, women’s hygiene products. She gave Idealog her top five predictions for New Zealand’s place in the creative economy over the next 10 years, and the five things that keep her awake at night.
Auckland: Our biggest city will continue to go from strength to strength. It will (and must) lead change and economic growth to ensure continued stability for all of New Zealand. Auckland's focus on attracting international businesses and investment will help this exponential economic performance.
Commercialisation: New Zealanders will continue to innovate strongly, but must understand and learn how to commercialise, how to be lean, flexible but rapid in our approach. New Zealanders have always had masses of ideas but struggle to get these into market successfully. I would like to think that over the coming years more innovation will be more successfully commercialised.
Climate change: The environment will play a far more impactful role in the next decade. New Zealand will need to think and act quickly on how to mitigate emissions. This will be increasingly apparent as people better understand the enormous impact that how we live now has on our future survival.
Helen Robinson at the launch of Organic Initiative
Role of women: Women will become more confident - my belief is the reason there are not more women in senior leadership roles has less to do about company policies or men, but is more about women's lack of confidence at an early age to stand up, and be more demanding about what is right.
The next generation of women will be more confident, says Helen Robinson
Digital: There is no doubt digital will be at the forefront of continued transformation in everything we do, how we live, how we work, how we play. We are well into our exponential technology disruption with robotics, wearable devices, the internet of things. The coming decade will see an even greater advancement in all things digital.
What keeps me awake at night?
Old-school governance: There is still too much old-school governance, rather than agile, fast-paced, market-focused boards which remain highly accountable and who balance risks with forward thinking. These old-school boards struggle with understanding, appreciating and acting on the need to invest in the right approach to leveraging technologies to be more effective, more responsive, more agile and therefore high-performing.
Digital dinosaurs: Whilst digital embeddedness is normal in some areas, there remain too many sectors where lack of innovation and digitisation is holding them back. Most government departments and too many commercial entities do not seem to get this yet. At the age of 50 I am forever telling people that you ignore new technology at your peril. I plan on living at least another 40 years and if I don’t keep up with technologies – for example social media – what am I going to be like in 30-40 years?
Helen Robinson with her mother
Sales expertise: New Zealand’s lack of sales acumen, and huge lack of appreciation of fabulous sales people, continues to trouble me. In the US, sales is recognised as a true profession; in New Zealand it is as if all sales people are car sales people. This has to change if we want to advance our economy.
Funding: For many young companies, finding investment is difficult, especially post seed, into Series A or Series B. Even Callaghan Innovation appears to be very schizophrenic in the way it dishes out funds.
Branding: One of my biggest business priorities or concerns (as all my fellow board members and executives will attest) is “brand”, and NZ's lack of brand expertise. Even most marketing people do not understand what brand is and the absolute critical role brand plays. Brand, brand essence, company values – all these underpin and drive business success. Get brand right and the rest will have a chance of success. Imagine if New Zealand had an overarching brand strategy too...
*Helen Robinson’s comments are part of “10 after 10”, an Idealog editorial series inspired by our tenth birthday and a challenge from PledgeMe CEO Anna Guenther. We ask New Zealand business leaders to comment on what has changed over the last 10 years, and what still needs to.
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For weeks, Facebook has been questioned about its role in spreading fake news. Now the company has mounted its most concerted effort to combat the problem.
Facebook said on Thursday that it had begun a series of experiments to limit misinformation on its site. The tests include making it easier for its 1.8 billion members to report fake news, and creating partnerships with outside fact-checking organizations to help it indicate when articles are false. The company is also changing some advertising practices to stop purveyors of fake news from profiting from it.
Facebook, the social network, is in a tricky position with these tests. It has long regarded itself as a neutral place where people can freely post, read and view content, and it has said it does not want to be an arbiter of truth. But as its reach and influence have grown, it has had to confront questions about its moral obligations and ethical standards regarding what appears on the network.
Its experiments on curtailing fake news show that Facebook recognizes it has a deepening responsibility for what is on its site. But Facebook also must tread cautiously in making changes, because it is wary of exposing itself to claims of censorship.
“We really value giving people a voice, but we also believe we need to take responsibility for the spread of fake news on our platform,” said Adam Mosseri, a Facebook vice president who is in charge of its news feed, the company’s method of distributing information to its global audience.
He said the changes — which, if successful, may be available to a wide audience — resulted from many months of internal discussion about how to handle false news articles shared on the network.
What impact Facebook’s moves will have on fake news is unclear. The issue is not confined to the social network, with a vast ecosystem of false news creators who thrive on online advertising and who can use other social media and search engines to propagate their work. Google, Twitter and message boards like 4chan and Reddit have all been criticized for being part of that chain.
Still, Facebook has taken the most heat over fake news. The company has been under that spotlight since Nov. 8, when Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th president. Mr. Trump’s unexpected victory almost immediately led people to focus on whether Facebook had influenced the electorate, especially with the rise of hyperpartisan sites on the network and many examples of misinformation, such as a false article that claimed Pope Francis had endorsed Mr. Trump for president that was shared nearly a million times across the site.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has said he did not believe that the social network had influenced the election result, calling it “a pretty crazy idea.” Yet the intense scrutiny of the company on the issue has caused internal divisions and has pushed Mr. Zuckerberg to say he was trying to find ways to reduce the problem.
In an interview, Mr. Mosseri said Facebook did not think its news feed had directly caused people to vote for a particular candidate, given that “the magnitude of fake news across Facebook is one fraction of a percent of the content across the network.”
Facebook has changed the way its news feed works before. In August, the company announced changes to marginalize what it considered “clickbait,” the sensational headlines that rarely live up to their promise. This year, Facebook also gave priority to content shared by friends and family, a move that shook some publishers that rely on the social network for much of their traffic. The company is also constantly fine-tuning its algorithms to serve what its users most want to see, an effort to keep its audience returning regularly.
This time, Facebook is making it easier to flag content that may be fake. Users can report a post they dislike in their feed, but when Facebook asks for a reason, the site presents them with a list of limited and vague options, including the cryptic “I don’t think it should be on Facebook.” In Facebook’s new experiment, users will have a choice to flag the post as fake news and have the option to message the friend who originally shared the piece to tell him or her the article is false.
