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Seed and chemical giant DuPont just hired a fleet of ex-police officers to patrol the farmlands of North America.
The second-largest seed company used to rely on their partner/competitor Monsanto to play the industry ‘bad cop’ when it came to seed policing. But now DuPont executives have made it clear that they are not afraid to make some enemies as they protect the company's intellectual property interests in genetically engineered seeds. And they've hired an "agro-protection" company staffed by former police officers to do it.
Seed saving no more
The practice of seed saving has been used by generations of farmers to save on financial inputs. But once the Big 6 started genetically modifying and patenting traits in their seeds, farmers have been legally forbidden from replanting or reselling certain varieties of the most popular seeds.
One of those restricted varieties, RoundUp Ready soybeans, is produced as a highly profitable collaboration between Monsanto and DuPont. Monsanto long ago started monitoring, investigating and suing farmers if they were suspected of replanting seeds.
A big shift in the industry is coming with the patent expiration of the primary trait in soybean seeds — their resistance to RoundUp. Monsanto's approach will be to quickly introduce a new generation of patented RoundUp Ready seeds to the market.
A new cop in town
DuPont, however, has made it clear that the other patented traits in the RoundUp Ready soybean allow the company to continue enforcing its 'no seed-saving' policy. DuPont has contracted Saskatoon, a Saskatchewan-based “agro-protection” company to monitor farmer soybean operations. The private inspectors will examine planting and purchasing records at farms and take plant cuttings, looking to expose unlicensed use of RoundUp Ready seeds.
Charles Benbrook of Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources puts it this way:
Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties. The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.
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Perhaps not as virtuous as you think. Your flapjack contains more calories and fat than a Mars bar and your can of spring water and fruit juice contains more calories than a can of Coke. You've sacrificed that wonderful lift that only chocolate can give, for some rolled oats mixed with margarine and sugar.
Consumers, bombarded by warnings of the dangers of fatty foods and sweets, are turning to alternative products: yoghurt-coated peanuts and muesli bars instead of sweets and chocolates; yoghurt desserts instead of dairy ice-cream; spring water and fruit juice instead of Coke. But some of these supposedly healthy foods have been the subject of slick marketing and packaging. Often if it's a reduction in calories and fat you're after, nine times out of 10 you would do just as well with a mainstream snack.
While flapjacks and cereal bars and yogurt-coated this and that don't actually claim to be low-fat or low-calorie, their presence on the health food shop shelves and their cleverly designed wrappings make the customer assume they are better for us than their mainstream counterparts. And while most of them put the nutritional information on the back of packets, many do not.
Jack Winkler of the National Food Alliance, a coalition of consumer and health groups, says that manufacturers are taking advantage of a combination of increased consumer awareness about what is good for us, and a lax regulatory system. "In this country the general level of nutritional knowledge is high. We know nuts, vegetables, yoghurt, and spring water are good for us and therefore we assume 'healthy alternatives' made with these ingredients are better for us. Manufacturers don't even have to make claims. They highlight a few healthy sounding ingredients, give the product a natural, healthy-looking packaging and we do the rest. These are what is known as 'implied claims' and there is nothing we can do about them."
Sue Todd, senior nutrition researcher at the Consumers' Association, agrees. "It should not have to be this way but the onus is on the consumer to be better informed about what certain foods contain rather than on the manufacturer to be more honest."
So just how do health snacks and the normal nip-into-the-newsagent variety compare? All values given are calories and fat grams per 100g or per 100ml.
First, the chocolate bar and its rivals. Compare the Jordans Crunchy Bar ("crunchy cereal bar with honey and almonds"), 465 calories, 22.8g fat; the Frusli ("raisin and hazelnut chewy cereal bar for great taste and great nutrition"), 431 calories, 17.1g fat; the Tracker ("chewy oats, nuts and crisped rice bar"), 541 calories, 30.5g fat; and the Handmade Flapjack Company flapjack, 430 calories, 20.3g fat, with the Mars bar, 452 calories, 17.5g fat, and the Milky Way, 454 calories, 16.6g fat. There's little to choose between the cereal bars and the unashamed chocolate. Weight for weight the flapjacks have fewer calories. But flapjacks are generally sold in 100g bars while chocolate bars come in 60g sizes.
Surely spring water and fruit juice must be less fattening than fizzy pop? Again, there's not much in it. Look at Rio ("sparkling spring water with pure peach, mandarin, lemon and grapefruit juice"), 45 calories; Oasis ("naturally still refreshment with spring water and real fruit"), 40 calories; Purdey's ("sparkling herbal multivitamin drink"), 38.5 calories, lined up against Coke (non-diet, of course) which has 43 calories, as does Sprite. All these drinks come in 330ml cans, so a can of Coke has only 15 more calories than a can of Purdey's and 7 calories less than a can of Rio. Giving up on canned sparkle in despair? Straight orange juice contains roughly 50 calories per 100ml and cranberry juice 49.
Frozen yoghurt with the "rich smooth taste of Haagen-Dazs and the wholesome benefits of frozen yoghurt" has 140 calories and 3.5g fat - more calories, although less fat, than Loseley dairy ice-cream, which clocks up 115 calories and 5.5g fat. Another frozen yoghurt, Kemps, has only 100 calories and 2.5g of fat per 100g, so it is possible to be virtuous.
Yoghurt, though, is not an automatic indicator of integrity. There's no need to pick a yoghurt coating over a chocolate one (unless you happen to prefer yoghurt). Compare yoghurt-coated peanuts (Holland & Barrett), 541 calories, 36.7g fat; and M&Ms chocolate-coated nuts, 507 calories, 25.5g fat.
And finally, the dernier cri of smart snacking: vegetable chips. The Stamp Collection ("all natural luxury vegetable chips with sweet potatoes, carrots and beetroot") has 475 calories and 36g fat per 100g, while Walkers crisps have 550 calories and 38g fat. The "luxury chips" have less calories weight for weight - but they come in 50g bags, whereas crisps come in 30g bags. So per bag, crisps have fewer calories and less fat - and who only part-eats a bag of crisps anyway?
Of course, calories are not the be-all and end-all. Manufacturers are quick to point out that they are not doing anything wrong. Kevin Collins, brand manager for Rio, made by Hall and Woodhouse Ltd, says the firm has been very cautious about how the product is presented to consumers. "We have a high fruit-juice content and the very fact that we make a light version of Rio must indicate something about the calorie levels in the standard variety," he says.
A spokeswoman for Jordans which makes Frusli and Crunchy bars says that the difference between their products and Mars bars is the "quality of the calories". "We never put ourselves up as a slimming product," she says. "The source of calories in our bars is well balanced with calories coming from cereals, nuts and complex carbohydrates rather than toffee and chocolate."
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said it plans to conduct a national test of its Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) beginning at 2:20 p.m. ET (12:20 p.m. in Montana) on Wednesday, August 11.
In partnership with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency said the test would be broadcast as a test message nationwide through radio and television EAS participants and WEA wireless provider participants.
The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. The tests will occur simulataneously.
The Wireless Emergency Alert portion of the test will be directed only to consumer cell phones where the subscriber has opted-in to receive test messages. This will be the second nationwide WEA test, with the first one conducted in 2018, but the first nationwide WEA test on a consumer opt-in basis. The test message will display in either English or in Spanish, depending on the language settings of the wireless handset.
The Emergency Alert System portion of the test will be sent to radios and televisions. This will be the sixth nationwide EAS test.
FEMA and the FCC are coordinating with EAS participants, wireless providers, emergency managers and other stakeholders in preparation for this national test to minimize confusion and to maximize the public safety value of the test. The test is intended to ensure public safety officials have the methods and systems that will deliver urgent alerts and warnings to the public in times of an emergency or disaster.
FEMA added that people who have opted-in to receive messages on their phones will receive the WEA test messages.
The message will say, "Emergency Alert. This is a test of the National Wireless Emergency System. No action is needed," according to the agency's Facebook page.
The system was launched to allow governing bodies to alert and warn the public of natural disasters, acts of terrorism, dangerous weather, or missing children.
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Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle By Rick Mullin
Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle
By Rick Mullin
Dos Madres Press
Review by Dennis Daly
Charles Darwin embarked on the HMS Beagle into the natural world of fauna and flora from a context of faith and wonder. Like other rationalists and scientists who came before him, he armed himself with revelation and the romance of adventure. Whereas Johannes Kepler had his Pythagorean mysticism and astrology, and Isaac Newton his biblical prophecies and secrets of alchemy, Darwin entered the fray of reasoned observation with a Christian missionary’s certainty and an Englishman’s righteous superiority. Yet something extraordinary, miraculous if you will, seemed to take shape, something which changed the very way we look at the world around us and each other. Darwin’s five years of exploration and growth he chronicled in his journal and subsequently in his book The Voyage of the Beagle. Here begins poet Rick Mullin’s masterpiece of poetic reinterpretation.
Taking with him his painter’s skillset for critical observation and his magnificent formalist writing style, Mullin in his Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle conjures up a persona that both captures Darwin’s notebook cadence and blends in his own contemporary sensibilities. Mullen’s Petrarchan sonnet variations carry the expedition’s narrative amazingly well, while at the same time lending themselves to detailed detections and measurements. The results bring to mind grand interpretive creations of poetic art, Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad being one. Mullin’s perceptive powers are so attuned to specificities that he examines his own metaphor in his opening piece (after the invocation) entitled Launch of a 10-Gun Brig. The poet explains,
Our journey fronts on an incessant volley.
Heavy southwest headwinds sent us back
a second time to Devonport, unto that black
embankment of commercial blight. The trolley
at the warehouse hadn’t moved an inch. My heart
lay heavy as a gun, an iron gun
in line to fire—an apt comparison,
for on the third day we would make a start,
exploding on the sea through open light…
Non-readers of the “Voyage” often think of Darwin island-hopping from research site to research site. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of Darwin’s time was spent on land—three years and three months to be exact. His coastal and inland studies included the native populations. On this subject his perceptions clearly matured over time. Mullin’s persona relates the circumstances of an Indian attack in a matter-of-fact and somewhat self-satisfying way. He says,
My informant recollected with some horror
the sound of quivering chuzos in the hour
the estancia faced the naked entourage.
He saved the souls of many Christians there,
he claimed, by simply locking the corral
and courtyard. As the horrifying sound
intensified, a Frenchman on the wall
commenced with grapeshot, sputtering a prayer,
and putting 40 spearman on the ground.
Later on in the poem Indian Wars Darwin sees things a bit differently. Noting the genocidal deeds of Argentinian dictator and warlord Juan Manual de Rosas, Mullin’s Darwin tersely clarifies,
General Rosas and his cohorts justify
the government’s campaign in simple terms:
The Christian versus the Barbarian—
one more distinction lost on morning worms
and meaningless to certain birds that fly
in circles. Carrion is carrion.
One of my favorite pieces, The Plain of Port Desire, prompts sadness and a passion for knowledge beyond the sensory and obvious. Darwin stands alone on the edge of a lifeless field of chalk and gravel. Forced to wait out the tides of life, he seeks words to flesh out descending loneliness and a wavering disquiet. Not much happens. Or does it? The poet puts it this way,
…I walk about
in a virgin forest, noting as I go
the tree line falling to a plain of gravel
mixed with soil resembling chalk, a level
lifeless field except for one guanaco.
The one suggests a coterie. A herd.
But none is visible. The loner trots
and leaves me on the near edge with a journal
open to the hollow, doubtful thoughts
that fly into a landscape wanting words,
a permanence that speaks to the eternal.
The oddness of that camel-like guanaco and its complex evolutionary history stops one in mid-read and provokes awe, an awe which I’m sure Darwin felt as he captured the moment in his notes.
Although most of Mullin’s sonnets replicate the same rhyme scheme, he does, at least in a couple of instances, vary the initial octave from abba cddc to abab cdcd. One of those poems he entitles Jackass Penguin and it’s quite funny. The poet details a showdown between man and beast, between Englishman and penguin, a veritable High Noon scenario in the Falkland Islands. In the actual journal entry Darwin noted his amusement triggered by the penguin’s demeanor and its strange jackass-like braying. I must say again that I am amazed how closely Mullin comes to capturing the voice and verbal mannerisms of Darwin. Here is the heart of the sonnet,
…Shall he best me?
We pose at loggerheads, two flightless birds.
But certainly my crude experiment
will show the world (or is it visa versa?)
common traits in nature evident
between Englishman and A. demersal.
Brave as Heracles, he holds every inch
he gains with vehemence, his head thrown back
and rolling side to side, a braying golem
Mullin’s persona considers the human species in the same conclusive matrix as he does finches or lizards. He is at his anthropological best in his journal entry set in Sydney entitled Silent Thoughts at Dinner. He imagines the penal colony mindset of his waiter at a dinner party and delves into this society’s hidden and rancorous undercurrents. The sonnet opens with Darwin speculating on the waiter’s crimes,
The servant’s shirt is snowy white and stiff
with starch. One wonders what he’s done.
One eyes his hand, imagining a gun,
the butcher’s knife. Yet here we dine as if
the man were serving of his own volition
in a London home, but on a wider street.
Remarkable, considering the heat
and given our antipodal position.
Yes, Rick Mullin astonishes with his formalist artistry and his narrative versatility. But more than that Mullin has fashioned a poetic voice that easily ascends, in this book and his previous collections, to the very top tier of all contemporary poetry—whatever the stylistic preferences. If you haven’t read him by now, you’re missing a lot. | <urn:uuid:4ef72988-5fdd-4d64-b4ca-22f5ffaced8c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2015/01/sonnets-from-voyage-of-beagle-by-rick.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931771 | 1,525 | 1.898438 | 2 |
weather, climate and best time to visit
Best time to visit Ḩişārē Tangī
The best time to visit Ḩişārē Tangī in Afghanistan is from May through September. In this period you have a warm temperature and almost no precipitation. The highest average temperature in Ḩişārē Tangī is 29°C in July and the lowest is 3°C in January.
In the table below you can quickly see the average weather per month in Ḩişārē Tangī, the monthly temperature or when precipitation is highest. The monthly average climate data is based on data from the last 30 years.
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The weather for Ḩişārē Tangī over the next 14 days will be 28°C till 34° with several days chance of light rain showers.
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Climate Ḩişārē Tangī
Ḩişārē Tangī has a semi-arid climate. It hardly rains here. The average annual temperature for Ḩişārē Tangī is 17° degrees and there is about 111 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 294 days a year with an average humidity of 35% and an UV-index of 4.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Ḩişārē Tangī?
Ḩişārē Tangī is located in Afghanistan. It lies in a straight line 11,405 km from Sydney.
The coordinates of Ḩişārē Tangī are:
- Latitude: 34.288655
- Longitude: 69.27485
The GPS coordinates are 34° 17' N, 69° 16' E
How long is the flight to Ḩişārē Tangī?
The flight time from Sydney Airport to Ḩişārē Tangī is approximately 14 h. 20 min.
What are the nearest airports to Ḩişārē Tangī?
These are the airports closests to Ḩişārē Tangī:
- Hamid Karzai International Airport (32 km) in Kabul
How big is Ḩişārē Tangī?
The surface area of Ḩişārē Tangī is 76 km².
What is the currency of Ḩişārē Tangī?
In Ḩişārē Tangī, the Afghan afghani (AFN) is used for payment.
Exchange rates on 11 August 2022
- 1 Australian dollar = 55.87 Afghan afghani
- 1 Afghan afghani = 0.018 Australian dollar
- 100 Australian dollar = 5,587.24 Afghan afghani
- 100 Afghan afghani = 1.79 Australian dollar
What is the area code of Ḩişārē Tangī?
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The incursion by an unmanned aircraft into Israeli airspace at the weekend exposed the weakness of Israeli air defences, an Iranian military official was quoted as saying on Monday.
The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.
Jamaluddin Aberoumand, deputy coordinator for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the incident indicated that Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defence system “does not work and lacks the necessary capacity”, Fars news agency reported.
The Iron Dome system, jointly funded with the United States, is designed to shoot down short-range guerrilla rockets, not slow-flying aircraft. It intercepted more than 80 percent of the targets it engaged in March when nearly 300 rockets and mortars were fired at southern Israel, the Pentagon said at the time.
The drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel, said military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich. An Israeli warplane shot it down above a forest near the occupied West Bank.
Israeli parliament member Miri Regev, a former chief spokesman of the military, wrote on Twitter it was an “Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah”, referring to the Lebanese Shi’ite group that fought a war with Israel in 2006.
Israeli defence officials have not confirmed this.
Aberoumand attributed claims the drone was made by Iran to a “psychological operation” by Israel, but did not confirm or deny them. “The Zionist regime (Israel) has many enemies,” he added.
On at least one occasion, Iranian-backed Hezbollah has sent a drone into Israeli airspace. And in 2010, an Israeli warplane shot down an apparently unmanned balloon in the Negev near the country’s Dimona nuclear reactor.
The Israeli military released a 10-second video clip of what it said was Saturday’s mid-air interception, showing a small aircraft just before a missile from a fighter jet destroys it.
Israel has threatened to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the nuclear work it believes is aimed at getting weapons capability, a charge Tehran denies.
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– Did anyone else think of Lord of the Flies while watching the video of the Greece school bus monitor getting bullied?
Many people are asking what would make children behave so cruelly toward an elderly grandmother. Bob Lonsberry says the inmates were running the asylum. Nestor Ramos says the students haven’t learned the Golden Rule. The Democrat and Chronicle editorial board views the verbal assault as a sign of our “coarsening culture.” Others say the incident points to the need for cyberbullying laws.
There’s no doubt these kids should be punished and taught a lesson about treating people with dignity and respect.
While the video was heartbreaking and disgusting, it’s not a sign of a new cultural phenomenon. This is a classic case of groupthink. That’s when the desire to belong to a group outweighs protesting something wrong and offering alternatives. Intelligent people cede their moral responsibility to the group. Individually, these children were taught by their parents to be kind to others. Collectively, they turned into a mob.
The boy who took the video told 13WHAM News he felt peer-pressured.
Groupthink is often used to describe the Holocaust, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Penn State child abuse scandal. Extreme college hazing and bad business decisions can be attributed to groupthink. You may have seen groupthink play out in a meeting at your own workplace. This week, we saw groupthink play out on a school bus.
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ERIC Number: ED283819
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1987
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Nuclear Issues: Strategies and Worksheets. Health Education.
Lantieri, Linda; And Others
This document is designed to provide students with an opportunity to share feelings and clarify their own values given the facts about nuclear technology. Using this short curriculum, students should be able to: (1) explore their associations with nuclear issues; (2) analyze guidelines for conflict resolution in personal situations; (3) analyze differences and similarities in the process of resolving conflict at the personal level and resolving conflict through negotiations at the international level; (4) assess the health risks inherent in using nuclear energy; (5) weigh the danger of accidents and false alarms in the use of nuclear energy against the need for preparedness; (6) become familiar with the immediate and long-term effects of nuclear war; (7) empathize with the survivors of Hirsoshima; and (8) envision their ideal world and consider possible actions they could take to work for that world. Eighteen worksheets on nuclear issues are provided. (JD)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach, Health Education, International Relations, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Warfare, Teaching Methods
New York City Board of Education, Division of High Schools, 131 Livingston St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 ($4.00).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
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The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called velodromes. This development marked the split into what are still the two main forms of cycling competition: road racing and track racing. Initially, track cycling was more popular in terms of public attention and money to be earned by racers, but this gradually changed in favor of road racing, which has been the most popular form of cycling since at least the end of World War II.The Historical Dictionary of Cycling takes a closer look at the sport, as well as discussing the use of bicycles as a means of fitness, touring, and commuting. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, photos, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on cyclings two main disciplinesroad and trackas well as brief overviews of the other forms of cycling. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about cycling.
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The role of the Division I Men's Basketball Ethics Coalition is to promote ethical conduct among NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches through education, leadership and mentoring.
The Ethics Coalition is charged with :
- Identifying ethical issues facing Division I men's basketball coaches and providing general guidance to coaches on possible ways to deal with those issues through educational and reference materials.
- Providing leadership by “walking the walk and talking the talk” with regards to ethical conduct. The Coalition will be vocal in addressing ethical issues and affirmatively seeking to build a coalition of coaches committed to ethical behavior.
- Acting as quasi-mentors and resources to other coaches on ethical issues and concerns. Coalition members are available to consult with other coaches on ways to resolve ethical problems.
- Jamie Dixon, Texas Christian University
- Mark Fox, University of Georgia
- Tod Kowalczyk, The University of Toledo
- Donnie Marsh, Texas Southern University
- Vann Pettaway, Former Head Coach
- Al Skinner, Kennesaw State University
- Robert Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jean Prioleau, University of Colorado
- Herb Sendek, Santa Clara University
- Mike Young, Wofford College
- Jim Haney, NABC
- Dave Leitao, DePaul University
- Danny Manning, Wake Forest University
- Fran McCaffery, University of Iowa
- Wayne Tinkle, Oregon State University
NCAA staff liaisons:
- Ken Huber, Enforcement Development-Basketball
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You may not think about it much, but the battery that powers your laptop, tablet, or phone is one of the most important components of your device. Powering everything from our homes to our vehicles, batteries are a critical part of everyday life. That’s why there are so many different types on the market today! Let’s explore some common types for laptops and tablets below…
Why the battery is so important
We rely on batteries to power our laptops, phones, and tablets – without them, we’re pretty much out of luck when it comes to using these devices! Batteries are important because they provide a way for us to store energy so that we can use it when we need it. One of the most important components in our devices, batteries are responsible for powering all of the different functions that are available to us. So it’s very important to have a battery that will last throughout the day and charge quickly!
Different types of batteries for laptops and tablets
Removable and built-in
Laptop batteries come in two main types – removable and built-in. Most laptops have removable batteries, which means that you can easily take them out and replace them with a new one when needed. Tablet batteries, on the other hand, are typically built-in, meaning that you can’t remove them as you can with laptop batteries.
Auxiliary battery type
There are also a few different types of batteries that you can get for your laptop. These include lithium-ion, nickel-cadmium (NiCad), or a lithium polymer battery. You can even purchase rechargeable AA batteries if you need a quick replacement!
For tablet users, there are also different types of batteries available on the market today. Lithium-ion is the most popular type for tablets, but there are also smaller batteries available that are more energy-efficient. If you’re looking to purchase an external battery for your tablet, lithium polymer is one of the most popular types on the market today.
How to find the right battery for your needs
When it comes time to replace your current laptop or tablet battery, it’s important to find one that will fit your device. Most batteries come with a model number or product code that you can use to find the right one for your needs.
You should also consider the type of battery that you need. If you have a removable battery, for example, you’ll need to find one that is the same type as your original. If you have a built-in battery, you can choose to opt for lithium-ion batteries instead.
Tips on how to keep your battery healthy and working well
Taking care of your laptop or tablet’s battery is very important because it will help to extend its life and keep it in good condition. Here are a few tips to follow:
Do not overcharge
– Don’t leave your laptop or tablet plugged in when the battery is full. This can damage the battery over time and reduce its life span.
pay attention to the temperature
– Avoid exposing your battery to extreme temperatures. This can also damage the battery and make it less effective.
keep it clean
– Keep your battery away from dust and dirt to avoid the build-up of debris.
beware the shock
– Never hit or drop your laptop or tablet because this can damage both its components and battery.
What are some other components that power our devices today, outside of batteries?
Beyond laptops and tablets, there is a wide range of devices that use batteries to power them. These include portable speakers, headphones, digital cameras, and even cars!
When it comes to purchasing new batteries for these devices, it’s important to find the right type that will work best for them. For example, when purchasing a battery for a digital camera, you’ll want to make sure that you buy one that is compatible with the device.
You’ll also want to purchase batteries that are long-lasting or are rechargeable, which will save you money in the long run! If you’re looking for something a little more powerful, there are even some high-capacity rechargeable AA options available on the market these days!
How to manage a portable auxiliary battery
Using a laptop or tablet’s battery
If your laptop or tablet has a removable battery, you should remove it from the device when possible and utilize the one that came with it. Removing its original battery can help to save energy, which will allow you to get more life out of it! Another option is to purchase an external battery that you can use to charge your device.
Charging the battery
When it comes time to charge your laptop or tablet’s battery, you have a few different options. One is to use the power adapter that came with your device. This is typically the quickest way to charge your battery. If you don’t have the adapter, you can use a USB port on your computer to charge it. Just be aware that this will take longer to charge.
Battery saver mode
Most laptops and tablets come with a battery saver mode that can help to extend its life. This mode will typically reduce the performance of your device in order to conserve battery life.
Avoiding temperature extremes
Extreme temperatures can damage the battery and reduce its lifespan, so it’s best to avoid exposing your device to these conditions. When possible, you should also try not to leave your laptop or tablet in a hot car since it could cause the battery inside to swell up and even leak.
Checking your battery’s health
It’s a good idea to check the health of your laptop or tablet’s battery every so often. This can be done by clicking on the battery icon in the system tray and then selecting “More power options.” If you see a notification that says, “Your battery is in a critical state,” it might be time to replace the battery.
Replacing your battery
When it does come time to replace the battery in your laptop or tablet, there are a few different options that you can choose from. You can either purchase an OEM battery from the device’s manufacturer, for example, HP or Dell, or you can choose an aftermarket battery. If you decide on the latter, you should make sure that it is compatible with your laptop or tablet. | <urn:uuid:0cc347de-ff66-41a5-b0b2-4c5997b7eee8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehopeheroes.org/portable-auxiliary-battery-recommended/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941316 | 1,325 | 2.75 | 3 |
Get Rolling with Track Your Truck
Current SpecialLatest GPS Technologies
Fleet Tracking by Industry
Almost any company that operates a vehicle or an entire fleet of vehicles can find highly practical uses for GPS vehicle tracking. Businesses can plan and communicate better with customers when they track their vehicles, equipment and inventory. In the service industry, cable companies, plumbers or any type of delivery company can benefit from using GPS. Municipalities use GPS tracking to monitor bus fleets, garbage trucks, street sweepers and snowplows. Likewise, public safety groups, like fire and police, can find quicker routes for emergency response. | <urn:uuid:7cbf6ee1-2d6d-411e-b5b3-d3f267668453> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.trackyourtruck.com/fleet-tracking-systems/industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00236-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905351 | 123 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Samsung Electronics East Africa has partnered with Virtual Essence, a provider of e-learning solutions for Primary schools, meant to make learning easier, more exciting and highly motivating. The partnership provides a technologically enticing yet educative way of engaging school children at home as parents continue to grapple with the extended December holidays in Kenya.
As part of the partnership, Samsung will bundle the Msingi pack e-learning software for lower and upper primary classes with the Galaxy Tab A 7” tablet for the benefit of teachers, parents and children who want to interact with up to date educative content and school revision material. The Msingi pack application has e-learning content in the common subject areas of Math, English, Swahili, Science and Social studies. It also includes digitized revision past papers that can be completed on the tablet with reports and scores generated for each completed paper.
Moreover, each past paper in the varying subject areas must be completed within a set amount of time thus mimicking the time constraint of the real world exam. The Msingi pack application will be provided via a specialized Micro SD card package that customers purchasing the Galaxy Tab A 7” will receive. The Msingi pack offer is available at Samsung brand stores and select Safaricom shops for customers purchasing the Galaxy Tab A 7” for a limited time.
“We are excited to partner with Samsung and it is our hope that this will go a long way in promoting awareness of the Msingi Pack platform for learners in the country. Msingi Pack aims at bringing together all stakeholders of learning by having specific relevant content for teachers, parents and students. The content is 100% local and is aligned to the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) syllabus,” said Virtual Essence GM Jonah Wanjohi.
According to Wanjohi, Msingi Pack was first introduced in 2009 and it has since then grown to include Msingi Pack Mobile for smartphones and tablets, Msingi Pack junior student companion, Msingi Pack junior for schools – lower primary ( Class 1 & 2) and Msingi Pack student companion for upper primary (Class 6, 7 and 8).
Samsung Electronics East Africa’s VP and MD Mr Jung Hyun Park said the Msingi pack application endeavors to offer innovative, modern, teaching and learning methods that coincide with Samsung’s mission to inspire the world and create the future through new technology, creative solutions and innovative products.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7” serves as an ideal platform for mobile learning with its compact form factor, a 7-inch display with reading mode, long lasting battery, 1.5GB of RAM, and an expandable micro SD storage of up to 200GB for additional storage. In addition, the Galaxy Tab A 7” also has a specialized Kids mode that allows for parental controls to be applied to the tablet to ensure the digital safety of younger users.
Further to Samsung’s efforts to enhance digital learning through tablets, Park also unveiled a consumer promotion where customers buying the Samsung Galaxy S7 Flat or Edge will enjoy a bundled offer to take home the Galaxy Tab A 7-inch at a discounted price of Kshs 10, 000 from the previous Kshs 21,000. The S7 Flat currently retails at Kshs 69, 999 while the S7 Edge retails at Kshs 79, 999.
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The vow of poverty is a commitment to a lifestyle marked by simplicity and detachment from material goods as practiced by Jesus and the Apostles. It does not require one to be unhealthy or unhappy but it does require discipline and a willingness to make sacrifices. The vow of poverty can be seen as a promise to use only what we need and as a commitment to practices that are good for the human family and the earth. The vow of poverty asks us to resist the culture of accumulation and competition and to recognize that the only true source of spiritual satisfaction is our relationship to God, “from whom all blessings flow.”
The vow of celibate chastity is not simply about refraining from marriage or abstaining from sexual activity for its own sake. We follow the example of Christ in choosing to relate to all persons as our brothers and sisters. In its positive aspect this vow is a commitment to a community and ministry rather than to a particular individual as a spouse or father. As such, the vow opens up the possibility for relationships which are not defined by our sexuality. Although celibacy brings challenges, it also liberates.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of the vows, religious obedience does not imply blind submission to authority. Instead, the vow of obedience asks us to enter into an intense relationship of listening to the voice of our Creator and responding accordingly. In fact, the word “obedience” originates from the Latin term for “listening.” In the context of a religious community, this vow asks us to engage both in personal and cooperative discernment and to remain mindful of how our decisions and actions affect our relationship to God and to each other.
In addition to the these three vows, known as the “evangelical counsels,” some Brothers make take an additional vow particular to their community. For instance, Brothers in monastic communities may take a vow of stability, by which they promise to remain a member of their abbey or monastery. Likewise, Brothers in apostolic communities may take a vow of apostolic service. | <urn:uuid:7750186a-b8fd-46b4-8e8d-e2476f940734> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.todaysbrother.com/?page_id=295 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.958428 | 434 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Postoperative Renal Excretion of Water in Infants
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
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Daniel S. Fleisher, Wallace W. McCrory, Leonard Bachman; The Postoperative Renal Excretion of Water in Infants. Anesthesiology 1960; 21:99 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-196001000-00036
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Chinatown Sextet - Chinatowns in the Greater Toronto Area - 1
(First of Three Parts)
Canada's first Chinatowns, in the British Columbia cities of Victoria and Vancouver, were formed by the thousands of immigrants from villages in Kwantung Province who came to work as labourers on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Their willingness to work long hours for much less pay created a growing animosity; rampant unemployment and the perception that the Chinese were taking the local jobs brought resentment and discrimination. The two west coast settlements grew out of that prejudice and enmity; they were as much bastions as communities.
When the railway was completed, many Chinese headed east, to cities like Toronto, ironically escaping racism on the railway built to unite a nation.
By 1900, there were two hundred Chinese residents in Toronto, and most worked in laundries. Chinese Canadians now comprise the largest ethnic group in what the United Nations has designated the world's most multicultural city. After English, Chinese is the most spoken language in the homes of The Greater Toronto Area. The small pocket of hand laundries at the turn of the century has evolved into six distinct Chinatowns with a combined population of half a million And they no longer do laundry.
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1. Downtown Chinatown
Toronto's original Chinatown was located in the area now occupied by the twelve-acre complex of the "new" city hall. During its construction in the early 1960s, the Chinese community, by then the third largest in Canada, moved to its present site at the crossroads of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street.
Downtown Chinatown has all the vitality and hustle bustle street energy that is characteristic of similar neighbourhoods around the world. The wide promenades of Spadina become extensions of stores and narrow to single file in front of makeshift stands displaying fruits and vegetables, labelled with Chinese characters drawn on pieces of cardboard. Lychees and rambutans hang in bunches from canvas awnings; a sliced durian is displayed, the foul odour hanging like a fetid cloud. It seems like every other store has barbequed ducks and whole pigs hanging in the window. Wing Fong, Hong Fok, Ting Hing, Po Chi Tong, Chung Mee -- trading companies, herbalists, and restaurants have names that form a tone poem.
Neon signs flash the message "Herbalist and Acupuncturist on Duty". There is a clamour as a press of jostling customers throng around a hole in the wall shop, which is selling assorted vegetables on a foot long bun for a dollar each. A monk in a grey robe stands in the middle of the people-thick sidewalk, an alms bowl on a box in front of him; the crowd flows around him like water around a rock. His hands gesture towards the bowl with choreographed, ritualistic, articulated moves; a serene smile is locked on his face.
Merchandise lines the steep steps to the basement location of the Tai Kong Supermarket; inside, the narrow aisles are bustling. On the floor, a small Buddhist shrine protects against evil spirits. The miniature temple has a golden dragon motif and is strung with red lights; tiny golden cups of tea and pieces of apples and oranges have been placed as offerings. Numerous sticks of incense fill the air with wisps of sandalwood
In a doorway, two elderly women in baggy pyjama-like pants and Mao style tops sit on their haunches behind overturned cardboard boxes on which are displayed a few bunches of chives, a couple of white radishes, and several stalks of Bok Choi. One is clipping her nails, both are smoking, and neither seems interested in making a sale as they speak, simultaneously, in low tones.
Near a passenger shelter jammed with people awaiting streetcar number 510, a monk in a saffron robe, his head freshly shaved, paces while talking on a cell phone.
A sandwich board sign promoting the services of an astrologer and geomancer advertises, in both Chinese and English, his mystical talent as a "destiny reform specialist"
At the corner of Dundas and Huron is the Chinese Gospel Church, which offers services in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Across from the church is the Ten Ren's Tea Shop which has a large display of hand crafted teapots as well as a vast selection of teas, including one called "monkey pick" since it is harvested from steep cliffs by specially trained monkeys In front of a traditional medicine shop, barrels are mounded with different varieties of ginseng, dried mushrooms, ground seashells, pieces of antler, and dried seahorses. There are boxes of what appears to be animal tongues priced at $30 a pound.
Noticing our curiosity at the various items, the owner, in spite of his limited English, attempted to explain. Picking up a piece of ginseng, he tapped his chest with the palm of his hand; he pointed to the dried seahorses and then put his hand on his stomach. When we asked about the tongues, he seemed reluctant. We soon realized that his hesitancy was in deference to the presence of a lady, for when Doris turned and walked a few steps away, he whispered "Viagra", apparently one of the few English words he knew, and then, with a wide grin, made the universal sign with his forearm. By gesture he indicated that this elixir was consumed in the form of tea, and then with thumbs up exclaimed, "Good".
The street sounds are suddenly punctuated by exploding firecrackers and the beating of drums as four men under a dragon costume herald the opening of a restaurant and augur good fortune by driving away evil spirits.
To the north and south of the Spadina and Dundas intersection are two "gateways"; unlike the large traditional Chinese gates, which span streets, both of these are in the broad, tree-lined median used by streetcars. At each location is a pair of red columns at the top of which are figures from Chinese mythology; a phoenix, a dragon, a unicorn, and a monkey flow together and intertwine to create the two sculptures entitled "Gateway", created by Millie Chan.
Another pair of columns has been erected in the median further south on Spadina on either side of the streetcar tracks. On the top of the east side column there is a dragon, and on the west side column is a cornucopia. Created by David Hlynsky and Shirley Yanover, the monuments not only symbolize the union of eastern and western cultures, but also perhaps reflect the Asian concept of the west as a land of plenty and opportunity.
Although the majority of enterprises in the area are located in traditional shophouses, there are two mall concept establishments of note. Chinatown Centre, on the west side of Spadina, south of Dundas, has numerous glassed in stores built around an open middle. Street level and second floor stores sell such diverse items as shoes, clothes, electronics, Asian CDs and videos, jewellery, and cameras, as well as popular tourist chinoiserie as silk slippers, fans, kimonos, emerald coloured Buddhas, back scratchers, and replica thousand dollar bill key chains. In the basement level is a food court with outlets such as "Dragonball Deli." Each eatery prominently displays a green "Pass" certificate issued by the Health Department, which inspects all Toronto restaurants.
We were at one of many luggage stores in the centre and quickly learned that haggling over prices is not only acceptable, but also expected. A two-piece set of hand luggage on wheels with matching shoulder bag was discounted by twenty percent and then an additional ten percent with very little prompting. As is the custom in most stores in the area, both the sales tax and the goods and service tax, which normally add fifteen percent to the bill, were waived.
"Competition is cut throat," the vendor explained with an exaggerated wince, and then repeated for emphasis, "Cut throat. If I didn't also do tailoring, I would be bankrupt. Finished."
In our conversation with him we mentioned that we were going up to the third level for dim sum at a restaurant that we had been to a couple of years ago. He shook his head. "It closed over a year ago. Too much competition. It's cut throat."
Dragon City, on the southwest corner of Spadina and Dundas, is a smaller version of Chinatown Centre. Establishments like Dai Kuang Wah Herbs, Ginseng and Antler Market stand near a Giorgio Armani boutique. At Yummy Refills, bubble teas are available in numerous flavours, and signs advertise quick snacks like "Counterfeit Shark's Fin Soup", "Pork Intestine", and "Pig Skin with Radish".
There is no difficulty in finding a place to eat in this neighbourhood; restaurants abound. One of the most popular, Bright Pearl Seafood Restaurant, is located in the distinctive yellow walled, green tile roofed Hsin Kuan Centre at 346-348 Spadina. Guarded by two lions, the entrance to the second floor banquet hall is around the corner on St. Andrew Street. Scores of varieties of dim sum on carts stacked almost to the tottering point with bamboo steamers and are wheeled by ladies who sing out their wares in Cantonese, their voices barely audible over the echoing din. In the evening the room is much quieter and less hectic as dim sum gives way to Cantonese cuisine on a menu featuring over a hundred and fifty choices.
Other restaurants along Spadina that are always busy, a reliable indicator of quality and reasonable prices, include Lee Garden at number 331 which lists the day's specials on a chalk board, Swatow at number 309 which specializes in Chiu Chow cuisine, and Lucky Dragon at number 418 which features both Hunan and Szechuan cooking. Peking style cooking, including a large selection of vegetarian dishes can be found at the popular Champion House at 480 Dundas where the house specialty is Peking duck
Downtown Chinatown is in the midst of a transformation that has been in progress over the last few years; there is an ever-growing Vietnamese presence. Although most of the older Chinese are remaining in the area, the younger generations have chosen to relocate to the northern suburbs.
Restaurants especially reflect the Vietnamese influence. Pho eateries are everywhere, and it is easy to discover those with the best food since they are always crowded. One of the busiest is Pho Hung at 350 Spadina; it is easily found because of an unusual landmark in front-a cat stands on a large chair, which sits atop a red column.
We visited at two o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon and there was a line up. Sitting at one of the twenty or so tables was akin to eating on an airplane, in economy class. The cramped seating required that elbows be pressed tight to the sides, making chopstick use even more challenging. The flavourful rich pho made up for the confined conditions. Steaming large bowls about the size of a tureen were overflowing with thinly sliced beef on top of rice noodles, bean sprouts, chopped shallots, and coriander; side dishes provided additional crispy bean sprouts, sprigs of Vietnamese mint, lime wedges, fish sauce, garlic sauce and tiny green chili peppers which should be avoided unless you enjoy eating fire. Like most pho houses in the area, Pho Hung forgoes décor to concentrate on the food. In the summer, there is a covered patio along St Andrews that doubles the seating capacity.
Two other Vietnamese restaurants that are always busy are Sai Gon Palace at 454 Spadina where the Special Beef Pho, number one on a menu of 173 items, is exceptional, and Bun Saigon at 252 Spadina. As the name suggests, the latter specializes in "Bun", a vermicelli soup with radishes, carrots, basil leaves, and bean sprouts with a choice of beef or chicken.
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2. Chinatown East
As the population of the Spadina and Dundas neighbourhood grew, and property became expensive, a second Chinese community formed around the intersection of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street, in Toronto's east end.
Like its downtown counterpart, the road signs are in both Chinese and English, and like downtown, it is a lively shophouse neighbourhood with living quarters above stores with street displays that burst out onto the sidewalks. Salted black duck eggs are piled beside chicken eggs that have been boiled in a mixture of medicinal herbs. Red Dragon Fruit, their white meaty flesh flecked with thousands of black seeds are individually wrapped and stacked in a mound.
At a makeshift display on numerous inverted boxes, a girl of about ten folded and organized T-shirts into stacks according to size and colour. Finding the correct size was easy, but the desired colour was not.
"This is nice," the young vendor suggested, spreading the shirt wide in front of her. "Eight dollar," she shouted from behind the shirt. As she reappeared, she saw my shaking head, and frowning, she folded it up and put it into a plastic bag. "OK. Five dollar. Take."
We entered a traditional apothecary and were greeted with glances of suspicion, making us feel like trespassers. Our uneasiness quickly passed as the herbalist's initial misgivings gave way to an appreciation of our interest and a patient willingness to answer questions.
An elderly woman sat on a chair at the rear of the narrow store and was conferring with the doctor. We took turns discretely observing the consultation. Her tongue was thoroughly perused, her pulse was taken, her eyes were scrutinized; the patient and doctor conversed in low tones. A prescription was written and she took it to the counter to be filled, eyeing us with apprehension.
The herbalist spread three squares of paper on the glass counter top and then, using a hand held balance scale, carefully weighed out dried herbs, pieces of bark, slices of antler, portions of twigs, and additional unfamiliar items. Shell fragments were ground by mortar and pestle and added to the growing mounds on each paper square.
Floating in a large jar in the enclosed glass below the counter, a ginseng root floated in a brown tinged liquid, thin tendrils meandering in suspension; its price, we learned later, was $1200. Behind the counter were numerous drawers hiding arcane and mysterious ingredients. Lining the shelves were large jars containing dried items labelled with Chinese characters, which the herbalist, with much forbearance, and much straining for words, agreed to translate. "Abalone...shark fin...ah, fish maw...I don't know how you say this one in English...sea cucumber...ah, geoduck...brown fungus...I don't know how you say this one...."
Still regarding us with what appeared to be distrust, the patient left after paying thirty dollars for the consultation and fifteen dollars for her three doses of prescribed remedy.
We learned that the ingredients would be boiled for forty minutes, strained, and consumed as tea. Although he didn't disclose her malady, the herbalist had no reluctance in predicting the efficacy of the medicine. "It will work," he said matter of factly. "The doctor is very skilled."
When we inquired how the tea would taste, we were surprised by his offer to sample a tonic that he had steeping in the back room. Two small steaming cups of a foul smelling concoction were produced, and we soon regretted our curiosity. As the herbalist watched, peering over his reading glasses, his bushy eyebrows arched, we sipped the tea. It was vile. "Medicine is supposed to taste bad," he stated without smiling. "For good taste, eat dim sum."
Finding dim sum in this area, however, is now difficult. The Vietnamese presence seen in Downtown Chinatown has occurred in this neighbourhood to such a degree that the sobriquet "Little Saigon" is now used.
Pho restaurants are plentiful. Again using the busy factor as an indicator of quality, Pho Hung Long at the corner of Broadview and Gerrard and Pho Xe Lua at 625 Gerrard are the most popular eateries. Pho Xe Lua, which also has a location on Spadina, has a menu with over seven hundred items. Our lunch of two huge bowls of beef pho, and shared orders of deep fried calamari, and both fried and cold spring rolls, with tea came to $16.
While the older Chinese are content to remain in both Chinatown East and Downtown Chinatown, a desire for newer, larger homes on more spacious lots, along with the wish to integrate, have prompted the younger generations to join the waves of new immigrants from Hong Kong who have avoided the city's ethnic pockets in favour of settling in the suburbs, towns, and cities that fringe Toronto's metropolitan area. To meet the changing demographics, the construction of Chinese theme plazas and malls quickly followed. With modern malls replacing traditional shophouse neighbourhoods, the satellite Chinatowns came into existence.
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(End Part One, continued in "Chinatown Sextet", Part Two.)
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When it comes to using case studies in business, they add an authenticity to the sales pitch and for a genuine dialogue they set the stage in between you and the prospect, one that is having real potential to a great outcome in a signed contract.
She split from her husband, Bill, 14 years ago, and is still suffering trauma. For example, when parents hire professional matchmakers, the matchmakers are not going to marry two people who are total opposites.
Objective reality suggests that women are people, but the heart wants to believe they are a robot army put here for sexual service and housework. What both modern and contemporary commentators seem to have missed is that, however corrupt such arrangements might be from a legal standpoint, they helped solve the fundamental problem of private prosecution.
However, some "Fundamentalist" polygamists marry women prior to the age of consentor commit fraud to obtain welfare and other public assistance. The most common story in the dozens heard by ABC News is that when marriages break, the men stay and the women leave.
Thank you very much in advance for reading my thoughts on arranged marriage. That is because women do not carry Y Chromosome, and their Sons will carry the Y Chromosome of the Father and hence the Gotra of a woman is said to be that of her husband after marriage.
This is a pretty impressive market failure — in sheer utility cost, probably bigger than any of the market failures actual economists talk about.
They work like this: The vast majority of church leaders aren't discerning enough to detect these tactics of abusers for what they are: Though I be slain within the arms of my beloved, Sleeping in the Sif-of-silken-gowns' embraces: In that case his Gotra will end with him in that lineage because his daughters will belong to the Gotras of their husbands after their marriage.
Each of these off-the-rack models of domestic life has built-in rights and duties that the parties have to each other and to their children and other dependents.
The reason that a minimum payment was required went back to the Vikings' concern for the economic support of any children produced by the couple: For a careful case analysis, see Thomas Buck, Jr.
Some of these groups have responded to the expansion of women's role elsewhere by restricting it further in their own ranks. Hence, the marriages between cousins always have a chance of causing an otherwise recessive, defective genes to express themselves resulting in children with genetic abnormalities.
She grew to believe she was meant to be with him. A month ABC News and 7. I had temporarily forgotten that as a toxic monster I must never show any sexuality to anybody.
As Bertrand Russell wrote of his own adolescence: This is especially the case for those who were abused not physically but sexually, financially, emotionally and verbally. The dowry could not be confiscated with the husband's other goods during outlawry proceedings, nor could he use it in the repayment of debts Ibid.
Whichever group arrived last at the hall had to serve the ale that night to the members of the other party.
This is exactly those cartoons above and the feminists spreading them. The difficulties with the interpretation of headship spreads across denominations. Arranged Marriage essaysMarriage; a legal union of man and wife.
In this day and age there are two different ideas of marriage. The first being a marriage based on love, and the second; a marriage arranged by a third party (usually the parents).
Although an arranged marriage differs from a marriage. I. Medieval Icelandic crime victims would sell the right to pursue a perpetrator to the highest bidder. 18th century English justice replaced fines with criminals bribing prosecutors to drop cases.
This article is merely an attempt to find the scientific reasoning behind the origins of the ancient Gotra System and in no way endorses its imposition in the modern Hindu society to decide marriages or.
Arranged marriages may lead to a longer lasting relationship than non-arranged marriages, because the success of the marriage is stronger with a support system, since the parents, community, religion, and cultural background are involved in making and sustaining the marriage bond.
The concept of arranged marriages today is totally different; they are no longer the same as they once were. In earlier generations there was no communication before the wedding day, now the parents allow their children to communicate through letters and occasional.
A provincial judge's excellent adventure in the big city. "A senior Provincial Court judge in Kamloops has been charged with the criminal offence of 'causing a disturbance,' in connection with an incident earlier this year at a downtown Vancouver hotel.Opinion essay on arranged marriages | <urn:uuid:c04569e6-43cc-45b0-ba60-72f0470a3606> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caducyvirunebonif.omgmachines2018.com/opinion-essay-on-arranged-marriages-23979yf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.969863 | 957 | 1.992188 | 2 |
This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized by Eco-Libris, a green company working to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green practices, balancing out books by planting trees, and supporting green books. A full list of participating blogs and links to their reviews is available on Eco-Libris website.
"Respect all Earth's creatures and cherish the land, recycle, reuse and reduce your demands. So ~ if you know a Dragon (and most of us do) ask it if it thinks that this story is true. For if we can't see that our stories are linked then sadly, like Dragon, we'll soon be extinct." - The Trouble With Dragons by Debi Gliori
Smoke-spewing, thoughtless dragons can cause a world of trouble, and Debi Gliori, in her picture book The Trouble With Dragons, shows exactly how. The selfish (but otherwise nonthreatening) dragons over-populate their world, use up all the resources and find themselves in a pretty dire situation. The wildlife, forgotten in the shadows, worriedly watch as the Dragon's actions cause global warming and bring ruin to their natural habitat. Even Santa Claus' reindeer get caught up in the mess and leave Santa knee deep in the melted polar ice caps, his presents scattered in the water. What will it take for those Dragons to take notice and change their destructive ways?
The pages of friendly, fire-breathing dragons cleverly show children in a non-frightening way that irresponsible actions harm the environment while providing suggestions on how to live sustainably. Older children will realize that the "dragons" in the story are not fantasy but slyly represent humans and our own treatment of the Earth. The rhyming text playfully relates an important message in terms children can understand. Gliori's visually interesting and detailed illustrations should spark some animated discussions, especially with older children. The large power plants, litter, destruction of forests - it's all here in this book. Gliori's brilliant decision to dramatically illustrate the wildlife as black shadows shows that the dragons aren't paying enough attention to wildlife. Only after the dragons listen to the animals' advice do the wildlife finally regain their colors and the world becomes a brighter and better place.
The Trouble With Dragons not only contains a green message but is also printed with the environment in mind, using vegetable inks on FSC certified paper.
The Trouble With Dragons by Debi Gliori. Bloomsbury Publishing (July 2009); 32 pages; ISBN 9780747595410; Paperback [Hardcover originally published October 2008]
Book Source: Review copy provided for free by publisher (View my full disclosure statement for more information about my reviews.)
Environmental awareness is something that author Debi Gliori takes very seriously. In an interview published by Booksfromscotland.com she states, "If we can rally our children round the recycle, re-use and reduce ethos, then we might have a hope of turning a potentially lethal global threat into something we can live with and hopefully overcome. Maybe, just maybe, our children will force us to behave correctly with regard to our custodianship of the Earth."
For our own children's sakes, we cannot continue to live without regard to the environment. Only through committed efforts can we hope to create a culture of environmental responsibility. Reading picture books is one easy way to introduce children to environmental issues at a young age and encourage a lifelong respect for the Earth and its wildlife.
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* Eric Zorn wants term limits for legislative leaders in order to get rid of Speaker Madigan…
Gov. Pat Quinn and Rauner support leadership term limits, though their first choice is legislative term limits, according to their spokesmen. The other three Republican gubernatorial candidates — Treasurer Dan Rutherford and Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard — support leadership term limits.
The public is also enthusiastic: A September 2012 poll of Illinois voters by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute found that 78 percent support the idea.
And yet. Illinois lawmakers have introduced proposed constitutional amendments to limit the terms of legislative leaders 10 times since 2007 and never gotten so much as a committee vote — a pattern of failure seen in seven other states in the last 15 years.
No state has such limits in its constitution, analyst Brenda Erickson said.
There’s an effective limit on the terms of Senate presidents in 14 states where the lieutenant governor is term limited and also serves as the president of the state Senate. Four states limit leadership terms either by chamber rules or caucus rules, and one state, Maine, has statutory but not constitutional limits.
It’s hard not to think that the reason such a popular and obvious proposal has such trouble moving through legislatures is that the men and women whose job security is threatened by leadership limits are the same men and women who have the power to sidetrack legislation.
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Are Wreaths Just For Holidays or All Year Long in New York State?
As you look around at home throughout our area and when you are driving around the state, do you notice if people have things like wreaths on their doors? We are about to enter the time of year, when people have all different types of holiday themed wreaths hanging on their front doors, do you check them out?
For some this is an annual tradition, beginning with the Halloween themed wreath, then the Harvest wreath for Thanksgiving and then the evergreen or Christmas/winter holiday wreath.
Why do people do this? Do you know, do they or is it just a part of their annual family tradition? Here is the history behind the wreaths on the door, according to ChristmasForest.com:
Some believe that initially wreaths were hung on doors in Ancient Rome to represent victory. In Christianity, the Christmas wreath was used to symbolize Christ. The circular shape, with no beginning or end, represents eternity or life never ending.
The word wreath comes from the Greek word diadema, which means a thing bound around and can be traced to Greek and Roman times where laurel wreaths were placed on peoples heads in ceremony.
Throughout the Hudson Valley over the next few weeks you will also be seeing many organizations selling wreaths as fundraisers, from Boy Scout Troops to local fire departments and libraries.
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S.R.S.D. Memorial Shiksha Shodh Sansthan strives towards continuous improvement, innovation in learning life skills and developing the dynamic and spiritual personality of young men and women. It would be useful for the development of society and ultimately of the nation by giving a broader vision of living life with views other than materialistic ones.
The society aims to foster an intellectual and cultural environment in which the spirit of serving mankind and developing a creative individual will thrive, research will flourish and the social, educational, mental and spiritual needs of the community will be served.
It is being felt that the education is only meant for getting degrees, diplomas and ultimately high salaried jobs with powerful administrative positions to rule over masses. This power is being used to crush the common people under feet. We want to create a visionary and VISHWAGURU India which was dreamt by great personalities like Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Chanakya etc., so that YUVA SHAKTI can be made constructive and creative, not only for their personal development but for the betterment of whole nation irrespective of caste, color, religion. The society’s governing council has eminent personalities who will help the younger generation to identify their hidden potential and continuous flowing energy so that it could be transformed to flow in positive and constructive way.
Revolutionary Thoughts behind the active start
Youth of India has great strength to build their societies but owing to uncongenial social environment, lack of proper counseling and nurturing opportunities, following result occur:
- the youth get bewildered,
- Discontinue their studies in the middle,
- Remain jobless and
- Get involved in hazardous practices like usage of drugs, sexual abuse and other criminal activities.
Today’s youth will write the future of our nation. Not only the degrees and diplomas but learning skills through service and awareness are much important so that they will start thinking in a rational way for living whilst feeling themselves as important parts of this world. Therefore, the organization is dedicated to the development of society and ultimately of the nation by giving a broader vision of living life, a beautiful blend of spirituality, morality and digital world and hence setting up a benchmark at international level. | <urn:uuid:1f995650-0775-4ca8-8805-8c8a7e7705bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://srsshodhsansthan.org/?page_id=85 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.93541 | 466 | 2 | 2 |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the number of deer in Sioux City is dropping, but it's unclear whether the city ban on feeding deer and other wildlife should be credited for the decline.
In 2012 the City Council enacted the ban to reduce deer-vehicle accidents and damage to plants.
Doug Chafa is a wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. He told the Sioux City Journal that the ordinance is an important part of a deer management program. Chafa says the city's permitted hunts, as well as disease, have helped reduce the deer population.
Chafa says his staff's overnight count in 2012 was 47. The count in the same area in 2014 was 28.
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Winston Churchill received the Order of the Garter in 1953
This past May one of the commemorative events for Churchill 2015 was held at the spectacular and resplendent Blenheim Palace. In 1705, Queen Anne presented Blenheim Palace to John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, on behalf of a grateful nation. Second World War Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s Great ancestor had led the British and their allies to victory in August 1704 outside of the town of Blenheim in Bavaria. Winston Churchill’s grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough and when Winston’s mother prematurely went into labour, her son was born in a cloakroom at the Palace.
Churchill 2015 was a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death in 1965. This event held at Blenheim Palace was a culmination of a week’s activities centred around the annual Churchill Conference, which this year took place in Oxfordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough invited us for the Churchill Memorial Concert sponsored by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. The concert is an annual fundraiser that support’s local charities around the small village of Woodstock, which borders the gates of the Palace.
As we arrived, we were greeted by smartly-attired attendants with full trays of glasses filled with sparkling champagne. Naturally, it was Blenheim Palace champagne. The event was black-tie and guests were dressed in their finery for the festive evening.
As went made a dash for more Champaign we passed a fellow with a magnificent jacket accompanied but his very attractive wife. He wore a claret-coloured smoking jacket with black embroidery and looked positively magnificent. His wife was one of the most beautiful Asian women I’ve seen. The most perfect complexion and she was resplendent in a mint green and gold gown.
My colleague Simon and I commented to this old chap about his superb blazer. He first said that he felt ‘He was rather underdressed.’ Perhaps traditionally, one would only wear a smoking jacket at the end of the evening when retiring to a library—but he looked marvellous nonetheless. We mentioned to him that we were members of the International Churchill Society and had been in attendance at the conference over the last several days. ‘Ah!’ he said, ‘Then you might be interested in a story of when I first encountered Churchill.’
‘Absolutely!’ We both chimed in.