If an article receives enough flags as fake, it can be directed to a coalition of groups that will fact-check it. The groups include Snopes, PolitiFact, The Associated Press, FactCheck.org and ABC News. They will check the article and can mark it as a “disputed” piece, a designation that will be seen on Facebook.
Partner organizations will not be paid, the companies said. Some characterized the fact-checking as an extension of their journalistic efforts.
“We actually regard this as a big part of our core mission,” James Goldston, the president of ABC News, said in an interview. “If that core mission isn’t helping people regard the real from the fake news, I don’t know what our mission is.”
Disputed articles will ultimately appear lower in the news feed. If users still decide to share such an article, they will receive a pop-up reminding them that the accuracy of the piece is in question.
Facebook said it was casting a wide net to add more partners to its fact-checking coalition and may move outside of the United States with the initiative if early experiments go well. The company is also part of the First Draft Coalition, an effort with other technology and media companies including Twitter, Google, The New York Times and CNN, to combat the spread of fake news online.
In another change in how the news feed works, articles that many users read but do not share will be ranked lower on people’s feeds. Mr. Mosseri said a low ratio of sharing an article after it has been read could be perceived as a negative signal, one that might reflect that the article was misleading or of poor quality.
“Facebook was inevitably going to have to curate the platform much more carefully, and this seems like a reasonably transparent method of intervention,” said Emily Bell, director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.
“But the fake cat is already out of the imaginary bag,” Ms. Bell added. “If they didn’t try and do something about it, next time around it could have far worse consequences.”
Facebook also plans to impede the economics of spreading fake articles across the network. Fake news purveyors generally make money when people click on the false articles and are directed to third-party websites, the majority of which are filled with dozens of low-cost ads.
Facebook will review those third-party links and check for things like whether the page is mostly filled with advertising content — a dead giveaway for spam sites — or to see whether a link masquerades as a different site, like a fake version of The New York Times. Such sites would not be eligible to display Facebook advertising on their pages.
Articles disputed by the fact-checking coalition will also not be eligible to be inserted into Facebook ads, a tactic viral spammers have used to spread fake news quickly and gain more clicks on their websites.
Facebook said that in these early experiments it would deal with only fake news content; it does not plan to flag opinion posts or other content that could not be easily classified. The changes will not affect satirical sites like The Onion, which often jabs at political subjects through tongue-in-cheek humor.
Facebook must take something else into consideration: its profit. Any action taken to reduce popular content, even if it is fake news, could hurt the company’s priority of keeping its users engaged on the platform. People spend an average of more than 50 minutes a day on Facebook, and the company wants that number to grow.
Executives at Facebook stressed the overriding factor right now is not just engagement.
“I think of Facebook as a technology company, but I recognize we have a greater responsibility than just building technology that information flows through,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Thursday. “We have a responsibility to make sure Facebook has the greatest positive impact on the world.”
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A coat of arms emblazoned with the Latin motto ‘Veritas Victrix Estis’ looms over the indoor scenes of Adrian Noble’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Truth is indeed victorious in Oscar Wilde’s most famous play about the loves, lives and lies of the English aristocracy, but only after three glorious acts following the japes and scrapes of Algernon Moncrieff and his friend Mr. Earnest Worthing.
We meet the two young men-about-town at Algernon’s London house where he divulges his secret: he is a Bunburyist. Dear Algy keeps a pretend ailing friend, Bunbury, in the country so he can escape his London social engagements to entertain ladies across the counties. Earnest admits the opposite, with a lot more shame than his outrageous cad of a friend: he is Earnest in town but respectable Mr John Worthing in the country, guardian to a pretty young ward Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily dotes on her ‘Uncle Jack’ but has fallen in love with his wicked younger brother Earnest who she’s never met as he’s in fact the alter-ego Earnest uses to escape to town.
Both men fall hopelessly in love – Algernon with Cecily and Earnest with Aunt Augusta’s pretty daughter Gwendolen – and vow to leave their Bunburying ways behind them. But just as they commit to leading new, honest lives, both women reveal that they could only ever love a man named Earnest. All this silliness is presided over by Algernon’s formidable Aunt Augusta, a part relished by David Suchet who enters swooshing his long skirt about the stage, shooting withering glares in every direction and clearly loving every second.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that I know so well I could practically recite it but Wilde’s words are still as fresh and dazzling as they were in 1895, and the laughter is still as uproarious. It remains an utter joy to watch the plot unfold, Algernon and Earnest tangling themselves in fibs to win the hearts of the ladies and arranging emergency christenings to stop the truth coming out. This is thanks in no small part to the brilliant young cast. Imogen Doel is particularly outstanding as cloistered beauty Cecily and Philip Cumbus and Michael Benz have a great dynamic as Algernon and Earnest, bickering about society etiquette one minute and scoffing muffins the next. Peter McKintosh’s beautiful set and costume design makes the production easy on the eye, too.
‘A trivial comedy for serious people’, promises the play’s subtitle, but in fact this is a trivial comedy for one and all, and a wonderful way to laugh away an evening.
- By Oscar Wilde
- Directed by Adrian Noble
- Cast includes: David Suchet, Emily Barber, Michael Benz, Philip Cum-bus, Imogen Doel
- Vaudeville Theatre, London
- Until 7 November 2015
- Review by Rowena Hawkins
- 7 July 2015
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Another Civil War recording? Well, yes. The Civil War continues gripping the imagination of listeners and artists and, in the case of Sam Passamano II, record executives alike. Passamano’s project is a bit different from the rest. Except for the hymn “There Is A Fountain,” he has avoided having his gathered artists remake Civil War-era tunes and avoided the fictional and first-person “ballads” found on most. Instead, there are 12 true events involving, as the notes say, “lost loved ones, acts of kindness, selflessness, faith, family values and brotherhood,” 12 events that have been transformed by several contemporary songwriters (including, predominantly, Mark Brinkman, Paula Breedlove, and Mike Evans) into modern historical ballads that are both compelling and moving.
We hear of a doctor searching for the name of an unknown soldier by spreading the word in newspapers and asking if readers recognize “A Picture Of Three Children” found in the soldier’s hand. We hear in “Carrie’s Graveyard Book” of a woman who keeps a list of all the soldiers who die in the hospital located on her commandeered plantation. Some of the stories, such as “The Legend Of Jennie Wade” and “Christmas In Savannah,” are fairly well-known. Others, such as the title tune or the ex-slave/underground railroad operative “The River Man,” are less so.
While the majority of the tunes here are good, including the uptempo and airy tale of a young girl in a guerilla unit who earns the name “Rebel Hart” and the traditional and buoyant “Old John Burns,” a few are stuck with rather static melodies, using modal and minor effects to simulate old mountain balladry. The stories and the performances, however, never flag, and therein lies the heart and punch of this recording.
Among the lead singers are Steve Gulley, Dale Ann Bradley, Russell Moore, Carrie Hassler, Ronnie Bowman, Bradley Walker, Rickey Wasson, Tim Stafford, and the Lonesome River Band. (Rural Rhythm, P.O. Box 750, Mt. Juliet, TN 37121, www.ruralrhythm.com.)BW
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Cultures & immigration beat: Journal tracks Hmong progress
- Article by: Allie Shah
- Star Tribune
- January 31, 2013 - 5:43 PM
A new study shows the Hmong-American population is maturing and making strides in several key areas. But many still struggle with poverty and disparities in health services.
The findings, published recently in a special issue of the Hmong Studies Journal, are based on an analysis of 2010 census data.
People of Hmong ancestry have been a part of American society since the first refugees arrived in the 1970s. They settled mainly in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
But for the first time, there are now Hmong people living in every state, according to the Hmong Studies Journal.
Other report findings:
• More than half of all Hmong-Americans were born in the United States.
• English is no longer a barrier for the majority of Hmong-Americans.
• The Hmong population in Minnesota, like in the nation, is starting to age compared with 1990 and 2000 data; but the Hmong median age in Minnesota is 19.7 years, well below the median age of the overall Minnesota population -- 37 years.
• More Hmong-Americans in Minnesota and nationally are attaining higher education. Educational gaps between Hmong-American women and men have been eliminated.
• The U.S. Hmong poverty rate has significantly improved in the past couple decades, decreasing from 64 percent in 1990 to 38 percent in 2000 and 25 percent in 2010.
Despite the progress, gaps in income and health services persist.
The poverty rate for Hmong-Minnesotans was 26 percent in 2010 -- more than three times as high as the 7 percent poverty rate for the entire state population.
The study also found that 11.9 percent of Hmong-Minnesotans had no health insurance coverage, compared with less than 9 percent of all Minnesotans. But nearly 40 percent of Hmong-Minnesotans had public health coverage, as opposed to 25 percent of all Minnesotans.
To read the issue, go to www.hmongstudiesjournal.org.
Allie Shah • 612-673-4488
© 2016 Star Tribune
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The striking deep purple flowers and silvery quilted leaves of
Vernonia hirsuta make it a very desirable plant for an indigenous
up to 1m tall in colonies in grasslands. The woody rootstock gives
rise to hairy stems with thick stalkless leaves whose veins are
deeply indented on the upper surface, giving a 'quilted' effect.
'flowers', in common with all the members of the daisy family, are
actually composed of many tiny 'florets' grouped together. Appearing
from September to January (spring to midsummer), they range in colour
from magenta to purple, and occasionally pink or white. They are
followed by attractive silvery seedheads.
Vernonia hirsuta is not threatened.
A widespread species, occurring in Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal,
Free State, Lesotho, Swaziland, Limpopo (Northern Province), Mpumalanga,
Zimbabwe and Angola.. It is grows in grassland, scrub, and on forest
margins, in full sun to light shade, from the coast to1900m. Frost
hardy, it is found in the summer rainfall regions.
Derivation of name and historical aspects
This is a large genus of the daisy family with about 1000 species
found in the southern hemisphere, with 50 of these in South Africa.
The name Vernonia is after William Vernon, an English botanist
who collected plants in America and who died in 1711. "hirsuta"
refers to the hairy leaves.
There are many other very attractive species of Vernonia
which deserve more horticultural attention, including the silvery
leaved V. natalensis, V. oligocephala with bicoloured
leaves and Vernonia glabra
plant does not seem to have a specialized pollinator. It is visited
by bees, butterflies and beetles, which carry pollen from one flower
to another. The seeds are enclosed in hairy fruits with a 'parachute'
of hairs which assists in wind distribution.
Uses and cultural aspects
This plant is used in traditional medicine to treat colic, sore
throats, coughs, headaches and rashes. The Zulu common name means
'cure for the gall-bladder'. According to Pooley (1998), it is a
hardy garden plant.
Growing Vernonia hirsuta
This species grows easily from both cuttings and seed. Once established,
it needs to be cut back in late summer. The plant, which grows to
about a metre, is best used in a mixed border, or in a 'naturalistic'
grassland garden. It contrasts particularly well with the bright
yellow Berkheya species which flowers at the same time.
- HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal, Univ. Natal
- POOLEY, E. 1998. A field guide to wildflowers of Kwazulu-Natal
and the eastern region. Natal Flora Publ.Trust, Durban.
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Word Origin for CAM plant
Words nearby CAM plant
How to use CAM plant in a sentence
His most recommended plant was tree ivy—its juices sprayed up the nostrils.
There was Petr Miller, a forgeman from the Prague ČKD plant.
His first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, debuted last year and was set in a town near a threatening nuclear power plant.
Same for driveway pavers and meat and poultry plant workers.
Some of those songs now have names other than Page and Robert Plant in their credits.‘No Stairway, Denied!’ Led Zeppelin Lawsuit Winds on Down the Road|Keith Phipps|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As there are still many varieties of the plant grown in America, so there doubtless was when cultivated by the Indians.
The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
The Smooth Naked Horsetail is a common plant, specially by the sides of streams and pools.
The relation existing between the balmy plant and the commerce of the world is of the strongest kind.
Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.