‘Well, you see,’ he said, ‘in my younger days, which was some years ago I might add, I was a page at Windsor Castle. It was 1953, the same year of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II that she bestowed upon him a knighthood of the Order of the Garter. As you know, by 1953 Winston Churchill was in his late 70s. And there he was wearing all of the ancient Garter robes presenting himself to Her Majesty. Well, when they finished the business at hand he started to walk backwards heading towards the door and out of the room. As you know, it’s custom not to turn your back on Her Majesty when in her presence. So as he’s taking steps back and he starts to trip on his Garter robes. I was just a little bit too far behind him but one my young colleagues rushed up behind him and grab him from behind and caught him just as he was beginning to teeter over backwards. It was quite a sight indeed! Fortunately, he was saved any embarrassment by my young friend. I’m afraid that was my first and my only encounter with a great man himself!’ | <urn:uuid:1d5e7d50-d6df-4448-ab32-e3748198695a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://johndavidolsen.com/churchill-order-of-the-garter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.982578 | 772 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Tsukuba venture offers space burial service
12:34 JST, May 7, 2022
A start-up in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, has launched a new funeral business: space burial.
In early April, Space NTK Co. successfully sent into space some of the cremated remains of 10 people and pets mounted on a rocket of the U.S. space company SpaceX.
“I want to make my daughter’s dream of flying in the sky come true.” Teruaki Nagakura, a 54-year-old company employee in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, had this wish after his 7-year-old daughter died of a brain tumor in 2009. So he entrusted some of his daughter’s ashes, which he had kept at home, to the company.
The remains were stored in a special container, which in turn was placed into a metal box. The box was loaded into the upper part of the rocket, which was launched from Florida on April 1. The upper part was detached from the main body of the rocket. According to the company, the detached section with the metal box will orbit at an altitude of about 500 to 600 kilometers for several years and then burn up when it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere.
Nagakura also put some of his own hair into the box, along with that of his wife and one of his daughter’s grandmothers. “We can have a family trip in space,” he said.
Space NTK President Tomoko Kasai originally ran a company offering more conventional funerary services. When she was a child, her mother told her, “When people die, they become stars and watch over people on the ground.” This vividly remembered remark led her to start the space burial business in 2017. In the autumn of 2020, Kasai concluded a contract with SpaceX to use its rockets, with help from acquaintances as well as through such efforts as attending international conferences to establish connections.
Companies in the United States and other countries have also offered similar space funeral services.
Kasai watched the rocket’s launch in Florida. “I was deeply moved to witness the moment when Japan’s space funeral service began,” she said. “There is no better memorial service than to be able to remember the deceased every night as they shine in the night sky.”
The cost of a space burial is ¥550,000, including tax, for a partial burial of up to 50 grams of remains. The next launch for the company’s space burial is planned for January next year.
“We want to make a space burial a new option for natural burial,” Kasai said.
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Elements of the Modern Steel Stair
Commercial applications of modern steel stairs include features like curves.
The fabrication of modern steel stairs with curves takes precision, focus, and a lot of pre-planning. The curved modern steel stairs at the UW Health Center in Madison, WI are a modern design. The goal was to get the stairs in close tolerance to the curved wall, and make everything go as smoothly as possible. The unique features of this modern stair design are stainless steel stair risers, curves to match the curve of the building, and stone travertine stair treads. Pre-engineering of the stairs is important for fabrication. Expert fabricators weld the steel risers and pans in the shop close tolerances, so the install runs smoothly for the Ironworkers.
Style and textures make a steel stair modern. Traditionally, a steel stair pan is filled with concrete. This stone travertine step provides naturally occurring color and texture. The natural look of the stone is juxtaposed with the industrial look of the custom fabricated steel grid riser. The modern curved stair helps soften a building’s impact, and gives a more grounded connection to nature.
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FRANKFORT — Eighteen years ago, Sharon Yelton was living in public housing in Northern Kentucky with a new baby, few job prospects and no child care for her daughter.
Because Yelton was working part time and was going to college, she qualified for state child care assistance grants that paid for her daughter's child care for four years. She graduated with a degree in biology and later accepted a position at Harvard University's Natural History Museum.
"I don't know where my child and I would be without child care assistance," Yelton told a crowd of several hundred people Monday at a rally in the state Capitol. "It's not a hand out; it's a hand up."
Yelton, who has since moved back to Covington, recently graduated from law school. Stories like hers will become less common now that the state has slashed spending on its child care assistance program for poor working families, she said.
Kentucky Youth Advocates and other child advocacy groups sponsored the rally on the first day of a special legislative session to redraw state legislative boundaries. The groups were protesting cuts to child care assistance and to kinship care, a program that provides $300 monthly stipends to grandparents and other family members who raise abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes.
The cuts to the programs were announced in January after the Cabinet for Health and Family Services reported that it had an $86.6 million shortfall in the budget for the Department for Community Based Services, which oversees child and adult protection and assistance programs such as food stamps.
A moratorium on applications to the child care assistance program took effect in April. Beginning July 1, the income threshold for parents to participate in the program was lowered from 150 percent of the poverty level — $33,075 for a family of four — to 100 percent of the poverty level — $22,050 for a family of four. That's one of the toughest income requirements in the country.
The cabinet estimated that as many 8,700 families would be cut when the new income guidelines took effect in July. It is estimated that an additional 2,900 children a month probably will not receive child care assistance because of the moratorium on new applications to the program beginning in April.
Also in April, relatives who care for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect no longer receive a $300 monthly stipend, a move designed to save $8.3 million. Those who received the stipend before April will continue to receive the payment.
Terry Brooks, the executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, questioned Monday why the cuts were implemented when the state finished the fiscal year with a surplus of $70.6 million.
"It's time to stop raining on Kentucky's children," Brooks said as he held an umbrella during the news conference. Brooks later said that other key programs in state government had not been cut.
"In the past year, there was enough money for theme parks, bourbon and business, but apparently not enough money for kids," Brooks said. "It's time for our governor, House and Senate leadership, and all legislators to fund kids first. We look forward to working with them on that now and during the 2014 General Assembly session."
No senators and only four House members, all Democrats, attended Monday's rally.
Jill Midkiff, a spokeswoman for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, said the cabinet has used one-time money for several years to help meet the demand for child care assistance. However, that money has now been depleted.
Midkiff said the state's rainy day funds can not be used at Gov. Steve Beshear's discretion. That money can only be used for emergencies and other unavoidable expenditures, but can not be used to reverse spending cuts.
"While the cabinet recognizes that these cuts have placed a hardship on the families that we are trying to help, this is not an allowable use of the rainy day funds, which are very clearly set forth in the budget bill," Midkiff said. "Nevertheless, the cabinet appreciates the community of child service advocates who have kept this issue before the public." | <urn:uuid:77161075-ca33-4100-a1df-4994d73e88e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/article44439630.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00406-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978454 | 846 | 1.609375 | 2 |
On December 22, HEALTH received a report from a Barrington pediatrician that a student had been diagnosed with pertussis. As of today, there have been 21 cases of pertussis confirmed in Barrington. The number of confirmed cases in Rhode Island is consistent with outbreaks occurring nationally and regionally in Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts.
Due to the outbreak and after consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HEALTH hosted vaccination clinics as an ongoing effort to prevent the further spread of pertussis in the Barrington community. Anyone who was unable to get vaccinated at the clinic and needs to be vaccinated should contact his or her healthcare provider.
HEALTH is continuing to work with school officials to assess student immunization coverage rates and identify students with symptoms who require treatment and close contacts at home who may need antibiotics to prevent infection (prophylaxis).
"Vaccination is the best prevention against pertussis," said Director of Health Michael Fine, MD. "We are continuing to work with the healthcare providers and Barrington community to prevent the further spread of pertussis. In general, a pertussis outbreak will slow down and eventually stop once immunity, either through vaccination or infection, has been established in the community. Our work focuses on increasing vaccination rates, particularly in adults and adolescents, and preventing transmission to vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women, infants, and those with weakened immune systems."
Pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease that is also known as whooping cough. It is highly contagious and caused by a bacterial infection of the lungs. People with suspected or confirmed diagnosis of pertussis should stay out of work, school, or childcare until they have been on antibiotics for at least five days. HEALTH receives reports of about 60 cases of pertussis each year.
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The fish is found throughout South America (Sands, 1997), from the East coast to the base of the Andes: 3,000 feet above sea level (Burgess, 1989). Although no reports were found offering evidence of Oxydoras niger outside of the Amazon River system, Burgess (1989) states that the doradids' range includes the Orinoco and the Parana systems as well. Therefore, it is possible that this fish also exists there.
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If the bill holds up to the inevitable court case, there will be chaos in Wisconsin. No unions in Wisconsin, fewer rights for workers. It will be interesting to see if rights obtained by collective bargaining will be lost.
A few minutes before I head to class today I want to share some highlights from the MLK Conference I attended on Saturday. The keynote speakers were James Bible, Gerald Hankerson, and Jeff Shaw. I would like to share their quotes with you. If my transcription is incorrect please do let me know.
“The right time, is when it is the right thing to do.” – James Bible
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Gerald Hankerson
“Nobody ever asked me my side of the story.” – Gerald Hankerson
“If you open a school door, you close the door of a prison.” – Victor Hugo/Jeff Shaw
“The roots of crime lie in poverty and despair.” – Jeff Shaw
In addition to the keynote speeches there were fascinating workshops to attend. Two of the ones I attended were the “Day in the life of an ESL student,” and Partnering with Youth. The ESL workshop placed us in a content classroom where instruction was mainly in Spanish. The instructor shared teaching techniques that make it a little less of a struggle. It was an enlightening experience. Partnering with Youth was a great discussion with the youth in our community that participate in these programs. I even spoke for a few moments with two students I worked with last year at Sterling Meadows Homework Club.
Today Vanessa and I had the honor of hearing Malalai Joya speak at Western Washington University. This was part of the Fairhaven College world issues forum. The speech was given in Arntzen 100, a very large lecture hall yet over a 100 people could not come in because there was no room. All available standing room and sitting areas were full.
Talk about perspective. Malalai is an ex-communicated member of the Afghan Parliament who has been attacked five times yet survived. She speaks for the true “justice-loving” people of Afghanistan. The views she expressed were hard to hear for an American. She states that we need to be out of Afghanistan. Our presence is hurting women and the rights of all democratic minded individuals. She spoke of the false elections and our “democratic hypocrisy.” We denounce terrorism yet deal with Karzai who she says has committed atrocities. Being in that room, and hearing her speak one can do nothing but believe. She discussed the great injustices towards woman; rape, battery, denial of education.
Photos were passed around of disfigured children and citizens who have been killed by occupation forces, the local warlords, and the government of Afghanistan. She pointed out glaring inconsistencies with elections and the Afghanistan Constitution, yet our US leaders have said nothing about the issues she raises. She is a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Please go to the website and click on the Photo Gallery. There are very disturbing photos, but they are the truth of what is happening in war. Malalai frequently stated that there is no “good war.” How can we disagree?
Her words are powerful and her story is incredible. She recently published a book, which I hope to read, called A Woman Among Warlords. Here you can listen to an NPR interview. The interview is decent from minute 9.5 onwards you can hear something similar to what I heard at Western. The time she spent answering questions was wonderful. From all viewpoints questions were asked and she did a great job responding with solutions, not just rhetoric.
Malalai often spoke of various provinces in Afghanistan. I know very few of the provinces and she worked hard throughout her talk to stress how mainstream media is not allowed into the outer provinces. Reports are not being made about the brutality and the disintegration of rights in these areas. I hope more of her work reaches the decision-makers of mainstream media and they strike out into these areas. Are you listening Anderson Cooper?
Thank you Malalai for speaking at WWU, may the solidarity of all peace loving people strengthen your position and bring change and end to war in your country and all countries.
Spread the Word – Sign the Petition
The Employee Free Choice Act is critical legislation that would help protect the rights of America’s workers to organize and form unions. The law would give more workers a way to form unions and negotiate for better wages, health care and working conditions.
Learn More We, the undersigned, enthusiastically support the Employee Free Choice Act and urge Congress to pass this important legislation without further delay.Good union jobs are key to restoring the middle class, and the Employee Free Choice Act would make it easier for workers to form a union. If a majority of workers wants a union, they should get one. It’s as simple as that.
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Mutual Aid for Abortion Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We are at an unprecedented moment in history, where nearly every state in the Union is under a stay-at-home order, and everyone must contend with threats to our health and changes to our way of life. Some states are responding by making it even harder to get an abortion, by deeming abortion a “non-essential” healthcare service, and trying to close clinics. In other states, clinics are understaffed and offering fewer appointments. Millions of people have lost their jobs, making it harder than ever to afford the abortion care they need. But we know that the ability to get an abortion when you need one is as important as ever.
As young people, we need to help each other and make sure everyone who needs an abortion has access.
Here's how you can help.
1) Know where your nearest abortion clinic is and if they have adjusted their services.
Do you know where the nearest abortion clinic is? You can find out at the National Abortion Federation's Provider Locator. Call or check the clinic's website to find out if their procedures have changed.
2) Read up on telemedicine.
Telemedicine for abortion care is when a provider is able to counsel a patient on their options and prescribe medication abortion via video chat or phone. In some cases, the "call" or remote discussion takes place in a clinic setting, with the provider at another location. In other cases, a patient is able to consult with the provider from home. Telemedicine is safe for the patient, and under COVID-19 conditions, its appeal is increasing. A number of states do not permit telemedicine (laws that have been enacted not to protect patients, but because opponents to abortion want to limit access). However, as noted above, under current conditions some state policies have changed. Ask about the option of telemedicine at your local clinic.
3) Contribute to an abortion fund.
Abortion funds around the country not only provide people who need abortions with financial assistance, but help abortion clinics operate and provide support to clinicians and clinic staff. You can help a friend in need by referring them to a fund, and you can help folks in your community with your donation.
4) Join a Practical Support Network
A practical support network is a group of volunteers in an area who help people access safe, quality abortion services without delay, by providing direct assistance such as travel to the clinic, overnight housing, child care, translation, etc. These are sometimes, but not always, associated with an abortion fund. See below for links to some, or google "practical abortion support" to find the one nearest you.
5) Learn about self-managed abortion.
Self-managed abortion (SMA) is abortion care obtained outside the traditional medical system. Some people use herbal remedies for SMA, while others use medication. The abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol have been used safely by millions.
For political reasons, opponents of legal abortion make it difficult for health care providers to prescribe and for people to obtain the medications. If not for the politics of the abortion issue, based on their safety record these pills could be available over the counter.
6) Find an abortion doula, or become one.
An abortion doula is someone who helps someone navigate their abortion experience. Doulas offer support and information before, during, and after the abortion, and help the patient find a provider who can answer medical questions if those arise. Abortion doula services are typically free. Becoming a doula requires training. There are doula networks in many areas; search online to find an abortion doula network in your area.
7) Understand the special challenges for minors who need abortion care.
The majority of states – thirty-six as of April 2020– currently enforce laws that require a young person to notify or obtain consent from one or both parents before they can receive abortion care. If they can't, then they must go to court, where a judge makes the decision for them. Research has shown that these laws, which disproportionately impact young women of color and immigrant youth, often delay or prevent young people’s access, endangering their health and safety. A majority of Americans support young people’s self-autonomy and right to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive health without their parent’s involvement. When someone needs an abortion in a state with a parental involvement law, they have options, and there are folks who can help. Jane's Due Process is an organization which works to ensure minors have lawyers and other support to get the abortion care they need. Lawyers and others can volunteer their services. | <urn:uuid:db171f78-8b8c-45e9-9927-44b3646e1b89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/abortion-out-loud/mutual-aid-for-abortion-care-during-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.956647 | 976 | 2 | 2 |
Driving in this city is a totally different experience to that of driving in Australian cities. At first, the traffic seems to be utterly chaotic with people going in all directions. Cars, trucks and buses travel alongside thousands of motorbikes, bicycles, cyclos, push-pull vehicles for disabled persons and a strange eclectic mix of other assorted conveyances. The rapidity with which people change direction and the closeness of each vehicle to the other usually causes the newcomer to fear for their safety, and rightly so. However, it doesn’t take too long before it becomes apparent that all of this actually works. The constant tooting of horns has a meaning and the fact that nobody checks the on coming traffic when entering form a side street is OK, because that is what others expect to happen.
The death of this city will be brought about by four the wheeled vehicles. As people become more affluent their is a push to buy more cars. More cars take up more room on the already overcrowded streets and cars are not able to be as fluid in their motion as are motorbikes. You can liken the mass movement of bikes in this city to flocks of birds or schools of fish fluidly moving and changing shape to adapt to the prevailing conditions. Cars, trucks and buses simply get in the way.
But there is another problem with the change to enclosed metal vehicles, they isolate people one from the other. Right now when you travel by bike along with the throngs of other travelers there is a sort of kinship that develops. Everyone is in the same boat, so to speak, and there seems to be a closeness as a result. There is very little argument or road rage, although occasionally there may be a harsh word or two if somebody’s foot gets run over in the crush.
According to the Viet Nam News, the government concedes that road travel needs to be made safer. However, I think that it is a pity that it will come at the expense of motorbike travel…
In my humble opinion it would be far better to restrict the number of cars and to ban them from certain narrow streets where havoc is created when two vehicles meet and motorbike riders have to try and get around them. I will hate to witness this place become like Bangkok with massive traffic jams clogging the cities roads. Unfortunately, that seems bound to happen and along with it, the isolation of the people into their own metallic spheres of indifference. | <urn:uuid:cf63ea2f-377e-4871-85d6-ac5b70a573f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.royby.com/road-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976517 | 499 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The John Muir College publications include academic and residential handbooks, and newsletters. The publications provided
policy and education information for current and/or prospective students, and their parents.
John Muir College was the second college to be founded at UCSD and admitted its first students in 1967. The college, named
after environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club, has a humanitarian emphasis on its general education requirements and
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Posting at Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection, Anne Sorock reports on Chicago’s aptly named new political party, the ‘Broke Party.’
The new largely black political party marched from an Obama fundraiser to the ABC studios to protest the destruction of their communities. Briefly quoting Anne Sorock’s post at Legal Insurrection:
The protest, which took place Thursday evening, addressed these community members’ growing desperation as their wartorn neighborhoods are redeveloped by political cronies, evicting residents and shutting out local investors, and use union labor from outside the community to do the work. It’s a corrupt cycle of government “work” that takes advantage of the poor, evicting them, and then redeveloping the properties to benefit anyone but the community.
Many of Chicago’s primarily black communities date to the 1930’s; when Franklin Delano Roosevelt established a relatively high minimum wage for the United States. That wage forced many semi-skilled black workers out of local labor markets and resulted in overt starvation in cities such as Birmingham and Atlanta. Roosevelt promptly announced a huge relief effort for displaced black workers, with warehouses in Northern cities such as Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis. The result was a mass migration of Southern Blacks to the North, “from nothing to something” in the words of a black man I met in Cicero.
The northern cities had a few jobs for unskilled workers; and slowly the southerners assimilated. By the late 1940’s, when Trib character Al the Gravedigger’s place was a spring stop on our route; the neighborhoods that are described as war zones were both reasonably prosperous – and safe.
Today, most of the jobs have been shipped “offshore,” in return for purchases of Treasury Bonds. Shipped offshore with the knowledge and approval of Union bosses who should have been fighting tooth and nail to keep those jobs in the United States. So, with the black unemployment rate above 14 percent, and the black youth unemployment rate above 50% in many cities, black Americans have every reason to complain.
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50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer
Charlie King and Karen Brandow will present a Historical Performance Piece entitled Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round with script, music and pictures at the Friday, June 20th evening opening session of the Great Labor Arts Exchange. Charlie says the presentation features “history that made songs, and songs that changed history.”
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, one of the defining moments in the Civil Rights Movement. SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) organizers went to Mississippi to register black voters amid beatings, bombings and KKK raids. Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner were murdered, and the Freedom Riders went for a bus ride.
Ain’t Gonn Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round offers a history of the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans from 1955 to 1967, highlighting activists such as Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hammer and Ella Baker.
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Nobody may legally claim a copyright on a work just because they converted it to another format. That is just creating a copy, not another original work.
Copyright law in the U. S. A. started in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8), which grants to Congress the right to grant exclusive rights to authors for a limited time. Congress has exercised these rights in the form of various copyright laws throughout the years. The United States copyright law is contained in chapters 1 through 8 and 10 through 12 of title 17 of the United States Code. You can read it for yourself at https://www.copyright.gov/title17/.
To claim copyright, and therefore claim the exclusive rights that go with it, including a legal monopoly on making copies in any form or format, the following things must be true:
- The work must be original.
- The work must be creative.
- The work must not be in the list of things that cannot be copyrighted, such as certain government works, works that are purely functional, book titles, works that are already in the public domain, etc.
Note that what is protected by copyright is the creative work itself, not the format, not the facts or ideas included, and not the act of publication or making copies into other formats. Thus an artist is granted exclusive rights to make copies and derivative works from his painting, creative photography, story, or new Bible translation for the time specified in the relevant copyright laws and treaties. Then that protection ends, and the work enters the public domain, permanently. Full stop. Once a work is in the public domain, the intellectual property now belongs to the entire general public in the sense that anyone can make copies or derivative works from it, and nobody can demand that they stop, make conditions on how or in what format they make copies, or collect royalties on such copy making. The intention of the founding fathers of this country and the Congress was to balance creating a strong profit motive to encourage the creation of literature, art, and other creative works while at the same time guaranteeing that this flow of creativity would, in time, freely benefit all of society. Congress has chosen to make the time for exclusive rights very long. For works created now, the copyright term is the life of the last surviving author plus 75 years for individual and group works or 95 years for works owned by a corporation.
The rules for when copyright expires in the U. S. A. are complicated, but one simple test is very helpful: everything published before 1923 is in the public domain. That includes all of Leonardo da Vinci’s art and writings. That includes all faithful copies of the Holy Bible in the original languages. That includes many Bible translations, including the American Standard Version of 1901. Once a work is in the public domain, it stays in the public domain. The copyright cannot (and I dare say should not) be renewed. But is there a loophole? Can someone put something back into a copyrighted status by changing its format? No. You can’t take something out of a copyrighted status by changing its format, either. See the definition of “copies” in the copyright law for the highly inclusive list of formats that even includes formats not yet invented. There is some useful case law that helps clarify this view. In Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that phone books are not something that can be copyrighted, regardless of the work needed to create them, because they are just a standard arrangement of facts without any significant creativity. Thus the Supreme Court found that it was legal for Feist Publications, Inc. to copy Rural Telephone Service Co.’s white pages, because their copyright claim was invalid.
There is a closer analogy to, for example, someone slapping a copyright notice on a public domain Bible translation because they digitized it: Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. In this case, Bridgeman Art Library claimed a copyright on photographs of classic public domain art works, which Corel copied and distributed on CDs without their permission. In this case, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright in the United States because the copies lack originality. Even though accurate reproductions might require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element to determine whether a work is copyrightable under U.S. law is originality. You can’t steal a work out of the public domain just by making a copy in another format. Now I can testify that it is hard work and costly to get a good photo of the Mona Lisa. It is displayed behind thick, glare-prone bullet-proof glass in a museum room full of many tourists all trying to take a picture of it. Getting a good angle, a clear view of the painting without glare, and getting the camera settings all right is difficult. My picture turned out OK, and with all of the people taking pictures of it, many others did, too. My work and expense does not justify a new copyright on Leonardo da Vinci’s art. Neither does anyone else’s similar efforts. That image is still public domain, no matter who made a copy and what format(s) they copied it into.
A great deal of resources have been spent to create a faithful digital copy of the American Standard Version of 1901 and make it available in multiple useful formats. Under the same logic applied by the U. S. District Court, the American Standard Version of 1901 is still in the public domain in any of these formats. The same principle extends to more recent, copyrighted works. If someone takes a work such as a Bible translation that is still under copyright and makes a new exact copy of the same translation in another format, or does a reprint of the same format, that alone does not merit a new copyright. Only addition of original creative work would merit a new copyright. In the case of a significant revision or addition of study notes and other helps that were original and creative in nature, a new copyright date would be merited, but not just the act of making a copy, regardless of he target format. Even in the case of a revision with a new copyright date, the original, unrevised work’s copyright will still expire when it would have originally. The copyright on the revisions and additions might expire later, but in between the two copyright expiration dates, the original still enters the public domain on its original schedule.
There is no loophole in the copyright law that allows someone to perpetually renew a copyright by claiming a new copyright on a new format. There is no provision in the copyright law that allows anyone to claim a copyright on a public domain work. To the contrary, it is listed as an offense in 17 USC 5, section 506(c).
Claiming a copyright where one is not merited is called copyfraud. Copyfraud is not a victimless crime. It essentially steals free use of public domain materials from those who are entitled to them. In the case of copyfraud committed on Bible translations, the effect is to reduce availability of God’s Word to people who could gain eternal benefits by believing what they read and hear in the Holy Bible. There is much more to consider than the laws of mankind here. | <urn:uuid:0b62c153-38d5-4814-84ba-31f9093b3966> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mljohnson.org/2017/01/copyright_file_format/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00076-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93748 | 1,508 | 3.421875 | 3 |
After being tongue lashed by the Vatican top cop, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said that their good-faith efforts to settle conflicts with Rome had only produced "deeper misunderstanding." Further, they lamented that "communication had broken down and as a result, mistrust has developed."
But as day follows night, they saw a bright glimmer of hope. At least Cardinal Mueller had been "frank," they emphasized, and that boded well for .... you could see it coming, further "dialog."
In the face of accusations that have impugned their loyalty to the church's teachings, and a wholesale takeover by the Vatican, the sisters have insisted that discussions could ameliorate the snags. Nothing of the sort has appeared to have happened and the latest flash point underscores the failure. Yet the LCWR appears to believe in more of the same, expecting different results, as the popular catchphrase has it.
The flaw is that genuine dialog requires that the partners enter into it with something like equal standing. Ordained male judges by nature do not accord such status to women or to those they have judged. How the process could evolve into valid negotiation and compromise is beyond me. From Mueller's latest rebuff it's hard to imagine the doctrinal unit would be satisfied with anything less than total capitulation to its demands.
Those demands are based on real matters of dispute, despite the roguish, macho tactics by which they have been prosecuted. Generally speaking, the LCWR is on the progressive side of issues such as women's rights in the church (I'll whisper "ordination" here) and as advocates for a wider circle of women as they seek to protect policies related to their sexuality and civic justice. In pursuing dialog, sisters have rightly pointed to the militant and callous treatment by the hierarchy. But the actual dissent over these teachings has been papered over, at least so far as the public is concerned.
Instead of being pressured to change their ways, what if the sisters openly declared their doubts about certain Catholic doctrine without apology? Why try to broker a deal without putting their disagreements on the table? They wouldn't be alone -- solid, sometimes overwhelming majorities of their fellow lay Catholics agree with them and would be available for support? Is the official seal of approval from Rome important enough to have to conceal a truer nature of a group that has earned its right to speak about such matters by serious and thoughtful involvement with those for whom these teachings are most relevant?
There may be factors behind the scenes or within the counsels of sisters' leadership that justify keeping on with keeping on. But from this distance and without knowing everything, it looks like a losing strategy. | <urn:uuid:1b0c37aa-bc89-4de4-98cc-3f4abfdfa1f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/interloper-wonders-why-sisters-play-game | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980793 | 546 | 1.625 | 2 |
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday announced the revival of five partly stranded gas-based power plants with an installed capacity of 3,455.64 MW that successfully bid through the reverse e-auction process.
“These plants would generate 1.43 billion units of electricity which will be supplied at or below Rs.3.39 per unit to the purchaser discoms (distribution companies) during the period from October 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016. This will involve government support of Rs.278.38 crore from the Power System Development Fund,” the power ministry said in a statement here.
In the auction held on Wednesday, 11 plants with a cumulative installed capacity of 5,858.67 MW participated in the technical bid round and all were declared as qualified, the statement added.
Wednesday’s auction for partly stranded gas-based plants, together with that held on Tuesday for fully stranded plants have resulted in revival of a cumulative gas-based generation capacity of 11,717.72 MW resulting in generation of additional 12.47 billion units of electricity during the period from October 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, the ministry said.
Thirteen stranded gas-based power plants with an installed capacity of 8,262.08 MW emerged as successful bidders in the e-auction on Tuesday, getting a government subsidy of Rs.1,590 crore for buying imported LNG.
This auction of stranded gas-based plants is the second phase of auctions conducted under scheme of utilisation of stranded gas-based generation capacity.
Of the total grid connected gas-based power generation capacity of 24,150 MW, a capacity of 14,305 MW had no supply of domestic gas. These comprise 29 plants which were eligible to participate in the auction, the ministry said.