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Welcome to New Hampshire
Located in the northeastern corner of the United States, New
Hampshire is an outdoor enthusiasts dream. Known as the 'Mother of
Rivers', the five great streams of New England originate in its
hills, most notably the 410 mile (670km) Connecticut River, which
begins at New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes and flows south into
Bordered by the Canadian province of Quebec to the north and
northwest, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Massachusetts
to the south, and Vermont to the west, life in New Hampshire is
like a permanent vacation, drawing visitors from the surrounding
states for a week at the coast or a memorable mountain trekking
Its highest peak, Mount Washington, which reaches 6,288 feet
(1,918m), has claimed many lives over the years with its strong
winds and freezing temperatures, some of the worst recorded in the
continental United States. Mount Monadnock in the south, with its
bare rock summit, mild weather and 40 miles (65km) of foot trails
is a popular alternative and is rated as the second most climbed
mountain in the world.
New Hampshire shines as a travel destination as the weather
begins to turn cold. The fall foliage is beautiful, and many
big-city dwellers from Boston and New York City take a weekend
drive to New Hampshire come autumn to enjoy the spectacular
colours. Skiing in New Hampshire is a popular winter activity, and
resorts like Attitash, Waterville Valley, and Ragged Mountain cater
for skiers of all skill levels.
From camping and climbing, to swimming and fishing, the list of
possible activities in the 'granite state' is lengthy. Not to be
forgotten though, are its captivating cities. Recently named as one
of the 'Dozen Distinctive Destinations of 2008' by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation, culturally rich Portsmouth was
celebrated for its striking coastal beauty, historic buildings and
lively downtown. Manchester, a historical mill town, has a number
of museums, restaurants, and galleries, and the most active
nightlife in New Hampshire.
Information & Facts
New Hampshire experiences warm, humid summers and cold, wet
winters with relative precipitation all year round. The weather
close to the sea is milder and wetter than the interior, which
encounters lower humidity and cooler temperatures. Winters are
snowy throughout New Hampshire, particularly in the mountainous
areas. The state is intermittently affected by hurricanes and
English is the most common language but Spanish is often
spoken in south-western states.
The US Dollar (USD) is the unit of currency and is divided into
100 cents. Only major banks exchange foreign currency. ATMs are
widespread and credit cards and travellers cheques are widely
accepted. Travellers cheques should be taken in US Dollars to avoid
hassles. Banking hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm.
GMT -5 (GMT -4 from March to November).
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Aberdeen's climate is highly changeable, like most of the United
Kingdom, although temperatures are moderated by its close proximity
to the sea. The average temperature is around 47°F (8°C), with
average lows of approximately 37°F (3°C) in winter and highs of
61°F (16°C) in summer.
The centre of Aberdeen is compact and easily explored on foot;
most sites are within walking distance of each other. The local bus
service (there are two different operators) is reliable, with many
routes departing from Union Street to destination all around the
city. The all-day ticket for around £3 is good value. Taxis are
readily available and are best booked in advance, especially at
night as they can be hard to come by after dark. Rail service is
limited within the city, but there are excellent routes connecting
Aberdeen to other cities.
English is the official language, though visitors will be
astonished by the variety of regional accents.
The currency is the pound (GBP), which is divided into 100
pence. ATMs are available in all towns and Visa, MasterCard and
American Express are widely accepted; visitors with other cards
should check with their credit card companies in advance. Foreign
currency can be exchanged at bureaux de change and large hotels,
however better exchange rates are likely to be found at banks.
Travellers cheques are accepted in all areas frequented by
tourists; they are best taken in Pounds Sterling to avoid
Aberdeen has a few worthy attractions to draw tourists into its
Highland embrace. The Maritime Museum and Aberdeen Art Gallery are
worth a visit to get the flavour of the local culture, while
picturesque Brig o' Balgownie and lovely Duthie Park are at their
best in the summer months, May to August. A little further afield
is the malt whisky trail of the Grampian Highlands, and Balmoral
Castle, one of the most magnificent castles in the British Isles.
Dress warmly while sightseeing in Aberdeen as the weather is
changeable throughout the year.
Local time in the United Kingdom is GMT (GMT +1 from last
Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).
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“So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.” (Numbers 12:15 NASU)
The incident of Miriam’s leprosy occurred when she and Aaron challenged God’s decision to elevate Moses: “But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous. Then Aaron said to Moses, ‘Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned. Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb! Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, ‘O God, heal her, I pray!’ But the Lord said to Moses, ‘If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.’ So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.” (Numbers 12:10-15 NASU)
The leprosy Miriam emphasized many things
• The judgment was to remind the Israelites that God judged sin completely and swiftly:
• The Keil and Delitzsch Commentary states, “The thought here, therefore, is, ‘Be on thy guard because of the plague of leprosy,’ i.e., that thou dost not get it, have to bear it, as the reward for thy rebellion against what the priests teach according to the commandment of the Lord. ‘Watch diligently, that thou do not incur the plague of leprosy’ (Vulgate); or, ‘that thou do not sin, so as to be punished with leprosy’ (J. H. Michaelis).” (Deuteronomy 24:6-9 Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament: New Updated Edition)
The mercy of God
• The healing was to remind the Israelites of the tremendous mercy of God in healing Miriam.
• God could have killed Miriam and Aaron who questioned God for elevating Moses as he would later kill Korah, Dathan and Abiram who questioned God for elevating Moses and Aaron: “Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took action, and they rose up before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown. They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ‘You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?’” (Numbers 16:1-3 NASU)
• Yet God not only spared the life of Miriam, but healed her.
• The time of purification was to reinforce that the specific commands of God regarding being set outside the camp set of actions taken by Miriam when she contracted leprosy and was healed.
• The Pulpit Commentary states, “remembering what the Lord did to Miriam the sister of Moses, how even she was separated from the camp by the express command of God until she was healed (Numbers 12:14).” (Deuteronomy 24:8 The Pulpit Commentary)
• The New International Commentary on the Old Testament states, “The exhortation at this point thus assumes that the legislation on leprosy is known to the audience, and Moses simply exhorts the people to be diligent in their observation of that legislation … The exhortation to obey the law concerning leprosy is illustrated and emphasized by a call to remember the case of Miriam’s leprosy and the procedure of purification by which the people dealt with it.” (Deuteronomy 24:8–9 The New International Commentary on the Old Testament)
• The Preacher’s Commentary Series states, “He provided motivation to obey this ceremonial legislation by reminding them of Miriam, who was afflicted with leprosy because of her opposition to Moses” (Deuteronomy 24:5–22 The Preacher’s Commentary Series)
• The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament states, “The Deuteronomic injunction simply reinforces the prerogatives and authority of the priests to determine whether a person had the skin condition (probably psoriasis or other skin disease, since Hansen’s disease was unknown in the Near East until the Hellenistic period) and, when it was cured, to perform a purification ritual.” (Deuteronomy 24:9–15 The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament)
“Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 24:9 NASU)
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Air pollution 'can cause changes in the brain seen in autism and schizophrenia'
- Male brains are more strongly affected by pollution than female brains
- Pollution exposure could cause memory and learning problems in people
- It causes 'rampant' inflammation throughout the brain
Early exposure to air pollution causes harmful changes in the brain seen in autism and schizophrenia, research has shown.