It said 16 plants with a cumulative capacity of 8,974 MW participated in the bidding for 13.5 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCMD) of imported re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG).
The successful bidders include power plants in the southern region.
“The generation from these plants would improve the power availability in the southern grid, mitigating to a large extent the shortage of availability and constraint of evacuating the power to the southern region from other regions,” the statement said. | <urn:uuid:3b1eaba7-bc11-44f7-9124-367a90dcddbf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.siasat.com/news/5-partly-stranded-gas-based-power-plants-win-auction-day-2-837250/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00282-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9492 | 481 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Raw milk caused an undetermined number of illnesses before being removed from store shelves last weekend in southeast Pennsylvania. Those sickened suffered from severe gastrointestinal symptoms after drinking raw milk.
The cows thought to be responsible for those illnesses are being tested for Salmonella by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Samantha Elliott Krepps, the department’s press secretary, told Food Safety News that the test results are not yet available.
Dutch Meadows Dairy at Paradise, PA and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Dairy at Kimberton, PA both had their raw milk pulled from store shelves.
Retail sales of raw milk are legal in Pennsylvania, with regulatory responsibilities split between local or regional health departments and the state Department of Agriculture.
The two dairies were persuaded to pull their raw milk dairy products by the Chester County Health Department after several people became ill after drinking it. The department has not provided any further information.
According to Kimberton Whole Foods, a four-store local chain, Dutch Meadows was planning to resume sales this week, while Camphill Kimberton will not be found back on store shelves until January 5.
In a notice posted on its website, the retailer said Camphill Kimberton is having its milk tested for Salmonella.
Dutch Meadows produces certified organic raw milk from Dutch-belted cows, a heritage breed. Camphill Village Kimberton is a 210-acre dairy farm with about 90 Brown Swiss and Milking Short Horn cows. Its raw milk is used by the nearby Steven Stars Farm to produce yogurt.
The two dairy farms are about 160 miles apart on opposite sides of Harrisburg. The area allows dairy cows to feed on diverse pastures from April to November. The four Kimberton Whole Foods stores are located in the Pennsylvania towns of Kimberton, Douglassville, Downingtown and Ottsville.© Food Safety News | <urn:uuid:c09eb6db-6321-46f6-849a-9c1d5de0cc18> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/12/pennsylvania-testing-cows-for-salmonella-over-raw-milk-illnesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00194-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957907 | 374 | 2.296875 | 2 |
One-hundred octane low-lead avgas (100LL) is on its way out. Despite the fact that studies by the Environmental Protection Agency have failed to demonstrate a clearly higher risk attributable to lead emissions by piston-engine 100LL-burning aircraft, lead is poisonous in any concentration. Enormous pressure is forcing the FAA to confront this issue, and someday, one must hope, a viable replacement fuel will be available.
For general aviation, the problem is that many aircraft cannot burn anything without the detonation-prevention capabilities of 100LL. Roughly 30 percent of all piston-powered aircraft have engines that require leaded avgas. These airplanes, and probably most piston-powered helicopters, will need a replacement fuel that meets the anti-detonation requirements and can be manufactured and distributed with processes not significantly more complex than those already in place.
The fact that 70 percent of the GA fleet can fly safely with ethanol-free unleaded autogas (mogas in aviation parlance), however, means that an interim solution is at hand, right now.
The biggest complaint about switching to a new fuel has less to do with its manufacturability and more to do with distribution. The entire distribution system is currently set up to handle 100LL, and that’s what all the avgas tanks and trucks at airports are capable of pumping. There are some airports with mogas tanks, but these are few and far between. If and when there comes a day when the aviation industry makes the switch to an alternative gasoline product that satisfies the needs of high-power engines, the distribution system needs to be ready to handle this fuel. Suddenly switching from avgas to another type of gas won’t be simple or quick.
This industry is stuck in a chicken-versus-egg conundrum. Nobody wants to invest in mogas tankage because there isn’t much of a market for mogas in aircraft. Yet the many aircraft that can use mogas have no efficient way to buy it.
The simple solution is to get ready for the transition now, by installing mogas-capable facilities at airports that serve aircraft that can burn mogas. At the very least, any FBO that has to right to deliver fuel at airports could purchase a small fuel truck to serve mogas. There actually is a mogas distribution network, and it is available to some degree, at handfuls of airports in many states. And the more that the fuel is available, the more pilots will use it. Certainly all the pilots flying light sport aircraft—thousands by some counts—would welcome the opportunity to buy mogas instead of 100LL, which still causes lead-fouling on spark plugs. Airport commissions and management should have zero concern about mogas, given that its use removes lead from the environment and makes their airports greener.
It’s true that many LSAs, especially those powered by Rotax engines, can burn autogas with up to 10 percent ethanol, which is what is for sale at the local gas station, but when we make the switch to a new alternative fuel, it very likely isn’t going to contain any alcohol.
Many other aircraft can quality for purchase of a supplemental type certificate (STC) from Petersen Aviation or the Experimental Aircraft Association and then legally and safely burn mogas. Some aircraft with engine-driven fuel pumps such as the Piper low-wings will require a new fuel pump, but most gravity-fed aircraft powered by low-compression engines qualify to install the STC without modifying the fuel system. According to Petersen, about 60,000 aircraft have been upgraded with mogas STCs and 115,000 certified airplanes qualify for the STC. That doesn’t include tens of thousands of experimental airplanes with engines that could run on mogas (for which an STC is not required).
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by Gregg Prescott, M.S.
According to the research of David Wilcock, there is an impending shift going on within our solar system that will give us all the opportunity to make a quantum leap in consciousness.
I was watching a “Contact In The Desert” video featuring David Wilcock and he brought up some information that is quite fascinating.
The following is an excerpt from “The Brown Notebook” which is a channeling from Walt Rogers that was done in the 1950’s.
Much of what was channeled is proving to be true in today’s society.
Man in his present state on your planet must change in order to survive. Many things will take place on this planet. Therefore man will have to change with the planet.
This solar system is moving into an area of space where the vibrations are much higher. This will cause changes in your planet’s features. It will also cause changes in your peoples.
The vibrations on the planet will become higher. Therefore man will have to raise his vibrations in order to exist on your planet. These vibrations can only be raised by the people’s thinking: thinking better thoughts of everything in the creation, more spiritual thinking, thoughts that will lift the people of Earth out of the darkness and mud they have lived in for so long.
This planet and solar system are moving into a new area of vibrations in which conditions as they are now on this planet will not survive.
Many, many planets live as we do. However, there are others that do not, because they have not come to the understanding of life of which we have. They are beginning to understand, however, some more slowly than others.
Our life is an ideal way of life. We have everything in plenty. Everyone is free. We do not try to rule one another. Our children are allowed to express themselves, not the wishes of the parents, as you call them. Each individual is ruled by none but the Creator.
We are all ruled by love, love of the Creator, love of one another, love of everything in the creation. We find this way of life very enjoyable, not the drab existence had by your people on Earth.
The Photon Belt and DNA
Many people believe that our sun is not in a fixed position and that it is traveling throughout space in a heliocentric manner in which our planets follow along. Under this premise, it is quite possible that our solar system could be moving into an area of space where the vibrations are much higher.
This may be related to the Photon Belt or it may just be an area of the solar system that infuses our bodies with higher energy vibrations, which may explain how numerous children have been born with additional DNA codons turned on.
According to Gregg Braden’s research, we are only utilizing 22 of the 64 codons in our DNA.
I talk a little about this in my presentation at the 2016 In5D Superpower Conference in Sarasota, Florida:
An Unprecedented OPPORTUNITY!
If we are moving into a higher vibrational area of space, then it only reinforces the importance for all of us to make the proper adjustments in order to take advantage of this opportunity. Everyone has a chance to dramatically raise their vibration but it may require some work. In other words, those who do not raise their vibrations may find it very difficult to move forward and may be left behind for another 26,000 year precessional equinox time period while those who have done their work will move forward with Mother Earth.
According to this channeling, “vibrations can only be raised by the people’s thinking: thinking better thoughts of everything in the creation, more spiritual thinking…”
Alternate realities, parallel universes and “The Shift”
As you can see, even your thoughts play a huge role as every thought contains energy that either creates a positive or negative reality, not only for you but for the world you live in.
I tend to view “The Shift” as the playing out of the highest probabilities that exist within alternate realities and parallel universes. For example, every time someone wakes up and starts working on raising their own vibration, our current realty changes into a new and positive probability for humanity. Conversely, when we live in fear, our reality changes toward a more negative outcome.
The Shift Doesn’t Require The Entire Planet To Wake Up…
Fortunately, it doesn’t take a lot of people to change our current reality as love is much, much stronger of a vibration than fear.
The following is an excerpt from an article entitled, “Proof That Group Meditation Can Change The World“:
Meditation has the potential to literally transform the world. In 1978, what is known as the “Maharishi Effect” took place when a group of 7000 individuals over the course of 3 weeks were meditating in hopes of positively effecting the surrounding city. They were able to literally transform the collective energy of the city which reduced global crime rates, violence, and casualties during the times of their meditation by an average of 16%. Suicide rates and automobile accidents also were reduced with all variables accounted for. In fact, there was a 72% reduction in terrorist activity during the times at which this group was meditation.
Humanity Will Have To Change With The Planet
According to this channeling, we can either adjust with Mother Earth or get left behind. As I have written in a previous article, “Schumann Resonance And The Time Speeding Up Phenomenon,” Mother Earth has been raising her vibration. The Schumann Resonance is basically the “heartbeat” of the planet and has remained as 7.83 for several thousand years but recently, the resonance has risen as high as 8.50 and has remained over 8 for as long as I have been recording it on In5D News. What this means is that our planet is already making these adjustments and she is giving us all the opportunity to rise in vibration with her. She is also giving notice to those who continue to live in a lower vibrational reality that they either change their ways or they will face the consequences of not doing so. According to the channeler, ” Man in his present state on your planet must change in order to survive.” He also added, “… man will have to raise his vibrations in order to exist on your planet.”
This doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to live the life of a saint. According to Wilcock, you only need to be 51% of positive vibration to make the shift.
The material presented corroborates with many other sources, such as Dolores Cannon and how she sees the “New Earth”. EVERY thought is playing a huge role in determining our present individual and global realities. In the end, we all will move forward but some may have to wait another 26,000 years for this opportunity to present itself again.
The BIG Payoff
Please do not construe this channeling as fear mongering and try to view it as an observer. Also, as always, please use your own discernment in any information you receive.
Based on Wilcock’s information:
- For those who do not make the shift, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more of life’s 3rd dimensional lessons in order to make the soul complete.
- For those who make the shift, your work will pay of in ways that are unimaginable!
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About the Author:
Gregg Prescott, M.S. is the founder and editor of In5D and BodyMindSoulSpirit. You can find his In5D Radio shows on the In5D Youtube channel. He is also a transformational speaker and promotes spiritual, metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States through In5dEvents. His love and faith for humanity motivates him to work in humanity’s best interests 12-15+ hours a day, 365 days a year. Please like and follow In5D on Facebook as well as BodyMindSoulSpirit on Facebook! | <urn:uuid:4760224c-de31-4d02-8a48-df72699dbf6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://in5d.com/david-wilcock-the-solar-system-is-moving-into-a-new-area-of-vibration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963678 | 1,691 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Two legends of the 20th century international music scene, Yehudi Menuhin and Nadia Boulanger, provided Marina with the ticket into a bright future. The latter stated that Marina "professes her art with striking conviction", whereas the great violinist believed her to be "a person of warmth and charm, who would be an asset to the musical life of any community".
The life path of Marina Horak was marked by diversity throughout: harpsichord and contemporary music, chamber music and piano duo, solo performances and accompanying singers, teaching and writing articles, lecturing and organizing concerts, poetry and translating. In the Eighties she researched and wrote an extensive report on the situation of young musicians in Europe for the Commission of the European Community, and she even took up the challenge of appearing on the stage of the Celje City Theatre, playing keyboard one in the musical Chicago. In November 2000 she was elected Donator of the Year for her charity work with refugees by the "Naša žena" magazine's initiative People with open hands.
In December 2008 she was awarded the Betetto-Prize for outstanding artistic achievements by the Slovenian Society of Music Artists. Peter Feuchtwanger, the mentor of world renown, wrote in May 2000 after Marina\'s concert in London: "Slovenia can be proud of such a sublime artist", and this is how composer Pavle Merku experienced her concert in Trieste in May 2005: "The emotion that Marina transmits in her interpretations is an active force, which has nothing in common with the passive force of lyrical sentimentality. Therefore I consider her a great artist."
At the Academy of Music in Ljubljana her pedagogical dreams came to fruition: she created the elective subject Dimensions of Performance, in which she uses her own specific approach to guide young people towards a better understanding of themselves and a deeper, genuine musical expression. | <urn:uuid:21be3d6f-d8d2-4553-96c2-d0b94dbd0b94> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.marinahorak.com/en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961266 | 396 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Python is a multi-purpose programming language, meaning it can be used to develop several applications like data analysis, desktop and web development, machine learning and statistical analysis. Python is an open source language used in a wide range for data analysis and easily available.
Why Python Programming is popular for Data Science
Python is popular for Data Science with the attributes listed below:
Python is a high-level programming language with fewer lines of code to solve complex problems when compared to C# and java script.
Python is easy to learn, and support is available for newbies.
Increase in productivity and speed
Python has a huge community of developers with an open source for community development.
Python has a large Eco-system.
Python is readable.
Python has extensive support libraries.
Python programming is expressive and dynamically typed.
Python has a robust Integration feature, used across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac and UNIX). Its user-friendly data structures make python a top notch for Data Science.
Professionals who work with Python
Python has shown its relevance by improving and automating processes across various professions such as: Data Analysts, Software Engineers, Mathematicians, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Network Engineers and Accountants.
These professionals use python programming for different reasons: Data Analysis, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.
Applications of Python
Python as a general purpose and high-level programming language can be applied in:
- Web/Software development
Python as an object-oriented programming language is used for software and server-side development because of efficiency, readability, reliability and robustness.
Python has libraries that help integrate machine learning algorithms.
- Data Analysis, visualization and scripting
Python has helped applications develop process for studying, mining storing, and visualizing data. Its libraries have been useful for scripting and analyzing data.
- Embedded applications
Python can interact with almost all platforms.
The ability of python with its built-in data types to harness internet data handling, interaction with internet protocol (IPs), cryptographic services, third-party modules makes hackers prefer python for scripting.
- Mobile apps
Python is used to build mobile web solutions for customer and enterprise engagement to increase productivity of workforce.
- Artificial Intelligence
Python has helped improve processes like natural language processing, deep learning, predictive analysis, robotics engineering, speech and image recognition.
- GUI desktop applications (Scientific and computational applications, Game development, Image processing and design applications).
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How to Test Almost Anything Electronic
BeschreibungStaying away from hard-to-understand theory and mathematics, this practical handbook show you how common devices such as multimeters, frequency and logic probes, signal traces, and oscilloscopes are used. You'll pinpoint problems in everything from TV sets and computers to automotive electrical systems. A practical, hands-on guide to troubleshooting with electronic test equipment - revised to include current testing techniques and new chapters on mechanical repairs and flowcharting.
PortraitMcGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Untertitel: New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: TAB BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum: April 1993
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This potent herb is often smoked by the tribal bards of the Powi. Reputed to give great clarity of thought and increased sharpness of mind,the bards often smoke it heavily,right before they are set to take part in the famous poetry contests that are so beloved by the chiefs of their people. Great will be the honor and pride of the one who succeeds in making up the best poem on the spot about anything at all that the chief chooses to make the subject matter. Thus,the bards are careful to see to it that their minds will be ready for the creative fest they are set to take part in soon. This where the Duvall Baccie comes in.
The Baccie is derived from the tiny scales of the mildy venomous Horank lizard,a reptile that is believed to posses magical propeties. For this reason,the baccie obtained from it's scales is extremely prized,which means that only those of high social status can smoke it.
The tribal herbalist collects the tiny scales and then pounds them into a fine,light dust. The dust then has genarous amounts of Juhal fruit juice extract added to it, The latter catches fire very easily,and thus helps the flames consume the dust rapidly. The Duval baccie is then sold in little leather rolls to the bards who slip it into the folds of their loin cloths. They smoke it using their great wooden pipes.
A word of caution to those who choose to smoke it liberally. Prolonged use of Duvall Baccie ucases severe memory loss and in extreem cases,even dementia. The mild venom present in the scales does not loose it's potency when bruned,and when inhaled into the nostrils,will cause long term damage to the brain,inspite of boosting it's prowess temporarily. | <urn:uuid:c7ba5276-50d3-463d-bfb2-32283f35bac4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://strolen.com/guild/index.php/topic,2386.0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957247 | 384 | 1.882813 | 2 |
ESD suppressor Basics | How it works
This page covers ESD suppressor basics.It mentions ESD suppressor application note and ESD suppressor manufacturers or Vendors.
ESD is the short form of Electrostatic Discharge. The devices developed to suppress the ESD is referred as ESD suppressor. Refer ESD basics page which explains sources of ESD, classes and more.
ESD suppressor is used to protect sensitive electronic circuits and devices against high value ESD (about 30 KV or 32 KV) used in high voltage based applications.
Typical applications where ESD suppressors are used include laptops, tablets, smart TVs, smart phones, gaming devices, wearable devices, set-top boxes, medical portable devices etc.
ESD suppressor Application Note
In this application note, we will go through ESD suppressor developed by Littlefuse Inc. Littlefuse has manufactured ESD suppressor bearing XGD series (XTREME-GUARD). The devices are available in 0402 and 0603 sizes. The same ESD suppressor has been depicted in the figure above with top and bottom view as well as its equivalent circuit.
This device is flat topped and used as surface mount device. The body of device is made using glass epoxy and terminations are made using copper or tin or nickel.
Following are the silent features of the ESD suppressor developed by Littlefuse Inc.
• It can withstand very high voltage upto 32KV.
• It has ultra low capacitance.
• It produces low leakage current.
• It helps in achieving fast response time.
• It is bi-directional as shown in the equivalent circuit.
• It is compliant to be used in pick and place type of processes.
• It can also withstand more than one ESD strikes.
• It can operate at wide temperature range from -65 to +125 degreeC
• The device is RoHS compliant.
• It supports specifications as per MIL-STD.
ESD suppressor Manufacturers/Vendors
Following are popular ESD suppressor Manufacturers/vendors:
• Littelfuse Inc.
• Mouser Electronics
• Maxim Integrated
• Thinking Electronics Industrial Co. Ltd.
• NIC Components Corp.
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Mikael Asikainen is a Finnish cartographer and map-artist with a master’s degree in Geography
I drew my first fictional maps when I was eight years old and I have continued that as a hobby ever since. A turning point came in 2017, when I realised drawing maps is something I’d like to do for a living. I created the Orbigraphia Instagram account and started using better pens, trying new styles and testing how to make my maps look more realistic, detailed and professional. I started working as a self-employed mapmaker in October 2019.
A lifelong interest in geography led me to study it at university, and I graduated as MSc in 2020.
I have a lot of experience from digital cartography, but I’ve always drawn fictional maps by hand. There’s a special feel to maps made with ink on paper. I’ve always liked maps of all styles and scales, and as a mapmaker I also want to be able to draw maps of all kinds – of different kinds of places, both fictional and real.
I live and work in Hämeenlinna, Finland.
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This breed is a technically a very old breed, however in the west it is newly classified. This breed is related to the Siamese cat, but is different. The breed has been bred for probably over 700 years. The first records of this breed is in Thailand's famous Cat Poems (Tamra Maew). The breed was known as Wichien-maat in Thailand and was first imported to the west from Thailand (known then as Siam) in the late 19th/early 20th century. The breed was named the ‘Siamese’ in the west and early breeders aimed to breed the Siamese to have a more striking appearance. They achieved their goals fairly quickly, soon having a cat with much deeper and darker blue eyes than their native counterpoints. By 1950 breeders had managed to make the Siamese look pretty different from the original Wichien-maat cat.
Although most breeders were working hard to make the Siamese look even more unique there was a group of breeders who preferred the older looking Wichien-maat cat. These breeder set about developing the older look in the 1950s. This is where the Siamese and Thai breed diverted. To begin with these more moderate looking Siamese were called the ‘Old Style Siamese’ or ‘Traditional Siamese’. In 1990 the World Cat Federation recognised the breed and named it the ‘Thai’ cat. Pointed cats from Thailand were imported and used to increase the gene pool of the breed. By 2009 The International Cat Association granted the breed advanced breed status.
These cats have a great personality. They are the clowns of the cat world and are very people orientated. They love to follow their owner around the house helping out where they can. This is a very playful breed and will constantly want to play with you. Thai cats enjoy to be up high, whether that be on top of doors or on your shoulder helping you make dinner. They are a chatty breed and will greet you at the door with their quiet chatter.
Any point colour, tabby point, tortie point, or torbie point.
Einzelheiten zur Rasse
- Status: Common
- Herkunft: Europe
- Ungefährer Entstehungszeitraum: 1990s
- Haarlänge: Kurzhaarig
- Aktivitätsgrad: Hoch
- Vokalität: Hoch
- Child friendly: Kinderfreundlich
- Verspieltheit: Verspielt
- Pflegeanforderungen: Einmal pro Woche
- Produktgewicht: 2.5 - 5.5kg
- Version: Größe M
- Hauskatze oder Freiläufer: Outdoor Cat
- Verträglichkeit mit anderen Haustieren:
- Soziale Bedürfnisse:
Fotos der Rasse
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by Russ Bengtson (@russbengtson)
Think about everything that Air Jordan represents: Twenty-eight (and counting) signature models, a roster of superlative athletes across all sports, a legacy chock full of championships and individual accomplishments, a logo recognizable around the world, a billion-dollar brand.
And it all started with one sneaker.
The original Nike Air Jordan 1 gets all the credit in the world, and at the same time it doesn’t get anywhere near the credit it deserves. Does that makes sense? It’s seen by most as a “game-changer,” but that’s just an empty cliché at this point. Plenty of sneakers — many of them in the Air Jordan line themselves — are hailed as game changers. The Air Jordan 1 was the James Naismith of this shit. They invented the game.
No, the Air Jordan 1 wasn’t the first signature shoe in the NBA. Walt “Clyde” Frazier and Julius “Dr. J” Erving had theirs first. And it certainly wasn’t the first basketball shoe, seeing that the Converse All-Star had it beat by roughly three-quarters of a century. It wasn’t even the most technologically advanced Nike basketball shoe — the Air Force 1, which dropped three years before, was still ahead when it came to cushioning and support. No, the Air Jordan 1 was something completely different.
The Air Jordan 1 was a marketing triumph, from the Peter Moore sketched ball and wings logo to the David Falk driven concept behind all of “Air Jordan” to the initial red and black sneaker that drew both the ire of David Stern and the snark of David Letterman. And of course there was the on-court success of Michael Jordan. By the time the sneaker released to the public, Jordan was a star, and the sneaker was a must-have. The Air Jordan line did $130 million in sales its first year, and if indeed the Air Jordan III did “save Nike” in 1988, the Air Jordan I ensured that there would be a Nike to save.
It’s easy to forget now in an avalanche of near-daily releases, but the initial Air Jordan 1 launch was a happening. And it happened without internet hype, without daily reminders and leaks. Nike’s push was unprecedented in its own way, but considering what happens around a launch now, the series of ads and commercials seems delightfully antiquated today. What you really had was an athlete wearing a shoe and redefining his sport, creating iconic imagery along the way(hello, Jumpman), and building appeal almost single-handedly.
People everywhere took notice. In Brooklyn, a young filmmaker named Spike Lee created (and portrayed) a character named Mars Blackmon who loved his Air Jordans more than he loved the actual love interest, Nola Darling. And in Long Island, a young middle schooler named Russ Bengtson lusted after a pair of white/”natural” (grey) Air Jordan 1s that were $65 at the local department store. Ironically, I wound up with a pair of white/natural Air Ships instead — because they were $35 at Marshalls — which were the shoes Michael Jordan started his pro career in.
The Air Jordan 1 was the James Naismith of this sh*t. They invented the game.
It took me another five years to get my first pair of Air Jordan 1s. I went to college at the University of Delaware in Newark, where I quickly got in the habit of making the thrift store rounds every weekend. And one day, there they were — a pair of original Air Jordan 1s in white/black/red, with a few loose stitches and some worn-down soles, but otherwise in excellent shape. Only problem was that they were a size 11.5 and I wasn’t — but in those pre-retro days, the matter of a few sizes wasn’t going make a difference. A few pairs of socks took care of that problem, and I wore them for years before retiring them to the drop ceiling of the SLAM magazine office, where they remain to this day.
In these days of embarrassing plenty, when the Air Jordan 1 is re-retroed in colorway after colorway, in different cuts with different materials and different brandings, when you can go to RIF in L.A. or Flight Club in New York (or L.A.) and find nearly any AJ1 release from any era, it’s good to remember what it was like when it all began, back when everything was new. And if you’re too young to remember, realize that it wasn’t always this way. And give the Air Jordan 1 the credit it’s due.
For more Air Jordan memories, stay tuned to Complex Sneakers as well as jumpman23.com (and @jumpman23), as the #XX8DaysOfFlight continues leading up to the launch of the Air Jordan XX8.
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Florian Cajori (February 28, 1859 in St Aignan (near Thusis), Graubünden, Switzerland—August 15, 1930, Berkeley, California) was one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day.
Florian Cajori emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received a Ph.D. at Tulane University, where he taught for a few years before being driven north by his health. He taught at Colorado College, where he founded the Colorado College Scientific Society. Even today his History of Mathematical Notations (1928-29) has been described as "unsurpassed." In 1918, he was appointed to a specially created chair in history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He remained in Berkeley, California until his death in 1930.
His last work was revising Motte's Translation of Newton's Principia, vol.1 The Motion of Bodies, but he died before it was finished. The work was finished by R.T.Crawford of Berkeley, California.
Notes and references
* Cajori, Florian. "The History of Notations of the Calculus." Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Ser., Vol. 25, No. 1 (Sep., 1923), pp. 1-46
* Cajori, Florian (1993) [1928-1929]. A History of Mathematical Notations. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486677664. http://books.google.com/?id=7juWmvQSTvwC&printsec=frontcover.
1. ^ Colorado College page on Florian Cajori.
* O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Florian Cajori", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cajori.html .
* Florian Cajori at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Xbees in "transparent" mode (firmware type 1) are super simple. If you have a serial port (UART) on the microcontroller, and an adapter for the PC, then it's as easy as a wire. Bluetooth is nice, too, but it doesn't go as far as Xbees, and it's no simpler than Xbees.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
1A person who sculls a boat.
- ‘Stiller and Cotterill gained selection after strenuous testing alongside the country's dozen best scullers in Britain, who had battled through 150 hopefuls in the Great Britain trials last autumn.’
- ‘This overriding interest suggests that you're probably on your way to being an outstanding sculler.’
- ‘The first two were important in providing Australians with a sense of pride in the progress of the colonies, measured by the success of cricketers and scullers in international competition.’
- ‘The club also despatched a small squad of rowers and scullers to Turin to compete in the Campionato Italiano Gran Fondo ñ D' Inverno Sul Po 2005.’
- ‘But therein lies another source of discord, with the top Scottish scullers and rowers being forced to live and train in England.’
- ‘Meanwhile, other scullers who will represent their country will be training hard for the coming South East Asian Championships, held in Malaysia in July.’
- ‘The race ended in a dead heat so the scullers had to re-row and Lyon lost by ½ a length.’
- ‘Johnston saw off fierce competition from hopefuls from all over the country, including scullers from Henley, Headington and other prestigious rowing clubs and schools.’
- ‘York City Rowing Club host their final event of the year on Sunday when more than 350 crews and scullers will compete in the York Chambers Small Boats Head Rowing Race.’
- ‘York City Rowing Club had 12 crews and scullers gaining trophies in the small boats Head of the River Race, which was postponed a week because of the high water level on the River Ouse.’
- ‘York City Rowing Club's scullers had a field day harvesting trophies at Ancholme Head of the River in Lincolnshire.’
- ‘The Carlow scullers did well with a good win for Claire Walsh in the Novice scull with wins over Commercial ‘B’ and Putney to reach the final and a convincing win against Commercial ‘A’.’
- ‘Junior scullers Freya Porteous and Jenny Addison won the Women's Novice Double Sculls.’
- 1.1 A boat propelled with a scull or pair of sculls.
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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When is a book not a book? Or a memorial not a memorial? These seem key questions to ask on this, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and perhaps especially in regard to Phil Chernofsky’s “And Every Single One Was Someone,” a 1,250-page oversized hardcover inscribed with 6 million words, every one of which is “Jew.”
“When you look at this at a distance, you can’t tell whether it’s upside down or right side up, you can’t tell what’s here; it looks like a pattern,” Chernofsky told the New York Times about his commemorative project over the weekend. “That’s how the Nazis viewed their victims: These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass we have to exterminate. … Now get closer, put on your reading glasses, and pick a ‘Jew.’ … That Jew could be you.”
The idea is striking: both to render an abstract number as concrete and to evoke the depersonalization of the Shoah. If these intentions seem to be in conflict, so be it — for conflict remains, as it should, the prevailing emotion stirred by the Holocaust, not least the conflict that something so inhuman could have been invented by human beings.
How do we make the horror of it real to us, especially after a divide of nearly 70 years? How do we see it, really see it, understand the volume of it, the sheer human accretion of all that loss?
“And Every Single One Was Someone” is not the only endeavor to attempt this sort of measurement; the Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem has been engaged for many years in an effort to catalog the name of every Jew who died in the death camps; so far, more than 4 million identities have been reclaimed.
And yet, I can’t help believing that for all the monumental power of such a project, there’s something moving, essential even, about “And Every Single One Was Someone,” as well.
The Holocaust, after all, was both an individual and a collective catastrophe — individual to each person who went through it; collective in the way we read it now. What this means is that there is room for every sort of remembrance. All that is required is to make us think.
How do we wrap our minds around such massive numbers? Six million only represents Jews killed by the Nazis (the total death count is 12 million), and even these assessments, according to research by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, may be low.
In the face of this, it is our obligation to remember — and not only that, to engage our memories and keep them fresh.
Is “And Every Single One Was Someone” a gimmick, a high-concept approach to a tragedy so vast that it continues, in the most fundamental sense, to be unimaginable? Of course it is.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
(of a pinnate leaf) having leaflets that are further subdivided in a pinnate arrangement.
- ‘Some are bipinnate, triangular in shape and have finely cut or toothed leaflets.’
- ‘They bear bipinnate leaves with small, oval to lanceolate leaflets.’
- ‘It is a graceful arching fern with fronds that are generally bipinnate, although the basal pinnae are tripinnate.’
- ‘The bright green bipinnate leaves are up to 15 cm long.’
- ‘Most Australian species of Acacia have bipinnate leaves, as least when they are in the seedling stage.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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Are you fed up with the constant bombardment of online advertising every time you trawl the web?
Well, there may be some good news on that front very shortly as search behemoth, Google, has unveiled a new scheme to let websites collect money from visitors without using online advertising. The trial project, dubbed Contributor, will offer web users the option to pay to visit sites rather than see adverts. Sounds good – in theory, at least, as many users resent the advertising industry’s intrusive activities and its reliance on the collection of personal data. But hasn’t this sort of ideal been trialled before? Well, yes it has: back in 2012 a service called Readability tried something similar, but that quickly sunk without trace. Whether that is the fate awaiting Google remains to be seen.
So how will Contributor work?
Well, users will pay a monthly fee of between $1 and $3; in return they’ll be able to visit ad-free sites, or rather sites with pixelated patterns replacing advertisements. But what about websites: what’s in it for them? Well, websites participating in the scheme will be able to recoup their lost advertisement revenue by collecting part of the monthly subscription fees.
Google only launched the experimental project last week, so understandably relatively few have signed up to the scheme so far. As it stands, Google has signed up 6 partners: Urban Dictionary, The Onion, Science Daily, WikiHow, Mashable and Imgur. Google claims it started with smaller sites just to get a feel for how the service might work on a larger scale. Access to the service is currently by invitation only and interested websites can sign up to be on the waiting list. So far ‘Contributor’ will only replace ads provided by Google with a small thank you message, but the success of the scheme could encourage more sites to trial subscription services instead of advertising.
Why has Google introduced the idea of ad-free web browsing?
Well, it sees Contributor as “an experiment in additional ways to fund the web”, and an alternative way to “directly support the people who create the sites you visit each day.” So is this really Google showing its altruistic caring/sharing side, or are there other more-practical considerations at play here? Well, obviously Google will take a portion of the money raised by subscription fees when users log into the service via their Google account, so it’s not entirely altruistic. But the truth seems to be that Google appears to have made a conscious decision to become less reliant on advertising in the future, and move towards a more stable source of income through paid hardware/services like self-driving cars, glasses and their Amazon-like delivery service. | <urn:uuid:4c303f2f-7b9a-4bd3-9d14-d6f3a8a6bf9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.searchandmore.co.uk/news/google-launches-trial-ad-free-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00262-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946623 | 567 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Nazi Germany was responsible for the extermination of approximately six million Jews.
The Confederacy fought in support of African American slavery and secession from the U.S.
The Washington Redskins, well, they’ve offended a small number of people (even 83% of Native Americans polled by Sports Illustrated in 2002 said the name didn’t bother them).
But that didn’t stop the New York Daily News from taking the offensive-sports-team-names debate to a ridiculous level on Thursday.
Daily News cartoonist Tom Stiglich illustrated just how far out of hand this exercise has venutred, placing the Redskins’ logo next to two of the more offensive symbols the world has ever known.
— Sean Lilly (@SLilly2321) October 17, 2013
While NFL games against the Dallas Cowboys can become quite heated in the U.S. capital, as far as we know, the Redskins have never perpetuated violence against another group – or systematically manufactured genocide.
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January 23, 2015 | John Vibes
January 22, 2014
(ANTIMEDIA) A group of activists in Texas stirred controversy this week, by 3D printing a gun right out front of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. The unique live protest was organized by the group Come And Take It Texas, or CATI, and featured a CNC device called “Ghost Gunner” which uses 3D printed parts and is capable of manufacturing a gun.
“Anybody can purchase one of these to print firearms in their own homes,” Murdoch Pizgatti, president of CATI said on NBC News.
There has been a heated debate about 3D printing technology in the past few years, as 3D print gun projects like Wikiweapon began to grow in popularity and gather press recognition. Wikiweapon was a project that intended to share open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns, allowing anyone with the right equipment to manufacture a firearm from their home.
The Ghost Gunner is made by Defense Distributed, the parent company of the Wikiweapon project, and set up by founder Cody Wilson. The company is fittingly based in Austin, Texas, where the protest took place this week.
There are many technologies that are beginning to emerge in the consumer market that have the potential to radically disrupt the status quo and shift the power balance on this earth in favor of the general population.
3D printers are one of the first of these devises that come to mind, with the ability to mold any 3 dimensional object from a precise computer graphic. So far, this technology has been used to replace bones and body parts in people, creating exoskeletons for children with congenital illnesses in order to help them walk, and it is even said that someday people will have the ability to print working human organs through cheap home devices.
If given the ability to flourish and develop in every way possible, the millions of people who end up using this technology will be able to create amazing things that could reshape this world for the better in a short amount of time. However, as always the one thing that stands in the way of this achievement is the monopolists of the State, and their violently imposed restrictions on freely interacting individuals.
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John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com. | <urn:uuid:237055f8-073d-418e-a1d6-c1d0a8357376> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://theantimedia.org/activists-3d-printed-a-gun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00426-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965572 | 630 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Yesterday, we reported on a priest in Connecticut who was reprimanded by his archbishop for assisting at his cousin’s same-gender marriage ceremony.
Today we have a story of a Minnesota priest’s action for marriage equality, which has created a bit of a stir in that state. Rev. Peter Lambert, pastor of St. Louis parish, Floodwood (45 miles west of Duluth), recently made a $1,000 donation to the campaign to defeat Minnesota’s upcoming ballot initiative to adopt a constitutional amendment to ban same-gender marriage.
According to the Duluth News Tribune:
“Minnesota’s Catholic dioceses have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of the Marriage Amendment, which, if passed, would place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The Duluth Diocese alone has donated $50,000 to the cause. . . .
“The Minnesota Catholic Conference, which describes itself as ‘the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Minnesota’ has given $400,000 to Minnesota for Marriage, one of the primary groups that supports the Marriage Amendment. The Catholic Conference’s contribution appears to be the single largest of any group in the state.”
It appears that, unlike the Connecticut priest we reported about yesterday, Fr. Lambert has received no public reprimand for his action by the diocese.
“ ‘It was my understanding that Father Lambert wasn’t aware that the contribution would be made public, and it wasn’t intended to be a public statement,’ said Duluth Diocese spokesman Kyle Eller.
“Beyond that, the diocese declined comment on Lambert’s contribution.”
Like the Connecticut priest, his parishioners appear to support his action:
“Several of Lambert’s parishioners in the city of 528 people told the News Tribune they weren’t aware of the priest’s contribution. When told, they said they weren’t concerned about it.
“ ‘I support him doing whatever his conscience says,’ said Char Kerelko, who has been a member of the St. Louis Catholic Church for about 30 years. ‘He’s a priest, but he’s also a private citizen.’ ”
“Kerelko said she was also opposed to the amendment.
“ ‘I think we shouldn’t amend the state constitution,’ she said. ‘The whole idea is divisive and insulting to gay people, and it’s mean-spirited.’ ”
Last fall, Archbishop Nienstedt of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota, warned his priests not to speak out in favor of marriage equality. Yet, already, one priest in the Twin Cities has voiced his opposition. Additionally, retired and resigned priests of his diocese have done so, and a Benedictine priest at St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, has urged Catholics to vote their consciences.
Clearly, Catholic priests and lay people are following their consciences on this public policy matter in Minnesota–further evidence of the already known fact that Catholics indeed support marriage equality. As noted in the Duluth News Tribune article:
“Kate Brickman, the press secretary for Minnesotans United, said her group has worked quietly with about two dozen priests who oppose the marriage amendment.
“ ‘I think the other side tries to put out a narrative that all Catholics are voting yes, and we know that’s not true,’ Brickman said.”
Like the Connecticut priest reported on yesterday, I doubt that Rev. Lambert’s example is going to be an isolated incident, especially as more and more states work to pass marriage equality laws. Despite the bishops’ attempts to squelch support, Catholic lay people and priests are going to continue to express their passion for equality and justice.
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The '68 Olympic games changed everything for John Carlos. He and fellow runner Tommie Smith raised their fists in the black power salute on the podium in a moment that became known as the most defiant and controversial in Olympics history. Carlos remembers that moment and the fallout that came later in the book The John Carlos Story. He told Steve Paulson that the moment was inspired with a meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Next, Dave Raichlen studies the elusive beast known as runner’s high. Not everyone who runs gets it, it seems to come and go for those who do, and science doesn’t yet know the magic spell that brings it on just yet. But Dave Raichlen at the University of Arizona at Tucson is getting closer. He’s looking at runner’s high from an evolutionary perspective, by studying people, dogs and ferrets.
Then, most of us want to exercise smart, to get the most bang for our buck in the least amount of time. Gretchen Reynolds writes the Phys Ed column for the New York Times which appears in the Well blog online and in the Science Times print section. She’s compiled the latest in exercise science into the book The First 20 Minutes to help keep our work-outs working.
And finally, Adharanand Finn had always been a runner. After entering and winning a race in his hometown of Devon, England, Finn decided it was time to train seriously again. The Kenyans, he thought, some of the fastest people in the world, would be the perfect training partners. So, he went to Kenya, to run seriously and to try to unlock the secrets of speed. He writes about the journey in his book Running with the Kenyans. [Broadcast Date: August 8, 2012]
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As we promised our readers, we’ll be reviewing all major flavors of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release. In that continuation, here’s our take on the Ubuntu Budgie.
Ubuntu Budgie, as the name implies, is an official flavor of Ubuntu using the Budgie desktop environment. This flavor is a newer member of the Ubuntu family. Ubuntu Budgie’s first release was 16.04 and it was accepted as an official flavor with the 17.04 release.
Their goal is to “combine the simplicity and elegance of the Budgie interface to produce a traditional desktop orientated distro with a modern paradigm”.
Ubuntu 20.04 Review: What has changed and what has not!
There have been a surprising number of updates and improvements to Ubuntu Budgie since the 18.04 LTS release.
- New stylish menu apple
- Budgie-based network manager applet as default
- New Window Shuffler allows you to tile applications from the keyboard
- New tool to quickly switch desktop layout
- 4k resolution support
- GNOME Firmware and Drawing are new default applications
- Backport packages have now been rebuilt for 20.04
- Firefox is the default browser.
- Catfish file and text search is now the default
- budgie-nemo integration
- System Tray applet removed due to bugs
- Event alerts sounds are disabled by default
- Fix for keyboard shortcuts mysteriously going missing
- Better lock screen styling
- Files (Nautilus) has been replaced with Files (Nemo) due to community demand
- Plank dock has now been switched to the bottom of the screen, is transparent and has the bounce animations by default
- The Quick Notes and Hot Corners applets have been ported from Python to Vala to improve speed
- Celluloid replaces MPV
- GNOME dependencies have been updated
Ubuntu Budgie now ships with the most recent release of the Budgie desktop environment (10.5.1). Improvements include:
- New Raven section in Budgie Desktop Settings
- Raven Notification grouping and the ability to turn off notifications
- Icon Task List has been revamped
- Ability to set number of virtual desktops
Ubuntu Budgie comes with a whole slew of Budgie applets and min-apps. They can be installed through Ubuntu Budgie Welcome.
- WeatherShow – shows the forecast for the next five days and updates every 3 hours
- Wallstreet – a wallpaper utility that allows you to cycle through a folder of images
- Visual-space – a compact workspace switcher
- Dropby – this applet allows you to quickly manage USB thumb drives from the panel
- Kangaroo – quickly browser folders from the panel
- Trash applet – manage your trash can
- Fuzzyclock – shows time in a fuzzy way
- Workspace stopwatch – allows you to keep track of the time spent in each workspace
For a complete list of changes and updates, visit the changelog.
Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 has updated the system requirements:
- 4GB or more of RAM
- 64-bit capable Intel and AMD processors
- UEFI PCs booting in CSM mode
- Modern Intel-based Apple Macs
As you can see, Budgie is not really a lightweight option here.
The following useful applications are included in Ubuntu Budgie by default:
- AisleRiot Solitaire
- Catfish search tool
- Cheese webcam tool
- GNOME Drawing
- GNOME 2048
- GNOME Mahjongg
- GNOME Mines
- GNOME Sudoku
- Ubuntu Budgie Welcome
- Evince document viewer
Initially, I was unable to get Ubuntu Budgie to do into the live environment so that I could install it. It turned out that Ubuntu Budgie was trying to boot via EFI. I contacted the Ubuntu Budgie forum and was able to get a solution.
Once the purple splash screen I had to hit ESC and select legacy. After that, it booted as normal and installed without issue. I have only run into this issue with Ubuntu Budgie. I downloaded and tried the Ubuntu MATE 20.04 ISO, but didn’t have a similar issue.
Experience with Ubuntu Budgie 20.04
Other than the minor installation issue, my time with Ubuntu Budgie was very pleasant. The Budgie desktop has come a long way since Ikey first created it and it has become a very mature option. The goal of Ubuntu Budgie is to “produce a traditional desktop orientated distro”. It does that in spades. All the changes that they have made continually add more polish to their product.
Overall, Ubuntu Budgie is a very nice looking distro. From the default theme to wallpaper options, you can tell that a lot of effort was put into making the visual experience very appealing.
One thing to keep in mind is that Ubuntu Budgie is not intended for low spec systems. I’m running it on my Dell Latitude D630. Without any applications open, it used about 700 MB of RAM.
One part of Ubuntu Budgie that I enjoyed more than I should have, was the inclusion of the Tilix terminal emulator. Tilix allows you to add terminal windows to the right or below. It has a whole host of features and just loved using it. I’m planning to install on my other Linux systems.
Final Thoughts on Ubuntu Budgie 20.04
Ubuntu Budgie is a welcome addition to the litany of official flavors. Budgie feels very smooth and polished. It gets out of your way and lets you get work done.
If you are tired of your current desktop environment and want to take a look at something new, check it out. If you’re happy with your current setup, check Ubuntu Budgie’s live DVD. You just might like it.
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On May 7, government officials in Portugal turned off its power nationwide. But the outage didn't leave its citizens in the dark: For four days straight, all of Portugal's electricity needs were powered by renewable energy. Using solar and hydro power alone for 107 hours, the country set a clean energy record.
In 2015, 30.7% of the country's energy came from renewable sources, including 22.5% in wind power, according to Portugal's Association of Renewable Energy.
"We are seeing trends like this spread across Europe — last year with Denmark and now in Portugal," Wind Europe trade association Oliver Joy told the Guardian. "The Iberian peninsula is a great resource for renewables and wind energy, not just for the region but for the whole of Europe."
Read more: Here's How Fossil Fuels Are Hurting the Environment and Why Renewable Energy Is the Answer
Scientists around the world are discovering new sources of renewable energy all the time and figuring out how to harness them. In April, Denmark company Wavestar developed technology to use the energy from ocean waves to power a generator, and earlier this year, French officials announced plans to pave a 620-mile road with solar cells. Recently, Germany achieved its own milestone when it used so much clean energy the country's energy prices went negative.
So how does the United States stack up?
According to the U.S Energy Information Administration, in 2015 renewable energy accounted for just 13% of energy generation. U.S. officials might consider taking a page from Europe's book.
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Driving through the ancient swamplands of the Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida made national parks traveler Mikah Meyer feel like he was in another world.
“Because it was so early, it was super foggy,” he said. “We couldn’t see more than 20- 30 feet in front of us and it was just this ethereal, misty experience.”
“At one point we came up against a controlled burn site, so you have these tall trees that were green at the top but then underneath, everything was charred and… it was straight out of a Star Wars movie…I was just waiting for the Ewoks to appear!”
Mikah – who’s on a mission to visit all of the more than 400 National Park sites – had just been to Florida’s famous Everglades National Park, so it was natural for him to want to visit the neighboring preserve. “It was on the same road as I took to go to the Everglades — Highway 41. The Everglades was on the south side; the Big Cypress National Preserve on the right side.”
“A far less popular park than the Everglades, Big Cypress is a lot more wild,” Mikah noted. The huge cypress swamp, most of which is in Big Cypress National Preserve, is dominated by bald cypress trees that grow in water, which create surreal scenes that are enhanced by fog and smoke.
Wonder what it’s like to ride on a swamp buggy? Hop on with Mikah and his friends to find out!
His guide, Ozzie Gonzalez from Everglades Nature Tours, drove Mikah and his travel companion, Andy Waldron, through the ghostly environment on a swamp buggy, a vehicle that’s specially designed to navigate the area’s rough and muddy terrain. “It had these monster truck wheels that were only four-pounds pressure, and that’s basically because you’re going over so many rocks and so many holes that it’s needed to be light pressure so that the vehicle doesn’t break,” Mikah explained.
Big Cypress was actually the first national preserve in the National Park Service, established in 1974. It owes that distinction to a massive community effort. “It was both industry and conservationists, along with hunters and Native people who use this land for their own recreational purposes,” Mikah noted, “so it was a real group effort to make sure that it remained in ways that helped everybody.”
Freshwater to the sea
The primary reason the preserve was created was to protect its freshwater’s natural flow into the neighboring Everglades and Ten Thousand Islands, and help support the rich marine estuaries along Florida’s southwest coast.
“It helps protect the watershed,” Mikah said. “So the water that comes down from Lake Okeechobee, today only 25% of it flows to the Everglades as it did historically. So by having the preserve north of the Everglades, it helps protect the water that comes down into the Everglades…and is the drinking water for half of the people that live in Florida – so over 10 million people — so that’s important.”
Protecting nearly 300,000 hectares of this vast swamp, Big Cypress National Preserve comprises a combination of tropical and temperate plant communities that are home to a diversity of wildlife. That includes the elusive Florida panther, and in more recent years, Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species on Earth.
The invasive snakes have been turning up in and around Big Cypress National Preserve and are now known to be breeding in the preserve and spreading throughout south Florida.
Mikah said that back in the ‘70s, having exotic pets was a trend. “People would purchase pythons as little, one-foot long baby snakes, which would eventually grow to over 10 feet and you’d have to feed them a pig a week…so all these people were just taking them to the Everglades and Big Cypress and dumping them in nature.”
Now they’ve reproduced, “and have basically taken over the place to the point that some naturalists think there will come a point when they will have eaten all of the other species and at that point they’ll start to cannibalize each other,” he said.
Big Cypress National Preserve is working with other government agencies to control the growing Burmese python population and address other invasive species. On its website, the National Park Service notes that the reptiles “serve as a painful reminder of just how dangerous invasive species can be.”
Stepping back in time
About 130 kilometers west of Miami, far from the bright lights and bustle of city life, the national parks and preserved spaces in south Florida — and the wildlife they support — are also a reminder of what protection can offer… a chance for visitors from around the world to explore a special and fragile place that remains untouched by civilization.
“It was so interesting to be in south Florida because I think when we hear south Florida, we just think of nightclubs on Miami Beach,” Mikah said. “But in reality, the vast majority of the land is made up of Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve and so it’s important to remember that these two National Park Service sites represent what Florida looked like before human interaction.
“So if you want to step back in time, this is a place you can do it.”
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Land of Desert Himalayas
Dolpo is the amazing destination with the mesmerizing view of desert Mountains, mysterious monasteries, Gumbas and many more which is located at western between Dhaulagiri in the south and Tibetan Himalayan range, Kugung la and Khyung to North. Dolpo region travelling provides endanger wild animals like Musk deer, Snow Leopard, Himalayan Blue Sheep with the well-protected forest of pine, Oak and Juniper. Dho Tarap, are the attraction of human settlement at the highest altitude in the world, Shey Gumba, religiously the most important Gumba in Nepal, and lake Phoksundo, the deepest lake of high altitude in the world where the Tibetan Language spoken people spend their traditional and cultural life. Our treks have to cross two high passes, The Baga-La and Numa-La pass to arrive in Phoksundo Lake which is one of the attractions of our trek. This Dolpo region preserves one of the last remnants of traditional Tibetan culture where the pre-Buddhist Bon-Po religion is still in practice. Besides that Upper Dolpa is one of the few remaining sources of Yarsa Gumba, an exotic half plant, half animal that is considered a powerful aphrodisiac. Every year, in May- June, the Shey Phoksundo National Park opens its doors to the seekers of Yarsagumba. The economy of Dolpa leans heavily on Yarsagumba, called simply “the insect” by locals, and “Himalayan Viagra” by its enthusiasts. The first English subtitled movie “the Caravan ” set in the unreal scenery of Dolpo and directed by Eric Valli won an Oscar nomination for the best foreign language film category.
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A visit to Ireland by France’s President Francois Hollande was due to go ahead this week despite the national emergency created by last week’s terrorist murders in Nice.
But France’s head of government and head of state postponed his plans to unveil a World War One memorial to Irish soldiers at Glasnevin Cemetery. Books of condolences were opened on both sides of the Border with President Michael D Higgins leading the expressions of sympathy and solidarity felt by the people of Ireland.
In Northern Ireland the first official engagement of newly appointed Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire was to sign the Book of Condolences in Belfast.
President Higgins, signing the Book a the Mansion House in Dublin, called for people to make a stand for democracy in the face of those who abuse sacred texts.
“We are in a period of time where, for a whole series of different factors, people are seizing and distorting and very often using pieces of text, often sacred texts, massively abusing these in a way that it would be absurd if it did not have such a violent outcome. What we all have to do is take a stand for democracy, prepare for democracy.”
President Higgins said the lorry attack in Nice was an appalling, cowardly act against children and people celebrating France’s national day that defied belief.
“The quality of your response always defines your democracy. The quality of response in France so far – threatened so often and so frequently recently – has been to say we will not be dislodged for our way of life, we are the home of democracy, there will be democracy to be expected in our streets.”
Vigils were held last weekend in Dublin, Galway and Limerick to remember those killed and injured. In Brussels a minute’s silence was Europe’s foreign ministers gathered for meetings. President Hollande’s one day Irish visit – in which he is scheduled to meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny and President Higgins – was due to be dominated by talks about Brexit and security matters.
He had been scheduled to unveil a new memorial to Irish soldiers who died fighting in France during WW1 at Glasnevin cemetery, a gift from the French government to Ireland. The memorial is based on the wooden Ginchy Cross, which was carved from the beams of a ruined farmhouse by the 11th Hampshires, a pioneer battalion attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
The 16th liberated the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The memorial will include on its base a tribute to Irish soldiers by Marshal Ferdinand Foch. President Hollande has a personal interest in the memorial, which is the first France has erected to the Irish.
After five students at Paris’s École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Art) were murdered in the terrorist shootings last November President Hollande requested that one of the school’s teachers, sculptor Patrice Alexandre, and some of his students take over the design and construction of the memorial, which has been made from Irish blue limestone, taken from the Three castles quarry outside Kilkenny. | <urn:uuid:be54ebd7-8f92-4280-8ee5-77168bf679a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theirishworld.com/french-presidents-irish-visit-goes-ahead/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973833 | 656 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Year of Publication
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Keith K. Schillo
Most researchers studying sexual behavior of the bull have adopted the practice of severely restraining and sedating female stimuli, utilizing so-called "service stanchions" and quantifying behavioral events expressed by each bull. Based on these observations, bulls are classified as having high, medium, or low libido and ranked according to their ability to "service" the inanimate stimuli. It has been assumed that these methods represent appropriate measurements of reproductive behavior that will be expressed in a natural mating scenario and that bull sexual behavior can be studied in a manner that is independent of the context of the female. Hence, conventional methods fail to consider the appropriate contexts under which cattle interact sexually. Based on these issues, I investigated the role of unrestrained female stimuli in modulating the expression of male sexual behavior in domesticated bovine. Experiments were conducted to develop a paradigm for studying sexual behavior in bulls within a social setting that permits extensive interactions between males and females. The first experiment tested the hypothesis that female novelty and receptivity interact to govern the expression of mounting behavior in the bull. In this experiment, bulls that were exposed sequentially to 4, novel, estrual females expressed more mounts with intromission than when exposed alternately to two, estrual females or to the same estrual female over a four-hour period. Bulls exposed to a non-estrual female were not allowed to mount and intromit although they readily attempted to mount. A second experiment tested the hypothesis that mounting behavior of bulls exposed sequentially to 4, estrual females in 2 hours would be the same as that in bulls exposed to a group of 4, estrual females for 2 hours. Results suggested that in group mating situations there are differences in how males distribute copulations when presented with unrestrained stimulus females sequentially. Repeatability of sexual behavior was calculated by repeatedly testing bulls paired with either single or multiple unrestrained, estrual females on 8 different occasions and calculating the intraclass correlations. Overall, repeatability was low and indicated a large environmental component. This electronic dissertation contains multimedia video files which allow the reader to visualize representative examples of sexual behavior in Bos taurus.
Bailey, John Denver, "AN APPROACH TO THE MEASUREMENT OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE BULL (BOS TAURUS) USING VARIABLE FEMALE STIMULUS CONDITIONS" (2003). University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. 239. | <urn:uuid:ecac14e1-61db-45aa-850c-74d0d00f7877> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/239/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.93162 | 579 | 2.125 | 2 |
Shocking New Photo is Proof That the Sun Makes You Prematurely Age
I don’t want to rain on your summer fun in the sun, but one look at this picture and you might not want to go out into the sun ever again!
The photo is of a 69-year-old man who drove a truck for 28 years. Driving the truck meant the left side of his face got several hours of sun every day, while the right stayed mostly shaded. The results after all those years are just slightly terrifying.
Dermatologists at Northwestern University just published a report on the man as part of their study on just how damaging the sun can be to the skin. As you might have guessed, these dermatologist believe the sun may actually be even more damaging than we had previously thought. | <urn:uuid:124dd6a9-50b8-48e1-9709-a6c0fdfac884> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://929nin.com/shocking-new-photo-is-proof-that-the-sun-makes-you-prematurely-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977603 | 164 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Brehon C Laurent, PhD
- ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Oncological Sciences
AB, Bowdoin College
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
State University of New York Chancellor??s Research Award
Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
Individual National Research Service Award
Chromosome dynamics during the processes of chromosome segregation, the maintenance of genome integrity, and gene transcription
Our laboratory studies how dynamic changes in chromatin structure regulate the fundamental cellular events of chromosome segregation, DNA damage repair, and gene transcription. In particular, we study the mechanisms by which RSC and Swi/Snf, two conserved ATP-utilizing chromatin-remodeling complexes, control these processes. Defects in the remodeling of chromatin can lead to cancers and severe genetic diseases, and human SWI/SNF counterpart proteins have been shown to function as powerful tumor suppressors. We use the simple eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the model system and will extend these experiments in mammalian cells.