The findings in mice follow previous research linking traffic pollution and higher rates of autism in children.
As in humans, it was mostly male mice that were affected.
Besides suffering physical damage to their brains, they performed poorly in tests of short-term memory, learning ability and impulsivity.
Exposure to air pollution causes harmful changes in the brain seen in autism and schizophrenia
In a series of experiments, scientists exposed mice to levels of air pollution typically found in medium-sized cities during the first two weeks after birth.
Mice examined 24 hours after their last exposure displayed evidence of ‘rampant’ inflammation throughout their brains.
Fluid-filled ventricle chambers on both sides of the brain were also enlarged to two or three times their normal size.
Lead researcher Professor Deborah Cory-Slechta, from the University of Rochester, U.S., said: ‘When we looked closely at the ventricles, we could see that the white matter that normally surrounds them hadn’t fully developed.
‘It appears that inflammation had damaged those brain cells and prevented that region of the brain from developing, and the ventricles simply expanded to fill the space.
‘Our findings add to the growing body of evidence that air pollution may play a role in autism, as well as in other neurodevelopmental disorders.’
Pollution has a more significant effect on the brains of boys than of girls - autism is also more common in boys
The same defects were seen in other groups of mice 40 and 270 days after exposure, suggesting they were permanent.
Brains of all three groups of mice also had raised levels of the nerve message chemical glutamate.
Again, this is seen in humans with autism and schizophrenia.
The research, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, focused on ultra-fine carbon particles of the type produced by factories and motor vehicles.
Being so small, the particles can travel deep into the lungs and become absorbed into the bloodstream.
Last year, a study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry showed that children who spend the first year of life in areas highly polluted by traffic are three times more likely to develop autism.
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For some reason you lost your master password to Firefox? Do not worry as there’s a new tool called Firemaster that will recover your Firefox master password through brute-force hacks. Really, though, you can also simply erase all your personal preferences by “uninstalling” your Firefox and re-installing it.
Firemaster really is for those who need to hack another’s computer…
Once you have lost master password, there is no way to recover it as it is not stored at all. Whenever user enters the master password, Firefox uses it to decrypt the encrypted data associated with the known string. If the decrypted data matches this known string then the entered password is correct. FireMaster uses the similar technique to check for the master password, but in more optimized way. The entire operation goes like this.
* FireMaster generates passwords on the fly through various methods.
* Then it computes the hash of the password using known algorithm.
* Next this password hash is used to decrypt the encrypted data for known plain text (i.e. “password-check”).
* Now if the decrypted string matches with the known plain text (i.e. “password-check”) then the generated password is the master password.
Firefox stores the details about encrypted string, salt, algorithm and version information in key database file key3.db in the user’s profile directory. You can just copy this key3.db file to different directory and specify the corresponding path to FireMaster. You can also copy this key3.db to any other high end machine for faster recovery operation.
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Proponents of an effort to keep a historic bridge in Los Angeles and make it a pedestrian span has hit a wall. Instead, the bridge likely will be demolished, according to a report in The Architect’s Newspaper.
The old Dayton Avenue Bridge (aka the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge), built in 1927 and improved in 1939, once carried Route 66. Initial plans were for the bridge to be demolished sometime next year after a nearby new bridge is completed. Kevin Mulcahy and fellow architects at RAC Design Build drafted a plan that preserves the bridge as a pedestrian park.
The proposal met with favorable response for a while. But it recently hit a snag, as the newspaper details:
According to Mulcahy and Rick Cortez, principal at RAC Design Build, the city’s Bureau of Engineering manipulated the project’s cost estimates “in a strategic way” to prevent City Council from requesting a feasibility study. Without a feasibility study, the project can’t move forward. “We still believe the council members and the Mayor have the city’s best interests at heart,” Mulcahy said. “They’re just ill-informed. It appears more of a risky venture on their end. Because there aren’t groups or people asking for the Landbridge, it makes it seem like they’d be going out on a limb.”
Deborah Weintraub, Chief Deputy City Engineer at the City’s Bureau of Engineering, said “we took a very serious look” at RAC’s proposal, and noted that there was no cost manipulation. She said the $4.9 million estimate that the project’s contractor, Flatiron Construction, gave her department was their “first take,” and likely would have changed following a closer look. Any changes to the original plan, she added, would likely not have federal funding, making a change this far into the process more challenging. “The funding implications required close consideration by our policy makers,” she said. “The cost didn’t justify the benefit.”
Mulcahy and Cortez argue that their bridge-reuse proposal would be relatively inexpensive and easy to implement quickly. The architects want to preserve one section of the existing bridge, the steel span built in 1939 as part of the Army Corps of Engineers’ work to channelize the Los Angeles River. Renderings show a concrete pedestrian and bike ramp leading to an elevated pedestrian mall, with plantings and wooden benches and chaise lounges. The Landbridge park in turn connects to an articulated pedestrian and bike bridge over the railroad tracks.
Prospects for the bridge’s preservation look dimmer. But Mulcahy said political pressure could make the city’s government reconsider. The architectural firm is asking those who want to keep the bridge to sign this Change.org petition.
(Photo of the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge courtesy of Ian Bowen of the California Historic Route 66 Association)
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A review of research on transnationalism shows that diasporas with transnational orientations and connections tend to have a strong attachment to local and global identities but a weak attachment to the nation state. In addition, it is argued that territorial nation states are losing their authority in an increasingly globalised and interconnected world. Governments in western democracies have responded by tightening restrictions on citizenship and placing more emphasis on social cohesion and integration rather than multiculturalism. Using the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (2003), this paper examines attachment to cultural conceptions of national identity among the Asian Australian diaspora and examines the existing literature about the relationship between transmigrants and the nation state. Findings from the study reveal a number of social determinants behind variation in emotional attachment to cultural conceptions of national identity.
Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The United States has unleashed its “toughest ever” sanctions against Iran, but more than a year and half since reinstating all sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal, Washington is frivolously piling up on the pressure because Tehran shows no signs of buckling.
“The situation we had last year in the market and other sectors has changed with the help of young jihadist forces, and our eight-month production has grown in different areas, including the market, mining and business, compared to the past year,” Rahmani said Tuesday night.
The minister cited food, cement and petrochemicals among the industries which have grown, saying “otherwise, we would have had problems for the adjustment of the market” to the new restrictions.
Over the past week, social media and news outlets have been abuzz with reports of drug-laced sponge cakes, with state officials and intelligence services suspecting foreign-based foul play which seeks to target the country’s buoyant food industry.
Drugs placed in Iranian sweets to sabotage Iran’s food industry: OfficialsIranian officials say the country
Earlier this month, the United States took aim directly at the livelihood of ordinary Iranians which it had exempted – at least on the surface – from its coercive measures. The US State Department imposed new sanctions on Iran’s biggest airline and its shipping network, depriving the country of the only viable modes of transportation for shipment of humanitarian goods.
“US persons will be prohibited from engaging in transactions involving Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) or E-Sail, including transactions for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices,” the Treasury’s guidelines on Iran sanctions read.
“In addition, non-US persons that knowingly engage in certain transactions with IRISL or E-Sail, even for the sale to Iran of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices, risk exposure to sanctions under additional authorities,” it added.
Brian Hook, the State Department’s Iran envoy, said in a statement Tuesday that the US is now turning to “all remaining sources of export revenue, including from petrochemicals and metals that are subject to US sanctions”.
According to US financial new provider Bloomberg, the measures mark the next phase of President Donald Trump’s bid to squeeze Iran’s economy so hard that the government has no choice but to negotiate new limits on its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs.
The Trump administration claims it has slashed Iran’s oil exports to a trickle, but the Iranian economy is chugging along, much to the chagrin of American leaders who thought the country would come apart if squeezed very hard.
Mostly decentralized, thousands of small- and medium-sized companies in Iran generate revenues and employ people in the millions. These companies have significantly cushioned the country from the economic shock of the American sanctions.
According to Rahmani, Iranian businesses did their best to maintain the status quo under the sanctions, preventing a disruption and deficit in the market.
“We prevented any commodity we could produce domestically from entering the country and invested $10 billion allocated for imports in domestic production,” he said.
Rahmani touched on 20,000 unfinished cars gathering dust at the parking lots of Iran’s leading auto manufacturers because parts needed in their production could not be imported due to the sanctions.
“With the help of the defense industry and the private sector, we supplied most of the parts internally and completed and delivered about 10,000 vehicles,” said the minister.
Iran auto, defense industries eye tie-up to beat sanctionsIran’s auto industry has emerged as one of the frontlines in a raging “economic war” on the country which is lining up its defense ministry to protect the sector from US sanctions.
The automotive sector is the second largest industry after oil and gas and with a turnover of about $12 billion, it plays an crucial role within Iran’s economy, making up for 10 percent of the country’s GDP and 4 percent of its workforce.
Moreover, it supports about 60 other industries, such as glassmaking, aluminum, copper, steel, rubber, textiles and paint. Keeping the industry on track can ebulliently extricate the country from the malicious effects of the sanctions.
Iranian producers are the rare beneficiaries of the sanctions, because the decline in the rial’s foreign exchange value has boosted their earnings from mostly cross-border exports and overseas sales.
In the first eight months of the Persian year which started in March, Iranian exports to neighboring countries increased by 16 percent in weight, Rahmani said.
Putting the damper on the United States’ latest bid to twist Iran’s arm, however, is the country’s production of graphite electrodes used in steel-making.
“In the steel field, we identified the production of graphite electrodes as a chokehold and produced it domestically,” Rahmani said.
His announcement came as the US State Department warned entities and individuals on Monday to avoid exporting graphite electrodes and needle coke to the Islamic Republic, saying they were “essential materials for Iran’s steel industry”.
Graphite electrodes are used to melt scrap in electric arc furnaces to produce new steel. Needle coke is used as a key material for graphite electrodes in an electric arc furnace.
Iran is a leading producer of steel in the world, with officials saying exports continue despite the US sanctions.
US expands sanctions on metal trade with IranThe US government has warned against exports of steel-making materials to Iran, the latest salvo in Washington’s campaign to target everything from oil sales to civilian transportation and financial activities.
However, there are other bottlenecks and Iran is trying to redress them as much as it can. Within the next month, the country will bring online a tire-making factory in the country where reliance on imports for 70 percent of bus and truck tires has created problems, Rahmani said.
It will also open an aluminum smelter which officials say will compensate for losses suffered over the past decades in the domestic production of the primary metal.
On Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani said, “Thanks to the people’s resistance to economic sanctions and the maximum economic pressure, the conditions in all areas are far better than last year, and our resilience to external pressure – economically, politically, socially, culturally and defensively – is far greater than the past.”
“Our prediction is that the economic growth of the country this year will not be negative, it will be positive,” he told a group of Iranians residing in Malaysia where he is to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit.
“A positive movement has started in the oil-free economic growth and we have been able to achieve self-reliance in many areas,” he added.
Rouhani said some of the automotive parts long imported are now manufactured by domestic companies.
“We also had problems in the field of oil and gas installations and production of turbines and compressors, but today we are building them ourselves, and the boycott and pressure of the enemies, despite disrupting people’s lives, has led to self-sufficiency in some areas.”
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This Day in Coast Guard History – September 22
1897-The sloop yacht, Cuyahoga broke adrift from moorings and drifted out 4 1/2 miles NE of the Plum Island, MA station. Surfmen sailed out and brought her back, turning her over to her owner.
1943-Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasion of Finschafen, New Guinea. An Allied invasion fleet, including Coast Guard-manned landing ships, landed Australian troops. Coast Guard-manned ships in the invasion fleet included USSs LST-18, LST-67, LST-168, and LST-204. There were no casualties among the Coast Guard LSTs.