Studies in our laboratory established a key role for the RSC chromatin-remodeling activity in regulating chromatin folding during genomic transmission. We found that RSC's remodeling activity is required for the function of the centromere-kinetochore (Hsu et al. 2003), the region of the chromosome that is responsible for segregating sister chromatids to daughter cells during cell division. More recently,we've shown that RSC facilitates the loading of cohesin onto the arms of newly replicated sister chromatids (Huang et al. 2004; Figs. 1 and 2). Future experiments will test RSC's role in establishing and/or maintaining the cohesion and condensation of sister chromatids for proper partitioning.
The accurate and efficient repair of the ~104 DNA damage events per day for a mammalian cell are essential for survival; unrepaired DNA lesions disrupt chromosomal integrity and can result in cancers. Moreover, such lesions must be repaired in the context of chromatin. Recent experiments suggest novel roles for both RSC and Swi/Snf in processing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) (Chai et al. 2005; Fig. 3). Current efforts are directed towards defining how these ATP-dependent remodelers contribute to the chromatin dynamics required to maintain genome integrity. Translational experiments in mammalian cells will explore roles of the SWI/SNF orthologs in partitioning and repairing the genome during the cell cycle, providing insight into their roles in tumorigenesis.
In another study, we have uncovered a rapid, biphasic response mechanism that relies on the coordinated recruitment of Swi/Snf and histone acetyltransferase activities (Fig. 4). Future experiments will examine at the molecular level how the chromatin-modifying activities are regulated as well as how these phases communicate to properly regulate transcription.
Huang J, Liang B, Qiu J, Laurent BC. ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complexes in DNA double-strand break repair: remodeling, pairing, and (re)pairing. Cell Cycle 2005;(4): 1713-1715.
Wong LY, Recht J, Laurent BC. Chromatin remodeling and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. J. Mol. Histol. 2006;(37): 261-269.
Liang B, Qiu J, Ratnakumar K, Laurent BC. RSC functions as an early double-strand break sensor in the cell's response to DNA damage. Curr. Biol. 2007;(17): 1432-1437.
Du J, Nasir I, Benton BK, Kladde MP, Laurent BC. Sth1p, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Snf2p/Swi2p homolog, is an essential ATPase in RSC and differs from Snf/Swi in its interactions with histones and chromatin-associated proteins. Genetics 1998 Nov; 150(3): 987-1005.
Sudarsanam P, Cao Y, Wu L, Laurent BC, Winston F. The nucleosome remodeling complex, Snf/Swi, is required for the maintenance of transcription in vivo and is partially redundant with the histone acetyltransferase, Gcn5. EMBO J 1999 Jun; 18(11): 3101-3106. | <urn:uuid:c3482b99-9776-49d1-a516-f4250bb0aea5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://mssm.edu/profiles/brehon-c-laurent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00116-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.850169 | 927 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: NRFLs A75807, A79504 and A90380 – Chilliwack Natural Resource District NRFLs
As part of its 2019 compliance audit program, the Board selected three non-replaceable forest licences (NRFLs) in the Chilliwack Natural Resource District as a location for a full scope compliance audit. The licences include A75807, A79504 and A90380, held by Ts’elxweyeqw Forestry Limited Partnership, Leq’ A: Mel Forestry Limited Partnership, and Skwah First Nation, respectively.
The activities audited are located in the area around Chilliwack, near Chehalis, Wahleach and Chilliwack Lakes. Operations are located in the Chehalis, Chilliwack and Silverhope Landscape Units, where resource values include scenic areas, wildlife habitat for a variety of species, recreation areas, consumptive watersheds and culturally important areas. The licensees must meet objectives set by government for old growth management areas, scenic areas, wildlife, community watersheds and karst.
The activities for all of the licensees audited complied with the requirements of the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act. | <urn:uuid:352a2dad-3279-4403-bf4b-d221a150623e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bcfpb.ca/reports-publications/reports/audit-of-forest-planning-and-practices-nrfls-a75807-a79504-and-a90380-chilliwack-natural-resource-district-nrfls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.917886 | 259 | 1.625 | 2 |
Atheism, Godless Religions Questions and Answers
- Five atheist miracles (or materialists believe in magic)
- Atheism: a detailed analysis
- Is Atheism a religion?
- Naturalism in the light of reality
- The tyranny of ‘tolerance’
- Is Richard Dawkins an atheist?
Isn’t evolution purely scientific, and religiously neutral?
- The Religious Nature of Evolution
- Evolution as Religion
- Quote: Evolutionist’s blind faith in atheism
- How Religiously Neutral are the Anti-Creationist Organizations?
- National Academy of Science is godless to the core—survey
- Darwin’s Real Message—Have you Missed It?
- Quote: The religion of scientism
- A Who’s Who of evolutionists
- Atheist spat: The New Atheists vs their bedfellows in the NCSE/BCSE
- Nietzsche: The evolutionist who was anti-God and anti-Darwin
Aren’t Christians intolerant, unlike humanists?
- The hypocrisy of intolerant ‘tolerance’: Christian schoolgirl failed for refusing gay assignment
- Sticks and stones may break bones, but … “Your words hurt me!” say atheists
- Erring on the side of censorship: US government schools are becoming Christ-free zones
- Australian university moves to crack down on Christian freedoms
- Is evolution ‘anti-religion’? It depends …
- Atheists to do religious education in schools
- Faith-based attacks on religious schools
Richard Dawkins, the ‘Apostle of Atheism’: how can he be answered?
- Atheist with a Mission: Critique of The God Delusion
- Dawkins’ Delusion (continued)
- Book review: The magic of reality by Richard Dawkins
- Review of Climbing Mount Improbable
- Secular sermons: A review of A Devil s Chaplin: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
- A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker
- Review of The Ancestor s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- Misotheist’s misology: Richard Dawkins attacks Michael Behe
Criticisms of From a Frog to a Prince
- Skeptics choke on Frog: Was Dawkins caught on the hop?
- Was Dawkins Stumped? Frog to a Prince critics refuted again
Responses to various arguments from Dawkins
- Is our ‘inverted’ retina really ‘bad design’?
- Dawkins’ eye revisited
- Fibre optics in eye demolish Dawkins’ ‘bad design’ argument
- Backwardly wired retina “an optimal structure”: New eye discovery further demolishes Dawkins
- Müller cells refuting Dawkins: feedback
- Dawkins and Eugenics: A leading high priest of evolution reveals its ugly side.
- Dawkins scoffs at indignation against child murderers and other vile criminals, claiming that it is as irrational as Basil Fawlty beating his car
- Growth of creation science in UK worries Prof. Dawkins
- Darwinopterus v Dawkins
- Dawkins playing bait and switch with guppy selection
- Has evolution been observed?
- Dawkins on compromising churchians
- Dawkins agrees that evolution ‘leads to a moral vacuum … in which their best impulses have no basis in nature’
What about the ‘New Atheists’—and the old ones?
- Christopher Hitchens—blind to salamander reality: A well-known atheist’s ‘eureka moment’ shows the desperation of evolutionists
- Universal acid: An analysis of Daniel Dennett s book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
- Australian Skeptics vs CMI Australia
Related Q&A Pages
- Countering the critics
- Bible skeptics answered (supposed errors, contradictions)
- Morality and ethics
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What Fruit and Vegetables to Look for this Season on Kauai
Kauai is known for its astonishing ability to grow and harvest produce all year round. Of course this comes as no surprise with its warm weather and sunny tropical climate. As many of our local chefs and farmers can tell you, Kauai is the ideal place to grow. As winter begins to fade away (what little “winter” we did have) we welcome the buds, blossoms and breath of fresh air that is spring time.
It is rather easy to figure out which vegetables and fruits are in season. Simply visit one of our many weekly farmer’s markets to see firsthand which crops are producing the freshest and most delicious produce. Of course, you can always count on The Farm at Kukuiula to offer a bountiful harvest.
Below are what fruits and vegetables to look for this spring (and for a more in depth look at some of our specialty species take a look at 10 Hawaiian Fruits You’ve Never Heard Of). If no dates provided below, that item is available year round. Lucky us!
Avocados – September through April
Bananas – peak June through October but are harvested year-round
Celery – peak April through August but are harvested February through October
Ginger – February through November
Herbs (Parsley, Mint, Cilantro, Basil)
Limes – June through March
Luau (Taro leaf)
Lychees – peak May through September but are harvested year-round
Mangoes – March through November
Melons (Watermelon, Cantaloupes, Honeydews) – May through September
Apples – June into October
Rambutans – October through March
Squash – June through March
Strawberries – peak January through April but are harvested October through July
Starfruit – September through April
Tangerines – September through February
For more information about seasonal produce, be sure to stop by our weekly Culinary Market. Found at The Shops at Kukuiula every Wednesday from 3:30pm – 6:00pm. | <urn:uuid:a4716e9d-b2a3-4658-bb06-767561bc10ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://kukuiula.com/blog-articles/fruits-veggies-season-kauai/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00086-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964812 | 439 | 2.0625 | 2 |
SPARE THAT SAPLING!
SPARE THAT SAPLING! A Guide to Four Common Sapling Trees in the Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
Naturalist Program, Cornell University,
P. M. Eckel
May 13, 2013
Volunteer hours to produce this worksheet Research and analysis: literary sources [8 hours], herbarium examination [8 hours], Illustration [8 hours]: Total approximately 27 hours volunteer time.
As before, I am grateful for Kristi Sullivan, director of
the New York Master Naturalist Program,
for introducing myself and my other classmates to the richness of the
forests of the central
During one of the weekends required for the Master Naturalist certificate, I and numerous students were introduced to the trees of the Arnot Forest. So many of them resemble one another, but particularly, when they are young and have no fruit to help tell them apart, that it was thought to be of some value to introduce a general guide to the identification of saplings. This worksheet is restricted to four tree species that resemble one another closely as to leaf characteristics.
Trees in their native forest are equally beautiful and innocent. They do not know they are weeds. Every one of the tree species in this key is considered to be a forest weed (i.e. not valuable to cut as lumber) by foresters except the Yellow Birch. Beech in particular is disliked by lumbermen because of the dense and numerous sprouts that quickly rise out of the forest floor when the parent tree is cut down.
Sapling look-alikes at the
Key to four trees
Characteristics of the four species chosen:
All are broad-leafed (not needle-leaved) deciduous (not evergreen);
All are hardwoods (not softwoods);
All have leaves simple (not compound), alternate (not opposite):
Summary: hardwoods, broad-leaved, deciduous, simple, alternate:
Note: The Latin names are given first in the keys due to the confusion of common, or English names. For example Musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana) is also called the American Hornbeam, Blue-beech and Ironwood. The name American Hornbeam can be easily confused by name with the Hop-hornbeam. Its other name, Blue Beech, makes it easily confused with Beech. The name “Musclewood” is used here because of the striking muscle-like ropiness of the shape of the trunk.
Mnemonics (memory helps):
[the -cle- in Musclewood reflects the C- in Carpinus]
[the -o- in Hop-Hornbeam reflects the C- in Ostrya; the “Hop-“ reminds one of the fruits in little, unlobed sac-clusters]]
Note: All four species have hairy petioles; only Ostrya may have conspicuous stalked glands, sometimes so strongly that a taxonomic ‘form’ has been named for it, Ostrya virginiana forma glandulosa.
1. Leaves usually paired on woody spurs and buds on the twigs; leaf blades with lateral veins usually branched beyond the middle of the vein Betula alleghaniensis (Yellow Birch)
The leaves grow on very short lateral shoots (like an apple tree) or the bases of buds, and are usually paired; crushed twigs with the taste and odor of wintergreen; petioles at first sofly hairy, then grow to be nearly hairless.
1. Leaves single on the twigs; leaf blades (lacking woody spurs like an apple);
2. With lateral veins straight unbranched;
3. margins of leaves doubly serrate Carpinus caroliniana (Musclewood):
Blades with lateral veins only very rarely forked; actually a small tree often with shrubby growth with multiple stems.
3. margins of leaves singly serrate Fagus grandifolia (Birch)
Note that leaves often in loose clusters of 3 leaves; extensive, shallow root systems often promote thickets of young trees around old trees or old harvested trees; Beech, Sugar Maple and Yellow Birch are the dominant trees of the Beech-Maple eastern deciduous forest in North America.
2. Leaf blades with lateral veins usually branched beyond the middle of the vein
Ostrya virginiana (Hop Hornbeam),
The petioles are usually densely hairy and often have conspicuous stalked glands.
1. Gray-silver, somewhat satiny, resembling smoothness of Beech
but ropey or fluted, muscular Carpinus caroliniana (Musclewood).
1. Gray-silver, somewhat satiny, trunk smooth, cylindrical,
not ropey or muscular Fagus grandifolia (Beech)
1. Gray, dull, vertically loose or peeling in narrow strips
Ostrya virginiana (Hop-hornbeam)
1. Yellowish, satiny, horizontally peeling, peels in curls
Betula alleghaniensis (Yellow Birch)
1. Fruit in large, lobed bracts Carpinus caroliniana
(Muscle-wood; also called the American Hornbeam, Blue-beech and Ironwood)
Nuts develop in pairs subtended by a leafy bract.
Although the other three plants are trees with a single stem, this one is actually a rather tall to medium shrub with several stems.
1. Fruit in unlobed (entire) bags or sacks closely resembling fruit of Hops
Ostrya virginiana (Hop-hornbeam)
The nut is enclosed in a sac-like bract (like the sac-like perigynium of a sedge (Carex). A vine with the same kind of fruit is Humulus lupulus, the common name is “Hops,” a major ingredient in beer-making. The word “hornbeam” refers to the hardness of the wood.
1. Fruit a small [1/2 to 3/4 inch], hard nut enclosed in a small spiny bur ...
(Beech) fruit containing 2 sharply 3-angled nuts
1. Fruit an ovoid to short-cylindric catkin 2-3 cm long
(= B. lutea) (Yellow Birch)
A Personal Reference Herbarium
A mini personal herbarium that will help with tree identification recall may be created using:
1. A small notebook (ring-bound, composition book, grocery list, anything with a ring or other binding and of any size.
2. Tape (cellophane or other clear tape),
3. A pen, such as a ball-point pen with ink that doesn’t run (most Bic pens are like this). The removable tops of pens are often lost during a field hike, the pen tip that dispenses ink is often clogged because of dirt. It is better to use a click-retractible pen.
4. A tool for taking a twig and fruit, bark, etc. from the tree without injuring it (Willows are very difficult to remove without cutting or clipping) such as garden clippers, pruning shears (secateurs), sharp knives, etc.
A. Write down the date (this tablet is usually a souvenir of the trip) and the location (State; County; City, street corner, person’s house - as detailed as you wish).
B. Remove a fruiting twig to fit the size of the notebook and tape it in. Squash the pages down in the end, usually by sitting on the tablet.
C. Notes may be written on the page, such as the name of the tree or plant, arrows drawn to highlight a certain character such as the number of teeth on the leaf margin, branching of leaf veins and other information.
D. Try to dry the notebook, such as placing it near a blowing fan, as soon as possible as the moist specimens may mold or dry in lumpy, brittle shapes.
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Dr. João Carlos Setubal is a full professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington and was a professor and researcher at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech (USA) and a collaborator professor at the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech. He is a former coordinator of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at USP. His main area of expertise is bioinformatics. He works with analysis of the information contained in genomes (DNA), transcripts (mRNA), and proteins, and how this information can be used for a better understanding of organisms and their evolutionary histories. His research can contribute to areas of interest to society such as medicine, agriculture, energy, and the environment. His research group develops and uses computational tools for various tasks related to the above objective handling large volumes of data.
More information at http://www.iq.usp.br/setubal.
Dr. Angélica Cibrián Jaramillo is a post-doctoral researcher at New York Botanical Garden’s Genomics Lab of the American Museum of Natural History. She holds a Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University, working on the landscape genetics of understory palms of the genus Chamaedorea in Mexico and Central America. Her research focuses mainly on the conservation genetics of economically important plants and the phylogeography of their insect pests. She studies the population genetics of agricultural pests such as cycad scales and avocado and cactus weevils to understand the processes that govern their adaptation to their plant host. She is also a member of the New York Plant Genomics Consortium investigating the genome evolution of seed plants using phylogenomic tools. She has also been involved in environmental policy, working at the Bioversity International institute in Rome and biodiversity education, and is a member of the IUCN Cycad and Palm specialist groups.
More information at https://www.amnh.org/research/staff-directory/angelica-cibrian-jaramillo
Dr. Marc Hellmuth is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Stockholm University. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Leipzig. He had frequently worked abroad as visiting researcher (Yale University, USA; University of Leoben, Austria; Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; University of Southern Denmark; Université de Montréal, Canada; PICB, Shanghai and Nankai University, Tianjin, China; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). His work is highly interdisciplinary and comprises topics in mathematics, computer science, and bioinformatics. His research focuses on the mathematical characterization of data and structures and the design of efficient algorithms as well as complexity theory. In particular, the development of mathematical theory and algorithms to help understand complex life sciences processes are one of his main interests. His research topics include data science, mathematical and computational life sciences, discrete mathematics (combinatorics, optimization and (hyper)graph theory), algorithm design, and complexity theory.
More information at https://marc-hellmuth.github.io
Dr. Deisy Morselli Gysi is an associate research scientist at the BarabasiLab at Network Science Institute – Northeastern University and a research trainee at Channing Division of Network Medicine (Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital). She obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Leipzig. She worked as a bioinformatician at the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo, where she worked with co-expression networks, investigating the influence of SNPs on the networks. She also worked at the Albert Einstein Hospital as a statistician consultant. She is interested in biomarker discovery for complex diseases related to auto-immune response (rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease), mental disorders (autism spectrum disorders, bipolar, schizophrenia, PTSD), and senior disorder (Alzheimer and Parkinson). She is also interested in drug repurposing for those diseases, mostly using a combination of multi-omic, machine learning, and network analysis approaches. During COVID-19 pandemics, she focused on repurposing drug candidates for treating this disease.
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Rarj Mag: What kind of spindle are you using?right now I'm using router and I might switch to spindle,thank you
stratoblaster23: i'm getting a "not yet implemented" message when I hit auto tool zero, I've loaded the code and restarted Mach 3, what am I missing? Probe pin shows active in Diagnostics when I touch plate to bit. Thanks
Houston Firefox: Well done Alex! Just spent a full day dealing with signal noise from my DIY touch probe and finally got it sorted out (added a 1uf electrolytic capacitor to the input pin). Anyhoo, great job and look forward to any new videos you put up :)
VFX7ven: hi thanks for posting these videos..it helps alot for new DIY cnc users like me. ples tell me how you have hooked up two breakout boards to mach3 .
cause the pin numbers are the same on both right..
sorry i am really new to cnc stuff.
alaa abed: ok; i wont to ask abuot speed btween two pcs cut in mach3? can u tel me how increase the speed btween 2 pcs cut(transfer btween 2 pcs) in mach3 thank u
eglintonflats: Could you wave you camera faster?
Ado Sehovic: Hi,
I need your help, if you can help me. I want to do engraving of aluminum sheets 3mm thick. That aluminum sheet is 1000mmx2000mm. I want to do engraving on that sheet 1mm depth. I want that depth 1mm on whole length to be the same depth. My table on cnc machine is not perfectly flat, so when I do engraving on one side of the sheet machine make 1mm depth, on the other side 0.8mm depth, on the third side 0.6mm...I don't want that, I want the same depth on every side (1mm). That is why I need something to "scan" surface, and send info in computer, so when I do engraving to have same deep on whole sheet. Something like on this video /watch?v=eJCSRXZf_Ok That is a touch probe. I called this company DATRON, and they want 7000 Dollars for this device... It's too much money. I watched your and I think that on these way my problem can be solved. Can you please advise me, or make a video with instructions how to engrave sheet 1000x2000mm, and get the same engraving depth on whole sheet.
Thank you in advance
Alexandre SALEM: Hey Alex, after the probe my spinde is going down instead of going up and doesn't stop. What is the problem ?
Wilf: I wish you would stop sucking your teeth every sentence. other than that, very helpful. Thanks
Ihargo Santos: How did you connect two boards in your computer and set up on March 3? Thanks for your advices.. :)
tzahry: man - BIG THANKS! your advice about first try saved my table and router bit as well :-)
JP Waite: Great Video. Also, I was admiring your Z axis build and spindle mount. Looks very sturdy.
Alex Crane: Recheck the description, it should be posted there now. You will need to convert it to english units but that is not hard and you will need to choose your own values anyways.
Will Begg: Dude! Buy an enclosure for the electronics, controller! You have a CNC, cut out a faceplate and make a chassis for the controller/electronics. A good sight, if you can't cut aluminum is frontpanelexpress. I have not used them, but it seems a good sight for custom enclosures and face plates. Keep up the good work, mate.
David W: Would you post your code with the English units? | <urn:uuid:038d3705-a1e4-4df8-9f20-bc0c4a3c5533> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.how-to-diy.org/sx2ddFiXf7m98K/CNC-Tutorial-Touch-Probe-in-Mach-3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00462-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920925 | 830 | 1.5 | 2 |
McDonald’s, perhaps the ultimate symbol of American consumerist culture and fatty antics, has managed to gain serious traction in multiple countries around the world (see Japan, India, Singapore). The chain’s nearly world-wide takeover has turned it into a global brand, rather than a strictly American one, and most travelers assume they’ll spot the golden arches no matter what nation they travel to. While the menu offerings at McDonald’s across the world may vary, the cartons of french fries, cheap prices, and quick service offer a sense of familiarity.
But don’t go looking for Mickey D’s in Ghana, Tajikistan, Yemen, or Iceland, because there aren’t any. These four nations are just a small sampling of the 105 countries where Ronald McDonald is impossible to find. Often enough, a country’s lack of McDonald’s can be attributed to the chain’s corporate overlords, who believe there’s not enough disposable income in that country to get the population hooked on a diet of milkshakes and french fries. Other times, the lack of McDonald’s in a specific country is due to political factors. The McDonald’s in Bolivia shuttered its doors when Evo Morales, the Bolivian President, made it known that he was definitely not McLovin’ it. Here’s what Morales said about the burger chain in a speech he gave earlier this year:
Regardless, McDonald’s still manages to make two-thirds of its revenue outside of U.S. borders. It’s safe to assume that the chain’s international revenue will only increase, seeing that Mickey D’s is set to open it’s first location in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam next year, a city that is far from nascent when it comes to American brands. KFC has already established quite a presence in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as in many other cities where McDonald’s does not exist. KFC is not the only fast food giant that’s putting McDonald’s’ global presence to shame—Coca-Cola has managed to get it’s bottles of sugary fizz poppin’ in nearly every nation. There’s no doubt McDonald’s will soon catch up, leaving only North Korea as the final frontier for big name fast food chains. | <urn:uuid:12efb79e-d02a-4934-b19c-8e95f446cab0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2013/08/these-are-the-countries-that-dont-have-any-mcdonalds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926192 | 506 | 1.9375 | 2 |
I found this little tid-bit of info on Platysaurus torquatus:
This small platy is the only species in the genus in which males retain the pale longitudinal stripes and females and juvenils have uniform Cambridge blue tails. It has opaque lower eyelids, each divided by a series of vertical septa. The supranasals are fused with the nasals. The middle row of gulars is not very enlarged. The scales on the sides of the neck are flattened and enlarged, and those on the flanks are larger than those on the back. The ventrals are in 16-20 longitudinal rows. Males have 18-20 femoral pores. Females and juvenils have a blackish-brown back, with three buff stripes with a few or no spots between them. The tail is blue with a dark median stripe. The throat and chest are white, and the belly and base of the tail are orange. Adult males have a dark brown back with three buff stripes. The flanks and tail are bright orange. The limbs are grey-brown. The throat is white, with a black collar. The chest is orange or yellow, suffused with bright green, and becoming Prussian blue on the belly. Biology : Gregarious on flat outcrops, particualarly along river courses. Feeds on ants, beetles and some catepillars. Two eggs (19x7 mm) are laid in December. Habitat : Mesic savannah. Range : NE. Zimbabwe extending into west-central Mozambique and S. Malawi. | <urn:uuid:9d1a97d2-d06b-47c0-93ac-f685d1b3336d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/123410-post2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00252-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926422 | 320 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Department of Psychiatry
Medical Subject Headings
Biomedical Research; Child; Child Psychology; Data Collection; Humans; *Patient Advocacy; Research Design
Citation: Grisso, T., & Steinberg, L. (2006). Developmental research and the child advocacy process. Child and Family Policy and Practice Review, 2, 3-7.
This text is excerpted from Grisso, T., & Steinberg, L. (2005). Between a rock and a soft place: Developmental research and the child advocacy process. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 619-627.
Grisso, Thomas and Steinberg, Laurence, "Developmental Research and the Child Advocacy Process" (2006). Psychiatry Publications and Presentations. 300. | <urn:uuid:e19ca9fa-2be7-436a-ae70-c40eacf063f8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/300/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.676572 | 163 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Wye Mills is located in Talbot county and has a population of .
Criminal Justice schools in Wye Mills charged students an average tuition of $2,654.00 if they were Maryland residents, and $4,684.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
The average cost of books and supplies for criminal justice schools in Wye Mills is $1,100.00. Students who live on campus while attending a criminal justice school in Wye Mills, can expect to pay an average of $2,400.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $7,800.00. There is one criminal justice college in Wye Mills. 10 students were reported to have graduated from criminal justice programs in Wye Mills in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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Aga Khan Higher Secondary School (AKHSS), Gahkuch is one of the leading schools in Gilgit-Baltistan. Providing quality education to highly talented and motivated students, the School aims to empower students to face the challenges of the 21st century, think creatively and live ethically.
Established in 2003, AKHSS, Gahkuch is a coeducational school with a purpose-built campus. The School offers classes from grade VIII to XII and trains students to pursue higher education in competitive national and international institutions.
The School admits outstanding students from diverse backgrounds who are taught by a dedicated and well-qualified faculty. Besides focusing on academic excellence, the School also encourages students to participate in a variety of co-curricular activities, from art and drama to sports and social work. As a result, important abilities such as teamwork, communications, creativity and critical thinking are developed outside the classroom as much as inside.
AKHSS, Gahkuch values and welcomes parental and community involvement as it believes that only by working together can we help our next generation advance their individual strengths and identities, and contribute positively to the world.
(Grade VIII to Grade X)
AKHSS, Gahkuch offers Science Group in SSC.
(Grade XI and XII)
AKHSS, Gahkuch offers the following streams in HSSC:
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan is committed to providing support and facilitation through various interventions. The interventions are pre-service and in-service teacher professional development programmes.
Teacher Induction is a systematic support system for beginner teachers, focusing on improving instructional strategies to increase student achievement. The programme has a 20-hour face-to-face training module along with one-to-one support in the field.
The team leaders of each faculty conduct the Summer and Winter Learning Programme during vacations. It includes face-to-face and online learning modules. The programme aims to deepen teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical skills in order to meet the needs of our students.
Ongoing support is a salient feature of the professional development programme. Support is provided by school-based Academic Coordinators and includes, but is not limited to, analysis of student work, co-planning, co-teaching, guidance through the evaluation system, assessing student performance, reflective practices, etc.
In addition, the Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan regularly organises workshops and seminars for management and teaching staff according to identified needs. Topics include teaching methodology, classroom management and use of information technology in teaching.
Teachers are also nominated for courses conducted by various renowned organisations such as the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development.
Staff appraisal or Teacher Performance Monitoring is an integral part of maintaining high-quality teaching in our schools. Aga Khan Schools follow an intensive appraisal system to monitor the progress of its faculty and staff. Staff appraisal takes place throughout the year. Based on the appraisals, the best teachers in the system are identified and appreciated each year.
Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Gahkuch
Mr. Sulaiman, Principal
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|Número de publicación||US5806726 A|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 08/585,466|
|Fecha de publicación||15 Sep 1998|
|Fecha de presentación||16 Ene 1996|
|Fecha de prioridad||16 Ene 1996|
|Número de publicación||08585466, 585466, US 5806726 A, US 5806726A, US-A-5806726, US5806726 A, US5806726A|
|Cesionario original||Ho; Kuo-Ping|
|Exportar cita||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Citas de patentes (5), Citada por (81), Clasificaciones (11), Eventos legales (6)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an improved water dispenser for bicyclists.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Many attempts have been made to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists. Nevertheless, all water dispensers for bicyclists on the market are impractical and inconvenient to use.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,060,833 to Edison et al, entitled "CAMEL BACK", discloses a water system which includes a water container provided with a filler neck 2 having a removable closure member 3 and a mouthpiece 5 connected with the water container via a tube 4 (see FIG. 9A). The mouthpiece 5 is a tubular member in which are fitted a ball 5A and a spring 5B (see FIG. 9B). When the mouthpiece 5 is bitten down upon, the ball 5A is forced back thus allowing the water to pass therethrough. When the pressure on the mouthpiece is released, the spring 5B returns the ball 5A into the seated position.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,085,349 to Fawcett, entitled "RESILIENT VALVE AND DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR BICYCLISTS", discloses a unitary resilient valve device which includes a water container 100 provided with a filler neck 200 having a removable closure member 300 and a mouthpiece 600 connected with the water container via a tube 400 (see FIG. 10A). The mouthpiece 600 is a tubular member formed with a slit 4200 (see FIG. 10B). The slit 4200 will be forced open when the mouthpiece 600 is compressed between teeth (see FIGS. 11A and 11B).
However, these two patents still suffer from the following drawbacks:
1. As the interior of the water container has four right angled corners, it will be difficult to clean the water container thoroughly.
2. The container cannot be hung up side down for drying.
3. The mouthpiece cannot be detached from the container thereby making the water dispenser unsuitable for use with other persons.
4. The tube cannot be removed from the container thereby making it difficult to be cleaned so that it has to be disposed of when become dirty.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved water dispenser for bicyclists which can obviate and mitigate the above-mentioned drawbacks.
This invention relates to a water dispenser for bicyclists.
It is the primary object of the present invention to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists which can be easily cleaned.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists the nipple of which is replaceable.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists which is sanitary and easy to use.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists which can be placed at the market at a very low cost.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a water dispenser for bicyclists which is practical in use.
Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.
The invention accordingly consists of features of constructions and method, combination of elements, arrangement of parts and steps of the method which will be exemplified in the constructions and method hereinafter disclosed, the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims following.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 illustrates how to put ice blocks into the present invention;
FIG. 4 illustrates how to connect two fastener means with the bag;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing that the present invention is hung up side down for drying;
FIG. 6 is a working view of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a front side of the nipple;
FIG. 8 illustrates how the nipple is pressed open;
FIG. 9A shows a prior art water dispenser for bicyclists;
FIG. 9B is a sectional view of the mouthpiece shown in FIG. 9A;
FIG. 10A shows another prior art water dispenser for bicyclists;
FIG. 10B is a sectional view of the mouthpiece shown in FIG. 10A;
FIG. 11 is a front view of the mouthpiece shown in FIG. 10A; and
FIG. 11 illustrates how the mouthpiece is pressed open.
For the purpose to promoting an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference will now be made to the embodiment illustrated in the drawings. Specific language will be used to describe same. It will, nevertheless, be understood that no limitation of the scope of the invention is thereby intended, such alternations and further modifications in the illustrated device, and such further applications of the principles of the invention as illustrated herein being contemplated as would normally occur to one skilled in the art to which the invention relates.
With reference to the drawings and in particular to FIGS. 1 and 2 thereof, the water dispenser for bicyclists according to the present invention mainly comprises a container 10, a tube 16, and a nipple 18.
As illustrated, the container 10 is a rectangular bag which is formed with a slot 11 at the upper side and two slots 12 at the bottom corners. Further, the container 10 has an outlet 21 close to the upper edge, a valve 14 at the lower edge, and a water inlet 15 close to its lower edge and located above the valve 14. The outlet 21 is formed with internal threads (not shown). The water inlet 15 is provided with a cover 151 for preventing water from flowing out of the container 10. The inner bottom of the container 10 is provided with two inclined seams 13 extending from respective vertical sides of the container 10 to the valve 14. The tube 16 is a flexible pipe provided with a threaded connector 17 at both ends thereof. A threaded connector 17 of the tube 16 is adapted to engage with the outlet 21.
The nipple 18 is made of rubber, which has a cross slit 181 at the outer end, a plurality of protuberances 182 at both sides, and an internally threads (not shown) at the inner end. The inner end of the nipple 18 is threadedly engaged with the other threaded connector 17 of the tube 16.
Referring to FIG. 4, the slots 11 at the upper side of the container 10 are connected with two straps 221 so that the container 10 can be conveniently hung in a pack 22 (see FIG. 6) on the back of a bicyclist thereby preventing the container 10 from falling to the bottom of the pack 22.
After use, it is only necessary to clean the interior of the container 10 with water and then hang the container 10 up side down thereby letting out the water from the container 10. The inclined seams 13 make sure that all water will be discharged from the container 10.
FIG. 6 is a working view of the present invention.
Referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, the nipple 18 is a rubber member provided with a cross slit 181 at the outer end and a plurality of protuberances 182 at both sides. The cross slit 181 will be open when compressed between teeth of a bicyclist, but will keep closed when not in compression. The protuberances 182 are designed for the reinforcing the structure of the nipple 18.
It should be noted that when the water dispenser is to be used by another person, it is only necessary to replace the nipple 18 with a new one thereby keeping sanitary in use and preventing communication of disease by agency of saliva.
The invention is naturally not limited in any sense to the particular features specified in the forgoing or to the details of the particular embodiment which has been chosen in order to illustrate the invention. Consideration can be given to all kinds of variants of the particular embodiment which has been described by way of example and of its constituent elements without thereby departing from the scope of the invention. This invention accordingly includes all the means constituting technical equivalents of the means described as well as their combinations.
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Mastering the American Psychological Association’s (APA) (1994) writing and style guidelines may be as challenging as the most difficult clinical skill for some nursing students. There are a variety of software products available to assist students in applying the APA standards to their written work. These software products vary widely in cost, ease of use, and features. The purpose of this paper is to review the current software products available for WindowsÒ computers. The intent is to provide students who may be new to the APA writing style and to professional writing with the necessary information to make an informed software purchasing choice.
There are two types of software commonly used to assist students to format written work. These are formatting and referencing helpers also called bibliographic software. Formatting helpers are those software products that assist the user in setting up the formatting of the text of the paper and references according to APA, or other style guides such as MLA. Reference helpers assist with formatting references when writing a paper, however some also provide sophisticated assistance in searching online libraries and the Internet.
Identification of Software
The software titles used in this review came from several sources. The primary source was an Internet search using the term “APA software”. Although no additional titles were identified in this way, students and faculty were asked which software they used, if any, to assist in creating class papers. Finally, a discussion on the subject in the Nurse Educators listserv provided additional anecdotal information on various software programs. For the purposes of this paper -- only software that is available for a WindowsÒ operating systems was reviewed. However several of the programs are available in a variety of languages and for MacIntosh Ò computers. The author purchased all formatting programs.
Evaluation of Software
One important point the author would like to make is that ease of use is in the head and hands of the user. Learning style, computer skill, and other factors greatly influence a person’s judgment that one program is easy to use and another is not. The author is an advanced computer user with years of experience in writing and publishing. Since students are more likely to be novice computer users and writers, review of the products was conducted with a “beginners mind”. The goal was to use the software, with minimal technical assistance or use of printed directions.
point is that no software program eliminates the need for the printed APA
manual. All programs reviewed for
this article ease the work of creating references.
Most do not provide the same support for the other writing guidelines.
Students are advised to use the APA manual as a primary tool for
constructing papers and to make decisions about the format of the paper while
using any of the programs. This
will allow for a greater degree of accuracy in applying APA guidelines.
Each of the software products is reviewed in alphabetical order. Refer to Table 1 for a list of the Internet addresses for ordering either demo versions or the entire program. The reference management software includes two distinct types of programs. The first programs are those that the author calls “format helpers”. These programs assist the student with actually writing the paper. They include information on formatting the body of the paper and the reference list. However they do not include assistance with researching databases such as MEDLINEÒ or the Library of Congress. Nor do they allow for searching online databases. The second type of program is called “reference helpers” in this article, also known as bibliographic software by manufacturers. These programs do not provide assistance with formatting a paper. Instead, most are sophisticated database programs that greatly decrease the work of organizing references, searching databases, and creating user defined reference material.
Templates. Most of the format helpers are add-ins to Word. That means that the software is installed into Word as a template, it is not a separate program. The template is a preformatted file that provides the basic outline for the paper. To open any software template, open up the word processing program, select file, new from the toolbar, click on the template name and the file opens.
APA Style Helper 2.0. This program is available directly from the American Psychological Association’s web site. The download was lengthy and had to be repeated twice. The demo version does not allow full access to the features of the program. In order to fully use the downloaded version a serial number must be entered into the program. The author’s electronic mail request for the serial number took several days to receive an answer, as did other requests for technical information..
APA Style helper works in a unique way. The user first enters in the manuscript identifying information (headers, title, etc) and then the references. Once this preliminary data is saved, the user can then open up the file within a word processing program. This is in contrast to all other format helpers which function as templates in a word processing program. Students have reported this two-step process in writing a paper to be somewhat confusing. The most important issue is that the initial manuscript must be saved where the user can find the file to open in the user’s word processing program. In order to update or edit a reference list, the file must be re-opened in the APA program. Once it is open in the APA program, it can be edited, saved, and then reopened in the word processing program to continue working on the body of the paper.
The help files are extensive. They cover not only how to use the program but APA guidelines as well. In order to use the help menu, the user must open up a browser for the files to be displayed. This is another unique feature of this program.
FormatEaseÒ. FormatEaseÒ provides the most comprehensive formatting help of all programs reviewed. It is also relatively easy to install. The default settings for the install were not the correct ones for the author’s computer set up, however, it took just a few minutes to find the correct path to install the template into Word.
FormatEaseÒ provides an array of choices in formatting a document. The user can select a paper, a dissertation, thesis or term paper. For the purposes of this review, the “apapaper” was selected. Once the type of document is selected, the user is presented with an instructional document in which the type is replaced as the paper is created. There is a line which says: “The Title of the Paper Goes Here” and the user replaces that text with the title of the paper.
As the user replaces and adds to the text in the stock document, the paper conforms to APA standards. This product also leads the user through the five levels of headings, the appendix and information on footnotes and figures. This software may be the most suited for students who have no experience with APA and need the largest amount of information about the style guide on their computer screen at one time.
Microsoft Template. Microsoft maintains a library of templates at their site. The APA template is a basic tool for completing documents. The template is formatted to APA line spacing, margins and headers. The template includes a narrative describing how to complete an abstract, table of contents and other APA style features. There is no direct help in formatting references but there is a list of reference examples. This product’s best attribute is that it is free to Microsoft users.
PERRLA. This program was the least expensive and easiest to begin using. An interesting aside is that the developer of the program is an FNP. As with other template based format helpers, PERRLA uses Microsoft Word and is an add-in. The web site gives clear directions for installing PERRLA into Word as a template. Electronic requests for information were returned the same day.
Once installed, an APA style paper is initiated by selecting “new” from the file menu. PERRLA 4.2 is then selected and the user is presented with a popup window that asks for the running head, header, title and author’s name. This information is then placed appropriately throughout the document.
Adding references is very simple. Click on the icon “create citation” and another popup window appears. This window asks for information on the type of publication, for example book, journal, or a chapter in a book. Once the type of publication is selected, the user is prompted for specific information about the citation. As the user inputs information, references to the APA manual also appear. This is a useful feature as it also reinforces standards while assisting with the creation of the paper. Once all the information is completed, the citation is inserted into the paper and the reference is placed at the back of the paper.
Reference Point Ò. Reference PointÒ (RP) is another inexpensive APA template add-in software that is easy to use. Many of the author’s students use this program and recommend that users insert all references first and then type the paper. This helps RP format citations using the same reference correctly each time it appears in a paragraph.
When RP is installed, a template is automatically inserted into Word. To open RP, Open Word, select new file and then the template for RP (APA2000 is the file name if it is being used with Word 2000). When a new document is started, the user is prompted to select the header, running head, title, and so forth until all document options are inserted. Any notations that are not needed, can be bypassed by leaving the field blank.
Suggested Group Learning Activity. It is possible and can be highly desirable to have students create their own template. This is an especially important learning activity for graduate students. The author has given students an assignment of developing their own APA template in both traditional and online classes. This encourages students to learn new features of their word processing programs and to develop something that can be very helpful. This project has been especially helpful when nursing programs have individualized guidelines for formatting papers.
Referencing helpers are those programs that provide assistance with searching, cataloguing, and retrieving information from online libraries and the Internet. They do not provide help with formatting the text of an APA style paper beyond the reference list. All programs format references in multiple styles, including APA. They are amazingly powerful tools that are most helpful when introduced to students early on in their programs. This would allow students to maintain their own “libraries” of research material. These programs are especially helpful for graduate students and researchers. ISI Research Soft distributes Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite. Oberon distributes Citation and BookWhere2000.
BiblioscapeÒ. Biblisoscape provides several products that assist in searching, cataloguing and managing references. Biblioscpae organizes references into folders like other reference formatters. It can search both libraries and the web and support SQL servers. There is a built in spell checker, which is a value added feature of this product. Biblioscape reports it works well with groups of users which is a feature not tested in this review.
Biblioexpress is a free, smaller version, of the referencing software. It is a smaller version of the product with less features for searching. In this version it is primarily used for collecting references using specific styles. Many undergraduate nursing students will find this program is all they need for collecting references for papers.
Biblioweb is a product designed specifically for use in an
organization’s Intranet. The
manufacturer’s site allows users to test out a live database. While this
program is very useful in formatting a large number of references, it may be
beyond the needs of most students. Nursing
departments that conduct collaborative research may benefit most from use of
BookWhere2000Ò. BookWhere is specifically designed to search online libraries. Search results can be exported into CitationÒ, which is a popular referencing format helper made by the same company. Databases can be searched simultaneously, which saves time. This program was very easy to use. The author was able to search several databases within minutes of installing the software. It is designed to work specifically with CitationÒ.
CitationÒ. Citation is one of several powerful database programs that work from the tools menu of Word or Word Perfect word processing programs. Citation allows a user to create nearly unlimited databases, adding notes to records, searching and retrieving references. Citation also allows users to find duplicate entries; merge databases and spell check documents.
Citation is beyond what a typical undergraduate student would need for referencing helpers but would be very useful for graduate students and researchers. On the Citation web site, there is an excellent lesson plan for instructors to use that shows students what bibliographic software does and how to use it. Click on teaching notes from the home page to find this information.
EndNote 4.0Ò. EndnoteÒ provides a wide variety of tools for creating, organizing, sorting and retrieving information for bibliographies. EndNoteÒ uses “libraries” to organize data. These libraries can be sorted in a variety of ways and hold thousand of references. Bibliographies or reference sheets can be created by drag and dropping references, or cut and pasting. The user can create custom search terms for databases and link these terms to specified fields. Reference lists are generated by selecting references from a list and dragging and dropping them into the file. An add-in is available to make bibliography selection automatic within a word processing program.
The author was able to use this program with a minimum amount of instruction from the user manual. A connection to several databases was made on the first attempt. This program is used by many students, faculty and librarians who are in contact with the author. No user reported dissatisfaction with the program’s ability to manage references.
ProCite is another of the powerful Internet library search programs.
Over 200 libraries can be searched using ProCite.
It is also possible to collect references across several databases,
which decreases the time for necessary to create expansive bibliographies for
larger projects. The user can
collect reference information directly from the web, although graphics,
tables, or figures are not stored, only text.
Reference ManagerÒ. Reference Manager (RM) provides another solid product for searching, organizing, and sorting references. It includes both the searching program, the organizer, and the database builder features. The author found this one the easiest to read from the computer screen. The features of RM, like other reference helpers are very sophisticated and will usually exceed the needs of an undergraduate student. Users of RM report a steep learning curve for this software, as the features are extensive. However, once the overall organization of the files is developed, updating is very easy.
Students and researchers can use this program to track and insert
references into manuscripts, and to catalog research results.
Academic institutions may want to use this product, or others, to track
faculty publications. Librarians
can use this product to keep track of specific collections and to disseminate
information easily to groups of people. Faculty
will find this and other reference manager programs an ideal tools for
developing reading lists for students. Other
features are beyond the scope of this paper, however the author urges any
student beginning a thesis or dissertation to use one of the programs listed
here. These programs not only
save time but promote the discipline in researching that is so important in
quality research studies.
Scholar’s Aide Ò. Scholar’s Aide, like PERRLA, was first developed by an individual who needed the product. It is the program of choice for students on a budget. There is a free 60 day trial period, a free “lite” version and it is the least expensive of the bibliographic software reviewed. They also offer a “starving student” discounted price for the full version.
Scholar’s Aide (SA) is very user friendly. The interface between the user and the computer is simple to use. The program actually consists of two programs. One organizes notes and the other the references. Each feature provides the user with an array of possibilities for searching, organizing, and formatting the outputs.
The program can be downloaded from the web site. The author found that several downloads were necessary in order to get the program properly installed. The downloaded files come in a compressed file format, so it is necessary to first decompress or unzip the file before using the program. Users will need a program that “unzips” files in order to be able to properly install this program. Directions are clearly posted on the web site to do this.
The use of specific style guidelines continues to be an important part of scholarly meetings. Although there are a variety of style formats, APA continues to be the dominant style guide for student and practitioner health professionals. Several programs have been reviewed which will assist the user in formatting papers and manuscripts to meet the APA standard guidelines. The ultimate choice of the software depends on the user’s budget, willingness to use the printed reference book, and familiarity with computerized word processing programs.
As the amount of information available expands, it has become necessary to consider using additional computer aided tools to keep track of relevant information. It is also necessary to present information in a scholarly format so that others will be able to find and utilize reference material as cited in prior publications. Computer software products provide much support for students, faculty, and researchers in gathering, organizing, and utilizing reference material. However, in order to get the maximum benefit from these products, users must devote the necessary time to understand all of the features of the various products. None of the products reviewed replace the conceptualization and organization a writer puts into a paper or literature search. However, they make the completion of many tasks possible in a shorter period . Like other software programs, their usefulness will come directly from the user’s knowledge of the product. | <urn:uuid:8556c845-aaf3-40db-9f2d-924f706f6c13> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ojni.org/51/article4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00496-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932516 | 3,731 | 2.609375 | 3 |
We totally understand the struggle to lose weight—shit's hard. Lowering your calorie intake, reading nutrition labels for deceptive ingredients, exercising…ugh. So of course, when we hear about something that guarantees a slimmer midsection in a few weeks without much effort—we're on it, hoping it makes the cut for Amazon Prime.
Enter waist training: wearing a corset-like contraption (yes, like the ones from the 1500s) to cinch your core, hips, and back. The idea is to wear it for a certain amount of time every day, and eventually, your body "molds" itself into a slimmer figure. Sounds easy enough—Jessica Alba told Net-a-Porter she used this to lose the baby weight and Khloé and Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Amber Rose have posted selfies sporting the waist-cinching tool:
Now to the big question: Should you try it? Well...probably not.
When you wear this 500-year-old device, you squish your lungs and ribs, which makes it hard to breathe. (Duh.) Some women have actually passed out from wearing one for too long, says Christopher Ochner, Ph.D., weight loss and nutrition expert at Mount Sinai Hospital. And if you keep wearing it for an extended period of time? It ain't pretty: Think crushed organs, compressed lungs, and fractured ribs.
Plus, experts say it doesn't really work. (*Mic drop.*) "Spot reducing doesn't exist," says Ochner. "You can't reduce the collection of fat in any one particular area of your body. If you push your stomach in, all the fat will go right back to where it was no matter how long [you wear the corset] for." Yes, some people can get away with wearing the waist trainer without any real harm done. But for a real, long-term weight-loss plan, you're better off looking elsewhere.
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Label: GENTAMICIN SULFATE solution
- NDC Code(s): 71205-333-05
- Packager: Proficient Rx LP
- This is a repackaged label.
- Source NDC Code(s): 61314-633
- Category: HUMAN PRESCRIPTION DRUG LABEL
- DEA Schedule: None
- Marketing Status: Abbreviated New Drug Application
Updated March 1, 2020
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DESCRIPTION: Gentamicin Sulfate is a water-soluble antibiotic of the aminoglycoside group. Gentamicin Sulfate Ophthalmic Solution is a sterile, aqueous solution buffered to approximately pH 7 for ophthalmic use. Gentamicin is obtained from cultures of Micromonospora purpurea. It is a mixture of the sulfate salts of gentamicin C1, C2, and C1A. All three components appear to have similar antimicrobial activities. Gentamicin sulfate occurs as white powder and is soluble in water and insoluble in alcohol. The structure is as follows:
Established name: Gentamicin Sulfate
Chemical name: 0-3-Deoxy-4-C-methyl-3-(methylamino)-β-L-arabinopyranosyl-(1→6)-0-[2,6-diamino-2,3,4,6-tetradeoxy-α-D-erythro-hexopyranosyl-(1→4)]-2-deoxy-D-streptamine.
Ingredients: Each mL contains: Active: Gentamicin Sulfate USP (equivalent to 3 mg gentamicin). Preservative: Benzalkonium Chloride 0.1 mg (0.01%). Inactives: Sodium Chloride, Dried Sodium Phosphate, Tyloxapol, Sodium Hydroxide and/or Hydrochloric Acid (to adjust pH) and Purified Water.
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Microbiology: Gentamicin sulfate is active in vitro against many strains of the following microorganisms:
Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Serratia marcescens.
INDICATIONS & USAGE
INDICATIONS AND USAGE: Gentamicin Sulfate Ophthalmic Solution is indicated in the topical treatment of ocular bacterial infections, including conjunctivitis, keratitis, keratoconjunctivitis, corneal ulcers, blepharitis, blepharoconjunctivitis, acute meibomianitis, and dacryocystitis caused by susceptible strains of the following microorganisms: Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Serratia marcescens.
PRECAUTIONS: General: Prolonged use of topical antibiotics may give rise to overgrowth of non-susceptible organisms including fungi. Bacterial resistance to gentamicin may also develop. If purulent discharge, inflammation or pain becomes aggravated, the patient should discontinue use of the medication and consult a physician. If irritation or hypersensitivity to any component of the drug develops, the patient should discontinue use of this preparation, and appropriate therapy should be instituted.
Information for Patients: To avoid contamination, do not touch tip of container to the eye, eyelid, or any surface.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility: There are no published carcinogenicity or impairment of fertility studies on gentamicin. Aminoglycoside antibiotics have been found to be non-mutagenic.
Pregnancy: Pregnancy Category C. Gentamicin has been shown to depress body weights, kidney weights, and median glomerular counts in newborn rats when administered systemically to pregnant rats in daily doses approximately 500 times the maximum recommended ophthalmic human dose. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Gentamicin should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
ADVERSE REACTIONS: Bacterial and fungal corneal ulcers have developed during treatment with gentamicin ophthalmic preparations. The most frequently reported adverse reactions are ocular burning and irritation upon drug instillation, non-specific conjunctivitis, conjunctival epithelial defects, and conjunctival hyperemia. Other adverse reactions which have occurred rarely are allergic reactions, thrombocytopenic purpura, and hallucinations.
- DOSAGE & ADMINISTRATION
HOW SUPPLIED: Gentamicin Sulfate Ophthalmic Solution: 5 mL in plastic DROP-TAINER* dispenser. NDC 71205-333-05
STORAGE: Protect from light and store away from heat. Store at controlled room temperature 15°-25°C (59°-77°F).
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Sandoz Inc., at 1-800-525-8747 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
*DROP-TAINER is a registered trademark of Alcon Research, Ltd.
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Weather Report started out as a jazz equivalent of what the rock world in 1970 was calling a "supergroup." But unlike most of the rock supergroups, this one not only kept going for a good 15 years, it more than lived up to its billing, practically defining the state of the jazz-rock art throughout almost all of its run. Weather Report also anticipated and contributed to the North American interest in world music rhythms and structures, prodded by keyboardist/co-founder Joe Zawinul. And WR, like many of jazz's great long-lived groups, proved to be an incubator for several future leaders who passed in and out of the band in a never-ending series of revolving-door personnel changes. The original members of the band were Zawinul, Wayne Shorter (saxophones), Miroslav Vitous (electric bass), Airto Moreira (percussion) and Alphonse Mouzon (drums), with only Zawinul and (until 1985) Shorter remaining in place throughout the band's lifespan. Zawinul, Shorter and Moreira all had experience playing in and influencing the studio and live electric bands of Miles Davis -- and at first, WR was a direct extension of Miles' In a Silent Way/B**ches Brew period, with free-floating collective improvisation and interplay, combining elements of jazz, rock, funk, Latin and other ethnic musics.
With the release of Sweetnighter in 1972, Zawinul's influence upon the band's direction began to deepen; the groove became more important, structures were imposed upon the material (though the group continued its freewheeling interplay in live gigs). When the innovative bassist Jaco Pastorius replaced Alphonso Johnson in 1976, WR entered its most popular phase, with Pastorius becoming a flamboyant third lead voice, Shorter's sax receding into more epigrammatic form, and Zawinul rediscovering his commercial touch and sharpening his electronic sophistication. The best-selling Heavy Weather album (1977) actually served up a hit song that became a jazz standard ("Birdland"), and with the entry of Peter Erskine on drums (1978), the group finally had a stable lineup for awhile.
Contrary to accepted wisdom, the departures of Pastorius (who died tragically from injuries sustained in a beating in 1987) and Erskine in 1982 led to a recharging of WR's batteries; their replacements Victor Bailey (bass), Omar Hakim (drums), Jose Rossy and later, Mino Cinelu (percussion) were more amenable to Zawinul's deepening inclinations for Third World rhythms, sounds and textures. This edition of WR rattled off three more albums, including the outstanding Procession. But Shorter, who had gradually ceded nearly total artistic control to Zawinul, was getting restless; he took a leave of absence in 1985 and later that year, left WR for good. This Is This (1985), in which Erskine returns and Shorter plays only a limited role, was WR's swan song. Zawinul would tour in 1986 with a revamped version called Weather Update (a prelude to the keyboardist's own Zawinul Syndicate), and there was talk in 1996 about Zawinul and Shorter reuniting in the studio for a new edition of WR, but Zawinul later deflated the speculation.
Although a Weather Report reunion failed to materialize, many of the group's core members stayed busy. Zawinul continued to perform and record up until his death from a rare form of skin cancer in 2011 at age 75. Shorter also remained active, forming a highly lauded acoustic outfit with pianist Danilo Perez in the 2000s and receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. In 2015, drummer Erskine was integral in producing the four-disc Weather Report box set The Legendary Live Tapes, 1978-81, which featured previously unreleased concert recordings. ~ Richard S. Ginell | <urn:uuid:008756ca-1660-46c9-a8f9-e090b6e36b19> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pandora.com/weather-report/i-sing-body-electric | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961573 | 838 | 1.539063 | 2 |
J.M. McCaleb was a Christian missionary who spent nearly fifty years of service in Japan from 1892-1941. The collection includes
scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, and publications both written and compiled by McCaleb.
John Moody (J.M.) McCaleb was born on September 25, 1861, in Duck River, Tennessee, to John and Jane McCaleb. At just six
months of age, McCaleb lost his father who was shot and killed by a fellow Union Army soldier during the Civil War. The incident
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Saving children’s teeth in Sudan – without anaesthetic or drills
Fadil Elamin, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, published an article for The Conversation on his work as a dentist in Sudan providing care and alternative treatments for children with tooth decay.
Tooth decay is the most common chronic dental disease in the world. It affects 60-90% of children around the world, according to the World Dental Federation. It is 20 times more common than diabetes and five times more common than asthma. If left untreated, it can cause pain and abscesses and may require root treatment or even extraction. This can traumatise children for life.
The usual way to treat tooth decay is to drill out the rot and then cover the tooth with a thin stainless steel cap. This is considered the gold standard treatment, but it requires a local anaesthetic, lots of time, specialist skills and, for the dentist, the patience of a saint. If the child is anxious – and many are – they often have to be admitted to hospital to have the work carried out under a general anaesthetic.
But consider a child living in poverty in East Africa with no running water or electricity, and the nearest dentist a day or two’s walk away. Would you imagine that their care would be similar to a child in the West? And do you think their decayed teeth would be saved?
The Hall technique
I work as a dentist in Sudan providing care for children with these exact circumstances. By the age of 12, almost all children in Sudan know what it is like to have had a tooth extracted. For a country of 40m people, we have just eight children’s dentists.
What if I were to tell you that all we need to do to save a child’s tooth is to ignore the rot, seal it by gluing a cap on the bad tooth and do nothing else? And would you believe me if I told you that this is just as effective as the costly standard treatment?
A 2006 analysis of primary care records, showed that this simple technique, known as the Hall technique, was effective in treating children in Scotland. It works by starving the tooth-rotting germs of oxygen.
Even though this technique is supported by scientific evidence, it has been shunned by many dentists around the world as there was no randomised controlled trial proving its effectiveness compared with accepted conventional techniques. So with colleagues at Queen Mary University of London, we set out to conduct just such a trial.