1990- PSU 301 became the second reserve Coast Guard port security unit deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield. PSU 301 was staffed by reservists from Buffalo, New York. They were stationed in Al-Jubayl, Saudi Arabia.
(Source: USCG Historian’s Office)
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Simple and Subdirectly Irreducible Tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras
The main result of this paper is the determination of simple and subdirectly irreducible tense θ-valued Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebras (or tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras). To reach this aim, we use the topological duality for these algebras obtained by Figallo, Pascual and Pelaitay in 2019 and also the filters of these algebras. Besides, we define θ-simple and θ-subdirectly irreducible tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras and we describe them. Moreover, we establish a relationship between simple and subdirectly irreducible tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras and θ-simple and θ-subdirectly irreducible tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras, respectively. Finally, we get a characterization of the subdirectly irreducible algebras which are complete and completely chrysippian tense 𝐿𝑀θ-algebras and whose θ-filters are complete.
Keywords: Tense θ-valued Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebras, topological duality, congruences, θ-congruences, simple and subdirectly irreducible algebras
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Indonesia: Improving health services during emergencies
When Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, erupted in October 2010, the lava flows and ash plumes hit many people unprepared. Around 350 000 people who lived on the slopes of the volcano within a radius of 10 km were evacuated to emergency shelters. But because they refused to leave their homes or returned while the eruptions were still continuing, more than 300 people were killed during the disaster.
Indonesia with more than 17 000 islands is sitting on the so-called "ring of fire" of the Pacific, Eurasian and Australian tectonic plates and is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. The archipelago is frequently hit by floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis, storms and landslides. It is also at risk of man-made disasters such as mudslides, as well as chemical and nuclear accidents. In addition, Bali, Indonesia’s favourite tourist destination, has been a target of terrorist attacks in the past.
“Most of the disasters cannot be predicted but we learned our lesson from past experiences and are much better prepared today,” says Dr Lies Untari, the focal person for Emergency at the Tebet Community Health Centre. “The local centres are on a 24-hour alert and have all the necessary material including for example boats, medicines and generators on stock, ready for deployment at any time.”
Including crisis prevention in development planning
Disaster risk reduction is a high priority for the Indonesian Government. As disasters have the potential to stop and even reverse a country’s development in its tracks, Indonesia has integrated crisis prevention, emergency response and recovery measures into its development planning and budgeting.
Already in 2007, the government adopted a Disaster Management Law that made disaster risk reduction activities mandatory. Supported by WHO and other agencies, the Government has since expanded its emergency preparedness and response programme. A National Disaster Management Agency coordinates the response to all disasters and produces risk maps for many provinces. Within the Ministry of Health, the Centre for Health Crisis Management was established and designated a WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2012 due to its extensive knowledge and experience in emergency risk management.
“We hope that the training and research conducted by the Collaborating Centre will provide Indonesia with more evidence and innovative solutions, enabling this high-risk country to better protect its people from disasters,” says Dr Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat, the WHO Representative in Indonesia.
“We hope that the training and research conducted by the Collaborating Centre will provide Indonesia with more evidence and innovative solutions, enabling this high-risk country to better protect its people from disasters.”
Dr Limpakarnjanarat, WHO Representative, Indonesia
Engaging with communities
To ensure immediate health assistance in case of an emergency, WHO supported the Ministry of Health to create 9 regional centres across the country.
“The main goal was to bring health services closer to the affected population,” explains Dr Indro Murwoko from the Centre for Health Crisis Management. “The regional centres were established to overcome some of the typical obstacles that often delay assistance, such as destroyed infrastructure, disrupted communications and lack of resources.”
In recent years, the Government is focusing more on disaster prevention and damage mitigation. To increase resilience to natural disasters within the mainly rural communities, the Ministry of Health is engaging with community health centres. It revitalized for example Alert Village, a government programme to promote healthy living that was introduced in 2006. Today, this programme teaches young people how to deal with disaster and trains them in basic skills, including first aid, so that when disaster happens they know how to save themselves and their families.
When Mount Merapi became active again in December 2013 and started to spew ashes and volcanic material, the residents living on the slopes of the volcano immediately gathered at designated assembly points. All people were evacuated on time and were able to go back home after the situation had returned to normal.
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Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1980-Mar-25
Reference Count: 0
Environmental Control for Regional Library Facilities. RR-80-3.
King, Richard G., Jr.
This report presents an overview of the damage to library materials caused by uncontrollable environmental variables. The control of atmospheric pollutants, temperature, and humidity are discussed with regard to damage, standards, and the costs of deterioration due to these factors. Twelve references are listed. (FM)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Climate Control, Costs, Environmental Standards, Humidity, Library Collections, Library Facilities, Library Materials, Preservation, Regional Libraries, Temperature
University of California Systemwide Administration, Room 7, 2200 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94720 ($1.25).
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: California Univ., Berkeley. Systemwide Administration. Library Studies and Research Div.
Note: For related documents, see IR 009 255-257.
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Serving the evolving technology requirements of the modern business
A number of IT suppliers have gone on the record saying that owning your own infrastructure is a dead-end and everything will move into the public cloud as quickly as we can make it happen.
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While this vision may be great at starting what is usually a pretty heated discussion, Freeform Dynamics recently surveyed 481 enterprises to understand what is really happening with cloud adoption and datacentre evolution.
As it turns out, this vision is about as far removed from the reality of running and delivering IT services as it is possible to get for most companies. A minority of around 15% of companies see themselves as running most of their IT in the Public Cloud within the next three years (see Figure 1).
As it turns out, this group is made up mainly of smaller businesses that do not have a large established IT infrastructure in place and are able to grow while using externally provided services.
Businesses are focused on transforming their existing datacentres
Most businesses – especially those that have been established for some time – have existing IT infrastructure and operations which cannot just disappear. Very few companies, unless they are banks or service providers, can afford the luxury of starting again with an IT transformation initiative that sweeps away the old to replace it with something brand new.
By far the preferred approach is to build a modern, optimised environment for running new workloads and to gradually move older workloads into the new environment. The end result is that rather than workloads moving externally, most companies are looking to improve their internal environment to become more responsive, dynamic and efficient.