We randomly assigned 164 children to receive one of two treatments. One group received the gold standard of care. The child received a local anaesthetic and the bad tooth was then drilled to remove the decay. The cap was fitted after adjusting it to the right shape and size of the tooth – which is fiddly – and then glued. The other group received the Hall technique. We pushed the metal cap gently onto the tooth and glued it on without any injections or drilling.
Capping and gluing is common to both techniques but requires a considerable adjustment in the conventional technique. None is required for the Hall technique.
The study was done at a time in Sudan when Omar Al-Bashir’s brutal regime was coming to an end. Daily life was, and still is, tough. The situation affected the project on many levels.
While most scientists take the internet for granted, we don’t. Blackouts are common and can last for weeks or months, so a high level of organisation is needed. Even in the capital, Khartoum, electricity and water supplies are not guaranteed and could be out for days.
Writing up this study took a while as we fit research around when we have internet access and are able to collaborate online with partners in Sudan and internationally. But the Sudanese are generally happy people and nothing seems to faze them. The staff were fantastic and did whatever they could to help under these difficult conditions.
The results of our study, published in open access journal PLOS ONE, prove that the Hall technique performs as well as the gold standard in all clinical aspects, such as the survival of the tooth, gum health, faulty bite (occlusion) and abscess formation, even when done by less experienced operators.
We did not need to use drills or injections and sometimes did not even need a dental chair and it takes on average less than 10 minutes. Price haggling is a way of life in Africa and we often got asked by parents: “Do you really expect me to pay for this, it was only two minutes?!” So, we spend the next half an hour explaining the science, and it all seems to work out in the end!
In addition to saving teeth, the Hall technique performed as well as the gold standard in terms of the caps remaining in place over a two-year follow-up. And the children were much happier just before the treatment, just after it, and a year later. In fact, some children were demanding the caps to be fitted on their brothers and sisters. The only crying we heard in the clinic was when a child’s sibling got a cap and they didn’t.
Keeping costs low is very important for maintaining public health systems around the world, and this technique proved to be much cheaper than conventional techniques of drilling and capping. But changes in healthcare policy must be supported by evidence, and our study goes some way to providing that.
The Hall technique, if widely adopted, could have a big impact on many overstretched public health services around the world, particularly those in developing countries and those with little access to dental services, giving children a better chance of keeping their teeth.
This article was originally published in The Conversation on 24 June 2019.
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If there’s one thing that you absolutely must come to understand as you go about your weight loss journey it’s what a calorie is. Calories are essentially the primary determinant of whether you lose body fat or not. Take in too many and you’ll be providing more than enough energy to the body and fail to see weight loss taking place.
Take in too few and you’ll force your body to turn to body fat stores for energy, thus obtaining fat loss success.
It’s getting your calorie balance under control that will be the most important thing to do first when setting up a diet plan so let’s go over some of the most important things that you must know about calories.
What Is A Calorie?
The very first thing that you need to understand is precisely what a calorie is. A calorie is essentially a unit of energy that’s found in the foods that we eat. The body is going to use calories to produce fuel as well as for energy purposes to execute all the various different chemical reactions that take place.
Each and every second of the day, your body is burning up calories. It doesn’t matter if you’re sleeping, walking to work, cooking dinner, or running on the treadmill at the gym, your body will be burning up calories.
How many calories it burns is related to a variety of different factors, with the primary one being the intensity of the activity. The more intense the activity is, the more total calories you will burn.
How Do Calories Relate To Macronutrients?
Another important thing to note about calories is how they relate to the macronutrients. Macronutrients are types of calories that are referred to as carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Each of these macronutrients is essential for good health, so you need to get a good variety in your diet each day.
Protein calories will supply the building blocks that your body needs to generate new bodily tissues while carbohydrate calories provide glucose for the brain to function as well as for you to perform daily movements. Carbohydrates are going to also fuel any high intensity exercise being performed as the muscles require glucose as a fuel source for this.
Finally, fats are the nutrient that will provide a long term source of fuel once glucose is exhausted and will be utilized during periods of low intensity physical activity.
Dietary fats are also critical to helping you maintain good health as they are needed for the absorption of certain vitamins and to provide protection for your organs.
It’s important to note that both proteins and carbs each contain four calories per gram while fats contain nine, so this makes fats more likely to lead to fat gain if you aren’t monitoring your portion sizes.
How Many Calories Do You Need?
So how many calories do you need?
Each and every person is highly unique in their total daily calorie requirements. Some of the main factors that will impact your calorie needs including your total lean muscle mass, your activity level, whether you are currently ill and fighting any diseases, as well as what your diet currently consists of.
Those who eat higher protein diets tend to burn more total calories throughout the day due to the fact that protein requires more energy to break it down.
When calculating how many calories you require, you’ll first figure out your basal metabolic rate, which stands for how many calories your body needs to stay at rest.
Essentially, if you lied in bed all day long and did nothing but breathe, this is how many calories it would take to keep your organs functioning, your brain thinking, and your heart beating.
While there are many different calculations that can be done to approximate this number, generally speaking a good estimate to use is 10 calories per pound of body weight for females and 11 calories per pound of body weight for males. The difference in these two numbers is simply due to the fact that males have more lean muscle tissue to sustain, therefore will require a higher calorie intake.
Once you have your basal metabolic rate figure out, then you need to add what’s referred to as the thermic effect of food. This stands for how many calories your body is going to burn each day simply breaking down the foods that you eat.
For most people eating a mixed diet, this will equal to about 15% of their basal metabolic rate. So simply taking that number and multiplying by 1.15 will give you your new total daily calorie requirement.
Finally, you need to factor in your activity level. If you lead a sedentary lifestyle, you’ll want to use a multiplication factor of about 1.1. If you’re moderately active use 1.2-1.3, and if you’re highly active use 1.3-1.4.
This then gives you the total number of calories that you should eat each day to maintain your current body weight.
Calorie Intake And Your Rate Of Fat Loss
So now once you have this, the final step is figuring out how many calories you need to be eating to lose body fat. To lose weight, need to create a calorie deficit of 3500 calories per pound you want to lose.
So taking the maintenance calorie intake that you arrived at above, you would decrease your calorie intake by 250-500 calories to lose ½ to one pound of body fat.
This will produce a safe rate of weight loss that is more likely to stay off for good.
So there you have everything that you need to know about what is a calorie as they relate to losing weight. By making sure that you do keep your calorie intake in check, you can be sure that you see the success you’re looking for on your diet program. At the end of the day, your calorie intake is what will determine whether you succeed on your program or not. | <urn:uuid:ec96c221-7cc0-4fec-80f7-dd4d95c787ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.workouthealthy.com/blog-what-is-a-calorie | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.947099 | 1,198 | 2.96875 | 3 |
English translation of हरा
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/hara, harA, haraa, harā, hra, hrA, hraa, hrā/
green adjective, variable noun
Something that is green is the colour of grass or leaves.
⇒ ...green olives. ⇒ ...a paler and softer shade of green.
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Apple’s Creative Director Alan Dye on Why Great Design Skills Aren’t Enough
I was lucky enough to spend some time recently with a friend who plays in a band, a pretty brilliant and successful one. Like all the greats, they make amazing work look easy. After the show, we started to talk about process: song making and making design.
We both shared stories about how hard it is to make good work, and how nearlyimpossible is it to make great work. And how terrifying it can be to share that work with the world. It gave me comfort to hear that I wasn’t the only one who really needed to get a lot of bad work out of my system before getting to anything good. My friend talked about the 20 songs that need to be written to get to the one that makes the album. I talked about the hundreds of sketches and work sessions that lead to the final piece.
It reminded me that in all the worthwhile endeavors—creative ones, especially—you need to grind it out. And you need to be scared to death that the work won’t be good enough, isn’t better than anything you’ve done before. I find that it helps to set the bar high. And yes, at time that leads to some anxiety, but it’s all worth it when you create something that makes you proud.
Sadly though, in the world that we find ourselves in today, hard work isn’t enough. As a matter of fact, beautiful, award-winning design skills aren’t even enough—they are the cost entry.
For a young designer to succeed years from now, you’d better have some serious design chops—so start working hard. But in addition to this, you’d better understand how to deploy those design skills in a way that helps solve business problems for your clients. So you’ve got to understand business, as well as how to tell that client’s story across a wide variety of media. Print may not be dead, but the tools we have to tell stories these days are dramatically different from those of even just a few years ago. In other words, there are plenty of designers out in the world who know how to make a nice poster, but the select few who are going to thrive in the months and years to come are going to be the ones who can tell a complex story across a range of media in a simple, clear and elegant way. So learn from the great storytellers—watch tons of films and read lots of books. And while you’re at it, read the business section everyday and start to pay attention to the analytical studies that your strategic planners keep talking about. It will pay off.
And of course —keep working your ass off at the job of making great work.
Alan Dye is creative director at Apple in Cupertino, California. This essay was first featured in AIGA’s Survey of Design Salaries.
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CHAPEL HILL COLLEGE
CHAPEL HILL COLLEGE. Chapel Hill College was located at Daingerfield on land donated by Allen Urkhart to the Marshall Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The school was chartered on February 7, 1850, and opened in February of 1852 in a two-story frame classroom building, with Rev. William E. Beeson as president. A month later Chapel Hill College became the first college in Texas to provide for the free education of those entering the Presbyterian ministry, a response by the board of trustees to initial low enrollment. In addition to its preparatory program, the school offered college-level courses leading to a bachelor of arts degree. But the college was not well supported, perhaps because of its northern location, and in 1856 the property was transferred to the Texas Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The synod constructed a new brick building for the institution in 1858 and set an endowment-fund goal of $20,000, but before that goal could be met rumors of an impending invasion by Union forces in 1860 led Beeson to dismiss all of the college-level classes, leaving only the preparatory department in session. The college continued to operate through 1865 with only two full-time instructors and emerged from the war years free of debt and with plans for recovery. In 1869, however, Beeson resigned his post to become president of the newly formed Trinity University, and the Texas Synod transferred its support to that institution. Chapel Hill College lost its function as a college and continued as a secondary and preparatory school under the Marshall Presbytery until the early 1890s, when public schools opened and Chapel Hill closed.
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Chestree berry tea has been well-known to several civilizations since the days of old. The Native Americans used wild cherry bark tea made from the inner bark to relieve labour pains lung problems and diarrhoea. Meanwhile Chinese physicians prescribed the tea for coughs.
The cherry tree is officially known as prunus serotina. It is a tree that reaches up to 30 meters tall. It has oblong or ovate leaves and small white flowers growing in lateral racemes. It has rough bark and has a spherical dark purple fruit that ripens during the late summer and autumn.
Wild cherry bark is the part that is made into tea. The bark has the following active constituents: Acetylcholine HCN kaempferol p-coumaric acid prunasin quercetin scopoletin and tannins. Much of the healing activity of wild cherry bark is said to be associated with scopoletin.
Do not give Chestree berry tea to children under age two nursing mothers and pregnant women. Do not drink more than three cups of wild cherry bark tea a day. Wild cherry leaves bark and fruit pits contain hydrocyanic acid which can be harmful when taken long term and in large amounts. Among the health benefits attributed to Chestree berry tea include:
- Chestree berry Tea may help fight cough bronchitis pertussis and other problems in the respiratory system. It is largely considered an expectorant and a cleaner of the air passages.
- Chestree berry Tea may help lower blood sugar.
- Chestree berry Tea may help relax the muscles.
- Chestree berry Tea may help fight bacteria and fungus.
- Chestree berry Tea may help calm the uterus.
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Using search engines have become a way of life for many people. Finding information was a bigger pain in the butt than anyone wants to think about before the Information Age. Now, since people are constantly multitasking, it is important to make search engines as easy to use as possible.
When using online marketing, Seo blogs and other types of blogs are important. Getting the word out by using a blog can be informative to another sector of the internet. When a person starts a blog they want to get as much traffic as they can for their blog. Gearing a search engine to bring up your website or blog name is what will continue to get your blog the traffic you want.
Search engine optimization improves the overall content visibility and quality of the organic ranking of a website. By using internet marketing, companies are able to increase their profits in a non invasive way. Instead of having to use the ads that come up on every paid website business owners have the option to use SEO. This is important because search engine users will avoid paid advertisements in lieu of clicking on only organic links.
Search engines are not only useful but they are also extremely popular. The first time someone visits an internet page there is a 93 percent chance that they head to search engines sites first.
The search engines industry is constantly rising in popularity which makes search marketing extremely important. The industry itself is worth approximately sixteen billion U.S. dollars. By using online marketing plans companies and business owners are able to revolutionize the way they advertise to their specific markets. The importance of business owners keeping up with the worlds technology advances is obvious in this situation. Especially because over half of the dollars spent in the U.S. retail sector will be influenced by online marketing and web presence by 2016. | <urn:uuid:5fd23f7c-951d-4363-8618-a29c5bdc8ecf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smallbusinessseoservices.org/youll-never-be-more-popular-than-a-search-engine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.961842 | 354 | 1.789063 | 2 |
A Midwestern atheist tells of sitting in her lunchroom at work and listening as conversation opened up around her about religious differences. Her co-workers included several kinds of Protestants, a Catholic, even a Jew. Sensing they were in risky territory, they worked to find common ground. “At least there aren’t any atheists around here,” one woman said in a warm inclusive tone. What’s a girl to do in a situation like that? Should she out herself or just keep quiet? In his seminal book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, sociologist Erving Goffman posed the perennial quandary of stigmatized persons:
“To display or not display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where." (p. 42)
Disclosure feels risky because it is. In 2008, Atheist Nexus gathered “coming out” stories from over 8000 visitors who described themselves as atheist, humanist, freethinker, agnostic, skeptic, and so forth. Some of the tales are painful to read. One woman said, “I've had people literally, physically BACK away from me upon hearing I am atheist. My children were told to run away from our evil home." A man’s confession of lost faith almost cost his marriage: “My wife told me that I'm caught in Satan's grip, and confessed that after I deconverted she considered leaving me. I believe the only reason she didn't is because she's financially dependent on me.” Elsewhere a young woman tells of losing thirty-four Facebook friends when she announced her lack of belief.
The consequences of anti-atheist stigma are public as well as private. Most self-described atheists are acutely aware of survey results showing that U.S. atheists are less electable than reviled minorities including Muslims and gays. Seven states still have laws on the books that ban nonbelievers from holding public office. A Florida minister whose deconversion recently made national news said that job interviews were cancelled when prospective employers found out.
In the minds of many believers atheism is linked with immorality, and despite mounds of evidence to the contrary, religious leaders reinforce this stereotype. I once attended a Palm Sunday service at a popular Calvinist megachurch in Seattle. The minister was determined that his congregation should believe the resurrection of Christ to be a physical, historical event. He said, “If the resurrection didn’t literally happen, there is no reason for us to be here. If the resurrection didn’t literally happen, there are parties to be had. There are women to be had. There are guns to shoot. There are people to shoot.” I found myself thinking, if the only thing that stands between you and debauchery, lechery and violence is a belief in the literal resurrection of Jesus, I’m really glad you believe that. But what are you saying about the rest of us?!
Anti-atheist stereotypes work to bond believers together in part because many Americans think that they have never met an atheist. A stigmatized minority can be the nameless faceless “other” that people love to hate as long as members remain nameless and faceless. But as the gay rights movement has shown, things get more complicated—and attitudes start changing--when we realize we are talking about our friends, beloved family members, and co-workers. Coming out has been such a powerful change agent for gays, that atheists (along with other faceless groups like Mormons and women who have had abortions) are explicitly taking a page from the gay rights movement and launching visibility campaigns.
That is easier than it sounds. Among atheist and humanist leaders, passionate disagreements have erupted about what kind of visibility will actually help advance acceptance and rights for those who eschew supernaturalism.
As a social cause, rather than just a life stance, atheism was catapulted forward by 9-11 and the ascendancy of the Religious Right. Cognitive scientist Sam Harris says that he began writing The End of Faith the morning after seeing the trade towers bombed with jet fuel and airline passengers. Biologist Richard Dawkins, who had previously hosted a gracious series of televised interviews exploring faith and non-faith, shifted tone and became a patriarch of anti-theistic activism. Journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote his scathing indictment, God is not Great. Doubters started coming out of the closet. I, myself, began publicly challenging Evangelical Christian teachings when George Bush pointed to heaven to indicate where he had sought advice before invading Iraq.
It takes energy and guts to buck taboos and norms as strong as those surrounding religion, and so, just like with gays, the first out the door were those who felt so strongly that they were willing to throw themselves into the fray, do or die. The “New Atheists” attracted a preponderance of young males who largely fit godless stereotypes: some defiant, some nerdy, many hyper-intellectual. All were, for one reason or another, either impervious to rules protecting faith from criticism or willing to pay a price for breaking those rules.
Some of these anti-theist firebrands can be counted among today’s leaders, and many have kept an edge that is honed by the seemingly relentless assaults on science and civil rights perpetrated by Christian and Muslim fundamentalists. They remain fiercely defiant, unapologetic about their scorn for religion, willing to use shock tactics if that’s what it takes to break what they see as a terminal religious stranglehold on society. Several years back, a group called the Rational Response Squad promoted a “blasphemy challenge” urging people to videotape themselves denying the Holy Spirit because one Bible writer calls such blasphemy an unforgiveable sin. In 2010, a Seattle cartoonist launched “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” after learning about death threats against Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting Mohammed in Southpark . This winter American Atheists provoked quite an outcry with a billboard that quoted a Bible verse: “Slaves Submit to Your Masters – Colossians 3:22.”
The organizers of these irreverent events see them as advancing values that they cherish deeply --one could say values they hold sacred: freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and freedom from cruelty grounded in dogma or superstition. And yet, criticism of such in-your-face attacks on religion has often come from people who share their goals. As the atheist visibility movement has expanded, quieter, more diplomatic leaders have emerged. Many of them insist that aggressive confrontation does more harm than good –that atheists need to be changing stereotypes not reinforcing them and that there is such a thing as bad publicity.
Biologist PZ Myers and Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein have staked out two very different positions in the naughty-or-nice controversy. Myers writes a popular blog, Pharyngula, which evolved from a primary focus on biology and politics to include broad-based uncensored anti-religious news and commentary. Myers doesn’t suffer fools lightly and makes no bones about letting people know that he finds most religion not only destructive but also stupid. Epstein, by contrast, seeks to foster ethical and spiritual community that build bridges between faith and non-faith. His Humanist Community Project encourages humanists to develop the traditional virtues of religion: communities built around shared values and social service. Where Myers might rail against “faith in faith,” Epstein’s colleagues find common ground with open, inclusive religious groups like the Interfaith Youth Corps.
Blogger Greta Christina has said that atheists should “let firebrands be firebrands and diplomats be diplomats.” She argues that both confrontational and collaborative tactics made the gay rights movement stronger and will do the same for non-theism. But what kind of confrontation? Ugly partisanship can backfire. For example, Fred Phelps and Sean Harris give homophobia such a vile face that they trigger disgust, pushing people in the opposite direction. Some atheist activism may do the same.
Even reasonable confrontation tactics can backfire –especially in the hands of a hostile journalist. Cathy Lynn Grossman of USAToday attended the April Reason Rally in D.C., a gathering she described as “hell-bent on damning religion and mocking beliefs.” There she found plenty which, when taken out of context, could be used to reinforce stereotypes. Her article headlined with a quote from Richard Dawkins, encouraging nonbelievers to “show contempt” for baseless dogmas. It was accompanied by a picture of Jen McCreight cheerfully carrying a sign that read: Obama isn’t trying to destroy religion, I am. Other speakers were depicted as ornery, offensive and more than a little scary.
Ad campaigns by nontheist organizations reflects a struggle to find messages that connect with either teetering believers or closeted skeptics while avoiding backlash. In 2009 a London publicity campaign went viral internationally with bus ads proclaiming, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” A variety of billboard campaigns have followed, some more provocative than others: “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence,” “You Know It’s a Myth. Solstice is the Reason for the Season.” “In the Beginning Man Created God.” “We are all Atheists about Most Gods; Some of Us Just Go One God Further.” “Don’t Believe in God? Join the Club.” All have drawn protests or vandalism from indignant theists.
It may be almost impossible to avoiding causing offense while challenging the religious status quo. Nontheist organizations have traditionally ignored communities of color, but African Americans for Humanism recently launched an outreach campaign with the tag line, “Doubts About Religion? You’re one of many.” Billboards and posters show faces of familiar Black leaders – as well as ordinary group members. Coalition of Reason organizer, Alix Jules of Dallas says that even this understated approach is plenty controversial for two reasons: Almost 90% of African Americans express certainty about the existence of God, and honoring religion is seen as a matter of loyalty.
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Humanists of Canada wanted to run a bus campaign that said, simply, You can be good without God . But the public bus agency refused the ads because they “could be too controversial and upsetting to people.” One reader commented,
I think we should make atheist ads as innocent and non-confrontational as possible. Not because we should avoid controversy, but because it we will get the controversy no matter what we put up, and the kinder and gentler our message the more obvious the hypocrisy of our critics. I’m hard put to think of one more innocent than this one, though.
Humanist blogger and speaker James Croft, a doctoral student in educational philosophy at Harvard, insists that it can be done:
There are ways of conveying our values that are both strong and civil, which avoid insults and (except in certain cases) ridicule without giving one inch of ground on the battlefield of our core values. All the evidence shows that this hybrid approach is more effective than simply seeking to be likable, or relying on confrontation alone.In their effort to find the balance that Croft calls “strong and civil,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation has moved toward more personal messages, ones that offer a glimpse into a godless individual (or family) rather than some form of universal claim. Since 2007, they have purchased billboard space for messages including “Imagine No Religion,” “Beware of Dogma,” and “Thank Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief.” But their latest campaign, “Out of the Closet,” puts real names and faces together with simple statements of values or disbelief: “Atheists work to make this life heavenly,” says Dr. Stephen Uhl of Tucson on one sign. “Compassion is my religion,” says Olivia Chen, a Columbus student whose appears on another. A recent campaign in Clarkville, Tennessee, merely shows a young woman identified as Grace beside the words, “This is what an atheist looks like.”
Atheist visibility is more than ad campaigns. In 2009 psychologist Dale McGowan, author of Parenting Beyond Belief, launched the Foundation Beyond Belief , a tool that lets the non-religious visibly contribute to nonprofits working on education, health, human rights and the environment. Last year, the foundation add a donation category called “Challenge the Gap” that builds bridges by contributing to the work of religious groups with shared values. Hemant Mehta of “The Friendly Atheist” hosts news and commentary of interest to young nonbelievers—absent the edge that characterizes an earlier generation of blogs. He brings more humor than anger when he talks with secular student groups about outreach. Small local groups are doing their part. Seattle Atheists dress as pirates and carry a Flying Spaghetti Monster in summer parades. But they also participate in food drives and blood drives. They hand out water during an annual marathon. The aim is not only to make themselves more visible but to show that they too are compassionate members of the community of humankind.
As nonbelievers gain recognition as normal and ethical members of society, I think we will find that confrontation diminishes and bridge building grows. It’s not only that both are necessary but that one paves the way for the other. The rage of Malcolm X prepared ground for Martin Luther King and his dream. The Stonewall riots and San Francisco drag scene laid the foundation for Feather Boa Fathers and It Gets Better and pride parades that include local businesses and church banners. Early feminists who stayed defiant even when beaten and jailed made way for the apple pie tactics of Moms Rising, which has stenciled messages on onesies and delivered cookies to congressmen to get their equal pay message across. In the words of Ecclesiastes, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” The questions are in each case, to whom, how, when, and where.
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He didn't talk much about his year as a helicopter pilot during the war. Although his family could tell something was wrong, he never admitted he was hurting until he had a stroke. As he healed, Schuerenberg found peace in the humid space of his greenhouses.
There, he took particular care with a rare heirloom tomato known as Ivan, which had been cultivated for generations by his family.
Tending plants like this meaty tomato, the rare Schuerenberg family breed, became a way for him to heal. When he died in 2013, the tomato nearly died with him.
It wasn't until a group calling themselves Victory Gardeners picked up the pieces and Schuerenberg's hardy little tomato was plucked from almost-certain obscurity. The group's three members call themselves the Ivan Tomato Rescue Project.
With their project, the Victory Gardeners hope to sell Ivan tomato seeds and plants, rescue other dying varieties and inspire a little hope and healing. Collaborating with Schuerenberg's family, the project donates 10 percent of sales to programs that rehabilitate veterans by using agricultural therapy.
Schuerenberg's family lives in a white two-story house on a scenic piece of land in the rolling hills outside of Ashland. Four greenhouses, built at the edge of the front yard, were Jerry Schuerenberg's domain.
According to Becky Whitworth, one of his daughters, every morning the broad-shouldered field farmer would methodically pour a thermos of coffee, put on his faded tan overalls, pull a hat over his curly gray hair and lumber out the door.
Every day he watered and weeded his plants, transplanted them into larger containers, or just sat at his favorite picnic table with the family's German shepherd, Duchess.
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Purdue University entomologist Ian Kaplan and his team have received a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture to fund their research into the environmental, ecological and socioeconomic effects of neonicotinoid pesticide use.
The five-year grant is part of the USDA-NIFA Specialty Crop Research Initiative, a program providing funds for research in plant breeding and genetics, pests and disease, production efficiency and profitability, technology and food safety hazards.
Kaplan and his Purdue colleagues, entomologists Christian Krupke and Rick Foster, are leading a team of researchers from Ohio State University, Michigan State University, the University of New Hampshire and Clark University. The team will examine how neonicotinoid pesticides are used by growers of cucurbits, or members of the gourd family, such as melons and pumpkins. Their goal is to find ways for farmers to achieve effective pest control while protecting the health of honeybees and other beneficial pollinating insects.
“Indiana is a major producer of melons and this research is designed to help growers make informed decisions about insect management on their farms for both pests and beneficial species,” Kaplan said. “Neonicotinoids are used widely across many specialty crops that share a reliance on bees as pollinators. We anticipate that the research will also be informative to these other fruit and vegetable systems where similar tradeoffs between pest control and pollination may occur.”
Neonicotinoid pesticides are chemically related to nicotine and are used to control pests such as beetles, fleas, sucking insects and wood-boring insects. They are valued for their effectiveness against insect pests, low toxicity to mammals and birds and high water solubility, meaning that they are easily absorbed from the soil and distributed throughout the plant. Research is ongoing to determine safe levels for beneficial insects, including honeybees.
Each research team will examine the question from a different angle. Purdue researchers will observe how growers’ pest management practices are related to bees’ pesticide exposure levels and will also conduct experiments to track the responses of both pests and pollinators to the presence or absence of neonicotinoids in corn and melons. Corn treated with pesticides, either in neighboring fields or when planted in rotation with cucurbits, can be an alternate source of exposure for the bees.
Several researchers from other universities will assist Purdue’s efforts, while a second team will examine the social and economic factors that go into choosing a pest management strategy and the economic results of each choice.
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What’s wrong with the way Muslims are portrayed in the media? Where do biases and stereotypes stem from? What does popular culture have to say about Muslim women? CAIR-Chicago communications coordinators Aymen Abdel Halim and Leena Saleh answered these questions and more in a presentation at Saint Xavier University on March 21st.
Students learned first and foremost about the role socio-political contexts play in mass representations of Muslims in not only news coverage but in Hollywood films and television. The audience was encouraged to reexamine some stale representations of Muslims that were the most common such as them being “terrorists” “oppressive” and “backwards.”
Touching not only on how the news characterizes Muslims at large with blatant headlines and misinformed generalizations but how this reflects a historically consistent scapegoating of minority groups in the U.S. Students drew parallels between African-American, Asian-American and American-Muslims struggle for accurate representation.
“What we fail to see in mainstream media and popular culture is a portrayal of the average American-Muslim and instead are offered only polarized extremes,” said Saleh.
Segueing into present day representations, Abdel Halim highlighted the current wave of Islamophobia – from the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, the King hearings, to a video entitled “Hate Comes to Orange County” which exposes bigoted anti-Muslim protesters in Southern California. He also illustrated the importance of such representations by showing how today’s politicians use them as justifications for potential policies that would infringe upon Americans’ civil liberties. Showing clips of GOP candidates Rick Santorum and Herman Cain discussing their levels of discomfort with Muslims.
Saleh related these biased perception when observing representation of Muslim women in the media. From popular movies to news stories the spectrum of portrayal of Muslim women falls short. Without delving into further research or independent study audiences are led to believe that Muslim women are submissive, oppressed, and uneducated.
Using Gallup polls and historical documentation Saleh presented students with a very different image of the Muslim woman. From current prime ministers to historical scholars and statistics about American-Muslim women being more highly educated than Muslim men, the audience was shown a very different representation.
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