It is no surprise that about a third of respondents see themselves as delivering most of their IT services through a private cloud in three years and around half in five years.
This may be a challenge to achieve for many, given their starting point today is one where applications, servers, storage and networking are typically bought and operated in silos that don’t integrate very well together. Getting funding to implement a shared service infrastructure with joined-up management and automation will be a key priority in 2013.
Public cloud will deliver mainstream IT services over time
The move to private cloud does not meant that the public cloud is not relevant for the mainstream future of IT service delivery. There are many popular business applications available as software as a service (SaaS).
In addition, a growing number of companies already use external IT services, such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) on a regular basis. Although some make widespread use of these services, most use it on a much smaller scale to augment what they already have in place, or to cope with short term needs (see Figure 2).
Where the use of public cloud or hosted infrastructure is not that widespread, it may be easier to pay for the capacity used in a flexible or on-demand manner. If the use is informal or for things such as irregular testing and development, this may work well as no forecasting is required.
Managing unpredictable demand
As usage becomes extensive though, the on-demand model can lead to unpredictability and can require a lot of attention and resources to manage it effectively. This leads many companies that do make use of public cloud or hosted services to put the effort into forecasting their usage and capacity requirements and pay a predictable fixed monthly fee where it makes sense.
The upshot of these trends is that the modern IT department is gradually changing from being a technology provider of individual applications running on dedicated systems. It is becoming more dynamic and there is a changing emphasis to focus on the overall service being delivered to the business rather than the discrete components.
IT departments becoming more dynamic
With the service being the main focus, there is a lot more freedom to consider how to source and run what the business needs. In many cases, this will most likely still be the internal IT infrastructure, but in the form of a private cloud.
But knowing the requirements of the service and what it requires to deliver it internally enables an informed decision to be made on whether the service may be better run externally – whether for cost, performance, reliability or some other reason.
The service may be run full time out of the public cloud, or just moved there if circumstances demand it, before being brought back in house in a hybrid cloud approach (see Figure 3 below).
This hybrid cloud approach is a tricky and complex thing to do at the moment, but technology and standards are developing quickly to make it more workable and predictable.
The result of this flexibility of sourcing is that IT is becoming less a technology provider and more a services hub, able to translate demanding business technology needs into a set of service requirements which will be fulfilled mainly from the datacentre and augmented by third party services.
Andrew Buss is service director of Freeform Dynamics
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As fifth year students face their first final exam today or tonight in Spanish grammar and literature, their futures hang in the balance. Those who fail to pass the series of exams will not get their diploma, and they will be in an academic and social limbo afterwards.
For the estimated 70 percent who pass, the sixth day of testing will determine their higher education fate. Top performers will go to the public universities.
The testing continues Wednesday with math and Thursday with social studies. Friday is when science knowledge is tested. The subjects are a mix of biology, chemistry and physics.
The tests continue Monday with a foreign language and Nov. 5 with civics.
These are not easy tests, and unlike some of the standardized tests in the United States, general knowledge and problem-solving ability must take a back seat to specific details.
There is a steady business in preparing students for the tests. There even are online sources with 15,000 questions that the students could review.
There is a lot of competition among schools for the best average grade, and the winners usually are the specialized schools that train students for the top higher education institutions, like Tecnológico de Costa Rica in Cartago.
Private school students do not get a pass. They have their own series of examinations, sometimes provided by the French or German governments, depending on the national orientation of the school. These, too, are vital to success.
Many educators oppose such standardized testing because of the pressure it puts on students and because such exams may not reflect accurately a student’s ability.
The Ministerio de Educación Pública exams are under tight security because cheating and the sale of exams is epidemic in the nation’s schools. The ministry wants to make sure that at least for these tests, there is no advanced look.
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JEFFERSON, N.C., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhalers used for delivering albuterol, a fast-acting bronchial dilator, currently use propellants such as ozone-depleting CFC's, which are banned by the FDA beginning December 31st, 2009, or replacement HFA's. Both propellants are also used as industrial refrigerants and eject the medicine, albuterol, at near-supersonic speeds.
The Next Safety device supplies medication in a stream of air by ejecting the medication from a microfluidic pump automatically as the patient breathes, solving three problems:
(1) Propellants are eliminated. Patients are no longer required to inhale refrigerants.
(2) The medicine is not ejected at high speeds, where it is deposited on the back of the throat and ingested. This is such a concern that certain manufacturers of the new HFA-based albuterol inhalers recommend that patients "rinse and spit" after each treatment.
(3) Patients do not need to time their inhalation to match the push of a button. This is particularly important when administering albuterol to children where the parent is pressing a button hoping the child will breath at the same time. Therefore, parents can never be certain of dosing, which is one reason why 25% of all emergency room visits in the US are related to asthma.
The other method used to dose albuterol is the nebulizer, a large compressor-driven device that essentially sprays droplets of albuterol while a child breathes from a mist for a 20 - 30 minute period. This treatment, invented in 1975, is cumbersome and often not available to an asthmatic when a fast-acting dose of albuterol is needed.
Phillip Weaver, the President of Next Safety and an inventor of the technology, explains: "The device uses a silicon microfluidic pump to eject droplets of an off-the-shelf FDA-approved solution of albuterol sulfate in water that are a predetermined size into an air stream created by a miniature blower to deliver the droplets at the same speed of the patient's inhalation and in the correct size range for bronchial delivery."
According to Dr. Tom Stearn, a pulmonologist and consultant for Next Safety, "The platform offers the ability to deliver not only albuterol in air, but also other medications for treating asthma, such as fluticasone propionate and salmeterol xinofoate, the components of Advair." Certain chemical patents for Advair expired in August 2008.
The device also provides an electronic output to PDA's so that, in the future, doctors can monitor the results of specific doses of medications in addition to patient compliance.
Advanced designs of the platform use measurements of exhaled nitric oxide (NO) together with peak respiratory flow, which when combined are a predictor of an asthma attack, to automatically adjust doses and provide alarms to physicians and parents.
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George Colvard, COO Next Safety, firstname.lastname@example.org, 336-246-7700
Philip Weaver, President Next Safety, email@example.com, 336-246-7700
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